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inal lawyers, had an ironic edge. By JACK JONES losing all the copies, but Cahill V . f . f o r m N o . 719 They are both hardline leftwing gave names and addresses and ers, except that Lazarus follows disclaimed responsibility. He told HE MAN was asking: POISONS ACT 1962 the Chinese line and Faris does Lazarus that he had looked in the >« mag«5tw TH E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 — Page 3 A FORMER social worker at the Mount seller. Mundey felt that the paper owes Royal Hospital for the Aged, Ms him a right o f reply. As well as that Margaret Harris says that patients at minor problem Mundey is also faced the hospital are afraid to complain with the decision whether to send his about conditions. The Royal Austral son to school. His son is known to ian Federation o f Nurses wants about have said, “ Can’t I come and fight the half the wards closed. Patients have to bosses with you” . either suffer or get thrown out. Things * * * dont get better with age, do they? 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It is obvious that For every pike upon a pole will find a civil rights. he was known as “ Mr Sin” plus Joe * * * the narcs are pissed o ff at failing to tyrant’s heart.” Testa, “ the organiser” , testifying that convict Wiley on the conspiracy * * * GENERAL Motors director, E. N. Clark, he was “ well and favorably known” to charge. It seems that they will leave no claimed while rejecting local owner RESEARCHERS from the NSW Health Chicago police and had served as stone unturned. ship o f the company, that Australians Commission say that they have found special police officer in his home town * * * a “ definite” link between certain rock would be better off if GMH remained o f Justice, Illinois. music and drug practices. Jumping wholly American owned. An insight Justice, Illinois. Oh yeah. INSPECTOR K.P. Walters has been Jack Flash — what a difficult finding into the control o f General Motors- * * * appointed officer in charge o f the to make. 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Page 4 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 JOHN WILKINSON tells I spy, said the bar fly Why I threw MICHAEL MORRIS and played it like fishing trout: a who gave him a wink and a people down the line, in the bit o f enthusiasm, a bit o f doubt, handshake, a brief rundown on marketplace. Steve, following the $6000 * LL CALL him “ Steve” . He’s but getting closer all the time. the organisational setup (the prob Man’s instructions, fed his right- 1 one of those people you Finally he joined the party. lems the commies have created wing workmate with enough in in the meet in pubs - balding, big, SNAP. with the labor force, the names of cendiaries to set fire to asbestos redfaced. You see them a few Excellent, says the Man sitting the guys responsible for it all and waistcoats. It all went down faith times, then you nod at each other, in his car with Steve, beer can in the name of the man in Personnel fully in the paper. The workers premier’s then you get talking. You never hand. Now tell me about . . . So who would give Steve all assist asked: who is this newcomer? The get to know their names, but amid Steve reported. He had a knack ance). NCC hate him so much, he must this anonymity there are often for remembering conversations, he After signing the bill o f sale for be good. Let’s make him shop face some pretty frank exchanges. laid it all down - personality the house near the market, check steward for the boilerroom. In case you didnt know, most defects of fellow members, physi ing out with his comrades - who Thank you for this rich honor said VER thursday and friday pub talk is bullshit. When “ Steve” cal letdowns, personal habits. This were sorry to see him go but were Steve. In like Flynn. small item o f news made its told me about his years with O one loves ego boosts, this one glad to know he could do some It all went very, very smoothly, way into the media to the effect ASIO (’64-'66) I thought it could doesnt, but he sniffles through the good work in Powerlines and gave like a razor through a face. Secre that, during the course o f a be a myth. I took notes - some left nostril and is addicted to him a list o f members to see - tary o f Powersville CPA branch, ceremony held by Austcare in the names and a few little incidentals. veganin. . . Whirr goes the tape on Steve piled the family into the car taking copious notes . . . stirring NSW premier’s office, the head o f They checked out - members in the back seat. Terrific stuff says (ASIO paid) and headed off to his up the boys, the boiler room, an unknown overseas aid group the branch of the Communist the Man. Here’s your expenses. new job. organising industrial actions, get called the World University Ser Party o f Australia he had spied Now, find out what you can ting an ear close to strategies and vice refused to take a cheque on, back copies of the National On arrival he’s greeted by sev about Mr... tactics . . . and reporting it all to from the premier’s hand. Civic Council newspaper where his So it went for a year. Steve’s eral people, all with different in tents: there’s a friendly and know the man while the machine I refused to take that cheque name was blazed as a communist reports filled the ASIO files to whirrrrred on the back seat o f the union leader during periods o f spillway level. This one’s a slick ing wink from a man in Personnel for tw o reasons. who puts him beside the com car. First, it was an attack on Askin industrial unrest etc. one says Spry; let’s send him to The fortnightly chats with the the “ Powerlines” (a large electric pany’s fervid DLP/NCC rep; there himself, a sheer existential de * * * was an informal meeting with the Man bore rich fruit; everything mand o f the situation. ity commission). Good, the Man going on in and around Powerlines AFTER a nine year stint in the says to Steve, we want you to go local comrades in the pub. He There are many people in this army Steve went into civvy street, drinks them stupid and pumps . . . was reported. That was the gen society who simply drift from one to Powerlines. We have a job lined eral rave. Sometimes, Steve says, applied for a job on the Victoria It went o ff with an enormous day to the next going to work in up for you and a house has been there were “ specifics” , like what police force and was knocked bang. The town’s NCC newspaper the same way they go to bed. The arranged for your family. Here’s a is Comrade Cavier doing for his back - they told him his eyes bellows out the news that a new members of the WUS board, by a card, go to see this chap. He’s a holidays, or what makeup does werent good enough. red had appeared in Powerlines. 4-2 majority, decided thkt Askin top Powerlines man here in the madam X use on the mole on her It was about a month later He’s lusting for trouble, talking has been perfectly aware o f what city. He’ s one o f us and he’ll do chin, and is it true Mr Thingame- when the stranger came strike and was greeted by the local he has been doing these past nine all the ushering work. After bob licks his envelopes to USSR a’knocking on his door. Steve years and the Austcare occasion you’re set up I’ll drive up and see commies, the paper reports. from left to right? Things ASIO wasnt home. His wife took the was a good place to make the you once a fortnight. Meanwhile SNAP. The union saw Steve as a needed for their files. Then there stranger’s message: he wanted to point — that they felt he had had you’re to do this . .. busy activist, the CPA branch had were “ roundups” of the Commu talk to Steve about “the nation’s a good deal to do with the in Steve saw the Powerlines boss, heard the compliments from the nist party’s meetings. Whirrrr security” and would come back human indifference o f the NSW went the machine. tomorrow. Could Steve be home government to the real human Well, anyway, love affairs must then? problems around it. end and this one started going The next night they sat But, much more important sour. Steve’s reports showed signs, around, the pair o f them: the ex than that, it was a chance to quite distinct, and tired signs. The army sergeant and the stranger. question the aid agencies on the fervor wasnt there. His wife hated They talked o f worldly affairs, o f nature o f the work they are Powersville, the kids were being communism, o f Bob Menzies. The about, and to question them by creamed at school because daddy discussion lasted for hours; beer action. was a commie, guilt started creep was drunk and cigarettes smoked. It was an action aimed partic ing and Comrade Caviar wasnt The stranger left with the promise ularly at the young education that bad and most of the unionists he would return. Steve thought workers in the aid groups because were good guys. Besides, the re now isnt this all rather strange. He at ceremonies like this aid organ ports were a load o f bullshit, he sensed the guy wanted something isations appeal to the very politi decided. Say, where’s this national from him, but what it was he cal protagonists o f this system for peril? ASIO twigged, noted the hadnt a clue. All he knew was the patronage. It was an invitation to tendency, pulled a few delicate stranger was concerned about those education workers to come threads and pretty soon members "national peril” . out and say what they believe. at the branch were giving strange But, not to worry thinks Steve. This may not mean very much looks at their secretary. Then they The Man is pretty clever and he at first to people reading this politely interrogated him. knows so much about me - my article, but some good is gradually past, my army record and my Steve freaked and reported this coming out o f the arguments present situation. He’s going to to the Man who nodded wisely. within the aid agencies on what tell me what he wants. And, yes, The sort of wise nod Truman aid is actually doing. the Man did: Steve was asked may have given after being told In 1970, WUS A set up Inter to uncover commie plots. Now, Hiroshima was in flames. Steve national Development Action how does one go about that tricky figures certain information was (IDA) as a group to educate little number? inquires Steve, the leaked to the CPA by another people about what the situation is ex army sergeant. Spry plant. Well, just fancy that! really like in the “ third world” “They dropped me like a Easy as pie, he’s told. There’s a and this year it bore fruit and potato. The Man came around for man who sells the communist produced the first significant a while, checking I wasnt being Tribune on Saturday mornings; booklet on what Australia’s real hangs around the market, you disloyal to the nation. He gave me connections with South Africa are some advice - leave the party etc. can spot him quick as a flash. Talk and later on produced an even And all those years I only knew to him after you buy the paper heftier work on Australia and Fiji. his first name. He used a phony the second time. He’ll come in In both cases, the booklets easy. Sure enough, the commie surname. It started with “ M” . were followed by actions: the new did. Then, the commie became Now, I had his phone number and political movement that is getting concerned after selling many I guessed he would have a real o ff the ground in Fiji was helped Tribunes to this Saturday shopper name starting with the same in in no small measure by the work (Steve), who suddenly didnt come itial. It took me an afternoon, but done around the Fiji booklet. by anymore. Steve, following the I got him! He lives in Camberwell. But more significant is the fact Man’s advice, said to the commie He then reached for the phone that this year Community Aid after a two week layoff, he wasnt book, opened it on page 831 of Abroad gave $50,000 to three o f sure. “Now, dont get me wrong. I the Melbourne phone book and the education staff to set up the like and agree with a lot the paper showed me a name. “ That’s the Light, Powder and Construction says... But some parts, well. . . ” man.” Works, which is, again, a radical Come along to a meeting says the So was Steve having a go at education project to tell people commie. And he did. me? Was it pub bullshit? Is he still what is really going on and is also So Steve goes to the meeting of with ASIO and using techniques to undertake various actions. the local chapter of the Commun he used to get information on his As long as the aid agencies are ist Party o f Australia. The street - old buddies in the CPA (and the constantly pressed on the score o f seller is beaming, bouncing around NCC)? Has he been headed off what they actually do we may see the small gathering with his prize, into new directions by the Man? more valuable things come from a potential initiate to the dwind He sold me an ounce of grass a them in the future. WUS in ling ranks o f this branch o f the fortnight back. Now, dont you Australia has certainly come a party. think that’s strange? Is his blown long way from when we used to cover a new cover!? Steve did all the right things run the Miss Uni quest. TH E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 -Page 5 IAN STOCKS looks at how the black & white hippies handle Darwin’s top end blues Adventures in Paradise ARWIN, well into the wet season. They come like free spirits to the gates o f DOn the edge o f Asia there is a town, our towns, with songs we cannot hear and almost, but not quite, a city. Four will not listen to. They turn away when cinemas, three secondhand stores, a new we do not respond. There have been too Woolworth’s supermarket. many rebuffs, and soon the songs will be About 50,000 whites and an forgotten and the children will believe uncounted number of detribalised blacks our myths. in the near vicinity. A white enclave, a The tribes have a pressing need for Caucasian bubble floating on the edge of help, for sanitation building and untapped experiences. architectural help, so that they can live A glamorous museum, houses, a few on land that is rightfully theirs. Such help relics o f aboriginal art, while around the will never com e from Darwin, and the last oral and musical evidence o f that south is a remote possibility. culture goes unheard and unnoticed. In a white man’s hut, not much better To the north, the spice islands, the than aboriginal mission housing, Fred great civilisations o f Indonesia and Asia. Fogarty sleeps on the floor in the heat. It The population o f Darwin, the biggest is close to midnight, and at the table are white city in a tropical zone, looks three other men - a black named LeRoi unremittingly south for inspiration and in a sharp suit, and two white waterside succor. workers. Darwin is ringed with acres o f instant One is Jacky, a longhaired, tonguetied suburbs, vast sections o f bulldozer but passionate communist, the other an levelled bush stacked with instant fibro ancient Australian type with two front habitation. The population will have teeth missing and a perpetual giggle, who doubled by 1975, and a million dollar has somehow drifted into the black cause. arts complex will be opened that year. They are halfway through a quart But Darwin is not quite a city - still a bottle of Bundaberg rum in a farewell trading post and administrative centre. In drink for LeRoi. The fridge is open, half their thousands o f airconditioned cubicles full of empty beer bottles, and in an hour public service clerks work through a whistling Ansett jet will fly LeRoi to another day, cocooned away and Canberra. dreaming o f Christmas in the south. LeRoi puts a cassette into a Jittered Within weeks half will leave for ten weeks recorder and his songs o f protest pour escape, with a free airfare away from the out, recorded on a river bank miles from inferno. Darwin. They are hard, fluid songs o f You ask four people for directions oppression and white land theft, but they around town - the first three apologise have also a bite o f hatred and bitterness. because they have only been there a few LeRoi is flying to record an LP of weeks. Darwin is a city o f transients, of songs for the Gwalwa Daraniki cause. One the just arrived and the soon-to-leave. song starts with a background of Because o f this it has its own feel - an birdsong, but as it builds you hear the easy, slack individualism that forces White squatters at Lameroo beach whistle o f a highflying jet. This too, will nothing on anyone. go on the record. The Chinese food bars, the crumbling the overcrowded Darwin settlements and A few weeks ago a group of Kululuks, LeRoi has never flown before, but hock shops, and ever-open pubs look like try for the dole, or live on the beaches. led by black leader Fred Fogarty, these songs are his passport to greatness. the frontages of a movie set. They are Sometimes they get an aluminium shack obstructed surveying for a new By now all are drunk and it’s time to simply way stations for a population that on the city reserves, but these are steadily development through the reserve. In the go. Magically, kids and women have is continually passing through. being whittled away for government use. melee the developer’s truck was appeared, LeRoi picks up his tw o guitars, For probably 20 years after the Bagot, a proclaimed reserve, used to cover firebombed and burnt out. Fogarty is which he calls “ my two wives” and gets Japanese bombing in world war two, 300 acres, now it is less than 50. Others currently facing 18 charges, but the case into the toothless man’s battered FC Darwinites were a population prepared Holden. like Kululuk are surrounded by white has been adjourned and the developers for instant evacuation. I remembered the suburbs and living costs are rising steeply. temporarily halted. The Boeing’s nose juts almost into the story o f the guy who arrived in Alice Three tribes - the Kululuk, the The Kululuks and the Gwalwa airport lounge. It holds a promise o f Springs precisely a week after the first certainty, away from the vagaries o f Gwalwa Daraniki and the Larrakia have Daraniki are miles from the land rights bom b hit Darwin, on a bicycle. Only the Darwin. We wave LeRoi off, with his begun a land rights campaign which movements of the south and have to Greeks were unperturbed, and during the claims much o f the area o f Darwin city. develop their own tactics. The Berrimah hopes and dreams. war bought most o f the town at bargain Already a supermarket and industrial land claim has about a hundred people, many Heat, haze, daze, in the middle o f prices. Now they are dying millionaires. are the subject o f land claims. of them children sent home from white another day you are near a waterhole in Darwin has its rich and poor — the schools with report cards their parents the centre o f town, another land claim. poor blacks in rotting settlements, poor Out at Berrimah the Gwalwa Daraniki cannot read. They sleep out at night, Blacks drink under the scrubby trees and whites marooned in endless caravan parks are squatting on over a hundred acres listen to old record players. At night the swim. Major “ the black hippie" has built and decrepit hostels. Darwin also has its earmarked for white subdivisions. It’s still men get drunk and hold corroborees, his own personal opera house to validate liberated area - the free city of Lameroo virgin bush, except for a few mission-built the claim. iron huts, but the Gwalwa Daraniki singing ancient songs to the bush. beach, population 700 heads and 200 It’s wrapped in black power slogans, The aboriginal is like a messenger, yards from the main shopping centre. The people have started building with bush over it flies the land rights flag. A few carrying secrets and knowledge from first, and so far the only legal nudist poles and plastic sheeting acquired from weeks ago Major and three others were thousands o f years spent in this land. beach in Australia. Tenuous structures the government. landed on Quail island, traditional grip the trees and rocks, delicate hunting grounds for the Larrakai people. fabrications of driftwood and plastic held For the past 20 years it has been a together with good intentions. RAAF bombing range. Twice a year, But with the advance of the wet the napalm, HE and fragmentation bombs head population drops sharply, and the have been falling on