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What The Russians Are Really Up To STREET MARCHES RETURN THE HIGH COST OF HEALTH ARGENTINA HORROR CAMPS ALP EDUCATION POLICY 6DIT0RlfiL With a federal election this year, Semper hopes to present an analysis of education policies of the competing political parties. ~conlnTS"~ To this end we interviewed Senator ONCE MORE TH E 1939 SHOW 5 Don Chipp (Australian Democrats) in Dr. Glen St. J. Barclay puts a new perspective on the invasion of Afghanistan issue one, and in this issue we have an mterview with Senator John Button AUSTRALIA'S INADEQUATE HEALTH SERVICES 7 Amnesty Intemational is a human rights (ALP). How are the poor coping with illness in Australia? organisation which campaigns for the release of political prisoners and for the abolition As Shadow Minister for Education, of torture and the death penalty. Senator Button is responsible for pre­ ARGENTINIAN HORROR CAMPS EXPOSED 9 senting and promoting ALP education Not to be read while eating This cofiimn details the circumstances of policies. This must be an onerous task, one or two political prisoners 'adopted' by as the ALP seems somewhat lacking in SEASONS IN THE SUN 11 Amnesty. Interested persons are invited to education policies. Guide to f ruitpicking respond to the instructiofls given below. hi an hour long interview. Semper About 80 poiitKal detainees in the found it ha^^d to believe the senator belongs THE RETURN OF THE STREET MARCH 14 Prison Qvile of Meknes in Morocco are to a party dedicated to reform and Marches have quietly returned to Brisbane's streets reported to have launched a hunger-strike social change. His comments suggested to protest that most of them have been held little more than a desire to preserve REVIEWS 17 there without trial since 1977. the status quo; his attitude towards food, books, theatre, film, art, music Reports indicate that a petition signed education problems one of "Yes, we'd by 54 of these prisoners has been sent to like to help, but..." WOTZON 27 the Prime Minister and Minister of Justke With the Fraser Government's probable What's on in and around Brisbane announcing the hunger-strike and affirming reintroduction of university fees, pre­ that it would continue until they were either serving, the status quo may be a vote CARTOON 28 released or brought to trial. winder for the ALP, But it is little comfort This defies comment Many of the prisoners are students and to students. Students have been lobbying intellectuals. A number oppose Morocco's several years for an increase in TEAS clauns on the territory of the Westem to (or above) the Henderson Poverty Dne. Sahara, where Morocco is engaged bi a vyar iKatnns may reprint articles and This has no chance of succeeding in the SEMPER is a non profit ADVERTISING REP: Kevin against the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, political and cultural magazine Pennant, phone 371 2568 graphKS provkled Sempar and the next few years, with only the Democrats based at the University of PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE: authors are duly acknowledged. which is fighting for the independence of favouring the idea. Anrtette Read, Building Workers The exceptnns are creative writing the territory. Queensland. and copyrighted graphics which The Labor Party seems to have EDITOR: Tim Low Industrial Union (Qld Branch), may not be reproduced without Many of them are believed to be ill, NEWS EDITOR: Kjaz Perry Nelle Tycho,.Pat Comben written permission of the authors. largely as a result of ill-treatment in police abandoned tertiary students in its bid for LAYOUT and COVER: Man the swinging vote. Uni. students are not Mawson Semper Magazine welcomes custody before transfer to Meknes and as a popular in the anti-intellectual Australian SECRETARY: Jenni Bird oontributioni and letters, but does result of poor prison conditions and it is not Btsutrw any responsibility for Address all enquiries to: community, and the ALP can afford to TYPESETTING: Marie Blanch Semper Magazine tlttrefore feared that their physical PRINTERS: Mirror Newspapers unsolicited manusaips, pholo- University of Qld Union dump them in its pragmatic scramble for Ltd., 367-373 Brunswick St., Valley graphi and illuJtrationi. condition will deteriorate rapidly during a votes. DISTRIBUTORS: Gordon and Gotch Semper it copyright, St. Lucia, St. Lucta. Qld. 4067 prolonged hunger-strike. Pty Ltd., Brisbane. Queensland, 1980. Non prift pub- ph.371 1611 or 371 2568 With this apparent loss of idealism is Write polite air letters to the followmg an apparent poverty of ideas. persom, expressing concern at reports that It sounds as if the ALP will enter the prisoners held without trial at Meknes since election without a specific TEAS policy 1977 are on hunger-strike. Urge that they but merely with the intention to be tried or released quickly. Write to: investigate the TEAS system. This is a cop Bs Mqesty, King Hassan II, Rabat, out. L6TTCfiS Morocco. It would be ludicrous for the ALP, (or any non government party), to enter ms Excellency Maati Bouabid, an election saying, "Our policy on COMPUTER SaENCE work a few days before experimentation with Prime Minister and Miniaer of Justice, taxation, unemployment, foreign affairs, REPLIES the deadline. This creates a language - the four letter Rabat, Morocco. massive peak of system word revolving in the typ­ etc., is that we will investigate the system -^ ^B BBi ^m mm an n^ ^m •• ^m ^m t^m • I am writing in reply usage, which the equip­ ically confused style of his when in power and then decide what to ment is not designed to favourite actress. to the article by Anne do." handle. For a large portion My only disappointment That the ALP has said this about TEAS Jones, entitled "Com­ of the semester the ter­ was in the fact that where Foreign Affairs (and about overseas students' fees) shows puter Games", in minals lie idle. "Interiors" heralded a much a disregard for students unbecoming ofthe Semper, 13th March, The Department of more mature approach to Labor Party. 1980. I feel that a few Computer Science has taken humour, "Manhattan" has TRAINEES Now is the time for students to lobby steps, where possible, to not transcended the points were overlooked. present this by asking promise. I loved it. Tbe DtpirtmcDt of Fontsn Affain offers a the ALP (and other parties) and jolt them Firstly, it should be rewarding career in a major policy advising area. into an awareness of student needs and students to submit partially -RICHARD PATE There are challenging opportunities for service stated that the Department completed assignments part­ in varied and often demanding environments at views. It is a myth that tertiary students of Computer Science has way through the semester. eighty diplomatic and consular posts overseas. are committed Labor voters, a myth which The Deputment is seeking applications from devoted large amounts of Nevertheless, it is up to M.U.S.A. graduates and final year undergraduates for has led both the govemment and money and time to the the students to decide appointment as Foreign Affairs Trainees in opposition to ignore their needs. The ALP development of tlie new whether he will work to a January 1981. should realise they must woo student Gradnales from all disciplines are invited to micro-computer-based sys­ sensible plan, or whether he The Malaysian Union of apply. The department has a Tcquirement for votes, not take them for granted; the tems for first and vyill leave the assignment to Students in Australia takes graduates in such disciplines as economks and Liberal Party needs to be convinced that the last moment. There can law as well as humanities, sciences and languages, second-year students which diis opportunity to especially Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. anti-student policies will lose votes. be no question of a student Proficiency in any language is an advantage. will greatly reduced the being 'forced' into cheating, welcome all Malayan and A strong national student organisation is A high level of academic acfalcTement is amount of on-line computer, as Ms. Jones alleges. North Kalimantan students expected. Moreover, applicants should be able to necessary for this task. Unfortunately the time required for assign­ •-STEPHEN PAGE at the University of Qld. demonstrate a wide knowledge of and interest in Australian Union of Students (AUS) has international affairs and current events and a ment work. Presktant, University of Never has the unity of sound appreciation of political, economic, social been so weakened by secessions and dissent Malayan and North Kali­ that its potential influence is Umited. Qki Computer Club. and cultural aspects of Australian life. There are new, well- mantan students been more Special Training, which may include language So its looks Uke a bleak election for tert­ MANHATTAN important. In Australia, we training, is undertaken by appointees during their iary students. With Canberra observers pre­ equipped terminal labora­ initial twelve months and later as required. On tories, which will soon have have to continue to vigor­ successful completion, trainees are considered for dicting an easy victory for Fraser, we are ously fight the imposition promotion as Foreign Affairs Officer Class I, likely to see TEAS abolished and fees intro­ a system of locks operated On see Woody Allen's and for posting overseas as vacancies occur. by magnetic keys, allowing of fees and forced repat­ duced. If ALP education policies stay as latest ofiering "Manhattan" riation of overseas students. Promotion is on merit. The career structure as they are now, there will be little effective access to authorised I was reminded of the provides opportunities for promoiioa in lime to opposition to such moves. students at all hours. The We contuiue to support senior positions in the department or for Prentice Computer Centre similarites in trend this fihn the patriotic and demo­ uppoininieni as Ambassador, High Commissioner shares with Joseph Heller's or Consul-General overseas. will soon be running the KA cratic struggles in our home Salary during training varies according to It seems the Poh'ce Department is processor around 162 "Something Happened" and countries and work to stop qualifications, starling al $10,586 for a 3.year tidung a more enlightened Une on street the QUDS production the racist and chauvinist degree, $10,920 for a 4-year or longer pass hours/week instead of the degree, $11,259 for a second class honours marches, with the gtsnting of permits to 82 hours/week of last year. "Laws" during Orientation policies pursued by the degree. $11,601 for a first class honours degree groups ISce tbe Campaign Against Nuclear This should completely Week at Cement Box. Kuala Lumpur regime. and $12,286 for a higher degree. Power. change the situation Ms. Similarly, they shared We must also heighten Applioition forms may be obtained from our vigilance against any offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs or Such a move is to be congratulated. lones cites, where there are confusion about success, regKinal oilices of Ihe Public Service Board in However there is room for cynicism. not enough jobs slots (what mental capacity, the great possible invasion by Soviet- each capita] city. Applications sliould be A State election is due soon, and the street she calls 'lines') available. American fantasy - sex, backed forces, in particular, forwarded to reach the Vietnam. _ Recniittticnt OiSccr, Dtpartmcnt of Fortisn march issue is known to be a loser for the However, it mtist be and regulations. Basic AOain, Caobttn A.C.T. 2«M by U AptfligSO. National Party. The Premier has recently stressed that students problems spurred the We wish all students a • ^" ^ ^m ^> ^m ^mt ^m ^m ^m ^ i^ al been seen to compromise over the power should under NO drcum­ creations of all of these successful year in 1980! strike, and his govemment's apparent stances leave their assign­ productions. ExsGutive, CORRECTION mellowing may be just an election ploy. ment work until the last However, in the film, wc Maiflyiian Union of In Semper Inue 1 (13 March 1980) Mungo 'One can only hope that after the moment before it is due. can notice a more Students in Auttratia MacCallum li wrongly quoted at laying ".„the fear election, permits continue to be granted. Students are warned of this supaficiai development of P.O. Box 205, doet not caute poltticiant to «vorrv..."(p8ge 14,3rd at the start of semester, latt paragraph). In fact he taid "...tho fsar doet At least Superindentent Power seems the Keatonesque character South Carlton. Victoria. caute politkiiant.to worry...". Samper apologizat to sincere about wanting to avoid disruption. but many insist on starting - namely a more precise 3063. Mungo and reedsn for anv confuiion catited.

- 2 riVViVVi mxmcf\. "Cautious" Education Policies from the ALP

A federal election is due in 1980, and a Hayden Labor government may take power. TIM LOW asked the ALP Shadow Minister for Education, Senator John Norman Button, what education policies a Labor Government would introduce.

A Hayden government would work "I regard that at the present time as a out educational policies much more negative approach when one thinks about cautiously than the Whitlam Govern­ kids and the majority of Australians who want jobs ... I would have thouglit that ment had done, the Shadow the whole purpose of education in tlie broad Education Minister, Senator John sense, as distinct from training for jobs, Button, said in Canberra in February. is to enable human beings to obtain self- In an exclusive interview with Semper, fulfillment, wisdom if you like, in under­ the senator said tliat economic circum­ standing their society, their relationships stances made it impossible to embark on with fellow human beings, in a metaphysical tremendous expenditure programmes like sense something about man's place on tliis those of the Wiiif lam years. earth. And to talk aboul education for "If you look back at the Wliitlam years leisure seems to me to denigrate the general it was probably a mistake to abolish fees purpose of education as I believe it to be... at universities, because in current terms if "I'd like kids to believe that work is a fees had not been abolished there would creative and fulfilling experience. It's not in liave been 18 million additional dollars many jobs but it can be. But in a society which could have been spent on poorer which is subject to a high rate of tech­ students and student assistance. There is a nological change the incapacity to obtain strong argument that the beneficiaries of work is not in any sense something about the abolition of fees have been pre­ which they should be guilty ... dominantly middle class and the working "1 shudder to use the word elitist, but class taxpayers are now financing just more I regard some of the assumptions of the middle class students in tertiary education for leisure school as being some­ institutions." what elitist. That is to say, 'we in the Senator Button said that Labor education system . . . will tell you how Education spending would be greater tlian to fulfill yourselves in a constructive way.' " that of the Fraser Government, but the mcrease would not be massive. He said Last year Bob Hawke suggested the details would be announced in the next unemployed should receive government two months. support if they wished to live alternative On TEAS the senator said the allowance "If you look back at the Whitlam years it was lifestyles. Semper asked the senator's >aews. was inadequate but a Labor governnient "1 think it is a nice idea but it won't get would thoroughly investigate the system probably a mistake to abolish fees at any encouragement from us at the moment. before deciding on clianges. He said the I'm being very political about it but alter­ present TEAS system was wrong because universities. , Photograph Titfl Low native lifestyles are a basically middle class allowances were not indexed and were less would make a significant change to the change. He said he would like to see an phenomenon, and our priority is with than unemployment benefits. socio-economic composition of univer­ institute set up for research on new tech­ working class kids who want jobs. And if "I think the logical level is at least to sities. But on available data it had nol done nology and its consequences. I can illustrate it in pure political tenns I that of the unemployment benent. The so, he said. Semper asked the senator if the education would not like, as a Labor politician, to be reason is - there is a lot of cheating going "The problem of access to the univer­ system should cope with structural un­ telling a meeting of waterside workers, or on, in a sense quite legitimate cheating by sities is not always an economic one. employment by adapting people to survive stockbrokers for that matter, that their students who are opting to take the un­ [The problems] are in the primary, and without jobs. Should people in the future taxes are being used to subsidise alternative employment benefit and pretend they're certainly in the secondary system and tliat be educated for a life of leisure"? lifestyles." o not students and so on." is where the money has to be spent . . . Button said that TEAS was a "most Education is very much a middle class inadequate allowance" but he would not monopoly and continues to be, and I'm necessarily push for it to be raised to the almost saying that I don't think TEAS Henderson Poverty Line. has much relevance to that issue." "It depends on the number of other Button would like to improve the Thousands Miss matters relating to, among other things, situation by slowly improving the dis­ education priorities. I should say tliat advantaged school areas programmes, by TEAS in terms of the education budget is offering a wider range of subjects and TEAS Grants very expensive. facihties m rural schools. Any student who dkJ not apply for TEAS that they have to apply early for the full "There are a number of competing On the question of fees for overseas benefit, he said. priorities in education ... I would say tliat before March 31 st 1980 has missed out on students, Button said the ALP was opposed part of their allowance. All applications TEAS payments are available to students schools are fairly high on our priorities. to the Government's move. A review of the of all ages, studying approved courses at University research is a high priority, the made before that date are eligible for a retro­ system was needed, with a greater em­ spective payment to January I. Universities, Technical CoUeges, CAE's, and position of postgraduate holders is a high phasis on exchange programmes. other recognised institutions. priority, if anybody is worse off than "I don't think Asian students in A spokesperson for the Commonwealth The Education Departments' students on TEAS I think it's postgraduate particular should be just coming here, 1 Department of Education in Brisbane said spokesperson said that many students de­ award holders. There are problems with there were still 2,500 tertiary students in layed application because they did not have think Australian students and graduates Queensland who had not yet applied for all the relevant information by the due date. both the capital and recurrent funding should be going much more to universities for universities and colleges of advanced Tertiary Benefits. He suggested that students apply, leaving out in Malaysia, India and various other places". According to the spokesperson, at the any information not at hand. This could be education ... So there are other matters This was important, he said, because 70 end of May last year 15,000 students had supplied to the department at a later date. which have to be weighed in the balance." per cent of Australia's trading relation­ applied for benefits compared to 12,500 Students who apply after March 31 can The senator criticised TEAS for its ships were within tlie region. this year. As there did not appear to be any only be considered for benefits payable from failure to increase the number of working drop in tertiary enrolments this year, there their date of application. They would not class students reaciiing universities. The Senator Button said he was pessimistic must be many students who were unaware receive any back payments. D Labor Party had believed that the scheme about the consequences of technological

