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THE GREAT FLOOD

FROM THE FLOOD REPORT Director of the Super Value Stores Group. Mr. Browning organised clean­ PRESENTED TO UNION COUNCIL up teams from the marshalling area REGARDING STUDENT at Christ Church Hall, St. Lucia. INVOLVEMENT IN CLEAN-UP The clean-up operation went on for OPERATIONS, four solid days. It was significant AND THE SUBSEQUENT for the close co-operation between students and St. Lucia residents. FLOOD RELIEF FUND. During this foiu: day intensive clean­ "The Great Floods of Brisbane" started up operation, the Union was quite a on Friday, 25 January, some three days sight: an Army armoured car with after A.U.S. Annual Council. Hundreds radio equipment was stationed in of families found themselves homeless front of the Union Office and was until long after the flood waters began to in direct contact with the Radio fall. Their return to their homes was 4IP which was the Brisbane Commun­ not to live there but to start cleaning ications Centre for the clean-up up after attempting to assess the domestic operation. It also, rallied any requests disaster: ruined carpets, damaged cars, for help in the St. Lucia area, to lost personal belongings... the innumber- this Radio Station. Largely through able problems which luckier Austral­ IT CAME TO PASS the use of this Army vehicle and ians can only tty to imagine. And 4IP, himdreds of volunteers as.sembled at the Union, where Ihey there were some whose homes could 8 parable for seven children never be repaired: houses damaged left theb cars and were ferried to beyond repair, swept away in the the marshalling area at Christ a flower grew in a garden near a river, Church Hall (the Union Adminis^ torrent and broken up. Some lives each day it shared its warm reflection were lost; there was havoc in comm­ of sunlight with the children who lived tration Bus was used for this erce and industry; and, in the after­ in the garden, one day it began to rain, purpose). math, there was a serious threat to and rain until the river grew full and health. muddy, overflowing its banks, entering In all, the highlight of the St. Lucia the garden. clean-up operation was the The Brisbane flood, caused by terrific response from volunteers. Cyclone Wanda, was the climax of the flower was quiet but afraid as They came from Gympie, Caboolture ... a month-long wet season that caused water flowed around and finaUy above, almost country areas to most havoc from theGiUfof Carpentaria at last it found Itself submerged in the Brisbane residents. It was an inter­ to the Gold Coast of Queensland, the chilly gloom, buffetted By swift esting experience, students joining Northern Territory and New South cunents. hands with such individuals, most Wales: whole towns were evacuated; of whom were members of Apex and roads were cut; hundreds of motor­ during the days when an overcast sky Lions Gubs. The clean-up operation ists stranded for days and weeks; live allowed light to filter faintly through ahnost involved 120 Army personnel: stock, crops and property damage ran the waters, the little flower watched it was good to see the transform­ into many millions of dollars. children's feet disturbing the settled ation from weapons of war to mud as they stomped by. the children instruments of construction. who had forgotten their garden friend, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND once a passing drowned bee rested for During the clean-up operation, U.Q.U. UNION AND THE ST.LUCIA .SCENE an instant against its stem until swept gave several himdred sandwiches to away, disappearing into the darkened the St. Lucia fbod relief centre, as distance and it thought at that well as tea pots, boilers and paper The floods were certainly close to home. moment whether it mi^t ever again cups. At one stage the walls of the Union pve its heart to another bee. or share Schonell Ilieatre almost became the its warmth and bright colours with the Another aspect of U.Q.U.'s banks of the Brisbane River. The sight cliildren whom it loved. around St. Lucia as a whole was in­ operation was the distribution of food credible. Sir Fred Schonell Drive, the supplies and clothing. A.U.S. sent main road to the University, was standing in the sober darkness where U.Q.U, over 200 cartons of food and 2 cut off. The Umversity and the Union no light penetrated, feeling the terrible huge crates of clothing to distribute to could only be reached by the high cold of rushing water, the flower was impoverished persons in the Brisbane level of Hawken Drive. Indeed, the often bruised by pebbles tumbling area. 40 cartons of food and the 2 past, how it hungered to live, to University of Queensland was like an huge crates of clothing have been breathe in the bri^t open air once given to Mr. Don Davidson, of the . island fortress, isolated in a sea of more, unconflned. free. "I will live, water. Black Community Centre: he has live to speak of what I have seen, the distributed them to persons who really dead bee, the gloomy nights, the Needless to say, dozens of persons needed it. 80 cartons were also given pebbles, the children must know, it is to the Queensland Red Cross. and families were rendered homeless, important they know!" especially those close to the Brisbane River. so the little flower, though growing Further cartons are in the process weaker, refused to abandon the of distribution to impoverished During this critical lime, the U.Q.U. children it loved and its dream for people in the South Brisbane and had offered its facilities to the St. them, at last it became very difficult West End area. Lucia Civil Defence Organisation as a to continue v^tliout friends but it has food relief and accommodaUon centre;. come to know of dreams, of a deeper this offer was declined by that organ­ giving and was no longer afraid. LAUNCHING OF THE STUDENT isation. It did, however, make use of FLOOD RELIEF FUND the Union's compiled lists of avail­ the flower, now mudstained and a pale able accommodation in the University On Wednesday, 6th February, Nell Colleges. reflection of its former beauty, felt a great weariiiess weighing down upon it. McLean (President of the Australian Union knowing it had come to that time for of Students, AUS)paid a short visit to By Tuesday, 29 January, the floods another decision. Brisbane and preliminary discussions were began to clearly subside : now began held on the student position with respect the most crucial and heart-breakuig trembling, bent low in the dim light, it to the floods. After consultation with the task of clearing and cleaning up flood embraced the waters with a feeling so Presidents of Kelvin Grove Teachers' damaged areas. In conjunction with a foreign and strange, giving all of itself College, Kedron Park Teachers' College, radi organised Brisbane wide clean.up to everything it had dreamt. Mt Gravatt Teachers' College, and the operation, U.Q.U. was designated as Queensland Institute of Technology, it communications centre for the St. a flower grew in a garden near a river, was decided to launch a Student Flood Lucia area. The President of U.Q.U. and awoke to a quite pale blue sky. ReliefFund. became the St. Liicia area controller, sunrise. together with Mr. Bob Brownhig, a CE. continued on page 4. cont. top third column PAGE 2 THE RHINOCEROS