the turtles and birds metho drinkers and derelicts move in. that breed there. Ten pm tuesday - the Soixante, The four blacks who were landed there Darwin’s 24 hour head coffee shop, a to take possession lasted four hours carbon copy o f eating houses from before they were taken off by police Denpasar to Istanbul. You buy your boat. But Major says it is his island, and reconstituted choco milk to the music of he is going back with the flag. travellers Esperanto, news o f the big Darwin is the cradle o f the individual. music festival in Calcutta in march, life Heads stay there for months or years, on the road. Somebody picks up your because they are fitted to the needs o f sixties vintage London head argot, and survival. They are all the one - not you are talking to Emmanuel, an elfish subject to the web of needs and doper who probably turned on half your obligations, passions and interdependence friends in the sixties. Emmanuel had been that rules life in the cities. in Darwin for months, talks about the Gerd paints in his room, working on problems of cleaning chewing gum and new techniques that he may never show vomit o ff the first class seats in TAA anyone, because Gerd doesnt need to. planes. "Everyone’s a transient in Darwin, You feel that the world has moved on a so everyone’s into their individual trip.” turn — that these lives are no longer The Track stretches south for a subcult, or newsworthy, but just are. thousand miles to Alice Springs, but from Enthusiasm is dangerous in that heat, west and north the aboriginal families resignation essential, but only the heads drift in, paid o ff the cattle stations for and blacks have that existential sense o f the wet season. There is no holiday pay place. for black station workers, so they cram Black squatters at shanty town □ Page 6 - T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 UST AT the moment the average American is not ex Jactly crazy on arabs. Trying to starve them to death, or just going straight in and taking them over Feisal are high on the list o f suggestions being offered by the average blue- collar worker, and quite a few white-collar workers too. Fed for so long with all that propaganda about America being rushes to the generous benefactor to the rest of the world, many Ameri cans have obviously believed it, and talk incessantly about the “ ungratefulness” o f the arabs and the rest o f the third world gen Nixon’s erally. True it is that there are some Americans who rejoice at the oil squeeze because they see it as a tool for changing the nation’s lifestyle. This group’s joy, however, is side bound to be shortlived as more and more anti-pollution legislation From HARRY HERBERT heads for the wastepaper basket, and as the strip mining companies in New Haven, Connecticut prepare for a final massacre o f “ the ecology freaks”. Very few the mystified foreigners telling might be quite a mild day outside. The whole thing seems to be port. As long as he can make it Americans, however, will exalt in their American friends that what The main reaction to the oil playing rather beautifully into look as though it is only the arabs the new found power of some of they can’t stand about the Ameri shortage from most middle Ameri Nixon’s hands and might just be who are to blame, it might be his the third world countries, and can winter is the heat. cans seems to be a mixture of the thing he needs to escape from smartest move for a long time. So, even fewer will understand that When Nixon called for a reduc-. fervent nationalism and pure sel Watergate. The national news while Americans are cooling o ff in the arabs are simply learning the tion o f indoor heat to 68 degrees, fishness. When it was discovered paper correspondents who live in their homes and plodding along rules o f a game which the Ameri some o f us still thought that he recently that some very small Washington where they voted 78 the highways at 50 mph, Nixon is cans developed long ago. could have provided a little more amounts of oil were actually being percent for McGovern may not just hoping that they will concen You have to live in the United relief against the unbearable heat. shipped out from Connecticut to notice it, but if you talk to the trate their wrath on the arabs, and States to fully realise what a And, of course, lots of central overseas buyers, the state authori factory workers in somewhere like overlook the fact that the biggest winner the arabs have with their heating systems take no notice at ties immediately put an end to Waterbury, Connecticut, you’ll energy crisis in this country is the oil embargo. The car, the truck, all of the daily conditions, and go that, declaring that “ not one drop soon realise to your dismay that lack o f brain power in the White and the expressway are the per on churning out the heat when it shall leave this country” ! Nixon is certainly picking up sup House. fect symbols of modern American culture - with perhaps the elec tric toothbrush and the electric carving knife thrown in for good THE COLDITZ STORY - EPISODE 1242 measure. You can drive the 1000 miles or so from Boston to Mil waukee and only put your foot on the brake when either the car or its occupants need filling up. Who gives a dam about a car having good handling when there is noth ing to handle. The Ford Galaxie, the Oldsmobile, the Plymouth Fury may be lousy on the corners, but they just eat up those express ways - and the gas. And driving at the new limit of 50 mph is utter frustration under those con ditions. At first the new speed limit was only a recommendation, but now all the old 70 mph signs have been replaced by the new 50 mph ones, and everyone seems to be observing them - at least in the daylight hours. On a trip the other day from New Hampshire down the expressway to Boston, and From ANDREW FISHER in London then on down the Massachusetts Turnpike only the Greyhound RITAIN is not a pretty When Heath and his mates get it’s great at the martial arts but screams o f prisoners being in buses drove as if it was the good Bplace at the moment. The on telly and talk about the econ observes the rules etc, etc. There’s terrogated, the scratch of tunnels old days. country seems without hope. The om y it’s like hearing Nixon talk not a mention o f this in Europe being dug, the camp concert being Public transport, o f course, in miners are striking in the sense about Watergate. You dont be apart from Holland. The whole rehearsed as a cover, birds twitter this country is really beyond des that they have an overtime ban lieve a word. And they are caught business is extremely complicated as a symbol o f freedom . . . and pair. Ask the conductor on the and the government uses its tele out again and again telling people and generally speaking o f you happily go to sleep imagining train that goes up north from New vision time to make direct attacks reassuring cliches about every Europe’s creation. On both sides. you ’re safe and sound as a POW. York why the thing goes so slow, on them saying they should keep thing. “ Our problems are the You wouldnt think so now. Sink the Bismarck. and he just says that the tracks are to Phase Three and implies they problems o f success. No rationing Actually I think that very soon A war with Germany would let so bad that they have to keep the are immoral, irresponsible etc. As before Christmas” (but the post the British are going to declare everyone know where they are. speed down for safety. Or if you a visiting prof from the Hudson offices had ration books six war on Germany. The only thing The greatest single boost to are foolish enough to want to Institute said: “ At least in the US months ago). And everyone is too that interests anyone any more is morale here has been the intro catch a bus on Sunday in many our problems are in the open - punch drunk from inflation to the second world war. Now duction of rationing. I got my American cities, you will simply corruption and a race issue. When notice or care. there’s even more on telly and ration book today and in the post be told that the buses dont run on I come to Britain and see signs Today the country ran out o f more reminiscences in the papers. office everyone had a new pur Sundays. T o use public transport that your workers are alienated I petrol. Havent been able to buy There’s a huge series everyone pose. They were wearing their in America you have to be either must say I can’t blame them. any for tw o days. That was some watches called the Second world- best drab austerity clothes for the too old or too young to drive a “ Never have I observed in this thing. The way Britain led the war with Olivier narrating. They occasion and all the old ladies car. country such unjustness. The Common Market in selling Israel showed the Greta escape last night were out in the queues really very Apart from petrol, home heat economy is so screwed that the totally down the river. I know if for the 20th time in ten years. excited and reliving it all. ing oil is the other major use o f only way to make real living you're Left you support the arabs. Dad's army. All our yesteryears. Only the Germans know how petroleum in the US, and here money is to have a lot already. A Even if king Feisal and the rest are Millions o f old war movies. Dis to be proper enemies. Best o f all, again the arabs are hitting where it lot. The amount that workers get more totalitarian and further to cussions on Hitler. To say nothing this time Britain would definitely will really hurt. Most Americans is shattering now compared with the right than Papadopoulos, with of about three Philippe Mora type lose. And there’d be a wonderful believe that central heating is "an the vast profits still being made in the exception of Gaddafi and films made up of nazi home period of occupation with atroci inalienable right” and when it is financial manipulation. Am Sadat. movies. ties and resistance etc, etc. ’til freezing outside with the snow bulancemen strike because they But the point is that Israel is A best selling LP has been put eventually everyone would be lib coming down they want to be get 21 pounds a week.” supposed to stand for all those out called the Sounds o f Colditz. erated by the US. Unfortunately I able to sit around inside in their It costs four pounds a day to things that the west went to war You put it on and you hear the dont think the Germans are in shirt-sleeves. In fact, many houses buy food for a small family. Even for so often. Israel is a democracy, clank o f gates, sounds o f jack terested. and public buildings are best de if you gave them 50 pounds a it’s a minority, it's more rational boots, orders being given in gut Britain needs a revolution des scribed as saunas, and you hear week it would be unfair. than most, it believes in self-help, tural German; in the distance perately. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 — Page 7 Q t c k t f L Page 8 —THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 can eta man HOPOEWCTLD? BRIAN INGLIS HEY ought not to be passed think of no way in which they ence were out for lunch, a secre over in silence, the Ameri could be reproduced. tary had been understandably can anthropologist Daniel Brinton Prompted by Andrija Puharich, terrified when one of the spoons wrote in the 1890s, referring to who has spent much o f his life he had worked on, which had the claims made that shamans and researching into paranormal phe been left beside her desk, had con medicine men used paranormal nomena, and the astronaut Ed tinued to bend on its own. owers. Mitchell - the first man to con Something similar happened The claims, he conceded, were duct a telepathy experiment from here. His first attempt to bend a supported by unquestionable test the moon — Geller then under latchkey, placed between the imony. And yet ... he feared to took to be tested at the Stanford hands o f a woman reporter so that examine them more closely, be Research Institute. Among the TV he could not touch it, had been a cause he found the whole subject audience was a professional magi failure; the key was returned in “ so revolting to the laws of exact cian, who made the point that this tact. Later, after the success o f science — alien, I had almost said, was a mistake. Anybody, he said, CATHRYN GAME the second go, the BBC man who to the experience of our lives” . could fool scientists; the Stanford had lent it found it had bent in his What proportion o f television Research Institute should have pocket; and a broach which the o f 589 which country colonised them or viewers in England last fortnight had a magician there too. Well unfortunate reporter was wearing prospectuses gave aid. felt the same about Uri Geller they did; and he was as baffled as suddenly snapped. At the TV There are also schools founded when he did his thing before the the scientists. from a wide show the following night she told in remote places to educate the cameras on Dimbleby Talk-in? Geller was called upon to re variety of educational institutions us she had taken it to a jeweller to expatriate population. The Ameri Admittedly, there is now much produce, from his mind’s eye, in 75 different countries on all be repaired; after examining it, cans especially have set up schools less hostility to the idea o f extra drawings being made elsewhere. continents except Antarctica is, I the jeweller said that he did not throughout Africa, Asia and sensory perception than there was Quite a few “ sensitives” , including think, quite certainly the only one conceive how it could have been South America (less in Europe) to in Brinton’s day. The evidence for Ms Upton Sinclair, have been able in the world. Occasionally I wish broken, but it was unmendable. there was someone else I could educate offspring o f their diplo it has becom e overwhelming; all to do this; but no one has ever, in Why, though - as people were talk shop to, but I’d rather be mats, missionaries, military per that has been lacking has been laboratory conditions, come unique and have no imitators. I sonnel, oil company executives somebody who could demonstrate through as Geller did with a 100 naturally asking — does Geller’s find it utterly engrossing. and itinerant creative types. it at will. Now, here was Geller percent record, even down to the power manifest itself in bending, Did you know, for instance, School rules apart from the doing it "live” watched by mil correct number o f grapes on a breaking and fracturing (he did that prospectuses from different standard good behavior, no smok lions; but making it look like a bunch. start some stopped watches on the countries fall into distinct type ing, neat dress and regular attend succession o f conjuring tricks, It was not even necessary, the television show, but he stopped groups? The British prospectus ance also vary interestingly. starting and stopping watches, Stanford Institute found, for more, and twisted one minute will invariably begin either with At a girls school in one Swiss bending spoons. Is it not possible, somebody else to do the drawing. hand askew)? He does not know. the history of the school or a ski resort it is forbidden to yell then, that he is simply an ext Geller could reproduce a diagram His belief is that the power is not description and history o f its from the balconies o f the chalets, remely clever magician; a pres done in a computer, and seen by his own; that he is the agent for buildings; and the first (and often and ski clothes must not be worn tidigitator, the like of which none nobody; except, perhaps, the some occult intelligence. Why it the only) photo is invariably a, in the dining room. One American o f us has ever seen? ghost in the machine. should choose to operate through The answer — happily or sadly, him in this eccentric fashion re very staid B & W o f the main school says it won’t accept stu For good measure - literally - according to whether you are a mains obscure. building. dents that are or have been mar he was able to move small weights sheep or a goat in these matters — The most likely explanation is The American prospectus reli ried. At an English expatriate from a distance, and also to regis is the one given by that Boston that he is moved by the kind of ably launches first into the school in Buenos Aires, the board ter on a magnetometer, in spite o f surgeon, whose name I forget, force which is traditionally associ school’s educational philosophy. ers arent allowed to use the tele the fact that it was theoretically when he watched for the first ated with poltergeists; rarely con Photography is again almost invar phone on Sundays — for no appar impossible for him to affect the time an operation performed structive, often frivolous. iably black and white, but they ent reason. machine. (He is also reported, less under an anaesthetic: “ Gentle dont have a phobia against putting Another Swiss school won’t conveniently, to have wiped the Geller’s case, though, is un men, this is no humbug.” their pupils in the pictures, which allow its girls to wear slacks ex tapes of some computers which usual. He has the ability, which The TV performance, though the British do. In fact I have cept in winter in the school were on a government experiment shamans were believed to have, to striking enough, was to any scep concluded that American private grounds, and they must be "full down below.) control the forces, rather than be tic full o f loopholes. But, earlier school and college students are length and dark in color” . Yet Arriving off the plane the day controlled by them - whatever this year, Geller was put through a handsomer than their British another won’t allow make up, before the TV program, he came they are. And it is surely import series o f controlled tests o f a kind counterparts. “ believing the natural charm o f to the TV studio where a few of ant that we should try to find out that no possessor o f psychic The Americans are also more youth preferable to all make-be us - on balance, I would judge, what they are. The implications powers has ever undergone before generous with their money, and lieve” . A finishing school in Eng sceptical - watched him bend are rather terrifying; if a watch - and survived them unscathed. produce a new prospectus every land, housed in the usual historic latchkeys which David Dimbleby can be stopped, why not an aero I first heard o f Geller’s prowess year or two. All copies are sent by mansion, warns visitors that spike was holding, by gently stroking plane engine? But they have to be last year after he had given a air mail (first class usually). The heels are not allowed as “ the them. But his r.; ~ ' faced - as indeed, demonstration. He did a routine British try to make the same one floors are o f fine w ood” .' The impressive physicists in of telepathy/clairvoyance tests; do for as long as possible - one students o f one ballet school are achievements way is to print the fees, which rise forbidden to ride mopeds. A con then, without touching them, turned out to be bent some spoons. At this point a every year, on a separate enclosed vent in Belgium won’t allow its accidental’ I Cambridge physicist said he had sheet instead o f in the main text students to bring books to school recalled that brought along a box containing — and they always use surface as the library is adequate, but follow ing his mail. “ one comic per term is allowed” . screwdrivers of a kind which, demonstration m The Swiss on the other hand A school in India censors mail humanly speaking, should have London, while, America and Russia, and tend to emphasise visuals more on the grounds that “ a number of been unbreakable. Would Geller he and his to a limited extent in this than text and go in for lavish people, such as stamp dealers, like to try? The box was then audi country, have com e to realise. color photos. Their prospectuses betting-touts and the like, seem to opened, and the screwdrivers were Fortunately Geller has agreed are brochures rather than book consider school children fair found lying already broken inside to cooperate with some London lets. They emphasise the happi prey” . The same school also earn it. A member of the staff of the physicists in research; which is - ness o f the student, the necessity estly requests parents “ not to department o f metallurgy at o f international