The Digger No.35 August 1974

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W ill W hitlam resign?

John Halpin explains the bluff that might decide Gough to stand down — Page 1

Atom bombs, UFOs and Cathie’s Grid New Zealand air-pilot Bruce Cathie has theories to link flying saucers, nuclear tests and their results, earthquakes and Einstein. Page 6

W hy 7 cops attended Angie’s home birth Angie’s now eight weeks old. Her m other didn’t want a baby bom into the sterile, alienating male-world of doctors and hospitals. She had her in the bedroom and ten men in uniform came to take her away. Page 7

Jenny Brown on Lou Reed Bring back Browi they said. Well, she’s back, on page 6

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Faust’s Porn essay was written with the courst in mind. She had the knowledge and the illustrations to present” a demystification of pornography and obscenity — at the time something still waiting to be done well locally.

Beatrice dusted off her collected the copies, a monstrous cock has prosecuted or proscribed pics which been added in heavy biro, with a ranged over Picassos, acid cartoon­ ists, PMG advertisement and included colossal stream of sperm hitting the “ The Office Party” —along-standing bull’s eye, the cunt of a woman favority of the millions of lost and on the facing page who is modestly lonely ones crying out for release demonstrating the folds of the Ionian whilst they type the letters or add up chiton. Twenty nine pairs of eyes the columns or punch cards. meet mine.

Judge Martin’s decision that this “Miss!” ventures Tania. “ Look issue of Digger (number 3) was not what’s on my book!” She holds it Obscene doesn’t mean s The Office Party has finally becoirte defused in up and a hiss of excitement, flashes its relationship to prevailing repres­ round the class. I turn my copy round sions. Reaction to the other issue to reveal similar adornments: their (number 6) suggests a sharpening of eyes are riveted on my face, waiting awareness of what tolerance is for the signal. I can’t help it, in accompanying Beatrice Faust’s story repressive and what “ new standards” fact I don’t even try. I start laughing were obscene. We were asking for have in fact, revolutionary potential. and suddenly there’s a riot, every­ reduced penalty, in the event the ' one’s t leaping out of their seals, We reprint here the first pars of Angelo is making violent rabbit-like judge upheld the convictions. The the story that still divides its teaders Digger was represented in court by a into those who shudder and call it fucking motions with his hips, Mr.John H. Phillips who left Judge rage and those who weep at the Georgia’s blushing and smiling at Martin to decide how much he was staggering simplicity of it all once me sideways, Paul has his head on offended by the material, and spent his arms with only his hysterical they say as our author said : his eloquence on the- natter of re­ eyes peeping up to me, Cathy bel­ ducing the fines. Mr Miller SM had Why lie? They want to know the lows enviously, “ No-one’s drawn any­ fined us $750 for the porn pictures truth. There’s a second of amazed thing on MY book!” and $500 for the sex-lesson story. silence. I’m sitting there in a calm­ Calm down, everyone, let’s see Mr,Justice Martin decided the pics ness that, next day, I found it diffi­ if we can get some work done. We were “ undesirable” but not obscene. cult to believe had been real. To read page 51 and turn over; God He thus saved us $750, then revealed break the silence I remark, w ell/1 help me if there aren’t two men his intense revulsion at the school­ guess it is a bit hard for you to fucking (under the pretext of being teacher’s honesty by upping the fine imagine me with a cock in my mouth. Greek wrestlers) and stark naked, not on that issue to $750.

When the words are out I can’t be­ a stitch on. More ecstatic laughter, With fees for counsel being what lieve it’s happened — we’re all roaring thumping on the floor, rolling of they are, we end up with bills for with laughter because in room 8 up­ eyas, cries, cries of “Miss! Miss!” $950, but that’s $300 less than it stairs on a Wednesday afternoon in.

Then and there I’m obliged to face was. The Digger continues to run at the high school whose name I can’t the fact. There’s obviously no point was. The Digger continues to run at mention lest I get the sapk (would in trying to get them to look at a loss (which the Light;Powder and they sack me? Truth makes you anything else on the page but these Construction Works and the locali strong — but that’s the euphoria of issue of Rolling Stone magazine cum the moment), I’m telling 29 kids that astounding illustrations. I realise that this is the moment I can’t let pass. rently almost cover), and the collect­ I suck cocks. Can you believe it?

All the dreary arguments at staff ive is midflight in a desperate dog­ Maybe I dreamed the whole thing. conferences about the idea of sex fight over ideology and econonics. education courses suddenly seems She did get the sack, The Digger All finaincial aic[ is thus sincerly and has a conviction for printing this beside the point. So I say,, look, desperately craved, and that includes story (in Victoria only — back the reason why people do these draw­ the Literature Board. Letters of en­ numbers are safe and available from couragement help at times like this our Sydney address), and most kids ings, and why we laugh at them, is that sex is more interesting than just too. still learn what they learn about their about anything else, and because bodies like amateur speliologists most kids at school don’t know nearly might. By bumping into and falling over a tiny fragment Qf the possibili­ as much about it as they need to.

Do you want to talk about it? ties.

An incredulous silence. Georgia whispers, “Can we ask you ques­ One afternoon last week my form tions? A ny questions? Will you tell one kids and I were about to launch us anything we ask?” Yes, I will. ourselves dutifully on an assignment Ask away. Silence. Silence? I’ve been about Ancient Greece. Using the only with these kids every day since the class set that wasn’t *too blatantly beginning of the year, and the one patronising or out of date, I’d man­ thing they don’t want is to be silent. aged to base on the text a little num­ What’s the matter? “ Miss,” says ber on sex roles in ancient times Angelo,, blushing puce, “ can we write compared with those of today. (I’ve the. questions on apper?” Of course explained this to account for having you can. In an instant the desk lids actually handed round eighteen copies fly up, Grace has opened the cup­ of a book like Looking at Ancient board, biros and paper are shoved History). from hand to hand, there are four OK, everyone have a look at page or five huddles of kids hissing fur­ 51. Rustle rustle. A moment of sil­ iously with their skinny bums in ence as we all stare, transfixed, at the air. Bursts of latighter and more the defacements which other classés whispering, furious scribbling, cries have perpetrated on a picture of a of “ Don’t you know THAT?” “Go Greek athlete: in all but a few of on — ask her!”

D igger issue no. 3 no longer obscene; no.6 m ore obscene; fu tu re uncertain In the spring of 1972 The Digger was a fledgling fortnightly, ten printfreaks in search of several causes.

One good fight enjoined, was against the latest Victorian Chief Secretary’s plans to use cops and gaols against people publishing or having anything to do with sexual material not in accordance with the lowest conmon denominator of wowser tolerance.

The paper led its third issue with a three page study in words and pictures of pornography, by Beatrice Faust.

It sold well, probably because it had a tastefully old-fashioned nude on the cover — a nude nevertheless.

While the next issue was in prepar­ ation, ten Victorian Police raided the offices, confiscated file copies on issue three and later returned with an obscenity writ.

Three issues later the paper ran a high-school teacher’s straight-forward rap session she had hiad with twelve year-olds hungry for facts about sex.

The Vice Squad busted Digger for that issue too.

Last week those two obscenity busts came to resolution in the Melb­ ourne County Court.

In court The Digger was appeal­ ing an SM’s findings that the school­ teacher’s article, and the pictures

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Good times ro ll on I wish to congratulate Mr. Gram Evans on his wonderful story and also the Photographer on those won­ derful pictures in your paper The Digger.

I have been a Bullock Driver for my Father when I, was 14. I have been a Boundary Rider on two stations 45,000 acres and 54,000 acres at Bate Station and Erildoune Station owned by three brothers, Englishmen. And they employed a lot of station hands.

I started as a Motor Driver in 1907, a De Dion and a Ford. I was a Chauffeur for the late Mr. Peter Grant Hay. He started the Richmond Brewery. He had the first BenzLorry that came to Melbourne and the first Itala car.

I have been in the singing game ever since I came to Melbourne.I formed a quartet and in the early days we sang on every station, 3DB

with . . . the Late Dick Cranbourne of which I still have Records. So if you want any Elderly News come out and see me.

I was with the Late J.B. Guest Biscuit factory for 50 years and never lost a Day’s pay. They had several Rolls Royces which I was in charge of. I am in my 92nd year and enjoying real good Health.

Yours sincerely M.J. Todd, well knovm in the music game as Toddy.'

(Mrs. Jean Pearce deserves a lot of credit for the Melody Men. She has made them real good.)

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women were actually nurturing one another, granting one another the kind of support that women have been ta u g h |to gite only to the achievments of men. What’s more, they shared with every woman listening the possibility of becoming more powerful and less mad. “ Have you read Doris Lessing?” asked Phyllis. She wasn’t putting that question to a vacuum cleaner.

She was asking Kate, another living breathing,intelligent woman and thr­ ough her, all the other women listening. It was a powerful moment when Kate and Phyllis, together reco­ gnized each other’s appreciation of another human woman. It was for me, as listener, a participation in the joy and power of other women creating.

The gearbox is probably buggered and petrol is short, but Labor leaders are trying to get capitalism back into top gear

Labor stumbles as inflation soars

by John Halpin Serious doubts now exist as to whether the Labor government can remain in office for the next six months, let 'alone its full term of three years.

Without a majority in the Senate, Labor is finding its bills being reject­ ed or mutilated by opposition ammendments. It is the same problem they faced in their first short term.

But, particularly at this time — in a worldwide economic recession — a government has to be strong to be effective. Weak governments are un­ stable and will collapse as the eco­ nomic situation deteriorates.

In Australia, economic discussions are still centring on inflation, which is in fact the tip of the iceberg. Many top economsts are predicting aworldwide depression on the 1930s’ scale— and they’re no longer only Marxian economists.

Leonard Silk, a member of the editorial board of the highly in­ fluential New York Times, wrote in July: “ Once again, as in 1929-31 the world is facing the danger of a liquid­ ity crisis, which simply put, is the in­ ability of financial institutions or governments to meet their current debts. Such a crisis, if it hits two or more countries simultaneously, could race like greased lightening through the entire world financial system.

That was what happened when the Austrian Creditansalt failed. It was the breakdown of the world monet­ ary system in 1931 that turned the sharp 1929-30 recession into the worst depression in history. It is this kind o f international catastrophe we must prevent now. But how?”

The economic problems now fac­ ing Australia (rising prices and wages at a rate of inflation over 209? this year and closer to 30% in 1975, credit squeeze, high interest rates, industrial militancy, fgst rising unemployment, shortages of goods, big profit drops in the field of “ de­ velopment” companies, and severe liquidity problems for big business) have caused intense divisions within the Labor Party.

The right wingers are prepared to. accept what they call an “ acceptable level” of unemployment, whilst the true Labor people will not tolerate any.

Caucus, which has been very criti­ cal of . the Cabinet, has now turned its full anger on Whitlam. The recent 45-52 vote on the petrol subsidies — a very narrow victory for Whitlam — indicates that he is no' longer the

in fact affording women “ a measure of emotional reality and a kind of comfort that they cannot find in men.

On it’s highest level it (conversation) constitutes the basic tools of art and psychic awareness”.

Phyllis is pretty bitter these days She wrote in 1971 and since then she has suffered incredibly from the attackk of men and other women who wanted her to wite about “ feminism” , but did not want her to succeed.

benevolent dictator of the ALP. Nixon), so one can only say he will This is now so serious that the reject the Budget if he can gain by two journalists closest to Whitlam, doing so. Snedden, however, has some serious thinking to do; which Laurie Oakes of the Melbourne Sun, and Mungo MacCallum of Nation means he will have to find someone Review, have speculated that the to do it for him — probably Doug “ Great Leader” may resign from Anthony. Snedderi would lose his leadership of the party. job if he failed again. “ People to whom the thought But there, are advantage's in reject­ would have been inconceivable three ing the Budget that won’t occur months ago are now discussing in again in the next three years. Firstly, hushed tones the possibility of Whit­ the opposition senators are reluctant lam resigning,” MacCallum wrote re­ to reject Supply again in December cently. One of the people to whom because their jobs would be on the it would have been inconceivable line. It’s too early to take risks with t e is probably Whitlam’s close con­ their high paying luxurious jobs. But fidant and speechwriter, Graham if the Budget were rejected theije is Freu den berg. no risk because Whitlam can not ob­ As well as the hostile Caucus, tain the necessary conditions for Whitlam faces a divided Cabinet; the Governor General to call another which led Andrew Clark of the double dissolution. That is, the op­ Canberra press gallery, to draw a position would still control the Se­ parallel to the Scullin government nate regardless, because it would (which collapsed in the *30s depress­ only be a House of Representatives’ ion). election.

As well as the internal divisions, And the Budget will be unpopular the Labor government is heading for — it has to be if the Labor govern­ a major confrontation with its trade ment wants to straighten out the union base. Clyde Cameron, Minister economy. Thus Snedden can justify for Labor and Immigration, has fur- < his actions by claiming he is doing ther exacerbated this by accusing the lesser of two evils — an election some unions of attempting to bring or “ this socialist budget” . This is about “ anarchy” . (Sounds like the more likely to succeed than his Liberals doesn’t it?) pathetic attempt to make an outrage Alan Reid, chief correspondent over the Gair affair, which people for the late Sir Frank Packer’s em­ had enough common sense to realise pire, has suggested Whitlam should was unimportan.t. With these oppor­ “ do a Chifley”. (In 1949, Ben tunities, Snedden could probably, Chifley, a Labor prime minister, for the first time in his life, succeed. used the army to break a strike on In these circumstances the Labor the NSW coalfields.)

Party has to make some hard de­ If a national strike — as proposed cisions. They can either continue as

by Jack Mundey of the NSW Build­ they are, in the almost certain likeli­ ers’ Labourers’ Federation and the hood of returning to the back Communist Party of Australia — benches. Or they could take a gam­ takes place, one wonders what the ble: — =c “bourgeois radicals” such as Whitlam The gamble, would be for Whitlam will do. to offer his resignation to the Gov­ But if all these problems weren’t ernor General because he cannot enough, the latest opinion polls govern with a hostile Senate. In show a dramatic slump in support these circumstances the chance for the Labor government. The Mor­ should be offered to Snedden to gan Gallop poll showed support had form a government.

How*would he fare at the mom­ tumbled six per cent since May to 43% — which is lower than ent?

He would need more penal clauses the vote Labor got in the 1969 election, which they lost. The M e l­ to get away with the unemployment bourne Age published the results of he would create. He would haVe to the ASRB poll which gave Labor use the death penalty — by starva­ 41.9% and the Liberal and Coun­ tion.

The Labor government is only de­ try Parties together 48.9%. Labor has dropped 7.4% since May 18. luding itself if it thinks it can do anything for the Australian people In this situation speculation has in the present impasse. arisen on whether the happy -team of Alternatively, if they were smart, Anthony and Snedden will reject the the Liberals could let Labor go its Budget in the Senate.. Anthony said own way to disaster, by passing two weeks ago he wouldn’t, but he is the Budget. Fortunately, they’re always changing his mind (like probably not that smart.

London digger canvases i

Glad to hear Digger is still holding together, it is hard to know what to send from London. Infrequent visits to the lower reaches of the She said in an interview in May Strand disclose what the Australian 1974 (Phyllis Chesler, a maddened and such are using. Visits to Rolling Stone sometimes produce a read woman):liA lot of writers, artists of the Digger, usually last year’s. and intellectuals who are feminists are finding it necessary to present Hard to know what you know and material in a structurally different what you don’t know down there.

Don’t particularly like the idea way, almost as if to break into that The way Digger reported it, the linear male print army across the of Britain declaring war on Greece, question, “ Have you read Doris Less­ page. We waqt to say something auth­ but it could come to that. ing?*,’ reads like the exhortation of a entic in our own original first voices.

Things: concert on Saturday (Allschool ma’m seeking the proper resp­ Stylistically, you can’t separate cont­ mans v. Morrison, Doobies, Mahaonse from dead and obedient pretend- ent from structure.” vishnu, Tim Buckley). Scottish na­ feminists.

Digger reckoned they could make tionalists revealing plan to bomb England in order to achieve inde­ just that separation and to hell with Maybe Digger did understand “ You know, power corrupts, but pendence.

Massive conference of Chesler very clearly. Maybe they woman’s poner and conversations. absolute poverlessness corrupts abs­ terrorists (from Europe, mideast, When IwaS achild I was frightened of know the best way of keeping wo­ olutely”.

Africa, south, Latin America, etc.)

So said Phyllis Chesler, author of men powerless is to pare away the the women’s badge with its fist: now in Dublin and Belfast end of this I am a woman I’ve got a fist, a pen, a experience of conversations and mak< Women and Madness, in page 6 month. IRA political wing Sinn Fein conversation and the ability to app it appear impossible for women to Digger, no.34. are hosts. Am working on some­ reciate the intellect of other women. like one another for(In Chester’s thing about paranoia, ie. tanks at But Digger did not understand or words) their “ uniqueness and hero- * What’s Hecuba to Digger or Digger Heathrow, fat men saying the only they would not have printed the Con­ ism”, their “ self-defined works of to Hecuba? I’ll understand if that way out for Britain is for the army versation between Phyllis Chesler and the imagination”. “ bitch” , Kate Jennings, goes off how­ to take over and so on. Will keep Kate Jennings as a monologue drained ling, like Hecuba, into the wilderness. in touch. of its power.

Phyllis considers it important in Best regards, wishes and so on, Yours in doubtful sisterhood, The original programme on ABC Women and Madness to explain that Dennis Atkins, A lison Hughes, radio was exhilarating. Through and dialogue between women which seems London, England Annandale,NSW because of their conversation two “ senseless” and “ mindless” to men is

Women and madness

Communes Thanks for Digger no. 28 and many previous ones which have just come into my hands. Many apologies also for the lack of ex­ change copies of our journal Com­ munes. There’s been a lot of con­ fusion in the Movement lately about overseas mail but hopefully we’ve got it sorted out now and things should go smoothly from now on.

Also there was a split in the Move­ ment some year and a half ago, and the repercussions have been their effect ever since in terfns of the Movement’s organisation, but those who are left are getting it together again and it looks like a much stronger Movement is emerging from the debris — one that is not so paranoid of the ‘system’ and is grilling to stand up and be counted, and to actually do something about getting alternatives going which don’t relate just to those who want to stare at the moon or lie around forever smoking dope — though we’d hope to cater for these people too as we like doing that at least some of the time.

Please don’t strike us off your mailing list — All the best, etc., etc.. Best wishes, Geoff Crowth, International Secretary, Commune Movement, Cumbria, England A ugust

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No. 4: Zim m er's Essay; Football's freak; High, school revblt; Being a rock star.

No. 6: People's Park; FM radio; shared diseases; McMahon - a fte r Decem ber/: No. 3: Helen Garnar/school kids; Reefer Madnese; A bortion — a colonial history.

No. 7: A bortion on request; Cosmo* a tk ift; M arxian in Méribyrnong; Poetry supplem ent.

No. 8: Labor's victory; Bisexuality; H aw k* interviewed; M t. Is *.

No. 9: Prostitutes; Conscripts and re­ sisters; Libs - the abyss.

No. 10: Marg W hitlam ; the gay beat; Sunshine grass label; Four letter words -te a c h e r fire d .

No. 11: Women in pubs; Nim bin; Dope laws; Ringolevio.

No. 12: Comix supplement; Angry Bri­ gade; Sunbury.

No. 13: Rolling Stones; Drug "problem "?; Porn and politics.

No. 14: Contraceptive guide; Women in ■ man's world: Sydney's Junkie murder.

No. 18: Nurses; Higher Consciousness; G reet Moments o f Rock.

No.. .16: A nti-psychiatry; Fred Robinson; Port Phillip sewer; "Cquples".

No. 17: Silver Screen; Nim bin; Zappa; W E L. VS No. 18: Watergate; Ford; Doomsday; A LP: godfathers and fam ilies.

No. 18: Dal mas; medical students; wo­ men's strike, ASIO on the line.

No. 20: Omega; N o. 96; Communes; Victoria* Street.

No. 21: The fastest rising guru in the west;.

How Labor bought'Tasm ania; Body rhythm s; Suburb's siege; G ra fitti Gue­ rillas; Philippines.

No. 22: Gay Lib.; the Crips.; Memoirs o f a Sydney cop; Dylan mystery L f.

No. 23: Victorian drug squad search war­ rant racket; Tw o ex-prisoners and their w orld; Captain M atchbox; Travels of Bazza McDope; Melbourne football; South American round up.

No. 24: Customs plan to smuggle drugs; o il in M iddle East; M ary Whitehouse; The Rocks.

No. 25: Students take Thailand; Metha­ done racket; Bali busts; Warrants in court and out; Soviet dissidents.

No. 26:' Leunig's rude drawings; Marshal Green's sinister background; Bicycles; Children outside the nuclear fam ily; US plans for Vietnam 1974; V ictoria Street evictions.

No. -27: Inside Bathurst; New Guineans ■ learn to fa il; Kids, communes . . , and now me; Indonesia - the making o f a rio t; Rock Dreams; C IA in Australia..

No. 28: Woman sheltering from men in Glebe; Girls in ja il; Three Marias; W orkers' participation in action; Chile massacres; Kate Jennings on Joni M it­ chell; Portugal's empire crumbles. /Vo.29Benm d the double dissolution; The collective at w ork; Vietnam - Did you think it was over; ideas about preschaoiing; women's health centres.

No. 30: The great crane rôbbery; security organizations clash -A S IO vs. JIO ; why Labor shoufd w in; Portugese dance in streets; The Anti-Fem inist.

No. 31: Long March; A SIO attacks t>ig9»r; Diego Garcia; Cockroach ex­ pose; women's festival.

