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They werent prepared “ BOTH KROGH and Chapin were prime examples o f the key Nixon aides: young, athletic, religious, handsome, clean-cut, bright, ambitious and tough enough to be ruthless” — Time. More than ever, tradi­ tional values are topsy turvy. Krogh and Chapin are the latest whizz kids to be drowned in Watergate indictments. Some­ bod y should be out there rewriting the boy scout manuals; future administra­ tions will be seeking qualities o f atheism, ugliness and laziness in their new office boys. Today’ s hippie is tom orrow’ s Haldeman, unfortunately.

In all fields, the axioms are being blow n asunder. On British television earli­ er this month a man called Uri Geller apparently demonstrated some super­ natural powers, bending minds and spoons all over the country. We took advantage o f syndication agreements to bring you the details — page 9. (As did the Melbourne Age, which contained an excellent account last Saturday.)

Western allopathic medicine continues to subside in dominance. The first major breakthrough in the treatment o f junkies, recently reported overseas, involved a painless combination o f acupuncture and electricity. More details in future issues.

This week, one reader recounts her pri­ vate war against antibiotics, and how she cured an abcess and ulcer without them — page 27. Not unrelated, is the great food throwout on page 21; a primer on presentday fo o d poisoning.

L ot’s o f newsy cop y this week. The legal confusion behind the bust o f drum­ mer Buddy Rich in Tasmania . . . the proceedings to date o f an important case involving the Melbourne drug squad and presigned search warrants . . . and “ why I refused the $6000” , by the man who publicly humiliated NSW premier Askin.

Then Morris gives an account o f a man’s story o f three years spying with ASIO. By his own admission, Martin Sharp “ checkmated” himself with last week’ s cartoon, and we thought that would be the end o f him. But no, here again a whirlwind o f psychic confusion — page 23. The poetry keeps flooding in, and we keep passing it to the News & Weather people in Sydney, who this week morally blackmailed us into relinquishing a valued centre spread. George the Third was right on: “ Blast all boets and bainters.” All the other family favorites are here, including Delights, which from january will be a page per city and a thoroughly reliable guide to the week ahead . . . D-notices, fortunately no longer infuriating worthy Ferret fans, as Dalliance defeats the paper tigers o f management and returns to Nation review (to be continued in both publications) . . . Just us kids, this week’s combines Vic and NSW and puts forth sentiments both sweet and sour. Harry Gum boot rather officiously traded a no­ colum n this week fo r a bigger one next week, the issue devoted to happy an­ archy.

Thanks for all the contributions, we’U add some extra pages, and last minute anarchistic flashes have some chance if in our mailbag by the coming weekend.

That issue will be the last before the first tuesday o f the new year, january 8.

That’ s because tuesday bumps into both Christmas and new year’s day.

So next tuesday is the anarchy-christmas issue, follow ed by the “ What I did on m y holidays” issue, january 8 — send your ow n compositions.

G oodbye, eds.

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IFE’S PHILOSOPHERS FINAL­ LY RECOGNISED: The dean o f Sydney university’s medical school, professor David Maddison, has said he would rather consult a taxi driver about human behavior than speak to a junior medical student. “ The average taxi driver will give me a much better view on human affairs, a saner and shrewder com m ent,” he said. Taxi Drivers may perhaps be saner, but medical students are defin­ itely shrewder — after all, who makes more m oney in the long run?

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E’ LL SHOW Y O U WHO’S THE BOSS: Despite the fact that the Labor government is stuffed on its educational reform program, virtually stuffed on its national health scheme, up the creek on prices and wages control and more or less totally power­ less, great decisions can still be made. Federal attorney-general senator Lionel Murphy, in a daring and light­ ning move, has overruled both the commonwealth film censors and the Film Board o f Review and allowed the Swedish sex education film, Language o f love to be shown in Australia. No

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doubt the pensioners will applaud this gesture. * * * ly in g u n d e r h is t r u e COLORS A T LA ST : Former customs minister and present-time Liberal spokesman on welfare, Don Chipp, finally dropped his fine show o f concern fo r the dispossessed and stated that the government’ s health scheme would benefit only pensioners, migrants and indolent no-hopers - an interesting collection o f bedfellows.

He added that it was natural human nature for people to overuse hospital facilities if they were free. No doubt, if the new medical scheme is ever passed (which is unlikely), thousands o f otherwise healthy cancer sufferers will crawl out o f the w oodw ork and demand treatment, instead o f dying decently in their back sheds.

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The mystery of the missing warrants

By JA C K JO N E S HE MAN was asking: “ Names, please . . . Names and addresses . . . Who else saw the documents . . . Who else ever had them . . . Tell the court their names . . . ” Mick Cahill stood in the witness b o x and did as he was told, gave the names o f his friends to the court under the questioning o f Jack Lazarus.

T o his credit, Cahill didnt hedge and told the court o f every­ one he said he could remember who had seen or handled the documents . . . the alleged docu ­ ments . . . we have never seen the documents . . . we dont believe they ex ist. . . the single document before the court we will be alleging is a forgery . . . and to the best o f his knowledge, when they had seen them.

The documents are the guts o f a civil prosecution o f the indict­ able offe n ce o f consipiracy conspiracy o f tw o officers o f the law . . . a narc and a jay - to pervert, delay or defeat the course o f justice. Ed Flannery o f the council for civil liberties laid the charges in what’s thought to be the first civil prosecution o f a felony since the Wrens tried to screw Frank Hardy fo r criminal libel over P ow er without glory.

Flannery has charged sergeant Michael James Bell, o f the Drug Bureau, Russell street, Melbourne, and Arthur L. Smith JP, o f the Bowling Club, Argyle street, Carl­ ton. They are each charged with conspiring with each other and persons unknown to obstruct the course o f justice b y having Smith sign a number o f blank search warrants.

Last tuesday, when the case was called at Carlton for the first time, prosecutor Peter Faris, who is acting for Ed Flannery, called for the chief secretary o f Victoria and the ch ief commissioner o f cops to produce four original blank warrants carrying Smith’s signature.

A senior cop - chief super­ intendent D uffy - said he was appearing for the big boys and w ould not be producing the papers because the police had never had them and didnt believe they existed. Vic Proposch the magistrate sent Duffy away to tell his bosses to have another good look fo r them before the adjourn­ ed hearing on Friday.

O f course, on friday, when Faris called for the papers which Mick Cahill later swore he had handed to a senior detective Simpson - D uffy said they had look ed fo r the warrants but they werent to be found.

Lazarus who appears for Bell the narc immediately set the style for a day o f snapping and snarling between him and Faris by saying that the business o f the docu­ ments was stunting because there was no p ro o f that they existed.

But a single signed blank warrant that had been preserved from the police, along with a filled out warrant to raid Cahill’s house was already in as an exhibit.

The bar table war between Faris and Lazarus, one o f Melbourne's most outstanding crim-

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inal lawyers, had an ironic edge.

They are both hardline leftwing­ ers, except that Lazarus follow s the Chinese line and Faris does not. There is no love lost in such a political meeting at the best o f times, and here was Lazarus defending a cop . Great stuff.

Anyway, nobody had seen the wretched documents and Faris called Cahill to tell his story.

Dressed in sandals, cords and a thickknit jumper with his hair streaming over his shoulders, he was watched by a dozen pair o f beady eyes imbedded in the vaguely threatening faces o f a dozen solemn anonym ous men in dark suits scattered about the court.

Cahill's story was this: On august 2, Bell, Simpson and other drug squad detectives w oke him up in the morning and searched his house. They eventually came up with a small bag o f grass (for which he was later convicted).

Bell had been carrying a green springback binder and on the fifth search o f Cahill’ s room , put it down on a mantelpiece. When they took Cahill o f f to Russell street, Bell left his folder behind.

As soon as he was bailed, Cahill zoom ed hom e to have a look. He found papers about the Poisons Act, charge sheets, modus operandi form s and other rubbish . . . and five or six blank search warrant forms carrying the signa­ ture Arthur L. Smith JP. He had taken three copies o f the contents o f the folder, then after keeping one o f the blank warrants, gave the folder back to the drug squad, handing it to Simpson. He gave sets o f the copies to different people for safekeeping, but since then, they had all gone missing and not one o f them was to be found.

Then Lazarus cross-examined, swinging far and wide with ques­ tions. The quizzing was constantly interrupted by Faris objecting to the questions, Lazarus sniping at his objections and Faris snarling back to Lazarus to sit dow n while he finishes and Lazarus sitting down, still talking. Cahill had to be cautioned by Proposch about answering many questions where he thought his answer might incriminate him.

These were mainly questions from Lazarus about grass.

Was Cahill a drug-user . . . I de­ cline to answer on the grounds . . .

Did Cahill sell drugs . . . No . . .

What about a kid called Paul White who was taken to North Altona tripped out on acid . . objection, screams Faris, hearsay . . . Anyway, no, says Cahill.

Did Cahill know that White had dobbed on him . . . N o . . .

When Cahill went round to his house, he went to tell him to co o l it, did he n o t . . . No, on ly to help with legal advice he might need. . .

Lazarus gave Cahill the rounds o f the drug scene, quizzing him about law and order and his opinions on drugs. Cahill answer­ ed calmly and, given the innate incredibility o f ANYONE with long hair and a sympathy for grass, he stayed together.

Lazarus got into him about

losing all the copies, but Cahill V . f . f o r m N o . 719 gave names and addresses and disclaimed responsibility. He told POISONS ACT 1962 mag«5tw<tw court Lazarus that he had looked in the >« folder willingly, hoping to find AT something interesting . . . to <H W £ STATl O f VICTOR* fnforro*ot blackmail police, suggested Laza­ rus . . . objection, screams Faris, Defendant scandalous question . . . drop it, Ofcfcc of ififotvcwon. says Proposch . . and Cahill N a tu r e - n f in fo r novation. T he in fo r m * * .o n on oath o f the vud candidly adds that if he had found day of 19 , he has reasonable something to expose the way the Wetboorim that on the cops worked, that would have SUipecttnj thet • certain poison or deleterious substance to wit been very nice. i« in contravention to the provisions of the Poitont Act t9$2 It was a long session, most o f the morning and all afternoon, o r Regulations made chereunder, under the control of the s*<d in and except fo r a few questionable a cercaih hooae o r preon»>e> situate at arguments about addresses . . . informant Lazarus put it that it was quite unreasonable for Cahill not to T b know the number o f a house he and to all ovsmbers o f the Police Force of the State of Vietor<a. Whereas it appear* had visited hundreds o f times . . . t o nqe» a Justice of the Peace /n and for the State Cahill remained largely untripped-up. o f Victoria b y information on oath of At the end o f the day, giving of a member of the Police fo rc e o f the n otice that forgery was going to be at issue, Lazarus got Cahill to $**** q i Vuaoria that la a certain house or premises situate" at in the sign his name and write Arthur L. Smith JP on a piece o f paper for sa<d State there if handwriting analysis.

COott^entlon. of the Pofroni Act 1962 o r the Regulations made thereunder, thtt ia therefore He complained when he receiv­ tp adthorire you with such assistants as you may fmd necessary to enter upon the house ed the slip o f paper that Cahill and premises situaie as aforesaid at aoy time or times within ooe month from the date of had printed Smith’s name and the warrant, and if oecessery to use force for making such entry whether by breaking open scribbled his o w a That’ s m y signature, like doian o r otherwise and to search any person found therein and to seite and carry away y o u ’ve got to have a signature, aR such said Cahill indignantly, and that’ s vr the way I write, the printing. hound therein or thoroon and *s well any r.iU*< sub.is . ', Lazarus still didnt like the way he tdntr*veotnan- o f the said Act or Regulations and any pipes or things used or capable of made his capitals and asked him $ 0iAg uSed for the purposes of smoking, preparing, taking or adm-n/stering any drug of to try again. Obviously non-plus- ^ddrCttofV or Spec.feed Drug and to arrest all pc.soos there.n or thereon found aftendtog sed, Cahill turned to Proposch and agamst any of the provisions of Part 3 of the said Act very plaintively said he couldnt d o this 19 day-of any better because that’ s h ow he Grvco under my band ai learn to write at school.

Then he twigged. Oh, he says, you want me to try to co p y Smith’s signature. Aaaaah, says all the magistrates and barristers, dont d o that, man. So the whole A B L A N K search warrant, signed " A rth u r L. Sm ith JP ", which was first thing was dropped until monday reproduced in T h e digger newspaper as "one o f fo u r such blan k s" le f t behin d morning. a fte r a drugs raid. The documents, returned m ysteriously vanished. The case continues.

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Buddy nearly gets away with it P A U L SHAW HE M AGISTRATE looked blank, the police looked stunned and Tasmanian wowsers threw up their hands in horror last monday.

Mr W. C. Hodgman, QC told the Hobart magistrates court legislation covering drug offences in Tasmania did not exist. Mr Hodgman, member o f the Legisla­ tive Council fo r Queenborough, appeared as counsel for American jazz drummer Bernard (Buddy) Rich.

Rich (56) and his 23 year old secretary Leo R u occo were arrest­ ed on friday, november 30 at the Wrest Point casino by three members o f the state’s zealous drug squad. Rich was charged with possession o f cannabis while R u occo was charged with impor­ tation and possession o f LSD. In court on monday Mr Hodg­ man questioned the propriety o f charges laid against Rich and R u occo. Both men were charged under Tasmania’s 1959 Dangerous Drugs A ct as most offenders have been since the act was introduced.

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piece o f drug legislation, the 1971 Poisons Act. Mr Hodgman’s argument hing­ ed on the sections o f the Poisons A ct dealing with the repeal o f the Dangerous Drugs A ct and the dates on which the new act was to com e into force.

An act normally becomes law on the day it is given royal assent unless another date is specifically given. In the case o f the Poisons A ct some sections have to be proclaimed before they com e into force.

Mr Hodgman said because o f the way the act was worded the Dangerous Drugs A ct had been repealed while sections o f the Poisons A ct had not been pro­ claimed. “ If I am not in error the complaint made under the Dangerous Drugs A ct does not exist,” Mr Hodgman said with the air o f a magician producing a large rabbit.

Mr E. Sikk, the magistrate with the unenviable task o f ruling on the matter, admitted the argu­ ment had taken him b y surprise and ordered an adjournment until the afternoon.

Lunch was a festive occasion

for Tasmania’ s heads that day.

Already plans were a foot for the best Christmas on record. Orders were lodged and hookahs dusted off.

Unfortunately it was not to be, Mr Sikk’ s devotion to law and order had been forgotten.

When the court resumed he announced he would not accept Mr Hodgman’s interpretation and went on to set february 18 next year as the date for Rich’ s hearing.

The head o f Hobart C.I.B. (Inspector A. P. Canning) admit­ ted on tuesday he did not expect Rich to answer bail in february when he was due to appear. He said a warrant would be issued but he described it as a convenient way o f making sure he did not return to the state.

Thus ended all hopes for boosting Tasmania’s tourist poten­ tial this summer. Mr Hodgman did say he would refer Mr Sikk's decision to the Supreme Court but by that time parliament will have introduced yet another amendment to plug the loophole.

Oh well there will always be another chance.

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A FORMER social worker at the Mount Royal Hospital for the Aged, Ms Margaret Harris says that patients at the hospital are afraid to complain about conditions. The Royal Austral­ ian Federation o f Nurses wants about half the wards closed. Patients have to either suffer or get thrown out. Things dont get better with age, do they? * * * ON DECEMBER 3 federal minister for immigration, A1 Grassby, celebrated the 119th anniversary o f the Eureka Stockade at Ballarat. Grassby didnt hesitate to quote the immortal words o f Henry Lawson, “ T o Arms! T o Arms! The cry is out; to arms if man thou art; For every pike upon a pole will find a tyrant’s heart.” * * * RESEARCHERS from the NSW Health Commission say that they have found a “ definite” link between certain rock music and drug practices. Jumping Jack Flash — what a difficult finding to make. * *

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A HEADLINE in the finance pages o f the Melbourne Herald couldnt help but catch the eye: LSD BOOSTS FOOD SALES. It was disappointing to read on only to discover that Lightweight Structural Development Ltd was mak­ ing increased profits. So much for the straight press.

THE NATIONAL Socialist Party claims that senator Murphy’s law to outlaw racial discrimination is a violation o f civil rights. * * * GENERAL Motors director, E. N. Clark, claimed while rejecting local owner­ ship o f the com pany, that Australians would be better o f f if GMH remained wholly American owned. An insight into the control o f General MotorsHolden was given recently by Bill Harcourt, a former public relations officer for Holden: “ Their overseas subsidiaries are integrated with and are tightly controlled by the parent com pany. For example, within GMH the expenditure o f sums o f more than a few hundred dollars must receive New Y ork approval” .

seller. Mundey felt that the paper owes him a right o f reply. As well as that minor problem Mundey is also faced with the decision whether to send his son to school. His son is known to have said, “ Can’t I com e and fight the bosses with you ” . * * * ANTHONY WILEY, who was acquitted after the recent 10 day $2.2 million drug conspiracy trial, has been re­ charged with possession o f heroin, hash, oil and grass. Wiley has never used or possessed heroin. The Federal Bureau o f Narcotics allege the sub­ stances were found when they raided Wiley’ s house to arrest him on the conspiracy charges. It is obvious that the narcs are pissed o ff at failing to convict Wiley on the conspiracy charge. It seems that they will leave no stone unturned. * * *

THE R OY AL Commission into Crime keeps rolling on. Highlights o f last week were Abe Saffron denying that he was known as “ Mr Sin” plus Joe Testa, “ the organiser” , testifying that he was “ well and favorably known” to Chicago police and had served as special police officer in his home town o f Justice, Illinois.

Justice, Illinois. Oh yeah.

INSPECTOR K.P. Walters has been appointed officer in charge o f the Victorian Homicide Squad. He was one o f the investigators o f the murder o f wealthy company director, John Norman Duncan, a retired lieutenant colonel. The case has never been solved and strong rumors still persist that Duncan was a member o f Australian Security Intelligence Organ­ isation and lived in the world o f security and spies.

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THE PRESIDENT o f Rotary Internation­ al, William C. Carter, claimed that to introduce career women into Rotary would create “ psychological prob­ lems” . He split before our militant sisters could pin him down.

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R E S P O N S IB IL IT IE S : T h e R esource O ffic e r shall b e re spo n sible fo r in itia tin g and adm inistering program m es and activities in areas relating to social p o litic a l and e d u c a tio n a l issues. In fo r m a tio n re trie v a l and d is s e m in a tio n w o u ld be a p rim e re s p o n s ib ility o f th e R eso u rce O ffic e r in these areas as la id d o w n b y G u ild d e c is io n m a k in g bod ie s. E d u c a tio n a l issues w ill receive a special em phasis in th e d u tie s o f th e R esource O ffic e r and he w ill be re s p o n s ib le in p a rtic u la r to th e E d u c a tio n C o u n c il o f th e G u ild .

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re q u ire d b u t a p p lic a n ts s h o u ld have e x p e rie n c e o f te r tia r y e d u c a tio n a l in s titu tio n s and p re fe ra b ly w ith s tu d e n t o rg a n is a tio n s . A p p lic a n ts s h o u ld be a ble to s h o w th e y have a p o te n tia l f o r c a rry in g o u t th e ir re s p o n s ib ilitie s .

S A L A R Y A N D C O N D IT IO N S : In itia l salary w o u ld be b y n e g o tia tio n w ith in th e ra ng e $ 4 ,5 0 0 -$ 5 ,5 0 0 and th e re a fte r tie d t o an e q u iv a le n t p u b lic service salary scale. C o n tr ib u to r y s u p e ra n n u a tio n is a va ila b le a fte r an in itia l q u a lify in g p e rio d . T h e successful a p p lic a n t w o u ld be a p p o in te d f o r a te rm o f th re e years s u b je c t to a p ro b a tio n a ry te rm o f 6 m o n th s .

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$2 B O O K I N G S M 8 D M Y E R S , H O T E L A U S T R A L I A C E L E B R I T Y 8 ERV ICE S

C U L T U R A L A F F A IR S O F F IC E R R E S P O N S IB IL IT IE S : T h e C u ltu ra l A ffa ir s O ffic e r shall be re spo n sible fo r in itia tin g a n d a d m in is te rin g c u ltu r a l p ro je c ts a n d advisin g th e S ocieties C o u n c il o f th e G u ild and G u ild C o u n c il o n c u ltu r a l m a tte rs . He w ill be re spo n sible d ir e c tly t o th e S o cie tie s C o u n c il o f th e G u ild .

Q U A L IF IC A T IO N S A N D E X P E R IE N C E : N o s p e c ific q u a lific a tio n s are re q u ire d b u t a p p lic a n ts sh o u ld have e x p e rie nce o f te r tia r y e d u c a tio n a l in s titu tio n s a n d p re fe ra b ly w ith s tu d e n t o rg a n is a tio n s . A p p lic a n ts s h o u ld be a ble t o s h o w th e y have a p o te n tia l fo r c a rry in g o u t th e ir re s p o n s ib ilitie s .

S A L A R Y A N D C O N D IT IO N S : In itia l sa la ry w o u ld be b y n e g o tia tio n w it h in th e range $ 4 ,5 0 0 -$ 5 ,5 0 0 and th e re a fte r tie d t o an e q u iv a le n t p u b lic service sa la ry scale. C o n tr ib u to r y s u p e ra n n u a tio n is a va ila b le a fte r an in itia l q u a lify in g p e rio d . T h e successful a p p lic a n t w o u ld be a p p o in te d fo r a te rm o f th re e years s u b je c t to a p r o b a tio n a r y te rm o f 6 m o n th s .

A P P L IC A T IO N S s h o u ld be m ade t o : — T h e P re sid e n t, T h e G u ild o f U n d e rg ra d u a te s , U n iv e rs ity o f W estern A u s tra lia , N E D L A N D S 6009 W E S T E R N A U S T R A L IA . b y 1 5 th J a n u a ry g iv in g fu ll d e ta ils o f q u a lific a tio n s and e x p e rie n c e , and th e nam es o f t w o referees.

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I spy, said the bar fly M IC H A EL M O R R IS * LL CALL him “ Steve” . He’ s one o f those people you meet in pubs - balding, big, redfaced. Y ou see them a few times, then you nod at each other, then you get talking. Y ou never get to know their names, but amid this anonym ity there are often some pretty frank exchanges.

