The Living Daylights 2(3)

Vol.2 No.3 Jan.22-28 1974

SCREWIN 6 T HE PETRO L GIAN TS ÂŤ. A ballsy interview with oil maverick Ian Sykes

BLACK & PROUD & ABOUT TO BE LYNCHED...

In death row with Michael X

WHAT S ON in Sydney & Melbourne (plus Sunbury details)

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OLLOWING our US bases feature last fortnight, there have been sev­ eral repercussions, the least important o f which was the front page o f Melbourne’s Truth, sat, jan 19.

As the source o f Truth's hallucinations (“ BLOOD WILL FLOW” ), we were cited as a “ left wing newspaper” (ha ha marxists) and credited with a variety o f dast­ ardly intentions. We would like to thank Truth for publicising the march on the US bases, leaving Melbourne early in may and driving through the other major cities. Details from Stop Omega, box 215, Elstemwick, Victoria 3185.

As TI.D goes to press amidst headlines o f war with China, it seems eccentric to devote the cover to Men against Sexism, although this too has all the forebodings o f a war, with a movement that will gain momentum and b iff the confidence o f yer average alf-freak sexist chauvinist.

Men against Sexism demands total per­ sonal commitment to the evolution o f a heightened consciousness . . . it will catch many with their pants not far enough down. Page 9.

In the cities the fight between the developers and the residents continues.

Last week, in the wee hours o f the morning, the men from Hookers moved into Lanark terrace, South Melbourne, with alsatian dogs and sledge hammers and began demolishing some o f the build­ ings. Ross McPherson reports on page seven.

Pics galore arrived this week, and w e’re sorry not to be able to use them all. Casualties included the Busmen’s picnic, by Syd Shelton (hopefully next week) and a series by Oliver Strew on the dairyfarmer outlaws o f Grafton (already saturated by straight press and television).

The great dope drought continues, with most stuff on the market being either worthless or poison. It is time to campaign for an end to the pot smoker’s oppression and we are beginning to devise a strategy with community grass reform groups. This week, a quick pot report by Steven Phillips, page 3.

Amos Drummond went out to talk to Ian Sykes, chairman o f Exoil Petroleum Pty Ltd. Sykes has been fighting the big oil companies since he form ed his com­ pany in the late 60s and in a way the interview exemplifies the rapacious nature o f the fuel juggernauts, their un­ derhandedness and their tenaciousness in keeping out new rivals, however small.

See pages 22 and 23.

We’ ve boosted the overall news con­ tent, although this week Sydney seems a little short (wake up Grant Evans) and residents o f that city are reminded that Stephen (Living Delights) Wall is grump­ ily available for consultation and the odd cup o f tea, tuesday to thursday, at his modest abode, 18 Arthur street, Surry Hills . . . or, if you ’ re nearer 777B George street, Sydney, there is always the should­ ers o f the ebullient George Munster o f Nation review to cry upon.

A Melbourne news service is being collated by Piotr Olszewski who can be contacted direct at home, 63 Lygon st, Carlton: 38.5979, and would love to hear from anyone with secrets and gossip to spill — large, small and in-between.

Finally, we are looking for a part time graphics person — a flexible talent to assist with illustrations, layout and typog­ raphy. This would involve about 12 hours a week and former art students and others with a modicum o f ability and experience are invited to phone Jenny Stansfield on 329.0700 for an appoint­ ment with Richard Neville. (Please, no folios or written applications) sorry to be so formal, but the office is already like Grand Central station.

To everyone w ho’ s written, be patient.

Manuscripts are protruding from our ears.

Correspondence will be answered by the end o f the decade . . . we need a cast o f thousands, not four . . . eds.

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Richard Beckett beats up the w eek’s news ENGEANCE IS MINE NOT THE LORDS: Israeli general Ariel Shar­ on welcom ed the disengagement agree­ ment between his own country and Egypt over the Suez canal area, which brings peace to the region fo r the first time in 25 years by resigning in a fit o f petulance. During last year’ s hostilities between the tw o nations Sharon helped the cause o f peace by invading Egypt without the knowledge o f defence min­ ister Dayan, w ho himself is not normal­ ly known for his kindness towards people o f opposing nationalistic views.

With a little more help from general Sharon and his supporters, no doubt the tw o nations will be back at each other’s throats by the end o f the week.

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O IT’S NOT, VENGEANCE IS OURS: Eleven people died and hundreds more were wounded as m obs o f rioting students in Jakarta celebrated the arrival o f Japanese prime minister Tanaka in the Indonesian capital on a goodw ill tour o f the Asian regions. The lovable government o f general Suharto promptly cracked dow n on the stu­ dents, perhaps remembering the part they played in the downfall o f his own predecessor. Back hom e an unscathed and somewhat relieved Tanaka admitted that perhaps it was about time his businessmen started to improve their image and methods o f operation else­ where in the world. And in Jakarta, president Suharto issued a comm unique stating that the Japanese prime minis­ ter’s visit had made a “ significant c o n ­ tribution to strengthing friendship be­ tween the tw o nations” . It did not mention the riots.

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ONT W ORRY, THE CATHOLICS ARE MAKING SURE THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF PEOPLE TO KILL: Roman catholic authorities in Australia said that a newly developed contraceptive pill for man was immoral and warned all g ood micks against using it. T o make matters worse, Melbourne doctors now testing the male pill believe that Australian men are to o vain to accept it willingly. Health minister Dr Everingham said: “ The Australian man is conceited about his ability to ‘give’ children to his woman. Because o f this attitude, proven methods o f birth con ­ trol like vasectom y have been relatively ignored.” With all this evidence against the damn thing one might well ask why public m oney is being wasted on some­ thing that no one will ever use.

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HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN: The R oyal Australian Navy spent endless time and trouble over recruiting 15 (remember that figure) young girls to attend a Brisbane party in honor o f the heir to the British throne, prince Charles. All the girls had to be approved

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b y a resident British naval liaison officer in Canberra. One would be interested in the criteria used b y the Australian navy in selecting the young lovelies to grace the royal presence.

n o th e r fir s t fo r A us­ tr a lia n DIPLOMACY: The Australian embassy in Washington has decided not to buy the Maryland house o f form er United States vice-president Spiro Agnew, not for any moral reasons for aiding and abetting a convicted felon, but because, more simply, the Greek thief was demanding to o much m oney fo r it.

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o n v ic ts are to u g h e r THAN REFORM ERS: Tony Green, a Sydney prison reformer, was released from a m ock up o f a windowless maximum security cell built at Sydney university after spending 231/2 hours inside and almost suffering a nervous breakdown. The object o f the exercise was to prove that new cell blocks built at Sydney’ s Long Bay jail are somewhat hard on the nerves. H ow ­ ever, the good New South Wales minis­ ter for justice, Mr Maddison, upon hearing o f Green’s sufferings said the test was merely a political gimmick. “ I have said over and over again - and I say it again now — the maximum security block is an essential feature o f the New South Wales prison system,” Maddison said. “ It is designed to protect their fellow prisoners, prison officers and the com m unity from these danger­ ous m en.” The trick is obviously to drive these bastards crazy in the first place by locking them in the cells and then use this craziness as justification fo r keeping them there - a neat th eo­ logical point that would have been understood b y the judges o f the star chamber.

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i f f bam a n d t h a n k y o u MA’AM: China seized control o f the nondescript Paracel islands o ff its own coast after a light brush with the heavily United States trained and equipped South Vietnamese navy. After the humiliation o f the gee whizz South Vietnamese aside, it just might be a good idea if the yanks alerted the Pearl Harbor shore defences — just in case mind you .

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COONARA CHILDREN’S COMMUNITY A destructured alternative primary sch ool beginning its secon d year o f operation in the Boronia-Belgrave area.

Enrolm ents are n ow open.

F or inform ation ring 7 5 4 .2 8 0 3 or 7 5 4 .3 6 8 5

V olunteers interested in contributing tim e or skills are also invited to con ta ct the above numbers.

WARD McNALLY looks at the government’s handling of the aboriginals

No hosanna for Cavanagh

gloomy withdrawal from stoned drug squad on a localised scale in fantasy, Mascot airport has fur­ Sydney’s southern beach suburbs HERE IS a shortage o f dope ther developed its fine team o f was reported as saying it was not in Australia at the moment. glass-eyed hash puppies. But even the individual user he was worried Informers say pounds o f mari­ if Sydney customs was slack, dope about but the dealer who harassed juana have risen to as high in price is still not easy to find in foreign young surfers. An intensive beach as $500 on the ordinary market. ports. campaign is under way this sum­ This has resulted in more and A Sydney dealer who travels mer and every smoker in Sydney more smokers saving seeds and regularly all over the world claims is feeling the pinch. They have growing their own with the count­ overseas customs have also be­ been deprived o f what little stock er-result being a complete with­ com e tighter and nothing can be was in circulation. drawal o f seeds from the market found on the wharves.

Local market speculators are by high-rolling dealers.

One immediately feels like ask­ tipping that seeds will soon be The same informers claim the ing why such a potentially in­ worth up to 100 times the price marijuana pyramid in Sydney is dependent country as Australia o f the full grown plant, pound for not an entity itself but part o f an could not supply her ow n to her pound. econom ic strategy designed to own. The fascinating answer is An interesting observation is create a sellers market and bring that local growers were dom in­ that apart from the usual Christ­ back the fat profits which had ating the market during the price mas rush, pubs have received none been enjoyed until a year ago fall which lowered the price per o f the floating trade. Not on ly are when the consumer price sudden­ weight half ounce from $30 to smokers not smoking, they’re not ly dropped. People were smoking $20. Sentimental smokers say the drinking either. more and enjoying it more be­ quality was rare.

Could it be that an econom ic cause they could well afford to.

A series o f farming busts along trend changes the course o f the Tightened customs security has the east coast over the past eight smoking revolution? It’s the same also been blamed as a significant months was justly blamed for the old free-enterprise story. factor in the current drought. As short-lived period o f plenty. smokers roam the streets in a A high-ranker working with the

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F Gough Whitlam really does want to go into the history book s as the prime minis­ ter w h o led the aboriginal race out o f the darkness o f white preju­ dice, white oppression, and restore to it some o f the dignity it once possessed, he had better get crack­ ing or it will be to o late.

He could start by taking abo­ riginal affairs minister, Jim Cavanagh, aside and telling him to stop trying to be so b lood y hamfisted, and listen a bit more to people w ho really d o know what needs to be done. People like Charlie Perkins or professor T. Strehlow. Remember Strehlow?

He’s the 65 year old professor o f languages at Adelaide university w ho resigned from the Institute o f Aboriginal Studies a few weeks ago in protest against the wastage o f m oney and effort within the institute.

Strehlow blamed much o f the mishmash that’s been going on in and around aboriginal affairs on Dr (Nugget) H. C. Coombs, chair­ man o f the institute comm ittee.

I wouldnt know whether or not Dr C oom bs is to blame for failures in the institute, or the recent furore over Charlie Perkins.

But I d o know that Strehlow was born at the lutheran mission out­ side A lice Springs, and lived the first 15 years o f his life there.

Aboriginal kids were his play­ mates. He speaks the language.

Aboriginals trust him, just as they trust Charlie Perkins.

They dont know Dr Coombs.

He doesnt speak their language, nor did he ever have black kids as playmates.

Black patience is running thin with Labor. Anger is rising like a black tide across the land. If you doubt me stop and listen a m o­ ment to warnings from men like aboriginal author and poet, Kevin Gilbert. (See Gilbert’s story this issue.)

Gilbert, a man who taught him­ self to write in prison during a life term for w ife murder and was released after 14 years, said re­ cently: “ If the Labor government doesnt d o something quickly to give blacks a better slice o f the national cake, something to re­ store our confidence in it, crim­ inal violence w on ’t be long in replacing the ‘ patriotic violence’ w e’ve already seen erupting.”

Gilbert was referring to the black resistance to police attacks upon demonstrating aboriginals outside parliament house, Canber­ ra, in mid-1972, and in George street, Brisbane and in the streets o f Redfern.

He’s right. There will be vio­ lence before long if Labor doesnt catch up lost ground and start honoring pre-election promises.

While researching my book G o o d b y e dreamtime I talked to aboriginals in many parts o f Aus­ tralia w ho vowed they had reach­ ed their limit o f endurance o f white oppression.

Take, for instance, the father o f 18 years old Marlene Cummins.

He’ s had enough. Marlene is living in New Zealand because she’ s afraid to live in her native Queens­ land.

Tw o years ago she was waiting fo r a bus on the outskirts o f Brisbane to return home to Ips­ wich. A middle aged, respectable looking white man drove up in his large, immaculate car. He liked the looks o f neatly dressed, attrac­ tive Marlene and offered her a lift.

She felt safe enough and ac­ cepted.

T w o hours later she hailed a cab and asked t o be driven to Queen Alexandra W om en’s Hos­ pital. She was crying. Her clothes were torn. She had been raped.

This is how she outlined the experience to me. “ When I paid the taxi o f f at the hospital I asked fo r treatment. I was shaking and

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couldnt stop crying. A doctor told me to sit down and that I would be attended to soon. After about ten minutes tw o detectives from the vice squad arrived and took me o f f to police headquarters. “ When I kept asking for medi­ cal treatment one o f the detec­ tives leaned over me and leered: ‘ Cut out the com edy, you little slut. Y o u ’ve been fucked before . . . Y ou probably enjoyed it this time, too, and decided to put on a blue when you werent paid. Now that’s about the size o f it, isnt it?”

Marlene told me: “ I was taken back by this, and when the detec­ tive repeated it I lost m y temper and retorted ‘Yes, I’ve been fu ck ­ ed, and by a fat pig o f a white businessman. N ow what are you going to d o about it . . . because whatever you like to think I was raped'.”

The detective did something about it alright. He charged Mar­ lene with using offensive language.

Later, in the charge room , she was called a "black slut” , and says that when she objected the officer behind the desk said: “ Well arent you ?”

Because o f the seriousness o f the girl’ s allegations I obtained an interview with Queensland police commissioner, Ray Whitrod and asked him if he intended doing anything about the girl’s original claim o f being raped.

He said the matter was “ being considered” .

Nothing ever came o f it, though. So Marlene escaped to New Zealand where there is no color bar, no overt racial discrim­ ination.

But you wouldnt really expect anything to be done about it, would you? I mean look at the record . . .

Take the case o f pastor Don Brady. He’s an aboriginal minister o f the methodist church. For weeks his little church in Spring street, Brisbane, was defaced with nazi slogans and signs, and on three consecutive Sundays as his congregation emerged white louts in souped up bombs roared past, shouting racist insults. On the fourth Sunday Brady and his eldest son chased a carload o f louts and trapped them in a blind street. “ We thought we had them, and could take them to the police,” Brady told me. “ And with this in mind both Vincent, m y son, and I tried to open the doors o f the old car. Finally Vincent kicked at the door. He lost his balance and the car roared off. “ We thought that was the end o f it. That we’d probably be left alone in future. But brother, how wrong can you be! Late that afternoon police arrived and charged Vincent with causing damage to the lout’ s car. He was fined when he appeared in court . . . ” Brady’s face paled, and lo o k ­ ing at me hard he asked: “ Can you imagine the son o f a white minister being charged if the cir­ cumstances had been d ifferen t. . . if it had been black louts abusing a white minister, defacing a white church?”

A few weeks after that pastor Brady’s Holden station wagon was set on fire while parked outside his house. Police visited his home once to ask if he had any idea who might have committed the crime. No one was ever charged with the offence . . .

In Adelaide where South Aus­ tralian premier Don Dunstan has brought in legislation making it an offence for anyone to discrim­ inate against aboriginals, R uby Hammond, a worker in aboriginal affairs, knows o f cases o f police bashings o f blacks. “ One young man spent days in continued page 4

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From page 3 hospital following a police bashing in the lane at the back o f a city hotel. It happens often,” she told me.

Ms Hammond, who was born in tribal conditions in the North­ ern Territory, says misuse o f abo-1 riginal girls still goes on in many outback areas o f Australia. “ I suppose I’m one o f those I stirrers the south graziers have been talking about lately,” she said, adding, “ I am sick and tired o f all this ‘ stirrer’ rubbish. All those o f us who go out among the semi-tribal and fringe-dwelling aboriginals d o is to tell them they dont have-to live like th a t. . . that there is a better way. " . . . that’s not stirring. I call that trying to uplift oppressed people — my people. O f course, some graziers and other leaders o f vested interests might see educa­ tion o f blacks as an end to their exploitation o f them. They are trying to protect their dollar and use scare phrases to frighten whites who have only a slight knowledge o f the real position it

While gathering material for my latest book , The angry Austra­ lian, many aboriginals told me their faith in Labor had been shaken by Whitlam’s sacking o f G ordon Bryant as minister for aboriginal affairs. Generally they seemed to think he had their best interests at heart, and they clearly trusted him.

They dont trust Cavanagh be cause he hasnt shown any under­ standing o f them. They say they want Bryant back or, failing that, Manfred Cross o f Brisbane as their minister.

Cavanagh can probably save his portfolio if he reassesses his posi­ tion and takes a more understand­ ing stance towards the people who expect his help and guidance, not his trenchant criticism.

And one o f the best ways he can demonstrate his sincerity would be to stop referring to aboriginals as “ lazy bludgers” , and to look for causes and correct them.

Some serious talking with men like Perkins and Strehlow would help in that direction. If he feels it is below his dignity to d o that then Cavanagh should resign and seek another portfolio where the iron fist and bulldozer approach will succeed. It certainly won’t in the sensitive area o f aboriginal affairs. It’ s time both Whitlam and his present aboriginal affairs min­ ister realised that.

Kevin Gilbert says

T IS ironic that at a time when the youngsters o f white society are everywhere seek­ ing new, simpler definitions o f how to live, how to cut down unnecessary consumption, how to go back to nature and get o f f the capitalist treadmill, that aborig­ inals are publicly standing up for European style living standards and loudly proclaiming the need for same as a preliminary towards, o f all things, assimilation!

So when it was revealed recent­ ly that the federal government was installing wiltjas (transport­ able canvas homes or “ humpies” - as we called the structures we built for ourselves on the banks o f the Lachlan river years ago) on aboriginal reserves in South Aus­ tralia, a howl went up from at least one section o f the aboriginal community. National Aborigines Consultative Committee member J. Stanley said among other things: “ Whether homes are fo r tribal people or not, they should c o n ­ form to accepted current stand­ ards. Housing goes along with education, employm ent, hom e management, discipline and h y­ giene. If aboriginals live in a wiltja on a dirt floor, how can we ask them to be clean? “ It is impossible fo r aboriginals to be assimilated into the Austra­ lian comm unity if their education for it includes homes with dirt floors. I feel strongly about these houses being so primitive when we should be encouraging aboriginals to be able to move into European style houses.”

Not long ago when I met a university dropout w ho — alien­ ated from the city, her parents and her entire social con text was determined to abandon her sewered, serviced, hygienic dis­ ciplined St Ives splitlevel back­ ground to go north, to seek among “ tribal aboriginals” that satisfaction in living that she felt was absent.

Unless she’s very, very lucky

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We want land, compensation and autonomy

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she’s going to com e a cropper, but who was I to disillusion her?

Could Mr Stanley, perhaps, put her right?

O f course - like our young seeker — colored folk like Stanley, long without a culture or any pride o f race, are themselves vic­ tims o f their ow n hangups. Blacks like him have to o many emotional blocks which prevent them from being able to concede that the provision of easily moveable weatherproof wiltjas are, in some semi tribal outback situations, ideally suited to the current needs o f the people.

As an interim solution to the appalling housing conditions in some o f these areas, it is to be co m m e n d e d . European style houses take a lot o f sophisticated looking after. If they dont get this they becom e cockroach ridden, white ant infested, badly drained health hazards that can be seen on so many aboriginal reserves in the south.

A wiltja is far less difficult to maintain. The hardstamped dirt flo o r is easily swept, the humpies themselves are far less prone to vermin infestation and they d o not cut o f f comm unity inter­ action like the suburban “ little boxes” d o (although th ey’re a bit tough if you like privacy!).

The only problem posed fo r us was that it wasnt easy to drag clean water to them daily; and, because they were made o f scrap iron, hessian and beaten kerosene tins, they were never weather­ p roof. Made o f superior materials, drained b y properly dug trenches, they cannot help being a healthier proposition than fixed structures especially as their portability

makes fairly frequent changes o f campsite possible.

We have long understood that one o f the reasons for bad health conditions where aboriginals con ­ gregate is because a nomadic peo­ ple, with nomadic habits, can’t get used to having to stay in one locality. Y ou see this even in the south; after generations o f white contact, many southern blacks still maintain a lifestyle more suit­ able for a shifting type o f life. At least in outback areas, the moveable wiltjas are the obvious ans­ wer.

O f course it is difficult for whites to say these things, even if experience tells them it is true.

Southern blacks, ever sensitive to any suggestions o f racial slurs would straightaway yell “ Discrim­ ination!” .

So h ow d o you think blacks take it when a white official rath­ er tactlessly says things like “ abo riginal people like to live in the dirt?” The fact that the only thing

wrong is his use o f words and the consequent implied slur, rather than the basic facts o f the situ­ ation, is obscured in a wave o f black resentment.

This sort o f thing explains, too, why wiltjas are only suitable for distant outback areas, preferably where blacks live without a near­

by European settlement, for it is not the wiltjas that are wrong; it is the white/black psychological in­ teraction and reaction to them that is the problem . That is why the government could never p ro­ pose putting them up on the fringes o f a class/color snotty southern country town. I don t need to labor that point any further.

Contrary to Stanley’s ideas, un­ assimilated aboriginals dont want assimilation (and many “ assim­ ilated” blacks regret their assimila­ tion). At a time when aboriginals are trying, desperately, to assert their identity, and revive their culture, this type o f transitional housing project is vital as an in­ terim measure until such time as we get our land base, monetary compensation for the theft o f the rest o f Australia and then have the means to decide, in communities, how we want to live.

So it’s a self-determination and regeneration that we seek — not assimilation or any o f that rub­ bish. It w on ’t be until we get land compensation as a prerequisite for mental health that we can begin to aim for hygiene, discipline and so forth.

The first block against the re­ generation o f the aboriginal p e o ­ ple is the fact that white Australia is going to do its damnedest to ensure that blacks dont get a meaningful land base and dont free themselves o f white control.

The second block is the con d ition ­ ing o f blacks themselves.

Blokes like Stanley are o b je ct­ ing less to the practical applica­ tion o f the wiltja project in suit­ able areas than to the fact that, all his life, he feels that he has been looked dow n on by white society, It is the aboriginality o f the w ilt­ jas that he is rejecting; the co n ­ notation o f being “ primitive” and therefore, in his mind, inferior.

Seeing in aboriginality only shame and degradation, “ assimilation” is a step up the social ladder.

The black psychology is sick.

Almost the entire aboriginal race,

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Good health without whitey PIOTR OLSZEWSKI HIS WEEK, while the Patterson-Perkins aboriginal affairs slanging match was at its height, and hopes that some aboriginal-non aboriginal reconcil­ iations might ever be achieved were at their lowest, the federal minister for health, Dr Everingham, made some surprisingly radical statements concerning abo­ riginal health.

Everingham, addressing a family planning seminar at Sydney’s Macquarie university, advocated integrating aboriginal medicine with current modern Western methods and said that “ we may have more to learn from our old Australians than to teach them” .

He added that aboriginals had more wisdom in their medicine than even they realised but they had com e to distrust it because o f the very powerful impact o f white medicine.

Examples o f aboriginal medical prowess have been known to whitey fo r a considerable time, although whitey, displaying his usual closed mindedness, has not bothered to take an active interest.

Official reports and documentation are scarce and in most cases biased b y white scepticism and ignorance o f aboriginal traditions.

Many chroniclers, particularly good Christian fellows, were blinded b y their abhorrence o f the aboriginals "pagan, primitive and barbaric” rituals.

However, despite all this, historical records are scattered with intriguing accounts of aboriginal medicinal feats and suggest that concentrated research into this area could reveal much of significance in practical medicine and in faith, or spiritual, healing.

In november 1860, a certain William Thomas dispatched a report on aboriginal health and medicine to Melbourne’ s district police court. In his report Thomas stated that: “ Wounds, o f whatever kind, which do not affect a vital part are more readily cured than in the case o f white people. I have seen desperate wounds inflicted b y their weapons (that would have kept Europeans invalids for months) healed in an incredible short tim e, to the astonishment o f medical men.”

Thomas then described the aboriginals wound healing methods. “ If the wound was in a fleshy part o f the b ody, they sucked at it until b lood ceased to be extracted. If b lood did not flow, they would lance the wound with a sharp bone, or place the b od y in a position so as to compress the opposite part to force blood. Then, when the wound was thoroughly cleaned a lump o f pridgerory (a tree wax) was applied and the wound left to heal naturally. If infection set in the wound would be reopened, cleansed again b y sucking and recovered with pridgerory.”

Thomas also recorded that in dealing with disease which, in the first instance must have been contracted from whites, the aboriginals devised “ simple but efficacious” cures. To combat venereal disease the aboriginals merely boiled wattle bark and applied the resulting lotion to the afflicted areas.

Thomas cites the case o f three Goulburn blacks who had contracted VD to the extent that the then colonial surgeon, Dr Cousins decreed life could not be saved unless the victims were

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to varying degrees, feels this ap­ palling, character-sapping shame about a culture that has been denigrated by whites for almost 200 years. (So the editor o f a gov­ ernment magazine for New South Wales aboriginals, New dawn, has to apologise in the december 1973 issue for stating, in an earlier issue, that certain tribal character­ istics survived amongst blacks at Collarenebri!).

How can even a start at healing for blacks com e, until white Aus­ tralia grants the substance - and not just the principle - o f land rights, compensation and selfdetermination? And not just in little bits here and there and hedged with restrictions but in one spectacular hit all over the continent?

Land given once, spectacularly and in full justice is the only thing that can set o f f the psychological healing that blacks need. Land would mean, for all blacks every­ where, that white Australia is at last forswearing its arrogance and attempting a restitution o f justice.

The alternative is clear. Unless aboriginals are given the chance to heal, as a race, they will continue to be disaffected. Increasing so­ phistication and self-hate will form the nucleus o f a criminal class that will be virtually without a conscience; that will always feel it is guiltless because o f ancient wrongs.

There are signs o f the develop­ ment o f this element already. Can whites seriously expect blacks to be very worried about the sanctity o f property when they have stolen an entire continent?

Given justice, a formidable task would remain for those blacks who have managed to remain reas­ onably whole. Black community organisers are vital in the blue­ prints for aboriginal rebuilding.

Things have to start happening on black land; a new lifestyle has to be forged; there have to be new outlets for the people besides grog.

That is why, Mr Stanley, your jo b on the NACC (if we must have such an organisation) need never consist o f anything more than whispering in the white bosses ears: “ We want land/compensa­ tion/au ton om y.” Drum that mes­ sage home, son, and y o u ’ll never go astray.

PS: If my dedicated black broth­ ers at Nowra wish to persist in hanging white skeletons from a tree in retaliation for the bull­ dozing o f our burial grounds in New South Wales, I know where they can dig one up a little further north o f here. I nominate Bjelkebaby as No. 1 swinger for the year.