SEMPER »^i•'^•"»«'^(•» ^^ I '' naus. Dole Problems for De-factos

Couples living in de fact relation­ If they are under 25 and haven't been with eight men suffered a similar fate. applying for a position she had married. ships have been pushed into an livmg together for at least two years they However no male was obliged to support Stunned silence. untenable situation m areas of law, will find themselves liable to a means lesi either oi these girls after the cheques The officer said that he'd betier, re- social services and employment as based on their parents income. stopped coming. check that job. The sound of mumbled a result of government anomalies in Should their parents each earn more than Bed sniffing appears to be prevalent conversation and ruffled papers filtered recognising such relationships. $9,400 per annum then the couple is told when it comes to denying people Social through the telephone. that their parents must support them. Security benefits. It seems that the worse "I'm sorry", he said, "but the job's For de facto couples however, it's In the event of their parents refusing hit are women. gone", and hung up. nearly always a case of "Heads, you to do this, the couples only option is to The law deliberately tries to enforce a However, should a woman choose to win, Tails, we lose" study pari time while on the dole. state of celibacy on women. For example, live in a de facto arrangement m order to As far as the Commonwealth Taxation The Australian constitution gives the a woman on a Widows Pension has to hide get a job, her relationship will be haunted Dqnrtmcnt is concemed a married man or government powers in relation to marriages. her sexual activities from Government by the threat of being transferred away woman can claim a dependent partner as a No mention is made of de facto relation­ officers lest she be deemed dependent on from her partner. tax deduction. ships. It is this cloak that government some casual lover. Sex in her own house One would expect that morals crusader In the case of a de facto couple, there is departments hide beliind, when piaymg can be a liability. This can be difficult for Rona Joyner would be up in arms about no dependent's provision. Although a tlie "recognition - non-recognition" game the man too. the govemment discriminating in favour peison may work and support a de facto, for their own end. Some students find themselves in an of women who choose not to formalise the dependent cannot be claimed for, Because of the constitution, the Family almost impossible position when seeking the relationship through marriage. because the Department only recognises Law Act of 1975 has no provisions for de a T.E.A.S. allowance. Semper asked Mrs. Joyner if she would 1^;al marriages" factos and thus denies them access to the The law accepts a person to be an in­ consider taking up the case of students If the supported de facto applies to the Family Law Court. In such cases as custody dependent adult of age 18, with the right seeking T.E.A.S. so that it became available CJE.S. for the dole they will be told that of children, access, or property ownership, to marry, vote or take out a loan. However to all, and if she would campaign to end they are livuig in a married situation and unmarried couples must use the more in the case of a student, a state of enforced employment discrimination against married consequently not eligible for the dole, cumbersome and expensive Supreme childhood under parental control can apply women. even though the working partner cannot Court. if the student is under 25 years old and Undaunted, Mrs. Joyner declared that she daim the de facto as a dependent. If the A de facto couple is denied stamp duty doesn't qualify because of the means test. was opposed to allowances anyway because working partner becomes unemployed after exemptions on mortgaging their house. Parents have potential power over the they were just govemment handouts and as years of paying smgle person's tax, they are Should one partner die the other does student's choice of course and personal life such led to socialism which was an even told by the C.E.S. that they are, for all not simply inherit property as next-of-kin through their power to withhold money worse threat to family life. mtents and purposes, considered to be but must fight it out in the Supreme Court. supply. Should an intolerable family She said there was an intemational con­ married and must accept a married rate of A dubious criteria is employed by the situation arise and the student leaves home, spiracy by public servant radicals to sneak $88.70 instead of the S51.45 that two single Social Security Department in assessing he or she is still considered dependent on in policies which encourage unmoral be­ people would each get. whether or not a relationship is de facto. the parents and ineligible for assistance. haviour. And who would gain from such a This money is paid to the "supporting" A criteria which can seriously strain a sunple The existence of a married students breakdown in the fabric of society? partner who has no legal obligation to feed platonic relationship. allowance offers the student two ways out, The dreaded socialists of course. "Im­ or clothe the de facto as they aren't A spokesperson from the Social Security either to marry or form a de facto relation­ morality in society provides a playground officially married. Appeals Tribunal told Semper that apart ship. for socialists". In order to improve their chances of from the presence of an obviously shared For the de facto however there is a In her youth said Mrs. Joyner, such finding work, they may decide to undertake bed. Welfare Officers looked for such things catch. They must prove that such a relation­ things were unheard of. She didn't know full time study. as the sharing of common household tasks, ship has existed for at least two years. of anyone who lived like that. The C.E.S. then says, that as they are no the splitting of incomes, or the joint pre­ For a female seeking work with the "I am opposed to breaking God's laws longer actively looking for work, they must paration of meals. Government, a maniage certificate is a big in the first place. The laws of the Govem­ lose the dole and apply for a Tertiary Such activities are done by thousands of disadvantage. ment should be related to God's laws. It's Education Assistance Scheme allowance. people who share living quarters. Jenny Hughey, an organiser with the in the constitution." This would give the supporting partner Greg Weir, an activist with the Unemployed Teachers Co-ordinating Com­ One thing is certain for de facto couples. $45.15 and $3,040 for the de facto as a Unemployed Workers Union, told Semper mittee told Semper of a case where an Any law, God's or not, that contributed to dependent. This represents a weekly income of a case where a lesbian sharing a house unemployed female graduate received a consistency in the Public service would be of $75,55 which is $13.15 less than the dole. with a male was cut off the dole because telephone call from the Education Depart­ a welcome change from the present con­ ment advismg her of a job vacancy. In TTiat is however, if they are fortunate to Welfare Officers considered the relationship fusion. passing, the giri mentioned that since qualify for T.E.A.S. to be de facto. Another giri sharing a house -D BAILEY Nuclear Threat to North Qld

The proposal to construct a uranium enrichment plant in Qi^ensland, the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This substantial infrastructural work needed for (probably in the Townsville area), has come up for criticism. CHRIS possibility is heightened when one an enrichment facility. If the diffusion HUMPHREYS of the Campaign Against Nuclear Power explains why. remembers that members of the consortium process was used, huge amounts of power believed to be negotiating with the would be needed. Queensland would government, COREDIF, include Iran (all up possibly have to double its present peak Last December Queensland Government While building an H-bomb is apparently a shares of 25%) and Spain, neither of which generating capacity of 2005Mw to meet the officials and representatives of the French matter of high school physics, the details of are signatories to the treaty. demands of one power user. Valuable, Atomic Energy Commission announced they the various types of enrichment processes For a number of reasons an enrichment exportable coal would have to be used had reached an initial agreement to are closely kept secrets, for military and plant does not make economic sense: cheaply to supply such power needs. construct a uranium enrichment plant in commercial reasons^ While this is desirable in •The Australian Atomic Energy •A sizeable amount ofthe revenue earned Queensland. Along with talk of nuclear the interests of non-proliferation, it has the Commission does not anticipate a shortfall by the plant would be repatriated overseas m power stations and waste deposit facilities, effect of reinforcing the high security in worid supplies of enriched uranium until the form of profits and interest on foreign the announcement mdicates that the outlook of the nuclear economy, and of 1993. Even then it is likely that existing loans raised to build the plant. decision to mine uranium has set in motion a hindering efforts, even governmental efforts, plants would be expanded to meet increased •The plant would employ few people. An domino sequence of events that could easily to maintain checks on plant safety and demand. equivalent investment m manufacturmg lock Australia into a nuclear powered location of enriched fuel. Top level secrecy •Enrichment facilities overseas ate would create many more permanent jobs. society. may be the norm m Australia but Franch heavily subsidised by governments and it is The above points suggest that apart from The gaseous difTusion process, which is has a poor track record as far as allowing likely that government subsidies would be the dangers of nuclear power, there are the method used by the French up to now, nonsignatories of the Nuclear sought in Australia to ensure the plant's ample economic reasons why an enrichment presents a number of technical problems, in Non-ftoliferation Treaty access to its competitiveness. plant in Queensland is not a sound particular, the old bogey of the nuclear tecluiology. Il has made major arms •The diffusion method which the French proposition. industry, waste storage. Only one fifth of shipments and technology exports to Iran, would be likely to use is one of the oldest An enrichment plant in Queensland the uranium used in the enrichment process South Afrka, Ckuia and Pakistan and enrfchment techmques and less efficient would not be completed until towards the finds its way into fuel rods. The rest has to if Australia permits construction of the plant than newer methods such as the centrifuge end of this decade, but the longer we resist be stored. This waste is not as toxic as that it must accept partial responsibility for the method. This makes taxpayer subsidies more its establishment the less chance it has of from a reactor but it is still radioactive and possible sale of enrkhment technolo&v or likely. ever getting off the ground. dangerous if released into the environment. enriched uranium to countries not a party to •Australia would also have to pay for the CHRIS HUMPHRIES OV^RS^flS.

ONCE MORE THE 1939 SHOW The Prime Minister and Afghanistan

The emotional debate about are probably unaware of the com­ Olympic boycotts has shifted pelling evidence that the invasion was attention from the act which initiated motivated by fears of Islamic unrest. the debate — the Soviet invasion of Dr. GLEN ST. J. BARCLAY* argues Afghanistan. more than this. He suggests the Russian motives for the invasion Russian action may have been inspired have been tittle analyzed in the by humanitarian concerns, and was popular press, and most Australians essentially a benevolent act.

Malcolm Fraser does not leave one Daoud was replaced in 1978 by Mohammid in any doubt as to the nature of his Taraki, who set up the first explicitly public feelings on matters of moment. Marxist regime in Afghanistan. This in itself He has frequently referred to the of course made little difference to the lives of the Afghan people. Its main significance current Russian involvement in Af­ was tliat there was now a ruling clique ghanistan as an invasion which has ui Kabul who received their advisers and "virtually pushed detente aside and their bribes exclusively from Russia. made it impossible for nations to But the replacement of Taraki by Hafi- conduct relations with the Soviet zullah Amin on March 28,1979,introduced sometiiing completely different. Amin Union on a basis of trust and con­ attempted to create a genuinely Marxist fidence." He has also claimed that it republic in the most niilitantly Islamic has posed a greater tlireat to world of countries by the most resolute methods. peace than anything that has Potential rivals like student leader Babrak happened since 1939. The first of Karnial were exiled to diplomatic posts in Eastern Europe. Possible opponents were these assertions might well seem to jailed, tortured and shot. be a trifle premature. On the second point, he might unfortunately just There are no reliable statistics about happen to be right. anything in Afglianistan, so one does not know if the nuinber of arrests carried out It would of course be helpful if we knew on Amin's orders amounted to 5,000 or exactly what the motivations for the 50,000 or something in between. What was Russian involvement actually were. The abundantly clear was lliat Amin was doing familiar Nineteenth Century reasons for for Communism in Afghanistan what the Russian concern in that region would Shah had done for the Western way of life certainly not seem to apply any longer. in Iran. It was obviously essential for the Russia has no need to try to apply Russians to do something to prevent liim leverage against Britain by pretending to from provoking a religious backlasli which, mount a threat towards India. It does not. could very easily spill over the border and need to mount a diversion in Asia to distract infect the Moslem peoples of the Soviet attention from its attempts to gain control Union itself. of the Dardanelles. There is however a record of Russian interest in Afghanistan This may very well have been the point since the Bolshewk Revolution of which the of major concern for the Russians. About present involvement is a logical, if not a a fifth of the population of the Soviet necessary culmination. Union, some 40-odd million people, are Moslem. Their numbers have been doubling The Soviets provided economic assistance every 20 years, unlike thos^.of the Rus^ans intermittently to the Afiian monarchy from themselves, wliich are virtually stable. If 1919 to 1941, as part of a general program present trends were to continue, which of of encouraging Asian peoples to resist course they never do, Russia would have a Western imperialism. The tempo of aid was Moslem majority by the end of the century. stepped up after Mohamniid Daoud estab­ These people have ethnic Imks with other lished a left-inclined republic in 1953. Moslems in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and The Korean War liad just ended, and the China. It would be extraordinary if they Soviet leadership was embarking upon a were to remain unaffected by developments strategy of economic competition with in these countries just across the frontier the West for the favours of Third Worid Une, even apart from the fact that it is countries. Russian economic and ideological difficult for Islam and atliestic materialism penetration was reduced during the to co-exist satisfactorily at the best of times. decade 1963-73, when Daoud allowed the Amin accordingly had to be replaced by monarchy to try its liand again at misgovern­ somebody who could be trusted to apply' ing an ungovernable country. His return to Marxist principles in a manner less calculated power in 1973 inspired a renewed inflow to inflame tlie mosl readily innamniable of Russian money and Russian advisers. people on earth. Links between Moscow and Kabul when All that is really remarkable is the way in which the Russians went about their *Glen St. J. Barclay is a Reader in the History r. • • — Department at the University of Queensland. (continued on next page)

