hope that decisicHi wiU reflect those principles of. humanity and justice for which men like Jacob VOLUME 48, NUMBERS 17 & 18 Prai have been prepared to make sudi great sacrifice. I therefore make the plea that the strongest possible THE PEEL REPORT 5 proteste be made to aU A look at the events leading up to the repp'rt and the likely outcome. (Queensland's largest and most governments invdved in the accessible letter section). continuing daughter hi West Papua and the possible SOLAR SELL-OUT 7 extradidon of Jacob Prai. Do not let us have to Two special reports on the eneigy problem - how big business is JACOB PRAI'S ask who was Jacob Prai. cashing in on the SUP panies, to the total ex ^UDY ANDREWS ARREST AND THE clusion of the local people. WEST IRIAN RE P.O. Box 106 MEXICAN GRASS NOW DEVIL WEED 9 An example is "Freeport Kuranda. North Old. SISTANCE TO Muierals" whose copper 4872. How the U.S. Govt, is poisoning American marijuana smokers. INDONESIA mine at Tembagapuiii_ is 80% American owned'the remaining 20% belonguig to MARY WHITEHOUSE GAY LIBERATION MOVEMENT H I write tiUs in the hope hidtmesian partners. DESERVES RESPECT dut your puUlcation, as a Local opposition to ~" ' ~ Part 2 of our series 'Coming out in the Seventies'. traditional champion of Indonesian mle in Irian i am an outside aoquam- hfeedom and justice will bring to notice the cir 5!'"!,";^ii?"'H'n^^*these people vutiiaUy hav^e ^^ of^ Sempe*?^r an, d my' SEX AND SMELL 13 cumstances surrounding only bows and arrows to «»"»«>*«.«« in reference Research into the impact of smell on human sexual behaviour. die recent arrest and oppose the modem arms *° *» "*>«« appeanng m possible extradition of of the Indonesian forces. "^^ ^"11 Quid' of October THE STREET MARCH BAN 14 Jacob Rrai. These fireedomfilter s are H entided 'Hail Cream loosely grouped in an or- Mary', in reference to Maiy On Wednesday 27di Three articles on new tactics - and pictures from the October 30 March. ganisation known as the Whitehouse. To vdioever is September, it was O.PJ1I. "What is becoming responsible, whetiier it be annoiinced that Jacob Prai clear from the dhdointed •Semper' or an independent had been arrested in Papua THE GOVT PUBLIC RELATIONS J?AT.L ^?^A. :°"*„ ?} contributor, I address New Guhiea and sentenced bian Jaya is that the 0 J>.M mysdf. MACHINE 21 to two months Imprison- has overwhelming tribal The article was obviously A detailed examination of how govemment publicity services, turned to mait as an illegal Immignint support in the hi^^ands in • support of the pie- and that hdonesimi officials and latent suppcurt from .t ^ ^... 1 J t* partisan purposes, can deny the public important information and hoped that he would be Irianese in the coastal and ^2!»8-seems that 1in thiS!.S?L.is 'pluralist! give an enormous advantage to the party in power. . extiadited to Indonesia. urban areas." (The Aust- society, where freedom of Who is Jacob Fhd and ralian, 15-9-77). , . • e lAy would Indonesia want Jacob Prai is one of ^f^^ ?"*^ expr«sion of REVIEW SECTION 29 bisextraditira? these people. Tlie crime oP^on B supposed to p«- ftai's hom^tmdi f
SEMPER November 8,1978 3 and campus interviews , Using' skhi graft and mention tnat joumaUsm the memben of the com- Of course thc motion programme inadequate we skin growth techniques teaching is primufly about ndttee, the organisets (Anna was defeated. One last, teaching people to be good and Erika), and the many thing-we urge aU women give a cordial invitation to tiiese doctors were able to joumalists. women who come into the to come along and get visit us at Counseling Ser- replace the burnt skin witii Surely there is no one room regulariy. They have invdved- it's YOUR union. vices We diaU be very the anus area skin.' better quaUUed to do this diared information with me •YOLANDA MILTON happy to see you there Then with the bionic than professionals who have about aU aspects of univer and to attempt to meet limbs this man was made (From Page 2f proved theh abiUties sity Ufe, including academic your needs for whatever to look completely.normal through a distingui^ed work and the workings of UNEMPLOYMENT & information and help you The victim suffered a career in the medU? the Univeisity of Qld THE GRADUATE seek hi moving on to.the complete loss of memory learned on the job. Jour- fheje people may not Students' union etc. next stage of your career. • and so the doctcas named -ALLAN STEWART him Mal. They put him nalism is also about leaming ^tayt acquired tiie same I have had my questions We appreciate the con v^at goes into the paper, ^^ ©f scientific analysis Senior Counsellor to work and now no-one about feminism answered in fidence UI University Coun and how best to do it. Do gs they wwild have had a non patronising manner has a job.' you know that as.a resuh of tiiey ^ent most of their and have never been seling Services expressed by -S.I.WESTEN titis quest many working working Ufe as an academici heavled to take one par Uz Ross in her tetter Kenmore joumaUsts (though not in acquiring a Ph.D. ticular line or another. (Semper, No. U) and hope MEDICAL TECH Australia) have obtained gut through practising we diaU not forfeit it vrtien NOLOGY AND OUR There have been many REPLY TO 'RONA MAS and Ph.Ds? One scin- their craft they have interesting discussions about we say that the University ECONOMIC dilating example is Knight acquired skiUs which are of aU aspects of feminism and Infomiation office had no CONDITION ANDT EVOLUTION' Newspapers' PhUip Meyer, much greater value in its relationships to other responsiblity for the the author of the seminal teaching news reporting, established poUtical Unes. Campus Job Interview At Convention for Plastk: Havuig read the btest book ft-ccirion Joumalism. feature writing, sub-editing, Women from overseas guide, which was entirely a Mr. Lunn is most interviewing, objectivity and Surgeons andartificialUmbs f''" °^ ^',^2"^}^?!^ have made a point of CounsdUng Services produc welcome to head for Mal news selection. coniing to the Women's Engineers (bkmics) held re- (^^V^'' \°J 48» No.16) tion. Aiiderson to improve his Therefore, in the Rights room to find out cenfly at the Haton Hotd, regaduig her views on tennis. Applying that teaching of a vocationally- what's going on in the The Guide is only a London,Eng|and,'spedallst' evolution, complete with an analogy, he also can head orientated discipline such as Women's movement in part of our programme to teams discussed the recent mvitation for lephes, I feel for Joh Bjelke-Petersen to journalism, 10 to 15 years Australia. assist graduate to find em advances in thdr tech- ** '*^ "^Y """'^^ obligation ployment. This year every leam about politics. Poor experience in the Hence we enjoyed the nologies. to make some effort final year student received Peter Boyce and his col- professional media is of as visit of a black South Professor Pommore. towards refutmg her mis. leagues in thc Department much value as a Ph.D. is African woman, a woman a copy of 'Where do I go from here?' a new booklet leader of an English Re- gwided and inaccurate at- of Govemment, Unwersity for teaching ui purely from Germany here on a search team, described their tempts to find evolutionary of Queensland, may have academic discipUnes. dovetailing witii our Job hoUday, a woman from the most notable success. The theories unsdentific. I shall to look for new jobs. USA studying at this Um- Search Workshops, to help -TESS LIVINGSTONE patient's name was PhiUip concentrate my attention -SHELTON GUNARATNE Joumalism Student (JR versity and a woman who with car«r plamimg and job Capricornia IAE Bonehon. PhiUip was a on the reference made to 210) University of Old. has come to Uve m Brisbane bunting, victim of an automobile tiie Uws of classical thcrmo- from New Zealand. , M"?*" °^ *f '=o"!''»f acddent who had had both dynamfcs and leave critldsm The organiseni of the °^ ^his booklet used to his arms npped oif and nis i ^, .a. ^ JOURNALISM WOMEN'S RIGHTS- Women's Ri^ts committee appear m tiie annual careen: kgs^red about the tiiigh. '^[ the other aiguments *.-„hav„e ,.,.„spen*t ao grea™.„t deal of *^'^°" °^ 'University INSTRUCTION A PERSONAL VIEW Professor Pommore des- "^^ed to those more time getting different News'. The Guide is a much cribed how witii a three quaUfied in those spedfic reduced version for this women out to the uni to ... , day operation and- sbc areas, hi Semper, September 20 talk to women on a variety 'f""' ^? ^^° ^J!^""'^ ^^ Students at this Uni- months rehabilitation Ms Lacey _ claims that 1978, Dr. Shelton tiie need to contain costs. versify and readers of of issues for example: PhiUip was able to rejoui the second law of Thermo- Gunaiatne rejected as "fal contraception. ^ ff '^^9 ""^.'^y '" ^^^^ Semper will be aware of uranium, the work force. dynamics states that any lacies" two ^ suggestion. „, , s tiie many letters and corn- lesbianism, abortion! ^""*f *^' ^ graduates women and prisons, the ^^^ Jobs, but rather that PhilUp's artifidal limbs system when left to itsdf made by Mr. Charies Stokes ^g„ts that have been problems of handicapped "^"^^ f''^^''^^ ^'^ P^^"*relie! d upon the myodectric wUl become simpler i.e. it at a conference on jom-- ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^womej n and disadvantaged ?"* ^ degree as a means of effect and they gave him. will devdop into a lower nalism teaching on August the Women's Rights Com women. unproving Oieir job pros super strength. PhiUip per- state of energy.' In actual 4. mittee this year. pects. A comparison ofthe formed Ms job above ex- fact, the second law makes The latest attack on the continuing levd of unem- pectations. no claims as to the energy The suggestions were 1. Most of the letters have that Journalism should be committee occurred at the pioyment among graduates An American team content of a system, but is been condemnatory in an exception to the "golden last union council meeting ^^ non-graduates indicates headed by Professor concemed witii the total academic rule' that teachers fashion, have sou^t to vrfien a motion was put that there is some jus- Hongtwo had had a similar amount of entropy within should have higher univer- disrupt the workmgs of the to try to enforce an tification ftx tius bdief. success, their patient, the universe. sity degrees because tiie conunittee and niisre|Kesent "enquiry" into the workmgs we are very conscious Arthur was back on his By entropy, we mean the prime quaUfication for the women uivolved m the of Uie committee. of the proldems of unem- job and performing his job- amount of randomness in teaching joumalism must be conunhtee. The leason put fwward ployed graduages and con- weU. the configuration of the a distinguished background I just thought I would was: that the WR women cerned to give aU possible The AustraUan team, particles making up a as a professional journalist recount some of my ex- had put out a leaflet askuig hdp. The Guide indicates led by a doctor from the system, as seen from a in tite media; and 2. for the periences this year and women to take part in a the divtirsity of activities Royal Melboume Hospital macroscopic point of view, purpose of joumalism perhaps provide an alter- survey to see how else we we are invdved in. They had a sunilar success, but According to the second teaching, 10 to 15 years native view of the Women's could be of hdp to women wiU not solve the problem this patient had been the law, the entropy of the experience should be Rights Committee of some- on campus and get their of graduate unemployment victim of a bushfiie in universe can only increase, accepted as equivalent to one who has actually been thoughts on the women's but will, we hope, reduce ^^cto^ia. The only area of that is to say the universe tiie achievement of a Ph.D. involved. rights area of responsibility, its impact for some. his body which hadn't been must tend to a more by a full-tune career 1 have received support therefore the committee To graduates who find burned was the area sur- random state, academic. and encouragement from was not representative! the contents of the nuide rounding his anus. /Continued Page 6} The basis of Dr. Gunaratne's argument ap peared to be his differen tiation between the "nuts -PTY LTD- and bolts" approach to 1 Wickham Ice. (Cnr. Wart St.) 229^i55.(Park at rear)| journalism (i.e. the basics OUND BRISBANE 35 Logan Rd. WooUoongabba. 391-7048. of news and feature \vrithig, S copy reading, page make up), and what he calls "thoroughgoing inter IF WE CAN'T BEAT THE OPPOSITION PRICE, pretive joumaUsm. . JO that news stories (the non- event orientated type) are WE WILL TRY TO MATCH IT... IF WE DON'T STOCK IT, written with greater ac Qym wwo't now curacy and objectivity." WE WILL TRY TO GET IT FOR YOU • MokSiiillhdMltrT Instructing students in the latter type of journalism, Dr. Gunaratne assures us, would be beyond, the capabUities of a peison mxxm with extensive experience in the me^ and would require the services of Cuttom Buitd your own Hi-fi, P.A. or complete somebody with a Ph.D. ReaUy?!? If "tiiorough- Instrument Amplification System with gohig interpretive .jou^ our. extensive range of Auditec Audio naUsm" is that difficult and electronic so highly academfc that it Modules and, Altec Speskw Components ; needs to be taugnt by I academics with Ph.D;s how i wiU the average newspaper supplies ' reader possibly understand this form of reporting? • Dr. Gunaratne has eom- Wholesale. Ifcido and m.nI orders welcome Add U; (i.>' c i""' mitted a fallacy by omissloa ,, SOUND FOR ALL OCCASIONS (to use his own words post and pack Stocks and prices V.IIK) ,|| (^ ,i ;« "the most insidious propa AA about .our D J. Party Service' ganda, technique a Jou^ & Semper diicoivbt naUst must avoid on ethical; J ••'•^;..'-ti.:''^MKrv;;). grounds") by failing to*
4 SEMPER November 8,1978 JOH: '7 ?/im^ you 're on to a good one on this travel business.>y The Peel Report -f Prelude and Aftermatli
When a senior liackbench meml)er of the Government airline ticlcets Liiieral Party strode" into the Brisbane head to personal use, usually quarters of a national airline late in April this intemational travel. "You think he's mad year, he was to cause one of the greatest too? I agree and thanks political furores in Queensland this decade. for the reassurance." So far, his action has resulted in the sacking of his Queensland's most ex politica] leader, Bill Knox, irreparably damaged the clusive club-Parliament- reputation of the ALP leader, Tom Bunts, and ensured was about to close ranks the continuation in office of the controveisial National but everyone was relaxed Party Leader, Johannes Bjelke-Peteisen. because, obviously, there was no story. PoUticians on both ades By a SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT of the arena were lying. Allen was subsequently to The Liberal himself for mitted under privilege, leam that right at that some strange and unex* The Telecom relation- time, they were laundering plained reason was not ship developed, tickets and were later to named in the official report Allen felt he had enough cancel them hurriedly of the Auditor-General Jim to go on but he could not through travel agents. Peel into misuse of airline see how two responsible Allen kept digging. Air Houghton, who authorises pool in the West Indies to were a littl^ much for th» travel privileges by Qld airlines, not to mention the line executives and travel naembers' expenditure, saw hear the bad news." Apart pollies. entire travel industry, could "mod squad" from George agents claimed that they himself becoming more like from Tom Burns, who Street. Smoking an imported allow this swapping of travel knew nothing of the a scapegoat and called in 'knew nothing', like Sar- dgar, presumably purchased vouchers to proceed, practice, so he rang a For those who do not Tom Bums to expSih his geant Schultz, the other big tiunk that the effects of the duty free, he dropped ash He made calls to a top Sydney travel agent whom (Bums) statements, loser in the Peel Report was ^n the desk as he ordered State Liberal politician and he had been to school with. Peel Report will be with Houghton told Bums that Bob Moore (Lib., Windsor) us for a long time, watch airline hostesses and desk an ALP shadow minister, This time there were he mi^t be one of those who is affectionately known derics to get moving with 'Shooting the breeze', the Sherwood by-election results. The agent said that named in any official probe, to the Premier as 'Colonel which the Premier has so his itinerary. saying how well Bill Knox it was no story at all be Bjelke-Petersen obviously Klink'. What the con- "Tlie missus and me. and Tom Bums were going, kindly decided will be on cause it had been going on knew all along that as the nectlon is, I'm not sure, November 25-despite big We want the lot. You name he then hit them with: "say,-for years and some ofthe Peel probe continued. Bums except both are bald, wins for the ALP in thc it and charge it-meals, this mad travel agent was Federal politicians were and his likely successors, The Report not only tabbed NSW elections and the more guided bus tours, insurance drunk the other night and' even selling their entitle- Keith Wright (Rockhamp- Moore with illegal con- recent ALP win in Ballaiat, and tips if necessary. he claims that it's possible ments. ton) and Ed Casey (Mackay) version of tickets but found Victoria. "Just use up these to somehow convert State would also be involved, that he had claimed It will be retained com credits." ^^m^m^m^m^^ai^mtmm^^^g^^mm^ Bums was later to take expenses whfle he was over- fortably for the Liberals an incredible six-week jet- seas, by barrister Angus Innes ,oZ frotthtlueSd -^^ - ^'^ ^,t,fT' 1?H*^' ''f ^'''''' '*"^ .setting tour with his famfly Though not as glamorous because of the intransigence Govemment Tourist Bureau ?*>*> ^ '^^ °l Allen's political and courageous col- while the Peel report was as the Abba fan, Ray Jones of die ALP and the &tal and was laundering his '"^^ ckmed, an mvention of Premier Bjdke- being tabled. (ALP, Cairns), Bob Moore decision to have Tom Bums airline tickets made out for f^tcrsen and his press officer Alien Callaghan. The Premier commented probaUy rated more un- (MPR-Member of the Peel travel to Perth and Mt. laa. It began with the coarse confiscated by airline later: "Poor Tom had to favourable mention than Report) campaign on behalf Anywhere, as long as the and loud-mouthed attitude officials and an airline, as be fished out of a swimming any other member. of the ALP candidate, Mike value of the domestic of a Liberal who had for- well as a parliamentary, Kinnane. tickets was built up and he gotten how honest the cover-up was underway. The Meanwhile the airline hi could join the long list of puUic, the electorate, two senior executives of the HOW RORTING THE PUBUC BECAME dustry employee who was pollies holidaying overseas generally were. Sunday Mail then made the FASHIONABLE the source of information at the taxpayers' expense. Despite Allen's views decision late on Saturday about the scandal remains Unfortunately for 23 that he had a top story, afternoon. May 13, to pub- Table supplied and extracted from the Fee] Report totally dlsQlusioned. He .members named in the Peel his paper, The Sunday Mail, lish the story. risked his job and his Report and an estimated needed names. He could Hie dedsion of the family's future-for what? half of the Qld Parliament not elicit any from bis Auditor-General, announced Year Requisitkins Tickets % MLAs I Bill Knox appears to be diat were in tbe process source in the airlines, who on June 6, to order an converted 'heading for the Golden of putting theh- ticket f<^t he had gone far inquiry, was based on Hve Handshake because he did tbiough the idrline laundry', enough. • allegations made exclusively 1974-75 101 9 9 5 not protect his flock of he stnick a raw nerve. Then a local travel agmt, in the ^^undry Mrf/in the 1975-76 200 40 20 14 straying liberal Party sheep One of the airline evidently with some late weeks following the inittal 1976-77 220 60 27.3 21 ,and Tom Bums will flunkies'" he was ordering remorse, came to the break, 1977-78 221 114 51.6 43 ' irobably take around aiound, rebelled. paper's aid. He said two At no stage did tb,e ¥200,000 superannuation "Why should these bas- Uberals and their wives Premier or his public!^ ter leading the ALP to tards spend our money like were flying out of Brisbane madiine intervene, al- l^ke-Petersen and Calhglian have cleariy used the Peel lefeat in the next State that?" he confided to a for New Zealand on Sunday though late in May, Repwt to dieir political advantage. Ihere are two reascws ection. coUeague-who happened to night, May 14. Bjelke-Petersen dropped the for this: they are more cunning than their colleagues and And the louid-mouUied be a friend of Brisbane Tlie most likely response comment to Allen that, diey arc more in tune on this matter with an outraged iberal? He'U probaUy end journalist Rk Allen. to any direct contact^with "I think you're on to a dectorate. Up in Cabinet. After several weeks of these Liberals beinffe good one on this tiavel coaxing, the airline denial, the story would have business." Witiiout taking any answers given by those employee was pertuaded to had to be spiked. So the The penny finally diiect punitive action the named as having their talk to Allen but the first Sunday Mail editor, Bert dropped in ALP circles, Nats have left the com fingers in the till' do not conversation over the tele- Turner, and the Chief of because they realised that,, munity with the impres add up. Oearly, if you sion that they are dis- believe their lame excuses, phone got nowhere; Staff, Dick Falconer, de- despite their denials, they we have the most in natulrally the employee cided that photostats of were about to suffer more gusted-the air travel money involved should be paid efficient airline systems in feared the loss of Ifis job the travel conversion docu- from the Peel Report than back. Both groups of dieir the world, with bookings but he was also not sure ments were required. the Liberals, political opp(fflent8 may for relatives and tickets that Allen was not in league T^ was arranged but On Saturday May 13, regret not having done the coUected by six-year-old POLICE problent; landlotd with the politicians them- suddenly, late on Friday the ALP leader's press baakt; is your 'Yriend" being same, with disendoisement daiSghtm. defamatoiy of yon; coolact selves. (Allen had only May 12, all hell broke officer, Jack Stanaway, gave tiu-eats and simflar. recendy completed a con- loose. State Treasurer and an assurance that Bums was Jim Peel, for his part, STUDENTS LEGAL AID, The actions of a former was remiss in not naming lit Or UQ Unioa Buildli^ tract working as a free- then Liberal Party leader, not involved, nor was any Opqi Monday, Friday lOm lance journalist with the Bill Knox, was tipped off member of the ALP.' National Party member the identities of those shown in the table, tt also to 4pm. Ph 371 1611 for Liberal Party). about how hot the Sk :W: wmmmmm^* 9Mmmmm mtm^mt^^rmMta w^'^mmmmmmwm mjmjmmmmm-m*i,.»J^J^^mMmM mmmm i mmMm^ ^Sf03mt»i •^»^» wp»*» "«*" dut evohitiba is anti-God. between these two ex-. -Min T. CAVANAGH benefit of those iHio are is between one 'species' This idea was widely tivmes. Duchesne Collaga, • not sufficienfly oonycnant and anodier;- indeed, because of the difference propagated in the nine- Using the Second Law St. Luda. with evDhition to do odier between paiticuhir'races of teentii ceiituiy by atheist of Thermodynamics in your than accq)t what at face argument could be invaUd the same 'species'. The idea evolutionists to try and CHRISTIAN SCIENCE value appear to be con that "the mutating force cause the downfall of the anyvray. Astronomers could vincing arguments that Ms tdl you about Jean's In RESPONSE (From Page 4) needed to produce a new Christian religion. They did Laoey presents. species would Idll anydung tills by deriving from the stabiUty, which (at the Hisdy Ms. Lacey says witiiin ndio knows how tiieory of evdution (spe- moment) appean to vidate Ihe artkle ''Television Of couise this does not that evolution is "of course, many mfles" might be true cifically Darwinism, which the second law. If it indeed Why We Should Elindnate deny any subsystem of anti-God". Ibis is not so. of that mutating foree was is no longer accepted in does, there could have been It" which was reprinted m violations of it ri^t here on the Universe the ability to For those that want to appUed over a short period .complete) a "religion" die August 16 edition of Eartii, in the past (under become more ordered, but believe it, what is wrong of time. However it has which was very materialistic Semper has been brought and • non-spiritual. This certain conditions which no restricts It to doing so only with the idea of creation always been accepted that to my attrition. at the expense of order in followed by evolution? evolution is a process which caused confusion, which re longer exist). No, if ther Ihe artfcle made refer- ' the rest of the universe. Secondly she says that takes tens or even hundreds sulted in many people modynamics could disprove That is, any decrease in evolution is an unproven of thousands of yean. thinking that evolution and evolution,' it could almosi ence to the religwn known the entropy of a system thewy. This needs to be The contention that aU religion were mutually ex- disprove your and my as Christian Sdence. An must be accompanied by an qualified-evolution is mutations are useless or elusive, which they are not! existence\ incorrect statement was increase in the entropy of unproven in the eyes of harmful is pure poppycock. Of coune, I accept that Now to get onto the made and other comments' tiie remainder of the the scientific community. Take for example the evolution is a theoryj^ but rest of your letter. After were misleading. saying you did not write universe, so that the net Fortunatdy, the scientific mutations which have vastiy like aU scientific theories, Christian Science is not a to talk about education, effect is consistent with the community has very high improved our agricultural it explains the facts. As "nature-based" reUgion. It is you proceeded on the topic second law. standards on the criteria crops over the last century. such, it is only "good" a Christian teaching based, of education for half a The appUcation to the which it uses to prove a Another example comes as long as it explains known on the worship of a single, column. Maybe it would be earth's ecosystem is ob theory. Take for example from observations made on facts. Darwinism has been aU-powerful God and on the an idea to stop knocking vious. There is a continuous die link (theory) between a particular species of moth modified and broken down saving and heaUng work of teachen. We all know the shower of electromagnetic smoking and the incidence during the onset of the in (Uke aU scientific theories) His son, Jesus Christ. I am education system itsdf radiation bemg absorbed by of lung cancer. dustrial revolution in and undoubtedly modem sure no Christian denomina needs a good spring- the earth from the sun, Evidence exists showing England. evolutiooary theory wfll tion puts more emphasis deaning, but that isn't the mainly in the form of a direct relationship Indhriduals of this nor change, too. The Church than Oiristian Science does fault of the teachers. Most visiUe, unbra violet and between the incidence of mally light-coloured moth (beUeve ifor not) encour on the "highly-defined teachen are dedicated in infrared light. The energy lung cancer and the number mutated to a dark colour ages scientific investiption characteristics" of the God dividuals who really do their of this radiation may pass of cigarettes smoked per which had a distinct camou and study. (A change from who is both the Father and best against aU odds e.g. through a number of day and it has been clearly flage advantage over its the days of Galileo's per the Mother of aU of us. apathetic students, poor chemical processes including diown that cigarette smoke light-coloured counterparts secution.) . -IAN GUNN conditions, with too high those which support and contains a wide range of on the now sooty vege The Church has never Christian Science student-teacher ratios, lack propagate living organisms, carcinogens which have tation. Hence the dark- compeUed its members to Committee on PubUcation of suitable teaching aids to and is eventually radiated been shown to enter the coloured moths were accept or reject all or part for Queensland. back into space, largely in eplUielia of the lungs. 'Yet selected for. of the evolutionary theory. stimulate student the form of infrared no one has been able to And what about the After all, it's just a scientific enthusiasm the way they radiation. actually watch one of these appearance, by mutation, theory. But I'm sure you want to, etc. So get off IF YOU'VE GOT The transition from high carcinogens induce a lung of antibiotic resistance to accept the results of the their backs for a change. SOMETHING TO temperature radiation tumour. Therefore the bacteria? Or the develop Quantum Mechanical We aU know education is SAY scientific community insists geared towards getting the emanating from the sun to' ment of resistance, by Theory. Why? Because it AND WANT VALUE the random low tiiat the theory is unproven. mutation, to myxomatosis explains the facts. Neither more. intdUgent of us into temperature radia^on The same is true of amongst rabbits in this do you have to accept tertiary education. How can FOR MONEY evolution. Contrary to Ms country? And with regard you expect those who don't passing out into space con spedal creationism (every PHONE stitutes a net increase m Lacey's statements, large to "congenital abnormal species created as it is, to be suitably educated thc entrophy of the universe volumes of evidence exist ities" such as sicle-cell (sic) and species are completely for employment whfle this AOBCAMERON in spite of a local decrease from fossil records and anaemia which is a wdl unchanging). You may is its chief aim? 3711611 in the entropy of the earth's observations made on or characterised haemoglobin beUeve in something in ganisms over the past ecosystem. (This argument mutation in humans. This ' HiMMMMMHi can be given a more quan century to support the mutation confen high re tmmmtimmm0tmm0m0^m0t*if^ titative flavour by applying existence of evolution. The sistance to. malaria, hence the accepted definition for oidencc disproving its prevalence in many a change in entropy, viz evolution is ahnost non tropical areas. • ds=dQ/T, to the processes existent. The statement Certainly beneficial described above). that evolution is unproven mutations are rare (but not - Thi^ point is tiiat can easfly be misinterpreted. non-existent) because it is evdution does not violate Thirdly, the comments difficult to randomly alter the second law of thermo purporting that the Second the findy tuned machinery dynamics. By comparison Law of Tliermodynamics in an organism without I can think of no analogous disproves evolution are doing damage. argument to commend the comoletdy without basis in Ms Lacey also refen to theory of Creation. face and are obviously fossfl records and says "one The primary purpose of written by someone who would reasonably expect to diis letter is not to present has litUe understanding of find half-way animals". a lesscm in Classical thermo the Second Law. This law How do you define a half dynamics. Rather, it is to applies only to a closed way animal and how do you fllustrate . the ease with system with no energy know that many fossfls v^ch scientific half-truths input or output. In such aren't halfway animals? In can be misused by those a case the system will deed, I would be surprised wishing to express fun eventually reach an eqiuli- if Ms Lacey knew even of damentalist religious points Iffium where there is no the magnitude of cunent of view-whetiicr the raisi'^e energy flux within the fossfl records. be deliberate, or the effect' system and the system wfll On her comment that of a poor misunderstanding become homogeneous. The we only find "perfected of scientific concepts earth is not a closed animals 'with unbridgeable coupled with fanatical dog system-the Sun supplies an gaps between them", this matic belief. input of eneigy which is is false. Mutation and Latest Overseas and I feel that this misuse converted into complex natural sdection are becomes a genuine danger molecules by photosyn- occuring in organisms when ' fundamentalist or- thetic organisms which, in today-how could it if they gartisations are allowed to turn, 'feed' virtually all were perfect? Australiaiii Releases intervene within the other forms of life and And Ms Lacey, what Gem-ge Thorogood & The Destroyers- supply energy for their education' system, I am about "huge pits of animal MOVE IT ON OVER referring, of course, to the diversification.