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Update: Yoda died last week, survived by his girlfriend. Princess I.eia. Up until the time he died however, Yoda was mol)ile, sexually active and "looking good". 3 cheers for science. Now that Yoda is dead he has been stripped of his crown as Methusalah Mouse, a coveted prize awarded to the oldest mouse in the world. ^,•vX^.^. x. . X \ s •<'^C-0-;:^'->0 ...to join the Russians: GO TO PAQb 57QE) ...to refuse service to the Russians: GO TO PAQb 55(X) I"'-."" '••'.'.-".'•''''-• ;'-'"^",';.~'-,,',":-"i"i'T~^".'.'"TTT•-••'%' .'•.""-;'—^~-—• -r••'_•:;^7"?5'.v'.i|•';!''M'-'j"'VXUl^iiiii'''^ w ,' ii-1 ^ i i lj---;i H'-:; •j^'^J LUi, .I'f 1 lb i'l ;• ' > i-W! hi • M MpJ- '='Kr/rt^-a Hi '1 Semper TM's passed off the mixed netball season in When questioned on the matter she had this to say, style. What sort of style still remains to be deter "It's unfair, we're playing with two GF (gluten-free) mined? The team's effort in the grading matches saw members, an obvious disadvantage. And there's them delegated (relegated?) to Group G. Since teams running round with these GM mutant then the season has seesawed a bit for the freaks engineered specially to get round team, mainly between playing and not our GD's and GK's as well as having playing. Numbers have proved a designer GA's and GS's that can problem on a couple of occasions virtually drop the ball through and has lead to two forfeits the ring. Surely there has to and the last minute ring-in of be something in the legislation AIS star, Trent Kelly. Kelly about it". The officials still was "stoked" to finally be haven't made any comment able to put down the knife on the matter, although word and oranges and have the has it that they're a bit con chance to return to his old fused about the details of the form and set some competi accusation. tive times. Kelly used to be a track runner Despite all of this, Semper TM has managed to Controversy contin notch up one wan, even in the ues to surround the team, constant absence of union Queen- especially Jimmi. His on court pin Margot Blanch. It w^ould tantrums and attitude has been appear she is full of empty promises proving quite a handful and mouth after failing to come through for Timmi ful for the whistle blowers. After strug with the Black Panther tribute tattoo as gling to get through the first half of their well. The only tattoo she's had is a temporary one round 6 match against a high school team, Jimmi of a goldfish that she obtained from a bubble gum skilfully earned Semper TM a go home early card wrapper Timmi was reportedly highly insulted but and the team's second forfeit for the season. Jimmi's then forgot all about it after 7 seconds. affinity for Campus Security grew even stronger, with It would appear that they have a lot work to the blowers threatening to have them escort him off do if they want to make the Group A play-offs. the court after he refused to leave. It's still unclear what caused this reaction from the umpires, although Rumour has it that Semper TM are transforming to a there is some suspicion about possible discrimination hockey team for the next season. The move could pay against homeless bums occurring within the league. off, as several members of the team have quite a repu Allegations of new kind have been launched tation when it comes to deahng with sticks. at several of teams from none other than Semper TM's, Merali Boyle. She claims that some teams are playing with GM members wdthout labelling them. yy>. >Cy>->O0 The following morn, she heaps all her gear in an hour she's whacked something together: she's welded your hip to a jet-propelled bear, with umbrellas for landing in weather. She lights your behind to the neighbour's kid's cheers, you soar up and into the ether. You shoot through the atmosphere off into space, you float slowly away from the whole human race. YOUR AOVKNIURE ElfeS HtWB. :i,:iB^^I# ^ 15.05.05 Jf Dear Diary, As I've always said, Optimus Prime is a good guy, but sometimes he \ / really annoys me! Tlie problem is I find it really hard to read his facial expressions-he's a fucker at poker. , , r,n . • , / asked him for a favour today and he knocked me back. Wliat a tight The* PoUoWinq are* dlarg ex- /•• arse' Tp be fair diary, he is a robot, so I guess he would be. But it wasn't frc3c>& pP banng Witvvfcky, even a big favourI^Tasked him to do was to incinerate that guy who yells son; oP Sspikp vyifvyickg, and sings hymns in the Great Court. No biggie really. Or, if he didn't 1- I want to incriminate himself- since we haven't got that hardcore laser the onlg ii^umaha whca fliG* gun technology yet • he could always transform into his Prime J^over Aufobbf-s, ditre Prlpncl& v/lth. mode and run him over. • Sometimes, I wish I had made friends with No humans 171 csiy^^ contact Megatron or Starscream; they are way more trigger happy, and besides, .9 they seem to have all the fun. After I asked him for that tiny favour he with the DpczepticcDns, be- went on a big moral crusade about how we have to "love everyone" and be caus6> I everyone: -.k "peaceful with all beings; respect life; hate death". Then I went, "what Megatrpn i£>, a: Megacaii^lr about this shit between you and the Decepticons?" Yeah, he didn't say anything then. I shut him down good. Wliat a pussy. J reckon Fll just bot jdshd ;yievy% ;tjs^ threaten to tell the boys about his impotency problems if he continues this i- :> creatilir0£» to be driushi^. way. Two words Optimus: "Mechanical Malfunction." Or here's two •i/._'T;..':/vr.' :..'•..•. ^ ;.;•'• more, "Big Gun." \X•'"^^:^•.."'•:.•^'..^^.: "• f-v •\ -f (I D I C. P/T- 0" 5.07.03 Dear Diary, >^lyf^d. 6„< Hey. r,n cra.:LuuJ^^%f,!;:^^^^^^^^ . IS bald. I mean, I guess thafs not thai hr,/ , ,7 , '"* " """ s^e Or mt. (Note to,elf-Ask nZ f , "'"'" '°''* "' ^«'"" Goodrem diary:.ne...,nLeZZtlal\'Z7)1Zn ^ieyionj. i put in a drawing of 7""""T''"'"'her for you'^ rvmwLtti -w m i^Mi witL""ivsii \\E^ oar tc ; •' ''•^••••,'•'.rj1i;VJ';,'jV^••i!;•^{•t'-v•..*",. •.; '.,' '••::y-J^0±fS''fyy-/-'ry • \yy:^i v:y:s^^ \'ym. '.•::yy4 07.07.03 Dear Diary, WhaCs the fucking deal! Fm dying of a broken heart: she rejected me. What a cold, no hearted, mecJianical bitch. Wliy? Is the fad (hat she i 12"6 robot and Fm only a 5"6 human really matter? I heard that size doesn't matter, it's how you use it. Well that was bullshit - damn metrosexuals! I know pops told me never to date a taller woman, and I bet her dad said the same thing, but really, I thought love conquered all. Perhaps it's the age difference, with her being 45G8years old and me being only 18. I guess she has a lot more experience, but that's what I'm after. And then there's the whole long distance relationship thing. With her living on Cybertron and me living on earth, I guess those 655 years of light year travel would be a bit of a strain - but I told her I'd cook her breakfast in the morning. Not to mention the satellite phone bill would be a bitch, with Telstra raising their rates again. And the stupid Decepticons too, always trying to blast her into a million metalloid pieces. Wliy can't they just work their problems out? So maybe I'm just going to have to "wake up and smell the oil" like they say on Cybertron; accept the fact that trans-species relationships just don't work. Maybe I should bring her a present to .5 ^•!7i''-'\^tail;li;UU\^^/wi ^\k^ U.07.03 Dear Diary, , , , She has left. Tlie Autobots fixed their ship and are on their way back to Cybertron. I am heartbroken. They said they would return, but I doubt that. What willl do? Maybe death is the only way out. Or maybe I should change to engineering and build my own rocket. No, I think death would be easier. Much easier. But maybe she's playing hard to get. Tiiese women - they're all the same. I was always the best friend - the one she could confide in. But when it came to love, it was all •Terminator this" and 'Terminator that." As if I cared. I've never seen Arnie cry - he's no real man. Wliat a sham. Fm over her now diary, and I mean it this time. Fm through with robots; Fm going back to internet dating - at least then I can lie about my height. • .• .. •,.- •...•••;j y-'^-^y^ :•;>.•: .;^*M ry.€M^ ', "•,'•*' /•.'•'' w;;- •:.J•.-•;;;•{>';v ^v: y.;^;.:;•• y^f-i'• yi::hy!:^:iyiy:y!^'.'^•nm'iii'i •••: yyyM^:msyy<:^-ityi.i^dm^pi^^ After being in Australia for two months, it's become readily apparent that my native America is far from loved here. Market Day had several political stalls dedicated to disassembling the capitalist, and in effect, American way of life. Socialist Alternative even spent an entire meeting documenting America's misdeeds from inception to present. Wherever I go, I can't help but run across anti-American political sentiment. From the bottom of my heart, I say, "Awesome." Of course, we'll always have good old John Howard on our side, but bedding down with a radioactive porcupine isn't exactly my idea of a good time. After my one-semester stint here, I get to witness an election between two sides of the same corrupt coin. I have about as much faith in John Kerry as I do in a bridge made out of marshmallows. Don't forget that Clinton bombed Iraq in the name of "weapons inspections", laying the precedents for Bush's war. Meanwhile, Nader has the audacity to search for votes after vanishing in the aftermath of the hijacked election of 2000, when we needed him the most. As we speak, America is threatening Iran and Syria, continues to support Ariel Sharon's brutal regime, and has put troops in Haiti, all in the name of order, stability, and democracy. There have even been chilling whispers of reinstituting the draft. Admittedly, after the World Trade Center bombing, most Americans were full of misdirected, righteous fury. Bush, while far from being a master manipulator, knew how to wave a red flag in front of a bull. Before the smoke cleared. Bush was already making "wanted dead or alive" proclamations about Osama. (Just so you know, the all-out search for Osama started this past April.) When I marched on Washington against the war in Afghanistan, we were a loudly dissenting minority of anarchists, socialists, and other progressive leftys. The Bush regime proved early that it would brook no resistance. During the two hour feeder march of a 500- strong anti-capitalist, anti-war contingent (AKA the black bloc) of which I was a part, a police truck drove through our crowd (yes, make your Dead Kennedys jokes), several people were arrested for no discernable reason, and various people were beaten and/or pepper sprayed. My friend Charlie got sprayed in the face, and three years later, he still describes it as one of the most painful things that he has ever undergone. As you all know, despite our best effors, the war goes through. Fast forward to the second Iraq war. Bush gives up on one American-trained maniac and decides to go after another. Apparently Daddy's first bombing run and starvation-inducing embargo wasn't enough. But this war isn't the near-unanimous bandwagon that Afghanistan was. Millions of Americans came out in force through the mind-numbing cold to fill the streets of Washington DC and NYC. People from all states and walks of life drove hours or days to demand that if Bush wanted a war, his two blonde spawn should fight too. But sometimes the largest movements are dwarfed by the courageous actions of a few. Brandon Hughley and Jeremy Hinzman, two American infantrymen, have escaped to Canada rather kill or be killed for cheap oil and American hegemony. They have applied for refugee status. If they fail, they will be sent home to spend 5-10 years in a military prison. If they succeed, they can never see American soil again. After studying abroad for just two months, I've learned how important home's simple pleasures can be: walking down to my favorite taco joint, knowing all the paths through the local woods, hugging my best friends. The idea of having that stripped away from me for following my conscience is unbearable. Hughley and Hinzman's courage give me the strength to keep fighting against my country's atrocious injustice. But chances are, if you're reading Semper, I'm preaching to the choir. So why is this seppo ranting about the American Empire? The mainstream, corporate media portrays the American population as an army of unified, straw-chewing, Aryan psychopaths with no stronger desire than to rid the world of "those darn Arabs." I'm writing to say we aren't all like that. Nor are we in the vast minority, huddling in a basement for fear that our political sentiments will get us "disappeared." Dissent is alive and well in America, despite our President's attempts to squash it. You fighl here, I'll fight there, and someday, we'll wm. Not since Big Brother has there been a show that everybody sees ' I'Avcvcr, 1 ilidn'i aKvavs feci this way - ns 1 snv, at mu' sta.^e 1 but nobody watches. Now, in a selfless act of covert journalism ''i'^^',^^!^! ^^'^^ ^""^'1^' ^^'i'''' ''''^^" '^"•'i''\^ P^^''^' ^^'^^ '^^y *''';^' ^•"nciusSvc , Semper's own Jimmi provides the most comprehensive ami in- "P"siirc fo Natalie's .Achilles I Icel. IVoni this experience I rea.lisul sightful post-mortem of Brisbane's My Restaurant Rules - "'Ihe •'^'" >^''"'i''^' '^'^^^ ''^ '•><> ^''^^^' '•^^'"•i"^' .iddrcsscd the fnct that she was Death of a Showman." '^^''''•' '" '''•"^ '* restaurant, which meant she refused to accept that when il canic to shit iuttine; the hut the buck stopped with her. There was never .nn doubt that the linsbane couple, .Simon Naiurally she was tine when it came to accepting the oraiiiudc ol ;i nd X.iiaiie. hud some ileep seated personal issues that \KXikx\ satished customer- Mhat was me, Natalie, 1 did that.' She was iwn: resclvin,.