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(continued from previous page) The Baluchi people ui the south of the to need mentioning. provide them with even more compellmg country haw long souglit escape from the Alt this of course assumes that the and equaUy humanitarian reasons for essentially benevolent task. Given that their rule of General Zia, who combines the Russians genuinely regarded Afghanistan occupying Pakistan. intention was to remove an unacceptably ruthlessness of Amin with the zeal of the as a one-ofT special case. Their reasons The parallel with 1939 is very close murderous ideologue in favour of a leader Ayalollah Khomeini. Nothing is easier to for occupying that country were no doubt indeed. Having been permitted to overrun more appealing to the Afghan masses, the imagine than that the Baluchis might seize compelling and may well have been posi­ Czechoslovakia, .against which he had no least promising way of doing this would have the opportunity presented by the presence tively humanitarian. case. Hitler could hardly believe that the been to ferry Karmal back from Prague, of Russian troops near their border to Anything that got rid of Amui might West would not let him overrun Poland, install him in Kabul by force and send in challenge Zia openly, calling upon Moscow well have looked like an improvement on against which he did have an arguable case. an army of invasion to keep him there. for help. the existing state of affairs. But their Brezhnev is of course not Hitier. But The consequences seem to have been* occupation of Afghanistan seems likely to the Russians have an incentive to act boldly counter-productive in all respects. Resistance A Russian intervention in Baluchistan which the Nazis lacked. Germany was to Karmal is far more general and vehement would bring Soviet forces to the Arabian seriously unprepared for war and in many than it ever was to Amin. Far more people, Sea, which is precisely what President respects militarily disadvantaged in 1939. both Russian and Afglian, have died in the Carter has said would bring the United TTie Prime Minister has referred to the The Russians now possess an enormous fighting that has taken place.since the States to war with Russia. But even if the need to acquire 75 new Tactical Fighters Russian intervention tlian were executed quantitative superiority over the West and Russians were able to resist appeals by the for the RAAF, another FoDow-on Frigate a qualitative superiority over the Chinese m in Amin's prisons. The prospect of a holy Baluchis for aid, they will hardly be able (Gukied Missile) for the RAN, and some war, which was exactly what the inter­ vhtually all weapons of conventional war­ to avoid a more direct confrontation with form of replacement for the aircraft fare. This edge may well be trimmed down vention was designed to avert, has come Islamabad. They are now mvolved in a carrier Melbourne. very close to a reality. over the next ten years, as the Americans classic old-style colonial guerilla war, which He did not however explain that this catch up in numbers and the Chinese in new equipment woukl not be additional technology. It would be impossible for the to our existing defense capacity, but is leadership in Moscow to not be aware that required urgently to replace weapons right now is the appointed time to take If present trends were to continue, system already obsolete. Nor dkl he make whatever risks might advantageously be it clear that no orders haw actually been taken in the interests of the Soviet Union. which of course they never do, placed for any of these ships or aircraft, Prime Minister Fraser might well be presumably because it has not yet been right in his assessment of the threat to world Russia would have a Moslem majority deckled after ten years' consideration peace posed by the Russian venture in Af­ exactly what sort of Tactical Fighter is ghanistan. His response in practical terms by the end of the century. best suited to our needs, or how our naval would seem to be totally incommensurate aviation capacity should be mauitained with the danger he claims to perceive. afto- Melbourne finally becomes unfit for We have been told that decisions have service in 1984. to be made on the strengthening of The Russians would appear merely to can literally go on forever. All he is sayii^ is that decismns would Australia's defences. (See Box). But the have moved their frontier and their problems The Afghan rebels are being armed and have to be made, and we knew that decisions have been awaited since 1973 further south and cast to the borders of encouraged by the Pakistanis, and are using aheady. The state of our defenses has in and have been a matter of urgency since Pakistan. In doing so, they have acquired Pakistan as a sanctuary from which they can fact deteriorated since the Russian inter­ 1975. It is as obvious now as it was last new and extraordinarily intractable prob­ strike at the Russians with impunity. The vention in Afghanistan, as our service year that they are gomg to be deferred lems. Russians must eventually find it impossible personnel become more demoralised, their until the latest possible moment for The Pakistanis are at least as militantly not to cross the Pakistani border in hot equipment becomes more outdated and maximum electoral effect. Not even a Islamic as the Afghans. 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One of the major problems disadvantaged Unfortunately, this system often back­ trealmcnl, ask for an account to be sent, cope with the demands of the general people face is their inability to opt for fires. and never pay the bill. This ploy is a dan­ public. Tlie staff al public hospitals are private health care. While people with As one student told Semper, "1 thought gerous one. Many doctors now employ specifically trained in emergency and adequate incomes or medical insurance can 1 couldn't afford to pay out money every debt collecting agencies lo recover out­ hospital medicine and often find it difficult lo some extent determine what medical week into Medical Benefits or whatever. standing bills. Knowing the hanifisted and to correctly treat patients who walk in off treatment they want, the poor and dis­ Usually I'm pretty healthy so 1 didn't think ofien violent ways of these agencies ofien the street vvith a minor ailment. advantaged must tolerate the limited health 1 had much to worry about. I was wrong deters many people from using this ploy. Even with the new casualty facilities in services provided by some hospitals and though. Tills year I've already paid out over Even when it is possible to get treat­ use at the Royal Brisbane Hospital often clinics, or go without. S60 in doctor's bills alone. I've had every­ ment from a doctor il is not possible for seems under seige. Wailing times for treat­ Australians generally do not appreciate thing from fiu lo thrush and it's costing me many patients to pay for prescriptions. ment are between three and fi^Q hours, how many people are living below or only a fortune. It's gelling so 1 can'i afford to Several pharmacists said Ihcy ofien have and the ircatmeni given at the end of the slightly over the poverty line. The fill scripts." patients coming in who are unable to pay wail is often inappropriate and inadequate. Henderson Report on Poverty estimates that for nniltiplc prescriptions. A St. Lucia One patient told Semper she was very more than 2 million people live in poveriy pharmacist said .she knew of a number of ill over the Cliristmas/New Year holiday or extreme poveriy. In other words approx­ young mothers who could only afford to and sought treatment at the RBH casualty imately 14 per cent of the population is pay for one item on their prescriptions. ward because private doctors were un­ economically underpriveleged. "Young mums have a problem. Kids are available. She went on tiiree separate The introduction of Medibank under always getting sick and it soon costs the occasions and wailed approximately five Labor meant an iniprovenienl in the lot of earth lo buy medicines. Sometimes they hours each time, hi the end, after being told the disadvantaged. For the first time it will ask the pharmacist which item on the she had fiu and would "just have to put up seemed possible for aU members of the prescription is the most important, and wdth it" she became so UI she tried to get a public to choose their own doctor, receive only get that one.", she said. private doctor. Tluee doctors refused to adequate treatment, and not be over­ For those drugs on the "fiee" list a single come out on a public holiday before a burdened by medical bills. However, then as script costs S2.75. For two items it goes up fourth agreed to see her. She was eventually now the Australian Medical Association lo S5.50 and for three S8.25. For a person diagnosed as having acute bronchitis, and she strongly and vocally opposed any form of with a serious or chronic illness this cost was told she was lucky she had not died. "sociahsed" medicine. Many doctors re­ can soon become crippling. She toM Semper that the only way to get taliated by falsifying records of consultation One Indooroopilly pharmacist said he was prompt and proper treatment from the to defraud Medibank. sure thai there were many more scripts casualty department is to "cry or bleed". Medibank has since undergone numerous written than gel presented to pharmacists For anythii^g else they make you wait. changes in operation, funding and attitude. for filling. Today it operates in more or less the same Not all drugs prescribed are on the free way as private health funds. Tiiere is no lisl. For example Primaquine, wliich is Tiiere is usually a lengthy wait at the longer any obligation for people lo be essential for curing malaria, is excluded fiom hospital dispensary, ll is very hard to get registered in a fund, and those who are pay the list. For drugs not on the Uee list medicines dispensed on weekends, and for the privelege. The disadvantaged are patients musl pay full costs, which in some medication is often given from the now in the same position as they were at cases runs to several dollars. emergency dispensary upstairs. the beginning of the decade, except that the Wliile the hospital is under undue cost of medical care has risen sharply. For The line of medications on the restricted pressure from people seeking treatment, people receiving any sort of Social Security list presenl another problem. If a doclor hospital authorities must acknowledge that payment this system is made worse because prescribes one of these drugs he has to write the situation will gel worse before it gets many benefits have nol been indexed. The away for an authorisation from the Federal better. With the large numbers of people Tertiary Education Assislance Scheme has government first. In some cases a patient unable to afford other medical attention not increased hs funding in several years, may only be allowed one authorisation per the hospitals have to supply treatment. A so the real situation of students has year. With the authorisation the drug is. number of people have told Semper that the worsened. made available for S2.75. Witiiout it, a RBH waiting room is not suitable for such The large amount of chopping and patient may stil! have the drug prescribed, long wails. Qiairs are uncomfortable, there changing to the Federal Health care scheme but al its full price. In the case of the drug is no clock, the public telephones are often lias also affected people who are not "Cimetidine" used for treating ulcers, the out of order, and the only food and drmk necessarily disadvantaged economically. For people who cannot afford to pay for full price of the course of tablets is between available come from two venduig machines People find it difficult lo cope with bureau­ the doclor of tlieir choice there are few S50 and $60. A doctor is allowed one supplying sweets and fluid of an in­ cracies at the best of times, and the number alternatives. A patient can go to a private authorisation and one repeat of Cimetidine determinate taste. of times the general population lias been doctor and plead social disadvantage. In per year. A doctor from the hospital said that expected to sort out new rules for health other words, the patient tells the doctor medical staff are findmg it increasingly insurance has meant that many peopte have that they are financially desUtute, have PUBLIC HOSPITALS difficult lo cope. dropped out along the way. Some people six children, have a bad case of pneumonia Patients who simply cannol afford any­ "We see so many people here every day find they cannot be bothered making the from sleeping in the street. If the doclor thing else can go to the public hospitals it's almosi uiipossible", he said. "It is very effort any longer, others forget, and many decides the patient is telling the truth he/ outpatients or casualty facilities. In hard to provide continuity of treatment people become confused and frightened by she will give tlie patient treatment and will Queensland (though not in other slates) when a patient comes in only every so often the system, and cannot cope with registering bulk bill the government. the casualty ward will provide free treat­ and sees a different doctor every time. It's themselves again. The biggest disadvantage of this is that it ment and drugs. However, with the liigh hard to help a person who feels ill and .The dropout rate for these and other gives the doctor supreme power over the rate of drop outs from health insurance walks in off the street. I don't know their reasons is high, and includes the disadvan­ patient. Similar to their already much schemes, and the increasing number of medical history, what they're allergic to ... taged as well as those who can afford to pay. vaunted power of life and death, tliis form people who are unable to afford private anytiiing." The dropouts save the government money of patient pleading allows the doclor to treatment, hospital facilities are being He said he really did not know what while putting themselves in a vulnerable provide treatment only to those patients stretched to their limits. was going to be done about disadvantaged position if they become 111. deemed "worthy". Recent news coverage has been given patients. He said doctors were aware of the to the fact that patient attendance at Royal Many young people opt out of health The system is demoralising for patients problem, but it was hard to see how the Brisbane Hospital is up by over one third funds because they believe themselves to in need of help. A patient often finds that system could cope. He also said that private over last year's figures. Tlie outpatients and be healthy, and well able to afford the it is necessary to shop around for a doctor doctors are reluctant to bulk bill because of casualty are meant to serve emergency or occasional doctor's bill, rather than put willing fo treat them. Many patients simply the extra effort involved, and the deshe to go without treatment. Others simply get chronic patients and are ill equipped to "dead" money into a Health Scheme. (continued on next page)

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(continued from previous page) often bring very young English-speaking those of men. In some cases, like pre­ ABORIGINALS have money paid up at the time of the con­ children whose role is to translate. In one menstrual tension doctors did not even The aboriginal community has specific sultation. private hospital, one of the kitchen staff acknowledge that it existed. They frequently difficulties m health care. Racism and fear was called in to help a Yugoslavian patient told women it was all in their minds, pre­ on the part of doctors leads many to reject UNIVERSITY HEALTH explain his symptoms to the doctor. scribed psycotropic drugs like vdium.. aborigmal patients, or demand that the fee University students al the University of Migrant workers also have specific health Even now, where doctors will acknow­ be paid before a consultation. Language and Queensland are a lot belter off than some problems incurred from the type of work ledge a woman's problem as physical rather understanding difficulties are similar to of the disadvantaged. The University has they do. The migrant workforce is heavily than mental, there is a reluctance to tell those of migrants. a large Health Care Service on the ground Several aboriginal Health Care Services fioor of Relax Block. The service has several have been set up, but suffer from a reluc­ doctors and auxiliary staff, supplying hee tance by patients to trust the doctors at treatment to students. Tlie doctors also have <<] the service, and with a difficulty in ob­ a number of useful contacts at hospitals 'Women regularly find that doctors taining funds. Several aborigmal health and clinics around Brisbane lo make it care programmes like the Glaucoma easier for student patients to receive cheap regard their complaints as more trivial Programme have been suspended because of and adequate care. government withdrawal of funding. According to Dr. Janet Irwin of the than those of men. In some cases, like Medical facilities away from cities are health service all the doctors at the clinic sometimes inadequate. Late last year an are very aware of the problems premenstrual tension, doctors did not aboriginal man was sent home from a disadvantaged people have getting treatment. Queensland Reserve Hospital with a couple She said the doctors al the health service of aspirins for his "cold". Later' that day did their best to help students gel adequate even acknowledge that it existed." the man died from double pneumonia. treatment both on and off campus. As yet there seems no answer to She said tliat in general the univcfsity Australia's health care difficulties. Even population did not have serious illness' concentrated in process and factoiy work. women what is wrong with them. Several the paying public is finding it hard to get because of their youth, and the most pre­ Workers regularly complain of headaches women told Semper that they asked their proper treatment, while disadvantaged scribed drug at the Qinic was probably the and stress from noise, depression from illness, but the doctor was oiily willing to people are constantly given inadequate pUl. the repel it iousness of work, and specific write a prescription and tell them "Don't treatment, or no treatment at all. The image Dr. Irwin said it was very hard lo know physical ailments due to the nature of work wony about it. Take these and it will be of doctors has taken a severe beating over what lo do about adequate health care for done. alright". the past decade. Doctors are no longer the whole population. She said patients One recent case involved a migrant When some women pressured the doctors being regarded as kindly gentlemen who have the right to treatment bul they woman employed as a seamstress in a they became embarrassed or angry. One worry over their patients welfare. Today should tell the doclor they could not pay large factory. She suffered a permanent woman said her doctor always treated they are more likely to be looked upon as and ask for bulk billing. She said patients and serious injury to her elbow, arm and female patients as children, and even scolded greedy conservatives, who care for little will simply have to swallow their pride for shoulder because her work made it necessary them. more than their consultation fee. the time being and ask lo be regarded as dis­ to use her arm repetitiously to bring heavy Women find it difficult to find a sym­ With the Australian public in this cynical advantaged until a better system is found. fabric through her machine. pathetic doctor who does not moralise frame of mind, and proper patient care at about pre-marital sex. Several doctors treat an all tune low this decade, it seems that MIGRANTS WOMEN women with sexually related illness with medical mstitutions should begin to forget Migrant grdups arc still not adequately Women are still severely disadvantaged disdain, particulariy if the woman is un­ about expensive diagnostic equipment, and catered for in hospitals and clinics. It is not by the established system of health care, married. Woman are still unable to get get on with the business of caring for health uncommon to find migrant women gomg to even when they can afford to pay for treat­ abortion or sterilisation on demand. Several ofthe population. the doctor and being unable to explain the ment. Women regularly find that doctors doctors still refer a woman to a psy­ problem. One doctor told me the women regard their complaints as more trivial than chiatrist when they request sterilisation. -KJAZ PERRY

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INTRODUCTION on other places which also operated as Police and operated as the main base of served as showers. They made us wash in concentration camps according to other intelligence operations of the Federal groups of eight, and we had about one My name is Horacio Guillermo Cid prisoners' reports. Police, but was also used by the differeni minute in which to wash, get out of the de la Paz. I was born in the Republic water and dry ourselves. of Argentina on 28 March 1957. There were 100 to 140 of us, and we liad 5 or 6 pieces of cloth which served as towels I studied in the Colegio Nacional for all of us. We had a small foam rubber (secondary school) in La Plata, where I mattress, wiiich was yellow and blackened joined the Secondary School Students with dried blood and perspiration. The Union (UES) in 1973, of which I was a hygiene conditions were appalling. leader, and the Peronismo Montonero, There was a medical service and an which was active at that time in infirmary, bul this was only for people who had been mjured in clashes or had been secondary school. tortured loo much and were in danger of On 15 November 1977 1 was kidnapped dying whom Ihey wished to continue tor­ in the street in Buenos Aires by members of turing. They were taken to the infirmary, the Federal Argentine Police Service. 1 v/as treated well, given serum, and then tortured taken lo "Club Alletico" where I was again. tortured. My new name was X-86. The "operating theatre" was the torture I was a "disappeared" person for fifteen room. This camp had tluee "operating months, and was held in four differeni theatres". The only furniture in the concentration camps during that period. operating theatre was the "picana" (prod) My name, and that of Oscar Alfredo and a metal table lo which we were attached Gonzalez, appeared on the lists of "dis­ to be tortured. Tliis was a very sinister appeared" persons presented by national place; you could hardly see the original and international organisations. yellow paint on the wails which were The two of us, and another companion, covered with all sorts of stains and blood. Nestor Zurita, were taken to La Plata on The smell of burnt flesh, blood, perspiration 18 February 1979 for interrogation. We and excrement, added to the fact that there took advantage of this opportunity to Oscar Alfredo Gonzalez {left} and Horacio Cid de la Paz who survived was no ventilation, made the air heavy and escape. torture at the hands of Argentinian security forces. impossible to breathe. The torturers worked We are aware of the risks tlial this according to a rota and kept a wrhten testimony entails for our relatives in record of their "work". The doors were Argentina, and hold the Miliiary Govern­ CLUB ATLETICO task forces who assembled there the "dis­ grey and on the inside there was a rota. ment responsible for any action against appeared" people or "chupados" ("drained On 28 December 1977 all the prisoners them. Club Alletico operated as a sori of off' people). From the beginning of 1977 were removed from the camp blindfold We are two survivors from the prisoner depot where the only law was this camp was commanded by a liigh-ranking and sliackled and taken to another camp. concentration camps in Argentina. We terror. It was an underground, imventilated Federal Police officer connected with escaped the terror of the "transfer" and of place, without any natural lighf, arid was Intelligence. He made people call him OLIMPO the "final destination", wliich meant death very damp and very hot. The cells, called "Coronel" ("Colonel") or "Tordillo" for thousands of our fellow countrymen. "tubos" (pipes) were very small. Discipline ("Dappled"). It was in this camp that we witnessed In the camps we shared torture and was very strict and we were shackled, which The food was extremely bad: A dish one of the deeds wliich shows mosl cleariy punishments, hunger and solitude with 800 prevented us from moving more than 40 of water and raw vermicelli, uncooked maize what sort of person took part in this type other prisoners, with death as our constant centimetres and hurt our ankles. We had fiour or pasta wiih entrails which were of repression. In the very corridor leading companion. tight cloth blindfolds over our eyes. Al dirty were distributed twice a day. Some­ lo the torture rooms, along which the new There were not many opportunities to firsl, we suffered from infections, since the times Ihey forgot to feed us or there was inmates had passed naked and in which they escape, and most people could nol avoid cloth was dirty. The infection made our eyes no food. We all lost weight. were beaten when they were firsl kidnapped, being taken away in the "transfers". Others swell, but afler a time we became immune They took us out three times a day they installed a small chapel. It was a strange preferred to hasten their death by com­ and the swelling did not recur. We could to go lo the toilet. The toilets were 30 kind of Cluistianity these people have, mitting suicide. We managed to delay our neither talk nor move and were always or 40 metres from the cells. They led us out enjoying punishing and beating until the "transfer" by submission, adopting an sitting or lying down; when two prisoners in groups of ten, in single file, each with victim loses consciousness, in front of the attitude of pretence, which was difficult were together in one ceil, they could nol his hands resting on the shoulders of the image of the Virgin Mary. and humiliating. We did cleaning, painting, talk. If there was just one noise, all the person in front. More ofien than nol we worked as bricklayers, cooks, mechanics and section was punished. were unable to relieve ourselves because MAR DEL PLATA NAVAL BASE even did office work. The guards wore soft footwear, and Ihey heal us on the way, or when we arrived Our aim was to prolong our stay in the opened the doors suddenly to see if we Ihcy ordered us lo return to the cells, or There is a concentration camp in a naval same place until the opportunity to escape were standing up or nol wearing the when we were in the toilet they beat us up, base in Mar del Plata, and one of us, O.A. arose. Many others tried this, but we were blindfolds - for we were blindfolded even or gave us two or lliree minutes for all ten Gonzalez, was taken there for two days, more fortunate and succeeded in escaping. in the cells. If they saw us move our hands, of us to use the toilcl. They gave us a cup in March 1978. even if it was nol to touch the blindfold, of water there, which wc were unable to The guards were in the Navy, and wore THE CAMPS they beat us until we lost consciousness. drink. These were the only times we lefl (continued on following page) The Argentine Federal Police were the cells. During the 15 months of our captivity, responsible for maintenance and security, Once a week perhaps we were taken out and all the guards were drawn from this to wash - to the place where the toilets we were in five concentration camps, also TESTIMONY ON SECRET DETENTION CAMPS' known as "pozos" (pits) or "chupaderos" force. The camp was controlled directly were. There were two pipes there, with holes IN ARGENTlNAiAmnesty International Publicat- (drains). We obtained detailed information by the Superior Officers of the Federal througli wliich the water passed, which lons.London, 1980.