LISTENING IN THE SOLZHENITSYN CASE: "HOW MUCH WENT INTO PORN­ on loan from the Contemporary Seat of Warringah in December, '72, DOUBLE STANDARDS. OGRAPHY, COMRADE PORTER?" Arts Society. The films will be both she received (with three other candidates) colour and black-and-white, and the highest WEL score in N.S.W. During B^^*f screened in the Schonell Theatre in 1973 she was Deputy National Convenor Queensland's legislative assembly, as conjunction with normal programmes. of the AustraUa Party and in this is often remarked upon by visitors capacity was part of a peace delegation from politically more sophisticated The first fUm of this series (financed of three which was invited to North lands, is not the place to go to enjoy by shops in the Union Arcade) should Vietnam to inspect the damage after the cut and thrust of political debate. be ready in eariy March; yet assistance the infamous Christmas '72 bombing by Indeed the cow cockles and muggees is urgently needed. Particularly if you the Americans. down at George Street rarely raise the may have any 16mm camera equipment standard of their, parliamentary and/or are experienced in some aspect This is the second time the AustraUa repartee above that oi a slanging of film production. matchi Party has stood a woman as No. I for the Senate in N;S.W. In 1970, So when the member for Toowong, Interested persons should contact Bill Diana Ward stood and some say would Charles Porter, stood up in the house Heron (night: 99-6206) or contact the have won had not the A.L.P. directed at the end of last year to give his Union President, Jim Varghese. their preferences to the D.L.P., ensuring opinion of the University of Queens­ Jack Kane's election. However, Bridget land Act Amendment BiU it was not was disappointed that her selection was surprising that he should proceed to A QUESTION OF BALANCE: regarded as a victory for Women's attack the students union, which most, Liberation and therefore newsworthy. if not all, government members are CAMPUS SILLY SURVEY She preferred to think of herself as convuiced is controlled by "reds" and Failure to answer certain searching 'just a person'. "bolshies". questions on a recent campus-wide Porter began by asserting that in silly survey proves an inability to addition to "normal" union activities drink refectory meat pies or mouldy "The Soviet Authorities are harming the union "conducts lar^ catering, JOURNALISM TEXT BOOK green relatives, according to an un­ the image of their country, and of commercial, and cultural activities, if known source in union executive URGENTLY NEEDED. socialism, by such actions. They, in one may refer to what is done in the circles, whose name is J.C. "the fact, help the anti-Soviet campaigners Schonell theatre under the terms of and opponents of detente who use such oracle" Goosehead. "The Practice of JournaUsm" by DODGE cultural activities". With the weight of and VINER, is set as a text for the subject indefensible actions for reactionary experience obviously weighing heavily purposes. The ui\just and senseless Several of the abovementioned questions Journalism lA and IB. It is doubtful on him, he complained: "1 think it is a whether suppUes will be available before persecution of Solzhenitsyn is seized little rough to expect youngsters who were: upon by people with strangely double 24(c): "Have you found it difficult November, 1974. The baok is an integral have just moved into their earlier 20's part of this course, and Charies Stokes, the standards, who remain silent about, or to carry such responsibilities". And to read foreign language even support persecution of political publications upside-down while lecturer concerned, is very anxious to have who does Porter think would be better second hand copies made avaUable. prisoners by fascist regimes such as those suited to handle these responsibilities? laughing hysterically?" of South Vietnam, Indonesia and Chile, That august body of reaction, the and and support mhuman violence against university senate. Good thinking 63(a): "Do you have a tendency to Should you have copies you don't need prisoners in Australian jails. Charlie. distribute half-hundred weight anymore, please contact the University gas-operated curricular passion- Bookshop immediately. At one stage in his speech Porter fruit to low-income whales?"" Laurie Aarons, mentioned that last year's union National Secretary, budget had amounted to over However, the answer fo these silly "SOMETHING'S HAPPENING BUT Communist Party of Australia. $142,000. This prompted an inter­ questions (and many more) won't YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, jection from Geoffery Chinchen: "How be answered if you phone 711611 ext. DO YOU, MR. JONES?" much went into pornography?". 15, and you certainly won't find out JOURNALISM STUDENTS - Replying to his colleagues' dorothy- what happended.in the notorious stone- SEMPER STAFF dixer. Porter said: "The honourable henge stockholder's revival of 1824 or In his latest utterance on Omega, Fed­ member raises a question that perhaps how to exacerbate people made etirely eral Transport Minister "Chariie" Jones, gives eveiy indication of having Approximately fifty Journalism 1A perturbs many people. I do not know of sandstone. More next issue. how much went into pornography. not the faintest idea of what Omep students have expressed interest in is reaUy about. working in some measure for Semper However, I know that over $10,000 J.P.G. Floreat during 1974. This notice is goes into publications, and 95 per cent for you. On Saturday, 9th March, in of that money would be used for the "I now go further than my original the J.D. Story Room of the main production of Semper Floreat. I think BRIDGET GILLING - FIRST AUST­ position of strongly favouring an Aust­ Union Building at 1.00 pm there will many of us in the chamber, and many RALIA PARTY SENATOR ? raUan station to complete the Omega be a meeting to discuss anything and in the outside community, would network", he is quoted as saying. everything. An agenda of sorts has regard* that publication as having been "I believe we have a positive rc­ been drawn up to facilitate minimal for quite a few years not only an sponsibiUty to provide the station". confusion. absolute waste of time but a very deplorable waste of money. Let us Or perhaps Mr. Jones does know what's Please make every effort to attend; hope that this situation does not going on, and, reaUzing the con- . those unable to should contact the continue." Sorry to disappoint you sequences of the Australian public 1974 Editor at some stage, bearing Charlie but we're back again for " finding out, has adopted the poUcy of in mind however that from this another twelve months: deliberate misinformation. Saturday meeting will come the basic Peter Murphy. staff organization for the entire year To assist the Minister to understand of publication. the impUcations of this project for AustraUa, the Association for Inter­ UNION COUNCIL REPORTING - national Co-operation and Disarmament Note: This does «o/imply that only FINANCE - AICD (NSW), has just pubUshed those who can contribute some regular a new study of Omega's role in service should attend: a baisic staff American nuclear strategy entitled:: organization' includes occasional On 21st February, the second meeting of the 63rd Union Council took place; "Omega, Poseidon and the Arms contributions of either news/features/ Race - Why Omega is an Aggressive War lay-out assistance/graphic artistry. foUowed on 26th February, by the Budget Session of the 63rd Union Council. Base". P.EVERETT CHICKEN FUCKER Several aspects of these meetings are This paper, the result of an intensive STRIKES AGAIN - AND OUT! of significant interest to Union study by the Stop Omega Research members, particularly in the area of The fact that Gordon Barton,.Natioh"hl Group in Melbourne, argues that finance: the AustraUan Union of Convenor of the AustraUa Party will not Omega is crucial to recently reported Despite heights of humour reached rarely Students membership fee rise, the be Number One on the A.P,'s Senate shifts in US nuclear strategy before in the aonals of absurdity, you financial straits of the U.Q. Union and Ticket in N.S.W. received some publicity desiped to achieve a firststrik e won't be reading an article submitted the 1974 Budget. Dale Martin (Union recently. However, the fact that he is capabUity. If this thesis is correct. for publication by the above-named Treasurer) will be interviewed in a StiU on the senate ticket and stUl Nation­ Omega not only makes AustraUa a caapus observer. However, I wish to future issue on these matters and al Convenor of the Australia Party did primary nuclear target - it also make these points, student chicken more. Watch for itl not. involves us in an attempt to under­ fucker; mine the present fragile stabUity of the The ticket now stands with Number Superpowers' global nuclear terrorism. (a) if all you say about this university ASSISTANCE NEEDED FOR I: Bridget GUling 2: Gordon Barton is true, observant and intelligent UNION FILMS 3: Michael Donland. As the AustraUa Copies may be obtamed from AICD students will discover it for them­ Party can only hope to get one for $1.00, including postage. (Trade selves; and In order that services and activities Senator elected in N.S.W., Bridget and bulk order discounts available). available to members of the Union may GilUng is the one most Ukely to become Sydney postal address: (b) they won't be persuaded by an be utiUzed to maximum advantage, work the A.P.'s first elected Senator. outpouring of such irrational is currently being undertaken to produce P.O. Box C327, Clarence trivia and superficiality. five on-minute 16mm films publicising She was AustraUa Party candidate Street, Sydney. NSW 2000 such services. Produced by Ian Allen, m the Mosman by-election in July, 1972, a member of the Brisbane Film-maker's gaining an unprecedented A.P. vote D.F. Co-operative, with lighting equipment (14%). When she stood in the Federal NEXT ISSUE: MARCH 2U 1974 ITEM PAGE 3

SUNDAY SUN 11 th November 1973 VARSITY BOSS LIVED AS NOBODY PROFESSOR John Coleman is back at his desk at Haverford Uni­ '••ROM RICHARD ['ESTRANGE IN NEW YORK versity in Philadelphia. And he's convinced and casual clothes. do when we'd rim out of fortable life at Haver­ "I knew I couldn't tion of an employee un­ be's £-aiiier to do a much Coleman, who wand­ some critical supplies" ford — of not befaig able face working in one of less he works as an em­ better Job as President ered ovei- much of Professor Coleman, who to get a job when he had those so-caUed nursing ployee" he said. of the University because America durhig his at­ is also chahman of an little or no money and homes, "A well-to-do man he took three months off tempt to find his own important Philadelphia faced the prospect of "Yet I had to force simply cannot under­ lo find out how ordinary country, remembers be­ bank, said, not eating and sleeping myself to apply fgr worit stand what It's like to be people live. ing snubbed and cheated "I didn't even get a out. at one of them and It out of work unless he He worked as a cook and most of all unap­ thank you for my ef­ "I remember how I was grim and shabby himself has been out of in a hamburger shop, a preciated. forts." felt when I was rejected and I left. work. ditcn digger and a gar­ He found out what it for a job" Professor "I told myself the job He still remembers Coleman said — nothig "A boss win never ap­ bage man. is Uke to be a nobody the teiTor—even though requhxjd someone preciate the worth and Fot a lot of the time In the richest country on that he liad never in his strong:er and kinder. he knew he could always life been rejected for value of the men and be was simply a mem­ earth. escape back to hts com­ "In fact tlic job would women who work for ber of the great unan- What the experience anything until he be taken by somebody him until he has hhn- ployed in a world totaUy plimRed into the work­ else who could get noth­ taught him was to see aday world. self experienced being florelgn to his normal en- the worth of his fellow ing better." unappreciated, not irtronment of ivy-covered human beings more "Fhst 1 Dlamed It on wanted and treated like tialls of learning, a 16- clearly. the state of tlie economy, Value a nobody," room home and a ward­ He Insists that he is then I began to question Coleman said tlie robe of expensive suits more appreciative of my own worth. single thhig which upset others because he now him most was the 'tragic knows a little of what relationship" between it Is like to be always the boss and the bcsfied. on the short end of life's "The boss will never stick. understand the contribu­ No thanks "I know how I felt in that hamburger restaur­ ant when I was running around trying to make