-.. Despite this, 1 )oined the .Mvlk team one week after ihe '"^^' <^'^''^"'<-' ''^^''i' ^'^'^''i ^houu^h she had no concepuon of what i; openinn of die resiaurant with the firmlv held heltef that Hris- ^^''^'" l^^' satisiied, how it was achieved of how it couk! he reix-aied haue was a realistic conieuder to take out the (werall title. This ^ust look at her relationship). Natalie tlisplaycd all the classical isn't lo sav the resi.turani w.is .in\ IMHHI, r.uher, I r.ited Hrishane's p.ifamecium characteristics that 1 observed way hack in Cirade 11 cii.iiu-es based on \w undersi.mdinu, of the realitv T\' breakdown h''>l(\i;v - stimulus/response; if she was poked on the left, she'd - "ir tlu'\- can't i^nKliicc ti, it newr happened." So we could work '""^•^' '"'.^ht; if you wanted her lo move left, you'd poke her on the through the p.iihetic atieni|^ts at le.uiership trom our star couple, ",^ht. reliiHjuish them ot ihe burden ot an\ .ictual work and steer this realitv jiu;L-,ern.iut low.n-ds national success and acclaim. We were >''<* dispensii\ti with the speculation, the t'ollowinu is the situation |ila\inu a detensive ^.ime; r.iiher than tr\iiyn to win, we were irving ''^'^' clarities her true a]iproach to restaurantecring: not IO lose. I lowever, like manv a superhero betore me, mv calcula- ' •ipproached Natalie the tlay after Sydney and Perth were an- lions failcil to account the fatal tlaws that would see our eventual nouncetl for nomination. demise Natalie's .\chilles 1 leel. with the harsh ilualit\- of her JIM.MI: So Natalie, now that die focus is off us for at least a week. *\'anii\/Denial' s\ndromc, .md Simon's Krypionite of 'Channel"" '^'*^\" '^ 'he time to do somethinn; that secures our position at'ier one production mentality.' "' 'l^"^'^'-' I^V'>.^oes. N.\r.\ 1.11.: The locus is .ilwavs on us jimmi It must be s.itd dial it was casv tor me io be critical. 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Some tltm^s never change. li TUE 7.30 RIGHT STUFF • 15 :! ri B TUE 3PM EDUCATING RITA 5.15 BETRAYAL 7.30 EDUCATING RITA 9.30 BETRAYAL 19 until they injected me with something so that I couldn't make any noise at all. My muscles seemed to convulse on their own, and they came out of me eventually bloody and wailing, and were taken away. When I had been cleaned and given something else to keep me quiet, I saw the man standing by the door, and knew that he was the one who had unlocked the chamber and wakened me. He Well ofcourse it's not for a hundred years, girl!" said the called me Beauty, I called him "My Prince" as tradition required, attendant irritably as he waited for me to change into the and with those words I became a woman and bound to him hospital gown. "What ridiculous stories children tell each forever. other. It's simply for a few months, and when you wake up it won't seem like any time has passed at all." When I had recovered from what they call the female illness, we went together to the partnered section, where I spend most "But it does pass, doesn't it?" I asked. of my time with the other sequestered women. Occasionally My Prince comes from the men's quarters and Ues with me. It "We can't stop time girl! You will wake as a woman. But is painful, and when I cry out he hits me. His greatest pleasure you won't notice the time passing when you're asleep." iHe comes when I am silent and still underneath him, as if in sleep. reached over and retied the back of the gown. I shivered Some women whisper that they enjoy lying with their partners away from his hands, and then remembered where I was and I wonder if they endure the agony for the comfort of another and was still. "Be thankful you no longer reach woman body beside them; the love of their Prince. hood by giving birth, as your ancestors did." None of them remember the time they became women, and I I had never spoken to a man before in my life, and I felt believe it is the drugs we are given that haze our minds. They unbearably self-conscious in front of him in the flimsy remember falling asleep, a vague memory of dreams of thorns, gown. I almost began to anticipate the sleep, and the new and the blurry wakening to their Prince, the man who was able to person I would be when I woke. I looked forward to have unlock their chamber. They tell their girls about the tradition of a baby of my own to raise; going to the centre with the becoming a woman and how one day they will be awakened from other newly partnered women, and picking a small girl. I a dreamless sleep by a Prince of their own. The girls whisper to had decided long ago that I wanted her to have blue eyes. each other the old tale of sleeping for a hundred years. The attendant led me to the bed in the unadorned room, The boys are raised by the men, and I imagine they are brought and I lay down on top of the covers. The bed was hard up knowing that there will come a day when they will be given a and narrow, and I felt slightly sick with nerves. I reminded key to a locked door, and be able to possess the Beauty that lies myself that my time here would feel like no time at all, and within, asleep and unknowing. tried to take comfort from the idea. The air was cold, and I could feel hairs rising on my exposed skin. I no longer wonder why the drugs didn't take my memories from me, and I have not told my girl what I recall. I would not have Benny, the woman who had raised me, had told me enough her question my sanity, as it is hkely she will remember nothing to prepare me for the ceremony of womanhood. I knew of her womanhood ceremony, except the dreams all women share. that while I was asleep they would take care of me. My I want her to live with the hope of something else beyond this muscles would be manipulated to keep them strong and I life we lead - that one day there may be more than the Prince, would be fed intravenously They would clean my waste and the forest of thorns. I and ensure that the door to my room remained properly locked. My stomach was tight with tension as several white-coated attendants inserted needles into my skin. ^^ "Comfortable there, girl.^" said one. "Now, hold still, and this won't hurt a bit. Sweet dreams." iHe injected me. I fell into the darkness watching blood trickle down my arm. They lie when they tell us that we won't notice the passing ^ of time. I dreamed long dreams of making my way through ~ an endless forest of briars; pushing through a maze of thorns that cut me like knives. I woke to pain, whimpering as I opened my eyes, and then S I looked down at my body and I screamed and screamed >i.i •! 'iffrfjl-r;C?>.iT.-•.--J7'..% -^.'• A source close to V-C John Hay has confirmed for Semper what was previously only a rumour circulating in hushed whispers around Australia's art community. Professor Hay fancies himself as a bit of an artiste! And when your nickname is 'John the Build er' - well, you do the maths.... Finally a $6M self portraituregallery makes sense. f. mmBi ••••: '^htfynf~<'''^r ^!:'"i • I liC-ii-^-S: ;•:.:: I.I ••^ ^^-:.L,r i:-'c:)R'T'RAlTUR.S I y( ?kCIN(:3 liNT'O A !V6.lE,iRX3iR I .fl^r -<^p v' Mid April, around five, the daylight was just holding off '•.''j':i'i>^.'.. . fTr'Ji'i:-' the gloom. I was walking along the path in front of Forgan "OK, but do we really need a self portraiture gallery?" Smith, away from the SS&H library towards the opening night festivities of the James and Amelia Mayne Centre, bet "Well what else are you going to do with Mayne Hall?" ter known as a Self Portraiture Gallery "Maybe something for the students, or do nothing at all and Three white marquees dominated the grassy area in front use the 5 million dollars to put some more tutors on?" of the gallery A distinctive building which over the past six months has been pieced together from the broken shell of a "Well we only got the 5 mil for the gallery and anyway univer partly demolished Mayne Hall. sities can be about more than classrooms, they can be about .-'•; culture and extracurricular learning." -I I got closer to the celebrations and saw that black tie was the go for the 50 or so opening nighters who had arrived eariy to "A4aybe so but shouldn't the first priority always be students?" really soak in the self portraiture. A table with another 100 or so name tabs was manned by a small army of smiling, dead "It's a fine distinction... saaaay why don't we go for a spin?" eyed hosts and hostesses so I guess the part)' hadn't redly started yet. "Will the Bentley's owner mind?" I was now standing on the corner of the ring road. I heard "No he's an old friend, plus I'm an excellent driver." the deep purr of a sky blue Bentley behind me, the car pulled ii up and out stepped John Hay (UQ's Vice Chancellor). "You don't say?" .»^'•^;•.-^ "Hey How's it going", he greeted me with. "Well I did win the Australian rally Championship when I was !.>:-, : teaching in WA." ^;'-- '• "Oh not bad, say that's a great car have but I guess you can afford it on $620,000 a year. Ho Ho." "Alright." K,l-:' • "Well I could afford it, I suppose", he said as he looked wis^ So I hopped in, John Hay threw the big British machine into FS'--7?.'! K'J" I fully towards the river. gear and off we sped. ^'C : Ssi.;. . "But it's not mine." Rv;''.>-d "Maybe if I told you the story of how the gallery came into ^tVZ'v I "I didn't pick you as the kind of Vice-Chancellor to steal cars, being you'd be a httle less sceptical?" began the Vice-Chancel that's more of the Griffith or Bond thing." lor. '-•y;yf,\ :.-.• . .••.•.*,'! "No I didn't steal it either, the guy we hired to park the cars "Sure, I love a good yarn". came down sick so I stepped into the drivers seat as it were." "About eighteen months ago I was standing in my office, lookr "That's pretty committed." ing out the window, surveying the destruction that was the Vice Chancellor's Bus Stop Beatification Enlargement Pro "Well I really wanted this night to go smoothly I've put a lot gram. You know, I've always found comfort in building sites, fitle.:^ into this project." but maybe that's just because dirt is my favourite colour. That day my mind had been wandering, maybe I had a feeling that % "So have the students." UQ wasn't doing enough for its students but I think I just m "No, It's not like you think we got 5 out of the 6 million we had a bad ham roll for lunch. Then it was like I had developed needed to build the thing from a philanthropist I met in a tunnel vision, you know when you get a black circle around bar." your vision and you focus in on a point, nothing peripheral comes into it. The point I just happened to focus on was this "How did you know he was a philanthropist?" little yellow bobcat making its way out of the giant hole that used to be the roundabout. At that time of the afternoon the "I didn't know, I was just taking self portraiture and he was sun sinks behind the Biol sciences library, so there was very interested." little direct sunlight. But one of the rays of the setting sun wmmm^^^^^!^^^^^^f^^W^ Mii^W'y'y' ^m^my^'. il'Wtjv'-'T*"./".'••• .'• • Jf**yi^'.4v.k-.; •.;= • f^fterV'•;•''. caught the windscreen of that little bobcat and it was like a and be with for a while. There is unquestionable good to Divine presence was shining the light of revelation into my have come out of this thing. Sure some of us still have no soul. A sly smile crept across my Face until it was an enor tutes, sure there's sdll aparrows in the wall of the Forgan ••••<;.'•!: 1 mous grin. Bigger than the smile 1 had when the Uni gave me Smith, sure some of us don't have the resources necessary to do the research we want to but in the end all of us have the ^m-i $700,000 interest free loan to buy a house. In fact I think at that moment 1 had the gift of perfect clarity, I knew exactly opportunity to go and see some exceptional painting and what had to he done... I had to build a self portraiture gallery that's more than we can reasonably expect in these rational not just any .self portraiture gallery but one with a whole istic times. shitload of glass and a reflecting pool and sliding doors and everything. I grabbed the shovel that I keep in the corner of my office and was halfway out the door before I realised 'd./:. ^VM that this would be a joh too big for one man. So I sat down and started drawing, first it was just self portraits hut later I drew up a couple of designs for the gallery itself The next 12 hours llew hy so fast I have only the vaguest recollection but World Refugee Day V my secretary said she found me the next morning surrounded by coffee cups and gallery designs. Sure we didn't use any of June 2 004 /4g them but you can tell how excited I was." J ni.-3 "I'll het." RALLY&MAECH I In the time it had taken John Hay to tell the story we had gone around the block in record rime. I should never have nam Saturday 19 June King George Square •• doubted his claim that he was an excellent driver. The final handbrake turn spin into a park just outside the gallery Speakers ;; scaled the deal, he had completed the journey • ;:-S.-> ! )/(i In that split second, the man disappears, you murmur: '^..nought could I have done..." Thus you remain, you're dwelling for years upon years - all company shunned. So much so in fact, your old owner Firs gets bored of you; he thinks you're no fun. At his annual sale, in the garage out back, this kid picks you up; to stay calm or attack? ...do you zap the kid: GOT TO PACK 32 ...or will you let him take you: GO TO PAGE 21 23 GIMS! V. WANT TO GO TO UMIVtRSITY? CAN'T AFFORD IT? Why not HAVE A BABY!!! Af $3000 per child/ you're only f 3 kids away from a law degree!!! oO'C'C-: When he's purchased and taken you to his abode, the boy realises you're useless. You don't shoot or explode, make his sister a toad, so he gives you to her (her name's Candice). Candice turns out to be handy with gizmos, screwdrivers, fur toys, rockets, umbrellas. 