harmony, and the send their children cheap illustrat Cambridge who sent the again, literally - the chance o f a advantages o f being at a school ed papers, popularly known as screwdrivers for lifetime. Psychic powers with a worldwide enrolment.' ‘Comics’. They will be confiscat examination has since are unpredictable. The British however only seem ed.” reported that he is ^Sometimes they vanish to care about turning out Chris The differences between pat unable to account ,1:; sometimes tians, regardless o f how many “ A ” terns o f extra-curricular offerings for the fractures, they go when levels, detentions, games o f hoc at schools around the world is also and that he their user tries key and tennis, and other rituals an absorbing study. Most Swiss can to exploit one must survive with a stiff private schools have compulsory them for upper lip to achieve that state. skiing. One finishing school offers wealth (Granted, there are many differ a course in bridge as an extra. - as ent types o f Christians, according Another says, “ An antics dealer Geller, to prospectuses - practising, teaches the pupils how to recog with thinking, committed . . . ) nise and appreciate the style of his American schools place a dis ancient furniture and carpets” . In tinct emphasis on individualism, India one boarding school offers and provide individual schools for batik printing, Sanskrit chanting, individual children o f individual folk dancing, and Bharata Nat- parents. yam! charm Then you get the different Fascinating, isnt it? Any time as well as his talent to types o f schools, British-type, you want to know more, just ask; offer, must surely be tempted to American-type and Continental- I can rave indefinitely. But all I’m do. It will be sad if so unique a type. Most of the world’s educa saying now is, if you havent got a research opportunity is not ex tion systems have been based on constructive hobby, get one - ploited to the full, while it lasts. one of these types, depending on before you go insane. - New statesman THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 1 1-17, 1973 — Page 9 Kid contributions can be sent to either the Sydney or Mel bourne monitor. If you live else where, choose either one and enclose a stamped self address ed envelope. MELBOURNE: Rob King, “ Lodge Ralph”, David Road, Lilydale. SYDNEY: John Geake, 17 Bridge street, Balmain 2041. A. S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School and one of the most extraordinary educators of our time, died in October. His great source of pride was that none of his pupils ever became prime minister. Some of the Sydney schoolkids have been fossicking around for a nice way to say goodbye. One of them, LAURA McLEOD, treasures a letter she once received HE catholic school is still Tsurrounded by an aura o f from Neill and here recollects the day she went in search mystery. Apart from those who of him. attend or teach in these schools, no one seems to know or want to know much about them. Summerhill: A memory It therefore came as a bit o f a surprise when I received a lengthy letter from a young inmate of a went to Summerhill in Sep As I was heading towards the catholic school. She landed in on I tember, when all the British gate to leave I met Mrs Neill again, the subject o f SRCs, however it school kids have their long sum and she gave me a photo o f Neill turns out that what she really had mer holidays. So when I saw the at his daughter’s wedding. She in mind was a curbed attack on school, it was deserted, except for explained to me that it was the the school she goes to. the odd teacher and the wife o f A. last photo taken o f him before he It seems that catholic educa S. Neill, who was there to prepare got sick. I thanked her, and said tion has been forced to make for the oncoming term. how great the school was and that wholesale concessions to the 20th I walked into the school with a I hoped it would go on for century and, perhaps, in particular preconceived idea o f what it ever. She said that she did not to the irrelevance o f its entire would be like. I had always know whether she could keep it dogm a But if the methods have dreamt o f seeing Summerhill, it going for much longer as the changed the madness is still there. has almost been like a legend to government was trying to bring in me. As I was walking along a new legislation under which shady path that led to the school, Summerhill would no longer re I could sense that this was a place ceive further government grants. I of love, so contrary to the feelings told her that I was sure someone I had always felt for my school, would keep the school going and I heard you crying in the chapel and others like it. I kept walking that a place like Summerhill is and I came to a big two' storey OU’ RE kidding! SRCs? The very much needed for kids in the have between five and nine black ous. A kid fainted and was uncon house which was the main build perfect system? What a load world today. Y marks, you have to stay back for scious for three hours. They left ing o f the school. I saw a girl and o f crap! Well, at least not at my Summerhill deeply impressed an hour on friday and write con her lying on a typing table with a asked her if she worked there. As asylum. Our SRC took six years me because it showed a true un- tinuously from overseas trading blanket over her, alone with her it happened, she was A. S. Neill’s to let us go without wearing oppressive environment in which books. Between 10 and 15 marks, girlfriend, who was crying. daughter Zoe. She told me that all gloves in summer. And, I’m not kids could grow and love and you com e back on Saturday. And, After three hours her friends the kids were on holiday, but to crapping you. learn freely, without any o f the over 15, you get a phone call - got a bit worried, and so five look around and see the school I was a member o f this so-call hassles o f trying to survive the and you know what that means. brave kiddies took the liberty of anyway. ed perfect system for a whole six educational system as it is today. Charts with our names and the leaving the grounds to tell her I walked around the side o f the weeks and then I was told I wasnt LAURA McLEOD black marks are displayed so that mother. Her mother chucked a building and there was a lot o f a very good example to the class. the whole world can have a look mental, while the five kids nearly graffiti on the walls, proclaiming, Our SRC consists of kids voted at how evil we’ve been. got expelled. They didnt because Fuck Cod and Jesus is dead. I was A letter from by the kids from each class, and We have two different teachers the whole school kicked up a fuss. slightly taken aback as most 15 from form six. About once A.S.Neill for French, and two for music, So they ended up with five black schools I have been to dont seem every three months there are which is ridiculous, because one marks for trying to help. to have pupils who display their Summerhill school, meetings in each class and the teaches you totally different from All these things are true. It’s a feelings so blatantly. But I was Leiston, SRC representatives ask the kids the other. one sex school, and it’s run by also impressed that the kids could Suffolk, England what they want brought up. The We have a French test which hypocrites, who told the form obviously express their feelings so Dear Laura, I result is all sorts o f reasonable took us two lessons - fair enough. twos not to wear black, purple or openly, and without fear of pun I hate to disappoint you but requests. The SRC meets and talks A few kids were talking after red, because it excites the boys, or ishment we never have helpers under 20. them over, and, if they all agree, it wards (two minutes to the end o f eye shadow with jeans, because it In the main building, there Yr new school sounds good, gets brought to the attention o f period); so the teacher said that doesnt match. We went on an were many rooms, most of them and I am glad to hear of it because the head overseer. If she (a nun) we were having another test after excursion, and we were given the empty, and the whole place seem so many tell me that Australia is doesnt agree, stiff shit! school. We had 40 minutes notice. privilege o f wearing casuals. Be ed to be very disorganised and in a 70 years behind the times in edu Our teaching staff consists of: I wasnt going to put up with fore we left, the teacher went state o f disarray. Then I met Mrs cation. But so is Britain I fear. 1. A French queer, who needs that, and neither was my friend. around, pointing out the faults in Neill; she looked very busy and I can picture that school you Uncle Sam [A deodorant that Instead o f doing the test, we both our attire. Life goes o n ... quite exhausted. I had an interest describe There are hundreds like hasnt heard o f Watergate] wrote that we were not going to My school is a depot for illiter ing talk with her about the school it over here. 2. A socialite, Toorak type do it, and the reasons why. My ate molls and ignorant lesbians. and she told me that A. S. Neill Pardon me for being so brief. I drongo, who thinks “yes" is the reasons were as follows: It’s not their fault, so it has was in hospital and did not have am nearly 90 and very tired and opposite to "no” . I’m not going to do this ridicu obviously got something to do much longer to live. I told her no longer able to see the 100 3. A history fanatic, whose lous thing. with the school. The only reason I how sorry I was, and she said he visitors we used to have weekly. voice hasnt broken yet, and who Why? dont leave and work in Coles is had lived a long and happy life, All I can say is that I am glad to thinks Australian history is fascin Because it is absolutely ludi because I really want to be a but now he was tired and very know that a lassie of 15 is seeking ating. crous. journalist or an author (high old. I then told her about my freedom. My dear, you will find it 4. A mouse. Because we were given 40 hopes). crummy school and she sympa if you turn a deaf ear to all the 5. A dripping pancreas. minutes notice. There will be people who will thised with me, saying “ we need anti-life folks you'll meet in life. 6. A few lesbian-type molls. Because we are two weeks think that this is all crap, or that I more Summerhills” . Your friend, 7. An “ I’ve been everywhere, away from the end o f the year, have exaggerated a lot. But I The school grounds consisted A. S. NEILL I’ve done everything, I know and we havent gone through a swear on Mick Jagger’s lips that it o f about tw o to three acres, there everyone” - lives 20 miles away quarter o f our French books. is all true. I’d sign my name, only were lots o f really beautiful trees in the country, born in Hobart, 72 Because it’s not fair. if it got printed and I was discov and it was all very green, every year old Mongolian rattlesnake. I’m doing what I think is right. ered . . . well, I’d be a legend. thing you would expect o f the 8. .. . and an assortment o f I’m not being cheeky (I hope). Hare Krsna, English countryside. Apart from others. Whoever gets to read this, I Me (a 15 year old broke girl, the main building, there were Our parents pay about $52 a hope you’re decently minded. who is mixed up, confused, and smaller buildings which contained term, we have 50 kids per class, Well, the head overseer got to wondering what to do next). science labs and other classrooms. and during lunch hour we sit on read it, and she wasnt so decently PS. Our school is catholic, and There were no desks in any o f the asphalt. minded. She came into the class the minute you mention another rooms and it all looked very We have a black mark system room and made my friend and I religion - PAGAN CHILD! homely and informal. (typically medieval). This means stand up in front o f the class and * * * There were a few caravans that that if you ’re seen without un get lectured. NB. We can't do all that much housed some o f the students, and chapeau, if you’re late, or talk in She read our comments to the about the “mixed up, confused, everywhere I went I could tell it class, you are given one black class but, when she read mine, she wondering what to do next” was the kids school, because mark. If you are caught with casually omitted the part about syndrome - best treat it as an everything I saw reflected their chewing gum - as well as a black how much we had learnt. I didnt occupational hazard. If, however, feelings and ideals. Near the cara mark you have to pick up five worry, coz I just closed my eyes you send us your address, you will vans was a swimming pool and bits o f chewy from around the and thought about the last time I eventually receive some financial more trees. They also had some school. got high. remittance, and will therefore be vegetable gardens behind the At the end of the week, if you Our medical service is tremend marginally less broke. - R.K. smaller buildings. Page 10- T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 DO IT YOURSELF KUNG FU 14 SIL LIM TAO (128) Complete the elbow-up block, by moving your arm —■ your hand open — diagon (136) Begin the elbow-up block with the right arm. (137) Complete the block ally across your chest. (129) From the elbow-up block bend your elbow and turn your by lowering your forearm diagonally across the chest. palm toward you in sinking elbow block (chum jiang). (130) With your elbow still bent, start the palm strike (dia jeong) by bending (138) From the elbow-up block, drop your elbow into a sinking elbow block, your fingers downward so that your palm is facing the ceiling. (131) and (139) begin the downward palm strike. Complete the palm strike by fully extending your arm at face level. (140) Complete the palm strike with your arm extended and your hand at (132) Begin to rotate your hand clockwise, with your palm toward your face level. (141) Rotate your hand counterclockwise until your palm faces body. (133) Start to retract your hand and make a fist. your body. (134) Return your left fist to the side of your chest. (135) With the palm (142) Form a fist with your right hand as you begin to retract it toward your facing up, you are in the basic sil lim tao position once more. body. (143) Continue retracting your fist to the right side of your chest. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 — Page 11 DO IT YOURSELF RUNG FU 15 (152) After completion of the last punch, thrust the right arm up into a palm-up block. (153) Begin to rotate your hand counterclockwise until the (144) Stop your fist, with the palm up, next to your chest. (145) Slant your palm faces toward your chest. left arm across your body with the palm facing the floor. (154) Form a fist and retract your hand until (155) it is at the side of your chest. (146) Bring your right hand, palm facing left, to the middle of your chest. (147) Cross your right arm over the left, simultaneously retracting your left hand to your side as you form a fist. (156) From the basic sil lim tao position, (157) slide your left foot over to your right foot. Stand erect with your feet together. (148) A fte r the right arm completes a slicing movement across your body, your fist should be palm-up at your side. (149) With your left hand, shoot out a vertical punch at nose level as your right fist protects your chest. (158) Open your hands and rotate the palms downward, moving them along the thighs. (159) With the arms extended, palms facing the floor, and feet together, you have returned to the starting position of this form. Note: In the beginning of sil lim tao both feet are together and on the cross line. At the com pletion of sil lim tao both feet are together and to the side of the cross line. NEXT WEEK: Straight Punch and Finger Jab (150) Then shoot out a right vertical punch at nose level and retract the left arm. (151) Repeat the left-right punches three times before going on to THIS supplement is extracted from the book Wing Chun Kung Fu by J. Yimm Lee, movement No. 152. Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, California. The book is available in some city bookshops. Kage l ^ — TH E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 Undeveloped Australia \2 PHILIP CORDINGLEY 3 f ;J I STILL LIFE, WITH MIRRORS im um k POEMA ESPAGNOL In cold afternoon / all things happen. Bodies are dispersed, lie haphazard on worn & uncomfortable couches that shot buried with the dead who bough There are more doors than there are Thin light radiates, reflects the keys, & only rarely do we find clock’s shrill tick, your transpare a corresponding set. The world or life or living — whatever springtime name we care house, after-noon antarctic midn to call it by - is like a room of mirrors, Move through it, scatter words in which we wait, either for Cocteau on vast plateaux of ice, watch tb or for the mercury to melt, so we slip & slide, like crazy draughtsm can see which way is out. Or maybe in. out of it, away from the night To break a mirror would only mean that brought you here, five hund more pieces to pick up; for I already know years of loneliness. the fragmented picture of me they would duplicate. Coming down off a threeyear We should ha\ curing course of methadone that hopefully or recognised the omens. But all will end the drugged decade that went before ever saw were snow & angels’ has made me too damned conscious of the wings, which I did not understan myriad aspects of my self. The final, physical the years have piled up symptoms of withdrawal have forced me to at the backdoor, so much reflect, to try and separate which shards chipped porcelain with their of past possessed some flash of insight dreams & resolutions that we ha1 & which were merely manufactured by the flash fucked to death. when heroin hits the brain. Meanwhile I wait, Whatever & watch the mirrors/watching me. Somewhere we do from here on in beyond them I can hear a woman weeping. & is of our doing. The movements/ shortly after, someone come knocking at her door. are decisive. MARK YOUNG THE CUCKOO’S NEST PREMATURE They do not issue uniforms, but many eyes possess a uniformity just the same. A dress of distance, a despondancy that crisscross the Christmas table with the other decorations. The eyes I have have no colour to them; & the people who bear them are worn down by sedatives, & walk like shadows finally of their former selves. Quiet day of festival, ’68; but the boozy rhymes — ‘Twas xmas day in the come down f nuthouse — come somewhat true as this year, for me, my year fades out amongst the senile Junk Mounts & insane, amongst the chronic children being driven around the grounds in a petrol-powered brightly-coloured /facsimile railway train. (the drugs I 1 am being given make my fingers slip. I had typed ‘dolour’ have instead of ‘colour’; & this underlines my feelings. The Come Down. grief that grips & guides the fingers of my mind does not fade with the year’s end.) Have finally Reflection of the colours of the train has put some light into come. the children’s eyes, but soon will fade when ‘Little Toot’ is put away. & my pain, if I could tell it to them, would give false colours, would impose sensations of a world they do not know & could not understand. I could not watch Down. the sports today — to see the spastics & mongols running races is too bizarre & heartbreaking in its unwarranted humour. But they enjoy it: & whose — leave immortality for anotl definitions of grief & joy are valid here? (like a For them the seasons too are uniform - though others not get stuck in a comer of tl feel the cold, like Alec the alcoholic, whose latest haiku. sticking morphine in the arm (meat. Summer - but even sunshine cannot warm Allen Ginsberg: Last Night in some patients’ minds. 