- bones"-vidiere are they? continual, efforts of the Fourthly Ms Lacey's Yes, if it satisfies you, Sports-RECKLESS Society to Outiaw Por says there is "no way in I am a scientist-but I David Bowie-STAGE nography and the Cam' v^ch mutations can break suppose that you would Talking Heads - NEW SONGS ABOUT paign Against Repressive dirough the species bar consider a plumber more BUILDINGS & FOOD rier". This statement is Education. quaUfied to write on evolu THE SHIRTS totally inconect. She un- tion? -CONRAD BURDEN DIRE STRAITS Department of Mathematics wittinjjy admits this her ^G. PURE self "(dien she says that Brisbane' variations occur witlun a 101 species due to mutation. AND LACEY'S CREATION One mutatioii leads to a EVOLUTION REFUTED smdl variation. A long series GOD to of mutations leads to a large Regir^ Donna Laoqr*8 variati(n Le. to a new I would Uke^to suggest letter on evolutkia (Semper species. At any rate, the that Miss Lacey (Semper, difference. between _• _one Vol 48i No. 16). I could October,' II Letters) may SISIierwoodRjd^ not let her conunents,go qiedes- and anothisr Knot like to mi-Eyobttipntmd deaKitt as Ms. Lacey tries ifflcriticbed; Her ideas on Chiisiims hy]f.G. FptheigiQ toimply. or rChristian' Theoiofly.and evolution are witfiout huk Tutonomy. is sn ex- in fact JbcideotaDy, I un • tremdly complex .field be Natural Scienoe" by; EJL. witiqg tidt letter for the cause of tihe simflsrity then MascaH, before, die dabns 6 SEMPER November 8,1978 Selling The Sun For Profit Giant Corporations Cashing In OnSolar Energy For years, consumer and advocate Ralph moto r fuel tax on gasohol, Nader and others have been pressing the a mix of gasoline and govemment to underwrite the development of alcohol. Gasohol can be solar power as an altemative to the traditional made from grain, wood forms of enei^ dispensed by American chips, sugar, even cheese. Many big grain com industry. panies. Holly Sugar, Archer Finally the govemment has responded. Daniel Midland and Spending to aid solar development wQI reach Standard Brand's, are major almost $500 million this year-a 10-fold increase supporters of the measure. Ul five years-and promises to grow by hundreds There- are also mflUons of dollars in tax credits of millions next year. in the Carter energy plan for ^homeowners and com By J.P. SMITH mereial buflding owners ^o instaU their own solar But Mr Nader is not happy. To his chagrin, a group of equipment Congressional Fortune 500 pants, ranging from Atlantic Richfield to analysts say these credits wfll spur as much as $1.5 Westinghouse, has taken up the solar cause. bflUort in new sales untU Cancer Scare The large corporations of which he is so wary have the credit runs out in 1985. become the major beneficiaries of his efforts. The beneficiaries of the A lot of the big com- porations have joined the credit would be the major panics are riding in on big environmentalists and con- heating and cooling manu In Mid-West DOE (Department of sumer advocates in backing facturers, including Energy) contracts," Mr. solar power is seen by Grumman, General Motors, Nadar said, suggesting that Department of Energy Aluminum Co. of America, once the solar eneigy in- Assistant Secretary for Solar General Electric and the Mining Towns dustry is at peak develop- Applications Omi Walden metals giant, Asarcol. ment it could repUcate tbe as a positive sign. "It means One of the most heavfly auto or steel industry. If that solar has a tmly lobbied sdar projects that that happens, Mr. Nadar national constituency, faUed in Congress this year Nuclear Waste Once Used To Pave Streets asked, "How are we going which is what is needed was the sdar-power to 'decouple' from central if we are to develop it." sateUite, Sunsat. The corporate distribution?" Obviously, the cor- satellite system would cost Adantic Richiield porations foresee big pro- up to S60 bflUon and .was Whfle the rest of the famOy watched least $140 millions to clean bought Solar Technology fits. "Ten yeais from now pushed by the aerospace up the dumps. Under television, Darleen Bi^ often preferred to sit International, now Arco the solar industry will be industry, including com Government contract the in the far co mer of the Uving room with a Solar. Mobfl OU bought a big business," said panies such as Boeing, nulb processed ore into book. T/co Laboratories, now Sheldon Butt, president of Martin Marietta, enriched uranium for It was a comfortable place to read, but she Mobil Tyco, and SheU Oil die Solar Energy hidustries Westinghouse and General nuclear weapons; 16 are still is the major stockholder Association, does not use it any more. Not since the day, Electric. in operation. to win Solar Energy At die moment. two years ago, that she found she had breast The General Accounting Systems. Others, such as however, solar power is Editors' Note: cancer. Office in Washington Exxon and Motorola, have largely uneconomic and pointed out this summer This proposed satellite "That was the hot spot," she says, pointing preferred to bufld their dependent on subsidies, system would have allowed that 85% of the radio own companies. Stiil, it has a big foUowing at the floor behind the empty armchair. activity in the uranium ore such profit motivated corp Antiiony Clifford, an on Capitd HUl. "Nobody orations to maintain their remains after processing. executive with the largest is anti-solar in Washington ByJONATHAN STEELE Radium and thorium are central control- over energy remaining independent sdar in a political sense," said supplies to the public . . . not normally removed in cell company, Solarex, said, Denis Hayes, head of a die mflUng. "Radium", the desfnte the fact that solar Like thousands of other houses in Grand Junction, "We have been approached national solar lobby coal- report said, "has a very power for once offers us a the Biggs' home was built on a foundation pardy made by numerous Fortune 500 ition. the altemative of cheap, long radioactive life taking companies, including several A recent Harris Survey .of tailings from the local uranhim mfll. thousands of years before it decentralised electrical major oU companies." found 94 percent of res- energy - if private interests For yean during the 19S0s and early 1960s lorries loses its radiactivity." As it Some solar advocates say pondents in favour of solar would cart the grey sand from the pile behind the decays, radium produces do not prevaU over the this is necessary to press energy development. This public interest Colorado Rjver and dump it at construction sites. gamma radiation, which the development and com- popularity is not lost on Up to 2(X>,000 tons of the potentiaUy lethal stuff was can cause leukaemia, and mercialization of technol- the Congress, emb^ded in tbe dty's streets, driveSi houses, offices, and radon gas, which permeates ogles which are still capital The odier week the the air and can cause lung swunming pools. It was cheap and plentifid. intensive. A recent Depart- Senate approved a House- cancer. ment of Eneigy study com- passed bfll under which the POLICE problems: Undtord Aldiough the state only just over half the The Colorado health pleted by the Jet Proput govemment would buy $1.5 hasslei; is your 'Yriend" being govenunent of Cdorado taflings in Grand Junction department believes there is sion Laboratory said that bflUonworth of photovoltaic defunateiy of you; contact finaUy took action in 1966 j^have been moved. Bud no immediate worry in the ofl companies and the cells over lO.years-a big STUDENTS LEGAL AID, to prohibit use of die dump, Franz, who is in charge of Grand Junction provided so-caUed systems companies shot in the arm for corn- 1ft flr UQ Union BuildSng. the programme, for the Open Mondiy, Friday lOam a programme to remove tiiat the "hot spots" in tiie such as the large aerospace panies such as Solarex, Colorado Healtii Depart to 4pm. Ph 371 1611 for the uranium from local town's .bufldings are re firms, are in the best Westinghouse, and Arco ment, says it's hard to get appointment, ask for NaitUe bufldings was slow. George* moved. Earlier this year position because of their Solar, contracton to do the work Ward, Admin. Secretary. and Daileen Biggs bought the Deaprtment discovered financial staying power and The Senate also passed 'WiUiam Beattie-4>irector. on the town's 650 con their house four yean ago. that the rate of leukaemia management. a measure that could waive taminated bufldings. Ihey say the estate agents among people over 65 in The fact that these cor- the 4-cenb-a-gaUon federal assured them diat it was Although Darleen mggs Grand Junction was twice clear. is convinced that the tailings the expected average based Ihree months later, caused her cancer thers is on national norms. v*en they finafly got a no way to prove it, she The department letter about the ndiation says. She is resigned raflicr launched an immediate potisntial, they learned there than angry about the whole study which is expected to was a' problem. Just what, episode, and thankful that be published later this where or how bad it was the health department month. Tracy Forman, a diey StiU did not know, finally took action. research assistant involved and the local health depart Grand Junction's story is widi the study, says they ment did not investigate it not unique. The nearby found no correlation fof them. It was only a towns of Durangl, Maybell between leukaemia and the year later when Mrs. Biggs and Rifle have simUar pUes uranium taflings. Out of 44 found'she-had the cancer of uranium, hi Salt Lake local people who died of diat the health department City, across the border in leukaemia, only two had snapped into action. Utah, there is an even lived in "hot houses". But ':;, It paid a firm to dig larger pfle of uranium she believes there is no the uranium put of the tafliings. The Governor of cause for complacency. "We cbriier near the garage Utah, Scott Madieson, caUs are still only at the kinder where the radiation levels it "the largest microwave garten stage in investigating were. Even now, six yean oven in the West". Al- the issue," she says. People jdter die programme began, togeUier 22 sites in eight may take seven to ten years states have tuanium to develop a cnacer and dumpings, a gloomy legacy may have moved away from .Two ^nciil raportt on of America's rush to bufld Grand Junction by the time !; anargy. from tiM Guardian a nuclear stockpile., they get it ^Weekly. ,••'•.:-.•' • According to the Federal (cont. page 8) Govemment it wfll cost at SEMPER Novembers. 1978 '*MU FeiHiBr -TOO ,^ A6t3RAVAT?R, l^tTlATlOO ^ MiW?. l| ^rt^ /iW f?rfl&i-.^/ «' r** »*«wr« »wMr. 0NHANCEP! ^E^k "^ kr Vie CFBOM B0H6. ************************************************** (fi^ompegeT) The department has not had the funds to stiidy lung cancer, except among miners \irfio were directly exposed to uranium, where a correlation with lung cancer has been found. It is not yet dear how much of a SOCIAL POLICY - FACT AND FICTION hazard rad(Hi gas is to a Uy Alan Davies general population living near uranium tailings. Bud Unfortunately It is one 45dB (A), itowever, it Is a On top of thb, the Botany unlikdy title, 'Prayers for Franz who is in charge LOST AND thing to reflect on solutions to bloody loud noise which can Bay proposal vrould have led to. Pagans and Hypocritas', Ibted of the Grand Junction FOUNDERING a problem and quite another penetrate your living room the early closure of an existing in the theology section of programme says: "Radcm is when you're caught in a traffic (or sleep) at converstional level. coal loader in Balmain .which Englidi booksaBar's Parkere potentially more serious Th* innw dty ii db- jam. As previously reported in Conversations ardoud. which b has aroused Intense resident^ and Oxfords Spring '78 cata than the gamma radiation appearingl I hai«nt got this column, only 38% of why most of us don't sleep in opposition.. Now Its life has' logue. Obviously bewild^ad by problem". figuras on Brisiana at hand Australians feel no more tfie living room. In any case, been extended to 1985 at (he Vatican. S.Fagan ashs the (thanks tb Mai's census freeways and expressways noise annoyance is dependent least. It seems opposition on question 'HM Sin Changed?' In Washington, Congress muck-up) iiut about 20% should be provided In built-up on die type ofnobe, and people environnwntal grounds depends in 256pp (GUI and McM). is working on a bfll that of dwallings in tha dty of areas, while 56% ted there find the screech of motor very much on whose My favourite for reflective would make the Federal Sydney Council Area were should be more. That survey cycles and the roar of trucks environment you talking about, moments would be a 450 pp Government pay of rmost unoccupied at the 1976 was taken by Gallup Poll and annoying, (exceptwhen they're las wdl as on securing 'victory' tome by D, Rees titied of the cost deaining up census. Furthw, an ANU interviewed 2CO0 respondents In the drivers teat}. for its own sake. -Condder Your Call', virhich is study estimates 17.000 the uranium pfles. One last April. As I see it, noby motor desaibed as a major survey dweltincs have been pulled I suspect there are plenty cyclbts (end how many quiet GOD GAIETIES of monastic theok>gy and sdution is to cover them down in Sydney since 1971. of freeways to come yet, as motor cyclists have you heard?) practtee. It's publbhed by Si>.ck with earth vid plant vege Business expansion took NSW's 'pro public transport' are In the same league ss at ttw request of the Order of tation on top. Grand 7.600 dweUings, industry govemment continudly reminds business polluten. The great -4. : , k St. Benedict and costs ten quid. Junction tried this. But 5.900 and primary schools its dectorate in the run up to myth b that motor cydes are 450. Sydney Univenity today the grey mound of the current state dection. in some way the 'progressive OIL SPOILS atone icoounted for 621 uranium on the edge of alternative'. In fact they're dimolitkxts and the town beside the Cdorado a hazard to thdr rkiers and An interesting point to River is only bardy fiecked Warringah expresnray for CYCLE SAVAGES .infipose severe nobe Impacts consider in the light of with tufts of gdden prahie 400. The City of Sydney on the rest of us. partteularly Treasurer Howard's petrol grass. (LGA) lost 30PC0 residents In a recent letter to Semper, low income households who price Wke Is the fact that Another sdution is to ow 1961-1976. so dont a reader took lisue with my are relegated to dwellings on the world prfce of oil has fae surprised if you can (fistinctly uncomplimentary busy streets. declined In real terms since bury the pfles. No easy job never find 'Sydney' when renurks about noby motor the fourfold increase of since togetiier they weigh you visit. cycle savages. I wrote that VICTORY SPOILS M^M3^ 1972-73. For example, the 25 mfllion tons. EquaUy SR 126 of the Victorian EPA posted price of Saudi I tats a rkliculouslv '^'^ Arabian oil rose 17% over urgent is the issue of One of the most important END OF THE ROAD? maximum permissable noise A handful of nmriy pub 1974-76. while the handUng the waste from successes for Australian en level of lOOd B (A) for nwtor lbhed rdigkws titles tndkata 'the other end ofthe nudear vlronmentd Ists vas securing the cycles. I noted that Austrdian that the church b hot on tha Australian CPI rose t3l% abandonment of the proposed cycle, that left by nudear Standard 1055 sets a daytime trail of changing social trends. over the same period. Botany Bay cod ship loader power plants. The Carter background noise level of 4EdB CoiHnsi have a book with tha* last year despite overwhdmlr^ Administration is about (A) for traffic In rnldentid economic arguments. Tha mdn to announce the first areai i also made tt perfectly objection was the visual dear tftat I regard noisy moto. n&ti(MuI policy on waste Intrusion of giant coal storage cyclists as environmental llNSPIRED ART BY AUSTRALIA'S MOST LOVED disposaL Many politicians sDoi However the victory will vandals. believe that unless tbe waste not be without Its costs, par ARTISTS IS ALWAYS ON SHOW AT issue Is solved, the entire The reader suggested that ticularly for tiie residents of fiiture of nudear power is SR 126 "must surdy" apply the alternative site at Port in jeopardy. to off-road motor cycles only Kembla. Freeways have wdl and truly and thet 4GdB (A) vws dmirdly The Botany Bay proposal Meanvdtile, M 'stiites low as thb Is the levd at whtoh have l»rred a nudear mb been trounced by public VAS to have covered coal transport In the view of conversations ara generdly storage and recdvd facilities, ic^ QAdcAidfU P^Mly^^tof^ bish dump within their Victorian end NSW citizens If conducted. Wdl, SR 126 does (under -ve pressure! to minimise ^ borden and IS more are you take the latest Herald^ge apply to street nwtor cycles coal dust fellout and all coal consideriiig a shnflar move. poll results at face value. Only and dso, in fact, to trucks and transported to it was to come' 88 LAinOBE TCE.PADDIIJIQTQN- omnibus'-who ever heard of a The Carter Administration 41% of Sydney^tders and «i by rdl. At Port Kenrtbia, storage STUDENTS SPmALIvWEimMF is worried about the con unt>dievably low 18% of trail bus? So far as SA1055 and recehrat facilities will not stitutional imiHicatioiis if Mdboumltes fed "buHdlng a Is concemed, even catenory R3 be coverud and provision wHI GALLERY TWO r.etworl( of freeways to dlow (whkdi is for "areas with be made for three million ereiy state were to say no. medium deiuity uansporta 98 LATR(»E TCE. PApDINQTtm Would Washington have die car;s to travel fredy Is the best tonnes of coal to be trans sdudon'' to thek cities trans tion" t*tt a lavd ot B6d B ported by tmck through the FOR FAMOUS PRINTS, GRAPHICS, UTHOGRAPHS rildtt to impose it? The port problems. The rest fed (A) over 0700-1800 hours and built-up area of Woltongotig & ORIGINALS, CUSTOM FRAMING AND ART matter lut moved a lonJB 45dB(A) owr 1800-2200 houri provision of pubtic tranaport each. year. Further, a plannad MATERIALS AT GENUINE DISCOUNT PRICES way from Darleen Biggs so that people ara not forced Annoyarna is detmed to occur rdl lltw to take the rest of the hot seat hi Grand Junction to use cars Is the best sokttlonl whan these lewis an aKceadad coal to Port KeniUa vWII cost BOTH GALLERteS OPEN ALL DAY AND EVENINGS by an 110 of 6dB (A) or mora.' to the hot seat in the Oval Tha survey Interviewed 2000 over $300 mllHon and wm < WED TO FRI AND ALL DAY SAT AND SUN., Office in WaddngtiMi. It wiU people In both, atstts last Nowjt'b true that convsfr never be buOt-tt Is poidble: not he easy to idve. August- lation s do^oecur 'at around trucics wHI be used Iflifaad. 8 SEMPER .November 8,1978 9W* mft^mMmm mm;W9-'*'^a»'mmi'»'^m'mm'm0»ii»^'^my^^rgaaajsDssaaaaaaaaam U.S. Narcs Turn Mexican Grass Into Devil Weed American Smokers Poisoned ,. '"''IgJ*' . : .. By Irresponsible Use Of Hof .. :: ., Dangerous Herbicide In the mountainous, inaccessible regioiis of Mexico, over an area that comprises more than one-fourthof the nadonal territory, Mexican fanners carefuDy cultivate fields of opium poppies and marijuana. Each year, more than I SOO tons of that marijuana and 5000 pounds of heroin, an opium derivative, find their way across the border into the hands of pot smokeis and heroin addicts m the United States. In a country where the average yearly income in rural areas is in the range of $200, the modest fanner of opium and marijuana can have an income of $5000. By JEFFREY SMITH In the spring of 1975, the Mexican ecological and health risks associated with govemment and their advisers in the US the programmes, as weD as the American the programme. meeting in May 1977 of representatives drug enforcement establishment came up invdvement in it. Four govemment agencies oversee the of eight federal drug enforcement and with a bright idea: Herbicides, which were "What we're dealing with here is a very operation: the State Department^ through health agencies to discuss the issue. Then successfully used to defoliate large portions sensitive issue within the framework of die US Embassy in Mexico, and its Office a different obstacle arose. Several of the of the Southeast Asian jungle during the relations between the United States and of Intemational Narcotics; die Drug offidals balked at the idea of investigating Vietnam war, could be sprayed on the Mexico," a State Department official said. Enforcement Administration; the General potential risks associated witii use of a opium and marijuana fields by Mexican "Right now, they are spending an inor Accounting Office; and the Agency for contraband substance. According to Percy, pilots in sophisticated American heli dinate amount of their resources ona Intemational Devdopment. tiiey said in effect: "So who cares, what copters. project [the spraying) that_ essentially Despite its toxicity to humans, (in responsibility does our govemment have After a brief period of trials and benefits the United States. We don't want gestion or inhalation of one tenth of an for dope smokers who mi^t be poisoned d6monstrati(ns before a variety of Mexican to disturb that. Moreover, anything that ounce is sufficient ot damage major by paraquat?" and American officials, the programme makes it appear that the United States is intemal organs and result in a painful Although Percy himself had carefuUy began with the use of a variety of agri in any way controlling or directing the death after 24 hours-dierc is no known expressed his disapproval of the "use cultural herbicides, including 2,4,5-T, 2,4,- programme is damaging to the stability antidote), paraquat does not persist in of iUegal drugs under any circumstance," D, and paraquat (Gramoxcne by its trade of the Mexican political environment. die environment-it breaks down when it he firmly expressed his belief that "the name). Later, paraquat was accepted as the TTie closer their govemment is to the contacts soil-whicb made it initiaUy United States govemment has a respon most effective herbicide to use on mari United States, the worse it looks in the attractive to the Mexicans. To the sibiUty to ensure that its actions do not juana, and 2,4-D was judged the most eyes of the Mexican people and press." American critics of its use on marijuana, foreseeably endanger the health and safety effective for use on opium poppies. When Senator Charles Percy began however, the major attribute is more than of any of its citizens, drug users included." Last year, according to govemment inquiring about the berbicide^raying offset by the way it acts to destroy pfants. Ihe National bistitute of Dmg Abuse officials, poppy fields covering 14,000 programme in May 1977, after a member When sprayed in the air, paraquat sticks (NIDA) now conducted a study to see acres and marijuana fields covering 9500 of his staff saw references to it in the to the leaves of the plants, desiccating whether the heat of the burning of sprayed acres were destroyed by airborne spraying. underground press, the State Department them through a chemical reaction with marijuana converted paraquat into anotiier This prompted one US official to was mindful of thc diplomatic problem. the leaves' surfaces, with sunlight as the toxic substance. Preliminary results pronounce it "the most effective and cost In its responses to Percy and to the later catalyst indicate that the lierbicide is broken down efficient means of decreasing the flow of enquiries of the National Organisation Thus, for the plant to be completely into bipyridine, which commonly exists drugs such as heroin into the United for the Reform of Marijuana Laws destroyed, it must sit for a day and in tobacco smoke. States". (NORML), department officials pointed probably two in bright sunlijJiL The According to NORML, however, the What has followed this comparative out that "the Mexican narcotics control potential hazard to users of marijuana is government cannot be sure that paraquat- success, however, has been a growing effort is directed and controUed by the created vdienever the crop is harvested laden marijuana poses no healtii hazard criticism of the programme by American Mexican govemment." by the farmer on the same day it is unless a study is made of the effects of enviroiunentalists, an exacerbation of Tlie White House drug abuse office, sprayed. Once harvested and pressed into eating smaU amounts of it baked in cookies existing tensions between the United States in a statement released on 9 December bricks for shipment across the border, or brownies-a means of administration and Mexico, and in the words of an 1977, asserted that "while the US has the leaves are out of the sim, the plant employed by a smaU but essentially American Senator, outrage over the fact provided both equipment and technical stops its deterioration, and the herbicide unknown proportion ofthe estimated IS that no steps were taken to ensure the assistance to the Mexican govemment for remains largely intact on the marijuana. miUion^ regular marijuana users in the health of mfllions of Americans who might tiie eradication of illegal poppy fields, Initial enquiries from Percy and United States. ' be using marijuana harvested immediately it is not participating in the marijuana NORML about the possibiUty of tius NORML bdieves that a first step after it bad* been dosed with herbicide. eradication programme." occurring or having occurred were toward chan^ng State Department support Concerns about the safety of the However, these claims appear to be deflected by the State Department with a of the herbicide-spraying programme paraquat-sprayed marijuana-first contradicted by the scope of US assistance denial of any responsibility for the prog would be to force the department in expressed in thc underground press- to the programme and by the contents of ramme. EventuaUy, in response to per federal court to file an environmental have led to a federally funded study of several State Department documents sistent inquiries by Percy, the White impact statement, placing the ramifications the safety. A warning about paraquat- relating t the herbicide spraying. Although House drug abuse office convened a (Continued Page 10) contaminated pot has been issued by the the US claims, for example, that the her Office of Drug Abuse Policy in the White bicide programme is Mexican-directed and House. Dogging the whole affair has been controlled, it seems clear it could not a series of contradictory statements by the function as it does without American State Department, which has tried at approval: Since 1973, America has nearly every opportunity to minimise the provided $40 million in direct funding for l!r4 Most of Ihe murijuunu and opium poppy fields are in the mountainous regions. The map shows the principal area of the herbicide-spraying program. SEMPER November 8.1978 9 who administered it. If a statement had (From Page 9) been fUed at the inception of the programme the State Department would Students-The New Poor. have been forced to consider these rami of the spraying programme on the public fications'and explain them in a public record. Impact statements are required document, critics have pointed out. under the National Environmental Policy Another unanswered question is After The Budget• • Act (NEPA) for "major federal actions whether the Mexicans are using herbicides significantiy affecting the quaUty of the another target in the besides paraquat and 2,4-D on opium human environment" in the United States. The Fraser Govemment and its big business Govemment's strategy of poppies and marijuana. A report filed in Hie State Department contends that no partners has declared war on the people of silencing opposition. Legis 1976 by Walter Centner, an employee statement is required for the herbicide Australia. lative changes to the unions of the US Agriculture Department who programme because it is outside the US, imposed in Westem went to Mexico to observe the operation, Students, workers, the aged and disadvan under the formal control of the Mexicans, Australia and Victoria, pro states that he saw the herbicide 2,4,5-T taged, everyone is being assaulted-except big and bereft of any direct US subsidy for the posed for all States by the a toxic chemical that may cause cancer, herbicides themselves. business interests. Federal Govemment, are in a shed where other herbicides were Many Washington environmentalists, on In fact, the private sector has been doing very well auned at restricting the ac stored. He suggested then that a special tivities of Student unions the other hand, believe that such a investigation be initiated, but up to now £rom subsidies and tax concessions. statement is required. Their view is based Through such things as the inwstment allowance, after the right wing had none has been conducted. failed to win support for partiy on a 1975 suit by the Environmental Hie State Department has been caught the Trading Stock Valuation Adjustment, the Defence Fund that forced the Agency for their views democratically between the proverbial rock and hard Retention Allowance for Business Income and Double- amongs stiidents. International Development to file the place in this affair, which is fraught wiUi Depreciation Allowance, the Fraser Govemment has All of these legislative, statements on its pesticide programmes intemational political compUcations and encouraged business to the tune of $1500 million a changes have been imposed in foreign countries because of their the potential for exposure of an error in year. against the expressed wishes potential impact here. Moreover, the US poUcy. To admit at the start that of students at meetings on herbicide-spraying programme in Mexico paraquat-laden marijuana posed a health nearly all tertiary campuses appears to be a prime example of the hazard for users in the United States would Comment by MIKE SANDS in Australia. type of issue that impact statements are have been to admit that the Mexicans had designed to illuminate. not made the wisest choice of chemicals However, the Treasurer Williams Committee's Hie State Department knew tiiat and, moreover, that despite the best ap John Howard, still talks of S42 per weeic paraquat is an extremdy hazardous pUcation of American ingenuity and good "wage-restraint" and claims herbicide with which to wcvk. In eariy intentions, heroin and marijuana are that the "company profit 1975, an official of the Agricdltural continuing to fiow across the border in share is still too low". Research Service in the Department of quantities that pose a hazard to. US With wages falling the num Agriculture wrote to the State Department citizens. ber of unemployed rising to express his concern over the intention and 20% of industiy idle, of the Mexicans to use the herbicide, Reprinted ui an edited form from Science demand and production are because of the hazards present for those Magazine, a US publication. hardly booming. Companies are making record profits however, and last year profits were up to 13.3% of the gross domestic product, the highest level in 7 years. While all this is happening the Govemment 0 -lan 1974 Jan 1975 Jan 1976 Jan 1977 is making big cuts in S28p.w. SSlp.w. housing, welfare, health, (projected) education. In housing, a How your income is declining. TEAS .is .> 26% to 50% cut comes percentage of the average Australian wage. at a time when over 100,000 people are on less resources and are less It is sigiuficant that the waiting lists for public likely to lead to a high leg^ation threatens the housing. salary job than many entire union stmcture In welfare, unemploy university and CAE courses. income and existence ofthe ment and sickness benefits This war on the people Australian Union of have been budgeted for a will only be successful if students which has actively 1% increase, yet the number critics of the Govemment's opposed many goverment of jobless will increase far policies are rendered power policies, particularly in more. The day after the less and silent. It is for these relation to the funding of Budget, Treasuier Howard reasons that there has been educationa nd the level of admitted that it would a tremendous offensive the TEAS allowances (see rise by 25,000, or 7%! against groups and orgainsa- graph). Marijuana plmifs that Itiivr heen sprayed with ptinit/iwt, on the left, mm yellow and begin lo tions, critical of the con The Federal Govemment dry out after 24 Iwitrs. Ilndlhy plant is at ri^hi. And in education, spending was cut in the servative economic and is attempting to undercut Budget for the fourth year social policies espoused by the working democracy of running. The 1979 the Govemment. student unions-espedally Education cuts will freeze For example, if the their use of mmority mle AMBROSIA PINE-OUT ORIEN1AL or reduce access to univer Govenunent is to reduce the and coUective decision sities and CAEs although level of real wages in order making. In the Govem BOOKS BAZAAR demand for places is to increase the profits of ment's view, the individual Batik, Chinese, Indian Gothing generally rising; and will private corporations it must is all-important, and the AVAILABLE FROM BLUE NURSING and Goods mean that from 1975 to also reduce the power and student body as a whole SERVICE 1979 student numbers in has no rights. Happy coats, happy panis, effectiveness of the universities and CAEs wHl organised trade union move This approach is also at PHONE 444104 caftans, wraparound sl^irli, have risen by 12.5%, but ment. the root of its support incense, woks, indian flutes, buddhas 25 DOLLARS FOR real fiinding will have Thus there has been a for individual woricers who 19 Restaurants, 6 Theatres, lO^v STUDENT DISCOUNT DROPPED by 4.1%. continual attack on Trade refuse to join unions and 3 Sports Centres ON CLOTHING This freeze on entry, Unions and the rights of undermines the very basis part of the present woricers to withdraw their of unionism. TOTAL PROCEEDS TO CHARITY Pritchards Govemment's view that labour in support of Students lose while they 393 George St. CITY higher education should be improved wages, conditions are at university; they also for an elite, is a deliberate and secure employment, or lose if and when they policy and as time goes on on ' general social and graduate. The National ^it will become harder and political issues which affect Student reports these trends harder to enter universitites them. amongst ttaduate employ and CAEs unless you come The media image of ment patterns up until HABVEST from a wealthy background socially irresponsible trade 1976-77: STONEGROUND and.your parents can afford union leaders bludgeoning 1. A mariced decline in to buy you quality their memben into striking graduates at all levels of WHOLEMEAL BREADS, schooling. in order to creat economic Government service; CAKES, PIES, Potential mature age chaos and dismption is 2. A decline in employ- BISCUITS students, who are an in- arrant nonsense. The •ment for employm^t for aeasing proportion of number of working days university graduates in ^ucation from 14.6% to 137 Waterworks Rd, the student population, will taken up in stipes since also find entry more diffi 1977 was the lowest in 12%,in the period AP"^ ASHGROVE cult. Like the unsuccessful ten years. The figure for 1974 to April 1977; school leaver, ^any: mature 1978 is expected- to'be ' ,3. A .considerable decline students will be expected to even lower, in the percentages of/gra TUES. to SAT. 9am on.... take a TAFE (Technical and , However, as the WiiWona/ duates .employed full-time Further Education) course. T^mes reported on August in Austridia pyer the period The real reason the, ,12, .1978, "During the 1974-77, The percentage of Shifting soon to ; Govenunent is promoting' Fraser Govemment's period college^^aduates eniployed 85 McGrsgor Tee, BARDON TAFE is that it is education of office there have'been 9' full time :from i86:9% of on the Cheap-funtUng costr national wage ciase hearings ;total'fitsti!egree. of diploma are lower.;The loser.'again but workers have received graduates to;•78!.4%. .Foi' is the student, who fmds. the full 'Consumer Price. univenity graduates, the that; most yTAFE: coursw Index • flow on in^,bnly 2 decline• .has. been- from have..less'scope fqf'chokes; of these cases.'' , y '.>; '^^ ;51..6%t<>47^.