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THE RETURN OF ARMED UME-inside the Symbionese Liberation Army SLADE SLATED

NE purpose o f this paper is to chronicle the quests for alternative living styles and the explorations o f inner space. D ay lig h ts is less interested in the details o f gross p ow er, wealth and fam e, w hich we leave to envious correspondents o f other m edia. Neither have we much time fo r ethereal Utopians, w ho cut com pletely adrift . . . Searchers for a freer alternative have an obligation to pit their dreams against the grim realities o f the everyday. Those w h o break loose should always rem em ber those w h o are held fast . . . those w h o are tod ay incarcerated in jails w hich were considered intolerable a hundred years ago . . . often fo r crimes w hich are victimless, p etty or the p rod ucts o f a passing passion. (T h e late Bathurst jail had been classified b y the National Trust . . . its antiquated m orality lives on in the sadistic museums o f state public service boa rd s.) TLD fully sup ports the grow ing con cern fo r prisoners rights . . . reports from NSW and Victoria (p .6 ). Sitting in our dingy little o ffic e . . . amidst the foetid air and gritty o f the dusty, dirty city , has perhaps made us overserious a b ou t pastoral delights, and it is with great am usem ent we publish Paul C radd ock ’s burlesqueing o f beautiful bum pkins (p . 20 ). D on t let satire stop the com m u n e reports com in g in, all you hippy hayseeders. Am erican Pie this issue. We lead with a story from Peter Stansill on the back ground, m otives and actions o f the sud denly n otoriou s Sym bionise Liberation Arm y. He writes from the desk o f the B erkeley barb, the only paper in the w orld to have com plete com m u n ication with the m ysterious kidnappers. O bviously, this coverage does n ot im ply endorsem ent o f the SL A m ethods. It is just over a year n ow since N ixon dragged back his legions from Vietnam and evidence o f the carnage is still surfac ing; like the report over the w eekend that US herbicides have decim ated the Montagnard tribe, killed innumerable children and w iped ou t one seventh o f the South Vietnam ese landscape. But what hasnt been assessed b y the scientists are the “ n on com b a t casualties” — the mental anguish o f Am erican and Australian troops w h o returned h om e w ith over pow ering feelings o f guilt, self-revulsion and loneliness (p . 7). Lyell Cullen is an Australian w ho recen tly was in St Paul, M innesota, at the trial o f tw o o f the W ounded Knee leaders (p. 8). If the defendants, Russell Means and Dennis Banks, get o f f the charges laid against them follow in g last year’s o ccu p a tion it cou ld op en the d o o r fo r a huge land rights battle in the courts w hich, if the Indians w in, cou ld mean they will be handed b a ck land bearing m ore than half o f the U S A ’s natural resources. Future issues o f TLD w ill k eep y ou posted. N ot all poetry sent here gets buried in the con fu sion . Som e o f it ends up in the erratic hands o f the News & Weather people, w h o this w eek present a page o f readers delectibles ( p . 11). (T h e editors o f N&W are to be fou n d lurking in balm y Balmain, NSW , at 41 W harf road.) NSW.)

Stop Press: In case you were wonder ing whether our academics care about the ecology, your questions have been answered. Early this month 430 personal invitations to a seminar on the “ ecologi cal crisis” were sent out to the teaching staff at Melbourne’s La Trobe university. Thirty replies were received. Readers are invited to attend. It starts march 4 at 7.30 pm and admission is free. Contact La T robe’s SRC on 479.2977. In last week’s Melbourne Living d e lights, Chris and Eva made some tonguein-cheek comments on the rock dance at Frankston Police and Citizens Youth Club. These comments werent meant to reflect badly against the venue, the spon sors, the promoters, the groups or the audience. It was just a joke. — EDS.

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R ich ard Beckett beats up the w e e k ’s n ew s n e ig h b o r POLICEMAN IS A T IT AG A IN : A 17 year old youth was shot dead at a police road b lock near Goulbum in New South Wales when he jumped from his car and took to the scrub. Police said later the car in which the youth was travelling had been involved in an accident earlier in the day. The youth was not armed. In Adelaide jijijij: South Australian police commissioner, Mr H. H. Salisbury, admitted that some o f his young lads in training could be biased against minority viewpoints, radicals, protesters and dissenters because o f the present methods o f training. But apart from stating that " it is undesir£:*; able for police to be trained in isolation from the rest o f the com m unity” he offered littie hope fo r a brighter police future. Perhaps a short course in public manners wouldnt go astray.

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OU SIT DOWN WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS: A group o f 25 Columbians, who for reasons know n only to themselves, want to w ork in this booze and beach land, have achieved the ultimate in being expelled from the country twice in the one week. The airline which carried them back b y mistake for the second time claimed to have received a telegram from their home country saying that all systems were go. Immigration minister A1 Grassby said all systems were in fact stop and that if there was any more trouble he would take away the airline’s landing right. Som eone should tell the poor b lo o d y Colombians that, for publicity purposes, asians are in favor for immigration purposes this year due to emperor Whitlam’s great march to the north, and that all they need to obtain permanent entry visas is a small, near painless operation to slant their eyes.

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TE CAN DO SOMETHING RIGHT A L L : Prime minister h L AFTER ; Whitlam, despite an intimidation campaign by the fat cat farmers lobby, whose members are complaining that it ijijij: is difficult to afford to send four sons to Geelong Grammar these days, screwed his head on properly and announced the superphosphate bounty would eventually be removed, thus making sure that the city taxpayer doesnt pay twice to chew his cabbage once. |OES HE ALW AYS HAVE TO BE NAIVE: Jim Cairns, who at times doubles as minister for overseas trade when he is not either organising new marches against fascist nations, or acting as a personal ambassador for Cambodia’s deposed prince Sihanouk, finally w oke up to the fact that big business does not like a Labor government and •:::•$ criticised the board and management o f the Bank o f New South Wales for its opposition to the Australian Industry Development Corporation. Cairns’ fall into the pit o f reality was brought about

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b y the resignation o f sir John Dunlop as a director o f the bank — w h o in leaving, accused his other directors o f “ bigotry” and added that his fellow keepers o f the nation’s m oney tree seem to have a pathological fear o f creeping or back d oor socialism. Viewing the achieve ments o f the present federal Labor government, one can only view with amazement that anyone in his right mind would accuse it o f socialist prac tices. e sp e ra te tim e s r e q u i r e DESPERATE MEASURES: Sud denly realising that a senate election was on its doorstep, the Liberal party stir red, muttered in its sleep and announc ed that ageing whizz kid, T ony Eggleton, would be summoned post haste from his com fy jo b in London to attempt to get it out o f the mire. Eggleton’ s special jo b will be to d o something about the image o f party leader Billy Snedden. As his present job as director o f inform ation at the com monwealth secretariat in L ondon in volves explaining the rationale o f the comm onwealth in the 20th century and in particular justifying such people as Uganda’s Idi Amin, Mr Eggleton is believed to be excellently suited to the jo b o f apologising fo r Snedden. Mean while, as they say in deepest Victoria, p oor old sometime prime minister John G orton, who in comparison to Snedden suffers from a bad case o f charisma, may have to fight to hold preselection for his seat. That’s Liberal gratitude for you.

HY SHOULDNT THEY SUR VIVE, THEY DIDNT MAKE THE DAMN THING: Professor Peter Parsons, professor o f genetics at Melbourne’s La Trobe university, has announced with some satisfaction that the com m on gar bage fly would outlive man in a nuclear holocaust. “ Perhaps a nuclear holocaust would lead to a return o f a world o f insects and other lower form s o f life,” professor Parsons said. N ot lower, just sensible.

he w ork ers hand syn d r o m e IS A LIV E AN D WELL AT THE GPO: Unionists w ho have refused to even deliver mail or start post offices on Saturday any longer, have demanded that the good GPO either grant them a pay increase to make up for the overtime they will lose b y their decision or, at least, allow them to work overtime on Sundays sorting the mail they now refuse to sort on Saturday. Postmaster-general Bowen, who is b e lieved to be a man o f average intel-

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ligence, has stated that he is more than a £ $ little baffled by this demand, and in a £ * move o f his own, has countered b y S:* threatening to hire GPO work out at great cost and expense to private newsagents on Saturday. Following this decision, butchers will shortly be asked to run the health department, and the Australian Medical Association will set up a private portfolio o f foreign affairs. NE MINUTE’S SILENCE TO THROW UP: The Queensland Country party has managed to invent an election song dedicated to Joh BjelkePetersen, which he likes, but which warns him: “ His just rewards are yet to com e in the promised land we k n ow .” Pulling our collective head out o f the lavatory bowl, we can only remark that after a song like that no reward can be just.

ou n d an d ro u n d th e g a r- M DEN WENT THE TEDDY- j&'j BEARS: Aboriginal public servant Charles Perkins is once again in a little trouble after stating that the Australian :&'■ Liberal and Country parties are the biggest gatherings o f racists in the world, and that, b y inference, the Labor party runs a fairly close second. As the crisis continued to rage, the permanent head o f the department o f aboriginal affairs, Mr Barrie Dexter, threatened to resign, and the good senator Cavanagh, :*>: once again doing his best to calm the situation down said: “ There will have to be some drastic alterations to the National Aboriginal Consultative Commit- $:$: tee to prevent the tyranny by some $£:j; aboriginal members which is destroying $•$: good public servants.”

OW IT CAN BE TOLD: As the &$ poms tramp to the polls in one o f the nastiest elections o f the decade, it was shyly admitted that the five figure £•£: arithmetic on which the government * £ based its decision to refuse the striking coal miners their wage claim was wrong — in other words, someone in the government can’t subtract tw o and S*: carry one.

ET THE BASTARDS GO, THEY COULDNT EVEN GET TO THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS ON TIME: More than 300 army officers resigned from the Australian army last year, mainly one gathers because they havent g ot a decent war to fight. The heartless government perhaps could stop this resignation rate b y declaring a limited confrontation with one o f the more odious states. sssssssssssa

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long. The new acquiescent gener ation o f students was worrying about grades, and the radical Left was splintered into a myriad rival groups jostling each other for status while an uneasy truce with the authorities lasted. There was a dangerous tension in the air over the increasingly apparent contradictions at the basis o f American life, but no one was prepared to d o much about it. And no one was prepared to see this tension explode as spectacu larly as it has done during the past few weeks. It was the nation’ s first politi cal kidnapping. The effect has been shattering. A daredevil es capade in the name o f the revolu tion, smoothly executed, deadly serious, and stunningly successful. Patricia Hearst, a beautiful 19 year old heiress o f one o f the world’s wealthiest families, has been abducted by armed revolu tionaries and is being held to ransom in return for fo o d for poor people. The trauma is by no means over as I write, but it is already clear that the political struggle in the United States is entering a new phase. A seemingly well or ganised group o f Bay Area people, probably no more than 30 in number at this stage, has declared revolutionary war on the corpor ate state o f America, and has duly begun hostilities. People o f all political shades are astounded. How could this happen on top o f everything else? The Symbionese Liberation Army, a name unknown three months ago, has introduced itself with chilling authenticity. One gropes for some precedent, for a comparison. There is none. Even the Weather people, the hom e grown revolutionaries w ho bom b ed military industrial targets for tw o years, never directed their actions against individuals. If any slogan from the 60s fits the Symbionese Liberation Army, perhaps it is “ Armed L ove” , the battle cry o f a revolutionary New York street gang called the Motherfuckers. But the similarity ends with the slogan. The SLA is part o f a new tradition, and this time Love is Armed with cyanide bullets. There has been much specula tion about w ho the SLA is. Very little is known because their or ganisation was clandestine from the start. From what can be ascer tained, they are a racially mixed group and include form er black prisoners, ex-soldiers and radical feminists. This historic alignment o f social elements in the revolu tionary melting pot o f the Bay Area has thrown the organised Left into total confusion. Radical leaders have been falling over each other to condem n the kidnapping as counter-revolutionary, and as an open invitation to the govern ment to again try to crush the left, as it did in the late 60s. This first reaction from the established groups was under standable; they have to protect their “ legitimate” status. But as this highly charged drama unfolds, with several lives at stake over great social injustices, it seems that the whole future o f radical politics here depends on whether it turns out to have a happy end ing. It is evident, though largely unreported in the press here, that the SLA has a great deal o f support, particularly among the young, the p oor and the minority communities. The idea o f bleeding Randolph Hearst o f a few million dollars to feed the people is in stantly appealing to a large section o f the population. T o an even

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large number o f citizens, o f course, the ones w ho would like to believe in the rule o f law, it is terror and extortion and must be stamped out. One hope that seems to unite everybody, however, is that Patty Hearst will get out o f this alive. Even hardline revolutionaries were saying this after hearing her second taped message, in which she speaks out for the w orld’s poor and oppressed and displays an instinctive understanding o f the revolutionary goals o f her captors, and even some sympathy with them. Here is a child o f the ruling' class, whose grandfather, William Randolph Hearst, founder o f the Hearst publishing empire, was in strumental in bringing about the Spanish-American war o f 1898, a notorious American imperialist adventure. She calmly and con sciously accepts responsibility for the misdeeds o f her forebears, and with admirable courage faces the possibility o f her own death. Whichever side y o u are on, it is a moving spectacle. A powerful folk myth is in the making and the ending, happy or otherwise, may be a long time coming. But to begin at the begin ning . . . The SLA has probably been in existence for over a year, but nothing was known o f them until

the night o f november 6, when one o f their com bat units struck at the first target, in an Oakland car park. Dr Marcus Foster, the first black to serve as Oakland’s super intendent o f schools, was walking to his car with his deputy super intendent, R obert Blackburn, after a meeting o f the school board. Three men were waiting for them in the shadows. They opened fire with tw o weapons and cut them down, then disappeared w ithout trace. Dr Foster died in stantly. The bullets that struck him were laced with cyanide. Blackburn has now recovered from severe shotgun injuries. This was unthinkable. Who would want to kill Marcus Foster, a man generally considered to be a progressive educator and adminis trator by black and white alike? The police were baffled. There were no motives, no clues, no suspects. The killers were describ ed as “ olive skinned, possibly chicano (Mexican-American) or asian” . But a few days later, the Oak land tribune, the San Francisco chronicle and Berkeley radio station KPFA all received a long statement from a mysterious or ganisation called the Symbionese Liberation Army, which claimed responsibility for the killing. The docum ent was in the form o f a

death warrant, issued by “ The Court o f The People” , with a detailed indictment o f the board o f education’s “ police state” poli cies. It was immediately clear that these assassins were no ordinary nuts. The letter was an angry critique o f official efforts to start police patrols on Oakland high school campuses and implement a new system o f files on students, including a photograph and b io graphical information. The lan guage o f the letter was flam boy ant and the SLA overstated their case somewhat, but it was obvious what they were getting a t . . . “ We understand that the d ef inition o f a fascist government necessitates the elimination o f all w ho oppose its controls. We know that the school system does not educate us, but rather it lies to us in an attempt to perpetuate the interests o f the rich ruling class . . . We totally reject the ruling class values o f personal material gain and com petition . . . “ It is clear that Dr Foster and deputy superintendent Blackburn represent the rich ruling class and big business, and not the children and youth o f our com m un ities. . . “ The black, chicano, asian and conscious white youth in our communities recognise the im portance o f the Oakland-Berkeley area to the liberation struggle o f

all oppressed people. We know that the ruling class must seek to stop the revolutionary com m unity here before they can regain an arm o f control around the strug gling and oppressed people o f the world . . . ” The communique ended with the flourish: “ Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life o f the people.” In the lack o f any previous knowledge about them, the SLA were immediately linked to a known militant group called the August Seventh Guerrilla Move ment, which recently claimed to have shot down a police heli copter over Oakland, killing two officers. The ASGM was known to include black ex-prisoners and to have close ties with revolutionary groups inside California’s prisons, particularly San Quentin and Soledad. The ASGM had been busy for months issuing comm uni ques to the press, including several death threats, but there was no real evidence that they had ever been in action. Like the ASGM, the SLA lack ed credibility. The overblown rhetoric fell flat on sophisticated radical ears, and the use o f assas sination as a tactic for dealing with a school administration issue was seen even by form er activists as being ridiculous and dangerous. T o make matters worse, the FBI voiced doubts about the existence o f the SLA, claiming it lived only in the sick minds o f a few crimin als. For tw o months, Oakland police and FBI agents continued their investigation and made no progress at all. N ot a single lead had turned up until january 10, when, quite by accident, the Symbionese Liberation Army walked right into their hands. A police patrol car in the nearby town o f Concord routinely stop ped a “ suspicious” van that was cruising around in the early hours. According to police, the tw o o c cupants pulled a gun and started shooting. One o f them was hit in the shoulder and the other man ran. He was later caught hiding in an alley clutching a .38 Walther pistol - the same type o f gun that had killed Marcus Foster. When police searched the van and found SLA literature, they could not believe their luck. It seemed they had caught the ass assins. But it was to be a hectic night. A few hours later, someone tried to set fire to a house close to the scene o f the shoot-out. When firemen extinguished the blaze, police discovered what appeared to be the headquarters o f the SLA. It looked like they had busted the whole organisation. They said they found bom bs, weapons, potassium cyanide and revolutionary literature. Now there was something to go on. Hard evidence, names. The tw o arrested men were Joseph Remiro and Russell Little, both whites in their 20s. Police started mounting a mopping-up operation and issued warrants for another man and a woman named Nancy Ling Perry, w ho they claimed were accessories to the murder. Meanwhile, the Bay Area news papers had been checking into the backgrounds o f Little and Remiro and also o f Nancy Ling Perry, the fugitive guerrilla. Remiro had been a founder o f the Bay Area chapter o f Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and he had also worked with the Black Panther party and the United Farmwork ers Union, the militant Chicano labor organisation. Nancy Ling Perry, it was discovered, had links with the United Prisoners Union. The JJBI started to fit together an ominous picture o f a dedicated band o f revolutionaries who had <

