The Living Daylights 2(5)

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ELCOME to another week o f meaty

■scintillation for the feeble-minded.

Thanks to all the unsolicited contributors, (except impatient egotists who demand in­ stant reaction) and we’ll continue to main­ tain our reputation for unprofessional openmindedness.

Older readers should stop bellyaching about “ lack o f direction” and settle else­ where instead into a cosy formula publica­ tion Hike the Bulletin or Playboy for their regular dose o f reassurance. The themes, obsessions and interests in this paper are surely clear enough, without heavy handed sloganeering, departmentalising and market research journalism. Grow and inter act with TI.D, as it flowers with the times and talents o f its age.

With this week’s hasty chronicling ot contents where to begin? Ptobably with Peter Stansill’s account o f Berkeley, Cali­ fornia ten years after the birth o f protest. A fascinating portrait o f a university city now suffering from a “ radical energy crisis” and concerned to keep at bay the new breed o f space-age hoboe§ (pages 9 to 11). Living delights seems to work as a centre spread.

This means it can be removed and stuck to the wall. When stale, it can be turned over to reveal a poster and by that time, you will hopefuUy be ready for another Delights.

(Adelaide what’s on is scheduled to begin next week — where will we put it?)

Following the recent piece on Men against sexism some gays came to our offices in Rosslyn street to negotiate a reply.

Apparently they were received with little cordiality and that we regret. We havent found the offending goon, but it was prob­ ably a bully-boy from ASIO. The happy ending is that Helen Garner has rounded up their reactions and brings them to you on page 8.

While we’ re in a passing-the-buck m ood, let’s dissociate ourselves from the appalling nude titted Nation review cover on Sunbury last week — inside, readers were greeted with the same snap, plus a poem o f quite out­ standing triviality . . . all no doubt to keep distributors happy.

At last, some o f our regular illustrators are returning from the road. Neil Maclean is back on the back page, with cosmic devasta­ tion, and Peter Dickie rushed out the flood waves on page three. Thanks to all the pen and ink people who responded to the invita­ tion to visit . . . all will be given the dubious joy o f spending some test time with Day­ lights. News & weather is back in action next week with a full page o f poems by Cocabola; as also in Just us kids (especially if roving John Geake gets a roof over his head).

The flood report opposite arrived from Veronica Parry, who is population ecologist at the University o f New England and sure seems to know what she’ s talking about. We hope Veronica will grace our pages with regular flashes o f wisdom on the environ­ ment.

The music pages rock and yodel along.

Margaret MacIntyre was at the lovable Faces concert and disagreed with the press, while Graeme Dunstan circled round the Tamworth Country Music fest and threw away all his rock records.

Enough reading in this issue for a month, so we w on ’ t waste any more time. (If advertisers werent such cautious, bone­ headed, success-maggots we could afford more pages and you ’d get a weekly encyclo­ pedia o f life.)

Solidarity with our friends at Bathurst . . . let us know your side o f the “ riot” when you can smuggle something out. The lost lives and maimed bodies may at least serve to get rid o f blackjack Maddison, NSW minister o f “ justice” and architectural sadist . . . Till next tuesday . . .

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Richard Beckett beats up the w e e k ’s n ew s H A T ’LL TEACH THEM NOT TO SHOW BUM MOVIES: Bathurst i jail was virtually burned to the ground : and a baker’ s dozen o f prisoners shot by ! their keeper after the inmates o f the ; New South Wales penal institution fire: bom bed the chapel, which was being •: used as a picture theatre at the time.

•:The state’s justice minister, Maddison, i expressed some surprise at the riot and : added that in a humane move members : o f the Council o f Civil Liberties had : been allowed to talk to Bathurst’ s : prisoners last year about their griev: ances. Maddison then added: “ We then : meant to discuss their findings. After it • was all boiled down, I found that very } few o f the complaints made b y prisoni ers were relevant to Bathurst.” Since Mr i Maddison is an enthusiastic supporter o f ; the new windowless maximum security : boxes, now being built to house so: ciety’s enemies at Sydney’s Long Bay |jail, his views on jail conditions and ■ standards are believed to be slightly at : variance with those o f the prisoners.

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UST FOR LAUGHS, TH EY’ RE TO SEND HIM TO : BATHURST: Ronald Biggs, escaped : great train robber from Britain, long : regarded by the media as the playboy o f ; the western world, has been retaken in ; (surprise surprise) R io de Janeiro, by i Scotland Yard’s finest bloodhound, i superintendent Jack Slipper. In the i welter o f bad taste stories that accomi panied his capture it was breathlessly i reported from the battlefront o f the i Melbourne suburb o f East Doncaster ■ that his wife Charmaine would probably : not be going to London for a reunion : with her husband, and that she didnt : really mind at all about his seedy : Brazilian girlfriends, even though, “ fun : loving R on was two-timing her almost : from the first day they m et” . Let ■ Patrick White match that if he dares.

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TILL STUMBLING AROUND ASIA: The prime minister, Mr ■Whitlam, has been told for the ump: teenth time, this time b y the Thais, that : no one to Australia’s north is much : interested in a regional forum o f Asian : nations, despite the fact that our depart; ment o f foreign affairs thinks that it’s a : ripper o f an idea. A Thai government j official said his government might show i a little more interest if it knew what on i earth Whitlam was talking about. "W e i dont know how this organisation he :■dreams about will end up” , the official \ added. One is glad to see that Whitlam is •: obviously developing the same defects ; o f speech enjoyed by his predecessor, j: William McMahon.

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on t w orry fo lk s , b ill SNEDDEN’S GOT THE AN:■SWERS: In one o f his great lunatic •: pronouncements on foreign ports o f •: call, opposition leader Bill Snedden •: claimed the relationships between Australia and southeast Asia had generally

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STOP PRESS: In solidarity with the victims o f Bathurst there will be a demonstration outside the Goodsell building, Chifley square, Sydney; friday february 8, at 5 pm.

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o f ‘my country, right or wrong’ .” It’s a pity it’s taken the old b oy 73 years to reach this state o f bliss, a few years earlier might have helped.

deteriorated because the Australian gov­ ernment had withdrawn a handful o f cooks and bottlewashers from Singa­ pore. Remembering hew well the British cooks and bottlewashers stood up to the Japanese advance dow n the Malayan peninsula during the long departed days o f world war two, one would assume that the southeast Asians were only too glad that the troops were withdrawn.

After all, in the last retreat they hinder­ ed the escape o f the local citizens and generally made b lood y nuisances o f themselves.

e w ill keep o n t e l lin g THE TRUTH W O N T HE: A borig­ inal public servant Charles Perkins said he would always hate white police officers because o f the way they con ­ tinued to treat his race, and that the founder o f the Flying D octor Service Dr John Flynn, was a racist “ who let people die because they were aboriginals. Flying doctor planes were for whites on ly ,” Perkins said. Furthermore, he added, in his youth aboriginals were to be used, “ either for sex, labor exploitation or companionship when there was no one to talk to, apart from a dog or a horse” .

Oddly enough Perkins’ picture o f Aus­ tralia seems to have certain similarities with South Africa.

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h e ir s k u lls a r e n t r e a l l y THICKER YOU KNOW: Sudden­ ly realising his government had been had after Bougainville Copper announced a record profit o f $158.4 million for carting away a little o f New Guinea’ s loose earth — which just so happens to contain quite a bit o f copper ore - the paradise nation’s chief minister Michael Somare demanded that the whole agree­ ment be instantly rewritten to enable his nation to get a fairer share o f its own soil. He should be hired by the Austra­ lian government and sent to Western Australia where quite a few foreign firms seem to be doing the same thing without a murmur o f protest from the locals.

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T ’S ABOUT TIME WE STARTED BREEDING SERFS AG A IN : New South Wales Labor minister Hewitt claimed that the federal government was obsessed with encouraging people to better themselves by entering university, when in reality it should be teaching the young to becom e boilermakers. “ In a few years we will have an army o f young citizens trained as historians,, sociologists, psychologists, education­ ists and the rest, but a scarcity o f people to carry out skilled productive w ork," he said. Holding himself back with some difficulty, the federal minister for : Labor, Mr Cameron, merely contented : himself with describing Hewitt’s state­ ment as “ somewhat extraordinary” .

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LOSE DOWN THE CITIES: Mel­ bourne had to either limit its growth or learn to live in an ever spreading pig pen, environmental min­ ister Dr Moss Cass said. Commenting on the manifest charms o f Port Phillip bay he added, “ The deterioration o f beaches as a result o f inadequate sewerage facil­ ities provides one o f the most savage illustrations o f the environmental pres­ sure created b y population growth” .

What poor Dr Cass doesnt understand is that human pigs just love wallowing in their ow n filth.

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T LAST SOMEONE’S SAID IT: Louis Mountbatten o f Burma (he’s the queen’s uncle if that means anything to you) after spending a lifetime devot­ ed to ending the lives o f others admitted graciously during an interview in Syd­ ney that he was convinced, at the age o f 73, that “ there is no worthwhile war” .

Continuing he said, “ I have spent my life making war in theory. We were lucky to get away with the first tw o without destroying the world. It’s about time we got away from the philosophy

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he c r a c k e r n o r t h liv e s i UP TO ITS NAME: The Queens- : land government brought thousands o f : flood victims cheering into the streets o f : Brisbane with its heart warming an- ; nouncement that it intended to impose : a means test for people to claim ade- ; quate relief from G od ’s judgment. In other cheerful stories about the flood front, Brisbane’s suburbanites have had to arm themselves to prevent their • flooded homes from being looted. Prof- ; iteers are charging up to one dollar for j packets o f cigarettes and 65 cents for a ; loaf o f bread and the state and federal : governments are engaging in their usual : knockabout com edy act over the c o n - ; trol o f disaster funds, known as the “ I : am the king o f the castle game” .

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N THE aftermath o f recent floods in the Namoi valley, the • atmosphere is heavy with grumbles from the badly-done-by folk who dry out their gear and await their flood relief cheques.

For the cotton fields however, the rains were a godsend - at last the incessant drone o f crop dusters laden with herbicides and pesti­ cides has abated and the land, newly washed and replenished with nutrient-rich silt, can begin to heal itself.

But, how long the reprieve?

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logical balance that can help in the good production o f cotton ?

N ot likely if you ask the fat city farmers and yankee growers w ho have been enticed by government subsidy to rape the land for short term gains and to hell with the ecological consequences. T o them, flood relief cheques will simply be traded in for more and more toxic poisons which are not only inef­ fective but create imbalances that allow cotton pests to flourish.

It sounds crazy, but ask a cotton immigrant from the pollutedT --xdust bowls o f America and

h e’ll say, “ Why n ot, w e ’re in the it was logical for anyone last stages o f the 10 year rip-off so 'interested in quick profit and tax why waste tim e?” . And he should perks to jum p in. know for as David M obray, a But then the trouble started.

Sydney university biologist says: With cotton came pests. How “ Traditionally, throughout the many or how serious a threat no world, cotton goes through four one knew for in this quick rip-off stages. Y ou have a first period game no one bothered to grow an where y o u dont use much fertil­ uncontrolled crop to see what iser or pesticides; an exploitative naturally occurring checks there stage where you have a lot o f were on cotton pests. For in­ irrigation, fertilisers and pesti­ stance, the m ost serious pest is a cides; a critical stage where their little m oth called Heliothis. It lays cost is large compared with the eggs in the cotton squares and the return; and a final disaster stage larvae nip and chew through these where the cost o f pesticides and growth tips preventing the form a­ pest damage make it u neconom ic­ tion o f bolls. al to grow. The Narrabri-WeeWaa We know that insectiverous region in northern NSW is at birds eat moths, a peculiar wasp stage three at the m om ent . . . I parasitises larvae and a range o f dont have a clue when it will get pathogens happily romp through to stage fou r.” But you can bet the population. If allowed to do that the growers know and will their work, these agents can pro­ sell up quick as the disaster stage vide that nice predator-prey rela­ approaches. Some already have. tionship that is n ot only efficient But the flood s could mean a but prevents ecological disaster. reprieve to this traditional gloom y Man can help with inter row pattern. A t least it is a good time cultivation which disrupts the to pause and look seriously at the m oths life cycle or use any num­ ecologically sound alternatives to ber o f safe tactics which agricul­ pesticides which, as research tural scientists are willina to share. shows, can aid cotton production But the alternative to such and remove the danger to human Integrated Pest Management is the and wildlife which ominously cheap and familiar response - to lurks in the area today. reach fo r the DDT. Here was the A b ou t five years ago the beginning o f the end for as any Namoi valley was opened fo r c o t­ enlightened farmer knows, once ton production perhaps to co m ­ you decide on pesticide, like a pete with the Ord. With the hand­ drug addict, y ou are com m itted some but short term subsidies you can’ t stop. The broad spec­ going. trum o f the stuff wipes out not

only some o f the pests but most o f its predators. With ecological allies destroyed, man is left to wage a single handed battle with a pest which becomes resistant to his ammunition faster than he can reload.

During the course o f the battle, cotton yields in the Namoi have continued to dwindle. But the real crime lies in the fact that never before on Australian soil has so much DDT and Endrin been dumped in such a short time.

Crops in both the Namoi and the Ord are often sprayed every sec­ ond day.

Nor has the DDT content in soil, rivers and tissues o f fish, bird and man ever been higher. The stuff accumulates in fo o d chains causing such imbalances in e c o ­ systems that scientists are still hard pressed to figure it all out. In the meantime, o f course, more and more innocent species are added to the list o f those in danger o f extinction.

Alarmed by the magnitude o f poison clouds drifting over towns, homesteads and down the Namoi river, Jack Egan, a local grazier has valiantly lobbied all govern­ ment bodies responsible and com e up with answers that would even make the uninterested sick.

He asked the owners o f a neighboring property for assur­ ances that their spraying would not jeopardise the health o f his family, stock or pastures. The

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GRAN T EVANS VER a hundred destitute aboriginals had to be put up at the Foundation fo r Aboriginal Affairs in Sydney last week. They were flo o d victims from places as far flung as Wee Waa, Walgut, G oodooga, Burra Junction, Narrabri, Moree, and Goondiwindi.

Many o f the aboriginals are seasonal workers w ho have been pursued by the flood s from as far north as Charleville, Queensland dow n to Sydney.

Some o f the stranded aborigin­ als were picked up by the civil defence and given temporary re­ fuge in the Tamworth show­ grounds where they were given rail passes to Sydney. “ What for I’ll never k n ow ,” says Syd Cun­ ningham from the F A A who has to take charge o f these refugees when they reach Sydney. “ It’s a bad situation when some aboriginals are placed in a big city with nowhere to go, no m oney and no friends. Many dont know about the foundation, and some o f those w ho have com e in dont want to take the risk o f going back to the flood areas. All the belongings o f these people have been destroyed and they have little to no m oney. But they require accom m odation and thus we need m oney to acquire hous­ ing,” he said.

Throughout the flooding the whites have been given much bet­ ter assistance and accom m oda­ tion. Towns like Wee Waa arent known for their partiality to blacks.

At Brewarrina aboriginals had worked round the clock to build levy banks. They asked for a boat to take ill children to town and were refused one. A t the aborig­ inal settlement there, “ Dodge City” , a sewer burst as a result o f the flood s. The aboriginals were given one bag c f lime to cope with the spillage.

The NSW builders laborers have already com e forward to help and are raising funds through its members.

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owners, including a number o f doctors, would not give him that assurance! Meanwhile, the number o f victims sent to hospital for pesticide poisoning in that area last year was 17.

Facts like this are not as easy to hush up as are those dealing with damage to wildlife in the area. The department o f agricul­ ture refuses to publish their data.

And no wonder. The few leaks o f information show some o f the highest recordings in the world.

There may be a suspicious link here in that the Narrabri-Wee Waa area lies within the electorate o f G. Crawford, state minister for agriculture.

Such information would be bad fo r votes.

However, let us not be too hard on that powerful watchdog, the department o f agriculture.

They have kept a close eye on this problem and dutifully recommend no more than 10 sprayings per growing season. But as predicted by the critical third stage o f this cotton game, the 1973 season was a whopper for Heliothis. Brian Dear, a rural scientist at the Uni­ versity o f New England, says, “ In­ stead o f the normal six to 10 sprayings, these were increased to 25 to 30. The total cost being approximately $125 per hectare and resulting in a minimum input o f 25 kilograms per acre DDT and six kilograms per acre Endrin be­ ing applied over a very large area

with the primary consideration o f removing Heliothis for which it was relatively unsuccessful.” R e­ plies from the department o f ag­ riculture boys to such a caper? “ We know it’s embarrassing, but what can we d o, we gotta live here.”

The end o f this story involves the federal government and therein lies a glimmer o f hope. In October 1972 a comm onwealth advisory comm ittee on the environment published a report on the use o f DDT in Australia. Its six point summary strongly recommends the phasing ou t o f the use o f DDT, especially on cotton , to be completed not later than january 1978; or sooner, if alternatives can be found.

We have the alternatives, the good healthy ecological ones, plus some overseas experience for their proper application. They may cost a bit but surely a country con ­ cerned with developing ecological awareness at the sake o f short term rip-offs is willing to put those fat subsidies to better use.

We also have the Namoi valley that is cleanly washed and await­ ing these alternatives. All we need now is a rational decision making process in the right governmental quarter. The one that hands out flood relief cheques that cannot be used for the purchase o f DDT would d o for starters. ,— ,

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TWO money-raising concerts will be held this week. The first will be an all aboriginal concert on thursday at the Sydney Trade Union Club, 111 Foveaux street, Surry Hills. The artists will include Jimmy Little, Clayton Davis, Col Hardy and Freddy Little. En­ trance fee will be $5 per person and it will go from 7 pm to 12 pm.

The second will be at the Sydney town hall from 1-5 pm on Sunday. The artists at this concert will include Jeannie Lewis, Don Andrews, Chris Du Parre, Bernard Zollan, Smaug, Bill Morgan, Bob Pom eroy, Bob H opeton, Deglin A tley, Shamus Gill, Derek Chap­ lin, Swing 42, and Dave De Hugard. ___ Come along.

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N A U ST R A LIA to o often the people, meaning Joe Ordinary and his family, are intimidated b y art.

Despite the plethora o f galleries and exhibitions open to all, there remains an invisible barrier that is a legacy from the days when the anti intellectual temperament was rampant in aussie society. People felt obliged to understand art before they could en joy it.

One o f the prime movers in changing this attitude is the Victorian Arts Centre which is becoming a people’s culture palace in the sense that it is being embraced by the people as their own. As a focal point fo r family outings, school excursions, lovers, mothers, tourists and people with nowhere else to go, it, like the grand final, bridges the age, class and incom e gaps.

The moat around the gallery, o f Olympic p o o l proportions, is fast becom ing the playpool o f a legion o f kids w ho plunge in more often in their clothes or underpants.

Black Ban in Royal Parade ELBOURNE’S Parkville As­ sociation last week through a show o f strength convinced de­ velopers to postpone plans to demolish the historic and quite beautiful Deloraine terrace in R oyal parade, Parkville.

The developers, Compac, a di­ vision o f E. A. Watts Pty Ltd, tried to rush the dem olition order through to forestall implications o f the Historic Buildings Act, cur­ rently before parliament. The de­ velopers stated that they had a health department demolition order and served notice on the residents — some o f who have lived in the terrace for 20 years to leave by february 9. There is in fact only a small repair order on only one o f the houses in the terrace.

Members o f the Parkville As­ sociation met with the developers and then later announced to a group of approximately 50 demonstraters that the developers would wait until the Historic

Buildings A ct had passed through parliament, and that they would then examine the bill in relation to Deloraine terrace.

However, just to ensure that the developers dont change their mind in the meantime, the Park­ ville Association has had discus­ sions with the Builders Laborers Federation. The BLF has agreed to place a black ban on dem oli­ tion q f the terrace until the bill is passed. Should non union labor be employed to demolish the terrace, the BLF will ensure that nothing will be erected in the terrace’ s place. A permanent black ban will be placed on any construction on that site.

The Parkville Association is also adamant that tenants must not be evicted from the terrace — it’s an old developers trick to empty houses, let them fall into disrepair through neglect and vandalisation, and then claim demolition responsibility due to health and safety reasons.

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Fun and games in Christchurch From T O N Y SIMPSON in Christchurch HE CITY o f Christchurch is close to being the arsehole o f the world. Nothing exciting ever happens there and the towns­ folk have to make their own fun.

But the garden city o f the plains, as it’s known to its public relations office, has been having a real fun time this fortnight past playing host to the Com m on­ wealth Games. There hasnt been so much excitement in Christ­ church since one o f Samuel But­ ler’s sheep got loose in High street in 1851. And worked hard for it too, they have.

It was ten years ago this very year that the city fathers first set out to have the games in their own backyard. Some o f the reason was sporting, but standing on the sidelines barracking with the rest o f them was the Chamber o f Commerce which was very much in favor o f sporting events which would bring quantities of travellers cheques within reaching distance o f their cash registers. To their dismay it hasnt quite worked out like that, and as usual it’s the international companies that have made the ripoff.

Most o f the m oney that’s been made has com e from the judicious marketing o f the games emblem, although the designer hasnt seen much o f it. A nationwide com pe­ tition was held with much bally­ h oo to obscure the fact that the organisers were trying to get something good on the cheap, the winning entry was chosen, and the designer patted on the back, told how patriotic he was, and given threepence and all the birdseed he could eat.

The organisers then got down to the real gravy. The emblem was made available on application to any large company which would then put it on its product and donate perhaps a cent o f the price o f each item bought to the games fund. Sales rocketed for the com ­ panies using the emblem as locals did their duty and bought for the games.

T o date the profits to the games from the cent here and there has been in the region o f $100,000 and still climbing, with the designer not seeing a penny and cigarette companies, among others, laughing all the Way to the bank. O f the approximately 30 firms which made application only one was refused. The Uni­ versity o f Canterbury Students’ Association, which has its own

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contraceptive vending machines on campus, wanted to imprint the games emblem on each packet and donate a cent each purchase to the games fund. Presumably on the principle that the wages o f sin is death, the request was politely refused.

Others had better luck. General Motors stole a march on the co m ­ petition b y donating the use o f 169 Holdens for offical use, and they havent lost an opportunity o f telling the world all about it.

And companies which happened perchance to have a New Zealand team member on their staff were not slow in associating this with their advertising. If they couldnt find a current athlete then they found a past athlete or a coach And my god how the m oney rolled in.

The good burghers o f Christ­ church werent so lucky. An at­ tempt by the caterers for various venues to gouge the public by doubling prices for booze and other refreshments was swiftly nipped in the bud by the depart­ ment o f trade and industry, as were attempts to double hotel and motel tariffs for the duration o f the games. It looked for a while as if hands across the sea was b ecom ­ ing hands in pockets across the sea.

Nor has the business bonanza expected by local merchants quite eventuated. Sales o f cameras are up but taxi companies and hotels report that they’re not getting the expected rush. Most dismal re­ ports com e from eating houses which had hired extra staff and arranged to stay open for longer hours, advertising their intentions at some length.

The Winter Gardens, ready to cater between 500 and 1000 hot meals on opening day had eight customers. A smorgasbord for 300 served 17 at the town hall, and the kiosk at the botanic gardens had six customers in three eve­ nings. Hotels are fully booked but bar trade receipts are barely above normal. And souvenir shops are doing a starve. It’s just to o bad.

Local business has gone to a lot o f trouble and the visitors refuse to be ripped o ff.

And by the time you are read­ ing this it will all be over. Various royal bores will have gone away.

The grunting and puffing o f ath­ letes will be replaced by the sound o f weeping from the busi­ ness comm unity. And Christ­ church will go back to sleep for another 100 years.

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From G RAE M E DUNKLEY in Kuala Lumpur 1959, and the new party posed a definite threat to the PAP for the next election.

Undaunted, Lee, with the pow ­ er o f the state in his hands and the 1964 elections in sight, launched the unashamedly candid “ Opera­ tion Cold Storage” in which over one hundred university, trade But the seven have been given union and Barisan leaders found strict parole conditions. They themselves in jail. Among those must refrain from joining political detained were the then Barisan parties, trade unions and student, leader Lim Chin Siong, later lead­ ‘o ld -b o y ’ or cultural associations. er Dr Poh, and well known intel­ Their movements are restricted lectual James Puthucheary; Lim and they are subject to an 8 am to and Puthucheary were later ex­ 6 pm curfew. All have announced their intention to ignore the co n ­ iled. Since that time Lee has crushed all the life out o f Singa­ ditions o f their release. pore politics by sheer totalitarian This is not the first act o f methods, and today his party munificence b y Lee Kuan Yew in holds no less than 100 percent o f recent times; this group is, in fact, the seats in the Singapore parlia­ the sixth batch o f detainees to be ment. released since january o f last year.

It is thought that there are The previous group o f seven to be released, on december 13 last still several hundred political pris­ oners in Singapore, but there is no year, included several major trade way o f knowing the exact num­ union leaders and a former leader ber. People can be detained with­ o f the Barisan Sosialis (Socialist) ou t explanation, without trial, party, Dr Poh S oo Kai, who had without notification o f relatives been detained for ten years.

A surprising aspect o f the de­ and fo r unlimited periods. All the recently released detainees have cember releases was that they said that they had been subjected received some publicity in the strictly manacled Singapore press. to a good deal o f ill-treatment, as well as physical and psychological In an interview published in the torture.

