The Digger No.6 November 1972

South Australia legalises hom osexuals, and murders them pagei

Juries have always been closer to public opinion than the law. They acquit doctors.

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ABORTION SINCE 1850 Part 1 - b y B ruce H anford - Page 6

GETTING ABORTED LEGALLY. TODAY

by Beatrice Faust - Page 7

The Cocker Cock~up A semi-fantastic tale - Page 5

Bob A dam son o n C arole K ing F ra n k M oorehouse o n th e Aussie m ale A lan R oberts o n th e U niverse an d Dave R u b in on th e dole

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.Page 1 Allen would like to meet in the * * * ring?

When this reporter visited Allen’s “ Clayton.” house this week, the occupant was * * * unwilling at first to talk about the On May 10, this year, as most of chase. “ Are you scared of repercussions?” Australia now knows, George Dun­ “I’m shit scared — he’s a big boy, can, an Adelaide university lecturer, you know. Stands about six three was thrown into the Torrens with another man. The other man, Roger and weighs about 15 stone.

“I’d like to meet him by himself James, could swim; Duncan couldn’t. in the ring, though. I’d be giving away James clambered out with a broken a bit in weight and reach, but I ankle; Duncan drowned. bet I could land a few good ones.

A coroner’s inquiry found Duncan “I just unloaded 15 rounds from died by drowning due to violence by me gun into a tree down the back. persons unknown.

If I’d known where he lived I woulda A police investigation failed to

by Terry Plane gone around there and unloaded it.” come up with anything significant Bob Allen doesn’t claim to be any and the state government called in In February of this year — Bob Allen thinks it was the 26th — angel. As a lad he carried maybe a couple of chaps from Scotland two men provoked a traffic incident, chased their provokee to an iron bar, sometimes a knife or Yard. his home and laid into him. a sawn-off gun. He was in trouble This all occurred in Adelaide, city of churches, lovely gardens When the two English cops ar­ a few times, had a few fights, was and parklands, capital of the state with the most enlightened greeted in the streets of town on a rived in Adelaide they announced government in the country, well-publicised poofter-bashing, and Saturday night by beat police who they hadn’t travelled 12,000 miles to fail, and said they were fairly a police force living under the shadow of an unsolved murder on knew him by his first name. the banks of the Torrens.

“But people can change,” he says. confident of getting to the bottom “I got married three years ago, had of the mystery.

Bob Allen is 22. He lives in Ed- adds, a few more thoughts.

They reported recently to the The driver is screaming to to take on responsibilities. wardstown, a suburb about four miles “I reckon I’ve changed.

I feel government on their findings. How­ from the post office, and works in neighbours to ring the police. His as though I have anyway. ever, their report wasn’t publicised, wife emerges from the house to see the Malvern Star bicycle factory. He “ But they don’t think that.” and won’t be, according to police him being whacked about the face. brings home just over $60 a w eek.

There was one other question commissioner Salisbury and attorneyBoth intruders are wearing towel­ Until June this year he was bring­ worth mentioning: who was it Bob general King. Both these dignitaries ling shirts and shorts and there is a ing home almost that much every bottle of whisky on the back seat day. of the Falcon. At the footpath they But on June 27 in the suburban both grab the driver and try to Court of Unley, Bob Allen lost his push him into the back seat with driving licence for 15 months, was fined $125, and landed a lawyer’s the whisky. He resists strongly. Then the two large intruders announce: fee of $170.

The charge was driving in a manner “We are police officers. You’d better dangerous to the public. Allen plead­ come quietly.”

Strangely enough, the driver ed guilty. He did this at the recom­ doesn’t believe their story and keeps mendation of his lawyer, David on kicking. This scene lasts until Taylor, who said he had come to an a police utility-cum-paddy wagon agreement with the police that three other traffic charges would be drop­ pulls up. Two uniformed men step out. ped if Allen pleaded guilty to dan­ “Throw these men in the wagon gerous driving and shut up about a — they’ve been bashing me up!” small matter of being assaulted. says the driver.

The defendant having pleaded The large men in towelling turn guilty, it was not necessary for the to the uniformed men and introduce police to produce any witnesses. The themselves as detectives A and B, police prosecutor, rather raw at the business, stood up and read the evid­ and order that the driver be arrested ence and told the magistrate he for resisting arrest on a traffic charge.

Change- of scene to No.l Angas would drop three other charges if Allen pleaded guilty to driving dan­ Street, Adelaide, the headquarters of the S.A. police force. The paddy gerously.

The magistrate informed him bar­ wagon pulls up at the side of the building, the grey Falcon behind it. gains were not struck in courtrooms A minute or so later the driver’s and asked him to read out all he wife pulls up at the front of the had before him. The young pros­ building and peers down the lane. ecutor read on, giving evidence about She sees her husband laid over the driving under the influence, changing boot of a Torana and two large lanes without signals and speeding. men in towelling sportswear punching But there was only one charge, so him. There is blood spurting from the magistrate used it to cover the the driver’s mouth and stains down lot. Hence, the heavy penalty. the front of his clothing.

Allen, standing in the box, tried The driver is taken in the side to say a few words but was told door unconscious and rouses a while by your friendly local magistrate later in an office. He asks where he to shut up and get the lawyer to is and is told the eleventh floor. speak if you have something to He is, however, in the vice squad say. Taylor didn’t want to speak. office on the second floor, so he Now the reason Allen’s income dropped so sharply after this appear­ is told some weeks later.

The first intruder says: “ OK, you ance is that he used to be a taxi get no academy awards for acting truck driver. In fact, the evidence up here.” The driver is blubbering given in court related to an incident a little, you see, with blood still involving a Toyota taxi truck and a pouring down his front. grey Ford Falcon.

He is taken downstairs then, for THE CHASE: As stated, Feb­ a breathalyser. He registers 0.06, ruary, about 26. The Falcon and the © 1 9 7 2 R.CoBB ALL RIGHTS RESERVED below the 0.08 per cent limit in snub-nosed truck are approaching S.A., and thinks that’s all right. traffic lights at Keswick bridge, on Back upstairs and a statement is Anzac Highway. The lights change typed. No questions and answers, to red as these vehicles approach and the driver of the Falcon stops just a statement, worded entirely by the two large intruders. They sharply. The Toyota pulls up within read it at the end and ask the a few inches of the Ford’s rear end. driver if it’s all right. “ If that’s Keeping those stats down: The vehicles pull away from the lights, the Falcon in first gear and what you say,” he replies.

He is taken to a cell for two the Toyota in second, as it’s not carrying a load. When the driver of verses of a song by a drunk next the Falcon changes into second the door, then let out and told he can go home. He catches a taxi, The registered unemployed are truck slips up close behind again.

by David Rubin treated like criminals. The Depart­ The taxi truck driver sees the car his wife having disappeared. She is home when he arrives and decides driver look in the rear view mirror.

At a meeting of Social Workers, ment insists on people looking for Suddenly the Falcon’s brake lights the boy should be in hospital. She Welfare Officers and other interested jobs apart from those they are of­ go on, in the middle of a straight, drives him there, where he receives parties at the Austin Hospital this ficially sent to. However, they can open road. The taxi truck driver five stitches in the face. week, stories of the Government’s only claim fare money for ‘official * * * doesn’t like this much. He’s had a efforts to prevent people getting pen­ job hunting’, and they must fill in the few beers and thinks “I’ll teach this SEQUEL TO THE CASE: That sions and unemployment benefits names of firms where they ‘unof­ bastard.” was all Saturday night. Sunday shocked the experienced field work­ ficially’ tried to get work on the ap­ plication form for benefits.

He pulls the Toyota out past the morning the driver takes himself ers.

Falcon and back in front of him, off to the home of the state premier, How they will successfully inject Tales of paraplegic people (who then jams on the brakes. No contact, Don Dunstan. He tells his story could not even wave a fly off their two hundred thousand school-leavers but obvious tension. He takes off briefly and is advised to present noses) being classified for rehabili­ into jobs in industry and commerce pretty rapidly, the Ford in pursuit. himself next morning at the state tation by doctors employed by Went­ at the end of this year, Mr Lynch, They cover about five suburban administration centre in Victoria worth’s Social Service Department. Minister for Labor and National miles, weaving and ducking, turning Square. He goes to court first, where These people have had their pensions Service, has not explained.

Clyde Cameron, Labor Party and U-tuming, back streets and side his driving charge is adjourned for taken away from them, leaving them streets. The Toyota stays in front three weeks. Then to Victoria destitute. However patients leaving shadow Labor minister is right, there and the driver heads for home, noses Square, where the strongest advice hospitals and receiving sickness bene­ will be many a heart-break in the it into his driveway and jumps out he gets is to see a lawyer. Some­ fits are kept on those benefits be­ months to come when young people while the truck is still rolling. The how he winds up at David Taylor’s cause orders were given not to put will be seeking jobs and not getting driver runs for his back door but office; the same Taylor as in Dun­ them on to unemployment benefits. them. But by then the election will is cut off by a large person who has stan, Lee, Taylor and Lynch. Yes, It can only be presumed that to do so be over. run down the side of the house. the same Dunstan, too."

The ease of Ivan Mojcec is another would interfere with the unemploy­ The intruder, about six inches taller Three weeks later in Unley court ment figures before an election. example of this government’s answer and three stone heavier than the it’s a representative for Taylor that’s The frustration of the social work­ to unemployment.

The media, which in general driver, drags the smaller man to asking for an adjournment. Thence ers was expressed in the near unani­ the front of the house, giving him to June 27, .Bob Allen’s wedding mous decision of members of the supports the government, will take a few to think about on the way. anniversary and the beginning of a Association to march under their up the plight of a person burned out Half way to the front they are met severe disruption to his taxi truck own slogans at the next Social Ser­ of his home, or had his car stolen, but people like Mojcec are left not by another fairly solid person, who business. vices Moratorium.

Scotland Yard recommendation shelved:

W h o ’s afraid o f George Duncan?

made public statements to the effect that there would be no prosecution in the Duncan case because of in­ sufficient evidence. It was admitted that one witness had changed his story from what was told to the coroner’s inquest.

Through contact with detectives McGowan and O’Hanlon of Scotland Yard, a small group of Adelaide journalists had discovered that the report submitted actually recom­ mended prosecution of three men.

The witness who changed his story was Roger James, who was scared stiff at the time of the coroner’s inquest, but took the Yard men into his confidence and identified th e men responsible for throwing him and Duncan into the river.

At the time of the inquest heavy suspicion of responsibility for the killing of Duncan came to rest on the Adelaide vice squad, and, in particular, three of its members.

These men refused to give evidence before the coroner and were sus­ pended from duty for refusing to answer questions. They later resigned from the force.

The three are Brian Edwin Hud­ son, Francis John Cawley and Michael Kenneth Clayton.

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Catch ’72 sweeps the nation knowing what happens to them, how they are manipulated by a govern­ ment bureaucracy, or how the state denies them the means to eat and gets away with it.

Ivan Mojcec is originally from Yugoslavia and came out to Australia sold on the lavish promises of the Liberal Government. Away from his homeland to the country of milk and honey. On arrival here with his family he found it difficult to adjust to a strange environment and his language problems added to the strain. As a result of these stresses the family broke up. Mojcec was admitted to Mont Park mental hospital with a nervous breakdown.

In the hospital he responded to treatment prescribed by psychiatrists and trained staff, helped by social workers, and was eventually dis­ charged and placed in a hostel where he gradually began self-rehabilitation.

He received a small pension to keep things together.

Then the bombshell hit. Mojcec was summonsed to appear before a doctor picked by the Social Services Department. The interview and

S.A. Parliament passes Private Member's Bill:

Buggery is just alright...

The Bill to amend the criminal Law Consolidation Act (Homosexual) has become law in South Australia.

The bill was introduced as a pri­ vate member’s bill on July 26 this year by Murray Hill, LCL member for Southern in the Legislative Coun­ cil. The bill was introduced a few weeks after the inquest into the drowning of George Duncan, an event that bought homosexuality to the public eye.

Early in August Lex Watson and Dennis Altman came to town to speak at the first meeting of Adelaide Gay Lib. They both slammed the bill for its ambiguity, especially in re­ lation to the procurement section.

Altman described it as dangerous.

The bill stated: “ Any male per­ son who procures or attempts to pro­ cure the commission of another male person of an act of buggery or gross indecency with another male person . . .' shall be guilty of a misdemean­ our and liable to be imprisoned for a term not'exceeding three years.”

Altman said this section stops any homosexual trying to find a partner for the act which has just been legalised (buggery or gross indecency between two male per­ sons who consent and are over 21).

Hill denied this. He said the section was there to stop cases that involve a third person.

As in everything legal this section has a legal precedent and these pre­ cedents hold a lot of weight in court.

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The legal precedent comes from Lord Russel of Killowen, Chief Jus­ tice in the English case, Reg. v Jones and Bowerbank (1896). The defen­ dant Jones was charged under a section of the sexual offences act which matches the Hill-bill almost word for word.

Lord Russel sitting on the crim­ inal appeal court of England gave the following ruling, and the four other judges comprising the court concur­ red with him: “ . . . it is said that because the act uses the expression ‘another male person’ that person cannot be the person who procures the commission of the offence, but must be some third person. That does not seem to me to be the proper construction of the section. I think the person who procures the commission of the of­ fence may himself be the person with whom it is committed.”

Hill said many people had ap­ proached him about this section but he said he would leave it as it stood.

The Digger told Hill about the legal precedent and that this would be accepted above all else in a court of law. Hill told the reporter he was splitting hairs over the matter and that the wording would stand.

The debate in the house was long but not very productive. The

typical line was, “ I sympathise with these people . . . although I don’t condone their life style . . . we must remember God’s law . . . I would be willing to support legislation on this matter . . . I cannot support the bill in its present form.”

Hill himself said he didn’t con­ done homosexual acts but he felt he had to do something to stop blackmail and to get these people off of the criminal sheets.

Major objections to the bill were that homosexuality would spread and young people looking for a line in ¡life would follow. (If more people turned homosexual wouldn’t that help stop the population explosion . . . etc. etc.)

Just before the bill went up for the second reading most people thought that was about as far as it would get. If it did get through there was hardly anyone who thought it would get past the committee stage.

Hill said it would get through the second reading and then go into committee and get thrown out at the third reading.

It did get past the second reading and finally into committee. There were four amendments to the orig­ inal bill filed. Two by Ren DeGaris, one by Hill and one by the Chief Secretary, Shard.

Both of DeGaris’ amendments we*e passed, all but one sub-section of Hill’s got through and Shard’s was thrown out. Shard’s amendment cal­ led for the lowering of the age to 18. This was defeated because the Wolfenden report in England called for a 21 year age limit. People here forget to take into account that in England 21 is still the age of maj­ ority.

Hill’s long amendment changed the procurement section, the one he said he wouldn’t change. The amend­ ment which Camp Inc, Gay Lib and Civil Liberties are screaming about is Ren DeGaris’.

It states: “Where a male person is charged with an offence which consists in the com­ mission of a homosexual act, it shall be a defence for that person to prove that the homosexual act was committed with another male per­ son in private and that both he and the other male person consented to the act and had attained the age of 21. ” This means that homosexuals are still criminals. They still have to ap­ pear in court and defend what they do in their bedrooms. They are still open to harrassment and blackmail.

The bill went before the House of Assembly and was passed as law.

Other States are sure to look to some sort of relaxing of the law pertaining to homosexuals. If they do it would be a good idea to look a little further than parliamentarians did in Adelaide.

examination was short and he was $8 to his name, is rapidly losing the not informed of the result and no benefits of the care he received in the explanation was given, other than mental hospital. The see-saw of that he was about to lose his meagre departmental bungles has left a man in near despair. pension.

There is no doubt that the policy A little later a letter arrived informing him that his pension of the Labor and National Service would be stopped and that he had to Department is to do everything to seek a job from the employment prevent people getting on the list before office. He went to sign on but was employment-seeking told there were no jobs. He tried to December 2.

The experience of the 1000 apply for unemployment benefits (Moonee Ponds Employment Office), workers in the Yallourn W Power but, at first they refused to accept station bears this out. As reported in his application. A friend who was The Digger Issue 3, these 1000 fluent in English intervened on his workers, because they went for a behalf and his application was renewal of their contract of work, accepted. For four weeks Ivan M. have been locked out of their jobs. trudged along to the office, filling in The workers registered for un­ forms but received no payments. On employment benefits but-it took the the fifth week he was called to the government nearly five weeks to office of the Labor and National decide. It took demonstrations Service Department where he was outside the employment office; it interviewed. He was told he could took real hardship and privation of not get unemployment benefits as he whole families; it took teachers to was not capable of doing any work. testify that children were coming to Multiply the Ivan M’s and you get school hungry before the department a better understanding why the was forced to act and pay.

About a hundred skilled workers unemployment figures are down, left Yallourn seeking jobs elsewhere before an election. Mojcec receives no pension because Wentworth’s as a result of this policy, but the investigators say he should work. He 1000 Yallourn unemployed are not receives no unemployment benefits in the September unemployment because Lynch’s investigators say he figu res._________________________ is not able to work. Catch 22.

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Reefer Madness sweeps N orth Am erica by the Digger in Toronto, Colin James

gins to giggle insanely, roll his eyes.

By the second reel he is raping co­ eds, using cars to mow down pedes­ “Its first effect is sudden, violent, trians and bludgeoning people to uncontrollable laughter”. — naturally death with pokers. Scary stuff in the the audience breaks into hysterics.

30s no doubt, but to today’s aud­ It’s the first line of Reefer Mad­ ience, hilarious farce. ness, a hilarious 1936 anti-drug film Secondary characters add to the that made its debut in my town humor — the boogie pianist with the last week.

It had been advertised as coming crazy eyes and maniacal laugh who for almost a month, and like they puffs up in the washroom. The pusher were saying on the F.M. ozone, and his lady who eventually get “every head in town will be there.” theirs, him through a poker through I queued for two hours, and even the skull, and she by jumping out, sat through the early show just to a window when she can no longer stand the ruin of all their high school make sure I saw it.

Most of the audience, who’d customers riding around on her con­ been passing joints back and forth science. The connection who sits at during episode one of the Batman his desk manipulating his adding serial and the Three Stooges join machine, no doubt calculating his the Police Force short, were nicely profits, and who can order a killing ripped by this time and sure enough without losing a figure. The High right on cue they broke into sudden, School principal who uses the old violent and uncontrollable laughter. line, “Tell me and it won’t go any The message in Reefer Madness further,” . 1 . on and on it goes, (previously titled Tell your children) and every new frame brings the aud­ makes you think it came straight ience closer to incurable insanity. out of Reader’s Digest. This unspeak­ The intriguing thing is that Reefer able scourge, as the film puts it, Madness reflects the hysteria th a t produces, mendous amount of misinformation, “ Dangerous hallucinations . . . and because it was done so seriously, space expands . . . time slows it’s a tremendous organizational tool down and almost stands still . . . — people get together to laugh at fixed ideas come next, conjuring the film, then stay behind to talk up monstrous extravagances . . . about reforming the marijuana laws.”

The group isn’t pro-grass, it’s just followed by emotional disturban­ ces, the total inability to direct against putting people in jail for vic­ thoughts, the loss of all power timless crimes, and the statistics it’s to resist physical emotions — (the gathered are a lot more scary than audience breaks up again) — lead­ the dangers the film portrays. In ing to shocking acts of violence, Texas alone, there are 700 people ending in incurable insanity. in jail for simple possession of mari­ The audience howls with delight. juana — the average length of their Reefer Madness is a film that sentences is 9V6 years. Thirty of these tells the story (“based on fact” ) people are serving sentences of more of a clean cut youth almost brought than 30 years, and 13 are serving life *sentences. to ruin by a single puff.

It all began about the time Reefer The clean cut lad can’t even bring himself to drink a soda, he falls into Madness was made, when Harry Anfish ponds after he kisses his girl slinger, a former prohibition officer on the cheek, after one puff he be­ who found himself needing a new

W ild grass I haven’t got a copy of your ar­ ticle (on Aussie drugs; issue No.4) before me as I write, but a few points come to mind. Your writer thinks cannabis sativa grew wild in Australia before whitie came — and cites as evidence the Hunter River valley infestation. This grass was al­ most certainly descended from the plants grown on the farm of one F. Campbell in the last century. Camp­ bell was a hemp enthusiast. He wrote a little book about its suitability as a crop for the colony of NSW — “ A Treatise on the Cultivation of Flax and Hemp” — the 3rd edition was published in Sydney in 1864.

It is possible that the Macassan Tepangers (abalone fisherman from Indonesia) left hemp growing on their camp sites on the north coast of Australia.

About corkwood: I have heard of one case where a girl ate one leaf of the coastal variety (Dubiosia myropoides) which resulted in tem­ porary blindness lasting nearly a week. I have heard that the way the aborigines ingested the plant to avoid such drastic effects was to dry the leaves first, and break them up, and then to mix the powdered leaves with wattle ash (like lime to betel) and a gum. The ball of gum was placed in the side of the mouth and dissolved slowly, thus regulating the intake of the drug. Corkwood was an article of commerce, and beautiful bags were made to hold it. There is one m the Australian museum in Sydney and one in the Brisbane Museum.

There seems to be a woeful lack of official information about the pharmacology of Australian plants.

An Australian Phytochemical Survey was carried out by the CSIRO during the war years when there was a shor­ tage of strategic plant drugs. Much of the research was done by Len Webb (a rainforest ecology expert, CSIRO, Brisbane). Formulae of some alkal­ oids are given in his article “ Alkaloid Potentialities of the Australian Flora” — L.J. Webb — in the Pro­ ceedings of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science Journal 19, 144—157. A biochemist might be able to tell which of these alkaloids are likely to be hallucogenic.

That’s all I can tell you at the minute as I’m on safari and haven’t

job, almost single-handedly whipped the United States into an anti-mari­ juana frenzy. By the 1940s, posses­ sion of cannabis — one of the most common “weeds” at the time — be­ came a crime in every state.

After the war, the tireless Amslinger, now U.S. narcotics commis­ sioner, headed a United Nations Task Force which drafted a drug control agreement. Almost every nation in the world now is a signatory to this document, which lumps cannabis with harmful dmgs. All the laws and all the treaties have failed to halt the use of cannabis, but they have succeeded in imprisoning thous­ ands (estimated 10,000 in the USA alone) who have harmed no one.

A similar package of films to the Batman, Three Stooges, Reefer Mad­ ness show (Betty Boop, a shortened version of Reefer Madness, a Captain Marvel serial and another anti-grass movie, dedicated to Henry Anslinger, called Sinister Harvest) has been play­ ing to packed houses in New York for 17 weeks. Reefer Madness has played over 100 U.S. college camp­ uses and the distributors estimate that more than 400,000 people have seen it since it was re-released last June — it’s easily the hottest under­ ground film property in years.

Half the profits of the film are going to help support the legal work of the reform group, and in Cali­ fornia alone the film earned $10,000 for its present owners, The National Organization For The Reform Of Marijuana Laws.

It’s always good to be able to laugh at the things society tries tb make us paranoid about, and I think I’d better finish there as I feel a bout of violent and uncontrollable laughter coming on.

Editors’ Note: Excerpts from Reefer Madness were shown on ABC TVs Four Comers recently. I t was not clear with what intent.

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Stoned copy I guess most of your contributors must be into Rolling Stone, because they sure write like Rolling Stone readers.

Jim Baers Mt. Hutton, NSW That’s the nearest thing we’ve seen to a Rolling Stone letter too Jim — The Digger.

Inhum anity I saw a movie on TV the other night about an escaped convict. It starred Ida Lupino who I think is a good actress.

Anyway the convict got shot at and ended up dying in a pool of blood.

I was reminded of Zimmer’s Es­ say, and “ man’s essay, and inhuman­ ity to man.”

Then I dropped off to sleep.

I guess that’s the way it mostly is.

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The Glebe fiddles while flesh hums

T h e Expressw ay claim s its first tw o v ictim s...

The ‘Flour Factory’ at 90 Bridge Road, Glebe, has been vacant for two years. The last firm to occupy the premises has, apparently, been liquidated. The Department of Main Roads wants to demolish the pre­ mises. It stands in the Phase One zone of the proposed Northwestern Expressway (see Digger No.5), where local residents are fighting to re­ main. The DMR has acquired and demolished buildings on either side of the ‘Flour Factory’, but the own­ ership of 90 Bridge Road is so com­ plicated that the DMR has been, un­ able to purchase it for demolition.

Local action and union blackbans have brought demolition work to a halt in Phase One. The neighborhood is blighted w ith' vacant lots, tem­ porary Cyclone fencing, and looted buildings where tenants have been evicted by DMR order. Some of the locals have been stealing and selling metal from the houses, and kids have been playing in the houses, sometimes setting fires. The bombedout vibrations of the place are get­ ting to some residents, and they’re selling out to the DMR, leaving more vacant houses to the spook generator.

Some young freaks tired to exor­ cise the spooks by “squatting” in the abandoned houses. On 18th Aug­ ust, the “squatters” were busted, and the house they had tried to save was smashed in an afternoon

by DMR staffers. Partly in response to this, a mass demonstration marched' into Phase One, and established the adventure playground on vacant land seized illegally from the DMR. That night, a party was held in the ‘Flour Factory’.

Since, then, four anti-expressway meetings were convened at the ‘Flour Factory’. The organizers were aware that the building was the home of a man. The man was about 5’4” tall, and wore an old blue suit. He was hard of hearing, slept in a nest of newspaper on the upstairs floor of the ‘Flour Factory’/ close to the brick wall. He owned a string-handled paper bag, which sometimes contained a few potatoes and onions. In common with many men of this life-style, Ihis age was hard to guess: he may have been 45, he may have been 60.

People constantly dumped rubbish in the downstairs of the ‘Flour Fac­ tory’. In one comer, a ‘57 Holden was stripped. The local kids some­ times lit fires in the piles of rubbish, and the brigade came and put these out. The anti-expressway people tried to clean the place up when they used it. One of them, Patsy Dunn, cleaned upstairs, as a kindness to the man, and bought him a packet of matches.

He was invited to attend the meeting downstairs, and though frightened at first, he did come.

“There was very little communi­ cation,” says another anti-expressway organizer, John ‘Gerrassi’. No one learned the man’s name, nor the name of his friend.

At the last meeting at the ‘Flour Factory’, the man had a friend with him. That was Sunday, 23rd October, and the next night both of these men died.

Jim Palmer, the white-haired shopkeeper at 82 Bridge Road, was Called out by a customer who lived across the street, at about 11 o’clock Monday night. Palmer says, “the flames were coming out of the win­ dows, clear over the footpath . . .” .

The brigade rolled up and went to work. Palmer told the firemen and the cops that there might be two men inside.

Albert Mispel, vice president of the Glebe Society, lives in Phase One a few blocks from the ‘Flour Factory’. He rang Gerrassi and Allan Rees, then got in his car and brought them from Rees’ house to the fire. A few local people, and some reporters, had gathered. Among the reporters was Len Campbell, editor of The Glebe weekly. Campbell'has been using his paper to attack the local Mayor, Nick Origlass. Origlass sup­ ports the anti-expressway action group.

Campbell was working on the an­ gle that the anti-expressway group was responsible for the fire. Another local, Tom Donohue, began yellihg, “you’re crazy” . s*: 5jc The ‘Flour Factory’ reeks of soak­ ed, burned wood, and the concrete beams above the windows have been

Sex explodes in first form

“ W h y does the w om en have all the pain, M iss ?”

As we have rather piously ex­ plained on previous occasions, it is not The Digger’s policy to run anony­ mous articles without exceptional reasons.

This article is not part o f the Dis­ eases We Share series, although it eluc­ idates a social disease and poses a remarkably simple and joyous sol­ ution.

The reasons for the authoress’s anonymity shall become obvious One afternoon last week my form one kids and I were about to launch ourselves dutifully on an assignment about Ancient Greece. Using the only class set that wasn’t too blatantly patronising or out of date, I’d man­ aged to base on the text a little num­ ber oft sex roles in ancient times compared with those of today. (I’ve explained this to account for having actually handed round eighteen copies of a book like Looking at Ancient History).

OK, everyone have a look at page 51. Rustle rustle. A moment of sil­ ence as we all stare, transfixed, at the defacements which other classes have perpetrated on a picture of a Greek athlete: in all but a few of the copies, a monstrous cock has been added in heavy biro, with a colossal stream of sperm hitting the bull’s eye, the cunt of a woman on the facing page who is modestly demonstrating the folds of the Ionian chiton. Twenty nine pairs of eyes meet mine.

“Miss!” ventures Tania. “ Look what’s on my book!” She holds it up and a hiss of excitement flashes round the class. I turn my copy round to reveal similar adornments: their eyes ¡are riveted on my face, waiting for the signal. I can’t help it, in fact I don’t even try. I start laughing and suddenly there’s a riot, every­ one’s leaping out of their seats, Angelo is making violent rabbit-like fucking motions with his hips, Georgia’s blushing and smiling at me sideways, Paul has his head on his arms with only his hysterical eyes peeping up to me, Cathy bel­ lows enviously, “ No-one’s drawn any­ thing on MY book!”

Calm down, everyone, let’s see if we can get some work done. We read page 51 and turn over; God help me if there aren’t two men fucking (under the pretext of being Greek wrestlers) and stark naked, not 9 stitch on. More ecstatic laughter, thumping on the floor, rolling of eyes, cries, cries of “Miss! Miss!”

Then and there I’m obliged to face the fact. There’s obviously no point in trying to get them to look at anything else on the page but these astounding illustrations. I realise that this is the moment I can’t let pass.

All the dreary arguments at staff conferences about the idea of sex education courses suddenly seems beside the point. So I say, look, the reason why people do these draw­ ings, and why we laugh at them, is that sex is more interesting than just about anything else, and because

eroded by the heat. At back, there’s a long fissure up thp brick wall, and barricades have been erected to warn it may fall. Inside, the cream !paint of the stripped Holden is blis­ tered, the glass shattered, and the .wind through the window-wire makes flakey noises with the woodash. The upstairs floor is still intact, still hanging up there, but it is all black, deep charred. I went up the stairs..

At the top, the room is big, black and spookey. There’s an, anomaly ip the carbon pattern here, where thè first body was found, and two back­ ing slips from a Land camera, dropped by someone who took a picture of the body before it was takeh to the morgue.

The other body was found a little later, about thirty feet away. It was taken to the morgue, too. The men’s bodies have not yet been pos­ itively identified. Their hands have been removed, and taken to another .place to be checked for a fingerprint lead.

There is a rumour of arson. Jim Palmer talks about it, and worries about the oil warehouse next to his shop. The DMR wants to demolish the building, the union will only allow the fire hazard to be cleaned up, and the matter is at an impasse.

The Glebe has, by innuendo, given the inferrence that the ‘Flour Fac­ tory’ was lit by someone involved in anti-expressway activities.

However, the fire department has said that “there are no suspicious circumstances.”

Three days after the fire, ‘Ger­ rassi’ and Rees hand-delivered a letter to the DMR Assistant Commissioner, Mathews, and within 45 minutes, there was a new inspection of the pile of inflammable rubbish behind the vacant oil warehouse, which is against Jim Palmer’s fence.

“It’s a clear cut case of two fierros, both pissed, who somehow managed to set the place alight,” a local cop told me. “That’s my pandid opinion.”

‘Gerrassi’ says, “The fire will have freaked out a lot of people.” It pas increased the remaining homeownérs’ fear of the local kids’ ter­ rorism.

most kids at school don’t know nearly as much about it as they need to.

Do you want to talk about it?

An incredulous silence. Georgia whispers, “Can we ask you ques­ tions? A ny questions? Will you tell us anything we ask?” Yes, I will.