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A package arrived at KPFA on got military training with the US as being naive and misled, but in february 12, containing an eight army in Vietnam and then served such a bastion o f feminism as a political apprenticeship with Berkeley her name was on every page docum ent and a 50 minute tape. Within minutes o f the an activist leftwing groups. The polit one’s lips. But there still was no nouncement, some 50 newsmen ical organisations named, o f coherent picture o f this group, craM tti&PM talhgi radio station's course, at once disassociated who had already com m itted tw o ;n Berkeley, ;es in do; themselves from the suspects and amateurish blunders - an un ire % e r y clear. demand! necessary shoot-out with the cop; the SLA. p grange and was Things were happening fast. and a poor attempt at burni: Dr the b o n o f free The media barely had time to down a %p t h e pip o f A nqd^F week,,passe#|sthen start the usual wild speculation of when they received another com Symbionese L0|amtk>n ^ j n y d Ms’ ions | munication, this time from Nancy was time 1§n thi Deg|mfor tne rel|a: f his; Ling Perry. It was a long intelli CJJtf fe b r u a | ^ 4 | ^ jlm b a ! ns i gent letter, very personal and con ' “ j$n g o f men and Jj ter. Detailed instru' fessional, and still very hard to vigil to an JjpartJ ' en about the typ believe. The B erkeley barb ment street in Berke . distribution poin the only newspaper to publish her ley, just b y the JUhiye^f^| o f rsqjrt* letter in full, the other media California campus. Patricia Hearst, quoted only brief snatches from p st|j^en%atii|i,., wlls^i'nsiifj- vylk;h it. Its main point was that now her ltpy friend. ‘"'Bfye. answered % was the time for people to know a knock at the d oor and the w o little more about the Symbionese asked t# yil| | th e ' w * Liberation army and its activities. jcavSe her broken “ Greetings, my comrade sisters suspicic^ the and brother, all love, powe1N||i began to clos loor, but the freedom to y o u J ^ feBBap. “ My8 t^ r e e ' :ized h er.' 0 s j f th j name was Nancy Ling Perry, but tw o mer my true name is Fahizah. i eibjilfea'n friend a t a j jj p i ! 11# that name means is one vyh^js ra&a waitinc victorious . . . I am a freedom fighter in an information/intelli comm oti gence unit o f the united federated : hail o% ' forces o f the Symbioriese Liber away wit ation arm jl|y :W The mission w f X y. i. ..Jfc T h e re th e n 3 0 0 0 -w o r d essay, in which she high school days in 1963 and the bat unit that orgai beginning o f her politicisation and it was totally s u c c e ^ ^ with the assassination o f president one had been hit in the sho John F. Kennedy. and there was no trace She continued: “ As a member kidnappers. o f the Symbionese Liberation The shock way A rm y information/intelligence throughout unit, I fight against our com m on never happe: oppressor, and this I d o with something gun as well as m; Buenos use m y mind ima uncover facts ilita SLA attas > i r ill place, that the more need’ zine mi units truly empire the pe hie and', an ship o f needs jy,S and Me: oster mur She jv by sayinc specific re jrfinrs’ sponse to “ p o lic e : had a ence o f iiS ® : In a carefulj ^ insisted Chari violence as a /| tr only doze: that “ force o f ’ iiversit legal means to el team 'a fT r e s p o i^ ^ ^ ary justice” . She .casfm, corporargument rather mysf jat in profit revolutionary is not ewspapeis. nan genocide* nor is she or he an adve tfee houses and carnei revolutionary violence waiting mm. Jipd‘ ps rnments around the world” , but the most profounl watchini till details o f the investachieving internal as gpljg^given. The SLA intelliternal balance.” '|j| evidently done Fahizah then “ corre ;, this was the ■ clarified” the press sto’f i me in whicl other acts” , expressed solidarity with % l| tw i rie lacfy involved, M the people captured comrades, who||Vpire joumaiis accountnow being held under t i g h t ly ^ tside that rity in San Quentin prison, oriijpi Hill? burtoan them charged with Foster’s mu & , ,bor ||rs. campers -in he der. She explained that the house! S^£oad> she set fire to was merely the HQ o f one information/intelligence sei love. unit and nothing o f any conse to sffl re w it cut ion will quence had been left there. All lions o f /bur dauc com bat units were intact, she said, vised press en o f starving men, wom en and chil and they would fight on. doorstep. For five at dren o f every It was an irresistible story. Hearst wondered what • Patfieia% voice then ca: Here was a middle class white want from him in return fo1*%ii) the tape. “ Mom, all-American girl, committed with daughter. When the demand came she began/ some passion to revolutionary he realised the nightmare had only and exhausted. She war. Many radicals dismissed her just begun. unharmed, was being folded, but was not treated. “ I’ m with a com bat unit that armed with automatic weapons, and there’s also a medical team M arion Edward and C liff Ellen here. There’s n o way I will be in released until they let me go, so it “ THE ONE D A Y O F THE Y E A R ’ w o n ’t d o any good for som ebody by Alan Seym ou r to com e in here and try to get me with T o m Lake, Kim out by force . . The SI declared ,;war against the t, strictly lim ited season, 6-23 March. :’s'important that y Matinee 12 March 1 pm. that they know what A L E X A N D E R THEATRE - MONASH U N IV E R SIT Y they’re doing and they understand B ookin gs 54 4 .0 8 1 1 ext. 3992. A.H . 5 4 1 .3 9 9 2 what their actions mean.” M .S.D ., Myers, Dial-a-ticket, Southern The next tw o days saw the Cross, Celebrity Services, Tivoli Arcade. most intensive publicity operation

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ever m ounted by a revolutionary group. Every Bay Area newspaper, radio and TV station - and many others throughout the country printed or broadcasted in full the contents o f the docum ents and tape and also displayed the SLA emblem, the ancient sym bol o f the seven-headed cobra. e SLA was finally revealing entirely on its own , terms. Tff%„mystery about their ly cleared up. As sed, "S ym bionese” h % n the word syme SLA defines as f/dissimilar organisms p and loving harmony is indeed prokp destroy *replaci| it on “ the t ^ e love, ^ u % nd eqbdli w

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pers^i financially and lol ’impossible. Conservative e P timates put the cost at $140 million, and other experts said it would be more like $400 million. Hearst said he would com e with a counter-offer to show his good faith. The public spectacle o f mild-mannered millionaire, wl incredible wealth and put his own daughtj danger, has He and his

named party Moveewton, on behalf o f wrote to the Hearsts fulfil the de ne with

AmeUt is currendy Dakota for leading the Knee takeover last year (see flew to San Francisco and offe to negotiate with the SLA iistribute fo . took gamse 4t#j^ocd»;-,,wilk-,ii£stere ’’ towards the people and while vari ous com m unity leaders were pre paring to act as liaisons, another

tape was received from Patty and the SLA. This time it came by a differ ent route. A brief anonymous telephone call was received at the office o f the reverend Cecil Wil liams at his church in San Fran cisco, with a message that he should go to a nearby telephone b o oth where a key was taped under the receiver. Williams, a black priest who was Angela Davis’s spiritual adviser during her trial, was already standing by to help. The key was retrieved from the phone booth and someone guess ed it would fit a locker in the nearby city air terminal as it had a number on it. Sure enough, in one o f the lockers was a package addressed to Williams. When he saw it was a tape he contacted the Hearst family who confirm ed it was Patty’s voice. Within hours it was being play ed on every radio and television station in California. Patty was alive all right. She was also receiv ing a political education. She b e gan by explaining to her parents N^iat the SLA was not trying to nl^ke an impossible demand, that they did not expect the Hearsts to feed, the whole state o f California. “ Whatever you com e up with is basically OK ,” she told her father. M uft d o it as fast as you can and everything will be fine.” She continued: “ I am basically an example and a sym bolic warn ing, not only to you but to everyone, that there are people who are not going to accept your support o f other governments that carry our suppression and murder o f the people . . . “ It’s also to show what can be done. When it’s necessary the people can be fed. And it's to show that it’s to o bad it has to happen this way to make people see that there are people who need fo o d . . . Now maybe some thing can be done about that, so that things like this w on ’t have to pen again.” asked that people stop her like she was i only give the storm the hidey, she said. It pveying the jy h a f^ jie FBI was md||welfe working i©!! %iat *§hey were kfrom th i Hearst like a reat o f inking, me to and was e f a kind o f ions. Nou t she was s case more hey had themno question that forced into saying was her own anw o days later, on George ashington’s birthday, Randolph Hearst announced plans for dis tributing food to the needy. He would provide tw o million dollars for the purpose, not as a ransom, he said, but as a gesture o f good will to the people. Ransom or not, this is the largest sum o f m oney ever involved in a kidnap case in ^America. %ij|ljie fo o d program is under way, brawl in the queues and delivery men while the lolds its breath. But r people have refused to e fruits o f extortion” , is in no hurry, they have four weeks for the project impleted. is a bigtime showdown in old American tradition. The story still has a long way to go, but whatever happens things wili never be quite the same again. ^—

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A poster hanging around S yd n ey; V ictoria street, Kings Cross, the Eureka stockade o f the residents battle against the developers. N ex t week we publish a detailed account o f recent m uggings, death threats and A1 Capone-C hicago typ e activities.

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pnsoners acnon SOUTH Australia’s Criminal In tions and the next day a couple o f vestigation Bureau has wound up members o f the N orw ood CIB its investigation into allegations o f came to his home and asked him police brutality and corruption why he disliked the police. Beath against members o f the logal drug and Davey then turned up and asked him about the allegations. squad. As reported in Living daylights S A ’s British police commis sioner, Salisbury, issued a state (2 /6 ) Carey told the p olice he ment to the press last week claim- would not assist in the inquiries ing that the allegations were because CIB personnel had been “ com pletely unfounded” . He said involved in many o f the bashings. drug squad detectives had asked The union wanted a full public that the investigation be launched inquiry. Carey says that a couple after allegations were made in o f days later Beath went on holi Adelaide university newspapers days. The investigation could only On dit and Ego times late last have spanned a few days at the most. year. Salisbury was referring to re ports in the december issues o f both papers that the drug squad had forced a confession out o f a ELBOU RNE m arijuana guy busted in the south o f A de activists first organised as laide. The squad members had sault o f the year, a benefit co n manhandled his pregnant girl cert, held in Moubray street, friend to obtain the confession. Prahran last week, was extremely Commissioner Salisbury said successful, with approx 300 pay tw o CIB senior detectives, inspec ing guests, and 100 non paying tor D. Beath and sergeant N. freaks in attendance. Davey had spent a month quizzing There were no busts at the senior police officers, university concert, although the hall was students and “ suspects” before redolent with dope smoke and handing him their report. He said one had to squint through the he had concluded that all allega thick haze to catch the action on tions were without base. stage. Open defiance was the However, a spokesman for the order o f the night with the groups South Australian Drug and Legal on stage participating with very Protection Union, Peter Carey dis large symbolic joints during agrees and says Salisbury’s release breaks in performance. was just a public relations ex The music was fine, particular ercise. Carey said he initiated the ly that performed by Reuben inquiry three weeks ago. He was Tice, well known “ Eltham set” apprehended while jotting down band, and Shark. Another group, the registration plates o f drug Windjammer a new, virtually un squad cars parked in police head known band featuring an incred quarters, Angas street, city. ible organist and an accomplished Carey says the officer told him flautist, surprised everyone with to clear o f f but he turned up the the excellence and precision o f next night and was again ap their funky music. prehended. He repeated the allega

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which affects all o f society, a rebellion against the US imperial ist dom ination o f our country. We are determined to make sure that what happened at Bathurst (where screws shot dow n prisoners) will never happen again. — Prisoners A ction Committee, Melbourne, february 1974” Speakers at the demonstration warned authorities that they were engaged in a long term ongoing campaign that would continue as long as Pentridge does in its pres ent state. Barry York, secretary o f the PAC, and one o f the dem on strators arrested last week gave details o f injustices to a prisoner which were fully recounted to him on friday. A 20 year old prisoner, Peter Gardner, described b y authorities as “ radical” , is cur

rently in “ H ” (H stands for Hell) division after a brief stay in hos pital. Gardner was admitted to hospital suffering self-imposed injuries. Gardner, w h o couldnt stand “ H " division conditions, swallowed a piece o f metal and was admitted to R oyal Melbourne hospital for surgery to a ruptured stomach. Following such an operation Gardner should have received one to tw o weeks hospital convales cence. Instead he was shunted back to Pentridge, and back to H division after only tw o days, to make matters worse Gardner is in solitary confinement, a punish ment that is now supposed to be illegal at Pentridge. Gardner’ s diet consists o f daily amounts o f tea, water and bread, and a slice o f meat.

TUDENTS, trade unionists and the Prisoners A ction Committee have demonstrated outside M elbourne’s Pentridge jail fo r the third consecutive week end. The previous weekend four demonstrators were arrested, in cluding two on the sprurious charges o f loitering near a prison and attempting to communicate with a prisoner (See TLD 2 /7). This week about 50 demonstra tors loitered near the prison and comm unicated with the prisoners via a m icrophone and loud speakers. Police made no arrests, an inconsistency which should be o f benefit to those already arrest ed and due to appear in Coburg court this tuesday. ings, took over from Liz. He gave Police this time were probably the address o f the group and said camera shy - representatives o f that he was anxious that as far as most national television channels W E N D Y BACON possible these broadcasts should were there to record the action on include information that the pris film. Police restricted themselves < < n r*H IS is 2LB (Long Bay) oners wanted to hear. He offered A. broadcasting from outside to merely walking about appear to try and arrange legal help for ing tough and surly. They frow n Long Bay jail” — so began the those needing it. first o f what is h oped will be ed bitterly when members o f the A fter a couple more speakers, PAC moved forward and threw regular broadcasts to prisoners in some cops arrived from the local bundles o f newspaper clippings Long Bay jail on Saturday after police station. They asked w h o over the prison walls. A leaflet, noons. Liz Fell’s voice came was “ organising” the demonstra boom ing through from large attached to the bundles was ad tion — Tony pointed to the dressed to the “ Inmates o f Pent speakers about 50 yards from the groups listed on the b ottom o f the walls o f the jail. ridge Jail" and read: pam phlet: “ Prisoners A ction She read from a pamphlet “ Y ou probably heard o f us last Group, the University o f NSW week. We are a group o f form er which was being handed to visi Extension Committee, Womens prisoners and members o f the tors. A woman visiting her hus Liberation, Gay Liberation, the com m unity w ho know what goes band last weekend had her visit Victoria Street Group, the BLF, on in the jails o f this country. We terminated when she attempted to the CPA, the Black Com m unity in read from a similar pamphlet. The know that prisoners are ill treated, Sydney and the Young A LP.” bashed and humiliated and that it reason for the publication o f this On Sunday, our travelling jail is only natural that they rebel latest pamphlet Liz explained was against all this. Our numbers are Maddison’s postponement o f the radio made similar broadcasts ou t R oyal Commission into the side Parramatta jail and Silversmall but growing. We differ from Bathurst riot . . . “ N o sooner has water Womens prison. A t Silverpenal reform groups in that we fully support the prisoners rebel he announced it, but he is trying water, the wom en lined the windows o f their dormitories and lion. We are not interested in to avoid it. The victims are, as you cheered and waved. ‘respectability’ or in using the might expect, the prisoners. Some Next week, the travelling radio prison issue to gain electoral suc o f them will face criminal charges cess. We work for the day when - it will be many months, maybe is planning a more varied program. the jails will be liberated and the more than a year, before the cases They are hoping for some requests from prisoners. real criminals [those] like are com pleted. Men will be Houghton and Vodder, and com punished but only after that will (Anyone who can help, send ideas and information to box 239 Cammeray, pany — will be brought t o peoples anyone ask w hy the riot occurred. NSW. T ony Green, who was in justice. We say that the prisoners rebellion is part o f a rebellion Bathurst during the 1970 batter

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F nothing else, the students at the semi-completed Collingw ood school com plex in Melbourne will have plenty o f room for a piss. But like everything about education min ister Thom pson’s pet project this facility has its drawbacks, since the kids will have to walk through someone else’s classroom to d o it. They had a silly ceremony there the other day - the second one so far - to plant a fir tree on top o f the school. The ostensible reason for this was to protect the workers from harm for the duration o f its construction, but the deputy premier managed to sneak in a few words o f self-praise at the same time. It will be an “ open learning” school, he said, with “ com m un ity access” ; it’ s costing $5m and will be the flagship o f the department’s hellholes for a long time. A terrific, prestige project for g ood old Collingwood. He neglected to mention the bounti ful playground space o f 1.8 acres, which lets the 2000 kids play football with 600 in each team with the odd emergency, or tennis with 26 on each side o f the net. Assuming that coming from highrise homes they should feel quite at home in a highrise school,

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he forgot about the changing room with space for four girls and four boys. Or the half million dollar library with a grant o f $500 to stock it. Or the com plete abscence o f language laboratory facilities for both children and adults in a predominantly migrant area. The teachers are understand ably incensed. They wouldnt mind some o f the $20,000 spent on the model o f the project, perhaps to buy some books. Even the $150 it costs every time they shift the thing would come in handy. The sch ool’s primary wing will be ready for occupation by third term this year; the second ary wing is due for com pletion early in 1975. The primary teachers - not generally known for their firebrand radicalism have refused to teach in the school until the whole building is com plete and landscaping done. It will, they say, be hell in there. Designed in 1967/8, the school is n ow considered to be out o f date. Instead o f providing the opportunity for lowkey, non institutionalised education, the building manifests its aim o f “ open learning” with absurd 75 feet x 75 feet classrooms. “ Y ou ’ll soon tire o f having 200 kids in the one room ,” said the department; the building is thus designed to

allow the fast and simple erection o f traditional classroom dividing structures. The department paid no heed to the teachers request that flexible dividing walls be provid ed. And instead o f providing space for welfare workers, medical officers and activities directors to actually cater for “ com m unity access” , nothing o f the kind is planned. The minister has received a deputation and volumes o f letters on the question o f playground space, but says there are no plans to acquire a substantial area. They will acquire building blocks as residents backing on to the new Hoddle street freeway move out, he said, if m on ey is available at the time. The teachers, with the help o f Collingwood social worker Edith Morgan, point to a 20-acre tract o f land to the west o f the school and say it’s ideal. The area consists o f 18 inhabited houses, 10 empty dwellings and a number o f warehouses, and is zoned “ light industrial” . Ms Morgan believes that unless an attempt to acquire the land is made quickly, the area will be filled with new industry and the opportunity lost. Heath regulations require 20 acres for a school o f such a size.

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HAT AN: There are great numbers o f Vietnam veterans who are very disturbed as a result o f their experiences. Now the government says there have been very few psychiatric casualties from the Vietnam war, but what they mean are very few com bat casualties. We’re talking about long range post-combat casualties, the emotional disturbances that veterans suffer anywhere from nine months to two and a half to three years after they come back. MARTIN: In brief what are the characteristics? SHAT AN: Well the main themes that com e out that are disturbing them are first o f all their feelings o f guilt - they feel guilty about people who died on both sides. They feel that they would like to pay their dues: they look for self-punishment, they try to provoke people to hurt them, to reject them, they get into accidents. A second important feature is that they feel very victimised by the inadequate medical and educational benefits. A third feature is that they are very much prone to rage, not only because they feel they’ve been duped and manipulated but also because the special training they had for counter guerrilla warfare taught them to unleash violent impulses, to shoot first and investigate afterwards. Once they get home they have a lot o f trouble mastering these impulses. Another important feature is that they have learned to generalise hatred to anyone they dont know, at first any oriental and eventually to any civilian. Some veterans will tell you that standing in a place like Times Square in New York city will invoke feelings o f hostility, of “ w h o’s my friend and w h o’s my enemy?” And then he’ll com e to and feel very much shaken. A fourth feature is that they feel very much cut o f f from their feelings about other human beings. They learn how to numb their emotional responses in Vietnam; if they’re to allow themselves to feel compassion for others they’ve got to allow themselves to thaw out their own numbed reactions to the very special kind o f com bat they ran into in Vietnam. Those feelings are somewhere deep inside o f them, in a part o f themselves that one veteran described as a dead place in his soul; he called it a file where memories live on, divorced from their impact. Most important, many o f them, when they came back, had a very severe doubt about their continued ability to love other people and to accept love from them. For instance one veteran said, “ Y ou paid a very high price for trusting other people in Vietnam, every time you acted human you got screwed.” MARTIN: You keep referring to Vietnam: are these unique characteristics that com e from the Vietnam war that dont com e from the Korean war or didnt com e from the second world war? SHATAN: Well you know n obody tried to make these kinds o f long term investigations after the second world war and the Korean war except with prisoners o f war who survived those two wars. Fifty percent o f American POWs who survived the second world war and the Korean war met violent deaths through suicide, hom icide or automobile accidents. Those are official figures given by the assistant secretary o f defence Wilbur. However there are a number o f features about Vietnam that are new to the American experience. First o f all, Americans have not previously been trained for counter-guerrilla warfare and it means that the chief weapon that they’re taught to use isnt this or that sophisticated electronic gadget or advanced type o f rifle. The chief weapon they’re taught to use is the same weapon that Napoleon tried to use in the peninsular war against Wellington in Spain it’s the weapon o f terror. Americans for the first time had been taught to systematically apply terror to a civilian population. Also they have been trained to operate in absolute isolation and that starts right from the very beginning. It’s almost

