S^^^M^itoilS^il^ The only difference they say, between hip and hype is pronunci­ THE STATE OF THE LABOR PARTY 5 ation. So has the popularisation of the hip hippy world of 'alternatives' A.L.P. Stalwart, STEVE STOCKWELL, describes the current situation in Queensland. only added to the hype in our society? STUDENT LOANS TO REPLACE T.E.A.S. 7 in this issue we examine some of the 'alternatives' available to ui today. Razor Gang cuts to Education will make student loans commonplace The cont:ept of an alternative approach to the world must have developed in LYN TAYLOR assesses the Implications. the floral sixties. Peace, love and brovm rice went with communes, wind energy and herbal teas. Hippies knew something was wrong with our society, so all its THE PROPHET OF POWER 12 facets were tackled In new or at least different ways. Given dwindling resources, we must look to alternative forms of energy. ASHLEY BOWEN reportt. In the last few years the practise of alternative medicine has grown astoundingly in western society. Whether this is because of the inadequacy of western medicine ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 15 or increasing hypochondria no one knows, but 'alternative' medicine offers a range of new, very old, and bizarre treatments. These different approaches to medicine SHELLEY DEMPSEY reviews various forms of medicine from Acupuncture to colour therapy. are being used by a surprisingly broad range of people who in many cases, are seek­ ing cures that western medicine just can't give. FEELIN' GROOVY 17 Perhaps more importantly in terms of altering the structure of society, is the The Hippies in retrospect, A. TILLER remembers. development of alternative forms of living. The nuclear family: two adults, two kids, and a colour TV, just isn't Nirvanah for many people any more. Some are TUNTABLE COMMUNE-ISM 18 turning to communes. Where better to take a look at a commune in action than JOHN JIGGENS visits Australia's most famous alternative settlement. northern New South Wales, Australia's mecca for hippies. The 1973 Aquarius festival gave Australia more than Hari Gumboot, it entrenched the rural, communal lifestyle in this country. Wind energy was something that no one but hippies and the Dutch took serious­ ly until recently, but with the growing shortages of fossil fuels and the dangers of SEMPER is a non-profit pol­ Ltd, 367 Brunswick St Fort­ ions ntay reprint articles and raph1cs provided Semper and nuclear energy, all forms of energy must be examined. Australia, because of our itical and cultural magazine itude Valley ?he authors are duly acknow­ DISTRIBUTORS: Gordon and ledged. The exceptions are crea­ vast resources, has too long ignored the need to broaden our approach to energy based at the University of Gotch Pty Ltd, Brisbane tive writing and copyrighted use. Queensland. ADVERTISING: ScotX Black- graphics which remain the copy­ well, 371 2568. a.h.: 345 1328 right of the authors and may Whether an 'alternative' approach can make any real difference to the structure not be reproduced without EDITORS: Anne Jones, Shelley SEMPER welcomes contribut­ their permission. of our society is a moot point. Seeing the boil burst in Britain, makes one cynical Dempsey ions and letters, but does not assume any responsibility for Address all enquiries to: about the worth of such palliative measures. LAYOUT and COVER: Matt unsolicited manuscripts, photo­ SEMPER magazine Mawson graphs and illustrations. Unl of Qld Union SEMPER Is copyright, St Lucia, St Lucia 4067 TYPESETTING: Jenni Bird Ph 371 1611 or 371 2568 PRINTERS: Mirror Newspapers Qld 1981. Non-profit publicat­

the bookshelves (Semper, 1) Why is the Sports & lenge to take some interest 21/7). in this organisation and vote TIMETABLE PROBLEM Physical Recreation Association It would of course be mere applying for an increase in the in SPRA's Annual Elections. As a part-time student I pettiness on my part to quest­ senrices fee in 1982 when its -DAVID BARBAGALLO have never expected the full ion the mentality of people surplus In the 1980 Financial use of university facilities. who believe that "Cleo" is Year was over $70,000? I con­ I had hoped however that more virtuous than "Playboy". cede that there may be good my part-time status would Nevertheless it is surprising reasons, however, I do not not deny me reasonable fitness advice assessment sen/- fying fonim for the grand­ FEE RISE how our moral authorities, of all believe that the Sports Associ­ access to a full range of jces and the affiliated clubs standing politician, especially as So, student union fees denominations, seem to value ation has genuinely attempted courses. are funded by S.P.R.A., No all our Executive positions are are to be increased] Already freedom only as long as it is to inform students as to why Por whatever reason, even­ other University in Australia honorary. students on TEAS must do­ their own freedom and not they are seeking this increase. ing lectures in many courses can provide facilities like these. Finally, it appears that David nate their entire 'incidentals tiiat of the ignorant gentiles 2) "The Herston Issue" - ere scheduled for 5.00pm and David has criticised the pro­ does not know when the allowance' of $100 to the who don't conform to their Howard Leemon concedes that thus exclude from attendance posed increase in the S.P.R.A. S.P.R.A. elections are. Well, union. Now we must dig peculiar beliefs and values. clinical students do not have those of us who cannot avail component of the sen^ice fee. t don't know when the Union into our savings (if any) as I never cease to mangel at access to the facilities of the ourselves of flex-time or study He can juggle with percentages elections are, so that makes well. It's a matter of prior­ the effectiveness of the Queens­ Sports Association during the leave arrangements at work. all he likes but he cannot us even. However, so that he ities. I guess — food, text­ land school system (including day. He suggests that because Part-time students after all fall disguise the fact that the Union can put it In his diary, nomin­ books, or Union fees — the university appendix) in the facilities are open during into occupationet categories far gets and will still get more than ations are called between 7th which should come first? socializing our kids into the the evening and weekends, broader than housewife and two-thirds of the Student Serv­ and 25th September and the Maybe we students are sub­ authoritarian ideology that legit- they should pay the full fee. public'servant ice Charge. What does it have elections are held from 12th sidising the inefficiency of the mates our authoritarian society. to 16th October. Why then does he not apply This timetabling arrange­ to show for it? union in their management of The commitment to political the same rationale to part- ment severely limits either my A brief mention of the Her- -HOWARD LEEMON • the refectory and the Schonell action (ie manipulation through time students? choice of subject or my abil­ ston issue. No-one denies that President, S.P.R.A. Theatre. The line-ups at both the exercise of unequal power) As for the Union's sereices, ity to attend lectures In the sub­ Clinical Medical Students work venues would make any capit­ as distinct from a commitment I refer Howard to my article ject of my choice. While accept­ very hard from 9 to 5. So do alist, entrepreneurial palm itch to educational action (ie. the "Who Pays The Ferryman?" ing most of the difficulties nf many other students. The Union with delightl And, Incidently, collaborative exercise of reason) in this issue, which t believe part-time study in good cheer, offers little enough to students how come Q.I.T's student refec must be the main charactaristic REPLY TO S.P.R.A. more than states the case for I do not accept the notion for their $70 during the day Is so much cheaper? And how of our botjrgeois Queenslandsrs, For Howard Leemon to what the Union does with its that part-time should be second and even less at night and week­ can Q.I.T.'s union offer free whether their party affiliations suggest his letter is a reply $70. class. ends. (As a part-time student films for students Friday nights are left, right or centre. I have tried unsuccessfully on a to the questions I raised As for my criticism of at the Kindler Theatre? Q.I.T. As the university seems eager -DOUGOGILVIE in my article about the to create the impression that number of occasions to obtain SPRA, Howard Is quite in­ fees are half what ours are, and 'edible food in the refectory machinations of the Sports correct in his assertion that \ the number of students is less part-time students are well cat­ & Physical Recreation Assoc­ ered for, may I suggest that after 6pm.) S.P.R.A. operates criticised SPRA for not being than a third. Whatever happen­ S.P.R.A. DOES THE JOB iation - Semper July 17 - some serious questions be asked on an entirely different basis. a political body. I merely ed to economies of scale and all Our facilities are open in the is typical of the narrow stated that it did not fulfill that?? Plus Q.I.T. students en­ about how well the timetables David Barbagallo has evenings and at weekends, our vision of life that abounds a representative/political role. joy all the other facilities our cope, and about how all part- made a number of strong clubs train and compete simil- in the Sports & Physical As for the desirability of SPRA union boasts about time students cope with the but inaccurate attacks on ariy. The Clinical Medical Stu­ Recreation Association. fulfilling such a role. Is largely timetable. the Sports and Physical We suggest that the Student dents can and do take an With all the aplomb of the for the students and members -WARRAN MCMILLAN Recreation Association Union has gone over to Fraser active part in all our activities. worst (best) "grandstanding of SPRA. )t does appear, how­ (Semper, July 22). I would and the Razor Gang! Make We have always been prepared politician", he sidesteps the ever, that Howard belongs to like to reply to these now. university only for the elite, political questions, throws the dwindling number of people to discuss these matters with keep the rabble out TEAS IGNORANT GENTILES S.P.R.A. does the job it is up the same old red herr­ who believe that sport has them. students are a minority, so' I see where one faction supposed to dp, that is to pro­ ings, and beats his chest nothing to do with politics. of Australia's Moral Major­ who cares about them. Stud­ vide sporting and recreational David criticises S.P.R.A. for about the same old achieve­ In conclusion, I would like ity has done the right (or ents supported by their par­ activities for the students of not being a political body. ments of S.P.R.A. to thank Howard for his revel­ left) thing on campus and ents will now have to ask for this Univenlty, and does it very I cannot regard thb as a crit­ I shall restate my points ations as to when the elections struck a blow for virtue and more money - OK if you're well. All the ovals, the Indoor icism. S.P.R.A. exists to pro­ more claariy so that I may be for SPRA are being conducted, conformity by removing super-rich, b\it not everybody it sports complex, nvimming pool, vide a sam'ce to. students. certain to receive clear and and would hope that all stu­ some immoral books from tennis courts, recreation classes. As such, it 1$ not a vary satis­ concise answers: dents would take up my chal­ —Continued on page 4 — "^Asr,

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So Thatcher's complete imbiltty to The other is the sort of Mitterend, Tony understand what is going on really doesn't Benn, Helmut Schmidt sort of approach have that much effect? that you try to radically redirect the econ­ It has a short term effect which gives omy in terms of good ol' left wing economic rise to the spontenaity of the rioting but interventionism. Harold Wilson tried this in the problems that those kids are rioting the sixties in Britain not with a great deal about are structural problems in a longer of success. time frame and they'l) stiU be with Britain when Thatcher gets what she deserves in So what do you think is going to happen the next election. in Britain? Do you think there's a solution? Well, 1 don't thinJc there's a solution in // you think the basic problem is being the long term factors I've been talking about. felt throughout European societies and in As to the present, it's very hard to sustain the United States, can you see social up­ a riot. A riot is something that comes and heaval occuring in those places? goes. It leaves its mark but it's like a boil Oh yes, if you look at the history of west- bursting out which can be swiftly treated em societies over the last twenty years, it and leaves the mark on the skin. The kind has occured at various flash point times. of riots that have occurred can be held Sometimes it has a racial overtone such as down by lots of police powers. People when the American cities went up in the mid putting others in jail and all those coercive Tories, per se, need to be swept out of evitable restructuring of the economy sixties with blacks rioting and burning out measures. That's treating a symptom, and office. If they sack Thatcher and the "wets' which is needed. the ghettos. Sometimes it has a distinct that vwll be effective in the short term. come into their own with a more high- That won't happen until the middle ideological overtone, for example France in Britain has always has a tradition of minded Toryism of the Macmillan, Rab class start to feel the pinch, until and un­ 1968 with the abortive revolutiori. In other social upheaval. If you look at the nineteen­ Butler sort of tradition, a kind of 'noblesse less middle class kids can't get jobs, untU European countries it has a sort of ecological th century, the eighteenth century and even oblige'; then things may be a little better on and unless middle class fathers start getting dimension, witness the huge demonstrations back to the middle ages, there was always a day to day basis. retrenched at the executive level as firms and near riots in Germany in the nuclear this fear of the mob and the use of the Similariy, if they get a Labour Govem- amalgamate and others go to the wall, and industry. armed forces, the whole reading of the riot ment which is committed to welfarism and you do get the whole system of capital act. All that sort of panopoly of coercive economic interventionism, job creation and accumulation which leads to monopoly. It takes many manifestations according forces is very much a tradition in British all that sort of thing; things will be better. And this is beginning to happen in some to the colouration of the society, the social democracy, equally as much as the West­ It's band-aid stuff, but it's probably about bigger industrial towns where the service forces at work and a whole host of other minster system or moderate politics. So I all that can happen. side of the economy is reeling right to a variables. But basically it is an economic don't think we should see these riots as The one thing that I'm unclear of is the halt. problem. either being unique in a time span or unique Liberal-Social Democrat alternative. That So economic interventionism is probably The interesting thing is that there seems in terms of social movement attitudes seems to be a combination of 'wet'-Toryism the only thing that will save it but I can't to be two quite divergent approaches. One because every society can tip over into on the one hand and pragmatic back-and-fill see that happening on the scale required by is the Reagan, Thatcher, Fraser monetarist widespread protest and that can lead to labourism on the other. And I suspect that either a moderate Tory government or a thing - that you screw the economy down riot. people, out of sheer frustration, might turn centre vaguely left government. Q tightly in terms of public sector stuff and let I think things vwll not be seen to be to that. the private sector boom. This is really an better unless and until the present govern­ It's probably almost too late. I doubt atavistic reversion to Adam Smith economics. ment goes. That doesn't mean that the that it 11 do more than stave off the in-

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Dedicated and reliable titudes, and absolute lack of your education, in the final N. HEIJM Change ill I down to Triple-Zed recently volunteers take some of the consideration for the students count, is controlled by the J. KILLEN 3. The reasons Q.I.T. student to ask a simple question — pressure off the hard-pressed who have already been kicked Student UnionI And they are D. NIELSON refec is cheaper are as follows: one asked a while back by station staff. in the . . . by the Razor Gang. supposed to be on our side, T. PLUMB (a) the food range is smaller ideologically motivated per­ That $1000 a year fees for post A.HALLER for our benefit. and of a lesser quality; sons — regarding how much Triple-Zed, with its emphasis graduate work is going to be L SCHMIDT Whatever happened to the (b) the Q.I.T. administration money students from QIT on New Music, is in the culture- even harder to get together (let RIGHT TO HAVE AN EDUC­ BUILT their complex and and Qld. Uni. put into the. making process legitimising a alone living costs), thanks to the ATION?? also CLEANS AND MAIN­ station via their respective viable art from. There's always Student Union. Managing to -SUEBUZER PRESIDENT REPLIES TAINS it. The Union here Unions. the anomoly of record com­ sun/ive on TEAS, plus whatever JILL CROOKS must build all its own pany megabucks versus 'art' part-time income we can scrape VALERIE DARLINGTON Whilst I sympathise with I'd scanned the Qld. Uni buildings, clean and main­ but, even if Robert Hughes together, is hard enough while D.TURNER the sentiments of the authors President's article (Semper No 6, M.WATSON tain them. Yearly cost equals reckons art is stagnating and wa are getting our first degrees. of the above letter I would July 21) for this information K. LYNCH like to correct some incor­ $150,000 + capital expend­ but to no avail.* no longer capable of chang­ Thanks to the Student Union H. SPARKS iture; ing public opinion, one can't for trying to make it even A. HEATHER rect Information they have However, with no axe to (c) each Thursday the Scho­ ignore the effect of bands harder, and succeedingi I.IMcNIVEN based their assertions on. grind nor a pressing desire to M. KELLY 1. The Union receives $70 nell Theatre has a free film. siege the station in some bloody like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The usual price for movies coup, i don't feel impelled to even the Dead Kennedys. The at the Schonell Is $1.50 - get my money's worth out of Goyas of today. This is the sort $2, cheaper than any thea­ Triple-Zed in any sort of issue- of music that Triple-Zed intro­ tre of comparable comfort oriented way. duced to Brisbane, all part of a LABOR PARTY OPINIONS - and screening films of Triple-Zed obviously de­ new wave culture with its roots the same quality. in 1976. FOR THE EIGHTIES mands attention because it's a radio station, although in my You too can be part of a 4. I refer you to my article - A LEFT PERSPECTIVE - opinion it can't be compared culture-making process. Listen "Who Pays the Ferryman?", In with any other station in to Triple-Zed, go down there Speakers; this issue of Semper, for the. Brisbane. It offers the best (behind the Schonell) and ask PETER DUNCAN M.P. senices the Union provides, t ^if^eafrh Foods for a tour around the station. (former Attorney-General and Minister for would suggest the authors ware rock music and information Health In South Australial not fully conversant vn'th the sen/ice around. The problem If you like what you see, offer TED WILTSHIRE facts when they wrote their is, as I see it, the bulk of stu­ your sen/ices as a volunteer. (economic advisor to the Deputy Leader letter. dents seem to be ignoring its -IAN BULLOCK of the Federal ALP) ITIoDN DRIVE IN SHOPPiNe CENTRE existence. CAXTON STREET HALL Rl-367576 As for the other comments •//? 7S81 the aid. Uni 7.30 pm Friday 4 September about the Razor Gang and Bear in mind that student Union bought $18,4000 Dinner will be a range of curries pre­ TEAS benefits, I simply ask apathy is at a peak at the worth of programming from pared under the direction of the authors of the above letter moment, due, basically, to econ­ Triple-Zed, virile QIT do­ Mr Kevin Hayes RED CROSS BLOOD BANK this question*. omic reasons - the niit^or nated $5,000. The annuaf ON CAMPUS Oid you all march in the stmggle for sunrival and fear ninning costs of the station Admluion - $5 ($3 students and of eventual unemployment 9.30 am - 3.30 pm TEAS Mareh and strike on are in the vicinity of unemployed) Triple-Zed, however, could al­ Wedt 9th - Fri 11th September Wednesday, May 20th and $160,000. -£ds. Presented by the Kelvin Grove ways do with a little more in the Axon Room attend the rally in King George Branch of the ALP practical assistance from indiv­ Union Complex Square as a protest against the ,.A:\ KUOUM I t ,%i.».i iji "The Labor Party he Queensland Branch of the At the same time Gough Whitlam began TAusti^lian Labor Party could drawing a big mob of professionals and other have had quite a respectable members of the middle class into the Party. niche in Greek mythology if it had is a strange and Sometime before Wliitlam's victory in 1972 the suburban branches of the Party became been around at the time. Its organ­ the cmcial organizing unit in the Party: ization is a vast and mystifying lab- they were the people staffing the booths, rynth; its policies are a perplexing stuffing the letterboxes and putting forward mixture of a promised Elysian heaven the electorally popular policies. For all this on earth, simple down home pork- vicious place work however, they weren't getting anymore barrelling and it demands a constant of the real power. In Queensland that power flow of human sacrifices. The Labor rested fairiy and squarely in the hands of Party is a strange and vicious place Jack Eggerton and a select group of influ­ where some of the highest aspir­ wfieresomeof ential union leaders, ations of humanity are reduced to smouldering, pointless rubble. Eggerton, as he has only too clearly shown in recent years, is a member of tlie old school.. With dubious ideas, committ­ To really understand the Party, one has ment and principles, Eggerton was in the to realize how intimately the fortunes of the highest Labor Party because it was on of the few the Party, and indeed the whole Labor ways a working class boy could make good movement, are tied to the corrupt and in this society. While most union leaders blinkered activity that passes for econ­ are committed to improving their members omic life in this state. lot, there are a few who are more interested In its early years tiie Labor Party gained aspirations of in the exercise of personal power, meaning­ a lot of its strength and expertise from the less as that is gjven the present state of the grass roots union activists who unsuccess­ Labor Party. Those people are really the fully battled for wage justice and hiunane core and the guts of the Old Guard. conditions ui the great strikes of the 1890s. The shearers in western Queensland gave a humanity are lead to the whole Australian working class Moves for the federal intervention began in their militancy and persistence. When after the 1974 double dissolution when Mai their well organized campaign to halt the Colson missed out on the fifth senate seat clip was frustrated by arrests, police inter­ from Queensland. With that fifth seat Labor vention and other gross displays of state would have had some sort of control of the reduced to Senate in Canberra but without it the Whit­ power; those independent and resource­ lam government was not really in power as ful workers didn't just shut up shop, instead the events of November 1975 so clearly they set about organising for a working showed. class takeover of state power. smouldering, Their success wasn't immediate but the In 1974 people from the University of short lived Dawson government of 1896 Queensland Labor Club circulated an open was the first elected socialist government letter to Federal Secretary, David Coombe, in the world. By 1915 the Labor Party was calling for intervention. Jack called the well on its way to being the major polit- pointless President and Secretary of that Club into cial institution in tlie state. In that year Breakfast Creek Headquarters and they were T.J. Ryan led the party to electoral success ritually insulted before the Party's Inner and in the next forty two years the Party .1^1 w Executive. was only out of office for a short period II After Queensland's particulariy poor during the depression. showing in the 1975 federal election, it While Labor govermnents of that era f:^ became clear that something had to be were quite progressive - they abolished the done to clean up the Party's act in the upper house, hanging, and started a whole Sunshine State. Especially if there was range of state enterprises - they nevertheless ever going to be another Labor govern­ didn't make that much of a difference. As ment in Canberra. But at that stage we can see now, the enterprises (except there was no alternative power for the S.G.I.O.) were sold off or closed structure within the Party in Quee­ down. The abolition of the upper house Just what is the current state of nsland. It took people a long time entrenched a conservative party just as the Labor Party in Queensland? to pluck up the courage to crit­ easily as it opened the way for a progress­ Party member STEPHEN icise 'Head Office' and a lot long­ ive party. STOCKWELL* reports. er to organise a cohesive opposit­ The Labor Party in Queensland failed to ion to Breakfast Creek in the make full use of its power because it never Reform Group. really confronted the economic realities of this state by simply taking control of the The first efforts of the Reform Group massive natural assets for tfie good of all aclueved a mini intervention into the Party Queenslanders. tralian Workers Union and the Catholic liis might strike you as just a lot of in 1978. Then, the Federal Executive got And to understand that lack of fore­ Church. Thistory, but it is crucial in under the leadership at Breakfast Creek to agree sight and constructive action, one really In fact, the A.W.U. became such an standing Labor's seemingly suicidal to a number of structural changes and to has to come to terms with the sort of important force in the Party that in the activities since Vince Gair refused to intro­ generally open up the Party, At the convent­ people who were running the Party and thirties and forties they effectively ran it. duce tluee weeks annual leave and stuffed ion in Rockhampton in 1979, the structural taking positions of political power. When Postitions of leadership in the parliamentary the party in 1957. changes went through. But what was start­ the party came to government in Queens­ and organizational wings of the Party went ing to become known as the Old Guard used their numbers to ensure that only their land in 1915, until Gair split the Party in by right to members of tlie A.W.U. executive. After the split the Catholics left the Party people got the positions of power. 1957, it depended on two organizations in the hands of, firstly, the A.W.U., whose through which it could organise down to You can imagine how overseas and even strength was dropping as less labor intensive grass roots level: the rurally based Aus- Australian investors felt about putting their technology was introduced into primary Dissatisfaction in the Party soon escal­ money into a Labor state. There wasn't industry and country people flocked to the ated into a full scale confrontation. The the theoretical analysis within the Party to cities, and secondly, tlie craft unions who held Old Guard didn't do anytliing lo smooth support a government-led push for industrial power in Trades Hall in Brisbane and the pro­ it over by suspending a sitting Senator, *Steve covered the events at the recent development; so Queensland's economy vincial towns. In the sbctics lack of resources George Georges, and a couple of union State Labor Party Conference as a journalist stayed, one could even say stagnated, as a and initiative made it clear that the Party was officials, Peter Beattie and Joe Harris, for for4ZZZ-FM. mrally based one. not working from a strong industrial base. — Continued on following page —