No. 32: Jim Cairns interview; Feminist . rape squad; JFK and Watergate.

Issue 33: The Greening of Australia; the Bathurst 46; Elsie, the good woman; India; Trobriand Islands; around the schools; Peggy Sue; GM and Hitler; Harvey Krishna festival.

No. 34: Women & Madness; Ol' fat bum is back; Leninism & vegetarians; 27A; NZ — arson chase; Kris and Rita.

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Dickie’s doggerel As R ich ard Nixon left Washington DC the Friday before last, North Vietnam charged that US reconnaissance planes flew twice over Haiphong, Hanoi, and other areas in North Vietnam.

The Foreign Ministry in Hanoi called the flights a “brazen act of provocation” and a violation of the Paris peace agree­ ments.

The Pentagon confirmed that any reconnaissance flights over North Vietnam must be ordered by the President. If the flights did in fact occur on th a t, Friday, they would likely have been Richard Nixon’s last foreign policy act as President of the United States.'

Many Nixon critics have often accused him of fostering a persecu­ tion complex. The following letter reveals that it may have started at age ten when the* letter, in which the ex-President assumes the role of a dog, was written to his mother.

“My dear master: The two boys [presumably his brothers Harold and Donald] that you left me with are very bad to me. Their dog, Jim, is very old and he will never talk or play with me. On Saturday the boys went hunting. Jim and myself went with them. While going through the woods one of the boys triped [sic] and fell on me. I lost my temper and bit him. He kiked [sic] me in the side and we started on. While we were walking I saw a black round thing in a trefe. I hit it with my paw.

A swarm of black things came put of it. I felt a pain all over. I started to run as both of my eyes were swelled shut I fell irfto a pond. When I got home I was very sore. I wish you would come home ri^ht now. Your good dog, Richard.”

Legal highs The US House of Representatives voted last week to suspend all aid to Turkey if tough safeguards against opium smuggling to the US prove ineffective. Turkey decided six weeks ago to resume opium production after a two year ban, imposed at the behest of the US. Meanwhile two researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that all that smuggling may not be necessary at all. People can — if they want to — grow their own opium, according to Professors Frank Crane and Norman Farnsworth.

The two pharmacologists say they’ve successfully grown mature opium plants — using poppy seeds from baked rolls and buns. The seeds

are common to most kitchens, used for sprinkling in salads and topping baked rolls.

The Illinois professors say they were able to harvest six milligrams of morphine and opium from two to three dozen plants. The plants grew to maturity within four weeks.

Said researcher Crane: “ It was so easy, any college kid could do it — and that’swhat we’re afraid is going to happen”.

And according' to a book just published, the leaves of the house­ hold plant coleus, produce psyche­ delic effects.

Legal Highs, just published by San Francisco’s Level Press, describes the effects of dozens of legal plants on the mind and body. Seventy fresh coleus leaves, they claim, run through a blender with some water, produces a heady mind-bending brew.

And, while both mescaline and peyote cactus may be illegal, the book points out that the Safti Pedro cactus — which is legal, at least in the US — also contains mescaline.

Virgin birth A scientist at Jackson Laboratory in Maine, USA, says that he has found evidence that self-fertilisation in female mammals is not only possible, but “ occurs far more commonly than anyone has assumed”.

Leroy Stevens recently described his findings as a result of research conducted on a special breed of mice. He said that approximately ten per cent of the unfertilised mice he studied devlop a kind of tumour in the ovary which travels to the utegsus and begins to grow into an embryo.

So far, he said, none of the embryos survive to the stage of birth. Stevens says he doesn’t know how the self-fertilisation occurs qor why the embryos don’t survive .until birth.

But he notes that the tumours are identical to ovarian cysts in humans, and he believes that his research may result in sopie practical impact; m 1 Stevens says he now plans to study methods to help the selffertilised eggs make it through to .birth.

Now Vietnam is over

Vision o f a dogged new world London — This week sees the publication of New Times, a 32 page comic strip magazine which forms part one of a six part project called Class War Comix. The introduction to the synopsis describes the background to the comic as follows: “The capitalist system has been overthrown, but after a period of instability brought about by the threat of counterrevolution, a government has installed itself in London. Assuming responsibility for organising and defining the needs of the people, he government has established a militia to ensure that the laws passed by the revolutionary

No kiddinNati ons: worj dwicte l : >set aside special holidays for honouring mothers and fathers. Now, in this year of the United Nations Popula­ tion Conference, Americans have celebrated the first National NonParents js Day. The holiday was declared by the National Organisa­ tion of Non-Parents — a group that offers support to people who decide they don’t" want to have any kids.

August 1 was Non-Parents Day, and the Los Angeles chapter organised much great non-celebration, in­ cluding a four hour event, broadcast on LA radio. The celebration featured a non-fertility dance the sale of non-mom’s non-apple pies, and the raffling of Dr. Eugene Mathias’ 10,000th vasectomy opera­ tion.

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An American Air Force plan to bomb some 7,000 acres of grass­ hoppers near the Hill Air Force Base in Utah recently worked so well that honey bees for 21 miles around dropped dead in their tracks.

The grasshoppers, around the base had become a nuisance because they attract a lot of birds, which get in the way of landing and departing aeroplanes. TJie Air Force’s solution was to bombard the surrounding area with the insecticide Sevin. It worked perfectly: the grasshoppers stopped hoppinh, the birds stopped flying into aeroplanes — and thenthousands July IS ^iAccofding tp one story, and thousands of commercial honey radical French newspaper publisher bees smarted dying.

Henry Smadja once s i d he would Beekeepers from several nearby die before he let his publication, counties say that at least $300,000 Combat, dissolve. He died yesterday. has already been lost from what was Associates say -the newspaper could anticipated to be a bumper -crop. An last until September. official state laboratory analysis ■ Combat, which has hung together identified traces of the insecticide in with spit and chewing gum, began the samples of dead bees. The Air in 1941 when Albert Camus and Force says it was in no way a" few friends got together. Since responsible, but an attorney for the that midwar decision the newspaper Associated Beekeepers says they plan has bounced from one crisis to a n ­ to Soaring honey prices in Aust­ other. Camus left some five yeers ralia over the past few months is, for after he initiated the venture and th e m o st part, attributable Smadja took an interest in it soon toAmerica: South American wasps after in 1947. flew north last year and attacked the In the same way that the New US bees, causing massive crop losses.

Yorker has been a launching pad So the Americans just came over here for some of America’s noteable and bought all ours* Looks like writers, Combat has been to French there’s going to be more of the same. writers. Most leading journalists and writers in France will say they have worked there, even if they haven’t.

Most of them have, But now the death of the news­ paper seems certain. Smadja, a Tunisian born Frenchman who worked as a British agent during A scientific laboratory in Massa­ the war, founded Le Presse de chusetts expects to begin marketing Tunisia in the early ’30s. He used relatively low cost solar energy cells much of*the money from that publi­ within five to seven years. Tycho cation in funding Combat. Combat Labs, working with a $30 million reached a daily circulation of 100,research investment from Mobil Oil, 000. It was then beset by a series Is already actively developing a of strikes, disputes and a continuing process for producing ribbons of editorial crisis. There was always silicon, the basic material in solar just enough money to get onto the cells. They say that if the process is streets. Usually this money was perfected, it will result in energy rounded up in last minute dashes. production “ conservatively” esti­ Smadja’s major disaster came when mated at quarter the cost of he was gaoled in Tunisia for cur­ electricity produced by today’s rency offences and had to sell his nuclear reactors. share of Le Presse there.

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inflation we need to .Halt all wage increases immediately. .Begin a thorough investigation of inequities in the wage system. It might be necessary to reduce some wages where they are found to be exorbitant.” ; | § k ¿ P L , be beyond those responsible to lead us out o f this chads, to get together to work for the common good according to the teachings of Jesus Christ.”

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—On Site (newsletter o f rank andt * There have been many reports file builders labourers') recently on the high cost of housing.

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Since the founding of the The amount paid in wages to Panthers in 1970, local chapters have building workers on this house sprung up all over America. The only averages $4,250, or 6V2% of the total requirements to form a local Panther cost of the house! So we can see who chapter are that it must have is .really responsible for the high cost multiple leadership on a democratic of housing — not workers, but the basis and must admit young as well big banks, and financiers who prod­ as old members.

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Sindlinger says that his» weekly assessment of consumer opinion and ¿he economy indicates that un­ employment in the first half of 1975 will hit eight to nine per cent because of massive layoffs. Tie also predicts a crash of the stock market, following a continued decline in the gross national product that may reach the rate of ten per cent in early 1975.

Sindlinger can’t be considered an. everyday doomsayer — among the clients that pay for his weekly poll he can name the White House, General Motors, and the US Trust Company. He says he’s so convinced of the approaching crash that he’s taken defensive action ¿with his own money. In the past months he’s sold all of his considerable stock holdings and put most of his cash in a safe deposit box rather than a savings account. He told New York magazine this month, ' “ If I didn’t act on my own data, I’d be a damn fool . .

Sindlinger added, “If something isn’t done soon, (we’re) going to have a revolution on (our) hands” .

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A spokesperson for the Barbuda Action Committee says that 85% of the island’s population supports the petition for independence. The move recalls the Anguillan rebellion five

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August 13 — September 9, 1974

THE DIGGER

Joni Mitchell A woman of heart and mind

This is J o n i M itch ell's first in terview fo r several years and is rep rin ted here fr o m th e Canadian m o n th ly m a g a zin e , M acleans. S h e is ta lkin g w ith Canadian freelance broadcaster, M alka. get to art college and you’re going to get distracted, you know. Yet all I wanted to do was paint. When I got there, how­ ever, it seemed that a lot of the courses were meaningless to me and not particu­ larly creative. And so, at the-end of the year I said to my mother I’m going to Toronto to become a folk singer. And I fulfilled her prophesy. I went out and I struggled for a while.

MALKA: .Did you ever think you’d make it so big?

JONI: No, I didn’t, I always kept my goals very short, like I would like to play in a coffeehouse, so I did. I would like to play in the United States, you know, the States, the magic of crossing the border.

So I did. 1 would like to make a certain' amount of money a year, which I thought would give me the freedom to buy the clothes that I wanted and the an­ tiques and just some women trips, a nice apartment in New York that I wouldn’t have to Ije working continually to sup­ port. But I had no idea that I would be this successful, especially since I came to folk music when it was already dying.

MALKA: Many of your songs are bio­ graphical do you think that the change in your lifestyle now has affected your songs?

JONI: I doh’t know. I had difficulty a) one point accepting my affluence, and my success and even the expression of it seemeid to me distasteful at one time, like to suddenly be driving a fancy car. I had a lot of soul-searching to do as I felt somehow or other that living in elegance and luxury canceled creativity. I still had that stereotyped idea that success would deter creativity, would stop the gift, lux­ ury would make you too comfortable and complacent and that the gift would suffer from it. But I found the only way that I could reconcile with myself and my art was to say this is what I’m going through now, my life is changing and I am too. I’m an extremist as far as life­ style goes. I need to live simply and primitively sometimesrat least for short periods of the year, in order to keep in touch with something more basic. But I have come to be able to finally enjoy my success and to use it as a form of self-ex­ pression. and not to deny. Leonard Co­ hen has a line that says, “do not dress in those rags for me, I know you are not Joni Mitchell poor,” and when I heard that line I thought to myself that I had been denying, which was sort of a hypocritical * • ; ' thing. I began to feel too separate from MALKA: When you were a little girl, did my audience and from my times, sepa­ you think that you would be a singer one rated by affluence and convenience day, or a songwriter? How did it all from the pulse of my times! I wanted to start? hitchhike and scuffle. I felt maybe that I JONI: I always had star eyes, I think, al­ hadn’t done enough scuffling. ways interested in glamour. I had one very creative friend whom 1 played with MALKA: But success does have some re­ a lot and we used to put on circuses to­ wards. The Beatles, for instance, before gether, and he also played brilliant pi­ they disbanded translated it into a ano for his age when he was a young' movement for peace. How do you think boy. I used to dance around the room it affected you, this success? and say that I was going to be a great JONI: In a personal way it gives me the ballerina and he was going to be a great time to be able to pick and choose my composer, or that he was going to be a project, to follow the path of the heart, great writer and I was going to illustrate which is really a luxury. So that I can be his books. My first experience with mu­ true to myself. 1 know a lot of artists who sic was at this boy’s house, because he don’t have that freedom, friends of mine played the piano and they had old in­ who are still struggling to buy them­ struments like auto harps lying around. selves that independence.

It was playing his piano that madp me Then there comes the question of do want to have one of my own to mess you take it all for yourself or what do with, but then, as soon as I expressed in­ you put back ihto the world? I haven’t terest, they gave me lessons and that really found what l am to do. People are killed it completely. ¿uways coming up with great causes for My childhood longing mostly was to me to get involved in and they have be a painter, yet before I went to art col­ wonderful arguments and reasons why I lege my mother said to me that my stickshould be. The ones I select are the ones to-itiveness in certain things was never that I am genuinely interested in be­ cause I feel that they will show some sort that great, and she said you’re going to

tiny coffeehouse-folk club in To­ one thing — maybe I helped his career? ronto’s Yorkville district was one . . . But 1 do think that when creative L of the mid-Sixties settings For the people come together, the stimulus of launching of Joni Mitchell’s spectacularthe relationship is bound to show. The career. She began singing in her home­rock and roll industry is very incestuous, you know, we have all interacted and we town Saskatoon, and had created a mi­ nor s® at that summer’s Mariposa Folk have all been the source of many songs Festival. Even so, when she applied for for one another. We have all been close a full-time job as an entertainer at the at one time or another, and I think that a little folk club known as the Riverboat* lot of beautiful music came from it. A owner Burnie Fiedler said there was ah lot of beautiful times came from it, too, through that mutual understanding. A opening only for a dishwasher.

That was nearly a decade ago, and a lot of pain too, because, inevitably, dif­ ferent relationships broke up. lot of changes have gone down since.

Fiedler, for instance, is now an old MALKA: But isn’t there a certain friend, and Joni Mitchell today is a rec­ amount of danger, when you surround ognized superstar, perhaps the only yourself with musicians and troubad­ songwriter to have songs recorded by ours doing the same kind of work you both Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. are doing, that you really create your Nevertheless, it was at the Riverboat own special world and are not so open where Malka first met Joni Mitchell. to what’s happening in the rest of the The Israeli-born singer had gone to world.

JONI: A friend of mine criticized me for catch her performance because, like that. He said that my work was becom­ everyone else in the Toronto folk scene, ing very “inside.” It was making refer­ she had heard of the new young talent ence to roadies and rock’n’rollers, and that had recently arrived from the west. that’s the very thing I didn’t want to Malka was much impressed, particularly happen, why I like to take a lot of time with a song called Both Sides Now, the off to travel some place where I have my tune that eventually sold a million anonymity and I can have that day-tocopies for Judy Collins. day encounter with other walks of life.

The following, then, is part of a long But it gets more and more difficult. conversation between two singers who That’s the wonderful thing about since have left the life of performing being a successful playwright or an au­ night after night in small folk clubs. thor; you still maintain your anonymity, Malka has branched out into broadcast which is very important in order to be journalism, and is a regular contributor somewhat of a voyeur, to collect to the CBC radio program, The Enter­ your observations for your ma­ tainers', as well, she does concerts and terial. And suddenly often to be the sings on radio and television specials. centre of attention was . . , it threat­ The interview —the first given by Joni ened the writer in me. The performer Mitchell in several years — took place threatened the writer. just prior to the recording artist’s now completed North American concert tour, and just after her thirtieth birth­ day. It was the first meeting between the two women since the days when folk music reigned supreme in Yorkville.

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MALKA: You ’re on the road performing

again. Why the silence of two full years?

JONI MITCHELL: I like to retire a lot, take a bit of a sabbatical to keep my life alive and to keep my writing alive. If I tour regularly and constantly. I’m afraid that my experience would be too lim­ ited, so I like to lay back for periods of time and come back to it when I have new material to play. I don’t like to go over the old periods that much; I feel miscast in some of the songs that I wrote as a younger woman.

MALKA: How do you feel, then, about listening to your records?

JONI: I don’t enjoy some of the old records; I see too much of my growing stage; I’ve changed my point of view too much. There are sQme of them that I can still bring life to, but some that I can’t.

Let’s take the Ladies O f The Canyon al­ bum; there are good songs on there which I feel still stand up and which I could still sing. There’s a song called The Arrangement which seemed to me a forerunner and I think has more musical sophistication than anything else on the album. And the Blue album, for the most part, holds up. But there are some early songs where there is too much nai'vite in some of the lyrics for me to be able now to project convincingly.

MALKA: Your name has been linked to some powerful people in the business.

James Taylor and Graham Nash, for in­ stance. Do you feel that your friends have helped your career in any way?

JONI: I don’t think sp, not in the time that James and I were spending together anyway. He was. a total unknown, for

of immediate return. Maybe this is im­ patience, like in the Greenpeace, we raised some money to buy the ship which wept to Amchitka with the hopes that they were going to sit in the territo­ rial waters in this area where they’re ex­ ploding bombs ridiculously close to the San Andreas fault. That inflamed me.

That was a project I wanted to be a part of. In Montreal I played at a benefit for Cree Indians who were being displaced by a very stupidly run dam project.

I know that money can be put to posi­ tive use, even if it’s just to support people struggling in the arts. I believe in art, I believe that it’s very important that people be encouraged in their self-ex- pression and that their self-expression ping-pongs someone else’s self-expres­ sion. That’s what I believe in the most. If I’m going to distribute some of my windfall it would be among other artists.

MALKA: Do you consider yourself a Ca­ nadian, Joni?

JONI: I definitely am Canadian. I’m proud of that and when it came to set­ tling the place where I decided I wanted to spend my old years, I bought some property north of Vancouver.

MALKA: You were once quoted as saying that your poetry is urbanized and Americanized and your music is of the Prairies.

JONI: I think that there is a lot of Prairie in my music and in Neil Young’s music as well. I think both of us have a striding quality to our music which is like long steps across flat land. .1 think so, al­ though I’m getting a little New Yorkish now with this jazz influence that’s com­ ing in. It’s got to be urbanized. I talk about American cities, about Paris, about Greece, I talk about the places where I am.

MALKA: On your new album, Court And Spark, for the first time you’ve re­ corded a song that isn’t yours, Twisted.

Why did you decide to record something that is not your own?

JONI: Because I love that song, I always have loved it. I went through analysis for a while this year and the song is about analysis. I figured that I earned the right to sing it. I tried to put it on the last record but it was totally inappro­ priate. It had nothing to do with that time period and some of my friends feel it has nothing to do with this album ei­ ther. It’s added like an encore.

MALKA: I hope I’m not encroaching on your privacy, but why the analysis now?

JONI: I felt I wanted to talk to someone about confusion which we all have. I wanted to talk to someone and I was willing to pay for his discretion. I didn’t expect him to have any answers or that he was a guru or anything, only a sound­ ing board for a lot of things. And it proved effective because simply by con­ fronting paradoxes or difficulties within your life several times a week, they seem to be not so important as they do when they’re weighing on you»- mind in the middle of the night, by yourself, with no one to talk to; or someone to talk to who probably will tell another friend who will tell another friend as friends do. I felt that I didn’t want to burden people close to me so I paid for professional help. And I went through a lot of changes about it, too. It’s like driving out your devils — do you drive out your angels as well? You know that whole thing about the creative process. An art­ ist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion; and I’ve created out of that. It’s been like part of the creative force — even out of severe depression sometimes there comes insight. It’s sort of masochistic to dwell on it but you know it helps you to gain understanding.

I think it did me a lot of good.

MALKA: When I listen to your songs I notice that there are certain themes that keep appearing, one theme that comes up often is loneliness.

JONI: I suppose people have always been lonely but this, I think, is an espe­ cially lonely time to live in. So many people are valueless or confused. I know a lot of guilty people who are living a very open kind of free life who don’t really believe that what they’re doing is right, and their defense to that is to to­ tally advocate what they’re doing, as if it were right, but somewhere deep in them they’re confused. Things change so rap­ idly. Relationships don’t seem to have any longevity. Occasionally you see people who have been together for six or seven, maybe 12 years, but for the most part people drift in and out of relation­ ships continually. There isn’t a lot of commitment to anything; it’s a dis­ posable society.

But there are other kinds of loneliness which are very beautiful, like sometimes I go up to my land in British Columbia and spend time alone in the country sur­ rounded by the beauty of natural things.

There’s a romance which accompanies it so you generally don’t feel self-pity. In the city when you’re surrounded by people who are continually interacting, the loneliness makes you feel like you’ve sinned. All around you you see lovers or

Page 3 families and you’re alone and you think, why? What did \ do to deserve this?

That’s why I think the cities are much lonelier than the country.

MALKA: Another theme I think is pre­ dominant in your songs is love.

JONI: Love . . . such a powerful force.

My main interest in life fe human rela­ tionships and human interaction and the exchange of feelings, person to person, on a one-to-one basis, or on a larger basis projecting to an audience. Love is a peculiar feeling because it’s subject to so much . . . change. The way that love feels at the beginning of a relationship and the changes that it goes through and I keep asking myself, “What is it?” It al­ ways seems like a commitment to me when you said it to someone, “I love you,” or if they said that to you. It meant that you were there for them, and that you could trust them. But knowing from myself that I have said that and then re­ neged on it in the supportive — in the physical — sense, that I was no longer there side by side with that person, so I say, well, does that cancel that feeling out? Did I really love? Or what is it? I really believe that the maintenance of individuality is so necessary to what we would call a true or lasting love that people who say “I love you” and then do a, Pygmalion number on you are wrong, you know. Love has to encompass all of the things that a person is. Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It’s a very fragile plant.