1 THE GAUDY IMAGE I things ispersed, The manner of speaking is barbarous. Coarse words. & harsh incantations that chafe l & es that should have been like wolves’ tongues on the thighs who bought them, of angels. fleets the The manner of speaking lr transparent flesh. is the way of his life. The unhesitant, un Old cluttered flow of words. Their power, the THE DANCERS arctic midnight, white heat of them. On which your fingers burn, or else your body, pressed against him. ter words The interplay between the dancers e, watch them is not/ In the beginning ' draughtsmen. between bodies Move there was silence, but there were words, though you would not but between eyes. reach into the sticky air & pick them out. In the night e, five hundred miles, light the beginning there was your silence. & now another, For instance: more deathly, more strained, through which the the young girl worms of revelation crawl, waiting to be discovered, like with the handsome older man — how j should have known, pornographic pictures of yourself you didn’t admit she looks at him! — holding on existed. How to explain them in soft words? or ens. But all 1 with her eyes, imploringly/adoringly, trying make light of them? c angels’ so hard to please. it understand. Or even try. & now But he is certain of her Instead, IP & she has already been forgotten. His eyes you can only wait for the end, your brittle fingers luch are elsewhere, dancing with — which one is it? tilted towards the moon to soften them. In failing light/ th their She in the green? Or that one there, the that we have slowly a last deception. The rails of your life blonde, on the far side of the room? glint in the far distance, the scarred tracks. Mem ory? Common wounds? Or an old record, worn thin, tever Thus out of which some even thinner voice rises n the dance goes on. I watch it. My eyes. novements/ to lick your cunt with its dry tongue? Memory. & in the wind are faded flowers. Moving. NEWS & WEATHER, created by Nigel Roberts and Richard Tipping, is providing regular poetry pages for TLD. Submit your poetics, your photo graphs and relevant material to NEWS & I WEATHER, 33 Duke street. East Balmain, 2041. URE POEM HYMN FOR LENNON/TOMMORROW NEVER KNOWS RAIN, RAIN High in Transylvania — trans To enter ported location: the actual setting a new place at night 3 a.m. Auckland in thin rain. Cicadas or rather all quiet, all still, only the early morning petulant whirr of the recordplayer & the softskull noises of moths prowl through it beating their brains out against the opaque walls. turning on lights discovering >wn from Cicadas all quiet, all still. The moths die the new furniture with a soft whirring. The record player & old paintings coaxes erotically for your new records. The in the lounge mntain. cat entefs, all wet with droplets of rain, like a grey night. & in the kitchen old furniture Do not attempt to isolate & new paintings the vims that besets you. Pamper it, & the voices will emerge from the speakers, including detach themselves & plunge embodied into your mouth. The nausea as they beat against the back of your throat: & the resultant high, the nutmeg feeling, sad hallucinations own. of your nightmare soul. But this is not Dracula country. Garlic flowers & the sitar have driven him away. In grey coffin ially with shroud of thin night rain he is borne ignominiously to sunshine land to die, wither & die, a flaccid old man with collapsed intestines, capable of only the most inconsequential intercourse. a grey Lichtenstein-like lithograph that startles you so much by its & you unexpected positioning own. You turn off your mind, relax, & float downstream, absentmindedly scratching at the that you are suddenly aware of the — marks the withered gums have left on your throat. drumming of the corrugatediron roof ty for another to suffer the whole time you have been here - (like a fool, rain comer of the universe (rain i in the arm and eating so much heavier (meat. / but less impact ast Night in Calcutta The last tea party PETER DALLOW Wattle Park lies in Melbourne’s middle suburbia, between Camberwell and Box Hill. The 40s last frontier. Wattle Park has a chalet where they serve Devonshire teas. Melbourne’s last park kiosk. What the Australian press needs is a dose of speed, some grass, some acid, some guts... and a good kick up the arse By Richard Beckett power bloc one belongs to. FEAR AND LOATHING ON Sweet suffering Jesus, after all THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL '72 by how can one have any faith in a Dr Hunter S. Thompson, with prime minister whose wife writes illustrations by Ralph Steadman a load o f drivel for a magazine o f (Straight Arrow Books). the intellectual status o f Womans day. Despite all her manifest i i \ T THE stroke of midnight faults, at least Pat Nixon doesnt ./A . in Washington, a drooling write M y day for Womens wear red-eyed beast with the legs o f a daily. And to answer the immedi man and a head o f a giant hyena FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE WATERGATE ate reply that this sort o f thing crawls out o f its bedroom window By Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Illustrated By Ralph Steadman gets to the masses, one might say in the south wing o f the White that if one regards the masses on House and leaps 50 feet down to this intellectual level one is on the lawn . . . pauses briefly to about the same patronage level as strangle the chow watchdoq, then South Australia’s Andrew Jones races into the darkness, towards with his famous “who knows the Watergate, snarling with lust, what they’re thinking out there in loping through the alleys behind mugsville” attitude. Pennsylvania avenue and trying If New South Wales' Robert desperately to remember which Askin is determined to “ run over one o f those four identical bal conies is the one outside Martha the bastards", so is Whitlam. His utter arrogance is almost puke- Mitchell’s apartment’’ making, worse even that Menzies’ That’s Nixon... “ It is entirely conceivable - royalty fetish (did he ever keep given the known effects of ibo- her used knickers in a secret gaine — that Muskie’s brain was case?), Gorton’s bubble machine, almost paralysed by hallucinations boozer’s approach to government at the time; that he looked out at or McMahon’s near use o f his the crowd and saw gila monsters wife’s pubic hair (actually it was instead of people, and that he the upper half of her milk white snapped completely when he felt thighs) to prove to the Australian electorate that he was a regular something large and apparently I vicious clawing at his legs." wouldbe gang rapist and not the p oof that everyone from Darwin | That's early Democratic front- to Launceston suspected he was. j runner, Big Ed Muskie... “ Hubert Humphrey is a treach And that’s just the beginning erous, gutless old ward-heeler who . . . I havent even started on a should be put in a goddam bottle character analysis o f the rest o f and sent out with the Japanese the bastards yet. In following the current. The idea of Humphrey campaign o f ’72 in the United running for president once again States Hunter Thompson did. Of makes a mockery out o f things course, covering an election in the that it would take me too long to United States is somewhat easier explain or even list here. And - their elections last for more Hubert Humphrey wouldnt under than a year, there’s time to look. stand what I was talking about The way elections are declared in anyway. He was a swine in ’68 Australia there’s not much time and he’s worse now. If the Demo for more than a couple of rabbit cratic party nominates Humphrey punches and kicks in the groin again in ’72, the party will get before it’s all over, with absolute exactly what it deserves.” ly no time to explain the swine to That’s middle Democratic the people who really matter - front-runner Hubert Humphrey... the so called voters, dragged to “ This (the political groin shot) the polls only through fear o f a is one of the oldest and most fine. effective tricks in politics. Every his gloves after The armies o f the ed them. Fear and loathing on the now make about as much sense as Australian politics have slipped hack in the business has used it in night - Thompson is the king of campaign trail '72 is no excep a political campaign run on the so far into the slough of despond times o f trouble, and it has even America’s subjective political tion. Since the infamous cam divine right o f kings), staggered on that only a local Hunter S. been elevated to the level of pol journalists. Being subjective about paign, Watergate has com e and to his disastrous and bloody end. Thompson can pull them out of itical m ythology in a story about political campaigns is no new almost gone, Spiro Agnew has And Thompson, by deliberate the mire. But what do we get? one o f Lyndon Johnson’s early thing in the United States. (Al definitely gone, Nixon won’t go, ly remaining outside the establish Nothing. campaigns in Texas. The race was though apparently it is a startling the tapes won’t play, Hunter ed press corps, retained his free Instead o f Thompson we are close and Johnson was getting new theory in Australia outside o f Thompson has officially retired dom to write. He knew nothing served up with Whitlam PM, writ worried. Finally he told his cam the subjective publishing empires hurt, the Middle East war is on and cared less for the social con ten by political journalist Laurie paign manager to start a massive of the Melbourne Herald and again. And despite the fact that ventions o f journalism, that turns Oakes, published by Angus & rumor campaign about his op Weekly Times and Sydney’s Fair this book has arrived in Australia almost every longterm political Robertson at $4.95, which con ponent's lifelong habit o f enjoying fax — both of whom allow no by rapid and only semi-legal chan writer into a piss-in-the-pocket tains gems such as (describing carnal knowledge o f his own barn journalist subjectivity, although nels, it has become history. Tele hack, who worries more about his Whitlam’s boyhood), “ There was yard sows. they claim the right for them vision treads all over us and there mortgage and his second car and little waste in the household — so “ ‘Christ we can’t get away selves. ) is a good case for demanding that his image for G od’s sake than his little in fact, that there was no with calling him a pig-fucker,’ the America always has been the in future authors either publish truthfulness. need for a garbage tin, the scraps campaign manager protested. ‘No home of digging journalism — the the instant and immediate book, The lack o f such a goad in were buried in the garden.” But body’s going to believe a thing much touted British Sunday times or turn themselves into shortterm Australia was never more evident he hastens to add, “ not that there like th at' “Insight” is merely American historians and wait a bit. that during the last federal elec was anything mean about the “ ‘I know,’ Johnson replied. style digging brought back across However, there’s no taking tion, immediately after it, and Whitlams, Martha was the sort o f ‘But let’s make the sonofabitch the Atlantic - and Thompson is away the brilliance of the work. now. Apart from vague lunges by woman who baked cakes and bis deny it.’ ” merely the holder of the golden Thompson, in taking subjective the Nation review’s Mungo Mac- cuits for new arrivals in the neigh And that’s Dr Hunter S. gloves for the moment. There will journalism one step further (and Callum and a surprisingly refresh borhood to make them feel wel Thompson, the dope head, acid be others, as there have been in carrying a fair bit o f his writ ing essay on that middle class com e ...” freak, not to mention oldtime others in the past, who actually ings at the time in successive poseur Gough Whitlam by Frank And on and on into the night, boozer (Christ only knows how he take the trouble to write the truth issues o f Rolling stone) manages Knopfelmacher in the same paper Oakes grinds his relentless waffle manages to cope with the wild about politicians, who do not to retain the immediacy o f the (Vol. 4 No. 7), damn all has been journalism into the minds of all of raging o f a booze and drugs trip), cough nervously when a member campaign as the hopeless Demo written about the general level o f us. The good solid lovely Whit the political journalist who, in the o f the legislature either physically cratic candidate, George McGov incompetence of the present La lams. Wait for it, we’ll be getting end, became even too much for or metaphorically lets his dick ern, who turned out in the end to bor ministry, or of the hack atti the worker’s hands bit fairly soon. Rolling stone, which after a par hang out in public, but who write be just another bloody Democrat tudes o f the workers hands and And the pity o f it all is that there ticularly vicious series o f events in it down. in anti-Vietnam clothing, and who yobbo Labor back benches. isnt a Hunter Thompson among which Dr Thompson and British Because of the publishing time was abandoned by his own party Witty remarks are made about Australia’s journalistic commun artist Ralph Steadman monstered lag (engineered by American and and organised labor because of a Snedden in both the left and ity, let alone an organisation pre the Watergate hearings, finally British publishing houses to their few piddling puritan-wowser is right wing press and o f the gen pared to pay him. Read this book cancelled his credit card and said own advantage) very few con sues such as abortion, hom o eral abysmal standards o f the op and weep for the fate of Austra enough was enough. temporary American works make sexuality and dope (not that the position parties. But who gives a lia’s newspapers. At present, outside o f Norman it to Australia while they are still issues are piddling in themselves, stuff - the target should be the Mailer - who virtually hung up relative to the situations that caus it’s just that the rightist arguments government, irregardless o f what □ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973-Page 17 Don Lane wouldnt laugh at me Chris Hector talks to Bob Hudson OB HUDSON I first saw at dub o f the tape and went down to bit in the folk clubs but basically Bthe contemporary song a music publisher. They got in in kitchens or loungerooms or workshop of the '68 Melbourne touch with me, and apparently what, who are now ready to prof folk festival. Literally bouncing played it to Paul Hogan, or the fer their pearls have nowhere to on stage, Hudson launched into a people who were managing him - go? frenetic performance of a song Clyde Packer and Mike Willesee. There seems to be a general he’d written himself. A song that They sort o f came and said how direction towards the theatre, arty told of his encounter with four would you like to come down side; Margaret Roadknight tends regular army persons who had from Newcastle to Sydney and do to work theatre-art venues, Jean roughed him up in George street, a bit of work with Hogan. I think nie Lewis ditto, Glenn Cardier has Sydney. they might have had in mind worked mostly as support to rock At a time when every second working on Current affair, or groups, John Francis perhaps a ‘‘contemporary’’ song was loaded working in the clubs with Hogan. little more into the rock scene, to with hackneyed slogans and mel And I sort of hung off a bit student audiences and that sort of lifluous cliches, Bob’s ditty was an because of all my debts and they stuff, but it’s pretty limited. encouraging step in the direction offered me 12 months salary - The thing that does link these of letting the action prompt the not a fortune but enough to keep people is common interaction on responses - letting the conclu going on. So I just came down. what started out as a folk music sions arise naturally from the But the funny thing was that it fro n t. ..? story. was mostly on the strength o f the Yeah, but they were mostly Ever since then I’ve heard Bob Newcastle song, which made them people who were on the edge of singing around the place, at the think that I was a comedian. The the folk music scene. Cos the folk occasional folk concert and at first prom otion stories were that I music scene went from Peter, Paul poetry readings in a group called was Australia’s Bill Cosby. In Mel and Mary/Kingston Trio kind of the Teen Angels, singing grotty bourne they expected me to be folk singing and moved into politi rock some 12 months before Dad black. I was interviewed by a lady cal areas - about the time Bob dy Cool hit the air. In the Balmain from a TV magazine down there Dylan became the cult hero and early opener he would sing away and she said, “ Oh, I thought you American folk became commer the mania produced by a seven would be much older and much cial in Australia. day, 12 hour nightshift at Callan darker. . . ” Australian folk never did any Park, where he worked as a psych I then signed up with Leeds good. There was a sudden split nurse, but mainly in kitchens, in music publishing because they with a conservative backlash of sitting rooms and on verandahs. were going to publish all my stuff people imitating 86 year old Sus B ob’s music was essentially and they want me to be a com ed sex farmers styles and with those the music of the people he knew. ian - they keep saying the word who went out into the more People who were attempting to “comedian” - which to my mind plastic-type folk which was quick make their music part o f the lives is someone who stands up and ly superseded by people splinter as distinct from media entertain says lots o f funny jokes, speaking ing o ff in their own directions. ment consumer product. At the o f mother-in-laws, have you heard Which is where people have ended time it seemed very likely that the one about ... That’s sort of up now. that’s where Hudson’s music the level these people think o f and The people who didnt take would stay — the fringe music of a this has been the biggest problem. part in the traditionalist backlash fringe culture. I think they expected they were have on the whole com e through But no, the media octopus in getting Bill Cosby. from being folk-singers capital F. its frantic search for the new has But you are working up your own They were people who used to “ discovered” Bob Hudson. His stage act with the Tonsilettes? sing with a guitar and if they were EUPHORIA RECORDS baby face grin leers from the Yes, that all started when Brian Shop 8, Princes Gate Arcade, HEAD OFFICE AT: ladies they would toss their hair 171 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000. 83 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000. pages o f the telly guides, his Cadd came up to play a concert at around quite a lot, but they are all Phone: 63.5819. Phone: 63.9009. mania infests the box (shows with the University o f NSW and Di more or less coming into a scene ALICE COOPER - Muscle of Love - $6.30; S A N T A N A - Welcome - $6.50; Paul Hogan, spots in a series com O S IB IS A - Happy Children - $6.30; RINGO STARR - Ringo - $6.50; Manson, who is sort of the cultur that used to be called contem por T R A F F IC - On the Road - $6.30; LOGGINS & MESSINA - F u ll Sail - ing up on the ABC in january, and al Brian Epstein, asked Jeannie ary folk . . . Which is not a very $ 6 .3 0 , BETTE MIDDLER - Bette Middler - $ 6 .3 0 ; MIKE OLDFIELD - an ill-fated encounter with Don Tubular Bells - $6.30; JACKSON BROWNE - For Everyman.