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BRISBANE THIS MONTH-CULTURAL sented by K/G Productions directed by SEMPER SERIOUS SURVEY Do you regard Semper's coverage of EVENTS Hilary Moiton - Schonell Theatre, Uni- ve»i^ of (Queensland, St Luda - also Sat these areas adequate? If not, why not? THEPOrrER'SDEN. 173 Lattobc 20, Thuts 25, Fri 25, and Sat 2 7 April, at Tee. Paddington - (63 3664) - a continuing 8 pjh. - Adults $2; Students $1.20 - Rarely have there occurred attempts exhibition of potteiy by memben of the Bookings at SchoneU Theatre (711879) to gauge student response to and criticism Queondand Pottei's Association - Monday of this publication. However, such a time to Ftidajr, 10.30 ajn. to 2 pjn.: Sat, 10 a.m. AJB.C. ORCHESTRAL CONCERT - is now upon the University. We ask read to 12 noon; and Sun, 2 pjn. to 4 pjn. Sat 20 AptSl - 2nd Red-Series - Queensland ers to fiPin as completely as possible the Symphony Ordtestia conducted by Patrick following questionnaire and return it GEERBAUGH ART GALLERY, 418 Ann Xlioinas, widt Joseph Kalidistein (piano) Stieet a^ - (29 2727) - Display of abod- - Don Juan, (^. 20 by Stiamt; Piano either to Semper Office (first floor. Union ginal baikpaintings, weapons, etc by tribal Concetto No 22 in E flat, K 482 "by^ozart; Building), or to the Union Office counter. artists - Monday to Fiiiuy, 10 ajn. to 4 pjn. and Symphony No 12 by Shostakovich - - continuing into May. City Hall, Biisbane, at 8 pjn. - A Reserve 1. What is your general opinion of the Are there other issues/areas of inter $2.50; B Reserve $1.90; and C Reseive 1974 Publication? est you would like to see Semper cover QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY, $1.50 - Bookings at A.B.C. City Centre, more or less regularly?Specify: Gregory Tee, Brisbane - (52 7600) - Print 217 Geotge Stieet, Brisbane Prize 1973 - Exhibition of prints supplied by the Print Council of Australia - Mondaiy to Saturday - 10 a.m. to 5.pjn.; Sunday, DUNWELL ART GALLERY - Mon 22 2 pjn. to £ pjn. - Until WMnesiay 24 April - 860 Samford Road, Giovtly - April (30 2282) - Mixed exhibidon by Queensland To assist us further in identifying our Aitists - Monday, 9 ajn. to 12.30 pjn., and reading public, would you indicate your CRAFT ASSOCIATION GALLERY, 37 2 pjn. to 9 pjn.; Tues, 10 a.m. to 4 pjn.; Wed 10 8jn. to 4 pjn., & 6 pjn. to 9 pjn.; course and year below (and political Leidtardt St, Sprint Hill - (21 9583) - persuasion, if you wish). Exhibition of Potteiy aiid Crafts by Al, ^s, Sat, 9 8.m. to 4 p jn.;and Sun, 1 pjn. to and Ann Rolley of C^oundia Potteiy im 5 pjn. - until Tues 30 April Art Studio - Monday toj^riday, 10 ajn. to 4pjn.-untilThiioaiy2May. ' BRISBANE CINEMA GROUP SCREENING-Tues 23 April-South , 2. Have you been reading most or only America Part One: BLOOD OF THE CONDOR a few sections o'f the paper? 7. Any further corriments you may wish to • MclNNES GALLERIES, Adelaide make; Street, Brisbane'-. (312262) - Mixed exhibi (BoUvia), and TERRA EM TRANSE (Biadl) - Manufactuiei'S House Auditorium, 375 , r!, tion by Waterman; Hobnyaid, McClymont, Wdtham Tee, Brisbane, at 7.30 pjn. - Ad-.>»i Alien, Bymes, G'Brook, Tiesz, Benton, Da mission members only - eniohnent at saeenBl'g Oi^a, and Biessow - Monday to Friday, Annual fee $10 - Enquiries (^ 4821) 9 ajn. to 5 pjn.; Sat, 9 ajn. to 12 pjn.- 3. Do you read the following sections: until Wed 24 April. FREE BAND CONCERT - Sun 28 April - Brisbane atittiit Band - King thoroughly • browse • not at all BARRY'S/JIT GALLERY, 205 Geoige Squaie, Gty, at 3 p.m. - Admission Adelaide Street, Brisbane - ai 2712) - free Rhinoceros Exhibition of ot^al Picasso, and Chagall lnt.Affairs drawings, and Fiendi Impiesrioiiist Utno- CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE - THE Media naphs - Mon to Fri, ID ajn. to 5 pjn;; GOTHIC CHURCHES - Tues 30 April - Monkey Bus- • Sat, 10 ajn. to 2.30 pjn. - until Tues 30 Slides tidd cbnunehtaiy by Florenza Jones - iness . ApriL - . presentfffby the Dante Alighleri Society - Reviews: Dante AMlHi Sodetv premises, 175 Eagle ARTS AND FTS 74 - Thurs Books Your suggestions and comments will be Street, Brisbane, at 7.30 pjn. - Admission taken seriously. We who work on the paper of various aits and Gree - (Supper 50c) - Enquiries, Mis P Theatre crafts tnetsntei Christ Chuidh of Cameion (67 2729). Film .itself, are only too aware of certain inadeq England, CtiiC., Ninth Avenues, MUStiC DEPARTMENT CONCERTS Music uacies; and would like to see such inadequacies St Luda-Officii at 7.30 pjn. PROGRAMME: FIRST SEMESTER LUNCH- Interviews overcome. This however is partly your (Admission S2) ,^ 10 ajn. to TIHE CONCERTS LL, .^ Campus News battle too. Your support in conscientiously P j». to 5 pjn. 9 pjh.; and Sdt VENUE: ABEL SMFIH LECTURE 1HEATRE completing this questionnaire and handing it -Adults50c " lOc- Environment TIME: l.l(mi,WE0NB8DAYS. Life Science in to us will indicate general support or lack Apnl 24 'PameUPige(piiiio) thereof in the total p\ibUca(ion or its parts. BEDTIME STORY ^ Fri l9-AjjA - Coming Events Comedy by Sean O'Casey; and tXffliSB^ Living with Such information will help lis make the May 1 EhBllpBnctnin-t'dept right decisions. DF/JH KING - Diama by Eugene loneico - p»- nusidinf: contemponiy Wine ^•^>«.«*«L'* »'»*i'*»a*»^#*» • »*»^»**»«**-» A-ft-a »-4'«-»'» >>**'•*•** J *»*•«« w*****^-*** I » ••* «'A-*-«^«'»*•>*«•< > « ^ •*' • • • « w"* m'^ ^ -• »••"< .»»•»**"•.'#•»*< PAGE 2 THE RHINOCEROS
USTENING IN WHITLAM AND COUNTER- USELESS INFORMATION FILE over'populated areas in the western not be righted. It appears, according United States. to a report in The Australian (4/4/74) INSURGENCY Under a S26.9 million program, that Bjelke-Petersen rejected a recomm nicknamed Giant Patriot by the endation by the Queensland State Is the Whitlam government pre- Air Force, four Minutemen 2 mis Electricty Ommissioner (Mr. Murray) aring for urban guerilla warfare? siles would be fired in tlie winter of for electricity rationing to be intro Elocuments which have recently emerg 1974-75 and four more in the next duced in light of the coal shortage at ed from the United States outline the winter. But the Air Force plans Ipswich. .details of a Symposium on Combat in are Ukely to run into opposition There are many students artd staff Urban Areas on March 14 and 15, from the five states under the at this University who remember the 1973. The symposium was sponsored flight path: Montana, Idaho, last time our crackpot premier de by the US Army Munition Command Washington, Oregon and California. clared a state of emergency - the Spring and the US Army Material System The Air Force claims that debris bok tour of 1971. And the police Analysis Agency. The discussion from the burnt-out eariy stages would charges and harrassment in those mid- topics ranged from a 'survey of his fall on 'sparsely-populated' areas July evenings outside the Tower Mill torical experience' to 'measures of of the states involved. But even on a hotel. combat effectiveness' and culminating normal flight, the spent fu^t stage There are many more householders in 'global projections' of urban war of the rocket, which is 28 feet long who reflect painfully on the non fare. Participants in this conference and weighs 4,800 pounds, and four existence of such a state of emergency came from various facets of the US metal engine covers from the second during the recent floods in this State. Military machine including the US stage, each weighing 60 pounds, Can it be as we enter the tortuous Army; the FBI Academy and the US would fall to earth. Each missUe's process of comprehending the incom Army Human Engineering Lab. nuclear warhead would be replaced prehensible Premier of this state and Most significantly, two members for the test with a 'destruct package' his mental ju-jitsu, that he is, in fact, of the Australian Embassy, B.D. of explosives to blow up the missile a cupboard astrologist: showing more Treharne and Michael M. Thompson, if it malfunctioned or veered off concern for those living under the attended this symposium. "Playboy", the Gentleman's Magazme with worldwide distribution, is one of course. If the missile had to be influence of an earth sign, and less for The question is now, what did the very few publications of its kind to destroyed in the first 102 seconds those under a water sign? they learn, and more importantly, cover all production costs with news of the flight, the 'destruct' would Investigations will continue on this who is Whitlam planning to 'combat stand sales. A page of Advertising in blow the missile into small pieces, somewhat original hypothesis and shall in urban areas'? "Playboy" costs around $30,000 and the largest a 17 foot section of the (no doubt) be published accordingly. the advertisiiig density is usually near rocket enguie weighing 100 pounds, Source: ANS, No 18,27 March, 50% over an average of 200 pages which could possibly fall on popu D.R.F. 1974 each regular edition. This advertising lated areas. revenue is entirely profit. Which goes Of the 70 Minutemen test-fired to show that the wages of skin is over water from the Vandenberg wealth. ' base, 'several' have had to be des KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS P.F, troyed in tiie first 102 seconds of FOR FUN AND PROFIT THOSE OLD PARANOIA BLUES. fli^t, but the exact number is classified. New York (ZNS).- the largest Once upon a time in contemporary Source: ANS, No 18,27 March, incense manufacturer in the United Australia there existed a group called 1974 States is making a pretty hefty profit the Immigration Control Association BEATRICE ALLENDE TO TOUR these days - mainly because it doesn't (ICA) who put out a newsletter called pay any of its employees. "Viewpoint". These people didn't This is happening, the Wall Street like the Labor Party , homosexuality or Sydney: Beatrice Allende, daughter of Journal reports, because America's a multi-racial society. Consider the the late President Allende of Chile and TEXT FOR DOOMSDAY largest incense maker is the Spiritual following page one article in their Mrs. Hortensia Allende, will shortly visit Sky Scented Products Company - latest newsletter (No, 19, 1974): Australia. owned by the hitemational Society Beatrice AUende will attend the May for Krishna Consciousness. "THE GREATEST" (GOOF) Day demonstration in Sydney on Sunday, The Journal reports that the May 5. THE CHINESE SOON SIZED HIM UP founder of the religious society, a It is expected tbat she may be able to gum named A.C. Bhaktivedanta Mr. Whitlam, with his usual mod stay in Australia for up to three weeks, visit Swami Prabhupada, decided that the esty, recently admitted that in his other states, and meet many people includ movement would need some income. opinion he was Australia's greatest ing political and trade union leaders. Foreign Minister. She is a member of the Qiilean Commission So 35 full time employees, including helping to organise resistance to the eight whose sole jo.b it is to dip incense military junta which overthrew the sticks and cones all day, chum out A news report stated the Chinese various scented products. After five had nicknamed him "Goofu" and democratic Allende Government in Oiile in September last year. years in business, the company is now explained that it mean "The Big grossing $6,000,000 a year and is Fellow". (Chinese Diplomacy?) the prime support of the 50 or so Source: Tribune, March 19-25,1974. Hare Krishna Temples ui North Amer Many people are wondering ica. whether the nickname might not The company is large enou^ to be a demonstration of typical And the Lord said I will destroy man whom use a computer to keep track of in Chinese perspicacity, and a diplo- . I have created from the face of the earth; matic Chinese way of sayuig NOW PENTAGON PLANS TO ventories. Whenever the computer BOMB U.S. both man, and beast, and the creeping is not busy calculatuigj it continous- "here's the 'Greatest Goof(u)'" 'ling, and the fowls of the air; for it repent- ly prints out the }\^K Krishna chant. 0>mill>—DC VOLHICIIAIIT. «lllTtllBi>t> eth me that I have made them. Nay, even Shrewd Cookies - these Chinese! the Pope in his hovercraft shall not be Source: ANS, No 18,27 March, saved, for the fountains of the deep will 1974 ' Public Opinion Polls contmue to break up and the windows of heaven will show that more and ever more open, and behold God will send forth in Australians are now starting to learn his might a giant custard pie to be upon 'Ke^ taking the Tabh (he facts (and the cost) of life the earth, and-people willstand on one under Goofii. another saying, "What manner of slapstick God is this, who*hurleth a mighty custard pie 25,000,000 cubits wide by 10,000,000 cubits'hlgh?'''^'' -• 'Then men will appear who maketh a fast buck and they will offer Salvation jWhere none'is theirs to give, saying, "Follow us and we will give thee five minutes more of thy time for as little as $ IOO down", but none is-theirs to give. .
The US Air Force is planning to NOT ANOTHER STATE OF "^ testfire eight of its Minutemen mis- , EMERGENCY! siles from theh silos hi Montana. \ Normally the missiles are launched In the House of Representatives on over the sea from the Vandenberg April 3rd, Federal Minister for Labor . Air Force Base m California, liut (Mr. Qmeron) spoke of plans by if the Pentagon receives Congres Bjelke-Petersen to declare a state of Cartoon from ICA's 'Viewpoint' sional approval, tiie test flights'Will,' emcrgency^'arid send in the police" No. 19, January, 1974. for the fust time, cany the missiles should tiie Stflle's""coTil supply Jsitiiation SEMPER FLOREAT V7A na/vs/ncgazine cf the union VOLUME 44/4 queensland university st lucia 4067 MONKEY BUSINESS PAGE 3
BROKEN PLEDGES/HIGH RNANCE NEW FARM PARK
The Brisbane City Council have declared tiiat despite pubUc resistance, they intend to proceed with the erection of a library and a private bowls club in New Farm Park. This is a blatant misuse of Public open space and forms a distressing precedent which will allow the Council to continue to fritter away Brisbane Parks at will.