MALKA: I sometimes find myself en­ vying people that seem to be able to handle love, people who have found a formula for marriage. You were married at one point yourself, how do you feel about marriage now?

JONI: I’ve only had one experience with it, in the legal sense of the word. But there’s a kind of marriage that occurs which is almost more natural through a bonding together; sometimes the piece of paper kills something. I’ve talked to so many people who said, “Our relation­ ship was beautiful until we got mar­ ried.” If I ever married again I would like to create a ceremony and a ritual that had more meaning than I feel our present-day ceremonies have, just a dec­ laration to a group of friends. If two people are in love and they declare to a room of people that they are in love somehow or other that’s almost like'a marriage vow. It tells everybody in the room, “I am no longer flirting with you.

I’m no longer available because I’ve de­ clared my heart to this person.”

MALKA: Do you think you’ll get mar­ ried again?

JONI: I really don’t know. I wouldn’t see a reason for marriage except to have children, and I’m not sure that I will have children you know. I’d like to and I have really strong maternal feelings, but at the same time I have developed at this point into a very transient person and not your average responsible, human being. I keep examining my reasons for wanting to have a child, and some of them are really not very sound. And then I keep thinking of bringing a child into this day and age, and what values to instill in them that aren’t too high so they couldn’t follow them and have to suffer guilt or feelings of .inadequacy. I don’t know. It’s like I’m still trying to teach myself survival lessons. I don’t know what I would teach a child. I think about it . . . in terms of all my talk of freedom and everything.

MALKA: Freedom, and in particular the word “free,” is another theme in your music. What does freedom mean to you?

JONI: Freedom to me is, the luxury of being able to follow the ¡path of the heart. I think that’s ,the Only way that you maintain the magic in your life, that you keep your child alive, freedom is necessary for me in order to create and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

MALKA: Do you ever envision or fear that the well of creativity might dry up?

JONI: Well, every year for the last four years I have said, “That’s it.” I feel often that it has run dry, you know, and all of a sudden things just come pouring out.

But I know, I know that this is a feeling thf.t increases as you get older. I have a fear that I might become a tunesmith, that I would be able to write songs but not poetry. I don’t know. It’s a mystery, the creative process, inspiration is a mystery, but, I think that as long as you still have questions the muse has got to be there. You throw a question out to the muses and maybe they drop some­ thing back on you.

MALKA: Sitting from the outside, it seems'that as a creative person you have attained quite a lot: you have an avenue in which to express your talent, af­ fluence, recognition. What are your aims now?

JONI: Well, I really don’t feel I’ve scratched the surface of my music. I’m not all that confident about my words.

Thematically I think that I'm running out of things which I feel are important enough to describe verbally. I really think that as you get older life’s experi­ ence becomes more; I begin to see the paradoxes resolved. It’s almost like most things that I would once dwell on and explore for an hour, I would shrug my shoulders to now. In your twenties things are still profound and being un­ covered. However, I think there’s a way to keep that alive if you don’t start put­ ting up too many blocks. I feel that my music will continue to grow — I’m al­ most a pianist now, and the same thing with the guitar. And I also continue to draw, and that also is in a stage of growth, it hasn’t stagnated yet. And I hope to bring all these things together.

Another thing I’d like to do is to make a film. There’s a lot of things I’d like to do, so I still feel young as an artist. I don’t feel like my best work is behind me. I feel as if it’s still in front.

A ll O f A H e a p A n y w h ere, M eg ara, M egara Some poems fall anyhow, all o f a heap anywhere, dishevelled, legs apart in loneliness and desperation, and you talk abou t standards.

Sylvia Kantarizis.!

Pick yourself up and start over again she said, In stea d I d ecid ed to w alk o u t on i t all, $ 1 0 0 in m y p o c k e t an d leave ev ery th in g beh in d .

T h e o n ly th in g I w a n te d to re m e m b er was m y m o th er, an d th a t so, w h en ev er I fo u n d h e r I co u ld kill her.

Still b lam in g m u m m y an d n o t d ad d y , I d ec id e d to call m y self M egara.

I d ecid ed to w o rk as a b arm aid o r w aitress in c o u n try to w n s, an d if a n y b o d y ask ed m y su rn am e th a t, to o , w o u ld b e Megara.

K ate Jennings, y o u co u ld have b eco m e a d a u g h te r o f th e e a rth an d th e sh ad o w b u t y o u k n ew th e walls an d th e w aitin g w o u ld be th e sam e.

In stea d , y o u ’re p icking y o u rse lf u p (laid o n th e sh elf j an d s ta rtin g over again.

M egara M egara, I am cry in g over y o u an d w o n d erin g w h a t y o u w o u ld have b een like.

A laid on th e sh elf barm aid?

S o m etim es o ne says this, so m etim es th a t an d th e sp irit b lo w eth w h ith e r i t listeth .

T he T itan ic, a fte r all, was o nly going fro m on e place to a n o th e r place.

I've seen th a t lo o k before.

Is h e ru n n in g aw ay fr o m so m e w om an?

N o, h e's ru n n in g to o fa s t fo r that.

I love y o u . .1 love y o u still.

—K a te Jennings. A u g u st, '74.

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August 13 — September 9, 1974

THE DIGGER

“He’s a new man we don’t know him” Pincher Numiari, a Gurindji elder, to Cheryl Buchanan “ Before the white European came to Sydney Harbour and started shooting we from Sydney, through Queensland and up to Darwin, back to Wave Hill. When they first came they had a bullock wagon. All this area around here. On the Victoria River at Wave Hill, he stayed there and put up paper bark houses. After that, when he got that place going, he went to find Aborigine all over and shot the whole lot. He found a bog mob of black fellows knob here, he shot the lot — I don’t know how many hundred he shot. Wave Hill, Victoria River, Black Fellow Creek to No. 4 bore, at the sirstrip just over Wattie Creek into the scrub. Aborigine all over been getting shot — I don’t know how many hundreds. My old grandfather told me that before he passed on. “ People here did nothing to white European when he came. White European always been treating we like a dog, used to put the tucker for we behind the wood heap. Aborigine been good enough to work hard for these white European. They used to come looking for men. They took them to near Dry Gully and shot him like a dog. Aborigine used to do hard job and we worked for them because we been frightened because those whites had rifles.

Aborigines couldn’t do nothing or they shoot we. He forced us. Sometime Aborigine want to run away, but they follow him up and shoot him. He walked over to the married man’s camp and took his missus, sometimes for night, sometimes for good. You see half caste all over Australia. He used to steal him lady and our ground, our land. He steal ’im. When they first come, they shot ’im like a dog, straight.

Them Aborigines didn’t know what to do, poor buggers. They had idea, they been look after themselves before the white European came. They got their own tools; They been look after theyselves. Spear for kangaroo, emu bone for spearing fish — lots of idea. No bullock yet, no horses, they know bush medicine. How many thousands of people were here before the white European came?They look theirself. We didn’t have sisters, welfare — we look after ourself.

“When I been bom, we working on stations all over Australia. I been bom in Inverway. I work for Vesteys when I was a boy, I worked for Vesteys all my life until I got married. They used to give us floggings if we slept too long.

Inverway — everyone there work for three brothers. Then we work for Vesteys. We work pretty hard then — we only got one stick of tobacco and one matches, that’s all. Station manager gave one pair of trousers and shirt.

When they finish work they give two pairs of trousers and shirt, but you gotta give him back for next year. They put your name in a book and next year you get same trouser and shirt. Right up to now it’s hard.

“At Wave Hill, they treat Aborigine like dog. Them welfare used to come over talk big we do this, we’ll do this. How long we been there working for Vesteys all over Australia?Welfare done nothing for Aborigine. They talk BIG. Now, they still do nothing. Fve seen it happen too much.

“We are still fighting for land. Government hard too. He should give us land so we can work these cattle and horses. He just make it hard, right up to now. Them Canberra mob, they do nothing for we, we get help from no one.

We walk off from station, no proper wages, no good conditions, Vesteys no good.

“Tommy Vincent led us to walk off — all them men, women and picanninies we walk to Victoria River. People came in by plane from Sydney and Melbourne with TV and old fella was talking, Tommy Vincent. He was pretty strong old fella. That Tom Fisher wanted us to go to Wave Hill again.

We been camping there for a while. The Vesteys brought beef down to the river to get us back to Wave Hill. We been starving but old fella he strong, so we shifted to near the Wave Hill settlement. Bill Jeffries from settlement asked me and Tommy Vincent to go by plane to Darwin talk about fighting for our block. They asked us about going back with Tom Fisher. Then welfare mob put all out talk on paper and say “ We’ll help you” . Welfare — nothing been done through them see, they big talk and push around Aboriginal people. I never been to school, but I can use my brain to see how they been working. I am going to make it hard for the welfare, me.

“After Darwin, back at settlement I been working there and then I picked up all my things and I picked this place here at Wattie Creek. That’s where we are now, Daguragu. Wfe sit around, whose going to help Aborigine?Oh, no one going to help we. We got* bush tucker-We can look after ourself anyway, don’t you worry about th a t Welfare, them government mob, they say they are going to do so much. They don’t do anything though.

“We have this land, we going to live here forever. We got the law, we got our own law. White European got their law. This land belong to we, no matter where, all over Australia. All Aborigine, we-got the same blood, no m atter half caste. European just want to walk over, take this land. We walk off station so we can help picanniny. We got to be strong — only way. We gotta stick together. We don’t have to listen to boss in Canberra. We sitting in our own land. We can put up fence and put the cattle and horses in — this is our land. We don’t go over to white Europeans’ houses in Sydney or ^Melbourne. This mob should listen to we. I’m talking proper way to people all over Australia.

“We tell them we want lot of land. The welfare say ‘Hang on little while — wait till I see the big boss in Canberra’. You can’t get answer. Only our friends in Melbourne give us some money. No big groups help we. We must take this place, we can’t listen to anybody, we must live here forever. “ Dexter came here from Canberra, he say all cattle belong to Vesteys. We say we gotta wait. We reckon those cattle and horse been bom now with Aborigine. They for Aborigine poeple. They born in we fella land. We work hard for Vestey* them cattle not his, like Dexter says. We want them clean-skins.

“This is our river, hill trees, grass belong to Aborigine — not white European. Not good talking. We know he want to clean all our land out —no cattle, no nothing left for we. Government and the Vestey mob. They don’t think for poor bugger Aborigine all over Australia, they gonna leave us nothing. Aborigine got no cheque. Some land got mineral, white European bring out grader for minerals, he never pay money to Aboriginal —just leave him like a dog. He don’t know ceremony place for Aborigine — he’s a new man we don’t know him. We don’t know our law.

“We’ll keep fighting. We can’t give away the land. Cattle, we fight hard for th a t Clinic, school, Aboriginal way. We want Aboriginal people to help we.

All those ladies and men get paid through we, that welfare. That settlement no good. We can’t let things go like this, we must stick together. I am only one man. Only we stick together we can beat them. We can look after ourself.

That’s all. I’m finished now talking.”

Hooker, Vesteys and the law have given the G urindji plenty- o f false hopes payment of wages only”. The money must be administered by a govemment-selected Darwin accountant.

There is much confusion at Daguragu — the Whitlam govern­ ment, Vesteys, the “compensation” , the consultative report — all these add to this feeling. The Gurindji’s only source of information about the political situation has come from the government apologists or welfare reactionaries, all of whom had painted a very rosy picture about the future. The NACC election had been foisted upon the people as “ the greatest day ever for AustralianAborigines” : apparently the only reading matter that had been provided was the glossy government publication Identity and Aboriginal News.

by Cheryl Buchanan I recently spent two weeks at Daguragu (Wattie Creek) with the Gurindji and most conversations were about land (and horses and cattle). I’ll give some background to the Gurindjis. and I’ll attempt to discuss the present situation at Daguragu, so that you will have a clearer understanding of the Gur­ indji’s struggle.

In 1966 the Industrial Court made a decision that Aboriginal station workers would receive equal pay in two years time. This was the final insult The Gurindji walked off Newcastle Water in June and Wave Hill in August. The first strike was led by Lupgna Giari and the second strike by Vincent Lingiari. The people squatted at Wave Hill station during late 1966, then moved to Wattie Creek in early 1967 — where they still remain.

Although the reasons given for the strike were “poor wages and bad living conditions” it has become apparent that the real issue was land.

The opposition of the Northern Territory’s pastoral industries to Aboriginal land demands is now being expressed through such organistional fronts as the Northern Territory Cattle Producers’ Council (NTCPC) and the Cattlemen’s Asso­ ciation of Northern Australia (CANA). Apparently, the pastoralists have learnt from Gurindji experience . . . they’ve realised that it’s not advisable to depict individual land claim confrontations as a struggle between particular tribe and a large profit-orientated pastoral company.

The demands of Vesteys, Hooker, etc., are now being expressed through the “ representative bodies of concerned NT cattle producers”.

This ensures that their image will be easier to preserve in the press, and it is likely that such a powerful lobby will be much more successful in its attempts to suffocate the claims ‘of emerging black groups. The organisa­ tions have given the pastoralists a certain degree of sophistication which will help them in their use of bourgeois white law. In the short term, the decisions about the “legitimacy” of the land claims will be made in the middle class white courts and I feel the developing trend of the pastoralists to work through these organisations should be viewed with concern.

An example which was pointed out to me was recent statements of the president of NTCPC (Bill DeVoss). Even the N T News would think twice about publishing racist views of any Vestey station manager.

However, they had no hesitation in giving headline prominence to Bill

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De Voss’s opinions. “ LAND CLAIMS WOULD RUIN THE NORTH” he screams and continues with a story of the serious depletion of pastoral investment expected if land claims are considered. The association even presented a “substantial written permission” to the famous Wood­ ward Commission.

Further, CANA’s views regularly receive wide coverage through the association president’s wife, June Tapp, of the infamous “ Equal Rights for Terri torians”. To date, the southern press have promenaded June as simply the backlash white lunatic racist fringe. This is pretty naive and a very dangerous assumption as it grossly under­ estimates the support the “equal rights” movement has in the rural Territory regions. CANA on the other hand is credited with being a rational body that expresses the legitimate views of the majority of the Territory’s cattlemen. (The press is quite sympathetic to their views.)

The day of the elections brought more intrigue. With the wet season, Wattie Creek had been flooded for some time and supplies were at their minimum. All at Wattie Creek camp were depending on the food to be motored (boat) across the creek when it started to go down. Their cries were answered when a boat was seen coming across, slowly but surely, to the camp. Out jumped the scrutineer in the pouring rain, waving “How to Vote” cards. I believe he ran back across the creek, forgetting the boat.

More recent is the infamous Woodward Commission on land rights. The general conditions at Wattie Creek with the added pressures from the welfare mob were appalling. Screaming from the Gur­ indji prompted a visit to Daguragu by Cavanagh and Dexter. This visit effected a calm and the government employees at Wave Hill settlement have been “ most pleasant and helpful since” . Dexter’s attitude, however, was/is not seen in the same light. He coolly informed the Gurindji that “ the land would not be theirs for two years and that the cleanskins were not theirs either”. This So it is clear that the pastoralists statement determines the future of are far from being beaten on the land the Gurindji at Daguragu. rights issue. Their lobbying tactics The policy,- since time im­ have won them support from ‘development’ (cash) orientated memorial, has been the branding of federal members and we can expect cleanskins on that property they are the Woodward Commission to be found on. (Cattle are very important similarly affected. Under the Labor to the Gurindji’s plmis.) Vesteys have government it would be right to say been granted two years’ grace before nothing has really changed for handing over the land to the Aborigines. Not only are things Gurindji. In the meantime, there is becoming more difficult for newly talk of a Crown muster, that is, the emerged and emerging groups, but government will aid Vestey’s to clean established people like the Gurindji the land of any cleanskins left — in are feeling unexpected opposition fact, of anything that walks. When the two years are up, the Gurindji from government quarters.

Three examples from Wattie will have the land but nothing on it.

In effect, on this deal the Gurindji Creek may help illustrate this: 1] The title to the land (about 1,000 will lose thousands of dollars and any square miles) has not yet been hope of independence. If the land

granted to the Gurindji. Even though were to be theirs now, the the land had been agreed upon stockhands would have work and the :be fore the formation of the people would be in a financial Woodward Commission, this report position to implement the many has been used as a stalling tactic by programmes for their benefit. Now, the government; and this condition is the government expects the Gurindji considered intolerable by the Gur­ stockhands to work for Vestey’s to indji. 2]A feasibility study into the clean their land. Of course, they economic viability (a favourite added that they were willing to give catchphrase of the ALP) of the cattle to the Gurindji in two years, at Gurindji cattle project was made by cost (plus interest) — the final insult Newton Tiver and Associates. The to a group who are strongly fighting results of this study have not beeni to be independent of welfare made available to the Gurindji. The handouts. local advisor used by the consultants Although they appear as “ con­ was Mr. Ralph Hayes, a supposedly cerned” and “ respectable” , the neutral local authority on the Labor government has attempted to Gurindji and their cattle station. In institutionalise problems relating to actual fact, Hayes is the manager of Aboriginals with more cunning and Wave Hill station and an employee of skill than he Liberal-Country Party Vesteys. Under no circumstances reactionaries ever dreamed of. The could it be imagined that Hayes struggle of the Gurindji group will be could accurately represent the case long and bitter, as will the struggle for the Gurindji. His presence serves that any group who refuses to be only to demonstrate the fraudulent co-opted into the system. Moral support is no longer enough because nature of the study. 3] Com­ pensation to the tune of $5 million is if we agree with the concept of likely to be paid to Vesteys and community ‘independence’ then we Hooker for the loss of their leasehold must be prepared to lend physical land. To date, the only monetary (and financial) support when it is support the Gurindji have received called upon, not when we choose. has been a $15,000 grant “for

Vice Chancellor reaches for the coppers: 84 arrests

by Hall Greenland Vice-chancellor Mitchell had reached for the cops when stud­ ents occupied his office suite on Wednesday August, 8, and 51 had had been busted.

Next day Chris Joyce, one of the wilder ones amongst the leaders, was haranguing the crowd of 1500 on Macquarie university’s front lawn, and he climaxed by swinging into the routine Gough used in the opening speech of the ’72 campaign.

Are our demands reasonable?

Yes; roared back the mob.

Is the vice-chancellor unreason­ able?

Yes, roared the mob.

Will we occupy again next Monday if he doesn’t negotiate?

No, roared back the mob.

No? puzzled Joyce aloud.

Yes, today! came the firm reply fromthe masses. “ Let’s go then!” came a voice from the crowd and the bulk of it im­ mediately set out for the adminis­ tration block and another occupation. % * * • On Wednesday night the occupi­ ers had elected a negotiating team to meet the vice-chancellor — on condit­ ion they were able to report back to the occupiers. When this was assent­ ed to, the student negotiators met the vice-chancellor and the assistant police commissioner, Fulton. But when the talks reached an impasse the the vice-chancellor turned to the ass­ istant commissioner and ordered him to arrest the negotiators and move in on the occupiers. That doublecross led to the campus buildings being plastered with the slogan: Impeach Mitchell.

Mitchell is pretty red hot — even as far as vice-chancellors go. Not con­ tent with 84 arrests to date, he in­ sists on getting a list of names and numbers of the members of any stud­ ent delegation before he talks to them —apparently with an eye to future disciplinary action. Doubtless the heaps of photos the official univers­ ity photographer has taken will also help if he decides on this.

During the first occupation, the registrar Ford, enterered the vicechancellor’s suite and asked for thre names o f the students there. That was too much to resist: “ Come on, let’s help thei..man,” said one of the students, “all the Browns over this j side of the room, the Smiths on the [ other side.” * * * I Student oratory during this erupt­ ion has not b6en without its verbal ; extravagances. One student trying to j emphasis the improbability of some­ thing, put it this way: “ You can bet a clap of thunder to a finch’s fart.”

Nor has it been without its sex­ ism and hysterical machismo. One of the male produced leaflets was head­ ed: A Young Man's Guide to the V.C. 's Press Release. When a couple of feminists objected, they were badmouthed by most of the males pres­ ent as nit-pickihg disruptionists. And whenever there was an occupation, a couple of male spruikers took up positions at the front door to try to cajole or entice more students from the crowd outside to go inside and join the occupation. “ Don’t be a weakie,” was the gen­ eral line. By the fourth occupation

it had descended to abusing the tim­ id a s ‘‘cowards”. * * * An old uni acquaintance rang me during the eruption and asked me what I was doing. “ Covering the uprising at Mac- | quarie.” “ It all seems so trivial” , he said, “ we were never that boring when we were at university, were we.”

Condescension and nostalgic fan­ tasies aside, he was kind of right.

The events at Macquarie were not so much prosaic as algebraic.

The v.c. decides he will do x.

The students can’t cop it and ask him to do y instead.

The v.c. refuses.

Students insist.

The v.c. insists he’ll do x. “ Faced with a brick wall, occupa­ tion was the only choice,” says a stu­ dent leaflet But four occupations fail to im­ press the v.c.

Stalemate.

Up to date students have been on the task of trying to get the v.c. to do what they want. He won’t.;At this stage it look as though the only way they’ll get what they want is to do it themselves.

Given the issues at stake, that’s not a complete impossibility. The vice-chancellor wants to segregate the university bar into staff and student sections, and the students oppose any such segregation. Even if the parti­ tion goes up, there is nothing to stop students liberating the staff section and negating the segregation.

The other main issue is the vicechancellor’s decision to only allow a $1.50 rise in student union fees, whereas the students involved in the occupations want a $3.00 rise. But it shouldn’t be beyond the students to organise the raising of the extra $1.50 themselves But why all the sound and fury over such “ trivial” , “ boring” issues?