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imprisonment. When the jurors were interviewed and asked why they wouldnt accept the post Vietnam syndrome as a legitimate defence, one o f the jurors w ho T h is is an interview with was a retired airforce officer said we can’t D r Chiam Shatan, professor of Z accept that defence, if we did w e’d open psychiatry, New Y o r k University, T he interviewer is R a y Martin, heard on A B C radio on february 12. __ up a whole Pandora’s Box! And there are other veterans like that, as a matter o f fact there is a whole category o f veterans w ho are suffering from what’s called the “ flashback” syndrome. They are people who can have the same kind o f experience that Don Kemp had but not necessarily in a nightmare. They can have that experience in the middle o f the day. Som e trivial experience may thrust them in their minds right back into Vietnam. They may see a gun or they may see a violent movement and all o f a sudden they will feel as if they are back in the Nam and they may act for example, as one veteran did: he grabbed his kid brother and threw him dow n the stairs and then he came to and saw his brother at the bottom o f the stairs and didnt know how he got there. Now that’s relatively mild but there have been a number o f cases o f murder and attempted murder that occurred under these circumstances. There’s a psychologist in Boston, Charles Levy, w h o’s been working for over tw o years with a group o f 60 marines returned from South Vietnam. O f that group o f marines ten have been indicted - seven for murder and three for attempted murder. And Levy tells me that if it werent for the rules o f evidence the number that he knows that were involved in experiences like that would be at least twice as high. MARTIN: The Veterans Administration has said that Vietnam has produced a low er number - a lesser num ber - o f psychiatric patients or p eop le with unbelievable to a man after he has spent isolation. As a matter o f fact when psychiatric problems than any other war his year in Vietnam to get on to a plane Vietnam veterans are invited to parties by th a t. . . back to the States and find only one their old prewar friends they usually hang SHATAN: No, again, they said com bat person on that plane that he knows. His around the fringes o f a party and more casualties, psychiatric com bat casualties, basic training group is broken up, his than one veteran has been described b y only the immediate casualties o f combat. advance training group is broken up, he’s friends in terms like this, “ T hey say the We’re talking about the long term figures, rotated into Vietnam by computer, he’s guy sat there perched at the end o f the in fact Charles Stanger, the chief rotated out o f Vietnam by computer. In party like some gargoyle on top o f a psychologist o f the Veterans Administra the second world war American soldiers cathedral, looking down on humanity tion in Washington, said in an interview in operated with their units; they trained below , he was com pletely out o f it.” In the Washington star last august that he with their units, they went over with fact if they get to stay in one place for estimated that up to 20 percent o f the their units, they fought with their units very long they get very uncom fortable, veterans might be suffering from and as far as possible they came back as they feel they’ve got to be on the move problems o f this kind. Then he said that part o f a unit o f human beings. and one o f the interesting things they do the Veterans Administration doesnt exist Even in the Korean war when you that hasnt been publicised yet is that to help veterans with readjustment joined up you were guaranteed that in so many veterans, particularly from the problems. An important reason why US far as was humanly possible you would be south, get it into their heads to embark army psychiatrists dont “ see” this kept with your buddy and this was stuck on what they call “ the easy rider trip” . phenomenon is because they are involved to in a very large measure. But with the One or two vets will get together, get an in a conflict o f interests between their first computerised war in history every GI old jalopy or a couple o f m otorcycles and boss, which is the government, and their was treated as a number, as an isolated actually more or less follow the route o f patient, which is the com m on soldier, and unit. He’s just a cog in a machine and Peter Fonda and his friend, through when y ou ’re involved in a conflict o f that's all he counts for. He’s a solo fighter Louisiana and the South, wearing tattered interest like that you always support the and that kind o f isolation makes it very fatigues, long hair and beards, hoping to side that butters your bread and that’s hard for a person to share his feelings and draw negative attention to themselves. the government. share his pain and his grief and his doubts And they’ll tell me, “ Vie’re not out to kill MARTIN: What’s the reasoning though, with other people who dont have them. ourselves but if som ebody else wants to the unpopularity o f the Vietnam war for M ARTIN: You say computerised war, the help us b y killing us, that’s okay.” the government, the reasoning why they first computerised war. Is it that or was it M A RTIN : What is that, is that the guilt w on ’ t recognise this? the character o f the Vietnamese war itself again? SHATAN: Well that’s a very important rather than the bureaucracy back here, reason because the government isnt SHATAN: That’s the guilt. The most the counter-insurgency? interested in showing anything like the painful aspect o f the guilt is the SHATAN: Well it happened to work nightmares. Many o f them have com bat havoc \ > the war — has played ~ — with **— the perfectly hand in hand but it to o k a long nightmares every night.Many o f them \/ millions o f young menand with the time for the military bureaucracy to — wake - up and find themselves • actual army itself. will almost discover that computerising the logistics, M ARTIN: I was wondering though incapable o f realising that they’re not the way men were sent in and out, was whether it might be more than simply the back in the Nam. There’ ve been a number disadvantageous to them. They didnt politics o f Vietnam, whether it might be o f cases o f which the best known is the recognise that until the end o f 1970 and the machismo thing o f being in the army one o f D on Kemp o f Wisconsin whose even today although they will tell you and the military mind? symptoms were actually recognised by privately that from the human point o f SHATAN: I’m glad you mentioned that the government because he presented view this is a bad system, publicly they because one o f the things that the himself early enough fo r treatment. He still tell you they think it’s great. veterans talk about a lot in the rap groups was hospitalised by the Veterans M A RTIN : In these rap sessions that y o u is what they call the “ John Wayne Administration in a mental hospital and had with the Vietnam vets d o y o u find a image” . Many o f them feel that even he was discharged as cured. He went back constant them e o f this isolation? before they went into the army they were hom e to live with his wife, that night he SHATAN: Well there are several constant prepared for the kind o f training they woke up from a com bat nightmare, still themes. There is the constant theme o f met by films about John Wayne. feeling that he was in the midst o f guilt like, "W hy didnt we let ourselves get I want to tell you that what we are refer com bat in the Vietnamese jungle, he killed instead o f killing people we didnt ring to as the post Vietnam syndrome grabbed his automatic pistol from under know ” . Another theme is rage. Rage that seems to be particularly prominent in men his pillow, detected a movement next to this could have happened to them, that who volunteered, not in men who were him, assumed it was the enemy and shot, they could have been duped and could drafted. For them the difference between killing his wife. have been victimised like this. Another, the original image they had o f going to His defence was “ not guilty by reason and the one that they find the most Vietnam to save democracy and the o f insanity” . N ow , even though he had painful o f all, is the theme that has to d o corruption and cruelty and brutality been hospitalised b y the Veterans with difficulty in loving. which they actually found in the Nam Administration the defence was not M A RTIN : But this is isolation isnt it? was more than they could bear. allowed and he was sentenced to life SHATAN: I think it is the result o f T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , february 26-march 4, 1 9 7 4 — Page 7

Continued from page 7 MARTIN: A re you finding that these psychiatric problem s are manifesting themselves in som e sort o f social crimes? SHATAN: Y ou have to bear in mind that the government has very little use for the group of volunteer mental health professionals that are working with the veterans so we only learn about these social crimes indirectly. We d o know that about 30 percent of the prison population in New York city at the present time consists o f Vietnam veterans. It’s hard to find out what they’re there for, a lot o f them are there for drug related crimes. Many o f them got turned on to drugs in Vietnam because o f p oor medical treatment there. There’s also a very high rate o f automobile accidents among the veterans and they are single car or single occupant accidents. By that I mean it’s a veteran driving alone and because he doesnt want to hurt anyone else, he doesnt collide with another car. He runs up an embankment or he bangs his car up against a tree and if he doesnt get killed then he relates that he was trying to bang himself up, trying to destroy himself to get rid o f the pain, the guilt, the discom fort and the anguish and the emptiness that he has been feeling since coming back. M ARTIN: Well, feelings since coming back. How much d o you think these feelings might have been alleviated or dissipated had there been a different response here in the United States to the Vietnam war? SHATAN: Undoubtedly, it would have been much less had the veterans not come back in isolated units, singly. There were no banners, no victory parades, nothing like the heroic receptions that they received after the second world war. They see that society has no use for them, they see that when they ask young women for dates and the women find out that they’ve been in Vietnam that the women, whether or not they’re interested in politics, turn away from them. There was a very poignant case o f a veteran whose father was violently pro-war but when he came back from the Nam and after a week or so asked his father for the loan o f the family car, his father turned around and said, “ What do you want the family car for, d o you want to go out terrorising?” This is quite typical. As long ago as 1622, sir Francis Bacon wrote an essay in which he gave advice to European princes o f that time on the right way to handle returning veterans. He told them - and the advice o f course was directed especially to king James I, whose son lost his head because he didnt listen to this kind o f advice - that they had to follow the ancient Roman ceremonies for welcoming hom e returning troops. They had to have what he called “ funeral laudatives” , there had to be public orations, memorialising the dead. Second, there had to be what were called triumphs b y which Bacon and the Roman emperors meant public pageants in which the entire citizenry received the returning soldiers and the general and heaped them with praise and gifts. Third, and most important, the veterans ought to be given enough m oney b y the sovereign to be able to set themselves u d in some independent trade or craft or business so that they would not be dependent upon public welfare and be able to support themselves. Otherwise, he warned, the veterans could very well stir up the populace and lead to widespread disaffection. Three hundred and fifty years later this advice still isnt being follow ed by our rulers. There is no question that there was growing disillusionment with their recep tion when they came back. They saw that society at large and even their own family wanted to forget them. Very little special provision was made in terms o f housing, employm ent, education, they feel they have been thrown aside like so much garbage. In fact many veterans said to me: “ When we came back home we realised that as far as the American people and the American government were concerned w e’re only one cut above the gook, w e’re the gooks o f American society.”

MDSMM CONTIHUINU1HE F rom L Y E L L C U L L E N A Y UP high in the US federal court building in St Paul, Minnesota, American Indian Movement leaders Rus sell Means and Dennis Banks sat facing the judge on charges follow ing last year’s Wounded Knee occupation. I arrived in St Paul last month to attend the trial which has been quoted as being “ the political trial” o f the 20th century. Federal marshals and gun toting federal protective force police swarmed all over the place, and federal security cars prowled the street outside. " I ’ve com e to see the trial and to interview Russell Means,” I explained to the young federal protection officer. Her polite manner, quiet good looks and smart uniform gave an air o f pleasant helpfulness that was spoiled only by the revolver on her hip and the neat row o f little shiny bullets in her gun belt. “ Have you a press pass?” “ N o .” “ Have you applied for a pass from indian security?” "N o , never heard o f them.” "Then y o u ’ll have to apply for a pass. We are admitting only 35 people to each session o f the trial and you have to put your name on the waiting list. There are only about 3000 names ahead o f y o u .” She smirked as I shuffled o f f to see indian security. A student from the University o f Minnesota put me right. “ Forget the pass” , he said, “ just wait outside the door. A lot o f people never turn up and they usually let extras in.” He was right and all that week I managed to get a seat. Each day the ritual was the same. A card issued by indian security. Inspection by federal marshals and a check for weapons by an electronic detector. Then a marshal to escort one up to the proper floor. Another search and inspection by more marshals and finally an escort to the courtroom. Inside the courtroom the informality was both an anticlimax to the security precautions, and a contrast to the arti ficial formality o f Australian courts. Jury selection was taking place and long streams o f would be jurors paraded in and out. Judge Nicholls questioned each one searchingly, but often failed to ask the same questions o f each juror. “ What is your name; where you do live; is that alone or with som eone; what is your religion; d o you attend mass regularly; does your husband attend mass regularly; what religion are your parentsyour-brothers-your-sisters-your-husband’s parents; where did your ancestors com e from ; what d o you vote; what do you read; what TV stations d o you watch; what news broadcasts d o you take in; d o you belong to any organisations; are you a unionist; have y o u been in the services; have any o f your relatives been in the services; have you ever broken the law; were you ever the victim o f a crim e?” And on an on interminably the ques tions would roll. Unless, as sometimes happened, the interview came to a premature end such as: “ It may be necessary to sequester the jury for up to three months, we hope it w on ’t but be a possibility. This means that you will have no contact with family or work except for an occasional phone call, that will be monitored, in the case o f an emergency. N ow would that cause you any hardship?” Exit many married couples, parents, managers, key produc tion employees.

ment and where a policy o f genocide is practised?” “ D o yo u think yo u will win?” “ Initially I was optimistic, but not now. I feel we are going in against a stacked d eck .”

Slowly the unreality o f the proceedings began to emerge. A nd so I ask Russell Means, w ho faces up to 80 or so years if convicted what it all meant. “ We want to focus world attention on the plight o f the indian, we want the world to know that the indian is being exterminated on the reservations just as surely as he was at Wounded Knee,” he replied. “ But the world already knows as far as it wants to know, what m ore is there to

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be gained? I asked. “ Soon we are going to arraign the United States before the International Court o f Justice in an attempt to have the Oglala Sioux nation recognised as a sov ereign entity.” “ A nd what support have yo u fo r this m o v e?” “ Already eight or nine countries have indicated support, but they have to be o ff the record at this stage.” (Australia was not one o f the countries Means mentioned, and if some o f the nations mentioned d o offer support Whitlam may find himself having to d o some judicious balancing.) “ D oesnt it depress y o u that scarcely any o f the witnesses seem to have any idea o f the significance o f Wounded K n ee?” “ T hey’re all liars who want to get on to the jury to help finish us o ff ,” came the swift response. “ But not even the students from the university seem very concerned, doesnt this worry y o u ? ” “ No, they have the same stereotype image o f the indian as their parents. Some o f them are sympathetic, but in the main they d o not want us to win because if we d o we threaten the whole fabric o f their society.” “ H ow is that?" “ The indian and the white man cannot live together if each keeps to his own philosophy. The indian society is a com munal, non materialistic, non-acquisitive society. A true indian cannot operate in the white society and still keep those values.” “ Then whites would n o t be allowed to live in yo u r so ciety ? ” “ O f course they could, but they would have to live as an indian, according to indian values.” “ S o y o u dont seem to have much support from the students, but h ow does the indian m ovem ent relate to the black m ovem ent?” “ The only similarity between the two is that we are fighting white oppression. But the black has fought for the right to have a place in white society, we are fighting to separate ourselves from white society.” “ Last century, yo u challenged and made an impact on the US governm ent in the indian wars, but the final result was tragedy. Why will things be any different this tim e?” “ The difference lies in the conscious ness o f the indian. Last century we dealt with and tried to accom m odate the United States. But this time we are dealing with the United States but we are trying to impress world op in ion .” “Suppose y o u win?” “ Then other indian tribes will try.” “ A nd if y o u lo s e ?" “ Then the final destruction o f the indian will continue in the concentration camps called reservations . . . ” “ You said concentration camps, do you mind if I quote that?" “ O f course not. What else d o you call a system which denies us the right to freedom o f thought, speech and m ove

AND THAT is the saddest thing about this latest episode in the history o f the indian. They are going against a stacked deck. With the first sighting o f this land by Columbus’s lookout the indians fate was virtually sealed. The long and tragic his tory that follow ed drove hom e the point that any culture that cannot be absorbed by the white culture must be destroyed. In St Paul, elaborate measures are being taken to try to give tw o indians probably the first really fair trial they have known. William Kunstler, defender o f the Chicago Seven and the Berrigans among others; the most elaborate socio logical study ever mounted to try and make sure that the jury is not prejudiced; a federal judge who has already shifted the trial venue to try to obtain justice, and who makes enormous efforts to be fair; all these things cannot obscure the fact that these men were acting on a set o f beliefs which are simply not contained in the white man’s law. Wounded Knee was theirs, by the treaty o f 1868, there was no need to justify occupation, rather the federal o ffi cers should have had to justify their own presence. But to admit that is to admit that more than two centuries o f history have been lived on the basis o f a sham. And the consequences are too impossible for the United States to tolerate. And before we condemn them for that, who will give up his Burwood, Parramatta, Paddington or Carlton house to see that*the aboriginal is treated fairly and our injustice overturned. I walked out into the winter day, the te m p e r a tu r e symbolically hovering around -3°C somewhere near where it was the evening that Big F oot and the other Oglala Sioux were massacred at Wounded Knee, and I remembered Rus sell Means’ retort when I said I was going to call this “ The Third Battle o f Wounded Knee.” “ Well dont” , he said, “ there has only been one battle and that was last year. The first one was a massacre, and if we lose then this case is just the finish o f that massacre." * * * NOW back in the courtroom the battles continued as the jury selection ended and the trial began. Tilsen, Lane and Kunstler, all defence attorneys, complained to judge Nicholls about the daily search routine. Mark Lane claimed that the federal au thorities were trying to create an impres sion that the defendants were dangerous men. Kunstler said that the motive was evident in several political trials over the past few years. He claimed that the government was trying to tie up the defendants so that they couldnt get on with their proper activities. " Y o u ’re just making a fuss” Nicholls replied. Away from the courtroom the pres sure is building up - Kunstler has been brought back to New York to answer vague allegations concerning his conduct in earlier trials. A definite move is afoot to have him disbarred. Finally, 38 potential jurors were sel ected. The prosecution and defence then whittled that dow n to eight women and four men. Four o f the wom en and one o f the men are under 23 years o f age (three o f them under 21). But youth may not be enough. Twenty year old Katherine Valo is think ing o f becoming a carmelite nun, and when asked if her brother's death in Vietnam was wasted replied, “ I think we have to trust the government!” The only black juror was challenged. Russell Means appeared to be a little more optimistic when he saw the final jury list than when he had spoken to me earlier. But the question still remains, hopeful for what? Even a court victory will still leave the indian as an unwilling guest in the fabric o f white society that now clothes his former lands.

T BREAKS down casual affairs, creates distrust and suspicion in continuous relationships, can cow the hardiest stud, generates screaming inter state phone calls filled with accusation and paranoia. It’s an allergy, an infection, a disease o f the permissive society, a state o f venereal neurosis and an incredible burden for the ignorant or unwary. What is it? It’s the venereal equivalent o f Hong Kong flu - it’s Non Specific Urethritis (NSU) which, translated from all the medical jargon means we “ dont know what it is, but it hurts your prick". Here then, interlarded with interview quotes from a leading doctor in the public health treatment field, is a purely subjective but by no means untypical account o f a year long battle with the dread virus (neurosis, allergy, infection). When I noticed the slight burning sensation in my prick, I knew it wasnt gonorrhea. Gonorrhea (last time I had it) is an agonising tearing sensation, pissing razor blades, floods o f heavy yellow pus like dynamic custard. No - this was something minor — urethritis was it, something like that. A few pills and it'll be gone. So I thought, at that stage. Almost a year o f fulltime irritation, shat tered relationships, sexual hysteria and endless treatments followed. In that fine summer’s day o f mild itch, it was an almost obligatory light hearted ness that took me to the mid Victorian “ Special Clinic” in Albert street, Sydney. I joined a venereal cross-section o f the human race — clean cut clerks, hairy seamen, rockers with greasy jackets, all sitting in crosslegged apprehension — waiting for their dreaded number to be called. But I felt OK, I knew what was com ing and was not afraid. I even tried to calm the guy next to me, who had been reading world war two handbooks on VD and believed he was about to have his prick reamed by a sadistic doctor armed with long pointed instruments.

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tw o device fo r clearing pustules out o f the penis) or the umbrella. There’s still a great level o f ignorance. - D r L.

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VD as a whole is a social and environ mental problem as much as a disease. Our big problems are ignorance - people, especially girls w ho have n o apparent symptom s and can't believe they could be carriers, people who are afraid to go in for a ch eck because they have misconcep tions about treatment; inadequate con tact tracing (the silent p o o l o f infection) and often a lack o f co-operation from GP’s - w ho fail to report a majority o f their private cases and thus hinder con tact tracing. VD is a growing problem in our society because o f environmental factors - greater m obility, changes in moral attitudes that havent been accompanied by com m unity education, a hangover o f fear and ignorance. They com e in and ask you if y o u ’re still using the h o ck ey stick (world war

YES, I hoped it'll probably go away by itself, but just as well to get some pills. I was going out o f Australia for a couple o f months and needed to be fit. The doctor chats in a guttural German accent while his silent but quivering assistant scoopes a trace o f discharge from the head o f my penis with a piece o f bent wire. Clap clinic medics never actually touch the offending member, all milking and squeezing is done b y the sufferer. A hypodermic o f b lo o d from my arm for the syphilis/gonorrhea test, but it is nega tive and I am given a proprietary drug called Tetracyclin. No drinking, no fucking and avoid strenuous activity for three weeks. Y ou take all such announcements with a grain o f puritanical salt — so over the next few weeks you have the occasional

fuck and the occasional drink. Surprise, surprise, it doesnt quite go away. * * *

THE consensus o f opinion is that NSU is started b y sexual intercourse. The woman may have n o symptom s, though she could have trichomenus, monilia or thrush som etim es it may be a reaction to the flora in the vagina. A New Zealand speciahst says that it is usually a result o f stress - sometimes physical stress but usually mental stress - stress o f business, stress o f going away, stress o f coming back from going away. The cause o f it is n ot known - the main contender is a thing called chlomidia - if it is anything. In WA th ey’re doing a lot o f tests and finding chlomidia in the females. So if a case persists we often ask the guy to bring in his wife or his steady, and give her a course o f treatment fo r what h e ’s got. It's n ot scientific, but it seems to work. - D r L.

bonhom ie on the shoulder o f yet another whey-faced over-40, and tells him that if it doesnt clear up this time he’ ll just have to operate. The whey-faced man’ s potency is at stake, but with a balletic turn the Great Man ushers me into his office. I begin incoherently babbling my story . . . my wife is about to leave me, I’m tired, irritable and restless all the time, I can’t sleep, pissing in the morning is painful, in short I feel fucked. With a stem but knowing twinkle in his eye the Great Man stops my verbal rush and asks about symptoms, history o f the ailment, etc. By the time this is over I have calmed, decide to find out more about NSU. What is it - an infection? The Great Man purses his bps, makes a little pyramid with his fingertips - N oo? N ot exactly, although it’s obviously similar to one. He feels that NSU is a reaction, yes, that’s it, a reaction to the numerous bacteria (he called them flora) that inhabit womens cunts and may cause allergic reactions in certain cases. Should this happen, one should avoid this woman thereafter. Guiltily, I concur. “ But there is no cause for worry, yours is a stubborn case, but with persistent treatment will vanish.” After some careful questions about the circumstances o f my infection (extra marital) I suspect he has tagged me a guilt crazed neurotic. But he gives m e a perfunctory examination (at $15 a visit, specialists deign to touch your cock ) and I lie in fetal position while his finger probes my prostate. He writes a hurried script, tells me to take the pills for two months (“ if they make you nauseous, take half” ). Thinking back to the clinic, I ask if sex and grog are out. “ By no means, dear chap, have intercourse as much as you like, and try to enjoy it. A lcohol likewise, though in moderation.” By now I’m convinced he has me tabbed as a neurotic, that the pills are just placebos.

