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ANTI-DISCRIMINATION 10 OUT PROUD (and writing) 11 CHINESE STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA 12 II- FEROCIOUS REDS 15 GOTHIC ROMANCE IN 3 PANELS 16 ..'V HOLIDAYS AFTER HELL I? UNIPOLY - The Game of Life and Graduation 18
SCHONELL GUIDE 20 .•?k*;: UNION NOTICES AND STUFF 21 DEATH IN THE STUDENT'S UNION ...fMeJfroffi//<7j//ffJto/jWf/;/.'j ... 22 REVIEWS 24 SHOPPING AND LIBERATION 27 WHO'S LANCE? 28 LETTERS, LETTERS, LETTERS 30 SURVIVE OR DIE 32 CELEBRITY STARS with Morrissey 33 MORE UNION BITS 34 TWO GREAT THINGIES! 36 .^Lil 1 t o r 1i a 1
CONGRATULATIONS You've just been fucked over
The bastards. The fucking bastards. The last two days in this Student Union have been the most sickening of my life. In a total oHVi hours of meetings, many of your representatives on Council have done their utmost to stop Rebecca Keys (ALP) Argued against the referendum vote, walked out of die results of the referendum held in 1st .semester from being put into effect And for no other reason but to sa^ve the room lo try and invalidate the meeting, but did their o\^-n cowardly political careers, at the expense of representing and carrying out the wishes of the not actually vole on the question. students. In case you hadn't heard, only one question in the referendum the Union held in the last weekof 1st semester was passed. This was thequestion about whether we wanted the people we voted for to declare their political affiliations, thus allowing us to see what breed of political animal they were. Virtually^every person who was a member of a political party involved in this Union campaigned against the question. The Nationals,' Libs, ALP, Democratic Socialist Party - every one of them. They didn't want you to know who they were, and so they clothed their arguements in appeals to human rights etc, cynically ignoring the rights of the voters. At the Extraordinary meeting of Counci on 11th July a number of "representatives" argued against the Referendum results, claiming that although the YES vote out David Pennisi Voted against the results of the referendum being numbered the NO vote by a simple majority, the question had not been passed because implemented, and walked out of the room allempling the number of Abstensions was greater than the margin between the* Yes and the No. to invalidate the meeting. Other councillors claimed that an "abstain" is not actually a vote - it is merely not taking a stand or expressing an opinion one way or the other. Anyway, whatever the fucking arguments, the fact is that more students actively wanted this change, than actively did not want it. Union President, Jane Lye, stated at Council: , "This has gone through a Referendunii. Stiidents have voted ori it in their wisdo.in or lack thereof. That's your decision. I felt that if any of those three questions had gotten up, there is a burden on Council to manage it. People (on Council) will vote on hbw they feel, rather than recognising how the students voted, and I think that would be absolutely disastrous. We have given them the chance to vote. I would be disgusted if C'.\-\' people blantantly ignored the views of students, although it wouldn't surprise me at Mathew Boland (NAT) all." Voted against the results of the referendum being The councillors who argued against the referendum had another interesting way to implemented. fuck over your rights as voters. Throughout the meeting, as it suited them they would step over an imaginary line in the Council room, and shout out 'Quorum'. If there weren't 12 voting members of Council present when this is called out the meeting is at an end. So they ran over this 'line' and pretended they weren't in the meeting, even though they were 3 feet away from it. When the Acting Chairperson, Nick Ferrett (Liberal Parry), agreed with their right to hide behind this Hne, someone moved dissent in his ruling. Immediately all the deserters jumped back over the line and voted in favour of the chair. They lost anyway. Rebecca Keys, ALP member and Union Trea surer, was one of these people. She later claimed she was actually a hundred metres away from the meeting at the time. A lot of people shouted 'That's not true' and 'Liar' when she said this because she wasn't telling the truth. Rebecca said it wasn't a cynical Mathew Skoien with Ken move "to leave the chamber in order to get your numbers". This allows anybody to McPherson's vote deliberately stuff up the process of a council meeting. When confronted on this Re Argued against the results of the referendum being becca agreed. She said "that'sjust the way it is" and is thus not caring about "The spirit implemented, walked out of the room to try and of things' as another councillor put it. invalidate the meeting, but didn't vote NO. Whatever the disgusting tricb they used to stop the process of democracy, the fact Aide Borgu (NAT) with Tom remains that they flagrantly abused their duties as representatives of the voting body. Reddacliff's proxy So, in the interests of open democracy, here are their names. Ifyou ever meet them, you Argued against the referendum vote, but abstained when voting. might care to ask them why they did it. Why they thought their own beliefs and political careers were more important than the wishes of students.
Alan Bradley (DSP) with Phiilipa Stanford's proxy Argued a NO vote. Said he would do everything he could "to stop it from going through". Said that the arguments of democracy were a "guilt trip". Ended up abstaining. Nick Ferrett (LIB) As chairperson he tried to rule that the meeting was too small and thus invalid, even when there were plenty of people present in the room (clinging to a technicality?).
One striking feature of our beautiful campus is the grounds. Yes, the grass is lawn green, year long. There are no nasty pieces of grass growhig up in the cracks between the concrete and never ever has a weed been seen on campus. Every now and then there appears small vMte signs with red wridng on them explaining to everyone that an area has been sprayed with pesticides. You know the ones, those signs diat you never see until you are halfway across the Great Court, or just as you are finisMngyou r lunch, to realise that you have been sitthig in a chemical batfa.
Your intrepid Union Environment Collective decided representatives that the chemcial was withdrawn from Mr Fenn states that: to have a look into pesticides usage on campus to find out use as a result of concern within academic circles, Mr "should the University through Senate, demand the exactly what those chemicals were and why they were Fenn did not feel that this was necessary, however he was very highest environmental standards then clearly the being used. After being sent to department after depart prepared to comply with the concern of academic staff. whole issue has to be reassessed" ment in the ominous JD Storey building we were fmally Roger's active ingredient, that is the chemical which ac sent to Mr Brian Fenn, Assistant Director of Buildings tually kills the pests, is Dimethoate. Dimethoate isa Sche but that and Grounds, and the person in charge of implementing dule 6 poison. To gain a Schedule 6 poison one must have "it is unlikely that any specific environmental policy pesticide policy. a permit from the government. The danger with Dime perse will be developed for the St Lucia campus in the M r Fenn told us that pesticides are used on the sporting thoate is that it is neurotoxic. This means that the che sbon term." fields, the lake, carpark kerbs and footpaths and areas mical affects human behaviour. In addition the toxin is In other words the committee recognises that the Uni used by staff and students between lectures (the Great absorbed through the skin. Thus if a student were expo versity is not fulfilling its role as a leader of the com Court for example). The chemicals used are mostly her sed to a large enough dosage il may effect their long term munity, and has no intention of developing any policy to bicides and one insecticide. Herbicides are what are health. If this chemical was compared to Dieldrin it rectify this situation. known as organophosphates, as opposed to organochlo- would look safe. However the Environment Collective rines. organochiorines have been at the centre of most of believes that anything which could effect student's health the controversy surrounding pesticide use. is not safe. Despite the large fall in thenumber of chemicals used, the University still has a relatively high level of pesticide "... pesticides are used on tfie sporting fields, die usage. The Botanical Gardens, Ipswich City Council, lake, carpark kerbs and footpaths and areas used Griffith University only use one or two to control pests. by staff and students between lectures (tfie Great They are able to achieve this due to the use of alternative methods. These alternative methods may be comprised Court for example)." of a combination of manual labour and different styles of control methods. These are coupled with the use of low The University's policy on pesticide use was set out by toxic pesticides such as Round Up. Mr Barry Pratt, the Director of Occupational Health and The University Administration has dealt with this issue Safety in a memorandum to the Vice Chancellor in Janu in typical fashion. They have two responses because there ary 1989. It is to ensure that; are two departments responsible for pest control, that of • pesticides are only used when and where they are es Mr Fenn and that of Mr Pratt. Mr Pratt's response has sential been to ignore the issue. In his memo to the Vice Chan • effective alternative methods are sought to the use of cellor in January 1989 he claimed that: "the University could only be considered as one of the pesticides On the issue of research into alternative methods of • only pesticides which are considered safe to the public, most responsible users of pesticides in the Brisbane area." environmental management: the user and the environment are to be used. "the Working Party is happy to recommend such a • control measures are implemented to ensure safe use. proposal.. providing specificfunds are made available Over the past five years since Mr Fenn has been in his "Most of die really nasty chemicals such as DDT, from the University administration." position the number of pesticides used has been cut from Dieldrin, and Heptachlor have been baimed from However without ever actually having conducted re 33 to 15. Most of the really nasty chemicals such as DDT, use on campus." search into the types and costs of alternative methods or Dieldrin, and Heptachlor have been banned from use on systems the Working Party has seen fit to state that it: campus as a result of fears that the pesticides may have "does not support such a system on cost benefit posed a serious threat to the health and safety of the Clearly if the University is using pesticides with a high grounds." university community. er degree of toxicity than necessary it is not involved in the responsible use of pesticides. Mr Pratt also stated in a From these statements two points are clear. First, that The issue of safety when discussing pesticides is tenu letter dated August 1989 to this publication: this Working Parry has failed to carry out University po ous. This is because of the nature of scientific knowledge. "the University seeks to lead rather than follow the licy as a result of a lackof funds and initiatives. Secondly, As with so many other things, these chemicals were and most importantly, that this body has seen fit to make thought to be safe when first put on the market. People strict legal requirements relating to pesticides." The Environment Collective agrees that the role of the recommendations which contravene University policy once sprayed pesticideswhilenotwearingshirts, let alone based on assumptions which have no basis in fact, scien any safety equipment, and so they ended up coating University should be that of a community leader, how ever in this case it appears that even bureaucratic struc tific or otherwise. Further it is apparent from the actions themselves with chemicals now known to be carcinoge of other bodies whhin the broader community that these nic. The danger in using these kinds of chemicals is that tures such as City Council are leaps and bounds ahead of the University in this regard. When seeking further com assumptions are not only poorly researched but incor we may later discover that they are not as safe as first rect. All of this has been allowed to occur in an institution supposed. ment from Mr Pratt the Environment Collective has been told that he was unavailable until late July. which prides itself on its high scientific and ethical stan dards. This is a situation which cannot be allowed to In any case all of these chemicals have a degree of The other reply to this charge comes from Mr Fenn. continue. toxicity. The notion that any chemical is safe is merely a His response is that Griffith University have entirely dif The Environment Collective believes that in accor question of relativity. For example, only twelve months ferent types of grounds to the University of Queensland. dance with University policy alternatives to pesticides ago the university was using a chemical commercially He claims that because they have a natural environment should be put into place. The Collective intends to take known as Rogor. Mr Fenn told Environment Collective at Griffith they are able to minimise pestidde use. This may well be true but this does not account for the successes of the Botanical Gardens or Ipswich City Council. Indeed "... the Inhrersity still has a relatively high level of the grounds at the Botanical Gardens are quite similar to pesticide usage." that of the University, They have a number of exotics and excellent lawns, both of which Mr Fenn is anxious to maintain on this campus. any action necessary to ensure that students' health is It seems that the administration has merely paid lip- protected. Anyone wishing to help with this campaign is' service to the need for alternative methods of weed and more than welcome to come along to meetings on Tues pest control. This need is mentioned in Mr Pratt's policy day at I p.m. in the Environment Office upstairs in the statement and it is the duty of the Building and Grounds Union Building. In addition students will be asked to Division to ensure that this policy is implemented. In a become actively involved in the campaign against the letter dated the 25th of August Mr Fenn outlined his unnecessary use of pesticides, so keep your eyes and ears Division's progress on this policy. An old committee open. known as the Landscapes Working Party was renamed the KYLIEMcBRIDE Working Party on Environmental Management and had FOR THE UNION its responsibilities extended in this vein. ENVIRONMENT COLLECTIVE
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Australia has embarked on a major military build up and is forcing its neighbours to follow suit In effect, Australia, at the request of America has mitiated a major arms race iUstiie south eastern and western Pacific regions. «
ound familiar.' Well probably not because like western and eastern Pacific regions, increased The precedents established ,by the Australian 16 million o|her Australians yoilwill find that deployment of P-3C Orion aircraft in the area, Government have been set without us, the public, - public debate on the 'defence' issues of the expansion of communications.'engineering, trai knowing about them. For ejpmple, the Australian , Australian government has.been nil, and in ning and provision of equipment and personnel Government gav^ helicopters to the PNG Govern fact actively discouraged. projects in the same region to $59.9M and the ment to^use on Bouganville for so called "non- This has all happened at a time when two of the establishment of the Butterworth Air Base in Ma miliur)'" purposes. Even after ABC reporters fil- essential ingredients for conflict-regioinal arms laysia. med'PNG soldiers using machine giins strapped to accumulation and iintemational tension - have These are a very limited estimation of the Aus the sides of the helicopters, Evins, the Minister for been entrenched and initiated by the Beazly Mini tralian military'expansion in ourNorthem regions. Foreign Affairs, denied they were being used for a stry. • ' 1 Many more exist, and fora conjp^ehensive listing of military purpose. He claimed that because the niachine guns were not bolted to the helicopter,' the In fact the American population knows more „i A i: A-c i „i;^, ,Kor» ...„ J craft was not technically a "helicopter gunship". f/atiiirifsmiinllmiAw/hT/U* Further stories of atrocities involving PNG forces selves; peace activists often have to look to the and the helicopters filtered out of Bouganville in Department of Defence (America's defence mini from the fact that Australians have no say stry) to find out what's happening on our own or influence on them is that the Australian soil. Government has actually taken an offensive Problems with our defence policies apart from posture." the fact that Australians have no say or influence on HE'S BACK. ..HIDE YOUR them is that the Australian Government has ac HIS JOB WAS TO SELL WALLETS I tually uken an offensive posture. Kim Beazley's THE ULTIMATELY response to "The New Australian Militarism" (pu the Australian Arsenal see "The New Australian Militarism" in the Union Resource Library. USELESS MACHINE: blished this year) shows just how flawed the fascard FR1GATE$! of our defence forces are. In it Beazley openly One more problem (to the growing number) is endorses FORWARD defence, which means de that our defence strategies have actually weakened THE ANSWER COULD fending before the problem arises. Just how for our defensive ability. Although we have the ability ONLY BE NO! ward this 'defence' is. is determined soley by the to cripple nations and bases defined as "aggressive" Beazley ministry and has closely paralleled the by the defence ministry, i.e. Indonesia, Vietnam, strategies used by the American military in the China and the USSR, we do not have the ability to area. defend two sites of military significance on Aus This forward defence has involved, among tralian soil at any one time for anything more than a others, simulated attacks of the Viemam - USSR short period. naval repair base at Cam Ran Bay, total integration The running costs of Fill, F/A-18 and P-3C with US naval, anny and air forces in the south Orions (which are respectively $13 234, $ 10 475 and $4 432 per hour) would over a period cripple Australia's ability to defend itself against low in tensity incursion and attacks on the Australian "The running costs ofF-111, F/A-18 and mainland. P-3C Orions would over a period cripple In summary, the Australian Government at the Australia's ability to defend itself against Jianrlc /-,f 1-1:3iiiV<» tnA R/"a»l»"v hac maHp Aii<;tralia a I •. ... • »..j .1 massive local super power supplying a great deal of weapons and equipment, but with a limited ability Australian mainland." to defend itself. Military sales are forecast to be $500m/year by the Hawke government, which also plans to budget for at least $10 billion over the next 1989. The army was said to have used infra red five years, as outlined in the white paper. detectors to slaughter Bouganvillians at night and during the day dumped the same bodies into the Putting two and two together would .seem to ocean. indicate that we havea Ministry of Offence and not of Defence. Our government has placed us in a state of war and sadly were doing the killing. Ifyou would like to The Dibbs Report, commissioned by the Aus find out more about our military' build up - the tralian Government, stated that there is no threat to biggest in our peace time history read "The New Australia's security in the forseeable future. Why Australia Militarism" edited by Graeme Cheese- then do we have such a great military offensive man and St John Kettle, This book is available from capability, and yet such a poor ability to defend the Environment Collective section of the Union ourselves (as admitted by Beazley)? The answer is Resource Centre, simple, and shows our military might does have a Knowing about this issue is vital if we are to avoid purpose. conflicts like Vietnam in the future and allow you Our offensive strategies have-been used-to-pro— -and-| to-have an equal input into helping-establish peace in the region and hopefully the world. The Australian Government recently at the request of the American, Department of Defence reformed policy that allowed military attack to be directed BRETT KUSKOPF against civilian targets and not just military ones. lt(il' Kiiviroiimrill Collrctivf
61SEMPER* I'ifth Edition. July IWO A few years ago Ethiopia brought forth scenes of starvation of almos biblical proportions. Scenes reminiscent of the plagues that Moses deUvered upon ancient Eygpt to free his people. But these were modem Images, televised and viewed from the safety or our dining rooms. We recoiled in horror and when the plate came around, the world dug deep into Its pockets and came to Ethiopia's aid. Then we sat back with relief wlien (he problem appeared to go away. But did it? ...