Semper, 11 August 1981 — From previous page —

exercising their democratic rights to com­ I have a personal theory on this one. It plain. would seem that an inequitable electoral distribution and highly unsympathetic media So in March 1980 the Federal Executive have institutionalized the Labor Party as again intervened. This time they did it in a 'The Opposition'. It's given the occassional big way establishing a full scale Interim chance at government only to fail dismally Administrative Committee with fair repres­ proving what everyor^e knew all along: entation to all elements of the Party; unions Labor simply can't govern. People in the and branches. Party have to feel as though they're making The I.A.C. ran the state and federal some difference so they produce a battle. election carhpaigns last year and beat the Good fights evil in the relative safety of an Old Guard in court for possession of the Par­ ideologically parallel universe where no­ ty name and assets. They also organised the thing really matters. recent convention at the Greek Club in West End. And that's really happening in the Queensland Branch right now. Just at the time when the Party should be puttmg the The convention was soUdly behind the act together, pushing good candidates with Interim Administrative Committee. When a feel for the electorate and talking about the results of the court case were armounced policies in a straightforward and compre­ on the Timrsday morning you could feel hensible way, what's happening? People in the waves of joy, relief and determination the Party seem set on establishing two war­ to make a fist of it come off the convention ring camps with no trade, commerce or floor and physically engulf you. contact between them except for a ritual arraigning of forces at local Party meetings But don't think that the Queensland and at the Administrative Committee. Branch has fmally got its act together and that is is one big harmonious and humane What separates the factions? The Social­ machine ready to wow the electorate with ist Left takes a somewhat more radical its progressive, yet appealing, policies and line on whatever you want to talk about; its hard working, no-nonsense candidates. and the Centre Unity Group or Center Old habits, die hard and rising out of the Left, as it's taken to calling itself, wouldn't they are a fact of life and a very well organ­ particular ideological barrow to push can radical ashes of the old party is a Phoenix want to go that far. ised fact at that. stay together and fend off attacks from the with two heads, or at least two factions. S.L. . In fact, nothing much separates the At the recent conference at the Greek Keen observers of the mysteries of Labor factions except maybe their styles. TTiey are Club, the Socialist Left were particulariy At the conference I overhead someone internal politics will tell you that the Party both deeply committed to a programme of well organised. They rented a flat in a block tell a Socialist Left activist that they didn't just can't run without a nicely festering radical reform, increased state involvement next to the Club where there was a meeting want to be m a faction. "You will be," faction fight. They would have it that in the mining industry and economic manage­ room, photocopiers, filing cabinets and a said the activist with a very confident things will only get done in tlie situation ment to fight social injustice. Their only real duplicator. They brought out at least one smile. I just hope that for the sake of the where someone has to make sure that the differences are in rhetoric and how the Party leaflet a day under the title 'Left Bulletin - Party and the people it represents, indeed other side doesn't get the edge. sliould be presented to the electorate. But Fight for Democratic Socialism' and had for the sake of democracy itself that the their numbers on the floor of the conference Labor Party can minimize the dislocation very well organized indeed. that faction fighting will cause and get down to the serious work of building up the membership, selecting the good candidates By contrast the Centre Left was more and arguing for progressive policies in the loosely organised with jxist the occassional electorate. roneoed ticket telling their supporters how Geoigiaii, to vote. The Centre Left is probably better characterized as an Officers Group through which long time Party workers without any

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Fees we know something about. But student loans are little known in Aus­ tralia. The Federal Government is ominously quiet on the subject. So what are loans all about? LYN TAYLOR, Union Education Research Officer, explains.

One of the wounds to education in­ er education confers on the individual as flected by the Razor Gang on April 30th was an investment, is returned from the individ­ the student loans scheme, to be introduced ual to society through progressive taxation from the be^nning of 1982. Since then we if better jobs are obtained as a result. If the have heard nothing except that details will balance between private and community be armounced later - perhaps when the benefit is payment for educational and other Federal Budget comes down on August goods then the remedy would be to adjust 18. the levels of progressive taxation rather than Many students do not realise the implic­ invent an additional tax on graduate status ation of a loans scheme. Although the by way of introducing repayable loans. Government announced that such a scheme If the truth be known, the really wealthy would be a "supplement" to T.E.A.S. it people in our society did not get that way is obvious tliat loans would be a substitute because they obtained a higher education. for increases in T.fe.A.S. and eventually Neither did they get that way because they for T.E.A.S. in toto. The intention is even worked many hundreds of times harder clearer when considered in conjunction witli than those who work in the factories and the the announcement that T.E.A.S. regulations offices. would be tightened. The track record of the present govern­ One doesn't have to be clairvoyant to ment shows clearly that it has no interest picture the scene - more and more students in distributing the wealth in our country would be squeezed out of T.E.A.S. and more equitably - quite the reverse is the forced to apply for loans. Those lucky few case. To make students pay for their educ­ who remained on T.E.A.S. would receive ation on the grounds that they are the such a pittance that they too would have no "future wealthy" cannot possibly be the option other than to beg for a loan. real motivation behind the introduction of fees and loans. Let us examine, then, THE USER PAYS PHILOSOPHY some of the other common justifications Student loans schemes as well as tertiary that are put forward for student loans tutition fees are underpinned by the philos­ schemes. ophy that individual students will benefit financially from a higher education and THE EXPERIENCE OF LOANS therefore it is socially just to make sure that IN OTHER COUNTRIES they pay for it. An argument often put for%vard in Education is therefore viewed as a mar­ favour of student loans schemes is that they ketable commodity just like any other work well in other countries. This is simply product which is Oiere for tlie use of the not true. The Thatcher Government in indi\'idual if s/he chooses to buy it. The Great Britain has recently rejected a loans present Government obviously views health system, opting to upgrade the system of in the same light - it is something wliich student grants, after close examination of the individual can buy if s/he sees it as an the viability of loans schemes in other important enough priority. countries. In reality, the community as a whole A major problem in the administration of In Canada and the U.S.A., students are tlieir courses finished. T.E.A.S. is hope­ benefits from a healthy population just as it loans in the U.S.A. is that of students de­ forced to borrow huge sums of money, lessly cpmplicated but a loans scheme would does from an educated and skilled citizenry. faulting on repayments because they cannot many of them graduating some 530,000 in be infinitely more so. Loans and fees serve only to encourage find employment; they cannot fmd employ­ debt. Overseas experience has shown that loans graduates to take the selfish attitude that ment that pays very well; they are unfit for schemes are not only difficult but very they have paid for their education, they owe In Australia, a student, having borrowed employment because of iU-health; they leave the money to cover most of her/liis living expensive to administer. The cost of ser­ the community nothing and that they the country or they die. vicing a loan in the U.S.A, varies consider­ should set out to recoup as much of the costs would graduate at least $10,000 in The Reagan administration has recently debt. At a long term rate of interest of 8% ably but it tends to range between forty to expenses as possible from the community. launched a new crackdown on Americans sixty cents for each dollar loaned. This could mean that doctors, for example, over 20 years repayments would be about who have failed to repay loans. Under the Australia has never used loans as the would agitate even more than at present S24 per week. For an interest rate of 12% Federally Insured Student I^oans (F.I.S.L.) main form of student assistance. Teething for ever-increasing consultation fees. the repayment would be S38 per week. programme, where the goverrunent directly At tliis stage we have no indication of just problems in the scheme would take years Even the moral repugnance of the user- guarantees repayment of loans made to what the interest rates would be. Repay­ to overcome. pays principle could be forgotten for a mom- students by banks or other lending in­ ments of between $24 and $38 per week The U.S.A. has had a loans system for ment, one wouldn't have to look too deeply stitutions - often the college themselves would certainly be a severe fmancial burden many years and yet, in one instance, a to find other, more pragmatic objections. - the govemment has, since 1965, lost on many graduates, most of whom would be minor change in the interest accounting The idea that students should pay for over $450m with the default rate running at a stage of life when they would be incur­ system on the computer ended up taking their maintenance is based on the notion at SI92m. ring many other debts to obtain a house and IVi years to implement instead of the couple that they will find highly paid jobs upon One of the more horrific aspects of other goods. of months anticipated. graduation and will therefore have "ripped loans are the measures being taken to deal Many overseas countries have found loans off tlie community if they have been with defaulters. The U.S. govemment has schemes to be administrative nightmares. BUDGETARY CONSIDERATIONS supported through their student years. This just hired two debt collecting agencies. TTie systems generate oceans of paperwork Another justification for loans and fees ignores the fact that students have had to The Pennsylvania Govemment now sacks at every level. Wlien one major Federal put forward is that Australia simply can­ forego many years of wages while at uni­ any employees who default. The New programme was launched in the U.S., the not afford to finance students via T£.A.S. versity. It ignores the fact that many jobs, Jersey Govenmient now prints lists of difficulties were such that one hundred and free tuition. Loans are cited as a means such as social work, are not very highly defaulters in local newspapers. In Denmark staff ended up administering a million of saving money on education. paid and that, in financial terms, a person in 1977/78 the govertunent had to pay the dollar programme. Loans schemes are far Once again, evidence from other coun­ would probably be far better off gomg into commercial banks 5ra pounds to clear more labour intensive than grants schemes tries shows that no significant savings occur the public service after grade twelve or uncollectable debts. The following extract in that they involve not only the processing on loans for at least 20 years. In Sweden, doing an apprenticeship after grade ten than from a promotion brochure for the Pennsyl-' of application but also legal contracts, Norway and the Netheriands at the end of doing a social work or arts degree. vania State Student Loan Programme is counselling, collection of repayments, pur­ a two decade period, these governments illuminating. It also ignores the fact that many people suit of defaulters - all involving contact only recouped 25%, 30% and 11% respec­ tively of their expenditure on student are studying for other than vocational "Don't let your loan become a default. with students for twenty-three years rather reasons and that they have no intention of Your reputation is at stake. Avoid the than three years. loans through loan repayments. A major looking for a highly paid job on graduation.. 'collector' and 'nagger* and the bad Counselling would inevitably be under­ factor that reduces the real return on re­ That is, even if they could find one, given credit finger that could be pointed at staffed so that students would remain ignor­ payments is inflation. the present unemployment situation. you. Good credit follows you where­ ant of what was avaUable and what repay­ It seems incredible that a country such In any case, the private good which high­ ver you go. So does the opposite." ments they had let themselves in for when as Australia which is supposed to be on tlte — Continued on following page —

Semper, 11 August 1981 - From previous page - WHY LOANS? brink of a resources boom would consider ing even more money to repeat the year. ACCESS TO EDUCATION The arguments against loans are very withdrawing its already stingy support for Competition is already fierce in some Whereas grants act as an incentive to strong and we have certainly not heard the students and undermining its free tertiary courses, such as law and medicine, and with higher education, loans would act as a deter­ Minister for Education refuting any of education system. the increased pressure of loans, we could rent. Naturally, the people most affected expect to see an increase in the already would be those who are already under- them. Overseas loans schemes have been a HIGHER ATTRITION high suicide rate of these students. represented in our tertiary institutions - disaster but Uien it has always been Aus­ women, working class people, blacks, tralia's style to adopt overseas disasters, Overseas experience has shown that SKEWING OF COURSE CHOICES country people, mature-age students — as if we have to find out for ourselves. dropout rates are much higher in countries A loan system would also serve to en­ all of these groups are traditionally dis­ Fees and loans can serve only to res­ that administer loans rather than provide courage distortions in the range of subjects inclined to incur financial hardship for trict the access of poorer people to uni­ grants. In Denmark, attrition rates are close studied. There would be clear pressure on education and all would be seen as poor versities. U is clear that the government's to 50%. Canada 40%, and in the U.S.A. potential students, particularly on those credit risks by the banks. intention is to channel tiiese people into T.A.F.E. courses thereby preserving the 40-50%. In 1968, the availability of grants from less privileged backgrounds, to study Parents are much less amenable to spend­ universities for Uie rich. was relatively extensive in British univer­ those courses which are perceived to be ing money on the education of their daugh­ sities and there was an overall attrition more likely to guarantee a secure and well- ters than their sons; women generally re­ We have heard all of their rhetoric about rate of 13%. paid job. Other areas of study which are ceive lower salaries than men on graduation; universities having experienced a boom per­ A Canadian study in 1971 tound mat socially useful but not particulariy lucrative lending agencies have always been reluct­ iod in the 70s. V\e fact remains, however, the single most important reason for under­ or with a high level of graduate unemploy­ ant to give loans to women because they that the participation rate of Austraian graduate wastage was financial; further, of ment (e.g. teaching) would be further down­ may default because of pregnancy. youth in higher education is still very low those who withdrew because they found it graded. Mature-age students would be very re­ compared to that of other developed coun­ tries. difficult to finance their education, almost It is quite likely that the banks (or who­ ticent to borrow for education because one third were unwilling to borrow money most have families to support and heavy It is not yet certain that fees and lo.ins ever does the lending - perhaps the Govern­ will go ahead. The A.L.P, and Australian to continue their studies, A recent report ment hasn't found anyone willing to take it financial commitments. by the CouncU of European Cultural Co­ Country people would be disadvantaged Democrats' senators plan to block any on yet) would ^ve preference for loans to enabling legislation. Rumour has it that a operation found the difference m wastage those students undertaking vocationally- because they have no choice other than to couple of Liberal Senators may cross the rates between Britain and European coun­ oriented courses as they would be seen as live away from home (especially in light of floor to join them. tries to be "remarkable". better credit risks. the govemment decision to cripple CAEs) Signatures on the petition to the Uni­ The reasons for Uie link between loans This would place further pressure on and would therefore have to borrow larger and attrition are obvious. Students would be sums than city students to complete their versity of Queensland Senate are bemg students as many would be doing courses collected. The petition calls on the Uni­ forced to seek extensive part-time employ­ for which they would never have opted if courses. ment in order to minimise borrowing and versity to refuse to collect fees or co­ they had not been faced with the repay­ Blacks have never fared very well in the thus severely restricting tune spent ori operate with the administration of a loans ment of a hefty debt on graduation. lending or the employment games. academic work. scheme. Make sure you sign it. It will go Some students would tend to choose the Working class students would graduate before die Senate on September 3rd. shorter courses and would not be able to If a student were to fail a year of her/ into debt. Rich students on the other hand, Students will be participating in the consideririg doing honours or a postgrad­ his course, s/he would then be faced with would be more likely to graduate free of T.L.C. organised budget rally on Friday uate diploma for fear of increasing the the choice of either leaving without a qual­ debt and would also be more likely to find 21st August in King George Square at ification but with a large debt or of borrow­ burden of their debt. high income jobs because of the effect of 12 noon. There will be several speakers on family background on employment pros­ education and by then we will know what pects. the budget holds in store for us. T.E.A.S. and the abolition of fees have Keep in mind what the lead singer of been criticised for not fulfdling the original Redgum said when they performed in the hopes that they would encourage a greater Great Court. When students indicated their proportion of working class people to enter pathetic lack of support for the Black Land higher education. Taken against a back­ ground of economic recession there is little Rights Rally he jeered, "Yeh, that's right! IHEALmEOODS evidence that the disadvantaged have made You just sit in the library and all the prob­ use of access to education, particulariy lems will go away.'' in recent years. REFERENCES 7S?AJJ UMi T.E.A.S. is quite inadequate and if it has not acted as a sufficient mcentive, A.V.S.Edlnfo. No. 2, May 1981. dsoIKMnPATHlC& NATURQPAimC^EMEnES surely the answer is to increase it rather A.U.S, Graduation Into Debt May 1981 Uian to make a depressing picture far worse Association of Univenity Teachers Student Loans with the introduction of a loans scheme. (London-March, 1981) TVHl Marginson, S. Arguments Against Student Loans Coies Shopping Centre Asi^ X . ' Phone2633497 A rally on Monday 3 August was the speakers were aboriginal, one came from called to protest the proposed legis­ Cherbourg, anoUier from Weipa. There were lation replacing the existing Aborigines some very good points made; clearest was Act, which was drafted with virtually the conviction of the speakers. They spoke no consultation with the people it will of living as an aboriginal in Australia today, directly effect. and why Land Rights is an important issue in this state. The proposed lease hold system, under One speaker noted that most of the 200 which Mornington Island and Arukun now or so people listening were white. She point­ operate, is seen by many aborigines as a ed out the need for more unified action by cop out. It's not enough to grant 50 year blacks to lobby parliamentarians on the Qandy's leases, they say. Leases can casUy be revoked issue before the legislation is 'debated'. and conditions can be laid down as to what There will be more rallies and hopefully WIRED ROLLING PAPERS is done with the land. It means that abor­ more people will bring their support. A BEAUTIFUL JEWELLERY igines in Queensland still won't have the march permit had been issued for 5.45pm EXQUISITE PERFUMES right to live as they choose on the missions on Monday but the time was moved to Handmade Asian and and reserves. 6.40pm just before the rally, by the Police Australian Clothing DeparUnent without explanation. The march Smokers Requisites The rally was due to begin at 4.30 at was not allowed to proceed to Parliament Bhongf/Rolling Papers the tent embassy in King George Square. House but was around city streets and back Bidees The tent has been there for over a month. to the Square. ^ COMIX It's there, occupied by aborigines day and The Tent Embassy will remain in King That's what you'll get at ^ Incence & night, to educate the public, who pass George Square. Hopefully, at least some through the Square, about the issues that people will listen to the aborigines there SUE'S HAIR AFFAIR are soon to be debated in Queensland and help to right the impoverished situation Parliament. The people in the embassy that Queensland aborigines have to live 57 High St i47CoonanSt are calling for freehold title to all reserves with every day. TOOWONG INDOOROOPILLY UNIQUE^BATIK and missions in Queensland. This is the 370 8633 378 6509 SHOP 3 - EllzalMth Arcada - 99 ElizslMt(\ St land rightsissue . - MALCOLM COLE BrItlMna - Phone 229 1836 As more people arrived to listen to the Wholesale Enquiries Welcome 20% discount for all students rally, the speeches began. All but one of