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Lake Tycrs, hospitalised and underwent operations. The blacks refused and left the settlement. A fter 18 months they returned, com pletely cured after using only the wattle bark lotion. Upon examination o f the three blacks, the Melbourne coroner, Dr Wimott stated in a report that: "H ow ever violent the disease may appear among aboriginals, it could not enter into their systems as it did in European constitutions.”

A m ong the female aboriginals o f the Darling river, vegetarianism was used to com bat VD. Thomas Hill G oodw in, in a report to the church mission station, Yelta, Upper Murray, said that he had observed cases o f VD amongst the females. Severely affected females would abstain from animal food s and after a short time were able to move about again.

Incidentally, a vegetarian diet was widely used b y aboriginals o f both sexes to com bat fevers. In Victoria, aboriginals placed great importance in the curative powers o f wattle bark. T o treat boils, which affected aboriginals badly and could swell to the size o f emu eggs, a wattle bark con coction was a p p lied .

If this proved unsuccessful a poultice made from boiled wild marshmallow was used.

To treat dysentery the aboriginals would, at night time, take pills made o f wattlebark and qum. During the day they would drink large draughts of a wattlebark con coction and chew gum leaves constantly.

T o cure internal complaints, swellings, and rheumatism, Victorian aboriginals used steam, or vapor baths. The patient lay on a platform made o f sticks.

Beneath this platform were placed hot stones, and on top o f the stones, wet waterweeds. The patient was covered in possum rugs to help trap the steam from the waterweeds.

T o cure sandy blight, an eye disease, aboriginals plucked hair from the patients head and ground it up finely by chew­ ing. Then the patients eyes were opened and the hair particles spat into the eyes. This caused acute agony but the eyes improved rapidly until they were perfectly cured.

Spiritualism also played a very important role in aboriginal healing. White doctors, much to their chagrin, repeatedly reported the death o f sick aboriginals from a malady called moping. Doctors reported that once an aboriginal was moved into the hostile environs o f a white hospital he would sink into a deep depression and generally just waste away.

withdraw the w ood or bone from the patients b od y .”

The aboriginals believed that the w ood or bone extracted by the koonkie was the bod y o f the disease which had been communicated b y evil persons.

Aboriginals were also aided in their avoidance and treatment o f disease and sickness by the fact that they were extremely hardy beings and displayed great natural resistance to disease.

Their tenacity and stamina helped them overcome sickness and injuries which could incapacitate their Caucasian counterparts. It wasnt until whitey arrived in Australia that aboriginal health conditions began to degenerate. As far back as 1860 Thomas G oodw in recorded a statement made to him by an old aboriginal: “ In form er times, before whitefellow came, blackfellow could run like emu, but now, supposing that big one run, then big one tired, and plenty heart jump about: not always like that with blackfellow .”

Perhaps the reason for this moping malaise could lie in the fact that many aboriginals believed that their disease had been comm unicated to them by an evil disposed person.

A m ongst th e Dieyerie aboriginals, doctors (koonkies) had to see the devil (K ootchee) before they became eligible to practice. T o be elected to the office of koonkie young Dieyeries, who had experienced nightmares would relate them to tribal gatherings, and, if it was decided that the young man had seen K ootchee, he would then be initiatied in the rites o f the Koonkie.

The healing process o f a koonkie, as described b y a white called Gason, is thus: “ The koonkie sucks and rubs the afflicted part to ascertain the cause. He then retires and obtains a piece o f w ood or bone approximately one or tw o inches long. He returns to the patient, warms his hands on red hot charcoal, kneads the disordered parts, and then appears to

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B L A C K O U T on crime news available to the press fro m the V ic to ria police has been ordered b y the Hamer Liberal governm ent. The Liberals have imposed this censorship on crim e reporters fo r tw o reasons.

First, allegations o f serious misconduct against the police have increased since the recent exposure o f the drug squad using signed blank warrants. Journalists, as well as conservative lawyers, were shocked th a t the police could get away w ith this practice. Since this case crim e reporters have started asking critical questions as to o th e r police practices.

Second, the anti bashers campaign run by the M elbourne H erald has made the com m unity highly critica l o f the govern­ ment's attem pts to stop the increasing rate in these offences.

As well as the claims o f graft and the attem pted brib e ry o f jurors, allegations o f police bashings have increased. T w o ex­ amples are th e cases o f Christopher Currey and Leigh Lawson.

F ifteen year old Currey had his arm broken and detectives later adm itte d th a t they had made a mistaken arrest. Lawson was knocked unconscious fro m behind and also had his jaw broken so badly th a t he could not speak fo r tw o months. No charges have been laid against the police involved in these incidents.

C hief secretary Rossiter and to p police have also been enraged at the continual questioning by several journalists fo r th e date o f a coroner's inquest in to the death o f a police sergeant's w ife. The sergeant, w ho is facing a charge o f breaking w ith in te n t to steal, is under suspension. A friend o f his dead w ife claims th a t the deceased to ld her several days before her death th a t her husband was threatening to k ill her. The journalists hectoring has obtained a february date fo r the coroner's inquest.

During the week tw o people died in police cells. The cops said th a t a 70 year old man, who was found wandering in a distressed co n d itio n w ith an apparent loss o f mem ory, was n o t charged w ith any offence b u t placed in a cell fo r his ow n p ro te ctio n . A n autopsy w ill be held. It's believed th a t the V icto ria n C ouncil o f C ivil Liberties w ill look in to these incidents to see if a more satisfactory procedure can be taken in this type o f problem and also to investigate w hether there was any negligence on the p a rt o f police.

But w hile the cops were treating the press w ith scorn and n o t ta lkin g to the m , the journos were still able to get in fo via th e D 24 radio messages w hich were relayed in to the press room . This "se rvice" ceased at 9.30 am Sunday.

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R ockers com e ou t o f the closet fo r Bill Haley's return to M elbourne

GLENN GAUDIER HIS NEW ALBUM

HE AW ARD of an MBE to John Edward Davies, governor o f Victoria's Beechworth training prison has brought discord in the Victorian public service. Davies received the award in the last new year's honors list for humane and meritorious service to the prison service. We understand that the director of prisons, Eric Shade, has instituted a secret inquiry into how Davies got the award. The usual procedure is that the public service head makes the nomination, but in this case it is believed that Davies was nominated by several liberal politicians who have found Shade's administration of prisons, and Pentridge in particular, to be backward.

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AST frid a y a dem onstration o f approxim ately 100 students marched on the Indonesian and Japanese embassies in Canberra to protest at the murder o f students in Indonesia. The students also warned o f large dem onstrations being planned against Japanese prim e minister Tanaka w ho is to arrive in A ustralia in march.

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HE EDITO RS of student newspapers have decided to challenge the libel laws in Australia. A t their annual national conference in Canberra they issued a statement that there were too many exposes not being published because of the threat o f libel. They have decided that if one editor is threatened with libel then the others will all run the story as an act of solidarity.

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OT O N L Y leftwingers are aware o f the meaninglessness o f " jo in t c o n tro l" at the US Northwest Cape com m unications base. T im H ewatt, an old rightw inger fro m Geelong grammar, claimed in his colum n in the Melbourne Sunday observer, that w ith o u t access to the codebooks Australians w ill o n ly be at the base fo r appearances.

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Adelaide fuzz buzz Triplight THE organisers o f a proposed Alternative Community Resource Centre in Adelaide claim their attempts to establish the centre are being frustrated by constant police harassment. They claim police have used violence and conspiracy to undermine the pro­ ject.

The centre’s chief organiser, Peter Carey, claims he has been the subject o f extreme provocation from South Australia’s police force This provocation, he believes, is a direct result o f his involvement in the project.

Carey takes up the story: The harassment began a couple o f months ago. Many people seeking alternatives in Adelaide were beginning to realise that a consolidated effort was needed to boost interest in our aims.

The Clear Light Bazaar, housed in a basement in Rundle street, was the only base for such matters and it was beginning to get too small for all the activities it was attracting. A small group o f friends and I began to look around town for larger office space, hoping to house free legal and drug protection services, commune comm unication pipelines and other activities such as coffee lounges and vegetarian restaurantsy

started patrolling the street just outside the building. They hurled personal abuse and kept saying things like “ We 11 get you .

One night I went to my car, which was parked outside the building in Rundle street, to find the tyres had all been let down.

For the next six nights m y van was subjected to vandalism. All headlights were smashed, and the car on blocks one night when a tyre was taken from it I found the emergency brake cable would not work and when getting it fixed was told it had probably been cut deliberately.

Tbe mechanic who worked on Carey’s van substantiates his claims about the damaged headKqhts and says the brake cable was cleanly cut. He says the chances o f this happening naturally are extremely remote, Carey and Co weathered the abuse and continued their work on tbe building with the market authorities remaining keen on the venture. However, the major setback was still to com e, The six weeks up, their lease had to be signed and one m onth s rent pa , ^ 1r!p 5 group turned up Walker told them to get o ff the premises immediateV- He would give no reason; he just wanted them to get out

A bout this time we heard about a two-storey abandoned fruit warehouse, a little along the road from the bazaar, at 281 Rundle street. We decided to try and get hold o f the place and approached the owners, the East End Market Cooperative Ltd. Their secretary, Mac Walker, said he was extremely keen to have the place used for something "esoteric” , and said we could have the place rentfree for six weeks.

We told him we would use the building for offices and a vegetarian restaurant, to which he agreed.

We registered ourselves with the South Australian Companies O ffice as the Triplight Together Company and submitted plans to

im m ed^tely.

The Tnplight group, realising they could not reason with the man< a5k6d him for tw o days ^ c e to move their equipment out The request was; granted, However, when Walker found 501116 o f the equipment remaining in the building on the third day he had some market em ployees toss it on to the street. He then barred the d oor o f the building and pasted signs on the window declaring it Market C o-op propertV and lssum9 a warmn9 * * tref asserT s When I called Walker last w he » ld he woukl unot be dlawn m to argument on the issue When told o f Carey s allegations that he

the owners o f the building and the Adelaide city council for the restaurant. The plans were accepted and we began to make minor structural changes to the building, During the six weeks we spent nearly $500 in materials to get the place into condition. However from the first time I set fo o t in the place I had a strange feeling nothing would com e o f our work.

Earlier on we were interviewed by two uniformed policemen about a chair they claimed was stolen. They asked a couple o f aiuicii. ° questions about the chair and A. j , .

•„ „ „ __ __ then proceeded to grill us on our activities in the building. Then they hauled a couple o f the guys away for questioning at police headquarters. It turned out that the chair had been taken from a flat, but no one was charged and the chair was never picked up. r Next up the homicide squad arrived. They told me I was a suspect in the case o f three children who disappeared while at a football match on the Adelaide

had f 0* " 8* Wlth tbe pohc,e Mld he bad thrown the Tnplight 9r0UP out bec6Use a 6heclue be had 16ceived from them had bounced , , Carey disputes this. We gave Walker a cheque for more than $150 to cover the rent before the lease was drawn up. There was a ™ with this. One o f die ™embers ° f tbe group left fo Nimbln and t0° k f ° me m of y ° u account leavm9 « a blt short. “ The cheque was returned marked Present again. However ,, dunnq this time Walker told us to y , , ?6t out and we stopped payment 111 6ase he trled t0 rip o f f 1116 ™ n e y .■ branch r ,™ ’ o f Ihe A N Z confnm ed Carey “ ory. A t no tune did the cheque bounce.

Following theu eviction from Rundle street the Triplight group tried to find suitable accom m oda­ tion elsewhere in the city but

oval because I tallied with an identikit o f the prime suspect.

However, in the press he was described as a fortyish “ new Australian” with short hair. I am in m y 20s, Australian and have y ' long hair.

This was follow ed by several raids by the drug squad on houses I had visited. The Rundle street building was subsequently visited by almost every squad in the force, and uniformed legmen

Mad dogs and Hooker’s men go out to make a slum ross

M cPh e r s o n

HE BRUTAL disregard for public feeling that seems to ch aracterise Sydney’s “ developers” came to Melbourne last week when Hooker Home Units set their dem olition team against Lanark terrace at 2 am thursday. They managed to pull dow n eight chimneys and knock huge holes in the back o f the houses before police armed with a court order stopped them tw o hours later.

The terrace is a group o f six houses, built in 1892. Resident groups have been struggling to prevent their dem olition since december, when the Town Planning appeals tribunal ordered South Melbourne City Council to issue a planning permit. The tribunal (which has an otherwise encouraging record as far as conservation is concerned) did this on the grounds that the houses were in a dilapidated state and uneconom ical to restore.

At the time South Melbourne council first rejected the permit the tenants had just been vacated

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from the terrace and all houses were in perfect condition.

Hookers simply left all the doors, windows and rear access gates com pletely open so the houses would becom e "vandalised” .

Hookers didnt even complain when the prior owner o f the terrace flogged o f f the marble fireplaces, staircases and bannister rails to an antique dealer. A member o f the Emerald Hill association saw marble slabs being carried out, so the association immediately raised the m oney and bought it all back from the dealer.

The association is incensed that any developer can hasten the issue of planning permits by deliberately causing deterioration.

Last tuesday was the final day to lodge an appeal against the tribunal’ s ruling in the supreme court, but since justice takes a holiday around this time o f year, all the Master could d o was adjourn the application. Getting wind o f this, Hookers sent the b oy s in after midnight Wednesday, armed with bulldozers and alsatian dogs in what the company later describes as a bout o f

“ over-enthusiasm” . The company did have a planning permit for its 21-storey block o f flats but did not have a demolition permit.

South Melbourne council will attempt to prosecute Hookers for illegal demolition, excessive noise at night and lack o f safety precautions and insurance cover.

Meanwhile, in a quick hearing in the supreme court later on thursday, Master Brett stayed the planning tribunal’ s decision until justice resumes in march. While to ignore this ruling does not unfortunately constitute contem pt o f court, Hookers have self-righteously agreed to delay demolition until this thursday, after the Emerald Hill association agreed to underwrite the costs o f the delay.

M elb ou rn e manager of Hookers, Peter Ford(who doubtless would have been their golden b oy if he had got away with it) is understood to be on the mat with the Sydney-based management. Send him your Australia-day best wishes, 606 St Kilda road, Melbourne.

w 6re told nothing was^ available Carey claims it is obvious there has been considerable political pressure preventing its establish ment. “ A t present” , he says, “ moves are bein9 made t0 sue the Co-op for the m oney we lost at Rundle street but this is not the main issue. It seems though that there has been some co-ordinated effort to block our project at a high level.”

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5SiSSs F ron t view , Lanark terrace, S outh M elbourn e

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HE LAST thing Michael X will see in this life is the face o f Trinidad’s prime minister, Dr Eric Williams, beaming down at him from the death cell wall.

The irony is that Williams (so Michael X told m e) encouraged him to return to Trinidad where he did the state some service by deprecating a black-power movement which at the time was discomfiting the government.

Now it is Williams w.ho must bear the ultimate responsibility fo r ordering his execution a responsibility which may be difficult to bear in good conscience.

Trinidad’s constitution pro­ hibits any “ cruel or unusual treatment or punishment” and in december last Michael X ’s lawyers sought a declaration that his sentence was just such an unconstitutional punishment. The registrar agreed to set the case down for february 8, the earliest date that Michael X ’s counsel, Louis Blom-Cooper QC, could argue it. But the government had other ideas.

The solicitor-general went secretly to a judge and demanded the m otion be heard during the Christmas vacation because it was undesirable to keep Michael X in a state o f uncertainty about his fate (a consideration which has never bothered Dr W i l l i a ms ’ s government in relation to other condem ned prisoners - I met one man who had been in death row since 1970). The judge obligingly sat on December 28, when he knew Michael X ’s counsel would be unable to attend, and used this non-attendance as a ground for dismissing the m otion as “ frivolous and vexatious” .

Michael X, or Abdul Malik (the name he assumed instead o f Michael de Freitas when he joined the black-power movement etc), is the centre o f attention on death row. He is under continual observation: the light in his cell is never switched o ff. This seems to disconcert the warders more than Michael X - eight have asked for transfers since his arrival.

There is n o sympathy fo r him in Trinidad - he is regarded as an unholy amalgam of Charles Manson and Ronnie Kray: the more credulous believe he is the devil incarnate, while even learned counsel fo r one o f his co-accused felt it necessary to read books on dem onology before he could master his brief.

Yet the mercy pleas from America in the last month have undoubtedly embarrassed the government. They have com e not on ly from leading black-power figures like Angela Davis and Dick Gregory, but from R oy Wilkins, of the NAACP, and other respected black civil rights groups for whom a “ lynching” in Trinidad seems as contradictory as a gas chamber in Israel.

Was the trial political?

Adm ittedly the press coverage was reprehensible (one frontpage photograph depicted Malik with devil’s horns superimposed) and the attorney-general, who had staked his political future on the outcom e, prosecuted relentlessly.

More sinister was the sudden illness o f the one pro-Malik juror, who recovered mysteriously as soon as he was discharged from the jury. But otherwise the prosecution o f Abdul Malik for the murder o f Joseph Skerritt was neither “ political” nor unfair; he was certainly the logical suspect for the crime. The trial judge scrupulously excluded a good deal of prejudicial evidence and provided no grounds fo r appeal against the verdict. But to say the trial was “ fair” does not mean

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Michael X, the black pow er spokesman who came to prominence in Britain in the 60s. has never been popular with anyone, black or white. It is often argued that he ripped o f f white libs in the name o f black politics , solely fo r self-aggrandise­ ment. I first m et him in 1 966 and saw him regularly until he left London fo r Trinidad around 1 97 0. When the muddled reports reached m e o f corpses in the coppice, I couldnt connect them with the warm and humorous Michael that I knew. “A b o v e all, murder is a stupid crim e,’ ’ says Agatha Christie, and on these grounds I can hardly see Michael as a machete man. His early letters from Trinidad, before the murder charges, were full o f brisk plans fo r consolidating the interests o f the West Indian p o o r , cheerful and conspiratorial, with no hint o f murky domestic dramas. N ow Michael sits in death row. G E O F F R O B ERTSO N , an Australian lawyer at large, has made contact with Michael and files this report.

- R.N. Statement written by Michael Abdul Malik, Royal Gaol, Port o f Spain, Trinidad, May 1972.

SLRs, self-loading sub machine guns.

Around the court stand 68 heavily armed uniform men, inside are twelve more with side arms and ten with riot staffs, I am curious how many are around in civilian The first part o f this little note may seem dress. My lawyers are harassed directly on the surface as a litany o f complaints, and indirectly, like for example a three but complaining as such is far away from hundred dollar demand or personal viol­ my mind. I relate the following picture so ence fo r a taxi bill or on the other hand a you who are faraway may see and g et a refusal by Immigration to allow my law­ clear picture o f what's really happening yer's clerk entry into the country, noting here. by the way he had been in four times be­ First you must be aware that this is not a fore, working and researching in my criminal trial, it is political. Murder as a defence. Mr Regis the clerk is an accredited charge in relation to myself, is an absurd m ember at Lincolns Inn, London. My suggestion. When I was brought back to situation is made difficult even more by a Trinidad, I was put in a stone and concrete hold up at gun point o f m y wife and seizure cell six fo o t by twelve foot, with no bed ■o f my diaries and address book and her or any other type o f furniture, this should diary and address book by the police. The speak for itself, I remained on the con ­ almost finished manuscript o f my new crete floor for twelve days. My lawyers book was seized and destroyed and strewn made representations to the C hief Justice about my yard by the Police when they and the Prisons Commissioner and I was occupied my property, I am not allowed finally given a little bed with fibre filled to write bar on two tiny forms weekly mattress, no sheets or pillow case, this is and there I must say nothing o f my health the situation to this day three months or weight or conditions in prison. I am not later, our constitution states that as a allowed to go into the sunlight for exercise remand prisoner I am entitled to a light as is the custom fo r other prisoners, nor to read by, a copy o f the Quoran as a can I get any answers as to why I must Muslim, and the diet o f a Muslim, table, endure such harsh punichment, particularly chair, but none o f these things are as I am not convicted o f any crime. allowed me, my usual two hundred and M y wife on occasion visited me here in five to two ten pounds is now down to prison in the company o f a local person, 159 one hundred and fifty nine, since on leaving the prison they are picked up coming in here I have not eaten any food, by the police and interrogated as to what I sometimes eat a few biscuits and milk or "pert they are playing in the R evolution" sugar water with a bit o f citrus squeezed some are kept for many hours, the result, in it, this we call "juice", or a p iece o f people are very frightened. Even hotels cheese or butter substitute. have refused to grant accomodation to my Sometimes I go fo r a week or nine days on wife who is in an advanced state o f preg­ water only, it it over tftree months now nancy. She was refused'admittance in 14 I am in this-situation. They say there will hotels. I have since advised her to go, and be a decision in about a year. I go to court remain in Guyana, the country o f her birth, now about three times a week on average. with my four daughters.

To travel the 18 miles to court, I am escort­ The picture I have shown is one o f Trini­ ed by 25 armed policepxen with modern

dad today. This beautiful Caribbean coun­ try is now described as a police state, 14 years after independence from England, our country has been in an officially proclaimed State o f Emergency fo r the past year. On my arrival in Trinidad Jan­ uary 1971 I began working on a Social and Agricultural Programme, with large gifts o f m oney from people like you John Lennon and your wife Y oko Ono who came and witnessed at first hand som e o f our work, we were able to alleviate much poverty in what is essentially quite a rich country (oil rich). With hard work and much patience I gained in passing a large following o f the ordinary people and many enemies, the present administration is afraid. They are parading 24 or more wit­ nesses against me on one charge o f murder that o f a local man, and 40 witnesses on Another charge o f murder, this one being an English woman. To defend m yself le­ gally in this protracted legal battle will bear enormous costs which I cannot afford at present two lawyers from St. Lucia, Mr. Kenneth F oster and Mr. L eo Regis his clerk who are knowledgeable o f the Car­ ibbean scene and who believe in my in­ nocence have taken up the cause at con­ siderable expense to themselves, they can be reached at B ox 218 Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Mr. Foster is also the leader o f the opposition party in St. Lucia, I ask o f you my friends to send to me at the Royal Gaol, Port o f Spain, Trinidad, what assistance y ou can, and hope that one day we may see and serve each other again.

Yours in Peace, Michael Abdul Malik. .

I wish to further request you to spread this information and write me. M. The retaining cost has been estimated at 25,000 dollars.

Michael X ’s letter smuggled to London OZ before the trial that the defendant was properly represented or that the whole truth emerged. He wasnt, and it didnt.

The strangest aspect o f the Skerritt murder trial — and it puzzles Michael X as much as anyone else - was the tactics o f his defence counsel. The only direct prosecution evidence against him was provided b y the accomplice Parmassar who had previously helped, in Malik’ s absence, to kill Gale Benson. His credibility as a witness could and should have been destroyed by recalling his part in that murder.

Incredibly, Gale Benson was not mentioned at all in the whole course o f the cross-examination.

With Parmassar’s testimony undented, Malik’s only hope was to go into the witness b o x and maintain his innocence on oath.

Many hostile lawyers feared he would outwit the attorney-general and "sweet talk” at least one juror (Trinidad requires unanimous verdicts) into voting fo r an acquittal.

To everyone's amazement, he “ elected” not to give evidence - a decision only taken, he now

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claims, on the strenuous advice o f his counsel, a politician from St Lucia w h o had offered his services b y telegram shortly after Malik’s arrest. “ I have never lost a murder trial,” he boasted on arrival in Trinidad - a phenom enon which local lawyers put down to the fact that he had never appeared in one before.

What will be achieved b y Malik’ s execution, planned with a macabre sense o f timing for the tuesday in february closest to the anniversary o f Skerritt’s death? It will certainly not rebut the fashionable conspiracy theories that Gale Benson was silenced because she was working for MI6; that Skerritt died a blackmailer’s death; that the trial was rigged and the juror poisoned.

Capital punishment in Trinidad is hot just cruel and unusual, it is positively barbaric. Since the death penalty is automatic for murder in die island and the murder rate — in a country where there is always a coconut-chopper near at hand to end a rum punch-up — is 25 times that o f Great Britain, the m onkey cages lining death row in the royal jail

are fully occupied. The only hope for a condem ned man is the inappropriately named "M ercy Committee” which has not actually shown any mercy since 1969. Its power to reprieve is exercised b y several government mi ni s t e r s (in clu d in g the attorney-general, who would normally have authorised the prisoner’s prosecution) and four w orthy citizens, such as the secretary o f the Trinidad Turf Club.

The Mercy Committee meets on Wednesdays. If it turns dow n a prisoner’s petition, he is topped the follow ing tuesday.

The decision is announced, without forewarning, between one o ’clock and fou r on thursday afternoon.

The inmates o f death row spend each thursday in a state o f terror, straining to hear the creak o f a d oor which is only opened when there is •a death warrant to be read. The prison official entrusted with this task strides up and down the row o f tortured men, stops suddenly at the cage o f the victim, clears his throat and declaims: “ In the name o f Queen Elizabeth the Second by the

Grace o f G od o f Great BritainS Northern Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the seas Queen, Defender o f the Faith, Greetings!”

He then reads the warrant, (signed on the queen's behalf by the governor general) a document incomprehensible to any but the 17th century lawyers who drafted it. At the end com es the good news: Her Majesty has graciously allowed the condemned wretch 24 Trinidad dollars (about $8) to order the fo o d o f his choice provided he orders it then and there.

A man who has just been told he will hang by the neck until he is dead is hardly in the m ood to contemplate a menu, so the queen’s largesse is usually spent on icecream.

There follow s a daily ritual o f greasing the trap and weighing the condemned man. The form er process, Michael X tells me, can be clearly heard by everyone on the row - a regular reminder o f their own fate. The repeated weighing is apparently a precaution lest to o much guzzling o f her majesty’s icecream should make the prisoner to o heavy for the strength o f the rope, resulting in decapitation instead of strangulation.

The ropes are im ported from Birmingham (another tie with the mother country) and com e packaged specially with the desired weight-range for their human victim printed on the box.

A fter use they are recycled to the Trinidad Blind Society, whose members use the sisal for weaving.

Recently the society gratefully accepted a rope used to hang a blind man - one o f its members.

On monday relatives pay their last respects across a thick wire mesh - touching the condem ned man is prohibited. Other prisoners in the cramped row must endure the ordeal as his loved ones wail, scream and frequently have to be carried out on stretchers. But evening brings a visitor with more sang-froid: the hangman. This gentleman, I was told, is a Jehovah’s Witness lay preacher, who keeps his occupation a secret from his wife and his church, as both have publicly deplored capital punishment. His fee is 15 guineas per head.

At 5.30am on tuesday the various court, government and prison officials obliged to witness the execution assemble and watch while the naked prisoner takes his last bath. He is then ordered to dress in a white robe and hood, and is led, looking for all the world like a Ku Klux Klansman, to a cell directly opposite the gallows where his priest is waiting.

No tranquilliser except religion is administered - while the priest engages his attention tw o guards suddenly seize him, drag him across the narrow passage o f death row, and string him up. (Michael claims that the flying o f the trap is distinctly heard by the other condemned men. He has now heard it six times himself).

The dead man must remain suspended for a full hour, during which the officials are served breakfast in the death cell. One eyewitness described to me how they eat while in their midst the body twists, as it were, slowly in the wind. At the end o f the hour the b od y is cut down and taken to the prison hospital and its final degradation: a slashing o f the wrists and the tendons o f the feet - probably an arcane symbolic reference to the (‘quartering’ ) aspect o f the (‘hanging, drawing and quartering’ ) o f more savage days.

New statesman.

