University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 2-12-1974 The Living Daylights 2(6) 12 February 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(6) 12 February 1974, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.6, February 12 - 18, 28p. https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/16 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(6) 12 February 1974 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.6, February 12 - 18, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/16 F eb l2 -1 8 1974 L The Weary Weekly Waffle T N BRAZIL a robber declares love for Richard Beckett \ < i 9 ' J, Carmen Miranda, strong coffee, • v - -v ( r / toucans, the long white gravelly reaches of beats up the Copacabana . and fatherhood. Brazil’s long coastline sure picks up its share of the week’s news flotsam and jetsam^ Every reporter with an expense account and an airline bag has dug o t o n l y B r i t a i n s c r e w s himself into the press rooms of Rio, plugged NTHINGS UP: Proving that we are himself into the nearest available telex •(as stupid as the mother nation, the machine and chums, chums, churns. Austral­ ■(federal and New South Wales govern- ians gets a bonus: Biggs PLUS, JUST FOR £ ments signal their punches so often and YOU, OUR MOST NEFARIOUS BUSI­ £ so loudly after the so called "discovery" NESSMAN, ALEXANDER BARTON. £ of businessman Alexander Barton, in While Biggs and Barton are regarded by £ Rio de Janeiro, but not unnaturally he the public as romantic front page fodder, fled the city shouting that he had done those behind bars are seen as Bad Eggs. Prisoners are getting shot at Bathurst, beaten :( no wrong, that the collapse of his $20 and boxed in at Long Bay, gassed and fired :( million company was all a bit of a joke upon at Goulburn. And while this continues, :( and that the whole series of allegations the general public feeds its own sublimated £against him were the work of the criminal instincts with news of an English £ present "socialist-communist govern- mail thief and a Hungarian who built an £ ment". Barton has quite obviously been empire on pulverised opal and other peoples £ paid quite a tidy sum of money by the money. £ present federal government to make If NSW justice minister Maddison was these allegations of socialism and com- running a zoo in the manner he runs his ■ munism against it. Next, he will allege prisons the RSPCA would have him strung ( that W hitlam is the possessor o f workers up by his balls. The Australian gave you the : hands, and that good old Margaret is information, Harry Gumboot (opposite) £ crocheting the red flag. That won't harbor, south of the New South Wales :£•££ gives a gut reaction. O PRIZES FOR GUESSING £ restore the lost $20 million to the N THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE city of Wollongong, by using plastic ;£££ So organised society stinks. So you pack J creditors but it leads to a knockabout RICH: A survey run by private schools instead of real plants. In other delightful :£££ your swag and hit the highway. Where are £ comedy scene that makes people forget in New South Wales, which attempted news on the ecological front it has been you heading we ask. We’re going to Darwin £ the real issues involved. It is understood to prove that children who attended the announced in Sydney that gardeners :£££ you say. Where are you “ staying” we ask. :j that the New South Wales government, exclusive establishments were not neces­ have managed to develop a special plant ££££ Why, you say, we have a tent and a dole ■: for instance, is extremely embarrassed sary the issue of gilded (or at least that will actually grow in petrol fumes, cheque and we’U live on OUR beach and may j; by Barton's sudden reappearance — he the greedy landowning councillors get her­ silvered) loins has failed because the thus making them useful for median :£££:£ £ was supposed to stay away and shut up. nias trying to lift us off. Good luck, says parents questioned refused to reveal strips on highways. The main roads jijijij Terry Maher, who lived at Lameroo, pre con­ e o b v i o u s l y w a n t s t o their income. department gardeners admit that the crete jungle (p.4). BORROW SOME MONEY: Singa- plants are not attractive and the flowers ;£££ H ET THE NIGGERS YEAR CON­ insignificant .. but they are extremely :£££ Maybe the people heading up to Darwin £ pore's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew tough. Thus mankind solves the prob- ££:?