A 'Save New Farm Park Committee' was formed as a spontaneous reaction to this Council decision, and already over 2000 signatures of protest have been col lected. this use and are ropeable. THE FACTS ON THE LIBRARY - That the CouncU have broken faith with Mr Rayner in not using tiie shopping centre site as promised. When the Citizens Municipal Organ The 'Save New Farm Park Committe' has ization were in City Hall and the New Farm ward was held by Alderman Craw - Sought the Attorney Generals fiat ford, the Brisbatie City Council bought to place an injunction on the Coun from Mr Sam Rayner (University Reg cil to prevent the works. istrar) a site in the main shopping cen - Collected over 2,000 signatures of tre in Brunswick Street, for the purpose objection to the misuse of the park. of erecting a library. The land was - Declared repeatedly and openly bought for approximately $9,500 in that they are rightbehin d Uie build 1959 and was sold to the Council ing of a library in New Farm, but in on the gentlcmans agreement tiiat it the Shopping Centre as promised. was to be u-.d for library purposes. THE FACTS ON THE BOWLS ,nir- When tht; Labor Party came to power (with a C.M.O. Alderman in • CLUB New Farm) the Council said Uiat while there was no Labor Alderman Togetiier wiUi the statement that m New Farm, there would be no Lib the library would proceed in the park, rary. came the news that the B.C.C. were In tiie last election Mrs Beattie negotiating wiUi the New Farm Bowls to more Pubhc open space than usual) HOW DO YOU STOP THE Dawson was elected a Labor Alderman Club (who are already estabUshed on cannot afford to lose their park. This is COUNCIL: (AND THE on the promise that a library would be 200 perches of their own land) to a conservation issue at grass roots level; built on tiie site already purchased in allow them to build in the park. the whole of New Farm Residents BOWLERS) STEALING tiie shopping centre (see accompanying The deal under negotiation is (except the bowlers and Alderwoman THE PEOPLES'PARK photograph). basically this:- Beettie Dawson) are behind the object However, within a short time of - The B.C.C. will rezone the ion, and as a local action group, must her election, the Council declared that bowUng club land for units to succeed. Why should the bowlers get a they intended to now place the libraty - Ring and/or write to your local Alderman Residential B. new site at the peoples expense? to object. 500 metres away in New Farm Park. - The Bowls Qub will then sell off Not only is this a blatant breach of tiie land for approximately $340,000 LA&D.S. - Ring and/or write to the President of tiie an election promise, but contrary to (i.e. 85 units at $4,000 per unit.) Bowls Club a report commissioned by the Lord - With the money they shall lease Mr G. H. Hartley, Mayor and prepared by an expert com 101 Virginia Avenue, approximately 3 acres of the park Hawthorne. 4171.Telephone996SIS mittee headed by Miss Guyatt (Univer from the Council and buUd a plush BUILDING WORKERS' sity Librarian). This report, received new clubhouse, greens and car HYPOCRISY? - Ring and/or write to the New rami Bowls and accepted in November, 1966 by parking and invest the surplas funds Club. Council as policy, stated under tiie m theh oiyn mterests. Brunswick Street, Jack Mundey has publicly stated his New Farm. 4005,Telephone 582 374 heading, 'Siting of Libraries' that a - In return, they will do the follow opposition to Uie building of this Libraiy libraiy, 'must be riglit slap bang' in ing things for the Council as part Ul pubUc park land; where are our (Queens - Print a leaflet and organize a drop in New tiie middle of the peoples activity. of the deal:- land Builduig Workers' Unions with their I'aro) (approximately 3000 letterboxes) which Shopping Centres are tiie best', and - build a new kiosk in the park green bans? Or are they too busy fighting incorporates all tlie facts in this article. goes on to say 'location should be on - resurface the road ui the park Liberal-Country Party State projects and a mam thoroughfare and,not on a back- - Register as a helper to be called upon (name • renovate the bandstand notmterestedhi fighting a Labor City Hall? address, telephone number) with - street or away from a road, as for ex - pay a lease fee to the Council The foUowing quotes are from a Sunday Save New Farm Park Committee ample in a park'. at least equal to their existing Sun report of March 3rd, 1974. 888 Brunswick Street & Merthyn Road The original site in Brunswick Street rates of $ 1,400 per year. New Tarm 4005, Telephone 582 755 m the Shopping centre is adequate to - allow the council to collect even "The Save New Farm Park committee - Ring and/or write to the Local Alderwoman house the library and paric the cars higher rates from the«xistuig will seek a union green ban on (he erection Mrs Beattie Dawson, required below. The local aged people bowling club site. of a library in the park. 168 Annie Street, especially object to the distances hi The issue here is of far more unportance Letters asking for co-operation have New Farm. 4005, Telephone 582 472 volved m using the library ui the park.. been sent to the Building Woriceis Indus than tiiat of allowuig tiie library to chew - Ring and/oi write to the Chairman of The Council will not say what tiiey in up the park space. This abominable trial Union, the BiiUders Laborers Feder Health, Parks and Building, tend to do witii the shopping.centre actionis:- o(,. ation and the Transport Wortcers Union. Aideiman Brusasco, site, but it is now worUi about - Private use of public lands, and in 'The unions put a green ban on the 75 Elimatta Drive, $90,000. search of a profit to boot! Bellente and the Mansions which are Ashgiove. 4060, Telephone 384 320 However Uie main reasons for ob - The abuse of public power m the Country-Liberal Government projects' or City Hail Telephone 320 201 jection are:- mterests of a mmority group. said committee chairman Mr. Gtoffrey ext. 474. - The unnecessary frittering away An inner city suburb such as New Farm Pie, a New Farm architect and planner - Print and distribute leaflets at the Rotary of public open space, especially m with its increasing densities of unit yesterday. Club Pair being held ih the park on 28th April an inner city area where population dwellers (who, if anyone, require access 'We are wonderhig where they stand - Carry a banner that day as well (make your densities are rising. This is against on this' he said. own) aU town planning practice and prin-, ALP COUNCIL Mr. Pie who lives and works m New Farm - Let the bowlen know your fecfrngs by ciples. ALDERWOMAN is the architects' representative on the turning up on Wednesday and Saturday after - The site chosen floods to 4'6" and National Trust Council. noons. it is agamst B.C.C. policy to build - Give the unions away. Letters dated 28 hi flood prone areas. Last week, Cbuncil workmen dug the February. 1974 to tlic following unions have - The use of open space for a trenches for the foundations for the Ubrary. not even been acknowledged - library is a prohibition under the Yesterday they were half full of water. Building Workers Industiial Union B.C.C. Town Plan. 'The CouncU is gouig against all its Building Labourers Federation - The space being taken up is tiie laid down principles", Mr. Pie clahned. An acknowledgement only was received from Arch Bevis at die Transport Workers Union. secondary playing ground used by 'Not to build on flood prone land is Surely the Lord Mayor is not strong enough all the local schools when the mam BEATTIE DAWSON one*, he said. to tell tlie Unions what to do in this matter. oval is in use. They now ilo not have PAGE 4
YOGANANDA In response to an article published in Semper Floreat (7/3/74) entitled Approaching Yoga signs of the zodiac, the symboUc Cosmic by the Queensland University Yoga Society, Johanna de Vries who conducts Yoga classes Man. One half-minute of revolution of at the Indoor Sports PavUion, submitted an article ui several section on Yogananda, author energy around the sensitive sphial cord of the book A utobiography of a Yogi of man effects subtle progress in his evolution. The Kriya beginner employs his In the hook Autobiography of a fulfillment is impossible. In the exercise oidy fourteen to twenty-eight Yogi, Yogananda writes his unusual realization that one already is tunes, twice daUy. The body of the Ufe-documcnt, It is certainly one of tiie everything, this brings supreme. average man is like a fifty-watt lamp, most reveaUng of the deptiis of tiie joy to the soul. The soul realizes which cannot accommodate the bUlion Hindu mind and heart, and of the that it is Joy. watts of power roused by an excessive (j^>^j^lt.^^Ut-kl. spiritual wealth of India, ever to be pub practice of Kriya. Through gradual lished in the West. The Kriya Yoga that I am giving to aild regular uiaease of the sunple and Yogananda said Jesus Christ, Babafi, the world through you in this nineteenth foolproof methods of this technique, t • man's body becomes astraUy transformed Lakiri Mahasaya, and Sri Yukteswar have century, Babaji told Lahhi Mahasaya, (sth January, i893-7th March, 1952) blessed this work, and have given assur is a revival of the same science that day by day, and is finaUy fitted to ex ance that U WiU live and grow. It is Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna; press those mfinite potentials of cos meetuig man's most urgent need amidst and that was later known to Patanjali, mic energy that constitute the first the alarms of the Atomic Age - the and to Christ and his disciples. materiaUy active expression of need to know and practise definite scien Spuit. Inhabitants in all parts of the astral The Sanskrit verb root of Kriya is worlds are stiU subject to mental ag tific techniques for attauiing direct per kri, to do. One has to do it. Any person sonal experience of God. onies. The sensitive minds of the higher who faiUifuUy foUows its technique is In Chapter XLIII of tius book beings on planets like Hiranyaloka feel Then, in the nuieteenth century, stUl graduaUy freed from the universal chain Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda keen pain if any mistake is made in a secret technique; now, in this New Age of causation. teUs us how his teacher Sri Yukteswar conduct or perception of truth. These with men and women unfolding steadUy It is a sunple, psychophysiological comes to him after his death. In his advanced beings endeavour to attune this Kriya Yop is meant for aU of us. method by which the human blood is de joy he asks: But is U YOU, Master, their every act and thought with the the same Lion of God?Are you wearing In his book Yogananda writes about carbonized and recharged with oxygen. perfection of spiritual law. Commun many saints. One of them is LaUa The atoms of this extra oxygen are con a body like the one J buried beneath the cruel Purl Sands? ication among the astral inhabitants Yogiswari (Supreme Mistress of Yoga) verted into Ufe current to rejuvenate the is held entirely by astral telepathy and She has enriched Kashmiri Uterature brain and spuial centres. The noted Yes, my child, I am the same. This television; quite absent are the confusion by a host of poems, one of them he scientist, Dr George W Crile of Cleveland is a flesh and blood body. Though I and misunderstanding of the written translated for us: USA, conducted experiments by which see it as ethereal, to your sight it is and spoken word which earth-dwellers What acid of sorrow have I he proved that bodily tissues are elect- physical From the cosmic atoms I must endure. Just as persons on the not drunk? ricaUy negative, except the brain and aeatedan entirely new body, exactly cinema screen appear to move and act like that cosmic-dream physical body Countless my rounds of birth nervous system tissues, which remain through a series of light pictures, and death. electrically poative because they take which you laid beneath the dream- sands at Puri in your dream world. J do not actuaUy breathe, so the astral Lof naught but nectar in my up revivmg oxygen at a more rapid beings walk and work as intelligently cup rate. am in truth resurrected - not on earth but on an astral planet. Its inhabitants guided and co-ordinated images of Quaffed by the art of breath. Through the Kriya technique human light, without the necessity of drawing Eadi man is a part of Uie Creator, or evolution can be quickened, Uie secret are better able than earthly humanity tomeetniy lofty standards. There power from oxygen. Man depends upon Cosmic Man; he has a heavenly body as of cosmic consciousness is intimately solids, liquids, gases, and energy for well as one of earth. The human.eye sees Unked with breath mastery - Offering you and your exalted loved ones shallsome day come to be with me. sustenance; astral beings sustain them the physical form, but Uiehiwardeye inhaling breath into the outgoing breath selves principally by cosmic light. penetrates more profoundly, even to the one neutralizes both these breaths; he Deathless guru, teUme morel So the book goes on, and aU our univend pattern of which each man is an thus releases the life force from the Friends of other lives easily recog questions are answered. Yogananda internal and uidividual part. heart and brings U under his control nize one another in the astral world, was an uicarnation of LOVE and surely A direct disciple of the great Master of The hiterpretation is : One arrests de Sri Yukteswar went on in his beautiful he loves us aU. Yoga, Paramahansa Yogananda is Kriy cay in the body growth by an addition fiutelike voice. Rejoicing at the immort ananda, he has been teaching Yoga for of life force, and arrests the mutations ality of love, often doubted at the time more than twenty years m California. He of growth in the body by eliminating of the sad, delusive partings of earthly has founded Ananda Meditation Retreat current, thus neutralizing decay and life. The intuition of astral beings and a community near Grass VaUey, growth, by quieting the heart, the pierces through the veil and observes California. Kriyananda also wrote the yogi learns life control He mentaUy human activities on earth, but man Ananda Correspondence Cource. In directs his life energy to revolve, upward cannot view the astral world unless lesson four he writes about Joy: and downward, around the six spinal his sixth sense is somewhat developed. Every worldly satisfaction is possible centres (medullary, cervical, dorsal, Thousands of earth-dwellers have mom Johanna de Vries only because of a joyousness in the lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) entarily glimsed an astral beings or an (Yoga class is held in the Indoor Sports heart. Without inner joy, exterfial which correspond to the twelve astral astral world Pavilion on Thursday 5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.)
AN APPEAL TO ALL ASPIRING organisers of (he scheme are experiencing (eg external grants, personal donations 7) Leave the information in an envelope , difficulties in successfuUy publicising the FELLINIS, GODARDS, WARHOLS to such difficulties as finding finance for marked "Smm Film Workshops" or event to prospective student or staff partic film stock, and also in gaining sufficient 8MM ONEMA IN BRISBANE - WHO IS addressed to 'Bruce Dickson' who wUl ipants. equipment for participants' use, will have be the film tutor/co-ordinator. Details INTERESTED ?IS IT VIABLE ? to be arrived at for the workshops to of future arrangements will then be sent Other difficulties exist in arriving at a succeed. to you, but watch the noticeboards in successful plan to co-ordinate the workshops. If you are hiterested in joining this the Union Forum area (near pedestrian The specific problem here Ues hi (a) ananging workshop, please leave your name and crossing). a general meeting for aU intending work- contact (telephone if possible) at Union The organisers particularly wish to shop participants at a time satisfactory to Office. In addition, state" at which time appeal to any members of local activist/ everyone; and (b) arriving at a suitable you could attent the workshop, ie., from oppressed groups to consider joinmg the weekly time on Thursdays or Fridays to hold 12 noon to 2pm OR 5pm to 7pm on workshops (eg Campus Camp, Feminists, An attempt under Union auspices is the workshops. Thursday OR Friday; and also at what Blacks, etc). currently underway to comitience Smm The general meetuig of aU interested hours on these two days you definately film workishops on campus. However the persons is necessary because' solutions could not attend. Bruce Dickson. ELECTORAL POLITICS PAGE 5
DOUBLE DISSOLUTION * I I • •
Much has changed in the arena of Federal politics since Clive Palmer (Journalism Mr Snedden and Mr Barton have lunched gering the security of Australia by a student) penned the following article. Proposing to sketch the cases both for and together and it now seems likely that the limited expenditure and cutback of new against a possible (now certain) double dissolutionment, he submitted two articles Liberals have an even chance of obtaining the naval equipment.* to Semper Floreat, the firsl of which we now present. While there are aspects of AP Preferences. The Liberal party has found the his case against such a decision by the Federal Labor Government which may be One could hardly see how the opposition philosophical basis in many areas for debateable.his blunt approach seems likely to provoke a widei appreciation of would lose an election based on the eco a successful assault on Labor poUcies. the intricacies of Federal Government for those who have not as yet given thought nomic mis-management of the economy. The Liberal party has done more than ful consideration to this matter. The average weekly wage m Australia just unify Uie party, it has also given Uie Next issue (May 2nd): the case/or a double dissolution. has sUpped behind tiie rate of inflation country a leader and a direction in which in tiie last 3 montiis of 1973. Figures to head. The team of Snedden, Anthony, released on February 26 by the acting Frazer, Lynch, Peacock and Street, Chipp MR WHITLAM SHOULD HOLD A Liberal win in Parramatta confumed the be Commonwealtii satatistician Mr J. G and Stacy present a young and progressive DOUBLE DISSOLUTION Uef, that the ALP win ui Federal election of Miller showed the average wage rose by team, and at an election would be capable THE ARGUMENT AGAINST. 1972 was not to be regarded with any perm 3.04% or by $3.40 to SI 15.20. In Uie same of meeting the Labor challenge. Snedden anency. Ten months after the ALP wm in period tile price index rose 3.6%. So prices wo"^<^ hardly face Uie unhappy electorate In 1971-1972 the Australian economy, 1972, it was faced with a 7% swuig against are rismg faster than Uie wage and the dol- ^^^^ McMahon faced in 72; at least they according to much of the Rupert Murdock it. The Hobart Mercury had this to say m lar won't go as far, and in fact many Aust- *o"'» "o' *"' unhappy with Sneddon's per- owned press, was in dire straights, so called regard to the direction ui which the poUtical raUans find themselves paying a larger per- formance. Whitlam would be another unemployment being the major problem climate of Australia was heading at that centage of their wage in taxation than under story. and the Prime Minister BiUy McMahon being stage". the L-CP government. AU Uiis wUl take its Trouble between Mr Hawke and Mr the brunt of everyones jokes. The result of 'Ordinary people are begmning to have toU in tiie downfaU of the Labor Govern- Whitiam would also not enhance Labor's an election in 1972 could only mean the end doubts about the rosy future Labor ment if a double dissolution was to be chances. Israel and tiie Philipino workers of 23 years of Liberal-Country party coaUtion has promised and the Government's held. seem to be the main cause of trouble. Mr government, and Billy McMahon as Prime abiUty to carry through its poUcy 'The National Summit Meeting of Hawke said that the ACTU executive con Mmister..And so it came to pass that the witiiout demanding too high a price., the Liberal Party chaUenges the Federal sidered the scheme to fill vacancies at the L-CP party lost the election to the ALP and people are realizing that m the end, Government to hold an election on its Leyland car assembly plant as 'very un McMahon lost the Prime Ministership to political manna does not come from performance to date' - these words were satisfactory'. The minister for Immigration Gough Whitiam. heaven, but from tax payers pockets.' spoken by Mr Bill Snedden on behalf of Mr Grassby said 'Australia would no longer Conditions in March 1974 have not (Hobart Mercury) aU those present at the national summit discriminate against migrants on a racial changed much; the economy is stUl in dire And in March 1974, the direction hasn't ^meeting of the Liberal party. ground'(Australian, March 2). This was straights, tiiis time by Uic menace of mfiation.changed, only moved with more intense speed National Summit Meetings of the seen by many as an end to the While Aus Infiation is gaUoping along under the pres and force. For Whitiam to hold a double dis- Liberal party and Federal Council tralia Policy and would be a thorn in sure of record industrial trouble, heavdy in solution now would mean a poUtical destruc- Meetmgs have redesigned much of Lib- Labor's side in any election in the near creased government spending and haphazard t[on, of the ALP government and a return of eral poUcy and the party has tried to use future. economic poUcies. The situation has now the L-LF to office. the resource of ideas to the fuUest. The The Aborigines represent one of worst been reversed - Labor poUticians are now the The 1972 election confirmed the AustraUa Country Party has been holding many areas of mis-management and mis-under brunt of everybody's jokes. It is with good standings of justice in the history of any cause too, or so the AustraUan pubUc would party as a permanent force on tiie AustraUan conferences to update policy and to re- poUtical scene. The party averaged 2.5%3f tiie fo™ >t- In tiie Country Party sti-ong government. The auditor General claim. This fact is evident by (a) recent Mr Steele Clark in a report tabled in Fed GaUup PoUs (b) the result of the Labor en national vote, and.5% of the vote in seats point of Queensland one such confer-^ • dorsed referendum of December 8 1973 and that it contested. The important fact, hbw- ence was held on 27 and 28 October, eral ParUament March 5,1974 accused the department of 'unorthodox and ir (c) the Parramatta by-election. Below are the ever is that the Labor party won because 1973. Areas such as Social Welfare, Con sumer Affairs, Education, Urban and regular practices in which many cases had rcfults of the referendum and the gaUup from of AustraUa Party preferences and was able been contravened against the Audit and which definite anti-Labor conclusions can be to form a government, Regional development. Industrial Affairs Tourism and the Economic poUcy were Treasury acts.' The AustraUan government drawn. Labor favoured control over prices The liberals have made attempts to would face a tough task to win an election and income. win the Australian Party preferences in discussed and this no doubt was a step in the rightdirectio n as these areas have under such circumstances. After the report long needed revision in the Countiy was tabled the deputy chahman of the PRICES AND INCOME REFERENDUM ^ Party. The new poUcy taken will no Public Accounts Committee, Mr Jarman NATIONAL RESULTS doubt faU mto their new image, as they said that the committee would hold a .Q put it pubUc inquiry, into the affairs of the de PRICES ^ 'A National vision for Nation partment. FOR AGAINST i!S9 ?^,-^' j~>^r ' Greatness' Mr Whitiam's failure to see Charles 3,089.139 3,962,093 f\i This new national image together with Perkins meets justice for what many feel lr% A.J' possible amalgamation with the DLP wUl was a breach of the pubUc service act and INCOME v^^my\ present Whitiam with a new and forceful the handUng of the Bob McLeod affair FOR AGAINST rejuvinated opponent, if an election was in which the Prime Minister admits 2,420,315 4,612,085 ^r IL'^J to be held at present. The Labor govern 'there may have been a mis-carriage of ment can iU afford to waste a possible justice' (Courier MaU, March 7). AU these Here we can see a definite swing . *. . 20 months of rule in tiie house of Rep pomts would have a cumulative effect if against the government endorsed pro- y resentatives. Elections called by the an election was to be held at present. Government during its term can often Mr Whitlam would be Ul-advised to hold a posals. -^^. .^md ^y^ result m disaster or near disaster as can double-dissolution now - for if he did he THE GALLUP POLL ^kOr^ ^r be seen by looking at the Liberal double would lose the Government. ALP L-CP£^^lAX AP OTHERS dissolution of the eariy sixties and the Heath election this year in Great Britain. The 'Its time' connatation stiU holds 1973 February 51% 40% 4% 4% 1% If a double dissolution was called, the water only this time for the Liberals and April? 53 38 4 4 1 Labor government would not face a weak without tiie It's Time slogan in 1972, the April 21 48 41 5 4 • 2 and unprepared opposition m 74 as they Labor government might not have been May 44 44 4 6 2 did hi 72. But an attractive alternative the Government today; as the deputy June 46 45 4 3 2 to 15 montiis of contmued Labor bungUng- opposition leader Mr PhiUp Lynch said July 49 45 2 3 1 begmning with the Murphy raid on ASIO in March of 1973: August 47 44 4 4 • 1 and cum^ating with the disasterous mis 'The It's Time slogan was the bright September 46 46 3 4 1 management of the Aboriginal Affairs est and most bouncing baby ever to October 42 49 3 5 I department. be conceive(|,and brought forth with November 44 46 4 S 1 In the area of defence it seems the L-CP the marriage of advertising and pol December 44 48 4 4 DLP poUcy represents Uie true feeling of itics.' 1974 February 44 46 4 5 1 the Australian people; this can be seen by It. is unlUcely that the Labor party could State by state results for 1974 February,'whUe only broad uidications, show the looking at the vast amounts of poUtical afford financiaUy a campaign simUar to - Federal Labor vdt&b'ehmd the L-CP score in most states. fire thrown at the gbveriiment over the that of 1972 wl^jdi left Uie party m fin • past few months in press and parUament. ancial rum. Without such a campaign they VIC SA WA TAS Most noticeable would be the Peek Report would most surely lose. Gough Whitlam NSW QLD by a former chief of naval staff, which ap- should not hold a double dissolution. ALP 43 47 39 53 38 40 ared in a 5 page spread hi the Naval Cague of AustraUa. Peek stated when re L-CP 46 SI SI 44 55 45 ferring to new equipment purchased hi Clive Palmer; this year's spending as 'seriously endan- Journalism 1 Student.