CASES can last up to fou r or five years but we rarely get them continuing that long. But we find that blokes get a venereal neurosis, they think “ look this d octor doesnt know what h e’s doing, I ’ve

BACK dow n south, tropical heat has given the organisms a big boost, and you are now gripped b y back pains, stabbing pains in the prick, constant irritation and a burning desire to know more about NSU. Y ou fork out some cash and go to a specialist. I mean, there is a man who has studied male and female genitalia all his life, has a grand succession o f letters after his name, and should be a shithot expert. The plush north shore is filled with people, most on the wrong side o f 40, all with a well, dragged dow n sort o f look. They’re a bit grey, a bit deflated. Prostate and bladder troubles, I think. Finally the Great Man appears, and yes, he is just what you expected — tall, sunburnt, greying, just a little weary and obviously looking forward to a very successful retirement. He claps his hand with false T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , february 26-march 4, 19 74 — Page

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were gonorrhea, nearly 40 percen t were NSU. It’s quite a widespread disease. Clinically, without looking under a m icroscope, you can’ t always tell the difference betw een NSU and gonorrhea the sym ptom s are very similar. You look under a m icroscope and if y o u dont find gon ococci then y o u call it NSU. - D r L.

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I start on four pills a day, and sure enough they make me sick, so some days I take half or none at all, as well as following the d octor’s instructions about fucking. But by now I’m despondent, convinced that the pills are doing no good, that I will have a painful, defective dribbling dick for the rest o f my life. Sex life drops drastically, and any extra curri cular relationships are more a desperate search for sympathy than a need for good fucking fun.

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EVEN in a one to one relationship - a marriage - one partner can be blamed, but it can be a result o f stress. From a UK study: “ Each year since 1964 the inci dence o f NSU over gonorrhea is increas ing, and the gap is widening. Sometimes trichomonosis is evident, but often not. Many married men, no doubt truthfully, say th ey or their wives have had extra marital or even pre marital intercourse!" * * * —Dr L SEX has reached a new nadir, with most pleasurable vibrations replaced by the sensation o f ejaculating sandpaper. The back pains return, and I begin refusing jobs that required physical exertion. The world becomes a poisonous place, and the inroads o f developers, rising prices, comet Kohoutek and other social ills are all related to urethritis. * * *

IN a clearcut case o f NSU the symptom s are on a lesser scale. The point is that I can clear gonorrhea with one shot o f penicillin, but penicillin wont touch NSU. We're now using one shot o f strepto mycin follow ed by fou r days o f sulfadi azine. This will stop the symptoms and the discharge in m ost cases, but it may com e back again in a few months. In a small sample we found that only 25 percent o f all cases that com e here

UNFORTUNATELY, there’s no happy ending (or cured prick) in this story. Urethritis com es and goes, diminished by courses o f pills, alleviated by little tricks you learn from doctors and other suf ferers. A dose o f Citravescen before going to bed helps (it creates an alkaline urine in which the organisms can’t breed). Less fucking, certainly no fucking around if it can be helped, more sleep, better food , and cut down on anxiety where possible. Who knows what the real causes are anymore - perhaps the bacteria have gone, leaving a permanent neurosis. Or perhaps, like new strains o f flu, you are in the vanguard o f victims to a new disease. A little cursory reading in the hand books will convince anyone that medical science’s dependence on drugs is bound to rapidly increase the rate o f resistant strains. Certainly, with a rate o f increase almost double that o f any major com petitor, NSU is going to be around for a long time, affecting more and more people. Australia’s sub-tropical climate offers unlimited growth potential, and the failure o f medical science to even isolate the organism that triggers the condition suggests that NSU may well be the plague o f the 70s.

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O r y o u c a n e x p l o i t ch ild l a b o r b y a rra n g in g f o r y o u r n e w sa g e n t t o have D a y lig h ts h o m e d e liv e re d . D ea r N e w s a g e n t, P lease deU ver

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Sister o f Illusion rachel, she’s beautiful, she sleeps with her legs apart; she’s som etim es heard playing “ strawberry fields forever on a borrowed harp, and she claims that she’s an einstein freak: and is, therefore relatively unconcerned about clocks. John Lewis

she was naked and didnt kpow whether to grab her snatch or breasts i hung m y eyes and m y heart murmured that i wrote at least thirty tw o letters to a w om an i loved. Terry Gilm ore

Y o u r Name is E m pty

The Believer

D o I still know y ou ? Just then I lost your name, It became em pty. Was it because I could n ot find A n y o f y ou in the foreign things y ou said? J. Roney

He calls upon God Much to o late in the day And sets the phone ringing In an em pty office

Poet’ s Com plaint poetry should com m unicate so should editors rejecting the damn stuff if it doesn’ t turn preach into practice takes two to tango fifty -fifty and all that exam ple kicks best when the fences are down. Robert C. Boyce Disaster Poem, or Confessions o f a great and pow erful Friend Isolationism means We d o n ’t run any other country E xcept South America. (Our soldiers m ay rape But they d o n ’t fuck Fuck is a four-letter word). As a new generation o f sophomores Discovers Eskimo Nell While studying Wuthering Heights, And 4 9 .5 7 % o f Colleges N o w o ffer credits in swimming Needlew ork and Greek civilisation, Round the fringes everywhere Board-riders sit out From the drowning continent. Mark O ’Connor Dodge City watch out, kid and keep open heart to yourself it isnt safe to let your soul ou t on the street these days unless your tongue is fast and ready and it’s no use going around unarmed because then T h e y ’ll just hate you for remaining unprotected. John Lewis Melting Snow Makes a River Christmas cheer or Christmas beer, W hy choose between the tw o? There’s always enough for everyone, even me and you. O ne for mum, one for dad, Som e for one and all. Christmas may be just another snow job but it’s better than nothing at all.

Mark O ’Connor Divinely yours Guru, Guru Where are y o u ? B oo h oo h oo Where are you Guru Maharaj ji? Hi! ji M y, your com ing and going but w h y? For y o u , Guru I’d die, Maharaj ji. for y o u , Guru, I’ve given all m y m o n ey to you O O O O O O O O O O O O ! I love you Guru I like m y Gurus chubby . . . And rich to o , Guru. Can I be perfect like y ou Guru? Graham H abgood Oh Dear This is an Oh Dear tramride at the end o f an Oh Dear night and now that m y fare is paid I think I’ll just sit here and hallucinate. John Lewis Untitled I came to you with m y hands cut o ff and y ou wrapped them in you r hair i was junkie thin, on a razor’s edge i was way past trying to care my mind was hunted, m y face a mess i had nothing to disguise so i looked for an answer to m y mistakes in the blueprints o f your eyes i felt as mean as a subway gang screaming F U C K in a m idnight park i nigger rumbled your cornfield thighs till m y pain turned to love in the dark. Ross Hill Loungeroom Journey Y o u sit still N o t brooding But with active eyes I sit next to you Though I think only you Know where you are

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Som etim es, when you look up and smile, I see your diamond spectrum world And that is when I know where I belong I journey out across the carpet to visit you for tea. Steven Phillips

John Lewis News & Weather is an irregular poetry feature prepared by Nigel Roberts and Richard Tipping.

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Our.Founding Fathers P E TE R G A R D N E R F MOST people today were asked “ Who was John Bat man?” , they Would give varying replies from hero to founding father o f Melbourne. None would say murderer, thief or bounty hunter. The same applies to Mc Millan the discover o f Gippsland. Generally regarded as a hero in the Gippsland area, and as a pro tector o f aboriginals, McMillan led whites in perhaps the largest massacre in the Gippsland area Warrigal Creek. Most definitely he participated in several others. How is it that such a travesty o f history should occur where murderers becom e heroes or (at least in the eyes o f students to day) great and humane explorers? Partly the answer lies in the racist superior attitudes and beliefs o f the time - blacks were just ani mals. More so it is concerned with two other events, the trial and hanging o f the Myall creek mur derers, and the parliamentary in quiries on aboriginals o f 1858-62. The Myall creek massacre o c curred in NSW (Inverell 1838) and is only relevant to the Gippsland area in that the white murderers were tried and to the disbelief o f the colony, hanged! This was in tended as the severest deterrent against murdering blacks. How ever, it seems that the main effect was to drive underground the mas sacres and if anything, increase their brutality and severity. Fifteen years after the Faithfull massacre at Broken river, Benalla (where seven stockmen were speared by the blacks), W. Faithfull told how the enraged whites spread their system o f in discriminate murder. “ People formed themselves into bonds o f alliance and allegiance to each other and then it was that the destruction did take place.” Henry Meyrich, who drove stock across South Gippsland in 1846 wrote: “ . . . but these things are kept very secret as the penalty would be hanging.” Meyrich was out black hunting but refused to fire on them “ . . . much to the intense indignation o f the party w ho returned leaving them unmolested.” The hangings for Myall creek in no way deterred. The mounted and heavily armed vigilantes with their secret oaths would detect black camps by their smoke, sur round the area and fire into it indiscriminately, killing man, woman and child with the inten tion that none should escape. Normal groupings o f blacks were quite small, about 15-20 al together. Fast working, eager mur derers would take little time to dispose o f the evidence on top o f

McMillan organised what was called “ the highland brigade” , a party o f 20 heavily armed m ounted men. “ The brigade coming up to the blacks camped around the waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired into them, killing a great number. Some escaped in the scrub, others jum ped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up fo r breath, they were shot, until the water ran red with blo o d .” Eventually some 150 blacks were m urdered on that day. Surely Australia’s equivalent o f M y Lai. Even then two survivors were made to lead the “ brigade” from camp to camp to further satisfy their thirsty vengeance.

successful attempt to rewrite the previous 20 years o f white-black conflict and to justify the forceful occupation and conquest o f native lands. The aboriginals, the inquiry established, died ou t as a result o f diseases they contracted from whitemen — smallpox, influenza and many others. Unchristian and thus uncivilised causes were play ed down. Massacres were not men tioned. The introduction to the 1858 inquiry stated: “ Had they been a strong race like the New Zealand ers, they would have forced the new occupiers o f the country to provide for them, but being weak and ignorant they have been treat ed with utter neglect.” However, nine years earlier Thomas, the assistant aboriginal protector, had written to governor Latrobe: “ Instances o f cattle be ing speared or o f sheep or horses being stolen particularly in the Gippsland district, where the abo riginal natives have never com e to terms with the whites, may still occasionally occu r.” Foxcraft, writing his Australian native p olicy in 1941, stated that there were never any wholescale murders o f blacks. But perhaps the best condemnation o f the age came from a settler well before the parliamentary inquiries. He said: “ Sandy McBean was not justified in shooting every blackfellow or gin he met on his run, as I know he did on the testimony o f

a bonfire o f backlogs. S. Roberts in his history o f squatters relates: “ . . . it was no unusual sight to com e across heaps o f bones o f murdered natives.” Ten to 15 years after these well known but secret occurrences had finished, two parliamentary in quiries were conducted within four years. One o f their ostensible aims was to establish reasons for the alarming decline in aboriginal populations. In fact, it was a Page 12

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an eye witness. This is the age o f whitewash.” Evidence o f widespread and wholesale massacre is slowly co m ing to light. Meyrich’s account o f his journey is one o f the prime sources. He says: “ The blacks are quiet here now, poor wretches. No wild beast o f the forest was ever hunted down with such perseverance as they. Men, wom en and children are shot whenever they are met with.” And again: “ They will shortly be extinct. It is impossible to say how many have been shot but I am convinced that not less than 450 have been murdered alto gether . . . now I am becoming familiar with scenes o f horror from having murder made a topic o f everyday conversation.” Unfortunately Meyrich chose not to speak out against these horrific deeds. But at least he recorded the truth o f the matter. It is also interesting to note that his estimate o f 450 is about 15 percent o f all the natives in Gipps land in its pre european state. And it appears that these barbaric hunts continued up to 1850 in the more eastern and remote districts. Other sources such as Dunderdale (The b o o k o f the bush), discuss the various massacres and black-white conflict. They co n clude “ . . . the only effectual remedy is the gun.” Even the chief protector o f aboriginals, Robinson, stated:

“ There is, however, reason to fear that before the arrival o f the commissioner (1844) a large amount o f mischief had been in flicted on the original inhabitants by the lawless and depraved who had infested the port from Van Diemen’ s land . . . ” His surmise about “ m ischief” is correct. H ow ever, placing the blame on the ex convicts would be far from the truth as it is plain that all the inhabitants, free and bonded, par ticipated. When the whites first arrived the blacks thought they were ghosts. However, when they real ised that the newcomers were occupiers and invaders, a regular series o f raids, skirmishes and retaliations began that lasted for 15 years. The blacks would harass isolated shepherds or stockmen driving o ff the stock and butcher ing or dispersing them. Armed whites would retaliate by attack ing the nearest camp, whether guilty or not. Angus McMillan, discoverer o f Gippsland, led several such puni tive expeditions against the blacks. In 1843 a european settler was speared to death by two blacks near Sale. This was the fifth murder o f a european within a year. McMillan organised what was called “ the highland brigade” , a party o f 20 heavily armed mounted men. “ The brigade com ing up to the blacks camped around the waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired

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into them, killing a great number. Some escaped in the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot, until the water ran red with b lo o d .” Eventually some 150 blacks were murdered on that day. Sure ly Australia’s equivalent o f My Lai. Even then tw o survivors were made to lead the “ brigade” from camp to camp to further satisfy their thirsty vengeance. McMillan is known to have participated in such forays on tw o other occasions although the death toll was probably slight compared with Warrigal Creek. One was driving o ff an estimated 200 blacks from his station at Bushy Park near Stratford, the other as a punishment for stock spearing on MacAlister’ s Numblamunjie station at Ensay. Also tradition has it that McMillan’s stockmen murdered a large number o f blacks at Butcher’s Creek near Lake Tyers. Two other massacres have been meagrely documented. The first occurred at the Pyramids, on the Murrindal river near Buchan. It resulted after a stockman was murdered on the Orbost station in retaliation for the handing out o f poisoned food . The story con tinues: “ An angry party o f horse men gathered at the station (Orbost) and follow ed the return ing blacks along the banks o f the Snowy river as far as Buchan where they were joined in the chase b y station hands o f the area. The avenging party came upon the aboriginals who were feasting on the banks o f a lagoon behind the Pyramids. Confronted b y the whitemen and all chance o f escape cut o ff by the steep cliffs o f the Murrindal river, the tribe had no chance o f escape and was an nihilated b y the bullets o f the enraged whites.” The second massacre was also against the Krautungalung (Snowy river) tribe occurring in 1850 after the murder o f a stockman. “ Swift and terrible punishment was meted out to the offending blacks. The few whites assisted by the Sale blacks attacked the Snowy river aboriginals on the eastern bank o f the Brodribb river where the Cabbage Palm creek joins it. Here the offending tribe was so badly defeated . . . ” The storyteller leaves little doubt as to the authenticity o f his tale, nam ing the white participants and the stations they came from. O f the 2500 odd blacks o f Gippsland only 200 survived to 1880. It is obvious that the early settlers were murderers and thieves, operating within a system o f imperialism based on, among other things, racial superiority. The imperialism o f the great powers, and some lesser ones, is with us today in a different guise. The tragic lesson o f these murder ed people is that n o man, let alone country or state, should have power or control over any other Ponder over this quote from Dunderdale: “ All the surviving black could say was ‘ Quamby dead - longtime — whitefellow plenty - shootem’.”

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‘T K M o c i'w e * Chris & Eva 5 1 .9 5 6 3 or leave messages 5 1 .7 4 2 5 , w rite F la t 8 , N o . 7 Irving avenue, W indsor, 3 1 8 1 . A Z T E C S , C L O U D N IN E : S a n d o w n P a rk h o te l. S K Y L IG H T : S w in b u r n e T e c h ( lu n c h ). S K Y L I G H T : P ro s p e c t H ill h o te l, K e w (e ve n ).

ROCK S L A D E , H O M E : F e s tiv a l H a ll, 8 p m , tic k e ts a t th e d o o r. KUSH: C ro x to 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 t e l, S t. K ild a . P A N T H E R : P ro s p e c t H ill h o te l, H ig h s tre e t, K e w .

F O LK S IN G E R S : C o m m u n e c o f fe e lo u n g e , 5 8 0 V ic to r ia s tre e t, N . M e lb o u rn e . PETER P AR KH IL L : F r a n k T r a y n o r s , 1 0 0 L t. L o n s d a le s tre e t, C it y .

V I S I B L E M US IC

FOLK BELLEND EN KER, GOR D O N M c lN T Y R E : U n io n h o te l, c n r. A m e ss a n d F e n w ic k stre e ts , N . C a r lto n , 8 till 12, $1. BUSHW HACKERS AND B U L L O C K IE S BAND: P o la ris In n h o te l, 551 N ic h o ls o n s tre e t, N . C a rl to n .

JAZZ FR A N K B e a u m a ris ro a d .

TR AYN O R : h o te l, Beach

CO U N T R Y A ND

BABERG SYMPHONY, A N T IT H E S E by K a g el, M OM ENTE by S to c k h a u se n : 4 7 6 C o llin s s tre e t, 8 p m , fre e .

FI LM GET TO KNOW YO UR R A B B IT <B. Da P a lm a ), M IN N IE AND MASK O W IT 2 ( C a s s a v e te s ) P r e m ie r e M e lb o u r n e : N F T A , G u ild T h e a tre , M e l b o u r n e U n i. U n io n , P a rkv ille , 7 .4 0 p m , $ 1 .2 0 , 8 0 c s tu d .

WESTERN CHAD MORGAN AND O T H E R A R T IS T S : D o rs e t G a rd e n s h o te l, C r o y d o n , 5 0c.

TV IT ’S A W O NDERFUL L I F E (a ) m o v ie : H S V -7 11.1 0 p m . W A R A N D P E A C E — BBC series: A B V - 2 , 8 p m . U N C L E V A N Y A — BBC p r o d u c t io n o f C hekhov’ s p la y : A B V - 2 , 9 .5 0 p m . B IG H O R N — d o c u m e n ta ry on John D e n v e r: A T V - 0 , 7 .3 0 p m .

RADIO NEW S O C IE T Y : 3AR, 7.1 5 p m . E D U C A T IO N N O W : 3 A R , 7 .3 0 p m . OPERA: I L O M B A R D I, V e r d i, 3 A R , 8 p m .

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ROCK S L A D E , H O M E : F e s tiv a l H a ll, 8 p m , tic k e ts a t th e d o o r. H O T C IT Y B U M P B A N D : W h ite h o rs e h o t e l, N unaw a d in g . RED HOUSE R O LL BAND: C ro x to n P a rk h o te l, P re s to n . S E B A S T IA N HARDY: S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G e e lo n g . T R I D E N T S : G e o rg e h o te l, S t. K ild a .

