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University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 3-19-1974 The Living Daylights 2(11) 19 March 1974 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1974), The Living Daylights 2(11) 19 March 1974, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.11, March 19 - 25, 28p. http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/21 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 2(11) 19 March 1974 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.11, March 19 - 25, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/21 Arthur Clarke & the future — spaceships for hardships Truckin’ on bowel power The Guide Vol.2 No.11 I Marchl9-25 to 1974 30^ Successful uggling By a former customs officer Son of garbology UR LETTERS pages this week Richard Beckett O carry cries o f shock and dismay from readers over last issue’s garbology story. beats up The reception to Morris’ romp through the week’s news the rubbish o f the famed met with mixed response: Paul Slicky, arts writer for T ’S A MAN’S LIFE WITH BHP: Melbourne’s Sunday observer, hailed gar IThose members of the army who bology as a new art form, a more honest jjjxj moaned that their chances o f promotion and more authentic portrayal o f modern jjjjjjj: flew out of the window with the end of times than some o f “ works o f art” jjjjjjj: the Vietnam war, may shortly be able to ensconced in our art galleries. What’s join the private army o f BHP. Reports more, we have seen people snooping from Saigon state that the company around our trash. Morris is not disillusion :j:j:j: that really runs Australia, irregardless o f ed with the chagrin o f some readers and M who is in power in Canberra, is expected promises to continue with his vocation jjjjjj to approach the South Vietnamese gov- and stresses he meant no harm . ■:&: ernment and bid for oil prospecting This week for those who intend travel jjjjjjj: rights o ff that country’s coast. It ap- ling to exotic places abroad and who wish jijjjjj parendy intends to do this despite the to return with memorabilia our govern jjjjjjj fact that there may be slight objections ment considers contraband, a former cus from the federal Labor government; toms man gives advice you won’t find in :j:j:j: that the money it pays to the Thieu the Qantas travel guide (p.9). regime for these rights may have more Sometimes members o f the federal than a slight bearing on the outcom e o f opposition com e up with sensible state jjjjjjj the democratic struggle still being waged ments. Malcolm Fraser, shadow minister jjjjjjj in the paddy fields; and also despite the j:j£j fact that it might cause a few other for labor, was praised by the Australian Cameron’s attitude has been vigorously Robert McLeod was freshly charged by jjjjj international problems in as much as at on monday for his comments about the supported by opposition leader Billy commonwealth police with two counts jjjjj jjjjjjj: least part o f this area is claimed by “ asian worker affair” when he said Aus Snedden who proclaimed: “ It is about o f assault. One o f his associates in the jjjjj jjjjjjj China. It is understood that BHP, which tralia had no right to rob third world time Australia was rid o f people osten affair was also charged proving once jjjjj has had a lobbyist operating in Saigon countries o f their technicians and profes sibly proclaiming themselves to be lion again what aboriginals have been saying j:j:j to support its claims, will shortly turn sionals. tamers or w ood carvers or process work for generations - you can't trust the jjjjj jjjjjjj itself into a paramilitary organisation ers well knowing that no vacancies exist, bloody white man. jjjjj Perhaps Fraser should have been at a jjjjjjj and set up its own form o f national talk given by writer, futurologist Arthur and in this way, avoiding working.” In :j:£:j conservice training. Application forms HITE BOYS CAN’T TRUST S i C. Clarke in Sydney last week where he future all the unemployed would be Bjjjj to join this new peoples army can be WHITE MEN EITHER: Sydney j;jjj impressed the country’s leaders o f indus well advised t o get a decent haircut, W Bjjjj obtained by personal application in any newsboy, Tony Fairweather, aged 14, jjjjj try with visions o f space travel, o f bright adopt a humble attitude