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HERE IT \ COMES! \ Future shocks, ' time games and t electrical wizards Visions of the video village Richmond, a city caught in the rush Dylan junks dope and gets active Britain prepares for civil war

KM NOHIN AST WEEK our prominent citizens — academics, artists and politicians L — led protests against the Soviet Union’s treatment o f its greatest living writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a man arrested and expelled from his country for criticis­ ing prison conditions and oppression dur­ ing the days o f Stalin’s regime. In jux­ taposition, here in Australia protesters against our own penal system were arrest­ ed outside Pentridge prison on Sunday (p.

5), N one were professors.

Pat Flanagan, a marxist, says the glob­ al outcry over the writer is a heap of bourgeois hysteria (p. 5); and Jack Grahame, a lawyer and a gadfly on the NSW justice department, tells in an inter­ view with John Dease and Mark Butler just what should be done with our own prison system, and the people who run it (P- 6).

Opposite, Albie in low crouching Buckminster Fuller style, has a look at our future electronic cities, our video villages. Will we enter into 2001 on the plans of men who won’t be around then?

He says we should get up and do some­ thing about our own future rather than leave it all to the boffins.

The Melbourne city of Richmond is already in the clutch of future shock; its city council remembers the good old days and tries to stop the clock while the world beyond city hall is changing by the m inute (p. 18).

Meanwhile people ace still squatting for their right to live now.

We report two cases this week: one a group o f gentle nature lovers on Sydney’s Dobroyd Point (p. 17), and the other Some residents o f Brisbane who wish to live in a city that isnt totally blocked out by the madness o f freeway development schemes (p. 4).

Winston Smith writes from England.

He says it doesnt matter who wins the elections there. Not as far as the people are concerned anyway. In a country where food prices spiral upwards 20 percent in one year, where miners (the traditional whipping boys for industry) are fighting for “a living wage” , and where the government (Labour, Tory, Liberal, whoever) can do little to repair the ever increasing class barriers, the army prepares for strong civil control over an angry nation (p. 10).

Appearing on our TV screens these days is a totally chunderous ad for an aerosol spray, Uncle Sam. So sickening in fact, it prompted Harry Gumboot to forestall his magnum opus on work to study the nature of the beast. The result is an attack on the advertising industry in general.

A. J. Weberman, dylanologist, has done what might be called a critique of Dylan’s latest album, Sound waves (p. 9).

We’re just not quite sure what to make of it. We offer it to readers to make what they will o f it . . .

As we mentioned in an earlier issue we intend running an issue devoted to “awareness” — physical, sexual, philo­ sophical, political and environmental etc.

We invite readers to contribute and spread their ideas through these pages for our march 12 issue. Copy should hit our desk no later than march 7. Everyone is a master, a guru, a savior of the planet . . .

Hope you enjoy the issue. Love.

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Richard Beckett b eats up the w e e k ’s n ew s u g g e r t h e b o m b , l e t ’s GET STUCK INTO THE FREE TUCKER: Following his Southeast Asian tour, describj:ed as an amazing success because o f the :j decision to let a few downtrodden, :jFilipino car workers into the country, ; Australian prime minister Gough Whit•:1am once again proved he was the small j: leader o f a parochial nation by hastenj:ing to Sydney’s Circular quay to lunch •: on board a French luxury liner, “in one o f the ship’s dining rooms which is the : haunt o f the princes and presidents” . : Leaving the small moral issue o f the : continuing French nuclear tests in the : Pacific aside, can you imagine the leader • of any adult nation tripping over him• self to clamber on board a crummy j: cruise liner containing, among others, j: “members o f the Wrigley chewing gum : family, the countess de Fels, author : Janet Taylor Caldwell and madame C. • Sportuna C oty” ? Rise up Cocky Cal: well, all is forgiven

MANILA, Saturday. — About 10,000 people are dead or missing in fighting between Government troops and Moslem rebels. — F ill story, page 4.

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h e se v en d w a r fs w ill PROTEST TO THE UNITED NATIONS: Knockabout Meg Whitlam, who accompanied her j: husband Gough on his mystery tour o f j: the east (shades o f Mark Twain’s inj: nocence abroad) and undid all the good •: done by her husband’s closed mouth by, as usual, opening hers wide and letting (th e flies hang in there. In an interesting i statement on the mental capacity o f jij anyone under six fo o t tall, she said o f ; Ms Ne Win, the pint sized wife o f the equally pint sized Burmese prime minister: “She had perfect charm and I : dont think I’ve seen anyone so small j: with such presence.” Som eone should j: tell poor old Meg that Southeast Asia is j: not noted for its production o f six jj footers.

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a llin g fla t on th e MORAL OUTRAGE DEPART­ MENT : Fierce little A1 Grassby (what does Ms Whitlam think :• o f his tiny presence?) jumped up and :j down with righteous rage and moral :• indignation after being officially told jj that his men had caught a bunch o f ; Colombian wetbacks being smuggled jij into Australian on tourist visas. This all j: sounded very fine until a gentleman :• called Dr Alvaro Borilla-Aragon, who just happens to be the Colombian consul in Sydney, opened his big fat mouth •j: and said he had warned Mr Grassby :( about this nice little racket as far back •:j as October last year and that there had jij been official correspondence on the £ matter in both november and december. jjj Grassby, who then was more preocjij cupied with taking his extensive wardrobe and general Black and White Ministrel Show on a tour o f the European jij suppliers o f office cleaners and ditch j: j: diggers, replied that the matter would >: be attended to when he returned to :•:• sunny Australia once again.

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MANILA — Government forces claimed to have com­ plete control over the south­ ern Philippine island of Jolo. where 300 people have died in fierce lighting be­ tween troops and Moslem rebels last week.

The Defence Secretary (Senor Enrile) told report­ e rs yesterday that 250 Moslem insurgents and 26 G overnment troops had been killed when about 300 rebels attacked the provin­ cial capital of Jolo last week. About 30 civilians, caught in cross fire, hac also been killed, he said

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nyone w ho can u se NAPALM MUST BE SUPERI­ OR: Colonel C. W. T. Kyndon, now retired, told the senate standing com m ittee on foreign affairs that D untroon’s royal military college, training ground for Australia’s biggest collection o f w idow makers, should be forced to join the 20th century because its inmates were out o f touch with reality and believe themselves to be far superior to civilians. He said matters might change if the Duntroon lads were forced to speak to at least one civilian a day and that their military academy was turned into Canberra’s second univers­ ity. f t e r a l l t h is , a s o v ie t LABOR CAM P WOULD HAVE BEEN HEAVEN: N ov­ elist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, thrown out o f mother Russia for writ­ ing a few unkind things about that country’s penal institutions, and daring to question the authority of the state, spent his first w eek o f so called freedom in the w est signing autographs and counting up the pennies in his Swiss bank account. Strangely enough, in all the democratic babble about rights o f critics o f the state that emanated from the United States, which has offered Solzhenitsyn asylum, the name o f Ezra Pound was not m entioned once. Come to think o f it the name o f Wilfred Burchett wasnt much bandied about by members o f Australia’s DLP, who claim­ ed Solzhenitsyn’s expulsion was all the fault o f the federal Labor government because it hadnt protested early enough.

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Wales pollution control commissioner, Mr E. J. C offey, joyfully maintained his state lead in Australia’s destruction stakes by announcing that a natural plain on the Illawarra escarpment, 30 miles south o f Sydney, was perfectly suitable for dumping colliery waste. Mr Coffey said: “One is forced to accept the reality, at least for the time being, that to dispose o f the Coal Cliff material, some degree o f degradation o f the natural environment in the area implacement is inevitable.”

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a p e r i n g o v e r t h e p r is ON WALLS: Following a series of interesting disturbances in New South Wales jails, the corrective services department brightly announced that prisoners in future would be allowed to grow their hair long and have the right to purchase shaving cream, toilet soap and shampoo, listen to the races and be allowed tw o bags o f laundry a week. Having solved these major problems, the department sat back and sighed with relief, then set minor worries such as the rehabilitation of prisoners, the degradation o f jails generally and the question of protecting society from itself b y somewhat more humane methods for another year and another riot. Of course, justice minister Maddison had a theory. Said he: “ I believe it (the riot) could be part o f the worldwide prison activist movement whose base objective is to destroy the prison systems of most countries.”

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h e y c a l l h im m r l i t t l e : Leonard Arthur McPherson, named during the royal com ­ missioner, Mr E. J. Coffey, into New South Wales clubs as the “Mr Big” o f Australia, in an impassioned defence of himself over the television waves denied that he owned massage parlors, lived o ff the earnings o f prosti­ tution, had connections with shady pok­ er machine operators or pushed drugs and then added, when questioned about where his m oney came from: “It’s hard to say what you do. But I import

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’M SITTING in my living room , a cigarette in my hand and a beer on the table beside me. I reach for the phone and start punching buttons. I hit them 15 times on both vertical & horizontal scales, wait a few m o­ ments, then with a burst o f light my girlfriend in Istanbul appears on my TV screen.

We talk a while and during the conversation she punches a few buttons on her phone and replays for me her trip earlier that day to the Blue Mosque. More talk and some protracted goodbyes and the TV screen goes blank. I punch the buttons in a different combination and suddenly she’s back again in a replay o f our conversation. I keep pressing the buttons till I get to the part I want to hear again, run it back and forth a few more times until I’m sick o f it, punch the buttons once more and the screen is blank.

Out to the kitchen for another can o f beer, light up a cigarette and I’m back at the phone punch­ ing buttons. This time a Dewey library code is displayed on my TV screen. It has the names o f all o f Josef Von Sternberg’s movies with number codes after them. I select the code for Blue angel and punch it up on the buttons on the phone. Then I settle back and watch the movie on my TV screen.

Several beers later I’ve another Dewey code displayed on my screen. It’s all the Rolling Stones albums. I punch the code for the latest album and soon Mick’s on m y screen prancing about in pur­ ple & gold. At one point he does an amazing convolution of his body and after the album finishes I press a few more buttons and retrieve that instant in slow mo­ tion, finding it all the more amaz­ ing as each fragment o f movement is expanded before m y eyes.

I remember the Stones are coming to tow n in a few weeks so I push a few more buttons and a stadium box plan appears on my screen. I select one o f the few remaining seats and punch its number on m y phone buttons.

The typewriter beside the TV set bursts into operation and a thin strip o f paper with various codes typed on it, including the number o f the seat I’ve booked, falls into a tray. It’s m y ticket for the show.

Just as I’m about to put the ticket in a drawer for safekeeping the typewriter starts up again and a larger sheet o f paper falls into the tray. It’s a letter from a friend reminding me o f an agreement we reached on the videophone last week. I quickly type a reply ac­ cepting the conditions o f the agreement.

What’s in The living daylights this week I wonder. I punch a few buttons on the phone and it’s on the TV screen, page by page, each one held as long as I want to read it. One item on a new alpharhythm brain to y appeals to me so I press a few buttons and the typewriter springs into action again and I’ve got m y ow n printed copy.

Mail & newspapers by tele­ vision, movies & music perform­ ances for the pushing o f a few b u tto n s, international video­ phones, shopping by videophone, alpha-numeric accessing - a tech­ nologists fantasy? No, stuff that’s around now, and which the Aus­ tralian post office sees in every home by 2001.

Last week the APO and the department o f media held a seminar in Sydney on just that T elecom m unications and the

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media - 2001. There they intro­ duced their proposal for the ‘ ‘ N ational Telecom munications Plan” and sought support for an expenditure o f $ 8 billion to create "The Wired City” , a fibre-optic cable system linking every build­ ing to computer terminals that would give every building access to the sort o f com m unications I’ve already fantasised. N ot that much fantasy is necessary, since much o f what I described has already been simulated in movies like Kubrick’s 2 0 0 1 , and been experienced by us in such events as the m oon walk, Olympic games etc, etc.

I didnt last out the seminar, so I dont know how the boffins are going to persuade the government to spend the $8 billion, but they made convincing appeals along lines o f decentralisation (who needs big cities when you can access all information from hom e thru interlocked computers that replace office com plexes?), energy conservation (who needs to drive

or fly when contact can be made by videophone and computer readout?), increased leisure (the machines do the work, our labor involves button pushing), and greater social integration (greater one/one dialogue possible using the wire).

Trouble was that the average age o f seminar participants was 50. Which means few o f them will be active in 2 001. But if the cities are going to be wired they'll have to start now, so that by 2001 the system ’s there. So th ey ’re getting into it. Providing for their chil­ drens childrens children so to speak.

I was intrigued by their idea o f the “hom e o ffice” which I fanta­ sised using above. A t the moment to have such hardware in the home would cost at minimum about $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 . They see' it all transistorised and miniaturised by 2001 and therefore costing a lot less. But how much less? A t pres­ ent not all hom es have telephones.

People can’t afford them. A low

incom e earner has to spend a whole w eek’s wages if he wants a phone installed, and pay som e­ where betw een l/1 0 0 th and l/5 0 th o f his annual incom e in rental and services. The APO talks as if everyone had a phone already and would be delighted to turn it into a videophone as soon as the PO provides such services. But the recent ruckus over cost o f color TV sets suggests that videophones w on ’t be cheap for some tim e to come. So if the APO believes their “home office” is going to be for the use o f everyone in 2001 they must have some concept o f a radically different econom y that will provide it for everyone. Could it be a socialist system? Or was George Orwell right?

At present the PO has the country wired for sound. Wiring for video doesnt change their system much. But the all-electro­ magnetic econom y they envisage for 2001 does. It is not a money econom y - at least in the sense o f dollar bills or even cheques. It’s a computer accounting econom y, with machines keeping debits & credits. Consumers pay for ser­ vices, just as now a phone bill logs calls, trunks, telegrams, wakeup calls etc. Similarly these ma­ chines will log credit (eg. writ­ ers will write their stories for TLD, type them on the system input and get a credit for the story when it’s used on the TLD videodisplay. TLD will get a credit every time som eone punches it up on their home screen. Machines will debit and credit and maintain balance.) But I suspect it will be like the totalisator - som eone makes "profit” and that som eone is the owner o f the machine. In the year 2001 will that be the APO? Will the APO be owned by the state? Will the people own the state or will the state own the people? Politics were not m en­ tioned in the seminar.

The videofreaks are playing with television. Bush Video in Sydney shows their software every Sunday at 31 Bay street, Ultimo. A few weeks ago they showed some color tapes at the Filmmakers Cinema. They’re ex ­ ploring the new medium tactilely, using the electro-magnetic band as a reflection o f their nervous sys­ tems. When it comes to justifying what they’re doing (as when they appear on a Mike Walsh show) they talk about video bringing people together enabling greater understanding. The APO hints at similar values, to sell their idea on the basis of efficiency. They claim 50 percent o f the US GNP is information, but what sort of information is it? How much is hard copy (facts and figures stor­ ed in computers and available for printout) and how much is nervous-system exploration like what Bush Video are into and just how much is entertainment - the high­ ly structured simplified life cod­ ings that are consumed with the same voraciousness that food and other life-sustaining materials are?

I regret I can only ponder. My scenario for 2001 is a very open one. I believe the end-product o f electro-magnetic exploration is alchemical, that eventually the wired city will not only transmit information but also matter.

Whether that comes in 2001 depends on a billion variables in­ teracting in the next quarter o f a century. But it is time to think about such things, because the boffins are, and they are asking for $8 billion to implement their system. We’re part o f their universe-scenario and ought to be participating in their planning. I’m sure Harry Gumboot has an opin­ ion on the matter. Who else? j-— j

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JUDITH CHAPMAN EMBERS of the Brisbane Freeway Protest and Com­ pensation Committee received a shot in the arm last month when police dropped vagrancy charges against tw o Bowen squatters, Tom O’Brien and Geoff Gollett. They were arrested last year for unlaw­ fully occupying a building due to go under for the proposed North­ ern freeway.

But there’s another side to the issue. The anti freeway people have relied heavily on media coverage as a weapon to fight the main roads department and the dropping o f the charges was seen as a police plan to avoid publicity.

Frank Redmond, barrister appear­ ing for the defendants, was still allowed to read a statement to the court claiming main roads minis­ ter Camm was guilty o f wrecking 750 homes when there are 2000 people on the housing list.

The proposed Northern free­ way, which will cover four and a half miles and will require the resumption o f 750 homes, is just

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one part o f an extensive freeway with the intention o f taking over plan for Brisbane. The city ’s road all the houses (vacated) in the plans were adopted from recom­ Bowen Hills area with a view to mendations in the Wilbur Smith help accom m odate people who report o f 1964 and are supposed needed low cost housing. A vacat­ to be fully carried out in various ed house in Hurworth street was stages by 1985. Already the first the first one to be moved into. stage - the South-East freeway Here the com m ittee set up its running from Woolloongabba over office and Tom O’Brien, the then the James Cook bridge into the fulltim e secretary for the com m it­ tee was among those living there city —is in use.

The Freeway Protest and Com­ from mid-september.

Many o f the people in the path pensation Committee formed to fight against the injustices that o f the freeway are elderly pen­ they saw were part and parcel of sioners, some are physically handi­ urban freeway development. They capped and there is quite a large feel that at a time when low cost Italian com m unity. The monetary housing is scarce, there is a short­ compensation that many o f these age o f building materials and some people are receiving is entirely thousands o f people on the Hous­ inadequate. For the people in the ing Commission lists the Queens­ Bowen Hills area easy access to land government, instead of im­ the city is one aspect which will proving the situation, has decided be hard to replace. Places o f em­ to destroy the homes o f the p eo ­ ployment too, in many cases, have ple in the lower income bracket, been very handy to people’s pay inadequate compensation and homes. In all, the extent o f com­ force people out o f an area some munity disruption is quite con­ of them have lived in for the siderable. greater part o f their lives.

Reactions to the protest com ­ Initial squatting by members o f m ittee have been varied. Many o f the protest com m ittee was done the residents are very grateful for

Slave to the Beast AVING over-eaten, drunk several cans o f beer, watch­ ed the TV, belched, washed, and farted, he comes to bed. After lying motionless for several min­ utes he, like clockwork, rolls over, handles me in a brief pre-fuck routine that is the same every night, climbs on to me and puts his cock into me.

I open my legs just enough. I feel no desire for him. I feel like a liar. I am a liar. He pushes his cock in and out for a while, breathes heavily towards the end, ejaculates (I presume) and col­ lapses. (Towards the end I make a few grunts because it makes him finish quicker.)

Before long he is snoring. I lie awake. I feel like a corpse. I feel dead. I feel trapped. I dream hopelessly o f friends I want to know more intimately both male and female. It’s impossible with him around: he w on’t let anything happen. If anybody starts getting to o close or tender or honest or thoughtful, he smashes the scene with his noise — stupid jokes, boring anecdotes, more beer and lots o f noise. And he w on ’t let me out o f his sight.

He wants to know my every move. And when we do get time to be alone together (which is not very often because he takes all the overtime he can get because he wants all the m oney he can get for the new house - the new jail and another newer car) he says let’s go on a picnic and drives so far that it's three hours going, one eating-drinking-fussing hour when

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the help and concern shown them, and for the chance to get together with others who are in the same boat. Also, despite the great gap betw een the power o f the govern­ ment and that o f the few protest­ ing, som e have com e to realise that by combining their voices something can be achieved. Some people have had their com pen­ sation am ounts raised — in one case from $9 0 0 0 to $1 8 ,0 0 0 .

There are some residents w ho are wary o f being involved with the protesters. This has probably been because o f fear o f political involvement and also as a result o f a false image that has been conjur­ ed up o f the people involved.

Hodges, the police minister, has said he “would not tolerate being told what to do by a group o f hoons and hounds” . Camm has described the protest com m ittee in parliament as a group of ex ­ treme radicals with communist affiliations and advised the decent element o f the com m unity against associating with them. Don Lane, the federal Liberal member for one o f the electorates concerned, has referred to them, also in par­ liament, as a collection o f “hip­ pies, comms, and drug addicts” .

Support has been given by the trade unions in the form o f green bans on the houses but these proved not to be very effective.

Another form o f union support was the provisions o f funds in case Tom and G eoff were fined, which

was expected had charges been pressed.

The protest com m ittee now has its headquarters in another house in the small row o f what’s left o f Markell street. This house is rented from one o f the Italians who lives in the street, Guilo Cerasini. Guilo has been, up till now, the strongest in the fight against the main roads department and great moral support for the rest o f the group. Pressures on himself, his wife and his family have come to prove too much for them all however, and Guilo has decided to negotiate with the d e­ partment for the tw o houses that he owns.

Which brings us back to the new tactics o f the government. Its new strategy puts the onus on the landlord to make houses unhabit­ able before any compensation is paid. It is written into the con­ tract that the owner must evict his own tenants which means that the protest com m ittee must leave their present residence or make Guilo suffer.

So, where to go from here? It has meant that the protest com ­ mittee will have to have a change of plans, but they have not al­ together lost hope in their struggle no matter how big the odds are against them. They are determin­ ed to battle on as long as they feel that they are achieving something positive for society.

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we get there, and three hours returning.

He w on’t iet me get close to him. If I try to tell him how I really feel, he gets hysterical. And if I try to relate seriously to anyone else, he threatens to leave me. I would leave him, or not leave him but do what I truly felt like doing despite his threats, at the drop o f a hat. Except for one thing: my children.

I have tw o children. He pro­ vides the bread they eat. I can face the prospect o f going penni­ less alone into the world, to my friends etc, but I feel obliged to provide security for the kids. He knows this. He uses the kids to imprison me. He uses threats o f their destitution to keep me as a corpse to masturbate into.

I know now that many women are in this situation. And I know

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FROM the terraces: Melbourne developers are lying low and lick­ ing their wounds these days fol­ lowing recent shenanigans in Mid­ dle Park and Parkville.

The South Melbourne council agreed last week to prosecute dem olition workers w ho began work on Lanark terrace in Middle Pard (TLD 2/3). The dem olition gang, presumably under the em­ ploy o f Hooker Home Units No. 2 that many wom en are resigned to Pty Ltd, will be prosecuted for it and have virtually chosen to breaking clauses 501, 1607 and throw their life away. The idea o f 1609 o f the Uniform Building walking out on the whole husRegulations o f Victoria. This cov­ band-children-house scene is so ers dem olition w ithout an appro­ scarey that I often daydream that priate permit and breaking various there’s reincarnation and I’ll let safety regulations such as inade­ this life waste away and not make quate scaffolding etc. the same mistake in the next In Parkville the battle over life . . .

Deloraine terrace continues (TLD I have no feeling in my cunt.

2/5). Tenants were supposed to be Maybe I’m frigid. But I know I’m out of the terrace by february 9 not frigid because I almost had but most are still residing there. an orgasm from simply cuddling Landlords acting for the develop­ (on the sly with all our clothes on) er, Compac, a division of E. A. a friend that m y husband w on’t Watts, have collected the “final let near me. rent” but have given tenants sev­ I am checkmated by the rules eral weeks “grace” and seem re­ of this life into a state o f living luctant to take any positive step death. There must be som ebody to turf residents out. among the readers o f The living The Parkville Association, daylights w ho can tell m e the which are fighting the developers, right next move. is worried that if the building is TRAPPED, ofW O D O N G A | left uninhabited vandals, acting on

their own initiative, or on behalf of the developers, will wreck the place, giving an opening for dem­ olition under health regulations.