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'' I- i^OlltrAJ/ii't'iii^i. ! ;ii '";';'•' 'ii:i' 'U!K'!! ! ••my •-' iii ':"bH' •iC':eMvin'^ rojponjibiliW for vour !io(! Here are the facts of two separate, but related, institution alised forms of economic exploitation of Indigenous work A 25~ycxir-old man works fiue days a week, labour ers - Underpaid and Stolen Wages. ing under the Queensland sun. At tloe end of his 40'hour plus week he receives nothing for his effo7ls hut a bag of Underpayment four, some tea and perhaps some meat. He has no choice but to come back lo work next week, because he is under Throughout Australia's history Indigenous people a "compulsoiy labour contract". If he refuses to work he had been paid less than minimum wages. This became could be put into jail or suffer other forms of punishment, illegal on 31 October 1975, when the Commonwealth including co>poralpunishment or removal from hisfam- Racial Discrimination Act (the 'RDA') came into force. How ".v. ever, the Queensland government, under Sir Joh Bjelke- Petersen, continued to underpay Indigenous people until A 14-year-old girl is sent lo work as a domestic in the October 29 1986 when award wages were introduced in home of a farming family. She spends all day cleaning most Aboriginal communities. This shift in policy did not the house, caring for the children and preparing meals arise as a result of a sudden that the practice of underpay but is allowed only to eat the scraps from the dinner she ing Indigenous workers was racist and morally abhorrent, prepared, later, aloiw, before she goes to sleep in a shed orbu t rather as a reaction to a series of legal actions and po on the veranda. Some nights she suffers unwelcome and litical pressure from Indigenous workers and trade unions. violent night-time visits from her male 'employer. She is told her wages are.heing held in an account in Bris The landmark case was initiated in 1985, by a bane. She doesn'/ have access to this account, so when group of 7 Palm Islanders who had been underpaid over she needs neiv shoes she has to apply to the local "Protector many years by the State Government. They made their of Aborigines", who inevitably takes a healthy cut for the claim under the RDA which states that it is unlawful for an trouble he goes to, "administenng " her wages. employer to pay people different wages because of their race and sought back payment for the years of depriva This was the reality for generations of Indigenous tion and discrimination they had suffered under the aus people, and much of it was legal under the racist 'Protec pices of the 'Protection Acts', it took more than a decade tion Acts' enacted between 1897 and 1984. While the for their complaint to be decided. early forms of exploitation of Aboriginal labour were more overtly brutal and racist, abuses continued well into the While the seven complainants acted together, their second half of the twentieth century, in fact into at least experiences under the 'Protection Acts' varied, as did the the 1980s, and some would argue it continues today, amount of money they were underpaid. The largest finan with the widespread use of "work for the dole" schemes in cial loss suffered was almost $21,000, by Fred Lenoy and Indigenous communities. the smallest amount claimed was $8,500 but in the end, the complainants were each awarded a 'blanket sum' of The atrocities of child removals and the Stolen $7,000 compensation. For most the offer was much less Generations have been widely discussed in the public than half of their loss. Although the compensation offer arena, especially since the Bringing Them Home report was totally inadequate, the decision ^N^S valuable in that was tabled in the Federal Parliament in 1997, but the it gave the first official acknowledgement of this form of atrocities of exploitation of Indigenous labour, and the institutionalised racial discrimination. theft of their wages and savings is much less well known. There is plenty of comment in the media on poverty In On 31 May 1999, the Beattie government made communities and debate over the issue Indigenous an offer to Indigenous workers underpaid between 31 "Aboriginal welfare dependency", but of October 1975 and 29 October 1986. $25 million dollars there is little discussion of the history of was made available to workers who are able to prove economic disparity between Indig that they were underpaid during the eleven year period. enous peoples and the rest of the Each worker is eligible for a single payment of $7 000. •) Australian population. The offer doesn't extend to 'mission workers', who lived on settlements run by Churches, and there is no consid This article is written to acknowl eration of the amount of money underpaid or whether edge a blatant social injustice. a sorry state of affairs by meg breen the worker was employed for the entire 11 -year period or report from the Normanton Protector, who stated: for only one day during the period. To accept the offer a "A large number of individuals have an idea that they worker must waive his or her right to take legal action for can trade an aboriginal as they would a horse or abuse suffered under the 'Protection Acts'. bullock. One lady informed me that an aboriginal had been left to her by will". Stolen Wages In a social climate where such ignorance and racism Workers underpaid before 1975 have received no com existed, it seems almost inevitable that the police and pensation so far. The policy of underpaying, or failing other government agents charged with 'protection' of to pay Indigenous workers at all, was in place from the Indigenous people would abuse their position. beginning of colonisation, starting with the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 Where did the wages go? fGidj. An act based on ignorance and racism which created offensive, dehumanising classifications such 3s> The 'Queensland Aborigines Account' was a single 'half-castes' for members of Queensland's aboriginal com bank account holding all the savings of Indigenous munities. The act also "created two classes of Aboriginal people working for employers outside officially des people" those who the government declared wards ignated Aboriginal settlements. These people were of the state, a status which allowed the government to forced to make compulson/ deposits until 1966. Au control all aspects of their lives, including their wages and thorities could access the fund without the consent of savings, and those who managed to obtain a certificate the wage earner. There was widespread fraud as well of exemption. But 3^ respected Aboriginal academic Jackie as outright theft of these monies. Indigenous people Huggins has pointed out, "exemption came of huge per who were living on Government controlled settle sonal costs". These costs included separation from family ments, reserves or communities also had their wages and land, and the breaking or straining of social, spiritual, and savings 'managed' in accounts held in 'trust' in and cultural ties. As Huggins argues, "the legislation suc a series of accounts held at the Government Savings ceeded in its intention to divide and rule the physical and Bank. From 1972 Aboriginal people could request to psychological lives of Aboriginal people". manage their own accounts and by the early 1990s, these savings accounts were closed and the remain Compulsory government labour contracts in force from ing balances were distributed . 1904 imposed many harsh conditions including compul sory confinement on those people deemed to be 'wards Local historian Rosalind Kidd has provided estimates of the state'. The living are^^^ provided by employees or of the total value of misappropriated or sto\er^ funds on the missions were often appalling but the Indigenous to be in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars. 'wards' were given little choice e^s refusing to comply She argues that successive Queensland governments with a government order could result in punishment or drew or[ these accounts to fund public projects, in removal from the community. This was situation of many cluding the building of hospitals, and points out that Aboriginal people until 1971 when forced confinement unpaid and underpaid Indigenous labour helped to on Aboriginal reserves was abolished in Queensland. build the modern state of Queensland. Indigenous workers' wages went directly to police 'Pro The Reparations Offers - A Sorry State of tectors'. Aboriginal workers had to apply for permission Affairs from the Protectors if they wanted to access their savings. Sometimes "pocket money" was handed out by the em In May 2002, the Beattie Government made a 'repara ployer, however often Aboriginal workers r\eyer actually tions' offer to people whose wages and savings were received any of the money they earned but were instead controlled under the 'Protection Acts' between the given ra'(\or{S. in the form of clothing and food. This was 1890s and 1980s. If Indigenous workers accept a system that facilitated exploitation mo fraud, rather than the offer, which entitles them to a payment of either offering ary form of real protection from exploitative pri $2,000 or $4,000 depending on their date of birth vate employers, of which there were undoubtedly many. {^2,000 for those who were born between 1 January Historians Castle and Hagan, relate details from a 1903 1952 and 31 December 1956, and $4,000 for those born on or before 31 December 195 i |, they must waive the following: their right to pursue any legal action against the Govern 1. Throughout history, up until the present Indigenous ment in relation to abuses or financial loss suffered under workers in Queensland have been denied the wages and the 'Protection Acts'. This indemnity clause has been savings they have rightfully earned. described by HREOC Commissioner William Jonas as "a 2. In 1996 HREOC found that successive Queensland gov sneaky, back-door way of silencing the claims of the stolen ernments had been raciaWy discriminatory in their treat generations". ment of Indigenous employees, by failing to pay them For those Indigenous people who have already accepted award wages. the offer there is no longer the option to pursue any legal 3. The current reparation offers by the Beattie govern remedies for the racially discriminatory treatment they ment are woefully inadequate and insulting to Indigenous suffered under the 'Protection Acts'. It has been estimated workers. that since 1999, the Government has paid out approxi 4. Nondndigenous people have benefited from the mately 5000 people underpaid in the period from 1975 unpaid labour of Indigenous people, both directly and in to 1986 , In an inten/iew with ABC radio, Beattie Minister directly via government spending on public works (includ Judy Spence said that in a survey of 4,500 people eligible ing roads and hospitals] using Indigenous peoples wages for the 2002 offer, it was estimated that around 96% of and savings. those surveyed intend to accept the offer, This is a claim disputed by Dr Kidd, who argues that most people are Next time you hear someone commenting on the "welfare not intending to accept the offer and in fact "view it as dependency" of Aboriginal people or blaming Indigenous an insult". In any case, thousands of Indigenous people people for the high levels of poverty in their communities, have already accepted the offers, thereby waiving their try to remember these four facts. The current situation right to legal action for higher amounts. of widespread Indigenous poverty was created by more than a century of institutionalised racial discrimination The Beattie government's Wages Reparations offer must - a system that exploited and in some cases enslaved, be understood in light of wider political developments. In Indigenous people. This happened in Queensland and it a political environment in which the Federal government happened within the last 30 years. refuses to apologise for centuries of institutionalised racial discrimination, and in a state like Queensland, where not For further information see the works of Rosalind Kidd: so long ago a racist character like Pauline Hanson won a Black Lives, Government Lies (2000) and The Way We seat in the House of Representatives, the potential for pro Civilise (1997). Information is also available at the follow ducing a reasonable compensation offer for Indigenous ing websites: workers was always going to be limited. 