Straits times a few days later, Dr What is the reason for Mr Lee’s Poh said that he would not refrain from political activities even at apparent soft-heartedness? On the occasion o f the tw o most recent the risk o f a return to prison. He releases the official statement was said that he was a marxist but did exactly the same - that “ under n ot identify with any o f the world prevailing social and econom ic schools o f communist thought; he conditions in Singapore their denied that he was a communist. capacity to cause damage had The Barisan Sosialis party was been considerably reduced” . form ed in 1961 as a breakaway Various people I have spoken group from Lee Kuan Y e w ’s Peo­ ples A ction Party (PAP), taking to in Singapore who dare to dis­ cuss the matter have suggested with it three quarters o f the PAP that perhaps the strategy is to membership. This removed the reactivate the opposition in order popular working class base o f the to bring “ the rats out o f their PAP which had brought it to power after Singapore had gained holes” and later to net even more independence from Britain in dissidents than before.____________

EVEN political detainees have just been released by the Singapore government, the group includes trade unionists, students, and political activists.

They had been detained for pur­ ported involvement in "com m u n ­ ist-directed activities” .

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Another possible explanation, however, is a rather different one.

At present Lee’s most embarras­ sing problem is his m on opoly o f seats in parliament. Last year he spoke o f creating special seats for university groups and, with su­ preme irony, bemoaned the in­ effectiveness o f opposition groups in Singapore.

In 1972 the Barisans, perhaps unwisely, relieved his dilemma somewhat by announcing that they would contest the elections.

With all the party’s capable lead­ ers in prison or exiled, and the remaining mediocre leaders virtu­ ally without any means o f pub­ licity, the election was a total farce. Nonetheless Barisan partici­ pation enabled Lee to say that opposition existed. Perhaps Lee has decided that the time has come to strengthen the opposition slightly b y releasing its most tal­ ented leaders, an interpretation which is supported by the pub­ licity given to Dr Poh. But even if this is so, there can be no doubt that at the next election opposition parties will have the usual difficulties in dis­ tributing literature and having their voices heard. Lee will ensure that the danger is not too great; but after all, he can afford to lose a few seats.

The main danger to Lee is that the Barisans might regain some o f their earlier mass support among the unions which could endanger the econom ic security, if not the parliamentary security, o f the PAP. But there can be no doubt that there is some truth in the government’s cynical explanation for the releases, that it is believed that the opposition no longer poses any real threat. If the time comes when it does so, Lee Kuan Yew knows exactly what to do, and no doubt will not hesitate.

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Goons guns and gore BRIAN JOHNSTONE OONS, guns and gore have all assisted in the fight to gain control o f South Australia’s AGWA (the Australian Govern­ ment Workers Association).

A showdown o f both factions at the union’s state council meet­ ing last month erupted into a 15 minute brawl. During the melee one councillor, Colin Huddleston, had a glass ashtray smashed over his head, punches were thrown, half nelsons applied and kicks to the groin administered.

The next day, Huddleston and the suspended general secretary, Jim Thomson, received death threats over the phone. It was also announced by Brian Lear, the president o f the union and the man who has assumed control since Thom son’s suspension, that the AGWA offices in Franklin street, Adelaide, would be patrol­ led night and day by armed prison warders - members o f the union’s prisons branch.

The Labor member for Playford, Terry McRae, a rightwinger and industrial lawyer for Lear and a number o f other AGWA state councillors, also called for armed guards to accompany Lear and members o f the rightwing faction to the next state council meeting.

(McRae also wanted Franklin street barricaded.)

That meeting was held last week without incidents, although it was policed by about ten mem-

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Evans also charged the union rules, and the weeklong guard placed on the suspension motion that the offices was illegal because the guards were not was not carried by a ma jority licensed under the Commercial and Private Inquiry decision o f the full voting Agents Act. This serves to point out how absurd the strength o f the council. (The situation has become. state council has 28 voting The episode is now com pletely out o f hand and a members and the majority o f nightmare for anyone caught up in the myriad o f 13 to nine leaves four votes industrial, criminal and libel proceedings. The issue uncast.) could be settled quickly through an open ballot o f The industrial court hearing the union’s 10,000 mem bers but for a variety o f reasons began before the president, Mr this appears unlikely - the major reason being the fact that the left justice Bleby on december 14, would probably win. with McRae appearing for Lear, The union is a valuable prize to ably the majority o f the union’ s Coom bs and 18 other named state whoever eventually gains control. rank and file claim that the sus­ councillors. However, follow ing It holds a massive 12V2 percent o f pension and the ensuing assump­ the start o f the hearing, a deputa­ the vote in the policy making tion o f control by the right at the tion o f 11 unions met the acting state council o f South Australia's union’s offices is part o f a state premier, Des Corcoran, to ask for Labor party, and with the other government-DLP attempt to put the removal o f McRae from the 871/2 percent divided equally be­ dow n militant leftwing unions in case. The deputation protested tween right and left the AGW A South Australia. against his “ interference” in the The bulk o f evidence, although usually holds sway. internal affairs o f AGWA and o th ­ suppressed by Adelaide’s daily The rightwing faction headed er unions.

by Lear, the acting general secre­ press, would seem to support their By all accounts, the deputation claim. tary, W. Coombs, and assisted by got a fair hearing, and as reported The clash had its beginnings Terry McRae, havent really issued in the daily press the next m orn­ a clearcut statement on the issue last august when a communist, ing, McRae was called to Cor­ apart from individual declarations Jim Thom son was elected general coran. According to the deputa­ secretary o f the union by an o f “ communist infiltration o f the tion, the result o f the meeting overwhelming four to one ma­ association” , and that other leftwould be the withdrawal o f wing unions are trying to split the jority. Thom son immediately em­ McRae from the case. barked on a campaign to shake up AGWA. However, this was not to be, the union, which has a long his­ The left, led by Thom son, and when McRae turned up in tory o f moderate rightwing pol­ seven other councillors and probcourt the next day he received a itics. (Previous general secretaries plaudit from Mr justice Bleby. have included Marin, now an in­ A fortnight ago Mr justice dustrial commissioner and Jacoby, Bleby brought dow n his ruling on now a member o f parliament.) the application by Evans.

He initiated campaigns against In layman's terms, Bleby held private contractors in the electri­ that Thom son was suspended only city and water supply branch o f as an em ployee - but was still the union, battled long and hard general secretary and therefore for improved conditions in psy­ could attend state council meet­ chiatric hospitals, was granted ings and vote. equal pay for women members Mr justice Bleby’ s judgment and wages were increased virtually was handed dow n the same morn­ across the board by nine to ten ing the Advertiser carried a large dollars a week. frontpage story reporting the Then, three months after tak­ brawl which had erupted at the ing o ffice, Thom son was charged previous night's council meeting. with misuse o f union funds and Lear, the president o f the suspended from office. The vote AGW A, immediately ordered against him at the state council union members to guard the meeting o f the AGWA on October AGWA offices in Franklin street 31 was 13-9. (he said he feared a “ leftwing The source o f the charges deal­ takeover” and had to protect “ vi ing with misuse o f union funds tal docum ents” ) and later the was one Tom While, whom T hom ­ attorney general announced that son had earlier sacked as AGWA uniformed police would guard the bookkeeper after an audit had building inside and out during the disclosed that While was paying next meeting. himself $200 a week (he had been M cRae’s involvement in the hired for just over $.100 a week) whole affair deserves closer scru­ and that the costs o f running the tiny. He tried to stop Jim Thom­ AGWA each week had risen to son’s appointment as an organiser $1500. o f the AGWA some five years ago Mr W. G. Coombs, installed as when he pointed out a technical acting general secretary, hired a breach o f regulation. private investigator, Jack Gotte, Thom son had apparently hand­ to investigate Thom son’s activities ed his application form to the as general secretary. president when it should have Meanwhile, state councillor and been posted. However, Thomson vice-president o f the union’s E took McRae to court and won the INAL day o f Sunbury ’74 and 21 year old Richard Skew and WS branch, T ony Evans, drowned in 15 feet of muddy water in Jackson's creek. After case. made an application in the indus­ gaining permission from the police, photographer Hennessy moved in to The AGW A backed moves by take a shot only to find his path blocked b y orange T-shirted festival trial court to have Thom son rein­ unions to challenge McRae’s pre officials. Hennessy explained he had permission from the police, stated, submitting that the coun selection for the seat o f Playford showed the official his press pass and prepared to take the picture only cil’s decision was illegal under at the last elections. The secretary to find himself surrounded b y officials whose chief concern seemed to union rules. o f the Miscellaneous Workers be the prospect o f bad publicity. Lucky for the promoter Hennessy was He said Thom son was elected union, Barry Cavanagh (son o f working for us and not the Australian. as general secretary fo r five years senator Cavanagh), stood against

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McRae with the full backing o f leftwing unions.

Following the unsuccessful union attempt to have McRae dismissed from the industrial com ­ mission hearing with their deputa­ tion to Corcoran, the state secre­ tary o f the Storemen and Packers union, George Apap, filed charges o f disloyalty against McRae with the state ALP executive.

Twentytw o members o f the executive, including premier Dunstan and federal ministers Cam­ eron and Bishop, dismissed the charges. However, they warned Labor MPs to refrain from involv­ ing themselves in inter union dis­ putes unless they were members o f those unions.

The charges against McRae sought the removal o f his ALP endorsement for Playford and his suspension for a week. It was alleged that McRae had sought release at a recent caucus meeting from an undertaking that he would not practise as an industrial lawyer. The acting state secretary o f the party, G. T. Whitten, said the allegation could not be con ­ firmed. Asked after the meeting (which was closed to the press) if McRae had denied making such an undertaking, Whitten said McRae had been non committal.

The McRae disloyalty case was no sooner kicked o f f the front pages than Jim Thom son was ar­ rested by the fraud squad. T h om ­ son was picked up by sergeant R. N. McCallum and first class con ­ stable J. B. Dickinson at the in­ dustrial court hearing to have him reinstated. He was taken to police headquarters and charged with four counts o f falsification o f accounts and three o f fraudulent conversion.

The next day the charges were detailed in court at a remand hearing. Thomson appeared b e­ fore special justice H. A. Dicker on two charges o f having, while a clerk or servant to the AGWA made false entries in documents with intent to defraud; three charges o f having fraudulently converted to his ow n or another’s use a total o f $40; and two charges claiming alteration o f an account and false entry into an account.

The offences were alleged to have been comm itted at Wallaroo and Minlaton between august 3 and 26 last year. According to a report in the local press on january 2, the fraud squad was called into the case after the auditors interim report was pre­ sented.

Not mentioned was the fact that it also follow ed the report submitted by Jack Gotte, the pri­ vate investigator hired by acting general secretary Coombs. A cop y o f G otte’s five page report obtain­ ed by Living daylights shows that it was sent to Coombs on decem ­ ber 18.

The report deals exclusively with visits to Wallaroo by union officials (including Thom son) b e ­ tween june 28 and September 10.

Thomson is to plead guilty and will go before court again on march 4.

The latest development in the unfolding saga came last friday when 70 workers at the union’s E&WS branch at Ottoway carried a vote o f no confidence in Lear. A unanimous vote called on him to vacate his positions as president o f the AGWA and E&WS branch o f the union within a month.

The whole affair has now be­ come bogged down in a number o f proceedings in civil, industrial and criminal cases. An early ou t­ com e does not seem likely. Many people are tipping that the end will come when Thom son and his supporters form a breakaway union. But this, o f course, would be a victory for the right.

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B8B P IMunderground ecology group, Environment Control Organ­ isation, has threatened in a letter to BHP to lace their water supply at the Melbourne office with acid.

The ECP has accused BHP o f destroying the environment, and found them guilty of "crimes against society". Whilst the lights at Special Branch have been burning late, police are taking the threat seriously and commenced investigations. The next few weeks will show whether the letter is a hoax or whether Australia is to have a militant ecology group similar to those in the USA. In California a split o ff group from the weather people has placed explosive charges on several industrial chimney stacks with a high degree of success.

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HE use o f electronic listening devices has increased since the Watergate revelations. The devices are freely available in Sydney if you have contacts in the m urky world of private detectives. The private dicks have been using them fo r several years particularly in divorce investigations. One o f the first people to use them in Australia was Tom Erickson, who found them highly successful working fo r the Customs at $ 5 0 0 a bust. In a recent court case in Sydney, real estate agent David Teicher of Dover Heights faced a charge of unlaw fully using a hearing device to listen to private conversations. Teicher, who was bugging his employees, claimed th at he did it because a wom an had misappropriated $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 from his trust account. In this highly im portant civil liberties case the magistrate, A . R. Henry, did the usual and dismissed the charge. So much for privacy — 1984 is here depending where you w ork.

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RIUMPH motor bikes, as any oil scalded, bark knuckled owner will tell you, are troublesome beasts. You can’ t ride ’ em to the corner shop with­ out a bulging saddle bag o f tools to carry out running repairs. They rattle themselves into disintegra­ tion; oil oozes, spurts, geysers through the metal pores; they break down more times than F. Scott Fitzgerald; they spend more time on the blocks — torn into little pieces, parts strewn in wide circles — than they do actually going.

Y ou see, “ Trumphy” roadsters will tell you they actually like ’em that way! They dont want any o f yuh crappy Jap stuff that purrs, that glides, that eats up highway without so much as bursting out in acne. Ohh no, Triumphiles love, actually love to work their big shit panted brats, to pull ’em to pieces. Y ou ’ve got to be a spannerhead to bestride a Triumph.

Y ou ’ve got to love. . . . like the Englishmen who build the thundering Triumphs, one of the few remaining “ marques” o f dazzling two wheel­ ed m otored aristocracy. (I said “ remaining” because there arent many British manufactured bike names in production at present.

They’ve been either forgotten by the market, phased out, or amalgamated into mergered, blended oblivion. A result o f the Japanese thrust into the market, a decline in British engineering, and, mostly, marketing gutlessness,

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staidness and ineptitude.) It’s beep a tradition at the Triumph plant at Meriden, Warwickshire, that the workers “ participate” in the finished product. Men on the line made design and structural changes on the spot, as the ma­ chine came up to them. The 1750 workers exercised power over the way the thing came out and un­ like most assembly line workers they took great pride in their work, even if the finished article was a mechanic’s pain in the arse.

The pride in the Triumph wasnt astray: Triumph Tridents filled five out o f six places at last year’s Isle o f Man classic. And they were all “ privateers” — non sponsored entries.

So last September when the chiefs at Norton Villiers Triumph announced the closure o f the Meriden plant because it was “ un­ econom ic” the workers wouldnt have it. Several hundred o f them staged a lock-out, threw out the management and sat down in the factory playing bingo and music amongst the plant and machinery and the 2000 completed machines they refused to release. After all they reckoned the plant and the machines were theirs by rights.

They decided to buy the factory.

Bill Lapworth, secretary o f the Transport & General Workers Union and Labour MP, Leslie Huckfield, a sympathiser, were pounding the pavement down in London trying to rake up three million quid to finance purchase o f the plant for the

workers. “ We would have liked to raise the money entirely from the workers, but it is not practical . . .” said Lapworth.

(Most o f the workers earnt about 50 pounds a week.) “ Financial backing may be sought on capital­ istic lines if necessary.”

T o the amazement o f most, enough capital was raised for a deal to be made with Norton Villiers Triumph: the men of Meriden would build and supply the bikes and NVT would supply the parts and pay the overheads.

The factory reopened late last month after being out of produc­ tion for four months. The workers run it now — not high flying, low profile businessmen. The members o f the collective earn less than they did before and the “ direc­ tors” are shop stewards, who work on the floor and can be voted out o f their jobs by the men. They reckon they will have little trouble raising the money needed to clinch the deal before the august deadline.

Why, thanks to a fuel crisis where more and more people are dumping their autos and buying bikes, with a hungry market for Triumphs in the States, and with a cleanly run, “ efficient” factory staffed by proud workers maybe they just will pull if o ff . . .

When I asked one Trumphy freak what he thought o f it all he said, “ I think it’ s terrific . . . now we’ll get better machines.”

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HE Cobar hospital inquiry is to find that Dr Allen Jasper Brady is unsuitable to render services to patients at the hospital. Allegations made against Brady by trained nurses included that: he operated on the wrong side of a man's head, he waited three days before X-raying a miner who got head injuries in a rock fall, he prescribed junket tablets for a coronary patient who complained of sore legs, he injected a patient with sterile water, he ordered an injection of methanol instead o f ethanol for a mother in childbirth, he smoked in the operating theatre, he refused to set up a life giving intravenous drip for a stricken infant who later died. Although the secretary o f the General Practitioners Society, Dr D. Yuille, said that the allegations against Brady were o f things that many doctors do, the inquiry has found otherwise. Now W. Lewer SM will be able to com plete the inquiry into bashings at Long Bay jail. * * *

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O U G A IN V IL L E Copper Ltd has announced a record p ro fit o f $ 1 5 8 m illio n. Understandably Papua New Guinea's chief minister $om are has called fo r a renegotiation of the Bougainville deal. It w ill be remembered th at the form er Liberal government used troops w ith tear gas and clubs to drive the people fro m their homes so th at the huge m ultinational Conzinc R io T in to , financed by the Bank o f Am erica, could mine the copper. The w hole project has been a colonial robbery of the Papua New Guinea peoples natural resources, and it is only a m atter of tim e to when th ey take their property back.

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Although Bell is still with the drug squad it is believed that he will be transferred now that the warrants case is over. The cops think they have heard the last o f the case but they could be in for a surprise in the next few months.

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O 'D onovan was one of the first cops to see D irty H a rry, and since has carried a C olt .45 in the back of his trouser belt. If you ever have the misfortune to run into this gent he w ill tell you all about the film . As w ell several Melbourne gunshops have been doing a roaring trade w ith police who have been privately purchasing $ m ith and Wesson .44 magnum revolvers w ith six inch barrels since the release of the second D irty Harry film Magnum

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^ ^ O M E G A Y men feel that in against sexism (TLD, 2 /3 ) the Gay Liberation Front was depicted rather hastily as a side skirmish in mens fight against sexism, as a movement whose only enemy is the oppression o f homosexuals. These gays want to make it clear that the Gay Libera­ tion movement is unlikely to have much historical effect if it concen­ trates only on homosexual oppres­ sion: they insist that gay men see the part they play in overall male supremacy.

I talked with five gay men in Melbourne this week: Julian, Ray, Bill, Mark and Terry.

For homosexual men, the tran­ sition from the male camp scene into Gay Liberation is not an easy one. “ What! Are there women in Gay Liberation?” an oldstyle camp male once asked me, in genuine amazement. “ Most o f the gay mens co n ­ sciousness-raising groups in Mel­ bourne had folded by last Christ­ mas,” says Julian. “ It was the women who had the solidarity, all along. The men were always troubled by sexual tensions. In the early stages o f the gay move­ ment, we men found ourselves using the tactics o f straight men to run our meetings — shouting to get a hearing.”

JULIAN: And every time it was the women who pointed this out.

In any crisis, the women saved the movement. For a while they were going to split - that’s what’s happened in Sydney.

BILL: It’s really essential for gay CR groups to be mixed - essential for the men, that is, because men have a bad habit o f intellectualising to excess. This fact has broken up a lot o f groups. And the women keep on pointing it out.

(The same problem plagues straight m en’s political groups. A feminist once described to me an anarchist meeting she'd gone to.

The subject to be discussed was sexuality. The men, she said, set the pace - fast, sharp and furious - and not one o f them ventured to mention his own sexual exper­ ience.)

R A Y : It’s true that at the m o ­ ment not much is happening in Gay Liberation here. We’re at square zero, as far as a movement goes. But different individuals are starting to talk about their aware­ ness o f sexism.

BILL: Student politico types criti­ cise us, saying w e’re not getting anything done. But we dont want to d o things their way. We want a slower pace, and a deeper convic­ tion.

The men consider the school visits o f 1973, which blew up in the daily press as a mild scandal to be ominously investigated by edu­ cation department authorities,

their most important achievement in terms o f outside action. Once again they stress that hom osexual­ ity was not the only matter they discussed with school kids, al­ though their original invitation was for that purpose.

BILL: We went there to talk about homosexuality, but it spread further than that - I guess because we seemed more open than other people w ho talk to kids in their classrooms.

JULIAN: We were really happy about the openness o f the conver­ sations we had with kids. It was clear they had quite a subtle understanding o f the way they were being moulded. They asked us things like - “ My friends all say they agree with gay liberation, but they dont live it out in their lives. W hy?” “ Do men need to feminise and in what ways (obviously n ot by imi­ tating women w e’ve enslaved)?’’

Men against sexism, TLD. The writer o f Men against sex ­ ism suggests that literature from the Revolutionary Effeminists in the US will “ provoke more debate soon” . The gays I spoke with made it clear that this “ effeminising” was, to them, not a matter for debate but an on-going, dayto-day preoccupation. The Mel­ bourne Effeminist Movement (259 Brunswick street, Fitzroy 3065) has already released a sheet explaining “ the struggle to be­ com e unmanly” . “ We struggle to rid ourselves o f all the privileges and power we have as men, and struggle to be­ com e unmanly without in any way parodying w om en.”

Evidently there are qualities displayed by women which are not the result o f enslavement, but simply human qualities that have been beaten out o f men in their childhood - the ability to be in touch with their own feelings, to cry, to be vulnerable and respon­ sible to other people. And, as Shulamith Firestone suggests, the ability to love.

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o f a way out for straight men who take the womens movement seriously.

If they seriously consider change, they could try to b e ­ com e less masculine and more effeminate to liberate the homosexual part o f themselves.

BILL: If you consider that all people have bisexual potentiality, then straight men who show no actions or gestures that are non masculine must be suppressing some part o f their personality.

Straight men can’t let their feel­ ings out.

R A Y : A lot o f straight men say, “ I’ve com e to see myself as a chauvinist pig” - and then wallow in guilt; sometimes, I suspect, to impress feminist women they’re interested in. But if y o u ’re wal­ lowing in guilt, you have such a low opinion o f yourself that you can’t be a whole person.

M ARK: And the trouble is that heterosexual men dont see any­ thing positive in getting out o f straight male roles. They dont want to learn to shut up, for example. Effeminists are deter­ mined not to d o things like define womens struggle for them. It’s only your own struggle that’s real to you.

T E R R Y : I disagree with that. Y ou can look at something y o u ’re not part o f, and understand it intellec­ tually.

M ARK: Sure - but it’s easier to sympathise with someone's o p ­ pressed situation if you know y o u ’re oppressed yourself. Most straight men dont even know they’re oppressed.

Most o f this group are in their early or middle 20s. Like many people o f that age, they have no close relationship with young children. But they see new ways o f rearing children and organising households as vital to the break­ dow n o f sexism. Being h o m o ­ sexuals, they are unlikely to have children o f their own. None o f them actually lives with a child, but most o f them make an effort to spend time with their friends children and those o f their rela­ tives. Their combination o f ideo­ logical enthusiasm and practical

hesitancy about plunging into co l­ lective living with children is large­ ly a clinging to male privilege.

BILL: The more time I spend with kids, the more I realise that m y way o f relating to them is adequate. The more you have to change your style, the more hope­ less you see it must have been in the first place.

BILL: Paranoia in these matters pays off. People have to refuse to be patronised or pandered to, in small ways. Sexism is a cumulative thing. Whenever I see a woman walk first through a d oor that a man is holding open for her, I think, what’s happening inside that man’s mind? It’s just another time a man’s got away with it.

JULIAN: Yeah - I get disgusted with m yself when I hear myself talking baby talk to m y nephew. I sometimes just can’t help it!

Though I know it’s ridiculous.

R A Y : Some people I know, who have children, are starting a creche, and I’m going to work there. I know I’m going to have to change my mind priorities, my use o f time - things I feel are im port­ ant now I’ll have to put into second place.

HELEN: In what precise ways d o you feel you oppress wom en, not being involved in close sexual rela­ tionships with them?

R A Y : In shops, a lot. So many women are in servile positions at their work. I hate it when men are rude to women who serve behind counters.

BILL: When y o u ’re around w o­ men, you realise how constantly their minds are attuned to the sounds a child make. It's not conscious, but it’s always there.

Whereas, men seem to be able to incorporate a child’s demands with the sound o f the fridge, or other household noises.

M ARK: And about domestic shitwork - though I wanted to share in everything that had to be done in the house, at first I found I just didnt think o f it, and had to be reminded all the time. I went to see a school play recently, and the thing that got the biggest laugh was a man wearing an apron - as if it’s the utmost humiliation to sweep a floor. Domestic, day-today living is the place to start getting out o f the male role. O f course, there are straight men who can cook - but for a lot o f them it’s no pleasure, just a matter o f sustenance. And then there are the ones who say to a woman, “ I’ll eat if you cook , but I dont like cooking myself, and if you dont want to cook then I’ll go o u t.” They dont think. What can I do to con tribu te? They just think what they can take.

We talked about how hard it is for wom en to accept graciously, and without guilt, the work that men d o take on in the house.

HELEN: When a man asks me, in my house, if I want a cup o f tea, I have to restrain myself from jumping up and saying “ I ’ll do it !” It’s as if I'm in love with my chains.

M ARK : It works the other way to o with cars and mechanical things. It’s wanting to be a special­ ist, to have power and expertise in one particular area. When any o f the women at my place say, “ I’m taking the car down for a service” , I get this urge to say, “ Well, you 'll have to tell the mechanic this, and that.”

M ARK: It’s easy sometimes to take advantage o f your maleness - to assume an air o f authority or superiority, in a shop.

BILL: There’s a woman in my local bank — I’ve noticed how, when business is heavy, she’s the one who takes the brunt o f the extra work. I remember one day watching her when a man came in with a thousand dollars in small money. The man didnt think she was counting it fast enough. He stood there breathing through his teeth - and she had to keep smiling.

R A Y : It’s much more heartening when they refuse to smile at you - why should they smile, under those conditions?

BILL: But the worst, the nastiest way I feel I oppress wom en, just by being a man, is when I ’m walking down a street late at night behind a woman w h o’s alone. I know she’s afraid o f me. And in that situation there’s no way I can reassure her, because her exper­ ience has taught her that man equals violence.