It’s therefore interesting to note that last week a landlord walked into a vacated area o f the terrace and commenced ripping off marble fireplaces. Parkville As­ sociation representatives put the word on the landlord that he shouldnt be doing this but he merely gave a “why n ot” shrug and continued his work. The rep­ resentatives then reported the landlord to the local CIB who are “investigating”.

Compac’s man in charge of Deloraine, a pompous Cyril Biss, refused to give any com m ent to TLD on the company’s attitude to the tenants, or the fact that a landlord in their employ has be­ gun vandalisation.

Melbourne developers are a dif­ ferent breed to their Sydney counterparts. Sydney developers dont seem to be ashamed o f their brash thuggery. In Melbourne unc­ tuous developers hide behind a cloak of prominent respectability by day, while at night they con­ duct furtive ratlike activities under cover o f darkness.

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Superficially, there seems no good reason. Even such local "champions” o f Solzhenitsyn as Knopfelmacher concede that: “Solzhenitsyn’s literary work, apart from its intrinsic merit, con­ tains almost nothing which has not been known about the Soviet system, or which was not easily available for detailed scrutiny in western countries, at least since the Moscow trials o f 1936-38” (Nation review, January 25).

As for the theme o f Solzhen­ itsyn’s latest book, Gulag archi­ pelago, Knopfelmacher adds that "The literature exposing the true nature o f Soviet Russia, with special reference to its concentra­ tion camp system - the ‘Gulag archipelago’ - has grown into a torrent since world war two, and is supported by the witness of millions o f exiles w ho passed through the camps and reached the w est.” So why bother to talk about Solzhenitsyn’s arrest and deportation from the Soviet Union? There appears to be a radical discrepancy between the facts o f Solzhenitsyn’s work and role in the USSR, and the hysteri­ cal press headlines in the bour­ geois press (“S olzhenitsyn— Stalin­ ism is alive and w ell”, “ Living still with the ghost o f Stalin”, “Coun­ ter-govern m en t from Archi­ pelago”, “Solzhenitsyn puts us all on the spot”, and so- on, ad nauseam).

There is and there isnt. The plain facts are that for all his undoubted personal courage and sincerity, Solzhenitsyn is an avow­ ed anti-marxist. His calls for free­ dom o f expression, respect for the law, justice and liberty are precise­ ly what one would expect from a petit-bourgeois “intellectual”, a member o f a privileged elite stratum o f Soviet society, with no links with the class o f productive workers upon whose labors “intel­ lectuals” are parasitically depend­ ent.

The Soviet movement o f “dis­ sident” intellectuals led by Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn Knopfelmacher goes so far as to call Solzhenitsyn “ the head o f the spiritual counter government o f totalitarian Russia” — is in reality impotent, by the nature o f its social (class) position, to effect any structural changes in the distribution o f Soviet power.

With the restoration of a form

of state capitalism in the USSR, the elite stratum o f privileged dissident “intellectuals” occupy a parasitic no-man’s land between the Soviet ruling class (served by the state apparatus) and the mass o f exploited productive workers.

It is no surprise, therefore, that Solzhenitsyn’s demands for petitbourgeois civil liberties (freedom of expression, etc) are abstract, supra-class demands. They are above the essential dimension o f political reality, that o f class struggle between those w ho create wealth and profits (mass o f pro­ ductive workers) and those who control and primarily consume such wealth (Soviet ruling class and its agents). Given his social (class) position, Solzhenitsyn’s abstract-moralistic criticisms o f the Soviet system are not unusual.

The hysteria and outraged de­ nunciations of the Soviet Union

for its persecution, arrest and ex ­ pulsion o f Solzhenitsyn - in a word, for its “stalinism” — appear at first sight totally disproportion­ ate both to the nature and social role o f the Soviet “dissident intel­ lectuals” movement, and to the facts o f political power in the USSR. If the state capitalist sys­ tem there were stalinist, in the true sense o f that word, there'd be no Solzhenitsyn alive and well in exile.

On a closer examination, h ow ­ ever, there is a very appropriate “f it ”, ideologically speaking, b e­ tween the protests o f Solzhen­ itsyn et al, and those o f his champions in the west.

For the terms o f the bourgeois press’s condem nations o f the Soviet Union and “ stalinism” are precisely those o f abstract-moral­ ising, supra-class “ liberalism” . But in reality, o f course, such abstract

talk o f “personal freedoms", "the lib e r ty of the individual” , “justice” , “ the rights o f m an” functions ideologically to m ystify the nature o f political power, and which classes hold it. Far from being above classes, such “liberal­ ism ” is in fact bourgeois class ideology. Both Solzhenitsyn and his western champions m ystify the nature o f class power in the Soviet Union and the rest o f the capitalist network. Such abstract condem nations o f “stalinism” and the demand for personal liberties function, politically, to divert at­ tention from the need for prole­ tarian class struggle, both inside and outside the USSR. K nopfelm acher’s theological canonisation of Solzhenitsyn (N ation review, january 25 and february 8) merely reduces such apologetics for capitalism to ab­ surdity.

Just as nauseous, and no less pernicious ideologically and politi­ cally, was the editorial in the Australian financial review for 1 4 /2 /7 4 : “What Solzhenitsyn has done is to put the rest o f the world - or at least that part o f it which professes to regard the indi­ vidual and his rights as important - on the spot,” we read. “The important thing . . . is the dignity and freedom and security of the individual in the Soviet U nion” . . . and so it goes on.

As Freud knew, however, such frenzied and hysterical outpour­ ings have deep-rooted structural causes. In this case, the emphasis b y Solzhenitsyn and his bourgeois champions upon the rights o f the individual serves to direct atten­ tion from the necessity for a system atic revolutionary (prole­ tarian) class standpoint, for class “rights”, class “justice” , class free­ dom from dom ination.

Of course one must criticise the barbarism o f stalinism, just as one must criticise the realities o f class dom ination. In each case, this can only be done in revolu­ tionary class terms, in terms of genuine socialism — not in the apparently supra-class terms o f abstract liberalism which consti­ tutes in reality bourgeois class ideology.

It is b y these standards that the hysterical championing of Solzhen­ itsyn by western ideologists for capitalism must be recognised and judged for what it is.

Up against the walls PlOTR OLSZEWSKI

OLICE arrested three men and a woman at a dem on­ stration outside Melbourne Pentridge prison’s A division on Sun­ day.

Demonstrators included the Prisoners Action Committee, members of the Builders Laborers Federation and students. Punches and kicks were exchanged as police dragged demonstrators into vans.

This was the second consecu­ tive weekend demonstration con­ ducted by the Prisoners Action Committee who are urging Pentridge prisoners to demand better conditions. Members of the PAC, which has the support o f 15 unions including the Painters and Dockers, the Amalgamated Metal Workers and the Builders Labor­ ers, are also seeking assurance that guns will not be used against prisoners, as was the case at Bathurst recently.

Demonstrators arrested were: • Barry York, 22, secretary o f the PAC and Latrobe university student - charged under the So­ cial Welfare act with loitering near a prison and attempting to com­ municate with a prisoner.

• Thomas Rhys Griffiths, 23 - same charges.

• Jean McLean, 35 — charged with using indecent language.

• Benjamin Merhab, 29 charged with assault, assaulting police and resisting arrest.

One o f the demonstrators ar­ rested described police action as thus: Speakers were standing outside Pentridge near A division. Loud­ speakers were on poles raised above the south wall. Barry York commenced speaking through a microphone. Police moved in, grabbed him and arrested him.

Thomas Griffiths then picked up the microphone. Police crowded around, arrested Griffiths, and pulled wires out o f the speakers.

Another person, described as “irrelevant” spoke next and was undisturbed by police. Jean Mc­ Lean began to speak but police did not tackle her; instead they turned their attention to Benja­ min Merhab who was supporting one o f the speaker poles.

It is reported that police han­ dled Merhab very roughly and bodily threw him into the van. It is also reported that Merhab’s self protective struggles were then construed by police as assault and resisting arrest.

McLean, seeing this violent ar­ rest in progress, voiced certain opinions of the police and their actions. A cop asked McLean to repeat her statements. She refused and was thrown in the van with the others, later to be charged.

Police then moved in to dis­ perse the crowds.

PAC com m ittee member R ob­ ert Mathews was surprised by the arrests. He said that demonstra­ tors only expected to be moved back from the walls. He said the PAC will return to the pfison every weekend.

Court sessions for arrested demonstrators are: Jean McLean, Coburg court, am, thursday, feb ­ I Uj ruary 21; Griffiths and York, Co­ It k CO burg Court, tuesday, february 26; Merhab, Coburg court, tuesday, It Uj february 19 (this case is expected to be adjourned).

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JOHN DEASE AND MARK BUTLER

The crime of punishment. . .

The punishment of crime...

S A lawyer, Jack Grahame is no stranger to the police or the prisons o f New South Wales.

He has been making a “ nuisance” of himself for years, defending such targets o f official wrath as students, publishers, printers and drug users. He has a strong sense o f justice, and speaks with the calm assurance o f a man who believes he knows what is fair & reasonable.

His notions o f justice were outraged sufficiently in 1971 after the bashings at Bathurst jail for him to form a penal reform coun­ cil with other lawyers in an a t­ tempt to protect the rights o f helpless men in closed prisons under the control o f men with guns and a love o f discipline.

He is convinced that the pres­ ent minister of justice, Mr Maddison and the head o f the depart­ ment o f corrective services, McGeechan, must be removed from office if his council is going to humanise the prisons system. His constant calls for their removal have not made him popular in government circles, and attem pts have been made to keep him quiet. Which is an impossible task; Jack is very eloquent, an orator o f the latin school. He addresses our tape recorder m icrophone profes­ sionally, asking about sound levels, and begins by telling us what he thinks of the govern­ ments proposition to allow shop stewards in prisons, elected by the inmates. Grahame talks: What has to be understood about the suggestion is that it is designed for the consumption o f the general public. It is, in fact, a PR device, to give the impression prior to the drawing up o f the terms o f reference for the royal commission that he [McGeechan] is a forward-looking fellow w ho is prepared to do something about conditions in the jails in general.

As for the specific proposal, of course no one would object to it as part o f comprehensive revitalis­ ing and restructuring o f the whole prison system. But it is only an infinitesimally small part o f what would be done by any rational, sensible, forward-looking person who was going to reform the whole o f the system.

What reforms are necessary now?

“Firstly, w e’ve got to get rid o f the minister o f justice, Mr Maddison. That’s got to be done first.

Secondly, w e’ve got to get rid o f McGeechan, and then you might start with a royal commission with the broadest possible terms, to look into what w e’re about.

We’d have to establish firstly in NSW a basic correctional philoso­ phy. We’d have to decide what we were on about in these institu­ tions.”

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HE GODFATHER is show­ ing in Sydney - it ’s not the film it’s reality. The decision by justice Moffitt, head o f the royal commission into organised crime in NSW, to release previously secret evidence should lead to major reshuffles and criminal prosecutions in the NSW police force.

There’s a heap o f evidence now before the commission which sup­ ports allegations made in the com ­ monwealth police report. The re­ port, which forced premier Askin to call the royal commission, said the US mafia and local criminals had taken over gambling, enter­ tainment, and prostitution rackets in NSW. The mafia, the report says, made inroads via Bally Manufacturing Corporation, a Chicago manufacturer of poker machines with proven links with the US mafia.

The tactics o f the takeover have been the usual mafia opera­ tion - violence, bribery, and blackmail, spreading to include not only criminals but top echelons o f the police force, judi­ ciary and political circles. The turnover o f the poker machines alone last year was $370 million, and if that’s added to the profits of illegal gambling, prostitution, their increasing share o f drug deal­ ing, and protection rackets the profits would vie with those of Bougainville Copper.

Last week inspector Dixon o f the commonwealth police gave evidence that a page o f the com­ monwealth report had been “rip­ ped o ff”. A few days later detec­ tive sergeant Frank Day o f the NSW police told the commission that he had found the missing page o f the report under a pile of folders in a filing cabinet. He had handed it to detective-inspector Jack McNeill who claimed he’d never seen it before. Later in the same day D. B. Milne, QC for the NSW cops, told the commission that he had just found a copy of the report in his office. He didnt know where it had com e from.

To pour more fuel on the fire detective-constable Bradley said that detectives working on the clubs investigation had been in­ structed not to put full details o f their investigations into their diaries. He said that this order had come from McNeill, who said he had been instructed by assistant commissioner Lendrum.

Then it came out that McNeill had known “Mr Big”, Lennie McPherson, for the past 25 years, and that he had made no attempts to check on Lennie’s sources o f * * * income. N ow principal witness Murray Riley, a former cop, can­ TO Grahame, the latest at­ tempts o f the department o f not be found.

Other allegations last week in­ corrective services to white­ cluded : photos o f a club secretary wash the Bathurst jail riots is with his secretary in bed were nothing surprising, he’s con­ used to “ change his m ind” about fronted corruption’s human ordering Bally machines; trained face before. The tactics utilis­ cheats were put into clubs that ed to deal with prisoners didnt have Bally; Bumper Lam­ extend beyond the prison bert and Col Sloan ran an SP book walls: Jack Grahame has ex­ in the boardroom o f the Black- perienced firsthand the intown Workers Club; and the staff bred arrogance o f the justice of Channels 9 and 10 had been department during an o f­ intimidated to hire entertainers ficial attempt to inquire into from the Arcadia booking agency. the problems in the jails.

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quiry into bashing allegations at Long Bay, Grahame was approached by a relative o f one o f the prisoners bashed.

He agreed to represent the prisoner at the inquiry and requested the justice depart­ ment to pay the prisoner’s legal expenses. The depart­ ment, while it left the till open for the costs of legal repre­ sentation for the department o f corrective services, reject­ ed Grahame’s application.

That was only a begin­ ning. The m oment Grahame appeared at the court of in­ quiry he was informed by the head o f the inquiry, deputy chief stipendiary magistrate, Mr Lewer, that he could not allow him, a solici­ tor and president of the Penal Reform Council, to represent anyone.

concern ourselves with. Of course, all these words are thrown about, like “habitual” and “animal” and "fiend” , but those are only words that are used to try and categorise these people as non-human, so that w e can deal with them in a non-human way.

We’ve alw ays thought so called habitual criminals were m ore a pro d u ct o f the prison system it­ self.

Certainly. One of the other outstanding examples o f it is that this very expensive accom moda­ tion that w e’ve got in the prisons (and believe me it is very ex ­ pensive) is taken up by people on remand. That is, people who have been admitted to bail but could not afford the bail. So th ey ’re, of course, being punished for being poor. That’s their only crime, and they’re being put into the penal sy stem BECAUSE THEY Oh, certainly, I think y o u ’ve COULDNT RAISE THE MONEY! got a very good point there. One Does reform o f the prison of the things that people dont system dem and reform o f the understand about the so called habitual criminal, the fellow who whole process o f “ju stic e ” as is coming in and out of jail all the well?

Oh surely, there would have to time, is that he does become institutionalised. There’s no doubt be some concurrent legal reforms. about this. I’ve seen one outstand­ But the basic problem, the one that’s got to be faced, and it ing example o f a fellow I know w h o’s got a firstrate mind, highly doesnt matter how many fish intelligent fellow with a large fingers you give them for dinner, number o f manual and, what shall or boiled eggs, is what are we trying to do with our prisons. As * * * we say, clerical skills, w ho has to engage in the low est sort o f o c­ som eone said to me today, Mc­ D oes Jack Grahame think crim­ cupation because h e’s lost all initi­ Geechan fiddles with fish fingers inals should be punished? ative, he’s lost all social skills, h e’s while the jails burn; because he “N ow , look, correctional insti­ refuses to give consideration to lost all ability to deal with other tutions in my view are for the what the overall philosophy o f the people, because he came to be purposes o f correction. Punish­ department must be. It’s no use, ment doesnt appeal to me as a only at home in a prison situation. as they did when Maddison came And so he is as much a victim o f weekend activity, or as an activity to power in 1965, changing the the prison system as anyone he that human beings can meaning­ name from the prisons depart­ ever shot or bludgeoned was his fully engage in. I dont think ment to the department o f cor­ victim. H e’s becom e socially in­ punishment has got anything to adequate as a result o f his experi­ rective services. That’s all they do with the sorts of solutions u n d e r sto o d , about changing ence in th e prison. w e’re looking for. If y o u ’ve got a names, they didnt understand Well then, are there people correctional institution the idea is about changing correctional phil­ to correct people, that is, alter going to jail w ho should never go? osophy.

Oh heavens yes! About 30 per­ their behavior so that when you Do yo u think the royal com ­ bring them out o f the system they cent: alcoholics, and men who mission in to the Bathurst rio t will are better human beings, able to dont pay maintenance to their look in to the areas m ost needing cope with their own problems, grasping wives, homosexuals, all reform ? more able to integrate themselves sorts o f the victimless crime Ideally that’s what should crowd, marijuana smokers: there into the society. occur. But there’s been a long The essential thing is to con­ are all kinds o f activity that are tradition o f royal commissions in centrate on the 95 percent o f clearly subcriminal in any reason­ NSW since the 1880s, and there’s prisoners who will be out o f jail in able understanding. been only tw o o f them that have the next five years. They’re going So one w a y o f reform ing the been worth two bob. I would to be back in the com m unity. prisons would be to take that 30 confidently predict what will hap­ They’re the people we should percent o u t o f them. pen as a result o f the royal com ­ mission that's going to be set up. I could tell the government now and save them all that money.

There’ll be three or four people sacked as a result o f it; the royal commission will find that there’s been all sorts o f people who have misbehaved themselves in the jail; that there was a general feeling o f terror & fear, and that this sort of thing shouldnt happen. That’s what the result o f it will be, not because o f any inexpertness in the commissioner, whoever he might be, not because o f any inexpert­ ness in the people who will come before it, but because the terms o f reference o f the royal commission will be specifically devised to ex ­ clude any criticism o f the present administration, and they’ll be d e­ vised to whitewash the real causes, the real cancer that’s deep inside the administration of the prison system.

What will happen if there's nothing done about the prisons?

What will happen? . . . Well I . . . Look, I’m not in the fortunetelling business, I’m not a clair­ voyant. The penal reform council has been saying since it was form­ ed in august 1971 that unless there’s a radical overhaul of the prisons there will be bloodshed.

Eventually, there will be a massive confrontation between prison o f­ ficers and inmates. My sympathy is as much with the prison officers in this situation as it is with the inmates. They are just as much

TEARING DOWN THE BORDERS victims o f this brutal, stupid sys­ tem that w e’ve got as the inmates are: they’re terrified, as men with­ out training for the situation they’re placed in would have to fos.

There has been an increasing, escalating cycle o f violence and retaliation, it’s been going on as long as I’ve been interested in the problem, and I understand from others a great deal longer. Each time there’s one of these break­ downs in human communication that McGeechan is pleased to call “a m utiny” there is violent retali­ ation which increases the bitter­ ness felt by the inmates, which is passed on from one group of inmates to another, until there’s a genuine confrontation, which can only lead, ultimately, to the ul­ timate violence. Someone will be slaughtered, or many will be slaughtered.

What's you r reaction to a pris­ oner's statem en t on television that there was outside help for the Bathurst riot?

Well, that’s lunatic fringe stuff of course. He was brought ou t of the prison, interestingly enough, and interviewed in television, so apparently there's no problem o f security for him. He was brought out specifically as part o f the PR campaign now being mounted by the department of corrective ser­ vices to blacken the character and reputation o f people who have been critical o f it. This is part o f a continuing exercise that’s been going on for some years. If you ’re critical of the department then y o u ’re an anarchist or a commun­ ist, or you ’re an outside influence; why, I suppose y o u ’re even part of the Y ellow Horde or something of that kind. This is the sort o f name-calling nonsense I thought Australian politics had grown out of. But that’s what it is: it ’s a political situation.

What does the Penal Reform Council plan to d o now?

We’ll go on saying the same thing w e’ve been saying, trying to awaken people to the fact that this is a real and genuine social problem, it’s a social problem that involves them: they are our prisons. Anyone who cares about the quality o f his society, should be concerned about what goes on in his name in closed institutions.

I think a pretty good w ay to judge a society is to look at the way it treats its captives. For instance, people have been critical of what’s been going on in Russia lately, and it isnt difficult to see any real distinction between that and the secrecy with which the minister is treating the present situation.

He refused even to let the hon.

R. C. Packer MLC, a member of his own party, visit a number of people in Long Bay jail. He’s refused to let him see them. All Packer wanted to do, as he told me, was convince himself o f their physical safety. Maddison would not permit him to go into the jail.

Now, what is it that he’s hiding?

Did he think Packer wouldnt look after himself in the jail, or that he might assist them to escape? I mean, this is crazy, this is bad What reason did the minister give?

He said that it was not in accord with security consider­ ations, and also that it was not good custodial practice, whatever in the name o f heaven that might mean . . .

URING the second world war an American bomber pilot accidentally dropped some bombs on a peaceful Belgian vil­ lage. The village became even more peaceful as another tiny part o f the planet received involuntary population control.

The pilot, Garry Davis, felt responsible. His government did not. He then realised that if any government were to feel respons­ ible, and so represent him, it would not be involved in war in the first place, and the only gov­ ernment that could do this would be a one world government. He has been acting on this realisation ever since.

His first move was in Paris in 1948 where at the American con­ sulate he renounced that govern­ ment, its citizenship and passport and declared himself stateless.

America was embarrassed, the em­ bassy protested, cajoled and threatened, but Garry was un­ moved and firmly handed back his passport as if it were an outdated library book.

Garry Davis’s situation was vol­ untary and unique. Fortunately another unique event was occur­ ring — the dawn o f the United Nations. The institute that first used the concept o f “one world” .

A world authority o f humankind to which citizens could hold al­ legiance which would supersede international squabbles and end war, or so it said.

The first UN General Assembly was being held in Paris at the Palais de Chaillot. The then secre­ tary-general, Trygve Lie, sym bol­ ically declared the palace grounds international territory.

A gift from the gods! Inter­ national territory for the first Citizen o f the World right in the middle of Paris! He rushed to the sacred spot only to be m et by a gendarme who asked him to leave.

"But this is international ter­ ritory, isnt it?”

“Yes . . . b u t . . . ” “That means it isnt French.”

“Yes . . . b u t . . . ” “I have left France then?” “ But you are still in Paris.

Move along!” “ Dont force me to break your own laws. It’s illegal for me to be in France according to your Bureau des Etrangers. So I have left. I am on international terri­ tory now. You have no jurisdic­ tion.”

The gendarme w ent o ff for instructions and Garry Davis set up a little campsite with a bible, a typewriter and three purposes: to dramatise the need for world law, for being on international terrain he could only be governed by international law; to focus atten­ tion on the inadequacy o f the UN by suggesting that if it could not provide for one lone human being it would not be able to provide for the whole o f mankind; and to draw the world’s attention to him­ self.