1. Queensland Stolen Wages Fact Sheet 15 May (2003) ANTaR Queensland MSBOBaem I speak about National Sorry Day with a small measure of This legacy has resulted in many people finding it difficult insight gained through my work at Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal to maintain close and loving relationships with others, even Corporation, an organisation that works to reunite mem with their own children, and so the cycle of family dysfunc bers of the stolen generation with their families. Link-Up tion continues into current generations. These days, instead (Qld) was started in an alcove in the Aboriginal Child Care of taking Indigenous children in an open attempt to assimi Agency in Brisbane in 1984. Since this time it has grown and late them to white western culture as was done in previous reunited hundreds of people with their Aunilies. Despite the decades, it is now more common that a shockingly large pro wonderful work of Link-Up organisations all over Australia portion ol Indigenous children and young people are sent to there is still a great deal of pain even for those people who correctional institutions or prisons. Ultimately the effect on have been reunited with faniily members. For some people their lives could be very similar. this pain is caused by the impossibility of making up for 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years of not All of this moves me to feel knowing their family and find extremely sorry I'm sorry ing themselves unable to bridge not just because recommen the gaps created between them. dation 7(a) of the Bringing For others the discovery of fam them Home Report (the ily brings the news that they National Enquiry into the have found parents too late as Separation of Aboriginal they have died or, as in one case and Torres Strait Islander I am aware of, their mother vvas children from Their Fami suffering dementia and couldn't lies, 1997) calls fora national remember them and died never by gillian brannigan 'Sorry Day' to be commemo knowing them properly And even for those whose stories rated each year. I'm sorry in have better outcomes there is still sometimes a sense of ir the same way that I am sorry replaceable loss. Most importantly there is the loss of their for someone who has just lost a relative or friend. I think childhood, of .spending time with their parents, family and it is natural to say 'I am sorry for your loss' at such a time. community while they were growing up as well as often rais More than this, I am sorry for the loss this represents for all ing children of their own without the guidance and support of us in this country. We have all lost so much potential and of their family are daily losing more. I am sorry that my ancestors may have turned a blind eye or even contributed to these practices And of course there are those who never find their family, occurring. 1 am sorry that these practices were carried out who will never know what country or people they belong to. by the government institutions that represent me today I Individuals and institutions who removed these children be am sorry that my way of life and the so-called success of this lieved it would be better for them never find their family of nation is premised on the apparent need to carry out these origin so the children's names were changed, often numer practices. I'm really sorry that our whole community can't ous times and the records destroyed. Children were moved understand the need to feel grief and sorrow over what has several times, often great distances to several states, so their happened and how this continuing ignorance inflicts further family's efforts to find them w^ould be hopeless. Add to this damage. I am sorry for the loss of my ability to be proud of the treatment of children that was severe and ongoing and our shared history and how we have dealt with that history we now have many extremely w^ounded people cut off from As white people I believe we have also lost some measure of any hope of finding a sense of peace and belonging. our dignity and honour and as long as we refuse to acknowl edge and feel sorry for these losses we continue to diminish our ability to be compassionate, caring people. It is our loss too. /, 1 K by Merali Boyle ii V. ;•.•:•:•^:•:•:•:^•i^^S ...... * ' ^^y^myy. k<:^^ym0y^myy ,', V•/,,;• •:-• ,''.//•,••.•/J'.\\ 'X'V'-• ••.• • v.-.'.*.-.-« * * • • , v/'% ".•••• '• •^•:\ • N':..-:-•-- ;^ >'.>.S.:.\ ^ :,.^^S>''i'.:>-^S'^^\- •7v\-- They called liim AusiTalia's Leonardo. '•,i?'0 -^Syyuy^y^- ^ .••••;-\.-'' • • He was a wriier. ai) inventor, a sci- '•I'll V \>V-'i ^V'M •'.;.-. i',;iiij!; : • / entisu a lay preacher. Hie is ihe nvm \ '-•y^y.^^y^my:: who sits snViiing oii o\^K^ side of our $50 nore. His nan^e is David Lhv-\ipon. ChaiKes are you"ve never iieard of this iTian. even though you might catch a plimr^se of hin^ in your wallet now and 9/0 '•mys''-' again. Frances Ring, the principal danc 'yy/y' er and co-artistic director of i3angarra <.'/'y vy.- I3ance Theatre vvas intent ow reetiiying that. This is the story of how the danc er, Frances Ring transformed the story of the visional^. David Llnaipon into an exceptional work of dance. w at what inspired him and rhe k aaw he left beliind. j am lucky cnougl> in ^oci.ie ar: line;view with Ring wtio has been a lieroine oi n^ine foi soi^icvinic now. VVI^er^ I ia ihe end. tlie dance ofUn.h'H-.a ^A/r. hreken -nto three sec- call he: a; Bangai^a [}y-r Su.K'i(> hi Synnev wliere slic aoas :ep!t-sen:.iiig tne eM:eioni -aaa;s o: David Unaipon s IS ilie rcside-u rhcreo^^aiiae! anci cianier, I am ieclinj] a ia:-. Kin>; bi^w^ \o c!eso!i>' ^o; aK' ±o sioiy in the calm, littie nervous, (ka yy aiau ri-es ; an: -rappiin^ are quickly ' niei'iiHait way s'a^ has. (iisixMlefi av lai'-^'^ a'^aa''' ''•'i'ra• , !a Ian. Maia!"'" \\'.'y. is •iae ti;^u section is cua.iie wiaiae we portray Unaipon s souiuJin;:^ a Ihiia ii;a'e wi .^-v a' s'ra> Oil ;he oh one to talk •ai V :ilv, I ie wa- laaa :ia- 'aa-iaaciieii iriix' in Scuta Aus- vo n^e. "We'xa \'u->:i\ ^^:y •'.^•^U' H ii:orn'''\;.^'-o \'v:) ioa^'asi, a la^ia, w'-ticti was arau aa' ka-aa Munay area - the Coorong .a'a:v^'ah '^o h'l la- .yyri." . 01 r eaiiausicc. ,;ia.a:ah;! aaiua aa'\' 'aie. \y j people wk^o Iw was from ^.,,a ••.: .. i-v •^.l:•. :M,.::: ^;!a.•-s. naire diiierent irom liie it"! i 'r • man laiaiooa av'^ana'a (-a !JIK <•'. O: iMv-v^ n. ;mer viliav'^e tine a winter \ / k -''O h^a- lo'--! ( a;;aaai 'hV-^••:.' OU-; •!;. : -. moiika aaci tatiier, hor.1 . :^..,- :;, ,1; i l>^a:>' ;0,i''> ^ la ail il a !)->\' > i r ih -.(la ai D(n"uav the youi'ig r\ :•;•• au\^."^ iniC) its jemaie a'ici :: c^a:^ r^ aaoa: UiaiI|)Oi;'s [^eo- ,,.v'a wah A Mibriuec* htaalistic ^^,^; -, ^.v ,, ia;av^aauaiioa ot aie ::i, a w ^:in(, n o: tla- tribr' \\^'a.~ a^- a- ..' aira'a' ^ataa.a'/ .ad visu>;ky :!,•'•.• laaama.avae tia\'-A-' ilhC/aitila s likr> ,\a I a. cil'ia'o-' Unaipon to /Xcielaicii', waeio • '. t' 1. i. ; ' \ • 1 at-, a •'• •' "'^ •'- :,'^ ho^^a -, I , , , • . T . a> a'iin a classical eciiaauioi' wiai •V t •' i • av a^ a^' na'-- • 1 •••,.;;- ka."' O Mskaa iami'V. i; is h Ce NAME: Danika Tager NAME:Je.s.s H.ssex •Course and Year: Science (Marine) 2nd year Course and Year: Social Science, 3rc! year What organi2ation are you part of? L'Q linviro Coiiectixe What organization are you part of? liQ Women's Collective What are you fighting for? i"ni fi^lHing lor a green world. I'm What are you fighting for? Kquality of women in society. What is your current focus? This week we're fighting to get the fighting for people to live .sii.stainably so tiiat liic natural world will 50/50 law changed. This is where Mums and Dads set 50% custody exi.si not )U.st for the next coupie of hundred yeans hut forever. of children after .splitting up. On the face of it, this .seems like a good What is your current focus? Sa\ing the world! .Specifically we're thing but in reality, often the family has .split up becau.se of domes working on a campaign lo .save Like (x)wal. Lake Cowal i.s a tic violence and children are quite often the victims of this. This law heauiihil wetland where hundred.s of migraiory hird.s Ji\e a.s well a,s could po.ssibly end up with kids being forced to legally spend half being a sacred .site for the \Virad)uri people. Lake Cowal i,s currently their time with their abu.sers. What we want is to .see the law changed planned (o he the .site of a cyanide-leach gold mine. I'roie.stor.s so tiv.U safety of the children has higher priority over the rights of the were renio\ed Ironi the site la.st week .so lianick Gold could begin parents. con.struction. We're also holding prote.si.s at the jim IJeam Miss Broncos Competi How are you campaigning? We're working on letting people tion, The comp is basically a beauty pageant, 'I'he reason that we've know about the fssue and gaining public support, lY'ople don't chosen to target this competition specifically is that it's sponsored ny want to ,see wetlands destrovetl and this is going lo he a big issue a football team and an alcohol company and given the recent .sexual in the upcoming eleciion,s. We're also lobbying government bod assault allegations against the Bulldogs we felt it was in especially bad ies and organizations to pro\ide cU'ar and sustainable guidelines taste that another football team was having an even: where women for cyanide-leach gokl mining and the transport and disfio.sal of were ogled anti judged merely on their appearance. cyanide. Were ha\ing a National Day of Action on the 23rd of .May How are you campaigning? Tor Domestic Vi{>lence Prevention Week which could in\'olve all .sorts of mail street theatre like cyanide we are doing "The Clothesline Project" which is a \eiy visible cam spills ir. the city. paign wliere people write their stoiies about domestic \iolence on 'I'- Wliat fnistrates you most about the world? sliirts and these Iiave l>een hung up on campu.s. !t r.ieans that people 1 gel frustrated when people fail to understand that we rely 100% have to confront the issue of domestic violence in a pul)lic forum on the health of tiiis planet and thai by living un.su.stainahly they're because it is so out in the open. For the Miss Broncos competition we not just affecting nature hut their ck.ildren and their children etc. are holding protests outside the ^^venues of the competitions and etc, handing out lliers to people ^^^^\vho walk inside to let them .'\nd apathy. I liate apathy. know what bad vibes the ^^|^^H^competition has. What frustrates you .^^^^^HH^niost about the world? What do you love most about the world? i k)\ e the ocean. I love Apathy. The way thai a lot of '^^^^^^Fxvomen think tliat to see places that ha\'en"t been destroyeti. Wild I^laces. /\nd I love to .society is ecu-ial and that men and ^^^^r women have equal .see people di,sct)ver them and understand how beautiful they are. rights. It iVustnites me tliat women feel ^r that just becau.se they At what point in your life did you realise that you could help iiawn't been abu.sed ih.at means that no other women gel abu.sed in change the world? tiiis society or around ilie world. There are women in otiier cultures [ grew up in a pretty en\ironmentally con.sciou.s en\'ironment. 1 and counlries who are exploited, Mo.st .sweatshop workers are women. never really realised until 1 was a teenager how differently people Women as \()ung as six are being used as .sex workers in Soulh l-asi Asia. l-.\en in our cuhure, there isn'l one Aboriginal family who.se lives treated the en\ironment to my expectations and that made me angiy ha\en't been affected by .sexual violence or domestic vk)lence. enough to do something about it. The \eiy fir.st rallies I remember What do you love most about the world? The amount of energy going to were the 'More lives, Less Bu.slV rallies against George there is in the campaigns we're doing. Even the uniount ti people Iki.sli Senior. who have come up anti spoken to me about Domestic Violence Pre- What is the greatest victory you have had so far in your cam wntion Week, paigning? Getting ihi.s job las I'Q I'nion Pn\iromnent Officerl was At what point in your life did you realise that you could help my greatest vict(ir\'. Plus I've worked in the laiion for 6 niontiis and change the world? When I went tt) NOWSA (Network of Women I'm .still sane, I think. Students Au.stralia) last year, it put me in touch with a !t)t t)f i.ssues. My In your eyes do you think the world is improving or wors mum always hatl a lot t)f lxH)ks nn feminism but she never preached il ening? Worsening, The gap between the rich and poor is getting tt) me llu)ugh. I ju.si started to think that way. wilier. The worldwide corporate greed and control is causing con In your eyes do you diink the world is improving or worsening? tinuing en\ironnienta! destruction. In leniis cM" women's rights, it's getting wtir.se. John Itoward has fucked What can people do to help? They can start thinking. lieing the education system and made it really fucking hard to have a steady informed is the Lst .step in being environmental. ,\lore specifically, job anti rai.se kids because childcare is .so expensive. It is ntnv often come to Hnviro Collective, 1pm .Mondays in the Natural .'\mphithe- less expensi\e it) .slay at home and look after your kids than il is to alre and suppott our campaigns. Remember that eveiything you work. do aflecls the environment. The easiest things are buying product.s What can people do to help? without packaging, growing your own vegies etc. Check out the Call intt) Women's Collective. 1pm Tuesdays in the Women's Room to global footprint welxsite to see what impact you're having: www. get invohed. Or yt)u could ct)me along tt) NOWSA. And come along myfooiprint.org lo tlie next .Miss Brtinco's Compeliiit)n and join in the prtJiest. 37 NAME: Hmma Toveil N/UIE: Tanya Moir Course and Year: Political Science 3rd year Course and Year: Philt)sophy. 