In case you didnt know, most pub talk is bullshit. When “ Steve” told me about his years with ASIO (’64 -'66) I thought it could be a myth. I to o k notes - some names and a few little incidentals.

They checked out - members in the branch o f the Communist Party o f Australia he had spied on, back copies o f the National Civic Council newspaper where his name was blazed as a communist union leader during periods o f industrial unrest etc.

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* * * AFTER a nine year stint in the army Steve went into civvy street, applied fo r a jo b on the Victoria police force and was knocked back - they told him his eyes werent good enough.

It was about a month later when the stranger came a’knocking on his door. Steve wasnt home. His wife took the stranger’ s message: he wanted to talk to Steve about “ the nation’s security” and would com e back tomorrow. Could Steve be home then?

The next night they sat around, the pair o f them: the ex army sergeant and the stranger.

They talked o f worldly affairs, o f communism, o f Bob Menzies. The discussion lasted for hours; beer was drunk and cigarettes smoked.

The stranger left with the promise he would return. Steve thought now isnt this all rather strange. He sensed the guy wanted something from him, but what it was he hadnt a clue. All he knew was the stranger was concerned about "national peril” .

But, not to worry thinks Steve.

The Man is pretty clever and he knows so much about me - my past, my army record and my present situation. He’ s going to tell me what he wants. And, yes, the Man did: Steve was asked to uncover com m ie plots. Now, how does one go about that tricky little number? inquires Steve, the ex army sergeant.

Easy as pie, he’ s told. There’s a man w ho sells the communist Tribune on Saturday mornings; hangs around the market, you can spot him quick as a flash. Talk to him after you buy the paper the secon d time. He’ll com e in easy. Sure enough, the commie did. Then, the comm ie became concerned after selling many Tribunes to this Saturday shopper (Steve), who suddenly didnt come by anymore. Steve, follow ing the Man’s advice, said to the commie after a tw o week layoff, he wasnt sure. “ N ow , dont get me wrong. I like and agree with a lot the paper says. . . But some parts, w e l l . . . ” Come along to a meeting says the commie. And he did.

So Steve goes to the meeting o f the local chapter o f the Commun­ ist Party o f Australia. The street seller is beaming, bouncing around the small gathering with his prize, a potential initiate to the dwind­ ling ranks o f this branch o f the party.

Steve did all the right things

and played it like fishing trout: a who gave him a wink and a bit o f enthusiasm, a bit o f doubt, handshake, a brief rundown on but getting closer all the time. the organisational setup (the prob­ Finally he joined the party. lems the com m ies have created SNAP. with the labor force, the names o f Excellent, says the Man sitting the guys responsible for it all and in his car with Steve, beer can in the name o f the man in Personnel hand. N ow tell me about . . . So who would give Steve all assist­ Steve reported. He had a knack ance). for remembering conversations, he After signing the bill o f sale for laid it all down - personality the house near the market, check­ defects o f fellow members, physi­ ing out with his comrades - who cal letdowns, personal habits. This were sorry to see him go but were one loves ego boosts, this one glad to know he could d o some doesnt, but he sniffles through the g ood work in Powerlines and gave left nostril and is addicted to him a list o f members to see veganin. . . Whirr goes the tape on Steve piled the family into the car the back seat. Terrific stuff says (ASIO paid) and headed o f f to his the Man. Here’s your expenses. new job.

Now, find out what you can On arrival he’ s greeted by sev­ about M r . . .

So it went for a year. Steve’ s eral people, all with different in­ tents: there’s a friendly and know ­ reports filled the ASIO files to spillway level. This one’s a slick ing wink from a man in Personnel one says Spry; let’ s send him to w h o puts him beside the com ­ the “ Powerlines” (a large electric­ pany’ s fervid DLP/NCC rep; there ity commission). G ood, the Man was an informal meeting with the says to Steve, we want you to go local comrades in the pub. He to Powerlines. We have a jo b lined drinks them stupid and pumps . . .

It went o f f with an enormous up for you and a house has been arranged for your family. Here’s a bang. The tow n ’s NCC newspaper card, go to see this chap. He’s a bellows out the news that a new top Powerlines man here in the red had appeared in Powerlines. city. He’ s one o f us and he’ll do He’ s lusting fo r trouble, talking all the ushering work. After strike and was greeted by the local the paper reports. y o u ’re set up I’ll drive up and see commies, you once a fortnight. Meanwhile SNAP. The union saw Steve as a busy activist, the CPA branch had you ’re to d o this . . .

Steve saw the Powerlines boss, heard the compliments from the

people dow n the line, in the marketplace. Steve, following the Man’s instructions, fed his rightwing workmate with enough in­ cendiaries to set fire to asbestos waistcoats. It all went dow n faith­ fully in the paper. The workers asked: w ho is this newcomer? The NCC hate him so much, he must be good. L et’ s make him shop steward fo r the boilerroom.

Thank you fo r this rich honor said Steve. In like Flynn.

It all went very, very smoothly, like a razor through a face. Secre­ tary o f Powersville CPA branch, taking copious notes . . . stirring up the boys, the boiler room , organising industrial actions, get­ ting an ear close to strategies and tactics . . . and reporting it all to the man while the machine whirrrrred o n the back seat o f the car.

The fortnightly chats with the Man bore rich fruit; everything going on in and around Powerlines was reported. That was the gen­ eral rave. Sometimes, Steve says, there were “ specifics” , like what is Comrade Cavier doing for his holidays, or what makeup does madam X use on the m ole on her chin, and is it true Mr Thingameb ob licks his envelopes to USSR from left to right? Things ASIO needed fo r their files. Then there were “ roundups” o f the Commu­ nist party’ s meetings. Whirrrr went the machine.

Well, anyway, love affairs must end and this one started going sour. Steve’ s reports showed signs, quite distinct, and tired signs. The fervor wasnt there. His wife hated Powersville, the kids were being creamed at school because daddy was a comm ie, guilt started creep­ ing and Comrade Caviar wasnt that bad and most o f the unionists were g ood guys. Besides, the re­ ports were a load o f bullshit, he decided. Say, where’ s this national peril? ASIO twigged, noted the tendency, pulled a few delicate threads and pretty soon members at the branch were giving strange looks at their secretary. Then they politely interrogated him.

Steve freaked and reported this to the Man who nodded wisely.

The sort o f wise nod Truman may have given after being told Hiroshima was in flames. Steve figures certain information was leaked to the CPA by another Spry plant. Well, just fancy that! “ They dropped me like a potato. The Man came around for a while, checking I wasnt being disloyal to the nation. He gave me some advice - leave the party etc.

And all those years I only knew his first name. He used a phony surname. It started with “ M” .

Now , I had his phone number and I guessed he would have a real name starting with the same in­ itial. It to o k me an afternoon, but I got him! He lives in Camberwell.

He then reached for the phone book, opened it on page 831 o f the Melbourne phone b ook and showed me a name. “ That’ s the man.”

So was Steve having a go at me? Was it pub bullshit? Is he still with ASIO and using techniques he used to get inform ation on his old buddies in the CPA (and the NCC)? Has he been headed o ff into new directions by the Man? He sold me an ounce o f grass a fortnight back. Now, dont you think that’ s strange? Is his blown cover a new cover!?

JO H N W ILK IN SO N tells

Why I threw $6000

in the premier’s face VER thursday and friday small item o f news made its way into the media to the effect that, during the course o f a ceremony held by Austcare in the NSW premier’s office, the head o f an unknown overseas aid group called the World University Ser­ vice refused to take a cheque from the premier’s hand.

I refused to take that cheque for tw o reasons.

First, it was an attack on Askin himself, a sheer existential de­ mand o f the situation.

There are many people in this society who simply drift from one day to the next going to work in the same way they go to bed. The members o f the WUS board, by a 4-2 majority, decided thkt Askin has been perfectly aware o f what he has been doing these past nine years and the Austcare occasion was a good place to make the point — that they felt he had had a good deal to d o with the in human indifference o f the NSW government to the real human problems around it.

But, much more important than that, it was a chance to question the aid agencies on the nature o f the work they are about, and to question them by action.

It was an action aimed partic­ ularly at the young education workers in the aid groups because at ceremonies like this aid organ­ isations appeal to the very politi­ cal protagonists o f this system for patronage. It was an invitation to those education workers to com e out and say what they believe.

This may not mean very much at first to people reading this article, but some good is gradually coming out o f the arguments within the aid agencies on what aid is actually doing.

In 1970, WUS A set up Inter­ national Development A ction (IDA) as a group to educate people about what the situation is really like in the “ third world” and this year it bore fruit and produced the first significant booklet on what Australia’s real connections with South Africa are and later on produced an even heftier work on Australia and Fiji.

In both cases, the booklets were follow ed b y actions: the new political movement that is getting o ff the ground in Fiji was helped in no small measure by the work done around the Fiji booklet.

But more significant is the fact that this year Community Aid Abroad gave $50,000 to three o f the education staff to set up the Light, Powder and Construction Works, which is, again, a radical education project to tell people what is really going on and is also to undertake various actions.

As long as the aid agencies are constantly pressed on the score o f what they actually do we may see more valuable things com e from them in the future. WUS in Australia has certainly com e a long way from when we used to run the Miss Uni quest.

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IAN STOCKS looks at how the black & white hippies handle D arw in’s top end blues

Adventures in Paradise ARWIN, well into the wet season.

On the edge o f Asia there is a town, almost, but not quite, a city. Four cinemas, three secondhand stores, a new W oolworth’ s supermarket.

A bout 50,000 whites and an uncounted number o f detribalised blacks in the near vicinity. A white enclave, a Caucasian bubble floating on the edge o f untapped experiences.

A glamorous museum, houses, a few relics o f aboriginal art, while around the last oral and musical evidence o f that culture goes unheard and unnoticed.

T o the north, the spice islands, the great civilisations o f Indonesia and Asia.

The population o f Darwin, the biggest white city in a tropical zone, looks unremittingly south for inspiration and succor.

Darwin is ringed with acres o f instant suburbs, vast sections o f bulldozer levelled bush stacked with instant fibro habitation. The population will have doubled by 1975, and a million dollar arts com plex will be opened that year.

But Darwin is not quite a city - still a trading post and administrative centre. In their thousands o f airconditioned cubicles public service clerks work through another day, cocoon ed away and dreaming o f Christmas in the south.

Within weeks half will leave for ten weeks escape, with a free airfare away from the inferno.

Y ou ask four people for directions around tow n - the first three apologise because they have only been there a few weeks. Darwin is a city o f transients, o f the just arrived and the soon-to-leave.

Because o f this it has its own feel - an easy, slack individualism that forces nothing on anyone.

The Chinese fo o d bars, the crumbling h ock shops, and ever-open pubs lo o k like the frontages o f a movie set. They are simply way stations for a population that is continually passing through.

For probably 20 years after the Japanese bombing in world war two, Darwinites were a population prepared for instant evacuation. I remembered the story o f the guy who arrived in Alice Springs precisely a week after the first bom b hit Darwin, on a bicycle. Only the Greeks were unperturbed, and during the war bought most o f the town at bargain prices. N ow they are dying millionaires.

Darwin has its rich and p oor — the p oor blacks in rotting settlements, poor whites marooned in endless caravan parks and decrepit hostels. Darwin also has its liberated area - the free city o f Lameroo beach, population 700 heads and 200 yards from the main shopping centre. The first, and so far the only legal nudist beach in Australia. Tenuous structures grip the trees and rocks, delicate fabrications o f driftw ood and plastic held together with good intentions.

But with the advance o f the wet the head population drops sharply, and the metho drinkers and derelicts move in.

Ten pm tuesday - the Soixante, Darwin’ s 24 hour head coffee shop, a carbon co p y o f eating houses from Denpasar to Istanbul. Y ou buy your reconstituted ch o co milk to the music o f travellers Esperanto, news o f the big music festival in Calcutta in march, life on the road. Som ebody picks up your sixties vintage London head argot, and you are talking to Emmanuel, an elfish doper who probably turned on half your friends in the sixties. Emmanuel had been in Darwin for months, talks about the problems o f cleaning chewing gum and vom it o f f the first class seats in T A A planes. "E veryone’ s a transient in Darwin, so everyone’s into their individual trip.”

The Track stretches south fo r a thousand miles to Alice Springs, but from west and north the aboriginal families drift in, paid o f f the cattle stations for the wet season. There is no holiday pay fo r black station workers, so they cram

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W hite squatters a t Lam eroo beach

the overcrowded Darwin settlements and try for the dole, or live on the beaches.

Sometimes they get an aluminium shack on the city reserves, but these are steadily being whittled away fo r government use.

Bagot, a proclaimed reserve, used to cover 300 acres, now it is less than 50. Others like Kululuk are surrounded by white suburbs and living costs are rising steeply.

Three tribes the Kululuk, the Gwalwa Daraniki and the Larrakia have begun a land rights campaign which claims much o f the area o f Darwin city.

Already a supermarket and industrial land are the subject o f land claims.

Out at Berrimah the Gwalwa Daraniki are squatting on over a hundred acres earmarked for white subdivisions. It’s still virgin bush, except for a few mission-built iron huts, but the Gwalwa Daraniki people have started building with bush poles and plastic sheeting acquired from the government.

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A few weeks ago a group o f Kululuks, led b y black leader Fred Fogarty, obstructed surveying for a new development through the reserve. In the melee the developer’s truck was firebom bed and burnt out. Fogarty is currently facing 18 charges, but the case has been adjourned and the developers temporarily halted.

The Kululuks and the Gwalwa Daraniki are miles from the land rights movements o f the south and have to develop their ow n tactics. The Berrimah claim has about a hundred people, many o f them children sent hom e from white schools with report cards their parents cannot read. They sleep out at night, listen to old record players. At night the men get drunk and hold corroborees, singing ancient songs to the bush.

The aboriginal is like a messenger, carrying secrets and knowledge from thousands o f years spent in this land.

They com e like free spirits to the gates o f our towns, with songs we cannot hear and will not listen to. They turn away when we d o not respond. There have been too many rebuffs, and soon the songs will be forgotten and the children will believe our myths.

The tribes have a pressing need for help, fo r sanitation building and architectural help, so that they can live on land that is rightfully theirs. Such help will never com e from Darwin, and the south is a remote possibility.

In a white man’ s hut, not much better than aboriginal mission housing, Fred Fogarty sleeps on the floor in the heat. It is close to midnight, and at the table are three other men - a black named L eR oi in a sharp suit, and two white waterside workers.

One is Jacky, a longhaired, tonguetied but passionate communist, the other an ancient Australian type with tw o front teeth missing and a perpetual giggle, who has somehow drifted into the black cause.

They are halfway through a quart bottle o f Bundaberg rum in a farewell drink for LeRoi. The fridge is open, half full o f empty beer bottles, and in an hour a whistling Ansett jet will fly L eR oi to Canberra.

LeRoi puts a cassette into a Jittered recorder and his songs o f protest pour out, recorded o n a river bank miles from Darwin. They are hard, fluid songs o f oppression and white land theft, but they have also a bite o f hatred and bitterness.

LeRoi is flying to record an LP o f songs for the Gwalwa Daraniki cause. One song starts with a background o f birdsong, but as it builds you hear the whistle o f a highflying jet. This too, will go on the record.

LeRoi has never flow n before, but these songs are his passport to greatness.

By now all are drunk and it’ s time to go. Magically, kids and wom en have appeared, L eR oi picks up his tw o guitars, which he calls “ my tw o wives” and gets into the toothless man’ s battered FC Holden.

The Boeing’ s nose juts almost into the airport lounge. It holds a promise o f certainty, away from the vagaries o f Darwin. We wave LeR oi off, with his hopes and dreams.

Heat, haze, daze, in the middle o f another day you are near a waterhole in the centre o f town, another land claim.

Blacks drink under the scrubby trees and swim. Major “ the black hippie" has built his own personal opera house to validate the claim.

It’s wrapped in black power slogans, over it flies the land rights flag. A few weeks ago Major and three others were landed on Quail island, traditional hunting grounds for the Larrakai people.

For the past 20 years it has been a R AA F bombing range. Twice a year, napalm, HE and fragmentation bom bs have been falling on the turtles and birds that breed there.

The four blacks who were landed there to take possession lasted four hours before they were taken o ff by police boat. But Major says it is his island, and he is going back with the flag.

Darwin is the cradle o f the individual.

Heads stay there for months or years, because they are fitted to the needs o f survival. They are all the one - not subject to the web o f needs and obligations, passions and interdependence that rules life in the cities.

Gerd paints in his room , working on new techniques that he may never show anyone, because Gerd doesnt need to.

Y ou feel that the world has moved on a turn — that these lives are no longer subcult, or newsworthy, but just are.

Enthusiasm is dangerous in that heat, resignation essential, but only the heads and blacks have that existential sense o f place.

Black squatters a t shanty town

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Feisal rushes to Nixon’s side

UST AT the moment the average American is not ex­ actly crazy on arabs. Trying to starve them to death, or just going straight in and taking them over are high on the list o f suggestions being offered by the average bluecollar worker, and quite a few white-collar workers too.

Fed for so long with all that propaganda about America being the generous benefactor to the rest o f the world, many Ameri­ cans have obviously believed it, and talk incessantly about the “ ungratefulness” o f the arabs and the rest o f the third world gen­ erally. True it is that there are some Americans w ho rejoice at the oil squeeze because they see it as a tool for changing the nation’s lifestyle.

This group’s jo y , however, is bound to be shortlived as more and more anti-pollution legislation heads for the wastepaper basket, and as the strip mining companies prepare for a final massacre o f “ the ecology freaks” . Very few the mystified foreigners telling Americans, however, will exalt in their American friends that what the new found power o f some o f they can’t stand about the Ameri­ the third world countries, and can winter is the heat. even fewer will understand that When Nixon called fo r a red u c-. the arabs are simply learning the tion o f indoor heat to 6 8 degrees, rules o f a game which the Ameri­ some o f us still thought that he cans developed long ago. could have provided a little more You have to live in the United relief against the unbearable heat.

States to fully realise what a And, o f course, lots o f central winner the arabs have with their heating systems take no notice at oil embargo. The car, the truck, all o f the daily conditions, and go and the expressway are the per­ on churning out the heat when it fect symbols o f modern American culture - with perhaps the elec­ tric toothbrush and the electric carving knife thrown in for good measure. Y ou can drive the 1000 miles or so from Boston to Mil­ waukee and only put your fo o t on the brake when either the car or its occupants need filling up. Who gives a dam about a car having good handling when there is noth­ ing to handle. The Ford Galaxie, the Oldsmobile, the Plymouth Fury may be lousy on the corners, but they just eat up those express­ ways - and the gas. A nd driving at the new limit o f 50 mph is utter frustration under those con­ ditions.

At first the new speed limit was only a recommendation, but now all the old 70 mph signs have been replaced by the new 50 mph ones, and everyone seems to be observing them - at least in the daylight hours. On a trip the other day from New Hampshire down the expressway to Boston, and then on down the Massachusetts RITAIN is not a pretty Turnpike only the Greyhound place at the moment. The buses drove as if it was the good country seems without hope. The old days.

Public transport, o f course, in miners are striking in the sense this country is really beyond des­ that they have an overtime ban pair. Ask the conductor on the and the government uses its tele­ train that goes up north from New vision time to make direct attacks on them saying they should keep York why the thing goes so slow, to Phase Three and implies they and he just says that the tracks are so bad that they have to keep the are immoral, irresponsible etc. As a visiting p rof from the Hudson speed dow n for safety. Or if you Institute said: “ A t least in the US are foolish enough to want to our problems are in the open catch a bus on Sunday in many American cities, you will simply corruption and a race issue. When I com e to Britain and see signs be told that the buses dont run on that your workers are alienated I Sundays. T o use public transport in America you have to be either must say I can’t blame them. “ Never have I observed in this to o old or to o young to drive a country such unjustness. The car. econom y is so screwed that the Apart from petrol, hom e heat­ only way to make real living ing oil is the other major use o f m oney is to have a lo t already. A petroleum in the US, and here lot. The amount that workers get again the arabs are hitting where it is shattering now compared with will really hurt. Most Americans the vast profits still being made in believe that central heating is "an fin a n cia l manipulation.

Am­ inalienable right” and when it is bulancemen strike because they freezing outside with the snow get 21 pounds a w eek.” coming down they want to be It costs four pounds a day to able to sit around inside in their buy fo o d for a small family. Even shirt-sleeves. In fact, many houses if you gave them 50 pounds a and public buildings are best de­ scribed as saunas, and you hear week it would be unfair.

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From HARRY HERBERT in New Haven, Connecticut

might be quite a mild day outside.

The main reaction to the oil shortage from most middle Ameri­ cans seems to be a mixture o f fervent nationalism and pure sel­ fishness. When it was discovered recently that some very small amounts o f oil were actually being shipped out from Connecticut to overseas buyers, the state authori­ ties immediately put an end to that, declaring that “ not one drop shall leave this country” !

The whole thing seems to be playing rather beautifully into N ixon’ s hands and might just be the thing he needs to escape from Watergate. The national news­ paper correspondents who live in Washington where they voted 78 percent for McGovern may not notice it, but if you talk to the factory workers in somewhere like Waterbury, Connecticut, y ou ’ll soon realise to your dismay that N ixon is certainly picking up sup­

port. As long as he can make it look as though it is only the arabs who are to blame, it might be his smartest move for a long time. So, while Americans are cooling o f f in their homes and plodding along the highways at 50 mph, Nixon is just hoping that they will concen­ trate their wrath on the arabs, and overlook the fact that the biggest energy crisis in this country is the lack o f brain power in the White House.

THE COLDITZ STORY - EPISODE 1242

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From ANDREW FISHER in London When Heath and his mates get on telly and talk about the econ­ om y it’s like hearing Nixon talk about Watergate. Y ou dont be­ lieve a word. And they are caught out again and again telling people reassuring cliches about every­ thing. “ Our problems are the problems o f success. No rationing before Christmas” (but the post offices had ration books six months ago). And everyone is to o punch drunk from inflation to notice o r care.

Today the country ran out o f petrol. Havent been able to buy any fo r tw o days. That was some­ thing. The way Britain led the Com m on Market in selling Israel totally down the river. I know if you 're Left you support the arabs.

Even if king Feisal and the rest are more totalitarian and further to the right than Papadopoulos, with the exception o f Gaddafi and Sadat.