MONKEY BUSINESS

A RELUCTANT SCROOGE REFORMS

Last year, Semper Floreat did a intransigence, the Clerks brought the had no award coverage they were not With the publicity from the Semper frontpage story on the attempts by the matter before the Industrial Commis­ entitled to the compensation rights article and by lobbying the MLA's Federated Clerks Union to obtain sion to have it settled" by arbitration. accorded under the Wotkers Compen­ down at George Street, the Clerks have award coverage for members of then- In the case which began before sation Act. At the time of writing the now got the riglit to establish an union employed as clerical or adminis­ Commissioner Pont on the Sth April, Semper story, the Act had been award, but this whole charade need trative officers at Queensland 1972, the admuiistration argued that amended- twelve months previously but not have wasted anybody's time from university. they had jurisdiction over all university the university still hadn't brought their the Industrial Commission down had it The dispute between the Clerks employees. Legal opmion sought by own compensation payments into line. not been for the administration's Union and the umversity over this the Clerks supported this view so the hidebound nineteenth century attitude issue, which has dragged out for nearly Clerks didn't pursue the case further. In February last year, the university of "we won't bargain with the four years, has finally been resolved. Defeated on a legal point, the union senate finally decided that it was no workers". Is that what they teach Following an admendment to was left with a situation where the longer opposed to the granting of an them in business administration? section 34 (1) (iv) of the University of university could fix salaries and award. When it heard of this change of Queensland Act, the Industrial conditions vhtually as it liked and the heart, the Clerks union approached the Commission now has the jurisdiction union's members had no right of administration and suggested that to draw up awards for all employees of redress; all the university had to negotiations should be opened to the university. observe was 1965 award standards. In determine the terms of the award. reply to criticisms of this sort, the But the administration still wasn't deputy vice-chancellor asserted: "The satisfied. No, they said, we're not salaries and conditions of employment going to talk to you till the admend- provided by the university of Queens­ ments to the University of Queensland land are far above the standard g-anted Peter Murphy, The struggle by the clerks to get by the average good employer and Act are passed. this seemingly innocuous alteration is above that granted in other clerical uistructive in WghUghting the conser­ awards." vative and troglodyte nature of the administration at this university. ENVIRONMENT ACTIVISTS When a Clerks Union official came CAMPUS PHARMACY to Semper in the middle of last year Shoppinp Centre complaining of the administrations The Australian Union of Students has Univcrsily of Queensland This however 1 found was far from ST. I-UCIA actions over this question of award set aside approximately $6,000 to assist Telephone - - - 70 1509 coverage, we agreed to do a story on the truth. National wage rises, and environmental action groups or individ­ it. I found then, researching the story, public service increases had effectively (Inturiiul GK82) ual activists in projects this year. It is PROMPT PRESCRIPTION SERVICE that two years previously an Industrial been withheld from sections of the AGENT FOR hoped that the money can be divided Commissioner, R. H. Tait, had directed staff such as research officers and COSMETICS PliRFUMES the university that an award should be examination supervisors. I heard of between several groups or individuals, Revion I'abcrpc drawn up along pubhc service lines and examples of patronage because the but It may be allocated for just one pro­ Cyclux Dana that the university had ignored this promotional rights of union members ject. Grant applications are invited and Siciner Lanvin direction. hadn't been protacted adequately by ,Mas I'^i'lor Lincomc When this attempt at conciliation the administration. should be sent to: The President, AUS, I'llOTOl'INlSlllNt; 97 Drummond Street, Carlton, Vic, 24 Hour lilack and While failed because of the administration's Further, because union members I'roinpl f'oloiir Si;rvii'c 3053. Telephone 347 7433 PAGE 4 LOCAL AFAIRS

THE GREAT FLOODSYDNEY . — The Federal Government sei up yesterday c/m a $2,500,000 national disaster organisation which will 19/2 draw heavily on the resources of the armed forces. The organisation, to be' discussed In the next few The Cabinet decision The Australian Civil' weeks with 8tate Min­ Implements a promise Defence School at Mount isters, win replace the mad•e by Mr, whitla-'It! m in Macedon, Victoria, will current civil defence or­ his policy speech for the be e.':panded' to include ganisation. December 2 1972 Federal training for and research In the rest of this fi­ election. into national disasters. nancial year, the new He said then Labor be­ Mr.: Bamard said .he body will be allocated al­ lieved that the crippling believed the armed ser­ most $1 milllbn to get or­ effects of natural dis­ vices could play a more ganised. asters like droughts, positive role I The •Prime Minister floods, fires, and cyclones He said that. In par- (Mr, Whitlam) said last must be minimised. ticular, the services night the new body "We shall establish a should be Involved with would put emphasis on national disaster orpan- other authorities in the the threat of floods, isatlon to handle these community in the plan­ bushfires, and other dis­ crises with speed and ef­ ning and precautionary asters. ficiency," he said then. stages.

'THE ARMY POTENTIAL WAS NOWHERE NEAR FULLY USED'

On the Thursday before the major personnel carrier at each CivU Defence flooding (24th January) the Army was centre could have been made available aware of the serious situation develop­ bearing in mind, however, that while ing, and although no briefing had the CivU Defence has a good broad taken place, various commanders were communications network, there is Uttle 'ready to roU'. With some 4,000 sophistication on a local basis. regular troops and 2,500 citizen Speaking for a greatly mcreased FRED SCHONELL DRIVE - 'GIVE WAY' TO OTHER SWIMMERS MiUtary Force soldiers, not to mention MUitary involvement in future disaster some 500 trucks which could ford situations, the above mentioned officer water up to 5 feet deep and some 50 pointed out that the Army's command continued from page 1. fully amphibious vehicles, a sizable system is in fact not only 'overequiped portion of furniture, equipment and with communications' but has greater The President of A questionaire has been devised, along records lost during the floods could flexibUity and training than any U.Q.U. was appointed as convenor of the same Unes as that for the Univer­ well have been saved. civilian agency. Training involves three this flood fund. The rationale behind the sity Loan Assistance Scheme, in order Such is the opinion of a rankmg basic factors which could havtf been Fund was that existing flood relief was to give aid to those students who officer understandably dismayed by and could be put to much use in unable to cater for specific student reaUy require it. At this stage, it is the disorganization of reUef work by similar circumstances: (a) the abUity to needs, such as loss of text books, not possible to ascertain the exact both the Army and CivU Defence, Not ascertain the facts; (b) a capacity to additonal aids, rented accommodation number of students requiring a great deal could have been done, he make decisions on the facts; and (c) and the like. It is hoped that the various assistance, although over 30 students agrees, during the floods; yet as the act on those decisions. A.U.S. constituencies in AustraUa will have so far appUed. The five waters were rising the Army was As it happened, little occuned m contribute to this Fund. Brisbane student unions are utUised to Uttle advantage. For the way of miUtary uivolvement before coUating detaUs regarding those example, their sophisticated communi­ the Tuesday as the flood waters began On 12-14 February, Mr. Jim Varghese students requiring assistance through­ cations system might have solved the to subside. visited Melbourne, Adelaide and out Brisbane's Tertiary Institutions, problems the CivU Defence network Sydney. With the very able help of and wUI diortly begin Uieir encountered (see box). One army D.F. Neil McLean, he successfuUy addressed aUoca tions. two A.U.S. Regional Conferences in Melbourne and Sydney on the Student Flood Relief Fund, and student leaders A TELEGRAM ARRIVES AT THE civil defence / communications / military s/m 10th february in these respective states have decided to BRISBANE RED CROSS They sometimes lacked launch various forms of fund raising the power to commu­ nicate with someone "There was rIouM during their respective orientation weeks. RED CROSS SOCIETY OF CHINA Estimates or flood about who was In rnni.rni, damage costs vary be­ three metres away, he and I feel the Civil De­ PEKING: tween $.50 million and said. fence Is the obvious hndy 1200 million. The total me Local Government to take charge of similar In Adelaide, Mr, Varghese addressed LEARNING OF THE RECENT FLOODS bin can't be worked out A";soclatlon pre^Jldent . disasters," Said Mr. Bor­ first year Orientation Week students yet because vast areas (Or. F. A Rogers, of lal. IN QUEENSLAND AND OTHER STATES are still under water. ^ Sianthorpe) called for at Murray Park C.A.E. The response OF YOUR COUNTRY RESULTING FROM But the organisation was overwhelming: we received a cheque But experts say that the communlca'ions had to be updated, he CONTINUOUS HEAVY RAINS AND with better commu­ weaknesses that had said. for $374.50 from them. The three CAUSING GREAT LOSS TO THE IN­ been revealed lo be In­ "So far we've been nications and equipment, vestigated as a CivU De­ other campuses m Adelaide are also HABITANTS OF THE AFFLICTED much of this could have trained for a wartime actively raising funds for the appeal. been saved. fence exercise. emergency," he said. AREAS THE RED CROSS SOCIETY ,;Tf Queensland's com­ In all, the whirlwind trip for the , OF CHINA EXPRESSES ITS DEEP Civil Defence head­ munications can be com- "We spent a lot of time quarters in Brisbane had calculating radioactivity Student Flood Appeal was quite CONCERN AND SYMPATHY. pletely dislocated by and how to dig shelters, successful. only three telephone floods, it shows how vul­ WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR CORD­ lines. All were temporar­ nerable we would be in and many people left the IAL SOLICITUDE TO YOUR ily out of action after the the event of attack by organisation because emergency started. they felt there was noth­ In U.Q.U. itself, money was being SOCIETY AND THROUGH YOU TO another country," he ing of use to do. coUected in Orientation Week. A THE INHABITANTS OF THE This has now been re­ sa