BOOKS AND ID E A S : 3 A R , 7 .1 5 p m . A M E R R Y PROGRESS — s o n g /p o e try p ro g ra m : 3 A R , 1 1 .1 0 p m .

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

FI LM O CTO BER (G ) (E is e n s te in ) : U n io n T h e a tr e , M e lb . U n i U n io n B ig ., 8 p m , $ 2 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d .

TV F O R T A P A C H E (A ), John W a y n e and H e n r y F o n d a — r a ts h it re d n e c k s : H S V -7 , 1 1 .1 0 p m . M O N TY P Y T H O N ’S F L Y I N G C IR C U S : A B V - 2 , 1 0 .2 0 p m .

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4 7 6 C o llin s s tre e t, 8 p m , see tu e s d a y .

M A G IC IA N EXPRESS, F la g s ta ff g a rd e n s , 1 2 .1 0 a n d 1.1 0 p m . OPERA H I G H L IG H T S : V ic t o r ia o p e ra com pany w it h e x c e r p ts f r o m th e T h r e e p e n n y o p e ra , T re a s u ry g a rd e n s , 1 2 .1 0 and 1.1 0 p m .

DAVE R A N K IN JA ZZ B A N D : A lm a h o t e l, 32 C h a p e l s tre e t, S t. K ild a . O W E N Y E A T M A N : P ro s p e c t H il l h o t e l, K e w . 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 .

R OC K S E B A S T IA N HARDY, AZTECS: W h ite h o r s e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g . C LO U D N IN E : C ro x to n P a rk h o te l, P re s to n . RED HOUSE R O LL B A N D : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G e e lo n g . P H A S E 2 : G e o rg e h o te l, S t. K ild a . EBONY, M AD D ER LAKE: T e a z e r, 255 E x h ib it io n s tre e t, C it y . B U S TE R B R O W N , JO H N GRAHAM AN D BLACKS P U R F O X : C he lse a C it y H a ll. ELRO Y BAND: E p p in g M e m o r ia l H a ll. K U S H : I n te r n a tio n a l h o te l.

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D R A M A WOR K SHOP C LAR EM O N T TH EATR E: 14 C la re m o n t s tre e t, S .Y ., f o r f u r t h e r in fo c o n ta c t A d r ia n , 2 4 -6 4 0 5 .

M E E TI N G S S T U T T E R IN G , Dr Fay F ra n s e lla s p e a ke r, 5 th fI., L in c o ln In s titu te , 625 S w a n s to n s tre e t, C a r lto n , 8 pm , $1. THE HAM PTON CON S E R V A T IO N A N D P L A N N IN G A S S N ., G e n e ra l m e e tin g : c n r. W illis and W o o d s s tre e ts , H a m p to n , 8 pm . YOGA: P ra h ra n Town H a ll, 1 0 -1 1 .3 0 , $17, 7 1 8 -2 2 1 9 .

O UT D O OR S OPERA H IG H L IG H T S w it h th e V i c t o r ia o p e ra , com pany: F la g s ta ff g a r d en s, 1 2 .1 0 p m , 1 .1 0 p m . M A G IC IA N EXPRESS: T re a s u ry g ard e n s, 1 2 .1 0 p m , 1 .1 0 p m .

R A DI O P IC K O F T H E 3 L O , 8 .0 2 p m .

GOONS:

MEETINGS GREENPEACE P A C IF IC (S y d n e y C e ll) — F o r m a tio n m e e tin g to h a lt n u c le a r te s tin g : F r ie n d ’ s M e e tin g H a ll, 1 1 9 D e v o n s h ire st, S u r r y H ills , 7 .3 0 p m . In fo , J e n n y F is c h h o f 4 8 .4 8 3 7 .

FI LMS N F T A ’s o ff H o lly w o o d season. M E D IU M COOL a n d M IC K E Y O N E : A u s t G ovt C e n tre T h e a tr e tte , 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .2 0 , s tu d e n ts 8 0 c e n ts . FRENCH C IN E M A — C H R O N IQ U E D ’ U N E T E b y J. R o u c h ( 1 9 6 1 ) : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 6 p m , 10 p m . M e m b e rs o n ly , jo in a t d o o r. C L A S S IC M O V I E S : O ld C h u r c h , 3 1 .6 2 7 0 , 8 pm . A n y d o n a tio n . A C L O C K W O R K ORANGE: U ni NSW , S c ie n c e th e a tre , 7 .3 0 p m , 4 0 c e n ts . LA D Y S IN G S THE B L U E S p lu s D I A R Y O F A MAD H O U S E W IF E : U n i N S W , S c ie n c e th e a tr e , 2 p m , 5 0 c e n ts . 2001 — A SPACE ODYSSEY: N ew A r ts , G le b e , 3 p m , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2. 00.

J AZ Z T I M B R O W N : N o r t h b r id g e h o te l. D IC K H U G H E S : F r e n c h ’ s T a v e rn , 7 .4 5 - 1 0 p m .

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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 .

ROCK F L A K E : S y d n e y u n i, 8 -1 2 pm . G IN G E R , BURKE AND W I L L S : C h e q u e rs .

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R OC K RED HOUSE R O LL B A N D : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g .

FOLK, B A R O Q UE

H ELLO A N D GOODBYE — la s t n ig h t: A u s tr a lia n th e a tre , N e w to w n , 5 1 .3 8 4 1 , 8 .1 5 p m .

TV R IC H A R D III, ( A ) , s ir L a u re n c e O liv ie r a n d s ir J o h n G ie lg u d , s ir R a lp h R ic h a rd s o n , sir C e d ric H a rd w ic k e m a k e u p th e c o u r t ly q u a rte t: H S V -7 , 1 0 .5 5 p m . S W E E T , S W E E T R A C H A E L : A B V - 2 , 9 .3 0 pm .

L a u re n c e H a rv e y , Jane F o n d a : C h a n n e l 7, 10 p m . DESPERATE JO U R N E Y — “ w a r r ie ” w it h E rro l F ly n n , R o n a ld R egan: C hannel 10, 10 p m .

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FI LM T H E P IC K P O C K E T (B re s so n) a n d T H IS S P O R T IN G L IF E (L in d s a y A n d e r s o n ) : NFTA, D e n ta l T h e a tre , c n r. G ra tta n s tre e t and F le m in g to n ro a d , C a r lto n , 7 .4 0 p m , $ 1 . 2 0 , 8 0 c s tu d SH AR U LATA (N R C ) ( S a ty a jit R a y ) : U n io n T h e a tre , M e lb . U n i U n io n B ig, 8 p m , $ 2 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d .

A i r p o r t W est. S K Y L I G H T : J a n ’ s D an ce , L in c o ln R o o m , T r a k . S O L O M O N : P ro s p e c t H ill h o te l, K e w .

FOLK AD ELA FENTO N, H IP A N D M O R G A N : O u tp o s t In n , 5 2 C o llin s s tre e t, C ity , 8 0c. M IK E O ’ R O U R K E , PETER P A R K H IL L , B E L L E N D E N K E R : U n io n h o te l, C a r lto n . BUSHW HACKERS AND B U L L O C K IE S BAND: P o la ris In n h o te l, C a r lto n . P H IL DAY, GERRY H A L L A M , PETER P A R K H IL L : F ra n k T ra y n o rs , C it y .

JAZZ B R IA N BROW N T E T : C om m une, b o u rn e . S T O R Y V IL L E BAND: M anor h o te l, C it y .

G a rd e n s,

LES ENFANTS DU P A R A D I S (M ) — M a rc e l C a rn e s : U n io n T h e a tr e , M e lb o u r n e U n i U n io n B ig ., 8 p m , $ 2 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d . L I T T L E B IG M A N (M ) — D u s t in H o f fm a n w it h s h o rts : T r a k , 4 4 5 T o o r a k ro a d , 1 1 .4 5 , $ 2 . THE E X T E R M IN A T IN G ANGEL ( B u n u e l) , THE K ID — C h a p lin and C oogan, T H E H IG H — m u s ic b y F R A N K Z A P P A : L in k - U p b e n e fit, D e n ta l T h e a tr e tte , c n r. G r a tta n s tr e e t and F le m in g to n ro a d , C a r lto n , 8 p m , $ 1 .5 0 , $ 1 .2 0 s tu d ; c h e a p e s t and best.

O R B IS O N :

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E A S T S II (A ): HSVA LESSO l S tu d y Jap pm . THE MG GRAS b o m b s : H! CHARAD cock: A T \ IN C O N C M u c c i, J a c k ie Wil T h e C ry s ti C hubby C 1 0 pm . R E B E C C /J G T V - 9 , 10

MEETINGS M iss W I M E L A T H A K E R (ta p e s o f ) : F r ie n d s H o u s e , 631 O r r o n g ro a d , T o o r a k , 7 .3 0 p m .

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C LAR EM O N T TH E A TR E : 1 4 C la r e m o n t s tre e t, S .Y . fo r fu r th e r in f o , phone A d r ia n 2 4 -6 4 0 S . K N I F E IN T H E W A T E R ( P o la n s k i) ( N R C ) and COME BACK A F R IC A : U n io n T h e a tr e , M e lb o u rn e U n i. U n io n B ig ., P a rk v ille 3 p m , * 2 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d .

OUTDOORS

GORDON M c lN T Y R E , M IK E O ’ R O U R K E , B O B VAN DER ELST, JAN E H E R IV E R : D an O ’C on n e ll, c n r. C a n n in g and P rin c e s s tre e ts , N . C a r lto n , 8 to 1 2 p m , $ 1 . GEO FF AND D IA N N E H O L L IN G S : T a n k e r v ille A r m s , c n r . J o h n s o n and N ic h o ls o n s tre e ts , C a r lto n , 8 to 1 0 p m , 6 0 c . JO H N C RO W LE: F ra n k T r a y n o r s , C it y , 8 0 c .

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D IV O R C E L A W R E F O R M assn., M r. A. M issen , U n ita r ia n C h u rc h H a ll, G re y s tre e t, E . M e lb o u rn e . GROUP M E D IT A T IO N : A n a n d a M a rg a , 141 B a rk ly s tre e t, C a r lto n .

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MEETINGS

J IG S A W : C ro x to n P a rk h o t e l, P re s to n . M AD D ER L A K E , SEBAS T IA N H A R D Y : W a ltz in g M a tild a , S p rin g v a le . GARY Y O U N G ’S FAT C A T S : S u n d o w n e r h o t e l, G e e lo n g . T R I D E N T S : G e o rg e h o te l, S t. K ild a . C L O U D N I N E : G ro v e d a le h o t e l, G e e lo n g . M A D D E R L A K E : W a ltz in g ■ M a tild a h o t e l, S p rin g v a le . S K Y H O O K S : S t. A lb a n s h o t e l, S t. A lb a n s . K U S H : M a tth e w F lin d e r s h o te l, C h a d s to n e .

IS L A N D O F T H E S P IR IT S — d o c o o n o n e o f B a li’ s la s t r o y a l c r e m a tio n s in U B U D : C h a n n e l 1 0, 7 .3 0 pm . W ALK ON THE W IL D S ID E — m o v ie w it h

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C O N F E S S IO N AND AB S O L U T IO N — a c o n c e r t w it h J e a n n ie L e w is and B o b H u d s o n : C la n c y A u d i t o r iu m , U n i o f N S W , 8 p m , s tu d e n ts $ 1 .0 0 , o th e rs $ 1 .5 0 . SYD NEY BARO Q UE EN S E M B L E p la y B a c h , M o z a rt, T e le m a n n , P e r ti: O p e ra H o u s e , M u s ic R o o m , in f o 2 9 .8 4 4 1 , 6 .3 0 p m , $

2. 0 0 .

O z ’ s m a jo r tr a d in g p a r tn e r : A B C T V , 8 .5 0 p m . N A T IO N A L R A D IO T H E A T R E — R E T U R N T IC K E T : A B C R a d io 1, 11 am .

F I LM D ALM AS: F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , D a r I i n g h u rs t, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 1 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 . PAT GARRETT AND B IL L Y THE K ID p lu s L IB ID O : U ni N S W ,S c ie n c e th e a tr e , 7 .3 0 p m , 6 0 c e n ts . TH R O N E OF BLO O D — K ir o s a w a ’ s M a c b e th , O p e ra H o u s e , m u s ic , m u s ic , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 2001 — A SPACE ODYSSEY: N ew A r ts , G le b e , 3 p m , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2.00.

OCTO BER — E is e n s te in c lassic ( 1 9 2 8 ) : S y d n e y u n i, W a lla c e th e a tr e , 6 -8 .1 5 p m .

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CONTEMPORARY JAZZ, R OCK BLER TA: U ni NSW , R ound H o u s e , 2 .3 0 p m . F re e .

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BO LAN , A L H E A D , CAP T A IN M A T C H B O X : U ni N S W , C la n c y A u d it o r iu m , 8 pm , S tu d e n ts $ 1 .0 0 , o th e rs $ 1 .5 0 . C H R IS T A P P E R N A C and D A V E F U R N IS S : F o re s t L o d g e h o te l, 7 .3 0 -1 0 p m . M E R V A C H E S O N T R IO : B e lle v u e h o te l, P a d d o . G IN G E R , BURKE AND W I L L S : C h e q u e rs . T R A D IT IO N A L W O O LSHED DANCE — B u sh M u s ic C lu b B a n d : S y d n e y u n i, R e fe c to r y , $ 1 .0 0 , 8 -1 2 pm .

DANCE, T H E AT R E , PEEP SHOWS THE DANCE COM PANY (N S W ) — se c o n d season: O p e ra H o u s e , 8 .1 5 pm , $ 3 .5 0 , $ 4 .5 0 , $ 6 .0 0 . PORN F E S T — M adam Lash, S y lv ia and The S y n th e tic s , E llis D . Fog g , lig h ts a n d o th e r v ic e s : U n i NSW , S c ie n c e th e a tre , 2 .3 0 - 4 .0 0 p m , also S y d n e y u n i, 5 -7 p m . N I M B IN M A G IC — KARAVAN N O . 11 p lu s PUSH V ID E O : W a lla c e th e a tr e , 8 p m , $ 1 .4 0 .

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HORROR M O V IE S — BLO O D ON S A T A N ’S C LAW , RETURN OF C O U N T Y O R G A : S ydney u n i, U n io n th e a tr e , 1 1 .3 0 p m -3 a m , 8 0 c e n ts .

O V E R S E A S A N T I R A C IST MOVEMENT — P e te r Boyd s p ea ks: H u m a n is t H ouse, 10 S h e p h e rs st, C h ip p e n d a le , 7 .4 5 pm . Free. P O E T R Y R E A D I N G : O ld C h u r c h , 3 1 .6 2 7 0 , 8 p m . F re e .

D E N N IS K E V IN S , A L E X SHAW , AN D R EW AM O T, M O R A G C H E T W IN (s in g ers f r o m f l o o r w e lc o m e ) : R ed L io n In n h o te l, P it t & L iv e r p o o l sts, C it y , 8 -1 0 pm . P E T E R C A L V O — classica l g u ita r, re naissance p la y e rs : U n i N S W , C la n c y A u d it o r iu m , 8 pm , s tu d e n ts $ 1 .0 0 , o th e rs $ 1 .5 0 . G ALAPAG O S DUCK J A Z Z B A N D : S y d n e y u n i, G re a t H a ll, 12-1 pm , 8 0 c e nts.

C O N T E MP O R A R Y , FOLK J E A N N I E L E W IS : F r e n c h ’ s T a v e rn , 7 .4 5 -1 0 pm , M A R IE O N P I A N O — L o n d o n p u b songs: B e lle v u e h o te l, P a d do . BLERTA: U ni NSW , R o u n d H o u s e , 8 p m . F re e . B A R R IE C O L L IN S O N , D E R IC K CHETW YN, M ALC O LM and L O R N A F O S T E R : R ed L io n h o te l,

8-10 pm.

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D ALM AS: F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , D a rio , 10 pm , $ 1. 0 0 .

P R O M IS E AT DAW N: O p e ra H o u s e , $ 2 .5 0 .

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SHADOW S, PUTNEY SW O P— N F T A : A ust G ovt C e n tre T h e a tr e tte , P h illip & H u n te r sts, 7 .1 5 pm , $ 1 .2 0 , s tu d e n ts 8 0 c e n ts . UBU R E T R O S P E C T IV E : F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 1 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 . G IM M E SH ELTER p lu s F IL L M O R E : U ni NSW , S c ie n c e th e a tr e , 7 .3 0 p m , 6 0 c e n ts . P R O M IS E A T D A W N — w e ll w o rth seeing w it h M e lin a M e r c o u r i: O p e ra H o u s e , 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 .

MEETINGS

MUSIC

TH E CHARG E OF TH E L I G H T B R IG A D E — J o h n G ie lg u d , Vanessa R ed g ra ve a n d c a n n o n s to th e le f t a n d , sad t o say, t o th e r ig h t o f ’ em a ll: C h a n n e l 7 , 9 pm .

JAZZ JA ZZ W IT H ROGER F R A M PTO N, JAC K THO RNCRO FT, P H IL TR E L O A R, PETER EVANS, C H R IS QUA: O p e ra H ou se , 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , s tu d e n ts $ 1 .9 0 . FO REDAY R ID E R S : 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 a c q u a rie h o te l, W o o llo o m o o lo o , 7 .3 0 -1 0 pm . DEEP BAYOU JA ZZ R O C K B A N D : S tage D o o r T a v e rn , 7 -1 0 p m . Free. EAST COAST JAZZ B A N D : U n it y H a ll h o te l, B a lm a in . DOC W IL L IS JA ZZ B A N D : A lb u r y h o te l, O x fo r d st, D a rio . NOEL CROW S JA ZZ B A N D : R ed N eds, C ha tsw o o d , 8 .3 0 - 1 1 .3 0 pm .

R OC K B A N D O F L I G H T : W in d sor S h o w . H U S H : W h ite E a g le H a ll, C a b ra m a tta , 8 -1 2 p m . B L U E , A U D I U M : C h e q u e rs .

EROS A N D T H A N A T O S — n e w A u s t e n v ir o n m e n ta l m u s ic a l: P i t t st. n ea r P a rk st, 8 .3 0 p m . F r e e /d o n a tio n . THE DANCE C O M PAN Y: see th u rs . ANANDA MARGA — in t r o t o m e d ita t io n : O ld C h u rc h , E a st S y d n e y , 7 pm . F R E E IN S T R U C T IO N IN S I L K S C R E E N IN G , P O T TERY, WOOD CUTS, F IL M M A K IN G , C A N D L E M A K IN G : O ld C h u rc h , 184 P a lm e r st, E ast S y d n e y , 8 p m . F re e . IN C O N C E R T W IT H T H E M A N D R IL L GROUP, E A G L E S , IK E A N D T I N A TURNER, J IM CROCE, THE T R IU M V IR A T E : C h a n n e l 7 , 11 p m . G E O G R O G — b ig p is s u p , 1 5 0 fla g o n s o f w in e , 55 gals b e e r, w it h C o l N o la n , Soul S y n d ic a te : Sydney u n i, R e f e c t o r y , 8-1 a m , $ 2. 00 .

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FO L K P A C T F O L K : Y W C A C el la r, L iv e r p o o l St., (nea P aris C in e m a ), 8 p m . J IM J A R V IS , J E R R Y G I L L E S P IE , S T IL L , COL L E E N , D O U G R IC H A R D SON, K E IT H M A C K IE , P A U L IN E L O V IT T E T E R R I W E L L E S OTHERS: S hack F o lk

C e n tre , B a m , $ 1 .0 0

T H E EAC HEADS: < 420 Kenl 8.1 5 pm .

DAVE S M E R V A' v u e h o te l, E C L IP S E V a n it y Fa D O N DE T a v e rn , El d o , a fte rrn DEEP I D o o r Tai $ 1. 0 0 . DOC W II h o te l, S u r pm . F O R E D F re n c h ’ s pm . DON DE q u a r ie h o t

D A V ID C w ic k Rac $ 4 .2 0 . C A P T A IN C u r l C u rl ' H U SH , B/ C a rin g b a h G IN G E R H o rn s b y I p m , $ 1 .0 0 HUSH : RSL Y out G E O R D O c e a n ic , 2

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C h e q u e rs .