"ELECTORAL POLITICS" It seems if there had been an election m tiie next election and if they succeed ui Feb 1974, it would have resulted m a whi obtaining them even the bumper year of ALP CONTINUED ON PAGE 7. for the Liberal-Country party. In Feb 74, Vothig would not save the Whitiam govern UAe Labor party had a drop of 7% in the votemen t and all pohiters pomt to the fact that from their 1973 figures, according to the Whitiam would not receive anywhere near INTHE GaUup poU. This pomts to a tremendous Oie support that he did in 1972. The AP COMING swuig against Labor, by the people of Aus views are best expressed by their National ELECTIONS: traUa and spcUs disaster for the Whitlam Convenor, Mr Gordon Barton who said on government should it hold a double - dis February 26 this year - solution. •We are obviously mterested to use The Parramatta by-election was the first such influences with both-the Liberals test of Labor party policy in action, and the and Labor party to do those'thhigs we THE COMMUNIST PARTY Labor party was given a severe let down. The hi the AustraUa Party tiihik Unportant.' THE AUSTRALIA PARTY PAGE 6
INFORMATION POLmCS
INFORMATION IS unfairly distributed in our become a major study in Australian universities. POLLS ARE PROSTITUTES society. It is shared as unequally as money. It needs to become a cause for radical action. FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT While members of the ruUng elite have the skill Such professionals as academics, librarians and nnd the technology to get the infonnation necess The opinion poU is a 20th-century journalists should recognise the extent to which technological invention, though it uses ary to manipulate their world, the mass of people they handle information in the service of minor statistical rather than physical tech struggle along with the crudest understanding. ity interests. They should actively get information niques. It is imlike other technolo^cal processes, however, in that it cannot be As consumers, they are starved of product inform out to the people who need it. a neutral construct. By its very nature ation. As residents, they are uninformed of local Journalists have a responsibility to their readers, it is concerned with human habits and town plans. When they are in trouble, they don't listeners and viewers to make sense of ciurrent events intentions, and its formulation and use are inseparable from ongoing social know where to (urn. Many migrants have to learn through full information and reasoned analysis. They relationships. It is involved at all times their basic rights when they don't even know the have a tough battle. Company employees speak out with human behaviour, uidividual language. And Aborigines have been robbed of at the pain of instant dismissal. The public service is choice, and social awareness. It is in tended to assist poUcy and decision their ancient knowledge without gaining a new still a blank wall - to be breached only by risking gaol making at varying Governmental, poli heritage. under the Crimes Act for journalists and bureaucrats tical and economic levels. While socialists have sought redistribution of alike. The Broadcasting Control Board still officially To take a poU is itself an act of social poUcy. To inquire about a group's material wealth, they have generally neglected the possesses the power to censor news programs as not views for any reason impUes an mitial information imbalance. The Labor Government, being "tasteful" or for being too "sensational". mind-set of the poll-taker, and a promise for instance, has formulated no program for re of future action - or, not less signifi Journalists have a clear professional interest in cant inaction - some where along the moving information inequalities, only a haphazard promoting the free flow of information. Media chain of societal decision-making. collection of good ideas like a Freedom of Inform barons,whose prime concern is profits, don't. It is Today, the GaUup organisation, ation Act and shopfront information centres. And with affiliates on aU continents, system- this distinction which makes nonsense of claims by aticaUy probes sentiment in dozens we're still waiting for effective action on these. some AJA officials that reforms in the defamation of nations to get mformation that may Information is power. It enables elites to control laws "are something the bosses can worry about". be of value to US poUcy-makers. The United States Information Agency, almost as effectively as ownership of the means of Except in Victoria and South Australia (where which acknowledges that it uses sur production, distribution and exchange. truth is sufficient defence), journalists still have veys to 'advance America's position The claim that information is neutral masks its trouble persuading their bosses to publish an investi abroad', regularly employs US com mercial poUing agencies to the prob- potential to inspire and liba-ate - and to suppress gatory story which is factual and clearly to the public uig. and enslave. Ours may be a theoretical democracy, benefit. In NSW, where the big cases have been fought, Louis Harris also is international, the rights of minorities may be given lip-service, the defamation law milks wealthy proprietors to re with two companies in the United but people's choices are effectively reduced because Kingdom and plans for a Tolyo oper ward those who are wealthy .enough to take to the ation. Daniel Starch has affiUates in information is monopolised by governments and law in the first place. Journalists are as good as bound AustraUa and Canada and ambitious corporations. and gagged when it comes to the real corruption in our plans for further expansion... State and private bureaucracies employ scientists If the questioning side, through its society. role in the social structure, is hi any to research information, they retain librarians and But even beyond the perennial issues, journalists way able to exert force or power over niing clerks to store and retrieve information, they the respondmg side, a poU becomes an experience in their daily work the restrictions on instrument of potential oppression and hire public relations officers and buy advertising access to infonnation and their power to report it. coercion. space to promulgate information and they acquire How many journalists have not found themselves When, for instance, male high- computers, photostat machines and other hardware huddling in a crowd waiting for a crucial document school seniors are queried about theh to process it. These facilities are not available out mUitaiy-service intentions in a poU that will make the pages the next day, critically sponsored (without the respondent's side the ruling structure. hampered by lack of space and lack of time to pre knowledge) by the Defense Depart Instead, the information-deprived inasses are pro ment, th^ is not an example of recip pare it? How many journalists have not been referred rocal information flow. This is an act bed by market researchers, monitored by credit bur back to a company PR man where they fawn for a few of aggressive espionage against the un- eaus, polled by census-takers and spied upon by quotes? Information-seeking around our major instit knowmg young men who conscientious police television cameras. utions - - - courts, parliaments, airports,.etc - - - puts ly fUl out their questionnaires..... Those people who wish to see the uplifting of Kaarle Nordenstreng, concludes independent journalists in the position of beggars at that 'emphical research always irapUes human dignity, to encourage individual autonomy, the king's table.# a conceptuaUzed startmg point, whether will have to understand the crucial monopoly held one is conscious of it or not. TTie Michael Symons Peter Manning Lindsay Foyle over information. Information politics needs to choice of research objects and approach New Journalist, Dec. 1973 - Feb 1974 hivolves a nonemphical valuation. LUce wise, a conceptual system is necessary Ul order to interpret the results and to put them into practice,; a system into which the answers given by the meticulous gleaning from volumes of empirical research wiU fit.' fragmented information, then hours each Information theory seems to rem- day connecting people, activities, allegat force this judgment. One theorist, ions, before writing the story they knew Anthony WUden, puts it Uiis way: would be denied by officials all the way up 'There are not 'facts' in science; only to the President., "You just sat down at an Infinity of possible differences six and wrote what you knew," \Voodward amongst which to choose, and one's says."lf yoii couldn't confirm it with at choice of a particular difference can least two sources, you didn't know any- not be determmed by one's hypotheses.;, tiiing'-'i: iPhough Btmstein, at 29, has mformation is everywhere, butknowledge worked for,ifewspapers more than 13 years can occur only within the context of and 30 yeamid Woodward proved his a goal-seekuig adaptive system. If investigative^bility long before Water this is the case, then we are required gate, no one.would have imaged they to ask what the knowledge is bemg would break one of the biggest stories in used for and by whom ' our Government's history and give new In other words, polling presents credibUity to American journalism. The itself as a means of registenng opmions two hadn't even worked together before, and expressing choices; but m reaUty but the combination of their particular as it has worked, it is a choice-restrict- skills and.backgrounds worked so well uig mechanism. By reducuig and some that they're going to continue as a team. times cumulating entirely tiie meaning They're now writmg a book about Nixon. ful context that provides the true Beyond that, neither has specific proj - spectrum of possible options, tiie ordi CARL BERNSTEIN Post.. There was no hot scoop, "no ects planned but Woodward continues to nary poUs express pos^biUties and & BOB WOODWARD Ellsberg wheeling in a shopping cart full of be interested in financialscandals , whUe . preferences that are reaUy 'guided documents," Woodward says. There was Bernstein wants to cover the Knicks. choices.' Imagine what frustration and drudgery the initial flash; Burg;lars in business suits Wherever that leads, both are concerned a real-life Mission Impossible team would and surgical gloves with sophisticated about the'impoversiedh state of journal have to endure to break up ah international electronic equipment meant more than ism: "Agnew was reaUy right about the Source: Heitwrt SdiUki, PoUs aie proi- conspiracy every week and you'U have some titutes for the estabUdunent theft. The follow-up involved relentless press," Woodward says. "It's easier to Psychology Today, July, idea of what Qrl Bernstein and Bob Wood questioning of all the secret welterweight be a lazy journalist tiiananythin g else". ward went through putting tc^ether the sources who might know anythhig about .Watergate jigsaw puzzle hi The Washingtonwha t the heavies were doing; ItenUUed Source'. Pbyboy Magazine, September, 1973. ELECTORAL POLITICS PAa 7
MACHINATIONS THE AUSTRALIA PARTY AND and including Joan Wright, a prominent 1974 SENATE ELECTIONS THE DOUBLE DISILLUSIONMENT. conservationist from Qirns, and Patrick CalUoni, a second year student at Queens COMMUNIST POLICY land University. In a double dissolution aU 126 House The C.P.A. stands for an mdependent of Representatives and 60 Senate seats However, if the Australia Party's sociaUst poUcy, which challenges control come up for grabs. For the House of Reps appeal to the High Qjurt is upheld and of the Australian economy by the multi seats the AustraUa Party's preferences the (burt forces the House of Reps national and national capitalist corpor will be even more crucial than in the 1972 election to be conducted using the ations, and the values and ideas promoted elections, assuming that there wUl not be proportional representation system on by capitalism - social inequaUty, consumer a massive swing either way. The A.L.P. a State wide basis, then Australia Party ism, sanctity of private profitmaking and only needs to lose 5 seats in the House to M.H.R.'s are quite possible. The prop authoritarianism Major poUcy points are: be defeated, and in 1972 four seats were ortional representation system is the only gained by Labor only on AustraUa Party fair voting system, as it is the only one * Radical redistribution of wealth, preferences. which guarantess the parties winning tiirough establishment of a socid However, it is in the Senate that the seats in proportion to the number of votes minimum wage to meet people's AustraUa Party could have the greatest they receive. needs, to be paid to all irrespective impact, As each State has 10 Senators of age or sex. A ceiUng income no to elect in a double dissolution, the quota more than four times tiiis minimum, of votes which has to be reached in order If the Australia Party is successful in as a first step to equal distribution to elect a Senator is reduced to 9.1%, achieving this, Australians will experience a new era in Pariiamentary democracy. of social wealth. Radical taxation and this is well within the reach of the poUcy to aboUsh tax in the minimum abor tion on request, community Australia Party in at least three states For the first time ParUament will have members who question the very need for wage, introduce a net worth and rcsponsibiUty for rearing chUdren; 24 (using recent opinion polls and State capital gains tax and closing all the hourchUd care facUities. election figures in NSW and Victoria). A a growth economy, which is the corner stone of every other party's policy. We loopholes by which the wealthy Senate seat for the Australia Party in avoid tax. * FuU moral and material support for NSW is almost a certainty. would also experience the phenomenon of members of ParUament proposing a all national Uberation revolutions; In the event of a double dissolution neutral foreign policy, similar to that of * Keep prices down by curbing end the American Alliance; recognition the Australia Party wiU field candidates Switzeriand and Sweden, capital gains monopoly profiteering and openhig of the Provisional Revolutionary in most, if not all, the 18 House of Reps and net worth taxes, a zero population the books of aU companies seeking Government of South Vietnam; removal seats in Queensland, as well as a Senate growth programme, the legalisation of price rises. of aU foreign miUtary bases from Aust team of three led by Bob Wensley, who prostitution, homosexuality and abortion soU. has an exceUent chance of bemgelected. on request, the principle of allowing * Pensions to be 80% of the mmimum adults to see and read what they want, wage. * SociaUsed medicine; education which limiting tax deductions for advertising is really free both in ensurmg equal BOB WENSLEY (which only encourages consumerism) * AboUtion of arbitration; replacement opportunity for chUdren of workers, Australia Party and the banning of cigarette, alcohol, by coUective bargainmg witii open- immigrants and Blacks, and which Senate Candidate and other drug advertisements, and the ended agreements; workers' control. develops human personaUty in place of training obedient workers for Photo: Semper Floreat 1969. aboUtion of the States, which wUl be •-. J ^- replaced by smaller, more decentralised * Action to xeverse the reckless plunder capitalist enteiprises. bodies. of resources, worship of economic growth and so-caUed "development" * FuU rightsfo r unmigrant workers, for capitaUst profit. Conservation of uicluding recognition of their trade In the field of inflation the Australia energy and mineral resources from quaUfications and the right to cultural, Party, unlUce the other parties, can plunder by profit-hungry Big Business; and commtmity and educational claim to expound un biased poUcies as equal sharing of resourcesbetwee n autonomy. it is not bound to any sectional base aU countries to stop the wealthy such as the trade unions or big business. capitalist nations wastefuUy devouring * NationaUsation of basic industries The Australia Party also differs from the future resources at the expense of and financialmstitution s with workers other parties in that all its poUcies are the vast majority of humanity who and community control. determmed by ballot of all members of Uve in dire poverty. the party, an example of the Australia * SociaUst revolution to create a truly park's goal of implementing particip human society freed of capitaUst atory democracy in Australians' lives. * Support for Black land rights and autonomy for Black communitiea ownership and false values - self manage ment socialism with a human face, Source: Australia Party leanet, April 11, * Support for the demands of Women's without the bureaucratic and author 1974. Liberation Movement; real equaUty, itarian control which has marred some includmg opening of aU jobs to women; sociaUst societies. ^Tribune.
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ACCOMODMDN MONEY GENERAL BACKGROUND dations office in 1971 was 151. In the cost to students would be pro TERTURY ALLOWANCES SCHEME 1974, this figure dropped to less hibitive. tiian 100. In considering the case of coUegiate versus non-collegiate housing, there The situation can be expected to Students receiving assistance under the With an mcrease of some 1700 stud are several factors in favour of the new Tertiary AUowances Scheme are ents at the University this year, the detiorate steadily as University en latter. They are - rollments rise, as more older flats/ experiencing problems with the system problem of student housing is agam of a) lower initial costs because which may be due largely to their own prime importance. As in past years there houses are demolished to make way for modern flats aimed at middte- common rooms, wardens' quarters, negligence. is a considerable number of students who etc. could be eUminated, and lower have been obliged to take up residence mcome famUies, and as rents continue Among the most common complaints to rise out of proportion to student recunent costs because of the eli about TAS is the lateness of payments, m distant suburbs because of tiie shor mination of the need to pay wardens tage of avaUable accommodation near incomes. The prospect then is that an • particularly for new students. Yet in the and/or tutors, and of the need to form letter sent to all students approved the campus. increasing nurober of students wUl supply food. have to seek accommodation further for assistance, there is a table of Pay Of approx. 9,600 full-time students b) non-coUegiate housing allows enrolled this year, there are coUegjate afield, increasmg their transportation Dates 1974, stating that 28th March is greater independence for studnets the first payment day for new students. facUities to house about 1800, about expenditures, and lessening their and a more informal, communal 19% of tiie total. Assuming the 1972 contact with the student community. Some new students have received theh atmosphere first payments ahead of schedule. esthnate of students Uving at home Granted then that there is a need c) students themselves have indicated (55%) is reasonably accurate for 1974, for increased student housing facUities, their preference for this type of hous then 26% or approx 2500 students there remains the question of how this ing over collegiate (viz. the difficulties These fhst payments include an Incidentals had to find alternative accommodation need is to be filled. Basic to this prob which have been experienced in many AUowance to assist students m meetmg this year. In most cases this wiU have lem is the question of what types of colleges in filling all thevacancies) Union, Sports, Book and other expenses, taken the form of rented flats/houses, housmg are preferable. The alternatives Gbntmuing students should have received in that order. are - The main problem, of course, facuig Uni- first payments at (he end of January or versity-buUt housuig projects is finance. This is an increase of 900 students a) more coUegiate facUities on tiie I4tii or 28tii of February. b) University or student owned and . Loan financing, unless very favourable From March to October, payments over the corresponding estimated flg- interest rates could be obtained, would ure of 1600 in 1970. In the same operated non-coUegiate housing will contmue every four weeks, not c) privately developed flats or result in prohibitive costs to students, strictiy at the beghiningorend of period of time though, uidications and therefore the Australian Univer are that the number of available units each calendar month. The Novem sities Commission (A.U.C,) must be ber payment is a two-monthly one. flats/houses in the St Lucia, Taringa, The latter has been shown to be not considered as the primaiy source of Toowong area has decreased by 100% feasible from the developers pouit of In foUovring up mquiries concern funding. The Sth report of the A.U.C. ing late payments, it became appar since 1969. According to the Uni view by several private studies. These (1972) indicates that it is strongly in versity Accommodations Officer, have hidicated that if the developers ent tifeiat flie fiUng system employed favour of alternative (e.g. non- by the Department of Education was Miss P McGroarty, Uie number of are to reaUze what they consider to be collegiate) housing, and ui view of the flats/houses Usted at the Accommo a sufficient profit from such housing somewhat unusual to the point of success of such projects as at La Trobe, non-existence. Obntrary to its Big at the Australian National Unlvenity Brother image, the system does lose and at the Gordon Institute of Tech track of aU students for a short but bfljerctoagnoroom,*. nology, non-coUegiate housing seems critical time, when the appUcations a viable solution to the accommo are bemg processed. dation shortage.: , Immediately after beuig approved, At tills University, a number of i students have their names recorded • i , studies and recommendations have been . on the new beaut computer. One made in this field over the years. In irate student was informed by an July, 1971, a meeting of the Senate Education Department clerk tbat his Housing Committee resolved that 'this files were "in random order". Need Committee beUeves its preliminaty ui less to say she wasn't able to find vestigation hidicated that student the student's card. accommodation is necessary for 400 students.' In the same month, a Depending on tiie philosophy of the.. Union referendum showed an over observer, it could very weU be re whelming preference among students assuring not to be able to find one's for on-campus fiats as tiie format for files; elusiveness apparentiy being the any housuig project. A proposal was mark of the Department's undivided prepared by the Union, for the erection attention. •^ of a 3 storey buUding of fiats, accommo- Students