and never, ever jjjjjjj: steel mill. while selling papers in Sydney road, was jB and shiny hardware with which to colon go swimming at a holiday resort. Only those dying o f tuberculosis in back alley bailed up by two men armed with a jB: ise the rest o f the universe . but, yes, at HAT WAS THAT ABOUT SERV slums will be judged fit enough to kiss shotgun and robbed of 45 cents. jjjjj: the expense o f the “ developing coun ING THE PEOPLE? Federal gov- W the assessment officer’s rings. tries” . It was left to Papua New Guinea’s jjjjjij: ernment backbenchers are preparing to [OIN THE CMF AND DIG FOR jiB chief minister, Michael Somare, to take ' BODIES: The federal government j.B : jjjjjjj put their case to a committee formed of ] HE’LL GET DAMN ALL FOR him to task. Ian Stocks interviewed jjjjjjj: themselves for salary increases which is considering a plan to stop the CMF jjjjjj STARTERS: Nineteen year old Clarke and attended the discussion (see :j:j£ will take their wage packets up to the S playing their interminable war games jjjjjj Peta Mullen, who wears the crown o f opposite). jjjjjjj trifling figure o f $25,000 a year plus through national parks during weekends :j:j:j Miss Tasmania, has applied for the dole. It wasnt intended that way, but that’s jljjjjj allowances. They are doing this because, and expending valuable ammunition on ijijij However, the national coordinator of how it turned out. Drugs — more on they claim, the present salaries force target practice. Instead the jolly lads in jjjjjj the Miss Australia quest was quick to mushrooms (p. 18), Abbie Hoffman’s co jjjij:j older MPs to retire on the starvation khaki will in future help out in national jjjjjj point out that the girl really was a hairy caine bust and the hysterical drug laws of jjjjjjj wage level of $7000 a year or roughly disasters. Thus, they will be able to jjjjjj slacker by stating: " I ’m sure there must New York (p. 10), smuggling (p.9), Mc- :j:j:j: $140 a week — some $30 above the recognise a body in a battlefield in the jjjjjj; be jobs available for a girl like Peta, even Dope’s roundup of the “scene” (p.7) — :j:j:j: national average wage. Explaining his future. jijij: if she has no qualification. She could get take up a portion o f this week’s paper. jjjjjjj colleagues plight, Sydney Labor back- a job as a shop assistant or something ULL HIS NOSE AND HE’LL SB Still, there’s lots o f goodies for those who jjjjjjj bencher Paul Keating said: "It’s a bit like that.” LICK YOUR BOOTS: Prime min- jjjjjj: know all they wish to know about dope. jjjjjjj rough working a 15 hour day in those P ister Gough Whitlam, after several jjjjjj: 'dreadful conditions in Canberra, having Veronica Parry, our ecology writer, months o f abuse from industrial leaders :j:j:j: jjjjjjj to spend three days a week away from NSIDE HE’S REALLY CRYING: writes on shit, its uses, abuses and how it in a speech to the Australian institute o f :j:j:j: jjjjjjj home, then work most weekends for the Despite the fact that a few gentle could end the “ fuel crisis” . if only I directors, soothed the enemy by stating jjjjjj: jjjjjjj pay we are getting.” One’s heart bleeds, men investigating his tax affairs have people werent so ashamed about it. The that his government really loved them, jjjjjj; BjB especially when one realises that back- expressed amazement that the president nightman could so well be your local that there were now close contacts j:j:j:j jjjjjjj benchers now have to struggle along on o f the United States could lose yet service station attendant (p.20). between government and business, that jjjjjj; jjjjjjj a salary o f only $14,500 a year plus a another document that might incrimin Cherry Ripe writes on the rise and fall he welcomed the fact that private banks jjjjj:j j:j:j:j minuscule electoral allowance of $4100 ate him (his so called letter allowing him o f Sylvia and the Synthetics: once Aus were back on top of the pile and that jjjjjjj jjjjjjj: a year - just over $350 a week. tax exemptions for vice-presidential tralia’s roaring, balling, house-packing many businessmen had been invited to jjjjjjj papers donated to a grateful nation) bunch o f high powered drag queens, they participate into aspects of official gov- jjjjjjj he salary increases have dear brave Richard Milhous Nixon ap have now taken a nose dive from lack of ernment policy.