But the point is that Israel is supposed to stand for all those things that the west went to war for so often. Israel is a democracy, it’s a minority, it's more rational than most, it believes in self-help,

it’ s great at the martial arts but screams o f prisoners being in­ observes the rules etc, etc. There’s terrogated, the scratch o f tunnels not a mention o f this in Europe being dug, the camp concert being apart from Holland. The whole rehearsed as a cover, birds twitter business is extremely complicated as a symbol o f freedom . . . and and generally speaking o f you happily go to sleep imagining Europe’s creation. On both sides. y o u ’re safe and sound as a POW. Sink the Bismarck.

Y ou wouldnt think so now.

A war with Germany would let Actually I think that very soon the British are going to declare everyone know where they are. war on Germany. The only thing The greatest single boost to that interests anyone any more is morale here has been the intro­ the second world war. N ow duction o f rationing. I got my there’ s even more on telly and ration b ook today and in the post more reminiscences in the papers. office everyone had a new pur­ There’ s a huge series everyone pose. They were wearing their watches called the Second world- best drab austerity clothes for the war with Olivier narrating. They occasion and all the old ladies showed the Greta escape last night were ou t in the queues really very for the 20th time in ten years. excited and reliving it all.

Only the Germans know how Dad's army. All our yesteryears.

Millions o f old war movies. Dis­ to be proper enemies. Best o f all, this time Britain would definitely cussions on Hitler. T o say nothing lose. And there’d be a wonderful o f about three Philippe Mora type period o f occupation with atroci­ films made up o f nazi home ties and resistance etc, etc. ’til movies.

A best selling LP has been put eventually everyone would be lib­ erated by the US. Unfortunately I out called the Sounds o f Colditz. dont think the Germans are in­ Y ou put it on and you hear the terested. clank o f gates, sounds o f jack­ Britain needs a revolution des­ boots, orders being given in gut­ perately. tural German; in the distance T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , december 11-17, 1973 — Page 7

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HEY ought not to be passed think o f no way in which they over in silence, the Ameri­ cou ld be reproduced. can anthropologist Daniel Brinton Prompted b y Andrija Puharich, wrote in the 1890s, referring to who has spent much o f his life the claims made that shamans and researching into paranormal phe­ medicine men used paranormal nomena, and the astronaut Ed owers.

Mitchell - the first man to con ­ The claims, he conceded, were duct a telepathy experiment from supported b y unquestionable test­ the m oon — Geller then under­ im ony. And yet . . . he feared to to o k to be tested at the Stanford examine them more closely, be­ Research Institute. A m ong the TV cause he found the whole subject audience was a professional magi­ “ so revolting to the laws o f exact cian, w ho made the point that this science — alien, I had almost said, was a mistake. A nybody, he said, CATHRYN GAME to the experience o f our lives” . cou ld fo o l scientists; the Stanford What proportion o f television Research Institute should have which country colonised them or viewers in England last fortnight o f 589 had a magician there too. Well gave aid. felt the same about Uri Geller they did; and he was as baffled as prospectuses There are also schools founded when he did his thing before the the scientists. from a wide in remote places to educate the cameras on D im bleby Talk-in?

Geller was called upon to re­ variety o f educational institutions expatriate population. The Ameri­ Adm ittedly, there is now much produce, from his mind’ s eye, in 75 different countries on all less hostility to the idea o f extra­ drawings being made elsewhere. continents except Antarctica is, I cans especially have set up schools throughout Africa, Asia and sensory perception than there was Quite a few “ sensitives” , including think, quite certainly the only one South America (less in Europe) to in Brinton’ s day. The evidence for Ms U pton Sinclair, have been able in the world. Occasionally I wish educate offspring o f their diplo­ it has becom e overwhelming; all to d o this; but no one has ever, in there was someone else I could mats, missionaries, military per­ that has been lacking has been la b o ra to ry conditions, com e talk shop to, but I’d rather be som ebody who could demonstrate through as Geller did with a 100 unique and have no imitators. I sonnel, oil com pany executives and itinerant creative types. it at will. Now, here was Geller percent record, even dow n to the find it utterly engrossing.

School rules apart from the doing it "live” watched b y mil­ correct number o f grapes on a Did you know, for instance, standard g ood behavior, no smok­ lions; but making it look like a bunch. that prospectuses from different ing, neat dress and regular attend­ succession o f conjuring tricks, It was not even necessary, the countries fall into distinct type ance also vary interestingly. starting and stopping watches, Stanford Institute found, for groups? The British prospectus bending spoons. Is it not possible, som ebody else to d o the drawing.

At a girls school in one Swiss will invariably begin either with then, that he is simply an ext­ Geller could reproduce a diagram the history o f the school or a ski resort it is forbidden to yell remely clever magician; a pres­ done in a computer, and seen by from the balconies o f the chalets, description and history o f its tidigitator, the like o f which none n ob od y ; except, perhaps, the and ski clothes must not be worn buildings; and the first (and often o f us has ever seen? ghost in the machine. the on ly) p h oto is invariably a, in the dining room . One American The answer — happily or sadly, school says it w on’t accept stu­ very staid B & W o f the main For good measure - literally according to whether you are a dents that are or havebeen mar­ building. he was able to move small weights sheep o r a goat in these matters — an English expatriate The American prospectus reli­ ried. At from a distance, and also to regis­ is the one given by that Boston school in Buenos Aires, the board­ ably launches first into the ter on a magnetometer, in spite o f surgeon, whose name I forget, ers arent allowed to use the tele­ school’s educational philosophy. the fact that it was theoretically when he watched for the first Photography is again almost invar­ phone on Sundays — for no appar­ impossible for him to affect the time an operation performed ent reason. iably black and white, but they machine. (He is also reported, less under an anaesthetic: “ Gentle­ Another Swiss school w on ’t dont have a phobia against putting conveniently, to have wiped the wearslacks men, ex­ this is no humbug.” their pupils in the pictures, which allow its girls to tapes o f some computers which The TV performance, though cept in winter in the school the British do. In fact I have were on a government experiment striking enough, was to any scep­ concluded that American private grounds, and they must be "fu ll dow n below .) tic full o f loopholes. But, earlier school and college students are length and dark in co lo r” . Yet Arriving o f f the plane the day this year, Geller was put through a another w on ’t allow make up, handsomer than their British before the TV program, he came series o f controlled tests o f a kind counterparts. “ believing the natural charm o f to the TV studio where a few o f that no possessor o f psychic youth preferable to all make-be­ The Americans are also more us - on balance, I would judge, powers has ever undergone before generous with their money, and lieve” . A finishing school in Eng­ sceptical - watched him bend - and survived them unscathed. produce a new prospectus every land, housed in the usual historic latchkeys which David Dimbleby I first heard o f Geller’s prowess mansion, warns visitors that spike year o r two. All copies are sent by was holding, b y gently stroking last year after he had given a air mail (first class usually). The heels are not allowed as “ the them. But his r.; ~ ' demonstration. He did a routine floors are o f fine w o o d ” .' The British try to make the same one impressive o f telepathy/clairvoyance tests; students o f one ballet school are d o for as long as possible - one achievements then, without touching them, turned out to be way is to print the fees, which rise forbidden to ride mopeds. A con ­ bent som e spoons. At this point a every year, on a separate enclosed vent in Belgium w on ’t allow its accidental’ I Cambridge physicist said he had students to bring books to school sheet instead o f in the main text recalled that brought along a box containing — and they always use surface as the library is adequate, but fo llo w in g his screwdrivers o f a kind which, mail. “ one com ic per term is allowed” . humanly speaking, should have demonstration m A school in India censors mail The Swiss on the other hand been unbreakable. Would Geller L ondon, while, on the grounds that “ a number o f tend to emphasise visuals more like to try? The b ox was then he and his than text and go in for lavish people, such as stamp dealers, opened, and the screwdrivers were audi­ color photos. Their prospectuses betting-touts and the like, seem to found lying already broken inside are brochures rather than b ook ­ consider school children fair it. A member o f the staff o f the lets. They emphasise the happi­ prey” . The same school also earn­ department o f metallurgy at estly requests parents “ not to ness o f the student, the necessity Cambridge who sent the o f international harmony, and the send their children cheap illustrat­ screwdrivers for ed papers, popularly known as advantages o f being at a school examination has since with a worldwide enrolment.' ‘ Comics’ . They will be confiscat­ reported that he is ed.”

The British however only seem unable to account to care about turning out Chris­ The differences between pat­ fo r the fractures, tians, regardless o f how many “ A ” terns o f extra-curricular offerings and that he levels, detentions, games o f h oc­ at schools around the world is also can key and tennis, and other rituals an absorbing study. Most Swiss one must survive with a stiff private schools have com pulsory upper lip to achieve that state. skiing. One finishing school offers (Granted, there are many differ­ a course in bridge as an extra. ent types o f Christians, according Another says, “ An antics dealer to prospectuses practising, teaches the pupils how to recog­ thinking, com m itted . . . ) nise and appreciate the style o f American schools place a dis­ ancient furniture and carpets” . In India one boarding school offers tinct emphasis on individualism, and provide individual schools for batik printing, Sanskrit chanting, individual children o f individual folk dancing, and Bharata Natyam! parents.

Fascinating, isnt it? A ny time Then you get the different types o f schools, British-type, you want to know more, just ask; American-type and Continental- I can rave indefinitely. But all I’m type. Most o f the world’s educa­ saying now is, if you havent got a tion systems have been based on constructive hobby, get one before you go insane. one o f these types, depending on

ence were out for lunch, a secre­ tary had been understandably terrified when one o f the spoons he had worked on, which had been left beside her desk, had co n ­ tinued to bend on its own.

Something similar happened here. His first attempt to bend a latchkey, placed between the hands o f a woman reporter so that he could not touch it, had been a failure; the key was returned in­ tact. Later, after the success o f the second go, the BBC man who had lent it found it had bent in his pocket; and a broach which the unfortunate reporter was wearing suddenly snapped. At the TV show the following night she told us she had taken it to a jeweller to be repaired; after examining it, the jeweller said that he did not conceive how it could have been broken, but it was unmendable.

Why, though - as people were naturally asking — does Geller’ s power manifest itself in bending, breaking and fracturing (he did start some stopped watches on the television show, but he stopped more, and twisted one minute hand askew)? He does not know.

His belief is that the power is not his ow n; that he is the agent for some occult intelligence. Why it should choose to operate through him in this eccentric fashion re­ mains obscure.

The most likely explanation is that he is moved by the kind of force which is traditionally associ­ ated with poltergeists; rarely con ­ structive, often frivolous.

Geller’s case, though, is un­ usual. He has the ability, which shamans were believed to have, to control the forces, rather than be controlled by them - whatever they are. And it is surely im port­ ant that we should try to find out what they are. The implications are rather terrifying; if a watch can be stopped, why not an aero­ plane engine? But they have to be faced - as indeed, physicists in

America and Russia, and t o a limited extent in this country, have com e to realise.

Fortunately Geller has agreed to cooperate with some London physicists in research; which is again, literally - the chance o f a lifetime. Psychic powers are unpredictable. ^Sometimes they vanish , 1 : ; sometimes they go when their user tries to exploit them for wealth - as Geller, with his

charm as well as his talent to offer, must surely be tempted to do. It will be sad if so unique a research opportunity is not ex­ ploited to the full, while it lasts.

- New statesman

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K id c o n t r ib u t io n s ca n b e sen t t o e ith e r th e S y d n e y o r M el­ b o u r n e m o n it o r . I f y o u live else w h e re , c h o o s e e ith e r o n e and e n c lo s e a s ta m p e d s e lf address­ e d e n v e lo p e . M E L B O U R N E : R o b K in g , “ L o d g e R a lp h ” , D a vid R o a d , L ily d a le . S Y D N E Y : J o h n G e a k e , 1 7 B ridge street, B alm ain 2 0 4 1 .

A. S. Neill, the fo u n d e r o f S u m m erhill School and one o f the m o st e x tra o rd in a ry e d u c a to rs o f o u r tim e, died in October. His great source o f p ride was th a t no n e o f his pupils ever becam e prim e m inister. Some o f th e S y d n ey schoolkids have been fossicking a r o u n d for a nice way to say goodbye. O n e o f th em , L A U R A M cLEO D , treasures a le tte r she once received from Neill and here recollects th e day she w e n t in search o f him.

HE catholic school is still surrounded by an aura o f mystery. Apart from those who attend or teach in these schools, no one seems to know or want to know much about them.

It therefore came as a bit o f a surprise when I received a lengthy letter from a young inmate o f a catholic school. She landed in on the subject o f SRCs, however it turns out that what she really had in mind was a curbed attack on the school she goes to.

It seems that catholic educa­ tion has been forced to make wholesale concessions to the 20th century and, perhaps, in particular to the irrelevance o f its entire dogm a But if the methods have changed the madness is still there.

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Summerhill: A memory

I heard you crying in the chapel OU’ RE kidding! SRCs? The perfect system? What a load o f crap! Well, at least not at my asylum. Our SRC took six years to let us go without wearing gloves in summer. And, I’m not crapping you.

I was a member o f this so-call­ ed perfect system for a whole six weeks and then I was told I wasnt a very g ood example to the class.

Our SRC consists o f kids voted by the kids from each class, and 15 from form six. A bout once every three months there are meetings in each class and the SRC representatives ask the kids what they want brought up. The I result is all sorts o f reasonable requests. The SRC meets and talks them over, and, if they all agree, it gets brought to the attention o f the head overseer. I f she (a nun) doesnt agree, stiff shit!

Our teaching staff consists o f: 1. A French queer, who needs Uncle Sam [A deodorant that hasnt heard o f Watergate] 2. A socialite, Toorak type drongo, w h o thinks “ yes" is the opposite to " n o ” .

3. A history fanatic, whose voice hasnt broken yet, and who thinks Australian history is fascin­ ating.

4. A mouse.

5. A dripping pancreas.

6. A few lesbian-type molls.

7. An “ I’ve been everywhere, I’ve done everything, I know everyone” - lives 20 miles away in the country, born in Hobart, 72 year old Mongolian rattlesnake.

8. . . . and an assortment o f others.

Our parents pay about $52 a term, we have 50 kids per class, and during lunch hour we sit on asphalt.

We have a black mark system (typically medieval). This means that if y o u ’re seen without un chapeau, if y ou ’re late, or talk in class, you are given one black mark. If you are caught with chewing gum - as well as a black mark you have to pick up five bits o f chewy from around the school.

A t the end o f the week, if you

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went to Summerhill in Sep­ tember, when all the British school kids have their long sum­ mer holidays. So when I saw the school, it was deserted, except for the od d teacher and the wife o f A. S. Neill, who was there to prepare for the oncom ing term.

I walked into the school with a preconceived idea o f what it would be like. I had always dreamt o f seeing Summerhill, it has almost been like a legend to me. As I was walking along a shady path that led to the school, I could sense that this was a place o f love, so contrary to the feelings I had always felt for m y school, and others like it. I kept walking and I came to a big two' storey house which was the main build­ ing o f the school. I saw a girl and asked her if she worked there. As it happened, she was A. S. Neill’s daughter Zoe. She told m e that all the kids were on holiday, but to lo o k around and see the school anyway.

I walked around the side o f the building and there was a lot o f graffiti on the walls, proclaiming, Fuck C od and Jesus is dead. I was slightly taken aback as most schools I have been to dont seem to have pupils who display their feelings so blatantly. But I was also impressed that the kids could obviously express their feelings so openly, and without fear o f pun­ ishment In the main building, there were many rooms, most o f them empty, and the whole place seem­ ed to be very disorganised and in a state o f disarray. Then I met Mrs Neill; she looked very busy and quite exhausted. I had an interest­ ing talk with her about the school and she told me that A. S. Neill was in hospital and did not have much longer to live. I told her how sorry I was, and she said he had lived a long and happy life, but now he was tired and very old. I then told her about my crum m y school and she sympa­ thised with me, saying “ we need m ore Summerhills” .

The school grounds consisted o f about tw o to three acres, there were lots o f really beautiful trees and it was all very green, every­ thing you would expect o f the English countryside. Apart from the main building, there were smaller buildings which contained science labs and other classrooms.

There were no desks in any o f the rooms and it all looked very hom ely and informal.

There were a few caravans that housed some o f the students, and everywhere I went I could tell it was the kids school, because everything I saw reflected their feelings and ideals. Near the cara­ vans was a swimming p ool and more trees. They also had some vegetable gardens behind the smaller buildings.

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have between five and nine black marks, you have to stay back for an hour on friday and write con ­ tinuously from overseas trading books. Between 10 and 15 marks, you com e back on Saturday. And, over 15, you get a phone call and you know what that means.

Charts with our names and the black marks are displayed so that the whole world can have a look at how evil we’ve been.

We have tw o different teachers for French, and tw o fo r music, which is ridiculous, because one teaches you totally different from the other.

We have a French test which took us tw o lessons - fair enough.

A few kids were talking after­ wards (tw o minutes to the end o f period); so the teacher said that we were having another test after school. We had 40 minutes notice.

I wasnt going to put up with that, and neither was m y friend.

Instead o f doing the test, we both wrote that we were not going to d o it, and the reasons why. My reasons were as follow s: I’m not going to d o this ridicu­ lous thing.

Why? Because it is absolutely ludi­ crous.

Because we were given 40 minutes notice.

Because we are tw o weeks away from the end o f the year, and we havent gone through a quarter o f our French books.

Because it’s not fair.

I’m doing what I think is right.

I’m not being cheeky (I hope).

Whoever gets to read this, I hope y o u ’re decently minded.

Well, the head overseer got to read it, and she wasnt so decently minded. She came into the class­ room and made my friend and I stand up in front o f the class and get lectured.

She read our comments to the class but, when she read mine, she casually omitted the part about how much we had learnt. I didnt worry, coz I just closed m y eyes and thought about the last time I got high.

Our medical service is tremend­

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ous. A kid fainted and was uncon­ scious fo r three hours. They left her lying on a typing table with a blanket over her, alone with her girlfriend, who was crying.

A fter three hours her friends got a bit worried, and so five brave kiddies to o k the liberty o f leaving the grounds to tell her mother. Her m other chucked a mental, while the five kids nearly got expelled. They didnt because the whole school kicked up a fuss.

So they ended up with five black marks for trying to help.

All these things are true. It’s a one sex school, and it’s run by hypocrites, who told the form twos not to wear black, purple or red, because it excites the boys, or eye shadow with jeans, because it doesnt match. We went o n an excursion, and we were given the privilege o f wearing casuals. Be­ fore we left, the teacher went around, pointing out the faults in our attire. Life goes o n . . .

My school is a depot for illiter­ ate molls and ignorant lesbians.

It’ s n ot their fault, so it has obviously got something to d o with the school. The only reason I dont leave and work in Coles is because I really want to be a journalist or an author (high hopes).

There will be people who will think that this is all crap, o r that I have exaggerated a lot. But I swear on Mick Jagger’ s lips that it is all true. I’d sign m y name, only if it g ot printed and I was discov­ ered . . . well, I’d be a legend.

Hare Krsna, Me (a 15 year old broke girl, who is m ixed up, confused, and wondering what to d o next).

PS. Our school is catholic, and the minute you mention another religion - PAGAN CHILD! *

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NB. We can't do all that much about the “ m ixed up, confused, wondering what to do n e x t” syndrome - best treat it as an occupational hazard. If, however, you send us you r address, y o u will eventually receive som e financial remittance, and will therefore be marginally less broke. - R.K.

As I was heading towards the gate to leave I met Mrs Neill again, and she gave me a p h oto o f Neill at his daughter’ s wedding. She explained to me that it was the last photo taken o f him before he got sick. I thanked her, and said how great the school was and that I hoped it would go on fo r ­ ever. She said that she did not know whether she could keep it going for much longer as the government was trying to bring in new legislation under which Summerhill would no longer re­ ceive further government grants. I told her that I was sure someone would keep the school going and that a place like Summerhill is very much needed for kids in the world today.

Summerhill deeply impressed me because it showed a true unoppressive environment in which kids could grow and love and learn freely, without any o f the hassles o f trying to survive the educational system as it is today.

LAU RA McLEOD

A letter from A.S.Neill Summerhill school, Leiston, Suffolk, England Dear Laura, I hate to disappoint you but we never have helpers under 20.

Yr new school sounds good, and I am glad to hear of it because so many tell me that Australia is 70 years behind the times in edu­ cation. But so is Britain I fear.

I can picture that school you describe There are hundreds like it over here.

Pardon me for being so brief. I am nearly 90 and very tired and no longer able to see the 100 visitors we used to have weekly.

All I can say is that I am glad to know that a lassie of 15 is seeking freedom. My dear, you will find it if you turn a deaf ear to all the anti-life folks you'll meet in life.

Your friend, A. S. NEILL

DO IT YOURSELF KUNG FU 14 SIL LIM TAO

(1 2 8 ) Com plete the elbow-up block, by moving your arm —■yo u r hand open — diagon­ ally across your chest. (1 2 9 ) From the elbow-up block bend your elbow and turn your palm toward you in sinking elbow block (chum jiang).

(1 3 6 ) Begin the elbow -up block w ith the right arm. (1 3 7 ) Complete the block by lowering your forearm diagonally across the chest.

(1 3 0 ) W ith your elbow still bent, start the palm strike (dia jeo n g ) by bending your fingers downward so that your palm is facing the ceiling. (1 3 1 ) Com plete the palm strike by fu lly extending yo u r arm at face level.

(1 3 8 ) From the elbow-up block, drop yo u r elbow into a sinking elbow block, and (1 3 9 ) begin the dow nw ard palm strike.

(1 3 2 ) Begin to rotate your hand clockwise, w ith yo u r palm tow ard your body. (1 3 3 ) S tart to retract your hand and make a fist.

(1 4 0 ) Com plete the palm strike w ith your arm extended and your hand at face level. (1 4 1 ) R otate your hand counterclockwise until your palm faces your body.

(1 3 4 ) Return your left fist to the side of yo u r chest. (1 3 5 ) W ith the palm facing up, you are in the basic sil lim tao position once more.

(1 4 2 ) Form a fist w ith yo u r right hand as you begin to retract it toward your body. (1 4 3 ) Continue retracting your fist to the right side of your chest.

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DO IT YOURSELF RUNG FU 15

(1 4 4 ) Stop your fist, w ith the palm up, next to your chest. (1 4 5 ) Slant your left arm across your body w ith the palm facing the floor.