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University Union Women's Rights organiser KERRIE BOM AN discusses sexual harassment of women on Campus

here's not a woman of! an Aust­ letter which threatened her with a $100,000 Tralian campus who hasn't suffer­ defamation charge unless she apologized and ed some form of sexual harass­ retracted her accusations. She has refused ment. and is uncertain what wUl happen in court, Often we don't perceive the ordinary if it goes that far. incidents of everyday life as *sexual harass­ Women thus face the double threat of ment' - but each one of us has been the sexual and legal harassment, the latter subject of stares when we walk into a opeiating to silence women and keep us in lecture late, or the victim of being 'mentally a position of utter poweriessness in the undressed'. If it hasn't happened to us we've face of sexual harassment. seen it happen to other women. Our society holds only one definition We tend to ignore such trivial incidents, of rape - the violent submission of a woman brusliing them off as the ways of 'some to penile-vaginal penetration. Academic rape men'. We tend to describe ourselves as is not even perceived as a real issue, let alone 'liberal minded', and sometimes we're even as real rape. The situation will remain the co-opted into laughing at the lecturer's same untU women wUl and can figlit back. jokes about correlating bust size with brain Before we can figlu back we must under­ capacity, or the probability of a student stand the reasons for our own sUence as 'scoring' at a party that night. well as the willingness of administrations to As women, we're accustomed to being remain silent. the butt of jokes, and to our bodies being The most successful tactic used to keep objects of ridicule (as in 'comedy' sketches, women silent, is to make us think that a the 'well-endowed' secretary bends over to request for sexual favours by an academic pick someUiing up and die lecherous boss happens to us alone. We are caught in the gets to look up her skirt or down her cleav- .... ; same bind as we are when we hear the age). As students, we're programmed to $: such a power structure, free choice cannot ;:; advances from a lecturer or tutor would be be exercised. $ taken far more seriously, and certainly : seemingly irmocent joke or the casual cruis- laugh at the lecturer's or tutor's jokes - :j:| ; ing of a guy's eyes over a woman's body - after all, everybody else is and we don't '•§. The repercussions for women who have ij: there would be no question of doubting had sexual relations with male academic •:• the word of the student. Wliat would he I we are forced to interpret the situation want to stand out or give an unfavourable |x ; according to our own conditioning: that we impression. '$^ staff are enormous. If she has been black- jl possibly have to gain by lying? Unlike men, mailed to accept the relationship in return :^: women are seen virtually as compulsive liars, : wouldn't want to be without the attention, If we do feel offended or angry at our :§ for a "pass",she still loses the "power game" §• particulariy when they are complaining of • that v/e are being 'singled out', that we must treatment, we tend to doubt our own per- ;";|:becaus e she has gained nothing - she has no :•:• sexual harassment or rape. : be dreaming or that the situation didn't ceptions. Eititer we 'asked for it' or else j:!; power intellectually or sexually. ij: : really happen at all. When we are sure tliat we feel foolishly 'oversensitive' and 'hum- y: Women who choose to sleep with their % Students may even find themselves, : it did really happen, we are alone in our ouriess'. A woman is supposed to grit her |:J: unknowingly, complaining to a good confusion about what to do. We expect teachers often realize too late that many :•:• "buddy" of their harasser, or someone who teeth and bear it; the onus being on us to i'ii teachers see sex as another perk of the job :jj : tliat no one will believe us, and we are endure it "gracefully", rather than on the iji: themselves sexually haras.ses women and is • usually right. If we take the risk of acting, male to stop the harrassment. % and see women students as young, permiss- •:•: thus unlikely to do anything about their ive and sexually available. If a sexual re- jij- i we neariy always suffer the punishment Many students find it hard to believe that S complaint. And who can you complain to : tlueatened by the academic, or worse. our "respected and revered" academics •>: lationship between an academic and a stud- i-ij if it's someone high up or the Head of the could ever be so blatant or crass as to make •^; ent is not to be open to abuse by tlie power- ij: Department who is harassing you? x; Academic rape is not an isolated act passes at students or openly offer then :•:• ful partner in the relationship (i.e. the :>• Women may fmd tliat not only is their iij: against an isolated woman. Sexual harass­ "an A for a lay". Sitting in a lecture theatre :^ academic) then the latter should arrange :•:• complaint dismissed but tiiat they've incurr- jJ ment is never an isolated act against isolat- with 300 other students it might appear •!•; for someone else to assess or supervise the ij: ed the wratii of the person they complained ij: ed Women! All fomis of sexual coercion, ridiculous, but university also mcludes in- ^j; student's work. (This has been incorpor- % to as well as that of the harasser. They may iji; be they sexist innuendoes, academic rapes, dividual consultations with lecturers or •:•• ated into the sexual harassment guidelhies jj fmd themselves branded "troublemakers" j: or violent crimes against women are acts tutors; student-staff parties; postgraduates •:•: adopted by the Canadian Association of :j: and made very unwelcome in the depart- ij against ALL women because they rest on working on a one-to-one basis with super- J-j University Teachers.) ^j ment. Worse still (yes, it can get worse), ijI assumptions about the nature of women. visors; and try going to the staff club for a :$ they may tlien be sued for defamation by j:| These assumptions are founded on a sexist drink one night. :':•; Sexual demands, no matter how insig- jj the male they complained about. ij\ society. It's not iways as simple as 'an A for a % nificant they appear or who they are im- vj In Canada, two professors are suing ij Ultimately, to get rid of sexual harass- lay'; for example, one academic whose ||j posed by, are essentially an attack on -j: three women students who accused male -ii: ment we will have to destroy the unequal sexual advances were rejected by a fSmale ijij women's livelihood. Education is critical :•;• professors in their department (they did :i.*;\ power relationships inherent in this society, post-grad, Informally branded her around •:•: to women's survival, social mobility and :|j not specify any particular professor) of ij• but in the short term we must firstly make the department as a slack worker whose :•:; independence because it determines our job ;j: sexually harassing women. ii; people aware of sexual harassment on study wasn't up to scratch, thus ruining :)•; opportunities to a large degree. §• campus; it has been an invisible crime for her credibility and reputation in the de- •:•: Women students are at the mercy of jj loser to home - in AustraUa, a woman .j:; too long. We must establish some sort of partment. .'iji lecturers, tutors and so on who hold the key -j: Cwas sexually harassed by a male senior ij tribunal or committee in the university for to our livelihood. Lack of job opportunities jj librarian for over two years, and fma- iii dealing with complamts of sexual harass­ 1 have been in a class of about ten women if: deprives us of material security and indep- jj lly complained to his superior who admitted ;ji ment, because the system at the moment all of whom were constantly angered and •:• endence, making resistance to sexual pres- ;j; that he did not know the correct procedure ;jj is certainly not seeing that students get a frustrated by our lecturer's continuous sexual '^ sures often unpracticable. Women's most 1$ for such a complaint, but advised her to ij fair deal. innuendoes and insistence on bringing the :|: common response to sexual harassment - jj make a complaint in writing. She did so, and ij: Above all, we, as women, must give topic (whatever it was) back to some refer- •:• if we don't give in to the academic's i:^ this letter was referred to the Registrar, sent ;j; each other support and fight to end the ence to sex, ::| demands — is to change courses or even drop :::;t o Personnel and shown to her harasser, jj isolating and debilitating effect which Students have also been victimized for :j out entirely. The other options are daunting, ;•:• (The correct procedure was in fact to yi sexual harassment has on our lives. takmg a feminist view on a particular topic; •:• If a woman decides to make a com- ij: write a complaint to tlie Vice Chancellor.) ij: one lecturer even instructed his class to $ plaint about her harasser, she must go to jj: There was an interview between the Lib- jj The Women's Riglits Committee would write a feature article on anything, pro- ij one of his collegues who will ahnost cer- jj rarian, the Registrar, the Semor Persojmel ;ij like to hear from women on this campus vided it was not "women's libberish". •:• tainly be male, and will almost certainly jj: Officer and her harasser, during which the ij: about sexual harassment, as some record feel more ready to believe a fellow coUea- ;j: latter totally deiued the allegations and jj of the incidence of harassment, academic One form of sexual harassment which is •:• gue tiian a female student; especially as, in ^i the complainant was not present to put for- :|:: rape and so on is essential if we are going to specific to us as students is academic rape. V our society, it is assumed that women jj ward her case or bring forward any evidence • j: change the situation. Confidentiality is It's called "academic" rape because it :•; enjoy sexu^ harassment (even rape) and i:i: to support her claims. Another woman she jj assured -(we know the risks of defamation). occurs when a lecturer, tutor or other :|: that we "ask for it" and "provoke it", and ;| contacted was willing to testify tiiat the jji We can be contacted m die Women's Rights academic offers to exchange a "pass" or •:• if we aren't harassed, then we make it up jj same man who harassed the complainant, ij: Room upstairs in the Union bufldlng, or higher grading for sexual favours. It's called :•: to get back at men for not "favouring" ij: sexually assaulted her. After the inter- :ij phone on 371.1611. "rape" because it involves a demand made :•: us with such unwanted attention. -j: view, which lasted 10 mhiutesi, the com- jij; by someone in a powerful position of •:• On the other hand, a complaint by a jj plaint was dropped. ij: someone in a less powerful position. Within ::| male student about unwanted homosexual ;j: A week later the woman received a :i'i ii^

Semper. 11 August 1981 PESO conference External Student Liason Officer, and university administrations are being Margaret Shapcott feels that the forced to answer their needs. Their prob­ general community isn't really aware lems range from access to library facilities, to child care, unsympathic employers and of the value of P.E.S.O. people to spouses. the community. She hopes the forth­ Every year a P.E.S.O. conference is held coming P.E.S.O. conference will im­ to assist liason between different Australian prove the situation. campuses and discuss issues relevant to these So who are P.E.S.O. people? students. This year the conference is being The Part-time and External Students' hosted by the University of Queeijsland Organisation was formed in 1976 at an Union on 21-23 August. Australian Union of Student sponsored It is being organised by Margaret Shapcott conference. It aims to represent part-time and Union President, David Barbagello and external students and to research in conjunction with the National Co­ Uieir specific needs and problems. In 1979 ordinator of P.E.S.O., Gay Pedrick. Margaret it was broadened to encompass mature Shapcott said that the. conferences are age students. attended largely by P.E.S.O. representatives such areas as technological change, health Part-timers, mature age and external from around the country. There are a range of workshops which and social problems, adults mto education students are increasing in numbers on most "But I would also like normal part-time will be of great interest to P.E.S.O. people and disabled students. Australian campuses, so student unions and external students to attend," she said. and in fact, to all students. The topics cover Margaret said diat she hopes the conference will also serve a political function as well. "We hope to get media A response from a legal source to the person shall, whether on commission Claims Tribunal. Written complaints should coverage, drawing to the attention of tiie article on homefinding services in the last or for or in expectation of any fee, give details of names, places and events, so general population that these people are a issue of Semper revealed that such services gain or reward, supply or undertake that Inspectors from the Department can significant part of tiie student body," she have to be registered real estate agents to supply or advertise or hold himself investigate grievances against agents.* said. by law, was contrary to the information out in any manner that he will supply These should be directed to: Margaret insists that the P.E.S.O. previously supplied in Semper. Few, if to any person addresses or other The Senior Inspector, conference can be of real benefit any homefinding services are in fact reg­ particulars of - Registry of Auctioneers and Agents, in increasing public awareness of these istered. Union Welfare Officer, NINA (a) houses that are to let; GP.O.Box895, students, and about the issues facing all WILLIAMS reports. (b) houses, land or estates that are BRISBANE Qld. 4001 students today. "Education cutbacks will Further investigation has found that for sale, unless he is the holder of Telephone: 227.8419 or 227.8613 continue as long as society will wear it, and services which offer to locate rental accom­ a real estate agent's licence. •Complaints against the practices of any people aren't aware of what university modation for a fee must be registered as As all registered Agents are required to used car dealer can also be directed to this education is," she said. real estate agents, following an amendment operate wiUiin the provisions of this Act, office. -ANNE JONES in 1975 to die Auctioneers and Agents complaints agamst any agent can be directed Act 1971-75 which stated diat: towards the Justice Department, as well as 71 A. Prohibited practices.. (1) No the Consumer Affairs Bureau and the Small CHASING an EDUCATION •.•.•-•.•.•.•.•••.'.'.'.•.•.•.v.-." •-•.•.•.•.•.•••.• %%¥%«:W?:A::::%W:

"Chasing an Education" is the theme for SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Professor John Chick, this year's conference of PESO — Part-time, (Director, Division of External Studies, Qld. Mature-age, and External Students Organisation. University) PESO, a division of the Australian Union of John Dawkins, (Opposition spokesperson Students Education Department, is a national for Education) student body. Its annual conference will be held Wal Fife, Federal Minister for Education is this year at Queensland University. expected to send a representative. DATES: Friday 21st August registration between 6 — 8pm Saturday 22nd August COSTS FOR REGISTRATION: $45.00 includes Sunday 23rd August college accommodation, all meals (at Student Union refec), conference expenses; VENUE: Students Union Complex or $30 includes communal accomodation, Workshops include; * Health and social meals, conference expenses; problems of part-time and mature-age or $5.00 conference expenses per day, students plus meals. * Technology and the Myers Report * Adults into education, and why? * Support systems for external students * Library services * Student Unions and PESO groups TO REGISTER: Contact Union Office, * Women students Students Union, * Disabled students and access to Queensland University. education Phone 371.1611.

W FREEDOM TO CHOOSE: Milton and i m Rose Friedman, Penguin, 1980 ($5.50)•

erhaps this book will become the are considered counterproductive as ultira- mixed economy. We have innumerable versities and colleges not charging tuition Pfundamental text of contempor- ately they, by distorting market forces, government regulations administered by fees do seem to suffer dechning academic ary conservatism. Friedman produce more inflation, not less, armies of public servants usually because standards. There's merit in the idea of view­ draws on ideas propounded many ^^ vigorously attacks consumer protect- of the obvious (at the time of establish­ ing tertiary students and parents of school years ago by Adam Smith John ^^'^ authorities (U.S. Food and Drug Admin- ment) need for them. Poor quality hous­ children as clients paying for provision of Locke and Herbert Spencer 'amone ^^*^^*'0") '^"<^ ^« Environmental Protection ing, polluting vehicle engines, failing banks, educational services. In this way pressure is and dangerous drags have all attracted put on educational institutions to perform. others. To embellish his ideas about ^f"'^ '' ''''T^/'' °^ ^^^ ''^['""P/''. ^"^ "government regulation because of the economic poUcy and political organ- ^""'"^'"' '" '""''' '^''^'' ^"^"'^ Staff are not then quasi public servants paid have often simply substituted govemment pressure of public opinion. out of consolidated revenue. An educational isation: the basic principle is that if failure for market failure (p. 255). Industrial voucher, issued by the government to the we allow a free market to operate, regulatory bodies, such as the U.S. Inter­ he public sector (broadly called govern­ parent or tertiary student, need not cover the individual in using his freedom of state Conmierce Commission, are ultimately ment activity) is so large often as a res­ the cost of tuition fees. The balance will be choice will effect the most rational devoted to preventing competition and Tult of the inability of private enterprise paid by the individual to 'better' institutions allocation of resources. innovation rather than organising them. to provide for fundamental needs (such as a thus putting pressures on all to raise 'stand­ This principle will supposedly apply in High frei^t rates are largely caused by the rail system). Tlie private sector then becom­ ards'. Competition is usually healthy. most areas including education and em­ I.C.C. whilst the petrol shortages and rising es, sometimes as a part-product of taxpayer Perhaps the book's best chapter is its ployment. Friedman cites govemment petrol prices result largely from bureaucratic subsidies, the major user of such facilities. philosophical •one on equality and free- intervention as the main cause of bungles in Washington in the Department of It is true tiiat some governments do dorn (chapter five). The welfare state's Energy. economic difficulties as this pre­ establish too many and quite unnecessary main thrust is towards equality. This is vents the smootli operation of Friedman's advocation of a negative regulations. Sometimes a regulated industry why we have universities that do not charge market forces. income tax as an alternative to social secur­ (such as civil aviation) can, as a result of tuition fees. As experience of its operation The book is based ity payments has been long and reientiess. the passage of time, benefit from de­ has shown, the pursuit of equality of oppor­ , ^ mainly on U.S. ex- He believes that such payments by welfare regulation. Governments should realise this tunity is very difficult. This is why uni- ^v perience and is authorities is fundamentally wrong,... 'The and act accordingly. The principle still versity students are even more middle class ^'Os aimed at his bureaucrat spends someone else's money on remains that governments usually inter­ than before the abolition of tuition fees in y)jii^^ ^' fellow Am- someone else. Only human kindness, not the fere of necessity. 1974. much stronger and more dependable spur of Friedman's view of inflation as a mone­ self-interest, assures that they will spend tary phenomenon is of course too simple. The basic difficulty is that not every­ the money in a way most beneficial to the Too rapid expansion of the money supply His body is ambitious and erstwhile. Hence the recipients. Hence the wastefulness and in­ can be a cause but other factors must hs argu­ abolition of tuition fees, intended to benefit ments are effectiveness of tiie spending.' (p. 147) acknowledged. Inflation is a very complex He goes on to say; 'Voluntary gifts phenomenon as most economists will tell the working class, has in reality benefited relevant to tiie middle classes. Tlie latter are more capitalist count­ V aside, you can spend someone else's you, it has to be attacked witii a battery of money only by taking it away as measures carefully chosen and combined. able and inclined to encourage their child­ ries such as ours. ren to achieve university matriculation. This The appeal of Frie­ government does. The use of Few people collect social security bene­ force is therefore at the very fits out of choice. So, tiien the organisation example should be noted. What improves dman's work to so many ' • society is not so much the pursuit of equal­ is due in part to the sunplic- heart of the welfare state, of them must be wrong. To say that the a bad means that social fabric is threatened by die welfare ity but the pursuit of freedom. The former ity of tiieir elaboration. Conse is often a product of the latter. Tvatives love single reason causes ' tends to corrupt the state is absurd. In fact, the reverse is trae and single method solutions. Hence ' good ends. That an most people use social security benefits, their belief in the importance of reduc­ is the reason subsidized healtii care, education, and so ing the size and mfluence of govemment. why the on, as an aid to leading healtiiy working welfare lives. Some will abuse any system of social Friedman also writes succinctly, avoid­ ,. .. ,...^^^... *v«-.. > state welfare. If abuse becomes widespread then ing terminology and qualifying phrases. thr­ the administration of such systems needs His examples are well known to North improving. Americans at least. Despite being a work eatens on political economy, the book is easy to our free Friedman's views on education do doom so serisen- ^'•^..k-;; position as world leader is diminisliing. •'.3:.,•>'•'.•v< servatism, Freidman looks to a return to tiie past He advocates a voucher scheme when individual effort, energy, prepared­ for education as an alternative to '-'i^-v^?^'; ness to take risks, and operation of the direct funding. Parents would then use.^'xt'V free market prevailed. No one can deny their vouchers to purchase all or part of •^: that these elements were so essential to their children's education at a school of American economic development. Friedman tiieir choice. In this way compulsory school­ suggests ways in various areas such as in the ing need not deny (as it seems happens now, labour market, how govemment regulation largely) parents' control over the kind of may be diminished. schooling their children receive. . For example he suggests tiiat minimum wage laws distort the operation of the labour Sunilariy tertiary education is open to market thus reducing demand for labour and tiie Friedman attack on big goverrunent. so increasing unemployment. If minimum Federal subsidies to tertiary institutions wage regulations were abolished, youth and direct grants for students' are con­ unemployment, in Friedman's opinion, sidered to be inequitable as tertiary students would drop dramatically. Employers would are subsidized by those who are not. Such find it profitable to employ more unskilled to becoming clients of tertiary institutions workers. Hence, Friedman considers trade hence exerting their origjnal freedom of unions to be causing unemployment by choice emasculated by govemment grants. maintaining wages (or incomes in the case of Finally Friedman advocates and detaUs members of powerful professional associa­ a constitutional amendment which would tions such as the American Medical Associ­ limit government power in the social and ation) at artificially high levels. economic area. If this were passed an effec­ Friedman's view of inflation as a mone­ tive legal obstacle to the expansion of gover- tary phenomenon caused by govermnents ment ability to restrict freedom of choice (or their agencies such as the Federal could be established. Clearly the U.S. Reserve Board) is well known. Reduction of Supreme Court would have an even busier the rate of monetary growth is the basic time! cure. He sees lowered economic growth My fundamental objection to Fried­ and higher unemployment as side effects man's ideas is that he is never prepared of the cure. Prices and incomes restraints to accept the complexity of the modem