3rd year What organization are you part of? Socialist Alternali^ e What organization are you part of? Amnesty I'Q, (Tanya would What are you fighting for? A world lun b\' ordinary i^jeople for like to ,say thai she is not an official spokesperson for Amnesty the needs of ordinaiy people, not for prt)f(t. Inlernalional.) i What is your current focus? We're cunently involveti in the etki- What are you fighting for? Amnesiy International is fighting to caiion campaign trying to get siutlents inxohed in protest.s. There prevent and end human rights :ibu.se.s. are warpeti government priorities in this countiy for example hav What is your current focus? Amnest\- has a reiugee campaign ing a giant militaiy l)udgei whilst slushing education spending. which is Australia specific and also a Stop X'iolence Against Women How are you campaigning? We are tloing stalls for the ei:uc:uit)n campaign whicf; is worltlwitle. Action Group where we ad\eni.se protests around the educaiit^n How arc you campaigning? We are basically ining to raise campaign and we also tlo Soci:i!ist Alternative .stalls where we people's awaieiX's.s of refugee i.ssues. We also write lo I'etlenil ad\'erti,se our weekly meetings thiii co\er a whole lot of tliffereni politicians or our local member. political issues. How effective do you think you're being? How effective do you think you're being? Tiiere are a lot ol people turni:ig up to meciings e\enls, Wc ha\e The education campaign is waning :it the moment becau.se of a li;id a fair few people write IcUers lor us which we po.st for ihem. lack t)f ftK'Us but we're hoping to keep things going throtigh having .Meetings at I'Q are bi-weekiy at ihe moment and we have over fortnightly events lo keep inlerest up luilil the federal eleclion.s. Our 6(100 members wiiidi is L;re:il. We also haw a weekly urgent ;iction club is mo.st successful in attracting people who are angr\- about which is an issue which retiuires immctliaie attention. Then, people the war and the t)ccupaiion of hatj. There is a lot of sentiment on :n-e urged to write letters to (he government or go to Dl.MlA (De- campus about l)olli these issues :intl it's a m:itter of trying to ton- [xirinieni of Imniigraiion aiui .Multicultural anti Indigenous Affairs) \'incc petiple that lhe\- can actually do sometiiing al>out ii. lo help p(.-()ple who ;ire in despcraie neetl, What frustrates you most about the world? I used lo write :i lot of letters personally and I got tiuite a few- The fact that a filthy rich elite are living off the labour of the mass responses back. ! once wrote (o an American sheriff about a tieatli of working pet)ple and the fac; that they use any me;ins necessary pv'n;iliy ca.se and he actually emailetl me back sa\'ing ihai he "re- lo stt)p peo)')ie fighting back. specilully tlisagreeti wiih my \ iew on the death penally". To p;iraphnise an ex-ioriurer from lil Sahador. if there's pressure What do you love most about the world? Despite ihc tact th;it irom groups such ;is Amnest\- International then we might pass pet)ple are alienated and downlrt)dtlen and ought lo compete them onto a juttge t)r .someone else, but if there's none, iheii they're deid. against each "^^•"'^^iiMBHMK^oiher tae\- still What frustrates you most about the world? do fight back and unite together in trade unions Tliat pet)ple aren't shocked t)r dt)n'l find what's happening shock and campaigns. ing and .scand:ilou.s. | think il has a lot to tk) with the metlia. If the At what point in your life did you realise that you could help metlia present things as an eveiyday event then jietiple accept it. change the world? What do you love most about the world? I gt)t invohed around the French nuclear testing protests when I .Making fnends a;id working with pet)ple. The exec of Amnesty I'Q was in Pn'maiy schtxil. Then, I was in\-ol\ed in the anti-i'auline are great. We have a really gt)od team this year. Manson and it was art)und then I realised you need .some theory to At what point in your life did you realise that you could help go with what you're doing and e\er since then I'w been a Soci:ilisi change the world? What is the greatest victory you have had so far in your cam r\e always worried about things. I might haw been Ixiyinga hair paigning? gel anti then being hit with the realisation ihai .some people around The protest again.st the WtiWd Hcontimic l't)rum at the Crt>wn Ca the planet can't even afford to eal, I had a ye:a- off frt)m uni in 2000 sino in Melbourne. Art)und 20.000 people blt)ckaded in prt)iest oi' anti as I was getting reatly lo come back 1 found Amnesty on the social justice abuses and they managed it) stop the forum Irom go web. I tiont know a lot about politics and i don't want it) commit ing ahead. A lot of petiple gt)l radicalisetl from the experience anti to an\' political ideology. Amnesiy is apoliiic;il and has a veiy high a fair few of thetn :ire now siill arounti in Socialist Aliernaii\e, stantlartl of research. I can be very ct)nfit!ein oftiuoling them. In your eyes do you think the world is improving or worsen In your eyes do you think the world is improving or worsen ing? ing? It is really h:ird to say. I think the situation is gelling polarised. Getting worse. I think that the sfneitl of fS Imperiali.sni is becom The ft>rces in tlie world which cau.se human rights abu,ses ,st'em tt) ing increasingly \it)leni but al the .s:mie lime the numlvr of people be gelling stronger while at the ,same lime the forces which work lo organising against it is growing. prevent human rights abuses are gelling stronger. What can people do to help? What can people do to help? If they're like me and can .see tliat a lot of the problems you .see 'Ihey can jt)in Amnesty I'Q ft)r .$2 by emailing in the wt)rld are linked tt)gether and they want it) fighl all of them nircharleshudson^hotmaii.com. Or they can join .Amnesty Interna they can jt)in Socialist Alternatiw. There are also a \arieiy of issue tional and become a human rights defender by giving around $30 a specific campaign.s that you can get in\t)l\ed in art)und the laiiwi- nit)nih. siiy. Coffffs Harbour Police Dept. Date: 26 April 2004 Location: Ruaaell Crowe ReBHtlftnee, ^Mftfl "fltfT"^ "^'^— natails-On the night of April 26. <^|(^f II ul m I 1i Russell Growers farm after receMknq reports that the Zealand born actor had been kidllpUP '- -Indictive st ^Animal Farm' proportions> Thev;|outlcL the actor bound and— gagged in his own home theatre, with reports of Russell beinj subjected to a torturous barrage that appears inspired by ^A Clockwork Orange>' Although sketchy, it appears that Crowe's kidnappers were the very animals his farm stands to support, with his punishment desic^ned towards manifest changes in their treatment and overall living standards. After establishing the facts, police rounded up Crowe's twenty odd head of cattle, the key suspects of which, after a length interrogation process, were whittled down to two. Evidence: Telescope ('•' f^on), Blindfold, Hoofprints Cofffs Harbour Police Dept, S^sp|ct File # 101 I Namer. Sal Admunch Height: 4ft 3in V\feight: 412 Jcg Fat Content: 22% Herd Status: Hippie Activjgt Criminal Motivation: Bettering the world for younger generations Hobbies: Denying the natural food chain-finding alternatives to grass and leaves,Collecting hoof prints for petition against cud chewing, Planning stampedes in protest of herd's commitment to Official Statement: I' ve done a lot of stupid things in mv grass eating,Campaigning for life but I'm proud of mv reasons for doing them.The herd-wide use of soy products wav we live in our society is unsustainable and Analysing where plans for offends the way of nature.We're low down in the food stampede went wrong,Yoga&Tai-Chi chain but we can get a whole lot lower if we try as a Criminal History:PEC 2Q02-Possession team.Our grass eating and hard hooves are responsible /Marijuana with intent to sell for over 35 per cent of the world^s erosion.If we JUN 2003- Attempted Organised continue to live this way, there will be no world left Soliciting of Veal(Minora) for our children and no chance to experience the array JUL 2003 Sexual Assault/bull- of pleasures available to the calves of today's herds. handling of udders without Mv activities concern the misplaced ways of the cow consent and have no concern for human activities whatsoever Russel who? Suspect File # | °2 1 Name: Chiezz Berga Height: _ 4ft sin Weight: 554 kg Fat Content: 22% Herd Status: Goth Glam Punk DJ Criminal Motivation: Venting anger and general bovine angst Hobbies: Pushing over sleeping cows(fool tipping),Collecting antique leather goods,Sedating Spanish Bulls pre Matador face- off.Self culturing of own magic mushrooms dietary/growing cycle. Official Statement: Listen, it's simple-I'd leave vou alone Syphoning fresh milk into herd's if vou left me alone.I'm actually a nice guv.I iust drinking resevoir.Vocal support- dress differently that's all.Ok, mavbe I've got issues ing member of Yoghurt and with the whole herd mentality but if I don't do to mv Cheese Appreciation Society crew what I do who will,vou?I didn't think so. Criminal History: Nov i998- Posess- Secondly.don't let the criminal wrap fool vou; I aint ion/Pirf>aTTng no convict.I mean really.loitering-that's what we APR 20Qi> Loitering with intent do!Throw in some shade and I'm done.You guvs are iust MAY 20Qi~Loitering with intent; looking for a scapegoat and it's obvious your concept Resisting arrest .-Abusing a of specism is fucking wack!I'm getting a bum wrap coz police officer;Public nuisance; you're just looking for an individual to stand out Perjury from the herd.Russel'a a schmcvou guys are sausage i' AUG 2001- Smoking in a public stuffera and this whole deal reeks of off pork ^ arena products.I aint goin down for something I didn't do. 3 WW WM nmmum, »099 cut some rug... and they can dance too!!! I can assure you ragers, the bubbly flowed like Pro Li fessor Hay's thinning golden locks - and so did the conversation. i«^ I I Over a few [dozen!] glasses of giggle juice the Semper team and I hastily negotiated a gor Bonjour Brisbanites! geous new contract - the only downside being It's Let! Kord here, reporting on everything my new company wheels; instead of the swishy swish and sparkly around Brisvegas. Some of IVIerc the Wail used to provide me with, I've you will remember me; yes the rumours are been jetstarred down to a crummy old Suzuki... true, I ditd once write for that trash mag The sigh! Sunday Mail [more like Sunday Wail!] under the moniker Ken Lord. Well, the dark forces de Anyv^ho, as the night wore on [or should I say scended and once the Wail found out Id been bore on thanks to the presence of sooky Mayor- spending the odd penny from the company cof Defeat Tim "In The Bin" Quinn] the Semper crew fers on a legitimate gambling hobby, the jig was and I really hit the Brisvegasville nightlife! I must up! say, The Regatta team really know how to bung Well my contract was renegotiated and on a sooper-dooper evening bash. The joint has by the end of the day my bags were packed and sleek decor and patrons to match - it's certainly my office [read broom cupboard Wail hierar no boat shed! And with a man like Justin Atkins chy!] was swiftly vacated. Luckily I'm friends with [the oh-so groovy new manager] at the helm of the groovers and shakers at student rag Sem The Regatta it's sure to just get swisher and per Floreat [It must be Latin for party animals!], buzzier at a rate of knots - there's certainly no and they invited me for a gentlemen's supper chance of steering off course! at The Regatta. Long story short, the supper quickly morphed into a dinner party, and that Come the wee hours of the morning, the Sem quickly morphed into a dinner partake [there's a per crazies and I had boogied our way around big difference hipsters!]. Those crazy cats - and some sizzling-hot night spots, including: dogs - from your monthly glossy know how to 43 ) \ into the spirit of things [albeit only using a paper napkin!]. After the police showed up and let me off with a warning [I tell you, those cranky cops would be happier fuzz if they drank some French fizz once in a while!] the parte_e was pretty much over. An oh-so cool nightspot though, and the vibe was pure funk! The cold-as-ice Underground bar where, appar By mid-morning the cru and I had time to join ently, people over the age of 79 aren't allowed in the Labour Day march, where the motif was in! I may be in the twilight stages of my life, but simply lower-middle-lower class union chic! I still know how to kick it wild and trip the light Not wanting to look out of place, the Semper fantastic with the younger groovmeisters [the team and I donned handlebar mo's, hard-hats, Semper yahoos can attest to that!]