The living daylights writer on Men against sexism pointed to what many gay men see as a serious gap in the effeminist mani­ festo — its shakiness on the rela­ tionship between sexism and cap­ italism.

R A Y : The effeminists assume feminism, and gay liberation rhet­ oric up to the beginning o f last year. The effeminist manifesto, dont forget, is aimed at men akeady in gay liberation - it’s not attempting a total analysis from scratch. Struggling against sexism is the most meaningful personal area for both gay and straight men - but we mustnt ignore the con ­ nections. A really effective blow against the nuclear family is also a blow against capitalism.

BILL: If the most hardened cap­ italist changed his sexist outlook, he’d have to change the rest o f his life too.

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From PETER ST A N SILL in Berkeley

ALKING UP Telegraph avenue in Berkeley, California, on a Saturday morning, you might well find yourself suddenly flashing that you are in a liberated zone which is safely in the hands o f the Popular Revolutionary Army. Or, at the very least, that you are in a movie along those lines.

Then again, depending which way your mind is bent, you may feel it’s like being at a rock festival five years ago, or in the medina o f Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria, in 1993.

Y ou get swept into an exotic, vibrant street life, full o f action and music and peopled b y a rough ’n ready racial m ix­ ture o f Psychedelic warriors, poets and visionaries, fearless amazons, travellers and scholars, earth mothers, beggars and holy people, urban guerrillas, and tour­ ists.

The avenue, famed scene o f the 60s uprisings, is nowadays jammed along both pavements with crafts vendors selling their homemade m erchandise. . . peacock feather necklaces, cross-section slabs o f redwood for table tops, hand carved hash pipes, reed flutes, moccasins, jewellery o f Memories o f yesteryear: the “ radical soap opera” . turquoise and sea-smoothed shell, and an ingenious new type o f roach clip on ed ghetto o f freaks, closed in on all sides isolation. Find minds turn in on them­ which it is impossible to burn your lips. b y America, plagued b y the same para­ selves in desperation and quietly disinte­ Y ou might see a full strength electri­ doxes and infected with the same diseases grate. fied amplified rock band boogying on a that run wild throughout the country.

The elements o f a new consciousness street corner, cheered on b y an appreci­ It’s true that Berkeley has come a long are here in force, but they d o not cohere ative crow d stomping with abandon. And way since it got its star role in the radical into a whole. They remain elements, cut there is sometimes a guy walking up and soap opera ten years ago, when the Free o ff from each other b y highly specific down blowing bagpipes, and a girl playing Speech Movement erupted on campus to goals. According to my estimate, there exquisite cello solos in a shop doorway. provide a radical mom entum that has are about 400 organisations in tow n with Everywhere you look are posters and only recently been exhausted. Conces­ libertarian/radical aims, covering every messages stuck up on dozens o f public sions have visibly been made to the nuance o f social change from feminism to notice boards and in shop windows, on bohemian lifestyle o f what must be half anti imperialism, from self-transcendence trees and store-front woodw ork. All the to global revolution. Strongest and most the citizenry, though they are little more current political and social causes, events than conciliatory gestures from a quasi­ militant o f all are the womens groups, and opportunities bombard the eye . . . hip power elite which still has to go whose tireless campaign against sexism Impeach Nixon, Find a friend in Jesus, has penetrated almost every aspect o f through the chore o f getting elected.

Support the Wounded K nee defendants, public and private life. City hall usually Authority can afford to be a little Decriminalise p ot, Free the San Quentin more relaxed, it has n o serious opposition lumps them all together under the collec­ six, L oosen up at the Institute o f Human tive euphemism o f “ the special interest to confront. All the old campaigners and Intimacy and Sexuality, Release Tim provocateurs are “ laying back” , to use groups” . But so often people use these Leary, Meet new friends at the singles the latest idiom, at least those who causes to work out their identity crisis or drop-in, Com e to a teach-in on Chile, Tell to develop a radical chic image, with the havent left fo r the hills or moved to other you r problem to the East Bay gay . . . result that personalities often get in the cities, other scenes. It is strange, but There is a wealth o f fine b ook stores, way o f good ideas. certainly symptom atic, to hear old timers plenty o f head shops, eastern import reminisce colorfully over the last great It is difficult to think in terms o f “ The emporia, record shops, bars, coffee popular cause, the week-long Peoples Movement” any more. The on ly media houses and hamburger joints, where peo­ Park War o f 1969, with its helicopters left which attempt to hold it all together ple hang loose and socialise. and teargas, shotguns and clubs, pitched are the B erkeley barb and Pacifica radio And there at the top o f the avenue, battles with the forces o f oppression, its station KPFA. The Barb, now the w orld’s covering almost a square mile, sits the dead martyr, its hundreds o f wounded longest surviving alternative newspaper, is m onolithic University o f California cam­ possibly the w orld’s first popular insur­ solvent and going strong with a weekly pus, the place that put Berkeley on the rection over an ecological issue. But what circulation o f around 25,000 (compared world map. today aspires to be historical conscious­ with 90,000 in 1969). For the past three Yes, you could be forgiven almost any ness emerges only as nostalgia. There is a years it has been out o f favor with the flight o f fancy in search o f a familiar radical energy crisis; they seem to have radical intelligentsia, w ho object to its comparison, because Berkeley is undoubt­ run dry o f the rhetoric that fuelled their "sexism ” - the massage parlor ads and edly one o f the weirdest towns on the causes. the raunchy small ads. The Barb had a planet. It makes a powerful impression.

The present national malaise does crisis o f conscious over this last summer But appearances, as in so many aspects o f seem abnormal in a place like Berkeley. If and declared a change in ad policy to American life, are designed precisely to nothing else, events have demonstrated eliminate sexual exploitation. It didnt impress, to project an image, rather than that even the most extreme flights o f work. After a few weeks those "beautiful to reflect the nature o f any real sub­ New Left paranoia were totally justified. co-ed masseuses” reappeared in display stance. For the liberated lifestyle, revolu­ Former activists console themselves with ads - only this time they had some tionary consciousness and mild lawless­ a smug “ I told you so ” , with a weary clothes on. One critic said, rather unkind­ ness that it flouts rather self-consciously cynicism, and an endless variety o f social ly, that between the Barb and the mas­ are these days haunted by anxiety and games o f the “ more-radical-than-thou” sage parlors he didnt know who needed despair. Step outside the throng and variety that drive people further into whom the most. refocus, and you can clearly see a crow d­ their cliquish existence or their own KPFA, on the other hand, is generally

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well thought o f. A s well as providing ak time for any group that asks, they broad­ cast a news bulletin o f a very high standard. However, they to o suffer from internal fights over what some wom en workers see as sexist jo b discrimination.

Identifying closely with everything hip is another radio station, KSAN, transmit­ ting from across the Bay in San Fran­ cisco. Some say it is the finest rock and roll, folk and blues station in the world.

Highly informal and irreverent, it is a powerful countercultural voice, celebrat­ ing comm unity, laughter, good vibes and dope. Every friday evening it puts out a price report and chemical analysis o f the grass, cocaine and hallucinogens available on the street, and also provides many other comm unity services. But because it is a commercial station - its ads are mainly for clothes, records, waterbeds, stereo equipment, films and concerts - it is inevitably accused by radical purists o f encouraging people to take refuge in consumerism.

These are currently tw o stark and sorry examples in Berkeley o f the frag­ mented, somewhat fratricidal state o f “ Consciousness III” .

First, there is a very real possibility o f impeaching president N ixon in the next few months. If it is left solely up to the machinery o f the system, which, as every­ one knows, is far to o easy to manipulate or sabotage, then it will probably never happen. The only course is to consolidate a grass roots movement to organise dem ­ onstrations, circulate petitions and gen­ erally agitate for N ixon’s removal from office before he does any more damage.

With this aim in mind, a bunch o f Berkeleyites got together to form the Bay Area Coalition to impeach Nixon, a broad based alliance o f radical, labor, student, comm unity and womens organisations.

The only thing they need to agree upon is the impeachment o f the president, a simple and sound enough goal, yet at their first demonstration, held in San Francisco, no more than 500 people turned up when at least 5000 were expected, and then the various factions started badmouthing each other over tac­ tics, with the leftists insisting on crushing imperialism as part o f any impeachment program.

There is little chance o f crushing im ­ perialism before easter, but they could be instrumental in deposing the man who champions its cause. In the short run, this may only be useful as an exercise o f popular will, to break the peoples illusion o f powerlessness in the face o f the sys­ tem, because a rather undistinguished vice-president is waiting to pick up the banner and soldier on. But the opportun­ ity is slipping away, while the groups try to score political points from each other.

It almost seems like the challenge is too big for the decimated New Left, whose obsession in the past with American foreign policy has left them without a coherent analysis o f the political mess at home.

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but in its way just as crucial, is the campaign to decriminalise marijuana in the state o f California. There is a pro­ cedure here whereby any interest group can formulate a piece o f new legislation and have it placed on the ballot at the twice yearly elections. All they have to d o is collect 326,000 signatures on a petition supporting the initiative. Then if more than 50 percent vote in favor o f the measure, it becom es law.

The dope issue was already put to the vote in this way in november 1972 but it got only 33 percent o f the poll, and now the California Marijuana Initiative Coali­ tion (CMIC) is again gathering signatures to get it on the november ballot this year.

The story is the same here indifference among the pot smokers and in-fighting within the Bay Area Committee o f the CMIC. With only a few weeks left o f the five-month signature gathering period, they dont even have half the number they need, and some o f the local coalition meetings have ended in fist fights be­ tween the White Panthers, who want to revolutionise” the dope issue, and Amorphia (the Cannabis Co-op), who just want to make the stuff legal.

They still may get enough valid signa­ tures to bring it to the polls, but whether they can stir up enough voters to support it is another matter. O f course, you can always apply the “ conspiracy theory” currently enjoying widespread credibility in this country - which maintains that the organisers really have enough signa­ tures but are concealing the fact while putting ou t emergency appeals to panic apathetic stoned freaks into signing. Man­ ipulation o f the people in their own interests, in other words. And som ebody needs to have their interests at heart.

Over 70,OCX) people were busted in 1972 in California, more than ever before, and several thousand were imprisoned.

These smalltime dramas on the left, however, are played out harmlessly oh the fringes o f the real power struggle, which unfolds, as ever, in Berkeley city hall. Even though there is a “ progressive" majority on the council, including three radicals, and even though most council­ lors are blacks and women (appearances cannot be faulted), their conduct o f civic affairs is still characterised b y the usual bickering, wheeling-dealing, secretiveness and quiet disdain for the 115,000 people they are-supposed to represent.

Under the burden o f their liberal image, they find it understandably d iffi­ cult to cooperate with city officials. In the past two and a half years, three top jobs have been abandoned by frustrated men, the city attorney, the city manager and, a few weeks ago, the police chief.

The council finally decided on a new city manager this month after 22 months o f searching and arguing. It was not just the “ dem ocratic process” that got in the way, there was also the fact that so few people wanted the job , even at $44,000 a year. John Scott, a Cal sociology profes­ sor, was recently quoted as saying: “ If civil servants are a success in Berkeley who else is going to hire them? Suppose you were a successful city manager in Berkeley. It could be the kiss o f death; everybody would be convinced you were a radical nut.”

The new manager, John Taylor, who leaves his present post o f city manager in Kansas city, Missouri, to com e to Berk­ eley, is hardly a radical nut, but most observers agree he doesnt know what h e’s let himself in for.

The search for a new police chief is just under way, now that Chief Bruce Baker has been signed on to head the force in Portland, Oregon. Passions run much higher over this position in Berkel­ ey. Baker was the commander o f the joint force (local cops, National Guard and county sheriffs) who clubbed, shot and

Space age hoboes — laying back on campus.

‘ C u rren t e v e n ts ” t o c o n f r o n t th e d e n im e d a p a th y.

gassed the People’s Park demonstrators which is about his only claim to fame, as he has always kept a wisely low profile. He left town with very few words, but before he went the power clique threw a cham­ pagne party fo r him in the Bank o f California. His assistant chief brought the house dow n when he presented Baker with the ultimate trophy o f his tenure . . . a gold painted nail from the People’s Park fence.

Most cops in the Berkeley force are a bit nervous, probably with g ood reason.

For example, they never venture alone dow n Telegraph avenue when it is crow d­ ed, because if an officer had to “ d o his duty” and arrest some one for any reason, he could immediately find himself surrounded and hemmed in b y a m ob o f hairy citizens - a People’s tradition that dates back a full ten years.

With large scale civil disobedience out o f style, the police have on ly the more regular all-American crimes to deal with - murder, armed robbery and rape, which are just as much in style as ever. I was astonished to learn the other day that in a recent one week period three women were kidnapped, in separate incidents, within a few hundred yards o f my house in broad daylight, then taken dow n to Oakland and gang-raped. And that was just on m y b lock ! N o wonder an outfit called Bay Area Women Against Rape (B AW A R) has notices fly-posted around town advising wom en what to d o if they get raped; at first I thought the militant feminists were overdramatising things.

Rapes and muggings are not uncom ­ mon on campus, but last month was the grisliest for a long time, with tw o male students stabbed to death for no apparent reason. Even so, Berkeley’s violent crime is quite tame compared with neighboring Oakland, where there were over 100 homicides in 1973, including the assas­ sination o f the Inspector o f Schools by an

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urban guerrilla group and the deaths o f tw o cops shot dow n in a helicopter.

I recently had the chance to see Berkeley police department in action when I found myself in the middle o f an armed raid on m y local bar. A bunch o f cops burst in and ordered everyone o u t They had received a message that some­ one inside had a gun. We all filed out and got frisked at the door, while the more suspicious looking customers, ie. the blacks, got the full treatment - a com ­ plete b od y search and ID check while spreadeagled against the wall.

I counted no less than 13 police cars in the street, and there must have been 20 edgy young cops pushing us around on the pavement, tw o o f them standing in com bat readiness, menacing the irate beer drinkers with pump shotguns. They did not find any gun, but these tactics dem­ onstrated to me that the cops themselves are the biggest law enforcem ent problem.

(The same bar, incidentally, was mysteri­ ously burned dow n last week.)

The “ victimless crimes” like prostitu­ tion, homosexuality and dope smoking get only scant attention from the police.

The vice-squad keeps a careful eye on the massage parlors, mainly because there are now so many o f them. They all keep a legitimate front, and about a third o f them are straight operations. The rest provide various additional sexual services, including the "nude encounter” , where a naked hostess reads from a pornographic novel; the “ half and half” , a grope session with a naked masseuse; and the "lo c a l” , or penis massage. At some o f them the customer can get anything he orders.

Otherwise he can check out the Barb small ads where a couple o f hundred hookers openly advertise.

Much o f the petty crime, like shoplift­ ing, smalltime breakins and other ripoffs, never get reported, let alone investigated or solved. This is considered endemic in

Berkeley nowadays because o f the tow n ’s large youthful transient population, a ffec­ tionately referred to as “ the street peo­ ple” .

There are a few hundred street people, who hang out in the town centre, on campus and around the friendly countercultural institutions like the Free Clinic, the Berkeley Switchboard and the Food Project. They spend their days getting stoned on wine or grass and panhandling in the street for spare change and/or a spare joint (most smokers carry a few ready rolled joints in their pocket), and at night they sleep in shop doorways, church crypts, abandoned cars, parks and building sites.

In general they are not hassled much.

In fact, Berkeley is kind o f proud o f its street people. They are like a new caste of untouchables, whose social function is to remind people how fortunate they are.

On the surface they have much in co m ­ mon with the transient hippies and cul­ tural guerrillas o f the 60s, but they belong to an entirely different tradition.

These are not the educated, spoilt kids who dropped out o f middle class America to come to Haight-Ashbury in 1967 their descendants are wasting their time in college rather than on the streets. The street people are a new lumpen prole­ tariat, uneducated, rootless, probably un­ employable, and totally destitute.

Professor Henry Miller, who works with the university’s social welfare d e­ partment, calls them “ the space-age h o­ boes” . He sees a clear parallel between them and the bums who roamed the country in the 1930s Depression, making the odd dollar from menial labor and petty crime, but mainly caught up in a perpetual flight from their own hopeless­ ness. He believes the phenomenon will grow rather than diminish as Am erica’s econom ic problems continue to bite deeper. “ Like the Depression era when a hobo knew where the best stops were, where they were less likely to get thrown out, these young people have their own circuit,” says Miller. “ Every important campus town in the country has an analogous population on the periphery, and most have the came characteristics as Skid R o w .”

It is not a subculture, he maintains.

The only thing they have in com m on is an empty stomach and numb resignation. “ As for lifestyle, it’s strictly determined by day-to-day necessity. There are no shared opinions about life as there were, for example, with the hippie or the student radical. Y ou could get articulate thinking from those kids, most o f whom had some education but chose to drop out. They were coherent and persuasive and could give astute political analysis.

But you dont get close to anything like that from the people w e’re seeing now The most typical comment y o u ’ll hear from them is: ‘Things are pretty fucked up, man.’ ” This typical street person’s analysis that Miller quotes also finds its echo in other social strata, since the poorer peo pie are now getting a taste o f the same econom ic medicine that preceded the crunch o f the 1930s. Your average freak, who at least has a ro o f over his head and some sort o f income, even if it is just welfare and fo o d stamps, identifies much more strongly with the street people than he does with all those rich radicals who live up in the Berkeley hills. T o a large extent, he shares the street people’s pow ­ erlessness, alienation and despair, though he probably manages to distract himself more successfully.

The struggle between these two cul tures - the well-off middle class nuclear families versus the poor single adults and students - continues behind the tow n ’s liberal facade. There is a growing opposi tion from more conventional residents against what they see as a d e^ fa cto

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takeover o f their town by bums, street vendors (what city hall calls a “ dow n­ wardly mobile occupation” ), young swingers, students, unmarried mothers and other undesirables.

One m ove the council is making is to develop a "population policy” , aimed at stopping the sort o f people who pay property taxes from fleeing town. They just put out a document outlining the proposed policy, which has some insidi­ ous undertones.

It reads in part: "There are over 16,000 white persons, non students be­ tween the ages o f 20 and 29. If the percentage o f this age group in the entire state were applied to Berkeley, then Berkeley has an ‘excess’ o f over 7000 white young adults. These persons are an essential feature o f Berkeley’s image, and contribute greatly to Berkeley’s atmos­ phere and culture. They also contribute substantially to Berkeley’s problems, since many o f the social ills - drug abuse, transiency, crime, etc - are attributed in large measure to this same group.”

Then it suggests: “ A small reduction in the proportion o f this population over time would restore a better balance to the overall city p op u la tion . . . ” There is an interesting new political development in Berkeley which, while certainly reflecting a mounting econom ic anxiety, also symbolises a renewed aware­ ness o f this econom ic class identity. A group o f activists, some o f them People’s Park veterans, recently got together to found the Lower Income Citizens’ Caucus (LIC), primarily to field tw o candidates to run in the Berkeley C o-op’s elections for a new board o f directors. They have almost no chance o f winning, but the election is closely watched as a political weathervane. The LIC program is very simple: poor people must organise around their low income identity and take con ­ trol o f their lives b y breaking the hege­ m ony o f a ruling class, liberal or other­ wise, which patronises, exploits and d e­ means them.

This idea has vast potential in a place like Berkeley, where even according to official figures (1970 census) 68 percent o f the single people earn less than $4000 a year and 6 4 percent o f families earn less than $4000 per member, making them officially “ p oor” . It has a slim chance o f evolving into a popular front to challenge the power structure, if only it can sustain itself through the present paralysis. They may just have picked the right year, with a loom ing econom ic crisis and a continu­ ing expose o f the moral decay that has eaten through the process o f government at its highest levels. Then again, it may go the way o f almost every New Left group that got serious, and end up outmanoeuvered or infiltrated by federal agents, then absorbed or neutralised.

I continually get into raps with people who bemoan the fact that there is “ noth­ ing happening” , that no one has an analysis any more. I can only agree. There are more causes than ever before but, like com m odities in the marketplace, they are subject to the fluctuating demands o f the revolutionary public. In any case, with scandals breaking every week around the government and the military-industrial com plex, no one can get enough breath­ ing space to com e up with a coherent crit­ ique on which to base a program. Yet most people instinctively feel that the alternative society is still hidden some­ where in the countercultural polemic.

So I was relieved to see one group o f agitators back in action recently, coming through loud and clear with that same old devastating, deadpan critique that made b lood boil at French universities in 1967-68. They are a small band o f phan­ tom intellectuals, nameless and more or less invisible, identifiable only by their

style and their dialectic. They talk the same language as the French situationists.

- o f Raoul Vaneigem and Guy Debord the same sort o f haunting, transcendent themes that can keep you awake all night.

These few provocateurs carried ou t their latest action at the UC campus during the busy lunch hour. They stood in Sproul Plaza handing ou t what looked like official questionnaires fo r some cam­ pus survey, complete with a cover letter “ signed” by university president Charles J. Hitch, in which he wrote: “ The survey is intended to evaluate the present lack o f political unrest among students, and to discover whether this state o f affairs can be continued through appropriate admin­ istrative a ction.”

The illusion o f authority is maintained through the first few questions, all phrased in stiff bureaucratic jargon, but then you spot the tongue in the cheek, the bitter twist o f the lip. Question 13 asks: “ Please check whether any o f the follow ing topics have been included in courses that y o u have taken: a ) The war in Indochina b ) Civil rights c ) The drive to impeach the president d) The energy crisis e) The cooperative nature o f unions and political parties f) The increasing bureaucratisation o f the university and modern society g) The role o f the teaching structure in the generation o f hierarchies h) The reduction o f sexual relation­ ships to ego transactions and com m odity display i) The relation o f the division o f labor to collective irresponsibility j) The increasing importance of manipulation in personal and political life k ) The reduction o f private life to com m odity consumption 1) The possibility o f generalised selfdirection and the end o f obligate labor m ) The possibility o f life as a festival.

The questions becom e more startling and brutally lucid, and then stop being questions altogether . . . “ At UC, as everywhere else, official thought no long­ er bears the faintest residue o f quality but instead has becom e an absolute quantity o f lies. Ideology invades all consciousness, as everyone is allotted their specific role in general passivity. From the factory to the livingroom, from the rock concert to the classroom, the image o f authority and the authority o f the image is the dom in ­ ant social relation. Under the logic o f hierarchy, daily life is nothing more than a closed system o f constraints . . . ” It was all there in this sp o o f docu ­ ment. An integrated rationale for person­ al rebellion against the crumbling roles and structures that dominate our lives and cheapen human experience. The cam ­ pus yawned. A few students quickly filled out the questionnaire in all seriousness and handed it in at Window 3, Sproul Hall, as directed. The administration shrugged it o ff as a meaningless prank.

The campus newspaper, the Daily cal, missed the point.

Apathy now wears long hair and bat­ tered Levis, and is surrounded with the marketable remnants o f an aborted his­ torical task. When activism flares up again, it will probably be in the name o f some cause or other that fulfills the usual American student requirements o f sim­ plicity, romanticism and/or sentimental­ ity, and media potential. Whether this "acquiescent” generation o f students will respond to serious political ideas that challenge their own role in the hierarchy is a wide open question in Berkeley, as everywhere else.

Meanwhile, the people are laying back, listless and unfulfilled, to o aware to be unconcerned, yet to o disillusioned to act.

Anything can happen, and most likely

MRE14€IL PHILISTINES! M A R K BUTLER T WAS one o f those ineffably pieces and distribute them among three magical moments, a seminal event Australians who, to his mind, deserved in our cultural history relentlessly unfold­ the award as much as he. ing before my eyes. It was like handing In beautiful, rolling phrases he listed Socrates the hem lock, or seeing Nelson them: PROFESSOR MANNING C LA RK , lift the telescope to his blind eye, or like historian, whose latest volume in his being Baudelaire’s cat. I hardly expected History o f Australia, The beginning o f such a mom ent to be revealed by the Australian civilisation, White had just television screen: crammed between fo o t ­ read, for “ showing us that what we were age o f the com m onwealth games and is what we are” ; B A R R Y HUMPHRIES Super-Henry peddling treaties; Patrick for being an accurate, if unflattering, White, Australian o f the Year, accepting mirror o f our culture, distorted, certainly, his award. but “ isnt distortion the prerogative o f He announced beforehand that the art?” ; and JACK MUNDEY, who was speech would mark his last public utter­ “ the first citizen o f our increasingly ance and his com plete retirement from benighted and shark-infested city o f public life: “ My philosophy is in my Sydney who have succeeded in calling the b o o k s” (mad com edy o f illiterate ABC blu ff o f those who have begun tearing us to interviewer obsessed, or perhaps offen d ­ bits . . . ” Not bad, a pointy-head intellec­ ed, by White’s dislike o f personal public­ tual, a long-haired comedian who imper­ ity, and White’s grim reaper face, his sonates women, and a militant communist. sparkling eyes, as he fends o f f the fool). Heady stuff for the assembled cream o f Given such a context, his words were Melbourne society to handle. They look ­ ed, on television, as though he had hit destined to cut deep.

White is undoubtedly aware o f the them with a velvet glove filled with gravel. irony in his sudden achievement o f honor He stood at the podium, defiant, in his ow n land. His books, without e x ­ radiating confidence, secure in his indif­ ception, delineate a vision o f Australian, ference to the shallow sensibilities o f his society that mixes fascinated horror, like a audience, breathing quickly (asthma), o b ­ doctor describing an incurable disease, viously running on adrenalin pumped out with a helpless, though unforgiving, com ­ in response to the magnitude o f the passion. The people leaping so readily on event. He must have known that his to the White-wagon now, who have de­ parting words are sure to be pored over clared him Australian o f the Year because and analysed in academic and media he won the N obel Prize (the Davis Cup o f circles for decades, as happened with his Literature etc), for writing books they previous pronouncements on Australia, have never read (some might bravely delivered when he returned from his attempt it, read enough to claim they European exile. He probably worked on made an effort, then leave the book his “ wretched speech” with great deliber­ conspicuously on the coffee table), repre­ ation, honing its deadly edge — it certain­ sent elements o f our culture that White ly sounded like it. A great writer telling despises most. his country what he thinks o f it.