Who really wants to drink with tightarsed, exclusivist staff anyhow? For that matter, who’s much interested in booze? And who really wants to raise extra money to pay some full­ time student heavy?

That’s something the authorities can’t understand either. They explain it in terms of agitators — doubtless many of them of the imported, pro­ fessional, outside variety — whipping up the student mob. And they draw the conclusion that you have to stand firm against that or you’ll get mob rule.

If you can’t cop the authorities’ agitator story, the only option is to see the “ trivial” issues as focal points for student discontent with being pushed around and perennially dis­ appointed at university.

Certainly the answer to the quest­ ion “ What’s it all about?” that a lot of students give you is “ student rights”. What those rights actually are, has of course been posed by this eruption.

Feminists at Macquarie are now organising a women’s course aimed at extending their knowledge of them­ selves and their sisters, and their sit­ uation as women in this society..

The implication of this initiative is that rights of students extend way past what happens in the bar, to de­ ciding what students do at university.

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THE LEGEND OF DIZZY HARMONY band „by whoever Baz (roadie Mark

by Alistair Jones Butler) can persuade to do i t ” . ' I errÿ Darmody and I went strolling in Melbourne one he bloke who owns the windy afternoon, darting in least interesting bistro at and out of secondhand the top of Bourke Street, stores, and lingering for a chat in is thickset, dark browed the import record shops. “ I and found as bald as a toffee apple. Dar­ a Col Joye guitar yesterday” he mody and I rocked in for a cappusaid in mid-stride. “ But it was really cino and some creamy, over-ripe cheap and tinny. It had a palm cheesecake. “ Weren’t you in the tree painted on it.”

Original Battersee Heroes?” the “ Ah, the Nimbin Festival last waitress asked Terry. “ I remember year was the last time the Battersee you from the old Trolley Car Bar, Heroes played. We finally broke it back in 1967, D’ya remember the up after that.” Those Battersee old Trolley Car?” “ Sure” replied Heroes were the last in a succession Darmody, “ but I’ve got a new band of electric bands that evolved from noW. We’re playing at the Station the Original Battersee Heroes — a Hotel on Saturday. Why don’t you jug band that became a fond legend come along?” in King’s Cross wine bars, almost “ I’m going to London soon, as ten years ago. soon as I get some more money Six months ago Terry joined his together,” explained the woman with second band, Uncle Bob’s Band. a sweep of her serving hands. “ Those Tony Burky and Bob McGowan, were good days down at the Trolley two guitarists from the Heroes, Car Bar . . ..” formed it and asked Terry to be Darmody started out in the wine the singer. “ I’ll give you. the straight bars and folk clubs of Darlinghurst answers firist. I expect money to and King’s Cross 1964. He would’ve live on from a band, although’we’re been about 18 at the tíme. Through not making any at the moment. the wine bars he weathered (even Um, meaningful employment. Um, flourished) under acid, Bob Dylan, it’s like you have something you rhythm and blues and schoolkids can do and you think of the best coming into the Cross. He began way to do it. I guess I could wander playing jug with the Original Batter­ around singing, or I could try to see Heroes. He was jug player until get famous, or I can put what, Martin, the singer, went overseas I have together with a group of and eventually became an artist. other people and get something out Martin is embarrassed when people of it. I don’t think I’m any great remember him as a jug band singer. shakes as a writer. Sometimes I Darmody has “ always been a bit think I’d like to perform by my­ of a bathtub singer” and became self, but shit, I couldn’t organise a lead singer then. “ You know when it. A band’s the best way to do I went fruit pickin’ recently I was it.” so hopeless I only picked a quarter Previously “ my career” has been of the daily quota, but they kept “ more me”. “ At the start of this me on because I sang all the time. band it was like me going out to Brightened the place up.” do a job. Now it’s us. The band.

Back * to the ’60s in Sydney.

The star trip is a cliche. You can’t “ I kept working by day in the live out front. public service (Repatriation Dept.) “ Our roadies give us articulation. but I kept falling asleep over' the Like they write 7 0% of the original files. Like I’d get promoted and songs we do. They’re literate, ex- then a month later T d be back joumos. They’re very inspired by down to base grade. So then I the Grateful Dead, Robert Hunter, decided ‘I’m gonna be a school Robbie Robertson, the Beatles. You teacher!’ So I went to the Presby­ know, like you pretend to be some­ terian Teachers’ Guild and taught one else to get yourself going. in school, by day and took classes People pretend they’re Bob Dylan, at night. I was playing at night, or John Prine, or someone, to get too. But I kept falling asleep in themselves going. school. When the kids got to know “ The songs they write are not me they eventually rose up. I simple. They’re influenced by thé didn’t have the heart to beat the idea of a travelling invisible writer. little bastards. Although one day They shoot high these boys; the I eventually went apeshit and belted plan is to get the band to America. the shit out of one kid. I left To have us pulled over as an unknown shortly after that. Almost went back ' ,.

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all sorts of other instruments as well. He’s a good musician, but it was terrible. We were playing to sharpies, so we had to pretend to be Slade and just make up“ stuff, on thé spot, that sbrta sounded like Slade. I used to sing about pears and apples. The kids who went were only into the radio. We were strict vegetarians at the time, saving our paper bags and all, so the contrast was unbearable. “ And we were such a sloppy band. They wanted it to be free; one of the guys lived 80 miles away in the Blue Mountains and had to come in each day for gigs, so we could hardly ever rehearse.= He was the bass player. Then Terry Wilson (from the Slime Men) left and we tried to reform. The boys were to do a gig at the Penrith RSL. I swore I would never go back there — the bouncers are, well, inhospitable. People tell you to turn down when you’re not even loud.

I wasn’t going back there. I was at the peak of my pure period at the time — white toilet paper, no dope, no booze, no meat, no nothing but vegetables — and I wasn’t going back out, deep into the hamburger belt. So I. let the boys do the Penrith RSL and I went off to play with the White Company. Oh, and I was having woman trouble too; my girlfriend was making googly eyes . . ..

Top left: Our hero, Dizzy (Terry Darmody). Seen here in “ Up until then I’d always sorta great coat and wistful vein. Tony Burky re-lunes in the back­ been like Frankie Half-Pint Jack-, ground son onstage. Chirpy and boppy and,* Left: Jim Conway (harp) and Fred Olbrei (fiddle) join in happy. Always singing somebody with Uncle Bob’s Band at Melbourne Uni. “Melbourne is a elsé’s songs and thinking it was jammer’s dream, ” says Dizzy. The song was Irving Berlin’s impossible, to do anything else. The Blue Skies (“a great dead Jewish songuriter”) and the storm Melbourne boys forced me to sing clouds overhead disappeared on cue. anything that came into my head.

Above: Rhythm section Warwick Kennington and John You know, get a word and sing Taylor. it like a song. Good for me confi­ dence. once. I guess I’ve been a professional Nixon thing gave us new inspiration laughed Bazil (Mark Butler), the' band. Their best known song is “ After the Penrith RSL business, singer for about five years, now. in our songwriting. Like he didn’t other writing roadie. Butler, an ex­ “ It’s Tight Like That”. The lead I said ‘I don’t bare if I’m never I’ve been singing for about ten.” even push the button this time al­ patriot of Macquarie University — singer in Tampa Red’s band was in another band again’. I wasn’t though all that weekend I had an and a lad from around Crows Nest a short, chirpy female impersonator for four months.” he Friday that Richard uneasy feeling that maybe he would — once worked for Go-Set. He was known as Frankie “ Half-Pint” JackNixon eventually chose to push it in one last madman’s act.” fired after three months, along with son. He was a really dirty screamer. ncle Bob’s Band is probably announce his fitfull retire­ . John says he has been writing singer-writer Greg Quill in one of “ Oooooh Daddy! My .Daddy wants a rock ’n’ roll band but ment, Terry Darmody rang things for years although this is the many incremental adjustments meeee!” its varied influences give it me at home. “ We want to get the ontofirst time he has chosen a form in that paper’s wretched history. enormous scope. They range “ Most of the people I play with This Day Tongiht, ” he said. as“ Do from old standards by “ deceased, tightly structured as song. John Butler is going to America later in Sydney tend to stick with tradition you know anyone at TDT? We’ve had a brief period of wearing denim this month on a writer’s fellowship. pretty much. Like you’ll get a really but famous Jewish songwriters,” written this topical song. Been suits and working for Sun Gravure — It’s the second grant he has re­ good blues band (the Four Day Django Rheinhart (with glittering working on it all morning.” TDT the trendy publishers of Pol, Belle, ceived in-his career as a poet. While Riders) and they sound like 1953 solos attached), some wonderful already had an hour and a half Dolly, Beaut, and until recently, in America, researching his novel, in some sleazy Chicago bar. Sleazy Latin American nonsense in Desi of material for that day so Uncle Go-Set. These days he looks like he is going to attempt to interest like they can’t afford „to play any­ Arnez’s “ You Can in Yucatan” , Bob’s Band’s version of Nixon went any other ragged, ageing head — the Counter culture in Uncle Bob’s thing else. Most of them go to country blues and a prodigious quan­ unheard. Except by those early even more low-profile than most. Band. “ We hope to get this band the office in the daytime. Or you’ll tity of melodic and perceptive origi­ starters at their party the following He doesn’t write personal songs; moving on the strength of its songs.” get country guys and for them it’s nal material. And there’s always Tuesday.

Terry Darmody had said, in that 1910 and dobros. Guys who get the authentic croon of Terry Dar­ they are usually a collection of witty observations. “I write for the afternoon bistro, “ We have small off on recreating music as it was mody’s Voice. “ I just wish I could So we’ll say goodnight Richard musician that’s going to be per­ well organised ambitions. Yeah, well done then. strut across a stage singing “ Irene We’ll *remember the things that organised so that we can keep on “In Melbourne most peopld ex­ Goodnight” out o f tune like Terry forming & i ■ you did ‘ “ You kriow, tjiere are parallels top without always reaching for the ] temporize more & 'rip stuff off ifesom ©arriibdy >eonfMe& Mick Conway ' We’ll write- them, in the History between the ‘’30s" a n d 'th e ’70s. I top. So we can keep on producing everywhere,;A couple 4pf Melbourne* some years ago:: ••' , / «gq ■ books and tell them to our think the time is right for forgetting things that we like. guys taught Hie to throw away all “ Shall f tell you my favourite kids the songbooks.” It happened after writer-performers?” asked Darmody. all this art bullshit in popular songs. went the twangy refrain. The verses Let’s get back to entertainment. n the ’20s and ’30s in the Battersee Heroes split up (after “Isn’t that what you’re supposed were an historical roundup of Nixon’s Someone started singing “ Road to America there were jug Nimbin). A Fred Cass — .drummer to put in interviews? I change them Gundagai” the other day' and we career starting with his>Joe McCarthy bands in the country cities, from Melbourne -rr persuaded Terry every time but today they’re Dave were going to do it at the Station witchhunting fervour. It mentioned like Memphis. But then to form a band with him and call Hubbard, Eddie Cantor, William, it the Battersee Heroes, to trade Blake, Matt Taylor, Ross Wilson everything through the years in­ Hotel job. We realised that Gundagai there was Chicago. The blacks from cluding the bombs, the televised wouldn’t mean much to Melbournites. the south came to Chicago to work on the name’s reputation in Sydney. and his band, Mick Conway and “ I learned a few things. Fred Matchbox, Allen Ginsberg, Buster tears and the fur coat wife Pat Then Terry came up with “ Linger in the factories and steel mills.

Longer in Wodonga” . There are lots Amongst these blacks there de­ couldn’t cop Bob (McGowan) be­ Brown, Billy Thorpe, George Bums, never had. “Catchy stuff. of old* and witty songs written about veloped a more sophisticated, party cause Bob refused to learn ,what Rimbaud, Don Lane, A1 Jolson and “We started it at eight in the morning and by one o’ clock it Australia. The art of saying nothing music. There were lots of piano key songs were in, or what arrange­ Tiny Tim. much in an entertaining way has players. The bands used to sing ment . . . he just played. So Bob was finished,” writer-roadie Jphn “ Oh how about if you call me Cleese said quietly. “ Eleven people become a bit lost.” about dope and sex mostly. One had to go. Mick Diggles joined then. Dizzy Harmony in this article. I’m worked on it by' the end. This “ We’re the PR team as well,” of these bands was Tampa Red’s He’s a lead guitarist, but he plays thinking of updating my image.”

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Stone i zombie grass The old bikie flicks glorified the spontaneous animal myth. The alienated wild one full of existen­ To be told that the movie you’re tial anger and machismo heroics about to see is Australia’s first and Wreaks havoc as he rabbit punches world’s longest bikie movie sets up his way through stifling straight a few expectations. Scenes of gang society. bangs, menstrual initiations, arse Stone isn’t like that at all . . . baring, on-the-edge bike riding it’s much more aware, you might swim into consciousness. say. \ I hacl recently seen Phil Noyce’s Consider . . . bikie on acid trip Castor and Pollux, a documentary sees assassin plug holes in ah eco­ on the Finks and Adrian Rawlins, logist giving a speech in Hyde Park. which follows the Finks to their Assassin turns otit to be in the annual picnic, à barbaric affair cul­ employ of maliosa land developers. minating in artillery battle using Pretty meaty stuff huh? concrete filled beer cans as ammu­ But it hangs together like a print­ nition. Bike worship and nihilism out. emerge as central to the bikie ethos.

The recipe — So I turned up to Stone expecting • One part private eye, cops and to be* bored and/or outraged, and robbers, undercover agent stuff — wasn’t either. Which makes writing the outsider with a conscience, about it pretty weird. For starters caught in the middle, battling to it’s not really a bikie flick at all. find the truth.

There’s none of your X rated,- • One part counter culture — acid, dope, nude bathing, long hair and verging on pom violence at' all.

The hero, if you can call him lbts of bad language. that, is' the ultimate contradiction • One part bikie —man and machine perform dazzling acts, poofter bait­ of this culture — the freak pig.

Which pretty much exemplifies the ing, gross sexism and primitive rites. ambiguity of the whole film. Is it • One part “ issues” — the capitalists will go to any extremes to have a pig movie or a freak movie?

On the one hand the film has their way, but honesty will uncover a, whole vibe about it that says it. We’re bad because society’s bad', ‘this is heavy shit man, very meaning­ Vietnam has made murderers of us ful and symbolic’. Simultaneously all. it feels like a liberal ad. agency Smacks of Rider cigarette tobacco ripoff; a complète programmed for­ and Qantas blue jeans tours you mula designed to cash in on current think. ' f popular interests.

But apart from the fun of making Given that knocking the bour­ lots of movies and lots of money geoisie is getting to be commercially Sandy Harbutt, who co-wrote, di­ viable this makes it all the more rected, produced and acted in Stone, confusing. may have thought he had something

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important to say. And making a popular movie means a lot of people will hear what you’ve said and you’ll make enough money to spy it again.

Perhaps trying to discover the motives behind the making of a movie (pig or freak?) is academic.

What’s up there on the screen is what counts, goes one school of thought.

As I said I wasn’t bored or out­ raged . . . it’s a thriller and as such works fairly well. It’s an interesting plot, some of the bike riding is a buzz, Billy Green’s music is a joy to listen to and the dope they smoke — in every scene — looks like the real thing . . . that’s pretty nice too.

Cinematically* it’s very self-indulgant — almost every shot would work better top and tailed. It could only get better with 40 minutes cut. There remains the perennial problem of wooden acting, verging on the acutely embarrassing at times.

Bikies don’t ride Kawasakis with psychedelic gas tanks and glow painted fairings. Which brings us back to ideology again.

Although the wild one isn’t as rampant as he used to be, the bikie code is still romanticised into some sort of dope-addled critique of so­ ciety at large.

The bikies are all Vietnam vets,who, brutalised by being mercen­ aries, have nothing but righteous cynicism about the straight world — somehow their behaviour is justified by saying straights are fucked up, our trip is no worse than theirs so leave us alone and we’ll . . .

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Beginning o f a rumble outside Balmain’s Fourth and Clyde Hotel — re-opened for the. shoot. that’s never made clear.

Perhaps Sandy is treading the middle way . . . every group has some good things about them, some bad. That’s the way it is man, we’ve got to live through it and come out the other side if we can.

Certainly his rave on Vietnam rings hollow as a political statement when it’s standing beside the gross

sexism constantly oozing off the screen with no comment whatsoever.

Certainly the sexism’s realistic — about the most realistic thing in th y whole movie. I guess you can argue that this is how it is, feel sick about how it is.

Brecht, who it is said Harbutt has a respect for, once said that only by makipg ordinary things ap-

pear extraordinary could you moti­ vate people to change these things. * The sexism in Stone is disturbing­ ly ordinary. I guess the film ’is yet another fencésitter — show it how it is with a bit of glitter round the edges, make a few platitudinous statements about nastiness, shrug your shoulders and get on with the next one.

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There was something about the lighting which turned the stomach.

Putrid, acid-orange red; mould blue; slime green; a range of clarid, trans­ lucent fungi growing on the stage and its peoploids. Like a rained-in spider on a wall, Lou Reed was har­ dly out of place.

The band were very competent, classic seventies Rock’n’Roll — loud, live and High Sneer. Behind Reed they were a heavy-duty frame of lead guitar, bass, keyboards and drums (riffs, solos, the works) . . . And Lou in his black glasses and his tight jeans and his pallor ms what it was all about.

It was a good concert, obvious­ ly not his best.

He seemed all screwed-up . . . walking slowly across the stage as a muggers’ soul strut dropped into the backing jag of Sweet Jane (from his solo Loaded and made

famous by Mott The Hoople, who took it to Top 40) and didn’t waste himself to open it up.He looked transplanted from a banal conver­ sation in a New York telephone booth; as though he’d been star­ ing out of focus at some gelati drool on the glass wall when suddenly required to put over these lyrics he once wrote into a microphone for a rock concert in the Southern Hemisphere . . .

He had a bleached crewcut and his knees dryhumped the air, Jesus! He was a genuine 3-D star of the sort you don’t see.

Like all the best, he can’t “ sing” (Hendrix, Jagger, Dylan, Zappa), but is he a singer? Sure.

He clapped “ fucking” into half a dozen lines, and “ Mother­ fucker” into a couple more (and you can bet your thin cents the Vice Squad went for it); and even

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though you knew it was cheap it worked for him. He’s so “ white boy uptown”, so junk and he dosen’t even care.

Like a real dead zombie he jerked his chords through “ Vicious” (from Transformer), and it went like this: “ V/cious . . . You hit me with a /Zower . . . (pause). . .Do it every fuckin' hour . . . Oh Baby you’re so vicious.. . ”, and then he wait­ ed like he was picking up his dog from the kennels for his lead-in to “ Heroin”, the song from the Velvet Underground which made him him the World’s most famous Drug Abuser.

And he still does it good, stroking his arms like a harlot when he speaks about the needle and the drug and the feeling —“ And it makes me feel like I’m a man”. . . .(And ain’t he Queer and Sick.He’s a walking Tourist Attraction and an ad for wrack and ruin. . . When the straight press asked him at the airport, “ Do you recommend taking drugs?, he answered back “ It’s better than playing Monopoly.” He gives them what they want alright).

The band banged on wild-eyed like a stampede down Dry Gulch,Reed did song after song in a soldered proc­ ession, never speaking between num­ bers except once to pronounce into the emptied air, “ Kangaroos. . . ” “ Walk on the Wild Side” (recoll­ ections of N.’Y. Transvesticism; Candy Darling, Joe Dellesandro), some hushed lyrics from Berlin, material from Lou Reed and a couple from his coning album, including the title track “ Sally Can’t Dance(No More)... By now he’d pulled of his dark glasses for five minutes and put them back on again (ours to speculate). . .

He was edging out and dangling moving something like a dance so broken you couldn’t keep your eyes of him. It’s like his torso, neck and head are clamped tight around an old car axle, alL his cartilages have welded up and his other bones are linked loose chains enceased in cooling, semi-gelatinous plasma porr idge and coated taut with synthetic skin. . . The whip speed and grace of his “ dance” compared to a near-rigid microphone stance bring it all out as armed and dangerous — pure aggression the fight. If an animal behaved like that it would be heading for the jug­ ular vein, or at least to cripple and r'aim.

ARe a sadistically fantastic version of the old Velvets streamer White Light,White Heat” , Reed fin­ ished with “ Goodnight Ladies” (just Lou and two aquaintances trying to find a key), and was hauled back on­ stage for an' encore of “ Rock‘n‘Roll Animal (title track o f hh lata live LP) Then he left. If the Vice Squad didn’t beat oi: him too bad,he might come back someday.

N.B. (Although his Press Reception was a total waste of time. . . When the only reporter totung a tape recorder walked towards Reed, he was asked to leave.These days, it seems, it just isn't done).

UFOs are totally beyond experi­ mental control, and beyond the aim/ method/ conclusion fonnat which is central to established scientific meth­ od. They are transient, unscheduled and intrude on the observer unex­ pectedly. The very framework of western science excludes certain phenomena —like Unidentified Fly­ ing Objects. Their irrationality exas­ perates.

UFOs cannot be separated from the social conditions in which they operate. Behavioural sciences and physical sciences rarely overlap, but in examining UFOs, the two are in­ extricably mixed.

Media reports, like official scien­ tific reaction, belittle UFO sightings and ridicule the reporters. Official government reaction in both the Un­ ited States and Australia has been to disclaim reports and suggest “ natural phenomena” to explain the sightings.

It’s as though there was something to hide.

The mountain of evidence in re­ ports, discussions, books and people’s convictions, indicate that UFOs do exist; though this evidence does not explain the randomness of sightings, the variety of reports, or the mech­ anics which enable the fantastic speeds and the amazing manoeuvres.

