il^'Vi iSi?li!.SI •*''^'^^^'''-?^''^ ^*v li UUHflT6V6R HRPP€n6D TOTH€ SUmm€R OF LOV€ ? Today's Counterculture -if??*. i;...v 1. .:%rr-.: ,•-•*-.,•. ,r. -.; T..»-/.-*xriF--'''*'-"'''-^**''*''^-'' VOL 48 NO, 10 r ? OCTOBER 1079 f A visit to the Queensland Club, The Countdown Lobotomy, The Great Rock 'n' Rolf Talk-Back Show, BirdsvUle Races, Brisbane's Best Reviews arid GartQQfis.v IK • Vi i-'^i-.^^r '^••^•:*^^v.!;:-c:;; •>i,!iif'^^-:\,^i.i ':.:v'i'r:i-'«y^ > w •^-^.••<^.-\ M ^^^kfftaa^ssaai^iaaxci.V'^'-'Miiii:.,'.-.v ..:.^ '.'v.";jiif".!" (.".v,-/.:-i,T;.>:^-'ir5vcx;r;;rr,-;;. .?;-'• •' "r" ';.'•;.-"rt. .- '..i'Mr:- •' ;••"::.•'.•' LE!mS FUMBLING FOR THE THERE'S MORE TO herself, even temporarily to support "armed strug­ (you better believe it) gle" (read terrorism). These IGNITION KEYS THEATRE THAN resident in the Land of the resolutions were defeated JUST THE MUMMERS Long White Shroud. Small on every Australian campus Congratulations to the consolation, you can bet, at the biggest student Force on the opening of the It is not my intention that like many another mad­ meetings since the height of aevr luxury police dub. to ptit feats into persons woman, f did if all for love the Vietnam war. The AUS It's marvellous that mem­ writing to "Time Off but (see my forthcoming book threat to discriminate bers of the Police Force, the factual incorrectness "Under MuWoon: A Fate against Jewish students by after their hours, keeping throughout the letter by Worse Than Death"). cutting off cheap student the streets free of crime, Russell Mansfield, from Heard on the radio here flights to Israel was also relax with five hours of free the Mummers theatre group, that the government has defeated. alcohol with their partners needs rectifying. produced a pamphlet (yes, In 1975 the extreme Left (cohorts). Then without a Mansfield says, "bureau­ that's what radio NZ is all leadership of AUS organised conscience fumble for their cracy drowns theatre on about, folks!) called another series of pro-PLO ignition keys and aftcmpt to campus and only the dedi­ "Advice to the New Arrival resolutions and an weave home. cated survive". Where is this to NZ" or similar. Can't Australian-wide tour of PLO Aren't they lucky that bureaucracy? Each of the imagine how they could spokesmen, which often next morning they're one student groups, the Lunch­ spin out three words - erupted into violence. of the fortunate few who box Theatre Co. and the UQ "Get Out. .Fast" to Mr. Bill Hartley, the well- can still use the roads and Drama Society organise pamphlet length. WeU, what known pro-Arab activist and resume their duties with themselves. Their manage­ other advice is there? Iraqi agent, was employed their friendly green bags. ment, production teams and When travellers tell you at AUS in 1975/76 despite This is just another of castings are arranged about NZ "wages", the massive student opposition many examples of the in­ without interference from "more British than the to any further involvement fectious hypocrisy amongst anyone. The two groups British" conservatism, the with the PLO. the Queensland Police operate entirely indepen­ "up myself further than Force, dently of each other too. Thou" trendyism, the 1976 saw the involve­ Are there two moral The statement that the closed for the weekend ment of AUS officials in Promises values in the state of Qld Mummers are the "only social life, the spirit of the demonstrations against today? One for Police - dynamic theatre force on Bartlettism, constant wind visiting Israeli dignatory one for the 2nd rate citi­ campus" is even more and/or rain which Moshe Dayan. 1976 AUS A collection of paintings and drawings by Lisa zens. curious. Both the Lunch­ laughingly passes for cli­ President Tasma Ockeriden box and U.D.S. groups have Anderson, Schonell Theatre Foyer, from Sth -A.M. PARKER mate, cost of cars and admitted in the PLO In­ October. Bardon run a years program on pineapples, and complete formation Bulletin of Nov­ campus, using the Cement absence of Indian res­ ember 1977, that despite a Finding myself left alone with an assortment of the Box and makeshift work­ taurants and/or real bana­ formal no-policy on the canvases and drawings of Lisa Anderson was a rather AN OPEN LETTER TO shop areas around. Indivi­ nas - just remember Middle East, "AUS con­ intimidatory experience. No doubt Andy Warhol or ACADEMICS duals out of both groups friends, it's not THAT bad tinued its de facto support Jodorowsky could have used some of these characters helped on the working bees .. .it's WORSE! for the PLO in 1976"! as extras. I know you've got me by in the Cement Box at the We're sitting in the and Melbourne. Neverthe- beginning