chan^ng courses may / dating 100 students, on Carmody Creek receive TAS if the change is to a stage Road. Due to the Senate's decision above their current one. An example not to buUd on campus, this proposal is a Science III student going into was subsequentiy shelved. Med IV. The proposed formation of a com Courses like Arts/Law.uivolving pany, University of Queensland Housmg two degress, may be completed under Ltd., raodcUed after LaTrobe Housing TAS. However, where a student already Ltd., is a step toward the mitigation has one of the two degress of such a to the problem, but practical improve course, and wishes to continue with ment is not expected for several years. the second degree, assistance lasts only It wiU therefore be necessary to adopt the period required to do the combhied some mterim measures. course. As Arts is a three year course and. Arts/Law is a five year course, an The University Accommodations Arts graduate could oiuy claim two Officer has advised that this year, as years TAS assistance in a Law course. in past years, accommodation has been The maximum rate of Uvmg allow offered in Dutton Park, across the ance awarded to a' student Uving at river.Studentshave been very reluctant home is $850, and to a student Uving to accept these offers. If a.vaUd case away from home it is $1400. These is to be presented for increased housuig figures are adjusted according to the facUities, it is imperative that aU avaU Adjusted Family Income of tiie student's able vacancies should be filled. parents. Attempts are bemg made by the However, since applying for TAS, Union Accommodation and Housuig a student may have dianged status by Committee to improve the tenant^s movuig away from home. If the Depart position Ul the landlord/tenant relation ment SS informed, an «4iustment wiU ^ ship by appft^achuig the Real Estate be made hi the next aUowance cheque Institute of Queensland and the State to cover back payments. TOKAI FLOOD RELIEF tour of the campus on Thursday Minister for Education, Sir Alan - A weekly aUowance of $8 is paid to March 21. Fletcher. . \a married student whose spouse is Union President, Jim Varghese, Further efforts wlU be made on the receivhig neither a weekly income nor Our recent visitors from Tokai Uni was rather overawed by the students' behalf of the students of this Univer any assistance for study under TAS or versity (see Article Semper 4/4/74) hav generosity and reciprocated by pre- sity to unprove the housing situation, any other system. An additional flat ing heard of Brisbane's pUght in the sentuig the Japanese delegates with but the fuU and active support of rate of $4.50 is paid to the student recent floods and in particular of the U.Q.U. Life membership badges. every student is necessary to ensure for each dependent child. Which as Student Flood ReUef Appeal, made a He is now tryhig to work out the that the solidarity of the student body a quota on wUd oats, is most unattract donation to this appeal. The donation best possible use for the goods. It on tills issue is evident. To this end, ive. consisted of two huge cartons; one of sttadents are encouraged to contact' was suggested by some members of Several inquiries have been made these was found to contahi hundreds the union executive that they be any member of the Union Accommo of individually wrapped 'Tokai Uni dation and Housbig Committee to dis by and fox students concerned about auctioned on the campus with the apparent errors hi payment. Where tiie versity' (in Japanese, of course) hand proceeds then being donated to the cuss any problems or make any suggest towels, and the other contained a ions. This can be done by calUng BUI • Department has been at fault; approp Appeal; however, Jim feels that there riate action has been taken immediately. variety of writmg equipment - pen-. are some areas of Brisbane where a Monroe, AUen Whiting, or Gary Chan- cUs, pens and writing pads. donation of the goods themselves dler^oh 71 -265 9, or contactmg The image of the slowly grinding miUs may be of more benefit. Uiem'through the Union Office. of the pubUc service is peitaps as They presented the University Rep archaic as slow grinding, though pubUc resentatives with these after a some • •••.'. (; v,.L,). what hastUy arranged luncheon and Julianne Schulti. EilcrMogcnsen . continued on page 9. ^tntrm-mf^mm «•*»« nm «»«>vw>« »«^v,'«»««**wi*-wv.vw«iM ABSCHa ELE(rriONERING HEY ABSCHOL! WHERE HAVE ROLE OF ABSCHOL: YOUTH ELECTORAL LOBBY all the Queensland campuses. It wUl YOU BEEN? The rejunvenated Abschol sees its then be up to them to decide for role as two-fold: whom they should vote, with a know (a) to promote Aborigmal education ledge of the candidates' stand regard at aU levels uig youfli (not exclusively student) (b) to promote Abori^nal advance activities. ment m aU sphere and amended its The first real achievement of YEL ^_ contribution lo embrace these object was tiie forum held in Mayne HaU ives. on AprU 11. This was attended by Programmes m Ime witii tiie first those standmg for election to tiie object include the estabUshment of a aeiir Senate, except for Country Party tutorial assistance programme administered (National party) representatives. ered by uiterested students at U.Q. and <> (Detailed report m next Semper.) Teachers' Colleges; aUocation of Prunary It is not intended that this lobby School scholarships to chUdren of ^flL be any narrower than the issues in- Aboriginal and Islander descent whose volvmg youtii and so it wUl endeavour parents arc strugglhig to make meagre to work through tiie existing parUa- ends meet, and the introduction mto mentry system. In Une with this, Union Qld. schools of the Koor Boorgaga By now you are all probably aware President, Jim Varghese said scheme. of the Youtii Electoral Lobby, which is bemg established m Queensland. For It is likely that although we may Contacts in the black community applaud independent candidates we tiiose unaware of the development of uiform us tiiat there is a real need for will probably not recommend support tutorial assistance amongst black kids the organization, it is a lobby, or pres of them because of the limitations whfijneither interest nor famUy support sure group, based on tiie Imes of tiie of their power. in their studies. Abschol sees the very successful Women's Electoral YEL is a forward looking movement Abschol has been such a quiet role of the tutor as contributing his Lobby, which by questioning the cand aiming at political pragmatism rather .organisation on Qld. Gunpus in the skiUs to mterest the tutee and his idates of the forthcommg election, aims than sheer political fantasy, which wiU last two years that few students family group in education per se and to find our their views of 'Youth' be eventually thrust upon A.U.S. by its even know of its existence; fewer- unprove tiie student's performance, issues. success m Queensland. stUl know what it does, while at the same time gaming for This is being done by senduig ques- The campaign is being organized himself an uisight and education tionahes to aU the candidates, which in Queensland. Previous movements to WeU foUcs, ABSCHOL is tiie Qld. mto another culture or sub-culture. includes questions on issues which Branch of the now defunct Aboriginal wards student representation in the It is unportant tiiat tiie tutor get concern a wide-cross-section of coming Senate elections have been lim Scholarship Scheme established by 'sometiimg out of his uivolvement youth, and at the same time are rather NUAUSin 1953. The successor of ited to the discussion by A.U.S. Annual or he wiU be rejected as a paternal low-key, not concentrating on contro CouncU (January 1974, Canberra) of that national Abschol is now the AUS istic "do gooder" and have no success versial issues which tend to divide Race Relations G>uncU. fielding the National President of A.U.S. anyway. young people as much as politicians. NeU McLean, as a Senate candidate for Abschol in Qld. was almost defunct From the individual replies to in 1973> tiie A.G.M. caUed in April Stuart Domey is at present foimmg • • Victoria. a tutorial assistance group and any- •' 'A these questionnaues candidate&'will could not attract even a quorum of be recommended to the students of the executive. Consequently Uttie one mterested can corftact hhn at Julianne Schultz activity ensued. St. Leo's 71 -2677 or leave a message National Abschol's origmal ahn was for Abschol Tutorial Officer at the to provide university level scholarships Union Office. Referrals will come for AustraUans of Aboriginal and Islander from Field Officers in the various continued from page 8. descent. Its activities have since broad Black Community Services operatmg ened as the Federal Government in Brisbane. Abschol Education Officer has money foUowed its lead in educational assistance and so Abschol was able to conduct already received twelve appUcations for Primary scholarships. These servants bemg occasionaUy human these over 80% have been advised of research projects and national semmars StiU manage to screw something up. their entitiements. Further mformation on Abori^al problems and assistance scholarships are designed to help meet the costs of uniforms and books It would be unfair, however, to is required to bring most of the remam- programmes. It has been described as divert all blame from students. At the mg appUcations to finaUty. (The mmor tiie Aboriginal Affairs Department of and are valued at a maximum of $30 in firsl aerm and $20 m second beginning of every academic year, it ity of these were receiveddurin g March). AUS. Qld. Abschol participated in is easy to dodge the inundation of The number of appUcations received these activities tiU it ran out of term. Eleven scholarships have been paper directed at students. The approved and so this raises the quest is StUl lower than expected. It would membeis. "Tertiary AUowances Scheme 1974 In appear that a significant number of In mid 1973 the absence of Abschol ion of finance. formation for AppUcants", though All that money has to be raised students who would be eU^ble to activity was noticed by the Brisbane not a work of Uteraiy or aesthetic receive some aUowance under the means Aboriginal Community. Black Rights somewhere and Abschol needs insphation, does have most of the students to raise it. UQMS and test have either neglected to apply or campaigner, Dennis Walker and several information necessary to students have mistakenly ruled themselves m- one-time executives called another Dental Students Society, Trade seekmg TAS. Union and AUS have helped hi tiie eUgible. general meetmg to resurrect tiie The offices of TAS may be con AppUcation forms are avaUable from Qld. Branch and re-define its relevance past. Expenditure in 1973-74 was financed by a residualamoun t in tacted by ringing 250122, where to tiie University, from flie Union Office to current Aboriginal needs. date, all inquiries have been handled or from the Department of Education, Abschol accounts but that fund is reasonably efficientiy. Abschol membership - open to aU shrinking. Without your support 3rd Floor, 167 Eagle Street, Brisbane. members of the U.Q.U. - was extended Abschol could disappear with it. FoUowhig enquiries made by tiie Telephone enquiries may be made on to all those of Aboriginal or Islander 25-2705. Don't let tiiat happen! Student President and Semper descent, whether student or not. Floreat to the Department of An office wUl be avaUable at the Gbntinuous contact between both Abschol Meetings - J.D. Story Room, Education, the foUowing press state Union Office for interviews each Monday groups is both necessary and desirable 6.00 pm - First Monday of each month. ment was issued: duruig Fust Term from 9.30 am to 4.00pm. for the best functioning of Abschol. Mike Power "To date 9500 appUcations have Interviews m tiie city office may be The executive duty elected represented Deputy Director, been received from students enrolled m arranged at any time during business hours, both groups. ABSCHOL. courses in Queensland approved under on request." ^ the Tertiary AUowances Scheme. Of Peter Ford Ecologically speaking, it would appear only reasonable that those students who do own cars should use them economically, by utUishig the passenger space to tiie fullest. Humanly speaking, it would serve a general atmosphere of gobd-wUi if more students AND staff would pick up students hltch-hikhig to or from the I Unlvenity. But please remember: DON'T PARK IN HITCH-HIKING AREAS ! PAGE 10 ARCHITECTURE GRAND SHRINE OF ISE The Grand Shrine of Ise, which is witii Koran (high balustrade) surrounding dedicated to Amaterasu-Omikami or the the main struchires of the Grand Shrine Sun Goddess of the Shinto faitii whose* of Ise obviously shows die influence of descendants, as tiie legend has it, were Chinese architecture. (Kwan—a balus sent to earth to found tiie country, has trade fcnr preventing a fall from die vo-- recentiy been entirely rebuilt and refur andah as well as for omamentaticm.) nished and a Q-aditional religious rite held to mark tiie official dedication of the new CHINESE CULTURE shrine. This custom of rebuilding the ASSIMILATED shrine has been more or less followed It is interesting to note, however, tiiat every twenty years or so over the past, the architechue of tiie Grand Shrine of 1,300 years and the latest observance of Ise, tiiough somewhat influenced by Chm the traditional ritual was held on the sec ese architecture, did not adopt tiiat style ond of last October, at which the deities in its basic pomts, and herein lleis tbe real enshrined at the Grand Shrine were value of die shrine's architechue. For removed to the newly-built structures. instance, die tiled roof was valued highly in Chinese architecture and adopted for REGULAR REBUILDING- all temples and palaces of those days. But JAPANESE TRADITION no tiled roofs are used in die architecture of die Grand Shrine of Ise. Moreover, The structures at the Grand Shrine of as { THE LEFTOVERS With 4 issues now published, the time has come to make some sort of comment as to the di rection and content of 'Semper Floreat' during 1974. Students may be aware of the fact that an Editor holds office for a period of one year only. So it is that the style of the publication changes from year to year. This year's news/magazine is influenced by three over-riding concerns on my part: (a) a desire lo support tiiose aspects of human activity which enliven a cultural appreciation of our times; (b) a desire to assist in the promotion J' an intellectual climate in this University; and (c) that 'Semper Floreat' be an inform ative and thought lovoking, while entertaining, student news/magazine. With no more space, good reading! THE EDITOR PHOTO: Here for your exquisite enjoyment, are two of the vaguely un likely, yet totally dis-similar Bomber Perrier(s) from Grin and Tonic. See story/taie/fable/nursery rhyme/novel/encyclopedia/article below. RETIRED STUDENT RADICALS PLEDGE RETURN TO 1968 STYLE DON'T LAUGH! REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE ON QUEENSLAND CAMPUS Bluey - a woman in her fifties of the sarcasm of fUes, reminds the curious INADEQUATE LIBRARY HOURS AND INTRODUCTION OF SEMESTER bizarre looks and waspish tongue leers of its function and the nostalgic of SYSTEM SPARKS OFF NEW ERA OF STUDENT REVOLT in the open door of the Union's duck-egg Audey Murphy (whol) The main street blue hall and Ubrary (Thursday nights could be a ZeferelU set for High Noon or now....TV you know) Gunfi^t at 0 K corrall. Yet Romeo and REPORT BY FOREIGN CORRESPOND Don't laugh, she shouts while laughing JuUet issuing forth from the Union HaU ENT, TOR POLLI, FOR SEMPER 18/4. herself, what's he doing? Praying? seems in harmony with the now sleeping — I can shout louder than aU of you town. St. Lucia • A spokesman for RAOTLA or otherwise "drop out". my son,he's the prettiest boy in the Mrs Beevers (Bert's wife) took only (Returned Arseholes Of The Left Assoc Informed fifth-floor sources said that if district — but he s a man — he plays two days to find out all there is to iation) yesterday predicted the likelihood the short library hours are found to be football know about the inhabitants of the of widespread student rioting and violence contributing to any undermining of this A girl called Fatso pushes a cMld HaU directly opposite. A game of at the University of Queensland. established strategy, then a proportion of half her size from a womout tricycle— snooker by two actors gave the opport the money already allocated for a new a flood of loud abuse follows - die unity. Oh yes, actors, eh. She is past She said that "student protest in the one milUon dollar country home for the trickle of faces bound for the local pub sixty, obese, chatty and inquisitive. form of direct action was the only logical goes on - quizzical glances in the No doubt she had her suspicions and response to the University decision to Vice-Chancellor will by necessity be redhect ed to the Library budget. door at the 'long hairs' working in doubts when the long hairs first pUed close the Central and Undergraduate their haU. uito the hall with guitars and a banjo. Libraries for three of the four days of the This addition^ fmance would cover Huge Mrs B looks for a chat, now Easter vacation. the mcreased wage bill, including over-time Reheanal becomes inaudible - a cane train pounds down the main happy with 'exceUent activities' m her The substance of RAOTLA's threats has rates, which the University was previously town. Her frame in sUhouette is lost unwilluig to pay. It appears likely that street to the miU - Season started eh?- aheady been disclosed by University nup, not yet - so says a Jacky Howe in a sunset that has produced aU the Security (U.S.) to a central figure in the the solid gold toilet chains and fridge door deepest richest colours unaginable - handles planned for the exclusive home suigleted worker passuig the time with crisis, the University Librarian (Mr. D. Bert Beevers outside Bert's Billiard I know you'U have a good time on Fielding). will be sacrificed for this purpose - upon tour, she says, but why not go to agreement of the Vice-Chancellor's wife. Room and Barber Shop. A recent photo Mr.Fielding is one of those being held graph shows Bert with Horace Lindrum — Herberton too. She is a khid and wonder responsible for the decision to deprive Opinion was that they will be most Horace played here forty years ago. ful spirit. students of the use of library facilities over likely be replaced with silver fittings. The scene of the reheaisals is South the long weekend. The results of a survey The only comments forwarded by the An enigmatic man of middle Euro pean extraction wanders in and out of Johnstone. The mam street is Hynes of student opinion (copyright 1974) on the junta in response to RAOTLA statements Street named after Jack Hynes, who was issue pointed out the difficulties students were that "their complaints should be the haU - the actors aware of hhn but not distracted from their work - he shot dead inthe '27 MUl Strike. The Grui had experienced in bemg able to success conveyed up the right channels wherein and Tonic Theatrical Troupe and Circus is a fully study in their home environments. what they wished to say would be heard" sits silently, never uttering a word - we don't know why he comes to watch or co-operative that lives, works and The survey fmdings also pointed to The suggestion was also made that develops together - a situation in which students' inability to gain access to vital RAOTLA's representations would be more where he goes when watching is done. A very large lady surrounded by the art form and the Ufe style are inter research publications. These startling favourably received if all their members woven - where tlie co-operation vital m survey results w^re the subject of much (with the exception of one Junior Staff acres of cotton flower print brings her two chUdren ui to shelter from the rain ensemble playing is a part of Ufe. discussion within the Government and member) were to "get a haircut". The group's contribution to the Sociology Departments, when they were and to wait for the bus to come back. A reliable informant from RAOTLA It has gone the bumpy way to Mena Queensland Festival includes Romeo released. (a senior member of the AUS Fellow and Juliet which they are touring A final year honours student and prom Creek but will return to contmue on Travel Scheme), stated that if a more to town - to break the journey is a through coastal Queensland for High inent member of RAOTLA, Mr Mike satisfactory response from the Cowen/ Schools and which wiU be performed Retorik, charged University officials with saving - she likes the rehearsal but is Rayner/Green (and Fielding) clique was unsure why. on the boxmg ring at the Festival HaU "coldly ignoring" the fact that an indis not immediately received, then those on the 29 and 30 AprU. The arena of putable requirement of the new semester Don't laugh - Bluey drops m on tragic acting by wrestlers on off nights hardline political actions approved at her walk home from Uie local two system as well as the use of progressive RAOTLA raUy held yesterday in the is tiie Verona in which the Capulet/ assessment, is the supply of full library doors up. It is night -tunc. The re Montague fights lead to the tragic Forum area would be set in motion. hearsal pauses for a painful rendition facilities and full library hours throughout These radical tactics which received deaths of so many. the term and not just at the end, as in the of there's a hole m the buggit,dear L' overwhelming support at the meeting enry. Bluey shouts another commen- But why South Johnstone and past. were: taiy at the actors and is gone. not Brisbane the cultural fount of In response, a Unlvenity spokesman for (a) The purchase and use of a clenched Queensland? Why North Queensland the Cowen/Rayner/Green ruling junta said fistful of double-hungers to blow up There used to be a dozen or more anyway?What do the mUl workers that there was a possibility of an enquiry sliops catering to the mUl workers. Now say about the actors in their haU?Why Professor Cowen's letterbox (in slow there are three and the inevitable TAB. into the issue being launched. motion).