Ask away. Silence. Silence? I’ve been with these kids every day since the beginning of the year, and the one thing they don’t want is to be silent.

What’s the matter? “Miss,” says Angelo, blushing puce, “can we write the questions on apper?” Of course you can. In an instant the desk lids fly up, Grace has opened the cup­ board, biros and paper are shoved from hand to hand, there are four or five huddles of kids hissing fur­ iously with their skinny bums; in the air. Bursts of laughter and more whispering, furious scribbling, cries of “ Don’t you know THAT?” “Go on — ask her!” “ How do you spell . . .” “ Come on, hurry up!” In five minutes there’s a mound of paper scraps on my table and everyone is sitting still except Drago, who is writing steadily, his flushed face bent over his pen, his lovely silly smile darting round every few seconds at the impatient kids. “Carn Drago, cam! She’s waiting, oh come on!” they groan. Paul dashes out with another question: “Can we kill Drago?” At last he lumbers out to the front and pushes six questions across the table to me. His broad Yugoslavian face is shiny and sweaty with the effort of speedy writing, and red with his determination to ask it ALL in spite of the impatient abuse of the others. They’re waiting for me now, and I pick u{i the first question.

WHY DOES THE WOMEN HAVE ALL THE PAIN? Oh Georgia, oh Rita! I look at their open, eager faces and think of how their Greek fathers beat them for talking to boys in the street, and how they are not allowed to go to Church when they have their period.

I spread out the papers and flick my eyes over their clumsy writing.

HOW ARE SPURM PRODUCED? WHY DO MEN LOVE TO BIT LADYS TITS? WHY DO MEN LOOK AT GIRLS AND WANT TO FEEL THEM, WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? WHY CAN’T A LADY HAVE A BABY WHEN SHE’S OLD? DOES IT HURT TO HAVE SEX­ UAL INTERCOURSE? Sexual intercourse? I’d better start

Monday night, the factory burned.

Sunday night, anti-expressway activists met in the flo u r factory’.

L eft to right: John Gerrassi, a lady with The Digger, Allan Rees, Jim Palmer, and others.

here.

Before we can start, I want to make you understand that the words some people think of as dirty words are the best words, the right words to use when you are talking about sex. So I’m not going to say “sexual intercourse” , I’m going to say “ fuck” , and I’m going to say “ cock” and “cunt” too, so we’d better get that straight. Is that OK? Without a word, Darryl reaches up from his desk by the door and clicks the lock shut.

And away we go. No, fucking doesn’t hurt, it feels marvellous! and I’m drawing awkward uteruses on the board and showing them on my own body where my uterus is, and explaining what a clitoris is and what it’s for, and telling them that, no, you don’t always have to ask for a fuck, that often it just . happens.

“Just happens, Miss? Didn’t your husband ask you?”

“Miss, is it true that there’s a hole you shit from, and a hole you piss from, and then another hole where you do it with boys?”

CAN YOU ONLY FUCK WHEN YOU’VE GOT YOUR PERIOD? WHAT’S A FRANGER? CAN YOU FUCK EVERY DAY? Every few minutes someone runs out with another question. Pretty soon they are saying “ fuck” quite easily with no blushes or sniggers.

The more I answer, the easier it gets to be absolutely truthful. I’m not afraid of them. They are so hungry for facts that they’re ex­ hausting me. The bell goes and they all groan aloud — the end/of the lesson. They trudge out reluctantly, thinking it’s all over. “ See you, Miss.

Thanks, Miss.”

I sit there at the table. My head is singing with the astonishing fact that this is the only totally honest lesson I have ever given, that not a second of it was wasted, that their attention didn’t waver for a second, and that their curiosity made author­ itarian behaviour on my part com­ pletely unnecessary. They asked, and I gave.

Next morning T)avid and Chris, who’d been wagging the day before, ran up to me in the yard, grief-stricken. “ Oh Miss, we missed it! Can’t we continue this afternoon?” Yes, if you want to. When I walk in, the customary riot is not in progress.

They’re sitting like statues, and on my table is a stack of papers six

inches high. I tell them that I’ll get the sack if it gets round that I’ve been saying fuck and cunt in the classroom. They nod solemnly. I pick up the papers and we’re away again.

This time, most of them having ab­ sorbed the basic anatomical stuff yesterday, we’re into refinements of one sort or another. Fears, too, begin to show.

WHAT’S A PERVA? WHAT IF A MAN’S DICK IS TOO SMALL AND HE’S DYING TO HAVE ONE? CAN A MAN’S DICK GET STUCK IN A LADY’S CUNT? WHAT IF A MAN MISSES AND PUTS HIS COCK INTO A LADY’S DICK? (a bit of what the Teachers’ College lecturers used to call recap­ itulation and review, at this stage).

HOW DO YOU MAKE THE SPERM COME OUT? It’s the hardest work I’ve ever done. I’m drawing, I’m acting, I’m showing shapes and actions with my hands and body. Angelo wants to know how you actually get the cock in. As I explain, he nods and nods, making a sympathetic motion of taking his cock and gently pushing it forward and up. No-one laughs.

Lou in the front row fixes his beautiful serious eyes on me and says, “Miss, what does a cunt look like?” I tell them, like a flower, and girls should get a mirror and look at themselves. Everyone laughs at this, but it’s for pleasure and joy.

The boys turn to glance at the girls, and their faces look both curious and tender. We are laughing a lot; we are making jokes that are sexy without being harsh. I try to draw a cunt and they call out to me to put the hairs on. Unfamiliar words roll off their tongues: “pleasurable” , I can hear Georgia trying out the word to herself.

It’s easy to give facts, though I wished we had a man there for when my knowledge started to show gaps — for example, when David wanted to know what happened to his balls when he pulled himself. The most difficult questions were the ones that were really asking “What is it like to fuck?” Drago wants to know “ How long do you have to leave your cock in the cunt before the sprog comes out? An hour? Two hours?” I sup­ pose he thinks it just lies there. I take a breath and try to tell them, but my description gets clumsier and clumsier, and looking at their patient faces, I simply die away. You’ll have

The bodies o f two homeless men were found on the charred upper floor.

to wait till you do it yourself. I don’t know how to describe it.

People I’ve told this story to have all agreed that, no matter how de­ tailed or truthful their own verbal knowledge about sex might have been, it gave them little or no idea of the quality of the actual experience of fucking. Well, there’s a bloody great cliche for you, but then that’s what life’s all about — progressing from knowing things in your head to know­ ing them in your bones. Perhaps the only thing you’re doing by answer­ ing kid’s questions as honestly as you can is removing fear. Of course there were a few flashes of recog­ nition when I talked about how your heart beats harder, or your cunt gets wet . , . I’m pretty sure that no-one in that class has ever fucked, and judging from the general trend of questioning, I’d say the boys were heavily into wanking, which is what you’d expect.

The girls were more reticent about their experience, almost certainly be­ cause they’ve been fiercely protected since childhood by their fathers and brothers. Georgia has kissed a boy and she’s regarded as an oracle in such matters. In subsequent conver­ sations with the girls, several of them have told me about frightening en­ counters with men lodgers, and they are extremely sensitive about being stared and whistled at in the street.

What the girls ask me, again and again, is, CAN A GIRL ASK A MAN FOR A FUCK? They eagerly search my face as I answer, of course, of course! and when I remark that men might be happy to share the job of initiating fucks, the boys agree enthusiastically.

By the time we get round to talk­ ing about sucking, the conversation has been going on for a couple of hours. One of the girls has written CAN A GIRL GET A DISEASE FROM SUCKING A MAN’S COCK? As carefully as I can, I separate the two issues of sucking and venereal disease; I hope I managed to ex­ plain VD without scaring them back into their pants for good, while at the same time giving them a healthy respect for its nastiness. Then I talked about the pleasure of sucking anything — your mother’s breast, a bottle, your thumb, your toes, chewy, lollies, pencils, and various parts of your lover’s body. They were pretty stunned to find out that sucking was OK, but they wanted to know WHY

anyone would suck a cock or lick a cunt. Well, I said, when you love someone, or love fucking with them, there is nothing you can think of doing, short of hurting them against their will, that you wouldn’t do. “ But Miss!” whispers someone, “what if he comes in your mouth?” Every­ one smiles but they’re too involved to laugh and break the spell. I tell them that I used to be anxious about that too, but that you learn freedom and courage, and it is another pleas­ ure you can give or take.

There is a little flurry in one corner of the room. “You ask her.” “ No, I can’t — you.” “ Oh, go on, yo u .” Drago turns to me, blushing and smiling. “Miss — have you ever had a suck?” For a single second I see the situation from a distance: a kid has just asked me if I suck cocks. Jesus! Never in my wildest dreams has such a possibility reared its head. But that astonishment stays in my mind and without a pause the answer simply rolls off my tongue, as unmomentous as the next tick of the clock. Yes, I have.

Why lie? They want to know the truth. There’s a second of amazed silence, I’m sitting there in a calm­ ness that, next day, I found it diffi­ cult to believe had been real. To break the silence I remark, well, I guess it is a bit hard for you to imagine me with a cock in my mouth.

When the words are out I can’t be­ lieve it’s happened —we’re all roaring with laughter because in room 8 up­ stairs on a Wednesday afternoon in the high school whose name I can’t mention lest I get the sack (would they sack me? Truth makes you strong — but that’s the euphoria of the moment), I’m telling 29 kids that I suck cocks. Can you believe it?

Maybe I dreamed the whole thing.

No, it happened all right. I haven’t told you half of it, or half of the things they asked me, but the chan­ nels are open between us now. The bell went for the end of the day, and everyone trooped out calling goodbye exactly as if it had been an ordinary day. One kid dawdled behind, the one who always chats with me while the others play. He wanefers up to the table where I’m sitting. “ Hey Miss,” he says, point­ ing at the scattered pile of ques­ tions, “want me to help you destroy these?” Our eyes meet and we start laughing again, tearing up the papers and dropping them into the bin.

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The Digger

by the Digger in Corporate Affairs

it permits the growth of prosperous small and medium size businesses.

General Motors, the greatest multi­ national of them all, is part of our 2. In the individual customer’s in­ colonial folklore. In 1948 GM tooK terest because of the healthy compet­ over an Adelaide firm, Holden Body­ ition between dealers, and the bene­ builders P/L, and got the Australian fits of personal contact which small government to put up most of the businesses permit . . .”

Gibbs went on to talk about cus­ capital for the making of Australia’s Own Cars. This year, General-Motors- tomer satisfaction, and the danger Holden sent $15.5 million in divid­ o f price-cutting through ‘factory ends to America; there are no local shops’. * * * GMH stockholders. Some suspect that the dividend figure is higher Between the rhetoric and the Real­ than real operating profit, and that ity, there is a shadow. GMH’s dealer­ GMH is sending capital out of the ship system is not comprised of country. Australians have grown so small, competitive businesses. suspicious of foreign control over Sydney now has more than 30 our economy that foreign take-overs GMH dealerships. Who ‘controls’ the have become an issue. The McMahon dealers is obscured by the complex­ Government, faced with a tough ities of holding companies, interstate election, announced a foreign take-* nominees, and shared accountancy over bill the last week of S ep tem ­ facilities which do not always show ber. up in company searches. In the The new controls have already trade, however, it is said that the been used to thwart three take-over Sutton family and theAuswild fam ­ bids. A fortnight ago, it was used to ily are the heavies in Holden dealing. protect a Sydney Holden dealership The Suttons have five outlets in from a take-over bid by a New the metropolitan area, and have taken Ze&i^nd-based “corporate raider” , over another GMH dealer in Sydney Industrial Equity P/L. The govern­ Holdings, and turned the company ment’s intervention was widely pub­ shell into a finance subsidiary. licized — it made page one of The The Auswild empire is led by Australian. The Holden Hassle is a Ron Auswild, a chartered account­ remarkable example of what our new ant, and his brother Jim. The AusAustralian economic nationalism wilds came from Temora, NSW, and means, in practice. now operate from premises in Rose Bay, Sydney. The Auswilds are said * * * to have interests in hotels and motels The local car industry has been in Sydney and Canberra, ACT Motors having lean years, and GMH has and several country dealerships; they suffered most. Ford, and to a lesser control a company called Finance & extent, Chrysler, have stolen a march on GMH by ‘vertically integrating’ Guarantee Ltd., and last year, they acquired a portion o f Preston Motors their dealerships. In Ford’s case, this Holdings Ltd. in Melbourne. means the company owns both the Most of their clout in cars devel­ factory and $2 6-million worth of oped from accountancy: they assist showrooms, and that means ‘factory deals’ at ‘factory shops’. GMH, as many dealers with management and we’ll see, thinks this is slightly im­ finance, and it is said that they draw moral — even though it has a few income in one way or another from 20 of Sydney’s 30 Holden outlets. ‘factory shops’ of its own. All local The Auswilds have a direct, overt carmakers face increased import competition, especially from Japan, interest in C.V. Holland, of Rockdale, and in Fair Deal Car Sales, of Parra­ in the context of stagnant car sales.

GMH has suffered an absolute de­ matta. Fair Deal Car Sales’ letterhead shows up in the company documents cline in sales and profits in some of Rossfield House P/L, another car recent years. dealer, which was audited by James ' GM has appointed Allan Gibbs, F.J. Auswild & Co. The 1971 com­ an Australian, as Managing Director pany returns show the stockholders of of GMH. Gibbs made an amusing Rossfield House to be John F.T. speech last fortnight, at thè opening Down of DeeWhy, J.F.T. Down Hoi of a new ‘factory shop’ at Woden dings Pty. Ltd., registered in the a Canberra suburb. He took pains A. C.T., Jenda Holdings P/L, to show how GMH differed from its B. G. Webb P/L. However, a recent ‘vertically-integrated’ competitors : document in the Corporate Affairs “ It is always a pleasure,” said Commission office leaves no doubt Gibbs, “to be present at the opening about the Auswild’s involvement in of a new enterprise — especially Rossfield House’s operations. This is when it happens to be a new GMH a share mortgage charge, which gives dealership in a thriving community. a merchant bank entitlement to shares Such occasions are a welcome remin­ in C.V. Holland Holdings P/L, in der of the basic health, of our econ­ return for $500,000 capital for Ross­ omy, and the vigour of our free field House. enterprise system. . \ The mortgage is signed by the Aus­ “I would like to talk very briefly wild brothers, four of the associates, about our dealer assistance division — and representatives of four compan­ perhaps not inappropriately nick­ ies. The merchant bank is Partner­ named ‘DAD’.” ship Pacific Ltd., which is controlled Gibbs said DAD didn’t want to

by Japanese and American inter­ control retailers, only “ to establish the individual dealer as an indep­ ests. PPL has gotten around the ban on banking licenses for foreign endent businessman, operating on banks by taking on the Bank of NSW his own capital.” as a third partner. So, PPL has a Michael Wilkinson (Financial fair interest in a Holden dealership, Review) reports that DAD is bashful about disclosing information. Wilkin­ and Rossfield House has a fair lump son discovered that DAD has ac­ of ‘foreign capital’. Incidentally, one quired an interest in 18 GMH dealers. of Rossfield House’s directors (J.F.T. He reported the interest took the form Down) was listed as “nationality: <■ British” in the company documents. of stock deals, and in some cases * * * 90% of the equity of these ‘factory shops’ was owned by GMH. More characters enter the crowded Gibbs said these DAD’s dealers stage. When car sales were good, it accounted for only 3% of GMH sales, was difficult for people outside the and “we would not expect this figure club to get GMH dealer licenses. ever to increase above about 5%.”

Some of the people outside the club Gibbs said, “ I believe it is in were good at selling themselves and everyone’s interest that the indep­ ‘pre-owned’ cars. People like Kevin endence of dealers be maintained — Dennis, and Ron Hodgson. They got on TV, did funny routines, kept 1. In the country’s interest, because

coming or that they had an unde­ sirable background, this would not apply. The only other point I make is that, although this information is correct in respect of British Euro­ peans, it in no way affects the powers we have to remove them from the country if they are con­ victed of undesirable conduct while they are here.”

Apart from the English now being “British Europeans” , it would seein the Minister doesn’t talk much to his daughter.

For the rest of the day, the Lib­ erals, reputedly ^rom Billy McMahon down, and the DLP, made it clear to Forbes that this was not an op­ portunity to be.lost. There was to be none of this deliberative, waitand-look-at-the-files business. His of-, fice let it be known that there would probably be a decision “in a few days” . But the pressures kept abuilding and next day, the Wed­ nesday, Forbes announced that he was using the powers of deportation under Section 31 of the Immigrat­ ion Act to have Cocker and the six others out of the country by midday on the Friday; When Cocker’s Melbourne con­ cert spilled over to the Commodore Chateau and Russell St. police watchhouse, it created another minor pol­ itical issue on the side. Some of the more liberal-minded Labor politicans in Canberra had been getting in­ creasingly angry about the Stewart question and the way it had been ALP view.

The party’s spokesman on immi­ gration, Senator Don Willesee1, Dep­ uty ALP Leader in the Senate, was

aware of the feeling and shared most of it. He put out a statement on Wednesday night through his private secretary, Geoff Briot, saying th a t; on the information “available to him” he believed the Government’s deportation order was unnecessary.

“The position as I know it is that these people have broken the law, they have been convicted and pun­ ished by way of a fine,” said Willesee.

Other Labor men immediately jumped in to tell him he was naive and stupid; public opinion was ob­ viously with Forbes; he 'should keep quiet. When the first garbled reports of the Commodore punch-up began filtering through to the Canberra newspaper bureaus around 11.30 that night, various reporters began asking Briot if Willessee stood by his statement. They were told that with the qualifications about the infor­ mation available, he did; otherwise it was probably better to drop it.

This was widely interpreted as a backdown but, in fact, Willesee^ has not retracted.

Forbes, meantime, had no option but* to extend the midday {Friday deadline. He was uncertain of his own legal position, which advice coming from both the AttorneyGeneral’s Department and his own, but with the political pressures growing heavier than ever. A back­ down at this stage would have meant political points lost, not just a failure to gain,them.

The Commonwealth leaned very heavily on the feluctant Victorian authorities, legal and police, to drop the latest group of cjharges so that a new deportation tirrie could be set.

Cocker and Co. went to court in the meantime with the position still unclear and, obviously enough, every right to ask for an adjournment to prepare a defence. They were given their adjournment but the behindscenes manoeuvrings went on into the night. The police finally agreed to withdraw their charges; the Com­ modore manager would not.

But the progress was enough for Forbes. There were conferences be­ tween Immigration and Cocker’s sol­ icitors; between solicitors and clients.

And it became obvious that the Com­ monwealth Government was prepared to play as heavy as possible to the end. Defeat iwas conceded when Forbes announced on Friday night that Cocker and the other six would leave by the first available services the next day, at their own expense, rather than be arrested and deported.

“The departure of the seven will be watched by my ¡department in co­ operation with the Commonwealth Police,” Forbes said. “The deportat­ ion orders will be implemented if this should become necessary.”

They went sure enough Ibut there was still uncertainty in some sec­ tions of the Government about where the whole affair stood — es­ pecially if Cocker decided he really would push the Adelaide appeal pro­ cess as far as possible. That pros­ pect now se^ms unlikely and any re­ percussions of the Government’s action on the political front have been muted by thoughts of Decem­ ber 2.

A week after it all began in the House, Forbes felt confident enough to have another question

H ow Billy combats foreign takeovers their volume of turn-over up, and their margins down, and did ‘fan­ tastic deals’. When things got tough in the industry, the aggressive ‘pre­ owned’ personalities got licenses to sell new Holdens.

The established dealers blanched.

They’d been operating in a tradition of settled marketing. A new model came out each year. The Joneses and the Smiths came into the show­ room to see if tomorrow’s talking point at work really did look like the sneak preview photo that the Sun-Herald had, and that the SundayTelegraph had missed. The thought of mixing it with the new TV Star dealers made them feel unsettled.

Some dealers did well. Others did not. One downwardly mobile dealer was the Sydney firm of Boyded P/L. Boyded was founded more than 30 years ago, as a family firm

to an outsider. This is one way a family firm is protected from profithungry share holders and “ corporate raiders” . * * * Industrial Equity Ltd. is a corpor­ ate raider. Corporate raiders hunt companies that are lame, knock them off, cut them up and sell the pieces.

Any company whose assets are worth much more than the price of its shares is meat for a raider. Every day in our great cities, bright young­ sters are ruining their eyes looking at small print, trying to find a victim.

They are secretive. They try to buy into the victim company, cheap without anyone noticing, and when they get a good minority holding, they jump up and shout “ got ya” at the directors, by announcing a bid above market price for whatever stock they need to make up 50%

with a Vauxhall license. The current chairman, B.V. Clifton, is the son p i the founder. He switched Boyded over to a GMH franchise. Boyded, like many old dealerships, owns a small fortune in real estate.

Boyded’s TV commercials are a favorite taste of lath-night pot-heads.

The spot depicts . . . a Nazi Afrika Korps officer, circa 1942, rommelling through the desert in a VW half­ tank, listening to the radio. The Nazi f hears an ad on the radio about a great trade-in deal at Boyded Randwick, and rommells off at full tilt to trade his war machine in on a new and Kingswood . . . uh, this Nazi, who is popular with the TV freaks, is apparently unpopular with pot­ ential Kingswood purchasers.

If you’ve got a small fortune in real estate, you’ve got to makfc it earn for you, or somebody will try to rip it off you. Boyded has not been growing money on the ground it owns. Year before the net profit was only $157,000. Last year’s trad­ ing produced a net loss of $177,000.

Boyded is a private company, with only 50 share holders, who hold 245,236 shares. The shares have a par value of $1.00. They traded at $1.29, The directors of Boyded es­ timated the asset backing for each share as $4.89 in June, 1972.

What does this mean? It means that Boyded was worth nearly four times as much dead as alive.

Now: GMH doesn’t want to lose outlets. The Auswilds and Suttons don’t want the Dennises and Hod­ gsons of this world to grab new outlets. Presumably, B.V. Clifton didn’t,w ant to lose his family bus­ iness, for less than a right price.

Boyded’s directors and their families and friends owned only 34.5% of the shares, and some of the other shareholders presumably were hungry. But in a private company, share transfers have to go through the board. A shareholder has to offer his shares to existing shareholders for a certain period, before selling them

controlling interest.

Sometimes there’s a fight, if the directors resist. Sometimes other raiders sail into dispute the spoils.

But if the raider can get control of the victim company, kick out the old directors, and carve it up into profitable operations and Surplus as­ sets, he can make a lot of money.

It might not be productive labor, in the Marxist sense . . . but what the hell, it prevents capital. stagnation eliminates inefficient managers, and it’s fun. And it’s profitable: Industrial Equity’s taken over 13 companies in six years, and its assets have increased from $456,000 to $22.6-million over that period.

The Managing Director of In­ dustrial Equity Ltd. is R.S. Blackbum. Blackburn is a New Zealander, and owns Industrial Equity’s con­ trolling share. Blackburn does High Finance every day, and lately he’s been knocking off listed car dealers, like Adelaide Motor Investments Ltd., and two Brisbane ford outlets, Coachcraft, and Cossey Investments. Black­ burn writes notable takeover bids. In one recent takeover document, Industrial Equity concluded its pitch to the directors and stockholders with a quote from Omar Khayam:

Honorable Gentlemen go M r Cocker for a mess o f votes approval for their visit.? If so, will he, in the interests of the young people of Australia, exercise this In Canberra, curiously enough, authority?” the political mileage to be had with There was a good smattering of the law-and-order fanatics through hostile-looking Labor men behind Cocker’s bust in Adelaide, had not Stewart as he finished but approving dawned on the Government, despite noises came from all sides. Forbes, its hordes of ministerial Press and though, gave every impression of a PR staff. But the radio news bulle­ man who knew nothing about the tins had the results of the Adelaide case. court appearance just as the House “ Quite complete and significant of Representatives was assembling inquiries in depth are made in re­ at 11 o’clock. lation to the entry of all enter­ Labor member for Lang (Sydney), tainers into Australia. I assure the Frank Stewart, father of six and honourable gentleman that they staunch defender of the Catholic would not be permitted entry if a per­ school system in a host of past sistent background of drug offences speeches, got up at question time to were known to exist prior to entry. ask Immigration Minister Forbes In relation to the second part of the whether he was aware ‘that several honorable gentleman’s question, members of a visiting pop group there are various powers of these have pleaded guilty to drug charges particular offences have been com­ and have been remanded for sen­ pleted and when the information tence.” before the court is available to me, “If so,” said Stewart, “ can he I will have inquiries made to see inform the House what investigations what courses of action are open to were made by his department into the Government. the background and history of mem­ Three points are interesting. bers of the group before they were Forbes did not even claim to have granted permission to enter Aust­ taken any particular notice of what ralia? Has he authority to withdraw1 had been happening in Adelaide (Al-

“How sweet is mortal SourantyV — think some: Others — “How blest the Paradise to cpme!”

Ah, take the cash in hand and waive the rest; Oh, the brave music o f a distant drum! * * * The men of Industrial Equity found some hungry Boyded share­ holders. They couldn’t buy the shares directly, without tipping off the Boyded board. So they formed another company, called Panapak P/L, and gave the hungry Boyded shareholders a minority interest in Panapak, in exchange for options to buy their Boyded shares. This deal gave them an effective 9% of Boyded,

Equity was feeling^ out the market.

If there was no reaction to the bid,Boyded should still hold out for a higher price. This would flush out other bidders or force Industrial Equity to raise its offer. IPC knew that Industrial Equity was fond of this form of tactical move. If a higher counter bid was flushed out and In­ dustrial Equity decided that a pro­ tracted and expensive contest for control was not worth the bother, they would, as they have done in the past, sell their interest out to the new bidder, withdraw from the bat­ tle., laugh all the way to the bank and look for a new company to raid.

The move had the desired effect.

In Lorimer St., Fishermen’s Bend,the heavies who run GMH were dis­ turbed by the prospect of Boyded being broken up or falling into un­ known, and possibly unfriendly, hands. Established retail outlets mean markets, and to some people gaining markets and making profits are what life all about. The Auswild and Sutton families were not wrapped in the idea of Ron Hodgson doing a backdoor job and buying respectab­ ility and an established share of the market.

The Auswild boys were the first to move. They got in touch with Boyded’s financial advisers and told them they were interested in making

a higher counter bid. Through one The deal between the Auswild com­ of their many front companies, pany and Boyded looked firm en­ Rossfield House Pty Ltd, the family ough to place Industrial Equity in a lodged formal takeover documents rather embarrassing situation. It had offering $6.80 a share for the com­ been engaged for some time in pany’s capital. This was $3.30 a share another fight with Auswild group more than the first offer and way for control of C.V. Holland Holdings over the directors’ asset backing es­ Ltd. In similar circumstances to the Boyded affair, Industrial Equity had timate.

Not to be outdone, the Sutton first taken a position in this GMH family countered with an even dealer and was preparing for a raid. higher bid a few days later. They *The Auswild boys outsmarted In­ dustrial Equity early in the piece and made their mbve through a subsidiary cornered 40 per cent of the capital company called Nebula Pty Ltd. Nebula, theyi said with just a hint and were appointed to the board. of oneupmanlship, would outdo the The money Industrial Equity spent first two biqders and pay the for­ getting an interest in the capital tunate Boyded shareholders a mag­ was now locked in. There is no love lost between Industrial Equity nificent sum of $7.54 if they would and the Auswild Group. The Aus­ but part with their shares. wilds would love to have Industrial By this stage the> shareholders of Boyded were delighted. Never in Equity locked in as minority share­ holders in two companies which they their wildest dreams did they think control. they would have three companies Industrial Equity decided that the bidding for them — and all because only solution to this dilemma was they had done precisely nothing. to fight the Auswilds and then ne­ They began to dream of how much gotiate from a position of strength. money they had made'. They knew They re-entered the fray and announ­ that pretty soon they would have to ced that they had revised their or­ make a decision — the shareholders iginal offer from $3.50 to $7.75 a were getting greedy and wanted to share. take the profits that were staring Up till the time of writing, the them in the face.

Boyded board have refrained from The directors were made of, stern­ even mentioning that the new higher er stuff. They decided to revalue the bid from Industrial Equity has evert company’s assets. They announced been made. As far as the directors to all bidders and to the surprised are concerned the $7.59 bid from the shareholders, that the asset backing Auswilds, which they have already of the company’s shares was now accepted and recommended, is more $ 8. “fair and reasonable” than the $7.75 The bid from Suttons made the bid from Industrial Equity.

Auswilds even more determined to Boyded shareholders who haven’t gain control of Boyded. If Suttons already accepted the Auswild bid wfere successful the commanding po­ as recommended by the direcotrs, sition of the Auswild group astride could be forgiven therefore if they the Sydney GMH market would be decided to accept an extra 16 cents undermined and a position that had a share on what they were previously taken years to build up would be offered. As we said before there are upset. only 50 shareholders in the company.

The Auswild people again talked The Auswild and-Clifton interests to the Boyded board. The directors have a combined holding of 34.5 per were ready to negotiate a settlement cent and Industrial Equity is the but they wanted the best deal poss­ beneficial owner of 9 per cent. ible for themselves, the shareholders It could have been a close tussle and the staff. Clifton, the chairman, but for. divine intervention on the asked for even more money — and side of the Auswilds. At 5.15pm on he got it. The Auswilds would make the evening of October 26, Mr Clif­ a revised offer of $7.59 a share. ton received a letter from Mr P.J. This was only five cents more than Lawler, Acting Secretary, The the Suttons offer, but it was 79 Department of the Prime Minister cents a share more than they first and Cabinet, Canberra. It said he offered and $4.09 a share more had been directed by the Prime than the opening bid from Industrial Minister to inform him that a pre­ Equity. The directors were now happy liminary investigation of the takeover and they accepted the Auswild bid offer by the Industrial Equity Ltd in respect of their own holdings Group had been completed. The and they recommended that the investigation, it seems, was being shareholders do likewise. As they carried out under interim arrange­ told it to the shareholders; the dir­ ments matde by the Prime Minister ectors had studied all the bids in when he announced new controls close consultation with their finan­ over takeovers by foreign corporat? cial advisers and they had Concluded ions on September 26. . ‘ ? that the latest Auswild bid was the It seems that Industrial Equity only one that was “a fair and reason­ is being studied because it has New able” offer for changing control o f: Zealand connections. The chairman the company. was bom in New Zealand and it Documents later submitted by appears that a New Zealand com­ Boyded as part of the formal take­ pany has a large shareholding in it. over requirements showed that Mr If the study proves that the com­ B.V. Clifton was due to receive a pany is controlled by this foreign sum of $50,000 from the Auswild corporation, the Government has the company as compensation for his power to prevent it making takeovers loss of office. Further payments of if it considers they are not in the $5000 a year could be made to Clif­ national interest. " ton over the next five years.

At that time McMahon personally In the meantime Industrial Equity intervened in Industrial Equity’s suit had been watching first the Auswilds, for Boyded, the government still then the Suttons and then the Aus­ had not enacted the promised foreign wilds again, with a sense of achieve­ takeover law. The intervention was ment. By instigating the battle for done under the ‘interim controls’.

Boyded, they had pushed the price Financial journalists suspected that of the shares up from $1.29 to the draft legislation did not affect $7.59. The original bid made by N.Z.-based companies. Anyhow, a Industrial Equity valued the capital few days before the bill was to come of Boyded at $858,000. Now the down in the House, Industrial directors were saying that the latest Equity got another letter from bid worth $1.8 million was <‘fair McMahon’s acting secretary, notify­ and reasonable” . ing them of intervention in a second There was one major problem. takeover bid.