The author has been living in England f o r several years. When h e visited hom e over Christmas, he was shocked by the aggression and sexism o f men friends and acquaintances and agreed to elaborate on these reactions f o r TLD. It was delivered the day he departed, with stem instructions n ot to molest o r truncate the copy, to which w e adhered. Although a little pious and preem ptorily dismissive o f distant scenes (such as the US), it is undoubtedly an important contribution in th e gropings towards male enlighten­ ment. T oo many men have been atrophied by th e wom ens m ovem ent o r con ten t to u tter tokenistic jargon from behind the arras o f a trembling ego. M en against Sexism sorts ou t the mind revolution­ aries from the jerk o f f gang, and fu rth er discussion is warmly invited.

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MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND HERE were scattered examples o f men meeting together to discuss sexism in 1972 and earlier, but it wasnt really till june last year that any sort o f movement got-under way. A conference on “ Masculine Attitudes” was called by a group o f Communist Party men - known as “ Men Against Sexism” .

(Hearing about a CP mens group really blew m y mind, because up till then I’d thought the Marxist Left was completely hostile to such things.)

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AGAINST SEXISM A blast at the local lads from an Australian brother living in England Their program was (1 ) opposition to the oppression o f wom en; (2 ) liberation from the disadvantages o f masculinity; (3 ) liberation from sexism as a counter­ revolutionary ideology; (4 ) for socialism — without sexism. Attended b y about 50 men, the conference itself wasnt to o good: everyone crow ded into one room, listening to papers, follow ed b y mainly academic-style argument on Engels on the family.

There were some punctures in this atmosphere (a man broke dow n and cried while he played a tape about his own sexist freakouts) and, despite everything, a real optimism that something had start­ ed which was going to develop. Going around the room, we learnt that there were eight groups there, most o f them local, which had grown out of community-based politics in which wom en, active in wom ens liberation, had taken part and sparked o f f rethinking among some men.

As well as planning another conference six months ahead, a newsletter was set up to be produced b y a different local group each time. The first to appear was brought out by a Birmingham group and was called Brothers. I remember it chiefly for the articles which lacked the usual male leftie certainty and confidence and recounted personal experiences which opened up a bit on the hidden underworld o f the male ego.

A very tentative and nervous beginning.

Six months later at the Birmingham conference I was really knocked out by how fast things had grown, and how much w e'd all developed. A bout 150 men were there, most from men’s groups already in existence (about 20), but also quite a few who said they’d com e along because they wanted to join one or start their own. There would probably have been more, but the weekend clashed (sadly) with a Gay Marxist conference in

Lancaster.

Fears that we would try and use the conference to get our various lines across usual male leftie style - proved groundless. Quite spontaneously, no one wanted big meetings, agendas, papers, workshops even. Instead we form ed into small fluctuating groups dotted here and there. When everyone did briefly com e together on the last day, we mainly listened to accounts o f what each group had rapped about.

Extract from m y ow n impressions: Never experienced such openness and lack o f resistance from other men . . . we avoided responding ideologically . . . we were all listening hard, even to those with whom we politically disagreed (a rare thing) . . . If meetings and conferences color our general politics, then some real change is underfoot. A far cry from those meetings dominated by a few, full o f aggressive argument, and men competing

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MEN AGAINST SEXISM and defining themselves in opposition to other men. Isnt this change bound to affect how we behave at work, in strike situations or in comm unity action?’

The conference was seen as an exchange point and stimulus to grass-roots struggle on the level o f small groups. Here’s a resume o f a report from the Leeds men’s group given out at the conference: We havent tried to hammer out a coherent ideology or political manifesto, although we do see ourselves as trying to break new ground politically. At present we come together because the struggle against sexism is relevant to us. We feel the need to extend our struggle more widely, but are wary o f this leading us to treat our meetings as crash-courses in anti-sexism to be rapidly followed by the Real Business o f trying to build a mass movement amongst all those “ unliberated” men. We expect our consciousness-raising and the work o f getting behind our masculine masks to be long and painful and at times threatening . . . Maybe we w on’t always need the meeting structure and can com e together in other ways, but in some form collective consciousnessraising needs to go on all the time . . .

POLITICAL MEN: By december anti-sexism had made inroads at a national conference o f people active in libertarian class-struggle politics. It was called mainly to discuss strategies for the winter offensive now in progress (miner’s overtime ban, etc), lone o f the groups (Islington) proposed that the men discuss separately the extent to which we could practically make anti-sexism basic to every struggfe we were involved in (whether around factories, housing, squatting, social security, the law, free schools, Northern Ireland).

What happened when we split o ff from the women was mindblowing: for the first half o f the meeting it was as if we were trying to justify ourselves politically to this invisible panel o f hostile male lefties. We talked about the Political Value in men developing more trust and solidarity (less political disunity in crisis situations), the Political Value in demasculinising (after all the masculine w ay we project o u rs e l v e s as class-conscious men alienates a lot o f ordinary people), the Political Value in ceasing to go about our political work compulsively and busily (which wrecked us psychologically in the long-term and fucked up our personal lives). We also talked about how Radicalising it was for those o f us working around industry to raise with male workers the issue o f their domestic situation, since sexism at home com m only had a conservatising effect (“ Sorry, I can’t go on strike occupation with you lads, I’ve got a wife and kids to support you know ” .)

Then suddenly we realised what we were doing. A ll this JUSTIFYING! So we started to talk about the fears leading us to d o that. Most q f us, it turned out, had a very strong fear that to make anti-sex­ ism basic to our everyday lives would de-politicise us: eg. spending time around babies and playgroups would subtract from energy we could/should be putting into agitating in the workplace or community. I call it the "pram on the building site syndrome” after an experience described by one brother from London: While agitating around some building site, he reckoned the men working there had stopped taking him seriously when he turned up one day wheeling a pram (it was his turn to look after the baby).

We ended up talking more about our feelings about ourselves and how we’d had to change in order to become political. We now at least realise that we will often have to decide against male priorities in our political work.

CAY LIBERATION AND THE

MEN’S MOVEMENT: In England, relations between men in the GLF and men in men’s groups are still very unclear.

The gay movement is presently going through a period o f flux (some men at the last Gay Marxist Conference argued that GLF had capitulated to capitalism).

Men’s groups which include both “ gays” and “ straights” seem to have generated a lot o f consciousness o f the need to break down these stereotypes.

Some o f us have attacked the GLF for its pro-masculine ideology. Some men in the GLF, on the other hand, have expressed suspicion o f men’ s groups, seeing them as the latest tactic by straights to pacify gay militancy, and as the Labor Party o f the sexual revolution. One key issue seems to be: Do men need to feminise and in what ways (obviously not by imitating women we’ve enslaved)? On this issue, men in both movements split different ways.

Maybe literature from the Effeminists in the States will provoke more debate soon.

MEN AND SEXUAL POLITICS: Most o f us at the december Birmingham conference seemed to agree on the need to change our patterns o f sexual and emotional relating - to break with the “ performance principle” . It was amazing how many men who carrie over as normal practising heterosexuals spoke about sexual hangups. We talked a lot about what was sexist about how we fuck and what we can d o about that (about things like needing to be always in control, etc); about the masculine priorities o f existing sexual freedom ideologies; about relating to women as sex-objects. (Some o f us had got a lot out o f reading a turgid but exciting pamphlet — put out by a mixed collective from London entitled Politics o f Sexuality in Capitalism. (All pamphlets m entioned in article available from Rising Free, 197 Kings Cross road, London, WC1.).

MEN A N D LIVING COLLECTIVELY: We all seemed to agree that the nuclear family structure was basic to our sexism.

Struggling with our sexism meant consid­ ering collective living. Men there with ex ­ perience o f living collectively warned that there was nothing magically anti-sexist about living that way, it depended on how you did it. Another problem was that you could just develop a feeling o f co m ­ placent superiority to men living in couples or nuclear families. All the same it did give more scope for potentially breaking dow n sexist roles and structures in relationships. But we all had to struggle from where we were.

Phew! It’s impossible to say how things will develop from here. With the increasing cycle of industrial and com m unity crisis, it seems essential for Men Against Sexism to link up more with wider struggles against capitalism. Maybe the next conference at easter will make things a bit clearer. . .

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T ’S WORTH mentioning some Eng­ lish reactions to stuff com ing out from the States. Som e o f us were influen­ ced in the early stages by the pamphlet Unbecoming men. (We dug it when we first read it, now we tend to dismiss i t . . . there’ s something fishy about that.) With experience o f our ow n, we've becom e more critical.

MEN'S LIBERATION ?: There’s a re­ jection o f the way some men’ s groups in the States — and in England - talk about Male/Men’s liberation. It’s felt this gives a totally false impression that men’s o p ­ pression is on a par with wom en or blacks. A t the last conference in Birming­ ham most o f us felt we should keep central what we are against, and to focus our attack on how and w hy masculine superiority works fo r capitalism: “ ‘Liberation’ has a historically and so­

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cially determined meaning . . . Our ‘ oppression’ does not parallel that which is suffered b y wom en or colon ­ ised people, or racial minorities. Their struggle has given a new meaning to the word ‘ liberation’ , and to use it for our purposes would be to distort its meaning . . . It would be a travesty for us to use it.” (extract from Men against sexism Newsletter).

HUMANISM: Also a lot o f the stuff coming from the States seems marred by a misleading humanism. On the one ex­ treme this takes the form o f men crying “ We’re oppressed t o o ” . This they d o to the extent that they becom e mere trans­ mitters o f stress within a total system.

This leads to the picture that men are also to be pitied, since they suffer. While it’s true that we to o are dehumanised by sexism, many o f us feel it’s hopeless to try and base a men’ s movement struggle on this. It suggests that men should seek for solutions within their ow n psyches on an individual basis. Johnny Cash here we com e?

Another trouble with this picture is that it makes out that in struggling against their sexism men will have noth­ ing to lose and everything to gain (like being more human). Whereas it seems to us that most men have a real stake at present in hanging on to their power and privileges, since the alternatives seem so threatening. T o give up dominance is going to entail, at least in the immediate future, loss and pain and disorientation.

Ego-dissipation. A lso it may mean a lot o f attacking other men and refusing to collude in their oppressive games.

At the other extreme this humanism leads to the view that men are solely and simply oppressors. Like all masters, they may be fucked up, but they’re not oppressed. Such pessimism against men changing is nothing new. It’s com m on in sections o f the w om en’s movement.

Amongst men it’s recently arisen as part o f a male guilt reaction against feminist attacks ("G o d , we’ re such sexist shits . . . “ I wish I were a woman, then I ’d have a cause” ). This view ignores how men are oppressed b y sexist structures, even if lightly, compared with women (only Real Men make good soldiers, etc.).

But mainly it’s such a convenient cop-out determinism: if men are inherently o p ­ pressors then there’s no point in trying to change. This just diverts attention away from how we daily choose to actively support sexist structures. In any case, since when has being white (= oppressor) been a reason for acquiescing in racism.

Or being a first world citizen (= oppres­ sor) a reason for acquiescing in imperial­ ism. (In the sexist class-war our slogan is: DESERT!) CLASSLESSNESS: Since they’ re less oppressed b y capitalism, middle-class men are often better placed to begin a struggle against sexism. But much o f the literature from the States seems slanted towards perpetuating a narrow middle class base.

Much o f it is academic and offputting for working-class men. It may seem difficult (especially in the States) to get revolu-' tionary sexual politics to take root amongst working-class men, but it’s vital - if a men’ s movement is to seek mass change through class struggle, that is.

There are, anyway, weak links in the chain o f working class sexism. In the meantime, middle-class men need to re­ think using academic jargon, cos isnt that part o f their sexism (words are sometimes more powerful than muscles)?

Classlessness especially seems to dog the Effeminist movement. Their Mani­ festo, for example (which has a lot o f circulation in gay circles in Australia, I’m told), mentions not a word about how sexism is affected b y capitalism, gives econom ic and political control to a few and exploits the majority. Instead it talks about an abstract "M ale Principle” . All

oppression is reduced to sexist oppres­ sion, all anger is directed against mascu­ linity and none against the Monster whose belly w e’re still in.

MEN AGAINST SEXISM IN AUS­ TRALIA. READ somewhere that Frank Hardy says that the Australian male, despite mateship, unionism and all the rest, is one o f the loneliest people in the world. Maybe that’ s exaggerated, but until I left for England six years ago I felt pretty lonely, even when I had ongoing relationships. It wasnt till recent­ ly when I got involved in a men’s group (in England) that I’ve felt less isolated.

In Australia for a brief visit that male loneliness has com e back to me with a bang. I keep on picking up on what I was like when I lived here and how much o f my old male self I still am. Like here I am about to criticise sexism amongst men here as if I was in this superior less-sexist position. And sitting here, pen erect, setting out to write in the very aggressive way I want to criticise!

0 Coming back it didnt surprise me to find that down under wom en are still kept just so — down under. What did surprise me, however, was how rampant sexism still seemed amongst the male left and the male counterculture. (It’ s men in these scenes I want to concentrate on .)

I have heard about some striking ex­ ceptions: like the way the BLF has made sexism an issue within some unions; like some o f the discussion about sex­ ism at the last worker’s control con ­ ference in Newcastle. But generally the struggle against sexism seems virtually non-existent outside the w om en’s move­ ment. Here for what they’re worth are some o f the attitudes I’ve com e up against talking to and observing men I’ve met out here: ATTITUDES TO WOMEN'S LIBERA­ TION: I heard men talk a lot about the wom en’s movement. I’ve com e away feel­ ing confused, because they were mostly so negative about it. Sometimes I felt I was in the midst o f a counter revolution against it. Almost every male remark I heard included somewhere a bit about how “ they’ve got that/this wrong you know” . I suppose I hoped men in these scenes would at least be defensive. In­ stead they seemed to have an endless stream o f reasons why w om en’s crit­ icisms didnt apply to them. They seem to have manoeuvred so that they need not see the wom en’s movement as affecting them in the least.

I dont mean they said nothing pos­ itive. There was a lot o f lip service to the wom en’s cause. This seemed, however, to have little effect on the sort o f relation­ ships they were having with women, with kids, with other men. They were dom in­ ating in discussion (often I felt the only way I could talk to them was by adopting their masculine style o f arguing), they seemed to prize their masculine freedom from things like childcare. After a while I definitely began to feel I was some sort o f freak who was taking the whole issue much to o seriously.

It is this habit o f presenting themselves as commentators - on something with which they are not themselves concerned - which stuck out most. All this stand­ ing back and authoritatively pronouncing on what women in the wom en’s m ove­ ment should or should not be doing.

Whereas I felt that their commentator position itself contributes to the bur­ den on women. A nd their own patterns o f relating to other men (egotistical, com petitive) were also rich sources o f sexism? For many the whole issue o f sexism had been twisted into little more than a new supply o f jokes about male chauvinist pigs and butch women.

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ATTITUDES TO G A Y LIBERATION: 1 quickly came to see what gay brothers I

met meant by “ liberal” attitudes towards them. Gay Liberation was OK as just one o f many radical causes, but it wasnt relevant to them. To them the issue raised by gay militants was just whether or not you fucked with other men. Most men talked about gays as if they were a race apart and about gayness as nothing to do with them. They seemed to see being “ gay” and “ straight” as chromosomally determined. “ Hasnt gay liberation made you think about the shit that’s involved in being a masculine man?” , I asked.

SEXUAL LIBERATION?: An awful lot o f the men I met saw sexual liberation as something which only women needed.

They didnt seem to see their own pat­ terns o f sexual relating as alienated. I say seem because most o f them were very evasive about this topic. Made me feel like a voyeur, actually.

Yet one way or another I heard a lot o f references to fucking - fucking spoken o f as something you d o to women (or other men if y ou ’re gay), not with. A lot o f rating o f people going on according to whether they were “ g ood ” or "b a d ” fucks. A lot o f sex jokes turning on anxieties about how men perform in bed.

How much does this reflect men’s needs to mostly be in control sexually? Why is there such a horror o f any sort o f male passivity?

I recognised a lot o f attitudes really well because I still share many o f them.

My reaction wasnt so much shock as sadness that men werent starting to talk about them with other men. We’re never going to get out o f these attitudes on our own.

I sense that in the sexual sphere a lot o f men see wom en’s liberation as basical­ ly about more benefits for men. For instance, I was looking through an inter­

view Richard Neville did last year in an issue o f POL he guest-edited. His replies to questions about effects on him o f wom en’s liberation included ones like: “ I’m looking forward to the changes in sexual etiquette. Ever since the Female eunuch, I’ve been sitting round waiting for a woman to slide her hand up my trousers . . . ” “ I’m personally enjoying the current re­ definition o f male-female relationships . . . men are the first beneficiaries if women can get their rocks o f f without men, then we w on ’t have to pu ff and pant so m uch.”

Maybe he's changed since he said this, maybe he had his tongue in his cheek (although that in itself is significant), but reading this it’ s as if we were right back with the sexual attitudes o f the late 60s with all their male priorities and male values. How can freer fucking liberate women or men so long as it leaves male power intact?

Despite hearing a lot o f men criticising “ nuclear couples” , most still seem to live within a couple or else to feel unstable outside o f one. Why d o the same com pul­ sive patterns recur and .recur? Why are so few men trying to work out concrete alternatives? What can we do about jeal­ ousy, com petition, possessiveness?

KIDS: I came out here with a year old baby who six o f us have been rearing collectively. I soon began to notice that my being with this kid a lot made them uneasy. They reacted as if I was getting at them. I was. I think most o f the men I met dont want anything to d o with kids because they want to hang on to their male privileges. In this sphere even men on the left are the staunchest defenders o f the status quo. After all, any change from the present setup is going to mean

(G od forbid) men getting more involved with kids. Because at the mom ent kids are basically the responsibility o f women (married or unsupported mothers).

OK maybe — I went on to o much about the need for childless and single men to decide politically to get involved with kids. Maybe I was being to o doqmatic in saying that, but I certainly dont want to make a revolution which still leaves childrearing a private responsibility o f women. But why did I have to?

Typical responses I got: “ There’s enough kids around without me breeding any” . (They dont consider being involved with kids outside the context o f raising their own family). " I ’ve got more important things to do, kids are a bore and time-consuming” .

(Women have more important things to d o too, mate. By not sharing the task around the comm unity, y o u ’re blocking them.) “ If wom en have kids, that’s their fault.”

(Oh yeah, why should contraception be up to the woman alone? What about vasectomy? And even if it were a wom an’s fault for producing, how does that relieve men o f responsibility for sharing looking after kids once they’re in the w orld?)

These kind o f responses strike me as more or less oppressive according to the situation o f men who made them (I ’m told that with the rise in the unsupported mothers pension, some freak men are putting pressure on their wom en to pro­ duce so they can share in the handout).

There are signs o f some change. Eg. the co-operative playgroup at the Victoria street squat before they were evicted involved several men, including some who were not fathers, in taking their turn in looking after the kids. One mother living

there with her tw o kids described the effect o f this at a public meeting follow ­ ing the evictions: ‘ I was freed for the first time to becom e politically involved.”

A small PS here: when men do start involving themselves with kids, it’s not necessarily a drag or a bore at all, particularly if it’ s outside the usual pri­ vate family context: you can learn a lot from kids, you might start feeling part o f a (previously) hidden com m unity o f childcare all around you — in the streets, shops and buses.

MEN AMONG MEN: There’ s been some really nice exceptions, but most men I’ve observed behave towards other men in aggressive, abrasive and interruptive ways . . . or quiet evasive ways which hide their feelings. Friendships seem based on respect for how each projects himself to the other as possessing qualities they both deem manly. All the intellectualising, and Politics with a big P. One way o f communicating with other men, an en­ tirely different way with other women.

Brothers, where’s the mutual vulnera­ bility, collective commitment to change, efforts to develop a language for expres­ sing our feeling and discussing our sexual and emotional lives in a critical, support­ ive way? Funny thing is that I sense that there is a positive side to mateship and all that, but it’s usually so twisted up in living up to each other’s sexist expecta­ tions, that it gets nowhere. And when the idea arises o f men actively getting to­ gether to talk about sexism, a lot o f fears and anxieties com e out (“ T hey’re self­ destructive, explosive, we can’t handle them” ). | j

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FILMS

FOLK

‘ ‘ H IR O S H IM A MON AM O U R ” (Resnais) and “ PERSONA” (Bergman): NFTA, Guild Theatre, Mel­ bourne Uni Union, 7.40. $1.20, 80c (stu.) or $7 ($5 stu.) for season ticket ob­ tainable at screening.

D Y L A N THOMAS MEM­ OIR: A BV2, 10.25.

SONNIE TE RR Y and B R O W N IE M cG H E E : ABV2, 10.55.

LINK-UP ORIENTATION NITE: 8.30, 59 St John street, Prahran.

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UFO — FACT OR FIC­ TION?: HSV7, 7.30.

RADIO PICK OF THE 3LO, 8.02pm.

GOONS:

ROCK G A R Y YOUN G AND HIS FAT CATST Whitehorse hotel, Nunawading.

KUSH: Croxton Park hotel, Preston.

BILLY THORPE: Southside-Six, Moorabbin.

RADIO

OUTDOORS LUNCH TIM E SQUARE DANCE: Flagstaff gardens, 12.10pm , 1.10pm.

OPEN A IR SH AK E ­ SPEARE: Treasury gar­ dens, 12.10pm , 1.10pm.

JOHN CROW LE: Frank Traynor’ s.

HUGH McEWAN, RICH­ ARD LEACH: Tankerville Arms, Carlton.

GEOFF AND DIANE H O L L IN S , C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX WHOOPEE BA N D : Dan O ’Connell, Carlton.

JAZZ OWEN Y E A T M A N : Prospect Hill hotel, Kew. DAVE R ANKIN JA ZZ BA N D : Alma hotel. Chapel street, St Kilda.

F RAN K T R A Y N O R : Ex­ change hotel, Cheltenham.

TV GTK 7 4 : MUSIC FESTI­ V A L : A B V 2, 7 .3 0 , Mike McClellan and Slim Dusty.

THREE DOG NIGHT: G TV9, 7.30 .

SIT YOUR SELF DOWN, T A K E A LOOK A R O U N D : A B V 2, 9.45.

Folk-rock.

A M ER R Y PROGRESS: 3A R , 1 1.10. Songs and poetry.

ROCK MISSISSIPPI: Whitehorse hotel, Nunawading.

JOHN RUPERT AND THE HENCHM EN: Croxton Park, Preston.

UPP, CH AIN : International hotel. Airport West.

West.

OCKERS ROCKERS: Penthouse hotel, Broadmeadows.

HOT CITY BUMP BA N D : Matthew Flinders hotel, Chadstone.

A R IE L : Station hotel, Prahran.

FOLK BUSHWHACKERS AND BULLOCKIES: Polaris Inn hotel, Carlton.

GRAEME LOW NDES, M I K E O ’R O U R K E , C H R IS T Y COONEY: F rank Traynor’s, 100 Little Lonsdale street, City.

V ARIO U S A R TISTS: Out­ post Inn, 52 Collins street, City.

JAZZ Y A R R A Y A R R A JAZZ BAND: Prospect Hill hotel, Kew. BRIAN BROWN QU AR ­ TET: Commune, 580 Vic­ toria street, N. Melbourne.

POETRY F ITZR O Y POETRY MAR-

DANNY SPOONER, JOHN and JUANITA, JOHN CROWLE: Frank Traynors, 100 Little Lons­ dale street. City.

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Out­ ATHON: A nonym ous poets had been seen going post Inn, 52 Collins st. to the comer o f George City. and Moore street, Fitzroy CARLL M YR IA D , M ARK (St. Mark’s hall), to exploit L E AH Y, COMMUNE, 580 their potentials to the max­ Victoria st, N. Melbourne. imum. Featuring bagpipes, JAZZ Geoffrey Egglestone and Mai Morgan Duo, and DA V E RANKIN JAZZ other celebrities. 8 .3 0 , 60c. BA N D : Lemon Tree hotel, Carlton.

FILMS THE PLANT: Polaris Inn hotel, 551 Nicholson st, N. “ BLUE ANGEL” and Carlton. “ M A R R Y ME, M A R R Y SKYLIGHTS (arvo) JUNC­ M E” : Trak, Late, 1 1.4 5 . TION VILLAGE JAZZ $2. Toorak road, Toorak. BAND, (eve): Prospect Hill hotel, Kew.

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FILMS

IN CONCERT: HSV7, “ THE PRIME OF MISS 10pm. “ BORN TO K I L L ": Movie, JEAN BRODIE” : Athe­ naeum, late 1 0 .3 0 pm.

HSV7, 11.40pm . “ STREET OF CH ANCE” : ROCK Movie, G T V 9, 12.05am .

HOME: Icelands, Ringwood.

F A N T A S Y : Croxton Park, o a t iw id a u Preston.

FOLK

ROCK A YER S R O CK : Southside Six, Moorabbin.

SID RUM PO: Canopus, Box Hill.

M IS S IS S IP P I: Matthew Flinders hotel, Chadstone (aft).

RON DELLS: Whitehorse hotel, Nunawading.

BIG PUSH: Croxton Park, Preston.

AYERS R O CK : Southside Six (Aft).

T A N K : Monash Uni. KUSH : Matthew Flinders (eve).

H OM E: Station hotel, Prahran.

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JAZZ TED VINING T R IO : Prospect Hill hotel, Kew.

OTHERS POOR TOM’ S POETRY BA N D : Commune.

N IA G G R A : La Mama.

ALL WEEK

KIDS “ A L I-B AB A ” : Camberwell Civic Centre, till sat, 10.15 am, 2 .1 5 pm, sat. 2.15 only, Reserve road, Cam­ berwell. “ PUSS IN BOOTS” : Ac­ tor’s theatre, mon-sat, 2.30 pm, child.

75c, adults $1.50, 196 Church st, Richmond. “ PETER PAN” : Footscray Grand, till sun. 1.30 pm, ch eck w ith cinem a, 6 8 .1 1 3 8 , Paisley street, Footscray. “ R U M P E L S T IL S K IN ” : Alexander theatre, Monash uni, 10 am, 2 pm, phone 54 4 .0 8 1 1 for further de­ tails.

D A N N Y SPOONER and GORDON M cINTYRE: THEATRES Frank Traynors, 100 Lt Lonsdale st, City.

MARG ROADKNIGHT “ W ALTZIN G M A T IL D A ” : and GUESTS: Outpost Pram Factory, wed, sun, 8 .3 0 , matinees wed, Inn, City. fri & sat, 2 pm, a national with tomato EXPERIMENTAL pantomime sauce, $ 2.50, $1.50 (stu), MELBOURNE NEW 325 Drummond st, Carl­ MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com ton. mune, N. Melbourne. “ A F R IC A ” : Back Theatre, Pram Factory, thurs-sat, 10.30 pm. A savage rock MEETINGS musical by Steve Spears, “ THE GALACTIC SAFA­ $2, see above address.

RI” : Mr Hal Steel, TheoFILMS sophical Society, 88 Col­ lins st. “ SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 ” (M) & “ SHOOT O U T” OUTDOORS (M): Carlton cinema, thurs“ SALUTE TO A U STRA ­ sun, T.45, 90c Faraday L IA ” : Fitzroy gardens, 3 street, Carlton. pm. Complete with pomp “ PERFORM ANCE” : Trak, and ceremony. “ Films of 6 pm & 8 .30 pm.