•;.;:•;j•;;,^i . . and self-leamuig, shave far.. ; ,i Stiident ;;•', Unions .'itin yV >-1 (Continueii PagO' 12) 10 SEMPER Novembers,' 1978 precious littie in being. I'm a poofter. produced enough comment for a dozen Friends say I can be outrageous (and I'm articles or several Ph.Ds. Trish thought bitchy enough sometimes to want to tiie question, "Has it been wortii it?" confront AND affront) but I feel I'm just rather silly because "you are what you me, I assume most people know or guess." are and you just keep on at it" Gecffge The most poignant interview was with said, a bit sceptically, "some organisations Michael, an undergraduate, of greek have been a good thing, but in some areas heritage, from outside Brisbane, flatting they haven't done much." Actions speak with an unaware fellow student; he has louder than sceptical words-George is a low self esteem-is fearfully insecure vigorous worker in some camp matten. but honestiy questioning and working things out. Audrey with great sdf-honesty said she was happy wiOi her life style but The interview went like this: Do you would like someone to share it with her. regard yourself as an open homosexual? From experience she added that after "No". Why not? "Because my fanuly and the first attack by the hetero stereotyped friends don't know, I suppose." In what world you either mn into your closet or ways do you think you have come out? you become angry. She also said, "what "I just go to the gay discos, Rowes, the has hdped seeing mysdf in a well adjusted Silver Dollar, I go to meetings of Gay light is the course I'm doing at North Solidarity on Tuesday nights and the Brisbane. I see mysdf as a penon and my occasional gay dance." sexual choice is a very small difference." Would you like to come out further? She concluded, "any form of inequality "Well, yes. (Pause) that's a strange is inhuman whether you are christian or question because. . .yes I would like to, not. It is against the laws of nature to but I can't." Why can't you? "Because I treat any penon as lesser than youndf." don't want family and friends to know." Michad wondered whether he must Do you think gay lib has been of value reject Christianity which, whilst he is not to you? "Well the magazine Campaign a churchgoer, has caused him much anxiety has been a good morale boost. and distress. PART 2: "I'd like to become a part of the move John admitted to loneliness at times ment but I can't." Why not? "Because but suggested that happiness or content I don't want people to know. . ,I don't ment were by-products of getting on with want my family to know. . .1 don't want the job, of being a decent, loving, caring Personal Perspectives my friends to turn their back. . ,1 don't human being, of not wasting time on want people to tum away." bitterness, of enjoying the things to hand The poignancy lay not only in and not baying at the moon, of sharing Michael's embarrassed shyness and what you have and are at any one time On The Gay Liberation agonising honesty but in thk handsome with those around you. young man's articulation of the. hellish Teny said that words such as "poofter', terror and dread, that this writer (and god 'dyke', faiiy', lesbian*, have so many movement knows how many others whether male scary abnormal coiuotations as you grow "You never make a conscious decision to 'come out', it is a gradual growth ofo howr female , 19 or 90) recall only too weU. up but you realise later, especially as you you relate to others, of sdf-respect and pride; you see yoursdf as natural, you act Michad further observed he would like the movement to be a bit more mDitant, nattaal before people so that you act as an open lesbian before you even realise but then again it may alienate many it" sections of the community that otherwise "It is very important to myself Terry, extremdy articulate, in her mid-20s, a graduate, schoolteacher, a feminist would be more tolerant He fdt Ronald concept that I know I ama activist. Conway, in 27ie Great Austmlian Stupor lesbian and accept it. I have "If It does nothing else it lets people know that we exist, odierwise they are inis correct when he says the homophobic shrugged off the "nasty lezzo' danger of slipping back into their .buUshit idea that it is a compktdy hetero world.feeling s of Australian males make them tags. I feel comfortable as act in an exaggeratedly "masculine" Also the movement has given positive support to people; even if they can t come out a lesbian." they have the support of the movement. It helps by meeting other gay people to 'mannerbe ; because fathefs don't touch accqitaUe in oimdf." their sons their sons don't go and touch other males but rather their sons ate lyish. In her early 20s, ex-Uni student and librarian. afraid of absolutely any male-male close mix with people who use these terms as' \ . ' ness. ' conventional norins, that you are a normal By LAWRIE COLWELL Further to Michael's comment about being. the movement possibly alienating, George "It is very important to mysdf concept said we do very little organisationally that I know I am a lesbian and accept it . George is a yong mid SOs and a business "No, and I don't think may people to make us acceptable, not much is done I have shmgged off the "nasty lezzo*. man, who has been very active in The so consider themselves. Of course one has to educate the public and a bit of that is tags. I fed comfortable as a lesbian. I'm' Campaign 'Against Moral Persecution •come out' but only up to a point". George off key. Demos look like a collection of also happy that I've chosen my lifestyle (C.A.M.P.) and the George St club, said elaborated by saying that he doesn't fed weirdos, layabouts, hippies and hobos- and I can be seen in mysdf that it is that as he sees it, in some- ways the repressed and is content with his life as some of this coming from the Uni campus. what I want." movement has been successful and in it is; there's no need to come out any .Ihe image they project is distasteful to Terry believes her work in the feminist others not. It established cliibrooms further. the general public and doesn't hdp our movement has made her a more open where • shy gays-can mix with others, To the second question about hin cause at all. lesbian than most partiy because of greater it has also brought a few reforms, drances or checks George nominated Audrey commented here that you can contacts than when she was in the bar. especially in South Austialia, although "business or occupational;'* the degree come out and fight for Gay Rights in scene ("a hidden closet totally divorced changes in law do not alter social attitudes of openness is conditioned by the degree such a way as to avoid swearing and the from reality'*) and partiy because she has but maybe removes the blackmail angle. of comfort or how much at ease one accusation of "nut'. "You can do it in a devdoped a feminist ideology. This Ihe biggest problem in. organisations is feels with tiie company one is in. way that makes people think." For intemal security regarding her lifestyle keeping- them going-one is up against Terry, bemg a schoolteacher, agrees a- example, apropos Mary Whitehouse at allows her to question the power.structures the . great national disease of apathy. bout the occupational inhibition elabora the aty Hall it was decided to hold a sOent of the patriarchy .viierever they occur Taking up this point, Audrey, who is ting however that in pub conversation she candle light vigfl in King George Square. in the bar-dyke scene, the feminist move co-Worship Co-ordinator of the never hides that she is lesbian; she feels It was peaceful, non-vident and attracted ment or elsewhere. Metropolitan. Community Chuich^ says any it is obvious to those who know her. media and public attention, Audrey Simflarly she is investigating her type of action is worthwhile. If it is some- "If I feel comfortable I often talk attending in clericals. mistrust of monogamy, of defensive thijig.yOu believe in and you dont fight about behig a lesbian, even in certaiii She said further that straights were protective structures. "I :am working into yoii can't expect it to happen; it is partly areas where I don't talk about and don't at tiie demo, also anti-Mary Whitehouse things I once would not have questioned oar fault that society doesn't know about feel corafortaWe I still don't hide it." and {^d that the gay christians were unless I had stepped out of an'established tiie great.raiige, if not even 'ordinaiiness', Audrey, despite working in an avowedly there/ not at ^ ashamed at being position in society." .of; most homosexuals because we haven't gay situation, the M.C.C., said, "Up to a associated. In the workplace Terry, moves around 'educatedthem. .' , point; within my family Mum knows but The other lesbians, terry and Tiish, carefully and slowly untU colleagues don't .-f'lhat. a gay', movement exists at all, Dad doesn't". Taking further the .were . not ^ply concerned about; fed threatened and seek her removal - jtohn' maintains, is the fint great step. . occupational. point Audrey mentioned •^enating, the .wider' world, altiiough "Alas, that it is so. but you've got tp get Homosexuality is discussed, homosexuals that: her co-woiship colleague is a male l^iafa said tiut'you have to keep picking,- people's confidence before you can' say, .arr;Seen and even known and, god .tdess public servant and is quite unable to be lesldans having a basic prdintinary 'I ama lesbian'." :7ein, stand upland are countedl "The back- aptn at woric One presumes at ordination prbblem-they are women. The- whole In her family conventional religion.is liish^is .upon us of coune but that is the he wfll become a Minister when he may system and sets, of expectations have to important hence it is difficult to change leason ib be.'prbiid,'to care for each other, become open. Significantly, Greg Weir diange. Also the .mbvement has to get the, view that any hotinosexliality. isn't 'tb^'Gontiittie in bhe'a own internal and is refused employment by. the State the heteios. invohred. Changiag the em siclc. The subject is discussed .with Terry VcdUbctive integrity.'* > Govemment and/or Education Department phasis a bit further Terry said that hoping to create a change of opinion. ' .. Jbhn^^ 43 witii degrees In botii teaching•simpl y because he is an open homosexual; community awareness is secondary; the "Whflst.not denying that I am a lesbian anid. Arti^l a mixed background of school he was chairperson of the Kelvin' Grove movement is for gays themsdvei There is I don't say that I am." in'd-unlvmity teaching, Nashp and:C.M.F. ,CA.E, gay activist group; he is a bonded an enormous amount, of support there ' Terry believes regretfuUy the gay lib. and' business. -He- is. now a post-graduate student and passed his teaching if you are prepared to go and look, for it movement has fafled because it had. Uttk - student.. To, the . basic and seemingly qualifications, botii practical and Within onesdf there Is pride and esteem chance of success. Politicised lesbians and . strtightfoirward questioh "Do you regard 'tiieoretical, extremely well. Interestingly whereas there was pnce sdf loathing. poofters seem to be working in different . yoiindf'as an open lesbian/male. hqmo> it is undentood other memben of that And above all else there is now a well- areas; lesbians investigate societal values, sexual'.';' the .uisweir, although simflar,. gay group are employed. documented altemative to the oppressive power stmctures and how power is created, .pro,duced wide penonal ramifications and "Do I have to answer such a vague my'ority. • ' whereas a great number of men wish to :exteiiuon:(and this appUed to all questions question?" shrugged John. "So many of us An omnibus question about the current aiid their' answers incidental!). spend enormous energies in doing and situation and more penonal feelings . (Continued next page) SEMPER November 8.1978 11 A-«'*-*'.^ l^.-".^- ,-^ ^ A ^ W - ^ g ' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I^ ^g^ • diange a few laws but' don't question .some gays even. "The implementation for.poirtgradtute stuiUei In STUDENT8r-THE NEW POOR die whole system. Ihe pressure of the mmority culture is of the 1978. budget means, Oveiseas: Unhnendties. Woinen fed that men in our society, enoimoui and it is easy therefore for the ^FiomPagB W) tiiat the allowances for Canada, for example, offen even homosexual men, ei\joy a mc^e straight guys. So have a few beers at the Commonwealth Post Graduate Teaching Assist- provil^d position and are rductant pub while the little lady is at home playing . 4. A madced decrease hi graduate Awards have not antships valued from $7,500 to divest themsdves of it Women are on with the kiddies, easy for them never to those graduates who are been indexed to cover hh to $8,800 px about the "entire stmctural reappraisal*' question or chuige their lifestyle-even stfll seekhig full time em flation hi 1978," Pflc says. "Although these awards Hence it it "pueifle" to imagine any co if they rardy fed there ought to be a ployment at least some "This represents a. toss in are also taxable, a wide operation except occasionaUy for ex change. 5 months after the com hicome of $6 per week variety of tax<. deductions pediency. "Ihe pressures on lesbians and pooftera pletion of then* course. for the basic stipend. including moving expense In condusion a quote: "One thing you also are enormous. But «4ien we, sisten For college graduates this "All allowances are now means, that the tax burden notice about a lot of open lesbian-feminists and brothen, have broken out of that increase has been from 2.6% taxable. This resulte in a is very. low. Overseas ex is that they have an open, proud way of system and devdoped our own freedom, Ul 1976 to 6.5% in fiuther loss of $2 per wedc perience may in fact be of handling themsdves and refuse to accept people are jealous of it" (Teny)'. 1977. For univeraity gra as wdl as reducing the benefit in itself.^' the passive feminine thing but stand up as And John said, "Whoopee. Eat your duates, the mcrease is from income obtainable from Maybe moving out is themsdves. This naturahiess irks the hearts out, sbraights! *' 2.5% to 7.2% of all fint- part-thne teaching by the best thing to do; on sti'aight men especially but women too and: degree graduates. 33.5%, the other band, you may do As a result, the presi "The overall effect of younelf a favour by staymg THE TOTAL CURE dent of the Sydney Univor- the decisions is to reduce here and hdping to get rid dty Postgraduate Repres the level of mcome to of a govemment which is entative Association, Award holders by anywhere mterested only in helping Andrew Pik, recently sug from 10 to 20% of 1978 \k% busmess, the mining and gested to applicants for levels." financing corporations, and postgraduate studies to Among oUier sugges has no concem whatsoever investigate the possibUities tions, Pflc went on, "in- for the people. for such studies ovei'seas. 'vesbgare rne possibUities MISSING NEWS CLIPPING FILE Would anyone who knows the whereabouts of a missuig book of newpaper clippings collected by tbe Univeisity of Queensland Union Office contact Ueatiier at 37116n. Ihe clippings (the coDection of whidi inTOlved houn of work) cover 1972 to 1976. Contents involves genera! education, universities, chnl They think they've just,about cured everything don't they? Well they're rights campaigns etc. The book is an important wrong you know, dead wrong. They'haven't really cured anything. research source for the lAikm. Today's great medical leaps and bounds are merely re-directions. AU the physical diseases tfiat have been tfiwarted have re-channelled tfieir. energies uito someflioig which now holds the whole Westem world by the»^ short and curiies. What is it, I hear a voice cry out ui the wUdemess? Shnple. Neurosis, plain old neurosis and though most of us probably don't realise it we are basically neurotic. Some more than othen and a ludcy few not at aD. The plain het is that the life we lead breeds neurosis, paranoia and a few odier isms to boot. By PHIL BROWN It would be fine if we made a concerted vation, is where the animal in question effort to fight the problem, got to its roots stores up all emotional response through and purged our souls of the whole sordid his stifling urban life and then vents them UCENCE REHEHALS I k business • but through sheer apathy we in one big heap on whoever or whatever is THE BAN ON DANCING drag on becoming more neurotic daily near at the time of explosion. IN THE STREETS. and, the newest offshoot of this major The whole thing, according to me, is problem is the spread of this neurosis to the fault of the human. Keeping the un A practice down Soutii PUBUC HEARINGS the lower species, i.e., the animal world, fortunate bowser locked up all day, feeding which is not widely known The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal announces Ihal. in rm thinking of dogs in particular if you it from a can, making it roll over and play up here is that of allowing accordance wilh the provisions ol the Brnadcasimg and Television'Act must know. Yes dogs, Pavlov's guinea dead. . .who wouldn't go just a trifle streets to be closed off and 1943. il will hold public hearings into applications lor the lenewai ol (he pigs, our jovial canine amigos who, from bananas, I ask you? used by the local commun licences lor the lollowing Brisbane commercial broadcasting stations at the dates and limes shown below: living with us are banning to latch onto When I moved from Toowoomba back ity to celebrate special our bad habits. occasions such as New Pleati Nott: These are separate inquiries Into the renewal to "plastic city* (tiie Gdd Coast) I found ol each radio station licence. All hearings will oe conducted at: I first made this brilliant observati 12 SEMPER November 8,1978. |||IKS|B^ • I-' ^^i^r!^^K '.•rf.J-'.vJ'-: . Ih^French historian Qoqac^t describes a 16th cehtiiiy hall at which the the pad tiiatth e donqr had worn tinder her; -• .'.tfichad and.his colleagues called tiiese Dute of Anjou accidentally y^ped his face with the discarded chemise bf arms the previoupre s day. After four months, aphrodisiacs copuHns, and in 197 r they a ybiing noble lady and **from tiiat moment on, he conceived the most the menstrual dates of these five women isolated the specific chemicals that violent/passion for her." Anthropologists report that when lovers part weie significantiy closer to the pad-weaier produced tiie sexual effect Ihen, hi donor than were the cycles of the contrd 1974, they reported another breakthrough: in the Fhilippihes, each tak^ a piece of clothuig from die other to smell group, who received tiie application, but tiie fact tiiat human females also secreted and rekindle sexual memory. not the odour-suggesting that menstrual copulins. In »ome primithfe cultures, vegetable juices that smell like human genital secretions synchrony is based on odiferous messages Michad's research on monkeys bas aie believed to have powerful aphrodeaac effects. To contemporary leseardim, in female sweat since been chaUenged by scientists at however, die precise relationship between human smdl and sexual responsiveness Most scientists will remain skepticd the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research reniaim unclear. about this conclusion until there are more Centre. In work F|artiaUy. supported by a data to support it But if the ilnduig holds; perfume company interested in marketing .- up it will be the first unequiybcal demon tiie scent, David Goldfootand otheis tried By JAMES HASSETT stration of a hum am pheromone. to replicate Michael's studies and came up The search for human pheromones is with much less dramatic results. Results of a test of the impact of smell they all had trouUe detecting the odour. a recent development It was preceded by Among other objections, Goldfoot on huinan sexual behaviour, released re But after hormone treatments, for of the criticised the fact that just two monkeys, cenfly- in the United States, suggest that six regained the ability. used over and over again, produced more smelling copulins (substances normally TTie link between female sex-hormone than half the data Michael puUished to found in va^al secretions) may stimulate levels and the ability to smell exaltolide "But taken their bottoms tnere support his findings. Ihe two were such the desire for intercourse in some couples, was further supported by Le.Magnen's painted with the vaginal toashings good subjects thst they were studied' whfle otheis remain unaffected. Ihese observation that the ability is greatest from estrogen-treated females, repeatedly, lhis objection pdnted'to the findings are very tentative. But they are during the ovulatory phase of the the male monkeys were sudiienly possibiUty-^which has proved important ui backed by a long series of observations menstrual cycle. Hie evolutionary im later work with humans-that some tiiat, taken together,support the idea plications are dear-exaltolide may have eager to press a bar to remove a individuals' are more affected by odours tiiat we may unconsciously send and served as a primeval cue icn sex at a time screen separating them from the than others. ' receive olfactory sexual messages. of the montii when it was most likely to formerly unattractive females." Despite his skepticism, Gddfoot Odours from chemicals called lead to pregntacy. conceded that "particular odbuis may pheromones are known to affect the Most human ;weat is odourless. But' be one additional clue, not always reliable, sexual behaviour of certain insects and are ^e specialised apocrine glands, found in which teUs the male something about bis sometimes used in pest-control the underarms and genited areas, produce' many earlier studies of how lower animals chances of success with a potential sexual programmes to lure bugs into traps. One anotiier kind of perapiration, one that communicate, sexually and otherwise, partner." He has since found that smeU is of tiie most striking characteristics of an contains part of the glands' cellular cyto tiuough pheromones. not essential in monk^ sex: males, who insect pheromone is that its messages are plasm. Body odour is caused by the action For more than, a decade, Richard have lost their abiUty to smeU continue so primitive and irresistible. If something of bacteria on ihis apocrine sweat. The Kfichad and his coUeagues, first at to lead normal sex Uves. smdls like a female silkworm moth, a activity of . the apocrine glands seems London's Institute of Psychiatry and later Goldfoot's cunent experiments indicate male sflkworm moth will treat it like one- intimately tied t our sexual lives: they at Emory University School of Medicine that artificial odours that do not smeU even if it's only a bit of filter paper doused begin to function around puberty, pedc in Georgia, have studied the role of odours 'like any part of a monkey" can also witii bombykol, a substance secreted by witii sexual maturity, and then dediueln in primate sexuality. In one critical study increase sexual activity. Perhaps the effect female moths. But this kind of automatic activity in old age. published in 1970, they began with a group of copulins is more Uke that of an response to pheromones does not appear In one test of the idea thatpeispiration of spayed female rhesus monkeys. encouraging smile than an aphrodesiac to be characteristic in animals closer to odour underUes the experience of At first, these sexually unreceptive dmg: they hint at vi^at mi^t be rather man on the evolutionary scale; menstrual synchrohy among groups of females were ignored by their male cage- tiian forcing things to happen. ,' For humans themselves, especially m For this reason, conservative researchers techndogically sophisticated societies, question theuse of the word 'pheromone" smdl is the most uhderdevdoped sense. in discussing copulins, since it impUes an Dogs may live in a worid of odours, but iireaistible, automatic response. ¥^atever our universe is dominated by sights and word is used, it is dear that the more sounds.' .inteUigent the animal, the more subtie the . Moiebvef, a cultural avenion to body- messages transmitted by odoiin become. odours, has generated stores full of When Michael and his coUeagues dis commercial products to furtiier diminish covered that women screted copuUns, sensitivity to natural human s.emlls such tiiey analyzied 635 tampons used by as. perspiration and genital secreti(ms. 47 women throughout tiieir menstiual (Our discomfort with our own odours cycles. Acetic acid dominated the seems; to. be learned-young children do secretions of most women, but nearly •riot mind the'Same smells.) aU of tiie tampons (97.5%) showed at least ' And yet despite all our coshietfc in a trace of die copulins. Fourteen of the genuity, each of us maintaiiis his or her 47 women were caUed "producers" since own unique and individual odour. Included tiiey secreted substantial amounts of the in these persond odours, is then: an volatile fatty acids that Michad caUed isolatable smell that, at certain times, copuUns. ttansihits a specifically sexual signal? Provocative as these findings are, they 'As earty. as 1952, scientific : reports don't reaUy address the question of .began to hint about evidence linking sex \(^etlier human sexual behaviour is and smdl. Thb French scientist J. Le- affected by copuUns. Researchers have Magnen reported that women were quite not reached a consensus about human sensitive to Oie semll of a substance cdled women living togetiier, a woman, with mates. But when their bottoms were pheromones. Some object vociferously to exaltolide...., a .musk. y fragrance, found ia regular menstnial'cycles wore cotton pads painted witii tiie vaginal washings from tiie word "pheromone" itsdf, suice it^ many perfumes. Adult males secrete about under, her arms each day. demical treat: estrogen-treated females, the male suggests a reflexive sexud response not. twice as much exaltolide in their urine ments were used,to piesiBrve the odours of monkeys were suddenly eager to press a likdy to be found in humans. In any case, as females, while prepubertal diildien the pads. Later, female volunteeis rubbed bar to remove a screen separating them no scientist working.in the field beUev^ secrete none. portions of thescj.and other pads'on tiieir' ftom flie formerly unattractive females. tiia« a clear Unk has been estabUshed Since.men and children have difficulty upper lips.' They agreed not to wash their Witii tiie screen gone, the males repeatedly between a specific smdl and. human detecting exaltolide, Le Magnen bdieved faces for several houis after this treatment; tried, to have intercouise-and often sexual behaviour. 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Thus no matter how much the Queendand Govemment duroug^ its Premier, may proclaim its 'fre world' virtue, its de facto ban on street marches for political dissenters-when peaceful marches constitute a vital- outlet for minority communiation-has exposed a discrepancy between its actions and what generally are regarded as the canons of a free society. £F such an observation appears hyperexaggerated at How does all this fit first glance, it should be remembered that the right to Into the context of.the effective avenues of dissent constitutes the mlnlnud^ October 30th attempted' demand of political freedom. Verbalised rights and those march? The rally organisers technically appearing on the statute boob do not tnily were,' for many reasons, exist untfl they can be openlyand freely tested in the correct in insisting that political arena. the march be nonviolent. Among the important Once the rij^t of free speech becomes the {Mivelege reasons was the fact that of the politidan and poUce officer to grant, the nonviolence would expose beginnings of the police state have been fwmed. (Ibis the contrasting violence of is not to deny the existence of tradeoffs in rights; the Premier. tather the balance should be struck by a disinterested He has consistently and judicially trained party.) argued that the street Invariably the ex^anatcHy words under whidi the marchers are vicdent people, police state operates are law and order'. From Hitler, and that he, as Premier, idi Amin, Nixon, Spiro Agnew to the Messiah of has a responsibility to Queensland', the mq'ority is initially mesmerised with preserve law and order'. the same siren's song-unti eventually they may wake There was therefore a res ponsibility upon the up to realise that it is their rij^tsto o that are threatened marchers, in full view of and that, the law and order' slogan merely masks the the press and television oppressor's overt or structural vidence. cameras, to demonstrate unequivocably the falisty of Comment by RALPH SUMMY the accusation. A gentle, peaceful group It is that particular vio One of the best means of marchen (so committed lence and repression that of exposure (it must be in all their actions) would the nonviolent actionists related to the situation) have greatly undermined the must expose in order to is by a process called linchpin of the Premier's effect social change. One of •political jiu-jitsu'. It entails argument He would have the most effective concepts using the opponent's own been the one using force- associated with the anti- repression and violence to unnecessarily! The detach Vietnam protests was the Oaow him/her off balance ment of 1000 police would warning: "remember whose politically. clearly have appeared to be violence we are protesting". It is achieved by com what it was: overkill. The Don Oiipp's and bining nonviolent discipline The march started out as Tom Bums of this world with solidarity and per- a classic case of ' did not throw themsdves SBtence, and then pitting nonviolence. Tlie first wave into that struggle; nor can these elements against the >^ich included two they be expected to voer* opponent's repression. of the leaders, SEnatcs come their electoral co Tbe resulting asym Gecffges and Tom Uren, wardice and/or perceive metrical conflict situation moved forward quietly the nature of the cunent can pose an. insuperable and with dignity. struggle. problem for the opponent, .The mardiers were Tbe ban on political for, whether he/she nses it openly defying the uqjust street marches will not be or not, the veiled threat law, yet were prepared to lifted by appealing through oi the ultimate sanction pay the consequences. the "official" channdls that of physical force can be Tbe faces of many of enatded it to be imposed sufficient to shift the the police indicated they in theflrst place, because violence argument back on did not relish thek job those channds, in terms of to the propoennt of law (diis especially contrasts the way they are presently and order*. their general response structured, are inherently violent The sdution, if it js to come, will commence outside the system, though "Invariably the explanatory ultimately, of couise, it will be consummated words under which the police through conventional pro >t cedures. state operates are Law & Order And the task outside the system is to unmask the societal violence that caused the manifestly un The contrast in 'weapons during the- anti-Vietnam just legidation. But how? systems' can expose the protests). The condttiohs Certainly not by violent violence on which a poUcy, were opportune fcr securing menas, when such actions institution, os even politicd 'third party sjnnpatiiy and justify tbe State's use of system is based, thereby tangiUe siipport-the e»- superior vidence. Vet non- enabUng the nonviolent ac sential element in achieving ' violent actions lead to coih tionists to win over. un- instrumental succiess.'. .frontations which incite vio- «onunitted third parties and ' Then •..the .second wave •lenceinothers.' : . possibly some of the momd out. Down Adelaide How can nonviolent ac rede's supporters.' • Stwi. ^;towards iVifidwarf lb be governed Is to be watched over, inq)eoted,q^ upon, directed, kgishited tionists escape their res Once the ruler has lost Street•' rte/police; seiemed at, r^olated, do(Aeted, indocMmrted.imched: at,; controlled, assessed, weired, ponsiblity r for having pro-. supporten as wdl as to. fe^Viii^fqiaied.for thb censored, ordered about, by men wbo have beitfaer ttie ri^, nor the knowledge^ nor Evoked' .vioteoce? Martin obedient, pasdve subjects, nanoiivine.y•'They > ..n AeTittiie.' '.-. ••'•)-^^r..\:-^'j. :• \' }/[^:.':.'i^ \-.-,?:.-'-^A'\'A:'' : :•'•.' :•". '-::-^.-'.'/- ir-'Lndie. i King uiswered thJs- the magic of power hu j^wds';. thjii'u who 'Tb be governed'JoMsus to be, at .eaiBh bpe^n; at cadi trannctioii, at.each quMtioa' by pointfaig ,oot; flowed from the' regbne.' pitched* hM||^i$ ibto iMyemmt, iK>ted, r^gbtend, <^nti^^ oidoned, ad- that the Violencs alieady/ He/she ha8:beai disanne'fL 'i-j^y X'''.': iu«iee!>:;«iuaed,.:. the jiibodbedi hini|)tted,TrfM^ .exUted, thatit vmhMd^ l- :.'>Whilst: he never callecTit iiwrdiMJili'^imede^^ the It Is to be, on tb^ pretext, ofthe go^ taterest, twed, drlUed; 1^ 'iritMatiw penon or' itt^' <^olitical ^jhi^itsttV -:-IndiaV wtQ^^finplib^bptian but elicited, nmnopolwd, extorted, sqiieexed^ boa»d, robbed; tbni«at. the: Jeast tdtution,. and that. it waa nonriolence' ,'. advocate lto:.;V,8trike^;::^ack-; or; be. •.Gudhi:-. cratainly'' ;iiinder- ic^stance, at the first word of complaint^ to be lepiiasedj^f^, 8biiaed,,«nnoyed;V' - 'Mmetlmanec^^ trampled:;;.&iderfobt; The ' stood the piii^ftJ';.;He fdOowed/ bullied, b^teo, diamned, garottwl, iniwi»n»i. awehke-*^ de^^natton!; blows of the • compared, the piroces >with: rturciten'wore M by coiidenuied, deported; Oayed, sold, betrayed, aiid Mb' niodted;^ H could i* ideQuSeiv deah .tiiat of a man'; v^^ iKi)^ed;'>i(^MBM firib^ the •^•^^'•: with.; In. Other'words., h_ e striking water with,' a pipUce;:;ifte;Ty caniertmen Aotrtheir^fdbttv) f<^'the • H>IERRE4>08Sm PROtJOHON (18811. hewaaezi>bidaslt. 