I accept that UFOs exist. My main question is: What are they doing here? Their purpose seems to be con­ structive. The technology that has created them is far in advance of ours and they could have taken over if they’d wanted to.

Maybe they have.

The observations, deductions and theory contained in Bruce Cathie’s work provide the most positive and exciting answers to the basic quest­ ions about UFOs; and the ramifica tions of his ideas are staggering.

Cathie has written several books.

Two of them Harmonic 33 and Har­ monic 695: The U.F.O. and AntiGravity provide the basis of this article.

Cathie, an airline pilot in New Zea­ land, has been interested in UFOs for the past 20 years. His work based on confirmed sightings, copes with the most persistent and enigmatic feat­ ures of UFOs —the localization of the phenomenon in space and time, the obvious intelligence of flying saucers and their operation outside B. L. Cathie, Harmonic 33, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1968.

B. L. Cathie and P. N. Temm, Harmonic 695, the UFO and antigravity, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1971.

the laws of physics.

By observation, Cathie discovered a grid pattern in UFO activity.This grid on the earth’s surface is determ­ ined by the earth’s magnetic field, the speed of light, gravity accelerat­ ion and earth mass. The measurem­ ents of the grid are harmonically connected to these values.

UFOs, Cathie assumes, utilize the grid for power arid don’t need conventional means of propulsion.

Their activity is exploration, and they explore by means of nav­ igational aids set in the earth’s surface(These aids or aerials are often damaged by natural or human causes.UFOs repair or replace dam­ aged aerials).

As Cathie was working on’the grid, he became interested in other phenomena, which were not appar­ ently connected. He began explor­ ing the positions of atomic test sites, recent earthquakes, and vol­ canoes, and the position of some ancient monuments. The results are equally challenging.

Atomic borrbs are constructed according to Cathie’s geometric principles of organization in our solar system. Jt is not poss­ ible to detonate an atomic device randoniy on the earth’s surface.

Certain conditions must be fufilled and the testers must arrange to have the bomb in a certain spot at a certain time. /-There will only be a certain number of places and times which will be harmonically in tune, enabling detonation.The two ways of coping with this prob­ lem are first to analyze and arrange detonation geometrically, and second to, juggle the pieces and hope for a bang.

The destruction of the atom depe­ nds on the latitude and longtitude of the device and the position of the sun. In the early days of testing, a lot of duds were blamed on the wea­ ther. In actual fact the organizers were still adopting the juggling, appr­ oach, or the calculations themselves were faulty.- From Hiroshima to Muraroa all bombs have been deton­ ated at points on the earth’s surface which allow ease of conversion of mass to energy.Every test since World War 2 has been designed to discover all the geometric combinations poss­ ible for detonation of the bomb.

It is therefore wrong to imagine the impending atomic war to be a shot after shot affair. Countries involved would be able to calculate in advance just when and where each bomb would have to be placed so as to ex­ plode. The generals in charge would certainly not be in these target areas

Their conputers would tell them to 1 the stabilizing magnetic field a sim­ get the hell out of there before the ilar jolt will occur in the gravitation­ harmonies coincided The uninformed al field. general public would be roasted out Just as the positions of atomic tests of existence. Defence becomes a key. fit into the grid, so do the sites of ear­ But the cost of adequate defence thquakes which have followed them in systems remains prohibitive, so far recent years. Quakes in Turkey and as we know. The reason submarines South America have followed within roam the world laden down with at­ days of tests on Muraroa. Quakes in omic warheads is that their mobility Turkey followed the Lop Nor tests in enables them to fire off rockets, as q China. targets come into position. It may The imbalance of forces, caused by take hours, days or weeks for a an atomic explosion creates tremen­ target to become available. dous stress at other harmonic positions The unsuitability of atonic bombs on the earth’s >urface. Extending res­ as the number one weapon is reflect­ earch in this direction, Cathie has ed in US government spending on harmonically linked hurricanes, tor­ defence. Research into biological rential rains and volcanic eruptions and mental warfare is now well to to atomic testing. We are reaping little the for< in budget allocations. benefit from the destruction of Atomic testing is not being carried atoms in borrbs. If we continue to out to produce better bombs but muck around with these devices, we in order to research anti-gravity may eventually blow ourselves into devices. The results of this would the asteroid belt in a great demon­ I make our present understanding of stration of collective ignorance. power production obsolete.

Cathie says, that throughout The present economic structure history various cultures have been of most countries is based on the able to tap into the power of the distribution of energy resources grid. The Egyptians, Incas,Aztecs —energy, that is, in the traditional and the Celts of Britain all built forms. Any possibility of unlimited huge structures which are not tot­ energy threatens the owners of the ally explainable in the terms of financial structures, who, if they are presently held theories. The gen­ eral explanation involves the use of beginning to grasp its possibilities, pulleys, inclined planes, wheels and certainly aren’t letting on. colossal person-power. The position Omega bases are designed to of the Great Pyramid falls on the assist Polaris submarines, or so run the official lines. The widespread grid. The size of the individual pieces as well as the overall structure were belief that something is being con­ cealed about the purpose of the exact and in mathematical harmony with the gravitational and magnetic Omega bases takes on a startling forces of the grid. Like UFOs the new dimension when related to ancient Egyptians were able to use Cathie’s grid structure. Nuclear the grid’s power to help them build submarines do not need the Omega colossal structures. Stonehenge’s system. Inertial navigation systems two outer circles are related har­ already in use are far more reliable monically to the speed of light. Its and cannot be tampered with by position, its curious structure and exuberant North-West Cape march­ its extraordinary relationship to ers, hostile agents or changes of sun, moon and pole star lead government. Sites for Omega bases Cathie to suggest that it acted as a both real and proposed fall onto the transmitter and reciever for signals grid. The choice of bases, other un­ to and from the world beyond. It usual man-made equipment, and is a giant stone cosmic clock which even listening posts like Pine Gap acted as a ground station and a nav­ are not arbitrary. Their relationship igational aid for recent UFOs —a to each other is always harmonic. prehistoric Omega base.

The purpose of the bases is to act as • Cathie has published his ideas key positions in the world-wide to provoke re action. He has made grid which would give a handful of them available to both New Zeal­ Americans supreme power.Obviosand and US governments. Officially ly some scientists do know about he has met with an abrupt and stony Cathie’s grid and are aware of its silence which attempts to deny the implications. This little scenario heads in the direction of¡-‘Madame implications of his work. His ideas Sin or Doctor No — but it’s not have been ridiculed, his life threat­ only in the realms of the imagination ened and he has even had offers of that a small group of people posess joining the handful at the top. But information which enables them to he publishes hoping that the truth doninate the world. will out.

Cathie subsequently explored the Many of Cathie’s theories move connection between atomic blasts in the area of science fiction.But and earthquakes. The number of further than this — future discov­ serious earthquakes has jumped by eries will be in the area of cosmic 400% in the recent years of atonic consciousness, areas in which yogis testing. have long moved, with confidence Faraday in the nineteenth cent­ through the use of mantras, medit­ ury discovered that the earth’s ation and bodily control. The estab­ atmosphere had magnetic properties lishment view of UFOs —that they that have a stabilizing effect on the are nothing but misperceptions of earth’s crust. The strength of the familiar objects and events — stabilising effect varies with the straightjackets human imagination, temperature.The sudden change in and worse, leads us on into an temperature produced by an expl­ acceptance of ignorance which allows oding nuclear device may reduce work which is undoubtedly being the stabilising effect enough to done on anti-gravity, unlimited power, fast space transportation cause shifts in the earth’s crust. and other dreams to be used to Einstein pointed out the connection control us rather than for our between magnetic and gravitational advancement. forces. If we give a massive jolt to

What California's power-obsessives will do :

Getting busted for caring and trying from Rough Times On Wednesday morning, March 6, 1974, three members of the Santa Cruz Birth Centre, California, were »busted in a set-up involving months of preparation by agents posing as husband and pregnant wife. Linda Bennett, Jeanine Walker and Kate Bowland were arrested for violation of section 2141: PracticingVnedicine without a licence. In addition Ms. Bowland was charged with possession of marijuana. At the arraignment on the following Friday, a continuance was granted the three defendents until March 26.

According to Ms. Bennett, Jean­ ine and herself arrived at the Birth Centre on Wednesday morning and received a call from a man calling himself Pete Austin. His wife, Terry Linda was told, w^as having contract­ ions ten minutes apart and he want­ ed them to come to his house to assist his wife in delivering her baby.

He stressed that they should bring all their equipment.

Women at !he Centre had been giving Terry Austin pre-natal care since November and had determined March 22 as her due date. Linda was obviously surprised at hearing from the Austins so early in March. She asked tc speak to Terry but Pete ex­ plained that he wras phoning from a

neighbour’s house and couldn’t bring his wife to the phone.

The two women drove out to the house on Hillside Avenue, Ben Lorn ond. When they entered they were met by Pete, another man named Jean and a woman. The two men immediately began firing off quest­ ions about the Birth Centre, births, delivery procedures, etc. and told Linda and Jeannine to start setting up their equipment, they kept ask­ ing if the women had silver nitrate.

Silver nitrate is required by U.S. law to be put in a baby’s eyes at birth Linda started checking out the house to see if the couple were pre­ pared for a home delivery. She disc­ overed there was absolutely no food in the house and told Pete he’d bet­ ter buy some because his wife would need nourishment. He told her he would borrow food from next door but Linda felt uncomfortable with that solution and restated that he should leave right away to buy food.

The two Birth Centre women at­ tempted to see Terry but were put off by the woman who wouldn’t let them into the bathroom.At this point Pete pushed $50 into Linda’s hand and said it should cover the delivery. Lin da told him her con­

cern was with Terry at that time and they would talk about sone kind of exchange of services or ener­ gy later. He was already running out the door, however, and rather than leave the money lying around, she instinctively put it in her purse until later after the situation became less chaotic.

Almost immediately Pete'return­ ed with six men. One of them an­ nounced, “ You are all under arrest".

Jean started yelling and slipped a pill packet under his chair leading Linda to believe that it was a drug bust.

But it was soon made clear what they were being busted for - prac­ tising medicine without a licence. All their equipment and papers were tak­ en from them and at 10.50 am they were taken in charge.

Terry the pregnant woman wasn’t even in the house.

Pete and Terry turned out to be agents for the California State Dep­ artment of Consumer Affairs. The other men represented the District Attorney’s office, the Santa Quz Police Department, the State Depart­ ment of Consumer Affairs and the Medical Board of Examiners. They called the sheriffs deputies who took the two women to the district attorney’s office.

Talking with a Consumer Affairs person, Linda and Jeanine learned that the investigation had probably been going on for almost a year.

Meanwhile part two of the bust began when about eight men, armed with a search warrant, arrived at the Birth Centre shortly after noon.

They searched the entire house, con­ fiscating all current files, six IOUs, several donation jars and assorted equipment, including ear syringes and needles. A small quantity of marijuana was discovered and Kate Bowland was charged with possess­ ion of marijuana as well as practicing medicine without a licence.

At the arraignment more than 100 people turned out to show their sup­ port for the “ Santa Cruz Three”.

A meeting a few days later also brought together nearly 100 people volunteering time and energy to­ wards raising money for legal de­ fence, getting a battery of lawyers interested in the case, co-ordinating media coverage and setting up child­ care centres to allow many of the women to devote time to working for the Birth Centre women and de­ criminalising midwifery.

The outcome of the case could affect health collectives, birth centtres and other alternatives.

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1974

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measured, wrist-tagged or have her eyes washed with silver nitrate in case her mum had venereal disease.

She did have her umbilical cord cut by a grumpy disapproving ambulance man. Charlie said, “ We didn’t want him to do it . . . we had pegs and stuff, but he had these nice shiny instruments.” Then she was lifted to Honey’s side without the oil-job that is obligatory in hospitals.

She had arrived amidst madness in suburban Balmain, whilst seven cops, three ambulance men and later a re­ porter and photographer — twelve strange men, ten of them in uniforms, argued outside the bedroom door.

The cops thought the hippies were probably going to kill the baby because they probably didn’t want it.

They suggested the boys should, like kids froma junior class, go upstairs to their bedrooms.

She arrived without much blood so she didn’t need much sucking out to breathe. She cried almost immedi­ ately she was born and she didn’t have tubes up her nose to breathe a jet of pure oxygen as her first breath of life outside.

The senior ambulance rpan came in at the end and told Honey she was “ going to haemorrhage”.

Two hours passed and the placen­ ta came out, after Honey had slept a little, then the two patient young men from the Sydney Morning Her­ ald were showi in and Honey and Angie made the front page of the morning paper - quoted as advoc­ ates of women believing in their own bodies, taking their lives into their own hands and approaching the birth ex­ perience positively against all odds.

Honey’s crusade had begun and now it includes a wish to get together a centre where she and a friend called Dianne Hennesy will try to answer questions about childbirth —' the questions no-one would tell Honey the answers to -give information on acupuncture, Alexandei &adjustment . . . and give encouragement without imposing moral qualifications.

Honey and the others who attend ed the birth of Angie hadn’t gone back over the frantic events of that day before we had these conversat­ ions. And Honey hadn’t spoken about the birth experience with an­ other mother quite like she and Mary spoke.

They talked of the pain that is un­ like any other pain they’d known, and about the way western medicine —the doctors, nurses, midwives and hospitals — want women to have bab­ ies according to their timetables and their mechanistic-pessimistic approach to “ the problems”.

The perils o f hom e-births :

The night Baby Angle came and drove

negativity away

by Phillip Frazer and Mary Murphett Honey Bell is 25. She and her mate Charlie go walkabout pretty often with their three year old boy Kaja and now with their new baby Angie. Kaja and Angie are two of a growing legion of babies born out of hospital. Kaja emerged in a hut on a Queensland beach, and Angie in a house in Sydney.

The house where Angie was born is a grand, white, decaying mansion on the water’s edge at Balmain.

Charlie says it was built way back then by a sea captain who would park his boat round the Harbour and row home to walk through the leafy, expansive back garden into the loungeroom where women may have played harpsichord by the open fire under chandeliers.

Even in its decay the house has that warm, fancy-hippie feel — or at least the loungeroom has, and it is now the bedroom where Honey and Charlie and their friends de­ livered Angie eight weeks ago.

A week ago we sat in the garden in Sydney’s midwinter sun, looking out across 800 metres of water to the Harbour Bridge, and Mary and Honey talked about having babies. * * * Honey: When I was having Kaja I had no preconceived ideas about it. I didn’t even think about it.

I’d get bursts of panic, thinking, “ I have to see a doctor, I’ve got to get a hosptial, don't trust your own body”. Then I thought I’d get it together — me and Charlie — I’d get some nice scissors, read a book, but I didn’t and it just came. * * * Kaja came in a cottage at Coolum Beach, three weeks premature (“ What’s premature,” says Honey, “he came when he wanted to come”), and 15 miles from the nearest hos­ pital. Honey and Charlie were alone, with nothing prepared, when Honey began the 16 hours’ labour. They had talked about getting a girlfriend to join them but like with the scissors and the book, it didn’t happen.

Charlie was happy to be there when the baby came, but he didn’t want to cut the cord. * * * Honey: I just sort of slipped into this non-caring world when he’d come out — this is when you’re meet vulnerable. You know; the placenta was still in there.

Charlie rang a doctor and he panicked, and said “ Oh she must go to hos­ pital!” but we still waited, till this chick came and said “She better go to hospital,” and that was all we needed so we went. Then there was all this shit about not being married and having no address and whether I should tell them . . . and then they wheeled me away and two weird chicks came and shaved me — this is after I’d already had the baby! — and gave me Pethadine.

For that I fucked up Kaja’s life.

He was on the breast before I went there and then they took me to a room alone and took him away for 17 hours. I woke up thinking, “ What the fuck have I done for 14 hours . . . for nine months . . . and I’m lying here empty handed and out of my head and they had me strapped down — to hold my guts together! * * * Honey and Charlie are into pri­ mal therapy, or at least primal theory, which has been developed

by Californian Arthur Janov and made famous by John Lennon and Yoko Ono who attended therapy sessions with Janov four years ago.

A basic proposition of primal theory is that the birth experience and the experiences of the baby im­ mediately after birth shape the per-

son’s life and remain inside until they come out — as pain relived — in a primal experience later in life.

Honey believes that separation im­ posed upon her and Kaja by the hospital after their beach birth ex­ perience made Kaja wake up every night anxiously seeking his mother’s breast. “ I breastfed him for two years,” says Honey, “ he was just a boob freak. Then I got pregnant with Angie and he was ok . . . it was a really smooth transition.”

Mary: I had Julian [her first, aged four] in Canada and it was just the same, 14 hours before you can feed them.

Honey: But why? What earthly reason?

Mary: They have all this thing about sterilised-everything.

Honey: Charlie points out, sure, they wash their hands, but they’ve always got the same shoes on every ward they go into.

Every single person who I’ve talked to about having babies at home has asked me “ What about infection?”

Mary: What happened with the second baby — you didn’t go into hospital at all?

Honey: No. I asked all these doctors if they’d deliver it at home because I wanted all these things that hospitals just couldn’t handle.

It was ¿1 maybes and ifs. Finally I found this one doctor who was supposed to be a fantastic gynae­ cologist. I figured out that it was because he’d been in London sorr wnere where they did let you have “ natural” births or something. He must’ve been a guy with a primal to be liked because he had to smile at everything you said. And then he said, “ We can only do it maybe, if you’re not too tired, if . . . [the ifs came too fast to write them down] . . . and it has to have an oil job” . — I knew I wanted to do it myself.

Of course they’d have to take it away from me to get all the statistics — we have to know what the circumference of its head is!

Honey wanted her second birth experience to be at home, with Charlie there all the time to adjust her according to the style of F. Mathias Alexander, an Australian whose body-manipulation techni­ que is to “re-educate one’s muscular reflexes”. Alexander died 20 years ago at a ripe age an-d his following continues worldwide even though Honey and Charlie know few other fans in this country. The hospitals — if they’d have Charlie in the labour room at all — wouldn’t take the bedhead away so Charlie could get at Honey’s neck muscles during the birth.

Honey didn’t want any drugs for the birth either, unless she decided she needed them.

Four doctors declined to attend a home birth, as did three acu­ puncturists. One med. student said OK but Honey wanted something more positive than just ok — she was bringing a new person into the world.

Honey: The whole vibe if you go to a hqspital nine months preg­ nant is negative. They like you to have booked yourself in and paid deposits on the day you conceive.

One doctor said, “ Are you married?” “ No.” “ Do you have a man to care for you?” All this negativity. They asked me if I wanted an abortion.

If it had to be in a hospital we wanted a room to ourselves; no nurses around because they’re so negative, so bullyish; one doctor on standby if anything went wrong.

I didn’t want it to come out into bright lights, didn’t want them to touch it. I wanted Charlie to put it to me and not cut the cord till the time was right. I didn’t want them to take it away’ and

***

Top : Kaja, Angie and Honey Bell in their Balmain garden wash it . . . they’re not born dirty.

I didn’t want her washed or greased, or dressed or tubes stuck up its nose or hit hard to make it breathe.

When Kaja was born he didn’t breathe — we tried every thing and Charlie went and washed his hands and then put a wet hand on his chest and he reacted, so we took him over and dipped him in the sink, which is what Indians, Romans, and Eskimoes did.

It might be a *bit traumatic but I think it’s really good for the circulation.

I didn’t want it to be nappied — have this thing shoved between its legs — and put in a dormitory with all those other babies. And I didn’t want it weighed and measured.

The whole lot is totally un­ necessary. What it really needs is its mother — the heartbeat, the aura, that’s been its life’s blood for nine months. * * * Most of this conversation happen­ ed in the garden.

As the afternoon sun eased off people drifted inside, into the lounge room-turned-bedroorq where the lights are harsh and the beds — one double bed, a child-sized single bed, and an elaborately painted wooden cradle from an eastern culture — seem to fill the room. It was this same move — coming in from the impending chill of late afternoon — that Honey says broke her mood of tranquility and confidence that Fri­ day afternoon eight weeks ago when she started giving birth to Angie.

It wasn’t meant to happen like it did. There were lots of people around, hanging out in the sunshine.

Left : the Harbour Bridge in the twilight distance

They’d meant to have at least pain­ killers around, just in case, but they didn’t. Honey had retreated from the problem as negativity bore down from The System.

That Friday afternoon she got cold and freaked and came inside where she lost her last threads of euphoric confidence in the natural course of things. “ I just got scared it became a nightmare. Everything I believed in,” she says, “ I was pre­ pared to throw out the window.”

She gave in and Charlie went for an ambulance.

While Charlie was out, Honey tried to get a comfortable birth pos­ ition. She squatted on the bedroom floor, with Kieran who had attended two bitths when she worked in a maternity ward once. Kieran and Linda, who lives in the house and has been through the birth experi­ ence, helped Honey into a series of positions. They tried timing a few contractions but it “ didn’t mean a thing” says Kieran. They laugh now at the attempted rituals that, as baby Angie sucks contentedly on her mother’s breast, seem so farcical. “ Yeah,” says Honey, “ we were like . . . playing games!”

But when the baby was coming and Charlie was out on the ’phone it wasn’t funny — it hurt like hell.

Honey was screaming and it didn’t look like the ambulance would arrive in time anyway. \

* * *‘ Kieran: We thought we could see the head — what we could act­ ually see was the sac of fluid which hadn’t broken. That was what caused all the pain, it came out in

front of the head. That’s why I was scared.

Honey: (amazed) Were you scared?

