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Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.7, February 19 - 25, 28p

This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/17 HERE IT \ COMES! \ Future shocks, ' time games and t electrical wizards

Visions of the video village Richmond, a city caught in the rush Dylan junks dope and gets active Britain prepares for civil war KMNOHIN

AST WEEK our prominent citizens Richard Beckett L— academics, artists and politicians — led protests against the Soviet Union’s beats up treatment of its greatest living writer, the week’s news Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a man arrested REBELMANILA, Saturday. — About 10,000 RAIDS people are dead or missing in fighting and expelled from his country for criticis­ ugger the bomb, le t’s between Government troops and Moslem rebels. — Fill story, page 4. ing prison conditions and oppression dur­ GET STUCK INTO THE ing the days of Stalin’s regime. In jux­ FREE TUCKER: Following his ' / 7 /‘7'74 taposition, here in Australia protesters BSoutheast Asian tour, describ- against our own penal system were arrest­ j: ed as an amazing success because of the ed outside Pentridge prison on Sunday (p. : j decision to let a few downtrodden, WORLD 5), None were professors. :j Filipino car workers into the country, IN B R IE F Pat Flanagan, a marxist, says the glob­ ; Australian prime minister Gough Whit- al outcry over the writer is a heap of •:1am once again proved he was the small MANILA — Government forces claimed to have com­ bourgeois hysteria (p. 5); and Jack plete control over the south­ j: leader of a parochial nation by hasten- ern Philippine island of Jo- lo. where 300 people have Grahame, a lawyer and a gadfly on the j:ing to Sydney’s Circular quay to lunch died in fierce lighting be­ tween troops and Moslem NSW justice department, tells in an inter­ rebels last week. •: on board a French luxury liner, “in one The Defence Secretary (Senor Enrile) told report­ view with John Dease and Mark Butler of the ship’s dining rooms which is the ers yesterday that 250 Moslem insurgents and 26 Government troops had just what should be done with our own : haunt of the princes and presidents”. been killed when about 300 rebels attacked the provin­ prison system, and the people who run it cial capital of Jolo last : Leaving the small moral issue of the week. About 30 civilians, caught in cross fire, hac (P- 6). : continuing French nuclear tests in the also been killed, he said Opposite, Albie in low crouching : Pacific aside, can you imagine the leader 'Uqe-~/ 1 >*'1A D. Buckminster Fuller style, has a look at • of any adult nation tripping over him- our future electronic cities, our video • self to clamber on board a crummy nyone who can use furniture and sell it.” All this proved is ;:;: villages. Will we enter into 2001 on the j: cruise liner containing, among others, NAPALM MUST BE SUPERI­ that, if he really is the Mr Big of plans of men who won’t be around then? j: “members of the Wrigley chewing gum OR: Colonel C. W. T. Kyndon, Australia, our criminal element is as *: He says we should get up and do some­ : family, the countess de Fels, author now retired, told the senate second rate as the rest of the nation. g thing about our own future rather than : Janet Taylor Caldwell and madame C. A Back in the action city of Chicago, j g standing committee on foreign affairs leave it all to the boffins. • Sportuna Coty”? Rise up Cocky Cal- that Duntroon’s royal military college, McPherson wouldnt even rate a mention The Melbourne city of Richmond is : well, all is forgiven in the also ran league. i;i; already in the clutch of future shock; its training ground for Australia’s biggest he seven dwarfs w ill collection of widow makers, should be city council remembers the good old days urther good news for £ PROTEST TO THE UNITED forced to join the 20th century because and tries to stop the clock while the ECOLOGISTS: New South g world beyond city hall is changing by the NATIONS: Knockabout Meg its inmates were out of touch with minute (p. 18). Whitlam, who accompanied her reality and believe themselves to be far j: husbandT Gough on his mystery tour of superior to civilians. He said matters F Wales pollution control com- Meanwhile people ace still squatting for their right to live now. j: the east (shades of Mark Twain’s in- might change if the Duntroon lads were missioner, Mr E. J. Coffey, iji- We report two cases this week: one a j: nocence abroad) and undid all the good forced to speak to at least one civilian a joyfully maintained his state lead in jjij group of gentle nature lovers on Sydney’s •: done by her husband’s closed mouth by, day and that their military academy was Australia’s destruction stakes by an- g Dobroyd Point (p. 17), and the other as usual, opening hers wide and letting turned into Canberra’s second univers­ nouncing that a natural plain on the g Some residents of Brisbane who wish to (the flies hang in there. In an interesting ity. Illawarra escarpment, 30 miles south of g live in a city that isnt totally blocked out i statement on the mental capacity of fter a ll this, a soviet Sydney, was perfectly suitable for dump- jijij by the madness of freeway development j i j anyone under six foot tall, she said of LABOR CAMP WOULD ing colliery waste. Mr Coffey said: “One jijij schemes (p. 4). ; Ms Ne Win, the pint sized wife of the HAVE BEEN HEAVEN: Nov­ is forced to accept the reality, at least j-:-: Winston Smith writes from England. equally pint sized Burmese prime min- elist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, for the time being, that to dispose of A the Coal Cliff material, some degree of ijij: He says it doesnt matter who wins the ister: “She had perfect charm and I thrown out of mother Russia for writ­ elections there. Not as far as the people : dont think I’ve seen anyone so small ing a few unkind things about that degradation of the natural environment ijijj are concerned anyway. In a country j : with such presence.” Someone should country’s penal institutions, and daring in the area implacement is inevitable.” i;ij: where food prices spiral upwards 20 j : tell poor old Meg that Southeast Asia is to question the authority of the state, percent in one year, where miners (the j : not noted for its production of six spent his first week of so called freedom apering over the pris- jg traditional whipping boys for industry) jj footers. in the west signing autographs and ON WALLS: Following a series jg are fighting for “a living wage” , and counting up the pennies in his Swiss of interesting disturbances in jg where the government (Labour, Tory, alling flat on the bank account. Strangely enough, in all New South Wales jails, the cor- MORAL OUTRAGE DEPART­ P Liberal, whoever) can do little to repair the democratic babble about rights of rective services department brightly an- gj the ever increasing class barriers, the army MENT : Fierce little A1 Grassby critics of the state that emanated from nounced that prisoners in future would g prepares for strong civil control over an F (what does Ms Whitlam think the United States, which has offered be allowed to grow their hair long and angry nation (p. 10). :• of his tiny presence?) jumped up and Solzhenitsyn asylum, the name of Ezra have the right to purchase shaving g; Appearing on our TV screens these :j down with righteous rage and moral Pound was not mentioned once. Come cream, toilet soap and shampoo, listen -jiji days is a totally chunderous ad for an :• indignation after being officially told to think of it the name o f Wilfred to the races and be allowed two bags of -g aerosol spray, Uncle Sam. So sickening in jj that his men had caught a bunch of Burchett wasnt much bandied about by laundry a week. Having solved these fact, it prompted Harry Gumboot to ; Colombian wetbacks being smuggled members of Australia’s DLP, who claim­ major problems, the department sat j:j:j forestall his magnum opus on work to jij into Australian on tourist visas. This all ed Solzhenitsyn’s expulsion was all the back and sighed with relief, then set gj study the nature of the beast. The result j: sounded very fine until a gentleman fault of the federal Labor government minor worries such as the rehabilitation jjjjj is an attack on the advertising industry in :• called Dr Alvaro Borilla-Aragon, who because it hadnt protested early enough. of prisoners, the degradation of jails jjjjj general. just happens to be the Colombian con- generally and the question of protecting g: hey c a ll him mr little: A. J. Weberman, dylanologist, has sul in Sydney, opened his big fat mouth society from itself by somewhat more jjjjj Leonard Arthur McPherson, done what might be called a critique of •j: and said he had warned Mr Grassby humane methods for another year and jg named during the royal com­ Dylan’s latest album, Sound waves (p. 9). :( about this nice little racket as far back another riot. Of course, justice minister jg missioner, Mr E. J. Coffey, We’re just not quite sure what to make of •:j as October last year and that there had Maddison had a theory. Said he: “I jjj;j intoT New South Wales clubs as the “Mr it. We offer it to readers to make what jij been official correspondence on the believe it (the riot) could be part of the jjjjj Big” of Australia, in an impassioned they will of it . . . £ matter in both november and december. worldwide prison activist movement gj defence of himself over the television As we mentioned in an earlier issue we jjj Grassby, who then was more preoc- whose base objective is to destroy the gj waves denied that he owned massage intend running an issue devoted to jij cupied with taking his extensive ward- prison systems of most countries.” j g parlors, lived off the earnings of prosti­ “awareness” — physical, sexual, philo­ robe and general Black and White Min- tution, had connections with shady pok­ sophical, political and environmental etc. istrel Show on a tour of the European E CAN’T DO ANYTHING & er machine operators or pushed drugs RIGHT CAN HE? 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Page 2 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19 ■25, 1974 o'" income earner has to spend a ALBIE THOMS whole week’s wages if he wants a A phone installed, and pay some­ ’M SITTING in my living where between l/100th and room, a cigarette in my l/50th of his annual income in handI and a beer on the table rental and services. The APO talks beside me. I reach for the phone VISIONS as if everyone had a phone already and start punching buttons. I hit and would be delighted to turn it them 15 times on both vertical & into a videophone as soon as the horizontal scales, wait a few mo­ PO provides such services. But the ments, then with a burst of light recent ruckus over cost of color my girlfriend in Istanbul appears TV sets suggests that videophones on my TV screen. won’t be cheap for some time to We talk a while and during the come. So if the APO believes their conversation she punches a few “home office” is going to be for buttons on her phone and replays the use of everyone in 2001 they for me her trip earlier that day must have some concept of a to the Blue Mosque. More talk radically different economy that and some protracted goodbyes will provide it for everyone. Could and the TV screen goes blank. I VIDEO it be a socialist system? Or was punch the buttons in a different George Orwell right? combination and suddenly she’s At present the PO has the back again in a replay of our country wired for sound. Wiring conversation. I keep pressing the for video doesnt change their buttons till I get to the part I VILLAGE system much. But the all-electro­ want to hear again, run it back magnetic economy they envisage and forth a few more times until for 2001 does. It is not a money I’m sick of it, punch the buttons economy - at least in the sense of once more and the screen is blank. dollar bills or even cheques. It’s a Out to the kitchen for another computer accounting economy, can of beer, light up a cigarette with machines keeping debits & and I’m back at the phone punch­ credits. Consumers pay for ser­ ing buttons. This time a Dewey vices, just as now a phone bill library code is displayed on my logs calls, trunks, telegrams, wake- TV screen. It has the names o f all up calls etc. Similarly these ma­ of Josef Von Sternberg’s movies chines will log credit (eg. writ­ with number codes after them. I ers will write their stories for select the code for Blue angel and TLD, type them on the system punch it up on the buttons on the input and get a credit for the phone. Then I settle back and story when it’s used on the TLD watch the movie on my TV videodisplay. TLD will get a credit screen. every time someone punches it up Several beers later I’ve another on their home screen. Machines Dewey code displayed on my will debit and credit and maintain screen. It’s all the Rolling Stones balance.) But I suspect it will be albums. I punch the code for the like the totalisator - someone latest album and soon Mick’s on makes "profit” and that someone my screen prancing about in pur­ is the owner of the machine. In ple & gold. At one point he does the year 2001 will that be the an amazing convolution of his APO? Will the APO be owned by body and after the album finishes the state? Will the people own the I press a few more buttons and state or will the state own the retrieve that instant in slow mo­ people? Politics were not men­ tion, finding it all the more amaz­ tioned in the seminar. ing as each fragment of movement The videofreaks are playing is expanded before my eyes. with television. Bush Video in I remember the Stones are Sydney shows their software coming to town in a few weeks so every Sunday at 31 Bay street, I push a few more buttons and a Ultimo. A few weeks ago they stadium box plan appears on my showed some color tapes at the screen. I select one of the few Filmmakers Cinema. They’re ex­ remaining seats and punch its ploring the new medium tactilely, number on my phone buttons. using the electro-magnetic band as The typewriter beside the TV set a reflection of their nervous sys­ bursts into operation and a thin tems. When it comes to justifying strip of paper with various codes what they’re doing (as when they typed on it, including the number appear on a Mike Walsh show) of the seat I’ve booked, falls into they talk about video bringing a tray. It’s my ticket for the show. people together enabling greater Just as I’m about to put the understanding. The APO hints at ticket in a drawer for safekeeping similar values, to sell their idea on the typewriter starts up again and the basis of efficiency. They claim a larger sheet of paper falls into 50 percent of the US GNP is the tray. It’s a letter from a friend information, but what sort of reminding me of an agreement we information is it? How much is reached on the videophone last media - 2001. There they intro­ or fly when contact can be made hard copy (facts and figures stor­ week. I quickly type a reply ac­ duced their proposal for the by videophone and computer ed in computers and available for cepting the conditions of the ‘ ‘ N ational Telecommunications readout?), increased leisure (the printout) and how much is nerv- agreement. Plan” and sought support for an machines do the work, our labor ous-system exploration like what What’s in The living daylights expenditure of $8 billion to create involves button pushing), and Bush Video are into and just how this week I wonder. I punch a few "The Wired City” , a fibre-optic greater social integration (greater much is entertainment - the high­ buttons on the phone and it’s on cable system linking every build­ one/one dialogue possible using ly structured simplified life cod­ the TV screen, page by page, each ing to computer terminals that the wire). ings that are consumed with the one held as long as I want to read would give every building access Trouble was that the average same voraciousness that food and it. One item on a new alpha- to the sort of communications age of seminar participants was other life-sustaining materials are? rhythm brain toy appeals to me so I’ve already fantasised. Not that 50. Which means few of them will I regret I can only ponder. My I press a few buttons and the much fantasy is necessary, since be active in 2001. But if the cities scenario for 2001 is a very open typewriter springs into action much of what I described has are going to be wired they'll have one. I believe the end-product of again and I’ve got my own printed already been simulated in movies to start now, so that by 2001 the electro-magnetic exploration is copy. like Kubrick’s 2001, and been system’s there. So they’re getting alchemical, that eventually the Mail & newspapers by tele­ experienced by us in such events into it. Providing for their chil­ wired city will not only transmit vision, movies & music perform­ as the moon walk, Olympic games drens childrens children so to information but also matter. ances for the pushing of a few etc, etc. speak. Whether that comes in 2001 buttons, international video­ I didnt last out the seminar, so I was intrigued by their idea of depends on a billion variables in­ phones, shopping by videophone, I dont know how the boffins are the “home office” which I fanta­ teracting in the next quarter of a alpha-numeric accessing - a tech­ going to persuade the government sised using above. At the moment century. But it is time to think nologists fantasy? No, stuff that’s to spend the $8 billion, but they to have such hardware in the about such things, because the around now, and which the Aus­ made convincing appeals along home would cost at minimum boffins are, and they are asking tralian post office sees in every lines of decentralisation (who about $25,000. They see' it all for $8 billion to implement their home by 2001. needs big cities when you can transistorised and miniaturised by system. We’re part of their uni- Last week the APO and the access all information from home 2001 and therefore costing a lot verse-scenario and ought to be department of media held a thru interlocked computers that less. But how much less? At pres­ participating in their planning. I’m seminar in Sydney on just that - replace office complexes?), energy ent not all homes have telephones. sure Harry Gumboot has an opin­ Telecommunications and the conservation (who needs to drive People can’t afford them. A low ion on the matter. Who else? j-—j

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JUDITH CHAPMAN one part of an extensive freeway with the intention of taking over the help and concern shown them, was expected had charges been plan for Brisbane. The city’s road all the houses (vacated) in the and for the chance to get together pressed. EMBERS of the Brisbane plans were adopted from recom­ Bowen Hills area with a view to with others who are in the same The protest committee now M Freeway Protest and Com­ mendations in the Wilbur Smith help accommodate people who boat. Also, despite the great gap has its headquarters in another pensation Committee received a report of 1964 and are supposed needed low cost housing. A vacat­ between the power of the govern­ house in the small row of what’s shot in the arm last month when to be fully carried out in various ed house in Hurworth street was ment and that of the few protest­ left of Markell street. This house police dropped vagrancy charges stages by 1985. Already the first the first one to be moved into. ing, some have come to realise is rented from one of the Italians against two Bowen squatters, Tom stage - the South-East freeway Here the committee set up its that by combining their voices who lives in the street, Guilo O’Brien and Geoff Gollett. They running from Woolloongabba over office and Tom O’Brien, the then something can be achieved. Some Cerasini. Guilo has been, up till were arrested last year for unlaw­ the James Cook bridge into the fulltime secretary for the commit­ people have had their compen­ now, the strongest in the fight fully occupying a building due to city — is in use. tee was among those living there sation amounts raised — in one against the main roads department go under for the proposed North­ The Freeway Protest and Com­ from mid-september. case from $9000 to $18,000. and great moral support for the ern freeway. pensation Committee formed to Many of the people in the path There are some residents who rest of the group. Pressures on But there’s another side to the fight against the injustices that of the freeway are elderly pen­ are wary of being involved with himself, his wife and his family issue. The anti freeway people they saw were part and parcel of sioners, some are physically handi­ the protesters. This has probably have come to prove too much for have relied heavily on media urban freeway development. They capped and there is quite a large been because of fear of political them all however, and Guilo has coverage as a weapon to fight the feel that at a time when low cost Italian community. The monetary involvement and also as a result of decided to negotiate with the de­ main roads department and the housing is scarce, there is a short­ compensation that many of these a false image that has been conjur­ partment for the two houses that dropping of the charges was seen age of building materials and some people are receiving is entirely ed up of the people involved. he owns. as a police plan to avoid publicity. thousands of people on the Hous­ inadequate. For the people in the Hodges, the police minister, has Which brings us back to the Frank Redmond, barrister appear­ ing Commission lists the Queens­ Bowen Hills area easy access to said he “would not tolerate being new tactics of the government. Its ing for the defendants, was still land government, instead of im­ the city is one aspect which will told what to do by a group of new strategy puts the onus on the allowed to read a statement to the proving the situation, has decided be hard to replace. Places of em­ hoons and hounds”. Camm has landlord to make houses unhabit­ court claiming main roads minis­ to destroy the homes of the peo­ ployment too, in many cases, have described the protest committee able before any compensation is ter Camm was guilty of wrecking ple in the lower income bracket, been very handy to people’s in parliament as a group of ex­ paid. It is written into the con­ 750 homes when there are 2000 pay inadequate compensation and homes. In all, the extent of com­ treme radicals with communist tract that the owner must evict his people on the housing list. force people out of an area some munity disruption is quite con­ affiliations and advised the decent own tenants which means that the The proposed Northern free­ of them have lived in for the siderable. element of the community against protest committee must leave way, which will cover four and a greater part of their lives. Reactions to the protest com­ associating with them. Don Lane, their present residence or make half miles and will require the Initial squatting by members of mittee have been varied. Many of the federal Liberal member for Guilo suffer. resumption of 750 homes, is just the protest committee was done the residents are very grateful for one of the electorates concerned, So, where to go from here? It has referred to them, also in par­ has meant that the protest com ­ liament, as a collection of “hip­ mittee will have to have a change pies, comms, and drug addicts”. of plans, but they have not al­ Slave to Support has been given by the together lost hope in their struggle trade unions in the form of green no matter how big the odds are bans on the houses but these against them. They are determin­ the Beast proved not to be very effective. ed to battle on as long as they feel Another form of union support that they are achieving something positive for society. AVING over-eaten, drunk was the provisions of funds in case Tom and Geoff were fined, which Hseveral cans of beer, watch­ ed the TV, belched, washed, and farted, he comes to bed. After lying motionless for several min­ The Night Raiders utes he, like clockwork, rolls over, handles me in a brief pre-fuck PIOTR OLSZEWSKI routine that is the same every night, climbs on to me and puts FROM the terraces: Melbourne their own initiative, or on behalf his cock into me. developers are lying low and lick­ of the developers, will wreck the I open my legs just enough. I ing their wounds these days fol­ place, giving an opening for dem­ feel no desire for him. I feel like a lowing recent shenanigans in Mid­ olition under health regulations. liar. I am a liar. He pushes his dle Park and Parkville. It’s therefore interesting to cock in and out for a while, The South Melbourne council note that last week a landlord breathes heavily towards the end, agreed last week to prosecute walked into a vacated area of the ejaculates (I presume) and col­ demolition workers who began terrace and commenced ripping lapses. (Towards the end I make a work on Lanark terrace in Middle off marble fireplaces. Parkville As­ few grunts because it makes him Pard (TLD 2/3). The demolition sociation representatives put the finish quicker.) gang, presumably under the em­ word on the landlord that he Before long he is snoring. I lie ploy of Hooker Home Units No. 2 shouldnt be doing this but he awake. I feel like a corpse. I feel that many women are resigned to we get there, and three hours Pty Ltd, will be prosecuted for merely gave a “why not” shrug dead. I feel trapped. I dream it and have virtually chosen to returning. breaking clauses 501, 1607 and and continued his work. The rep­ hopelessly of friends I want to throw their life away. The idea of He won’t iet me get close to 1609 of the Uniform Building resentatives then reported the know more intimately both walking out on the whole hus- him. If I try to tell him how I Regulations of Victoria. This cov­ landlord to the local CIB who are male and female. It’s impossible band-children-house scene is so really feel, he gets hysterical. And ers demolition without an appro­ “investigating”. with him around: he won’t let if I try to relate seriously to scarey that I often daydream that priate permit and breaking various Compac’s man in charge of anything happen. If anybody anyone else, he threatens to leave there’s reincarnation and I’ll let safety regulations such as inade­ starts getting too close or tender me. I would leave him, or not this life waste away and not make Deloraine, a pompous Cyril Biss, quate scaffolding etc. refused to give any comment to or honest or thoughtful, he leave him but do what I truly felt the same mistake in the next In Parkville the battle over smashes the scene with his noise — like doing despite his threats, at life . . . TLD on the company’s attitude Deloraine terrace continues (TLD to the tenants, or the fact that a stupid jokes, boring anecdotes, the drop of a hat. Except for one I have no feeling in my cunt. 2/5). Tenants were supposed to be more beer and lots of noise. And thing: my children. Maybe I’m frigid. But I know I’m landlord in their employ has be­ out of the terrace by february 9 gun vandalisation. he won’t let me out of his sight. I have two children. He pro­ not frigid because I almost had but most are still residing there. Melbourne developers are a dif­ He wants to know my every vides the bread they eat. I can an orgasm from simply cuddling Landlords acting for the develop­ ferent breed to their Sydney move. And when we do get time face the prospect of going penni­ (on the sly with all our clothes on) er, Compac, a division of E. A. counterparts. Sydney developers to be alone together (which is not less alone into the world, to my a friend that my husband won’t Watts, have collected the “final dont seem to be ashamed of their very often because he takes all the friends etc, but I feel obliged to let near me. rent” but have given tenants sev­ overtime he can get because he provide security for the kids. He I am checkmated by the rules brash thuggery. In Melbourne unc­ eral weeks “grace” and seem re­ tuous developers hide behind a wants all the money he can get for knows this. He uses the kids to of this life into a state of living luctant to take any positive step cloak of prominent respectability the new house - the new jail - imprison me. He uses threats of death. There must be somebody to turf residents out. by day, while at night they con­ and another newer car) he says their destitution to keep me as a among the readers of The living The Parkville Association, duct furtive ratlike activities let’s go on a picnic and drives so corpse to masturbate into. daylights who can tell me the which are fighting the developers, under cover of darkness. far that it's three hours going, one I know now that many women right next move. is worried that if the building is eating-drinking-fussing hour when are in this situation. And I know TRAPPED, ofWODONGA | left uninhabited vandals, acting on □ Page4 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 Up miwm\ hiTSSSk: HHE O K M B f MffiJHIlffi PAT FLANAGAN talk of “personal freedoms", "the against [HY DISCUSS Solzhenitsyn? liberty of the individual”, WlSuperficially, there seems “justice”, “the rights of man” - no good reason. Even such local functions ideologically to mystify the walls "champions” of Solzhenitsyn as the nature of political power, and Knopfelmacher concede that: which classes hold it. Far from PlOTR OLSZEWSKI “Solzhenitsyn’s literary work, being above classes, such “liberal­ apart from its intrinsic merit, con­ ism” is in fact bourgeois class OLICE arrested three men tains almost nothing which has ideology. Both Solzhenitsyn and Pand a woman at a demon­ not been known about the Soviet his western champions mystify stration outside Melbourne Pent- system, or which was not easily the nature of class power in the ridge prison’s A division on Sun­ available for detailed scrutiny in Soviet Union and the rest of the day. western countries, at least since capitalist network. Such abstract Demonstrators included the the Moscow trials of 1936-38” condemnations of “stalinism” and Prisoners Action Committee, (Nation review, January 25). the demand for personal liberties members of the Builders Laborers As for the theme of Solzhen­ function, politically, to divert at­ Federation and students. Punches itsyn’s latest book, Gulag archi­ tention from the need for prole­ and kicks were exchanged as pelago, Knopfelmacher adds that tarian class struggle, both inside police dragged demonstrators into "The literature exposing the true and outside the USSR. vans. nature of Soviet Russia, with Knopfelmacher’s theological This was the second consecu­ special reference to its concentra­ canonisation of Solzhenitsyn tive weekend demonstration con­ tion camp system - the ‘Gulag (Nation review, january 25 and ducted by the Prisoners Action archipelago’ - has grown into a february 8) merely reduces such Committee who are urging Pent- torrent since world war two, and apologetics for capitalism to ab­ ridge prisoners to demand better is supported by the witness of surdity. conditions. Members of the PAC, millions of exiles who passed which has the support o f 15 Just as nauseous, and no less through the camps and reached unions including the Painters and pernicious ideologically and politi­ the west.” So why bother to talk Dockers, the Amalgamated Metal cally, was the editorial in the about Solzhenitsyn’s arrest and Workers and the Builders Labor­ Australian financial review for deportation from the Soviet ers, are also seeking assurance that 14/2/74: “What Solzhenitsyn has Union? There appears to be a guns will not be used against done is to put the rest of the radical discrepancy between the prisoners, as was the case at world - or at least that part of it facts of Solzhenitsyn’s work and Bathurst recently. which professes to regard the indi­ role in the USSR, and the hysteri­ Demonstrators arrested were: vidual and his rights as important cal press headlines in the bour­ • Barry York, 22, secretary of - on the spot,” we read. “The geois press (“Solzhenitsyn— Stalin­ the PAC and Latrobe university important thing ... is the dignity ism is alive and well”, “Living still student - charged under the So­ and freedom and security of the with the ghost of Stalin”, “Coun­ cial Welfare act with loitering near individual in the Soviet Union” ter-government from Archi­ a prison and attempting to com­ . . . and so it goes on. pelago”, “Solzhenitsyn puts us all municate with a prisoner. As Freud knew, however, such on the spot”, and so- on, ad • Thomas Rhys Griffiths, 23 frenzied and hysterical outpour­ nauseam). - same charges. ings have deep-rooted structural There is and there isnt. The • Jean McLean, 35 — charged causes. In this case, the emphasis plain facts are that for all his with using indecent language. of state capitalism in the USSR, for its persecution, arrest and ex­ by Solzhenitsyn and his bourgeois undoubted personal courage and • Benjamin Merhab, 29 - the elite stratum of privileged pulsion of Solzhenitsyn - in a champions upon the rights of the sincerity, Solzhenitsyn is an avow­ charged with assault, assaulting dissident “intellectuals” occupy a word, for its “stalinism” — appear individual serves to direct atten­ ed anti-marxist. His calls for free­ police and resisting arrest. parasitic no-man’s land between at first sight totally disproportion­ tion from the necessity for a dom of expression, respect for the One of the demonstrators ar­ the Soviet ruling class (served by ate both to the nature and social systematic revolutionary (prole­ law, justice and liberty are precise­ rested described police action as the state apparatus) and the mass role of the Soviet “dissident intel­ tarian) class standpoint, for class ly what one would expect from a thus: of exploited productive workers. lectuals” movement, and to the “rights”, class “justice”, class free­ petit-bourgeois “intellectual”, a Speakers were standing outside It is no surprise, therefore, that facts of political power in the dom from domination. member of a privileged elite Pentridge near A division. Loud­ Solzhenitsyn’s demands for petit- USSR. If the state capitalist sys­ Of course one must criticise stratum of Soviet society, with no speakers were on poles raised bourgeois civil liberties (freedom tem there were stalinist, in the true the barbarism of stalinism, just as links with the class of productive above the south wall. Barry York of expression, etc) are abstract, sense of that word, there'd be no one must criticise the realities of workers upon whose labors “intel­ commenced speaking through a supra-class demands. They are Solzhenitsyn alive and well in class domination. In each case, lectuals” are parasitically depend­ microphone. Police moved in, above the essential dimension of exile. this can only be done in revolu­ ent. grabbed him and arrested him. political reality, that of class On a closer examination, how­ tionary class terms, in terms of The Soviet movement of “dis­ Thomas Griffiths then picked up struggle between those who create ever, there is a very appropriate genuine socialism — not in the sident” intellectuals led by the microphone. Police crowded wealth and profits (mass of pro­ “fit”, ideologically speaking, be­ apparently supra-class terms of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn - around, arrested Griffiths, and ductive workers) and those who tween the protests of Solzhen­ abstract liberalism which consti­ Knopfelmacher goes so far as to pulled wires out of the speakers. control and primarily consume itsyn et al, and those of his tutes in reality bourgeois class call Solzhenitsyn “the head of the Another person, described as such wealth (Soviet ruling class champions in the west. spiritual counter government of ideology. “irrelevant” spoke next and was and its agents). Given his social For the terms of the bourgeois It is by these standards that the totalitarian Russia” — is in reality undisturbed by police. Jean Mc­ (class) position, Solzhenitsyn’s press’s condemnations of the hysterical championing of Solzhen­ impotent, by the nature of its Lean began to speak but police abstract-moralistic criticisms of Soviet Union and “stalinism” are itsyn by western ideologists for social (class) position, to effect did not tackle her; instead they the Soviet system are not unusual. precisely those of abstract-moral­ capitalism must be recognised any structural changes in the turned their attention to Benja­ The hysteria and outraged de­ ising, supra-class “liberalism”. But and judged for what it is. distribution of Soviet power. min Merhab who was supporting nunciations of the Soviet Union in reality, of course, such abstract With the restoration of a form one of the speaker poles. It is reported that police han­ dled Merhab very roughly and bodily threw him into the van. It is also reported that Merhab’s self protective struggles were then construed by police as assault and resisting arrest. McLean, seeing this violent ar­ rest in progress, voiced certain opinions of the police and their actions. A cop asked McLean to repeat her statements. She refused and was thrown in the van with the others, later to be charged. Police then moved in to dis­ perse the crowds. PAC committee member Rob­ ert Mathews was surprised by the arrests. He said that demonstra­ tors only expected to be moved back from the walls. He said the PAC will return to the pfison every weekend. Court sessions for arrested demonstrators are: Jean McLean, I Coburg court, am, thursday, feb­ Uj ruary 21; Griffiths and York, Co­ Ik t CO burg Court, tuesday, february 26; I t Merhab, Coburg court, tuesday, Uj february 19 (this case is expected

