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The Living Daylights 1(9) 11 December 1973 Richard Neville Editor University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 12-11-1973 The Living Daylights 1(9) 11 December 1973 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1973), The Living Daylights 1(9) 11 December 1973, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.1 no.9, December 11 - 17, 28p. http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/9 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 1(9) 11 December 1973 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.1 no.9, December 11 - 17, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/9 Don't let the bad news grind you down . Brawl o v e r FtiftV iiiTHE ARMY OF THE R A R E * m i They werent Richard Beckett beats up the week’s news NO, WE WON’T GO: Not iW fLLsurprisingly, seeing that the fed- prepared 8888 eral Labor government’s attempts to ;$?: control prices and incomes for the “ BOTH KROGH and Chapin were prime |.:® general betterment o f the community AAV\kJc£T S<JCC£Sy. examples of the key Nixon aides: young, were opposed by everyone from Bob athletic, religious, handsome, clean-cut, Hawke to the phantom rapist o f Simp- bright, ambitious and tough enough to be son’s Pit, Australia gave a more than ruthless” — Time. More than ever, tradi­ 888; somewhat emphatic No answer in last tional values are topsy turvy. Krogh and Saturday’s referendum. Opposition Chapin are the latest whizz kids to be leader, Mad Dog Bill Snedden, while drowned in Watergate indictments. Some­ 8888 immediately claiming that the elec- body should be out there rewriting the torate’s answer had been a vote o f boy scout manuals; future administra­ $88: confidence for his party, seemed in no tions will be seeking qualities o f atheism, hurry to actually seize the ermine ugliness and laziness in their new office 8 8 trappings o f power and attempt to sort boys. Today’s hippie is tomorrow’s Hal- 8888 out the mess caused mainly by his own deman, unfortunately. party. But his hayseed Country party In all fields, the axioms are being :-:8: offsider, Crazy Doug Anthony, who blown asunder. On British television earli­ $8: quite obviously has absolutely no idea er this month a man called Uri Geller 8 8 how difficult it is to steer a ship o f apparently demonstrated some super­ 8 8 state, declared he personally would natural powers, bending minds and 88 bring the Labor government down — spoons all over the country. We took 8:8 but only after Christmas. After all you advantage o f syndication agreements to 88 can’t let a little matter of political bring you the details — page 9. (As did 88: morality interfere with the piss up the Melbourne Age, which contained an 8 8 season, can you? excellent account last Saturday.) Western allopathic medicine continues .’.V. * * * to subside in dominance. The first major N THE DARK OF THE FOR­ breakthrough in the treatment o f junkies, I EST SOMETHING STIRRED: recently reported overseas, involved a 88: Conducting their own somewhat per- painless combination of acupuncture and 88 sonal referendum, the good citizens of electricity. More details in future issues. 8 8 the New South Wales town o f Scone This week, one reader recounts her pri­ 88: demanded that the state government vate war against antibiotics, and how she 8 8 bring back both the lash and hanging. cured an abcess and ulcer without them — 8:8 Local RSL club president Harry Duf- page 27. Not unrelated, is the great food 8 8 fin (mark that name well) said in a throwout on page 21; a primer on present- 88: truthful comment: “People might he stated. He then commented, some­ day food poisoning. 88: think we are being archaic, but what what needlessly, that East Germany doubt the pensioners will applaud this $88 Lot’s o f newsy copy this week. The 88: we’re really trying to do is to get some was not looking for Australian mi­ gesture. $$$: legal confusion behind the bust o f drum­ *8( sanity back into the penalties for grants and was “ not encouraging peo­ * * * 8888 mer Buddy Rich in Tasmania . the 8:8 atrocities and serious crimes.” And as ple to leave East Germany” . This lack lying under his true $88: proceedings to date o f an important case 8 8 he made his statement a m ob o f of encouragment to leave generally is FCOLORS AT LAST: Former $$$8 involving the Melbourne drug squad and 8 8 pitchfork carrying hunchbacks, dwarfs spelled out from the barrel of a customs minister