In the latter at least he suc­ ceeded immediately. Around the tent he pitched came thousands of people. Some just laughed and gazed and called him World Crack­ pot No. 1, and some came to support his cause, bring him food and look at the International Identity Card he had printed. Let­ ters came from all over the world addressed to Garry Davis, steps o f the Palais de Chaillot, or Garry Davis, UN restaurant, or just Gar­

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ry Davis, World Citizen. But the UN was not ready for world law and it forcibly removed him from “its” territory after a few days.

The spotlight was on him and for the next few years he was in and out o f the papers. Arrested on the German frontier . . . hustled o ff by gendarmes in Paris . . . petitioning the queen in London.

After being thrown in jail 16 times crossing borders without “ proper papers” he discovered the principle of the Double-Negative, or the Thom that Removes a Thom . He printed his own World Travel Document No. 0 00001.

“All I’m doing is putting another myth in front of their myth.

People look at m y passport and say ‘but this is a jok e’. Of course it’s a joke. The w hole thing is a travesty.”

With this joke he has travelled half the world lecturing, dem on­ strating, rapping with people, in ­ cluding Nehru whom he met in India and w ho accepted an "hon­ orary” world passport.

Over the years he has printed and issued about 6 0 0 0 world pass­ ports to refugees, freaks, students, businessmen, professionals and even a couple o f policemen. Many people travel only with this d ocu ­ ment and som e even get out o f jail with it.

More than 70 passports have been issued to Thais, Burmese refugees and buddhist monks in one Bangkok jail whose “crime” was in having no papers. Some had been there years. They write Garry sending photographs and he sends back a free WSA passport and their freedom.

To the Thai officials a few pieces o f respectable looking docu­ mentation with the prisoner’s name and particulars is all they want to satisfy their laws that nobody may walk around freely w ithout identity papers. So bu­ reaucratic is this reasoning that recently Garry received back a passport from the Thai officials with a letter saying that the docu­ ment was unacceptable because one o f Garry’s “official stamps” was missing. Garry stamped it, returned it, the docum ent became acceptable and the prisoner was released.

Last year the French raided Davis’s hom e in France, took what blank passports they could find and are prosecuting him on charges o f swindling, possession of illegal goods and “com plicity”, a term that may mean something like conspiracy, that all-purpose charge that every government uses when it wants to hang one on you.

Before this raid, tw o Algerians visited Garry’s home while he was away, and asked one o f the WSA family to issue them passports.

The history o f the passports and Garry’s work was given to them along with the explanation that although all governments with a UN representative in prin­ ciple must recognise the d ocu ­ ment, many in fact, including France, refuse to do so.

They were given the passports and the following day they tried to get into Germany but were refused entry and sent back to the French control. The French kept them several hours. The out come was a statement the tw o signed saying Garry Davis had issued these passports under false pretenses; that they had been told the passports were “official” and that entry into any country would be “autom atic” .

In june o f this year he was formally charged with swindling and counterfeiting under Penal Code 114. Maximum penalty five years imprisonment. A date for the trial has not yet been set.

L ily cross tim es R E A D E R S w ishing to k n o w m ore a b o u t th e W o rld S ervice A u th o r ity o r ho w to get a passport sho uld w rite W SA a t Eerste Le lie d w a rsstra a t 1, A m ste rd a m , H o lla n d .

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HIS week, am plification o f a recent remark that advertising is the poetry o f our age, meaning the poetry o f our agents o f con­ sumerism, the most fluent and penetrating expression o f the western ethic, the language that captivates the sensibilities o f the lumpen and has the nation dancing.

A p p r o p r ia te ly , the anthem com petition has been unofficially won by the Viscount operetta, This is Australia . . . This is our land. . . . the composer of which was recently interviewed with much pride on Radio Australia. This baritone chronicling o f material benefits is much more an ad for Australia than the product itself . . . This is Australia . . .

This is our land . . . This is our lucky com m odity.

The advertising industry as a whole is politically neanderthal.

Gough is mistrusted. At the word “socialism” admen reach for their gin. In the saturation campaign, You need uncle Sam, this breed comes out o f the closet with what is basically a statement of foreign policy. It is a strange time to identify with America, and yet the product is perfect: an underarm deodorant; the pollutants which interrupt natural body drainage by spreading a thin film o f deceit. You need uncle Sam, you need uncle Sam and still the stench has not settled around Capitol hill, spray, spray, if only w e could just press a button to banish the unpleasant odor of the body politic.

Gough charges through Asia - a PR Attila after a Dale Carnegie course — while millions o f Australians are being reminded each day that they N eed uncle Sam. After N ixon’s most recent State o f the Union message - in which he wiggled further into the mire o f chicanery - the international airwaves reverberated with a tribute to the sponsor on this occasion, yes, an underarm deodorant.

Dont you know that the salty, sweaty smell o f a loved one’s underarm is a joy forever? You need Uncle Sam, you need Uncle Sam, like you need the US Bases.

The most prolific talents o f our times have transferred to the industry, with more and more rock musicians selling soap instead of sentiment, from Manfred Mann to Brian Cadd. And well known actors subsidising their success. The Royal Crown Cola jingle is rhythmically and rockingly more com petent than tw o thirds of the songs on the hit parade (and longer), as is Lilydale Cider, Selsun, Fancy Nancy, Kentucky Fry and all the others . . .

It’s all come a long long way since the ad manager's niece was sat on a kitchen stool and told to sing “ I love aeroplane jelly”. The making of a 35 second TV

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/ / commercial now dwarfs excesses of Cedi B. de Mille. At this m om ent a swank Melbourne m otel is chocablock with a film production crew . . . hire cars coming and going, room service round the clock, endless long distance phonecalls . . .

It is the film production unit for a forthcoming TV commercial for Comfort fabric softener. In the penthouse suite, with its “private access” staircase and graciously curved roof, tw o men worriedly pace the floor . . . One is the director, flown out especially from London, to repeat the success o f the British version. The other is the camera man; also imported from London, and similarly renowned. The worthy purpose of the Melbourne production is to duplicate the English commercial in every detail - right down to minor objects of furniture (for which people have been scouring the rity for weeks).

Ordinarily, this 35 second epic would be shot in Sydney, but the moguls have fled south to avoid the busy-bodying of the NSW Child Welfare Department; which limits the exertions of three year

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old children to a strict maximum o f three hours. “Som etim es we like to work them five hours at a stretch,” said one crew member, explaining the move to Melbourne. “Occasionally the mothers complain at the kids’ exhaustion, but we just remind them that it ’s 10 bucks an hour . . . ” For the past few days, the English director has been conducting auditions.

The queues of the mums and their three year olds are said to circle the block.

Actually, the final kid star has already been “discovered” in Sydney and brought across the border for this celluloid phantasmagoria. S o w hy are Melbourne mums queuing? Because they are casting a stand in for the leading three year old.

Yes, a long way from “I love Aeroplane Jelly”. If you were to join such 35 second spectaculars together to the length o f a feature (an effect unconsciously approximated by the film L ove sto ry) then the huge budget would make The great G a tsb y’s seem like a shoestring. The ad industry has super­ seded H ollyw ood in many other ways;

A1 Grassby, th e federal govern­ m ent's very own r itz y strutter, has been searching the world for outlandish garb. He “wants people to k n o w he is in the ro o m ” when the queen opens parliam ent on february 28.

To help A1 dazzle 'em we have decided to ask readers to color in the sketch b y Australian's cartoonist Ward O’Neill o f the minister's new get up. Marks will be awarded fo r entries showing the highest disregard fo r taste. Prize: tick et fo r tw o to Luna Park and an hour's free ride on th e merry-go-round.

with a star system, famed set designers and wardrobe managersand gossip . . . re­ nowned rows between the creators and the clients . . . (the Otto Premingers of the scene, who pay the bills, reap the re­ wards).

Yet this is not an industry o f plurality and genius. One solitary message underlies the incessant barrage — one which incidentally unites the top echelons o f the present system in unconscious conspiracy — and that message is this: Happiness = possession of material objects. It is children before all others, who are having this eternal cassette grafted upon their cerebral cortex.

People become famous through the success o f TV commercials and those already so underline their reputations with endorsements; from the prime minister’s wife to Brett Whitely (for cigarettes until a last m inute painting sale changed his mind).

Current box office superstar is Piero von Arnim . . . “a handsome 23 year old who stands six feet, three and a half inches . . . and finds himself fighting o ff thousands o f near hysterical fans . . . from six to 6 0 ” (Sunday telegraph february 10). Look out Jagger, the Marlboro Man is stalking you. (The original outdoorsy model died recently and was farewelled in Time magazine’s M ilestone.) “ Now most o f Australia’s youth is singing the jingle”, continues the Sunday telegraph, “and Piero has become a cult figure and a sex symbol to many women . . .”.

“When I go on stage," mutters the bewildered Piero, “people faint. All I do is sing the lyrics and mime the piano. I think people must be looking for folk heroes - som eone to look up to .”

Shortly they will be making trailers for future commercials and tourist buses will take group tours through the majestic offices o f Ogilvy & Mather, George Patterson, Hansen Rubensohn McCann Erickson Pty Ltd and J. (Arthur Rank) Walter Thompson . . .

You need Uncle Sam /Y ou need Uncle Sam, the anthem o f the spray can culture, the mini flame thrower o f the consumer society, man’s macho power trip o f defying nature with the press c f a button . . . we really are a whiz species — spray, spray. Every time an aerosol button is pressed one realises that one is in the presence o f a Great Divinity, “All things bright and beautiful . . .” The Lord God made them all.

I had meant to elaborate another point mentioned in a previous column, concerning the destiny o f those who manage not to work, but this week I have been carried away with my own verbosity, so no more on advertising for awhile, and next week back to brooding life-options; unless a sudden change in world affairs demands m y immediate pontification, you cynical layabouts . . .

A. J. WEBERMAN N THE beginning Dylan crea ted folk-rock and Drought protest to the Top Then his poetry became void and w ithout form and darkness was on the face o f many Dylan fans. “ Let there be light in your minds”, I told ’em, “ Dylan is still protestin’ only h e’s doin’ it in highly abstract poetry.”

I’d worked for six years on a book explaining how this was happening but on the seventh year I heard John Wesley Harding and decided I’d better take a rest. Dylan had becom e a junkie and was singing almost exclusively about junk! I had to find out why . . .

Since from dust Dylan did com e, to dust I did go for an answer. Although I didnt find it, I was able to get a lot of publicity for dylanology this way.

By the time Nashville skyline came out the Great Flood Of Idiocy was in full swing and I packed m y people into an Ark that was parked outside Dylan’s townhouse and w e publicly prayed for the waters to recede and leave us with "the old Dylan”, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

Our prayers were answered when the big D did the Bangla­ desh benefit concert. Unfor­ tunately this filled Dylan’s breast with self-righteousness and he sm ote me in the head for the dust and ark capers. But the lowest blow came after George Jackson when Bob arranged my public self-sacrifice by having all my “ friends” convince me to apolo­ gise to him in the pages o f the Village voice.

But now, as I listen to Planet waves, his latest LP, I’m glad I jumped on that altar. DYLAN HAS FINALLY KICKED JUNK AND SAYS HE IS GOING TO GET INTO POLITICS AGAIN. Planet waves starts with a varia­ tion o f To be alone with you called On a night like this, a leftover o f the old heroin days since it contains many old junk metaphors — “ On a night like this I’m so glad y o u ’re here to stay"

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(“ Tonight I’ll be staying here with you ”, "Stay lady sta y while the night is still ahead” ), along with 40. his standard putdown o f the Left — "It sure feels right on a night like this.

But then in Going going gone a glimmer of light appears at the end o f the tunnel — “Been hang­ ing on thread s/ Been playing it straight” (another junk m eta­ phor), “N ow I just got to cut loose” (I have to stop), “Before it gets too late” (before I OD), “ I’m going, going, gone” (HE’S KICK­ ED!) Right after the last verse Dylan does a guitar riff that sounds exactly like Y oko O no’s primal screams . . . in fact once you pick up on this riff you realise the w hole song was ripped off the Yoke.

Tough mama is m y favorite since its bizarre imagery is Dylan circa '65 all the way. In it Dylan makes his first reference to p ot in years - “Let me blow a lil smoke on you . . .” then writes, “ Bob Dylan w on ’t you roll over and give me some room / It’s m y duty to bring you down where the flowers grow” (“flow ers” are records), “Ashes in the furnace/ Dust on the rise” (by going through his garbage and investigat­ ing it I reminded him o f his duty so well that he has to burn it n o w ). . .

“You guessed it all the w ay/ Flyin’ through the skies” (I knew he was using junk all alone) . . .

“Bob Dylan with a long night’s journey in your eyes” (Dylan the addict), “Sweet goddess (and teen ­ age idol) . . . born o f a blinding light and a changin’ wind (and the political climate o f the early 60s).

"Dont be m odest, you are and where you been, Dick the cow boy (Nixon) . . . went up North to bury you in the past (brought America back to the 50s), "Lone Wolf went out drinking” (the alcohol-heroin metaphor), “ It was over pretty fast” (but kicked pretty fast) "Sw eet goddess, y ou perfect strangers, you com e on in at last” (I’m finally ready for the radicals message). “Silver angel

bush that wasnt consumed), “stand upright” (Jews are very down on bending or kneeling es­ 1/ N pecially to idols — in hebrew school they told us that once God wanted to test tw o dudes so he made them thirsty. They both 1/1 x l w ent to the river and one o f them lapped-up the water like a dog while the other one knelt down and brought the water to his m outh with cupped hands and failed G od’s test.)

When he sings “ May you have a strong foundation when the winds o f changes shift” in the slower version o f Young the tone in his voice seems to indicate he means “ may you have your shit together / when the nazis or their equivalent com e for y a .”

In Dirge, Dylan tells us how with the badge o f a lonesom e road written on your sleeve” (ex-junkie sorry he is for m essin’ with smack w ho wasted his tim e writing cause it just aint kosher - “ I hate m yself for lovin’ you and the albums like S elf-portrait), “I’d be grateful if this old ring y o u ’d weakness that it showed . . . you receive” (why dont you start mak­ were just a trip down suicide road . . . the lights w ent o u t” (he went ing rock music again?), “Today on into darkness) and . . . "he’s glad the countryside it was hotter than the curtain fell” (he’s glad he’s a crotch” (America is messed up stopped). good), “ I stood alone upon the Other references to junk in­ ridge” (the ridge or hill sym bolises clude “ the need that was express­ his popularity - "Up on housing project hill it’s either fortune or ed”, “angels play with sin” (politi­ fame” ), “ . . . and all I did was cal people regard it as wrong), “all w atch” (and he didnt use his for a m om ents glory" (a short high), “ There are those w ho wor­ power to change it), “Sweet ship loneliness” (“alone” meta), goddess, there must be tim e to carve another notch” (maybe I “Can’t recall a useful thing you ever did for m e” and finally “who can still change it).

Hazel is written to Dylan’s ever would have guessed” (A. J. Weberman!). Although Dylan still teenaged fans, the same ones hates him self for his shumky be­ Blonde on blonde was dedicated havior “h e’ll soon get over that”. to - “Hazel, dirty blonde hair You angel yo u is the first . . . ’’ He says, “N ow dont make positive song Dylan’s written me play that way again” . about politics in five or six years.

Som ething there is ab o u t yo u “Angel” is a politician from “The is probably about judaism, al­ cow boy angel” in Gates o f Eden though I can’t say for sure at this w ho taps the same source of time (it takes me years to figure energy that powers the sun: out Dylan) while Forever young, a Fusion “With his candle lit into sequel to I was so much older the sun" but uses it for destruc­ then, is a blessing that’s a com bi­ tion; hydrogen bombs “though its nation o f a Kazatska and Irish jig glow is waxed in black” . Most of with heavy hebraic influences the song is literal - “You know I “build a ladder to the stars” can’t sleep at night for tryin’ ” (he (Jacob’s ladder), "see the light can’t use smack if he wants to get surrounding yo u ” (the burning back into politics etc).

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Never say g o o d b ye is directed at the 20 million or so people who constitute Dylan’s audience. After describing his poetry as “iron and steel” “with a bouquet o f roses hangin’ dow n” he says he hopes his people will eventually figure out what he’s saying “ . . . I wait for you to come and grab hold o f my hand” .

Wedding song is a hym n to judaism containing many biblical metaphors — “eye for ey e” , "breathed on m e” along with one from the Cabala, “circle's been com plete” , and another from the Siddor - “watch m y senses die” (on Y om Kip pur jews pray for a rabbi w ho refused to denounce his religion and was slowly dism em ­ bered and forced to “watch his senses die” ). His use o f “b om to ” and "natural thing for m e” fur­ ther support m y contention that Bobby’s singing about judaism and not his wife Sara.

After being raised up in an orthodox jewish household and hating every stinkin’ m om ent o f it this song makes me puke. As far as I’m concerned the Bible, the Talmud, the Shulchon Orech are full o f lies and superstition and are irrelevant to almost every­ thing. I’ve been a confirmed atheist since age 14 and think it’s a shame Dylan’s monomania has switched from opium to the opiate o f the people-religion. I can only hope that he emphasises the humanistic aspects o f judaism and doesnt turn into a “Adonais freak” (the jewish equivalent of a Jesus freak).

All in all, it looks like Dylan is on the way to becoming a radical jew and a potent force on the pop scene. Let’s hope he can do som e­ thing about the insanity and in­ humanity of the Palestinians, for­ getting about the six million jews systematically murdered by the nazis and the Israelis forgetting about the tw o million Palestinians “living” in tents and shacks in the deserts.

Amen.

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BRITAIN PREPARES From WINSTON SMITH in Leeds

O, THE poms are to go to the polls in the middle of a bitter major strike. I suppose the straight aussie press must be coming in its pants (having already spent two months crowing about grim old “Crisis Britain”, they must be just about out o f fresh metaphors o f doom).

It’s confusing all right. Heath says he wants a mandate to biff the miners and “stop the extremists who are destroying dem ocracy”. A red scare election. Wilson says “ Back to work with Labor” . Enoch Powell, gambling on a Tory defeat, says that Heath’s a fraud. And the miners? Despite an attem pt by their boss, Joe (Gormless) Gormley to sell out before they began, they’ve gone ahead with their strike.

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No on e’s too sure about the election.

Too much could happen over the next three weeks. The immediate problem is what is going to happen IF Heath gets back in. He will then be free to smash the miners strike - and any future working class militancy by just about any means necessary.

What will the miners do? To win they will have to repeat the tactics used during their 1972 strike: flying pickets (pickets which move swiftly from site to site by vans and cars) combined with mass pickets to stop the distribution o f coal stocks to power stations. New tactics may be necessary as well. The 1972 strike was incredibly militant. It was no sitat-home affair. Miners travelled all round the country to picket power-stations. On pickets they wrecked property (Kent miners said they were prepared to go sheep-rustling on the Downs if necessary). Squads of cars chased scab lorries, doing things like taking out the lorries tail-load pins from behind as the lorry was moving and spilling the coal all over the road.

In some areas miners wives got involv­ ed as well. In Betteshanger they organised the bulk buying of food and went round with a loudspeaker van announcing meetings. In Rugeley (Staffs) women went down to the social security offices and dumped their kids over the counter — with the result that they got free coal, hot meals and extra money! A broad­ sheet was put out called United wom en talking about how the women in the mining villages had organised while the men were picketing. While the men were away, the women were picketing the pit. They organised a rota among themselves so that a different woman each day would look after the kids o f all o f them, and feed them. They also organised boycotts o f shops that were charging high prices for food etc. In some places gangs o f women came out o f supermarkets loaded with goods and refused to pay.

(There was also a lot o f solidarity shown to the miners by students and freaks. Students at Essex university even occupied their senate hall so that miners could have a place to sleep.)

These and other militant tactics were crowned by an amazing display of working class mass resistance at a mass picket o f a coke depot in Saltley, Birmingham: 10,000 workers not just miners either - completely overwhelmed the police.

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out that resistance to their policies was really confined to small groups of extremists bent on fom enting trouble at any cost. But at Saltley the police were hopelessly out­ numbered and intimidated by the anger o f thousands o f workers who had poured in from surrounding regions at short notice. The spectre of Saltley has haunted Heath and his gang to this day. Mass working class resistance . . .

In 1972 the miners w on an historic victory. But can they win in 1974 if Heath is reelected? The worst of the winter is over, the government has enough stocks to get it through till the summer. More om inously, it has had tw o years to prepare this time.

To prevent another Saltley will definitely be its number one priority.

This is going to mean hard repression.

And if Labor (or some Labor-Liberal coalition) wins? Wilson will probably pay the miners what they want. But what then? Inflation will quickly eat up their gains. Labor’s priorities are essentially the same as the Tories: to back British capitalism. People before profits. And on the basic question o f what to do about increas­ ing mass resistance to capitalism, Labor’s solution is exactly the same: blame it on the “extrem ists”.

In a recent Fabian pamphlet on what Labor would do about “internal subversion” , the proposals include internment and the creation o f new criminal offences! Labor might take longer to im plem ent these, it may m eet with more resistance within its own ranks, but ultimately it is think­ ing along the same lines as the Tories.

Whichever party is in power, the forces o f repression in Britain are on the move. The groundwork has been done for whatever government wants to use it. In this article w e take a look at these preparations. They reveal a very different Britain from the one we usually hear about.

...butwho will speak forfreedom?

M ilitarising the p olice N A SITUATION where the normal forms o f political control are breaking down, government has to fall back more and more on brute force. This is what has been happening in Britain over the past few years. The first line o f defence against increasing popular resistance is — as usual — the pigs. But wait a minute, are we talking about your friendly English bobbie? Well, he hasnt been seen for several years now. What about the good old unarmed copper? Forget about him too, because there are now guns in every police station (th ey’ve just been issued

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with new short arms and armalite rifles), and a growing number o f armed unmark­ ed plainclothes police. Police intelligence has expanded beyond recognition and the special branch (yes, political police) have files on thousands o f “activists”. Since 1971, armed raids on the hom es of leftwing militants have becom e a regular occurrence. Recent changes in local gov­ ernment administration have created much larger police authorities. Central­ ised police forces now cover huge areas.

One value in this is that men can be switched around to localities where they have no friends and loyalties.

The police are also being helped by a vigilante group set up to help “protect” the nation against a com m unist takeover.

It is said to consist o f former service chiefs, senior ex members o f the secret service and MI5, plus leading business­ men. (Daily express, 1 /2 /7 4 ). Other pri­ vate organisations are taking on more usual police functions too. Securicor, Britain’s largest security company is hired to guard government buildings as well as banks and building sites. It was even used last year to guard the police computer in Scotland Yard during a CID unofficial go-slow (at least so persistent rumor has it). Its close links with government arent that surprising when you learn that its former boss is now the present home secretary, Robert Carr.

There has also been a rapid expansion o f municipal “hom e defence and emer­ gency planning com m ittees” . They are supposed to exist to deal with possible nuclear attacks on Britain, but recently w e’ve been told that “They may . . . undertake the coordination o f plans for p e a c e -tim e em ergencies” (Guardian, 1 5 /1 /7 4 ). Suddenly the knowledge that there is an emergency underground seat o f government in Cheltenham is being read a new way. After all, what WOULD the government do if faced with a serious political crisis and mass protest?