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ordinary uniform. Uving conditions were PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE A Travellers Guide to Oppression extremely tough. The cells were very small. Leon Gajnaj was kidnapped by the At midnight they threw in one mattress Intelligence Service of the Federal Police in South America on 20 October 1977. On the 21st ofthe per cell, which they removed at six am. From the Amnesty International The resl of the day was spent sitting on a same month his father (Salomon) and his Report 1978. Amensty International wooden chair, hooded and handcuffed, at mother were kidnapped. Both were pul on the end of the cell, "looking" al the walls. top of him on the torture table. Publications, London, 1979. Norma Bcatriz Longlii was kidnapped TORTURE on 2 November 1977 by Task Force 3, who made her son, Facundo, cry in the For the Argentine military, even children, "operating theatre" next to the one in which pregnant women, injured and sick people she was being tortured. are suspects. They believe only in the Maria del Carmen Jurquievich was kid­ "truth" they can discover in the "operating napped by the Special Task Force on 10 theatres" (toriure chambers). October 1978, together with her daughter Over 25 sugar mill strikeers PHYSICAL METHODS Cliristina. They made her listen to her shot dead. daugliler's screams while they interrogated Detention of As regards physical torture, we were all her. unionists. treated alike, the only difference being in The list of examples is endless. Enough mlensily and duration. Naked, we were to say that similar procedures were repeated bound hand and foot with thick chains or in all those cases in which a prisoner was PERU straps to a metal table. Then an earthing kidnapped together with a relative of his or After negotia­ cable was attached lo one of our toes and tions with the her children. There were also many examples International the toriure began. we could mention of women prisoners Monetaty fund For the first hour they would apply the for credit, the being sexually interfered with and even Government im­ "picana" (cattle prod) to us, wilhout asking raped in the presence of a husband or boy­ posed austerity any questions. The purpose of this was, as measures and a friend. State of Emer­ they put it, "to soften you up, so tliat gency; 38 people we'll understand one another". were shot b^* LIFE INSIDE THE CONCENTRATION Security forces PARAGUAY They went on like this for hours, They CAMPS during subsequent applied it to the head, armpits, sexual unrest. E.OOO A state of siege empowers organs, anus, groin, mouth and all the strikers iacked in the government to detain Those who managed to stay alive after 1977 for strike. anyone without trial (wme sensitive parts of the body. From time to the interrogation stage were faced by an people detained for up to time Ihey threw water over us or washed us, 19 yearsi. Political opposition equally sinister and vicious reality. The hell held in preventative detention. "to cool your body down so that you'll of the cells, the permanent terror, solitude 74 victims of detention. be sensitive agaui." CHILE Torture is common. and helplessness in the face of constant Between sessions of the "picana", they humiliation awaited them. 1,500 prisoners d isappeared would use the "submarino", (holding our since 1973. Arrests of students • Punishment was routme. We were hit and Labour Day marchers. URUGUAY heads under water), hang us up by our feet, with rubber truncheons and clubs; forced Torture with drugs end electric shocks. hit us on the sexual organs, beat us with to do press-ups and drill until we lost con­ Governnneni admits over chains, put salt on our wounds and use any 2,200 political prisoners, sciousness. We had to run blindfold with ARGENTINA Torture widespread, death other method that occurred to them. They our hands behmd our backs; we were hit on from torture. Political parties would also apply Over 3,600 people In banned. 220-voll direct current to the mouth lo see if we made any movement us, and we know that sometimes - as in the detention, most without indicating that we were spying from below charges, 15,000 disappear­ case of hma Necich - the used what Ihey ances in previous 2 years. called the "piripipi",a type of noise torture. the blindfold. When they came in drunk at night, they Torture widespread. There was no limit to the torture. It took groups of comrades out of the cells could last for one, two, five or ten days. and beat them for hours, until they created Everything was done under the supervision veritable human mountains of unconscious The most terrible part was the un­ held in ESMA was taken to the "Banco". of a doctor, who checked our blood-pressure comrades, bleeding with broken bones. certainty of this period; the impossiblity He lold us what he managed to find out and refiexes: "We're not going to let you In winter il was cold, in summer the heat of coping with the sense of fate, the- about the "transfers" in that camp. All die before time. We've got all the time in was suffocating. Hygiene was non-existent. realisation tliat the end of the visible road those "transferred" were uijected with a the world, and this will go on indefinitely". Medical treatment was only given in Iwo was a dark place, a leap into the void, the powerful sedative, which they called That is exactly how it was, because when circumstances: when they considered that "transfer". The key to the future was in "Pen-Naval". Afterwards they were put we were on the verge of death they would someone was still useful to them or when an this word, repeated a thousand times by us into a lorry and from there into an ahcraft, stop and let us be revived. The doctor in­ epidemic put Ihem at risk. and our kidnappers. from which they were thrown into the sea, jected serum and vitamins, and when we had The decision to make a "transfer" could alive but unconscious. more or less recovered they began to torture THE "TRANSFERS' AND THE depend on various factors; the main ones us again. "FINAL DECISION" being that the camp was full to capacity, In one of the "transfers" in January, Many of the prisoners could not endure and the interna! political problems of the comrade Eduardo was taken away. He had this terrible treatment and fell into a coma. We learnt quickly: you are only in the repressive forces. lost both legs. He was taken out in his When this happened, they either left them camp for a period, the length of which is Transfer is the name give to mass assass- wheelcliair. Two days Jater we saw to die or else "took them off to the miliiary difficult to predict; afterwards comes the' inatk)n in Argentina. Eduardo's chah discarded in a corner ofthe hospital". We never heard of any of these "transfer". In April 1978 a comrade who had been parkmg lot. • LOOTING AND EXTORTION BY ARGENTINE FORCES

oppression in Argentina is carried out by government forces attadied to the Federal bills of sale for their vehicles. label on these vehicles in a visible place Polfce and to the Army, Navy and Airforce. Their modus operandi was desaibed by -They forged signatures and identity which state: "Attached to the First Army Gonzalez and Guillermo Cid de la Paz. Sections of this testimy are reprinted bdow. documents, by means of which they with­ Corps" and gave two telephone numbers drew any savings which a comrade might and the signature of the colone. Every METHODS OF KIDNAPPING the slightest suspicious movement, it meant have deposited. month they prepared a list addressed to Generally, the order was to capture us death. They took the greatest precautions -The homes were completely looted: the First Army Corps with the false licence alive, but this must not be confused with on entering houses. Ther* were two things furniture, clothing, electrical appliances, numbers of all the vehicles. They changed any sort of humanitarian motives; on they were apt to do. They sometimes went crockery and even foot were loaded onto the vehicles every one or two months, the contrary, they only did it in order to in simultaneously firing in several places, lorries which they kept for tliis sole pur­ and dismantled them before abandoning interrogate us by means of torture. or they mtimidated the inhabitants into pose. them. They never exposed themselves to surrendermg; otherwise, after a few -Their private vehicles and all the According to comments by officers, danger or took chances. If they thought seconds they would start firing with rifles equipment were stolen. The average they had had more casualties due to staff that the victim might resist capture, they and machine guns, and using grenades number of vehicles stolen was two a day. getting anested for unauthorised theft and set out with the intention of assassinating and tear gas. They told the victuns that they were blackmail, than as a result of armed him, or , as they put it, to "cut" him. All MERCENARY CHARACTER OF THE guerrilla fighters, and they also stole clashes. the comrades who entered the REPRESSIVE FORCES money and all personal effects. When the There were no lunits to their greed: concentration camp whh injuries had been Apart from the special bonuses and vehicle to be stolen was a lorry, they coidd they even stole the ragged clothing we attacked from behind. extra payments received by officers and carry out checks and searches untU they wore, and most of the scanty provisions The whole area of the operation was non-commission officers, the right to loot found one which was loaded with goods, they brought from other military imits. virtually taken over and they lay in wait and plunder was their main incentive. It preferably household articles. The vehicles Extortion from the most wealthy behind windows, on roofs, in parked was an absolutely official practice, i.e. it were taken to the concentration camp, relatives of the prisoners was common vehicles etc. When the victim approached was authorised. where they made the conuades who practice. Evidence in oui possession about the place from where he was to be kid-> -They forged title deeds and sold the worked as mechanics disguise them and this could harm the relatives and comrades napped, they would aim high calibre and homes of captured comprades. change the licence plates. The documents who have veen released, therefore we shall very accurate guns at him. If there was -They forced prisoners to sign blank for them were forged also. They stuck a not publish it. D

10 :LIF6Sm6S: Seasons in the Sun NIGEL PENNINGTON STEVE BOCKHOLT PHILLIP PENNINGTON

"You can't go wrong fruit picking ployee are usually brief. For the compulsory mate . .. Yeah, three hundred bucks a fee of eight dollars you are enrolled in the Australian Workers Union - but don'l week, tax free... free beer." expect to see a union official. Ever. Like the fabled "trips to the Isa", fiuit- The attractions of travelling, seeing the picking, and seasonal work generally, is country and so on are oft-extolled virtues surrounded by exaggeration, distortion and of seasonal work. And it is true that you can outright myth. Many people turned up at see a great deal of Australian highway- the pear orchard we were working last side, on your way to and from agricultural summer expecting to earn two to tluee areas. Some of it is, unfortunately, not hundred dollars a week. Most left within a worth seeing. Northern Victoria for instance week. In fact, of the 'gang' (team of 16 (home of pears and peaches) is the fialtest, pickers) that we started in, only two dullest, most over-cultivated area in the original pickers were still there when we Southern Hemisphere. Insecticides are so left a month later. And many of the heavily used that even birds are rare. originals had been replaced two, three or Entertainment facilities are sparse in four tunes over. country areas. The Saturday-night enter- So wlmt's wrong with it? From personal tianment in Cobram (Victoria) was the experience and the accounts of other local disco where, if you avoided the violent workers, these are the two main complaints: pecking order disputes, you could dance to Most fruhpicking is physically hard, the breathtakingly witty conunents of the sometimes e)diausting work. Tliis varies local John Travolta clone. Most pub owners from crop lo crop; picking beans for have updated their fioores but not the niusic instance is notoriously tough, while grape- (Beatles is a staple diet) and competitions picking is not particular strenuous, but one such as 'best tits on the floor' are tasteless, lias to be fast to make good money. It is to say the least. difficult to generalise, but on many crops Despite these criticisms, fruilpicking lias one can work as hard as a brickies labourer its advantages. The characters who make (S250-$300 a week) for about half the up the 'itinerant' work force, from failed wage. company-directors to worid-travellers and SEASQNALWORK For instance the average wage in the gang habitual criminals, can be very illuminating. we worked in was S22 a day. Of course And fruilpicking is not as unpleasant as A list of C.E.S. Offices there were many stories of pickers 'down the some of the work available to unskilled road' making eighty or more bucks a day - workers (such as the gut-tray in the meat- November-March but we never met them. works assembly line). It is possible to make Many factors influence how well ones good, even very good money if you arc in APPLES Orange (N.S.W.) TOMATOES Parkes (N.S.W.) efforts are rewarded - the quality of the the right place at the right time. Windsor (N.S.W.) Narromine (N.S.W.) crop; the efficiency of the farmer (or Armidale (N.S.W.) Nudgee (N.S.W.) Finally, the biggest advantage of fruit- Ulydale (Vic.) Shepparton (VK.) company); the speed and enthusiasm of picking is its availability. Sometimes areas one's workmates; as well as personal skill Warwick (Qld) Kyabram (Vic.) are flooded by 'dole bludgers' (like Mildura Echuca (Vic.) and stamma. last summer) bul usually when a fruit is PEARS Leeton (N.S.W.) Swanhill (Vic.) Weather conditions can be a hassle. Last in season it is easy to find work. The Armidale (N.S.W.) Bendigo (Vic.) summer in Victoria it was often 25-40 turnover is high, even amongst the desperate. Shepparton (Vic.) Warwick (Qld) degrees centigrade for most of the day. If you decide to go fruilpicking, here are Kyabram (Vic.) This can be unpleasant when you have a few tips to make experience easier and Cobram (Vic.) TOBACCO Tamworth (N.S.W.) scratched arms and blowflies crawling over more profitable: Warwick (Qld) Tenterfield (N.S.W.) InvereU (N.S.W.) your face. Yet some nights temperatures •Be choosy. Rates of pay, quality of crop PEACHES Griffith (N.S.W.) Wangaratta (Vic.) dropped to 6 degrees centigrade. (In the and so on vary from farm to farm. Changing Atherton (Qld) middle of summer - who'd live in Victoria?) Leeton (N.S.W.) jobs every second day will not give you a Shepparton (Vic.) Warwick (Qld) Rain can be a problem in many areas, high income at the end of the season, but a Kyabram (Vic.) Bundaberg (Qld) sometimes preventing work for days on careful ear to the grapevine could keep you Cobram (Vic.) Caboolture (Qld) end. No work, no pay. away from the worst employers. Most large fanns/orchards provide ac­ *Be prepared for boredom. Those long PEAS Bathurst (N.S.W.) commodation such as huts or rooms, for evenings (especially in daylight-saving states) POTATOES Armidale (N.S.W.) Mudgee (N.S.W.) single men. The quality of these cells varies Maitland (N.S.W.) are a temptation to join in the expensive PRUNES Young (N.S.W.) from spartan to rough, sometimes very dope-smoking and booze-drinking parties Warragul (Vic.) rough. No charge is usually made for these Colac (Vic.) which are available most nights. Take along Atherton (Qld) APRICOTS Windsor (N.S.W.) quarters but if meals are provided (often cards and macrame. Ipswich (Old) Leeton (N.S.W.) they aren't) the employer is likely to charge •Unless confident of your ability and Griffith (N.S.W.) up to $40 a week. stamina, seek a job in one of the 'support' GRAPES Cessnock (N.S.W.) Shepparton (Vic.) If you are female or travelling as a couple areas. Tractor and forkllft drivers, and Maitland (N.S.W.) Kyabram (Vic.) the only options are taking or hiring a cannery workers are paid award wages and Griffith (N.S.W.) Cobram (Vic.) caravan, sleeping in a car or pitching a tent. usually earn more than the average picker, Leeton (N.S.W.) Campmg is the cheapest but dreary if it espeically when overtime is available. Swanhill (Vic.) CHERRIES Young (N.S.W) rains. Robinvale (Vic.) Lilyd^le (Vic.) Cunning is required to gel these 'cushy' Orange (N.S.W.) The bosses vary. Some pay the lowest jobs. Get your name registered well before Mildura (Vic.) rate allowed but expect the best quality the season begins. When applying for any work. It's wise to be particularly wary of job confidently claim experience ofthe task; individual employers who have to advertise none of the jobs are so skilled that they J une-Aug ust interstate to get workers. Others are more can't be learnt in a couple of hours. Besides, TREE PRUNING Kyabram (Vic ) SUGARCANE P^ttn'^J, reasonable, especially the small farmers they can only fire you - by which time you Cobram (Vic.) employing a dozen or so workers, who are Innisfail (Qld) will have the necessary experience. Mackay (Qld) often friendly and provide fresh cakes for Table I is a sketchy list of the fruit VINE PRUNING Mildura (Vic.) Robinvale (Vic.) Maryborough (Qld) smoko, etc. and crops that are harvested during Bundaberg (Qld) The employer in this industry has the university vacations. A much more detailed BEANS Bundaberg (Qld) Nambour (Qld) upper hand, though, especially when em­ handout is available from CES. It's best to Gympie (Qld) Woollongabba (Qld) ployment levels are as they are. The industry check with them before charging off any­ Nambour (Qld) award allows for instant termination of where; they can warn you if there is likely PINEAPPLES Mackay (Qld) employment by eUher party; this means to be an over-supply of labour in that area. MAIZE Atherton (Qld) disagreements between employer and em- a