of the year, or­ Skeptics and those who The following year, studio cum bedroom of a less, the fact that these my short and curly pcibk; STILL long to see the ferny 1977, Ms. Ockenden was habrs and so do you. You ganised open rehearsals and condemned terrace house in works are perspectives of a display for Expo and helped islands of their imagination, employed as an official of urban Brisbane. Lisa is des- Brisbane from an alternative pointed that out to me peopled with singing Maoris the PLO in Beirut, and her very clearly in the first with F.A.S.T. Where have cribing the development of viewpoint, makes them all the "dynamic" Mummers in kiwi-feather cloaks are successor as AUS President, her work, a three year the more relevant, ten weeks. I am now a recommended to try this Peter O'Connor, proposed student and have not ac­ been ali year? dedicated struggle to cap- The canvasses work quick quiz before buying yet another PLO tour for ture urban alienation with through the interaction bel- quired my rights as a their tickets to Eketahuna: Iatel977/earlyl978. dtizen. The poUce will not The only possible areas a few brush strokes and ween brillian colour and that 1 think Mansfield may QI: In what part of the pencil lines. subject matter, provoking help me. My family will world was Bjelke-Petersen's hi late 1977, Mr. Justice imagine to be a controlling It is no secret that Bris- reactions of discomfort, ner- not help me. Yon will not character moulded? Kaye of the Victorian Sup­ "bureaucracy", are the bane is an imusual city, vousness and frustration, help me. The doctor will Q2: Why does 75% of the reme Court prescribed pay­ English Department and the closer maybe to a country This is "Big Brother is not help me. My friends pop. of NZ- now live in ments by the AUS to bodies Students Union Theatre town in many ways, yet it watching you" voyeur vio- cannot help me. I am alone. Bondi? like the PLO, and this has Committee (U.T.C.). also has a cosmopolitan Ience at its worst. A punk I know you've got me by recently prevented any my short and curly pvblk Tlie activities of the English Q3: How would YOU element. reflection of a humid police Department are hardly per­ describe (in 10 words or direct financial gifts to the hairs and so do you. You PLO. Consequently, it's no state?? Themes of the work keep on pointing that out to vasive enough to be con­ less) a place so bad even coincidence that Lisa lives include power, isolation, In 1979, former AUS roe. sidered a threat to freedom Bjelke-Petersen wanted to in one of the few Brisbane Brisbane women, rock 'n president Neil McLean is the of theatre groups on leave (in your OWTI words, examples of a building roll. The characters are You know everything I campus. please). principal broadcaster of the want to know and need to characteristic of Sydney and often grotesque, yet there's The U.T.C. is the same. What then, you might pro-PLO programme know for my degree. Yes, 1 London, the terrace house, a familiarity about some of It is an open, informal ask, makes life bearable in Palestine Speaks on the want my degree. No I don't Lisa says her work would them, group dealing exclusively Godzone? Only the ap­ controversial radio station want to fail sir and I can probably be more welcome -PETER RONEY with sorting out the Cement pearance (with AUbran 3CR. Former AUS editor see that many, many, many in the artworld of Sydney Box Theatre's technical faci­ regularity, bless you) of Franz Timmerman cur­ many, most students do not lities and confirmation of your winning little mag. rently contributes to PLO get their degree because you bookings for the space. It We read, we devour it, journals. The embattled and they do not agree. And has nothing to do with so delisted our lips AUS leadership, despite the that is stupid. They are PREGNANCY organising student theatre barely moving as we recog­ threat of a massive revolt dumb to disagree with you groups and doesn't discuss nise old friends and foes by AUS members led by and that's a thing 1 cannot their activities. in its pages. We shuddered centerist student leaders like do. I don't believe anyone when we heard that changes I cannot disagree with is, "running campus in the Editorship were due Peter Costello of Monash CfNlRGL i you sir because you know theatre." Who are these, . jiothing must change, and Paul Brereton of everything I need to know T BRISBANE • "pseudo-intellectuals" who NOTHING! (except perhaps Sydney University, still for my degree, and I must you claim are? more pictures of palm- maintains informal contact find it out for myself and The only production of trees please, EDITOR with the PLOand proposed in that way 111 become NOTE).