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i i - i t l i v i i n l . l i m y liG H TS, february 19-25, 1974— Page 5 JOHN DEASE AND MARK BUTLER

The crime of punishment. . . The S A lawyer, Jack Grahame is quiry into bashing allegations concern ourselves with. Of course, Certainly. One of the other punishment Ano stranger to the police or at Long Bay, Grahame was all these words are thrown about, outstanding examples of it is that the prisons of New South Wales. approached by a relative of like “habitual” and “animal” and this very expensive accommoda­ of crime... He has been making a “nuisance” one of the prisoners bashed. "fiend”, but those are only words tion that we’ve got in the prisons of himself for years, defending He agreed to represent the that are used to try and categorise (and believe me it is very ex­ HE GODFATHER is show­ such targets of official wrath as prisoner at the inquiry and these people as non-human, so pensive) is taken up by people on Ting in Sydney - it’s not the students, publishers, printers and requested the justice depart­ that we can deal with them in a remand. That is, people who have film it’s reality. The decision by drug users. He has a strong sense ment to pay the prisoner’s non-human way. been admitted to bail but could justice Moffitt, head of the royal of justice, and speaks with the legal expenses. The depart­ We’ve always thought so called not afford the bail. So they’re, of commission into organised crime calm assurance of a man who ment, while it left the till open habitual criminals were more a course, being punished for being in NSW, to release previously believes he knows what is fair & for the costs of legal repre­ product of the prison system it­ poor. That’s their only crime, and secret evidence should lead to reasonable. sentation for the department self. they’re being put into the penal His notions of justice were system BECAUSE THEY major reshuffles and criminal of corrective services, reject­ Oh, certainly, I think you’ve outraged sufficiently in 1971 after ed Grahame’s application. COULDNT RAISE THE MONEY! prosecutions in the NSW police got a very good point there. One the bashings at Bathurst jail for force. That was only a begin­ of the things that people dont Does reform of the prison him to form a penal reform coun­ There’s a heap of evidence now ning. The moment Grahame understand about the so called system demand reform of the cil with other lawyers in an at­ before the commission which sup­ appeared at the court of in­ habitual criminal, the fellow who whole process of “justice” as tempt to protect the rights of ports allegations made in the com­ quiry he was informed by is coming in and out of jail all the well? helpless men in closed prisons monwealth police report. The re­ the head of the inquiry, time, is that he does become Oh surely, there would have to port, which forced premier Askin under the control of men with deputy chief stipendiary be some concurrent legal reforms. guns and a love of discipline. institutionalised. There’s no doubt to call the royal commission, said magistrate, Mr Lewer, that he about this. I’ve seen one outstand­ But the basic problem, the one He is convinced that the pres­ the US mafia and local criminals could not allow him, a solici­ ing example o f a fellow I know that’s got to be faced, and it ent minister of justice, Mr Maddi- had taken over gambling, enter­ tor and president of the who’s got a firstrate mind, highly doesnt matter how many fish son and the head of the depart­ tainment, and prostitution rackets Penal Reform Council, to intelligent fellow with a large fingers you give them for dinner, ment of corrective services, Mc- in NSW. The mafia, the report represent anyone. number of manual and, what shall or boiled eggs, is what are we Geechan, must be removed from says, made inroads via Bally * * * we say, clerical skills, who has to trying to do with our prisons. As office if his council is going to Manufacturing Corporation, a engage in the lowest sort of oc­ someone said to me today, Mc­ humanise the prisons system. His Does Jack Grahame think crim­ Chicago manufacturer of poker cupation because he’s lost all initi­ Geechan fiddles with fish fingers constant calls for their removal inals should be punished? machines with proven links with ative, he’s lost all social skills, he’s while the jails burn; because he have not made him popular in “Now, look, correctional insti­ the US mafia. lost all ability to deal with other refuses to give consideration to government circles, and attempts tutions in my view are for the The tactics of the takeover people, because he came to be what the overall philosophy of the have been made to keep him purposes of correction. Punish­ have been the usual mafia opera­ only at home in a prison situation. department must be. It’s no use, tion - violence, bribery, and quiet. Which is an impossible task; ment doesnt appeal to me as a as they did when Maddison came Jack is very eloquent, an orator of weekend activity, or as an activity And so he is as much a victim of blackmail, spreading to include the prison system as anyone he to power in 1965, changing the the latin school. He addresses our that human beings can meaning­ not only criminals but top ever shot or bludgeoned was his name from the prisons depart­ tape recorder microphone profes­ fully engage in. I dont think echelons of the police force, judi­ victim. He’s become socially in­ ment to the department of cor­ sionally, asking about sound punishment has got anything to ciary and political circles. The adequate as a result of his experi­ rective services. That’s all they levels, and begins by telling us do with the sorts of solutions understood, about changing turnover of the poker machines ence in the prison. alone last year was $370 million, what he thinks of the govern­ we’re looking for. If you’ve got a names, they didnt understand and if that’s added to the profits of ments proposition to allow shop correctional institution the idea is Well then, are there people about changing correctional phil­ illegal gambling, prostitution, stewards in prisons, elected by the to correct people, that is, alter going to jail who should never go? osophy. their increasing share of drug deal­ inmates. Grahame talks: their behavior so that when you Oh heavens yes! About 30 per­ Do you think the royal com­ ing, and protection rackets the What has to be understood bring them out of the system they cent: alcoholics, and men who mission into the Bathurst riot will profits would vie with those of about the suggestion is that it is are better human beings, able to dont pay maintenance to their look into the areas most needing Bougainville Copper. designed for the consumption of cope with their own problems, grasping wives, homosexuals, all reform ? Last week inspector Dixon of the general public. It is, in fact, a more able to integrate themselves sorts of the victimless crime Ideally that’s what should the commonwealth police gave PR device, to give the impression into the society. crowd, marijuana smokers: there occur. But there’s been a long evidence that a page of the com­ prior to the drawing up of the The essential thing is to con­ are all kinds o f activity that are tradition of royal commissions in monwealth report had been “rip­ terms of reference for the royal centrate on the 95 percent of clearly subcriminal in any reason­ NSW since the 1880s, and there’s ped off”. A few days later detec­ commission that he [McGeechan] prisoners who will be out of jail in able understanding. been only two of them that have tive sergeant Frank Day of the is a forward-looking fellow who is the next five years. They’re going So one way of reforming the been worth two bob. I would NSW police told the commission prepared to do something about to be back in the community. prisons would be to take that 30 confidently predict what will hap­ that he had found the missing conditions in the jails in general. They’re the people we should percent out o f them. pen as a result of the royal com­ page of the report under a pile of As for the specific proposal, of mission that's going to be set up. I folders in a filing cabinet. He had course no one would object to it could tell the government now handed it to detective-inspector as part of comprehensive revitalis­ and save them all that money. Jack McNeill who claimed he’d ing and restructuring o f the whole There’ll be three or four people never seen it before. Later in the prison system. But it is only an sacked as a result of it; the royal same day D. B. Milne, QC for the infinitesimally small part of what commission will find that there’s NSW cops, told the commission would be done by any rational, been all sorts of people who have that he had just found a copy of sensible, forward-looking person misbehaved themselves in the jail; the report in his office. He didnt who was going to reform the that there was a general feeling of know where it had come from. whole of the system. terror & fear, and that this sort of To pour more fuel on the fire What reforms are necessary thing shouldnt happen. That’s now? detective-constable Bradley said what the result of it will be, not that detectives working on the “Firstly, w e’ve got to get rid o f because of any inexpertness in the clubs investigation had been in­ the minister of justice, Mr Maddi- commissioner, whoever he might structed not to put full details of son. That’s got to be done first. be, not because of any inexpert­ their investigations into their Secondly, we’ve got to get rid of ness in the people who will come diaries. He said that this order had McGeechan, and then you might before it, but because the terms of come from McNeill, who said he start with a royal commission reference of the royal commission had been instructed by assistant with the broadest possible terms, will be specifically devised to ex­ commissioner Lendrum. to look into what w e’re about. clude any criticism of the present Then it came out that McNeill We’d have to establish firstly in administration, and they’ll be de­ had known “Mr Big”, Lennie NSW a basic correctional philoso­ vised to whitewash the real causes, McPherson, for the past 25 years, phy. We’d have to decide what we the real cancer that’s deep inside and that he had made no attempts were on about in these institu­ the administration of the prison tions.” to check on Lennie’s sources of system. income. Now principal witness * * * What will happen if there's Murray Riley, a former cop, can­ TO Grahame, the latest at­ nothing done about the prisons? not be found. tempts of the department of What will happen? .. . Well I Other allegations last week in­ corrective services to white­ . . . Look, I’m not in the fortune- cluded : photos of a club secretary wash the Bathurst jail riots is telling business, I’m not a clair­ with his secretary in bed were nothing surprising, he’s con­ voyant. The penal reform council used to “change his mind” about fronted corruption’s human has been saying since it was form­ ordering Bally machines; trained face before. The tactics utilis­ ed in august 1971 that unless cheats were put into clubs that ed to deal with prisoners there’s a radical overhaul of the didnt have Bally; Bumper Lam­ extend beyond the prison prisons there will be bloodshed. bert and Col Sloan ran an SP book walls: Jack Grahame has ex­ Eventually, there will be a massive in the boardroom of the Black- perienced firsthand the in- confrontation between prison of­ town Workers Club; and the staff bred arrogance of the justice ficers and inmates. My sympathy of Channels 9 and 10 had been department during an of­ is as much with the prison officers intimidated to hire entertainers ficial attempt to inquire into in this situation as it is with the from the Arcadia booking agency. the problems in the jails. inmates. They are just as much In October 1973 following □ the decision to open an in- Page 6 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS , february 19-25, 1974 TEARING DOWN THE BORDERS

URING the second world victims of this brutal, stupid sys­ war an American bomber tem that we’ve got as the inmates D pilot accidentally dropped some are: they’re terrified, as men with­ bombs on a peaceful Belgian vil­ out training for the situation lage. The village became even they’re placed in would have to more peaceful as another tiny part fos. There has been an increasing, of the planet received involuntary escalating cycle of violence and population control. retaliation, it’s been going on as The pilot, Garry Davis, felt long as I’ve been interested in the responsible. His government did problem, and I understand from not. He then realised that if any others a great deal longer. Each government were to feel respons­ time there’s one of these break­ ible, and so represent him, it downs in human communication would not be involved in war in that McGeechan is pleased to call the first place, and the only gov­ “a mutiny” there is violent retali­ ernment that could do this would ation which increases the bitter­ be a one world government. He ness felt by the inmates, which is has been acting on this realisation passed on from one group of ever since. inmates to another, until there’s a His first move was in Paris in genuine confrontation, which can 1948 where at the American con­ only lead, ultimately, to the ul­ sulate he renounced that govern­ timate violence. Someone will be ment, its citizenship and passport slaughtered, or many will be and declared himself stateless. America was embarrassed, the em­ slaughtered. What's your reaction to a pris­ bassy protested, cajoled and oner's statement on television that threatened, but Garry was un­ moved and firmly handed back his there was outside help for the passport as if it were an outdated Bathurst riot? Well, that’s lunatic fringe stuff library book. of course. He was brought out of Garry Davis’s situation was vol­ the prison, interestingly enough, untary and unique. Fortunately and interviewed in television, so another unique event was occur­ apparently there's no problem of ring — the dawn of the United security for him. He was brought Nations. The institute that first out specifically as part of the PR used the concept of “one world”. campaign now being mounted by A world authority of humankind the department of corrective ser­ to which citizens could hold al­ vices to blacken the character and legiance which would supersede reputation of people who have international squabbles and end been critical o f it. This is part of a war, or so it said. continuing exercise that’s been The first UN General Assembly going on for some years. If you’re was being held in Paris at the critical of the department then Palais de Chaillot. The then secre­ you’re an anarchist or a commun­ tary-general, Trygve Lie, symbol­ ist, or you’re an outside influence; ically declared the palace grounds why, I suppose you ’re even part international territory. of the Yellow Horde or something A gift from the gods! Inter­ of that kind. This is the sort of national territory for the first name-calling nonsense I thought Citizen of the World right in the Australian politics had grown out middle of Paris! He rushed to the of. But that’s what it is: it’s a sacred spot only to be met by a political situation. gendarme who asked him to leave. What does the Penal Reform "But this is international ter­ Council plan to do now? ritory, isnt it?” We’ll go on saying the same “Yes ... but... ” thing we’ve been saying, trying to “That means it isnt French.” awaken people to the fact that “Yes . . . but. . . ” “I have left France then?” this is a real and genuine social Before this raid, two Algerians “ But you are still in Paris. ry Davis, World Citizen. But the More than 70 passports have problem, it’s a social problem that visited Garry’s home while he was Move along!” UN was not ready for world law been issued to Thais, Burmese involves them: they are our away, and asked one of the WSA “Dont force me to break your and it forcibly removed him from refugees and buddhist monks in prisons. Anyone who cares about “its” territory after a few days. one Bangkok jail whose “crime” family to issue them passports. the quality of his society, should own laws. It’s illegal for me to be in France according to your The spotlight was on him and was in having no papers. Some The history of the passports be concerned about what goes on for the next few years he was in had been there years. They write and Garry’s work was given to in his name in closed institutions. Bureau des Etrangers. So I have left. I am on international terri­ and out of the papers. Arrested on Garry sending photographs and he them along with the explanation I think a pretty good way to judge the German frontier .. . hustled sends back a free WSA passport that although all governments a society is to look at the way it tory now. You have no jurisdic­ tion.” off by gendarmes in Paris . . . and their freedom. with a UN representative in prin­ treats its captives. For instance, petitioning the queen in London. To the Thai officials a few ciple must recognise the docu­ people have been critical of what’s The gendarme went off for After being thrown in jail 16 pieces of respectable looking docu­ ment, many in fact, including been going on in Russia lately, instructions and Garry Davis set times crossing borders without mentation with the prisoner’s France, refuse to do so. and it isnt difficult to see any real up a little campsite with a bible, a “proper papers” he discovered the name and particulars is all they They were given the passports distinction between that and the typewriter and three purposes: to principle of the Double-Negative, want to satisfy their laws that and the following day they tried secrecy with which the minister is dramatise the need for world law, or the Thom that Removes a nobody may walk around freely to get into Germany but were treating the present situation. for being on international terrain he could only be governed by Thom. He printed his own World without identity papers. So bu­ refused entry and sent back to He refused even to let the hon. reaucratic is this reasoning that the French control. The French R. C. Packer MLC, a member of international law; to focus atten­ Travel Document No. 000001. tion on the inadequacy of the UN “All I’m doing is putting another recently Garry received back a kept them several hours. The out his own party, visit a number of passport from the Thai officials come was a statement the two people in Long Bay jail. He’s by suggesting that if it could not myth in front of their myth. provide for one lone human being People look at my passport and with a letter saying that the docu­ signed saying Garry Davis had refused to let him see them. All ment was unacceptable because issued these passports under false Packer wanted to do, as he told it would not be able to provide say ‘but this is a joke’. Of course for the whole of mankind; and to it’s a joke. The whole thing is a one of Garry’s “official stamps” pretenses; that they had been told me, was convince himself of their was missing. Garry stamped it, the passports were “official” and physical safety. Maddison would draw the world’s attention to him­ travesty.” With this joke he has travelled returned it, the document became that entry into any country would not permit him to go into the jail. self. half the world lecturing, demon­ acceptable and the prisoner was be “automatic”. Now, what is it that he’s hiding? In the latter at least he suc­ ceeded immediately. Around the strating, rapping with people, in­ released. In june of this year he was Did he think Packer wouldnt look Last year the French raided formally charged with swindling after himself in the jail, or that he tent he pitched came thousands of cluding Nehru whom he met in people. Some just laughed and India and who accepted an "hon­ Davis’s home in France, took what and counterfeiting under Penal might assist them to escape? I blank passports they could find Code 114. Maximum penalty five mean, this is crazy, this is bad gazed and called him World Crack­ orary” world passport. and are prosecuting him on years imprisonment. A date for What reason did the minister pot No. 1, and some came to Over the years he has printed charges of swindling, possession of the trial has not yet been set. give? support his cause, bring him food and issued about 6000 world pass­ illegal goods and “complicity”, a Lily cross times He said that it was not in and look at the International ports to refugees, freaks, students, term that may mean something READERS wishing to know more accord with security consider­ Identity Card he had printed. Let­ businessmen, professionals and like conspiracy, that all-purpose about the World Service Authority or ations, and also that it was not ters came from all over the world even a couple of policemen. Many charge that every government uses how to get a passport should write good custodial practice, whatever addressed to Garry Davis, steps of people travel only with this docu­ WSA at Eerste Leliedwarsstraat 1, in the name of heaven that might the Palais de Chaillot, or Garry ment and some even get out of jail when it wants to hang one on Amsterdam, Holland. you. mean . . . Davis, UN restaurant, or just Gar­ with it. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 — Page 7 LIVING OFF THE SMELL (F A RANCID ARMPIT with a star system, famed set designers and wardrobe managersand gossip . . . re­ nowned rows between the creators and \\ 11 ' V / the clients . . . (the Otto Premingers of the scene, who pay the bills, reap the re­ wards). 3 Yet this is not an industry of plurality and genius. One solitary message underlies the incessant barrage — one which incidentally unites the top echelons of the present system in unconscious conspiracy — and that message is this: Happiness = possession of material objects. It is children before all others, who are having this eternal cassette grafted upon their cerebral cortex. People become famous through the success of TV commercials and those already so underline their reputations with endorsements; from the prime minister’s wife to Brett Whitely (for cigarettes until a last minute painting sale changed his mind). Current box office superstar is Piero / / von Arnim ... “a handsome 23 year old HIS week, amplification of a commercial now dwarfs excesses of Cedi old children to a strict maximum of three who stands six feet, three and a half recent remark that advertising is B. de Mille. At this moment a swank hours. “Sometimes we like to work them inches . . . and finds himself fighting off the poetry of our age, meaning Melbourne motel is chocablock with a five hours at a stretch,” said one crew thousands of near hysterical fans . .. the poetry of our agents of con­ film production crew . . . hire cars coming member, explaining the move to sumerism,T the most fluent and penetrating from six to 60” (Sunday telegraph and going, room service round the clock, Melbourne. “Occasionally the mothers february 10). Look out Jagger, the expression of the western ethic, the endless long distance phonecalls . .. complain at the kids’ exhaustion, but we Marlboro Man is stalking you. (The language that captivates the sensibilities It is the film production unit for a just remind them that it’s 10 bucks an original outdoorsy model died recently of the lumpen and has the nation forthcoming TV commercial for Comfort hour ...” and was farewelled in Time magazine’s dancing. fabric softener. In the penthouse suite, For the past few days, the English Milestone.) “Now most of Australia’s Appropriately, the anthem with its “private access” staircase and director has been conducting auditions. youth is singing the jingle”, continues the competition has been unofficially won by graciously curved roof, two men The queues of the mums and their three Sunday telegraph, “and Piero has become the Viscount operetta, This is Australia worriedly pace the floor . . . One is the year olds are said to circle the block. a cult figure and a sex symbol to many . . . This is our land. . . . the composer of director, flown out especially from Actually, the final kid star has already which was recently interviewed with women .. .”. London, to repeat the success of the been “discovered” in Sydney and brought “When I go on stage," mutters the much pride on Radio Australia. This British version. The other is the camera across the border for this celluloid bewildered Piero, “people faint. All I do baritone chronicling of material benefits man; also imported from London, and phantasmagoria. So why are Melbourne is sing the lyrics and mime the piano. I is much more an ad for Australia than the similarly renowned. The worthy purpose mums queuing? Because they are casting think people must be looking for folk product itself ... This is Australia . .. of the Melbourne production is to a stand in for the leading three year old. heroes - someone to look up to.” This is our land .. . This is our lucky duplicate the English commercial in every Yes, a long way from “I love Shortly they will be making trailers for com m odity. detail - right down to minor objects of Aeroplane Jelly”. If you were to join future commercials and tourist buses will The advertising industry as a whole is furniture (for which people have been such 35 second spectaculars together to take group tours through the majestic politically neanderthal. Gough is scouring the rity for weeks). the length of a feature (an effect offices of Ogilvy & Mather, George mistrusted. At the word “socialism” Ordinarily, this 35 second epic would unconsciously approximated by the film admen reach for their gin. In the Patterson, Hansen Rubensohn McCann be shot in Sydney, but the moguls have Love story) then the huge budget would Erickson Pty Ltd and J. (Arthur Rank) saturation campaign, You need uncle fled south to avoid the busy-bodying of make The great Gatsby’s seem like a Walter Thompson . . . Sam, this breed comes out of the closet the NSW Child Welfare Department; shoestring. The ad industry has super­ You need Uncle Sam /You need Uncle with what is basically a statement of which limits the exertions of three year seded Hollywood in many other ways; Sam, the anthem of the spray can culture, foreign policy. It is a strange time to the mini flame thrower of the consumer identify with America, and yet the society, man’s macho power trip of product is perfect: an underarm defying nature with the press cf a button deodorant; the pollutants which interrupt . . . we really are a whiz species — spray, natural body drainage by spreading a thin spray. Every time an aerosol button is film of deceit. You need uncle Sam, you need uncle Sam and still the stench has pressed one realises that one is in the presence of a Great Divinity, “All things not settled around Capitol hill, spray, bright and beautiful . . .” The Lord God spray, if only we could just press a button to banish the unpleasant odor of the made them all. body politic. Gough charges through Asia - a PR Attila after a Dale Carnegie course — I had meant to elaborate another point while millions of Australians are being mentioned in a previous column, reminded each day that they Need uncle concerning the destiny of those who Sam. After Nixon’s most recent State of manage not to work, but this week I have the Union message - in which he wiggled been carried away with my own verbosity, so no more on advertising for further into the mire of chicanery - the awhile, and next week back to brooding international airwaves reverberated with a life-options; unless a sudden change in tribute to the sponsor on this occasion, world affairs demands my immediate yes, an underarm deodorant. A1 Grassby, the federal govern­ pontification, Dont you know that the salty, sweaty ment's very own ritzy strutter, smell o f a loved one’s underarm is a joy has been searching the world you cynical forever? You need Uncle Sam, you need for outlandish garb. He “wants layabouts . .. Uncle Sam, like you need the US Bases. people to know he is in the The most prolific talents of our times room” when the queen opens have transferred to the industry, with parliament on february 28. more and more rock musicians selling To help A1 dazzle 'em we have soap instead of sentiment, from Manfred decided to ask readers to Mann to Brian Cadd. And well known color in the sketch by actors subsidising their success. The Australian's cartoonist Royal Crown Cola jingle is rhythmically Ward O’Neill o f the minister's and rockingly more competent than two new get up. Marks will be thirds of the songs on the hit parade (and awarded for entries showing longer), as is Lilydale Cider, Selsun, the highest disregard for Fancy Nancy, Kentucky Fry and all the taste. Prize: ticket for two others .. . to Luna Park and an hour's free It’s all come a long long way since the ride on the merry-go-round. ad manager's niece was sat on a kitchen stool and told to sing “I love aeroplane jelly”. The making of a 35 second TV Page 8 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 A. J. WEBERMAN