-Speakers were eager to point does Bluey harangue the bar at the Tlie other sliop buUdings are houses. Criterion? This and many more exciting He expressed concern that the closing , out that this time, the Grace College of the Ubrary may have "placed in jeopardy" Domestic smeUs spiU out onto the foot quesUons wiU soon be answered (see letterbox would not be bombed by paths. The louvres of one flash blue with last year's brilliantly successful junta box) but for the moment - why not! mistake. the roarmg TV. The picture theatre has Don't laugh. GAJA.TJ.A.C decision to suppress attempts at student Cb) To the accompaniment of "We closed down - only a poster spotted with activism by means of the semesterization of Shall Overcome" (No. 439 in the all University courses. This decision closely Authorised Radical Songbook), and followed on an earlier one to refuse to interspersed with the mass chant collect fees agreed to by 6,000 student 'The Whole World's Watching !", a signatories, which were to have been used rebel cavalcade of Valiant Chargers THE GRIN AND TONICTHEATRlCALAbout Waltzing MatUda: It is an by a Nader-style Public Interest Research wiU drive in reverse gear around Group (PIRG) to finance an active campaign TROUPE AND CIRCUS 'istorical look at 'Ortralia from the Circular Drive against the flow of convict days through the pastoral and for social justice Ul Queensland. traffic. About the Group: The North The semesterization strategy (evolved by bushranging era and federation to (c):in the event of the failure of these Queensland Theatre Co-operative is the present day of the famous demo the University's counter-insurgency advisors) the name of the group and they work was based on increasing subject and course first two unprecedented actions, the cratic parUamentary custard pie. There junta wiU be warned that - if the under the names of the Grin and Tonic is song, the odd (very odd) dance rou workloads to such intolerable levels that - Theatrical Troupe and Circus and the (a) All learning would become largely demands are not met - even more tine, mune, verse, prose and slick slap- serious steps will follow them. Collegf -Xe Players• ,-.,. . The. -y hav_r e a repertoir- . 1e Stick. There is also Uiree brief extracts superficial with no time provided for of inatenal Uiat they perform on trucks, ^^^^^ j^ree plays including The Legend any in-depth study.(This tactic was In Washington, the RAOTLA threat in theatres, streets and factories. They of King O'MaUey and Ned KeUy. We regarded as essential to the counter of action resulted in dismay and concnrn have been involved in workshops and revolutionary strategy.) have performed the show at such fam and a call for fast action from the White actor-trauiing activities and are cur ous places as the Chook pavUlion in (b) The time available for "extra House. It now seems likely that Dr Henry curricular" (ie., activist) pastimes rently in the middle of a tour that Atherton. Parts of this show have also Kissinger's peace machine will swing into extends from Cairns to Sydney, and been played in Darwin and the Northern would be cut to such an extent that High gear to avert the crisis. any which did occur could be easily the NorUiem Territory. They are in Territory and wiU be taken to Sydney controlled or contained. Brisbane to participate ui the Queens witii other productions includuig land Festival of the Arts. Romeo and Juliet. and(c) Disenchanted students would break down from the mental stress of meeting assessment requirements T.P. (St.Lucia) for Semper Floreat. 14 f f4oe^^^^ vtjc^'? ^ST^r^ to your— CREDIT UNION '*"''^l LimiTED QUflHTITy OnLU! »< LOWEST PRICED lOOCC IN QLD MODEL LSe SLOWEST FUELCONSUMPT ION POSSIBLE only from ^ XAUTOLUBE OIL INJECTION your neonest uamahQ dealer X YAMAHA RELIABILITY Annand & Thompson Ply. Ltd., 178 -180 Logan Road., Buranda. Ph. 912845. Annand & Thompson Pty. Ltd., 28 Ross St., Newstead. Ph. S20161. 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And equally condition is at least as old as Noah, so is that seasonal form of living the powers of science have not yet death - the five star hangover. It come up with a reliable remedy. But takes its parched and throbbing pen the Middlesex Hospital Medical 4600. Be that scientifically as it staple drink of the Russians, and ance from the lordly and the lowly, School has lately been following up may, however, was the general reac from recent announcements by the the poet and the peasant, and its the theory that the cause of post- tion of hangover-connoisseurs in Soviet authorities, provides them vengeance knows no boundaries of party purgatory is the congener con our local, on whatever tipple they with one of the gravest alcoholic cither history or geography. The an stituents in alcoholic beverages. passed under the table on any night problems in Europe. cient Romans defined such post- After conducting experiments with before, the retribution on the morning Lacking definitive advice from alcoholic distress as crapula, and the booze on a score of thirsty volun after merely varied in agony between classical Greeks had much the same science, saloon-bar physicians have teers, the researchers finally estab diabolical and suicidal. as many recommendations for the word for it. Later nations each have lished an order of malevolence on their painful nominations; an Italian It is the ethanol, of course, that prevention or cure of hangovers as the line that the higher the con- there are religious prescriptions for today suffering under yesterday's generaic content of a drink, the makes you drunk and vodka is high excesses bewaUs himself as stonato in that tipsy constituent, containing the attainment of salvation. Milk, nearer to hell is its hangover. Brandy mashed potato, olive oil, salt, fruc or 'out of tune'; a Norwegian sim they branded as the most vicious at 80 degrees proof, 46% of ethanol ilarly afflicted will have jeb har as compared with 40% for brandy. tose, black coffee, anti-histamine assailant, followed by red wine, tablets, gallons of water, raw eggs, tomiiiermenn or 'workmen in the rum and whisky, each of which is Although it may possibly not give head'; Frenchmen persecuted by you so ferocious a hangover after Worcester sauce, vitamins B and C, and judged to put a heavy boot in. a hair of the dog that bit you have all last night's absinthe complain of Whereas gin, white wine, and vodka consumption, by making you drunker gueuie de bois. which is 'woody quicker it may do you eariier and been highly commended as sovereign all of which are low in content preventatives or palliatives of the fear mouth' and seems not unconnected of such congenerics as fusel oil and more lasting injury by tangling your with such graphic British descrip feet, weakening your knees and ful crapula. Whereas, in fact, as ali esters, were regarded as being com experienced victims know, there is only tions of bibulous distress providing paratively gentle on the eyeballs the thus causing you to fall over the one with a mouth like the bottom furniture. Furthermore, it may only one sure cure for a hangover - stoic, morning after. Which practical find patient suffering. of a birdcage, a gorilla's armpit or ings fit the statistical background be the dread retribution of the the basement of a baby's pram. since the proportion of congenerics morning after that finally deters . As the hammers beat in the to ethanol in brandy is 1 part in some present heavy imbibers from Patrick Ryan cerebellum their rhythm emphasises 164, while in vodka it is only 1 in becoming permanent alcoholics. Source: New Scientist, Vol 60 Vodka, it must be marked, is the 6 December, 1973. art at large Plato, in his Laws, called music the medicine of the soul. The body had to be the grizzly bear. These gutteral incantations reached through the soul which rules it, and while the body was to be trained he offered to the Good and the Bad Spir through gymnastics the soul was to be trained through music. its on behalf of tlie patient, who mean while rolled and groaned on the ground. The medicine-man jumped over his patient, MUSIC IN MEDICINE purportedly having been bitten by the rolled him about and pawed him like a tarantula spider. They ran out of bear. After half an hour the patient died Today music is used in the treatment doors, through the streets, to the and the medicine-man danced off to his of aphasia, helping to coordinate the market place dancing in great excite quaiters and carefully packed his costume limbs, as a psychological stimulant, and ment. There they would be joined and equipment. to improve motivation. Recorder-playing by others often dressed in brilliant is commonly taught to children who colours, dancing wildly, and some have asthma, whUe those with chest times behaving as if they were drunk. MUSIC AS PREVENTIVE MEDICINE complaints are sometimes encouraged Music and dancing were believed to to tackle the flute. Music therapy, it is be the only effective remedies and Physicians of the Renaissance thought claimed, is successful with patients death could result if music were not of music in terms of preventive medicine suffering from cerebral palsy, with . available. The tempo of the music, which also facilitates bodily functions. autistic children, and with very slow which became known as the taran It could, they believed, build up learners. Most signiflcantiy, however, tella, was very fast. Sometimes resistance to disease. A happy state of music is useful in reaching people who people danced for days on end, until mind was advocated as a guard against are beyond communication through they became exhausted and cured- the plague. The Fasciculus Medicinae other means. Broadly speaking, in con that is, until the following and every psychotherapeutic. To cure the 'great (1493) - a collection of cunent writings - temporary medicine, it has three main summer when the tune of the taran emphasised listening to music as a mode applications: as the means of participa tella revived their frenzy. chill' (intermittent fever), for instance, the Cherokee Indians institute a ritual of enjoyment which promoted health. tion and socialising among patients; to Tarantism affected children as Another recommended activity was the improve the functioning of the body - during which the patient is the centre of well as the elderly but most of the attention. The procedure starts with a < reading of short stories. like breathing or walking; and to calm victims were women. The bite of the Of course, the music had to be selected fears and confusion. song of four verses, in which the spirits of tarantula did not produce the same the air, the mountain, the forest and the Each temperament had a suitable style Early examples of the use of music effect elsewhere in Italy, and sub water are invoked successively. In difficult of music. The melancholic temperament, in medical history tend to be more sequently tarantism was thought to cases, the medicine-man sings a prayer to it was considered, prefened melancholy specificit is said that the famous be a manifestation of hysteria. In the whiriwind to scatter the disease until music; dance music attracted the sanguine Alexandrian physician, Herophilus, terestingly enough, it was discovered it disappears. The songs are rhythmic and because it activated the blood, while the regulated the arterial pulsation accord that when Apulia was a part of are intoned in a very monotonous fashion, choleric was drawn towards agitated ing to the musical scale correspond Magna Graecia, the chief city in the and without expression. harmonies, and the phlegmatic tended ing to the age of the patient. Demo- vicinity was called Taranto. There, The American Indians attribute many to enjoy the feminine voice. critus claimed that snake bites could orgiastic rites were performed and diseases to birds and animals and use Today restaurant owners excuse their be cured by music played on a'flute people danced madly to the sound of special songs in their treatment. They piped music by saying that it aids in if it were performed 'skilfully and music dressed in bright clothes associate the deer with rheumatism and digestion, and airport officials claim it melodiously'. Likewise, sufferers from with garlands of vine leaves, uttering fish with the loss of appetite. A sick man keeps people happy. But what happens gout of the hip could find relief if obscenities, drinking wine and tearing will look for the doctor who has the songs to your health if you are of melancholic an ancient flute were played over their clothes. The explanation for the that will cure his particular ailment. George temperament and are assailed by dance the ailing area in the soothing strains Apulian phenomenon is that under Catlin, who lived among the Northc- music sung by a feminine voice? of the Lydian mode. Flute music Christianity the only way to legitimise American Indians between 1832 and also had the power to treat epilepsy the old rites was to associate them 1839 and recorded their rituals in writing Jasia Reichardt and Asclepiades is reported to have with disease. and paintings, said that medicine as a Source: New Scientist, Vol.60 healed patients suffering from ex term means nothing other than 'mystery'. treme deafness by blowing a trumpet. The music of the tarantella ia 6 December, 1973. played in 6-8 time at continually He described a scene which he witnessed increasing speeds, from me^jor to minor. when a medicine-man attempted to cure TARANTISM Among the composers who have used a sick man with music and dance. Several the tarantella are Weber, Chopin, Liszt hundred spectators formed a ckcle around Between the Middle Ages and the and Raffini, but the most famous ex the dying man. The medicine-man approach ed in a crouching position with his body 19th century, the town of Apulia in ample is the finale of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony. entirely covered with the skin of a yellow the South-East Italy witnessed annual bear. Bear claws dangled from his wrists outbreaks of a disease called tarantism. and ankles and he shook a "frightful" In the height of the extreme summer BEAR SONG rattle and brandished a medicine-spear. heat, people asleep or awake would Apart from yelping and intoning he made suddenly jump up, experiencing an Among American Indians the conn the appalling grunts, snarls and growls of acute pain like the sting of a bee - ections between songs and cure is usually PAGE 16 LIVING WrtH WINE len sorbello MOSELLES & SAUTERNES Sweet Wine is not the perogative of exercise as we should be endeavouring Medal virinner) vintages of this wine are bear the same relation to a French Sauterne women; the sweet table wines of France to develop a distinctive Australian style all currently available. Again, this is a that an apple bears to a grape. and Germany have to be tasted to be of sweet white wine. very delicate wine whose acidity and The fault lies not with the winemaker believed. Serious students of wine Undoubtedly,our best sweet wine is sweetness are beautifully balanced. With but mt\i Nature. Unfortunately, Austral should probably pay more attention to made from late-picked Rhine Riesling some further bottle age, these wines will ian vines have not been afflicted with sweet white wines than they now do. grapes grown in the high altitude regions develop a delicious mellow flavour. that benevolent bug known as "Noble Australia does produce some quality of Australia (e.g. Eden Valley, South Contrary to popular practice, I prefer Rot". In France and Germany "Noble sweet table wines but, generally speaking, Australia). to drink these wines on their own Rot" is a sinister looking fungus that the general standard of these wines • Over the past few months I have been (i.e. without food). appears on the skin of over-ripe grapes, leave a lot to be desired. systematically tasting my way through our cracks them open and lives on the juice. Australian "Moselle style" wines and 3. LEO BURING BIN 21 MOSELLE The final result being that "Noble Rot" MOSELLES listed below are what I consider to be the (1972 VINTAGE);LEO BURING DWAIO produces wine which is intensely sweet best wines of this style currently available SPATLESE RHINE RIESLING (1971 and extremely aromatic. Every Australian wine-maker makes in Brisbane: VINTAGE) - (John Cawsey & Co - The top French Sauterne CHATEAU a moselle but no two are alike in style $1.24 for Bin 21 and $2.44 for DAW 10) D'YQUEM is very expensive ($20.00 or degree of sweetness - some are very 1. YALUMBA GOLDEN RIDGE RHINE a bottle and upwards) but Seppelt's sweet, almost sugary,while others have The Bin 21 Moselle was made from RIESLING - (all XXXX pubs and most White Tokay and Semillon grapes grown import a 2nd growth Sauterne called a mere suggestion of sweetness and are wine merchants - $1,45 per bottle). CHATEAU BROUSTET (1969 Vintage) more delicate in style. at Watervale and the Barossa Valley, This wine represents outstanding value which retails for only $3.65 - at this Nevertheless, the technique employed South Australia. The colour is medium for money and it is a wine that we can be green-gold and the wine is fresh and price, this wine is a give-away. CHATEAU by each winemaker is the same: Austral very proud of. The 1973 Vintage (a Gold BROUSTET is a full bodied wine, rich ian Moselles are made from grapes which smooth with an attractive fruity flavour. MedaJ Winner) has just been released I have shown this wine at many wine and sweet, with a glorious finish. have been allowed to ripen so as to and it is, in my opinion, the best vintage Not to be outdone, the Germans develop the sugar content of the grapes. tastings that I have conducted and to date. invariably it has proved to be the most produce a similar but perhaps a finer The name "moselle" should properly This '73 Yalumba has a pale gold and even richer wine Uian Sauterne with be reserved for the wine produced from popular wine of each occasion. colour with a sweet flowery bouquet. It However, the quality of the Bin 21 their BEER EN AUSLESE (wine made "riesling" grapes by the vineyards of the exhibits an intense delicate flavour on from specially selected late-picked grapes Mosel River in Germany. These vineyards Moselle is surpassed by the DWAIQ the middle palate and has a lingering Spatlese whicli is an incredible wine. which have begun to acquire "noble rot") produce a white wine which is unlike any sweet finish. Considerable {mottle ageing other in the worid. Mosel winemalcers It has won 2 Gold, 6 Silver and 1 Bronze and TROCKEN BEER EN AUSLESE of this late-picked Eden Valley Rhine Medal at Australian Wine Shows. All (wine made from selected shrivelled grapes are able to make a wine which has just Riesling is recommended. a scent of sweetness from grapes which the grapes that went to make up this in an advanced state of "noble rot"). Again, these wines are extremely do not have a residual sugar content. 2. ORLANDO RHINE RIESLING wine came from the Barossa Valley. AustraUan winemakers have tried in The wine has a characteristic green- precious and expensive as all the grapes MOSELLE (PRIVATE BIN 270) -(most are individually selected and hand-picked. vain to copy this style of wine but they wine merchants and Cariton Bottleshop - gold colour and exhibits a strong Rhine have found this impossible without $2.25). bouquet. It is a delicate wine with a However, the top sweet wine of Gennany resorting to the use of ripened grapes. rich fruit flavour and a crisp clean is the EISWEIN which literally means Made (rom grapes grown in the Eden "ice wine" i.e. wine made from grapes What's more, it is a futile and misguided Valley, the 1970,1971 and 1972 (a Gold finish. It is certainly one of Australia's top wines. in which the juice has been frozen .by the night frost on the vine/ SAUTERNES . Last December, I had the opportunity of tasting a DIEN HARD BERNKASTELER Sauterhe is a veiy sweet wine; the BADSTUBE AUSLESE EISWEIN and grapes are aUowed to dry out to the I still haven't recovered from the exper fullest extent possible before being picked. ience. In Australia, this wine is usually made from (Frangos stock Chateau d'Yquem Semillon grapes but my advice in relation and Turners have a limited quantity of to Australian Sautemes is - Never Drink Eiswein • if you are fortunate enough to ThemI With rare exceptions, Australian be able to afford theni.) w « u « You can do something about an Sautemes are sunply terrible and they Len Sorbello UNHAPPY FAMILY ipennlBt LIFE coaching! Are you troubled by tension PROVEN BY RESULTS end conflict... by feelings of rejection, indifference and lack of affection? Mutual love and 1st YEAR concern, understanding and tolerance H{ PHYSICS (Ph 111,112) help to diminish the generation gap. 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Ph.D., F.A.C F PAGE 17 QUEENSIAND FESTIVAL OF THE THE CURVE OF UE QUEENSLAND FESTIVAL OF our Ul major companies in AustraUa and elsewhere. The City of Biisbane is THE ARTS the venue for 1974. DATE TIME ATTRACTION VENUE The programme includes attractions April 29 8pm "Romeo & Juliet" FasnVal Hall 1974 is the 150th anniversary of the especiaUy prepared for the Festival andSQ (The College Playerj) founding of the Moreton Bay Colony, by local, interstate and overseas com April 29 8.15pm National Ballet Company of Sinegal Her Majesty's Theatre later to become the State of Queensland panies, and there will be presentations to May 4 (Harry M. Miller) and it is fitting that this historic oc ananged by the Festival Society it Way 1 to 6 10am; 2.30pm 'Australia - Picture frontier' City Hall casion be commemorated by the intro self. antJ 7.30pm (Kodak Australasia Pty. Ltd.) The Festival symbol, designed by duction of an event of cultural signifi May 1 to 31 Oam-Spm Special Exhibition Untversity Library cance. That this should be a Festival leading Queensland artist John Rigby, (Mon. to Fri.) of the Arts is the result of a tremendous incorporates a spiral curve which has upsurge of spontaneous community the special character of being able to May Ho 31 10am-12 noon ProiontStite of Aboriginal Material Culture Anthropolooy Mutsum interest marked by the appearance of increase in siie without chan^g its 2pm-4pm in Aurtrilia University of Qld. mini Arts Festivals throu^out the shape. Used by artists from earliest (Mon,, Wed.. Fri.) State. times and called The Curve of Life May 1 to 31 11 am-4pfn Paintings 1973/74 Royal Queensland Art Society Gallery The Queensland Festival of the this fundamental form rspresents Arts Society has grown from an ori both the birth of the Festival and its May 1 to 31 Day & Night "SuperBraphtci" City Buildings ginal interim committee formed in 1972 capacity for future growth. (Queensland Institute of Technology) to provide a focal point for this acti We are indebted to the Federal May 1 to 31 8.l5om "And Not Even A Mouse" Brisbane Arts Theatre vity and its members represent every Govemment, through the Australian (Wnd.