Pig strike breaking OW DO the police com e into state preparations for major strikes like the present miners strike? In preparation for a strike o f this sort, police training HQ have been drilling anti-picket riot squads, skilled in techniques o f crowd control and wedge formation tactics based on the arm y’s experience in Ulster. To counter the flying pickets used with such devastating effect in 1972, the home office has set up special squads whose job is to get ahead o f the flying pickets. There are also special patrol groups w hose job is to set up blockades to stop workers converging on any area in large numbers. Both of these will be fed information from a newly established central information de­ partment in Scotland Yard which cor­ relates all intelligence on plans for organ­ ised pickets (set up in november, this was devised by the hom e secretary and heads o f police throughout Britain).

So police forces throughout Britain have thousands o f men available in sep­ arate contingency plans to deal with any possible trouble in picketing.

But what if this first line o f defence fails? Rather than risk undermining al­ ready waning public confidence in the police, the government definitely has plans to call in the army.

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Enter the p olitical soldier EMEMBER those Reuter photos o f tanks at Heathrow airport?

The government’s story at the time was that they were there to deter arab terrorists. Few swallowed this and even the pro-government D aily ex­ press didnt hesitate to describe the oper­ ation as a “preparation for the use of troops in the event o f serious industrial unrest” and a “cover” for police to gain maximum experience of “collaborating with the army, against extremists o f any kind”. (Daily express, 8 /1 /7 4 )

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Suddenly people are asking nervously: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE BRIT­ ISH ARMY? Everyone here laughed o ff the prediction o f US critic William Buck­ ley about a “ military takeover in the UK”. But few are denying that the military is getting nosier.

Ulster booster ASICALLY tw o things lie be­ hind this change in the army's role, cutback in NATO involve­ ment in Europe (due to strategic stalemate) and the plunge into Northern Ireland which started in 1969. “ Ulster”, as one major put it in a series of interviews in The guardian last july, “has been the savior of the arm y.” Ulster has given the army a reason for existing.

Ulster has given a boost to Britain’s incom e from arms exports - the streets o f Derry have been an ideal testingground for new models. Ulster has turned toy soldiers into soldiers. Alm ost half of the army’s 134,000 officers and men have had a turn in Ulster. The change in mentality this has brought about is scary.

As one major Moriarty-type described it: “Skiing or mountain-climbing has got nothing on a cordon and search when you get old Snodgrass out of bed at 4 in the morning and go through his house like a dose of salts . . . when the soldiers get back to Germany they never stop talking about Ireland and things that happened there . . . you never hear them talking about shoot­ ing the rapids or climbing Mt Whatnot in the same w ay.”

But if British soldiers are shooting more Irish than they are rapids, the "Snodgrasses” are shooting back. From 1969-71, not one soldier died; but now troop casualties number around 300.

Early february this year has seen the IRA renew its counterattack against troops inside England: An army bus on its way back to camp in Yorkshire had its back blown out by a 50 lb bomb: 12 people were killed, all soldiers or their families.

The British soldier is at war with British citizens. If he didnt quite grasp the significance of that at first, he does now.

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UT ULSTER has done more than bring the military back to life, it has created a new and sinister military ideology — the ideology of the “new warfare”. Accord­ ing to this ideology, the British army of the 70s will be chiefly concerned not with external defence but INTERNAL DEFENCE. The threat to English security is m ost likely to come from within. The “new warfare” is counter-insurgency. Al­ ready this ideology has been absorbed and practical steps taken to institute it.

Military education has been given an overhaul. Mao Tse-tung, Che Guevark', general Giap are now standard reading for officers. Every soldier must now do courses in the “new warfare”.

The key figure in this shakeup in army thinking is a shrewd soldier-scholar called brigadier Frank Kitson. His recent career pinpoints the events which have reshaped army thinking. He was involved in coun­ ter-insurgency campaigns in Kenya (against the Mau Mau) and Malaya (against the communists). He then went on to command the 39th Brigade in Belfast for two years till 1973. He was

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FOR AN EARLY 1984 then appointed new commandant of the Army School o f Infantry, Warminster the top teaching post in the country. In between he took time off in Oxford that academic city o f dreaming spires to dream up a book called “Low Intensi­ ty Operations” which is now a standard army text.

The main theme o f Kitson’s book is cold and simple: the British army must transform itself into an anti-subversive force capable o f dealing with growing civil disorder in Britain. Kitson’s book caused a furore when it appeared. Several trade unionists and left Labour MPs called for his sacking. Nothing was done.

Despite government disclaimers, it’s clear that Kitson’s views now carry the day among top military brass. His book appeared with H. M. Stationery copyright and was published with defence ministry permission. It carries an introduction by army chief o f staff, general sir Michael Carver, who describes it as “written for the soldier o f today as preparation for the operations o f tomorrow” ! Recent inter­ views with other top army men have confirmed that in the land o f army strategy Kitson is king. In addition the Tory minister for defence endorsed Kit­ son’s stress on internal defence in a recent Tory pamphlet.

Most vocal in support of Kitson are officers w h o’ve had experience in Ulster.

The warfare in Ulster is guerrilla warfare.

In accordance with counter-insurgency ideas, soldiers there are trained to sep­ arate the fish from the water - that is the IRA from the catholics and, to a lesser extent, the extreme protestant guerrillas from the protestants.

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as rooting ou t these "extrem ists” .

But according to the press and TV the present political and industrial trouble in England is likewise the fault o f "extrem­ ists”. If Ulster can flare into civil war, can’t it happen back home? As one parachute major put it in The guardian interviews: "Y ou get odd com m ents from the Toms (private soldiers) like ‘N ext time w e’ll be in Glasgow’.” . . . “ There is just this general feeling that England is cracking slightly, that the facade is crumbling.”

Other officers point out how access­ ible are the techniques o f urban terrorism: “ . . . it’s a fact that cops have to walk in fours on the Liverpool docks, isnt it?

Magnify the Angry Brigade ten times and you see the sort o f problems the British may be facing in ten years tim e.” Ulster soldiers see phenom ena like violent pickets and groups like the Angry Brigade (who carried ou t bom b attacks on cabinet ministers and bosses) as a prelude of bigger trouble to come.

K itson’s delights ITSON makes no bones about his belief that Britain’s slide to ­ wards industrial chaos is a job for the army. Here are some choice delights from his military menu: M ilitant com m unities in England .. there are other potential trouble spots in the UK which might involve the army in operations against political extremists w ho are prepared to resort to a considerable degree of violence to achieve their ends.”

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grievance arose such as might result from a significant drop in the standard o f living, all those w ho now dissipate their protest over a wide variety of causes might concentrate their efforts and produce a situation which was beyond the power o f the police to handle. Should this happen the army would be required to restore the situa­ tion rapidly.”

The only disarming thing about Kitson is his bluntness. Unlike \the old pukka military establishment he doesnt even make a show o f ethical concern. Even if a grievance is in his own words “ genuine and serious” the army will have to inter­ vene and that’s that. Elsewhere he returns to the metaphor o f guerrillas as fish and the population as water and says, " . . . conceivably it might be necessary to kill the fish by polluting the water”.

Likewise he defines subversion as any form o f resistance which goes outside the law o f the day. By that definition a very large part o f the labor m ovem ent in this country is engaged in subversion.

He him self is com pletely cynical about the law: “ It should be used as just another weapon in the government’s arsenal and in this case it becom es little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal o f unwanted members o f the public.”

1974 Britain NGLAND today definitely fits his idea o f a country in the early stages of “ subversion”. What is his recipe for this situation? “In the very early stages o f subversion the intelligence organisation has got to be

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able to penetrate small targets — highly secure targets . . .” If yo u follow K itson’s theories he believes the army should be more active now than later: “ It is far easier to penetrate a subversive movem ent when it is using nonviolent means than it is when the movem ent is w holly clan­ destine because o f the number o f people involved.”

On one level, Kitson is just talking sound military sense, like any counter­ insurgency expert worth his salt. The freaky thing is that he is talking this “sense” about Britain in the here and now. And that this is the man w ho holds the top army teaching post in the coun­ try.

With guys like Kitson around, it takes a lot of self-control for any militant to avoid paranoia, especially with a Laura Norda election just round the com er and particularly with the miners strike now on. But it’s so hard to get concrete infor­ mation.

We could do with som e Washington p o s t journalists.) Occasional bits of in­ formation com e to light, about joint arm y/police meetings on internal secur­ ity; about army intelligence/special branch linkups; the army plugging in to police computers; army training exercises in Wiltshire which involve shooting at long-haired as well as female dummies; army experts teaching army techniques at police training HQ etc. But w e lack any c o m p r e h e n s iv e c o u n te r - c o u n t e r intelligence.

D ad ’s Army against its sons?

HATEVER happens during the present miners dispute, the prob­ lem o f military interference is bound to increase. England looks set for increasing industrial and political unrest. Increasing unrest means increasing repression. But the more the government relies on the forces o f hard repression, the more dependent on these it must become. With the police forces badly understrength the army bosses have future governments over a barrel.

It’s all very well for the civil powers to plan on "calling in” the troops to deal with internal subversion. But the army can only equip itself to deal with internal subversion by developing its own politics.

Ulster has given birth to a monster which future British governments are going to find difficult to control - even if they want to. The reason for this lies in the logic o f the new warfare, which as Kitson repeats again and again, is to win the minds o f the people. You can only win this kind of warfare by rooting out the enemy before they take to the streets.

Propaganda counts for everything. The army has to give priority to countering the ideology of its enemy.

In the English context this means that the army has to involve itself in persuad­ ing the population that “com m unism ” and “reds” and “extremists” are wrong.

Kitson’s soldiers cannot avoid being political soldiers. The “new warfare” in Britain means, in Kitson’s words “the fusion o f civil and military functions to fight battles which have primarily politi­ cal objectives” . The more the army is trained to do battle inside its own coun­ try the more its “politics” are likely to become autonomous from that o f the government’s.

Already many o f the top military caste make no secret of their view that the politicians are ostriches w ho blindly fumble about inside parliament and Whitehall while the extremists are out posting their letter-bombs. The days of the obedient m ilitary under civilian con­ trol are numbered. Unless America or Europe bails out English capitalism from its present dire straits, the day o f the jackal may soon be at hand — before 1984 too. |----- 1

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Fizzy freak outs on lolly water From WILLIAM DOWELL in San Francisco OFT DRINKS and ham­ burgers, the delight of mil­ lions o f children, may have hidden side effects. Dr Ben Feingold, US allergy specialist, has discovered that many standbys o f the Ameri­ can diet may actually be villains causing behavior problems in chil­ dren. By eliminating the chemical preservatives and coloring com­ monly found in processed foods, Feingold has learned he can often cure some kinds o f hyperactivity — a nervous condition which makes it difficult for children to concentrate.

Alm ost all the processed food we eat contains additives, many of which are derived from coal tar, a petroleum product. The toxic quality o f many o f these deriva­ tives has been known for many years, but their special effect on children is only now being discov­ ered.

The research linking food addi­ tives to behavior is still not con­ clusive, but Feingold's work is already attracting attention from e d u c a to r s and psychologists throughout the country. If initial studies prove correct, a syn­ thetics-free diet may, for many children, becom e an alternative to present m ethods o f drug treat­ m en t Feingold estimates that as m any as 8 0 percent o f the several m illion children now using control drugs like Ritalin (a behavior modifier), amphetamines (com­ monly known as “speed"), or tranquillisers may be able to stop simply by restricting their diets to natural foods.

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treatment is not a cure for hyper­ activity, but only serves to mask the problem. And yet he conserva­ tively estimates that nationally in the US at least tw o million o f the approximately five million chil­ dren labelled hyperactive are given drugs but receive no other kind o f therapy or treatment. One school official in Y olo County, California says that nearly 16 percent o f the children in his school are taking behavior m odifying drugs, and drug company officials say this figure is not uncommon.

Feingold first stumbled across this probable link betw een syn­ thetic food additives and some forms o f hyperactivity eight years ago when he was asked to treat a woman suffering from giant hives.

As soon as the woman w ent on a special diet w ithout artificial food coloring and flavors, the hives cleared up.

A short while later, Feingold received a call from a psychiatrist w ho had treated this woman for serious psychological problems.

The diet had stopped the w om an’s mental problems along with her hives, and the psychiatrist wanted to know what had happened.

After this experience, Feingold began paying particular attention to behavior problems and hyper­ activity. In the past five or six years, he says he has treated ap­ proximately one hundred hyper­ active cases. Many o f these chil­ dren - often characterised in ear­ ly infancy as "crib rockers” and described later as "frenetic” or exhibiting compulsive behavior like beating their heads against

walls - had already been put on drugs.

In an adult, using Ritalin or amphetamines has the effect of making one more active. But in the case o f hyperactive children, the drugs seem to have the "para­ doxical” reverse effect o f slowing them down. The scientific ex ­ planation o f this phenom enon is still conjectural, and some experts are now beginning to question whether the effect is really in fact paradoxical.

These specialists point out that hyperactive children normally quiet down when put in stressful situations like visiting a doctor’s office. Amphetamines and Ritalin, they hypothesise, could be put­ ting the child under constant stress. Their ability to concen­ trate, however, might not have improved at all. Longterm usage o f stress-inducing drugs would have disastrous effects on the chil­ dren’s nervous system and general health.

In about 80 percent o f the cases in which the children had already been put on drugs, Fein­ gold found that once the children had been put on a diet which cut out synthetic food colorings and flavorings it was possible to com ­ pletely discontinue the drugs w ithout adverse behavioral reac­ tions. On the same diet, about 50-60 percent o f the hyperactive children not already on drugs re­ turned to normal.

Feingold mentioned tw o cases as examples, that o f an 11 year old b o y w ho insisted on riding his bicycle towards oncom ing cars and that o f \ S another boy w ho compulsively dug holes in the

yard near his house. Neither child could be controlled by his parents. But after being on diets free from artificial flavors and coloring, both children returned to normal behavior.

Most children, Feingold says, can probably be taken o ff drugs fairly quickly once they are on a careful diet. The problem is that it is nearly im possible to keep chil­ dren away from the ubiquitous food additives. Rules governing the food industry are so com plex that hnost people dont know what they’re eating, and food package labels are often illegible or incom ­ prehensible (see TLD, 1/9).

In one case, Feingold says, a child had been treated with Rita­ lin from the age o f three and a half, and several years later he still couldnt control himself. Two weeks after being kept away from synthetic dyes and flavorings, his behavior became normal. A few weeks after that, however, the b oy was back in a hyperactive state. It turned out that he had eaten a doughnut with synthetic coloring. He again returned to normal, but then contracted a chest cold and needed medicine.

Since there are almost no m ed­ icines for children w ithout some form o f artificial flavoring or dye, in treating the cold the child once m ore became uncontrollably hyperactive.

The theory that at least some hyperactive behavior is the result o f allergic reactions has already begun to spark interest across the country, and Feingold says that an increasing number o f educators see nutrition and allergies as key factors in learning disabilities. In his own research Feingold is lim it­ ing his work to investigating artifi­ cial flavors and synthetic dyes.

For the present, Feingold thinks it would be impractical to try banning the additives com ­ pletely. A t the very least, h ow ­ ever, he would like to see a law requiring food manufacturers to print an easily recognisable sym bol on food boxes indicating the use o f artificial flavors and synthetic dyes. He would then like to see a campaign to alert parents o f children w ho might be allergic or hyperactive.

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THE AMERICAN writer and poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was also an eminent (if unusual) medical man, wrote more than a century ago: “I firmly believe that if the whole Materia Medica, as now used, could be sunk to the b ottom o f the sea, it would be all the better for mankind - and all the worse for the fishes.”

It was true in his day. How much more true it is in ours, with the giant, profit hungry drug man­ ufacturing companies churning out a constant flood of drugs, wonder drugs, miracle drugs, which proliferate like a cancerous ebruary 19-25, 1 9 74

growth in all the affluent soci­ eties. They cause enormous vis­ ible, and God knows how much invisible, damage to the deluded consumers w ho swallow them or have them injected into their bloodstreams.

Soon there will be another thalidomide outrage and the com ­ pany involved will reluctantly pay out a few millions in "compensa­ tion” for tragedies which could not be adequately assuaged by thousands o f millions.

My blasphemies in TLD 1/1 in­ cluded the figures for vaccination against smallpox in England, sup­ plied from official health depart­ ment sources in response to a question in parliament. The fig­ ures can’t be repeated to o often: in the 25 years ended december 1962 nearly tw o thirds o f the children bom in England and Wales remained un vaccina ted for smallpox, y et only four children under five died of sm allpox; while o f the one third vaccinated no fewer than 8 6 children were killed by vaccination and many more were seriously injured by it.

This time I have some informa­ tion for you about another vac­ cine which was hailed about 20 years ago as the answer to p olio­ myelitis: the Salk vaccine, named after Jonas Salk, w ho was venerat­ ed throughout the world by brain­ washed dupes as one o f the heroes o f medical "science”. Well, what happened to the Salk vaccine?

After a year o f mass injections in the Benighted States, the Mel­ bourne Age reported that Dr E. V. Keogh, on his return to Mel­ bourne from the US, had said: It is true that in California, and to a much less extent in other states, the administration o f the vaccine has seemed to increase rather than ,decrease the incidence o f p olio.”

A report in the New York Herald on july 14, 1955, said: "The city ’s cases o f polio since january 1 totalled 100 yesterday, against 26 at this tim e last year.”

In spite o f these, and other, m el­ ancholy reports o f the Salk re­ sults, the vaccine was later used extensively in Australia. The rea­ son, no doubt, was not unrelated to a Wall Street report that the six drug houses licensed to produce the vaccine expected the gross revenue from their sales during the following eight or nine months to be about $27 million.

The medicos, o f course, love these injections - all sorts. As Shaw pointed ou t nearly a hun­ dred years ago, they were w el­ comed by the profession because they enable doctors to collect lovely fees from people w h o ‘are not sick.

Perhaps the worst feature o f the Salk swindle was the fact that the production o f the vaccine involved the slaughter of millions o f rhesus m onkeys. Evolutionwise monkeys are pretty close rela­ tives o f ours. Their biology resem­ bles ours closely. Naturalists have reported that in their natural state, living on their natural diet o f fruits, shoots and nuts, m on­ keys are never sick.

How ironic, how desolating, that man, having brought foul sicknesses on himself by his un­ natural living habits, should slaughter millions o f these charm­ ing, harmless creatures in a maniac attempt to protect himself fr6m the fruits o f his own folly. Even the slaughter may not have been the worst o f it.

Imagine them trapped, caged, and transported in those cages to the laboratories where the mass murder was com m itted. There was for many years (possibly there still is) a reward o f $ 28,000 on offer in the Benighted States for anyone w ho could prove that the Salk vaccine was not a fake. N o­ body has collected it.

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M A R I E O N P IA N O — L o n ­ d o n p u b s o n g s : B e lle v u e h o te l, 159 H a rg ra v e st, P a d d o , 7 -1 0 p m .

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CONTEM PORARY J O N E N G L IS H , G R A E M E L O W N D E S a n d o th e r s — ' g o o d v ib e s : K i r k G a lle r y , 422 C le v e la n d st, S u r r y H ills , 8 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

T V , RADIO V I V A L D I 'S V E N IC E — A w o r d s a n d m u s ic p o r t r a it o f th e 1 8 th c e n t u r y c o m ­ p o s e r: A B C R a d io 2 , 4 .0 0 pm .

W IL D L IF E S A FA R I TO E T H I O P I A : C h a n 2 , 7 .5 5 pm .

U LM AN , W IT T E R IN G A N D Z I G O — R a d io p la y re c la s s ro o m t y r a n n y a n d in t r ig u e . G ee w h iz : A B C R a d io 1 , 8 .0 0 p m .

C ONCERTO — P e rlm a n p la y s B r u c h : C h a n 2 , 8 .3 0 pm .

MAN IN Q U E S T IO N — J o h a n n e s B je lk e -P e te rs e n — o f th e D e e p N o r t h : C h a n 2 , 9 .0 0 p m .

T H E S P Y IN L A C E P A N ­ T IE S — m o v ie w it h R o d T a y lo r , D o r is D a y . N o t re c ­ om m ended fo r a d u lts : C h a n 7 , 8 .3 0 .

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ROCK K U S H : C r o x t o n P a rk h o ­ te l, P re s to n .

S E B A S T IA N HARDY: G e o rg e h o te l, S t K ild a .

M ATT TAYLO R: G o lfv ie w h o te l, G e e lo n g .

F O LK PETER P A R K H IL L : F r a n k T r a y n o r s , 1 0 0 L it t l e L o n s d a le s tr e e t. C it y .

JAZZ/ROCK D O V E : P ro s p e c t H ill h o te l, H ig h s tre e t, K e w .

FILM T H E R A IN P E O P L E ( C o p ­ p o la ) a n d S H O C K C O R ­ R ID O R (S a m F u lle r ) : NFT A, O ff H o lly w o o d s eries. D e n ta l th e a tr e , G r a t­ ta n s tre e t, C a r lto n , 7 .4 0 p m , $ 1 . 2 0 , 8 0 c s tu d e n ts .

MEETINGS GROUP M E D IT A T IO N : A n a n d a M a rga S o c , 141 B a r k ly s tre e t, C a r lto n .

P R IS O N S , P E O P L E A N D P R O B L E M S — P e te r L y n n , H u m a n is t S o c ie t y : VEF r o o m s . P rin c e s G a te , 151 F lin d e r s s tre e t, c i t y , 8 p m .

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C H A I N : S t A lb a n s h o te l, S t A lb a n s .

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F R A N K T R A Y N O R : E x­ c h an g e h o te l, C h e lte n h a m .

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S E B A S T I A N H A R D Y : Ice la n d s , R in g w o o d .

MADDER L A K E : R ese r­ v o ir D r iv e - in .

AYERS ROCK: T e a z e r, E x h ib it io n s tre e t. C it y .

S K Y L IG H T : W in s to n C h a rle s , S o u th Y a rra .

JAZZ

FILMS

F OLK

ROCK S E B A S T IA N HARDY: G e o rg e h o te l, S t K ild a .

FOLK C O U N T R Y AND WESTERN/JAZZ BLUESTO N E: P ro s p e c t H ill h o t e l, K e w P H IL D A Y : F ra n k T r a y ­ n o rs , C it y . 8 0 c .

NEW MUSIC N IA G G R A : La M a m a, 205 F a ra d a y s tr e e t, C a r lto n .

t r i a : G e n e s ia n th e a tr e , 4 2 0

K ent

st. C ity , 7 9 8 .3 6 0 8 ,

8 .1 5 p m , f r l , sat o n ly .

W H O ’S W H O : E n s e m b le th e a tr e , t h u r t o m o n o n ly , 8 p m ; sat 5 p m , 8 p m .