N THE beginning Dylan (“Tonight I’ll be staying here with bush that wasnt consumed), Never say goodbye is directed cr ea ted folk-rock and you”, "Stay lady stay while the “stand upright” (Jews are very at the 20 million or so people who I Drought protest to the Top 40.night is still ahead”), along with down on bending or kneeling es­ constitute Dylan’s audience. After 1 / Then his poetry became void and his standard putdown of the Left N pecially to idols — in hebrew describing his poetry as “iron and without form and darkness was on — "It sure feels right on a night \ school they told us that once God steel” “with a bouquet of roses the face of many Dylan fans. like this. V wanted to test two dudes so he hangin’ down” he says he hopes “Let there be light in your But then in Going going gone a 1/1 x l made them thirsty. They both his people will eventually figure minds”, I told ’em, “Dylan is still glimmer of light appears at the went to the river and one o f them out what he’s saying “. . . I wait protestin’ only he’s doin’ it in end of the tunnel — “Been hang­ lapped-up the water like a dog for you to come and grab hold of highly abstract poetry.” ing on threads/ Been playing it while the other one knelt down my hand”. I’d worked for six years on a straight” (another junk meta­ and brought the water to his Wedding song is a hymn to book explaining how this was phor), “Now I just got to cut mouth with cupped hands and judaism containing many biblical happening but on the seventh year loose” (I have to stop), “Before it failed God’s test.) metaphors — “eye for eye”, I heard John Wesley Harding and gets too late” (before I OD), “I’m When he sings “May you have a "breathed on me” along with one decided I’d better take a rest. Dylan going, going, gone” (HE’S KICK­ strong foundation when the winds from the Cabala, “circle's been had become a junkie and was ED!) Right after the last verse of changes shift” in the slower complete”, and another from the singing almost exclusively about Dylan does a guitar riff that version of Young the tone in his Siddor - “watch my senses die” junk! I had to find out why ... sounds exactly like Yoko Ono’s voice seems to indicate he means (on Yom Kip pur jews pray for a Since from dust Dylan did primal screams . . . in fact once “may you have your shit together rabbi who refused to denounce his / come, to dust I did go for an you pick up on this riff you when the nazis or their equivalent religion and was slowly dismem­ answer. Although I didnt find it, I realise the whole song was ripped come for ya.” bered and forced to “watch his was able to get a lot of publicity off the Yoke. with the badge of a lonesome road In Dirge, Dylan tells us how senses die” ). His use of “bom to ” for dylanology this way. Tough mama is my favorite written on your sleeve” (ex-junkie sorry he is for messin’ with smack and "natural thing for me” fur­ By the time Nashville skyline since its bizarre imagery is Dylan who wasted his time writing cause it just aint kosher - “I hate ther support my contention that came out the Great Flood Of circa '65 all the way. In it Dylan albums like Self-portrait), “I’d be myself for lovin’ you and the Bobby’s singing about judaism Idiocy was in full swing and I makes his first reference to pot in grateful if this old ring you’d weakness that it showed . . . you and not his wife Sara. packed my people into an Ark years - “Let me blow a lil smoke receive” (why dont you start mak­ were just a trip down suicide road After being raised up in an that was parked outside Dylan’s on you .. .” then writes, “Bob ing rock music again?), “Today on ... the lights went out” (he went orthodox jewish household and townhouse and we publicly Dylan won’t you roll over and the countryside it was hotter than into darkness) and . . . "he’s glad hating every stinkin’ moment of it prayed for the waters to recede give me some room/ It’s m y duty a crotch” (America is messed up the curtain fell” (he’s glad he’s this song makes me puke. As far and leave us with "the old to bring you down where the good), “I stood alone upon the stopped). as I’m concerned the Bible, the Dylan”, or a reasonable facsimile flowers grow” (“flowers” are ridge” (the ridge or hill symbolises Other references to junk in­ Talmud, the Shulchon Orech are thereof. records), “Ashes in the furnace/ his popularity - "Up on housing clude “the need that was express­ full of lies and superstition and Our prayers were answered Dust on the rise” (by going project hill it’s either fortune or ed”, “angels play with sin” (politi­ are irrelevant to almost every­ when the big D did the Bangla­ through his garbage and investigat­ fame”), “. . . and all I did was cal people regard it as wrong), “all thing. I’ve been a confirmed desh benefit concert. Unfor­ ing it I reminded him of his duty watch” (and he didnt use his for a moments glory" (a short atheist since age 14 and think it’s tunately this filled Dylan’s breast so well that he has to burn it power to change it), “Sweet high), “There are those who wor­ a shame Dylan’s monomania has with self-righteousness and he n o w ). . . goddess, there must be time to ship loneliness” (“alone” meta), switched from opium to the smote me in the head for the dust “You guessed it all the way/ carve another notch” (maybe I “Can’t recall a useful thing you opiate of the people-religion. I can and ark capers. But the lowest Flyin’ through the skies” (I knew can still change it). ever did for me” and finally “who only hope that he emphasises the blow came after George Jackson he was using junk all alone) . . . Hazel is written to Dylan’s ever would have guessed” (A. J. humanistic aspects of judaism and when Bob arranged my public “Bob Dylan with a long night’s teenaged fans, the same ones Weberman!). Although Dylan still doesnt turn into a “Adonais self-sacrifice by having all my journey in your eyes” (Dylan the Blonde on blonde was dedicated hates himself for his shumky be­ freak” (the jewish equivalent of a “friends” convince me to apolo­ addict), “Sweet goddess (and teen­ to - “Hazel, dirty blonde hair havior “he’ll soon get over that”. Jesus freak). gise to him in the pages of the age idol) . .. born o f a blinding . . . ’’ He says, “Now dont make You angel you is the first All in all, it looks like Dylan is Village voice. light and a changin’ wind (and the me play that way again”. positive song Dylan’s written on the way to becoming a radical But now, as I listen to Planet political climate of the early 60s). about politics in five or six years. jew and a potent force on the pop waves, his latest LP, I’m glad I "Dont be modest, you are and Something there is about you “Angel” is a politician from “The scene. Let’s hope he can do some­ jumped on that altar. DYLAN where you been, Dick the cowboy is probably about judaism, al­ cowboy angel” in Gates of Eden thing about the insanity and in­ HAS FINALLY KICKED JUNK (Nixon) . . . went up North to though I can’t say for sure at this who taps the same source of humanity of the Palestinians, for­ AND SAYS HE IS GOING TO bury you in the past (brought time (it takes me years to figure energy that powers the sun: getting about the six million jews GET INTO POLITICS AGAIN. America back to the 50s), "Lone out Dylan) while Forever young, a Fusion “With his candle lit into systematically murdered by the Planet waves starts with a varia­ Wolf went out drinking” (the sequel to I was so much older the sun" but uses it for destruc­ nazis and the Israelis forgetting tion of To be alone with you alcohol-heroin metaphor), “It then, is a blessing that’s a combi­ tion; hydrogen bombs “though its about the two million Palestinians called On a night like this, a was over pretty fast” (but kicked nation o f a Kazatska and Irish jig glow is waxed in black”. Most of “living” in tents and shacks in the leftover of the old heroin days pretty fast) "Sweet goddess, you with heavy hebraic influences - the song is literal - “You know I deserts. since it contains many old junk perfect strangers, you come on in “build a ladder to the stars” can’t sleep at night for tryin’ ” (he Amen. metaphors — “On a night like this at last” (I’m finally ready for the (Jacob’s ladder), "see the light can’t use smack if he wants to get - NYNS I’m so glad you’re here to stay" radicals message). “Silver angel surrounding you” (the burning back into politics etc).

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 — Page 9 BRITAIN PREPARES From WINSTON SMITH in Leeds

O, THE poms are to go to out that resistance to their policies with new short arms and armalite rifles), Suddenly people are asking nervously: the polls in the middle of was really confined to small groups and a growing number of armed unmark­ WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE BRIT­ a bitter major strike. I of extremists bent on fomenting ed plainclothes police. Police intelligence ISH ARMY? Everyone here laughed off Ssuppose the straight aussie trouble at any cost. But at Saltley has expanded beyond recognition and the the prediction of US critic William Buck­ press must be coming in its pants the police were hopelessly out­ special branch (yes, political police) have ley about a “military takeover in the (having already spent two months numbered and intimidated by the anger files on thousands of “activists”. Since UK”. But few are denying that the crowing about grim old “Crisis of thousands of workers who had 1971, armed raids on the homes of military is getting nosier. Britain”, they must be just about poured in from surrounding regions at leftwing militants have become a regular Ulster booster out of fresh metaphors of doom). short notice. The spectre of Saltley occurrence. Recent changes in local gov­ It’s confusing all right. Heath says has haunted Heath and his gang to this ernment administration have created ASICALLY two things lie be­ he wants a mandate to biff the miners day. Mass working class resistance . . . much larger police authorities. Central­ hind this change in the army's and “stop the extremists who are ised police forces now cover huge areas. role, cutback in NATO involve­ destroying democracy”. A red scare In 1972 the miners won an historic One value in this is that men can be Bment in Europe (due to strategic election. Wilson says “Back to work victory. But can they win in 1974 switched around to localities where they stalemate) and the plunge into Northern with Labor”. Enoch Powell, gambling if Heath is reelected? The worst of have no friends and loyalties. Ireland which started in 1969. “Ulster”, on a Tory defeat, says that Heath’s the winter is over, the government The police are also being helped by a as one major put it in a series of a fraud. And the miners? Despite an has enough stocks to get it through vigilante group set up to help “protect” interviews in The guardian last july, “has attempt by their boss, Joe (Gormless) till the summer. More ominously, it has the nation against a communist takeover. been the savior of the army.” Ulster has Gormley to sell out before they began, had two years to prepare this time. It is said to consist of former service given the army a reason for existing. they’ve gone ahead with their strike. To prevent another Saltley will chiefs, senior ex members of the secret Ulster has given a boost to Britain’s definitely be its number one priority. service and MI5, plus leading business­ income from arms exports - the streets No one’s too sure about the election. This is going to mean hard men. (Daily express, 1/2/74). Other pri­ of Derry have been an ideal testing- Too much could happen over the next repression. vate organisations are taking on more ground for new models. Ulster has turned three weeks. The immediate problem usual police functions too. Securicor, toy soldiers into soldiers. Almost half of is what is going to happen IF Heath And if Labor (or some Labor-Liberal Britain’s largest security company is hired the army’s 134,000 officers and men have gets back in. He will then be free to coalition) wins? Wilson will probably to guard government buildings as well as had a turn in Ulster. The change in smash the miners strike - and any pay the miners what they want. But banks and building sites. It was even used mentality this has brought about is scary. future working class militancy - what then? Inflation will quickly eat last year to guard the police computer in As one major Moriarty-type described it: by just about any means necessary. up their gains. Labor’s priorities Scotland Yard during a CID unofficial “Skiing or mountain-climbing has got are essentially the same as the Tories: go-slow (at least so persistent rumor has nothing on a cordon and search when What will the miners do? To win they to back British capitalism. People it). Its close links with government arent you get old Snodgrass out of bed at 4 will have to repeat the tactics used before profits. And on the basic that surprising when you learn that its in the morning and go through his during their 1972 strike: flying question of what to do about increas­ former boss is now the present home house like a dose of salts . . . when the pickets (pickets which move swiftly ing mass resistance to capitalism, secretary, Robert Carr. soldiers get back to Germany they from site to site by vans and cars) Labor’s solution is exactly the same: There has also been a rapid expansion never stop talking about Ireland and combined with mass pickets to stop blame it on the “extremists”. of municipal “home defence and emer­ things that happened there ... you the distribution of coal stocks to In a recent Fabian pamphlet on what gency planning committees”. They are never hear them talking about shoot­ power stations. New tactics may be Labor would do about “internal supposed to exist to deal with possible ing the rapids or climbing Mt Whatnot necessary as well. The 1972 strike was subversion”, the proposals include nuclear attacks on Britain, but recently in the same way.” incredibly militant. It was no sit- internment and the creation of new we’ve been told that “They may . . . But if British soldiers are shooting at-home affair. Miners travelled criminal offences! Labor might take undertake the coordination of plans for more Irish than they are rapids, the all round the country to picket longer to implement these, it may pea ce-tim e emergencies” (Guardian, "Snodgrasses” are shooting back. From power-stations. On pickets they meet with more resistance within its 15/1/74). Suddenly the knowledge that 1969-71, not one soldier died; but now wrecked property (Kent miners said own ranks, but ultimately it is think­ there is an emergency underground seat troop casualties number around 300. they were prepared to go sheep-rustling ing along the same lines as the Tories. of government in Cheltenham is being Early february this year has seen the IRA on the Downs if necessary). Squads of read a new way. After all, what WOULD renew its counterattack against troops cars chased scab lorries, doing things Whichever party is in power, the the government do if faced with a serious inside England: An army bus on its way like taking out the lorries tail-load forces of repression in Britain are political crisis and mass protest? back to camp in Yorkshire had its back blown out by a 50 lb bomb: 12 people pins from behind as the lorry was on the move. The groundwork has been Pig strike breaking moving and spilling the coal all over done for whatever government wants were killed, all soldiers or their families. OW DO the police come into the road. to use it. In this article we take a The British soldier is at war with British look at these preparations. They state preparations for major citizens. If he didnt quite grasp the strikes like the present miners In some areas miners wives got involv­ reveal a very different Britain significance of that at first, he does now. strike? In preparation for a ed as well. In Betteshanger they from the one we usually hear about. H strike of this sort, police training HQ have organised the bulk buying of food and been drilling anti-picket riot squads, skilled went round with a loudspeaker van ...but who will speak in techniques of crowd control and wedge announcing meetings. In Rugeley formation tactics based on the army’s (Staffs) women went down to the forfreedom? experience in Ulster. To counter the social security offices and dumped flying pickets used with such devastating their kids over the counter — with effect in 1972, the home office has set up the result that they got free coal, special squads whose job is to get ahead hot meals and extra money! A broad­ of the flying pickets. There are also sheet was put out called United special patrol groups whose job is to set women talking about how the women in up blockades to stop workers converging the mining villages had organised on any area in large numbers. Both of while the men were picketing. While these will be fed information from a the men were away, the women were newly established central information de­ picketing the pit. They organised a partment in Scotland Yard which cor­ rota among themselves so that a UT ULSTER has done more relates all intelligence on plans for organ­ different woman each day would look than bring the military back to ised pickets (set up in november, this was after the kids of all of them, and life, it has created a new and devised by the home secretary and heads feed them. They also organised boycotts Bsinister military ideology — the of police throughout Britain). of shops that were charging high ideology of the “new warfare”. Accord­ So police forces throughout Britain prices for food etc. In some places ing to this ideology, the British army of have thousands of men available in sep­ gangs of women came out of supermarkets the 70s will be chiefly concerned not arate contingency plans to deal with any loaded with goods and refused to pay. with external defence but INTERNAL possible trouble in picketing. (There was also a lot of solidarity DEFENCE. The threat to English security But what if this first line of defence shown to the miners by students and is most likely to come from within. The fails? Rather than risk undermining al­ freaks. Students at Essex university “new warfare” is counter-insurgency. Al­ ready waning public confidence in the even occupied their senate hall so ready this ideology has been absorbed police, the government definitely has that miners could have a place to Militarising the police and practical steps taken to institute it. plans to call in the army. sleep.) N A SITUATION where the Military education has been given an normal forms of political control Enter the political soldier overhaul. Mao Tse-tung, Che Guevark', These and other militant tactics were are breaking down, government EMEMBER those Reuter photos general Giap are now standard reading for crowned by an amazing display of I has to fall back more and more of tanks at Heathrow airport? officers. Every soldier must now do working class mass resistance at a on brute force. This is what has been The government’s story at the courses in the “new warfare”. mass picket of a coke depot in happening in Britain over the past few R time was that they were there to The key figure in this shakeup in army Saltley, Birmingham: 10,000 workers - years. The first line of defence against deter arab terrorists. Few swallowed this thinking is a shrewd soldier-scholar called not just miners either - completely increasing popular resistance is — as usual and even the pro-government Daily ex­ brigadier Frank Kitson. His recent career overwhelmed the police. — the pigs. But wait a minute, are we press didnt hesitate to describe the oper­ pinpoints the events which have reshaped talking about your friendly English bob- ation as a “preparation for the use of army thinking. He was involved in coun­ ter-insurgency campaigns in Kenya THE SPECTRE OF SALTLEY: bie? Well, he hasnt been seen for several troops in the event of serious industrial (against the Mau Mau) and Malaya Saltley was the turning point in the years now. What about the good old unrest” and a “cover” for police to gain (against the communists). He then went strike. It struck at the heart of unarmed copper? Forget about him too, maximum experience of “collaborating on to command the 39th Brigade in ruling class confidence. Up to then because there are now guns in every with the army, against extremists of any Belfast for two years till 1973. He was Heath and Co had succeeded in making police station (they’ve just been issued kind”. (Daily express, 8 /1 /74 ) Page 10 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, febi y 19-25, 1974 /iV j Yj V s ! i iV - 4 J J 4 4 J 1 I 1 ' 1 * FOR AN EARLY 1984