(1 5 2 ) A fte r com pletion of the last punch, thrust the right arm up into a palm-up block. (1 5 3 ) Begin to rotate your hand counterclockwise until the palm faces tow ard yo u r chest.

(1 5 4 ) Form a fist and retract yo u r hand until (1 5 5 ) it is at the side of your chest.

(1 4 6 ) Bring your right hand, palm facing left, to the m iddle of yo u r chest.

(1 4 7 ) Cross yo u r right arm over the left, simultaneously retracting yo u r left hand to your side as you form a fist.

(1 5 6 ) From the basic sil lim tao position, (1 5 7 ) slide your left fo o t over to your right fo ot. Stand erect w ith your feet together.

(1 4 8 ) A fte r the right arm completes a slicing m ovem ent across your body, your fist should be palm-up at yo u r side. (1 4 9 ) W ith yo u r left hand, shoot out a vertical punch at nose level as your right fist protects yo u r chest.

(1 5 8 ) Open yo u r hands and rotate the palms dow nward, moving them along the thighs. (1 5 9 ) W ith the arms extended, palms facing the floor, and feet together, you have returned to the starting position of this form .

N o t e : In th e b e g in n in g o f sil lim t a o b o t h fe e t are t o g e t h e r a n d o n th e cr o ss lin e. A t th e c o m p l e t i o n o f sil lim t a o b o t h fe e t are t o g e t h e r a n d t o th e sid e o f th e cr o ss lin e .

NEXT WEEK: (1 5 0 ) Then shoot out a right vertical punch at nose level and retract the left arm. (1 5 1 ) Repeat the left-right punches three times before going on to movement No. 152.

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Straight Punch and Finger Jab

THIS supplement is extracted from the book Wing Chun Kung Fu by J. Yimm Lee, Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, California. The book is available in some city bookshops.

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PHILIP CORDINGLEY

S TILL LIFE, WITH M IR R O R S

There are m ore doors than there are keys, & only rarely do we find a corresponding set. The w orld o r life or living — w hatever springtim e nam e we care to call it by - is like a ro om o f mirrors, in which we wait, eith er fo r C octeau or fo r the m ercury to m elt, so we can see w hich way is out. O r m ay be in.

T o break a m irro r w ould only m ean m ore pieces to pick up; fo r I already kn o w the frag m en ted p icture o f me they w ould duplicate. C om ing do w n o ff a three year curing course o f m e th a d o n e th a t h o pefully will end the drugged decade th a t w en t before has m ad e m e to o d am ned conscious o f the m y riad aspects o f m y self. The final, physical s y m p to m s o f withdraw al have forced m e to reflect, to try and separate which shards o f past possessed some flash o f insight & w hich were merely m a n u fa c tu re d b y the flash w h e n heroin hits the brain. M eanwhile I wait, & w a tc h the m irrors/w atching me. Som ew here b e y o n d th em I can hear a w o m an weeping. & s h o rtly after, som eone com e k nock in g at h e r door.

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POEM A E S P A G N O L In cold a f te rn o o n / all things happen. Bodies are dispersed, lie h ap h a z a rd o n w o rn & u n c o m fo rta b le co uc h es th a t shot buried w ith th e dead w ho bough Thin light radiates, reflects the c lo c k ’s shrill tick, y o u r transpare house, a fte r-n o o n a n tarctic m idn Move th ro u g h it, sca tte r words o n vast p lateaux o f ice, w atch t b slip & slide, like crazy draughtsm o u t o f it, aw ay from th e night th a t b r o u g h t y o u here, five h u n d years o f loneliness.

We should ha\ o r recognised th e om ens. But all ever saw were snow & angels’ wings, w hich I did n o t understan

the years have piled up at th e b ac k d o o r, so m u ch ch ip ped po rcelain w ith th eir dream s & reso lu tio n s th at we ha1 fucked to dea th .

Whatever we d o from h ere o n in is o f o u r doing. T h e m ovem en ts/ are decisive.

MARK YOUNG PREMATURE

T H E C U C K O O ’S N EST T h e y do n o t issue uniform s, but m a n y eyes possess a u n ifo rm ity ju st the same. A dress o f d istance, a desp o n d a n cy th at crisscross th e Christmas table w ith the o th e r decorations. T he eyes have n o co lo u r to them ; & the p eo ple w ho bear them are w o rn do w n by sedatives, & walk like shad ow s o f th e ir fo rm e r selves.

Q uiet day o f festival, ’68; b u t th e b oo zy rhym es — ‘Twas xm as day in the n u thouse — com e so m ew h a t tru e as this year, fo r me, m y year fades o u t am on gst th e senile & insane, am ongst the chronic children being driven a ro u n d the grounds in a p etro l-p o w ere d brig h tly -co lo u re d /facsimile railway train. ( th e drugs 1 am being given m ake m y fingers slip. I had ty p e d ‘d o l o u r ’ instead o f ‘c o l o u r ’; & this underlines m y feelings. The grief th a t grips & guides the fingers o f m y m ind does n o t fade w ith the y e a r’s end.)

R eflectio n o f the c o lo u rs o f the train has p u t som e light in to th e c h ild re n ’s eyes, b u t soon will fade w h e n ‘L ittle T o o t ’ is p u t away. & m y pain, if I c o u ld tell it to th em , w ould give false colours, w o u ld im pose sensations o f a w orld th e y d o n o t k n o w & c o u ld n o t und erstand . I could n o t w a tc h th e sp o rts to d ay — to see the spastics & m on gols ru n n in g races is to o bizarre & h ea rtb re a k in g in its u n w a rra n te d h u m o u r. But they enjoy it: & w hose d e fin itio n s o f grief & j o y are valid here?

F o r th em th e seasons to o are u n ifo rm - th o u g h o th e rs feel th e cold, like Alec the alcoholic, w hose latest haiku.

S u m m e r - b u t even sunshine c a n n o t w arm som e p a tie n ts ’ minds.

I have finally come down f Junk Mounts I have Come Down.

Have finally come.

Down.

— leave immortality for anotl (like a not get stuck in a comer o f tl sticking morphine in the arm (meat.

Allen Ginsberg: Last Night in

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T H E G A U D Y IM AGE I things ispersed, l &

es that should have been w ho b o u g h t them , fleets the lr transp arent flesh.

Old arctic midnight, te r words e, watch them ' draughtsm en.

Move the night

e, five h u n d re d miles, light

j should have k n ow n, ens. But all 1 c angels’ it understand. & now IP

lu c h th their th a t we have slowly tever n n o v em en ts/

THE DANCERS The interplay b etw een the dancers is n o t/ betw een bodies bu t betw een eyes.

F o r instance: the y oun g girl with the handsom e older m an — h o w she looks at him! — holding on with her eyes, im ploringly/adoringly, trying so hard to please.

But he is certain o f her & she has already been fo rg o tten . His eyes are elsewhere, dancing w ith — which o n e is it?

She in the green? O r t h a t o n e there, the blonde, on the far side o f th e room ?

T h us the dance goes on. I w atch it. My eyes.

Moving.

The m a n n e r o f speaking is barbarous. Coarse words. & harsh in can ta tio n s th a t chafe like wolves’ to n gues on the thighs o f angels.

T he m a n n e r o f speaking is the way o f his life. T he u nh esitant, u n ­ clu tte re d flow o f words. Their power, the w hite h e a t o f them . O n which y o u r fingers burn, or else y o u r b o d y , pressed against him.

In the beginning there was silence, b u t th ere were words, th o u g h you w ould not reach in to the sticky air & pick th em o ut. In th e beginning there was y o u r silence. & now an o th er, m o re d ea thly, m o re strained, throug h which the w o rm s o f revelation crawl, waiting to be discovered, like p o rn og rap hic pictu re s o f y o u rse lf you d id n ’t adm it existed. How to explain them in soft words? or m ake light o f th em ?

O r even try.

Instead, y o u can o nly wait for th e end, y o u r brittle fingers tilted tow ard s the m o o n to soften them . In failing light/ a last decep tion . T h e rails o f y o u r life glint in the far distance, the scarred tracks. M em ­ ory? C o m m o n w ou nd s? O r an old record, w orn thin, o u t o f which som e even th in n e r voice rises to lick y o u r c u n t w ith its dry tongue?

M em ory. & in th e wind are faded flowers.

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own. t y for a n o th e r to suffer (like a fool, c o m e r o f th e universe i in the arm and eating (m eat.

HYMN F O R L E N N O N /T O M M O R R O W N E V E R KNOWS

RAIN, R AIN

High in Transylvania — tran s­ p o rted location: the actual setting 3 a.m. A uckland in th in rain. Cicadas all quiet, all still, o nly the p etulant w hirr o f the reco rd p lay e r & the softskull noises o f m o th s beating their brains o u t against th e o p a q u e walls.

T o e n te r a new place at night o r ra th e r early m orning

Cicadas all quiet, all still. T he m o t h s die with a soft whirring. T he record player coaxes erotically for y o u r n ew records. T h e cat entefs, all wet w ith d ro p lets o f rain, like a grey night.

D o n o t a t t e m p t to isolate the vim s th a t besets you. P am p er it, & the voices will emerge fro m th e speakers, detach themselves & plunge e m b o d ie d into y o u r m o u th . T h e nausea as th ey bea t against the back o f y o u r th ro a t: & th e re sultan t high, th e nutm eg feeling, sad hallu cin atio ns o f y o u r nightm are soul.

But this is no t Dracula c o u n try . Garlic flowers & the sitar have driven him away. In grey coffin w ith shroud o f thin night rain he is b orne ignom iniously to sunshine land to die, w ith er & die, a flaccid old m an w ith collapsed intestines, capable o f o nly the m o st inco nsequential intercourse. & you Y ou tu rn o f f y o u r m ind, relax, & float d ow nstream , a b se n tm in d ed ly scratch ing a t the m arks the w ithered gum s have left o n y o u r th ro at.

prowl th ro u g h it tu rn in g on lights discovering the new fu rn itu re & old paintings in th e lounge & in the k itchen old fu rn itu re & new paintings including

a grey Lichtenstein-like lithograph t h a t startles y o u so m u c h by its u n e x p e c te d positioning th a t y o u are su dd enly aware o f the — d ru m m in g o f th e c o rru g ated iro n ro o f the w hole tim e y o u have been here rain (rain so m u c h heavier /

b u t less im pact ast Night in C alcu tta

The last tea party PETER D ALLO W

Wattle Park lies in M elbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s middle suburbia, between Camberwell and Box Hill. The 40s last frontier.

Wattle Park has a chalet where they serve Devonshire teas. Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last park kiosk.

What the Australian press needs is a dose of speed, some grass, some acid, some guts... and a good kick up the arse

By Richard Beckett FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL '72 by Dr Hunter S. Thompson, with illustrations b y Ralph Steadman (Straight A rrow Books). i i \ T THE stroke o f midnight . / A . in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs o f a man and a head o f a giant hyena crawls ou t o f its bedroom window in the south wing o f the White House and leaps 50 feet down to the lawn . . . pauses briefly to strangle the chow watchdoq, then races into the darkness, towards the Watergate, snarling with lust, loping through the alleys behind Pennsylvania avenue and trying desperately to remember which one o f those fou r identical bal­ conies is the one outside Martha Mitchell’s apartm ent’’ That’s N i x o n . . . “ It is entirely conceivable given the known effects o f ibogaine — that Muskie’s brain was almost paralysed b y hallucinations at the time; that he looked out at the crow d and saw gila monsters instead o f people, and that he snapped com pletely when he felt something large and apparently vicious clawing at his legs."

That's early Democratic frontrunner, Big Ed Muskie. . . “ Hubert Humphrey is a treach­ erous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddam bottle and sent ou t with the Japanese current. The idea o f Humphrey running for president once again makes a mockery out o f things that it would take me to o long to explain or even list here. And Hubert Humphrey wouldnt under­ stand what I was talking about anyway. He was a swine in ’68 and he’ s worse now. If the Demo­ cratic party nominates Humphrey again in ’ 72, the party will get exactly what it deserves.”

T h at’s middle Democratic front-runner Hubert Hum phrey. . . “ This (the political groin shot) is one o f the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times o f trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level o f pol­ itical m ythology in a story about one o f Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his cam­ paign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his op ­ ponent's lifelong habit o f enjoying carnal knowledge o f his own barn­ yard sows. “ ‘Christ we can’ t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,’ the campaign manager protested. ‘ No­ b od y’ s going to believe a thing like th a t' “ ‘ I know ,’ Johnson replied.

‘But let’s make the sonofabitch d en y it.’ ” And that’s Dr Hunter S. Thompson, the dop e head, acid freak, not to mention oldtime boozer (Christ only knows how he manages to cop e with the wild raging o f a booze and drugs trip), the political journalist who, in the end, became even to o much for Rolling stone, which after a par­ ticularly vicious series o f events in which Dr Thompson and British artist Ralph Steadman monstered the Watergate hearings, finally cancelled his credit card and said enough was enough.

At present, outside o f Norman Mailer - who virtually hung up

FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE WATERGATE

By Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Illustrated By Ralph Steadman

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his gloves after The armies o f the night - Thom pson is the king o f America’ s subjective political journalists. Being subjective about political campaigns is no new thing in the United States. (Al­ though apparently it is a startling new theory in Australia outside o f the subjective publishing empires o f the Melbourne Herald and Weekly Times and Sydney’ s Fair­ fax — b oth o f whom allow no journalist subjectivity, although they claim the right for them­ selves. ) America always has been the hom e o f digging journalism — the much touted British Sunday times “ Insight” is merely American style digging brought back across the Atlantic - and Thom pson is merely the holder o f the golden gloves fo r the moment. There will be others, as there have been others in the past, who actually take the trouble to write the truth about politicians, who d o not cough nervously when a member o f the legislature either physically or metaphorically lets his dick hang out in public, but who write it down.

Because o f the publishing time lag (engineered by American and British publishing houses to their own advantage) very few con ­ temporary American works make it to Australia while they are still relative to the situations that caus­

ed them. Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72 is n o excep­ tion. Since the infamous cam­ paign, Watergate has com e and almost gone, Spiro Agnew has definitely gone, Nixon w on’t go, the tapes w on’t play, Hunter Thom pson has officially retired hurt, the Middle East war is on again. And despite the fact that this b o o k has arrived in Australia by rapid and only semi-legal chan­ nels, it has becom e history. Tele­ vision treads all over us and there is a good case for demanding that in future authors either publish the instant and immediate book, or turn themselves into shortterm historians and wait a bit.

However, there’s no taking away the brilliance o f the work.

Thompson, in taking subjective journalism one step further (and in carrying a fair bit o f his writ­ ings at the time in successive issues o f Rolling ston e) manages to retain the immediacy o f the campaign as the hopeless Dem o­ cratic candidate, George M cGov­ ern, who turned out in the end to be just another b lo o d y Democrat in anti-Vietnam clothing, and who was abandoned by his ow n party and organised labor because o f a few piddling puritan-wowser is­ sues such as abortion, h om o­ sexuality and dope (not that the issues are piddling in themselves, it’s just that the rightist arguments

now make about as much sense as a political campaign run on the divine right o f kings), staggered on to his disastrous and blood y end.

And Thompson, by deliberate­ ly remaining outside the establish­ ed press corps, retained his free­ dom to write. He knew nothing and cared less for the social con­ ventions o f journalism, that turns almost every longterm political writer into a piss-in-the-pocket hack, w ho worries more about his mortgage and his second car and his image fo r G od ’s sake than his truthfulness.

The lack o f such a goad in Australia was never more evident that during the last federal elec­ tion, immediately after it, and now. Apart from vague lunges by the Nation review’s Mungo MacCallum and a surprisingly refresh­ ing essay on that middle class poseur Gough Whitlam by Frank Knopfelmacher in the same paper (V ol. 4 No. 7), damn all has been written about the general level o f incompetence o f the present La­ bor ministry, or o f the hack atti­ tudes o f the workers hands and y ob b o Labor back benches.

Witty remarks are made about Snedden in both the left and right wing press and o f the gen­ eral abysmal standards o f the op ­ position parties. But who gives a stuff - the target should be the government, irregardless o f what

power bloc one belongs to.

Sweet suffering Jesus, after all how can one have any faith in a prime minister whose wife writes a load o f drivel for a magazine o f the intellectual status o f Womans day. Despite all her manifest faults, at least Pat N ixon doesnt write M y day for Womens wear daily. And to answer the immedi­ ate reply that this sort o f thing gets to the masses, one might say that if on e regards the masses on this intellectual level one is on about the same patronage level as South Australia’s Andrew Jones with his famous “ who knows what they’re thinking ou t there in mugsville” attitude.

If New South Wales' Robert Askin is determined to “ run over the bastards", so is Whitlam. His utter arrogance is almost pukemaking, worse even that Menzies’ royalty fetish (did he ever keep her used knickers in a secret case?), Gorton’ s bubble machine, boozer’ s approach to government or McMahon’s near use o f his wife’s pubic hair (actually it was the upper half o f her milk white thighs) to prove to the Australian electorate that he was a regular wouldbe gang rapist and not the p o o f that everyone from Darwin | to Launceston suspected he was. j And that’ s just the beginning . . . I havent even started on a character analysis o f the rest o f the bastards yet. In following the campaign o f ’ 72 in the United States Hunter Thompson did. O f course, covering an election in the United States is somewhat easier - their elections last for more than a year, there’ s time to look.

The way elections are declared in Australia there’s not much time for more than a couple o f rabbit punches and kicks in the groin before it’ s all over, with absolute­ ly no time to explain the swine to the people who really matter the so called voters, dragged to the polls only through fear o f a fine.

Australian politics have slipped so far into the slough o f despond that only a local Hunter S. Thompson can pull them out o f the mire. But what d o we get?

Nothing.

Instead o f Thom pson we are served up with Whitlam PM, writ­ ten by political journalist Laurie Oakes, published b y Angus & Robertson at $4.95, which con ­ tains gems such as (describing Whitlam’ s boyh ood), “ There was little waste in the household — so little in fact, that there was no need for a garbage tin, the scraps were buried in the garden.” But he hastens to add, “ not that there was anything mean about the Whitlams, Martha was the sort o f woman who baked cakes and bis­ cuits for new arrivals in the neigh­ borhood to make them feel wel­ com e . . . ” And on and on into the night, Oakes grinds his relentless waffle journalism into the minds o f all o f us. The good solid lovely Whit­ lams. Wait for it, we’ll be getting the worker’s hands bit fairly soon.

And the pity o f it all is that there isnt a Hunter Thompson among Australia’ s journalistic comm un­ ity, let alone an organisation pre­ pared to pay him. Read this book and weep for the fate o f Austra­ lia’ s newspapers.

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T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , december 11-17, 1 9 7 3 - P a g e 17

Don Lane wouldnt laugh at me Chris Hector talks to Bob Hudson OB HUDSON I first saw at the contem porary song workshop o f the '68 Melbourne folk festival. Literally bouncing on stage, Hudson launched into a frenetic performance o f a song he’d written himself. A song that told o f his encounter with four regular army persons w h o had roughed him up in George street, Sydney.

A t a time when every second ‘‘ contem porary’ ’ song was loaded with hackneyed slogans and mel­ lifluous cliches, B ob ’s ditty was an encouraging step in the direction o f letting the action prom pt the responses - letting the conclu­ sions arise naturally from the story.

Ever since then I’ve heard Bob singing around the place, at the occasional folk concert and at poetry readings in a group called the Teen Angels, singing grotty rock some 12 months before Dad­ dy C ool hit the air. In the Balmain early opener he would sing away the mania produced b y a seven day, 12 hour nightshift at Callan Park, where he worked as a psych nurse, but mainly in kitchens, in sitting room s and on verandahs.

B ob ’s music was essentially the music o f the people he knew.

People w ho were attempting to make their music part o f the lives as distinct from media entertain­ ment consumer product. At the time it seemed very likely that that’s where Hudson’ s music would stay — the fringe music o f a fringe culture.

But no, the media octopus in its frantic search fo r the new has “ discovered” Bob Hudson. His baby face grin leers from the pages o f the telly guides, his mania infests the box (shows with Paul Hogan, spots in a series com ­ ing up o n the ABC in january, and an ill-fated encounter with Don Lane), an LP coming out in the new year and Hudson is on his way. Where?

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WHEN DID y o u get the first ap­ proaches from the real world?

Well it all happened when Gra­ ham Lowndes and I did the music, such as it was, for the national tour o f the Australian Free Thea­ tre Group which was a wonder­ ful avant-garde theatre group.

Every little play that they did ended in the ritual sacrifice o f a young girl. No matter what the play happened to be about it was invariably about this particular little girl who now gets round in a clow n outfit and she was always ritually sacrificed - with fake b lood and all that sort o f thing at the end o f each play. And Graham and I did the music for them.

It was on that tour that I met Ted Robinson, who later on be­ came producer o f tile ABC radio program R oom to m ove w ho later got me and Graham and various others radio exposure on the R oom to m ove concerts. A techni­ cian from the ABC sneaked out a

dub o f the tape and went dow n to a music publisher. They got in touch with me, and apparently played it to Paul Hogan, or the people who were managing him Clyde Packer and Mike Willesee.

They sort o f came and said how would you like to com e down from Newcastle to Sydney and d o a bit o f work with Hogan. I think they might have had in mind working on Current affair, or working in the clubs with Hogan.

A nd I sort o f hung o ff a bit because o f all my debts and they offered me 12 months salary not a fortune but enough to keep going on. So I just came down.

But the funny thing was that it was mostly on the strength o f the Newcastle song, which made them think that I was a comedian. The first prom otion stories were that I was Australia’s Bill Cosby. In Mel­ bourne they expected me to be black. I was interviewed by a lady from a TV magazine down there and she said, “ Oh, I thought you would be much older and much darker. . . ” I then signed up with Leeds music publishing because they were going to publish all m y stuff and they want me to be a com ed­ ian - they keep saying the word “ com edian” - which to m y mind is someone who stands up and says lots o f funny jokes, speaking o f mother-in-laws, have you heard the one about . . . That’s sort o f the level these people think o f and this has been the biggest problem.

I think they expected they were getting Bill Cosby.

But yo u are working up you r own stage act with the Tonsilettes?

Yes, that all started when Brian Cadd came up to play a concert at the University o f NSW and Di Manson, who is sort o f the cultur­ al Brian Epstein, asked Jeannie Lewis and I to perform on the same bill. So we thought we’ll go mad and we’ll team up.