The Main Enemy appears to be New Zealand Imperialism

Dope crosses party lines:

by Ken Randall

November 4 — November 18

though he lives there and his dàughter went to the Cocker concert in Adelaide). He automatically consid­ ered that the court proceedings — and presumably all the court pro­ ceedings — would have to be finished before he did anything. But at the same time he would see it being a Cabinet decision - “courses of action ... open to the Government” - and not one for him alone. Memories of the Dick Gregory case would no doubt have alerted him to that.

A department message reached Forbes a few minutes later and when question time ended he elaborated a little more on his general ignorance and confusion about the Cocker en­ tourage. When he had been answering Stewart, he said, he had talked about investigating the background and ‘bona fides’ of overseas entertainers.

“It has now been brought! to my at­ tention that this group rriight have come from Great Britain,” Forbes said. “ If that is correct, my state­ ment was not necessarily correct be­ cause, as the House would well know, British Europeans can come to Aust­ ralia without permission; that is, without obtaining visas.

“If it were known that they were

and B.V. Clifton was none the wiser.

Next move was a formal takeover bid offering to buy all the shares at $3.50. The price was over $2 a share more than what the share­ holders thought their shares were worth, but still under the directors’ valuation of asset backing a share at $4.89. Industrial Equity thought it had dealt the death blow. The dir­ ectors couldn’t handle it and called in a merchant bank called Internat­ ional Pacific Corporation to advise them. IPC had handled requests for financial advise from companies raided by Industrial Equity before.

They knew how tense the Sydney GMH dealership scene was and they knew that Industrial Equity had a foothold in the company.

Their advise was keep cool and tell the shareholders not to sell.

The way they figured it, Industrial

served up to him. Donald Cameron, the Liberal member for Griffith, in Brisbane, asked: “Will the Minister for Immigration assure the House that any person resident in Australia by virtue of a visitor’s visa or any temporary permit who is convicted on drug charges will be dealt with in the same swift manner as one Joe Cocker was, so that it will be clearly seen by all that it is not who you are but rather what you have done that counts?”

Said Forbes: “I can assure the honorable gentleman that so far as it lies within my powers as Minister for Immigration to consider whether any person should remain in Aus­ tralia — this, of course, does not apply to an Australian citizen, as I think the honorable gentleman mentioned — the matter will be duly considered in exactly the same way as the case of Mr Cocker/was con­ sidered, and the government will apply the same firm attitude based on the very serious view it takes of offences of this sort.”

So now the affair has been given the aura of precedent ana case law.

In fact it deserves, instead, comment offered by tour manager Nigel Thomas: “This whole business is an absolutely pathetic electioneering gimmick. The band is being made a vehicle for some kind of political move against the young.”

Meanwhile, for a week of sitting days in a row, the Government, with DLP help, has blocked the daily attempts of Senator Lionel Murphy to bring on for debate his Bill to lower the voting^ age to 18.

The Digger

November 4 — November 18

Page 5

David Porter,

A semi-fantasy in many-part disharmonies

T h e persecution and deportation o f Joe and his travelling band

by Colin Talbot, Martin Fabinyi and assorted mudsharks Let’s go back a couple of weeks.

There is a scene outside the Commodore Chateau Motel in Lonsdale Street. A Friday. A ( deportation order from Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, hangs over Joe Cocker and his busted friends.

Joe Cocker is not in this hotel, because he ' has been ejected. But most of the other tour members are still there. Outside the hotel on the street are five taxis without drivers and the meters are now over the five-dollar mark and still ticking.

Reporters, TV crews, radio newsmen and generally interested persons are standing around waiting for some­ thing to happen. Porters from the hotel in their tidy blue blazers and white creased pants are running in and out of the hotel like they should be in both places at once.

Joe Cocker and some friends are in fact a few hundred yards away, around the comer in the Courtesy Inn —waiting.

The Commodore Chateau: It looks like the High Priest of Bad Taste was given a million dollars and told to go mad decorating. The main foyer is like the inside of a wine trifle only slightly more garish, and just as condusive- to sickliness. Outside in the more pleasant atmosphere of the motor-choked dirty street, a girl with black hair stands with a fat woman and a Digger reporter and they are drawn into conversation. The girl’s age is anywhere between 18 and 25, and she is upset about Cocker and* the doings in general.

“Why don’t the kids get together out in the streets and stop the government doing this?”

“They probably don’t know how.” “ Do you think the government was behind Joe’s bust?”

“That’s hard to say, dear.” “ I reckon they did.” “ Uhu.” The fat woman sidles across and elbows the girl in the right breast.

She says, “Jesus, I can’t wait till Joe comes out.” The old woman is about 50. The young one says, “ Shut up Mother or I’ll tell them what you keep in that flowerpot under your bed.”

The old one giggles and says, “Aw, don’t do that I might get into trouble. It’s just a harmless little plant.”

The little one says, “ She smokes.

She’s been smoking for years. And she really loves Joe. We’ve been waiting here for two hours to see him.”

It certainly is a manic afternoon.

Around the comer Joe Cocker is being bundled into a hire car at the back of the Courtesy Inn for a quick ride up to the Dandenong Ranges, twenty miles away, where he hopes to find some peace for a few minutes. Meanwhile his manager Nigel Thomas, a tall, thin, elegant British longhair is out front spinning the Press a yard or three of useless information to keep them happy while the car moves off.

At the wine trifle disguised as a motel, the drivers hop in their taxis and everyone waits for The Exit. It comes, with a number of the group pouring out of the doors into the cars.

The Melbourne media men interview anyone who vaguely resembles their concept of a popstar, i.e. anyone who has long hair and wears jeans.

No matter. The three black singers] from the Joe Cocker entourage are sitting in the back of a black limousine now and Brian De Courcy, who is Harry M, Miller’s Melbourne promotions manager, has run to the car. With one of the worst-staged stage whisperi in the history of living theatre, he has ordered the driver to take the ladies to Tullamarine Jetport.

The cars' race down the big freeway to Tullamarine, with most of the covering Press people in pursuit.

They get to the airport and wander around looking at jets while the reporters try and get some interviews. The three black ladies walk arm in arm and sing . . . we're leaving today, we're going to stay.

No-one quite knows what’s happen­ ing least of all the gents of the dangerous estate. Then the Cocker people hop back in the cars and return to the city.

Because what is happening, as we all know now, is that the busted members of the tour never went to Tulla, but were in fact being loaded in removal vans at the back of the

wine trifle while the other people were catching taxis out front.

Thus it happened' that all the wanted men and women were driven' to the Dandies to meet Joe and eat some food while various Joe Cocker dramas were being played out around town.

Anyone concerned with the tour, and with the obligatory few neurons sparking, knows by now that Cocker isn’t going, and that the last Melbourne concerts, one way or another will go on. Still, there are games to be played out, and Harry M. and his boys and girls are dealing.

This day was in fact only different in things which happened and the manner in which the particularised dramas were played. Most of the days Cocker was here had their little intrigues, a lot too boring to recount, but nevertheless not unrecountable.

Fresh from New Zealand, the Cocker entourage steps off the jet at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, and then after startling side-winding drives through some of the repulsive aspects of Australia’s city life — factorama — hit the hotel. With Cocker, with Stainton, with the rest, are the two superstar hom players, Bobby Keyes and Jim Price. These two are really famous, having played horns for just about every person in the encyclopaedia of rock, and having been on the Rolling Stones recent and very successful American tour, they perhaps think they are indeed good rock and roll horn players. Anyway, within a Sydney day, these two have left the country. * After the first Sydney perform­ ance which goes off okay, there is a phone call in the motel. Mick Jagger on the phone. Mick of The Rolling Stones, the greatest rock and roll band in the world is putting down an album in London which will be the next Rolling Stones album. Mick urgently needs the talents of Keyes and Price to finish this album, because he has got to be out of England within two days'because of the strange tax relationship he has with the Brit. Govt. It seems Mick would prefer to be in the South of France within two days. So okay, the star horn players decide to go and do this session and return to do the last Australian concerts. *** After the first Sydney night, there is no phone call from Mick Jagger.

The Stones album has been finished for two weeks. He doesn’t need the horn players, so he isn’t ringing for Keyes mid Price. However, Price’s wife is sick in England and Keyes’ wife is in Australia and seven months pregnant. The Australian Govt, won’t let Keyes’ wife out of the country, or something like that, until she is more than eight months pregnant (this isn’t a law probably). This means that Keyes’ wife would not be able to travel on a jet at this period of time because nine months is the magic time and she could get troubled, so Keyes figures he and his wife had better leave straight away, while everything’s okay. Price wants to be with his sick wife, so he decided to go along too. Both will return to play the tour further along.

So they leave. *** After the first concert in Sydney, where Keyes and Price play, there is no phone call in the motel from Mick Jagger because the album is okay, and so Price and Keyes don’t need to play on it, so he doesn’t ring.

Everything’s cool with Keyes’ wife and everything is cool with Price’s wife. However, the two stars have this problem with their egos, which is that their egos know no bounds, and their egos are in fact on a trip. The tour leaves America without Price and gets to Hawaii, and Price says he wants more money, and the deal gets ratified, and he flies to Hawaii, then Keyes wants more money, and in a sort of monetary game of hopscotch/snakes and ladders/hide and seek, the boys finally land inAustralia, each now pocketing $2500 per week which is a lot of folding stuff for playing horns. Now they want more money on top of that, plus a private plane, and perhaps their own toothpaste.

These conditions aren’t agreed to, so the horn players ask for a week’s wages in advance and appear missing, being possibly only noticed checking in at Sydney’s airport for the next flight out. Their relief now at copping out whatever the reason, must be almost

Throughout it all, the travelling band kept right on smiling (above).

Cocker was unpopular . . . some people said he was dirty.

Below; Chris Stainton

Victorian cops (above) were called in to adjudicate an argument.

Cocker was taken to the City Watchouse and charged with resisting arrest. as extensive as the lawsuit against them for contract breaking. *** It seems Joe Cocker has this certain propensity for getting ripped off, as it were.

On his Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour which took place a fair while into the past over in the States, the story was, or one of the several stories was, that he was given as much coke as would keep his nose busy while he wasn’t singing, and that’s about all. Word has it, that when the film of the MD&E tour premiered in London, Joe expressed great surprise at getting invited because he thought he probably wouldn’t even be in it. This tour, then (the Aussie one) was to be the first where he could perhaps profit from his sweat shed.

It started in America, then went to New Zealand, then came here. In America, the band toured with the Mark-Almond band. Some reports have it that the tour went well, with good houses, and good receptions.

Some reports have it that the tour was bad, with bad houses. Who to believe? It seems Mark-Almond’s guitarist was climbing a tree looking for coconuts on a beach. He slipped down, caught his finger on a nail and took the skin right off. The top of the finger was amputated, it was on his fretting hand, so now he’s learning to play the guitar with three fingers. A little later, that group’s organist got pissed, staggered back to his hotel, looking for some sleep.

However, he staggered to the wrong floor of the wrong hdtel. Discovering this he attempted to make a fast exit and fell out of a doorway down a well and shattered his collarbone.

The drummer for the band, Jim Keltner, who was wrongly reported to be in Australia with the tour, and in fact never left America, (or if he did, which is possible considering some of the misleading PR work which was done, he got only to New Zealand), was not proving popular with some others in the band. The' word is that the amps were set up,as far away from the drum kit as possible so Keltner couldn’t hear the badmouthing the others (or some if any of the others) were doing over him. Then there was possibly and possibly not, the trouble with Keyes and Price.

So the tour was off to a shaky start, and it was to get shakier and shakier.

In New Zealand, the audiences were * expecting something like MD&E with ten million people on stage, and dogs and cats and mudsharks and generally gay times everywhere. However, they didn’t get that, and to top it off, didn’t even know a lot of the songs which Cocker sang. You see Cocker’s famous singles, “With a Little Help etc” and “The Letter” are years old.

By the time the band got to Australia, Cocker and friends realised that they better revamp some of the oldies but goodies and by the time of the ultra last Melbourne concert in Melbourne a few sad days later, that singing “With a Little Help From My Friends” would be a good song to sing in a heart-tearing way because the words had actually started to mean something.

From Sydney, Martin Fabinyi adds this to the vortex . .. “ Sydney for Joe Cocker must have seemed like a breathing space between being kicked out of Fiji (two suites of furniture out of a tenth floor'hotel

window), a disastrous concert m New Zealand (Stainton: ‘The crowd booed us off the stage, if we’d come back for an encore they would probably have thrown bottles’) and the epic-like qualities of their busts in Adelaide and Melbourne and subsequent deportation. But their Sydney breathing was mainly confined to the airconditioned purity of hotel-rooms, like most bands from England and the States, they preferred acting out the 200 Motels script than seeing the sights, and anyway being stationed at the Gazebo in the Cross isn’t to a distant from Soho and its Plastic Rip-offs.”

The general feeling then in Sydney was that being back in England, as Bob Browning would have it, would be the nicest place to be, apart from perhaps Nirvana, a state which a fqw were chemically attempting to reach.

But if they thought what was pash was bad, then they were about to be surprised.

Over in Adelaide, the legendary Drug Squad run by D/S Silverblade was mounting its Spring offensive and busting everything that moved and even that which stood stock still.

Cocker and friends arrived and played, and got back up to the Park Royal Motel to do a bit of smoking.

The next morning saw the unlucky ones busted and ih court on drug charges. Two days later in court they were convicted and held over for sentence and on the Tuesday they were fined. . . * * * McMahon and his trusty Cabinet are sitting around in Canberra trying to think of an election gimmick.

Let’s get with law and order they $ay. Let’s put these young longhairs ih their proper place and win a few votes. Let’s bust Joe Cocker on drug charges, they say. He’s bound to be injecting marijuana and smoking LSD because he is a hippie popstar and hippie popstars go in for these illegal sorts, of practices. When everyone realises who Joe Cocker is and where he is, they ring up the SA police and say to get the Vice-Squad over to Cocker’s motel with a warrant to drain swimming pools and look in suspicious filter cigarette packs and carry off sugar cubes and sniff any white powder which happens to be lying around, and generally tear down walls. This will win the election for us, they say, and no-one will know. *** Detective Silverblade is sitting around the Vice-Squad in Adelaide thinking about who to bust next, and wanting a bit of excitement; says that in WA when this Led Balloon, that’s Zeppelin, sorry, Oh some pop group anyway, was there playing loud pop music in Perth, and the .Vice-Squad went to bust the group, but missed out because they couldn’t find anything. Well, wouldn’t it be fun\ to do this, and only this time

let’s find some evil marijuana, and protect these stupid longhairs from it. before it makes them insane. So he takes his friends to the Park Royal to search uridericecubes and beds! | Detective Silverblade has gone on holidays, and in fact doesn’t know that Led Zeppelin is a pop group.

But it could be a secret weapon of Kaiser Bill’s. Anyway looking after the Vice-Squad at the moment is an enterprising policeman named McKracken who really wants to succeed. And he is launching a summer drug offensive and wants to clean the city up, and he hears that a pop group is in town. So he thinks to form a posse and get across and get the pop group caught with Marijuana. *** McKracken or Silverblade, de­ pending on the Adelaide Drug Squad holiday roster, is sitting in his office when a call comes from Sydney advising that 'a certain popstar, not mentioning any names, but he’s staying at Park Royal, and comes from England, is full of drugs — sq get over there and arrest him, and take plenty of warrants. *** Up in Sydney, before the band even gets to Adelaide, Joe Cocker’s roadies are out in the Cross trying to score some H, and they run into this prostitute who, comes back to the hotel room, where someone beats her up, which isn’t nice. She gets angry and rings the Adelaide Vice Squad, and says that Cocker and the band will be shooting heroin and smoking dope because they scored.in Sydney, so do us a favor and bust him, because I got beaten up. *** Down in Adelaide, , a radio reporter is walking along the corridor of rooms after the show trying to get an interview when he is told to go home. He gets angry, keeps on trying and finally reaches Cocker who talks with him. The reporter sees marijuana being smoked and being a bit of a finger, puts the word in the ear of the Vice Squad which comes down for the bust.

***

Down in Adelaide, a reporter from a radio station is trying to see Cocker after the show. He is told to get out, but he persists and finally gets to see Cocker, who talks with him! The reporter sees marijuana around, but not being someone to dob people in, he shuts his mouth.

However, another reporter from an Adelaide newspaper hears about this (and being of some type of puritanical upbringing) decides it’s best for everyone if the pop group is busted because it’s for their own good. *** Who knows. Fact of the matter is that the Adelaide Vice Squad raided the motel on Saturday morning with a warrant to search everywhere, and

apparently with names and room numbers specifically of the group members. They went about it in the usual thorough Adelaide police way which consisted of hiding behind newspapers in the foyer and various similar clandestine pastimes .

However, in the rooms they were not so thorough. Cocker and several members of the band handed over the dope without the police having to search for it. Which they then didn’t do. The VS presumed that since people handed over dope, then they had no more. This is a good conclusion to reach for the party who has handed across perhaps only some of the stash. In other rooms, the searching procedure was odd.

Where no stash was handed across, the police searched. For instance in one room they meticulously searched a wardrobe, and all the clothes there-in, but didn’t consider the nearby bed at-all, except to rest on it in between searchings. What they did find however,- was an address book with 'a Sydney address. Actually the home of Martin Fabinyi. Sydney police subsequently raided this Surry Hills house in search of (they claimed) the Sydney supplier. But the joint was clean.

So it came to pass that Joe Cocker, 28; Christopher Robert Stainton, 27; Gail Ellyn Stainton, 26; Neil Terence Hubbard, 24; Allan Henry Spenner, 24; and James Walker.Karstein, 29, were fined, $300 each for possessing marijuana, and Felix Venancia Falcon, 24, was fined $300 for possessing heroin and also $300 for possessing a syringe.

Suddenly the newspaper and radio and TV publicity which had been, to this stage, if not encouraging, then at least not discouraging, took a shift to the right.

The band' journeyed, gradually more and more downtrodden, to Melbourne for the first Melbourne concert, scheduled for the Wednes­ day evening. Meanwhile Right Wing Labor man Frank Stewart (NSW) thought he saw some political mileage on this longhair dope­ smoking popstar angle, and put it to parliament. Dr Forbes, although we won’t say he had been waiting for the opportunity — for that implies some sort of foresight — at least quickly jumped onto the bandwagon and got the wheels of the deportation machine grinding.

So on the Wednesday evening the situation was this. Not a very happy tour. A drug bust in Adelaide! the screaming white hordes of the Right down on them, an order for deportation on those convicted, and the realisation that Cocker and the non-Americans who were busted would not be able to get work permits for the U.S. for at least 12 months, and maybe never.

This meant exclusion from two countries, where no money could be made performing, and record releases could not be backed up with live appearances to boost sales. All-this is cold hard cash fact but Cocker’ personal manager Nigel Thomas estimated before he left this country that the net effect will be an eventual loss of two million dollars to Joe Cocker, who if he ever needed money, needs it now.

What happened at the concert is of course history now, with Cocker humbling himself before the crowd as the long night wore on, ending up pissed and with a sprained ankle; lots of sympathetic fans and lots more who were angry at having to pay to see someone get drunk. The worst was yet to come . . .

Back in the wine trifle disguised as a motel, Commodore Chain boss George Frew just happened to be dining at one of his motels, which just happened to be where Cocker was staying. Frew just happened to be dining with a talkback radio man and both lifts just happened to be turned off.

According to manager Nigel Thomas, the coincidences were a little too much to be so. His opinion of George Frew is quite to the dull side of glowing, and he felt Frew was seeking publicity for his motel chain at the expense of his artist, and to his detriment.

From what we can glean, Cocker and his lady friend argued in the taxi J from the concert back to the motel.

His lady ran into the motel to be met

by Frew and two locked lifts and the advice that Commodore motels didn’t need the sort of patronage given by Cocker. The feeling with the Cocker crew was that this was okay, but could they get the bags from the motel rooms? Out now, said Frew, no bags, just out. So an argument commenced in which nasty words were exchanged between Cocker’s lady, Eileen Webster, Cocker and George Frew. The police were called in, and just happened to arrive with the Press, explaining the* particularly on-the-spot photos of Cocker being dragged away by police. He was taken to Melbourne City Watchhouse and charged with ten chargés including resisting arrest.

After the bust, Cocker told a local mudshark during a quiet con- , versation ..1 1 rv:- ' ; ip l “We had been drinking pretty heavily and all got a bit full mixing that with alt the upset. Anyway the fight at the Chateau got out of hand.

Things just grew out of all proportion what with all that swearing we did at each other, so the manager decided to step in and call the police. He wouldn’t let us go up the lift to our room, after telling us to get out. I mean if we are to get out, we have to get our things together. Then the police arrived, they grabbed our arms, pulled them behind our backs and took us off. So then they accuse us of resisting arrest when they had our arms behind our backs.”

The mudshark asked Joe, if he preferred drinking to smoking and he replied he didn’t smoke all that much — only when he had some. He said sometimes the band used to drink whatever was going, which included soft drink and water, and generally anything to compensate for the heat of the stage lights.

The next day opposite the Russell Street Policé Station, Cocker and three members of his group were given bail on more than a dozen charges resulting from the Chateau incident. He was a pitiful figure limping to court, and the newspapers .kept on kicking him and didn’t let up until the tour finished.

The charges were adjourned until f October 26. which was after the date that Cocker had to be out of the country, a according to Forbes’ j deportation order.

A subdued Cocker gave another performance on Thursday evening at Festival JHall. Probably the best of the tour, including that of America, except, according to some group members, for Little Rock. Perhaps Black Rock would have been a more memorable placé, if you can recall Spencer Tracy’s hassles in that bad day. So Friday, and the Cocker Seven must leave the country. They can’t possibly finish the Australian tour, but it seems they want to finish the Melbourne section. Concerts scheduled for Friday and Sunday. *** Let’s go to Friday afternoon.

There is a scene outside the Commodore Chateau Hotel in Lonsdale Street. Friday. À deporta­ tion order hangs over Joe Cocker and friends from Dr Forbes. Something is in the air of this manic afternoon, and pretty soon it is clear Cocker is defying the order from Forbes and will not go. At 4.30 p.m. Nigel Thomas hosts another Press, con­ ference at the Southern Cross. No, Cocker has not gone.

Nor will he go until he performs at two Melbourne concerts back to back this evening. Then he will leave the country. Dr Forbes has agreed to letting Cocker go on Saturday, after being told by Thomas’ legal man that if he wanted Cocker et al, he’d better be real good at finding people.

The charges of assault, resisting arrest etc etc against Cocker, the two girls and the road manager have been dropped by the Victoria Police. This leaves Cocker no chance to prove his innocence although in theory he hasn’t even been found guilty. It in fact leaves the whole thing rather up in the air. And Thomas’ legal men have appealed against the drug convictions in Adelaide, the hearing will bé on in early December and Thomas, if not Cocker will be back to get Cocker off the hook.

This is very important. If the drug sentences are quashed, then Cocker is okay to work in America, and that means money. Thomas has also finished pussyfooting with the Press, finding as 'the days went on that it got him nowhere, and is now calling the whole affair a political scandal/stunt/chess game etc etc. So that evening Cocker puts in two fine performances, and the next day most of the group has gone to America or England. A few roadies, .soundmen and Nigel Thomas stay behind to clean up the wreckage.

Thomas, before leaving, goes to Sydney to talk with the tax men to see exactly how much money the tour will lose, for lose it will. He says Cocker will most probably return personally in December to fight his Adelaide bust.

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Divine interventioninthe surgery A Colonial History of Abortion: P a r ti

by Bruce Hanford From the mid-1960s, Victorian police suddenly became diligent in raiding Melbourne’s medically-qual­ ified aborters. The raids came in spasms. During one of these spasms, the Fuss began. From Aug ‘67 to April ‘68, 9 doctors and many of their employees were arrested. The Government’s mass organization, the Liberal Party, debated and passed a resolution suggesting that the law be changed. <The Catholic diocesan hierarchy issued public protests. The Premier, Sir Henry Bolte, refused to act on his party’s extra-parliamen­ tary wing’s suggested reform.

The Fuss blossomed in the media.

Though notables and the percentages in Gallup polls drifted in behind the banner of abortion law reform, ef­ forts to change the law were frus­ trated. The situation grew confused.

Some persons may have taken steps to prejudice the fair hearings of their pending trials. The administration of justice became protracted; a PR firm was employed; politicians and jour­ nalists were lobbied; funds went to a law reform group. The reform Movement produced heroes and vil­ lains; a hero sought to demonstrate that the law had evil social effects, and that among these evils was cor­ ruption of police.

The Fuss spread interstate. South Australia liberalized requirements for abortion. In New South Wales, the law was not changed. When the Vic­ torian government was forced to hold a board of inquiry into police cor­ ruption, the New South Wales police became diligent in raiding Sydney’s medically-qualified aborters.

Subsequent ? to the Victorian inquiry, a senior constable, an in? spector, and a superintendent were imprisoned for criminal conspiracy.

As the goats were sent off in Victoria, about 180 medical person­ nel were awaiting trial on abortion charges in Sydney*. The continued immunity of certain aborters of wide repute caused much remarking, but it had certainly become more difficult and expensive to obtaih an abortion in the two most populous states of the Commonwealth. Concommitantly, the Australian bastard rate increased form 4.25%, to 8.30% of births. Though no figures are kept, it appeared that the incidence of child battering, abuse and neglect also increased. If an excellent Swedish study, called 120 Children Born After Therapeutic Abortion Refused, is any guide, in years to come we may expect an increment to the rate of neurotic delinquency.

Abortion as a “universal” During the Fuss, Australians might have inferred from their newspapers and broadcast receivers that abortion was a peculiar distress of their time and place, among the decline of the Menzies* heritage, and the discovery of ethyl mercury concentrations in tunny fish. We understand human fertility is an important means of pro­ duction, and the struggle for its con­ trol is one of the stuffs of history.

(In some cultures, abortion is no cause for Fuss. Fint'on notes the cleverness of the Nukkahivans, who unfruited wombs with bamboo tools.

“There seem to have been few cas-

ualties from this method, for the people were expert anatomists, due to the knowledge gained by cutting up bodies to eat.” Devereax, in his survey of primitive contraception, says he can’t imagine a social struc­ ture that would not, at times, com­ pel women to abort.) * * * Crudely, common law is case law — the weight of legal precedent.

Formulations of what cases “mean” can be misleading, for they are op­ inions, whatever the expertise of their proponents. The strength of case law is its use in special pleading, rather than the determination of broad principles. It is an area of ambiguity, where learned lawyers can manoeuver and innovate, and which allows a judge to explain the words of acts of parliament, sometimes en­ tirely contrary to the text, in order to make law agree with reason.

Often a dispute turns into a con­ flict about the relative weight of statute and common law. In theory, the wishes of parliament should pre­ vail, byt the resolution of these sorts of disputes is one of the interesting areas of modern politics in the capit­ alist democracies — not only in America, where the Supreme Court was accused of promulgating some­ th in g like legislation, but in Australia, where the Bolte Government of Vic­ toria butted heads with the Australian High Court over the Premier’s right to hang, those whom hewaspleased to hang, when and where he pleased.

Lord Ellenborough’s Act, the first English statute on abortion, was en­ acted in 1803. It decreed death for intent to abort a quickened foetus.

It prohibited “like intent upon a woman who was not or not proved Ho be quick with child” , and for this latter offence, prescribed penalties such as whipping, the pillory, and transporation for 14 years.

In making intent an element of the offence, Ellenborough went be­ yond canon in moralism, for the lat­ ter had concerned itself with objec­ tive results, and beyond the common law, in making early abortion a crime.

Now the essence of the offence was conspiracy, and that innovation would have an effect on the abortion in­ dustry of 20th Centuipy Melbourne: paranoia . . .

By contemporary standards, those penalties s6em Sfevere, but perhaps’ Lord Ellenborough did not regard abortion as seriously as we regard capital offences these days. The Chief Justice was one of the outstanding figures of the Tory era of legal terrorism. In this period, several score crimes were punishable .by death, including such offences as theft of private goods of greater value than five bob, the concealment of effects by a bankrupt, stealing fish, damaging a canal bank, and cutting hopbinds. Lord Ellenborough was a famous fan of hangings. As for the lesser provision, transportation, he once called this “a summer’s ex­ cursion, an easy migration to a hap­ pier and a better climate” , and im­ plied it was practically an incentive to crime.

In 1861, the abortion statute was amended and assimilated into the consolidating Offences Against the Person Act, In its new form, the laW made matters much easier for the prosecution. It became an offence for any person to act with intent to abort a woman whether she was proved pregnant or not, and made it a crime for anyone to assist a woman seeking an abortion. The Offences Against the Person Act was re-enacted by the Parliament of the Colony of Victoria, and came into force there on the first day fo 1865. It has not since been altered, so the description in statute of the crime of abortion is the same today in the State of Victoria, as it was in England in 1861, although the law has been changed in the latter place.

The Victoria Crimes A ct 1958 Section 65 Whosoever being a woman with child with intent to procure her own miscarriage unlawfully ad­ ministers to herself any poison or other noxious thing or unlaw­ fully uses any instrument or other means, and whosoever with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman whether she is or is not with child unlawfully administers to her or causes to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means with the like intent, shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprison­ ment for a term of not more than fifteen years.

Section 66 Whosoever unlawfully supplies or procures any poison or other nox­ ious thing or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be un­ lawfully used or employed with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether with child or not, shall be^ guilty of a mis­ demeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than three years.

The Law Unlucky in the Col­ ony; How the Churches Diver­ ged on the Matters of Birth Con­ trol & Secular, Law; Press, Pickled Head & Race Suicide.

Studying the Colony’s old news­ papers, we discover precedents for events of a century later — for the Fuss.

In 18j66, for instance, we learn that the new abortion law was con­ sidered ineffectual and unpopular, and was criticized by responsible persons. Those who laid charges un­ der the new sections were accused of overzealousness, and those who were accused behaved self-righteously and vindicatively. ' Beaney’s trial, con­ sequent of the alleged abortion of Mary Olive Lewis, is exemplary.

Mary Lewis, 20 years of age, had been mistress to the married licensee of the Terminus Hotel, St. Hilda, who had fathered two bastard child­ ren of hers. In the last months of 1865, she saw a Dr Wilkie in Collins St., City, who, thought she was again pregnant. After New Year, she at­ tended a Dr Rankin, looking green, and complained of menstrual irreg;ularity. He gave her tonic; she re­ fused pelvic examination, but said she was not pregnant. He further prescribed oil o f savine, to bring on a period. Lewis collected several courses of it with the one script, in order to overdose herself, though we cannot say with what effect.

She died in Collingwood, 15 March, 1866, after twice being attended by a surgeon, James George Beaney.

The practice then was for some handy physician to open the body With alacrity (there weren’t fridges at the morgue), and get a fee fro hi the Government for his report.

Beaney was present when another doctor did atitopsy . The medical facts of that post mortem remain obscure. The enlarged uterus con­ tained no foetus; the cervix was rup­ tured, but Beaney would claim this happened not in life, but during the autopsy. A corpus luteum, an ovarial condition indicating current or re­ cent pregnancy, was not proved, for the examiner misplaced Lewis’ ov­ aries. The prosecution later hinted that Beaney had pocketed these or­ gans. 1,1 u,iB worts# ■riflid M i *•' A zealbus CrW h f^bsdcutbr, Mr Travers Adamson, had Lewis’ body exhumed after she had been buried for some time, and charged Beaney.

The committal hearings were said to be unorthodox. At the opening of the trial, Adamson referred to articles in the public press “that were im-i proper, as though the prisoner had an overwhelming defence.” The Crown claimed Beaney had done constructive murder, alleging that Lewis died as the result of an abor­ tion done by the surgeon, “with a recklessness seldom met with, even in cases of this sort.”