Recently I attended a slide night where the speaker was Because of his neglect, about 200,000 people eventually reladng his first-hand experiences of the current si- starved to death. , tuation in northern Ethiopia. Due to a combination of This show of incompetence proved to be a major ' drought and civil war there another round of devastating catalyst for a group of junior officers to form a militaristic famine has descended on the provinces of Tigray and committee (known as the Dergue) and usurp power in Eritrea. Recounting the effects of the 1984-85 famine, one 1974. Haile Selassie died in detention the following year, of the first slides showed what at first glance appeared to and by 1977 Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam had risen to be a sandy hinterland populated every few metres by power and become Chairman, after having arranged the ' clumps of scrub for as far as the eye could see. murders of his fellow conspirators of 1974, He is still in I looked again. power today. They were not bushes, but tents. A Sudanese refugee Mengistu proclaimed his a Marxist-Leninist govern camp formed by 170,000 Ethiopians who had crossed the ment - the Provisional Socialist Military Government of border from their homeland in search of food. These Ethiopia. Because of this, he has been able to marshal : werej ust some of the two million or so peasants who were mihtary aid from the USSR, and incur billions of dollars forced to migrate west at that time. Over half a million of debt in military spending - dollars spent solely to died due either to starvation during the trek for food or to control civil unrest within Ethiopia's own borders. This is . a combination of malnutrition-induced disease exacer ironic considering that Ethiopia was already one of the bated by the unhygenic conditions inevitable with over poorest countries when Mengistu came to power. crowded refugee camps of severely limited resources (the Since then much has changed in Ethiopia under the regions where these camps flourished were, after all, new rule, but here we shall only concern ourselves with areas which even the Sudanese had considered unin the famine problem. In 1984, the problem that managed habitable for themselves). to unseat Haile Selassie a decade before had begun to No doubt this all sounds rather familiar. After all, most reassert it.self. Millioiis of people in the northeni pro of us woidd remember the harrowing BBC documentary vinces were facing starvation again. Instead of ignoring reports of the last famine which launched immediate international aid when screened across the world. Even so, not many among us would be familiarenough with the issues behind the problem of Ethiopian famine to un derstand why it is that we are about to witness a rerun of these events only five years after the last ordeal. And the "Instead of ignoring theproblem, as his indications we have at the moment suggest that the predecessor had done so erroneously before severity of the problem will exceed the dimensions of the 1984-85 disaster. That's difficult to believe. You might him, Mengistu took advantage of the think that the lessons learnt then could now be used to famine." , good effect to avoid further needless suffering this time '. round. But you'd be wrong. To understand why this is not the case I'll need to first sketch out just a few of the relevant points concerning the problem, as his predecessor had done so erroneously • recent Ethiopian history. Then you'll know why, sadly, before him, Mengistu took advantage of the famine. it's probably too late to prevent what has been nicknamed When a mass migration began towards Sudan for food the quiet famine-quiet because we'rehearinglittleabout relief, this was Mengistu's chance to forcibly deport it and, of what we do hear, the world as a whole is not hundreds of thousands of peasants into govemment-run making too much of a fuss about. collective farms overa thousand kilometres to the south, where he had better control over them. Over half a The present political turbulence in Ethiopia really took million people died from starvation during this time. flight in the year 1974, when the country was sdll governed by the last in a long line of Emperors of royal It is worth remembering that the government was supposedly working for the people of Tigray during that period. Today, in 1990, when reports of looming famine as catastrophic as the last one are mounting, it is certainly not the case. Today, the Ethiopian government is actively "Today, the Ethiopian government is at war with the provinces of Tigray and Eritrea and actively at war with the provinces of drought has proved to be an effective weapon of combat Tigray and Eritrea and drought has proved for the government. The cause of this situation has its political roots in to he an effective weapon of combat for the events occuring in 1962 when Emperor Haile Selassie government." annexed the then-independent state of Eritrea for Ethio pia, A resistance movement there began immediately. This was backed by the Soviets hccasue of the strategic positioning of Eritrea on the Red Sea coast - opposite the rich oil-fields in the near north-eastern Arabic states. birth. This was Emperor Haile Selassie. The system of Without Eritrea, Etiiiopia becomes a hand-locked coun ruling was such that it had allowed aristocratic landlords try and it .seems unlikely that the Ethiopian government and the church to own most of the land. Tenant farmers will ever be willing to agree to a situation in which access paid a portion of their crops in rent but got little in to the Sea and the Suez Canal is denied them. return. Since Mengistu has come to power, the Soviets have By keeping his people in poverty and ignorance the swapped allegiances, undoubtedly believing thai Eritrea Emperor managed to remain in power for 45 years. Not would be tamed by the new government. This has not , surprisingly, towards the end of this period a great deal of happened. Indeed, since the 1984-85 famine period, the frustration and unrest was in evidence, a fact that the Eritrean and Tigiayan People's Liberations Fronts have Emperordid not recognise forthe harbinger of imminent placed a vast amount of land behind rebel boundaries, change that it was. This was his great mistake. Tigray lies behind this line. Instead of seeking aid from international relief agen The current situation is that because of this civil war, cies in the early 1970's when severe drought and famine international aid agencies have been inhibited in the struck the northern provinces of Wollo and Tigray, Haile Selassie's government tried to cover up the problem. (CtiittinucJ on page l.i)
CORPORATE GIANT KING WAL BUYS OUT BOND CORP Ftfth FJilion. July 1990 •SEMPER17 vo WORKSHOPS-SEMESTER II, 1 990 PRINTINQ SKILLS FOR PUBLICITY (derate ori^nal imagery and experiment with a range of IVTORS: HOWARD TAYLOR & JEREMY MAHER Learn bask layout acreenprlntiiig skills to produce your o«n l-shirt, rendering techniques through indivklual tuition. (FROM THE m BIKESHOP) FEE: $25 U.Q.SniDENTS, $30 4Z22S11S, UNEMPLOYED, OTHER poster or artwork. Here yon will learn the fundamentals of multi DATE: August 9,16, 23, 30, Sept 6 CAMPUSES, $35 OTHERS colour priitijig, stendJ proiuc&>t>, pnparation ol scrttna and TIME: Thursdays 6-8 p.m. TUTOR: lUCINDASHAW-IAMOVr printing tedmlques. ABORIGINAL CULTURE DATE: Aujjust 16/23/30 FEE: $40 U.Q. S11IDE.VTS, $50 4ZZZ SUBS, UNEMPLOYED, OTHER TIME: Thursday, 2-4 p.ra. CAMPUSES, $60 OTHERS This workshop will cover tiie philosophy/worid views of Aboriginal people and culture; Abori^t social relations; colonisation and its TITOR: MECVi GRINSTEAD I t^P'^-SSq^ I p^^^^i^ 1 effect on Aborigbial people and culture; health and welfare policies; FEE: $20 ' l'-"="=^^=Si_J- DRAWING THE FIGURE Unking your perception of light and space via your hand and eye - tiie organisational styles; future race relations. INTRODUCTION TO with your remembered, noted and interpreted relationship witii die DATE: Oct 2,9,16, 25 SCREENPRINTINO flguree - A guided drawing class. TIME: 6-8 p.m. Tfi(s cfajw alms to famKIatfce partidpants viih the screenprintfng DATE: Aug 2}, 30, Sept 6,]3 TUTOR: T.BA process and facilities available for public access at the Union. The TIME: 6 • 8.30 p.m. Thursdays FEE: $20 for all. first weekend covers the design and process of images, handmade TUTOR: LONIWEEDON "^ and photographk stencils, registratfon and printing techniques. Tlic FEE: $60 V,Q. StWEfTS, $70 4ZZZ Sl»$, WrE.HP«)YED, OTHER EXPRESSION THROUGH 'j second weekend ghes participants a chance to print a small edition CAMPUSES, $80 OTHERS MOVEMENT ,, of their own woriL Most materials will be provWed. BLACK A WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY Experience tiic power of creative movement as a personal tool for ^ DATE: Saturday August 18 & Saturday August 2 5 Become exposed to the techniques of camera operation. Become artistic expression. Titrough exercises in body awareness and •2 TIME: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. enlightened as lo the woridngs of the darkroom. Develop your contemporary dance dn'clop yx>ur potential to use movement to 2 TITOR: MEGA.N CRINSTEAD ability lo capmre and manipulate tiie visual Image via this exdting explore and communicate ideas. 3 •'EE: $40 t),Q. STn)E,VrS, $45 4ZZZ SfBS. L^E.MPLOWD, OTHER and practical medium. DATE: August l6,23, 30, Sept 6,13. CAMPtSES, $50 OTHERS TIME: Thursdays 6-8 p.m. DATE: July 21, August 7,14, 21,28, Sept 4. TUTOR: MICHELLE CAREY- TIME: Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30 p.m. ^ BAR COURSE TITOR: TRE^'ORBELl FEE: $25 U.Q, STLDENTS, $30 4222 SUBS, UNEMPLOYED, OTHER ^ Tills fne week course is designed to ghc die student practical FEE: $40 U.Q. CTUOEVrS, $45 4Z2Z SUBS, LTiEMPLOYED, OTHER CAMPUSES, $35 OTHERS J experience behind die bar to .secure a job within the industr). Four CAMPUSES, $50 OTHERS ^ hours work experience in the Rec Gub will be arranged for all HOME BREWING ^ participants and a reference will be issued upon completion. ADVANCED BLACK & WHITE Learn to brew your own beerl This short course will cover tiie basic "N^ DATE: From Augusi 20th & 21sl PHOTOGRAPHY equipment tiiat is needed; basic ingredients; how to improve pre J) TIME: 6-9 p.m. (4 wveks) This class is designed for those with a basic knowiedge of black and packaged brewv, and also simple recipes for brewing. Think of tiie i..^ COITLSE 1: Mondajs, COURSE 2: Tuesdajs white photography. The first day covers light meters, lenses, lllters, money you will savel! O TITOR: T.B.A. lighting for portraiture, etc. The second day will cover creative DATE: Oct2,9,16, 23 5^ >T.M:E: Rec Club photographic processes such as sepia toning, solarisation, infra TIME: Tuesdays 6-8 p.m. r:;J FEE: $40 l.(}. STlDLVrS. $45 422Z SLBS, UNEMPIOVED, OTHER red, etc. Additional access to Ihe darkroom Is included. TUTOR: ERNIE MELVILLE (Member of Amateur Beer Breww's 7^ CAMPISES, $50 OTHERS DATE: Saturday Sept 8 & Saturday Sept 1 i Association and Federal GuHd of Beer Judges) TIME: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. FEE: $20 V.Q. STUDENTS, $25 4222 SUBS, UNEMPLOYID, OTHER SCRIPTWRITING TirrOR: LEIli.N'RAMSAY CAMPUSES, $30 OTHERS Explore ihe basic elements of scripl nriting such a.s FEE: $4 5 V.Q. SJVDLSTS, $ 50 4ZZZ SIBS, ITVEMPIOYED, OTHER characierisatlon, storyline, and dramatic structure covering a LINO PRINTING IV-J-"--^ >^ CAMPLSES, $60 OTHERS nrici)' of tiieatrica! styles. Write an original script with the guidance Come and make art, and learn this simple form of printmaklng. of a ptd>lished playwright and feedback from group discussion. NON-FIRE JEWELLERY ^:i DATE: Saturday 20tii October DATE: August 22nd & 29th, September 5th 4 12th Metiwds for the construction of {ewellery wltiiout fire. Learn some TIME: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. TIM E: 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays for 4 weeks. practical tricks of non-traditional jewellery assemblage and TUTOR: MEtiAN GRINSTEAD i/i.J rtm)R: HIIARV BEATO.N transform your coUection of 'found ob/ects' into ncanible art FEE: $22 V.Q. STWLVTS, $24 4Z2Z SVBS, UNEMPLOYED, 077IER FEE: $20 I'.Q. STIBENTS, $25 4nZ SL'BS, UNEMPLOYED, OTHER DATE: Saturday Oct 6 & Saturday Oct 13 CAMPUSES, $26 OTHERS CAMPtSES, $30 OTHERS TIME: lla.ffl.-4 p.m. TUTOR: THOMAS BURLESS (DESICNER/SCUIPTOR) INTRODUCTION TO THETAROT FEE: $40 U.Q. STUDENTS, $45 4222 SUBS, LTVEMPLOVED, OTHER ACTIVITIES litis woiltshop covers a brief history of the cards and a CAMPUSES, $50 OTHERS Tbc ActMtlea Centrt b a fblly-cqaipiied fidllt)' cKcrlnK to (hidtnt», camminll]' comparative study of ifae various types. It teaches the meaning and groiifa, ladhMuib uti pntfndnia] Miilsti. StifTni IrfMfU oipmistn, a profHslona] (crcaiprinter and a t)ptsencr, ActMUa ofTcn expcrliM In, and magic of the Tarot Cards. This five week course will dispel the RADIO SKILLS WORKSHOP acctu lo Ihc artai ot gnphlcs, icmnpHntlng, ckhkig, l)pt«ttlng, pholojtraphr popular myths and help you on your way lo reading cards yourself. lUs workshop will demyistify tfte technology of radio and make it iixl arts woriisbops. DATE: Aug 13, 20,27, Sept 5 A 10 work for you. You will learn lo operate the 4Z2Z on-air studio cue TIME: Mondays 6 p.m. till 8 p.m. SCREBNPRINTINQ and play records, tapes, cartridges, and announce. Iliese skills are ThU arc* b (quipped «1th pboto-icrtcnpfinttng capabilit)', a t-acunm unit for TirrOR: MANDV CURTIES taught in the context of a puMk radio station. pottcft, a carostl tor l-shlrt pclntlag and a (itaff acct») bromktt camera. Tt haw FEE: $20 U.Q. STUDLNTS, $25 4ZZZ SUBS, UNEMPLOYED, OTHER DATE: Aug21&28,Sept4&ll CadHUes and >picc to do ttraphic and |a)XHit itDtfc. We luvc cheap nlcf tor datng CA.MPt;SES, $30 OTHERS TIME: 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays •tie whole job or )mi csa come and do die labour biteosK'C woii )vnrKlf. A naffi TITTORS: 4222 guide lo the cost te a< f
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LEAGUE GIANT HOLIDAYS AT NOOSA ^A the legislation if there is a demeaning and ineffectual complaints process, or how to use the legislation is not explained to the community. CADL would like to sec a complaints tribunal set up to handle the legiskrion with a representative of each discriminatcd-against group. For example, when a Murri person makes a comj^nt of radal discrimination in the provision of goods and sctvios to the tribunal, a Murri person is present on the tribunal during the ampaign for hearing of that particular case. It is patronising to believe that a tribunal composed of a privileged or non-identified group can empathise with the complainant.