We did a program o f 13 great teenage death songs as the new Teen Angels. We all greased our hair up, wore identical number two tee shirts on account o f we were the support act and people like it, particularly things like the electric ukulele with wah wah pedal heavy solos.

When we did the Cadd concert, all the under 17s yelled and screamed and thought it was real­ ly great because they love that sort o f heavy music, and all the over 17s yelled and screamed and thought it was really great because they love a bit o f satire.

But the big program is to find enough venues to work. I’d be starving now if I wasnt on con­ tract. Unless I went out to work clubs. I dont like working clubs, simply because entertaining in clubs is, basically, pretty easy; anyone who can sing in tune, smile a lot and w h o’ s got a fancy suit can get up and be a club singer.

But this seems to be happening all over the place: p eop le who sang a

bit in the folk clubs but basically in kitchens or loungeroom s or what, who are n ow ready to p r o f­ fer their pearls have now here to go?

There seems to be a general direction towards the theatre, arty side; Margaret Roadknight tends to work theatre-art venues, Jean­ nie Lewis ditto, Glenn Cardier has worked mostly as support to rock groups, John Francis perhaps a little more into the rock scene, to student audiences and that sort o f stuff, but it’s pretty limited.

The thing that does link these people is com m on interaction on what started out as a folk music fr o n t. . . ?

Yeah, but they were m ostly people who were on the edge o f the folk music scene. Cos the folk music scene went from Peter, Paul and Mary/Kingston Trio kind o f folk singing and moved into politi­ cal areas - about the time Bob Dylan became the cult hero and American folk became com m er­ cial in Australia.

Australian folk never did any good. There was a sudden split with a conservative backlash o f people imitating 86 year old Sus­ sex farmers styles and with those who went out into the more plastic-type folk which was quick­ ly superseded by people splinter­ ing o f f in their ow n directions.

Which is where people have ended up now.

The people who didnt take part in the traditionalist backlash have on the whole com e through from being folk-singers capital F. They were people w ho used to sing with a guitar and if they were ladies they would toss their hair around quite a lot, but they are all more or less coming into a scene that used to be called contem por­ ary folk . . . Which is not a very good term, I dont like the word folkmusic at all.

What sort o f stu ff are you writ­ ing?

I’ve written a song that I’m pleased with: Girls in our town.

There were tw o girls, they were both only 19 or 20 and they were the most beautiful looking w o­ men. Two Newcastle girls who came down to visit us, and we were sitting around, mostly wo­ men, the loungeroom having a general discussion. It wasnt quite a womens lib meeting but it was more than people just sitting around the living room talking, and these tw o girls just sort o f sat there and they didnt say anything and they both went o ff to the bathroom together - which is your typical Newcastle behavior — so they were reasonably kindly confronted with m y song when they got back. They opened out a little bit after that. They just had no self-confidence, no awareness o f even their own attractiveness; they looked nice but even the fact that they were physically elegant meant nothing to them. They had no idea o f their ow n sexuality, no self-respect, because girls in that

situation usually end up having a best friend that they can trust.

They can’t talk to most women because if another woman gets to know them to o well, that gives her a weapon to steal your man, because that’s the number one sport in that kind o f area. You can’ t talk to other men because your husband thinks y o u ’re trying to get on with them, so there’s no one to talk to, so they end up, usually - if they are lucky - with a best friend they go shopping with. They look after each other’s kids, go to the beach together and things like that. It really becomes a non-practising lesbian relation­ ship in that that's the only person they can really relate to.

I th in k i t ’s a beaut song but i t surprises m e: you've always been very suspicious o f movements but th a t’s a very womens movement so ng. . .

Yeah, but that song tends to be, if anything, a criticism o f the womens liberation movement be­ cause when I saw anything o f the movement it was very elitist and consisted mainly o f young women who were working for their honors degree and were having hassles at home because the PhD student that they were living with was going out and getting pissed with his mates and not doing the washing frequently enough.

Girls in our tow n is part o f a whole cycle o f Newcastle songs that are being written not just by me, but by other people, about contemporary Australian life.

What others are there? Peter Mitchell has written quite a few: songs like Fish and chip shop in the rain, songs that tend to be about the reality o f people’s lives.

A re n t yo u w orried th a t what was a very real musical expression something yo u did ro u n d the table a fte r a meal - is being taken out, plastic wrapped and flogged in the entertainm ent super­ markets?

No, because when I work on stage I really enjoy doing it and I comm unicate (well, I think) with an audience. I really love doing it.

Just having a responsive audience stimulates you to d o something different next time, and that’s one o f the problem s with club work, people working clubs are only juke boxes singing Tie a ye llo w rib b o n ro u n d the o ld oak tree.

Which is based on the fantasies o f what people who run radio sta­ tions o f what people want to hear . . . they all clap.

What happened on the Don Lane show?

I went along to do the show as a promotional thing - a three minute free commercial - and I made the tactical mistake o f try­ ing to be myself.

I’m a bit flippant from time to time, and unfortunately Don Lane has no sense o f humor whatso­ ever. There are other TV com ­ peres: Kennedy, Sigley, Paul Ho­ gan, even if they act the fo o l they know what they are doing, they d o it consciously.

I dont think Don Lane has that kind o f sense o f humor that latch­ es on very quickly to send-up. I wrote m y own interview for him; one o f the questions was “ Do you think there is any place for humor in rock m usic?” And I gave a very deadpan answer: “ I certainly do Don, I get up there on stage sometimes and I smile, and I guffaw and chuckle and goodness me I even break down into laugh­ ter occasionally” . He just didnt know how to take it. People like Lane work in a field where enter­ tainers follow a very rigid pattern, and anyone who deviates they just dont know how to handle.

As a result, anyway, I fell on me arse.

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Teannie s featherless flight M A R G A R E T M A C IN TY R E O R Jeannie Lewis it had been a long hard day. Mine was the last in a long list o f interviews and as she said: “ I just want to sing, I dont want to talk any m ore.” However we sat down, played some music, switched on the tape and away we went. Con­ sidering she had been attempting to explain herself all day, she was remarkably patient and articulate, and was always interested in going beyon d the yes/no answer which so stifles an interview.

Jeannie first began singing pub­ licly while a student at Sydney university in the early 60s, and since then she has made her pres­ ence felt on the local scene in many ways. So many times she has seemed to be on the verge o f e indefinable “ big time” , so any times she has been hailed as new discovery: “ One o f the most ^extraordinary vocal talents Aus­ tralia has ever heard.” N ow at last she has an album out, her first — Free fa ll through featherless flig h t, released through EMI. The album was recorded in eight days “ which is a bit o f a joke, compared with the times allowed overseas groups” , and more than anything it speaks o f being free: “ If only we can learn to be free like birds . . . flight can be an on the ground thing as well.”

As anyone who has seen Jean­ nie knows, performing is what she really likes best, but she is happy with the overall result o f the album. “ A t first it was a bit strange, but on ce in the studio I just started to sing. I’d love to have lots o f time in a studio though, to experiment and try things out. There are effects that I use on stage that I felt restrained in trying in recording.”

Jeannie used the opportunity o f recording to d o more than simply reproduce her stage per­ form ance in the studio. She re­ quested Michael Carlos (ex Tully and Superstar conductor) to do the arrangements and recorded songs which she had felt unable to d o com plete justice to in perform­ ing live. “ In performance so often there is to o little time for rehears­ als, no charts written out, and songs like Billy Green’s D o n o t go gentle deserve m ore than that.”

As a result many o f the songs are written by Australian composers, friends and contemporaries o f Jeannie’s - songs which dem on­ strate a wealth o f songwriting tal­ ent not often tapped by Austra­ lian performers.

It is rare to see a singer so at home, as Jeannie Lewis is, with the various contem porary music styles. She is not an easily labelled singer, and she is happy to remain that way. She has performed with jazz groups, rock bands, theatrical productions: “ I pick a song be­ cause o f the song, not because o f the sphere it may belong to, and I interpret it in the way I think belongs to the song, not in a specifically jazz or folk or what­ ever way.” Influenced early in life by her father's collection o f American radical folk songs, she began singing folk. “ Since same o f the best poetry com es from folk music it suits my preoccupation with words. I’d rather sing no words at all than those set to some jazz songs.”

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Jeannie’ s preoccupation with lyrics is closely related to her political conscience, that thing so com m on among singers during the folk/rock boom , but so rare these days when it’s cooler not to care.

With Jeannie, however, it is a sin­ cere and thoughtful comm itment to a duty she feels that artists share. “ I keep hoping that a per­ former has the power to influence an audience. So often, o f course, it’s a matter o f preaching to the converted, but even if you can get only one person thinking - oh, I dont know. Sometimes I think it is very futile.”

In 1967 she was Australia’ s representative at the International Festival o f Contemporary Song in Cuba - “ one o f the best and most interesting experiences in m y life so far” - and there she met and learnt from singers from many countries who see their songs as a means o f change, however small. “ For instance, in countries like Chile, where V ictor Jara was shot recently while singing to the de­ tainees in the Santiago stadium; his death is dreadful, yet I feel that people singing in such coun­ tries really d o have an effect.”

The amount o f influence o f such songs in Australia? Well, in Jean­ nie’ s opinion, one can only try.

It is hard to understand the logic behind an industry which leaves a major talent like Jeannie Lewis unrecorded for so long.

Even now, the sleeve o f the album brings to attention the fact that it has been made with the financial assistance o f the Australian Coun­ cil o f the Arts. This assistance consists o f a guarantee o f $2000 to EMI against a loss on Jeannie’s album. Jeannie voiced her own criticisms o f this grant when it went through. T o her it seems ludicrous that a com pany the size o f EMI should receive financial help from anyone.

As a member o f the Music Board o f the Australian Council for the Arts herself, she feels that more should be done by the board to help contemporary Australian music, not only in the form o f grants to the artists, but in the initiating o f projects which will generate work and support for those artists. “ I’d also like to see the record companies actually getting out and promoting the Australian artists they record, and then using their parent companies in England and America as channels to pro­ mote Australian artists overseas.

So many talented Australian mu­ sicians are unable to make a living out o f music.”

She was recently incensed by a piece o f advice handed her by a well-fed Queensland politician who said: “ Jeannie, you must know pain, and the dignity o f performing, through the dignity o f suffering.” Jeannie’ s reaction? “ What a load o f crap!”

Now that she has made her record she has bright plans for future concerts, probably one with Reg Livermore in Sydney in february, and also plans for travel­ ling again with a band, since she loathes working alone. Eventually, o f course, we will lose her over­ seas, so do try and catch the record and a performance or two before she goes.

T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , december 11-17, 1973 - P a g e 19

FIDDDDLERCN the HOOR

OR MOST people contem ­ porary music is rock 'n roll.

But this term has lost any real meaning, covering as it does every­ thing from the electronic music o f the Pink Floyd to the jazz o f the Soft Machine and Miles Davis to the banal ballads o f so called " p o p ” singers to the electrified folkmusics o f California and else­ where. It’s all a far cry from the simple rhythms o f Bill Haley’ s R ock around the clo ck and Chuck Berry’ s Johnny B. Goode.

While most contemporary music has been absorbed in the mass-media appellative ro c k there is another contemporary form that has escaped this mindless term only to be discredited by other misnomers. Sometimes call­ ed "contem porary classical” or "m o d e m ” , avant-garde music dif­ fers from rock in its direct refer­ ences to the classical tradition (though there is a lot o f pastiche classical in some recent rock), most particularly in its rejection o f classical concepts o f melody, harmony, tonality and rhythm.

In this it stands apart from rock and has often been mistaken­ ly regarded as inordinately seri­ ous. This is largely resultant from its patronage by the same stuffshirts who support the museum music o f the ABC and its sym­ phony orchestras. But as time goes on and we get further away from the time o f the grand roman­ tic composers, those that cling to them are finding it harder and harder to com e to terms with the contemporary avant-garde.

In many respects it should be easier for rock audiences to appreciate the avant-garde - fo r their music is not always serious and is often entertaining, amusing and some­ times downright hilarious.

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One man in Australia who is helping dispel some o f these illu­ sions is David Ahern who mainly works in Sydney with his group A-Z, though he has performed interstate and in Europe. Ahern is possibly the best known o f the small group o f young Australian composers who have chosen to work outside the popular field o f rock. a He achieved some sort o f notoriety years ago when t t il^ s Sydney symphony orchestra per­ formed his commissioned work Ned K e lly. More than half the audience in the Sydney town hall walked out in disgust and few o f those that stayed applauded this uncompromising attempt to jolt the ABC audience into the third quarter o f the twentieth century.

Most hadnt even com e to terms with the music o f the first two

quarters. Sydney responded with the same indignant deafness that greeted the premiere o f Stravin­ sky’ s R ite o f spring at the begin­ ning o f the century.

Undaunted, Ahern embarked on a series o f concerts with his own group A-Z (which expands from time-to-time to include most o f Sydney’ s adventurous musi­ cians) which in their way have been essentially lessons in the post-war history o f avant-garde music.

N ot long after the town hall debacle Ahern reappeared at Sydney’ s conservatorium o f music to stage a John Cage piece fo r prepared piano. The people at the con freaked and banned it, fearing for their concert grand. Such music was taboo. But Ahern came back with a com position o f his own, played by A-Z on their ow n invented electric instruments.

They generated a dense wall o f electronic sound fo r exactly an hour, much o f it above and below hearing thresholds, so that it was physically “ felt” as well as heard.

Many people were again driven from the auditorium; others curled up in their seats as the sound to o k over, pushing on e into and opium-like somnolence. When the music suddenly stopped silence moved across the audi­ torium in large three dimensional blocks, the ions in the air so overcharged they appeared physi­ cally perceivable. This was music in the realm o f magic.

• Such magic is well understood by the modern masters Cage and Stockhausen. They have studied zen and have brought to western musical traditions some o f the purity and mystery o f eastern music. A hem studied with Stock­ hausen in Cologne and helped organise an Australian visit by the master, introducing much o f his previously unheard (in Australia, that is) music. While the elec­ tronic experiments o f Stock­ hausen and Cage influenced rock musicians like the Beatles in the late 60s, it was more or less their 50s experiments that were picked up on. Their work today enters new realms. PVS, Hf As well as electronic work, Ahern’ s “ history” concerts have also m ixed media, emphasising the theatrical concepts integral to much m odern music. S o far A-Z has not been able to achieve a local marriage o f the arts that led in the US to the legendary col­ laborations o f Cage, Cunningham, Raushenberg and Olson which in turn gave birth to the new art o f happenings. But as exercises in musical education the mixed media works o f A -Z have suggest­

ed many o f the possibilities for new collaborations o f the kind that long ago gave birth to grand opera. In particular, I would cite their performances o f works by Mauricio Kagel which have some­ thing o f a cabaret Voltaire dada flavor about them.

R ock music has absorbed other contemporary musical ideas be­ yond those o f the 50s Stock­ hausen and Cage. Y ok o Ono, her­ self a leading avant-garde com ­ poser in New York in the early 60s, has taken with her some o f and zen-like concepts found in

o f music in their audience. They see n o point in covering old ground, because that is already known and familiar. Instead their concerts are points o f departure for explorations into new realms.

These explorations are not merely in the potential o f instru­ ments (whether traditional or new inventions), but in the role o f audio perception, and in many cases its relation to visual and tactile perception, and the phenomenon o f synesthesia (the confusion o f senses). The hypno­ sis and druglike effects o f their music are phenomena often well the work o f La Monte Young. I known in oriental and so-called myself presented a La Monte Young work in Sydney back in primitive cultures, and with the 1965 and the com poser gave the aid o f m odem technology can be instruction that it was open-end­ explored in relation to con ­ ed, could last one minute, 24 temporary society. Our radio hours, days for that matter. The range is also explored (just as performer was the key. avant-garde filmers extend our My performer stretched it to visual range) and just what we 15 minutes before succumbing to hear, and what we think we hear, audience hostility and completing is thoroughly examined. Much o f the work. (The pianist placed a this threshold has obvious paral­ bucket o f water and a bale o f hay lels in rock. on the stage - the work was over A -Z ’s latest work is called Cinewhen the piano fed itself or was music. It is a film by David Ahern. fed by the pianist.) In 1971 I saw It uses film ’s capacity to truncate A-Z musicians performing a La visual-time while maintaining con ­ M onte Young work in the Yellow stant audio-time, to explore the House, scraping a violin b ow on a changes in tone (among other w ooden floor. It went on for things) in a Beethoven quartet in hours, and the performer was un­ which the performers wear a varie­ perturbed b y - the audience (or ty o f gloves. Visually this has its lack o f it).

H I dada elements, but it is far more Another influential com poser than a burlesque o f the overwhose work has been introduced indulgence in museum music. In­ to Australia b y A-Z is Terry Riley. teresting variations take place in Riffs from his w ork crop up in the the music, and the film montage is S oft Machine and Pink Floyd. used expertly in enabling these Except they tend to terminate visual:; ' aberrations to com e them before the simple repetitious through clearly and the audio­ build up o f hypnotic effects that visual exploration to run its are essential aspects o f the work. course succinctly.

A -Z has also im ported Terry For those living in Sydney I R iley’s M usic w ith balls, a video­ recommend the next A-Z concert graphic film that shows an appli­ whenever it might be. A-Z has cation o f color television that recently been allowed in the simply hasnt been considered in Opera House (albeit the music the planning for the introduction room). Watch out for when they o f color TV to Australia. take over the main concert hall. iT A -Z have also extended their For those elsewhere w ho have not music beyond the consumeryet had the opportunity to see the orientation that is com m on to work o f Ahern and A-Z, I suggest both classical and rock perform­ you watch out for Cinemusic, ances. In on e amazing evening in which, being a film, is more easily Sydney’s C ellblock theatre, A-Z transportable and can therefore presented an excerpt from C oo~ * reach areas impossible for the nelius Cardew’s G re a t5 d igesP t^ group itselfcsS which involved the whole audi­ And next tfixe you race o f f to ence participating in the creation see Leon Russell or Chuck Berry o f the work. While this at first remember that they too, quite seemed intimidating it soon be­ like the orchestras o f the ABC, are came liberating, and as is often playing museum music, and that the case with contemporary avantthere is another kind o f con ­ garde music, infected the auditemporary music that will perhaps ence-performers as ifsom eon e had outlive rock which, despite predicslipped them a mild hallucinogen, tions to the contrary, has taken an Just as with rock musicians, : ^ ord in a tely long time to die. the contem porary musical avant~~ , garde assume a simple knowledge

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poison in your pantry JA C K R O X O N F YOU think it’ s difficult learning about the proteins, fats, carbohy­ drates and calories that make up food, y ou ’re dead right. But there are many chemicals used in the production, pro­ cessing and storage o f foods that make the task almost impossible. These food additives are not always declared on the labeL Micro organisms such as bacteria and fungi cause fo o d to deteriorate, so pres­ ervation o f fo o d is aimed at prevent­ ing these micro organisms from growing in and on the food. Because o f our demand for a reliable fo o d supply, we have given fo o d technologists licence to tamper with our tucker!

A ccording to Chemical and engineer­ ing news, Americans consumed three pounds o f fo o d additive per person in 1965.

What these figures do not include are accidental additions to food. Residues o f pesticides such as DDT or malathion used around our fo o d during growth or pro­ duction are not meant to be there. Fibres/ from packaging materials and chemicals'' used as fertilisers also find their way into our food s by accident.

Generally, chemical additives are grouped according to their function.

ENZYMES include things like meat tenderisers.

VITAMINS and AMINO ACIDS are used to supplement or replace those missing or damaged as a result o f process­ ing.

ANTIMICROBIAL PRESERVATIVES are a very important group because they extend the storage life o f many foods by preventing spoilage. They ensure fo o d goes into mouths rather than rubbish bins.

ANTIOXIDANTS generally prevent fats and oils in food becoming rancid.

AC I PUL ANTS are com m on to most kitchens. Citric, acetic, tartaric acids are but a few used to improve taste and preserve the food s to some extent.

SEQUESTRANTS are chemicals that prevent trace amounts o f metals from causing fo o d to deteriorate. These metals accelerate the reactions that cause food to oxidise for example.

GUMS are very com m on thickening agents and add b od y to many processed' foods. They can com e from seaweed and plants but some are synthetic.

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS make life easier because they help disperse powders. Ever tried mixing cocoa powder into cold milk? Most parents daily bless the fo o d technologist who added lecithin to cocoa making it mix with milk. The effect o f surface active agents on absorp­ tion o f nutrients and medication is not clear.

FLAVORINGS are numbered in their thousands. There is a small risk in our use

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regarded as safe becomes an approved chemical.

Who is going ou t o f their way to prove that the chemical is harmful? The only way most are discovered as harmful is by observation o f the consumers. No fo o d chemical, used in the recommended quantities, has actually killed anyone, but there are many people that died o f cancers that may have been initiated by a food chemical or drug.

The yellow azo dye called butter yellow, because it was added to butter, had long been shown to produce liver cancer and has been banned as a fo o d additive.

This finding has alerted health authorities throughout the world to be on the look ou t for adverse reactions. Being on the “ look ou t” is an enormous and costly job for health authorities leaving most o f the responsibility in the hands o f the chemical’s original manufacturer.

The non-nutritive sweetener cyclamate has been banned in most countries (but not Australia) because it is converted by about a third o f the population to a chemical known to be capable o f produc­ ing bladder cancers. Large quantities o f this chemical are consumed in low-calorie foods and drinks.

The doubts about nitrosamines from nitrites in cured meats and fish; the suspected allergic reactions from ben­ zoates, and the inconclusive findings with BHT, the anti-oxidant, confuse us all.

Most rational people feel that if there is the slightest doubt, then drop it until it is proven safe. Dont let's wait until it is Y W sosn proven unsafe! °S'/. P rotein t-2'/’ . j] There is a certain mysticism about \Crl'bohycJ'<9t£ 4-/' food chemicals because considerable training is needed to understand them. If we dont have that training we have to food place a lot o f trust in the fo o d technolo­ They d o us good gists, food chemists and the medicoonly in the sense scientific people who act as our health that they save time ii guardians. fo o d preparation.

Most o f the technical information They also make many about drugs and fo o d chemicals com es food s available that from the World Health Organisation, the would not keep unless F ood and Agricultural Organisation and we got them straight o f f the farm. various governmental agencies - the most But critical consumers would say that famous being the US F ood and Drug adding a non- nutritive chemical Administration. They pass information to to good fo o d is non­ our own National Health and Medical sense, and adding it to lowgrade fo o d is Research Council who in turn pass it on deceptive. to state legislators.

