The Living Daylights - Memorial First Issue

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Vol.l No.l October 16-22 .1973

Plough In The Crap And Plant The Seeds I K E , presumably, many o f o u r readers, w e believe t h a t t h e exi st i ng social st ruc­ t u r e is d r a m a t i c a l l y i n ad e q u a t e t o o u r desires.

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But criticism comes easily and, as well as poke at the flesh of the present, The Living D aylights wants to evolve a vision of the future. We invite you to

Get Marx high and ask Buddha w hat he will do w hen th e ' developers come to bulldoze _______ his banyan tree_______ This paper is not b^ing launched to inculcate an appetite fo r ludi­ crous consumer products. The L iv­ ing D ayligh ts is not a soap opera of weekly news, as so defined by a man with a green eye shade who shouts stop press whenever a politiopens his m outh or model

Despite the presumption of our advertising departm ent, this paper is not aimed at the y ou th market (hardly, at y o u r age — a d manager) nor any other predefined clique of gullible malcontents.

In t ru th , we d o n ’t k no w with exactness what shape the paper will take. Part of its personality will be moulded through spontaneous in­ terplay w ith our readers.

In mundane actuality, The L iv­ ing D ayligh ts is little more than a few people in a room opening the mail. We have a hungry curiosity about the world around and an erratic optimism in the ideological

breakthroughs and utopian possi­ bilities before us.

This is not meant self-im portantly. The Living D ayligh ts is a modest proposal. In everyday terms, it boils down to . . . ho hum y et another weekly newspaper. Just another missile in the great media assault.

Early warning: We do not guarantee a weekly sensation. So w h y bother?

Because we believe that we can unite a variety of unconventional ideas about the meaning of the mysterious fabric of life as it exists today in 1973, and our place within it, both as individuals with soul and as Australians living in a country ravaged by a riot of idiotic and unnecessary hazards, mainly the re­ sult of greed and habit.

Repressed and insular attitudes are being increasingly challenged by thousands of com m itted and active people, both within the dimensions of their own consciousness and in the execution of their influence on social events. We plan to monitor, reflect and pursue this drama. page 3

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UGGER the war, this is what life is really all about: In a period of international crisis it was pleasing to note that the real interest of the Aus­ tralian public centred around the set of nude photographs of a young lady and a dog which appeared in a Mel­ bourne newspaper. The young lady, who is believed to have won an obscure and primitive tribal com petition known as the Miss Australia Quest, which its sponsors claim benefits cripples who should be rightly helped by any think­ ing government, is distraught and suing.

Her m other is sedated, the photog­ rapher unrepentant. Claims that the dog has taken refuge in Queensland are believed to be wildly inaccurate.

N E X T WEEK we bom b Peking: Some 40 foolish Labor politicians, who are under the delusion that their party was elected to a position o f power last year, have signed a protest petition over Australia’s recognition of Chile. In answer to this, a middle class gentleman called Mr Whitlam will shortly pull off his rubber mask, reveal himself as Ivan the Terrible, restore trade with Rhodesia, support Portugal in Africa and tell South Africa that unless its sporting teams are all white they will not be admitted to this country. * * * THE END o f the affair: Despite threatened help from the United States Israeli prime minister, Ms Golda Meir announced she was prepared to go to a negotiating table without any preconditions to end the current Middle East scuffle. Her statement may have had something to do with the fact that, for the first time in recorded history, the Egyptians look like winning. * * * THE A m ericans m a y be arming the yids, but we are doing our bit: The minister for immigration, Mr A1 Grassby, has told federal parliament that he has suspended the simpli-

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fied system o f issuing visas to tourists coming to Australia because of international tensions and difficulties “in certain areas”. That will make sure the bloody wogs stay hom e and fight it out.

G E R A L D w h o ? (an old jo k e revisited): The god of the western world has nominated a gentleman known as Gerald Ford to play the recently vacated role of John the Baptist. Mr Ford in a brilliant and w itty acceptance speech said, “I am extremely grateful and terribly humble." The last player of this bit part, one Spiro T. Agnew, whose head was resting on a plate outside the White House, said not one word. *

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L E T 'S hear it for a loving God: The ethics and social questions com m ittee o f the Angli­ can church has continued in the grand nation­ al tradition o f poofter bashing by releasing a report stating that militant homosexuals threaten the institution o f marriage and of society itself. Other choice items from the report include the statement that hom osex­ uals’ actions should never be legalised, that all poofs should abstain from homosexual acts and try to “ sexually reorient” themselves and

that the police should no longer use the system o f “ agent provocateurs” because it involved the men in blue in “morally degrad­ ing behavior”. However, the report made no mention of Anglican vicars and boy scouts.

returns to Australia’s shores later this m onth for a further donation o f watches, is believed not to be carrying either cans of petrol or machine guns to persuade unbelievers to embrace the true faith.

* * * THE heterosexual boozer is up the ditch anyw ay: Dr Gordon Baker told the confer­ ence o f the Royal Australian College o f Physicians in Melbourne that the hairy chest­ ed, hard drinking symbol o f Australian man­ hood was gambling with his masculinity and losing. Men whose drinking habits caused cirrhosis o f the liver could find that their hormone balance was being upset. This led to larger breasts and smaller balls. N ow we know why they don't like women in public bars.

L E T them eat chemicals: The University of Sydney has announced that it is developing a single cell protein for uses in animal food, which after a trial, will be upgraded for human consumption. Justifying this act of bastardry, Dr D. G. MacLellan, of the uni­ versity’s department of chemical engineering, hastened to add that it would never replace steak and eggs in the Australian diet. It was just an alternative food.

BRIN G back the press gang: Mr A. G. W. Keys, national secretary o f the RSL, told the senate com mittee on foreign affairs and de­ fence that the time had passed when a country could be defended by an army of volunteers. “The principle o f volunteerism is an outm oded concept, both militarily and morally. It is unfortunate that the govern­ ment repealed the National Service Act in­ stead of suspending it by administrative action,” he said. It is understood that Mr Keys is above the age limit should national service be reintroduced once again. From this stems his courage in the face o f any enemy.

JU ST in case y o u ’d forgotten that other war: A three year old girl narrowly missed being burnt alive when Belfast gunmen doused her with petrol and then set alight the cafe she was patronising with her grandmother. Such action by Christ’s true followers showed that such gentlemen as the Perfect Master, Guru Maharaj Ji, otherwise called by his followers His Sublime Altitude, are really not so bad after all. The greatest crime that can be laid at the doorstep of the Perfect Master is a little misunderstanding about gold watches on his return to mother India after a journey through the United States. The Master, who

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WELL let them eat bloody locusts then: Immature locusts in bands of up to two miles wide are infesting land and invading hom e­ steads over a wide area near Broken Hill in New South Wales.

L E T them eat nothing: A Victorian Country party politician, sitting within the federal parliament, said the Labor government’s so­ cial welfare commission was wicked because it was nothing more than more or less a “ giant government machine with gigantic econom ic strength”. The man who made the charge, Mr R. Holten, said what was needed was not government help for the poor and afflicted, but an upgrading of the functions and facil­ ities of voluntary bodies who could do jobs no government could do. Unfortunately m ost I voluntary bodies made people pray before they get their handout.

H E 'S alive and well and living in a Newcastle state dockyard: A man who claimed to have been an aide to the late Adolf Hitler has been ordered by the crown employees appeal board to be reinstated as a foreman at the Newcastle state dockyard. Early this year, the man, Bruno Koch, said he had helped to bum the great dictator’s body. ? '■ ' :■>

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It will take time for the plot to thicken. Stick around and watch and contribute and order The Living Daylights every week. A new newspaper should offer some explanation for its intrusion into an already crowded and bloated m arket place.

So what follows is a jumble of words as clues to our preconceptions and prejudices, for hardcore consumption only. No inflated claims of original­ ity are being made. Sensible and discriminating readers are warmly advised to skip it and flick the page.

There must be some way outa here Put crudely, there are three choices available.

ONE: Recognise the system for what it is and join it.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may to build a fortress of waterbeds, weekenders and quadraphonic swimming pools. CHOICE TWO: Kickback. This can mean taking to the streets, mastering dates they didn’t teach you at school, attending meetings, immersing yourself in the class struggle and backing whichever radical political organisation seems most likely to succeed without tiring.

CHOICE THREE - and this is bowling ’em over like ninepins. Render the system as irrelevant as possible by setting out upon one’s own search for inner tranquillity, which can involve drugs, music, sacred texts, meditation, hitting the road, guru hunting, body disciplines, brown rice and so on until one can ultimately squeeze the trigger on a profound personal mystical experience.

Of these paths, we suppose many of us stagger along one, lose our way, drift awhile, discover another, meander some more, play some old time dance music, truck truck truck along yet another trail which is ill lit, deceptively charted and probably around the bend.

While recognising the right of everyone to choose their own alternatives, The Living Daylights states up front that it rejects socialism, liberalism and mysticism as absolute credos while reserving our right to add to our inter­ pretation of the universe a dash of any or all three at will.

We have a philosophy, the sinews of which will become clearer as the weeks roll by, but fear not that it will inhibit the diversity and variety o f com ment within these pages. Rather, it will sustain it.

No more Bolshevik bullshit Happily, The Living Daylights is not a member of the Marxist-Leninist Preservation Society. We have many friends and allies who pay dues and we tip our hat to the astral displays of analytic brilliance. Yet, the cumbrous mechanical edifices of these Victorian economists, in the face o f today’s dreams and realities, come crashing to the ground. Who wants to be born in a state run collective with a shovel in their mouth? How grim to be cast in a sombre role of a “ glorious” Russian lathe operator, whose big brother is merely a Nixon without a free press. Let’s not get lost in the nightmares of the dead generations.

The Living Daylights will not be struggling for the bloody trade-in of one boring, hierarchical, centralised bureauc­ racy for another.

We hereby declare that the 19th century pseudo scientific working model of the world, the mainstay of socialist theory, became fully obsolete in 1945 when J. Presper Eckert Jnr and John B. Mauchly unveiled ENIAC ,' at the University of Pennsylvania to reveal the world’s first digital computer based on electronic impulses. From that mom ent the West began its blind climb to the brink of plenitude. For the first time in history it became possible to conceive a rational future o f the world premised on the abolition of scarcity. The reign of the work ethic is over. Today’s revolutionary demand is full unemployment, for those who want it. The right to work becomes the right to hang loose.

IN AUSTRALIA IN 1973, ANYONE WHO WORKS IS EITHER A FOOL, OPPRESSED OR BELIEVES IN THEIR JOB.

As for oppression — whether econom ic or cultural — w e will pounce on it wherever w e can, but not in a flurry of faded slogans borrowed from our dead comrades’ fights for Survival. . . let us confine past dogmas to the trashcan of history and dream up new dance steps for the great cosmic carnival to come.

Every morning we wake up to the here-and-now. In our society a socialist proposal is generally more liberatory and progressive than a non socialist one, so here’s two cheers for the red flag. But never forget that state capitalism is no more fun than Canberra on a Sunday and the last thing w e want is a union official telling us to tighten our belts for the next five year plan and that spontaneous outbreaks of freedom will henceforth be crushed as ruthlessly as were the betrayed sailors of Kronstadt in 1921, the molotov cocktail mixers of Hungary in '56 and the mini revisionists o f Czecho­ slovakia in '68.

We reject absolutely the concept of a revolutionary p a rty and all other structural parallels to the society we are supposed to be leaving behind. Students, surfers, aboriginals, housewives, children, dropouts, derelicts and drifters all form subcultures o f their own, transcending notions o f class. Even Mr Average Aussie, when he’s honest with himself, gads about in a kind of benign stupor, thinking there must be more to life then Wrest Point, Roselands and Valium.

This is not to demean the demands of workers. The issues raised by the June Ford riot at Broadmeadows . . . the all wom en work-in at the fabric factory at Whyalla . . . the Sydney BLF’s guerrilla green bans against the predatory junta o f developers . . . are all among the most important and advanced of Australia’s industrial history.

Many and varied are the sections of society cracking and groaning under the pressure o f the great GNP hoax and a new disorder must guarantee freedom to all. Fuck dictatorships . . . by the proletariat or anyone else.

But all explorations must be bound by a matrix of social realities and we look for a fusion of psychic sailors and swashbuckling politicos to contribute to creating a vision of tomorrow, as well as furnishing the tools to execute its occurrence. As we said, give Marx a joint and ask Buddha what he’s going to tell the tree executioners.

ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGY. Who can contain their curiosity of new inventions and today's technological catapulting? Besides the boost in productivity and the potential elimination of drudgery, new technology lends itself to miniaturisation which can help in the move away from gargantuan metropolises to smaller, freer and more human communities. A steel mill for instance, which once gobbled up hundreds of acres, can these days churn it out in a backyard. Technology is apolitical and can be organised in any way we so desire, although old patterns die hard.

The CSIRO is beside itself with glee over the potential of solar energy, a clean, free, unlimited and thus libertarian fuel. They dream of harnessing the Simpson Desert and selling votes to America; another environment rape, the same old conquistador capitalist attitude to nature. The real virtue of solar energy, is its capacity for efficient decentralisation. A stove with A lfoil umbrella gives free clean fuel for the rest of your life. A commune in the sun can thrive, even storing excess energy in solar batteries for rainy days. Amongst the mountains of hardware junk, there are machines which can provide the bread and hot water of tomorrow. White coated gadget men, send us your visionary blueprints.

Isn’t OM all you need?

NO. But some of the best minds of our generation are coming up with ways to explore the universe of inner self and we remain open minded, indeed excited, by the new Sky labs of the Psyche. Quick to ridicule the prevailing spiritual hunger are intellectuals, their own spirit numbed by years o f immersion in the expedient doctrines of empiricism, rationality and objectivity. Ironically, the most influential contemporary pioneers o f the new mysticism are all defectors from the shrine o f academic methodology — Carlos Castaneda, John C. Lilly, Richard Alpert and poor mad Timothy Leary.

However unpalatable it may seem to the classic mind, the fact is this. Since the mid 60s, hundreds and thou­ sands of intelligent, curious, sensitive young people in the Western world have tripped out on LSD and/or other hallucinogenic drugs. A proportion o f these people (who knows how many?) have testified to experiencing a profound mystical phenomenon, which drives them to a calm frenzy of spiritual exploration, often altering their whole way o f life and personality, sometimes sending them a bit loco, sometimes really cooling them out, and always leaving them aching for something more.

That hunger, that spiritual hunger, which used to be called religion, is every bit as valid a revolutionary instinct as the physical, painful hunger which drove the peasants of China to rise up against all those thousands of years of classical Confucian stayputism, and to swell the ranks of Mao's magnificent Red army — an army, incidentally, which was truly heroic and whose epic deeds and innovations dwarf anything ever screened by H ollywood.

(How delighted we are to be born in the month of the 40th anniversary of the Long March, as well as a few other October historical highlights, not to m ention the Eureka Stockade.)

However, the revolutionary army of today does not march on its stomach pains, for the area of anguish in modern civilisation — for non minority groups — has moved from the belly to the brain. Thousands of Westerners are searching for new levels of consciousness.

Some of the voyagers seem to have travelled very high indeed, charting new areas of hope, o f satori, o f an immense and profound high, which is irresistibly interest­ ing to anyone who has ever dropped a bit of dope. We don’t think it necessarily inevitable that all branches of the New Mysticism will end in a great cosmic jerk.

The nagging danger is that it will all end in a grand crescendo of catatonia, an egocentric indifference to everyday reality, an absolute abandoning o f responsibility to anything outside one's own precious Self. Many of the harbingers of spiritual enlightenment follow the great tradition of the Indian snake oil salesmen, especially you may think, that 15 year old cherubic Guru Maharaj Ji, w ho’s usually to be found at customs arguing over suitcases bursting with money, jewellery and gold teeth.

And yet the Divine Light Mission grows quicker than Holiday Magic, seemingly providing a blissed out buzz to a fascinatingly diverse cast of radiant converts. If the Divine Light Mission was a public company and this paper the Financial Review, we would recommend a share purchase.

The Red Ploughman, a Russian anarchist poster, a source o f inspiration

Down on the farm Perhaps it will all seem hilarious in 20 years, kids from Maroubra and Carlton passing joints around transient rooms, learning about lantana, agistment and dog tick; asking is it true that money grows on avocados. Farmers are no longer regarded as hick, especially if flexible mechanisation can take much of the toil out of tilling. As Murray Bookchin observes in his ‘post scarcity anarchism’ the tractor is a beautiful, versatile piece of modern man servant, practically a robot, an exemplary chunk of liberated technology.