His heroes, most perfectly in Voss, are It was a situation less grand in scale exceptional loners consumed by a vision than Z ola’s public defence o f Dreyfus, that makes them pariahs in the eyes o f but with equal impact. Art taking a stand. their fellow citizens, or, as in Ms G odbold The long excerpt on television seethed in Riders in the chariot, they are simple with drama: the greatest writer this cou n ­ physical people for whom love, not try has ever produced, speaking out knowledge, is second nature. White is a against the direction o f society with all believer in the power o f art and the value the freedom his unique position makes o f artists. Yet here he is, invited by a possible. A rare m om ent: it perhaps group o f people he could only regard as happens less frequently than comets.

Philistines, to accept bestowal o f their As a writer (one who had that very purile accolade and throw a few elegant day slumped sullenly into his 25th year, pearls at their feet: his last public appear­ and who had spent the day attempting to ance. Perfect! No doubt a similar scene administer himself the mythical overdose will appear sooner or later in a novel o f Indian hemp to celebrate his unexpect­ (contem porary parallel: Dylan’s song The ed survival, and who, by the time the locusts sang, his reaction to the ceremony news came on, was worried about his at Princeton university awarding him an future), I felt invigorated, my determin­ honorary doctorate o f music). ation was steeled again, listening to his According to the ABC News (and if fastidiously chosen, passionate words. It the information is incorrect, there is no was as if he did it to show that it is truth left in the w orld), the select audi­ possible to tell the truth and be applaud­ ence was “ shocked” by White’s sugges­ ed for it, but only if you are cunning, and tion that he might saw his plaque (“ this dont care. I I magnificent o b je ct” ) into four equal

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O ’ K eefe, Stuart Parks, Creenagh St Clare: Cheq­ uers, 7 .3 0 -3 .0 0 am , $ 2 .0 0 .

FOLK “ K A T H E R IN E B IN N S ” : H angtoe, 217 C o m m on ­ wealth street, Surry Hills, 8 .3 0 pm . “ D O N M O R R I S O N ” : Red R ile y ’s, 7 .3 0 pm .

JA ZZ “ J A Z Z G U I T A R ” — Charlie B yrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis: Sydney town hall, 8 .1 5 pm , $ 5 .5 0 , $ 4 .5 0 , $ 3 .5 0 . “ U N IT Y J A Z Z B A N D ” : O ld Push, 8 -1 2 pm . “ T IM B R O W N PLUS SITIN S : Northbridge H otel. “ D IC K H U G H E S P IA N O ” : F rench’s Tavern, O xford street, 6 -9 pm . “ M ERV A C H E SO N T R IO ” : R andy Wick Bistro, 1 2 3 Avoca street.

R andw ick, 7 .3 0 — 1 0 .3 0 p m . “ E C L IP S E ALLEY F I V E ” : Vanity Fair Hotel, G oulburn street, 7 .3 0 — 10 pm . “ ABBEY JAZZ BAND” : Lord D udley H o tel, Paddo. “ D O N D E S I L V A ’S ” : Old Push, George street, North S yd n ey , 7 .3 0 -1 1 .3 0 pm .

DISTRACTIONS “ TOUR OF V IC T O R IA B A R R A C K S ” — See the changing of the guard, thrill to the sight o f the historic jail: O xford street, Paddo, 1 0 .5 5 , Free, and I w o u ld definitely wear shoes.

FILMS N F T A ’s o ff H ollyw ood season — “ T W O LANE B L A C K T O P ” and “ G E T TO K N O W Y O U R R A B B IT ” A u st.G ovt. Centre theatre, 7 .1 5 p m . $ 1 .2 0 . M embers only. “ SO N G O F N O R W A Y ” : Opera House, 8 p m , $ 3 .0 0 . “ CRYSTAL V O Y A G E R ” : M anly Silver Screen, 9 .3 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 . “ H E N D R IX ” : M anly Silver Screen,.7 .3 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 . “ LES C O U S IN S ” (C. CHABROL 1 9 5 9 ): t rench New Wave Cinema, Sydn ey F ilm m a k e r s ’ Co-op, Film makers Cine­ m a, St Peter’s lane. Darlinghurst, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 6 & 10 pm . M em bers on ly, $ 1 .0 0 .

CLASSICS “ T A N N H A U S E R ” by Wag­ ner: Opera House, 7 .0 0 pm , $ 6 .5 0 , $ 8 .5 0 , $ 1 0 .5 0 .

R AD IO , T V “ NEW S O C IE T Y ” — A new w eekly review o f b e ­ havioral sciences and edu­ cation : A B C R adio 2 , 7 .1 5 pm . “ E D U C A T IO N N O W ” — T he latest developm ents in education: A B C Radio 2 (2 F C ), 7 .3 5 pm . “ CARSTENSZ” : Glacier o f the equator — d o c o on an ice b lo c k in Irian. Chan 1 0 , 7 .3 0 p m .

M O V IE “ 10 NORTH F R E D E R IC K ” — Gary C o op e r, Suzy Parker: Chan 1 0 , 9 .0 0 p m . “ ARE H IE R A R C H IE S N E C E S S A R Y ? ” — Patric Bateson on hum an hier­ archies and animal behav­ io r: A B C 2 , 1 0 .1 5 p m . “ REBEL W IT H O U T A C A U S E ” — James Dean in his m ost fam ous m ovie: Chan 9 , 1 0 .3 0 pm .

JA Z Z , ROCK “ D IC K H U G H E S Q U A R ­ T E T ’ ’ : Stage Door Tavern, C am pb ell street, City, 7 .0 0 -1 0 pm . “ C H R IS T A P P E R A L A N D D A V E F U R N IS S ” : Forest Lodge H o tel, 7 .3 0 -1 0 pm . “ MERV ACH ESTON T R IO ” : Bellevue H otel, Paddo.

ROCK ‘ 4 B A N D O F L IG H T ’ ’ T R E E ” : Chequers. “ T R O U P A D O R E S ” : M an­ ly Vale H otel. ‘ ‘ J U N IO R AND TH E G OLDTOPS”: Fiddlers V in e , 1 1 5A Cronulla street, Cronulla, 7 .3 0 pm .

FILM “ T H E L IO N IN W IN T E R ” — H e p b u rn , O ’T o o le : Opera House, 8 pm , $ 3 .0 0 . “ UNCLE V A N Y A ” — A Russian film o f C hekhov’s play: Opera House (Music R o o m ), 7 .3 0 p m . $ 1 .7 0 . “ CRYSTAL V O Y A G E R ” : Manly Silver Screen, 9 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 . “ H E N D R IX ” : Manly Silver Screen, 7 .3 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 . “ A U S T R A L IA N A N IM A ­ T IO N PROGRAM ” — W ork by David Perry, Bruce Petty, Ned McCann & oth e rs: Filmmakers Cinema, 10 pm , $ 1 .5 0 .

OPERA “ W A R A N D PEACE ” —» P r o k o fie v in English: Opera H ouse, 1 pm , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 6 .5 0 , $ 8 .5 0 , $ 1 0 .5 0 .

CO NTEM PO RARY “ LEE W IL L IA M S ” : Fruedian Slip Wine Bar, R e d fe m , 7 .3 0 pm .

J “ C H R IS M cG L O IN , J E A N N IE L E W IS, M A C A N O LORNA F O S T E R , BOB P O M E R O Y , BILL MARGIN” : E liz a b e th H o tel, Elizabeth street.

C ity, 8 .0 0 pm , 6 0 cents. “ D O N M O R R IS O N ” : Red R ile y ’s.

R AD IO , T V “ W IN D S F R O M A T O Z ” — A program designed to illustrate the developm ent o f wind instruments: A B C Radio 2 , 8 .0 0 pm . “ SIT Y O U R S E L F D O W N , STEAL SO M EO N E’S C H A IR : — F olk /ro c k with Marian Henderson, Alan Ward, John Sum mers, East Neason Spasm Band: Chan 2 , 8 .4 5 pm . “ TWO ON A G U IL ­ L O T IN E ” - stars Cesar R o m e ro : Chan 9 , 9 .0 0 pm . “ H O R IZ O N ” — A dram a­ tised reconstruction of Sigmund Freud’s treatment o f an obsessive neurotic: Channel 2 , 9 .1 5 pm . “ D IS R A E L I” — Movie ab ou t hire purchase agree­ m ent on Suez canal: Chan 1 0 , 1 0 . 1 0 pm . “ ARE H I E R A R C H IE S N E C E S S A R Y ? ” — Peter Riviere on the Trio Indians of the A m azon forest: A B C Radio 2 , 1 0 .1 5 pm .

WORKSHOPS “ C R E A T IV E DRAM A W O R K S H O P ” : b y learning collective: Guriganya, 4 4 4 O xford street, Paddo, 8 p m . Free or donation.

POP “ D IA N E LE SLIE & POP A R T IS T .? ” : Opera H ouse, 8 p m , $ 4 .0 0 . “ TREE, BAND OF L IG H T ” — Johnny

“ BAND OF L IG H T , T R E E ” : Chequers. “ CH OCOLATE W ATCHBAND” : Fiddlers Vine, Cronulla.

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“ M IX E D FOLK” : Red L ion Pub, Pitt and Liver­ p oo l street, 8 .1 0 . “ D O N M O R R IS O N ” : Red R ile y ’s. “ CHARLIE

BY RD, B A R N E Y K E S S E L , H ER B E L L IS ” : Syd n ey Tow n Hall, 8 .1 5 pm. $ 5 .5 0 , $ 4 .5 0 , $ 3 .5 0 . “ PORT JACK SO N JA Z Z BAND” : Stage D oor Tavern, 7 .0 0 - 1 0 .0 0 p m .

FILM “ NFTA OFF HOLLY­ W O O D ” — “ BREW STER M c C L O U D ” and “ R A C H E L RACHEL” : A ust G ovt Centre theatrette, 7 .1 5 . $ 1 .2 0 . Latecom ers will n o t be adm itted. “ C I V IL IS A T IO N ” — T V show on the big screen. Ken Clark: Art Gallery of N SW , 1 2 .0 0 pm , 1 .1 0 , 2 .1 0 , 3 .1 0 , 6 .1 0 , 7 .1 0 , F R E E . “ C H A R L I E ’S BIG ROMANCE” — (Charlie C h a p lin ) p lu s “ THE E A G L E ” — (R u d o lf V alen ­ tino) d I u s “ T H E M IM E ” — (Marcel M arceau): Opera H ouse, 8 pm . $ 2 .5 0 . “ T H E L IO N IN W IN T E R ” — with Hepburn, O ’T o o le : Opera H ouse, 8 pm. $ 3 .0 0 . “ H E N D R IX ” : M anly Silver Screen, 7 .3 0 , 9 .3 0 ; except tues, wed 7 .3 0 o n ly ; fri 7 .3 0 , 9 .3 0 , 1 1 .3 0 . AU week “ UNSTRAP ME” (G .

Kuchar 1 9 6 8 ) plus other shorts — New Y o rk Under­ ground F ilm s: Filmmakers Cinem a, 1 0 pm. $ 1 .5 0 .

R A D IO , T V “ G T K ’ 7 4 ” — A music special with Band o f Light Chan. 2 , 7 .3 0 . “ PICK O F TH E G O O N S ” : A B C R adio 1, 8 .0 0 pm. “ B R IA N C A D D & F A M I­ L Y ” — R o c k : Chan. 2, 8 .0 0 . “ ARE H IE R A R C H IE S N E C E S S A R Y ? ” — Michael Lane o n structures of be­ lie f: A B C R adio 2 , 1 0 .1 5 pm . “ VARIETY IT A L I A N S T Y L E ” — Ethnic extra­ vaganza: Chan. 1 0 , 1 1 .1 0 .

OPERA “ THE BARBER OF S E V IL L E ” (O R “ NO L O N G H A I R S ” ): Opera H ouse, 7 .3 0 p m . $ 6 .5 0 , $ 8 .5 0 , $ 1 0 .5 0 .

FOOD U ni o f N S W F ood C o -op — Try their herring and wheat germ flavored boiled sw eets: Near R oun d house, 5 p m -8 pm.

ROCK “ CH OCOLATE W ATCHBAND” : Fiddlers Vine, Cronulla. “ T R O U P A D O R E S ” : Oceanic Pub. “ F A T A L B E R T S IL V E R C L O U D ” : Chequers. “ P U M A , M A G I C ” : Blacktow n Civic Centre. “ BAND OF L IG H T ” : R ockdale M asonic Hall, 8 pm.

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“ T R O U P A D O R E S ” : R oselands, 6 .3 0 pm.

“ D O C W IL L IS A N D T H E DUKES M E N ": A lbury H o te l, O xford street, Darlinghurst. “ U N IT Y JAZZ BAN D ” : Old Push, 8 .3 0 - 1 2 .3 0 .

“ G A R Y W ALFORD JAZZ B A N D ” : U nity Hall H o tel, 292 Darling street, Bal­ main.

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“ CELLAR FOLK” : YWCA, 189 Liverpool street. C ity, 8 pm. “ AL HEAD” : Freudian Slip, 7 .3 0 . “ S Y D N E Y F O L K SO N G CLUB” — Mike Eves: Elizabeth H otel, Elizabeth street, City. “ M IX E D F O L K ” — con­ tem porary, A u st.: Red L ion Pub, Pitt and Liver­ pool street. “ L IN D A B R A D L Y ” : Red R ile y ’s W ine Bar, 263 Riley street, Surry Hills.

2 1 1 .3 2 4 0 .

FILM N F T A ’s c la s s i c s — “ P O R T R A IT O F J E N N IE ” by Dieterle and “ TH E SHANGHAI G ESTURE”

by V on Sternberg: AMP theatre, Circular Q uay,

7 .1 5 pm. $ 1 .2 0 (students 8 0 c ). (M em bers only, join at d oo r $ 3 .0 0 .) “ ZO R BA THE GREEK” plus “ THE DAY TH E F IS H CAME OUT” : A cad em y Twin, Padding­ ton, 1 1 .3 0 pm. “ C H A R L IE C H A P L IN ” : see thursday.

LIVE SHOW “ SYLVIA & THE S Y N T H E T IC S IN TH E BARKLEYS OF BROAD­ W A Y ” — Live show plus film with Fred Astaire & Ginger R odgers: Film­ makers Cinem a, 1 0 pm. $ 1 .5 0 .

R A D IO , TV “ R O L L IN G W IT H K E N ­ N Y R O G E R S ” — F o lk / R o c k : Chan. 2 , 6 .0 5 .

“JAZZ ON A F R ID A Y N IG H T ” : A B C Radio 1 , 7 .1 5 - 1 0 .0 0 p m . “ T H E P R IM A R Y Y E A R S ” — new series on early edu­ cation: A B C R ad io, 7 .1 5 pm.

W ESTERN T H E A T R E — “ THE N A K E D SPUR” —

James Stew art, R obert R yan , Janet Leigh — spurs b ut no w hips: Chan. 9 , 9 .0 0 .

M O V IE — “ S O L D IE R O F FORTUNE” — Clark Gable, Gene Barry, Susan Hayward: Chan. 1 0 , 9 .0 0 pm. “ TOW ER O F L O N D O N ” — Vincent Price, Michael Pate m ovie: Chan.

9, 1 0 .4 0 pm .

TH EATRE “ TH E HO STAG E” by Brendan Behan: Cronulla Arts theatre.

Info 5 2 3 .6 8 8 8 , 8 .1 5 pm .

OPERA Y O U N G O P E R A — “ TH E P L A Y O F H E R O D ” and “ THE SL AU G H T ER OF T H E IN N O C E N T S ” : Conservatorium, 8 pm . $ 3 .0 0 , $ 2 .5 0 .

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vale Forum Y o u th Club. “ T R O U P A D O R E S” : Oceanic Pub. “ F A T A L B E R T , S IL V E R C L O U D ” : Chequers. “ BUFFALO, F IN C H , G IN G E R ” plus S T O N E S AND BOWER F IL M : H ornsby Police Boys Club, 8 -1 2 p m . $ 1 .5 0 . “ 6 9 ’ers” : Kingsgrove C .Y .O . ‘ 4 B A N D O F L IG H T ’ ’ G reen a cre C o m m u n ity Hall, 8 .0 0 pm .

FOLK “ A L H E A D ” : Red R ile y ’s, 7 .3 0 . “ DON MORRISON” : Fruedian Slip, 7 .3 0 . “ S Y D N E Y FO LK SONG C L U B ” with Mike Eves: Elizabeth H otel. “ PACT FOLK” : YWCA Cellar, Liverpool street (near Paris Cinem a), 8 pm .

JA ZZ “D O N OF S I L V A ” : Louis Tavern, Elizabeth street, Paddington. A ftern o on . “ D O C W IL L IS ” : Albury H otel, afternoon. “ MERV ACHESON

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FOLK COMMUNE COFFEE LOUNGE: 580 Victoria street, North M elbourne.

PETER PARKHILL: Frank Traynors, 1 0 0 Little Lonsdale street, City.

JA ZZ “ DOVE” : Prospect Hill H o te l, High street, Kew.

MEETINGS “ T H E H U M A N P R E D IC A ­ M ENT AN D THE M Y S­ T E R Y O F T IM E ” — G e off Forster: R oya l Society, 9 Victoria street, M elbourne.

8 .0 0 pm .

FILMS “ C ISC O P IK E ” (Bill N or­ ton) an d “ PUTNEY SW OPE” (Downey): N F T A , Guild theatre, M el­ bourne Uni U nion, Parkville, 7 .4 0 p m .

S A W D U S T A N D T IN S E L ” (M ) Bergman and “ TH E CR AN ES AR E F L Y IN G ” (N R C ) — Soviet film , per­ s o n a lly re c o m m e n d e d : Union theatre, M elbourne U ni U nion, 7 .3 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 single, or $ 1 0 .0 0 the sea­ son. ( $ 1 .5 0 single or $ 7 .5 0 season students).

TV “ E M E R G E N C Y L IN E ” — public advice on personal and dom estic problem s, H S V -7 , 3 .0 0 p m , to be viewed with chemicals and a pinch o f salt. “ T H E CO R PS D E B A L ­ L E T ” , “ M O S C O W C IV IC BALLET”, “ R U S S IA N BEARS OF THE C IR ­ CUS” , “THE CENTRAL THEATRE OF D O LLS” , “ LENINGRAD SYM ­ PHONY ORCH ESTRA” — fo r those o f y o u w ho miss­ ed it earlier: H S V -7 , 7 .3 0 pm . “ THE S P IN N E R S ” w ith A ck er Bilk: A B V -2 , 7 .3 0 pm .

“ A F L E A IN M Y E A R ” — daily life o f some m o d e m d ogs. A heavy social c o m ­ m en t, to be sure: A T V -0 , 7 .3 0 pm . “ Y O U ’R E HERE TO W O R K ” — D ocum entary o n N ational Y o u th The­ atre in Britain, with Vanessa Redgrave and Elton John: A B V -2 , 9 .2 5 pm.

4 4 F IE N D W IT H O U T A F A C E ” — old science fic­ tion m ovie: A T V -0 , 9 .3 0 pm.

RADIO “ NEW S O C IE T Y ” — a revue o f behavioral sci­ ences and education: 3 A R , 7 .1 5 pm . “ B L O O D W E D D IN G ” — b y S zo k ola y with some of H ungary’s best >ices: 3 A R , 8 .0 0 p m .

ROCK “ HOT CITY BUMP B A N D ” : W hitehorse H otel, Nunawading. “ RED HOUSE ROLL BAND” : Croxton Park H o te l, Preston. “ KUSH” : Sundow ner H o te l, G eelong. “ BIG P U S H ” : George H o te l, St Kilda.

ROUX” (Franju) and “ JALSAGHAR” (The Music R oom ) (Satyajit R a y ): N F T A Guild theatre, M elbourne Uni U nion, 7 .4 0 pm , $ 1 .2 0 , (8 0 c stu). “ THE ADVERSARY” (N R C ) — Part o f Satyajit R a y ’s trilogy o f m odern city life in Bengal: Union theatre, see tuesday.

MEETINGS Orientation nite at LinkU p, 5 9 St John street, Prahran, 8 .3 0 pm . All w el­ com e.

TV “ TH E G O O D IE S ” : A B V -2 , 8 .0 0 pm . “ DRUGS IN SPORT” : A B V -2 , 1 0 .2 0 pm .

RADIO “ S IL V E R BELLS AND COCKLE SH E LLS” — a play: 3 L O , 1 1 .0 3 am . “ THE WINDS OF CHANGE” : 3AR , 8 .0 0 pm. “ JO H N W IL L IA M S IN CONCERT” — Classical program: 3 A R , 1 1 .1 0 pm . “ PICK O F T H E G O O N S " — for all you G oon fans: 3 L O , 8 .0 0 pm .

BLUES DUTCH T IL D E R S sings the blues: Frank Traynors, City.

EXPER IM E N TAL “ Y O U ” plays at the C om ­ m u n e, N orth M elbourne.

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JA ZZ “ DAVE R A N K IN JAZZ BAND”: A lm a H otel, Chapel street, St Kilda.

O W E N Y E A T M A N : Pros­ pect Hill H o te l, K ew .

F R A N K T R A Y N O R : E x­ change H o te l, Cheltenham .

POETRY B R U N S W IC K POETRY W O R K S H O P m eets again at Saxon hall, Saxon street, Brunswick.

N IM B IN C O M M U N IC A ­ T IO N S C E N T R E invites aU to the first o f their regular m eetings, for any info or inquiry on N im bin, with occasional film s. Upstairs, 161 Spring street. C ity, 8 .0 0 p m . M ay the longlife sun shine upon you .

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ROCK “ RED H O U SE ROLL B A N D ” , “ T A N K ” : Whitehorse H otel, Nunawading. “ SID R U M P O ” : Croxton Park H o tel, Preston.

5 “ GRADUATE” : Sun­ dow ner H otel, Geelong. “ HOT CITY BUMP B A N D ’ ’ , “ A B E L LODGE” : Waltzing Ma­ tilda, Springvale. “ BIG PUSH” : George H o te l, St Kilda. “ K U SH ” : Matthew Flinders H otel, Chadstone. “ A Y E R S R O C K ” : Station H o te l, Prahran.

FOLK MIKE O ’R O U R K E , D U T C H T IL D E R S , ERIC K O W A R S K I: Dan O ’Con­ nell, cnr Canning and Princes streets, Carlton.

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FOLK Electric fo lk music with Ballender, plus guests: U nion H o te l, Lygon street, C arlton, 8 .0 0 p m -1 2 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 . “ BUSH W H ACKERS AN D B U L L O C K IE S BAND” : Polaris Inn, N icholson street. North Carlton. “ S K Y L IG H T ” : Prospect Hill H o te l, K ew .

FRANK TRAYNOR: Beaumaris Civic Centre.

T raynors, City.

Tankerville A rm s, N ich o l­ son street, Carlton: Y e t again has m ystery artists.

“ K U N G F U ” — a visual follow up of D ay lig h t’s serialisation: H S V -7 , 7 .3 0 pm. “ HOUND OF THE B A S K E R V IL L E S — 1 9 7 2 repeat o f the age old story, did quite well in Singa­ p ore: H S V -7 , 9 .0 0 p m . “ SIT Y O U R S E L F D O W N AND TAKE A LOOK A R O U N D — a good series, with Marian Henderson, Mike M cClellan, the N ew Y ork p u b li c library: A B V -2 , 9 .4 0 pm . “ MONTY P Y T H O N ’S FLYING CIRCUS” : A B V -2 , 1 0 .2 0 p m . “ ROCCO AND H IS B R O T H E R S ” — V isc o n ti’s superb film : H S V -7 , 1 0 .4 0 pm .

RADIO “ A M E R R Y PROGRESS” — song and poetry: 3 A R , 1 1 .1 0 pm .

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T R IO ” : iiellvue H o tel, Paddington. A ftern o on 3-6 pm. “ ECLIPSE ALLEY F IV E ” : V an ity Fair H otel, 4 pm -7 pm . “ ELECTRIC C O S M IC B L U E S ” — with Larry on blues guitar: Hang T oe, 217 Com m onw ealth street, Surry Hills, 8 pm . ‘‘ U N IT Y J A Z Z B A N D ” : Old Push, 8 .3 0 -1 2 .3 0 . ‘ ‘ D O C W IL L IS ” : Beresford Hotel, Surry Hills, 7 .3 0 , 10 pm. ‘‘NOEL C R O W ’S JAZZ B A N D ” : Red N e d ’s Bistro, 2 5 Spring street, Chatsw ood, 8 .3 0 -1 1 .3 0 . “ GARY W A L F O R D ’S J A Z Z B A N D ” : Unity Hall, Balmain.

T H E ATR E “ THE HOSTAGE” : See friday. ‘‘ THE E A G L E H A S T W O HEADS” — romantic drama: Genesian theatre, 420 K en t street, C ity, 8 .1 5 . Info 7 9 8 .3 6 0 8 . $ 2 .0 0 plus concessions to stu­ dents $ 1 .0 0 , pensioners 25c. ‘‘M Y AUNT T H E U N I-

C O R N ” . Com edy b y John Hep w orth: Studio 2 2 8 , cnr Forbes street and St Peters lane, Kings Cross, 8 .1 5 , $ 1 .8 0 .

FILM “ ZO R B A THE G R E E K ” and ‘ ‘ THE D A Y T H E FISH CAM E O U T ” : A cadem y Twin, Paddington, 1 1 .3 0 pm. “ C H A R L IE C H A P L IN ” : See thursday.