• 4 THE SCENES BELOW ARE OF THE MACQUARIE STREET AREA OF ST. LUCIA JUST DOWN FROM THE UNIVERSITY

^"''p^l^'^.^':;] BEFORE THE FLOOD RISES )URING THE DELUGE AFTER: CLEANING UP LIFE SCIENCE PAGE 5

APPROACHING YOGA

INTRODUCTION in ancient India by aU reUgions and philosophies as sine qua non for the The foUowing article is an attempt achievement of perfection and self- to debunk some popular miscon­ mastery. LUcewise today the person ceptions about Yoga. who sincerely wishes to progress in Ufe The inroads of all and sundry views cannot bypass the yogic techniques. on this ancient science into the In Us simplest and most practical community and in particular the form Yoga is that way of Ufe which student community, has caused some endows perfect health and leads to the. concern among those who wish to see attainment of peace of mind and Yoga understood and applied in its permanent well-being. The ancient and pure and traditional form. modern Yoga authorities - whose The failure of the student and knowledge of the subject derives from academic community to recognise its practise and direct experience - Yoga as a system of total education insisted that the sincere and consistent based on the classic Eightfold path of adherence to the yogic disciplines Yoga expounded by Patanjali (200 eventually guarantees that all the goals B.C), has prejudiced the proper under­ of life are achieved. In this day and standing and application of the subject. age when aimlessness, frustration and failure haunt our daily lives, this This article was written by Mr, assurance is of profound significance. Michael Myer, the President of the Yoga Society at Melbourne University The adherence to and practise of a in coUaboration with Miss Janet yogic way of life requires the AUamby, a research student m the acceptance and adoption of an ethical Psj'chology Department, who recently code of Uvmg, the gradual training of wrote a dissertation on 'Psychology the body through a graded system of and Yoga'. Miss AUamby is also the physiological practices known as Secretary of the Yoga Society. asanas, the control and regulation of The article is based upon the the vital energies of the body, the fundamental axioms underlying the elimination of emotional disturbances, subject and contained in Patanjali's the development of concentration and Yoga Sutras, upon which all finally the subUmation of the selfish to subsequent traditions and schools of an altruistic outlook on life. This Yoga have been based. The Sanskrit system of total education is known as terminology has for the most part been classic Yoga and is derived from the left out for the sake of clarity of Yoga Sutras or Yoga Teachings of understanding. PatanjaU (approximately 200 BC), who is accepted by ancient and modern Yoga authorities as the expounder of the basic system of yogic techniques WHAT IS YOGA? and principles, upon which aU subsequent systems have been based. Yoga is the cream of India's cultural heritage to mankind. It is held by the The teacliings of Yoga require that Yoga authorities to be archaic wUh its the endeavour to improve oneself roots dating back 6,000 years to the through this system be made integraUy very dawn of Indian civilization itself. and not be foUowing it in its separate Over time it evolved through gener­ parts for the sake of convenience. ations of patient experimentation and Success in Yoga only comes to those observation into the perfect science who foUow it. as a way of life. and art of heaUhy Uvmg. Therefore the ancient texts refer to Yoga as a tool with which a person can achieve In Us appUcation the Yoga system perfect health, and transform the embraces many diverse sciences and THE FOUNDER OF THE YOGA INSTITUTE OF BOMBAY ignoble personaUty traits into that aspects of education. At the physior lopcal level it encompasses biology, SHRI YOGENDRAJI which is noble. physiotherapy, sanUation, physical The final goal of Yoga according to hy^ene nd physical education. At the this 6,000 year old tradition is the psychological level it pertains to liberation (kaivalya) of man from his psychotherapy, mental hygiene and state of ignorance, and insight mto his psychosomatics, whUe at the spiritual true nature. To achieve this Yoga level it involves intuition, ethics and developed a comprehensive system of the insight into one's true nature. The techniques and principles which faUacy of most foUowers and teachers represent a method of total education. is to isolate one of these aspects and From its very origin Yoga has been claim it to be the whole science. absolutely democratic in its application Today Yoga is even confused with for it has been avaUable to everybody gymnastics, miracles, superstitions, no matter what his station or standing reUgious ritualism, or magic, when in in life. For this reason Yoga is fact it is the most rational and useful considered by the ancient and modern system of education for the mmd and Yoga experts to be a universal science. the body. The fact that there are over one Its techniques are beneficial to aU hundred and ten definitions of Yoga regardless of reUgious beUef, race, QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY YOGA SOCIETY has caused much confusion and colour or sex, and its therapeutic merit ambiguity as to its true meaning. offers practical and efficient solutions Academically speaking Yoga derives to many chronic psychosomatic from the word yuj meaning to unite or ailments such as asthma, high blood Three Australian Universities at training teachers. Shri Vijayadev bind together. Interpreted rationally in pressure, hypertension, spinal disorders present provide Yoga education under Yogendra, the co-principal of the Yoga Yoga the idea of unity denotes the and digestive complaints which meance the auspices of their respective Yoga Education Centre Melbourne, is a perfect harmony of body, mind and the modern man's physical health. Societies. These are at Latrobe. member of the Governmg Council of spirit. Yoga is basicaUy a practical science. Monash and Melbourne University m the International Board of Yoga. The Its benefits to the individual and the Victoria, The teaching activities began International Board is the official community accrue in direct proportion in 1965 at Melbourne University and international body of Yoga recognised As weU as being defined in a to the wilUngness to foUow its sicne that time 2,000 students have by the India Government. multitude of ways. Yoga has been recommendations under the guidance received instruction and benefited from The inaugural meeting of the associated with various schools of of quaUiled teachers. The would-be the classes. The Societies pioneered the Queensland University Yoga Society philosophical thought and reUgions student must recognise Yoga as some­ classes in Yoga education to supple­ wUl be held on Thursday, 21st March throughout its history such as thing to be practised not something to ment the type of education offered by at I.IO p.m. in the J.D. Story Room. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and be theorized about. academic courses. Class times and locations will be Vedanta. However, Yoga is not a "Yoga is a phUosophy that is not The Societies retain the guidance decided subsequent to this meeting. reUgion though its basic techniques founded upon unsatisfactory and co-operation of those teachers The first lecture for 1974 wiU be given have been used by many reUgions and theories as are so many other whose knowledge and teaching by Mr. Brian McCarthy on Friday Sth philosophical schools to assist in theh phUosophies of the worid; on the standards are of the highest possible AprU at 1.10 p.m. in the Abel SmUh endeavours. The tradition of Yoga contrary, It is intensely practical, mtegrity and authenticity consistent Lecture Theatre and Shri Vyayadev techniques and principles, however, offering a most exhaustive course of with the yoga tradition. AU teachers Yogendra wiU be visiting the campus have remained unchanged down consbructive integral education." taking classes for the Societies are fuUy later in AprU. Inquiries regarding through the ages for they have been qualified teachers from the Yoga enrolments can be made by caUing scrupulously handed down from Shri Yogendra, Founder-President Institute, Bombay, India, or the Yoga in to "The CeU" below the Relaxation teacher to disciple in an unbroken of the Yoga Institute, Education Centre, Melbourne - the BuUding or may be dkected to Mr. chain which continues to modern Bombay, India, from only two bodies recognised by the Richard Spencer, C/- Clubs and times. These fundaments were accepted "Yoga Essays". International Board of Yoga for Societies Office, Students Union. PAGE 6 ITEM

THOMAS AQUINAS

March 7th, 1974. is the 700th anniversary of the death of Thomas To (ruth, it seems to us, Ufe once was After Dipping Into tlie Aquinas, probably the major Christian nearer, theologian of the entire medieval The world ordered, inteUigences clearer. Summa Contra Gentiles period. Wisdom and knowledge were not yet divided. One of his greatest works is Ibe They lived far more serenely, many- "Summa Contra Gentiles" sided. ("Against Those in Error", alter­ Those ancients of whom Plato, the natively titled: "On the Truth of Chinese, the CathoUc Faith"). Relate their incandescent verities. Whenever we entered the temple of Aquinas, This poem, by German novelist, The graceful Summa contra Gentiles, Herman Hesse, is reprinted from bis A new world greeted us, sweet, mature, 1946 Nobel Prize winning work A world of truth clarified and pure. "Tbe Glass Bead Game" (Das Glas- There aH seemed lucid. Nature charged perleinspiel). with Mind, Man moving from God to Him, as He designed. The Law, in one great formulary bound, Forming a whole, a stiU unbroken round. But we who belong to his posterity Seem condemned to doubt and irony. To journeys in the wilderness, to strife. Obsessions, and longings for a better Ufe.

But if our children's chUdren undergo Such sufferings as ours, they will bestow Praise upon us as blessed and as wise. We wiU appear transfigured in their eyes, For out of our lives' harsh cacophonies They will hear only fading harmonies. The legands of an anguish often told. The echoes of contentions long grown cold.