then appointed new commandant of the as rooting out these "extremists”. grievance arose such as might result able to penetrate small targets — highly Army School o f Infantry, Warminster - But according to the press and TV the from a significant drop in the standard secure targets . . .” If you follow Kitson’s the top teaching post in the country. In present political and industrial trouble in of living, all those who now dissipate theories he believes the army should be between he took time off in Oxford England is likewise the fault of "extrem­ their protest over a wide variety of more active now than later: “ It is far that academic city of dreaming spires - ists”. If Ulster can flare into civil war, causes might concentrate their efforts easier to penetrate a subversive movement to dream up a book called “Low Intensi­ can’t it happen back home? As one and produce a situation which was when it is using nonviolent means than it ty Operations” which is now a standard parachute major put it in The guardian beyond the power of the police to is when the movement is wholly clan­ army text. interviews: "You get odd comments from handle. Should this happen the army destine because of the number of people The main theme of Kitson’s book is the Toms (private soldiers) like ‘Next would be required to restore the situa­ involved.” cold and simple: the British army must time we’ll be in Glasgow’.” . .. tion rapidly.” On one level, Kitson is just talking transform itself into an anti-subversive “There is just this general feeling that The only disarming thing about Kitson sound military sense, like any counter­ force capable of dealing with growing England is cracking slightly, that the is his bluntness. Unlike \the old pukka insurgency expert worth his salt. The civil disorder in Britain. Kitson’s book facade is crumbling.” military establishment he doesnt even freaky thing is that he is talking this caused a furore when it appeared. Several Other officers point out how access­ make a show of ethical concern. Even if a “sense” about Britain in the here and trade unionists and left Labour MPs called ible are the techniques of urban terrorism: grievance is in his own words “genuine now. And that this is the man who holds for his sacking. Nothing was done. “ . . . it’s a fact that cops have to walk in and serious” the army will have to inter­ the top army teaching post in the coun­ Despite government disclaimers, it’s fours on the Liverpool docks, isnt it? vene and that’s that. Elsewhere he returns try. clear that Kitson’s views now carry the Magnify the Angry Brigade ten times and to the metaphor of guerrillas as fish and With guys like Kitson around, it takes day among top military brass. His book you see the sort of problems the British the population as water and says, "... a lot of self-control for any militant to appeared with H. M. Stationery copyright may be facing in ten years time.” Ulster conceivably it might be necessary to kill avoid paranoia, especially with a Laura and was published with defence ministry soldiers see phenomena like violent the fish by polluting the water”. Norda election just round the comer and permission. It carries an introduction by pickets and groups like the Angry Brigade Likewise he defines subversion as any particularly with the miners strike now army chief of staff, general sir Michael (who carried out bomb attacks on cabinet form of resistance which goes outside the on. But it’s so hard to get concrete infor­ Carver, who describes it as “written for ministers and bosses) as a prelude of law of the day. By that definition a very mation. the soldier of today as preparation for the bigger trouble to come. large part o f the labor movement in this We could do with some Washington operations of tomorrow”! Recent inter­ Kitson’s delights country is engaged in subversion. po st journalists.) Occasional bits of in­ views with other top army men have He himself is completely cynical about formation come to light, about joint confirmed that in the land of army ITSON makes no bones about the law: “It should be used as just army/police meetings on internal secur­ strategy Kitson is king. In addition the his belief that Britain’s slide to­ another weapon in the government’s ity; about army intelligence/special Tory minister for defence endorsed Kit­ wards industrial chaos is a job arsenal and in this case it becomes little branch linkups; the army plugging in to son’s stress on internal defence in a recent K for the army. Here are some more than a propaganda cover for the police computers; army training exercises Tory pamphlet. choice delights from his military menu: disposal of unwanted members of the in Wiltshire which involve shooting at Most vocal in support of Kitson are Militant communities in England .. public.” long-haired as well as female dummies; officers who’ve had experience in Ulster. there are other potential trouble spots army experts teaching army techniques at The warfare in Ulster is guerrilla warfare. in the UK which might involve the 1974 Britain police training HQ etc. But we lack any In accordance with counter-insurgency army in operations against political NGLAND today definitely fits comprehensive counter-counter- ideas, soldiers there are trained to sep­ extremists who are prepared to resort his idea of a country in the early intelligence. to a considerable degree of violence to stages of “subversion”. What is arate the fish from the water - that is the Dad’s Army IRA from the catholics and, to a lesser achieve their ends.” Ehis recipe for this situation? “In extent, the extreme protestant guerrillas Mass protest. “If a genuine and serious the very early stages of subversion the against its sons? from the protestants. intelligence organisation HATEVER happens during the The solution is seen has got to be present miners dispute, the prob­ lem of military interference is W bound to increase. England looks set for increasing industrial and political unrest. Increasing unrest means increasing repression. But the more the government relies on the forces of hard repression, the more dependent on these it must become. With the police forces badly understrength the army bosses have future governments over a barrel. It’s all very well for the civil powers to plan on "calling in” the troops to deal with internal subversion. But the army can only equip itself to deal with internal subversion by developing its own politics. Ulster has given birth to a monster which future British governments are going to find difficult to control - even if they want to. The reason for this lies in the logic of the new warfare, which as Kitson repeats again and again, is to win the minds of the people. You can only win this kind of warfare by rooting out the enemy before they take to the streets. Propaganda counts for everything. The army has to give priority to countering the ideology of its enemy. In the English context this means that the army has to involve itself in persuad­ ing the population that “communism” and “reds” and “extremists” are wrong. Kitson’s soldiers cannot avoid being political soldiers. The “new warfare” in Britain means, in Kitson’s words “the fusion of civil and military functions to fight battles which have primarily politi­ cal objectives”. The more the army is trained to do battle inside its own coun­ try the more its “politics” are likely to become autonomous from that of the government’s. Already many of the top military caste make no secret of their view that the politicians are ostriches who blindly fumble about inside parliament and Whitehall while the extremists are out posting their letter-bombs. The days of the obedient military under civilian con­ trol are numbered. Unless America or Europe bails out English capitalism from its present dire straits, the day of the jackal may soon be at hand — before 1984 too. |----- 1 growth in all the affluent soci­ eties. They cause enormous vis­ ible, and God knows how much invisible, damage to the deluded consumers who swallow them or Fizzy freak outs have them injected into their bloodstreams. yard near his house. Neither child Soon there will be another could be controlled by his thalidomide outrage and the com­ parents. But after being on diets pany involved will reluctantly pay free from artificial flavors and out a few millions in "compensa­ on lolly water coloring, both children returned tion” for tragedies which could to normal behavior. not be adequately assuaged by Most children, Feingold says, thousands of millions. From WILLIAM DOWELL can probably be taken off drugs My blasphemies in TLD 1/1 in­ in San Francisco treatment is not a cure for hyper­ walls - had already been put on fairly quickly once they are on a cluded the figures for vaccination activity, but only serves to mask drugs. careful diet. The problem is that it against smallpox in England, sup­ OFT DRINKS and ham­ the problem. And yet he conserva­ In an adult, using Ritalin or is nearly impossible to keep chil­ plied from official health depart­ Sburgers, the delight of mil­ tively estimates that nationally in amphetamines has the effect of dren away from the ubiquitous ment sources in response to a lions of children, may have hidden the US at least two million of the making one more active. But in food additives. Rules governing question in parliament. The fig­ side effects. Dr Ben Feingold, US approximately five million chil­ the case of hyperactive children, the food industry are so complex ures can’t be repeated too often: allergy specialist, has discovered dren labelled hyperactive are given the drugs seem to have the "para­ that hnost people dont know what in the 25 years ended december that many standbys of the Ameri­ drugs but receive no other kind of doxical” reverse effect of slowing they’re eating, and food package 1962 nearly two thirds of the can diet may actually be villains therapy or treatment. One school them down. The scientific ex­ labels are often illegible or incom­ children bom in England and causing behavior problems in chil­ official in Yolo County, California planation of this phenomenon is prehensible (see TLD, 1/9). Wales remained un vaccina ted for dren. By eliminating the chemical says that nearly 16 percent of the still conjectural, and some experts In one case, Feingold says, a smallpox, yet only four children preservatives and coloring com­ children in his school are taking are now beginning to question child had been treated with Rita­ under five died of smallpox; while monly found in processed foods, behavior modifying drugs, and whether the effect is really in fact lin from the age of three and a of the one third vaccinated no Feingold has learned he can often drug company officials say this paradoxical. half, and several years later he still fewer than 86 children were killed cure some kinds of hyperactivity figure is not uncommon. These specialists point out that couldnt control himself. Two by vaccination and many more — a nervous condition which Feingold first stumbled across hyperactive children normally weeks after being kept away from were seriously injured by it. makes it difficult for children to this probable link between syn­ quiet down when put in stressful synthetic dyes and flavorings, his This time I have some informa­ concentrate. thetic food additives and some situations like visiting a doctor’s behavior became normal. A few tion for you about another vac­ Almost all the processed food forms of hyperactivity eight years office. Amphetamines and Ritalin, weeks after that, however, the cine which was hailed about 20 we eat contains additives, many of ago when he was asked to treat a they hypothesise, could be put­ boy was back in a hyperactive years ago as the answer to polio­ which are derived from coal tar, a woman suffering from giant hives. ting the child under constant state. It turned out that he had myelitis: the Salk vaccine, named petroleum product. The toxic As soon as the woman went on a stress. Their ability to concen­ eaten a doughnut with synthetic after Jonas Salk, who was venerat­ quality of many of these deriva­ special diet without artificial food trate, however, might not have coloring. He again returned to ed throughout the world by brain­ tives has been known for many coloring and flavors, the hives improved at all. Longterm usage normal, but then contracted a washed dupes as one of the heroes years, but their special effect on cleared up. of stress-inducing drugs would chest cold and needed medicine. of medical "science”. Well, what children is only now being discov­ A short while later, Feingold have disastrous effects on the chil­ Since there are almost no med­ happened to the Salk vaccine? ered. received a call from a psychiatrist dren’s nervous system and general icines for children without some After a year of mass injections The research linking food addi­ who had treated this woman for health. form of artificial flavoring or dye, in the Benighted States, the Mel­ tives to behavior is still not con­ serious psychological problems. In about 80 percent of the in treating the cold the child once bourne Age reported that Dr E. V. clusive, but Feingold's work is The diet had stopped the woman’s cases in which the children had more became uncontrollably Keogh, on his return to Mel­ already attracting attention from mental problems along with her already been put on drugs, Fein­ hyperactive. bourne from the US, had said: It educators and psychologists hives, and the psychiatrist wanted gold found that once the children The theory that at least some is true that in California, and to a throughout the country. If initial to know what had happened. had been put on a diet which cut hyperactive behavior is the result much less extent in other states, studies prove correct, a syn­ After this experience, Feingold out synthetic food colorings and of allergic reactions has already the administration of the vaccine thetics-free diet may, for many began paying particular attention flavorings it was possible to com­ begun to spark interest across the has seemed to increase rather than children, become an alternative to to behavior problems and hyper­ pletely discontinue the drugs country, and Feingold says that ,decrease the incidence of polio.” present methods of drug treat­ activity. In the past five or six without adverse behavioral reac­ an increasing number of educators A report in the New York ment Feingold estimates that as years, he says he has treated ap­ tions. On the same diet, about see nutrition and allergies as key Herald on july 14, 1955, said: many as 80 percent of the several proximately one hundred hyper­ 50-60 percent of the hyperactive factors in learning disabilities. In "The city’s cases of polio since million children now using control active cases. Many of these chil­ children not already on drugs re­ his own research Feingold is limit­ january 1 totalled 100 yesterday, drugs like Ritalin (a behavior dren - often characterised in ear­ turned to normal. ing his work to investigating artifi­ against 26 at this time last year.” modifier), amphetamines (com­ ly infancy as "crib rockers” and Feingold mentioned two cases cial flavors and synthetic dyes. In spite of these, and other, mel­ monly known as “speed"), or described later as "frenetic” or as examples, that of an 11 year For the present, Feingold ancholy reports of the Salk re­ tranquillisers may be exhibiting compulsive old boy who insisted on riding his thinks it would be impractical to sults, the vaccine was later used able to stop simply behavior bicycle towards oncoming cars try banning the additives com­ extensively in Australia. The rea­ by restricting their like beating their and that of pletely. At the very least, how­ son, no doubt, was not unrelated diets to natural heads against \S another boy ever, he would like to see a law to a Wall Street report that the six foods. who requiring food manufacturers to drug houses licensed to produce Feingold compulsively print an easily recognisable the vaccine expected the gross points out dug holes symbol on food boxes indicating revenue from their sales during that drug in the the use of artificial flavors and the following eight or nine synthetic dyes. He would then months to be about $27 million. like to see a campaign to alert The medicos, of course, love parents of children who might be these injections - all sorts. As allergic or hyperactive. Shaw pointed out nearly a hun­ dred years ago, they were wel­ Pacific news service comed by the profession because they enable doctors to collect lovely fees from people who‘are not sick. Perhaps the worst feature of the Salk swindle was the fact that the production of the vaccine involved the slaughter of millions of rhesus monkeys. Evolutionwise monkeys are pretty close rela­ tives of ours. Their biology resem­ bles ours closely. Naturalists have reported that in their natural state, living on their natural diet of fruits, shoots and nuts, mon­ keys are never sick. How ironic, how desolating, that man, having brought foul sicknesses on himself by his un­ THE AMERICAN writer and natural living habits, should poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who slaughter millions of these charm­ was also an eminent (if unusual) ing, harmless creatures in a maniac medical man, wrote more than a attempt to protect himself fr6m century ago: “I firmly believe that the fruits of his own folly. Even if the whole Materia Medica, as the slaughter may not have been now used, could be sunk to the the worst of it. bottom of the sea, it would be all Imagine them trapped, caged, the better for mankind - and all and transported in those cages to the worse for the fishes.” the laboratories where the mass It was true in his day. How murder was committed. There was much more true it is in ours, with for many years (possibly there the giant, profit hungry drug man­ still is) a reward of $28,000 on ufacturing companies churning offer in the Benighted States for £ » s anyone who could prove that the out a constant flood of drugs, wonder drugs, miracle drugs, Salk vaccine was not a fake. No­ which proliferate like a cancerous body has collected it. Page 12 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS,wp f i l ebruary 19-25, 1974 LIFTOUT

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Coven: Nimrod Street The­ OF LIGHT — Plus movies: B A N D O MUNITIES AND THE TOPS: French’s Tavern, DOC WILLIS JAZZ TV, RADIO atre, 33.3933. 8.30 pm. Hornsby Police Boys, 8-12, F L A K E : Co BACK TO THE LAND 7.45-10 pm. BAND: Albury Hotel, Ox­ EROS AND THANATOS: $ 1 .5 0 . VIVALDI'S VENICE — A munity Centi MOVE — Tony Furniss of SMAUG COUNTRY ford st, Darlinghurst. See friday. RENE GEYER and words and music portrait $ 1 .5 0 . the Nimbin Co-op: Human­ BAND: Axis Oasis. EAST COAST JAZZ THE HOSTAGE: See fri­ of the 18th century com­ SLADE, HOI ist House, 10 Shepherd st, OLD TIME COUNTRY, BAND: Unity Hall hotel, MOTHER EARTH: Silks. d a y . 7. poser: ABC Radio 2, 4.00 Pavilion, in Broadway, 8 pm. CONTEMPORARY AND B a lm a in . CLASSICS HUSH: Greenacre YMCA, p m . $ 4 .7 0 . POETRY READING: Old TRADITIONAL: Red Lion DEEP BAYOU JAZZ/ FILM 8-12 pm, $1.40. WILDLIFE SAFARI TO Church, E. Sydney, 8 pm. hotel, Pitt and Hunter ROCK BAND: Stage Door ALBERT ZANDA with 69ERS: Forum Youth ETHIOPIA: Chan 2, 7.55 CHEAP 1 streets. C ity, 8-10 pm. Tavern, 7-10 pm. Free. members of CARL PINI DREAM LIFE — M. Dan- Club, Brookvale, 8-12 pm. p m . JEANNIE LEWIS and QUARTET — Mozart, ELECTRONICS sereau (French sexual com­ 8 DAY CLOCK: Randwick ULMAN, WITTERING M U S IC O N ROCK PETER BOOTHMAN Beethoven, Faure: Opera edy): Filmmakers Cinema, tow n hall, 8-1 am. AND ZIGO — Radio play Opera House, BAND: French’s Tavern, House Music Room, info THE TULIP TREE — 12 pm. $1.00. TROUPADORS: Oceanic re classroom tyranny and 1. 2, 3, 4, BLAZE, WARREN WIL­ 7.45-10 pm. 29.8441, 6.30 pm, $2.00. Radio play: ABC Radio 1, BARBARELLA and Hotel, 7.30-11.45 pm. intrigue. Gee whiz: ABC students, pel LIAMS: Chequers, 8pm-3 DON DE SILVA: Mac­ THE BARBER OF SEVIL­ 11 a m . R O S E M A R Y ’ S B A B Y : BAND OF LIGHT: Radio 1, 8.00 pm. M U S I C I A N a m . quarie hotel, Woolloomoo- LE: Opera House, 7.30 WILFRED THOMAS and New Arts Cinema, Glebe, Chequers, 8 pm-3 am. CONCERTO — Perlman B R A S S B A N TRANSITION — Rock. loo, 7.30-10 pm. pm, $6.S0-$10.50, inquire 40s MUSIC — Glenn M iller, 660.6207, 11.45 pm, FLAKE, CAPTAIN plays Bruch: Chan 2, 8.30 live music: ) They’re only there for the RED LION FOLK: See firs t. Dietrich, Sinatra, Ella, Nat, $ 2. 00. pm . pm-4.30 pm. bed: Oceanic hotel, 7-10 MATCHBOX: Taren Point etc: ABC Radio 2, 7.30 th u rs . FILMS ON AQUARIUS MAN IN QUESTION — p m . F ree. Youth Club, 8 pm, $1.50. p m . Darts Kelimocum presents FESTIVALS — 1971 Can­ Johannes Bjelke-Petersen — THE* ROCK, FOLK, GRAHAM SALTMARSH, TOP HAT — Movie with berra, *73 Nimbin: Film­ of the Deep North: Chan PHYL LOBL, GRAEME BALLADS Fred Astaire, Ginger makers Cinema, 31.3237, 6 2, 9.00 pm. JESTERS: N LOWNDES, ANDY SAUN­ Rogers; Music by Irving pm, $1.00 members only. THE SPY IN LACE PAN­ T h e a tre , 33, DERS: Elizabeth hotel, BLAZE, WARREN WIL­ Berlin, High Camp: Chan Join at door. TIES — movie with Rod p m . C ity, 8 pm, 80 cents. LIAMS: Chequers, 8 pm-3 10, 11.10 pm. CITIZEN KANE by Orson Taylor, Doris Day. Not rec­ am , $ 2 .0 0 . CURVES IN THE ROAD Welles: Union theatre, 7.30 CONTEMPORARY ommended for adults: FILM, BOB POMEROY: Hang — More sexist trash with WORKSHOPS p m , $ 2 .00. Chan 7, 8.30. Toe, 217 Commonwealth Loilobrigida: Channel 7, t a f y v t d a / / JON ENGLISH, GRAEME R O B E R T I st, Surry Hills, 50 cents, 1 0 .3 0 p m . ROCK ROCK WILDLIFE F SILK SCREEN, POT­ LOWNDES and others —' 8 .3 0 p m . PHILOSOPHERS IN DE­ House music TERY, FILMMAKING JACKI CHRISTIAN, good vibes: Kirk Gallery, ELTON JOHN, LA DE STOCK EXCHANGE RE­ BATE — Alfred Ayer, Arne uous from 10 WORKSHOPS — and STAGE FLIG HT: Chequers. 422 Cleveland st, Surry DAS: Randwick Race­ PORT — Music to make Naess. Get it on with mere adults $2.00, Ananda Marga meditation: TITANIC, TREE, BAND Hills, 8 pm, $1.50. course, $5.20. love to: ABC Radio 2, 5.45 words: ABC Radio 2, JESTERS by Michael T H E B O Y I Old Church, 183 Palmer st, pm . 1 0 .1 5 p m . all start 8 pm. Free. WINCHESTER ’73 — West­ JAZZ ern movie said to be “an action packed epic” as ON THE Chris & Eva 51.9563 or leave messages TIM BROWN: Northbridge thrilling as a parking fine, 51.7425, write Flat 8, No. 7 Irving h o te l. no doubt: Channel 2, 9.55 FLOOR avenue, Windsor, 3181. DICK HUGHES: French’s p m . Tavern, 7.45-10.00 pm. DON DE SILVA: Mac­ THE DANCE COMPANY: MUSIC UNDER MILKWOOD: Sidney: GTV-9, 10.55 pm. ET: Commun quarie hotel, Woolloomoo- See th u rs . 3AR, 11.20 am. THE HUSTLER (AO) — MEETINGS b o u rn e . loo, 7.30-10 pm. GROG LAWRIE and IAN DEBUSSY — THE IM­ Paul Newman movie: ST O RYVIL RADIO, TV INDIVIDUALISM — Ayn WINTER — Contempo­ PRESSIONIST — Linda HSV-7, 10.40 pm. B A N D : M i TV, RADIO Raja, and Images: 3AR, Rand's objectivism versus hotel, City. rary: French’s Tavern, JAZZ ON A FRIDAY 7.45-10 pm. 1 1 .1 0 p m . Max Stirner’s egoism: Ex­ WIND RAIDERS OF THE NIGHT — Barney Kessel ROCK RADIO ROY ORBISON PLAYS istentialist Society, Grad­ Fll SAHARA — Sailing land- guest of Eric Child: ABC uate lounge, Melbourne HISTORY: Hordern pavil­ Radio 1, 7.15 pm. KUSH: Croxton Park ho­ BEETHOVEN Folk Song ships across the desert; uni. Union, 8 pm. G O O D B Y E ion, 8.15 pm, $5.30, ARTHUR FIEDLER — tel, Preston. Arrangements: 3AR, 8.00 doco: Channel 10, 7.30 PSYCH LIB CONSCIOUS­ (M ), T H E HI $4.20, $3.20. Live from Melbourne: ABC SEBASTIAN HARDY: c v e d t t e a t y pm . pm . NESS-RAISING MEET­ (NRC): Trak, MERV ACHESON JAZZi Radio 2, 8 pm. George hotel, St Kilda. THE BIG SLEEP — ING: Undergrad, lounge, road, 11.45,$ TRIO : Bellevue hotel, Pad- THE MIRACLE WORKER MATT TAYLOR: Golf- Humphrey Bogart as a d o . Melbourne uni Union dick, Lauren Bacall as a — Pandering movie: Chan­ view hotel, Geelong. ROCK CHRIS TAPPERAC, building, 7.30 pm, non­ OUTD general’s daughter. Drama, nel 1 0, 9 pm. DAVE FURNISS play students welcome. I think: Channel 10, 10.10 IN CONCERT with Deep FOLK HOT CITY BUMP BAND: jazz: Forest Lodge hotel, T H E W O R L D pm . Purple, Buddy Miles, Rare Whitehorse hotel, Nuna- 7.30-10 pm. TV FISHING CC PHILOSOPHERS IN DE­ Earth and Rory Gallagher: PETER PARKHILL: w a d in g . ROCK Darts Kelimocum presents with, wait f BATE — Karl Popper and Channel 7, 11 pm. Frank Traynors, 100 Little RED HOUSE ROLL MARTIN DOHERTY, CONCERT DEATH OF A LAIRD, prize. All cate John Eccles on evolution, Lonsdale street. City. BAND: Croxton Park BIRTH OF A LEGEND — MICK FLANNIGAN, ■ng: Rosebud violence, philosophy: ABC ROCK hotel, Preston. Mystery and suspense: MARY HALL, DEREK ELTON JOHN, LA DE Southern Pen Radio 2, 10.15 pm. JAZZ/ROCK MADDER LAKE, TANK: HSV-7, 9 pm. CHETWYN, BOB POM­ DAS: South Melbourne B o a rd . | INSIDE ALVIN PURPLE SHERBET: Cabramatta Sundowner, Geelong. HARLEM GLOBETROT­ EROY: Elizabeth hotel, 8 football ground, 8.00 pm, — Heaven forbid, a doco Civic Centre, 8-12 pm. DOVE: Prospect Hill hotel, SEBASTIAN HARDY: pm-10 pm, 70 cents. $ 5 .2 0 . TERS — popcorn machine: TV on the film: Channel 7, SMAUG COUNTRY High street, Kew. George hotel, St Kilda. ABV-2, 9.40 pm. 1 0 .3 0 pm . B A N D : A l i ’ s O asis CHAIN: R.M.l.T, City ROCK MONTY PYTHON’S W H IT E H E / JACKI CHRISTIAN and FILM ( L u n c h ). FLYING CIRCUS: ABV-2, James Cagn FLIG HT: Chequers. FILMS RED HOUSE ROLL 1 0 .4 0 pm . Mayo, Ednu TROUPADORS: Oceanic THE RAIN PEOPLE (Cop­ FOLK BAND: Whitehorse hotel, A MERRY PROGRESS — GTV-9, 10.0C hotel, 7.30-11.45 pm. pola) and SHOCK COR­ HENDRIX: Manly Silver Nunawading. a health to all true lovers: PERSPECTI\ BAND OF LIGHT, sup­ RIDOR (Sam Fuller): BELLENDER KER: Union Screen, 9.30 pm, $2.00. JIGSAW: Croxton Park 3AR, 1 1.20 pm. ergy crunch, ports: Cronulla Masonic NFT A, Off Hollywood hotel, crn. Amess and Fen­ NFTA's off Hollywood SUBSIDISED hotel, Preston. the oil barrel season — FIVE EASY hall, 8-12 pm, $1.50. series. Dental theatre, Grat­ wick streets. North Carl­ SILVERTAILS tan street, Carlton, 7.40 ton, 8 to 1 2, $1.00 includ­ BILLY THORPE AND p m . PIECES and THE CANDI­ THE AZTECS, TANK: IN C O N C E R DATE: Aust Govt Centre pm, $1.20, 80c students. ing supper. THE MAGIC FLUTE by Waltzing Matilda, Spring- E adles, Ike ai Theatrette, Phillip & Hunt­ FOOD BUSHWHACKERS AND Mozart — Aust Opera Com MEETINGS BULLOCKIES BUSH vale. e r’s revue, er streets, 7.15 pm, $1.20, SEBASTIAN HARDY: Triumvirate pany: Opera House, 7.30 PADDY’S MARKET — BAND: Polaris Inn hotel, 8 0 cents. Sundowner hotel, Geelong. ROCK c o k e ads: H: pm, $6.50-$1 0.50. Shop while it lasts: Hay- GROUP MEDITATION: 55 1 Nicholson street. LES CARABINIERES by BIG PUSH: George hotel, market, 11 am-5.30 pm. Ananda Marga Soc, 141 North Carlton. | J.-L. Godard, 1962: Film­ TUCKER S t K ild a . BOOTLEG FAMILY: RAf Barkly street, Carlton. Rembrandt Receptions, makers Cinema, 31.3237, 6 CLOUD NINE: Grovedale, pm-10 pm, $1.00. Mem­ THEATRE PRISONS, PEOPLE AND JAZZ H a w th o rn . UNI OF NSW FOOD CO- G eelo n g . T H E P R IM P bers o n ly . PROBLEMS — Peter Lynn, BILLY THORPE AND OP — Fresh cheap fruit, AYERS ROCK: R.M.l.T., 3AR, 7.15 pr EROS AND THANATOS Humanist Society: VEF PANTHER: Prospect Hill THE AZTECS, SEBAS­ THE CABINET OF DR nuts, veggies and faces: City, (Lunch). A R T H U R I CALIGARI: Old Church, — A new Aust. play based rooms. Princes Gate, 151 hotel, Kew. TIAN HARDY: White­ Round House Lawn, 5-8 CHAIN: St Albans hotel, Australia: 3A 184 Palmer st, E. Sydney, on “ Eros and Civilisation” Flinders street, city, 8 pm. FRANK TRAYNO R: horse hotel, Nunawading. pm . O P E N E D U C A T IO N — Beaumaris hotel, Beach S t A lb a n s . J A Z Z O N 8.00 pm. Free/donation. (Marcuse, silly): Pilgrim BIG PUSH: Croxton Park NITE: 3LO, House, 264 Pitt st, 8.30 seminar: Beaumaris and ro ad . BOURKE AND WILLS: Waurn Ponds hotel, Gee­ hotel, Preston. Barney Kesse pm. Free, free, free. District Education Com­ FANCY long. RED HOUSE ROLL JESTERS: Nimrod Street mittee, Beaumaris Com­ BLUES KUSH: Matthew Flinders BAND: Sundowner, Gee­ FOOTWORK Theatre, 33.3933, 8.30 munity Centre. For info hotel, Chadstone. long. p m . ring 99.4452. DUTCH TILDERS and CLOUD NINE: George friends: Frank Traynors, SKYLIGHT: Station hotel, THE DANCE COMPANY THE HOSTAGE by Bren­ hotel, St Kilda. C ity . P rahran. OF NSW — Second season: dan Behan: Cronulla Arts OUTDOOR SHARKS, MATT TAY­ FILMS Theatre, 8.1 5 pm. Opera House, $3.50, ENTERTAINMENT NEW MUSIC FOLK LOR, SKYHOOKS: Teaz- RC CHINA — THE RED $4.50, $6.00, 8.1 5 pm. er, Exhibition street, City. KUSH: International hotel, SONS. Revolutionary doc­ THE GUARD CERE­ FILMS EVOLUTION OF THE GEOFF AND DIANE Y O U T H 20i YOU: Commune, North Airport west. umentary: Filmmakers MONY: Martin Plaza DANCE: Flagstaff Gar­ HOLLINS, RAMBLERS, B E R T , MAC DEATH IN VENICE and M e lb o u rn e . HOT CITY BUMP BAND: Cinema, 31.3237, 10 pm, Cenotaph. Live, serious, dens, 12.10 and 1.10 pm. PHIL DAY: Dan O’Con­ M A T T T A Y THE DAMNED: New Arts, Matthew Flinders, Chad- $ 1. 0 0 . street theatre, 12.30 pm. FASHION TO MUSIC: nell, cnr. Canning and B O U R K E / Glebe, 11.45 pm, $2.00. FILM stone. SAWDUST AND TINSEL CHINA — THE RED Treasury Gardens, 12.10 Princes street, North Carl­ C O O K I E S , TV. RADIO ton, 8 pm to 12 pm, $1.00. by Bergman, plus THE SONS. Cultural revolution, and 1.10 pm. Models LA VIE A L’ENVERS and R O V E R T , I GEOFF AND DIANE FOLK OVERCOAT (Russian): R. W hittaker (1971): Film­ parade “ in” fashions to an CLEO DE 5A7: NFT A, L IN D A GE< PHILOSOPHERS IN DE­ “ in” band (sic). HOLLINS: Tankerville Opera House, 7.30 pm, makers Cinema, St Peter’s Dental theatre, Grattan Music Bowl, $ 2.00 . BATE — More of W e d ne s­ Arms, cnr. Johnson and PETER PARKHILL and by our frit lane, Dario, 10 pm, $1.00. street, Carlton, 7.40 pm, others: Outpost Inn, 52 HENDRIX: Manly Silver d a y 's deal: A B C R a d io 2, TV Nicholson streets, Carlton, ment — is t NFTA classics — METRO­ $1.20, 80c students. Collins street, C ity, 80c. Screen, 9.30 pm, $2.00. 10.15 p m . 8 pm to 10 pm, 60c. spend o u r POLIS and TONI: AMP MIKE GALLAGHER, AQUARIUS FESTIVAL PICK OF THE GOONS: ATONEMENT — PRESER­ JOHN CROWLE: Frank ~1.30-5.30 p it theatre, Circular Quay, OUTDOOR GORDON MclNTYRE: FILMS: Filmmakers Cin­ A B C R a d io 1, 8 p m . VATION OR DIE — a fas­ Traynors, City, 80c. BOOTLEG 7.15 pm, $1.20. Union hotel, Carlton. ema, 31.3237, 10 pm, A MERRY PROGRESS — cinating and often drama­ W in d s o r R FASHION TO MUSIC: BUSHWHACKERS AND $ . . Traditional folk songs, tic look at the preservation JAZZ street, Prahra 1 00 JAZZ, FOLK Flagstaff Gardens, 12.10 BULLOCKIES BUSH NFTA's off Hollywood poetry: ABC Radio 2, of wildlife: ATV-0, 7.30 B IG PUSH and 1.10 pm. BAND: Polaris Inn hotel, season — HUSBANDS: 1 1 .1 0 p m . NOEL CROWS JAZZ p m . DAVE RANKIN JAZ* hotel, Nunaw EVOLUTION OF THE C a rlto n . Aust Govt Centre The­ H E A V E N W IT H A G U N — BAND: Red Ned’s Chats- WAR AND PEACE cont.: DANCE: Treasury Gar­ BAND: Alma hotel, 32 J O H N R U P E atrette, 7.15 pm, $1.20. Movie about a gunfighter wood, 8.30-11.30 pm. ABV-2, 8.00 pm. Chapel street, St Kilda. ANDREW MclNTYRE, H E N C H M E dens, 12.10 and 1.10 pm. MIKE O’ROURKE, PHIL who enters the church — LARRY'S COSMIC ARMS AND THE MAN: OWEN YEATMAN: Pros­ Park hotel, Pi DAY: Frank Traynors, MEETINGS Oh my guru: Channel 7, 9 BLUES GUITAR: Hang by G. B. Shaw, ABV-2, pect Hill hotel, Kew. T R ID E N T : TV C ity . p m . Toe, 217 Commonwealth 9 .5 0 p m . FRANK TRAYNOR: Ex­ G eelong. st, Surry Hills, 8.30 pm, 50 Council for Civil Liberties KWANGCHOW ACRO­ change hotel, Cheltenham. JAZZ PHASE 2: G open night to discuss the BLUES, FOLK cents. RADIO BATIC TROUPE from the K ild a . MARIE ON PIANO — Lon­ revision of the CHILD NEW SOCIETY: 3AR, Republic of China: ATV-0, NEW MUSIC JUNCTION CITY JAZZ S E B A S T I A AL WARD: Squatters Re don pub songs: Bellevue WELFARE ACT: 149 7.1 5 p m . 7 .3 0 p m . MELBOURNE NEW BAND: Prospect H ill hotel, Southside Si treat, Elizabeth st. City. hotel, 159 Hargrave st, Johns road, Glebe, 6 pm. EDUCATION NOW: 3AR, BLOOD ON THE SUN (A) MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com­ K e w . C H A I N , 1 JUNIOR AND THE GOLD Paddo, 7-10 pm. ALTERNATIVE COM- 7 .3 5 p m . — James Cagney, Sylvia mune, North Melbourne. BRIAN BROWN QUART­ H O U S E R<