^aU by Barbara Stellmach branch of the visual and performing Council for tiie Arts, the State Govem May 1.2,3 7.30pm "Christ in the Concrete City" Lutwyche Church arts, literature, science and technology. ment and the Brisbane City Council \ IKedron Park Drama Group) Portciuncula It is supported by leaders of the com for their very real support - and to those oi^ganisations and individuals, May 2 to 25 8.15pm "Codspell" (Queenjland Theatre Company)S.G.1.0. Theatre munity, Govemment, tiie media, in- May 3 and 4 9om-5pm 4ustry and commerce, as well as major only some pf whom can be acknow Writers/Mutic/Theatra Workshop Abe! Smith Lecture Th. State and National cultural organisations. ledged in this brochure. May 3 to 26 lOam-Spm Paintings from the Oernell Collection Queensland Art Gallery The variety and quality of locally YOU are the only remainuig re (Mon. to Sat.) based activities, both traditional and quisite - our audience. This is your 2oni-5pm (Sun.) experimental, demand wider recog Festival. Your support is all that is May 2,3,4, 8pm "Captain Midnight, V.C." La Boite Theatra nition and the Society's first respons needed to ensure the establishment of 9,10,11.16, (Brisbane Repsriory Theatre) ibility has been to focus attention on a rewarding, and continuing cultural 17 18 these activities. occasion. I commend it to you. May 3 8pm 'Sound Meditations' Coronation House, This emphasis on local talent gives (Project S - Performance flosearch Centre) 117 Edward Street the Festival its own unique image and, May 4 to 26 1Cljm-9.30pm History in Art State library once established, will attract back to Lesley Gotto, Director. (Mon, to Sat.) Queensland those artists the State has Queensland Festival of the Arts 1.30pm-B.30pm(Sun. nurtured and who have a place of hon- Society. BRISBANE MAY 197^ GLASSBLOWING* BILLBOYSEN PREMIERE OF MORNINGTON ISLAND FILM Professor Bill Boysen (BA Art Edu A recently completed film on the cation, University of Washington 1964) ceremonial life of the people of Morning- (M.F.A. Glassblowing and ceramics. ton Island will be shown on Thursday, University of Wisconsin, 1966) is com 2nd May, at 8.00 pm., at the SchonneU ing to Australia at the invitation of the Theatre. The film was made with the full Crafts Board of the Australian Council co-operation and support of the people for the Arts and will be visiting Brisbane involved and provides an opportunity for for the Queensland Festival. other Australians to understand one Crown Coming have built and equip aspect of traditional Aboriginal life. ped a mobile glass studio, based on a design by Bill Boysen, similar to a imit SCHONNELL THEATRE, he used in touring U.S.A. 8.00 PM - THURSDAY, 2ND MAY He will be giving demonstrations at the Craft Venue at the VaUey Centre, Brunswick Street, from Monday 13 to Friday 17 May, between the hours of 11 to 12.30 daily and 2 - 3 p.m. EXCITING FIRELIT PERFORM ANCE - TRADITIONAL ABORIG- THE ABORIGINAL THEATRE FOUNDATION IN THE NORTH INAL DANCING. COMMENTARY The broad sweep of communities its own style. In this way each group On Friday, 3rd May, at 7.30 pm., This year, the Queensland Festival of extending from Broome in the west maintains its own identity. Brisbane people will have a unique the Arts will provide a broad spectrum of to Yarrabah in the east there is a pop opportunity to experience the extreme activities to cater for all interests. Apart ulation of over 15,000 Aborigines mak When the Aboriginal Theatre Foun richness and.variety of Aboriginal song from local drama productions and theatre ing up the m?jor part of tribalized dation was established in 1970, its main and dance. Thirty-seven dancers from workshops, there will be a good coverage Australia. We must recognize that in aim was to preserve traditional song and Northern Queensland will be performing of the visual arts. these communities where traditional dance in areas in which they were stroiig, on a dance ground to be constructed in Kodak's "Australia - Picture Frontier" life has been maintained it has been and to assist their regeneration where the ampitheatrc area by the lake. Lit by is a multi-slide and movie sound spectac in the face of tremendous pressures tiiey had fallen into decline. The enthus campfires and spotlights, the dancers ular using three huge screens, seven proj and obstacles. Not the least of these iastic response everywhere encountered will perform botii secular and edited ectors and full four-channel sound. is the removal of societies from their by the A.T.F. provides evidence of the ritual dances.; People will see this perform Architects and Industrial Design Students land and the pressures placed on in deep and abiding concern with which ance as evidence of the continuance in and Artists from the Queensland Institute dividuals within these societies by jobs traditional Aboriginal people everywhere Australia of traditional Aboriginal culture. of Technology will be presenting an which restrict their time to perform regard their dancing and the traditional The dancers will be from Aurukun an Australian premiere of a Supergraphics essential ceremonies or visit essential values which underpin it. Mission, Mornington Island, Edward River, Exhibition for Brisbane on strategic sites. Yet, in what is perhaps a sur The Foundation has always seen Lockhart River Mission and Weipa. There buildings in and around the city. prising number of cases the social itself as its Aboriginal members. It is a possibility that the Arnhem Land dan structures and ceremonies of traditional seems desirable therefore that dance cers who are presently on a Pacific tour The University of Queensland is prep will also make an appearance. Entrance aring a display to review Aboriginal life have been maintained. Where cere groups pursue a more aclive role in monial life is strong the dancing and determining the future of their own cul will be by programme. These programmes arrifactsof the past 200 years in the light will give the names of performers and of social change rboughl about by Europ singing is strong. The one is the foun tural forms. There appear to be general dation of the other. regions exhibiting similarities of culture explain the significance of the dances. ean contact. In addition, the University Co-operation is expected in regard to There should be no longer any and interest in which traditionally the Library will be exhibiting a priceless groups within these areas maintained entrance by programme as it is difficult collection of Australian Art books. need to correct the impression that to justify a tour of Aboriginal dancers Aboriginal culture is Uie same all a relatively high degree of contact.Draw- Paintings by members of the Royal ing on these existing but largely in to the south unlessmoney can be miadc Queensland Art Society will be shown at over the continent. Just as there is and ploughed bacic into their interests a multiplicity of language groups, so visible structures of Aboriginal dance the Society Gallery, while the Queensland groups and the relationships between in their own areas. Performances in Art Gallery wiU display paintings from the tiiere is a multiplicity of dance groups. Brisbane, and later in Rockhampton, Each group has its own ceremonies and them, the Foundation is working towards Darnell Gbllection. ' achieving a genuinely Aboriginal struc Townsville and Cairns, are being staged To complete this section of the ceremonial centres, its own songs and ture. in association wilh the first Queensland Festival, Project 5 will perfonn "Sound dance and body decoration, in short, Festival of the Arts, and arc sponsored Meditations" a "abberation of Sound by the Aboriginal Theatre Foundation. Potentials of the Human voice". S.T. PAGE 18 THEATRE CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT By a special grant from the Arts Council, La Boite Theatre engaged the services of Lindsay Smith, professional director from the A.P.G. Pram Factory in Mel bourne, for the production of Jack Hibbert's play Captain Midnight V.C; This week, he was interviewed by Maureen Fitzpatrick, Journalism student and member of the La Boite for Semper Floreat. MA UREEN: It was in tbe middle of in seeing these groups because they tbe sixties when you joined the A.P.G. lived and worked collectively rather student movement postulating your than hierarchicly like most repertory ideas on the nature of theatre. Could companies or professional theatre com panies in Australia or England. They you explain the reasons behind this? had common socio-political aims which they were using theatre to come LINDSAY: I came into the A.P.G. or to terms with. I spent a lot of time in the La Mama experimental theatre San Francisco watching the Mime ensemble from Monash university Troupe perfonn and going to their where I was actively involved in student factory in Alabama Street. They have revolution, abortive revolution in the a warehouse which is their home and late sixties. I was interested in theatre they go out and perform in the parks but more so in politics and so about and gardens and university campuses. half a dozen other people and myself, They don't accept any govemment including John Rommel, the political grants and exist solely on the dona playwright, wanted lo form a theatre tions they receive from people who group which would be interested in watch their shows and from univer theatre as politics not just theatre as sities. Daily they have workshops in art, and fortunately we found some circus and music and on top of that people from Melbourne university they write all of their own plays. who were into avant garde theatre and by joining with them at La Mama, MA UREEN; What did you think of a theatre restaurant in Cariton, we were the standard of Australian theatre in able to create a theatrical structure, relation to what you saw in A merica? which was botii politically and theat rically radical. LINDSAY: When I went to America, I had the idea that American performers MAUREEN: What sought of reaction must be brilliant in what they did and did you originally get to this type of that we Australians must be inferior theatre? in some way. But when 1 saw the San Francisco Mime Troupe working I or general syndrome, corruption and LINDSAY: Our first productions illusory play. Everything is done realized that what we had been doing at hypocrisy in high places, in tbe cabinet, were always to inverted audiences. Like openly, we don't try to hide anything La Mama was just as well developed and police force, army, governorship. It also , the first one we did was 'Mr Big: The from anybody. exciting and this was the same with examines the problem of racism, the Big, Big, Fascist Pig.' It was a play we Theatres like the Bread and Butter way the black people have been mis put on at the May Day rally. There was MA UREEN: Do you think aU Theatre in New York. Our techniques treated, maltreated, brutally degraded. an audience of about 6,000 people and theatre should be politically orient were as advanced and our performances The play is also about white fear and everybody really responded to it. It had ated and there is no pbce for some as exciting as anytiiing I saw tiiere. ignorance about other people, espec all the stock comic figures. It was at thing Uke 'escapist' entertainment? ially the fear of black sexual supremacy a time when people just talked and did MAUREEN; You seem to have rejected which is a myth which has always been nothing. People responded to the fact LINDSAY: No, but I tiiink tiiere nearly aU types of 'traditional' theatre. perpetrated. Shakespeare wrote about that this was a new way of expressing should be a moral basis for all theatre. Don't you think H has any place at aU it in Othello and there are a lot of your political commitment. Not just So much theatre is immoral, dishonest, to play in society? references to Othello in the play. It talking about it but acting it out with cheating and oversentimentalized and is a play which deals with white para characters tiiat you had created your LIMDSAY: 1 Ond traditional tiieatre tiiat is to be avoided at all costs. Take noia, fear, hatred, and ignorance which self. The political climate has changed exciting theatrically as a piece of theatre for example 'My Fair Lady' which was uses the black man as a catalyst adapted from a Shaw play about class so much now. The Vietnam war was but I don't find what surrounds it part icularly stimulating. If you go to the struggle. 'My Fair Lady' has lost all then a rallying point for everybody. The the guts and become just a sugar coated war continues but not on the same Melbourne tiieatre company or the Q.T.C MAUREEN: The pby is very different from anything else at La Boite from a pill. And when you talk about 'escapism' scale. The political emphasis has and you see an exciting piece of theatre, tiiat worries mei What's happening in shifted now to the women's struggle it begins at eight o'clock and ends at production angle. CouH you explain your idea of the role of a director? the world today is veiy serious. There in tiie tiieatre as well as else where. eleven o'clock. It is in a vacuum. There is insanity, consumerism, materialism, is no contact with the performers, with LINDSAY: I don't see tiie director as sweeping tiie continent and it has got MA UREEN: Do you really think that the community. It is like a shrine where to be stopped somehow. Usually es you go and spend three hours thinking being apart from the play. I don't see women are getting somewhere?Tradition myself as being an interpreter or dic capist entertainment enforces those ally I think that women have been very about it in your head and then go home. ideas of fake consciousness. This is what 1 dislike about it. tator. I see myself more as a shaper, a heavily discrimirwted against in the catalyst, to throw things in and get theatre. Is this situation changing? MAUREEN; You were in the original MA UREEN: Don't you think that the actors to express themselves rather production of'Dimboola'. Wlmt are such performances have any influence than to express me. LINDSAY: In America the women's your ideas about it now that it has on people? You said 'Thinking about movement has gone an incredibly long MA UREEN; In the pby aU the actors gone commercial?' way and made inroads into theatre, it in your head.' are on stage for the whole three hours - pontics, music, everyUiing. In Melbourne, dianging, talking to the audience, doing LINDSAY: I really liked tiie first pro-, women at the Pram Factory are fighting LINDSAY: It certainly gives you anything. Is this another aspect of aud something to think about but it is just duction of 'Dimboola' which was put for better parts for women; for chances ience involvement? on at La Mama. It was a very exciting for women to direct plays and for plays like reading a book. Thete is no com munication or contact. And the other tiling and was about the first really to be written about women and their thing about that, is ever since Grotowsky LINDSAY: It is not so much audience successful attempt at audience involve struggles. They have had two shows the Polish director created his theatre involvement than an acceptance of the ment. The audience in fhe original where the women did everytiiing them laboratory and came out with his audience as part of the event. There is 'Dimb.oola' were a forum witnessing the selves - hung lights, designed the concept of poor theatre, this has been a lot in the text whidi is audience com event. It was presented ui an ironic set, done all of tiie acting. There were one of the reasons why many of the ment, spoken to Uie audience, which no men involved at all. is to make the audience realize that it fashion so that everybody realized the theatre companies are irrelevant be viciousness, the vileness of a world that cause they try to do things which are is only a play and not to identify too emotionally with what is going on but creates a tilinglik e 'Dhnboola'. Now MAUREEN; When you were overseas, done better because of the development people come there and celebrate the you came in contact with groups like in the media.Grotowsky says, and I to think about it in their heads. There is a pretty horrifying whipping scene event, ali the irony has been lost and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. How agree with him and all of my theatre they just lau^ and it is a great tragedy have they influenced you in your ideas is based on tiiis, that the only thing in the play where one of the aboriginal sistets is tied down and whipped. But for that play. It's no longer real, it's and work back here? theatre has which is unique is the con just a commercial thing which people tact between actors and audience - the we shouldn't identify too closely witii it but rather tiiink of what the meta are exploiting tiuoughout the country. LINDSAY: I was in America for over live, the living. The actor is the fulcrum of tile theatre. phor symbolizes - the abori^ne de But this is it. Once something is success three and a half years during which time gradation. ful, the big entrepreneurs move in and I did a Masters degree in dramatic art exploit it. It happens in Australia, it at tiie University of California, but MAUREEN: 'CaptainMidnight V.C'is MA UREEN; What are your feelings happens everywhere. my main infiuencc was from the altern a very topical play with heavy political about theatre of the illusion? ative theatre groups who were oper overtones. Could you explain what it ating in America and about whom I is trying to demonstrate? LINDSAY: To me, Uiis is when we had heard a lot and been influenced by try to create on stage an illusory worid before I left AustraHa. They were the LINDSAY: There are two things - the which we can become lost in. In 'Mid WANTED San Francisco Mime troupe,the Open play and the production. The play as a night' we are always realizing that we ' family with pre-school kids Theatre from New York-and the text is a vety bitter examination of the are in the theatre and tiiat it is just a TO SHARE Uving Theatre, the most famous avant play. It is to be thought about ratiier power structure in Australia, the hang very large house with separate kitchens garde tiieatre group. I wos interested over from the colonial days, the govern than escaped into. This is an anti- PHONE: 78 3390. THE DEATH OF A KING lONESCO AND O'CASEY PLAYS absurdities, this play deals with the second in Uie 1973 Warana Drama Festival, students, $1.20. Group bookings may be ine\dtability of the deatii of a King and AT THE SCHONELL. TO BE his personal inability to accept this. He The K/G programme will be staged at Uie 1"^''^ ^* ^"/!!!"/1''"'='!P"?- ^°°^^ "^^y PRESENTED BY KINGS/GRACE. Is cast back and forth between his two Schonell Theatre on AprU 19tii, 20tii, 2Sth, ?^,,'"'f ,l^f ^'=^°"^" ^*'"t« wives - one harsh, who attempts to 26tii & 27tii, commencing at 8.00 pm. _ (ph. 71-1879). A presentation of the Theatre of the prepare him for his death; the other, Admission for adults will be $2.00 and for Helen Bowie Absurd is K/G Production's aim this year. frivulou.^ s and fun-loving„, who wishes The staging of Exit The King, in many wayshim to live freely and rTot worry about a typical lonesco play, will provoke much deaUi or prepare for it. The King is thought as to the ideas and views put torn between the two, yet he finally VISIT OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF THE DEAF forward by the playwri^t.The programme realizes that death must be faced alone, will be supplemented with the staging of it is a personal and lonely happening. Sean O'Casey's Bedtime Story, a farcical Through an absurd act - the King's Brisbane theatregoers were intro speaking actors translated from his path to death - lonesco arouses the duced to a new dimension in theatre sign language to faciUtate communi comedy. with the visit of The National Theatre audience to an emotional experience cation to the local actors and the of the Deaf. audience of 300 who attended the The plays will be presented at the of death itself. The character of the Members of the New York-based SchoneU Theatre on Friday, Saturday, King minors lonesco's idea of man him workshop. company were in Brisbane for one Through his interpreter, Mr 19Ui, 20th April and repeated the follow self, who has to struggle to recognise what week, after a successful run at the ing week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, life is all about, then he must either accept Bragg explained the differences Adelaide Festival of Arts. between manual spelling, sign language tiie 25th, 26tii, 27th April. During tiie or reject death. The play will provoke Of the 13 actors in the company week of production, there will be a Pottery much discussion as to lonesco's aims and theatre mime, and the composite form visiting Australia, under the direction of sign-mime which has been developed exhibition in tiie Foyer of the Theatre in dramatic techniques, of Bernard Bragg, three arc speaking which work of several well-known Brisbane by the National Theatre of the Deaf. members and the remaining ten are Under his critical guidance, the Potters will be displayed! K/G product Exit the King is chaUenging in the deaf. local actors then demonstrated how ions is a drama group formed by members production, in addition to the acting. The In their production of 'Candide' this sign-mime may be used to com of Kings and Grace Colleges, and has play calls for an imaginative set using an adaptation from Voltaire's satire, municate a story and be readUy under been active since 1971. varying effects in lifting and set layout. the action is performed by aU members stood by an audience who had no The costumes will be symbolically important ,of the cast, with the narration and prior knowledge of sign language as The programme commences with in keeping witii the characters. These will occasional dialogue provided by the used by the deaf. O'Casey's Bedtime Story, a farce totally add to the attraction of this production. speaking actors. He concluded the workshop with different from his masterpiece Juno and The plays wUl be directed by HiUary A workshop was conducted at an appeal to teachers of the deaf, the Paycock. This light-hearted comedy Moston, a resident teacher at the American Twelfth Night Theatre one afternoon many of whom were present, that arising out of the situation where a strictiy Jazz Ballet and Theatre Academy, and during the visit, by Mr Bernard Bragg they should re-evaluate their oral religious Irishman fears the consequences aided by one of the students from King's who is deaf. Using fifteen professional approach to teaching and make more of taking his carefree girifriend to bed. College. Hillary Moston has worked with actors drawn from local theatre com general use of sign-mime, as a means This is foUowed by tiie main part of TwelfUi Night and Brisbane Arts Theatre panies, Mr Bragg demonstrated the of communication for deaf chUdren. the night's Entertainment: lonesco's and is now with VUlanova Players. She methods and acting techniques used Exit the King. Typical of lonesco's produced Nathan and Tabiletii which was by the deaf company. One of the D. Kruck LA BOITE tti« wmn»Mt *iH»n'* t^i tha auttralian ellzabethon theatre truitprattnti alette dawn it\ the nimtod theatts production Q( APRILl7toMAyi8 JACK HIBBERDS' CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT! <.J>V. C afamivstory., directed by _ NDSAY TWELFTH NIGHT THEATRE .nunwun Nightly Monday 29lh April-Saturday I Ith May at 8.15p.m. Hcf Matinetis Satuidav 4th and Saturday 11 th May at 2p.m. SMf SeiSoui Youth Nights (all seats $2.45) Tuesday SOth April and Monday 6th May Group