Similarly, if a brilliant piece of legislation is dropped on the Queensland public without any publicity, community Anti-Discrimination Legislation eduation or explanation, it is bound to either meet with a redneck baddadi or languish at the bottom of die bureaucratic basement. The ream glossy 'Sexual Harassment' campaign Some may say that complaints about discrimination are just hot air from over-vocal fcamred in women's magazines by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission resulted from the realisation minorities, but the abuse of many people's civil rights are prevalent in this community that most 15-25 year old women were completely oblivious of and something positive needs to be done to stop this. their rights under the Sex Discrimination Aa,
To date, CADL has given two submissions to the Prior to the success of the Pride Week Rally marking the When you arc over 50 do you want to be regarded as skill-less, government on the subjea of 'Grounds' and 'Community 21st anniversary of Stonewall Day in Roma Street Forum on sexless and stupid? June 30, Pride Week organisers were refused three times in Consultation". CADL has recommended that the government their recjucst to use public venues. King George Square was alloatc enough money to reach out to the commuruty and denied the 'Pride Colleaivc' bcausc rhcy were 'polidcai'. These arc aU issues for Anti-Discrimination Legislation. consult a wide range of community groups, induding those in >X'hen 'Pride Collcaive' member Jeff Chcvcrton reminded Through a scries of meetings since February CADL have remote ratal areas (and in a 'non-tokenisric' way). CADL has City Hall that King George Square had been used for rallies by recommended the following list of grounds to be covered by also asked the government to look at how it will handle Peace groups and the Queensland Women's Coalition he was the legislation: conflias between community groups in the consultation told 'that was different". A couple of days before the Pride Gender, Sexual Preference (actual and presumed). Age, process. For example, a lesbian group might not want Wxk evcnrs began the owner of the Boomerang Cinema in Ethnidry (covering colour, racial batkgfound, mixed or transscxuality as a ground for discrimination, but an ethnic Annerley publicly reneged on his promise to use his dnema as otherwise ethnic or radal identity), Disability, Health Status group might support it. Care must be talccn to ensure that it is the venue for the Pride Week Film Festival bcausc he 'didn't (induding HIV status). Marital Status, Pregnancy, Agp, not only the powerful and influential community groups which know it was going to be a gay fdm festival'. As lesbian aaivist Political Affiliation, Trade Union Activity, Criminal Record, deddc the direction of the legiskrion. Fiona Power said at the Stonewall Day Rally, "Gays arc denied Physical Appearance, Economic Status, Sexual Harassment, the use of public space while straights can praaically bonk in Lifestyle, Religion, Mental Impairment and history ofMetital Although the Labor government has made it dear that it King George Square". Illness, Transscxuality, Racial Vilifiations and Indigenous intends to introduce anri-discrimiiution Icgisktion by the end Identity. of the year there is still time for people to get involved. As stated a discussion paper is being released in August and there This kind of discriminarion would be illegal if will be several wceb for the community to rcaa. If you're Queensland had comprehensive Anri-Disaimination In compiling this list CADL his gone beyond the intctcstcd in CADL, watch out for the next meeting in August. legislation. The introduaion of such legislation was an election parameters of'safe' legislation and into the realm of'prcludicc- For more details please conna Jeff Cheverton (wk) 844 1990, promise of the Goss Government. An inter-department breaking'. Wc have also induded the description of 'perceived* or Women's Rights on (wk) 371 l6ll. Committee on Anti-Discrimination Legislation and Equal or 'presumed' status descriptions in our recommendations for Employment Opportunity has been set up to draft the grounds. This is bcausc there is no difference between the legislation and a discussion paper is due out in August. In its discrimination suffered by someone who actually has the Lynne Rogers prc-clcaion policy statements the Libor Party described the characteristics of a discriminated group and someone who is "Women's R^ts Oiganiscr proposed legislation as covering disCTimination in employment perceived to have those charaacristics. For example, in the past Joint CADL Co-ordinator with Jeff Cheverton on the grounds of sex, marital status and pregnancy and talked year the New South Alkies Anti-Discrimination Board has about setting up an Equal Opportunity Tribunal to handle the received the greatest increase of complaints on the grounds of complaints process — all quite valuable initiatives in HIV positive and perceived HTV positive stanis. themselves. However, discrimination goes much further than this in the community. In February 1990 CADL was set up to Prejudice has inacascd in an environment where the make sure the net of the legislation spreads more broadly and community is comfortably ignorant of the way in whidi AIDS also incorporates the 'unsafe' or controversial grounds and is spread (now predominantly through heterosexuals who areas of discrimination. praaice unsafe sex and IV drug use). The media continually associates the virus with gays or anyone with vaguely camp The Campaign for Anti-Discrimination Legislation, or charaacristics. In this and many other cases, assumptions and CADL as if is affccrionatdy known, is a broad based judgements are made about people based on pure conditioning: community group composed of Women's Groups, Gay Law Some basic examples of word/attitude association: Reform Groups, Migrant Community Groups, Mental Health woman = sex objca Groups and groups representing people with disabilities. Based aborigine = drunk on the concept of coalition politics its aim was to ensure that gay = AIDS the government consulted with the community right from the pregnancy = side initial stages of drafting Anti-Discrimination Legiskrion. transscxiial = ptheric However, if you're not gay and think legislation protcaing you mental illness = crazy against discrimination on the grounds of sex, marital status and politially aaivc = extremist ratbag pregnancy in the area of employment sounds adequate, think criminal record = killer again. "As a student can you honestly say you This mental association is one of the many causes of have never been discriminated against discrimination. Eduation is needed to change these attitudes, but for now the Anti-Discrimination Legislation will stop these on the basis of lifestyle or economic status attitudes from harming groups and individuab in our or perceived ccDnomic status?" community. If you were asked in a job interview why you took longer than 'normal' to finish your degree or postgraduate study would you •ftt to be tnily cffcaivc this legislation has to cover rather lie than adcnowledgc a mental health problem you had more than the area of employment. CADL wants been cxpericndng at the time? discrimination to stop in the following areas: Employment and Conditions of Employment, State and "Do you think it is reasonable that the media Private Eduation, Obtaining Goods and Services, always mentions gay liberation and AIDS in the Accommodation, Registered Clubs, Advcrthingt Media, same bread:!?" Rcacation, Transport, Physical Acass, Income, Decision Making, Aids and Appliances, Medial Services/Practice, Do you :hink it's reasonable that migrants with Postgraduate Tclccommuniations, Immigration, Overseas Qualifications, qualifications from their country of origin arc ahnost always Legal Status of Relationships and Adoption. required to 'update* their qualifiations with an Australiain Uridcrgraduate course? It is a waste of time having comprehensive grounds and areas in
10HSEMPER* Pifil) EJifion, July 1990 CANDID SHOTS OF WICKED WAL tackle Ihe issue of 'those feelings', but for now it's infancy has made us tend to see our sexuality and easier to play it 'safe'. ourselves with shame, rather than pride in oneself And most homosexuals continue to live this way. which is common in straights. "Be proud of who you Unlike other disadvantaged groups, such as women are" was the catchcry, but gay people were always and Murris, homosexuals can be i nvisible and fear of led to believe that they were the exception. The aim of the unknown ensures that they will stay invisible. Fear Pride is to stop lesbians and gay men being ex of a lifestyle which was never presented in anywhere ceptions lothegeneralcommunity.butrather equals, near the same light as heterosexuality, if al all. within it, not least of all in our own minds. Building up this pride in ourselves, our sexuality and in the love There is, of course, a cost. It may be possible to that we feel is the first and most difficult step in the hide those feelings, but they don't go away. For those battle for social acceptance. Such pride will demand who manage to contain their sexuality, sexual frus the ending of the degrading habit of suppressing tration and emotional depression await.Suicide is for ourselves in public and hence remaining invisible, some final resort to avoid confronting themselves. and it will provide the self-confidence to tackle the For those who comprise by finding clandestine bigoted harassers who may try to stand in our way on sexual release at the beats or bars while publically this road to equality. With visibility the ignorant clutching to the 'normality' of the heterosexual life majority will be forced to confront their ignorance on style there is a risk of disclosure and the pressure of Ihis topic and will soon desensitise to open displays living a double life. ol homosexual affection, However, the victims are not restricted to those who choose to be closeted. Because we have all gone through a stage of hiding our feelings and "The crowds were exceptional, the keeping them to ourselves a subconcious habit atmosphere was fantastic, the forms which is very hard to break. Society continually energy bubbled over creating a makes it clear that the 'love which dare not speak its name' should be kept to oneself - 'gays shouldn't be diversity of events unimaginable blatant'. So this habit is reinforced. The habit is to even a year ago." keep your sexuality and the lovers in your life as something to be kept quiet, to be censored from your Obviously the concept of Pride is a grass roots conversations except in gay company and kept far one, aiming to change fundamental community at from the guest lists of straight dinner parties. 'Out' titudes, initially in the lesbian and gay community homosexuals will sit listening to a straight friend and as a consequence in the general community talking about his or her relationship problems with also. Gay Law Reform is a more symptomatic battle out ever bringing into the conversation their own against one of the more outrageous examples of the After all the coverage of the experiences. We walk down the street without daring harassment of homosexuals.This is not to belittle the Lesbian and Gay Pride Week, the to mention if we find a passerby attractive despite the importance of this battle: apart from the positive public still has a lot of questions. ravings of our heterosexual accomplice. Few les effect on the community attitudes that the Reform What is Pride? Why do Lesbians bians or gay men dare hold hands or show casual itself will have, Gay Law Reform is a necessary step affection in public despite the free display of love (or toward the legal protection of the civil nghts of gay and Gays need this tcind of festival? often lust) by our fellor straights. This is not a con Is it a precursor to Law Reform in men and lesbians and governmeni recognition of scious endeavour by most of us, but something their needs. If gay people are to come out into the the Criminal Justice Commission, which happens and is automatically regretted with open, become visible and gain the pnde and self or are we talfdng Mardi Gras? The pain later. Our conditioning wins the day. We don't confidence to really battle for equality then such mainstream media (and choose to be invisible, but our subconscious pre protection is vital to defend against the real threats of consequently the public) don't vents us from behaving in public in a way that would discrimination in employment or of bashings. The seem to really know, but they have make our sexuality visible. two battles are, however, quite different. recognised the chance for some To be truly 'out' and therefore reap the benefits of What are the chances of Pride taking on a fvlardi full-on sensationalisstion. So what emotional stability and self-esteem which follow, Gras feel? Not great. The fun side of Pride is vitally is Pride ail about? requires complete equality with heterosexuals in important, but the scale, expense and theatricality of society. Heterosexuals must accept a homosexual for the Mardi Gras would be difficult to support in To begin to understand we must look at the basis what she or he is as they accept other heterosexuals. Brisbane. Besides, with the work that needs to be of gay and lesbian oppression. We live in a blatantly Thegeneral community will not accept lesbians and done in Queensland the highly political atmosphere helerosexist society. From day one we are surroun gay men until they see what they are accepting of Pride will probably take priority. ded by images of "boy meets girl and falls in love". (being the cautious society that we are) and this This year's first ever Lesbian and Gay Pride Week Visits to Uncle X and Aunty Y.Talkof "When you grow in Brisbane has already made much ground in the up and get married". And above a\l the icon of Ihe "The aim of Pride is to stop lesbians battle foracceptanceand self-acceptance.Thecrowds husband and wife ruled nuclearfamilyas the'normal' were exceptional, the atmosphere was fantastic, the way to be. So what happens to a kid when he or she and gay men being exceptions to the energy bubbled over creating a diversity of events finds oul they don't fit into these stereotypes, but in general community, but rather unimaginable even a year ago. Organisers and fact another life which doesn't make it into Coke ads? equals, within it." participants alike felt a great boost, and the public There's rarely any answer. But you see, that's OK. saw visible homosexuals. Blatant gays and lesbians, It's OK because the issue doesn't have to be con demands visibility and self-confidence. Yet it is the heads held high. Lots of little bits of Pride carried fronted right away. You see, nobody knows you are lack of community acceptance that has created an away for use in everyday life. different. While you keep it yourself you can't be environment or brainwashing the self-confidence NICHOLAS WARD rejected by everyone around you. You can become out of homosexuals. Breaking the viscious circle is invisible and blend into the crowd. If the pressure the problem, and this is where the movement toward (from others or from within) becomes too much, you Pride comes in. can even go all the way in simulating the 'norm' and The name is apt.Theaim is to boost the morale and get married. Eventually, you tell yourself, you will self-esteem of the lesbian and gay community. The psychological conditioning we have received since Chinese Students in Australia ma land
I have i>een working witli Chinese students in Brisbane to lobby the Australian Govemment for a better solution to the problems now facing Chinese students in this country. Critidsm of, and anger over the present situation is widespread. Pseudonymns have been used to protect the Identity of the individuals mentioned in this article.
n the twenty seventh of June 1990, the It is unlikely, even impossible, to propose that if things we in Australia take for granted. They spoke (mmigration Minister, Mr Hand and Mr the elderly leaders die within the next four years, out against the cronyism and corruption that O Hawke released what one could regard as the situation in China will change greatly, enabling controls their lives, cried outfor basic rights such as the final solution for those Chinese those Chinese in Australia to return home without fi-eedom of the press, of speech, of assembly and students wishing to seek; asylum in Australia. After fear of provocation. The ideology used to justify the movement.(Things we demanded in Queensland much debate it was decided those Chinese massacre is not just held by those who gave the not so long ago.) Nationals in Australia before 20th June 1989 will be order, it is entrenched throughout the whole able to apply for temporary four year permits. Only political system. after four years will they be able to apply for Those who retum, might escape death or "They spoke out against the cronyism and permanent residence, and the processing of their imprisonment, but they will probably be corruption that controls their lives, cried applications will be subject to places being brainwashed and they and their children will be available in the immigration program. denied access to good jobs, further education and outfor basic rights such as freedom of the The Govemment says no-one will be forced to other such 'privileges'. press, of speech, of assembly and return to China, but Mr Hawke said, "it was his* The Peoples Army killed more than 1,000 people, movement." judgement that the situation would improve over tens of thousands more were wounded or arrested, the next four years", thus giving a clear message to (conservative figures estimated by Amnesty all the students that they should regard their stays as International) millions more throughout China The 15,000 Chinese students in Australia are temporary. have been forced to undergo "re-education". Since caught in a deadly game played by politicians both As history has illustrated the Chinese June 4th the number of deaths related to the pro- here and in China, unable to go back and unable to Go vemment lias a long memory, in the past 40 years democracy movements are estimated to be in settle here. They can't safely return to China it has killed 64 million Chinese (four times the excess of 20,000. because they know too much, they've been free Australian population). They have had dozens of Last year, young people (like ourselves) grouped from the re-writing of events diat those in China purges and strictly monitor the lives and thoughts together to ask for changes in China. They wanted have been subjected to. They know the truth! oi the people with re-education programs, Because of this they spoke out publicly against the compulsory public humiliation and self criticism actions of the Chinese Government and have sessions, in an effort to indoctrinate the population mourned the deaths of their fellow students. By to current govemment policy. getting the one year extension on their visas last It is difficult for us who have always lived in a free year and by refusing to attend the Chinese society to understand the control the Chinese Embassy's propoganda classes they have Govemment exerts on its people. Nightmarish demonstrated a lack of faith in the Chinese comparisons can be drawn to the book "1984". Government. These 'crimes' mean they are not From birth, political profiles are kept on everyone. welcome back in China, and are not safe. Within these files details are held of every aspect of But the Australian Government's "offer" doesn't their opinions and attitudes collected throughout provide them with anythingmore than a temporary their lives from school, work, family and friends. sanction. It means the Australian Govemment can Those people who don't have the "correct attitude" put off making any controversial decisions that are denied access to jobs, housing, promotion and might lose them votes. further educational opportunities. For individuals Recently the Chinese Govemment put out a to gain promotions with the army, bureaucracy and proclamation which assured us that the Chinese the party, one must hold "the correct attitude". This students were free to retum home without fear of is the Government's mediod of ensuring the status persecution. The Australian Govemment has dung quo. (Along with 'purging' diosc who speak out to this statement as justification for their pathetic against them.) stance. But to anyone who believes this kind of
12 • S e M P E R • FlMIiiiiiK'^. students may be suffering extreme finanical Abroad on the Shallow Wells Pri effect in Tigray since 1985. This schen hardship. Many of them have been completing alleviate the water shortage problem in tim their postgraduate work with financial assistance allowing communities to remain \ from the Chinese Embassy. Students who have instead of having to seek out help denounced their govemment have lost this major tinations. source of income. Many can no longer afford to pay The slide night was organised by MJ-'" for the high charges imposed by the Australian 'mmsarba'), the Community Aid Al Govemment. Instead of doing valuable research campus. Ifyou are interested in such for our Universities they work in Chinese come along to our fortnightly mcetim^ restaurants, andsimilarplaces, where theyare often p.m. in the Clubs and Socs room. We^ lUakiUUiUiaisaK^ to gather more people and their inpl "By getting the one year extension on their visas last year and by refusing to attend the Chinese Embassy's propoganda classes they have demonstrated a lack of faith in the Chinese Government. These 'crimes'mean they are not welcome back in China, and are not safe." exploited by their employers because they lack an understanding of local labour laws. The Chinese students still here face surveillance and harassment from the Chinese Embassy. The .Australian Govemment has "backed out" of any real solution for them, instead offering them a "limbo life" for the next four years.