'irn'whldi W'dislM^te^ ';• I. •• -. i4 T . SEMPER NoyemberB; 1978 OCTOBE B 31: Joh Bjelke-Petersen commends the Queensland Police for acting with restraint (From Page 14) Alterwara Senator' lived and not well recorded sit down when the police Georges was to comment on TV, was probably the charged. The third wave PoliticalJiu-Jitsu that the demonstration had most violent episodeof the was utteriy out of controL become leaderiess. He was entire aftemoon. A first lesson for all in correct in this assessment,, Further incidents were volved to learn is that the as the marshalls were con confined to lilt and run' polke are not the enemy. tradicting each other, and tactics at the police and A final positive out events moved so quickly periodic heckling, which come of the demonstration that any semblance of prolonged the encounter is the determination that control was soon lost for another hour. many of the activists have In future demonstrations In retrospect, a lot of shown to persist The res competent marshalls must nonviolent trainhig needs ponse of the Watenide be placed in charge-people to be done. Participants Workers, the Seamen, and that are committed to and not only fai to appreciate the Dockers and Painters famUiar with the dynamics the flner techniques of shows a will, which if of nonviolence. A minimum nonvidence but they ob- siistained and extended requirements should be that 'rioudy do not understand to other sections of the the leaders) possess mega the major prindples on movement, will mean phones. which it is based. eventual victory. There was a third wave What is salutary about For there is one launched against the police the demonstration is the political maxim which at the Ann Street side of way in which the first wave never changes: no govern King George Square. It was performed. The second ment can govem without a tactic of sheer desperation wave lacked coordination; the consent of the gover- to break outside the police perhaps an effective res ned-not even a dictator cordon, and, though short ponse would bave been to ship. NON —V10 LE NT RIOTS? *******************************************^^ collective agreements. You growing which can then A growing tiredness has spread in die Gvfl liberties contribute to the humilia demonstrating to is through tion, carried out with the mass media. The then dedde on tactics and earty out action outside of Movement Energies put into our traditional demon- military precision. The machines and employees of responses for the action. demonstrations. stradons are not creatuig activity outside those demon police are far better or-- the opposition-we have no A third technique which It is an effective stmc strations. ganised than us, they are control over our means of is very useful if thae groups ture to resist arrest, move Our most common experience of a demonstiation organised into groups of mass expression. are to be used to resist quickly and act as witness or march is demoralisation, a feeling of passive frus- 20, led by an inspector, There are a few alter arrest on marches, is the of others' anests. It gives traticHi. with a walkie talkie, they natives, as I see it, using role play. The various roles a march flexibiUty to out- manouvre cops. "Mlltant Solidarity is expressed dirough banal arrest in pairs, one asr die technique of non (say the police versus solidarity group) are played Occupations, Food co chants about shootmg the bouigeoiae, smaiUng the sisting as witness. Later we violent organisation. iind magistrates are just out and weaknesses are dis ops, strikes, sQk screening state, and people united, never be defeated." The classic technique of a farcical mbber stamp for non-violent ACTIVISM is covered, and experience posters, leafleting schools any cops evidence, unless the use of solidarity or gained. (the factories of sexism Comment by CHARLIE SCANDRETF they really screw it up. affinity groups. I will refer There are many ad and obedience) in fact any vantages in this ntemal action including riots can WHY? People demons This "rally in word, organisation of poUtical be better organised through affinity groups. trate for a few reasons: thought and deed" of tbe The spectacle is nota collection of Images, but actioii. People are afraid of demo organizers is the bull The crucial elements are a. A desire for soli a social rdation amtmg people, mediated by poUce for real reasons. . shit which encourages the you can get hurt. These coUective decision-making darity, having their views images. reinforced. . passive spectator role of groups can give you the and support; avoiding de b. As a fonim for dis demonstratois. '^ctaty of the Spectacle". Inttrnstlonal Situstiontst, soUdarity and confidence moralising or banal action; 1968. cussion and information For rally attendere thek to handle that feai. and thc fermenting of poU distributi(Hi. role is to listen to a boring They also give people tical ideas in the context c. To put their views list of speakers putting Commodities dont have to be useful, they are a discussion ba.se to make of direct action. AU that is into action e.g. marehing. cautious, negativdy defined produced sdely for exdiange. Political com real decisions on proposals needed is a silk screen, d. To get across their reformist demands. modities (militancy, power, rhetoric etc.) like put forward by the plat a roneo machine and an political views to the rest ihe only group of p eople all others, must have passive consumers. form. emphasis on activity whirh of sodety. who consistently put posi . The. meeting of people sustains a .poUtical sub The "rest of society' tive altemative ways of Smce Joh banned street inarches, over 1200 through .participation in culture, instead of de- rdating to- each other or morali^ng it into obscurity. falls into various taiiget people have been prepared to be irrrested in these groups increases the altemative sodal rdation- groups, eg. other women, 23 separate incidents, costing over $30,000 in possibiUty of affinity groups parliamentarians, people left ships are the feminists, of Leon Trotsky, the now This is probaUy vidiy their forfeture of baS. Most of Aese people are no legendary working dass, lallies are the most en longer involved. Thoughts On A New suburban spectators etc. . . joyable and have greater WHAT HAPPENS? content. Demos are organized by The' open platform The TV media step in to groups formed for the Strategy For The Civi Mobilization Committees (where anyone can speak) to get their photograhic purposes of one action who (througl^ faction games is not much of a solution, violence, to act as a' (e.g. a demonstration or Liberties Campaign played by competing for roost of us still remain backdrop to their empty' march) as sdidarity groups, Ijeninist parties, and listeners! contemplating a reports. The poUtics of a and ongoing groups which spectade. Nonethdess it is demo is always missing in cany out activity on a Robert's Rules of Order) Central strata must be to mobilise huge numbers usually bore people shit a step in the right direction. the media coverdge. continuous basis as affinity of people hi mass actions of public oppostion to the less. The Civil Liberties If we dedde to march To the salespeople of groups. Co-Ordinating Committee (our token bit of decision illusions, collective ideas A non-violent activist ban. M tactics are subordinate to this strategic aim. for instance b^an with a making) we usually march are not Newsworthy', the organisation of a demon couple of hundred members as a sluggish mass (like left containing of a movement stration could be like this: By the SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY attendance is now down to wing lemmings) into the by police is. The crowd forms into about 10. bortomless. paddy wagon. This is the essentid groups of five to 20. This ' Mass actions ue needed Sudi partidpation Is the People who stick it out "Task Force" piuh people weakness of King Genge' could be people around because- only way in which the often have the opinion off the road, arresting all Square demos. On a sterfle themor people they know. 1. They are impressive politicd consdousness of tiiat they have authority \Ao show (Opposition, i.e. piece of pavement amid the' The first part of training and show both the govem the masses of workers and over the content of the are handling their fear. catiiedrals of private* is getting to remember ment and indhdduals who their allies can be raised, ^y as "we are the people Twisting Umbs, kicking enterprise,^ our only, coit names. Throwing an object oppose the ban that there their miUtancy and thdr v*o get things done". and sexuaUy assaulting-all nection'with people we are fi'om peison to peison is broad opposition to it wiUingness to take risks WMB th^ say their name 2. They establish that increased. is an effective way to do Uiere are large numbers of Consequentiy, tactics this. It is important to people who do not simply chosen for mass action must partidpate in an action oppose the ban passively, be of the type which broad .with pec^le you at least but are prepared to be masses of those who ionow. active in opposition to it support aims of campaign Another technique, used 3. They are, vital in are prepared to take part in. for .discussion, is brain building morale, in - im At present, that means storming. Here one petson pressing on the masses of actidins iiv which you can reccnds all suggestions or ordinaiy people the power- give participants a reason ideas on a particular topic. that they potentiaUy have able .assurance that they. ;(e.g. sodal altematives to if they "unite and act • won't.; be • arrested/beaten prisons,' non-sexist social 4. They have an impor up/heaWly fined/sacked and relations). tant radicaUsing effect -in general doheoyer. ;. It is important tp .wait which extends way beyond , As their'consciousness till all pio^ble ideas tat the: immediate issue and and miUtancy increase, the recorded before any . dis Which bosses and govern masses ,wUl'.be prepared to cussion takes palce. This Is ments are veiy scared of. take.greater'rid:s. But re ,to.;-prevent Van assertive Primaty consideration in member, only mou actions peisoh's reply inhibiting , choosing tactics, fpr cam have any: hope, of wionihg.. fiirtiier ideas bdng piit for> paign must be' the need 'to The question'of whether vinrd;... It '.doesn't matter get ordinaiy ieV not y^et to attempt ;tpinaiGh against v^at'the initial diacussipn particulariy militant; people ipplice is, thus.atactical one. is about, What matten Is to partidpate ht nam ,The quMtion to be adt:ed> tiie process of 'reachii^ .ictions. is, wfll' it bufld the mov<^ IB SEMPER NowTiber e; 1978 (SOCIALIST WORKERS even if the workers are for any movement, because support for them, :as the tiie demands and are pre heroic, they're weak. otherwise wouldn't be in.it.' PARTY) they're ruhibusly expensive basis for participation in pared to -speak' at rdUes • And as we • know, par-' This is a strongly nega both in terms of .nipney the campaign-not member in suppoit of .the^,, they', ticlpathig in mUitant iam • ment, draw m uncommitted tive effect-it deters or^ and in terms of the willing ship of the "left"; of the should be.invited.to'doso, people,: encourage broader dinaiy people from action has a powerful ten ness of activists to Une iip labour movement or what because they represent mass' dency-.tp turn people, even participation. (Remember mobilising in mass actions. for more of'ythe same. ever.' that we are stfll able to social forces and iare capable Chrbtians and ALP It demonstrates the vidous- So the recommendations If people from the ALP, of drawing Into maas' hold large mass actions in ness of the poUce, but is membeis, into militants. of the SWP could be the churches, Councfl for poUtical actioii large thesquare). this supposed to encourage summed 'up. as foUows: Gvfl Liberties etCi support numbws . of people, who : Distinction has to be people to take part? 1. For a vigorous propa- made between marches It stirs a certain amount gand effort aimed :' at which succeed (Le, which of pubUc indignation, even drawing into political action UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UNION waUc kU over the poUce to the extent of persuading the broadest possible masses DECLARES SUPPORT FOR FORMATION and. get where they're in m^orities that the ban is of those; who. support the OF AN AUSTRALIAN TECHNOLOGY tended to) and marches wrong, but this is only ri^t to inarch. FOUNDATION which get smashed up. passive opposition, about 2. The central focua of if so many people which Bjelke-Petenen the campaign tis be on a •marched that they could needn't give a stuff. series of miUtant mass Representath^ of the Uriihvnity of Queendand economists, social scientists, 1^ aU over poBce it The movement can oidy actions. These to take the would be a vety en Union recently attended a series of meetings of people lawyers,engineeis etc. have win by mobflising masses form initiaUy of demon expressed entluisiasm for couraging victoty which hi active opposition. You strations in K;G. Square. with an Interest In the use of technotogy and its sodal would • inspure more imidicatiras. the Foundation and of can't bufld a mass move The tactics foUowed shoiUd fered to hdp with any people to come in next The meetings have resulted in moves to form a ment of miUtant opposition be such as to' make it as research work undertaken. time, The point about a by organising glorious de difficult as possible for the Dnision of the "Australlm Technology Foundation", march which is large feats. The only thmg the poUce to justify making in Queensland. . Church leaders and other enough to be successful masses leam from defeats anests. student bodies have also is that it does provide is despair. shown an interest President 3. When you've buflt By CARMEL LISTER a su.bstantial measure of Even u few people the movement to the size of the Univeisity of Qld protection to those taking actuaUy do break through, where enough. people are Union, Mr. Alan Beagley, part, both because poUce in a march which is out prepared to march tiiat the • The.objects of the pro nobgy and highUj^t. ac sees the initiative as an can't anest more than a numbered by cops, this still police are heavUy out posed Foundation are to: tivities r^arded as sodaUy important step in small proportion of pa^ doesn't convince ordinary numbered, go ahead and 1.GeneraUy assist and irresponsible. developing a mechanism by ticipants, and because they people they can/should in- march with, the utmost encourage the proper ap- 6.Sugge}t adjustments in which technology can be reaUse they're heavUy out voWe themselves in the fight boldness. 'pUcation of technology, to lifestyle, work^eisure pat used to assist human improve Uving standaids and numbered and wfll tend to for their own rights. If any Some points if you're terns, social attitudes, etc., devdopment and not harm the human eAJoyment of puU their heads in. thing, it encourages the gomg to compare us to vAich are appropriate, or ft. Ufe. The effects of a march masses to look to a com the IS: you can't bufld necessary, to ensure that "The opportunity to '2.1nvestigate and which ends in a defeat mitted few to defend civfl mass actions with poUdes the benefits bf technology assist in the establishment evaluate proposab to intro (Le. gets smashed up by Uberties. of sectarian exdusionism. are put to best use for the of a body which can under duce new technology by . the poUce) are fun The focus of the campaign community gcneralfy. take research and make Tactics which, at a given enterprises operating in damentaUy different, must be on a series of Membership of . the public statements in the stage hi the development Australia. because, fiistly, it's pe^ of the consciousness of the dear, interrelated demands. foundation wfll be open interest of membeis as 3.Undertake Social ceived by the masses of Hauling in aU sorts of to tbe pubUc and fees are dtizens can't be passed inasses. can only attract Impact Studies. woikeis and other sup unrelated "progressive" de expected to be $6, $3, by." participation~By a minority, 4.Make available to the porters of the right to mands merdy results in the for students, pensioners and cut right across the powe^ commimity information on He urged students and march as & defeat not as demands becoming diffiise- unemployed people. ful dynamic of miUtant i^ch judgements of the others, to jdn the A.T.P. a victoty. and the cutting edge is Employer organirations mass action, because they overaU social benefits of and unions have been ap and partidpate in its This doesn't demon duUed. deny the masses the in new technologies can be proached for assistance and activities. strate to the masses the dispensable poUtical educa A demonstiation which based. they are currentiy The contact pomt for power ordinary people tion they can only receive is about evetytlUng is about S.Generate community considering supporang tne The Austialian Technology have when they unite and I'n acr/on, through their own nothing. Also, eveiy extra interest in the Ukelv rami Foundation. Foundation (Qld division) act boldly, but instead it participation in poUtical unnecessary demand mtians fications of coiporate de-' Academics and pro is P.O. Box 147, Broadway, impresses on them the struggle. some people wiU disagree cisions on the use of tecb- fessional people including Qll4600. (phone 229 3474) power the poUce have to Also, actions which end and be detened fiom taking stop people marching Le. in getting smashed up by part. teaches the masses that the' poUce are destructive The demands.taid serious Plf. AlJt STIIDEMr tRAVEl IID. 9le)i:}ic)K)|()|c; ^^v ^^% ^^% ^^* ^f« vyv^^% 37 Bangaila Street, 4006 Torwood, Ph.3714341 ^opkLiPt l»«*wni| lktticiei€s PttvrMi'^tf« Tttli. rft«»» (/ta;as BAU OoUr .H*^ vu4t«.r>«n:cU. W»«»il Vc^tncr-ajtsr i |f r -y ffiom . •eiurn ^^ LUSCIOUS LUNCHES oPARTIES o 1^ SPLENDID SUPPERS o DELICIOUS DINNERS >on peak fate •TAKEAWAY OR CATERING. OUR MENU VARIES DAILY SO CALL US TO BAU FROM BAU OR DROP IN o o 0 o o 0NE-WAY FARES ONE-WAY rAIIES from %1W •NOV2229. NOV 22 29 DEC 0613 DEC 061327 cnr gi'itn and latrobe terrace . JAN 0317 paddington Q. JAN 03 17 31 telephone . 864481 FEB 0721 FEB 07 14 2128 MAR G7 MAR07 UI^IVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UNION BUILDING - 370 348^ MliflES COOK UNIVERSITY UNION BUILDING - (077) 774788 UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND UNION BUILDING SEMPER Novembers. 1978 ' 17 helps combat the des V2... BORING!! repUed to by paranoic cries CITY/COUNTRY of "Anti-women!" DIFFERENCES? tructive social myths which "Stooge!" "Anti-revolu have for so long given rise I was appalled to see that tionary!". I suspect that to Ul founded prqudices puerile creep V2 get a it was an instance of "too It was pleasing to see and counter producthrei mis review in Semper. He sucks dose for comfort". the favourable review of understandings between city on media didnt you know? IncidentaUy, the large the ABC programme A and country residents. V2 and his seU desiruci sum of mohey I men Big Country in the last Often these supposed dif foUowers ahve had their tioned as going to the issue of your newsmaga- ferences are promoted for brief moment of glory, now WRC is $5000. Admittedly, jone. cynical poUtical purposes DIE MARQUISE VON It is very obvious that I just wish other punks who this is a smaU proportion I know that becoming by men like Joh Bjelke- have had a gutful of their of the Union budget. Petersen who freely blame 0 this film, which also won part of this show's produc the Jury Award Prize at antics would tell them to However, when one realises tion team is a highly sought city based trade unions and/ Cannes, is a masterly work piss off, or at least shoot that the retm-n is one ladies after prize for many.em or "sociaUsts" for whatever Re Bruce Dickson's of nim-making and it is a Brisbane's 'own' V2 down (or should I say female ployees ofthe ABC. crises the rural uidustries review of JXe Marquise von pity that Semper's reviewer in flames. persons?) auxiliary plus a Its subject matter is may be facing. (When the 0-Semper Vol. 48, No, cannot appreciate aU Hlms Theirs is no praiseworthy Ubrary well-stocked with free ranging, and highly problem more often than books to the Uk of "Vaginal 16. in aU categories when they rebeUion directed against interesting as a result. But not Ues in Uberai/National can justifiably be praised authority or even some PoUtics", I consider it above all, by providing aU party poUcies). I am disappointed that $5000 down the drain. Semper can only manage 'for their cinema making and good old fashioned degener of us with an opportunity A Big Country helps to have one person review not evaluated on a personal acy - it is indiscriminate, A. Dobson, you to view exceUently pro all of us understand the each movie, as anyone entertainment level. mindless (dare 1 say chUdish) apparently consider yourseU duced reports about some problems of both country would realise with the great The SchoneU wiU be activity of a kind offering righteous in having an of the most exciting sides and city people to a much variety of movies avaUable pleased to screen Heizog no-one, let alone them, any abortion perfonned upon a to this nation's people and greater extent than normal. these days, there is naturaUy films also but at present solutions to any problems human lUe which was in theU varied lifestyles (par something for everyone. they are being presented some of us might face. considerate enough of your ticularly those found in -A. WHITTON course as to be con I appreciate Bruce's taste by the N.F.T. and don't rural areas), A Big Country Caboolture. ceived during it. Such and his appreciation of forget we were the only Their occasional appear appUcation to your course is Herzog films, Dersu Uzala, cinema to screen 'The Lost ances at the Exchange (in truly inspiring. Sacco and Vanzetti etc. Honour of Katarina Blum.' the audience) only confirm therefore when a director of - 18 SEMPER Novembers, 1978 Jim Caims And Beyond: A New Direction ForSociety? humanitarian, egaUtarian In the meantime, war, It was veiy encouragbg to see such a laige, good model for living whether aggression dis natured crowd tum up to hear Dr. Jim Caims speak on middle class, woridng class, crimination, inequaUty, the subject of 'Tower m Contemporary Society" at drop some male civU Uberties activists) asked themselves Polarising Public Opinion: the foUowing question. How does forcing people to take sides on an issue ever cause any useful result Does It Really Achieve if to begin with the pubUc are so badly mfonned by the media that they most Anything Progressive? who beUeve rather naively Forcing someone by Ukely don't possess a 'that under virtuaUy any cir your actions to take sides "side", and even if they do I have been foQowbg closely the vahiable dialogue type of dialogue and thus cumstances (particularly .«dien they don't even is essentiaUy counterproduc those m Qld now) it wfll they fafl to adequately on fendnism that Semper has been pubUdhuig ui its understand the issues at tive and promotes only mis promote beneficial social appreciate the meaning of letters section. stake is ridiculous. those "sides" they origmaUy understanding (not progress' change-is that they fafl to It is time the many Of hiterest was the recent exchange of corres chose from. as Dobson argues), exanune the tme character Dobsons of the world (I pondence over the question of what direction the I personaUy beUeved that of any such polarisation have heard similar argu -M.LUMB women's movement should now take, opponents of any such process. ments to heis expressed by Oxley hi particular the letteis open minded dialogue over constmctive dialogues bet by Jaon Simmons ("Femi- aU those social issues ween humaa beings are nism and the Right (such as homosexuaUty, aUgniog themselves with , Wing • Backlash" vol. 48 heterosexuaUty, sexism, what is basicaUy a fascist Nos 14&15) and the reply racial discrimmation, position. A good example to Sunmons by A. Dobson abortion, civfl Uberties, of this new fascism which of Proserpine in the foi- union stiflce action) which is appearing within some quarters of the women's Plumber-Gasfitter lowing issue (vol 48, no. tiie media inevitably sen- 16) interested rae. . sationaUse. movement can be found in AT VERY REASONABLE RATES The point I wish to It is most unportant the position of the "femi make witii regard to the tiiat this dialogue occur nist" Ti-Grace Atkinson, • mwMrt^atpipM content of these letteis between women and women an American who regards it as "collaboration" to be ' concerns Dobson's men and men, and also • imtills water tyttemt seen walking down the road JOHN NELIS aigument that forcing women and men. with a man. 9 Horrocks Street, people to polarise their Only then wfll any • npairt looft Toowong. . attitudes toward feminist genuinely deep under- I fafl to see how it is issues is not destnictive. standing occur, assuming poUticaUy radical (or prog • nnewt guttering I strongly disagree wiUi that those people partici- ressive for that matter) to manifesting in your own Dobson on this matter and patmg do not enter into • initalli gai apptiancet r instead fully concur wiUi tiie dialogue wiUi narrow, outlook the very same • the argument Simmons put closed muids but rather hi evils that the movement forward in her earlier letter a spirit of sincere explora- for change of which you are ph. 3714932 '} lumelythat polarisation is tion. ± part mitiaUy opposed. ;• (destructive.' Social polarisation is My mam gnpe about" •'. In"iiiy opinion what more often than not the advocates of social polari- people need is cool, calm r«sult of a lack of this satlon-^particularly those. SEMPER Novembers. 1978 19 HOW MUCH WE PAY THICK AS A BRICK THE OLD SCHOOL TIE THE FALLIBLE CITIZENS CAN NOW FoUowing pubUc TO DENY OURSELVES MACHINE CHALLENGE RADIO & hearings, the Australian OUR RIGHTS Renee Geyer and her TV LICENCES Broadcasting Tribunal band were recentiy refused granted 4ZZZ-FM and in a June issue of a work visa to perform If you have ever been 4MBS-FM thdr Ucences, Semper, we calculated at the Playboy Qub in waiting for the and in addition gave an how much money tax Manfla foUowing ob opportunity to teU the AM Ucence to Brisbane payers had lost as a result jections from thek local commercial radio stations Ethnic/Access Radio, of Joh enforcing his march Musician's Union. in Brisbane exactly what This latter station wiU ban. For most bands the you think about the be multi4ingual and up to Our special report came matter would have been quality of (heir program- 50 languages could be in up with an estimate of left there, but in Renee's mhtg, then now is your use. The Salvador Dali over I.S mfllion dollan. case an earnest endeavour Latest report on com chance. Most independent ob Award for news stories This figure was based on was made by Mr. puterised theft concemed Publk hearmgs to servers at the hearings goes to the Telegraph the esthnated costs of Peacock's office to have an Amerkan whiz who determine whether the were most happy about whkh ran a story about poUce and, magistiiate's the decision reveised (un- succeeded with a scheme licences of 4IP, 4BC, the Tribunal's decision to - a new consumer product court aethrity. successfuUy by the way). to steal $10 mUUon from 4BK and 4BH should be grant the licences to these caUed tiie TV Brick. Shice then the rdease Many who recall that a large U.S. bank. renewed wfll be held hi three organisations, of tiie Auditor General's This brkk which costs Renee recorded an But the best stoiy to early December (see ad because they clearly were Report has more than US$4.95 Is made out of election song for the date conceming how vertisement on page li for the best appUcations and vindicated the contents of foam rubt>er and won't Liberal Party foUowing humans have beaten com full detains). are attempting to fulfUl reaUy hurt your television tiiat report. the Kerr coup would have puter at its own game This is the fhst oppor a real need in this city. when you throw it at the $I.g milion doUirs Uttie difficulty in inter stfll remains the one about tunity you, as the listening saecn. were spent on poUce preting this as another the company employee pubUc, have had to chal operations idone-this in WeU that's one way to blatant case of the. who before being sacked lenge or support the cluded overthne, travdling let off ste^ when you grazier's old boy network by his employer prog issuing of licences. Take POLICE LOSING THEIR object to. the shithouse aUowances, general wages. looking after their own. rammed the central com advantage of it. GRIP? programming. Yet obviously the total puter to wipe aU debts IncidentaUy it is costs were much higher from its memory and importaht also that than even tiiis figure WANKING IN CHINA then wipe any record of dtizens take an equaUy Q>robably over $3 mfllkin who fed the request. USS4ZZZ strong interest in the would be closer to the Readers of Semper may The company is stUl renewal hearbigs for tde- mark), shice the costs recaU that we asked Triple-Zed announcer asking people to come vision stations whkh wfll of aU the hundreds anyone who might be in John Woods recently con forward and say how occur from tune to thne. working hours taken up a position to teU us, ducting an interesting on- much they owe. Watch the daUy news by civil Uberties cases ui whether our article on air interview with fonner papers for government ad (he courts wis not aUowed. "Masturbafa'on in China" station co-ordinatory Jim vertisements announdng for. Lots of other hidden (See last issue) was Beatson (foUowing Jim's QUICKIES . this or rhig the AustraUan costs such as hire of buses, genuine or not. retum from a lengthy Broadcasthig Tribunal for food costs etc. were also The Chinese Embassy European hoUday). FhyUis Dfller on Par-full mformation. excluded. in Australia had denied The topic was broad (duson Show-"I was so Surdy it's a high cost that the publishmg source casting and when asked ugly that when I was to pay for the privelege quoted in the article which station he most bom, the doctor slapped of having 700 police actuaUy existed. listened to whilst travelling my mother." VAGINAL SURGERY regularly block the city WeU, acconUng to a around the continent, Jim Toflet Graffittis at the streets so as to deprive mescal student at Qld ^ecified American Armed Royal Exchange-'Td ghre Most horrific story of any citizen who claims his Uni this article (which Forces Radio. my right arm to ambi- late was the one concer ri^t to free speech from propapted as much He then added the dexfrous." And "We are ning the Ohio gynae effectively doing so. baloney about the evUs of postscript "surprismgly its the bad company our cologist Dr. James C. masturbauon as you not that different from parents wamed us Burt who has been spe- would expect from the 4ZZ2." against." dalising hi sutgicaUy re- CATTLE PROD Festival of Light) was not constructuig women's One quite amusmg mo SCANDAL at aU greatly removed in vagmas. ment (there wjrent many) content from several other He exhibits his wife »t the recent civil liberties A potentiaUy big articles originating in as demonstrable proof of march oigamsed by scandal at Ipswich's Chal- China. Several of these his claim that his pro Senator George Georges linor Centre (training have been cited in Westem cedure of "reconstmcthig occurred when the centre for the journals on sexuaUty cur Uie vagbia to mike the demonstrator pictured inteUectuaUy handicap rentiy avaflable m the ditoris more accessible above was grabbed by the ped) was averted in the medical Ubraiy. to dhect penUe sthnu- two poUce officers. early seventies when fol If in feet the artkle Ution" enables a woman In what by now could lowing an investigation of Semper pubUshed to have more frequent and virtuaUy be regarded as a a pubUc complaint about represents official Chinese more mtense orgaons. reflex action one of the mistreatment of patients poUcy then maybe in Burt calls his new poUcemen Mvolved auto the Health Minister an retrospect it isn't difficult product "(he Mark II maticaUy reached up to nounced that nothing had to see why their embassy vagfaia". The operatkn grab a handfiil of hair... happened. would deny the vaUdity of costs, around iVS 1,500 only to tind his hand. What had uiitiaUy its contents to the western and over the past 12 sUde over a virtuaUy bald caused the furore was a press. years has performed varia skuU. claim that a cattie prod After aU, it must be tions of this surgkal had been used oh patients vety embarrassmg to have procedure on some 4,000 to keep them in line. to say (with a straight women. (These prods are so pain face) that' masturbation ' He has not yet come EXCHANGE HOTEL ful that one shot on tiie could lead to hnpotence up with a proposal to leg would stop anything). m marriage, loss of operate on the penis to What an amazing Semper has ^strong memoiy, insomnia and mcrease its contact with double bUI at the cause to beUeve that docu nervous depression. ANANDA MARGA the clitoris, and given the Exdiange last Friday ments do exist which Possibly the real other hearts. May this history of his profession night. A new Brisbane (contrary to official reasons for the pubUcation Predktably, plenty of actkn pave the way for on sexual matteis its un- punk group the Meters deidals) prove that the of such articles (besides skk jokes arose foUowmg the estabUshment of a new Ukdy he wUL belted out 'more energy prod was ut use at that promoting some of that the recent self immohtkin sochl order that is devoid) than most, other local time even though it has good old fashioned sexual of Lynette FhUlips. of exploitation, misery groups put-together. The not been used since, Puritanism whkh bas Lynette's act ui her and h^ustice. Meters are new but youll Apparently one case on often been. a feature of own words arose out of These, senthnents are 4MBS-FM/ETHNIC be yearing a lot more of record involved a person authoritarian societies) Ues "a burnhig desire, an hiner far removed from the com LICENCES them; their RoUing Stones who used to bang his Ul the passage which reads need to help sto the ment of one Brisbane renditions are brUUant. head aU the time, and it "Masturbation wfll harm crlmbiality of our ex drhiker who was overheard .Brisbane's FM band wfll Mahi drawcard was Dave is now known that the the body and affect your ploited Uves on earth." saymg to his mates, " now have two stations- Warners From the Suburbs reason for this was quite revolutionary wiU too, so Prior to her death, she come to where the flavour 4ZZZ-FM and 4MBS-FM a Perth Band which ex- simply that he had a pain it is necessaty. to control wrote "May the Ught is-cdme to Ananda Maiga (which wUl feature stereo plahis AustraUan culture in his head. it." emanated ' enlighten aU Country." dassical music). as it reaUy is. Superb. 20 SEMPER. Novembers, 1978 THE G0VE11BI»IENT PUBUC RELATIONS DEVELOPMENT AND DOUBTS In Melbourne in 1972, a young architect earned an award as the year's 1971: "Wliere time allows, I can sit down and get some thoughts from outstanding graduate with a design for a new Parliament House'in the Premier, but if this is not possible, I prepare the speech notes and then Canberra. . .a 'show-biz' centre for PR-poUticians. John Cuthbert's submit them to the Premier for his approval." Where does this concept concept-"! felt it had to take into consideration the possibility of certain of so personal a service fit into public service, if public service fits govem developments in politics-one of them being that elected representatives ment puUic relations? may become PR men from political PR agencies"-has humour, and We are deaUng fiist with teims of overlappuig range: the British and AustraUan serious meaning as wdl. definition of pubUc relations, ". . .tiie ddiberate, planned and sustained effort to In the past decade, Australian govemments, federal, state, even some establish and maintain mutual undeistanding between an organisation and its pubUc" local bodies, have embarked on a publicity programme of enormous (Briti^ Institute of Public Relations defimtion); and Zechariah Oiafee's definition proportions, variously aimed at information and image, and apparently of propaganda as ". . .the creation by govemment of various kinds of inforniation careless of price and sometimes of principle. and publidty, tiius emf^asismg and stimulating pubUc interest and response in certain In this field of governmental activity, perhaps unlike others, dhections at the expense of other interests and ideas." Queensland does not lag behind, except in^the formulation of its thinking Chafee's propaganda loses much of its war-occasioned emotive connotation, but ih this, as in most areas of communications research and Uterature, agreement is rare. on govemment information services, and' in its willingness to provide Can we, for example, make the distinction that propaganda is for controversial information about them to Parliament. issues, and education is non-controversial, or distinguish between changing of attitudes Behind the image, are we hearing govemment infomiation or party and clarification of issues, and can we justify either at puUic expense? propaganda, politicians or Cuthbert's PR man, Premier or Press Secretary? Govemments have acted to treat publidty as a professional job by becoming E. Scbaeffer,, then Press Secretary in the Premier's Department, said in colfectivdy one of the chief employers of joumaUsts, of advertising men, and of pubUc rdations consultants. also the guardians of pubUc interest Uke Britain's Royal Commission on the ^=^—Maximum Propaganda . •Press, who suppose that democracy On. an inter-state comparison,.Qld rates assumes its members high as an employer of joumaUsts, but it ".. .are suffidentiy wdl informed is dwarfed by the national govemment. Minimum Information? about the issues of the day to be However, growth at the Federal levd able to form the broad has not (as also in Britain and the United judgements required by an - States) recdved universal approval from dection, and to maintain between poUticians or press. The then Deputy dections the vigilance necessary Opposition Leader, E.G. Whitlam, said in in those vihose govemors are 1967: "Govemment departments have their servants and not their shidded themselves from the pubUc masteis. . .Democratic Society, tiirough the medium of pubUc rdations therefore, needs a clear and officials who aU too often are trained to tmthful account of events, of divulge a minimum of information with a their backgtound and their causes, maximum of airogance." a f(»tim for discussion and infor For Paul Hasluck, then Minister for med criticism..." Territories, political PR in 1958 had a and the practitioners themsdves, in different catlse: "There may be many good press and in govemment. services which the pubUc rdations man In the past few years, however, some- may perform but I am incUned to think tiling new has been added: a growing ' that the need for his services and his very awareness and complaint that the problem existence in pubUc affain are a symptom of under-exposure or maccurate and of lack of confidence in the probity or inadequate exposure may Ue not with good judgement of the press." Anotiier the govemment's critics, but with govern twdve years growth of the services had ments themsdves. There are then negative brought, for MaxuniUan Walsh, in 1970 reasons as weU as positive aims for govern Canberra chief for the Australian Financial ment information and publicity services in Review, "en era of managed news.. .where democrati'c societies. each arm of bureaucracy is equipped wjtii These three main strands in the negative Its journalistic mouthpieces and each reasons advanced for the growth of govem Minister down to the most lowly has his ment information and pubUcity services, hnagC'shining PR man." negative in that they stem from the sins In .the context of Walsh's remarks, of the media, the press in particular, it is'pefhaps surprising that the govemment rather than from the virtues of a govem information and pubUcity services are in ment voice, can be summed up as: large part an outgrowth of that concem 1. That the press under-rates public with the role of communcation, and par interest in, and tise importance of, poUtical ticularly a free press, which is a keystone news; of democratic theory. It is a role to which 2. That, presumably because of (1), obeisance is standard in the Uterature of insufficient space is given to, and poUtics and govemment, communication insufficient staff employed on, poUtical and joumaUsm, in a rhetoric as upUfting news coverage; as its fuUUhnent is doubtful 3. That, press coverage, or the media To the shrine come theorists like generaUy in its treatment of poUtics and Bemard Berdson: govemment, is unfdr, or trivial, or iU. "The poUtical theory of democracy informed, or inaccurate,, stressing people also makes requirements regarding ' not issues, confUct and crisb.instead of tiie components' of electorate debate and decisions. : decisions. . .The first requhement Ihe concern generated by these claims .. .is the possession of information does not always rdate easily to two of the and knowledge; the dectorate must great issues involving the mass media, . be informed about the matteis credibiUty and influence. Lack of one under consideration"; might seem to negate the other but in "Government publicity services, tumed to partisan purposes, can give media study they are sometimes not an enormous advantage to the party in power. Their use, particularly viewed as concomitant, and the above Derek White is now Director criticism is frequently aired, even by media in Queensland, was critically examined in a 1972. study by Derek White,practitioners . of Public Affairs Television Department of Govemment, University of Queensland, entitled The programmes for the A.B.C. Govemment's Voice, and reprintedhere in much-abridged form. SEMPER Novembers. 