Kieran: The first ambulance guy arrived then — when you could already see the sac. He thought it was the head. When he went out of the room the water broke and I thought “ Oh shit, it’s not here yet, we’re going to be here for a while yet,” and Honey said “ Oh no don’t tell me that . . .” * * * But while Keiran and Honey were wishing the ambulance man would go, he was arguing with Charlie about whether he should stay. He was young and inexperienced and he called his base for advice. The wom­ en inside the house sweated and moved into that kind of other­ worldly activity in which anxiety is blocked because what you’re doing has to go on, no ifs, no buts, and no getting off the roller coaster. The base sent a second ambulance, with a senior man and a third aide ( also male), and they called two squad cars of cops with seven men in uni­ form, who arrived in the little dead­ end street with sirens wailing and brakes shouting in the twilight and the dust.

Four cops came into the hallway, just outside the bedroom door, and three stayed outside talking to Char­ lie and the ambulance man. Then the senior cop went into the room where the baby was being bom.

Right : the bedroom

Colin

Beard

and they’d brought the cops because I wouldn’t go and I was thinking, “I’ve brought all these people here and I’ve started this — I’ve got to go through with it . . . ” I had to keep blocking that out. I remember this big blue cop standing there right next to me and he’s saying “ You’ve got to go,” and I said, “ I can’t, the head’s coming out!” And then I screamed with everything I had in me and he pissed off.

The cops and the ambulance men and Michael (a gentle young friend the cops would have called a hippie), were all outside and I could hear them arguing . . .could, hear Mich­ ael’s voice saying I didn’t have to go and that saved me. I couldn’t stop thinking, “Legally I have to go. . . with that big blue cop out there.”

I was just pushing so hard to get it out before they could take me . . . then she just came.

Kieran: I was going back and for­ ward from the door giving a running commentary; “ It’s coming, it’s com­ ing . . . it's a girl!”And they all cheered at that .

Honey:I remember her saying “It’s a girl” and I didn’t care. You know when it’s all over and you don’t care? If They get them away within that time . . . by the time your love comes back to you, it’s not there to hold . . .

Nobody knows what their baby goes through in that first twelve hours when they’re stuck in those nurseries getting eye infection and freaking out.

* * * Honey: I was pushing really hard . . . there were these ambulance guys

So Angie Bell never knew what it’s like to be stuck in a nursery, be

Honey: Talking to you I realise that the whole acid-type feeling you go through — that’s what so many women can’t handle, that must be what they’re scared of.

Mary: I can’t understand why. . .

Honey :They’re scared of the pain because that really is . . . pain.

Mary: But if you know about it ahead . . . it’s only pain if there’s tension.

Honey: It’s not so bad for native women who go out and squat to have their babies and whose bodies aren’t as fucked up as ours.

If you’re scared you hold it in, which mist be why there’s all those birth primals about suffocating and not being able to get out.

We’re probably scared because we went through it. It’s still inside us somewhere.

I tried reading books about having babies but every book I read freaked me out. And all the stories about it . . .there’s not one of them that remembers anything really good about it.

Mary: I remember being in the ward and the nurse saying, “ Do not press down,” and your whole body is, like, pushing . . . then she gave me an injection in the base of my spine and the baby was born and I didn’t feel a thing.

And she cut me.

Honey: What did they do with the baby?

Mary: They took him away then when they brought him back they pui him next to me, in this little glass thing beside the bed . . .

Honey: How dare they do it to you after all that work? Bringing you down and hassling you and keeping out your man. * * * They do dare and they’ll con­ tinue to dare till they run. out of scared and ignorant victims. They are the nen, and their hench men and women, who believe people are better off not knowing themselves and their own bodies, who believe they with their expensive knowledge can know and do what’s “right” for their “ patients”. They are scared of people like Honey who, however scattered her method and whacky her behaviour, through it all she refused to be told things that were meant to be for her own good which didn’t feel right, or good.

Now Honey has two kids and she’s had a crash course in just how fucked up “ they” are. “ I wanna find a tribe somewhere,” she says, “I don’t want to bring kids up in this.”

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THE

DIGGER

August 13 — September 9, 1974

A look, a t life in a gaol fo r w om en

W hat’s a girl like you doing in a rotten dump like this?

by Pam Dahlhelm F airlea W om en’s P rison rests o n th e b an k s o f M elbourne’s lovely Y arra River, safely tu c k e d aw ay in rolling green parklands b eh in d F airfield In fectio u s D iseases’ H ospital. N o t m an y people are aw are o f its ex isten ce or lo cality , as th e y are o f P entridge m ale prison.

T h ere are n o t m any prisoners th e re — 40 is a lot: T h e per centage o f w o m en o ffenders, co m p ared to m en, is v ery small.

G enerally a m agistrate o r judge avoids im prisoning fem ales. T hey are m o re lik ely to get b o n d s or fines. T he w om en w ho are actu ally sen ten c ed are h id d en o u t at- Fairlea an d th e re th e m a tte r ends.

W om en w h o c a n n o t fin d bail are also se n t to F airlea o n rem and.

Overall, n o t m uch is k n o w n a b o u t w h a t goes o n in F airlea or w h a t h ap p en s to th e w om en once th e y get out. As m ore an d m o re w o m en get involved w ith th e w orld a t large an d leave b eh in d th e ir kitchens, so m ore will succum b to th e pressures o f this so ciety an d en d u p in prison.

Let’s have a look at the physical details of actually going to prison, and thè day to day life inside.

If you are picked up or sentenced before midday you can bet you are inside by nightfall. If you are picked up or sentenced after mid­ day usually you will spend the night at the watchhouse. A very uncom­ fortable night on a hard bench wrapped in stinking blankets. You are woken by a loud voice yelling at you at some godforsaken hour in the morning and taken to the yard to have a shower. Fold the blankets before you go.

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Too cold and tòo dark to have a shower. Have a piss. What to do? Jump around and shiver till it is light. There are old women’s magazines to read. Bored with them pretty quickly. Will meet only wo­ men’s magazines and the Sun while inside. Read the messages on the wall and add a few of your own.

Ask matron for a light if you are lucky enough to have cigarettes. No matches allowed. No belt, no shoe laces. Might hang yourself.

Breakfast is brought in by the same man who yelled at you to wake. Cereal in a margarine box.

Forget it. Plastic bread with a cold poached egg on it. Bearable. An enamel mug of sweet watery tea.

Yum yum.

Hungry as we are, can’t take the muck given, but drink that unheard of luxury, coffee. It’s quicker to make than a pot of tea, says the kitchen girl. There are girls in the kitchen cleaning up. Long stares at the new girl. Any information is around prison almost as soon as its known.

Go back to laundry and wash clothes. Goodbye identity. Have a quick mutter to some of the girls behind the machines and things.

Then Miss — from now on screws are Miss — says Sister wants to see me. “ Oh yeah. What for, Miss?”

No answer. Most of the screws prefer to ignore you. Or laugh and joke with you. 'Hiey’ll never take you seriously. Most are family women.

And most have the attitude that you are sluts and the worst kind of molls. (It’s more than a rumour that the prison board, which has trouble getting women to staff Fair­ lea, is considering using male screws of the type who now staff Pent­ ridge, to take over the job.)

We arrive at Sister’s office. Sister Bowler is one of the worst things existing at Fairlea. She assumes you’ve been arrested for prostitu­ tion. Then drugs. Doesn’t care what the charges are, you’re a slut anyway.

Takes medical history but assumes you are iying “ Have you a boyfriend?” “ No” (none of her business). “ You camp then?” (with a sneer). “ No.” “ How have you been satisfying yourself sexually?”

Jesus! How do you answer that one? More questions, many more . about your sexual habits. None of the questions of medical interest so far as I could see. Then drqgs.

Not a chance, lady. She hands me the belt so she can take a blood sample. I feel this is one of those psychological tests. Fumble. Pretend ignorance. Whew! Cleared my good name. She starts painting this stuff in the hair. It stinks. “ To kill the nits,” she says. What! “ Most of the girls in here are filthy.” Bullshit. “ Have you got VD?” “ No.” “ Have you ever had it? Don’t lie to me, I’ll find out soon enough.”

She asks about abortions and you can almost see her brace4 herself in fear of her very worst expecta­ tions. She gets your legs wide apart, straps your ankles tightly in the stirrups, roughly shoves a cold instru­ ment up your urethra and your vagina, searches your pubic hair for crabs, and states, whether it’s true' or not, that you definitely have both crabs and VD, By the time she’s finished with you, you feel as slimy as a shithouse rat. You feel ugly in your clothes.

Totally out of control of things.

Demoralised and depersonalised. The government only agreed to stop my freedom. ' Isn’t that punishment enough?

At last they come. One man, one woman (cops). Get property sheets. Sign here, sign there. Don’t read. Just sign. And off tó St. Kilda in the back of a prison van to pick up A., who has just got off one charge and is going back to Fairlea on remand as there is an­ other charge to go. Smoke ourselves silly. Last tailormades for a while.

In the reception room at Fairlea, particulars taken. Name, age, occu­ pation, marks, children. This room is also the visitors’ room. Sentenced girls get one 20 minute visit per fortnight. Remand girls get visits according to the screws’ mood.

Into the next area. Strip off com­ pletely. Feel so naked. Into a tepid bath. Scrub everything including hair.

Go back out and climb into prison gear. Baggy cotton pants with crutch to the knees. Stockings held just above the knee by elastic. How nice, can keep me own bra. Singlet. Flannel petticoat. Shapeless heavy wool tunic and battle jacket. Not exactly Miss Universe. Feel bloody awful in i t Uncomfortable and cold.

Issued half canteen, 1 oz. tobacco, 1 pkt. papers, 1 box matches, 1 toothbrush, 1 comb. Canteen is issued every Friday. You are paid $1.30 per Week, and 2 oz. tobacco costs 45 cents, 40 tailormades (Es­ cort) 38 cents, 1 pkt. vpapers 4 cents, 1 box matches 2 cents, sham­ poo, toothpaste, soap, coffee, choco­ late etc. is what is available to you.

Order on Thursday, canteen comes Friday night at dinner. Canteen usually consists of all tobacco; ciga­ rettes are sanity savers. * * * Then off to the laundry to wash our street clothes. From now on Anyway, off to the sewing room. you are always accompanied by a screw. We grizzle that we are hungry The screw in charge here is nice and lucky us, there’s a feed waiting. but still a screw. Introduced to B.

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The gateway to feeling as slimy as a shithouse rat — HM Female Prison Fairlea. who shows me what to do. C. hits me for a smoke. B. tells me that C. is a bot. D. smileg — 39 and would pass for 20. Beautiful looking and a lovely person. F. is aery pregnant Yoil can keep your baby up to 12 months inside. C. had her baby four we'eks previously but it is now in a home. Even that ■is better than a prison baby. E. has 12 months to go, A rough tough gregarious girl.. You can’t help but like her. She hates men.

In the sewing room we make nappies for Fairfield Hospital, calico shirts for the guys at Pen., overalls and things like th a t 4.00 pm arid tea time. Meat loaf (yuk), bread, jam and watery tea. There are four prisoners to a table and five tables in the mess. Screws stand at the front Not much talking — then off to the wing for' muster.

We line up and answer our names.

We are coupled and locked in. Lights out at 9.30 pm. There is TV.; a radiator, two baths, two toilets and the beds. TV is turned on but no one watches. A. and C. from the sewing room are in my wing. There are three wings in Fairlea, plus cells and those in hospital.

G. is 22 and looks 16. She is on remand. I. has been vagged and is a pain in the neck. J. is in for prostitution. L and J. both have the jack. They don’t know much about it and no information is forth­ coming when they request it.

H. is a housewife from the country and will probably never be in again.

She never thought of herself inside a prison but values the experience.

She only has a short time rind couldn’t stand it if it was longer.

She was a very wise lady 'without being aware of i t K. was another solid lady. Had received an extra-

The view from Fairlea’s 20ft. high barbed wire-topped fence.

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ordinary sentence fdr a very small misdemeanour for which she had made restitution and apologised. She appealed and got off but had already done three weeks. L. was an Abori­ ginal on remand for a more serious crime: Another staunch one. She never said much but held everyone together.

We talked about our lives and our hopes. We became a very close and solid group very quickly, some­ thing that happens very rarely out­ side. Bathed, washed out underwear, andt went to bed. We could die between now and 7.30 am and no one would know. We are constantly cold, night and day.

Breakfast consists of porridge (burgoo) — not many have th is — toast, and tea. We have muster, go back to our wing, and clean up with a screw supervising. Then off to work. Sewing room, laundry, kitchen, garden and odd jobs (billet).

A cup of tea at 10.00 am, dinner at twelve midday, and this is the main meal of the day; back to work till 4.00 pm, when it is;tea time, muster lock up, bed. Food is mainly carbohydrate.

You look forward to meals and cigarettes. They break the boredom.

There are various marks from “ very good” to “ unsatisfactory” over a day and if you score well you get remission j and. your canteen. Marks are decided on things like “attitude” , whatever that may be. You can do craft or take typing or some­ thing if you are there for any length of time. It is not stimulating but it is “something to do” .

Sometimes life is dramatic, like the time someone put her fists through a window and ripped her arms to pieces in a fit of rage — it was either that or Sister Bowler.

Mainly it’s slow, grinding, boring, frustrating and depersonalising. You never make a conscious decision about anything and after a while you wouldn’t be capable of showing any initiative or responsibility. You never do anything creative. At $1.30 a week you are not worth much.

When you are patronised and ordered around by screws' all the time, you are slowly demoralised without even realising it. At the same time it all boils up inside you and some times you break. For this you are put in cells. This is Fairlea’s solitary confinement.

One of the girls there is Maria Stevens. She went into Fairlea in 1969. She has escaped a number of times. She has now been in cells for seven months. She has a , son.

Adam, whom she hasn’t seen for the last four months; she doesn’t .know where he is. He’s been reported as a ’ missing| person. The police haven’t done anything. Why should they worry how she feels? That she’s worried sick. That she’s de­ prived of normal human contact.

That the only way she can talk to her girlfriend is through a little hole approximately six inches by

eight inches across about 15 feet of yard and through a wire fence.

She’s not even allowed tobacco.

There are four girls in cells at the moment. After the last riots they brought in screws from Pent­ ridge to control things, and the cells had three girls each packed into that tiny space. If the girls do get too violent or active they are given Melleril and some other drug — I forget the name. It used to be Largactyl. At first the girls fight against haying drugs but after a while you ask for them. Time drags in cells and it’s easier to sleep through it. So people like Maria Stevens are slowly broken anyway. * # * Over the time we worked out our list of demands. We talked about what a prison should be, about our so called crimes. Most of the crimes were those against property, ie. rob­ bery, embezzlement, or what I would call “ woman” crimes, ie,' prostitution, and child and spouse murder.

Various demands had been pre­ sented to the governor over various periods of time but the girls who presented them were treated like Stupid childreri and their demands were not taken seriously.

The demands are as follows: Decisions about our lives to be decided communally, and these group decisions to be abided by, by both officers and girls; eg. — misdemeanours within the wings to be discussed by the wing concerned and decisions on action to be decided by the wing; — misdemeanours in work areas, dining rooms etc., to be discussed by the girls collectively and any decision to be made relating to punishment or other action, be made by the collective.

• Toothpaste, shampoo, soap and tampons to be supplied to prisoners by the government.

• Pantyhose, tights or socks to be offered as a choice to the girls.

• Girls to be allowed their own underwear if they wish, with al­ ternative fitted underwear supplied

by the government if girl’s own underwear not available.

• More creative and less womanoriented occupations to be offered, ie. printing, pottery,« other crafts and trades.

• Girls to join the trade union of their chosen occupation with appropriate union awards.

• Abolishment of the cell and soli­ tary sections.

• A recreation night to be held by all the girls one night each week: — one of these nights to be a film night with a full length fea­ ture film, at least once a month; — one of these nights to be a free and open discussion and criticism by both officers and prisoners.

• Lesbianism, where it in fact exists, should not be discriminated against; recognised couples should not be separated. >.

• Eggs or other protein to be offered every breakfast. » Fresh fruit at all tables at all meals. » Work leave to those long term girls with only a short time left to serve. ► Correspondence be allowed to all other penal institutions. » Sentenced girls to be allowed one visit of one hour’s duration per uveek and at least one letter out per week. » Venereal disease tests to be done by blood sample or urine sample.

Pap smear and internal examination to be performed only with express permission of prisoner.

• Trained nursing sister on roster 24 hours with fully conprehensive dispensary at her disposal and medi­ cal practitioner at her call. » Favouritism to be recognised and ’ought against; all girls to be treated squally.

• The government recognise that egardless of what girls have done, ;he government. itself has made the lecision to limit freedom and is herefore responsible for the gill’s nental and phsyical wellbeing.

That this prison be regarded as i rehabilitation centre rather than i punishment institution and' every iction be geared with this in mind.

These demands are quite practical md will make prisons a relatively instructive place — given that they ixist in this society.

At the same time and more im­ portantly, one should look at the fact that the state runs the bloody things, that most crimes are crimes against property, while those big businesses that destroy our environ­ ment, steal our natural resources and exploit people, go scot free.

It is very rarely indeed that you find a woman or man who* has money or influence inside the walls of a prison. Most of the people inside our prisons are very poor indeed.

It is also important to realise how prisons are used to silence those who question the right of the few to have power over thè many, and how. dissenters momen­ tarily lose their strength when they are thrown in gaol.

August 24, at 10 a.m., a rally ini Melbourne’s City Square, At 2 p.m. meet at the comer of Yarra Bend Rd, and Heidleherg Rd, to match to Fairlea to demonstrate in solidarity with girls inside who are pre­ senting their list of demands,

L ife ju s t goes o n g e ttin g tougher

Women P.OW’s in Chile

by Mario Diaz About 95 woméh are being held as, “ prisoners of war” and suffering extreme tortures in several prisons in Santiago de Chile.

According to a report revealed in Mexico City by Doctor Evelyn Mauss of the International Women’s Asso­ ciation, who visited the Buen Pastor gaol in the Chilean capital, most of the 95 prisoners are being held incommunicado and are constantly being moved to torture centres.

Dr. Mauss declared that the women are being held without specific charges and their names are not on the lists of political prisoners.

The women were sent to the Buen Pastor gaol from other concentration camps and many of them arrived with their hair pulled out', their breasts cut up arid their genital organs destroyed by electric shocks. Many of them have become pregnant because of rape by their gaolers. Their desperate requests for abortions have been denied.

Dr. Mauss said that many of the victims have had mice introduced into their vaginas, and that in thé Chena Concentration Camp on the outskirts of the capital, they were blindfolded during torture so they would not see their torturers.

The women prisoners Dr. Mauss talked to told her that they had been sexually attacked. She added that several of the prisoners, * among whom are workers, writers, teachers and actors, have been moved to

galleries for ordinary prisoners where they share terrible living conditions in common with the prison population.

The regme also threatens child­ ren to cpntrol Chilean women, report denounced Chilean exiles in Mexico.

There are innumerable - cases o f children who have been dragged out of school in the day and out of home at night They are tortured psy­ chologically and sometimes physically andfi then sent back, traumatised, to their mothers.

Chilean exiles said that this was an efficient way to intimidate the women and to keep them from commenting on the arbitrary pro­ cedures of the Chilean military junta.

Among the women prisoners are writer Lucy Lorscht, author of an essay on the history of Chile which was not to the liking of the fascist military; Viola Munoz, sociologist and specialist in pre-school education, and actor Elsa Rudolphy. * $ * And the intimidation is having an effect — the birthrate in Chile took a dramatic leap upward last month, exactly nine months after the military junta overthrew President Allende and imposed an early evening curfew.

The director of the Chilean civil registry said that exact figures aren’t in on the increased birthrate, but that “ there is no doubt that there has indeed been an increase” . He added that the marriage rate has also risen substantially since the coup.

But despite everything it has done to the people of Chile, the fascist junta is still not satisfied It has now launched a new wave of political arrests,« that has imprisoned over 12,000 people since July 13; Top trade unionists, socialist politicians, artists, and members of the clergy are among the arrested.

The arrests follow a modification of Chile’s internal security law: the latest version permits the death penalty for any kind of resistance, including strikes.

* * *1 Inflation in post-Allende Chile has driven average rents up 2,000%> according to the pro-junta Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. The monthly rental on a three room apartment in Santiago is up to the equivalent of about $220, compared to the worker’s average minimum wage of $37 per month. In order for a worker to build a home in Santiago, s/he would have to save her or his entire wages for 100 years, said the paper.

Last week, the junta dievalued the Chilean escudo another 314% — that was the 14th devaluation this year.

In the meantime, international opposition to the Chilean govern­ ment is mounting. A World Solid­ arity Chile Conference has been called for September 11 to 15 in Portugal, and is expected to draw trade unionists from all over the world.

—DFC/EN/PTS.

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August

13 — Septem ber

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1974

THE DIGGER

Page Three people from Radio 88, an illegal Swedish radio station that broadcasts to Stockholm and its suburbs, visited the offices o f the People’s News Service in late July. This document is a collation o f what they had to say.

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L a s t w eek P resident Park g o t s h o t a t

W hy Koreans want to kill the President

As any church member or student in Seoul will tell you, these are not particularly happy days for democratic rights in South Korea. Park Chung Hee (the President installed with CIA assistance) has added dictatorial powers to his already considerable presidential authority; Gaolings, orders of execution, open threats and the most terrifying brutalities are all being used against Park’s opponents. Opposition may take the most limited form yet be taken by Park as a threat to his rule. Even the meekest criticism is described as emanating from enemies of the state, inside or outside South Korea.

Thousands of students,church people and leading national figures have been arrested, court martialled and sentenced — some to die, others to prison sentences ranging between ten and 15 years.