Diversity, balance and variety are the key words of a healthy ecosystem and political system. Only by society pluralising, breaking down into affinity groups, with people united by common interests, aspirations and affections, with com plete and absolute power over their own lives — and no desire for power over others — only then will the government be defanged and the experio f life become a constant joy and journey of celebration and self-fulfillment.

A journey o f a thousand miles must begin with one step, and the election of Whitlam & Co can be regarded as a little lean in the right direction. Still, it is an illusion to assume that man has any political muscle in present society. The idea that the casting of a vote represents a choice, that such is a meaningful exercise of political judgment, that it in any way involves an individual in his private future, is sadly absurd, a tragic illusion of our time. Party politics is the opium of the people. Only face-to-face communal political interplay has any sanity and significance. Meanwhile, let’s all enjoy the passing parade.

So bringing it all back home, we love to watch Kung Fu, to disinter elegant Cole Porter and running wild among the pinball machines. A monastery is for fanatics, our feet are of the clay of everyday, and we want to have fun with tne present, so as not to bequeath a future of dank totalitarianism. (Although who cannot but be saddened by the current overdose of nostalgia — the standard retreat from the challenge of the present.)

The Living Daylights has not had a rehearsal. The staff got together for the first time four weeks ago. We’re wide open, let’s all make it up as we go along, forgive us our eclecticism and lead us not into sectarianism (and deliver us to your door every Tuesday) . . . we are aiming directly and flamboyantly at a readership of open minds . . . wel­ come aboard.

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Rumbling Round Redfem GRANT EVANS ast Saturday week was finals day for the Koori rugby teams. On Friday night aborigine rugby players down from the northwest and up from the south coast of New South Wales gather­ ed at the Empress pub in Redfern.

At about 9.55 pm 50 people were gathered on the footpath outside the hotel when a fight broke out between two aborigin­ es. Two Redfern detectives who were cruising past stopped and grabbed the two brawlers. As they got them back to the police car a bottle came flying out of the crowd, hitting the car. One of the Ds pursued the guy who threw the bottle into the pub where the crowd prom ptly set upon him and threw him out. Under a rain of bottles he retreated back to his car, followed by a hail of bottles, and called for help.

Within five minutes 20 cops had arrived. Two cops who arrived in a mini hopped out with their batons at the ready. No sooner were they out when tw o flagon bottles caved in their windscreen.

The police waded into the crowd trying to arrest people who were throwing things. A fight be­ gan in the middle of the street as police attem pted to drag people from the Empress side of the road to the other where the paddy wagons were parked. Police were being dragged down and some of the blacks already arrested escap­ ed from the paddy wagons.

Meanwhile, somebody turned off the lights in the hotel and

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Sydney’s Redfern is Australia’s most infamous black ghetto

H O R R IB L E H a rry G u m b o o t w ill be a r e g u la r c o n t r ib u t o r to The L iving Daylights. W e h a v e n e v e r m e t h im , b u t ju d g in g f r o m a f e w sa m p le c o lu m n s a n d his le tte r s t o th is o f fic e , he is n o t s o m e o n e t o ta k e o u t t o d in n e r — even if he o f fe r e d t o p a y , w h ic h h e w o u ld n ’t . T h is w e e k ’s ra v e is a b o u t k id s , in f u t u r e issues: W a ltz in g M a t ild a , p o t r o t . . .

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some 200 drinkers flooded out on to the street, making the size of the crowd safer to pelt the cops.

Police cars and wagons kept arriving with lights flashing and sirens wailing and by this time about 60 cops were on the spot.

The stage was set for a major fight . .. but the crowd started to slow­ ly disperse. The police hussled stragglers and arrested another

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Tw entyfour people were arrest­ ed in all and they fronted at the Redfern court next morning where surprisingly most got off their charges or received relatively light fines. The blacks feel the cops arent too happy with the whole affair. Future developments are expected . . .

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I am 29 years old, travelled and childless, w ith many friends, few responsibilities and an inflated sense o f curiosity.

Most o f my approxim ate peer group are proud parents and I cannot understand w hy. For all their p re tty curly locks and c o rd u ro y rom per suits, today's young kid is a nasty, slim y, t it t y ta ttlin g , sugar addicted, soiled bundle o f rapacious ego and untram m eled greed. Whether the solo offspring o f a bright upper m iddle class roaming twosome or a brood fro m the e arthier, lumpen pseudo hippie proletariat, kids are still being e m o tio n a lly suffocated, overfed, overindulged and above all owned. Mums: pass yo u r kids around more. (In fa n ticid e is im practical.)

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In more civilised climes children look after each other.

They disappear in groups early in the morning and are responsible fo r each other in the logical pecking order o f age group.

As a result they are open, loving and above all loved. In some Asian com m unities, parents never hit a child and corporal punishm ent at school is unknow n. (Basically child belting is B ritish in origin and slavishly aped by Australians.)

As a result, such Asian children are cuddly, yum m y, kind and aware o f th e ir place in the scheme o f society.

B ut in Australia, ugh. One can't have a quiet conversation w ith m um , "cause the kids are glued to Sesame Street". If one sneaks to the kitchen, then it's: "M u m m y Iw a n t some too, d rizzle, g riz z le ." W ith more than one child, it's a household row every one and a half minutes. " It 's mine, no mine, no m ine . . . Gimme, gimmee, gimmee."

The more kids in a home, the low er the IQ. Of course, the pressure to procreate is often irresistible. Much o f this " f r u it o f m y loins” s tu ff s till abounds, plus a fear o f a lonely old age.

A nd despite th e ir revamped image, women themselves s till use the concept o f kids like A ra ld ite — to keep th e ir partnership together. Love or p ro p in q u ity apparently isn't enough; let's do som ething e ffic ie n t and sym bolic, let's reproduce. A ll this w ith o u t exploring the richness and diversity o f life first.

Have you noticed how the mental developm ent o f parents begins to sag once the Farex, nappies and those unsavory cans o f Heinz babypap overflows in to th e ir life? (No w onder childless homosexuals are o f superior intelligence.)

You owe it to kids, once you're stuck w ith them , to equip them pro p e rly, give them a few brains and good instincts.

(That's another rule o f thum b; the brighter the kids, the more exhausted the parents.)

W ait around awhile — the earth is quite replenished enough, and the interesting challenge o f the fu tu re is not merely to survive, to raise a dreary little fa m ily, b u t to flip o u t firs t on a few oth e r dimensions, acquire some soul, kindle y o u r own spirit.

If it's to o late and the brats are bawling as you read, pack ’em o ff to boarding school. No. Wait! They w ill emerge quite preposterously money grubbing, sporty and snobbish, so it's o u t o f the kitchen sink and in to the old boys netw ork. it turns o u t that w hat this country needs is a few quasi macro boarding anti-schools, w ith horses and rivers and no cadets, post nealian but w ith the new maths and economics and fu ll p articipation . . . all a dream or fo r the eccentrically rich . . .

Meanwhile, kids go on being obnoxious. Their uncanny unpleasantness must have some cosmic purpose and I th in k I have discovered it. It is nature's very own contraceptive. The character o f today's c ity child is an absolute a ntidote to the reproductive instinct. For tailing o ft the human race it's sure better than French letters or free transistors. Nature has created a situation of voluntary w ithdraw al from reproduc­ tio n . That's w hat's happening. More and more thinking, sensitive, growing people are abandoning the whole horrible m yth o f parenthood. None too soon.

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HIS is intended to be a regular feature of The Living Daylights. Public airing of contem porary song is rare. So we intend to print songs from as many Australian songwriters as possible, both established and unknown, with a strong bias towards songs that are both easily readable for non musicians accessible to inexperi­ enced musicians.

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Well it's m y burning life's am bition To form a k in d o f a coalition With a sugar m am a I've y e t to see Every night I keep looking about Cause m y m o n e y ’s running out A n d I w ant to live m y life in luxury

There’s a girl living up the street A n d boys, she’s got it sweet She w o n ’t w ork for a living any m ore N ow she ain’t n o hypochondriac B ut she lies down on her back Keeping the w o lf away from the door

Chorus: Som ew here in this great big town Surely m u st be a woman for me Sugar m am a, listen to m y song I d o n ’t care h o w m uch m oney y o u ’ve got Long as i t ’s a lot, baby that's enough Sugar m am a, d o n ’t let m e down.

Som etim es in m y dreams I groan, take away those beans Bring m e som e o f that ham right o f f the bone Roast turkey w ould be fine Oh, any old time So w ould som e strawberries and cream.

I ’m n o sim ple co u n try boy I k n o w I can bring y o u jo y A ll y o u got to do is take m e hom e So i f y o u ’re here tonight Just give a wave, i t ’ll be alright Why go h o m e alone in y o u r lim ousine?

Cause i t ’s m y burning life's am bition To form a k in d o f coalition With a sugar m am a I ’ve y e t to see Every night I keep looking about Cause m y m o n e y ’s running out A n d I w ant to live m y life in luxury.

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On first hearing G oat's Head Soup is a disappointment — the tracks seem to merge together, suspiciously alike.

A ngie, the current single from the LP, follow s directly in this m ood. A rather anguished Jagger, with strings rising and falling predictably behind him pleads the case for the ending of an affair. But with a tenderness usually unassociated with the Stones and some beautifully tasteful piano from Nicky Hopkins, it proves itself an effective and moving ballad after the initial shock wears off. It is a rather surprising choice as a single, far from their usual wall o f sound type rocker, but then Jagger is obviously not blind to the selling point in the current English rumor involving he and wife Bianca in some sort of superstar swapping deal with David and Angie Bowie. It is probably his rumor . . .

In fact, Mick and the boys are rarely blind to a selling point. The Stones are not billed as “The Greatest Live Rock and Roll Band in the World” after all these years for nothing. Years ago, when Van Morrison sang Gloria with Them , he was accused of aping Jagger.

N ow it is Jagger who unashamedly turns the tables and borrows from Morrison’s distinctive vocal delivery in the way Astral Weeks Morrison-like W inter on side two.

One o f the few rockers on this album, Silver Train recalls Exile on M ainstreet with its driving roaring sound. The Stones have often effective­ ly used a cluttered over produced sound to achieve excitem ent and it is unfortunate that on this track the same effect buries some great rock and roll piano from road manager and some­ time pianist, Ian Stewart. The track seems to suffer because the aim has been to consciously produce a Stones song, rather than a well balanced song.

The final track, with its purified title Star Star is the real star of the album. The Stones have written their own L ittle Queenie, com plete with the unforgettable chorus line Star fucker star fu ck er star fucker star, a fitting tribute to the ladies o f the road. It rocks along from its opening Keith Richard (with thanks to Chuck Berry) guitar riff, and is outrageous in the way only the Stones dare or care to be. It contagiously recalls the Stones of old with their bad boy lyrics and Chuck Berry beat, and alone it makes the album worth owning. It would have made a glorious single, but our air waves censors would disagree.

Each year the Stones put out an album for their fans, and each year their fans buy it. Buy this one, listen to it, and you won't be disappointed. The raucous aggression associated with pre­ vious albums is notably absent, but in its place w e have a star rocker.

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KNEW it was going to be one o f those incredibly m em orable nights. The prawn cut­ lets that follow ed the Chinese roast p ork were a gastronom ical m asterpiece.

I washed the complete delight down with a late September orange juice, and flat warm coke for my mandrax dessert . . . After various pickings and choos­ ings, I asserted mandrax would be the only acceptable drug to see Bo Diddley on. The quantity was the only variable to be decided.

We were a little late in arriving, I could tell this not only by my watch, but by hearing the sounds of a loud band some distance (like a mile) from the barn.

Khavas Jute. The man making the most noise was of course the lead guitarist. Someone must have told him they were looking for an Australian successor to J. Hendrix. It is my sad duty to inform him he failed the audition. The audience didn’t seem to mind, which was lucky as the band also backed Jeff St John and Mr Diddley.

After smashing his way through innum­ erable cliches he announced to a dis­ appointed crowd and a relieved me that they had to finish.

Jeff St John. Long had I awaited the moment to see Jeff in glitter, as per his announcement some m onths ago, but it was the same old Jeff in his same old wheel chair, doing a few new numbers that still sounded like the same old Jeff. He roused the crowd to some sort o f excitem ent with a revised treatment of his last minor record success — Teach Me H ow To Fly. Intermission. Nothing o f interest so straight into Bo. Bo Diddley of Brown E yed Hand­ som e Man, Mona, Bo D iddley song fame and his bom debom debom de bombom beat.

Accompanied by Cookie Vee instead of his sister the Duchess and a maracas man, Diddley kicked and split and rocked and bop­ ped and jived and fastshuffled his way through some jive raps, and the above mentioned bom de etc.

Probably the most com plete male chauvinist performer I’ve ever witness­ ed, the crowd who had paid loved every minute. His personality apart, so did I.

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The Great Stumble Kids on Sunday arvo playing with some older troupers and it’s a lot of fun and games... GARRIE HUTCHINSON says it’s a revolution that will take over the world

HERE’S something to be said for getting things done in a hurry, before the flash dis­ appears. Considering that flashes move at the speed of light you have to be quick to catch the simultaneous ones of a lot of people.

The Great Stumble Forward, a new group of actors and musicians in Melbourne is a case of a flash whose time had arrived. The peo­ ple involved are from Tribe, Skyhooks, APG, the Digger, the Anarchists. They are all what you might call experienced performers in the fringe theatre, and they have incredible fantasies, simple and effective performances and they’ve only been going a m onth (in the flesh).

Among the fantasies that will probably come true are The China Fantasy and the Three Bus Fanta­ sy: The China Fantasy involves going over there and performing in the Celestial City and for the people all around the country, travelling by horse and cart, and acting like a group of minstrels, troubadors and acrobats.

Having just seen the Kwangchow Acrobats, I’m sure it’s pos­ sible.

The difference I suppose is in levels of skill and in levels of intention. The Kwangchows do things that are impossible. I say that advisedly having seen them do it, but there must be some­ thing in what they eat or read that ordinary people do n ’t get. Like having a guy balance a 25 foot bamboo pole on his shoulder, with two people doing stuff at the top. Or juggling a table with the feet. Or six people doing hand­ stands of chairs balanced at an angle. And so on.

Well perhaps these feats aren’t impossible. Maybe they’re just magical. Gravity defying. The Stumbles can’t to those things, but they also operate on a magical level, and emphasise the physical side of performance.

In a recent performance, Stum­ bles In The Park, all they did was string together a heap of nursery rhymes, and sing a few songs. The atmosphere they created though, was, as they say, theatrical. It was also simple, funny, and involving — especially for the kids there.

Perhaps it was the nice spring day, with sunshine, trees, grass, and a heap of people sitting around digging whatever went on.

Or maybe it was the graphic way the images of the childhood stories were physicalised and act­ ed out.

One wouldn’t want to put too much on it . . . it would be easy to go on about the psychology of simple theatre, or how to exploit archetypes for the child. Certainly the style of theatre the Stumbles go in for has a very old and honorable tradition. Commedia, the Everyman plays, the Wake­ field and other cycle plays, and the jugglers, conjurers and so on of the medieval period. It is in a

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way artless and childlike, but that is also its fascination.

The Conspiracy of Fun, which is what the Stumbles politics seems to be about, contrasts di­ rectly with the other street the­ atre things that have happened in Melbourne before. The APG plays, Mr Big, The Pot & Peace Miracle Show, Dr Karl’s Kure, were all didactic and politically motivated. The Stumbles politics is not obvious in the content of their work, but more in the way they work.

Not that one is better than the other, it’s merely that the condi­ tions of doing street theatre, in Melbourne at least, have changed considerably as have the people involved.

When the original groups of people got together around La Mama in 1968-70 there was an ongoing, it seemed, movement in­ volved with anti-imperialism, uni­ versity reform, workers control and so on. If one was a radical/ revolutionary and also a theatre person, then one had somehow to fit the tw o together.

The result was, on the one hand, the attem pt by writers like Romeril and Hibberd to delineate what the Australian consciousness was all about . . . to investigate the mythic structure of language and actions of ordinary blokes.

On the other hand there was a sort of runthrough of agitational theatre methods, mainly by the actors. There were factory tours, street theatre at moratoriums, an

attem pt at rock festival theatre, and some general outdoor stuff in the car park at La Mama.