Medical witnesses contradicted one another, and the papers revelled in juicey medical testimony. Adamson maligned the defendant’s character vigorously. The trial lasted three weeks. The jury could not bring in a verdict.

Jury-man’s wages were admittedly low. Jurors selected for the second trial malingered, and produced med­ ical certificates of illness. Adamson complained to the judge of a conspir­ acy of doctors. The judge treated his complaint as a joke — “ we may all be in the hands of medical men by the end of this trial” . The second trial also lasted three weeks, and Mr Aspinall, summing for the defence, roasted the Crown Prosecutor for re­ hearsing witnesses and behaving vin­ dictively. The charge, he said, was a trump-up, and the facts were, that the girl had not been pregnant, and, even if she had been* Beaney was right to have acted as he did.

The jury took a quarter-hour to acquit Beaney. The courtroom was seized by a popular demonstration, which the tipstaves and police could not suppress. The judge complained, “ I never saw anything so disgraceful . . . I think it is a stigma and a stain upon the colony . . . those who are pleased with the verdict can show their joy in other places with much more propriety than by insulting the Bench . . . ” In an editorial, The Australian commented:— Altogether, this trial strongly re­ minded us of a street brawl, a policeman, and a rescue. The brawler, let us say, is highly de­ serving of being taken to the lock­ up, and probably he would be so taken, but the policeman, instead of conducting him quietly, strikes him on the head with his baton, calls him opprobrious epithets, and altogether conducts himself more improperly than the brawler.

The inevitable consequence is that the bystanders interfere, and the brawler gets free . . .

Beaney wrote a vindictive pam­ phlet, with an epithet by Alison:— “ Genius cannot open a noble career which depravity will not attempt to

debase.”

In the same year, the Coroner, Dr Youl, sat in inquest on the death of Elizabeth Hunt, a deserted wife arid mother of two children. Hunt was probably aborted by a man named Mourlyan. The Coroner ob­ served that he frequently sat on in­ fanticide cases where the women made no secret that they had gotten abortions. Mourlyan walked out of the court, after Youl had said:— . . I in the present state of our criminal law, which protected sus­ pected persons in so many ways, no person could ever be convic­ ted of procuring abortion. This was to be regretted, for the of­ fence was known to be of very common occurrence.

Wise men say Manning Clark, writing about the differences between the Protestant elite schools, the State School system, found by believers in Enlightenment, and the Catholic system of educ­ ation, reminds us that sections of the Australian community hold “fun­ damentally different views of man and the meaning of his life” .

Frank Knopfelmacher writes: “ Strong, institutionally vested be­ liefs . . . are as much a part of social reality as the means of prod­ uction and the means of violence.” * * * Melbourne’s best days were during the 19th Century, and maybe that’s why she’s had a hard time getting into the 20th. She was founded in 1835, and a gold rush, in 1851, made her a boom town. By 1890, only London and Glasgow had a higher rateable income in all the Empire. Melbourne was larger than Manchester or Birmingham, of a size with the contemporary American city of Chicago.

Melbourne, in her best century, was famous for bandits, whorehouses, opium-eating, company frauds, avaricious politicians, riots between Micks and Proddos, radicalism and mixed herbs of venality. In our day, when the Florentine architecture of the Boom banks is being wrecked and replaced by Holden Architecture, and the morose streets have moved Humphries to call her the place where one *wonders, f.is . life possible before death /1thei drollery of her colonial boom lingers in a smell of anachronism. She was imported, a pre-fab culture with a pre-fab social structure, to the littoral of a big shallow Aslan bay, and to this day she ’exists there uneasily, importing bits of culture and social movements, somewhat shopworn, from far away.

It never did fit together into a graceful meaning of existence.

From the start, the police force was a neurotic centaur, with the man­ ners of a London bobby grafted onto the beastliness of the Royal Irish Constabulary. In the Royal Com­ missions of 1862 and 1877 we see that there have always been two se­ parate patronage factions, the Cath­ olics and the Masons, a mirror of a larger schism in the history of the city.

From the 1850s. a auarter of the population were Irish Catholics, and as the only engaged minority, they had to render those duties levied else­ where on kikes, niggers, and Irishmen: the damnable Others . . . to compare the city again with Chicago: the Am­ erican city received a large minority' of Catholic immigrants, but the major fact of their political life was their divers ethnic origins; in Melbourne, religion and origin were virtually congruent, and defined the minority.

There may be light and voice in such cleavages, if they be gap for sparks and arcs and new welds, but it didn’t work that way in: Mel­ bourne. Unlike Chicago, she lost her impetus. The boom overbuilt itself, and 1891 was the year bf the Crash.

In the next few years, the city lost about 50,000 inhabitants, and when she recovered, she was Australia’s second-city, a has-been, and a back­ water, instead of one of the world’s magic destinations. Spenders of wild seed went elsewhere; there the bur­ ghers bred sourly, broodily.

proselytize the lower classes. With limited success.

As is often the case with move­ ments, it was official resistance that got the ball rolling. The crucial event of the English birth control saga was the trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh for obscenity in relation to a douching tract, The Fruits o f Philosophy. After the 1877 trial, the defendants’ conviction was overturned on a technicality in the appeal court. The net effect of the trial and attendant publicity was a 5000% increase in the sale of Fruits, and the beginning of the significant use of birth control tech­ niques in England. Among certain sections of the populace.

The English movement’s pro­ fessed goal was the elimination of teeming slums in the industrial cities. However, the initial impact was upon upper-class areas. For instance in 1881, Hampstead’s birth rate was 30:1000; Shoreditch’s, 31:1000. 33 years later, Hamp­ stead’s rate was 15:1000; slummy Shoreditch was still teeming along at 31:1000. Of course infant morr. tality was still twice as bad in Shoreditch as in Hampstead, but the better people still worried. Dr Killick Millard told the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society: . . . the denizens of the slums are without a doubt the most prolific section of the community, whereas we would like to see them the least prolific. From the eugenic point of view, this is ob­ viously a most unsatisfactory — indeed, a deplorable — state of affairs, which the high mortality usually accompanying the high birth-rate only partially heutralizes.

The reactionaries painted lurid futarios, of the slope browed proles slaughtering the outbred better people: The birth-controllers argued that rather than alarming the citizens of Hampstead, a greater effort ought

Mabel Ambrose; her death as.a result o f a botched abortion was the scandal o f Melbourne in the summer o f ‘98.

THE YARRA MYSTERY. SOLVED AT

LAST.

A REMARKABLE STORY. AX ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT; TURNS QUEEN’S EVIDENCE.' ' f RECOUNTS THE CIRCUMSTANCES. THE PRINCIPALS ARRESTED. ALL 1RESIDENTS OF SOUTH YARRA. j.

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Travis Tod; Mabel's lover.

He dumped her body in the Yarra.

The Argus ran this map o f the aborter's house, and the route taken to dump the body.

to be made in educating the Shore- under the general heading of “viol­ ditcheans. The “ dangerous classes” ations of thè sanctity of human life.”

At the high tide of this movement must be contained.

In 1908, the conservatives of within the Church, the few theology Anglicanism backed Bishop Browne ians who argued that Fallopian preg­ of Bristol, and used the Lambeth nancy or cancerous womb justified Conference to broadcast a succint abortion copped unmerciful shit. statement of the Race Suicide pos­ “No censure can be too strong for ition, The statement expressed a those who hold a medical justific­ concern about potions o f sterility, ation,” pamphleteered the Catholic and made abortion and contraception Archbishop of Melbourne, much of a muchness. It continued: — Risks and dangers are incidental There is the danger of physical to the married just as they are to ills, and there is . . . danger of several other states. They are no character enfeeblement . . . there greater . . . than the dangers of is danger of deterioration whenever the battlefield, the mine, the the race is recruited from the in­ factory and the forest, which are ferior and hot from the superior the lot of men. The woman was stocks. There isjthe world danger warned of old, “ I will multiply that the great English speaking thy sorrows and thy conceptions; peoples, diminished in number in sorrow shalt thou bring forth and weakened in moral force, children.” If she is not willing to should commit the crowning in­ run the risks, or suffer the sorrows famy of race suicide, and so fail o f married life, let her remain single. But if she enters the mar­ to fulfil that high destiny to which in the Providence of God ried state she must, as a rule, bear, they have been manifestly calle d . with the hardshins of her state or. in extreme cases, abstain from ’ The founders of the Fabians the use of marriage.*

gets in his tuppence worth:

Other Anglicans took exception — the Dean of St. Pauls called the statement “ hysterical nonsense” . It provoked some young clergy to an anti-Catholic line. Birth-controllers argued that if the best stock was using prevention, then its use must The difference between improve theworst. Sidney Webb drew the sociological theories of a a sharp line between contraception conservative Catholic diocese and abortion: “No accredited ad­ and a backwater’s Protestant vocate of birth control has anything establishment discussed as but censure for this act.”

Dr Havelock Ellis began lobbying i though they proceeded from within the Anglican Church. Ellis, i the different social histories Freud, and Freud’s biographer, Er­ 3 of France and England. nest Jones, came to exercise, an From the Reformation, the Pro- influence upon Anglican theology. i testant Chruehes were probably Within seven years of the Race : more Augustinian than their elder Suicide resolution, Ellis could muster | sister about sexuality. However, the “ten bishops, a cardinal, four deans, social experience / of England was two canons, and a large number of | much different from that of France. ecclesiastics of lesser calibre” to stand ] France experienced the spread of for birth control. . .

While the Anglican Church’s op­ ; birth control earlier, and as an am| orphous trend affecting all classes position to birth control, based on | of society. England did not have English chauvinism, eroded, the a trend so much as a movement, Roman Holy Office was busy lump­ an organized movement with upper ing contraception, abortion, cran­ class patrons, which attempted to iotomy and infanticide together,

*This extract is from a pamphlet published by His Grace Archbishop Thomas Carr in Melbourne in 1901, entitled “Infanticide”, substyled, “The Morality o f Medical Practice".

The Argus leader when Ma­ dame Olga confessed.

A Papal Prophecy: Between 1910 andl930, the Anglican Church moved to a position where the Lambeth Conference endorsed “responsible parenthood” jthe agreed euphemism for birth control. In reaction, the Catholic Church took a harder line, and the Pope reminded the nations of the world that if their secular laws were not in accord with divine law, Natural Law, inexorable decline was their destiny.

The other protestant Churches moved towards acceptance of birth control at various paces — Metho­ dism, strong in Melbourne, was prob­ ably always sweet on the pleasures of the married bed, and quicker to em­ brace Prevention. As the doctrinal divergence developed, the difference between the Anglican and Catholic doctrine on the nature of the auth­ ority of secular law became more important in this area. Both of the cit­ ations below are from 19th Cen­ tury texts.

Rev. Hubert Box, Anglican Rural Dean of Chuckfield:— A law may be defined as an ordinance of the practical reason for the common good,, made by him ) who has authority in the community, and promulgated.

Riffle through old papers . . . aborters often charged, almost as often, acquitted. An editorial:— “We are inclined to believe that it is a widespread if somewhat vague idea that the punishment prescribed by the law is too severe.” An old court reporter remembers, “a detective told me that you never could get a jury without three or four men on it who had arranged abortions for their wives, daughters or paramours.” Defence counsel usually challenged old men and ones with Irish names; the prosec­ ution tried to exclude younger men. (There were no women on Melbourne juries until 1970). A report from a 1903 trial gives the price of a curettage as 10 Pounds and 10 Shillings, which was worth more than a month of the basic wage. Sometimes several victims of botched abortions would arriye at the Morgue on the same day. Girls succumbed to a curious fad, eating matches, which were rumoured to be abortifacient. Infanticide was common, even vulgar, and laws had to be passed to close baby-disposal centres. The most celebrated baby-disposer, Minnie Thwaites, demanded 10 Pounds to accept babies, and resold them for 15 to 20 Pounds. She buried dusty stock, and was hanged for it. The hanging was an event, too — the j hangman suicided, and a new one had to be found.

Minnie sang “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” and “ Abide With Me” in the condemned cell, backed by the chaplain, governor and sheriff. “ Special precautions that her skirts should not fly up.” Crowd of 1500 outside the gate. She made a speech:— “The Lord is with me. I do not fear what man can do unto me for I have peace perfect peace.”

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« November 4 — November 18 virtually become a dead letter, and A Jesuit canonist of Omaha, Neb­ The rhetoric of the Race Suicide freak is amusing. The abortion scandals the public contemplates its paralysis raska, cited by Carr:— of 20th Century Melbourne have an entertainment value. unmoved . . . ” • All human laws derive their force By the mid-1920s, the secular and direction from the divine lawe The Peacock Trials of 1912-13 offer perhaps the first recorded case of authorities showed signs of discon­ No human law can annul what the disposal of a corpus delecti in a corrosive bath; Dr Peacock, 71 when ac­ tent with the abortion law. law of God prescribes, nor render quitted, survived another 20 years in his profession. From 1918 through A Royal Commission on Health lawful what it prohibits. the 1920s, Sister Mitchell was tried so often — frequently for murder — heard evidence in 1925 that Mel­ Neville Hicks, a student of the that it is difficult to untangle the overlapping proceedings. The govern­ bourne had the highest rate of in­ use of birth control in Australia ment was urged to pass a special bill making it illegal to enter her house, fant mortality of any Australian city. between 18.90 and 1910, says that because the city’s jurymen consistently refused to convict the attractive Questions to the health officer of at the turn of the century, the attit­ aborter.

Prahran, Dr Featherston, led him to ude to birth control in each denom­ But it’s more interesting to compare the effects of doctrine & law with say there was an increase in the ination was much the same as the that of economic pressures, and follow the political consequences of the number of abortion practices in his conservative Catholic position is to­ contradiction. The International Harvester decision (1907) made two area. day! During his period abortion was children an economic ideal, and the Depression also provided a disincentive The police, land the Prahran Coun­ “one aspect of the social problem of for large families. The results seem to bear out Marx’s notion that econ­ cil, promptly put shit on Feather­ birth control and was not regarded omics are the hull of history, and all else superstructure. ston. The Chief Secretary, Dr Arthen (or, I guess, until after the gyle, made a statement on Govern­ Great "War) as a separate ‘social prob­ lem’.” Hicks suggested that we inspect ning daily, The Argus, editorialized:— married about 1900 with their youn­ ment policy on abortion:— . . . members of the medical the classified advertisements in news­ “There exists a large number of ger daughters, who married about profession declined to act as auxpapers, if we wanted to know the people in Melbourne who see nothing 1930, we find the daughters are ilaries to the criminal investig­ circumlocuations and euphemisms reprehensible in dragging children of only half as fertile. Lincoln Day has ation branch in regard to illegal for abortion, as it was often adver­ tender years to view the revolting worked this out. During this period, the teaching of the Catholic Church operations when the lives of the tised per that medium, then as now. relics of humanity in the Morgue.” patients concerned were saved.

Widow Ambrose was used to was growipg more rigorous, the teach­ Gloss on the statute law mentioned Medical men had to respect the that in 1897, Mr Hyland was busted Mabel’s long absences, and had no ing of the Protestants, more lax. The confidence of their patients. If a for sending medicine containing a stomach for viewing relics. Reward comparative effects of moral stric­ doctor were called to attend a wo­ little oil of savine through the mails. set at 550 Pounds, the police had tures is revealed by comparing the man upon whom an illegal oper-' The Full Court overturned the con­ dozens of false leads to work on. fertility of two generations of Cath­ ation had been performed he did viction saying, “It is essential to show Todd went down to the Morgue. He olic and Protestant mothers. Cath­ his utmost to save her life, but the existence of a woman for whose thought it would be pretty hard olic women married in 1900 bore an if she died it was his duty to for anybody to recognize Mabel average of 4.76 children;/their Prot­ use the drug is supplied.” acquaint the police with the facts.

Riffle through old papers . . . from the specimen. The matter rol­ estant contemporaries bore 3.99. A Mabel Ambrose was 17 in 1898 led on, until Beatrice got the jitters. generation later, the respective fig­ The objective reality of the state­ and we see her in an old picture, She dobbed everybody, and turned ures were 2.55, and 2.12. We see that ment is this: during that Country, the ratio of reduction in fertility is Party-Nationalist government, seven wearing the stiff brimmed boater, Crown witness.

The trial was conducted with the almost identical in the two groups. with a ribbon, the lo'ng-sleeved white abortion deaths were reported. The blouse with frilly epaulettes, and the Coroner placed responsibility in five There is evidence that if women are discouraged from using contraception, long dark skirt then in fashion. She instances. One charge was dismissed. they are increasingly reliant on abortion. In 1958, Matron Gruber of the had long wavy brpwn hair, a strong The Crown declined to proceed in Royal Women’s Hospital wrote a monograph that showed that 33.8% figure, and an olive skin she had got­ the remainder of cases. of women attending for “ therapeutic abortion” were Catholic. In that ten from her Italian father, who was In 1927* the Government consid­ year only 23.4% of the city’s population was Catholic. dead by then. Her face was not ex­ ered reducing the penalty for death actly pretty, being pug-nosed and connected with an abortion surgefy. somewhat flat, at least in the low- pickled head in prominent exhibition.

Consider the efficacy of with­ Policies come and go. After 1927, contrast plate, but she obviously The Crown Prosecutor, J.T.T. Smith, drawal, douching, condoms, dia- police interest in abortion revived, had large, vivacious- eyes. We read said every man of the world sym­ phrams, the techniques available to and they remained fairly active until that she joked with people, often pathized with Todd, and the trial these women. Whatever Sidney Webb the end of Blarney’s commissionerresponding to a common courtesy judge had to warn him not to mis­ said, we cannot doubt that abortion ship. Blarney is said to have had a with the words: “Pretty miserable, construe the law in favor of Dr Gaze. was part of their birth control move­ personality clash with one of the thank you. I’ll see you at the Morgue.” town’s most famous and best-loved Madame Radalyski got life. Todd ment.

Did a reporter make that up? j The Argus, the morning voice of aborters, Dr Bretherton the Elder. served six years, we understand, and Travice Todd, 20, collected rent changed his name, and set up a Melbourne reaction, modelled itself Folklore has it that Bretherton the from Mabel’s widowed mother, and business in another state. Dr Gaze, on The (London) Times to the ex­ Elder, an amateur boxer, stole a he was a man\for the ladies, though who abstained from advertising dur­ tremity of publishing an index. The girlfriend from the Chief Commis­ his father was a stay of the Pres­ ing the trial, was acquitted. Adver­ index first appeared in 1910. From sioner. byterian Church. Mabel went with tisements for his Polypathic Clinic that first issue through 1929, about Chief Commissioners come and go. him one day to Madame Radalyski’s reappeared in the papers. a thousand articles are cited under Blarney was sacked in 1937, following house in Osborne St., South Yarra, on In summing, the Chief Justice ex­ the rubric of “Illegal Operations” — a scandal, which gave his enemy, account of an embarrassing condition pressed concern that abortions were an average of an article a week. This Premier Dunstan, an opening to she had gotten from Todd’s com­ thought to be increasing in the com­ index provides us with the only dump him. His successor was Alec pany. munity, and hoped that Mabel’s fate statistical index to law enforce­ Duncan, an urbane Englishman. Dun­ Madame Radalyski was a masseuse would serve as a warning to young ment for the period. The Victorian can probably inherited a better police who used electricity (this was known women who felt tempted to hide police did not begin making force than Blarney had, and he im­ las The German Method), and she the consequences of their sins in up statistics until 1963, and they proved it. The greatest improvement consutled with Dr Gaze, M.D., L.S.A. this way. The Boot Trunk Mystery have not always bothered since then. was in public relations. Duncan’s (Lond.)^ L.R.C.P. (Lond.), and was made an object lesson in the The Commonwealth and State stat­ commissionership marked the begin­ M.R.C.S (Engl.), of 84 Collins St., Race Suicide harangues. istics are unweildy. The Crown Law ning of the Age of Discretion, and the City. After consultation, she treated The Presbyterian, Rev. Professor office is not prepared to take us in, crime of abortion almost disappeared Mabel by giving her chloroform Rentoul, said: “We are indeed glad or retrieve that sort of information, from public attention. ■ - and electric shocks from a galvanic for the support of any Church — if indeed they have it.

The trend is shown by this table, battery, and injeqting Condy’s fluid -Protestant or Catholic — or any The Argus articles named about m ad efro m th eA r^u sin d ex iA sd fto from an India-rubber bulb through a public body that will take part in 240 individuals. complement the trend, the index itmetal nozzle W’ thick and 4” long, banishing this diabolic mode of About 70 of these were women, self grows less assiduous, and the inserted in her vagina. whose deaths were associated with heading, “Illegal Operations” discrime . . .”

Apparently this removed the St. John’s YMA, Warrnambool' induced abortion — an average of appears in 1942. The Argus itself mucous plug in the cervical os, which branch, passed a resolution, to say it 3.3 reported deaths a year. (The slipped into senility and expired in seals a pregnant uterus, but it did viewed:— city’s population was, say, .75-mil- the next decade. not bring about a miscarriage. The with intense horror and grave mis­ treatment was repeated several times, givings certain recent disclosures Persons and about 11 o’clock, 13 December, Year Deaths Remarks which indicate the prevalence in Busted they were hard at work in the bed­ One sentence passed; 5 years., Victoria today of the most ab­ 7 11 1930 room, and Mabel uttered two short horrent of all the dreadful phases reduced on appeal screams. Todd did not like loud of what is known as the ‘social 1931 3 10 noises, and covered her mouth. She evil’ . . .

4 9 1932 suffocated. While attempts were made The 1903 Census said the Victorian to resuscitate Mabel, her lover went 1 No entry second half of year 1933 birth rate had fallen to 25:1000. back to his realty office. That after­ Year of lowest Australian birth 1934 14 A familiar motif emerges from re­ noon, Beatrice came around to tell rate. 8 in one conspiracy trial; him that Mabk was dead, no fooling. ports of proceedings in the Coroner’s 5 convicted.

Todd rented a buggy. He and Court in those years before the Great 1 1935 8 _ Beatrice burned Mabel’s clothes. War. Dr MacGillicudy was testifying 1936 9 3 They cut o ff; her hair. But they on the death of Ada O’Neil, who 2 3 1937 baulked at punching the face in. died in the Royal Women’s hospital, 1938 7 r' 11 Chappell H Wilson’s survey show that Australians have more contempt for 1 4 1939 No entry second half of year their police than other English-speaking people. A large part of the pop­ 1940 1 3 ulation believes the police are crooked. This is not a recent development.

1941 2 7 No entry second half of year At the turn of the century, the Victorian Chief Commissioner of police 1942 4 No entry second half of year i f .. was O’Callaghan, who had been named as a perjurer by the Kelly Royal Commission, and who was shown to have bent the Licensing Act in a Emile Durkheim said, “ There is no occasion for self-congratulation when 1905 Royal Commission. O’Callaghan’s stewardship was marked with bad the .crime rate drops noticeably below the average level, -for we may be relations with the public, who sometimes beat cops in the street, and certain that this apparent progress is associated with some social disorder.” with press, who were furious about an embargo on news leaks. A similarly large proportion of Australians somehow also believe their men-in-blue x We see Duncan’s philosophy in lion.) Some of these deaths were from “ do a good jotf’. do-it-yourself induction. About 130 two anecdotes. We are told that, when he learned of the massive force They put the cadaver in a yellow after being aborted somewhere in individuals were charged with acting created to quarantine the city’s with intent to procure miscarriages, boot trunk and dumped same in the Fitzroy. MacGillicudy said he had attended O’Neil at a nurse’s home, or as accessories. The large number brothel district in Little Lons, he Yarra river. in this category is the result of the said: “ Call them off. Put on two or Three days later, the yellow boot after she had developed septicaemia. policy, since abandoned, of charging three uniformed men on bikes, to The Coroner, Dr Cole, asked: trunk bobbed to the surface and people who counselled or abetted the protect the girls from drunks.” In began drifting downstream. Frankie “ Do you come across many cases abortion, such as sisters, and putative our time, when prostitution was not Logan and his mates were out rowing, of this kind?” flourishing, the police were still ped­ fathers.

Dr MacGillicudy: “ Almost any and took it for a treasure chest. alling about Melbourne in the wee day in general practice; probably In at least one instance, the abor­ hours,x with nbthing much to do, When they heaved it up on the bank, ted women was charged. a board loosened. A foot thrust some 200 in the year.” grouping at corners to chat, one foot Dr Cole: “ Are they brought about At least 15 medical doctors were on the pedal, and the other on the out through the side of the trunk. charged during these years, and a Frankie and Triends rowed off hur­ by criminal means?”

Dr MacGillicudy : “Doubtless some number of nurses. It was not un­ ground. riedly, and told the police. Con­ With an ear to earth was Bleu stable Withers took the body over are.” common for doctors and nurses to Adam, a former member of the Com­ A few years later, the same Dr to the Morgue, where they cut off be charged and tried for different mandos. This squad used to cruise Mabel’s head, put ib in a jar of MacGillicudy was back in the Coron­ abortions over a number of years. the illegal gambling clubs, and hang spirits to pickle, and remarked that er’s Court. Dr Cole pressed him to An Argus leader puts the ratio of around there. Bluey said: “ It wasn’t prosecutions to convictions at “less our job to close the games or lay WWI news made cable charges economic for newspapers, and after the than 20 to one” . A shift in the gambling charges. We just moved in war the cables began to eat into local reporting. The immediate casualty policy of the courts is evident. on known criminals. We made some was space for state parliamentary reporting, but police rounds “ color” also Though several sentences of death good arrests, got some spot-on in were passed in convictions for con­ formation, and generally could head faded. structive murder, sentences grew off gun trouble before it eventuated. lit was very bloated. They wondered explain just how his patient, Lillian more lenient during^ the years. In Sometime during the discreet days Hannah, had died from a bungled 1912, when two convictions were ob­ “The System” developed. A woman whose head it might be.

The papers carried a story about abortion. Dr MacGillicudy said he tained, the sentences were for seven who used to nurse in one of Mel the-head every day. They used to couldn’t say for sure. Dr Cole press­ and eight years. In 1924, four con­ bourne’s city abortion practices told beat up local stories-some thing fierce, ed the police. The police said they victions resulted in sentences of 18 me that police visited her boss re and when the detectiyes had nothing thought she had gone to Ballaraat months, 12 months, 12 months, and gularly in 1945, and spoke to him privately. During that year a patient to say, jhe piece would go to 50 for an operation. The cops’ evidence release on bond.

The trials were often circuses. died, and they helped him conceal the pars, and when they had some barrel seemed to give Dr MacGillicudy the to push, they would push it all over best of it, and Dr Cole derided them, Several witnesses were charged with true cause of death . . . a broadsheet page. Everyday there? and then gave up on the case with contempt of court during the 1920s.

Leader writers preached to jury­ was a little box tally score on how these words:— In the next issue: How the “The only thing I can say, in this men:— i many people went to the Morgue to law was transmogrified; and how “ It is so rare an experience to gawk at the pickled head. The at-/ case, is that it reeks of suspicion, and obtain a Voncition in the,se cases the state of Victoria suffered as that the police have not discovered tendances ran to 1500 a day. They that failure has come to be regarded The Fuss became epidemic, in the true facts.” tied cords to the head, and one day When we compare women who as a matter of course. The law has the ‘60s. they hung it in the GPO. The mor-

Getting legally aborted in NSW or Victoria can be easier than in 'liberalised’ South Australia ....

When was your last period,Officer?

by Beatrice Faust Victoria and N.S.W. have legal judgements which explain when abor­ tion is legal, and these judgements are more generous than the South Australian “reformed” law. There is no need for a dossier of expensive second opinions, no residency clause, no rule that says abortions which could be done safely on a walk in — walk out basis have to be done in hospital. Properly used, these judge­ ment provide enough leeway to meet the community’s abortion needs. But as long as the Crimes Act has a section which insist that abortion is illegal, doctors do not feel safe. So Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) uses its referral service not merely to put women in touch with doctors who are known to follow the Menhennit ruling, but to educate women in their rights and doctors in their responsibilities. Every preg­ nant woman is asked to go back to her doctor, and discuss the law with him. Only if he is unsympathetic does the woman get referred on to other medicos. If the doctor should turn out to be human, he is added to the Service list of humane prac­ titioners. If he stonewalls, he is marked down to be invited to one of the forums on the law and wo­ men’s rights which A.L.R.A. holds periodically. * * * The woman is diminutive, her hus­ band and daughter both loom over her. She is thirty-one. This means she must have conceived her first child when she was as old as her daughter is now. The daughter is still , at high school and getting a much , better education' than her parents1 had in Greece, but still only the second best, the one Australia hands out to its migrants,. aborigines and children of the poor or poorly or­ ganized. She translates for her parents who can understand English, but have always been too shy to practice and have never learnt to express themselves to strangers. There are four children, all at school. Both parents work in a factory in Sun­ shine^ poor area of Melbourne. They live frugally, in a Housing Commiss­ ion coffin. If they get behind in their rent, they know that the Commis­ sion will not be slow to throw them out, although it is supposed to pro­ vide low-cost housing for people in their position.

The risk of mental illness among migrants is much higher than among the general population. Mental illness will, of course, allow an abortion to be ‘legal’. However, that’s for the doctor to decide, not the counsellor.

Normally, the counsellors ask women to go back to their own doctor. * * * The phone rings before the inter­ view is finished. No answer — just vague cracklings and lpreathing. Is it a desperate girl who can’t get button A to work? or a pest? or is it the Special Branch of the Intelligence Branch, who do ASIO’s work at state ievel, mainly for Catholic public servants? or just the C.I.D., listening hopefully for a mention of a doc­ tor’s name? It’s much easier to catch abortionists than criminals, so there is always a risk that some policeman with no better way to get promoted may decide to build his career on a couple of arrests for conspiring to procure an illegal abortion. The coun­ sellors are aware that this is a pos­ sibility. They also know that their own guilt or innocence hangs on whether a court decides that the par­ ticular abortion is illegal. This is becoming a practical impossibility because juries express current public opinion better than the written law: and majority public opinion favors abortion ¡on request, if the operation is carried out by a skilled doctor and no harm befalls the patient, The counsellor resists the urge to blow an umpire’s whistle into the handset, replaces it quietly and gets back to the Greek family. Since they cannot discuss their situation with a G.P., she passes on three names. If one doctor refuses an abortion another may consent, and the patient is always entitled to a second opinion. She winds up the interview by raising the idea that future problem pregnancies must be prevented, not curretted. Although she is only thirty-one, Irina already has more children than she can af­

ford. All methods of contraception are discussed, but the counsellor suggests an intra-uterine device, as cheap and effective. She also suggests that Irina should discuss the possib­ ility of haying her tubes tied. All contraceptives except the pill can fail, and even oral contraceptives can be misused. The failure rates the methods varies from half of one percent for some orals to 30% for the ovulation (rhythm, mucous or roulette) method. * * * The girl was as near to a squirrel as anyone can be without a bushy tail. She squeaked and chattered out her story with bright eyes and bright buck teeth, while her male partner tried to mould himself into the shape of an office chair and let the women deal with things. The Squirrel was still at school. There were five childrenrin the family, mother had/had as many nervous breakdowns, she had just divorced dad, who was no help to talk to. She was supporting the family, and the Squirrel wanted 4he abortion more to protect her mother’s mental health than her own. Mum bright be earning the family’s keep but it was obvious that emotionally the children supported her as well as they could.

A lot of kids come in like this girl and find that they are in a bind: they want an abortion to protect their parents, but they can’t get one without their parents’ consent un­ less they are fever twenty one. This is not in the law, it’s just a funny mis­ understanding that doctors have.