Among those sentenced have tribunal established by Park has been many important South Korean sentenced the nation’s leading poet figures including Pak Hyong Gyue, to death, the publisher of the Christian minister; Ji Hyak Sun, n a tio n ’s leading intellectual Roman Catholic prelate; Kim Chang magazine, and 89 other theologians, Guk, Dean of the Theological College students and intellectuals. All trial of Yense University and Professor proceedings are secret.

Former President Yon told the Kim Dong Keu of the same college.

Even Yon Po Sun, a former President New York Times before his trial began that he did contribute about of South Korea is presently on trial, $1,000 to a group of anti-government and may be convicted of treason and students, as is charged. Said Yon: “I sentenced to death.

The legal excuses for such trials as gave the money because the students these, and hundreds of others, were are trying to work for democracy. established in January and April of The young people needed the this year, when President Park issued money” .

It is generally accepted that a series of harsh decrees outlawing any and all political dissent. Any Professor Choe Jong Kil of the College of Law at Seoul University opposition to the government, in any was thrown out of the window from form, is punishable by death. the sixth floor of the CIA building in Already, the special military Me C O LL EN TER PRISES & A R T IS T C O N S U L T A N T S P R ES EN T

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Seoul. He met his death because of his refusal to withdraw his criticisms of Park’s fascist rule.

Other recent victims of Park’s purge include a Catholic nun whose “crime” lay in typing a statement written by her superior, Bishop Daniel Chi. The statement was a public denunciation of government repression. Both the popular bishop and the nun were arrested within hours and charged with antigovernment activity.

The nun, Sister Sye Raymonde, was detained for 17 hours of constant interrogation by three different teams of Central In­ telligence Agents. Before she was released, she was forced to sign 40 sepárate documents, one of which read, “If I tell anyone about what happened here I will certainly be punished”. She was told she may be called back for a court martial trial, and that her crime could be punished by death.

Bishop Chi went on trial in Seoul a fortnight ago. The charges against him are supplying money to the anti-government student movement, and seeking to violently overthrow the government of President Park Chung Hee. Under presidential special decrees, the student op­ position is outlawed and anyone aiding it can receive the death sentence. A protest mass for Chi was conducted last month in Seoul, drawing over 2,000 participants, and another took place on July 30, the date of the commencement of his trial. Many people have been convicted or are still in detention for áttending the masses. These Catholic protests, have been the first large demonstrations against the govern­ ment in recent months. The French and Belgian ambassadors to South Korea made official appearance at the second protest mass. The American amabassador and all US embassy staff were conspicuously absent.

Further victims include two Irish priests, “ detained” for interrogation by the Korean branch of the CIA in connection with a shoving incident at a political demonstration.

At the same time, an Amnesty International representative who recently visited South Korea has told a US Congressional committee that political dissidents are being held without charge, tortured until they confess to anti-govemrftent activities, and denied the right to call witnesses in their own behalf during trials.

Other testimpny indicates that up to 1,100 persons are currently being held for political crimes, including college students charged with cutting classes. Under President Park’s decree of April 3, cutting classes is an offence punishable by death. The Congressional hearings are being held

The station began about two years ago. A group of people started to broadcast illegally mainly because it was fun. The programme was mostly music and jokes and a bit of politics. The police were soon tracking us and there was a lot of publicity about the station on the front pages of Stockholm newspapers. The broadcasters gradually became more political, partly because of the fierce police reaction to the station, and a lot more people became interested and started working for Radio 88 and extending its scope.

For obvious reasons we don’t like to say how many there are of us. We’re all different kinds of “ socialists” —some anarchists, some communists and so on. We don’t have a very set ideology at all. We operate on a loose collective basis but have carefully worked out safety procedures that we keep to closely.

We broadcast once a week on Sunday from 9.00 to 10.00 pm on 88MHz — hence the name. We take the apparatusto a different place each week. All broadcasts are pre-taped so that we just set things up, go away and come back to collect the stuff when it’s safe — maybe an hour, a day or even two days after the transmission. We often transmit from somewhere in a big apartment block, because in Sweden they’re locked up from the inside, from the bottom. Even if the police trace the broadcast and get in they still have the trouble of locating the transmitter. We also often drive out to forests just outside Stockholm apd set things up here. Naturally we have people watching relevant roads in case the police come during the broadcast or afterwards.

We’ve only lost three sets to them in two years and it only costs us about $100 to build a new one. We’re making a duplicate set now in case the present one gets taken.

We have had 60 to 70 police cars chasing us simultaneously. They don’t try to get us every week as they get tired of trying. In fact amateurs always locate us much quicker than the police or the Post Office, who blame each other for not catching us. One of us posing as a “straight” reporter once interviewed a cop to get his estimate of the chances of catching us and we broadcast it 15 minutes later.

We use our broadcasting time very variably. If, say, there’s a big strike on in Stockholm we’ll try and get a long interview with the workers concerned.

We cover home and international news. We transmit.poetry and music too — if it doesn’t get on the air normally. We go to the country taping real folk music.

• We don t advertise at all, on principle. We don’t get any regular income from any group. We finance the station partly by selling “ Radio 88” T-shirts through indirect contacts — even people at the Post Office wear them. We have no idea how many people listen to us. The only indication of numbers was when^ we recently worked things so that listeners could call us at a public ’phone box (in Sweden they don’t have numbers, which puzzled the police when they found out we had got the numbers). We had 40 calls at one box inside half an hour before we had to leave.

Any mail sent to the address given below will reach us eventually. We’d like very much to hear from anyone who has experience with illegal radio that could be of use to us in any way. With equipment, even. Also from anyone who has got material they think we would like to broadcast. We hope other people will start something similar. We’re hoping to start a TV station soon ~ we’ve got most of the equipment ready.

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to air proposals to cut off all US military and economic aid to South Korea. The cut off is opposed by the State Department, including Sec­ retary Kissinger, on the grounds that the military aid is necessary to halt aggression from North Korea. But according to testimony, the rep­ ressive atmosphere in South Korea is becoming a greater threat to political stability than any aggression from the North.

R ep ressio n has * increased markedly over the past week with 60 more court martial trials being brought against student dissidents.

The South Korean government announced this week that the trials have been in progress for at least one week, though they were never announced. All 60 defendants — believed to be mostly students — are charged with “suspicion of par­ ticipation in treason”.

So far, 91 persons have been convicted under President Park’s emergency decrees. Apart from these recent 60, five earlier trials are still in progress, including those of Chi and Yon. But it is when we come to the Suh brothers that we encounter a clearer documentation of the real horrors of life in South Korea today.

The Suh brothers were bom in Japan where they were associated with Park’s own “ Korean Residents’ Society”. Both came to Seoul to study and for the first time got a taste of the reality of South Korean life: they associated with the students protesting against the rule

of Park Chung Hee, and were arrested in April 1971 in thé infamous “college students’ espion­ age case” when, along with other students, they were charged with being agents of North Korea. In prison they have been treated to every kind of brutal torture — the rack, water torture, electric goads, and even aeroplanes were used, to force recantations or confessions from the two Japanese brothers In the case of Suh Seung, the older of the two, the gangsters even hung him in the air over a fire. He was then thrown onto a scorching stove. Suh Seung suffered bums all over his body. Today he cannot move his eyelids because the contractibility of the muscles has been destroyed. His face is so disfigured that it looks like a ball of lava. His skin has turned purple and shows scarcely a sign of living flesh. His neck was burned so much that it now resembles a piece of clay. He is unable to turn his head.

He has no ears and his glasses are fastened round his head by a white band.

This is what is happening in South Korea today. In this con­ nection the Australian government has so far adopted what might modestly be described as a position of “neutrality” . It has offered no protest to President Park or to his representatives in Canberra. In fact it is still doling out aid to Park’s government, for South Korea is an underdeveloped country on the aid list. Latest of Australian gifts to the Republic of Korea has been over 100 breeding Corriedale ewes and rams.

Sixty television cameras have recently been installed in the underground railway network of central Stockholm. The TV cables converge at a church in the old city, which is noW the headquarters of a 139 strong police special branch unit.

The TV network was installed for crime prevention, particularly drug dealing. Each set is staffed by two officials, and video tapes of “suspicious events” are frequently used as police evidence. Swedish police initially installed the cameras in public places without government permission, although the government subsequently authorised their use. In 1972, 2,319 people were arrested with the help of this TV network, and in 1973 the figure was 4,651.

About 75% of those arrested are convicted. A spokesperson from Radio 88 comments: “ Everywhere you go in the centre of the town where people tend to t meet for demonstration^ etc., there’s a TV camera watching you. They’re so powerful that you can read the time on someone’s wrist watch storeys below on the street”.

Radio 88 also states that there have recently been reports in Swedish dailies about police secur­

ity” activity with that of various other groups. Besides army “ reserve units” , the plans involve large num­ bers o f security officers employed by big Swedish firms. Some reports say that the plans entail the unification of all these groups into a regularised unit with its own hierarchy and information pool.

The new “anti-terrorist” law passed on May 1 1973, provides further evidence of the rapid extension of Swedish police powers, in this case on an international basis.

The law followed a hijack in Sweden by a Yugoslavian group. Working on information that can reach them at high speed by telex from IN­ TERPOL, Swedish airport police are now legally entitled to deport on the spot anyone suspected of being a “ terrorist”. The law is so phrased that “terrorist” can denote anyone who might conceivably be prepared to use violence for political ends, whether or not they have done so in the past If they allow “potential terrorists” entry, the police are also now permitted to read the suspects’ mail, tap their phones, and have them report regularly to the authorities. The law also enables the police to carry out random searches of suspected people and premises.

New Zealand deports “foreign scum” The New Zealand Immigration Department has confirmed that Neil Riethmuller (see Digger no. 34, mad bomber story, page 1) is to be deported.

Riethmuller —along with Margaret Matheson — was convicted of setting fire to the US consulate in Christ­ church. Since he was sentenced last September to four years’ gad, he has been continually harassed by prison authorities because, he be­ lieves, of the political nature .of the offence.

The Minister for Immigration, Fraser Colman, signed the order for Riethmuller to be sent back to Aust­ ralia on his release. Labour Minister Roger Douglas said, in a letter to Canterbury University’s student news­ paper, that Riethmuller’s case will be considered by the Prisons’ Parole Board in September. “ The normal policy in deportation cases is for the inmate to serve his full sentence,

less statutory remission,” Douglas wrote. “ However, because it is re­ cognised that deportation itself may prove to be a substantial additional penalty the cases of those serving one year or more are referred to the Prisons’ Parole Board which may recommend early release. In line with this policy, Mr. Riethmuller’s case will be considered on the papers at the September meeting of the Board.”

From this, it would appear that Riethmuller is to be released early and deported immediately.

Last year the Labor government deported an Italian, Leonardo Pagliari after he had served a two year term for dope dealing. When Pag­ liari was sentenced the judge de­ clined 'a Crown application for a deportation order; the decision to deport Pagliari was essentially a political one — Pagliari was Christ­ church’s most flamboyant and wellknown homosexual.

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H o sp ita l E m p lo y e e s ' F ederation

The union men who fleeced the flock for 20 grand a year

by Helen Gamer ‘W hy o f th e sh ee p do y o u n o t learn p e a c e V \Because I d o n 't w ant y o u to shear m y fle e c e .' " — W illiam B lake.

T h ree m o n th s ago th e In d u strial C o u rt o f A u stralia o rd e red K eith M itchell, secretary o f th e H ospital E m p lo y ees’ F e d e ra tio n V icto ria n N o. 1 B ranch, to op en th e u n io n b o o k s t o an y financial m em b er w ho asked to see th em . B rian M cLure, m em b er o f a rank an d file g ro u p w ith in th e u n io n , b ro u g h t th e case against M itchell w ho, as we shall see, was scoring $ 4 0 ,0 0 0 a y ea r o f u n io n fu n d s in salary plus various lu rk s a n d perks.

O ne o f th e th re e judges said t h a t M itchell w as flo u tin g “ th e ru les a n d b leed in g u n io n fu n d s,” b u t th e m ajo rity fin d in g was th a t th e lo o se w ording o f th e b ra n ch ru le c o n tro llin g th e p a y m e n t o f m o n e y p re v en ted th e m fro m fin d in g th a t M itchell h a d actu ally b ro k e n th e rulesSo sec retary M itchell a n d assistan t secretary D on Jo in e r are still sm o o th ly shearing th e ir docile flock, u n d e te rre d b y th e u n fa v o u rab le p u b licity th e y g o t a t th e tim e o f th e trial.

Mr. Justice Joske, the minority among the three judges, told Mit­ chell’s lawyer Keely, when he sought to make changes to the order to open the books, “ We want to make sure that people at No. 1 Branch do things in the future with no let-out. Mr. Mitchell has no intention, whatever of complying with a mie in the future, or any direction this court makes, if he can possibly break it” .

Joske was right Not only are Mitchell and Joiner continuing to draw immense salaries, but mémbers of the rank and file group are being victimised, just as they were before the case.

Brian McLure, who brought the case against Mitchell, is a diet cook, married with three children. He was sacked on July 11 from the Southern Memorial Hospital, ostensibly for swapping shifts with another cook.

McLure had also been involved in an attempt to set up a Disputes Committee at the hospital, a privilege extended by Mitchell to the more prestigious ambulance drivers, but not to lower echelon, less news­ worthy members.

When McLure approached assis­ tant secretary Joiner about the dis­ missal, Joiner said he could do nothing because McLure had broken a hospital rule. He refused to check with the dietitian who had given her permission for the shift change. , Farther, when McLure came to the office on August 1 to pay his $6.50 quarterly dues, Joiner said he had instructions not to accept his money. When McLure said he hadn’t yet found another job, Joiner told him he was “ out of the in­ dustry”. McLure quoted the union regulation allowing members to be out of thè industry for three months, or longer if unemployed, without forfeiting right to membership.

Joiner replied that he was not MeLure’s servant “ If I don’t pay, they’ll bill me anyway,” McLure argued. “ If you get another job and join another union, we’ll get you a clearance,” offered Joiner.

Peter Holland, a union official, later refused to accept the dues, refused to show McLure the un­ employed register, and refused to show him the correspondence file between the federal organisation and the branch. “ They don’t write to us much,” he said. “ Anyway, even if I knew where it was, I wouldn’t show it to you,” he artlessly added Last week I went with McLure to the HEF No. 1 Branch offices.

Since the reform group started in August 1972, McLure has slogged away patiently at the executive; he’s been through the door with the spyhole hundreds of times, as wit­ nessed by the long-suffering ex­ pression on the face of the recep­ tionist when he approached the desk. “ Can I see the unemployed re­ gister?” asked McLure.

She rang through to someone up­ stairs, and a very chipper young fellow in blond beard, red polo neck jumper and trendy black pants leaped down the stairs. This was Peter Hoiland He addressed McLure throughout their conversation with an Insolent, half-veiled provocative­ ness which failed to rattle McLure’s undemonstrative insistence. McLure, a thin, quiet, slow-talking person, was patiently courteous. “ Can I see the unemployed re­ gister?” repeated McLure.

A long pause. Holland stared him right in the eye. Tlien, “ Yep!” he answered, with exaggerated co­ operativeness, and sprang up the carpeted stairs three at a time. More football then beer, I’d say, but only just.

He returned with a brand spanking new office carbon book, octavo size, its spine unmarked by use, and pre­ sented it to McLure with à challeng­ ing smile. There was a sticker on its cover: Unemployed Register. The book contained one name only.

McLure’s, on the first page. “ Where’s the other one?” asked McLure. “ What other one?” “ The one before this, the real one, with other names in it.”

A pause, another long stare. “ 1 can’t find i t ” “ You could have a look around for it, couldn’t you?”

Holland bared his teeth. “Listen!

You were told in the court case that we couldn’t find it! I don't, know where it is!

A pause. “ Well, I’d like to see the financial reports.” “ They’re at the auditors.” “ The books aren’t supposed to be closed till two weeks before the meeting. The meeting’s not till August 28.” “ It took longer than we expected.”

Pause. “ I’d like to see the rough minutes book.” “ Which period?” “ 197.3 to 1974.”

Again the sudden jolly co­ operativeness. Holland bounced up­ s t a i r s . We stood on the coloured tiles, observed the indoor plants and tiie Hank-faced office people passing byHolland bounced back with the book. Just as he handed it to Mc­ Lure, the door with the spyhole burst open and in strode Don Joiner and another very heavy-looking person, both carrying briefcases and wearing self-important looks of men who’d been wheeling and dealing in rooms full of Fler furniture.

Joiner spotted McLure, sitting quietly on the bench in his dark suit and boots, reading the minutes book. Joiner jammed on the brakes and exchanged a few inaudible words with Holland, who vanished obedi­ ently. “ Can I see the other unemployed register?” asked McLure politely. “ There isn’t one,” replied Joiner, looking furious. “ No one else except you has ever registered as unem­ ployed.” He might have been more furious if he’d known he was contra­ dicting Holland on this matter . . . but then again he probably wouldn’t care.

McLure went on slowly and care­ fully reading. Joiner lounged ner­ vously against the reception counter.

He took two ’phone calls, through the sliding glass- window. He said “ Yee-up” a lot. He was wearing a sky blue suit, a dark blue polo neck jumper, trendy black slip-on shoes with medium-thick platforms, a very expensive, understated silver (or white gold) watch, a signet ring on his little finger, left hand, and a badge with his name on i t He was also wearing, to my sur­ prise, a look which I could only describe as furtive. He has a smallish face, a bristly moustache, a mouth pursed constantly in a pugnacious expression, and the sort of eyes that show white all round the pupil.

He was hardly still for a second.

It took McLure a good 15 minutes to read through the book, and during that time Joiner fidgeted irritably like a schoolboy. He didn’t seem to feel comfortable about meeting my eye; and his furious, agitated expression wasn’t pleasant to contemplate, so we gazed with feigned interest at various fittings in the hall.

When McLure finished the book, he put it back on the shelf and said “ Thank you” . We left, * * * The following account o f Mit­ chell's and Joiner's activities is based largely on a Nation Review article (May 31 — June 6), with a couple o f fascinating extras: Mitchell's nauseating New Year message to members, composed during the court case in which he was clearly dis­ credited but just as clearly not re­ strained; and a letter to one o f the early members o f the reform group, an example o f how to threaten nameless horrors under a veil o f bonhomie and Genuine Personal Concern, A careful reading o f this story may puncture illusions about the Australian trade union movement. * *, *

By October last year, Mitchell’s rakeoff from union funds was over $40,000 a year.

In August 1972, very few outside the branch executive had any idea

how generously they were supporting him, and Mitchell intended to keep it that way. So did his assistant secretary, Don Joiner, whose income is about $2,000 a year less than MitchelTs, Then a reform group began asking questions and circulating a petition.

Joiner ’phoned Mitchell in Europe, where he was travelling at union expense, and Mitchell came rushing home. Mitchell gnd Joiner began a campaign to crush the reform group.

Mitchell immediately sacked a union organiser who had given them inside information, and issued a circular condemning the group as commun­ ists who were trying to wreck the union. (His tactics ever since have been to call any attack on him an attack on the union.)

more significant basis, and the extra­ ordinary tale of Mitchell and Joiner’s finances unfolded.

In 1968 Mitchell had to face an election. It does appear that his was the only nomination, but the returning officer told the court that the nomination papers were lost when a safe was stolen from the office and later recovered from a creek, or paddock, blown open, but with all the money still inside.

As Mr. Justice Joske said, the story was “ a curious one”. *

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In June 1973 they informed the executive that although their salaries had been quite generous when fixed in 1967, they were no longer rea­ listic. Mitchell’s base salary was im­

chell be sent to Europe. This trip cost the union nearly $10,000, paid in advance to Thomas Cook, and there was no refund despite the fact that he came home three weeks early when Joiner ’phoned him.

Mitchell claims that it was a study trip to examine industrial relations and working conditions in Europe, but he sent circulars to members before and after the trip referring to ¡his absence as long service leave.

He must have lived well to spend $10,000 in nine weeks.

In June 1972 Joiner moved that Mitchell be granted $2,000 towards another trip to Europe. This time Mitchell fell ill in Europe, and was barely to do any work at all.

In early October 1973, before the press reports on these huge pay­

^ ^ M i t c h e l l has been flouting the rules and bleeding the funds of the organisation for the benefit of himself and his friends unknown to the main body of members, many of whom in their ig­ norance have foolishly supported him. He has sought to get complete control of the affairs of the organisation and in the main succeeded. It is hardly perhaps, surprising that when he realised that he was being found out, he should have descended to vulgar abuse of his opponents,99 (Mr Justice Joske)

Joiner arranged for the group to be investigated by the Inge detec­ tive agency, whose boss is the well known right wing Croatian Enver Begovic. Union members who had associated themselves with the re­ form group were told to keep away from “ those communists” and that “ we are having them investigated.”

Joiner admitted in court that the investigation had discovered nothing arid had cost the union oyer $400.

Reform group shop stewards found they were being left off the union’s mailing list, which meant that they and the members they represented were getting even less information than before. Three of these shop stewards were sacked, including Mc­ Lure, whose members re-elected him in Mitchell’s presence. * * * When the case began, the court orders sought against Mitchell were pretty unsensational, requiring as they did the proper calling of meet­ ings, recognition of shop stewards etc,. But one important claim was made for an order that Mitchell gve proper access to the union’s books.

However, the hearing was ad­ journed after four days and before the court rose, McLure’s counsel, John Bland cleverly indicated to the court that McLure, his solicitor and an accountant ought to be granted access to the books. In open court, Mitchell’s counsel could hardly do anything but agree to this proposition.