All that has become notorious­ ly successful, and somehow rele­ gated to the Old Days. Now many of the same people are into the idea of a professional theatre, whose politics is involved in how people’s lives are affected by where they work. An UnAlienated Theatre, if you like.

Whatever the strains and inter­ personal difficulties involved, and whatever the result in so-called “artistic” terms, the experiment that the APG is conducting is one of the most im portant in the current Australian spectrum. It probably is in worldwide terms as well, b u t I don’t know enough to say.

Other people, Tribe in particu­ lar are into a kind of less formal version of the same thing. A com ­ munal kind of theatre. Tribe has always been the least pretentious of groups, the least formal, and maybe the most fun. Rarely do they become over serious in their work or themselves. But they should be taken seriously, now in the manifestation of The Great Stumble Forward.

They deserve it because the need for a large number of people to be around demonstrating that things are not as bad as they seem, that other kinds of relationships are possible, that another kind of lifestyle is possible, is so self evident as to be largely ignored.

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A horrible war has erupted in Melbourne between forces of darkness and light. It is ugly and bloody, and people are being savagely maimed and dismembered.

HRIS HECTOR gets badly involved.

Pics by RODNEY M ANNING

The Peoples Army Fights For You! ND REMEMBER y o u ’re all members of the People’s Army - and th ey ’re right in there fighting for you. THE PEOPLE’S ARMY, YOUR ARMY fighting f o r y o u ...

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His m ate is the Great Tojo; ARY ARMY. Big Bad John is one thorough heavy ("My folks Tojo is a great big fat Japanese thought I’d make a preacher gentleman, allegedly an ex-sumo wrestler; he wears the uniform of m an’’.). He wears a mirror-finish the Imperial Forces o f Nippon Steel helmet; on the back khaki com bat jacket, an and his daddy’s kamikaze scarf. cross; ab«qve1a.-§uper bold Lately, however, Tojo has been George”Wa$aee south- holidaying in the land of the cherry blossom. Rumor has it that w l’n sneer. y^Ac-'V. backed by his fascisti bud- he returns shortly in company Waldo Von Erich, wh<* with another even fatter, nastier wears, so help me, a swastika on nip.

Meantime (sorry if this is get­ his helmet, jackboots, Hitler jodh s’s wheels, lev­ purs, and the BLACK GLOVED ities in this FIST. (“ I dont like ~ ladies and gentle:

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“It w ill take more than one axe from your executioners to take our belt, our name, and the people’s faith. . . ” dy has been the even grosser Abdullah the Butcher (“ the savage from Sudan” ). He doesnt wear much except his gut and a pair of white jama pants, but he grins evil. Another mercenary recruit is the semi epileptic Tiger Singh (“ champion of India, master of the dreaded cobra hold” ). He falls down on his knees at random intervals and waves his arms up and down in esoteric manner.

They get occasional help from Black Jack Slade, the French legionnaire, and a couple of others who are really small beer.

The War of Liberation has had its ups and downs. By dint of much breaking of the rules and underhand tactics the mercenaries have had their share of wins, but when the bell goes at the end, it’s been THE PEOPLE’S ARMY out there in f r o n t. . . for you.

I could go on with the politics bit; there was a real turnup recent­ ly with the last m inute defection of Killer Karl Kox, but maybe Mad Dog Brower (“ Brower Pow­ er” ) will tip the scales. But he got done last week. (Flash! Some guy recently on the radio, advertising at the Royal Melbourne Show, the Acapulco High Divers, I kid you not, and i t ’s a mick radio station.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Festival Hall, Mr Little has arranged for ringside seats. Just say y ou’re with Jack and ask for Paul Jennings.

What kind of crowd? Very mi­ grant, poor, lots of family groups, lots of kids, lots of middle aged mums and dads, losers, a few spooked out loners (supporters of the mercenaries perhaps).

It’s the first time I’ve been in Festival Hall when it’s not been full of freaks - no patchouli, no shit, no beads, no beards, no leather gear. Coles’ sweetscent brilliantine, Hoadley's Pollywaffles, Colvan chips, Peter’s dix­ ies.

The first fights are slow, drack, lots of groans, pulled punches, stumble kicks, pregnant silences when they run out of ideas. Two 17 stone columns of flesh wrap­ ped around each other and they forget what to do n e x t. . .

The crow d’s not all that inter­ ested. Local boy Johnny Grey gets a few moving (“ Kill him Johnny, KILL, KILL, KILL” . . . she’s about 27, a bit drained), but it’s the stars they’re waiting for. THE WAR. Flash, and it’s all happening. A four man tag team m atch: Big Bad John, Abdullah the Butcher versus King Curtis and Spiros the Golden etc, refereed by the Sheik. They dont even get in the ring; action explodes up the aisles; the blood flows; King Curtis horribly cover­ ed with some scarlet fluid; a chair comes down on Spiros’ head , . . . A KNIFE! A KNIFE! Tiger Singh’s got into the act some­ where, he’s got a knife (well, maybe a nail file); one real gen­ uine little old - very old - lady.

She’s screaming, trying to jab the Butcher with her Wrestling News.

These guys really do have class, it’s movement all the time, they’re using a multidimensional space, and how. It’s total theatre and the audience is right there with them.

TOTAL INVOLVEMENT scream­ ing, on their chairs, in there,

in the ring Waldo’s got in on the act, h e’s got the Sheik down on the canvas pounding at his forehead with the BLACKGLOVEDFIST and the blood’s starting to pour down his face. Everyone is covered with the claret by now.

Flash, it’s all over. Twenty minutes on the clock, the forces of Big Bad John beat a retreat.

Spiros, King and Mark Lewin (where’d he come from?) are left in the ring, tending the Sheik: “He’s blind ladies and gentlemen, could you make a path for the Sheik, he’s blind.” The Sheik’s forgotten this; he looked a trifle damp but otherwise OK a second ago; suddenly he lurches blindly, arms shoot helplessly out, the crowd parts, the Sheik escorted by the front rank of the PEOPLE’S ARM Y. . .

Coming hom e the reactions are mixed. I’m excited, it’s working on some funny reality, suspension of disbelief, unreality/reality kick that I havent figured out but . . . Rodney’s not saying much, talking about the pics. Meg seems disturbed, much more disturbed than I can dig. I find the violence exciting but ritualised, much less affecting than, say, movie violence.

Meg’s talking about two young girls in front o f her: at the height of the fight they turn round to her, how can you watch, how, they ask. Turning from the ring they start hitting each other.

But didnt you dig the crowd at the end; they were happy not violent, purged laughing; they didnt/did believe that the blood was real; they knew that it wasnt but not while it was happening.

Two really beautiful little Greek boys, in neat little grey suits and clip on bow ties; they’re holding hands and swinging gaily along in front of their papa, firing away in elfish Greek. Every now and then I recognise a wrestler’s name; they’re happy, not disturbed, a twentieth century passion play?

Punch and Judy? The valid w ork­ ing class art form? For mine, I’ve not seen one single stage play th at’s got so far into its audience.

So if Shakespeare w rote bits for the pit patrons to boo and throw pop bottles at where’s that leave the wrestling? (Digression: Wrestling and ethnic group integra­ tion. One thing that fascinates me about the telly wrestling; it’s the am ount of time they spend dis­ cussing nationality and the con­ cept of being an Australian. For starters, th ere’s the traditional vil­ lains of Australian xenophobia the hun and the jap; the bad southerner is an interesting new twist. But more than the trad re­ viling of the ethnic outs there’s the public acceptance of the ethnic ins - the Greeks, the Ital­ ians, and the Lebanese.)

John threatens to beat Spiro so bad that he’ll pack his bags and go home. Spiro is indignant: “ I am an Australian, my son he was born here, he is an Australian and I’m Australian too.” (Almost to a man the Festival Hall audience rises to its feet for gorsave; surely the only loyalist audience in Mel­ bourne.) Spiro repeats the rave in Greek, the Sheik comes on: while Lebanese, he’s “proud to call him­ self an Australian” . He delivers a rave in Arabic. * * *

NEXT MORNING I’m talking to promoter Jim Barnett. Jim is

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right on the pulse of Melbourne’s migrant communities, and he’s ready to quote statistical break­ downs. His latest discovery is that Melbourne has some 50,000 Yugoslavs. "D id you know that?

Next week I’m going to the States to look for a Yugoslav.”

I point out that the Yugoslav community is not what you’d call all sweetness and light and th at he may well have certain Croat versus Slav conflicts, not to mention the patronage of the Ustashi. “ Yeah, I know it’s such a problem. I had a guy but he was the wrong lot, I think we need a Tito m an.”

Tito or Pavelic, for my book Barnett is way behind the eight ball. I just d o n ’t want to be within fallout distance the night Big Bad John and the People’s Army set foot in the Balkan hinterlands.

The other thing about the telly wrestling is the am ount of time they give to playacting between the bouts. Barnett concedes that the “ interviews” are as im portant a part of the show as the “ac­ tion”. These interviews take the form of a series of elaborate and ornate threats delivered by the personnel of the opposing sides. “ You people of Melbourne. I want you to know there is hatred and the hatred th at’s brewing within the souls of myself and Spiros and King Curtis, that's get­ ting so violent that there’s a word that starts with M and it might happen this weekend. There’s no German and there’s no African th at’s going to take our title belts and take them back to Germany or Africa or anyone else on this earth is going to stop us. I just

want to say, you people of Mel­ bourne are who we’re fighting for - w e’re fighting our guts o u t for you and all we say is back us up, be part of us, be part of the people, because we are the people, we are you, we’re every national­ ity, w e’re everything on this earth that you represent and stand for, and no filthy mongrels like Big Bad John and his two execution­ ers Waldo Von Erich and Adullah the Butcher are going to stand in the way of the truth, and the truth y o u ’11find within us, so back us up this weekend because we’re going to fight like mad to hold on to what is the truth and what we all believe in. So Spiros, this week­ end we’re going to make the word M . . . ” (Mark Lewin).

“John, turn your wild stallions loose. You want our belts, come and get them, but it will take more than one axe from you executioners to take our belt, our name, and the people’s faith, the faith of the People’s Army away from us.” Then in Greek (Spiros Arion).

SUNDAY morning, Manning’s run out of film AGAIN. Quick tour of Melbourne’s early opener chemists, arrive late, there’s 40 people outside the studio, locked out; a padlock and a chain on the steel gate. Sign reads, “Wrestling spectators here” . Some are drift­ ing off home to watch on the T V ; a couple of young Greeks climb the fence, bravado fails, climb back a bit embarrassed.

I phone in to the studio, help, outside doing story, publicity, huh. She takes pity, the gateman assists. Jack Little, the studio, the floodlights,' cameras, the whole bit. Manning, by some deviousness, has beaten me there and is dashing about adding strobes to the arc lights.

Jim Barnett: “ Hello, w hat’s it to be, a hatchet job?” It’s a bit high, a bit whiney, a bit drawn. “ No” , I say, truthfully, “ it has levels o f awareness that greatly interest me.” We discourse on the ethnic overtones o f the affair (which discussion has been re­ produced above): I inquire as to the origin of the People’s Army and the current quasi maoist over­ tones o f his medium. Jim ’s a bit hesitant “Yes, I know, it’s Jack’s idea really, I’m not sure, I mean to say, th at was Mao Tse-tung’s army wasnt it, and I m ea n . . . some people might be offended.” I re­ mind him that the stance of the new government is somewhat more cordial in the direction of the yellow menace. “ I know it’s all so confusing, you dont know where you are."

Is there any peculiarity about Australian audiences that marks them off on the international scene so to speak. “Well, they like big men, BIG MEN, great big men.

If dat’s what the public wants d a t’s what little Jim gives them .”

Jim Barnett is a trissy little chap, about five two, balding, blond hair brushed over the bald spot, floppy bow tie, hands clasp­ ed over a neat little paunch.

What’s the wrestling got going for it? “Well, it was Aristotle, or was it Sophocles? No, Aristotle who defined the elements of tragedy as flux of fortune and pity or fear for the protagonist.”

Jim, it appears, graduated from Harvard with a master of arts in literature. He’s been a wrestling

“I promised my mother and I’ll promise anyone else that I’m going to try and be better, and have people like me . . . ” prom oter for 24 years: with him is the pallid Lord Layton, heir apparent to the King, Jack Little.

(When Jack walks through the stadium the people reach out to touch the earthy roughness of his tweed sports coat.)

Jack is apparently bowing out of the show, fading away, which is absurd. Jack is a sprightly 198, he has exactly the right manic desperation to contribute to the overall atmosphere. Jack BE­ LIEVES, Jack FEELS. He is the whole compulsive mad real bit.

Back to Lord Layton, who is cardboard wooden static, but he and Barnett are by now furiously denying that the blood spilt in the ring is anything but authentic red blooded, saleable for 30 rupees a pint in Nepal, Wood. “ Why” , says Jim, “ when I started my very first show on Australian television, the very first, and one o f the boys breaks a tooth in the first round and there’s blood everywhere and the station manager calls me in and says, dont you ever use pellets again oh one of m y shows. Pellets!

I didnt even know what a pellet was.”

Layton says one; interesting thing. In his opinion it is the real character o f the man that mani­ fests itself in the ring. A man's true self w rit large. He, Lord Layton, with his coronation robes and courtly hauteur; this was the real Lord Layton, or Athol.

Mark Lewin, when he regained consciousness, still thinking Kox a villain, shaped up to beat him around the head and shoulders.

The chorus, read crowd, inter­ vene: “No Mark, No, it was thine own cause he fought, good Kox the erstwhile killer.”

The next morning the wrestling world was agape; all attention focused on the great KOX KONTROVERSY. What dark deeds afoot, would this be the break the People’s Army has been waiting for? “ Look at the look on Mark Lewin’s face, he can’t believe it, he can’t believe it, he is amazed, absolutely amazed . . . he can’t believe i t . . . (Jack Little).

Lord Layton: “ I think the only person who can give an explana­ tion of his actions is the Killer himself, and we welcome you back on this program, and you certainly provided wrestling fans with an unexpected thrill, how did it come about?”

Killer Karl Kox: “ It’s really hard to explain how this came about, I dont like to stick my nose into someone else’s business.

I dont like anyone interferring in my matches, but last june 18 I lost someone who was very close to me and who I loved dearly. She had a long battle with cancer and anyone who knows anything about cancer knows how people suffer when they have this terrible disease and I happened to be at bedside — it was my m other — and I happened to be at bedside I GET one chance to talk to a when she died.” “ Very sad in­ wrestler, Mark Lewin, on the next deed” (Layton).

Saturday night. Mark is a real nice “She died with her hand in my guy, very friendly, very helpful, hand and her last request to me and laying down one of the sweet­ was to please not go through life est (if a trifle obvious) snow jobs any more and have people hate for quite some time. “ Yes, I like you and hurt you like you have wrestling, it ’s a great sport, great been. Now when your m other people, great athletes. It’s a great says something like this to you, town, Melbourne . . . the best well you know that she means it wrestlers in the world. I just want from the bottom of her heart. I’ve to keep on going till my boy - had my family threatened quite he’s ten now - gets old enough to often. join me in the ring, one of the “My family has suffered due to great father and son teams. Wrestl­ the way that I’ve acted in the ring, ing’s a great character builder; and the way I’ve acted out of the when I’m in the ring I fight as I ring. The things that I’ve done best know how, but when you see through life I’m sort of ashamed tactics used like the tactics of Big of, and when your m other is Bad John and Waldo it just makes dying and asks you to change my blood boil. I go out there your way of life, what else can because I believe in what I’m you do. I promised her faithfully. doing, in the truth. If the people It was one of the last things she know that y o u ’re out there doing ever heard. I would try and your best for them, they’re right change my life. And go through behind you, it's a great feeling life to make things better than It they had been. So, as far as inter­ “Thanks very much, nice m eet­ fering with Mark Lewin in his ing you Mark Lewin.” “ Drop match, I got into town early to see, round anytim e you w ant a chat.” w hat’s going on around here. I My next and only other brush dont approve of the war bit, I dont with the secret inner and real life approve of a lot of things that I of the wrestler is the following have done, and if any way, any­ week when a young lady of my time that I wrestle, appear before acquaintance travelled on the very these cameras, anything I’ve ever same great silver bird bound from said or done to insult anyone out Sydney to Melbourne; the very there I wish to apologise right same plane as Abdullah the Butch­ now. er himself, who, with American “ I am changing my ways not accent and wrap-around shades, for Mark Lewin or anyone else, proffered a drink and a line. The but for my m other who is dead, a girl declined his advances, so miss­ man who can’t do that is not ing a unique experience. much of a man I say. H e’s just got The next Saturday night in to back off and take a look in the Festival Hall, Killer Karl Kox - mirror and take stock of himself hitherto darkest villain vile - in an and ask what the hell he’s been unprecedented move defected doing all these years.” from the forces of Big Bad John Mark Lewin: “ I’ve never trust­ and entered the ring to deliver the ed Karl Kox for one minute and BRAIN BUSTER to Abdullah right now I’m trying to believe in who was in the process of beating you as being a man who’ll try to Mark Lewin unconscious. help weight the scales.”