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This is in years ago from extensive shore-based Eight thousand tonnes of oil from the for sperm whales will be down from over addition lo public education by free film operations, then intensified early this sperm whale is used annually in Australia. 9,000 to aboul 2,200 for 1980, Early this evenings, the publication ofthe Daily Whale, century after the introduction of factory This magnificent creature has evolved the year the IWC (which includes ex-and non- regular displays and a new education kit for ships. (Commercial extinction is reached largest brain ever - measured at 9.2 kg - whaling nations) will hold a conference on schools. Now our scope is broadening. when a whole species is too rare to be and can dive well below 600 metres, yet killing and ethics. This may lead lo even Locally, dugong need more protection to hunted profitably). Recent times have seen ensure vital feeding-grounds are not the tide turning in favour of the whales developed >vith typical carelessness. Whales tliat remain, but how much will we learn have earned emphasis as special, endangered from our gross injustices to them? . . .And species, but their total protection relies on m\\ we apply tliis to other aspects of proper care of the whole marine environ­ sociology. ment. The catch limit for this year's whaling AH sea life needs a better chance. Delicate has been set at close to 16,000 (Minister for food chains link all organisms in such a Science media release, 20 July 1979). Over way that concern for the blue whale must 12,000 of these will be minke, smallest of mean concern for the krill it feeds on, and the large baleen whales and the only species Australians claim some right to feed it lo lower quotas. These factors, added lo the therefore for areas such as the Antarctic still commercially available. Blue, pets and lubricate gears and lips with it. growing number of nalions with 320 km waters. 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Project Jonah Brisbane operates tiirough are quotas, however, while there are whaling Australia has finally followed olher The fight may be almost over, but public accountability, impaid volimteers and nations that are not members of the Inter­ nalions in recognising the plight of whales complacency at this stage could jeopardise very limited resources. All levels of support national Wlialing Commission and while and the stupidity of such slaughter. Whaling the recovery of endangered species. Constant and commitment are needed. MembershiD pirate whalers kill without consideration has stopped here and import and sales of monitoring of populations and research into is $10 per calendar year. Meetings are held of size, sex or endangered species? To whale products will be banned from the end intelligence, beaching phenomena and 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7.30pm, in 1st threaten the minke is an mcredible price to of 1980. 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that at 9. J Spm they lock the door and go pickles. Mr. Asfioka assured us that other home. They don't like to take orders after sambals were included in the price of the 8.30pm, so be warned. curry. When my friend and I ventured forth ^ While we waited for the meal, some to Ashoka, we cleverly purchased our young Indooropiles bravely entered. They cheap wine at the handy Indooroopilly too were reprimanded, but ignoring that, pub, then parked outside the Ashoka they sat down to order. Their presence take-away department in Station Road. If reduced my embarrassment. we'd been better organised or informed, The menu at the Ashoka advertises one perhaps we would have arrived before the entree, about 15 main courses and two advanced hour of 8.32pm; bul now is not desserts. The menu is subdivided into the time for recriminations. beef, lamb, vegetable etc; and each dish is ascribed a degree of hotness. Unfortunately Tlie path tlu"ough shrubbery makes a there is no further description ofthe dishes. pleasant entrance to the Ashoka, but it The meals arrived very quickly - at least leads into a brightly lit room with blue they kept up their part of the bargain. I vinyl tableclothes and nasty paintings for had ordered Lamb Korma, wliich was lamb sale. The restaiu-ant was empty when we and Birds Eye peas. Its description of "hot" arrived. A maracca beckoned from the desk was apt. It was accompanied by rice, some in front of the kitchen door. It quickly very dry dhal and an onion concoction. brought an attendant, who sadly looked The dish was quite tasty. Measure of less than pleased to see us. authenticity isn't my strong point when it Restaurant staff often seem to tiiink that comes to curries, but I would have judged the poor unsuspecting customer is fully my meal a little flat. My friend had a very aware of the magical time when the food hot Beef Madras wliich he ate and claimed goes "off; and maliciously arrive 2 to enjoy. The papadams were fine, the minutes later. We were mildly chastised for pickle good although perhaps the serving our late arrival, expected to beg favour to was a little small, but the roti was very be served, then required to leave by 9.15 floury and only just edible. pm. We promised to eat quickly and behave The bill came to precisely SlO, which ourselves. seemed quite cheap. The main courses are between S2.80 and S3.70 and everytliing While we chose a table, Mr. Ashoka else on the menu is under Sl. found a couple of menus and tl\rust them We managed to be out of Ashoka by in our hands, then wandered off. Our flagon 9.1 Spm; although our young friends seemed of wine sat on the table forlornly set for a long evening. As long as one abides unattended, but there were glasses on the by their crazy times it is possible to get a table and no cork in the bottle, so we quite good and cheap meal at Ashoka Exotic managed. Curries. ASHOKA: Exotic curries. Riverview a meal. Unfortunately Ashoka Exotic Our perusal time ran out very quickly, -ANNE JONES and we were asked fo order with a gentle Terrace, Indooroopilly. Curries tend to be a little unreasonable. Their advertised hours are 5.15-9.1 Spin reminder that we needed lo eat by 9.1 Spm. (Another shortcoming of Aslioka is its lack 8.32pm would not seem an unreason­ but tliat does not mean you can walk in So we only ordered a main course each, of washing facilities for purists who wish to able time to enter a restaurant and expect at 9.10 pm and order a meal, it means with Roti, Papadams, and Sweet Mango eat with their hands: Ed.) Photograph Matt Mawson Desperate Pizzas at Primauera

PRIMA VERA RESTAURANT: to a Liundrette, Primavera beckoned. We had asked for the rest of the meal to the price was reasonable. The meal was Boundary Street, Spring Hill Filled with a sense of adventure and be served together, ll arrived quite quickly. certainly not good enough to tempi me the vague recollection that Primavera The small pizza vvas indeed very small. It back again, but who knows when late Late Sunday Night isn't the easiest was slightly over-cooked with a pastry that desperation will strike again. offered Triple Zed subscriber time to find a restaurant open around resembled old sao biscuit. The 'hot' topping -ANNE JONES discounts, we boldly entered. the western suburbs. Recently when was tomato, cheese, sausage and tabasco. The sign outside advertising It-alian and 1 like hot food, but the tabasco drowned •Claudia Roden "A Book of Middle Eastern faced with tliis dilemina, a friend and Lebanese cuisine gave me a distinct feeling out the other flavours. Food" Penguin, 1972. I decided that the only option was of unease, but the decor looked tasteless enough in a late hippy sort of way, to The hoummous was good, but Lucky's and set ofl". Driving down /^, Boundary Street we spied a light next suggest the possibility of good food. The unfortunately was served with pitta bread ubiquitous New Zealand waitress suggested toasted until il vvas quite crisp. That ruined we sit anywhere and brought us eazi-clean the bland softness tliat shoidd have made plastic covered menus. an interesting contrast to the pizza, The menu offered pizzas, kebabs and a 'Reminds me of the vegetable depart­ the as'an muddied range of Italian and Lebo foods. ment in David Jones' mumbled my com­ Getting into the spirit of the place we panion after the first mouthful of kitchen ordered garlic bread, a small 'hot' pizza, Tabbouleh. I pondered the fact lliat there INDOOROOPILLY Hoummous, tabbouleh and fruit juice. We isn't a vegetable department in David Jones SHOPPINGTOWN Specializing in Authentic S.E. Asian then wandered off to the juke box which while trying the salad. But somehow the Stamford Road Entrance Curry and Regional Chinese Cuisine. displayed a sickly range of not-even-currenl comment seemed to fit. The Tabbouleh B.Y.O. AND TAKEAWAYS soft rock. One can oflen judge a restaurant contained burghal, parsley, mint, spring • genuine Vietnamese dishes by Us juke box! onions, tomato, lettuce, lemon and oil (I • excellent Chinese food Open every day, Spm to 10pm To the wafting strains of Brian Ferry think) which is a little more varied than OPIN FOR LUNCH: TMtday ~ kofunlciy. 11.30 AM - 1.00 PM 'Heart on my Sleeve', the garlic bread and most Tabboulehs commonly served, but OINNIk: Tu

SEMPER 17 ANDERSON'S SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY - The Social Thought and Political when Baker was an undergraduate member and belief in established freedom, or Life of Professor John Anderson: by A.J. Baker, Angus and Robertson, $12.95 of two "Andersonian" societies - the Free- in State-guaranteed "benefits", is a (cased), S7.95 (limp). thought and Literary Societies at Sydney mark of the abandonment of liberty. John Anderson was Professor of University. Baker has relied upon numerous The servile State is the unopposed Philosophy at Sydney University for sources in writing tliis book. The book is State. thirty-two years from 1927. In that well written with remarkable clarity of Anderson suggested that "independent time he had a profound influence on expression. Although the title implies activity, involving at times, opposition to concern with the thoughts of one person, Australian academic life. As a the State, is not opposed to democracy; it is an excellent introduction for anyone it is essential to it." The servile state could charismatic teacher, Anderson was to interested in social philosophy. influence a whole generation of be avoided by the presence in society ofa students who later became prominent The implicity argument that Baker variety of organisations each' having con­ politicians, academics and authors. presents is that Anderson's philosophy is siderable independent strength. His em­ just as relevant, perhaps more relevant, phasis on the right to strike and the right Despite Anderson's formidable record to enjoy freedom of public discussion in­ as a defender of freedom of thought today as when it was developed. One example of this is a paper entitled "The volved him in public controversy, par­ and trenchant critic of religious and Servile State" which Anderson wrote in ticulariy when he chose to attack religion. political myths, nearly twenty years 1943. Anderson expresses his concern Behind liis attacks on particular issues passed after his death before a book about the restrictions on liberiy and the came a powerful attack on the prevailmg about Anderson was written. A.J. decline in culture which would occur at conception of democracy as "representative Baker's book goes a long way in the hands of the State. While the paper government". Because electors are largely correcting the neglect that has running of socieiy. was written against a background of wartime uninformed about political issues and are befallen Anderson's philosophy. Anderson was equally critical of the restrictions and plans for a post-war Welfare not encouraged by governments and other entrenched forces to think critically about To date Anderson has been seized upon stance of the Labor Party in the immediate Stale, his comments seem particulariy those issues, they are merely faced with a by fervent anti-communists who produce post-World War II period. He argued that no apposite to Queensland in 1980: choice between two main parties. the journal Quadrant as their intellectual matter who were in charge of the system, Anderson's objection to the ordinary inspiration. Baker's book shows that they were reactionary and opposed to free How far the process of social regi­ political process was put succinctly when Anderson's philosophy and political life and critical thinking in science and the arts. mentation and cultural degenemtion he said it deprives people "of acthie involved far more than criticism of totali­ The Labor Party, with its view that will go it is, I think, impossible to citizenship and degrades them to the level tarian communism. For a while in the lale progress involved first an improvement in say. What can be sakl is that so long of passive citizenship; it makes politics a 1920's Anderson was the "Theoretical the material conditions of life and second, as there are rights of opposition (so matter for governments and citizens Adviser" to the Communist Party of attending to the spiritual side, was wrong. long, for example, as we are not sub­ mere voting machines." Australia. Anderson's falling out with the The latter would be lost while concen­ jected to a one-party system) culture Communist Party was not a Damascus trating on material betterment. Anderson will still have a front to fight on. Ard A.J. Baker's book is a stimulating account Road conversion but was consistent with believed that workers needed to learn from here independent institutions are of of Anderson's philosophy. The fact that his unyielding commitment to free thought. the best intellectual and artistic elements special importance - institutions, thit Anderson's spirited defence of freethought Anderson faulted the narrowness of Lenin in bourgeois culture. is, which are not merely nominally and his social philosophy of pluralism have - who assumed that he and the Party alone Anderson's tough-minded attitude autonomous but have a doctrine of been ignored for so long is reason for con­ knew what was in the interest of the isolated him from many former communist independence; Universities, trade cern. At a time when governments in­ working class. He also scorned Trotsky's associates. Rather than adopting a revolu­ unions and the like, whkh will resist creasingly are prepared to meet tyranny belief that the end justifies any means. What tionary policy, he adopted one of perennial being treated as servants of the State, with tyranny, Anderson's views could do was needed, Anderson argued, was a return opposition - a stand of uncompromising or in which, at the worst, a resistant with a revival. For Anderson the practice to Marx's concept of a new society growing criticism of the "setting up of idols and of minority will remain. For the measure of demoaacy involved dealing in a demo­ within the old. The workers had to develop the search for security." of fre&iom in any community is the cratic way with undemocratic views and an appropriate way of Ufe under capitalism Throughout the book Baker shows ad­ extent of opposition to the ruling interests. itself if they were ever to take over the miration for Anderson which first flourished order, of criticism of the ruling Heas; -PETER APPLEGARTH

SURFING SUBCULTURES OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: by These cultural values are also relevant counterculture itself - look at the cost of jeans and records now. Where there's a dollar Kent Pearson, University of Queensland Press, Hardcover, $30, paperback to the sporting nature of both activities. Surf lifesaving is compeUtive, well- to be made, there's an entrepreneur. $14.95. organised and heavily regulated, while board "Surfing Subculture" details the values of surfings, its ideals. The relationship with There was a time. In the sixties It was a way of life, centred on the riding is largely non-competitive and un­ regulated, organisations tending to be short­ the broader counterculture in the sbcties is and early seventies, when board riding ocean, and it reminded people that lived. Lifesaving is seen as an "athletic only mentioned briefly. While Dr. Pearson meant the same thing as the counter­ life was about living and harmony sport" and board riding is a "play sport". indicates that surfing predates the late culture. Surfies were hippies with long with nature. With board riders, conflict has always SO's, he fails to explore the links with the blond hair and lithe tan bodies. They Now, the counterculture has gone and been a problem. On a good day, surfing is counterculture and the fate both subcultures only needed enough money to survive, with it, its revolution. "We all got stoned really a group of egotists competing for a shared. Board ridmg remains, though not as and survival meant living somewhere and it drifted away." Within ten years, limited number of waves. Dr. Pearson says the inspired communion of culture and sport cheap with friends, buying health another revolution, punk, has died. Yet the "drop in" rule (the person with the it once was. foods, records, dope, seeing the board riding remains. longest ride has right of way) is loosely -IAN GRAY latest surfing movies - and surfing. Kent Pearson's "Surfing Subcultures" enforced and all surfies have to hassle for is not only about board riding. He uses waves. The surfie's own freedom is para­ 'surfing' to mean surf life saving as well mount. His motto is "Do unto others what and the bulk of the book is a comparison you can get away mth." of the two, first as subcultures and then as There is also a continual tension between INlRD0(injNARYXJ€llRNAL types of sport or 'ludic activity". 'locals" and "Brizzas". Ori^nally this Pearson is a sociologist who was an miglit have been a test of the surfie's active board rider and lifesaver from the countercultural convictions - did he have late 1950's until the eariy 1970's. the guts to drop out and move to the coast? He has collected the comments of But now when neariy every surfie has a job hundreds of surfies and lifesavers and or goes to school, it is narrow-minded and drawn conclusions from this. Rather than selfish. observe from the outside, he has penetrated the subcultures to find out wliat individuals Despite the empliasis on personal thmk, what meaning surfing has for them, freedom, surfing has remained the last and what they think of each other. bastion of male chavinism amongst young Certain composite pictures arise. Life people. Few women feel they have the right savers ("clubbies") see themselves as con­ to surf, yet many of those who do can surf formist, establislunentarian, extroverted, circles around guys. 'Tracks" is replete with prepared to accept discipline and formal tales of surfies impersonating the stars and authority, and prepared to sacrifice their spending the night with a (gullible) "surfie leisure for community service. Surfies see chick" for his efforts. themselves as freedom-loving, individualistic, The biggest change in surfing has been **c«lt«* creative, hedonistic and unconventional. its commercialisation. Surfmg started off as WOMEN>VOLWAK.y WAR. WORKv REVIEW OF Both subcultures look at one another in an anti-materialistic lifestyle. Only six years RECEMT LESBIAN$rUPI£55 REBECCA WOK j similar terms, although what were once ago a whole car park of surfies burst out WOMEN mWE.O?.k.;m\ PC/ANNy- PORl^ terms of praise acquire derogatory con­ laughing when a Mercedes Benz complete LE^^iNQ- BiBuoqrRAPrty t omoHCfy', m^ notations - "conformist and disciplined" with half a dozen boards turned up. Now a become "straight, narrow-minded minded new board costs $230, and Golden Breed SUB5CRIPnONRW©:A*550jUKa80A)S 45001^. KENT PE/IRSON and militaristic" while "individualistic and aren't the only people to have made a INSmUTWNSi AibOOjOKt-WDjUSiioioRA. unconventional" become "selfish and fortune from the surfing subculture. Ad­ delinquent." mittedly, the same happened with the