- $6.30; PINK Lewis and I to perform on the good term, I dont like the word F L O Y D - Dark Side of the Moon - $6.30; T H E W H O - Quadrophenia - Lane), an LP coming out in the same bill. So we thought we’ll go folkmusic at all. $ 1 1 .9 5 ; ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - $ 1 1 .5 0 . new year and Hudson is on his Posting and packing costs 50c extra per order (includes certified mail fee). mad and we’ll team up. What sort o f stuff are you writ C.O.D. costs $1.00 extra per order. way. Where? We did a program o f 13 great ing? * * * teenage death songs as the new I’ve written a song that I’m WHEN DID you get the first ap Teen Angels. We all greased our pleased with: Girls in our town. proaches from the real world? hair up, wore identical number There were two girls, they were Well it all happened when Gra two tee shirts on account o f we both only 19 or 20 and they were NEAT CLOTHES ham Lowndes and I did the music, were the support act and people the most beautiful looking wo such as it was, for the national like it, particularly things like the men. Two Newcastle girls who tour of the Australian Free Thea electric ukulele with wah wah came down to visit us, and we tre Group which was a wonder pedal heavy solos. were sitting around, mostly wo ful avant-garde theatre group. When we did the Cadd concert, men, the loungeroom having a Every little play that they did all the under 17s yelled and general discussion. It wasnt quite ended in the ritual sacrifice o f a screamed and thought it was real a womens lib meeting but it was young girl. No matter what the ly great because they love that more than people just sitting play happened to be about it was sort o f heavy music, and all the around the living room talking, invariably about this particular over 17s yelled and screamed and and these two girls just sort o f sat little girl who now gets round in a thought it was really great because there and they didnt say anything clown outfit and she was always they love a bit o f satire. and they both went o ff to the LIBERATION ritually sacrificed - with fake But the big program is to find bathroom together - which is 155 Greville St., Prahran, 3181 blood and all that sort o f thing - enough venues to work. I’d be your typical Newcastle behavior — (Off Chapel St., at Town Hall) at the end of each play. And starving now if I wasnt on con so they were reasonably kindly Graham and I did the music for tract. Unless I went out to work T H E W H O — Quadrophenia — $12.00; TAJ MAHAL — Oooh So Good and confronted with my song when them. B lues — $6.30; THE POINTER SISTERS — The Pointer Sisters — $6.30; clubs. I dont like working clubs, they got back. They opened out a BARRY WHITE - Stoned Gon - $6.30; CURTIS MAYFIELD - B a ck to It was on that tour that I met simply because entertaining in little bit after that. They just had th e W o rld - $6.30; DAVE MASON - It's Like You Never Left - $6.30; Ted Robinson, who later on be clubs is, basically, pretty easy; no self-confidence, no awareness LOGGINS & MESSINA — Full Sail — $6.30; Billy Cobham — Spectrum — came producer of tile ABC radio anyone who can sing in tune, o f even their own attractiveness; $6.30; PAUL BUTTERFIELD BETTER DAYS - It A ll Comes Back - program R oom to m ove who later smile a lot and who’s got a fancy they looked nice but even the fact $6.30; JACKSON BROWNE — For Every Man — $6.30; ANDREW got me and Graham and various suit can get up and be a club that they were physically elegant S IS T E R S - Best O f - $6.30; DAVID BOWIE - P in U ps - $6.30; RINGO others radio exposure on the singer. S T A R R — R in g o — $6.30; meant nothing to them. They had Room to move concerts. A techni But this seems to be happening all "Melbourne's Progressive Music Centre". no idea o f their own sexuality, no cian from the ABC sneaked out a over the place: people who sang a self-respect, because girls in that Page 18 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 situation usually end up having a best friend that they can trust. They can’t talk to most women because if another woman gets to know them too well, that gives Teannie s her a weapon to steal your man, because that’s the number one sport in that kind of area. You can’t talk to other men because your husband thinks you’re trying featherless flight to get on with them, so there’s no one to talk to, so they end up, usually - if they are lucky - with MARGARET MACINTYRE a best friend they go shopping with. They look after each other’s OR Jeannie Lewis it had kids, go to the beach together and Jeannie’s preoccupation with been a long hard day. Mine things like that. It really becomes F lyrics is closely related to her was the last in a long list o f a non-practising lesbian relation political conscience, that thing so interviews and as she said: “ I just ship in that that's the only person comm on among singers during the want to sing, I dont want to talk they can really relate to. folk/rock boom, but so rare these any more.” However we sat down, I think it’s a beaut song but it days when it’s cooler not to care. played some music, switched on surprises me: you've always been With Jeannie, however, it is a sin the tape and away we went. Con very suspicious of movements but cere and thoughtful commitment sidering she had been attempting that’s a very womens movement to a duty she feels that artists to explain herself all day, she was song. .. share. “ I keep hoping that a per Yeah, but that song tends to remarkably patient and articulate, former has the power to influence be, if anything, a criticism of the and was always interested in going an audience. So often, of course, beyond the yes/no answer which womens liberation movement be it’s a matter o f preaching to the so stifles an interview. cause when I saw anything o f the converted, but even if you can get Jeannie first began singing pub movement it was very elitist and only one person thinking - oh, I licly while a student at Sydney consisted mainly of young women dont know. Sometimes I think it university in the early 60s, and who were working for their is very futile.” since then she has made her pres honors degree and were having In 1967 she was Australia’s ence felt on the local scene in hassles at home because the PhD representative at the International many ways. So many times she student that they were living with Festival o f Contemporary Song in has seemed to be on the verge of was going out and getting pissed Cuba - “ one of the best and most e indefinable “big time”, so with his mates and not doing the interesting experiences in my life any times she has been hailed as washing frequently enough. so far” - and there she met and new discovery: “One of the most Girls in our town is part o f a learnt from singers from many ^extraordinary vocal talents Aus whole cycle o f Newcastle songs countries who see their songs as a that are being written not just by tralia has ever heard.” Now at last means o f change, however small. me, but by other people, about she has an album out, her first — “ For instance, in countries like contemporary Australian life. Free fall through featherless Chile, where Victor Jara was shot released through EMI. What others are there? Peter flig h t, recently while singing to the de The album was recorded in Mitchell has written quite a few: tainees in the Santiago stadium; eight days “which is a bit of a songs like Fish and chip shop in his death is dreadful, yet I feel joke, compared with the times the rain, songs that tend to be that people singing in such coun allowed overseas groups”, and about the reality o f people’s lives. tries really do have an effect.” more than anything it speaks o f Arent you worried that what was The amount of influence of such being free: “ If only we can learn a very real musical expression - songs in Australia? Well, in Jean to be free like birds . . . flight can something you did round the nie’s opinion, one can only try. be an on the ground thing as table after a meal - is being taken It is hard to understand the well.” out, plastic wrapped and flogged 0 logic behind an industry which SPAGE AGE G CKS As anyone who has seen Jean in the entertainment super We have some lovely books for Christmas: SHOOTING STARS — glorious leaves a major talent like Jeannie nie knows, performing is what she markets? photographs of all your favorite pop stars from the pages of Rolling Stone. Lewis unrecorded for so long. This is the way it should be done! $9.95 — FANTASTIC ART Another in really likes best, but she is happy No, because when I work on Even now, the sleeve o f the album the fine Pan-Ballantine series of popular priced art books. This one features with the overall result o f the stage I really enjoy doing it and I full-page, full color reproductions from the year dot through to the brings to attention the fact that it album. “ At first it was a bit communicate (well, I think) with twentieth century. A wonderful buy at $4.95. And for the less affluent: has been made with the financial strange, but once in the studio I an audience. I really love doing it. WHY A DUCK? visual and verbal gems from the Marx Bros, movies $3.95 assistance o f the Australian Coun - The new illustrated edition of the TAO TE CHING $2.95 - DOING just started to sing. I’d love to Just having a responsive audience cil o f the Arts. This assistance YOUR OWN BEING the new title by Baba Ram Dass $4.00 — The have lots o f time in a studio stimulates you to do something complete FIRST TIME FARMER'S GUIDE, the best and the most consists of a guarantee of $2000 though, to experiment and try different next time, and that’s one beautifully produced ex-urbanite's book $3.95 — THE OPEN CLASS to EMI against a loss on Jeannie’s ROOM READER edited by Charles Silberman. A bumper 700+ pages for things out. There are effects that I of the problems with club work, album. Jeannie voiced her own $2.95 - THE CHILDREN ON THE HILL Michael Deakin $1.40 - THE use on stage that I felt restrained people working clubs are only WHOLE EARTH COOKBOOK $1.00 . . . and there's still time to get a criticisms o f this grant when it in trying in recording.” juke boxes singing Tie a yellow copy of THE J. R. R. TOLKIEN CALENDAR FOR 1974 $4.25. Sent 25c went through. To her it seems postage on each title. And ask for a sample copy of our current Newsletter. Jeannie used the opportunity ribbon round the old oak tree. ludicrous that a company the size Okay? o f recording to do more than Which is based on the fantasies o f o f EMI should receive financial 317 SWANSTON STREET, MELBOURNE 3000. Ph. 663.1777 simply reproduce her stage per what people who run radio sta help from anyone. formance in the studio. She re tions o f what people want to hear As a member of the Music quested Michael Carlos (ex Tully . . . they all clap. Board o f the Australian Council and Superstar conductor) to do What happened on the Don Lane for the Arts herself, she feels that the arrangements and recorded show? more should be done by the board songs which she had felt unable to I went along to do the show as to help contemporary Australian do complete justice to in perform a promotional thing - a three music, not only in the form o f ing live. “ In performance so often minute free commercial - and I grants to the artists, but in the there is to o little time for rehears made the tactical mistake o f try initiating o f projects which will als, no charts written out, and ing to be myself. generate work and support for songs like Billy Green’s Do no t go I’m a bit flippant from time to those artists. gentle deserve more than that.” time, and unfortunately Don Lane “ I’d also like to see the record IS STILL ON SALE, BUT . .. As a result many o f the songs are has no sense o f humor whatso companies actually getting out Victorian readers will have trouble. No major distribution written by Australian composers, ever. There are other TV com company in the state will distribute Digger, which means The and promoting the Australian friends and contemporaries of peres: Kennedy, Sigley, Paul Ho Digger gets into maybe one in four newsagents. KEEP TRYING, artists they record, and then using Jeannie’s - songs which demon gan, even if they act the fool they AND TELL THE SHOP THEY CAN GET THE DIGGER (AND their parent companies in England strate a wealth o f songwriting tal know what they are doing, they ROLLING STONE) THROUGH COLLINS WHOLESALE NEWS- and America as channels to pro ent not often tapped by Austra do it consciously. AGENCY, MELBOURNE. mote Australian artists overseas. lian performers. So many talented Australian mu I dont think Don Lane has that It is rare to see a singer so at sicians are unable to make a living kind o f sense o f humor that latch home, as Jeannie Lewis is, with ISSUE NUMBER 24 — Customs agents conspire to bring out of music.” es on very quickly to send-up. I the various contemporary music marijuana from Indonesia to Melbourne, then bust their unsus She was recently incensed by a wrote my own interview for him; styles. She is not an easily labelled pecting accomplices. It’s called entrapment in the States, but here piece of advice handed her by a one of the questions was “ Do you it’s called justice. ALSO: Oil, the Arabs and the corporations — a singer, and she is happy to remain well-fed Queensland politician think there is any place for humor background to the “ energy crisis” . Israel — a history. The Rocks that way. She has performed with who said: “ Jeannie, you must in rock music?” And I gave a very — will Sydney’s traditional workers’ nest get the push? Mary jazz groups, rock bands, theatrical know pain, and the dignity o f deadpan answer: “ I certainly do Whitehouse and the crusade to enforce self-restraint. Nimbin land productions: “ I pick a song be co-op decides to buy big. A. J. Weberman raves from the performing, through the dignity Don, I get up there on stage cause of the song, not because of Amerikan subterrain. o f suffering.” Jeannie’ s reaction? sometimes and I smile, and I the sphere it may belong to, and I “ What a load o f crap!” guffaw and chuckle and goodness interpret it in the way I think Now that she has made her me I even break down into laugh ISSUE NUMBER 25 — On sale Saturday, December 15. The shit on belongs to the song, not in a record she has bright plans for ter occasionally” . He just didnt methadone — junkies who’ve tried the methadone cure in Sydney specifically jazz or folk or what future concerts, probably one know how to take it. People like and Melbourne report they’re treated like despicable junkies, they ever way.” Influenced early in life dont get cured, and their teeth fall out. After the coup — reports with Reg Livermore in Sydney in Lane work in a field where enter by her father's collection of from Chile add up to a staggering picture o f American interna february, and also plans for travel tainers follow a very rigid pattern, American radical folk songs, she tional manipulation, planned and executed like a successful US ling again with a band, since she and anyone who deviates they just began singing folk. “ Since same o f election, but a bit bloodier. And more. loathes working alone. Eventually, dont know how to handle. the best poetry comes from folk o f course, we will lose her over As a result, anyway, I fell on music it suits my preoccupation me arse. 30 cents, or $7.80 to subscribe and be sure of getting a copy. Send to the seas, so do try and catch the with words. I’d rather sing no Digger, PO Box 77, Carlton 3053. record and a performance or two words at all than those set to before she goes. □ some jazz songs.” THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 -Page 19 FIDDDDLER CN the HOOR OR MOST people contem quarters. Sydney responded with ed many of the possibilities for o f music in their audience. They porary music is rock 'n roll. F the same indignant deafness that new collaborations of the kind see no point in covering old But this term has lost any real greeted the premiere of Stravin that long ago gave birth to grand ground, because that is already meaning, covering as it does every sky’s Rite o f spring at the begin opera. In particular, I would cite known and familiar. Instead their thing from the electronic music o f ning o f the century. their performances of works by concerts are points of departure the Pink Floyd to the jazz of the Undaunted, Ahern embarked Mauricio Kagel which have some for explorations into new realms. Soft Machine and Miles Davis to on a series o f concerts with his thing o f a cabaret Voltaire dada These explorations are not the banal ballads o f so called own group A-Z (which expands flavor about them. merely in the potential o f instru "p o p ” singers to the electrified from time-to-time to include most R ock music has absorbed other ments (whether traditional or new folkmusics of California and else of Sydney’s adventurous musi contemporary musical ideas be inventions), but in the role of where. It’s all a far cry from the cians) which in their way have yond those of the 50s Stock audio perception, and in many simple rhythms o f Bill Haley’s been essentially lessons in the hausen and Cage. Y oko Ono, her cases its relation to visual and R ock and Chuck around the clock post-war history o f avant-garde self a leading avant-garde com tactile perception, and the Berry’s Johnny B. Goode. music. poser in New York in the early phenomenon o f synesthesia (the While most contemporary Not long after the town hall 60s, has taken with her some o f confusion o f senses). The hypno music has been absorbed in the debacle Ahern reappeared at and zen-like concepts found in sis and druglike effects of their mass-media appellative rock there Sydney’s conservatorium o f music the work of La Monte Young. I music are phenomena often well is another contemporary form to stage a John Cage piece for myself presented a La Monte known in oriental and so-called that has escaped this mindless prepared piano. The people at the Young work in Sydney back in primitive cultures, and with the term only to be discredited by con freaked and banned it, fearing 1965 and the composer gave the aid of modem technology can be other misnomers. Sometimes call for their concert grand. Such instruction that it was open-end explored in relation to con ed "contemporary classical” or music was taboo. But Ahern came ed, could last one minute, 24 temporary society. Our radio "m odem ” , avant-garde music dif back with a composition o f his hours, days for that matter. The range is also explored (just as fers from rock in its direct refer own, played by A-Z on their own performer was the key. avant-garde filmers extend our ences to the classical tradition invented electric instruments. My performer stretched it to visual range) and just what we (though there is a lot of pastiche They generated a dense wall of 15 minutes before succumbing to hear, and what we think we hear, classical in some recent rock), electronic sound for exactly an audience hostility and completing is thoroughly examined. Much of most particularly in its rejection hour, much of it above and below the work. (The pianist placed a this threshold has obvious paral o f classical concepts o f melody, hearing thresholds, so that it was bucket of water and a bale of hay lels in rock. harmony, tonality and rhythm. physically “ felt” as well as heard. on the stage - the work was over A-Z’s latest work is called Cine- In this it stands apart from Many people were again driven when the piano fed itself or was music. It is a film by David Ahern. rock and has often been mistaken from the auditorium; others fed by the pianist.) In 1971 I saw It uses film’s capacity to truncate ly regarded as inordinately seri curled up in their seats as the A-Z musicians performing a La visual-time while maintaining con ous. This is largely resultant from sound took over, pushing one into Monte Young work in the Yellow stant audio-time, to explore the its patronage by the same stuff- and opium-like somnolence. When House, scraping a violin bow on a changes in tone (among other shirts who support the museum the music suddenly stopped wooden floor. It went on for things) in a Beethoven quartet in music o f the ABC and its sym silence moved across the audi hours, and the performer was un which the performers wear a varie phony orchestras. But as time torium in large three dimensional perturbed by- the audience (or ty o f gloves. Visually this has its goes on and we get further away blocks, the ions in the air so lack o f it). H I dada elements, but it is far more from the time o f the grand roman overcharged they appeared physi Another influential composer than a burlesque o f the over- tic composers, those that cling to cally perceivable. This was music whose work has been introduced indulgence in museum music. In them are finding it harder and in the realm o f magic. to Australia by A-Z is Terry Riley. teresting variations take place in harder to come to terms with the • Such magic is well understood Riffs from his work crop up in the the music, and the film montage is contemporary avant-garde. In by the modern masters Cage and Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. used expertly in enabling these many respects it should be easier Stockhausen. They have studied Except they tend to terminate visual:; ' aberrations to come for rock audiences to appreciate zen and have brought to western them before the simple repetitious through clearly and the audio the avant-garde - for their music musical traditions some of the build up of hypnotic effects that visual exploration to run its is not always serious and is often purity and mystery o f eastern are essential aspects o f the