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University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 4-23-1974 The Living Daylights 2(15) 23 April 1974 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1974), The Living Daylights 2(15) 23 April 1974, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.15, April 23 - 29, 24p.. https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/25 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 2(15) 23 April 1974 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.15, April 23 - 29, 24p. This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/25 fActsVol. 2 No.of 15 Aprilmean 23 — 29 1974 savagery Tobacco fat cats gobble up dope V; . Roxy Music breaks n time barrier A Primeval horror and 1 cannonades with the Finks , ) l ) i Authorities trample m a family \ .« I Sunsets on Daylights T happened at high noon today, press day. A few minutes ago the a plagiarised potpourri phoneI rang and a voice said, "The party's over". It turns out that there's not enough of news, views and trivia money to keep Daylights living in its with MIKE MORRIS present format. Its best elements will continue as usual — in the bosom of Nation review. The owners finally lost patience with our ability to get out of the red. What went wrong? First, there were editorial misjudgments. That, we dont SMAY Fowler is 63. She led a deny. It took us too long to develop a peaceful life in her home in Pros- spirited, imaginative, alternative weekly 1 | pect terrace, Hamilton, a suburb o f newspaper, which could also hold its own on the newsstands. Brisbane. That is, until june 1972 when the city council whacked up N o stand- The costs have been greater than the market can bear. Daylights was run on a l ing any time on both sides o f her street. fu lly professional basis, which means A JA Finding she had nowhere to park her salaries, air freight distribution, fair pay , 1950 Austin A70 (an innocuous auto if ment to contributors and a whole lot of I remember - gentle with ballooning other unforeseen factors which took curves and comfortable seats) she ap money from the till. plied for a permit to erect a carport Although the market for a paper like which was duly knocked back by the I local government authorities. So she Daylights is not as gargantuan as some people apparently imagined, we sure stirred parked the machine half on the road, plenty o f response. The feedback in the half on her nature strip, as a com last few weeks has been overwhelming. promise. There are three packed pages of letters & Not good enough said the con things this issue (still only a proportion of stabulary, who at first warned her and later hit her with tickets. I w on’t pay those received) and fine contributions arrive every day from people we've never | said Ismay, and I’ll continue to park my met — eg. The traumas o f a cocaine thief, car outside my home. Until november page 7. ’72, that is, when the fuzz towed her If our death warrant had arrived sooner, Austin to the police station, never to be seen by her again. after a night out to discover his car a raz the code o f Baden Powell was Passiona! we would have slipped in extra pages to A huge marquee had crates of the stuff I Police demanded Ismay pay the tow- ed husk of its good former self. Regret take care of some of the copy backlog. and I slugged right into it, must have I ing charge. No, said she: you took it fully he had parked the wretched mach THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS, both drunk gallons of the fizzy stuff. The away without consent, you pay. She ine near the barracks of the hated-by- commissioned and spontaneous, acknowl only soft drink that’s safe to drink when rang the commissioner o f police and some-political-quarters-of-the-Republic of edged and otherwise, you made it all much flat. And I believe it kills germs. I love it | told him how his minions had stolen her Ireland, the “ Red Devil” barracks of the easier. (Alas, the great Tolkien letters still. beloved car. She contacted many, many 562 Parachute Squadron. Police and debate must now be cut off mid-ava Well, I was in a bad way on Saturday I members o f state parliament, aldermen, army jointly found the vehicle “ sus lanche.) when riffling through the newspaper. I | federal politicians. No go. picious” and sent a robot in to blow it Some people delighted in denigrating The word “Cottees” struck the eye. I I It doesnt end there. The police con up. The car was a Citroen. Binchy is Daylights, dubbing us capitalist rip-offs, read down. The Ricecream etc is doing tacted the woman: may we sell your seeking compensation. So it goes . Gordon Barton lackeys, playthings of Fer OK but the soft drink aint. They’re car? No, said Ismay. They sold it any ret. For the record, no one ever interfered closing down the soft drinks plant. 11 way, as “ unclaimed property” . EOPLE who care to check out the with editorial policy. Its failures are our wept. The company is giving a “ fran Meanwhile the fines — Ismay hadnt Sounds section of the Melbourne own alone. Barton hasnt been near the Brightlights will often com e acrosschise” for the yellow nectar to someone | place. paid the parking fines. So, last july they entriesP featuring usually good folk else. I bet it won’t be the same! threw her in jail after she refused to And as to the habitual -f-A music at the Polaris Inn hotel in North oblige. UNDERSTAND there’s a degree | put-d owners: Carlton. The harmony comes from the But this little saga doesnt end there, of consternation in certain sectors lounge, the sexism comes from the 1 no. While the innocuous little Austin of the defence department in Adelaide. As the sun sets on management who, just to prove it, had I A70 was cooling its wheels in the yard Some documents seemed to have gone | old Daylights, cops turf some 30 women from the [ at the police station the registration AWOL - strange docos I hear. They we say (please forgive us your_ public bar last Saturday night. expired and Ismay was told to pay the seem to relate to the setting up o f some unanswered letters). renewal of $55.50. Who’s going to kind o f task force from Keswick bar O THE dole is pearls before swine Watch Nation review fo r renew a stolen car? Not Ismay, and she racks which has the role and function o f | ehh? So if someone wants to be a survivors and seek I told the people from Main Roads this. S dealing with an “ emergency” . o u t the seeds o f an alternative in the Digger Alright, said the man, return the num- poet instead o f a drudge then that What “ emergency” is that, pray tell, | person’s a “bludger” (a much vaunted .. which continues to be run on a I ber plates. But, that’s illegal, said she. you ask. From the sliver o f info 1 hold it term these days as the ads for joining collective shoestring and is soon to be Thus friends, last Wednesday Ismay seems to be not too far removed from published fortnightly. was busted again - this time for not the workforce of GMH and Ford ensue the possibility o f an imminent “ energy from the TV). They’re out to cut your We enjoyed doing it. We had more plans paying the car’s registration - and spent crisis” and the unit is to be trained to allowance. than the newsprint could contain .. we're the night in the watchhouse. deal with all forms o f contingencies like Fear not. I read there is a “ flood o f sorry to be leaving so suddenly, b u t at last Her case came up on friday, but was general panic, pillage, looting, rape etc. job vacancies” in the higher stratas o f we can sleep-in in the mornings ... we're adjourned. “ I’ll go to jail to show Such as one would find after a widescale management. Directors get four times the gang who couldnt shoot straight, but j them,” says Ismay. My hopes go with disaster. we loved w orking w ith each other and her. what they got two months ago. (God knows what that was!) So, if you’re a learning from last week's mistakes .. HE WAS so thin. My God they I biochemist catching the surf at Lome or Is there any room left up at Nimbin? ES, we are familiar with the have starved her. The machinegun Coogee or wherever and you’re worried S See you next tim e around .. eds — on inefficiency of the internal com was at “ half port” , the same position Y about that li'l ole dole cheque, snip out behalf of Harry Gum boot, J. J. McRoach, bustion engine. After almost a century assumed by all troops on the ready for page six o f last Saturday’s Australian Margaret MacIntyre, Simon Marginsom, of brainpower, billions of manhours action.