SYDNEY H H Stephen Wall 698.2652 PO Box 23, Surry H ill*

BOOK NOW" ROCK

DAVID CASSIDY and sup­ porting group: The Peptic Ulcers. Rand wick, 2 pm, march 2, $4.20 each. Send to David Cassidy Concert, PO box 346, Haymarket,

2000.

ROD STEWART and the Faces: Randwick race­ course, february 1, 8 pm, $5.20. Book at usuals.

FILMS 21ST SY D N E Y FILM FE STIVA L: june 1974.

Ring 6 6 0 .3 9 0 9 (BH), for mailing list.

FESTIVALS A D E L A ID E FESTIVAL OF AR TS: Ring Sydney 25.2641 for a booking bro­ chure.

CONTEMPORARY LEE C O N W A Y , M AR IAN HENDERSON, JOH N CURRIE and others: Ope­ ra House, february 1, $3.50, $ 5.00, $ 6.50, 8 pm.

ALL WEEK EXHIBITIONS M ARILYN MONROE E X ­ HIBITION — over 160 photographs: Angus & Robertson, 207 Pitt street, Sydney, 1st floor. Free, business hours only. “ INDONESIA T O D A Y ” — the largest display o f Indo­ nesian culture ever exhibitfed in Australia: The Aus­ tralian Museum, 10 am-5 pm, adults 20c, kids 10c (except sat, sun, mon).

FILMS “ CAESAR AND ROSA­ LIE” : Wintergarden, Rose Bay, mon-fri, 4 pm-8 pm,

$ 2.00. “ ■THE HIRELING” — Sarah Miles: Village Twin, 2, 5.30 , 8 .3 0 , sun, 5.30, 8.30 , $2.50. “ C R YSTAL V O Y A G E R ” : Manly Silver Screen, 7.30 and 9 .3 0 , $2.00. “ THE MAGIC CHRIS­ T IA N ” : Manly Silver Screen, 5 .30 pm, $1.50

(except tues, wed). “ TR ASH ” and “ FLESH” : New Arts, Glebe, all week except tues, wed. Sat, sun, 3.00, 7 .30 pm; mon, thurs, fri, 4 & 8 pm. $2.00. “ WATTS TAX” and “ DIR TY LITTLE B ILLY” : Academy Twin, Paddo, 3 3.4453, 2, 4, 7 .45 pm, $2.50. “ THE CANTERBURY T A L E S ” — an erotic clas­ sic: Embassy, 1 1.00, 2.00, 5.00, 8 .00, sun, 1.30 , 4.30, 7.30,

KIDS SUMMER ACTIVITIES — drama, dance, painting, puppetry, karate: New the­ atre, 5 19 .3 40 3 (except sat, sun, mon).

C R E A T IV E LEISURE CENTRES: Ring 6 1 .2 4 6 2 for details o f play groups in your area.

SCHOOL H O L ID A Y CRUISES: No. 4 jetty Cir­ cular Quay, 2 .30 return 4.30, 50 cents. “ THOSE DARLING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JA UNTY JALOPIES” : M anly Silver Screen, 9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 , 11 am. Sat, sun, 2 pm, 60 cents (except tues, wed).

CHILDRENS MATINEES: Manly Silver Screen, 2 pm, info 9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 , 60 cents.

TA R O N G A ZOO: Feeding times — Alligators, 1.30 pm, sun, thur; lions 2 pm, daily (except fri); seals, 2 .45 pm, daily. Take ferry from No. 5 wharf. Every day 9 .30 am-5.00 pm. $ 1.50, kids 40 cents. “ PETER PAN” — Walt Dis­ n ey: Forum, 211 .1 95 5 .

Mon-fri, 9 .30 am, 11.45, 2.30, 5.10, 8 .0 0 ; sat, 11, 2, 5, 8 pm. “ TOM SA W Y E R ” — Fami­ ly musical film: Paris the­ atre, 61.9 1 93 . 11, 2, 5, 8 pm; sun 1.30, 3.30 pm. “ THE ADVENTURES OF SARAH THE COOK” — Holiday Panto: Rockdale town hall, 1 0.3 0 am, 2 pm.

Adults $ 1.60, kids 90 cents.

ROCK RENE GAYER AND MOTHER EARTH, special

guests THE DRIFTERS: Whiskey, 8 pm-3 am.

SILVER CLOUD: Stage­ coach, 8 pm-3 am.

PLACES OLD CHURCH: Drop in to tea house and library, 2 pm to 11 pm, tue9-fri only.

THEATRE “ LOVE FOR L O V E ” by William Cosgreve: Opera House, info 6 6 3 .6 1 2 2 , 8.00 pm, $ 5 .5 0 , pension­ ers, students, children $2.7 5 (except sun). “ JACK SHEPPARD OR ANYTH ING YOU SAY WILL BE TW ISTED” : En­ sem ble, 9 2 9 .8 8 7 7 , all week, 8 pm, sat 5 .00 pm, 8 .00 pm. “ TOOTH OF CRIME” — A savage sendup o f the pop scene with 50s rock music: 3 3 .3 9 3 3 , tues, sun, 8 .3 0 ; fri, sat, 5 .30, 8 .4 5 pm. “ W H AT IF Y O U DIED TO M O R RO W ” by David Williamson: : Elizabethan theatre, 5 1 .7 4 7 1 , 8 .1 5 pm, $4.70, $ 3 .7 0 , $ 2.70.

tu e & d a y SY D N E Y CO-OP film pro­ grammes. See opposite.

JAZZ, BLUES M ERV ACHESON JA ZZ TRIO: Bistro, Avoca st, Randwick.

DICK HUGHES PIANO: French’s tavern, Oxford st, 6-9 pm.

DON DE S IL V A : Old Push.

ECLIPSE A L L E Y FIVE: Vanity Fair hotel: Goulbum st, 7 .3 0 to 1 0 .0 0 pm.

CLASSICAL “ THE MAGIC FLU TE ” — Mozart (in English): Opera House, 3 5 7 .1 2 0 0 , 8 pm, $ 7 .5 0 , $ 2 .5 0 . “ N E IL W ILLIAMS & ELENA ALLP O R T” : Jim Clifford, Jill Clifford and, others: Opera House, info 2 1 1 .2 6 4 6 , 8 pm, $ 4.00. “ BARBER OF SE V IL LE ” — Film with Tito Gobbi and Irene Gehna: Union

theatre, Sydney uni. 8 pm.

ROCK CLOUD NIN E , M A T A H A R I: Chequers, 8-3 am.

THEATRE “ LOVE FOR L O V E ” by William Congreve: Opera House, 6 6 3 .6 1 2 2 for info, 8.00 pm. $ 5.50, pension­ ers, students, children $ 2 .7 5 .

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JAZZ, BLUES MODERN JA Z Z - PETER BOOTHMAN: Limeric Castle, 2 1 1 ,1 4 0 1 , 7 .30 pm.

GOLD TOPS: Fiddler’s V in e , 115A Cronulla street, Cronulla, 5 2 3 .8 0 1 9 , 7.30 -1 0 .

DICK HUGHES Q U A R ­ T E T: Stage Door Tavern, cnr. Castlereagh street & Campbell street. City, 7 .00 10 pm.

CHRIS TAPPERNAC and D A V E FURNISS: Forest Lodge hotel, 7 .3 0 -1 0 .0 0 pm.

MERV ACHESON TR IO: Bellevue hotel, Paddo, 7 .00 -1 0 pm.

“ HEAT” , “ LONESOME COWBOYS” : New Arts, Glebe, 6 6 0 .4 2 5 0 , 12, 4, 8 pm, $2.00.

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“ M OVING O N ” — Drama about farming and bank­ ruptcy: Chan. 1 0, 8.30. “ SIT YOURSELF DOWN “ T A KE A LOOK A R O U N D — Bernard Bucan, Marian Henderson, John J. Fran­ FILMS cis, Alan Luchetti: Chan. “ THE COSMIC TUBE” — 2, 8 .50 pm.

Surfing movie: Opera “ H O R IZO N ” — Looks at House, 4 .00 pm, $2.00. the life living on humans — (Except this sun, mon.) bacteria and minute ani­ “ SUNSHINE SEA ” — mals: Chan. 2, 9.20 pm.

More, Surf and Foam: ‘ •THE FIRE CHASERS” — Opera House, 6 .30 pm. crime story with a cast of $ 2 .5 0 . (Except tues, sun, unknowns: Chan. 7, 10.00 mon.) pm.

N FTA WOMENS SERIES THE BEST M AN” — CLASSICAL — Marlene Dietrich in Henry Fonda, Cliff Robert“ Knight without Armor” on, Margaret Leighton — and “ Destry Rides Again” : “ N A BUCCO” by Verdi: political drama by Gore Opera House, Darlinks, Aust. Govt. Centre theatre, Vidal: Chan. 2 , 10.15 pm.

7.15 pm. $ 1.2 0 , (members 8.00 pm. $ 2.5 0 to $7.50. “ DUBLIN NIGHTM ARE” : “ MADAME BUTTER­ only join at door $3.00).

Chan. 10, 1 1 .1 0 pm.

F L Y ” Film with Royal “ H E AT” , “ LONESOME O pera House, Rome: COW BOYS” : New Arts, DISTRACTIONS Union theatre, Sydney Glebe.

6 6 0 .4 2 5 0 , 4.00, Uni, 8 .00 pm.

8 .00 pm.

POETRY R EAD IN GS: Old “ A CONCERT FOR Church, 1 84 Palmer street, FOLK BANGLADESH ” : Opera East Sydney, 31.6270, House, 9 .0 0 pm, $2.50, 8 .00 pm. Free.

T R AD IT IO N AL FO LK : (except tues, sun, mon.)

Elizabeth hotel, 2 6 .3 1 3 2 .

DARTS KELIMOCUM — TV M ixed fol k.

Bernard “ FREE AND E A S Y ” — Bocan, Bill Moyinhan, Surfing special: Chan 7, 11 Jeannie Lewis, A1 Ward, pm.

Dave Dehward, Eric Davis, “ COMMANDOES STRIKE and it’s booming: Eliza­ JAZZ AT D A W N ” — War movie: b e th hotel, Elizabeth Chan 7, 9 .0 0 pm. street, City, 8 pm. Price — PORT JACKSON JAZZ “ THE ERNIE SIGLEY a mere pittance.

BAND: Stage Rock Tav­ SHOW” — Almost certain­ ern, 7.00, 1 0.0 0 pm. ly the worst (best!) variety UNITY BAND: Old Push, ROCK show in the country.

8-12 pm.

Chemical aids will help: CLOUD NINE, M ATAChan 9, 9.00 .

CLASSICAL H A R I: Chequers, 8-3 am.

SUMMERTIME CINEMA PUMA: Brighton hotel, — “ A PAIR OF BRIEFS” : 7-10 pm. “ THE MAGIC FLUTE Chan 2, 7 .30.

Opera House, see tues.

T R A N SIT IO N : O ceanic “ THE CREEPER” — hotel. Coogee, 7-10 pm, “ A ID A ” — film o f Verdi’s Mystery/Horror movie :i free. opera starring overseas Chan 1 0, 1 1 .1 0 . heavies.

Union theatre, “ A CRY IN THE NIGHT” Sydney uni, 8.00* pm.

THEATRE — Drama with Raymond Burr, Natalie W ood: Chan “ LO V E FOR FOLK L O V E ’*: 10, 8.30 pm.

M a tin e e show, Opera “ V O Y A G E TO THE END House, 2 .0 0 pm, $4.50, AUST, SCOT, IRISH, OF THE S E A ” — Around pensioners etc, half price.

COUNTRY MUSIC: Red the world single handed.

Lion hotel, cnr. Pitt and D oco: Chan 1 0, 7.30 pm.

Liverpool sts, City, about 8-10 pm.

ROCK S.F .A .: Fiddler’s Vine, 7.30-10 pm.

CLOUD NINE, Matahari: Chequers, 8—3am.

T R A N S IT IO N : Oceanic hotel, Coogee, 7 -10 pm.

Free.

HUSH — Farewell perform­ ance: Brighton hotel, 7-10 pm. Free.

FILMS NFTA “ W OMEN” SERIES — Ingrid Bergman, “ Gas­ light” and “ Casablanca” : Aust. Govt. Centre theatre, 7 .15 pm, $1.20. Members only. Join at door for $3.00.

SIR KENNY CLARK — fourth o f a series o f X + l called “ Civilisation” .

A much ballyhooed show on Kultcha. Good viewing be­ sides: Art Gallery o f NSW, 12.10, 1.10 , 2.10 , 3.10, 6 .1 0 , 7.10. Free.

TV, RADIO COM M ONW EALTH GAMES — live. Running, jumping and jingoism: Chan. 2, 2.15 pm. “ GTK ’74 SPECIAL” Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band: Chan. 2, 7.30 pm.

BRIAN CADD AND FAM­ IL Y : Chan. 2, 8 .00 pm. “ WRONG ARM OF THE LA W ” — comedy film with Peter Sellers (worth watch­ ing): Chan. 10, 8.30 pm. “ DIVORCE IT A L IA N S T YL E ” : Chan. 7, 9.00 pm. “ LAUGHTER INCOR­ PORATED” , ABC radio (BBC) — “ Pick of the Goons” , 8.02 pm, “ Round the Home” , 8 .3 0 pm, “ The Navy Lark” : 9 .3 0 pm. “ THE JAYH AW K ERS” — Western: Chan. 9, 10.30 pm. “ LUCRETIA BORG IA” — sex, politics and pomp: Chan. 7, 1 1 .0 0 pm.

EVENTS CHEAP FOOD, organic fruit? N o! Organic veg?

Listings are free. C o p y closes T h u rs d a y b e fo re p u b lic a tio n .

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Second Stage — 12 noon Poor T om ’s Poetry Band; Merrilyn Lambert; Rod Freeman Smith and Moses from the Pram Factory; “ A F R IC A ” , Pram Factory; Rob Ducat (folk); Vic­ torian Ballet (rock ballet); Limehouse.

Sunday Main Stage — 10 am-3 am Matt Taylor; Madder Lake; Mackenzie Theory; Kush; Linda George; Ross Ryan; Dingoes; Captain Match­ b ox; Rock Mass.

Sunbury . . . getting their shit together.

S U N B U R Y . Lives again with fo u r nights o f rock, folk, blues and jazz. Just about every M elbourn e muso will appear, with D addy C o o l re-form ing spe-t da ily to play on Saturday night. Drama, folk, and ja zz will be alm ost c o n ­ tinuous on a seco n d stage.

A rts and crafts will be

dem onstrated and sold, and hamburgers will be in abundance. There will be a' Milk Bar, fruit shop, health fo o d s and grog shop on site, spacious camping grounds and m ore toilets.

A ll fo r only $12 (cheaper than th e H ilton and m ore u n com forta ble). T here will p rob ab ly be changes b e fo r e the festival (3 X Y will broadcast reports from the site), but here is the p r o ­ gram at th e tim e o f going to press:

No! Organic paper bags?

Dont be silly!! Uni NSW Food Co-op for all/none of the above, 5 pm-8 pm,

STREET” : Chan. 9, 11.00. “ PARANOIAC” : Spooky movie, truly brilliant!!!

Chan. 1 0, 8.30 pm.

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FILM MAKING W ORK­ SHOP — 16 mm facilities for interested people: Old Church, East Sydney, 3 1.6270, 8 .00 pm. Free.

SUNBURY FESTIVAL

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JAZZ JA ZZ BOAT — Ray Price Jazz Band: No. 6 wharf, Circular Quay, 8 pm, $2.75.

T RAD JA Z Z — Kevin Goody: Limerick Castle, 2 1 1 .1 4 0 1 , 7 .30 pm.

CHRIS W ILLIAMS: Unity Hall hotel, 8 2.1 3 31 , 7.30 pm.

DOC WILLIS: Albury hotel, Oxford street, City, 8.10 pm. Free.

UNITY BAND: 01<^ Push.

CLASSICAL “ CAVALLERIA RUST IC A N A " and PAGLIACCl” — 3xh hours, so be prepared: Opera House, info 3 5 7 .1 20 0 , 8.00 pm, $2.50 to $7.50. “ DON G IO VAN N I” — film of Mozart’s little number: Union theatre, Sydney uni, 8 .00 pm.

FOLK A U ST. SCOT. IRISH C O U N T R Y : Red Lion, see thurs.

CELLAR F O L K : YW CA, 189 Liverpool street, City, 8 pm.

T R A D IT IO N A L FOLK: Elizabeth hotel, 2 6.3 1 32 .

DON M ORRISON: Freud­ ia n Slip, Redfern, 6 9 9 .1 7 3 6 , 7.00 pm.

DISTRACTIONS BAND ASSOCIATION OF NSW and THE MUSICI­ ANS UNION BAND at Hyde Park and Circular Quay west park, post Kitsch entertainment: 3 pm to 4.30 pm. Price: V ER Y FREE. SU N D AY NIGHT AT THE OPERA: “ Australian Made” by Harry M.: Opera House, 8.30 pm, $ 4 .5 0 , $ 3.5 0 , $2.50.

A R TS DISCUSSION: Camp Centre, 3 3 A Glebe Pt. road, Glebe, 3 .3 0 . Free.

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DOC WILLIS: Albury hotel, Oxford st, City. 3-6.00 pm.

ECLIPSE, A L LE Y FIVE (arvo): Vanity Fair hotel, 4-7.00 pm.

MERV ACHESON TRIO: Bellevue hotel, Paddo, 3-6.00 pm.

DOC WILLIS: Beresford pub, Bourke st, Surry Hills, 8-10 pm.

UNITY BAND: Old Push, 8 .30 -1 2 .30 pm.

CHRIS WILLIAMS: Unity Hall hotel, 8 2.1 3 3 1 , 7.30.

FOLK

SIMBA, STUMBLE: Chequers, 8-3 am.

PUMA: Brighton hotel, 7-10 pm.

T R A N S IT IO N : Oceanic hotel, Coogee, 7 .30 -1 1 .45 pm.

CHOCOLATE WATCHBAN D : Fiddler’s Vine, 7.30-10 pm.

SUNBU RY FESTIVAL See Melbourne Delights.

T R A D IT IO N A L FOLK: Edinburgh Castle.

BE E A R L Y ! 8 .00 -1 0 .00 pm.

BLUES: John Burke: Lim­ erick Castle, 12 Ann st, Surry Hills, 2 1 1 .1 4 0 1 , 7.30 pm.

FAIRPORT CONVEN­ TIO N : Opera House, 8.00 pm, $ 3.50, $ 5.00, $6.50.

CELLAR FOLK: YW CA, 189 Liverpool st, Sydney, 8 pm.

DON M ORRISON: Freud­ ia n Slip, Re d f e r n , 6 9 9 .1 73 6 , 7.00 pm.

T R A D IT I O N A L , CON­ TEM PORARY: Elizabeth hotel, City, 2 6.3132.

“ THE BALLAD OF ANGELS A L L E Y ” — rollicking Aust musical: New theatre, 5 19 .3 4 0 3 , 8.15 pm. “ THE HOSTAGE” by Brendan Behan:: Cronulla Arts Theatre, 523 .6 88 8 , 8 .15 pm. Better to book.

FILMS N FTA CLASSICS — “ History is made at night” (1 9 3 7 , dir. Frank Borzage), plus “ His butler’s sister” ; AMP theatre, Circular Quay, 7 .1 5 pm, $ 1.20.

Members only. Join at door, $ 3 .0 0 . “ TRAIN 349 FROM BER­ LIN ” — “ A post war film on political refugee situ­ ation” : Humanist House, 10 Shepherd street, Chip­ pendale, 2 1 2 .2 0 3 8 , 7.45 pm. Free to humanists, others? Bring proof!

Second Stage — 6 .3 0 pm Poor T o m ’s Poetry Band; Roger Bell’s Jazz Band; Limehouse.

Saturday Main Stage — 10 am-3 am Bil l y T horp e; Lobby Lloyd; Queen; Ariel; Chain; Daddy Cool; Missis­ sippi; 69ers;

SEV ILLE ” — Rossini Opera Ho u s e , i nf o 357.1200, 7 .3 0 pm, $ 1 6 .5 0 , $ 12 .5 0, $9.50 (cheap. Shoes must be worn, no long hairs). “ THE PIED PIPER” : In­ dependent theatre, 9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 2 pm.

V ILLA G E B A Z A A R — All sorts o f goodies for sale: Cnr. Newcombe st and O x­ ford st, Paddo, 9 am-4 pm.

FILMS M AR X BROS — “ Room Service” (1 9 3 8 ); BORIS K A R LO FF in “ Bedlam” (1 9 4 6 ): Union theatre, Sydney uni, 3.30 pm, $ 1.0 0 adults, 50c kids. “ A D A M ’S W OM EN” — Australian Historical Film: Opera House, 2 pm, $ 2.00, $ 1.0 0 . “ CITIZEN KANE” and “ KING KONG” : New Arts, Glebe, 6 6 0 .4 2 5 0 , 1 1.1 5 pm, $ 2.00. “ PRINCE IG O R ” : Film with Leningrad Kirov Ope­ ra and Ballet Coys: Union theatre, Sydney uni, 8.00 pm.

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Friday Main Stage — 7.30 Queen; Sherbert; Pirana; Home; Plant; Ross Ryan.

ROCK CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND: Fiddler’s Vine, 7 .30-10 pm.

HOT ROCKET: Liverpool hotel, 7.30 to 1 1 .3 0 pm.

T R A N S IT IO N : Oceanic hotel, Coogee, 7 .30 -1 1 .45 pm.

PUMA: Brighton hotel, 7-10.

BAND OF LIGHT: Taren Point Youth Centre, 8.00 pm, $1.40.

SIM BA, STUMBLE: Chequers, 8pm—3am.

THEATRE THE BALLAD OF ANGELS A L L E Y : See friday.

THE HOSTAGE: See friday.

TV

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“ IN CONCERT” — Uriah Heep. Canned Heat. Shawn Philips, Mott the Hoople, Country Joe McDonald: “ M AN IN HALF MOON

SHOW BOAT HARBOR CRUISE — Harbor City Jazz Band: No. 6 Wharf Circular Quay, 8.15 pm, $3.00. “ THE BARBER OF

“ THE W ORLD OF J A Z Z ” with Eric Child: ABC Radio 1, 1 0 .2 5 am. “ PICK OF THE GOONS” : ABC Radio 2 (2FC), 12 noon.

A USTRALIAN FILMS — A selection of 13 films by Aus t r al i an filmmakers: 6 .3 0 -1 2 .0 0 pm. Chan 7.

THE G O VERNOR GEN­ ERAL’S AUSTRALIA D A Y MESSAGE — Turn on, tune in, turn of f ! ! !

Chan 2, 7 .30 pm. “ THE T Y R A N T Y E A R S ” — The emotional turmoil of Charles Dickens’ declin­ ing years: ABC Radio 2, 8 .30 pm. “ ABOUT MRS LESLIE” — Sentimental love story: Chan 9, 1 0 .1 5 pm.

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CLASSICAL “ MUSIC ON THE H O U R ” — Continuous music in the recording hall: Opera House, 1 1-4.0 0 pm.

BIRGIT NILSSON with the Sydney Symphony Or­ chestra and Charles MacKerras — all Mozart: Chan 2, 8.45 . “ LA T R A V IA T A ” — Film with Rome Opera House Orchestra and chorus: Union theatre, Sydney uni, 8 .00 pm.

FOLK LIVE CONTEM PORARY MUSIC — Best in town this week: Peter Quentin, Bud­ dy Wilson, Bob Hudson, and one other: 422 Cleve­ land st, Surry Hills, 8.00 pm, $ 1 .0 0 .

THEATRE “ THE BALLAD A N G E L ’S A L L E Y ” : friday.

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FILMS M ARILYN M ONROE in a technicolor double — “ Gentleman Pref er Blondes” and “ The Prince and the Show Girl” : Union theatre, Sydney uni, $ 1.0 0 adults, 50c kids.

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Second Stage — 12 noon New Harlem Jazz Band; Storyville Jazzmen; Rob Ducat; “ A F R IC A ” , Pram Factory; Poor T om ’s Poetry Band; Ballet Vic­ toria; “ A F R IC A ” , Pram Factory; Heillan Rovert; Graham Dodsworth.

Monday Main Stage — till 1 1.3 0 pm Various artists as yet un­ decided.

In addition, other groups will be playing during the day and the Monash Play­ ers will rove through the audience.

MIND SE R IE S— Bresson’s “ Pickpocket” ; Hitchcock’s “ The Wrong Man” : Opera House: 7.15 pm, $1.60 members only (join at door $3.00).

TV, RADIO “ THE FELO N” — Convict escape from Goat island in early Aust.: Radio 2 , 4.00 pm. “ ONE NORTHERN SUM­ MER” — Special on eskimo whale hunters: Chan 2, 7.30. “ TDT MAN BECOMES A BUDDHIST MONK” — Story of Alan Driver, 28 year old former reporter (aflight from the media and, alas, back): ABC Radio, 8 .00 am. “ THE PROMISE OF M IRACLES’ 7— 90 minutes of the sounds of events and entertainment of the first 50 years of radio: ABC Radio 2, 8 .0 0 pm. “ WHEN THE WHEEL TU RN S” — comedy about redundancy in Britain: ABC Radio 1, 8 .0 0 pm. “ M OGAM BO” — Big white hunter gets it on in the African jungle: Chan 7, 8.30 pm. “ MAN IN QU ESTION” — Dr Jim Cairns: Jim tells us why he left the police force: Chan 2, 9.35. “ INSIDE DAISY C LOVER ” , Natalie Wood, Robert Redford — one of the worst movies of all time: Chan 9 , 8.30.

AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT GEORGE BURNS — Should be worth watching: Chan 7, 1 0.3 5 pm.

KIDS OPERA THROUGH THE TIME MACHINE — a child’ s guide to opera: Opera House, 1 1 .3 0 am.

Adults $ 2 .0 0 , kids 60 cents. “ LOST IN THE BUSH” and “ ANOOP AND THE ELEPHANT” — kids films in color: Opera House, 2 pm. Adults $ 1 .0 0 , kids 60 cents.

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O self-respecting m edia maniac w o u ld b e w ith ou t the ju ne '7 3 D ep artm ent o f the M edia R ep ort o f A ctivities. It details such m atters as the television p oin ts scherne w h ich the straight press rubbished w ith ou t telling us m u ch a b ou t it. A lso provides in fo o n the p ow er structure w ithin the departm ent, film developm ent, and govern m en t advertising and publishing.

Send to A G P S , PO b o x 84, Canberra, 2 6 0 0 , including 70 cents to sh ow y o u m ean it.

T ricky s tu ff this m on ey m aking. W rite to P riority Publications, GPO b o x 8 9 4 , S y d n ey , 2 0 0 1 . Free.

IN 1 9 7 2 , the heavies o f British hum an­ ists p ut o u t a small d ocu m en t called P eo p le first — a hum anist m anifesto. It is w ritten in the “ stop having a g o o d tim e” m od e, u n fortu n a tely w ith a g o o d deal o f ju stification . I am a little cy n ical on ly because the rhetoric has b een around fo r so long. T he NSW humanists have reprinted it, w ith a list o f Australian native humanists, sp on­ sors and oth er supporters. It is w orth having a l o o k at — w ith luck it m ay be a fu rther step tow ards b en eficial p rop a­ ganda. Send 30 cents to the S ecretary, 72 T o o ro n g a terrace, Beverly Hills, 22 09.

n o lo g y etc, etc. Their b o o k list m ay b e a g o o d w ay o f keeping in to u ch w ith w hat is being prin ted about what is happening in L o n d o n and E urope. I think the list is free b u t a dollar stu ffed in w ith the letter w ou ld n t d o any harm I’m sure. Rising Free, 197 Kings Cross road, L o n d o n W C1.