1978 21 TIIC (iOVEKNNENT PUBLIC RELATMmS MACHINE The 1958 Cabmet Mmute which estab . chauffeur, after Cabinet had employed a lished the bureau as the centrd and pUot and paid almost $150,000 for an superior state, publicity body made no aircraft for the Govemment's use. The mention of poUtical activity as such. Premier said: The Bureau's functions were "to publicise ". . .when the present govern the activities of the Government" while ment was in Opposition, ex press releases based on the Minutes of penditure of this nature (i.e. Executive Council were a service "of the Opposition Leader's care material assistance t o Mmisters." and chauffeur) was not Some partisan involvement by the hicuned as then Govemment State PubUc Rdations Bureau had already did not extend similar cour become established practice under prenous tesies to the Opposition." A.L.P. administrations through preparation Mr. Bjelke-Petersen did not mdicate of poUcy speechs and in other areas. whether his poUtical memory included By 1957, a tradition of poUtical use his govemment's employment of a platoon of the infonnation staff had aheady been of journalist press-secretaries and PROs firmly estabUshed when the A.L.P.'s plus pilot and plane. It was clear, however, mle ended. As far back as 1918, the Ryan that the govemment ahcarft would operate Govenunent had pubUshed "Socialism in the unrestricted poUtical tradition of at Work", whHe a 1938 Health Department the government publicity services. preferable instead to acknowledge the possible, however, did not affect attitudes booldet mentioned Labour seven tunes in The Govemment's generosity did not two pages. poUtical involvement of the uiformation towards their common membership of extend to a press officer for the Leader of officeis and provide similar aid, i.e. the AJA, 84% of the news joumalists In the context of the i>tate Public tiie Opposition; another request to the supporting the unanimous view of theh Relations Bureau activity continued bdow, joumalist-PR staff on a peisond sdecjion Premier drew a flat "no". In his 1969 basis, for the Opposition Leader and his govemment coUeagues that this was the foUowing statements appear m<}st approach, the Opposition Leader had cited Deputy as in the Commonwedth. desirable. rdevant. From Maijorie Ogilvy-Webb hi the examples of New South Wales (private If the operation of govemment pub The UkeUhood that adherence to the Britain: secretary, PRO and research officer) and Code of Ethics could be strained by Victoria (pdltical secretaiy and research Ucity can be defended as m the pubUc "There is a difference between and democratic interest, the provision government employment did not deter spending only staff time on officer); in 1972, the attitiidw of otiier 82% of the govemment joumaUsts and AustraUan govemments to persond staff of assistance for the democratic function answering questions or sup of opposition is essential For Hughes, 64% of the newsmen from also declaring plying information for the (apart from secretarial/clerical assistance) that the mterests of the two groups were press and broadcasting, and the for the Opposition Leader were: ". . .if democratic govemment "so close together that they may dways deUberate spending of pubtic a. Commonwedth: A press secretaiy is based on the clash of ideas happUy shdter under one association monies to produce an adver and two ptivate secretaries for the Opposi and the availabiUty of different umbrdla". tisement or book or pamphlet tion leader; two private secretaries for his (pinions then the party in to advocate or even explain Deputy; a press secretary and private power is the custodian of govemment proposals." secretary for the Opposition Leader in the this balance, and should act Senate and a private secretary for his positively to ensure that it Is there any clash of interest between and in the Queensland ParUament, Deputy. (In fact tiie tities were not hn works." the work of govemment information officers and the AJAs Code of Ethics, Charles Porter: portant; each was a persond staff position Joumalists in government and the media v^ich could have been fUled by a joumaUst beUeve the Queendand Govemment should particularly clauses 1A2 .('To report "I do not think that ever if required.) accept this principle. Those who thou^t and interpret the news with scrupulous before. . Aas there been so govemments should consider buying space honesty; Not to suppress essential fact, much endeavour, or so much b. New Soutii, Wdes: The Opposition and not to distort the truth by omission Leader and his Deputy shared a PRO, andfot time to explain its poUcies and machinery provided, to divert, activities were almost unanimous in or wrong fill emphasis)? distort, inflect, evade, mislead research officer and two private secretaries. c. Victoria: The two Opposition agreeing that the Opposition should be and persuade as there is in our ^en tho same faciUties. Two thhds df GovtN=17 PresN=2S Total N=4S time." parties, ALP and Countty Party, were granted temporary state-employee research the whole sample beUeved the (Opposition From 1968 the Queensland Govem should have govemment PR assistance, Yes 2 12% 7 28% 9 21% ment set out to maximise its use of this officers; the ALP itsdf employed a press No 8 47 4 16 12 29 secretary for its state leader. and the majority view in favour of state- machinety witiiout consideration of the financed dd was common to both govem Depends on position d. South AustraUa; A press secretary 6 3S 14 56 20 48 British attihide separating poUticd and ment and media groups. administrative processes. employed by the Govemment for the Joumalists in Queensland, in govern Opposition Leader. The Oxford Dictionaty defines a jou^ ment and the media, are convmced that e. Westem AustraUa: Secietarid staff Should the Opposition in State Par naUst as "one whose business it is to edit the party ip power gdns an advantage liament be granted the use of govemment or write for a pubUc journd". The ao- dirough government information services. information officers, ie. state-employed thdties of most govemment press and The foUowmg is part of a survey conducted Do you think the government in press or public relations officers? pubUcity officers do not fit this defini amongst joumaUsts (Government and non- formation services give the Government * tion and the AJA's attitude to its PR Govemmoit) in Brisbane in 1972. an electoral advantage over the Op Govt N-17 Press N»25 Total N»42 members is suitably ambivdent. Its Generd position? Yes 11 53% 17 68% 28 67% Secretaty, S.P. Crosland, told the In 1969, the Opposition Leader, Mr. GovtN«17 Press N=25 TotdN«42 No 5 29 8 32 13 31 (jueensland Industiid Conunission m Houston, sought the appomtment of a 1971: state-provided Press Officer and two other However, one press secretary, inter- positions. Research Officer and a driver- Yes 15 88% 23 92% 38 90% vievred, reflected the Govemment's No 16 2 8 3 7 ' assistant; after four months, he comp attittide: "We take in for r^hation lained in ParUament of not having had "The boss says they wouldn't those,people of whom it can a reply, "an insult to the Oppodtion". only. do it for us so why should we be said that the m^'or part His arguments for a Press Officer were f. Tasmania: Secretarid stiiff only. . do it for them." of theh' work! and eanUngs democratic and pragmatk:' In Queensland, the Opposition was So much f<»- democratic interest; one come from joumaUsm. . .we "Whenever statements are provided only with a. Private Secretaiy might, however, have expected minis get a lot of appUcaticms' for made by tnhdstm, the Press and a driver-assistant, plus secretarid/ terial press secretaries to consider theh membership which we reject. dso requhe statements from derical seivices. Jouradists on both own sdf-hiterest in the event of a change We fed there is a proper tiie Oppodtion, and I ttiink it sides of the government-media fence of govemment. Iffofessiond standard to up is deshaUe in a democracy to regarded the Opposition's pubUcity The test is responsibiUty and this is hold." have both prohits of view pre sendees, mauily provided by the ALP, as inadequate. ' not incompatible with the partisan use sented. If nUnisters. . .find U of govemment pubUdty services! provided In the case of PROs however, even necessaiy to have Press officeis that \diere they have no experience in jour to ensure what they wish to 1. The democratic necessity of pro naUsm, . say is publi^ed in the way, Do you think the Opposition has viding similar resources for the Opposition in vidch they mean it to be adequate press and PR facilitiies? "Under our rules we are • is honoured; and bound to take in as membeis '-.^, pubUshed. I drink that tiie 2. The partisan use of government (HDPOsition should have the GortN»17 PrtssN-25 ToJdN=42 people who are engaged hi joumaUsts is acknowledge in a dividon the fidd of puUic rdations : same privdege." of functions and special conditions of Yei 4 24% in writing and publicity .iand . - Mr. Houston renewed his request in 5 20% 9 21% employment for those so involved. 11 65 20 80 31 74 generd pubUc rdations work." 1970. The Premier repUed: No The Queendand goyemment at the "I cannot concede that the end ipf 1972 faUed on both counts. The AJA's dedsion in 19S7 to open position of Leader of the The responsibiUty for the altematives membeiship to "persons. . .engaged in.;. Opposition requires staff assis Ues with the Opposition party or parties; pubUdty, pubUdied bistmcti(ns or pubUc tance additiond to that ahndy the responsibiUty for providhig the means JOURNAUiSM AND PR GOVT rdations. purposes" was as^much'^^rcser- given." for thdr clrciilatiai to the electorate Ues, SERVICE AS EMPLOYER -! yattos of the union itsdf ai expankbn; Mr. .Houston also sou^t a chauffeur; in part at least, with the Govemment. Govemment joumalists .were.. divided the movement out of nev^aii^eis' hito Mr. Bjdke-Petenen said his Govemment M. Ogflvy-Webb appean to suggest that OQ tUs'qiiestion; those in th'e'newsimedla PR^ had^beJE^. 5T^e • 1957-58 Queendand had been more reasonaUe than previous the offecia l infomiation service, preparing, saw a clash of interest as certain prrposaible District'.;Ahpuai Report, noted that; PR governments hi providing a car and other material on government proposals; dicHild^ with'aU inedia jdumaUsts :in'^tbe news'- had become' a tni^or fidd. pfetsplpynient. concessions. give botii ddesi for and agdnst b Qld, editor/chief of staff group suppOTting, for;, competent jpurhalistt / in'; southern' In 1971, Mr; Houston gdned his tills would be unreaUstic; it would be. •titis view. That this cladi was at Teast states and tliat it was spreadhig into C^d.. 2H SEMPER Novembers, 197B TUG fiOVElWMMT PUBLIC RELAT i%^V MACHINE Less strain is undeniable despite some for temporary employment subject to evidence of inegular hours, particularly termination with a change of government, m the peak activity of election time. It is clear that there is generd for press secretaries who are also involved acceptance of a govemment's need to in absences from home on ministerial communicate with the electorate at afrge tours. Gone are the repeated tension of and that this is part of the process which deadUnes, tiie often frustrating search is seen to produce the informed citizenry for news, the posdble legd compUcations, which democracy requhes. At the same tile denial of information and tiiat tune tiie nature of the mformation which situation experienced by every news the electorate receives may be affected journaUst, being target for public critidsm adversdy if the press abdfcates its of the media. In theh place however may traditiond "watch-dog" functions in be one problem of pubUc rdations and favour of a too ready acceptance of the poUtics: tiiat the PRO may have to devote cost-free services of public rdatioas. his efforts to achieving support for a To this pouit, the press in Queensland policy, action or person with which he has shown no mdication of deshe to disagrees. The "reporting" of news unpUes reverse an evident trend in this dhection. an impartid approach not consistent The responsibility may therefore devolve witii govemment use of publicUy services, onto the so far unwilUng Austi-aUan One solution to this problem would be JoumaUsts Assodation, at least so long politicd appointments, not simply persond as the AJA continues to cover public but based on cotmnitment to the party in relations. It is recommended first however, power, e.g. the appomtment of a defeated ui view of the areas of confUct between ALP member as public rdations officer news joumaUst and publicity joumaUsm, by a Minister hi the Whitiam Labor 3, That tiie AJA give urgent con- Govemment in 1972. The suggestion that sidcration to the continuance of its policy this is the normal and deshable practice of recmiting memben hi pubUc rdations. is inherent in the Commonwedth's division The AJA's membeiship is itsdf a between temporaiy, persond, ministcrid factor confusing news and publicity, In AustraUa govemment employment pandmg from traditiond joumaUsm of joumaUsts on a large scde was a World staff and departmental staff, and in the fact and propaganda. If the common courses mto pubUc rdations and adver South Australian system where press membership persists, the AJA should War II devdopment, begmning with the tismg. Commonwealth Department of Informa secretaries are not members of the PubUc move, as a concemed professional or- For most organisations at present Service but are employed on contract ganisation with a Code of Ethics based tion. Washington's information service was however, joumaUsm remains the normd by the start of the war already estabUshed for the duration of the government, on honesty in news coverage, to protect quaUfication for entry into pubUc rdations In Queensland, the proMera of confUct the integrity of its membeis and their and expanding through recmitment of and govemment information services. pressmen, the staff of departmental in between personal views and government/ product by: The main reason for this faith in news party employer views is acknowledged by a. Acting to secure acknowledgement formation bureaus having grown from an work as a pre-requisite, can be found in estimated 150 in 1935 to 300 in 1939. joumaUsts in government and recognised of the source of aU "handout" materid Delmer Dunn's view tha^ by thdr coUeagues in the news media, when puUished; For work in govemment information, "PoUcymakers often want theh b. In government publidty, insisting joumaUsts in Brisbane are convinced that statements to be highly visible PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN that the tme authorship of the articles, theirs is the right trdning, 88% of the and thus try to issue those features etc., currentiy attributed to GOVT: SUMMARY & RECOM government joumaUsts mterviewed and types of messages which wiU be Ministers, be acknowledged, e.g. with a 92% of the newmen declaring that they played up by the press." MENDATIONS by-Une, "By Jdm Smith for the Minister thought ex-joumalists made the best What they are seekuig hi joumalists for.. ." govemment infonnation officers. One is "the indispensable attribute of news c. In aU news media, insisting that govemment joumaUst did not agree while sense"; in other words the abiUty to • "We fondly fancy that his managements and membeis view public - two in the media wrote in the response, know what wUl be or wiU makenews torians of the future wiU dub rdations activity as an dd to securing '"not necessarily", a view consistent with and how best to handle it for the peatest the 20th century as the age news not a source of copy; a growuig tendency to question the and most favourable exposure, a develop of scientific progress. I am d. Undertaking an assessment of the previously accepted joumalism-public ment of the normd process of any news incUned to think they are more intmsion of pubUcity material into the rdations career link. paper in which each reporter competes likely to dub it the age of news media together with a comparison From Britam, Frank Jefkins argues with his stories for position, display and propaganda. . .": CR. Porter, of news media employment of jour tiiat the assumption of journalistic space against the efforts of other reporters. in the Queensland Parliament, nalists, the devdopment of the news experience as sufficient quaUfication for The fkst task is to tum pubUcity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1970. ^ media and the evidence of change and success as a press officer is not vaUd, material into news. It is Ukdy that govem IHHHi^HHHIBHiBi^^l growth in society which suggests a greater and that this is demonstrated by- what ment or party publidty, issued and The comment was dhected not at supply of news to cover, he calls the abysmal standard of the appearing as news, wUI have greater the propaganda machines born of two The AJA could dso act as a pressure average presf rdease: credibiUty and possible influence than if world wars nor at totditarian models group, involved throjigh its own member- ". . .the practice of press transmitted through advertisements. In but at that outgrowth of joumaUsm and ship but also • professionaUy concemed relations has to be leamed the face of evidence of public distmst, advertising which devdoped in westem with public interest, in securing changes too, and this is not hdped particulariy in newspapers, CecH Edwards, competitive societies as puUic rdations in present govemment attitudes to the by the mistaken beUef hdd a fonner editor, declared that: and pubUcity of which govemment in- operation of the infonnation service ui by press officeis and em- formation services are part. The Brisbane Queensland. ployera dike that any jour study demonstrated that in the case of While it is not suggested that any set of nalist automaticaUy makes a ". . .the pubUc differentiates tiie Queendand Government an dement rules could be rigidly appUed, it should good press officer. The between news and advertising. of propaganda aimed at partisan advantage be possible to agree on limitations to the majority of press rdeases It expects an advertisement to for the party-in-power is acknowledged poUtical use of the pubUc information scomfuUy spUced by editors daim that one product is and accepted as a state function. services, e.g, no state participation in the eveiy day are written by superior to otheis; it weights The Government party or parties may filming fo rtdevision of policy and other ex-jouraal^ts who Imow Utile those clauns and makes up its thus gain benefits (which cannot be campdgn speeches unless sinular faciUties about press relations and even own mind. A similar statement accurately assessed) shnply from theh are made avaUable to the Opposition; less about pubUc relations." in the news columns, mas possession of the state publicity machine, no state^ preparation of govemment pwty In America, WHUam Taylor reported querading as news, will get At the same time the democratic and campaign material unless the same lo- after a study of PR-employed joumalism under the public's guard; pubUc interest may suffer through loss of sources are avaUable to the Opposition; graduates from Kent State Univerdty, cynics notwithstanding, readera the equaUty of party opportunity which and a fuU and specid accounting to be Otdo, that the standard bdief in prior still tend to accept what a democracy demands unless the Opposition requhed for expenditure on information newspaper experience was disappearing newspapers says." party or partisan are granted state- activity (salaries, production costs, fares ,and that with proper undergraduate provided publicity services. In Queensland, etc.) duiing the immediate pre-dection .courses, graduages could move stiaight this does not happen; it is therefore re- period, e.g. between the announcement A number of reasons have been sug commended: of the election date and the election itself. into PR. The PR practitioner required gested for the movement of joumalists I. That action be taken to correct the Devdopments since 1968 in Queensland not only some reporting skUls but a range away from newspapers and to a lesser unbalance in the operation of inter-party suggest that the dectord advantage by the of abflities to handle widdy differing extent from otiier news media into public competiton in Queensland by providing government in power will continue to tasks from press relations and speech rdations and govemment information, writing to advertishig and organising mamly escape from the strains of a Press Officer, and preferably officers, increase; it is therefore necessary in the special events. For the same reason, joumdism and its insecurity coupled for the State Opposition, democratic interest joumalists or publicity officers hi with the apped of higher salaries. This acknowledges that government in 4. That action be taken to contiol govemment in New Zealand were reported "Other reasons" given by govemment AustraUa involves party poUticd acti«ty and curb the use of the state information "to have, become increasingly aware in joumdists in the 1972 survey induded: as an essentid democratic process and services for election campdgn purposes recent years of the inadequacy of the term opportunity to study, not possible on a that the maintenance of this competitive and that a Govemment be made :^ournaUsf to describe many of theh moming newspaper; regular hours; work process is a Govemment's tmst. For the accountable for expenditure so incuned ;activities." serving aU people, irrespective of poUtics; govemment information service however, in its own behalf and for the Opposition, a deshe to serve; and good experience. partisan involvement mns counter to The priorities of the Queensland , • With ahnost 300 campuses in the US Govemment Information service appear • /offering courses in public relations, Taylor They thus expressed both persond and concepts of public service neutraUty; it is therefore essentid (in 1972) to be: ^:in. 1966 predicted a future increase in dtruistic motives; the news joumalists who listed "other reasons" were more 2. That the terms of employment of a. Promotion through pubUcity for ',^ direct graduate recmUment. The same government infonnation officeis hi tiie state ahd the circulation of glossy i devdopment is now possible in AusfraUa sdf concemed; career advancement, change positions of peisond appomtment and .~,wh|ve universities and particularly the of rnvhonment and poUticd sympathy noihuniveisity tertiary histitiites are ex were suggested. partisan identification be varied to provide (Continued next page) SEMPER Novembers, 1978 2B EXTERNAL COURSES AVAILABLE TO INTERNAL_STiroEm;S Many fatewal students at Queendand Unheisity-whether foil or pait-thne-may not know they are digible to enrol hi courses tai^t exchiriwty in the Department (tf External Studies. As loi« as tbe same course is not taught internally, students only have to apply to the Director of Exteriial Studies for pamlarionto take the extemal wd^ed. The Director's pennisdon is sddom refused. For the adected snbject(s) the student b graitted external stiitus and receives ininted lecture notes Uke any other external student. The subject areas where the additiond and effectmg sochil change. Analysis courses are avaUable mclude Ecoromics, focuses on nahire of. power, its sources, EngUsh, Geography, Govemment, and fimction of consent, meaning of non lUstoiy. violence, dynamics and mechanisms of Some of the new courses offerings nonviolence. . fxtenshre use of case aUow students to explore con histories." temporary concerns often bypassed by 'Nonviolence and the New Society' the mote traditional approaches. looks at the potential of nonnolence as For instance, the list of courses offered a god of the society. The course des by the Government section of Extemd cription reads: "Prmciples and design of a Studies contains such tities as: nonviolent society. Concepts of decentraU- 'Introduction to Women's Studies in zation, conflict, organisation, tmth, love, Politics' ahimsa, etc. related to bringing nonviolent society into bemg whUe reducing violence 'Politics of rkinviolence' content of existing society." The Pdrty's Over 'Nonviolence and the New Society' The major aun of the 'hilitics of Tolitics of Bureaucratic Oiganisation' Bureaucratk Organizatkm' is cited as The AustraUan Mar^'uana Party in Queensland has The women's course is described in the folded. Ambitious plans for a l^aUsatkin campaign combhung "an exammation of the mtemd Externd Studies Handbook as focushig power stmcture of industrid organizations have now been scrapped foUownmg an almost complete "on poUtical theory with respect to sex with the broader issues of power and lack of rci^onse from the pubUc to the party's differences on the one hand and the industrid conflict in modem societies. initiathres. history of It is not our major intention to concentrate The A.M.P. wm not strategies of the party. on the excessive preoccupation of or now field a candidate in the No doubt also, a fear The women's course is described in the ganization theoty with the problems of Sherwood by-dection even exists among those Extemal Studies Handbook as focusing management. Rather it is om torn to gam though thdr fahly weU associated with the A.M.P. "on poUticd theory with respect to sex some msight into those problems of pubUdsed endoisee Di of police inthnidation if differences on the one hand and the industrid life which are more relevant FuUer was assured of a they pubUdy support the history of sex as a factor in socio- from a poUtical and phUosophicd point strong marginal vote. dreaded weed. In the poUticd Ufe on the other.. .The historicd/ of view and which are more cmcial for understanding the pervaaveness of the Local A.M.P. activists are current Queensland poUticd A.M.P. wUI be heU this institutional side wiU concentrate on organisationd features of the sodety m disappointed at the negative dimate, there's probably Friday at Griffith Univeisity modem times: development of the which we Uve." response taken by Brisbane grounds for justifying that refectory. For three dollars women's movement; evolution of sexual so-caUed "left" groups to stance. you'U get three bands, grog stereotypes; stmcture of the fanuly; the auns, goals and A benefit dance for the and munchies. movement of women into work outside For more information about these and the home; certain cross-cultural com the other courses available, hitenul parisons; all related to broader poUticd students are advised to consult the EDITORS'NOTE: The Aust refused to run A.M.P. advertisements to impUcations." Combhied Faculty Handbook (under ralian Marijuana Party dieir election advertise be screened on T.V., ar Extemal Studies), or enquire at the Depart Campaign ments. guing that the Marijuana In 'PoUtics of Nonviolence* students ment's locatkin, 6th Floor, Michie struck serious problems in By way of contrast, Party is rwt advocating examine "the technique of nonviolence as a means for controlling poUticd power BuUding. trying to ^ win votes in FACTS (The Federation drugs but asking the public Queensland. of Australian Commer to support a tJiange in the existing laws. The commercial cial Television Stations) at ««««««««««««f««« telecasters in Brisbane (in- a national level had earlier It seems odd that local eluding Channel 7) given the go-ahead to channels are not abiding by FACTS decision. 1^ THE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC RELATIONS MACHINE (Continued from previous page) ] WE WISH id ADVISE pubUcations, designed to attract mainly should be receiving such material wiU CUSTOMERS THAF OUR NEW overseas and interstate capitd, migrants bave other access to the information they and tourists; need. HtXJRSARE TUESDAY TO b. Partisan dectord gam, through the b. The immediate estatdishment of a X(g/if Gourmet meals use of govemment staff, facilities, access centrally located distribution agency for 26 7 Gtren Tee, Paddbifion and exposure for maximum party benefit; govemment infonnation, pubUcations and I Slk)AY iEVH«N(3S ONLY. c. Intra-state image buUding, through departmental service dkections, manned ph,S6ei963 the use of pubUdty and advertising to by adequately trained information officera 14 CoUhigwood Street, 12:30 to 3:30pm produce an internal conviction that and imbued with the concept that puUic PADDINGTON. ,.,6:30 to llpm(doa^dMonday night) Queendand's much publicised potential relations and pubUc service should be was in fact being, converted to an existing synonymous at a govemment's front ndn] reaUty;and finaUy, d. Putdic service, Le. the use of govem counter. LIKE A CELESTIAL PARKING METER ment information firstiy to inform the c. The Unmediate preparation of a pubUc of government action in order to catalogue of govemment" pubUcatims, (ANS/IP)~fK Catholic church in Baltimore has gone mod together with a review of departinental secure pubUc acceptance and cooperation ern with its ritual lighting of votive candles. Now the and secondly to inform the puhUc of the output to provide coordination and candles are electric and coin-operated. services, benefits and rights avaUable to prevent overiapphig now apparent, and die citizen from the government^ to make posdUe more efficient use of a "By dropping a dime or a quarter into a slot in front of It is this latter functi 26 SEMPER Novembers, 1978 A. PAUL WEBER Hoppla Kulture With so many attempts currently being made to revive sympathy for Nazi beliefs in C5ermany, Britain (The National Front), and even here in Aust ralia, Semper thought it might be timely to republish a collection of rare , anti-fascist cartoons printed in Germany prior to, and during, Hitler's reign. uiHteotM cines OUR LIFE, AB H£R£ lOe SlTlH YIBINAn HAi ' Cl!OM&Le/V«XWC», SHAXe&PeARB SAlPt • ffllDOLE menicA. Pt^SSDOURLin. isntLOUNfonurf " CREEPS IN WS perry HWINeMNA&eO o m'vEiGHOnep 6US. WHILS OUR PACE FROM DAY TO TOAKHP eveitf z cimtuffHrs. TUB NATURAL ff£S SEMPER Novembers, 1978 27 IsThereADan ..'! rm ccrtitaly not giring to {^ up going to rock concerts at Festival HaD, and IVn ccrtabily not going to stop gohig to the Queens, biit jesus sometfahes I wonder vt^etfier the jnice to be paid is worth it Accordhig to Health high frequency sounds very Dept. officials the three easily. 4hz is the first main: factors at work in frequency affected, any potential damage to Warning signs would be hearing may occur are- not being able to hear the loudnen of the sound, tiie telephone or not pickhig its frequency, and the up 'ys" and *Ts" hi number of hours for which conversation. . you have been listening. The k)uder the music By way of example if is, or the more the noise Vta referring to a po cessary, Tve been to con of existence has led to havie suffered a loss too? a band was registering at energy level increases then tential loss of my yearing certs (such as Graham a higher appreciation on anythmg up to 48 hours, over 100 decibels on the the faster a hearing loss As one of a select group Parker's) which were ahno'&t my part of bands which yet you have got it back A scale (which is very could occur because ex- of degenerates who ruined by the music being don't ^vem to this temp at the end. loud), a single exposure posure does not need to regularly rage on in a too loud. There is an tation. (Ihe prlbem is not Nonetheless if you keep to this level probably besotong. totally pissed and stcnied (^timuro level to which hmited.to punk-a member havhig this ' happen (fol coiddn't do any damage. If there is a loss it Is state immediately in front some bands should lunit of the Beach Boys went lowing more concerts or. but if you listened to usually permanent because of huge banks of deafen themselves if they dont tone deaf afto- years of dances) then the temporary this band or others phyhig it can't be rquvenated', ing speakers I haven't failed want to lose the clarity of playing on stage). • damage will tum hitq per at a sunilar level for say and a hearing aid doesn't. to appreciate the con-, their lead singer or even Local smgers such as manent damage. This is three or four nights a week help, sequences. individual instmments. (Of Sandy Pollard who value called a threshhold shift. over a period of years, A linghtg sound or pam Pain on one occasion, courae: if the lead shiger theh hearing stand to one If you want to check then . damage would be in your ean is a suig that plus a total loss of hearing can't smg and the musicians side of speakers to your heaiing'this can some hkely to occur. However they have been affected in one ear for over 36 houis can't phy what have they minimise any potential times be done for free by some people are more and exposed to potential on another. p)t to lose? Yet m Parker's damage. companies such as Sonar susceptible than others, damage. . Obviously I'm going to case this. was not tme). So how serious is the Laboratories in Adelaide If you had. suffere d a Like me you may have keep on raging, but what . Ihe tendency for a lot protdem in scientific and StrMt. hearing loss then you had the experience of a concerns me is that a lot of new punk bands to try medical terms? Is anyone wouldn't be able to hear partial hearuig loss for of the volumen hin't ne to iamplity each other out dse worried that they might - B. BUCK 9|(}|c:K*«}icV«4c*«*Hnf()K4c««««*4(«««>|(4c«iH*«*«)K««*^ bYlNG DIESELS diesds, about : half of which he says look like A Semper staffer, oiit they've been left to die. A CLICHES, PUNK AND CHANGING TRENDS near the Ipswich Railway railway spokesperson said Workshop recentiy, that as far as he knew> WOMEN'S ABORTION ACTION notked a Une of diesels, there were two old English CAMPAIGN most currentiy used and American diesds models, lookhig ' sus which had been involved XBdie" is ^bably the most dai^eroos word in hi smashes and were to be : today's society. Bot the word b used so frequently today .. Free film night for Abortion Rights piciously . abandoned. Curious, tbe staffer scrapped. Most, he said, that it il a dfcJie to say "diche". . 2 FiLMS-Womm Who Hav* Had An Abortion. —Vfcuum Atpiratio'n Abortion: Da- tiiought, the Qld Railways were inior repairs, and the Eveiythhig changes so fast; what is brilliant, spatfclmg and Myftif ying th« ^Mxtton proeadurA; chihns it has a shc^tage workshops were probaUy .esoteric today is cUche tomonow. ' . 7.30pm, 22nd November.SO, Trades Hell. of diesd locomotives waiting for parts to arrive IVends chai^ so fast that you see disoo-bunnies transfotm n^ich wiU presumably from interstate ' or. suddenly into punk rockers because that Is the new bag, even If you wish to support the Campaign contact us at only be aUeviated by the overseas. 