T H E E M P IR E B U IL D E R S b y B o ris V ia n : N e w T h e ­ a tre , 5 4 2 K in g st, N e w ­ to w n , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 2 . 0 0 , f r l , sat, sun o n ly .

L O V E F O R L O V E — O ld T o te m o b : O p e ra H o u s e , 8 p m , $ 5 .5 0 , $ 2 .7 5 .

W H A T IF Y O U D I E D T O ­ M O R R O W b y D a v id W il­ lia m s o n : E liz a b e th a n t h e ­ a tre , N e w to w n , 5 1 .7 4 7 1 , 8 .1 5 p m , f r i , s a t, 5 .3 0 , 8.1 5 p m .

FILMS

C H IN E S E F I L M : C a p ito l, S w a n s to n s tre e t, C it y , 2 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .2 5 .

CRYSTAL VOYAGER: G e e lo n g P ix C in e m a , 8 .3 0 pm .

P E A R L IN T H E C R O W N — P re v ie w : D e n d y , C h u r c h s tre e t, B r ig h to n , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 .

FILM

C H A R G E O F T H E L IG H T B R IG A D E (A ) — E rro l F ly n n , O liv ia d e H a v ila n d , D a v id N iv e n , P a tr ic k K n o w le s , 1936 v e r s io n : A T V - 0 , 1 0 .2 5 p m .

T H E G R E A T R A C E (G ) — Jack L e m m o n , T o n y C u r­ tis , N a ta lie W o o d , P e te r F a lk , K e e n a n W y n n o ld ie : A T V - 0 , 7 .3 0 p m .

M AR LO O — TH E RED K A N G A R O O — d o c u m e n t­

OUTDOOR BALLET UNDER THE L E A V E S : B a lle t V ic t o r ia , m o d e rn b a lle t, r e a lly g o o d a t S u n b u r y , F i t z r o y G a r­ d en s, 3 .0 0 p m .

M u s ic H a ll M e lo d ra m a s — BUSYBODY by th e P e n in s u la P la y e rs , D re a m ­ t im e P u p p e te e rs : ‘ Sum m e r fe s t’ p u t o n b y th e P e n in s u la T o u r is t P r o m o ­ t i o n B o a rd .

TV

JAZZ

CIRCUS THE GREAT M OSCOW C IR C U S : B a tm a n a v e n u e , u n d e r th e m ig h ty b ig t o p , f r o m f r i d a y 2 2 , n ig h t ly a t 8 .0 0 p m , S a tu rd a y 1 .0 0 p m , 4 .0 0 p m , e x tr a , Sun­ d a y 4 .0 0 p m o n ly , $ 4 .2 0 , $ 5 .2 0 , $ 6 .2 0 , p o p c o r n and p e a n u ts a v a ila b le .

RADIO C O U N T R Y M U S IC : 3 K Z , 5 .0 0 a m .

P H IL O S O P H E R S IN D E ­ B A T E : 3 A R , 1 0 .1 5 p m .

POETRY D IA L - A - P O E M : R in g T o m and ask fo r a poem , 3 2 9 .6 0 3 9 .

BOOK NOW THE IM A G IN E R Y IN ­ V A L ID b y M o lie r e , p e r­ fo r m e d b y th e S tr a tf o r d N a t io n a l T h e a tre of C a n a d a : fe b r u a r y 2 6 -m a rc h 7 , 8 .1 5 p m , P rin c e s s th e ­ a tre , $ 3 .2 0 , $ 5 .2 0 , $ 6 .2 0 ,

BEBOP S IL V E R C LO U D : Stage C o a c h , 8 - 1 2 p m ; f r i , s a t, 8 p m -3 a m .

L U N A P A R K — Just fo r f u n : M ils o n ’ s P o in t , f r i , 7 .3 0 p m ; s a t, 2 p m , 7 .3 0 p m ; s u n , 2 p m -7 p m .

T A R O N G A Z O O — M ix w it h o th e r a n im a ls : T a k e F e r r y N o . 5 , j e t t y , C ir c u ­ la r Q uay, 9 .3 0 -5 pm , $ 1 . 2 0 , k id s 3 0 c e n ts .

POETRY

FILMS

POOR T O M ’S P O E T R Y B A N D : C o m m u n e , N o rth M e lb o u r n e , 6 0 c .

F I L M S — f ilm s m a y ch an g e a t a m o m e n t's n o tic e , so c h e c k t o b e su re.

FILM K R I E M H I L D 'S R E V E N G E (2 n d p a rt o f S IE G F R IE D ) : S ta te F ilm C e n tr e , 1 M a c A r t h u r s tre e t, N o r t h M e l­ b o u r n e , $ 1 0 .0 0 sub, $7 N F T A m e m b e rs p e r y e a r.

A v a ila b le G u ild a n d D e n ta l s c re e n in g s .

DRAMA W ORKSHOP: C la r e m o n t t h e a tr e , 14 C la r e m o n t s tre e t, S o u th Y a r r a . C o n ­ ta c t A d r ia n o n 2 4 . 6 4 0 5 b e ­ tw e e n 1 a n d 5 p m .

RADIO L U C IN D A B R A Y F O R D — n ew s e ria l: 3 A R , 7 .3 0 p m .

A U S T R A L I A N C O M P O S I­ T IO N S fo r th e Sydney O p e ra H o u s e : 3 A R , 8 .2 5 pm .

M U S IC B Y H E N R Y V I I I : 3 A R , 1 1.1 0 p m .

NEW MUSIC

YARRA YARRA JA ZZ BAND: O ld M e lb o u r n e M o to r In n , m o n d a y - th u r s d a y , 7 .3 0 o n w a rd s , S a tu r­ d a y a fte r n o o n , 3 .0 0 o n ­ w a rd s .

S C H O O L S O U T — F re e s c h o o ls a n t h o lo g y : F i l m ­ m a k e rs C in e m a , S t P e te r's la n e , D a r lin g h u r s t, 8 p m , e xcep t sun, m on.

T H E H I R E L I N G — S a rah M ile s , R o b e r t S h a w . A ls o T H E K IN G O F M A R V I N GARDENS: Academ y T w in , m o n - f r i, 1 .4 5 , 7 .3 0 p m ; s a t, s u n , 3 .3 0 , 7 .3 0 pm .

M ID N IG H T COW BOY: Academ y T w in , Paddo, 2 .3 0 , 5 .1 5 , 8 .0 5 p m .

D ISTR AC TION S

2001 A S P A C E O D Y S S E Y p lu s M a r x B ro s in T H E B IG S T O R E : N e w A r ts C in e m a , G le b e , 3 p m , 7 .3 0 p m , e x c e p t sun, $ 2 .0 0 , $ 2 .5 0 .

A W I N T E R ’S T A L E — M o re s u r f a n d s u d s : M a n ly S ilv e r S c re e n , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .

M E L B O U R N E NEW M U S IC E N S E M B L E : C o m ­ m une, N o rth M e lb o u r n e .

DAVE R A N K IN JA ZZ B A N D : L e m o n T re e h o te l, 10 G r a tta n s tre e t, C a r lto n , 3 pm - 6 pm .

T H E P L A N T W IT H M IF F Y : P o la ris In n h o t e l, C a r l­ to n .

H O T C IT Y B U M P B A N D ( a f te r n o o n ) , J U N C T IO N C IT Y J A Z Z B A N D : P ro s­ p e c t H il l h o t e l, K e w .

V IC T O R IA N J A Z Z C L U B : M a n o r H o u s e h o te l, C it y .

T W IL IG H T JA ZZ CON­ CERT, RED O N IO N S JAZZ BAND, FRANK TR AYN O R S JA ZZ BAN D, M A R G A R E T ROADK N IG H T : R osebud S ound S h e ll, 5 .3 0 p m t o 1 0 .3 0 p m , fre e . P u t o n b y P e n in ­ sula T o u r is t P r o m o tio n B o a rd t o in d u c e p e o p le t o com e dow n and sp en d m oney.

PROFESSO R Z IG G L E S T R A V E L S : C la re m o n t th e ­ a tre , 1 4 C la r e m o n t s tre e t,

STAGE THE P H IL A N T H R O P I S T — W o r th se e in g : T h e In d e ­ pendent T h e a tr e , N o rth S y d n e y , 9 2 9 . 7 3 7 7 , w e d to sat o n ly , 8 .1 5 p m .

O N E S E A S O N 'S K I N G : Q T h e a tr e tte , C ir c u la r Q u a y , 3 3 .5 7 4 4 , 1 .1 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 , p lu s c o n c e s s io n s , m o n - f r i o n ly .

TH E E A G L E H A S TW O H E A D S — T h e la s t d a y s o f E m p re s s E liz a b e th o f A u s ­

RADIO

M A R G A R E T ROADK N IG H T : O u tp o s t In n , C it y .

DANNY SPOONER a nd GORDON M A C IN T Y R E : F r a n k T r a y n o r s , C it y , 8 0 c .

K in s

ROCK B O U R K E & W I L L S a nd G I N G E R : C h e q u e rs .

PETER Q U E N T I N : A l l's O asis.

MEETINGS

JO H N AND J U A N IT A BOO THRO YD, DANNY SPOONER: D an O 'C o n ­ n e ll, C a r lto n , 3 to 6 p m .

V A R IO U S A R T IS T S : Com m une, N o rth M e l­ b o u rn e , 10 p m t o 3 a m .

JU G AND DYKE OR­ CHESTRA, J IM CANT­ W E LL, JO H N C R O W LE : O u tp o s t In n , C it y .

D A N N Y SPOONER, G EO FF AND D IA N E H O L L I N S , J O H N C RO W LE, JO H N GRA­ HAM: F ra n k T ra y n o rs , C it y .

T H E Y SHO O T HORSES, D O N ’T TH EY?: A th e n ­ a e u m , L a te , C o llin s s tre e t, C it y , 1 0 .3 0 p m .

MERV ACHESO N JA ZZ T R IO : B e lle v u e h o t e l, P add o.

U N IT Y J A Z Z B A N D : 729 C lu b , 8 .3 0 -1 a m .

b o o k a t u s u a l a g e n c ie s .

O P T IM IS M AND M IS ­ ADVENTUR ES OF CAND ID E p e r fo rm e d b y A m e r ­ ica ’ s N a t io n a l T h e a tr e o f th e D e a f: P rin c e s s th e a tr e , m a rc h 1 3 -1 6 , 8 .1 5 pm , th u r s d a y , S a tu rd a y m a tin e e 2 .0 0 pm , $ 3 . 2 0 , $ 4 .2 0 , $ 5 .7 0 , c h ild r e n and p e n ­ s io n e rs c o n c e s s io n s . B o o k a t u s u a l a g e n c ie s .

S L A N S K — P o lis h N a tio n a l Song and D ance C o m p a n y w il l be in M e lb o u r n e : P a l­ ais th e a tr e , m a rc h 1 9 -3 1 .

F o r f u r t h e r in f o , p h o n e 5 1 .6 8 2 3 o r 6 9 .6 2 0 4 .

S L A D E : F e s tiv a l h a ll, f e b ­ r u a r y 2 6 , $ 4 .7 0 .

S C A R L A T T I, BEE­ THOVEN, SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT C o n c e rt: M o n s a lv a t, G re a t h a ll, m a rc h 1, 2 a t 8 .1 5 p m , G e ra rd W ille m s — p ia n o , $ 3 .5 0 , $ 3 .0 0 s tu d e n ts ( in ­ c lu d in g s u p p e r).

R O Y A L S C O T S DRAGOON GUARDS: M y e r M u s ic B o w l, m a rc h 2 , 8 .0 0 p m , a n d m a rc h 3, 3 .0 0 p m , $ 4 . 0 0 , $ 2 .0 0 c h il­ d r e n a n d p e n s io n e rs .

V A L D O O N IC A N f o r a ll y e c r o o n e r s : F e s tiv a l h a ll, m a rc h 5, 8 .1 5 p m , $ 5 .2 0 .

D A V I D C A S S ID Y liv e a t M .C .G .: m a rc h 1 0 , $ 3 . 2 0 .

B .B . K IN G w it h h is te n p ie c e b a n d : F e s tiv a l h a ll, m a rc h 1 4 .

CRYSTAL VOYAGER — S u r f m o v ie w it h so m e P in k F lo y d m u s ic : B r ig h to n to w n h a ll, tu e s d a y to th u r s d a y , S a tu rd a y 8 .3 0 , 6 3 .1 0 3 9 .

T H E N IG H T C O M E R S (R ) — M a r lo n B r a n d o , p lu s W HEN THE LEG EN D S D IE ( N R C ) — R ic h a rd W id m a rk — H a p p in e s s is a w a r m g u n : C a r lto n c in e m a , F a ra d a y s tre e t, C a r lto n , th u r s d a y - s u n d a y , 7 .4 5 p m , 9 0 c , 3 4 7 .5 5 2 4 .

THE GO DFATHER (R ) and fr o m W ednesday, A F IS T F U L O F D Y N A M IT E (M ): F o o ts c r a y G ra n d , P a is le y s tre e t, F o o ts c r a y , m o n d a y - s a tu r d a y 7 .4 5 pm , S a t u r d a y 1 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .4 0 , 6 8 .1 1 3 8 .

TRAVELS W IT H MY AUNT p lu s ENG LAND M A D E M E : D e n d y , M a l­ v e rn , G le n fe r r ie ro a d , M a l­ v e rn , seven d a y s , $ 2 .5 0 , 5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 .

TH E BA B Y , THE R U L­ IN G C L A S S (M ) o r h o w to m ake it . . .: D endy, C h u rc h s tre e t, B r ig h to n , m o n d a y - s a tu r d a y , 7 .5 0 , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .4 0 s tu d e n ts , 9 2 .8 8 1 1 .

T H E S E N S U A L IS T : T ra k , T o o r a k ro a d , T o o r a k , 6 .0 0 pm , 8 .3 0 pm , S a tu rd a y 2 .3 0 p m , 6 .0 0 p m , 8 .3 0 p m , S u n d a y 5 .0 0 p m , 8 .0 0 p m , 2 4 .9 3 3 3 .

I AM C U R IO U S , Y E L ­ L O W : P a la is, E s p la n a d e , St K ild a , 8 .1 5 , S a tu rd a y m a ti­ nee 4 .1 5 , $ 2 .5 0 , 9 4 .0 6 5 1 .

THE H IR E L IN G : R iv o li T w in (1 ), C a m b e rw e ll, n ig h t ly 7 .4 5 p m , S a tu rd a y , S u n d a y 4 .1 5 p m , 7 .4 5 p m , $ 2 .2 5 , $ 1 .0 0 s tu d e n ts , 8 2 .1 2 2 1 .

C R IE S A N D W H IS P E R S : R iv o li T w in ( 2 ) , C a m b e r­ w e ll, n ig h t ly 8 .1 5 p m , Sat­ u r d a y , s u n d a y 5 .0 0 p m , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 2 .2 5 , $ 1 .0 0 s tu ­ d e n ts , 8 2 .1 2 2 1 .

Q U I E T D A Y S IN C L IC H Y : E ast E n d 2 , 100 B o u rk e s tr e e t, C it y , 6 .0 0 p m , 8 .0 0 p m .

COMING SOON JO N ATH AN L IV IN G ­ STO N SEAG ULL, MAN W HO LO VED CATDANCER, M A C IN T O S H M A N , A M E R IC A N G R A F ­ F I T I , E X O R C IS T , P A P IL L I O N — S te v e M c Q u e e n , D u s tin H o ffm a n .

THE W A Y W E W E R E — B a rb ra S tr e is a n d , R o b e r t R e d fo r d .

T H E G E O L O G IC A L A N D M IN IN G M U S E U M ( o n ly f o r th o s e w h o ca n d ig i t ) : 3 6 -6 4 G e o rg e s t, S y d n e y , m o n - f r i, 9 .3 0 a m -5 p m ; s a t, 11 a m -4 p m ; s u n , 2 p m -5 p m . F re e .

COMING UP FRED S TA R K E Y FO U N ­ D A T IO N CONCERT — G ra e m e B e ll, T h e S to n e d C ro w s , The U n ity Jazz B and, P e te r B u c k la n d , E c lip s e A l le y F iv e : A n z a c H o u s e A u d it o r i u m , C o lle g e st. C it y , m a rc h 1 1 , 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 .

T ic k e ts at Ashw o o d , 3 7 6 P it t s tre e t.

8TH N A T IO N A L FO LK F E S T I V A L : B r is b a n e , easte r w e e k e n d , m a rc h 9 - 1 0 .

In fo N S W F o l k F e d e r a tio n , PO box 44, R a m s g a te , 2217.

THE D IR T Y S H O W A T P A D D O — C a p ta in M a tc h ­ b o x , T h e U n d e r c h u n d e rs , H o m e , A b d u l th e A c r o b a t M a rc h 3 , 8 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .

T ic k e ts a t d o o r .

W O M E N IN S U B U R B IA — No ta p e in g , f i lm in g or m e n : I n f o J u n e , 8 4 .3 3 0 6 ; M a rie , 8 0 7 .2 3 0 2 ; T o n i, 8 6 9 .7 8 3 5 , m a rc h 2 .

D A V I D C A S S ID Y a n d th e S H IN IN G W IT S ( s u ffe r b a b y , s u ffe r): R a n d w lc k R a c e c o u rs e , 2 p m , $ 4 .2 0

SATURDAY THE TUBE BAKKES N IG H T OF FAM E — A r a d io p la y a b o u t a m a n a b o u t t o g o to th e e le c tr ic c h a ir : ABC R a d io 2 , 8 .3 0 p m .

P IN K Y — N u rs e re je c ts b r a in tu m o r tr a n s p la n t: C h a n n e l 2 , 9 .3 0 p m .

C re a tu re fe a tu r e — T O M B O F L I G E I A w it h V in c e n t P ric e : C h a n n e l 7 , 9 .3 0 p m .

F OLK P A C T F O L K : Y W C A C e l­ lar, L iv e r p o o l st, 8 p m .

T R A D F O L K : E d in b u r g h C a s tle .

D a rts K e lim o c u m p re s e n ts ANDY SAUNDERS, A L W A R D . JO H N SU M M E R S , GRAEME LO W NDES, ANDY GEORGE: E liz a ­ b e th h o t e l, C it y , 8 p m - 10 p m , 8 0 c e n ts .

JAZZ E C L IP S E ALLEY F IV E : V a n it y F a ir h o t e l, 4 -7 p m ; DOC W IL L IS : A lb u r y H o te l, a fte r n o o n .

DON D E S I L V A : L o u is T a v e rn , E liz a b e th st, P ad­ d o , a fte r n o o n .

DOC W I L L I S : B e re s fo rd h o te l, S u r r y H ills , 7 .3 0 -1 0 pm .

DEEP BAYOU: Stage D o o r T a v e rn , 7 -1 2 pm , $

1.0 0 .

EAST COAST JA ZZ B A N D : U n it y H a ll, B a l­ m a in .

L A R R Y ’S BLUES G U I­ TAR: H an g Toe, S u rry H ills .

DAVE STEVENS and M E R V A C H E S O N : B e lle ­ vue h o te l, P a d d o , 3-6 p m .

F O R E D A Y RIDER: F r e n c h ’ s T a v e rn , 7 .4 5 -1 0 pm .

DON DE S IL V A : M ac­ q u a rie h o te l, W o o llo o m o o lo o , 7 .3 0 -1 0 p m .

E V E N IN G O F J A Z Z w it h R o g e r F r a m p to n , P h il T re lo a r , Jack T h o rn c ra ft, P e te r E v a n s p la y in g A lb e r t A y c e r : O p e ra H o u s e , 8 .1 5 p m . F re e , yes, fr e e !

KIDS THEATRE THE P IE D P IP E R : In ­ dependent T h e a tre , 9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 2 p m .

C U LTUR E SYLVIA AND THE S Y N T H E T IC S p lu s F re d A s ta ir e in S I L K S T O C K ­ IN G S : F ilm m a k e r s C in e ­ m a, 1 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 .

THE D ANCE CO M PANY; See th u r s .

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STEVEN PHILLIPS

ETROL, as any arab will tell you, makes the world go around. If your machine, what­ ever its function, does not run on electricity, gas or some primitive clockwork mechanism, chances are it runs on a petroleum fuel.

Think o f that next time you oil a door hinge.

Petrol, they claim with empiri­ cal arguments, drives the engines o f econom ies as it does the en­ gines o f cars. And like cars, econ­ omies must move and be lubricat­ ed or rust to degeneration through lack o f use.

So we have such things as Petrol Companies. They are not subject to ordinary laws o f econ­ om ics though they rest their en­ tire existence upon those laws.

They are linked by the anvil o f tim e and order into a chain o f perpetuation which binds them to the laws o f universal motivation.

That is, they feed o ff those who must for no reason other than to survive, feed o ff them.

Petrol company executives are the gods in this game. They are mortal men who have grasped a rung above this working model o f a natural pattern and who, like fated beings, see fit to direct and divert the proceedings as if they created the very laws o f the uni­ verse. They make a bummer all round and ulcers for themselves.

Oil holds all the excitem ent and romance o f gold. It is costly to find, difficult to extract and must be refined to various grades o f useable forms. This adds up to a cost o f about 30 cents per gallon to the petrol com pany in the form o f a saleable product which must find its way in a consumer mar­ ket, though demand is guaranteed.

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In a bid to discover what the spirit o f selling petrol with a smile was all about I w ent to work for a petrol retailer on the south coast o f NSW. My boss ran three service stations along a 30 mile stretch o f coast and these were leased to him by the petrol com pany directly which in turn was heavily backed with overseas capital.

The station at which I was stationed had been bought out from previous owners only tw o days before my arrival. Patronage came from local residents during the week and from tourists on weekends and holidays. Most locals, under the banners o f vari­ ous credit unions, had enjoyed a five cent discount per gallon o f petrol and since the previous ow n­ ers had not kept a large stock o f accessories, their profits came al­ m ost entirely from mechanical re­ pairs.

Since the retail profit margin on. one gallon o f petrol is a little under eight cents for super grade petrol it was decided to discon­ tinue the discounts. This proved little more than a bluff when many customers who claimed to be regulars from years back threatened to take their business elsewhere.

So the profitmaking potential o f the workshop was increased by the installation o f advanced elec­ tronic analysing and tune-up gear

One can instantly understand w hy "Stanley” always smiles and his spirit is an unquenchable lust for profits?