Kox: “ It’s no secret that Lewin and I didnt like each other. It’s no secret at all, everybody knows that. We’ve had some vicious brawls in the past and I’ve got a lot of respect for the man and I will m ost certainly do my best.

I’m not going to lay my fate in anyone’s hands. I’m not going to change my style because I’m not going to go out and have my head

beat in. But I promised my m other and I’ll promise anyone else that I’m going to sort of try to be better, and have people like me, it’s up to Mark now, if he trusts me we'll go on with this thing. I think we’ll be a great team .”

Big Bad John is unmoved and is currently claiming breach of contract and demanding that Kox

should return the $1500 that he advanced for the Killer’s air fare.

And do n ’t forget this Saturday night at Festival Hall there are THREE WARS! THREE BAT­ TLEFIELDS. In the first battle­ field Bulldog Brower and Abdul­ lah the Butcher teaming together to go in against Mark Lewin and Killer Karl Kox. . .

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JEALOUSY-

The injured lover’s private hell, the tyrant of the mind 'M LYING in bed on my own. My wife is sleeping with another man. I am imagining, with painful realism, what they are doing together. I find it hard to get to sleep . . .

This is happening with my agreem ent For the past year or so my wife and I have discussed "unfaithfulness” . We agreed that no m atter how good our relation­ ship was, it was absurd to believe that all our emotional and sexual needs could be m et exclusively by each other for our entire lives.

Parts of us were not finding ex­ pression. Living together in the same house, bringing up the kids, constantly submerged in the daily paraphernalia o f family life - all these things built up resentments, petty hostilities, routine, bore­ dom, dependence, as fast as they solidified our relationship and un­ derstanding of each other, as fast as they strengthened certain un­ derlying bonds between us. So we agreed that if one or the other of us developed a relationship with someone else it might be good not only for us personally, but also, in the long run, for our future to­ gether.

We also agreed that it was more im portant that it should happen to Sally, my wife, rather than to me (in die first instance, at least).

When we got married (eight years ago) our relationship had followed the usual pattern.

I became rather disappointed in her. She had seemed such an interesting and passionate girl when I married her, and now she didnt seem to bother about life.

When my friends came round (I assumed w ithout thinking about it that my friends would also be hers, and didn’t notice that she didnt really have any friends of her own) it was sometimes as if she wasnt there at all. And when it came to going to bed, as often as not she was too tired to do anything at all.

We argued about this. I accused her of not being interested in my needs. She said that when I start­ ed treating her like a lover, she might respond like one. So I fantasised about the girls in the sexy magazines, and lusted after the girls I m et at parties or stared at in the street, and on a couple of occasions had one-night encoun­ ters with other women. When I told her about them (because our relationship was still the kind where we didnt hide such things from each other) she was bitterly resentful. “Why dont you do the same?” I asked. She replied that she had neither the opportunity

I

nor the confidence nor the in­ clination to do so.

Then she joined womens libera­ tion and started fighting back.

Politics suddenly entered our home, and our life became a daily, sometimes frenzied battle. I was always a bit late in understanding it all. Sure, the idea o f womens equality was right, b u t this wasnt what we were arguing about. She was being hysterical, she was find­ ing excuses for her inadequacies, she was more interested in stop­ ping me fro m . enjoying my life than in starting to enjoy hers.

But gradually it began to get through. I took a parttim e job so that die could also work, and we could share the upbringing o f the children and other domestic duties. I found I didnt mind it too much after all. What’s more, I realised th at Sally’s independence, so far at least, was the opposite of being a threat to me. She began to come alive again, she became stimulating to live with instead of merely a frustrated appendage of me. Our understanding o f our­ selves and each other developed.

We reached the point where we felt that if either o f us “ took a lover” , it would not be such a catastrophe after all. We felt that our relationship was strong enough to adapt to such a situa­ tion, and even possibly come out of it better. But if we did not want to repeat the previous pat­ tern of our relationship, it would have to be her first.

Then, a couple of m onths ago, she met Chris, and they’ve been sleeping together several times a week ever since, and it’s a passion­ ate experience for both of them — as passionate as it was with me and Sally at the beginning.

And, of course, I’m jealous.

Naive sucker th at I am, I never expected this pain. I never expect­ ed this unceasing ache and em pti­ ness, these explosions into almost delirious anguish. I never expected I would feel so crushed, so left out, so insecure, so inadequate, so lonely, so paranoid.

But why? Is it really such a naive question? What is this em o­ tion that means the more some­ body I love is happy the more miserable I feel? She is more confident, more fulfilled, more herself than I ever remember and I hate it. Why? Partly, and m ost obviously, her present gain is my present loss.

Nearly all her sexual and em otion­ al energy is going out to Chris, not me - including a helluva lo t of sexual and emotional energy th at’s become bottled up over the

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In the flurry of a new found freedom, female soul baring has become familiar. Men continue to bluff or rem ain silent. Here JOHN HOYLAND in a rem arkable piece of self surgery reveals w hat happened w hen his wife took him at his liberated word. years and not had any expression at all. This is, to say the least, hard to take, the more so because it has meant our sex life has pretty well come to a full stop.

On Sally’s side this is because she is still too involved in the newness of her relationship with Chris to be able to parcel out her em otions as she would like.

Already, in many ways, our relationship has improved rather than deteriorated. The petty re­ sentments and hostilities have vir­ tually disappeared, we are talking about many things that we have been unable to discuss before, parts o f us that have been sup­ pressed are coming out into the open again.

Yet, I’m bitterly unhappy. She comes home in the morning, kisses me, puts her arms round me. It seems fine, the warmth is perfectly genuine, I am only too pleased to be kissed and reassured by her. But underneath, we feel self-conscious, we arent quite gelling, there’s a gap. Then Chris comes round too, and the three of us do the kids, or eat a meal together, or go to the pub. Again,

it seems fine. We all get on to ­ gether, we laugh and talk, there seems no problem. But under­ neath I am in turmoil. I am silently screaming that I can’t cope, th at I can’t take it, that any m inute I’ll crack up completely.

Sally knows how I feel, and it just makes things worse. She’s well aware of the desperation of my need for her, she’s fully con­ scious o f my desire for her and my insecurity and misery. Yet the very strength of these emotions pushes her away from me. It feels like an invasion of her personality to her. She wants space, she wants ’to get away, she wants to cut herself off and obliterate herself from the demands I am making on her. She still loves me, otherwise in one sense there would be less of a problem for her. But our rela­ tionship has become rather un­ natural.

I also have to face the fact that my relationship with Sally will never be the same again - certain­ ly not if she continues to see Chris, and probably not even if she breaks with him. In a very crucial way she has established her independence from me, her right

to her own separate existence.

And while I can accept this ration­ ally, the practical business o f adjusting to it is acutely difficult.

It is difficult for her to make the emotional switches from Chris to me and back - and at the same time to preserve her own sense o f herself as a person with space to breathe in.

One of the hardest things in this situation is to work out ex­ actly where the problems really stem from. Which of them are due to my personality, which are due to Sally’s, which are due to Chris’s? Which o f them stem from the fact that Sally and I live in a house with our children, while Chris has recently broken up with his family, and is currently with­ out a base of any kind? And which of the difficulties stem from the basic relationship struc­ tures of our western society? Be­ cause the more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that there are other factors involved - that my jealousy is not simply that o f a rejected husband but has to do with many other things besides.

One of these things is the

difference between the attitudes of men and women to sex. When women are jealous it seems to me that they generally react by going cold on their partners. Men, on the other hand, are likely to re­ spond with vastly increased ardor, w ith a desperate need for sexual reassurance, to know that they too are virile and desirable and “good” a t fucking.

All sorts of things can get in the way of sex, including psychol­ ogical hang-ups and external things like the legacy of years of routine, of being tired, or having the kids lying ill with a tempera­ ture in another room. And, of course, there are cases where problems of technique and ignor­ ance do arise, and have to be worked out in their own right.

But generally speaking, being "good” a t love-making is not a quality th a t one either does or does not have. Sex is a form of relating between people, and the very attem pt to prove that one is good at it can actually prevent the mutual flow of affection and warmth and the enjoyment that real “ good” sex involves.

Inasmuch as my sense of sexual adequacy is undermined by Sally’s relationship with Chris, the prob­ lem is not solved by Sally’s send­ ing Chris packing and returning exclusively to me, which is what men usually w ant in such a situa­ tion. My feeling — my hope - is that my sexual confidence will return when I know she wants to make love to me as well as him.

This is what I hope will hap­ pen. In the meantime, I have to fight against this bastard feeling, this h u rt male pride, this sexual competitiveness - this tendency to think of “ good” sex as proof of virility (equals power, equals man­ hood) rather than proof of com­ patibility and openness with an­ other human being.

(So my head tells me. But it goes very deep down, this male paranoia that I have inherited. So much of my insecurity is that of a male ego shorn o f the prop of exclusive rights to a female body.

It’s a prop that none of us men need, that we’re better off with­ out. But it certainly takes time to leam how to hold yourself up straight when it’s gone.)

Related to my feeling of sexual insecurity is the more general feel­ ing that because Sally is in love with another man (as well as me) I have in some way “lost” her. In a sense, o f course, this is true. She no longer has exclusive emotional allegiance to me, she also has emotional allegiance to someone else. So I have lost some aspects of intimacy with her, not so much of our emotional life is shared, our plans no longer coincide so much. And, of course, I have physically lost her during the time die is with Chris - though this would equally be true if die was at work, or visiting her parents or friends. It is only my lack of trust in her enduring concern for me that makes me think otherwise.

But beyond these considera­ tions — which are undoubtedly problems, but perhaps not in­ superably so — this feeling of loss also seems to be connected with my psychological conditioning. It is tied up with the way I have internalised the values of the nu­ clear family system and grew up believing in the eternal couple.

For this system o f monogamy - a deep-rooted emotional depend­ ence and attention focused on only one person, reinforced a mil­ lionfold by living for years with

that one person and two children in an isolated little box called a home — inevitably gives rise to possessiveness.

If I feel I have “lost” Sally, then I have lost her, in part at least, as a possession. I do not own her, she does not own me. If we can both adjust to this new situation, and accept it and handle it, then it is something to be celebrated, not lamented. The problem is not actually one of loss, so much as the difficulty of balancing out autonomy.

Her exercise of freedom in seeing Chris interferes with my exercise o f freedom in seeing her.

Yet I do not actually want to see her all the time, and equally I also exercise my autonom y in going out with my mates, or whatever it may be. So the problem is rather one o f balancing the right of autonomy with sensitivity to each other’s needs.

(Not the least of which is that we both need to be relieved of responsibility for looking after the children from tim e to time. For­ tunately the children are quite happy about the situation so far, but whichever of us spends time away from hom e lumbers the other one with the kids. In case that indicates indifference to the childrens needs, perhaps I should add that a positive concern for the childrens development is one reas­ on we’ve embarked on all this.

The claustrophobia o f the nuclear family affects kids as well as parents. Children need love and security, but not suffocation . . . ) The kind of autonom y I’m talking about is not easy to achieve. The permissive society is double-edged. While everybody is supposed to go around fucking everybody else on the one hand, they are also supposed to have absolute respect for the sacred institution of marriage on the other. Any threat to the family (as traditionally conceived) is a threat to “ the very fabric of our society”.

Jealousy, after all, is a kind of fear of freedom. I have not lost Sally’s warmth and love, but I can no longer be sure that die will be there all the time, whenever I need her. She is demonstrably freer within our relationship, I am potentially freer — freer of de­ pendence and possessiveness, more self-reliant, more myself liv­ ing with her on equal independent terms.

But this freedom is a frighten­ ing thing. Not only does it bring me face-to-face with my ultimate aloneness, my own final separate­ ness as a human-being, it is also a freedom I have not been trained for. All my life, like everyone else, I have been subjected to forces which work against my feeling confidence in my own autonomy - at school, at work, in nearly all social relationships.

Nobody is ever completely free, nor could they be. People need other people. Dependence is a part of love, a necessary part, just as people are necessarily dependent on each other within society at large. But dependence in loye can reach the point where it becomes stiffling.

If the situation I am in has jolted me into re-examining a lot of my unconscious notions about virility, possession and depend­ ence, it has also made me actually aware of some other aspects of current social attitudes to sexual­ ity.

We mid-20th century men and women live in an over-sexed

world. Once upon a time work and society were exalted at the expense of pleasure. Now pleasure itself has become exalted as the carrot which will make us behave and go on working. The market has extended to our bedrooms, to the innermost com ers of our per­ sonal lives.

Women in particular are sub­ ject to a massive onslaught of commercialisation of their bodies, with whole industries devoted to providing them w ith stereotyped images o f their sexuality and their worth as people. But for me, too, the m anipulation of fantasy is continual as if society will only run smoothly when we are all going round in a state o f unrem it­ ting horniness.

I adm it that for a long time I had an ambivalent relationship with all this counterfeit sex. I objected to seeing women turned into m asturbatory fantasies in­ stead of people, I objected to them being sold as packaged dreams, yet I also desired these images of women that pouted at me almost wherever I looked. At times I compared them with Sally and found her wanting (unbeliev­ able, it seems to me now, but true).

Now Sally has developed a real relationship with someone else, in which sex takes its part as a form of communication, a tender rela­ tion between two human beings.

And suddenly, in the light of full consciousness, I see this dehuman­ ised, fantasy sex that I have half­ rejected, half-absorbed all this time as nothing more than the shit it really is. The reality of the permissive society is not sexual liberation in any true sense, but rather the sexual sell and all the distorted values that involves.

But beyond this, sexuality has another role in our society. Just as women are supposed to live up to two contradictory stereotypes — on the one hand, the fashionable, impersonalised sex-object, and on the other the personification of warmth, security and “natural”, “basic” emotions within the fam­ ily — so sexuality appears to us in both a public and a private form.

On the one hand it is a commer­ cialised goodie appearing indis­ criminately on every magazine rack, and on the other hand it is supposed to be the last refuge o f our most intimate passions and longings.

If we can create relationships that are relatively free of depend ence, possessiveness and the ad­ man's fantasies - then maybe we have helped in a small way in a fight for humanised relationships in every aspect o f ours and other people’s lives.

Sally insists that our relation­ ship is strong enough to win, but I wonder if we - all three of us - are capable of handling the situation as individuals.

I wonder how much can be achieved in the area o f personal relationships without society itself undergoing a process of trans­ formation. I wonder if one of us (and I suppose I’m the most likely candidate) might simply be unable to cope.

I wish I could be sure. I shant be for a long time, probably. But it’s worth the try. In spite of everything I honestly believe there’s no other way.

Members of the gay liberation movement see unity and organisation as the most potent m eans of breaking from the stigma of straightness. Some homosexuals however, have found gay lib to be just another structure, goosestepping over the individual. SA SH A SOLDATOW says ...

...Out Of The Closet Into The Clique HIS IS an article about movements, particularly the movements of sexual liberation but more specifically about the homosexual movements.

Running through our society there is a belief that things go on in groups, that groups have a life o f their own and that you can only be effective in organised groups. This view is so entrenched that it has become axiomatic.

Because this is the way things happen, it is also seen as the way things m ust happen. “ It seems to me that the reality of oppression is that any oppressed group in history has had to organise and band together in order to over­ come its stigma” (Altman). And what happens to oppression then?

What happens to stigma?

For a num ber o f historical reas­ ons which d o n ’t concern me here the demand for homosexual equality and rights has emerged quite obviously as a movement which in some cases adopts specific structures of organisation.

And despite the insistence on the lack o f formal structure that is able to be imposed on this move­

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ment, certain fundamental struc­ ture orientations are applied. Gay consciousness for example is fund­ amentally a structuring concept.

You attend consciousness raising groups, initially to find a common ground, and then to reinforce it, to keep it from slipping away.

You find a common basis of oppression and then you work from there.

Unfortunately one of the things that has emerged from the short history of gay liberation is that nobody fits the description of the oppressed homosexual.