C H IL D R E N S SH O W — “ T H E L IV IN G D E S E R T ” ( Wa l t D isn ey ); “ TH E C H A M P IO N ” (Chaplin): Film makers’ Cinema, 2 pm . 5 0 c kids, $1 adults.

A N IM A T IO N P R O G R A M : See Wednesday, 6th. “ U N S T R A P M E ” — New Y ork Underground: See thursday, 7th. “ Z A B R IS K E PO IN T ” — (A nton ioni, 1 9 7 0 ): Midnite. Film m aker’s C o-op.

RADIO R A D IO P L A Y — “ TH E W A L T Z OF THE T O R E A D O R S ” : Radio 2, 8 .3 0 pm.

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ROCK “ BLERTA”, C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX WHOOPEE B A N D ” — Nostalgic mixed media m adness on stage and film : Collingw ood town hall, Hoddle street, 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .

SID R U M P O ” , “ A R I E L ” : Station H o tel, Prahran. “ A Y E R S R O C K ’ ’, “ S K Y L IG H T ” : Teazer, E x­ hibition street, City. “ M ISSISSIPPI” : M atthew Flinders H o te l, Chad stone. “ MATT T A Y L O R ’ ’ ,! “ T A N K ’ *: W h ite h o rse H otel, Nunawading.

P “ BIG PU SH” : Croxton Park H o te l, Preston. “ R ED HOUSE ROLL B A N D ’’: Sundowner H otel, G eelong. “ G R A D U A T E ”, “ T R I­ D E N T ” : R em brandt R o o m (gay), South Yarra. “ RONDELLS” : George H otel, St Kilda.

FOLK Go r d o n m c in t y r e , D U TCH T IL D E R S : O u t­ post Inn, 5 2 Collins street, City. Tavern F o lk , Union H o te l, Carlton, ha s T R A D IT IO N A L folk nite. “ BUSH W H ACKERS AN D B U L L O C K IE S BAND” : Polaris Inn, Carlton.

MIKE O ’R O U R K E , JOHN C R O W L E , ER IC K O W A R S K I: Frank Traynors City.

JA ZZ C H A R L IE BYRD, BAR­ NEY KESSEL, HERB EL L IS : Dallas Brooks hall.

Usual b ookings agencies. “ ST O R E Y V I L L E JAZZB A N D ” : M anor H ouse.

OW E N Y E A T M A N : Pros­ pect Hill H o te l, K ew . “ B R IA N B R O W N Q U A R ­ T E T ” : C o m m u n e, North Melbourne.

FILMS “ JU LES ET JIM ” (M ) — T ruffaut’s finest popular film : U nion theatre, see tuesday. “ THE S E N S U A L IS T ” : Trak, L A T E , 1 1 .4 5 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .

“ W AR AND PEACE” — a preview: A B V -2 , 9 . pm .t “ IN C O N C E R T ” — David Conroy, M elanie, B. B. King and Guess W h o ?: H S V -7 , 1 0 .0 0 pm .

RADIO “ T H E P R IM A R Y Y E A R S ” — program on new educa­ tion: 3 A R , 7 .1 5 pm .

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“ MATT T A Y L O R ’ ’, “ MADDER L A K E ’ ’, “ A Y E R S R O C K ” — Mush­ room nite: Canopus, Box Hill. “ SID R U M P O ” : Matthew Flinders H o tel, Chadstone (afternoon). “ S K Y L IG H T ” : M atthew Flinders H otel, Chadstone (evening). “ CAPTAIN MATCH­ B O X ” : Chelsea city hall. “ FANTASY” : Village Green H otel, Springvale. “ M ISSISSIPPI” : Southside 6 , Moorabbin (afternoon). “ M IS S IS S I P P I” , “ R ED H O U SE ROLL B A N D ” , ‘ ‘T A N K ” : F ran k ston Police Citizens Y ou th hall. “ C H A IN ” : Station H o tel, Prahran (afternoon). “ BIG P U SH ” : Whitehorse H o tel, Nunawading. “ JO H N RUPERT AND HIS H E N C H M E N ” : C rox­ ton Park H o te l, Preston.

“GARY YOUNG AND HIS F A T C A T S ” : Sun­ dow ner H o tel, Geelong. “ GRADUATE” : George H o tel, St Kilda.

FOLK PETER P A R K H IL L and friends: Dan O ’Connell (af­ ternoon), Carlton.

M IK E O ’R O U R K E , ER IC K O W A R S K I: C om m une, North M elbourne.

ERIC KOW ARSKI, PETER P A R K H IL L , C O R B E N : O utpost Inn, City.

JOHN G R A H A M , D A N N Y SPOONER, GORDON M c IN T Y R E , D U T C H T IL ­ DERS: Frank Traynors, City. “ S K Y L IG H T ” : Prospect H o te l, K ew (afternoon).

A T R E — "T H E W ELSH S O N A T A ” : A B C R adio 2, 8 .3 0 pm. “ C H IN E SE F O L K T A L E IN V IO L IN C O N C E R T O ” : A B C Radio 2 , 1 1 .1 0 pm.

WORKSHOP “ CREATIVE DRAMA W O R K S H O P ” by N im rod, for kids: Old Cerebos Fac­ tory, 5 0 0 Elizabeth street, Surry Hills, 1 pm . F R E E .

KIDS "T H E PIED PIPER” : Independent theatre, North Sydney, 2 pm.

Luna Park — relive your childhood: M ilsons Point, 2 pm -6 pm.

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N A T A ’s images of the mind series — “ CL E O DE 5a 7 ” and “ T H E R E D D E S E R T ” : Opera House.

Info 4 4 .5 7 9 3 , 7 .1 5 . $ 1 .6 0 , students $ 1 .2 0 , members only. (Join at d oo r $ 3 .0 0 .)

“ PLANT” : Polaris Inn, North Carlton.

D A V E R A N K I N : L em on Tree H o te l, Carlton (after­ n o on ). “ VICTORIA JAZZ C L U B ” : Manor H ouse.

“ THE A M A Z I N G M A R SU PIALS’’ and “ L IF E IN T H E S O U T H ­ ER N S E A S ” : 1 0 .0 0 am, 2 .0 0 pm, 4 .0 0 pm. $ 2 .0 0 , kids $ 1 .0 0 . “ F IL M C L A S S IC S ” : W . E. A . Film G roup, 72 Bath­ urst street, S yd n ey, 1 .3 0 pm. Program/m embership.

Details 9 3 .4 6 8 0 . “ N O SU N IN V E N IC E ” — Vadim (1 9 5 9 ), French retrospective: N O T E m em ­ bers only. Join at d oo r. 4 -6 pm.

K ID S SH O W : See Satur­ day, 9 th , 2 pm.

B R IS B A N E F IL M S — C o op new w ork open screening, 8 pm.

CLASSIC “ M U SIC O N T H E H O U R ” ; 1 1 .0 0 am to 4 pm . $ 1 .0 0 , kids 2 0 c . All tickets sold at door.

“ GLEN CARDIER, SMAUG COUNTRY BAND, PHI L LOBL, R IC H A R D L Y O N S and of course E R IC from Perth” :

RAD IO “ THE E X Q U IS IT E EC­ C E N T R IC ” : b y G eoffrey M aslen: 3 A R , 4 .0 0 pm . “ SUNDAY N IT E ON R A D IO 2 ” : 3 A R , 7 .3 0 p m .

FILMS “ C IT IZ E N K A N E ” (N R C ) — Orson W elles’ film , not to be missed under any account. (U n cu t version): Union theatre, see tuesday. “ MARI E W ALEW SKA’ (N R C ) with Greta G arbo: Athenaeum theatre ( L A T E ), 1 0 .3 0 p m , Collins street, City.

RADIO “ W A L T Z O F THE T O R E ADORES” : 3AR , 8 .3 0 pm .

o u v te fc w ROCK “ FANTASY”: C roxton Park H otel, Preston. “ T A N K ” : Icelands, Ringw ood. “ MATT TAYLOR’ “ M ISSISSIPPI” , “ A Y E R S ROCK” : St V in cen ts church hall.

W oodland street, Strathm ore.

FOLK MARGARET ROADK N IG H T , JU LIE W O N G : O utpost Inn, City.

D A N N Y SPOONER, G O R ­ D O N M c I N T Y R E : Frank Traynors, City.

EXPE R IM E N TA L “ MELBOURNE NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE’ C om m une, North Carlton.

FILMS “ P IC TU R E S A T A N E X ­ HIBITION” : E m erson, Lake and Palmer. Bercy theatre, 3 .3 0 p m , 6 .0 0 p m , 8 .0 0 pm .

Bookings at M yers, M S D , H otel A ustra­ lia, Bercy cinema.

"B U S H V ID E O THEAT R E ” — N im bin m em ories, C A P T A IN M A T C H B O X etc: Fuetron building, 31 Bay street, Glebe (behind Grace Bros B roadw ay, 3rd floor). $ 8 .0 0 , students $ 1. 0 0 .

“ GARY YOUNG AND HIS F A T C A T S ” : George H o tel, St Kilda. “ M ISSISSIP PI” : Caulfield Institute o f T ech nology (L u nch). “ SID R U M P O ” : Footscray Institute o f T ech nology '

TH E A TR E S “ T H E A R C H IT E C T A N D T H E E M P E R O R O F A S. S Y R I A ” by Spanish writer Fernando Arrabel, newly translated, promises to be a large, physically com ic ren­ dition o f this psycho-sex­ ual farce. Pram F actory, 325 D rum m ond street, Carlton, tuesday-Sunday, $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 students.

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I “ A F R IC A ” — a savage m usical b y Steve Spears.

They w erent sure at tim e o f print, b u t if it is on it ’s a w orthwhile experience: Black theatre, Pram F ac­ tory, (above address), check on the phone 3 4 7 .7 1 3 3 , Wednesday-Sun­ day, 1 0 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 . “ T E R R IB L Y T E R R IB L Y ” — a com ed y o f m urder and marriage in T oorak , till Sat­ urday, 8 .1 5 also 2 .1 5 Sat­ urday, $ 3 .5 0 ( $ 2 .0 0 stu­ d ents; get there b y 8 .0 0 pm though).

FILMS “ PERFORM ANCE” — a visual feast, finishing soon (like this w e e k ): N e x t film will be “ T H A T W IL L BE T H E D A Y ” with R ingo Starr and David E ssex: Trak, T oorak road , T o o ­ rak, 6 .0 0 p m , 8 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 . “ ENGLAND M ADE M E” (M ) and “ T R A V E L S W IT H M Y A U N T ” (M ): D en d y, Malvern, 7 .4 5 p m . “ S L E U T H ” — have you seen it y e t? n o t to be

CLASSIC A L IR IO D I A Z : “ The out­ standing guitarist o f the geheration” Segovia: Conservatorium, 8 .1 5 . $ 4 .3 0 , $ 3 .2 0 , concessions avail­ able.

6 0 0 6 “ E L T O N J O H N ” : R andwick R acecourse, feb 2 4 , $ 5 .2 0 . Usual agencies. “ T H E N SW D A N C E C O M ­ P A N Y ” : Opera H ouse, feb 2 1 , 2 2 , 2 3 , 2 8 , m ar 1 , 2 , $ 3 .5 0 , $ 4 .5 0 , $ 6 .0 0 .

D A V ID C A S S ID Y and his group Terminal A cne. Randwick Racecourse, march 2, $ 4 .2 0 . Usual agencies.

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“ T H E C E N T A U R ” — radio play: R adio 1 , 8 .0 0 pm .

SUNDAY P L A Y B IL L — “ P A R IS IE N N E ” — radio play: A B C 1, 8 pm . “ M A N IN Q U E S T IO N ” — Leonard French T V inter­ view: Chan. 2 , 9 .3 0 .

“ ROOM TO M O V E ” — The Rolling Stones story: ABC Radio 1 , 8 .0 0 pm.

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“ W A T T S T A X ” with Isaac Hayes, Carla Thom as etc — soul m usic: A cadem y Tw in, Paddo, 2 p m , 4 p m , 7 .4 5 p m , $ 2 .5 0 . “ BUSH V ID E O & FILM SH O W ” — Alternative T V , multiple m onitors plus film s: Film m akers’ Cine­ m a, tues 5th—sat 9 th , 8 p m , $ 1 .5 0 (N B . n o t sun & m on ).

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KIDS “ P R O F E S S O R Z I G G L E ’S TRAVELS” : Clarem ont theatre, 14 Clarem ont street. South Yarra, 2 .0 0 pm .

Kirk G allery, 4 2 2 Cleve­ land street, Surry Hills, 8 pm . $ 1 .5 0 .

POETRY “ PO O R T O M ’S P O E T R Y B A N D ” : C o m m u n e , North M elbourne.

R AD IO “ ROOM TO 3 L O , 8 .0 0 p m . “ NEW M U SIC 8 .3 0 pm

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“ A R C H IB A L D , W YNNE AND SULM AN PRIZE E X H IB IT IO N ” : The Art Gallery o f N S W , 2 2 1 .2 1 0 0 , m on-sat, 1 0 am - 5 p m ; thur, 1 0 am - 1 0 p m ; sun, l2 n o o n to 5pm .

DISTRACTIONS “ M YSTERY F L IG H T S ” : $ 8 adults, $4 kids (under 1 5 ) East West throw you on a plane to wherever no one else wants to go. Ring 3pm day before. 2 0 .6 4 1 . “ TH E P L A N E T A R IU M ” — Make it a special trip to see the stars: Museum o f A p ­ plied A rts, Harris street, U ltim o. M on-sat, 1 0 am -5 p m ; sun, 2 pm - 5 p m .

“ RENE GAYER AND MOTHER EARTH” : W hisky, 8 -3 am , $ 2 .0 0 . “ S E B A S T IA N HARDY” : Stage Coach, 1 4 7 A King street.

C ity, 8 .0 0 pm , m on-thur, free; fri-sun, $ 2 .0 0 .

T H E ATR E “ WHAT IF Y O U D IE D T O M O R R O W ” by David W illiam son: Elizabethan theatre, Newtown, 5 1 .7 4 7 1 , $ 4 .7 0 , $ 3 .7 0 , $ 2 .7 0 , 8 .1 5 p m . M atinees, fri, sat at 5 .3 0 pm . “ L O V E F O R L O V E ” by Old T o te: Opera H ouse, 8 pm , 5 .5 0 ; kids, pens, stud, $ 2 .7 5 . Except Sunday. ‘ ‘ THE PHILANTHRO­ PI ST” by Christopher Hampton — well w orth seeing: The Independent theatre, North S yd n ey, 9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 8 .1 5 p m . “ T O O T H O F C R IM E ” — A savage sendup o f the rock scene: Nimrod street the­ atre, 3 3 .3 9 3 3 , tues-sun, 8 .3 0 p m ; sat, 5 .3 0 , 8 .4 5 pm . “ HELLO AND GOOD­ B Y E ” by A th o l Fugaro: Aust theatre, N ew tow n , 5 1 .3 8 4 1 , tues-sat, 8 .1 5 p m ; sun, 7 .3 0 p m .

m issed: H o y ts, Bentleigh, 8 .0 0 pm . “ S W A N L A K E ” returns: M etro, Bourke street, C ity , 8 .1 5 . G oo d clean entertain­ m ent. “ I A M C U R IO U S , Y E L ­ L O W ” — h o -h u m : Palais, St Kilda esplanade, 4 .1 5 and 7 .4 5 pm . “ T H E R U L IN G C L A S S ” (M ) plus shorts: Carlton cinem a, Faraday street, Carlton, thursday-sunday, 7 .4 5 p m , 9 0 c . ‘ ‘ 5 FINGERS OF DEATH” : Footscray G rand, 7 .4 5 , the theatre wasnt sure at the tim e o f print, so check first, 6 8 .1 1 3 8 . “ T O M S A W Y E R ” : H o yts M idcity 5 , finishes soon. “ A TOUCH OF C L A S S ’ plus the R oya l W edding in C O L O R : finishes soon.

Union at M elbourne See under separate days.

COMING UP “ PROM S” : B o ok now A B C b ooking o ffic e , 10 Queen street, C ity. “ S L A D E ” : Festival hall, february 2 6 , usual b ooking agencies, $ 4 .7 0 .

A L IR IO D I A Z ” — greatest guitarist o f this century: Dallas Brooks hall, feb ­ ruary 1 3 , 1 4 , usual b o o k ­ ing agencies. “ T H E C O R O N A T IO N O F PO PP EA” b y M onteverdi, february 1 4 , 1 5 , 1 6 , b o o k ­ ings: 4 1 .5 0 6 1 .

R O Y O R B IS O N , february 1 2 , usual b ookings.

Bush V id e o , the p e o p le w h o re co rd e d la s t ye a r's N im b in fest w ith th e ir p o rta p a cs, are s t ill tin k e rin g w ith th e ir n e w te c h n o lo g ic a l to y. V id e o 's c a p a c ity fo r re c o rd in g m u ltip le exp eriences a n d p r o v id in g im m e d ia te p la y b a c k (sounds lik e a P o la ro id tape re c o rd e r) c o u ld be very h a n d y com e the da y o f cab le tele visio n. A t th e m o m e n t a b o u t a do zen p e o p le are w o rk in g a ro u n d the Bush V ideo setup a t 31 B ay s tre e t, Glebe. I f y o u d ro p a ro u n d a t 8p m on a Sunday n ig h t a n d slip them a d o lla r th e y 'll s h o w y o u w h a t it's a ll a b o u t.

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“In Australia in 1973, anyone who works is either a fool, oppressed, or believes in their job . ‘

Last week Harry Gumboot groaned about how work rots the brain and feeds the ego. H eather Hardie reached sim­ ilar conclusions quite independently and contributes this account o f how work stunted her em otional growth.

HEN I left school 10 years ago, it didnt even occur to me that I neednt have a career. My family held strongly to a Christian work ethic, which was based on the idea o f work as a way o f helping less fortunate people than one­ self.

My father had spent the past 30 years o f his life working in a church home for children whose parents could not or would not care for them. My mother had tried her hardest to fulfil her responsibil­ ities as homemaker, giver o f support, and denier o f her own self for her husband’s sake - after all, he was the one doing the important job, wasnt he?

On my Leaving Certificate results, I w on both commonwealth and teachers college scholarships. Everyone told me to take up the comm onwealth scholarship because it would give me more freedom and flexibility, but all I wanted to do was to be a teacher. I was ideally suited to becom e a teacher in the true education department mould - I had never failed an exam in m y life, and had always worked conscientiously and competitively at school.

My aim was simply to be top (and win the love my father would maybe give me if I achieved perfection). As a child, I bypassed the pleasures o f the playground and TV set to study harder. I gave up m y childhood so that I could be better than everyone else when I was grown-up.

I was all set to convert every child I taught from a spontaneous, carefree being into a conscientious, hard working minia­ ture adult like me.

My first three years at university were predictably spent in the library,at lec­ tures and tutorials, and in my room , studying.

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convinced that no one would like me, and determined to win m y father’s love through academic achievements. Study was a cop out — a withdrawal from the rejection I was sure I would get if I ventured into the world o f real people.

Inevitably, even this was failing me.

I failed a first year history exam disastrously - not even a post. My father was shocked. However, I pulled myself together, g ot m y degree in the minimum time, and started a diploma in education.

By this time, I had changed m y mind about teaching. I wanted to be a psychol­ ogist.

I had w on approving comm ents and good marks from one o f m y psychology tutors, and discovered that there were other people besides m y parents whose approval I could strive for. I had started to realise that the children I would be teaching might not want to learn the things I had started to see as irrelevant to living.

The lack o f intellectual or any other kind o f stimulation in the Dip. Ed. course confirmed m y feelings about getting out o f teaching.

The Dip. Ed. year (1 967) was also the year that I made a decision about the war in Vietnam and joined a new political party fighting Australia’s involvement. I made friends, I started going out. By the end o f the year I had a small but growing group o f friends (I wasnt sure whether they really liked me or n o t!) and had started a relationship with the man I soon went to live with. I couldnt understand why he liked me, either!

I made a few ineffectual attempts to find a jo b other than teaching, but having a readymade jo b with good pay was a temptation I couldnt resist.

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have known what to d o with the freedom I would have had if I’d resigned. I moved away from hom e and set up house with my boyfriend.

The year I spent teaching was in many ways the most unhappy time I’ve had. I had what were euphemistically called “ discipline problem s” - that meant I had a riot on m y hands for 28 periods a week.

I only wanted to save some m oney; I wasnt interested in what I was teaching.

All I wanted to d o was to meet the minimum requirements o f the situation, endure it, and get out. I almost didnt make even that.

My fear o f unem ployment overcame me and prevented me from resigning. I didnt want just any jo b - I wanted to work at something that paid well and provided intellectual satisfaction. I had had lots o f casual holiday jobs, and thought that working in a factory was rather demeaning - a waste o f m y “ tal­ ents” . Besides, I still wanted to “ help" people.

Psychology satisfied financial, intel­ lectual and emotional requirements, so the following year I went back to uni­ versity on the m oney I ’d saved and did a postgraduate degree in psychology.

Getting a jo b was hard - it took me nine months o f casual work, but finally I got one in a government welfare depart­ ment, in mid 1970. By the time I was offered this jo b I would have taken almost anything. There was a great over­ supply o f psychology graduates at the time. I stayed in the welfare jo b for a year, m y dissatisfaction growing almost daily.

I was expected to fill a prescribed role, quietly perform the job , ask no questions, make no comments or criticism; just quietly go on ballsing up people’s lives in the way the department decreed. There were eight young wom en social workers and psychology graduates doing the same work I was.

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turnover for the year, and morale was at rock bottom . By then, they were taking history graduates to get the work done.

I still believed that w ork could and should be satisfying, that I should use my intellectual gifts to bring enlightenment to the lives o f others. The people I wanted to “ help” were not as fortunate as I was; they needed someone with the right training and attitude to give them peace o f mind so that they could fill the role prescribed for them by society as I was doing - pass exams, get a worthwhile job, marry, raise a family, w ork through the “ proper channels” to change what they didnt like.

A t this time, I had started the move away from my old ideas about w ork towards my present thinking. I was still very much into the conventional way o f life; doing what I thought would please my parents, trying hard to help people at work, saving m oney, getting married. But I was also getting into the head scene, getting involved with womens lib, spend­ ing less time at work.

My friends were going overseas or saving up to buy farms. I hated the way the work world made me try to fill a role that wasnt me, but I persisted because I hadnt solved the problem o f how to be a worthwhile person and win love and approval if I didnt d o a good jo b o f helping other people.

A fter all, if you werent “ a teacher” , “ a psychologist” , “ a social worker” , then w ho were you ? Nothing, n obod y. I didnt see that you could just be you , a person in your own right.

A fter I left the welfare department, I worked for tw o years (mid 1971 - mid 1973) as a counsellor in a hospital setting.

Getting this jo b revived all my old interest in work and success. I desperately wanted to succeed, to really “ help” p eo­ ple at last, to be seen to be doing a good job, to win approval from authority figures in the adult world (i.e., love from my parents), to be a com petent woman doing a thoughtful, caring job , to receive gratitude from all the people I made happier - to prove and know that I was a worthwhile person.

When I got this kind o f feedback from others, then maybe I would be able to believe in myself. Maybe this was what would give me real satisfaction and peace inside myself.

My social training had been quite thor­ ough, so I decided in advance to be the kind o f person w ho would be a “ good counsellor” - mature, inform ed, friendly, diplomatic, kind, warm - a kind o f intellectual mother figure. I decided that this sort o f person wouldnt wear a duffle coat like mine, so I bought a trendy black coat to wear to work that winter. The next tw o years were a struggle between the person who thought that she should wear that black coat, and the frightened little girl who didnt want to be a mother figure at all. *>££ A N ’ 1

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Continued from Page 1 7 The one who couldnt believe in her own com petence and trust her own judg­ ments, who couldnt compete with the well practised authority figures, who re­ sented the fact that she was only 23, who thought that working within such a sys­ tem was futile, who believed that no one could possibly like and accept her as she really was. I went through a phase o f pretending to be a “ mature young w o ­ man” . When I could no longer keep up the front quite so much, I stopped wearing the black coat and tentatively voiced some o f my opinions.

The counselling job split me wide open as far as the maturity trip went.

When I started, I had no idea about what I should have been doing, and had to find out. The hospital system was strange to me and I had to learn how it worked and how to get what you wanted from it. I became very close to one o f the counsel­ lors at another hospital, and to a psychol­ ogist at m y hospital; I received an incred­ ible amount o f love and support from them for the whole two years. But I was alone. Really alone.

My need to show a mature, coping front to the world conflicted badly with my feelings o f being a terrified little girl who didnt know what to d o. After I had com e hom e a couple o f times in a state o f frantic despair, m y husband decided that he couldnt cope with me - he had his own needs to have a mother, not a little girl, as a wife - and I started to see a clinical psychologist for therapy once a week.

I began to have serious doubts about the role o f my job in the hospital system.

I felt that in many ways I had been em ployed to keep down what I saw as rightful discontent with a rigid and o p ­ pressive system. I felt that people were being spewed out into my office so that I could put them together again, only to be taken in at the beginning o f the mincing machine — with the minimum time at work lost, o f course!

A fter I had been at the hospital for a while, I slowly began to build up personal relationships with others who were dis­ satisfied with the system. As more people came for counselling, I started to becom e more satisfied with work. Still, when someone thanked me or said I’d been helpful, I’d remember it for weeks. My feelings o f worthlessness, o f having noth­ ing to offer, were being slowly covered up by the people who said that after all, I was loved and needed.

I relied heavily on feedback to bolster my still shaky confidence. I was still bored, but I started a tech. course and used to take work from there to do at the office. I always felt guilty about that.

Then m y marriage broke up. I had a brief affair with another man, and went through a period o f guilt and conflict. My husband and I talked together as we never had before about each other and the relationship w e’d had for over five years.