UBU RE F ilm m a 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , HOUR C p lu s T H E NSW U ni 7 .3 0 , 6 0 c P R O M IS E O p e ra H o i

W OMEN I A ll day d i s tre e t ha s tre e t an E p p in g , 9 $ 1 .0 0 , b 8 4 .3 3 0 6 , I

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“ PO TTERS” : T re a s u ry gardens, M a riju a n a a c tio n , p lu s v ig il in C it y S q u a re , 11am .

TV E A S T S ID E , W E S T S ID E ( A ) : H S V - 7 , 10 am. A LE S S O N T O US A L L — S tu d y J a p a n : A B V - 2 , 8 .5 5

pm.

THE MOOMBA MAROI GRAS — ta k e sm okeb o m b s : H S V -7 , 9 p m . C H A R A D E ( A ) — H it c h c o c k : A T V - 0 , 9 .3 0 p m . IN C O N C E R T — D io n D e M u c c i, Bobby R y d e ll, J a c k ie W ils o n , A r t L a b o e , T h e C ry s ta ls , T h e C oa ste rs, C h u b b y C h e c k e r: H S V -7 , 10 p m . R E B E C C A ( A ) : a classic, G T V -9 , 10 pm .

RADIO

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T H E P R IM A R Y 3 A R , 7 .1 5 pm .

YEARS:

EXHIBITIONS S P E C I A L P E N A L R E L IC S : N a t. T r u s t, O ld M e lb o u r n e ja il, R u sse ll

s tre e t, 1 0 a m t o 5 p m d a ily 1974 P H O T O G R A P H IC STUDENTS E X H IB I T I O N : K o d a k , 2 5 2 C o llin s s tre e t, 9 .1 5 a m to 5 p m d a ily . SKETCHES OF M EL B O U R N E : L a T r o b e C o t tage, B ird w o o d a ven u e , S .Y ., 1 0 .3 0 am to 8 p m sat & sun, 1 0 .3 0 am to 5 p m m on. H ERALD ART SHOW : T re a s u ry g ard e n s, 1 0 am to 9 .3 0 p m d a ily . RECENT A M E R IC A N A R T S : 1 8 0 S t. K ild a ro a d , 10 a m to 5 p m d a ily .

ROCK M ATT TAYLO R , S ID RUMPO, C H A IN : St. P e te r’ s, B e n tle ig h . G E T IT O N w it h M A D DER LAKE, BUSTER BROW N, SKYHOOKS: F r a n k s to n P .C .Y .C . FU LL MOON, M ATT T A Y L O R , S ID RUMPO:

T e a z e r, E x h ib i t i o n s tre e t, C it y . C H A I N : M a tth e w F lin d e r s , C h a d s to n e . EBONY: S ta tio n h o te l, G r e v ille s tre e t, P ra h ra n . C O L O R E D B A LLS , TANK: B r ig h to n Town H a ll. F A N T A S Y : V illa g e G re e n , S p rin g v a le . T R ID E N T : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g . JO H N R U P E R T A N D T H E HENCHM EN: C ro x to n P a rk h o te l, P re s to n . G A R Y Y O U N G A N D H IS FAT C A TS : Sundow ner h o te l, G e e lo n g . P H A S E 2 : G e o rg e h o t e l, S t. K ild a . K U S H : S o u th s id e S ix ( a ft) . S K Y L IG H T : M a tth e w F lin d e rs , C h a d s to n e . F O X : C a n o p u s , B o x H ill.

FOLK P H IL D A Y a n d G U E S T S : D a n O ’ C o n n e ll, C a r lto n , 3 to 6 p m . M IK E DEANY, JO H N DUFFY: C om m une, N. M e lb o u r n e , 1 0 to 3 am J U L IE W ONG, GERRY H A L L A M : O u tp o s t In n ,

C it y . FAT ALBERT, JO H N G R A H A M , J O H N C RO W LE, GRAHAM L O W N D E S : F ra n k T ra y n o rs , C it y .

JAZZ DAVE R A N K IN JA ZZ B A N D : L e m o n T re e h o t e l, 10 G r a tta n s tre e t, C a r lto n , 3 to 6 p m .j THE P LA N T: P o la ris In n h o t e l, C a r lto n . S K Y L IG H T ( a fte r n o o n ) ; J U N C T IO N C IT Y JAZZ B A N D (e v e n in g ): P ro s p e c t H ill h o te 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 t e l, C it y . DAVE R A N K IN JA ZZ B A N D : U n io n h o t e l, C a rl to n .

NOSTALGIA ROY O R B IS O N : G a rd e n s , C r o y d o n .

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in g , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 . 0 0 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d e n ts .

K I DS PROFESSO R Z IG G L E ’S T R A V E L S : C la r e m o n t th e a tre , 14 C la r e m o n t s tre e t, S o u th Y a rra , 2 .0 0 pm , $ 1 .2 0 , 7 0 c c h ild r e n .

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GROUP M E D IT A T IO N : A n a n d a M a rg a , 141 B a rk ly s tr e e t, C a r lto n .

RADIO THE W O RLD OF JA ZZ — E R IC C H I L D : 3 L 0 , 1 0 .2 5 am . N A T IO N A L T O P 4 0 : 3 K Z , 2 -5 .3 0 pm . A M E R IC A N TO P 40: 3 K Z , 7 -1 0 p m . D IR E C T IO N S : 3 A R , 7 .1 5 . N A T IO N A L R A D IO T H E A T R E : 3 A R , 8 .3 0 pm .

TV SPLEN DO R IN THE G R A S S : A T V - 0 , 8 .3 0 pm . N IG H T O W L T H E A T R E w it h H a l T o d d a n d p a ra d e

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F A N T A S Y : C r o x t o n P a rk, P re s to n . KUSH: Ic e la n d s , R in g w ood. A T L A S : S t A lb a n s , Y C W , W in ifr e d s tre e t, S t A lb a n s .

SLASHINGS D IS C O U N T SHOW — C H E A P E R T H A N M O O M B A ! W ith S h a rk s , J e r r y a n d th e R e b o p p e rs , A h m e d - M o r o c c a n m a g ic ia n a n d fire - e a te r , T h e M o r r is G ra d m a n S tr in g Q u a rte t, John Lee, Jas D uke ( d a d a is t p o e t f r o m Box H ill) , C o m p o s t, P a in tin g : O rm o n d h a ll, M o u b ra y s tre e t, 7 p m -1 2 a m , $ 1 .9 9 .

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JAZZ 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 pm . E C L IP S E A L L E Y F IV E : V a n it y F a ir h o te l, 4 -7 pm . D O N D E S I L V A : L o u is T a v e rn , E liz a b e th s t., Pad d o, a fte r n o o n . DEEP BAYOU: Stage D o o r T a v e rn , 7 -1 2 pm , $ 1. 0 0 .

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.

FORE D A Y R ID E R : F re 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 t e l, th e L o o .

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VTE: s up, 55 >lan, In e y am ,

ROCK D A V I D C A S S ID Y : R a n d w ic k R a c e c o u rs e , 2 pm , $ 4 .2 0 . C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX: C u rl C u rl Y o u t h C lu b . H U S H , B A N D O F L IG H T : C a rin g b a h Y M C A , 8 -1 2 p m . G IN G E R , G E O R D IE : H o r n s b y P o lic e B o y s , 8 -1 2 p m , $ 1 .0 0 . HUSH: C a m p b e ll t o w n R S L Y o u t h H a ll, 8 -1 2 . G E O R D I E : Coogee O c e a n ic , 2 -6 p m . B L U E , A U D I U M : C h e q u e rs .

F I LM UBU R E T R O S P E C T IV E : F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 1 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 . HOUR O F TH E W O LF p lu s T H E D E C A M E R O N : N S W U n i S c ie n c e th e a tre , 7 .3 0 , 6 0 c e n ts . P R O M IS E AT DAW N: O p e ra H o u s e , $ 2 .5 0 .

EVENTS

p e n d e n t th e a tre , 9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 2 .0 0 pm . TH E O LD W O M AN WHO L I V E D IN A S H O E : A M P th e a tre , C ir c u la r Q uay, 2 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .6 0 a d u lts , k id s $ 1 .0 0 .

F L E A HO U S E S N F T A ’ S IM A G E S O F T H E M IN D S E R IE S — R e p u l s io n , L ’ im m o r t e lle : O p e ra H o u se , in f o 4 4 .5 7 9 3 , 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .6 0 , s tu d e n ts $ 1 .2 0 , m e m b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r. F R E N C H C IN E M A — L e S ign e D u L io n b y R o e h m e r (1 9 5 9 ) : F ilm m a k e rs c in e m a, S t P e te rs lan e , D a rio , 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 4 .0 0 p m , 6 .0 0 p m , m e m b e rs o n ly , jo in a t d o o r. F L IN D E R S U N I F I L M S : Filmmakers co-op, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 8 .0 0 pm . S H E L L ’S A U S T R A L IA W IL D L IF E film series: O p e ra h o u se , 1 0 .0 0 am c o n tin u o u s ly t o 6 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , k id s $ 1 .0 0 .

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FLI CK S L A S T R A D A b y F e llin i: O p e ra H o u s e , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2. 0 0 .

T C H A IK O V S K Y : O p e ra H ou se , 8 .3 0 p m , $ 3 .0 0 .

MEETINGS TU N TA B LE FA LLS CO OP M E E T IN G : O ld c h u rc h , 1 8 4 P a lm e r s tre e t, E a st S y d n e y , 8 .0 0 p m .

R OC K G L E N R O W E N : C h e q u e rs .

CONTEMPORARY

TEEVEE

C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX, A L E X H O O D O L Y M P IA , C h o p k ie w ic z : K ir k g a lle ry , 4 2 2 C le v e la n d s tre e t, S u rr y H ills , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

M O N T Y P Y T H O N — N ew series: A B C T V , 9 .2 5 p m . A N E V E N IN G W IT H B I L L AN D R O BER T PEACH — “ L it e r a r y e n t e r ta in m e n t” : A B C T V , 1 0 .0 5 p m .

R OC K H U S H , S K A T IN G E X H I B IT IO N , B A R R E L J U M P I N G : C a n te rb u r y ice r in k , 8 .0 0 p m -1 0 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .4 0 . C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX, H o m e : P a d d o to w n h a ll, 8 .0 0 -1 2 .0 0 pm . M a c K E N Z lE S THEORY, M c A S K I L L , J IM M Y T A Y L O R ’S R O C K ’ N ’ R O L L r iv a l: U n i N S W , R ound h o u se , 8 .0 0 p m , s tu d e n ts 5 0 c , o th e rs $ 1 .0 0 .

CHEAP T H R I L L S

K IDS

V IS IT A B A T T L E S H IP , C H E E R U P A S A IL O R : G a rd e n is la n d , in fo 3 5 9 .9 1 1 1 , 2 .0 0 p m -5 .0 0 pm . M U S IC O N T H E H O U R : Sydney O p e ra H o u se , 1 1 .0 0 am , 1 2 .0 0 noon, 1 .0 0 p m , 2 .0 0 p m , 3 .0 0 p m , 4 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 , c o n c . 2 0 c.

T H E G R E A T M IK E , O U R G A N G , B A T M A N : F ilm m a k e rs c in e m a , 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 2 .0 0 p m , S u n d a y also. T H E P IP E D P IP E R : In d e

AN I N T E R V IE W W IT H P A T R IC K W H IT E : A B C R a d io 2 , 4 .0 0 p m .

W O M E N IN S U B U R B IA — A ll d a y d is c u s s io n : C h e s te r s tre e t h a ll, c n r. C h e s te r s tre e t a n d E sse x s tre e t, E p p in g , 9 .0 0 a m -5 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 , b r in g fo o d , in f o 8 4 .3 3 0 6 , 8 0 7 .2 3 0 2 .

L A U R E L A N D H A R D Y in BACON GRABBERS: A B C T V , 4 .2 0 pm . T O L K IE N — C U L T OR C U L T U R E — A p r o f ile o f th e a u t h o r : A B C R a d io 2, 7 .3 0 p m . M A R O O N E D — A cadem y a w a rd m o v ie w it h space, g litt e r , G e n e H a c k m a n and G re g o ry P e c k . C h a n n e l 7, 8 .3 0 p m .

RADIO, TV

8TH N A T IO N A L FO LK F E S T IV A L : B r is b a n e , m a rc h 9 -1 0 . In f o , N S W F o lk F e d e ra tio n , PO b o x 4 4 , R am sg a te , 2 2 1 7 . AUNTY JA C K ’N TH E G O N G IN B L O O D Y C O N C E R T : O p e ra H o u s e , u sua l agencies, 3 pm , 8 pm , m a rc h 9. W OMENS F IL M W EEK: F ilm m a k e r s C o -o p , in f o 3 1 .3 2 3 7 . H U N G A R IA N STATE SYMPHONY ORCHES T R A : O p e ra H o u s e , a p r il 3, 4 . M a il b o o k in g fo r m s in SMH. US N A T IO N A L THE ATRE OF THE DEAF: Opera H ouse, Info 3 5 7 .1 2 0 0 . N A T IO N A L THEATRE OF CANADA: O p e ra H o u s e , in f o 3 5 7 .1 2 0 0 . B. B. K I N G : H o r d e r n P a v il io n , m a rc h 1 0 , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 4 .2 0 , $ 5 .2 0 . A l l a gencies.

NEW MUS I C & OLD MUSI C

r f t lw EXHIBITIONISM SC U LPTU RES BY BOB J E N Y N S : W a tte rs G a lle r y , 3 1 .2 5 5 6 , tu e s -s a t, 10 a m -5 pm . JEW E LLE R Y A N D “ A R T O B JE C T S ” E X H IB IT IO N : L o r d o f T h e R in g , 2 8 G le n m o re ro a d , P a d d o , tu e s -s a t, 10 a m -5 p m . GORDON ANDREW S, SANDRA LEVESO N: B o n y th o n G a lle r y , P a d d o , 3 1 .5 0 8 7 , tu e s -s a t, 11 a m -6 pm . P O T T E R Y E X H IB IT IO N : P o tte rs G a l le r y , 97a B o u rk e s t, W o o llo o m o o lo o , tu e s -s a t, 1 0 .3 0 a m - 5 .30 pm . T H IN G S C L O S E T O M E — p ic s by J o h n W illia m s : P h o to g ra p h e rs G a lle r y , 30 E b le y st, B o n d i J u n c t io n , m o n - f r i, 11 a m -5 p m ; sat, 11 a m -4 p m . F re e . P A IN T IN G , POTTERY, C E R A M IC S : H u n te r s H ill G a lle r y , 3 9 A le x a n d e r st, 8 9 .2 2 8 2 , tu e s -s u n , 2 -5 p m .

RANDOM ENTRIES B O T A N IC GARDENS: M a c q u a rie s t, 6 0 acres o f grass, 7 a m -s u n s e t. F re e . UNI OF NSW FO OD C O -O P — fre s h f r u i t , n u ts , veg o il, c h e e s e : m o n - f r i, 1 2 .3 0 - 2 .3 0 p m , 4 .3 0 - 5 .3 0 p m ; th u r , 5 p m -8 p m . N IM B IN KARAVAN — d a y tim e , a rts a nd c r a ft e x h ib it io n and sa le ; S u n s e t — “ P e a c e - F e a s t” , N im b in v id e o ta p e s , d a n c in g : V i l lage C h u r c h , O x f o r d st, P a d d o , t h u r t o m o n o n ly . C HEAP NEW R ECO RDS: S tu d e n ts U n io n (N S W , B lo c k H o u s e , 2 n d flo o r , b e tw e e n 1-2 p m . Save 2 0 p e rc e n t a n d m o re o n E m i 'F e s tiv a l, A s to r .

R OC K STEW ART AN D M cK A Y : J o o ls , 121 C r o w n s t, E a st S y d n e y , 7 p m -3 a m . F re e . MOTHER EARTH AND R E N E G A Y E R : W h is k e y . S IL V E R C LO U D : S tage C oach. T R A N S IT IO N : O c e a n ic h o te l, w e d -s a t, 7 -1 0 p m . T R *O U B A D O R S : M a n ly V a le h o t e l, tu e s -s a t, 8 -1 2 pm .

R O O M T O M O V E — R o lling S to n e s S to r y and m u s ic : 3 L O , 8 .0 0 p m . N E W M U S IC : 3 A R , 8 .2 5 pm . L A T E L I N E : 3 A R ; 1 0 .1 5 pm .

TV ONE N O R TH ER N SUM MER — NATURAL M A G N IF IC E N C E : A B V - 2 , 8 .0 0 p m , e s k im o e s and th a t. THE HARDER THEY FALL (1 9 5 6 ): H S V -7 , 1 1 .3 0 p m .

FOLK DUTCH T I L D E R S : O u t p o s t In n , C it y . DANNY SPOONER and GORDON M c lN T Y R E : F r a n k T r a y n o r s , C it y , 8 0 ce nts.

C e n tre , B ro o k v a le , am , $ 1 .0 0 .

P OE T R Y POOR T O M 'S POETRY B A N D : C o m m u n e , N o r th M e lb o u r n e . 8 0 c .

C LAR EM O N T TH EATR E, S o u th Y a r r a .

MEETINGS

FI LM S E V E N S A M U R A I (N R C ) ( K u ro s a w a ) — u n c u t v e r s io n : U n io n th e a tre , M e l b o u r n e U n i, U n io n b u ild

of consum er tra s h : TREASURE OF SAN T E R E S A ( 1 9 5 1 ) — a n o th e r s m o k in g s p e c ia l: G T V - 9 , 1 2 .0 5 am .

e e fc FREE ROCK C O N C ER T: S y d n e y u n i, f r o n t la w n , 1 pm .

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 u n e , N o r t h M e lb o u rn e . ROY O R B IS O N : D o rs e t G a rd e n s , C r o y d o n .

FILM

THEATRE

su p e r m a n — C h in e s e film : 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 — d a z z lin g s u rf m o v ie w it h s u p e rb m u s ic : G e e lo n g P ix , 8 .3 0 p m . l it t l e

JE S TE R S by M IC H A E L C O V E : N im r o d S tr e e t th e a tre , 3 3 .3 9 3 3 , tu e s -s u n , 8 .3 0 p m ; f r i , sat, 5 .3 0 pn 8 .4 5 p m . NO NEED FO R TW O BLANKETS — a t o ta l b la c k a n d w h ite lo o k a t th e a b o r ig in a ls A u s tr a lia n t h e a tre , 5 1 .3 8 4 1 , w e d -s a t, 8 pm . T H E E M P IR E B U IL D E R S : N ew th e a tr e , N e w to w n , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 2 . 0 0 f r i , sat, s u n o n ly . H M S P IN A F O R E — G i l b e rt, S u lliv a n : C iv ic Centre, Hurstville, 5 7 .5 4 7 1 , tu e s , w e d , t h u r , f r i o n ly . W H O ’ S W H O : E n s e m b le th e a tre , 7 8 M c D o u g a ll st, M ils o n s P o in t, 8 p m , s a t, 5 pm , 8 pm . O N E S E A S O N ’S K IN G lu n c h fa n ta s y : Q T h e a tr e , A M P C ir c u la r Q u a y , 1 .1 0 p m , m o n - f r i o n ly . THE P H IL A N T H R O P I S T by C h ris H a m p to n — w o r t h w h ile : In d e p e n d e n t th e a tre , 9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 8 .1 5 p m , w e d -s a t. W H A T IF Y O U D IE 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 t h a n th e a tre , N e w to w n , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 4 .7 0 , $ 3 .7 0 , $ 2 .7 a ( p lu s c o n c e s s io n s ). L O V E F O R L O V E : O p e ra H ouse, 8 pm , in f o 6 6 3 .6 1 2 2 . COW ARDY CUSTARD: M a r ia n S tr e e t th e a tre , 4 9 8 .3 1 6 6 , tu e s -s a t, 8 .1 5 p m ; s u n , 7 .3 0 p m . THE BED S IT T IN G R O O M w it h S y d n e y u n i v e r s ity d ra m a s o c ie ty b y S p ik e M illig a n : T h e U n io n th e a tre , S y d n e y u n i, e x c e p t tu e s . I n f o 6 0 6 .1 3 5 5 .