S8JTr^11WdW1&§t txxxL^..,itti.t. 114.i,«aa*S)c.t*kjEtt'a s-Si'S"?"*-*-* i.SS'.-SiX'-- vv« *^*-M •*•:'! The Australian government's energy policy will promote profits from the export of our resources, promising to greatly stimulate the manufacturing industry. However, these initiatives have not been aimed at improving the effects of energy use on our society and environment, as could be achieved by thoughtful development on appropriate alternative energy methods.

the Australian Coal Industry Research Laboratories, and Part of this oil short fall may be supplemented by to CSR for a cassava to ethanol pilot fermentation plant. conversion of coal or shale to synthetic distillate. The Coal research got by far the greatest share totalling only commercial plants of tiiis type currently operating S8 million out of SI8.4 million followed by energy con­ are the Sasol Oil - from coal plants in South Africa. In 1977 the Senate Standing Committee on servation, $3.3 mOlion; and solar energy $2.0 million. The Rundle oil shale deposit on Queensland's central Natural Resources recommended the establishment The University of Queensland received about $529,000 coast is expected to reach demonstration stage in 1985 of a statuatory body, the Australian Energy for 16 projects. and reach a peak of up to 240,000 bands a day before Commission, "to have overall responsibility for tiie mid 1990's. This oil is forecast to cost $16-$25 per developing and co-ordinating a loiig term Australian barrel, by present costs. energy policy . ^ ., to be advised by an Australian In a recent report, the National Energy Advisory Com­ Advisory Committee . . . , to aid the development mittee concluded that the development of alternative of alternative energy sources," which they stated liquid fuels would involve large capital costs, and involve ENERGY RESOURCES OVERVIEW long lead times. Making it a risky venture. They cl^m "could best be described as hotch-potch". This Innovations in energy technology are regularly and (though many would disagree) that shale oil is the only policy was announced in June 1979. often extensively reported in publications such as Nature, good prospect for commercial viability in the medium term, Science and New Scientist. A complete index of papers that may be capable of producing more than 15% of our National Energy Office director, J.V. Monaghan states by Australian authors dealmg with renewable resources liquid fuel requirements with an 8-10 year lead time. that Uie policy was developed in response to dramatic (solar, wind, ocean, renewable fuels etc.) known as the They gave oil from coal processes poor to moderate prof- changes in oil supply and price, "and the associated increase Australian Renewable Energy Resources index is avail­ itabihty ratings. in demand for the otiier energy resources with which able on microfiche from CS.I.R.O. Australia is richly endowed." Since Austrdia has abundant and relatively cheap FOSSIL FUELS SYNFUELS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY energy resources, the policy advocates serving as a "supplier Coal, shale, oil gas: these fuels are basically formed by The use of irmumerable highly-efficient biological sys­ of resources as it is the easier approach to augmenting the concentration or fossilization of organic matter. So the tems affords many advantages to a power conscious worid. our liquid fuel supplies." Monaghan states "relative to energy they contain was originally provided by the sun. Suitably selected or genetically engineered; micro-organisms existing energy supplies, new energy supplies (especially Prior to the industrial revolution, wood was the major and plants should enable the production of food, industrial those from new sources) require higher investment costs domestic energy source. Coal reigned supreme untU after chemicals and fuel under less energy intensive conditions. and longer lead times to develop .. . These are large costs Worid War II, by which time oil from the Middle East pro­ Last year, experts from 76 countries attended a Worid to pay when there exists an 'indigenous', 'safe' and vided Japan and the West with an almost ideal fuel: easy to Congress and Exposition on Bio-Energy. It was reported 'clean' alternative forms of energy - namely energy saved transport as a liquid, relatively cheap to produce and pro­ that in Brazil most cars ran on gasaliol,. containing 20% by conservation." cess, and bums efficientiy. The energy content of the alcohol. Eventually, it is hoped that alcohol alone will be Basically, Uus implies that we sell established Australian highest grades of coal is lower than that of the heaviest used - 250,000 cars will be specifically built for this energy resources (coal, uranium) so we can buy liquid crudes. purpose, while a furUier 250,000 cars will be converted. fuel supplies, while not developing new energy sources. During the 1970's the cost of a barrel of oil escalated, in The alcohol used is produced almost totally by terment- To be fair, the government has provided a degree of conjunction with political developments. This promoted ation of sugar from sugarcane. Starches from many plants assistance to research on some 'novel energy source' the Western worid to reassess the sources and types of including cassava and cereals can readily be fermented to projects. fuels they planned to utilize. elthanol, which is then purified by distiUation. Last year Esso Australia conducted an extensive survey One problem is tiie large land area required to grow of this country's oil needs and resources. In the next 20 these crops. An estimated 26 million hectares, not pres- years it is forecast that twice as much oil as can be recovered entiy cropped, is potentially suitable. Most of this land from existing indigenous reserves, about 5.3 billion barrels, is located in the drier cereal zones of norUiem N.S.W. wUl be used. We will also use about half our LPG reserves, COMMONWEALTH FUNDING OF and Queensland, where both winter and summer cereals about half tiie remaming natural gas and will be exporting ENERGY RESEARCH could be cultivated. Though this may require destmction coal from known reserves equivalent, to at least, 170 The across-the-board reductions resulting from the of native forests, damming of irrigation, and may produce billion barrels of oil. Review of Conmionwealtii Functions, this year had a small a polluting organic effluent from the considerable quant­ effect on Uie science sector, which escaped direct set­ TTiis year coal was our top earning export in the 10 ities of water required for biomass conversion. backs. In fact, existing resources in the C.S.I.R.O. and the months to April, accounting for nearly 10% of the total A.A.E.C. were re-allocated to establish a new Institute of $15,814 million shipments, and exports may double As a fuel, straight alcohol gives reduced emissions of Energy and Earth Resources in the C.S.I.R.O. during tiie 1980's. nitrogen oxides and of high molecular weight hydrocar­ This occured in "recognition of Uie high priority the Clearly Australia's scarcest energy resource is liquid bons, but does produce large quantities of aldehydes govemment believes must be given to energy research. fuel. With oil required for transport expected to rise 26% that react in sunlight to produce photochemical smog. It will consolidate Australia's present nuclear research by 2000. Assuming no new oil resources, we would need to Though vegetable oils are presently too expensive as establishment into a first-class nuclear science and tech­ import 57% of our oil needs by 1990 and 80% by 2000. fuels, they hold great promise for the future. The oil is nology research organization and establish a first-class In 1979 we imported only 32% of our oil. This has spunred extracted readily from the seed simply by squeezing, and non-nuclear research orRanization". increased levels of petroleum exploration. In 1980 a total may be used as a fuel without further refming. In 1911, of 109 wells were drilled, the Australian Petroleum Explor­ Rudolf Diesel wrote "The diesel engine can be fed witii Direct commonwealUi funding ofenerg y oriented projects ation Association predecits more than 200 this year. is allocated by the National Energy Research Develop­ vegetable oils and would help considerably in the develop- ment and Demonstration Council, (NERDDC), mainly to large institutions, and the Australian Researdi Grants Scheme, for smaller projects. For die 1980/81 financial year, NERDDC funded 165 projects at a total cost of $18.4 million. Most were for a three year period and are in addition to the SI4.2 million for 1978/79 and 1979/80. Of Uiis, C.S.I.R.O. received $1.9 million for 20 pro­ jects; $2.3 million went to BHP for 11 projects, which includes the largest single grant of $859,000 for coal studies. Other major grants went to the Joint Coal Board, earth wind,

12 by ASHLEY BOWEN

ment of agriculture of the countries which vnW use it". In the U.K. a subsidiary of the London Brick Company as in a plant the hydrogen combines with carbon dioxide Many types of oil seeds are available, including rape fills holes dug in its local clay deposit witii 1100 tonnes of as a first step in plant carbohydrate production. seed, castor bean and babasso nut. Sunflower oil and pea­ garbage a day. Once compacted and capped with clay this nut oU release about 90% of the energy released from "tip" produces biogas containing more than 50%metiiane. diesel oil and after purification actually out perform it. The gas, whicii is drawn off Uirougli pipes by low suction, Engine power and torque are also close to that obtained is fed 24 hours a day into kilns, providing 20% of the com­ SOLAR, WIND, OCEAN with distillate. Palm oil has a number of advantages over pany's energy needs. Utilization of direct solar energy is currenUy practical for ethanol: easier to extract, year round harvesting is possible, domestic hot water and solar cooling. It is most profitably and fewer polluting bioproducts, one of wluch is a protein In 1874 Jules Verne wrote in his novel "The Mystery employed in conjunction with other dtemative energy rich feedstock. Island. "I believe Uiat water will one day be employed as meUiods such as low energy architecture. Most solar cells fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used are too expensive and inefficent for use in urban low cost Oil seed research in Australia is spearheaded by the singly or togeUier, will furnish an inexhaustible source electricity grids, though many automated cell production multi-disciplinary CS.I.R.O. project cropfuel. ofheat and light". systems are being developed. The cost of oil from linseed, rapeseed and dehulled A second restrictive factor yet to be solved is how to sunflower is almost twice the rural wholesale price of store tiie energy collected. In the view of the Senate Stand­ If hydrogen was readily recoverable from the environ­ ing Committee on Natural Resources 'Solar energy will not distillate, but is lower than the average cost of alcohol from ment, it would serve as an ideal and virtually unlimited biomass. make any significant contribution to Australia's energy source of energy. It has the highest density of energy needs before the end of tiie century." Autodistillate comprises 17% of the petroleum con­ per unit weight of any chemical fuel, and is the most sumed in Australia. About 5 million hectares of oilseed Wind energy generation could produce two-thirds thi abundant element in the universe. Most terrestrial hydro­ electricity now generated by Soutii Australia, Victoria crops should provide at least 20% of our current distillate fomi of water. Nuclear or gen is bound to oxygen in tiie and Western Australia if 3000 wind mills were placed at consumption. Agricultural developments may raise this solar driven electrolysis can break this bond releasing to as high as 40%. Seed oils could complement alcohol hydrogen and oxygen. Unfortunately the cost of tiiis intervals along the south and west Australian coast lines, fuels, as they are better suited to diesel engines than petrol process is prohibitively expensive. according to Dr Mark Drisendorf of C.S.R.I.O.'s Division engines. Unfortunately these crops compete for similar of Mathematics and Statistics. Melvin Calvin, who won the Nobel Prize in 1961 for Experts have calculated that an 800 kilometre stretch land. liis work on photosyntiiesis, has produced synUietic chloro- of wave energy rafts set off the south-west coast of England plasts - minute spheres of floating oil, which are analog­ ous to natural plant chloroplasts and facilitate the seper- and off the north-west of Scotiand could in principle, pro­ Biogas produced by microbial digestion of biomass vide half the United Kingdom's present electricity demand. also serves as a useful energy source. In the People's Re­ ation of hydrogen from oxygen when hit by a photon of' public of China alone, there are an estimated 7.5 million Ught. biogas inslsJlations. Calvin's synthetic system releases hydrogen gas, where- Since energy policy decisions are capable of pro­ foundly altering both the biophysical environment and the nature and social structure of society, and hence people's lifestyles. These environmental and social factors are not considered at all in current procedures for energy policy formulation in Australia. WQter& fire D. Crossley, J. Dick, C. Mardon

13 Dietary self-abuse

Abuse of the body can take many vertising directed at children seems most forms. But in Australia, for masoch­ effective on those from disadvantaged fam­ ism on a grand scale, nothing beats ilies, since they tend to be the most avid television watchers. everyone's favourite poison - alcohol She also points out that, while the Sydney dietician Jo Rogers called the Australian food supply is nutritionally overuse of alcohol "the worst form of adequate for all, socio-economic factors food abuse", in her ANZAAS paper deny this abundance of nutrition to some. "Whose Abuse". "There is already a wide gap in the health prospects of the haves and the have-nots and The cost of alcohol-related diseases, this gap is widening. This is food abuse in she reported, outweighs Uie total of all our affluent society." other nutrition-related diseases in commun­ Ms. Rogers recognises that it is hardly in ity health bills. the interest of the food manufacturer to In 1979-80, Australians spent about educate consumers in nutrition. She argues, 4,000 million dollars on alcohol, only however, that it is in the interests of the 12,000 million was spent on food. In the govemment to step up such education, since forty years between 1939 and 1979, beer the exorbitant cost of health spending (514 consumption in Australia increased by 150 dollars per head in 1977-78 and rising), is percent, (to 134.2 litres/head/year), wine highly undesirable. She suggests that costs intake rose by 500 percent (to 16.5 litres/ of preventative programs would be small by head/year), and spirits were up by 120 comparison in the long run. percent (to l.I litre/head/year). Similariy, the trained staff curing Ms. Rogers claims that general food nutrition-related diseases in Australia at abuse is aggravated by advertising, which is present far outnumber the few preventing the main influence on consumer buying. such diseases. Ms. Rogers estimates that In 1979, almost 133 milHon dollars was there are about fifty dieticians working in spent on advertising food, soft drink, con­ preventative capacities, or one for every fectionary and alcohol. Food and alcohol 280,000 Australians. She puts the number were tiie largest categories at 89 million and of curative dieticians at about 4-5,000. we need to add 'motivated'. It is not only One can lead a horse to water but one 23 million respectively. While she acknowledges that nutritional Uie lack of knowledge about nutrition or can't make it drink. Of the food advertising cost, 69 million education is the only readily apparent ans­ lack of information about food which pre­ -SHELLEY DEMPSEY was spent on television advertising and 12 wer to Australia's health problems, she is vents consumers from selecting a nutritious million on advertising in jvomen's magazines. cynical about its worth. diet. This is one of the problems that besets Ms. Rogers suggests that television ad­ "To Uie description 'informed' (public). the health educator."

ORGANIZATION. ECONOMY, to it seeing it as an ertcroachment on their IAN AITCHl/ON t CO. nii OUALITV SOCIETY CONFERENCE GRIFFITH authority. UNIVERSITY JULY 16-19. Swedish and West German experience indicates that the only way to make real progress is for legislation. Hence tiie 1977 A suspicion that this conference Swedish Co-detemiination at Work Act would turn out to be a gathering of and Uie 1976 Genman Works Council Act. CA>>

14 Many adherents of alternative medicine often consider Western medicine Life Is not all roses and herbs, however, in the world of alternative as the alternative healing system, since it has only been around for three medicine. Despite the legal medical registration of many 'alternative' hundred years or so, whereas acupuncture and other treatments are often medicines (so-called in Australia) in many countries overseas, such as much older than Christ. hydrotherapy, chiropractic, acupuncture and homeopathy, the practices Many more people, though perhaps not granting alternative medicine's still remain in a state between illegality and oblivion In this country. supremacy over Western medicine, are nevertheless beginning to concede Chairperson of the Queensland branch of Health Schools International, that natural healing does have its place. Mike Cronin, said that many 'quacks' operated legally here as a result. For given that a proportion of the Western doctor's clients are undoubt­ He said that his organisation is anxious to track down such practitioners, edly only seeking attention and sympathy, which often Is not permitted because they give the alternative medical world as a whole a bad name. by time, the natural healer's bedside manner by comparison is often half, The organisation can be reached on 221.8521. if not all the cure. For many natural systems are 'holistic'. They claim Below is a small sample of alternative medicines available. This is by to treat the whole person, psychologically as welt as physically. And a no means an exhaustive list. The First World Congress on Alternative natural therapist will spend an hour with the patient for a first consul­ Medicine in 1973 had a provisional programme of 135 therapies! Thus tation, getting past medical history and various other details. should you desire an 'alternative' treatment not listed here, consult the That is not to say, however, that this is all alternative practitioners do, referral numbers and perhaps they can advise you. by any means. A survey done by WHICH, (the magazine of the British Consumers' Association) revealed that most patients who attend acupun- -SHELLEY DEMPSEY turists, for instance, are cases which medical science cannot help, but that This summary is based on the book 'Alternative Medicine: A Guide to 70 percent of them improve under acupuncture. Natural Therapies'by Dr Andrew Stan way, published by Rigby.