work. course succinctly. entertaining, amusing and some music. Ahem studied with Stock A-Z has also imported Terry For those living in Sydney I times downright hilarious. hausen in Cologne and helped Riley’s Music w ith balls, a video recommend the next A-Z concert organise an Australian visit by the graphic film that shows an appli One man in Australia who is whenever it might be. A-Z has master, introducing much o f his cation of color television that helping dispel some of these illu recently been allowed in the previously unheard (in Australia, simply hasnt been considered in sions is David Ahern who mainly Opera House (albeit the music that is) music. While the elec the planning for the introduction works in Sydney with his group room). Watch out for when they tronic experiments of Stock o f color TV to Australia. A-Z, though he has performed take over the main concert hall. hausen and Cage influenced rock iTA-Z have also extended their interstate and in Europe. Ahern is For those elsewhere who have not musicians like the Beatles in the music beyond the consumer- possibly the best known of the yet had the opportunity to see the late 60s, it was more or less their orientation that is comm on to small group o f young Australian work o f Ahern and A-Z, I suggest 50s experiments that were picked both classical and rock perform composers who have chosen to you watch out for Cinemusic, up on. Their work today enters ances. In one amazing evening in work outside the popular field of which, being a film, is more easily new realms. PVS, Hf Sydney’s Cellblock theatre, A-Z rock. a transportable and can therefore As well as electronic work, presented an excerpt from Coo~* reach areas impossible for the He achieved some sort o f Ahern’s “ history” concerts have nelius Cardew’s G re a t5 digesPt^ group itselfcsS notoriety years ago when ttil^s also mixed media, emphasising the which involved the whole audi And next tfixe you race off to Sydney symphony orchestra per theatrical concepts integral to ence participating in the creation see Leon Russell or Chuck Berry formed his commissioned work much modern music. So far A-Z o f the work. While this at first remember that they too, quite Ned Kelly. More than half the has not been able to achieve a seemed intimidating it soon be like the orchestras o f the ABC, are audience in the Sydney town hall local marriage o f the arts that led came liberating, and as is often playing museum music, and that walked out in disgust and few o f in the US to the legendary col the case with contemporary avant- there is another kind o f con those that stayed applauded this laborations o f Cage, Cunningham, garde music, infected the audi- temporary music that will perhaps uncompromising attempt to jolt Raushenberg and Olson which in ence-performers as ifsomeone had outlive rock which, despite predic- the ABC audience into the third turn gave birth to the new art o f slipped them a mild hallucinogen, tions to the contrary, has taken an quarter of the twentieth century. happenings. But as exercises in Just as with rock musicians, : ^ordinately long time to die. Most hadnt even come to terms musical education the mixed - the contemporary musical avant- ~ ~ , with the music o f the first two media works o f A-Z have suggest garde assume a simple knowledge Albie Thoms and thoroughly modern music Page 2 0 - T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 1 1-17, 1973 poison in your pantry JACK ROXON regarded as safe becomes an approved chemical. F YOU think it’s difficult learning o f flavorings because they are used in Who is going out o f their way to prove that the about the proteins, fats, carbohy minute amounts and are generally I chemical is harmful? The only way most are drates and calories that make up food, chemically identical to the discovered as harmful is by observation of the you’re dead right. But there are many naturally occurring material. chemicals used in the production, pro A flavoring agent can consumers. No food chemical, used in the recommended quantities, has actually killed cessing and storage o f foods that make make a low grade food the task almost impossible. These food appear to be what it anyone, but there are many people that died additives are not always declared on the isnt. a of cancers that may have been initiated by a labeL FLAVOR (? food chemical or drug. The yellow azo dye Micro organisms such as bacteria and ENHANCERS are a called butter yellow, because it was added to fungi cause food to deteriorate, so pres butter, had long been shown to produce liver scientific cancer and has been banned as a food additive. ervation of food is aimed at prevent curiosity and This finding has alerted health authorities ing these micro organisms from growing are most in and on the food. Because o f our interesting throughout the world to be on the lookout for demand for a reliable food supply, we chemicals. adverse reactions. Being on the “ lookout” is an have given food technologists licence to enormous and costly job for health authorities tamper with our tucker! t leaving most o f the responsibility in the hands According to Chemical and engineer i o f the chemical’s original manufacturer. ing news, Americans consumed three The non-nutritive sweetener cyclamate pounds of food additive per person in has been banned in most countries (but 1965. not Australia) because it is converted by What these figures do not include are about a third o f the population to a accidental additions to food. Residues of chemical known to be capable of produc pesticides such as DDT or malathion used ing bladder cancers. Large quantities o f around our food during growth or pro this chemical are consumed in low-calorie duction are not meant to be there. Fibres/ foods and drinks. from packaging materials and chemicals'' The doubts about nitrosamines from used as fertilisers also find their way into nitrites in cured meats and fish; the our foods by accident. suspected allergic reactions from ben Generally, chemical additives are zoates, and the inconclusive findings with grouped according to their function. BHT, the anti-oxidant, confuse us all. ENZYMES include things like meat Most rational people feel that if there is tenderisers. the slightest doubt, then drop it until it is VITAMINS and AMINO ACIDS are proven safe. Dont let's wait until it is used to supplement or replace those Y W so sn proven unsafe! missing or damaged as a result o f process °S'/. Protein t-2'/’ . j] There is a certain mysticism about ing. \Crl'bohycJ'<9t£ 4-/' food chemicals because considerable ANTIMICROBIAL PRESERVATIVES Monosodium glutamate (MSG) training is needed to understand them. If are a very important group because they is a flavor enhancer originally found in we dont have that training we have to food extend the storage life of many foods by certain seaweeds. It is thought to be a place a lot o f trust in the food technolo preventing spoilage. They ensure food taste-bud modifier making the taste buds They do us good gists, food chemists and the medico- goes into mouths rather than rubbish more sensitive to certain flavors. Al only in the sense scientific people who act as our health bins. though generally regarded as safe for the that they save time ii guardians. ANTIOXIDANTS generally prevent adult body, it had not been tested for food preparation. Most of the technical information fats and oils in food becoming rancid. safety in babies and was recently deem They also make many about drugs and food chemicals comes AC I PUL ANTS are common to most ed capable o f causing brain damage. foods available that from the World Health Organisation, the kitchens. Citric, acetic, tartaric acids are No one knows for sure how many would not keep unless Food and Agricultural Organisation and but a few used to improve taste and children are walking the streets today we got them straight o ff the farm. various governmental agencies - the most preserve the foods to some extent. suffering some form o f brain damage. But critical consumers would say that famous being the US Food and Drug SEQUESTRANTS are chemicals that Unfortunately our concept o f sub-lethal adding a non- nutritive chemical Administration. They pass information to prevent trace amounts of metals from effects is not very good. We consider to good food is non our own National Health and Medical causing food to deteriorate. These metals things dangerous only if there is a corpse sense, and adding it to lowgrade food is Research Council who in turn pass it on accelerate the reactions that cause food ac pviHpnrp deceptive. to state legislators. to oxidise for example. I have left COLORING ADDITIVES Generally speaking, our bodies can Most people are not happy about the GUMS are very comm on thickening and the NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETEN process these chemicals in our foods idea o f chemicals being added to their agents and add body to many processed' ERS last, because they are the food fairly effectively so that they do not foods. They are less happy knowing that foods. They can com e from seaweed and additives for which there is little reason damage our tissues. many chemicals are there for the conven plants but some are synthetic. able need. Unfortunately, there are sufficient ience and the profit of the manufacturer. SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS make Many processing aids, emulsifiers, des- well documented examples of food ad The manufacturer will argue that the life easier because they help disperse iccants, flow promoting agents, humidify ditives that have deleterious effects on profit is passed on to the consumer as powders. Ever tried mixing cocoa powder ing agents, drying agents and the like, our bodies. cheaper foods, but it is a little difficult into cold milk? Most parents daily bless have some place in the food technology. The MSG story o f brain damage to the for a consumer to bill the manufacturer the food technologist who added lecithin The other additives are modifiers and developing brain is one o f the situations for medical expenses at some later date as to cocoa making it mix with milk. The even “ disguisers” which can be used to where statutory bodies like the Food and was illustrated so vividly by the thalido effect of surface active agents on absorp make food appear what it is not. It is Drug Administration (FDA) in the US mide case. tion o f nutrients and medication is not doubtful if these modifiers have any demanded very conclusive evidence be Many foods do not declare on their clear. legitimate role in foods. fore restricting the chemical. Their at labels what chemicals nave been added. FLAVORINGS are numbered in their Apart from vitamins and amino acids, titude is that, in the absence o f evidence The confused consumer has no choice but thousands. There is a small risk in our use food additives do not add nutrient to to the contrary, a chemical generally to ban all processed foods. After several newspapers across toilet, a sewage line backing up the country conducted tests o f and seeping into waterlines used From KEN their own, discovering contamina to clean grinders and processing McELDOWNEY* tion o f hamburger was wide areas, or a butcher accidentally fte dirt in San Francisco spread, newspapers and TV sta slitting open the intestines o f an tions in seven major cities decided animal during processing. hospital. Chances are what caused to undertake a coordinated na Each sample o f meat was also the mild food poisoning was the tionwide test. With the help o f tested for coliform bacteria, bacteria that had crawled into the national consumer organisations, which produces odors and slimi package of meat they had cooked the All-American Hamburger Test ness in hamburger and which can that night. was bom . cause mild food poisoning. Vir Now when the Conklins have On the same day in each city, tually all 129 samples o f meat to eat hamburger they make sure reporters purchased hamburger contained more than the 100 it is well-done. However, even that from the meat counters of Ameri coliform bacteria per gram that not enough to kill all the ca’s largest supermarket chains for Consumers Union considers a bacteria that infest many of the a series o f sophisticated labora reasonable limit. Two-thirds o f millions o f packages of hamburger tory analyses. The results, while the samples exceeded the 1000 sold to consumers each year. far less dramatic than the old per gram limit which Consumers Hamburger, the central fixture stories of rats ground up into Union considers the upper limit of in the American dietary pantheon, sausage rolls, were potentially as acceptability. under scrutiny for the first dangerous from a health stand George and Mary Conklin are time. Tests, conducted by con point. warier these days about buying sumer organisations in seven Fecal contamination was found meat. But without a microscope * Ken McEldowney, a freelance major US cities, have turned up in two-thirds o f all the samples and their own testing lab, they journalist living in the Bay Area, EORGE AND Mary Conklin enough bacteria in many samples tested. Fecal bacteria originate in have no alternative but to take was co-d tector o f the All- Gused to eat their hamburger o f meat (taken right from super the intestines o f animals and their chances on badly inspected American Hamburger Test for San rare until one night George had to market counters) to cause any people. They can enter hamburger meat markets or become vegeta Francisco’s consumer-oriented make a midnight dash to the thing from an upset stomach to in several ways: butchers failing to rians. magazine The Bay Area Guardian. emergency room of the local food poisoning. wash their hands after using the Pacific News Service. TH E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 — Page 21 ~ O L A^guide to what s on in the week ahead : Dec 11th- T7tTT — — LnwgfieiioU* [MELBOURNE MONITOR: Chris & Eva 51.9563 or 51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7 Irving Ave, Windsor, 3181. JAZZ THEATRE A GIFT, W. C. Fields, Mel Glen Tomasetti, Outpost. bourne Uni, Union, see MEETINGS $1.00 (stu), 196 Church Frank Traynor, Beaumaris Dutch Tilders, Jim Cant EVE OF DESTRUCTION; tuesday. Acupuncture and Fringe St, R ich m on d. hotel. rock opera with Kornonia, well, Commune. W A LTZIN G M A T IL D A — CONCERT FOR BANGLA Medicine, Theosophical Skylights, Prospect Hill. Daddy’s Friends, Terry and JAZZ soc, Athenaeum, Collins a national pantomime with Jerry and the Reboppers, DESH, LATE, Trak, 11.45, FOLK Fay White, Camberwell Dave Rankin, Lemon Tree, St. tomato sauce, Pram Fac Studley Park hotel, 413 $ 2. 00. Peter Parkhill, Frank Tray Civic Centre, 42.4934, Carlton (arvo). tory, 3 2 5 D rum m ond St, Johnson St, Collingwood. nors, 100 Lt. Lonsdale St, thursday, 8pm, $2.00, RADIO The Plant, Polaris Inn. RADIO Carlton. (Closed mondays). Free. City. $1.50 (stu) with chemicals. 101 Ways to Heaven, 3AR, Skylights, arvo, Yarra Yar- Rock Genesis, docu 8.30, $2.50, $1.50 (Ter tiary stu) $1.20 (sec. stu) FILMS FILMS 11am, various beliefs by ra Jazz Band, eve, Prospect mentary of rock, 3LO, JAZZ various religions. Hill. 10am. matinees friday and sat. DUCK SOUP, Marx Bros TILLIE AND GUS and A FLEA IN HER EAR: Hot City Bump Band, Pros and MAN ON THE FLY THE OLD FASHIONED TV MIXED Pumpkin Players, tues-sat, pect Hill hotel, Kew. ING TRAPEZE, W.C. FILMS WAY, W.C. Fields double, In-Concert, rock blues, Great Stumble Forward, 314 Church St, Richmond, Fields, Melbourne Uni, Melbourne Uni. Union, see MY LITTLE CHICKA FILMS country and western, etc., DEE, Mae West and W.C. Captain Matchbox, Pony $1.50. Union. See tuesday. tuesday. HSV-7, 10.00. SHOWBIZ *73: a review GO WEST, DAY AT THE Fields, and HORSE Rides, Billycarts and sim ilar insanities to brighten with a large variety of RACES, Maxx Bios, Mel- RADIO RADIO FEATHERS, Marx Bros, LATELINE, Ivan Dlich, Melbourne Uni, Union, see the lives of the people of topics, Tait theatre, 107 I bourne Uni, Union, 8 pm, LATELINE, Marxism with Leicester St, Carlton, fri- I $1.70, $1.20 (stu). 3A R , 10.15 Raliq Ah, 3AR, 10.15. tuesday. Richmond, Elizabeth St, Saturday 4pm , Free. sun, 8.15, $2.50, $1.50 ] THE WHOLE SKY, TV MIXED Greek dancing, Fitzroy (stu). Free sherry. I AKRAANT, NFTA, Indian M O N T Y P Y T H O N ’ S Gardens, 2pm. BONES by Roger Pulvers: Films, Carlton theatre, Opening Night, Joannas, FLYING CIRCUS, ABV-2, ROCK 376 Lygon St, Carlton, a surrealist experience by a Faraday St, 7.40, $1.20 IlUHMbg OTHERS 10.15. Japanese lecturer. La plus $3.00 membership. Marcie Puffin, Stick Braith- Tanas Mandala, Pendulum, waite, Fusion with Peter Check out Myers Windows. Mama, wed-sun. 9.00 pm, ROCK Ray Brown, Chelsea Civic McKay on keyboard! Dave $ 1.0 0 . MEETINGS Centre. Rankin, Alan Brown, THE BALD PRAIA- Myriad, C olored Balls, “ Returning to work” for Mississippi, Southside Six, $ 1.50 but no food. DONNA: Ionesco’s anti Nemesis, Sid Rumpo, Caul Friday women at Diamond Valley (arvo). 8pm -2am . tfenday play of 1950, Claremont field T ow n Hall. theatre, 14 Claremont St, Learning Centre, Colored Balls, Buster Tanas Mandala, Bourke ROCK KIDS 4 35 .90 6 0 . Brown, Teazers. South Yarra, 8.30, thurs- and Wills, Power House. Big Push, Whitehorse hotel. FOLK sun, $2.00, $1.00 (stu). RADIO Ray Brown, Henchmen, GEORGE % AND DRAG Hush, Matthew Flinders. Sebastian Hardy, Mississip ON 1: Claremont theatre, "Phil Day, Frank Traynors. SIEGFRIED, from the Whitehorse hotel. Mississippi, Sebastian Har pi, International hotel. 14 Claremont St, South TV I Bayreuth Fest, ’73. 3AR, dy, Waltzing Matilda hotel. Atlas, Sid Rumpo, Nem Colored Balls, Atlas, esis, St Joseph’s, Bruns Yarra, 2pm. 7.30. Aztecs, Abel Lodge, White JAZZ B roadm eadow s T ow n Hall. w ick. FRACTURED FLICK TV horse hotel. Lord Dog, Matthew Flind Ted Vining Trio, Prospect ERS: GTV9, 5.00pm. Hot City Bump Band, Upp, Big Push, Croxton Park. Hill. I FEEL THE WARMTH, ers hotel. Fat Ahroy, Hush, Sky Chemicals show, Just the ABV-2, 10.30, Cleo Laine Croxton Park. Nemesis, Ivanhoe Youth Sunday thing after a hard day’s hooks, Beaumaris Civic OTHERS I and John Dankworth. Club. Centre. work. FOLK Hush, Rembrandt Recep Poor Tom’s Poetry Band, GALLERY Diane Hollings, John and Mississippi, Waverley Rock, ROCK Com m une. tions (gay). Waverley High School, Cnr. FILMS Realities, special preview Juanita, Graham Smith and Flight, 270 Lonsdale St, Mackenzie Theory* Teaz NIAGGRA? La Mama, more! Dan O’Connell, Carl Huntingdale and Waverley ers. 8.30 of Photography by Athol (G aylib). R d. PAINT YOUR WAGON Shmith and Paul Cox, 60 ton. Fantasy, Croxton Park. until wed. SHAMUS from Danny Spooner, Tanker- FOLK Hush, Matthew Flinders, Sebastian Hardy, Icelands. Ross St, Toorak, 6.00pm, (arvo). thurs: Footscray Grand, Free. ville Arms, N icholson St. Nelson, etc., Outpost, 52 Paisley St, Footscray, 7.30, Moonshine, Matthew John Crowle, Frank Tray Collins St. FOLK $1.40, $1.00 (stu). nors. Flinders hotel, (eve). Marg Roadknight, Mike Bushwackers and Bul- “ A Head’s Turn”, Ormond 2Zl£dn£&dau lockies, Polaris Inn. O’Rourke, Outpost Inn. JAZZ Hall, Skyhooks, Rock Danny Spooner and Gor All Peter Parkhill, Diane Hol Granite, Mackenzie Theo Dave Rankin, Alma hotel, lins, Bruce McNicol, Frank don MacIntyre, Frank 32 Chapel St. ry, John Graham, Bourke Traynors. ROCK Traynors. and Wills, Sebastian Hardy Jerry and the Reboppers, Tavern Folk, Union hotel. Fahm, Whitehorse hotel. Studley Park hotel, John & VIP, Brighton Town JAZZ Trad Folk, Commune. Hall. Aztecs, Sebastian Hardy, son St, Collingwood. Brian Brown Quartet, llkfift Croxton park. Owen Yeatman, Prospect JAZZ FOLK C om m une. Hill. Red Onions, Prospect Hill. THEATRES FOLK John and Juanita, Mike Listings are free. Bushwackers and Bul- Dave Rankin, Railway FILMS EXPERIMENTAL Club hotel, Pt. Melbourne. O’Rourke, John Crowle, SNOW QUEEN: based on Copy closes lockies, Polaris Inn, N. John Graham, Frank Tray THE PROFESSIONALS Carlton. Melbourne New Music En the fairy tale, performed FILMS nors. and LAWRENCE OF by junior students of the Mike O’Rourke, Frank semble, Commune, N. Mel YO U C A N ’T C H E A T A N Phil Day, Dan O’Connell, ARABIA, Dendy, Brigh Thursday before Traynors. bourne. Actors Theatre School HONEST MAN and IT’S 3pm . ton. 5.30pm. Concessions. Thurs-Sun, 8.30, $2.50, publication. TV street and St Peter’s lane, HELP, Yellow Submarine: M0NIT0R: Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. 