M EE T IN G S G A L A C T IC SAFARI — H a l S te e le : T h e o s o p h ic a l S o c ie ty , 1 8 8 C o llin s s tre e t, M e lb o u r n e .

O UT D O OR S S IN G A SONG OF B R A S S , m assed b a n d and sing e rs: F it z r o y g a rd e n s , 3 .0 0 p m .

R ADI O A M E R IC A N TO P 40: 3 K Z , 9 -1 2 am. S U N D A Y N IG H T R A D I O 2 : 3 A R , 7 .3 0 . TO T R A V E L H O PEFU L L Y : 3 L O , 8 .0 0 pm .

TV LAUR EL AND HARDY: A B V - 2 , 4 .4 5 p m . BORN FREE: G T V -9 , 8 .3 0 . T H E B IO C H E M IC A L R E V O L U T IO N . . . m o o d c h a n g in g p ills . . . h e a rd o f th e m ? G T V - 9 , 1 0 .2 5 p m .

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T ra y

COUNTRY AND FI LM M IL L H O U S E — A W H IT E C O M E D Y , A n t o n io 1 9 7 2 — fa n ta s tic s a tire : F i l m m a k e rs C in e m a , D a r lin g h u r s t, tu e s -s a t, 8 p m . C R A D LE OF H E R C U LE S b y M ic h a e l B o d d y : O p e ra H o u s e , 8 p m . S ta rts f r id a y .

O N Y E R M A R X — th e aussie M a rx B ro s — s ta rts S u n da y, m a rc h 3 : P ram F a c to r y , 3 2 5 D r u m m o n d s tre e t, C a r lto n , tu e s d a y s u n d a y , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d e n ts , 3 4 7 .7 1 3 3 . S E S S IO N S — la y b a c k m u s ic w it h R o d F re e m a n S m ith , G a re th B re a c h , M oses C a rm e n : B a c k T h e a tre , P ra m F a c to r y , abo ve a ddress, th u rs d a y -s u n d a y , 1 0 .3 0 p m , $ 1 .5 0 . T H E S A I L a nd B E A R D (Jean H a r lo w m e e ts B illy th e K id ) b y M ik e M c C lu re : La M a m a , 2 0 5 F a ra d a y s tre e t, C a r lto n , f r id a y s u n d a y , 9 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 . WHY BOURNEMOUTH? a nd T H E M IS S IN G L I N K b y J o h n A n tr o b u s : A c t o r ’ s th e a tre , 1 6 9 C h u r c h s tre e t, R ic h m o n d , fr id a y - s u n d a y , 8 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 s tu d e n ts , 5 0 .2 5 3 4. AN EL E MENT OF D O U B T b y W illia m B a te s : T a it th e a tre , 107 L e ic e s te r s tre e t, C a r lto n , fr id a y - s u n d a y , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d e n ts , 3 4 7 .1 5 1 5 . T H E C O M IN G O F S T O R K b y D a v id W illia m s o n — th e c o m e d y f r o m w h ic h th e b o x o f fic e sm ash f i l m was m a d e : A le x a n d e r th e a tre , M o n a s h u n i, C la y to n , m o n d a y -s a tu rd a y , 8 .1 5 pm , m a tin e e S a tu rd a y 2 .1 5 p m , $ 3 .5 0 , $ 2 .0 0 s tu d e n ts , s ta rts W e d ne sd a y 5 4 1 .3 9 9 2 .

THE R E M O V A L IS T by D a v id W illia m s o n : R u s s e ll s tre e t th e a tr e , C it y , m o n d a y -s a tu rd a y , 8 .1 5 pm , p re -d in n e r fr id a y / s a tu r d a y , 5 .1 5 p m , $ 4 .2 0 , season t i c k e ts a v a ila b le , 6 5 4 .4 0 0 0 . THE IM A G IN A R Y IN V A L I D b y M o lie r e — p re se nte d b y th e S tr a tf o r d O n ta r io c o m p a n y : P rin c e s s th e a tre , S p rin g s tr e e t, C it y , m o n d a y - s a tu r d a y , 8 p m , m a tin e e S a tu rd a y 2 p m , $ 5 .5 0 , $ 6 .5 0 , $ 8 .0 0 , c h il d re n and p e n s io n e rs h a lf p ric e , 6 6 2 .2 9 1 1.

FI LM S

FOLK P H IL D A Y : F r a n k n ors, C it y , 8 0 c e n ts .

THEATRES

F IL M S — th e s e m ay change at a m in u te ’ s n o tic e , so c h e c k w it h c in ema to be sure. N E V E R G I V E A N IN C H (M ) — D U E L ( N R C ) : C a rl to 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 .

WE ST E RN BLUESTO N E: H ill h o te l, K e w .

P ro s p e c t

NEW MUSI C N IA G G R A : La M am a, 2 0 5 F a ra d a y s tre e t, C a r lto n .-

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BRITISH ELECTIONS From R O G E R H U T C H IN S O N in L o n d on

EN YEARS ago, as an energetic member o f the south Yorkshire young socialists, I voluntarily relinquished a month o f Sunday junior football, flung homework to the winds, and de voted my weekends and evenings to canvassing for the Labor party in a general election. It was an inspiring affair for a 15 year old, rather like the build up to a cup final. There was a lot to be inspired by, o f course: the Conservatives had been in power for more than a decade (“ Four teen years o f tory misrule” we chanted gleefully), through the charisma o f Macmillan, and in the absence from the Left o f any personable leadership since the passing o f the fondly remembered Bevin/Attlee school. Now Macmillan was gone, re placed at Downing street b y the skeletal, anemic, utterly uncon vincing Douglas-Home (I’ve got a story about Douglas-Home later in this colum n) - and from the Left had risen a new star. It came from Huddersfield, had a solidly faith ful working class Liverpool con stituency, had been educated at O xford (but had no trouble readopting flat northern vowels), smoked a pipe, preferred tinned salmon to fresh and said so, and spoke like the tories couldnt wipe his arse. I saw Harold Wilson speak at Bradford during the equally suc cessful '66 campaign tw o years later. A neo-fascist group called the Empire Loyalists were at some strength in the hall (unlike the tories, who usually ran all-ticket affairs, Labor meets were open to anybody), and they were heckling Wilson for his antipathy (!) to the Smith government in Rhodesia. Wilson ignored them, waiting for the right m o m e n t. . . It came. A burly bloke waving a large Union Jack stood on his chair and screeched: "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STOP —” pause for breath GIVING SUPPORT TO IGNOR ANT SAV AG ES?” “ My dear sir” , crooned Wilson immediately, "w e don t support ignorant savages. We merely allow them to attend our meetings.” He was good, there can be no doubt. His politics (which were eventually to drive most o f my generation away from parliamen tary socialism) didnt seem to mat ter when he was winning the nation into the first Labor govern ment since 1950. The tories were out, was the main thing. Hail Harold! In 1974 the nation knows what to expect o f a Wilson government cynical rejection o f socialist principles, hatred o f the extraparliamentary Left, and an obses sion with political one upmanship. The fact that all o f these faults and more are personified also in Edward Heath could give Wilson the edge if he showed that mid60s flair, that authority which demolished the opposition in ’64 and ’66. He seems to have lost it. In an interview with the harmless Robin Day the night this election was called, Wilson tripped over words, contradicted himself, and got led like a baby into spending half o f the interview condemning militant trade unionists. All he had to do was throw names at a government with the worst record since Ethelred the Unready, and he

acted like a mentally-defective old millowner campaigning for the National Front. So God only knows (and I’m sure even he isnt taking bets) what the result o f this election will be. Heath has cleverly called it on a false issue: realising that their performance in government could not persuade their mothers to vote for them, the tories have escalated a wage-dispute with the miners into a “ who rules this country anyhow?” issue (they're asking us!), and are asking the country to decide between dirty faced helots and the wit and wisdom o f Heathco. It’s a con trick that wouldnt sell the Eiffel tower, let alone Britain, in normal circumstances. Heath knows the southern middle class well, however. He under stands their paranoias (reds under miners beds has been dug, old and hoary, out o f tory central office files). He understands their love o f orderliness and suspicion o f the north enough to link disorder and northern workers irrevocably in their minds. They will vote for him in Brighton and Wimbledon. Bradford and Wigan, however, are a different matter. The north ern working class is Labor’s most consistent electorate. The north ern middle class tends to float between tory, Labor, and more recently Liberal parties like an

orphaned amoeba. On the face o f it they should go with Heath. They have all the bad dreams o f their southern equivalents. They also are more inclined towards the cultured, a lo o f figure o f Heath than the provincial mayor-madegood image o f Wilson. But, and this is where Heath’s calculations might go amiss, most o f the northern middle class has been affluent for only tw o or three generations. They have parental or grandparental con nec tions with the working class, and a consequent grudging sympathy. My grandfather was a Newcastle miner. He had five children, .and three o f them fought their way through marriage or education — into the middle class professions. N ow they’ re as pretentious and trite as the middle class can be, but they’re not about to forget the coal dust that ate out their father’s lungs until his face turned blue and a dying cough sent coalblack saliva and b lood splattering across the eiderdown. And they may not be in too much o f a hurry to believe that their father’s descendants are holding the cou n try to ransom b y asking for 34 pounds a week. Ours but to sit and wait. I must confess to a renewed interest in the election charade, and (less excusably) in the fortunes o f the Labor party. It’s an affliction that

will doubtless cure itself if they get back into office, but for the mom ent I’m consumed by hatred for Heath; and can rationalise such emotions by arguing that, if Britain is sliding into horrible e co nomic decline, I’d sooner see the rich taxed heavily than the poor paid badly . . . Oh, and I have this story about Alec Douglas-Home. It’s a peculiar tale, with fairly subtle implications. A few months ago A lec (w ho doubles as our foreign secretary these days) was due to attend an important Com m on Market co n ference in Germany. The dates o f the conference coincided with A lec’s 70th (or was it 80th?) birthday. N ot wanting to miss out on a spread at the Savoy, Alec contacted the conference and ask ed for it to be postponed. Amaz ed, the europeans replied that it couldnt be postponed, sorry, Alec, but in case you hadnt notic ed we’ve got some vital things to discuss. A t which our foreign sec retary went into sulk, and refused to reply for several days. He was eventually won round, and given a birthday package to open in Ger many, and the conference went ahead. Yes, I’ll vote for Labor. *

IT WAS also back in ’64 that the Greater London Council didnt quite know what to d o with a patch o f land in the heart o f the

West End. They wanted to use some o f it for a car park, but hadnt enough m oney to buy and develop the entire patch. Som e bod y introduced them to a prop erty speculator name o f Harry Hyams, and a deal was struck. Hyams wanted to use the area for office space - more office space, in fact, than the by-laws allowed on that small lot. The GLC agreed to waive the by-laws and allow HH to build what he wanted on half o f the land provid ing he gave them the other half for their roundabout. The roundabout was never built. Harry Hyams’ office block was. Its name, Centrepoint, has become a British byw ord for cyni cal property speculation. For ten years Centrepoint has stood empty, quadrupling in value while homelessness grew apace. On friday, january 18, two men in Bums Security (the private army guarding Centrepoint) uni forms walked up to the front d oor o f Hyams’ erection and flashed cards. They were allowed through, and as the doors opened to admit them 70 “ casual passersby” alter ed course as one and surged into Centrepoint. “ It was” , said organ iser Jim Radford, “ beautiful.” Security guards and caretakers were evicted, the squatters settled in for the weekend, and the head lines nationwide gave squatting groups their biggest and best pub licity for years. The occupation o f Centrepoint was certainly the most brilliantly executed move from the British Left for a long time. Its design and organisation smacked o f the kind o f togetherness usually con spicuously absent from revolu tionary groups. The Bums Secur ity uniforms were obtained earlier this year by tw o infiltrators. More than 100 people worked on ad vance preparations, from making huge WE’RE JUST WILD ABOUT H A R R Y posters for Centrepoint’s 10th storey windows, to research ing details o f the building’s main tenance procedure. But it has left quibbles in the air. The occupiers moved out on Sunday evening, tw o days after entering. They did so because their purpose, as they put it, was to draw attention to Centrepoint’ s relationship with the homeless, rather than to occu py the building and hijack it as a permanent refuge for squatters. The dialogue between reformists and revolu tionists in this matter was ag gravated by Jim Radford’s com ment that among the demonstra tors supporting the occupation from outside were “ political ex tremists bent on causing as much trouble as they can” . No resolution has been reach ed, although the pages o f Time out (L ondon’s radical events magazine, and very much the parish organ o f the metropolitan L eft) is still buzzing with letters, pro & con. This one I found particularly succinct: “ Dear Time out, The unreasonably prompt departure o f demonstrators from Centrepoint makes it look almost as though the alleged ‘ occupation’ was pre-arranged by Hyams him self as part o f an elaborate pub licity campaign to secure tenants. All responsible law-abiding prop erty developers should protest.” Do the baddies always have to win?

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oA lortljernW ife TH IS little gem was found b y a reader in the pages o f Plain turkey, a magazine p u t out by The M ount Isa Writers W orkshop. It w on first prize in the “ article relating to life in a mining tow n ” section o f the Northw est Star Literary C om p etition , 1 9 7 3 . L. M O R T O N T IS a cool misty day; the red hills are softened, their blood-like quality has gone. Cool, yes, but not cold. I wear jeans and a cotton top and can walk com fortably without becoming over heated. There is a strange mauve ness o f coloring over everything; there is for once a clear, moist country smell. Why this obsession about heat and coolness? I live in the north; a hot, hot land. The very earth itself reflects the temperatures with the burnt orange and red colors. In the year I am talking about there has been no winter to speak of, even an ordinary winter couldnt be classed as such by people from the south. The sum mer is going to be endless as there has been no break, the real heat must then start early and be in tensified as the earth has had no opportunity to cool. Today how ever is the exception and I feel alive, not enervated by drying drifts o f sand, but still I experi ence a feeling o f apprehension, m y renewed vigor cannot last and soon my feelings will be as dessicated as the dying spinifex. Yes, that is what has happened, the land has dried me up. I ponder upon my existence here in this land and the way o f life as I see it around me. I would like to sit before a roaring fire, feeling my toes tingle as they warm up, a steaming drink held between my hands; I would like to walk along an ocean beach, cold spray upon my face and fingers, the waves pounding as they reflect my heartbeat and then to experience the warm glow as I turn into a sheltered cove; I would like my baby on my knee as she watches the raindrops splash against the window. I hope so much for a move to a softer climate but deep dow n I fear that it will never be, I will live here until I look and feel as tired as the dusty trees beside the road. A man brutally beats his dog, a canary dies o f the heat, there is to o much hardness to bear. People live in tiny shacks so that there is not even the solace o f coming home to a fortress against the rest o f the world. Instead inside the tiny, hot and inadequate walls, ' another hell exists.

I came up here from the south, when the skies were streaming along the Coast, still the earth was red and the water runnels were as blood beside the road. In my jaunty little car as I bounced northwards I dreamt o f life ahead, so different to the reality. Into a flat I went, hateful in its barren ness, but I soon became insensi tive as before long I could no longer see the dust-caked, sandy particles o f the green concrete walls. In this apartment, walls didnt reach the ceiling, my hus band’s television programmes on the other side o f the pressed-wood partition were all too audible. This flat had a redeeming feature and a wonderful one at that, across from the front porch was country, flats and then the low, rocky, sparsely treed hills. In the early morning white cockatoos squatted on the dead trees like magnificent bloom s. In the evening the moments were magical as the sun set and the hills and their shadows changed from orange to flaming red to purple and to inky-blue. Now such a scene is impossible as within a bare two years little suburban boxes have interloped upon the scene. Now I live in my own prop erty. The ugliest house in the street, talked into buying this property by words o f “ value” , “ cheap” and “ in three weeks it will be a different place” . It is now two years later and it is uglier than ever with its half finished additions. There is no view, just chicken wire fences looking into my neighbors’ uninteresting yards. My baby is the prism o f this existence, so soft, so perfect, looks back at me with a face that in moments oddly reflects my own. Surely she must have joys o f climbing a fog mountain with

condensation issuing from her m ou th ; she must be able to attend the theatre; walk through a big store; see other ethnic and cul tural groups, to see these other groups as meaningful and living, not as here where the surround ings have stripped away the rich ness o f their backgrounds and left only the greed and the grasp com m on to us all when life is difficult and when one must fight for a tenuous existence. The sun has eaten back the layers o f my skin, leaving my raw flesh flinching from its rays. My own pain becom es so intense that my mind ceases to register the pain o f others and many indeed in this area are p oor lost souls — so many itinerants, so many single migrants, so many sad aborigines. This deadness and acceptance o f suffering must surely be experi enced b y so many, else a happier and richer existence would be had by man and beast. This is what has happened. I have been stripped, like the in habitants, even like the houses which are places for sleeping but not fo r living. How long does it take before even a new house becomes dusty and insect-ridden, how many days before the garden becom es a dust-heap lacking the order o f a planned garden and lacking the beauty o f the earth as it was before man hacked into it, in his desperation to find security in an area that is alien to man and his ways? One day, I am confident, the earth will once again reign sup reme and beautiful, she is still very much in control as this land has conditioned my responses and dulled my senses as I am too small by comparison with the land’s mightiness. However/one day the shacks will blow away,

rusted machinery will blend in with the natural analogy o f the land. A few men will remain, but these will be, as it was before, those whose nature has blended and moulded in them with the earth, so that once again true harmony between man and earth will exist. There is no half-measure here, for months, the sun shines as if it has nowhere else to cast its rays; then surprisingly for several months the skies becom e overcast and soon it rains, rains and rains. No man can get into the town and no man can leave it. The rains are too big for transport, train or plane; they to o are halted and I exist in a claustrophobic atmos phere as defined b y the rain and isolation. If there is a deity, a spirit or a Mithras o f this land; here it is harsh, a misanthrope, it looks down with malevolence; how many people can be ruined, made drunkards, becom e obsessive gamblers, be made brutal, how many will forget the real value o f life? This god sees the weakness in each man and exploits it and once here no man can escape, there are no softening sea breezes or levening effects o f varied people, differ ing attitudes, instead here by some means the most awful and mediocre must be the rule. A nyone w ho espouses a differ ent way is cast out or crushed by the dust, the heat and his fellow men. A man cannot jum p into his car and drive a few miles to the hills to regain his sense o f propor tion, he can get out his rifle and go shooting or go to a waterhole for a swim but at it he will find half o f his acquaintances anyway. In days o f old hermits and mystics they were able to strip away the extraneous aspects o f existence in such a place but today even here the mindless points o f our culture give a veneer to all — television, football, sub standard films. Does man bring in these inanities or does the land push man to this pattern? I think it is the harshness o f the land exploiting weakness but by the side-of-the-coin, if a man is able to rise above his physical condition in this northern town, he is truly great, a true man and in him lies vindication for us

V A N IK IN RENDEZVOUS WITH RAM A by Arthur C. Clarke. Gollancz. $5.20. HIS is Clarke’ s first novel since the publication o f 2001: a space odyssey in 1968. Though written in Clarke's usual workaday prose, it runs the gamut o f satire and hard science to break through to a pinnacle o f cosmic grandeur which almost equals the climax o f 2001. Rama is the name given to a wandering asteroid that streaks into the solar system in 2131, travelling past each o f the planets until it rounds the sun and once more heads out into the void. However, Rama is not an asteroid but an artifact — a gargantuan hollow cylinder with a complete civ ilisa tion (including cities, oceans, fields and factories) glued to its inner walls by centrifugal force. An expedition enters this world and finds it dead, dark and sterile - but with indications that this is the darkness and sterility o f a newly created machine, a ma chine ready to burst into life at the touch o f a switch. The entire novel works by im plication. Y ou never see a Raman, and you are never told the reason for Rama’ s eternal trek through space, but by the end o f the novel there are enough clues to make your mind pregnant with theories. Rama returns to the theme o f 2001, grappling with the possibil ities o f man’s first contact with extraterrestrial life. But in Rama the metaphysical gives way to the mundane, and transcendentalism is replaced by fear, religious grandstanding, and the irrational hostility that shoots first and communicates later. Amidst these mass reactions, only individual responses shine - as if Clarke had abandoned his belief in the cor porate intellect, to trust only in the integrity o f the individual. Such a philosophy underlies the novel’s attack on scientists. Clarke has always enjoyed a dig at the scientific world, and in Rama he sends up the anthropologist “ who had made his reputation by uniquely combining scholarship and eroticism in his study o f puberty rites in late 20th century Beverly Hills” , wearily observes that “ even in the 22nd century, no way had yet been discovered o f keeping elderly and conserva tive scientists from occupying cru cial administrative positions” , and jibes at the petty rivalry between the scientists who cling to the Big Bang theory o f creation and those who believe in the Modified Steady State Theory.