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tria: Genesian theatre, 420 SCHOOLS OUT — Free THE GEOLOGICAL AND BAND OF LIGHT, THE WIZARD OF OZ: Opera House, 7.30, $2.00. MERV ACHESON JAZZ OPUNKA'S ORIENTA­ Kent st. City, 798.3608, schools anthology: Film ­ MINING MUSEUM (only FLAKE: Corrimal Com­ New Arts Cinema, Glebe, TRIO: Bellevue hotel, Padd o. 8.15 pm, frl, sat only. makers Cinema, St Peter's for those who can dig it): — A munity Centre, 8-12 pm, $2.00, $2.50, 3.30 pm, TION '74 — first screening, speed queen, porn, Richard UNITY JAZZ BAND: 729 WHO’S WHO: Ensemble lane, Darlinghurst, 8 pm, 36-64 George st, Sydney, > rtra it $ 1 .5 0 . 7 .3 0 p m . Neville’s “ 1962 Founda­ Club, 8.30-1 am. theatre, thur to mon only, except sun, mon. mon-fri, 9.30 am-5 pm ; sat, com * SLADE, HOME: Hordern BUSH VIDEO THEATRE t io n Day*' let’s hear It for 8 pm; sat 5 pm, 8 pm. THE HIRELING — Sarah 11 am-4 pm; sun, 2 pm-5 , 4 .0 0 Pavilion, info 33.3789, — contemporary/experi­ Dick: Science Theatre, ROCK THE EMPIRE BUILDERS Miles, Robert Shaw. Also p m . F re e . $ 4 .7 0 . mental video tapes: 31 Bay 3.30 pm, free. by Boris Vian: New The­ THE KING OF MARVIN I T O st. Glebe, 8 pm, $1.00. BOURKE & WILLS and atre, 542 King st, New­ GARDENS: Academy COMING UP 7.55 CHEAP THRILLS PICKPOCKET by R. Bres­ GINGER: Chequers. town, 8.15 pm, $2.00, frl, Twin, mon-fri, 1.45, 7.30 son — French Cinema AUDIOVISUALS PETER QUENTIN: All's sat, sun only. pm; sat, sun, 3.30, 7.30 FRED STARKEY FOUN­ R IN G MUSIC ON THE HOUR: (1959): Filmmakers Cine­ ROOM TO MOVE — con­ Oasis. LOVE FOR LOVE — Old p m . DATION CONCERT — > p la y Opera House, 11 am, noon, ma, Dario, 6 pm, $1.00. tinues the Rolling Stones Tote mob: Opera House, 8 MIDNIGHT COWBOY: Graeme Bell, The Stoned y and 1, 2, 3, 4, $1.00;, kids, Members only. Join at story: ABC Radio 1, 8.00. pm, $5.50, $2.75. Academy Twin, Paddo, Crows, The Unity Jazz ABC students, pensioners' 20c. d o o r. AUSTRALIAN COMPOSI­ WHAT IF YOU DIED TO­ 2.30, 5.15, 8.05 pm. Band, Peter Buckland, MUSICIANS UNION NFTA Images of the Mind TIONS for the Sydney MORROW by David Wil­ Eclipse Alley Five: Anzac i rlm a n BRASS BAND — almost series, THIS SPORTING Opera House — Penberthy, liamson: Elizabethan the­ BEBOP House Auditorium , College f 8 .3 0 live music: H yf* **•■*, 3 LIFE and PERSONA: Sitsky, Hollier, Brumby atre, Newtown, 51.7471, st. City, march 11, 8 pm, pm-4.30 pm. Opera House, 7.15 pm, and Fowler: ABC Radio 2, 8.15 pm, fri, sat, 5.30, SILVER CLOUD: Stage $2.50. Tickets at Ash- >N — $1.60, $1.20 students. STAGE 8 .2 5 p m . 8.1 5 p m . Coach, 8-12pm; fri, sat, 8 wood, 376 Pitt street. rsen — THEATRE 8 MM FILM WORKSHOP: 8TH NATIONAL FOLK MONTY PYTHON — last THE PHILANTHROPIST p m -3 a m . C han Old Church, 183 Palmer st, FESTIVAL: Brisbane, eas- show: Chan 2, 10.35 pm. — W orth seeing: The Inde­ FILMS JESTERS: Nimrod Street E. Sydney, 1 pm. ter weekend, march 9-10. HORIZON — Who Sank pendent Theatre, North DISTRACTIONS P A N - Theatre, 33.3933, 8.30 Info NSW Folk Federation, The Lusitania — drama in Sydney, 929.7377, wed to 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY I R od pm . PO box 44, Ramsgate, 1915: Chan. 2, 8.55 pm. sat only, 8.15 pm. plus Marx Bros in THE LUNA PARK — Just for o t rec- 2 2 1 7 . ONE SEASON'S KING: Q BIG STORE: New Arts fun: Milson’s Point, fri, id u lts : FILM, VIDEO m o t t d a u THE DIRTY SHOW AT Theatrette, Circular Quay, Cinema, Glebe, 3 pm, 7.30 7.30 pm; sat, 2 pm, 7.30 PADDO — Captain Match­ 33.5744, 1.10 pm, $1.00, pm, except sun, $2.00, pm; sun, 2 pm-7 pm. ROBERT RAYMOND'S JAZZ box, The Underchunders, plus concessions, mon-fri $ 2 .5 0 . TARONGA ZOO — Mix W ILDLIFE FILMS: Opera FILMS Home, Abdul the Acrobat- o n ly . A W IN T E R ’S T A L E — with other animals: Take House music room, contin­ March 3, 8 pm, $2.00. DE FOREDAY RIDERS: THE EAGLE HAS TWO More surf and suds: Manly Ferry No. 5, jetty, Circu­ uous from 10 am to 6 pm, LA REGLER DU JEU by Tickets at door. Race- French's Tavern, 7.45, HEADS — The last days of Silver Screen, 7.30 pm, lar Quay, 9.30-5 pm, adults $2.00, kids $1.00. Renoir — full, uncut: WOMEN IN SUBURBIA — Empress Elizabeth of Aus­ $ 2.00. $1.20, kids 30 cents. THE BOY FRIEND and 1 0 .0 0 p m . No tapeing, filming or men: Info June, 84.3306; Marie, 807.2302; Toni, 869.7835, march 2. DAVID CASSIDY and the SHINING WITS (suffer baby, suffer): Randwlck Racecourse, 2 pm, $4.20

ET: Commune, North Mel­ Blaizes, Ormond hall, Prah­ South Yarra, 2.00 pm, ary on the kangaroo: SATURDAY b o u rn e . ran. $1.20, 70c kids. ABV-2, 5.30 pm. POETRY FILMS STORYVILLE JAZZ GET IT ON WITH AZ­ THE TUBE - A y n BAND: Manor House TECS, SEBASTIAN HAR­ POOR TOM’S POETRY FILMS — film s may change versus MEETINGS RADIO hotel, City. DY: Frankston Police and BAND: Commune, North a t a m o m e n t's n o tic e , so m: E x - BAKKES NIGHT OF Citizens Youth Club, bring GROUP MEDITATION: SUNDAY NITE ON Melbourne, 60c. check to be sure. G ra d - FILM your own knives — insur­ FAME — A radio play Ananda Marga, Soc., 141 RADIO 2: 3AR, 7.30 pm. about a man about to go to b o u rn e ance policy 20c extra. FILM B .rkly street, Carlton. JOHN O'DONNELL, 3XY, CRYSTAL VOYAGER — the electric chair: ABC GOODBYE COLUMBUS AYERS ROCK: Chelsea 8-1 2 pm . Surf movie with some Pink Radio 2, 8.30 pm. :ious- (M), THE HIRED HAND city hall (early)'. KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE Floyd music: Brighton PINKY — Nurse rejects M E E T - (NRC): Trak, 445 Toorak AYERS ROCK: Beaumaris (2nd part of SIEGFRIED): town hall, tuesday to brain tumor transplant: ounge. road, 11.45, $2.00. Civic Centre (late). State Film Centre, 1 Mac- M U t d f y thursday, Saturday 8.30, Channel 2, 9.30 pm. U n io n BUSTER BROWN: Chelsea Arthur street, North Mel­ 6 3 .1 0 3 9 . Creature feature — TOMB , non- OUTDOORS bourne, $10.00 sub, $7 c ity h a ll. THE NIGHTCOMERS (R) OF LIGEIA with Vincent BUSTER BROWN, NFTA members per year. ROCK — Marlon Brando, plus Price: Channel 7, 9.30 pm. T H E W O R L D ’S L A R G E S T DINGOES: Teazer, Exhibi­ Available Guild and Dental WHEN THE LEGENDS FISHING COMPETITION tion street, City. ROCK screenings. FANTASY: Croxton Park DIE (NRC) — Richard Wid- FOLK with, wait for it, $1000 SID RUMPO (afternoon), hotel, Preston. mark — Happiness is a A IR D , prize. A ll categories of fish­ KUSH (evening): Matthew SEBASTIAN HARDY: DRAMA SEBASTIAN HARDY: Ice- warm gun: Carlton cinema, PACT FOLK: YWCA Cel­ END — ing: Rosebud, put on by Flinders, Chadstone. George hotel, St Kilda. lands, Ringwood. Faraday street, Carlton, lar, Liverpool st, 8 pm. spense: Southern Peninsula Tourist WORKSHOP: Claremont MADDER LAKE: Reser­ thursday-sunday, 7.45 pm, TRAD FOLK: Edinburgh B o a rd . theatre, 14 Claremont 90c, 347.5524. voir Drive-in. C astle. T R O T - FOLK street, South Yarra. Con­ FOLK AYERS ROCK: Teazer, THE GODFATHER (R) Darts Kelimocum presents i ch in e : TV tact Adrian on 24.6405 be­ Exhibition street. City. COUNTRY AND and from Wednesday, A ANDY SAUNDERS, AL tween 1 and 5 pm. JOHN AND JUANITA SKYLIGHT: Winston FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE WARD. JOHN SUMMERS, ION'S WHITE HEAT (AO) — WESTERN/JAZZ BOOTHROYD, DANNY (M): Footscray Grand, GRAEME LOWNDES, =\BV-2, James Cagney, Virginia Charles, South Yarra. SPOONER: Dan O'Con­ RADIO Paisley street, Footscray, ANDY GEORGE: Eliza­ Mayo, Edmond O'Brien: BLUESTONE: Prospect nell, Carlton, 3 to 6 pm. FOLK monday-saturday 7.45 pm, beth hotel, City, 8 pm- 10 ESS — GTV-9, 10.00 pm. Hill hotel, Kew LUCINDA BRAYFORD — VARIOUS ARTISTS: Sa tu rd a y 1.00 pm, $1.40, pm, 80 cents. lovers: PERSPECTIVE — the en­ PHIL DAY: Frank Tray­ new serial: 3AR, 7.30 pm. Commune, North Mel­ MARGARET ROAD- 6 8 .1 1 3 8 . ergy crunch, the bottom of nors, City. 80c. AUSTRALIAN COMPOSI­ bourne, 10 pm to 3 am. KNIGHT: Outpost Inn, TRAVELS WITH MY JAZZ the oil barrel: ABV-2, 8.45 TIONS for the Sydney JUG AND DYKE OR­ C ity . AUNT plus ENGLAND p m . NEW MUSIC Opera House: 3AR, 8.25 CHESTRA, JIM CANT­ DANNY SPOONER and MADE ME: Dendy, Mal­ ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: IN CONCERT — Mandrill, p m . ( WELL, JOHN CROWLE: GORDON MACINTYRE: vern, Glenferrie road, Mal­ Vanity Fair hotel, 4-7 pm; Eadles, Ike and Tina Turn­ NIAGGRA: La Mama, 205 Outpost Inn, City. MUSIC BY HENRY VIII: vern, seven days, $2.50, DOC WILLIS: Albury er’s revue, Jim Croce, Frank Traynors, City, 80c. Faraday street, Carlton. DANNY SPOONER, 3AR, 11.1 0 pm. 5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 . Hotel, afternoon. Triumvirate and lots of GEOFF AND DIANE THE BABY, THE RUL­ DON DE SILVA: Louis coke ads: HSV-7, 10 pm. NEW MUSIC HOLLINS, JOHN ING CLASS (M) or how to Tavern, Elizabeth st, Pad­ CROWLE, JOHN GRA­ m ake it . . .: D e n d y , M I L Y : RADIO MELBOURNE N E W do, afternoon. sptions, HAM: Frank Traynors, MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com­ Church street, Brighton, DOC WILLIS: Beresford C ity . mune, North Melbourne. monday-saturday, 7.50, hotel, Surry Hills, 7.30-10 THE PRIMARY YEARS: $2.50, $1.40 students, A N D pm . 3AR, 7.15 pm. 9 2 .8 8 1 1 . 5E B A S - FILMS JAZZ book at usual agencies. DEEP BAYOU: Stage ARTHUR FIEDLER in JAZZ OPTIMISM AND MIS­ THE SENSUALIST: Trak, W h ite - Door Tavern, 7-12 pm, Australia: 3AR, 10 pm. YARRA YARRA JAZZ ADVENTURES OF CAN- Toorak road, Toorak, 6.00 w ad in g. DAVE RANKIN JAZZ CHINESE FILM: Capitol, $ 1. 00 . JAZZ ON A FRIDAY BAND: Old Melbourne DIDE performed by Amer­ pm, 8.30 pm, Saturday >n P ark BAND: Lemon Tree hotel, Swanston street, C ity, 2.00 EAST COAST JAZZ NITE: 3LO, 7.15 pm with Motor Inn, monday-thurs- ica’s National Theatre of the 2.30 pm, 6.00 pm, 8.30 10 Grattan street, Carlton, p m , $ 2 .2 5 . BAND: Unity Hall, Bal­ Barney Kessei. day, 7.30 onwards, Satur­ Deaf: Princess theatre, pm, Sunday 5.00 pm, 8.00 R O L L 3 p m - 6 p m . CRYSTAL VOYAGER: m ain. day afternoon, 3.00 on­ march 13-16, 8.15 pm, pm, 24.9333. r, Gee- THE PLANT WITH MIF- Geelong Pix Cinema, 8.30 L A R R Y ’S B L U E S G U I­ w ard s. thursday, Saturday matinee FY: Polaris Inn hotel, Carl­ pm . I AM CURIOUS, YEL­ TAR: Hang Toe, Surry 2.00 pm, $3.20, $4.20, George to n . PEARL IN THE CROWN CIRCUS LOW: Palais, Esplanade, St H ills . M t u n c t y $5.70, children and pen­ HOT CITY BUMP BAND — Preview: Dendy, Church Kilda, 8.15, Saturday mati­ DAVE STEVENS and THE GREAT MOSCOW sioners concessions. Book T A Y * (afternoon), JUNCTION street, Brighton, 8.00 pm, nee 4.15, $2.50, 94.0651. MERV ACHESON: Belle­ CIRCUS: Batman avenue, at usual agencies. : Teaz- CITY JAZZ BAND: Pros­ $ 2 .5 0 . THE HIRELING: Rivoli vue hotel, Paddo, 3-6 pm. ROCK under the mighty big top, SLANSK— Polish National it, C ity , pect H ill hotel, Kew. Twin (1), Camberwell, FO R E D A Y RIDER: OUTDOOR from friday 22, nightly at Song and Dance Company il h o te l, VICTORIAN JAZZ CLUB: nightly 7.45 pm, Saturday, French’s Tavern, 7.45-10 YOUTH 2004 — SHER- 8.00 pm, Saturday 1.00 will be in Melbourne: Pal­ Manor House hotel, City. BALLET UNDER THE Sunday 4.15 pm, 7.45 pm, pm . BERT, MADDER LAKE, pm, 4.00 pm, extra, Sun­ ais theatre, march 19-31. BAND: TWILIGHT JAZZ CON­ LEAVES: Ballet Victoria, $2.25, $1.00 students, DON DE SILVA: Mac­ MATT TAYLOR, KUSH, day 4.00 pm only, $4.20, For further info, phone Chad- CERT, RED ONIONS modern ballet, really good 8 2 .1 2 2 1 . quarie hotel, Woolloomoo- BOURKE AND WILLS, $5.20, $6.20, popcorn and 51.6823 or 69.6204. JAZZ BAND, FRANK at Sunbury, Fitzroy Gar­ CRIES AND WHISPERS: loo, 7.30-1 0 pm. COOKIES, H I E LL AN peanuts available. SLADE: Festival hall, feb­ TRAYNORS JAZZ BAND, dens, 3.00 pm. Rivoli Twin (2), Camber­ EVENING OF JAZZ with ROVERT, IAN MASON, ruary 26, $4.70. MARGARET ROAD- Music Hall Melodramas well, nightly 8.15 pm, Sat­ Roger Frampton, Phil Tre- LINDA GEORGE: Myer RADIO SCARLATTI, BEE­ KNIGHT: Rosebud Sound — BUSYBODY by the urday, sunday 5.00 pm, loar, Jack Thorncraft, Music Bowl, provided free THOVEN, SCHUMANN, L and Shell, 5.30 pm to 10.30 Peninsula Players, Dream­ 8.15 pm, $2.25, $1.00 stu­ Peter Evans playing Albert by our friendly govern­ COUNTRY MUSIC: 3KZ, SCHUBERT Concert: nn, 5 2 pm, free. Put on by Penin­ time Puppeteers: ‘Sum- dents, 82.1221. Aycer: Opera House, 8.15 ment — is this what they 5 .0 0 a m . Monsalvat, Great hall, 80c. sula Tourist Promotion merfest’ put on by the Q U IE T DAYS IN pm. Free, yes, free! spend our taxes on? PHILOSOPHERS IN DE­ march 1, 2 at 8.15 pm, .HER, Board to induce people to Peninsula Tourist Promo­ CLICHY: East End 2, 100 1.30-5.30 pm. BATE: 3AR, 10.15 pm. Gerard Willems — piano, TYRE: come down and spend tion Board. Bourke street, City, 6.00 BOOTLEG FAMILY: $3.50, $3.00 students (in­ KIDS THEATRE 1. Windsor Regis, Chapel m o n e y . POETRY pm, 8.00 pm. A N D TV cluding supper). street, Prahran. ROYAL SCOTS THE PIED PIPER: In­ B U S H DIAL-A-POEM: Ring Tom BIG PUSH: Whitehorse CHARGE OF THE LIGHT DRAGOON GUARDS: dependent T h e a t r e , i h o te l, FILM and ask for a poem, COMING SOON hotel, Nunawading. BRIGADE (A) — Errol Myer Music Bowl, march 2, 929.7377, 2 pm. JOHN RUPERT AND THE 3 2 9 .6 0 3 9 . T Y R E , THEY SHOOT HORSES, Flynn, Olivia de Haviland, 8.00 pm, and march 3, HENCHMEN: Croxton DON’T THEY?: Athen­ David Niven, Patrick 3.00 pm, $4.00, $2.00 chil­ JONATHAN LIVING­ , P H IL Park hotel, Preston. a y n o rs. aeum, Late, Collins street, Knowles, 1936 version: BOOK NOW dren and pensioners. STON SEAGULL, MAN CULTURE TRIDENT: Sundowner, City, 10.30 pm. ATV-0, 10.25 pm. VAL DOONICAN for all WHO LOVED CAT- G eelo n g . THE GREAT RACE (G) — THE IMAGINERY IN­ ye crooners: Festival hall, DANCER, MACINTOSH SYLVIA AND THE PHASE 2: George hotel, St Jack Lemmon, Tony Cur­ VALID by Moliere, per­ march 5, 8.15 pm, $5.20. MAN, AMERICAN GRAF­ SYNTHETICS plus Fred K ild a . Kins tis, Natalie Wood, Peter formed by the Stratford DAVID CASSIDY live at FITI, EXORCIST, PAPIL- Astaire in SILK STOCK­ J A Z Z SEBASTIAN HARDY: Falk, Keenan Wynn oldie: National Theatre of M.C.G.: march 10, $3.20. LION — Steve McQueen, INGS: Filmmakers Cine­ PROFESSOR ZIGGLES I h o te l, Southside Six (afternoon). ATV-0, 7.30 pm. Canada: february 26-march B.B. KING with his ten Dustin Hoffman. THE ma, 1 0 pm, $1.00. TRAVELS: Claremont the­ CHAIN, TANK, RED MARLOO — THE RED 7, 8.15 pm, Princess the­ piece band: Festival hall, WAY WE WERE — Barbra THE DANCE COMPANY; HOUSE ROLL BAND: atre, 14 Claremont street, UART- KANGAROO — document­ atre, $3.20, $5.20, $6.20, m a rch 14. Streisand, Robert Redford. See th u rs .