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Tk "To, not the Commies; time andperestroika have shown that they are largely harmless. We're l\l hitting out at the REAL red menace to the society in tvhich tve live-fucking awful cheap red A. \ wine in cardboard boxes. (Spit! Gag! Choke!) A joke's a joke, but this has gone far enough. I agreed to review cheap wines for Semper - hut almost all of the shit sold as cheap red in Brisbane doesn't even come close to the wine category. I mean, let's not beat around the bush. OK? It's a fucking wasteland out there. Those bastards will put just about anything into a bladder these days... residents of Kingston take note: this may be the solution to your toxic waste disposal problems. Anyway, though we researched more of these shitty "wines" than I care to think about, we're only going to reviewthreeofthem-the worst, the "best", and the weirdest. You figure out which is which.
WEIN VALLEY SOMETHING OR OKAY: now the bonus. Here is the way to get rid of all absolutely nothing on canh. Don't drink this without ANOTHER those thousands of leftover litres of cheapshit Red warning emergency teams and rescue authorities well in 4 Litres at $5.99 from the Melboume Menacewithout gettingthe environmental protection advance. Oh yes: vomit siains left by Mulled Wine drin people upset: MULLED WINE!! Forget it. This is not a wine. This is artificially coloured kers arc ver)' difficult to remove from the carpet. and flavoured, and alcoholically enhanced so as to a job However; don't drink cheap reds. And if you do, somewhat similar to wine, without being nearly RENMAND BEAUJOLAIS Sfi. \ - A SERIAL ROMANCErmjTANElJ^ Kay SeuratSeurat, reacting violently to the flickering brush strokes and light of the 'Impressionists', had in the last 3 0 years taken to living in the ceiling of the Student Common Room on the 2nd floor of the hideous Forgan Smith Tower. Hideous, because it was reminiscent of the squat flanks of some medieval castle buttress, scalded with boiling oil to leave rambunctious reliefs on its outer sides. The battles lay within. The nights that stalked this buttress were merely tween the staccato imagery of Duchamp's Nude De- pawns with feeble glows who stalked the cabinet sci'fiding a Staircase No. 2 and a corrupteti Fantasiatic cluttered hallways with Steinian gaze to cry but "a animation of Mickey on a pogo stick. :^^:: Rose is a rose is a rose!" This mantra had become a Kay had foreseen certain complications when the form of self-confirmation after the turmoil and con old woman with three poodles moved in. But using fusion of post-modern ideas that had grown on the the Common Room only in off-peak times she ma ungraffitied plaster like a cantankerous syphilitic naged very well. What more could she want.^' A bed, fungus devouring holes, and being responsible for a fridge, coffee and tea, wild .scenarios affixed to the things dropping off at times tre's inconvenient. walls by well meaning students on red wine. But it Kay was thus in the enviable position of an ob was about that timethat used .condoms were mak server privy to the most unwholesome secrets and ing a regular appearance on th^ stairs. Unfathoma voyeuristic delights. What they craved most (Kay ble really, they'd never seen the poodles wearing was a fanatic schizoid dependent paranoic who dis any. believed entirely in gender) was the wafting bucolic BURN-HARD SHITf5f/^/W/; stench emanating from the multi-acrylljced fridge. This being a yain glorious attempt to rcprotiuce via (goodfossil fuel) bionic propagation with naturally inseminated tar- tarif arid an Arthur Boydian frozen food bunker [epiete with de-sensitised scratch 'n' smell logos of various political arseiypes. No one apparently in their subliminal seasonal (being peojile of all seasons and particularly Moo- reish) smacked out states was aware of the violent and effusive escape of freon bulgingout of the crac ked, disrepaired jumble of hoses and pipcsat fridge back (not a Rhodesian breed by any means) - there they hung in a matted mutant state like an edible James Gleeson. This must be a major contributor to the inspired madness flatulated in powerful waves from the demented Opera singer imprisoned on the roof of the tower and secured by a bushy beard stuck on with spermicide and impossible to remove after the last act oiAida. Only during the Year of the Snake, and then only at the Winter solstice would this vacuous presence of 17 stone find a loophole in the lock and roam pur})osefully up and down the stairs - a cross be ^^^^H^^^ -^i^-.^n^i>-- v^i^»j^v' J^:^±>- '^tl I^k It-'-- •>'*'• -t'^ >> • v^-* M •&i . - 3 (I »s: ^ ?S: PV<31fc6^B0VtAM. PHOTOGRAPHER HOSPITALISED WITH BROKEN NOSE Fifth Edition, July 1990 •SEMPERH17 MOVIE if. M. M, M. iL if OWNED & OPERATED BV QIO UNI STUDENT? UNION "'WWW' TWIN CINEMAS COFFEE LOUNGE LUXURY LOUNGE CHAIRS SCHONELL OPENS V2 HOUR BEFORE 1STSESSI0KTILL10PM HOME OF aUALrrv/ALTERNATIVE RLMS GUiDE y DOWNSTAIRS ART GALLERY 3711879 • • FREE CAR PARK THE GREicNAWAY COLLECTION: TIIIOHKIJ.VOI'AN DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT (THU, WED 26-31 JULY) .\ 1 c|'.- .|p^ I.I I ,">h fciiliitv vvil. ';v"il''^li'"'rii lust .inrl miiiilpr ITECT'^' A Z « 2 0 (SAT. SUN. WEO 4, S, 0 AUG] •\ >' •! i( ,i(i.i V'TI'.II I|.line,in syiiU'lrv. |iii//li''i .1(1(1 ;\rx IIVlJ DELLY OF AN ARCHITECT [SAT, SUN, WED 11, 12, 15 AUG) A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS •'••• .Ir.iii'i'.ii.ilii'i) ol ,111 AKhilP(.t r.l.uiKKl OFFICIAL SELECTION CANNES A CELEDRATION OF CINEMA, CHARM & ROMANCE I ' "1.1-. l.Viiiiicv;ii/-i liliii li.irl llif> .iiiflir-iK;" (:li(>pnn(| ;tl C.^nnr•s nnr) "PERFECT p-•'.iinci.l .1-. h.ninii III" ilr'plh iinri '.ciisilivily ol ,T Fiijll.niil lilin. Thr" sln(y iiiilpiir!-. ijiininih ilif<.y(.., nl .'I |)i,iiii'.rs<|i,in((Miii In lio( tliniins hn dincovnisn IRRESISTIBLE I•.•11 111' r>i 1 li:; iiiiiir"; .irirl iiifi!,iK ;md lliis lold in l)ir>nlhlcikin<) im,itinry, II • ••" •. tl;.' 'iniy 111 Olo'.lp Imm ln-inrj ,1 pi;inn [)l,iyoi in n 1922 Can.ldi.in AN EXQUISITE- "1. Ml STARTLING DEAUTY IN AN EPIC ADVENTURE THIS YEARS EPIC ADVENTURE FILM! H,i',i'(l im Wilii.iin H.idi'ioii •; ncwH ^it fliirlnn S Spnkn. nncl n search tor the •JMil. .• Ill iiw Mrlp. Unl) UnlHr.nn Ifi Gniy PirK-.rs/Dl.ick Wi A FILM THAT STANDS WITH "AMADEUS" VERDI MAULER SCHUMANN MOZART BELLINI SCHUBERT ii'i- I-. .1 i|lnii 111', r iMiilniwIiiMi ol irirr.lilily b'Miilidil music .ind roninnlic slory •••!! ii'j i11" him '. i.i.itl invnlinn nnr! innsic cniiiliinn loni.nkril somdhiiifi vniy FRENCH (SUBTITLED) I'l. 1.1 liw. i.|ii. .il .1 '.imiPi nnd lii>i Iwo pioirtims is v/iivpn .iroiind thn •1 ji'i'l' nil,',11 ill I iinni"'^ iKP.iI (i>iii)Kisp(s II IR one of Ilio.so t.iic lilms llinl JOSE 'I '.'.•. I'M.' i,> ii'lii'.il inlo .iniillipi I. ind nl ip.ililv whpin Iho (iiiwi'i nl niiisic is Ifie^UStC • ".li-'i'iiiiMii'il hvl'iMiililiiliinuii'S A l<1in;ilMnil ninny dillcipiil Kaxl ot lovos. VAN •-•i.'.i'i'i |w.'|>(p [ip.iiily .inrl.iil llw.lOm LIMITED SEASON 9-15 AUGUST DAM iitini'iti ttiir WINNER DEST FILM: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL ••,•' :.. I, tii.li •.iici'K ol Hiiinli.w with lUKi AClois. tli(> sln(y of Ihpso .••.IIPPI • iii'!"h.in(i Mi.'ii MKViv.il. ninip Ihnn lli.ll Ihp sijinl v^ith which Ihny rinrsisl. is .•!• ,11111 .'.iio'lpi Di"T.lfi( M.iirsnsMiind.ind pnssionain lilm nbout Ihnm is •', 'I', -. who ntlmiir? powndiil and Irulhlul AL.A.Arvl % •' •• .:"lliiic| Mil 'i INTELLIGENT, EMOTIVE AND LARGER THAN LIFE. WINNER 5 FRENCH ACADEMY AWARDS I 'I'ii r'li.'i! .iiiil Ad|.ini wpip rpcpntly viilpd llip (innsl .iclois ol Iho dr^cadc by III.' I fi'iii h iiirii liitiiisliy. ,iiid Ihis lilni l)p,iis tiisliniony lo Ih.il (,iilh, Tho Irue ISAHIJLLL ADJANI Cj'KAKD DI-rAKDHiU ' i"i / 111 llin iiilonsp tpl,ilioiishi|i liplwpon sculptor. Aiirjiistn Rodin, and his in ''i'l iiii'.ti,.'.., IS .1 sloiy of pioloiiiid sf^nsiMlily. niils,ilinn wilh an inlnnsn 'ill - i"ii-. I'luTiiv l).i//lini| .ind r>nitiniiilK",. Artinni is supnih. II is tilrnntl in liluo i!"".''. ili,il i|ivi' .1 ciMWinorui cnsi lo Iho Bolirimnn ,nrli5ls qunrlets ol 19lli 1 ••(I'm',' I'.itr. iKinip ol tliido. Hiinll.Kid mid H.lli.ic. NOTE 2 HOURS. 33 CWiPLECUllDEL i.iinini •; (NniNiinMissiOMi EXTENDED SEASON FROM 23 AUGUST rilliSTOKYDI'KODIN'.S MI.SIKIiSS [PG] "ONE OP THE VUAKS TOP TF.N" IMS (Kin. s FROM THE DIRECTOR OF "PLATOON" Al I i.iiiiu'd .iMiiip of ihp most [wiwoifiil liiiiis in a lilclimc. this compelling story IJ 'iiiviv.nl in Ihp t^.1/1 Coni'.pntinlion r.inips, is n lilo nlliiininci (ilm thnl will WILLEMDAFOE EDWARD lAMES OLMOS Imii 11 \i«ii '.mil II IS .111 p«ppiipnrn VIMI will nnvpr Inrcicl .ind Iho i>"iliiiiii.iiH I", •.-.ill .I'.limi'.li vmi II .'"> Culms volpil il oiioof Iho lop Ir^n liltns ol li"i v.illi .iMi.i,'ini| pi'iliiiiii.ini.ps trom lU. ciltiM; C.isl. A lilin ol hiifh piiipose .im! o'.i'iv.'lii'lininii priWPi 2hi'i LIMITED SEASON 23-29 AUGUST TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT® THU-WED tD-25 JULY SAT-SUN MATINEES THU-TUE 9-14 AUG SAT, SUN, WED MATINEES vm DinDONAWIRE 2,45 DICKinACY 7PM MUSIC TEACHER 2.30 REVOLVING DOORS 7.15 ENEMIES (Sat-Sun) 4.45 BIRD ON A WIRE 9PM DICK TRACY 5PM MUSIC BOX ANOTHER 48 HRS ^45 MUSfC TEACHER 9.30 MUSIC BOX COOK THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 4,30 MOUNTAINS OF MOON ANOTHER 48 HOURS 4.45 BELLY OF AN ARCHFTECT FRI-WED 27-1 AUG SAT-SUN MATINEES 7PM COOK. THIEF. WIFE, LOVER 2.30 REVOLVING DOORS WED 15TH AUG (SEE MATINEES ABOVE) 7.30 REVOLVING DOORS 4,30 COOK, THIEF, WIFE, LOVER BELLY OF AN ARCHITECT 9PM COOK, THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 9.15 COOK. THIEF, WIFE. LOVER 5.15 MY LEFT FOOT ANOTHER 48 HOURS 9.30 ANOTHER 48 HOURS 9.30 DRAFTSMAN CONTRACT TMU-TUE 2-7 AUG SAT-SUN MATINEES 7PM CINEMA PARADISO 2.45 SALAAM BOMBAY 7PM COOK. THIEF. WIFE LOVER 2PM MOUNTAINS OF MOON SALAAM BOMBAY 3PM CINEMA PARADISO 7,30 REVOLVING DOORS 3PM REVOLVING DOORS COOK THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 4.45 COOK, THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 9.00 MOUNTAINS OF MOON 4.30 MOUNTAINS OF MOON DROWNING BY NOS. 5.15 REVOLVING DOORS 9.30 COOK. THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 5PM Zl-2 0's MON-WED 20-22 AUG WE3 OTH AUG 7PM CINEMA PARADISO 9.15 COOK, THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 7PM COOK, THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 9.15 COOK, THIEF, WIFE, LOVER 7.30 Z+2 0S 9.30 MOUNTAINS OF MOON 8PM MED. REVUE (UVE ON STAGE) • •••••••••• • •_• • • • • • • ••••••••• 20I8EMPER* Fifth Edition, July 1990 RECORDING CONTRACT FOR KING OF LEAGUE PLEASE HELP Craig is a seven year old boy who has a tumour In his brain and has a very short time The Cement Box to live. It is his ambition to have an entry in Beneath Schonell the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of GET WELL CARDS ever received byan individual. SCENE ONE: Company, the VET REVUE, (Fripper lets out a Please send a card to: A dusty concrete cavern somewhere in squeak of excitement and floats out the window), insignificance ... Hamlet the cockroaqh is U-DS are doing some Woody Allen plays in Craig Shergold standing on the head of his best friend Fripper August, the Armardians Cabaret, The University 36 Shelby Road the inflatable pony. Revue [if people would only ask Activities if they Carshalton could be in it!], THAT Ensemble's, and Hitler SURREY, SN81LD had a mother too. (That'll he really good since I'm ^ directing it, quipped Hamlet as an aside.) Fractal ENGUND Theatre Company, and finishingwit h a>bit of Beckett! I should put out a poster with all this on it!!! (Hamlet Stalks over to the bottomless Budget Well and slowly cranks up the money bag.) What, only two golden splqndsola's left! Curses! I spent it all on lights^nd new locks. I'll have to burn down the theatre for\He insurance. YES! (Instantly Hamlet sets fire to himself and runs madely about the WANTED theatre screaming "In the name of art!") An Old Style University of Qld Stick Pin. If you can help please contact: fta/yv*letis;c,;j^ MrA. Blela c/- Semper Students' Union Hamlet: (jumping up and down with hobnail boots) Ph. 371 2568 NO-ONE IS COMING! NO-ONE!(7fl response Fripper makes a rasping sound through a recently developed puncture,) (Hamlet thinks aloud, A quick soliloquy frothing on his lips.) Hamlet: BUT THERE IS MUCH TO SEE ... ^ VI QUT's productidn of Michael Froyn'sThe Benefactor 10-20th July, Nippon Teki Dance SAVE $! CLUBS & SOCIETIES Dear Kids, Well, did you pass your exams? Hope so, coz Semester 2 has some good things in store. CARPOOL Firstly, a few Clubs have had problems with sexism and racism in their magazines. The Union has definite policies against sexism and racism in any form, and as all material printed on Clubs and MATCHMAKING SERVICE Societies facilities is Union published, magazines must be produced at an acceptable level. Ifyou are Ifyou are looking for a lift or passengers to contributing to. or editing a Club Magazine BE A WARE of your responsibilities regarding this issue, share your petrol bills, fill out this form and and PLEASE A TTEND thefree Clubs and Societies Magazine Workshop in early August - We'll let return it to the Union Office or to your you know the date soon! Departmental/Faculty representative. A Other things happening in Second Semester include GRANTS (get your grants forms in by 2nd short list of names and contact phone August!), Expo Uni, Publication of the long awaited, everything-you-ever-wanted-to-knoiv-abotit Clubs numbers of suitable people (probably in and Societies Manual, and a Club Questionaire to find out what improvements YO U want in the area. your course) will be sent to you. Also take the opportunity to check out the Activities Workshops: for club groups of 8people or more they Please return this form by Friday, 20 July are offering a 20% discount on the workshop fee, so your club can get a really good deal AND learn (end of first week). about screenprinting, theatre, photography, or whatever. Wishing your Club Good Luck this Semester. Name: SAMANTHA BOUCHER CLUBS AND SOCIETIES Course & Yean VICE-PRESIDENT Address: Phone Number: Do you have your own car? WOMEN CREATE n YES D NO Times & Conditions: (give approximate times, // doesn't yet have a name, just a concept. The Women's Rights collective is going to existing arrangements witli other students, produce a magazine (provided we all put in some energy). It will be great, it will be vibrant, it will be exciting, and it will happen in 2nd semester. passenger spaces, etc.) IF YOU HELP! Write poetry, draw feelings, make reviews of books, write about your experiences as a woman, express yourself as you wish. Give/Lend your artistic masterpieces to Lynne Rodgers in the Women's Rights Office. (Yep, that's her, the groovy white-blonde in the corner of upstairs in the Union Building.) And join us to discuss this project in the first weeks back next semester. ^ ^n. ^- K'V PRINCESS DI TAKEN BY OZZIE CHARM Fifth FJilion, July 1990 •SEMPER! 21 innocuous looking glass of Jack Daniels. Beau spoke up "Louis here is investigating the Lamedick murder. Knuckles. What's news?" "Ncws.ahh... in Indiana there's a pig named Harry S. Truman who climbs trees and reads the morning paper." DEATH Ixuis hated that. If there was anything he hated more than a smartarse, it was a smartarse who thought that the inane human interest/animal stories at the end of the bulletin were newsworthy. Evidendy Beau hated that abo, judging by the melee just INTHE STUDENTS UNION started. He was all over the sdll grinning Knuckles like an ag- greisive bastard afflicted with a grave unsoundness of mind, which was hardly surprising, for about a minute, at which dme the flght ended not with a bang, as per usual, but with a squeaky noise that reminded Louis of the operation of a plunger on a blocked pipe. As the dust setded, the astonished detective took a quip from his burger, reasoning that he would rather eat a vomit sodden burger than have a spirit glass forced up his arse, as had Knuckles. Whichisquitea reveladon really. Th e person having a 'pewky' burger rarely thinks of the person with a large piece of glassware caught up their bottom. In the same way, thought Louis, he was fortunate to have a burger at all, what with all the starving mil A Story (In Parts) of Power, lions in the Third World laboring at the whim of some spotty- faced graduates in the IMG, and Bureaucracy, in losing his mind and a teensy bit of National pride in Nam, had sdll lost far less than Passion and Poultry from the pen most of the peasants left in the wake of his State-sponsored wave of malignant destruction. Knuckles was an exception. The pro position that someone's welfare could positively be enhanced by off. James Wyoming having something the size of a Rubick's Cube rammed up their bottom would be taking the perspecdve thingalitdetoo far. Sdll, Lewis, in conceiving of a Universe in which he was not the central axis and his own wants and needs the most d isdncdve feature was DEDICATED TO AUSTRALIA'S in uncharted and turbulent philosophical waters, that a me GREATEST ORTHODOX MARXIST-LENINIST SUPERFISH diocre type like himself, whose fashion tastes were appallingand included in his possessions a full set of Nik Kershaw albums, would not be expected to sail. Soon after he returned to the beachhead he knew so well to rebuild the sandcastles crushed each evening by the celesdally PART jpetsr directed dde, He meandered to the shore to look for dangerous life in the murky green water, and fished a speck of turkey firom the sliced lettuce. 99 Beau, the interogator, was flashing a shaft of white light at the "The Revolution Betrayed and Other Tall Tales fat, sweaty throat of his prisoner, which turned out to be a rolled up copy of the Council minutes. His face was becoming red and his eyes were expanding. He wasn't as distressed as die unre- lendng Knuckles, however, who looked for all die world like someone with a spirit glass up their bottom. "Listen, ya hacking commie fag gook slime, tell us or well have ya on the minutes for censure before ya can say 'Services and Finance'." Knuckles gave in. It shocked Louis that a person who could take die pain and embarassment of a strategically employed spirit glass in a public place like the Rec Club, could cry like a baby when a mild rebuke from the controlling faction on Union Coun cil was threatened. It was the confounding mystique of bureau cracy. The note in Kirk's pocket referred to a stock market coup that Hughes and Lamedick wereplanningforthenext day, President Murphy was part of a force using while supremacy and the inevitable hegemony of the Aryan lace as a pretext for saving the Environment, the Refectory was controlled by a Colombian consortium, the SWRTWP had signed up a "high profile Bris bane football identity" for their B.C.C. push and almost every one had expressed an explicit intention to kill Kirk at some dme. Intro: \m\s, Feraud and Cindy Simpson, dcsparatcly seeking the identity of Kirk Lamcdick's killer, have taken different His glass extracted afler the information, Beau smiled. courses. Cindy has joined a group of conservatives while Louis has just had Bureaucracy Jones vomit on his burger. "An old SAS trick", he explained, "old jack Daniels will never forgive me." Knuckles made an otitragcously witry comment aboul the (jiiis Fcr.iml foiiiui hiinsi'll'iipon die horns of a t)iian(l:ii-y. shaped face or noting the 'devil may care* streak in his depart Dibb Report and how he hoped World War Three started in a ment and grooming, but he was a wit, a wag, and everyday he Ill- II;KI SDK uf nislx'd in wlici r angels might I'lMrlo nvacl, place where drinb were served which would have been totally imnivalccl l)y liis frclinKs for ilic ilihcsoinc Cindy Simi)- rame closer to his fate. Duly-bound, he embellished conver L unmemorable if not for the fact that it was delivered with more son. To lind ihc killer of her rriciid Annie. To help her sation wilh witty remarks and demonstrations of bis exquisite grace and amiability than would normally lie expected of a find a new Job. liiil most of all to );ive her a lusty old rnssiekiiip controt of the English l.mguagc. He was even a wit among wits, person who had jusl experienced total bowel dysfunction. uitli the veritableanreaterni'Iovc that he ha(lsoin<'liowtniiiin(^e(i having thought u)) a particularly sardenic and clever rhyme "Let's have a few drinks", offered Louis and the three resumed lo keep within ihe ((infines of his naily, striped Irotisers. If about r\'slir fibrosis, amongst olher achievements. But alike all their seated positions, one soon after deciding that it would be wistloin ha 22 • S E M P E R • FiT/i EdiUon.July 1990 and the bastard bleeds. t this the groups attention was drawn to the Blues perfor mer, Angus, just introduced to the crowd. He was a tall Seven Little Trotskyites, A man with a straight back. His face was pale and long, Sitting in a Porsche, cheeks hanging like steaks in a butchery, and jet black hair greased and plastered back from a furrowed brow which an One turns the ignition, insea could enter never to be seen again. His black lurdeneck they're all as good as borscht. sweater grabbed at the jowls under his chin, a pinstriped jacket fallingfrom hisshouldersasifhewereaclothes hanger. Looking Four Little Liberals, at him Cindy could not help but think of the poor children of drinking, having fun. northern Britain. If evera white man was bom to sing the blues, it Someone produces a bazooka was Angus Innes. and then there were none. "Once I believe we would rule this sute in our own right", he started, his husky voice the only noise in the Club Bar. Two Little Anarchists, "Once I believe we would rule this State," sitting down for tea. The brutal self parody, the pause for dramatic effect and the '/'. •'.