Some will stretch their rules for a girl who looks twenty-one, and some will accept tlie authority of some other older person, a sister, the boy­ friend, a flatmate. There had been an embarrassing moment when the counsellor had asked “Why/weren’t you using any contraceptives?” and looked for the face between the bikie jacket and the afro hair-do.

The couple looked at each other au.d said in a perfect chorus: “ We think you should know something — I’m h6r/he’s my brother!” Not the man responsible for the pregnancy, al­ though it does happen. The brother was there to sign any authorities necessary. The kids had no idea where to go until they saw Problem Preg­ nancy Counselling advertised in The Digger's “Melbourne Flyer” . But — the girl had not had a period for fourteen weeks. * * * Unless women are really desper­ ate, abortion is almost better never than late. The fact that abortion has beeh illegal in so many countries so long has slowed up medical pro­ gress in this area: mpst procedures are very old, and most could be improved on. Karman, who invented the plastic cannula for sucking out earlier pregnancies, has also devised a neat method for late abortions.

Almost half a yard of water-absor­ bing plastic is wound into a narrow spiral. This is introduced into the uterus by the same hollow plunger used for Lippis Loop contraceptives, The entrance to the womb is packed with balsa or seaweed tents, which dilate gradually. The vagina is packed with gauze and the patient goes home — but she has to have the company of a responsible adult in case she needs medical attention in the next twenty-four hours. This is very rarely needed and she usually comes back to have the coil removed The products of conception come away naturally and easily, and the doctor may need only to tidy the wall of the uterus with a cannula The patiept goes home after one or two hoirs.

Nothing like the super-coil is avail­ able in Melbourne yet, although there are a couple of doctors interested to try it. In Sydney, the enterprising President of ALRA (NSW), Ms Julia Freebury intends importing Karman’s ideas from California, and setting up Women’s Lib type self-help clinics where women can be taught to per­ form abortions. These clinics are being developed throughout the United States, but there are trial runs in England and in Paris the well-known novelist and philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir, has opened one for French women.

In the bad old days, there were several doctors in Collins Street who would attack advanced pregnancies, with varying success.

There

are very few surgeons skilled enough to do late abortions outside a hos­ pital. And very few hospitals will admit patients for an abortion, al­ though if something goes wrong, the patient winds up in hospital anyway.

Medicine is full of false economies.

The safer late abortion methods, like salt injections are best done in hos­ pital. The court rulings have not changed hosptial attitudes much. The Squirrel will be lucky to get her preg­ nancy terminated by a skilled doctor.

The counsellor warns her that if she cannot get medical help, she must not accept amateur interference — it could be fatal. She can come back to P.P.C. if she has to continue the pregnancy, and she can discuss how to survive as an unmarried preg­ nant woman, or if she decides against adoption, how to get by as a suppor­ ting mother.

M* * Eric is a physchiatrist. As a medical student, he had been rather antiabortion, because medical schools teach little/about it, and that little is often wrong. After ten years’ seeing patients, Eric has mellowed.

His present wife had an abortion before they were married, and they have no regrets.

“When the police used to come to my rooms looking for information about patients, my nurse would give them my solicitor’s address and tell them that if they wanted my records and they couldn’t get a warrant, they Should discuss it with him. That worked very well for a while. Had a scare the other day — they hadn’t been around for a while, got sick of it, I suppose, and then they lobbed in with a warrant, properly made out, for a particular patient giving her name and address and everything. It was a bloody nuisance. I wasted half a day discussing the case with the wallopers and my solicitor. They didn’t bring any charges — her case wouldn’t stand up in court and it would be impossible to show that I hadn’t acted in good fath, or t h a t the doctor who did the op. or the doctor who referred her to me hadn’t ail been acting in good fatih. But my time’s worth thirty dollars an hour, and I’d rather talk to patients th an :cops. And it' disturbs the pat­ ients! to have their appointments broken because the doctor has to see a policeman.

“What I really dislike isn’t the cops j— they’re only here once in a blud moon. It’s the feeling that I’m not alone with the patient. I can’t give her my full time and attention and say ‘Is this woman ready for motherhood?’ I have to say to myself ‘How will this case stand up in court?’» I ’ve got to remember that all the: time. There’s a worse abuse than gjiving women easy abortions; that’s ¡when a doctor refuses some­ one jqst to show that he doesn’t write Certificates' for anyone who asks.” I * * * Keith is an abortionist: he has a sound medical degree but no extra qualifications in gynaecology. He is a highly skilled surgeon, young, shrewdy and dedicated to making money/ He knows that there is no point in making money if you’re going tp have to support the Police Retirement Fund; he would rather spend his money on a smoothly functioning modern clinic, than bribe police. { fie puts a lot of faith in medical efficiency.

“ThC patient thinks she’s alright as Iona as she’s got a letter. Letter!

Jesus Mary and Joseph! The last letter I had said ‘This patient is sixteen; weeks pregnant and in ex­ cellent health’. Some of the others are nearly as bad. They think ‘Men­ hennit’; is a magic word . . . if they just mention it somewhere they don’^ have to say anything else. In Sweden, a patient might come in with a twenty-page report prepared by a doctor, a social worker and a psychiat­ rist.

It means that some women don’t get their abortions until they are a bit late — that’s why the death rate is higher there than here. And a lot of women jack up and go to Poland, but at least the doctor knows that the matter has been gone into.

I can’t do that. I couldn’t get a social worker to work for me for love or money. If the patient has time, I write to her doctor and ask for a re­ ferral in the normal way, with a de­ cent case history. If not I send her to one of my friends for a quick referral. “ Ethics? Ethics is one thing, law is another. The police don’t take a case to court unless they think they can win it. And how ean they when half the jury have arranged abortions for their girl-friends or their wives?

Receipts? The patients demand them.

That’s one thing the Menhennit ruling has done — made women more sure of themselves. “ Law reform? I don’t really know — Whatever the law says, there’ll always be room for me.” * * * Since; it opened, P.P.C. has found that about half the girls who ring up in a panic turn out not to be pregnant. This probably means that the idea that abortion is better never than late is catching on — people aren’t dawdling before they get ad­ vice, they’re into it quickly.

The next step is to push the idea that prevention is better.

by Frank Moorhouse Should I just walk out one day and not come back could I have been a singer if I’d worked at it are all politicians liars is everything allbullshit advertising public relations for jobs applications for jobs insur­ ance claims taxation returns compo claims tourist brochures what you tell your wife what you tell your boss speeches and what they say about you when you die who tells the truth whet’s really going on are there books which tell you are there books which would change my life is there anything in this Hari Krishna thing what happens when you take drugs if they’re so bad why do so many people want to use them could I kill someone if I had to would a spell in gaol be so bad could I stand for parliament do we work at half our potential is this what life’s really all about are things going to change drastically have I got the brains if I wanted could I write a book is there a book in all of us would they let you say ,how it really is did we have kids because it was the thing to do if the world is heading for dis­ aster why isn’t anyone doing any­ thing about it what if there was life on other planets would this mean there was no god is something going on that no one is telling us about did they find out something about Mars and are keeping it a se­ cret are we told that' the rich are

never happy to make us feel better when you meet them they aren’t any brighter than you just that they make twice as much are the hippies really onto something do the intel­ lectuals know so much more than us what can you do about something that worries you can^ an ordinary person really influence things is it all decided by someone else is there any point in going to meetings is it all stacked against you does demo­ cracy really work should we have a, dictator were the nazis onto some­ thing about the jews is there a good book to read on it do long-hairs have better sex lives than the man on the street where do you go to meet girls who like sex and no nonsense if I still pull myself off does it mean I’m a pervert if I put an advertise­ ment for sex in one of those papers would the police get on to me do I kid myself I’m better than I am or am I better than I think I am is the grog destroying my brain will I be­ come an alcoholic am I becoming a crashing bore at parties do I really like sex with Sheila could I still get into a football team if I trained am I going bald am I really stuck at doing this for the rest of my life is there something I haven’t tried that I could do really well and make a packet do I hate kids would socialism be alright do we have a say in any­ thing really are we run by the Yanks can anyone really read between the lines can people see into the future

if Jack really knows what’s going on why don’t I who is really in the know are politicians all the same is it a big charade is it all a circus should I have married Anne is Bill really getting off with that bird from Finance could I still get into the army by putting my age down how can each religion be so sure it’s right could I become religious if I tried why can’t the scientists tell us what it’s all about who’s fooling who would Sheila ever have an affair if dirty books are so bad why is it everyone I know wants to look at them if they expect the man on the street to know the answers if what they say in the papers is right why doesn’t someone do something about it why should anyone go hungry in this country why don’t they share out the money they made from the minerals how can anyone “own” what comes out of the ground why don’t they take all the moeny back and hand it out and let everyone start equal who’s to say who’s bright and who’s not can yoti increase your intelligence who decides who gets what are the communists really right are the Yanks and the Russians doing secret deals how do we know what’s going on are there islands in the Pacific Ocean where it’s all laid on and where you could go and forget the whole bloody- business should you worry about tomorrow if things are getting better all the time why can’t they be good now while I’m

alive if all these things are so bad for you why has it taken them so long to find out if everything you eat is bad for you why do we live longer if it gets so we can live for­ ever would it mean there was no god will I get cancer when it all boils down what can doctors do for you if I went to a psychiatrist would it change my life if I robbed a bank would I get away with it would I have the guts to do away with myself has everyone got a racket do wo­ men really want it as much as men is all this talk about wine just bull­ shit what do people see in classical music if there’s something in it why can’t I see it who’s to say what’s right and what’s wrong if we all be­ lieve in god why don’t we let him punish people for the crimes they commit how do you keep fit how do you lose a beer gut why are so many people starving when we’ve got all that wheat stacked in silos why are some people in the world starving and others overweight if the blacks are as bright as we are why are we running the world if the blacks in South Africa are as good as the whites why aren’t they in power why shouldn’t China want to take over Australia Japan did will the Japs have another bash why doesn’t someone just explain it all in simple language why doesn’t someone at the university come up with all the answers what for instance happens to you after you die.

November 4 — November 18

Alan Roberts is a physicist.

He grew up in Brisbane, as his atrocious French accent testifies.

Apart front re-examining Hegel from an anthropological. perspective, -writing thriller novels for extra bread and treat­ ises on the environment for more obscure reasons, Roberts has made suggestions as to the nature o f the Universe that are shocking and amazing cosmologists.

This article sets the back­ ground. It is the first o f a twopart series. —P.F.

by Alan Roberts Playing the role that Hugh Hefner was to take over only after a lapse of many centuries, the Devil used to send Playmates of the Month to tempt St Augustine. The worthy saint, concentrating all his energies on higher forms of communion, had to bite hard on the bullet to survive the temptation.

For indeed he was tempted, as he tells us in his Confessions: While of course nothing could be finer than the solitary path of union with the One True God, memories of ancient orgies and more carnal unions kept drifting into his pious meditations.

All that preserved him was his clear knowledge of who was responsible for these wicked thoughts: the Old Tempter himself, the Internatidnal Satanic Conspiracy, at its usual game of moral subversion and aggression from the Depths.

But the Devil had more than one shot in his locker. While Augustine’s fleshly torments are well known as a pitiful reminder of the dangers and pangs of not getting it regular, it is not so widely appreciated that he had to survive attack in an even more dangerous sector than the gonads. As he warns in the 10th Book of the Confessions: “There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity . . . ” The curiosity he was talking about was neither an interest in salacious gossip, nor the sort that killed the cat — whatever that was. It was scientific curiosity. The subversive itch to know the secret of how the world works, “ . . . which drives us on to try to discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing, and which men should not wish to learn . .

The fear that Augustine expresses here still helps Mr Hammer and other notable producers of horror-films to scratch out a living. They can rely on that solid tradition so well established in Boris Karloff films of the thirties, which were never genuine unless they contained lines like, Karloff: There! You thee? It workth!

K arloffs Sensible Friend: No Boris, forget the whole idea. You are tampering with forces that man had better leave alone.

K.: (still hampered by his unfortunate semi-lisp) But Henry, don’t you realise — I have proved my thethith! Tranthplantation of the human brain (reviving the dead, finding the uncanny meteor from Andromeda, etc) ith pothible!

K. ’s S.F.: Perhaps, Boris, perhaps; but what will be the results? Such knowledge was meant only for God. Boris, don't meddle.

And sure enough, by the time the fifth or sixth mutilated corpse had turned up — the inevitable result when one meddles. — even mad-scientist Karloff had woken up to it. Saint Augustine had been proved right again.

Outside of theological writings and mad-scientist movies, however, curiosity generally didn’t end up so badly. It is true, though, that some scientists, considerably madder than Boris ever pretended to be, have done some things considerably worse. Even Hammer Films never

The Digger plumbed the depths of horror that must lurk inside the head of — for example — the men who calculate the best proportion of explosive to pellets in a cluster bomb. Too little explosive, and the pellets will not carve a deep enough hole through flesh and bone; too much, and the space for perhaps another thousand gouging pellets has been wasted.

Absorbed in such calculations, and not forgetting that the bomb must explode, at the most effective height above ground — which means that the lesser stature of the average Asian must be reckoned with — these scientific refugees from a monster movie give Augustine some justifica­ tion at last. (Incidentally, some of them are Australian).

But it was a “purer” kind of curiosity that Augustine had in mind, and one that attracted him deeply.

Almost as pitiable as his wrestling with the sins of the flesh in his struggle against this other deadly vice, the urge to know: “In this immense forest, full of pitfalls and perils, I have drawn myself back, and pulled myself away from these thorns. In the midst of all these things which float unceasingly around me in my everyday life, I am never surprised at any of them, and never captivated by my genuine desire to study them . . .1 no longer dream of the stars.

“My genuine desire to study them’ . . . a desire on a par with his genuine desire to know women, and both to be crushed in the interests of the holy life. '{’here was a Russian sect which carried the fear of women to its logical conclusion, they castrated themselves. Augustine’s other prob­ lem could perhaps have been solved by a frontal lobotomy.

It’s not accidental that, when he wished to emphasise how rigorously he had killed his curiosity, Augustine spoke of the stars. Surely, if we are curjous about anything, we will be curious about cosmology. We will wonder what the whole set-up is, how far the stars go, is there an “outside” to the universe and what could it possibly be? That final sentence might well be the most terrible and tragic of all his “confessions” , “ I no longer dream of the stars” .

Isn’t there something wistful there, a definite note of regret?

Certainly the men who came after him would not accept a black-ban on either women or the stars — despite the most pointed urgings by Church authorities. Giordano Bruno, for instance, a thousand years later, insisted on speculating about an unbounded universe, full of stars and planets and intelligent beings going on to infinity. The Church welcomed his enthusiasm by making him the guest of honor at a barbecue to usher in the seventeenth century. They burnt him at the stake in 1600.

To avoid a similar fate, Galileo fell down on his seventy-year-old knees and confessed that indeed the sun went round the earth as the Bible maintained, and th a t1he had been wrong in publishing the contrary view.

However, the' stars and their mystery are about as hard to get out of people’s minds as carnal thoughts.

The “explanation” Augustine accepted — that God had made it all, and what exactly he had done was best deduced from his revelations to us in the Bible — looked a little sick by the end of. the last century. The distances of many stars had been measured. They turned out un­ expectedly large, and there were good reasons to think that beyond them stretched other “island universes” at even more colossal distances.

By the first years of this century we had an impressive collection of data. We knew that eight planets including Earth (a ninth turned up later) went round the Sun, that the Sup was a fairly average star tucked away in the outskirts of a collection of about a hundred million stars (a. “galaxy”). Other star-groups, be­ lieved to be separate galaxies, had

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The Universe may not be expanding, Part I:

I dreamed I saw St. Augustine been seen, and the age-old cosmological problem had taken on a definite form. The question was now did these other galaxies go on and on and on, or was there a limit somewhere? And if there was a limit, so Ithat only a certain definite number of galaxies existed, what was it like beyond them? Just more “empty space” — or what?

Twentieth-century men who “dream about the stars in Augustine’s sense are cosmologists.

Most of them make a modest living teaching at universities and are in no great danger of the stake or an Inquisition tribunal. Howevfer, in the eyes of most of their physicist colleagues, they are still just a bit suspect. Much cosmological work soars into distances we cannot yet see, or times far removed from the present, and there is a legitimate suspicion among scientists of theories which do not predict anything likely to happen before a billion or so years have passed.

But in fact, the happy era is gone, when cosmologists could safely construct universes without fear of successful contradiction by experi­ ment in their own lifetime.

Telescopes have reached out further and further. Astronomers now detect not only the light from distant stars but also the radio waves they emit, and even the X-rays. We have now reached the point where just to

But how did cosmology get to the light ray, and that the speed with point where it could predict which it reaches us is always the numbers?

The story of its same, no matter how fast We are development in this century starts — moving. Now, very careful experi­ like a good many such stories in ments were practically screaming out physics — with Albert Einstein. the truth of these propositions — but Simplicity was the keynote of for all that, they go flatly against Einstein’s approach in physics commonsense, as the nightmarish generally. Some years before he police car indicates. turned his attention to gravitation It’s always disturbing to have our and cosmology (the so-called commonsense expectations upset, “General Theory of Relativity” ), he but think about what “commonhad put forward “ Special Relativity” sense” means. It’S the ability to as a theory of the behaviour of generalise about our experiences in matter at high speeds. He based it on life — to have an idea of the rules a puzzling result that emerged from fitting that experience best. some classical experiments: ap­ That well known “generation gap” parently, light always travelled at the is above all a gap between two same speed towards you, no matter different “commonsenses” . To a how fast you were travelling parent, it’s obvious that one should yourself. knuckle down to study and a career, We don’t usually notice this choose an occupation with the best because light travels so fast anyway available prospects for advancement, (seven-and-a-half times around the status, income — this is simply world in a second) that any speeds' commonsense, based on his ex­ we can muster up ourselves are perience of the world he grew up in. peanuts compared to it. Imagine, Things look different to the kid, who however, some slower thing behaving opts for what satisfies him now, for the same way — for example, a police an immediate fulfilment that his car.

It heads for a parked experience shows is possible — a motor-cycle at 80 miles an hour. The different experience and in a bike takes off and guns up to 120. different world, one that gives rise to Looking back, the rider sees the car a different kind of “commonsense” . still overtaking it at — 80 mph . . . A “Commonsense” depends above good theme for a nightmare but an all on the experiences you’re incredible way for anything to move. generalising from. Different ex­ Particularly if you knew that another periences, different commonsense. parked bike was still clocking it as Those experiments Einstein based travelling at — 80 mph . . . himself on were ones that brought

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) interpret and understand new data in astronomy, it is often important to decide what is the overall shape of the universe. Cosmologists snatch the latest news from astronomical observatories and pore over it.

Astronomers appeal to the cosmolo­ gists to come up with a theory explaining this or that pecular photograph or radio signal.

Once upon a time, cosmological theories had to be judged on their elegance or general appeal, or how well they fitted in with one’s prejudices. This gentle era cannot be said to have altogether disappeared, but more and more it is coming to be a question of which theory has got the numbers — that is, which predicts the actual number and kind and distribution of stars at the new limits to which we can see.

The moving bike-rider would say, I am doing 120, the car is harrowing the distance between us at 80 — so the car must be doing 200. But the parked rider says, no, I clocked him at 80.

For cars, it’s obviously impossible.

But for light, it’s a fact.

Einstein’s approach to the puzzle was simplicity itself. Let’s take these experimental results seriously, let’s accept as a fact that running away from a light ray doesn’t affect the speed with which it overtakes you — and neither does running towards it.

Then you will never see anything outdistancing a light ray, either — any more than you can outdistance it. In other words, no material body can travel faster than light.

Einstein made these two proposi­ tions his starting point; that the fastest signal we can ever receive is a

about experiments we never have.

(It’s a totally irrelevant digression, but note that the French word for “experiment” is “experience” . . .)

The speeds of light rays were measured to a fantastic accuracy, with the Earth moving towards their source, away from it, at an angle to it . . . and i t always came out the same.

We don’t normally do this sort of thing, so we have no basis in our experience for saying what would happen if we did — in other words, commonsense doesn’t apply. The measured reality is now what counts, no matter how incredible it may appear.

Since Einstein had to start with truths that were flatly counter to commonsense, it’s not surprising to find that the results he ended up with also go against commonsense.

Imagine a rocket-ship with a clock

mounted on the body, in which I propose to go to the moon. You are going to stay on Earth, having been dropped out of the astronaut training school when it was discovered that a second cousin on your mother’s side once lived next door to a Black Panther. But as a consolation prize due solely to Nixon’s kind-hearted­ ness5 (fiction, remember), you have been given a clock exactly similar to mine.

We synchronise clocks. I then blast off at a great speed, having warned you beforehand that you are going to notice something peculiar to the clock on my rocket.

You may figure that when you check the time showing on my clock, after I’ve covered a few thousand miles, it will seem slower than yours.

The light will tfike a little time to travel back to you, and the time you see indicated on the clock will regally be the time at which the light rays left it a little earlier. Getting the ship’s distance by radar, you calculate the time light would have taken to cover it (even allowing for the radar’s travel time, too). Adding this time to what you currently read on my clock, you compare the result with the time shown on your own clock.

This is when the knowing grin dissolves from your face. My clock is still slow compared to yours. And it keeps running more slowly as long as I keep travelling away from you.

Back in the space-ship to confirm that my clock has slowed down enough for you to notice — which obviously means, by all the laws of commonsense, that your clock has speeded up compared to mine — I look back to the Earth, note your time, correct for the time light takes to travel the distance and compare the calculation with my own clock time. This is the point where icy winds start to’stir in my brain. Your dock is running slow compared to mine. Not fast. Slow.

Well, it’s not commonsense but it happens to be true, as Einstein showed. Once you swallow his starting propositions then two clocks moving with respect to each other both run slow, each for the other. We don’t usually notice it simply because we don’t usually travel at speeds anywhere near the speed of i light.

Worse is to come. Strange things happen to distance; from my flying capsule, I measure the distance to the moon (or to the Earth, if it comes to that) as much less than you measure it. And I mean, I really measure it — by the simple process, for example, of calculating my speed and seeing how long it takes me to arrive. All distances shrink, once I am travelling fast enough.

This, then, was Einstein’s Special Relativity. Since he came out with it, commonsense in this field has been buried over and over again. In the laboratory, today, we can speed up small particles until they are travelling at speeds very close to that of light — and indeed they behave as Einstein said they would. For example, particulars with a short lifetime (ones that break up or decay into particles, after a certain time) live a lot longer when they travel fast. Why? Because the time they live is a “clock” they carry with them — and like all other clocks, it slows down when it moves fast.

All of this can be “explained” with a show of equations and symbols. But really that’s not the sort of “ explanation” we usually want. Usually a request to “explain” Special Relativity really means, show me how it can fit in with commonsense. And the answer is, it can’t. It is based on a different set of experiences from the conventional. It is not commonsensical, just true.

One more result, and we are through with Special Relativity.

Nothing seems more obvious and common-sensical than the following proposition; if two things happen at the same time, then they just happen at the same time — for everybody and everything. Stand on your head,

go off in a space-ship, do what you will; you will still see these things happen at the same time.

This is yet another case where commonsense happens to' be just untrue. More exactly, suppose you see two things happening at the same time( but at different places, and I also notice them while travelling in my space-ship. Then I will see them d? happening, not just in different places, but at different times.

(Are you asking, which of us is right? Tell me first of all what you mean by “right” , and then I’ll answer the question . . . but don’t talk in terms of how the two events occur “really” , or when does God see them happening. You must say what kind of observer you have in mind, how fast he is travelling and in what direction. Then Einstein equations can tell you in what order and what time apart he will siee the events occurring. As for God’s view of things, unfortunately he hasn’t let us know his travel plans — so we cannot work out what observations he will make).

This last result is really the final blow for our commonsense. You say the events are separated in space, but at the same point in time; I say they’re separated in time also.

Evidently your space is not my space, and your time is not my time.

It’s true that Einstein has already shown that the way you measure space is not the same as the way I measure it (the shrinking effect); and that the way you measure time is different from mine (the slow-clock effect). But this last result seems even more drastic: when two events occur, you split up the separation between them into space-separation and time-separation in a different way from me. When events are separated in space and time (let us say, in space-time), we carve that space-time up in different propor­ tions. What is a pure separation in space for you, is a bit of time also — for me.

If space can become time and time can become space, what becomes of the solid world we used to live in, or thought we used to live in, or used to think we lived in or .

Now is the moment for a reassuring pat on the shoulder, before the twitching becomes chronic. Something is still solid and real and absolute; something that stays the same no matter how fast I gun the space-ship or how far I take it. When two things happen, we can always say what the separation between them is — from anybody's. point of view.

The “absolute” thing is not space and not time; it is space-time, a particular combination of the two.

We can say, admittedly, in a sloppy sort of way that the total amount of space and time separating two things that happen is fixed. All that I do when I look from my space-ship is divide this amount up into separate allocations of space and time differently from the way you do.

Space-time is our new element, something to depend on and build with.

Building with it was exactly what Einstein later did — and this is where we veer back to cosmology. As a builder, he was nothing if not ambitious —where some people need protons, electrons, neutrons, space, time, etcetera to build a speck of dust, Eirtstein took this single material, space-time, and did a somewhat bigger job of construction.

What he built was the Universe — all of it. We review his building plans next time . . .

Don’t miss the next gripping instalment; opr hero builds his universe only to have the whole structure declared unsafe by Friedmann. Things look black; but in the nick of time, rescue arrives from an unexpected quarter. THRILL as the astronomers rescue Einstein with their vital evidence; SEE the dramatic revelation of the Galactic Red Shift; In glorious black-andwhite.

Students Union lands Labor a lemon:

A free university wouldn’t prom ote equality

by Henry Rosenbloom Labor’s tertiary education policy has been led up the garden path.

Three years ago, the Australian Union of Students adopted the policy of abolishing jiniversity fees as a step towards attaining equality of educational opportunity. After a good deal of favorable press pub­ licity and political controversy, the Australian/ Labor Party accepted AUS’ idea, checked out the $12 million costing, and incorporated fee abolition in their electoral plat­ form in time for the 1969,election.

Gough Whitlam summed up the philosophic rationale for this policy by saying that his party did not want able students priced out of tertiary education. The ALP’s eddorsement represented a coup both for the then AUS education vicepresident Tom Roper (now a Vic­ torian candidate for .Brunswick West), and a pat on the back for

the professional pressure-group tac­ tics newly adopted by ¿he national student union.

Now another election is looming, more data has been fed into the students’ think-tank, and the 170,000 strong AUS has switched horses. At August council, the following motion was passed: “That AUS abandon its policy of abolition of fees and press for a scholarship-for-all scheme with liberal living allowances under a lib­ eral means test.”

Education vice-president Andrew Bain, a 21 year old Politics honors graduate from ANU„ describes this motion as representing “ a major shift in emphasis” from the 1969 policy. In fact, AUS has reversed and repudiated Roper’s policy, and incidentally embarrassed the ALP. It seems that, largely as a result of 1970 study by Dr H.G. Brennan of ANU, which had been commis­ sioned by the Australian Vice Chancellor’s Committee, AUS has

slowly come to realise that fee abolition would merely lighten the financial burden of those students who could afford to pay, without providing sufficient financial assis­ tance to encourage more poor stud­ ents to stay at school in order to try university.

Brennan pointed out that fee abol­ ition would come too late to help students who had already been squeezed out of the education sys­ tem, and that it would only help a very limited number of students by subsidising many students with far less urgent needs. In other words, the laborer’s son from Footscray High or Redfern Tech who plans to leave school after fifth form is not likely to gain enough incentive to stay on just because his university fees would be paid. At the same time, the stockbroker’s son from Mel­ bourne Grammar or Sydney High will attend university anyway, whether his father has to pay fees or not.

Gough Whitlam will almost cer­ tainly promise fee abolition in his policy speech, despite th e . repud­ iation by AUS and education minister Malcolm Fraser, who will argue fee abolition doesn’t help those in need.

Fraser holds the waspish sentiment that education should be paid for, but any Labor policy reversal at this stage would be gleefully ex­ ploited by the battered government.

It’s probably for this reason that AUS has decided not to release news of its policy change to the daily press. Three years ago the papers ran features, editorials, and protrac­ ted correspondence over the issue.

A similar treatment over the next three weeks could prove most trying.

Meanwhile, AUS and all students have to live with ’.the strong pos­ sibility of Kim Beazley becoming the next education minister. As shadow minister, Beazley has demon­ strated his love, of the portfolio by making excellent speeches about

foreign policy.

Andrew Bain, who relinquishes, his office in February next year, knows the political delicacy of the situation. After stating that he “ pre­ ferred not to comment” about the matter, Bain admitted he would have preferred Beazley to be a more ac­ tive education spokesman.

Beazley has a strong puritanical streak as a legacy from his Moral Re-Armament background.

If Labor wins, AUS will have to ap­ proach Beazley to argue in detail for their revised proposal.

Labor’s federal parliamentary ed­ ucation committee — made up of messrs Beazley, Bowen, Bryant, Cass, Enderby, Everingham, Fraser, Jacobi, Jenkin, Klugman, Lacey, Martin, Reynolds, Scholes, Wheeldon, Wil­ kins, and Kennedy — has been in­ formed of AUS’ switch. Their res­ ponse has not been made public.

M OSS vs SU B U R B IA Margaret McIntyre surveys the Maribyrnong electorate, where some people will stop at nothing to drive the ALP’s sitting member from his seat.

ROSS W IL SO N Jenny Brown interviews the usually reticent focal point of Dad­ dy Cool. Unravelling the New D.C.

Universal Truth (Part 2} Alan Roberts gets to the point; the universe may have been misinterpreted, no kidding.

A B O R TIO N The Fuss~P&rt 2 How the law floundered astern the social vessel, and how the Micks and Masons fought battles of power as blood flowed . . . by Bruce Hanford

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November 4 — November 18

Bazza wanks while Stork stumbles

O ffin g the bearded clam

by Jon Hawkss The Adventures o f Barry McKen­ zie has just opened in Sydney and Stork has started a re-run (triple billed with two soft-core sexploit­ ation movies) so it seemed like a good time for one of those ‘compare and contrast’ numbers.

Last week was a bad one for bread so I called up Bazza’s cinema to ask for complimentary tickets. The manager told me that all that sort of stuff was handled by the film’s distributors, Music Corporation of America and more specifically by a dude named Van Pinxteme.

So I called up Van but could only get as far as his secretary, a Canadian called Debbie, who was very doubt­ ful if she could help me.

“We get people off the street cal­ ling up all the time asking for free tickets — why can’t they pay like the rest of the general public?” I had a few suggestions in that depart­ ment but kept quiet for fear that laying them on her would only fur­ ther fuck up my chances of scoring a couple of freebies. I told her I really wanted to see Bazza that night because of deadlines and shit like that and I couldn’t pay because I was flat broke. That blew it — a pennyless film reviewer — I lost all credibility immediately. She told me to call back at five, pulled a trip about having had so many bad reviews that they didn’t need any more (she implied that if I could guarantee a good one then the tick­ ets might be available), and said that she really didn’t think she’d be able to help but she’d try. On that am­ biguous note I returned to other pressing matters, five o’clock slipped by and we ended up selling enough copies of. the paper in a pub to raise the bread for both dinner (packet of Cherry Ripe) and a nice night’s entertainment.