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 -P ag e 15 Page 1 6 -T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 ■3 I I • --[•* C f C -> J »l I ! I * .Cif 'M « ' t •-* ! • * ■ -* r- * * STEVEN PHILLIPS* BOWSER BONANZASShell, a Dutch owned com­ pany, operates at a loss in its ETROL, as any arab will tell home territory but makes an as­ P you, makes the world go tronomical profit in Australia. around. If your machine, what­ Therefore, all trading results go ever its function, does not run on through an overriding parent com­ electricity, gas or some primitive pany which shows an overall prof­ clockwork mechanism, chances it or an overall loss, usually the are it runs on a petroleum fuel. former. What you lose on the Think of that next time you oil a dykes you pick up in the mulga. door hinge. A clue to the vast balance of Petrol, they claim with empiri­ In a bid to discover what the power which hangs in the wake of cal arguments, drives the engines spirit of selling petrol with a smile One can instantly understand the petrol companies exploita­ of economies as it does the en­ was all about I went to work for a why "Stanley” always smiles and tions is that every ten years, on an gines o f cars. And like cars, econ­ petrol retailer on the south coast his spirit is an unquenchable lust average, someone invents a new omies must move and be lubricat­ o f NSW. My boss ran three service for profits? non-petrochemical engine and the ed or rust to degeneration through stations along a 30 mile stretch of At the same time, the customer petrol companies pay millions to lack o f use. coast and these were leased to him pays in other ways for his heedless keep the patents under lock and So we have such things as by the petrol company directly playingof his part. While he wor­ key. Petrol Companies. They are not which in turn was heavily backed together with all the modem in­ ships tne God corporation with Petrol companies manage to subject to ordinary laws of econ­ with overseas capital. novations under the sun which offerings of money he pollutes his reap almost 14 cents pure profit omics though they rest their en­ The station at which I was could be written off against tax environment and commits his from each gallon of petrol sold. tire existence upon those laws. stationed had been bought out and also lessen the standard time earning power to a faith in the old This is before the eight cents They are linked by the anvil of from previous owners only two for making straightforward repairs time payment plan to "own” the profit made by the retailer. No time and order into a chain of days before my arrival. Patronage while retaining the standard price. machine he fuels. Then, of course, wonder petrol companies pay perpetuation which binds them to came from local residents during With the new equipment the time there are the various taxes such as bounties to retailers to stay open the laws of universal motivation. the week and from tourists on factor had been approximately registration and licensing to bef during “non economical” trading That is, they feed off those who weekends and holidays. Most halved so in reality customers taken into account. hours. No matter what the losses must for no reason other than to locals, under the banners of vari­ were paying double the price on a My boss was not a socialist, but to service stations it would seem survive, feed off them. ous credit unions, had enjoyed a money per time basis. he believed petrol companies near impossible for a petrol com­ Petrol company executives are five cent discount per gallon of Accessory lines soon filled the should be nationalised “for the pany not to make a huge profit the gods in this game. They are petrol and since the previous own­ shelves with everything from the good of the people”. from this country - taking her mortal men who have grasped a ers had not kept a large stock of humble electric fuse to expensive He claimed people, even in crude oil and selling it back at rung above this working model of accessories, their profits came al­ pressure-packed instant tyre repair their wildest dreams of corporate grossly inflated prices. Ian Sykes a natural pattern and who, like most entirely from mechanical re­ kits. I discovered after watching a paranoia, had not the vaguest ink­ (see TLD, 2/3), in a 26 page fated beings, see fit to direct and pairs. stocktake that the general mark­ ling of the God-power petrol com­ report based on the operations of divert the proceedings as if they Since the retail profit margin on. up on accessory lines was 100 panies have at their disposal. the XL petrol discounting com­ created the very laws of the uni­ one gallon of petrol is a little percent on the wholesale price. "There would be about 15 com­ pany, showed that the pumped verse. They make a bummer all under eight cents for super grade For every dollar taken for an panies sitting on top of the world price of petrol could be reduced round and ulcers for themselves. petrol it was decided to discon­ accessory product, such as polish econom y. Ten out o f those are oil by 10 cents per gallon tomorrow Oil holds all the excitement tinue the discounts. This proved or any pre-packaged product oth­ companies. They have the power if the petrol companies abolished and romance of gold. It is costly little more than a bluff when er than oil and grease, 50 cents to cripple anyone and hold gov­ the bounty system and customer to find, difficult to extract and many customers who claimed to was pure profit to the boss. Spe­ ernments to ransom.” discount rebates. must be refined to various grades be regulars from years back cial additives were available from None of the petrol companies In one month our service sta­ of useable forms. This adds up to threatened to take their business the petrol company to market harvesting great profits in Austra­ tion gave $360 in discounts o f five a cost o f about 30 cents per gallon elsewhere. petrol as various grades of two- lia are Australian owned, though cents per gallon. Only $200 of to the petrol company in the form So the profitmaking potential stroke fuel and this increased the one, Ampol, pretends to be. It is this was met by the company. of a saleable product which must of the workshop was increased by profit margin on the petrol itself 51 percent owned by Caltex - the Yes, petrol companies are only find its way in a consumer mar­ the installation of advanced elec­ while a profit was still to be made Texas based oil empire. Com­ jeepsters for our love. And they're ket, though demand is guaranteed. tronic analysing and tune-up gear on the additives. panies hide within companies. gonna suck us. THE PLACE WHERE THE BRIAN WILLIAMS CROWS LIVE OWN in Crater valley the come from a cliff-edge shack, to spilling into pools and grottoes The crater’s history dates back liams, his father, christened the D Crow Tribe contemplates harmonise with the murmurings near the huts; diamond frilled drag­ to 1923: Bob Cadwell built the community the “Crow Tribe” in migration south from its Dobroyd of the sea below. on lizards flash out from behind first hut from driftwood, sand­ 1937, as crows always hover on Point settlement, on the north In mid 1972, Rob and friends rocks and spider webs glint silver stone and mud. He and two the cliffs above. On the approach shore of Sydney harbor, to the decided to re-occupy the huts, against the afternoon sun above friends, George and Fritz, would to the huts, the tribal call, a loud wilds of Tasmania. clearing the lantana and weeds the cliffs. hike through the bush from Sea- crow squawk, would be returned Their home - seven 50 year which had overgrown the settle­ The commune’s population forth to swim there on weekends. by someone at the settlement. old shacks stretching around the ment. Energy invested and patient floats between six and 10 and the Reg Williams (son of one of the Around the turn of the century, cliffs and rocks at the bottom of a care has flourished into vegetable settlement was only deserted dur­ founders) built the second shack Fred was taught to surf by an natural bush amphitheatre below gardens, fruit and herb patches. ing the Nimbin festival last year, and was later joined by Cec Pearse islander, and was the first Austra­ Clontarf reserve — is soon to be The bush bursts with flaming or­ when the tribe went north to and Len Hunter; over the next ten lian to body surf at Manly. He released by the federal depart­ chids; fresh water flows down from display their brilliant puppeteering years, a community evolved, grow­ often swam out to surf the bom- ment of defence to the NSW a natural spring on the reserve, talent. ing vegetables and fruit. Fred Wil­ bora off Dobroyd Point, where his government as part of a plan to ashes were scattered after his create a harbor national park. death at the “crater”. Publicity in the local and Maggie Sirks, Fred’s daughter, downtown press about the “har­ and her daughters are the only sur­ bor hippy commune” has prompt­ viving members of the original ed lands minister Tom Lewis to tribe. A service was held at the make ambivalent (“compassionate huts for Bob Cadwell in novem- grounds to be considered”) state­ ber 1972. After readings from ments about eviction of the squat­ Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, Bob’s ters when the state has control of favorite book, his ashes were scat­ the land. tered on the waters. * * * Maggie, a beautiful silver-haired lady has vivid memories of life at YOU REACH the settlement via a the huts. Her daughters were track running down the valley christened in a rockpool on the from the edge of Clontarf reserve. crater shores, with Bob and Fritz Above, you hear only the shrill as godfathers. She still returns whip-bird but further down the occasionally, holding a rapt audi­ sound of chimes tinkling in the ence with stories of life in Depres­ wind, the barking of dogs, quack­ sion Sydney when the caves and ing of ducks. Rob and Jane greet cliffs of the harbor were sanc­ you with broad smiles and invite tuaries for refugees from the black you into their hut for tea. gloom engulfing the world. Inside’s like a gipsy caravan - Is is the end of the Crow blackened stone fireplace, drift­ Tribe’s dreamtime? Those who wood tables and bed, colored have spent even a few hours here papier-mache puppet masks hang­ will be aware of the great love and ing from water blotched ceiling, respect that the tribe has for hurricane lamps, gardening and Crater valley. bush handbooks.) Not far off, the soothing notes of a flute or the funky piano THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974— Page 17 The steady invasion of the Irish catholic Labor stamping ground When our photographer DON SHARP returned from the streets and people of Melbourne’s Richmond he said, “I’ve never seen a place with such depth, with so many sides, with so many layers. Looking at it on a map you dont realise it is so BIG.” Richmond is big. It’s big, blowsy and boisterious a vestige of times past, of tum-of-the- century industrialisation, of community pride; it’s a city now feeling its old identity being replaced . . . RICHARD COONEY and ROB PASCOE, two Melbourne university students, spent a large part of their summer vacation in looking back over their old home town and came up with this sketch

EVEN am in Melbourne on a with them the day shoppers. Jean shops, Populated by 300 raucous urchins other Richmondites as “slum clearance” monday morning and the sun unisex hairstyling boutiques (“for guys whose fathers worked at the abattoirs, programs were initiated in the grim days rises slowly over the mile stretch and dolls”), record stores are being set up the goings-on both in the playgrounds of the late 60s. o f Bridge road from the Haw­ in the newly built arcades in Bridge road. and in the toilet blocks made Blackboard Urban authorities had discovered thorn bridge to Punt road. The early * * * jungle look effeminate. “poverty”, measured, of course, in easily morning traffic snarls have started; busi­ QUESTION: “What do you notice most “It was only by swinging their T- quantifiable non-cultural, economic nessmen and office workers juggle for the about the new Richmond?” squares like scythes that the teachers terms. A new name for the compulsory fast moving lanes to get to the city on ELDERLY AUSTRALIAN MATRON: survived a single period, while many of banishment of working class families to time. The more adventurous/desperate “You never see your friends - or anyone my pre-pubescent classmates spent their the anonymous uniformity of outer sub­ burn down some parallel side street to get ya know - in Bridge road anymore . .. entire day groping and grabbing at each urbia was found: “Urban Renewal”. On ahead of the mob. * * * others groins. Sometimes hardly a head this pretext the housing commission The workers dont join this automania; would be visible above the desks as bulldozers moved in. THE Richmond of yore. Talking to okl- they ride the overcrowded public trans­ grubby little satyrs and nymphets wres­ timers inevitably leads to stories of the port. Gaggles of migrant process workers tled on the floor. . . ” Golden Age of simple, uncluttered roman collect at the tram stops along Bridge It was also in the simpler 50s that OLD STYLE POLITICS catholic, working class life. Of days be­ road and Church street, and those that “Soft John" flourished. A symbol of The muscle of the old Richmond lies fore the influx of migrants, of WASP are running late pile into a taxi - better working class generosity, this remarkable in the Richmond city council. Of the 15 trendies, of intensified industry and to pay out than lose your job. old fellow lived in Maddern grove, op­ councillors, ten were originally elected The average Richmond day begins at 6 motorised madness. posite Bumley railway station. A lone during or before 1966. And the man who Richmond’s population peak of am; dad eats his breakfast; mum makes pensioner, Soft John used to buy and sell is at present holding the mayoralty, Cr J. 42,000 came and went in the 1920s. the kids lunches; dad rushes off to work; bicycle parts, mainly with children. A. Loughnan JP, was first elected to Squizzy Taylor - a figure synonymous the kids go to school; mum then gets Scorned by many parents, he enticed the council in 1931. with Melbourne’s pre-Depression under­ ready to head off to the factory. Break­ friendship of countless children with his The ALP runs such a tight machine in world - had his brothels in Palmer street. fast is an operation finely geared to the bike tyres, wheels, spare parts etc. His Richmond that all important council The racecourse in West Richmond was timetable of the industrial system. house was filled to overflowing with such decisions come straight from caucus. A flourishing with pony and trotting meet­ As the shops in Bridge road and Swan items, stacked or hung across the hallway, notice paper is not provided for the ings. And the city then had its own street open, the city’s commercial day in every room and in the backyard. public gallery. Recent agitation to open brewery. begins and the flow of goods-carrying Someone decided in the mid 60s that council meetings for the public was But even up until the 50s the themes vehicles along Richmond’s main Maddern grove had to be widened, so scornfully rejected by the mayor. Daley’s of rude simplicity continue. Phillip thoroughfares increases. Slowly the main Soft John had to go. His house was Chicago could not be as “tight” as Rich­ streets fill with their work-a-day in­ Adams relates his early primary school­ demolished, but his memory was trium­ mond, thanks largely to the work of a days at a school long popular with Rich- habitants - housewives with kids, old phantly preserved by the bike parts litter­ man named Jackie O’Connell.. . mondites: migrant women, assorted businessmen ing the vacant site for many months after. Jackie died in mid 1972, both admired “My next exposure to sex came at the and tradesmen and, finally, the inevitable The fate of Soft John - “relocated” and despised by the Richmond citizenry. Yarra Park state school, a bleak old old pensioner men who drift around the to some hinterland middle class suburb He was undoubtedly one of the few building in an industrial suburb of Mel­ pubs and shopping centres. But Rich­ on the edge of Melbourne’s metropolitan politicians who knew the real wants and bourne. mond’s face is changing . . . The trendy needs of his electorate, even if his heavy- These days the education department sprawl — was to be the fate of many set from the fashionable suburbs of handed tactics were so notorious that Toorak and South Yarra uses the place to house its psychological branch, probably because of the school’s they became legendary. have been gradually Jackie was always ready to help a oppressive similarity to a 19th century moving into bloke in trouble. If ever you wanted any looney bin. Richmond, perks pulled (a job for a miscreant son on and the council or a housing commission flat

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Page 18 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 on the old racecourse estate), then Jackie Most of the day-to-day administration Richmond now holds a different lifestyle. CRIMINALITY AS A LIFESTYLE was the man to see. The Little General is, in fact, left to Eyres and his Town hall Richmond is no longer homogeneous Working class areas are notorious for held court for these purposes every morn­ underlings. These men, responsible for and the men in city hall, try as they may, their criminality. Richmond is no excep ing at 10 am on the old granite steps of building permits, garbage collection, road cannot hold back the tide, let alone bring tion. The muster room at the Richmond the town hall. Jackie shunned the formal­ repairs etc — are “pocket dictators”, back the past. CIB is a small sombre cream garret with a ity of the mayor’s office. knowing no duty but the ALP machine. table in the middle of it, and around the Jackie wasnt in politics solely to act as The track record of this set-up is not walls, a rogue's gallery of every known the people’s guardian against the intru­ impressive by conventional standards of juvenile offender in the city. No Rich­ sions of state bureaucracy, however; he local government. Richmond’s 1972 def­ “EAT ’EM ALIVE, TIGERS!!” mond kid could walk in there without was there to savor the spoils of public icit was $111,928. Footpaths in the area The tiger has for a long time been an recognising at least half a dozen friends or office. The local machine was “Jackie’s remain unrepaired, 800 household heads integral part of the Richmond mythol­ acquaintances. Machine”, the dty council was “Jackie’s in the highrise flats dont have their names ogy, both among old Richmondites and Underworld fences outlet through the Council" and things were just as they on council rolls, the local abattoirs strangers. It was primarily - through its Richmond pubs; if you stand still in the should be. The Little General held power, (which sit on public land) are heavily aggressive football sides — that Richmond bar of any pub long enough you are first, by eliminating all opposition to him subsidised by the council. became known to the rest of the world. bound to be approached by some guy amongst the local ALP branches and, The politics of the city council are The corporate identity of the old Rich­ selling something pretty hot, pretty secondly, by “managing” council elec­ entombed in the past. Recent sociological mond community was bound up with the cheaply. tions. and economic changes in the region have tiger and the admonition to “eat ’em The Greek cafes with their illicit gam­ An independent survey of branch swept it by. Every nook and cranny of alive”. A homogeneous community of bling, are havens for hot merchandise too. members of the Richmond ALP in 1972 working class Irish catholics set adrift in a Some of the local kids run a steal-to-fit revealed a large number of O’Connell’s sea of protestantism could only respond service; you just give them your size and relatives holding positions in the council. to their social situation with the unre­ color preference and a week later they Thirtytwo people were recently discover­ strained aggression and communal unity will have your garment, hot off the racks, ed to be no longer living in Richmond, which the tiger embodies. As one of delivered to you. but were “local branch members” with Richmond’s original heroes, Jack “Cap­ * * * addresses c/o town hall, the council depot tain Blood” Dyer, once said: “In Rich­ THE LIFESTYLE and prospects of Rich­ or non-existent residences. Council jobs mond you only had to learn two things: m o n d ’s large migrant community usually carried a condition of branch how to play football for the tigers and (Greeks, Italians, Yugoslav’s and Turks) membership, and, of course, if things got how to vote Labor.” are tinged with sadness and despair at the really desperate then the machine would The cult of “tigerism” is of course no wastage of human talents - a situation just supply a few of the boys with bogus where near as strong as in the old days, which has for so long been associated membership cards. but curiously enough the migrant kids, with the working class there. The migrant It’s not surprising that old Jack O’Con­ perhaps sensing too their social inferiority community, although more prosperous, is nell won every vote; for, as he said to a and need for assertion, are rediscovering in the same social position as was the local Socialist Left man who had just lost it and buying their black and yellow working class during the 30s and 40s. his council pre-selection — “Ya gotta get jumpers by the dozen. Consigned to the role of fodder for the up early to beat the little general”. industrial system, the old values of self- When another member got up at that reliance are soon broken down and new meeting to voice his concern at the ones of acquisitiveness and materialism undemocratic nature of the pre-selection acquired. Somehow the culture of the old (the ballot was a postal ballot and thus country is lost under the deadening im­ contrary to state ALP rules), a few of the pact of the Richmond social environ­ boys politely told him that it really wasnt ment. Italian migrants who once listened in his best interests to challenge the to opera or followed theatre, now sit chairman’s ruling. The member court­ home and watch Homicide and collect all eously withdrew. the little trinkets that mark off a migrant Jackie performed best out on the household. hustings, however; few of his ALP men The extended family relations of many ever failed to get returned, and he was so migrants are broken down as upwardly popular that they reckon even the “dead socially mobile branches of the family turned out to vote for him”. move out into the outer suburbs and, Jackie’s best campaigners were the finally, the kids react against the old boys of the “Flying Squad”, council authoritarian ways and values and hang workers who in the dark of night took out in the Richmond cafes and gangland out council trucks to paste up How to scenes. One of the most depressing sights vote stickers in spots pre-chosen by the can be to see shuffling, old migrant old master. The boys also scored up the women, attired for the market place at tick board for Jackie a list of all those Palermo, totally lost in the cacophony and dead, shifted or ill who were eligible to swirl of Bridge road at peak hour. vote but couldnt. It's a still, hot summer’s evening; The board was made up by checking The heat waves rise from the pavement, off the ratepayers roll (arranged in Mixing the fumes of the passing traffic streets) against the electoral roll (arranged With the lingering smells of the evening alphabetically). Jack’s boys would simply meals doorknock down the streets and make a list of all those who had shifted or died since the electoral roll was last revised. Come election day and the boys would obligingly vote on behalf of these people. There are many stories of stooges presenting themselves at the polling table and then having to fumble through their pockets for the piece of paper with their “name” on it, or of people voting, going out the door, changing their hat etc, and coming back to vote again. And when O’Connell died, Bemie and the boys of the Flying Squad took out an ad in Melbourne’s Sun obituary column. Their epithet was short and to the point: “The General will return.” Loughnan, the present mayor, is firm­ ly in this tradition. When we rang him last week in the hope of gaining an interview, his refusal was straightforward and blunt. But he has a certain self-effacing attitude; in his tough, gravelly voice he said he was “just a run-of-the-mill councillor". The real man to see, he suggested, was C. C. “Charlie” Eyres, the long-standing, 40ish, town clerk.