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“ PEOPLE w h o can, d o, p eop le w h o can’ t, teach .” I suspect it is the same in business. Prem ier A skin has signed the in tro d u cto ry fo re w o rd t o a n ifty little NSW p u blication called D evelopin g y o u r business. L ots o f “ h o w t o ” in fo — like h o w t o register y ou r o w n business nam e, lab or regulations, health regula­ tions, in fo o n energy, insurance, fi­ nance, business equipm ent, e x p ort aid etc. I w o u ld guess that b y publishing this b o o k le t, the person responsible is involved in develop ing his business.

B O O K freaks, booksellers, newspapers and sundries m ight care to w rite to “ Rising F ree” , a n on -p rofit, non -sec­ tarian, left, b o o k s h o p collectiv e (O h, and w hat m ore cou ld y o u ask fo r).

Based in L on d on , they, stock all sorts o f mags, papers, journals and b o o k s that y o u w o u ld e x p ect a n-p, n-s, 1, b, collective t o stock — liberation, ed uca­ tion , im perialism , anti p sych iatry, tech ­

*** IT IS fairly d ifficu lt to fin d o u t detail­ ed in fo o n radio entertainm ent from the daily press in S y d n ey ; T V reigns. If y o u are con ten t w ith the com m ercia l lolly p op , bu bblegu m and hi-pro, local program s o f com m ercia l radio then this absence o f in form ation w o n 't b oth er y ou . But if y o u w ant to keep in tou ch w ith A B C radio, I suggest a subscrip­ tion to th e A B C R a d io G uide — a highly detailed w eek ly list o f program s on all o f A u n ty ’s S y d n ey rad io sta­ tions. T here is n o such thing in M el­ bou rn e; the A g e d oes the jo b there so I ’m to ld b y the A B C p u b licity depart­ m ent. T h at’s a shame ’ cause it is a great little sou rce o f in fo on the m ore obscure airings and i f classical m usic interests y o u , it’s invaluable. C ost $8 .50 pa, $ 4 .3 5 6 m on th s, $ 2 .2 5 3 m onths — also available at som e new s­ agents. W rite GPO b o x 48 7, S ydney.

*** TH E R E is a fellow in S ydn ey w h o w rites a colu m n in th e Sun-herald each week. His nam e is Leslie W alford and this is w hat he w rote last w eek after view ing a fe w o f Brett W h iteley ’s paint­ ings: “ A rt ex h ib ition viewing is a c o m ­ pulsion o f mine, n ot fo r c e d u p on m e bu t com p lem en ta ry to consciousness o f the visual w orld . T hrough the end­ less aspects o f art w e can reach extra d im ensions o f sensations and inspira­ tions and share a w id er view o f ou r hum an lo t, sensing also the d irection o f our tim es.” It is tim es like this that I wish w e had a Pseuds C orner. M aybe A ccess in future can run a fe w o f the m ore notable nuggets o f bullshit like this on e. Send ’ em to m e if y o u sp ot any. *

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TV , RADIO “ THE CHILDREN OF QUI N H O N ” — a special report on South Vietnam children today: Chan. 2, 7 .3 0 pm. “ THE W ED D IN G ” — first of four plays: ABC Radio 2, 7 .30 pm. “ THE ROLLING STONES S T O R Y ” — A BBC docu­ mentary: ABC Radio 1, 8.00 pm. “ MONTY P Y T H O N ’S FLYIN G CIRCUS” : Chan.

2, 1 1 .2 5 pm.

TUESDAY ??

Children's Show T H E K ID (Chaplin) + others including F A N T A - 2pm.

French -New Wave P IE R R O T LE FOU J.L. Godard (1965) 6pm.

French New Wave P IE R R O T LE FOU J.L. Godard (1965) 10pm.

Australian Feature TH E O F F IC E P IC N IC Tom Cowan (1972) 8pm.

CLOUD NINE, JEMMA, SEBASTIAN HARDY: Chequers, 8-3 am.

Children's Show T H E K ID (Chaplin) + others including F A N T A 2 pm.

FILMS

Australian Feature T H E O F F IC E P IC N IC Tom Cowan (1972) 8pm.

$2 . 00 , $ 1. 00 .

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Australian -Feature T H E O F F IC E P IC N IC T om Cbwan (1972) 8pm.

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“ A D A M S W O M A N ” : Aust historical film.

Opera House, 1 1.0 0 am, 2 .00 pm,

Remember Vietnam M Y LA I V E TE R A N S Joseph Strick 10pm.

Children's Show "THE K ID (Chaplin) + others including FA N TA 2pm

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“ YOJIM BO” by Kurusawa.

Japanese film classic: Opera House, 7 .30 pm, $ 1.70.

Australian Feature TH E O F F IC E PICNIC Tom Cowan (1972) 8pm.

Australian History F O R G O T T E N C IN E M A A. Buckley (1965) 10pm.

T H U R S D A Y 24 Children's Show T H E K ID (Chaplin) + others including F A N T A 2 pm

Remember Vietnam M Y LA I V E T E R A N S Joseph Strick 10pm.

S A T U R D A Y 26 Children's Show M OON ROCK, ZAP + others 2pm.

Remember Vietnam M Y LA I V E T E R A N S Joseph Strick 4pm.

Australian History F O R G O T T E N C IN E M A A. Buckley (1965) 6pm.

Australian Feature T H E O F F IC E PIC N IC Tom Cowan (1972) 8pm.

Australian History FO R G O TT E N C IN E M A A. Buckley (1965) 10pm.

TH E B A L L A D OF JOE H IL L Bo Widerberg *1971) 12pm.

S U N D A Y 27 Children's Show M OO N ROCK, ZAP + others 2pm.

French New Wave TR A N S EU R O PE EXPRESS A. Rohbe-Grijlet 4pm.

French New Wave TR A N S EU R O PE EXPRESS A. Robbe-Grillet 6pm.

New Co-Op Films A C K A CK G IR L . FA U S T & others 8pm.

Open Screening (9pm) Bring your films 10pm.

M idnite to Dawn A U S T. M O V IE M ARATHON 12pm

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ROGER HUTCHINSON ". . . wherever men are honorable and upright and persevering, lovers o f home, o f their brethren, o f justice and o f hu­ manity, men in the world may say, ‘ We still have among us the gifts o f that great English ra ce'."

- Stanley Baldwin, On England, 1924 “ An illusion can becom e a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression o f a face. In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in.

They may be illusions, but they are very pow erful illusions. The belief in them influences conduct, national life is differ­ ent because o f th e m . . . " - George Orwell, England Your England, 1941.

QUOTED the first because it rep­ resents a school o f opinion which has exerted considerable influence upon English thought for the last century and a half - if not longer - and I quoted the second because it seems to me to be the truth. Both extracts are relevant in the light o f the deportation order placed this Christmas by hom e secretary Robert Carr, on seven young fugitives from general Pinochet’s chile.

Apologists for the British political status quo have, since some children o f Albion first realised that all things English d o not constitute a latterday Eden, pointed to the state’ s traditional generos­ ity in tolerating internal opposition and granting asylum to foreign malcontents.

The fact that Marx studied in the British museum, and that Lenin held meetings off-Piccadilly, has been used to justify liberal (British) capitalism more times than either o f those gentlemen could possibly have imagined. If the justifica­ tion was ever valid, it no longer applies.

Shortly before his death, Lenny Bruce was refused admission to our hallowed turf. Som e years later Rudi Dutchke, still suffering from the bullet wounds inflicted on him by West German fascists, was hauled before a kangaroo “ in camera” court and consequently deported. It was a wholly indefensible move, recognisable only as conciliation to the more paranoid parliamentary rightwing. Two years ago Dave Dellinger, veteran American pacifist, was churlishly turned away from Heath­ row. And now, after the British embassy in Santiago had been the only European embassy n ot to grant temporary sanctu­ ary to the junta's victims, in a shameful and profitless move seven opponents o f Chilean fascism have been given notice to leave Britain, pending appeal.

The fact o f Britain’ s acting in so chauvinist, reactionary a manner would be unremarkable were it not for the pretensions that gloss the action. It is a conviction o f the British people that they live in a uniquely liberal political climate, unfettered by media censorship, unsnoop­ ed upon by secret police, free to vote, read or preach whatever they like. As Orwell points out, such illusion can affect reality. It has developed in this always pom pous race, a smug self-satisfaction which excludes any notion, any inkling o f doubt about Britain’s leadership in the

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Fed fo r lifetimes on such odious pap as the above quote from onetime prime minister Baldwin (“ not to be graced with the title o f stuffed shirt” , also sprach Orwell, “ he was simply a hole in the air” .) this com placency allows contem ­ porary British governments, secure in a semi mythical legend o f hospitality, to abuse and contradict that very legend.

Perhaps more ironically, it may also allow the present government to curtail the civil rights o f British citizens.

Shortly after parliament re-sits for the new year, they will debate a bill proposed b y R obert Carr. Its name is The Cinema­ tograph and Public Displays Bill, and if passed by the T ory majority in the Commons it will legislate more heavily than ever against media forms (books, records, magazines, T V , and films) which choose to deal with sexual matters. The timing o f this bill is preposterously, al­ most com ically, bad.

While millions o f people are laid off, and millions o f others trying to cop e with rocketing prices and reduced wages, the hom e secretary will be telling parliament that “ indecent” public displays are cor­ rupting the British citizenry. When the laughter dies down, it should be apparent that Carr’s bill is as much a conciliatory gesture to the puritanical Christian ban­ shees behind the festival o f light, as was Dutchke’s expulsion to the vultures on the T ory backbenchers.

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cynics, any more than it is a government o f merit, since no profit is possible from the C & PD Bill. Mary Whitehouse might shut up for a month or two, but her silence will surely be offset by the howls o f the already overworked metropolitan police at being told to enforce an un­ enforceable law. N obod y gains from the banning o f a Lenny Bruce, or from the expulsion o f Chilean refugees — unless Heath wasnt on the re-staffed Chilean embassy’s revised xmas card list as a result o f them being in this country.

N ENGLISH acquaintance o f Henry Kissinger, recently visiting Washing­ ton, tried to phone Kissinger at his private o ffice number. He was not put through, and inform ed that HK was “ out for the day” . The next day our hero, determined to speak with Kissinger, tried again.

Again, no dice. Curiously inflamed, he caught a cab to Kissinger’s offices and bustled through to the great man’s secre­ tary. She to o k his credentials, went into an adjoining room , and came back tw o minutes later with a beaming Kissinger by her side. “ Many apologies,” gushed Kissinger, pumping hands. “ They should have let your English accent through. I only told them to block calls from N ixon.”

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Three days ago (as I write) I had to catch a KLM (R oyal Dutch Airlines) plane from Heathrow to Rotterdam.

When I arrived at the airport, Heathrow was swarming with troops, uniforms o f all shapes and sizes, and conspicuously prowling plain (!) clothes special branch.

Investigative Itch to the fore, I asked one o f the cops why? It was, o f course, security measures against a potential Palestinian guerrilla attack, a la Lod, Fiumicini, Schipol, and Athens airports.

I sat down again, and looking nervous­ ly around Heathrow departure lounge, pictured the ricochet o f bullets o f f bar counters and marble pillars, the blood scattered across carpets; and felt deeply for the first time in m y life a surprising emotion - tender gratitude for the Brit­ ish army and police force.

Shaking myself together, I rationalised that the arabs have a just cause, that their homelands have for years been either annexed by Western powers, or annexed

by Israel while the West stood by and nodded approvingly. They have the right to draw their plight violently to our attention — or, if violence is no man’s right, their use o f it is a little more to be expected than most.

But it’s no good. I want to stay alive. I dont want to suffer, or watch other pawns suffer because o f the botchings o f my country’s elder statesmen. And if staying alive in that situation means being thankful for - nay, encouraging — the army’ s control o f civilian areas (hateful and frightening in implication though such a presence may be); then I’m inevit­ ably thankful.

The tactics o f urban terrorism are, o f course, proven successful as means to an end. The jews first won Israel partly by assassinating a British representative. And it may be that, if enough people are scared o f f Heathrow (as I certainly am, from now on), enough people bom bed out o f L ondon’s central railway stations, the Western powers would concede sup­ port to Black September's program. And, in the case o f such a concession, the tactics are (as tactics) once more justified.

But it’s the long term effect on terror­ ised countries that bother me. The fact that every IRA bom b gives the m etropoli­ tan police more public licence to invade homes across London; confiscate, interro­ gate, and accuse with the minimum o f justification. Leftist groups are discredit­ ed in the public eye if they attempt explanation o f the desperate acts o f oppressed people: any attempt at under­ standing is regarded, and despised, as implicit alliance.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this thesis could becom e a double-think argu­ ment against civil disruption o f any vari­ ety. Such is not my intention. But any revolutionary methods which deal with the taking o f human life require thorough consideration, targets must cautiously be fixed. And I can think o f many, many people I’d' sooner see dead than random travellers and airline officials in Heathrow airport.

K id s c o n t r ib u t io n s can b e se n t t o e ith e r the S y d n e y o r M el­ b o u r n e m o n ito r . I f y o u live else w h ere, 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 a d d ress­ ed e n v e lo p e . M E L B O U R N E : R o b K ing, “ L o d g e R a l p h " , D avid R o a d , L ily d a le. S Y D N E Y : J o h n G ea k e, 17 B ridge street, B alm ain 2 0 1 1 .

Introduction DISPARATE collection this week. There is little room for pretense that there is some com m on theme which runs through them. With the exception^ o f Graham Hallett’s drawing (marf sitting on a b ox reading) they are the work o f younger kids than those who usually write for this page.

The younger kid is pre-oc­ cupied with getting his feelings or visions on to the page. Commun­ ication com es a distant second. As a result, although they are not as readily digestible as more sophisti­ cated work they often have a hell o f a lot more substance.

Kill the queen and Stop fishing were the w ork o f first formers at a boys tech. Most kids at tech schools feel 'hopelessly out o f their depth when it comes to written language. When, as occas­ ionally happens someone con ­ ducts literacy tests among tech kids, the results indicate that, depending on the area, between one third and two thirds o f the juniors are functionally illiterate.

A consequence o f this remark­ able fact is that English periods are not happy experiences for many o f the kids and their teach­ ers. T o o often classes becom e a drawn ou t struggle for control, or, when it becom es apparent that control by either side is out o f the question, a struggle for survival.

Like any other struggle, however sordid it may appear, however pointless, there are moments o f heightened awareness for both teachers and students. Mainly these are transitory in nature and are lost for ever. Sometimes they resolve themselves into something m ore durable, like a nervous breakdown or a decision to quit teaching. Occasionally they are wrought into word or line and are miraculously preserved.

Such is the case with these two anonym ous works. The word which has been scribbled out o f S top fishing, is the name o f the teacher, obliterated to protect the innocent.

I am not so sure about the origins o f Child killer. It is by Boyd Farran, and, although it lacks the urgency o f Kill the queen, it is quite unequivocal about its subject matter, and was probably created during one o f those uneasy classroom truces, during which both sides take time

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Child killer ELL, one dark, misty night, the Gruesburgs went to a monster movie, and had to leave little Sammy at home. They did not see a sly, sneeky, sinister figure, or the one and only S.S.S. slinking along in the upper under­ growth.

Little Sammy was playing with his tw o pet frogs. Z-i-pp, came the sound o f a knife dashing past Sammy and killed one o f his frogs.

The S.S.S. figure moved in slowly. It was dark. N ot a light in the house was on.

A scream o f terror rang out.

The one frog that was left had bitten the S.S.S. figure.

Later, Sammy went for a swim in his big fish pond. Sammy got on to a high diving board. The S.S.S. figure came in too, with his scuba gear, including his spear gun.

Sammy saw him and called ‘Scitch him Rover’ .

The S.S.S. figure saw a 10 foot alligator com e ou t from an under­ water dog house. The S.S.S. figure just got out in time.

By this time Sammy was thirsty, so he made a Bardi and Coke on the rocks. Sammy was drunk, and the S.S.S. figure moved in with his pocket size, six foot b olo knife.

Sammy started to see pink elephants. He saw a pink elephant above the S.S.S. figure. We all know that you cannot keep pink elephants in the air. The S.S.S. figure was squashed.

The S.S.S. figure was mad and chased Sammy all over the house.

Sammy ran into a dead end. He was cornered. The S.S.S. figure moved in with his sub pop gun, or is it sub machine gun, blazing.

Poor Sammy never had a chance.

Later The Gruesburgs got home at the dot o f four hours after they had left! Well, they fou n d Sammy dead, and were angry, because he hadnt fed Spot. But . . . but . . . but . . . Spot wasnt hungry, be­ cause Spot had caught the S.S.S. figure halfway across the tennis court. By the way, S p ot’s a shark.

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Graham Hallett’s drawing is al­ together a more civilised piece, a reminder that, with age, the strug­ gle loses its rawness, without nec­ essarily changing in form. He writes . . . Perhaps a point o f interest, the original was created in the thick atmosphere o f a concrete classroom, deep with the sounds o f settling minds.’

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OST o f you probably know next to nothing about John Fahey. This is what we call a state o f primal innocence, or being steep ed in original sin. Fahey is an American guitarist; or rather, America is the country most near­ ly contiguous to the world Fahey inhabits.

He plays a 6-string flattop gui­ tar, described sometimes as a rare (almost unheard o f ) Bacon & Day guitar, at other times as a Martin D-45. Photographic evidence is available (cover o f Requia) to substantiate the existence o f the Bacon & Day, while the guitar on the cover o f Days have gone b y may well be a D-45.

He may own tw o guitars; but either or both may only be ma­ chines o f his imagination. It is difficult to think o f him as using anything but heavy-gauge strings and fingerpicks to play his pieces.

Fahey’s source materials in­ cludes the whole depth and divers­ ity o f American traditional guitar styles. He does not, as to o many others have done, take the music and polish it up, keeping only the surface decoration o f notes; he has gone dow n deep into the strong currents o f em otion and vision that sustain the melodies.

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liking for turtles. He describes himself as an amateur herpetolog­ ist, which is n o mean achievement when most people dont even know what a herpetologist is.

Perhaps his major achievement is to have retained an ancient musical wisdom that most o f us have becom e to o sophisticated to understand, and that is: musical instruments have a built-in tend­ ency to sound good. That is what they are for. If you are careful not to overtax your abilities, almost any instrument will respond grate­ fully to a sure and easy touch.

A guitar, a fiddle, a piano or a flute all exist only to make music, and they dont care how damned clever you are; they w on ’t forgive mistakes made in a flashy run, but they are kind to beginners and those who remain novices all their lives. A dedicated shit-hot guitar­ ist can often lose touch with the sound-box o f his instrument alto­ gether and start thinking o f the guitar as a fingerboard with sound-box attached. This is a faulty view, is it not?

If you just breathe on a guitar in the deadly hours o f the night it will reply with a muffled boom or a singing tone. And if you live in a nice lively house, the room will respond with vibrations o f its own. It is those endlessly receding reverberations that can be heard in Fahey’s music, though you might have to learn to listen for them.

Often it is the beginning guitar­ ist w ho can hear them best, and though he might not realise what it is that he slowly loses as he gains expertise, it is the gift o f valuing every single note, har­ m ony or chord, no matter how easily achieved.

The cult o f the virtuoso will probably always be with us, but you can at least try to ignore it.

Competence is altogether more valuable than virtuosity.

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Requia and other Compositions The Yellow Princess

If you want to know what I mean by the term "virtuoso” , listen to Maha vishnu John McLaughlin, whose

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creed appears to be “ never play one not when you can fit in 75 Perhaps you think McLaughlin is the very apotheosis o f guitarists, in which case I would urge you to pick up a good guitar and absentmindedly tap it about the face for a while. A com plex piece o f music is n o more “ better” than a simple piece o f music than a novel is “ better” than a poem. I have known several people who claim to have read and understood Fin­ negans wake and I think they may be liars. As Joyce himself said in another context: Life is to o short.

Fahey was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, evidently un­ attended by signs and portents.

He started playing guitar at about the age o f 13, his early sources being white country music and black country blues. At university he studied philosophy, religion and American folklore. He has an MA, which means that university graduates and undergraduates can listen to him in the secure knowl­ edge that he is basically all right.

Now this next interesting fact is very important: he owns his own record company. Most, but not all, o f his records have been released by this company, Ta­ koma Records. It is difficult to imagine any o f the mainstream companies releasing these records; they dont exactly stink o f finan­ cial success.

Fahey’ s music, like all old, deep and secret things, tends to be thought o f as resource matter rather than subject matter. It may have been all right to play guitar like that 20 years ago, but it isnt all right now. N ow we know better, hey? As it is, he has been able to lay his music dow n in a leisurely fashion, though he has the financial lusts o f Ed Denson to contend with, if we may be­ lieve all that is written. Which o f course we may not.

Who writes Fahey’s record notes? Does Eliyah P. Lovejoy exist? Does D. P. Banjoeawiz? I hardly think so. They are p rob­ ably written by Fahey himself, though the only notes he has signed with his own name are those on the sleeve o f The Yellow Princess. Certainly Fahey would

So you want to buy yourself a guitarROSS HILL URNING on to guitars in­ volves so much technical knowledge that a lot o f people are discouraged because they dont get a good enough instrument to start with and give up in disgust.

I remember when I was about 15, buying a cheap but quite handsome instrument for some­ thing like 12 pounds — if one remembers what those are. It was a beginner’s guitar but had a good sound and an easy action, (the action o f a guitar is the alignment o f bridge, strings and frets, usually cheap guitars have the strings to o high o ff the fret board and make it painful to play), but what I didnt know, and it turned me o f f playing until a year ago (but what’s ten years in the face o f eternity?) is that the other style turning pegs it had, made it im­ possible to tune. Moral: it's better to buy an expensive ukulele than a cheap guitar if you want your child or teenager to get high on music. O f course all knowledge comes with experience, so take along a good musician if you can, if not I’ll try to share with you what I’ve discovered.

Most o f the established music houses are like any other m oney­ making concern, if y o u ’re pre­ pared to spend upwards o f $70 with luck y o u ’ll get a g ood guitar.

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most guitars are now made on assembly line basis and if the man with the glue has an o f f day, 50 odd guitars find their bridges com ­ ing loose after a m onth’s playing.

Same goes for the quality o f the w ood and the action, though as a general rule the technical side o f the guitar, as opposed to its soul, will be proportionately as good as the price.

The machine heads are vital; if they are cheap, old or damaged the guitar will keep slipping out o f tune and all your musical energy and enthusiasm will be drained.

So if y o u ’re rich go buy yourself an Aria or Maton or Epiphone. Do so, and h ope lady luck is shining.

But there’s another way. For most aspiring musicians a hundred bucks is hard to get together, especially if you dont know whether the guitar fantasy is going to last. For $50 or under it’s very hard to get an instrument made with any sort o f love or devotion in your established music shop.

The cheap Spanish style guitars made b y the Japanese invariably have p oor quality heads, often the bridges pull away from the face o f the guitar. Same goes for acoustic, they may look as good as the expensive ones but usually there’ s a crucial flaw, even though the overall design has been copied from a really high quality make such as Gibson or Martin.

With acoustic guitars the qual­

ity o f the tuning heads is even more crucial because the steel strings require more tension, so they’re more prone to slip out o f tune. And on steel string guitars the action is also more important; if the strings are too high o ff the frets y o u ’ll wear away your fing­ er-tips trying to play.

Also, most salesmen in big music shops are what I would call chicken musicians. They have the techniques but instead o f using them as an artist would - to take people higher — they use them to sell guitars to gullible grand­ mothers by giving virtuoso per­ formances on instruments they know are going to go out o f tune five minutes after the money changes hands.

The alternative is to get one second-hand. Not only pawnbrok­ ers, but antique shops and junk shops have them. The darkest and dingiest might have treasure lurk­ ing in the back room, but you have to know what y ou ’re looking fo r because there is usually a time factor involved and you can easily miss a bow ed neck or a faulty bridge if you havent got your eyes peeled. But the advantage is that you can get a really good guitar with some history and character for a third the price it would normally cost.

With time a sorting process occurs: new guitars are bouqht, used and, if the assembly line was

working that day, kept and played and handed on till it winds up on the market again. The same prin­ ciple applies to paintings, cars, anything really - objects take on magic to the extent that people give it to them. The mysticism o f guitars is no different, if they’re played and loved the w ood seems to know and gives o f f its best vibrations.

So you can buy a battered old instrument that has more guts than a new guitar five times the price. The secret is to see whether it’s been played a lot. There are two ways to check this out: most obviously the strum marks, and the less noticeable marks on the wooden part o f the fretboard. If you see either o f these signs it’s a safe bet y o u ’ve got a guitar that’s worth buying.

This happened to me by chance. I bought an old Pacific guitar for eight dollars, a cheap guitar but one that had lasted and had been played. The only thing wrong was that the heads were damaged by rust and knocks. By spending tw o dollars on a really good pair o f brass machine heads I had a humble but beautiful guitar, with a terrific sound and easy action (on the first four frets which is all you need to worry about if y ou ’re reading this). And it kept its tune!

Life is one big treasure hunt, so I wish you happy hunting.

not have been able to construct his remarkable m ythology had he been recorded by a "mainstream” record company.

Fahey’s m ythology centres around himself as mythic hero, and has the interesting effect o f making the usual everyday world seem like a special case o f Fahey’s expanded visions.

Blind Joe Death, musical genius, who re­ solves the music o f the spheres, appears at the beginning o f the saga. The transfiguration o f blind Joe Death is accompanied by a 30 page booklet in eccentric script, which tells o f the fearsome Getchells, their curious diet o f human beings and $he-wolf brand homogenised afterbirth, Ralph Riverboat, grist, Evil Devil Woman, Beautiful Linda Getchell, and Ed Denson’s plot to rule the world.

These notes are signed by Charles Holloway, whose own e x ­ istence is called into question by the notes to The voice o f the turtle, where he is mentioned as a mythical figure with Pop Corn Man and the Big Sunflower.

The voice o f the turtle comes complete with the Fahey Picture Album, wherein are actual p h oto­ graphs o f several beings and places, both imaginary and exist­ ing, such as Blind Joe Death, Chester C. Petranick, Evil Devil Woman, The Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill, K nott’s Berry Farm Molly, Beautiful Linda Getchell, and John Fahey. The merest glimpse o f a turtle is also vouch­ safed, and on Fahey’s next Takoma record, America, draw­ ings o f turtles and tortoises abound.

Fahey is one o f the few con-, temporary musicians whose later work does not make his earlier work seem outdated, or at worst silly. It is impossible to effectively describe a piece o f music in words (a fact that lamentably few journ­ alists ralise) so I am unable to give you a bar-by-bar breakdown o f any o f his pieces in emotive language and stagger you with my descriptive abilities, which are pretty inadequate anyway.

I can tell you that he opens up a new understanding o f what a guitar is, and what music is really under all the flying-fingers acro­ batics (sour grapes I suppose) and the academic nonsense. The best place to start on his Takoma series is at the beginning. The releases on other labels do not follow any pattern; I would recommend O f rivers and religion for those who are scared o f f by the Takoma records.