I’ve been a follower of the old • bastard’s exploits amongst the poms since the time when I worked in a bookshop where, when customs al­ lowed, we stocked Private Eye. And I’ve had the same love-hate relation­ ship with Barry Humphries’s shows as he’s had with the characters he’s created. He has often been cast as a misanthropist, especially by the left, and certainly his characters have fuck-all going for them. His humor is destructive and performed in such a way that, to the audience, the characters are always the people next door — it’s Barry and us laughing at someone else; not much identific­ ation happens. But I trip on how, in a weird way, he loves his charac­ ters more than he loves his audien­ ces — the line from the Inspector General, ‘Who are you laughing at,

E L P blow a channel TRILOGY Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Blowin’ up my stereo, blowin* up my mind by Pat Woolley Way back when stereophonic sound was first introduced, every *hi fi freak that could look himself in the mirror had a demonstration re­ cord issued by the record company or stereo maker and of course on that record was a grand slam orches­ tration of Ravel’s Bolero. The camels crossing the desert, starting out on the right side speaker very very softly and gradually getting louder, then crossing right in front of you, louder now cause they’re not too far away, and then passing over to the left speaker where they fade off into the echo chambers of 1958 or 1959 . . . Bolero sells the stereo.

Now it’s Emerson, Lake and Palmer doing almost exactly the same thing on their latest album Trilogy with the new electronics of mellotron, synthesizer, mini Moog add who knows what else added.

1972’s stereo demonstration record.

The record starts out nice enough with a track written by E and L in a moody and soft style, until about a minute into it loud crashes and instruments make the stereo speakers vibrate. Just about every instrument seems to have its bit in “ The Endless Enigma” including bagpipes (or at least what sound like bagpipes), french horns and ocharinas.

Following part two of “ Enigma” like it does, the next song; “ From the Beginning” seems out of place.

It’s a return to country and western style easy rock that could easily be

you’re laughing i t yourselves’ often underlies his work and creates a sense of never articulated unease.

On top of that he’s a brilliant creator of language and an extra­ ordinary actor.

So I couldn’t help but front to the cinema with a few expectations.

I imagined that I’d be doing a lot of groaning — whatever else Hum­ phries may or may not be, he is gross, he specializes in the freak out.

The only hang-up was that I was the only one doing any writhing — everyone else was getting their rocks off like I never seen a movie aud­ ience ever. But that’s jumping the gun a bit — first off it’s a non-film, the camera work is pedestrian and the editing is boring, it’s an animated cartoon really, the bubbles have been replaced by actors mouthing the words and all the glorious color does is make the chunder even more vile.

That would be cool if some of the subtlety of the comic strip had re­ mained. But the uneasiness has gone leaving only a glorification of MeKenzie’s neuroses. Bruce Beresford can claim the distinction of creating a whole new genre in the annals of film making — the Dirty Joke Movie.

Because that’s all it is — remember

Bazza McKenzie (Barry Crocker) in charicatured confrontation with Pommie landlord Spike Milligan.

That was a cunt o f a rhyme, Sing us anothery, Dirty as buggery, Sing us anothery, do please do. the chorus to the limerick marath­ ons that accompanied the beer drink­ ing races after the game? This movie is total affirmation of that lifestyle.

Whether the people responsible for it saw it like that doesn’t matter —1 the point is that the audience revel­ led in it. It may be that the film is a private joke — Humphries may hate his audience so much that he’s saying, here’s a guy with guts, with no pretensions, he’s spontaneous, totally honest about his trip, he may be fucked up but at least he’s getting into it and getting a lot of joy out of life — you poor farts watching this love him which just shows how fucked up you are. If that’s what its about then the film works perfectly. But what a con­ voluted and destructive reason for making a movie.

Judging from the audience reac­ tion Barry McKenzie acts out the fantasies of untold numbers of jocks ,who would love to behave like him, but are unable to make a life style of it and can only let it all hang out on ritual occasions. Here’s their chance to vicariously groove on what they see as ‘the life’. From the mo­ ment Barry responds to the air hos­ tess’s, ‘Is there anything I can do for you?’ with, ‘Yeah, get me an Simon and Garfunkel playing guitars at the start and Dave Mason singing.

A nice and easy flowing son«» bv Greg Lake, even the Moog bits are unobtrusive.

“The Sheriff’ is a two-bit inter­ play between organ and drums with a nice catchy rhythm to it and commonplace lyrics by Lake. But then they completely ruin a song by Aaron Copland, putting their bloody synthesizer noises and kettle drums all over Copland’s arrangement of “Mammy’s little baby loves shortnin’/ Mammy’s little baby loves shortnin’ bread” . They rush it, miss a few notes here and there and totally ob­ literate Copland’s intentions. Ah well, that finishes that side.

Side two and it’s stage musical time with “Trilogy” , heavy on the echo making it sound like an empty 2000 people hall with an intense clas­ sical pianist accompanying a “ Superstar” singer. That is, until the orches­ tra turns up for the rehearsal, then all hell breaks loose. This is a track that’s got to be heard loud, so I went into the other room and sat dead centre, fooled with the knobs on the amplifier — treble about 3/4, bass equilization off but up to 3/4, balance just a bit over to the right and volume almost all the way up.

The sound kept building and by the time the floor started vibrating and I could feel the bass drums through my toes, the right speaker, without so much as a crackle or pop, cut out. Freak! What have I done to the stereo set? Gasp! Let’s see what’s happened. Trace down this lead, does the speaker in the kitchen still work?

No . . . well, what about the one in the office? Nope . . . um, we couldn’t have blown three speakers so it’s got­ ta be the amplifier. Bad news. Get a screwdriver, there was one just on the table under the press, but can’t seem to find it. Will a knife do? What about the circuit breakers, i£T push

Bruce Spence as Stork in clicked confrontation with Women’s Lib...capital W., capital L. you’re tuned in to Radio 5AD (Adel­ aide), and it’s Coca Cola’s “ Hi Fi Club” compered by a not-so-big-yet Bob Francis. Suddenly, a song, a storm growing out of a seed of teen­ age pain melody, kicks into your body and head. Electricity and brood­ ing tension. It’s Del Shannon’s “ Runaway” , and it’s a triple million seller ALL OVER THE WORLD! As I walk along I wonder, What went wrong with our love, a love that was so strong; And as I still walk on, I think o f the things we’ve done together, while our hearts were young.

RUNAWAY by Del Shannon - SZLThe introductory refrain is in a 933-395 — Festival. minor key, and then it changes to the corresponding major for the by A.L. Strals chorus! Wow! That guy sure knows . . . And towards the end of about music!

1963, we had our grade 6 record I ’m ’a walkin in the rain, to the party. My friend Manny Lagoudakis, falls and then I feel a pain, who was Greek and wore an Ed Wishin’ you were here by me, “ Kookie” Byrnes hairdo, dug Bobby to end this niis-er-ee Darin, Neil Sedaka, and Paul Anka.

And I wonder;, I wa wa wa wa I never dug Paul Anka ‘cos he was wonder,, Why, why-why-whya creep and had a baby face. Well, why sharan away, anyway, Manny brought along Anka’s And I wonder where she will “ Esso Besso ooh that Kiss” while I stay-yay, my little runaway. brought Del Shannon’s “ Runaway” , The falls, rain, teenage pain.

Ricky Nelson’s “Travellin’ Man” , and Dion Dimucci’s “ Drip Drop” which Christ, I wasn’t even a teenager was only a top 40 prediction at the then, and I didn’t even dig girls time and hence a pretty uncool yet; nevertheless, that song got into record to bring along. About four me, and its been in me ever since. other kids, probably girls, had Jim­ Libra unbalanced tending to scorpio my Little’s “ Royal Telephone to obsessed.

Del was too good to be a oneGlory” (currently number one on 5AD), which was O.K., ‘cos Jimmy hit wonder; his following top tenner was an„ aborigine and a Christian was “ Hats off to Larry” , and it had who sang like Johnny Young would a painfully silly opening refrain, and in 1967. (And Jimmy didn’t frighten a set of nasty verses.

Once I had a pretty girl, her the mums and dads like Johnny name it doesn’t matter, Devlin & The Devils (from New She went away with another guy, Zealand!) did, you know). Anyway, and now he won’t .even look that was one really weird grade 6 at her . . . record party, daddyo.

Hats o ff to Larry, this may sound You know, pretty catastrophic cruel, things happen when you’re 11 years BUt you laughed at me when you old, and it’s Friday night, 1963, and

this button, maybe it’ll go back on.

Well, can you hear anything? There it is.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer: thanks for the sounds, but I think I’ve had enough loud music for today. This is their best album so far and I’ll probably listen to it often, someday.

Follow the sun (Weeoo)

said we were through, You told me lies, now it’s your turn to cry cry cry-i, Now that Larry’s said goodbye to you.

“So Long Baby” was the ultimate in teenage savagery and cunning.

Shannon the cannon had been made to look a fool, but not for long. t I got news for you, I was untrue too, And I don’t care what you say-aay, So go and laugh some more, baby I don’t care no more.

I ’ve got another lover o f my own So long Baby-by, be on your , way-yay. “ Hey Little Girl” was about seeing the shadow of the girl he loved, about remembering last Sep­ tember when she was at a dance with a guy named Joe, and she had to leave before Del could get her name. Then “ Little Town Flirt” had Del being blatantly explicit, at a time when all the other popstar song writers were cute, vague and nonsexual.

You can get hu-uh-uh-uh-urt Yeah you can get hu-uh-uh-uh-urt Foolin’ around, with that little town flirt.

That paternal Del was telling us about her dangerous sigh, her temp­ ting lips and how she’s gonna cut us up. Thanks for the warning Del. And “Swiss Maid” followed; an in­ credibly silly, wreird and mystical yodel-leydo ballad about a girl hid­ den away from true love, up there in the Alps. , “Gotta Keep Searchin” , and “Stranger In Town” , were later ex­ tensions of his early lyrical escapism.

The kids in Del’s musical movie were continually running away from THE evil of all teenage evils; the parents of 1965.

She’s been hurt so much,

ice cold 'tube of Fosters and how about a quick naughty in the dunny after takeoff (or words to that ef­ fect) the audience was cheering, stamping their feet, worshipping this man who is little more than a mouth and a cock.

Something weird is happening when behaviour that is exploitative (Barry’s response to a photo of a woman is ‘I’d be up that like a rat up a drainpipe’ — not even ‘her’) is shown as being funny. Not funny peculiar but funny ha fucking ha.

There was a lot of guilt released at this movie. The* jocks have been coming under heavy attack in the last few years, girlfriends complaining about the whip it in, whip it out and wipe it syndrome; some of it must have gotten through, some inklings that perhaps there is another way of relating that is different from the ‘pyjama python’ routine (Barry McK. not only objectifies women — he objectifies his own sexuality). All the old routines, the ones that looked as if at last they were beginning to crumble were solidly re-inforced by this film. So much so that 15 minutes after the show ended there was still a crowd of almost hysterical guys standing outside the theatre trying to remember the words to the trouser snake song. Everything is cool again Alf, the ladies are back where they belong and the movie says behaving like Barry is all fun and round-eyed innocence.

In a way this film must be a liberating experience for a loj: of people — liberation from the nagging thought that perhaps fucking is more than spearing the bearded dam, liber­ ation from the fearful possibility that perhaps women are more than things to be bitten by the one-eyed trouser snake.

The fact that Barry never gets it up becomes a joke rather than a lesson. His continuing virginity isn’t caused by his behaviour alienating potential bed mates; far from it — in fact a lesbian lady that he tries to feature with tells him later that he has turned her back onto men (another of the great male fantasies).

How is hard to imagine — his obses­ sion with the amber fluid is so con­ suming that he is little more than a pipeline between the brewery and the sewer, the gurgles being trans­ lated by Humphries into some quite remarkable original cliches. The art of the involved and mind blowing ¡metaphor, particularly those con­ nected with physiological functions — mainly ejaculations from the various orifices — is a pre-occupation of Australian writers that they have turned into one of our greatest art forms.

Barry McK.’s intense dislike of faggots and tinted gentlemen drew massive applause from the crowd which made me think that even if these attitudes of Barry’s were re­ garded unfavorably by the creators of the film, they have bent over so far backwards to be tolerant that their mouths and arseholes are indis­ tinguishable. * * * There’s a small postscript to Bazza. The day after the movie I called Debbie to tell her I was doing a review and needed some photographs. Her reply was, ‘We don’t want to be associated with you, you’re a pom magazine’.

Dumbfounded, I stammered an enquiry as to what had led her to that conclusion.

‘Someone around the office told me, and anyway I know you’ll give us a bad review.’

I countered that whatever I wrote,, it wouldn’t deter the jocks from coming in their thousands and that unfortunately most Australians aren’t Digger addicts, so surely it couldn’t do any harm just to lend ns a couple of stills for a few days.

I offered to front the office with, passport, press identification and copies of the paper in the hope that this might alter their decision. She decided to check again and returned five minutes later to say, ‘We can’t help you, there’s nothing more I can say.’ End of senario \ * * * I was intending to write at least as much about Stork as I have about Bazza, mainly because I enjoyed it a whole lot more but I’m burnt out and the prohibitive price of speed in this country makes it a drug only straight journalists can afford. So with drooping eyelids and a nodding head all I can offer are a few comments.

The two films are about the same things — sex, beer, chunder and the lifestyle of one particular dude. But the similarities end there. Barry is upwardly mobile — he flies to Lon­ don; Stock *is downwardly mobile — he drops out of GMH. The Beresford film is a gross out, Burstall’s is a freak-out. Barry McK. is a comic book character who has ‘adventures’, Stork has his roots in theatre and has ‘problems’. Barry McK. is a boring film with a unique screen­ play (no-one else can come close to Humphries — few would want to) — Stork is a gimmicky derivative film with a screenplay that is a linear development out of the La Mama school of playwrights.

Which is a good place to start;.

Like the other La Mama writers, David Williamson has an incredible gutsy fdugh-edged energy and joie de vivre that is further enhanced

by Burstall choosing a number of La Mama actors to work in the film.

Both films are very Australian (I doubt that many people overseas could understand the language in either Movie) and deal, as I said, with Oz obsessions. But there is a development in Stork that’s lacking in Barry McK: Stork starts as a virgin and finishes as a possible father — Stork is surreal, Barry is unreal; Stork is moving — erratically, but at least there’s movement, change, open­ ness. Barry goes around in circles always ending up with or in a can. ; Stork has perpetuated on celluloid the acting and writing style that became, for a time, the dominant alternative in Melbourne theatre.

Very aggressive, very loud, great fun, rough and gravelly — but concerned with what it means to be an Aus­ tralian, concerned with exposing and breakfng down the structures that are the underlying repressors in this soc­ iety — and all that sort of stuff.

There were always hang-ups in the La Mama school. Roles for wo­ men (in plays) were always much less challenging that those w ritten for men — in fact the whole trip was a very ‘masculine’ one. This re­ mains a fault in the movie but at least they’re more human than the poor creatures in Barry McKenzie. The two films are real interesting to see together — perhaps they’re the be­ ginning of «a valid cinematic vision of Australia. Perhaps.

They treat her mean and cruet saxophonic loWjer-region, to a fluid wailing on-key falsetto. The song They try to keep us far apart There’s only one thing left we can lyrics were nearly always clearly ar­ ticulated, with an undertone of ten­ do. sion in his delivery. Del visited Aus­ Our intrepid lovers just gotta keep tralia in the late sixties, and Johnny on the run, since her daddy’s sent a O’Keefe said our hero sounded just Detective after them. If the big D as good in concert, as on record. finds them, he’s not gonna murder J.O’K knew.

Del, nor force her to go back, nor pull out the handcuffs on ‘em. No v Towards the end of that decade, > Sir! That big D’s merely gonna tell Del bought a villa in the San Fer­ ‘em they’ve done wrong, and Del nando Valley, a cottage bn Cobb knows that’s a bad vibe, so that he Lake (Michigan), and he perhaps be­ and his true love have just gotta gan to think he had it made. Or keep on the move. Forever, Del maybe he was frightened. Unfortun­ knows. ately, he re-recorded “ Runaway” , de­ . . . we don’t care if we run stroying its previous magical inten­ forever, sity, and released terribly degenerate Just as long as we’re together. stuff such as “ Do You Wanna Del was bom in Grand Rapids, Dance?” and “Two Kinds of Tear­ Michigan, circa 1940, probably with drops” . Anyway, everyone was dig­ some name like Mec Speckinsky or ging Dylan and the Rolling Stones Charles Westmorland. After his 1957 by then, and it didn’t seem to mat­ high school graduation, he knew he ter, though perhaps it does now. just had to become a pop star. Nature These days, Del wears a Holly­ had made things pretty hard for wood swinger hairdo, a white guru Del; he had a short stocky build, a shirt, a crucifix in his right hand turnip shaped face, a Tony Curtis (for re-issue album covers), and he dovetail hairdo, and his ears stuck digs peace and eternal love. Del out too. (Can you remember laughing doesn’t sell many records anymore at how funny he looked in “ It’s Like Chubby Checker, (famed King Trad Dad”, (that stupid British of the Twist, and Limbo Rock), movie), while simultaneously digging Del’s been trying out dope-rock, his song a real slasher, titled “ You revolution, communal farming, and N eW Talked About Me”?) Anyway, one night gigs at the Las Vegas Del worked real hard for success, and had a series of top ten hits from nightclubs. Since another hero, Ricky 1962 to 1968, which made his parents Nelson, has re-established himself and friends feel real proud. In fact, nicely with the Stone Canyon Band, I kind of hope that Del, a 1972 hasDel’s songs were so good, (or popular), that other pop-world giants been, might try doing something recorded them, notably the Beatles similar. After all, Shadow Shannon with “ From Me To You” , and Peter the vocal cannonball spelt D-E-L, and Gordon with “ I Go To Pieces” . once shook about a whole lot of people’s heads and hearts. Yep, Del As a composer, Shannon had an uncanny sense of schizophrenia and was a real knife-slashing pop star, and melody, a sense of how to structure inow it really hurts wanting to be a the inevitable top ten hit. As a vocal­ teenager again, wanting to walk to ist, his range was incredible in its the falls just so as I can feel that . elasticity, spanning a tense rasping pain. One more time.

, l j

November 4 — November 18

The Digger

Page 11

Tumblers and Black Forces prepare for Aquarius:

O h Carole hurry, the E-M etre’s ticking

T he W h ite Company flies a freak flag

by Robert Adamson Somewhere in the past ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ had en­ tered in to my way of going about things. I don’t even remember who sang the song originally, but the names of Carole King' and Gerry Goffin had been ticked-up as heroes — long before Ginsberg or John Ashberry. I would listen to the radio after school in the good old days when John Laws was a swinger.

When Sam Cooke got himself shot a few days after getting out of the can, ‘Twisting the Night Away’ was released: but Carole & Gerry had taken his place as the top writers of the day. That was the day when writers didn’t usually sing, there was Chuck Berry and Paul Anka: but they weren’t Rod Stewart or Randy Newman’s predecessors. Sam Cooke I believe started something. Chuck Berry started a line also, but that’s a different memory.

I had been thinking about all this for ten years, so when Carole King became a bit of a superstar last year I „was pretty pleased with myself.

Here was Tapestry and the terrific piano under the control of Lou Ad­ ler, who once played along with that demanding man B.B. King. Here was ‘You’ve got a Friend’ with those amazing words and Carole’s southern comfort kind of voice. I was waiting for something to come up in the way of a new record at the time, and when Carole brought it to me things were looking up. I have the habit of laying records upon the nerve-ends of my friends; so when Tapestry came into my hands I proceeded to play it to anyone in range. At first I didn’t quite under­ stand what was happening, but after I’d played it to the first hundred or so folks — it was very clear indeed

by Ponch Hawkes I’d always wanted to be a fireman, nurse or traindriver, the old thing about all those uniforms. Nowadays I think more about being a stoned gypsy and wandering all over making magic and music. And now I hear about a band of musos, actors, painters, mimes called The White Company who are doing just •that.

In caravans they will be travelling around Australia spreading the word about the Tribal Gathering in May, the Aquarius Festival. Their vision is living and working together and they say, “We want to sing with you, dance with you, and take you by the hand,” which sounded fine and that’s how I came to be at the UNSW to see, hear and feel . . .

It was a night Macbeth would have loved, cold, blustery, drizzling rain and the traffic was mean and nasty. The White Company’s big top hasn’t got a top yet so the scene was the Roundhouse, stage three, floor 2, meeting room 1.

An Indian took my money and didn’t seem phased by the fact that I couldn’t make up the buck needed.

Inside sitting on the floor watching them warm up, everything very loose, freaks in clothes made with white-painted mummers’ faces. A girl in a long purple dress doing shoulder stands, another silently works on her Tai-chi.

On the players’ mat a small blonde-headed guy undresses his drums. (Never seen a set of drums get their knickers off before, but that’s the image.) There are tapes playing echoes around the room and an amazing collection of wind, string and percussion instruments.

We the audience sit quietly on the floor, listening, watching and waiting. A guy stands up with a paper cut-out and spins around and around until he crashes into a sup­ porting pillar and falls down. Then he takes out paper and brushes and begins working in India ink. Chalked on the blackboard, “The White Company at school.” The evening newspaper propped on a chair reads, “IT’^ OVER. PEACE IS AT HAND . . :,u ,s r”; The six musicians are all men, they sit on pieces of knitted rug on a big mat. A j is passed as sitars, violins get tuned. Beginnings of rhythms rise and fall and we sit and listen to them work it out. The three women are chanting into the mike, Seek and enjoy sunlight, take o ff your shoes and clothes, The angel o f sunlight A ll evil and dark smelling things will rise from you All must be bom again o f sun and truth

The H ot 100 girl strikes out alone by Pamela Cocabola Brown Remember the “ Hollywood’s Hot 100” chart in Rolling Stone magazine seven months ago? O.K., now, do you remember seeing the name ‘Pamela Polland’ in with Cocker’s Mad Dogs? Well, Pamela Polland*has been around the west coast scene for years. She played guitar and sang through the folk circuit and then started doing piano and “ohh yeahhh” chorus parts in studios.

Now she has an album of her own, material together and it’s called Pamela Polland. Of course. The Aus­ tralian album cover looks like Laura Nyro’s New York Tendaberry jacket and it’s completely devoid of liner notes. Miss Polland is primarily a songwriter, so you can survive the record without freaking out over the anonymity of her backing lineup.

It’s very weird . . . Pamela Polland sounds sometimes like Carole King, Laura Nyro, Diana Ross, and in one song like Barbera Streisand. She just doesn’t have a NEW EXCITING ORIGINAL GLASS-BREAKING voice or style. She does not write very complex songs either . . . she seems to have missed the poetry of rock and just strung her lyrics to­ gether non-critically . . . if things weren't the way they are that’s what you said to me then we could live together yes how happy we would be.

The album has a bluesy feeling but the whole thing is fairly ordinary . . . there are guitar riffs a la James Taylor and piano a la Carole King but not reaching the standards of singers like Taylor and King.

The best track on the album is

And the tape machine plays with it and it comes back disembodied from around the room.

It seems like the first piece is for them and now they sing to us.

Come on now people, smile on your brothers, everybody get to­ gether try to love one another right now.

It’s an old message but I’m feeling schuck of the fact that it’s been told you before. It’s simple, they mean it, and they’re singing to me, for me and for themselves.

The action-painter completes a work and flings it still wet over a member of the audience.

The room is lit by only twa small floods. One of the musos has a bur­ ner and a tray of incense oils. Each piece they do has a different smell as well as a different feel and sound.

Chanting begins, “ Fire opens old wounds,” and suddenly there’s a huge whoosh of flames from the Indian guy’s mouth, fucking fireeater. He takes whole mouthfuls of metho, one of the women passes a flaming torch in front of his mouth, hq. spits out and the flames jump out. Like a dervish he dances around the room passing the torch across his feet and holding the flame in his hands. The music is beating wildly and he does it again the metho dribbling down his face and I’m flashing on him catching on fire or setting the sprinkler system working. It’s over and I’m left pant­ ing as the music dies into a soft ballad.

Suddenly from the side the painter starts moving toward the audience, breathing heavily.

“Whooosh, whooosh,” the noises you make when you play at Old Man Wind but hard, guttural, jerky.

Clutching a short spear he begins to stalk the audience. The White Company continues playing in the

“Teddy Bear’s Picnic” and we all know that Pamela Polland didn’t write THAT song. It?s also the shor­ test track. Sounds like a bit of studio tomfoolery and giggling be­ tween working and it’s great. “ Please Mr D.J.” is a sad plastic Streisand type of song displaying possibly unintentional brilliance in capturing the “playmistyforme” loneliness of the ladies who are caught up in the disc jockey fetish syndrome. It’s about a working girl taking her comfort from the radio man on the weekends . . . the records you play don’t inter­ fere it’s only you I hear “When I Got Home” is insane.

There is a chorus in this number doing their ‘la la las’ like a yiddish motown bubblegum choir. It’s a song that talks about the buzz of a new love someone P.P. digs so much she wants him with her all the time al theme which could be incredibly intense but the lyrics are ridiculously simple and trite . . . “I get the feeling that you meant all those nice things you said . . . because you love me.”

The most mind boggling, incom­ prehensible song on the record is “ Abalone Dream” . It’s another earth, hippie spiritual thing which begins with some lovely fluteplaying but the trippy melody gets lost like hitting the rapids after she has built me a raft out o f make-believe laugh and I did float down river and the music leaps into a frenetic crescendo of drums, pipes, guitars vand percussion belting along with steam engine rhythms getting higher and higher finally making “a party out of every day.” That seems like confusion to me.

All told it’s a pretty lame album.

One you’ll get used to quickly and probably stash at the back of your stack and eventually take it to your record mart and exchange it for Carole King . . . she does it better.

background. His hands are black from the ink he’s been using and his mouth is just a black paint smear 'from where he’s been sucking his pen.

An image of the hunters in Lord o f the Flies. The audience is frozen, is this part of the performance? Noone shows a physical or verbal reac­ tion. I’m holding my breath and my knees are shaking. I sit, willing him to come to me, but whether or not he picks up on it, he moves away, to confront the players. He grabs some black plastic and wraps it around himself. Then, shouting, “I’m supposed to be evil. The White Company just told me to cool it.

They’re about to sing a song about angels,” which they get into in an effort to keep themselves together.

I’m trembling from the impact, the realization of the dark side of things, and the fact that not one person in the room could handle what went down.

The black vibes seem to extend on in a five-minute electronic music, set, people are concentrating on get­ ting themselves in shape for the rest of the show.

More songs and some dancing follow. The fireater and two of the women do some simple tumbling and acrobatics. It’s not the most skill­ ful ever, I can hear heads crack as they hit the floor.

The show is almost over and the White Company sing to us, May the long time sun shine on you all love surround you and the pure light within you guide your way home. and soon everyone is dancing with them.

We weren’t entertained, we lived through it. Anytime they could have asked me to join and I would have.

Never gone along “to be entertained” and had that happen to me.

Introducing your electric dreams and mine David Bowie (The Rise and Fall o f Ziggy Stardust and the Spydermen From Mars.) by Raphael Urso One thing is for sure: Bowie’s campness is utterly irrelevant to his music. Superman may have been camp too, but it didn’t stop him leaping tall buildings at a single bound, being faster than a speeding bullet, and being up in the sky — unlike a car hire firm — it probably didn’t even make him try harder.

Campness is not an end or a beginning in itself, it is merely a trait, a char­ acteristic, a fact of sexual being that may or may not have an influence — but to quote Richard Metzler ‘Who cares’. Farther, contrary to advertis­ ing, David Bowie is neither Ziggy or Lady Stardust although he certainly is the star — he is no more the Starman than Big Bad John.

David Bowie, in a feeling sense, reminds me of a lot of things, but of nobody more than Roy Orbison.

Now I don’t know why, but it is true, and I thought it should be mentioned.

The songs on this record are far more than tonal breathing exercises (excuse sentimentality). More they are gasps of pain and joy, and both, and neither.

Ziggy Stardust is an epic of our times, a musical goulash, technicolor.

I like it now, I want to remember it, here’s the way. Certain tunes on this album are tempting to reprint com­ pletely but I’ll try hard not to. Two songs really stand out, no come to think of it three songs, well really perhaps four, and even they’re hard to choose. I’ll only talk about those four songs — that way I won’t give away the plot. Yet I must quote a couple of lines from “ 5 Years” — which is not one of the four. To

keep my word I’ll do it without comment — I saw you in an icecream parlour Drinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine DON’T THINK YOU KNEW YOU! WERE IN THIS SONG. Christ!

Sorry.

“Moonage Daydream” is science fiction rock; depending for it’s open­ ness and spaciness not on reams of groovy farout feedback, but on the lyric form itself, I know you shouldn’t

call singers soothsayers or prophets, God knows, but this is a prophetic song — a song out of the far, far future that Buck Rogers never dream­ ed of —a song of space love unknown in any space except that which re­ sides in the hidden corridors of one mind.

Keep your ‘lettrie eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head

Press your space face close to mine love Freak out on a moonage daydream o yeah.

Bowie laughs at the words “ freak out” , “far out” , by echoing them over Ronson’s fiery (hah hah) guitar solo, and proves himself no droog with references to ‘in out in out’.

This is a song to watch the stars by. Bowie is electric as the fence around the mind museum, as electric as the sound that strikes your nervous system when your bare flesh touches a live wire of incidental energy.

Electricity is the theme, without a doubt, of “Hang On To Yourself’ (Have you noticed how difficult it is to be specific about this album — how this review, like an albatross with a man about its neck, has been forced to come down to earth?) a song dedicated to the last great groove in the sky. I know what it’s like to move like a tiger on vaseline — but lord knows how to tell any­ body about it. It doesn’t mean homo­ sexual love either — it’s the love the floor has for the feet that caress it in ever-widening circles and the feel the air has for the music that fills it.

Lady Stardust and Ziggy S ta r ­ dust are the ubiquitous Lou Reed and the amazing Jimi Hendrix.

Bowie’s song to Reed is the finest song he has ever written — with per­ haps the only exception being “ Bewley Brothers” on Hunky Dory. I love the word “allright” - “he was allright, the band was all together, he was allright, the song went on forever.”

Lady is a word of peace, tranquility, gentility — Stardust is the trail left behind a meterorite of no particular direction or speed, even a lazy meteor­ ite that meanders across a sky too black to notice. Few loves have been celebrated in such a way since th e year of the snake.

It is amazing to notice the animos­ ity Bowie (and, by inference, many other rock stars) felt for Hendrix.

Lines like ‘we bitched about his fans and should we brush his sweet hands?’ speak volumes for those who saw their cherished work of decades go up in seconds in the flash of one left-handed Fender guitar. ‘So where were the spiders when the fly tried to break our balls’, you may well ask — but you will have to pay the price of knowing you wish another dead. I suppose any dream is there to be fulfilled, to be lived, to be cried over.

I was allright for a while I could cry for a while B ut I saw you last night You held my hand so tight As you stopped to say ‘Hello’ 0 you wished me well You couldn’t tell That I ’d been crying over you Crying over you And you said so long, left me standing all alone Alone and crying . . .

—Roy Orbisron 1 dearly love The Rise A nd Fall o f Ziggy Stardust and thus am hardly qualified to write about it. It is me — it is things I’ve thought about and wanted. I love its highs and lows and goods and evils and its basic humanity. Dreams are not necessarily hallucinations — they are vhat, bas­ ically, reality is made of.

— no-one liked it. And in the case alone. He believes in what Bill Bur­ of at least six people Carole seemed ro u g h s writes, and has even gqne to to affect them to the point where the disturbing length of obtaining they became as up-tight as your one of those machines Burroughs average man-on-the-street. What did calls an E-Meter. I told him about it all mean? Tapestry was as much Tapestry, the story was almost an a bummer with girls as it was with epic by this, it took a while. He boys. She was accused of being said, well there’s only one thing to just about everything from ‘preten­ do — we have to put this recording tious’ to ‘banal’, the thing that inter­ into somebody’s mind, and then we’ll ested me most though was that Carole take a reading on the meter. I was ‘sexless’ — I’d always found couldn’t handle the idea, I just didn’t her songs and particularly her voice, believe any good would come of it extremely attractive.