221 Coopers Cunp Rd, Ashgrove. introduction of dectriti- though tbe moslG is many decibels kinder and the peopel Donatkms are very welcome to Inlp oppose the But hadn't they been' ate much diirerent pcoposed Lusher Bill pusher is a NSW Liberal member cation.. there for a heU of a long of patliameht)-this bill invi^ves an amendment ia Federsl Why,, just afew weeks : time? After aU, some of-, V It's not what it is or If you asked'a /rendly , them did look Uke rotting, :]^what it represents, its the Uppie of whtat the trend RuBament to remove abortion from the Medibank ago,: the Capricomian to Standard list This wouU put costs up and make Caims was hc)t assigned ai hulks. Wdl, he said,.it •i trend that counti Nothing wo^dbe in ten yeats time, abortions harder ta get does take time to put; 7 more. the last thing on his mind diesd tintU the hist minute If passed it oould abo mean that the.Fedbral Govern- before-departure, when it each diesd through, .you . Society has young people would • be a' ^nsion of. a nient would refuse to fund any agencies stich as Family know. leatherclad, phik^ired, was.diverted from a goods ; «^ere th^ want them; by fanning Bodies which rtfer people for abortkins. train.- •'• v •." •' ; : tiie balls. Bounchig from the green^glassed, . razw- .A quick check three .: new idea that has bounced blade-^wielding neo-teddy. .On cl ^. .SEMPER- Novembers, 1978 'weirdness' isn't enough to puU them through in the long present hi the wails and non-original song on the m lUn. Chi Pig seem to be the closest DEVO approxunate screams of that mad hippy album. present, but their sub-Beefheartian romp 'ts too 'sub-' ArUiur Brown. BasicaUy Jimmy Manzie to actually cut it. CSome audience members has written some very deri DEVO's influence is apparentiy less felt in Akron present at the Queens felt vative but enjoyable than elsewhere. But then of course the 'Sound of; the band were'wankers', but..} material on this new record. Akron' belongs to DE'VO...? Side one provides the -MORTON REEVESBY What might have gotten lost in the flood of over- best Ustening andopens with reaction engulfing the band was the fact that their early "Powderworks" which 1 singles were reaUy promising. Not so much the first one, found especially easy to 'Jocko Homo/Mongoloid', which 1 thought was just sUp into. A few of the DAVID GILMOUR: plain silly (though not without some redeeming tracks exhibit some nifty David GUmour (CBS) feahires), but 'Satisfaction'. 'Satisfaction' was as near guitar work here and there, perfect as a record can be-it alone would've justified these bemg highlighted by DEVO's existence (and all thc surrounding hoo-ha). some good arrangements. There was a time when Had they done nothing more they still would have The dmmming is strong I could never have bdieved been remembered... throughout and is reminis that my liking for Pink The release of their album, 'Q: Are We Not Men? cent (what good drumming Floyd or Santana's "head" A: We Are DEVO', will only serve to tarnish that isn't) of the Who's eaiUer music would wane. memory. It's a bitter disappointment. poundmg efforts. (Dmmmer But it sure has—more so Surely even the sceptics would've expected more Robert Hhst gets up to for Floyd than Santana. than this-something at least idiosyncratic or out quite a few antics during (Carlos seems to have a lot rageous, be it good or bad. Rather than something so performances t make sure of stayuig power.) ordinary, so mediocre, that it leaves little to be said that his presence is felt Very few of the big (ui it s defence). visually as weU). sixties groups have managed Whether or not 'The Truth About DE-EVOLUTION' Midniglit Oil's key to take their music forward actually means anything is made irrelevant. DEVO boards player and guitarist and develop it m any might've got away with aU theh obsessive self-centred James Moginie wrote most greatly innovative way. ranting if only they could've eventuaUy delivered the of the band's material in Ironically Alan Parsons goods; as it is it's more like flogging a dead horse that conjunction with Hhst. who used to engineer a lot it is overkill, and it's just downright bloody annoying. They, are pleasing composi of the Floyd materical as THE AKRON COMPILATION: Even the aioum sleeve recaUs former glories-stills tions and aU of the songs well as the odd Beaties from DEVO's two fUms-and in doing so it sets the Various Artists (StifO move along at a soUd pace album has taken this style stage for what's inside. Of the music itself, four of even if the lyrics them of music further than the ARE WE NOT MEN? WE ARE DEVO: the twelve tracks are making theh second appearance selves are pretty crappy. people he was previously Devo (WEA) on vinyl (though admittedly this time it's different I wasn't aU that un working with (i.e. since he coloured vinyl). DEVO have re-recorded 'Jocko Homo*, pressed with a couple of the commenced undertaking For every action there is an equal and opposite 'Mongoloid', 'Satisfaction' and 'Sloppy', and in each tracks on side 2 particularly solo efforts). reaction. That's a basic scientific prmciple, and one, case the songs have sapped of the tension and "Surfing witii a spoon", The same can't be said electricity that made them exciting in the first place. with due consklerations, that holds tme artisticaUy as but this didn't lessen the for this solo album by The remainder of the albums material- good impression aheady David GUmour, Pink well. 'UncontroUable Urge', 'Praying Hands', 'Space Junk', made by the album. Floyd's vocaUst, key Every artist's work is the result of 'reaction', response 'Too Much Paranoias', 'Gut Feding', 'Come Back -CHIP BLOTTO board player and guitarist to stimuli. Devo come from Akron, Ohio, which (as Jones' and 'Shrivel Up'-wouid be iamiliar: to The album is very remui- if you didn't know) is the mbber produdng capital of DEVOtees as part of DEVO's long-standhig repertohe. iscent of Pink Floyd's later the worid. I'm not gouig to tell you what kind of place In no way do any of these songs equal something iike albums-it is as if time has it is—it has aheady attracted too many cliches from too 'Satisfaction'; apart firom lacking invention they often stopped dead. many unqualified sources. rely on gunmickry (though 'Jocko Homo' is the worst Nonetheless there are Suffice to say it is painted as a city where nothing . offender m that respect), and the playing is lacklustie. some good tracks. One 1 much IS encouraged except local mdustiy; where there's Eno's production does nothing to enhance his particularly like is "Raise reputation, nor affirm DEVO's. Throughout it's a My Rent" which features Uttle to do and less fiiture (beyond working on a characterless, thin sound that only ever comes into some very sensitive lead production Une for either Goodyear, Goodrich or it's own through the quhky vocals, but even they guitar work by Gilmour Firestone)." sound too 'familiar' (not unlike the TaUdng Head's (1 can't ever see myself (Xiviously, such an environment's only salvation David Byme) to make any real impression. ^apologising; for my addic could be found ui DE-EVOLUTION.'..? To teU the tmth, no part of this album impressed tive liking of a good guitar I was quite amused when I heard that Neil Young anything upon me. Only its very emptmess is dis solo). planned to use DEVO ui a nightmare sequence m his concerting; otherwise it's a pomtiess exercise. Uttie more can be said, forthcomhig movie, 'Human Hi^way'. To Young, Stiff should've included DEVO's first two singles CRUISIN' FOR A oUier than if your head whose music has always been very down-to-earth, on 'The Akron CompUation', in place of some of the BRUISIN': stiU fUes high you will dross, alongside Jane Ahe, Rachd Sweet, the Waitresses most Ukely continue to gain DEVO would surely rqiresent a ni^tmare vision of and Chi Pig; then maybe one worthwhile album 01 '55 (Junction) pleasure from the material rock 'n' roll-like m their film of 'Satisfaction'-per- would've resulted from the Akron-over-reaction, rather on this album. forming like androids frantically tiying to break free than two throwaway ones. Yet anotiier chance for of their bounds; cold, hiaird, detemiuied. -C. WALKER all of you sentimental types And that's the 'Sound of Akron'...? to prove your credentials ELLEN McILWyVINE: In the msh. to discover the/a Next Big Thmg, as a rock 'n roll buff. Ellen JMcIiwaine somehow the 'Akron Sound' was conceived and became 01 '55 are offering you (Festival) a contender. So, witii typical feivour, Stiff Records released (self tided) album the nostalgia, and what's clauned to have men m the area liefore other record was that they sounded a lot more on Cruisin' for a companies even knew where to look for it on the map'. Uke the Sports. However Bruisin' they give you the Unlike many of their added bonus of some oc Consequently, it's they who've scooped the pool, and Midnight OS have got to macho male counterparts, casional good Ustening. most female singers have to now we have 'The Akron Compilation'. getiier a smootii act sound shuggte through to a On listening to it, the first thing you reaUse is that Side 2 is my favourite of theh own. (Ihey came recording contract or there's no such thing as any coherent 'Akron Sound'. it featiires "Stay" (While over more impressively in success on the basis of • This compilation might have centred around any one of the night is young) which theh Uve performances than possessing some real talent a miUion American provincial cities. It contains no doubt you've heard al the Ferrets I fed). : essentiaUy nondescript tracks from garage bands like ready; "Summer's Night" Yet even then, their Tin Huey, Terraplane, Sniper, Rubber City Rebels, Comparisons are often and "Peek-a-Boo" for voices and musical direction Idiots Convention and the Bizarros (remember those easy to make and at tunes starters. need some special quaUty All are good tracks, the which forces people in the naraes-youll never hear them again) who are no more MIDNIGHT OIL: the deep bassey foice of lead singer Peter Garreti first two featuring that industry to sit up and Usten. or less than garage bands anywhere across America Midnight On (Powder- (and as stick interesting only as pieces of esoteric trivia). could even sound a Uttle Four Seasons sound witii a Linda Ronstadt or Joni • V The- only discernable (occasional) common thread works) like Gerry; Humphries of touch here and there of MitcheU as solo artists are some famiUar Beach Boys classic examples here. is one Liam Sternberg, who has a hand in most of the The loved Ones. Which pro bably goes to show that his harmonies and arrange Maybe better examples are vbest tracks (and the odd duff one). He penned both Well ^ven tiie fact that sutging style does in ments. Patti Smith and Joan iWhen J was Young' and 'I'm an Actress' for Jane Ahe, last week they played a corporate a fair degree of Armatrading who once and • which at best., are only mUdly diverting pop, and . These are genuinely soUd couple of gigs at the variety. for aU prove that women -produced.. Rachel Sweet's 'Tmckstop Queen' and songs and carry with them Queens, you've aheady had the sense of fun that in the popular music scene 'Tourist Boys\ Sbtteen year old Ms. Sweet has got Midnight Oil arc most your chance to taste Mid pervades many of the other can not only sing powep >-prbbabiy,the most Star Potential (only) because cvery- certainly slick. Theh music night OH. is kept under tight control songs. fuUy but can play as weU. ^''Otihg'abbut'h'erls sufficientiy eccentric. The immediate response despite the introduction of On Side one there is a (Armatrading's concert in . ^.-. But apart from these two ladies, there's obviously an occasional touch of revival of "Ruby" an old Brisbane really displayed I not much about Akron to recommendit . The WaitieMcs of a couple of friends ^en anarchy such as that once dassic, vhtuaUy the only her strengths as an dectric jnii^t mitiaUy attract your attention, but theu- diey heard theu* newly SEMPER Novembers, 1978 29 Stevie Wonder has been and acoustic guitarist). sexist obstades and finaUy NATURAL FORCE: difficult to not compare her (Unfortunatdy tiie "It's taken up on Side 1. The vocal power of gained wide recognition. voice and style with that of a Ripper!" tdevision ad has Bonnie Tyler (RCA) Tyler also takes on her Aretiia FrankUn, and stiige Her self-titied album Rod Stewart, who shigs bmhiwashed me to deatii IMresence of Janis JopUn also provides a good opportunity with an equally 'coarse' with the opening Une ofthe own version of "A Natural Bonnie Tyler is another put to rest any sexist clauns to experienc'e the fuU range vocal style, track.) . Woman", a venion which that women performers and power of her vocal example of a woman singer Natural Force features Yet the album displays doesn't exactiy hnprove on cannot create the same talents. This recording also who features a strUdng the single which Countdown many other good songs. any earUer renditions. sense of excitement on stage features her playuig guitar. quaUty in her voice. and countiess other TV and Brian Cadd's "Yesterday as theh male equivalent Sample it at your nearest I was gohig to say radio, programmes have Dreams" opens side 2 and Ellen McUwaine is one record -bar and you won't "dbthictive" quaUty, recently been giving lots of that old classic "Living ^ANE STONE more female singer who has be disappointed. however it is always play to. . .'It's a Heartache.' For the City" written by overcome the traditional ^ANE STONE fii^nr O* pf/a WHO ARE YOU?: The Who (Polygram) A 2 RECORD SET FROM 1978 could go down in history as the year of the survivors, \^t with new releases by the diehards of rock. The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and now The Who. Whetiier it is useful to draw parallds I dont know but it strikes me as particularly interesting that Who Are You and Misfits (The Kmks latest) have a lot in common ui attihide. They are both very retrospective pieces of work, JETHRO and berth seem to be saymg, "we're aU tued but we are expected to keep making records and anyway, what dse is there to do". The Who have seen a lot words, "I write the same of change in *Jie fifteen dd songs with a few new years they've been together Unes." (New Song). Ent- and it is perhaps to theh whistie's 905 confesses his aedit that they have always loss of the ability to ar TULL tried to bend with the wind ticulate, "every sentence without actuaUy getting in my head, someone else blown away. But it seems has said",'is surely evidence that the Nejiv Wave rocked of a moment lost \BKIU RecoKte and Tapes |^H| some of these old bands The whole proUem is con more than a lot of people venientiy epitomised in the tiimk. closing words of Had This idea comes across Enough, "Here comes the with particular force in the end of the world". titie track. So the story By extreme contiast, goes, a dnmken Fete (and this may be the Townsend stumbled into a album's saving quaUty), the London bar and thought he music exudes every con recognised two members of fidence. This is, I think . the Sex Pistols-he thought what makes Who Are You either Steve Jones or Paul a very pleasant album (if Cook was JOhnny Rotien. not exactiy a masterpiece). On bdng cotrected he There is reaUy nothing began to sense that wrong with bemg intro- scmiehow he had been left ^ective so long as some behind. Even more con- artistic integrity is retained. fushig was the discovery MusicaUy, the Who look that they were both trilled to the past more with fond to meet him snd shocked ness than desperatimi and when he told them The this is inclined to let one Who were aU washed up. relax a bit Completdy baffled, This is somethhig the Townshend ended up Kinks faded to do vrith unconcsiouc on the stieet Misfits. The more I listen and tills is where tite song to Who Are You, the more be^ns. The question "Wlio aestiieticaUy pleasing it are you", is addressed to seems to become. Cook and Jones et al whom Surprishi^y, I've made it he obviously finds quite almost through this piece frightening but also to him witiiout one mention of sdf and the rest of the Who. Keitii Moon's recent demise. The same tone pervades Its probably enough to say most of the album. The that the fhture now look s lyrics are tentative, un- even more sketchy for the confident, shrouded in Who, especially as doubt about the future- Townshend has aheady said, furiously clutching at the "we've lost our alter ego". past They constantiy It wUl be interestmg to see question the vaUdity of where they go from here. what they are now doing The futiUty of it aU becomes , apparent hi the -VIOLA SHARP 30 SEMPER November 8,1978 ^SSliPSlt^ll] SLIGHTLY TROPPO: good laugh from such one- and at times exhibits a from "Free Live" and "Fhe And the counhy music -r- rather poetic sense of and Water", it includes Matchbox (Festival) liners. . scene in this country However Annie Hall v/as humour in his ori^al eleven previously imre- genuindy needs a tbot ia a very personal film and material. leased tracks aU of which the arm of this type if it Possibly because theh somehow managed to , in feamre Kosspffs playing is not going to always records aren't sellhig as weU corporate his jokes into a Many of them were hold to old forms, and as they had hoped, Match very sensitive and non- recorded with the new only maintain a limited box have been belaboured film script Then KOSS: groups he got together with popularity. concentrating more on pro through his excellent dheo Paul Kossoff and friends after spUttmg with Free. Anne Kirkpatrick band moting theh music lately (Such as the Back Street FIRST FLIGHT: ting this fUm acieved a very (Festival) together with Saltbush than on promotuig theh real (humanistic) flow of Crawler Band). and Moose Malone have Westem Flyer (Festival) theatrics. warm and readily identi Buy this album and I'm made a great contribution. Slightly Troppo proves fiable Ufe experiences. For those of you who sure you wiU appreciate towards achieving the The formation of that the move has been However that was Allen recaU the brilliant albums Hhat a great talent Kossoff necessary change. Western Flyer saw both payuig off. As comical as film director and screen recorded by the band Free, was. On one occasion at Matt Taylor and Brian as ever, on this dbum the play writer-this two record the name Paul Kossoff wiU Tamworth I saw a couple Peacock leave their West group has taken a sat tried set Standup Comic allows be meaningful. of members of Saltbush AustraUan commune behind swipe at a lot of current us to hear Alien in a context It was the finesse of participate in a spontaneous diem and go back to a musical fads. more suited to a disjointed KossofFs lead guitar work bluegrass jam which was one touring/recorduig life once Disco cops a blast in the outpouring of some very coupled with Paul Rodger's of the most exciting events more. aptly titied "Lowest funny jokes. vocals that gave rise to the Tamworth had witnessed in However I feel that their Common Denominator" in Yet the emphasis is stUI distinctive Free sound. (In years. (Sadly it has only new material indicates that which the punch Une is very personal, very humani cidentally that same sound been in recent times that while they have been Uving "I'm not one to repeat tarian, was carried over into a new bluegrass has received quietiy on the commune mysdf (chorus-"repeat Allen comments on a band called Bad Company official recognition in the the rest of the world has myself, repeat myself"). wide range of Americans' after Free broke up. . . country music scene in passed them by. NaturaUy the format for social pre-occupations and "we are the bad company Australia.) The hippy overtones to this song and another private fears and foibles. our parents warned us The Twin Rivers album many of their songs take satirising punk caUed It should be amusing about." provides a good inb-oduc- the guts out of much of "Never Mind the ScaUops" listemng for most people This double album set SALTBUSH AT TWIN tion tb Saltbush and in theh material. It is only (I'm gonna make a very bad and even though Allen says has been released as a RIVERS: cludes theh minor hit impression on you) is the tribute to Kossoff whose when the old blues sound at one point "I do not use Saltbush (EMI) "Sassafras Sap". comes to the fore, or when same as that featured in the any sort of consciousness untimdy death (from the However what is en a bit of good guitar or musical style being sent up. expanding materials", for effects of dmgs) only added couraging is that theh harmonica playing is pro In fact a feature of this anyone who does these his name to a growmg list Saltbush together with materid is theh own and duced that some of theh band is theh creative abiUty albums could be doubly of rock 'n roU greats who Hit and Run (botii from theh performances are old flah shows itsdf. to musicaUy match the funny. exited by this means. Melboume) maintain a always able to achieve the I don't think "Provi social content of their lyrics The material is very The surprise conceming reputation for having sort of standards that match dence", the song from the to the roots of what they diverse but maybe a couple tiiis two album set is "that created a modern country theh playing and singing album which received a^ lot are examining. Other good of short extracts will help besides containing such sound which also retains a abiUty. of airplay, is a vety im examples here are the vciy convey a feeling of its classic numbers as "Mr. Big" stiong Australian flavour. pressive track. pleasant track "Sleep", and content- When I saw them Uve "Automation" on Side 1. "I had a traumatic chUd at The Queens I also wasn't All the tracks are worth hood. I was breast fed from overly impressed with theh a play and if you have come falsies. It scarred me emo- TIIE GO BirrWEE? attempted sathe of punk to know the fifties style tionaUy. . .1 wanted to rock because it exposed a number "Chhopodist Shop" hijack an elevator to Cuba." real failure on theh part foUowing its auplay on to appreciate why punk 4ZZZ-FM, you wiU be able M:! came into bemg. to enjoy it on this album SIM Possibly when either too. Matt or Brian catch up As usual Mick Conway's liil good value. There are a few acoustic The essence of Moose No one disputs his abflity Side one, track one guitar numbers included on Malone's success vras always with a giutar but that voice! ^tM features some hard driving the album with aU songs a lot of showmanship, Definitely an acquired taste guitar playing in a song written and ananged by panache, and good fast even for a sympathetic called "Stick Around For Voudouris, but overaU it is moving . rock (even if listener. Rock and RoU" and that is fahly solid material weU country mflue need). .^,, An overdose of some of exactly what all the other worth a Usten. They reaUy do have an tiiese depressmg tracks tracks proceed to hit you Try side 2 for starters- abUity to Uven up an could see you hoUdaying in with. Solid old style, good Voudouris manages to audience. I saw them do Wolston Park in an attempt time music. synthesise many of his this on many occasion s to recover. A great band and a good background at Tamworth. Stick to mstmmentals collection of theh own influences-hard rock, heavy House of Blue lights and intemational poUtics material. Definitdy worth metal, jazzy blues and soul. was theh first album and Leo, buymg if you appredate HOUSE OF BLVE includes some of theh A smark-alec review sub Outiaw rock and eiyoy a stick cover versions of some mitted by V.I. LENIN LIGHTS: touch of countiy. American songs (including (Govt. Hons.) in the in GUTS: Moose Malone (RCA) Kansas Gty Southern, a terests of the proletariat John Cale (Festival) great track) but only a few THE FLORAL Moose Mdone fhst came ori^nal songs. John Cale shouldn't need DANCE: hito public notice hi There is a real need for Brisbane whilst playing at groups Iflte Moose Malone much intioduction to any Brighouse and Rastrick regular Usteneis of 4ZZZ. the Exchange Hotd. In fact to keep attempting to gain ALIENS: His albums are always worth Band (EMI) tijey were at the front line a wider audience for con Horslips (Festival) buying. of the alternatne pub rock temporary country music. scene in (his city. However it is Ukdy tiiat If you ei\joycd the 1975 Someone at EMI has Horslips are an hish tiiey wfll only continue Cale album caUed Slow got a good sense of humor Many a good rage was rock band who have been tiieir success story of Dazzle, you'll also enjoy (thanks Mark). Sometunes had at the Exchange to the Ukened ui style to the bringing a country sound to Guts. In fact two of the I'm tempted to think that sounds of theh "country" Fahport/Stedeye school, dty audiences if they write tracks on this album Semper is viewed as the music. They were also about but resent the comparison. dumping ground for records die least pretentious bunch and record more ori^al ("Guts" and "Heartbreak Theh reasoning is that Hotel") were on Slow that don't sdl. of musos you could meet material-material which isn't quite as derivative as wbUe these other bands Dazzle as weU. I'm not sure what theh too. have been attempting to Roxy Music's PhU THE MONTY PYTHON intention was in sending us Geny on drums, Jim on most of theh songs have been up tiU now, yet stUl revive a dead culture, and Manzanera (on guitar) and INSTANT RECORD this brass band record but pedal sted and Henry on produce pretty faithful up- Eno (on synthesizer) are although we offered it as a guitar. contains as much eneigy. COLLECTION: datings of traditional songs, amongst the musicians sup give-away to the civfl Then they won the talent Horslips write theh own porting Cale this time on The best of some of Uberties movement, so far quest at Tamworth. They recently repeated material, takmg folk myths Guts. we had had no takers. gained a contract with RCA and Iri!^ history for basic Besides Cale himsdf the Python hits again, Vol. I'm not reaUy sure that and a year later should have BURNT LIPS: subject matter, and using other guitarist featured is II (Phonogram) they would wish to march recdved the best new ^t Leo Trotsky (Festival) fragments of traditional Chris Spedding. All songs against Joh to the" time of prize in the NaUonal tunes and textures as an are by John Cale. "Strawberry Fah" or "The Country Music Awards but How the hdl do you No matter how hard I when they fit into the rock tiieme from Shaft". were beaten by some for review a Monty Python try to escape (he fact, context Maybe if the Brighouse gettable group. record? Either you know Leo Kottke sounds like The AUens album charts and Rastrick Band recorded what they're on about or Duiing tl^s period they Leo Kottke. (Whatever tiie initial emigration of the "The biternationale" some SLEEPER CATCHER: you don't. played consistentiy in that means.) Irish to America in the body could find a use for it. Litde River Band (EMI) This coUection actuaUy Sydney and Mdbourne and If you're into his guitar late 1840's and theh even 'IS a "best of collection toured around in theh playing and deadpan voice tual rise to prosperity and famous white tmck with the Shice achieving success ui (hbw disappointing-we tiien this album wfll social prominence. Eamon buffalo homs up front America, the Little River weren't conned after all). naturaUy appeal Carr of HorsUos says that Band have been mUkhig the Nudge, Nudge, SiUy noises. m same easy listening market Constitutional peasants, y fleetwood Mac, Peter Camdot, Bruces, Parrot- Frampton, (Xivia Newton- they're all there. John and even The Eagles. The album finishes witii And this is. the big the Monty Python theme multi-mflUon doUar which caiised me to platinum market. To break remember a re^l life into it caUs for a hi^ly incident which I thought had planned, (cleverly arranged) aU tbe trapping of a Monty approach to choice of Python script (yet John material, choice of sound deese' wasnt anywhere in and choice of marketmg sight). Everything is done to Proceeding down George THE . BUTTERFLY aclueve maximum sales St' one day I noticed a BALL AND THE Pipiomq In Education impact. Now superficiaUy Christian anti-communist GRASSHOPPERS I'm not one to knock hard crusade march underway in FEAST: work or commercial success, tiie middle of the roadway. Roger' Glover and but I find the style and That could have been a conteni .of little River good laugh Ul itsdf but friends (Festival) Would you like :: Band rather anaemic and what reaUy provided the gutless. humour was the realisation The promotkm sur * a relaxed sub-tropical atmosphere ? In fact theh recent tour that for theh marching rounding this album hi- of AustiaUa only confirmed music they had chosen- volved being invited by the * an enriched cultural environment ? my disUke of the band. yes you guessed it-the record company to write Nothing personifies what is tiieme from Monty Python! away and receive a copy ^ superb practical teaching experience ? so mmdless about theh of this rather "mysterious" approach than the sickening record. outiook of theh lead suiger It features the current Glen Shorrock. Ronnie Dio hit "Love I^ ROGER VOUDOURIS: WS0,THENCOmT0,,„„„,,^, His on stage ego tripping AH" which is behig played at the Pop Awards, his Roger Voudouris WEA non-stop over commercial LISMORE and the pre-occupation with the radio. This Uke some of the super star unagery gave mc Califomian vocalist and other tracks is vaguely rem the shits. guitarist Roger Voudouris iniscent of some early NORTHERN RIVERS COLLEGE Give me Johnny Rotten before gaining a solo recor Beatles songs. anytime. At least he doesn't ding contract whh Warner Ihe album itself is a OF ADVANCED EDUCATION kid that thc music industry Bros, toured the US wilh series of heady orchestrd is sunUght pure. his own band acting as a pieces which aU tum around support act for Stephen a common theme-the StUls, Lou Rawls, John butterfly ball and grass to do the Mayall and others. hopper's feast. He is currently managed Vocal style is changed Dip. Ed. for Enc|1ish/History secondary teachers BRING IT BACK by Bruce Cohn who also constantly as various artists ALIVE: handles the Doobie Bros, sing to, or about, contented The Outlaws (EMI) and Tom Johnston. moles, toads, foxes, catet- For application form and further information contact::: His singing style can vary pillars, frogs, lizards, long The Secretary, This two record set slightly, but he is pre eared bats, and mice. features some of Ihe best dominantly into rock I'll leave any ollegoricd Nordtern Rivers College of Advanced Education, tracks of the Outlaws re inspired baUads. His voice meanings for you and aU P.O. Box 157, corded live at comcerts held can occasionaUy sound a your wombat friends to USMORE N.S.W.2480 across America in 1977. Uttle like BiUy Joel's, yethe discover. Striaght up and down is reaUy a versatile perfor In the meantime catch rock *n roll is the basis of mer with an abflity to the anhnated cartoon which telephone (066) 21 2267 this double album rieease transcend such easy cate> accompanies "Love .Is All" and at $11.99 it offers gorizations. on television. 32 SEMPER November 8,1978 ssiipsii nsnsws what it is sayuig is not And witii the hdp of the to set your mind loosely score can be to a movie. obviously the record com very favouraUe to their synchranised musicd The Everage White Band, Edna floating then this is the A nim as great as News- panies don't think it is. JazzSinger. Iri^ cousms. sets out to prove that "AU band for you. front needed the exceUent The opening track 4ZZZ have been giving The records feature AustiaUans aren't superb Tim Weisberg took up atmospheric build-up and souhds like a combination actual didogue from some some aiiplay to a few singera" despite another of flute for rather unroman- support that this diverse of High Noon, Tchaikovsky tracks from this album of the old greats. Edward her claims on the cover tic reasons-in music dass coUection offers. and Dark Sidz of The Moon. G. Robinson m Littie particularly one caUed that they are. at school it was just about If you have seen the ActuaUy that's a bloody "Speed tiie Plough" which Caesar, Cagney m Yankee Yet even if like myseU the only instmment left movie (or even if you exaggeration-the list of Doodle Dandy, Bogart in initiaUy (because of its you can't handle the vocd when he was given his haven't) it wiU be easy to fifteen vocalists who appear jaunty flute playing) could Casablanca, Bette Davis, 'qualities' of Dame Everage chance to choose. sUp into the forties and on the album might give (Mivia be Havilland, Micky be mistaken for a Jethro then you can at least He later changed his fifties tone of most of these you a better understanduig T\iU number. Rooney.. .the Ust is endless. appreciate and enjoy the dassicd orientation to jop songs. of the style. Like I said another col Give this dbum a try, highly amusing lyrics and and rock and subsequently A wide variety of old Just namuig Maddy Prira- lector's piece. Keep in mind you may end up apprecia better than everage produc fby a lot of determined styles ranging from Chad hom Steeleye Span and that the records are mainly ting what HorsUps are at tion work and arrange effort arranged for himself Morgan's CSCii to tht Justin Hayward from composed of non-stop tempting to do. ments. to open a lot of CaUfomian schmaltz of many of the Moody Blues would be a dialogues from fdm sound- IronicaUy the best track concerts with acts such as Les Welch songs through good start. Complement tiacks-film buffs would both musicaUy and vocally Buffy St. Marie and Frank. to fifties rocker number theh voices with just about love it, others might not. for me was the punk rock Zappa-in fact Weisberg "Hound Dog" provides you every instrument ever in satire "S&M Lady" (by worked with anyone with what is essentiaUy a vented and an even better Edna EvU and the Ratbags). needing a support. mood coUection-this album understanding should be If you saw the recent His music has been is essentially a coUector's gained. Barry Humphries television described m publicity blurbs piece. Then there is also the special you would dso rccaU as simultaneously "visceral give-away name Mandala the closing number "I Miss and intellectual, intricate band. Two and two makes My Norm" another equally and simple, rocking yet four. . .Wortii a listen. surr humourous musicd send up. melodic", a hyped up \VA1;>U-.:' •I -• !^#^•vt'i•^j??>:v^;;;;^o•:;^:..,.' However I'm stfll not description which for once sure it's worth a seven dollar isn't too far removed from CATiHr •; outlay. tiie truth. .\\::\.\:-. U'hi;. In the steps of Jesus Christ Superstar—Ulysses, (, ,',.."•'.• '•'.. - "".''' The Greek Suite. THI''. S(JiJ.Ni) -^'i NEWSFRONT: Just another average 1; *'»•'(•••<'I--'-•• '••'• ••'. '••/•• This is a concept album !'1)NA: y Vnl! 1!! 1 Original Film Sound «^tte band (with a biack l-i.niic !.''.ci[l;; I'.w;.;-; :; . il-^^-i.y'.--''.'.-^ .••>ivi.-^'"; which left me cold. The track featuring recor dmmmer). same old story-double (coiirlcs)- oi' li.'iiv dings of Jo Stafford, I'm afraid I've never been album set, free illustrated, able to get into the funky [!uni])!iiic:.) l'h()i!n,'..-ain. Les Welch, Chad i-u'.-- ;• ,-• .•.: '.I---:.- - ...'.I ••'••••- 16 page book with lyrics, style of music AWB play, heavy orchestration. Morgan, with incidental but people who are into "I hope there is some music by William 'it would know that AWB This "project" takes us ROTATIONS: i.' ••.-....".T ; ;V •'_;- •'••• ••'.!•''- :'•<•. •'•' 'on a joumey to Ithaca thing on this record for Motzing (EMI) achieved quite a reputation every taste, whether you be The Tim Weisberg Band for themselves when they /•- .i,,:^- .'i :-J,;; :^/^(j^-!.f^t. with Ulysses to the accom a housewife or a senior (Festival) Upon listening to thb originaUy started recording. Tl)i{ C:.OU^''.>i A(;ii paniment of such deep citizen, a baby sitter or a compilation album it is easy However I find their Oi-TUnnOI :A:'U'}C)r) lyrics as "What would you give to be home again" beatnik", says Dame Edna If you're lookmg for to fuUy appredate how im music too repetitious, too STARS; on the album cover. portant a good musical reminiscent of disco. (The (an apped to Ulysses as he some non-heavy ahy music OiiL^iii,!! ;M)iiiuitnick commences his homeward «.»