ACUPUNCTURE ry that disease is caused by the abnormal function of the nervous system. Attempts to restore normal function are made through manipulation and treatment of the struct­ FOR REFERRAL: Australian Acupuncture Association, ures of the body, especially those of the spinal column. 397 0985; Laser Acupuncture Refenal Centre, 221 8888. TREATMENT: The joints of the body are manipulated by DEFINITION: An ancient art of healing, five thousand hand in order to rebalance the body's function. The spinal years old, originating in China. Used for relief of pain, joints receive Uie most attention. Cliiropractors work from where fine needles are inserted at various points along cer­ Uie basic assumption that modem life produces abnormal­ tain meridians (energy patiiways) in the body. ities in the joints and muscles because of trauma, accidents, TREATMENT: Acupuncture is the oldest complete form postural imbalances, and mental and physical stress. of treatment used today. It works on the principle that Good advice on diet, rest and exercise are also given. the body's life forces, called Chi, circulate in the differ­ .X-rays are often used. Claims only to be an additional aid ent meridians in the body. This life energy sometimes to medicine. becomes disrupted, causing disease. Each meridian corres­ COSTS: About $10 to SI2, slightiy more for initial consult­ ponds to an organ of the body, and extends to the body's ation. outer extremities. The insertion of needles into these meridians affects the organs concerned - and can hasten or slow Uieir action. The treatment is a 'holistic' one, meaning it is a total COLOUR THERAPY technique which takes into account the patient's emotional, as well as climactic enviromnent. DISEASES TREATED: Best results occur with arthritis and REFERRAL: AvaUable at Natural Health Clinic, 208 2410. migraines, according to a local acupuncturist, Dr Dungwor- DEFINITION: The use of colour to produce beneficial or th, althou^ she reports many otiier complaints are also healing effects, usually with coloured lights. An ancient treated effectively. These include: headaches, acute lung art used in Ancient Greece and Egypt. diseases such as bronchitis and asthma, acute rheumatic TREATMENT: The theory of colour therapy states that conditions such as sciatica, menstmal, digestive and nerv­ wliite light indicates a harmonious balance between the ous problems. chemical potencies which colours represent, and which are present in the body. When the body receives too many COST: Between $10 and $20 depending on Uie practition­ chemicals of the wrong colour, the theory goes, the body's er for an average consultation. Slightly more expensive harmony is disrupted. For example, if a person needs red, for initial consultation which seeks medical history and he or she would be lazy, sleepy, or anaemic, and possibly present environmental condition. constipated or lacking appetite. RESTRICTIONS: Children under seven years cannot be treated witii acupuncture. They are treated instead with a Some therapists determine what colours are needed by form of massage. Hyperactivity responds well to treatment. looking at the present condition of the eyeballs, the nails, There are also some restrictions on patients taking certain the urine and stools. Others use a Kilner screen, which has drugs, which can clash with acupuncture. an indigo-violet tinge, throu^ which the therapist looks at the patients aura. Tlie patient's medical history and horoscope reading is sometimes taken into account. Therapy is applied through various methods. Sunlight is sometimes used. Foods with certain colours prominent CHIROPRACTIC e.g. beetroot for 'red' deficiency, can be recommended. Colours can be inhaled, or meditated upon. The whole FOR REFERRAL: Australian Chiropractors' Association, body or part of it can be bathed in the appropriate light. 229 2776; United Chiropractors' Association, (076) DISEASES TREATED: Colour therapy is used in the areas 32 1136. of mental healUi, hospital recovery rooms, and the stimul­ DEFINITION: A system of therapeutics based on the theo- ation of mentally retarded children. Red li^t has been

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Semper, 11 Augu$t'1981 15 — Frofn previous page — the desired results. Any GP can prescibe homeopathic rem­ chemical (faulty eating), mechanical (spinal malalignment), edies and Uie treatment is available on the National Health or psychologic^. claimed to cure paralysis in adults and children; orange to Service list in the UK. OsteopaUiic diagnoses are often used (see below). dispel small gallstones, diabetes and constipation are said Dietary considerations are most important to the naturo­ to respond to yellow; and the list goes on. DISEASES TREATED: Useful in combating all reversible illnesses, not for surreal and conective procedures. path. They advise whole, natural and unrefined foods. COST: $5 per session. Herbal cures are frequenUy used, as well as homeopathic COST: $20 for initial consultation (usually one hour), medicines. The principle of treating the patient and not the and$10to$15Uiereafter. symptons is again employed here. It is another 'holistic* treatment. The total person and the total lifestyle are detailed. HERBAL MEDICINE DISEASES TREATED: Naturopathy works especially well HYDROTHERAPY for acute conditions such as sore throats, gastritis, liver FOR REFERRAL: National Herbalist Association of problems, bronchitis, piles and can be used for the more Australia, 397 6684. Look under "Herbalists" in Uie FOR REFERRAL: See Yellow Pages under 'Naturopaths*, serious diseases such as tuberculosis. YeUow pages. or 'Colonic Irrigation', COST: $18 for the first consultation (usually one hour), DEFINITION: The use of plants to prevent and cure dis­ DEFINITION: The use of water for healing, $15 thereafter. ease. Used by the Chinese since 3000 BC. TREATMENT: Underwater massages are a widely used TREATMENT; Remedies are prescribed which will mar- method of hydrotherapy. Hot and cold baths taken consec- shall the body's own defences against disease. The cure for itively are used to improve circulation. Water-only fasts are the patient is tailormade, since the principle is to treat the said to clear all toxins and waste from the body. OSTEOPATHY patient wholly, and not just the disease. Herbalists are gen­ Colonic irrigation, currentiy undergoing a high degree of erally greatly concerned with food. The patient's diet is popularity, is a method where water is pumped into the taken into account. FOR REFERRAL: Yellow Pages under Osteopaths. colon to prevent dise^e by clearing toxins from the area, DEFINITION: A school of healing which teaches that the COST: Varies from practitioner to practitioner. Some do as in an enema. body is a vital mechanical organism whose structural and not charge. In Germany, Uie process of hydrotherapy is widely functional integrity are co-ordinate and interdependent. recognised and is available on Health Insurance. The abnormality of either the body's structure or function DISEASES TREATED: Skin aibnents, arthritis etc, are constitutes disease. About one century old. treated wiUi various forms of hydrotherapy including ice TREATMENT: Osteopathy employs the manipulation of HOMEOPATHY packs, steam baths, and others. Cost of colonic irrigation the body and spine in particular to remedy disease, even FOR REFERRAL: HomeopaUiic Society of Australia. issn. when the signs and symptons seemingly have nothing to 202 6501. do with die spine. Osteopaths acknowledge that humans DEFINITION: Works on the principle that agents which have only fairly recently (in evolutionary terms) walked produce certain signs and symptoms in health also cure NATUROPATHY on two legs and that this phenomenon has caused much those sips and symptons in disease. Thus it works vag­ strain on our spines. Strain on joints results from walking uely along the lines of immunisation. upright, as does pressure on abdominal organs, which hang FOR REFERRAL: Blackmores Naturopathic Organisation TREATMENT: Homeopathy is a raUier complex treatinent down abnormally causing hernias, piles etc. which works on two main principles. First, the 'like treating Pty Ltd, 397 0366. DISEASES TREATED: Back complaints, neck pain, and like' principle, outlined above, which builds the body's DEFINITION: A treatment which works on the principle other joint abnormalities, as well as asthma and bronchitis. defences against disease. Secondly, the minimum dose prin­ that healing depends upon the action of natural healing COST: Between $10 and S20. More for initial consultation. ciple, which means that remedies in tiny doses are prescrib­ forces present in the human body. ^:v^^•:xwx•:•:•:•^^^:•:•: ed in a low concentration. However, these doses set off a TREATMENT: The naturopath is concerned with discov­ ;:;:v:x:::::v::^::v:::>:::.:vv- bioenergetic chain of energy in the body which achieves ering and removing the root cause of disease, whether it is • ••^» •*•••••• •"•'• •% • • • •

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16?-?l!???I?v?!v^^ In a world where you 're more pushed out than drop out; where the turned on, tuned in look of the mystic turns out to be just a ^oofy grin — or a christian; it's hard to remember hippies and not laugp or spit. Telling it like it is, man, they weren't so much a bummer as a heavy trip.

No-one answers to the label 'hippie*. The term, when it's now used, out of sight, if we were all hip. Though scorned at the time (the only refers to counterculturaljsts, alternative livers, or inhabitants of the difference between hip and hype is pronunciation) values for the Rainbow Regimen. It's like calling a 'new wave modernist' a 'punk'. post-war baby boom generation were being formulated. It's as insulting to the memory of hippiedom as it is to punkism to call For the hip the world begins and ends with a vision. A vision just trendy come latelys by the archetype titles. wanting to be a happening. The whole study of hippies Let them eat shit sandwiches and let us never for­ shows that what is thought to be, is, or can be, real. get hippies. They have their place. The Sixties was the f4. The media, by choosing to report a charade as a decade in which people who had lived through the ^^ movement, creates one. Dreams became hopes as one Depression and World War II built their version of crossed over from the straight to the hip. paradise and ushered in a Glorious Age of Consumpt­ ion. Any readings of the economics of the Sixties The Sixties before hippies was very straiglit. White shows the now wished for concepts of growth and shirt/thin tie as one was lined up for life in a brick prosperity in bloom. home in the suburbs. Your hair didn't have io be A cornucopia of consumer products became avail­ very long before the finger was pointed and one was able - appliances, furniture, cars, clothes, architect­ a hippie. At the time it was the thing to be. So the ural design (the brick home) and the deprived of the first tenet of hippiedom was 'do yer own thing'. Depression indulged in a spending spree to celebrate Just don't lay a bum trip on anyone. their arrival in the middle classes and to give their In the suburbs they watched TV and formulated children everything that they never had. 'V>^ their images of hippies. The sacrament - LSD. This The youth of the Sixties is lumpenly described as drug was the basis of the mysticism, of the Vision. the post-war baby boom. Bom between 1946 and The ingestion of LSD is guaranteed to show that the 1956 this baby boom formed the largest generation perceived world is not how you always thought it was, of people under 25 ever in the Western World. The but can, may, and should be a beatific vision. A seem­ result of this was the glorification of youth and the ingly timeless Hell where the only comfort is that emergence of youth culture and the youth market. it'll end. Wow, that's a bummer man. Previously to be a teenager was to have no sense of identity from the In the beginning 'acid heads' never saw LSD as an escape, a path for 'parent' culture. The post-war baby boom came of age. For independ­ destructive oblivion, but as a means of mystical experience that frees ent spending beginning at, say, 14 a youth culture began to emerge. the soul for doing your own thing. Based originally on gaining the pocket money of children this youth Mysticism as the culture of the common person? Excited by states culture at the beginning of the Sixties revolved around adolescent of mind and not things? How will we have economic growth every puppy-love and other concerns of a generation market under 16. year (a real necessity) if the commoners aren't fascinated and thrilled By 1964 this emerging teenage lifestyle began to be geared around by new, marvellous products? Let them have Religion - the interpre­ the older adolescent. The greatest number of people ever who were 17 tation of mystics. That's never done us any harm. So the Greater existed in 1964. The consumer trend of teenagers - they spend every Society outlawed LSD and the media began the horror stories: Look­ dollar they earn - ensured them an honoured place in the economics ing at the sun - leaping off buildings. of the Sixties. The indulgence of their parents and the general avail­ As psychologists and sociologists can tell you, social definition is ability of work for teenagers ensured that youth would do its econ­ an important part of the effect of any drug, or any social group for that omic duty. matter. It affects who joins, too. The Sixties can thus be viewed as the culmination of the 'Depress­ The high priest of LSD was Dr Timothy Leary, of turn on, tune in, ion mentality' of pleasure deferred, material success and ultimately drop out fame. One of the first media gurus, Leary ran a religion and the whole mass media glamorised round of chic, deodorised, appliance generally prattled out the above maxim, or other ideas like ripping glutted suburban existence. Into this you have the largest generation up highways and planring rose bushes. Blow their minds! Free their ever born, a generation newly recognised as a culture apart - the heads! Highways stayed intact all over while Leary got elected spokes­ Youth Culture. To this generation could not be given the motivation person. The psychedelic revolution. Put it in the water supply. Yippee! of working to give your children the material goods you never had. It's hard to believe this was seriously considered by so many. What has all this to do with bare feet, long hair, brown rice and The popular fronts of psychedelia were fiower power and free love. feelin' groovy? Behind this beaded curtain lay the new culture, the new These the media bought to the suburbs and, well, most everyone had dreams. Just as Thirties children has eaten bread and dripping and an Indian bell on a strip of leather and Desiderata on the wall. dreamed up the economic events of the Sixties, so too did the youth Depending on your definition of a hippie, they were everywhere. of the Sixties, by flower tripping, imagining it would all be beautiful. The Revolution seemed nigli.

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In defence of Mensa

Mensa is an organisation that But is Mensa elitist? To the average ob­ caters for people whose I.Q. is above server, any organisation that caters for two 140, or the top two percent of the percent of tiie population, be it the top or bottom two percent would tend to assume population. How then can it claim an elitist position due to the nature of it to be anything but eUtist, biased or being closed to the 98 percent majority. boring? However, Jermey argues, "While anybody who wants to become a catholic, a liberal Spokesperson for Australian Mensa, Jona­ or a girl guide is at liberty to change their than Jermey, believes that criticisms levelled reUgion, their politics or even tiieir sex, it by non-Mensans are not entirely justified. is comparatively difficult to alter one's "AustraUan Mensa is an active branch of I.Q. score to any large extent." He said there Mensa International," said Jermey. was an element of predestination in being a Mensan but there Is also an element of "To become a member an applicant will predestination in being a Royal. be sent an I.Q. test to carry out at home, unsupervised. The appUcant is told the Jermey said, "Mensans feel that intelli­ result, and then is welcome to take one of gent people have special problems that are die supervised tests which are held every not generally recognised. They feel as couple of montiis." thou^ they've been held back at school; they have interests outside school or work, However Mensa fmds itself in the middle which none of their peers share." of tiie present I.Q, test debate. The test is That is why Mensa was formed. Jeremy not regarded as the best indicator of intelli­ said that Mensa is as much a mutual aid gence. "However, inasmuch as I.Q. tests society as anything else; where menibers are biased towards, for example, 'estab­ are given a chance to realise that their prob­ lishment' values, so is Mensa," Jermey lems are not unique. said. Another criticism that Mensans face is So in Australia 730 people have passed that of Mensa's bias. Jermey said Mensa die test of establishment values and have recognised the I.Q. test controversy. He assumed the tide of 'Mensan'. 70 of tiiose argued it was the only tool available - but mercial writing. On the other hand, most females by about two to one, Jeremy said. live in Queensland but Jeremy pointed out added Mensa would use a culture-fair test Mensans have a variety of interests, and But he added Mensans take great pams not that almost everyone who could be a Mensan when it became avaUable. anyone that wants to discuss aeromodelling, to be sexist. The reason for the imbalance, is not. "In fact there are forty thousand quarium design or Rococo architecture will he said, was that females are often more potentials in Queensland or 570 to every Jermey did not doubt that Mensa tended probably find a fellow enthusiast," he said. reluctant to show intelligence in case they actual member. If you're at University there to attract certaui types of people. "One are criticised, but Mensa's aun was to rem­ is a good chance you're in that top two big focus of interest for Mensans is com- The more serious problem for Mensa edy this situation. percent," Jeremy said. putmg; otiiiers are psychology and com­ Is seemmg sexual bias. Males outnumber In an organisation where members come from the highly mtelllgent it would be — From page 17 — reasonable to expect an element of boredom in their meetings. But not so says Jeremy, The most striking thing about hippies is "At a Mensa meeting they have a chance to the way the style was developed or co-opted You can enrich your soul as easily as buying get away from talking shop, and one can by straiglu society. Psychedelic Fanta ads, a blender — but can you do both? fmd biologists talking about relativity, tiie Channel 7 Revolution led by Mike autiiors talkuig about gardening, and just Higgms (where are the naked Bundaburg plain folk talking about anything under the dancing pris now Mike?), health foods. sun, or beyond it". From tiie ranks of such types, the Jesus lose control. We only go as far as Helter The key to Mensa Is participation accord­ It didn't take many years for every bank Freaks were recruited. May- they never Skelter. ing to Jermey. "Unlike many otiier groups, live it down. They know how to get the clerk to have long hair. Communal houses You can enrich your soul as easily as tiie participation is fun." If you would like stock phrases down pat but tiieir under­ to be no big deal. But did any of the philos­ buying a blender - but can you do botii? to participate, Mensa's address is P.O. Box standing Is zilch. ophy sink in, do they know what it means One day tiiey might bring back cheese­ 72, East Doncaster, Victoria 3109. to be a hippie? Fifteen years ago the line was drawn. cloth shhts and bands mi^t start doing On the left you have hippies and the Aquarian Jefferson Airplane covers but hippies won't Jermey said Mensa was not beyond crit­ Age where wc are settled with the material be revived, they'll be recognised. icism, but it should not be dismissed Ughtiy. "Don't hassle me, I'm doing my thing abundance of computerised production and and It'll be beautiful." Peace towards and He added its success and continued growth we work at enriching our "souls". They're the ones who want to be their suggest that it has been taken quite serious­ co-operation with your fellow human being. 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IN THE LAST EPISODE our anti-hero (me, in other "Always the same. You middle-class people have ^o words) had a number of bad experiences at The Party. .. much freedom and yet you do so little with it. Your He must find his ex-lover, Julie. "-- )i h mtiTists being sex, love, and high-achieving. I ind ut what it's hke to live outside the cotton- After an hour or so spent in seclusion, I ven \\o)l existence. As Lenin once said, or was it tare out once again. Dylan is whining in tlie till Rolling Stones; 'You can't always get background about tomorrow being a long .jijiiiiiii^'iiniiii^^i \ hat you want, but if you try sometimes, time away, I must escape. As I wend my you'll get what you need'. I'll loan you way outside between paralytic drunks, ,. ^ ::. my article 'Sex and the Single Anar- copulating couples, and other cas- ;:::i:iiij:*V-;^ lilll::.. chist' and, if you want, there is ualties of the festivitie;;, I ask ,;:|:%':l.""j|i-—» il':::. also a piece called 'Celibacy as myself . . . what does it all ,:::i:::liJ'liii|i ••*••••:::. a Necessary Part of the Rev­ mean? I can Find no an- ,j olutionary Process'. Just swers. The night sky is .;:iiii it "HjH:::::.. one more thing; the most like a grey blanket ...ijijjjiji^ reactionary act is the torn in several pla- ,:;i::;H::" jj.i:. V sciu-ch for the mean- CCS to let in pin- n|ii:|!::! :::;:••" mgofhie, points of light. Is ••Miiilii::. jj::" "Thanks, Melv- there a GOD? I make 'MlHlii:: " in", I reply, trying des­ a mental note to play all '••.".:•. perately not to be saicas- of John's Human League "* " tic. He smiles paternally albums and to listen to the and leaves, ZZZ editorial as often iili-if:'* How did he know that I was possible. ^ in constant search for the meaning of life? Perhaps it was a middle-class T,S. Elliot summed it up when he '' trait. What did the message about the said; 'T have measured my life with tcabags mean? And why am I always ask­ coffee spoons". Only in my case it's tea- ing these questions at parties? Perhaps, (listen bags, I don't like coffee. Suddenly a bright "^HiijijJL^ .:};.;.... :""?•"' carefully, all you readers — it took me hours to light appears in the sky. A sentence especially '^iiiiiii:!.: think this one up) perhaps it is because parties are for me. It reads; Life is no more or no less than a •'Ujjiiiii;. .::i;:::jj''' ^^^ ^ery essence of life. A swirling, amorphous mass succession of teahags. Slowly the words dissolve and "''iiijir:::.. ::::::::"• of thoughts and experiences filtered and ordered by I walk back inside with new hope. '•••:•:;::: ::::" human relationships and one's own self-concept. The only " continuous thread is existence, or, as the message in the sky On returning I hear a gentie moan from the bathroom. It —•::::: put it, a succession of tcabags. could be one of pleasure and consequentiy to be left alone — or it could be one of pain. I take a chance. Wading toward the ":ij 1 return to the party. Julie is snuggling up to her new lover, bath I can make out the form of a man attempting to extricate him­ Melvin is searching under table and cushions for a bottle of self from the pothos. When he is finally free he explains that he thought beer, Sue is writing THE END IS NEAR on the wall, and it was the toilet. Suddenly he rushes out leaving the word 'toilet' John is trying to dwarf this message by vmting in two-foot ringing in my ears. letters across the room NO GOD, NO MASTER - ANAR­ CHY. Even Anita is here, with a dead rat in her pocket. A person passes the door. It's Juliel Remember her? The woman who told me I had no talent, was a lousy screw, and was not to put Most of the guests have left by now. Two talented hipp­ her in my adolescent short stories anymore. How I love that woman, ies, complete with flowered sandles and love beads, are I try to reach her only to end up in a pool of water. The pothos has strumming guitars and softiy singing old classics. As they taken out its revenge on me. Eventually I find her and ask forgiveness, move through their repertoire of Young, Dylan and Jeff­ She tells me to piss off. I beg. Yes, me. Crawl on my knees. Promise erson Airplane, 1 watch Phil move closer to the performers. her anything and everything. I use every cliche of love that I Phil plays brilliant guitar but he's very pretentious know and even make up a few. Finally I tell her; "I'll ^^^^ and pompous. He is sitting on the floor hang myself if you don't love me". with his hands over his eyes, shaking his Julie turns, smiles, and asks if she can sell tickets. head like an American evangelist receiv­ ing the holy spirit. The chant begins Still smiling, she places a knee-length black boot into to ring out: "Play us something, my solar plexus. I watch as she slovvly disappears into PhU". the crowd. Her last words arc "You're really pathetic". "No. It doesn't feel right here". I crawl back into the bathwater and weep. Tins is becom­ "Come on." ing a habit. "No," Melvin passes by the door and sees me. He comes in and The two women play on, slightiy sits next to me in the freezing water. He lights two cigar- embarrassed. Finally Phil grabs the guitar ettes and hands one to me. "Julie, huh?" and starts to play. I walk out the front door "Yeah."