— I humored him for several hours.

Meanwhile outside in the world, He played a bootleg Zappa and when Tapestry was rising into the top he dozed off I fled into the night. five of the best selling LP’s, and What had I started, La musique ‘It’s too Late’ was a smash-hit single. savante mangue a notre desir.

As it happened Germaine Greer Now, I know that my friends are not really very typical — most of was in town, and Carole’s phrases them part-time poets, academics, were slung in the very gimbles of school teachers, pushers and takers ‘what you should think.’ John Laws — some even claim to belong to a reassured the housewives with ‘I’ve mysterious political party called ‘The always wanted a real house, with Counter-Culture’ others are folk- flowers on the window sill/but if singers, bums, pool-players and you want to live in New York City psyche-nurses. So I ranged around, — honey I will.’ — And that’s a in search of a Carole King freak, good line as any to point up the humming ‘So Far Away’ on my car- talent of Carole King. A real house? radio. I found a girl finally in of all flowers on the window? New York places, Balmain, playing Tapestry that great metaphor beyond meta­ very loudly dn her player, she was phors: energy. Nobody realised of totally unaware of the Great Tapestry course Carole was liberated not only Controversy that was now raging in her music, but in her life: I mean, outside her flat. It didn’t help much she never did work it out with Baby though, we ended Up just listening James Taylor — except as a name to the record together. I asked her to sing along with, a guitar to back why she liked it so much as I was her. Carole King is an old hand in the music scene, she knows how leaving, but all she said was that to make-up a good song. What she she simply dug keyboards. says is not always what she thinks.

By this stage I had formulated In the end, I went to a musicmany peculiar, and as it turned out extraneous, theories. I decided to shop, I knew one of the girls who look up a guy you don’t usually go sold records there, thousands of them. looking up, he is one of those people I asked her who were the people who seem to be everywhere. And buying Tapestry and she said ‘Oh, always there when you want to be you know — all kinds.’

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IN SEAR CH OF T H E A L L -T IM E GREATS For those among us who sit around the stereo gramaphone with a stack of oldies-but-goodies, play­ ing The Album to each other, here follows an exercise specially pre­ pared for rock and roll dilettantes.

AH you have'to do is send us a new, .album and The Digger will despatch a statement of 50 words or less. No, we’ll run through that again . . . The Digger plans to run an all-time top ten album s and singles list, which will be The Last Word on the raves,-from-thegrave records, and perhaps put a stop to the idle chatter around the stereo and enable you to do a bit of hard listening, or maybe it will act as a catalyst for more discussion and rebuttals, or maybe things will stay the same. Time has a funny way of telling. So the idea is to, if you want to be part of yet another definitive statement on rock, list your top ten all-time favorite albums (noting the artist, and the label if possible), and then a separate list of your all-time ditto singles.

Now a few working notes: For the albums, you might have dis­ covered an album which never made local release, but which never­ theless deserves a place in the side.

There’s no need to be deliberately obscure, but for instance The Byrd’s Notorious Byrd Brothers (“ looked upon by many as a rock classic” as the music mags would say) wasn’t released locally, and you might want it in the ten. Well, thJat’s alright. f I And for the singles, you might have the hots for an album cut which never made it as a single release. Well that would start get­ ting tricky for us down here, so keep it to : the little 45s.

Now you can have any vintage on your list from Never A Dull Moment back to Crash Craddock’s Boom Boom Baby, Johnny Ray’s Little White Cloud or the Help! album.

For your effort of sending your list in, you’ll get a guaranteed absolute zero , apart from the satis­ faction of being part of the ultimate final, complete, last word, definit­ ive, this is it, list. The reason is because we haven’t got anything to give, and also because we can think of no selective criterion for reward.

So, with the readers’ lists, The Digger rock boogie computer wiU process out the final list, which will appear here sometime soon . .

POETS OF THE COUNTRY, COME TOGETHER The Digger plans something of a poetry Supplement, within the next three or four issues in fact. The selection will be in the hands of Norman Talbot, and copy should be forwarded to that gentleman, c/o Department of English, The University of Newcastle, NSW, 2308.

Preferred deadline is October 27, and final closing date is November 3., Preconditions are next-to-nil.

November 4 — November 18

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Supplement I

SYDNEY FLYER Percy (dir: Ralph Thomas) A Woman’s Day (first Aust­ State Theatrette, 49 Mar­ ralian women’s film) and ket St. Jhe Woman’s Film Womens The Priest’s Wife - double Film Group, 7.30pm, Ste­ with Death in Venice, phen Roberts Theatre, U of Orpheum, 386 Military Rd. Sydney, Parramatta Rd., Cremorne. Opens: Sat. Nov. Glebe.

11, closes: Fri. Nov. 17.

Niagara and Notorious Vin Royal Ballet double with tage Film Group, 7.30pm, Swan Lake Orpheum, 386 Union Theatre, Parramatta Military Rd, Cremome.

Rd, Glebe.

Closes: Fri. Nov. 10 Sabata (dir: Frank Kramer) FRI 10TH: The Champion Regent, 487 George St. and L’Atlantide National Opens: Mon Nov. 6. film Theatre Classics 7.30 Stork (dir: Tim Burstall) pm AMP Theatre, Circular double with Bedroom Ma­ zurka, Metro, 530 Oxford Quay.

Queen Christina (dir: MamSt, Bondi Junction oulian) and Ninotchka Such Good Friends Ra(dir: Lubitsch) Vintage Film pallo, 527 George St. Group, 7.30pm, Union Swan Lake double with Royal Ballet Orpheum, 386 Theatre, Parramatta Rd, Military Rd, Cremorne.

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SAT 11TH: I Hate MonThey Call Me Trinity days and More Than Life Paris, 205 Liverpool.

Is At Stake Polish classic < 2001: A Space Odyssey. no sub-titles 7.00pm, Union The Adventures of Barry Forum, 749 George St. Theatre, Parramatta Rd., McKenzie: Ascot Theatre, Ulysses Savoy Theatre, Glebe.

29 Bligh St. 246 Pitt.

Bedroom Mazurka double What’s Up Doc? Lyceum MON 13TH: Sawdust and 210 Pitt St. with Stork Metro, 530 Oxford St, Bondi Junction. You Don’t Need Pajamas Tinsel (dir: Bergman) and at Rosies double with Hos­ Eroica (dir: Andre Munk) The Birthday Party New 7.30pm. Union Theatre, pital Orpheum, 386 Mil­ South Head Road, Rose U. of Sydney, Parramatta itary Rd, Cremorne.

Bay. Rd, Glebe Butterflies are Free Town Opens: Sat. Nov. 18.

Theatre, 303 Pitt TUES 14TH: Charulata (dir Cabaret Mayfair Theatre, Satyajit Ray) 7.30pm Un­ 73 Castlereagh ion Theatre, U. of Sydney, The Candidate Classic Parramatta Rd, Glebe.

Cinema, 9 Spit Road, From Afar (dir: Nino Russo) Mosman and A Schoolteachers Chato’s Land Plaza, 600 Diary (dir: Vittoria de Sica) SAT 4TH: Oceans and A National Film Theatre FAI George St. A Clockwork Orange Bar­ Beautiful Day (Surfing Italian TV Series, 7.30pm movies) 6.00pm & 8.00pm clay, 681 George St. Commonwealth Centre The Corridor double with Union Theatre, of Sydney, Theatre, Chifley Square Parramatta Rd., Glebe.

Initiation Dendy, 360 Padific Highway, Crows SUN 5TH: Hungarian Mov­ WED15TH: Juliet Of The Nest.

Spirits (dir: Fellini) 7.30pm ie Club - 1.00pm, Union Death in Venice (dir: Vis­ Theatre, U. of Sydney, Union Theatre, U. of Syd­ conti) - double with The ney, Parramatta Rd, Glebe Parramatta Rd, Glebe.

Priests Wife Orpheum, I Don’t Have Time (dir: AnTHX1138 and The Pro­ 386 Military Rd, Cremome ducers (with Miss Universe) sano Gianarelli) National The Devils (dir: Ken Rus­ 7.00pm, Union Theatre, U Film Theatre RAI Italian sel) Roma Theatre, 628 of Sydney, Parramatta Rd, TV series 7.30pm Common­ George St. wealth Centre Theatre, Glebe Every Little Crook and Chifley Square.

Garden of Isabella (dir: Nanny Liberty Theatre, Felipe Cagals) and Emili232 Pitt St. THURS 16TH: White ano. Zapata (dir: Felipe Fiddler on the Roof Cen­ Cozals) National Film Knights (dir: Pyriev) 5.00pm tury, 586 George St. Union Theatre, U. of Syd­ Theatre Mexican Season.

Frenzy State Theatre, 49 7.00pm, Orpheum, 386 ney, Parramatta Rd. Glebe.

Market St. Knife In The Water (dir: Military Rd, Cremorne.

Get To Know Your Rab­ Polanski) and Come Back bit Classic Cinema, 9 Spit TUES 7TH:One Two Three Africa (dir: Lionel Rogsin) (dir: Gianni Serra) and The 7130pm Union Theatre, U. Road, Mosman The Godfather (dir;Francis Conspirators (dir: De And­ of Sydney, Parramatta Rd, FordCoppola) Paramount, rade) National Film Thea­ Glebe. tre, RAI Italian TV Season.

525 George St. FRI 17TH The Idiot (dir: 7.30pm, Commonwealth The Great Escape (dir: Pyriev) 5.00pm, Union John Sturgess) Embassy, Centre Theatre, Chifley Square.

Theatre, U of Sydney, Par­ 79 Castlereagh St. ramatta Rd, Glebe.

Hospital double with You The Thin Man and Susan Lennox: Her Fall And Rise Les Enfants Du Paradis (dir: Don’t Pajamas at Rosies Carne) 7.30pm, Union Orpheum, 386 Military Rd, Vintage Film Group, Theatre, U. of Sydney, Par­ Cremorne. Opens: Sat Nov. 7.30pm Union Theatre, ramatta Rd, Blebe. The Parramatta Rd, Glebe 18. early films of Charles Chap­ Initiation double with The WED 8TH: Wife Versus Corridor Dendy, Secretary and Two Faced lin (compilation short) Live Between Evil (Aust­ 360 Pacific Highway, Woman Vintage Film Group ralian Short) and BerlinCrows Nest.

7.30pm, Union Theatre Symphone Of A City Nat­ Kama Sutra New Arts Cine­ Parramatta Rd, Glebe. ional Film Theatre Classic ma, 166 Glebe Pt. Rd, THURS 9TH: Going And Night, 7.30pm, AMP Thea­ Glebe.

Coming (dir: Buiseppe tre, Circular Quay.

One Day In The Life Of Bertolucci) and Augustine Ivan Denisovich Gala Cine­ of Hippo (dir: Roberte SAT 18TH: Seven Samu­ ma, 236 Pitt.

Rossellini) 7.30pm, Com­ rai (dir: Kurosawa) 7.30pm monwealth Centre Theatre, Union Theatre, U. of Syd­ ney, Parramatta Rd, Glebe.

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Where Do We Go From Here? by Helga Burgess dir: David Goddard, Independent Theatre, 271 Miller St, North Sydney. 929-7377. Sat: 2.00 Prices: $1.2- adults, $0.60 children, A children’s play.

The Spring Heeled Terror Of Stepney Green by & dir: Stanley Walsh, Music Hall Restaurant, 156 Military Rd, Neutral Bay, 909-8222 Mon to Sat 8.30 - dinner from 6.00. Mon - Fri $2.70, Sat. $3.20 (not in­ cluding food & drink) The Removalists by David Williamson dir; John Bell, Playbox Theatre, 136 Phil­ lip St. 221-2814, Tues. to Sat. at 8.30, Sun at 6.00 Frid & Sat mats 6.00.

Prices: $4.00, Conces­ sions, students $2.20, Tues, Wed & Thurs.

Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber, dir: Jim Sharman, Capital Theatre, 13 Cambell St, Haymarket, 212-3677. Mon to Sat at 8.30, Fri & Sat mats 6.00, Prices: $5.20, $4.20 & $3.20. Concessions: Party bookings.

The Australian Ballet with Aileen Corpus III (left), Bob Maza (above) and NUREYEV, Hordern PaGary Foley (below), Basically Black villion, Showground, Driver Ave, Paddington. 29-7364 (Mitchells) Opens: Nov. 4,6, 7,9,10,11 at 8.00. Sat. mat.

Nov. 11 at 2.00. Prices: Know I’ve Been A Liar Basically Black, An Abor­ $12.00, $8.20 & $6.20. Con­ All My Life by Goldoni, dir: iginal Revue dir. Ken Horler. Nimrod Street Theatre, John Bell. Old Tote Thea­ cessions: children & pension­ 10 Nimrod St, Darlinghurst tre Company, Parade Thea­ ers V2 price at all perfor­ mances.

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Tues & Sat mat $1.00, Wed $6.00 with dinner.

Bjelke-Peterson Dance & Thurs $1.50.

An Isolated Case Of Heter- Godspell by John Michael Company Union Theatre, Chromia by R.C. Herbert Tebelack dir: Sammy Bayes University of Sydney, Par­ dir; Shirley Broadway, New Richbrooke Theatre, 150 ramatta Rd, Glebe, 660Theatre, St- Peters Lane, 5 Elizabeth St, Sydney. 611355. Sat. Nov 4 & Sat Nov East Sydney 31-3237.

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Union Theatre, University Sun at 8.15. Pric: $2.00 $3.50 & $4.50, Fri & Sat of Sydney, Parramatta Rd, Concessions: Students, mats $2.80 & $3.80.

Glebe 660-1355. Sat. Nov $1.00, children & Pension­ Concessions: V2 price to 18 at 2.00 ers, 7 0 cents. children & pensioners to Move Over Mrs. Markham mats.

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8.00- 8.28 Behind the Legend: Caroline Chisholm fee. A full range of contra­ Manly Vale Hotel ConWOMENS HOUSE, 25 Al­ LANGTON CLINIC, Cnr danine St, Manly Vale, 8.009.00 Liza with a Z - Liza Minelli ceptive aids is available Dowling & Nobbs Sts, Moor berta St, Sydney and 67 music every Frid & Sat. 9.0010.30 Danny La Rue at the Palace on the premises, and you Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Park. Tel: 31-2196. Dry­ 9.0010.50 Secret Ceremony (Liz Taylor, Mia can purchase them there. SAT 4TH - Hot Rocket ing out for men & women; (660-4687) Farrow) FPA also runs a vasectomy WED 8TH - band talent admission through the out­ 10.00- 10.45 ....And All That Jazz (Bobby clinic every Friday. You’ve quest ■/¿S' '”1 ¡ I ' : -:- v I ® patients department, open THURS 9TH - Johnny Hackett, Dizzy) got to be 16. FPA has a 10-7, Monday to Friday. large number of suburban O’Keefe.

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THURS 9TH Lizard 10.30am-12.00 The Black Swan (Tyrone Power, GAY LIBERATION 10 AL-ANON FAMILY FRID 10TH: Miss Uni­ Maureen O’Hara) GROUPS, Caritas Cottage, Gay Lib Centre, 67 Glebe verse 12.00- 1.30 Humphrey Bogart Festival: You .............. V ^ v v Cnr. Bourke & Burton Sts., Point Rd. (660-4687) 7pm SAT 11TH: Sun Can’t Get Away With Murder Darlinghurst. Tel: 31-9668, 10pm Monday to Friday.

SAT 18TH 69ers.

8.30- 10.55 The Way West (Kirk Douglas, Richard 31-4430. For families and Wednesday is Gay Womens Widmark, Robert Mitcham) NEXUS GROUP P.O. Box Dennison Hotel 59 Ox­ night. friends who live with al­ 325 St. Mary’s - group of ford, Bondi Junction, mu­ THURSDAY 9TH coholics, to share experi­ Camp Inc. Box 5074, people all of whom have sic Tuesday, Wednesday 12.00- 1.20 Humphrey Bogart Festival: The ence, support. 9.30-3.30 G.P.O. Sydney, (82-4023) previously undergone some and Saturday afternoons Great O’Malley Monday to Friday. .. . ,il form of institutional TUES 7TH Lizard 7.00- 8.00 1972 Ringling Bros. Barnum & WAYSIDE CHAPEL WED 8TH Pike County therapy.

Bailey Circus COUNSELLING SERVICE 7.309.40 Harper (Paul Newman) 29 Hughes St, Potts Point Seems that a lot of people Breakdown SAT 11TH Taw 8.0011.15 Around The World In 80 Days# (35-1010 & 35 6577) are very unhappy with O-FUNG VEGETARIAN the deal they receive from FRIDAY 10TH CAFE - 26 Glebe Point Rd. the psychiatric establish­ Bondi Royal Hotel S jp ■. . „ ■ i. ÿ_________________________ ■ 283 Bondi Rd, Bondi 12.001.30 Humphrey Bogart Festival ZEN MACROBIOTIC ) ■ ■ ■ _________ t: _______I I ____ ■ ment. Any groups with al­ Week beginning Monday The Big Slot RESTAURANT, 288 ternative ideas looking into 6th. 200000 featuring 6.306.55 Switched On Set “San Francisco State College 1968” Oxford St. Bondi Junction. this scene we’d like to hear Dave Miller 9.3011.30 The Poppy Is Also A Flower (A from you (31-5073) NATURAL FOODS One of the 114 photographs from America’s underground press, edited into a drug bust movie)» Here for what it’s worth - Polaris Room, Kingsgate We haven’t checked out RESTAURANT, 150 collection titled Shots by David Felton.

10.50-11.15 Six Dates With Barker. The Bldng, Cnr. Victoria St these listings, so if you Liverpool St.(31-3733) CALLAN PARK PSYCHI­ & Kings Cross Road Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London have any info about them ATRIC CENTRE, Balmain House band - Air ALTERNATIVE Town - by Spike Milligan or other places to crash Rd, Rozelle, 2039. (82MEDICAL CENTRE,/ SATURDAY11TH $1.00.

A collection of phone us (31-5073) or tell ives.

It’s a pity that the • troduced by Erika Huggins Oxford Hotel 134 Ox­ 6601) 195 Bourke St. J f jf* quotes, graffitti, and jokes labelling laws in Australia^ and Bobby Seale, arid com­ 10.00am-12.00 The Marx Brothers Go West A.C.T (698-2652) ford St, Darlinghurst.

[7 (33-5453) macrobiotic 9.30pm-11.15 King Kong in the worst possible taste. make it less useful than it* missioned by the Liber­ FOR MEN ONLY Music every Wednesday 7 meals and good vibes every A piece of genuine Aus10.20pm-12.10 The Gunfighter (Gregory Peck) CITY NIGHT REFUGE, could be. Get your local to Saturday 10 ation News Service it Monday night $1.20 do­ 11.15-12.50 The Abominable Snowman of the 531 Kent St, (61-6136) traliana. hip bookseller to order it. comes with impeccable SAT 4TH Phil Manning nation.

Himalayas SALVATION ARMY, 64 SOCIALIST YOUTH AL­ WED8TH-SAT 11TH credentials. One to stick Herman Hesse, The Glass Bill Wannan, Folklore o f There are lots of food Foster St (212-1065) & R.D. Laing, Knots, Pen­ LIANCE (S.Y.A.), 139 St. Phil Manning Bead Game (Magister Ludi SUNDAY 12TH The Australian Pub, Mac­ with your bound copies co-ops starting around 56 Albion St. (61-2367) Johns St, Glebe. (26-2121) of the East Village Other.

Penguin .) A novel about guin, $0.85. Knots is 5;35pm-5.55 The Original Laurel & Hardy Millan, $2.95.

Prolific Oceanic Carr St, Coogee.

Sydney, send us some info DRAFT RESISTORS UN­ CENTRAL METHODIST Laings synthesis of what everything, probably Putting Pants On Phillip Australophile Wanna has 2 Music Tuesday to Satur­ about yours.

A.C.T. (698MISSION, 2 Francis St he knows about interper­ ION, Cl- Ian Davis, S.R.C. Hesse’s best book. The collected an incredible col­ day & Sat. afternoons.

8.45-11.35 The Birdman Of Alcatraz (Bert 2652) Box 23 P.O. Surrey Sydney University.

(31-2471) sonal relationships in bind, Niall Brennan, The Politics 10 House band - Doug Par­ Penguin edition costs Lancaster) Hills, 2010 has published double and triple bind sit­ lection of shaggy dog Y.M.C.A., 325 Pitt St. o f Catholics, Hill Publish­ COMMUNIST PARTY OF $2.55 and the American jokes, reminiscences and kinson In Focus. some food information uations, set out like poems.

(26-1061) not cheap, $4 ing Co., $1.95.

How the AUSTRALIA, 4 Dixon St. SAT 4TH Normie Row paperback has been selling MONDAY 13TH sheets, send ’em 12 cents (26-2161) Its a real mindblower and bald statements that should NCC and right wing Cath­ for B & B. 10 here for $1.95 — making 4.004.30 Abbott & Costello cheer you up when you in stamps and they’ll send AUSTRALIAN LABOR FOR WOMEN olics have wrecked the Windsor Castle, Windsor it and-Lord o f the Rings much more accessible on run out of dope.

5.005.30 Something Else - Roberta Flack, the gutlevel than his other SALVATION ARMY, Old them out to you. They also PARTY, 377 Sussex St., church. Brennan has a sort Frigid Pink, Phil Ochs 7 St, Paddington. Music from the only two paperbacks Cable St, La Perouse. (661- have a whole stack of in­ of love/hatè relationship Thurs. to Saturday & Sat more expensive in English books. Good news though Craig McGregor, Don't (26-2732) 7.30- 8.30 Marty Feldman & the Golddiggers 7 formation about bulk­ 2765) & 471 Dowling St, with the Groupers and GLEBE ANTI-EXPRESS- afternoons. Merv Atkin­ editions. Still worth read­ is the fact that nearly all Talk To Me A bout Love, buying and how to get of his, and his associates’ Penguin, $1.20. McGregor writes in a fairly mediocre TUESDAY 14TH Moore Park (31-5586) son.

WAY ACTION GROUP ing, though.

5.005.30 Something Else - Smith, Blue Image, cheap food. books are now in paper­ HOSTEL FOR WOMEN way about it. Much of the (660-5835), P.O. Box 82, ex Sydney push person, & Shocking Blue at Malibu back. Penguin have pub­ (Catholic), Marion House. stuff is taken from his 7 Richard Bach, Jonathon Glebe. writes a novel about love 7.308.30 Crocodile Safari 161 Castlereagh St (26earlier book John Wren Livingston Seagull, Turns­ lished: The Divided Self, 10 WOMENS ELECTORAL in the pressures of Bo­ 10.35-11.35 High Society (doco on the ‘drug The Self and Others, Pol­ hemia. The standard trip 5289) Gambler which had the tone, $4.50. This book LOBBY, 87 Young St., itics of Experience, Sanity, to England is incorporated, virtue of some good anec­ problem’) Country Comfort Con­ Y.W.C.A, 189 Liverpool 10 had been published for Cremome.

Madness and the Family, cert at Paddington Town St. (26-2451) 2 years in the States when as well as disillusioned pro­ dotes.

TAKE TO THE HILLS WEDNESDAY 15TH as well as Aaron Esterson’s fessionals, drunkards and Hall - Friday 10th, 7 .3 0 / it suddenly took off — it Two others, 10.30- 12.00 New Orleans (featuring Louis Land buying co-op. Why The Leaves of Spring. pm, admission $2.00 with David Harcourt, Everyone was on top of the non­ fucking in Greece. Light PEOPLES PALACE, 400 10 Armstrong & Bill! Holliday) pay $200 an acre when col Tavistock have a paper­ Country Radio, Red Mcfiction list there for 6 reading a la Edna O’Brien, Wants To Be Fuehrer, Pitt St. (211-5777) You lectively you can buy at Kelvie’s 3rd Union Band, months, and has been top back of Reason and Viol­ and curiously, how shall I Angus & Robertson, $3.95. THURSDAY 16TH ALTERNATIVE must have some luggage $20. Ring A.C.T. (6989.00pm-11.00 The Charge Of The Light Brigade Southern Comfort, Pike ence, written with David of the fiction list for a Angus & Robertson with­ put it? passe.

LEARNING with you! $2.60 per night. 2652) 10 (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland,David Niven) County Breakdown, Cooper, whose Psychiatry drew this book from cir­ year.

This reflects some C.B. CHAMBERS oppos­ GLENFIELD FARM FREE 10.3012.10 Umberto D (Vittoria de Sica’s Smaug, Hawcreek. and Anti-Psychiatry is in confusion as to what the culation because of the Glenfield Farm is a com­ ite the Peoples Palace, great movie) munity, a place of peace, SCHOOL has been started Free Concert at Padding book is about. Rolling mention it made of relat­ David Fenton, Shots, Paladin. $2.50 per night. historic farm, conference by secondary students for ton Town Hall Sunday ionships between certain Stone thought it was a Douglas, $3.40. David FRIDAY 17TH Check out the classifieds secondary students. Min­ centre, place for zen allegory; we think it’s Ruth Winter, A Consumers Fenton, the most reput­ Libs and the Ustasha. It 6.30pm-6.55 Switched On Set of the dailies and try uni­ 12th, 4.00pm till imum of structure. Info exchanging views. also tells you more than 11.55-1.20 Lady Killer (James Cagney) versity notice boards 11.30pm with McCaskill, some sort of a story about Dictionary o f Food Addit­ able photographer in the (602-8095) It needs sharehold­ you’ll ever need to know ives, Crown (U.S.), $4.40. underground press, has Itambu, Gunga Din, Seb­ a seagull.

SATURDAY18TH ers §it $5.00 a throw, gives In the first weekend in put together a book of ter­ about the dozen or so A very valuable book that December they’re having astian Hardy, Woye, plus Bill Hornadge, The Down 11.15pm-1.35 For Whom The Bell.Tolls you a vote in the com­ Nazis in Australia.

Excel­ rific photos of the last 5 lists all known haumful jam sessions and introdu­ a seminar on the social (Ingrid Bergman & Gary Cooper) mon meeting and noUnder Calendar 1973, and desireable food addit- or 6 years in Amerika. In- lent design. sciences and creative writ­ cing McPhee. one can have more than SYDNEY DAY NURSERY one vote. Box 2598 G.P.O. ing.

Music & Movies at the & NURSERY SCHOOLS Council subsidizes. These ASSOC’ (Inc). 39 Park St., Sydney 357-24585. They Next year a secondary pro­ Union Theatre Sunday 5th areas are mostly in the are experimenting in meth­ Miss Universe, 7.00pm gressive is starting in Terry Sydney, Tel: 26-5421; 26performing arts: theatre, p S î S S s - g ods of organic farming and Hills. For more news (449- (with 2 films) 5300. A central office for ballet, mixed media, child­ W tà ¿to' need weekend gardeners 1950) 13 day care centres. The Lukeham Oval - Sunday ren’s things, poetry in (60-2895) filli organization says it tries 12th, Jeff St. John, La performance and Special especially to help working De Das, Country Radio, Projects. This last thing is , mothers of children from 1 Blackfeather, Wendy _ where you have to talk Australian Council for the month to 5 years. The mèèëèèssêÈIÈm Saddington, Africa, Bat­ them into believing your Arts.

Centres are open 49 weeks tersea Heroes, Ted Mulry, thing is theirs also.

These people are at Saeach year; medical and den­ Green Elephant, 266 Robin Jolly, Doug Par­ bemo House, 226 Miller (c) drop a line or give them tal attention is given to the Anzac Parade, Kensington. kinson, Colleen Hewett, St., Nth Sydney and a ring. Tell them what you Fridays & Saturdays kids.

Bullit, Jeff Phillips, their function in life is want to do, and ask for ALTERNATIVE 8pm till 2pm, admission Porridge.

Here are the schools: to give away money to the forms to fill in. These MEDICAL $1.50, Films are shown starving artists of the per­ aren’t very complicated, CENTRE, 195 Bourke St too.

Erskineville (88 Swanston forming kind. They are not and will be easy to do if (near William St) (33St.) Tel: 51-2097; Forest SAT. 4TH: Battersea He­ to be confused with the you have done (a) properly.

5453) offers a wide variety roes, Itambu, Pirana.

Lodge (24 Arundel St.) Arts Council of Australia Send it off to them.

Tel: 660-1207; Riverwood of natural and cosmic ther­ FRI’ 10TH: Sherbert, with its Federal and State (d) It then is assessed by apies. Donation according Miss Universe, Hot Rock­ (rear of 142 Belmore Rd.) FAT JACK’S TECHNOL­ divisions, whose job is Tel: 53-4265; Marrickville to means. Treatments and et the officer in charge of OGY SHOP. People using mainly to tour people (251 Illawarra Rd.) Tel: 56- services include naturo­ SAT’ 11TH: Country Ra­ technology not technology whatever your gig is, and around the countryside.

4221; Cremome (33 Brierly pathy, massage, relaxation dio, Miss Universe, Para­ then talked over by the using people (389-1815) therapy, acupuncture and gon St.) Tel: 90-4271; apposite committee, then To get money from the BLISS APOCALYPSE herbal remedies.

Newtown (131 Burren FRI. 17TH: La De Das, sent to the full Council Australian Council: mass outdoor celebratory St.) Tel: 51-1521; Crows Gary Young & Hot Dog, (a) think out clearly what for approval and sent to ritual, in rehearsal, needs Nest (8 Rodborough Ave,) PREGNANCY TESTING Lotu.c the Minister for the Arts you want to do, cost it Tel: 92-3627; Paddington Take a small early morning SAT. 18TH: Pirana, Gary participants. Phone Don who gets the cheque signed. fjjP r carefully so that anyone (38-6461) '» (33 Heeley St.) Tel: 31urine sample to Park Regis Young & Hot Dog, Wolf.

S p y can see where rrioney (e) This takes a while, YOGA MEDITATION 2621; Redfem (143 Suther­ Pharmacy, cnr Park and Whisky A GoGo, 152 might go. sometimes up to three CENTRE, 198 Day St. 3rd Castlereagh Sts, pay your William St, Kings Cross. land St.) Tel: 69-6877; (b) check whether what months but whispers can Floor (61-2456) Free $4.50 and phone back (26Bondi Junction (Cnr. Ebyou want to do falls into be gained from whoever lectures and group meditat­ Buffy St. Marie, due for a concert at Sydney’s State Theatre November 12th.

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MELBOURNE FLYER Phone guide CITIZENS ADVICE BUR­ EAU, 107 Russell St. Melb.

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LIFE LINE 662-1000 PERSONAL EMERGENCY ADVICE SERVICE 415678 POISONS INFORMATION SERVICE 347-5522 DENTAL EMERGENCY SERVICE 347-4222 LARUNDEL 469-2911 ROYAL PARK PSY­ CHIATRIC HOSPITAL 38-8151 ALP: 347-3777 COMMUNIST PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, 1st Floor, 197 Lonsdale St. 663-3965 SOCIALIST YOUTH AL­ LIANCE: 136 Queensberry St., Carlton 347-3507 WORKER STUDENT AL­ LIANCE Box 2710x GPO Melb, 52-3545.