• ' i ' ''.'7 •'' 1' '•''- '-• 'tJ^l. One spills a grenade, deadpan expression came togedier to make an impression that and then there were three." was gloriously pathetic, A saxophone moaned, and Angus portrayed in verse and song the misery, the misunderstanding, the shattered hopes and The verses resounded above the din of excitement. Coun dreams, cillors went bananas at the sight but Union Security kept every "Hopeless. It's just hopeless," whispered Cindy as she choked thing in hand. The greenies, combatinga fire started by a piece of back the tears. The whole crowd lived with the very blue man in schrapnel, came a cropper as ones hair caught alight and no-one the spotlight. He lifted them, made them cry, made them drink could accept the fascist implicadons of stomping it out with their from the cup of sorrow. He gave to them, and in attention, they dessert boots. gave to him. "Four Little Liberals", thought Louis, "Four Little Liberals." So much so, in fact, that no-one noticed a curtain beingpushcd aside and the appearance of the muzzle of a bazooka in its place. ^yir non-perjorative, really, and it is a fortuitous coincidence that indy Simpson, I'd like you to meet Ruth, my girl these men have had a comprehensive private school education friend, and Paul and Trent, two of my friends from affording them an embarassment of adjectives with which to s Louis Feraud awoke he felt the weight of the world on the Liberal Party. What will you be having?" "C replace "nice". his shoulders. Nine deaths, yet his amazing powers of "Champagne, Darling. Pleased to meet you," So Robert, Paul orTrcnt would say "That waitress has luscious deduction could not be brought to hear on the situation. "Hard day at the Exchange- Bulls are Roaring, Robert. Char- breasts", to which the feminist Ruth Spender would reply. A His head throbbed, and his body ached, the effects of too donnay." "Yes, but my breasts are luscious-er". Not a classical feminist much alcohol at the Rec Club. "Chardonnay... No,bettermake itadouble. Charmed. Don't I reply, true, but she reasoned that ifyou were going to fight male "How did I get here? The reality of a gap in consciousness know you from somewhere?" chauvinism, you might as well fight it on the grounds of mate struggled from the fuzzy texture of his punished mind. He con "Err, I don't think so. May I have a mineral water?" Cindy rialism. People should find their own form of protest against cluded that he must have been particularly rat-arsed last night Simpson, lowly checkout attendant in the global food chain had injustice, lest the organisation of protest should create more of and somehow he had ended up on the sofa, somewhere. accepted Roben Hughes' invitation to the Royal Blues Club with the same. Suddenly, his toes, apprehending the proximity of another a twinge of apprehension, and her fears had been played out in But on that night she could not. Ruth's tongue had virtually cold body, sent a nervous message. Louis' brain, which would cheap theatricals.Therehadalwaysbeensomethingabout stock passed out, drowned over a number of hours in Venve Clicquot, have hurt him if it was the main ingredient in a dish at a Thai brokers, and all whose designated purpose in life v«s the ac and her lips moved with the dexterity of two Spenn Whales on restaurant, received the message, realising then that the weight cumulation of personal wealth and leisure the promulgadon of ecstacy. on this shoulders was not a metaphorical approximation of exalted opinion that made Cindy's blood boil. Something about And none of the boys had said anything about the waitress, personal pressure, but was, in fact, a weight on his shoulders. the way they came pongily into the supermarket after aerobics whose breasts must therefore remain an unknown quantity to He grinned at the prospect. Obviously the old Feraud charm and bought valuable things that they couldn't possibly need.The the reader. They knew that one of the most adaptable and en had lured anotherfairmaiden into his clutches. Probably Cindy, way they went to trendy restaurants, complained bitterly about during institutions, was under seige and there was no guarantee he thought. He opened his eyes, expecting to see some expres the service and food, audited the bill but sdll left a generous tip that Cindy Simpson was not a member of the dreaded Thought sion of serene contentment brushed across some lucky dollface. just to show how generous and forgiving and senselessly wealthy Police. 11 was like 198 4, the nineties. Thought Police. Sex Crime. He was a bounder. they really were. The way they watch L. A. Law, and said that h was 'Big Sister is Watching You'. Big Sister, who wore tightly cropped good. What he saw was a bit more serious. The prospect did have a hair, with metal capped fightingboots , had the ability to look, at serene look, though contentment was a bit out of the question, as Yes. Though she was a litde pcdandc at dmes, it could not be once, like almost everybody who had ever lived before. He/She Lewis had been in the sack with a filing cabinet. denied that Cindy harbored a good deal of resentment for those weilded power like a big, non-phallic stick and had a famous and who nomianted themselves high priests and proteaors of the popular writer who wrote "Big Sister is a tasteless and ugly drag Now he had been to Balls before, and had been involved with canon of western materialism. To those who noted the basically queen" disappeared by the Gay Media Mafia. inanimate objects, but waking up with a piece of office equip un-Chrisdan nature of hate, Cindy would reply that if heaven ment was taking his long standing fixation with Bohemian he Fear was the key to submission, and as Roben and his friends donism a little too far. charged an eternity for ambrosia and then served it in half mea sat talking in the speakeasy about women in a way that seemed sures, then she wasn't fucking well going. Their only redeeming both natural and primal, they felt themselves the last men on "Jeez, filingcabinet s themselves don't even touch other filing feature, according to Cindy, was that with all their gratuitous earth, part of a grand worldwide resistance which fate and shoe cabinets". (True. Social scientists have proven that new filing capital formadon, yuppies did not seem to have the dme or the design had allowed beneath the jackboots of androgyny. cabinets appear. When files are exchanged between existing inclimauon to reproduce themselves and in dme, they would cabinets in a stream lining and simplification of the office filing most probably revert to a sub-cultural existence, just like the This was all fanciful. The Woridwide Resistance, of Chau system.) preppies and the hippies before them. vinism was torpedoed at the first by its own Founders. Smashed by racism, another universal, yet particular institution, held in Louis shrinked at the embarassment of it all and commited As the hours passed Cindy grew to be as full of scorn for the high esteem by the Resistance. himself to exagerating how pissed he was last night. Which yuppies she was drinking with as they were at expensive French would be quite difficult as he had actually jumped through a first "Listen, I'm quite prepared to have some bloke stand up in Champagne and a series of cocktails having more colours dian floor window with a filing cabinet in a "headlock" chanting Canberra and say that all women are intellectually inferior to may bie found in a rainbow, but marginally less than may be "Resign, Resign!!" in its car. That explained the bruises and men, but I won't have any bloody Japs comin' ere and talkin found in an imported silk de. Her feelings towards them, pre cuts. about our girls like that. Or any coons. Look at what we've given viously amorphous and fiundy illegidmate, became as sharply *em already." Bureaucracy strode in and told Louis how he hid the President's defined as a double breasted business suit. filing cabinet in the sofa, and apologised for the inconven ience. So under die watchful eye of die Thought Police, Robert and But if Cindy harbared resentment for them, then in Paul, "No clues, though". his friends talked about other things. Wine, about which they Trent and Robert's, feelings for her, the Sixth Fleet had come to knew nothing, Politics, where they knew everything, and spon, "Phew!!", thought the detective, undefiled. town, singing, drinking, partying, screwing, buying, selling, ex where there was nothing to know, until they edged onto the "Yes, while you were asleep, I saw something strange. When I posing themselves to early morning joggres, and otherwise ex Environment which yielded a spirited discussion as the four arch was at breakfast there was a guy in a brown suit with a crewcut and posing themselves as Americans, with a nuclear capacity for conservatives, for ail their intolerant attitudes, were green. As a monocle who looked just like Ozone sitting opposite me". destrucdon. It was of a different dimension, their opposidon to green as the Creme de Mendie in their drinks. Elegantly green. "Wow, that's amazing Bureaucracy. I think it could be very Cindy's condnuing prescence amongst them, for it did not re Exquisitely green. But without the artificial additives, not green important." gard what she had become, or what she had done, but rather what in any way whatsoever. As green as the contents of a skinhead's "Yeah, and there was a litde purple Council worker going rat- she was, or what she had done, but ratherwhat she was, a woman. gob (after it has been cleared in the direction of a passing en a-tat-tat on his head with a pneumatic drill and in the kitchen a For this was die Club, a speakeasy, and women like Cindy were vironmentalist). not welcome. White Rhino in a frilly apron was cooking breakfast". His face But their essential ungreenness aside, the four yuppies at the had the earnest expression of a protest singer. "What do you bar were definitely green, and green for a purpose. Just as, no think it means?" matter how precisely you bent the straws like little grasshopper Its meaning was beyond the hungover Louis. On a better day legs and placed the maraschino cherries on the rim like little he might have noted that the observation could mean that if Beau grasshopper eyes, you could not sell a drink having the appea wanted to be a viable member of the community then he should rance of skim milk as a Grasshopper, you just could not sell n't do things like sprinkling a halvconagenic on his cornflakes. yourself as an aware, nineties person ifyou weren't green. After reading themselves for the day, the pair departed. Beau "Like, at work, we got a book of great recycling rips," Paul on a secret mission and Louis for the Uni, As they left, they found continued. a freshly killed swallow on the doorstep. f course the need for groups of men to come together to "Yes, I lost mine". "Junior!", Beau fumed. "I've told th em that that cat ofj oanna's discuss the qualities of women that they know or don't "Well that was pretty damn good, Trent, losing a book of is just no good, it's unsociable, unreliable, and a bird killer to O know, tradidonally kept totally in the dark about the recycling tips," chimed Robert, sarcastic. boot. My Rory would never do anything like that..." proceedings, has been a custom that has been with us "Sounds great. Paul, could I lend your copy?" Rudi was in The respective merits of dogs and cats occupied Louis and far longerthan yuppies have. Itisacustom which has crossed the terested. Bureacracy most of the way down Hawken Drive, and the latter barriers of language and religious tradidon. Some adaptadona wa so engrossed with the philosophical quandary that he failed are necessary in Islamic fundamentalist nadons, where a man is "Why don't you get your own instead." "Well that's really good, Paul. Not lendingsomeoneabookon to notice when he trod in a superior mound of dog crap on the liable to have his willy chopped offand hungaround his neck for side of the pavement. Still, there are none as blind as those who recycling. Good use of the earth's resources and things". Robert mendoning anything more than "attractive eyes". It has also will not see. crossed the barrier of class. Marx and Engels, it is said, would was trying to make a point, and his quest was taken up by suf share a bit of a sdfiy every time a fraulien nanny pushing a pram fering Cindy, who spoke to Paul sharply. happened to pass their sitting room window. But also in th is case "Maybe the best use of the recycling hookas a resource would Next Month - The Final Chapter, changes arc necessary. While the common man in a public bar be ifyou stuck it down your throat until you choked to death." vnll feel quite happy to observe, over the rim of his beer glass, The majority of the party fell about in raucous laughter as if that "The baimaid has nice du," there are people who cringe at Cindy had made a joke, but Paul was in tears. How was Cindy to plebian terms such as "barmaid" and "dts" and woijld prefer know his stockbroker brother had killed himself in the crash of 'That waitress has nice breasts". A proposition too clinical and '91 by choking himself on a wad of poor figures? HOTEL ROOM MIX-UP IN ROYAL RUGBY SCANDAL Fifth Edition. July 1990 •SEMPERB23 CADILLJiMAN NUNS ON THE RUN rity by transferring child-parent relation holism, acne and necrophilia, love is lust, death, and a dog from Hell. Love is not Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane (who ships into sexual ones. PRE-PRODUCTION beautiful. But Crazy Love is a beautiful should know better) play crooks on the Ariel makes a deal with the Sea Witch, Y: OK, it's a film about a car salesman. movie. X: II would get a bigger market with a bit run, and (this is the clever bit) they dress trading her beautiful voice for "legs" and of sex. up as NUNS. Get it? This is straightfor the chance to meet Prince Eric on land. ward, harmless, knockabout fun; not Prince Eric must also undergo a change: Y: How about ( give him two girlfriends really as puerile as it sounds, but nothing he must learn to appreciate Ariel as a and an ex-wife. to write home about eilher. human being, msleiid of a singing mer X: Sounds cooi. (meaningful pause) I really maid, and thus overcome his childish at wanted to make an actHMi movie this time. tachment to fantasy-women. The film's DICK TRACY Y: Well, what about we have this crazed climax is blatantly Oedipal. Ariel's father Dick who? guy with an AK-47 appear. is symbolically castrated, .allowing Ariel NICK DENT X: Yeah? How does that fit in with the BLOOD OATH and Eric to be united as independent sex saleman bit? ual beings (liberated from parental domi The historical drama is an ail-too fa nation of their sexual lives). Y; It doesn't really, but we could have the miliar Australian genre. And the subject whole NYPD anti-terrorist squad turn up of Japanese war atrocities on Australian U nderstanding the psychology, and kno which would be good. prisoners is a touchy one to say the least, wing that after all it's just the Hollywood BABETTE'S FEAST dream factory cashing in on school holi Before you go to "Babette's Feast", days, doesn't mean I'm unaffected byThe make sure you book a table at your favou Little Mermaid as pure entertainment. I rite restaurant for afterwards. If you can't, at am. Enormously. But the film's message least make sure you've got enough mo is self-defeating: like so many others suc ney for a Big Mac. You'll need it. This film ked in by this beguiling movie, I'm now is literally mouth-watering. hopelessly in love wilh Ariel. Yes! It's It is a beautiful film set on a cold Nor true! And I don't just mean I love her. I wegian island, and the dialogue is almost REALLY love her. I lust after her achingly, totally in Norwegian - except for a few with that desperate, insane kind of lust lines of French. that only animated characters can inspire. "Babette's Feast" plumbs depths of The world may laugh, but who cares? intense emotion. One of its three central Who wants to grow up? characters, Babette, isa French maid and cook to two Norwegian sisters. The two sisters were once luscious young women who served their pig-headed religious mi nister of a father on the small desolate CRAZY LOVE island. Babette comes to their house The perfect antidote to Pretty Woman when their father is (Thank God) dead, (and The Little Mermaid, for that matter) and theyare by this stage grey-haired and - a film that stomps all over conventional leading the tiny religious fellowship their movie romance. The experiences of the father left. Babette had escaped the "perverted" central character ring pain French Revolution which killed all her lo fully true. For Harry Voss, love isn't sim ved ones. The lovely, if puritanical sisters Cedillat Man ple or pure. Love is masturbation, alco give her refuge. X: Great-do it. Of course, a bit of humour with the current economic climate. Blood would be good. Oath, however, drags itself out of the bo Y: We could get Robin Williams to be the ring miniseries mode to end up a eulogy salesman. to the innocent victims of war, Australian X: OK, bul I want to write his lines; I'm and Japanese. Although the characters Don't you deserve sure I could write some pretty funny stuff remain a mite shallow, it's well-made and compelling. It's also a little bit subver if I tried. sive, and that can't be a bad thing. Y: Think we should change the title? It's not really about salesmen anymore. X: So wha^ they won't find out until they're THE BEST in there if we do the publicity right. for your suit hire? Ben Power THE LITTLE MERMAID CADILLAC MAN I do not make a habit of crying in mo vies, i'm not the type, i did not cry in Dead Somewhere in this good movie there's Poets Society, for instance, or Beaches a great one trying to get out. You can see (but then who did?). But for whatever rea it in the repartee betiveen Robin Williams' son, I came damn near to shedding a tear smarmy salesman and Ttm Robbins' in Ibe Little Mermaid. baby-faced, gullible gunman: the winner FORMALWEAR versus the loser, the buyer verses the sel Fairy tales retain Iheir fascination be ler, reality flipped over into paranoia. It cause of the way they deal in primal fears almost becomes a parable of modem so (in the same way horror movies do). Dis ciety, on the dangersof juggling too many ney fairy tales make those fears vivid and things at once. What we end up with, of grotesque - everyone has memories of 132 Albert Street (Opposite King's Carpark) course, is a celebration, not a condem being dragged along to a Disney film at at BRISBANE 229 6633 nation, of consumerism. Robin Williams tender age. Perhaps the surprisingly as Joey O'Brien is your Realised car sales deep chord this film struck in me has some man who can talk you out of your money, thing to do with my memories of child your wife out of her clothes, and (appa hood. GREAT SAVINGS! rently) an armed looney into submission. Disney movies delve into very basic But 11m Robbins' Larry, who can't keep human needs. In this one, Ariel, (the little Including Suit, Shirt, Bow Tie, Ctunmerbond up with life economically or sexually and mermaid) wants to leave the protection finailyexplodes,isthereal, tragic hero. In of her father (the King of the Sea) to be and "Pocket Hankie" spite of this it is Williams we are forced to come a human and to marry the hand identify with - America can't stand films some Prince Eric. This means leaving the about losers - and that's why Gidillac warm sea and its carefree pleasures for Man doesn't quite work. Sure, it's a funny the big cold world. It also means Ariel movie - but it couid have been so much must gain a pair of legs, and therefore more. It left me feeling like the Tim Robbins everything that goes between them. 25% character - as if I'd been cheated by a What we're dealing with here is pure smooth talker. Freud: the adolescent's search for secu- DISCOUNT Dinner Suits from $35,- (Booking to be made 1 month prior to function) 24BSEMPER* Fifth Edition, Jidy 1990 KYUE AND WAL - A 8INGINQ SENSATION E V I E W S The film is quiet and slow, but reveals bears little resemblance to real things. from Japanese theatre. Clever cross-cut ing to what I assumed were Icelandic drin the yearnings of the human heart with Tbis bunch of likely lads began their rise ting and oveHapping between the two - king songs, the theme from 'Shaft' (tacky force.Thetwodesires of humankind: that of fame performing in the Gay bars in San surreal torture scenes juxtaposed with 70's disco song, movie theme, perhaps which craves "worldly" things, and that Francisco. The love interst is intensely rational business talk- create some start best remembered as a Channel 0 promo which seeks the spiritual plane, are shown heterosexual and there is never a mention ling thematic effects. theme) pumped out of the speakers and to be enemies in the first part of the film. of the gangs true sexual preference. This the band assumed their positions and As the characters desperation escala Yet gently the two are somewhat recon only makes the movie more amusing, es Bjork and Einer skipped on and pranced tes, the images and sounds