And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt, and question most, these, it may be, WiU make their mark upon eternity. And youth wiU turn to them as to a feast. The time may come when a man who confessed His self-doubt wiU be ranked among the blessed Who never suffered anguish or knew fear, Whose times were time of glory and good cheer, Who lived like children, simple happy lives.

For Ul us too is part of that Eternal Mind Which throuj^ the aeons caUs to brothers of its kind: Both you and I wUI pass, but it survivi

THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT FREE Hoschulefurmusik there - sposored by events, etc") includes visiting pianist CONCERT SERIES the German Government as part of an Ruth Nye, Australian-bom but now Uvicg academic exchange scheme. She plans and working in London. Ms Nye left to study German educational theory Melbourne in 1963 to study with Claudio Marion Woodyatt (piano) and Greg and practice as weU as continue her Ariau (who incidentaUy is comuig to Massuigham (tenor) gave yesterday piano studies and further her interest Brisbane later in the year and an mterview (6th March) the first in this semestei's \n chamber music. with him may appear in 'Semper') in New series of lunchtune concerts - their She does intend, and wants to return and York and made her European concert debut programme: Mozart, Beetiioven, Faure teach here, and should contribute much at Wigmore HaU in 1965. and Debussy. to the rather gradual growth of music Organised by the music department, these in Brisbane schools. HopefuUy music wUl So there you are. Space doesn't permit concerts wUl take place every Wednesday become a less peripheral part of the us to elaborate further - except briefiy, of semester at 1.10 pm in the Abel Smith curriculum than it is at the moment. to mention two other visiting British lecture theatre. performers: Kathleen Crees (harpsichord) Tom Fommerel, also a music department and John Clegg (piano) who wUl be Marion graduated last year from the graduate and weU-known hi Brisbane now givui'g lunchtime concerts in second University Music Department where as a pianist, is scheduled for a lunch-time semester. AU concerts she concentrated on music education appearance on May 22. He leaves soon are totaUy and completely free, so we and yesterday's was probably her last after for Britain to make his Wigmore HaU trust you'll come along. pubUc appearance for some time; debut. she leaves today for Hanover to take up a 12 monUi scholarship at Ih; And, tiie list of performers (see "coming J.G. marion woodyatt ON CAMPUS PAGE 7

ORIENTATION WEEK Dear Sir, WhUe nosing around Orientation for students of Australian Foreign Week I had the misfortune to have a PoUcy to decide whether Uberal particularly nasty piece of pornography strategists were emulating Hitler or Union President, Jim Varghese speaking at an thrust into my unsuspecting hand. anticipating Monty Python. It aU seems Action for World Development Forum 20th/2/1974 TUled 'The Liberals are Coming' it so ludicrous in retrospect that it seems seemed to set out that 'the majority of a real pity that all those Asians had to THE PRESIDENTIAL ORIENTATION ADDRESS 18/2/1974 students are opposed to violence, get MUed in the process. terrorism, communism, and anarchy' So now we have another band of As I look at you, caUed "Freshers" Union are a dedicated few who are not to mention beUeving in 'demo­ heroes ready to do battle with another by the University administration and ready to face the spectre of cynicism cracy, freedom of speech, free enter­ phantom enemy, this time the campus students aUke, I wonder what sort of and disillusionment. They are a group prise and sane 'very large L' Liberal radicals... The new heroes, the thoughts and reactions you are having of persons who ran on the basis of Government. champions of individual freedom who towards we on the dais, community action, Theh keynote was The pamphlett seemed to be beating gave us conscription, the defenders of I stand here m an academic gown, a quasi-spiritual attempt to relate to a drum 'about a small minority of freedom of speech who used their an anachronistic costume from each other in the campus environment leftists and radicals!' yet on looking poUtical police to harass and bludgeon centuries long past. Indeed, I seem to as persons, to break down the idols of around, these near legendary trouble dissenters, the proponents of free stand here in pretentious academia, ideology and revolutionism. In the makers seemed to be about as enterprise who nurtured monopolies rather than relating to you as persons. months and years ahead of you, you numerous as the hordes of Asians, every where, are looking for a new While apologizing for such an wUl be approached and cajoled by communists and God knows who else image. impression, I think it would be a pity various persons and groups of persons who were set to pounce on AustraUa Malcolm Frazer is wearing coloured if you viewed myself and the previous seeking your hearts and minds. There right up until when Nixon foUowed shirts, PhU Lynch is growing his hair a speakers only on the form level... the is one cardinal rule with wliich to view Whitiam to China. Uttle, and even Sir Robert Askin isn't future of man does not rest on the these people. That is, if they don't However we should give some of muttering audibly about running over garments he wears. nurture related ness between persons, the more prominent Uberals the benefit the bastards any more. Things liave What is desperately needed now is a then they are best to be avoided and of the doubt and recognize that they reaUy changed. transforr'ation of the existing system shunned. There is no place for anyone Uke Nixon never saw the Asian hordes I, myself am voting Uberal next into a community of peace, love and who opposes renewal and reconciU- as a real threat but rather reaUzed their election, if only to see BUly Sneeden justice - we cannot go back to nature ation among men. potential for drumming up fear votes carry out his promise to help the or the halcyon trips of the hippie era. WhUe respecting your parents and during election time. Saigon Government regain the Paracel We must face the complexity and the other persons* viewpoints, it is very Remember how the Indonesians Islands. I can almost see the Courier terrifying problems of this highly important that you don't allow your were going to invade, when we were Mail headUnes now 'PRIME MINISTER urbanized century. We must asphe to concern for humanity to be merely sent a letter that never existed asking BLAMES PARACLES ROUT ON retain our humanity within these dismissed as a nasty phase of growth. for us to help the beleagured demo­ UNION FIFTH COLUMN'. Ah just corporate structures, within this highly You must endeavour to make that cracy in Vietnam, and John Gorton think of the possibiUties. industriaUzed society. concern enduring even at the cost of going Waltzing MatUda with Nixon. Yours sincerely, This is where the role of the your career at this University, or your After a whUe it started getting difficuU A moderate student. University is extremely important. The relationship with your parents. University must lead this path; it must Remember, the future of man rests be catalytic in helping man to face the with our generation. realities of the twentieth century FinaUy, when you're inevitably squarely without seeking escape in the wearied by this society which worships drug culture, mystical reUgions or bUnd the empty idols of materialism and career orientation. The UniversUy must nationaUsm, remember these words of continually help in reviewmg society solace which timelessly reverberate and making sure its beaureaucratic through history: apparatus does not choke man's Blessed are the patient; they shall humanity. The University must be the inherit the land. harbinger of community, or the vision Blessed are those who mourn; they of Ufe that encompasses an enduring shaU be comforted. ' concern for our neighbour. Blessed are those who hunger and However, in saying tiiis, let us have thirst for goodness; they shaU have no Ulusions. The path is not one of their fiU.' revolutionary rosebeds, nor of naive Blessed are the merciful; they shall fundamentalism. This path wUl involve obtain mercy. you in Uving out such traumas as Blessed are the peace-makers; they cynicism, bitterness and disUlusion- shall be counted the children of ment. It is in being crucified by these God. experiences, and stiU striving for the Blessed are those who suffer perse­ hope of a better humanity, that the cution in the cause of right; the future of man Ues ... Only thus can kingdom of heaven is theirs. we wUness a resurrected humanity where the concern for MAN is On this note then, 1 welcome you supreme. to the UniversUy and to the Community of Students known as the The University of Queensland Union University of Queensland Union. can on a microscopic level Ught the fires of this community vision. Within Jim Varghese the governmg body of this year's UNION PRESIDENT