0. Box 23, Surry Hills. Kings Cross, 8.15, info New Arts, Glebe, 4.00pm, S Y D N E Y THE VIRGIN SPRING — 587.3358. 7.30pm . Bergman: Channel 10, SOU N DS O F PEOPLE: Pil QUESTION: Who is Guru ABC FREE LUNCH 1 1 .0 5 pm . T n P c J a n grim theatre, 264 Pitt Maharaj Ji? Dendy Theatre, H O U R C O N C E R T — THE ENDLESS SUMMER street, 8.30. Sydney Symp. Orch: Town — surfing classic: Channel Crows Nest, 4.00pm, Itarnday 7.30pm . hall. 1 pm. friday 7, 10 pm . FILMS H A N D E L ’S MESSIAH — ROCK THIS DAY TONIGHT CRYSTAL VOYAGER: BLUES, FOLK, JAZZ Willoughby Symphony ROCK 1973 final — a satire “ Liv Opera House, 7.00pm, CLASSICAL JEFF BULL: Stage Door Orchestra: Information: LOCO/WEED: Fiddlers C O U N T R Y R A D IO : Bal ing with Gough” : Channel 9.00pm . GORDON WATSON, Tavern. 412.4838. Vine (see Wednesday). main leagues. 2, 7.30 pm. CHINA FILMS: Film N ATH A N W AKS — piano ABBEY JAZZ BAND: FINCH: Oceanic hoteL MIGHTY KONG: Manly makers Co-op, 6.00pm. and cello: Opera House, 11 Lord Dudley hotel, Paddo. EVENTS FRANCIS BUTLERS Vale hotel. CHARLIE, THE LION IN am to 2 pm. ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: YOGA: Wayside Chapel, 6 69ERS: Black Bull, Haber FRANCIS BUTLERS WINTER: New Arts, EVENTS Vanity Fair hotel. pm. field. 69ERS — HOT ROCKET: Saturday Glebe, 11.15pm. MERV ACHESON TRIO: Blacktown civic centre. HYDE PARK, CIRCULAR Bistro, 123 A voca st, BLUES,FOLK,JAZZ TEPOIS: Oceanic hotel. CLASSICAL QUAY, WEST PARK, Randw ick. BLUE GRASS AND TRA ROCK T H E SLEEPING BEARE P A R K — step back DON DE SILVA’S JAZZ DITIONAL: Red Lion SEAL: Fiddlers Vine. BEAUTY: Opera House, 2 into the 30s with Musicians BAND: Old Push. hoteL BLUES,FOLK,JAZZ COUNTRY RADIO, pm & 8 pm. union band, Salvation DICK HUGHES, SOLO ROCK PORT JACKSON JAZZ JUNIOR AND THE GOLD FLAKE: Taren Point Army band and the Band Youth Club. EVENTS Assoc. 3 pm to 4.30 pm. PIANO: Frenchs* Tavern INTO: Fiddlers Vine, 115a BAND: Stage Door Tavern. TOPS: Fiddlers Vine. MIGHTY KONG: Manly YEOMEN OF THE Cronulla st, Cronulla, UNITY JAZZ BAND: Old PACT FOLK: YWCA, Liv THE YEOMEN OF THE Vale. GUARD: see friday. t h e a t r e 523.8019. Push. erpool street. GUARD: see friday. TEPOIS: Oceanic hoteL TOM UREN speaks at the TALES FROM NOONA- OTHER END: Brighton CELLAR FOLK CLUB: THE SOUND OF PEOPLE THEATRE 69ERS: Black Bull, Haber- Wayside chapel, 8 pm. MEENA — The Marionette hotel, to Saturday. Liverpool street. — Poetry Workshop with field. Theatre of Aust; Opera FRANCIS BUTLER’S WHAT IF YOU DIED TO- SYDNEY FOLK SONG music: 264 Pitt street, 8.30 TV, R A D IO pm. House. 11.00 am, 2.00 pm, 69ERS: Oceanic hotel MORROW: Opera House. CLUB: Elizabeth hoteL b l u e s ,F o l k , j a z z A HUMANIST ASKS — A L L WEEK. DICK HUGHES TRIO: TV humanism and Christianity: WHAT IF YOU DIED TO BLUES, FOLK, JAZZ FILMS Stage Door Tavern. FOLK CONCERT — John ABN 2, 9.20 pm. B ILL H A E S L E R ’S J A Z Z F. Francis, Marian Hender THE PLOT TO KILL HIT- M O R R O W — David Wil CRYSTAL VOYAGER: THE LIVING RIVER — TRADITIONAL FOLK: BAND: Cricketers Arms son, John Corrie, Doug LER: Channel 7, 6.30 pm. liamson: Opera House. See Wednesday, 7.00pm, BBC ecology documen KID S PANTOM IM E: Pil Elizabeth hoteL hoteL Surry Hills. Ashdown, Last Neasden WATERGATE IN RETRO PORT JACKSON TRIO: 9.00 pm. SPECT — “ Four Corners” : tary: ABN 2, 7.55. grim theatre, 264 Pitt st. FILLMORE: See tuesday. Doc WILLIS: Albury Spasm Band, Bernard A MAN CALLED ADAM Stage Door Tavern. hoteL Darlinghurst. Channel 2, 8 pm. FREE. NFT SURREALISM — Pet Bolan: Opera House, 8.00 — Sammy Davis, Louis MERV ACHESON TRIO: JEFF BULL: Unity hall pm . er Ibbetson, Pandora and Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, FILMS Bellevue hotel, Paddo. hoteL Balmain. the Flying Dutchman: PACT FOLK: YWCA, Ossie Davis: Channel 7, JEFF BULL’S BAND: Old 8.00. FILLM ORIJ — Santana, Push Aust. Govt. Centre Thea 8.30 pm . The Dead, Hot Tuna, THEATRE SYDNEY FOLK SONG Sunday tre tte, 7.30pm. K IN G R IC H A R D II — Bil- AN AFFECTIONATE Quick Silver: Manly Silver CLUB: Elizabeth hoteL COOK AT W. C. FIELDS: THEATRE CHINA FILMS: Film ly Shakes: Opera House. Screen 977.5503. (All makers Co-op, 8.15pm. TRADITIONAL FOLK: ROCK Channel 7, 1 0.35 pm. WHAT IF YOU DIED TO- WICK IN WICKEDNESS: Edinburgh Castle hotel. w eek). MORROW: See tues. MIGHTY KONG, HUSH, THE ROCK GENESIS — a NFT SUR tEALISM - TV Pact Co-op, 264 Pitt street, THE COLONIALS: Stage 8.30. HOME: Sydney town hall. documentary on history of Dead of Nig] t, Cul de Sac: FILMS IN WHICH WE SERVE, Door Tavern, 211.0411. rock ’n roll music: ABC Aust. Govt. Centre Thea- N oel Coward, Michael FILMS MERV ACHESON TRIO: BLUES,FOLK JAZZ Radio 1, 10 am. trette, 7.30. C R Y ST A L V O Y A G E R — Wilding, John Mills. 9 pm, Bellevue hotel (arvo). Surfing film world prem MANLY Silver Screen Late ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: AL HEAD, DON MOR 8MM FILM MAKING CO Channel 10. Show, 11.30. OP: Screenings, Old iere. Worth seeing. Opera Vanity Fair hotel (arvo). RISON, MERVYN JO House, 7.00pm. $2.50. CRYSTAL VOYAGER: DOC WILLIS: Albury SEPH, plus SPECIAL Church. $0.60, $0.30. CLASSICAL Opera House, 7.00pm, Ilenday HENDRIX: Village Twin 1, FILLMORE: See tuesday hoteL Darlinghurst (arvo). GUITAR FEATURE: Kirk T H E SLEEPING 9.00pm . gallery, 8 pm. Double Bay. (All week). BEAUTY: Opera House. UNITY JAZZ BAND: Old CLASSICAL NFT Classic Series — Lola, Push. FOLK THE HIRELING: Village ABC FREE LUNCH Les Biches: AMP Theatre, THEATRE Twin 2, Double Bay. (All T H E SLEEPING JEFF BULL: Unity hall. DON DE SILVAS: Old HOUR CONCERT: Town 7.30pm . GRAHAM KENNEDY, Push. w eek). BEAUTY: Opera House hall, 1 pm. CHINA FILMS — Film THEATRE JOHNNY FARNHAM, TRASH — Andy Warhol: makers Co-op, 8.15pm. COLLEEN H EW ITT, H A R THEATRE New Arts, Glebe. (All EVENTS EVENTS KING RICHARD II: Opera KING RICHARD II: Opera House, 2 pm & 8 pm. RY M: Opera House, 8 pm. w eek). POETRY READINGS: NSW UNI FOOD CO-OP: CLASSICAL H ouse. Oldchurch, 8 pm, 31.6270. TALES FROM NOONA- TIN Y A L IC E : see Satur Fruit, veggies, nuts, etc. T H E SLEEPING day. TV F A N T A S Y F A IR — Kids MEENAj Opera House, 11 TV, R A D IO Round house lawn — very BEAUTY: Opera House, 8 am & 2 pm . THE SUN ALSO RISES — festival (12-16th). Gardens cheap, 5-8 pm. pm . FILMS t h e m o v i e c r a z y T H E SLEEPING Y E A R S : ABN 2, 9.55. Ava Gardner, Tyrone and Lake Burley Griffin, SALVATION ARMY: NFT 30s MUSICALS - Power, Errol Flynn. Lots Canberra. BEAUTY: Opera House, 8 ROOM TO MOVE: 2BL 8 Plays in Martin place, eve EVENTS Belle of the 90s, with Mae of macho: Channel 10, 9 pm . pm. TV ning. A must for stoned GILBERT AND SULLI TINY ALICE — Albee: Old West, AMP Theatre, pm . late night shoppers. 7.15pm . GENTLE S T R A N G E R S — VAN SOCIETY present church, Palmer street, Darl CLASSICAL ANANDA MARGA — CHINA FILMS: Film RECITAL: Bill Hennessy* CLASSICAL D oco. on overseas students, “The Yeomen of the inghurst, 8.15 pm, $2.00. meditation: Wayside Guard” : Science hall, UnL THE DOLLS SHOP — Kids makers Co-op, 6pm. violin; John O’Donnell, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Channel 10, 9 pm. chapel, 8 pm. O F MEN A N D WOMEN — of NSW, 6.30 pm. theatre — AMP theatre, 2 SPECIAL EXPERIMENT piano; Play Mozart Beet- t — Aust. Ballet Co: Opera T H E A T R E W ORKSH OP — noven: Opera House, 8.15 Jackie Cooper, Lee Remick, CAMP PARTY — gaiety pm . AL FILMS: Filmmakers lou se. open to all: Old church, Co-qp, 8.15pm. pm . Channel 7, 9 pm . • and the usual garish gaggle: MY AUNT THE UNI 7.30. Info. 31.6270. Balmain town hall, 8 pm. CORN — John Hepworth: $ 2. 00. Studio 228, cnr. 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Guy, early 30s, seeking horny, sincere, discreet, honest, the best of everything. Likes: girl for fun times and traveL INC Deployment not possessive. Main interest: dal movies, musicals, bodybuilding. lusty, luscious femme. Any age. b ox 7319. Sydney. Kids five, nine, urgently lying. Age no barrier. All replies INC box 7305. No objections bi. Discreet if nec need friendly adult companion answered. Fees refunded. INC essary. INC box 7285. Sydney, eastern suburbs. Male, 13, december-february. Can offer b o x 729 5 . Sydney. Male, 27, average guy, to camp, 37, slim, square appear meet Review-type male to break only room, board, affection, fun. Brisbane. Lonely male, 40 young, ance, seeks genuine, affectionate Phone 43.5726. active, medium build and looks, Victoria. Lonely, young, 23, lonely camp existence in hetero friend similar, 35-45. Interests: camp kiwi male, straight appear world. Looking for meaningful re seeks sincere, hung male com art, music, quiet homely evenings, Sydney. Beautiful birds to pose ance, sincere, genuine, honest, lationship. Please no adventurers* panion for dalliance, outings your place. INC box 7320. nude for professional and amateur needs someone somewhere to live just other lost guys like myself. etc. Genuine first ad. Fee refund photographers. Write for further ed if necessary. INC box 7286. with for few months. No money INC box 7306. Brisbane. Male, 37, virile, no but capable and helpful. INC box details to University Modelling hangups, desires dalliance with Services. INC box 7278. Queensland-Gold Coast. Surveyor, 7296. Sydney. Two liberated intelligent female for mutual satisfaction. couples, mid-40s, meeting fre 50, needs attractive femme, circa Discretion assured. INC box Eastern states. Uninhibited camp 25-36, share small unit, Broad- Melbourne-southern suburbs. quently for physical and intel 7321. Lady if you need it at least get in lectual stimulation, welcome new or bi-guy under 25 wanted for beach. Photo, statistics, interests discreet nude photography. Top touch. I won’t bite — yet! Nice friends, singles or couples, to please. INC box 7287. Sydney. Camp male, 35, wishes fees, secrecy assured. Inexperi male, 49, retired, wants dalliance. achieve the pleasures of total to meet Japanese tourist or resident INC box 7297. getherness and human commun enced beginner preferred. INC Canberra. Wouldnt it be nice to who wants somewhere to live box 7273. meet, other than in TLD? Gemini ication. Absolute discretion guar while in Sydney. INC box 7322. male, 21, would dig to make it Melbourne. Overseas student, gay, anteed. INC box 7307. with clear-headed masculine guys 20, planning holiday around Aus Sydney. Quiet living attractive to 35. Tell me your fantasies and tralia, welcomes friendly contacts. Sydney. Wanted: Competent fe male writer, early 40s, active, we’ll take a walk on the wild side. Reasonably good looking, sincere. male with car to join competent seeks sensitive younger passive Dalliance INC box 7288. Photos appreciated. INC box male with boat (110 lb, 20 ft, guy. Interests: theatre, cinema, Adelaide. Young man, slim, 32, 7298. powered cartop canoe) for duo dalliance. INC box 7323.. like to meet or correspond with Melbourne. Lonely camp guy, Tasmanian river expedition, mid- camp or bi-guy to 25. Music, square looks, early 20s, seeks sim Young camp male companion re february to mid-march. Outdoor Sydney. Young, shy guy, slim, 23, outings, friendship. Discreet and ilar interested in music, warm quired for tour of South Australia type, preferably relaxed, intel would like to meet other guys genuine. INC box 7279. company and the quieter things and Queensland, departing Mel ligent, 20-30. Fares spoken for; similar age or younger. INC box of life. INC box 7289. bourne. Meet to check compat share other expenses. Object is 7324. Adelaide. Male, 21, gentle, sin ibility. INC box 7299. unhassled female-male compan cere, would like to meet, con Melbourne. Businessman, aged 30, ionship on a beautiful, seldom NSW, Nth coast. Male, 33, profes^ verse, daily with female femme. travelling to Sydney december Melbourne. Couple, 40s, seek oth visited, river. INC box 7308. sional, visits Sydney occasionally, Fatality considered, not necessari 20th. One overnight stop. Any er cou ples fo r all sexual pleasures seeks few hours heavenly bliss, ly preferred. All replies answered. intelligent girl interested? Steady and friendship. INC box 7300. Sydney. Divorced professional Any suggestions? Extremely dis Hurry this special can’t last driver. INC box 7290. guy, 38, slim, 5*9” , wide, creative creet Age no barrier. INC box (Hopefully). INC box 7280. Melbourne. Male, well built, 38, interests, seeks sexy, intelligent 7325. Melbourne. Merchant marine of young, genuine, seeks female, femme to assist in transcending Adelaide. Is there an “ older” wo ficer, 20 years sexperience of and married/single, for discreet day the mediocrities. INC box 7313. Sydney. 24 year old female inter man who wants a willing youth to from everything and everywhere, time fun. INC box 7301. ested in a tall, genuine, open recapture her former glory and wants to meet petite, intelligent, Sydney. Where is there a slim, minded, intelligent thinking randy escape her slavish drudgery. INC warm girl to spoil. 35, 175 cm, Melbourne. Affectionate guy, 20, intelligent, sensitive, very discreet male. INC box 7257. b o x 7281. oversexed, nicely tapered, con described as handsome, seeks sim woman, 30-45, to dally with male Dealings ilar, up to 30, for lasting relation ditto occasionally. He happily Sydney. Girls! I’ve beaten the siderate and unattached. INC box Eat at the Source restaurant for Brisbane. Active, slim, educated ship. Genuine. Phone number married but needing to get more system and no longer have to 7291. good wholesome vegetarian and male swinger, 30, wishes to con please. INC box 7302. out of life. All replies answered. paw n all m y beautiful golden INC 7314. hours of day merely to live. I’ll sea food meals. Fresh home baked tact similar couple, 18-30 or Melbourne. You are female, bread, fruity desserts. 473 Bronte Melbourne. Wanted: Females, help you too, if you will help me singles (not heavy drinkers), for 30-50, warm hearted, intelligent. road, right on Bronte Beach. exploration, swimming etc. Inter Needful of discreet, intimate re 20-30, for sex with frustrated Sydney, Bondi. Lonely guy, mid enjoy my diesel ketch, waterfront ests include travel, the bush and lationship with professional male; male. $2 refunded after personal 20s, average looks. Loves the surf. weekender and 35 ft cruiser. Free contact. Satisfaction assured. INC Rides kneeboard. digs skindiving holidays offered also interstate to Felt cheated lately??? Now have photography. Phone number and gentle, virile, vasectomised. INC what you want, * completely un recent photo appreciated,. INC b ox 7303. and weekend trips. Wants to meet compatible open air types. New b ox 7292. censored, uninhibited, imported b o x 7282. a young surfie with similar in Australians especially welcome. Melbourne. Bi-woman, over 40, terests who’ll dally and share my Phone Sydney 455.1542. INC “Action” photos, books, films. M elbourne. Where is there a Try before buying, $1.00 for sam Brisbane. Lonely bi-guy, good wants to meet bi-women or males bed and weekends. Have Panelvan, b o x 6214. warm, sensitive, intelligent, very ple and catalogue. The Manager, looking, sincere, 25, would like for threesomes. INC box 7304. will travel. Is there a lonely young discreet femme to dally with man PO box 13, Edgecliff, NSW 2027. slim young guy or femme for occasionally? He happily married surfie out there who’ll give and Sydney. Young guy, 21, is look friendship and mutual satisfac but needing to get more out of Melbourne. Journo-writer (male) take and can dig these vibes? ing for dark blooded girl; aborig impossibly dreams of female crit Reply, bread refunded. Be genu Melbourne. Commission available. tion. Photo appreciated, returned. life. All letters answered. INC box inal, Asian, Indian, New Zealand Artist to oil paint erotic scenes INC box 7283. 7293. ic/collaborator. Also, “ different” , ine. INC box 7315. er etc. All letters answered. Age socially rebellious, idealistic, sen for private collector. Traditional unimportant Intentions: good and modern. Submit sketch. INC sitive, sensual, sentimental, sin Sydney. Guy, early 20s, gemini, times, friendship. INC box 7309. Brisbane. Boy, just 16, shy, wants Melbourne. Friendly bi-guy, own box 7276. to meet boy 15; must act square flat and car, 32, would like to cere, loyal, ambitious, travelled, departing dec 22 for two weeks feminine. INC box 6125. swimming, camping, skindiving, Sydney. Guy, 31, looks for for friendship, oqtings. Complete meet eager young guys. All letters Sydney. Developing and printing etc on south coast. Any 20-30 straight friendship with girl; slim, of any black and white negative. year old straight, intelligent aet, 23-35. Will lead conversation, Any size prints. Professional qual chicks interested write INC box won’t encroach. Enjoy live thea 7316. ity and tact guaranteed. INC box tre, walking, poetry, children, Cat 7277. PUBLICATION Stevens. INC box 7310. Sydney. Moved here recently fol To: Incorporated Newsagencies Company P ty Ltd Indicate with cross where copy is to be published. Insertion costs are lowing separation. Turning 27, Sydney. Guy, 21, just from Mel G.P.O. 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Your advice to vote informal pro I am accused o f being an “ illiterate vided an elegant rationalisation for mug who knows nothing about politi those creeps who couldnt persuade cal philosophy” and he says that it themselves to get up o ff their bums on would be “ futile to try and refute your Saturday and go to a polling booth. attack” . It’s an old trick: insult one’s The fact that your “ advice” suited critics and accuse them of not being at the purposes o f the Liberal, Country all versed in the terrible secrets o f and Democratic Labor parties is irritat “ political philosophy” — wearily dis ing enough; what is infuriating is that missing them as not worthy o f argu you’re so pleased with yourselves for ment. Unfortunately it’s not quite giving it. good enough. I am afraid that he is Will you, when the next federal going to have to give a slightly more election confronts your readers, again convincing display of his awesome recommend that they “ demonstrate grasp of “ political philosophy”. their innocence o f the issues involved That “ capitalism” is socially un and their deep distrust o f politicians” acceptable is obvious, however, Leon by voting informal? ard advocates its replacement by a Will you, perhaps, proclaim that it stalinesque bureaucratic machine. (Pro doesnt matter who you vote for: a ducing ever increasing quotas o f coal politician always gets in? and steel perhaps?) Hardly an improve Will you tell us that the only man m ent who ever entered parliament with I repeat my reference to Leonard’s honorable intentions was Guy Fawkes? phrase: “ bulwark against everything we Or will you grow up? progressive materialists (ie. marxists) DAVID HARCOURT, hate” (TLD 6) — it is precisely this Carlton, Victoria siege mentality that typifies the im perialist endeavors o f the USA and the Dammit USSR, something we can do without. Finally, a reference to Leonard’s Dunstan arrogance and hate-orientated attitude. you are likely to find one activist in before! In fact, later your reviewer He claims that “ most people" — ex I SEEM to recall attending a student the centre surrounded by other stu Tracks across goes even further to say that during the cluding himself, o f course — are “ il newspaper editors conference some dents threatening to do him bodily 60s “the lid had come off half a literate mugs, etc” . Who the fucking years ago, at which Graeme Dunstan harm if their exam gets disrupted. The century of repression”. It's such a hell does he think he is — God's gift to stated that one o f his maxims was “ To day o f the revolution is not yet at a continent mammoth load of, I mean, dont human political machinations? I would hell with the facts; it’s the story that hand. OBSERVE closely your Undeveloped Screamin Jay Hawkins, Little Richard, suggest that he engender a little more counts” . Perhaps he was joking at the It would be foolish to deny that Australia pikkies (TLD 7, Page 15, Elvis, Cochran, Bird, Davis, etc. count respect for his fellow man. Similarly he time, but he certainly seems to have some good has com e from the protest. lower image). How can