of Japanese ciled in the magnificent feast Babette ser pecially the sequence where the construc as if under command from Romper Room's culture/technology become almost over ves. Miss Betty. tion worker fantasizes about dancing whelming. Tbis makes the playwright's "Babette's Feast" is not showing at the with 20 or so women in red high heels. point abundantly clear. Australia is por As they launched into their first song, it moment, but pops up now and again. However, watch the look on their faces as trayed languishing at the feet of its former became clear that Bjork was an awesome Catch it when you can. they enter a dressing room crammed full enemy, intimidated as much by its culture If somewhat unconventional singer as Monica Long of naked young male atheletes. It's a bit and traditions as by its economic power. she whooped and squawked whilst all the of a giveaway. The idealism and naiveity of young men in time being offset by Einer's often talked So the next time you're down the video the war is succeeded by the naivety of a or yelled vocals. In the past I had always shop with your flatmates and they are country being overtaken by a worid mar- felt annoyed at his recorded ramblings, debating the relative merits of Top Gun kef. feeling that he detracted from the band where as now it made much more sense. He doubled as the crazy cabaret M.C, CAN'T STOPTHE which commenced with some banter MUSIC akin to "Hello Ugly Brisbane, this is ugly Directed and produced by Allan Carr. Iceland Calling". The patter between songs also lead to some of the strangest Can't Stop the Music is one of those introductions to songs I have ever seen rare movies that achieves greatness by such as the four singers making train noi being absolutely awful. It is also Steve ses, Bjork gunning ferociously all the Gutenberg's first movie - a debut he would while. The rest of the band stationed rather forget, I'm sure. around them, in particular Margi looked The slory is as follows: Jack Morell (pla like rejects from The Exploding Plastic yed by Steve) is a young composer who Inevitable. Overall, I was thoroughly im flats in New York with a glamorous re pressed and entertained by the Sugarcu tired model (played by Valerie Perrine). bes but found that after awhile, the very Jack Feels his music is good enough to set quirkiness that their success is founded the world on fire, so hts flatmate approa on began to irritate me immensely so ches her record-company-directing ex- much so that I decided to step outside. boyfriend to try and land a recording con Tainted Violets and the Ziggerants sup tract. No dice. Mr Recording Executive ported and both had the opportunity of informs her that to get Steve's songs onto playing through a sound system of a more a record he's going to need a band. So decent quality than usual and both bene then they hold auditions and... you gues fitted. The Ziggerants, in particular, were sed it. They end up with the Village Peo and Three Men and a Baby, give them a Shimada helps define Australia histo real surprise. Hire 'Can't Stop the Music' rically as an Asian country, and ultimately a complete surprise. Having only heard ple. The rest is as they say, history. Al their independent single I was not expec though made in 1980 this movie absolu and re-live the seventies in all (heir sic serves as a warning against allowing his kening splendour. After all, this is the nine tory to repeat itself. It's an imaginatively- ting them to be as together a they were. tely reeks of the 70's (remember the de With only bass, guitar and drums at their cade where peopte'ssenseof taste could ties kiddo. You'll be doing a lot of things written, well acted and powerfully staged production. And it packs more insights disposal they managed through clever onlybe found up their assholes).The men you haven't done before. into Australian society than a dozen Si arrangements to play a diverse set high wear flared trousers, pre-Reebok type DAVID MORGAN rens. (Cremorne Theatre, 5 July - 4 Au lighting their strong songwriting skills. running shoes and tight fitting t-shirts gust.) The vocals are shared between Tess, the with brown horizontal stripes. The wo bassist, and the guitarist and are, to my men wear white high-heeled sandals, fet Nick Dent ears, reminicent of the Falling Toys and ching little numbers made of rayon (us eariy Pretenders, The Ziggerants could ually bright red and green) and 17 layers SHIMADA easily be Brisbane's next musical export of mascara. But the best costume award On the surface, Jill Shearer's play Shi- to the worid - see them now. must surely go to Valerie Perrine's boy mada may seem a contrived exploitation friend, an uptight tax lawyer played by of popular sentiment. Well, if you survive WALLFLOWERS GAVIN WALLER Bruce Jenner (an ex-USA Olympic athlete). the horrors of a Japanese PO W camp and Selftltled years later are forced to sell out your busi Having thrown off his suit to join the rest It's sort of moody, sort of innercity, ness to a Japanese conglomerate (the si of the musical gang, he dons-wait for it- sort of cute, sort of guitarish, sensitive tuation faced by Shimada's central cha brief cut-off denim shorts and a white and alternative, and it's fucking bland. midriff-length t-shirt (years before Ma racter), then you are obwously going to donna re-invented the trend). be a little mi^ed. It's like writing a play I hate staging independent bands con about how bad child abuse is: the dice are sidering they need all the support they The glitzy production numbers are can get in this shit music industry, and enough to make anyone squirm with em loaded, the response pre-programmed. Luckily, Shimada isa muchmore thought prefer not to review them if I think their barassment. Slow motion shots, split product isn't very good. But these people screens and rapidly .panning back and ful and evocative piece of work than its plot outline might suggest. insisted we should, so I'm prepared to forth a la ABBA filmclip are the order of make an exception. I even listened to the the day here. Howl with laughter as Va Eric Dawson is the elderiy sales mana whole record -very carefully, and trying lerie (wearing a 'Macho Woman' t-shirt) ger of the North Queensland bicycle fac to like it VERY HARD. The production is takes her campy crew for a jog around tory he established with his war buddy good, but the delivery was just too he the YMCA changerooms. Goggle in CI ive. When the play opens Clive is one sitant and bland. amazement as the boys don their all- year dead and the business is being run by whites for a commercial and sing: 'Do the his widow Sharyn. Facing tough times, Buy some Marshalls and turn them up shake, do the shake, to the milkshake, the Sharyn is forced to submit to an overseas to 10, you know you like it really. milkshake, do the shake.' But even more franchise, and to Eric's horror the bidders Peter memorable than these visual delights is are Japanese. To make matters worse, the dialogue. To describe it as truly awful Eric sees the Japanese representative, Mr would be kind. It would make a director of Uchiyama, as the reincarnation of Shi dieap pornographic movies cringe. Bruce mada, the brutal guard he remembers Jenner, whilst removing the frock of his from his POW days. THESUGAR bonk-to-be, drops an absolute pearier On the subject of the war, Ihe play is CUBESp TAINTED 'This is the 80's, kid. You'll be doing a lot admirably dispassionate, seeking neither VIOLETS, THE of things you haven't done before.' to accuse nor absolve Japan. This is an As a child I could never quite figure out Australian play, and its subject is the Aus ZIGGERANTS why my mother would tum an interesting tralian national consciousness. The play The Sugarcubes, fresh from an oozing shadeof grey when I would dance around wright has collaborated with the director courtship mth the international music to the tunes of the Village People. Much andthedesignerto create sinister images press, finally gave the more curious among less why she didn't let go of my hand once and sound effects which evoke the clash st us the opportunity of seeing this "phe on our 3 day visit to San Francisco. Being of culture and loyalty going on in Eric's nomena" in the flesh. The good news was only ten years olf the meaning of the song mind. The elongated stage is divided in that live, at Easts, they effortlessly sur 'Liberation' was lost on me and a 'homo two. One side of the factory office where passed the recorided versions of their sexual' was something you called your the contemporary drama is played out in songs which were a collection from both next door neighbour when he stole your naturalistic style. The other is the sha the bands albums- 'Life's Too Good' and Lego. Now that I'm older and wiser it's dowy, symbolic stage of Eric's memories 'Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week'. clear that the story presented on screen and dreams, which borrows elements After approximately an hour of listen WAL SECURES 8P0RTINQ DEAL WITH BBC Fifth Edition. July 1990 •SEMPERB25 ARTS THEATRE WHAT Share the humour, hilarity, pathos and MUSIC warmth of the characters created by •JAZZ Dylan Thomas. Performances Sunday ON 6 p.m. and Monday and Tuesday 8 p.m. FRIDAY 25 JULY - SATURDAY 28 JULY Tickets: $10/$7 concession. LYRIC THEATRE STAGE, 8.30 p.m. THEATRE BRIEF LIVES JUDICONNELLI THE REMOVALISTS WEDNESDAY JULY 4- SATURDAY One of Australia's most versatile TUESDAY 28 AUGUST- SATURDAY 1 performers, Judi Connelli, performs in SEPTEMBER: 7.30 p.m. (2 p.m. Sat 1st JULY 28 PRINCESS THEATRE cabaret style, with a seven piece band. Sept) Tickets $27.50. CREMORNE THEATRE Cures for pimples, cures for sciatica, David Williamson's daring drama de cures for gout and cures for phlegm. picting how authority degenerates into New ideas on educating young French ARTY THINGS • TRANSFORMERS brutality when an incident of domestic boys and tales of school masters and QUEENSLAND ART FRIDAY 20 JULY violence escalates to entrap violater their whipping fits - John Aubrey will Amazing duo, Peter Blakeley and Steve and victims. Tickets: $15/$10 educate and enlighten you. Performed GALLERY Cummings, play at Transformers. concession. Presented byThe by TN! Theatre Company. From Tuesday to Saturday 7.30 p.m., matinees on July FILMS University College of Southern FRIDAY 27 JUNE-12.30 PM • WILDERNESS TOUR Queensland. 21 and 28 at 2 p.m. Bookings: 876 3009. GALLERY LEQURE THEATRE THURSDAY 29 JULY 'Stanley Spencer Part 2 - War and Eric Bogle and Kev Carmody play at the SHIMADA Peace': Looks at two periods in his life; Schonell. THURSDAY JULY 5 - SATURDAY in the army in Macedonia during Worid AUGUST 4 (excluding Sundays and DANCE War 1 and his work as a war artist in the Mondays) Glasgow Shipyards during Worid War •NICK CAVE CREMORNE THEATRE SUNCORP THEATRE li. THURSDAY 19 JULY Shimada explores a clash of cultures MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AND Admission Free. QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY between Australia and Japan: two OTHELLO REFECTORY countries related geographically and FRIDAY 6 JULY - SATURDAY 21 JULY economically but still chilled with Ihe The Queensland Ballet presents an QUEENSLAND •FAITHNO MORE memory of Worid War II. Tickets: evening with Shakespeare as they PERFORMING ARTS SUNDAY 29 JULY $19.20/$15.50. perform two great works. COMPLEX TRANSFORMERS ALL MY SONS FILMS • TOMMY EMMANUEL FRIDAY 6 JULY-SATURDAY 4 WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUST- SATURDAY AUGUST MAKING 11 AUGUST SATURDAY 28 JULY- SUNDAY 29 ARTS THEATRE CONTACTS CREMONE THEATRE i^^^ TRAVELODGE Arthur Miller's powerful, passionate Olivier Film Festival drama about a family drawn together by CONTACT YOUTH • OPERA August 8-1.30 p.m.: Pride and a son's heroism only to be torn apart by THEATRE LYRIC OPERA OF QUEENSLAND Prejudice (1940), 7.30 p.m.: As You a father's cowardice. It deals in the CONTACT Youth Theatre is running TUESDAY AUGUST 7,14, 21, & 25 Like It (1936) hard currency of social realism and term-time and holiday workshops for - La Trovatore - Sung in Italian with August 9-1.30 p.m.: Wuthering personal tragedy. Performances every young people between the ages 8 to 25 English Subtitles) - 7.30 p.m. - Tickets: Heights (1939), 7.30 p.m.: Henry V Wednesday to Saturday at 8 p.m. years at the Queensland Cultural Concessions available. Tickets: $14/$10 concessions. For Centre and other venues. Workshops (1945) bookings phone 369 2344. are offered in Busking, Creative Writing August 10-1.30 p.m.: Rebecca (1940), SATURDAY 11,13,18 & 22 AUGUST and Dance. For information please get 7.30 p.m.: Richard III (1955) La Boheme - Lyric Theatre (Sung in UNDER MILK WOOD in touch with Brenda Johnson August 11-3 p.m.: Othello (1965), Italian with English subtitles) - 7.30 p.m. - SUNDAY 15 JULY-TUESDAY 31 JULY (Administrator) on 840 7209. 7.30 p.m.: The Entertainer (1960) Tickets: Concessions available. WHO'S AFRAID OF THE ~ W i D WORLD 'K^ !Sfc«iS^owKSiHK*^ {•i?fh-:^:^t'''\'- 1852.4 'ml TB The Students Union Welfare Officexan Itelp out with ji odation. 4*I^*^^^X Austudy and the Dole. /FTS ' f^W:. SeeDiM^bghai Room 9. Union BuUdingpK #^1 26HSEMPER* Fifth Edition, July 1990 WALLY BUYS THE BBC -WORLD DOMINATION WITHIN HIS GRASP RATION ^ PlN€ Af^ HL Mark Minson here! I've just finished JKIOO so I hard-hitting assignment and can give them freebies. was on what it's lOie to Uve on Austudy (I couldn't get It because Mum lutely loaded). SEMPER: Is it easy? VICTORIA: Most bookshosp are specially designed for SEMPER: Tell us about your ideology, of life on Austudy. make them work for you. Whether they are flat or round, 'product liberation'with one or two notable exceptions. The VICTORIA: Basically! see that the 200 richest people in this Uiey aid you in seeing behind you without tumingyourhead. first exception is the electric bookshop. In this shop, books country own 10% of the gross national product and the Also shop assistants rarelyloo k in diem. Two way mirrors are have two types of stickers on them. The first t>'pe of sticker is richest 10% of people own 80% of the G.N.P. So I believe in a big problem. A two-way mirror means someone can sec small and harmless. The second type of sticker is very large. the redistribution of wealth. I'm a PRODUCT LIBERA you and you can't see them. Also, they often look just like one Before leaving the shop widi a book with diis type of sticker TOR. way mirrors. To sus out if they are one or two way, you can on it, one should eithera) remove the sticker or b) remove the check the layout of die shop. It's mosdy only large shops SEMPER: Well what exactly is a product liberator? dust jacket which the sticker is adhered to. If one does not which have two way mirrors, though recendy some smaller take diis precaution, one will beep loudly on die wav out the VICTORIA: Product liberators believe in freedom for all bookshops and boutiques have had them installed. Don't try- door and I'm not talking about your digital watcli. Now, products, that all products should be free. There are millions it in front of a two way mirror unless you are prepared for a about how to leave the shop with a book. There are many of product liberators all over the world. We are a victimised very quick geuway. Cameras can be either for closed circuit different approaches which work. The first way is to simply minority group, oudawed, fined or jailed when captured. TV or for recording. Often you can see the dosed circuit walk out with it in your hand or under your arm. This monitor behind the sales assistant's desk. Cameras are quite mediod is good for ifyou get caught, whence you simply say scary as they may record your crime, but remember, to be "Sorry, I didn't realise I still had it", give it back and walk (or *We are a victimised minority group, busted for it, you have to be mobbed widiin a few steps out of run) off. The bad aspect of diis mediod is diat it is really outlawed, fined or jailed when captured." the shop. obvious. The second method is to conceal the article in your Once you have sussed out the shop, browse around. bag. A negative aspect is that you may be asked to open your People practise product liberation for necessity or fun, as Locate what you're looking for. Then check die lines of bag for inspection. Aldiough they actually don't have the rcgubrly or seldom as they want to. You can liberate food, vision. People can only see in straight lines. You can blank le^ right to do diis, it looks really suspicious when you clothes, books, appliances, anything. lines of vision with your body, or carry articles to where refuse them and they start talking really loudly about calling shelves or racks block vision. You can use an accomplice to the police. When this happens, run away. A shop assistant or SEMPER: What made you become a product liberator? check the scene behind you, or to block a line of vision for any person who is not a policeman has no right to touch you VICTORIA: Being an impoverished student, trying to live you. You can ever use a group of friends. You can squat down or detain you, but a policeman docs. Leave before a on Austudy, which only just covers rent, food, transport and bills. As a medical student, I found an incredible com pulsory text book list at the beginning of each semester, and I simply couldn't afford to buy them. I discovered that Rupert Murdoch owned a large percentage of the University Book P(^C?DUCT tl$e/iATl©r\/ UOx^Aj?.. shop so I had no ideological problems whatever. So I liberated all of my textbooks. SEMPER: How did you do that? VICTORIA: Well I secreted the books amongst my clodiing and simply walked out SEMPER: Is what you wear important? VICTORIA: It is very importanrwhat you wearon a product liberation operation. There are many schools of thought - some people dress very conservatively whilst odiers will dress loudly. The style is not so important except ifyou think you will draw attention to or away from yourself. You may wish to work with an accomplice, who dresses and acts loudly, distracting attention, while you enter the shop separately, dressed quiedy and do the deed. Some people dress loud to make people purposely avoid looking at them. The more layers of clothes you wear, the more bulk you can carry. Product Liberation is therefore easier in winter than in summer. Think about the hidden volume in a great coat, a 3. trench coat or over coat These do, however look sus. A suit <:oAti jamjeR ovenall/u;Aitu(\^ Co"*l9ina.t»ort, coat or denim jacket or large bulky cardigan looks less sus and works just as well, except for on really laige articles. Many people use their trousers. Ones with a litde extra room around the waist come in handy. I even know one person who wears overalls, tucks a laundry basket down the front and pretends to be pregnant, dien fills up the basket. Some down or bend over. You must hide not only theactual time of policeman can arrive. The diird method involves concealing people sew pockets into their clothes in specific places and concealing but also the timeimmediatel y before and after the article amongst your clodi ing. This works well, as you can sizes. Some people use hats, sleeves, socks, shoes and boots. die fact. Think about what you are holding and the manner still show your bag and it will be OK. Many people use their underpants and bras. Odiers consider in which you are holding it. Does it look like a casual browse a full combat uniform and concealed fully automatic or as if you're sizing it up for down the front of your trousers ? SEMPER: What are die best examples of your craft? weapons to be essential. VICTORIA: People have been known to walk out of shops SEMPER: What is die Actual Mediod you use? with a typewriter, a vacuum cleaner, a video, a car racing set "Although they actually don't have the and two guitars, a keyboard and drum machine. VICTORIA: When you enter a shop, sus it out unsus legal right to do this, it looks really piciously for sales assistants, store detectives, mirrors and SEMPER: How was diat done? suspicious when you refuse them and they cameras. Sales assistants often roam around a shop, but they VICTORIA: The vacuum cleaner was simply placed in a are often easy to spot for uniforms, same badges, behaviour, start talking really loudly about calling the ffoUey in a bag from another store and rolled through the police." checkout The video left in a large parka. The car racing set "Some people use hats, sleeves, socks, shoes walked out of the shop and die liberators returned im and boots. Many people use their When you are confident no on can see or is looking, quickly mediately to collect die handsets. The band equipment was a place the article in your pocket. Jacket, trousers, whatever mammoth operation involving many people and much underpants and bras. Others consider a fullan d immediately continue browsing. Nodiing looks more planning. Onepersonactually worked in thestore. Lookouts combat uniform and concealed fully sus than the 360 degree head swivel to see if anyone saw. It's a and attention disuactors entered the shop over a fifteen good idea to leave the shop quite quickly after the fact in case minute period and asked questions designed to send shop automatic weapons to be essential." anyone did see so they don't have timet o act. Ifyou are going assistants to where they could do the least damage. The lifters to be mobbed it will be one or two steps outside the shop. diemsclves walked in with empty guitar cases, suitcases and Remember don't go back into the shop widi the store backpacks, and walked out with full ones. Lookouts and e.g. tidyingup , looking bored. Store detectives usually look dislractor stayed on to see if anything was noticed for five really suspidous. They pretend to browse, follow you arounddetectiv e or sales assistant. Walk or run away. The only people with the power to detain you are the pigs. If the pigs minutes - long enough to have the instruments quite a and talk into plastic bags. It is sometimes fun to play games distance away. widi tiiem, going up and asking diem how much somediing get you, you are fucked! Don't tell the police anything but costs or where it is on die shelves; or you can follow diem your name and address, unless you can make up a really SEMPER: Well, Victoria, thank you for a very insightful look around. Mirrors come in two types - one way and two way. good alibi-you have medical certificates for schizophrenia, at life on Austudy. I wish you die best of luck. Hey, where did One way ones are nodiing to worry about - in fact you can your Dad's a high ranking officer, you work at die Red Ganer my camera go?