Party Concessions available other nights BOOKINGS Twelfth Night Theatre (52-5889) and Palings (218-317) SEMPER FLOREAT VOLUME 44, NUMBER 4. %W^ 18TH APRIL 1974 Twelfth Published on behilf of: The Univeisity of Queensland Union. Printed by: CPL/CAT, 10 BaUey • Street, West End. or EDITOR; David Franken BUSINESS Theatre MANAGER; David Meredith LOVE PUBLICATIONS SECRETARIES: Lillian Holt, Annmaree O'Keeffe and LAUGHTER Nanette Badgery REVIEW SUB- EDITOR: Steve Tone ^ FOR REPERTORY SEASON PRODUCTION: Irene Lowe NOW PLAYING:- Mandy Wheeler David Franken DON'S PARTY by David Williamson COLUMNISTS; mm— Len Sorbello STUDENT CONCESSIONS THE COUNTRY WIFE by Willaim NEWS STAFF; Peter Murphy Wycherley Julianne Schultz Terry Gygtr YOUTH MEMBERSHIP PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Helen Tom Stevens 10 Tickets for $7.00. Jerome, based on Jane Austen's CARTOONIST: PauU MitchcU novel PHOTOGRAPHERSi Greg Peny Eric Peidiaol PAGE 20 REV1EV\« THEATRE STUFF A DUCK audience on the last night of the pro sured that they died laughing. Mandrake. If you did, don't bother duction showed up a m^or difference The acting is generally of a high to go and see him in Uiis play as his Paul Davies in viewpoint between the 'cynics' (self- standard with the honours though, performance isn't all that different. SCHONELLTHEATRE styled) and the 'people who still want going to Joan Tanner as Myra Gantry, Same slick, frenetic jumping about, to do things. Both sides became over- the cleaning lady whose occupation same repetitive vocal tone - he is an emotional, verbally violent, and in some was instead eating. It was a pity that actor who more than anything else cases downright dangerous, notably Margaret Savage tended to overact in needs an intensive course with a the woman throwing cans at the aud her portrayal of the mother of this soimd teadier of vocal technique - ience, and the woman, who, no doubt strange family. to teach him to use other areas of vocal through some misguided social aware The illogical normalcy which this resonance besides nasal ones - the ness of the incompetence of the family portrays acts as a warped dis poor guy's nasal resonator must be Schonell architect, was trying to torted mirror on the values of society suffering a bit, as I've never heard him set the theatre and the audience alight but I think that for many viewers, it speak through anythmg else. He's a by throwing matches and lighted cig will only serve to bewilder them salesman for a certain type of pushy arette butts onto the paper-strewn which is a great pity as an immense pizazz, which is fine maybe, in stage. amount of work went into this Cindarella but falls a little insincerely Despite the disgust of many mem production. on the slow, measured progress of a bers of the audience, some of whom 'heavy' play like Salesman. left because of the fracas, the play Maureen Fitzpatrick seemed well-received, but in the op Bill Aitmcn, as Biff, fails to come inion of the reviewer, not well enough to terms (on any level but the most appreciated by the people at whom superfici^) with a complex and demand most of the comment was aimed. DEATH OF A SALESMAN ing p..'rt. Vocal limitations again, a lack Hopefully Paul Davies will not leave Arthur Miller of control manifested in meaningless At last, one might say, controversy Schonell-goers completely bereft bello wings to the point where it was has broken out about theatre in Queens in his search for a new location for S.G.LO. THEATRE embarrassing - and Lance Strauss as land campus. It is a pity that the con his theatre co-op, but even if he does, Willy's other son, Happy, seemed so troversy has taken the form that it has I think his new project should deserve, divorced from the action going on a- on the strength of Stuff a Duck, the QUEENSLAND round him that one wondered whether however, in that personal quarrels have THEATRE COMPANY overridden the intellectual and theatrical trip and bus fare required to find he was acting at all. him and his work again. PRESENTS issues at the centre. Speaking purely GREAT PLAYS OF THE WORLD No.2, dramatically. Stuff a Duck was a breath ARTHUR MILLER'S : • A last point, I don't think that of fresh air on the campus theatre scene, G.S. it is fair on actors like Kate Wilson and in stark contrast to that self-indulgent Bill Brown, neither of whom are over 'truth-seeking' excuse for a play that was DIIATH OrA 25, that they should be cast as 55 - 60 thrust upon a supposedly intelligent aud year olds. All the technique and talent ience in A Bad Case of Fallout. Stuff in the world can not convince an aud a Duck compared favourably with I ONE WAY PENDULUM SALBMAN ience that either of them is a day over Hear What You Say which has become N. F. Simpson 35, anyway - and surprisiiigly,'con'- • a yardstick in the years since for all QTC's production of Arthur Miller's BRISBANE ARTS THEATRE play Death of a Salesman is currently sidering the difficulties placed in their attempts at student theatre. But only to way, these two provided the few gen compare it with I Hear What You Say playing at the S.G.LO. Theatre. I don't recommend it. There are one or two uinely moving moments of the whole would be to underrate Stuff a Duck ARTS moving performances, occasional flashes evening. Pretty soon, though, the QTC because the former was the combined THEATRE of near brilliance, but by and large, for must abandon the practice of choosing work of many talented writers, and all the challenge tbat there is in Ae plays first, and casting later, which the latter is the work of only one. Paul script, and in spite of all the hard work seems to be their policy at tiie moment. Davies' script was the work of a ft which has gone into the production, it seemingly brilliant writer and the pro One Way Pendulum by English play fails. It's boringi For several concrete duction and acting of the play enhanced wright, N. F. Simpson, is the present reasons. The play - the words - barely get it even more. production at Brisbane Arts Theatre. It a diance. The whole production suffers To criticise the play in the old style, is a Theatre of the Absurd play which Much of the blame may be laid at too much fi'omlac k of adequate rehear I will begin by saying that the three takes a satirical look at modern society the feet of Joe James. He plays Willy sal, lack of sincere involvement of the separate acts were well balanced against by a 'visit' into the home and lives of Loman, the Salesman of the title, and actors with the sctipt and with each each other, and each, in itself, was a the Groomkirby family. for about the first ten minutes, he en other. It is visually very dull - not that minor masterpiece of theatrical timing. Every member of the family has their gaged my attention; but it very rapidly it needs sequins and rah-rah - but the set Tension and suspense were sustained own individual 'hang-up' which is just became obvious that in ten minutes he is overbuilt and the huge acting areas and broken at just the right places, and as abnormal as the others. But all of ' had exhausted his grab-bag of attention available to the director/designer and the dialogue was handled by both actors these are taken as the normal course of getting devices, and be meandered actors are sadly underutilized. (And only on stage, and and the one off stage with events making the whole of the produc throu^ the rest of the evening with a small part of the blame for that can no lag. Paul Davies showed his excellent tion even crazier. The mother, played all the humanity, and much of the re be laid on the architect of the theatre) command of character acting, as did by Margaret Savage, has a phobia about petitive vocal tone and physical man Better to stay at home and read Salesman Stu Matchett, to a slightly lesser degree. uneaten food and pays a cleaning lady nerism of a wind up wdkie-talkie doll. out of a book - you are boimd to be Wanda the Computer showed, with the to come in and eat it. The daughter. It's worth recalling, however, that Joe moved and maybe depressed - but at added disadvantage of being represented Sylvia, Ann Applegate, is worried by the James was brought from Sydney especi least it will be the undiluted Arthur on stage by a store dummy, how well fact that her arms don't reach her knees ally to play Willy - and that he's had Miller getting to you, not the vain milk she could control her voice to project while the father played by John Lennon, three weeks only to get to know what and water bibble babble that the QTC an impression of her physical presence. has a passion for the studying of the Arthur Miller is on about and also is dishing up nightly at 8 p.m. and The controversy surrounding Stuff law and carpentry which is resolved in to learn how to work effectively vtdth twice dally on Wednesdays and Sat a Duck is mainly concerned with the the second act by the trial of his son in 8 group of people who are stUl prob urdays. attempt by Davies to view this pro his home made court room. ably complete strangers to him. A (By the time this appears in print. duction as only a bcgiimmg. He intends Khby, the son, played by Ken portion of the bkme lies with his em Salesman will probably have died, but to establish a form of theatre cooperat Park«;r, is the pivotal figure. His ob ployers - as does much of the blame no matter.) ive in which the concept of theatre as session about wearing black clothing (but for the next distressing performance - primarily productions in a theatre only when he feels that it. is. logically , that of Douglas Hedge. You might Mark Shane. will be diallenged. The actions and just- warranted) leads to the murder of forty . have seen him in Aliddhi at Ctuistinas iflcations of certain memben of tbe three people about whom we are as time, or in the recent QTC musical Kl.'!- REVIEWS PAGE 21 MUSIC ARTHUR FIEDLER VERSUS jective re-appraisal of 'avant-garde' music." is irrelevant to an aesthetic appraisal THE HUNGARL\N STATE Leaving aside the question of whether one of his work and art. What one must can, or should call a piece of music over do is evaluate the purely aesthetic 60 years old "avant-garde", we can find elements of the work, the technical So far this year, Brisbane has quite a few lapses in DRB's objectivity had two sets of Symphony concerts; mystery (or lack of it) with which and consistency. the composer projects (or fails to the first of these was the prom concert To say that "the music... in no way series conducted by Arthur Fiedler, project) his view of life. communicates the complex and varied But then he contradicts these guide the second, the opening concerts of emtions and visions' of a man in a the subscription series by the Hungar lines agains in his quote from Ayn Rand: fantasy worid" begs several questions. ian State Orchestra. The former offered "If you see dismembered monstrosities, amongst its items Copland's Fanfare It assumes: leering at you from today's esthetic for the Common Man (unsurpassingly (i) that DRB knows just what mirrors - the aborted creations of common trash for the unsurpassedly Schoenberg was actually attempt mediocrity, irrationality and panic - common American proletariat) a ing to convey, despite Schoen you are seeeing the embodied, concretized Grand Galop Chromatic by Liszt berg's alleged failure to convey it reality of the philosophical premises which proved that common music to him; and (hence), that dominate today's culture. Only in is not restricted to modem American (ii) that the emotive effect of a work this sense, can those Manifestations be composers and a gay selection of melo of art, its "content", somehow called 'curt". exists independent of the partic That is, there are some areas of dies from Mary Poppins. ' "What it amuunta to is that I ular work that embodies it. communicated experience, which Meanwhile, the Hungarian State despite any "mastery .... with which the stated publicly my position with offered Kddaly's Havy Janos Suite, This is the old form versus content regard to the treatment of dualispi, the idea that the two are some (artist) projects his way of life," may Bartok's second violin concerto and not be called art. American Indians. Many actors Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. how separate: does the concept of re give their time and money to the writing the emotive content of the "Dull and boring" DRB complained Fiedler no doubt worked very of the music. But then anything one Indian cause, tiying to make up hard with the Queensland Symphony Hammerklavier Sonata as a fugue mean for the bad treatment they had anything? doesn't comprehend becomes dull and Orchestra, for they showed a greater boring. Art is always a dialectic, never in the past degree of unity and professionalism To say bluntly "This is not a good simply the pouring of some pre-defined "But I have never felt we did under his baton than under either depiction of a man in a fantasy worid" and self-contained "content" into an wrong in taking over this great Patrick Thomas or Sir Bernard Heinz. may simply mean "This is not how I had automatically receptive listener. countiy; it was all a matter of However, listening to his directing was pictured a man in a fantasy world". Is survival Sure, there have been like playing on a see-saw with an ele this a relevant criterion for juding Schoen Tony Thwaites. inequalities, but what happened phant; the brass sat playing with a berg's picture? According to DRB's over a hundred years ago cannot blatant vengence, that would have stated criteria of aesthetic worth, it is really be blamed on us today." brought down the entire city of not: John Wayne Jericho and blown it back into place, .... the fact that one agrees or dis while the rest of the crowd balanced agrees with a composer's philosophy precariously on the upper end like a 'fiddler on the rooF, trying desparately to scratch out what few token notes the heavy handed arranger had left them. The Hungarian State demonstrated how effectively one hundred individuals can play as one unit. Their amazing discipUne and control was unbelievable- one hundred people all playing, yet hardly audible in the most delidate pian QUEENSLAND issimo passages, then suddenly the power and grandeur of which one hundred THEATRE COMPANY musicians could hardly be capable. PRESENTS It would seem that the A.B.C. in choosing these two particular programs with which to open the year, is holding the public to ransom. The whole ration ale of the system is that if you don't enthuse over Fiedler you're a snob (how often Fiedler has justified his stand by dismissing his critics with this Ad Homi- num) and if you do enthuse over the Hungarian State you're a snob. If this is the case then I am a snob, but at least I am consistent, but then I suppose if one is unable to make respectable music popular, all that is left is to make popular music respectable. However, as indications from these sweet two concert series go, Fiedler stands as an apt argument against American ization which the Hungarian State is as good a case for communism as 1 have rock musical seen. D.L.H. based upon the Gospel PIERROT LUNAIRE AND THE according to St. Matthew FIRES OF LONDON - A Counter Review and a Maltter of Aesthetics DRB's review of the Fires of London's Brisbane performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (Semper 4.4.74) was LIVE ON STAGE annoying. He doesn't appear to have come to close enough grips with the work to appraise it according to the extent of its achievement (whether large or smalt), 2nd • 25th MAY al S.6.1.0. THEATRE - UMITED SEASON despite his avowals to the contrary. For a start, the review was full of Mail'bookings now open: for Wednesday to Saturday evenings only. AU seats $4.50. cavalier dismissals. The work should Book now. Please nominate first and second choice of dates. Cheques and motley appeal to those who "are attracted to orders (made payable to the S.G.LO. Theatre and crossed "not negotiable") should be schizophrenia", he tells us. This makes as mudi sense as saying La Traviata is sent with a stamped addressed envelope to: for those attracted to consumption, Don Giovanni for lecheis, Othello for THE QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY Blacks, and the Eroica for heroes. This is simply Courier-Mail criticism and G.P.O. BOX 21, BRISBANE, QLD., 4000 should be left to thero. ORB assures us he is going to be ration al and is not "about to embark on a sub* e'*, OUflMLANO FlriVAL Of TMt MrS MOOUCTKIN PAGE 22 REVIEWS B(X)KS A MANUAL OF CLINICAL (Eliot, Pound, Cummings, Yeats) have gard for my work, and I want to thank them him. DERMATOLOGY acted it seems, as a centrifuge, sending for their wish to make their opmion public. Candy Man by Vincent King is poetry off into widely separated direct But of years of the news from Southeast simply one of those imexpected gifts Peter J. Ashurst ions. Asia, and the commentary from Washmgton, chanced upon in the library of fantasy ANZ BOOK CO 1974 Recent anthologists of poetry have I am too conscious of being an American to readers. U's worth your attention; tended to do one or more of these accept public congratulation with good just allow its little-known writer to things when faced with these problems; grace, or to welcome it except as an occa transport you where he will. You'll al The last book review I wrote was when sion for expressing a sham which many most certainly enjoy it. I was in ninth grade and the book was the criteria for collation have become thematic, chronological, or national. Americans feel day by day, helplessly and called 'No Picnic On Mt Kenya'. It was in silence.' CE. written by an Italian guy who was later Each qf these criteria limits the potential field decisively. Robson's anthology One is reminded of Patrick White's a consul m Brisbane. It was about how hauntutg speech at the Australian of the this guy escaped from a ptison camp in POETRY DIMENSION I is chronologi cally and nationally determmed, it is Year awards, when he recommended that Kenya and (suprisingly enough) climbed his award be divided into four; White to Mt Kenya. I really enjoyed the book be British poetry and criticism of poetry JANE'S WEAPONS SYSTEMS published during 1972-1973. share it with 'a pointy^ead intellectual 1973-74 cause it was about the forces that drive (Professor Manning Clark), a long-haired men (or at least the forces I thought This anthology is intended to 'convey comedian who impersonates women EDITED BY R.T.PRETTY AND should drive men) and the descriptions something of the British 'poetry scene' (Barry Humphries), and a militant com D.H.R.ARCHER of the mountain were mindbending (in today'. Included is important critical munist (Jack Mundey). As one elated Sampson Low, Marston & Co. ninth grade my mind was pretty easily work on two poets who stand among the reviewer (Mark Butler - who also wrote pp782$l5 bent). The guy was a mystic's mystic. greatest of the post-war world: Syl^da the preceeding words quoted - THE The book, I've got to admit, isn't Plath and Ted Hughes, some insightful LIVING DAYLIGHTS, Feb. 5-11) about Kenya, mountains or mysticism short articles and letters, as well as said: 'Heady stuff for the assembled cream various newly published poems. The latest Arab-Israeli war provided (which is a bit of a pity) and in ninth of Melbourne society to handle, they looked an important test of much of the US and grade, I would have had trouble pro Established names mix with the on television, as though he had hit them USSR electronic warfare gadgetry - nouncing dermatology (I still do). Look, unestablished and disestablished; even with a velvet glove filled with gravel' naturally described in detail in Jane's let's get this straight, if you just read Ezra Pound. The solid and refined rami- Weapons Systems. There is a refreshing books for the sex and the violence, you nations of W.H. Auden head the list The artist takes a stand, and literature affects society like the deepest wound. honesty about Jane's - it is a massive are going to be bitterly disappointed of poetry; although his 'Moon Landing' catalogue of devies to kill people or to with this one because it is mostly (in is of the type of 'public' poetry that is But for the wound to be deepest the instrument has to be honed fine. Francis try to stop being killed yourself. SALT fact entirely) about dermatology. But not fashionable current critical standards. talks and politics matter for little here - if words tum you on there are a few His is rhetorical poetry that is fashioned Hope's article on the poetry of Adrian Mitchell shows a deep concern that con only the hardware counts. good ones around page thirteen such as by a Christian world view. The moon The advertisements in many ways are 'breasts', 'nipples', 'groins', 'buttocks', landing is, for Auden, a huge corporate temporary poetry should not be lazy, sent imental, trite or sloppy - the enemy of all the most interesting of all. Hunting Eng- and 'penis' and for the professional manifestation of man's egotism, which gineering, for example, brags that the fetishist they chuck in 'wrists', 'elbows', reveals the dangers of too many and loo experimenters in verse. This enemy one poet has put to fiight Cluster bombs it has sold to the UK RAF and "ankles'. potent toys in the clutches of mischievous are "highly effective against....personnel". boys: decisively, however. She is Sylvia Plath, And again if you read books because and EliMbeth Hatdwick's review 'On And Schermuly Ltd takes two pages to the heroine always triumphs with vir We were always adroiter advertise its riot control equipment: CS with objects than lives, and more facile Sylvia Plath' reflects on the supreme ginity intact, and the hero is absolutely triumph of that poet: gas, guns to shoot rubber bullets, and adorable etc. etc. then not only have you at courage than kindness: from the a "hand-held irritant generator". a soppy approach to literature but you moment 'Her fate and her themes are hardly In the forward to this year's encyclo too are going to be bitterly disappointed the first fiint was fiaked this landing separate and both are singularly terrible... paedia, the editors look at the fuel crisis (you deserve to be anyway, I much prefer was merely Orestes rages, but Aeschylus lives to be (somewhat prophetically, as it had not people who read books for the sex and a matter of time. But our selves, like almost 70. Sylvia Plath, however, is yet been sprung on us when the foreword the violence). dam's, both heroine and author; when the cur was written), and use it to suggest that still don't fit us exactly... tain goes down it is her own dead body a new idea for anms control. "As things The point is that unless you want to This central doctrine of the poem, the there on the stage, sacrificed lo the plot.'