People, when they do fit, do so only as approximations. Yet this is an insight that most often can­ not be reached because the so called loose structure of the move­ ment actively inhibits this sort of realisation.

If, however, we do take this insight and follow it through, we eventually begin to question the assumption of communality in any feelings, reaction and even thought. Any apparently similar behavioral situations are simply that - apparendy similar. So why look for a common ground? Per-

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from closet to clique continued... haps it doesnt exist. Perhaps everyone is so totally different that to look for (or construct) a common consciousness becomes a bit o f intellectual myth-making.

But is that what it’s all about?

I thought it was about being able to be different and do things differently to the way things are.

And being able to change.

But if we think that we can do this by changing some aspect of social structure then we are forced to relate new prescribed behavior to the old patterns which people have been following and learning to follow until now. Which is the same old bog of contradictions.

Someone is still deviant in some­ one else's eyes. And isnt th at what it’s all about.

A quote from the constitution of the NSW branch of Campaign Against Moral Persecution: “ The society shall reserve the right to reject any application for membership, and likewise the So­ ciety shall reserve the right to expel any member whose behavior shall be held to be prejudicial to the aims o f the So ciety.” (My italics.) Apparently the clause was w ritten in to stop any exploita­ tion of CAMP for financial gain.

But even with this in mind, the point is still clear.

Groups dont seem to care a damn about people.

They can reject and expel them (the deviants) precisely because their concern is the perpetuation of the group and its particular ideology. That’s part of the whole ethos of power and fear. All the talk about solving some general malaise of our civilisation and, incidentally, our society. And more incidentally us. And if you still doubt this, go to a gay lib dance.

There amid the hurly-burly of allowed alternative culture, you will find four very distinct cate­ gories of conforming deviants. (a) Self-sufficient coupled rela­ tionships, illusory worlds unto themselves. (b) The Heavies. You can tell pretty quickly who they are be­ cause they are the ones who are most assertively and consciously “liberated” . They obsessively hug each other and are most “spon­ taneous” in their expression of affection. They also have a discon­ certing habit of standing in groups of four or five, in the middle of the dance floor during the band breaks, arms around each other, in mushroom-like fairy rings. Oblivi­ ous (out of the com ers of their eyes) of the fact that everyone else is off the floor. (c) The third group is what I shall call the other incest groups.

There are a number of them, identifiable by the fact that they sit at the same table, drink to­ gether, talk together, dance to­ gether, hardly ever move around except together, wear the same sort of clothes, drink the same sort of drinks, live the same sorts of lives and fuck the same sorts of people. (d) The last group is the least cohesive. They are the wall­ flowers who stand around the sides, wander around occasionally, look a lo t and generally feel un­ easy.

The point o f all this informa­ tion, and it’s n o t only observation because at different gay dances I have been in all these categories.

The point is that no one cares about each other, especially not about the waS-flowers. Stiff shit if you can’t fit in.

In fact I was not even aware

that there was this last category till one day I was part of it. And nobody cared. And it all blew back on to m e like spitting into the wind. That there was really no d iffe re n c e between ordinary dances and Gay Lib dances except for the presence of a different ideology.

All the crap that I’d heard and actually said about how Gay Lib dances were so marvellous and free, the incredible feeling o f solidarity and friendship, of con­ cern for each other and genuine affection and warmth. All re­ inforcem ent of ideology. Which is nothing like what happens.

You go there knowing a few people, or you hope to do any­ way. When you get there you search them out, have a few drinks, a few dances. You flirt a bit, give a few generous hugs and kisses, some campish repartee, overreact a bit to someone whom you dont know if you like, al­ though you’re quite sure you dont.

You do object to them running their hand down your back and feeling your bum through your trousers, but you smile and let them do it. Y ou’re much more liberated now. And aware that people are watching. So you give him a cuddle. One can’t tell a brother in oppression that they’re a drag.

Then you go and dance with someone else. You like him. You think you’d like to get off with him but you’re a bit reticent. So you take a dive and move closer.

Become serious. Hold his hand.

N ot too serious, though. Thank God i t ’s a slow dance. You can actually move really close. Hold me tight, but y o u ’re not sure if you really feel his cock thicken against you.

Five more dances. Four more dances. Look blase, and tell him you want to fuck him (actually you say “ get off” ). He doesnt answer. But he doesnt go away either. Part of the game, so you p u t your hands down the front of his trousers and feel him up. He comes closer. It feels nice. So you dance for a while, holding on to his belt, fingering his underpants.

Doesnt m atter if anyone notices because there’s no difference be­ tween being risque and liberated.

Same old game only the context has changed.

We’re into the pretence that what was once done in secrecy is now done in public. The personal is political and all that. Except th at the personal remains putrid.

No longer is it where have all the people gone, it’s what the fuck they are doing.

At this point I suppose it will seem rather strange th at I have to admit that I find it really difficult to write anything more about liberation, homosexuality, sexual­ ity or just personal relationships generally.

Partly, this is because I feel that having overcome certain things, I am still left fumbling. So what right have I to fumble pub­ licly? Writing usually means pre­ senting conclusions, arguments and answers, and not confusions and partial insights. And anyway, words are different in writing from what they are in speech.

And speech is the way I ’ve mostly done any looking at personal rela­ tionships. Because it’s got some­ thing to do with involvement, I think.

But also, sexual liberation groups generally have made it harder to talk.

I feel that one of the m ost regrettable effects of gay libera­ tion is that it has made it more difficult to simply talk about homosexuality. TTiis is not to say that qay lib is actually inhibiting talk, for plainly the opposite is the case. It’s just that people are talking more but saying less. And since the revolution m ust always be in the position to recognise its friends and enemies immediately, one is forced to take a stand.

Either way the system is against you and you are against yourself.

If, for example, you question some of the articles o f faith of the homosexual movement (eg. com­ ing out, consciousness raising, zap groups) you can immediately be p u t down as a person who accepts their inferiority. Someone who is subservient and doesnt w ant to re-think their position. Acquies­ cent in their oppression. Unwilling to be liberated. No one wants to conceive of an alternative outside the movement, so you must be wrong.

On the other hand, if you become part of the activity, it becomes impossible n o t to be deflected into taking a stance of over-enthusiastic support which veers dangerously close to cultism.

The tem ptation is irresistible to mindlessly repeat attractive b u t meaningless slogans. Use jargon which has lost its guts, if it ever had any. “Look out straights, here we come! To make you under­ stand what it is to be our kind of outcast - b u t also to make you understand our kind of love; to hunger for your own sex.” "Two, four, six, eight, gay is twice as good as straight.”

If this is radical, then I’m a lump of shit.

In all the discussions about liberation, bisexuality, the poly­ morphous perverse, male chauvin­ ism, sexism,- coming out etc, the active human body disappears Overwhelmed by the insistent lan­ guage of the movement (the churning out of words about words, just as I am doing), the personality involving itself with other personalities loses its im­ portance.

Well, what’s happened? Have we been thoughtlessly wandering around, generalising all our in­ sights out of application, forget­ ting ourselves and our experiences for the sake of liberation? If so, then society has won again. We have allowed our protectors to suck into themselves the stuff of our opposition and they use it for their own ends. Is not William and John an example of this? And what about K entucky Fried Chicken is womens lib? The sponge absorbs into itself the drops of ink and spreads them around so the overall color hardly changes.

We are so pleased, for example, with our understanding of the sexist dichotomy, the pink and blue booties, th at we forget to notice that this socialisation only finds expression in its application.

So when we try to break down the barriers of what we are ex­ pected to be, we reach another barrier: the circumstances which determine what our relationships will be like, demand to be arti­ ficially constructed according to the way things are done. The patterns continue to work in spite of the participants and their prin­ ciples, in spite of the cocks and the cunts and the preferences.

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The Modem Medicine Man Is A Pox On Good Health O THE Hindu the cow is a sacred animal. Our sacred cow is the medical profession.

In Australia, it is virtually impossible to make any effective criticism of the methods of medical practitioners. You can accuse them (at the moment) of being money grubbers but you can’t criticise their professional practices.

This is dangerous. It is dangerous for any section of the com m unity to be virtually free from effective criticism. It is infinitely dangerous in the case of a body of men (and women) who are provided with a growing proliferation of drugs which are increasingly hazardous and which cannot be adequately tested for possible harmful effects before being rushed on to the market by profit-hungry drug companies.

The medical profession is, as a m atter of fact, fast becoming the greatest single danger to the health of the community. The standard training for a medico teaches him practi­ cally nothing about health and how to attain and keep it. (How many healthy doctors do you know?) The training is devoted al­ most entirely to teaching him about disease and most of what it teaches about disease is wrong.

It teaches that disease is caused by outside attacks from various germs and viruses, this belief being based on the discoveries of Pasteur and others that specific diseases are usually accompanied by specific microbes or bacteria.

It is rather ironic that Pasteur himself before his death abandoned the idea that germs cause disease, and remarked that “ the germ is nothing - the terrain everything” .

What he meant was that to be healthy you must concentrate on keeping the terrain (the body) in good order and that if you do that you can forget about the germs.

There are millions of people in the world today (I am one) who have dem onstrated the truth of this on their own bodies, who have achieved wonderful health, and immunity even from that universal scourge the common cold; who shun the medical pro­ fession like the plague; and who would as soon drink poison as take into their bodies any of the products of the drug companies.

The medical practitioner has become little better than a licensed drug pedlar, a dis­ tributing agent for the drug manufacturers.

Even if it were possible to achieve health from drugs, it would be physically impossible for any doctor to investigate the merits (and menaces) of the thousands of preparations which are pouring on to the market, so he is reduced to accepting the assurances of the drug m anufac­ turers themselves.

The healthiest people on earth are the Hunzas who live in a remote area of the Himalayas.

They have no wonder drugs. They use no drugs of any kind. They have no cancer, no heart disease, no diabetes, no tuberculosis.

Their old men play vigorous games and father children at the age of 100. Their secret is no secret at all. They live on natural, unspoilt (that is, unpro­ cessed) food grown in healthy

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soil unadulterated by chemical “ fertilisers” .

There are growing numbers of naturists in other countries who have found wonderful health by the same means. They have found that to avoid disease one merely needs to be healthy and that to be healthy one merely needs to observe nature and follow nature's rules (hence the term naturist).

We have in our community various bodies such as the Heart Foundation, the Cancer Founda­ tion, the Kidney Foundation, and so on, which are extracting huge sums of m oney from the public for the purpose of investigating these diseases.

What do they do with the millions of dollars so collected?

They hand it over to members of the medical profession who squander it on the idiotic search for new “ wonder drugs” , new vaccines, new techniques for transplanting organs from dead bodies into live ones.

Do they ever investigate the people who have never suffered from cancer or heart disease to try to find out why?

Good God, no!

The squandering of the m oney doesn’t m atter a damn.

What does m atter is that by

misleading people into believing that the ravages of unhealthy living can be repaired by wonder drugs and that men and women can be protected from the fruits of their folly by inject­ ing vaccines into the bloodstream, they are diverting attention from the natural and proven ways to achieve and keep almost perfect health.

It is possible to immunise the body against all the diseases; but it can only be done by nature’s methods, not by introducing foreign substances into the blood.

(Answer, from official records, to a question in the British House of Commons: In the 25 years ended December, 1962, nearly two-thirds of the children born in England and Wales remained unvaccinated for smallpox, yet only four children under five died of smallpox; while o f the one-third vaccinated no fewer than 86 children were killed by vaccination and many more were seriously injured by it.)

The body does not become unhealthy because it has been attacked by disease. It is attacked by disease because it has become unhealthy.

Gay libber Martin Sm ith being ejected b y Christians

Festival of Light gets Heavy JUDITH RICH HRISTIAN families in their Sunday best flock up the tow n hall steps through a Salva­ tion Army Band guard-of-honor, averting their eyes from placardcarrying demonstrators. "Ungod­ ly!” they hiss. “Son of a snake!”

A handful of commune kids smile sweetly through their bizarre face paint. A few schoolkids raise a sign saying Don't deny teenagers their sexuality and are verbally assaulted by an hysterical churchwoman and a priest who tells them th ey ’ll see the error of their ways when they turn 25.

There’s a woman wearing a Plan­ ned parenthood is an act of love button and a Humanist handing out leaflets.

A roving radio reporter tells his microphone: “ And in front of me I can see three gorillas . . . Why do you think people come to hear Mary Whitehouse?”

A highly excited Eurasian woman is arguing heatedly with Christians: “ If you believe in God, y o u ’ve got to believe in the Kama Sutra,” she shrieks. A man waves a Bible at her: “ That’s the docu­ ment that says Jesus rose up from the dead.”

Inside a shouting Martin Smith of gay lib is heavied out of the hall by two ushers. “ Men with crosses on tried to break my

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Under the Festival of Light emblem (a hand with a heaven­ ward pointing finger inside a fla m e ) committee members, clergymen and the Young World Singers (mini-skirted thighs press­ ed tighdy together) are assembled on stage behind banks of orchid pots. “ Mrs Whitehouse’s visit to Aus­ tralia couldn’t have come at a more opportune tim e,” announces porn researcher Freida Brown, in­ troducing the festival star. “ In Sydney today the Festival of Light committee, through our study groups, have found that bestiality - that is sexual inter­ course with animals —' is being recommended as one of several thrills for teenagers and this is mailed unsolicited so that even children can read it.”

To bursts of applause Ms Whitehouse launches into her rave, tracing her involvement in the fight against "th e ways of inky men” .

Space shortage allows only this brief extract from J u d ith ’s devastating coverage.

In case you didn’t know, some TV series like to lay on a bit of tit HATED the showbiz world of Sydney where you had to and bum.

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arselick and where you were re­ garded as a little thing who would be nice in bed. After doing bit parts in a television series they wanted to write me in perm anent­ ly. I d id n ’t want the part be­ cause it was bullshit, i didn’t want to take my clothes off be­ cause it was such a sordid show. “ So I went for the interview and there were these two greasy faced guys: They explained the part: ‘She’s a lovely girl/ just like you/ she’s just been brought up to walk around w ithout her clothes on.’

"I was angry with myself be­ cause I was actually sitting there listening to this shit. I wasn’t saying, ‘I’m not interested in your jo b .’ I was terrified that, if I got the job, was I going to take it when it represented something I was so violently against. “ Finally when the big guy said, ‘Hmmn honey, I suppose you d o n ’t object to taking yer clothes, off? I said, ‘As a m atter of fact I’ve got a rather large scar on my breast from a childhood accident.’

And the grease solidified on his face although his smile stayed. I walked out of there feeling bril­ liant. I was so relieved.”

Couch-casting in the theatre is as old (hat as survival. Yet, of all the fields that women have chosen to play in, theatre has been tradi­ tionally regarded as a place where women can attain unhampered and unlimited superstardom.

Claire Balmford, 21, a NIDA graduate, considers herself lucky in that she has only been out of work for six weeks in three years of acting. For the past eight m onths she has worked in Bellbird, with occasional parts in Homicide, Division 4, Matlock and recently has been getting into some experimental theatre.

She dismisses her experience with the series’ directors as the premium that the acting industry places on the boobs-and-bums commodity. Her criticisms of the theatre industry, however, are directed more towards limitations placed on professional satisfac­ tion. “ The thing that really concerns me most about being in the the­ atre is that you are not really re­ sponsible for what direction you are going in. You can’t initiate things yourself. You continually rely on someone else deciding that they will use you for this, that and the other. Because you can’t initiate anything yourself, nothing you do is what you really want to do. It’s work and y ou’re lucky to be in work. “ To stay in work you need an agent. People tend to think that if you d o n ’t have an agent y o u ’re no good. The agent takes ten percent of all your earnings .. . and I resent paying ten percent for jobs that I got myself. That’s the deal you have to accept.