. The mood tool belts and glittery, reflective orange vests, there was arctic enough to freeze the ding- creating a rugged group of industrialists that dongs off Mayor-Elect Campbell 7 think, there just screamed blue-collati The marchers were fore I am... the Boss!" Newman. suitably impressed and even Dr Premier Peter "Media Jam Tart" Beattie gave us the mile-wide The white-hot Hotel Lord Alfred - many of you smile of approval. The theme of the May Day younger ones will know this in its abbreviated rally was Human Rights, but the food at the form: The LA. A great move on the part of after-party in Roma Street Playgrounds was swanky young manager Evan Johnson - Ameri positively inhumane! Unionists munched on very can cities are so hot right now! A great way well done sausages and supped on warm cans to bring in those youthful booty-shakers! The of plebeian ale! Don't worry though comrades, combination of pumping muzak, beautiful young the Semper nutsos and I have agreed to form things on the dance floor, whacky tap-pullers a Len Kord union next year, where the post- and more French fizz than you can poke a ba march soiree will be fully catered by those cu guette at, made the LA the place to be... and linary maestros [and personal friends of mine] be seen! from Channel 7s hot reality-restaurant Mylk, Brizvegazvillewood's ga-rooviest new noshery! And of course a night wouldn't be complete without a stop-off at the ol' REIiable RE bar. Until next time you adolescent, gorgeous, go- Knowing we were the crazy bunch of jokers getters! from Semper, super-cool new manager Dakota Wonton obligingly offered us as much of the sparkly stuff as we desired! The theme of the night was Toga Party and, feeling funky, I got CITY COLTORY CLAS»l ItY M. COSIA I hate culture. I hate when it lays down laws, strict laws unbend surroundings provides a quick escape. Going to their house, on the ing with time, like the traditional Italian culture my famdy is subject other hand, seals our uncomfortable fate and the thought of the inevi to, full or token gestures. Uke the one my sister and I are about to be table thumb-twiddlirg and wall-staring causes iron lumps to magically forced into. Why should we be unknowingly drawn into the burdens appear in our stomachs. of family legacies? It isn't our fault our father hasn't communicated with certain cousins for ages. It shouldn't be up to us to do rhe dirty work We relay this potential harshness to our mother, who relentingly calls of reconciliation for him, even though the new emergence of hidden our father at home to begin negotiation. But it isn't to be. Before we memories would suggest they were once close. know it, we are waiting to be picked up by cousin Michele', although his business card says "Michael", which I suspect is so he doesn't have You'd think times would have changed and cultural rules only applied to cringe every time an Australian tries to pronounce his name. when migrants first started arriving in Australia, right? Not so for us. After the roots of our family have been here for over 40 years, many \n his silver Peugeot that slides effortlessly down our street, Michael aspects of our lives continue to be ruled by social doctrines frozen \n isn't at all how I pictured him. He's on the old side, but emits a time. Why can't we just be like everybody else? youthful aura with his button-up checkered shirt, mainly dark hair and stylish shoes which make him modernly casual. As he greets us with a So there is no way we can get out of visiting the relatives in question. customary double-cheek kiss, he tells us in a lilting accent how he was If we don't visit these semi-cousins, cultural convention will dictate that actually so eariy that he drove down the road to get an icecream. we are stepping severely out of line. In keeping with fare una bella flg- ura, we need to keep face, and not visiting them would, in my father's On arrival at their quiet but elegant house, we are led through a cosy mind, spark all sorts of vicious rumours about how we are unpleasant rumpus room up a plush staircase, to be greeted by Michael's wife An people. Never mind the fact that he has never mentioned them before gelina. She too isn't how I pictured her. Underneath her obligatory and has not seen these people in over 20 years, despite having shared apron, she is also slim, dark-haired and modernly casual looking and that three-month boat trip to Australia in the 1960s and those long ushers us onto seats around a gleaming glass-topped coffee table. hours in the North Queensland cane fields comparing blisters with one "Aren't you prettyl" she beams to my sister, in an also lilting accent. another. Neither she nor Michael speak nearly as heavily accented as the old Italians I have encountered in country Queensland. "Do we have to actually go to their house? Can't we just meet them somewhere?" my sister and I plead, placing our dark heads together as The small talk continues through lunch and gradually becomes big if to intensify the sympathy-invoking forces. We have it all worked out. ger. I must say here my mother is not Italian - she comes from the If there is no way we can escape this ordeal, at least we can make it less Philippines and culturally couldn't be more different. Surely, this excruciating by settling for neutral territory where the distraction of busy increases the fish-out-of-water feeling,'as she can't have the same affinit>' with them as my father would, which makes me angry all she was a child that she would one day be rich. Perhaps owrr«'\ >/ over again at the fact he forced us to come here! ing their own home, two cars and a few animals and having tvvo—' daughters that will soon be university graduates, (after having come This increased cultural barrier makes it hard enough to talk about from so far away with so little) is enough of a dream. current times, and the conversation occasionally struggles momen tarily, enough for us all to over-eat. This isn't hard, because Ange But what if they were all migrating to Australia today? Would they lina seems to have cooked for all of Italy. I think too soon though, even be able to come here? Afterall, thanks to the advent of ter and again f am proven wrong. rorism and the semi-related influx of refugees it is even harder to migrate now. Would more of my Italian family have ended up like My mother and Angelina are soon laughing ridiculously about their city cousins, living in suburbia and chatting to their neighbours sometning I have missed. Then Angelina tells mc to "put some in imperfectly colloquial 'Aussie"? I'm intrigued. pork on your fork" and laughs uproariously at herself. "People are always telling me 1 am too childish, but it's better than being too So I ask Migrant Education and Cultural Development Association serious!" she sighs, wiping away tears of laughter. coordinator Barbara Damska, a Polish migrant herself, who agrees that it is easier for migrants to settle into Ausfalia today as opposed The more I watch them both, the more I am intrigued at hovv' to 40 years ago. However, she disagrees vyith my city/country different they are from country Italians. Country Italians are larger theory ttiat migrants who arrive in a city tfirow themselves into than life in both stature and demeanour, and having given up on Australian life better. grasping basic English, tend to invent their own blend of language. From arrival in Australia they surround themselves in Italian circles, "It's not the size of the place that determines how much people creating a pseudo-home environment where little English is re assimilate - people who wer"en't educated in their home country ate quired, because it vyill get you nowhere on the vast expanse of the less likely to assimilate," she says. cane farm. Even then there are grown-up children who have lived the Australian life and can communicate for them, although :hese She also tells me about the conflicting nature of assimilation. "Mi children too were once hindered by their culture, never speaking grants arc still not encouraged much to assimilate - the government English until setting foot in the cruel schoolyard then comirig home commits itself to multiculturalism and encourages people to retain wondering why the other kids talk funny. their cultural identity rather than making people become Australian, as tneir way of being nice to migr'ants. Why such a difference? Maybe the different lifestyle of the city means migrants are thrown into Australian life more prominently. "But then there is the question of 'do you want to be a migrant for Perhaps it was more difficult to begin a new life in the city because the r-est of your life or do you want to be seen as part of the com it would have been more overwhelming. But is this hard begin munity?' - there needs to be a balance. ning worth it because it makes life easier for them now? "People still try and stay connected to their o'd lives by the way they Is North Queensland famous for its Italian population because the live their new lives - but it is an artificial connection because they are migrants of the i 960s and 1970s chose to build lives in country living in the past." towns where it would be easy to quickly attach themselves to com fort zones? Is it harder for them now because rhe world is moving Now it's my turn to disagree. While we were nursing our stomachs too quickly for them to keep up? Is this vv/hy young people like my pained by peach and cream cake, there was nothing ar'tiflcial about sister and I still battle against cultural difficulties? the tears that Michael shed when he decided to give my father a call, My father and the rest of his clan made up the masses that mi grated to Australia after World War 2 caused conditions in Italy to "Next time, vieni rriagare anche tu - you come too," Michael sniffed, fall. These masses are now getting older and becoming part of in that quirky bilingual blend I have to come to love about all rny Australia's ageing population. Although as an ethnic group in Aus farpily. tralia they are actually getting younger because of the increase in second and third generation births. Also there has been a decrease "It's just been so long," he said .shakily, hanging up the phone and in actual migration from Italy, because from the 1970s the econo disconnecting himself from my father once again. I wonder wheth my has improved and it is now actually a nice place to live. er it is the cake that is making me feel nauseous or guilt. Guilt for having had such dread and contempt for the family I thought I My Filipino mother, on the other hand, has had a somewhat dif didn't need. ferent experience, because coming from a largely Americanised county and coming here to marry into a European family meant 1 learnt something over lunch today. Assimilation or not, the home she already realised how much "Westernisation" she would need to land of a migrant always stays in their heart and I now understand undergo. that no matter how much of an Aussie they could be forced to transform into, this is something noone could ever change. So, Yet what she does share with her Italian in-laws is more than I why should they be forced to relinquish cultural conventions, no originally thought; they both came to start a new life, free from the matter how strict and obsolete they may seem, just because young, monotonous poverty of the old country. But the new count.y is ignorant people like my sister and I can't understand how they far from home and takes a long time to become home, especially could be important? Let them live in the past, as long as they don't when the new neighbours are less than welcoming and quick separate themselves too much from the present. to amuse themselves by the migrants' broken English, forgetting that their own ancestors didn't just spring up out of the Aust'-alian 1 love culture, I love how you may not always be answered directly ground. when you ask "why" about it, so then you are forced to take in all the non-answers you get and live them for awhile, before you Were their new lives in the "lucky country" as they pictured? I won receive your answer. I love how you don't have to understand der if my parents are still disappointed at being caught in the rigour culture to love it, and I love how you come to love it more after you of working class life. A fortune teller revealed to my mother when grow to understand it. w "•**.*• I i I '\ -> I ./-• r :-y i : ' . ! , I lie w i:"i(! 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Al w no's wrai hc'i'i/tl i ha sr.iv i iiai \ f'•.! rr rai- bums like 'Change is a Sound' are nectar and ambrosia ixa:! K iii'' )Wi):n;; lil, •••(!! \ i\ ri I. ,1'ii; You either love or hate Chris Carrabba, the frontman of Dashboard Confessional. Some people might call him the most honest man in music. Others deride him as a whiny bastard. Regardless of your opin ion, it's undeniable that his songs about the injustices of young love have catapulted him to stardom, selling out venues and opening for acts like W^ezer This album, which was recently re-released on Viigrant Records, is classic acoustic rock. There are no barriers between C>arrabba and his audience. It's just This album is how it feels to be young in the 21st him, you and your broken hearts. I lis acoustic ditties century Dual layered guitars and constantly changing time descnl)e the yearning of long-distance relationships, signatures create a swirling soundtrack to the alienation kissing youth goodbye, and unbridgeable emotional of modern life. Singer and lyricist Gcofi Ricklv wails and distance. screams the most meaningtul lyrics released in years. I have to admit that this was the soundtrack to The opening track, "For'Hic Workforce, Drown my very own first heartbreak. But when you're 17, some- ing" is a harrowing narrative about the crushing monotony of thing as simple as 'i wanna give you whatever you need cubicle slavery and the metaphorical suicide of self "Asleep / what is it you need?,/ is it within me?" from "Fnder in the Chapel" searches for a higher spiritual meaning while Will Save Us All" is short, bittersweet, and cuts straight "Division St." describes a surreal, painful world of betrayal. to the point. In "This Song Brought To You By A Falling BomI)", a gentle piano-and-singing piece intercedes to pray for a few moments of peace to spend with a loved one. "Steps Ascend ing" shatters any pretense of serenity; in it, Ricklv tells us how he got in a fistfight with his best friend, and before they could reconcile, his friend was fatally shot in the head. The song ends in the final prayer, "in the spring /you will bloom / like her heart through the blouse in the back of the ambu lance / as it turned and turned in the streets / just one more turn / won't you come back to me?" and finally declares, "Fm not giving up." The title track is a three act masterpiece about growing up in the shadow of friends dying young, finding camaraderie in the punk scene, and trying to reconnect to people you once loved. But probably the most important, beautiful track is "M. Butterfly" about the anti-gay hate crime murder of Matthew Shepard, In it, Rickly quotes Shepard's father when he screams, "'That voice is silent now; the boat has sunk'" and makes a stand: "We're on our own but we're not going to run." .0 In the dead of the night, get your pov/er chord out