THE LiyiN G DAYLIGHTS, february.19-25, 1974— Page 19 To produce a stifling aroma noted the dramatic changes over those 15 question is: whose traffic needs? The in West Richmond and now in the south That will hang over the commission flats years, and then suggested some specific people of working class Richmond, or the and centre as well. Property developers Till the early morning cool “renewal” needs. He made some token Kew-Camberwell motorists? turned a fast buck by erecting three-and- Brings a new day, statements about “careful preservation”, And in 1971 James Holdsworth and P. four-storey apartments in the midst of like a clean pair of underwear. but let his premises slip with this sen­ Harris embarked on a thesis entitled long-established residential areas. This in­ These are the words of methodist tence : “Renewal that does not improve the Forced relocation from Richmond: the flux predated the “trendy” invasion — minister Phillip Andrews, who lives and street layout and leaves Richmond with effects on ex-residents. Their aim was to long before people thought of renovating works among the people of the Elizabeth narrow streets and lanes, will be inade­ analyse the results of the compulsory terrace houses and workers’ cottages — street housing commission area. His vision quate for today’s traffic needs.” The eviction of 450 people from North Rich­ and led to a highly transient form of of the future is a realisation by housing mond to make way for housing commis­ living. commission dwellers that an all mod cons sion blocks. With typical academic short­ True, some flat-dwellers take their house in Mulgrave is not worth striving sightedness, these town planners did not residence in the area seriously. But the after, that they must relate to their social widen their angle of vision: "The fact majority are interested only in short-term problems of the present. His anxiety that it was the housing commission that low-rental housing and quick access to about the future of Richmond is as real as forced the move is unimportant.” the city. his affirmation of low-rent housing in Their results are easily quantifiable The irony of it all is that for young commission towers. “facts”. For example, 37 percent of the marrieds to move into Richmond — even evictees remained in Richmond, the if only temporarily — was unthinkable a others being scattered far and wide few years ago. North Balwyn matrons through the outer suburbs. But the sub­ were horrified at the thought of their PART of the exposure to middle class jective significance of that “fact” is surely dear young daughters living in . .. Rich­ ways of thinking Richmond has experi­ that only about one-third of the evictees mond! But the social stigma was lost enced in the most recent years has been were able to remain in the region. No when people realised the “practical” as­ the scrutiny of academia. Richmond was doubt they were competing with trendies pect of inner-suburban living. previously only the study of intellectual for alternative housing in Richmond. The saddest thing that could happen to deviants like historians and political Academic toil will not have much Richmond would be to see it gobbled up scientists, but now it is fair game for the impact on the future of Richmond if by the creeping culture of inner suburban vanguard of the New Academia - sociolo­ these attitudes prevail. “trend” living. Whether it will develop a gists, town planners, educationists etc. More important in terms of the shift­ new hetrogeneous culture made up of the In 1969 James Bolger compared the ing interplay of social forces has been the old Irish working class, the migrants and changes in land use since the 1954 influx of flat-dwelling cdtyworkers, first the middle class will depend on whether Board o f Works survey o f Richmond. He the residents and the public authorities do something about preserving what is there. It’s a beautiful suburb and it’s worth sa\ ing from the tentacles of the great whit beast.

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Chris wasnt there, so he asked if HIS week’s kids page has a Chris had been over. story by Shane Smith, “No,” replied Tony, “ she said whichT he has titled Betrayal. she would be late.” Shane comes from Sunshine, a After about 10 minutes Chris suburb to the west of Melbourne. walked up to Greg and put her The entire western side of our arms around him. He looked into city is in many respects one space, pushing his top lip up with enormous sprawling ghetto. his tongue. He looked down at Respectable easterners will not Chris’s hands and then said, venture into the west unless they “Come on.” happen to be going to Adelaide, in They walked down the street a which case they stick to the road little until they came to a lane, they are on, keeping their eyes to which they turned down. Then the front. they just stood inside, where they Shane writes about his own were out of sight. area: . . you are in a society “I suppose you ’ve heard?" where families are always Chris said nervously. struggling to keep a neat home, “Heard what?" asked Greg and trying to keep a decent falsely in an innocent tone. standard of living. A lot of “About me on the trip,” re­ families are constantly having plied Chris with tears in her eyes. arguments over money matters. Greg could see she was going to “You get a lot of people who throw a turn, so he asked her, can’t handle these social pressures “Who were the kids?” and turn to alcohol. Then the “Just forget about it. It won’t arguments become worse and happen again, I promise. Please more constant, and the money Greg, dont beat them up,” Chris problem becomes worse, as it is pleaded. being wasted on alcohol. Pretty “Bullshit! I told you what soon you find that a man is would happen. Them bastards beating his wife and kids every arent getting away with this." night he’s drunk, and smashing Chris wrapped her arms around furniture. Greg and started crying, but he “After about 10 years of these pushed her away and walked to aggressive incidents, a young child the end of the lane. He called out of about six, who is now 16, is to his mates standing on the cor­ pretty used to these things, and he ner. They started walking to or she finds something to break, school. or someone to hit. This takes When they arrived at school, some pressure off their minds, and two of Greg’s mates pulled out in some stupid way it also eases iron bars - about eight inches their minds to see someone in long - and the others put knuckle pain, to let other people know dusters on. They walked behind what pain is, as they feel that they the assembly hall, where the kids are the only people in the world the first chance they get. I dont After the usual lecture, she “Umm, it was just that Chris that got Chris usually hung out. who have had these kinds of want to hear another thing about decided to send him to his sister’s got a bit drunk on the week Greg saw them, and said, “Wait pressures all their life.” it. You know what will happen if place for a couple of days. nights, and a couple of the kids here until it starts.” - ROB KING I find out that you got drunk. All Greg stayed there for three got her.” Greg just stood there When he got near the group, right?” days, and was ready to go home as stunned. He gained his senses and one of them who was lying down The weeks went by, and it was it was the today that Chris was got the full story. After that he got to his knees. Greg just kept on the day before Chris was to go due back. Anyway, Chris ended didnt feel like going to the billiard walking. He didnt say a word until BETRAYAL away. Chris and Greg met after up staying the weekend. As soon room, so he went home. he got within kicking distance, “Oh, I forgot to tell you. I’m school. After a while. “I’ve got to as he got home, he had his dinner The next day was monday, so then he just let go with his foot. going on a trip to Gippsland with go now, I’ll ring you as soon as I and went straight down to the Greg went to school. The morning He hit the kid on his right side, in the school in a couple of weeks,” get back.” billiard room While he was dragged as he wanted to see Chris the throat, and it was on. Greg exclaimed Chris. “Okay, just remember, no walking there, he saw a kid he and find out if she would tell him. and his mates beat the group of “Who with? All the form four drinking.” knew who had gone on the trip. Finally the lunch bell rang. Greg kids something shocking. boys I suppose. How long’s it for Chris and Greg went their “How ya going Greg?”, the kid left to go to the shops where he The next day, Greg went down any way?” separate ways. Chris with her asked, as if he was scared. usually met Chris. to the shop, and Chris was waiting “Five days,” Chris replied very mind on having a good time, and “ What’s wrong?” , Greg asked As he was walking through the for him. They went down the lane bluntly. Greg wondering if she would let with great interest. park, one of Chris’s girlfriends call­ and Chris said, “I’m sorry Greg, I "Hope you dont figure on him down. “Oh, ah, nothing Greg. Just ed out to him. When she caught really am.” drinking, especially when them About two days went by, and thought you knew and you was up to him, she realised she didnt “Yeah, sure,” answered Greg. sucks are around," Greg snapped Greg was bored, so he went to see gonna get me too,” explained the have to ask him if he knew about “Greg, there’s one thing. Prom­ back. his mates down at the billiard boy. Greg couldnt remember his Chris. She told him how Chris had ise me you w on’t touch them kids “What, dont you trust me?” room. About three hours later name. rung her up and told her the story again,” pleaded Chris. “Yeah, but not when you're Greg was driven home by the “Knew what? What are you was a lot of rot. Greg continued "Hatred lit up in Greg’s eyes. drunk and those sex hungry dogs cops. They told his mother how talking about?” Greg knew what on and walked to the corner shop, He casually looked up and said, are around. They’ll jump on you he and his mate stole two bikes. the kid was going to say.______where everyone met for lunch. “Go to hell, rag!” | j

N AUSTRIA the chamber differences between British and The book's most serious flaw is I of workers gives a free sci­ American sf, yet Isaac Asimov (an its attempt to impose a “ration­ ence fiction novel to all young sci f i chauvanism American) gets extensive treat­ ale” upon sf. Nobody has yet SCIENCE FICTION: WHAT IT'S unionists; in Russia, sf is featured ment whereas Arthur C. Clarke been able to do this, yet the genre ALL ABOUT by Sam J. Lundwall. Ace Books. $1.25. in everyday magazines and news­ (British by birth, though really cries out for some such guiding papers, with outspoken sf novels VAN IKIN international) gets only passing light (hence the revered position escaping censorship to win a large mention. of John W. Campbell). Lundwall circulation; Rumania sees a stag­ and Verne as the founders of the play RUR, which coined the word Lundwall does better at isolat­ counts as sf’s main virtues its gering boom in the popularity and tradition, and Hugo Gemsback as “robot” — though Capek’s robots ing the themes which sf can and “significance”, its constant striv­ “respectability” of sf; and in New its populariser. (Gemsback’s 1926 were by today’s standards can’t handle. For instance, it falls ing to be entertaining, and its York one of the letters of Edgar Amazing stories magazine gave the “androids”). But the real break­ down badly on the theme of “subversiveness” (defined as Allan Poe (who died impoverish­ genre its name and made sf separ­ through came with industrialisa­ woman: Walpole called the suf­ “pointing out that there will al­ ed) sells for $5200. Get the mes­ ate from mainstream literature. tion, “when the universe suddenly fragettes “hyenas in petticoats”, ways be changes, something that sage? Sf is where it’s at, and Given this initial stimulus, the threw its gates wide open and Asimov defended the absence of no establishment wishes to Swedish expert Sam J. Lundwall genre developed both too fast and nothing was impossible any long­ women in sf stories, and 99 per­ admit”). tries to define what it’s all about. too slow. Too fast because it used er”. cent of sf writers seem to have Regrettably, Lundwall doesnt He doesnt succeed - and some a world of superscience that didnt Since that time sf has matured never heard of womens lib. (A develop this notion; he mentions of his thinking is downright exist and for which conditions considerably, producing authors n o ta b le exception is John works which place a “subversive" sloppy — but he provides a read­ were not yet present (thus making like Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, Wyndham’s excellent Consider her emphasis upon change, but doesnt able and informative introduction it incomprehensible for many peo­ Zelazny and Silverberg. Ninety ways.) Yet surveys have shown analyse them to show how this is to the subject for the newcomer ple), and too slow because its percent of it is still crud, of course that the ideals implicit in sf are handled or how it impacts upon to sf, and plenty of thought- authors were lacking in purely — but then 90 percent of every­ “humanitarian, progressive, and the reader. provoking material for the afi­ literary merits (giving the genre a thing is crud. Lundwall attempts forward-looking”, whereas those This is nowhere near the defini­ cionado. reputation of illiteracy). to isolate the top ten percent and in magazines such as Colliers and tive study of sf - but it is a Rightly rejecting attempts to Various outstanding works tries to expound the rationale on The Saturday evening post are worthwhile and readable step in drag in Plato, Lucian and co as the gave sf a push (especially the which it is based. “bourgeois and conservative to that direction. [ j fathers of sf, Lundwall sees Wells success of Karel Capek’s 1920 He shows that there are many the point of being reactionary”. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1 9 7 4 - Page 21 From Shark pools WO MONTHS living in the barmen deftly dispensing depres­ stone age island village of sants, dressed immaculately, LaulasiT where nobody knows the scrubbed pink skin and ring people’s age, I turned on to a time­ To S n a k e p i t s fingered men of the world. How less lifestyle. On full moon nights, these old birds love to banter three in a row, villagers play com­ suggestively with them — “Oh munal games from sundown to WADE DOAKE is a New Zealander who last year made a documentary on that Charlie, he’s always in trou­ dawn. Laulasi village in the Solomon islands where the people are shark worshippers, ble.” I’ve never seen so many fat Behind the nearby tabu huts claiming their ancestors spirits reside in the sharks. The village is built upon an matrons. It seems that menopause the skulls of their ancestors, heap­ artificial island of coral stones. After filming was finished he returned home and maxispread are the normal ed on the shark altars, glow in the on another artificial island, the good ship Himalaya. Here he found another patterns in our society. Maybe the pale light. These villagers worship slim ones are too happy to bother sharks. They make sacrifices to quaint cult — the poker machine worshippers. (Wade is presently researching sex reversals in fishes.) travelling. But what a holiday them. Our expedition team filmed they are having wanking those and taped the ceremonies as shark poker machine handles. priests, praying to ancestor spirits, 1973: this is our world — a called the sharks in whom they frothy scum exuded from many dwell into the wall stones of the cities, pleasure bent travel cruising island and fed them by hand. the Pacific, believing the myths Children swam in the water where they fabricated themselves, insur­ the sharks spun and slashed at the ed to the hilt they now venture sacrificial offerings. Four cen­ out from their security bases to turies ago their ancestors built this tour the Hollywood Pacific of TV island from coral rubble on the and screen, snapping up souvenirs edge of the barrier reef. of places they have spent 12 hours At Malaita in the Solomons in, souvenirs made just for them. group, we filmed a TV documen­ A fortuitous click of a fruit ma­ tary there, studied the social pat­ chine and the shrivelled organs of terns of the shark cultists and a with-it grandma in mod tights, then the time came to leave. On feel a warm glow that long eluded the cruise ship Himalaya, I decid­ them. ed to do a comparative study. Music starts, the cue for gran­ nies and things to waddle to the A shark priest Washing up after making sacrifies to A young Laulasi villager big dance hall as a singer croons the sharks “All my life, my darling, I’ve AM looking from this huge and talking about their day in have to sing to make money. She play moon games with the village hungered for your touch.” Old ship through the rain and Honiara, how much they spent is talking this bullshit about her­ children . . . Ramo, the richest juices run with half recalled al- 1wind across a wild sea at Malaita. mosts. The tour ship throbs with and what clever bargains they self all the time and the other two man I've ever met, master of his It is 6.20 pip on my final monday. made with the natives. I have been plump, envious girls just say: “Oh, whole world - an eternity away the singer’s emotion, this ball­ I am on an artificial island but allotted a table to myself by the really”, “yes” and giggle. from the lifestyle of these fat, room continues on towards the what different people - ugh — wall, which suits me fine - I can A guy at the other end of the white, wrinkled westerners. wreckers yards, running after a these Australian tourists are so observe unnoticed. I have just had bar in a candy stripe shirt is eating The barman sits down and succession of nothing goals - fat, so brassy, so crude and dull. some creme soup sort of dish­ his drunken girlfriend. Here I am chats up three girls. He tells them around the Pacific, around the I’m in my own thoughts. I have water. I will then ask for chicken. my darlings in this huge steel how he loves wine best of all. At world, to where it started from. seen the best way of living — It’s costing me $25 per day to live machine; this late 20th century home he has a roof-high wine In the danceroom, the fashion among the Laulasi people and on this artificial island . . . Drake village of shallow pleasure; fat, fat rack, drinks five bottles in a night, centre of the ship, I sit as sac­ now I just do my same thing, Restaurant, Table 47, first sitting women pulling mechanically on no trouble. charine music twitches tame bank same clothes, the lot. — good black coffee, tender the handles of the poker machines clerks pelvises in front of 30 year A strange wild night, the sky is Promenade deck bar: bourbon chicken casserole, beans and roast which line the bar walls, each old staff nurse virgins. Opposite black with racing clouds and the on the rocks 25 cents. Age group potatoes. French wine: Chateau flaunting its jackpot at them and me there’s one, two, three, twelve wind is screaming past the ship. 40 plus. More matrons pumping Neuf du Pape, 50 cents a glass. I tempting them to waddle up to grannies sitting, thick knees splay­ How crazy, the first bad weather money into fruit machines. Com­ order one and once it comes I tell the barman for another dollar’s ed apart . . . front line troops in I’ve seen in the Solomons since I ing to the bar for piles of ten cent the waiter I’ll pay for it tomorrow worth of ten cent pieces to stuff Sin City. came here three months ago, and pieces — “I only invest 50 cents,” - against the rule, but what else between its metal lips. Say, I’ll get up and dance. Two it is on the day I leave. I feel as if says one fat old duck in white can he do? I dont have any money Clang they pull the penis lever girls have come over and sit at my the weather spirits are angry, I pants. They have nothing to do on me. down, the machine whirrs a teas­ table. Bev and Gwen, nurses on have not made the right sacrifice. but be on holiday so they love to Now I am sitting in a bar at the ing song but nothing comes. Just holiday. Wait for something with I must tell them to take it easy try to make money for doing stem of the ship beside two swim­ once in a blue moon the machine a beat. Rambling rose — an ode to because I will return someday. nothing. ming pools. I have a 20 cent can ejaculates its sperm into a mat­ the clinging female, thru it all she As I walk along a long empty Laulasi women sit by the fire­ of beer. Back here the propellers ron's lusting hands. stuck with him, his ever loving side deck the sea is like an angry side making shell money to buy are making the ship tremble and What is my Laulasi friend do­ mattress and yet he was a rotter. snake pit, it hisses all around the their son a bride. throb. It gives the feeling I am ing now to enjoy life? Talking Mid class values are reaffirmed . . . ship. Woman asks the barman, really moving homewards. At the with friends by the firelight at the “Which island is better, Vila or Fat steward, no neck, with Now I am going down many, next table an American blonde is sea’s edge as a huge moon wobbles Honiara?” He tells her and that’s impeccable pump action forearm circuits the floor with a school many staircases to the deck where telling two Australian girls how up from the Malaitan hills and that. Travel broadens the mind marm dancing to the desweated, my cabin is, on “E” deck. It has very important she is . .. a night­ beams a dancing gold pathway and he minds the broads. “A four bunks in it but I share it only club singer and fashion designer. over the lagoon from the dark dollar’s worth of tin sense please.” preshitted music. Come on gran­ nies, have a smoke of dope. I get with my thoughts. She has a bad throat. That’s why coast to the moonglow island. He She is fat and wearing a dress with up and dance, get it on, twist and Now I am in this huge restau­ she’s not singing on the ship. She is eating his mangrove seed Koa, bold circular hoops of color that rant; hundreds of overfed people likes working on TV - it doesnt with fish and coconut cream, and makes her immense arse/waist shake. Who’s for moon games? clinking plates, knives and forks frighten her a scrap. She doesnt baked taro. Soon he will go and look like a Greek wine jar. Bored □