“About 96 percent of an ac­ to r’s life has nothing to do with why he started out wanting to act in the first place. Maybe it’s the same with every job. But it seems so silly that people spend so much time working crap/ saying it’s crap and wondering if they’ll ever do their ideals. “ My expectations are different now. For example, when I first went to NIDA, I was expecting to

Claire Balmford CONGRATU Digger on its expose of the Victorian Drug Squad. During a recent raid a thick folder of blank search warrants was left behind which had been helpfully pre-signed by a justice of the peace. The Digger prints the documents. Maybe the uniformed dullards had been consuming too much of their booty, instead of merely pushing it, like the Sydney boys. A bad week for the absent minded twosome, senior detective Michael James Bell and offsider Val­ entine Smith.

tells how she waylaid the caster’s drool midstream, in this the first of a series of interviews with wom en by JEAN BUCKLEY

Casting Into Consciousness find soulmates. Instead I found a liked and, by spreading round the lot of pubic boys in tights/ instead darlings, you get the darlings back of finding a revolutionary at­ . . . I suppose. mosphere, I found an institution. “ But in Bellbird, most of the Later, I used to say, ‘I’d rather actors are probably there because work in a factory than act in they want to get on with the rest something like Bell bird - which of their lives as well. They’ve all I've now been doing for eight got bloody good heads. And months. Because I saw Bellbird as they’re not devoting the rest of anti something I believed but now their lives to spotlight glory. The I see TV work as a very fascinat­ glamor o f the theatre is about the ing and challenging medium. I t’s a biggest m yth there could ever be. challenge to be given a script “ One of the things contribut­ which is a lump of shit and make ing to this is the whole Hollywood it work - just as challenging as deal and the fact that behind any having a brilliant part all laid out production are the people who for you. It’s an ideological chal­ want to make money. So they’re lenge. going to make the production as “ All the games I have to play attractive as possible to the pub­ in the Bellbird script — the pet­ lic. Even with subsidised theatres ulant schoolgirl bit etc - you play — they’ve got to make money to the bitchy stereotype lines quietly keep their subsidy. Fortunes are so that the tone is witty rather spent making productions look than sarcastic and then the writers stunning or making something begin to change the lines the same look beautiful/ using people that way. are beautiful/ and often the play itself just isnt there.

“At the same time, though, I’ve “ Acting in Bellbird: some peo­ never really felt that w om en’s lib ple see as a sellout and bastardis­ is a part of me, I have my own personalised response to libera­ ing any creativity I’ve got. This year I did some experimental the­ tion. For four years I lived/ ate/ slept/ fucked theatre. When I re­ atre: in Babysitter. Which is hard to talk about because I’ve had alised that, I decided to get out. everyone ringing me up telling me So I got a job that would leave me how degrading and corrupting it is time for other things. I t’s only to me as a woman. now that I’m beginning to face “ The play is about a babysitter questions like, what role am I for a couple who go to a party. playing/ how can I justify that in She has her fantasies/ the two terms of what I want to be/ and what I believe when the role I young men at the pinball machine around the corner have their fan­ project is at odds with that? tasies about her/ the husband fan­ “ A lot of the game playing that tasises about her/ and the wife/ goes on in the theatre is due to and so it goes on ad infinitum. people’s insecurities. People are “Babysitter doesnt really say always getting pissed or stoned and there's very little real friend­ anything/ it’s not going anywhere. ship. I call it ‘dressingroom in­ It’s a vehicle for a certain techni­ cal feat - there are lots of sets tim acy’. and blackouts and we swap “You do a job with someone around from place to place. It and within six weeks you know consists of 79 forty to fifty sec­ everything about them - their sex ond scenes. All you end up think­ lives, childhoods, histories etc. ing about is where you are in the Then you stop doing the play and next scene/ whether yo u ’ve got you see them a couple of weeks later and it’s all gone: The rela­ your clothes on or off/ what tionship has disappeared. You’ve happens next. Which is OK for the got nothing to say to them o u t­ people watching it because they side working in the same show as can pick out what they like but all them. What else they’re doing isnt you’ve got to remember is what really relevant and I’m not rele­ the fuck you’re supposed to do vant to them any more because next. “ My friends say it’s sexist be­ I’m not around. “ You might be walking down cause this babysitter is being in­ the street and you yell: ‘He-elloo fringed on by all these men. And I darling/ big big cuddle/ kiss kiss suppose th at’s so, but it’s also kiss/ deedadeeda/ THUMP - what very funny and no one knows do I say now?’ And at a party, what happens in the play. But it’s people are looking round all the all so glib which makes it boring. time to see who else is there/ who Babysitter isn’t something I have else they can go to / who else they to sit down and work out on. I t ’s can talk to. Everyone wants to be like nearly every other part I’ve

had - it’s all too easy. “ I d o n ’t think I know enough about experimental groups. But it all boils down to what you think theatre is about and what you’re trying to say when you’re doing it. Radicalism: It’s like people putting down the trendies as they sip their wine and eat their gour­ m et meals in their beautiful pseudo-primitive houses / like those wealthy communists who can still afford to hold radically fashionable points of view. “ No m atter what sort of ideas you have about doing things, w hether it’s starting a new news­ paper/ a new theatre/ or moving into a house with six people — is that people have different heads.

For instance, the Pram Factory started off with this terrific idea/ got a beaut place to do it/ then had to do something . . . but they get so bogged down in intellectualising about it.

"There are so many trips. Like the militant wom en’s libbers/ like the gay libbers/ there’s an exhibi­ tionist streak there. All a bit of a wank/ there’s n o . distinction be­ tween w om en’s lib and personal lib for m e/ we use terms like chau­ vinist but it’s really in terms p f people’s personalities and condi­ tioning that people are oppressed/ I think it’s a m atter of people being able to stop themselves from being oppressed by not forc­ ing themselves into roles “We just have to get down to living because i t ’s so im portant.”

THE A llen J o n ts exhibition at S y d n e y ’s Hogarth Gallery has attrac­ ted m uch attention, n o t the least because o f its angry “w om ens lib 1' slogans daubed m enacingly on the walls.

The gallery’s owner, Clive Evatt, is said to be pleased with the result o f his m idnight handyw ork with a spray can.

THE one group Whitlam didn’t bother to consult when he arsed Gordon Bryant from Aboriginal Af­ fairs, the black community, is not taking the dismissal quietly. A 14 man delegation from Victoria, repre­ senting six black organisations, left Monday for Canberra. Another 100 or so are arriving from Sydney on Wednesday, and delegations are form­ ing in other states.

Victorian representative Stewart Murray: “We want Bryant back. H e’s been with us for 20 years. We want him in and Coombs, S tanner and Dexter out, and teplaced by aborig­ inals.”

Mr Murray is not unaware that as Minister for the ACT, Bryant might just find them somewhere to camp.

Free from the police harassment that dogged the Black Embassy.

ONE o f Bob H awke's caps is fittin g a bit tight. R. J. appears to have decided that the Whitlam govern­ m e n t’s into a one-term stand and that m aybe president o f the A C T U is a better bet for long life and retirem ent benefits. Relations at the A L P federal executive m eeting were n o t happy.

Whitlam and H awke tried desperately to patch up their differences over the prices and incom es referendum — and failed. N ow the rightw ing factio n in H aw ke’s hom e state, Victoria, are ganging up to get H awke to toe the line. Their chances o f succeeding are slim.

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OTHERS: The Bozar Theatre W o r k s h o p — f o r m e d t h re e m o n t h s ago — an a lt e r n a t iv e t h e a t r e w o r k ­ s h o p , is p u t t i n g o n an o rig in a l dram a b y g ro u p m em ber T im G o o d i n g , T h e Great Australian Play. ‘ ‘ T h e s t o r y o f s id e s h o w b o x ­ ing, it deals w i t h th e e le m e n ts o f m y t h a n d madness in A u s t r a lia n s o c i e t y . " V il la g e T h e a t r e , P a d d o , O c t o b e r 18 t o 21 a nd again f r o m th e 2 4 th t o the 2 7th.

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N o rth /S o u th D in in g Room of A d e la id e U n i O c t o b e r 2 7 .

A ls o in t h e c it y o f c h u rc h e s and bluegrass bands, t h e A d e l a i d e L e a r n in g E x c h a n g e is h a v in g a m e e t in g / b a r b e c u e on O c t o b e r 20, 2 t o 6 p m a t 5 K y l e S tr e e t, G le n sid e , phone 7 9 .7950.

I t ’s p a r t l y a social a n d i n f o r m a t i o n e ve n t and m a i n l y a w o r k s h o p f o r th o s e w h o w a n t t o h e lp in r u n n i n g t h e e x c h a n g e a nd n e w s p a p e r.

A n y o n e in M e l b o u r n e i n t e r ­ ested in m e d i t a t i o n , M u k t a n a n d a , and Baba R a m Dass, w e l c o m e t o jo i n S h a k a h a ri m e d i t a t i o n g r o u p , S u n d a y m o r n in g s 11 am a t 3 2 9 L y g o n S tre e t, C a r l t o n . M e d i t a t i o n r o o m ava ila b le a n y t i m e S h a k a h a r i r e s t a u r a n t is o p e n.

D a rlin g hu rst, V i c t o r i a S t r e e t , a n d K i n g ’s Cross w i l l h o l d a S p r in g f e s tiv a l, a h a p ­ p e n in g social e v e n t, ge n era te d b y t h e p e o p le th e m s e lv e s, in t h e area f r o m O c t o b e r 19 t o 2 2 , c o i n c i d i n g w it h the opening o f the S y d n e y O p e ra H o u s e and th e W a ra ta h Festiv al.

P e r m is s io n t o use d e a d e n d a nd n a r r o w sid e s treets has been r e f u s ­ ed b y p o lic e a n d c o u n c i l : resi­ d e n ts m u s t a l l o w strangers t o use t h e i r s tree ts as a p u b l i c p a r k i n g s t a t i o n . H o w e v e r , th e fe s tiv a l w i l l happen in p r i v a t e a n d e m p t y houses, vacant a llo tm e n ts and u n d e r t h e r a i l w a y v ia d u c t . “ T h e re s id e n ts are c r e a t in g t h is W o o 11 o o m o o lo o ,

A Y B E it ’s the shops I go to, but whatever the reason, finding a bar o f Nestles is a bit like finding a packet o f Ardaths in a tobacconists, which if y o u don’ t know, certainly aint easy.

Plenty o f Cadburys but no Nestles. C adburys chocolate m ay be okay fo r thems thats particular to it, but I haven’t been able to get into it properly since one day back in 1960 when I bought a four bob m onster at a place called Fisherm an’s B ay on the south coast o f NSW. I ate it all, being som ewhat o f a greedy pig and went rowing in a dinghy which capsized, allowing me to swallow a bucket or two o f seawater, which had a particularly high saline content. Consequently I chucked all over the bay, I chuck­ ed in the mangroves, I chucked on the sand, chucked in the sea and chucked on the land, and I blam ­ ed it on the chocolate.

C adburys is the one with the glass and a h alf o f fresh m ilk, they tell us. Nestles is the one where on T V th ey shout over power drills to tell each other about it. MacR obertsons m ake Freddos but its m ost fam ous brand is Snack which has loads o f different flav­ ors. A part from Snack it has a nice Coconut Rough and a very reasonable M ilk. Sm alls has a nice nut bar and its range is well represented in S yd n ey, but not so well in M elbourne. Sm alls has a nice m ilk choc too.

Out o f all these brands I reck­ on Nestles is best. If everyone goes and asks shops for Nestles; th e n m a y b e N estles o r th e shops will sto c k a bit b e tte r an d I can grab a bar o ccasio n ally . If y o u h a v e n 't n o tic e d , th e big bars c o st

m e m b e rs is t o be h e ld in N i m b i n T o w n on S a t u r d a y , O c t o b e r 2 0 a t 8 pm.

Y o u can a p p ly f o r shares b y w r i t i n g t o “ T u r n t a b l e Fall s F a r m A sso cia tio n ” , Box 2 5 9 8 GPO, S y d n e y 2 0 0 1 . F o r i n f o : C h ris S t o n e y and B o b R o s e n b u r g , C/L I N K U P , 5 9 St. G eorg es R o a d , P ra h ra n , M elbo u rn e (phone: 5 1 .8 2 1 4 /5 1 .7 5 2 4 ), or T o n y F u r­ ness, 75 D a r lin g S tr e e t, B a lm a in , Sydney (pho n e: 8 2 .12 9 1 ), or W h o le f o o d s , 4 5 1 M i l t o n Ro a d , A u c h e n f l o w e r , B ris b a n e , o r L e a r n ­ ing E x c h a n g e , 5 K y l e S t r e e t , G l e n ­ side, A d e l a i d e ( p h o n e : 7 9 . 7 9 5 0 ) .

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o p p o r t u n i t y t o expre ss t o t h e people o f S yd n e y th a t th e sp irit o f W o o l l o o m o o l o o , w h i c h in th e past has g e n e r a te d a u n i q u e l i f e ­ s t y le , s t ill lives. W o o l l o o m o o l o o c o u l d s t i l l be a li v e l y a n d p i c ­ t u r e s q u e w a t e r s id e s u b u r b . O n e a lte rn a tive re d e ve lo p m en t pro­ posal o n v i e w w i l l s h o w an in ­ te g ra t e d , c o m p r e h e n s i v e liv in g a n d w o rk in g , hum an e n v iro n m e n t."

B u c o l i o B a lm a in tales o f N im b in : t h e b e a u t i f u l p e o p le are g e t­ t in g it all t o g e t h e r at N i m b i n , s till.

A c o - o p e r a t i v e v e n t u r e has been f o r m e d t o b u y la n d in t h e area, site f o r t h e beach head o f t h e n e w con sc io u sne ss .

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22 cents now instead o f 20, and will probably go up again. Nestles and Cadburys have fam ily-size now - 50 cents fo r a huge block — good ones to get sick on.

A fter these yo u get into the higher class o f chocolates. Tobler, the Swiss stu ff in the stupid tri­ angular packets, and the nice pastelly rectangular packets are fairly ace. But Lindt, another Swiss job, which costs about 55 cents a block is A 1 - really ace. The shops say that Lindt is getting short on supply because o f some shipping trouble. N o m ore ship­ ments until next winter. It’s a delightful smooth chocolate, fla t­ ly m oulded so it rests easy on the hip if yo u wish to travel. O f course with the current econom y yo u cou ld n’t expect to buy Lindt and travel too. Talking about trav­ el, if yo u travel to the U S, y o u ’ll find, I ’m told, that Nestles is there m arketed under the name Nestelese, and C adburys isn ’t there.

L in d t’s there. Cadburys is now British-owned but is still A ustra­ lian, like V iolet Crum ble bars, which also have some chocolate on them.

In the main, I suggest the best chocolate is m ilk chocolate, with all these caramels and nut bars and raisin bars and so on being bastardisations and com m ercialisa­ tion o f a true art form which is a bar o f plain good old simple m ilk chocolate.

As a fo o tn o te , a n y o n e w h o lives by th e v eg etarian m a n ife sto can rest easy a b o u t c h o c o la te . It co m es fro m a p la n t, a n d p la n ts are organic. Ju s t d o n t eat th e w ra p ­ p er, w hich is p ap er, w hich co m es fro m a tree, w hich is organic.

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-Notices C a n b e r ra . H a p p in e s s is a w a rm m o t e l r o o m , a b o t t l e o f w in e . g e n tle f o r e p l a y , a n d th r e e g o o d o rg a s m s . F e lle r, 3 8 , s e e k s fe m m e to s h a re h a p p in e s s . IN C b o x 5775.

C a n b e r ra . C a m p g u y , 2 1 , h o n e s t, in e x p e r ie n c e d , s e e k s s in c e re m a le to 2 8 f o r g e n u in e f r ie n d s h ip a n d o u tin g s . A ll r e p lie s a n s w e r e d . IN C box 5884.

H o b a r t. M a r rie d b i-g u y , 2 8 , a v e r­ a g e lo o k s a n d b u i l d , n o h a n g u p s , s e e k s g u y s im ila r a g e , n o t n e c e s ­ sa rily m a r r ie d f o r d is c r e e t d a l li­ a n c e . IN C b o x 5 8 7 8 .

A u s tr a la s ia . G o o d n a t u r e d , u n ty p i c a l ly i n d o l e n t , A r y a n f o lk m u s o , 2 4 , s e e k s m a tu r e , q u ie tly m u s ic a l “ W a n d e rv o g e lin ” , 2 3 -3 0 .

I n te r e s t s in c lu d e f o lk d a n c in g , m u s ic , a s tr a l a w a re n e s s , e x t e n d e d fa m ilie s , h e a lth f o o d , p e a c e , lig h t a n d lo v e . D is in c lin e d to g ro g , d o p e , to b a c c o , o rg ie s , n o is e , p o l ­ lu t io n , c r o w d s , “ s o c i e t y ” , p o l­ itic s . IN C b o x 5 8 5 9 .

A d e la id e .

C am p guy s e e k in g o th e r s t o 4 0 f o r d a llia n c e . A v e r­ age lo o k s , m o s t in t e r e s ts , e x p e r t m a s s e u r . J u s t n a m e it. IN C b o x 5893.