Most people are not happy about the Generally speaking, our bodies can idea o f chemicals being added to their process these chemicals in our foods foods. They are less happy knowing that fairly effectively so that they d o not many chemicals are there for the conven­ damage our tissues. ience and the profit o f the manufacturer.

Unfortunately, there are sufficient The manufacturer will argue that the well documented examples o f fo o d ad­ profit is passed on to the consumer as ditives that have deleterious effects on cheaper foods, but it is a little difficult our bodies. for a consumer to bill the manufacturer The MSG story o f brain damage to the for medical expenses at some later date as developing brain is one o f the situations was illustrated so vividly by the thalido­ where statutory bodies like the F ood and mide case.

Drug Administration ( FDA) in the US Many foods d o not declare on their demanded very conclusive evidence be­ labels what chemicals nave been added. fore restricting the chemical. Their at­ The confused consumer has no choice but titude is that, in the absence o f evidence to ban all processed foods. to the contrary, a chemical generally

o f flavorings because they are used in minute amounts and are generally chemically identical to the naturally occurring material.

A flavoring agent can make a low grade fo o d appear to be what it isnt. a FLA V O R (?

ENHANCERS are a scientific curiosity and are most interesting chemicals. i

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M onosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer originally found in certain seaweeds. It is thought to be a taste-bud m odifier making the taste buds more sensitive to certain flavors. Al­ though generally regarded as safe for the adult b od y , it had not been tested for safety in babies and was recently deem­ ed capable o f causing brain damage.

N o one knows for sure how many children are walking the streets today suffering some form o f brain damage.

Unfortunately our con cept o f sub-lethal effects is not very good. We consider things dangerous only if there is a corpse ac pviHpnrp I have left COLORING ADDITIVES and the NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETEN­ ERS last, because they are the fo o d additives for which there is little reason­ able need.

Many processing aids, emulsifiers, desiccants, flo w promoting agents, hum idify­ ing agents, drying agents and the like, have some place in the fo o d technology.

The other additives are modifiers and even “ disguisers” which can be used to make fo o d appear what it is not. It is doubtful if these modifiers have any legitimate role in foods.

Apart from vitamins and amino acids, fo o d additives d o not add nutrient to

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* Ken M cEldowney, a freelance journalist living in the Bay Area, was c o -d te c to r o f the AllAmerican Hamburger Test for San Francisco’s consumer-oriented magazine The Bay Area Guardian.

EORGE AND Mary Conklin used to eat their hamburger rare until one night George had to make a midnight dash to the emergency room o f the local

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hospital. Chances are what caused the mild fo o d poisoning was the bacteria that had crawled into the package o f meat they had cook ed that night.

Now when the Conklins have to eat hamburger they make sure it is well-done. However, even that not enough to kill all the bacteria that infest many o f the millions o f packages o f hamburger sold to consumers each year.

Hamburger, the central fixture in the American dietary pantheon, under scrutiny for the first time. Tests, conducted b y con ­ sumer organisations in seven major US cities, have turned up enough bacteria in many samples o f meat (taken right from super­ market counters) to cause any­ thing from an upset stomach to fo o d poisoning.

After several newspapers across the country conducted tests o f their own, discovering contamina­ tion o f hamburger was wide­ spread, newspapers and TV sta­ tions in seven major cities decided to undertake a coordinated na­ tionwide test. With the help o f national consumer organisations, the All-American Hamburger Test was bom .

On the same day in each city, reporters purchased hamburger from the meat counters o f Ameri­ ca’s largest supermarket chains for a series o f sophisticated labora­ tory analyses. The results, while far less dramatic than the old stories o f rats ground up into sausage rolls, were potentially as dangerous from a health stand­ point.

Fecal contamination was found in two-thirds o f all the samples tested. Fecal bacteria originate in the intestines o f animals and people. They can enter hamburger in several ways: butchers failing to wash their hands after using the

toilet, a sewage line backing up and seeping into waterlines used to clean grinders and processing areas, or a butcher accidentally slitting open the intestines o f an animal during processing.

Each sample o f meat was also tested for coliform bacteria, which produces odors and slimi­ ness in hamburger and which can cause mild fo o d poisoning. Vir­ tually all 129 samples o f meat contained more than the 100 coliform bacteria per gram that Consumers Union considers a reasonable limit. Two-thirds o f the samples exceeded the 1000 per gram limit which Consumers Union considers the upper limit o f acceptability.

George and Mary Conklin are warier these days about buying meat. But without a microscope and their own testing lab, they have no alternative but to take their chances on badly inspected meat markets or becom e vegeta­ rians.

Pacific News Service.

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A^guide to w hat s on in the week ahead : Dec 1 1th- T7tTT

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Lnw gfieiioU * [MELBOURNE FO LK Peter Parkhill, Frank Tray­ nors, 1 0 0 Lt. L onsdale St, C ity.

JA ZZ H ot C ity B um p Band, Pros­ p ect Hill h otel, Kew .

F IL M S G O W E S T , D A Y A T TH E R A C E S , Maxx B io s , MelI b ou rn e U ni, U n ion , 8 p m , I $ 1 .7 0 , $ 1 .2 0 (stu ). ] THE W HOLE SKY, I A K R A A N T , N F T A , Indian Films, C arlton theatre, Faraday St, 7 .4 0 , $ 1 .2 0 plus $ 3 .0 0 m em bership.

M E E T IN G S “ R etu rning t o w o r k ” for w o m e n at D ia m on d V alley L e a r n in g C en tre, 4 3 5 .9 0 6 0 .

R A D IO S IE G F R IE D , from the I B ayreuth Fest, ’ 73. 3 A R , 7.30.

TV I FEEL THE W ARM TH , A B V -2 , 1 0 .3 0 , C leo Laine I and J o h n D ankw orth.

GALLERY R ealities, special preview o f P h otograp h y b y A th o l Shm ith and Paul C ox , 6 0 R o ss St, T oora k , 6 .0 0 pm , Free.

2 Z l£ d n £ & d a u

ROCK Fahm , W hitehorse h otel.

A ztecs, Sebastian H ardy, C r o x to n park.

FO LK B ushw ackers and Bullockies, Polaris Inn, N. C arlton.

M ike O ’ R ou rk e, Frank Traynors.

SY DN EY T n P c J a n

B LUES, F O L K , JA ZZ JE F F B U LL : Stage D o o r Tavern.

ABBEY JA ZZ BAND: L o rd D u d ley h otel, Paddo.

ECLIPSE A L L E Y F IV E : V an ity Fair h otel.

M E R V A C H E SO N T R IO : B istro, 123 A v o ca st, R an d w ick.

D O N D E S IL V A ’S J A Z Z B A N D : O ld Push.

D IC K H U G H E S, SOLO P IA N O : Frenchs* Tavern

theatre TALES FROM NOONAM E E N A — The M arionette Theatre o f A u st; Opera H ouse. 1 1 .0 0 am , 2 .0 0 pm , A L L W EEK. W H A T IF Y O U D IE D T O ­ M O R R O W — David Wil­ lia m son : O pera H ouse.

K ID S P A N T O M IM E : Pil­ grim theatre, 264 Pitt st.

FR E E .

F IL M S FILLM O R IJ — Santana, The D ea d , H o t Tuna, Q u ick Silver: M anly Silver S creen 9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 .

(A ll w eek ).

NFT SUR tE A LISM D ead o f Nig] t, Cul d e S ac: Aust. G ov t. Centre Theatrette, 7 .3 0 .

8MM FILM M A K IN G C O ­ OP: S c r e e n in g s , Old C hurch. $ 0 .6 0 , $ 0 .3 0 .

H E N D R IX : Village T w in 1 , D o u b le B ay. (A ll w eek).

TH E H IR E L IN G : Village T w in 2, D o u b le Bay. (A ll w eek ).

T R A S H — A n d y W arhol: N ew A rts, G lebe.

(A ll w eek ).

TV TH E SUN A L S O R ISE S — Ava G ardner, T yron e Pow er, E rrol F lyn n. L ots o f m a c h o : Channel 10, 9 pm .

C LASSIC A L TH E SLEE PIN G B E A U T Y t — A ust. Ballet C o : Opera lo u s e .

MONITOR: Chris & Eva 51.9563 or 51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7 Irving Ave, Windsor, 3181.

JA ZZ

THEATRE

Frank Trayn or, Beaumaris h otel.

Skylights, P rospect Hill.

Jerry and the R eb o p p e rs, Stu dley Park h o te l, 4 1 3 Joh n son St, C ollin g w o o d .

Free.

E V E O F D E S T R U C T IO N ; r o c k o p e ra w ith K orn on ia , D a d d y ’ s Friends, T erry and F ay W hite, C am berw ell Civic C entre, 4 2 .4 9 3 4 , thursday, 8pm , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .5 0 (stu ) w ith ch em icals.

F IL M S D U C K SOUP, Marx Bros and M A N ON TH E F L Y ­ IN G TRAPEZE, W.C. Fields, M elb ou rn e Uni, U n ion . See tuesday.

F IL M S

T IL L IE A N D GU S and TV THE O L D F A S H IO N E D W A Y , W .C . F ields d o u b le , In -C on cert, rock blues, M elb ou rn e U ni. U n ion , see co u n try and western, etc., tuesday.

H S V -7 , 1 0 .0 0 .

R A D IO

R A D IO L A T E L IN E , 3 A R , 1 0 .1 5

Ivan

Dlich,

IlUHMbg ROCK M yriad, C olored Balls, Nemesis, Sid R u m p o , Caul­ field T ow n Hall.

Tanas Mandala, B ourke and Wills, P ow er H ouse.

Hush, M atthew Flinders.

Mississippi, Sebastian Har­ d y , W altzing M atilda h o te l.

A ztecs, A b e l L od g e, White­ horse h otel.

H o t C ity Bum p Band, U pp, C ro x to n Park.

A G IF T , W . C. F ield s, M el­ G len T o m a s e tti, O u tp o s t. b o u rn e U ni, U n io n , see D u tch Tilders, Jim Cant­ tu esda y . w ell, C om m u n e.

CONCERT FO R BAN G LA JAZZ DESH , L A T E , Trak, 1 1 .4 5 , Dave R an k in , L e m o n Tree, $ 2 . 00 .

C arlton (a rv o ).

R A D IO T h e Plant, P olaris Inn. 1 0 1 W ays t o H eaven, 3 A R , Skylights, arvo, Yarra Yar1 1am , various b e lie fs b y ra Jazz B and, eve, P rosp ect various religions.

Hill.

L A T E L IN E , M arxism w ith R aliq A h , 3 A R , 1 0 .1 5 .

TV M ONTY PY TH O N ’S F L Y IN G C IR C U S , A B V -2 , 1 0 .1 5 .

Friday ROCK

Big Push, W hitehorse h o te l.

S ebastian H a rd y, M ississip­ p i, International h o te l.

C o lo r e d B alls, A tlas, B ro a d m e a d o w s T o w n Hall.

L o rd D o g , M a tth ew F lind­ ers h otel.

N em esis, Iva n h oe Y o u th Club.

FO LK Hush, R e m b ra n d t R e c e p ­ Diane Hollings, J o h n and tion s (gay).

Juanita, Graham S m ith and Flight, 2 7 0 L on sd a le St, m o re ! Dan O ’ C onnell, Carl­ (G a y lib ). ton .

FOLK D anny S p oon er, Tankerville Arm s, N ich olson St. N elson, e tc., O u tp o s t, 52 J ohn C row le, Frank T ray­ Collins St. nors.

B u sh w a ckers and Bullock ies, Polaris Inn. JA Z Z Peter Parkhill, Diane H o l­ Dave R ankin, A lm a h otel, lins, Bruce M c N ico l, Frank 3 2 Chapel St. Traynors.

Jerry and the R eb op p e rs , Tavern F o lk , U n io n h otel.

S tu dley Park h otel, John­ Trad F o lk , C om m u n e. son St, C ollin g w ood .

JA ZZ O w en Y eatm an, P rospect Hill.

R e d O n ion s, P ro sp e ct Hill.

Dave R an kin , R ailw a y C lu b h o te l, Pt. M elb ou rn e.

E X P E R IM E N T A L M elbourn e N ew M usic En­ F IL M S sem ble, C om m u n e, N. M el­ Y O U C A N ’T C H E A T A N bourne.

H O N E ST M A N and I T ’S

Saturday

EV E N TS Y O G A : W ayside Chapel, 6 pm.

Itarnday

Sunday

J o h n and Juanita, Mike O ’ R o u rk e , J o h n C row le, Joh n G raham , Frank Tray­ nors.

Phil D a y, Dan O ’ C onnell, 3p m .

ROCK IN T O : F iddlers V in e, 1 15a C r o n u lla st, Cronulla, 5 2 3 .8 0 1 9 .

OTHER END: B righton h otel, t o Saturday.

F R A N C IS B U T L E R ’S 6 9 E R S : O cean ic h o te l

ROCK

L O C O /W E E D : Fiddlers V in e (see W ednesday).

F IN C H : O cean ic hoteL F R A N C IS BUTLERS 6 9 E R S : B lack Bull, H aber field.

C O U N T R Y R A D IO : Bal m ain leagues.

M IG H T Y K O N G : M anly V ale h otel.

F R A N C IS BUTLERS 69E R S — H OT R O C K E T: B la ck tow n civ ic cen tre.

TE P O IS : O cean ic h otel.

BLU E G R A S S A N D T R A ­ D IT IO N A L : R ed L io n hoteL PO R T JACKSON JAZZ B A N D : Stage D o o r Tavern.

U N IT Y J A Z Z B A N D : Old Push.

THEATRE W H A T IF Y O U D IE D T O M O R R O W : O pera H ouse.

F IL M S

BLUES, F O L K , JA Z Z T R A D I T IO N A L FOLK: E lizabeth hoteL P O R T JA C K S O N T R IO : Stage D o o r Tavern.

M E R V A C H E S O N T R IO : Bellevue h otel, Paddo.

JE F F B U L L ’ S B A N D : O ld Push

THEATRE W H A T IF Y O U D IE D TOM O R R O W : See tues.

F IL M S CRYSTAL V O YA G E R — Surfing film w orld prem ­ iere. W orth seeing. Opera H ouse, 7 .0 0 p m . $ 2 .5 0 .

F IL L M O R E : See tuesday

CLASSICAL TH E S L E E P I N G B E A U T Y : Opera H ouse

E V E N TS POETRY R E A D IN G S : O ld ch u rch , 8 pm , 3 1 .6 2 7 0 .

F A N T A S Y F A IR — Kids festival (1 2 -1 6 th ). Gardens and Lake Burley G riffin , Canberra.

TV G E N TLE S T R A N G E R S — D o c o . o n overseas students, Channel 10, 9 pm .

O F MEN A N D W OM EN — Jackie C oop er, L ee R e m ick , Channel 7, 9 pm . •

friday

ROCK

B L U E S ,F O L K ,J A Z Z

B L U E S ,F O L K ,J A Z Z JU N IO R A N D TH E G O L D T O P S : Fiddlers V in e.

P A C T F O L K : Y W C A , Liv­ e r p o o l street.

CELLAR FO LK CLUB: L iv e rp o o l street.

SYDN EY F O L K SON G C L U B : E lizabeth hoteL D IC K HUGHES T R IO : Stage D o o r Tavern.

B IL L H A E S L E R ’ S J A Z Z B A N D : C ricketers Arm s hoteL Surry Hills.

Doc W IL L IS : A lb u ry h oteL Darlinghurst.

JE F F B U L L : U n ity hall h oteL Balm ain.

CRYSTAL VOYAGER: See W ednesday, 7 .0 0 pm , 9 .0 0 pm.

F IL L M O R E : See tuesday.

N F T S U R R E A L IS M — Pet­ er Ib b e tso n , Pandora and the F lyin g D u tch m a n : A ust. G ov t. C entre T hea­ THEATRE tre tte, 7 .3 0 p m .

K IN G R IC H A R D II — BilC H IN A F IL M S : Film ­ l y Shakes: Opera H ouse. m akers C o -o p , 8 .1 5 p m .

W ICK IN W IC K E D N E S S: Pact C o -o p , 2 6 4 Pitt street, TV 8.3 0 .

IN W HICH WE S E R V E , N oel C ow a rd , M ichael F IL M S W ilding, J o h n Mills. 9 pm , M A N L Y Silver S creen L ate C hannel 1 0.

S h ow , 1 1 .3 0 .

CRYSTAL VOYAGER: CLA S SIC A L O pera H ouse, 7.0 0 pm , TH E S L E E P I N G 9 .0 0 p m .

B E A U T Y : O pera H ouse.

N F T Classic Series — L ola , ABC FREE L U N C H L es B iches: AM P Theatre, H O U R C O N C E R T : T o w n 7 .30pm . hall, 1 pm .

C H IN A F IL M S — Film ­ m akers C o -o p , 8 .1 5 p m .

EVENTS NSW U N I F O O D C O -O P : Fruit, veggies, nuts, etc.

R o u n d h o u se law n — very ch eap , 5-8 p m .

S A L V A T IO N ARM Y: Plays in M artin p lace, eve­ ning. A m ust f o r ston ed late n ight shoppers.

ANANDA MARGA — m e d it a t io n : W a y s id e ch apel, 8 pm .

TH E A TR E W ORKSHOP — o p e n t o all: O ld ch urch , 7.30. In fo . 3 1 .6 2 7 0 .

C LASSIC A L TH E S L E E P I N G B E A U T Y : O pera H ou se, 8 pm .

E V E N TS G IL B E R T A N D S U L L I­ VAN S O C IE T Y present “ The Yeom en of the G uard” : S cien ce hall, UnL o f NSW, 6 .3 0 pm .

C AM P P A R T Y — gaiety and the usual garish gaggle: Balm ain to w n hall, 8 pm. $ 2 . 00 .

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M IX E D

O p en in g N ight, Joannas, 3 7 6 L y g o n St, C arlton, M arcie P uffin , S tick BraithTanas M andala, Pendulum , w aite, F u sion w ith P eter R a y B row n , Chelsea Civic M cK a y o n k e y b o a rd ! Dave Centre.

R a n k in , A lan B row n , but no fo o d .

M ississippi, S outhside S ix, $ 1 .5 0 8pm -2am . (a rv o ).

C o lo r e d Balls, Buster K ID S B row n , Teazers.

R a y B row n , H enchm en, G E O R G E % A N D D R A G ­ ON 1 : C larem ont theatre, W hitehorse h otel.

A tlas, Sid R u m p o , N em ­ 1 4 C larem ont St, S outh esis, S t J o se p h ’s, Bruns­ Yarra, 2pm . w ick .

Big Push, C r o x to n Park.

Fat Ahroy, H ush, S ky­ hooks, Beaumaris Civic Centre.

Mississippi, W averley R o c k , R OCK W averley H igh S c h o o l, Cnr. M a ck en zie T heory* T eaz­ H untingdale and W averley ers.

Rd. F antasy, C r o x t o n Park.

H ush, M atth ew Flinders, Sebastian H a rd y, Icelands. (a rv o ).

FOLK M o o n s h in e , M a tth e w F linders h o te l, (e ve ).

Marg R o a d k n ig h t, M ike “ A H ead ’ s T urn” , O rm o n d O ’ R o u rk e , O u tp o s t Inn. H a ll, S k y h o o k s, R o c k D ann y S p o o n e r and G or­ G ranite, M acken zie T h e o ­ d o n M a cIn ty re, Frank ry, J o h n Graham , B ourke Traynors. and Wills, Sebastian H ardy JAZZ & V IP , B righton T o w n Hall.

B ria n B row n Quartet, C om m u n e.

FOLK

R OCK

M 0 N IT 0 R : Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. 0 . Box 23, Surry Hills.

ABC FREE LUNCH HOUR CONCERT — S y d n ey S ym p . O rch : T o w n hall. 1 pm .

H A N D E L ’ S M E SSIA H — W illo u g h b y S ym phony O rchestra: In form a tio n : 4 1 2 .4 8 3 8 .

F IL M S MY L IT T L E C H IC K A ­ D E E , M ae W est and W .C. F ie ld s , and HORSE F E A T H E R S , M arx Bros, M e lb o u rn e Uni, U n ion , see tuesday.

M E E T IN G S

$ 1 .0 0 (stu ), 196 C hurch St, R ic h m o n d .

W A L T Z IN G M A T IL D A — a national p a n to m im e w ith t o m a to sauce, Pram F a c­ to ry , 3 2 5 D ru m m o n d St, R A D IO C arlton. (C losed m on d a ys). $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 (T er­ R ock G e n e s is , d o c u ­ 8 .3 0 , m en tary o f ro c k , 3L O , tiary stu ) $ 1 .2 0 (sec. stu ) m atinees frid a y and sat.

10am .

A F L E A IN H E R E A R : M IX E D Pum pkin Players, tues-sat, G reat S tum ble F orw ard, 3 1 4 C hurch St, R ic h m o n d , Captain M a tch b o x , P on y $1.50.

R ides, Billycarts and sim­ SH O W BIZ *73: a review ilar insanities t o brighten w ith a large variety o f th e lives o f the p eop le o f top ics, T ait theatre, 1 0 7 R ic h m o n d , E lizabeth St, L eicester St, C arlton , frisun, 8 .1 5 , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 4 p m , F ree. (stu ). F ree sherry.

G reek dancing, F itzro y Gardens, 2pm .

B ON ES b y R o g e r Pulvers: a surrealist experien ce b y a O TH ER S Japanese lecturer.

La C h e ck o u t M yers W indows. M am a, w ed -sun. 9 .0 0 p m , $ 1.0 0 .

THE BALD P R A IA D O N N A : I o n e s c o ’ s anti­ play o f 1 9 5 0 , C larem ont theatre, 1 4 C la rem on t St, S o u th Yarra, 8 .3 0 , thurssun, $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 (stu).

FO L K "Phil D a y , Frank T rayn ors.

A cu p u n ctu re and Fringe M e d ic in e , T h eosop h ica l s o c , A th e n a e u m , C ollins St.

tfenday

TV

JA ZZ T ed V in ing T rio, P rospect Hill.

O TH ER S P o o r T o m ’s P oetry Band, C om m un e.

N IA G G R A ?