and present-time Lib- 8888 presigned search warrants . and “ why I 888 and albinos jabbered and drooled. It is machinegun. eral spokesman on welfare, Don refused the $6000” , by the man who 8888 understood that the New South Wales * * * Chipp, finally dropped his fine show x g 88$ state government is considering erect- of concern for the dispossessed and ^ publicly humiliated NSW premier Askin. IFE’S PHILOSOPHERS FINAL­ Then Morris gives an account o f a man’s 8 8 ing a sign at the main entrance to LY RECOGNISED: The dean stated that the government’ s health Sg: story of three years spying with ASIO. 8 8 Scone which will state: “ Beware o f L scheme would benefit only pensioners, 888 of Sydney university’s medical By his own admission, Martin Sharp migrants and indolent no-hopers - an $88:8: 888 Christians.” school, professor David Maddison, has “ checkmated” himself with last week’s 888 * * * interesting collection o f bedfellows. said he would rather consult a taxi cartoon, and we thought that would be He added that it was natural human £88: HO CARES ABOUT THE driver about human behavior than the end o f him. But no, here again a nature for people to overuse hospital x$8 MORALITY OF ABORTION, speak to a junior medical student. whirlwind o f psychic confusion — page W facilities if they were free. No doubt, gg WE’RE KILLING THEM ANYWAY: “ The average taxi driver will give me a 23. The poetry keeps flooding in, and we if the new medical scheme is ever 8$88 8*8 Dr W. Westman o f the Queensland much better view on human affairs, a keep passing it to the News & Weather passed (which is unlikely), thousands $8$ 88$ university’s botany department, has saner and shrewder comm ent,” he people in Sydney, who this week morally of otherwise healthy cancer sufferers $:$$ •8:8 warned that drinking water in most said. Taxi Drivers may perhaps be blackmailed us into relinquishing a valued will crawl out o f the woodwork and 8 8 8:88; Australian cities is contaminated with saner, but medical students are defin­ centre spread. George the Third was right demand treatment, instead of dying 8:8:8: 88: a dangerous weed killer called 245T. itely shrewder — after all, who makes on: “ Blast all boets and bainters.” All the decently in their back sheds. 888: 888: This weed killer has been linked with more money in the long run? other family favorites are here, including 888 mutations and death in newborn * * * 8:8$ Delights, which from january will be a * * * babies. Incidentally, it also kills eau tifu l soup: Minions of page per city and a thoroughly reliable on events of the year: 8888 oysters. Former Olympic gold medal flipperless turtles trapped in 8888 guide to the week ahead . D-notices, Mr Neville Wran, QC, has been B 8888 swimmer Dawn Fraser warned the N petrol tins and bathtubs in the Torres fortunately no longer infuriating worthy elected leader of the New South Wales 8888 good parents o f Sydney that their Strait area remained silent during the :8$:$ Ferret fans, as Dalliance defeats the paper state Labor opposition, deposing the 8888 young offspring are not frogs and week as their white elders and betters >8888 tigers o f management and returns to former incumbent, whose name at the 888: despite that fact that Mrs-Do-As-You- engaged in a ritual will-you-won’t- >888- Nation review (to be continued in both moment escapes me. >88; Would-Be-Done-By actually existed, you-join-the-dance routine in Can- 88:88 publications) . Just us kids, this week’s 888; young waterbabies have a tendency to * * * berra. The controversy, as usual, 88:8: combines Vic and NSW and puts forth 88$: drown. E’LL SHOW YOU WHO’S THE centred around one Dr H. R. Bustard 8888 sentiments both sweet and sour. Harry v X ; * * * BOSS: Despite the fact that the who is believed to have spent large 8$$ Gumboot rather officiously traded a no­ OW IT CAN BE TOLD: The LaborW government is stuffed on its sums o f the people’s money in the 1888: column this week for a bigger one next East German ambassador to Aus- educational reform program, virtually hope that miniature tins o f turtle soup gjg: week, the issue devoted to happy an­ N 8888 tralia, Hans Richter, said his citizens stuffed on its national health scheme, will be produced by the year 2000. 88888 archy. x8>: now regarded Hitler as the man who up the creek on prices and wages Naturally enough his own salary was Thanks for all the contributions, we’U 8888: destroyed their country.
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