University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 4-9-1974 The Living Daylights 2(14) 9 April 1974 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1974), The Living Daylights 2(14) 9 April 1974, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.14, April 9 - 22, 28p. https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/24 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 2(14) 9 April 1974 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.14, April 9 - 22, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/24 Vol.2 No. 14 April 9-22 1974 Pissweak on principles but!. End of term report Friday and monday are our key production days, which makes an easter Daylights impossible. This issue must suffice for a fortnight, till april 22, then we're back every tuesday. What a week. It's only politics, but if the terrible twosome get in . THUD! a plagiarised potpourri of news, views People in this office are and trivia with MIKE MORRIS rushing around trying to get on an electoral roll — prefer­ ably in an electorate with a swinging seat. And anarchist 18 year olds, dont YOU forget to register. just this once. Naturally Mungo IViacCallum has weighed in with a blast Fowl power from Canberra, where the long knives are already flashing, SOME POLITICIANS have their prior­ (see opposite) and even ities in the right place, I’m pleased to notorious non-voter Harry learn. While Canberra was in utter tur­ Gumboot is threatening to moil last week, Gordon Bryant, minister | for the ACT, stayed in his own back­ fight them in the polling yard and announced he was “ deter­ booths, page 7. mined to fight” for an increase in the It was business as usual quota of hens for the ACT. At present in her majesty's prisons. Sick the capitol territory is allowed only of being misled by devious 85,000 chooks which, according to the authorities, Piotr Olszewski minister, just arent enough. and others sneaked into Pentridge and spoke to a victim i On the Saigon mainline o f the system, page 9. Over the page (10) a reader WE’VE all heard o f bum trips, but the from NSW recounts his own I author of a letter in the recent Pent­ house magazine must be riding one of experience inside. the lowest. He tells how he left New Cracking Pentridge was York and headed for South Vietnam to easy, compared to acquiring feed his lungs with the good, cheap admission to Frank Theeman's marijuana he puffed on when he was ball, a spectacular shindig at there as a soldier in the war (in those his horrible Rose Bay mock days no one bothered about stoned hacienda, in which stink bombs | GIs). But times change and so do sizzled, lavatories overflowed attitudes and laws. The authorities (US and policewomen waltzed in and South Vietnamese) have in the past evening attire. What went three years put the clampers on grass and there’s a drought ... But not on wrong? Our society columnist heroin which is as cheap and easy as gushes; page 6. marijuana was in the good old days. Fijians are still being He’s now a smack junkie, and no one flung out of the country, de­ seems to care about THAT. spite A l Grassby's assurances to the contrary, as Grant Paradise lost Evans makes clear (page 4) and as the launching of the READERS looking for cheap holiday short and welcome demise and I wish in Long March to the US bases accommodation over the easter break nosedive when a 120 year old Greek should look no further than the recently a way they’d been right. The announce­ woman who had spent a life of poverty, comes closer, we report the classified ghost town, Surfers Paradise. ment that last Sunday was the 20th living on beans, leeks and fear claimed latest strategies, page 5. Thanks to 20 years of scalloping of the birthday of Rock around the clock, and she had spent not one day in her life in As the sands drain away coastline by eager developers the beach of rock and roll set my joint a’creaking happiness. from Surfers, it is still at Surfers now catches the full brunt of and my hair a’falling. Twenty years! possible to go north and have the prevailing cyclones. The golden (Croak.) The two decades of rock have Mao has the good fun, according to Willy sands have been swept away, the beach seen many unfortunate casualties, most sense to ban him Young who has just return­ has vanished and the foreshore is now recently claimed was Slade’s guitarist ed from wallowing among the propped up with ugly boulders. If you Dave Hill who fractured his leg when he BUT THE fate of modern literature I jaffas, pages 18 & 19. dont mind acting like a crab for a few fell from his four inch soles. looked cheerier this week when Richard I Incidentally, a reader has days the low rents (as low as $2.50 a Bach, author of the unbelievably banal] offered a Brisbane Bright- night in some motels) are very enticing. Bombs away Jonathon Livingstone seagull, announc-j ed he was hanging up his typewriter. lights: how many of you up GEORGES Pompidou, president of there want one? Socialist siblings France, described by Richard Nixon as “a man of vision, constraint, con­ So that's about all (not Farewell mud guts MOTHERS against Marx. Ronald Fish­ sistency and enormous strength of char­ to mention several regulars, er, a delegate to a Victorian Country acter” ; the man responsible for pol­ ONE MUST bear a grudging respect for | a new reviews spread, 22 £. 23). party conference on child care centres, luting the Pacific ocean with atomic former leader o f the DLP, Vince Gair. f This week our friends from the told the gathering the centres could be fallout, died in the same week that gave The press last week called him one o f I land got lost in the crush, used to indoctrinate the toddlers in news of the death of Edward Condon, the craftiest politicians in the country, f how about sending some reports marxism, and that children if taken nuclear physicist and developer of the But it’s not his bargaining “ talent” that over easter? Keith and Irene from their mothers would fall under the first atomic bomb. earns my admiration for the old sot, it I from Earth garden have “ evils o f socialism” . The meeting ignor­ was for his miraculous ability to keep a | ed his warnings. set o f ill fitting dentures in his mouth I promised a column and we're Live fast, die young and after a rollicking 37 years of political] still waiting to tune into have a smiling corpse I’m too tired to rock cynicism. I sense he takes to Ireland] Tuntable . what's happen­ SHARES in vegetarian restaurants, bean with him a not unsubstantial piece of| ing up there? THE KNOCKERS said it would meet a canneries and the simple life took a Australian legend. See you next fortnight — eds. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS is published every tuesday by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn street. West Melbourne, Victoria. You can write to us C l- PO box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03)329.0700, Telex AA32403. SYDNEY OFFICE: Stephen Wall, 18 Arthur street, Surry Hills, 2010. Telephone (02)698.2652, tuesdays to thursdays. 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The Liberals instilling a feeling of confidence in catch a glimpse of the beast that dont want to spit in your face, and the non selective reader. walks like a man. Beneath the well that of the government you elected, But what they would really do is manicured eyebrows, the eyes turn just because they’re after power, just what they’ve always done: let stony, and the eyeballs become oh, perish the thought. They are things drift, look after their friends, dollar signs. Tentacles appear out o f doing it all from selfless idealism, to and let the masses look after them­ the laundered cuffs and, with a save you and the country from selves. Anthony, especially, having sound not unlike the tightening of yourselves. conned the dithering leadership of the screws on a rack, the thing that They are also (he doesnt say) the Liberal party into a position believes it was born to rule us all doing it this way because they can’t where they are almost certainly for ever looms up to darken the engineer a military coup.