and lower yourself to the garden. After only a couple of metres, a shout, you are hit on the crown with a baton. Policenian says, "sorry - thought you were a lout, " gives band-aids and offers you pardon. Turns out he's a Russian in clever disguise, he takes you to his place to meet ally spies. GO TO PAQbi 57(«) 50 ^Ash (/runwald walks Semper through the Blues. Hooker started as the equivalent of dance music. Early techno with a I was sitting outside Ric's Bar, enjoying the afternoon sun and a slightly different beat. He would use a stomp box and he would hit a Carona. My interview with Ash Grunwald was scheduled to begin in a groove, didn't change the chords but just kept clunkin' away It's like few minutes and I felt pretty good. I had eaught part of his show down using a drum machine and keyboards in a way Like in techno-you at the Byron Bay Blues I'estival and liked what I saw. His music was have a beat and various motifs that change but the actual beat and unquestionably 'the blues' but he brought to his performance a pulsing, chords do not really change. That's the really old style of blues that I stomping rhythmic element that even a coupic of weeks later I could am trying to draw on. clearly recall. I also like loop music, stuff like rap, just the grooves of it. And I Ash had been doing interviews for most of afternoon but still looked love a loop, there's nothing better than hearing a loop go round and fresh as he stepped from the bar into the sunlight of the beer garden. round. The sameness of it is cool, and is something you can't do with He's a tall man, with dreadlocks and the relaxed shoulders of someone a drummer. Because, being human, the drummer's beat will change who has carried a surfl)oard more than a l)riefcase in his life. slightly each time and you lose the effect. The thing I like about the tape looping machine is that it's a loop but it's purely live in a sense I stand up and he shakes my hand, "Hi Ash, how's it going?" because you're there and showing people how you do it. I could prepare loops or bring in a DJ but where's the fun of "Ciood man, hope you're doing well." that if you're playing blues?" "Yeah 1 am", and so the interview begun. We talked about other things, he's got a new album and has been touring recently but none Ash has a preoccupation with blues music that's of it matches the passion he has for blues music charming and infectious. I Ie talks fast, but his and that's something I really respect. speech is rhythmic, almost bluesy in his own way an ellect is even more noticeable when he talks The last question I ask Ash is if he has any about his music and its influences: thoughts on our theme of transformation and this is what he came up with. "To describe the kind of music 1 play I iiave to tell you a little about blues music. The Ijlues "To change you have to have a conviction and came from the delta of the Mississippi with a not hold yourself to having to do something massive migration ot people from the south immediately. Most achievement is life is built who moved to CJiicago k)oking for work. The upon everyday steps, so change comes from next major boom after Chicago came the daily It's not that hard you just have to in London in the sixties. Then have the conviction to apply yourself everyday after that innovations came from So whatever you do everyday you'll get better people like I lendrix and Stevie at that so if you play guitar every day or Ray Vaughn who played more of work on changing something within your a blues-rock style, which is where personality then change will come, most the music has stayed for the last of the time for the better. Equally you forty years. There's been a lot of can change negative things about good acts over that time but there your personality if you bitch about has been no big life changing people a lot behind their backs or differences. So what I'm trying to if you run yourself down, if you do is to step out of that lineage, do that every day you will become skipping Chicago influences the absolute master of running and trying ro go back to almost yourself down. So my advice is pre-delta stuff where it was really not to underestimate the power of primal. Just the beat, fiekl hollers doing a little bit every day because and really soulful singing. that will set the pattern for what you want to achieve." I ask Ash to tell me more about his influences: Ash Grunwald is coming to Bris bane for the Jazz & Blues Lestival "Robert Johnson is one of my running from the 2nd to 4th of great influences, in fact 1 was just July on the Celebration Lawn, over in vVmerica and got to go to Roma Street Parkland. Ash plays the crossroads where he made on the Sunday so make sure you his deal with the devil. I also love get along, Semper wiil hopefully I lowlin'Wolf and really early John have some free tickets so check Lee Hooker. You know John Lee the website - www.semperfloreat. com to win. singei \ 51 yi *utWi i> \pHnMnM«urv«f r-r I ...' I r i \.-y, : y I ^ • 'f r" \ • : i t'. / 1 I-i I. BY SARAH SPENCER ! • DnA*rK<«**> •'•*'.T. Tui Highway 6i Pet Sounds-The ^.Jjgi The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Revisited - Bob Beach Boys, 1966 *1 j^ Hearts Club Band, Dylan, 1965 \l HHr> "'''^'WfflH^^ ^M fe_^HLV'I^ 'MSK/W 1 t?-*.'^ i"TI-QfSiJ 1967 i ;" ^•M.. :;:^ "WellAbc says, "Where As part of the Rubber What can you say do you want this killin' done?" Soul - Pet Sounds - Sgt Pepper trinity, about the Beatles, their masterful God says, 'Out on Highway 6i'." Pet Sounds is one of the most essen music and their profound impact? 37 years after its release Sgt. Pepper's Highway 6i Revisited is just one of many tial recordings of all time. This album classic Bob Dylan albums. But it was this is so much more than the production, remains a work of absolute brilliance, album which saw Dylan truly affirm his though the production is insane. The a work of art, a marvel of the mind, move from folk to rock. He lost a bunch lyrics written with Tony Asher, notably an incredible influence. The songs arc of fims for abandoning his roots & was on 'God Only Knows' are dominated by all classics, they are songs that take jeered and called 'Judas' from the crowd Brain Wilson's drug addictions and emo on a different meaning throughout of one of his concerts, but as if Bob tional torture. The harmonies are glossy your lifetime. Produced by George Dylan cared. and some sweet ear candy Pet Sounds Martin, Sgt Pepper's features tripped really is a collection of songs that every out hits such as 'Lucy in the Sky with This album features the classic song one should like, it just gets better each Diamonds', and my personal favourite 'Like a Rolling Stone', and such rocking hits as 'Tombstone Blues' and 'Highway time you hear it. This album is sensa 'A Day in the Life'. C'mon, who here 61 Revisited'. Mis lyrics remain timely tional, I give it 5 spuds out of 5. doesn't love the Beades? and have lost none of their poetic . This is an album that everyone should experi ence, it is certainly a milestone in history. He has influenced practically everyone, he's also, in my opinion, the greatest art ist of all time. - • ^i^S^' The Velyet Under y. ground and Nico, :,. • V^" -Miss f • ••y ^ J .%*-^ ^i3^& P®I^P@Ete9dlj, 1967 •y.<^y$^ '. '• ••••' .i;, !U..' -^ofcSSfew:.;^. Jimi Hendrix is the coolest man As proteges of Andy Warhol, and i Miles Davis has performed and re ever. Are You Experienced, his de featuring the vocals of German super | corded with some of the best, and most but album, turned the music world model Xico, this album is truly a clas- | revolutionary jazz instruinentalists such as Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, upside-down. It was written in just sic. llie \xdvet Underground influ- ! Milt Jackson, Maynard Ferguson, John weeks, but is still regarded as the most enced bands such as the lov Division, ' Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Gil Evans and influential album ever produced by Sonic Youth, Yt) La lengo, and the Joe Zawinul. Throughout his career any artist. Well, it certainly is great, Stooges. It features electronic cxperi- I Davis constantly reinvented his sound, a rainbow psychedelic cosmic blues mentation, droning soimds, electric | defining bop music, blending jazz and experience. This album features such viola players, and the beat poetry of classical, incorporating funk and rock, jamming sensations as 'lleyJoc\ Are Lou Reed, leaving the Velvet Under and being the first jazz inusician to in You Lxperienced?', 'Manic Depres ground as one of the most progressive ' corporate electric instruments. Bitches sion', and 'Purple Haze' plus 13 other bands in musical history. This album Brew was Davis' breakthrough album selling 400 000 copies in its first year. winners. Hendrix's virtuosic skill and is an avant-garde masterpiece of pop With this album Davis began the great mastery of the guitar remain unri culture and in itself is a work of art valled. He is a legend. divide between jazz and fusion, changing all music that came after it. The sound, a dark and writhing brew of rock and funk influences, these CDs were totally unexpected and totally important, damn he's good. I •'•- Luc Ferrari, Presque The Rolling Rien No. i (1970) jWMSagMpspr Stones - Ex ile on Main Luc Eerrari was born in 1929 in Paris. He was one of the very first electronic %SA% Street, 1972 artists, with a freedom of spirit rarely equalled in the history of music. He repeatedly left ar "Oh, I am a lonely painter I live in a box of eas in which he excelled in for new, uncharted With a string of classic albums, this paints I'm frightened by the devil, and I'm territory Ferrari began by making tape pieces is arguably the crowning jewel for the drawn to those that ain't afraid. I remem using altered ambient sounds, then later incor Rolling Stones. When recording this ber that time you told me, you said 'Love is poratcd electronics into his work. In 1954 he album the Stones were in exile in the touching souls', well surely you touched mine, travelled to New York to meed Edgard Varesc, South of France for tax problems, who composed Deserts for tape and orches cause part of you pours out of me in these hilarious. This CD is classic rock'n'roll tra. From Varesc he learned to treat sound lines from time to time ..." A Case Of You. unpolished, raw, and totally drug fucked. as a thing in and of itself, and to place sound objects in the right time and space, from both If you're a woman, you should definitely It's everything you want it to be, and it an audio and psychological point of view. By listen to this album. If you're a man, you just gets better and better. It features 1963-4 k'errari had begun Heterozygotc an should also listen to it because it's just so so many timeless Stones' rock songs, extended tape piece in which anihient sounds good. Joni Mitchell is well renowned for and the Bo L^iddley cover 'Shake Your unfold in narrative form, suggesting a dazzling her vast influence over 3 decades of rock/ Hips'. It has been hailed as the greatest variet)' of incidents, all unexplained. By 1970 jazz/pop, which is pretty crazy This album rock'n'roll album ever. Eerrari had completed Presque Rien No.i ("al has retained its universal appeal but at the most nothing"), a kind of musical photography same time remains incredibly touching and in which the ambient sounds of a small .seaside personal. Joni Mitchell's songwriting on this village in Yugoslavia, recorded throughout a album remains unrivalled, she is truly one of long day arc telescoped by means of seamless the greatest female artists of all time. The dissolves into a 21-minutc narrative in which first track 'All I Want' is enough to transform no apparent 'musical' sounds are included, cre your entire way of life. The album also fea ating the illusion of being there. I lis diverse tures such greats as James Taylor (on guitar) work and aesthetics continue to have much impact on a younger generation of musicians and Steve Stills. and artists. (\n . r " For those of you who've seen Kill Bill 2 this should look vaguely familiar. Ti-es Gen- eraciones {Three Generations) is the tequila Bill drunk with Black Mamba before their final showdown. Upon drinking it I succumbed to several Kill Bill-esque experiences. At about the halfway mark I suddenly had my own pack of highly trained killing vix ens. I'm fairly sure they were there...but the doubt lies in their killing capabilities and also in their vixenness. Unfortunately, like Bill, in the end I suffered an almost fatal attack from the five point palm exploding heart technique which resulted in me falling over and lying unconscious on the gi*ass in my backyard. There's no need for lemon and salt with this tequila, this is the real deal. Produced by the legendary Sauza family in Tequila, Mexico, it's made from 100% blue Agave. It's seen 6 years in small French Oak barrels, which gives it that pale antique golden colour and hints of vanillin and butterscotch flavours. Smelling mildly earthy and floral, Ti*es Generaciones is smooth, rich and slightly sweet on the palate, which makes it incredibly easy to drink. At 80 proof it warms but doesn't burn and it's smoothness is parallel to that of cognac. Seriously good gear. It also comes in a crazy old-skool vase style bottle, giving it a touch of hobo chic or ooz ing South American style (depending on how you work with it). Definitely a hit with the ladies and any educated drinker. Price: $90 - $100 Stockist: try upmarket bottle shops - The Boozehoooond i3as:r:sr'.r.:jT:c=-r-t.