duction of capital punishment has any about finance institutions which charge into the community regularly, and effect on the rate of murder or the exorbitant interests and about treating them like human beings and rate of serious assault. We're returning parasitical companies ... about this not Uke animals as we've done m our to the days of the Klu Klux Klan." As whole gamut of activities commonly prisons in Australia. Any pubUc discussion on crune is WUson maintained: the state has no caUed white-coUar crime. We don't talk Porter, who's chairing a government certain tO' throw up extremist and right to take other peoples' lives. about these things. What we talk about commUtee on violent crime, disagreed bloody mmded solutions to deal with "The majority of crime and the is traditional working class crime. strongly with Wilson. Porter asserted the malaise. Flogging, castration and majority of crimmals come from areas White coUar crime damages society a that "prisons should be for punishment hanging have had a good run recently which are referred to as bon^-loser lot more than traditional crime does." and the rehabUative process should in Queensland. areas. Those which have the highest Wilson looked at two further take place at the end of the punish­ One of the leading propoments of rates of poverty, the highest rates of "criminal" areas - that of victimless ment." His beUef that "you cannot such measures, the ebuUient National physical and mental Ulness and the "crimes" and mmor offences - where turn prisons into therapeutic party MLA, RusseU Hinze, put it this lowest standards of Uvmg. If you're pubUc funds seem to be wasted institutions" is an indication of the way: "I've no compunction when it leaUy serious about doing somethuig unneccssarUy. WUson argued that the myopic recommendations we can comes to castration or amputation about crime you have to do something victimless "crimes" - homosexuaUty, expect from his committee. ... and frankly I'd rip 'em out in a about the social conditions which prositution, gambUng, drunkeness - One of the tasks of the committee flash if I had to." produce' so-called criminals. This means should not come within the gamut of wUl be to look at the possibUity of The comment was made in a debate douig aU sorts of what people would the criminal law and that a system of reintroducing the death penalty into on "crime and punishment" with the call idealistic things Uke a less- parole coupled with communUy based Queensland. Porter, who's come out sociologist, Dr. Paul Wilson, and one of competitive school system, better and treatment centres could deal just as firmly in favoiu* of capital punishment, Hinze's parUamentary colleagues, the less structured leisure activities - run adequately and a lot more cheaply was asked by one of the hundred-odd Liberal MLA, Charles Porter. The by the kids themselves - and it means with petty offenders such as public students who'd turned up to listen to debate was held in the SchonneU having better community faciUties drunks, vagrants, and mhior main­ the debate, what he thought of the Theatre during Orientation week. generaUy". tenance deserters. death penalty in the case of a wrongful WUson attacked the fanatical Wilson also highlighted the class bias WUson stressed the need for a conviction? Porter replied: "I accept suggestions of Hinze and his Uk, in our popular conception of crime: greater committment on the part of that as a dreadful price to pay, but a saying: "We're meant to be Uving in a "It always seems amazing to me that society to rehabUitation in our prisons price to pay, for the protection which so-caUed civiUzed community and yet in any discussion of ctlme that we rather than punishment. "We should be is ^ven to a colossal number of we stiU hark back to these sort of concenti-ate on tUngs Uke rape, going over to a system such as the people." Shades of the Klu Klux Klan! Swedish have, centring prisons round measures. Nowhere in the world has it burglary or assauU. You can redefhie Peter Murphy. been demonstrated that the hitro- crime in other ways. You can talk factories, allowing prisons to go out

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AUSTRALIAN GRAPE VARIETIES

INTRODUCTION AUSTRALIAN GRAPE VARIETIES

Wine has never been so popular in Aus­ A. WHITES (1) "RHINE tralia as it is today nor has the search RIESLING" for knowledge of it been more enthus­ iastic and sincere, Beware of the wme labeUed sunply "RiesUng", If you look at the fine Australians, in fact, are now consuming print on the label you may be sur- • almost two gaUons of wine per head prised to find that the wine is in per year. Each day, more and more fact made from either:- people are discovering to their great pleasure that there is more to wine a) Hunter River RiesUng grapes; Uian Uiose terrible "bubblies" b) Clare Riesling grapes; masqueraduig as champagne. Stud­ c) Rhine RiesUng grapes; ents too are discovering the fascin­ d) a combination of aU Uiree ation of wine and this column, which varieties; or wUl be a regular feature of SEMPER e) some other grape variety FLOREAT this year, is designed to further your knowledge of wine and For historical reasons, "Hunter to help you develop a more dis- River RiesUng" is, in fact, Uie name criminatmg and appreciative palate% ^ven to the grape variety which is known as "SemiUorf everywhere else in the world. So, when you buy a TyrreU's Hunter River Rieslmg, UNDERSTANDING AUSTRAL­ or a McWilUams Mount Pleasant IAN WINES. EUzabeth Riesling, you are not buying a "Riesling"at aU, A remarkable change is taking place in Australian wine nomenclature - "Clare Riesling" is the name given the names Claret, Burgundy, Chablis, to a grape variety whose existence White Burgundy, Moselle etc. are was fust discovered in the Clare- disappearing and giving way to the Watervale region of South Australia. name of the grape variety from which It produces an acidic style of wme the wine was made (e.g. MUdara having greater body Uian "Rhine Cabernet Sauvignon). Riesling" wines. it is generaUy regarded as Australia's AustraUa, on the other hand are fuU I for one wUl do everything I can to "Rhine RiesUng'" In Germany and premium quaUty grape for dry red wine. bodied, robust wines the best examples encourage this trend to continue untU France, this variety is simply known As plantings of the grape are Umited, of wliich are Orlando Barossa Hermitage, these bastardizations are banished for­ as "RiesUng" and this is the grape a straight Cabernet wine commands a Leo Buring Reserve Bin Claret and ever. For, when used with reference that produces the great classic whites premium price. Cabernet wines possess Penfolds Kalimna Dry Red Bin 28. to Australian wines, the use of the of the Rhine and Mosel m Gennany a strong fiult flavour with a bouquet word Claret for example) on the label and of Alsace in France. In of freshly crushed grape flowers. Coonawarra (South Australia) wines have is apt to be not only inaccurate but AustraUa, only wine made from 100% Cabernet grapes have a tremendous a purple colour with a high acid content also misleading. "Rhine Rieslinfe" grapes can properly character and, being high in acid and which makes them suitable for long bottle be described as a "Riesling". "Rhine tannin, the wine matures slowly so aging. They have a Strang and rich flavour It is inaccurate because the name Riesling" wine has a distinctive that its fiUl import cannot be savoured with an assertive tannin finish. I recommend 'Claret' is the English generic name floral bouquet and a li^t, delicate untU it has had many years ui the Wynns Coonawarra Hermitage, Redman's for red wines from Bordeaux, France wine, green in colour with a crisp bfattle. Claret, Rouge Homme Claret and Penfolds and inevitably a comparison between acidic fmish. Our best "Rhine Coonawarra Claret. the AustraUan product and the real Riesluigs" come from South Australia In AustraUa, "Cabernet" wine is coinm- thing is invited. Now, there is no and fine readily avaUable examples of only blended with "Shiraz" wine and McLaren Vale (South AustraUa) shiraz doubt that on a value for money this variety are Leo Burings Bin 33 labelled "Cabemet-Shhaz". However, reds are akm to the Hunter reds in basis Australian wines rank with the Riesling, Yalumba Carte d'Or Riesling it is important to note that the flavour and softness, though perhaps best in the world. However, very few and Orlando Barossa Rhine Riesling. character of the wine made from Cabernet being Ughter in body. Hardy's Australian wines compare favoiu-ably grapes varies considerably depending Reserve Bin Clarets and Burgundies with (say) a First Growth Bordeaux FmaUy,we have the blends - good on where they were grown. In my are undoubtedly fine wines from this Red like Chateau Latour which re- examples of which are Hardy's Old opinion, AustraUa's best Cabernets come district. taUs in Australia at between S18 to Castle Riesling (a blend of from Coonawarra in South AustraUa. $30 a bottle. "SemUlon" from the Hunter VaUey, MUdara Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, From the foothUIs of Adelaide comes and "Rhine RiesUng from South Wynns Coonawana Cabernet Sauvignon AustraUa's most celebrated red wine - In any case, why should we seek to copy AustraUa), (black label) and Lindeman's Rouge Penfold Grange Hermitage . Matured Homme Cabernet Sauvignon are some in smaU oak casks prior to bottling, overseas wine styles when we should be and Lindeman 's Bin 23 Riesling top quality examples. this wine defies description. It is a striving to develop wines with a (IsemUlon from the Hunter, joy to drink if you can get hold of a character and flavour of our own. "Clare RiesUng" from Clare, and "Rhuie bottle. I cannot name any retaUer RiesUng" Ifrom the Barossa). These B. REDS (2) SHIRAZ or from whom you can purchase a Grange. Furthermore, it has been a known wines represent a pecv^arly Australian However, Brad Garrett's Bistro (City) occurence at Australian Wine shows white wine style which has appeal to HERMITAGE an d Weis Restaurant (Toowoomba) for the same dry red to win prizes in many wine lovers. feature this wine on their wine Ust at boUi the "claret and "burgundy" This grape variety apparently came from classes. This state of affairs hi^- $8,50 per bottie - and beUeve me, it A. WHITES (2) "SEMILLON" Persia and is now oni of the main red is wortii every cent of that price. Ughts the fact that AustraUan wine grape varieties grown m the Rhone VaUey styles lack uniformity and definition. in France. It is the mam:l red table This is a grape variety (known in the Probably the most fuU-bodied and fruity Hunter VaUey, NSW, as "Hunter wine m AustraUa and grown extensively Hence if you deshe to buy AustraUan m aU wine producuig districts. shiraz reds of AustraUa come from wines with accuracy and confidence, River RiesUng) fliat is used to make Victoria. my advice is that you completely dis­ the famous sweet wine of Sautemes in Shkaz wines possess a mUd fruit flavour France. In Austral la, "SeraUlon" is regard the name of Uie wine style which with the mtensity of its colour, acid and Wines such as Seppelts Bin BW6 Herm^ appears on the label and instead :- primarily used to make dry wines of tannin varying according to the le^on high quaUty particularly if grown m the itage. Chateau Tahbilk Shiraz and in which the grape is grown. Shiraz is AU Saints Hermitage are very distinct­ 1. learn to identify Uie character­ Hunter VaUey. In Uie Hunter, "SemUIon" the principal red grape variety grown m produced a dry and (usually) fuU bodied ive and representative of the quality istics of the different grape the Hunter VaUey in New South Wales of Victorian reds. varieties. wme, yeUow in colour, having little where it produces wines which arc soft and acid, wiUi a soft flavoursome finish round with a deUghtfuL.Ughtness of 2. in relation to the same grape and needing a good 4-6 years in the body. variety, learn to identify Uie bottle to reach maturity. different style of wine produced As they grow older they develop a rich by each wine growing region of Fuie examples of Hunter "SemUIon" intensive flavour whUe stUl being Australia; and (apart from the TynieUs and McWUUams velvety smootii on the palate. NEXT ISSUE: already mentioned) are Rothbury Estate 3. endeavour to famUiarize yourself Dry White, Lindemans Hunter River My favourite red wines from the Hunter (a) "WHERE TO BUY WINE IN with sach uidividual wine maker's White Burgundy, Draytons Pokolbin are Tyrells Hunter River Dry Reds BRISBANE" style. RiesUng and Hungerford HiU Pokolbin (the Private Bins). Tulloch'sPokolbin - a critical and comprehensive survey of RiesUng. Dry Reds, Draytons Bellevue Dry Red, Brisbane Hotel Bottle Departments, Wine As you would appreciate,! this involves Rothbury Estate Dry Red, Reynella Merchants and Wholesalers. many pleasant hour of wine tasting as B. REDS (I) CABERNET Pokolbin Vineyards Dry Reds (from (b) "DOES AUSTRALIA MAKE you work your way around AustraUa, SAUVIGNON Hungerford HUl) and Ltndeman's region by region, grape by grape; to Hunter River Burgundy. GOOD SWEET WINEf help you on your way, let us look at the main varietal types of grapes This variety Is responsible for producing I wUl be looking at AustraUan grown in AustraUa for wlne-makhig. the famous chtrets of Bordeaux, France; The SWxaz wuies of ttie Barossa, South "MoseUes", "Spatlese'^' and "Sautemes". PAGEH