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Semper, 11 August 1981 2f Union Annual Union Elections these bodies will, unless otherwise requested I hereby call nominations for the 4 (four) Science Full-Time Representatives FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE: following positions on the 71st 1 (one) Science Part-Time Representative in vyriting, be taken to be a candidate for 6 (six) Members elected by and from the ordinary member of the body. Council of the University of Queens­ 1 (one ) Social Work Representative membere of the Union. In alt other respects the same rules apply land Union, that is to say:— 1 (one) Veterinary Science Representative 2 (two) Members elected by and from the to these positions as to the election of 2 (two) External Representatives employees of the Union. EXECUTIVE MEMBERS: 2 (two) College Representatives Councillors. 1 (one) President 1 (one) Overseas Student Representative HOSPITALS AREA COMMITTEE: 4ZZZ DIRECTORS: 1 (one) General Vice President 3 (three) Post-Graduate Representatives 1 (one) Hospitals Area Finance Officer, 4 (four) Elected members of the Board of 1 (one) Education Vice President 2 (two) Staff Representatives elected by and from the Clinical Med­ Directors of 4ZZZ. 1 (one) Union Secretary 2 (two) Editors of the Union Newspaper ical and Therapy Students. 1 Any member of the Union may nom­ 1 (one) Treasurer 1 (one) Representative of Clinical Physio­ QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES: inate for 4ZZZ Director. 1 (one) National Student Affairs Officer therapy students, elected by and from the 1 You may nominate for any one of the 2 In all other respects the same rules apply 1 (one) St. Lucia (part-time) Vice President Clinical Physiotherapy students. positions of Faculty Representative if to these positions as to the election of 1 lone) Hospitals Area Vice President 1 (one) Representative of Clinical Occup­ you are enrolled in that Faculty and have Councillors. 1 (one) Turbot Street Vice President ational Therapy students, elected by and the appropriate status. 1 (one) Vet/Ag. Vice President from the Clinical Occupational Therapy EDITORS OF THE UNION NEWSPAPER: 1 (one) External Vice President 2 You may nominate for College Repres­ students. entative if you are a Member of the (This election may be contested by sole 1 (one) Women's Rights Vice President 1 (one) Representative of Clinical Speech Union resident within a college of the candidates or by groups of candidates who 1 (one) Post-Graduate Vice President Therapy students, elected by and from the University. have jointly nominated. Student practise Clinical Speech Therapy students. NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES: 3 You may nominate for Overseas Student is that two wages be allocated for the 1 Nominations open at 9am on Friday the Representative if your permanent legal Editors.) 3tst July, 1981. address is outside the Commonwealth 6 (six) General Representatives elected by 2 Nominations close at 4pm on Friday the of Australia and its territories. and from the Clinical, Medical and Therapy VOTING WILL TAKE PLACE FROM THE 14th August, 1981. 4 You may nominate for Postgraduate students. 14th SEPTEMBER TO THE 18th SEPT­ 1 (one) Hospitals Area Activities Officer 3 Nomination forms are available at Union Representative if you are accorded EMBER, 1981. AT VOTING PLACES TO elected by and from the Clinical, Medical Office, and will be sent by mail on Postgraduate status by the University. BE RATIFIED LATER AND BY MEANS and Therapy students. written request. 5 You may nominate for Staff Represen­ OF POSTAL BALLOT FOR CLINICAL tative if you are an employee of the 1 (one) Hospitals Area Publicity Officer 4 Nomination forms must be submitted in AND EXTERNAL STUDENTS. Union on the day of nominations. elected by and from the Clinical, Medical completed form to the Administrative and Therapy students. Secretary at the Union Office at St. Lucia 6 You may not nominate for more than PROFESSORIAL BORAD: before 4pm on Friday the 14th August. one of these positions at this election. 3 (three) Members of the Union on the 1981. Nominations which are incomplete, VET/AG. AREA COMMITTEE: Professorial Board. are submitted late or at a different place UNION COMMITTEES: 5 (five) Student representatives elected 1 You may nominate for these positions must be rejected under the Union Regu­ Further, I hereby call nominations for from the faculties of Agricultural Science if you are a Member of the Union. lations. the following positions on certain com­ and Veterinary Science. mittees of the Union; that is to say - POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS AREA QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES: UNIVERSITY of QUEENSLAND 1 You may nominate for any one of the UNION HOUSE COMMITTEE: COMMITTEE: UNION positions of President, General Vice 6 (six) Members elected by and from the 6 (six) Student representatives elected by President, Education Vice President, members of the Union. and from the Postgraduate students who 1981 BY-ELECTION are members of the Union. Union Secretary, Treasurer or N.S.A. 2 (two) Members elected by and from the Further, I hereby call nominations for A Candidate for Convenor of any of Officer, if you are a Member of the employees of the Union. the following casual vacancies: That is to Union. say - 2 You may nominate for the position of Women's Rights Vice President if you are EXECUTIVE MEMBERS: a Female Member of the Union. 1 (one) St. Lucia Part-Time Vice President 3 You may nominate for any one of the 1 (one) Hospitals Area Vice President positions of St. Lucia (Part-Time) Area 1 (one) Post-Graduate Vice President Vice President, Hospitals Area Vice President, Turbot Street Area Vice The Union rurra according to hilM^; >^ i REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS: President or Vet/Ag. Vice President if and regulations. We have, an extens-' AHE OTHemsE e)(BMPT FROM (11, 1 (one) Agriculture Representative you spend more than fifty percent of [ve constitution with attached Vegu* fiiKfiif}.- : :,, ,*>,/» 1 (one) Architecture Representative your timetable in any of those areas as lations which tells us, your office- > *-^^^ 1 "(one) Commerce & Economics Part-Time defined by Regulations. bearers and representatives, the mann- **^ l*^;^^?ii''«# ^^^^^^^ Representative 4 You may nominate for External Vice er In which we should conduct busi- wovfde tha Unlw vvWtfle^wil^^^^^^ 2 (two) Education Part-Time Representatives President if you study any credit points nt»s nn'vour hehalf , - the levBls of. f«P(»,whH« $t«l making It as 1 (one) Engineering Representatives through the Department of External n^ onYOur Mnau; ^ , ^ difficult to change:*6. level of fwinto 2 (two) Medical Representatives Studies. (N.B. any member classified , : Our wnstftutlon can b^ charwethereoulatlons.)^' -. - ^ 1 (one) Science Part-Time Representative within this electorate who is not study­ updated to keejj up iWthdierigeilnjttdent^y^^ 1 (one) Science Full-Time Representative ing Xhe majority of his^e^ credit points rH»ds, and al»to mow e «iftfwCOWt^t^pn 1 (one) Social Work Representative through the Department of External ^th^eneeds:.. /•••:':^>4:'- ^'A :-?f'%:':• tbs^ wrdt "Secretary iiid Ttifisiirvr" b$,i 1 (one) College Representative Studies may apply by writing direct to * Th«feJl«-«f<>J^Jh« *^ mid ifter tfte w6rd\^l»r»iltlMt''iti tfte : 1 (one) Overseas Student Representative the Union Secretary for re-classification. ^iaitbfitrferwai^^ 1 (one) Post-Graduate Representative 5 You .may nominate for the position of 1 (one) Editor of the Union Newspaper Post-Graduate Vice President if you are a Member of the Union who is a Post- UNION HOUSE COMMITTEE: Graduate Student. 1 (one) Member of the Union (Post-Graduate Student means any per­ son enrolled for a Doctoral or Masters HOSPITALS AREA COMMITTEE: degree, a Mastere qualifying degree, a 1 (one) Representative of Clinical Physio­ postgraduate Honours degree, a Post* therapy students Graduate diploma. Postgraduate miscell­ 1 (one) Representative of Occupational aneous subjects.) Therapy Students 6 You may not nominate for more than 1 (one) Representative of Speech Therapy one of these positions at this election. Students

REPRESENTATIVE IVIEMBERS: * A candidate for election as a councillor 1 (one) Agriculture Representative for next year may also nominate for one 1 (one) Architecture Representative of these positions. 4 (four) Arts Full-Time Representatives * Successful candiates will hold office for 6 (six) Arts Part-Time Respresentatives the life of the present Council. 2 (two) Commerce & Economics Full-Time Representatives " In all other respects the same rules apply 1 (one) Dentistry Representative to these positions as to the Annual 1 (one) Education Full-Time Representative General Elections, 1 (one) Education Part-Time Representative David Phillips 2 (two) Engineering Representatives Electoral Officer 1 (one) Law Representative 31/7/81 5 (five) Medical Representatives 1 (one) Music Representative

"^^ i I'f. II 22 Union *=^I*t^fc- ^*=»»^**.,^ Who

Union President, DAVID BARBAGALLO, answers this pertinent question.

I have been involved in the There are a number of factors that con­ societies, wedding receptions, right through administrative advice to the Munro Child Students Union for a number of years tribute to the answer of tliis question: to catering for weekend-long conventions. Care Centre when it was established. When and if there is one single issue that has 1) The oudets are operated at maximum The Functions Department per se, is profit die Munro Child Care Centre was threatened reigned supreme as the least under­ capacity for only 30 weeks of the year. orientated, but the profits are used to off­ widi closure, the Union lent them money so stood, most maligned, and shrouded 2) The hours are from S.OOam to 9.00pm set the subsidy to the student catering de­ diey could continue. in myth, conjecture and outright The overheads, electricity, wages, clean­ partment. Perhaps a not so visible factor ing costs involved in such long opening of the catering department is the responsib­ misrepresentation, then it is "how ility for repairs and maintance of the Union Direcdy aligned with providing child is the money you pay in fees each hours contribute signifjcandy to costs, care is the Family Day Care Scheme. The especially at weekends. Coles Cafeteria, Complex. Tills is an annual cost of approx­ year spent?" imately $80,000. Union acts as a sponsor to this worthwhile for example, opens 52 weeks a year, community service. Tlic Union provides 1 am endeavouring therefore to provide serves hot meals only once a day and an office, telephone and administrative Anodier area that many students would the defmitive document on where your opens only when there will be peak de­ support for the Scheme which operates have utilised in their stay at the University, fees are spent and perhaps this is timely, mands on its service. from Auchenflower to Oxley, and out to is the Schonell Theatre Complex. Tliis given the Union's and S.P.R.A,'s applic­ Mog^. ations for fee rises. Complex is owned and operated by the Tlie Union House Committee, whose Students Union. It includes the Schonell members are (6) directly elected students, The Calculator Shop & Ahemative The title of this article is an example Cinema, the Cement Box live theatre venue, (2) representatives of staff, and (1) repres­ and the music room. The Schonell has built Bookshop in the Union Arcade are owned of some of the bizarre questions that I and operated by the Students Union, They entative of the University, examines the a reputation over the years of showing have been asked during my involvement provide the cheapest and best quality prices of goods each year. As the majority of quality movies at the lowest prices. For in the Union. One irate student approached calculators, stationery and sundry study the Committee are students, you could well many years, it was the only cinema in me after the Dutton Park Ferry fare was imagine the sympathy they have with lower needs on campus, as well as a second hand increased, demanding to know why the Brisbane pioneering Art Cinema. Similarly, market for students' text books. The Altern­ prices. In fact, there is a rule of thumb to die Cement Box Tlieatre, in its own way, Union had increased die fare. After 1 calmed keep prices 10-15% below city prices. Of ative Bookshop in particular, provides a the student down, I explained to liim that is pioneering student theatre, for the cost much needed service in these times of course you will hear stories of the sandwich to students of hiring the Cement Box is die Brisbane City Council leases the rights bar in a suburb or the city which sells sand­ spiralling costs for study needs. Those of to the particular route to Brisbane Ferry inexpensive, thus encouraging student you who may be aware of bookshops on wiches at significandy less tlian the Union dieatre on campus. The Cement Box has a Services Pty. Ltd.! Obviously, discontented is able to produce them for. The reasons southern campuses or the Griffith Uni­ widi that story, the student demanded, to Director, but a Committee of students is versity Bookshop, will know that there for these are obvious: responsible for the direction of the theatre. my exasperation, "but who pays the ferry­ a) the sandwich bar will only operate in are considerable problems with the admin­ man?" And so on with die article .,, istration and profitability of the cooper­ peak demand times; Playhouse — The Union set up a Play­ ative bookshops on those campuses. The b) they are usually owner operated, thus house in 1975 to help students with children Each year, all full-time students pay odier shops in die Arcade, including the eliminating labour costs; gain access to education. It is 70% funded SlOO as a student sen-ices fee. S70 is dir­ Commonwealth Bank, arc leased. ected to the Union, and $30 to Uic Sports c) they do not have overheads such as by the Commonwealth Government and the & Physical Recreation Association. Part- crockery, cutlery, breakages and thefts. Union funds the remaining amount. The time students and MetropoHtan External It was once the observation of the Dir­ structure of fees at Playhouse is such that Campus Travel is the only travel com­ Students pay S50-$35 to the Union and ector of Food Services of the University of students, single parents and those fmancially pany of its kind in AustraUa. It is 50% own­ S15todieS.P.R.A. New South Wales that one of the most disadvantaged pay the least for services pro­ ed and operated by die Students Union. Postgraduates on staff and non- important services their Union fulfdled vided. The Playhouse has also been respon­ Each year the Council elects two students metropolitan externals may pay $10 for was supplying cudery and crockery for sible for an evening child care programme to the Board of Directors. These students, membership of the Union and S30 for mem­ every student household in Sydney. Each which is fully funded by the Union. This togedier wiUi the Finance Controller of the bership of the S.P.R.A. year students "borrow" approximately scheme, once again, enables access to an Union, make up half the members of the $5,000 work of cutlery and crockery from education for those students who would not Board of Directors. The other three members normally have a chance because of the are from the oUier partner in die venture, The University of Queensland Union was the refectories. responsibilities of children. Jetset Tours, the largest Australian owned first established in 1911, and is presenUy travel company in Australia. in its 70di year. It is governed by a Council A large department of the catering ser­ Playhouse also offers after school care Campus Travel endeavours to provide of some 58 voting members. The majority, vice is die Functions Department. It pro­ and sponsors vacation care during the school inexpensive travel, both domestic and executive (13) and faculty representatives vides wine and cheeses to various clubs and holidays. It gave moral support as well as overseas, widi sound advice for the would- (35) are direcdy elected by and from stud­ be traveller. Profits from this venture are ents. There are (2) student senators, (2) divided equally between the Union and colleges' representatives, (3) postgraduate Jetset Tours. representatives, and (2) staff representatives also elected from Uieir respective con­ stituents. The Semper Editors are also on The Union Shop, the Music Room and the Council. Games Room, provide everything from something to munch on whilst studying, The Union can be divided into two areas to relaxing in a quiet space, to pitting one's - services and representation. I will concern wits against the latest computer game. myself widi services firsUy. The most obvious service is probably die one students fre- The Women's Rights Library provides quendy come in contact widi, that of the books, journals, and tapes for those people eating facilities. There are three main out­ interested in issues concerning women, oi lets; die Scramble Race, die Creperie and die studying tlie various subjects about women, Holt Room Bistro. The Union is presently that are offered on campus. applying for a licence for die Bistro. I The emphasis on these food oudets The Students Legal Aid Scheme is free Ihas always been, and hopefully always to all students, as well as disadvantaged will be, to provide quality cheap meals. members of the community, and it pro­ •Students often ask the question "If the vides legal advice and assistance in every iUnion subsidises die refectory, ($170,000 area from tenancy, to family law, to civil [in 1980) why are the meals so expensive?" liberties. - Continued on following page -

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Some children who have parents Playhouse was given funds of $54,000 IHi frtiH:p'-->;^t .V- • •' • •••• at Queensland University are on to last year by die Federal Govemment, while "•^^M^^^H-r'^^•••-'••••• a good lurk - they pack their parents die Students Union granted $12,600, and off to lectures and then go to Play­ similar funding is expected for the cunent house. year. The Union will shordy have to spend The Playhouse Parent and Child Care $2,500 to buOd a retainmg wall around Centre, or Playhouse as it is commonly die Playhouse area, following a directive known, has been operating suice 1975 in from the University administration. its present location beside the Schonell Theatre. Although the University admmistration "Wliat Playhouse actually does is provide was some help in establishing Playhouse, full care for children hi three sessions - neidier it or the Staff Associarion have during the day, after school, and m the since given any funding even though many evemng", says Esther Friedlander, director staff members use Playhouse. of Playhouse. The Union contributes to the runnmg of Playhouse for two reasons. The first one "The numbers of children at each session is ideological; the concept of open educat­ vary, but normally forty-two children are ion implies some form of child care, other­ in tlie day session, twelve come in after wise people who have responsibility for the school, and only eight in the evening care of children are disqualified from liigher session. education. "For die evening sessions, diat's not The second reason is more practical - ""Wr enough children to make it wordiwhile to keep the costs for parents down. for us to keep running that session. If wc don't get more for that session well have to Fees are calculated on a sliding scale based at the University Rugby Union club­ Despite the S2,500 financial slugmiposed cancel it altogedier" dependent on the income of parents, and house over the September school holidays. on the Union because of Playhouse, the on what session - day, after school, or even­ Various activities included in the pro­ future of child care looks assured. Esdier Friedlander is a trained kinder­ ing - the child attenck Playhouse. gramme are painting, pottery, weaving, garten teacher, graduatuig in 1978 from the For example, parents with an income of exercise games, music, and walks, while As Union Treasurer Nigel Pennington Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers College. less than $60 a week pay 70c for an after qualified staff will be on hand to conduct says, "As long as workmg women exist and She is assisted by a part time staff of eleven. school session, while parents widi an income tliem. women widi children come to University "The Playhouse is open to the community of more than S200 a week pay $1.85 an tlierell always be a place for Playhouse". at large, but students have first preference, hour in the evening sessions. As with Playhouse, costs for this progra­ -ANDREW FRASER then people who work at the University, mme will be on a sliding scale dependent then people from outside the University", Playhouse is also assisdng the Union ui on parents income, beginning at $1.80 per she says. mnning a school vacation care programme four hour session. An assault on student apathy

If Arts students generally find it Nearly die endre paper is produced by Beat Up has various problems to contend computer ~ and not by computer students. with. Apadiy seems to be die major ob­ difficult to be taken seriously by stacle. Beat Up editor, John Wright, said; tliose in other disciplines, Journal­ It is bought out by Journalism students alone. The computer student's magazine "Students, particularly those in their final Beot-Up ism students find it almost imposs­ is the only other like publication on campus year, are fools to ignore Beat Up. It gives ible. that Semper is aware of. valuable experience in layout, subediting, rsKi *• »*«f* *ti, I ••!. Itn^MU t%%\ Not recognised as an entity in its own VDT work and, of course, writing." right - it is annexed onto the Govern­ Some of the Beat Up collective have The paper is produced about every ment department - Journalism is often had formal training, such as it is. Basic third or fourth weekend in a computer looked upon as something of an academic computer trainmg is available in a third- terminal room in the Michie buUduig. joke. year Journalism course, but this amounts Copy is written and subedited on the term­ But diis year's editions of die Journal­ to about twenty hours at most, including inals. The computer printout is then pasted ism students' publication. Beat Up, may assignments. Those who have not done the up after layout. yet prove the crirics wrong. For Beat Up, course had to learn from scratch, which if not in content dien certainly ui product­ is no mean feat. Beat Up is largely die Another constraint is finance. The only ion, is a magazine ahnost unsurpassed on result of trial and error. revenue until recendy was a Union Clubs campus. Like any other student's magazine. and Societies grant. The Journalism depart- I NOT THE f a g « ROYMWl£E)!D01Ni@DSSiy)^ * « « SCHOOL VACATION CARE for ail ladies accessories and jewellery PROGRAMME Ihe '.yv'^ '^ The University of Queensland Union is sponsoring a school vacation care programme over the September school holidays. The scheme will cater for accessory ment, with the lowest funding "and room children of parents attending/working at University, and also children allocation, together with the highest staff/ from the surrounding areas. student ratio of any comparable depart­ The scheme will run from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm each day from Monday 21st boutique ment, cannot afford to subsidise the stud­ September to Friday 2nd October, and will be based at the Rugby Club­ ents' magazine. Thus, Beat Up staff were house building In West Road (on campus), the use of which has been Opposite Centre Stage forced recendy to impose a cover price of donated by the Queensland Rugby Club, City Plaza ten cents and mcludc advertismg. Phone 221 3508 Qualified staff will be In attendance, offering active child-care including The content of Beat Up leaves some­ paints, pottery, vreaving, ball-games, exercise games, music, walks and so on. Have you seen thing to be desired, although the occasion­ Costs will be on a sliding scale depending on parents income, beginning at Miss Trendy Lady? al gem surfaces, like the article "Why non- $1,80 per 4 hour session. believers should have public recognition", VALUED CLIENT CARDS reprinted in die last issue of Semper. Details can be obtained, and registration forms completed, at Playhouse {next AVAILABLE FOR ALL to Schonell Theatre). UNI STUDENTS -SHELLEY DEMPSEY Evening care is also available from 5 - 9pm, Monday ~ Thursday. 10% DISCOUNT