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M A LE music lover was once RW: No, but he'd be happy to how many musical courses they A heard to say proudly . . do it if you'd come back to the have to offer. the only female in my record hotel after the show tonight. T h e th e o re tic a l courses collection is Nina Simone," as if MM: No thanks Clyde. Give available are: the exclusion of the rest somehow him my message. Bye. The Enjoyment of Music — made it more musical. It's nice to THAT'S WHY THERE'S NO Felix Werder; know that Colin Talbot doesnt INTERVIEW WITH RON WOOD History of the Development of feel that way. OF THE FACES IN THIS ISSUE. Music and Musical Instruments In the last issue the "lady sing­ — Harold McDonald; ers" we were left with all seem TOP TEN Music Theory — Felix Werder; (with the exception of Linda Ron- Ron Wood, lead guitarist with Jazz Since 1945 — stadt) to be women songwriters — the Faces. Stan van Hooft; an very broad genre to attempt 1. Honky tonk woman, The Jazz& Rock — David Hills. to analyse in one article. And the Rolling Stones. On the practical side there are dismissal of artists of the calibre 2. The th rill is gone, B. B. King. opportunities to learn the flute, of Dory Previn seems to suggest 3. King bee, Slim Harpo. clarinet, piano, classical guitar, that it is too broad, for even if she 4. / want to hold your hand, blues and ragtime guitar, does not appeal, it is hard to find The Beatles. mandolin, recorder, electronic a resemblance to Streisand, and 5. If loving you is wrong, / dont music and Greek folk songs and show songs?!! The article, though, want to be right, Luther Ingram. dancing. was a personal, subjective one, 6. / can't stand the rain, Ann The fees for these classes range expressing likes and dislikes, and Peebles. from $9.00 to $24 per term, as th at it showed a refreshing 7. Peace by the peace, Bill according to the number of awareness of many female Medley. lessons given. musicians. 8. The ying tong song, The The Council of Adult Goons. Education would be able to help 9. Let's get it on, Marvin Gaye. with any inquiries about these FRIDAY february 8. 10. George Jackson, Bob Dylan. courses on 63.4231. In Sydney Margaret Macintyre: Hello, The Workers Educational Assoc, may I speak to Ron Wood please? of NSW offers similar theoretical Ron Wood (pause): Ahh, hello. ENROLMENTS for the Victorian courses. Ring 26 .278 1. ___ Adult Education courses close on MM: Hello, my name is MARGARET MACINTYRE. LJ Every picture tells a story — Ron Wood and Rod Stewart of Faces Margaret and I was wondering . . . february 22, and it is amazing RW: You woke me up. MM: Oh, I'm sorry. In that case you won't want to do an DONT know whether to ex­ ed by the plight of this adventure­ interview for The Living plain this song, apologise some young coward and the faith­ Daylights. RW: Yes I will. Is that the one for it, or just hurl it savage­ ful loving duplicity of his bride. that is going to print my Top 10? Ily at your heads. I dont If any of you out there want this Could you ring back in a couple know where it came from; I've been column to keep going, please keep of hours to arrange it? writing it on and off for about six sending in songs. To those who (two hours later . . .) months and I rather think that I have written and have not yet been MM: May I speak to Ron Wood please? was in the grip of another power. I answered, never fear. I am slowly RW: Hello. dont think it's meant to be farcical, ploughing my way through a rather MM: Hello Ron, I'm ringing to but how could it possibly be seri­ small pile of correspondence and arrange a time for the interview. ous? Personally I am deeply touch­ will get to you soon. — M .O 'R . RW: Um , I think you have the words and music by M. O ’Rourke wrong person. It's John here. MM: Oh, isnt that Ron Wood's room? Ballad of the Bricklayer’s Wife RW: No. (Seconds later "John" rang the switchboard to confess that 7. As / walked down through Melbourne yes indeed, he was in Ron Wood's town room, but Ron Wood was not. An One sunny afternoon hour later . . . / heard a couple talking J J I j J J - ^ ^ J'-^= MM: Hello, may I speak to They were in their youthful bloom rts I walked clown bbreujjh rtelbovme town, one sunny after-after noon X Ron Wood please? The girl she said dear Johnny RW: Hello. Oh won't you marry me MM: Oh, is that you John? It's We'll buy a nice little terrace house J l J J P j j Margaret Macintyre speaking. And a bricklayer's wife I'll be. heard a Ccuple FalKmq , they were, in their yovthful iv> The. Jirl she sad Sear RW: No, it's Clyde here. % A D G MM: Look Clyde, do you 2. To be a poor bricklayer, love know if Ron Wood still wants to Is not what's in my mind / think I'll go out on the roads be interviewed by The Living C Tohnny, oh won't ujov m arry me We-'ll buyamce little hrrraoe house, and a Daylights? For adventure / would find RW: Well, I think he thinks A bushranger is respected e a W A I f t « 7 If7if n.P'RDl/RKF there won't be enough time. Ron And he's known to every man I'll make my pile in a year, love told me he'd like to do it though. Ci bricklayer's w if-e I'll be. MM: What about tomorrow A n d come home to you again. morning? 3. But bush ranging is dangerous 5. B u t Johnny there's been no gold there 7. Well since you put it like that me love Or so i have been told For fifty years or more I'm sure / can't refuse The violent men in the shanties And Lambing Flat and Ballarat I f / went into the wilderness Will fight you for your gold A re both played out I'm sure M y precious life I'd lose The police they will molest you So forget this wild adventuring So take my hand dear Nancy GALLERY They'll h u n t you far and wide And stay at home with me And come along with me PRESENTS And you'll never be able to sleep at night And dont venture into foreign dimes We'll go take out a licence love A SERIES OF W ithout me a t yo u r side. In some far counteree And married we will be SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS 4. Well I've no desire to risk my life 6. So far into the north me love 8. So now we live in com fort CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN For fortune and for fame It's tropical and wild In a house in Melbourne town SINGERS SONGWRITERS So if what you say is true love The natives there are troublesome He works a t putting houses up MUSICIANS PERFORMING Then I'll try another game ORIGINAL MATERIAL They spear both horse and child A nd pulling houses down For if there's gold in banks me love jazz folk country rock classical The lofty snow-capped mountains He robs a few banks on the side Iblues flamenco There's more gold In the ground Are more than man can climb A nd lives a quiet life every sunday 8pm $1 .5 0 So I'm o ff to be a fossicker So if you must lay your life down love A nd he spends every night a t home .— . kirk gallery 422 Cleveland st surry hills To Bendigo I'm bound. Lay it down alongside o f mine A ll with his loving wife. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974— Page 23 John Prine: The Sensitive Hobo STEVEN COLEMAN SWEET REVENGE: John Prine Night time/ Makes me wonder memories of Kentucky coal; You (Atlantic SD-7274). what I said/ Next time/ Are the can make m y tom bstone/ Out o f RIS Kristofferson has done words I’d like to plan on/ But, last number nine coal. Ksome pretty fair things - time/ Was the only thing you said. The first album cover showed sings pretty good, writes OK Everyone has been through it, Prine sitting on bales of hay, songs, acts, and married Rita everyone has thought it; Prine smiling. The second, a thoughtful Coolidge. The best thing he’s done says it, with no embarrassment man at the microphone with the to date is getting John Prine a and just enough simplicity. Martin. Here we find a derisive denimed punk lounging in a con­ recording contract. Dear A bbey is Prine alone, live, He picked up on Prine in a stoned/boozed: Dear Abbey, dear vertible, Camel in mouth, shades Chicago bar late one night, on the Abbey .'../ If it werent so expen­ on unshaven face. Three gems of advice of Steve Goodman, an un­ sive/ I’d wish I were dead/ Signed records, a portrait of the artist as recognised veteran of three con­ Unhappy and so on. Side one a young (26) folk hero. Dope temporary country albums. Prine finishes with Often is a word I smokin’, hard drinkin’, poet of played, Kris heard, Atlantic sign­ seldom use - and the sparkle the disinterested intellectual ed. Kinney laughs and belches from the first bars still jump from hobos. The work of a man who with Prine all the way to the the speakers so that it’s a drag to wants nothing more than the next bank. Because Prine is big, and has have to get up to turn the disc meal, who’s not going to change to get bigger. With Sweet revenge, over. the world with cosmic untruths. a previously unsure genius writes Onomatopoeia opens up side John Prine will make you sit up, check to make sure that you heard his Choral Symphony and makes two, a bouncy tale of young right, and, most of all, lacerate it like the Pastoral. performers with grandiose ideals. Our hero paid his dues and Prine the younger meets Prine the your guts with good old down- kept under control. Four years as elder next with Grandpa was a home sincerity. He’s going to be a Chicago postman, a staunch coal carpenter, no particular religious around for years, but pick up on mining childhood, and booze has intentions though: Grandpa was a him now. Drink Atlantic’s health created the wriest sensitivity a carpenter/ He built houses, stores for making him available. JOHN PRINE songwriter this age of bullshit and banks/ Chain smoked Camel □ could ever want to disown. Prine cigarettes/ And hammered nails in springs surprises with the facility planks/ He was level on the level/ and frequency he downs bottles And shaved even every door/ And of booze. In Please dont bury voted for Eisenhower/ 'Cause Lincoln won the war. Everybody’s Status Quo: Britain’s Best me: Give my stomach to Mil­ grandpa, right? waukee/ If they run out of beer/ RICHMOND STURDY Put my socks in a cedar box/ Just The mirror is still on all our get 'em out of here/ Venus de lives with The accident (Things HELLO: Status Quo (Vertigo going with Roll over lay down, a by a great solo from Rossi. Milo can have m y arms/ Look could be worse), every drivers 6360098). dirty little rocker which sets the Turn Hello over and it roars off into Caroline which was the single out! I’ve got your nose/ Sell my occupational hazard. It was a four T CONCERTS Australian beat and standard for this outing. — a fantastic rocker, nothing too heart to the junkman/ And give way stop dilemma/ We all arrived audiences do seem to dem­ Even though the backing guitar A work during a few quiet bars is a musically difficult but well played my love to Rose. Ending with the same time/ I yielded to the onstrate the hits-only-please men­ exactly the way Deluxe rock Send my mouth way down south/ man/ To the right of met And he tality, which is supported by the bit messy, it doesnt matter. In should be. Unfortunately radio And kiss m y ass goodbye, Prine’s yielded it right back to mine/ radio stations and the promoters fact it’s good to know that some programmers dont agree, since self-dissection ends with his Well, the yield went around/ And who base their advertising on an musicians still believe that the feel although it made the Top 10 in dream. around and around/ Till Pamela old biggie, so it is usual for the of a track is important, rather the UK, it didnt gain any His astounding originality finally tried/ Just then the man/ band to follow suit or they die the than go over a riff hour after hour or call in a session man to do it exposure here. I wonder who they comes easy. Title track begins: I In the lite blue sedan/ Hit Pam­ death. Yet when Status Quo were offended in the echelons of power got kicked off of Noah’s ark/ I ela's passenger side/ They dont here last year, the first number for them. who decide what rock hits the turn m y cheek to unkind remarks/ know how lucky they are/ They they did was Roll over lay down Claudie is a softer number, airwaves. There was two of everything/ But could have run into that tree/ Got and their fans leapt to their feet, written by Rossi and Young, with Other tracks include Softer one o f me. After a short two year struck by a bolt of lightning/ And dancing and raving as if they had a strong melodic guitar line ride, which isnt so bloody soft, career in showbiz, the man knows raped by a minority. known it for years. Months later I leading to some good harmony and Forty five hundred times. On what he’s about. No one’s gonna Mexican home is son to mother was still humming the “chunka- work - a very tasty song. At the occasions Rossi and Parfitt reflect push this kid around (but he aint from afar, with the death of fath­ chunka” rhythm which starts it end o f Reason for living you can their love for other good gonna kick no one behind his er. A quiet place, one we all visit: off, so it was with trepidation that visualise Quo’s unmistakable stage guitarists. Although bits of back either). The air’s as still/ As a throttle on a I played this album, containing as act: swooping and striding about, Elmore James and Roy Buchanan Christmas in prison finds a man funeral train. Prine misses the it does a great amount of material then sweeping the stage with their drift in, they only use these ideas without his woman. On reflec­ peace, and misses his lady of the used during the show. hair. Quo drop into top gear for as a starting point to develop their tion: She reminds me of a chess next song, A good time. This is Within a few bars I was Blue eyed lady, the last track on own solos. It’s what you do with game/ With someone I admire/ Or the only one on Sweet revenge to rivetted. Man’s best pal, the great side one. Guitars start cooking the “lift” that matters. a picnic in the rain/ After a prairie sound like it could have been on global flashback arrives: my room then Allan Brown joins in, Altogether it’s a great album, fire/ Her heart is as big/ As this the previous records. The tough­ is turned into the West Melbourne thumping all god out of the piano very honest to their live whole goddam jail/ And she's ness of the other songs is lacking, Boxing Stadium/Festival Hall and chased by Rossi and Parfitt on performances and what is more sweeter than saccharine/ At a the pain is yet to be felt. Written the band rocks on. Let me say guitars. It’s one of those the excitement wasnt over dubbed drugstore sale. Those last two in '71 (the rest in ’73 except for that this is the best rock album I descending lines which tend to or mixed out of existence. So if lines win this century’s award of Blue Umbrella, also ’71), the can­ have heard from Britain since the make you feel that you are falling you missed their concert, dont Perceptive Simile (Urban). dle is yet to flare, and the grit of a Grease Band (sorry Suzie Q). through the floor with the miss Hello. Three songs out of 12, and seedy, tenuous profession is yet to As with the show, Hello gets greatest of ease, and it is followed you’ve got your money’s worth start grinding. on the first line. No one is as This is probably a perfect rec­ succinct, so sharp, and just plain ord, capped off with the only breathtaking. Blue umbrella, to a song on the album not written by- lady who left, the most gentle cut Prine — Merle Travis’ Nine pound of the album: Day time/ Makes hammer, a tribute to a great artist, me wonder why you left me/ payment of even more dues, and ACTORS FORUM PRESENTS 'THE SLAUGHTER OF ST. 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I fear that all your readers who buy Therefore, to beat the system one Daylights for the pretty pictures will GRAEME DUNSTAN’S article on the requires nothing short of a revolution. floods (TLD 2/2) shows lack of under­ believe that Leonard is the exponent of In the interview with Sartre (TLD 2/5) standing of country life and lack of marxism in this country — and cheer­ he eloquently expresses a valid criti­ empathy with country people. When fully believe Harry Gumboot instead. cism of the electoral system (that word one’s environment is so upset that Leonard reaches the ultimate in again) and a need for revolution. But, ordinary life becomes impossible, peo­ idiocy (TLD 2/6) when he writes: “For (ho hum) in the same feature Sartre ple take many ways to cope with the marxists the revolutionary masses are claims that the only way to deal with trauma. Watching third rate movies is primarily a means to an end, and that “those who oppose the revolution” is one, getting stoned and contemplating end is the scientific validation or other­ to deprive them of their lives and one the cosmic implications is another. wise o f m arxism.” can do nought but agree with the Particularly grating is the note on The thousands who died in Chile, interviewer when he suggests that this the previous page that farmers were the million dead in Vietnam, the afri- would herald the disintegration of the charging $15 to tow cars out of bogs. can guerrillas, the French workers and revolution from within. That’s small compensation for stopping students in may 1968 only have im­ I will go one step further and ask whatever the farmer is doing, risking portance for Leonard because they what type of order can be established tractor and injury pulling some dty prove or disprove “marxism”! What after a revolution. The revolution oc­ tourist out of roads officially closed. pseudo-intellectualising dilettante bull­ curs against an oppressive system. shit! BOB, However the revolutionaries must be On the contrary, marxism is a Sydney, NSW equally oppressive in nature in order to means to the end of total human revolt. They are enforcing their will on liberation for the masses, and not some Over here the advocates of the old order. Result: Amosian dogma for his crappy word- TASMANIANS are proud of their an oppressive system. games in your letter columns. hefty stock and one type of stock Looking at past revolutions I find The Russians (who “correctly which grows very well down here are little to recommend them. Granted, it. formulate” marxism according to PIGS — we have some champion has meant a better life materially for Leonard) can have him. heavies male and female — AND they those involved — usually a starving DENIS FRENEY, do tricks. peasant population (hardly Australia or Sydney, NSW The latest is busting mainlanders even Sartre’s France in 1974), but and unsuspecting local heads for im­ there are better things to do with one’s Leonard is porting grass plus possession etc — so if lunch hour than spend it reading the up shit creek you come here and are caught by our thoughts of chairman Mao (’cause ya tricky pigs DONT say you brought hafta). Furthermore, there is the ATTEMPTING to read Leonard them from the mainland or you’ll be blood-gore-death aspect to be consider­ Amos’s little exposition last week riding to Risdon in no time. (TLD 2/6), I tried the approach of ed in any revolution. Not much good looking at the orientations in his lan­ ANON, for we of the weak stomachs. guage, and came to the conclusion Tasmania So:- nil violent revolutions. Next that, as a well known semanticist once What does attempt is to convert the system (if said in a different context, it “exhibits you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, then fuck grave, even pathological intentional one do? it up). So here you are Daylights — the orientations”. In other words, it doesnt AS THE weeks pass we find from the voice in the wilderness only heard by correspond even vaguely with what one pages of your publication and others those who already know your message. might call “reality”. Indeedy, some brutal years inside prisons in New how the individual is being oppressed Are we going to change the system Leonard claims that “marxism” is a Zealand. But a winner, and a big one, I by the (shudder) “system”. Look at before it engulfs all? Is the average “truly scientific outlook”. I wonder indeedy became when I married and started to the injustices that occur even in this pie-eating troglodyte going to be made settle down 24 years ago. The same fair land of ours: pre-signed search aware of what is happening and even why. He doesnt seem to realise that WHAT with tumultuous rain and wife and four great kids stand as proof warrants; the brutal treatment of “so­ then motivated to act accordingly? “scientific truth” (does Leonard know plentiful warm sunshine those little of that victory, Larry. ciety’s enemies” in our state prisons; (Shit! I dunno. Ask me an easy one.) that atomic physics relies on STA­ bald-headed -under- turd-living-fellows the lack of treatment for aboriginals; Will he stop throwing his beer cans on TISTICAL laws?) will not be found in will be sprouting up all over soon; and So far as being a crapmerchant of boxing is concerned I plead guilty. I foreign ownership of our resources; the beach? I think not. He gets w hat he what he calls “marxist” writings. How along with them will come their stoney foreign manipulation of us, as testified wants from the system now. Food, on earth can abstract political ravings cousins, THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS. have had an off and on love affair with to by Ian Sykes in a recent Daylights-, shelter, transport and even some lux­ with no regard for work done in the Being a simple soul, all the intri­ the game since the time I first had gloves laced on my wrists and set out, the way our country is being screwed uries are within reach of most (white) fields of anthropology, sociology, cacies of knowing which mushie will be hopefully, to become a professional in the name of progress and the dollar people. psychology, communications theory, the one is beyond my knowledge. And champion. Thirty seven amateur fights even though the rest of the world has “Alright smart-arse, wot’s the an­ even physics, be called “scientific”? as I havent found much info myself I later I got out of the blood and guts given us a perfect example of what not swer?” you ask. There’s none. Our lot And to my mind ANY outlook which presume it is in much scarcity. So, to do; the noble tradition of “poofter is to be ever-vigilant and ever-ready to is willing to call itself an ism, a set wouldnt it be wonderful if some TLD “sport” with sufficient wins up to satisfy my ego — and an outsize head­ bashing” ; grass is illegal while aspirin expose the bad old system (Sounds like ideology, is grossly distorting itself. reader-cum-expert botanist could do a valium and even Coca-Cola are freely the end of a Roger Ramjet cartoon). To quote A. N. Whitehead, (a highly huge centrespread article on location, ache that warned me I’d end up like accomplished mathematician and pre­ some of my punchdrunk professional available. types and ID of the funny fungi. T. T. BUDGEWOI, sumably possessing a “truly scientific mates if I didnt quit. OK. That’s what we’re up against. NSW outlook” ): ANXIOUS Years later I started writing about What do we get other than funny looks “The notion of the complete self- Sour grapes boxing and boxers. Off and on I’ve sufficiency of any item of finite knowl­ been doing it for 27 years. Some HOW COME Mike Elfin ef Omnibus edge is the fundamental error of editors have publicly referred to me as and John Geake of Kid’s Creative dogmatism. Every such item derives its an expert on boxing. Leisure have free access to the columns truth, and its very meaning, from its Larry Drake makes it clear I defend­ of Daylights? Omnibus was never any­ unanalysed relevance to the back­ ed boxing when I should have called thing more than an “Arts Factory” ground which is the unbounded uni­ for its outlawing as a sport. He has a rock scene pulling on the tampon verse. Not even the simplest notion of lot of informed opinion to back up his strings on Nimbin. It was PR without arithmetic escapes this inescapable con­ argument But I still believe that prop­ dition for existence. Every scrap of our grass roots co-operation with creative erly controlled boxing can continue as groups — poets, filmmakers and actors knowledge derives its meaning from a spectator sport. were given no real chance to use the the fact that we are factors in the Australia has the chance to lead the place. Copy sent by other much more universe, and are dependent on the world in boxing control. That was why worthwhile groups is not published (a universe for every detail of our exist­ I wrote my TLD story — to urge piece about a poetry group was cut ence . . . Wherever there is a sense of tourism and recreation minister, Frank down and stuck into the letters col­ self-sufficient completion, there is the Stewart, to ensure that a commissioner umns). germ of vicious dogmatism. There is no strong enough to withstand the pres­ entity which enjoys an isolated self- The living daylights cannot expect sures of high finance and gangster sufficiency of existence. In other to be regarded as anything more than elements, and to establish medical reg­ words, finitude is not self-supporting.” an elitist plaything if it continues to ulations that will take out of the blood ignore genuine efforts of people to Relating this to the good Leonard, and guts game all and every fighter, it means that his notion of the self- create their own alternative media. amateur as well as professional, who sufficiency and completeness of marx­ RICHARD COADY, suffers more than one knockout in the ism simply doesnt make sense. And it Merge, one year, and to prevent by examina­ is the fundamental error of all dog­ Sydney, NSW tion any boy fighting who can’t pass a matists — be they marxists, fascists, certificate-issuing panel of men capable capitalists, socialists, etc. ad nauseam. Boxing again of judging his degree of defence ability On an intellectual level, with regard LARRY DRAKE (TLD 2/6) calls me a as well as any physical weaknesses. for the factors which led Leonard to perpetual loser, but adds that he holds Short of Australia grabbing the think the way he does — probably a me in high regard as a person. Then he chance to lead the world in boxing bum school teacher or the wrong states that when it comes to boxing I control I would join those calling for books at the wrong time — one comes am the king of the crapmerchants. the banning of the toughest of all to the conclusion that Mr Amos is A loser I certainly have been most competitive sports. insane, living in a dream world of of my life — certainly from the day I If this is crap I plead guilty again. marxism. On a purely gut-reaction lev­ first stepped off the straight and nar­ But I hope it isnt, and that the long list el, Leonard is up shit creek. row as a grubby faced kid of 11 and hit of mentally competent and successful RO BERT van KR1EKEN the reformatory, and right on through men who have left the fight game

Page 26 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 19-25, 1974 1 •Nl 1jj» STEPHEN WALL JT W O M A N No 9 is the complaints: i B latest publication from the VICTORIA: Leonie Green, PO London based alternative inform a­ box 5327BB, Melbourne (phone tion service B IT . The name was 652.7223). changed from Bitman as a result QUEENSLAND: John Hamilton, of a long overdue takeover by PO box 246, Brisbane (29.2998). A letter from Sydney women . . . it's been controlled by SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Keith Bel­ men since the show started (1969, ton, GPO box 541, Adelaide I think). BIT's info flow is quite (51.0441). WILL TETLEY considerable these days as more WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Gra­ and more groups from around the ham Walker, GPO box K846, AM sitting at the bar of an The pace is fast. I walk along arms and everyone is your friend. world hop under the "Alterna­ Perth (23.0391). eating house in a Sydney the streets keeping up with the The monster flashes WALK. tives" umbrella and as BIT opens TASMANIA: Helen Prendergast, r suburb drinking the nearest thingrush. Suddenly I stop . . . The crowd surges forward. I am up its notion of what is "alterna­ PO box 585F, Hobart (34.3721). I can get to a wholesome drink — “What on earth am I doing? swept along by the stream, strug­ tive" and what is not. I suggest a NEW SOUTH WALES: Patricia “pure” orange juice. Where am I going at this insane gling hard to avoid being dragged sub to Bitwoman if you are inter­ Campbell, Australian Government The manageress is a friend speed? I’m almost running.” in completely to drown in the ested in what's happening to the Centre, Chifley Square, Sydney, from Nimbin. I have taken refuge People, unaware that I have speeding world of concrete, pollu­ London underground (ie those NSW 2000 (259.3459). here for a while to escape the slowed my gait, collide into me tion, pre-packed food, instant cof­ areas th at have not yet been cash­ * * * and almost trample me underfoot. whirlpool of the city and wallow fee and sliced, white, bread. ed in), movement groups around TV HANDBOOK is designed to Left, right, left, right, they march in memories o f Nimbin as I pass Peta wakes me from my day­ the world, anti-psychiatry, free help people in their dealings with on munching their sandwich dream/nightmare. It is time to on news of home. schools, radical social work and the TV companies. It's for people lunches. They have no time to sit Peta is very busy though and so go. We join the Grand Prix of especially if you think you would who have been approached to down and eat them. I take in my surroundings. I real­ carbon monoxide coughing cars enjoy meandering thru 60 pages appear on TV , or give information I walk on, slowly now, day and head for home. ise I havent quite escaped the of roneoed, raving foolscaps. BIT for a TV program; to help them dreaming, singing, Butterfly in the whirlpool. It is still there swirling Her home is one of Nimbinites has always been loosely organised decide whether or not to co­ sun/ Making love to everyone. I round my feet. A waitress scurries and other counter culturalists try­ (read "slack") so there is no way operate and if so, on w hat terms. get strange looks from all around. here and there as a boisterous ing their best to keep their heads of telling when the next issue will It's sort of a "Teach yourself I smile. In return I get puzzled above water by involving them­ “gentleman" shouts complaints; come out. Start your sub off with about TV" for political activists, frowns and scowls. selves in such things as herbalism, behind me a little fat man stuffs No 9. Send $6 for four airmailed social change agents and most I arrive at a crossroad. A red his face, leans back in his chair, health foods, acupuncture, mas­ issues to: B IT , 146 Great Western particularly the person being his belly sticking out. He belches eyed monster flashes DONT sage, organic gardening and na­ road, London W11, UK. manipulated by the video media. WALK. I obey. I wait. There are politely into his handkerchief. A tural crafts. * * * Unfortunately it is produced in small group by the window busily 100 people waiting with me like It is a Nimbin within the city. I A SAMPLE of Bitwoman info: London so it suffers from its discuss their next Kung Fu movie race horses at the starting gate. I feel relaxed and reassured that Alternative press index is a quart­ parochial outlook. There is a great script. look around at the faces. I dont there are still beautiful people in erly subject index to articles in need for such a handbook to be I glance at the menu and know one of them. The city is so the dty and remember that while written for Australian conditions. amidst chicken liver pate, rump anonymous. My mind flashes back we, in Nimbin, aim to change the over 150 alternative/underground mags and papers. It's published by Still much of the info contained steak, and cordon bleu veal I am to Nimbin where people smile and way of the world by turning the Alternative Press Centre, Bag in the book is useful to the local pleased to see such delicacies as welcome newcomers with open people on to a natural life in the Service 2500 Postal Station E media maniac; it has advice on lettuce soup, fresh fruit salad, country, the city people can do Toronto 4, Ontario, Canada. The handling the interview situation, halva with nuts (although halva much good by spreading the word centre also has a subject heading/ the current affairs program, docu­ with nuts is “off") and rye bread. and turning people on from the classification list for indexing and mentaries and news stories - the I review my thoughts of the inside. games they play and the counter Then maybe the city won't be cataloguing alternative materials. city. They are not new thoughts, tactics. Tells how to enter into only old ones long hidden under so much a whirlpool as a peaceful It was published in january '73 and cost $2.50 — a reprint is being contracts and how to demand the tranquility and peace of the island set in the midst o f a placid planned. payment for appearances, how to Nimbin valley, yet revived again lake. * * * obtain the TV unions help in by the pace of the city. □ beating the media at their own ONE OF the events in Sydney game etc, etc. Send $1.50 to aimed at highlighting international SCAN, c/o FCG, 1 Ivor street, womens day will be a week of London NW1. films by and about women at the * * * Filmmakers Cinema. They will be P LA N N IN G an overseas trip; The screened each night between travellers directory may be of march 5 and march 10 at 8 pm. some help if you are intending to Women only on march 9. The do it on the cheap and wish to most important film of the week meet the local natives. The direc­ is Home, a film about children in tory lists names, addresses, tele­ institutions which ties in with the phones, ages, interests and offers theme of the womens campaign to of hospitality from travellers change the child welfare system. around the world. It's made up of For more details ring 31.3237; ask people who pay $5 to be listed. for Martha Kay. Only those listed receive the direc­ * * » tory; Listees also receive periodic THE federal government is at newsletters throughout the year. present gathering information on It's not such a bad idea but for discrimination in employment. It some reason I smell a quick deal has set up committees in all states of some sort. Check it out by to receive and investigate racial, sending for their propaganda PO color and sexual discrimination box 1547, 535 Church street, but so far has no legal power to Lancaster, PA, 17604 USA. do anything about the findings. Presumably they can apply pres­ sure on those responsible and the AND IF you think you're con­ findings will help form the basis fused! At the ABC, things are so for future legislation. Complaints bad that people are running round PETER ASHWANDEN can be lodged in person, by stabbing each in the front. Please 'phone or in writing. If you have send info sources that others faith in the machines of govern­ might find useful to PO box 8 ment, here is where to lodge your Surry Hills 2010.

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