At the same time, the customer pays in other ways for his heedless p la y in g o f his part. While he wor­ together with all the m odem in ­ ships tne God corporation with novations under the sun which offerings o f m oney he pollutes his could be written o ff against tax environment and com m its his and also lessen the standard time earning power to a faith in the old for making straightforward repairs tim e payment plan to "ow n” the while retaining the standard price. machine he fuels. Then, o f course, With the new equipment the time there are the various taxes such as factor had been approximately registration and licensing to bef halved so in reality customers taken into account. were paying double the price on a My boss was not a socialist, but m oney per time basis. he believed petrol companies Accessory lines soon filled the should be nationalised “for the shelves with everything from the good o f the people”. humble electric fuse to expensive He claimed people, even in pressure-packed instant tyre repair their wildest dreams o f corporate kits. I discovered after watching a paranoia, had not the vaguest ink­ stocktake that the general mark­ ling o f the God-power petrol com ­ up on accessory lines was 100 panies have at their disposal. percent on the wholesale price. "There would be about 15 com ­ For every dollar taken for an panies sitting on top o f the world accessory product, such as polish econom y. Ten out o f those are oil or any pre-packaged product oth­ companies. They have the power er than oil and grease, 50 cents to cripple anyone and hold gov­ was pure profit to the boss. Spe­ ernments to ransom.” cial additives were available from N one o f the petrol companies the petrol company to market harvesting great profits in Austra­ petrol as various grades o f two- lia are Australian owned, though stroke fuel and this increased the one, Am pol, pretends to be. It is profit margin on the petrol itself 51 percent owned by Caltex - the while a profit was still to be made Texas based oil empire. Com­ on the additives. panies hide within companies.

Shell, a Dutch owned com ­ pany, operates at a loss in its home territory but makes an as­ tronomical profit in Australia.

Therefore, all trading results go through an overriding parent com ­ pany which shows an overall prof­ it or an overall loss, usually the former. What you lose on the dykes you pick up in the mulga.

A clue to the vast balance o f power which hangs in the wake o f the petrol companies exploita­ tions is that every ten years, on an average, som eone invents a new non-petrochemical engine and the petrol companies pay m illions to keep the patents under lock and key.

Petrol companies manage to reap almost 14 cents pure profit from each gallon o f petrol sold.

This is before the eight cents profit made by the retailer. No wonder petrol companies pay bounties to retailers to stay open during “non econom ical” trading hours. N o matter what the losses to service stations it would seem near impossible for a petrol com ­ pany not to make a huge profit from this country - taking her crude oil and selling it back at grossly inflated prices. Ian Sykes (see TLD, 2 /3 ), in a 26 page report based on the operations o f the XL petrol discounting com ­ pany, showed that the pumped price o f petrol could be reduced by 10 cents per gallon tomorrow if the petrol companies abolished the bounty system and customer discount rebates.

In one month our service sta­ tion gave $360 in discounts o f five cents per gallon. Only $ 2 0 0 of this was met by the company.

Yes, petrol companies are only jeepsters for our love. And they're gonna suck us.

THE PLACE WHERE THE CROWS LIVE

BRIAN WILLIAMS

OWN in Crater valley the Crow Tribe contemplates migration south from its Dobroyd Point settlement, on the north shore o f Sydney harbor, to the wilds o f Tasmania.

Their home - seven 50 year old shacks stretching around the cliffs and rocks at the bottom of a natural bush amphitheatre below Clontarf reserve — is soon to be released by the federal depart­ m ent o f defence to the NSW government as part o f a plan to create a harbor national park.

Publicity in the local and dow ntow n press about the “har­ bor hippy com m une” has prompt­ ed lands minister Tom Lewis to make ambivalent (“ compassionate grounds to be considered” ) state­ ments about eviction o f the squat­ ters when the state has control o f the land.

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YOU REACH the settlement via a track running down the valley from the edge o f Clontarf reserve.

Above, you hear only the shrill whip-bird but further down the sound o f chimes tinkling in the wind, the barking of dogs, quack­ ing o f ducks. Rob and Jane greet you with broad smiles and invite you into their hut for tea.

Inside’s like a gipsy caravan blackened stone fireplace, drift­ wood tables and bed, colored papier-mache puppet masks hang­ ing from water blotched ceiling, hurricane lamps, gardening and bush handbooks.)

N ot far off, the soothing notes o f a flute or the funky piano

com e from a cliff-edge shack, to harmonise with the murmurings o f the sea below.

In mid 1972, Rob and friends decided to re-occupy the huts, clearing the lantana and weeds which had overgrown the settle­ ment. Energy invested and patient care has flourished into vegetable gardens, fruit and herb patches.

The bush bursts with flaming or­ chids; fresh water flow s down from a natural spring on the reserve,

spilling into pools and grottoes near the huts; diamond frilled drag­ on lizards flash out from behind rocks and spider webs glint silver against the afternoon sun above the cliffs.

The com m une’s population floats between six and 10 and the settlem ent was only deserted dur­ ing the Nimbin festival last year, when the tribe w ent north to display their brilliant puppeteering talent.

The crater’s history dates back to 1923: Bob Cadwell built the first hut from driftwood, sand­ stone and mud. He and two friends, George and Fritz, would hike through the bush from Seaforth to swim there on weekends.

Reg Williams (son o f one o f the founders) built the second shack and was later joined by Cec Pearse and Len Hunter; over the next ten years, a com m unity evolved, grow­ ing vegetables and fruit. Fred Wil­

liams, his father, christened the community the “Crow Tribe” in 1937, as crows always hover on the cliffs above. On the approach to the huts, the tribal call, a loud crow squawk, would be returned by someone at the settlement.

Around the turn of the century, Fred was taught to surf b y an islander, and was the first Austra­ lian to body surf at Manly. He often swam out to surf the bombora o ff Dobroyd Point, where his ashes were scattered after his death at the “crater”.

Maggie Sirks, Fred’s daughter, and her daughters are the only sur­ viving members o f the original tribe. A service was held at the huts for Bob Cadwell in november 1972. After readings from Omar Khayyam’s R ubaiyat, Bob’s favorite book, his ashes were scat­ tered on the waters.

Maggie, a beautiful silver-haired lady has vivid memories o f life at the huts. Her daughters were christened in a rockpool on the crater shores, with Bob and Fritz as godfathers. She still returns occasionally, holding a rapt audi­ ence with stories o f life in Depres­ sion Sydney when the caves and cliffs of the harbor were sanc­ tuaries for refugees from the black gloom engulfing the world.

Is is the end o f the Crow Tribe’s dreamtime? Those who have spent even a few hours here will be aware o f the great love and respect that the tribe has for Crater valley.

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The steady invasion of theIrishcatholic Labor stamping ground When our photographer DON SHARP returned from the streets and people o f Melbourne’s Richmond he said, “I’ve never seen a place with such depth, with so many sides, with so many layers. Looking at it on a map you dont realise it is so BIG.” Richmond is big. It’s big, blow sy and boisterious a vestige o f times past, o f tum-of-thecentury industrialisation, o f com m unity pride; it’s a city now feeling its old identity being replaced . . .

RICHARD COONEY and ROB PASCOE, tw o Melbourne university students, spent a large part o f their summer vacation in looking back over their old hom e tow n and came up with this sketch EVEN am in Melbourne on a monday morning and the sun rises slowly over the mile stretch o f Bridge road from the Haw­ thorn bridge to Punt road. The early morning traffic snarls have started; busi­ nessmen and office workers juggle for the fast moving lanes to get to the city on time. The more adventurous/desperate burn down some parallel side street to get ahead o f the mob.

The workers dont join this automania; they ride the overcrowded public trans­ port. Gaggles o f migrant process workers collect at the tram stops along Bridge road and Church street, and those that are running late pile into a taxi - better to pay ou t than lose your job.

The average Richmond day begins at 6 am; dad eats his breakfast; mum makes the kids lunches; dad rushes off to work; the kids go to school; mum then gets ready to head off to the factory. Break­ fast is an operation finely geared to the timetable o f the industrial system.

As the shops in Bridge road and Swan street open, the city’s commercial day begins and the flow o f goods-carrying v e h ic le s alon g Richmond’s main thoroughfares increases. Slowly the main streets fill with their work-a-day in­ habitants - housewives with kids, old migrant women, assorted businessmen and tradesmen and, finally, the inevitable old pensioner men who drift around the pubs and shopping centres. But Rich­ m ond’s face is changing . . . The trendy set from the fashionable suburbs o f Toorak and South Yarra have been gradually moving into Richmond, and

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THE Richmond o f yore. Talking to okltimers inevitably leads to stories o f the Golden Age o f simple, uncluttered roman catholic, working class life. Of days be­ fore the influx o f migrants, o f WASP trendies, o f intensified industry and motorised madness.

R ichm ond’s population peak of 42,0 0 0 came and w ent in the 1920s.

Squizzy Taylor - a figure synonym ous w ith M elbourne’s pre-Depression under­ world - had his brothels in Palmer street.

The racecourse in West Richmond was flourishing w ith pony and trotting m eet­ ings. And the city then had its own brewery.

But even up until the 50s the themes of rude sim plicity continue. Phillip Adams relates his early primary school­ days at a school long popular with Richmondites: “ My next exposure to sex came at the Yarra Park state school, a bleak old building in an industrial suburb o f Mel­ bourne.

These days the education department uses the place to house its psychological branch, probably because o f the school’s oppressive similarity to a 19th century looney bin.

Populated b y 300 raucous urchins w hose fathers worked at the abattoirs, the goings-on both in the playgrounds and in the to ilet blocks made Blackboard jungle look effem inate. “ It was only by swinging their Tsquares like scythes that the teachers survived a single period, while many o f m y pre-pubescent classmates spent their entire day groping and grabbing at each others groins. Som etim es hardly a head would be visible above the desks as grubby little satyrs and nym phets wres­ tled on th e f lo o r . . . ” It was also in the simpler 50s that “ Soft John" flourished. A sym bol o f working class generosity, this remarkable old fellow lived in Maddern grove, op­ posite Bum ley railway station. A lone pensioner, Soft John used to buy and sell bicycle parts, mainly with children.

Scorned b y many parents, he enticed the friendship o f countless children with his bike tyres, wheels, spare parts etc. His house was filled to overflowing with such items, stacked or hung across the hallway, in every room and in the backyard.

Som eone decided in the mid 60s that Maddern grove had to be widened, so Soft John had to go. His house w as demolished, but his memory was trium­ phantly preserved by the bike parts litter­ ing the vacant site for many m onths after.

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other Richmondites as “slum clearance” programs were initiated in the grim days of the late 60s.

Urban authorities had discovered “poverty”, measured, o f course, in easily q u an tifiab le non-cultural, econom ic terms. A new name for the com pulsory banishment o f working class families to the anonym ous uniform ity o f outer sub­ urbia was found: “Urban Renewal”. On this pretext the housing commission bulldozers moved in.

OLD STYLE POLITICS The muscle of the old Richmond lies in the Richmond city council. Of the 15 councillors, ten were originally elected during or before 1966. And the man who is at present holding the mayoralty, Cr J. A. Loughnan JP, was first elected to council in 1931.

The ALP runs such a tight m achine in Richmond that all important council decisions com e straight from caucus. A notice paper is not provided for the public gallery. Recent agitation to open council meetings for the public was scornfully rejected b y the mayor. D aley’s Chicago could not be as “tight” as Rich­ mond, thanks largely to the work o f a man named Jackie O’C o n n ell. . .

Jackie died in mid 1972, both admired and despised b y the Richmond citizenry.

He was undoubtedly one o f the few politicians who knew the real wants and needs of his electorate, even if his heavyhanded tactics were so notorious that they became legendary.

Jackie was always ready to help a bloke in trouble. If ever you wanted any perks pulled (a job for a miscreant son on the council or a housing com m ission flat

on the old racecourse estate), then Jackie was the man to see. The Little General held court for these purposes every morn­ ing at 10 am on the old granite steps of the town hall. Jackie shunned the formal­ ity o f the mayor’s office.

Jackie wasnt in politics solely to act as the people’s guardian against the intru­ sions o f state bureaucracy, however; he was there to savor the spoils o f public office. The local machine was “Jackie’s Machine” , the d ty council was “Jackie’s Council" and things were ju st as they should be. The Little General held power, first, b y eliminating all opposition to him amongst the local ALP branches and, secondly, b y “managing” council elec­ tions.

An independent survey o f branch members of the Richmond ALP in 1972 revealed a large number o f O’Connell’s relatives holding positions in the council.

Thirtytwo people were recently discover­ ed to be no longer living in Richmond, but were “local branch members” with addresses c/o tow n hall, the council depot or non-existent residences. Council jobs usually carried a condition o f branch membership, and, of course, if things got really desperate then the machine would just supply a few of the boys with bogus membership cards.

It’s n ot surprising that old Jack O ’Con­ nell won every vote; for, as he said to a local Socialist Left man who had just lost his council pre-selection — “Ya gotta get up early to beat the little general”.

When another member got up at that meeting to voice his concern at the undemocratic nature o f the pre-selection (the ballot was a postal ballot and thus contrary to state ALP rules), a few o f the boys politely told him that it really wasnt in his best interests to challenge the chairman’s ruling. The member court­ eously withdrew.

Jackie performed best out on the hustings, however; few o f his ALP men ever failed to get returned, and he was so popular that they reckon even the “dead turned out to vote for him ” .

Jackie’s best campaigners were the boys o f the “Flying Squad”, council workers who in the dark of night took out council trucks to paste up H ow to vote stickers in spots pre-chosen by the old master. The boys also scored up the tick board for Jackie a list o f all those dead, shifted or ill who were eligible to vote but couldnt.

The board was made up by checking o ff the ratepayers roll (arranged in streets) against the electoral roll (arranged alphabetically). Jack’s boys would simply doorknock dow n the streets and make a list o f all those who had shifted or died since the electoral roll was last revised.

Come election day and the boys would obligingly vote on behalf o f these people.

There are many stories of stooges presenting themselves at the polling table and then having to fumble through their pockets for the piece of paper with their “nam e” on it, or o f people voting, going out the door, changing their hat etc, and coming back to vote again.

And when O’Connell died, Bemie and the boys o f the Flying Squad took out an ad in Melbourne’s Sun obituary column.

Their epithet was short and to the point: “The General w ill return.”

Loughnan, the present mayor, is firm­ ly in this tradition. When we rang him last week in the hope o f gaining an interview, his refusal was straightforward and blunt.

But he has a certain self-effacing attitude; in his tough, gravelly voice he said he was “just a run-of-the-mill councillor". The real man to see, he suggested, was C. C. “Charlie” Eyres, the long-standing, 40ish, town clerk.

Most o f the day-to-day administration is, in fact, left to Eyres and his Town hall underlings. These men, responsible for building permits, garbage collection, road repairs etc — are “pocket dictators”, knowing no duty but the ALP machine.

The track record o f this set-up is not impressive b y conventional standards o f local government. R ichm ond’s 1972 def­ icit was $ 1 1 1 ,9 2 8 . Footpaths in the area remain unrepaired, 800 household heads in the highrise flats dont have their names on council rolls, the local abattoirs (which sit on public land) are heavily subsidised by th e council.

The politics o f the city council are entombed in the past. R ecent sociological and econom ic changes in the region have swept it by. Every nook and cranny o f

Richmond now holds a different lifestyle.

R ichm ond is no longer hom ogeneous and the men in city hall, try as they may, cannot hold back the tide, let alone bring back the past.

“ EAT ’EM ALIVE, TIGERS!!”

The tiger has for a long time been an integral part o f the Richmond m ythol­ ogy, both among old Richm ondites and strangers. It was primarily - through its aggressive football sides — that Richm ond became known to the rest o f the world.

The corporate identity o f the old Rich­ mond com m unity was bound up with the tiger and the adm onition to “ eat ’em alive” . A hom ogeneous com m unity of working class Irish catholics set adrift in a sea o f protestantism could only respond to their social situation with the unre­ strained aggression and communal unity which the tiger embodies. As one o f R ichm ond’s original heroes, Jack “ Cap­ tain Blood” Dyer, once said: “ In Rich­ mond you only had to learn tw o things: how to play football for the tigers and how to vote Labor.”

The cult o f “tigerism” is o f course no where near as strong as in the old days, but curiously enough the migrant kids, perhaps sensing to o their social inferiority and need for assertion, are rediscovering it and buying their black and yellow jumpers by the dozen.

CRIMINALITY AS A LIFESTYLE Working class areas are notorious for their criminality. Richmond is no excep tion. The muster room at the Richmond CIB is a small sombre cream garret w ith a table in the middle o f it, and around the walls, a rogue's gallery o f every known juvenile offender in the city. N o Rich­ mond kid could walk in there without recognising at least half a dozen friends or acquaintances.

Underworld fences outlet through the Richmond pubs; if you stand still in the bar o f any pub long enough you are bound to be approached by some guy selling something pretty hot, pretty cheaply.

The Greek cafes with their illicit gam­ bling, are havens for hot merchandise too.

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THE LIFESTYLE and prospects o f Rich­ m o n d ’s large migrant com m unity (Greeks, Italians, Yugoslav’s and Turks) are tinged with sadness and despair at the wastage o f human talents - a situation which has for so long been associated with the working class there. The migrant com m unity, although more prosperous, is in the same social position as was the working class during the 30s and 40s.

Consigned to the role o f fodder for the industrial system, the old values o f selfreliance are soon broken down and new ones o f acquisitiveness and materialism acquired. Somehow the culture o f the old country is lost under the deadening im­ pact o f the Richmond social environ­ ment. Italian migrants who once listened to opera or followed theatre, now sit hom e and watch Homicide and collect all the little trinkets that mark o ff a migrant household.

The extended family relations o f many migrants are broken down as upwardly socially mobile branches o f the family move out into the outer suburbs and, finally, the kids react against the old authoritarian ways and values and hang out in the Richmond cafes and gangland scenes. One of the m ost depressing sights can be to see shuffling, old migrant women, attired for the market place at Palermo, totally lost in the cacophony and swirl o f Bridge road at peak hour.

It's a still, h o t sum m er’s evening; The heat waves rise from the pavem ent, Mixing the fumes o f the passing traffic With the lingering smells o f the evening meals

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To produce a stifling aroma That will hang over the com mission flats Till the early morning cool Brings a new day, like a clean pair o f underwear.

These are the words of methodist minister Phillip Andrews, who lives and works among the people o f the Elizabeth street housing commission area. His vision of the future is a realisation by housing commission dwellers that an all mod cons house in Mulgrave is not worth striving after, that they must relate to their social problems o f the present. His anxiety about the future o f Richmond is as real as his affirmation o f low-rent housing in commission towers.

noted the dramatic changes over those 15 years, and then suggested some specific “renewal” needs. He made some token statements about “ careful preservation”, but let his premises slip with this sen­ tence : “Renewal that does not improve the street layout and leaves Richmond with narrow streets and lanes, will be inade­ quate for today’s traffic needs.” The

PART o f the exposure to middle class ways of thinking Richmond has experi­ enced in the m ost recent years has been the scrutiny o f academia. Richmond was previously only the study o f intellectual deviants like historians and political scientists, but now it is fair game for the vanguard o f the New Academia - sociolo­ gists, tow n planners, educationists etc.

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question is: w hose traffic needs? The people o f working class Richmond, or the K ew -C am berw ell motorists?

And in 1971 James Holdsworth and P. Harris embarked on a thesis entitled Forced relocation from R ichm ond: the effects on ex-residents. Their aim was to analyse the results o f the com pulsory eviction o f 4 5 0 people from North Rich­ mond to make way for housing com m is­ sion blocks. With typical academic short­ sightedness, these tow n planners did not widen their angle o f vision: "The fact that it was the housing com m ission that forced the move is unim portant.”

Their results are easily quantifiable “facts” . For example, 3 7 percent o f the evictees remained in Richm ond, the others being scattered far and wide through the outer suburbs. But the sub­ jective significance o f that “fact” is surely that on ly about one-third o f the evictees were able to remain in the region. No d o u b t th ey were com peting w ith trendies for alternative housing in Richm ond.

Academic toil will not have much impact on the future o f Richmond if these attitudes prevail.

More important in terms o f the shift­ ing interplay o f social forces has been the influx o f flat-dwelling cdtyworkers, first

in West Richmond and now in the south and centre as well. Property developers turned a fast buck b y erecting three-andfour-storey apartments in the midst of long-established residential areas. This in­ flux predated the “trendy” invasion — long before people thought o f renovating terrace houses and workers’ cottages — and led to a highly transient form o f living.

True, some flat-dwellers take their residence in the area seriously. But the majority are interested only in short-term low-rental housing and quick access to the city.

The irony o f it all is that for young marrieds to move into Richmond — even if only temporarily — was unthinkable a few years ago. North Balwyn matrons were horrified at the thought o f their dear young daughters living in . . . R ich ­ mond! But the social stigma was lost when people realised the “practical” as­ pect o f inner-suburban living.

The saddest thing that could happen to Richmond would be to see it gobbled up b y the creeping culture o f inner suburban “trend” living. Whether it will develop a new hetrogeneous culture made up o f the old Irish working class, the migrants and the middle class will depend on whether the residents and the public authorities do something about preserving what is there.

It’s a beautiful suburb and it’s worth sa\ ing from the tentacles o f the great whit beast.

T h e h o u s e a t th e p re v io u s e ls e w h e re , e sp e c ia lly v ic to r ia c a n re ly o n t h e s tu r d y S y d n e y S c h o o lk id s a d d re s s h a s b e e n d e m o lis h e d , m u c h t o s ta tio n a ry -n e s s o f M e lb o u rn e h e a d m a s te r R o b K in g , still o u r s u rp ris e , so c o n tr i b u t o r s re sid in g a t “ L o d g e R a lp h ’ , h o ld y o u r fire u n til w e D a v id r o a d , L ily d a le , lo c a te a p e r m a n e n t p o s t fo r ro v in g S y d n e y S c h o o lk id s e d ito r . J o h n G e a k e . P e o p le

HIS week’s kids page has a story by Shane Smith, which he has titled Betrayal.

Shane comes from Sunshine, a suburb to the west of Melbourne.

The entire western side of our city is in many respects one enorm ous sprawling ghetto.

Respectable easterners will not venture into the west unless they happen to be going to Adelaide, in which case they stick to the road they are on, keeping their eyes to the front.

Shane writes about his own area: . . you are in a society where families are always struggling to keep a neat home, and trying to keep a decent standard o f living. A lot of families are constantly having arguments over money matters.

“You get a lot o f people who can’t handle these social pressures and turn to alcohol. Then the arguments becom e worse and more constant, and the money problem becom es worse, as it is being wasted on alcohol. Pretty soon you find that a man is beating his wife and kids every night he’s drunk, and smashing furniture.

“After about 10 years o f these aggressive incidents, a young child o f about six, who is now 16, is pretty used to these things, and he or she finds something to break, or som eone to hit. This takes some pressure o ff their minds, and in some stupid way it also eases their minds to see someone in pain, to let other people know what pain is, as they feel that they are the only people in the world w ho have had these kinds o f pressures all their life.”

- ROB KING

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BETRAYAL “Oh, I forgot to tell you. I’m going on a trip to Gippsland with the school in a couple of w eeks,” exclaimed Chris.

“Who with? All the form four boys I suppose. How long’s it for any way?”

“Five days,” Chris replied very bluntly.

"Hope you dont figure on drinking, especially when them sucks are around," Greg snapped back.

“What, dont you trust me?” “ Yeah, but not when you're drunk and those sex hungry dogs are around. They’ll jump on you N AUSTRIA the chamber o f workers gives a free sci­ ence fiction novel to all young unionists; in Russia, sf is featured in everyday magazines and news­ papers, with outspoken sf novels escaping censorship to win a large circulation; Rumania sees a stag­ gering boom in the popularity and “respectability” o f sf; and in New York one o f the letters o f Edgar Allan Poe (who died impoverish­ ed) sells for $5200. Get the mes­ sage? Sf is where it’s at, and Swedish expert Sam J. Lundwall tries to define what it’s all about.

