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University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 12-18-1973 The Living Daylights 1(10) 18 December 1973 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1973), The Living Daylights 1(10) 18 December 1973, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.1 no.10, December 18 - January 7, 28p. https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/10 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 1(10) 18 December 1973 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.1 no.10, December 18 - January 7, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/10 lY j's T f li I®THE ARMY OF THE R A R E * Richard Beckett beats up the week’s news Control yourself! HIS ISSUE, as suggested by our cover and by the the ubiquitous T Harry Gumboot (p. 3), gravitates around “ anarchy, outlaws, life and other things” . Anarchy is not something that died when Franco’s fascists marched into Bar­ celona in 1939. A lengthy discussion between Noam Chomsky, Colin Ward and Pat Flanagan (p.11-15) suggests that the Idea is alive and well and is emerging through the areas like workers control, free schools and tenants unions etc. The last weeks have seen the Master Builders Association using all tricks pos­ sible to nail down the NSW branch of the Builders Laborers Federation — that gad­ fly of the developers. BLF secretary Joe Owens is on the run, dodging summonses to appear before the industrial court. Grant Evans and Syd Shelton caught up with him and are happy to report Owens is still in fine fettle and thumbing his nose at the developers (p .5). The oil thirsty industrial nations are crossing their fingers and praying that; this week’s Geneva talks over the Middle IXCXJE East situation go sm oothly and reach an amiable situation very quickly. Jeremy TREET RIOTERS TAKE for the circus o f the year. As a matter label childrens nightwear for its ability : Salt discusses the chances (p.6). SNOTE: The American Medical o f interest the health bill was defeated, to withstand flames will com e into : And there are actions of individuals: gggj: Association has ruled that terminal thus ensuring that the suffering poor force from the beginning o f next year. : Jim Hutchins tells why he bulldozed gggg patients should be allowed to die on will never get a decent set o f false From then parents will have to resort; dow n his new house (p.4 ); an anarcho gggg the “ death with dignity” slide rule o f knees. Our bright eyed and bushy to the old boiling bath trick to get rid j feminist and her friends give a male tailed political correspondents also o f their odious offspring. chauvinist his just desserts (p. 5); Syd jigi; life; Mr Denzil Bradley, the director o f Balhorne, an ex egg farmer fed up with the jigg: the Rhodesia Information Service in breathlessly reported that prime minis­ reactionary attitude of the people behind jigg Sydney, has abandoned his powerful ter Whitlam drank from two different rural industry, turned newspaper editor jigg post to return to South Africa; and the glasses o f water during his windup nd some even worse jji; and tried to fight them — a formidable jjjg new government of Papua New Guinea speech. That’s capitalism for you. A NEWS: The South Australian jig task he says (p.4). And then there is gig has banned the sale o f alcohol for a National Parks and Wildlife Service is jjg a requiem for prison escapee Noel Harrison gggg five day period over the christmas-new busily training a dog squad to sniff out (centre pages). jijijj year holidays. What price the barri­ The com et. Last week they said it was O MUCH FOR PARTY LOY­ illegal bird smugglers at Adelaide air- eg; a fizzer. Just to prove them wrong ng cades now? SALTY : Mr Les Bury, the former port. jj: Kohoutek, with the assistance of the sun, Liberal treasurer, after faithfully repre­ added another tw o million miles to its senting the interests o f big business tail. Ian McCausland has devised a game TREET RIOTERS TAKE and his own party for 17 years, has hree cheers for the gig for all to play, a lift out souvenir o f this FURTHER NOTE: The United S been suitably thanked by being dump­ GOOD OLD BOYS: The New gig year’s “ long haired star” . As well as Ian’s jig States government has taken strong T ed by the loyal rank and file from the South Wales branch o f the RSL has jig- prayer to the com et you will have the jig objection to the fact that Australia's preselection ballot for the federal seat predicted that it will become a far igg; privilege of viewing the original graphic jji overseas trade minister, Dr Jim Cairns, of Wentworth. Fittingly enough Mr stronger pressure group next year. The gig masterpieces of Peter Dickie, Martin :•$; has supported the North Vietnamese Bury once represented Australia at the state president o f the league, Mr C. J. gig Sharp, Neal McLean and Ian McCausland. jig government and for saying that Amer- While we are not averse to recycling International Court o f Justice in the Hines, said the growth in strength jigi; jig ica is deliberately sponsoring a fascist graphics, The living daylights was over­ Hague over the recent French nuclear would come from a decision to raise a jigi; takeover in Vietnam as a whole. Dr whelmed with contributions this issue tests in the Pacific. levy for the maximum distribution of gig: gig Cairns has broken some code o f inter- and we tried to incorporate as many ideas the RSL magazine Reveille. Just how gig national decency by stating the obvi- as we could. Some of the graphics on this is going to increase the strength o f gig pages 11 to 15 were sent by the Western :•$; ous. the lunatic organisation is somewhat gg; Australian Anarchist Federation, PO box ERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: The o f a mystery, but at least the NSW jigg 61, Inglewood 6052, for which much Associated Chamber of Manufac­ H m ob believes it will do some good and jigg thanks. We also thank those people who i AISE HIGH THE BARRI- tures of Australia and the Bank of called into the office with kind words and while they’re worrying about such jigg lCADES: Canberra’s new aborig- New South Wales have gleefully point­ good works. great and weighty matters they are in igg jjjj inal parliament, appointed by ed out in a specially conducted survey As our publication day coincides with far less o f a position to bother or- gig that Australia faces a general business that of Christmas and new year we have jig;: God’s own federal Labor government, dinary decent people. gig taken the opportunity to scatter happily igig is upset with its wages. The black slump and a general ruin next year. into the countryside, to return with our jigg members claim they are worth at least One o f the principal reasons for this eleventh issue on january 8, with an jjji $400 a week. Turkish immigrants, business slump, the survey claimed, account of “what we did on our holi­ who are paid considerably less than a was the fact that too many people had H, LET THE BASTARDS STAY igg days” . We invite contributors to submit gig white man, are believed to be objecting jobs. By this reasoning an artificially OTHERE: Twentysix federal MPs igig their own stories of what they did, or of gig: to this unjust slur on their characters. created depression, with thousands out have signed a statement calling for the igig what people we know, love or hate did. o f work, will please the Australian release or immediate trial o f 36,000 iggg Public figures let their hair down on Indonesian political prisoners, being gijig holidays too, and we encourage readers to business world no end, not to mention held without trial for being pink in- gggg spy and report on them over the festive aise the barricades the printing industry, which will have stead o f their natural yellow color, gigi season. EVEN HIGHER: Liberal opposi­ its hands full churning out thousands R The same 26 have not signed any gig; tion leader Bill Snedden lived up to o f dole tickets. Have a yippy yuletide — EDS. petitions about the release o f quite a jigg his usual reputation as a Federal Fire­ few Australians now being held with- jigg ball by signing a massive pile o f Christ­ PS: To the Woodstock Anarchist Feder­ out trial until next year because o f the jigg mas cards as prime minister Gough ation, thanks for the tightly packed en­ OW THE BAD NEWS: Laws festivity known as the annual law gggg Whitlam gave the windingup speech velope of goodies. We intend running Ncompelling manufacturers to recess. gggg those reve lations on brain surgery in the :*x*x*x*:*x,x*:-x,x,x*x,x,x,x,x*x*x*:*x*x*x“x,x.x.x-:*l-:' state o f Tasmania in our next issue. •h*HvXvXv:vXvXvx*XvXv*x*:*x*x*h*x,x,:*x*x,x*Hv The Living Daylights is published every Tuesday by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne, Victoria.
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