— • One night in May every year, all of Europe comes together in spectacular musical unity. Australians, although unable to participate, also tune in because the Eurovision Song Contest is a kitschy, gaudy, embarrassing, hilarious, cringe-inducing festival of fun. And so is Australian Eurovision commentator Des Mangan's historical guide to the event, "This is Sweden Calling". Applying woeful puns on top of shocking one-lin ers, Mangan takes us backstage and gives all the inside info on the contest which has been responsible for the very worst in pop music for nearly fifty years. He follows the competition year by year tracking the stage collapses, voting controversies, sequins, transsexual champions and white suits which make Eurovision great. Personally, I watch Eurovision for the eclectic combination of comperes from each country, as they super-excitedly rattle through their nation's votes and exclaim that everyone is 'soooah exci-eted to bea heaahr on this amay-azing nigh-etl!'. The songs crack me up also and this is Mangan's primary focus for the book. He examines lyrics such as "I'm turning incessantly my spinning wheel of hope", "You could have turned and hit me and I wouldn't have cared", 'You are the wheat in my bread and the coin rattling around in my vacuum cleaner", "You write in your head, that stays in your head, that crumples and dies", " and my personal favourite: "Which came first, the egg or the apple?". Just like you don't watch Eurovision for the musical talent, you shouldn't buy "This is Sweden Callling" for its literary prowess. But, I think Mangan's cheap, mildly witty style is the only way a history of Eurovision could have been written. And again, as with Eurovision, inebriants only enhance the experience. Go out and buy a copy. Alter natively, take heed to the awe-inspiring line from Norway's 1968 entrant Old Borre's two point gem of a song "Stress": "must, must, must, must, must, hurry up and go, go, go, go"... to the Semper office. We've got five well-worn copies we're trying to get rid of EHGR6IN6 BANDS h THE BEST IN LOCAL INDIE TALENT PLAV FOR VOU LIVE EVERV MEEK FREE ENTRY*EVERY NIGHT COMING May 31st - STEVE SMITH(JOURNEY)DRUMWORX CLINIC -tix June 4th - CITIZEN DOG - free entry June 5th - STATE OF INTEGRITY (CD launch) - free entry June 6th - MARCO SANCHEZ BRAIN INTRUSION(CD launch) - tix June 12th - CLUB MORTICIAS June 16th - EXHUMED(USA) - tix June 24th - EDGUY(GER) - tix July 1st - DEEDS OF FLESH(USA) - tix 2IQ uichhoH st Fortituda Valitti|*Main rooM^sMooth rooM^pool rooM*indiatttMpla.coH <>0O (A) You wrap your chord around his arm - you mean to get at his throat. But the man is so quick, cries out in alarm, disengages and holds you remote. You try a new scheme and turn on your charm, hut he pulls out your plug and you choke. You fall to the ground with a spattering sound, you are part of the earth next time Spring corrie around. YOU ^kvlt. imu. OOOOO (B) You have made the woolly- throw a switch for the light capped men so unhappy ning which fuses you well. that they lock you away in a You perish, they find no info cell, they wanted, then one day accuse you of your passing goes sadly unre duplicity ported. and carry you into a dell. They attach you by cables to YOU nkVE umj. rods in the trees, . The Students of Sustainability"Gonfei'ence is an •\ • annual gatliering ol students frohY around Austra lia io disciics environmentai, econoiTiic and social sustainnbiiiiy. The atti'acttonof the conference - is v^idespread, and fields.boncei'ned include tiie ?:| Sc!u;icen, Alts, Architecture, Environniental IViar;- agerneni. i^conoiiiics, Enyineeriny, Teciinoicyv, i 'k «' ^ ann rriany more. Since its creation in 1991, GoS -3 V -1 Jr * ^ia:-j hof^onie the Australia's ieadinc] studoiii coarci /i;^^ ^ Ky.<:y. ailowiny yoiirio pecpie, activists, acitators, (•rM:-;M>unrh/ leaders, eclit'cians. iridiC'uncas 'yy:'.y-. arjaja-ivcs. c^erabers ortneoenera' iniiai-, e:aA 1.1-^ •; «>9' r::'.'y'''V Sayy:& and e^y'ierit hYien]auC!y[^ 'ys y-.y:i ;:."'ear:e;'s ^:o iaiei'aci. •••'faaa Ui-^ivo'sity, aa^idocaa (ivleiijourne) irc;- : . ^ looking toward our future yy ': 'Uii unvii 3aLi..rdav 1?tr; ot ..•Ui\, ana '^ver i'( Students of Sustainability is s:a,;ctured as s series of clenarias^ foi'ar^a, --a conference a;-:"::ar8 Susa:.inaa";;tvassi!GS on laaividua;. d; ::_ i:a::a:al anc a!oba; 'evsls. La TrolDe uni, Melbourne ••;.!—' >..'__ V,; ! 11-17 July 2004 a-iaae y panicipaats^ iiy^on www.sofs.org.au Jyy diverajty in delegates arid aoeaaers ailovvi y: •-i ' nOyC spectruai ct issuea to be addfeaaed; tro; • ;:-.::iicr.cadurs to rnad^a activism; iaaigenoLia iaiip i;rh:-gemeat to aaataiaable iraospori:, ti'iis CO'MC;' aa: c chara dOiagaiaa an o/dremeiy aroad iaaiphv i-^^' 'a^':^'onaierr;;a! issues in Austraiiia and ti'is a-an •-: i'\. • j f •• •aaa-ia^fng a (party) bus down to SoS, ^B^'"/ ^^P' VLUd;:AAU.d, A./d:Lr f'';'i \/,; ^i^ da :-: Croat way to meet other funky lr\^i and EVtIRYGNE la iMVITlA.^ ^- y a^'-'d'^A ao:;-: aoan;:i Brisbane and UQ, or you car^ M-qaiSsa yaui ava \Aay dovi/ri. Camping on site is 'icaa y AegiGlration fees will ba r'c.na Iwyia}] ilio Ecviiaavriorrt Collective. i' ycii wars :0 iaai- mora about Sustainability, be Gra-^'OaiiiCida:. sociaL aconondc or oersonaL con- lac; yau: tAivic^ Odicars. Danilai and Sean, on: 7piii. 2etli July HOLT iiOOM bring a disli nf yininiy food environrneni.uiaonaaiq.edj.aa we'll supply the organic y or paone:3377 Zlyj wine and or coiTie visii us aast.ars ai tiie anin.i office Visit httpAsois.org.au/ ,««.iit,.>^,*.^ ,_^. .til.,.. ^..U^^^i^A.Lii-.i L^tu^j^.'^;-^ ^'^•/•ii^l:iv^%' '•(-'^•ji.iiM \r%t\LLlK ftU^iMlfi»^5^ u i 1 K i ! 1 I ll !-1 i i } i ! ; registration forms have to be returned to dess Essex, Women's Officer by 14 June >v-x'-,-'vya'^v>vva/\/aA..'vx-\-'\-'\.-.•••x •• ••. . •., • • •. . -'•-•• • • - (A) 0 vengeful hearts do know no short-circuits and yours is as high-charged as any: - seize your power chord now, you'll loop't and twirl't and throw't - lasso your adversary! Yet he is a hardy young man (he don't look it) and hath grabbed the chord already. He swings you about above his head, what will you do to avoid being dead? ...to continue your struggle against the man: GO TO PAGK 55(A) ...or surrender to his (battery-twirling) whim: GO TO PAGt 4 • \ \ •• V ^-, >00 (B) You fast fall into red Russian milieu, they want to bring back the Cold War (of course!) This extreme faction of KGB procedure topples empires, and liberates poor (no remorse!) You are fighting for years, for good human nature; then you're sent plans for your next chore (in Morse... - -- ...) The nerds in the white with the laboratory rats propose to transform you to some Super-cat. ...will you subject yourself to the transformation: GO TO PAGE 33 ...or does this offend your ethical sensibility: GO TO PAGE 55(S) i^.l^f.rVO- ft mB^9 -: i^W'^Sii mmBwmB t:\^ L::\.:y •. I, •IK-'„.,", IO,.;-: !L .iiiiiiii; ;ii)o;;; :iii- l!K;c;-i:;;i"o;)L:an !ant;uayr .\Y.* ' ^ 1. fv4^ i.iM'ily c;r in- 'Giv,;! 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A pleasani. sleepy feeling, like warm l"!o::ey fofliei ; V^^ i'\ai'';;!;ay .;.:;iU'- 'o: i xt nip,; y,i-.n\,\ \;'hi,;) is Lii!::! ic^:' 'lor :a^i; ;o tarioliorial slate posi-coi{i:s). 2. A siaie indnceci i^y o. .\ ||!h.s,.:i.o;,,M.':.a:::M-A. iilicii dra^p. Hence Mellisomriolen! a. usage: "Tiie Rise of y ^^-.^ ihi :a'Avr. \\\ [\\t^ sp;:;! ul lidiASAtA'n-iCiA ..\nc ly)\\\\'r,: t"'roniis- l:so:;itx:)lence ;;; Mocier;": "ibulli CLilture" (J. Horn licasar:,;!. .,M' a:\[\'. 1 ii.i\'r •;!j!;n c; ii^iii^i^^iciiicc! ;o asstanbk? soi'io :u?vv High Society;. "Thai was loveiy dear now I feel sc: naellistv; ¥^t \\'()\i\'. (\','\[h t'A.:;i;;-'i<-s D;' usav;u ';-();ii janiojs [ux:);)!i': for tiiis :ent!"" (MrCiiii:-chiil fo Mrs Chi.;rchill). X M crLiailc puiilicalia)!!. Paladhere: v. |;Tom Latin palaiiim. '.'-oof of (he moritlV - rrr; rg Cadentlal Incudosis: •:. ii:\-ai !.,i;:;i aa.:*:' io \J adherer from Lafin adhaerere 'to slick to"| 1. "lb st'ck or io ci' .".'• ¥^. iiKLis "anvil' I osis] 1. Dca!;! hy f,ilii;u^ a;^\'il. 2. A lii^yilv io the roof of ;!K: mouth. 2. Figuratively, to irritate through i;;\ p^^ coiiicij'ioLis riiseasc invoivii^e co:n;)!e!L coi'poral necrosis, sion. of perso:^.al space. Usage: •'yi'jm:ny. my peanut-butter •;,.:•: -.il^)^ inckiced by coiuacl u'ilb aiui M::-'v:c!Li(,jia conip.iaio;; by ai^ aiadhering again."' (^bung Stephanie, age 5). ""ic paladi:e:a; ;!: . l^fjJB anvi! or anvils fallinv^ fruni liie ^i;y. Usai-e: "I v\'Ouici liave by constan; presence and by pretence to cotiversationa! abijiiy '• •)^ u'on l!^i5 blooUy war if ii v. ere IHM (O- uiJ,";i;ia. i:H;,i!io i'. 'm,u?> x^ ' ,y^. hy Ready to ^^Iconie to the Page where Semper sells advertis ing. change the world? We are also open to assy offers of cash ibr com start with Queensland's children ments. Sure Lawsy and Aka Jones are the masters butwe'reyoungand we can learn. Potential adver tisers should try this comment on for size: As p>art af a commllTnent to pfotectkij^ Queeiislar>d'& children, we are creatif^S an erttirely new deparUivent focussed on doinf ^ tliat. •Teah I love Telstra, as do Merali, Tumni and We^re^t^rting tor«cruit more than sooediJitJOttdl stdff tojoin p»op4t pnmii Telstra's servics to the bush are second to lik^ P«t«r, arid ri%&k« $ur« Que«ci}land duldr«rt are kept i«ft. none, |ust like last week I made a call 20km west of loma and I had perfect reception" - Andrew We are buKdtng the new de^ftment f«jm the frouFwl up to ensure rewarding professtonat c^eer pattis and Ngh levels of support and Wre willing and reacfy^ to sell out, all we need is d€velopn>erl. We are bockirig fw peo^ with passiom and commllmenit for someone to make us an ofieL ta work dlredfy nvllti ditldreri and fBinllieSu As for the ads on this page, you should definitefy^ So If ymi are choosing a career vrortdr^ with families, cfioose us. buy some children and ecstasy child safety... a life changing cars^r CMdSlMyOfkMlBMdh • • i^fKe !• ftodflJtMHko r bdktv9otinl 8d«M«t4 Mi what does e mean •ulRltMitJiiwmldv vMicMMrKH ^ to you? dHui fiowMiiMoii sii fir^Milli«nh«wtft N nctl¥«d •• lii«r IIHM SIM MMdiy 33 Miy 8Wh|. Do you regularly use ecstasy? Would you take part in a confidentia! study and be reimbursed - $20 for your time? /f's a privilege to I VVtl,-it's i: :.ln':..''^ work In people's lives*' K Cufronll/, •.•c-'y i:\h-: r. Krovvn ahou; ihc B Pcs;;)r.y n^ti .•'.W'lV r.^ih nn.gs M(^^ in R' •^rvi-ir. Peter* Clilkl Safety Oflkef. Lofan V mid tho Geld Co.i v. H's jn-pcwnt»krti'.v ,-.b,-:i.- :r-f.. • avni-abi:it>- cl 'ho^c. ri'ugs nnd tho r.fo,-'. I > Ihey .if.i Ivi; rg nnr-p"" •"•• ^ VVh.it do I h.ivc 10 an? Un:v."rsity o' Q.tncni; nnd rtso.Tchors ;v I tio conoi.cting nice I.-} t.icc in:orv CAT. durin,.-; M.iy. Lho in'on/iow takor, ,Tbcut one how. .nnd r.ir re- kio X .1 convcli^-t 3'acc tor you, Irr- lr:c-.'i-:.>'.' Isks .iboiil lr\Ci flHi,:;s yoj havG Lscd 'ocer: y, |tti.:r .•ivdiahllv. pr;ccnid pur.iy. .ir(lyoi,r' ^ D?[j-j'"i;i;as cl incir js'-. L Is ll cudlnienlicilV i How do I t,iki>iMri? ndGnvwnmwrt cngftiyiy 1 I' ll,'-| '.M, ^ Prince Charles has freaked out. One night, the Prince was reading Michael Crichton's Prey, a novel about self-replicating nanotechnology. He was "How do I get my roses to bloom out of season?" about halfway through the book when he had an epiphany "How do I divorce Diana, marry Camilla and still be of sorts. He worked out that if scientists were to create King?" a nanomachine, i,ooo times thinner than a human hair, "How do I keep this whole buggery incident quiet?" which could replicate itself every i,ooo seconds then if the "How do I avoid being investigated over my wife's death?" machine got loose and started replicating, in less than a day the collection of replicants would weigh a tonne and look No-one but the strongest could come through such a like a mass of grey goo. In less than two days the machines searching examination and that's why I sleep well, knowing would outweigh the earth and four hours after that they that Charlie is out there thinking, always thinking. He may would exceed the mass of the sun and all the planets com look like he's just playing polo, just pruning his pansies, bined. At this point the Prince stopped reading, shouted, just awkwardly holding Camilla's hand but the man is se "OM MY CTOD, THE GREY GOO WILL CONSUME cretly coming to terms with a problem never encountered US ALL!," threw the book into the nearest fireplace and re by humans before. treated under the royal doona for a night spent quivering in fear, repeating over and over to himself "Be brave Charlie, the goo isn't coming, the goo isn't coming". So it was no surprise to those following the story that when his response came, it was decisive. To address the Now I know what you're saying, and I'm the first to admit issue once and for all Charles not only gave an interview that inbreeding can do fiinny things to families but some to the Daily Mail outHning his fears but also summoned times you get a good-un and maybe Chuckles is the pick of experts to a summit on the issue. the Windsor litter. Just think how life has tested him, the questions he has had to pose and answer just to survive the Phew, Crisis Averted, last couple of years: •" ' J..„-,..t-iL,i'.'.U.l'U..'Ji.i.UljU.7.i.'!'?trw iThis picture of Prince Carles giving |: jCPR to a dummy has nothing to do ii Iwith the content of the story but is|i Iright on. with regard to the deeper I; jthemes. .=J it" v^ /f^i- yi- \:^ y>^- • VI ' -«.-^jV. ••u >• - V t. -5 "^r. K0£/ JiVO^/Z/? IV/e/TT FOR S£MPBR m NFXT THEME IS TRU RANGE DEADLINE IH JULY % SENiPER.UNIONeUQ.EPU,AU V >-* ri.^--;k- • .^•'>• V 1 . • • •^ •^*i^ •\'-'-r^' ..v>*ai«i^iMK'««^ :...C-5,'Vt'X,; v." 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