Semper Floreat, Voluine45, Number 3. 20th March 197S. Registered for iransmliision by Pose as a newspsper, Calegory B. SEMPER FLOREAT MAmSi^^dfrn s-tsiTfiri^ .gerrymander joh . carbotv-copy chalk • hang-em hinze .battlin' burns « i'm-alright-jack egerton Mmptr iloraat • ' , ••-•J Many parents must work to pay high interest rates for housing, to pay fifeh rents and for the ever-increasing cost of very basic food items. There is no evidence to show that crime-free children are the re- suU of mothers staying at home. Slajatcring of working hours nay help if child c~arc centres and schools open early letters in Ihe morning. Children need the best possibk; start in knowledge is a knowledge that goes way life and welfare of children no longer de­ PALESTINE/ISRAEL back beyond the point where learning pends on parents alone. Dear Editor, starts to take place ... whetiier we are re­ W.E.L. has a policy for school-age child EDITORIAL ferring to that poinl in regard to our org­ care incorporating complete communhy in- Because the situation rc Palestine - anic development or to our "super-impos­ tcgralion into school life so that people Israel is a complex one, I do not as yet ed cducatwn." . from all walks of life arc involved, and all have any fixed views of black or white or No amount of such education, which levels of Government may pool their re­ right or wrong sides. I loathe indiscrimin­ very often leads our minds away from sources in school care committees. ate killings in hi-jackings but I am also our true selves, or indulges in partial Instead of condemning women who implacably opposed lo theocratic or sec­ truths which twist and twine their ways work outside the home, everyone can work tarian slates. through the incredible pathways of our together in taking responsibility for child- AN APOLOGY i am very interested in the silualion so brains, can pinpoint that very core of len, as occurs elsewhere in Australia and I read Joe Monsour and Nick Cowen's art­ our existence which explains cvcfything, ovcr.seas. icles carefully. Only once did I feel moved and hence resolves, dissolves the funda­ lo great anger by arguments used. This oc­ mental cause of alienation. Yours truly. We were sitting in the editorial office curred in Nick Cowen's article when he Personally, I've found that I have Heather Wiitiams. in the dawn hours before going to press, asked a rhetorical question "Why didn't started lo gain self-knowk;dge through (WEL member) they jtht; Palestinians] plant trees and meditation and that process is allowing talking over possible editorial topics {we build cities to prove their love of th© me to discriminate more purposefully do that quite often, you know). land'" and effectively between the possible alter­ SOCIAL WORK I have spent a targe pari of the last three natives Ihat 1 might follow up in my life, REFLECTIONS whether in service of my ego, or of hum- "Nothing momentous happens on cam­ years rcsearchin)> the true history of and get- ON REFLECTIONS tirig to know Aboriginal Australians. One of anhy. And thus 1 am less inclined to point' pus anymore," said someone. The vocal the most often quoted arguments used by the finger at others as ignorant and misled A Reply to Mal McCouat Left of yesteryear are growing older, and, white AusUalians for the mass slaughter and as they may be, for my inadequacies, and more able to fulfil the roles that 1 take on whether they're mellowing or yellowing, forcible removal of Aborigines from tlieb Mai's ppen letter seems to confirm several sacred land was thai of NiekCowen's. A in an adequate and responsible manner. of the problems wilh which social wotk is they are vocal only spasmodically these first year Anthropology student could ex­ faced, days; there arc no moratoriums now; plain the difference between various soc­ First, writing an Open Letter instead of Marg. Petherick. people at Union Council meetings throw ieties and cultures. Asking why Palestinians an article or a letier-to-the-cditor personalisei didn't build cities is like asking the Jews the situation. This is a trap that social work­ words at each other instead of fists and why they dkln't build beautiful Catholic ers often fall inlo, similar to the old ad chairs; this year's crop of freshers seems cathedrals as proof of their civilization. homincm approach. I addressed my article I find it ironical and very sad that a to the political and Ihcorclical issues under­ to be just passing through, as usual, wait­ representative of a peopk which suffered JIM VARGHESE pinning s.w. practice. This was not merely ing to grab their degrees as they pass the so much in the hands of I'ascist, race chau­ a statement of my individual opinion