*•• •MtlMl»«W»gIS X sexist cover on the record •sxaaaauK ixnzmiz featuring a nude woman din I OJI It: niiisi-: ;:»<] voyage). in a steaming batii doesn't soiii;-: fro)-i-< .•^(l \V;'.rncr His encounter with the appeal to me either.) Ul-'!-;. I*:'(!<]i!i'iiciis i'?26- Sirens turns out to be about l<>-19(F^.siiv.:l) as exciting (musicaUy) as JAZZIDXUR Peter Paul and Mary singing Tommy. Another dennite col If you're looking for a THE EYE OF lector's item for the nos new concept forget WENDOR: taliga''buff. Ulysscs-tiy sometiiing a PROPHECIES Side one opens with a Uttle deeper Uke Blankety recording from that great Blanks. Mandalaband (Festival) invention —//JC vitaphone Or altemativesly take a (the vitaphone?). And this leaf out of Ulysses book- Well tills isn't exactly track features none other tie yoursdf to a mast and heavy rock. Who said head dian AI Jolson singing stuff your ears with bees music was out of style- "Mamie" from the first wax. Mature...liberated...rational childless couple.. .willing to pay ten thousanddollarsto suitable female prepared to— STUDENT RUSH AFTER Spm $2.50 If you'reinterested,andwouldlikeloknowmore...then book quickly for Twelfth Night Theatre Company's outrageous new comedy Mothers and Fathers.Simply phone 52 7622or 52 7843. Agency: Her Majesty's Theatre 221 2777. Runs to Saturday November 11. ENCORE DRAMA GROUP niE(UWHnEl,WnEKOItD GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY PUYSJUZ presents We wanted you to enjoy the new Logan Room at the Club Hotel even more so we found one of the best Jazz Bands around - Allen Collmge and Good Time Jazz, and let them take over on Saturdays, from 1pm CHURCHYARD until 4 o'clock. They'll play everything you like, so sit back and listen, or rattie the dance floor. Come for lunch, or just a cold drink. We've got the entertainment - now by PAUL COLLINGS the entertainment wants you. Stop in on the way to the Coast, or come over for the afternoon on the banks of the Logan River. "The Parts of Love Lead^ButToJheGraYgl* GRIFFITH UNI CINEMA 9th, 10th, 11th NOVEMBER ADULTS $3 STUDENTS $1.50 Main Road, Waterford. Phone: 200 5322 5,,, I BOOKINGS PHONE 275 7373 SEMPER Novembers, 1978 33 repressed state of his inner disorientated and maybe HARLAN COUNTY •mE feelmgs. a little depressed. The street U,S.A.: SCROEKTS outside was really no dif There is no real hap Rialto Theatre, West piness in this film, it is ferent to nonnal but it UUMAHH very bleak throughout- seemed to hav^ a different End. t DAVID meaning, a strangeness not JkCARDADlHE here is a society lacking faith and confidence as it present before I saw the In an earlier preriew in undergoes a severe fdm. Semper I gave a bit of a THE SERPENT'S EGG: econoniic depression. The fascist contempt for run down of what Harbat Directed by Ingmar Beigman presents us with life and obsession with County is about and all death during this dark Beigman, ViUage Twin, a hellish nightmare-is he I can say after seeing it period of history is exposed New Farm. attemptuig to say that is that it was a bit of a these conditions were the in the experiments being roots of the growth of condcuted on huinan beings let down. In my normal rush to fascism. in a secret clinic posing Maybe it was because get my copy m, I manned In any case only as an archives centre it took so long getting to let fly with a couple of Ullman's role conveys any (Beigman sets out to capi here and all you could loose, hiadequately ex- real sense of humanity. talise on the filmic and get was vague reports plamed opmions hi the Amidst scenes of men visual qualities of these about how good it was.' last issue. catching rats for food, archives scenes). This couldn't help but boost its reputation a Ihey concemed some pulling strips of fiesh off A belief exists that bit, and then there was criticisms of the duection a dead horse, her spirit Hitler should not be taken seriously, he is lacking in the fact that it was made some of the old "estab- carries on. CRIA CUERVOS (RAISE RAVENS): But conditions get inteUigence and is - in by a woman-often that lided" European alone gains a lot of extra Directed by Carlos Saura, starring Ana Tarrent, worse as money is ex articulate, however a saviour fihnmakers have been, takmg changed by weight (even will come and unite the solidarity publicity fo some Getaldine Chaplin et al, Schonell Theatre, in recent times. notes) and the face value country (bring out its films. St. Lucia. In my review of Die of currency becomes strengUis). In any case, it was ex Marquise Von 0 I criticised meaningless. Even the police The irony is that . the cellently made, gave very it is extremely disappointhig when a great film is Godard, Visconti, Beigman chief who is struggling to "saviour" was Hitler. comprehensive co verage to the miner's strike and the screened in Brid)ane and attracts only a sniall audience. and Jansco for being pre keep up with a series of Overall The Serpent's tentious bourgeoise responses of all involved, After all how often does an unportant film tum up in deaths fears for democracy. Egg represents a slight directors and for often change of direction for but it was still essentially thb chy. Fear and paranoia fostering in audiences an abound but for a while Bergman. Although still a a documentary of the type Qia Cuen^s ("Raise Ravens") is an important film. acceptance of a lot of eveiyone is tiying to cany difficult filni (Fro still not you see on T.V. The excellence of this production reaUy can^t me by obscure, esoteric nonsense. on as "nonnal". sure of exactly what aH Without belittling the surprise because for some time there has been virtually Now most of this 1 Amidst this climate, nazi of it was supposed to mean) importance of the issues no mq'or cinematic production worth raving about at feel is true however I thugs in uniform^ rove the. it was not quite as pre I feel that there are just the Schonell. ^^^ ^^ j^^^ 3„,j ^^^ ^ didn't clarify that I was streets, jews get their occupied with the iimer as many equally vital, referring in the main to complexities of human social questions to take Yet earlier in the year yoy tune into what it is heads ba^ed in for being their later not early films. "decadent" and under relations (which ahs become up, which can be expbred we were treated to A doing. As always the' success of such a standard theme for more creatively on fihn Whole Lifetime, Annie Hall Geraldme Chaplm and alf mining German society. their excellent and inno The so called Jewish this director). (for later release into and many other highly the supporting cast give vative earlier features cinemas). excituig nims. conspiracy is now the scape By comparison to his '-excellent portrayals of the seemed to go to their heads other recent fihns it has a Anyhow this new film characters they have been goat for all that is and a lot of obscure non happening.' more "readily" definable by Carlos Saura, which is assigned, sense posing as highly in- At times the atmosphere plot despite its often coupled with another carjog Saura revives tellectucat content was the Beigman creates is Uke a disparate nightmare SCHONELL REDUCES HEARTBREAK HOUSE: By George Bemard Shaw. La Boite Theatre, Hale St, ph. 36 1622. Shaw once wrote that as a classic writer of come dies his busmess was *to chasten morals wi& ridicule*. In 'Heartbreak House' Shaw does this admiraUy. It is a summer weekend in Captain Shot- over's country mansion during WWI, and we have a curious assembly of people who revolve around the imperious bohemianism of his dder daughter He sione and the equally un- perious respectability of bis younger daughter Ariadne. From the moment the Teryaki Sandwiches Toasted Sandwiches THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS: play begins in the 'Poop' by Steve J. Spears, presented by the Griffith of Captain Shotver's house, Beefburgers & Lamb-burgers Shaw's incisive scalpd is at Players October 10th-14th Griffith University work until each character Chips and Salads Cinema, is exposed and each pose dissemUed. Heaone's young CHARCOAL GRILLED Kebabs of marinated friend EUie moves from Steve J. Spears "new play', There Were Giants in Beef, Pork, Lamb, Scallops ITiose Days presented by the Griffith Players is the naive candour to cold design in her plans to marry an andVegetabiesll inside story of the superheroes-this time within a ageing capitalist whose surreal/slapsdck format. ethics in tum are revealed A year after Batman's spUtting laughs that would to be as ignominious as deadi, Robin caUs have made it uproariously the burgler who stages a Desserts, Coffee, Tea, theft at the mansion. moumhig party for aU the successful. Fruit Juices, Soft Drinks- superheroes which only Perhaps it was the Hesione's husband Hector Wonderwoman and Super seriousness of seeing our Uves a Ufe of Uiusbiy and heroic romance thou^' man attend. superheroes in a dilemma HOURS: that kept me sobered. There he is as idle a hipdog of It seems that prior to Hesione's as Randall the his death, Batman had for- is, after aU, a touch of 10.00 A,M.-2.00P.M. real pathos ui Wonder- Rotter is of his sister-in- seen the future and plotted law Ariadne. 6.00 P.M.-12.00 PM the -events of this meeting woman's Une "we're not with the aun of designating responsible. . .can't you Ariadne's snobbery is • LA TE NIGHT ON WEEKENDS! a new guardian for Gotham hear them tinning the comic such that she equates aty.' book pages?" horses and the hunt wiUi •It's not enough that At any rate the tired the only good class of pretty boy Robin prove his American accents of the society and Hesoine's wit manhood on the local performers-and slowness of and charm make it harder thugs, but Superman him some sections detracts from to detect that her free- sdf must taste what it is to this air. thinking unconventionaUty Phone: 370 8106 be a man made There was an unsatis is only a sophisticated form vuhierable but gloriously fying emptiness that the of romantic frivoUty. EUie's drunk, .on watered-down actors themselves seemed to father, reputed to be a kiyptonite. communicate-very funny soldier of freedom, has 'Wonderwoman, looking but what next? nothing but the language appropriately luscious and In its good moments and appearance of a city laconic meanwhUe pulls ali however the play is veiy nussionary'. the snide one-Uners. entertaining as audience Finally there is the ^Tbe tone is thus one reaction seemed to prove, remarkable character of ofiif.fast, sharp bawdiness Robin boasting of his Captain Shotover who deals within this bizarre setting. exploits in downtown in nautical metaphor and But somdiow I could not Gotiiam City is contrasted sagacity although his attain quite^'work up the side- wonderfully with his con ment ofthe •seventh degnse' SEMPER November 8.1978 35 are priced anywhere from for a week having been drummer, Greg Sheehan. part of what they have 35 cents for chips to $1 launched by a wdl known Oeis and Greg in con written. for the orders containing trendy left wing Attorney junction with lead gui "River Song" is one of meat. General, so now is your tarist Ian Treloar compose theu* compositions which Desserts aU cost around chance to discover the place and arrange the material for readUy comes to mind so Sl.lO. Banana spUts, and weU before everyone else Sounds. far as this goes. four different types of does, With a rock style so ' It really is great seeuig sundaes are the choice. IncidentaUy, if John and reminiscent of the early the way foraier conser Try the rum_and raisin. Barry's names seem seventies, it was easy to vatorium student Qels While you're eating in strangdy famiUar, yes you suspect that Sounds From Pearce woiks her electric the relaxed environment of have been listemng to them Earth might not take off violin into each number the Cafe check out the daUy on 4ZZZ. vrith the punk orientated (the vioUn is wired in the Depression photos on the -BRUCE DICKSON Brisbane audiences, however same manner as an electric walls, particularly the blow their sound remains highly guitar). She too obviously up of a young Job Bjdke- original and fuU of the enjoys her music, but just Petersen standing besides energy that only their in as importantly the what looks like his first STOP PRESS: On weekends, strumentation and arrange audiences she gets to meet Hungry Years will be opening as ments can provide. through it. car. tate as 2 or 3 am, so get abng The Hungry Years has and take advantage of such rare Greg makes a lot of Bus Fenwick is the only been open for business seivice to the public. use of percussion. Anything Sounds bass guitarist and from key rings to chmese is another highly experien gongs-you name it he'U ced muso. try it and what's more If you want to hear an he does it with incredible energetic yet abnost spiri flair. His pleasure in what tual band which by the he does infects the sheer quaUty of its musk audience. This is a great has survived the changhig band to hear outdoors trends in rock music have under the sun in a Uve per a Usten to Sounds From formance and every sound Earth next time they come they introduce into their to town. MOVE IT ON OVER: of the Thorogood band music is not there as a -MORTON REEVESBY Gewge Thorogood and defies that. ^mick but as an int^al Thorogood's great dide the Destroyers guitar work totaUy (Stockade) dominates the basic dmms and bass backing and THE OTHER VOICES: THE HUNGRY YEARS CAFE: leaves no room for side As one of the great Curry Shop (Upstaks) 6 Sherwood Rd, Toowoi^, living Uuesmen put it, "the tracks. (370 8106), BYO, charcoal grilled meat dishes, blues had a baby and they And when you take open seven days a week, snacks lOam, lunch named it rock and rdl". on that sort of pressure It was a case of audience confusion when a Brisbane to play under, you either time grills 12-2pm, Evenings 6-12pm. No one reaUy knows band made its debut at the Curry Shop recendy. do it or just become another And who can blame them? ^0 the father was and pale imitation. Its nice to be able to end 1978 with some good news, any paternity suit would George refers to his Having become accus Respected Man and Dd and the good news thb time is The Hungry Years Cafe Irobably have to be repertoire as traditional tomed to the Curry's fairly Shannon's by now famous at Toowong. dtared by pcc^le like rock "n' roU-have a Usten solid output of pumping, revival, Runaway. It is remaricaUe that the westem suburbs of Brisbane Elmore James, Bo Diddley to the Diddley song "Who snarUng musical anarchy, Common to these and here was a four-piece guitar and Chuck Beny. Do You Love" and you'U other stuff Uie band does have for so long been so badly provided for in the way band stretching itself from is a reliance on the hi of good restaurants and pubs. That rock and roU baby know what he means. Torogood has a soUd dd pop standards to a dependent strength of I once estimated that about a quarter of a million has taken on layers of touch of Dylan (at his songwriting claries, like the sophistication since the reputation for bdng people on both sides of the river (over this side of town) genuindy mto music for rockiest, of course). old T Rex number, Get it are befaig "served" by only five or six hotels. fifties. R&R changes but After paying Lip Service On, which has a mood and deep down thc beat doesn't. pleasure and not profit, Obviously our socially restrictive licencing laws and dislikes the commercial to Elvis Costdlo to pen povwr regardless of volume. George Thorogood and their short bracket, they The Other Voice has a are aUowing a select few to make a fortime. the Destroyers know this. trappings of stardom. OK George, you're good. drove their way through a rather uncanny skiU in its The result is the "RE" Most of the white blues concoction of material sdecticHi of scmgs, cutting However I am some and R&R bands of the last Elmore James, Chuck scene (lump it or like it) what out of step vrith the Berry and Bo Diddley are including such sucties across the usual rcrival when you want to grog decade and a half bave greats as the Kinks' Wdl mania. opinion of a lot of other given their music-par- aUve and weU on his on, or largdy pizzas and people over this matter. second album, Move It On Chinese food if you wrant ticulariy the guitar work- The cuUnary concept the sophisticated treatment Over. to eat. behind tbe restaurant (bor -DAVID JAMES Now Toowong VUlage The basic sUde guitar, AUSTBAUAN CUNCEOT DfTBITAIKMENT rowed from a similar estab drums and bass line up ptexw becaue of Its accessibility lishment in France 1 by public transport,centraI believe) has already become location and very close a vrinner with r^iulars. EIVIS proximity to the westem I should quickly clarify suburbs most popular pub, that while I find that the COffTELLO has always been a sitting appeal of such food wanes AND THE JCmtJiCnONS duck for the siting of a for me after a whUe (to very successful restuarant- me a kebab is neariy always particulariy one in tune just a kebab) virtuaUy aU with the social and the dishes on the Huiigry economic life of local in Year's menu are prepared SOUNDS FROM EARTH: habitants. with great care. D'AngeloY , altiiough Fotum Area and Freddo's, Unhrersity of Qld The meats (you choose Union. 'located at Toowong has from Indonesian beef, never had the makings of a Chinese beef, Chinese pork, "scene". But now Hungry Armenian Iamb and It is hard to foiget a night spent getting amul- Years, a jomt venture by scaUops) are marinated in taneously high on idx different dmgs on|y to have your the entrepreneurial team of appropriate wines and mind further blown out by some amazmg boogie music. John Woods, Barry Weston, sauces before they strike This happened on campus sewral years ago at a per- and SaUy and Mal Lennan, the (genuine) charcoal grilL fonnance ofthe band ^/flcAenz/e Theory. has fiUed the gap. The result is tender, The restaurant wOl be Well Mackenzie Theoiy no longer exist (and neither tasty meat which .'contains do all those drugs) but at least the spirit of Rob (actuaUy it^.already is) an a subtie undercurrent of overwhelming' success for whatever flavour has been Madcenzie and his musicians Ungers on ni Sounds From both its owners and . for added. Earth' those people looking for Yet the option of coating An essential part of the the new Earth band she has a new haunt. the kebabs with a stronger Just look at its most old Theory saani was the helped to fonn. dose of these sauces (after electric vioUn of Cleis Also canyuig over from important credentials-a they have been griUed) great location, great Pearce and Qds now plays Rob Mackenzie's band is would be a wdcome extra. an equaUy vital role ui the Sounds From Earth management, great cUentde, (e.g. a thick satay sauce and an excdlent decor'and with the Indonesian). atmosphere. Prices range from S3 But what about.the food to $4 for these main IF YOU NEED JOJOZEP&inEHlLCONS itsdf. Well I have to be courses. Each is served vrith AFTER-SCHOOL CARE IN 1979 honest, I would have pre a rdl, bread, chips and MONDAY 4TH DECEMBER ferred a different style of salad. At lunch tinie prices Contact food, (Uie menu is largdy FESTIVAL HAU ;• ^ ;: ' . .v on th^se dishes drop by . PUYHOUSE geared towards kebabs and TICKETS $9.50. ind Fttthral HatI Booking Otf)e« - $1. ^ Qld Uni; Union ph. 3711611 Exl 34 burgers). If you had < ever A range 6f cheapsnacks' • Phone enquiriM 229 42ro y' • .:^^- tasted John's home cooking includuig toasted sand 77CKE7S on «te from 8.30 Am! Monday. .;'^ you would know why I Daily or weekly bookings at reasonable rates wiches, beef ..and lamb- •'••'" •" •-' '•'' .'•- • -.'•".-• ''•:-','.'XiUic ' feel this way. txirgers, salads and chips in SEMPER Novembers, 1978 Although the guitar RandB4nsphred Dylan to do it tnd draws together work tended to be a bit number, Subtenanean over ninety categories of sloppy at tbnes, the Homesick Blues, the band's useftil information essential infection was there, and efforts could wdl have been to communal weU-being I reckon the more they in vain. and mdividual happmess play, the more victims they Watch your parking and security. must take. meters, but hear the Other Some people might have Voice. THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF BODY Everything from dmgs to change their dancing STOP PRESS: The Other MAINTENANCE: and laundry to tdephones style. Voice has changed its name. Edited by Oliver Gfllie and Derrik Mercer and cop-outs. But if-you couldn't find It is now The Apartments. (Michael Joseph Limited) $12.95. your feet for "Die Otiier's -DAVE WARNER You may feel that some version of the fo what she says is only The Sunday Times Book of Body Mahi' middle class mbbish but on tenance is an invaluable guide to Uving and health, the whole it makes for good despite the fact that lots of rival manuals exist. readuig and more often than not-good sense. It is a no nonsense many of thc so caUed 'wives ^xUMM^ms book-weU explained, tales' and myths about hy clearly and succmctly giene and food etc. (e.g. written. (Possibly the reason those concerning what it covers what you actuaUy happens if you cut the hair THE CULTURE AND juana arc the same plant. WALLS SOMETIMES SPEAK: want to know is that on your legs, and otheis MANAGEMENT OF Cannabis sativa L. Growi readers of the Sunday Times Schonell Theatre, St. Lucia concerning use of tablets HEMP: it in 3 cool, moist climate had a hand in its making). etc to clear up colds). and you produce hemp An effort has been made By Francis Campbell, lhis two part exhibition which has just finished It also tells us why for fibres, paper, rope. to give you soUd medical M.D. includes 'The at the Schonell once and for aU discounts the notion coughing during a cold is Grow it in hot cUmates knowledge in plain language important and why waUcing Complete Guide to and you produce mari that AustiaUan artists cannot produce superb graphics (something more doctors in barefeet is healthy. Growing Marijuana' by juana, hashish, ganja. wall posters. should think about doing). It has a great section Dave Fleming (Wild & Its contents have been up the back on what to do The inspiration for these Woolley) $3.95 pub The accounts of hemp European poUtical po.sters verified by top medical in emergencies and some brilliant, multi-coloured have had a high reputation experts. lication 14th August growing in AustraUa in screen prints came from good advice on the for many years and they The book is weU illus 1978. 1844 by Francis Camp the Sydney based Earth forces at work when some seem to have influenced trated and set out-making beU, M.D. and two pieces works CoUective. one is seriously contempla repreinted from the some of this work in it immensely easy to read ting suicide. This group operates graphic style if not content and foUow. Agriculture Gazette of (This section teUs you New South Wales in 1983- out of the Sydney Univer (many of the members of It answers aU the how to handle it, and also 'Hemp: Commonly known sity Architecture Dept. Earthworks are anarchists questions about health and conveys the fact that half as Russian or Italian Hemp' Art Workshops affeo- not marxists). sickness you would usuaUy the people who commit by J.H. Maiden and 'Notes tionatdy known as the I believe that one artist ask. (It even has an in suicide consult thdr famUy on Experiemtns with Hemp Tinsheds'. from this coUective has just teresting section on alcohol doctor in the previotu week, (Cannabis Sativa) in New returned from Cuba after including what determines All of the posters con and over 70% in the South Wales' by G. Valder, studying theu: particular how quickly you get vey poUtical themes but previous .1 months). are important not only for approach to graphic arts. pissed). theu: verbal intent is cleveily The whole approach of Here is the complete their agricultural appUcation Many of the poster col The Book of Body Main devised and thdr visual this book is very healthy. guide to growmg mari but also for fiUing out the lection on display at the tenance quickly explodes -BRUCE DICKSON juana in AustraUa. content so exceUentiy de SchoneU can be ordered very sketchy picture of drug signed that they would through the Red and Black usage m nineteenth century have an impact on just Bookshop, Elizabeth For hemp and mari AustraUa. about anyone. Arcade. censorship bodies and the Cuban and Eastem -JANE STONE censors themsdves. What 9&us tiiey objected to then and now are included in the research. DISPATCHES: By Michael Herr, \at (Picador) $3.50 papc^ THE ART OF LIVING back. TOGETHER: By Pat Woolley Ihis book concerns Ulustrated by Bob Daly, the human dynamics of THE ANATOMY OF HUMAN (Visa) $3.95 paperback. war and uses Vietnam as DESTRUCTIVENESS: Its case study. Well we all know about By Erich fromm (Penguin) $3.95 paperback. Herr was one of the few independent reporters the potential hassles of covering the war and this living together. Students are HAIR CARE FOR WOMEN & MEN If any book deserves better than a short review book reteUs his experiences only too often (for reasons Iflce this, the Anatomy of Human Destructiveness and those of many soldiers of economics and sheer REASONABLE PRICES does and possibly this will be arranged for a future he met. loneliness) placed in a issue. It raises unportant position where group living 39 WOODSTOCK STREET, TOOWONG Lewis Mumford once said of it "If any smgle book questions about the psy is essential. PHONE 370 f792 (not Mondays) could bring humankind to its senses, this book might chological forces at work In this book, Pat Woolley qualify for that miracle. . .This book is the product not only on the combat examines what motivates us of one of the most alert, the most penetrating and troops in the insane the most mature minds of our time." circumstances that war creates, but on the reporters How tme. OUce Herr himselO who are Fromm explores and book-every page coutams covering it. inteUigently analyses so so much stimulat >ing Definitely worth reading. much about our character. material to think about There wUl be a fuller review He explodes myths arising Yet in the undeistanding? in a future issue of Semper. out of Darwin's and other we gain there is an in 'scientists woiks-e.g. he credibly positive, op ; makes it clear-defensive timistic feel which is the aggressive between animals direction Erich Fromm FILM CENSORSHIP IN 'is solely designed to achieve wants us to reaUze is pos AUSTRALIA: peace and maintain har sible. By Ina Bertrand (Uni mony. So concepts'such as Buy it, you won't regret versity of Qld Press) :,'territoriaUty' can be easily it. Even if the ideas are j. misundentood by us and hard slogging occasionaUy, $9.95 paperback. {made to appear totiiUy if you stay with it, there ridevant to humans when is much to be gained from Ihb book gives a :''they aren't. reading it. detailed histoiy of tbe ci^ He also examines the -MORTON REEVESBY cumstances ' under which yobsession with death (and fllm censordiip has been .rsymbols of death) evident operatmg ui Australia. lin teh "necrophiliac" ADVERTISING *!; personality-he cites Hitler It describes ui detaU the IN SEMPER way control'over exhibited ^as a case In point and hdps LANG PARK CAN WORK FOR film content has been exer I us to potentially understand TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21st 7:30pm cised from the early :.!the basis of oppressive and YOU TICKETS $12.50 dnematograph showuigs to phone 3711611 Tdestractive actions under- the more petmissive FESTIVAL HALL BOOKING OFFICE |taken by aQ sorts of people seventies. ph.enq. 2294250 |froro time to tbne. Also examined are the SjvjsiTM? i*.* ***y important SEMPER Novembers, 1978 37 has become total war. To the very conservative heads state becomes a reaUty a^ unvritting assistant fight botit Worid Wars, of US intdUgence agencies. depends not so much upon in die CIA's LSD projects.) Sllo^ks whole countries had to be The presidents act on ad die efforts of the crypto- The book leaves • me mobiUsed, eitiier to fight at vice recdved from the crats, but upon the free witii tiiree general con- the front or to supply those uitdUgence agencies. wiU, determuiation, and dusions. Fint, any attempt at the front Contemporary Kennedy was apparentiy strength of character of to reduce the CIA's powen guerrUla warfare is also total foolish enough to get in the American peopLe. is, in effect, not so much a war. In tiie Vietnam war, tiieu- way and suffered for lhat is not an optimistic project aimed solely at the leaders of the it. conclusion! the CIA but a more general Provisiond Revolutionary No book review could After all, look around project auned at reforming Government were more do justice to these chapters. you. How many Australians society as a whole, successful at moUisuig the 1 urge people to read the do you know who are bicidental alterations to Vietnamese than US presi book and make their own Ukdy to read this book? the CIA are not lenough; dents were at mobUising assessment. In particular to Of those who do, how many there has to be a more the Americans (snd examine Bowart's claim that wdl bother ta follow it up? thoroti^ overbaui of the AustraUans). "an invisible coup d'etat On tiie contrary, most entire US poUtical system. This book is an ex had taken place in the AustraUans-Uke most Second, AustraUa cellent introduction to United States; that the CIA Americans-are aheady pro receives no attention in the psychological warfare. It is only the tip of the cryp- grammed. book. But U is Ukdy our also sets you thinking about tocracy iceberg; and that Most people have been own agents will have come tile cold war-Worid War ultrasonic and electrical lulled mto believing that the into contact with the CIA's 111. When the cold war memory erasure was used indiridual can do littie to work. We know far less began, it was fought not so to protect 'search and affect decision-making in about ASIO, etc. than. much with conventional destroy' operatois from poUtics. They are already Americans know about their weapons but with psy their own memories." drugged-not so much by' agencies. This book should OPERATION MIND CONTROL: chological warfare. World This detailed and pro LSD but by the mass stimulate AustraUans into by Walter Bowart. Fontana. $2.95. War III has been marked vocative book ends: media (a painless form of thinking about their own by the suspicion generated Somewhere within the administering sleeping tab society. of aU Soviet intentions and United States the Tech lets), drink and dope. (The FinaUy, even if the book On November 18 1953, Frank (Xson and seven other the abUity of westem nology for the Creation of* book has a few pages on itself is pessimistic, the mere men were given LSD in glasses of colntreau, an orange- poUticians (including the die perfect slave state is the highpriest of the drug fact that it exists is a sign flavoured liqueur. Olson suffered "serious aftereffects" Queensland Premier) to being perfected. Whetiier or culture, Timotiiy Leary, for optimism. Bowart spent and was sent to New York for medical treatment. bend peoples' minds into not the mind-contrdled who may weU have been two yean of his own money being hostile to a country On November 22 Olson leapt out of the hotd ••••••••••fff laatw^ .*«««««.)i««« window and plunged 24 fkiors to the New York pave which only 35 years ago IX mmiMMMi was one of AustraUa's main ment. His diildren were tdd that he had committed aUies. suicide. A second group of chap 22 years later, an investigaticHi was carried out of ters deal vrith unwitting the activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency. victims of the CIA. These Tbe full story of the Olson death became public are people iike Dr. Olson, knowledge. who have been the basis Olson was a CIA victim, thou^ he never knew it. of CIA's experiments. These Hie CIA was carrying out uivestigations of the potential chapters constitute a use of LSD. remarkaUe survey of a gross The CMson fanuly, now of human behavioural abuse of govemmraital fuUy aware of their father's control that was not eX' authority. These are not the tme method of dying, tried plored in then search for usual victims of the CIA, to sue the US govemment- the means to control the Uke the people in Vietnam but they discovered that an memory and vriU of both and C3ifle-but Americans individual damaged whUe mdividuals and whole who have helped finance the in government employment masses of people. CIA. cannot sue the govemment. Ihe CIA succeeded in The CIA, and oUier in Ihey asked the Senate to developing a whole range telUgence agencies in the pass a special txU of recom of psycho-weapons to ex United States, decided some pense. In 1976, they were pand its already ominous years ago that they could awarded $750,000. psychological warfare get away with using For the fint time since arsenal. With these capa Americans either for ex it was created, the CIA is bUities, it was now posjible periments or for spying receWing a close and critical to engage a new kind of operations. They were scrutiny by the general war-a war which would confident that tiie mass 'pubUc. For Uie prerious take place invisibly, upon media would not give the 30 yean, it was considred the battlefield of the human game away. They were unpabiotic to do anything mind. correct. exc^t praise the CIA and The book's 20 chapters Since 1975, even witii its campaign against com may be divided into three the increased pubUc at munism, etc. types (though I regret to tention to the CIA, the In the last three years say that for reasons best mass media have been very a number of books, in known to the author,.the restrained in their cluding seme by former CIA book's arrangement is criticism-given the serious piKii operatives, have been pub somewhat chaotic and is ness of the CIA's acts. Ushed. Most of them have difficult to foUow). Indeed, the information presented a picture of the Some of the chapteis may have come too late. CIA very different from the deal wiUi the general poUcy After 30 yean of psy- ^amorous image provided and devdopment of psy chdogical warfare against by the sympathetic mass chological warfare. Bowart tiie American people, the media. traces the history of this CIA can afford to have Walter Bowart has joined warfare from Worid War II this information released tiieir ranks. But whereas (though, of course, psy since the American minds most CIA studies 0ike chological warfare is as old are now suffidentiy duped "Inside the Company: CIA as warfare itsdQ when the to absorb this information Diary" byV PhUip Agee, AlUes, especiaUy the British without beuig appaUed by HEWltuMPACKAR Penguin, 1975) have dealt and Americans, realised that it When Uie information with the. CIA's operations »» could be a very useful was rdeased that the CIA outside the United States, tool. Psychdogical warfare had been carrymg out ex tills book is about the is a forin of warfare aimed periments on Americans, CIA's, work against its at destroying the will of it did not receive the fuU fdlow Americans. the enemy to fight. sehsationaUsm it deserved. Walter Bowart's thesis is Ih dohig research ^ foi; The third groiip of chap amazing: my doctorate in. the inter ters deal with perhaps, the The testhig of dmgs by national law of guerrilla most stunnihis aiguments: die CIA was just a part warfare (which included tiie CIA's arrangements for JexQs Instruments of the United States interviewing one of the the assassinatinis pf.John Govemment's top-secret Britons responsible for F. Kennedy, Martin LuUier mind-control projcpt, a the AlUed psy chologicd King and Robert F. project which spanned 35 warfare effort). 1 becaine Kennedy. He cldms that years and had involved tens convince'd that this is "now tiiese people . were victims PRE-RECORDED CASSETTES AT LOW LOW PRICES II!! of thousands ofjndividuals. the, main method of ^war-, of CIA-programmed killers. It involved techniques of fare-diort^ of altout Ironically,' the .hit team hypnoas, narco-hypnosis, nuclear war. Prior to the was first set up to kill electronic brain stimulation, 20Ui centuiy, wars were Castro but Kennedy pre ; COME AND SEE US bchaWoural effects of ultra fought' by smaU armies, vented this and sb he IN THE UNI. OF QLD UNION SHOPPING ARCADE-' in Umited locaUties and sonic, microwave, and low- became the first victim 9am to 4:30pm; phone. 