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POST- GRADUATE STUDENTS , DEFINED IN THIS UNIVERSITY AS THOSE WHO HAVE A

DEGREE AND ARE CONTINUING THEIR STUDIES , ARE AUTOMATICALLY MEMBERS

OF THE POST- GRADUATE ASSIOCIATION THE POST-GRADUATE ASSOCIATION HAS

BEEN ATTEMPTING SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1969 TO ESTABLISH BETTER CONDITIONS

ON CAMPUS IN MANY SPHERES OF INTEREST . IN THE LAST 24 MONTHS SUCH

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THE UNION , AND TTS OWN LICENCED PREMISES. NEGOTIATIONS ON THESE ISSUES

HAVE NOW GROUND TO A HALT, AND THE P.G.A. EXECUTIVE REQUIRES NEW

DIRECTION FROM ITS MEMBERSHIP. THUS THERE WILL BE A GENERAL MEETING OF ALL

INTERESTED POST-GRADUATE TO BE HELD IN THE POST-GRADUATE-LOUNGE (FORMERLY

THE MDCED COMMON ROOM) ON WEDNESDAY 13th MARCH AT 5:30pm,TO DISCUSS THE

WHOLE ISSUE , AND ALSO THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE P.G.A.. BEER AND BISCUITS

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A vastly over-rated, overplayed film selves in more subtle garments than the Endgame reviewed by Dolly B.Grunt, production of Sam Beckett's craggy and book. If reports from the United young girl Reagan's deformed, What am I doing here? Who is the off-Broadway hit. The only thing I States are correct in that "people have bloodied body. dog? Will John lose his hang-ups, am certain of is that 1 enjoy plenty of been throwing up", "exhibiting signs The vehicles of modem nihilism and forget Judy, remehiber Dunkirk, naked bodies. And did we get them in of demonic possession", "suddenly satanism may be found in many who leave Merv and Sue and Rick and all this play? ,.., My God, how we got returning to the practice of the will see man only as a biochemical the gang at Beatrice Street and pull them! (At least there were plenty in Catholic faith" - then one must process, a sociological pattern, a his finger out? To pee or not to pee? - the first half). wonder at the emotional and psycho­ psychological conditioning, an these were a few of the questions logical *immaturity of young America, economic unit. posed ruthlessly by the entire cast of And, by the way, what about my anal and the depth of their Catholic faith. Are little Reagan's obscenities and South Pacific, Gone With The Wind fixation? What rubbish! What bias! (But then it may be that the old violent half-trutJis more horrible, more and plenty of nude bodies in Blue Pure excrement! (1 also think fundamentalist, Radio-Church BUly soul-destroying, than the obscenities Light's latest apocalyptic success - Marowitz is a fart. Brook a shit, Graham's teclmique of hellfire and and violent half-truths that were or are Endgame or How / learned to Stop and Grotowski a carbuncle on the brimstone is the right one after all,) the Vietnam War, the Gulag Worrying, Biting My Nails, Taking back-side of the theatre-politic). Not that personal demonic Archipelago, Watergate? Valium and Love Laetitia - Oh, what possession is an impossibility. To the If you wish to see a good honor a beauty - Softbody. What a woman! Oh - Blue Light really want me present reviewer it is a very real movie, perhaps bettet than a What a game little performer! What to tell you (and listen to this - I'm possibility, and one quite Ukely to traditional Frankenstein because it Is a play! What a scarifying indictment getting paid for it) that Endgame is reappear in Western society of the set in surroundings we can relate to of American involvement in Vietnam! a bloody good play - go and see it at present tendency to look for simple more directly, if you are "turned on" What an investigation of the author - the Cement Box on the 14-17th naive solutions to life's problems by gallons of thick green pea soup play - audience relationship! What a March and the 21-24th of March continues. Of its nature demonic being vomited aU over the screen, then lot of money I get paid for writing They would also like to thank the possession seems always to have been by no means miss this one. reviews! and why not? Union and the Administration - if du-ected towards making people lose If you want a serious examination and only if they give Blue Light free belief and confidence in themselves, in of personal evil and its powers in our To reconsohdate - let me explain my gifts, plenty of nude fun, and lots life, in God. In recent centuries the present society - forget it, methodology, hitch-hike to Tasmania, of money. demonic or destructive forces of cast caution to the wuid and re­ Western society have clothed them­ J.M, examine my theatrical roots (what fun we had together!). In fact, let me do anything rather than explain why I Yours with kisses, enjoyed Blue Light's devastating Dolly.