I was totally uninterested in work, felt that I was so bound up in my own problems that I couldnt possibly think about anyone else’s.

A t the time, I told only two people at work about this - one o f them a sym­ pathetic staff doctor who gave me two weeks off. 1 took some holiday leave, too.!

I felt guilty and ashamed about having what I thought were insoluble problems - after all, a counsellor should be a stable, mature person who can handle her own feelings, shouldnt she? I left my husband and moved into another house.

Half a dozen times during my two years at the hospital, I had been on the point o f resigning. I even wrote out my resignation twice. But I was always held back by m y fear o f the freedom I’d have.

One day I’d been complaining at length to my therapist about my job . I walked out o f her o ffice at the end o f the session to go back to work; but I couldnt face it.

So I went to see a friend w h o’d given up her jo b six months before. But my decision had already been made; I knew what she’d say. At last, my feelings had grown so strong that I didnt care any more what anyone thought. I was sure that I didnt want to work any more.

I had some m oney saved up - I didnt need to work. M oney is to d o what you want with, not to hoard. What had happened that day was that I had finally lost my fear o f freedom . I was no longer frightened o f not knowing what I’d do with myself, o f having time to spend doing what I wanted.

I felt that, unlike the times I’d almost resigned before, this time I was going towards something — I had better things to d o than work. Before, I had always felt that I would be leaving something I hated, but going out into a frightening unknown. A t last, I looked out o f the window o f m y prison and saw the world outside.

I resigned. I even told my boss I was just going to bum around for a while.

That was seven months ago.

My father tried to talk to me about my “ social responsibilities” . I feel that I’m doing other people more good by being myself, a whole person, than I ever was when I was trying so hard to help them. He said if I didnt go back to work, I’d get ou t o f date and never get another jo b . I dont ever want another jo b that compromises me morally and drives me crazy at the same time.

My old values still emerge sometimes when I talk to others about myself. When people ask me “ what do you d o ? ” I sometimes answer “ nothing". Other times, I can assert “ I’m a lady o f leisure” , “ I d o what I feel like” , “ I’ m doing what I really want to d o ” . Some people dont believe that I can just be me. “ Well, what did you d o then?” Mostly I dont tell them. I'm a person, not a role player or status bearer.

Now that I’m not working, I dont consume as compulsively as I used to. I was always fairly careful with m oney, but I found that as I earned more money, it just seemed to cost me more to live. Now , I need very little in the way o f consumer goods.

Time is something I have more o f now, too. Time saves me m oney - for ex ­ ample, if I want to go and see my friends in Canberra, I hitch, rather than fly. And I meet nice people. If I flew, I’d spend more m oney and not meet anyone new. I have time to spend with the people I like to spend time with - and that’s pretty important to me. And I have time to be alone and get to know myself.

These days, I feel that I’m free to be me - to d o what I want how I want. If I feel like sitting on my arse all day, that’s, what I d o; if I want to run amok, then I can - n o-on e’s going to fire me for it. I can follow m y own feelings with few restrictions.

Since I left work, I have been, and still am, growing and developing as a person at a much faster rate than ever before. Right now, I’m feeling the need for some kind o f involvement.

I think that, fo r some people, work does satisfy the need for involvement and interest; it’s not just a m oney earner or time filler, or an escape from emotions and situations they would rather not face.

Perhaps one day I’ll find a jo b that can satisfy m y needs to be involved and caring. A t the mom ent, I feel that my extended holiday could lead to stultifica­ tion. I ’m able to ch oose m y field o f involvement now - political movements, voluntary work, creative expression, are some o f the things open to me. Writing this article is part o f my exploration o f these things.

I’m not sure what I'll d o when I run out o f m oney. Not working has awakened me to my personal potential, and if I ever work “ professionally” again, I know I ’ll be much stronger and more confident than I was before. I feel that I’d be able to be myself. I know that I feel this way only because I to o k time away from all the pressures which forced conform ity and weakness on me. It may have taken me many working years, rather than six non-working months, to gather the strength to try to be emotionally and intellectually honest — to lose the fear o f being myself.

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Marx to Hegel, which is the most That he held strong opinions problematical and interesting fea­ and fought unswervingly for them ture o f this text, is discussed in is certain. Just what these opin­ well worn terms about Marx’s ions, ideas and theories were is debt to Hegel. This seriously not so clear. The continuing affects the editing o f Marx’s text debate and abuse surrounding his which is interrupted by Nicolaus’ works shows this. tedious footnotes to one or other Part o f the confusion is the o f Hegel’s works. result o f Marx’ s work not being The two volumes o f political available to large numbers o f writings that have appeared so far people in cheap well produced are a refreshing break from this. and well edited editions. Only a The introductions to them by small proportion o f Marx’s total David Fernbach are clear undogoeuvre is available in English. matic discussions o f Marx’s politi­ This problem however, is being cal development. The political reversed. In association with the writings include some o f Marx’s English journal N ew left review, most famous statements like the Penguin book s are producing the Communist manifesto and the Pelican Marx Library which hopes Eighteenth brumaire o f Louis to occu py what it sees as an Bonaparte as well as many other “ intermediate” position between lesser known speeches and writ­ what already exists in translation ings on political events. and the collected works.

In his introductions Fernbach The Crundrisse was the last does not flinch from criticising major text by Marx to be Marx (and Engels) and pointing discovered and published. It was out the gaps and weaknesses in released in a limited M oscow their theory. During this period he edition in 1939 but had to wait shows that Marx’s “ Europocenuntil 1953 before it received tric” view o f the world led him to wider circulation as part o f Marx’s make incorrect political judg­ Werke. Since then it has becom e a ments. He points out the incor­ battleground o f marxist theoreti­ rectness o f Marx’s position in his cal debate in Europe and this dispute with the anarchist Bak­ made an English translation in­ unin over Slavic nationalism and creasingly urgent. indicates Marx’s tendency, at this The Crundrisse consists o f a time, towards great nation chau­ number o f manuscript drafts Marx vinism (he also shows the total wrote for a work on political inadequacy o f Bakunin’s posi­ econ om y he had been planning tion). and preparing for since his arrival At the same time, the intro­ in London in 1849 and the split in ductions give a smooth account o f the Communist League and co l­ the development and consolida­ lapse o f the paper Marx had been tion o f Marx’s political theory. editing the following year. The According to Fernbach, this was 800 page long manuscript was uneven and he astutely observes written between august, 1857, that this theory bounds ahead and march, 1858. The first two during periods o f acute class chapters o f it were polished up struggle and tends to stagnate and published in 1859 as A when this struggle subsides. contribution to the critique o f The rest o f the Pelican Marx political econ om y. The Crundrisse Library editions, which will be is basically “ field w ork” for released over the next year, Marx’s major work Capital, writ­ promise to be as well edited and ten and published some years later. introduced as the volumes on The text is very much preliminary politics. The Early writings are notes and is dull reading. being introduced by the im port­ Extravagant claims, however, ant Italian marxist Lucio Colletti have been made for this text. One who should provide a stimulating writer claims that it contains discussion o f these controversial “ without a doubt, Marx’s most texts. The wide distribution o f philosophically significant state­ such well produced volumes will ments” . consolidate the resurgence o f marx­ These claims remind one very ism that has much of the fame acquired by an taken place over earlier series o f Marx’s notebooks, the past decade the humanist orientated 1844 and manuscripts. One suspects that hopefully behind these high flow n claims lay to rest there is a dogmatic desire to find many mis­ the “ last w ord ” on everything in understandings Marx. The Crundrisse, however, o f Marx. will not support these claims. It is primarily a work o f political econ om y and all o f its formula tions and more will be founci in a far more finished form in Capital.

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T TO O K me 30 years/' Sartre observed in 1963, "to get rid of my idealism." In the context in which they were spoken, the words reflect a philosophic, rather than a political, struggle, an emancipation from the limits of Hegelian reason. But Sartre's words apply with equal force today to his politics.

Jean Paul Sartre, age 67, is a man many Americans still see as the embodi­ ment of existentialism, of the lonely, isolated individual set tragically against the forces of the world and time. But Sartre, in that limited sense, long ago ceased being an existentialist. In World War II, he engaged in a lonely and dangerous struggle against the German occupation. After the war, deciding that the acts of individuals alone are not enough, he announced his commitment to the group struggle by joining the French Communist Party.

When Sartre renounced his membership in the Party following the 1956 invasion of Hungary, those who had been dis­ comfited by his allegiance felt vindicated.

Raymond Aron and other Cold War critics announced his departure as the death of the mini-renaissance the party had begun to enjoy. But for Sartre, a return to individualism and the unsatisfactory

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alliance of liberalism and capitalism was unsatisfactory and temporary. He chose to remain a marxist, rather than returning to existentialism. As the war in Algeria intensified, he openly denounced the passivity of the French public, and in particular the venal - and self-serving - behavior of the French Left.

As America assumed France's role in Indochina in the early 60s, Sartre turned his attention towards it as well, speaking, writing, leading demonstra­ tions throughout the decade, culminating his opposition by co-chairing the Bertrand Russell War Tribunal. Then, during and following the events of may 1968, Sartre refocused the powers of his intellect and prestige on Gaullist France.

Out of that new resistance has come his directorship of two small, but vocal, Maoist newspapers, La cause du peuple and Liberation.

To imagine the Sartre of Nausea or No exit as a Maoist - or dogmat­ ist of any kind - seems impossible; but as he explains in the following interview, the appearance belies a more complex view of the roles of both intellect and resistance. Sartre at first agreed to accept directorship of the tw o small papers, not because he shared their view of the world, but because of a belief in their inherent right to be heard. French officialdom has never thought highly of freedom of the press (and has, in fact, converted French television into a Gaullist mouthpiece). Sartre saw his commitment to the Maoists initially only as a guarantee - because of his personal ^tature - that these tw o journals would not go the way of their predecessors.

Starting with that early limited Fcommitment, Sartre goes on to explain how and why his politics have moved closer to a Maoist interpretation of social change, all the while

maintaining that independence which is the Sartrian hallmark. He acknowledges remaining a classic intellectual ("at 67, I cannot go to work in a factory") and explains why he chose to work on a philosophic biography of Flaubert, rather than turning his talents exclusively to the tasks of political organising. Y e t he does nothing to hide his disdain for those intellectuals who retain their faith in incremental change and bourgeois democracy, a disdain he expands on in his own Journal, Les temps modernes, in an article bitterly entitled: "Elections - A Trap for Assholes".

Sartre may still be an existentialist, but it is an existentialism of his own making. If tragedy and isolation are the condition of man, they are not any longer the excuse for surrender, but reason for combat. To merely accept the condition of mankind is to be less than human. In his own struggle to overcome "idealism", Sartre has forged a deeper understanding of idealism, and the practical, ' ’"'V ‘

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coldly realistic decisions that underlie it. He has more years to live, and one cannot accept what he says today - or any day as Sartre's last word, whether on politics, philosophy or life. But what follows testifies to the continuing development of one of the most fecund minds of our age.

An interview with Jean Paul Sartre You have been D irector o f La cause du peuple now fo r over tw o years.

You have sold the paper on the street and contributed militant articles to it. Now yo u are working on the new daily, Liberation. And y o u have taken part in a great number o f the M aoists’ meetings and actions. One gets the feeling from all this that y o u are closer to the Maoists, more com m itted to them, than yo u ever were to the French Communist Party or liberation m ovem ents like the Algerian NLF. H ow would y o u account fo r this?

Was this com m itm ent immediate or gradual?

I agreed to becom e Director o f La cause du peuple after the arrest o f its tw o previous editors in the spring o f 1970. The Maoists felt at that time that their base was not strong enough to sustain the clandestine existence to which the government was seeking to confine them. Faced with trials and repression, they came to me fo r help. This was a new attitude fo r them, incidentally. Up until then they had taken no interest in intellectuals or in the ways intel­ lectuals might be useful. N ow , d e­ spite their suspicions o f the intellectual-star-system, they were callim upon a well known intellectual to ward o ff the blow s o f (interior minister) Marcellin. In fact they were trying to turn the whole notion o f the celebrity back against the bourgeoisie. And they were right.

The fact is, in m y opinion, that the writer as celebrity has a double identity: he is himself, but he is also something public - a star. Over this second identity he has no control at all unless he can somehow retrieve it and use it in a com pletely different way. This was what I did in the case o f La cause du peuple.

T o begin with, I had made it clear that I was not in agreement with the Maoists, nor they with me. I accepted legal responsibility only - not political. All I did was lend m y name as a way o f helping the paper carry on publication and the group’s militants carry on acting and writing according to their ow n lights. It was in the same way, with the same understanding, that I agreed to be Director o f the Maoist paper Tout, and that I testified at the trial o f the militants o f Vive la revolution and o f Roland Castro. Little b y little, however, I became more sympathetic to the view o f La cause du peuple.

So you were in disagreement with the strategy of th e ■ Gauche Proletarienne in 1970 — the idea that new Resistance had to be launched against the bosses (equated with neo-nazis) and against the revisionists (or neo-colla bora tors).

I have never gone along with that analysis, and while there may still be traces o f it at La cause du peuple they have themselves rejected it somewhat.

For the last tw o years the main concern o f the comrades at La cause du peuple has been a genuine adaptation o f Maoist strategy to French conditions, not a literal-minded transposition o f it. In China the cultural revolution got going only a g ood while after the taking o f power. In the situation we are living through now, it is impossible to cop y the Chinese experience or get inspiration from it directly. The Maoists speak readily o f an “ ideological revolution” .

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They talk in terms o f dominating the working population’s fear o f capitalist forces - through kidnappings, learning how to resist, how to confront repression, and to overcome the self-restraints inculcated in us by the ruling class.

At the outset I agreed with virtually nothing the Maoists said. I wasnt against them, just apart from them. But gradually they came to ask more from me than legal protection. I met with them many times and links were established. And slowly com m on ground emerged.

You have given us very little explanation, o f this activity o f yours. In 1952, in rallying to the support o f the Communists, you w rote The Communists and peace. In 1956, taking you r distance from a CP which supported Soviet intervention in Hungary, you published The ghost o f Stalin. In the present period, however, y o u have been limiting you rself to militant articles, an open letter to the President o f the Republic, and speeches at meetings. You have apparently broken definitively with the Communist way o f thinking - to which yo u did subscribe by and large, despite you r reservations, up until 1965 or 1 966. Y et you havent really ever said why, nor given you r reasons for comm itting you rself to the Maoists.

The posture o f solidarity with the Communists that I took up in 1952 was adopted suddenly, as a response to American policy, to the submissiveness o f the French government towards imperialism, and above all to the repression o f the demonstration against “ the Ridgeway Plague” . Obviously I had to account for my attitude at that time.

My current positions, however, have been reached much more gradually, as I just said. First o f all, in may 1968, like most people, I did not fully grasp the meaning and scope o f the movement. Nor did the Maoists, b y the way: they immediately left the universities for the factories. They did not then see the significance o f student revolt whose relevance they now acknowledge. For my part I felt like an outsider: one day a star, the next a superannuated veteran.

At the Sorbonne, where I went to speak tw o or three times, my presence caused something o f a stir and I got a rather curt reception. I remember a meeting on the situation in the universities, in late 1968 or early 1969.

The students and teachers had to decide on a response to the government’s proposals on education. As I sat down at the speaker’s table I found a note saying: “aSartre, make it short!” I to o k the point immediately. I was out o f the act. The other speakers started out from positions close to mine. But they were living the struggle they were talking about and could make concrete proposals, whereas all I had to offer was a general analysis which didnt make much- sense.

With the ebb-tide o f 1969, I felt even more ou t o f things. But in 1970 everything changed. The government’s persecution o f La cause du peuple led me to declare myself and in fact to go much further than I had at first imagined I would. A revolutionary movement makes demands, some o f which you accept and some o f which you reject. But in any case you are drawn along. Especially when the leaders o f the movement take external criticism into account if they feel it is justified.

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embryonic, the movement remains largely empirical one might almost say experim ental. . .

Today, with Liberation, we are trying out the idea o f a democratic daily whose contributors will be both Maoist and non-Maoist. We are also going to discuss such problems as sexuality, the condition o f women, daily life — not to mention th o s e p roblem s which create contradictions among the people . . .

It is clear, fo r example, that the majority o f the working class, whatever the feelings and behavior o f specific individuals, is still hostile to some forms o f sexual liberation and to h om o­ sexuality. Y ou may have heard o f the case, a few months ago, in which some workers to o k one o f their comrades w ho was a homosexual into a garage and blew him up with a pump. The guy died later. Liberation intends to take a position on these questions in the hope o f having a progressive effect on attitudes.

The paper is prepared to be unpopular from time to time and it will risk provoking violent reactions or indifference.

We want the whole range o f anti-hierarchical and libertarian ideas to find expression in the pages o f Liberation, in the context of a confrontation in which the Maoists’ experimental tendency will carry the day over their authoritarian side. Whether Liberation will becom e a melting-pot from which new revolutionary syntheses will eventually emerge, I cannot yet say.

Take wom ens liberation, for example.

Only yesterday we had representatives o f the French movement (M LF) taking part in an editorial meeting o f the paper. The MLF argues that the specifically female dimension o f revolutionary struggle has to be defended if we are to avert a classical pattern o f events; even where revolutions have been victorious (1789, 1917), sexism has been preserved intact.

So here we have a group made up of working-class women, and some middleclass ones, to o who say they are revolutionaries primarily because o f the way society treats women. On the other hand, the Maoists’ starting point is the class struggle, and they hold that the first priority is a proletarian revolution which will liberate women as one o f its consequences. Clearly these are opposing points o f view. Could they be reconciled?

If the two groups fused in such a way that the Maoists kept the advantage, then the women would represent a minority tendency within a male party. If the wom en came out ahead, the idea of proletarian revolution would fade into the background in favor o f fragmentary anti-authoritarian activities. Or might a new course develop that would take both o f these demands into account?

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The Maoists have always ignored the you th revolt that has appeared in every industrialised western country.

The underground, the counterculture, the revolution in individual and collective behavior, communes, drugs. And rock music as an international language that bridges the gap betw een students and young workers both in the US and in Europe, La cause du peuple, with its exclusively political attitude, takes no notice o f any o f this . . .

This was true until 1970, so long as the Maoists conceived o f themselves as a strictly political party. But realised that they were finished if they didnt reconsider their methods and their constituency.

We sympathise with the underground and the counterculture, but it is dubious whether their every manifestation has something positive to contribute to our quest. There are tendencies in the counterculture which reject or discourage action, and for these I can’t see any use.

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jurisdiction whatsoever in this area. Even its institutions are in such a degenerate “I AM STILL AN IN T E L ­ in the case o f heroin, which unlike the state that a revolution seems very LECTUAL . . . ” hallucinogens is truly dangerous, what feasible. Whether it would be able to hold L e t’s com e n ow to you r activity as right has the law to prevent people from ou t against hostility from other countries, a writer. In less than five years, the committing suicide? What I am interested I dont know. Soviet Russia managed to old idiom o f Marxist orth od oxy, which in here, however, is whether or not survive and develop in the teeth o f famine has left its mark on all o f us, and within hallucinogens tend to demobilise mili­ and blockade. But Russia was an immense the confines o f which yo u have struggled tants. O f course I know that the and predominantly agricultural country. for a good part o f you r life, has finally weathermen used to smoke between one It is hard to see how a nation such as broken down. Revolutionary analysis and action and the next as a way o f relaxing. present-day France could be self-suf­ discussion are re-emerging from 50 years But when I hear people claiming that the ficient in spite o f internal counter-revolu­ o f rote and paralysis. A n ew thinking use o f mindbending drugs is a sufficient tion and pressure from abroad. hats evolved. I am n o t referring only to affirmation o f their freedom , one which Incidentally, this brings us to a more Marcuse, Foucault or Deleuze, but m ore dispenses them from action, then I have general problem. There is still no marxist especially to the thousands o f people, my jdoubts. theory o f the revolution and o f the whether activists or n ot, who have sud­ ^ j W h a t about another trend in the revolutionary state in a developed coun­ denly evinced an interest in a theoretical counterculture - ecology? try. A long time ago - even before World debate which had hitherto been the p re­ That is another aspect o f the War II - I came to the conclusion that serve o f a few hundred specialists. The inquiry we are hoping to undertake the French Communist party did not best elem ents o f Marxism have been kept, with Liberation. I dont believe that a post really want a revolution; this was obvious but there are also new ideas: anti-psychi­ revolutionary society could be a society from the fact that they had never atry, a reinterpretation o f the basic n o ­ based on growth. Such a society would attempted any serious study o f what tions o f ethnology and anthropology, and produce for mankind, naturally, but it would happen if they did take power. In so on. would not seek to produce more and my opinion, this ideological and scientific In 1952 you published Saint Genet a more, better and cheaper. Without task should be given top priority by prophetic b ook in which you were al­ regressing, it would profoundly transform present-day revolutionaries even if it must ready concerned, through the lens o f the nature o f the com m odity and the still be carried out b y specialists and social analysis and o f a specific con cep ­ mode o f its production, eliminating intellectuals. tion o f psychoanalysis, with problem s luxury goods and dangerous products and A re y o u in favor o f a political death that have com e to concern us m ore seeking to restore a human and ecological pen alty fo r those who oppose the directly in the last couple o f years: balance. In the industrial countries there revolution? delinquency, prison, hom osexuality, man­ is n o necessity to increase production in Yes. A fter a revolution, in a ufactured moral and social values. Today, order to satisfy needs. All that is called country where the bourgeoisie has however, yo u seem to have withdrawn for is the elimination o f profit and waste, been dislodged from power, bourgeois from this area o f debate and taken two a change in the overall goals o f the w h o fom ent riots or w ho plot deserve the other directions. On the one hand you econom y and a redistribution o f wealth. death penalty. N ot that I would feel any have com m itted you rself to political acti­ Socialism alone can furnish such a anger towards such people. It is only vism, and on the other hand you have solution, and then only on condition that natural that reactionaries should act out you r work on Flaubert. N ow , how ever it is a socialism unconfined b y the o f self-interest. But a revolution has interesting this study o f you rs may be, productivism and centralism that charac­ to get rid o f a certain number o f the fact remains that Flaubert is a 19th terise the Soviet model. individuals w ho threaten it, and I can see century author.

China is n ot immune either. The no other solution than that o f putting I dont think it is true that I am Chinese magazines that we see in them to death; people can always get out uninvolved in the debate you men­ the west exalt machines, growth, indus­ o f a prison. The revolutionaries o f 1793 tion, and my books on Flaubert are trialisation. While this seems legitimate probably didnt kill enough thus meant to contribute to it after their enough fo r a nation that is only just unintentionally hastening the return to fashion. They d o so in the first place by emerging from poverty, it doesnt provide order, and ultimately the Restoration. virtue o f the basic question I am trying to us with a radically different m odel o f ask: in the present state o f our know l­ developm ent.

I would say just the op p osite; that edge, what can we know about a man? If lt is not so simple. The construc­ th ey killed to o many people. N o I succeed in answering this question in tion o f small factories within rural revolution has y e t managed to draw a the case o f Flaubert, I will have develop­ communes seems like an interestingclear line betw een counter-revolutionary ed a method going far beyond the specific experiment to me. It is an original way o f machinations and political opposition. situation o f this particular 19th century breaking dow n the division o f labor and This is quite clear from the whole history man. limiting the spread o f cities and pollution. o f French and Russian revolutions: In m y opinion there are tw o kinds o f repression o f reaction very quickly What is you r view on elections? Did intellectual. There is the classical type, becom es a p retext fo r killing those who, y o u vote? who lives out the contradiction between in the heat o f sectarian struggle, seem the I did not vote. Universal suffrage is the universal and the particular. And m ost dangerous o f all — ie. other designed to separate the workers, to there is the new type, who is no longer revolutionaries with whom on e is in smash class solidarity. The isolated indi­ interested in wearing his consciousness disagreement. This was what happened in vidual relinquishes his ballot with neither like a scarf and puts himself to the test by France in 1793, in the Russia o f the control nor guarantee. Here is my sov­ working in a factory. A case in point is a M oscow trials, in the Spanish Civil War ereignty he says in effect - d o with it friend o f mine, form erly an electrician, when the Communists massacred the .what you will; maybe y o u ’ll stand by who studied for his baccalaureate at anarchists. Once unleashed, the terror your electoral promises, maybe not. I home and is now about to qualify as a draws no distinctions: p eop le strike at voted for Guy Mollet in 1956, fondly philosophy teacher. Instead o f relating their immediate neighbor, partisans elim­ believing I was casting my ballot for the knowledge he acquires solely to his inate one another, and dem ocratic debate peace in Algeria. I got a rude surprise. subjective consciousness, he relates it to disappears. Eventually the revolution The only kind o f dem ocracy I can c o n ­ his life as a worker and to his trade. I destroys itself, leaving the road open to ceive o f is direct dem ocracy: assemblies, think he represents a new species o f Thermidorian reaction, Stalinist oppres­ voting by a show o f hands, and investing intellectual, a species which tends -s o m e ­ sion, or fascism . . . a delegate from the ranks with strictly what as in China - to abolish the division defined powers. Such an elected delegate I am opposed, naturally, to any­ o f labor imposed by capitalism. But at 67 is not the representative o f the assembly thing resembling tha M oscow trials. years o f age I am not about to go and itself; it just so happens that he is the one But revolution implies violence and thework in a factory. I am still a traditional mandated to go to the boss, say, and existence o f a more radical party which intellectual and I write about Flaubert. present the workers’ demands - merely imposes its will to the detriment o f other On the other hand being aware o f the because it is not practical for a couple o f more conciliatory groups. Can one urgency o f the present situation, I take thousand people to go en masse. But he conceive of Algerian independence part in the political movement and co n ­ remains answerable and revocable at all achieved without the NLFs elimination o f tribute to La cause du peuple. I d o not times. If, on the other hand, you vote in the MNA? And how could one have see it as my role here to hand out advice the hope o f replacing Messmer (Gaullist) objected to the NLFs violent methods or put forward any ex-cathedra truths. b y Marchais (Communist), as the ou t­ when for years it had had to face the That is no longer the intellectual’s role. com e o f an electoral race in which the day-to-day repression o f the French The Maoists have grasped this and I agree contestants are necessarily much o f a army, its tortures and massacres? It is with them: you dont have ideas all by muchness, then obviously all you will inevitable that the revolutionary party yourself; the truth comes from the p eo­ achieve in effect, whatever the result, is should end up b y striking dow n some o f ple. It is no longer a matter o f bringing to replace Messmer by Messmer . . . its own. I consider this to be a historical ideas to the masses: you have to go to the they Y ou should not enter the system. necessity about which we can d o nothing. heart o f the masses and then, if they Voting whomever you vote for - is Show me a way around it and I’ll support agree, seek to give clearer expression to voting for suffrage, for existing institu­ such a course without hesitation. But I their ideas, always keeping in step with tions. How could legal activity (like the dont see one. the movement. In Liberation, for in­ CPs for instance) ever overturn the law? stance, I might put forward a view that Why does one have to com e down It would have to go against its own nature was everybody’s, as well as being mine, so definitely on this? Can’t the — an absurd and therefore quite unlikely but I wouldnt dream o f writing a book problem be raised before the revolution volte-face. This is one o f the reasons why laying down the correct course o f action. in the h op e o f trying to avoid this I was attracted to the Maoists: I believe in As for analysing or theorising upon the developm ent? illegality. present situation, as you ask me to, I That wouldnt d o much good. Dur­ ing a revolution everyone’s actions dont feel that the period lends itself to “ R E V O L U TIO N IMPLIES V IO this. The current movement is vast and are determined by the revolution itself.