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core porn - the only place for women was on the cover, in a skin-tight suit, preferably being mauled by, or rescued from, a monster from Mars. These SF trends continued well inlo the 60s, aided by yet another factor. Jusl as editors were reluctant lo let their heroes be olher than white males, their writers were also to be wliile males. Several women managed lo write and be published - CL. Moore, Leigh Brackett, E. Mayne Hull, Francis Stevens, all names that could very easily be mistaken for males. But their heroes were usually scatter-brained house­ wives who saved the worid and didn't realise it, or, particulariy in the works of Brackett, men in the typical male mould. CL. Moore's Jirel Joiry was possibly the exception - she was a brave and heroic warrior Queen who was admired by bolh her soldiers and by her readers - who no doubt felt that half the pleasure in such a character was knowing she could not Science fiction has always been the literature of alternatives. Set in the household chores to read Ihem - he would possibly be reai. Publishers packaging didn't future, or a parallel present, there is enormous potential for social comment. be writing about a society where women, help, anyone looking at the cover of a Jirel Readers of SF were exposed to the possiblity of pollution, fuel alternatives, .having recently won the right to vote, book might be forgiven for thinking that CL Moore's friends knew him as Clive, the overpopulation and genetic mutations from nuclear radiation long before contentedly believed that that was as far as they needed to go. balding clerk whose major hobby was these topics hit the popular imagination. There exists the possibility that, attending suburban cinemas in a dirty rain­ without SF to act as a link between science and the masses, it could have (2) Many of the readers of SF in the 30s coat ... taken much longer for the people of the planet to find out what they were were scientists - men. For them, the days doing to it. of monster from Mars were over. They **** Despite tills claimed broadening of Science has been, and regrettably slill is, wanted SF that was predominantly science, social awareness by some writers of SF, largely a man's domain. The process that not fantasy. Moon missions, faster-than- Penguin have jusl released in Australia a in general the gentre has not lived up to its dissuades women from taking science lighl travel and suspended animation were book Ihal's been around America since promise. SF has caught the lag "space courses at school has been well documented. all possibilities, but since "radical" social 1975, Pamela Sargent's More Women of opera" and lo the majority of people, But isn't fiction a different matter entirely? change could only come about through a Wonder, a volume of seven SF novellas especially those whose introduction to Surely anything can happen witiiin the major catastrophe, so a gradual movement written by, and about, women. Presumably SF was through Hollywood, that tag will realms of the imagination? of women from the homes into acceptance they have also released the eariier book. stick. The few, but increasingly more works Apparently not, and there are several in the workforce was merely fanciful, nol Women of Wonder, a volume of 12 short that deal with social issues are obscured good reasons why not. probable. Tliis line of thought predominated stories. behind the jet-streams, or mistaken for soft­ (1) Unless the author makes a con­ after the classiest magazine in the genre. The stories in these books are not core porn. Disadvantaged social groups - certed effort to produce an alternative Astounding, (later Analog) conformed lo the necessarily feminist. They are about women, non-whiles, homosexuals and women - society to set his SF action in, it will in­ pro-science editorial whims of lliat realistic women, representing a range of retained their stereotypes in the main­ evitably reflect the values of his own renowned SF editor, John W. Campbell, Jr., social and political thought. Stories utilise stream of SF. Two recent books edited by society. (The astute reader may have noticed whose slogan seemed to be, "Men protect the basic SF themes - space or time travel, Pamela Sargent have attempted to change 1 used the word, "his". When discussing the hearth, women look after it, even if future socielies, and aliens on the moon of the status within SF of one of these groups. the writers of SF up until recent years, that hearth is totally computer controlled Jupiter. But they live up to their promise and worry-free". Women were not allowed Women have long been the forgotten with very few exceptions the pronoun of creating new worlds. The seemingly un­ "his" was nol a euphemism for "his or to part-take of adventures for fear of being avoidable stock situations are for once breed in SF. Despite the fact that the writer labelled Amazonian, or unfeminine. of the first generally SF classic was a woman her"). Therefore, if he wrote on the '30s - peopled by realistic characters, and the (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein), women have the period when many of the most respected (3) The very appearance of 30s SF resuh is millenia ahead of popular SF liad little place in the writing or the action SF writers were either writing for the pulps' magazines forbade mass female readership. movies of the level of Star Wars. of this influential genre. or neglecting their school homework and SF are often fell inlo the catagory of soft­ -NELLE TYCHO OUTROUGEOUS! Rouge Is an Australian Feminist Newspaper. A rather ratty looking tabloid taining. Despite their efforts, printing costs will slill be a head-ache. with a banner looking as though it's been written on in crayon as an after­ Now whh deadlines coming and gouig, thought; Rouge is attempting to bring some cohesion to feminist groups looming and collapsing, the Brisbane around Australia. "ish" is beginning to shape up. Articles * « Rouge was established in 1979 in an enough momenlum in mosl cities to support are dribbling in from around Queensland attempt to fill the gap that had existed a Rouge Collective which can encourage and Australia. Frightening tales from Alice since the demise of 'Mabel' in a blaze of contributions from the various feminist Springs describe how feminists there are libel. The germ of Rouge grew in Sydney, groups whhin their community. being branded witches by some members but it quickly spread tiiroughout Australia. Tlie Rouge Collective in Brisbane was of the community. Rouge will look at The idea was lo encourage collectives lo established soon after the Sydney group. some Queensland women, including Mary form in different parts of the counlry. Tlie Brisbane Collective was small al first, Metcalfe - publisher of Townsville Woman The firsl issue was pubUshed in Sydney, but an influx of interested women at the - is il really a National Party front? Motor­ but since then issues have emerged from beginning of 1980 ensured tliat a Brisbane cycles, broadcasting, graffiti, and rock various different cities. From Darwin lo issue would eventually emerge. feature. Buy one and see. Hobarl, Rouge collectives feverishly work In Queensland one ofthe major problems -ANNE JONES to produce their own issue and contribute with Rouge is distribution. Unless one is to others. Six issues have been printed at actively involved in the Feminist movement, about the rate of one every two months, Rouge is difficult to find. Distributors are Some ofthe Rouge outlets are: and the nexl off the press should be a unwilling to deal with a paper of such Criterion Bookshop, Brunswick St., Valley Brisbane effort. limited readership, and their profits would People's Bookshop, Barry Me, Valley Because Rouge is attempting to bring inflate the cover price. Tliis limits outlets Red & Black Booksliop, Elizabeth Arcade, various groups together, its aims and ob­ to shops sympathetic with the movement. Gty InS^'G-*"'''^^-'"'''"^ jectives arc fairly loose to encompass (A list ofthese is printed below). West End Resource Centre different views. It is hopefully a force for The Brisbane collective is grinding inlo Women's House, Bartley St., Spring Hill unity within the feminist movement rather action. They recently held a dance which Women's Rights, University of Qld Unwn than a divisive tool for any one group. was fun but not a roaring financial success. 4ZZZ-FM, University of Queensbnd l^Oc (-.•^irnrj.'^.r The broad, sometimes unweildy, Zero, Mute 44 and Silent Figures, all bands J structure can only support this. There is that feature women, were very enter­

SEMPER 19 TH6RTR6. CAMBRIDGE COMEDIANS The Cambridge Footlights recently made a lightning visit to Brisbane for two concerts at the University of Queensland's Mayne Hall. BRETT DEBRITZ and PETER ADAMS caught up with three of them at the University pool. Catching breath beiween their two famous ex-Footlighters are doing now - Despite the success of the film, he said they set up the "dreadful, plastic people" Brisbane concerts, Cambridge Footlights twenty years later - with what they are that the Monty Python team were spent as a who hosted Australian television shows. members, Martin Bergman, Rory MacGralh doing. "But", he conceded "it's nice, ob­ television force in the U.K. "Barry Humphries is very big in and Jimmy Mulvillc, relaxed by the pool, viously, it's the tiling that allows you to "They were spent once Cleese went, England", said Martin. "I think he's very liberally partaking of a bottle of wine. come lo Australia because il is a name tliat because Cleese was the only true comic in good, he's very clever. Norman Gunston Jimmy was making the besl of the Qld sun people recognise and it's a contact we the Monty Python team. The others were has got an anarchic approach which is ap­ on his last day in the country. Marlin had have." very amateur. The minute Qeese left them, pealing. I think that's very interesting. I replaced his shirt for fear of overdoing it. However the Footlights are critical of they folded. And, once he agreed to do can see anarchy m Australian television is Rory lay aloof from the others catching up their fellow comedians. Martin expressed films, then they were very good" what is funny". on his correspondence. his admiration for Peter Cook, because he "He doesn't like performing very much. The Footlights had not heard of Paul "Sorry", he explained. "I'm just busy was a durable performer. Jimmy said lliat He's a very quiet, shy guy. He's very difficult Hogan. "I can't really understand this writing out postcards. It's my last day in Cook was a man consumed with jealousy lo talk to. But, I can understand his ocker business at all, because I haven't met Australia and I haven't sent any postcards over Dudley Moore's success in Hollywood. viewpoint really. It's a pain in the bum for any ockers", Jimmy said. "I mean, they're yet, so I thought I'd better get them off - He said lliat the secret of the success ofthe people lo wander up to you, expecting you not sort of walking around the streets. save me delivering them by hand when I double act vvas that Moore, the warm cuddly to be funny twenty four hours a day." I think it's a sort of media image that's arrive in London again." type, balanced Cook's cold performance. Rory had different reasons for criticizing sprung up for some reason about According to Marlin, the Footlights He thoughl Cook was no longer in touch "Life of Brian". "I think it was a tasteless Australians. Because they're all very began in 1883 and have put on a revue each with wliat was going on around him. lampoon of a very holy event. I mean, to individual, they're not all tarred with the year at Cambridge University. Past members Marlin was annoyed at the suggestion see the Son of Man brutally murdered by same brush." of the Footlights include John Qeese, that Monty Python's "Life of Brian" was the Romans was a disgusting tiling. It's an According to Martin apart from MASH, Jonathan Miller, Peler Cook, the Goodies, more a send up of revolutionary groups event which we all hold v^ry dear to our­ Happy Days and Mork and Mindy, most and, as Rory pointed oul, Chris Kingley and than of the Cliristian doctrine. selves, we Christians. I'm not greatly in American comedies were copies of English Tim Brown. "I don't think it's a naughty film, it's favour of censorship but I think on matters programmes. "The very good comics are "Carry on Christ", probably," he said. "I concerning the life of Christ - who has been from the Comedy Store and people whh a Martin complained that il was annoying basis in Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce, when people tried to compare whal the think that the Monty Python team are on such a major influence on the modern world a very dodgy wicket when they say it's - should be considered very carefully before that's my favourite type of comedy", he not aboul the life of Christ. I'd have thoughl such tasteless and juvenile things should be said. much more of them if Ihey said: Yes, it's a done," he said. Jimmy rated General Patton a "great complete send up of the crucifixion story Amongst Australian comedians, the comic and a wonderful family man" as his and it's very funny - which it is". Footlights favoured Barry Humphries. "I personal hero. Martin nominated John think your funniest export is Richie F. Kennedy, "There is another Kennedy Benaud", said Jimmy. "I think he's a very brother", he said "Sheila Kennedy, the well amusing Australian comedian". Martin said known hermaphrodite dwarf who is going that he liked Norman Gunston and to stand in 1986". Humphries' Les Patterson character because When the Footlights return to England, they are to make a radio programme for the B.B.C. The show is, as yet, untitled. "We niiglit call it something like "Monty Python's Flying Circus", Jimmy said. "Or", Martin suggested, "What six people did with five thousand pounds' budget..." o

AT THE VILLAGE SHOPPING UNIVERSITY STATIONERY ITLiCi^ MWi CENTRE Sti/I A t Discount Prices! 20 -THffirfif. A hit of the old Ultra-vioknce ALEX: by Ian Watson from the novel by Anthony Buigess directed by John peared to be confused at the unusual Milson. Twelfth Night Theatre until 12 April. "friends" and caught out by the police. In language in the firsl act. jail, the torturer is now the tortured and "Alex" or "The Automatic Trial" is a violence is oflen realistic, making the audi­ The first act is mostly the droogs' play based on Anthony Burgess' novel, intimidation fioods the audience again. ence cringe, but it is never cheaply sen­ wrongdoings, with excellenl recordings of Alex is much fancied by the older prisoners, "A Clockwork Orange". The basic theme sational, as it is the eventual means to an Beethoven supplying a rhythm for their haled and ofien beaten by the warders, is the same, with the writer, Ian Watson, end. beatings. Alex is also seen in liis home misunderstood by the chaplain and finally making only minor changes. The droogs, To enjoy the play, I feel it may be neces­ environment, asleep in his bedroom troubled abused by Dr, Brodsky's rehabilitation Alex (Geotl Cartwright), Georgie (Steve sary to have read the book, or at least have by nightmares, and then at dinner with his experiment. Hamilton) and Dim (Malcolm Cork), are background infonnation on the plot. An­ P & M (pa and ma). Boredom al home may teenagers with a lust for violence. Terrorising other alternative would be an explanation be used as an excuse for his nightly mis­ Alex is promised a quick release if he old ladies, rape and beating up drunks are of the language used in the programme, as adventures. undergoes the experiment - and agrees all in a niglit's work/enjoyment. The some of the first-nighters at "Alex" ap­ Act tvvo: Alex has been set up by his without knowing what to expect. The experiment involves the "patient" secured to his chair and forced to view continual extreme violence on a screen. At this stage I felt nauseous, as did Alex on stage. Il is now difficult to say whether I felt ill at the thought of so much violence or if it was pity felt forthe true victim. The play is well directed, wiih use made of every gesture and sly knowing glances. The lighting effects could have been used lo better advantage in one or more violent scenes. All the aciors were impressive, with Geoff Cartwright proving he can overact a little, in the detention/rehabilitation scenes. Sally MacKenzie, Duncan Wass and Judith Anderson, are all versatile in a number of roles. Mime is used in all scenes as the play was originally written for the N.S.W. Theatre of the Deaf. The set is simple and used lo best ad­ vantage. The costumes are nol startling, they are however practical, with actors using only a prop, or a change in hairstyle for a complete change of diaracter. The social issues Burgess highlighted in his book - teenage crime, gross mistreat­ ment of prisoners and human experiment­ ation are even more prevalent today. It is not a play which provides light eiiLertain- ment, it will hopefully, invoke thought. -^F.NNI BIRD