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BOOKS peaceful demonstration in Red Square. AUSTRALIAN CONNEXIONS: ments are born - learned by example McQueen does not attempt to con- from parents and elders and enforced vuice through argument - too often They were protesting the invasion of ABORIGINES, RACE AND RACISM by a negative approach to such issues racist beliefs are based on unreasonable Czechoslovakia by the members of the HUMPHREY McQUEEN in school. Because of their intellect­ assumptions. He says at the outset Warsaw Pact countries. Amongst the penguin books, february 1974 ually influential position, schools should that he believes white Australians to banners raised were "Hands off be educating against racism, not instit­ be racists and will make no concessions CSSR", "For their freedom and ours". The European education system has always utionalizing it. People are now under­ to racist beliefs. Instead he attempts The book is a telling chronicle of how served to enfore the prejudices of the standing the need to rewrite the text­ to show us how racism developed and the Soviet courts of law deal with society of which it is a mainstay. books so that the Australian Aborigines how it is perpetuated today through dissidents - "parasites on the working Nowhere is this more evident than in can be seen as they truly were - fear and ignorance, class" as they were labelled by the the number of hostile, embittered a highly skilled and culturally sophis­ chief prosecutor. The book is not adult Aborigines wJio have suffered ticated group who have suffered Interestmg evidence is documented really easy reading because the author from the insensitivity of white school­ tremendously at the hands of the to show how a group of school is concerned to explain at length the teachers and the cruelty of school white colonists. children had the fear of a non-existent operations of the courts. What is lost children mouthing the racist slurs race inculcated mto them in an experi­ in literary appeal however is more than of their parents. Humphrey McQueen has touched this ment on racial attitudes. When told compensated for by the rigourous problem of re-education in a small that the race was fictitious many pup­ objective analysis of the ramifications White contempt for the Aborigine has book on racism in Australia that ils still had an irrational fear of this of the dissidents actions. been officially nurtured in the hopefully will come to be used supposed race. In another case, The dissidents were charged with educational institutions of Australia, extensively in schools. Written with McQueen illustrates how grossly in­ "hooliganism and disturbing the peace" through a policy of ignorance and white children in mind, it could be sensitive white people can be by even though they took great pains to neglect. The textbooks used by many effective in countering the negativism includmg pictures of a so-called avoid breakuig any laws and even schoolchildren in their formative of conventional school textbooks. scientific display which seemed to though their actions were quite in schoolyears often contain only suggest that the Aborigine is some accordance with the constitution of vague and sometimes hostile refer­ The book has much to offer as an kind of missmg link between white the Soviet Union which guarantees its ences to Aborigines, These books educational aid. Only 60 pages long, it Australians, or modern man, and the citizens the right to peaceful protest. have encouraged little understandmg is not so heavy as to bore a school pupil. apes, In fact the only hooliganism which of the Aboriguie, his lifestyle and The quantity and quaUty of the inform­ took place came from KGB provo­ cultural heritage, or his part in ation combhied with an effective layout McQueen admits to the difficulty of cateurs in tiie crowd who using such Australia's modem history, i.e. since is quite remarkable. Excellent academic writing on racism. As a white person ephitets as "Anti Soviets" "Bloody Captain Cook. At best, Aborigmes sources on Aborigmes have always been he too must accept the truth of his Yids" (the Soviet proletariat is quite have been depicted as somethuig available but were mostly beyond the own statement that all white Austral­ anti-semetic) and "Fascist Renegades" quaint (like the koala) or helpful reach on intellectual understandmg of ians are racist. However, as a white created an ugly situation m which (like Jacky Jacky). school children. This book says aU that person writing for white people, several of the demonstrators were especially children, he has pieced to­ bashed severely; this, of course, was needs to be said at a level children can overlooked by the courts of law. The It is m childhood that racist senti­ appreciate and absorb. gether a book of great educational worth. The book is not an in-depth dissidents were found guilty of study of Aborigines and their culture - "deliberately spreading false and there are many excellent academic malicious slander of a treasonable texts available on this. The emphasis nature". Some were sentenced to jail, of this book is heavily weighted to­ others exiled and the author and one wards white Australia, towards a other person delcared insane and greater understanding of how much placed in a psychiatric ward. we, are responsible for the "Abo­ It is easy for any person in this rigmal Problem" and that it could country to believe that this and worse orobably be more properly deflned injustices are perpetuated in Russia by a "White Problem". the Stalinist Brezhnev regime, the recent exiling of author Solenzhitsyn Wendy Tyson after a hate campaign by the Russina press is yet another example of the PEOPLE'S BOOKSHOP, official attitude to discussion or debate 291 ST.PAULS TERRACE, of any but the most parochial issues, VALLEY, 4006. BRISBANE the basic rationale behuid the TELEPHONE: 52-2929 "excesses (somewhat of an understate­ ment) of the stalmist era is still in marxist bookshop - carries force. selection of materials on It is all too easy for a person in this third world - women's Uber­ country to say "WeU that's Communist ation - ecology - etc. good slavery for you" or some other well selection of rare and interesting worn cold-war cliche. The theory or ideas of Communism have little or pamphlets. nothing to do with the suppression of dissidents in Russia today. Centrali­ RED SQUARE AT NOON zation of power has lead to an NATALIA GORBANEVSKAYA entrenched bureaucracy who have as penguin books, february 1974 httle respect for the truth as they have for the attainment of Communism ai "20th August 1968 at about 11.00 Russia and the rest of the world: this p.m. troops of the U.S.S.R., the Polish power.elite uses such cries as "working Peoples Republic, the German Demo­ class solidarity" and "fraternal obli­ cratic Republic, the Hungarian Peoples gations" to will the people into Republic and the Peoples Republic of complacency and thus retain the Bulgaria, crossed the state boundaries status-quo to their obvious benefit. In of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic many ways the soviet bureaucrats are ... the Presidium of the Central more conservative than their western Committee of the Czechoslovak counterparts. Communist Party considers that the In Australia there was a wave of accomplished act not only contradicts protests recently concernmg the the basic principles of relations expulsion of Solenzhitsyn over the between socialist countries but is a expose of KGB crimes m "The Gulag denial of the basic standards of Archipeligo"; the Courier-Mail international law." immediately started "Red-Baiting" and Statement by the Presidium of the all manner' of neo-fascist groups Central Committee of the Czechos­ (Citizens • for Freedom) leapt onto the lovak Communist Party. bandwagon. Such phenomena are to be exposed as empty polemics unless they "The Soviet Government and the deal with the fact that the dissidents in governments of allied Countries (the the Soviet Union are a tiny majority. Warsaw Pact) - acthig oil the Most of the lumpen proletariat principles of indersoluble friendship cheerfully believe the lies perpetrated and co'operation and in accordance by the soviet press as indeed their a problem tragedy in three parts with clean words, fully clothed with existing treaty obligations have counterparts in Australia cheerfully actors, and lush ecstasies of mortal sin. decided to accede to the request to believed the lies perpetrated by the order the necessary aid to the fraternal Australian press concerning Vietnam. Czechoslovak people." As the author of "Red Square at WORLD PREMIERE SEASON Noon" vividly discloses the mass of the Pravda 21st August, 1968 people who watched the Red Square SCHONELL THEATRE 8pm. March 20,21,22,23,27, 28,29,30. demo or who later attended court The author of this book is a hearings would have happily dis­ April 1,2,3,4,5,6, relatively little known Russian poet. membered each of the dissidents. On the 25th August, 1968 she and Again it has been my experience that seven other people, amongst them a these people's Australian counterparts J physicist, a philosopher, a student and had the odine deshe during most of the \j& party member yfete involved in a demonstrations m which I have been REVIEWS PAGE 15

BOOKS involved. As -the autlor says however, it does not approach in terms 2^greus' lover). He learns from Zagreus Chenoua. And having achieved "Everythuig dirty and cruel ui our of literary merit. In fact, it is clumsily how he made his fortune, murders him happiness, he retains it m death. history was covered up in the name of composed, though there are some and leaves the country. the people and greeted with roars of extremely well written parts. For Part 2 deals with Mersault's stay in John MacCuUoch popular approval". example, we not only have to put up Prague (chapter 1); the rest of his Though idealism and protest are with the death of Mersault's own journey and his return to Algiers BOOKS REQUIRING REVIEW now somewhat "out of fashion" m a mother, but also that of Cardona, (chapter 3); his departure for the world led by Nixons and Brezhnevs Again the author dwells on the hot Chenoua, where he buys a house and though the "avant guarde" has Algerian sun, the sea, and the beach. (chapter 4); and finally his death The following list contains recent re­ settled into its rather murky niche of The murder of Zagreus parallels that of (chapter 5). leases which arrive at Semper Office slick cynicism it might do well for the arab; a man with a dog is Camus' portrayal of male characters, for review. Any book is available people to reflect on the power of the encountered m both novels; Mereault's as usual, is very good, but he doesn't free to any students/staff member ideal: the motlavation for good action isolation at Chenoua reminds us of handle his women well m "A Happy who will guarantee to submit a review despite the consequences, Mersault in prison in "The Outsider"; Death", We are unconvmced with his for publication hi Semper Floreat. "Discussions about the conse­ and both novels are divided mto two rendering of the 3 women hi the "Key to Psychiatnr" - a text book for quences for the world at large of one party (even the number of chapters are House above the World - was Mersault students, by M.I Sainsbuiy. Published or other of our actions cannot serve as simikr - six and Hve as against five sleepuig with them or wasn't he!? The by ANZ Book Co. 1973. guidance for our actions and behaviour and five). author appears to be embanassed by than is endowned with another and The book suffers from its division the erotic and emotional episodes, "Dictionary of Architectural Science" uitracontrovertible guidance - the into two unequal parts 'Natural Death' which he plays down, and which by Henry i. Cowan. Published by ANZ guidance of his conscience, by and 'Conscious Death', (part one consequently doesn't come across very Book Co. 1973. following which he is certain that what contains hardly more than one-third of well. he does is what he should be doing - the whole). Both parts are divided into The description of the North "A Manual of Clinical Dermatology" by hence the moral principle and guide to five chapters. African landscape in superb:" ... the Petet ]. Ashuist. Publidied by ANZ Book action, - I cannot lf«ep silent." Chapter 1 of part 1 contains the little village with its close-set red roofs Co. 1974, -, , , Leo Tolstoy murder of Roland Zagreus, The other between the mountains and the sea "Racism - The Australian Gxperience • Graham Jones 4 chapters are flashbacks: chapter 2 to overflowed with flowers - roses, Volume 2 - Black versus White" Mersault's ordmary life; chapter 3 to hyacmths, bougainvilleas - and edited by F.S. Stevens. Published by ANZ his relations with Marthe and to his hummed with insects,,.", This typical book Co, 1973 A HAPPY DEATH sexual jealousy; chapter 4 to his long example makes us overlook many of ALBERT CAMUS conversation with Zagreus; and chapter the book's deficiencies. "Realities of Race" - an analysis of the penguin books, february 1974 5 to his encounter with Cardona, the The hero pursues happiness through concepts of Race and Racism, by Keith banell-maker. wealth; finds it eluding him m Prague; R. McConnochie. Published by ANZ In summary: Mersault, an ordinary regauis it with his return to North Book Co. 1973. "A Happy Death" is uncomfortably office worker meets the mvaUd Zagreus Africa, firstly at the House above the Interested? Drop by Semper Office, sunilar to "The Outsider", which. through his lover (who used to be W-orid, -and then m the solitude at First Floor, Main Union Building,

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