The case then resumed on a much

mediately tied to that of the manager outs appeared, but after Mitchell of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, had been served with an affidavit which was then $16,750. Joiner’s alleging most o f them, union presi­ was set at $2,000 less and the rises dent Carroll sent a “ personal” letter were backdated to the beginning to all members. He justified Mitchell’s of the year. $16,750 a year basic salary and In October the hospital manager $5,000 overtime by saying that Mit­ got a rise, so Mitchell went up chell was the best union secretary to $21,216 base salary, with Joiner in Australia, but announced that still $2,000 below him.

Mitchell had decided to forego the * * * six weeks’ Christmas bonus.

Then there were the trips. In 1969 the union paid for Mitchell, McLure argued to the court that his wife and five kids to holiday under union rule 31, most of these in Surfers’ — air fares, accommo­ payments were for other than or­ dation, the lot. dinary purposes and should have In 1971 Mitchell moved that the been subm itted,to the general mem­ union pay $2,000 towards the cost bership before being passed by the of an overseas trip that Joiner was finance committee. He also argued making because he would be visiting that the rule had been invalidly some hospitals. Joiner admitted in amended as to no longer apply to court that the trip was mainly a the Victorian No. 1 Branch after holiday, and that he spent relatively November 1970. little time on union business.

All three judges on the bench In 1972 Joiner moved that Mit­ accepted the latter point, but only

Mr. justice Joske agreed with Mc­ trolled ballot, and this will be done: Lure’s interpretation of rule 31. That ballot will be the real “crunch" The rule is loosely worded, but — wealthy backers can provide money the majority decision is difficult to for filthy lying propaganda and for understand. Certainly Mitchell agreed despicable anonymous campaigns o f with McLure’s interpretation, be­ character assassination, but they can cause his whole defence on the pay­ not buy your votes: In the past ments was that they were for or­ seven years we have made more progress than any other union iin dinary payments.

Australia — I know from letters, The court found unanimously telephone calls, telegrams and jail that all 20 rule changes made in the other wonderful messages which Mitchell’s period o f office were in­ I have received that we will defeat valid for the fairly basic reason that these “ splitters” and keep high the they had not been submitted to wonderful spirit which has grown the Branch membership before being in the HEF in recent years: To passed by the federal council. you and to your families I wish They included several changes every good fortune, blessing, joy, which had the effect of concen­ peace and serenity during 1974 — trating power in the hands of the God bless: executive — such as increasing from I am, five to 20% the number, of mem­ Yours fraternally, bers required to pass a motion di­ KEITH MITCHELL, recting the executive committee, and Secretary, greatly restricting the number of members who could stand for presi­ (The “ incredible sums of money” dent, secretary or assistant secretary. Mitchell refers to are in reality the In a separate hearing, Mr. Justice printing and distributing costs of the Smithers ordered the court-appointed Reform Group’s Forum, a cheap returning officer to conduct the July eight page paper which members election on the basis of thç old pay for from their own shallow rule that any financial member can pocxets and by organising trash and stand for any position. treasure markets; the fees for the Mitchell and Joiner were paid court case could only be afforded all their money by a finance com­ through the Arbitration Act sec­ mittee which, in Mr. Justice Joske’s tion 141. which provides assistance words, “ endowed themselves with from the Attorney-General for intra­ certain benefits”. Thus the committee union legal action. Mitchell’s counsel resolved that the president (Carroll) of course was. at union expense.) receive an honorarium of $1,250 6th October, 1972. per annum and the full use of the Dear . . ., Federation’s car, together with $30 Thank you very much indeed attendance money per meeting. for your kindness to me personally The motions for the “ benefits” have usually come from Mitchell or and for the good sense and modera­ Joiner. But this is only part of the tion which you showed at what story. They are both very smooth could have been a difficult meeting talkers, and through addressing mem­ .. . . yesterday afternoon bers of meetings, through the I must admit that when t returned monthly newsletter, and through the from long service leave to read a annual journal they have convinced whole host of abusive letters from many members of the union, in ­ members stating your name as the cluding the executive, that they are instigator of the recent petition, I simply did not connect it with God’s gift to the union.

The journal is produced by a you personally — as I said yesterday, firm of PR consultants at con­ my memory o f you over all the siderable expense, and usually con­ years is one of the most courteous tains about ten photos o f Mitchell people who ever attends our meetings.

For your own sake I think you in 12 or 14 pages. They recently produced a booklet on new awards want to have a serious look at for members called Your Union at the moment of your legal responsi­ Work: on the front cover there is bilities in regard to the circulation a large picture of Mitchell and Car- of documents for which you will be held responsible, but which it roll.

McLure is standing against Mit­ was quite clear to me yesterday chell in the elections. The reform you had no real knowledge of the group concedes that he probably truth or otherwise of the statements won’t beat Mitchell, but at least contained therein.

My solicitors had told me that a substantial vote against Mitchell several statements in the pamphlet might restrain him somewhat.

The election results won’t be can be held to be criminally libel known for another week or so. But of myself, and my advice is that to keep you going, here are a couple if proceedings are initiated the per­ of documents from the early stages son responsible for the writing, printing, publication and distribu­ of the reform group’s struggle: tion of that document might well HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU be convicted of criminal libel which not only involves payment oi ALL - A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM damages but can also involve im-’ prisonment.

YOUR SECRETARY Believe me I am simply putting Dear Friends, this to you in a sincere personal This note is a warm and sincere “ thank you” for the touching in­ way, because it was perfectly clear flow of Christmas cards; kind per­ and obvious to me when I talked sonal letters; callers; and telephone with you yesterday that you had messages of goodwill which I received no real idea of the truth or others during the Christmas season ’from wise of the statements in that docu­ members in every part of the state — ment, but at the same time as presi­ the task of replying individually to dent of the group you are the prime all kind and generous things that rperson who would be responsible •have been said to me would be at law for any libels which were so great that I do ask you to accept contained therein.

It is also an offence under Vic­ this as my personal thanks: During torian law for printed m atter not the past 18 months 1 have been subjected to a sustained; vicious;i to contain the name and address cruel; and untruthful campaign o f of the printer, and the document personal harassment against myself in question had no printer’s im­ and my family (I can assure you print.

With the help of police contacts that it is not a pleasant experience I naturally have been able to es­ when one's nine year old and 12 year old children are subjected, to tablish the identity of the printer abuse and harassment): Members are but the fact remains that that docu­ asking me where the incredible sums ment was distributed without any of money used in this campaign printer’s im print At all events, what I am simply have come from (.estimates are that about $50,000 has already been saying to you is that you want “ invested” in an effort to destroy to be very very careful two or three the HEF) — many o f you already bad people (and I think you know know the answer to that question, they are bad people) connected with your group could get you into a and please God we will be able to expose those responsible in the near jolly lot of trouble before they are future: In the seven years during finished.

Thanks sincerely for your help which I have been secretary of thé Hospital Employees’ Federation in and constructive approach at yester­ day’s meeting.

Victoria, we have gone from strength With kind personal regards. to strength (and even during the I am, period of this vicious persecution Yours fraternally, we have continued to make spec­ KEITH MITCHELL, tacular progress), so naturally there Secretary. are people who are prepared to sink very great sums of money into des­ PS — I do not want you to consider troying a union which has become it as a personal matter if you are one of the most effective organisa­ cited in libel proceedings which tions in Australia: These people hope might be taken regarding certain that their constant persecution and statements in the pamphlet which never-ending personal smears will was published by your group — finally destroy my health and thus my solicitors are quite firm that that document is criminally libellous allow “ Operation Take-Over” to go into effect — I can assure you that of myself and that legal proceedings they will NOT succeed, and our should be initiated against all <of coming ballot will see them crushing- those responsible.

This is not a personal matter, ly defeated by our members: Late last year I myself moved at a meeting b u t 1 believe I have a responsibility with the executive committee o f to the Federation to take whatever the Federation that we ask the com­ steps are necessary legally to punish those who were responsible for these monwealth government to conduct gross untruths being circulated. our next election as a court-con­

August 13 — September 9, 1974

THE DIGGER

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In MELBOURNE... and In SYDNEY SATURDAY A U G U ST 24

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THE DUKE'S MEN. Jazz, Albury Hotel.

6 O xford St., Paddo. 4—6 pm.

SILVER BIRD JAZZ BAND. ArgyleTavern. 18 Argyle St., The Rocks. 8 pm— midnight.

PETE QUENTIN' Balmain Volunteer.

10 Queens PL, Balmain. 8—10 pm.

GALAPOGUS DUCK. The Basement, 29 Reiby PL, Circular Quay, MERV ACHERSON & JAZZMEN. Beltevue Hotel. 159 Haryave St., Paddo.

3—6 pm. , ALEX HOOD, JOHN CURRIE, LARRY KING, CRISPIN DYE, BOB HOWE. Folkrock venue. The Cellar. YWCA Build­ ing. Licerpool St., City. $1.50. Stud­ ent discount.

W ALLY TEMPLE JAZZ BAND. Featuring Nancy Stuart. Cricketer's Arms Hotel.

106 Fitzroy St., Surry Hills. 3—6 pm ; SKY LARK, BLAZE. Chequers, 79^ Goulburn St., Cuty. 8 pm—2 am.

POPPA ZACK. Denison Hotel. 59 Oxford St., Bondi Junction. 3—5.30 pm.

FOREDAY RIDERS. Blues band. French's French's. 46 Oxford St., East Sydney.

8 -1 0 pm.

STUART & McKAY. Jools. 121 Crown St. East Sydney. 8—10 pm. j GEOFF BULL. Jazz. Limerick Castle. Cnr. Ann & Smith Sts., Surry Hills. 3.30— 6.30 pm.

A LAD Y CALLED PRUE. Guitar & vocals. Brewer's Elbow 854 Pacific Highway, Gordon. 8 pm—midnight.

JEFF & TR IC IA, TERI WELLES, MIKE MdCLELLAN, THE MONTGOMERYS. Elizabeth Folk Club. 205 Elizabeth St. City.

RUBY. Whiskey. 8 - 1 0 pm,

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COL NOLAN. Argyle Tavern. 18 Argyle St., The Rocks. 8 pm—midnight.

JOHNNY ROCCO. Bojangles.

GALAPOGUS DUCK. The Basement.

Wed.—Sat.' MERV ARCHERSON & JAZZMEN. Belle• vttie Hotel. 7—10 pm.

HARBOUR CITY JAZZ BAND. Bronte Charles Hotel.

BUSTER BROWN & SPARKLE. Chequers.

Weds;—Sat. S0FANYA & THEXTON. B rilliant acous­ tic duo. Decline Wine Bar. MICK BOSTON'S. Forest Lodge Hotel.

117 Arundel St,, Forest Lodge. 7.30— 10 pm.

RICHARD CLAPTON & HIS BAND. Fre French's.

9 SUN Original Jazz-rock. Keatons Bar. 45 Oxford St. Darlinghurst.

JAZZ NIGHT. Bojangles.

IAN YOUNG. Limerick Castle.

THE LOFTERS. The Loft. 90 William St. Kings Cross. Wed.—Sat. 8 pm—midnight.

•JAPSER Miller's Brighton Hotel.

TROUBADORS. Oceanic Hotel. 7 p m midnight.

BOB BARNARD . Old Push.

DAN JOHNSON. Red Riley's.

GEOFF BULL. Stage Door Tavern.

DON BURROUGHS QUARTET. Supper Club. Wentworth Hotel. Wed.—Fri. 9 pm—midnight.

DELFINI. Weds.& Thurs

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SCFANYA & TH E X TO N . Acoustic night.

Bloody Mary Wine Bar. 114 Church St., Cam per down. 6.30-9.30 pm.

TRELAWNEY. Soft acoustic. Different Drummer. 32 Burton St., Darlinghurst, 8—10 pm.

STUART & McKAY. Soft rock. Jools.

8 pm—midnight.

CLAY. 3 piece acoustic group. Keaton's Bar. 45 Oxford St., Darlinghurst. 8—10 8—10 pm.

4 TROUBADORS. Oceanic Hotel. 6—10 pm.

Kl RK GALLE RY. 422 Cleveland St., Surry Hills. Top quality original con­ temporary music. 8 pm-midnight. $1 $1.50 PETE QUENTIN, DUTCH TILDERS, PAULINE LOVETT. Kirk Gallery. 422 Cleveland St., S uity Hills. Top qual­ ity original contemporary music. 8 pm —midnight. $1.50.

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DUTCH TILDER. Limerick Castle. 7—10 7—10 pm.

RON DA S ILVA BAND. Louis Tavern.

Paddo. All afternoon.

RUG. Miller's Brighton. Grand Pde.,1 Brighton-le-Sands. 7—10 pm~ AL WARD & DAN JOHNSON.'Acoustic.

Red Riley's. Cnr. Riley & Reservoir S Sts., Surry Hills. 4.30 pm—midnight.

JOHN SUMMERS. Squatter's Retreat.

271 Elizabeth St., City. 7—10 pm.

MAX GREEN QUARTET. Jazz. Tilbury

Stephane Grapelli has become famous for his jazz violin performances with the legendary Django Rheinhart. He is now to tour Australia with the Diz Disney trio. A master o f his instrument, after fifty years o f playing jazz, he is still the youngest o f the jazzmen.

Below left. From FILLMORE -a film around American rock mogul Bill Graham &the last days o f the now legendary Fillmore East in San Francisco Santana, Grateful Dead,New Riders,In Gold Blood, & Bill Graham.In colour with a 1,000 watt. p.a. at the PALAIS St.Kilda. Now showing With Rolling Stone s film Gimme Shelter. Top Right.Bruce Spence as the sea-sick ¿X digger, who plays Les Harding in John Romeril’s new play FLOATING WORLD at the Pram Factory.He and his wife Irene (Jane Clifton) embark on a Woman’s Weekly Cherry Blossoin Tourto f Japan: I I R i g h t [Y ed £ lo o k again ...if’s &singer o f SCREAMINGHEEP -a gutsy all woman’s group. "

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Hotel (Louis at the 'loo). Cnr. Forbes & Nicholson Sts., Woolloomooloo. 2 p —onwards.

JAZZ. Royal George Hotel. Cnr. Sussex & King Sts., City. 3—6 pm.

UNITY JAZZ QUARTET. Kask Wine Bar. 121 Bondi Rd., Bondi. 3—6 pm.

PACIFIC COAST JAZZ BAND. U nity Ha Hall Hotel. 292 Darling Rd., Balmain.

7.45—10 pm PAUL FURNISS& THE ECLIPSE V A L L V A LLE Y 5. Vanity Fair Hotel. Cnr. Goulbunrand Wentworth Sts., City.

FREEDOM HIGHWAY. 7 nights. Har­ poon Harry’s.5325 George Stf, City.

1 7 pm—midnight.

YOUNG HEARTS. Bnights, Whiskey. W William St., Kings Cross. 10.30 pm— 3 am.

BASSEEKA. 7 nights. Persian Room. 39 Dar|inghurst Rd., Kings Cross. 9.30 pm —3,So am RI=NE GEYER & HER BUDDIES; Bondi Lifesaver. 8 pm—midnight.

MOROCCO. Bojangles. 249 Princes Highway, Corrimal. 8 pm—1 am.

THE LOFTER'S. The Loft. 90 William St., Kings Cross. 8 pm—midnight.

TROUBADORS. Oceanic Hotel. Arden & Carr Sts., Coogee. 4—6 pm & 7 pm— midnight.

DON BURROUGHS QUARTET. Supper QTub. Wentworth Hotel. 9 pm-1 am.

N.J.B. Strata Motor Inn. 287 M ilitary Rd. Cremorne. 4—7 pm.

DELFINI. Strata Motor Inn. 7.30—10 pm THE CONNAIRE. Irish folk. Bell's Hotel.

Cowper Wharf Rd., Woolloomooloo.

1—10.30 pm.

FLAKE. Manly Vale Hotel. 250 Condamine St., Manly Vale. 8—11.40 pm.

j UNITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE. Old Push. 109 109 Geroge St., City. 8 pm-midnight. | VELA. Stage Door Tavern. Cnr. CastlePonch H aw k es raegh & Campbell Sts., City. 7 pm— j midnight.

RICHARD EASLING. Elizabethan Inn. j 26 Mona Rd., Darling Point. 8 pm— I midnicht.

JlM I TAYLO R'S ROCK & ROLL RE! REVIVAL. After Dimboola ,1till 3 am. !

Bonaparte's. William St.

N EED O F F S E T D U P L IC A T IN G DON E? WE A T T H E L IG H T , P O W D E R A N D C O N ­ S T R U C T IO N WORKS CAN SUPPLY THE M A C H IN E A N D THE O P E R A T O R .

N O J O B T O O BIG , N O J O B T O O A V E R A G E , N O JO B T O O SM ALL

GRAEME BELL A L L STARS. Basement.

DOUG ASHDOWN. Bellevue Hotel. 8 - 1 0 [ T H U R S D A Y A U G U S T 29

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CHRIS McDONALD. Blues pianist. Bronte) SILVER BIRD JAZZ BAND. Argyle Tav­ ern.

Bronte Charles Hotel. .107 McPherson . I St., Bronte. 7 j PETE QUENTIN. Balmain Volunteer. Thu St., Bronte. 7—10 prrj. j Thurs,—Sat. 8—10 pm.

BUSTER BROWN. Chequers. Mon.—Sat. JOHNNY ROCCO. Bojangles. Thurs.—Sat. CHRIS McDONALD. Piano player. Bronte Charles.

SKY LARK. Chequers. Mon.—Tues.

PETER KNOX & THE BLOKES' French's.

SAMI R. Acoustic. Decline Wine Bar. 398 RICHARD CLAPTON & HIS BAND; Anzac Parade., Kingsford. 8—10 pm.

RICHARD EASLING. Elizabethan Inn. Keatons. 8.30—11.30.

Mon.—Sat. 8 pm-midnight.

GEOFF BULL. Limerick Qastle. 7—10 pm.

FORE DAY RI DERS. Blues Band.

UNITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE. Old Push.

French's, AL WARD. Red Riley's.

FREEDOM HIGHWAY. Harpoon Harry's.

DON DE SILVA BAND. Jazz. Surry Hills •7pm-midnight.

White Horse. 381 Crown St., East JEANNE LEWIS & PETER BOOTHMAN Sydney.

TRIO. Limerick Castle. 7—10 pm.

COL NOLAN & ERROL BUDDLE BOB BARNARD'S D IX IE LA N D ' Stage ¡SYNDICATE. Old Push.

Door. 8 pm—midnight.

PRUE. Brewer's Elbovv Gordon.

-JOHN EWBANK. Blues on guitarPRed JT' jMj R i l e y ■ r jn 5 -xf Rnr.. ; . F R I D A Y A U G U S T 3 0 j TAN MASSON.; Piquo-*Stage DoorJFayernj, I Mon.—Tqes.v 6—10 pm , , , T H E DUKE'S MEN. Jazz. Albury Hotel. [ 'FI NGH, M ASON*9 CURE. th a ta s t Plct- 4 ure Show. 2 Cronulla St., Cronulla.

COL NOLAN. Argyle Tavern. | 2—5 pm. $1.50.

MARIE. Piano player. Bellevue Hotel. 6.30 j ARMAGEDDON . Whiskey. Mon.—Thurs.

6.30— 10 pm.

8—10 pm THE CONNARIE. Irish folk. Bells Hotel.

Cowper Wahrf R d, Woolloomooloo.

Fri.—Sat. 7—10.30 pm.

W ALLY TEMPLE JAZZ BAND. With j TUESDAY A U G U ST 27 Nancy Stuart. Qricketers Arms Hotel, ^ . ;> . ..., ■:'A .. ■ r' 7.30— 10 pm. j THE LAST STRAW. The Basement.

FEVER & RUG. Denison Hotel. 7 .3 0 -1 0 I CUNNING STUNT, WITHCES BREW, pm. | TREE, CARLEY. Musicians night.

SUN. Jazz rock. French's.

Bojangles.

GEOFF BU LL' Limerick Castle. j RENE GEYER & HER BUDDIES. Bondi ARMEGEDDON. Manly Vale Hotel. j Lifesaver. Tires.—Sat. 8 pm—midnight.

8 - 11.40 p.m. | BUSTER BROWN & SKY LARK. Chequw UNITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE. Old Push. ' Chequers.

PAULINE LOVETT. Red Riley's. : RICHARD CLAPTON & HIS BAND. A L WARD. Squatter's Retreat. 271 Decline Wine Bar. Elizabeth St, City.

VELA. Stage Door. 7-12 p.m.

1 LATE NEWS. French's, DON DE S ILVA BAND. White Horse j STUART & McKAY. &>ols. Tues.—Sat. j 10 pm—2 am.

Inn. 21 King St,Newtov\n. j PETER BOOTHMAN TRIO. Limerick DELFINI. Strata Motor Inn. 8-10.30. i Castle.

NEVADA'BUSTER BROWN & j <VBBEY JAZZ BAND, Lord Dudley Hotel, SPARKLE. Chequers, !

Jersey Rd., Woolahra. 7.30—10 pm. | BOB BARNARD JAZZ BAND. Old i Push.

YOUNG HEARTS. Whisky. 10-30-3am ! MARK PENGILLY. Red Riley's.

JlMI TAYLO R'S ROCK & ROLL ! PAUL FURNISS & THE ECLIPSE ALLE Y REVIVAL. 11.00-3am. Bonaparte's. | ALLEY 5. Jazz. Vanity Fair Hotel. Cnr. DEEP BAYOU. 8-10. Whisky. i Goulburn & Wentworth Sts., City.

EARTH WOOD, ANNIE COCHRANE, FINCH, MASONS CURE. The Last PicDAN WHITE, JEFF & TRICIA. The ture Show Elizabeth Folk Club.

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