THE SLEEPING PRINCE: by Terence Rattigan, directed by Jason Savage, for a sad and moving endmg. Arts Theatre. colourful uniforms with Carpathian medals. Tlie set is suitably garish for a time when The first nighl at the Arts Theatre was The Arts Theatre's production of "The German, Swedish and French accents in the fasliion declared any colour combination very enjoyable. The actors were professional, Sleeping Prince" is truthfully advertised as dialogue of the Kmg's cousin. Princess suitable. A chandelier twinkles from the and the play was one of few which have a sophisticated comedy. It is a fairy-tale Louisa. There is no doubt the star of the ceiling and pieces of period furniture been easy to laugh out loud at. show is Ms. Christine Kelly, who is superb cum love story full of splendor, expensive decorate the room. The ladies' gowns are ^.L BIRD gaudiness and fake diamonds. The story line as the actress. Though you may laugh graceful but are outdone by the Prince's is better known as "The Prince and the throughout the bulk of the play be prepared costumes - silk dressing gowns, tails and Showgirl", the movie that starred the un­ usual partners of Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. The Carpathian Legation m Belgrave Square, London, 1911, is the setting for seduction. Prince Regent of Carpatliia, Grand Duke Charles (Ian Thomson) and his family are in London for the coronation of Edward VU. His country is in the throngs of political intrigue and so-called treachery, and the Prince feels the need to relieve some tension while in London. He invites a show­ girl to a party at the Legation, this turns out to be an intimate supper for two. Miss Elaine Dageriliam (Christine Kelly), is the American actress chosen for the sexual conquest. She has too quick a wit for the Prince to handle, and he fails miserably in his seduction 'attempts. After an over­ indulgence in champagne Miss Dagenham collapses and finds it necessary to stay the night. In the morning she proves a great embarrassment to the Prince and Mr. North- brook (the British aide to Prince Qialres is played by Jack E. Brown). However the act­ ress becomes a firm friend to both the Grand Duchess Charles (Jenepher Debenhan) and the Prince's son King Nicholas VII (Kerry Williamson). The play is full of laughs, caused by Miss Dagenham and the Grand Duchess, a lady who is deaf only when it suits. The show was well cast, though two of the youngei actors seemed unable to maintain the necessary foreign accent. 1 picked up

SEMPER 21 Rm. The ROSE Paris Cinema "Ths Rose" is regarded by some as a has fulfilled her dreams of stardom yet thinly veiled reconstruction of the life is vaguely disappointed by the anti-climax (and death) of well-known rock martyr. of it all. Janis Joplin. 'The truth is", says Bette Desperately tired from years of constant Midler, "It's a story about a girl who performing, her only desire is to do a final happens to sing and who has a need for the concert in her home town before retiring great love of an audience," indefinilcly from public life. Unfortunately The divine Ms. M plays the title role in Rudge has other ideas and intends to hold "The Rose", and plays il to the hilt. As Rose strictly to the terms of her contract. Rose, a hard-drinking, low-living rock star. In the end it all becomes too much for Midler gives a performance strong enough to Rose and, after taking an overdose of eliminate any underlying Joplin im­ heroin, she dies on stage during her home­ plications. "The Rose" is a vehicle for coming concert. Midlers' talents, and her acting and singing This fina! scene is perhaps one of the abilities are whal make the movie. strongest in recent Hollywood cinema. Soon afler the death of Janis Joplin, Midlers' excellent portrayal of Rose Midler vvas offered a script for a movie througli the course of the movie builds project tentatively entitled "Peari". "1 up audience empathy and Roses' dramatic was shocked by il", she said, "1 didn't death leaves one somewhat shocked and know Janis, but I thoughl she was treated emotionally drained. irreverently. It wasn't that il was a bad script; it was just the idea of nol letting *** this person alone, especially so soon after she died." Apart from the dramatic qualities of Midler and her manager, Aaron Russo, "The Rose", this movie is notable for il's liad been searching for a suitable movie excellent Uve concert sequences. Midlers' role for her for some lime. After rejecting performances of songs like "Wlien A Man a number of scripts, all based on the lives Loves A Woman" and "Stay With Me" of famous show-business women, they are quite stirring and the more-than- eventually turned their atlention back to adequate quality of the sound-track plays "Pearl". The script had lo be re-writtem a major role. before Midler would agree to do it and This film is tailor made for Bette Midler only a few aspects of the original draft her colleagues and family. The final draft character, played adequately by Alan devotees and if you're not a fan of this were retained. The central character reflected more of Midlers' own life than Bales) has reached the pinnacle of her dynamic entertainer now "The Rose" just remained a rock and roll singer with a it did Joplins' career. Hounded by press and fans she may convert you. certain amount of sorrow and self-destruct- Rose, driven by her rutlilessly ambitious withdraws into a lifestyle of hard booze, iveness, constantly seeking approval from manager Rudge (a badly developed pills, and casual sexual relationships. She -MATT MAWSON

KRAMER DAYS OF HEAVEN: Directed by Terrence Malick, stairing Richard Gere and Brooke Adams; Schonell Cinema from 19 April. Days of Heaven is one of those rare Performances from the small cast are m vs. movies which come along from time to time keeping with the overall mood of the fJm which fits into no accepted catagory and no and under Malick's direcrion are equally accepted film genre. It is also not the type of superb. Richard Gere (previously in KRAMER film which is likely to start off a craze of Looking for Mr. Goodbar) plays the main Life, it is said, is neither black nor extent to which their portraits touch the imitators - it is far too original. role of Bill, by no means entirely sym­ white, bul rather a profuse greyness.. imagination. There is nothing simple here, It is a film which has won awards at pathetic, but his feelings are readily under­ it is a peculiarly human greyness. Nothing international festivals and was nominated It is that grey shading which is most stood and identified whh. Playwri^t, Sam is fixed. The Hoffman who, impatient for for the Academy Awards last year. Although Shepard makes the most of the role of the salient in Robert Benton's "Kramer a taxi, hurriedly leaves his boy at the school it did not win the best picture award, it is aristocratic farmer who falls in love with vs. Kramer", despite the rich colour door, is the same man who later delays liis without doubt one of the year's most Abby, played by Brooke Adams, and the of Nestor Almendros' camera. now impatient son at the same door, outstanding achievements. film is narrated by a new discovery Linda ensuring the boy has his homework. The story in outline is probably familiar It will always be remembered for its rich Manz, (one of the new breed of younger now, comprising the dissolution of a And when she returns after neariy an visual eloquence, indeed it won the award generation stars now common in many marriage, the father's attcmpi to rebuild hour off the screen, when all is weighed in for the best cinematography. Long after you Hollywood fdms) whose cliild/woman a life with his son, and a final struggle for Hoffman's favour, it is the pain and un­ have left the theatre, you will remember beauty suits the role. custody of the boy. The plot is super­ certainly of Streep's Joanna wliich restores those haunting images of the wide open But the real meaning of Days of ficially spare. The focus throughout is upon the balance to a truthful ambiguity. Yet, spaces of rural America, and of a time long Heaven emerges from its images, not its a quartet of cliaracters, and no attempt is fascinating as this human complexity is, forgotten. players and the film ends with not only made to generalise beyond the experience there is something more that touches the H evokes the period in a lovmg fashion, a loss of innocence for its players, but for imagination. of this limited, domestic context. The camera dwells on the rural landscapes America. As they lost thelr's on the wheat- Benton as director is crisp and unob­ The film's resolution, the mother and farm interiors to move us back to a fields of Texas, so soon would the nation renouncing custody of the child, escapes trusive; nothing stands in the way of his time and place that died as two world on the battlefields of Europe and Worid actors and the people they play. This is the sentimental. It is credible because of a wars intervened. faith in the innate (if sometimes betrayed) War One. New York, but it does not, as in Allen's Despite its American setting. Days of A must for lovers of Qnema. hands, assume a life of its own. Rather decency of these people. Perhaps il devolves Heaven does nol suggest an American film lending a backdrop and a subtle light to upon love, that most abused and suggestive al all, but seems more like a European -ROBERT CONNELL the proceedings. Similarly Benton as writer of four letter words. film. is reticent, and the dialogile is credible but Bul observe the ending more closely. unprepossessing. Only occasionally does he Joanna goes to see her son. She is in great falter (it strains credibility that Hoffman anguish. Ihe elevator door begins to close, should be fired and find new and com­ she smiles hesitantly, uncertainly. Reverse fortable employment all wilhin 24 hours), shot, Hoffman outside, smiling just as hi a work which has all the makings of a hesitantly, uncertainly. The door closes. End senthnental domestic piece, seldom does the of film. Credits. emotion grow loo sweet. The fihn opens with a departure, it closes This is largely attributable to the players with a return, but the circle is not closed. concerned. They have all (Dustin Hoffman We are left some way from where we started. Meryl Street, Justin Henry, and Jane The cuts between chapters are not clean, Alexander) been deservedly praised. Yet the history bridges the gaps, but in beiween praise seems hollow beside the genuine some progress has been achieved, and there articles: their performances. All are "un­ is a certain optimism in the air. Generalise, pressive", but so was Olivier when he toyed and the hope, the opthnism is ours: it is this with his accent. No, what is truly fine is the which most deeply touches mind and heart. -ALPHA YAP

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THE GROUP OF EIGHT EXHIBITION: Paddington Gallery, Latrobe Terrace.

An exhibition by nine printmakers has their expressive power. Siring" were examples of this sentiment. In "Tlie Gum Tree" she tried lo capture the just finished at the Paddington Gallery. It is not an exaggeration to say that art There is a danger in this approach in that it spirit of the tree and the AustraUan bush The artists represented are all art students students have been seduced by the inno­ rarely succeeds: one art form usually in general. from the College of Art. vative appeal of printmaking. Tlie balance dominates the other. Wim de Vos seems to In contrast, Ashley Humphrey is con­ Student exhibitions today are character­ between technique and creative expression be striving, almost self-consciously, for visual cerned with solving visual problems. In ised by experimentation: indeed it seems lo is not being maintained and technique is lyricism. "Chicken Wire" the pattern in the embossed be a prerequisite. Tlie "Group of Eight" cleariy emerging as the master instead of Peler Trail makes use of photographic cage wire echoed the pattern in the feathers exhibition typifies tliis trend. the mastered. The result can be paralleled images and his prints were reminiscent of seen in the aquatint. His prints were correct There are a number of explanations. with macliine-music where technology itself Pop art of the sixties. Tliis was particularly and neat. The composition was lightly Printmaking itself is a higlily experimental is the driving force. true of "The Modern Phenomenon" which controlled, even rigid at times. medium. The popularity of the print - The medium is not being controlled and was not completely successful. The images Tliis exliibition was commendable for its for bolh the artist and the audience - has used as a vehicle for a sublime and personal and philosophy were closely derived from experimental nature when compared lo the surged in recent years. It is more than a statement. Instead art students have de­ Rauchenberg. plethora of supermarket traditionalism fad however. Printmaking has acquired, veloped their repertoire of teclmical tricks Barry Weston also takes full advantage found in many so-called art galleries in quite deservedly so, a measure of respect­ which they proudly show-off at the expense of photographic printmaking techniques Brisbane. Any sincere innovation - this ability. of emotional expression. Many studenl which are used to express a serious sen­ does not include underwater oil paintings - Printmaking, as well as being technically exliibitions contain this element of teclmical timent. can be seen as a step in the right direction. demanding, is also mtrinsically innovative. exhibitionism. The Paddington Gallery is fulfillmg a Printmakers, and this is parriculariy so of Curiously much of the artist's personal John Drake is concerned wiih analysis. need which is crucial in our meagre art art students, have caste themselves in the statement in this exliibition came via the The box-like compositional arrangement in society. It is encouraging fledgling and role of inventor cum scientist. It is true written word. (Statements by the artists "Interior Landscape" was interesting. Within innovative artists (usually students). This is tliat innovarion is exciting but some nega- were appropriately placed near their prints). tills arbitrary frame were four scenes three vital: art galleries cannot continue to ship rive aspects are emerging from this trend. In some cases these statements were artificial of which represent shabby mysterious Brett Whiteley's and John Olsen's to Many art students today fulfill this role as additions and afterthoughts and bore little interior scenes. A feeling of menace was Brisbane indefinitely. inventor more than capably. An army of relation to the visual image. successfully invoked in this print. Drake As a result it has improved the quality brilliant young technicians are flowing out Despite these generalisations the ex­ has exploited the textural potential of of art in Brisbane. Sliiriey Lambert, the of the art colleges. The problem is that some liibition cleariy reflected the personalities etching in a meaningful way. This print director of the gallery - a vibrant and of these dazzling discoveries and inventions and concerns of nine different individuals. embodied his intelligence. sympathetic woman - is aware of the are being misinterpreted as 'art'. Wim dc Vos is essentially motivated by Joanne Drake's prints revealed her educative role of her gallery. Anyone Some of the prints in this exhibition music. He said: "I occasionally wonder romanticism and sensitivity towards nature. mterested in the development of art in display this quality. They are extensions, which is more unportant to me .. to create This attitude sets her apart from the olher Brisbane is urged to visit the Paddington refinements, even syntheses of class ex­ a picture that can be listened to or a piece artists in this exhibition. The Gallery. periments. The appeal of these prints lies of music that can be seen." "Binnenste monochromatic character of etching is m their educative character rather than Buiten" and "Sonata Hammer Striking ideally suited to her treatment of gum trees. -JAN SMITH ft\

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SEMPER 23 NEW RELEASES LENE LOVICri: Flex format, with disastrous results. A musl to and Holdsworth departed, leaving the band avoid. He has finally created something unique There's no number ones lo be found guitarless while Terry Bozzio took over from the standard guitar-bass-drum line- here. "Flex" sees Lovich and balding cohort the drum kit. Their second album, "Danger up. "Memories" is probably one of the Les Chappell making some interesling Money" was an abysmal effort, lacking any most inspired pieces of music to be released experiments with rhythm as opposed to the inspiration. "Night Afier Night" is a live in the last twelve months. These two singles melodic emphasis of "Stateless". Lovich album recorded in Tokyo lasl year. The make the up-coming "Metal Box" album a still contorts her vocal chords in assorted tracks performed from their studio albums most interesting prospect. weird and wonderful ways, but "Flex" eclipse their originals in epic proportions. becomes overbearing after repeated playing. There is also an unreleased track included By no means a masterpiece, but still worth •called "As Long As You Wijil Me Here". a listen. U.K. may well be a relic of the past, but "Night After Night" is slill well worth a listen.