The artistic passion seems to be a genuine lust like the lusts o f the body, and is probably an intensi­ fied, generalised lust that has to find peculiar outlets. Did Fahey realise that he was a creative artist and so start to create, or did he look at his creations and decide that he must be a creative artist?

He even goes so far as to describe himself as a “ creative artist” . (The yellow princess.)

I am inclined to take him seriously when he says it, though I would not take you seriously if you said it o f yourself (whoever you may be) nor d o I take myself seriously when I occasionally entertain the thought. I think Fahey understands creation better than I do.

I also think that he is probably bonkers, but I still respect and fear him. He is the only creative artist, musician or writer or paint­ er or sculptor, that I have ever found to be absorbing me. There are times when I almost feel that I am turning into John Fahey. A cold sweat springs out on my brow and I resist, but there is nothing to resist. Can you pos­ sibly take this seriously? Maybe you should.

Looking back in nostalgia MARGARET MACINTYRE

groups were playing the RickyTak (was it a “ y ” or an “ i” ? Scene club circuit (Marquee, eel N THESE days with nostal­ pie island la la). Some are still gia such a marketable com ­ with us.” His choice o f songs is modity, hands up all those who superb - beginning with Rosalyn remember Rosalyn by the Pretty and including such greats as the Things? In Melbourne in 1964, Easybeats’ Friday on m y mind Rosalyn symbolised a victory o f and Sorrow by the Merseys.

It’s obviously not just the youth over a record com pany songs that are favorites, but the or that’s how I saw it then. interpretation o f these songs by At that stage 3K Z ’s M ersey the particular group that popular­ beat was the only radio program to realise (in spite o f its name) ised them. Thus this album is not that there was more to English “ Bowie Sings the Hits o f the 60s” - rather it’s Bowie singing the music than just the Beatles, and at 4.00 pm we would tune if for half Yardbird’s I wish y o u would, the Who's Anyw ay, anyhow, any­ an hour to see how our campaign where etc. He has not attempted to have Rosalyn locally released was going. Petitions had been sign­ to record a definitive version o f ed and forged, tear stained letters See Emily play, but instead he has had been sent, threats had been attempted to recreate the feeling behind “ S yd ’s Pink F loy d ’s (as he made.

The first import record I co v ­ calls them) version. A nd in most eted was an English cop y o f the cases he has done this success­ single “ Rosalyn” , fo r which an fully, with a gentle humor and a envied collective o f three school- great deal o f affection. Had he friends had paid one pound fif­ wished to, he could have had the teen. Envied that is, fo r a week or original backings copied note for note, but instead, each peculiarity so, until, finally, our pleas were heard: Rosalyn was released on an is extended and exaggerated, and EP along with the Pretty Things’ thus gently sent up.

Maraccas shaking away in the next single, and all fo r 15 shil­ background — a sign that we lings.

Only now is it becom ing hip to really are back in '6 4 - Rosalyn is the first track on the album, and wallow in our glorious past from 1963 to 1967. For the past all Pretty Things fans will be couple o f years the mid 50s have amazed to discover that the song been in vogue, but though it’s actually has words. Not world shatteringly profound words, been nice to get a second chance to catch all that, fo r me it’s hardly admittedly, but more than just a been nostalgic. In those days I was series o f groans and moans emit­ ted b y Phil May. Both Rosalyn more interested in listening to and D on t bring me down get a Smokey Dawson or Life with fairly straight treatment from D exter than the hit parade.

O f late, however, both the art­ Bowie, with just enough vocal aggression to conjure up the dirty ists themselves and the industry meanness o f the Pretty Things — have been turning to the more recent past. One o f the more that unfortunate group whose image has been taken by the dubious results o f this has been the reformation o f such groups as Stones.

Gerry and the Pacemakers, the On Them’s Here comes the Swinging Blue Jeans, Herman & night Bowie begins to let loose a His Hermits, to name but a few, little, mincing the vocals and wail­ ing down into the chorus in a while some o f the better results have been albums such as the parody o f the original. It says a great deal for Bowie's taste and Who’s Quadrophenia.

On Pinups David Bowie takes a style that he is able to send-up without ridiculing. He manages to look back over his shoulder and pinpoint that essential quality in comes up with this collection o f the original version that made it 12 songs, all British hits from 1964-67. Bowie himself has been outstanding: thus in Friday on m y in and out o f the London music mind he emphasises the manic scene since about 1964, and his insistence in Stevie Wright’s affection for those days shows vocals, to the point where you clearly through this album. In the laugh, but only because he is so cover notes he says: “ These songs right; it was that very manic in­ ■are my favorites from the ’64-’67 sistence that made it such a bril­ period o f London. Most o f the liant song.

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In Shapes o f things Bowie sounds more like Anthony Newley than Keith R elf o f the Yardbirds, and obviously he enjoys the profundity o f the lyrics, like: Come tom orrow, will I be older Come tom orrow, may be a soldier Come tom orrow, may I be bolder, than today Guitarist Mick R onson also has a lot o f fun on this track with his Jeff Beck imitation.

The W ho’s tracks are the most remarkable in the accuracy o f Bowie’ s highlighting - from Keith M oon’s maniacal drum solos to Roger Daltrey’s tone and phras­ ing.

Sorrow is a highlight o f the album largely because o f the song itself. The single from this album, it w as_a hit for the Merseys (form erly the Merseybeats) in 1966. It is a great sob song and Bowie wallows in it, wringing the lyrics dry, his voice choking and breaking.

One criticism repeatedly made o f this album is that Bowie’s versions o f the songs d o not sur­ pass the originals - I think Bowie

would have been extremely dis­ appointed if they did. His objec­ tive has been somewhere between sending up these old hits and simply celebrating the energy, en­ thusiasm and the pretensions that made them so popular.

David Bowie has been the vic­ tim o f a great deal o f hype in the past - so much so that it has been tempting to dismiss him as hype alone. He has also made a mirac­ ulous ascension to pop aristoc­ racy, rivaling Jagger with his pop social power. Yet in all the stream o f publicity it has been hard to glean anything about Bowie him­ self. He has carefully fostered the image o f artist as mirror: “ The performer is strictly a product o f the public’s imagination . . . I dont feel I’ m a person at all sometimes . . . I’ m just a collec­ tion o f other people's ideas.”

Through Pinups however we can see that among other things Bowie has a very shrewd musical sense o f humor, and a fondness for the 1964-67 period o f music that many o f his audience will share.

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fHOM THE O-D BCK BKCWNIE We planned to call this page, From the old b o x Brownie, but after last w e e k ’s launch, Graham Radley rushed to our I

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sweatshop with 50 half taken at Portarlington, Victoria. plate glass negatives He printed them himself, “purchased from a flea with staggering clarity. m arket”, dated betw een K eep them old history-pics 1914 and 1916 and m ostly coming.

I f anyone has more informat‘on concerning the origin o f l£eSu P,° d ase, f ° „ Graham Radley through IL L ).

Tears of rage from the South From a Special Correspondent in Seoul. ff'T 'H E SOUTH Korean X governm ent cannot continue as it is. It is on a collision course with the people and the crash is less than a year away.”

Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung made this statement shortly after the end o f an 1 1-week ordeal which began when he was kidnapped from his T ok yo hotel room by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). In the tw o months that have elapsed since then, the K C IA ’s power has declined rapidly.

At the same time, the student movement has emerged as a major political force, with a strength not seen since students sent president Syngman Rhee packing in 1960.

Marches, boycotts, fasts, and sit-ins have spread like wildfire from Seoul national university to virtually every major campus in th e country.

Formerly acquiescent churches have set up a defence fund for arrested students and have organised their own marches. Hundreds o f journalists have joined in, demanding an end to the KCIA’s massive censorship system.

The immediate government response was to shut down colleges and high schools in early december. President Park Chung Hee has warned that criticism o f the government will be dealt with harshly. Nevertheless, students continue to talk about april, 1974 as the deadline fo r the existence o f the Park regime.

Until now, the KCIA has relied on students and professors as informers. But this system is breaking down as many o f these part time agents turn on their form er bosses, and other informers stop talking in fear o f reprisals by their fellow students.

Says one student organiser: “ The informers arent sure they can trust the KCIA anymore - it has lost so much credibility in the past few months.”

Previously, student protests tended to be spontaneous outbursts on isolated campuses which were quickly put down.

The latest uprising, however, has been different. There has been a steady growth of student mobilisation that shows planning,

Sth K o rea : cardboard image o f Park

coordination and timing. When other campuses joined the groundswell that started at Seoul university, the m ood was not one o f wild protest, but o f serious demands. The restoration o f free speech and press; academic freedom, including the removal o f all KCIA agents and informers from the campuses; the abolition o f the KCIA; and an end to the country’s increasing econom ic subordination to Japan. All these are being sought.

The m ovem ent’s steady growth has had a considerable impact on the larger society, especially among liberal intellectuals who had been fencesitters during earlier demonstrations. First, the college seniors — usually the most reluctant to demonstrate because o f upcoming jobs — joined the protests. Then, many Christians, who had teen only discreet sympathisers, found the courage to march in the streets.

By december 1, the protests spread to the media: reporters o f one of the major Seoul newspapers went on strike, follow ed b y a strongly-worded, resolution by the Korean Journalists Association demanding a free press. University faculty members, long under tight government control, began to speak out, too.

Behind the scenes, the government has begun emphasising that pro-government loyalists will be rewarded. The minister o f education told 34 university deans on november 19 that scholarships should no longer go to students with g ood academic records but to “ students o f good conduct with a firm nation loving sense” . Similarly, the government has put rightwing, anti communist Christian groups on its dole in an attempt to undermine growing church opposition to the regime.

The pace o f events has picked up in the past few weeks. For the first time in recent Korean history, there is opposition to the regime in power from almost every sector o f society. It is anybody’s guess how long the Park regime will survive but as one university professor put it, "It is no longer a question o f if the Park regime will fall, but o f when it will fall.” | — |

Tear jerker from the North From BILL KNOX in Singapore ACED with ever growing resistance in southeast Asia to their updated version o f a “ greater co-prosperity sphere” , the Japanese will certainly not be welcom ing with acclaim the sad and touching film Flow er girl currently playing in southeast Asian theatres.

On the face o f it the film is just another tear jerker, one o f a type that provides a relatively welcom e respite in the otherwise neverending stream o f Chinese swordplay and karate movies. The Malaysian Chinese, in particular, have flocked to the film with large handkerchiefs to m op up the tears shed in sympathy fo r flower girl Ggodbun and her blind young sister.

Although it has a mandarin Chinese soundtrack, the film is in fact one o f the few released for Asian distribution b y the North Koreans. It features anti Japanese material in no small measure. The Koreans, even more so than the Chinese, have no reason to be endeared to the Japanese who held their country under harsh colonial control from 1910 until the end o f the second world war.

The film is unashamedly propagandist though the sentimental story line is something o f a smokescreen -

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and enough o f southeast Asia’ s population have lived through the bad times o f the first half o f the present century, or heard o f them firsthand, to have a ready sympathy fo r the plight o f a poor p e as a n t fam ily struggling hopelessly under the double yoke o f the landlord and colonialism.

Far m ore so than Chinese films o f the same genre, the Koreans are most heavy handed when it com es to pathos. One quite literally expects to see the villainous landlord tying the heroine across the railway tracks in the path o f an oncom ing train.

Though the film, set in the 1930s on e guesses, does manage to avoid this cliche o f the western screen, it does equally as well with a good many other bad guy situations. Ggodbun sells flowers in the neighboring tow n to buy medicine fo r her ailing mother, w ho continues working as a laundrymaid in the landlord’ s house so that Ggodbun will not be sold into concubinage.

Unfortunately, the flower business is poor, and besides, Ggodbun is subjected to the humiliation o f the local whores and spat at b y their snappily dressed Japanese patrons. The elder brother can offer no protection, as he has been imprisoned by the Japanese. When Ggodbun raises sufficient money to bu y medicine and hurries home with the curative herbs she finds her m other dead.

Unremitting misery so crowds the heroine and her young sister that even the cynical Caucasian observer gives a heartfelt sniff or tw o. Finally the elder brother, thought to have perished in prison, returns from his revolutionary experiences as an enlightened comrade soldier just in time to lend a hand to the peasants, who are in revolt and marching with flaming torches on the house o f the landlord. (At this stage the front stalls erupt with clapping and footstamping such as one hasnt heard since childhood days at the Saturday afternoon matinee when the cavalry finally arrives to relieve the indian besieged fort.

All ends well with brother and sisters walking into a rosy sunset,

looking hopefully towards a future secure in the undoubted wisdom o f Kim II Sung and communism.

With so little information presently available on North Korea, Flower girl, for all its set formula, allows some insight into the emotional patterns o f the country and exemplifies the kind o f romantic image making that has virtually made an emperor, if not a god, out o f Kim II Sung.

The blatantly anti Japanese tone o f the film indicates that whatever t he superficial respectability o f relations between North Korea and Japan, the Koreans, along with their close comrades, the Chinese, are fully aware o f the political mileage to be gained in southeast Asia by fanning the already smouldering indigenous fires of distrust towards the Japanese. Japan may have the econom ic and technological resources to buy friendship o f a sort with her underdeveloped neighbors, but there still remains the obvious inability o f the Japanese to effectively relate at the human level beyond the boundaries o f individual corporate t hei r organisations, much less so outside Japan itself.

Such diplomatic masters as Chou En-lai - and he no doubt has the ear o f his Korean counterpart - are only to o ready to use the sinitic cultural fifth column at their disposal in southeast Asia to the immediate disadvantage o f Japan.

O f further interest is the Malaysian compliance in the screening o f such a film. Does the government feel the anti Japanese sentiments o f the film are worth the obvious risk o f exposing the population to the communist message it carries? Perhaps they feel that such co-operation with the communist countries to the north - and they are virtually ready to diplomatically recognise China — will be the quickest way o f getting Chin Peng’s guerrilla forces o f f their backs. Or was the censor’s vision, to o , so misted with tears that he missed the political undertones o f Ggodbun’s adventures? j— |

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AMOS DRUMMOND talks to IAN SYKES

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A N S Y K E S is the chairman o f X L Petroleum P ty L td — a company that retails petrol principally in Melbourne.

Years ago he made the decision to fight the multi­ national, monolithic oil giants and began the great petrol discount war.

But he fou n d his enemies also seem ed to include the government whose bread is buttered and chutneyed b y the international oil moguls.

When crude oil in Australia was considered expensive, the department o f customs decided M r S ykes had to take an unusually high quota. N o w that Bass strait crude is dirt cheap b y world standards, and scarce as hens teeth, the department, in its wisdom, cut and finally eliminated his quota once again putting X L on the brink o f disaster — a position well know n to Sykes.

Sykes is an ascetic man. H e is an honest man and he lacks the pretentions and slick veneer o f m ost businessmen. His office is in the fron t o f one o f his petrol stations at Chapel street in South Yarra.

H e has been compared with Ralph Nader but he goes a step further than the American consumer champion. Rather than doing his battle on the sidelines, Sykes has chosen the same battlefield as the giants. A n d in this case the giants are a notorious, cut-throat and highly professional pack o f thieving bastards.

M any people label Sykes an eccentric which is a hell o f an indictment o f honesty in to d a y’s society. I f the big b o y s crush him, Diogenes in to d a y’s society. I f the again.

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DAYLIGHTS: The government has cut y o u o f f from crude oil supplies. H ow much petrol d o y o u have left and how long d o y o u think y o u can keep going?

Petrol is no problem. It's basically the crude oil allocation that we used to obtain by virtue o f our market share o f the petroleum market in Australia. Every com pany with a market share is entitled to an allocation o f new crude oil from the Australian fields production and that basis was decided in 1969 at a series o f government/industry meetings. XL did extremely well last year and has in fact got the best sales it has ever had by expanding in New South Wales and open­ ing up new outlets in Victoria.

N ow in spite o f this we have suddenly been cut o ff from crude oil and it’s almost sinister because when crude oil was low priced overseas and high priced in Austra­ lia we were forced to take crude oil. We were also singled out to pay for crude oil in advance o f actually getting it, so eventually we had $600,000 o f pre paid crude oil. We did a deal to get this refined with A m pol this year and recently crude oil has gone up overseas to about three times the price o f local crude which is fixed til '75 by a government contract with Esso. Our crude oil in Australia is now very cheap and at just this point it seems that XL is suddenly denied access

to it and that’s the part that we think needs review.

DAYLIGH TS: Why do y o u think y o u were singled out, (a) in the beginning to p a y in advance and, (b ) w hy have y o u been cut o f f n ow ?

Quite frankly there has been a long series o f unilateral discrimination against X L by the customs & excise department. They imposed at one stage a duty o f 7.5 cents a gallon on X L ’s petrol in order to make XL sign a contract with Esso to pre-pay fo r Esso crude oil. No other com pany was treated in that way and I have found it remarkable that a government depart­ ment could behave like this. It almost seemed that they were being pushed along b y the rest o f the oil industry.

Then again they had this customs inquiry recently into whether XL was dumping and whether this hurt the Aus­ tralian industry and the net result was that the minister didnt bother referring the inquiry to the tariff board fo r about 7-8 months which made it very hard for XL to carry on under those conditions, and secondly, on ce the tariff board had heard the inquiry they m ore or less threw it out and said that XL had to get back its dumping securities in full and eventually w e’ll get this back.

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man-on-the-street that there must be som e reason w hy the governm ent is pick­ ing on XL. X L was the first com pany to start discounting petrol, is that right?

It’ s not so much that. X L is more vigorous in its attitudes and it w on ’t d o a deal with the big overseas companies or anything like that whereas I think all the other independents will or have perhaps several times. I think XL is the main enemy o f the big oil companies because it w on ’t shut up and it tries to d o what it believes right fo r the industry and Austra­ lians as a whole. So I’ m afraid if they want us to com prom ise they'll have to fight us to the very last penny w e’ve got.

The part that I must admit I dont like is that if the oil companies want to fight us, all right they can have price wars round us which they did and failed at.

Customers could work ou t what was going on and could see that if XL was pushed out o f business the other com ­ panies would immediately put their prices up.

In fact in som e garages where we lost - because the big oil companies leased them back from the suppliers — they o f course put the prices up so this showed everybody what was going to happen. So customers stuck to us and even though the big companies cut prices by about 12 cents near XL outlets, customers in gen­ eral didnt go away. They thought it was better to have a reasonable discount continuously than just a big discount as the purchase price o f buying XL out.

But since then the big companies have more or less been able to, in my opinion, heavily influence the customs & excise administration and the previous govern­ ment. I’m not saying that they’re influ­ encing the present government because when I saw Mr Connor [minister for en­ ergy] he said the first he knew o f XL not getting crude oil anywhere was when I contacted him. Customs & excise have re­ fused to give me any explanation at all as to why they have treated me in these vari­ ous ways and in fact I’d like to see it lo o k ­ ed into b y an independent judge or party, because obviously if people have a market share they should get a crude oil alloca­ tion.

We shouldnt be singled out to be treated in harsh ways all the time just because som ebody is friendly with the people in the customs & excise. There’s a' series now o f about six moves that have impinged heavily against XL. Each one is against X L and each one is in favor o f the big oil companies. I dont think that’s fair.I DAYLIGH TS: Besides the removal o f you r crude allocation what oth er m oves against X L have been taken?

I’d say the first one was ordering XL in the very beginning to take a crude oil allocation, because at that stage we had no refinery and no refining deal and no possibility o f an export licence and also not enough m oney to accumulate a large shipment o f crude oil. Also I think that rule was unnecessarily oppressive to XL when some sort o f duty could have been imposed to m ore or less cover that disadvantage. But no, we had to take the crude.

Secondly, w e then actually had to pay for the crude oil in advance whereas the contracts with every other market share person was simply you paid for crude oil 30 days after delivery. Truly, it was a terrible im position fo r X L to have to fork out $600,000 o f its small capital in order to pay fo r crude oil that it had never seen a drop of. That’s a terrible im position and I’ve never heard o f such an imposition being placed on any firm in any other country or in any industry in Australia.

As if that wasnt bad enough the government then imposed a 7Vi cents duty through the customs & excise on X L ’s petrol imports and we had to fork out over $100,000 for that and later that was repaid. My view was that the sole purpose o f putting that duty on XL was to make it prepay Esso crude oil in advance and that naturally caused XL to becom e insolvent.

Luckily the com m onwealth arbiter, sir Leslie Melville, came in and said he thought it was pretty unfair for XL to pay in advance for crude oil and the government couldnt d o that any more.

That saved our life.

But then the customs & excise people

decided to put on dumping cash securities against XL and that took $300,000 o f our m oney. That m oney is now due to be refunded because the tariff board found it shouldnt have been collected in the first place. And not only that, the cus'toms really shouldnt have put that tariff ’board imposition on us fo r the simple reason that people in their department had already recommended that there was no dumping case for XL to answer in the first place.

The latest move o f the customs & excise department is that now — when crude oil is suddenly very desirable to buy at the present price - suddenly XL is the only com pany through APC to be taken o f f the list and yet it’s got the biggest market share it ever had. When you add up that story I reckon it’ s really pathetic and it seems to me that some­ how people in the department o f customs & excise are being got at by the propa­ ganda, or by other means they’re being got at by the large oil companies.

DAYLIGHTS: Why d o yo u think th ey treat y o u that way?

It’s looking even more absurd because every time they have an independent judge or arbiter, like sir Leslie Melville, they find for XL and against the customs & excise people. But they still seem to be doing these things. When I spoke to them last week on why they cut XL o f f they just refused to answer. I went to see them last year and I have written to them but I have got no satisfactory answer at all.

They quite obviously treat XL arbitrarily and they have singled X L ou t for this unilaterally oppressive treatment.

If a person has been crooked I think he should be punished but the tariff board people hadnt found we'd been crooked or anything like this; they’d found another company that had im port­ ed petrol had apparently evaded duty but it wasnt XL. I dont see w hy large companies or any other bodies with some personal idiosyn­ crasy should be allowed to perpetually interfere with our aims. In other words it has kept our com pany very small and I feel that just because w e’re honest and that we speak out w e’re being kept small, whereas the big companies in my opinion have acted most improperly on a large number o f occasions and have influenced the department o f customs & excise.

These people seem to get all the advant­ ages. That’s not right.

DAYLIGHTS: H ow have the big oil companies acted im properly? A re there any specific examples?

Yes, there are. My main objection to them is that they have basically charged Australia falsely high prices for petrol, shipping freight and crude oil from their own fields overseas and through their own ships. Most o f the oil tankers, o f course, are registered in Liberia, Panama and places where there is no tax at all.

When I say no tax, there might be 0.1 percent and basically the big companies have chosen to rake their income in their hom e countries.

That’s all very well if y ou ’re a Dutch person, or if y ou ’re a British person, or an American person, but it’s not so good for poor old Australian taxpayers who are thereby caused to pay more tax than they should.

Also, o f course, We have seen the oil industry paying almost no tax at all in some years and yet they have accumulat­ ed vast assets and oilfields here. And o f course all the petrol service stations at the end o f the last war were largely owned by Australian individuals. Today there is hardly any owned by Australian individu­ als so we’re being pushed backwards by deceitful transactions o f the large inter­ national companies.

I feel to o that the large oil companies are rapidly losing their advantages over­ seas because the host governments arent so happy in other countries o f what they have been up to. I feel if they had acted with non deceitful transactions they’d have been able to look other governments in the eye and say we’ve been dealing fair dinkum and fairly we havent been fid­ dling around with governments. But they can’t do this and they’re trying to get advantages over and above what are fair and reasonable.

The next thing is because the big

companies have charged Australia fic­ titiously high prices for petrol freight and oil they’ve been able to cause the prices commissioner in New South Wales and South Australia - which influences the whole petrol price structure in Australia — to put up the price o f petrol to a most unreasonably high level. And o f course I think they have really got at the taxation commissioner too by putting forward these odd sort o f prices that they have in their ow n invoices so I think that it's a really good thing that the govern­ ment has appointed a royal commission.

I just hope that these people are intelligent enough and diligent enough to get stuck into what really are the facts.

DAYLIGHTS: The problem here is that th ey are so big, the large multinational oil companies, that governments are usually afraid to get stuck into them; th ey depend on them to a great degree?

Yes, they d o. And overseas we have seen small South American countries where the governments have physically been changed b y such entities as the big international oil companies. Not neces­ sarily the oil companies but International Telephone and these multinational people have got this taxation advantage over everybody else and they are thereby accumulating the w orld’s assets under their ow n control.

We havent any multinational compan­ ies so really it’s a form o f economical imperialism 1974 style. That has gone on for a couple o f decades. The advantages arose when various governments started raising a large amount o f revenue by taxation. That is a new thing that really only happened in a big way in the last 20-40 years when taxes have gone higher and governments have becom e bigger.

And, as you say, governments tend to rely on these people and they then get frightened to d o anything about it.

I think non deceitful transactions are the basis o f all proper administration and prediction for the future, otherwise you just get told a lot o f bull. Y ou can’t base proper decisions and policies on non­ sense.

What really is the price, what really are the freight rates, what truly should be the price o f petrol. These are the things that ought to go to be audited and go to prices commissioners and government depart­ ments to plan the future o f the nation. In fact X L was only set up to be a sort o f revolutionary force to stop deceitful transactions and to motivate proper plan­ ning.

As I go on in XL I find that more and more overseas people are experi­ encing exactly the same things and I must admit one o f the things I am very upset about at the moment is the Australian delegation to the United Nations group that’s studying multinational corpor­ ations. Unfortunately I think the Austral­ ian government has chosen a person who is just going to put the view o f the multinational corporations. I think Aus­ tralia should be saying we dont want any more deceitful transactions b y multi­ nationals.

If Australia went to the United Nations com m ittee on multinational cor­ porations and said that we would sudden­ ly find that 75 percent o f the countries o f the world would be on our side. But no, what is it doing? It’s going along to the United Nations and it’s saying multi­ national corporations are the best thing ever made and that sort o f rot.

The little countries o f the world are finding that they’re being divested o f their assets. The little business people in Australia are finding they’re divested o f their assets. Even the big business people in Australia are finding their company shares are more and more owned by overseas people and they’re starting to w onder why.

DAYLIGHTS: I have heard that the chap who is going along to the United Nations on the multinational report has n ot only been ou t o f the country fo r m ore than 20 years but is really n o expert at all on multinational corporations and that the report has probably already been written up before anyone was even asked to com m ent on multinationals. And this would all lead m e to believe - I dont kn ow what it would lead y o u to believe that the present government really doesnt

have enough guts to stand up against the multinationals.

No, I dont think that’s true. I think that they have enough guts but they just dont know what is going on and it’s just the same with this bloke with the United Nations as with the department o f cus­ tom s and excise. They just dont know yet the serious power that the administration has, power that should be divested in the law courts and o f course in parliament itself. I’m sure that the Labor cabinet - if they realised what the report that this man had written to the United Nations really adds up to - would be so ashamed they’d almost tear it up and throw it away.

They just dont seem to realise that the basic reason that multinationals are get­ ting so powerful is that the tax laws are being administered arbitrarily, that inter­ national firms^of auditors, o f which there are dozens in Australia, are signing their names to accounts which say they are true and fair, when the blessed things are just a mass o f deceitful nonsense, o f prices that really arent true prices at all.