so exit sign. Nothing momentous is happen­ vinists should use an argument oflcn used The Editor, much as a sumtmiy of views expressed throughout the western world. There is ing. by the While Australians who were the only race to succcssfuly complete genocide. In reply to David Franken's "Snippil" a serious debate going on, not a minor dif­ When Ihc remnants ofthe Tasmanian on Jim Varghese in ihe last issue of Semper ference of opinion ambngst a few people Yet once in a while, something happens. aboriginal race lived out the last few years Floreat it is essential to bring up two in Brisbane. of Jheir exile from the land of their birth, points in relation lo Jim's removal from The last two paragraphs of Mai's letter Something small. they would struggle to the top of the hill the A.U.S. ofRce of General Vice Presi­ arc particularly personal. It is difncult to on their island prison and tears would dent. The first and really importanl one, know how to take the expression "....the stream down Ihcir face as they sighted' is a poinl of principle. A.U.S. members Department famine years gave you the Like Wednesday, March 12th, when tlK! sucred land uf IlKir birth. I tlnd this despite warnings and threats of contempt freedom to teach what you wished ...", Neville Curtis came to the Refectory and fargreatcf"proor'«f a love for their land, of court proceedings, regarded thepoli- and "Students heard your Weas, and the tried lo communicate with student din­ than any buildings or cities. lics of Jim Varghese, and the right to dis­ Department allowed this to happen", and cuss openly these poUtics as fundamental "... you availed yourself of that opportun­ ers. He gave the task away - defeated by Yours in peace. to A.UiS. policy {1 am not saying however ity and now criticise the group of people the clamour and by the complete disre­ Julianne Schwenke Ihat A.U.S. and especially its executive who gave it to you." At least, this is rather gard shown by people feeding their faces consistently adheres to the position.) What patronising. More seriously there is an im­ was being tried was the right of A.U.S. to plication that if the departmenl can allow as if food were going out of style. discuss openly serious issues on hand and these things to happen they can also not the right of recall of ofnccrs. allow them to happen. DM my views put It's hardly worth mentioning - it was MOTOR CYCLE SURVIVAL A.U.S. members rightly rejected the me outside this group in some way? Would assumptions underlying recognition of . expressions like "allow" be used when a small event in itself - a man talked, and bear E)ditor, bourgeois courts as neutral and in the traditional ideas are being put forward? nobody listened. best interests of the people. .This whole sentiment confirms the view 1 must congratulate you and Ron A.U.S. is opposed to bourgeois law I put originally that some ideas arc not Muir for the cxrellcnt article on Motor which is discriminatory, unjust and taken sertously but are tolerated as long He spoke about oppression - the op­ t:ycic Survival in the last Semper. Having whose fundamental principles are based as they are relegated to a minority or pression of millions of human beings who survived 5 years of riding in Brisbane's on private properly. The law does not deviant position. Presumably this is the operate outside the context of a given meaning behind Mai's anxiety that "first are arrested yearly because they are found chaotic traffic might! heartily endorse the article particularly Gregg Hansford's com­ society. It is an institution of that society year students" might read what I said. without a pass, who are forced into slave ment that motorcyclists must treat every and as such is Ihe body of rules which leg­ This raises the question: are they supposed labour situations, who are poorly educat­ car as Ihough its driver rcally wants to alises and legitimates the existing social to get the official indoctrination Tirst so run over you. relations. In our case these are bourgeois' that other ideas will be perceived as strange, ed, who are denied a vote, who live their social relations, or to be more precise, or do we respect their judgment in making entire lives in a segregated society. M.Heniy property relations within which a class up their own minds about all the ideas that produces the surplus value of social pro­ come to them during their years of study? duction (it is, the working class) and ano­ What is a university for, accepting dogma, ther appropriates that surplus value (the It was a small event in itself - but UNION COUNCIL or promoting intellectual development? thank God you are not a black student bouigeoisie or the mling class).