La Mama, 8 .3 0

TH EA TR E S

SNOW Q U E E N : based o n T H E P R O F E S S IO N A L S th e fairy tale, perform ed and LAW RENCE O F b y ju n ior students o f the A R A B I A , D e n d y , Brigh­ A cto rs Theatre S ch ool to n . 5 .3 0 p m . C oncessions. Thurs-Sun, 8 .3 0 , $ 2 .5 0 ,

TV

Saturday

street and St Peter’ s lane, Kings Cross, 8 .1 5 , in fo 5 8 7 .3 3 5 8 .

SO U N D S O F P E O P L E : Pil­ grim theatre, 264 Pitt street, 8.30.

FIL M S CRYSTAL VOYAGER: O pera H ouse, 7.00pm , 9 .0 0 p m .

C H IN A F IL M S : Film ­ m akers C o -o p , 6 .0 0 p m .

C H A R L IE , TH E L IO N IN W IN T E R : N ew Arts, G leb e, 1 1 .1 5 p m .

C LASSICAL

ROCK TH E S L E E P I N G B E A U T Y : O pera H ouse, 2 S E A L : F iddlers V in e.

COUNTRY R A D I O , p m & 8 pm .

FLAKE: Taren Point EV E N TS Y o u th C lub.

M IG H T Y K O N G : M anly TH E Y E O M E N O F THE V ale.

G U A R D : see friday.

T E P O IS : O cean ic hoteL THE S O U N D O F PEOPLE 6 9 E R S : B lack Bull, Haber- — P o e try W orkshop with field. m u sic: 2 6 4 Pitt street, 8 .30 pm.

blues

,F o

l k ,j a z z

F O L K C O N C E R T — J ohn F. Francis, M arian H ender­ son, J o h n C orrie, D ou g A sh d o w n , Last N easden S pasm Band, Bernard B olan: O pera H ouse, 8 .0 0 pm .

PACT FOLK: YW CA, 8. 00 .

SYDNEY F O L K SO N G C L U B : E lizabeth hoteL T R A D IT IO N A L FOLK: E din bu rgh Castle h o te l.

TH E C O L O N IA L S : Stage D o o r Tavern, 2 1 1 .0 4 1 1 .

M E R V A C H E S O N T R IO : Bellevue h o te l (a rv o ).

E CLIPSE A L L E Y F IV E : V a n ity Fair h o te l (arvo).

DOC W IL L IS: A lb u ry hoteL Darlinghurst (arvo).

U N IT Y J A Z Z B A N D : O ld Push.

J E F F B U L L : U n ity hall.

F IL M S

All llkfift

F IL M S

TH E V IR G IN S P R IN G — B ergm an: C hannel 10, 1 1 .0 5 pm .

TH E E N D L E SS SU M M E R — surfing classic: Channel 7, 1 0 p m .

T H IS DAY T O N IG H T 1 9 7 3 final — a satire “ Liv­ ing w ith G o u g h ” : C hannel 2, 7 .3 0 pm.

FRACTU RED F L IC K ­ ERS: G TV 9, 5 .0 0 p m .

Chem icals sh ow , Just the thing after a hard d a y ’s w ork.

PA IN T Y O U R W AGON until w ed. SH AM U S from thurs: F o o tscra y Grand, Paisley St, F o o tscra y , 7 .3 0 , $ 1 .4 0 , $ 1 .0 0 (stu).

Listings are free.

Copy closes Thursday before publication.

HELP, Y e llo w Subm arine: N ew Arts, G lebe, 4 .0 0 p m , 7.3 0 pm .

Q U E ST IO N : W ho is Guru Maharaj Ji? D e n d y Theatre, C row s N est, 4.0 0 pm , 7.30pm .

CLASSICAL GORDON W ATSON, N A T H A N W AK S — p ian o and c e llo : O pera H ouse, 11 am t o 2 pm .

EV E N TS H Y D E P A R K , C IR C U L A R QUAY, W EST PARK, B E A R E P A R K — step b a ck in to th e 30s w ith Musicians u n io n band, Salvation A rm y band and th e Band A ssoc. 3 p m to 4 .3 0 p m .

YEOM EN OF TH E G U A R D : see frid a y.

TOM U R E N speaks at the W ayside chapel, 8 pm .

TV, R A D IO

A H U M A N IS T ASK S — humanism and Christianity: TV A B N 2, 9 .2 0 pm .

TH E P L O T T O K IL L HITL E R : Channel 7, 6 .3 0 pm . THE L IV IN G R IV E R — BBC e c o lo g y d o cu m e n ­ W A T E R G A T E IN R E T R O ­ S PEC T — “ F o u r C orners” : tary: A B N 2, 7.55.

A M A N C A L L E D ADAM Channel 2, 8 pm .

— Sam m y Davis, Louis A rm strong, Frank Sinatra, Ossie Davis: Channel 7, 8 .3 0 pm .

AN A F F E C T IO N A T E C O O K A T W. C. F IE L D S : ROCK Channel 7, 1 0 .3 5 pm .

TH E R O C K G E N ESIS — a M IG H T Y K O N G , HUSH, H O M E : S yd n ey to w n hall. d ocu m en ta ry o n history o f r o c k ’n roll m u sic: A BC B L U E S ,F O L K J A Z Z R a d io 1, 1 0 am.

Sunday

AL H EAD , DON M O R ­ R IS O N , M ERVYN JO­ SEPH, plus SPECIAL G U IT A R F E A T U R E : Kirk gallery, 8 p m .

THEATRE

GRAHAM KENNEDY, THEATRE JO H N N Y FARNHAM , K IN G R IC H A R D II: O pera C O L L E E N H E W IT T , H A R ­ R Y M : O pera H ouse, 8 pm .

H ou se, 2 p m & 8 pm .

T A L E S F R O M N O O N A - T IN Y A L IC E : see Satur­ M E E N A j O pera H ouse, 11 day. am & 2 p m .

F IL M S TH E S L E E P I N G B E A U T Y : O pera H ouse, 8 N F T 3 0s M U S IC A L S Belle o f the 90s, with Mae pm .

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discretion . P h oto if p ossib le. All costs refu n d ed . Please write, lo n e ­ ly ; all answered. INC b o x 7 28 4 .

M elb ou rn e. Girls! Here is the m an you dream a bou t. Intelligent, h o rn y , sin cere, discreet, hon est, n o t possessive. M ain interest: dal­ lying. A ge n o barrier. All replies answered. Fees refu n d ed . INC b o x 7295.

Brisbane. G u y, early 30s, seeking lusty, lusciou s fem m e. A n y age.

N o o b je c tio n s bi. D iscreet i f n e c­ essary. INC b o x 7 28 5 .

Brisbane. L on ely m ale, 4 0 you ng, active, m edium b u ild and lo o k s, seeks sincere, hung m ale c o m ­ pa n ion fo r d a lliance, outings etc. Genuine first ad. Fee refu nd ­ e d i f necessary. INC b o x 7 286.

V icto ria .

L o n e ly , you n g , 23, cam p k iw i m ale, straight appear­ ance, sin cere, genuine, hon est, n e e d s s o m e o n e som ew h ere to live w ith f o r fe w m on th s. N o m o n e y bu t ca p a ble and h elpful. INC b o x 7 29 6 .

Q u eensland-G old Coast. Surveyor, 50, needs attractive fem m e, circa 2 5 -3 6 , share sm all u n it, B roa d beach. P h o to , statistics, interests please. INC b o x 7287.

M e lb o u r n e -s o u th e r n suburbs.

L a d y i f y o u n e e d it at least get in to u ch . I w o n ’ t bite — y e t! N ice m ale, 4 9, retired, wants dalliance.

INC b o x 7 29 7 .

Canberra. W ou ld n t it b e nice to m eet, o th e r than in T L D ? G em ini m ale, 21, w ou ld dig t o m ake it w ith clear-headed m ascu line guys to 35. Tell m e y o u r fantasies and w e’ll take a walk o n the w ild side.

INC b o x 7288.

Dalliance A d ela id e. Y ou n g m an, slim, 32, like to m eet o r corresp on d with ca m p o r bi-guy to 25. Music, outings, friendship. D iscreet and genuine. INC b o x 7 27 9 .

A d ela id e. Male, 21, gentle, sin­ cere, w ou ld like to m eet, c o n ­ verse, daily w ith fem ale fem m e.

Fatality co n sid e re d , n o t necessari­ ly p referred . A ll replies answered.

H urry this special ca n ’ t last (H o p e fu lly ). INC b o x 7 28 0 .

A d ela id e. Is there an “ o ld e r” w o­ m an w h o wants a willing y o u th to recapture h er fo rm e r glory and escape h er slavish drudgery. INC b o x 7281.

Brisbane. A ctiv e, slim , educated m ale swinger, 3 0, wishes to co n ­ tact sim ilar co u p le , 1 8-3 0 or singles (n o t heavy drinkers), for e x p lo ra tio n , sw im m ing etc. Inter­ ests in clu d e travel, the bush and p h otog ra p h y . Phone nu m ber and recen t p h o t o appreciated,. INC b o x 7282.

M elb ou rn e. Overseas student, gay, 20, planning h olid a y aroun d Aus­ tralia, w e lco m e s frien d ly con ta cts.

R eason a b ly g o o d lo o k in g , sincere.

P h o to s appreciated.

INC b o x 7 298.

M elbourne. L on ely cam p guy, square lo o k s, early 20s, seeks sim­ ilar interested in m usic, warm co m p a n y and the q u ieter things o f life. INC b o x 7 289.

Y o u n g cam p m ale co m p a n io n re­ q u ired f o r to u r o f S o u th Australia and Q ueensland, departing Mel­ b ou rn e. M eet to c h e ck co m p a t­ ib ility . IN C b o x 7 29 9 .

M elbourn e. Businessman, aged 30, travelling to S yd n ey d ecem b er 2 0th. One overnight sto p . A n y intelligent girl interested? S teady driver. INC b o x 7290.

M elb ou rn e. C o u p le , 40s, seek o t h ­ er c o u p le s f o r all sexual pleasures and frien d sh ip . INC b o x 7300.

M elbourn e. M erchant m arine o f­ ficer, 2 0 years sexperience o f and from everything and everyw here, wants to m eet p etite, intelligent, warm girl to spoil. 3 5, 1 7 5 cm , oversexed , n icely tapered, c o n ­ siderate and u n attached. INC b o x 7291.

M elbourn e. Y o u are fem ale, 3 0 -5 0 , warm hearted, intelligent.

N eed fu l o f discreet, intim ate re­ lationship w ith profession a l m ale; gentle, virile, va sectom ised . INC b o x 7292.

M elb ou rn e. M ale, well built, 38, yo u n g , genuine, seeks fem ale, m arried/sin gle, f o r d iscreet day­ tim e fun . INC b o x 7 301.

M elb ou rn e. A ffe c tio n a te gu y, 20, describ ed as h andsom e, seeks sim­ ilar, up to 3 0, f o r lasting relation­ ship. G enuine. Phone nu m b er please. INC b o x 7 302.

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W anted: Fem ales, 2 0 -3 0 , fo r sex with frustrated m ale. $ 2 refu n d ed a fter personal co n ta ct. S atisfa ction assured. INC b o x 7 30 3 .

Brisbane. L on ely bi-guy, g o o d lo o k in g , sincere, 25, w ou ld like slim y ou n g guy or fem m e fo r friendship and m utual satisfac­ tion . P h oto a ppreciated, returned.

INC b o x 7283.

M elbourn e. W here is there a warm, sensitive, intelligent, very discreet fem m e t o dally w ith m an occasion a lly ? He h appily m arried b u t needing to get m ore o u t o f life. A ll letters answered. INC b o x 7293.

Brisbane. B oy , just 16, shy, wants to m eet b o y 1 5 ; m ust a ct square fo r friendship, oqtings. C om plete

M elbourn e. Friendly b i-gu y, o w n flat and car, 32, w ou ld like to m eet eager you n g guys. A ll letters

M elb ou rn e. B i-w om an, o ve r 40, wants t o m eet b i-w o m e n o r males f o r threesom es. INC b o x 7304.

M elbourn e. J ou rn o-w riter (m ale) im p o ssib ly dream s o f fem ale crit­ ic /c o lla b o r a to r . A lso , “ d iffe re n t” , s o cia lly rebelliou s, idealistic, sen­ sitive, sensual, sentim ental, sin­ cere, lo y a l, a m bitiou s, travelled, fem in in e. INC b o x 6 1 2 5 .

S y d n e y . Cam p gu y, 29, seeks gen­ uine b e d m ate, 2 3 -3 0 . A m sin cere­ ly lo o k in g fo r s o m e o n e to share m y life w ith ; have beau t p a d and the best o f everything. Likes: m ovies, m usicals, b od y b u ild in g .

INC b o x 7 30 5 .

S yd n ey . Male, 27, average gu y, to m e e t R e v ie w -ty p e m ale to break lo n e ly cam p existen ce in h e te ro w o r ld . L o o k in g f o r m ean in gfu l re­ la tion sh ip . Please n o adventurers* just o th e r lo st guys like m yself.

INC b o x 7 30 6 .

S yd n ey . T w o liberated intelligent co u p le s , m id -4 0 s, m eeting fre­ qu en tly f o r physical and intel­ lectual stim u la tion , w e lco m e new friends, singles o r co u p le s, to achieve the pleasures o f to ta l to ­ getherness and hu m a n c o m m u n ­ ica tion . A b so lu te d iscre tio n guar­ anteed. INC b o x 7 30 7 .

S y d n e y . W an ted: C o m p e te n t fe­ m ale w ith car to jo in co m p e te n t m ale w ith b o a t (1 1 0 lb , 20 ft, p o w e r e d ca rto p c a n o e ) fo r d u o Tasm anian river e x p e d itio n , m idfebruary t o m id -m arch . O u td o o r ty p e , p refera b ly relaxed, intel­ ligent, 2 0-30. Fares s p o k e n f o r ; share o th e r exp en ses. O b je c t is unhassled fem ale-m ale co m p a n ­ ionship o n a b eau tifu l, seld om visited, river. INC b o x 7 30 8 .

S yd n ey .

D iv o rce d profession a l gu y , 3 8 , slim , 5*9” , w id e , creative interests, seeks s e x y , intelligent fe m m e to assist in transcending the m ed iocrities. INC b o x 7 31 3 .

S y d n e y . W here is there a slim, intelligent, sensitive, very discreet w om a n , 3 0 -4 5 , t o d a lly w ith m ale d itto occa sio n a lly . He ha p p ily m arried b u t need in g to get m ore o u t o f life . A ll replies answered.

INC 7 31 4 .

S y d n e y , B on d i. L o n e ly gu y, m id 20s, average lo o k s . L oves the surf.

R id es k n eeb oa rd . digs skindiving and w eek en d trips. W ants to m eet a y o u n g surfie w ith sim ilar in­ terests w h o ’ll d ally and share m y b e d and w eek en d s. Have Panelvan, w ill travel. Is there a lo n e ly y o u n g surfie o u t there w h o ’ll give and take and can dig these vibes?

R e p ly , bread refu nd ed . Be genu­ ine. INC b o x 7315.

S y d n e y . G u y, early 20s, gem ini, departing d ec 22 fo r tw o weeks sw im m ing, ca m p in g, skindiving, e tc o n so u th co a st. A n y 2 0 -3 0 year o ld straight, intelligent ch ick s interested w rite INC b o x 7 316.

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S y d n e y . M o v e d here recen tly fo l­ lo w in g separation. T urning 27, and (b a re ly ) retaining fa ith in life, w o m e n and the o th e r g o o d things.

A gentle w om a n c o u ld h elp m e celebrate. INC b o x 7 31 7 .

Q u iet h o m e lovin g S y d n e y cam p girl seeks m ature cam p o r toleran t straight gu y. V ie w : m arriage, ch il­

20s, w h o is eager to e x e r t his pleasure. INC b o x 7312.

dren, i f suited. INC b o x 7318.

S y d n e y . G u y, 25, o w n boss. Overseas, interstate frequen tly. Wants girl f o r fu n tim es and traveL INC b o x 7319.

S y d n e y , eastern suburbs. Male, ca m p , 3 7, slim , square appear­ ance, seeks genuine, a ffection ate frien d similar, 3 5-45. Interests: art, m usic, quiet h o m e ly evenings, y o u r p lace. INC b o x 7320.

Brisbane. Male, 3 7, virile, n o hangups, desires dalliance with fem ale fo r m utual satisfaction.

D iscretion assured.

INC box 7321.

S y d n e y . Cam p m ale, 3 5, wishes m e e t Japanese tou rist o r resident w h o wants som ew h ere to live while in S yd n ey . INC b o x 7322.

S yd n ey . K ids five, nine, urgently n eed friend ly adult c o m p a n io n 13, d ecem b er-feb ru a ry . Can o ffe r on ly room , b oard , a ffe c tio n , fun.

Phone 4 3 .5 7 2 6 .

S yd n ey . B eau tiful birds t o p ose nude f o r p ro fe ssio n a l and am ateur photograph ers. Write fo r further details to U niversity M odelling Services. INC b o x 7 27 8 .

Eastern states. U nin h ib ited cam p or bi-guy un d er 2 5 w a n ted for discreet n u d e p h o to g ra p h y . T o p fees, se cre cy assured. Inexperi­ en ced b eginn er preferred . INC b o x 7273.

S yd n ey . Q u iet living attractive m ale writer, early 40s, active, seeks sensitive yo u n g e r passive guy. Interests: theatre, cinem a, dalliance. INC b o x 7323..

S yd n ey . Y ou n g, shy gu y, slim, 23, w o u ld like t o m eet o th e r guys similar age o r you nger. INC b o x 7324.

NSW, N th coast. Male, 3 3, profes^ sional, visits S yd n ey o ccasion a lly , seeks fe w hours heavenly bliss, A n y suggestions? E xtrem ely dis­ c r e e t Age n o barrier. INC b o x 7325.

S yd n ey . 24 year o ld fem ale in ter­ ested in a tall, genuine, o p en m in ded, intelligent thinking randy m ale. INC b o x 7257.

S y d n e y . Girls! I’ve b eaten the system and n o lon g er have to p a w n all m y beau tifu l golden hours o f day m erely to live. I’ll help y o u t o o , i f y o u will help me e n jo y m y diesel ketch , w aterfront w eeken d er and 3 5 ft cruiser. Free h olid a ys o ffe r e d also interstate to co m p a tib le o p e n air types. N ew Australians especially w elcom e.

P h on e S y d n e y 4 5 5 .1 5 4 2 . INC b o x 6214.

S y d n e y . Y o u n g guy, 21, is lo o k ­ ing fo r dark b lo o d e d girl; aborig­ inal, Asian, Indian, N ew Zealand­ er etc. A ll letters answered. Age u n im p o rta n t Intentions: good times, friendship. INC b o x 7309.

S yd n ey .

G uy, 31, lo o k s fo r straight friendship with girl; slim, aet, 23-35. Will lead conversation, w o n ’ t encroach. E n joy live thea­ tre, walking, p o e try , children, Cat Stevens. INC b o x 7310.

S yd n ey . G u y , 21, just from Mel­ b o u rn e , lo o k in g fo r sexy drag q u een f o r fun times. All letters answered. I am O K look in g, prom ise g o o d times. INC b o x 7311.

S y d n e y . Cam p guy, 30, partial to pain, seeks s to c k y , aggressive guy.

All c o p y must be printed IN BLOCK LE TTER S on this form — co p y subm itted in any other style is unacceptable. T elephone numbers and addresses must indicate city o f loca tion . Dwellings and Dalliance ads must com m en ce with their loca ­ tion , eg. Canberra. C opy is uncen­ sored excep t where necessary f<yr publisher's legal p rotection.

H EAD IN G S: (Circle required listing) Dalliance, Dealings, Deaths, Deliveries, Departures, D e p lo y ­ m ent; D ialectics; Dialling; Distress; Doings; D o p e ; D u ets; Dwellings.

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Dealings Eat at the S ource restaurant fo r g o o d w h olesom e vegetarian and sea f o o d meals. Fresh h o m e baked bread , fru ity desserts. 4 7 3 B ronte road, right o n B ron te Beach.

F elt ch eated la te ly ??? N o w have what y o u want, * c o m p le te ly un­ cen sored , u n in hibited , im p o rte d “ A c t io n ” p h o t o s , b o o k s , film s.

T ry b e fo r e b u y in g , $ 1 .0 0 fo r sam ­ ple and ca talog u e. T h e M anager, PO b o x 1 3 , E d g e cliff, N SW 2 0 2 7 .

M elbourne. C om m ission available.

Artist to oil paint e ro tic scenes fo r private c o lle c to r . Traditional and m o d e rn . S u b m it sketch . INC b o x 7276.

S yd n ey . D evelopin g and printing o f any b lack and w hite negative.

A n y size prints. P rofession a l qual­ ity and tact guaranteed. IN C b o x 7277.

Dialing A b o r tio n L aw R epeal A ssocia­ tion. Pregnancy crisis cou nselling, 4 1 .3 9 1 6 , 7 .3 0 -9 .0 0 p m , m o n . to fri. 73 Little G eorge street, F itzro y .

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D-notices fo r Nation R eview : n o o n , 'T uesday prior to publication. Dnotices fo r The Living Daylights: n o o n , Thursday prior t o publica­ tion.

INC BOX NUMBERS Advertisers using INC B ox numbers for replies must allow 3 words in text and add 20 cents for this facility — we forw ard replies week­ ly. Dalliance ads m ust use INC Box num ber, which we allocate b efore publishing.

A DVERTISIN G COSTS A ctivity categories determ ine the basic cost. Category (A ) is fo r free public meetings ($1 fo r 21 words).

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S ta te i f C O U P L E , F E M A L E , o r M A L E . D IS C R E T IO N G U A R A N ­ TEED.

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Dwellings

Well, I have just received the mag and one o f the articles informs me that A T is already dead. Before I can jump up on the bandwagon the wheels fall off!

Nevertheless, this particular article goes on to end in an optimistic note.

Essentially the author criticises A T as it n ow rests as simplistic, unworkable, ill-thought out, elitist and ecologically unsound; he suggests we start again in the search for a beneficial technology.

Undercurrents is still the m ost use­ ful and interesting journal on radical science and people technology I have seen. UNDERCURRENTS 275 Finch­ ley Rd, London NW3, UK. Six editions P.A. four pounds seventy stg. airmail, tw o pounds fifty stg. surface.