They have just fiddled the accounts. They have got apparently responsible audit firms which are really only getting their revenue from these same people both in Australia and overseas to sign and put their seals on accounts as true and fair when they are just untrue and unfair, they’ re just monstrous nonsense.

It’s those sort o f things that XL is attacking, so its force o f action is beyond the petrol industry but I must admit I agree with you that the Australian gov­ ernment should get itself more wised up into what is really going on. I realise that they’ve got to undo the terrible transac­ tions and the whole institutional struc­ ture that has been built up not only in Australia but worldwide in 25 years.

The things we say to the United Nations must reflect truly what the Aus­ tralian people as a whole want and not just what multinational corporations want.

DAYLIGHTS: What are yo u r chances o f survival?

I think first o f all the government will look at top level at what has gone on and I just hope they go further and because I dont think I’m the only individual having the rules o f the game manipulated against him. I think many small Australian companies have found the same thing but have not been able to speak out, or perhaps are not so rash. I think that all the people w ho lost their garages over the past 20 years really lost them not because they didnt have good land or werent efficient business people but because some other business people had gotten from the government power to gain capital quicker than they did, so they lost their capital and got bad assets and the other companies got the good land.

20 cents a gallon. I can’t im port petrol now to com pete on the local market if I dont get m y local crude oil allocation at tw o dollars a barrel. I have to pay six dollars a barrel overseas and XL is going to be a dead duck sooner or later. Then again we have a contract with A m p ol and that may stand up alright and give us the petrol we need another way.

But the rules say that everybody with a market share o f petrol sales — and X L ’s had a market share in the past — gets a share o f crude oil in accordance with that market share. N ow w e’ve asked: (a) fo r our market share o f crude oil in the future; and (b) for a special allocation o f crude oil to make up fo r the nine months in which w e’ve not got an allocation at all or w e’ve got a reduced allocation.

So we just want to get back the crude oil that basically we should have got but havent got because the department o f customs & excise suddenly cut us off.

DAYLIGHTS: A re y o u optim istic about the future o f yo u r com pany in the future o f Australia?

I’ve never been optimistic about the future o f XL fo r the simple reason that w e’ve had such huge enemies to deal with and I’ve been perfectly aware o f the sorts o f things they get up to. There’s no transaction, there’s no underhand dealing which they w on ’t do. I’ ve been aware o f that from the very beginning, it’s kept my com pany very small. When I had a court case aqainst Shell in Canberra they kept $155,000 o f X L ’s small m oney tied up in

a court case for years because Shell fought it to the limit.

I’ve known the sort o f enemies I’m up against but on the other hand the system will work and judges generally are not corrupt, they think on principle. So these people eventually (and tariff boards to o ) after they get the information and get the inquiry under way, will com e to the right decision. But o f course this takes years and years and I’ve seen m y competitors grow much quicker while I have been kept very small and very humble.

I’ve had very small trucks fo r instance where as they’ve had big modern trucks because I can’t afford the really big trucks and the efficient operations that they’ve got. But nevertheless my policy has been to keep a bit o f cash on hand to try and fight with, even though it means staying much smaller. A com pany for instance which started only four years ago has now got about six times the number o f outlets that I’ve got but the thing is we’ve not cheated or anything.

We've always paid the government what they’ve asked us to pay. We’ve not altered our invoices overseas and w e’ve been absolutely truthful, as far as I can be truthfuL I’m not saying I’m perfect, I’ m sure I’ m not. The thing is to the best o f my ability I’ve done the best I can and I’m going to keep doing that and if I go under then I’ll go under fighting. N ot till the last gun’s fired underwater will it be the end o f XL.

And o f course this is going on all over Australia; in fact when you look at the share register o f BHP itself about roughly o f the order o f 20 percent o f the stocks seem nomineed in overseas banks. And local banks probably represent overseas holders so they’re not safe either. If they think they’re smart, I dont. I think they should radically review the attitudes that XL is putting forward because if they let people get capital on a favored advantage little b y little those people are going to gain the capital o f BHP and all the other enterprises itself.

A m pol is another com pany that is largely Australian owned yet when you look at their shareholders in their register you see huge shareholders in bank nom ­ inee companies and really they’re over­ seas companies in the main. In Australia we dont even have the right to look behind a nominee shareholder to find out who is really and truly the owner. It seems to me that w e’re pretty weak and that we should get these things fixed up too, so that we can find out w h o owns the nominee shares.

DAYLIGHTS: I f the government, h ow ­ ever, does n ot step in in y o u r specific case what are you r chances? A re y o u going to be able to com p ete against these larger mul­ tinational companies fo r an extended period o f time?

Obviously we’re going to be in serious jeopardy because petrol overseas used to be 10 cents a gallon now it’s more than THE LlVlNG D A Y tild H + S , jartoar^ ^ -2 8 ,h & V 4

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-Notices m aking and co m m u n ica tio n on every hu m an level o n regular o u t­ ings, d a y o r night? If so, I am a business exe cu tiv e , 4 5, g o o d ap­ p earance, p len ty o f hair, well b u ilt, w id ely travelled, extensive range absorb in g interests, w h o seeks y o u t o share them with. N ot interested p ros b u t nature to sh ow kindliness and gen erosity to right w om a n as exp ression o f re­ gard. N o t necessarily seeking e x ­ clusivity. Have p referen ce wellrou n d ed t o p lu m p ph ysica l type.

Eagerly await y o u r re p ly . INC b o x 7541.

Seeks a f f e c t io n and love.

T w en ties p referred.

INC b o x 7501.

Dalliance A d ela id e. Male, 28, 5 ’ 8 ” , slightly inh ib ited , seeks m ature, gentle, con sid era te, u n com p lica ted fe­ m ale, interested m usic, art. All replies answered. INC b o x 7 55 8 .

Brisbane. Guy, early 20*, lonely, seeks active hung guy — relation­ ship? N o bars. — Heads yeah! INC b o x 7 50 8 .

M elbourne. Male graduate, 2 6, teacher, seeks fem ale, 2 0 -3 5 , w h o is fed up with insin cerity and wants t o share tota lly enriching, m ature relationship, m ind and b o d y . L et’ s get together. IN C b o x 7502.

Brisbane. Male, 23, like t o m eet fe m m e fo r friendship and rapport.

O K lo o k s and intellect. Idea to m ake life m ore en joya b le. Very hum an. INC b o x 7 5 4 6 ,

M e lb o u r n e -S y d n e y .

Bisexual m ale, 23, intelligent, sensitive, lo n e ly , wants a ffection a te , liberat­ ed fem ale, w h o is forw ard, even aggressive, fo r a loving, n on -role playing relation ship. INC b o x 7 5 1 0 .___________________________

Brisbane. Y o u n g m an with no exp erien ce o f w om en seeks kindly w om a n to teach him the ropes.

D iscretion desirable. INC b o x 7 53 9 .

M elb ou rn e-S y d n ey.

L on e ly bi gu y, 2 3, tall, slim , sin cere, a ffe c ­ tion a te, intelligent, seeks similar, 1 8-30, fo r a loving friend. INC b o x 7511.

Brisbane. Bi gu y, y o u n g and tall, interested m eeting guys, girls and

M elbourn e. L on g haired, 2 3 year old , C apricorn guy w h ose on ly interest in life is sex, d o p e , p o l­ itics, Mae West, W. C. Fields, Marx Bros., Santana, Y es, Dylan, Stones need* Ms t o share a b o v e .

INC b o x 7 512.

couples for fun. Must be friendly and discreet. INC b o x 7 5 4 0 .

Brisbane. C am p gu y, 18, in ex peri­ en ced , wants to b e c o m e involved in cam p scene b y m eeting guys active in any part o f the scene.

INC b o x 7 5 3 0 .

Brisbane-Surfers. Passive bi guy, 30s, visiting m id-february fo r three w eeks, w ou ld like to hear from b isexual heads, well hung, f o r fu n tim es and dalliance. All replies answ ered. INC b o x 7 53 2 .

V ictoria -C a m p erd ow n . Q uiet, sin­ cere cam p gu y, 2 6, w anting to m eet any sam e ty p e p erson, age t o 3 5-40. G enuine replies only please. INC b o x 7 5 3 4 .

G old C oast. Male, 32, interested in m eetin g others up t o sam e age.

L ocals o r visitors. F or easy going dalliance. INC b o x 7 49 7 .

S ydney.

A ttra ctive, healthy, q u iet, sensitive m ale, 3 0 , m arried, seeking m ore o u t o f life, w ou ld like t o dally with sim ilar fem ale, o cc a s io n a lly . D iscretion assured.

INC b o x 7 5 6 1 .

S y d n e y . G u y , 3 7 , seeks fem ale, 2 5 -4 5 , outings etc. A ll replies answ ered. $ 2 .0 0 re fu n d e d . INC b o x 7557.

S yd n e y -B a n k sto w n . Slim, y o u n g businessm an, 30, u n h a p py in m ar­ riage, w o u ld like t o m eet frustrat­ ed , attractive w om a n in sam e sit­ u a tio n ; day o r night m eetings.

INC b o x 7 5 5 6 .

M elbourne. Male, 4 0, separated, wishes the com p a n ion sh ip of warm , a ffection ate fem ale, 2 5 to 35, t o live in w ell a p p oin te d tw o b e d ro o m flat, B righton. INC b o x 7522.

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M elbourne. G u y, 2 4, slim , g o o d look in g , seeks sincere guy o r gal fo r love and friendship. Have car and flat. INC b o x 7 5 3 6 .

M elbourne. Q uiet, y o u n g gu y, 32, 5’ 6 ” , slim, seeks y ou n g guy fo r hon est, genuine, intim ate friend ­ ship. A ny nationality. Must be sincere. INC b o x 7 5 3 5 .

S y d n e y . C o n fu se d S y d n e y ite , 24, aspiring lunatic, p o te n tia lly warm and o p e n but erratic, b r o k e , seeks organ ic, all-round relationship with understanding girl o r w o ­ m an. P h o to m ight help rep ly. INC b o x 7515,

Newcastle. V ery lon ely cam p girl, 20, little exp erien ce, urgently wishes to m eet similar fem inine chick. Must b e h on est, resp ect­ able, gentle, loving. Interests: cars, squash, surf. G enuine ad.

P h oto. A bsolu te d iscretion assured and ex p ected . INC b o x 7 5 2 9 .

M elbourn e.

Intelligent, warm d iv o rce e , 3 0, seeks em otion a lly un attached , stable m an w h o is n ot afraid to d ev e lo p d eep , lon g term relation ship. IN C b o x 7 55 9 .

M elbourn e. G irls !! Missed o u t on grou p in g y o u r favorite p o p star?

C o n ta ct INC b o x 7 5 3 3 .

S y d n e y . C onservative, straight lo o k in g graduate, 30s, interested in o u td o o r s , m usic, travel, seeks well hung, y o u n g e r guy with o w n p lace fo r friendship etc. P h oto and in fo rm a tiv e reply appreciat­ ed . INC b o x 7 4 9 9 .

Melbourne. Young, single Indian

S outh Australia. Surfer, 20s, b i­ sexual, g o o d look in g , h ed on istic, seeks similar intelligent, creative head to share fast, free, physical life style, travel. INC b o x 7 56 0 .

d o c t o r o n fix e d sa la ry /a ccom ­ m o d a t i o n , seeks unattached teach er/stu d en t fem ale t o live w ith.

Marriage if com p a tib le.

S yd n ey . A re y o u a fem m e , any age, seeking stim ulating m ale com p a n ion sh ip , un in hibited love-

S y d n e y . Male, 2 4, slim, wants sam e o f sim ilar age f o r relation­ ship and g o o d tim es. G enuine d iscre tio n assured. INC b o x 7 52 0 .

S y d n e y . G u y , 2 3 , seeks friendship w ith o th e r y o u n g guys w h o are slim , and w h ose interests include film s. INC b o x 7 5 2 3 .

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P hon e co n ta c t O K . INC b o x 7537.

S y d n e y . C am p g u y , 2 3, wants c o n ta ct in D u b b o in late fe b ru a ry ; short s to p o n ly . D a llia n ce, w h at­ ever. L ater visits e x p e c te d also, INC b o x 7 5 3 1 .

Tasm ania. C ou p le in 3 0s wish to

find another couple to share dalli­ ance by watching each other. N o sw appin g. INC box 7 5 5 0 .

Doings Sydney.

H o m o s e x u a ls and straights c o m e to g e th e r to discuss o u r sexist s o c ie ty . Q u ak er M eet­ ing H ouse — 119 D evonshire street, Surry H ills. F rid a y, fe b ­ ruary 1 at 8 .0 0 p m fo rm regular group .

In fo rm a tio n ?

— Mike 4 4 9 .4 5 4 0 o r Peter 7 8 .3 4 6 5 .

G o r d o n Meggs seeks a c c o m m o d a ­ tio n V icto ria f o r o cca s io n a l w eek­ end e n c o u n te r group s. Sleeping and catering 14, plus ro o m fo r grou p sessions. Q u ie t lo ra le . Call (S y d n e y ) 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 o r write PO. B ox 2 2 9 , C o o g e e , NSW. 2 0 3 4 .

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E xistentialist S o cie ty : fo r those interested in the ideas o f Sartre, Cam us, N ietzsch e, D o s to y e v s k y , K afka, Laing, eg. Inquiries, David M iller, M elb ou rn e. 7 5 8 .5 7 9 4 .

Q u iet grou p o f ca m p w o m e n o f ­ fers friendship to lo n e ly o r isola­ ted w o m e n , o r th ose w h o m ay n o t fe e l c o n fid e n t en o u g h to c o n ­ tact existin g gay organisations.

M elbourn e. INC B ox 7 5 2 4 .

All States. G u y , 2 5, wants ad ven­ turou s y o u n g bi o r ca m p m ale to a cco m p a n y him to his river in S outh A m erica f o r d iam ond s. It’s

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Dalliance: Dealings: Deaths: Deliveries: Departures: D eploym ent: Dialectics; Dialling; Distress; Doings; D o p e; D u ets; Dwellings.

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Dwellings A delaide. 3 y o u n g professionals require 3 b e d ro o m e d house in inner eastern suburbs o r city.

Leave m essage fo r Kim D alton on 4 2 .4 9 7 3 .

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O ffers o f help to PO B ox 15, M acquarie, A C T .

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As a factual text, it is dull oversimple and tw o years out o f date.

It attempts to cover just about everything, and as a result gives little insight into anything. There are some glaring omissionsCocaine, for example, is barely mentioned. Despite their claims to objectivity, the authors indicate that they are completely out o f sympathy with the reasons given by users o f drugs such as cannabis and the psychedelics.

This does not mean that the authors necessarily oppose legal­ isation o f cannabis. This, as they point out, is a matter o f choice by the people in a democratic so­ ciety. They argue that anti drug legislation has usually been initiat­ ed by small pressure groups, with the assent o f people who made no attempt to probe the real issues, but were prepared to vote in laws, which, seemingly concerned only an unimportant minority. The situation has changed in many

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The average concerned citizen, to whom this b ook is obviously directed, will find little basis for getting excited about marijuana law reform, however, on the basis o f reading these pages.

The profile o f the marijuana user which emerges is the tradi­ tional one o f the mal-adjusted individual who is attempting to escape from the pressures o f so­ ciety, and who is liable to be using a number o f other drugs. They make a token concession that there may be good reason to escape from modern society, but ignore com pletely the question o f why the dramatic increase in the incidence o f marijuana usage in western society during the past decade.

The title is somewhat tjeceptive, since one would suggest some discussion o f the rights o f indi­ viduals to dope themselves out if this is what they want. Instead, the authors assume that the gov­ ernment has a duty to protect people from themselves, even when they dont want to be pro­ tected.

It is innocuous and uninterest­ ing reading, and if further p ro o f is required, it has a personal com m ­ endation from Don Chipp on the back.

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JEAN BUCKLEY DEEP TH ROAT: “ Inside Linda Lovelace” .

IT ’S HARD not to discuss Linda Lovelace’ s b o o k o f “ revelations” (that b o o k where she finally “ de­ livers the goodies without the bullshit” ) without reverting to cliches like fascinating; repulsive; and ego tripping.

The b o o k itself presents many doublebinds fo r the feminist re­ viewer — after all, why bother reading such sexist crap at all?

Presumably in the hope o f finding some documentation and attitudinal contribution that will tell you something you didnt know before.

It’s in this b o o k that Linda Lovelace decides to “ tell every­ thing” - or whatever it is that she’s been into in the past few years: her views on the American movie porn industry scene and the porn market in general. However, her insignts are less perceptive o f the sexploitation market than they are concerned to ascertain how the potential o f that market can be exploited for further per­ sonal gain (hers, o f course).

Her concern seems not so much to degrace her sex as to make use o f it. "S ex is sex, and let it go at that” , she quips. A t the same time, she insinuates that the day will com e (soon ) when she and “ a well known movie star” will make the ultimate porn movie to be called D eep Tango. The insinuation is no less subtie (as the “ well known movie star” is so obviously Marlon Brando) than her concern fo r persokal self ag­ grandisement throughtout her book, her film, and her life.

Lovelace talks endlessly about her personal assets and her sen­ suality, and how she uses those qualities to maximum personal gain.

Her views on cock sucking are unorthodox. The traditional view is that cock sucking is an exercise in female degradation, but Linda delights in giving guys the deep throat treatment. For her, it means giving guys the once over, because they seem to get “ addict­ ed” to this form o f "therapy” and thus are bound to her whims.

Next in the b o o k is the story o f the making o f her first big time porno flic: D eep throat was porno flic: D eep throat. Her share in the renewal o f the contract she signed to make D eep throat, was $25,000. However, following the success o f the first version, Linda thought she should get more $250,000 more. Although there was no way out o f the original contract and the option for re­

newal, Linda still decided to press ahead with her higher demands.

She knew that without her c o ­ operation, the producers could say good b ye to the success o f the second version. Without her un­ inhibited operations, the remake o f D eep throat would be an un­ mitigated flop. Linda won on the deal and got her $250,000.

For those who arent really interested in movie making and the porn industry, Linda includes a section on b od y building exer­ cises — how to develop your breasts and vagina (geisha and karate style), how to save your cunt from going to wrack and ruin, how to prevent stretch marks and how to suck a cock without choking yourself on sperm and without incurring dam­ age to the vocal cords, should your decide to get into deep throat too.

She does, momentarily, con­ sider the role o f womens lib. Her only comm ent/advice here is that wom ens lib “ ladies” should al­ ways remember that “ Tarzan is Tarzan — and Jane is Jane” What­ ever that means . . .

On the personal and sexual politics level, it could be argued that Inside Linda Lovelace is an abysmal failure and a ripoff. But on the level o f the politics o f relationships, Lovelace is occa­ sionally (and unusually) acute.

She says she doesnt dig women who say they can “ no longer relate to men” . She can, does — and wants to: more and more. Her rationale for digging the sexploita­ tion scene is that she likes upstag­ ing guys and does so with com m it­ ment. Her defence is that she doesnt dig the underdog female role and, furthermore, that she is not going to drop out for the cause o f “ feminism” .

There is a slight contradiction here: Lovelace claims to be in­ dependent in playing (and win­ ning) the game their (men’s) way.

Yet, presumably, if it werent for her parasitical leeching o f those guys and her exploitation o f them, the whole structure o f her inde­ pendence would collapse. Capital­ ism and the sex market is one thing - capitalism o f the em o­ tions is another altogether.

One constantly feels inclined to query Lovelace’ s so called inde­ pendence. Her unabashed answer is that she will continue to d o what she’s doing for as long as she can get away with it. Be that as it may, one does admire Lovelace's style in her manipulation o f the business side o f the movie sex­ ploitation scene. Not for her the suicide and the self enforced lone­ ly retirement that has been the lot

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Curiously enough, in the final section o f the book , in which Linda gives a tantalising list o f things to try out, one finds it a bit hard to accept her recommenda­ tions on face value without apply­ ing reality criteria. I say curious because when you hit descriptions like “ and both their cocks entered me simultaneously” , those sugges­ tions are either taken on face value or not taken seriously at all.

The onus o f p ro o f rests on Linda’s exposition which is largely inde­ pendent.

Another example: stuffing fruit up on e’s cunt was tradi­ tionally regarded as a source o f pleasure, but when Lovelace de­ scribes exercises enabling the b od y to absorb a one and a half fo o t long cock, 8” in circum ­ ference, what kind o f male bod y is she referring to?

The b o o k is similarly lacking in definitions and researched sugges­ tion. Lovelace’s descriptions are invariably placed in quaint con ­ texts with no information value: “ While watching TV . . . I can bring myself to 50 orgasms or m ore.” One could facetiously ask why she bothers to turn her TV on at all.

Her recommendations are al­ ways full o f contradictions. For example, in one breath she will extol the virtues o f vibrators and in the same breath, she will con ­ demn them on the grounds that mechanically induced orgasm is so compulsive (once the habit is ac­ quired), that no man or form o f manual dexterity is sufficient thereafter.

The final section o f the b ook is taken up with Lovelace’s amateur counselling service. These are thoroughly elitist and she goes in for a lot o f empty forms o f address, such as “ m y fellow w o­ men” . Y ou share her sense o f fatigue as you go through the limp pages o f “ Linda’s sex manual for tired lovers” , which is trite, slick, smooth and condescending. Her assumption is that Linda is the only person ever to get into sex experimentation. So we get en­ lightened and inspiring revelations like: “ Something else I highly recommend is a waterbed” . She’ s obviously geared herself strictly to middle class gadgetry.

Ultimately, I suppose, Linda’s claim to fame through her b ook rests on her reputation as being the female answer to Henry Miller - 40 years later. The b ook is saturated with purple passages like “ (while I) caress that gorgeous throbbing muscle with hands and cheek as though it has a soul o f its ow n” . All in all, an out and out glorification o f the male part in the politics o f sexploitation.

Lovelace herself sees her con ­ tribution differently: “ My biggest hope is that D eep throat has made a contribution towards changing the movie industry. I want to see the day when sex will be an accepted thing and violence will be outlawed.” It all seems so facile and simplistic - especially when Lovelace asks rhetorically: “ Why is the United States the only place (in the world) where violence seems to be favored over sex?” Perhaps no one has pointed out to Linda that there is a freak exploitation and movie industry that places as high a premium on violence as she does on sex.

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Dunstan disappoints G R A E M E D U N S T A N o n the flo o d s ( T L D , 2 /2 ) is very disappointing. Tak­ ing fiv e paragraphs to establish that the m edia interpret ou r w orld w ith very interesting signs and sym bols, he ven­ tures fo rth t o let the elem ents im pinge u p o n his reality. Im pinge they d o, but he can ’ t help lam enting that the other p eop le d o n t really seem to be making the best o f their im pingem ents.

It seem s that the unappreciative clod s d o n t k n o w the value o f this w on d e rfu l and, d o n o t let us forget, natural event, the flo o d . N ew relation­ ships co u ld have em erged fro m chance groupings, n ew co m m u n ity values cre­ ated fro m c o m m o n struggle — bu t no, the d elayed travellers w ere stupid enough to w ant t o keep travelling, the civil d e fe n ce volun teers did n o t insist u p o n laurels all roun d or even a simple tea and biscu it c e re m o n y fo r the tow n.

He d o e sn t seem t o realise that p e o ­ ple d o n t dw ell u p o n o r celebrate the “ jo y and m eaning” o f big events until they are past, until the “ m undane” jo b at hand has been d on e. There w ere no R SL sp eeches o n m ateship w h ile the fighting was g oin g on . O f course, the “ d oin g ” o f th e flo o d fo r Graem e was the observing and the writing, rather than sandbag filling o r even fen ce walking w ith the kids, and he hasnt yet been aroun d fo r the yarras and “ m yth-m aking” (to use the favored anthropolese) that w ill fo llo w .

T he im perturable T V w atchers o f W ee Waa are quite co n fid e n t that they w ill b e “ incorporating this dram atic change in their en viron m en t” into their daily lives as a special event — mainly through w eeks o f hard labor and h o r­ rible living as th e water goes away.

A n d please d o n t le t’s talk ab ou t those dead sheep, or even the indivi­ dually struggling grazier o r shearer’ s c o o k o r semi driver. T here is n o social lesson t o be learnt here. Graem e re­ bu k es the te en y b op p ers o f G unnedah, saying, “ N either the reality o f the f lo o d n or the saving had im pinged in their w o r ld ,” y et he seems o n ly to have been struck b y those things useful as exam ples in his social analysis.

But a fe w asides co n v in ce me that I m ust take the g o o d w ith the g o o d — a closed road is a safe road, the yankee labor ex ploiters have g o t m ud up to and in their eyes, and fo r all y o u heads o u t there in new spaperland, the m ush­ r o o m s w ill be o n this season!

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WILL TETLEY URTHER to my L etter from Nimbin in TLD 1/7 here is more inform ation about the Tuntable scene. We, Coordina­ tion C oop, moved on to the Tun­ table Falls property about a month ago taking possession o f tw o thirds o f the 1000 acre prop­ erty, the remaining one third to com e under our possession on payment o f the total purchase price.

Since moving on to the land work has gone ahead at an encour­ aging rate. Extensive gardens are being farmed after some kind c o ­ operation from one o f the local farmers who spent a couple o f days ploughing up the kikuyu grass with a tractor drawn rotary hoe. Now, crops o f corn, beans, and a whole manner o f other veges are springing up helped by the heavy rains o f the early wet sea­ son.

A pipeline has been construct­ ed bringing fresh spring water to the dwellings and gardens (not that irrigation is a problem at the moment but will be in the dry

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fied and p igeon ed-h oled w ith the m any m o d e m day w ays o f o ccu p y in g “ o n e ’ s tim e” (Ian M cCausland — C hron icles o f w asted tim e, jan 15, 19 74).

Is it that the adherents o f the D L M are th e o n ly on es game enough t o put their norm al everyday existence on the line b y asking them selves the qu estion . . . W ho am I? W hat am I d oin g here:

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D o n t new spaper p eop le ever d irect these qu estion s to them selves? Is it that th ey d o n t dare d o it? C ould it be th ey fear losing the intellectu al secur­ ity a new spaper offers?

Is this w h y the DLM is never investi­ gated t o th e ex ten t o f a m em ber o f the “ o b je ctiv e ” press actually taking the k n o w led g e? S urely i f the k n ow led g e is the cru x o f th e Divine L ight M ission, it sh ould b e the p o in t o f investigation . . . and nothin g else.

W aiting to hear fro m a m em ber o f

season).

A large communal kitchen is almost com pleted as an extension o f the “ white-house” which also houses the library, co o p office, trucking o ffice (the co o p now has 2 trucks at its disposal), sick-bay and general assembly point for meetings. It also provides sleeping accom m odation fo r a few perma­ nent residents.

Work continues on various structures fo r personal accom m o­ dation and a dom e and A-frame for communal use. A large corral is being built for com m unity horses (4 at present) and their breaking and schooling.

A fter the closure o f the fo o d c o o p in the Tom ato Sauce Fac­ tory in tow n a fo o d c o o p has been set up on the property providing bulk food s at wholesale prices for c o o p members and other com ­ munities around the area.

Despite the onset o f the wet season (is it here or isnt it?) work is still pressing ahead on preparing the place for an anticipated influx o f people at the beginning o f the dry.

While Tuntable Falls welcomes

ily w h en he k n ow s that there is a group that in his o w n w o r d s is taking “ steps tow ards rectify in g this barbaric inquisi­ tion al attitude o f the state and m edical profession to m ental im balan ce” .