3709817 dr 3711611 •'. frequency sound, averSive rardy involved: ^ cWUians instead. and other behaviour modi (except for those trapped US presidents are pic ficarion therapies. In fact, btbeseigedcasUes),. tured as the front men for ««*«•««• ««««»**«***»»ii,« —^i^wr I. w-.. • ,^... ••iimiMiiJ there was VirtuaUy no aspect In this century, warfare the real American mlen- • .1 . ;•(- •::U,.'-.. ^.:,'•^f..:•.,^•! •.-•^'.-r-M'.-r' 38 SEMPER. Novembers, 1978 doing research. In an era of what one person can do. puUic educatirai, co-opera involvement in the murder I suggest you read this a lot of pondering about when we have become ac Let us hope tiiat his tive agricultural sdf-reUance of five Australian news book. The message of East man's^and • woman's—cir customed to thinking diat example will inspire Aust schemes and the contrdled men in BaUbo ih October- Timor is, alongside . its cumstances on the earth and the indiridual has no role raUans and other Americans. inflow of foreign capital 197S, despite aU the primary own importance, a one of their conclusions in political decirion-making, including inter-govemmen- eridence to the contrary. universal one, and is worth was, as Sophodes so neatly he- has set a fine example -KEITH SUTER tal aid. Wdl, Jill JolUffe has heeding. remarked, that 'not to be "In the decolonisation documented the whole born were best'. Now tiiis process the choice of a road story. Fascinating, at once matter over Which we have for economic devdopment bisphing and depressing. -JAtAtB COLLINS Uttle if any control-our manifests itsdf as a poUtical EAST TIMOR: NATIONALISM AND entrances, so to speak, are choice, the right to self- COLONIALISM: thrust upon us.., determination. A Timorese "Of course there's always By Jill Jolliffe. Published by Univeisity of . . .expressed the dilemma a problem in doing onesdf Queensland Press, h/c $17.95, s/c $9.95. (thus): 'We are not buffalos ia One would Uke to do it or potatoes or mice to be with a certam flair such sold to the Indonesians. "The Govemment of Indonesia until now still adheres as George Sanden showed We are Timorese and this to the foUowing prindples: when he recently self- is our country'." "1. The independence of every country is the righto f shuffled off the mortal; every nation widi no exception for the people of Timor. The history of Timor, learing a sardonic note its long period of colonisa "2.The Government as wifli Portugal; the Revolu- to explain that it wasn't tion, the battie for in so much that the worid weU as the people of tionary Front of Indepen- dependence and the In Indonesia have no intention dent East Timor was ratshit but that it donesian invasion is the bored him-and emphasising to increase or to expand (FRETILIN) which aimed subject of this well- theu' territory, or to occupy at total national indepen- his point by learing them documented book by JUl to find his carcass with tiieir territories other than dence; and the Popular Jolliffe, who was a cor what is stipulated in their Democratic Assodation of bare bum disdainfuUy in respondent in DiU until the air." Constitution. This Timorese (APODETI) the mvasion, after which That sort of gesture rdteration is to give you a which wanted an she was based in Darwin. clear idea, so that there may 'autonomous prorince' in would delight Hepworth The book is centrally con ^ "AN right, deep down C's a cry lor psychiaioc tielp- bul a\ ont level it's e sltck-up." but he wouldn't do it for be no doubt, in the minds the Indonesian fold, cerned with the island's such a vain, ignorant and of the people of Timor in A rougli coaUtion was struggle since 1975 when "ESCAPE ATTEMPTS" ently unimpressed by tbe snotty reason as boredom: expressing their own wishes, formed between the groups she first when there as a The Theory and Prac new radical role which was rather the proverbial final "3. For this reason, to arrive at a soUilion, member of a trade union- tice of Resistance to held out to them, they gesture of defiance at a whoever wfll govern in but APODETI graduaUy lost student ddegation. continued to give accounts world which, although he Timor in the future after any influence it may have Her reports at the time Everyday Life"., by of the world andtheir has observed it for so independence can be had, in the face of the were as sympathetic to the Stan Cohen and Laurie actions which were difficult long with wry humour, has assured that the arguments that devdoped Timorese people as any Taylor, Pelican Books to press into our theoretical given him also a sense of Government of Indonesia betweeen FRETILIN and humane journaUst could be 1978 ($2.95). framework." frustration witii its foUies wiU always strive to UDT. FRETILIN emerged and reminded me very much You know what they say and maddening habits. maintain good realtions, victorious in the civil war of Martin Wodlacott's an about the lower orden, friendship and co-operation that resulted in August guished reports from Bang Cohen and Taylor, as (workers, unemployed, Anyone who followed for the benefit of both 1975 (UDT had staged a ladesh at the time of its hot a combinatktn m blacks, women, et al). . . Outsight regulariy would countries." coup in DUi) and eventually war witii West Pakistan. sociology as Marx and NEVER grateful. Poor, remember his plaintive This letter from made a unilateral dedara- But of coune, appeals Engds, (or Laurd and disfllusioned liberal scream when Kerr sacked Indonesian Foreign Minister tion of independence. from the Timorese for help Hardy) reckon they're more academics! Ho hum. tlie Whitlam govemment: Adam MaUk to FRETILIN'S All the time the Indonesians from nearby governments, interested in "the exotk I remember being taught "God, in any country where love of Uberty burned even Jose Ramos Horta, dated were increasing the number notably Australia, may as doings of industrial sabo Sociology by Stan at June 17 1974, gives some of their incursions into East with a smoky, flickering well have been addressed to teurs, sex offenden, Essex. 1 had the advantage idea of the waU of hypo- Timor, Iceland, as the author so of knowing some of his flame they would by now crisy, lies and double talk FinaUy, in early vandals, Mods and Rodcen, be on the streets and at aptiy pomts out. and loi^-term prisoners" and Laurie Taylor's research which has surrounded the December, the Indonesians subjects on a social as the barricades. They would On December 4 1975,' than m the Uces of you battie for Uie independence invaded (remember MaUk's "ex-Labor Prime Minister well as an "academic" basis, be storming the gates of and rae (whadda YOU on?) of East Timor, just 600 letter?). FRETILIN became Gough Whidam had said and though some aspects Yarralumla. Kerr would kUometres north west of flie only party prepared to that his govemment would Ho hum. . .so much for of the sociologist-deriant have faUen to the asussin's AustraUa. fight for the independence have taken no action ui "Eveiyday Ufe". relationship seem incredibly bullet." Malik had given the letter denied the Timorese people the event of an Indonesian Just goes to show, if funny, I can't help feding While many people of guarantee to Ramos fbr 500 years-and they stUl invasion (which occurred you want to make it with a bit sorry for the academics would agree with him, it Horta when Ramos Horta are, with a great deal of 3 days later). . .Fraser had a sociologist you gotta be who became the butt of the was hardly some soundly- went to Jakarta for as- support from the people earUer condemned deriant. See, they wanted joke. based politicd judgement surances that the people of if reports reachmg AustraUa FRETILIN as 'communists' to "do more than show that They did mean weU, and To achieve the revdution East Tunor would be left have any credence, and . . .and consumed witii deriance and - crime were some of those deviants are impUed, orpnisation would free to establish their own certainly no-one has any domestic questions, the meaningful." terribly ungrateful. WaUy be essential. Hepworth used independent nation after real grounds to doubt them, labour movement had no They reaUy want to (Probin) for example. WaUy poUtics and poUtidans only tiic Portugese had departed. "By September intention of fighting the expose the PoUtics of broke aU records (pardon as a focal point to vent his There appeared to be FRETILIN had articulated dedion on foreign poUcy. deviance. That the deriant the pun) for recidirism, spleen. . three options open to the and devdoped a coune In December 1975 the Aust pictures the world as a and Stan Cohen and WaUy This section of the book Timorese, based on three characteristic of ascendant ralian labour movement conscious "way of fighting Taylor catapulted him into is caUed 'Politics, poUticians . poUtical groups. There was nationaUsms in the Third once again expressed its against that repression. . . fame and fortune via and other dirty matten'. the Democratic Union of Worid: tiie devdopment of traditionaUy ambivalent at as a social critic, a rebel, trendy Sociology Journals, It includes a magnificent : Timorese (UDT) which modest sdf-sufficiency titude to Uie people of even a revolutionary." TV interriews etc. piece on Queensland's Be .. wanted to keep the ties tiirough a programme of Asia." Problem with this was Do you thhik WaUy was loved Overlord, Premier The scenario is famfliar the cons themselves, as grateful? He couldn't stop Bjdke-Petersen, which and the derogatory, Cohen and Taylor (who larfing long enough. ought to be read by the mmmiUQ. misleading statements about in the ordinary course of (The range of "escape many who think he is those fighting for the events Uved about . a attempts" covered by this just a joke, not to be yiLl QUALITY Uberation of nations miUion Ught years away book includes fantasy, treated like a spine-chiUing remains the same. from the nearest deviant- mystic experience, hoUdays, nightmare. .Articles written in about as far as middle psychotherapy, hobbies, One of the great lessons AustraUan newspapen rdied dass Essex is from London's games, sex, drags, com of HepworUi's writings is on the old communist East End) discovered: munes, radicalism and role that he shows how im bogey in describing the "Deriants themselves did distancing). portant it is to maintain CANwNGioyiMbT situation in East Timor, not help veiy much. Appar -KATE MACCHERONI a sense of abusrdity, a and it is known that at least double-edge humour about one major foreign affairs die paradoxes and contra commentator in this dictions of our existence. country, who pushed this JOHN HEPWORTH.. .HIS BOOK Nothing is sacred, as they amm-It. . sort of line, gets. 'infor Illustrated by Michael Leunig, published by say, and.it is necessary to keep at least an element mation' from—i.e. is a Angus and Robertson (Ferret books) $3.95: PLU/ spokespenon for- the of this undentanding m Joint fatdiigence Organisa mind if any changes in this repressive existence are to tion (JIO), tiie overseas In his introduction to this collection of John be of any vdue in improve inteUigence cºating Hepworth's Outsight columns from Nation Review, ment. body. It is not dUficiilt to MonrisLurie says: "I Wish I'd written this book." TdURlNOEeUl^lNH imagine the warped policy For one author about Hepworth Just kept on. Other sections include GENERAL kCCtimU ' Uiat JIO had on this taittei. anodier's work, that is coming out with his idio- 'yams' about his thousands Whitlam's and Fraser's probably as fine a com- syncratic Uterary gems, of aunts-Herculcana, attitudes of coune were the plimcnt as anyone could be The secret of coune is Fortuitia, Europa et at (thc 42 hmikf fl signal for Indonesia that it given. I suppose that Uke tiiat he has such an apt tale of EmmaUna, one of could go ahead with its mysdf, Lurie was hope- "style of fioodUghting aU tiie fint in the book, invasion plans witiiout 'big lessly devoted to Outsight. tiie absurdities of this gives an indication of the HILTON power' opposition. TTie Even in the year or so egomanlc, game-playing rolUckmg Hepworth charac message really hit home* for before NR was boii^t.out world: tiie detaUed des- ters to come, who AustraUans with the dis by its current publishen, cription foUowed by the bounded throu^ his PHONE 360565 graceful submission of the when thc paper had lost backhand quip which seems columns, mainly, of coune, AustraUan Govemment to some of its reputation for to send it dl up, Hepworth Wmsdf); The /mm M/couNT/. solid, and incisive writing. "The andcnt Greeks did fair hand of the law'; •f Indonesian denials of any SEMPER Novembers. 1978 39 Countiy matten, including pieces, where the characters masturbation scenes; 'Don't PEOPLE ARE communicates. And \riiat Given Tee Paddington 4064. Tasmania and Darwin'; 'A are fleshed out more (but Go Having Kittens', with its LEGENDS: by Kevin it communicates is an 17 Caxton St, Petriis Tee. few words about men in not tangentiaUy so) and he is conrincingly insane mother awareness of the very red Hurry for your copy, it is Gilbert (Brisbane: toUets and other equaUy seen to be actuaUy writing a destroying the penona's situation of a down-trodden a Umited edition (SOO vital matten'; and 'Famous story, rather than just being :redibility and -sex-life; and University of Qld Press, people, in such a way as copies). fdk, for and agdnst', which clever or provocative as in 'Like Rat Turds To Me', 1978) S6.95 & $3.95. to inflame the reader (or This anonymous (?) indudes another famous 'Buying Jeans' or where Hden finaUy manages listener) with a definite piece tumed up on a desk excerpt. Speaking a Uttie 'Laundromat Person'. Among to subdue Bob, but perhaps desire to explore the pos Kevin Gilbert's book in Semper Office, so fli of the dead, wherein the better stories are the titie to her own disadvantage. sibilities for change. should find a market, not although were not certain the author deals a giant stoiy, witii its almost surreal -CORNELIS VLEESKENS People are legends is a of its origins we decided to because of the poetry in it, backhander to yet another imagery surrounding the socid document, and it is as publish it in case it obscene social convention. but because of its plain such that it should enjoy stimulates readers into The famous Farkarwee tribe, statement of the Aboriginal 'a market. finding out for themselves Hep worth's outback rela situation. That this state whether Negative Tiiinking tives, is sadly missing from ment is presented as poetry White man white man is as good as it says. tills volume, however. White man law is almost incidental. Or is Chain and Jailhouse -EDITORS These sections have ran it? Grog and "store" dom forewords and/or post Work old Jack for 'Bacoadul, Botii the rhythms and scripts of comments from nour pidjin words would appear Chugar, lea and meat gone the crowd of rdatives in sour. REMEMBERING THE RURAL LIFE: as a contra-indication to this Hepwwth's mmd with a PInchim wimmin, pinchim hy Gary Catalano (Brisbane: University of riew, AU of the poems land penchant for ribaldry, NEGATIVE in People are legends Kill tha blackmen, whiteman which highUght the fore Queensland Press, 1978) $5.95 & $2.95. grand THINKING: employ a language and voice most thread through his Him make law for whiteman which comes naturaUy to good by Peter Anderson and writings. Gaiy Catalano's book marks the end of the second Hlni steal land and blackman Robert Whyte (Brisbane the Aboriginal speaker (not food Few people would be series of UQP's Paperback Poets. It is doubtful at the necessarily Gilbert, but each Then when Jack live ' Planet Press, 1978) $2. able to carry off what he moment whether a third series wiU be produced. Tbe persona he uses in his blackman law has achieved: his obser That law tnat honest, absence of this series will most Ukely cluuige the poetry dramatic monologues). whiteman get sore vations about Ufe through SIGHTINGS: puUishing scene ui AustraUa. The number of outlets They are in tiie tradition He make HIS law. . 'Big the multitude of detafls White Chief is dwindling now, just as it increased sharply with the of camp-fhe vene, spoken by Sweeney Reed and of the minutest 'penoial' He "look" honest-Big inception of UQP's series in 1970. verse not couched in White Th lefi Alun Leach-Jones -events with that omni 'poetic' language, but in a (Sydney: Macquarie present maUngering final Publishen are being forced to re-evaluate their (Cfiained). poGdes, and UQP can be used as an example here. Their, language which University, 1977) comment Each word is -CORNELIS VLEESKENS •dways chosen with much second series (bringmg it up to a total of 36 titles) deliberation to gain the lacked some of the vitaUty of the first. It encompassed Both these books rely fullest possible effect, the some exdtit^ wwk, but unfortunatdy much of this NEGATIVE THINKING: heavily on the tension ultimate purpose. . became obscured by the general staleness of the series. Poetry and Drawings by Robert Whyte and between the "visual art' and The book is Ulustrated Ihis is not necessanQy the fault of the editor and 'written word* components Peter Anderson. by another Australian publisher, but indicative of the ^esent state of in them. But, vriiereas in genius and longtime friend Australian poetry. There are a laige number of very the innovative Negative of Hepworth, cartoonist competent versiHers, but few outstanding and exdting I may not be a truck driver, cat breeder, metal Thinking we find a tenuous Michad Leunig, also one new poets. wod(er «r mechanic-merely a' goodladywife and of the NR breed, and I (and s 40 SEMPER Novembers, 1978 mMWWMWB trations of scientific in- diat aU poetry written byi lesser known poets does preoccupation with music lesbians, metd workers, Robert Whyte 220 Given vcstigations) counterpointed those attached to the uni- not look out of place and its forms which cul artbts, writers, mechanics, Tee Paddington 4064. against flie written word, versities is staid and un- dongside that of their minated in the 'fugues' in musicians, dancing in If you've got 2 brain ; Both these poets, and adventurous. Ian Rod's more widely published con Shabby town, and the structors. . .in short anyone cdb to rub togedier to ' they are two of the most L^I, ,i.». i^ A' i ?L temporaries. equdly dominant concem who wants to be where the make a synapse, you'U join indiriduaUstic new tdents. ^^ '*°"'f *5fi *h«e. with AustraUan history and action is wUl jom the Poets the Poets Union. the envkonment. Shapcott's Union. show in this smdl sdection ^^ P^™?.'" y^lercover Selected Poems gives us hb that they have found their "^^^f' *•"'* ^'*^'*''^S SELECTEt^** D POEMS: Membership b $S a year .4/1 unpaid advertisement recent poems in a new and a journal which dlo- own voice, so much so P"^** background in by Thomas W. Shapcott for the Poets Union and that, when through a literature, do not faU into perspective, showing their cates space for Poets Union Sharks posing as a review foundations m an impressive printing error two of the that dubious categoiy of (Brisbane: University of members wUl be out soon. fbut do we care? Qld Press, 1978) $9.95 body of work. DetaUs you can get from -Editors pieces are placed in the the academic exerdse. -CORNELIS VLEESKENS wrong section, it becomes There is a fine sense of & $4.95. yet anotiier highlight to humour erident, especially their very divergent talents in the 'Alfred' poems which Tom Shapcott's Selected rather than an annoying wind up the book: Poems is an excellent intro inconvenience. THE POET'S UNION: THE LAUNCHING OF NEGATIVE THINKING Negative Thinking is Alfred wanted to use phone- duction to the work of one boxes of Australia's best-known Brisbane Caxton Street Hall, 5th October. pushed forward by (or changing into someone Anderson's loose lines of magnificent. 'middle-generation' poets. He knew It was possible, Now the Poets Union is The highlight of the evening was a short piece of urgent poetry: because Hb recent woric, espedally to write you so (ar Into my Clark Kent could do It- that in Smbbytovm under control, Uke- some Poets Theatre. Most of what Peter Anderson sakl durmg lire that you cant get out sap to ZAP! Calendar, has the relaxed dangerous snake that has thb was maudible because of bad sound in the haU to cross the conversation (from Alfred and the phone- been dipped a sedative in to an extent where it boxes} stance of many of hb but the action seemed clear. tiecomes American contemporaries, its evening meal, and the He tore off large pieces ledge that the performance than just tangents wishing And if Alfred is the office bearers have been anI could writd ebu int youevenr thtelephone thinges poet's alter-ego on a spree, but he has not sacrificed of newspaper that were vriU be repeated time after I can only guess f. ^ .." ,, . ''»^', • dected. pasted on a wardrobe on time. The intensity of this //• u ,j • .1 the poet himsdf, m the his own Australian voice (fromwhatdoiwant) ^^j,^^ p^^^^^ ^j,^^^ ^^^^ ^^ and concerns. He has, StiU no-one knows what the stage, then cUmbed particular experience was inside and close the door increased by thc nature of rather, assimilated the good is going on, but at least and Whyte's dense prose: doesn't have to hide under we know that the president after him. the event: the once only this 'cover' to be interesting. pouits while avoiding the After speaking un- occasion of the launching Even as their paths cross T^^ fifteen short prose weaknesses inherent in a b Robert Whyte, the Vice President Jackie McKimmie, inteUigibly from inside the of a book, they fight. The landscape is poems at the core of the looser style. wardrobe for a whfle, he Peter Anderson's be- Secretary/Treasurer Peter 'rSt^l'lpatternKs o„°f"HLM''.nf lignt and sahdeJhd«.' book Show Rcid at his While it is interesting, tumbled out naked, slashed haviour was anything but The beast Is kneedeep in best m memorable pieces to approach his Selected Anderson, and the pubUdty at the air with a pair of gUb and confident. The winter, the locksmith Is half guch as 'Disarmed' and Poems from the point of officer b Rell Hanna. scissors, which he then resdt resembled more the amagnifie world awad houry ins thoef summer, .^ ^^^^ ^ ,^ hicome', riew of a developing style, The meeting was held used to cut off most of making of a statement than vrtiiiing them away. which recounts the meeting diis is not, however, where in the sumptuous, taste hb hair. the giring of a performance. (from Contentment for the beast) of the lady and the unicorn 1 feel the strength of the fuUy decorated upstairs Then he started stabbing The shouted repetition and ends: book Ues. Most readers are room of the Baroona Labor at the mirror of the ward- of the word Remember It forces us to look aware of Shapcott's later HaU and the Poet's Union robe Ul what appeared as a accompanied the breaking again at our notions of Drawing a pistol (rom her poetry, and of the work he fiist decision was to go riolent attack on either the of three major persond purse, she shoots him poetry. Negative Thinking through has done, through the an across the road and get a hiding place where he had taboos that most of us won't be their last book! }ils pale and puzzled heart, thologies Austmlian Poetry flagon. . .Somebody asked doseted himsetf or the abide by-we don't go on the telephone she tells her sisters: "Another 0( Now and Contemporary what the Poets Union had mirror refiecting his own naked in pubUc, or hack those wild pigs In (ancy American & Australian done so far and we were naked unage or both, our own hair off, or break UNDERCOVER dress." Poetry, to further the given an opportunity to EventuaUy the mirror large mirrors, AGENT: Number Two Friendly awareness of the public by strut and preen. broke and simultaneously On the night that his Street is the follow-up an- making readily avaUable The launching of thc Ughts were switched first book was launched, bUniversity Ian Reiy dUnio (Adelaidn Presse , thology to The Friendly the work of younger poets Negative Thinking on out by Robert Whyte who the author seemed to be and their American counter Street Poetry Reader, and October 5 at the Caxton had been sitting in front of using powerful imagery to 1978) $3.95. parts. But few of us are St.. Hdl, in Paddington the stage beside a con- say goodbye to a former like its predecessor collects NUMBER aware of his work in the late (which is the centre of the spicuous power switch, way of Ufe. TWO the most memorably peoms fifties and throughout the FRIENDLY world), was an unqualified With most theatrical ex- ~B.W. STREET: ^^^ ^t these Adelaide sixties. success. The Poets Theatre periences there b the know- edited by AnHw'w P°^try readings over thc Tom Shapcott's early made a crowd of 200 start Taylor and n-1 past year. Any book which poetry, and the poems, in back in amazement and (Adelaide Ian Reid collects the work of 42 this book span two very the rock & roU bands had Adelaide' poets, mostly residents of fuU decades, is extremely them lunning for cover. Unhreisity Union Press, Adddde altiiough tight and of a standard It was the debut of the fQ7Q\ ff-i QC 'traveUing' poets are also and consistency rarely Sharks, and they lived up iy/a)9:>.yo. included, runs the risk of found in AustraUa. to their name, with Nya being . uneven, yet the Throughtout his work is Murray oh rioUn they are found, again and agdn, the Brisbane's most innovative There have been rumouis editors have sdected care- band, and they play tight flyuig aroupd the country fuUy and the work of the and fast and energetic and ETHNIC CLOTHING origind. WOOLLEN HANDMADE RUGS The Poets Union is not fAsarP a Union for Poets. This ^^198 MoggUl Rd, taringa HANDCRAFTED ITEMS has to be got strdght from ^^ (Taringa Shopping Centre) POTTERY the start. Open MON to SAT 'tU Spm pURNITURE, CANEWARE & CUSHIONS. It is for any truck PH:: ^1U9^^^.^^^^^^^^^^0^if,^tifl00il/mtl0mm drivers, cat breeders. ************************************** BODY MIND HEAUNG FESTIVAL # plus POMONA FILM FESTIVAL 9th to 14th DECEMBER * ^, , GWANDALAN VALLEY QLD (near Noosa) t 20 LOCAL & OVERSEAS ALTERNATIVE HEALERS, EDUCATIONALISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS etc WILL ATTEND * * HELD IN 200 ACRES OF SUB-TROPIC NATURAL FOREST WITH SWIMMING POOL. LAKE, CREEK & BUSH WALKS BRING CARA VAN OR TENT UMITED TO SOOOPRE-REGISTERED ONL Y PARTICIPANTS t SEND 40 DOLLARS TO P.O. BOX 57 COOROY 4563 QLD ENQUIRIES SYDNEY 02/ 498 7861 BRISBANE 07/3715576 COOROY ..;... 071/476162 STALLS AVAILABLE BY CONTRACT ONLY f , STALLS AvmL.rtBi.'ii"' ^'"•^'if*' — - -^ llMjilC*****************************^ Mm SEMPER Novembers, 1978 41 t.t.ir.t th^^m r i 2*it» Iflam '5-iOaiw "iiftlmin ,2Ja>>t 1^ raNmEWof :\ BRISBANE: 1978 Well this is gobig to be a short review of some of the important chaises that have taken place this year jn Brisbane's cultural scene and more unportantly who has been responsible for them. Most signifkantly the two key areas bi which sub AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE CANNABIS GROWING GUIDE stantial improvements have occurred have been with Sm Review Page 37, restautants and live music venues (unfortunately the same can't be said for politks and ciril liberties). And comddentally it films, as too has the has been 4ZZZ-FM or a Caxton Street Hall and networic of people closely Freddo's. associated with it that It all adds up to red -.^li,.. ...,.-.-.•, \•«;'%.' ;•>•'.'•! *:vv;5;twr'/:':-:-v-:i:t:.;vj::v:v::iiA2fK-:•...• ....'.•jSiSi^.ivx.x.'.a.i • 111111 "*^ -Miat- i rou^ii &f r5Vf £4»r) .•;•/.•.W-.'.-* <','\:'.':i-'':V;i': y/A f SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES: Quarterly magazine available at good book- diops and some newsagents at $2.50, or by direct subscription to Social Altematives, d- Department of Extemal Studies, University of Queendand, St. Lucia (4067) (4 issues for $8.00). . have been tbe main m- progress to me. Brisbane, stigators of the change. you look like you've fmally (Goes to show what a started to grow up (despite Wid: the release of Issue 3 of Social Alternatives good philosophy on life police efforts to stop you!) some of tbe real promise of this nugszaie is showmg can do). Next year watch out througb. For the first time well for'what's gomg to happen This is a good edltk)n-divene, clearly written and located, well priced, in the way of theatre, fibn fiill of stimulating ideas. friendly restaurantssavin g and music down at the quite different national newly renovated Cement The theme is on tho Schumacher's "A Guide for dishes have sprung up. Box theatie. media and society and just the Peiplexed." They all have their own Let's hope it's an equally about eveiy major area of . I understand the next atmosphae/appeal and the good year. concem ui this area is issue amongst other thmgs chain hicludes the Curry -BRUCE DICKSON covered-sexism, racism, examines Work, Shop (the pioneer), the the new Australian film Industrial Democracy, and Asian Kitchen, the industry, women's films^ Self Management. The fol Centenary Pool, the Med^ altemative broadcastmg lowmg issue-Eneigy, and terranean Restaurant, systems, uranium and the Issue 6-Peace Studies and Mecca (now defunct un Eaiu^ Hants media, thu-d world com Non-violence. fortunately), Peppe's Pizzeria, Freddo's, Salad muncations. A recent press statement Complete range of medicinal, Days and The Hungiy The issue also features hy the editors ahio stated H culinary & fmgmnt herbs. H Years Clafe. a short story by Frank that Tom Hayden American That's quite an Moorhouse, poems by politicd activist (and E Pots & Indoor plants E achievement in such a Maureen Watson and possibly Jane Fonda) will f,OOF FEE LOUNGE short time! R R Graham Rowlands, and an be attending a nationd FRESHJUICES • interriew wi[h R.D.^ Ldng. Social Alternatives Con TUES - SAT Other very, int'eresting Add to this the B B AND SALADS ference planned for Sydney opening.up of the Bris articles are Part 2 of next May which will S S IIGHTSNACKS "Towards a No Poverty bane rock scene by 4ZZZ 135 Waterworks Rd exanune the needs of alte^ •the Queens, The Ex Third Worid" by Sigarta nathre communications net- ASHGROVE Dasgupta, "Wanted: A New change, The Mooloolaba woiks. and Joint Efforts and you Information Order" by >^ANE STONE HOAALHERTST Rometh Thapar (two can see Just how many Indian authors). Lifestyles alternatives' to the death I EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS ' IVpsKursf CITY and the Environment by trip of the R.E. Hotel 1 by NAIVE ARTIST ADVERTISING that this F.M. station has (Opptmtr Albert Vinmos) Darid Cromley, "Beware ! SOPHIE PEARCE \ The CAU of Nature" by IN SEMPER provided. (So if you Eva Cox and an article on CAN WORK FOR haven't subscribed to ZZZ I at Sdionell Theatre Foyer i MON TO SAT the social sciences by YOU do so now). 1 13th to 28th NOVEMBER ' Dennis Altman. Even the odd restaurant OPEN AT FILM SCREENINGS 1 10am -2pm and phone 3711611 & HALF HOUR BEFORE The reriews also contain such as the Centenary Pool - 7pm "11.3001*1 some good readmg-one or the Curry Shop has • ....,• •*«* .*..•, ' PH 2213160 exambies E.F, been promoting music and 42 SEMPER Novembers, 1978 bloody enormous steam-, tonnes, approximately 30 engine, of mmd-boggUng metres in iengUi, and ^Sh^mjt trhrilhdesign , «diich turns out to covered 448, 672 miles be a Beyer-Garratt'built in before it was withdrawn in 1950 in Manchester, 1968. • England, for the Queensland However that distance is REDBANK RAILWAY MUSEUM: Railways. chickenfeed compared to ^'Weedman Rd, Redbank. Open daily except A booklet available at the 1,213,754 miles the museum explains the steamed up by a locally- i Mondays, 9am to 4.30pm. Admission free. design thus: "It is virtually built (Maiyborough 1908) two engines under one locomotive: one of the It's diflicult for those of us who are fascinated by boiler, the object of this famous PBI5 class. Mind trains and railway systems to explain that fascination articulated design being to you, this one had a life to the less interested. It's only when the train has passed enable a much more power over three times as long by you and clatters in to the distance that you come ful locomotive to, be as the B-G, haring been . teck out of an entranced state and become aware of operated over existing retired in 1969. There were tracks without thejiecessity 202 of these built, most dte blank stare of non-comprehension, even bewilder to strengthen bridges; its of them between 1908 and ment, of some companion who has been trymg to wwk weight is pread over many 1912, and they were a vital flcnt-Muew io»t^'M*^- SEMPER November 8,1978 43 FLUSH HARD? Yet that's exactiy what MOON THE LOON A debate on this question Smith believe the Univer happened. Labor's was tater organised on' sity administration cares For years the candidate, an economics Keith Moon 1947-1978 4ZZZ-FM. littie for the healtii of Univenity of Queensland lecturer, scraped home by The death of Who Meanwhile back at the the gardeners and Union Refectory has been 500 votes after receiving drummer Keith Moon saw competition oiganisers students. on the receiving end of a a massive 9% dectoral most music writen rush discovered that one of the lot of harsh criticisms and swing. hito print with some of two winnera Bargagallo sick jokes from students. It seems voters had their favourite stories con is not even a regular (For example, a giaffitti been pushed too far by cerning bis 'looney' life beer drinker. He hates' GUESS WHO? in one Univerrity Ubraiy the former member. Ws style. beer, just enjoys skolling toiet reads "Flush hard longstanding EBs habit of smashhio it for fun. Runner-up it's a long way to the to their needs and wishes up bis drum kit (and Mark Tynan also had a refec kitchens"). resulted in a huge vote also bis hotd room) whilst story to tdl. However many diners of no confidence and the on tour was warmly Immediately after now agree that 1978 has dection of the Labor man, remembered, but possibly having completed what seen a vast improvement in what is one of the two other exploits gatoed most observers considered in quality and this has wealthiest cities in him greater oftst^e to be the best time with been due to the efforts Victoria. notoriety. no sipllage, Mark had to TICK of Catering Manager Allen The first concemed the sit for a final year exam. In the hut issue of Shawcross and his hard occasion on which both (With 52 ounces in his Semper, our editorial exp working staff. nuACUPriTHHs he and a Lincdn Con beUy?). ressed doubts about Uew For some time the kit tinental ended up at the He didn't think it Edwards' willingness or chens have been supplying bottom of a Holiday Inn would adversely affect his Although both sexis ability to stand up to Joh a variety of excellent ralue swimming pooL Trqiped mental processes but let's and denigrating to women over any really important meals in the Union hiside the car, with water hope his examiner is in the current leftwing nick issue. Creperie, but a recent seepmg through the pedal the same state of mind name being used to des We challenged his innovation in the upstaira holes in the floorboards, whilst marking the paper! cribe a certain well- clabns to being either a refectory has been a boon ;J only his failure to panic genuine progressive or au to students struggling to saved him. He waited until known television pe^ ALF GARNETT HELPS opponent of tbe Premier's surrive on their low TEAS the car was full (and the sonality' in Brisbane is TO SAVE THE REGENT policy of supi»esshig ciril allowances. pressure equal both inside "The Bionic Bitch". liberties bi this state. A wide range of and out) then escaped v'i ^'i>KJt;.''•':^.'.•<•^^'•. The Save the Regent Events last week con generous sized $1 meals through one of the doors, ;•^:.- neaiiTERED ron POSTINO AS A PUBLICAT'ON cATECony e 44 SEMPER Novembers, 1978