Semper, 11 Auguit 1981 25 i^^^.. I%I•x * Three days from nowhere, m In the back of my mind, thfB3 days from I had the feeling I had Left something behind. nouuhere c c After searching through my pockets, 3 I knew what it was. It was you, I'd left you behind. So in my car, I quickly turned around, .•.».». Ol ..,., Hurry back to see if you could be found, c In life's holiday, there you still stood, % CO Surrounded by your luggage and your tacky souvenirs. fi M:

If I had any sense I'd have gone back the way I'd come, But I opened my boot for all your gear, lexBOJtivel Now years later as we go our separate ways, A man burnt out at work today, I've realised that in life, . Lost his tool of trade, I It's the comings not the goings that count the most •xo Its under sedation. Scott Hoffman The money was good, but not the business life. i We sent the elevator down to bring another man up. We lost his coffee cup, but what do we do with his (Dught in Q Storm mail? In slivered fire of icy flame What was my blame m I hope they don't think I'm cracking too. •'iVi Lancing from the angry sky That heaven so incensed This is not all I want to say, m I wondered why — Would dare to pour its icy spill Xv But they might put me away, •X-: Oh where, Upon my mackless back? Were he is, many payslips too soon. 0 where have you gone. Stephen Legge i My bonnie blue brollie? Scott Hoffman

interpretation of a turd. The draw­ — From page 21 — ing gives me intense satisfaction. still able to see the hurt expressions Margaret and I walk back inside. -RUDOLF on the faces .of the two women. Arm in arm. We discuss the possi­ 1 Hippies never complain. Bad vibes. bility of having a relationship, which Melvin's words begin to ring true. happens every time we get drunk. There is a constant hiss in the back­ This time we decide that we are NAillRAL ground. My eyes gradually adjust going to carry it out,,. tomorrow. to the dark. Margaret is standing I go into my room and collapse FOOD ImpiiLsc To mflo behind Phil's car. On the tailgate 15 AftSOJLOHe/LtJ onto the bed. David stares down GROCERY of his new Range Rover are the with poignant intensity. I fall asleep impejeftr/KME fbsos. STORE words / AM A SHIT in high gloss assured of the meaning of life. No IS yooR f of oRe Md yellow. Margaret is smiling as I app­ more or no less than a succession of ^oiL -THE M£/yo(NiGi OF EV(L.— I do a Matt Mawsonish pictorial WHO C0fl5 Vt RUDOLF 207MOQOitl>;f»D^ 1^1 MflM&oOfj. STEii^eii^-THe W\fi AND UIS WORK W POSTURES. RELAXATION, BREATHING. DIET. POSITIVE 50C(AL FUTO/^E YOGA THINKING & MEDITATION PC THC />»frHtoPo»' • Children's Classes and Camps • TEACHERS MONTVILLE IN THE Ul^HT OF • Vegetarian Meals • Weekend Retreats TRAINING You need more quality of life OID RSU HAUL flNTHROPCSOPHy • Demonstrations & Lectures than standard of living. OCCULT QfeO&A/^PHy • Yoga Teachers' Training Courses COURSE ARK has the basic (Students Vz price on classes) - , MoisrrviLie OF THE eMjH resources to help o(X> tl^X. HfiU, you build better Lwe-m at health, and Springbrook, Queensland greater ]fH£ flNTWR/DPOSOPHfCAL SOClETy awareness... RftPHAE-L Gtoup/soNJSHiwe poflsr November 22 — December 20 at a price you For further information contact: can afford, ST. LUKE <»«OOp/eRV5BA»0e. without fads f>HONes 20a-6«3O Sfvananda Yoga Centre. and frills. >mi53ioM: $s.-5e» 78 Enoggcra Tee. Red Hill. Q. 4059. Ausl. Ph: (07) 369 9961 THAT DAMNED DEMOCRAT, John in Maryborougli and Bundaberg, Norton, an Australian populist, 1853 THAT to found the Brisbane Truth. The - 1916: by Michael Cannon, Melb­ DAMNED DEMOCRAT paper was successful but the part­ ourne University Press, 1981 ($12.80) Jutin Norinn. »n Autlralun fxipulM. l«;*-ISIIi nership broke up over policy Michael Canniin disputes, so Norton took over Ten years ago this month, the Sun­ sole control and expanded the day Sun was launched to replace the 1 formula to found tiie Melbourne tlVllN.lXMlV Brisbane Truth, and the last Queens­ A JU RV Truth, a Perth edition of Truth, land link with one of Australia's and New Zealand Truth. most colourful character was sev­ Cannon's version of the hap­ ered. hazard expansion of Truth appe­ For those even mildly interested in Aust- ars to mirror Norton's persona. raliana, "That Damned Democrat" is a But il contradicts the official fascinating excursion into our more boist­ histor>' of the Sunday Sun, as erous past. The Bulletin of April 13, 1916, sanctioned by the new owner marked the final victory of the grog over and contemporary publishing this enlightened and articulate 19th cent­ maverick, Rupert Murdoch. This ury Super Ocker by saying: states: "Nobody could write John Norton's "Truth, as originally conceived liistory - not even John Norton". by the late John Norton, was to Through painstaking research Cannon has be a national newspaper in six tried to overthrow this claim but, in the end, different editions, each publish­ the Bulletin's obituary' still holds true. The ed separately in the capital city Norton enigma remains. Hidden behind a ofa different State. love-affair with words, a total commitment to the under-dog and enslavement to the "John Norton was the force­ A^W^YAR? booze, the founder of the Brisbane Truth his being appointed at "about twenty" as ful, picturesque character one John ,V(!r/,>n McnJini; li: /! Cri.k htforc Parbanun! is still a quixotic mirage. private secretary to Sir Edward Reed and would have looked for in a pion­ ir: .V IIHVI,, l.lfc,.f «•. v. Cnck then touring Europe extensively before eering setup - probably the only Even Cannon's detaOed analysis of evi­ working as a sub-editor on the Levant type of entrepreneur who could dence given at his notorious divorce hearing Herald in Constantinople and being offer­ succeed in founding and consolidating a to Cannon, by continual bouts of drunk- a few mondis before his deadi does litde ed a consular appointment. business venture of the magnitude he had eness lasting many days - and sometimes to reveal the man beliind the vitriolic pen In 1883, he "returned to London, then conceived. weeks - and "disgraceful incidents such who fought for "the cause of the sweated impulsively -decided to accompany some as the time he openly urinated before and suffering workers"; to end die "White friends travelling to Australia". This pict­ "In Queensland - and in fact the other members in the chamber". Australia" policy in tlie 1880's; against States, too - Truth was like nothing on ure of a privileged 25-year-old floating Despite this Hyde-tike nature, the Dr the "dreamy-eyed humbug" of hypocrisy; God's eardi in newspapers at diat time. If around the wodd with his cronies hardly Jckyl in him has an unerring sense of just­ and against die monarchy. Norton found toes were carelessly placed in its path, it gels with the anti-Establishment Aussie ice and what tiie pubtic wanted to read.-He himself on a sedition charge after calling trod on them without apology." Norton of a few years later. And Cannon used this gift to campaign for 'cleaner Queen Victoria "flabby, fat and flatulant", makes no attempt to explain this change. It is true that John Norton often made capitalism', expose cormption, and champ­ and Edward VII a "turf-swindluig, card- After a brief spell as the star reporter on the truth hurt. He took the same view as ion the weak and oppressed - slum dwell­ sharping, wife-debauchmg" rascal. the Sydney Evening News he became a liis contemporary in London, Alfred Harms- ers, exploited workers, women and children. Too much of Norton's life is shrouded freelance writer and trade union agitator. worth, who said: "News is sometliing by the claims of his enemies, and his own His official report of the 1885 Intercolonial someone, somewhere wants to suppress; And yet, his private life was just as flaw­ boastmg, for Cannon to bring him into Trades Union Congress is still considered a the rest is advertising." Thus, this Sunday ed as his journalistic targets. He beat his focus. The Super Ocker clauned he was a milestone m Labor propaganda; as is his Sun 'history' probably owes more to the wife, often and viciously, and abused his bastard, but in fact he was born to a respect­ Australian version of "The History of policies of the present owner, and how he children. He was foul-mouthed in public able married couple in Brighton, England. Capital and Labour in All Lands and Ages". would like to be viewed, than to actual­ as well as ui private, but his use of words Later he gained an unsympathetic but ity. was not only scatalogical. Hie Bulletin of wealthier stepfather who sent him away to In 1890, a radical weekly paper was July28,1904, said: a private school. founded m Sydney, called Tmdi. Seven "Forceful, picturesque character" is one months later Norton became its editor and, way of describing Norton, but it is some­ "John's phrases are blue coruscations However, what happened in these form­ in 1896, he bought out die paper. what genteel for the man whose political (sparkles) and every sentence is a shriek ative years is not related by Cannon. The Four years later, Norton joined Irvine career started in 1898 as an MLA in New of demented rainbows" next we leam about young John Norton is Perel, who was publishing the radical Patriot South Wales and was market}, according Thus it will probably be for his words, rather than his "picturesque character", that John Norton will be remembered. Without his contributions, the 'Stiian Dictiona^ would be a very slender tome. THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: Penguin realisdc, with/human doubts and weak­ Thankfully, after groping in vain to re­ nesses more m keepuig with reality than solve the Norton enigma, Cannon lets his "The.Transit of Venus" is, to put it mild­ " the average fictional heroes/heroines' super­ hero speak for himself and devotes the ly, an unusual novel. A work of fiction, human qualities. final half of "That Damned Democrat" to particulady one that attempts to portray Conversation hi "The Transit of Venus" an anthology of the Super Ocker's writing. a series of tragic love affairs, runs the risk is kept to die minimum, again restricted to The neolo^ms tumble tike Niagara, And of becoming unrealistically sendmental and the functional device it is, a necessity for Caimon establishes the origiM of at least maudlin. Yet ui this novel Shirley Hazzard communication, rather than a prosaic one of the most enduring. TTie word 'wow­ has instead managed to produce a feeling Uterary device. Aldiough at times stilted and ser' — standmg for We Only Want Social oideja vu, to make the experiences ofCaro abmpt, this quality further succeeds in con­ Evils Remedied - has been previously Bell and her various lovers so down to earth veying a sense of reality. supposed to have first appeared in a head­ and realistic that they are ahnost too pain­ As with many works by Australian (or line in Tmtii of January 23, 1915: "Wall­ fully recognizable. In part she achieves this oping the Wowsers". by writmg in a style that gives painstaking Australian-bom) audiors, the book is pervad­ ed by a theme of expatriation - Caro and But Carmon finds another reference, attention to detail. From the exquisite from Tnidi of May 7, 1910; "Some years description of an approaching storm in the her sister Grace bemg Australian girls m England. This sets the scene for a back­ ago, while addressing a political meeting, opening chapter (exquisite in the sense John Norton branded the snufflebusting, Uiat you know exactly die sort of atmos­ ground of travel and experience in foreign countries that provides a contrast to the hypocritical crowd in politics as *a gang of phere she is describing), ^e proceeds to wire-whiskered wowsers'. The label 'wowser' perform a minute dissection of every scene, alternative theme of conflicting emotions and tiie sense of unpending tragedy tiiat has stuck, until now it has become part however trivial, in the book. and parcel of our language". Chairs of ugly comfort, a rigid, delicate dommates the novel. sofa, books elderly rather than old... LUce "wowser", John Norton has become "The Transit of Venus" is a sad book, part and parcel of Australian folklore - (p.6) but I found it very gentie and fascinating more reality than myth, but nevertheless as well. Definitely a good book if you're a great deal of mytb still obscuring the feeling introspective. reality. lyShe contuiues to devote meticulous -CHARLES STUART ffttention to every s^pect of her novel, -LINDA HERON whether in setting a scene or describing mental deliberations. Tlie characters, sub- her character's physical appearance or sequentiy, become extremely vivid and

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w rariety nights at the Red Hill co-ordinators. Tlie current co-ordinator is V Community Arts Centre are a Chris Maver. contradiction. The Centre is funded by a yearly initial grant of $4,000 from tiie Federal Govem­ They are held at Sixty Waterworks ment. Not surprisingly this is not enough Road in Red Hill, a Church of to cover the running of tiie Centre and the England Hall that is bounded on one employment of a co-ordinator, but this side by the bustle that is Waterworks initial grant is invested m a series of fund Road and on the other by the rabbit raising dances and variety nights which do warren hutches of inner city suburbia. return a profit. Two variety ni^ts have been held so far But the Variety nights in this, the most this year, and the next night is on Friday, urban of settings, are charged with an at­ 21st August. mosphere that is normally associated with a What are the Variety nights exactiy? local country hop at the C.W.A. HaD. "The people who play at Variety nights 'Everyone responds so well to whatever are people who want to perform with other you're doing. The standard crowd at city artists in a community theatre environment dances are very hard to get motivated, but where the audiences tend to be more res­ here you've almost got to calm diem down', ponsive than in a traditional theatre situ­ says Graham Nielson, member of the Veran- ation," says Chris Maver. djdi Band, regular performers at Variety "There's a very wide cross-section of nights. people performing - musicians, etimic The Red Hill Community Arts Centre dancers, poets, magicans, actors and com­ ' speakers. grew with the Popular Theatre Troupe, a edians - people who just want an oppor­ of audience, but over the last six months we've been drag^g in the community at Workshops at the Centre are open to street theatre group based in Brisbane, who tunity to perform." the entire community, and are run by were established ui 1975. large. The people in the community, espec­ "But in Brisbane at the moment they're ualified tutors such as Glen O'Malley, Part of the Troupe's original character not getting that opportunity to perform ially those in the suburbs around here like Ashgrove, Paddington and Milton, realise Sre photography tutor. was to take not only shows on tour, but simply because tiiere's no alternative venue They are primarily arts-oriented, being also community arts - projects such as for them," says Chris, that there's sometiiing happening here that they can become involved in," says Chris. in astrology, photography, theatre, dance, children's activities and workshops - to Etiinic dance groups have proved espec­ and life-drawing. All workshops are con­ areas that are generally ignored by main­ ially popular this year at the Variety iti^ts, Chris sees tiiis kind of community support ducted at three levels - begmners, inter­ stream theatre groups. witii Vietnamese, Chilean, Turkish, Sri as being central to the success of any com­ mediate, and semi-advanced. Since then the Troupe has realised the Lankan, and Irish dance groups all per­ munity arts project, and this support has been fortiicoming not only on Variety Recognition at state govemment level of need for community arts on a larger scale, forming. the rising public interest in community and as the Troupe was based at Red Hill nights but also in other activities run by the "I think it's important to this type of Centre such as workshops, art exhibitions, arts programmes was confirmed witii the it became the obvious centre for the com­ opening last month of a larger commun­ entertainment, and every Variety ni^t so bush dances and open days. munity arts project. ity arts centre at Edward Street in the city. far has played to a packed house, and not An open day attended by 200 people In 1979 the Red Hill Community Arts While Chris Maver feels that die Edward Centre became a different entity from the the usual arty set who tend to favour these was held m April this year, to co-ordinate gatiierings eitiier. services in the area by uiviting community Street centre at least shows the govemment Popular Theatre Troupe, and Bruce Woolf appreciation of the need for community "We may have started off with that type service groups to present displays, and guest and Lyn Samson were the first part-time arts, he feels that the positioning of the centre is out of step with the philosophy of community arts. "I dunk that here at Red Hill we've got a far more grass roots approach to com­ THE ENEMY WITHIN: A play about munity arts. We're working m a specific women by Graznya Monvid, directed geograpluc area and subsequentiy must by Malcolm Blaytock. La Boite relate direcdy to that area," says Chris. Theatre, 21 August to 12 September. "In the future we're definitely going to become even more localized. What I'd like The Enemy Within is a provocative to see is a community arts centre m every and disturbingly relevant play about area, especially inner city areas that are what it means to be a woman. Set in traditionally alientated from the Arts as Germany in the years 1932 - 1945, such because of their working class back­ the action follows the rise and fall ground." of Hitler's Third Reich as reflected "We're a positive alternative that's not in the lives of German women. predominandy middle class m attitude. Here the working class can become in­ The by now clear issues confronting volved witiiout being ripped off, and tiiat's women (and men) during the Nazi regime breaking away from that fairly traditional, are used brilliantiy by the author to define elitist standard of theatre and the Arts," says the choices open to women today in the Chris. present era of more conscious attempts Certainly Brisbane is a cidtural desert at liberation from male domination. when it comes to similar centres. Other The choices available to tiie women m groups tend to be community service die play are eitiier to hide behind their groups that run projects connected with womanhood wearing the mask of feminmity, Lisa Hickey, Fiona Winning, and Sandn Hines leheaising The Enemy Within the arts as an offshoot of their mam act­ thus avoiding die responsibUity that comes ivities. with knowledge, or to accept that respons­ The aim behind all community projects ibility and to act accordin^y, riskmg certain The Enemy Widtin will provoke a reaction social and political persecution and probable where her mother was a member of the should be to supply the individual with HitierYoutii. in Brisbane - and so it should. Although contacts and resources so he or she can death. there is no overt violence, the brutalisation Cormption or Resistance? Magda and Cast in The Enemy Within is Fiona develop themselves, regardless of their Wmning as Sophie, Lisa Hickey as Magda, and horror of Nazism is fully captured by age or background. Sophie, the play's two central characters, die fmal scenes. make different choices and we are invited and Sandra Hines as Mrs Kellerman. Narelle Chris Maver has the last word on this. both to sympathise and to judge. Arcidiacono has the difficult task of playuig Because you do not understand. We die. "I think a centre like ours is unique in . Plays by women about women are very four characters. Part of Li Boite's program­ Because when you pass by you do not that we're not catering to just a part of ye. The Enemy Witiiin, written in 1978 ming policy for 1981 was to choose plays see, we die. the community but to all different classes r Major Diversion, a women's touring winch gave a greater opportunity to women The more we try to shout and show. and kinds of people. Obviously there's a jatre in the U.K., has only been performed actors in Brisbane to perform at La Boite. The more you hurry by and go. lot of enriching experiences widiin that Jfce before in Australia. Graznya Mon^d The extraordinary large number of women (Graznya Monvid) cross-class framework." ^'a British playwright widi extensive exper- who auditioned for The Enemy Within -BARBARA ALLEN -ANDREW FRASER ''lence as a writer and actor in Theatre-in- shows that women are particularly keen to Education. Her family comes from Poland play women's roles written by women.