He doesnt succeed - and some o f his thinking is downright sloppy — but he provides a read­ able and informative introduction to the subject for the newcomer to sf, and plenty o f thoughtprovoking material for the afi­ cionado.

Rightly rejecting attempts to drag in Plato, Lucian and co as the fathers o f sf, Lundwall sees Wells

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the first chance they get. I dont want to hear another thing about it. You know what will happen if I find out that you got drunk. All right?”

The weeks went by, and it was the day before Chris was to go away. Chris and Greg met after school. After a while. “I’ve got to go now, I’ll ring you as soon as I get back.”

“Okay, just remember, no drinking.”

Chris and Greg went their separate ways. Chris w ith her mind on having a good time, and Greg wondering if she would let him down.

About two days went by, and Greg was bored, so he went to see his mates down at the billiard room. A bout three hours later Greg was driven home by the cops. They told his mother how he and his mate stole tw o bikes.

Chris wasnt there, so he asked if Chris had been over. “ N o,” replied T ony, “ she said she would be late.”

After about 10 minutes Chris walked up to Greg and put her arms around him. He looked into space, pushing his top lip up with his tongue. He looked down at Chris’s hands and then said, “ Come on.”

They walked down the street a little until they came to a lane, which they turned down. Then they just stood inside, where they were out of sight. “ I suppose y o u ’ve heard?"

Chris said nervously. “ Heard what?" asked Greg falsely in an innocent tone.

“A bout me on the trip,” re­ plied Chris with tears in her eyes.

Greg could see she was going to throw a turn, so he asked her, “Who were the kids?”

“Just forget about it. It w o n ’t happen again, I promise. Please Greg, dont beat them up,” Chris pleaded.

“Bullshit! I told you what would happen. Them bastards arent getting away with this."

Chris wrapped her arms around Greg and started crying, but he pushed her away and walked to the end o f the lane. He called out to his mates standing on the cor­ ner. They started walking to school.

When they arrived at school, two of Greg’s mates pulled out iron bars - about eight inches long - and the others put knuckle dusters on. They walked behind the assembly hall, where the kids that got Chris usually hung out.

“Umm, it was just that Chris After the usual lecture, she Greg saw them, and said, “Wait decided to send him to his sister’s got a bit drunk on the week here until it starts.” nights, and a couple of the kids place for a couple o f days.

When he got near the group, got her.” Greg just stood there Greg stayed there for three one of them w ho was lying down days, and was ready to go home as stunned. He gained his senses and got to his knees. Greg just kept on got the full story. After that he it was the today that Chris was walking. He didnt say a word until didnt feel like going to the billiard due back. Anyway, Chris ended he got within kicking distance, room, so he w ent home. up staying the weekend. As soon then he just let go with his foot.

The next day was monday, so as he got home, he had his dinner He hit the kid on his right side, in Greg w ent to school. The morning and w ent straight down to the the throat, and it was on. Greg billiard room While he was dragged as he wanted to see Chris and his mates beat the group o f and find out if she would tell him. walking there, he saw a kid he Finally the lunch bell rang. Greg kids something shocking. knew w ho had gone on the trip.

The next day, Greg w ent down left to go to the shops where he “ How ya going Greg?”, the kid to the shop, and Chris was waiting usually met Chris. asked, as if he was scared. for him. They went down the lane As he was walking through the “ What’s wrong?” , Greg asked and Chris said, “ I’m sorry Greg, I park, one o f Chris’s girlfriends call­ w ith great interest. really am .”

“Oh, ah, nothing Greg. Just ed out to him. When she caught “ Yeah, sure,” answered Greg. thought you knew and you was up to him, she realised she didnt “Greg, there’s one thing. Prom­ gonna get me to o ,” explained the have to ask him if he knew about ise me you w o n ’t touch them kids Chris.

She told him how Chris had boy. Greg couldnt remember his rung her up and told her the story again,” pleaded Chris. name.

"Hatred lit up in Greg’s eyes.

“Knew what? What are you was a lot o f rot. Greg continued He casually looked up and said, talking about?” Greg knew what on and walked to the corner shop, “ Go to hell, rag!” | j the kid was going to say.__________ where everyone met for lunch.

sci fi chauvanism ALL

S C IE N C E F IC T IO N : W H A T IT 'S A B O U T b y Sam J. L u n d w a ll. A ce B ooks. $ 1 .2 5 .

VAN IKIN and Verne as the founders o f the tradition, and Hugo Gemsback as its populariser. (Gem sback’s 1926 Amazing stories magazine gave the genre its name and made sf separ­ ate from mainstream literature.

Given this initial stimulus, the genre developed both to o fast and too slow. Too fast because it used a world o f superscience that didnt exist and for which conditions were not yet present (thus making it incomprehensible for m any p eo­ ple), and too slow because its authors were lacking in purely literary merits (giving the genre a reputation o f illiteracy).

Various outstanding works gave sf a push (especially the success of Karel Capek’s 1920

play RU R, which coined the word “robot” — though Capek’s robots w ere by today’s standards “androids”). But the real break­ through came with industrialisa­ tion, “when the universe suddenly threw its gates wide open and nothing was impossible any long­ er”.

Since that time sf has matured considerably, producing authors like Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, Zelazny and Silverberg. Ninety percent o f it is still crud, o f course — but then 90 percent o f every­ thing is crud. Lundwall attempts to isolate the top ten percent and tries to expound the rationale on which it is based.

He shows that there are many

differences between British and American sf, yet Isaac Asimov (an American) gets extensive treat­ ment whereas Arthur C. Clarke (British by birth, though really international) gets only passing mention.

Lundwall does better at isolat­ ing the themes which sf can and can’t handle. For instance, it falls down badly on the theme o f woman: Walpole called the suf­ fragettes “hyenas in petticoats” , Asimov defended the absence o f women in sf stories, and 99 per­ cent o f sf writers seem to have never heard o f womens lib. (A n o ta b le exception is John Wyndham’s excellent Consider her w ays.) Yet surveys have shown that the ideals implicit in sf are “humanitarian, progressive, and forward-looking”, whereas those in magazines such as Colliers and The Saturday evening p o st are “bourgeois and conservative to the point o f being reactionary”.

The book's most serious flaw is its attempt to im pose a “ration­ ale” upon sf. N obody has yet been able to do this, yet the genre cries out for some such guiding light (hence the revered position o f John W. Campbell). Lundwall counts as sf’s main virtues its “significance”, its constant striv­ ing to be entertaining, and its “ subversiveness” (defined as “pointing out that there will al­ ways be changes, something that no establishment wishes to admit” ).

Regrettably, Lundwall doesnt develop this notion; he mentions works which place a “subversive" emphasis upon change, but doesnt analyse them to show how this is handled or how it impacts upon the reader.

This is nowhere near the defini­ tive study o f sf - but it is a worthwhile and readable step in that direction. [ j

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WO MONTHS living in the stone age island village of Laulasi where nobody knows the people’s age, I turned on to a tim e­ less lifestyle. On full m oon nights, three in a row, villagers play com ­ munal games from sundown to dawn.

Behind the nearby tabu huts the skulls o f their ancestors, heap­ ed on the shark altars, glow in the pale light. These villagers worship sharks. They make sacrifices to them. Our expedition team filmed and taped the ceremonies as shark priests, praying to ancestor spirits, called the sharks in whom they dwell into the wall stones o f the island and fed them by hand.

Children swam in the water where the sharks spun and slashed at the sacrificial offerings. Four cen­ turies ago their ancestors built this island from coral rubble on the edge o f the barrier reef.

At Malaita in the Solomons group, w e filmed a TV docum en­ tary there, studied the social pat­ terns o f the shark cultists and then the time came to leave. On the cruise ship Himalaya, I decid­ ed to do a comparative study.

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F ro m S h a r k p o o ls To S n a k e p i t s WADE DOAKE is a N ew Zealander who last year made a documentary on Laulasi village in the Solom on islands where the people are shark worshippers, claiming their ancestors spirits reside in the sharks. The village is built upon an artificial island o f coral stones. After filming was finished he returned home on another artificial island, the good ship Himalaya. Here he found another quaint cult — the poker machine worshippers. (Wade is presently researching sex reversals in fishes.)

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AM looking from this huge and talking about their day in ship through the rain and Honiara, how much they spent wind across a wild sea at Malaita. and what clever bargains they It is 6.20 pip on my final monday. made with the natives. I have been I am on an artificial island but allotted a table to m yself by the what different people - ugh — wall, which suits me fine - I can these Australian tourists are so observe unnoticed. I have just had fat, so brassy, so crude and dull. some creme soup sort o f dish­ I’m in my own thoughts. I have water. I will then ask for chicken. seen the best way of living — It’s costing me $25 per day to live among the Laulasi people and on this artificial island . . . Drake now I just do my same thing, Restaurant, Table 47, first sitting same clothes, the lot.

— good black coffee, tender A strange wild night, the sky is chicken casserole, beans and roast black with racing clouds and the potatoes. French wine: Chateau wind is screaming past the ship.

N euf du Pape, 50 cents a glass. I How crazy, the first bad weather order one and once it com es I tell I’ve seen in the Solom ons since I the waiter I’ll pay for it tomorrow came here three months ago, and - against the rule, but what else it is on the day I leave. I feel as if can he do? I dont have any m oney the weather spirits are angry, I on me. have not made the right sacrifice.

Now I am sitting in a bar at the I must tell them to take it easy stem o f the ship beside tw o swim­ because I will return someday. ming pools. I have a 20 cent can As I walk along a long empty of beer. Back here the propellers side deck the sea is like an angry are making the ship tremble and snake pit, it hisses all around the throb. It gives the feeling I am ship. really moving homewards. A t the N ow I am going down many, next table an American blonde is many staircases to the deck where telling two Australian girls how my cabin is, on “E” deck. It has very important she is . . . a night­ four bunks in it but I share it only club singer and fashion designer. with m y thoughts.

She has a bad throat. That’s why Now I am in this huge restau­ she’s not singing on the ship. She rant; hundreds of overfed people likes working on TV - it doesnt clinking plates, knives and forks frighten her a scrap. She doesnt

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have to sing to make m oney. She is talking this bullshit about her­ self all the time and the other two plump, envious girls just say: “Oh, really”, “y e s” and giggle.

A guy at the other end o f the bar in a candy stripe shirt is eating his drunken girlfriend. Here I am my darlings in this huge steel machine; this late 20th century village o f shallow pleasure; fat, fat wom en pulling mechanically on the handles of the poker machines which line the bar walls, each flaunting its jackpot at them and tempting them to waddle up to the barman for another dollar’s worth o f ten cent pieces to stuff between its metal lips.

Clang they pull the penis lever down, the machine whirrs a teas­ ing song but nothing com es. Just once in a blue m oon the machine ejaculates its sperm into a m at­ ron's lusting hands.

What is m y Laulasi friend d o ­ ing n o w to en joy life? Talking w ith friends b y the firelight at the sea’s edge as a huge moon w obbles up from the Malaitan hills and beam s a dancing gold p ath w ay over the lagoon from the dark coast to the m oon glow island. He is eating his mangrove seed Koa, with fish and coconut cream, and baked taro. Soon he will go and

A y o u n g Laulasi villager

p la y m oon games with the village children . . . Ram o, the richest man I've ever m et, master o f his w hole world - an etern ity away from the lifestyle o f these fat, white, wrinkled westerners.

The barman sits down and chats up three girls. He tells them how he loves wine best o f all. At hom e he has a roof-high wine rack, drinks five bottles in a night, no trouble.

Promenade deck bar: bourbon on the rocks 25 cents. Age group 40 plus. More matrons pumping m oney into fruit machines. Com­ ing to the bar for piles o f ten cent pieces — “I only invest 50 cents,” says one fat old duck in white pants. They have nothing to do but be on holiday so they love to try to make m oney for doing nothing.

Laulasi wom en sit b y the fire­ side making shell m on ey to buy their son a bride.

Woman asks the barman, “Which island is better, Vila or Honiara?” He tells her and that’s that. Travel broadens the mind and he minds the broads. “A dollar’s worth o f tin sense please.”

She is fat and wearing a dress with bold circular hoops o f color that makes her immense arse/waist look like a Greek wine jar. Bored

barmen deftly dispensing depres­ s a n ts, dressed immaculately, scrubbed pink skin and ring fingered men o f the world. How these old birds love to banter suggestively with them — “Oh that Charlie, h e’s alw ays in trou­ b le.” I’ve never seen so many fat matrons. It seems that menopause and maxispread are the normal patterns in our society. Maybe the slim ones are too happy to bother travelling. But what a holiday they are having wanking those poker machine handles.

1973: this is our world — a frothy scum exuded from many cities, pleasure bent travel cruising the Pacific, believing the m yths they fabricated themselves, insur­ ed to the hilt they now venture out from their security bases to tour the Hollywood Pacific of TV and screen, snapping up souvenirs o f places they have spent 12 hours in, souvenirs made just for them.

A fortuitous click o f a fruit ma­ chine and the shrivelled organs of a with-it grandma in mod tights, feel a warm glow that long eluded them.

Music starts, the cue for gran­ nies and things to waddle to the big dance hall as a singer croons “All my life, my darling, I’ve hungered for your touch.” Old juices run with half recalled almosts. The tour ship throbs with the singer’s em otion, this ball­ room continues on towards the wreckers yards, running after a succession of nothing goals around the Pacific, around the world, to where it started from.

In the danceroom, the fashion centre o f the ship, I sit as sac­ charine music twitches tame bank clerks pelvises in front o f 30 year old staff nurse virgins. Opposite me there’s one, two, three, twelve grannies sitting, thick knees splay­ ed apart . . . front line troops in Sin City.

Say, I’ll get up and dance. Two girls have com e over and sit at my table. Bev and Gwen, nurses on holiday. Wait for something with a beat. Ram bling rose —an ode to the clinging female, thru it all she stuck with him, his ever loving mattress and yet he was a rotter.

Mid class values are reaffirmed . . .

Fat steward, no neck, with impeccable pump action forearm circuits the floor with a school marm dancing to the desweated, preshitted music. Come on gran­ nies, have a smoke o f dope. I get up and dance, get it on, twist and shake. Who’s for m oon games?

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“Lady singers” consciousness M A L E music lover was once heard to say proudly . . the only female in my record collection is Nina Sim one," as if the exclusion o f the rest somehow made it more musical. It's nice to know that Colin T alb o t doesnt feel th at w ay.

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In the last issue the "lad y sing­ ers" w e were left w ith all seem (w ith the exception o f Linda Ronstadt) to be wom en songwriters — an very broad genre to attem pt to analyse in one article. A nd the dismissal of artists o f the calibre o f D o ry Previn seems to suggest th a t it is to o broad, fo r even if she does not appeal, it is hard to find a resemblance to Streisand, and show songs?!! T h e article, though, was a personal, subjective one, expressing likes and dislikes, and as th a t it showed a refreshing awareness of many female musicians.

F R ID A Y february 8.

Margaret M acintyre: Hello, may I speak to Ron Wood please?

Ron Wood (pause): Ahh, hello.

MM: Hello, my name is Margaret and I was wondering . . .

RW: You woke me up.

M M : Oh, I'm sorry. In that case you w o n 't w ant to do an in te rvie w fo r The Living Daylights.

RW: Yes I w ill. Is that the one th a t is going to print my Top 10?

Could you ring back in a couple of hours to arrange it? (tw o hours later . . .)

MM : M ay I speak to Ron Wood please?

RW: Hello.

M M : Hello Ron, I'm ringing to arrange a tim e fo r the interview.

RW: U m , I th in k you have the wrong person. It's John here.

M M : O h, isnt th at Ron Wood's room?

RW: No. (Seconds later "J o h n " rang the switchboard to confess that yes indeed, he was in Ron Wood's room , b u t Ron Wood was not. An hour later . . .

M M : Hello, may I speak to Ron Wood please?

RW : Hello.

M M : Oh, is th at you John? It's Margaret M acintyre speaking.

RW: No, it's Clyde here.

MM: Look Clyde, do you know if Ron Wood still wants to be interviewed by The Living D ayligh ts?

RW: W ell, I th in k he thinks there w o n 't be enough tim e. Ron told me he'd like to do it though.

M M : W hat about tom orrow morning?

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The th e o r e tic a l courses available are: The E njoym ent of Music — F elix Werder; History o f the Developm ent o f Music and Musical Instruments — Harold M cD onald; Music T h eo ry — Felix Werder; Jazz Since 1945 — Stan van H o o ft; J a z z & Rock — David Hills.

On the practical side there are opportunities to learn the flu te , clarinet, piano, classical guitar, blues and ragtime guitar, mandolin, recorder, electronic music and Greek fo lk songs and dancing.

The fees fo r these classes range from $ 9 .0 0 to $ 2 4 per term , according to the number o f lessons given.

The Council of A d u lt Education would be able to help w ith any inquiries about these courses on 6 3 .4 2 3 1 . In Sydney The Workers Educational Assoc, of NSW offers similar theoretical courses. Ring 2 6 .2 7 8 1 . ___

TOP TEN Ron W ood, lead guitarist w ith the Faces.

1. H o n ky tonk w om an, The Rolling Stones.

2. The th rill is gone, B. B. King.

3. King bee, Slim Harpo.

4. / w ant to hold yo u r h an d , The Beatles.

5. I f loving you is wrong, / d o n t w ant to be right, Luther Ingram.

6. / can 't stand the rain, Ann Peebles.

7. Peace b y the peace, Bill Medley.

8. The ying tong song, The Goons.

9. Let's get i t on, Marvin Gaye.

10. George Jackson, Bob Dylan.

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M A R G A R E T M A C IN T Y R E .

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If any of you out there w ant this column to keep going, please keep sending in songs. To those who have w ritten and have not yet been answered, never fear. I am slowly ploughing my way through a rather small pile of correspondence and will get to you soon. — M .O 'R .

D O N T know whether to ex­ plain this song, apologise for it, or just hurl it savage­ ly at your heads. I dont know where it came from; I've been writing it on and o ff for about six months and I rather think that I was in the grip of another power. I dont think it's meant to be farcical, but how could it possibly be seri­ ous? Personally I am deeply touch­

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4. W ell I'v e no desire to risk m y life F o r fo rtu ne and fo r fame So i f w hat you say is true love Then I 'l l try an o ther game F or i f there's gold in banks me love There's m ore gold In the ground So I'm o f f to be a fossicker To Bendigo I'm bound.

6. So fa r in to the north me love It's tropical and w ild The natives there are troublesome They spear b oth horse and child The lo fty snow-capped m ountains A re m ore than man can climb So i f yo u m ust lay y o u r life dow n love L ay i t dow n alongside o f m ine

8. So now we live in co m fo rt In a house in M elbourne town He works a t putting houses up A n d pulling houses down He robs a few banks on the side A n d lives a q uiet life A n d he spends every night a t hom e A ll w ith his loving wife.

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John Prine: The Sensitive Hobo STEVEN COLEMAN SWEET REVENGE: John Prine (A tlan tic SD-7274).

RIS Kristofferson has done some pretty fair things sings pretty good, writes OK songs, acts, and married Rita Coolidge. The best thing h e’s done to date is getting John Prine a recording contract.

He picked up on Prine in a Chicago bar late one night, on the advice o f Steve Goodman, an un­ recognised veteran of three con­ temporary country albums. Prine played, Kris heard, Atlantic sign­ ed. Kinney laughs and belches with Prine all the way to the bank. Because Prine is big, and has to get bigger. With S w eet revenge, a previously unsure genius writes his Choral S ym ph on y and makes it like the Pastoral.

Our hero paid his dues and kept under control. Four years as a Chicago postman, a staunch coal mining childhood, and booze has created the wriest sensitivity a songwriter this age o f bullshit could ever want to disown. Prine springs surprises with the facility and frequency he downs bottles o f booze. In Please d o n t bury m e: Give m y stom ach to Mil­ w aukee/ If th ey run out o f beer/ Put m y socks in a cedar b o x / Just get 'em out o f here/ Venus de Milo can have m y arms/ Look out! I ’ve got yo u r nose/ Sell m y heart to the junkm an/ And give m y love to Rose. Ending with Send m y m outh w ay dow n south/ A nd kiss m y ass goodbye, Prine’s self-dissection ends with his dream.

H is astounding originality comes easy. Title track begins: I g o t kicked o ff o f N oah’s ark/ I turn m y cheek to unkind remarks/ There was tw o o f everything/ But one o f me. After a short tw o year career in showbiz, the man knows what h e’s about. N o one’s gonna push this kid around (but he aint gonna kick no one behind his back either).

Christmas in prison finds a man w ithout his woman. On reflec­ tion: She reminds me o f a chess game/ With som eone I admire/ Or a picnic in the rain/ A fter a prairie fire/ Her heart is as big/ As this whole goddam jail/ A nd she's sw eeter than saccharine/ A t a drugstore sale. Those last two lines win this century’s award of Perceptive Simile (Urban).

Three songs out of 12, and y o u ’ve got your m oney’s worth on the first line. N o one is as succinct, so sharp, and just plain breathtaking. Blue umbrella, to a lady w ho left, the m ost gentle cut of the album: Day tim e/ Makes me w onder w h y you left m e/

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Night tim e/ Makes m e w onder what I said/ N ex t tim e/ Are the words I ’d like to plan o n / But, last tim e/ Was the o n ly thing y o u said.

Everyone has been through it, everyone has thought it; Prine says it, with no embarrassment and just enough simplicity.

Dear A b b e y is Prine alone, live, stoned/boozed: Dear A b b ey, dear A b b ey . ' . . / If it w erent so expen ­ sive/ I ’d wish I were dea d / Signed Unhappy and so on. Side one finishes with O ften is a w ord I seldom use - and the sparkle from the first bars still jump from the speakers so that it’s a drag to have to get up to turn the disc over.

O nom atopoeia opens up side two, a bouncy tale o f young performers with grandiose ideals.

Prine the younger m eets Prine the elder next w ith Grandpa was a carpenter, no particular religious intentions though: Grandpa was a carpenter/ He built houses, stores and banks/ Chain sm oked Camel cigarettes/ And ham m ered nails in planks/ He was level on the level/ And shaved even every d o o r/ And voted fo r Eisenhower/ 'Cause Lincoln won the war. Everybody’s grandpa, right?

The mirror is still on all our lives with The accident (Things could be worse), every drivers occupational hazard. It was a four w ay sto p dilem m a/ We all arrived the same tim e/ I yield ed to the m an/ To the right o f m e t A n d he yielded it right back to m in e/ Well, the yield w ent around/ And around and around/ Till Pamela finally tried/ Just then the m an/ In the lite blue sedan/ Hit Pam­ ela's passenger side/ T hey d o n t know how lu ck y th ey are/ They could have run in to that tree/ G ot struck b y a b o lt o f lightning/ And raped b y a m inority.