you define a in Mr King’s world of music? The lid has an obsession with the word “ nig applied the theory when writing about The march and occupation dramatised denuded landscape heavily and ob has been bubbling up and down for ger” — surely THE most accurate guide the exam protests at the University o f the situation and will doubtless do viously scored with myriad sheep centuries, musically, even if Mr King to a vicious hate mentality. New England (TLD 7). something to speed the present restruc tracks “ Undeveloped” ? Just thought refuses to see this. ROBERT van KRIEKEN Let’ s get some numbers straight to turing o f assessment at this university, I’d ask. Now while the picture of the mod start with. The march from the colleges a process which has been going on for shows his para military coat, his vespa This correspondence is now closed — Eds. to the teaching area (which was some years now. However, the disrup STEVE DYER, and short hair, your reviewer suddenly supported by the SRC) attracted tions o f exams have done nothing Marden, SA. talks o f “ hairy, drug taking rock and around 200 people. The occupation of except alienate sympathy among the roll bands” . What ever for? A short- Sloppy the Administration building (which uncommitted. haired-pilled out mod is not my idea of was not supported by the SRC) Who’s up who ? Dammit, I’ve just noticed that “ an effeminate passive” person and reporting levelled out with maybe 100 people, Dunstan can’t even get the date right! IN YOUR review (TLD 8) on Quadra- from the reports o f mods/rocker wars with numbers rapidly dwindling as the The march took place on thursday, phenia, it was a pity that the actual at Brighton, they looked none too full REGARDING the article: Well, it's agreed clean-up time approached. november 8, so it can hardly have been review o f an album which has received of peace, love and happiness. In fact, if finally happened folks! (TLD 8), is the Continuing disruption of the exams is organised on the 11th. so much publicity and attention should both the rockers and the mods had gentleman identified as ‘Senator Carl opposed by the SRC and is being be confined to a half column while the complementary behavior as King sug Albert . . . president o f the Senate’ any advocated by perhaps a dozen people. Yours in disgust, rest o f the space is filled with irrelevant gests, then it is possible there would relation to Representative Carl Albert, The vast majority o f students want NICK BOOTH, tripe. have been no ‘Quadraphenia’. Speaker o f the House o f Representa only to be able to sit their examin Information and Publications Officer, For example the first three pars tell And now the actual review: it tives? If indeed they are one and the ations in peace. The University o f New England, us that everything happened for youth doesnt say anything about the album same, it is difficult to see how Whoever gave Graeme his “ facts” Armidale, NSW. in the 60s, nothing had really gone on except it is a concert album, comes Representative Albert has enough time on the Classical Marxism exam seems with a brilliant book o f pictures and is before december 26 to to have been pretty determined to an attempt to probe the psyche o f the 1. Resign from the House o f mislead TLD and its readers. Classical Who. But what about the bloody Representatives, Marxism is an “ unscheduled course” music, the words, the all we want to 2. Be appointed by Presidential and is not subject to normal Arts know? order to a vacant Senate seat, Faculty regulations. The course super 3. Resign from the Senate, and be visors had decided that 75% o f credit RICHMOND STURDY, appointed Vice-President of the United would com e from assignments during Balaclava, Vic. States, and hence “ president o f the the year and 25% from an end-of-year senate” , and not "president protempo ", exam. which is a secretarial position. When the time came for the exam, Psychotherapy students took advantage o f the inter IRVING LANG, state absence o f their lecturer to claim Doncaster, Vic. that he had told them they would be for teachers permitted to discuss the paper among BROTHER Tom Krause, a self- Normal themselves. The Dean o f Arts accepted confessed teacher, condemns the this statement in good faith and, rather (NSW) Education Department for than have discussion occurring in an “ interfering in the teachers private garbage exam room used also by other lives” (TLD 8). At the end o f the same PERHAPS the best way to stop infla students, permitted them to take their article, he seems to advocate, following tion is stopping the production o f papers home. It now appears that the Postman and Weingartner, that the garbage commodities. lecturer had, in fact, said that the exam education department should “require To suggest that 75 percent o f food, would be held under normal condi all teachers to undergo some form of clothing and general goods sold and tions, and the students deliberately psychotherapy” and “require each produced in this country are entirely misled the Dean. Despite this, the teacher to provide some sort o f unnecessary, useless and usually un university will stand by the Dean’s evidence that he or she has had a loving healthy or downright dangerous might decision. It would seem to me that the relationship with at least one other not be as ludicrous as one might think." university has shown better faith here human being” . Take a walk round your local shops than the students. Isnt that interfering with private and see. It is interesting to note that two o f lives? Which particular school o f You just can’t win these days. The the students involved in the Classical psychotherapy does he have in mind? fish have mercury and cadmium. Vege Marxism incident had nothing to lose. (Mostly they’re pretty fascist). Would tables have you name it. Meat is They could not receive credit for the he care to specify a minimum time for ungodly. Tinned, processed or other course, as they had not handed in a relationship which would be accepted wise, food has always got something. assignments. Doubtless when they by the Education Department as a For every expert who tells you eat this receive fail notices there will be much “loving” one? (A week? 24 hours? 30 at least ten others will tell you it’ll kill bleating about victimisation. seconds?). And what does he have ya if ya do. Fasting is at least healthy The last paragraph o f Graeme’ s against animals? but it’s like eating — it’ll kill you in the article is pure wishful thinking. The end. university is not in “ delightful tur JIM MACKENZIE, Apparently if you are dull, ignorant moil” . In any group discussing exams, Kensington, NSW. and apathetic you are normal. A nor- Page 26 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 11-17, 1973 mai person, if given 50 objects, could ing the good fight” feelings. like her; women bogged down in the give to him, her feelings, her guts, pletely (in a feeling way) with your find 40 sets o f relationships. A para But, as my submitted words made frustrations of housewifery. But on herself, instead o f holding back. He husband, or with anyone. He might not noid schiz could find 250. (There are explicitly clear, having a warm feeling reading and rereading her article, the gets a censored, watered-down version like it! It might bring strained bonds probably 1000 possibilities.) and effectively finding a solution to a strong feeling comes through that o f her in place o f the real thing. further out into the open. It might fC OSS, problem are often not connected. many o f her sexual problems are o f her Ms Turner does this to protect him! break up the marriage. But possibly the Tasmania As you have subbed the article, own making, and that her current Hell! What right or need does she have risk IS worth taking, and the present deleting about 750 words, I fear that behavior ensures that she continues to to protect him? Is he a kid who needs alternative has certainly not been too A jovial lot many readers will say: “ What a beaut heap further frustrations upon her own this protection (and I’m not implying attractive. kick of the tobacco boys” , when really head. Why? Because she cheats on her that kids need protection in the area o f The choice, of whether to be openly WE ARE writing to your supposedly I was hoping that the reaction would husband now and she has cheated on expression o f feelings)? Perhaps nasty and honestly herself in her dealings leftist “ progressive” rag to render our be: “ So that's why I smoke” . Also, a him through past years. things like dirty nappies and snotty- with her husband or whether to pro utter dismay at your apparent tight- cartoon accompanying the article was Sex at its best (at least for me) is a nosed kids and sexually 1 dissatisfied tect him (and herself) from some of arsed decision not to publish sufficient left out. naked confrontation between the wives are best hidden from men in case the things she is, is a choice that each coverage o f that oh-so successful PAUL COMRIE-THOMSON, bared guts o f two people. Not just at a the male is offended. But there is an Ms Turner must make for herself. But blunder from the land o f Banana-Bend- Sydney, NSW physical level but also emotionally and air o f superiority in the idea that you it is probable that the achievement of ers, Bjelke-Petersen. feelingly. Ms Turner avoids this! She have the right to decide what will and anything worthwhile involves the risk It would seem that this opulent dick w on’t tell her husband how she feels, what will not be good for your hus of losing the lot and perhaps it is only can murmur the most outrageous con Complete how he pisses her off, how she resents band to know. when we can afford to lose that we can glomerations o f crap, and yet he him. She won’t lay on the line how Does this protection work and give really be open enough to love. passes, seemingly unnoticed, by your she’s bloody dissatisfied. Not that hus the wife the sort o f relationship she Front up to him Ms Turner and be jovial journalists jotters. sharing band is a great genius who can (or wants? what you are. We live daily in anticipation o f JOSEPHINE Turner (“ A Drudge’s Day necessarily should) do anything about There are, o f course, dangers as R. M. CARMAN, secession, so that we may join in a dream” , TLD 5) intrigues me. And I her complaints. But at least she could sociated with sharing yourself com- St Lucia, Qld guerrilla group and finally rid this presume that there are many others. state, and no doubt this nation, o f all the rightist, fascist testical crabs that pollute our thoughts and politics. SOCIETY FOR LEVITATION OF COMMUNISM, Brisbane, Qld Lenny’s crime i f - m i -V AMERICAN satirist/comedian Lenny Bruce’s ONLY crime to society was he told the truth, and incurred their THINGS wrath. Nixon maintains he’s innocent of Watergate!! R ODERICK PHILLIPS, Darlinghurst, NSW An open WENDY BRENCHLEY The alternative to anti-biotics T WAS on a friday, late in function o f the liver is to keep the july this year, when I first bloodstream pure, and mine, evi- letter I OOOMMM ft/ $ •» V « >, \ started to feel unwell. This was / ly * dendy finding plenty of impur AN OPEN LETTER TO KEVIN GIL after several months o f not feeling . . - • > - • w ities, now took the opportunity o f BERT RE HIS STORY ON WHITE up to par, but not feeling sick POISON IN TLD 5. cleaning them out. For three days In fighting for justice for the aborig either. this continued o ff and on, until inals be careful not to fight the whites The dentist had removed a root the practitioner decided to ter on his own ground, although they are filling and found an abscess on the minate the fast and started me on provoking you to that. You will lose, root o f a tooth, which, he said, fruit-juices. because the whites have the lawyers, would take five days o f anti-biotic Another internal examination the businessmen, the politicians, the treatment to clear up. at this stage revealed that the police and the media on their side. This really presented me with a cervix had completely healed. The Furthermore, the white society has dilemma. From my reading over lump at the apex of the tooth had always been very careful never to teach you how to fight and defend your the last couple o f years, I had gone, so now all that remained rights. become convinced that the body was for me to regain my strength. But there is another way to obtain had tremendous powers o f self- After such a long fast it takes justice. In reading the Universal Dec healing if only it were allowed to the digestive system a while to be laration o f Human Rights (25 years old use them. I had com e to regard functioning at full capacity, so all this december) you’ll find that the 30 antibiotics as poisons, and thus I was given, or indeed wanted, for articles seem to apply for everyone else' dangerous to the human body. three days was fruit juices. After but the aboriginals. Where I could possibly avoid using this I graduated to fruit, and Now I believe that every article is them, I intended so to do. eventually nuts, salads, and cook one trump card that could win the card The dentist was most upset game for you, provided that these ed vegetables. cards are played out by professionals when I told him that I wouldnt With such a cleaned-out body, who know the game thoroughly. take any drugs, and he solemnly it was only sensible to continue The only professionals who have the warned me that the infection with eating habits that would skill, experience, know-how and under could go to the brain. However I keep the body clean and healthy. standing are the United Nations Organ decided to put my theories into So the most sensible foods to eat isation, because many o f the nations practice and so I started fasting. would be natural foods, unproces have had similar experiences (colonial I went home to bed and had no sed, and where possible, uncook ism). food, merely sipping water every ed. This means a diet o f fruit, Only the UN can judge the problem few hours. I notified my boss that with an unprejudiced and unbiased ^ for *Ros vegetables and nuts in various frame o f mind. Keep appealing to I would take a couple of days off combinations. These are the foods them. This is not a social or econom work, and on the next day my apex of the root of the tooth. I In Sydney, I was able to which are the most easily digested ical problem, but a humanitarian and husband rang a place in Sydney was very thrilled at this, and felt continue my rest in peaceful and, o f which the body can make thus a universal problem. where healing fasts are supervised confident o f returning to work surroundings. The pressure was most use. They are the closest, I H. HONT, and he was told that I would But I also started to get a lot o f off my husband too, as he no believe, to what the human Sydney, NSW probably need to fast for a week white jelly-like discharge from the longer had to worry in case digestive system is made for. to see any difference in the vagina. In march the doctor had something unusual happened. I Now that it is about four PS: It is not the whole o f the white abscess. told me o f a large, angry-looking was checked over daily by one o f society that is working and acting months since I finished the fast, Going for a week without food ulcer he had seen on the cervix the practitioners, to make sure against the aboriginals. I believe from how am I? personal experience that 80 percent o f seems incredible to most people, when I had been in for a everything was proceeding satis Well, of course, I lost a lot of the public is genuinely concerned with but it was no bother to me at all. I cancer-smear. He had been quite factorily. weight, nearly two stone. I have the injustice done to aboriginals. was glad not to have to eat. concerned about it, saying that it During a fast, various healing put more than half o f this back Admittedly, others who com extended right around the cervix crises can occur. This is simply an on, but seemed to have slowed mence a fast without feeling and had to be cauterised in indication that healing is going on, there. J’accuse particularly ill can feel hungry for hospital before I had another and that toxins are being elimina AN EDITOR’S job is, of course, to I am doing daily exercises a couple o f days, but it wears off. child. But I felt that cauterisation ted from the body. In the first edit. But, I think some sense of my which last summer were too much published article Cigarettes, bullshit Just to lie in bed and rest was would do nothing about the cause week I had the worst sore throat for me to cope with. I have a and bad bad admen has been lost. really enjoyable. The whole point of the problem - an unhealthy imaginable. Then in the second renewed interest in life, and I am First off, the title o f the submitted o f a fast is to give the body a rest body. week of the fast I had conjunctiv thinking more clearly than I have article was: I mean, has anyone ever from the daily round. The body is Once the facial swelling had itis, again a recurrence o f past done for ages. studied the correlation between cigar not using much energy to main gone down, nothing much else discomforts. One relative expressed the ette smoking and masturbation (Nor tain the muscular system, and by seemed to happen with the The practitioner conducted an thought that a 22 day fast was a man Mailer: Prisoner o f sex). Your also giving the digestive system a abscess over the weekend, though internal examination on the 14th substitution headline changes the em very drastic way to cure an ulcer good rest, the body can concen the vaginal discharge continued. day and said that the cervical phasis. And furthermore, while I might on the cervix, when an overnight trate on the healing process. The ulcer had reduced to the size o f a agree that your “ J’accuse” front page However, at this stage we had stay in hospital for cauterisation is quite striking, again this misplaces body lives on nutrients stored contact with a young lady who five-cent piece. Another look on would have had the same result. the intended emphasis o f the submit previously in the cells. Without had had a 16 day fast herself the 20th day revealed only a slight But, would it? A polluted river is ted article. the burden of digestion the earlier in the year, and so had her redness. The abscess on the tooth not cleansed by the addition of The submitted article was essential internal organs can go about the mother. She was so enthusiastic had dwindled to almost nothing further chemicals, but by the ly not a “ let’s kick the bastards” tirade task o f eliminating toxins from about how well she and her too, and the practitioner said that removal o f that which causes the but an attempt to articulate what, in the body, and restoring purity to mother had been since fasting that just a couple more days o f fasting pollution. fact, smoking is about. the whole system I opted to keep going. should be enough. The article was not intended to To my way o f thinking, cleans By the fourth day I started to In order to do this we decided But after 19 pretty quiet days reinforce those puerile attitudes that ing the whole body so that the notice a few effects of the fast - currently exist on both sides o f the that I should be under the of fasting on the 20th day I cause o f all the trouble, the toxins tobacco fence — on one side: “ Let’s apart from the obvious one o f supervision of people who knew started to vomit. My liver had in the body, is removed, makes far kick the bastards” ; on the other: weakness due to lack of food. The what happened when fasts were decided to do its share o f more sense than merely suppress “ Those scruffy bastards” . Articulations facial swelling was beginning to undertaken, so we made arrange eliminating toxins, and was throw ing one symptom. i— i o f this sort make both camps feel subside into a local lump at the ments to go to Sydney. ing o ff vast quantities o f bile. One warm and encourage those “ I’m fight THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 1 1-17, 1973 — Page 27 Published by Richard Neville at 174 Peel street, North Melbourne for Incorporated Newsagencies Pty Ltd, the publisher and distributor, 113 Rosslyn street, West Melbourne. The beginning of all originality is idleness.