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HILE some 25,000 souls celebrated Australia day in a rock orgy at Sunbury, about 1000 gathered for a country & western music event at Tam­ worth, the Nashville o f NSW. For me rock festivals are kaput, rock music is gonna fizzle in the survival stakes. It is a music inextricably enmesh­ ed with the consumer ethos o f growth/ waste capitalism. It’s presentation is mass-minded (million seller records and vast audiences). Its tone is RIPOFF! Its style is domination. Only the few with the m icrophone — rock ’s sceptre, its sym bol o f power — communicate, the masses passively consume. Isolated by the volume o f sound and blocked with the product it is an induced psychological state o f abject consumption, the greedy hearts desire o f every ad man.

R ock musicians were on ce, in the Chicago Seven trial for instance, portray­ ed as the paragon lifestyle o f western youth. It was a myth o f the 60s. Times change and that pUl-popping rock group dow n the road is burdened with debt and hassling to make it in the system just like any marketing executive. Can’t make it to the Nimbin survival festival, man, unless you pay . . . G ot commitments, man, can’t afford to miss gigs and travel all that way, you know man . . .

By contrast, country music, if viewed as the music o f country people and not as a market com m odity, does have survival value. It’s acoustic and participatory; it’s a g ood time to be had with friends and fam ily. In the homesteads o f the valleys o f Nimbin & Mullumbimby and the beaches o f north Queensland, the new settlers w ho are trying to lead anti con ­ sumer lives are rediscovering it. Sitting on a creaky old verandah, stoned and stoked on the view, jamming with the instru­ ments available - guitars, bam boo flutes, dulcimers and gamelan gear — Y ep! the heads are introducing Asian sounds to Australian country music.

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But the local radio station 2TM does, all the time. They refer to Tamworth as the “ Country Music Capital” . For about five years now they have been developing a country & western theme and are at present programming three hours a night, five days a week C&W. 2TM reaches regular listeners as far as Queensland, South Australia and even Tasmania.

Last year 2TM organised the Austral­ asian Country Music Awards on the Aus­ tralia day weekend. It was a great success and this year it is even better. People have travelled from all over for it and one New Zealander told me that arrangements for a plane charter from NZ for next year are already under way.

We met Max Ellis, the visionary man­ ager o f 2TM, and though he was hassled with organisational problems he had time to talk. 'Cos that’s one o f the things about C&W music, it’s friendly and even the marketing side has soft edges. We met him in the company o f Paul Coombes, dealer in new and used companies, take­ over consultant to Gordon Barton, and n ow owner/producer o f Picture Records - discs with pictures under the tracks.

Max observed that the people, includ­ ing himself, involved in promoting C&W are not really country music fans. His reality is advertising revenue. Paul’s is record marketing, and C&W is something else again.

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There was quite a mixture o f styles but the content was strongly Australian.

Harry Venn from Lismore crooned Jacaranda bloom/drive away m y gloom ; Country Love from Adelaide did some fine picking and sang o f forbidden love in nasal Nashville style. Dorset Gardens, a club associated with the Dorset Gardens hotel, Croydon Victoria, had sent a whole bus load o f talent. Included was a father, daughter and a trio called Red River Ram ­ blers. They were very good and won a prize. Father and daughter embraced jo y ­ fully on stage.

A fter the presentations there was a concert. Professionals like the Singing Kettles swang into action. Ther per­ formances were very slick and in contrast they concentrated on Nashville products.

It was an all American music show. The repertoire included that racist song o f the red necks, Okie from Muskogee.

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' with a stage and another as a voluntary fo o d counter. People came in flash H old­ ens, terry towelling hats, walk shorts and socks, families with kids and packed eskies . . . and a refrigerator truck, the steady roar o f which did not seem to bother people. A bout 100 people gather­ ed the best C&W music we had ever heard brains, and very little grog.

Various people like Reg Poole and Country Love performed for free and this more or less impromptu concert produc­ ed best country music we had ever heard.

But, it was there that we began to get some perpectives o f country music’s recent traditions.

First observation is that C&W here would be better known as C&WS country and western suburban. The bar­ beque,. the eating in the bush was in suburban style, with its fragile cleanliness o f dress and habit that is only possible if yer car is nearby. I mean why terry towelling hats in the sun? What happened to the plastic stetsons that are standard stage gear?

The fans and performers live in the city. Dorset Gardens is suburban. Even the old hands o f C&W circuits like Reg Lindsay, Tex Morton and R on Russell live in suburban centres. So d o the fans

which probably explains the Nashville emphasis on housewife blues.

We met some fans, Dan and Kath.

They were dressed in jeans, fancy shirts, neckerchiefs with bull horn clasps, and straw stetsons. They lived in North Sydney; “ A dead end street,” said Dan. Dan has worked on the council in St Leonards parks and gardens for 17 years.

Dan once had an act under the name Happy Dan. “ He can sing n ow ” , said Kath, “ except he’s to o shy.” Kath told how he used to have satin shirts with “ Happy Dan” embroidered on the front.

He showed us beautifully bound volumes o f autographed photos from 1950 on ­ wards. And there were all his heroes R oy Rogers, Smokey Dawson, Gene Autry, the McKean Sisters, Slim Dusty, Tex Morton . . . He also had a bound collec­ tion o f tickets, programs and hand bills from C&W shows.

Dan, being a totally unassuming but totally comm itted fan, used the photos to start up a conversation with R on Russell, an old stager from the 50s cow b oy boom who is now doing club work. Remin­ iscences. This fellow ’s died yer know, electrocuted when he grabbed two micro­ phones and so on.

R on Russell is a com m itted Nashville fan and “ w on ’t touch Australian stuff.

The professionalism and the superb tech­ nical accomplishments o f Nashville en­ chant him. He shits on the backing musos in the clubs who have no feeling for country and have to follow a score.

Yet last night at the concert, he tells us, the guitar player said “ What k ey ?” as he walked on stage. “ A ” he said and unre­ hearsed they play the “ sweetest country backing you ever heard” . Country music tells a story he says but, more than that, country music is a feeling.

We met Eric Walsh who is writing a book on the subject. Eric would agree with Ron about the feeling, but says Nashville sincerity is synthetic. Country music is the music o f c o u n t y people and its roots go back to the days o f teamsters, drovers and settlements uniquely Austra­ lian. In the 30s radio and recordings introduced American styles, the 50s and the urban drift brought the singing cow ­ b oy to town. Even so the people trans­ form ed the influence into something uniquely their own. Nashville lovers are galahs he said, and the most popular C&W songs in Australia are Australian.

The purists have another enemy too.

Commercial radio. There had been a discussion that morning between radio representatives and traditionalists. The slickers o f city radio, like the program­ ming manager o f 2UE, said if C&W were more polished then radio would give the songs airtime in their continuous pro­ gramming (Continual repetition o f a lim­ ited number o f songs). They want to take I the “ country” out o f C&W, says Garth Gibson, a NZ farmer, C&W journalist and radio comm entator. It w on ’t he heard in you r hom e town till it’s top tune in the city, sang a disgruntled Ian Bettridge at the barbeque. FM RADIO, RIGHT ON! * * * SUNDAY NIGHT was awards night at the Tamworth war memorial hall. It was very formal and very much the moment for the C&W marketeers. Tw o announcers on either side o f the stage gave hype and Schweppes commercials with an earnest­ ness that became the subject o f com ic relief for the audience. The compere invited guests on stage to open the envelopes, discover and announce the winners. When the winners were announc­ ed they came out o f the audience to receive the accolades.

Slim Dusty, the king o f C&W won yet another prize for best LP, Live at Tam­ worth. Col Joye won top selling music track for Heaven is m y wom an’s love. A 15 year old New Zealander, Suzanne Prentice, won top female vocalist for Dust on mother's bible. Reg Lindsay won top male vocalist with July y o u ’re a woman. The Hawking Brothers won best instrumental and best group (Catfish John). Best EP went to the a Hamilton

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The nominations were interesting for the inclusion o f people like the Dingoes, Country Radio, Bluestone and John Gra­ ham. Country rock would appear to be on the threshold, but the C&W establish­ ment arent ready for it yet.

Which is not to say that the establish­ ment arent nice. Slim Dusty is the mildest guy you could hope to meet. He is 47 and

has been writing and recording for 27 years. After the show he was last to leave the hall, because Slim talks with his fans.

It’s just that the establishment, Slim, the McKean sisters, Tex Morton and even Col Joye are getting old. And although faithful to the country music tradition their touch is just a little removed from country realities and hence they tend to romanticise rather than reflect. Consider Slim’s truckie songs. He represents truckies as an extension o f the droving bit, but is it? Truckies are an ethnic group right, but they dont sing. They thunder along highways from city to city and sit in road houses zonked on dieselene

fumes, the roar o f the engine still in their ears.

But truckies have trannies and they can pick up 2TM at night. They are consumers o f a tradition manufactured for them. Joy McKean, Slim’s wife, writes great songs but the inspiration for Lights on the hill came from a decision to match US truckie songs with Aussie ones. So even a hero like Slim is tarnished by the hype and sell o f music as a com m odity.

We were beginning to feel that the country music capital was all hype and sell. But optimism was recovered when we took a drive ou t to the Angelwood Studio, 20 miles south o f Tamworth. The

studio is an egg carton enclosure on the verandah o f an old farmhouse. There’s a lot o f costly electronics in there and while tw o young guys - brothers - play round recording and composing, another brother and dad work the 2500 acres o f wheat, sorghum and sheep. In the yard outside the studio pigs root 'n run, a 1924 Ford truck weathers, and the w oolshed leans some.

Ah yes, the country still shows through in country music. And for all the ecological question marks we had a nice time.

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Perhaps then it is adequate to call the Faces and R od Stewart the greatest rock and roll band in the world. For those who awaited the Faces’ Melbourne concert at the South Melbourne football ground with trepidation because o f the usual hassles and pitfalls associ­ ated with daytime gigs, relief was in store.

On a beautiful sunny Sunday, Stewart and the Faces held their audience so tightly that anyone who could see forgot where they were anyway. And Rod Stewart lapped up the sun: “ It’s warm, and I can see your faces fo r a change. It’s nice.”

The band flew into Melbourne on Saturday morning a disgrunt­ led Stewart startling the airport crowd who stared open mouthed as he flashed past. Straight from plane to limousine to hotel room : just another band on tour. And then on to their press conference, where the band did not mix with the guests; Touring is no fun, or only what you make it, so you may as well make the most o f the concert. And that is just what they did.

They arrived on stage to the sound o f The stripper, with R od Stewart strutting and twirling for the crowd. Stewart is one o f the few remaining rock and roll heroes. Jagger has transcended the role, Daltrey appears only briefly from the shadow o f Townsend, and R od is one o f the only rock and roll singers capable o f project­ ing that sort o f individualism. All that is evident from both his and the Faces’ albums. What hasnt been so clearly evident is just how much talent is packed into the Faces as well. A t the first chord o f their opener It's all over now from Stewart’s Gasoline alley, perhaps the crowd were there fo r hero R od alone, but from that mom ent on, the concert belonged to the whole band.

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Angel drew gasps o f delight from the crowd, as did the breathtakingly beautiful I ’d rather go blind, which featured Ron W ood with a heartrending slide guitar solo. Stewart has always shown superb taste in his choice o f songs fo r the solo LPs, and both these songs are a testimony to that.

N ow le t’s work up a bit o f a sweat: R od swaggered about the stage, twirling his aluminium m icrophone stand like a drum major run amok, and swung into Stay with me, stopping occasion­ ally to lean gently on Ron W ood’s shoulder and share the chorus. No egos are apparent on stage within the band, in their attitudes to each other, or to the audience.

Obviously the band get a kick out o f performing, and it’s nice to know they were enjoying it as much as we were. Memphis kept everybody rocking on their feet as they strained to get a better view o f Stewart’s antics.

Unfortunately the South Mel­ bourne football ground is n o­ where near the class o f the Kooyong stadium as an outdoor venue, and many o f the young kids who had been at the concert fo r hours in order to be near the front, found themselves just that, facing a stage about six feet above the ground. By balancing on the stage edge they could see, but once in that proximity to Stew­ art, they tended to make abortive lunges in his direction. A couple caught him and were hustled aside; one managed to land on his mike stand from a great height and break it in two. “ Give my love to your m other,” yelled Rod, as one victim was dragged from his sight.

R od W ood gave Stewart a rest from the vocals in Take it as you find it, proving that there is room for two vocalists in the group. W ood was astounding throughout the concert, produc­

ing some brilliant rock and roll guitar work, as well as supporting Rod and dashing about the stage.

The rhythm section was another place to watch, with Tetsu Yamauchi (bass) and Kenny W ood (drums) always there, a pow er­ house for the band. And then o f course Ian McLagan . . . the Faces on sunday appeared to be made up o f bests: best rock and roll guitarist, best rock and roll drum­ mer and so on.

Altogether it was a great after­ noon. Every picture, Maggie May, Amazing grace . . they were all there, yet they managed to play such songs as if they have not been playing them at every concert since 1971. Sometimes seeing a band live is merely watching a perfunctory run through of their last recordings — not so with the Faces. They are a real live band, to the extent that their music is alive too.

One last song and they were gone: “ I’m going to love you and leave y ou ,” said R od, and he did.

Down the front the young girls were begging for more, con duct­ ing “ We Want R o d ” chants and pleading with the roadies. People straggled to the gate, then sudden­ ly: “ D o you want some m ore?” “ Yes” . “ Well d on e,” said R od as he beamed at the audience and went into Lennon’s Jealous guy, following it with one o f their new songs with a chorus that sounded suspiciously like Y o u ’re breaking m y heart, you 're stealing m y tart” . So many encores these days; are structured as part o f the show, but it was easy to see, as bare­ chested R on W ood bounced about the stage, that this was something different. A spontaneous encore to close one o f the few spontane­ ous live rock and roll shows avail­ able today.

If, for some obscure reason, you can’t make it to the next concert on this friday night at Festival hall, or any other for that matter, then get hold o f their new album Rod Stewart/Faces live (Mercury 6338 484). It's not quite as good as the real thing, but it is certainly better than nothing.

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STEVIE WONDER A T THE RAINBOW THEATRE, LON­ DON, 24th JANUARY, 1974.

T O N Y M A N IA T Y WO THINGS can happen “ Alright, I w ant you all to when real musical talent takes the stage - either the crowd m odu late to D flat w h en I goes dow n in awe, or moves in sheer excitement. Stevie Wonder cou n t fo u r,’’ he sings, and managed both at his recent Lon­ the 70s fu nk gives w a y to the don sellout, and gave this other­ wise bleak and uninspired city a old uptight, outasight outasight, few hours o f spontaneous musical sunshine - a task probably even as the bla ck lady in front the Beatles couldnt handle in o f m e chanted all night . . . these dow n days.

Wonder is firmly established as the influential com poser/perform ­ er o f the mom ent; a reputation he not only manages to bear well in concert, but to build on. The child prodigy o f the 60s has come o f age, and no one seems to know it better than the man himself.

Resplendent in a richly-em­ broidered canary yellow caftan, he’s led on stage at the Rainbow tronic keyboards go out o f con ­ than the studio track to let you retained his sanity but given his Outasight, literally. trol, the lights collapse into flash­ Theatre after a chunky ten-minute know it’s live and really happen­ The climax came with a knock­ audience a measure o f life too. ing and not some juke-box gem ing strobe, N.Y.P.D searchlights build-up from Wonderlove - the' ou t ten-minutes o f Superstition In the bluish light, he toys with sweep the audience, very super­ discovered in a highway cafe. four-piece backing group and an d its infectious clavinet the opening notes o f M y Cherie stitious, Wonder rises smiling, still very, very tight. Wonder slips be­ amour, a cheeky grin as he teases There were some disappoint­ rhythms; very superstitious, lights playing, working his way o f f hind the drums and leads an ex­ the crowd, never quite getting ments — who could please every­ flashing and blinking in time, stage, never giving up. tended A fro-rock instrumental, Wonder rocking his head and under way. “ Dont be angry” , he b od y ? What happened to the two Stevie Wonder is a most im­ com plete with tinkling bells and b od y in jo y , throwing his arms up croons, “ ‘cause I changed the classic numbers, For once in m y portant and influential popular tribal wails. It’s a long way from life and moreso, We can work it song” and launches into a sultry voodoo-like as the powerful wave musician; as a passing thought, we Chicago and Yester-m ee, yesterout, one o f the few Beatles cover parody o f 40s bar-room blues. builds up like a ghetto nightmare. might at least be thankful that versions which actually ran rings When he does finally get around you u , yester-daayy . . .

(If this was Chicago sound, the Stephen Judkin had the audacity The whole A fro thing (only to Cherie amour, the first few bars around the original? And what o f London setting wasnt altogether to change his name to Wonder. On one white, the lead guitarist) the mouth-harp, the instrument bring the house dow n. His reedy inappropriate - three bom bs were stage, he consistently lives up to seems to extend ou t into the that gave birth to “ Little Stevie rocking our neighborhood about voice is as hopelessly romantic as Rainbow night decor, the blue Wonder, the 12 Year old Genius” ? the same time.) The howling elec­ y o u ’d ever want, just a bit raspier and orange lamps bouncing o ff curly plaster columns and fake banana trees, the date palms o f another generation drooping in the smoke filled air as Wonder — making his first London appear­ ance since last year’s car crash n o o ra to ry e x c e p t fo r th e o b lig a to ry climbs behind his keyboard perch Seam us G ill, and cam e to us fr o m of synthesised clavinet-pianom o ra l in th e last verse.

T o n y L avin o f T h e R a m b le rs , w h o organ and sings his opening words T h e tu n e is o n e o f th e variants o f w ill be singing th is and o th e r c o n ­ (the man never actually speaks): A ll fo r me grog o r Across the te m p o ra ry A u s tra lia n ballads. “ T o be - in the presence - o f western plains, w h ic h can be sung I'm a b it suspicious o f m y tr a n ­ the stage — again — is to be — e ith e r as a jo v ia l d rin k in g song o r a sc rip tio n because it lo o ks a ll je r k y alive!” He com es fighting back s tu n n in g , h a rro w in g ca talo g u e o f T H IS S O N G is secu rely w ith in th e and s p o tty . D o n t ta k e it fo r gospel, with Higher ground o ff the Inner m isery; and y o u 'v e g o t v e ry n ea rly tr a d itio n o f A u s tra lia n b a lla d -m a k ­ ad ju st th e tim in g and even th e tu n e visions album, dark glasses catch­ ing. T h o u g h it deals w ith a subject th e same range o f possible in te r p r e ­ to su it yourselves. Is a n y b o d y le a rn ­ ing the lights and his arms go up, head spins back and hands lunge w h ic h is p o litic a lly and s o cially ing these songs? H o w a b o u t a b it o f ta tio n s w ith th is song. I t is th e into the keyboards again, “ Gonna w o rk o f S y d n e y p o e t D enis Kevans "s e n s itiv e " (insen sitive w o u ld be feed b ack? L a z y buggers. keep on trying, keep on trying till nearer th e m a rk ) th e song c o ntain s and B uilders L ab o rers organiser - MIKE O ’R O U RK E I reach my higher ground . . . ” He is confidently the artistcum-producer-cum-director o f the W ondershow; recording what could be a live album, he seems out to save the re-mix engineers Oh me name i t is Fred, in j 1j ^ ^1 cJ. - « i |< -}^ j h p any trouble. “ Alright, I want you Sydney born and bred —c r me name ik tb Fred, > u > S yd n ey borr, artd Dr«d, and the intercity Oh all to modulate to D flat when I A n d the in n er-city used to be count fo u r,” he sings, and the 70s U m y home, boys funk gives way to the old Up f? f p H - d .

1p rl f i* r B ut it's caused me heart to tight, outasight, outasight, as the grieve fo r I've had to take me leave, u s e d ho b e my borne h oys, bvh it's caused me. hearh ho y r ie v e , f o r I've black lady in front o f me chanted Now across the Western Suburbs all night. “ I want you all to go to I must roam, boys.

A flat - right n o w !” he sings J el--JI j | J again, calling up his current direc­ CHORUS: U had h0 hake me leave, no* a - c j v s s hhe \Jesht>rn Suburbs 2 tnusF roam tion with Living for the city, itself a piece o f genuinely inspired writ­ ing.

CWlUtrHT /77S P .& OSSZ Under concrete and glass, Syd­ il i The essential thing about ney's disappearing fast Stevie Wonder’s music and lyrics b o y s. it's all gone fo r p r o fit and fo r is color: if not in straight visual plunder.

A n d the planners never gave me West Suburban blocks terms (we keep forgetting he is Though we really w ant to stay any say, boys.

A n d the place is nearly driving and always has been blind), then they keep driving us away Now it really makes me weep / me to tears, boys in color-m oods, the sensations and N ow across the Western Suburbs am ju s t a t home to sleep P oorly planned and badly b u ilt rhythms o f red and blue and we m ust wander.

F o r it takes me hours to get to and it's mortgaged to the h ilt sunshine yellow. Blindness gives him one more dimension, not one work each day, boys.

B ut they say i t w ill be mine in less, and the resulting sincerity Where is me house, me little fo rty years, boys. seems to motivate his whole pres­ terrace house, What's happened to the pub, our ence - w ho else could drift It's a ll gone fo r p r o fit and fo r little local pub Now before the city's wrecked through You are the sunshine o f plunder, Where we used to have a d rin k these developers must be checked m y life without sounding alto­ For the wreckers o f the town when we were dry, boys.

For it's plain to see they do n o t gether banal? Even the heads in ju st came up and knocked it down N ow we can't get in the d o o r fo r give a bugger, the audience seemed moved.

Now across the Western Suburbs there's carpets on the flo o r A n d we soon w ill see the day i f When you consider he is a product we m ust wander.

A n d you w o n 't be served a beer these bandits have their way o f post-war Chicago-ghetto plas­ w ith o u t a tie, boys.

We w ill all be driven o u t past Before / even knew it, we were tic-record promoters, it’s all the more amazing that h e’s not only shifted to M t D ru itt Wagga Wagga.

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I wonder whose FM it is now

o f the ALP, likely to see the light o f legislative decree in the muchawaited rewritten broadcasting and television act.

Now the future in some o b ­ servers minds is that out o f 20 or 28 radio stations it must be pos­ sible to get one that will give deep satisfaction to most special inter­ est groups. That is, stations cater­ ing exclusively for fine music fanatics, migrants, gossips, people in the western/eastern/northern/ southern suburbs, newshounds, jazz fiends, Perry Como-ites, sportsmen, John Laws fans, and even lovers o f stereo Stones or T-Rex, not forgetting o f course those o f us who want lectures on the physiology o f goannas and that sort o f thing. This sort o f specialisation is more likely to com e with UHF than with VHF, so where are we?

JIM BOOT

HE FM inquiry has been under way for a fortnight, and as yet there have been no submissions presented from the counterculture, alternative so­ ciety, underground, dope smokers union or whatever.

Perhaps the groovers know what those who have seen the inquiry in action suspect: this inquiry has as much to do with communication as the blokes who fit the decorations out in Farmers’ windows.

But the cynics could be wrong.

The head (or at least chief) o f the inquiry is a fine example o f the movie boffin. White-haired, with a sense o f irony and mischievous eyes, sir Francis McLean has been a bigwig in BBC engineering since 1952 when they still called radio wireless. His offsider is a pudgy econom ist who keeps asking “ what about costs?” , and the sec­ retary o f the show is a friendly (superannuated?) public servant left over from Guided Weapons Research who often neglects to shave.

These three gentlemen are con ­ ducting a slightly informal investi­ gation into a decision made by the Broadcasting Control Board to commercial radio stations. This decision was that when Australia got Frequency Modulation broad­ casting it would be in the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) part o f the radiowave spectrum. As the rest o f the world uses Very High Frequencies (VHF) for FM this would put us in Australia out on our Pat Malone - imports are useless. Not only this but we would have to invent all the tech­ nology ourselves - shades o f the Opera House and F i l l .