A d e la id e . B is e x u a l m a le , m a r r ie d , 3 3 y e a r s o ld , w ell b u il t, n o t e f­ f e m in a t e , s e e k s s im ila r f o r re g u la r d is c r e e t m e e tin g s . IN C b o x 5 8 9 4 .

M e lb o u rn e . M a n , a c tiv e n u d is t, n o n - s m o k e r , 3 4 , m e d iu m h e ig h t.

M y in t e r e s ts a p a r t fr o m n u d is m , in c lu d e o u td o o rs , m u s ic , th e b e a c h , a n d re c e n tly y o g a . L ik e to m e e t s in c e r e , a t tr a c t iv e g irl w ith s im ila r in t e r e s t in o u t d o o r a c tiv i­ tie s t o s h a r e c lo se f r ie n d s h ip t h a t h o p e f u l ly m a y le a d to m a rria g e IN C b o x 5 8 2 3 .

M e lb o u r n e . M a le , s e n s itiv e , s e x y , in t e ll ig e n t , ow n h o m e , w a n ts fe m m e f o r le s s o n s in lo v e m a k in g .

A s s u re d o f s in c e r ity , d is c r e tio n .

IN C b o x 5 8 2 4 .

M e lb o u r n e . P r o f e s s io n a l m a n , 3 0 s , in t e r e s te d in m e e tin g M s v ie w o u tin g s , film s , m u s ic , d ra m a . D is­ c r e t i o n a s s u re d , d a llia n c e o n ly if m u tu a lly d e s ire d . IN C b o x 5 8 2 5 .

M e lb o u rn e . F r e n c h g irl, 2 9 , a t­ tr a c ti v e , w o u ld lik e t o m e e t h a n d ­ s o m e , s in c e r e , k in d , in t e ll ig e n t m a le , 2 8 -3 7 , g o o d lo v e r w ith lo n g ish h a ir. P e r m a n e n t i f c o m p a ti b le .

IN C b o x 5 8 2 6 .

A d e la id e . S in c e r e g u y , 2 5 , w ish es to m e e t g u y w ith g o o d a p p e a r ­ a n c e a n d m a s c u lin e , p r e f e r a b ly w ith lo n g h a ir b u t n o t n e c e s s a rily .

F o r s in c e re f r ie n d s h i p e t c . IN C b o x 5 8 6 8 .__________________________

M e lb o u r n e . B u s in e s s m a n , vasecto m is e d , re a s o n a b le a p p e a r a n c e , g e n tle , u n d e r s ta n d in g , p a s s io n a t e , s e e k s in t e ll ig e n t fe m a le f o r d a y ­ tim e d a llia n c e . Y o u r p la c e . I n t e r ­ e s ts : s e n s ib le c o n v e r s a t io n , a n y g o o d m u s ic . IN C b o x 5 8 2 7 .

A d e la id e .

M a le , 2 6 , e d u c a te d , g o o d lo o k i n g , s e e k s d a y t im e d a lli­ a n c e w ith a t t r a c t i v e , p e r h a p s fru s ­ t r a t e d , fe m a le f o r m u t u a l s a tis fa c ­ t i o n . P le a s e e n c lo s e p h o t o . D is­ c r e t i o n a s s u r e d . D -fe e a n d p h o t o r e t u r n e d . IN C b o x 5 8 6 9 .

M e lb o u r n e . S u c c e s s fu l b u s in e s s e x e c u tiv e , ta ll, lig h t b u ild , tr a v e l­ lin g lo c a l a n d o v e rs e a s , w o u ld a p p r e c ia te m e e ti n g y o u n g la d y , A u s tr a lia n o r A sian p r e f e r r e d , in ­ te r e s te d in a m e a n in g f u l r e l a ti o n ­ sh ip a n d tra v e l. IN C b o x 5 8 2 8 .

A d e la id e . M a le , in t e ll ig e n t , c o n ­ t i n e n ta l b u s in e s s m a n , y o u n g 4 2 , ta ll, b lo n d , d iv o r c e d , lo o k i n g f o r a f f e c t i o n a t e c o l o r e d girl f o r n ic e tim e s . P h o t o p le a s e . IN C b o x 5870.

V ic to r ia . P r o f e s s io n a l A sia n m a le , 3 7 , m a r r ie d , s e e k s m a tu r e c ity la d y , 2 5 -3 8 f o r c o m p a n io n , d in in g o r in t im a te m e e tin g s . G e n u in e .

D is c r e tio n g u a r a n te e d . F e e r e ­ f u n d e d . IN C b o x 5 8 2 9 .

A d e la id e . S l u t s itt in g o n h e a p o f m o u l d y rags ( f a d e d b lo n d e ) lik e s th i n k in g a b o u t d o in g th in g s , o ld p o p s o n g s. W illin g to jo in in c a ts c r a d le m a r b le s , c o l le c t in g tra m ti c k e t s e t c , w is h e s t o m e e t b ril­ li a n t, d is tin g u is h e d , p r o f e s s io n a l m a n , p r e f e r a b ly h a n d s o m e a n d a f f l u e n t o r a n t iq u e d r o p o u t w ith s im ila r in te r e s ts . IN C b o x 5 8 7 1 .

M e lb o u rn e .

A u s tr a lia n m a le , y o u n g 4 8 , n o tie s, a v e ra g e g o o d lo o k s , o w n f la t, c a r, s e e k s f e m a le , a n y a g e , f o r o u tin g s w ith v ie w to p e r m a n e n t a r r a n g e m e n t if c o m ­ p a t ib le . S in c e re a d v e r t is e m e n t; all a n s w e re d . IN C b o x 5 8 3 0 .

A d e la id e . G u y , 2 8 , s e e k s fe m a le , 2 1 - 2 8 , f o r o u tin g s a n d c o m p a n y .

L ik e s o u td o o r a c tiv itie s and m u s ic . IN C b o x 5 8 6 7 .

B r is b a n e . Q u ie t m a le , sin g le , 3 0 , n e w t o B r is b a n e , lik e to m e e t s w in g in g c h i c k , 1 8 -3 0 . S in g le /m a r ­ rie d . D a llia n c e d a y o r e v e n in g .

IN C b o x 5 8 7 5 .

B r is b a n e . G e n tl e m a n , 2 9 , lik e to m e e t s lim la d y f o r m u t u a l e n j o y ­ m e n t, f r ie n d s h ip a n d p le a s u re .

IN C b o x 5 8 7 6 .

B r is b a n e . E n jo y th e c o m p a n y o f y o u n g m e n ? I a m y o u n g , ta ll, s lim , b lo n d a n d v e ry d is c r e e t. L e t u s m e e t a f t e r u n i e x a m s . I n q u ir i e s w e lc o m e fr o m all. IN C b o x 5 8 7 7 .

B ris b a n e . F e m m e , 2 0 - 3 5 y e a rs , as a c r e w c o m p a n io n . L iv in g o n 4 5 ’ t r a w l e r , tr a v e llin g e a s t c o a s t ; s h a re p r o f it s . M u s t b e f o n d o f se a life.

IN C b o x 5 8 7 2 .

Q u e e n s la n d - s u n s h in e c o a s t. A c tr iv e , a t h le t ic a n d a t tr a c t iv e b i-g u y , 2 4 , s e e k s s im ila r f o r d is c r e e t d a lli­ a n c e . N o e f f e m in a t e s . IN C b o x 5873.

B ris b a n e .

W ell b u il t, b lo n d , w e ig h t tr a in e r , 2 1 , b ik e , s eek s o th e r s s a m e age f o r tr a in in g , s u n , s u rf. P h o t o a p p r e c ia t e d . IN C b o x 5874.

R o c k h a m p to n .

L o n e ly young h o m o b a d ly n e e d s c o m p a n io n s h ip o f a n o t h e r in th e R o c k h a m p to n a re a . A ll l e tte r s a n s w e r e d a s s o o n a s r e c e iv e d . IN C b o x 5 8 9 6 .

B ris b a n e . L o n e ly g u y , 1 9 , s eek s g irl f o r s e x . M u s t b e g o o d lo o k in g .

M a y b e f r ie n d s h ip to o . IN C b o x 5895.

B r is b a n e . Y o u n g m a n , 2 2 y e a rs , ta ll, slim , c a m p , s e e k s o th e r y o u n g m a n f o r m u t u a l p le a s u re .

G e n u in e a d v e r t is e m e n t. A ll re p lie s a n s w e r e d . IN C b o x 5 8 9 7 .

C a n b e r r a . B o r e d , m a r r ie d m a n , 3 0 , w ish es to m e e t e q u a lly b o r e d w o m a n , m a r r ie d o r s in g le , d a y ­ tim e o r e v e n in g f o r d a llia n c e . IN C box 5865.

C a n b e r r a . Y o u n g , lo n e ly g u y , 2 6 , b u s in e s s e x e c u tiv e w o u ld lik e to m e e t la d ie s , 18 t o 3 0 y e a rs . W ith k id s O K . O u tin g s , g o o d tim e s .

P h o n e n u m b e r a n d p h o t o if p o s ­ s ib le . IN C b o x 5 8 6 6 .

G ay g u y , 1 7 , le a v in g M e lb o u r n e o n n o v e m b e r 3 b o u n d fo r S y d ­ n e y , n e e d s p e r s o n ( s ) to m e e t m e a n d s h o w m e n ig h t life e tc . S ta y ­ in g f o r f o r tn i g h t o n ly . IN C b o x 5879.

M e lb o u r n e . F e m m e , 2 8 , s e p a r a t­ e d , c h i ld r e n b o y s e v e n a n d girl fiv e , w o u ld lik e t o m e e t in t e ll i­ g e n t m a le , p o s s ib ly in s im ila r s itu ­ a t io n , f o r g e n u in e fr ie n d s h ip a n d c o m p a n y . IN C b o x 5 8 8 0 .

M e lb o u r n e . O v e rs e x e d m a le , 2 2 , uni s tu d e n t , seeks a ttr a c tiv e f e m m e , a n y ag e , f o r d a y t im e d a lli­ a n c e . M y p la c e o r y o u r s . All re p lie s a n s w e re d . IN C b o x 5 8 3 1 .

S in c e r e c a m p M e lb o u rn e g u y , 2 2 , ta ll, m a s c u lin e , d riv in g t o P e r th fo r c h r i s t m a s , re q u ir e s s a m e t o 25 for m u tu a l e n jo y m e n t.

M u st k n o w h is w ay a r o u n d . P r e f e r g u y w ith n o tie s f o r 2-3 w e e k s liv in ’ a n d lo v in ’. W ill p r o v id e f o r e x ­ p e n s e s “ i f ’ n e c e s s a ry . R e a lis tic p h o to g r a p h e x p e c te d . I n te r e s t s : tra v e llin g , b e a c h a n d s u rf , s h o o t ­ in g , p h o to g r a p h y a n d h a n d s o m e m a s c u lin e g u y s. A ll s in c e re r e p lie s a n s w e re d . IN C b o x 5 7 9 3 .

M e lb o u rn e . T a ll, s k in n y , lo n g h a ir e d m a le , 2 3 , s e e k s fu n a n d g a m e s w ith p r e t t y b o y s . M u s t be u n d e r 2 2 a n d lik e b e in g it. IN C box 5832.

M e lb o u m e - F r a n k s to n .

S e n s itiv e s w in g e rs o r lo n e ly la d y . I am 3 3 , 6 ’, c le a n s h a v e n , p ro fe s s io n a lly e m p lo y e d . Bi if w a n te d , a n d c o n ­ s id e r e d g o o d lo o k in g . I n e e d y o u r c o m p a n y as I am c o m in g d o w n f o r a b r e a k a w a y fro m h u n g u p c ity tw it s . IN C b o x 5 8 3 3 .

M e lb o u r n e . F e m a le , la te 3()s, w ith n ew -fo u n d f r e e d o m , a w a re o f lif e ’s s u b tle tie s , s e e k s m a le w ith p a t ie n c e t o e x p l o r e b e y o n d th e s u p e r f ic ia l t o d e v e lo p c lo se h o n e s t a t t a c h m e n t ( n o t n e c e s s a rily e x ­ c lu siv e ) a n d e n j o y m e n t o f m u s ic , id e a s , n a t u r e ’s b o u n tv . IN C b o x 5834.

M e lb o u r n e .

E d u c a te d , re lia b le b a c h e lo r , 4 2 , o f f e r s d e e p f r ie n d ­ s h ip a n d h o m e to a f f e c tio n a te A sia n s t u d e n t in k in d a n d m e a n ­ in g f u l r e l a ti o n s h i p . I n t e r e s t s ra n g e fr o m I C h in g t o C h in e s e c o o k in g .

R e f u n d u p o n r e q u e s t . IN C b o x 5837.

M e lb o u r n e . T a ll, a t t r a c t i v e , in t e ll i­ g e n t f e m m e i n t e r e s t e d in m e e ti n g c u ltu re d , s o p h is tic a te d , w a rm h e a r t e d m a n w ith s e n s e o f h u m o r , o v e r 3 5 , f o r m u t u a ll y s a tis f y in g r e la ti o n s h i p . IN C b o x 5 8 8 1 .

M e lb o u r n e .

A ttr a c ti v e , a r tis tic la d y , la te 2 0 s , a r riv in g S y d n e y d e c e m b e r , w is h e s t o c o m m u n i c a t e w ith s in c e r e g e n t l e m a n , m id 3 0 s o n w a r d s . IN C b o x 5 8 9 1 .

M e lb o u r n e . L o n e ly m a le , 3 7 , s e p a ­ r a t e d f r o m c h i ld r e n , s e e k s la ss in s im ila r s i t u a t i o n o r s in g le , v ie w d a llia n c e d e v e lo p m e n t , d is c u s s io n fo r m u tu a l e n ric h m e n t — m a y b e f o r e v e r , w h o k n o w s ? IN C b o x 5892.

M e lb o u r n e . F in a n c ia l g e n t , 4 6 , ta l l , lig h t b u i l d , w o u ld g r e a t ly a p p r e c ia t e th e c o m p a n y o f a d is ­ c r e e t y o u n g la d y . H a v e m u c h t o o f f e r w ith m a n y b e n e f i ts in r e ­ tu r n . A ll a n s w e r e d w ith r e f u n d .

IN C b o x 5 8 9 0 .

V ic to r ia - C o w r a . M a le , 2 2 , w a n ts to m e e t o t h e r y o u n g c a m p g u y s in s u r r o u n d in g a re a s. W ill r e f u n d m o n e y if c o m p a ti b le . IN C b o x 5839.

P e r th . W a rm , a t tr a c t iv e w o m a n s e e k s ta ll, s e n s u o u s , l i b e r a t e d , u n ­ a t t a c h e d m a le , 3 5 - 4 5 , in t e ll e c tu a l, c o u n t e r c u l t u r e , c la s sic m u s ic , r a d ic a l s o c ia lis t. IN C b o x 5 8 9 8 .

S y d n e y - N o r t h s e a s id e . I ’m s e e k in g a la ss f o r c o m p a n i o n s h i p , t o g e t h ­ e r n e s s a n d m u t u a l l y b e n e f i c ia l g o o d tim e s . C a s u a l c o n ta c t, in i tia l­ ly b u t h e r e ’s h o p in g a p e r m a n e n t r e l a ti o n s h i p e v e n tu a te s !

W h a t’s o f f e r e d ? A s e m i - r e ti r e d c h a ir m a n o f d ir e c to r s , 5 2 y e a r s y o u n g , w ith sen se o f h u m o r, a p e a r-s h a p e d b u t a c tiv e b o d y a n d th e u s u a l b its o f a f f l u e n c e s u c h as y a c h t , M e r c e d e s , s e a s id e u n i t , tr a v e l o p p o r t u n i t i e s a n d th e d o lla r s th e s e th in g s c o s t.

M e n ta l a p p r o a c h ? M o n e y is n ’ t im ­ p o r t a n t so lo n g as y o u h av e e n o u g h o f it! I f y o u h a v e a c a s h r e g i s t e r m i n d , p le a s e d o n ’t w rite !

I f y o u ’re e d u c a t e d , s e n s u a l, w a n t­ in g th e th in g s y o u d e s e rv e , w h y n o t d r o p a lin e w ith a p h o t o g r a p h an d p h o n e n u m b e r? A ge an d ap ­ p e a r a n c e ? N ’im p o r te ! A ll c a ts are g r e y in t h e d a r k ! N e v e r th e le s s , 3 0 s o r e a r lv 4 0 s p r e f e r a b le u n le s s y o u ’r e A s ia n in w h ic h c a se y o u n g ­ e r is O K . B e c a u s e y o u ’ll s u r e ly b e m o r e m a t u r e a n d s e r e n e t h a t th e lo c a l y o u n g s te r s . T e d , IN C b o x 5857.