^ read about scabies and carbuncles and stand, the absence of oil-based fuels culpability of man for modem tech The anthology is well-conceived and papular urticaria and what have you then would deprive the worid's force of maybe nological excesses, is given depth through approaches some thematic unity. It has this book is a dead bloody loss and you 90 per cent of their current mobility in Auden's appreciation of the vaiious ways much to commend it. a few cases, and say 99 per cent in the might as well read 'No Picnic On Mt Kenya' through which that state of man is which, after all, is a good book (at least I remainder." This means that there expressed. It is expressed in crazy male Stuart Cunningham will be massive research programmes for liked it). But if you are interested in sexism, and in the prostitution of true new forms of weaponry not related to dermatology (as a friend of mine assures me courage (the moon landing) through it's oil. The answer is to "limit voluntarily some people are) then this is your book. It bemg observed in a million middle-class the search for substitutes for the arms is simply written and fairly comprehensive. living rooms. It is with a profound apprec and systems that would disappear with (1 mean I did read it - but it is beyond me iation of what McLuhan was getting at CANDY MAN oil fuels". how anyone can get tumed on by car that Auden writes: But the real interest in Jane's comes buncles). Vincent King Homer's heroes were certainly no SPHERE BOOKS 1973 not from thought about arms control, Anyway, how is this for the level of braver but from the macabre faschiation with concern or the medical profession: *With than our Trio, but more fortunate: newer and better ways of killing our internal disease a patient may well be sat Hector 1 called it 'Pulp Fantasy' just thirty fellow men. isfied with relief of symptoms, whereas was excused the insult of having pages into the novel. One of those mass- withfa skin disease, clearance of all visible his valor covered by television. produced fantasy detective-stories which Joseph Hanlon / N.S, signs as well as symptoms is sought.' How Worth going to see? I can beUeve it. is suitable only for pulping and recyclmg. callous can you get? (Yes, Virguiia, that Worth seeing? 'Faulty', said the Deep Machine. 'Part of was a pun.) j^Qpy SUPPLIED BY: No. T. o observ. e Hector'. . s valour woulX du hav- e 1* the whole. Insufficient grounds for judg- S.S. ANZ BOOK CO. P/L. required as much bravery as Hector hmjself. ^^^^. yet the story ready easily, and To stand on the plams of Troy required gradually I was drawn into the web of real valor now valor is a voyeur's news f^^^^^^ ^j„ccnt King weaves in Candy Item on the 6 00 news Man. Spectacular, colourful leaps of That our technocratised utopiatas not b«„ihtakinB imamiative oower charac- POETRY DIMENSIONl: A delivered the goods is Auden's lament But oreawtaJting miagmauve power cliarac- BOOKS REQUIRING REVIEW his profoundest lament is that it never terize this extraordinary fantasy/science LIVING RECORD OF THE could deliver the goods; the goods that fiction tale • when I felt my credibility had been strung out as far as it coidd be, POETRY YEAR cannot be parcelled. The followhig list contains recent re suddenly Vincent King sweeps the There is the inevitable unevenness of leases which arrive at Semper Office Jeremy Robson (Ed.) ground out from under me and ^ that ABACUS, 1973. quality. Wayne Brown's 'Cat Poem', I think for review. Any boc^ is aviilable iS directly dependant on Ted Hughes' myth- ?«")ed believable enough is but another fxeeio any students/staff member making about the crow: the similarities are "'"Sion. who will guarantee to submit a review frightening. Candy Man is an 'outsider' individual, for publication in Semper Floreat. Two common problems encountered spinning floss, wandering through a when evaluating contemporary poetry are However, I am led to an overwhebningly worid of the future where something that of finding readUy avaUable material; and POsi«ve verdict on this collection. One of has gone terribly awry. There is the World "The Empty Hours'^ - A study of the when it is found, sifting through the dross, in the themes whiA emerge from it is the City witii streets suspended tier upon tier weekend Ufe of HandJciiiped children search of significant work. Partial solutions questionbig of the role of literature in soc in institatkmt- by Maureen Qswin. covering the surface of the globe. A de Penguin Books 1973. to these problems are attempted by the • iety; the contribution to that underfed praved humanity inhabits the decaying debate bemg highly significant. D.J. anthologist, although his job is made even street levels, hounded by fear of the Rites "The Roman Moukl on tbe Austnliin more arduous by tiiieinevitabl e problem Enright's ardent 'Moie Memories of Under where one may lose one's senses and one's Development' captures the predicament atholic Church" - by John N. Motoiy. of evaluating work with which he is in brain oi become one of the Corps • an Melbourne Univeraty Press. 1969. timately associated, if only because he that an English teaclier with any integrity elect group whose function is never quite lives in the same era. And that is enough always faces; namely the discussion hi an comprehensible. A world where dread association hi this world. To coropoimd artificial, formal setting; of the 'cry from and meaninglessness threaten any Interested? Drop by Semper Office, the problem furUier, it may be true to the heart* of great poets. shred of security; where Candy Man Pint Floor, Mahi Union Builduig. A similar and basic incongruity which say, along vidtfa a recent anthologist,. H«« St; 7^ nXft^ uT^'^v * ruprwin aJo« despetatety suigle-mtodedly Tom Shapcott (AUSTRALIAN POETRY Would ail reviewers hold big NOW)'tliat it is a fortune of the twentieth '°^';e"£lViJCXr\K£e'J^""«-^^^^^ review Uterature please submit century that it has experienced so nvjuch awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Sh^^SSs'f'aXSSr^^^ your articles as soon as possible.. Urgent and compulsive experiihentalism.' ' ^ " • thne and thne again, while the Deep The early century's bold experimentets I am pleased to know of the judges' re- Machme calls hhn on and fuially releases ^,.^^^--^,-.,. REVIEWS P/\GE23 RECORDS BUTTERFLY FARM This statement by Jeszy Grotowski Madder Lake on his Polish Theatre Laboratory could MUSHROOM RECORDS be the key to any study. The difference between a performer who throws at his audience a fregmented bag of "tricks" and one who presents a thoughtfully constructed and carefully prepared work is marked and is lo be seen in every creative field most especially rock music. Jeannie Lewis has conceived "Free Fall Through Featherless Fliglit" with all the love an artist can. She uses her voice to bring to life the poetry of the songs and guides her listeners through an array of sensations that tip-toe througli the tiniest tunnels of the mind then soar out in reacli of the highest high. Publicity hand-outs bill her as the best female folk-rock-jazz singer in the country. The criteria for these Over the last 18 months, Madder sorts of statements are usuaUy based Lake have gained the reputation of on the need to promote, but get hold being one of the best progressive bands of this record and yovCXi probably on the Australian scene. Brissie hasn't agree with the handouts and wonder accepted them as have the cities down why you haven't heard her before. south, but maybe their second album Ope reason may be because it has will help rectify our mistake. taken nine years for her to be offered Standout track is 'Mother Ship', a suitable contract which gave her Ross Ryan will appear i- concert at Mayne Hall, University of Queensland, April 2Sth song of an astronaut returning home - artistic autonomy. at 8:00pm. Tickets ^2:SO. Available at the Union Shop in the Main Refectory. understandably, he is a little peckish She uses the greek mythological for some things (though there is plenty story of Icarus, on which to build MY NAME MEANS HORSE Ross prefers just to say; "This song does in his little food tubes, thank you very the albjums concept. Icarus' waxen mean something. However, the explan much). Moogwork simulation of space wmgs melted when his ambition took Ross Ryan ation is so confusing it would probably storms is early Sabbathy, while Mick him too close to the sun. In the song EMI LABEL bore you"). When you've played the Kette's vocals are never more con she wrote the words to explain how album once and put it on for a second trolled. the story doesn't have to end in dis time, the comment preceding the first aster, I'm StiU going thiough a gut reaction A word on Kettes. He's got a rusty to this record and still exploring new track is "Here we go again" gutsy roar that would put Joe Cocker ".... if you want to reach beyond .,, responses each time I play it so 1 lay no "I know what you're thinking off his cocaine sandwiches with worry you have to fasten your wings with ' • You've heard this before love". claim to a veneer of objectivity with if he ever heard it. It's a bloody shame respect to what follows. That in itself Why don't you walk over lack-lustre Aussie production tends to In the second verse of this song/ is probably the best indication of the and liftoff the needle?" drown him out - or maybe Madder poem, she gives us an indication as to worthiness of this record. But when the album finishes, it does the real secret of her magic: aren't giving him enough to do. Ross Ryan is one of those people you so jubilantly and, in so doing, consolid 'Ride on Past' is an easy track to "feel singing, abandonment of ates the image in essence - "my name self-complete, give and take and start to think of in tenns of cliches when listen to - some enjoyable chunky you see how spectaculariy his reputation means horse". Ross/liorse is a notion lead. It is an appeal to people to take holding nothing back. Can rush which extends over the whole work and you on to magic-madness heights, has grown. Two years ago, he was an notice of the other feller - though unknown coffee-shop guitar player but I was surprised to find that, after hearing it took ages for me to decipher it, Mick To swell and swoop on notes, you "I am Pegasus" on radio for more than never knew were vours, through now there is no doubt of his place among Kettes was choked out, as per usual. the m^or contemporary singer-songwriters six months, his name does in fact mean 'Booze Blues 11 * is a commercial foot featherless flight." of this country (count them on one hand). horse. The image has been worked in tapper, flavouredliberall y with tinkly One song, "Only Time Will Tell several ways, occasionally obscure and piano - easy to listen to, easier lo for Me" written by two girls from the Firstly, we can dispense with what he ambivalent. For example, from all get, like most tracks of its kind. 'One American group "Joy of Cooking" actually sounds like because the album is indications, the cover photograph Star and the Moon' is a powerful, Jeannie claims to be her theme song. in much the same style as his big single clearly suggests the paradoxical situation throaty rocker featuring Linda George, U hammers along in a driving rock "I am Pegasus" and its foUow-up "Orch of leading oneself following oneself. To (the bird responsible for the 'Neither and roll pace and is about the con estra Ladies", both of which appear on complicate mailers, we cannot lell if he is One of Us' you hated so passionately quest of inertia: the album. I haven't heard his first leading/is led into or oul of the knackery. last year.) 'Slack Alice' is a ^rl we all "I've been standing on this corner, commerciaUy released album "Poem Further, the name of the knackery is der know - as Madder say - trying to get across the street. Vou Can Keep", but I'm told that this ived from a couple of lines in "I am Peg You see her everywhere, she's For so many years now, I've just second one is tiner and with more depth. asus" - "1 am Simon, 1 am Demetrius not too old, she's not too young' been staring at my feet - That he is a musical force to be reckoned and Jon" - that is, he is also the knackery. - this track features some sensitive Now I'm gonna MOVE, yes, I'm with is evidenced by the fact that the Therefore, Ross/horse is leading/is led into/ acoustic at the end too. gonna move. first album was voted best album of 1973. out of himself. To say that the cover Hate to mention it, but Madder Stretch out and try my wings and He has also been signed (wilh Brian Qdd has been carefully thought out is to un Lake's lyrics let them down badly. If fly away " and Kerrie Biddell) as part of Australia's dervalue the work involved. a group's, not got strong commercial This sort of positivity flows through cultural exhibition at EXPO '74. That appeal, good lyrics without revolting- the album. But the overall message is his music is highly respected is evidenced This album, as his personal statement, ly obvious rhyme schemes are just the neither pretentious or conclusive, I by the fact that this album had record is one of slight cynicism and sardonic job. But take - have spoken to people from 4 to 60 sales of 15,000 copies within two weeks humour wrapped around an apparently • Sorry, so sorry, easy, so easy (from Caims to Melbourne) who have of its release, and is now approaching recent personal history. I haven't yet Greasy, so greasy, sleazy, so sleazy' heard the album and for a variety of 30,000 copies and a second gold record. played it enough to take anything in it ('Rodney's Birthday') - well, Slade reasons think it's fantastic. The more for granted and each time I note some thoughtful of tiiese probably identify Having established the impressive would get away with that, but Madder credentials of this album,! find it more thing else, something different ("Here Lake don't. Even 'Mother Ship' loses with the political and spiritual substance we go again"). When you dwell On a of the songs and poems. The less difficult to say exactly what il is about. a little with the line Certainly, it's a very personal statement work so impressive, it is difficult to I've got a sweat-suit, I've got thoughtful, I am sure feel that sub overplay the fecUng of its significance, . . stance through the gentle to raging and 1 am hesitant to try to dissect his a silver boot • - • material. To verbalize my interpretations not unlike the first time I hcardCat describing inanely the spaceman's gear. guidance of her pure and powerful voice. threatens to take the edge off any Stevens or Melanie. If we can say he is Still, a competent waxing by a good response someone else might feel on as direct and parsonable and worthy of Aussie band that deserve more notice If one detects a.deep humanity first hearing. In olher words, there arc respect in his origins as were Cat Stevens here and overseas. Maybe, if they cut about this singer it is because her art things for you to discover on your own and Melanie (and that's saying a lot), an album m the U.S. or somewhere - and nature cannot be separated. At here. Roadsigns have been erected along let's hope he neither loses his feeling and realized what they had in Mick a time when the success of pop bands the way, thaking the form of personal nor relegates his talent to commercial Kettes, they'd make it. and personalities are based more on explanations and whimsical annotations. ism. It will be our loss. the quantity of zap-powwee publicity (However, in the case of "I am Pegasus" B.F.S. than quaUty of musicianship "Free BUI Holdsworth Fall Through Featherless Flight" is a welcome sound. It may be surprising to those of us who look overseas for our musical Ralph Tyrell, Graham Lowndes, of'persistence of vision' it is Jean FREE FALL THROUGH satisfaction to know that most of the Reg Livermore and Patrick Flynn, Lewis. FEATHERLESS FLIGHT songs on the album are Australian Jamie McKinley and Jean Lewis, "If ever, as Ted Robinson once Jeannie Lewis compositions, as indeed it may be Ralph Schneider, Billy Green, wrote, there was someone who could surprising to know that the album Peter Sculthorpe and Michael Carios. make you laugh with their sheer EMI Label itself was nroduced in Australia on The last words I'U leave to Chris audacity, make short hairs stand up the meagre budget of $8,000. The Winter, compere of ABC Radio's on Ihe back of your neck, and cause "ours is not a collection of skills' musical arranger, Michael Carlos, is "Room to Move" programme: you to wonder at your own-perimeters but an eradication of blocks" - partiaUy responsible for its quaUty. "If ever there was a personif it is Jean Lewis" Jeszy Grotowski, But so too arc each of the composers: ication of the film-makers' concept B.P. PAGE 24 THE END EDITOR BUSINESS PUBUCATIONS MANAGER SECRETARIES ann-maree o'keeffe Who arc the Chaplains? They arc clergymen appointed by the Churches Christians can be found sharing together to offer a Christian ministry on campus. informally in Room G 19 Social Science What do (he Chaplains do? Bldg. You are welcome to drop in, share Counselling in personal and spiritual prob your thoughts, have a chat over a cup lems. Conduct of worship. Conduct of of coffee. Arranged by the EvangeUcal study and discussion groups. Support of Christian societies on campus. Union (E.U.) What are the names of (he Chaplains? Rev. Denis Conomos (Q'ld Council of EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Churches) (6-10 PM) Rev. Father Vincc Hurley (Roman CathoUc) David Peake, Pastor Peter Boesch (Lutheran) Phone 706718. 70-8707 Where can the Chaplains be kicated? In the Social Sciences Annexe. Proceed dirough the basement of the Social Sciences Buildmg. The rooms are - 2A, 28 and 2C. When can (he Chaplains be seen? Rev. Dents Conomos - daUy 9 am to 5 pm Rev. Father Vince Hurley -daily 2 pm to 5 pm. (in the momuigs, Fr. Hurley may be contacted at St. Leo's CoUege). Pastor Peter Boesch - Wednesdays 9 am to 12.30 pm. (Anyone requiring thesrvicesof an Anglican clergyman may contact Rev. Dr. Pcler Carnley at St. John's CoUege - ph. 70-8171). 10<7oDISC0UNT What ue the r^ular activities conducted TODAY, by the Chaplahis? TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Kfass - Fr. Hurley - Mondays and TOMORROW FrWay, 1.10 pm. Room GO 1, OR NEVER ? Maths BuUding Worship - Includuig bible study, YOUR JEAN AND GEAR CENTRE SEMPER FLOREAT; prayer, sharing (Rev. (bnomos) - Thursdays, 1.10 pm, Room GOl, ISSUES, Maths BuUding ALBERT STREET, BRISBANE Meeting for Lutheran Student (Opposite The Pavilion) MAY 2ND. FeUowship with Pastor Boesch INDOOROOPILLY SHOPPINGTOWN Wednesdays 1.10 pm. Room 39, Forgan Smith'BuUding. (iii) Bandying Zen and Tao aphorisms mystif to come to terms with tiie problem of violence ies the real applications and effects of the martial in Uie martial arts and assess the martial arts martial arts arts upon society. While die warrior caslcs of philosophy. One might ask: "is tiiere a 'philos Japan doubtlessly practised tea serving and flower ophy' invcrtved?" For one finds Utile arranging, Ihey often played a rutiiless and systematic Uiought of closely reasoned eUiical oppressive role in the wars of the feudal period argumenU in the writings of Oyama, Rhee(Jhoon), Dear Sir, and epoch of hnperial restoration. Sometimes Henry Qiow, Hong Choi, Kim Soo, Inaza Nitole, they woufc) sell their skiUs to Uie highest bidder Yamaguchi •.;.„. or Uie article in question. I'm. The Martial Arts Article in die Semper or brutally suppress ^oradic peasant revolts. sotry to say dial more oftenithan not, sudi before last, whUe certainly competently The fact Uiat thev tended to embellish the, shaU "philosophying" has only one relation lo leisearched and weli-writ(en, tended tike the we say, cut and thrust ot theii skills with social philosophy - t&ough Kant, but in thiscase present.ctop of Kung-fu movies, lo mystify niceties and aesUtetically pleasing ceremony b wiUia'X^ ^' the role of the Martial Arts Ul Sociely. To be . somethuig of a red herrhig if one does not take brief, I shall state my objections Uius: their violence into account. Any good mercen Col Moore, ary knows.that he must keep hb gun clean, hb mind alert If your wits, reflexes, in short, a 6tfi Gup, (j) Martial Arts "philosophy" has always great deal of your mental apparatus is your Tae Kwon Do. been fra^le and Umited at the t>est of times. weap(»iry, tiien intricate routines and meticutous- \ It has come from the left hand of martial artists ly ordered dbdpUnes keep it weU oiled. tiiemselves and, at best, skilfully avoids major DcarSir. • questions Uke that of violence, al worst, exults 1 wbh lo point out Uiat views and opin^' idolence as a positive virtue. The article glossed ions expressed by some members of the ilnj-: over glaring issues sudi as thb with cloying Zen (iv) The wUdflower bloom of recent martial versity of (Jijeensland Tae Kwon Do Club, ' and Taoist fragments • whldi did in fact have art movies, weaponry (a real problem overseas are not necessarily those held by Club Mem* Uie useful purpose of demonstrating that and down soutii), aU what have you.tends on the bets in general martial arts phUosophy is largely derivative. one hand to revel in die violence and power of However, the executive certainly does die karate, kado, nunchaku, or Kung-fu master not wbh to sUne individual opinions of our (U) The writer quoted MasoUtsu Oyama, Uie white atso ascribing to him inherent virtues. form of the Maitial Arts or any oUier form, Japanese Kalrate master, a tenUi degree black Please remember, no martial art (really a very be It Kung Fu, Kcmpo, Tode, Talkcn, Judo. bell. Thb man Is a perfect example of tiie sophbticated system of armed or unarmed Nhijiuu etc. In fact, we would Uke to stim childish wooOy-headed thinking Uiat prevaUs in offendve and defensive moves) b uiherently ' ulate Uioi^l along the Unes of 'Why am { tiie martial arb. in hb book "What is Karate"? good. How one uses U depends upon one's learning Tae Kwon Do?' be begins hb preface by taUdng of karate's own moraUty, the hunuuuty ofone^s teachers Secondly, a smaU grammatical error, spiritual and meditative aspecb ("Zen and the particular drcumstanoissone finds one- appeared ui Uie forewird of the 'Martial nothingness" perhaps?). On Uie next page seUin (ca. attacked by Utugs). Unfortunately, Arts in Japan' article of Semper Floreat. be boasts, incredible as it may seem, awiut it seems that Oie ktest cult of martial artistry The correct spellii^ of Uie Korean 'karate' has produced more potential kiUen or at least slyle b TAE KWON DO. the number of buUs he was abk) to stun, kill dangerous people than U has non-violent but or otherwise di^se of on tours of Europe competently equipped people Uke tiie fiction and Uie USA. \^le humourous, diis example absolutes or die kung-fu TV series. John Brannock, reveab hoW martial artists have been unable President. to successfuUy syntiiesize the mental attitudes I intend to explore Uiese quesUons more University of Queensland and naked power of tiieir dlsdpUnes. fuUy in a forUicomIng article whidi wilt attempt Tae Kwon Do Club.