« WAaY'S MUM SHOCK EXCLUSIVE - "HEWAS SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY" Fifth Edition. July 1990 •SEMPERB27 Shortly after publication of our last edition, Semper started receiving death threats — bicycle bombs, obscene faxes, heavy bleating over the phone. Pretty heavy shit, and all because of a controversial centrefold dedicated to Queensland's singularly most powerful political animal of the past decade. eah, I knew Lance. I wouldn't call us friends, but young pregnant sheep high and dry. From this point on we were by no means enemies. Our association Lance realised his destiny. He would go to the city and Y grew from a chance encounter in our younger climb the rungs of power, fuelled byan insatiable need years to a relationship based on loyalty, grudging to better this father. respect for each other, and fear (mainly on my part). I guess that makes me the ideal person to tell the world his story, and don't all the fucking newshounds know it. first became embroiled in the organisation when I Hinch was the first to ring, but I just hate the bastard so wasareporter forthe Warwick Blowfly, and my boss much I told him to shove his 100,000 dollars where his • told me to get a story on slock losses in the district. own personal sun shines. After that itwas anyone's offer. My investigations led to some startling results - the Jana Wendt, Richard Carleton, Paul Lyneham, Dulcie sheepwhich went missing were all youngfemales. Every Boling- all the preening and self-righteous journos were three or four months, twenty or thirty of them would slavering like rabid dogs for the story that would make mysteriously vanish. So ! bade my time, did my home them immortal. But those pooh-sticks all got the m idd !e- work, and sure enough, one freezing cold July morning finger salute from yours truly. I eventually gave the at 3 a.m. a truckcame rumbling into the paddockpicked frigging story, gratis, to comarade revisionist editor up its wooly cargo and headed off again. So I followed it, Nikolai Douglas. I mean the evil bastard had me all set all the way back to Brisbane, to a warehouse in the up as the fall guy in drug deal gone wrong, and I knew Valley. Chez Juanita was a low-down, ugly, vile and this was one way to stop my arse roastingon the coals. So cockroach infested dive.The sort of place a person of my here it is, comarade, and here's hoping it makes up for profession felt comfortable in. It was run by a huge, the 20k's that went missingfrom the custom's shed. Har. loudmouthed and agressive woman by the name of Har. juanita Biscuit. She'd obviously learnt her ettiquette from the truck drivers who frequented her nightclub. I was settling into my seventh J D and coke and thought I guess the story really begins with Lance's mother, could use a cigarette. Some scrawny looking tough was Maxine. In her youth she was wild and vivacious, sitting at a table near me. He wore a leather jacket and I standing out from the flock in some undefinabie jeans, and had fake stubble smeared all over his face. way. She was from good stock and produced the Must have been all of thirteen years. With him was a suriy finest wool in the district. Her owner was a powerful but beautiful looking giri of about the same age reading National Party member and he would like nothing Nietzsche TheTwilight of the Gods'. I was feeling badly better than to get amongst his sheep after the ardors of in need of a smoke and was fascinated by this little parliament and fact-finding missions on the Costa del hoodlum. 'Hey, kid,' I said. All I got in return was a cold Sol. Duting one parliamentary recess, the minister stare, but I at least had his attention. 'What say I give you began to take notice of the coy and capricious sheep who was constantly striving for his attention. She would offer him naughty half-smiles and sensuous little bleats, "ChezJuanita was a low-down, ugly, vile, for she knew full well that a certain chemistry was there despite the significant biological differences. They be and cockroach infested dive. The sort of gan sneaking surreptitious meetings behind the wool place a person of my profession felt shed and talked freely of wide-tooth combs and wool prices on the stock market. They delighted in each comfortable in." other's company and soon fell in love. He promised her the worid; her own house; overseas trips; sheep-dip this two buck note to get a packet of Camels, and you from Lanvin. But as so often happens, their love was keep the change, huh?'The kid leaned across the table shattered in it's prime. Maxine fell pregnant and her and replied, 'What say you eat your own shit, you ugly Lance in transit, 1981, lover quit the propertyforever.So thus was Lance born, a motherfucker'. product of a liaison that should never have been. and below, as pictured 'Harrison', screamed Juanita, 'Don't be naughty to From what I can gather, Lance's childhood was not an the customers, dear.' I was still completely agog at this in the last issue of easy one. His looks set him apartfrom his peers-hisface, stage, so she turned to me and cackled 'Oh don't mind Semper. apart from the wooly patches, bore a striking resem him, he's a little shy with strangers sometimes'. She blance to his father; steely eyes and a proud, juttingchin. beamed down at them. 'And isn't little Speed beautiful. This, combined with his alarming habit of walking on They'll probably marry one day'. two hooves, resulted in his being shunned by the other 'Will not,' said Speed curtly, more interested in lambs. So he remained a loner throughout his child- Nietzsche. Harrison fidgeted a bit, obviously embaras- hoojd and was doted on by Maxine, herself an outcastfor sed by his mum. This whole episode ended when I felt a having taken a lover beyond her station. She would huge hand on my shoulder. The owner of the hand often tell young Lance of the man who owned them and looked like Frankenstein's uglier brother. 'The boss all his great achievements. Christian values, law and wants to see you'. The voice wasn't very reassuring order, and an electoral system which gave sheep greater either. But I had no choice. I skulled the JD's and was led voting rights. The young sheep thought deeply about outof Juanita's. these things and felt inspired by them during his many The building I was led to was much like any other in hours of solitude. As adolescence blossomed, good the valley, grimy and run-down; slagged on footpaths looks and athletic ability saw Lance's popularity grow, outside and the odour of over-ripe garbage all-per and soon he was de facto leader of the sheep on the vading. I was led to the top floor and into a dimly-lit property. room. There was a guy behind the desk, dressed in a At the age of six (eighteen years in human terms) large trenchcoat and wide-brimmed hat. Very Raymond Maxine died, and with her death came a deathbedl Chandler, I thoughttomyself. There was somethingodd confession that both shocked and angered Lance. The about the guy, the angle at which he sat, his breathing. propertyownerwas his fathedltcertainlyexplained the His face, which was barely perceptable in the gloom, face and human-like mannerisms. But to see his mo looked hairy. 'Sit down' he grunted, and was obliged by ther's eyes brimming with tears, begging Lance not to Frankenstein and another goon shoving me roughly into judge him harshly was more than any sheep could bear. a chair.'Now Mr, ....Groover,') didn't much like the way The man who served so long as a moral guide had left a he said it, northe long pause following. This was trouble; 28HSEMPER* Fifth Edition, July 1990 DEMAND FOR WALLY IN DECLINE real trouble. My balls were tightening, and not from the cold. I was sweating a bit. 'Let me presume that you know about the disappearances'. 'Er... yeah!' 'And the truck-run to Brisbane'. 'Yes', I gulped. 'Well it seems you know a bit more than you should'. Another pause, and a smile on his part. 'But you know "This was trouble; real trouble. My balls were tightening, and not from the cold, I was sweating a bit." people in the district. You could be an asset to our organisation,'and yet another pause; very effective,'you could be feasting material for all the little creatures at the bottom of Moreton Bay'. Frankenstein and his mate sniggered. I didn't. Smiling feebly, I replied, '! never liked fishing in the bay very much'. So I joined the organisation. Lance gave me a short briefing. 'I guess you're wondering why we've gone to all this trouble to procure sheep?' 'Can't make head or tail of it'. 'Well now, Mr Groover. Can you tell me who runs the state?' 'The pariiament of Queensland, duly elected ...' 'Cut the crap', he grunted curtly. 'Who really controls it?' 'The rat pack - the elite. The Masons.' Lance, arriving back in 'Very good. Now how would one get ahead in Brisbane after a fact . business arond here?' 'Become friendly with the big guys'. This was leading finding mission to New nowhere. I was confused. Zealand (1983). "Lance gave me a short briefing. 1 guessneurosurgeo n had come up with the answer; injection of live brain ceils into the Premier. The treatments were you're wondering why we've gone to all thisnot overly successful, but still they were persisted with, trouble to procure sheep?" even afterhispolitical powerwas lost. Aldo had become part of the most recent dose. So thus Lance set off with a pump action shotgun to confront the person who had procured Aldo's brain: an 'Correct But what you don't know is many of them ex-minister of the previous government. Ironically, have special needs.' Lances own father. No-one knows what was said in that 'Huh. But what's that got to do with the...' and then it final, bitter father-son confrontation, just that Lance hit me like a bouncer on steroids. Young female sheep. turned the gun on his father and then himself, creating a This wasn't a warehouse, this was a... brothel! Oh shit. I media sensation, felt sick to my stomach. But a job's a job, you know. At I think I should point out that irreverentcentrefolds in least I was alive and it was, after all, relatively clean grubby student newspapers have not endeared certain compared to the moral sewer of journalism. editors to Lance's past employees and friends. You So that's how it all began for me, as a district liaison might consider an apology in this issue, Messers Cas- consultant for Lance. Over the years I became a good sidy/Douglas/McKay, I'm sure you wouldn't like to end and faithful servant and was rewarded by promotions up eating your own gonads for breakfast. Har har. ARE STICKFIGURES ALL until I virtually ran the whole Brisbane operation single handed. The oepration itself had grown to huge pro You CAN DRAW? portions, covering not only prostitution but also drugs, /. EDGAR GROOVER extortion and pay-offs. By the early 1980's Lance con trolled the whole state - every politician of worth was in ' .If Don't let It worry you. his pocket. His power was enormous. We also got to know each other pretty well, over bottles of JD's and Semper'* layout artist is a late-nightbackgammongames.Forallhissuccess, Lance /' ' . f qualifled graphic designer was still filled with unhappiness and every once in a while would blurt out a kerbside confession to me. 1 o thus ended Lance, a greedy, fascinating and ^' expcriencedinvaiiousaieas knew of his illegimate sons (the mother was a young complex person. Er sheep-person ... What of design, illuitration and flnished art. We Brisbane girl) whom he doted over and adored. There Sever . were two of them, and theyprovided the only happiness have our own phototypesetting facilities in Lance's declining years. Power had changed Lance. He came to only trust me, and not fully for that matter. and typesetter, and can "J 0 He felt people were trying to bring him down, to take take a job from concept, > over the reigns of power. The Fitzgerald enquiry was bad for business, it had wiped out many of his troops and left copywriting & artwork "** ^ all his enterprises in a negative-growth phase, he was a suspicious, tight-fisted old bastard. But worse was yet to through to the Rnal print- ^ come. ing arrangements. Business cards and sta 1990 was the year of Lances downfall, his first son, tionery, advertising material, leaflets, pos Julian, confessed to his father about his lifestyle. Lance was angry and heartbroken, but eventually realised that ters, logos and T-shirt designs, at a cost Julian was serious. Dad faced the greatest anguish a parent could - his son was an art-wanker. Worse still he well below the Industry standard. And we changed his name to Shopping Trolley and was ruth do great stick figures too. lessly killed by a school bus whilst performing 'I am Become Life'with a street theatre troupe. If that wasn't And a bit of enough, May bought news that Lance's youngest son, Aldo, had died in mysterious circumstances; found in a an ad. garbage bin with half his brain sucked out. was summoned lo the boss's office. Lance was absolutely livid. He had loved Aldo, and someone • was going to pay for his unnecessary death. Aldo wasn't the first child to go in such mysterious cir cumstances over the past fifteen years. SO my boss had set the best Dl's in the business onto the case, and had revealed the shocking truth: the kids were used for medical purposes. Let me explain. In the mid 70'5 it became apparent that the then Premier was losing his , grip on his mental faculties. A certain young Brisbane MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY FROM PAUVCE Fifth Edition. July 1990 •SEMPERH2d • WEASLE left out are thereby abolished, or Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mother Teresa,proportionall y large number of stu Dear Editors, made fair game for those in power to World Vision, Life Line, Teen Challenge,dent s (being the oppressed downtrod I disagree with the reasons Nick Fer abolish. The Salvation Army, Freedom From Hunden lot that they are) would need the rett gave for his decision to oppose the Further, the Student Bill of Rights is ger, The Blue Nurses, Crossroads, Comhuge amount of space that they re gularly occupy in Semper. Student Bill of Rights at Union Coun hardly "regulation for its own sake". munity Aid Abroad and mentally deran ged people from this university who volun cil. On the contrary: if accepted by the In addition, where do you get the University (and let's have no illusions tarily tutor disadvantaged students fromgal l to believe that you should use the (Though it is hard to support the Inala, I will continue to have compassion Bill of Rights with Jane Lye/Kirsten - this will not happen easily), it will money that ALL students pay to (end regulate the academics and bureau for the needy, speak for the voiceless, helplessly ) represent such poor pitiful peo Greathead/Luke Berry taking credit the widows, orphans, and single mums and for it as their own brainchild. In fact, crats who already have wide power to ple (your view) when Semper is sup regulate us. In other words, it would seek to empower the powerless. I do not stoppose d to be a paper for ALL students. Lye and Co plagiarised the idea from here for I am so sick that I am not ashamed two ALP student politicians - Nigel mean more freedom for students. You also believe that there's more to say, that like ALL the DERANGED homosexuals on campus than Chris Pennington in 1983, and Craig Arnott If Nick thinks the current draft people above, I will also tell anyone the good in 1986 - but don't expect them to omits any important rights, or inclu tians - that must mean we qualify for news about Jesus, if they WANT to hear"oppresse d minority" status. Hooray! admit this publicly.) des any unimportant rights, let him it state his objections to Union Council Now we can expect at least one quar [Editor's Note: "The Student Bill of Meanwhile I urge all of you who are Rights was first proposed by the and the student body. But there really ter of every Semper tirelessly devoted should be no argument about the de enlightened, to keep forming committees,to Christianity . Union in 1986 ..." 1990 Alternative play student politics, get pissed, and wait sirability of a Student Bill of Rights - Indeed why stop there - let's have a Handbook, p. 15; compiled by the Stu for the revolution. dent Union Education Office.] although there can and should be de Christian Rights Area! Wow, we're bate about its precise contents. ANDREW GILLIES really cooking now! Nick's main objection to the Bill of DIP. ED. STUDENT Rights - that rights shouldn't be writ TOM ROUND Finally then I would like to issue ten down, in case any rights left out • TO THE LIONS! you a challenge - print some articles are lost - is not "liberal" as he claims, • A CHRISTIAN that aren't written by either (a) homo Dear Semper Editors, but a standard conservative argument Dear Semper Eds. sexuals, (b) socialists, (c) greenies, (d) Firstly I would like to congratulate against bills of rights in general. It is I write toyou in response to a letter in the oppressed, victimised and/or sexu also untenable, on two grounds. you on your daring in actually inclu ally harassed women, or (e) all of the May issue about those of us who are mis in Semper. For one things, if the rights written ding a Pro-Christian letter above. guided and stupid enough to he conservativeMayb e you'll now actually consider down are the most important rights, I also challenge you to throw all Christians. I am one of those who must beprintin g the Christian articles that then they outweigh any less important suffering from mental degeneration. For caution to the wind and include a Chris rights which may be lost as a result. I, have been submitted for a number of tian article or two - after all we are an not only do I believe that Jesus died (as domonth s but have never seen the light for one, would gladly support a Bill of oppressed minority, aren't we now.^ many millions of other mentally deranged),of day. Ooh, wouldn't that be extra Rights guaranteeing independent re but I also (ivith the vast majority of thevagant ! DAVID GOLD marks and freedom from harassment, above, thefour gospel writers and St. Paul), STUDENTS FOR CHRIST In my recent meeting with you, you even if the right to sleep in lectures or believe he rose from the dead. Dear David, grafifiti-ize library desks disappears as indicated quite bluntly that your duty I also read various Mickey Mouse ver(no less) is to present the "oppressed On no occasion did we say that we a result of being left out. To let fear of sions of The Bible (N.L V., N.E. V., R. S. V., losing minor rights stop us seeking to minorities" on this campus. Funnily believed there to be more homosex N.A.S.B. and T.E. V) because I foolishly enough you also believed that there is uals than Christians on campus. We protect major rights is not logical by value modern scholarship and feel that a anyone's standards. approximately 2,000 practising homo said there were more homosexuals translation produced in 1611 may be asexual s on this campus (1 in 10 peo than FUNDAMENTALISTS on cam In any case, it can be clearly spe little dated. ple). That hardly represents a repres pus. There's a big difference. Anyway, cified (like the US Bill of Rights, in the Not only this but I also take the words ofse d minority, does it now.^ what's your problem mate.' You're a Ninth Amendment) that including cer Jesus about compassion and love seriously.I t is hard to believe then that such a "none of the above" person, aren't tain rights does not mean any rights Thus along with Dr Martin LuthurKing, yo»- Eds «•• *«>• PC-BASEP \A/ORD PROCESSING The Prentice Computer Centre is now olfering a New Service for Undergraduate Students. 