£ should come down to Melbourne. Thanks to j: buried a press inspired feud w ith out G TINUES APACE: Aboriginal af­ ours and the Age's comments on the amount ■: dynamic leader Whitlam, and doing the fairs minister senator Cavanagh who will lem of the m otor car by once again •:•:•:£ of shit entering Port Phillip bay, St Kilda j: well known asian crawl, claimed that be rewarded with the job of plantation worshipping it as a God. £££: beach could be the haven! Why, last time we j: during the good Gough's visit his tiny manager in the Spice islands when he looked at it we saw vast unpopulated ex­ j: fascist island state where leftist views quits his present job, made what is be­ OU'LL ALWAYS BE MUMMY'S M panses o f sand. The shit has emptied the ( are rewarded by a free gift of electricity coming his weekly contribution to racial LITTLE BOY: The minister re- :£:£:£ beaches. Y : through the fingernails, that the Labor understanding between aboriginals and .sponsible for Papua New Guinea, sena- :£j:£ Colin Talbot stays in the city playing ■ government had left Australia: "stirring whites by announcing that the national tor Morrison, said that the tim ing on records. He lays himself bare and confesses • with the drama of fundamental changes aboriginal consultative committee which independence for the all black nation why he has no Jagger, only Joni Mitchell, : carried out with great panache." He changed its name to congress, could go was a tw o sided affair and that Australia &•£:£: Linda Ronstadt et al (p. 9). : carried on by telling Whitlam: "The fuck itself if it demanded control of would have a say in it. Independence £:•$: Our spread this week reproduces Percy : impression your policies have given money spent on its own people. He said involved "a colonial government as well Leason’s The finish o f the old buffers race, : abroad is one of vigor. The optimism the black body had no right to change as a government" he said in Port Mores- :;£:£ an extraordinary example o f Australian : and enthusiasm in your dynamic ap- its name nor had it any right to attempt by and added that Australia was anxious SftS black and white art which we recycle for : proach to both domestic and external to control its own peoples destiny. that the colony leave kindergarten as :£££ your enjoyment. ■ events and forces are widely known." soon as possible. Surprisingly he then ::.:££ Margaret MacIntyre swings in this week as : Harry Lee then threw up. hanks, ted, thanks a lot: stated that he thought the young black £:£:£:£: editor of our music pages. Contributions can T In an obvious effort to save Aus­ country had received a bum deal from the £££•: be sent to Margaret at 42 Brunning street, ET SHE'S A TEASER THOUGH: tralia the embarrassment of a prolonged Bougainville Copper Company and that £:£:£( Balaclava, Vic (91.3514), together with a list BThe "Australian sprint star", royal progress through the flooded perhaps it might be a good idea if the of your favorite Top Ten numbers. As she as the daily blahs call her, other­ nation, Britain's jovial (love • those contract was renegotiated. Obviously :£•:■£ explains, it gives readers an insight into the wise known as runner Raelene Boyle, miners) Ted Heath, called a general Bougainville copper has forgotten to writer’s leanings, bias and blindspots. said she would be too busy to hop in election for february 28, claiming that replace senator Morrison's water pipes :££•:£ and guttering not to mention failing to :£££: While womens lib is cutting deep inroads and out of beds w hile on a sprint the public record that his government's into factories and homes in outer suburbia, mission in Canada. Ms Boyle's strange decision was threatened by a mob of take him out to lunch. the fashion and cosmetic houses along Van­ : announcement to reporters followed a blackeared Welsh coal diggers. In reality ity Fair are still exploiting women and : ruling by the Australian Womens we all know that he was missing the ILL THE WHITE MEN: In a W£ laughing all the way to the bank, Margaret ■ Amateur Athletic Union that the hot dear queen Elizabeth who will now have Kcombination new wave cultural :£•££ Smith reports on page 21. : legged Miss Boyle could not run in to hasten home on february 28 after revolution and a put-the-white-world- £:£:£ Thanks to all the graphic oriented stu­ • Toronto, Winnipeg or the US city of San opening Australia's parliament instead down-move, China has claimed more or £;*£ dents who answered our invitation to come : Diego unless she was accompanied by of touring the land receiving gifts of less every island in the China sea and £££; up and see us sometime.