THE SPORTS: Suddenly A confusing album. Most of the tracks are high on the energy ratio, but in the quest for speed, the band have sacrified some of their originality. This is nol intended as some form of a premeditated anti-Sports RIPTIDES: Totnorrow's Tears (45) backlash, but "Suddenly" poses some A deceptively attractive little song from problems for the Sports. The album con­ this local combo. It doesn't possess the tains some skillfully constructed pop songs immediacy of "Sunset Strip" bul the band (e.g. "No Mama No", "Strangers on a has progressed since the manic three chord Train") but on tracks such as "Go", rush of '77 and have accurately sussed oul Steve Cummings shows what makes a great ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE the trends of pop circa 1980. "Tomorrow's vocalist. It seems the Sports are at the cross­ Tears" is a nice lightweight song that, with roads of their career and "Suddenly" makes ATTRACTIONS: Get Happy the right promotion, could make its way on no definite commitments in any one This album (and its title) is nothing lo Top 40 playlists. Shame about the B-side direction. more than a cheap joke. How the man who THE FLYING LIZARDS: The Flying though. released the fine trilogy of albums that Lizards preceded this vinylabortion can stoop so Absolutely dreadful. This debut album U.K.: Night After Night PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: Death Disco low is beyond me. After piaymg the album represents musical indulgence at its most U.K. came together in 1977 and was (45); Memories (45) five times, not one track lodges itself ui the extreme. Afler the success of two wonder­ instantly hailed as the supergroup of These are the latest releases from John memory. The ploy of including ten tracks ful singles (viz. "Summerthne Blues" and Euro-rock, whh Eddie Jobson, Bill Bruford, Lydon's post-Pisloldom band. Public Image's on each side only disguises the lack of sub­ "Money"), David Cunningham (cliief John Wetlon and Allan Holdsworth con­ debut was a confused and non-commital stance in the songs themselves. Elvis, you're Lizard person) has tried the extend the stitutes the original line-up. After the re­ release. These two singles however, see the jusl no fun anymore. Flying Lizards concept to the long player lease of a promising debut album, Bruford crystallization of Lydon's original ideals. -TONYGILSON

SPUT ENZ: True Colours known for his work with Mike Chapmart "The Choral Sea" is a band effort where all Split Enz are here at last. They hava on the Knack and Blondie albums. six members have their moment and use it released an album that is an adequate Chapman's influence has obviously left a well. testament to their unjustly ignored talent. mark on Tickle, being able to bring out the On "True Colours", Tim Finn has commercial possibilities of a song. dropped his occasional guitar and piano This is pure pop muzik folks,make Like the production, the material is first work and left it to Neil Finn and Eddie no mistake about it. "True Colours" is the rate. There are shades of the Enz of old, Rayner. Rayner's piano has been cut down obvious follow-up to the "Dizrhythmia"/ with a few new tinges as well. "Shark severely (only appearing on one track), "Frenzy" duo. Since the chart success Attack" has a touch of the "I See Red" opting for a more synthesizer/organ orient­ of "My Mistake", the Enz have gradually about it while "I Hope I Never" is another ation. moved away from the theatrically-oriented classic Tim Finn love song. One band member who now seems to nature of their earlier material (e.g. "Nobody Takes Me Seriously" is a have exerted his presence is bassist Nigel "Stranger Than Fiction"! towards a three cutting statement on the predicament that Griggs. His work was alwasy the biggest minute pop song format. Split Enz have faced since the beginning of victim of the band's previous muffled Both "Dizrhythmia" and "Frenzy" con­ their now lengthy career ("True Colours" production, but the clarity of the sound on tained some marvellous songs, but the is their sixth album). "True Colours" has allowed him to develop overall impact of those albums was severely There are two instrumentals on the a fuller, more substantial sound. I I hampered by their toneless production. album, something different for the Enz. All in all, "True Colours" is an excellent This was particularly evident in the rhythm The first of these, "Double Happy" (by album. It is their gateway to the world. I tracks. Eddie Rayner) is a bright, up-tempo affair feel that Split Enz are going to be enor­ albums and have always been the victims of For "True Colours", the Enz have called which has become the ideal opening for mously successful in 1980. Good luck to gross criminal neglect. on the services of David Tickle. He is best their recent shows. The other instrumental, them. They have created some monumental -TONY GILSON

IGGY POP: Soldier (Arista) bent approach to song construction. "Play It Safe" is a Pop/Bovrie colla­ The little battler is back (again). The new album was apparently recorded boration which recalls the dense dirge of under strained circumstances. Former He's found new values and making 'The Idiot". This number helps show that producer James Williamson and Iggy had a the collaboration between these two stilt another comeback. Iggy's last album falling out when Williamson insisted on has some creative mileage in it (there are "New Values" was a compromise to Iggy recording a Village People song (an rumours that they plan to re-unite for the try to gain wider acceptance for his horrendous prospect). After Williamson's next album). art. To a limited extent he succeeded. departure, the production chores were "Take Care Of Me" is a nice heavy steel handed to Pat Moran. "I'm Bored" was a moderate hit that workout while "I'm A Conservative" is a "Soldier" has a dazzling line-up ot very amusing piece of self-mockery. enabled him to enrage the musicians. One can find Glen Matlock There's only one real duff track on the pre-pubescent Countdown audience. (Pistols, Rich Kids) on bass, Barry Andrews album. A Glen Matlock penned song called (XTC) on keyboards, Klaus Kruger "Ambition" lacks any direction and pur­ However, throughout Iggy's career the (Tangerine Dream) on drums and Steve Nevi^ pose. albums that could be considered his most and Ivan Krai (Patti Smith Group) on "Soldier" will not win Iggy any new vital are the ones which required continued guitars. fans. It is too left field to appeal to a mass playings to understand their sentiments. The thick commercialism of "New market in the way that "New Values" did. "The Idiot" and "Funhouse" are two Values" has subsided into a quirky and at However, Iggy Pop is not a Meldrum-styled examples which spring to mind. times perverse form of rock. "Loco Svengali puppet. He is a man who takes rock "New Values" had a pleasant immediacy Mosquito" (the new single) is a fine music into previously uninvestigated areas. about it, but only a limited durability. opening statement highlighting the unique­ "Soldiers" is an album which will inhabit "Soldier" sees Iggy combining the lessons ness of Barry Andrews' keyboard work. It turntables with taste for a long time. learnt from "New Values" with his more should be a hit, but probably won't be. -TONYGILSON

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Just a little nervous. Lying there with legs sprcadeagled on a long metallic table. Being told my heart is "THE PRETENDERS" beating fast, my heart beats faster. He lay silent, unmoving, The only movement, was that of his breath, Now that the time Pounding — non-ceasing, has come, i Everywhere there were explosions, forget all justification/motivations Explosions inside the peoples minds — become consumed it by small details — He looked again, everything had changed, how cleverly the table He cursed and struggled with the strain, is designed Their minds had snapped with the load, (a gap in the end for access), There was no-one strong enough to fight the pain, how strange it feels No-one brave enough to break the chain, to take off everything except a shirt debbie roberts how compact the surgical 'set' on the table beside me looks.

Shit, I'm scared ... Shit, that hurts... NO. I'm alright, tolerable, tolerable, tolerate. SHOW DAY This device means We loitered inside sideshows for years, adolescent. no more hormones Thirteen — in a ghost-house with mother, embraced no more breakthrough bleeding against intrusions; no more forgetting or foregoing. Fourteen - in pub-sheds without father, tasting a barmaid's liquor; Lying in bed, Fifteen — in a mirror-maze alone alone, me discovering me establishing I wonder one route only escape; what's it's like Sixteen — in fight-tents with men, watching how to be born men win; without Seventeen — in a grandstand with girls, trembling tits. as we mount; annette read We toe the dust, showdays end, sideshows close. • This poem was removed from the laid out kevin Johnson pages of 'Tlie Press' by the Ipswich Times, after it was'sent to them for printing. No explanation for this apparent censorship was given; presumably the poem was oonadered offensive. ^Semper is now printed by Mirror Newspapers. ('The Press' was a short-lived campus publication in 1979.)

"PAST THE VOID"

Meaningless glances — pass me, Unsensing beings tormeted by their own minds. Hiding from reality, searching for fantasy, There are so many of their kind.

Through the darkness to the light, Our men fought with fear, Only strength to guide them, Their souls flew high, but not as high as their minds, They searched for insanity, peace of mind,

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Campus Travel guarantees you a confirmed seat - you are not risking your holiday by travelling standby. SEATS LIMITED - ENQUIRE NOW! Campus Travel is your travel agency right here on Campus - CAJfiPVS TRAVEL Ground Floor Union Building Phone 371.2163, 371.2433 hardson opened on March 28. It will be held in the Gold Coast Mayne Hall, University of Qld, departs Creek Street Wharf, lower PERFORMING Hours - Tues. to Sat. lOam^Spm, Hinterland. The fee is $100.00 St. Lucia. The programme per­ end near the A.M.P. Building. which includes food and accom­ formed by the Tokyo String Admission $2 single, music, MARKETS modation. Forfurther information Quartet wilt ir^dude works by snacks, drinks and XXXX avail. ARTS and bookings phone 36.5661. Schubert, Beethoven and THE INDIA CLUB OF QLD: CAXTON ST. MARKETS: Debussy. Tickets available at Abel Smith Lecture Theatre, Baroona Hall, 17 Caxton St., ARTS THEATRE: 210 Petrie Festival Hall from 12th April St. Lucia, phone 371 6713 or Petrie Tee. Every Sunday, 7.30 Tc8., phone 36 2344. The QNEMA for the concert on 26th April. 371 4087 for bookings before am-12 noon (closed Easter Sun., Sleeping Prince until 26th April, A.B.C. PUBLIC CONCERTS: the 11th April. There will be a April 5). Wed.toSatS.ISpm. SCHONELL THEATRE: Prog­ Sat. 12th April, Brisbane City cultural evening on the 12th CLOUDLAND MARKET: Boyd CEMENT BOX THEATRE: Qld. rammes can be collected from Hall, Spm. 1st Red Sub. Orch., April at 7,30pm. The enter­ St., Bowen Hills. Every Sunday, linlversity, St. Lucia phonp 221 UNIVERSITY Foyer J.D. Story conductor will be Cavdarskl and tainment will include Indian 8.30am-3.30pm. 9511. Presented by Brisbane dances, music, both instrumen­ DAYBORO COUNTRY VERLIE JUST TOWN Bldg, Bio. Sc. Refec., U.G. soloists, Sheng Zhongguo (violin) Actors Company "Vanities" by Ubrary. QUEEN STREET Her and John Curro (viola). Sat. tal and vocal, a short play by the MARKETS: Dayboro. Every Jack Helfner. Closes on 12th GALLERY: 77 Queen Street, poet Rabindrahath Tagore. Sunday. Ph. 38 2207 (after 4pm). Brisbane phone 229 1381. There Mahesty's, Angus & Robertson, 19th April, Brisbane City Hall, April. Toes, to Sun. 8.15pm. 52 Queen St. ELIZABETH ST. Spm.The 1st Family Concert, TWELFTH NIGHT THEATRE: will be an exhibition of Judy Cassab's paintings during April. American Bookstore, 8CF Book­ soloist will be Peter Knapp 4 Cintra Rd., Bowen Hills phone shop, ELIE Salon. VALLEY (Baritone), Q.S. & M. Choir and 52 7622. The T.N. Co. presents Open Friday until 7pm, Saturday 10-4pm. Lucky Rankin Casket, Angus & Bruce Short will be compere. "Alex" until April 12th, Wed. Robertson. INDOOROOPILLY Mon. April 21st, Brisbane City to Sat. S.ISpm. $7, students $3. YOUNG MASTERS GALLERY: 160 Queen Street, Brisbane phone SHOPPINGTOWN Mini Time Hall, Bpm, First Blue Sub, Orch., 229 5154. Mixed exhibition of Service. MAILING LIST Send $2 soloist will be Peter Knapp painting by leading Australian for ONE YEAR'S programmes (Baritone). painters, irKluding Leonard Long, in the mail. 4Z22 JOINT EFFORT: Pro Hart and Robert Dickerson. MANHATTAN: Mon-Fri. until 16 University Relax Block, St. Gallery hours — Mon. to Fri. April at 7.30. Lucia, April 11th, Spm. All 10am-8pm; Sat. 10am-1.30pm; DAYS OF HEAVEN: Brisbane bands — Lemmings, Sun. 2pm-5pm, Commencing 17 April at 7.30pm Toywatches and the Swell Guys. SPRING HILL GALLERY: 12 Also showing: ANNIE HALL. Liquor available. Downing St., Spring Hill. Mixed INTERIORS' MOLIERE, AND ORANGE JUrCE CO.: Kelvin exhibition of paintings by JUSTICE FOR ALL, PAPER Grove C.A.E., Commumty Bldg., leading Australian artistst, in­ CHASE, LOVE AND DEATH, Victoria Park Rd., Kelvin Grove cluding well-known Brisbane MEETINGS phone 356 7066. The OJ.C. artist, Wendy Cernak. Hours — UNEMPLOYED WORKERS' presents "Da Vine Tarzan" from Wed. to Sun. 11am-6pm. UNION: 1st Floor, Trades Hall, Wed. Sth April. Edward St., Brisbane phone 229 3190. Meeting held on 3rd April at 2pm. WORKSHOPS INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART: VISUAL ARTS 24 Market St., Brisbane phone TORWOOD HOUSE: 108 Annie CINTRA HOUSE GALLERIES: 229 5985. A lecture will be given Street, Torwood will be holding by Hilary Boscott-Riggs on her 23 Boyd St., Bowen Hills phone weekend workshops with Ruth THE TENANT, PHANTOM OF 52 7522. The exhibition of work LIBERTE, BLACK MOON, work at 2.30pm sharp, on Sat. Eedy. Experience and learn relax­ 26th Aprit. by Ralph Wilson will continue ation and massage techniques. RQSELANO, HAROLD AND until April 11th. Gallery hours - MAUDE, FIJI STUDENTS ASSOC: Cl- Fee is $40.00. For further inform- Clubs & Societies, Union Bklg, Tues. to Sat 11am-5.30pfn. atk>n phone 36.5661. PHIUP BACON BALLERIES: Uni of Qid., phone 371 1611. There is another relaxation work­ There will be a Boat Trip down 2 Arthur St., Fortitude Valley. shop to be held over the Easter MUSIC An exhibition by Gordon Shep- the Brishane River on 19th April weekend, again with Ruth Eedy. MUSICA VIVA AUSTRALIA: at 6.30pm sharp. The boat How NOT to Conduct a Tutorial "Faster than a striking wombat he it there and throw it into the bottom of University have no training as teachers. The comes!" With that, the tutor slipped into the ocean." Tertiary Education Institute (T.E.D.I.) is the room, ten or fifteen minutes late. It A few nervous titters went around the at their disposal. •was our first tutorial in first year subject class. "You'U never learn subject X from a EDUCATION T.E.D.I. was set up to help academics X (the names have been changed to protect textbook. Go to the library and read the become better teachers but very few of them the guilty). Twelve or thirteen of us had great works." With LYN TAYLOR bother to use the confidential services wait^ apprehensively in this sterile tutonal We weren't told exactly what the great T.E.D.I. provides. room and I had begun to wonder if I was in works were and of course no-one wanted to One beginning tutor told me recently the right room. I soon began to wish I risk becommg the object ofthe tutor's scorn that he had been rubbished by more "ex­ wasn't. by asking. We did, however, hear a scries or Subject X he was stuck with. He made no perienced" members of his department "What's the most important word ui names (some of which caused vague stinings •attempt to establish any rapport with us, when he had mentioned tliat he was going subject X?" the tutor asked abstractedly in the dim recesses of my mind) as well as to create a friendly atmosphere or to foster to participate in a T.E.D.I. programme gazing out the wmdow. The students, most unconnected snippets of philosoi^y. discussion. for new tutors. "Research is the way to get of them first-years, stared nervously down Naturally we were all mightily impressed I left the room feeling angry not only on here, not teachmg!" he was told. at their desks hoping to escape his notice. with the tutor's immense knowledge of the with the tutor but also with myself for My second tutorial in subject X, was Obviously no-one was in the mood for Ereat masters of Xian Philosophy and so having been so easily intimidatfed after seven also very stimulating. I met the other riddles. none of us dared to ask anything as pedes­ or eight years at university. 1 walked up to students emergmg from the X Building. "Well?" he demanded. trian as a question about the subject that we the Refectory with another student from The tutor had sent the group up to the Eventually a couple of brave souls were there to be tutored in. the group who was also upset by tliis first Library, we were met there by a very helpful hazarded a guess. "Money?" ventured one. Finally, the tutor reiterated with, "Go encounter. She was not as ang-y as I because Readers' Assistant who explained how to "What an obscene suggestion!" the tutor to the library and read the great works. she was not sure if students had a right to use the library and took us on a guided tour. snorted derisively, delisted that someone That's about all I can tell you really. 1 might be treated any better than this. Perhaps That was all very well for new students but had played into his hands. as well see you next semester." university was actually a place where humble not very enlightening for old hands. It "Obscene" was a word we were to hear He made it painfully clear to us that he students sat at the feet of their teachers would have been nice if the tutor had told a number of times during the tutorial which, had no tune for students - especially sub­ grateful for any crumbs cast their way. us the week before what was to happen so followed. The ravings we were treated to missive, easUy mtimidated ones like us. It that those of us who had already unravelled for the remainmg forty minutes had little was apparent he had done nothing by way *** the mysteries of the Library could have used to do with the subject in hand. The tutor of preparation. He didn't Mother to ask our the hour more profitably. was quick to let us know just how cynical names, to structure the tutorial m any way, Tutorials for many students, particular­ 1 am eagerly anticipatuig my third he had become about subject X as it is to tell us how we would be assessed or to ly first-years, are their only chance for tutorial in subject X, due to take place taught at the University of Queensland. say what we could expect from future personal contact with staff. Most lecture today. 1 am trying to convince myself that His eyes lit upon my brand new text­ tutorials. His advice was directly contrary classes in first-year subjects are large and the tutor simply got out of bed on the book, still in its tell-tale Bookshop freezer- to that given by the lecturer in the subject. alienating. It is not unreasonable for wrong side last tune and that he didn't really bag. I'm sure the tutor imagined he was students to expect something more human imagine that he was casting pearls before "1 notice that textbook is still in its teaching something on a far higher "in­ and humane for tutorials. swine. Perhaps I might even grow to like wrapper," he said. "My advice is to keep tellectual" plane rather than the mundane Most of the academic staff at the wombats! L No Installation - 12 Months Guarantee Demonstrated at your home or office ULTBB some BUBGLeRJLaBCU Telephone 371 342S SEMPER 27 rna Fif^^ARroF 'J

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