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(b) The Centre's PC Laboratory, due to be opened later PRENTICE COMPUTER CENTRE this year, will feature WORKS as a standard facility ... so m.: it will always be available for you to use. UNDERGRADUATE SERVICES HOW TO ENROL Phone 377 3018 between 8.30am and 4.30 pm. WHERE ARE THE COURSES HELD? Sth Floor, Prentice Building .,. Jicf osoft ¥0M8 AT WHAT TIMES? Each session is held LIMITED ENROLMEWTS!! PhOXie 377 3018 between 4.30pm and 6.30pm • SOFTBRAUN The UQ^ Union has never been a by show of hands and when finally done byciet y but let's keep them positive as Dear Editors, financial member of NUS, though it roll-call, I therefore think it appropriatewell , offering solutions and methods As a powerlifter at Queensland Uni, I dowa s provisionally involved in the Na thatthe Semper editors print a retractiono off fighting them. tend to look like a bit of a meathead. Buttional it Union's inception in 1987. In the statement and an apology for the damage EDLA WARD really pisses me off when people 'pigeonQueensland, almost half of the terti that the statement has done. Furthermore, I hole'me before they know me, presumablyary students are members. Queensland think it appropriate that this letter be prin• POETRY PRAT on the basis of the myth that allpowerlifterscampu s unions affiliated include: Ja ted in Semper at the earliest opportunity.Dear Editors, are meatheads. My being a powerlifter hasme s Cook Uni, Griffith Uni, BCAE I would, however, like to finish by sayFrankly I'm disgusted and appalled that no direct link to what my values are con(nowQUTNorthem Campuses), UCSQ, ing that I agree whole-heartedly with anythe publication that dares to call itself cerning anything beyondpowerlifting. Gold Coast CAE and the Conserva- sentiments of the Semper editors on theprogressive at could bring itself to print the Reading the back of the June addition toriuof m of Music. tendance of students at Union Council meekind of surrilous chauvinism produced by Semper renewed my disgust at thegeneralTh e UQUnion, especially this year, tings. It would be a very nice change tothose see self-styled Survivalist shitheads who treatment of homosexuals by heterosexuals.has seemed continually hostile to "real students" attending Union Councilfind to it necessary to hide behind the pathetic lam not going to say whether I am homoNUS. One extraordinary example of see what really does go on. pseudonyms of Dirk and Rambo. sexual, heterosexual, bisexual or non-sexualthis wa s in the April issue of Semper. DAVID PENNISI The unbelievable waste of space you because it is irrelevant here. One of the illustrations in the report SCIENCE REPRESENTATIVE have offered to these narrow-minded violent on O-Week (p. 7) was a sample Inter I understood that the Heterosexual Ques Sezyou, David. reactionaries and their anachronistic opi national Student Indentity Card. ISIDs EDS nions leads me to believe that you either tionaire in Semper had actually been theare a service jointly produced by SSA Homosexual Questionaire originally but in have no conception at all of the seriousness (Student Services Australia: a com • NOT A CHRISTIAN cf the progressive struggle, or the deeper this case "heterosexual' had been substitupany owned by NUS) and NUS. In Dear Eds, ted for 'homosexual'. No matter which way issues at stake - so casually tossed aside as laying out this page, someone took the Asa teenage mutant artwanker, left- Art Wanking - or that you, the editors are you read it, the questionaire is insultingtroubl to e to cut out a tiny NUS logo! wing radical French fundamentalist, I whatever group it addresses. every bit as reactionary and dinosaurish as find it abhorrent that Rambo Rock- the writers your patronise. Prove me wrong. However, the truth is that this type of harde and Dirk 'Some refuse to Die" Go ahead, ifyou can. I'll even give you the questionaire and this ludicrous way of thin Flinthart have left out (on their list of means. I've enclosed a poem which I am king is predominantly directed by hetero enemies) those filthy putrid scum of proud to say I wrote by myself, and even if it sexuals to homosexuals. It shoius how he the earth lower than a cockroach's bel doesn't rhyme, I dare you to publish it. Go terosexuals 'pigeon-hole' homosexuals - on ly ... law lecturers. ahead- have some REAL courage for once the basis of myths. But, unlike powerlif ting- MR P. OFF in your constipated lives. where I concede perhaps there is an asso- PRESIDENT OF THE The Accident ciational link between it and being meat- FRENCH LEFTWING LAW headed, homosexuality or homosexuals have he took her to contend with awful persecution - on the STUDENTS UNDERGROUND she young and innocent basis of contentions that are outrageous my RESISTANCE i loved her ths. • CONSPIRACY he took her sat her in the car Unfortunately, this form of non-intel CONTINUED she fondled him ligence is prevalent in a wide range ofissues. Dear Editors, he took her This is the type of attitudinization that i drove my car ultimately damages the chances of huma I'd like to make a remark on the dearth of Christian articles appearing in your mahis in my destruction path nity ever achieving any kind of harmony - he took her arid that is what we want, isn't it? gazine. We do see articles, such as in your last edition, mocking or reviling our beliefs.they looming before me In the name of all that is trying to in We realise that people are entitled to expressvehicles meeting crease constructive thinking in the world, I themselves and that you merely publishspeed and steel encourage all people to resist 'pigeon-holing'I ca n only think of two reasons for what they say. But why do you not publishorgasm in favour of reasoning- with ALL issues. I this hostility: one, that this campus Christian articles.^ (I know that at leastJOAN one DARK support the rights of homosexuals, I am pro-(and its Union) is extremely ehtist and article submitted by Students For Christ conservation, I believe that existing disthink that being treated equally with never saw print. It would surprise me if this• MYSTERIOU S WAYS crimination against women needs to be chan other universities is unpalatable; the letter does either). You publish articlesDea onr Editors, ged, and I am anti-racist. These are secondmy , that the Left on this campus behalf of minorities such as socialists and personal attitudes. What I feel comforta I don't mind you quoting me in prefers undemocratic participatory homosexuals, so why then not the Christianissue two , but try to get it right will ble in is the fact that they were determinedgroup s like last year's 'National Day of minority.^ In the lives of some people, such on the basis of my own reason rather than or you? I did NOT tell that crypto-fascist Action' Committees. In Melboume, an article could be the most important thingChrisdanoi d geek to "lighten up". the vague absorption of other people's attithat group's rally saw windows sma to ever appear in these pages. Perhaps you tudes. What I really said was "Drop dead, shed and fights with police on the TV feel it would not suit your perceived 'image'scumsucker. " Either print it this time, BRUCE STORIE News. as alternative, controversial and anti-estaor it's a plague of boils for the lot of (HUMANMOVEMENTS STUDENT) Is that what our Secretary Great- blishment, or however you see it. But manyyou. head calls "a favourable result"? people don't believe in Christianity, and thus it is alternative. (Actually we believe GOD • REALLY RILED University of Queensland Students Dear Editors, it's not just an alternative, but the only should find out more about the Na way. John 14:6) Our message is simple: This letter is written in disappoint tional Union of Students. About how ment with the Union Secretary, Kirs- people's live can have purpose through a it is the only student organisation that meaningful relationship with God. This ten Greathead. the Federal Education Department message is, I submit, important and shouldPlease keep letters to 300 words On page 11 of die May 19 "Courier will talk to (i.e. YOU are not repre reach your readers. Mail", there appeared an article about sented at the Federal level). About max. The Editors reserve the right die National Union of Students' (NUS) how its services can help students and D.J MAXWELL to edit letters of unconstitutional High Court challenge to the Tertiary their Unions. About the High Court and defamatory material. Tax. Near the end of the story, which challenge. •JOURNALISTIC LINE consisted mainly of an interview with Watch out for more press reports Dear Editors, NUS Nadonal Education Officer, Da- on the High Court challenge and I am writing about Andrew Birming i •mian Smith, Kirsten expressed a ne when you hear the Union Executive's ham's article about the poll tax de gative comment about the High Court rhetoric of action, think of NUS's pro monstrations. challenge. This comment came im fessional lobbying actions. He is quite correct to disagree with • COMPREHENSION mediately after a quote of Damian Yours in solidarity. Thatcher's methods of ruling but his Dear Editors, Smith: "A lot of the strategies that the vitriolic attack on the demonstrators I'm having trouble understanding Death student movement used in the past... STIRLING HINCHLIFFE ARTS STUDENT was crazy. in the Student Union. Please print some aren't appropriate anymore. They How does he suggest opposition to kind of an explanation - the remainingfour wouldn't work." • OUTRAGEOUS LIES! the unjustness of the poll tax be con issues should provide sufficient space. The article implied that a represen Dear Editors, ducted? He has offiercd no better al Confused tative of our Student Union was against I am writing in response to the falla-.ternativ e to expressing opposition than NUS's professional attitudes and stra cious editorial that appeared in the Maywa s taken by the groups that he has • TOILET TRAINING tegies. Does she think that demos at 1990 edition of Semper, which referedtogrossl y misrepresented. This was the Dear Editors, Roma Street and occupying the VC's the Union Council meeting on the 28th PEOPLof E of Britain who were out on Just thought I'd let you know that office are more effective than, for ex March, 1990. The editorial incorrectlyth e streets expressing their opposition those "half-flush" buttons on the toi ample, legal challenges and being a stated that I, as a Science Representativet ono th e poll tax. The violence was, as lets are really a great idea. They're so member of D.E.E.T.'s Higher Educa Union Council, changed my vote on alwaythe s in these situations, instigated tion Council? effective that even a really bit greasy "Student Bill of Rights" to save my ownb y the police; in this case, riding their No 2 can be washed completely away Students here at UQ^probablyneed skin. This is a blatant lie. The truth of thehorse s into the crowd. by a single half-flush. How's that for to know some background to these matter is that I voted in favour of the "Stu It is good to have articles in Semper environmentally sound! comments, dent Bill of Rights" when originally donepointin g out the injustices in our so BARNES WALCLAIMS "I'VE OONESO MUCHI" Fifth Edition, July 1990 •SEMPERH31 SURVIVE OR Brisbane to... Sydney Melboume Airlie Beach Cairns $56 $105 $88 $118 I (Handy hints and useful tips from two of Australia's premiere •> : survivalists: Rambo Rockharde and Dirk "Some Refuse To Die" Flinthart.) , '' •\ Hi there. Survival fans, and Fuck you. Reports of our deaths were somewhat exaggerated, as you can see, and this month in Survive or . Die, Dirk and I are going to answer some of the more interesting problems in survival posed by all you readers out there. And remember, for t^ose of you who posted letterbombs to us, the .vx^; easiest way to defuse the thing is to mark them "Retum to Sender". (Dumb Ass fuckers - No Return Address next time!!!) • Luxury • Air Conditioning • Videos • "v ' * Dear Dirk and Rambo, • Wash Rooms • Chilled Water • Stereo • While stocking my shelter with essential supplies, my foot caught on a 155 mm • Affordable & Convenient • shell, and I took a bit of a fall. Not long after that incident, I noticed that my breathing seemed to be impaired, and on close investigation, I noticed that something had become lodged in my nose, probably during the fall I mentioned. With the aid of a small mirror, I have been able to determine that the offending object is reasonably large, and colourc?d a dull greenish-grey. Friends v^ho have tried fMftmr to help me have told me that upon looking up my left nostril, they can faindy make out the words "This Face Towards the Enemy" printed on the surface of the thing. What is ^his obstruction in my nasal cavity, and what is the best way to go about removing it.', ' ' , BOOK NOW! * Concerned. BRISBANE - (07) 236 3000 GOLD COAST- (075) 50 3722 Dear Concerned, • , ' i OR YOUR LOCAL TRAVEL AGENT From your description, Dirk and I hove concluded that the artifact up your nose is in • fact a Claymore A nti-Personnel Mine, a truly wonderful device which uses a powerful ' (Prices subject to change without notice) explosive charge lo blast a wall ofove 700 individually sterilised stainless steel ball bearings in the direction of anyone you don't'like'very mitch. A fine choice for the arsenal of any iurvivalist - but having one ofthest things stuck in your snout is a really^ depressing turn of events. Unlimited Stopover Pass Available The trick to getting the Claymore back oul of your nose hinges on one factor is it armed yet? If the device has not yet been armed, then removing it should be simply a matter of reversing the process that gol it in there in the first place. Unfortunately, anybody who can accidentally get a Claymore up their snot-hole probably isn't too picky aboul whether or not the thing is harmless. If it is armed, I suggest that your best option is to point your nose at the enemy and blow. Dirk and Rambo Dear Dirk and Rambo, Just like you suggested, 1 got myselifa sheep lo keep mc company in my shelter after the big one. But there's a bit ofi problem - I can't seem to get him to eat his feed, and I was wondering ifyou could suggest any special little treats that might get him interested. He's a particularly fine specimen of sheep: a lovely pinkish-white rather than the usual grubby-woolly brown, and all ten of his sinuous limbs are liberally studded with healthy white spots. His beak is nice and firm, and his eyes are still limpid and glossy, so I guess he's not in any trouble just yet - but I'd really appreciate any advice you could give me on the matter. Concerned Sheep-Owner Dear Concerned Sheep-Owner, The animal you have acquired would appear not lo be a sheep at all In fact, from your description, it is probably some kind of very large squid. These are cunning animals, and nol to be trusted in the close confines of your shelter. D&R Dear Dirk and Rambo, I grow Hydrangeas - nice blue ones, very healthy. My next door neighbour grows hydrangeas too, only hers arc a lovcy shade of pinkish-red. I've always wanted to grow some red hydrangeas of my own, but I just don'l seem to be able to succeed. Even cuttings from my neighbours' plants eventually produced blue flowers. I'm at my wits' end Dirk and Rambo; do you think you can help me? Avid Gardener Dear Avid Gardener, The difference between red - and blue -flowering hydrangeas is nol in the plants at all, bul in the soil which nurtures them, Ifyou want to grow lovely red hydrangeas, simply lower the PH of your garden soil by adding a little organic compost, which should acidify the soil lo a sufficient degree. If this does not work, then the soil of your garden is excessively alkaline, and you should considertaiing stronger measures. Only for fucks'sake don 'I tell anyone il was us that told you, or we 'It have to kill you. D&R Dear Bastards, Okay, I'll bite; how the fuck DO you survive plunging over a fifty metre cliff in a car travelling in excess of 90 kph? Dear Biscuit. Leaping clear of the falling vehicle. Dirk landed on his head, thus escaping serious damage. I landed on Dirk, and that was the end of the problem. Better luck ne.xt lime. D&R •••••*•••••• STARS VALUE MEXICAN K..^--- With nu MORRISSEY EALS IN BRISBANE Open 7 Days a Week Ikl iciri^i^iriririririci^iricirft^irir For Lunch and Dinner TAKE AWAYS AVAILABLE UNTIL 6.30P.M. CANCER BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL • CREDIT CARDS NOT ACCEPTED You will go to a party tonight Cancer and talk to a lot of people 165 MoglllRd,TARINQA«Ph.870 3900 about how depressed you've been lately, but nobody will really In the Taringa Circle - Secured Undercover Parking for 180 cars care and at 2-a.m. everyone will have paired off but you'll be alone, alone, alone and by 4 a.m. you'll have locked yourself in the toilet to write a poem about it that nobody will ever read. Another dreary day, so you'll slay at home by yourself and fall in love with a character in a sixties soap opera. This is the truest love NEED CASH? you will ever know. Then Come In and See Us VIRGO What a beautiful day, Virgo! The sun is shining and Ihe birds are TARINGA LOANS & TRADING singing! Better pull the curtains, lock the door and spend the day in bed reading Oscar Wilde. 222 MoggilIRd, Taringa (Just Before Swann Rd, Outbound) LIBRA INSTANT CASH LOANS!!! Oh God, Libra, what IS the point? No, really, what IS the point? We lend money on anything of value including: SCORPIO • Jewellery •TV'S •VIDEOS* Okay, Scorpio, so you have got a girlfriend/boyfriend. But the • CAM ERAS • anxiety is just loo much isn't it? I mean, what if he/she has an accident? And besides, he/she doesn't REALLY understand you or WE ALSO BUY AND SELL your art... it's all just sex, sex, horrid sex! Short and Long Term Loans SAOITARIUS PHONE NOW-8705108 Well obviously Sagittarius, YOU haven't got a girlfriend or boyfriend. You never have, and what's more you never will. CAPRICORN You've always been so awfully lonely, haven't you Capricorn? Maybe if you were well dressed for a change you could go out and make lots of friends. Somebody might even fall in love with you! Oh, but that would be so embarassing. Ivlaybe you should just stay in and watch Eastenders. AQUARIUS You will also go to a party tonight-you may see Cancer there, so watch out! But then you're a bit of a bore yourself, aren't you Aquarius. Honestly, nobody's interested in your silly little obsessions. Everybody thinks you're embarassing and a little bit strange. And they know that you're jusl trying to get laid. Have you ever wondered why you feel such a strong identification with James Dean? Why you seem to have so few real friends? Why you seem lo be so much more sensitive and feeling than anyone else? Is it because you are destined to be a great artist and thinker? Perhaps even a POP STAR? Or just a boring little tit who knows the words lo al! my song? You will eat no meat today. TAURUS You will go out and meet a wonderful person. You will eat, drink, dance, and gel along tremendously. You will find that you both adore crass sixties pop music. You will go home together and enjoy a night of unimaginably beautiful sexual ecstacy. You will wake up in the morning (by yourself) and suddenly realise that it was only a dream AND YOU WI LL BE SO VERY, VERY GLAD. GEMINI You will finally realise once and for all how ugly and uncharming you are and that nobody will ever love you. Inspired by listening to my records all night, you will write a poem which is destined to become a modern classic. You will kill yourself and everyone will be very sorry that they laughed at you, and you will become the centre of an amazing personality cult. The weather will improve. ••••••••••**••**** Freedom of Information APOLOGY Semper wishes to make a very qualified apology to Marijka Batterham forany harm she may have unnecessarily suffered due to &You comments made in our third edition editorial where we claimed she changed her vote when voting on the Student Bill of Rights. She did not actually herself vote against the Bill of Rights, instead it was the person who was holding her vote on proxy. Since wc believe a Union Council member is responsible for how their proxy-holders votes, wc believe Marijka should be held Ray Paroz and I have been preparing accounuble for these actions. Student Representatives have a duty to tum up to council and be aware of and care about what is a submission to EARC on Freedom of happening. There is no point in having representation unless it is accountable. Information and how it relates to Universities. Matthew Foley, chairperson of EARC, will be coming to UQ to talk about this issue. All are encouraged to come and find out how this important piece of legislation could change the direction of our study. Talk in the Ryar\ Room 26th July at 1 p.m. A copy of the submission is available from the Education Office. Kirsty Greathead Union Secretary I.H. SOIREE 1990 Every year, on the first Saturday of We bet you've seen a lot August, the students of International House Residential College, host a large multi of countries. You probably cultural international fair SOIREE. Soiree 1990 will be held on tell some groat stories of Saturday, 4th of August, commencing at noon till 5 p.m. your adventures. But Through Soiree, International House aims to share and foster theroisnowayyoucansay the cross cultural spirit developed you've seen the worid, until you've faced up to AFRICA. The biggest, wildest animals are still thero. Heartstopping and terrifying. Beautiful and dangerous. In a wide, wild at the international community of half overseas and half Australian land that will open your students. This year the students are eyes. Qantas and Air gearing up for an even livelier and spectacular Soiree to coincide Zimbabwe fly direct twice with the International House's 25th Anniversary celebrations. At a week to Harare, the Soiree 1990, you will discover an open-air market with cultural capital of Zimbabwe. displays, exotic foods from 22 WFRE different countries, a large selection of overseas beers in an From there you step out international beer garden, and a multi-cultural variety concert into real advenbiro. Take which culminates in a parade of national dress. GAME. your first step at Qantas, Soiree 1990 - a cultural experience not to miss! Air Zimbabwe or your VYDUHE AFTA/AUSTAP travel agent. GANL tkQ/IAfm S OPA 5915 34 • S E M P E R • F///A Edition. July 1990 WAL REFUSED A PUCE AT FAMILY TABLE Real graduate engineering careers. Working for Mobil asan Engineering graduate is seizing new opportunities. a very exciting proposition indeed... after ali, Speaking of opportunities, we'll work together you're worl An Equal Opportunity Employer. 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