Mexican hom e is son to mother from afar, with the death o f fath­ er. A quiet place, one w e all visit: The air’s as still/ A s a th ro ttle on a funeral train. Prine misses the peace, and misses his lady o f the next song, A good time. This is the only one on S w eet revenge to sound like it could have been on the previous records. The tough­ ness o f the other songs is lacking, the pain is yet to be felt. Written in '71 (the rest in ’73 except for Blue Umbrella, also ’7 1), the can­ dle is yet to flare, and the grit of a seedy, tenuous profession is yet to start grinding.

This is probably a perfect rec­ ord, capped off with the only song on the album not written byPrine — Merle Travis’ Nine pound hammer, a tribute to a great artist, payment of even more dues, and

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memories o f Kentucky coal; You can make m y to m b sto n e/ O ut o f num ber nine coal.

The first album cover showed Prine sitting on bales o f hay, smiling. The second, a thoughtful man at the m icrophone with the Martin. Here w e find a derisive denimed punk lounging in a con ­ vertible, Camel in m outh, shades on unshaven face. Three gems o f records, a portrait of the artist as a young (26) folk hero. Dope sm okin’, hard drinkin’, poet o f th e disinterested intellectual hobos. The work of a man who wants nothing more than the next meal, w h o’s not going to change the world with cosm ic untruths.

John Prine will make you sit up, check to make sure that you heard right, and, m ost o f all, lacerate your guts with good old downhome sincerity. He’s going to be around for years, but pick up on him now. Drink A tlantic’s health for making him available.

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Status Quo: Britain’s Best RICHMOND STURDY HELLO: S tatus Quo (V ertigo 6360098).

T CONCERTS Australian audiences do seem to dem ­ onstrate the hits-only-please men­ tality, which is supported by the radio stations and the promoters w ho base their advertising on an old biggie, so it is usual for the band to follow suit or they die the death. Yet when Status Quo were here last year, the first number they did was R oll over lay down and their fans leapt to their feet, dancing and raving as if they had known it for years. M onths later I was still humming the “ chunkachunka” rhythm which starts it off, so it was with trepidation that I played this album, containing as it does a great amount of material used during the show.

Within a few bars I was rivetted. Man’s best pal, the great global flashback arrives: my room is turned into the West Melbourne Boxing Stadium/Festival Hall and the band rocks on. Let me say that this is the best rock album I have heard from Britain since the Grease Band (sorry Suzie Q).

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going with R oll over lay down, a dirty little rocker which sets the beat and standard for this outing.

Even though the backing guitar work during a few quiet bars is a bit messy, it doesnt matter. In fact it’s good to know that some musicians still believe that the feel o f a track is important, rather than go over a riff hour after hour or call in a session man to do it for them.

Claudie is a softer number, written by Rossi and Young, with a strong m elodic guitar line leading to some good harmony work - a very tasty song. At the end o f Reason fo r living you can visualise Quo’s unmistakable stage act: swooping and striding about, then sweeping the stage with their hair. Quo drop into top gear for Blue eyed lady, the last track on side one. Guitars start cooking then Allan Brown joins in, thumping all god out of the piano chased by Rossi and Parfitt on guitars.

It’s one of those descending lines which tend to make you feel that you are falling through the floor with the greatest o f ease, and it is followed

by a great solo from Rossi.

Turn Hello over and it roars off into Caroline which was the single — a fantastic rocker, nothing too musically difficult but w ell played exactly the way Deluxe rock should be. Unfortunately radio programmers dont agree, since although it made the Top 10 in the UK, it didnt gain any exposure here. I wonder who they offended in the echelons o f power who decide what rock hits the airwaves.

Other tracks include S ofter ride, which isnt so bloody soft, and F orty five hundred times. On occasions Rossi and Parfitt reflect their love for other good guitarists.

Although bits of Elmore James and Roy Buchanan drift in, they only use these ideas as a starting point to develop their own solos. It’s what you d o with the “lift” that matters.

Altogether it’s a great album, very honest to their live performances and what is more the excitement wasnt over dubbed or mixed out o f existence. So if you missed their concert, dont miss Hello.

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Amosian dogma WILL som eone shut Leonard Am os up? He is continually turning Marx on his head then kicking him in the arse.

I fear th a t all your readers w ho buy Daylights for the p re tty pictures will believe th a t L eonard is the exponent of m arxism in this country — and cheer­ fully believe Harry G um boot instead.

L eonard reaches the ultim ate in idiocy (TLD 2/6) w hen he w rites: “ F or m arxists the revolutionary masses are prim arily a m eans to an end, and that end is the scientific validation or o th er­ wise o f m arxism .”

The thousands w ho died in Chile, the m illion dead in Vietnam , the african guerrillas, the French w orkers and students in m ay 1968 only have im­ portance for L eonard because they prove or disprove “ m arxism ” ! W hat pseudo-intellectualising dilettante bull­ shit!

O n the contrary, m arxism is a m eans to the end of total hum an liberation for the masses, and n o t some Am osian dogm a for his crappy wordgames in y o u r letter columns.

The Russians (who “ correctly fo rm ulate” m arxism according to Leonard) can have him.

D ENIS F R E N E Y, S ydney, NSW

Dry up GRAEME DU NSTAN’S article on the floods (T L D 2/2 ) shows lack o f under­ standing o f c o untry life and lack of em pathy w ith co u n try people. When o n e ’s environm ent is so upset th a t ordinary life becom es im possible, peo­ ple take m any w ays to cope w ith the traum a. W atching th ird rate movies is one, getting stoned and contem plating the cosm ic im plications is another.

Particularly grating is th e note on the previous page th a t farm ers were charging $15 to tow cars o u t of bogs.

T h a t’s small com pensation for stopping w hatever the farm er is doing, risking tractor and injury pulling some d ty tourist o u t of roads officially closed.

BOB, Sydney, N SW

Over here TASMANIANS are proud of their h efty stock and one type o f stock w hich grow s very well dow n here are PIGS — w e have some cham pion heavies male and fem ale — AND they do tricks.

T he latest is busting mainlanders and unsuspecting local heads for im ­ porting grass plus possession etc — so if you come here and are caught b y our tricky pigs DONT say you brought them from the m ainland or y o u ’ll be riding to Risdon in no time.

Leonard is up shit creek ATTEM PTING to read L eonard A m os’s little exposition last w eek (TLD 2/6), I tried th e approach of looking a t the orientations in his lan­ guage, and came to the conclusion that, as a w ell know n sem anticist once said in a d ifferent context, it “ exhibits grave, even pathological intentional o rientations” . In o ther words, it doesnt correspond even vaguely w ith w hat one m ight call “re a lity ”.

L eonard claims th a t “ m arxism ” is a “tru ly scientific o u tlo o k ” . I w onder w hy. He doesnt seem to realise that “ scientific tr u th ” (does Leonard know th at atom ic physics relies on STA­ TISTICAL laws?) will n o t be found in w hat he calls “ m arxist” writings. How on earth can abstract political ravings w ith n o regard for w ork done in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, com m unications theory, even physics, be called “ scientific” ?

And to m y m ind ANY o u tlo o k w hich is willing to call itself an ism, a set ideology, is grossly distorting itself.

To q uote A. N. W hitehead, (a highly accom plished m athem atician and pre­ sum ably possessing a “tru ly scientific o u tlo o k ” ): “T he n otion of the com plete selfsufficiency of any item o f finite know l­ edge is the fundam ental error of dogm atism . Every such item derives its tru th , and its very meaning, from its unanalysed relevance to the back­ ground w hich is the unbounded uni­ verse. N ot even the sim plest n otion of arithm etic escapes this inescapable con­ dition for existence. Every scrap o f our knowledge derives its meaning from the fact th a t w e are factors in the universe, and are dependent on the universe fo r every detail of our exist­ ence . . . W herever there is a sense of self-sufficient com pletion, there is the germ of vicious dogm atism . There is no e n tity w hich enjoys an isolated selfsufficiency of existence. In other w ords, finitude is n o t self-supporting.”

R elating this to the good Leonard, it m eans th at his notion of the selfsufficiency and com pleteness of m arx­ ism sim ply doesnt m ake sense. A nd it is th e fundam ental error of all dog­ m atists — be th ey m arxists, fascists, capitalists, socialists, etc. ad nauseam.

O n an intellectual level, w ith regard for the factors w hich led Leonard to think the way he does — probably a bum school teacher or the wrong books at th e wrong tim e — one comes to the conclusion th a t Mr Am os is insane, living in a dream w orld of m arxism . O n a purely gut-reaction lev­ el, L eonard is up shit creek.

R O B E R T van KR1EKEN

ANON, Tasmania

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Indeedy, indeedy WHAT w ith tum ultuous rain and p lentiful w arm sunshine those little b a ld - h e a d e d -under- turd-living-fellows will be sprouting up all over soon; and along w ith them will com e their stoney cousins, THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS. Being a simple soul, all the in tri­ cacies o f know ing w hich m ushie will be the one is beyond m y know ledge. And as I havent found m uch info m yself I presume it is in m uch scarcity. So, w ouldnt it be w onderful if some TLD reader-cum -expert b o tan ist could do a huge centrespread article o n location, types and ID o f th e fu nny fungi.

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Sour grapes HOW COME Mike Elfin e f O m nibus and Jo h n Geake o f K id’s Creative Leisure have free access to the colum ns o f Daylights? O m nibus was never a n y ­ thing m ore th an an “ A rts F a c to ry ” rock scene pulling on the tam pon strings on Nim bin. It was PR w ith o u t grass ro o ts co-operation w ith creative groups — poets, film m akers and actors were given no real chance to use the place. Copy sent b y o th er m uch m ore w orthw hile groups is n o t published (a piece ab o u t a p o e try group w as cut dow n and stuck in to the letters col­ umns).

The living daylights cannot expect to be regarded as anything m ore than an elitist plaything if it continues to ignore genuine efforts of people to create their ow n alternative media.

R IC H A R D C O A D Y, Merge, S y d n ey , N SW

Boxing again LARRY DRAKE (TLD 2/6) calls m e a perpetual loser, b u t adds th a t he holds me in high regard as a person. T hen he states th a t w hen it comes to boxing I am the king of th e crapm erchants.

A loser I certainly have been m ost of m y life — certainly from the day I first stepped off the straight and nar­ row as a grubby faced kid of 11 and hit the reform atory, and right on through

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some brutal years inside prisons in New Zealand. But a winner, and a big one, I becam e w hen I m arried and started to settle dow n 24 years ago. T he same wife and four great kids stand as proof of th a t victory, Larry.

So far as being a crapm erchant of boxing is concerned I plead guilty. I have had an off and on love affair w ith the game since the tim e I first had gloves laced on m y wrists and set out, hopefully, to becom e a professional cham pion. T hirty seven am ateur fights later I got o u t of the blood and guts “ sp o rt” w ith sufficient wins up to satisfy m y ego — and an outsize head­ ache th a t w arned m e I’d end up like some of m y punchdrunk professional m ates if I d id n t quit.

Years later I started w riting ab o u t boxing and boxers. O ff and on I’ve been doing it for 27 years. Some editors have publicly referred to m e as an e x p ert on boxing.

Larry Drake m akes it clear I defend­ ed boxing w hen I should have called for its outlaw ing as a sport. He has a lo t o f inform ed opinion to back up his arg u m en t B ut I still believe th a t p ro p ­ erly controlled boxing can continue as a spectator sport.

A ustralia has the chance to lead the w orld in boxing control. T hat was w hy I w rote m y TLD story — to urge tourism and recreation m inister, Frank Stewart, to ensure th a t a com m issioner strong enough to w ithstand the pres­ sures of high finance and gangster elem ents, and to establish m edical reg­ ulations th a t will take o u t o f the blood and guts game all and every fighter, am ateur as well as professional, w ho suffers m ore than one k n o c k o u t in the one year, and to prevent by exam ina­ tio n any b o y fighting w ho can’t pass a certificate-issuing panel of m en capable of judging his degree of defence ability as well as any physical weaknesses.

S h o rt of A ustralia grabbing the chance to lead the w orld in boxing control I w ould join those calling for the banning of the toughest o f all com petitive sports.

If this is crap I plead guilty again.

But I hope it isnt, and th a t the long list of m entally com petent and successful m en w ho have left the fight game

AS THE w eeks pass we find from the pages of your publication and others how the individual is being oppressed b y th e (shudder) “ system ” . L ook at th e injustices th a t occur even in this fair land of ours: pre-signed search w arrants; th e b ru tal treatm en t of “so­ c iety ’s enem ies” in our state prisons; th e lack o f trea tm e n t for aboriginals; foreign ow nership o f our resources; foreign m anipulation of us, as testified to b y Ian Sykes in a recent Daylights-, the w ay o u r co u n try is being screwed in the nam e of progress and the dollar even though th e rest of the world has given us a perfect exam ple o f w h at not to d o ; the noble tradition of “ poofter bashing” ; grass is illegal while aspirin valium and even Coca-Cola are freely available.

OK. T h a t’s w hat w e ’re up against.

What d o we get other th an funny looks

and b rick m arks on our foreheads. N ot m uch brethren. M ost o f us have seen th e system ’s defence m echanism s at w ork — m edia, m oney, muscle. Moral: Fighting the system is hard yakka, mate.

Therefore, to b e at th e system one requires nothing sh o rt o f a revolution.

In the interview w ith Sartre (TLD 2/5) he eloquently expresses a valid criti­ cism o f th e electoral system (th at w ord again) and a need for revolution. But, (ho hum ) in th e same feature Sartre claims th a t th e only w ay to deal w ith “ those w ho oppose th e re volution” is to deprive them o f their lives and one can do nought b u t agree w ith the interviewer w hen he suggests th at this w ould herald th e disintegration of the revolution from w ithin.

I will go one step fu rth er and ask w hat type o f order can be established after a revolution. The revolution oc­ curs against an oppressive system.

However th e revolutionaries m ust be equally oppressive in nature in order to revolt. T h e y are enforcing their will on the advocates of th e old order. Result: an oppressive system .

L ooking a t past revolutions I find little to recom m end them . Granted, it. has m eant a b e tte r life m aterially for those involved — usually a starving peasant population (hardly Australia or even S artre’s France in 1974), b u t there are b e tte r things to do w ith o n e ’s lunch hour than spend it reading the thoughts o f chairm an Mao ( ’cause ya hafta). F urtherm ore, there is the blood-gore-death aspect to be consider­ ed in any revolution. N ot m uch good for we of the w eak stom achs.

So:- nil violent revolutions. N ext attem pt is to convert the system (if you can’t b e at ’em, jo in ’em, th e n fuck it up). So here you are Daylights — th e voice in th e w ilderness o nly heard b y those w ho already know your message.

Are w e going to change the system before it engulfs all? Is th e average pie-eating troglodyte going to be m ade aware of w hat is happening and even then m otivated to act accordingly?

(Shit! I dunno. Ask me an easy one.)

Will he stop throw ing his beer cans on the beach? I th in k not. He gets w hat he w ants from the system now. F ood, shelter, transport and even some lux­ uries are w ithin reach of m ost (white) people.

“Alright smart-arse, w o t’s the a n ­ swer?” you ask. T here’s none. O ur lo t is to be ever-vigilant and ever-ready to expose the bad old system (Sounds like the end of a Roger Ram jet cartoon).

T. T. BUDGEWOI, NSW

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A letter from Sydney WILL TETLEY The pace is fast. I walk along AM sitting at the bar o f an eating house in a Sydney the streets keeping up with the rush. Suddenly I stop . . . suburb drinking the nearest thing “What on earth am I doing?

I can get to a wholesom e drink — Where am I going at this insane “ pure” orange juice.

The manageress is a friend speed? I’m alm ost running.”

People, unaware that I have from Nimbin. I have taken refuge here for a while to escape the slowed my gait, collide into me whirlpool of the city and wallow and almost trample me underfoot. in memories o f Nimbin as I pass Left, right, left, right, they march on munching their sandwich on news o f home.

Peta is very busy though and so lunches. They have no time to sit I take in my surroundings. I real­ down and eat them.

I walk on, slowly now, day ise I havent quite escaped the whirlpool. It is still there swirling dreaming, singing, B u tterfly in the round my feet. A waitress scurries sun/ Making love to everyone. I here and there as a boisterous get strange looks from all around. “gentleman" shouts complaints; I smile. In return I get puzzled behind me a little fat man stuffs frowns and scowls.

I arrive at a crossroad. A red his face, leans back in his chair, his belly sticking out. He belches eyed monster flashes DONT politely into his handkerchief. A WALK. I obey. I wait. There are small group by the window busily 100 people waiting with me like discuss their next Kung Fu movie race horses at the starting gate. I look around at the faces. I dont script.

I glance at the menu and know one o f them. The city is so amidst chicken liver pate, rump anonymous. My mind flashes back steak, and cordon bleu veal I am to Nimbin where people smile and pleased to see such delicacies as welcom e newcomers with open lettuce soup, fresh fruit salad, halva with nuts (although halva with nuts is “off" ) and rye bread.

I review my thoughts of the city. They are not new thoughts, only old ones long hidden under the tranquility and peace of the Nimbin valley, yet revived again by the pace o f the city.

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J T W O M A N No 9 is th e latest publication fro m the London based alternative inform a­ tio n service B IT . T h e name was changed fro m Bitman as a result o f a long overdue takeover by w om en . . . it's been controlled b y men since th e show started (1969, I th in k ). B IT 's in fo flo w is quite considerable these days as more and more groups fro m around the w orld hop under th e "A lte rn a ­ tives" um brella and as B IT opens up its notion o f w h a t is "alterna­ tiv e " and w hat is not. I suggest a sub to Bitwoman if you are inter­ ested in w hat's happening to th e London underground (ie those areas th a t have not y e t been cash­ ed in), m ovem ent groups around th e w o rld , anti-psychiatry, free schools, radical social w ork and especially if you th in k you would enjoy meandering th ru 60 pages of roneoed, raving foolscaps. B IT has always been loosely organised (read "slack") so there is no w ay of telling when th e next issue w ill come o u t. S tart yo u r sub o ff w ith No 9. Send $6 fo r fo u r airmailed issues to : B IT , 146 G reat Western road, London W 1 1 , U K .

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arms and everyone is your friend.

The monster flashes WALK. The crowd surges forward. I am swept along by the stream, strug­ gling hard to avoid being dragged in com pletely to drown in the speeding world o f concrete, pollu­ tion, pre-packed food, instant c o f­ fee and sliced, white, bread.

Peta wakes me from my day­ dream/nightmare. It is time to go. We join the Grand Prix o f carbon m onoxide coughing cars and head for home.

Her home is one o f Nimbinites and other counter culturalists try­ ing their best to keep their heads above water by involving them ­ selves in such things as herbalism, health foods, acupuncture, mas­ sage, organic gardening and na­ tural crafts.

It is a Nimbin within the city. I feel relaxed and reassured that there are still beautiful people in the d ty and remember that while we, in Nimbin, aim to change the way o f the world by turning

people on to a natural life in the country, the city people can do much good by spreading the word and turning people on from the inside.

Then maybe the city w on't be so much a whirlpool as a peaceful island set in the midst o f a placid lake.

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O N E O F th e events in Sydney aimed a t highlighting international womens d ay w ill be a week o f film s b y and about w om en at the Film m akers Cinema. T h e y w ill be screened each night between march 5 and march 10 at 8 pm.

W omen only on march 9 . The most im portant film o f the week is Home, a film about children in institutions w hich ties in w ith the them e o f th e womens campaign to change th e child welfare system.

For more details ring 3 1 .3 2 3 7 ; ask fo r M artha Kay. *

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It was published in january '7 3 and cost $ 2 .5 0 — a reprint is being planned.

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T H E federal government is at present gathering inform ation on discrim ination in em ploym ent. It has set up committees in all states to receive and investigate racial, color and sexual discrimination bu t so far has no legal power to do anything about the findings.

Presumably they can apply pres­ sure on those responsible and the findings w ill help fo rm the basis fo r fu tu re legislation. Complaints can be lodged in person, by 'phone or in w riting. If you have faith in the machines o f govern­ ment, here is where to lodge your

complaints: V IC T O R IA : Leonie Green, PO box 5327B B , M elbourne (phone 65 2 .7 2 2 3 ).

Q U E E N S L A N D : John H am ilto n , PO box 2 4 6 , Brisbane (2 9 .2 9 9 8 ).

S O U T H A U S T R A L IA : K eith Bel­ ton, GPO box 5 4 1 , Adelaide (5 1 .0 4 4 1 ).

W E S T E R N A U S T R A L IA : G ra­ ham W alker, GPO box K 8 4 6 , Perth (2 3 .0 3 9 1 ).

T A S M A N IA : Helen Prendergast, PO box 5 8 5 F , H obart (3 4 .3 7 2 1 ).

NEW S O U T H W A L E S : Patricia Campbell, Australian Governm ent Centre, C hifley Square, Sydney, NSW 2 0 0 0 (2 5 9 .3 4 5 9 ). *

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T V H A N D B O O K is designed to help people in th eir dealings w ith the T V companies. It's fo r people w ho have been approached to appear on T V , o r give inform ation fo r a T V program; to help them decide w hether or n o t to co­ operate and if so, on w h a t terms.

It's sort of a "Teach yourself about T V " fo r political activists, social change agents and most particularly th e person being manipulated by th e video media.

U n fo rtun ately it is produced in London so it suffers fro m its parochial o u tlo ok. There is a great need fo r such a handbook to be w ritten fo r Australian conditions.

S till much o f the info contained in the book is useful to th e local media maniac; it has advice on handling th e interview situation, the current affairs program, docu­ mentaries and news stories - the games they play and the counter tactics. Tells how to enter into contracts and how to demand paym ent fo r appearances, how to obtain the T V unions help in beating the media at th eir own game etc, etc. Send $ 1 .5 0 to SC A N , c/o FC G , 1 Ivor street, London NW 1. *

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P L A N N IN G an overseas trip ; The travellers directory may be of some help if you are intending to do it on the cheap and wish to meet the local natives. T h e direc­ tory lists names, addresses, te le ­ phones, ages, interests and offers of hospitality fro m travellers around the w orld. It's made up o f people who pay $5 to be listed.

O nly those listed receive the direc­ to ry; Listees also receive periodic newsletters throughout the year.

It's not such a bad idea but for some reason I smell a quick deal of some sort. Check it out by sending fo r their propaganda PO box 15 47 , 53 5 Church street, Lancaster, PA, 1 7 6 0 4 USA .

A N D IF you th in k you're con­ fused! A t the AB C, things are so bad th a t people are running round stabbing each in the fro n t. Please send info sources th at others might find useful to PO box 8 Surry Hills 2 0 1 0 .

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P u b lis h e d b y R ic h a rd N e v ille at 1 7 4 Peel s tre e t, N o r t h M e lb o u rn e f o r In c o r p o r a te d N e w s a g e n t s C o m p a n y P ty ^ L td , th e t r ib u t o r , 11 3 R o s s ly n s tre e t, West M e lb o u rn e . T h e race is n o t to th e s w if t / b u t to th o s e w h o can s it s t i l l/ a n d le t th e w aves go o v e r tn e m .