S y d n e y . M a y b e I ’m s e e k in g th e im p o s s ib le b u t is th e r e a y o u n g m a r r ie d p a s s iv e ly in c lin e d , slim b u i l t , f a irly g o o d lo o k i n g g u y w h o w o u ld lik e t o m e e t 3 4 y e a r o ld , m e d iu m h e i g h t, le a n b u i l t , d a r k h a ire d , g o o d h u m o re d o u td o o r c o u n t r y g u y w h o is m o s t a c tiv e in bed and v is its S y d n e y once m o n t h l y o n b u s in e s s . I ’m lo o k i n g f o r a g u y w h o le a d s a m a in ly s q u a r e lif e w h o h a s a g o o d m a r ­ ria g e a n d lik e s i t t h a t w a y b u t n e e d s a s im ila r g u y f o r a q u i e t d i n n e r a n d a few h o u r s b o y p la y o n a r e g u la r b a s is . H av e p la c e , p h o t o a p p r e c ia t e d if p o s s ib le . N o f a t tie s o r g u y s w ith g u ilt p r o b le m s p le a s e . V e r y g e n u in e a d . P le a se w r ite f u lly . I ’m lo n e ly f o r s in c e r e m a te . IN C b o x 5 8 5 8 .

S y d n e y . T a ll, p e r s o n a b l e g e n t le ­ m a n , q u ie tly s o p h is tic a te d , u n ­ a tta c h e d , c o m fo rta b le b e a c h f r o n t h o m e , s e e k s d a llia n c e w ith y o u n g , a t tr a c t iv e M s, e s s e n tia lly s lim a n d lith e s o m e . I n t e r e s t e d in f in e w in ­ in g , d in in g , w ith d e l ig h tf u l i n t e r ­ lu d e s o f g e n tle , a f f e c t i o n a t e , s e n ­ s u a l p le a s u r e t o s a tis f y h e r w h im a n d w is h e s . S t r i c t e s t c o n f i d e n c e a n d d is c r e tio n . A ll fe e s r e f u n d e d .

IN C b o x 5 8 8 9 .

S y d n e y - N o r th S h o r e . G r a d u a te , 3 9 , m a r r ie d , n o h a n g u p s , s e e k s d is c r e e t, in t e ll ig e n t f e m m e , 2 0 -4 0 , f o r d a y t im e d a llia n c e . IN C b o x 5844.

S y d n e y . H o m y y o u n g m a le s e e k s la rg e y o u n g w o m e n , b ig t i t s a m u s t , p h y s ic a l c o n t a c t 9 n ly if d e s ir e d . D -fe e r e f u n d e d . IN C b o x 5860.

S y d n e y . A ttra c tiv e y o u n g g u y , ta ll, s lim , w ell h u n g , d e s ir e s la s t­ in g f r ie n d s h ip w ith a t tr a c t iv e g u y to 2 7 . I n te lli g e n t, g e n tle , s tr a i g h t a c tin g g u y w ith s e n s e o f h u m o r a n d g e n u in e lo v e o f m u s ic a n d th e a r ts s o u g h t. P h o t o a n d p h o n e n u m b e r a p p r e c ia t e d . D is c r e tio n .

IN C b o x 5 8 4 6 .

S y d n e y . B i s e x u a l m a n w is h e s to c o r r e s p o n d w ith s im ila r a t h le t ic b u tc h m a le ; la te r m e e t. S e n d p h o t o s . A ll l e tte r s r e p l ie d to q u i c k l y . IN C b o x 5 8 6 1 .

S y d n e y . P a s siv e m a le , 3 5 , e x h i b i­ ti o n i s t , lik e s k in k y g e a r, n e e d s d o m i n a n t p e r s o n . W o u ld c o n s id e r g r o u p a c tiv ity o r th r e e s o m e . IN C box 5862.

S y d n e y . M ale s t u d e n t , 1 8 , s h y , g o o d lo o k i n g , in t e r e s ts : c la s s ic a l m u s ic , a r t, t h e a t r e , lik e to m e e t a ttra c tiv e , in t e ll ig e n t fe m a le , 1 8 -3 0 . IN C b o x 5 8 4 0 .

S y d n e y - N o r th S h o r e . M a le , 3 6 , s e p a r a t e d , w a r m , q u ie t, in t e ll i­ g e n t, s e e k s a t t r a c t i v e , 2 5 - 3 5 , c u l­ t u r e d , s e x y g irl t o s h a r e lif e a n d lo v e . IN C b o x 5 8 5 4 .

S y d n e y . B a c h e lo r , e x e c u tiv e , e d u ­ c a t e d , E n g lis h , e a s t e r n s u b u r b s , m id d le a g e d , k in d , v ita l, d a n c in g , d in in g , w a te r s k iin g , r id in g , g o o d a c c o m m o d a tio n , c a r , s e e k s la d y f r ie n d to 3 0 . V e r y g e n u in e . C o n ­ f id e n c e c o m p le t e ly a s s u r e d . IN C box 5856.

S y d n e y ( e a r ly n o v e m b e r ) . V is it­ in g , v irile V ic t o r ia n , 6 ’ 2 ” , g o o d s e n s e o f h u m o r , k e e n A .P ., w o u ld lik e t o m e e t e l e g a n t, in t e ll ig e n t , m a t u r e f e m m e f o r e v e n in g o f j o y ­ o u s d in in g , d is c u s s io n , d a n c in g a n d p o s s ib le d a llia n c e . IN C b o x 5882.

S y d n e y - P a r r a m a tta . C a m p m a le , 4 3 , o f f e r s o t h e r m a le s e v e n in g s , c o n v e r s a t io n , r e l a x a ti o n , e x p l o r a ­ t i o n as d e s ir e d . P ia n i s t , m a y i n t e r ­ e s t s in g e r /m u s ic ia n . C o m r a d e s h ip p lu s o f f e r e d . IN C b o x 5 8 3 8 .

S y d n e y . C a m p guy seek s y o u n g m u s ic f r e a k t o ta k e t o r o c k c o n ­ c e r t s , film s , e t c . D -fe e r e f u n d e d .

IN C b o x 5 8 4 3 .

S y d n e y . V irg o m a n , 3 0 , ta ll, a t­ tr a c ti v e , in t e ll ig e n t , m o d e r a te l y s e n s u a l, n o n - m a te r ia lis t, seeks g r a c e f u l, i n t e ll ig e n t w o m a n , to 3 5 , f o r d a llia n c e . H o p e f u ll y p e r ­ m a n e n t. IN C b o x 5 8 4 5 .

S y d n e y . G u y , 2 2 , in t e r e s te d in m e e ti n g g u y , s im i la r ag e a n d o u t ­ lo o k s . E n jo y ta lk in g , tra v e llin g a n d o r a l s e x . IN C b o x 5 8 8 5 .

S y d n e y o r m o u n t a in s . Y o u n g g u y f r ie n d ly , b e a r d e d , s q u a r e lo o k in g , s lim , d a r k , v e r s a tile , s e e k s m u s c u l a r / h a i r v , g o o d lo o k i n g m a le s .

M u tu a l p le a s u r e if c o m p a ti b le .

N on e f f e m in a t e s o n ly .

Y our p la c e . IN C b o x 5 8 8 6 .

M e lb o u r n e . G ay g u y , 1 8 , s e e k s s a m e to 3 0 f o r m u t u a l s a tis f a c ­ ti o n . P h o n e n u m b e r , p h o t o , p e r ­ s o n a l d e s c r ip tio n . D is c r e tio n . IN C box 5835.

S y d n e y . A t t r a c t i v e , s lim , a r tis tic y o u n g b i-g irl, s e e k s s im ila r c o u p l e f o r w a rm r e l a ti o n s h i p w ith s e lf a n d g r o o v y b o y f r ie n d . A b s o ­ lu te ly g e n u in e . F ir s t a d v e r tis e ­ m e n t. N o c l u b s o r p r o s , p le a s e .

IN C b o x 5 8 8 7.

M e lb o u rn e . A ttr a c ti v e red h ea d , 2 8 , o w n p riv a te p r e m is e s , w ill d a lly m y p la c e by a p p o i n tm e n t.

P r e f e r m a r r ie d b u s in e s s ty p e s . “ C a r o l e " IN C b o x 5 8 3 6 .

W agga. S q u a r e lo o k in g , p a ssiv e c a m p , 4 4 , to c o r r e s p o n d w ith o r m e e t f o r f r ie n d s h ip o r w h a te v e r .

L ik e m a s c u lin e g u v s . A n v age.

IN C b o x 5 8 8 8 .

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S y d n e y . I f y o u ’re a c a m p g u y , u n d e r 3 0 , w ith m o s tl y s tr a i g h t f r ie n d s a n d th e y th i n k y o u are t o o ; if y o u c a n ’t h a n d le q u e e n s , b a r s a n d b e a ts ; i f y o u d ig o n b e e r, g o o d ta lk , s u n s h i n e , m u s ic a n d d o p e . . . s h it, m a n , l e t ’s ta lk a b o u t i t , w e ’re h a l f w ay th e r e .

IN C b o x 5 8 4 8 ._____________________ S y d n e y . M a le , 4 5 y e a rs , sin g le , u n iv e r s i ty g r a d u a t e , w is h e s to m e e t a t t r a c t i v e , f u n lo v in g , in t e ll i­ g e n t , u n a t t a c h e d f e m a le , 3 5 - 5 0 y e a r s , v ie w t o c o m p a n io n s h ip , d a l lia n c e , m a r r ia g e o r w h a te v e r is m u tu a lly d e s ir a b le .

IN C box 5849.

S y d n e y . H a n d s o m e , in te llig e n t, 2 6 y e a r o ld p o m m ie , w is h e s d is ­ c r e e t d a llia n c e w ith g e n u in e la d y o f a n y a g e . I a m a n o r m a l, h e a lth y a n d v irile g u y w h o s e o n ly d e s ir e is t o s a tis f y y o u r w h im s . I p r o m is e y o u a p l e a s a n t tim e w ith n o s tr in g s a t t a c h e d . IN C b o x 5 8 5 0 .

S y d n e y . S t u d e n t , f u n lo v in g fe­ m a le , 2 1 , a w a its c o m p le m e n ta r y m a le , 2 8 - 3 4 , in t e ll ig e n t , s e n s e o f h u m o r , tr a v e lle d , o v e rs e a s c u l t u r ­ e d , c o n f i d e n t , c o n t e n t , n o le g a l tie s . IN C b o x 5 8 4 1 .

S y d n e y . B is e x u a l m a le , w e s te r n s u b u r b s , w a n ts f r ie n d s h ip w ith h a n d s o m e b u t c h y o u n g m a le , liv ­ in g a w a y fr o m h is h o m e . S e n d p h o t o s p le a s e . IN C b o x 5 8 4 2 .

S y d n e y . T w o a t tr a c t iv e sin g le g u y s, 23 a n d 2 8 , w a n t to m e e t k in k y g u y o r g r o u p o f g u y s in t e r ­ e s t e d in l e a t h e r e t c . IN C b o x 5851.

F o r m in g a f o o d c o - o p ? H o w a n d w h ere. C h e a p fo o d and good tim e s . J u s t o n e o f th e s e c t io n s in th e s e c o n d e d i t i o n o f t h e A lte r n a ­ tiv e P in k P ag es. S e n d $ 1 . 4 0 to : A P P 2 , P O b o x 8 , S u r r y H ills , 2010.

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N o e f f e m in a t e s . IN C b o x 5 8 6 3 .

S y d n e y . S w in g in g c o u p l e s w h o a re y o u n g , a t tr a c t iv e a n d in t e ll i­ g e n t a re m e e ti n g c a s u a lly in th e r e la x e d a t m o s p h e r e o f a r e s ta u r ­ a n t / b a r o n n o v e m b e r 1 0 . G e n u in e in q u i r ie s a re w e lc o m e . IN C b o x 5883.

S y d n e y . V e ry s h y c a m p g irl m e s s ­ in g u p a b e a u tif u l r e l a tio n s h ip th r o u g h in e x p e r ie n c e in p h y s ic a l resp o n se.

P le a se h e lp — No s trin g s . IN C b o x 5 8 5 3 .

S y d n e y . S in c e r e m a le , 2 7 , m a r ­ r ie d , a f f e c t i o n a t e , r e q u ir e s la d y , 2 0 t o 4 0 , f o r d is c r e e t r e l a ti o n s h i p , d a y o r e v e n in g . IN C b o x 5 8 4 7 .

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A ll r e p lie s a n s w e r e d . P h o t o a p p r e ­ c i a te d . N o e f f e m in a t e s . IN C b o x 5864.

S y d n e y . C o u p le , 3 1 / 2 5 , p r e t t y t o g e t h e r a n d liv e ly , w o u ld lik e to m e e t s im ila r c o u p l e s f o r o u tin g s , e a tin g s , r e la x e d h o n e s t re la tin g .

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A ll c o p y m u s t b e p r i n t e d IN B L O C K L E T T E R S o n th is f o r m — c o p y s u b m i t t e d in a n y o t h e r s ty le is u n a c c e p ta b le . T e le p h o n e n u m b e r s a n d a d d r e s s e s m u s t in d i c a t e c i ty o f lo c a ti o n . D w e llin g s a n d D a llia n c e a d s m u s t c o m m e n c e w ith t h e i r lo c a ­ t i o n , eg . C a n b e r ra . C o p y is u n c e n ­ so re d e x c e p t w h e re n e c e ssa ry fo r p u b li s h e r ’s le g a l p r o t e c t i o n .

PAYM ENT A ll m o n ie s s h o u ld b e p a y a b le IN C P ty L td . E v e ry ad m u s t b e p r e p a id — in c lu d in g r e p e t it iv e a n d d u a l - p u b ­ l i c a t io n a p p e a r a n c e s — a n d a c c o m ­ p a n y in itia lly s u b m it te d c o p y .

D E A D L IN E S D -n o tic e s f o r N a tio n R e v ie w : n o o n , T u e s d a y p r io r t o p u b l i c a t i o n . D n o ti c e s f o r T h e L iv in g D a y lig h ts : n o o n , T h u r s d a y p r io r t o p u b li c a ­ ti o n .

INC B O X N U M B E R S A d v e r tis e rs u s in g IN C B o x n u m b e r s f o r r e p lie s m u s t a llo w 3 w o r d s in t e x t a n d a d d 2 0 c e n ts f o r • th i s f a c ility — w e f o r w a r d r e p lie s w e e k ­ ly . D a llia n c e a d s m u s t u s e IN C B o x n u m b e r , w h ic h w e a llo c a te b e f o r e p u b lis h in g .

A D V E R T IS IN G C O S T S A c tiv ity c a te g o r ie s d e t e r m i n e th e b a s ic c o s t. C a te g o r y (A ) is f o r fre e p u b lic m e e tin g s ($ 1 f o r 21 w o r d s ) .

C a te g o r y (B ) is f o r in d iv id u a ls a d ­ v e r tis in g u n d e r a n y h e a d in g ( $ 2 f o r 21 w o r d s ) . C a te g o r y (C ) is f o r a n y b u s in e s s e n t e r p r is e a d v e rtis in g u n d e r a n y h e a d in g ( $ 3 f o r 21 w o rd s).

ALL A D D IT IO N A L W O RD S 10c EA CH .

R E P L IE S V IA IN C B O X N O S .

A ll r e p lie s t o IN C B o x n u m b e r s m u s t b e in a s ta m p e d , s e a le d , u n ­ a d d r e s s e d e n v e lo p e w ith t h e a d v e r ­ ti s e r ’s D - n o tic e b o x n u m b e r c le a r ly w r itt e n in th e to p le f t c o r n e r . T h is e n v e lo p e is t o b e e n c lo s e d in a s e c o n d o n e a d d r e s s e d t o : IN C Dn o tic e s , G P O B o x 5 3 1 2 B B , M el­ b o u rn e, 3 0 0 1 .

D a llia n c e r e s p o n d e n t s m u s t in c lu d e $ 2 p a y m e n t w ith e a c h r e p l y w h e n s e n d in g t o IN C f o r f o r w a r d in g t o a d v e rtis e r s . N o n - c o m p ly in g le t t e r s a r e d e s tr o y e d .

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