This group is called the “ C itizens C om m ission o n Hum an Rights Psychi­ atric V io la tion s” . T he com m ission is very aware o f the im porta n ce o f clean­ ing up such barbaric treatm ents as E.C .T., brain op eration s and abuses o f hum an rights in this area generally.

If JI really w ants to see changes occu r in th e m ental health “ industry” , his help and active support will b e m ost w elcom e.

Our aims are to com p ile a record o f psychiatric abuses, publish them and present to governm ents reform s needed in Australian M ental Health A cts. S o far, w e have also been instrum ental in achieving the release o f som e m ental patients in Perth and A delaide w h o had b een w ron g ly com m itted to m ental hospitals.

C om m issions exist in Perth (3 7 Cleaver st,) S ydn ey (1 Lee st,) M el­ bou rn e (7 2 4 Inkerm an st, C aulfield) and A delaide (28 R estorm al ave, Fullarton).

W. K oster, secreta ry, Citizens' C om m ission on Human Rights, Fullarton, SA

Jigsaw Jigsaw the “ o b je c tiv e ” k n ow ledge.

press after receiving P E TE R F O R T , S yd n ey, NSW

Name please Dear Daylights, C ould s o m e b o d y please tell m e the nam e o f th e man o n the cover o f last w e e k ’ s (2 /2 ) D ayligh ts? I recognise him , I k n o w him, bu t I just can’ t think o f his nam e. I h o p e som eon e can help me.

G R A H A M PITT, B o x Hill, V ic

Fighting the shrinks Dear Daylights, Y ou r corresp on d en t JI o f Cam ber­ w ell, V ic ( T L D , 2 /2 ), can rest m ore eas-

energetic, lively people with a genuine interest in our project, people who are prepared to join in our various activities and help us reach our aims, we do not want our valley to becom e a halfway house, crash pad for transients in search o f a hippy paradise.

Come and visit by all means but be prepared to join in and work. Better still, com e in and join the co o p and build yourself a permanent, more meaningful and satisfying life style.

Best wishes to all from Tun­ table Falls. May 1974 bring a better world for all o f us.

Coordination C oop Ltd, Nimbin, NSW Thanks Will Tetley for the con­ tinuing birth notes on the com­ mune at Tuntable Falls. We are interested in chronicling the growth o f the IMimbin experiment, so if there's any spare photos of the first formative structures, lyrical groves, the pioneers etc, send them along . . with some helpful notes. Good luck to farm freaks everywhere from us city pollution suckers — EDS.

PA G E 25 o f TLD 2 /1 is as far as I can understand a jigsaw. W hat’ s a “ p ost­ ob je ct c o n c e p tio n ” ?

A SELENITSCH, Haw thorn, V ic

Potts Point Politics I R E A D Miss B a con ’s view s o n the eviction o f the V ictoria street squat­ ters. Perhaps y o u w ou ld like t o k n o w they were hated by the real residents o f Potts Point — the p eo p le w h o pay their way. T h ey are disliked even m ore than the W ayside chapel m o b and that is saying som ething.

R O N LEE, P o tts P oint, NSW

P ig g y

Gumboot “ R IG H T O N to the new w om en but, fo r the sake o f Christ and hum anity, be sure to eradicate those ‘bristles lik e lavatory brushes’ if y ou r legs happen to have them .” S o advises Harry Gum b o o t ’ s A B C o f anarchy etc {T L D , 1/ 10).

W here are y o u — with us o r against us, y o u anarchists? Y o u talk a great deal a b ou t Truth. H ere is a Truth fo r y o u , with o u r blessings: Each human is unique. In a physical sense, fo r an individual to feel at h om e in his b o d y he must be able to accept his b o d y ’s uniqueness. T o alter o n e ’ s b o d y to please others is n o t in a cco rd ­ ance w ith this Truth.

Hairs on legs c o m e naturally to w om en, as th ey d o to m en: thick-thin, bristly-fine, dark-fair. If w e c o m ­ prom ise and keep ou r legs sm ooth in accord an ce with som e anarchist’ s image o f desirability — w h y stop there?

W hy n ot pad ded bras, plastic surgery, painted “ im provem en ts” to facial fea­ tures, th e lot.

Laugh a\ bristles if y o u like — com plain abjout them if y o u must. B ut telling us to "era d ica te” them is as g o o d as eradicating our o w n individual­ ity and liberty.

Love from , JILL & JENNY, V ictoria Park, WA O K , y o u w in . B u t h o w w o u ld y o u lik e a p a ir o f cheesegraters w ra p p e d a ro u n d y o u r back? H .G .

King critic I W O U LD like to com m en d R o b King on his article about the current m usic scene (TLD , 2 /1 ) and w ou ld like to hereby con fer on him the title o f L ord

High M usic Critic o f the Y ear fo r his e ffo r t in being h on est ab ou t the n o ­ where d irection of current c o n ­ tem porary m usic.

I agree alm ost totally w ith w hat he says, especially ab ou t the local n on ­ effo rts and the d isprop ortion a te m ini­ superstar aura surrounding them. L oca l m aterial is certainly n o t g o o d just by its particular nature o f being local.

T he o n ly thing I w o u ld add, h o w ­ ever, is that I think he still missed the on e gross failing that lo ca l m usic has in com p arison to overseas material, it’ s on e sad, inherent constraint — ie. singers o f any real com p arab le quality.

V ery fe w to p groups overseas m ake it w ith ou t individual-sounding lead singers, and the Australian e ffo r t to o v e r co m e this d e ficie n cy , in term s o f carefully engineered v ocal p rod u ction (and n o t just a group o f backgroun d girl singers a la Brian C add), is pitiful.

A s a bu dding son gw riter(!) w h o has subm itted tapes, I k n o w fo r a fa ct that p rod u cers d o n o t sh ow any sort o f acute interest in m ore carefully arrang­ ed harm ony, and fro m their ivory self-inflated tow ers fo b y o u o f f w ith a “ keep trying, kid, b u t d o n t call m e — I’ll call y o u ” . So, let m e just say that it ’s nice t o see so m eon e d o a crit w h o is n ot lost in the fake eup horia o f the m axim that “ just becau se it’ s p o p m eans it m ust b e c o o l, m an” . L et’ s fa ce it, the 60s was the era, and S F A ’ s been d o n e since.

the p oin t o f d om in ation .

It should b e em phasised that this guilt, w h en it occu rs, is real, and that w o m e n are o fte n in d ifficu lties a v oid ­ ing being m ore aggressive than males.

Firstly, their upbringing is in this d irec­ tion, w h en m ost m iddle class husbands are incapable o r fo r c e d o u t o f dealing w ith their children o n a very personal level, so that the m oth er fills b o th maternal and paternal roles, providing the pattern fo r her daughters.

S e co n d ly , freak males, w h o are m ostly the p rod u cts o f such upbring­ ing, tend t o eschew the aggressiveness th ey think o f as an “ O ck er” character­ istic, and along w ith it such things as decisiveness and playing gam es involv­ ing personal in teraction w ith elem ents o f co m p e titio n . T hese males w ill o ft e n n o t m ove unless pushed and so are o fte n pushed aroun d b y w om en .

T hirdly, the “ O ck ers” that w o m e n ’ s libbers are so paranoid o f are also m ostly the p rod u cts o f such upbring­ ing, and so have little e m otion a l strength, bu t partly as a result o f their “ beery m ates” social setting th ey can­ n o t adm it that, and have n o w ay to keep a tenuous h old o n their self­ esteem oth er than to p lay act at being the “ he-m an” b y acting aggressively.

T o deal w ith these m en, w o m e n can o n ly play at being submissive, or if the need is great o r the w ay clear, react

w ith equ al o r greater aggression — w ith greater ease, bu t w ith a g o o d d eal o f guilt.

T h e solu tion to this u n happ y situa­ tion is n o t th e p sy ch oa n a ly st’ s panacea o f rem oving the guilt (ie. th e guilt that w o m e n feel; m en m ostly fe e l inade­ qu ate) and perm itting w o m e n to ter­ rorise m ales ad lib, bu t t o p ay som e clo se a tten tion t o w h y males are so short o n em o tio n a l strength.

A partial solu tion is in the alm ost u n h ea rd -of area o f the m ale child (n o tic e h o w friend ly and c o n fid e n t y ou n g girls are com p a red w ith you n g b o y s ? ). Ladies, please, b e dam n careful n ot t o shut o f f y o u r m an fr o m the em otion a l life o f y o u r children — if y o u love them , d on t turn th em in to w eaklings or m ale chauvinists (w h o are bu t w eaklings underneath). A n d d o n t dem and it o f y o u r man o r y o u ’ ll just bugger it up, en cou ra ge him and b o o s t his con fid en ce.

NE IL R OBIN SON , Prahran, V ic

Musical tastes Dear Daylights, S o K eith S hadw ick (T L D 2 /2 ) has jo in e d A lbie T h o m s ( TL D 1 /9 ) fo r the great m usic debate, o r w h ich SOU N DS are really w h ere it ’s at? A lb ie digs David A hern, w h ich is kind o f a pity,

bu t A lb ie ’ s alw ays b een a b it slow as a bullshit d e te cto r. D avid’ s g o t a cute m usical version o f som e silly ideas a b ou t theatre that som e F ren ch aca­ d em ics g o t carried aw ay w ith w ay ba ck then — K eith put him d o w n pretty w ell an yw ay, so w h y should I b oth er?

K eith ’ s in to m od ern jazz, the avant garde b it ( “ avant g a rd e ?” th a t’s an O ld e W orld e title, K eith) w h ich has a little m ore going f o r it than A lb ie ’ s unC aged stu ff. K eith d rop s a lo t o f names, p oin ts o u t that R o c k has 20 years o f h istory (w h ich he thinks m akes it o u t o f date, though I can ’ t see h o w ; “ avant garde” jazz goes ba ck a fair w ay t o o , and b o th o f them have changed a lo t) and actually gives a little argum ent. Here it is: “ the c o m p le x ity o f the m usic, the diversity o f its expression , th e starkness o f its presen­ tation is u n m a tch ed b y any other con tem p ora ry m u sic” .

N o w I th in k w e can argue a b ou t the c o m p le x ity ; w e can certain ly argue a b ou t th e diversity (h o w diverse is R o c k ? ) . But as an esth etic th e o ry , this is p retty rudim en tary. L et’s b e a little less illiterate. (W hich is a nasty w o rd , b u t K eith used it first.)

Great art w h ich d oes n o t take full advantage o f the te c h n o lo g y available t o it is rare. Great art w h ich is n ot closely related to a con tem p ora ry or recen tly past fu n ction a l fo r m (in the case o f m usic, o fte n religious o r dance)

is rare. Great art w h ich is part o f a genre w h ich is n o t p opu lar in its o w n time o r the im m ediate future is rare.

(N otice that I didnt say that everything w h ich is p opular is great art, n o r even that all great art is p opu lar in its tim e; bu t that all great w ork s are o f kinds w hich are popu lar.)

T he o n ly kind o f m usic w h ich m eets these criteria tod a y is R o c k ; thus it is the place w h ere the m ajor m usical achievem ents o f o u r tim e m ay m ost reason ably be ex p e cte d . A ll this is historical, and n o t d epen den t on taste.

Tastes d iffer; O rnette C olem an and Eric D o lp h y are t o o cerebral fo r m y taste these days: clever m usic, bu t n ot enough gutfelt passion. Sure get in to it, if y o u dig it. S om e p eo p le d o (I saw C oltrane’s name in the straight press several tim es last year, K eith — w h ere’ve y o u been ?). But b e fo re y o u rush in to print a b o u t A rt (w ith a capital A ), try and get a perspective o n where we are. A n d rem em ber that som e stu ff w h ich sold t o th e masses o f its tim e bu t shat the academ ics has been recogn ised; and som e stu ff that the masses and the acad em ics b oth loved has fared likew ise; b u t I fin d it very hard to think o f a great w o rk in any m edium w h ich the acad em ics and hardly a n y b o d y else in its o w n day appreciated.

JIM M A C K E N Z IE , K ingsford, N SW

Yeah - teachin em White Civil­ isation. Big reflective pause. “ How did you d o that?” I was drivin a jeep round for a captain. Had a good time over there. “ They tell me it’s a beautiful cou ntry?”

Yeah. What, are you doing in Mareeba? Thinks — “ Maybe I’ ll pick up some o f that "civil-isation” . White variety. Smiles.

White. All bright alright. White­ wash God - The yellow devils were checkmated out o f the God ownership race in 1945. A is for atom. A King; Queen, R ook. Have you seen the Spook? that took a look at War and Saw the Civilised Man? If you see him send him home.

Dont let him roam forever.

A L IS T E R WEBB, Oakleigh, V ic

Tales from the road I P A R T IC U L A R L Y e n jo y e d Phil O ’C arroll’ s article on hitchhiking (TLD, 2 /1 ) and w o u ld like to add a few com m en ts o n m y ow n .

I have fo u n d that there is n o par­ ticular social group w h o sh ow a tend e ce n cy to give lifts. F or ex am ple, I th ou gh t that surfer typ es m ight tend to give m ore lifts, bu t, n o , I’ m just as likely to get lifts fro m plum bers or salesmen. T here is, h ow ever, o n e g roup w h o never gives lifts (in O ’ Carroll's terms, th e y are c o m p le te ly unw illing to relate to strangers) — the married cou p le w ith a caravan.

A b o u t 80 p ercen t o f m y lifts have been b y so lo males. O n ce tw o girls picked m e up because I had long hair.

T h ey figured short haired guys w ere m ore likely to get lifts fro m straights and th ey w ere trying to even the scale.

Assum ing I fa ce the o n com in g traf­ fic travelling in th e d irection I am headed: I have fo u n d that the drivers o f o n c o m in g cars w h o I am facing and d irectly encou nterin g, tend t o avoid relating and stare straight ahead, bu t the drivers in the o p p o site direction, to w h om m y b a ck is turned, react to m e (th ey call o u t o r relate in som e w ay) ab ou t fo u r tim es m ore than those in the o n co m in g cars. I assume this hap­ pens becau se I am n o t con fron tin g them fa ce o n , and d o n o t appear so threatening.

O n the negative side (fo r m e), I generally feel com p etitiv e w ith fe llo w hitchhikers in the same d irection , y et I have had som e w o n d e rfu l encounters w ith th ose travelling in the o p p osite direction. O n the positive side, I tend to relate m o re absolutely, and an ac­ know ledgem ent, a wave, a gesture or som e w o r d can have c o sm ic signif­ icance.

M y w orst ex perien ces hitching were at Canberra, becau se ev eryon e preten d ­ ed I was n o t there, and at N ew castle late at night, becau se ev eryon e assum­ ed that a slim, lon g haired figure, was a loose w o m a n and an easy fu ck ; bu t even there, feeling really threatened and desperate, a really n ice guy picked me up and turned m e o n .

W IL L Y YOU N G, Brisbane, Qld

Bringing up father I W ISH to c o m m e n d H arry G u m b o o t as the m ost consistent sign o f health in y o u r coverage o f “ alternative culture” .

His tell-it-like-it-is rationale has so far been very accurate in aim at som e o f those things w h ich “ freak id e o lo g y ” d o e s n ot admit.

H G ’s m ention o f “ pred atory w o ­ m en” accord s w ith m y im pression that a lot o f w o m e n s lib “ raves” sh ow both the ex ten t to w h ich w o m e n s libbers are m ore aggressive than the freak males (or h om osexuals) w h o they prefer to deal w ith, and that the purpose o f the raves is, as m uch as anything, to obtain a b solu tion fro m the guilt these ladies still experien ce at being aggressive to

A Happy Medium SPIRO MATAMARUS R A TA TA! Ra ta ta ta! Get your tickets for the grand final - Tully versus the Mighty Men from Mt Isa - at the Showgrounds Satur­ day. Y ou ’ve got to see it to believe it. Dont miss the match o f the year. Blah, blah, blah.

Ra ta ta ta ra ta ta . . . B ank!!

Commonwealth!! T op 40 Superstar, dont miss the Superstar pro­ gram at 4 pm every afternoon, sponsored by the Commonwealth bank - “ It’s the biggest!!.

Rip. Top. Rip o f f a top today.

NQ lager in the rip top stubbies, what better way to enjoy a long co o l drink after a hard days work?? Brewed for the N orth’s Big Thirst.

Summertime radio . . . Coming on strong 1040 on your dial.

Zit zap zit zap tic tic tele tele shuffle file, index, record. M otor impulse — reactions from subtle influence on brain. Reach out; touch. Feel. A long co o l stubby.

Bank what’s left o f your m oney after you buy your ticket to the big game. Ra ra ra up civilisation!!

What are ya reading all that old stuff for? What g o o d ’s all that Egyptian bullshit gonna do ya kids? What we got here is where it’s at Progress! We’ve com e a long way past them pyramids. TV, man on the m oon, electricity, cars - wow, boy, what’s the good o f living in the past?? Phew! Y ou sure have some weird interests.

Hitching a ride to Mareeba; one hour, tw o hours; short hair, cut at xmas, squatters shirt, clean, cool, able-to-be-respected. Hop in. Big grin. “ Thanks.” Dont pick up hippies but you look OK. “ Thanks.” Raves. Meanders. Sur­ face in Japan 1946. Year I was born.

Another Enoch Poweil P olice in vestigatin g * com ­ p l a i n t tiia» a c d r K s r i i- e^ n o u t s i d e o i ’f l e e s o f the j ! r?»*o 1d W ilson O rg a n iz a tio n , o n in s u r­ ance com pany, in V /ov eriey S t r e e t , i \ o t r i o g h a m , f o u n d t h a t it was owned ha Mr Enoch P o w e il, a J a m a ica n , w h o h a d left it t h e r e a f t e r it h a d b r o k e n d o w n . ,

“ What were you doing over there?” "P olice action? Just h old ­ ing things together?”

Na - we were in Hiroshima.

Terrible to see. All sorts o f d if­ ferent flowers and plants sprout­ ed. Never been seen before. Flat­ tened the place. We were teaching the japs civilisation. “ O h?”

The Best Harmonica Player in the world ERIC BEACH

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T W A S an unhigh Christmas, I bou g h t an un derw eight o u n c e per $ 4 0 becau se there was a drou ght on , and three o f us sat o n the fr o n t p orch and $ 2 5 later w e settled o n a w h ite Ibis w h ile the river revved up its w ater beds n o t quite breaking the banks at M on te C arlo. We passed and also the days. T h e night b e fo re new year’ s eve I sat alon e o n the fron t p orch o f a d o u b t as though there was a war on , debating reality, bu zzed by huge m o sq u itoes left over fr o m D u n­ kirk, w h ile the locals set up a barb wire ring fo r a b ox in g m atch and the sec­ on d s fla pp ed w h ite tow els in free association , I hit the road fo r S ydn ey around m idnight. T he first man w h o picked m e up talked w istfu lly o f drag queens he had kn ow n , tugging w istfu l­ ly at w h ite socks w h ile his w istfu l w h ite knees k n ob b led w istfu lly behind his ears, w h ich ch ew ed at the distance betw een us; I sat there fo r 4 0 m iles afraid to sw allow .

T he secon d man to give m e a ride said he was a V ietn am veteran then op en ed up o n m e, w h en y o u turn over a m an w h o ’s b een hit b y a dum dum bu llet o r a clich e there’ s a h o le big enou gh to put y o u r fist in to, w e talked a b ou t P ow er W ithou t G lory and A B unch o f Ratbags and brothers w h o w ere c o p s and robbers, while a silent m ora toriu m 2 0 0 m iles long m arched betw een us.

T h e third man said h e’d d rop o u t t o o o n ly h e ’d b een living p o o r as a student (I m en tion ed tw o shearers I’ d m et w h o w en t to university in the off-sea son ) and he still hadnt resolved this m o n e y p rob lem and he loan ed m e $5 as I g ot o u t o f the car.

I w alked in the d o o r and she said “ Have I m et y o u in a p sy ch hospital and have y o u g o t an y d o p e ” and w e sang silly songs and I said m aybe N im bin, m ay be n o and s t o o d around in

pubs w ith junkies singing arm y songs w ith m y hands in m y ears up to the elb ow s wishing s o m e b o d y w o u ld tou ch me. A sch ooltea ch er k ep t introdu cin g m e as a w andering p o e t and taking m e to parties during the com m ercia l breaks saying he liked m y p rose better w hile I shrugged as gracious as m alice and p eo p le k ep t m e stoned fo r the sake o f m y p orcelain eyes and I ro b b e d a thief o f his tim e and a sch ooltea ch er kept in trodu cin g m e as a wandering part and I th ou gh t o f cutting o f f all m y hair o n ly I had n o Delilah.

I was writing a p o e m w h ich was com in g d o w n on to p o f m e w h ile the Philistines laughed all around. L ittle girl fr o m up north w ith y o u r piss-pot b o y fr ie n d rem em bering m e always a little m ad and the o n e I o n c e lived w ith always w e m eet to d en y coin cid e n ce w ith new s that described m e as fu nn y,

fu n n y I cou ld n t ha ha h a ck it n o t being m ad fo r y o u but the w orld right then and I w ou ld n t m ind the ap ocaly p se if som eon e hadnt slow ed it d ow n .

These p eop le they never asked m e for nothin g and I accep ted everything and refused everything. I used t o have a friend fou r years forever o ld w h o used to sh out everyw here “ y gits nuffin fo r n u ffin ” and I had p len ty o f nothing and the sch oolteach er was trying and the thief was giving it all ba ck and I slept w ith ou t the grace o f dreams though I’ve dragged this on e dream through sch ools and beaches and dance halls and forests and c o u r t­ room s and festivals where I'm in the m iddle o f a ro o m w ith no edges w ith m y m outh o p e n and everything and nothing is a bell ringing and ev ery b od y w atching urging it ’s n o t until I w ake up that I begin to cry.

And now, the weather EMEMBER laughing at stories about farmers and little old ladies who, in complain­ ing about erratic and abnormal weather conditions, would mutter that things werent like that in the old days, that “ they’ve” been muckin’ round with the weather.

Well, now you can stop laugh­ ing. It seems that a possible effect o f atmospheric pollution is a gen­ eral changing in earth’ s climate.

Currently studying the problem in Melbourne are 400 scientists who have gathered for the Interna­ tional Association o f Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics and the International Association for the Physical Sciences o f the Ocean.

The conference will spend some o f its time discussing the

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future o f the earth’s climate and look closely at the three ways man may be detrimentally affect­ ing the climate: • High flying supersonic aircraft.

Exhaust gasses from these may reduce the ozone in the strato­ sphere - ozone protects us from the suns ultra violet radiation.

Also, discharge o f planes water vapor may create unnatural clouds which could reflect the suns radia­ tion and lead to a global cooling.

• The increasing amount o f car­ bon dioxide in the atmosphere could trap radiation o f heat from the earth’s surface and lead to global warming.

• The increase in the atm o­ sphere’s content o f fine dust par­ ticles also has a cooling effect.

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Riding the Sunbury gravy train STU HAWK E, THE entire entourage, slipped aboard the special press train on the banana smile o f Odessa Promotions, into the wall to wall air-conditioned privacy o f the railways commis­ sioner’ s private bar-carriage . . . with cheese and bickies. It was 10.43am when we pulled out o f Spencer street station, bound for the Sunbury site.

Sunbury. Say no more. It has all the flavor o f W oodstock, Oz style, with less rain, more heat, flies, beer cans and our own bands. For the third successive year - same time, same place the Sunbury Pop Festival will open its costly gates to an expected audience of some 50,000 people.

The press train was a first. A board meeting decision to take a group o f semi stunned journalists on a guided tour and information rally o f and for this year’ s festival.

Chauffeur driven Holden station wagons fronted b y an ambulance and a police m otor cycle escort, delivered us to the amazingly green "site” . The weather stained stage even started to look part o f the place, like a slightly disused

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harn It rnnlH barn. could have been “ the Emergency Services Picnic’’ , what with fire engines and bushfiremen, ambulance paratroopers and skin police. But it wasnt. The brownyellow Sunbury stream, managed to pick its way through garbage at about the rate o f a glacier flow , The biggest water movement was the courageous young lady in the official festival t-shirt who splished and splashed her way through innumerable camera lenses.

Into the marquee, resplendent with cellophaned luncheon and punchbowl bar. It would be safe to say that the promoters buzzed and were more annoying than the many flies, who arrived uninvited . . . though not totally unexpect­ ed. We were shown the amenities and facilities including the can o f Aerogard. The band (Plant) who will lead the procession which starts this friday struck up and away. With Macarthur's park floating over the vermouth laced punch, the wraps were finally lifted from the spread. Following an endless merry-go-round, picking and choosing from a marvellous cold c o lla tio n . . . plates piled higher and higher, as were the lunchers b y now , with chick and

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turk and ham and snaraaus sparagus and r/b eef and fish fo r friday and all manner o f salad greens and whites and pinks etc, easing into the closest available table.

And guess who came to our dinner? Ms Duncan, w ho managed b y her single presence to turn the whole affair into a CWA auxiliary talk show. Introductions and speeches, half drowned b y the rhythm o f many chomping molars, revealed these things: For the first time, the festival will be licensed, in order to try and control the “ drinking situation” . Rather than try and enforce the semi prohibition laws o f the previous years, the promoters decided to try and regulate and refresh the patrons, b y serving icecold cans over a number o f bars . . . tw o cans to each candidate, with one opened at the bar.

The bright young exec from Com alco was introduced and explained how his com pany had com e to the party, by providing receptacles and cash-in spots for the aluminium cans. For the thirsty drinker, w ho has run out o f m oney, by collecting 60 cans or so, at a half cent per can refund rate, another can o f froth can be yours.

The karate heavies have been axed in favor o f a team o f specially selected “ gentlemen” , trained more in the art o f diplom acy first rather than chop fu now and ask questions later.

Another new innovation is the second stage. A theatre/folk/jazz/ dance/stage (open and marqueed) is rather inconveniently situated right at the top o f an exhausting hill climb, and will present the Victorian Ballet in a flesh and leather rock opera dance, about rebellion o f youth, and the bridging o f the generation crap, etc- P °or T om 's Poetry Band will stage the od d show as well as perform as itinerant minstrels throughout the crowd. And the Australian Performing Group’s wildly successful Africa . . . the savage new rock musical.

But the nicest thing about the whole business - with business the most operated and operative word was the lady o f the farm, She explained how they had received no m oney last year, because the promoters had just broken even. In fact they lost m oney she was told. Several persons almost choked on their craylegs as this “ surprising'' fact

was revealed. The lady’s intentions and homemade generosity were one o f the most sincere and hypeless things encountered on our brief visit. She explained how they had no hesitation to make half their farm available for “ all these young people” . She added that neither o f the previous festivals had seen a hair or whisk o f stock or crop damaged, Festival prices have doubled in the space o f tw o short years and the value has scarcely follow ed suit. Inflation mate. Hitting where it hurts. Many former festival patrons will remember the dust bow l atmosphere o f the site at show’s end. Luckily a very good rain has com e the week after each festival and the farm has not suffered. This year the place is remarkably green compared with previous years. But after 50,000 pilgrim’s feet tread the sacred soil for three days man, the same can be expected. In fact expectations are the thing most catered for in what is being billed as the “ highlight o f the Australian music year” . An established venue with a reputation. For whom, what, where and why this reputation exists, and is perpetuated, lies the rub.

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