There are suggestions that some form o f collusion is being practised by the vested interests: ie. the local manufacturers are being protected from overseas manufacturers (no foreigners in their right mind would build UHF receivers just for the Australian

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market), and the commercial radio stations were given a system so expensive that only they could afford to set up stations.

Along came senator Jim M c­ Clelland to muddy the waters.

Now Jim is a bit disgruntled at not being minister for the media, (it’s his brother Doug w ho got the job ), but as chairman o f the sen­ ate committee looking into broad­ casting and television he is in a position to throw the odd spanner in the works. An interim report from his committee released in august last year severely rubbished the control board's UHF recom ­ mendations.

This was the last straw. Doug McClelland, who had already been subjected to a barrage o f o b je c­ tions from all sorts o f media maniacs — including the Financial review, o f all things - and he ordered yet another inquiry to settle the matter once and for all.

So what’s it all about?

FM means two things: 1) bet­ ter radio (and that includes

stereo) and 2) more radio. The trouble is that the frequency space for radio stations — FM, AM or whatever - is rarer than rock ­ ing horse shit. Which is why the ABCB opted for UHF, which is an undeveloped part o f the spectrum.

The proponents o f the Inter­ national Band (VH F) reckon that by moving one or tw o TV stations (Channel 5, 3 or 4 ) we could save ourselves the trouble o f inventing a high-falutin UHF system. They reckon it would be cheaper - in the short term and the long term — and better because we would not be stuck with this unique white elephant UHF bullshit.

The ABCB argue UHF will give at least 20 stations in a large m etropolitan area, and VHF only nine or so (the “ so” can stretch to 16 depending on the channel spacing used). The strength o f this argument is the more stations the better. It is a good argument but it palls somewhat when one begins to imagine what commercial inter­ ests would d o with 20 radio sta-

URRENT attitude amongst Melbourne’s nefarious im­ port record dealers is that the “ heat” will soon be applied.

Indications are that the Austra­ lian record companies, increasing­ ly pissed o ff by the roaring trade record from A & J’s. Question is, o f the importers, are preparing how many import customers are another assault o f legalities and concerned about the trademark? minor technicalities in a bid to Hardly any.

Now Euphoria face the same severely hamper, or ultimately re­ move their “ successful” under­ deal. Last week they received a solicitor’s letter asking them to ground competitors.

Euphoria, who recently opened undertake not to sell Columbia their second city store, are being trademarked records. Euphoria harassed by EMI at the moment. say they will not bother taking EMI are using a cunning trade­ the case to court since an unfavor­ marks infringement that will make able precedence has already been it illegal for Euphoria to sell im ­ set out. They say they will agree ported records carrying the Col­ to the undertaking and sell C ol­ umbia records using the same p ro­ umbia trademark.

This gambit was successfully cedure as A & J's.

Australian record companies em ployed by EMI against Archie ’n’ Jugheads import shop last are continually heavyhanded in august. A & J’s settled out o f their attitude towards the im port­ court, agreeing not to sell im port­ ers. Usually if a record shop sells ed records containing the Col­ any import records the record umbia label. A & J's then pro­ companies here refuse to distrib­ ceeded to legally sell Columbia ute any locally released “ product” records with the Columbia trade­ to that shop.

Record companies tell news­ mark and number obliterated or removed from the record itself, papers and magazines that n o ads the cover, and if present, from the will be forthcom ing if im port rec­ ord reviews are printed. Some sleeve.

Thus EMI have ensured that record companies also- try to customers who purchase records “ blacklist” media which carries by their trademark alone will not advertisements for the import be lured into buying a Columbia shops.

However, import shops are presently strengthening their posi­ tion by gaining rights to release labels in Australia which have been ignored by the major c o m ­ panies. Archie & Jugheads have done this successfully with Am eri­ can labels. In february Euphoria will distribute tw o English labels, Leader and Trailer, specialising in traditional and contemporary Eng­ lish folk.

Ironically, A & J’s is presently facing the same problem as the record companies: one o f “ his” albums, Tubular bells, is being sold by other importers.

Keith Glass o f Archie ’n ’ Jug­ heads say they’ll d o nothing about it because such action would be hypocritical. Glass also predicts that record enthusiasts will be shocked by the effect that the disappearance o f importers would have, unless record companies change their attitudes. Importers are thriving because o f the slack­ ness o f Australian record co m ­ panies.

Before the importers came Australian companies would take up to two years to release an overseas record. In some cases whole tracks were “ censored” . Covers were altered and were o f cheap quality. T hou­ sands o f albums were not released because o f “ censorship” or be­ cause expected sales were not high enough.

It seems the only way Austra­ lian record companies can co m ­ pete is to offer the buyer the same standard o f service the importers give.

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So, lying just below the surface o f the argument is the hassle for the FM licences, because every­ b od y knows that FM is vastly superior to the system we now “ e n joy” , and that FM stations will drop shit on AM stations once they get established.

N ow in the ABCB report on FM the ABCB chairman, Myles Fortunatus Wright, one o f your classic gentlemen, kept on about “ econom ic viability” , and about how the FM stations must not get into the hands o f unprofitminded vagabonds. To an extent one must agree with Mr Wright, as a brisk trade in unsuccessful FM stations would mean that sooner or later they would end up in the hands o f som ebody with a lot o f money w h o ’s interested in radio - like AWA, 2UE, Frank Packer and so on.

However, a better way to stop the concentration o f media ow n ­ ership is contained in the platform

PEOPLE should demand that one channel be reserved for the kind o f radio station New York, San Francisco, LA and Houston have got — the radio version o f an underground news­ paper. These stations have got to be heard to be believed (and even then it is hard). As there’s Buck­ ley’s Chance that the government will legislate for such a station the pressure must be for as many stations as possible to be cheaply available to irregular media oper­ ators. Such a station will not com e from the ABC, the com m er­ cial stations, nor even a restructur­ ed ABC or Music Broadcasting Society.

It will not com e from the Coalition o f Resident Action Groups, nor the Eastern Suburbs Radio Alliance, nor the Dante Alighieri Society. It may com e from the assorted rabble who read The living daylights, and the soon­ er they get involved in the realpolitik o f FM broadcasting the more probable becomes an Aus­ tralian KPFA.

Ennui is smothering you. Then you hear postie’s whistle. Aha you say, rushing o u t to the mail box. And w hat’s waiting for y o u ?

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tionalised force, distinctly partial in its to open a national publication, com ­ application, becom es established. m only known as Woman's day (jan. 28, With accumulated property, for in­ 1974) at page 39, what might you stance, the individual is denied his own discover? — “ Australian Album (No. use o f force to take what som eone else 7 )” , that’s what. And what is it? Why, Y O U ’VE BLOWN it this time. For has to o much of, yet the state can use it’ s the b lo o d y Old Box Brownie under months now we have been reading all the force necessary to protect this a different title, story accompanying TLD waiting for you to get over your same, established property owner. pickie and all.

If there is n ot a TLD man or birth pains and use your facilities and Ethically, basic resources like land, minds to produce the newspaper we all minerals, etc could be said to belong to woman moonlighting on Woman’s day, expected. N o luck. Every week the everybody born on to this planet since only one other explanation is plaus­ paper is a big downer — a waste o f their existence owes nothing to human ible : the same mentality we find in WD agency. In short, it is not order per se is to be found in TLD. time, m oney and newsprint.

N ow I’m n ot saying you r rag is no The middle-page spreads have been but order o f a certain kind that is being good; like others, I’ll continue to buy maintained. useless — except when they have been As to those possibly desirable expe­ it. But let me assure you that large devoted to poetry. A Sunday at Silvan really took the cake this week. Dumb riences that wealth and property alone chunks o f it (like the Old Box Brown­ enough — but just terrible quality in an unequal society open the doors ie) are absolutely shithouse! to, there is no necessary reason for that photos.

P. J. LYONS, One o f your subscription ads sum­ equation to have to apply always and M onto, Qld. med it up — A R ip-off. And it’s not for ever; there are alternatives. So what black homosexual working class w o­ else can be offered to com m end such a man — it’ s black homosexual left-hand­ power-protected system?

According to this account then, the ed working class woman. natural and necessary com prom ise be­ I READ you but I can’t write you. tween ego and social exigency, quite Why is that? I enjoy almost everything RO BERT & CHERYL ADAMSON. capable o f being appreciated and con ­ in your paper even tho I wonder what formed to by unfrustrated, rational some o f it is doing there. That enor­ human beings, is thrown ou t o f kilter mous coverage o f cab drivers and driv­ primarily by the arbitrary and unequal ing f ’instance. I was gonna write be­ application o f state force in the main­ fore. Several times. But I discovered tenance o f a certain kind o f order. The something. Som eone else w ould always essential lesson o f it all is that the do it for me. Like that guy anonym ous A FEW comments from a longhair taxi (TLD 2 /4 ) w ho made the timely re­ process o f change in all things ought to driver regarding your article on same. be allowed to happen unrestricted by marks about the use o f silly long w ords Y ou d on t have to be smart to abuse and clever-clever w ord arrangements. any values (and the coercion which a privilege, in the cab industry or any extends from them) thought to be Was gonna mention that myself. other. Multiple fares can be taken by a Here’ s m y tuppence w orth for the absolute. Thus could com e about, in circuitous route, but why? Properly suggestion b ox. W ould Daylights con ­ the course o f time, a suitably orderly used, multiple hiring can be advanta­ anarchist society conform ing to values sider a city editor? Y ou know, a geous to the passenger (who pays less), appropriate to human nature as she financial genius? Som eone w ho could the driver (who gets more) and the give us a periodical rundown on all the really is. environment (the car is more efficient­ Such as I see it, is the nature o f the wheeling and dealing going on to d o us ly loaded). People are wary enough o f simple clods out o f a few m ore bucks? anarchist faith; what is so obviously it n ow , w hy make matters worse. wrong with it that some can dismiss it Things like land grabbing and profit People often hand a driver blank margins and w hy the yellow press so cavalierly? account dockets, invite him to “ put on always run big shortage stories prior to a couple o f b o b for yourself” . Abuse public holidays. Maybe he/she could E R IC C RO SSW E LL this a few times and there are a lot run specials on the best way to buy In d o o ro o p illy , Qld fewer blank dockets thrown at you. stereo systems and h ow to get credit A tip is a way o f thanking a driver ou t o f the establishment on real easy for a good trip. Sm ooth, safe driving terms huh? and courtesy work a hell o f a lot better Lastly, some o f the dalliance adver­ than all die rat-cunning you can muster LIVING DELIGHTS a g ood name too tisers gave me a distinctly creepy feel­ up. The industry suffers enough bas­ — existing extension o f Daylights and ing, like h ow com e, if all your readers tards and bludgers, for fuck’ s sake dont obviously real. F o o d for thought are as sane and well-rounded as myself, encourage them. honestly arising from the use o f well d o some o f them have such narrow, chosen words and picture-signs. Who inflexible requirements sex-wise? I re­ JOHN HARLAND, can look w ithout reading, feel without fer to those precise specifications o f Caulfield, Vic. experience and hear w ithout listening? shape, size, appearance and postures.

Thus love’ s labor is n ot lost — Makes me wonder what response the remains veiled void and voidless voiced simple ‘have cunt, w ill fu ck ’ announce­ and voiceless. That’ s all I say for now. ment would get. None, I sadly suspect.

WHO GIVES a stuff what the Concise Keep up the good w ork teaming that PT, O xford Dictionary, Leunig, or Annette your cosm ic wheels centrespread has Sydney, NSW. Erbs (TLD, 2 /1 ) assume anarchy to be. even managed to sneak on to the wall Alm ost aU the anarchy-leaning people I o f a factory room opening the eyes o f know are people w ho care very much slaves letting in color. E-room where about human welfare, and who can there is normally n o natural daylight: — offe r a respectable theory o f human Delights in sight. Amusement without uncontrolled laughter. W ho ou t o f all nature to back up their ideological endurance allowed occasional clouds to JILL AND JENNY were wrong (TLD preference. So let’s cut the cryptic “ it’s cross the sun and stars?

2 /3 ) in giving “ journalist” Harry Gumonly irresponsibility” crap shall we? b o o t the title “ anarchist” . G um boot’ s As for Leonard Am os — tw o things: K. LEE, attack (jocular or otherwise) on child­ (i) if he reads The greening o f America Adelaide, SA. ren and their “ right to exist” — as b y W. Reich he will find (among other much as his — is along with the “ leg useful ideas on meritocracy and such) hair" snarl one o f many reasons I am that the concept o f evolution can sure that “ here is no anarchist” — tho, apply to the development o f mass-conit be true, I hardly know the man! sciousness to o ; (ii) what makes survival There is n o “ official” anarchist for its ow n sake such a big deal? If voice in this world; contrary to the humanity is incapable o f attaining the IT IS with some trepidation that I part “ sounding brass” that often tout the quality o f existence dreamed o f by with 30 cents each week, taking a long anarchists what the hell dbes it matter shot on there being something digest­ title. (Usually such self-confessed anar­ chists are anything but). anyway, is a question they might ask. ible for me to consume in the pages o f Anarchism is a nerve tingling and TLD. As with m ost long shots, the What, roughly, do we amateur so dologists have to play around with? m oney (or m ost o f it) could just as w holly committing philosophy when My story is that we have individual well have been flushed dow n the near­ one is “ touched” by it and although I do n ot w holly agree with Nietzsche, I beings w ho change within a social est la-la. d o concede that the two cruellist pres­ environment (institutions, mores, etc — But I d o n ot write to complain “ society” fo r short) that also changes. about the puerility o f the w orst sec­ sures brought on the slave are religion and anarchism — religion because it Between the tw o is both conflict and tions o f the paper, nor to praise the dependency at one and the same time, skills o f such as Beckett. Simply do I confounds and stupefies, and anar­ chism because it invites us to question the result being, necessarily, continual inquire: Whose keen, exploring mind the validity o f all authority (including compromise. This is the calm, rational, gave birth to the page sometimes titled official anarchists). self-regulating pattern o f the human From the old b ox Brownie? Whose Yes J & J, anarchism is the search predicament in its natural state. creative intelligence suggested this bold What can fuck this picture up then, step into new frontiers, nay, revolu­ for free flowing undoctrinaire truth — and yes your leg’ s hairs are beautiful so that constant coercion by the state tionary concepts o f 20th century and are part o f your legitimate being appears necessary to maintain any kind journalism? . . . love ’em or shave 'em . . . as you o f order among individuals? In my The reason for this inquiry is quite like. view (if I dared I’d say the anarchist simple. There is a traitor in our midst. view) it happens when aspirations o f A moonlighter. A double-agent.

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No Toms here I’VE JUST returned to this country after spending a few months overseas.

Nothing much has changed. It’s still Last picture show territory. With one important difference. The publication o f The living daylights. Which appears to be devoted to telling it how it is.

Refreshingly devoid o f die arch flippancy o f some o f the other so called “ liberal” minded newspapers and magazines in this country. That sort o f smart arse, trendy approach characteristic o f the Nation review.

Has this been the only way to get through in Australia? T o adopt this flip approach? Masking I w ould say, a considerable feeling o f despair. The mandatory inclusion o f a few fucks and cunts here and there in the Nation review does nothing other than depress this reader. The living daylights by contrast uses fuck and cunt when those w ords apply. Where they are the right w ords in the right context.

I enjoyed the article Men against sexism and thought its tone extremely m oderate given the sexual chauvinism o f the all Australian B hoyho. There really is n o discussion or debate in this country. N o interplay o f ideas. Most people w ould seem to have closed minds. They cling smugly to precon­ ceived ideas and concepts. Above all, as your author o f the article on Sexism points ou t — they set themselves up as commentators. I think this is a very perceptive observation in relation to the national psyche.

There are encouraging signs though.

More and more people I’m sure are beginning to wonder. To be a prey to doubt, even self doubt.

Wondering where they are going.

Having a few second thoughts about our “ violence free society” . And so on, etc, etc. A t least there is The living daylights. And I’m sure there isnt an Uncle Tom on your staff.

Keep up the good fight. Me for London. A garbos life for me. A spectator. Watching it all from afar. At least you get a few more laughs over there. This m ob take themselves too b lo o d y seriously for mine. G ood luck.

A N ANONYMOUS WELL WISHER.

What a lot of questions ARE WE to believe our prophets, our political philosophers, our social theor­ ists?

When we watch our television news, read the papers and reports what are we to believe and feel?

Are w e ever to steep ourselves in thoughts o f revolutions because we

know that change must occur, knowing that if all continues as it is there will be utter chaos?

Are we to fill our hearts with hopes o f the various good types we may choose from today because we see no hope in revolution still knowing that change must occur.

Is it through the media alone that we are feeling more than ever that an end must com e or is it because that ending is truly upon us?

In these days o f rising prices, de­ creasing com modities and raw material and the once prosperous countries in chaos what will the future bring? Will it bring miraculous solutions, greater hardship, a continuing struggle towards eventual but distant victory, or an end in a terrible finale?

Editors, I ask you to offer the pages o f TLD to your readers minds and hearts. Perhaps an extended Lettersthings section. A com petition. A poll.

Discover where lies the terror and the hope.

ANON

More to come KOHOUTEK did as it was meant, and indeed did all it could. After all you can’t expect to climb to the m oon on a holy man’s erection.

So Kohoutek fizzed? . . . and with it the prayers o f the pessimists eh? ha ha ha. Remember there’ s plenty more comets where that one came from .

Prayers to you all.

DREAD ASTAR, Hobart, Tas.

Name calling A FEW words on the chant that enchants. I chant, therefore I am in bliss — the proof is in the practice. The sound that I speak o f comes n ot from this world nor the imagination. It comes down from the spiritual world.

As it moves from mouth to ear it encroaches upon the heart beckoning the soul T o those ears tuned to mundane tunes and non tunes it bears less significance and in most cases becomes an interruption (antagon­ ism!), but the humble crave its vocative as the breath o f life, and repeats His name incessantly.

Take shelter o f the holy name.

Divine Hare. The incantation that is He is to be seen in that sound. Sing the Name Divine! Purify the heart. Make a 1 new start. G o back to home. Back to where you came from. N ot her, n ot there, for it’ s a spiritual affair. The bluish b o y whose dream we are living stands with flute to make it so inviting.

Hare Krishna!

There I said it. N ow you please say it

CHANTER McPHANTER

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I’ D LIKE to dial a couple o f requests: First, could you please publish in some issue a comprehensive list o f subterran­ ean publications in Australia. Prefer­ ably this would include a wide range — anarchist, sci-fi fanzines, cult papers, Jesus papers, craft and lifestyle rags and the like — there would be no end to it all (which need n ot necessarily constitute a disadvantage). This idea w ould be a ripper for a Stephen Wall type, and all A ccess maniacs w ould benefit. A mention o f subscription rates, period o f publication and wheth­ er free copies will be sent on request w ould be a b oon . And what a centrespread or four page liftout it would make.

Second, would you kindly reinsti­ tute the original TLD masthead as in V ol. 1, No. 1, or weekly variations thereof. I would then be more inclined to pick up the Daylights each week if page one was graced with something that doesnt look like it was designed for a new Kelloggs or Helena Rubin­ stein product.

Third yes, third — I too am an opportunist) for arts sake, bring back the color and posters o f your outstand­ ing debut. If you dont I’ll com e over and rip your bloody arms o ff.

ROB PASCOE OOD old-fashioned fascism at the grass roots is still alive and well at the Harold E. Holt Swimming p ool in Malvern, Melbourne. A ny males wearing anything except Speedo jocks (like shorts, cut-down jeans, etc.) are unceremoniously booted out o f the p ool.

The p o o l attendants who police this rule set the trend in what is to be worn in the Chlorine Fashion Stakes: utterly obscene,

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skintight nylon things are the or­ der o f the day, cut low so that on e’s rearend split can be seen, and so tight that on e’s “ masculin­ ity ” is not in doubt.

The waterhole is also the scene for many a midnight middle-class romp. The p ool managers turn on an after-hours, by-invitation-only, p ool party for elderly matrons and tired out execs every now and then.

ELTON (HILLIS) Manly, NSW.

F THE e c o n o m ic environment crunch comes (not with a bang but with a Wimpy burger!) the life support systems that service the average house in the slubs will either be cut o ff or heavily disrupted. One alternative to being totally h ooked up to water, sewerage and e le c t r ic co n d u its is total independence or autonomy. So what — well, it might be time to have a look at some o f the alternatives for your own dome sweet dome.

The Architecture Faculty o f Cambridge University is busily churning out working papers and publications on Autonom ous housing. Areas covered include refuse, r e c y c lin g and consum ption; local solar, wind and methane power alternatives, mud, chalk, stone and recycled waste as indigenous building supplies; animal and plant h usbandry; water collection, p u r if i c a t io n , recycling and consumption.

Even the social scientists get in on the act with papers on the econom ics o f integrated versus autonomous systems and the p s y c h o lo g ic a l e ffe c ts of a lte rn a tiv e settlement sizes, location, density and housing types. In all, Cambridge published 33 papers in ’73 related to autonom ous housing. Y ou can write for a list o f these papers to Departm ent of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 1 Scroope terrace, Cambridge, CB2 IPX UK. It’s free.

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STEPHEN WALL o f the less exotic numbers. Y ou will find it really useful if you are in t o m e c h a n ic a l work — woodw ork, craft, sculpture, or in d e p e n d e n c e from sucking repairmen.

One o f McPhersons PR bods tells me that they have plenty o f copies in stock and that interested people can have a copy for free.

Because o f “ rapidly changing prices” (and I’m sure you can guess in which direction), costs are not included. Stiff, you say, you are only interested in the info. Still if you want to buy, they will tell you the price upon request (they aint a charity).

Write to McPhersons Industrial Catalogue, 65 Ashmore street, Alexandria, NSW (51.0433), or 546-566 Collins street, Melbourne (63.0301). *

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A US magazine called Computers and p eop le is a fine and rare e x a m p le of a technology o r ie n ta t e d journal with a conscience.

It’s also a fine example o f what happens to a d v e r tis in g re v e n u e w hen editorials begin to search fo r fact.

From a very brief look at a few back copies o f C & P there are three main topics covered computer info which I dont understand and thus wouldnt know if it is any good, computer M cPh e r s o n s Ltd puts out a designed art which in color, and truly amazing and highly useful even in black and white, is a catalogue for secondary industry. knockout, lastly the troubled and Its 750 pages are crammed with revenue losing area o f US info on thousands o f tools, assassinations, the CIA, the FBI, machines and equipment. Has all and Tricky Dick.

Before may 1970 the mag those tools you have wishedsomeone had invented. Well, most looked like an up and coming o f ’em anyway - powertools, “ Glossie” but when the editor the many hand tools, metal working began questioning machinery, drills, welding gear anomalies in the shootings o f John w ood working tools are only some and Robert Kennedy, Martin

Luther King, Walter Reuther and George Wallace revenue began to fall. Now add Watergate articles and try to imagine where the big b o y ’s ad m oney went.

It’s fairly expensive, so try and get your local/corporate library to order it. If really keen, send $A12 to Computers and People, 815 Washington s tr e e t , R 12 Newtonville, Mass. 02160 USA. * * * A GROUP o f people in Perth are getting an alternative i n f o r m a t io n /r e f e r r a l service together for WA. A t the mom ent they need people, information and ideas. If you are interested, contact Anne on 81.4849 or Mick at 217 High street, Fremantle. * *

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AS A N Y Nation review reader will tell you, the Steel Can People are a bunch o f hype merchants.

Basically they are a PR front for a segm ent of the packaging industry.

When the federal government held an open inquiry into the possibilities o f enforcing the beverage industry to stop flogging “ N o Deposit, No Return” but “ Lots o f Lettuce for us” drink containers, the Steel Can P e o p le made one of the submissions.

Fortunately so did a group called “ People Fighting Packaging Pollution” , which balanced out some o f the rubbish the Steel Can Companies, sorry, People layed on the inquiry. Y ou can get hold o f the transcript o f the inquiry by writing to Canberra. It makes really interesting reading.

W rite to th e Standing Committee on Environment and C o n s e r v a t io n (novem ber 5 hearings), Parliament House, Canberra. * * *

That’s it for this week; feedback, insulting letters, g o ld e n info nuggets, publications, government and cornflake coupons to PO b o x 8, Surry Hills, 2010.

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I WAS sitting in a Darwin gutter one night listening to a cassette in a woman friend's car when along came two aboriginals arguing with each other drunkenly. The big fat slender-fingered one who looked like an aranda or worona claimed that the short thin stumpy-fingered on e (the likes o f whom I had never seen before) owed him some bread.

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Shorty emptied his pockets to re­ veal a handkerchief, a pocket knife and 13 cents which he threw away. Fatty then stormed o f f in a huff leaving Shorty hovering bewilderedly on the path. Seeing his plight I asked him in for a cup o f tea and a blow which he instinctively accepted.

We started rapping about dreamtimes and white man’s cities and I produced my didgeridoo (handmade on Arnhemland’s Elcho island but bought for ten bucks in a Townsville chemist shop), and asked him to play if h e’d dig to. He did and did.

Then he asked me jokingly if 1 could play while he sang. It turned him on so much when I showed him I could that he played me the compliment o f telling me I was white on the outside but black on the inside. We played corroborees for an hour or so, gradual­ ly waking up everybody else in the flat and with a couple o f guitars and some bongos w e soon had a pretty cool sort o f a midnight scene going. Then some­ one asked him h ow he played and his reply is m y reason for writing this letter.

He said, “ Simple mate air go in through ’ ere

(this is the crunch) “ go up through ere,

“ com e out

I never found out where he came from. Once he said it was from an island o f f the top o f the Northern Territory, once he said it was from an island o f f the top o f WA, and once he said it was from an island o f f the top o f Queensland. ^ MOSS, PYMBLE, NSW

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