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Brisbane bands, Brisbane bands - why Only The Riptides could command that kind of have you forsaken us? money in Brisbane now. When they did their Big Ever since local bands ceased covering Flit down south the Brisbane scene lost its popu­ 'Stairway to Heaven' I've been Interested lar front. The Riptides guaranteed a crowd, were, comprehensible to publicans (even pigs tap their In The Brisbane Music Scene. feet to pop) and they inspired human beings to Only a few years ago, Brisbane bands were plug­ bounce around and have fun. Who are attempting ging out 'Smoke on the Water' and 'Running Bear', to fill that vacancy now? Well, there's Xero. or they were being artistic and original with jazz- rock. repertoires of today's Brisbane bands? It would appear they have gone so avant garde that producing songs like Xero attract audiences of non-drinking freebies, who In 1978 a new breed appeared - The Survivors, Razar, those just mentioned is deemed 'commercial'. One is upset publicans and put bouncers out of work. A band to X-Men, Leftovers, Fuller Banks, The Numbers (later The easily deluded in the garret. sit down to rather than dance to. Xero have played for Riptides), and The Go-Betweens. 'Talent pretensions in free at virtually every t>enefit concert over the last three Brisbane' sniffed the cynical. However, if you wanted to The current bands have no stage act, no flash, no angles. years. They've been responsible for the maintenance of see new music performed, local bands were all there were. They plod out tunes that are described as 'minimalist'. the 'creative' Brisbane scene by helping other bands with And if you wanted entertainment, the local dance was the The lyrics, when one eventually bears them on tape, make practice rooms, equipment, advice and example.Xero have place to be. I became a habitue of local dances, an acquaint­ you thankful that these banalities have been distorted out paid their dues and are in the league of what used to be ance of local musicians. I became a BRISBANE DEVOTEE. by the abysmal acoustics of every Brisbane venue. No one called 'classical long-hair'. MusiclansI dances. These 'artists' then complain that there's nowhere to If that's what they want to play, well, there must be Today the Disco Plot persists with the New Romantic play, no-one will pay them, and they have to be satisfied something to it. Xero-kicking is not the object of this blitz, while the superstar conspiracy angles into video. Do with being recognised by local rock writers who have writer. They are, however, not a band to build the local we really need these overseas shmuks and their endless never read 'The Emporer's New Clothes'. scene around (though you wouldn't know it by listening parade of week-long fads? Are we really going to have to to 'informed' opinion). get home entertainment units and end up mortgaged in Meanwhile, from the Homestead to Joint Efforts, thou­ our homes for kicks? All for the lack of good local live sands of dollars are being spent on southern acts. These And now to Electropulse — the face of local music in entertainment. may have pretensions to art (ME0245, The Reels for the future? Word is, they don't even know how to play example) but Brisbane musicians know that the true (probably irrelevent) but they bash away at electronic The current local bands don't entertain. Instead, they're state of the art is being paid $1000 a night. The trouble equipment and produce 'interesting' quirks of sound. into 'art'. Where are the likes of 'Sunset Strip', Task is, you haye to have an audience for that. You entertain By waving a video around they get background visuals. Force', 'Lee Remick', and 'Cigarettes and Alcohol' in the them - they pay you for the pleasure. No one sings. Is it art? Is Jackson Pollock a finger painter?

My opinion is that The Survivors slamming out their classics is the stuff memories are made of. Maybe a few QIT students hang around hung out on the 'hot-licks', or whatever its sub-zero coot equivalent is these days, but for most people bands are the muzak background to the social milieu of a local dance. Until Brisbane bands recognise this, we'll go on paying our money to see cruddy southern and overseas acts, even if just to be a part of a crowd of more than 200 supposedly having fun.

Other cities have Countdown Credibility. Perth, Adel­ aide, even Dubbo bands. We see them on TV, read about them, and local radio stations bring them to town.Brls- bane bands don't suck, but from the southerners point of view, Brisbane is the backblocks - only morons live , here and its only good for ripping money out of and for horror stories back home. Don't you tire of living in a southerner's sick joke?

Brisbane has never been big. it's no-one's dream to be the best in Brisbane. This applies as much to Brisbane bands as it does to the rest of us. Of course, it's a night­ mare to look around as the dreadful boring Brisbane syndrome drags on. But it doesn't have to be that way. It isn't written in stone.

Ji...,^ XV.'.V.V NEXT INSTALMENT: Banishment, or How to Seriously Threaten a Brisbane Artist — Hopes for the Future.

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QUASIMODO'S DREAM: The Reels (Polygram) ula for the band. This set gives you the cream of their After the delayed release of Quasimodo's Dream, output, and includes the majority of their hits like the Reels seem to be on the path to becoming Australia's 'Telephone Line", "Lovin' Thing", "Rockaria" and "pop heros". others. Side one is the hit single side and needs no comment, you've heard it all before. Side two is where Colin The value of the collection, of course, depends on Newham, ex member of the Reels and producer, was set how strongly you feel about ELO. If the set looks free in the production studio. It includes numbers of attractive to you, then be prepared to part with about 'social significance' - Kitchen Man, which expounds $23 for the pleasure. ' the fate of feminism on some males. Dubbo a Go Go is -BILL HOLDSWORTH Mason's dedication to his home town. There are also several tracks which could be dismissed by unknowing people as fillers. One of these, 'Rupert Murdoch', is a continuation of Mason's obsession with that man and his empire. And to change direction, 'Ohira Tour* is, as the title suggests, a track with Japan­ MAGNETS: the Vapors, (EMI) ese influence. Unfortunately, the Vapors were cursed with a hit Quasimodo's Dream points the way to the Reels' single last year. None of their other work has had any future. However it will be interesting to hear what the significant commerical air-play and with the release of departure of Colin Newham will mean to further their latest album "Magnets", the story remains the recordings. same. -J. BIRD David Fenton has written another set of songs to match the scenes and feelings of England. Though he hasn't managed to come up with anything with the Impact of "Bunkers" or "Letter from Hiro". David Tickle, who has worked with Split Enz and '-' ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 •.-•• i'i~r 'l"l"l '3- tifv^D/s FLASH A&A ii$r1 1 1 1 1 1 the Swingers, produced "Magnets" and has left a notic- • ~<"iT i 1 1 1 1 I 1 able mark on the final product. \ ~\ 1 1 1 >;-. y.'\ :- - - - •••-•JJJ ;•:•: I ~\ ••|~i"i 1 1 1 1 1 1 V. If you're a Vapors fan, you will have already bought \~\r<"i~i" i W^^^TK^^^^^ I'l 1 1 1 I '» this album. If you're not, have another listen. There's rri' 1 1 1 1 1J i * t tvr I'l 1 • • 1 .*.•V.• brilliance there, but it has to be searched out. rri* "i"ri l~l 1 1 i 1 V. C»'''I'"'" ' :•:• I i"i'ICC ' m£W^m .V -J. BIRD iTi' "t~i"i i 1 I t 1 t I Ti' ) 11 ite#' 1 1 1 I 1 i *.-. FROM BRANCH TO BRANCH: Leon Redbone, I ~\ 1 11 1 1 1 1 ) 1 , yf/.*- •• Vv.. I < i' 1 11 rrrrri V. (WEA) I ("i" 111 111111 V. From Branch to Branch is Leon Redbone's latest I a.IJ J ''C'JCC* Vv. A BOX OF THEIR BEST: Electric Light Orch­ IJJ' • '^/f- '^ • 111111 V. release. It's content is typical of his past recordings. 111' ICC' ' V* 111111 estra (CBS) I n 111 111111 .'.• Redbone has a reputation of refusing to record any­ 111' 111 111111 I am puzzled about the necessity for a boxed set of I iV 111 '\ y ' 111111 thing that isn't at least forty years old. ij"i' rri 11111 i *.-.V . ELO albums but there is one available, should you ij~i' 1 1 • r 1 t V. And so the album comprises 11 blues/jazz tracks; 111 111)11 need it. It contains three albums - "A New World tjj' \ ,v a couple of them old favourites - 'My Blue Heaven' •-'-•'.•-'- • \ '' ' '1 1 1 1 t t 1 V. Record" (1976), "Discovery" (1979), and the block­ 1,11' 111 1 1 1 1 1 1 and 'When You Wish Upon a Star'. j"i' i"i~i .8 /' , > . • 1 1 1 • 1 V. buster double set "Out of the Blue" (1977) - together ri"i CLUJJ V. If you're set in your ways, pass over this record ••• with a Jeff Lynne solo single as a bonus. in the shop. But if you're mind's open. From Branch to FLASH AS A RAT: Ward 13 (E.M.I.) ELO have long been derided for their combination Branch is perfectfor a lazy, Sunday afternoon's listening. In a cruelly competitive record world, product from of mock profundity, neo-classical schmaltz and pseudo- -^. BIRD a new band needs some edge to compell the public Beatle prettiness, but it is undqubtably a winning form-

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32 work-bWaljte they take'lf'ii'eryseriouslyTwhIle deriding seriousness and musicians. They want you to work at liking them because they don't trust easy support. Understandable; with Mr. Rotten involved, they had legions of logo'd leather jackets around before their first performance or record.

I'' •_»_' IJJ TTl I ' I '.'_' Not understandable, because there is no real reason 11111J 1 1 1 TTl 'V ,» I I I IJJ 111111 1 TTTTi •^•LAL\M I I I I I I to try liking difficult music on the performers say so; 111111 i.i.TTTi I'tTrri t 1 i 1 1 1 TiVTi I unless they're playing on the interest their deliberate­ 111111 1 1 TTi'i '1 t I I TTi.i TTTij.i 1 1 TTTi • I I I I l.I ly controversial history arouses. Are we twigging to a 1 1 TTTI • • U •_•-' deja vu agit prop scam a la Malcolm McLaren here, I TI » I I MACHlH ES. 1. • I 1 II 1 •"Ti I I I I-I-!-'-'-'-'-'.' ' ' TiTi IJ this time with an ultra hip target audience? TTl I I I l.I 1 iTi ijjj"ij rCi I IJ > I I I 1 IJ 'J-'j"'"' I I I I I I I I tj.ij 'J • '"•'u ""TTTI I i.ij.TTil uiriKiiiu 'I'l'i'iJ The critics love PiL's bag of earnest/glib contrad­ rTTi"i I IJJ 1 TI I I TTl I K-: riTTTi '-•J » Ti nMcMiEiiil CCCCx I ictions. Probably rightly so, in a pop world so soon t'lTtJiJ iMikuum mi ;l]l J TiVi'Ti '"'"'_•_• '-'-'-i~"~" smug and complacent after the revolution. 1 1 1 1 M • a IM DMK Ti Ti IJ I I I IJJ IJ 1 TTl JOWIWI TI TI IJ In conventional terms (not totally applicable you I t I I I I m wua iiiUK "i TTi.i I'TTi i_i IJJ TTl i I I I I l.I see) the album is a loose and casual percussion domin­ IJJ III lie I I I I «_i 1 1 1 1 TI iii siKn Tiitt I I I I I I ated set, strangled intense vocals and light on the techno- 1 1 TiTi iuuiuimii rC'Ci I ii::- i_i.i"TTi TTTTI I flash. No formalists need apply. The title track/single IJ 1 1 TI iuiiKir 1^ TTTC«_' l.I 1 1 1 1 If l.I t fVi cMUcgouf TTTI I I has markedly clearer structure, cleaner production, IJ 1 TTl KSCIIIICI \ TiVTij more coherent vocal and lyrics, and pop accessibility. IJ TTTI r 1 TTri'i I l.I 1 TTl] 'CCCu In P(L terms its another exercise in primal if not primitive music making. Avoiding a lot of (but not DON'T POINT YOUR FINGER: Nine Below MACHINES: Various artists (CBS) all of) the conventions of musician's rock music. Rock Zero (A&M) Musical purists often object to synthesised music music's conventional equipment used freshly but not always successfully. Although fashions come and go in London, there on the basis of its gimmicky and depersonalised Sometimes you could say 'Yes' and look away always seems to be room for an R&B revival. This time aspects. smugly. Mostly if you don't require hooks, like a punch around, it includes a band called Nine Below Zero The exponents of techno-pop/rock, a good cross- section of whom can be found on this compilation, drunk fish, it's interesting to fascinating music for what (whose name comes from an old Muddy Waters song). have exploited these supposed negative qualities and, it succeeds at and intriguing for what it tries to be. They are a hard working live band offering a straight­ even if some neu muzik is pure trash, a lot of it is forward R&B with a very familiar stance, even though very listenable and entertaining. most of their songs are self-penned. Worth a listen if you get angry/bored with Count­ The sillier tracks on Machines are 'Memphis' (Sili­ down type material. The single/title track is even easy con Teens), 'Ricky's Hand' (Fad Gadget), 'Kitchen to like. The production on the album is kept raw and gritty Motors' (Crash Course in Science) and 'Making Lpve Try some; this time on my say so too. ft: while the songs themselves are uncomplicated and With My Wife' (Henry Badowski}. Despite inconsequent­ -DAMIEN LEDWICH spirited. There is a lot of excellent harmonica from ial lyrics, they're lots of fun, and the electronic embell-. Mark Feltham and some neat googie guitar but unfor- ishments are crisp and cheerful and stand up to repeated tunely, to my ears, it all begins to sound the same after listenings. a while. Admittedly, Nine Below Zero are playing in The rest of the tracks deal with subjects like tele­ a field where enthusiasm often counts for more than communication breakdowns, technological warfare, originality. If that is what you want from an R&B blind obedience, ultra-modern transport and auto­ album, then "Don't Point Your Finger" delivers. mation. Ideal subjects for the range of sounds avail­ -BILL HOLDSWORTH able to synthesiser musicians. Four tracks from the English release of Machines, John Foxx's 'Underpass', 'Daiek I Love You' (Daiek I), 'Private Plane' (Thomas Leer) and Karen Fialka's 'The • Mill 1 IJJJ.I.I I 1 1 1 1 1 '''{"i'l Eyes Have It' have been replaced on the local release 1 1 1 1 I 1 TI TTTI 1 • 1 1 I 1 i'd'C'Ti by 'Kitchen Motors', Foxx's 'No One Driving', and the 1 1 1 1 1 1 <'\'\'\'\'\ Kraftwerk-like Instrumental 'Rapido de Noir', from 1J 1 1 1J TTTTTi 1 1 1 1 1 1 TI TTTt TI TTTI trmin Schmidt and Bruno Spoerri. Despite the imbal­ rrrrri Ti.i"TTi ance in the amount of tracks available to Australian rrtTtTi iTTTTi Ht,;;] HH LMV I^^ B Cd'C'i purchasers of Machines, (twelve) compared to their rriTt'i CCi'i'i'i H^^^^L. "^ KV.'.' WMk Ti'TTTi English counterparts (thirteen), this album is still the TI I'TTI 1 1 1 1 1 1 TI I TI I best compilation of popular electronic-based music 1J 1 1 1 1 CCCC'i 1 1 1 1 1 1 C^C'Ci on the market. 1 1 1 1 1 1 TI I I I I TI ITTI 1 ^^^^> I I I I I I -MATT MAWSON CTTi'Ti WBt 1 I I 1 1 1 C'-'-'-'J I 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 % |L ^^H^^^^Hp' TI I I I I rccrrt '"'»'-.» 'J NIGHTCLUBBING: Grace Jones (Island) 111111 IjpA i.ijjjj rrcrri TTl » • I TI TTl I One could easily be forgiven for thinking that this TTi~TTi rrrrri •C\'\''r\ > is Grace Jones' second album. No one beyond the US rrrrri TI TTl I rrrrri ^^^^^^^^B *^Hi^^^B Tij.ij.i disco set took much notice of her until her fourth rrrri'i O-'-'JJ album Warm Leatherette, an intriguing marriage of disco and pointy-headed pop. Nightctubbing is next, INTENSITIES IN TEN CITIES: Ted Nugent continuing and developing the previous stance. (CBS) The daughter of a Jamaclan preacher resident In the US, Grace is just eccentric enough for myths to form. Ted Nugent, that so-called Motor City madman, Billed as an Amazon at 5'8", she was a model before lets fly with more macho heavy rock, as crass and as her disco hit 'I Need a Man'. Yes, her sexuality played dumb as some of hi,

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these means, it does so through the sexual haps anti-sex would be a better term) films plastic mother and wife of Ordinary People, n Ken Russell's film of Women and love relationship of the central woman which have developed from Alvin Purple the waste of Judy Morris in the otherwise character. Roeg dierefore falls into the same in Love, there is a very disturbed through to Pacific Banana, a significant brilliant In Search of Anna, the ad nauseum I bias he wishes to expose. Glenda Jackson searching desper­ number of box office successes are dealing antics of Olivia Newton John and the roles ately for satisfaction. In keeping with with women in a more mature fashion. for women in 'student' and 'drug' films. Somewhere between Superman itid.Bad Lawrence's theory of the psyche, the Rather than the pretty accessories and good There are die subtle and the blatant. The Timing is Woody Allen. Again there is o? progression from women as objects of desire poor woman can not be happy unless giri/bad gid stereotypes, women are develop­ central interest of the female characters is ing into complex individuals on the screen, sex, love, marriage and children. Nine to in the early film like Bananas to women she is in love and from then on she as people in relationships. The latest trilogy is truly satisfied. Men, of course, existing in their own right. About time, you Five, one of die first commercial block­ reply. The question is: what preconceptions busters to examine women in the workforce, has seen Allen grow from a neurotic, often also need a deep male friendship. turned out to be a not very funny farce. stupid, old adolescent to a neurotic, often Lawrence wrote the novel in 1921 do male film makers have about complex individual women? The answer is that intelligent and perceptive, artist. Diane Keaton has not really changed since Play It and the movie was made in 1969. women's lives are seen to revolve around The altemative/art/deep and meaningful Again Sam. Still the bumbling empty headed Has anything changed in the male their sexuality and their sexual/love re­ film makers are the people who one may lover. I believe the only reason she wasn't in artist's conception of women? Since lationships. Careers, philosophical concerns, expect to change. They have, but only to a Stardust Memories was that Allen couldn't film has, arguably, been the most friendships, self understanding and plain certain extent. Women directors have stand her growing up. In Stardust Memories, exciting and perceptive art form of surviving are subsidiary issues which need excelled in this area of film such as Wert- Charlotte Rampling takes over a far more only cursory examination. muUer {The Seduction of Mimi) and Von the seventies, any change in female •complex and subtly drawn role as the Trotter (The Second Avjokening of Oirista roles should be evident here. neurotic lover. The woman has energy, Kleges). One of the better known and Commercial cinema has, in the past, creativity and an exciting intelligence. She respected male directors is Nicholas Roeg, presented women as pretty cardboard should survive on that knife edge existence The growth of the feminist movement whose films cover the period from 1969 to but she cracks up. Allen, of course, has come during the late sixties and all through the cutouts. If they are lucky, they had real the present day. His first film. Performance, much closer to the elusive meaning of life. seventies has brought many changes to die hearts beating in their well developed is a study of male interaction and the Alien, rather than dismissing the stereo­ screen. Most importandy, there has been cardboard chests. One dimensional nurses, similarity between criminal and rock star. types, just expands them (except for his own a much needed spate of women directors whores, queens, factory workers of resis­ In this film women are pretty, nubile lovers character). and screen play writers. The Sydney Women's tance filters. Things are changing. Lois and strange sensuous creatures. Walkabout Film Group formed in 1972, now has over Lane in Superman is a good example. She examines the relationship between a white two hundred fdmsand videotapes by women. has a sense of humour, a career, is ambitious 'girl' and a male aborigine. It is the aborigine There are exceptions tt) this rule: Berg­ There have been some classic feminist films and even tries to seduce the superhero. who is the changing force and the woman man {Autumn Sonata), Fassbinger (Tlie like Journey Among Women scripted by Unfortunately Lois also needs to be saved who is the recipient. By the middle seventies, Marriage of Maria Braun) and several others Dorothy Hewitt. Gillian Amistrong became quite often. It is the males who deal with Roeg's Man Who Fell to Earth has women but they are rare. Relationsliips and sexual­ the first woman in 46 years to direct an life. From Brando in his elaborate set on as integral to the film. They suffer, under­ ity definitely need creative exploration Australian feature film for commercial Krypton, who realises the planet is about to stand, experience and influence but only in but there are many other areas of women's cinema, with My Brilliant Career. All this explode and sends his son on a trip to earth temis of the alien (David Bowie). Andro- lives which demand central importance. adds up to some brilliant cinema. as a pale Sussanah York stands by and genous as David may be, he is still a male. Perhaps the only hope is the woman dir­ The other change has been the manner frets, to Reeve saving the people of California Roeg's latest fdm is Bad Timing, an examin­ ectors. May they keep on making exciting in which women are portrayed by the male (what a waste) and bringing Lois back to ation of male morality and the myths of complex films about women (and men) for film makers in both the mainstream com­ life. The movie may be farce but the roles Freudian theory. While the film very intelli­ all of us. mercial and die more alternative cinema. are all too real and familiar. gently exposes the oppression of women by -MARK CREYTON Excluding the soft core trivia of sex (per­ There are many other examples: the (female roles In male films) .•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.".•.•.V.V.'.V

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