FOR those o f you interested in the com m une movement, Lester German o f Adelaide sends a little feedback: The journal o f the com m une m ove­ m ent is still going strong;som e articles are a little boring but overall quite a well produced little mag. Cost is about one pound stg. for six issues. Write to Steve Fuller, 3 Jockets Rd, Hemel, Hemstead, Herts, UK.

FEEDBACK from Michael Bailes: “ If you want to buy strange, weird or wonderful herbs for medical, culinary

use etc, you might like to write to Wide World o f Herbs Ltd; they stock over 2000 different herbs, roots, gums, berries, seeds etc. If they havent got it in stock, they will find it fo r you.

Write and ask for their catalogue.” 11 St Catherine St East, Montreal 129, Canada.

OPERATIONS Research is a set o f techniques aimed at arriving at a decis­ ion by “ scientifically” examining all the alternatives. Corporations use OR techniques to decide what to buy; armies use them in deciding what to

If you are interested in finding out a little m ore about this capitalist tool, the Australian Society o f Accountants (oh yes) has published a small, cheap introductory booklet on it. Send $1.00 to ASA, 49 Exhibition St, Melbourne, 3000.

THERE is an old book, available in most big libraries, called Henley's 20th century b o o k o f formulae. The last edition was published in 1947 but you may find it in secondhand bookstalls.

As a specialised inform ation source this book is hard to beat; it contains over 100,000 recipes and formulae for all sorts o f products, com pounds and mixtures — inks, polishes, soaps, b o il­ ed sweets and other obscurities — stuff that costs the earth if purchased at the supermarket or hardware store. For those interested in getting back to basics, it’ s a great resource. For those who can’t resist the lure o f supermar­ ket loss-leaders and muzak, it’s fun to read. *

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WHAT’S happening in the womens movement in Tasmania? I dont know either! Take a subscription to Liberaction and find out — “ A critical lo o k at the womens and homosexual move­ ments” fo r $2.00 per year. PO Box 159, Moonah, Tasmania. b om b; science uses OR ’cause things aint as simple as they used to be.

There are many simple and many com plex O R tools — games theory, linear programming, value theory, PERT, critical path, and probability theory are a few o f the m ore com m on ones. All o f them are aids to making a better decision. There is no reason to leave O R in the hands o f the militaryindustrial com plex — it can easily be em ployed in starting a fo o d coop, a neighborhood inform ation centre, compiling a resource b o o k or a multi­ tude o f other socially useful projects.

MORE feedback: a small b o o k o f poetry called Sediments o f seclusion

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T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , december 11-17, 1973 — Page 25

LETTERS & David and Goliath

Stalinesque endeavors

THANKS for your “ official guide” to the referendum. Y ou ’ve pulled it o ff again.

Your advice to vote informal pro­ vided an elegant rationalisation for those creeps who couldnt persuade themselves to get up o ff their bums on Saturday and go to a polling booth.

The fact that your “ advice” suited the purposes o f the Liberal, Country and Democratic Labor parties is irritat­ ing enough; what is infuriating is that you ’re so pleased with yourselves for giving it.

Will you, when the next federal election confronts your readers, again recom mend that they “ demonstrate their innocence o f the issues involved and their deep distrust o f politicians” by voting informal?

Will you, perhaps, proclaim that it doesnt matter who you vote for: a politician always gets in?

Will you tell us that the only man who ever entered parliament with honorable intentions was Guy Fawkes?

Or will you grow up?

DAVID HARCOURT, Carlton, Victoria

Dammit Dunstan I SEEM to recall attending a student newspaper editors conference some years ago, at which Graeme Dunstan stated that on e o f his maxims was “ To hell with the facts; it’s the story that counts” . Perhaps he was joking at the time, but he certainly seems to have applied the theory when writing about the exam protests at the University o f New England (TLD 7).

Let’ s get some numbers straight to start with. The march from the colleges to the teaching area (which was supported b y the SRC) attracted around 200 people. The occupation o f the Administration building (which was not supported by the SRC) levelled ou t with maybe 100 people, with numbers rapidly dwindling as the agreed clean-up time approached.

Continuing disruption o f the exams is opposed b y the SRC and is being advocated b y perhaps a dozen people.

The vast majority o f students want only to be able to sit their examin­ ations in peace.

Whoever gave Graeme his “ facts” on the Classical Marxism exam seems to have been pretty determined to mislead TLD and its readers. Classical Marxism is an “ unscheduled course” and is n ot subject to normal Arts Faculty regulations. The course super­ visors had decided that 75% o f credit w ould com e from assignments during the year and 25% from an end-of-year exam.

When the time came for the exam, students to o k advantage o f the inter­ state absence o f their lecturer to claim that he had told them they would be permitted to discuss the paper among themselves. The Dean o f Arts accepted this statement in good faith and, rather than have discussion occurring in an exam room used also by other students, permitted them to take their papers home. It now appears that the lecturer had, in fact, said that the exam would be held under normal condi­ tions, and the students deliberately misled the Dean. Despite this, the university will stand b y the Dean’s decision. It would seem to me that the university has shown better faith here than the students.

It is interesting to note that tw o o f the students involved in the Classical Marxism incident had nothing to lose.

They could not receive credit for the course, as they had not handed in assignments. Doubtless when they receive fail notices there will be much bleating about victimisation.

The last paragraph o f Graeme’ s article is pure wishful thinking. The university is not in “ delightful tur­ moil” . In any group discussing exams,

you are likely to find one activist in the centre surrounded by other stu­ dents threatening to do him bodily harm if their exam gets disrupted. The day o f the revolution is not yet at hand.

It w ould be foolish to deny that some good has com e from the protest.

The march and occupation dramatised the situation and will doubtless do something to speed the present restruc­ turing o f assessment at this university, a process which has been going on for some years now. However, the disrup­ tions o f exams have done nothing except alienate sympathy among the uncommitted.

Dammit, I’ve just noticed that Dunstan can’ t even get the date right!

The march to o k place on thursday, november 8, so it can hardly have been organised on the 11th.

Yours in disgust, NICK BOOTH, Information and Publications Officer, The University o f N ew England, Armidale, NSW.

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Tracks across a continent OBSERVE closely your Undeveloped Australia pikkies (TLD 7, Page 15, lower image). H ow can you define a denuded landscape heavily and ob­ viously scored with myriad sheep tracks “ Undeveloped” ? Just thought I’ d ask.

STEVE DYER, Marden, SA.

Who’s up who ?

IN Y O U R review (TLD 8) on Quadraphenia, it was a pity that the actual review o f an album which has received so much publicity and attention should be confined to a half colum n while the rest o f the space is filled with irrelevant tripe.

For example the first three pars tell us that everything happened for youth in the 60s, nothing had really gone on

before! In fact, later your reviewer goes even further to say that during the 60s “ the lid had com e o f f half a century o f repression” . It's such a mammoth load o f, I mean, dont Screamin Jay Hawkins, Little Richard, Elvis, Cochran, Bird, Davis, etc. count in Mr King’ s world o f music? The lid has been bubbling up and down for centuries, musically, even if Mr King refuses to see this.

N ow while the picture o f the m od shows his para military coat, his vespa and short hair, your reviewer suddenly talks o f “ hairy, drug taking rock and roll bands” . What ever for? A shorthaired-pilled out m od is not my idea o f “ an effeminate passive” person and from the reports o f m ods/rocker wars at Brighton, they looked none too full o f peace, love and happiness. In fact, if both the rockers and the mods had complementary behavior as King sug­ gests, then it is possible there would have been no ‘Quadraphenia’.

And now the actual review: it doesnt say anything about the album except it is a concert album, comes with a brilliant b o o k o f pictures and is an attempt to probe the psyche o f the Who. But what about the b loody music, the words, the all we want to know?

RICHMOND STURDY, Balaclava, Vic.

Psychotherapy for teachers BROTHER Tom Krause, a selfconfessed teacher, condemns the (NSW) Education Department for “ interfering in the teachers private lives” (TLD 8). At the end o f the same article, he seems to advocate, following Postman and Weingartner, that the education department should “ require all teachers to undergo some form o f psychotherapy” and “ require each teacher to provide some sort o f evidence that he or she has had a loving relationship with at least one other human being” .

Isnt that interfering with private lives? Which particular school o f psychotherapy does he have in mind?

(Mostly they’re pretty fascist). Would he care to specify a minimum time for a relationship which would be accepted by the Education Department as a “ loving” one? (A week? 24 hours? 30 seconds?). And what does he have against animals?

JIM MACKENZIE, Kensington, NSW.

MANY THANKS for Leonard A m os’s illuminating letter (TLD 8) — I would think it warrants a brief reply.

I am accused o f being an “ illiterate mug w ho knows nothing about politi­ cal philosophy” and he says that it would be “ futile to try and refute your attack” . It’s an old trick: insult on e’ s critics and accuse them o f not being at all versed in the terrible secrets o f “ political philosophy” — wearily dis­ missing them as not worthy o f argu­ ment. Unfortunately it’s not quite good enough. I am afraid that he is going to have to give a slightly more convincing display o f his awesome grasp o f “ political philosophy” .

That “ capitalism” is socially un­ acceptable is obvious, however, Leon­ ard advocates its replacement by a stalinesque bureaucratic machine. (Pro­ ducing ever increasing quotas o f coal and steel perhaps?) Hardly an improve­ m ent I repeat m y reference to Leonard’ s phrase: “ bulwark against everything we progressive materialists (ie. marxists) hate” (TLD 6) — it is precisely this siege mentality that typifies the im­ perialist endeavors o f the USA and the USSR, something w e can d o without.

Finally, a reference to Leonard’s arrogance and hate-orientated attitude.

He claims that “ most people" — ex­ cluding himself, o f course — are “ il­ literate mugs, etc” . Who the fucking hell does he think he is — G od's gift to human political machinations? I would suggest that he engender a little more respect for his fellow man. Similarly he has an obsession with the word “ nig­ ger” — surely THE most accurate guide to a vicious hate mentality.

ROBERT van KRIEKEN This correspondence is n ow closed — Eds.

Sloppy reporting REGARDING the article: Well, it's finally happened folks! (TLD 8), is the gentleman identified as ‘ Senator Carl Albert . . . president o f the Senate’ any relation to Representative Carl Albert, Speaker o f the House o f Representa­ tives? If indeed they are one and the same, it is difficult to see h ow Representative Albert has enough time before december 26 to 1. Resign from the House o f Representatives, 2. Be appointed by Presidential order to a vacant Senate seat, 3. Resign from the Senate, and be appointed Vice-President o f the United States, and hence “ president o f the senate” , and not "president protem po ", which is a secretarial position.

IRVING LANG, Doncaster, Vic.

Normal garbage PERHAPS the best way to stop infla­ tion is stopping the production o f garbage commodities.

To suggest that 75 percent o f food, clothing and general goods sold and produced in this country are entirely unnecessary, useless and usually un­ healthy or downright dangerous might not be as ludicrous as one might think."

Take a walk round your local shops and see.

You just can’ t win these days. The fish have mercury and cadmium. Vege­ tables have you name it. Meat is ungodly. Tinned, processed or other­ wise, fo o d has always got something.

For every expert who tells you eat this at least ten others will tell you it’ll kill ya if ya do. Fasting is at least healthy but it’s like eating — it’ll kill you in the end.

Apparently if you are dull, ignorant and apathetic you are normal. A nor-

mai person, if given 50 objects, could find 40 sets o f relationships. A para­ noid schiz could find 250. (There are probably 1000 possibilities.) fC OSS, Tasmania

A jovial lot WE ARE writing to your supposedly leftist “ progressive” rag to render our utter dismay at your apparent tightarsed decision n ot to publish sufficient coverage o f that oh-so successful blunder from the land o f Banana-Benders, Bjelke-Petersen.

It w ould seem that this opulent dick can murmur the most outrageous con­ glomerations o f crap, and yet he passes, seemingly unnoticed, by your jovial journalists jotters.

We live daily in anticipation o f secession, so that we may join in a guerrilla group and finally rid this state, and no doubt this nation, o f all the rightist, fascist testical crabs that pollute our thoughts and politics.

SOCIETY FOR LEVITATION OF COMMUNISM, Brisbane, Qld

Lenny’s crime AMERICAN satirist/comedian Lenny Bruce’ s ONLY crime to society was he told the truth, and incurred their wrath. N ixon maintains he’s innocent o f Watergate!!

R ODERICK PHILLIPS, Darlinghurst, NSW

An open letter AN OPEN LETTER TO KEVIN GIL­ BERT RE HIS STORY ON WHITE POISON IN TLD 5.

In fighting for justice for the aborig­ inals be careful n ot to fight the whites on his ow n ground, although they are provoking you to that. Y ou will lose, because the whites have the lawyers, the businessmen, the politicians, the police and the media on their side.

Furthermore, the white society has always been very careful never to teach you h ow to fight and defend your rights.

But there is another way to obtain justice. In reading the Universal Dec­ laration o f Human Rights (25 years old this december) y o u ’ll find that the 30 articles seem to apply for everyone else' but the aboriginals.

N ow I believe that every article is one trump card that could win the card game for you, provided that these cards are played out by professionals who know the game thoroughly.

The on ly professionals who have the skill, experience, know-how and under­ standing are the United Nations Organ­ isation, because many o f the nations have had similar experiences (colonial­ ism).

Only the UN can judge the problem with an unprejudiced and unbiased frame o f mind. Keep appealing to them. This is not a social or econom­ ical problem, but a humanitarian and thus a universal problem.

H. HONT, Sydney, NSW PS: It is not the whole o f the white society that is working and acting against the aboriginals. I believe from personal experience that 80 percent o f the public is genuinely concerned with the injustice done to aboriginals.

J’accuse AN ED ITO R’S jo b is, o f course, to edit. But, I think some sense o f my published article Cigarettes, bullshit and bad bad admen has been lost.

First o ff, the title o f the submitted article was: I mean, has anyone ever studied the correlation betw een cigar­ ette smoking and masturbation (Nor­ man Mailer: Prisoner o f sex). Your substitution headline changes the em­ phasis. And furthermore, while I might agree that your “ J’accuse” front page is quite striking, again this misplaces the intended emphasis o f the submit­ ted article.

The submitted article was essential­ ly n o t a “ let’ s kick the bastards” tirade but an attempt to articulate what, in fact, smoking is about.

The article was n ot intended to reinforce those puerile attitudes that currently exist o n both sides o f the tobacco fence — on one side: “ Let’ s kick the bastards” ; on the other: “ Those scruffy bastards” . Articulations o f this sort make both camps feel warm and encourage those “ I’ m fight­

ing the good fight” feelings.

But, as m y submitted words made explicitly clear, having a warm feeling and effectively finding a solution to a problem are often not connected.

As you have subbed the article, deleting about 750 words, I fear that many readers will say: “ What a beaut kick o f the tobacco b oys” , when really I was hoping that the reaction would be: “ So that's why I smoke” . Also, a cartoon accompanying the article was left out.

PAUL COMRIE-THOMSON, Sydney, NSW

Complete sharing JOSEPHINE Turner (“ A Drudge’ s Day­ dream” , TLD 5) intrigues me. And I presume that there are many others.

like her; w om en bogged dow n in the frustrations o f housewifery. But on reading and rereading her article, the strong feeling com es through that many o f her sexual problems are o f her ow n making, and that her current behavior ensures that she continues to heap further frustrations upon her own head. Why? Because she cheats on her husband now and she has cheated on him through past years.

Sex at its best (at least for m e) is a naked confrontation between the bared guts o f tw o people. Not just at a physical level but also emotionally and feelingly. Ms Turner avoids this! She w on ’ t tell her husband how she feels, h ow he pisses her off, how she resents him. She w on ’ t lay on the line how she’ s b lood y dissatisfied. N ot that hus­ band is a great genius who can (or necessarily should) d o anything about her complaints. But at least she could

give to him, her feelings, her guts, herself, instead o f holding back. He gets a censored, watered-down version o f her in place o f the real thing.

Ms Turner does this to protect him!

H ell! What right or need does she have to protect him? Is he a kid who needs this protection (and I’m n ot implying that kids need protection in the area o f expression o f feelings)? Perhaps nasty things like dirty nappies and snottynosed kids and sexually 1dissatisfied wives are best hidden from men in case the male is offen ded. But there is an air o f superiority in the idea that you have the right to decide what will and what will not be good for your hus­ band to know.

Does this protection work and give the wife the sort o f relationship she wants?

There are, o f course, dangers as­ sociated with sharing yourself com-

pletely (in a feeling way) with your husband, or with anyone. He might not like it! It might bring strained bonds further out into the open. It might break up the marriage. But possibly the risk IS worth taking, and the present alternative has certainly not been to o attractive.

The choice, o f whether to be openly and honestly herself in her dealings with her husband or whether to pro­ tect him (and herself) from some o f the things she is, is a ch oice that each Ms Turner must make for herself. But it is probable that the achievement o f anything worthwhile involves the risk o f losing the lot and perhaps it is only when we can afford to lose that w e can really be open enough to love.

Front up to him Ms Turner and be what you are.

R. M. CARMAN, St Lucia, Qld

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THINGS WENDY B R E N C H L E Y

The alternative to anti-biotics

T WAS on a friday, late in july this year, when I first started to feel unwell. This was after several months o f not feeling up to par, but not feeling sick either.

The dentist had removed a root filling and found an abscess on the root o f a tooth, which, he said, would take five days o f anti-biotic treatment to clear up.

This really presented me with a dilemma. From my reading over the last couple o f years, I had becom e convinced that the b od y had tremendous powers o f selfhealing if only it were allowed to use them. I had com e to regard antibiotics as poisons, and thus dangerous to the human body.

Where I could possibly avoid using them, I intended so to do.

The dentist was most upset when I told him that I wouldnt take any drugs, and he solemnly warned me that the infection could go to the brain. However I decided to put m y theories into practice and so I started fasting.

I went home to bed and had no food , merely sipping water every few hours. I notified my boss that I would take a couple o f days o ff work, and on the next day my husband rang a place in Sydney where healing fasts are supervised and he was told that I would probably need to fast for a week to see any difference in the abscess.

Going for a week without fo o d seems incredible to most people, but it was no bother to me at all. I was glad not to have to eat.

Admittedly, others who com ­ mence a fast without feeling particularly ill can feel hungry for a couple o f days, but it wears off.

Just to lie in bed and rest was really enjoyable. The whole point o f a fast is to give the b od y a rest from the daily round. The b o d y is not using much energy to main­ tain the muscular system, and by also giving the digestive system a good rest, the b od y can concen­ trate o n the healing process. The b od y lives on nutrients stored previously in the cells. Without the burden o f digestion the internal organs can go about the task o f eliminating toxins from the body, and restoring purity to the whole system By the fourth day I started to notice a few effects o f the fast apart from the obvious one o f weakness due to lack o f food . The facial swelling was beginning to subside into a local lump at the

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Once the facial swelling had gone down, nothing much else seemed to happen with the abscess over the weekend, though the vaginal discharge continued.

However, at this stage we had contact with a young lady who had had a 16 day fast herself earlier in the year, and so had her mother. She was so enthusiastic about how well she and her mother had been since fasting that I opted to keep going.

In order to d o this we decided that I should be under the supervision o f people who knew what happened when fasts were undertaken, so we made arrange­ ments to go to Sydney.

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In Sydney, I was able to continue my rest in peaceful surroundings. The pressure was o f f my husband too, as he no longer had to worry in case something unusual happened. I was checked over daily by one o f the practitioners, to make sure everything was proceeding satis­ factorily.

During a fast, various healing crises can occur. This is simply an indication that healing is going on, and that toxins are being elimina­ ted from the body. In the first week I had the worst sore throat imaginable. Then in the second week o f the fast I had conjunctiv­ itis, again a recurrence o f past discomforts.

The practitioner conducted an internal examination on the 14th day and said that the cervical ulcer had reduced to the size o f a five-cent piece. Another look on the 20th day revealed only a slight redness. The abscess on the tooth had dwindled to almost nothing too, and the practitioner said that just a couple more days o f fasting should be enough.

But after 19 pretty quiet days o f fasting on the 20th day I started to vomit. My liver had decided to d o its share o f eliminating toxins, and was throw­ ing o f f vast quantities o f bile. One

function o f the liver is to keep the bloodstream pure, and mine, evidendy finding plenty o f impur­ ities, now took the opportunity o f cleaning them out. For three days this continued o ff and on, until the practitioner decided to ter­ minate the fast and started me on fruit-juices.

Another internal examination at this stage revealed that the cervix had com pletely healed. The lump at the apex o f the tooth had gone, so now all that remained was for me to regain my strength.

After such a long fast it takes the digestive system a while to be functioning at full capacity, so all I was given, or indeed wanted, for three days was fruit juices. After this I graduated to fruit, and eventually nuts, salads, and co o k ­ ed vegetables.

With such a cleaned-out body, it was only sensible to continue with eating habits that would keep the body clean and healthy.

So the most sensible food s to eat would be natural foods, unproces­ sed, and where possible, u ncook­ ed. This means a diet o f fruit, vegetables and nuts in various combinations. These are the foods which are the most easily digested and, o f which the body can make most use. They are the closest, I believe, to what the human digestive system is made for.

Now that it is about four months since I finished the fast, how am I? Well, o f course, I lost a lot o f weight, nearly tw o stone. I have put more than half o f this back on, but seemed to have slowed there.

I am doing daily exercises which last summer were to o much for me to cop e with. I have a renewed interest in life, and I am thinking more clearly than I have done for ages.

One relative expressed the thought that a 22 day fast was a very drastic way to cure an ulcer on the cervix, when an overnight stay in hospital for cauterisation would have had the same result.

But, would it? A polluted river is not cleansed by the addition o f further chemicals, but by the removal o f that which causes the pollution.

T o m y way o f thinking, cleans­ ing the whole b od y so that the cause o f all the trouble, the toxins in the body, is removed, makes far more sense than merely suppress­ ing one symptom. i— i

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P ub lished b y R ic h a rd N e v ille at 1 7 4 Peel s tre e t, N o r th M e lb o u rn e f o r In c o rp o ra te d N ew sagencies P ty L t d , th e p u b lish er a nd d is tr ib u to r , 1 1 3 R osslyn s tre e t, W est M e lb o u rn e . T h e begin n in g o f a ll o r ig in a lity is idleness.