RADICAL ACTION MOVEMENT: 57 Palmer­ ston St. Carlton. 347-5640 WORKING PEOPLES AS­ SOCIATION (anarchists) 42 Smith St. Collingwood DRAFT RESISTERS UN­ ION Box 55 Highett Post Office or CICD CONGRESS FOR INTER­ NATION CO-OPERATION & DISARMAMENT (CICD)

208 Little Lonsdale St. 663-3677 GAY LIB Box 85 Melb Uni. Union.

ABORTION LAW RE­ PEAL ASSOCN: 94-1540 VICTORIAN SECOND’Y STUDENTS UNION: 804 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.

PRISONS ACTION GROUP 82 Storey St. Carlton 347-3693 CARLTON ASSOCIATION Box 52 Carlton Post Office.

FITZROY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION 124 Napier St, Fitzroy 41-2050 FRIENDS OF THE EARTH 72 Studley Park Kew. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION CENTRE 29 Drummond St. Carlton 347-6216 DIVINE LIGHT MISSION Cnr. Faraday & Cardigan St. Carlton.

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UFO RESEARCH SOC Box 43 Moorabin.

AUSTRALIAN UNION OF STUDENTS 344 Vic­ toria St, Nth Melb. 3297666 AUSTRALIA PARTY: 70a Chapel St. St. Kilda 948095.

CARLTON FREE COA­ CHING: 120 Rathdowne

Sat 11: Friends (direct St. Carlton Thur 16: Musos night: from Eastern Suburbs) ENVIRONMENTAL Mighty Mouse; Tank Clockwork Strawberry/UK; Winston Charles ACTION LEAGUE 783Captain Quack & The 1320 Sat 4: Delltones Thicket Ducks; Warren WOMENS CENTRE: 16 Mon 6: Delltones Morgan.

Little Lonsdale St. 347Top Hat Cabaret 1564 Iceland Sat 4: Marina Dale CONSUMER Sun 5: Blackfeather Mon 6: Noel McKay — all week PROTECTION BUREAU, Sun 12: Bakery 100 Exhibition St. 63-0321 Easyrider Distillery ABORIGINES ADVANCE­ Sat 4: Rondells Sat 4: Tender Plenty; Digby Richards MENT LEAGUE, 56 Cun­ Wed 8: Headband Mon 6: Digby Richards; ningham St. Northcote Thur 9: Carson; Adrian Frankie Davidson (all 489-8467 Rawlins week) Fri 10: Top Show band Sat 11: Top Show Band Wed 15: Disco Group Thur 16: Carson; Adrian Berties Pier Hotel, Frankston Rawlins Sat 4: Country Radio, Sat 4: Toni Lamond; Much More Carson Garry Hyde Tradition Sun 5: Jade; Blackfeather Sat 11: Bathroom Show: i Sun 4: Tony Williams Carson; Madder Lake; Sat 11: Tank; Middle Mon 6: Digby Richards Indelible Murtceps; PirEarth; Lobby & Colored Sat 11: Rim De Paul ana; Aquatic Review etc.

Balls.

Sun 12: Johnny Famham Sebastians Station Hotel, Greville Garrison St, Prahran. Rock music Sat. 4: Blackfeather Sat 4: Sid Rumbo; Murt­ every Thursday, Friday Fri. 10: Jade; Bakery ceps, 69ers Sat 11: Lobby & Colored Sun 5: Carson; Dutch Tid- and Saturday arvo. Re­ putedly the best patronised Balls; Bakery lers heads pub in Melbourne.

Fri 17 : Langford Lever; Mon 6: Cup Eve Special: Kortums Moreland Mighty Mouse - with Rus­ Lunatics Night: Carson; Sat 4: Yoemen sel Smith, Ian Clyne, Big Friends Fri 10: Yoemen & Little Goose, Kevin Wed 8: Closed Sat 11: Yoemen Murphey.

Thur 9: Musos Night: Dorset Gardens Friend; Tank Q Club Sat 4: Delltones Sat. 4: La De Das, Lobby Fri 10: Mighty Mouse; Mon 6: Noel McKay Friends & Colored Balls; Jade; Fri 10: Frankie Davidson Edison Lights; Adrian Sat 11: Bakery; Madder Sat 11: Frankie Davidson Rawlins &/or Warren Lake Tottenham Hotel Morgan Sun 12: Murtceps Sat 4: Digby Richards;

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15/100 Drummond St Carlton. 348201 Exclusive bookings

Cheap Eats Albion Hotel, comer Fara­ day and Lygon St., Carl­ ton. Most things including avocados, asparagus, steaks the odd curry and stewy things for under a buck.

Reasonably healthyful for carnivores.

Mergellina Pizza House, Glenhuntly Rd., Elstemwick, between Orrong & Kooyong Rds., as well as pizzas pretty reasonable

Italian type food and sal­ ads. Fill you up for a buck 50. Open til 3am week-, ends.

Pulcinella Pizza in Elgin St Carlton is like that too.

The more authentic Italian cooking.

Joannas, cnr Elgin and Canning St., very cheap but they don’t cook so good.

Taj Mahal, Chapel St., Prahran. Curries and stuff.

Ton of good stuff for 2.50.

KaiKai, Spring St., end of Little Bourke St., Anton­ io cooks Jamaican curries etc. $1.50.

Sishkebab, in Russell St before the copshop, cheap good Lebanese food. $2.

II Bistro, Bourke St., down from Pelligrinis, lunch joint but terrific on Satur­ days.

Yugoslav Restaurant in Brunswick St., Fitzroy just up from Johnson St. away from the city. Big­ gest schnitzels in the world. 80c.

Chinese Restaurants in Little Bourke St: The first alley down from Russell St., turn right and go up the concrete stairs. Best crisp skin chicken outside

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Sat 11: Bakery (A’n.)

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of Peking. And the Singlee in Celestial Lane. Tiny but terrific. 10 people can eat for $12.

L A loue tte & Le Fiacre in Victoria St., Nth. Mel­ bourne 3 or 4 bucks but reasonable facsimile of fiench cooking. Sometimes people sing in your ear.

The Chinese Mandarin, Toorak Rd. down from Chapel St. $4 but the crabs are great.

Borbles, Elgin St., Carlton.

Carlton push restaurant food, well, alright but the vibes are great. $2 all in.

Golden Age, King St.,_ Journos pub but good pub food. $2.50 depen­ ding on how much you drink.

Transylvania, Greville St., Prahran. Cheap East Euro­ pean food, but make them cook it for a long time.

Some of the blood is hu­ man, so take a crucifix and a garlic necklace.

Digger long term O.K. award.

Byzantium, Drummond St. Carlton. Classy Greek food, about $6 each.

Shakahari, Lygon St., Carlton.

Food For Thought, Chapel St. South Yarra.

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The Digger

November 4 — November 18

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i MELBOURNE FLYER Í1&MSb Theatre Pram Factory: New Theatre, Bert B recht— The Excep­ tion and the Rule, The Measure Taken. Fri, Sat, Sun. to Nov. 5th at 8.15 at the Backroom Theatre Pram Factory, 325 Drummond S t, Carlton. These plays were banned by the Nazis and damned by the House Un American Activities Committee and written by the greatest playwright of the 20th Century and per­ formed by a rejuvenated group that paid its dues in this kind of theatre in the 30s.

Pram Factory: Australian Performing Group/Nindethana Theatre: Brumby Innes, by Katharine Sus­ annah Prichard.

This play was written in the 20s but has never been performed before mainly due to its requirement of a black cast. Its a pretty exciting play about a rac­ ist/chauvinist station owner in the north west and the compromises involved in his and the blacks relation­ ships. 31st Nov. Tues to Sun at 8.15, for 4 weeks.

Bookings 3477133.

La Mama: The War Is Over by Kris Hemensley.

Fri, Sat, Sun til Nov. 12 at 9pm. This is a pretty strange play by a Melb. poet Hemensley about a bunch of soldiers in Viet­ nam who drop some acid, and, shoot horses, don’t they?, and see the walls move, elephants, hunters, masturbators and all that kind of thing. 205 Faraday St., Carlton. Bookings: 3476085.

St. Martins: Birds on the Wing, By Peter Yeldham.

Claremont Theatre 14 Claremont S t Sth Y FLASH JIM VAUX, by Ron Blair. Thurs. To Sun at 8.15. About a singing convict who was bawdy.

Russell St; Russell St. near Flinders S t A Touch of the Poet, by Eugene O'Neill. Nightly for a month. Good provincial repertory, if you like that sort of thing.

M ovies Albany: Dr Phibes Rises Again Athaneum: Carousel then A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Australia 1: The Summer of ‘42 & Billy Jack Australia 2: The Last Pic­ ture Show Balwyn: Ryan’s Daughter Bercy: What’s Up Doc? Capitol: Adventures of Barry McKenzie Chelsea: Henry VIII and his Six Wives Dendy Malvernt The Char­ ade & The Bride* Wore Black Dendy Brighton: Blushing Charlie Eastend 1: Clockwork Orange Eastend 2: Decameron Eastend 3: Angel Levine Esquire: J.W. Coop Forum: Simon Running Metro: Gone With The Wind Midcity 1: Cabaret Midcity 2: Fiddler on the Roof Midcity 3:Hickey & Boggs Midcity 4: ZPG Midcity 5: Butterflies Are Free Odeon: Frenzy Rivoli 1: Garden of the Finzi Continfc Rivoli 2: Macbeth Rapallo Endless Night Star: Monique Roma: Bedroom Mazurka Times: Bedside Dentist Trak: 2001.

Adventures o f Barry Mc­ Kenzie is from the Hum­ phrey strip of the same name and not half as good, but has its moments. To be seen in support of your local hollywood moguls.

Angel Levine... Bedroom Mazurka high class wankers film, will probably outlast Ryan's Daughter Bedside D entist.. . Billy Jack heartwarming tale of an experimental school fight­ ing racists and fascists in

America with a slightly NOV 26: Linsey Martin — warrant to arrest someone Footscray Trade Union misguided Indian karate or to recapture an escaped and Research Centre: Light show, films and expert who sees the light slides. Matt Butler — short person. If they do this Paisley St., Footscray, after assorted rapes, brawls films (Digger hit pick of they have no right to search Tel: 687351. etc. pretty good really. or take anything away. If Royal Women’s Hospital: the month) Blushing Charlie. .. Bride they do, give them a ring 132 Grattan St., Carlton.

Wore Black Truffauts thril­ St. Martins Late Show, and say that the matter Tel: 340951.

St. Martins Theatre, Fridays ler that isn’t as good as will be placed in the hands at 11.30.

Jules et Jim but what is?

OTHER FAMILY of your solicitors if they Butterflies Are Free . ..

10TH: Toni by Renoir & don’t give the stuff back. SERVICES Cabaret— Liza Minelli ina Shorts Or if they start nosing Children's Day Care: film of Germany in the 17TH: Skin Deep, Paul around tell the officer in Victorian Association of early thirties. Lots of songs Cox; Once Upon A mo­ charge that you will do Day Nurseries: 100 Drum­ and drag and some early ments Time, Christoffer this unless they stop. mond St., Sth. Carlton. nazi violence. Joel Gray as French.

Don’t take any shit, but Ascot Vale, Brunswick, the MC and Liza really Union Theatre, Melbourne be reasonable and cour­ Carlton, Collingwood, Fitz­ turns the voltage up. Take teous.

The police cannot University roy, Footscray, Northcote some tissues maybe and enter your premises with­ and Richmond. For pre­ 6TH: Jul es at Jim Truffaut out your permission 50 cents for the souvenir school kids, and you pay program A good movie 7TH; Rashomon (Kuro­ merely to question you. something usually. to dance to. The Candidate sawa) Lady with The Either tell them to go Dog (Heifitz) has Robert Redford as away and make an appoint Tel: 3475686.

JFK. OK if you don’t read 8TH: Juliette Of The ment with your solicitor, Day Nurseries: the papers. Carousel Rogers Spirits (Fellini) or talk on the front steps. Broadmeadows: 415 Camp and Hacker musical with There’s no point in up­ Rd., 3093388.

9TH: Come Back Africa songs like when my boy Flemington: Debney’s setting the workings of (Rogsin); Shoeshine (De bill grows he’ll be strong Park, Nth. Alexandra Rd., your house or whatever.

Sica) and as .tough as a tree. A 334629.

Usually you will have morbid broadway musical. 10TH: World of Apu (Ray) nothing to say, but its Melbourne: 275 Exhibition Charade .. . Clockwork Battleship 'Potemkin St., 6621782. probably wise to avoid Orange Kubrick and ultra (Eisenstein) North Melbourne 28 pissing them off too Howard St., 301592 Prahran: 19 Princes St., 511633 Preston: 260 Gower St., 4781088 South Melbourne: 314 Coventry St., 696111.

St. Kilda: Chapel St., 940251

Bouyancy Foundation of Victoria: 236 Drummond Street, Carlton. Offers O.D assistance, treatment and research into drug depen­ dence. Tele: 347-5166, 347-5323.

Psychiatry You have a hang-up. It’s too heavy to handle. You decide — presumably be­ cause all other psychic support systems don’t appeal — to seek psychiat­ ric aid. Here’s how.

Private Psychiatrists You need not necessarily be put off by the cost. If you are thinking of going to a private psychiatrist the first thing to do is join HBA. or some other medical benefits associat­ ion. If you are hard-up ask the psychiatrist to lower his fee — many will do this if you really can’t pay (but you must be in HBA).

Remember the first visit always costs more than later visits (you get a big­ ger HBA refund too.)

Out-patient Clinics Psychiatric services are provided by Mental Health Authority clinics and the psychiatric units of large general hospitals. These services cost little or noth­ ing. Most people are seen Financial Problems: as out-patients (i.e. you Central Methodist Mission, don’t actually live in). Get 148 Lonsdale St., Mel­ your local doctor to refer bourne provides counselling} you. and assistance for needy ■ Malvern Clinic, 321 Glenfamilies. Tel: 6622355.

State Schools Relief Com­ ferrie Rd., Malvern, 3144.

Phone: 201520. mittee: 21 Lincoln St., Observatory Clinic, BirdRichmond has clothing, wood Ave., Sth. Yarra footwear, uniforms for children referred by head­ 3141. Phone: 63-7621.

Prince Henry’s Hospital, masters. Tel: 425300.

St. Kilda Rd., Melbourne.

Free Travel to Hospital: Phone: 620621.

Apply to Health Depart­ Bouverie Clinic (for child-! ment, 295 Queen St., ren): 233 Bouverie St., Melbourne. For those on low or no income. Should Carlton. Phone 341720. aipply in advance. Tel: Barry Humphries in the movie o f the cartoon strip — here playing Hospitals 676384. being a mad Viennese psychiatrist.

If you feel you are not coping to the extent that Housing: much by telling them 11TH: The 7 Samurai v, and a bit of the old in you want to go into hos­ Metropolitan Fair Rents things they can find out (Kurosawa) and out, slightly boring Board.(Rental Investigation pital for a while, Larundel Another festival of famous easily from records or ring­ Bureau): 435 La Trobe St., is probably the best and but nice and glossy. De­ cameron Pasolini's film of films will be held between ing up your parents.

Melbourne deals with ex­ most friendly psych, hos­ some of the hundred stor­ Dec. 4 & 9 details soon.

Courts: cessive rent complaints, or pital in Melbourne. Larun­ ies from Boccaccio^ book Fantasy Films, Nicholas Court hearings are elabor* 4 problems with conditions del Psychiatric Hospital, of the same name, elabor­ Hall, 143 Lonsdale St., ate games with rules and Plenty Rd., Bundoora. and can proceed against ately witty and wry look Melbourne. rituals. Unless you have Phone 4672911. landlords. Tel: 600361. at the foibles of sex. Dr good reason toupset these procedures it isn’t wise to Note: Fair Rents is, in our Again get your local doc­ Phibes Rises Again, beaut 23RD: Sci Fi movies: Monitors; Cybore 8187. experience, a fair dinkum tor to refer you, or if nec­ do so. You might want horror movie as jjood as essary, go out and see the when he wasn’t rising publicity or to go to jail or service. They are not a admitting doctor. If the PR agency for landlords: something but remember doctor at the hospital does that unless its a spectacular however, they are more n’t think you need to be likely to make the landlord Busts: Endless Night . . . offence or the P.R. has admitted ask him for ad­ Advice on what to do if Fiddler on the R oof been organized in advance fix the place up than get vice on where you should you get busted for the blah . . . Frenzy a its all hot air. Respect for him to drop the rent. go for help. many things you might good old fashioned the rituals, and close at­ get busted for: dope, Hitchock witha good old tention to the formalities If you do go into hospital fashioned ending. Has the national service, at a de­ of the summons, and to make sure you apply for monstration, d & d, ob­ man who plays Polanski’s the time you have had to sickness benefits from the scene publications, frameMacbeth. A Funny Thing prepare your defence may If you’re short on things government. The Social ups or whatever — has to read, and can’t be both­ Happened On The Way mean long useful adjourn­ ered buying anything, why Worker at the hospital will To The Forum . . . Garden to be tempered with the ments. Use the rules of help you do this. facts of life.

You might the game to your own ad­ not try a library. Consumer Of the Finzi Continis, Vit­ have to decide that the tests show that if you look torio de Sicas masterpiece. vantage. like a student all university Gone With The Wind thank policeman is being gen­ Legal Aid Committee: libraries are accessible. A Christ. Henry VIII and his uinely friendly in which Floor 9, 480 Collins St., clipboard aids the disguise.

Six Wives. .. JW Coop.. . case you might co-operate Melboumejhelps people EYES and show him around, They are full of goodies.

The King and I, I could unable to pay legal costs. Especially recommended Clinic o f the Victorian you might decide that you have danced all night etc Tele: 612022. Public Sol­ is the Rowden White Lib­ College o f Optometry: and who knows? Hickey & want to talk rather than icitor (Attorney-General’s rary on the second floor of 374 Cardigan St., Carlton get beaten up, you might Boggs terrific old cop mov­ Dept.) 272-282 Queen St. Union House, Melbourne 3053, Phone: 3472166; decide that you’ll stick to ie with Bill Cosby. Last Melboumejoffers legal aid University. Plenty of mag­ 3472490. the letter of the law.

What­ Picture Show Bogdanov­ ever you decide it is essen­ in criminal matters only azines, and paperbacks. ich’s recreation of 50’s Provides optometry ser­ for those unable to pay.

They have records too, Texas and the same in our tial that you know your vices for those unable to and if you borrow a stud­ afford normal fees. pasts. Macbeth Polanski’s rights. There aren’t many Tele: 600461. of them.

Melbourne University Law ent card you can score a film of the play of the set of headphones to listen Free eye examination for same name. Monique low Arrest: Faculty: those on social service class wankers film. Ryan's You are arrested if a pol­ 180 Palmerston St., Carl­ to just about anything. pensions, their dependents Daughter. . . Simon Run­ iceman detains you. If he ton is a legal/referral ser­ The Public Library in and anyone else who can ning . . . Summer o f '42, vice conducted by stud­ wants you to go to the Swanston St is also a buzz, show they cannot afford 13 year old fucks beautiful station or somewhere ents — Monday, Tuesday, Especially if you like old normal fees. but older woman and with you, he has to arrest Thursday, from 6—8pm. books. The Newspaper learns about life. What's you. And if you are ar­ Room on the ground floor Reading glasses cost $10 Monash University Law to $13.

Up Doc is as good as a can rested he has to tell you as you walk in is ok too.

Faculty: of laughing gas and more what for, the charge. He Most councils run a free VENEREAL DISEASE at C.A.B. 107 Russel St., legal, every gag in the can. cannot detain you merely provides a legal service on lending library, so give Health department, 136 ZPG haven’t got there yet to ask questions. You do Monday, Thursday, morn­ yours a ring and find out Gertrude St., Fitzroy, If as can’t find a babysitter. not have to provide him ings and Wednesday after­ where it is. Failing that the under 16 years, you must with any information, noons. Also at Springvale Lending Library in Latrobe be accompanied by a Melbourne Filmmakers though it is usually wise Community Aid and Ad­ St opposite RMIT is no parent/guardian or have Co-op, 161 Spring St., to give him your name hassle to join. vice Bureau. written consent. Various Melbourne and address. If you are de­ hours for men and women tained or arrested for most on weekdays. Tel: 411954. offences connected with For women and girls only Note: The Co-op is only driving, you DO have to — Queen Victoria Hospital, screening on Sunday provide name, address.

FAMILY PLANNING j Tel: 666046 and Royal nights at the moment. No Once you are arrested do ! Women’s Hospital, Tel: Thursday screening. not make any statements. Catholic Family Planning Alcoholism Clinic: St. 340951.

NOV. 5: Garry S h e a d The police will offer deals, Centre: 21 Brunswick St., Vincent’s Hospital, Vic­ ! Note: There are a lot of Fitzroy (for ovulation toria Parade, Fitzroy.

Live Between Evil; leniency etc. but it is things going around that method only) Tel: 417479 Handles medical and Stringy bark Massacre; mostly crap. You are produce sore genitals be­ social problems resulting Dingadingday, with Rich­ liable to give away incrim­ Brotherhood of St. Laur­ sides syphillis and gonor­ from alcohol.

Tele: ard Neville and Martin ence: 75 Brunswick St. inating evidence if you rhoea, but government 410221 ext. 704.

Sharp.

Fitzroy. Tel: 4144155. talk. Keep telling them clinics seem best at diag­ that you do not want to Alexandra Clinic: 6 Alex­ nosing and treating the NOV 12: Bruce Petty — Family Planning Assoc­ make any statements un­ andra Pde, Fitzroy offers Hearts & Minds; The iation: 509 Collins St., traditional diseases. How­ til you have consulted a Ghan, Guntus Janson; Melbourne. Tel: 612108. treatment for alcoholics. ever, everybody ought to solicitor. Ask to make a Tele: 415738.

When You say Hello say ! get over this bashfulness Queen Elizabeth Hospital: phone call, and get some­ Goodbye, Alcoholics Anonymous: about going down to VD Red Red Red, John Phil­ one to come and bail you 96 Keppel St., Carlton.

104 Wellington Pde, East clinic every so often.

Tel: 3471374. out. lips; R etreat. . . Retreat, Melbourne where Alcohol- There are the usual ethical Gary Patterson.

Queen Victoria Hospital: lies get together to discuss reasons — why share an ill Search Warrants: 172 Lonsdale St. Melb.

Police can enter your with people you like; |mutual problems. Tele: NOV 19: Collection of ¡home or office without a Tel: 666046 ext. 509/510. ¡415384/5385. but beyond that, The recent Brisbane films

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Mungo McCallum and Benny the Flasher at Nation Review’s boring birthday.

M M Ballroom invaded by ferret Why on earth would any­ one want to run a second, birthday party at The Much More Ballroom, es­ pecially when they were the publishers of a maga­ zine that pays scant atten­ tion to the activities of the normal denizens of that establishment? The answer to this question is not all interesting.

The very fact that it was run there and that some people had a good time and some were a bit freaked out made it worthwhile: One R. Walsh was seen and heard wandering around saying “who are these people? Do they readNation Review? They can’t possibly.” And others, from the Greensborough Ferrets were

ardine coated and with a terrific smile. At times he had a giant prick made out of tin with a glans like lid o n ,top. Mostly wan­ Because there were trans­ dering on and off stage, but vestites, pooftahs, wo­ occasionally making for­ mens libbers, gay libbers, ays into the audience he ordinary freaks, ladies was terrific.The Leaping in high heels and bouf­ McSpeddens were their fants, blokes in dinner usual loony selves and suits, a dog, evening dres­ were enjoyed hugely. A ses, nudes, flashers strip­ highlight was a recreation pers, drunks, he'ads, nor­ of the Human Alphabet. mal people, lovers, shake- Beyond that there wasn’t downharry, pavs, and much except a portion of others. the La De Das, and a loud They were entertained by bracket or two from a mixed bag of acts. Bar­ Friends who also were ney Zooble with the Oog their usual selves. Leggets Show Band was a good Oog Oogaly eyes was idea that didn’t quite easily the best as Barney the Flasher. He was dres­ come off on account of sed in 10am Champion Ho­ they were horribly boring. tel style, bare legged, gab­ The strippers weren’t too

Digger recommends VD clinics as entertainment: they are usually friendly, reasonably efficient places, and the staff make great jokes. One micropathol­ ogist we know tells such good ones that it’s a pleas­ ure to repeat them, when you’re conferring with your friends about the re­ sults.

the Flight Deck being one of the most popular, but certainly not cheap. This stays open pretty late.

The Winston Charles is nearby and stays open un­ til three from Tuesday un­ til Saturday and its fully licenced. It has reasonable bands playing for patrons who pay to enter.

At 65 Wellington St. Wind­ sor, if you are a muso or friend of one, is the Music­ ians Club, with music and grog till about three.

In Swanston Street, City is the Graham Hotel which stays open until midnight each Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You pay a dollar to get in and can dance to bands playing there.

In Elizabeth Street oppos­ ite the Flinders Street Railway Station is Hosies pub which also stays open until 12 or so and has its own booze. You have to be a member or a friend of a member to get in.

Main pastime here is drinking.

Up the top of Bourke St. you will find an all-night coffee haunt, Le Monde.

Pleasant little place, reas­ onable coffee and tucker at okay prices.

In Collins Street is the Outpost Inn, a folk and jazz joint, and if you like that sort of music, then you can meet a few people here maybe, and have a bite to eat. It costs you a little and is open til mid­ night xluring the week.

Around in Russell Street is the Moc-Inn, where you can rap about Christ, have your souls saved drink a bit of coffee. In Little Bourke is the Branding Iron which is an eating house-cum-folk joint, with food and song during the week until after midnight.

Cover charge.

In Little Lonsdale Street, you can find Frank Traynors for jazz/folk/poetry.

Its just around the corner from Exhibition Street, costs you 80 cents to get in and you can get a bit of coffee up until around midnight or more.

A fter 10

seen wondering who was part of the entertainment and who was really like that.

Maybe ypu don’t want to turn in after 10 so here are a few hints. There are the discotheques and pubs which open after ten pm and supply music. You’ll find thes<° listed elsewhere in the Melbourne Flyer But there are pubs which stay open until midnight without providing music.

In St. Kilda there is the George Hotel which opens six nights a week excluding Sunday, until midnight.

You get a strip show and a band and a snack for one dollar. It’s recommended not for dope smokers.

Fitzroy Street, St. Kilda, where the George is, is probably Melbourne’s answer to MacLeay Street, Kings Cross and not a very good one at that. You can usually find people here till dawn, with a couple of hamburger bars and an amusement centre staying open continuously.

Down on the esplanade is Whisky A Go Go, a joint whichcosts you $5 a throw.

For this you get dinner plus a band you can dance to, plus a female wrestling show and a strip to watch.

You’ll need a fair bit of money in your pocket for this one.

Moving towards the city from St. Kilda, you come tojChapel Street, Prahran where the Spanish-style Los Gitanos sits. This one is open to three, with a full liquor licence and ap­ propriate music but again you have to have a pocket full of money. On St. Kilda Road, the Chevron stays open till 12. Trendy.

Down Toorak Road, South Yarra, is Poppa’s Pizza which is open until near midnight through the week. In North Melbourne, its This is a huge place full of a similar deal with the benches for people to sit Commune at 580 Victoria on and meet each other, | Street. Folk, jazz, classical allowing people to buy [music nights and coffee each other pizzas. You | but no food. No charge, can’t drink booze there but donation fee. after ten. But before that In Carlton there are a few its okay. Their pizzas aren’t things to occupy you after bad, moderately priced ten. and very big. Down the Down in Lygon Street road are a few places to eat and drink coffee, with there are two pizza par-

lours close to each other which make excellent piz­ zas up until midnight and later on weekends.

Between Grattan and Queensberry on Lygon is the Cafe Billiardi where you can play billiards all night.

good either, and Max Gillies, the Newsreader failed to materialize on account of they forgot to send him a ticket. Captain Matchbox lit a few fires but were upstaged by 5 sexy 13-year old underchunders singing torch songs like nymphet Mae Wests All in all it was a bit better than the average Ballroom mainly because of the an­ tics of the sexual revolut­ ionaries down the front.

But 2 joints, some speed, some psylocibin, some whisky, some beer and some good jokes didn’t get me high, so I eventually went home and forgot to turn the clock on and woke up on Monday. That’s daylight saving.

Monash Summer School

Listed below are the courses offered for any­ one at all over 16 with the small amount of money required. No prerequisites in most cases and there should be something there that you want to know about. Enrolments open­ ed November 1, and have to be made by mail. If you want a brochure describ­ ing the courses in more detail, you should write to The Activities Officer, The Union, Monash University, Clayton 3168, or give her a ring. Vicki Molloy The Beirut Restaurant in 5440811 ext. 3180. Most Elgin Street is good up til of the courses are in Jan­ about two with Lebanese uary and February next fare. year, and you can use the Joannas, a restaurant on Monash creche if you want the comer of Canning and to. Most reports we have Elgin Streets. Is open urn heard of previous courses til three, with rock, folk, have been good though a jazz and costs one buck to lot depends on the tutor. front. Three floors with You might also check out TV, juke box, shangalang. the Council for Adult Food or just coffee. Warm Education courses. atmosphere.

In Cardigan Street is the Toasthouse where obvious­ 1. Indonesian Music Work­ shop. 2. Modern Dance. ly the main fare is toast, but with a surprising num­ 3. Primitive Dance. 4. L’art ber of goodies to slam on du Mime et de la Voix. 5.

Drama Workshop. 6. Folk it. You can play chess here, or snakes and ladders. Guitar. 7. Poetry Writing Workshop. 8. Classical Its open until whenever people stop coming. Some­ Guitar Seminars. 9. Japan­ ese Ink Painting Sumi-e. time between 11 and 2 10. Print Making II Life the door slams.

Drawing and Painting.

Down Cardigan Street is 12. Sculpture. 13. Pottery Peter Poyntons pub which 14. Hand Building Pots. does the normal pub trip 15. Stained Glass Window until 10 and then for 60 Making. 16. Jewellery Mak­ cents allows you to keep ing. 17. Tapestry Weaving. on and to eat.

18. Macramè. 19. Soft Sculpture. 20. Modem For folk in Carlton, you Weaving in a Primitive can try Dan O’Connell’s hotel in Princes Street on Way. 21. Weaving & Spin­ ning. 22. Basic Dressmak­ Thursday, Fogarty's Ho­ tel on Fenwick and Amess ing. 23. Advanced Dress­ making. 24. Interior De­ and Polaris Inn on Nich­ sign. 25. & 26 Typing. olson and McPherson, 27 First Aid. 28. Motor both in North Carlton on Car Mechanics 29 & 30.

Fridays. All these pubs Photography. 31 Judo. cost you a bit to get in, 32. Aikido. 33. Fencing. supply pies and groups 34. Chess. 35. Introduc­ and go til midnight. tion To Computer Pro­ In Kew on Wednesday gramming. 36. Basic Ac­ night, The Clifton Hill, counting. 37. Polls Mar­ 99 High Street, stays open ket Research & Statistics. until midnight for jazz 38. Audiovisual French and rock.

Course. 39. Audiovisual You can try getting a souv- Spanish Course. 40. France Today. 41. Australian laki up Sydney Road, Native Plants and their Brunswick early in the Ecology. 42. Ecotherapy morning from two Greek eating joints. You can try of a small sick panet. 43.

Underdevelopment and the getting sly grog anytime Third World. 44. Learning of the night in South to Study at University Carlton (just ask any­ Level. where.)

A mile away in Faraday Street is Genevieve?s, a coi fee house/eat house open til midnight, each night.

Good coffee, fair prices.

Wien that’s finished, you can step over the road to Johnny’s Green Room, which is a pool room, open 24-hours each day.

Also in Faraday Street is La Mama Theatre which on Friday nights has a late play. On Monday nights, an experimental music ses­ sion happens.

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