In previous novels such digs amounted to little more than say ing that Christ had dirty toenails: the scientist was savior o f man kind, and that was that. But Rama rejects the scientist by reversing the criteria for godhood: what counts now is the individual’s ability to respond to space with imagination, wonder and toler ance. T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , february 26-march 4, 1 9 7 4 - Page 19

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emotions. “ Its prime motive is to recruit and supply information to suitable wouldbe Nimbin pilgrims . . .’ ’ “ Pilgrims!” shrieked w idow Pierce, her sides splitting with mirth. George noticed that even Grandpa Thom son was rolling in the aisle, unable to control his laughter. “ Jesus, George, you must have been out in the sun to o long,” shouted one o f the shearers from the side o f the hall. “ Hey, George, is this Nirvana place in Australia or b lood y M ecca?” George realised that it was futile. He did not even try to explain that pilgrims were the beautiful peoples equivalent o f visitors. Tears o f mirth were streaming down widow Pierce’s face; the Brady girls were in stitches. It was time for the ultimate weapon. George shouted above the laughter: “ And now, to answer any questions you might have, I’d like to introduce you to one o f the beautiful people from Nirvana. Let’s have a big hand for Alan.” A few days earlier George had toyed with the idea o f using music to increase the dramatic impact o f Alan's entrance. But George’s missus couldnt work the record player and, besides, she was busy in the tearoom making 500 rounds o f freerange, w holefood, sesame seed sand wiches. But even without the music the arrival o f a Genuine Beautiful Person brought a hush to the hall. All eyes were on Alan as he walked from behind the curtain, past

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the Young Farmers Plaque to stand beside George at the rostrum. George noticed that Alan was slightly nervous, but he supposed that was because beautiful people were more sen sitive, more tuned to the cosm ic vibra tions than ordinary folk. Nevertheless he looked surprisingly normal for a beautiful person, despite his embroidered jeans and see-through Moroccan blouse. "H e looks like Mrs Brown’s Bert,” said widow Pierce to her friend in a stage whisper that could be heard throughout the hall. “ Yeah” , replied the friend e q u a lly , loudly, “ only this one probably shits rose petals.” George turned to Alan as the laughter faded and, using his best, beautiful person voice, he asked: “ Tell us, Alan, what d o you d o at Nirvana?” "I'm a disciple,” said Alan. “ A t least he’s not a b lood y pilgrim,” said one o f the coarse shearers. “ What are you a disciple o f? ” asked George. “ A disciple o f life,” said Alan. There was another eruption o f laugh ter and George suddenly noticed that widow Pierce was o f f again, screaming “ Bullshit!” as she clutched her side andtried to breathe between the gales of laughter. Grandpa Thom son looked like he was pissing himself. Alan seemed to be on the verge o f panic, but in a few minutes George had quietened the hall, urging the Hicksville folk to let the visitor < have his say. Alan explained how the beautiful people had left the wilderness o f the city jungle to embrace rural communalism. He explained how some uptight people had suggested that the “ man in a state o f nature” concept was a load o f antiquated claptrap that had been intellectually dis credited several generations ago. This, he pointed out, did not worry the beautiful ■ people, partly because many o f them had shunned books and scholarship, prefer ring to get their education in the Great College o f Life. Mrs Buxton’s boy, Ernest, just back from teachers college in the city jungle, asked a couple o f terse questions about what he called “ romantic, counterculture < elitists” but Alan explained that the beautiful people wanted only to “ get a , little bit o f God on their hands” . Then one o f the shearers chipped-in: “ Hey, Alan, if you and your mates are just interested in honest farming and enjoying the countryside and each other’s company, why go in for all this bullshit about pilgrims, tribes and beautiful people?” “ Yeah” , challenged another shearer, “ what makes you lot any different from the rest o f us?” Then it happened. Alan turned slowly to face his questioners. “ I’ll show y ou ,” he said. He smiled with a world weary smile, a gentle, all-knowing smile, the smile o f a man who has seen much o f life’s mystery. Suddenly a light glowed from his head; a co co o n o f gold that shone and glistened in the Hicksville hall. Confronted by The Power and The Knowledge they sat like statues in breath less silence. The shearers clutched their cans and Grandpa Thom son’s half rolled ready rubbed slipped from his fingers. Then Alan vanished. It was like magic. All that remained was a faint aroma o f methane and the echo o f a distant ( mantra. "Streuth,” said one o f the shearers. “ I’ll be buggered,” said another. “ We should all feel very humble,” said George.

Elton John: Well worth hearing and worth hearing well M A R G A R E T M A C IN T Y R E N REVIEWING a concert held outdoors, such as at the South Melbourne football ground, it is almost necessary to have three different reviewers placed about the venue — in the stands, on the cement in front o f the stands and on the grass - because the show has a totally different impact from these different positions. In a hall, however bad, it is usually possible for a good entertainer to produce an atmo sphere that will envelop the audience, wherever they are seated. With the possible excep tion o f the K ooyon g tennis stadium, this is not so out o f doors. Viewing a performance from the stands is a little like looking through the wrong end o f a telescope, not so much because

o f the actual difference from the stage but because o f the detach ment the open air induces. I started watching Elton John’s concert from in front o f the stands and then moved dow n to the grass, close to the stage and was amazed at the increased involvement such a move brought about. The excitement in front o f the stage was electric, producing a feeling o f communication from performer to audience that was lacking elsewhere on the ground. Mild mannered performer Elton John appeared on stage on thursday night looking more like a psychedelic aztec c h o o k than your usual pop star. And this was a fair indication o f things to come, because Elton is far from your usual pop star. With a flutter o f feathers, a p u ff o f smoke and a flash o f the lights the show began

— the band and Elton swinging straight into a solid instrumental. Elton John is far more in the tradition o f the Beatles than most English rock bands which seem to structure themselves after the Rolling Stones. Like the Beatles, Elton and Bernie Taupin write p op songs with strong melodic lines, which vary greatly from song to song. This variety allows him to put together a very structured and entertaining stage show, gently building the excite ment, manipulating the audience through the choice in songs rather than through stage antics. Perhaps because o f where I was originally seated, as well as because o f the early sound hassles, it wasnt until R o ck et man — well into the show that the performance really seemed to get moving. R o ck et man had the

crow d swaying and humming along. From there on Elton and the band had the audience in their hands, with song after song: H onky cat, Yellow brick road, grey seal. And D ont let the sun go down on me, a number just recorded by the band in America: “ for a change from playing all these old songs” . Visually a lot o f the stage excitement was provided by percussionist Ray Cooper, “ once o f Arsenal, then o f Chelsea and now with us” . Dressed in a sharp white suit with white peaked cap pulled low over his eyes, he took time o f f from his drums and tambourine to conduct the crow d’s applause with a wave o f his hand as he danced and moved about the stage. The frenzy usually present in a rock and roll performance has no

Slade slated: Don’t waste your money C H E R R Y RIPE LADE, unfortunately, are more o f a commercial pack age than a rock band. Like Gary Glitter they are one o f those musical phenomena who break bigger in Australia than elsewhere. And like Marc Bolan, they have never really made it in America, though they keep on slogging. They will draw more people in playing Sydney’s Hordern pavilion (capacity 6000) than they did last time they played New York, back in October. Their album sales in Australia are phenomenal. It’s only their second time here, yet, Slade alive (recorded "L iv e” in 72) has ap parently outstripped sales o f any other album ever released here, topping even Sgt Peppers. Given that more people have access to m oney younger these days, it’s less surprising, and they d o direct themselves at an audience little catered to by anyone else. (Cas sidy for instance is a musical generation younger.) The audience at their concert at the Hordern pavilion was en tirely under 20, mostly around 13 and 14. The routine was quite simple: the equipment is all set up and ready to go but you hang back for half an hour waiting for the crowd to work themselves up to fever pitch, footstamping, slowclapping and whistling, punctuat ed by deliberate false alarms. Nothing more than a piece o f self-indulgent gimmickry, but it worked. They were ready for N oddy Holder to com e in at screaming pitch. A nd he didnt let up all through. Like their structured entrances,

the music works to a formula too. They are not so much musicians as hysteria-raisers. Coming at you between 120-140 decibels, it didnt seem extraordinarily loud, just a fuzzy wall o f sound. It seems they work to a volume way beyond the capacity o f their equipment, so bad is the distor tion. It’s not something they can blame on the PA as they brought their own which they use in Eng land. As to their musicianship, I would love to find something nice to say ’cause my age seems to be showing. But there’s nothing much going on in the lyrics, the rhythm section is almost entirely a heavy one-two one-tw o m on ot ony, not relieved b y bass lines that stick close behind. The lead guitar sounds like he’s straining to keep up, only just getting down those riffs in time. His solos are pretty uninteresting, variations on an oscillation between two notes, and his intro riffs sound like he’s missing tw o chords in four. All in all it's loud but indistinct and certainly not satisfying to par ticipate in. They are the only band I can think o f w ho actually sound better coming out o f a car radio. They d o occasionally write catchy melodies. Theirs is the sort o f music for which you dont need discriminat ing ears, just a good pair o f lungs and tw o stomping feet. It’ s more like a game o f Simon Says Every body raise you r hands in the air, E verybody Everywhere, with a bit o f singalong and musical echoes thrown in: Ma ma . . . we’re all crazy now. N oddy Holder, the lead singer,

projects a strange sort o f sexless ness in his gollywog tartan troos and weskit and top hat covered in mirrors the size o f 50 cent pieces. Perhaps his gawkiness is some point o f contact for all those kids leaping round in the aisles “ really letting it rip” . It’s a party they want, and a party they get. For their second show, all the centre seating is being taken out so they can dance. Though it could be just a ruse b y the Australian prom o ters to slip in an extra thousand on unnumbered tickets without anyone noticing; it’s a well known tax dodge and makes for tightly packed audiences. The first show didnt sell out as they had advertis ed. For all their crowdrousing and album selling, it’s a pity what comes out is so unlike music, due to the distortion. Chas Chandler might have you believe I had “ ears up me arse” . But they’re his baby, a Chas Chandler Commercial Package. Coming up through play ing bass for the original Animals, and “ discovering” Hendrix has given him a good grounding for mastermind and heavy. Y ou get the feeling it's “ OK boys, this week we need 15 new songs and a new album” . And he gets them. If the Stones had their “ band people love to hate” , Slade have their Chas Chandler. N o mistaking he’s com pletely in control, producing them, touring or just keeping them prolific. Y ou see more inter views with him than the band. As a band, they’ve been to gether now for seven years. Cer tainly they can keep going, but they havent progressed very far musically in all that time. But the

hysteria and album sales dont compensate for the music. Per haps one day they’ll fulfil their dream and make it in the States. Slade, said one fourteener, “ Oh, they’re alright. I’d rather go surfing.” PS. Having arranged an appoint ment to go in and have an inter view with the tour manager to collect info on comparative album sales America etc, and spent an hour while they passed m y note b o ok around with 15 pages o f notes railing the concert and mindless music, and having finally got to first base with a breakdown o f their Australian gold records and some attempt to convince me o f the success o f their most recent American tour and a few joints, we seemed to be getting along just fine, til Chandler came back and with a “ What, you still here. Git.” I was out the door. Without a murmur from Holder, the lead singer, nor the tour manager whose room it was w ho I was questioning. Chandler’s word was law, boys. Perhaps they dont care about press o f any sort coz chances are their audience doesnt read that sort o f publication. Still not what y ou ’d call an exercise in rock and roll diplom acy.

place in Elton John’s show. Instead his performance is relaxed, and rather than roaring straight through the show he took time to talk to the crow d and let the applause die before beginning his next song. Your song “ y o u ’re the greatest audience I ever have seen” . Frenzy did creep in then when some o f the audience felt this signalled the last song, but no, “ dont worry, there’s more yet” and Bennie and the Jets and All the girls love A lice (which apparently is n ot about Alice Cooper) kept the clapping coming. When it was time for the encore, Elton pulled out the brilliant Crocodile rock, then disappeared back stage once more. His reappearance on a darkened stage in full length cape and glasses framed with flashing lights brought to mind the comparisons with Liberace — they both certainly know how to keep an audience interested. Then Satur day night is fo r fighting when, free from his piano, Elton executed a few mean jumps and dance steps and actually had the Melbourne audience joining in as he directed them . . . no easy task at any time. Certainly when it was over, those down the front o f the crowd left the ground happy and satisfied. But it is impossible not to feel cheated by the sound system. Both the band and Elton John are well worth hearing, they more than proved that, and they are worth hearing well. Through out the evening the concert was marred by the worst sound yet heard at the South Melbourne football ground. Towards the end o f the concert E lton’s voice was still dropping in volume mid song, while the technicians fumbled for a satisfactory sound mix. A t the beginning his voice was handled so badly it made you want to take the record o f f and clean the needle. Inevitably a bad sound rubs o ff on the performer, and it is high time that both prom oter and performer realised this and ensured a sound system adequate for each venue. I hope the kids who didnt pay and spent the evening listening outside on the grass werent to o disappointed by what they heard.

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Music Grants: Few favors for the youngbloods Interview

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consultant on jazz, rock, folk .etc. fo r the Music Board. M A R G A R E T M a cIN T Y R E IFTEEN million dollars is an awful lot o f bread and that’s how much was allotted to the Australian Council for the Arts in last year’s budget. This m oney is dispensed by six ad visory boards - theatre, film & television, visual & plastic arts, literature, crafts and o f course, the music board. The boards themselves are chosen by ministerial appoint ment — in the case o f the music board, recommendations for ap pointment com e from the staff o f the music board, and these must then be approved by the council which also appoints the chairman o f the board. This process o f selection has led to some bitter criticisms o f the workings o f the board, with various accusations o f favoritism, self-perpetuation, and elitism. Another course o f criticism has been the handing out o f grants: the only way for money to be allotted to artists or organisations is through their application. A p plications are then assessed for merit by the board, and grants distributed accordingly. It has been suggested that members o f the board and organisations as sociated with them have benefit ed financially from this arrange ment. However these deliberations are closed to the public, because, says Dr Jean Battersby, the ACA’ s chief executive: "It is mostly art ists now w ho are making judg ments about other artists and they’re a pretty uncharitable lo t.” Whether this system o f dispensing favors is satisfactory or not, it is the one we are stuck with for the present. Until the announcement o f the music grants last year, when a couple o f young contemporary musicians figured prominently, it could have been assumed that the council did not consider popular contemporary music art. This is one impression that Di Manson, the music board’s recently ap pointed consultant on jazz, rock, folk (“ in fact anything that does not com e under the heading o f classical” ) wishes to correct. Well, she certainly considers it art, any way. “ I’ m highly critical o f defini tions in music which tend to assume you are dealing with an educated minority audience only. It is that sort o f deadly elitist attitude which could cripple the council’s usefulness. Dr Coombs at a recent press conference man aged to give the impression that historically the arts have always been only appreciated by a minor ity, and that more or less still stands. In our field there is an obvious opportunity to break away from this attitude.” This does not appear to be such an easy task. O f a board o f 12, made up largely o f those practically involved in music, either creatively or educationally, at present only Jeannie Lewis is from the category for which Di now acts as consultant.

“ Classical music and opera in particular, are so entrenched in the council, and o f course they have such enormous companies, such as the Australian Opera Com pany to support.’ ’ In 1974 opera received $1,088,500 of the $1,285,226 approved for music grants. According to Di though, there is an increased allocation in the contemporary area, which has com e about because o f the in crease in the number o f applica tions. Di' Manson worked formerly with Aquarius, and through organ ising concerts and campus tours she saw a great deal o f the prob-

lems facing groups and single art ists today. Most markedly, she

HE Fairport Convention has been building up in the mid dle distance like an electrical storm for quite some time, and by now they no longer need a p olo gists in this country. Gone are the days when the question “ Who - or indeed what — is Fairport Convention?” was on everyone’s lips. I dont hold with the com m on belief that it is necessary for a band to continual ly change in order to remain any good — the deification o f progress has surely gone far enough with out applying it to music — and I find the consistency o f this group through many changes in person nel an admirable illustration o f the old adage: when y o u ’re on to a good thing, stick to it. Nine is the first com plete rec ord made by the group’s current line-up, R osie having been a fairly scattered effort. It presents a similar balance o f traditional and original material to the group’ s last few records. The first track, the ebullient North Country song The Hexhamshire lass, features the light and maniacal singing o f Dave Swarbrick, and moves at a frantic pace. Swarbrick is not regarded in the best o f circles as a particularly good traditional fiddler, mainly because he tries a little to o hard. But this excess o f cleverness is far better adapted to electric music than it was to his playing with the Ian Campbell group or with Mar tin Carthy. He is definitely a “ show” fiddler, and his quirky and sometimes insane playing

record is a setting o f Richard Lovelace’s poem To Althea from prison, which contains the famous lines “ stone walls d o not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage” . Swarbrick’s delicate violin, and his direct, brisk, unsentimental sing ing com bine to give this piece a haunting, melancholy elation that will keep the tune drifting around in you r head for a long time. M IK E O ’ R O U R K E Side One ends with Jerry NINE: Fairport Convention (Is Donahue’s startling instrumental T okyo. This record has been so land). effectively divided into two parts provides the lift that electric that it’s a bit hard to get into Side bands often lack, due perhaps to a T w o after listening to Side One. Bring ’em down is a big, heavy, preoccupation with drive. Polly on the shore, an agonised inspiring song with a spine-tingling vision o f a happier past in the solo from Dave Swarbrick, but Big head o f a dying privateer, has a William seems excessively pecu depth and intensity that is releas liar. I can make neither head nor ed b y one o f Fairport’s finest tail o f it, in spite o f the memor arrangements o f a traditional able refrain “ you can put it where song. Trevor Lucas’ singing o f this the m onkey sticks his nuts” . Pleasure and pain is a mournful song is beautifully understated, and shows him to have a good countrified hymn for stoics, with range o f sensitivity as well as a a refrain that sticks like a burr: Pleasure and pain is like profit powerful voice. Fairport’s playing o f tradition and gain Som etim es yo u win, sometimes al tunes since Dave Swarbrick joined the group has always been y ou lose . . . one o f their strongest drawcards. is a stirring rock song about some (What is a drawcard?) The bril thing or other. Fairport Convention is one o f liancy m edley and C herokee shuf fle are both old American stand the few groups that can powerful ards, and they play these just as ly appeal to the intellect and the well as the previous editions o f emotions at the same time. For a the band have done English, S cot band filled with virtuoso perform tish or Irish tunes on other rec ers, it is remarkable that the music ords. Dave Pegg gives a very fine never gets so damned smart that it performance o f Cherokee shuffle loses significance and cohesion. This record is positively exhilarat on the mandolin. Perhaps the finest track on the ing. Three cheers.

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Fiddler burns!

was made aware o f the enormous blanket o f paranoia which seems evident in every facet o f the music industry. “ It’s everywhere — the artists dont trust the agents who dont trust the managers who dont trust the record companies . . .

and so it goes on. I’d like to think that some o f this paranoia could be dispensed with.” And one o f her first projects will be an at tempt to d o just that. At present she is collating material which will eventually be published in the form o f a direc tory, one for each state, to aid everyone involved with music. It will list performers, record com panies, agents, concert venues, tour facilities etc. “ The idea is to make it easier for the performer to help himself. We hope to pro vide details that will enable a performer to link up a tour for himself - he can look up in our directory the likely venues, who to contact, the approximate costs.” And for the beginner wanting to break into the busi ness he will be able to look up a list o f dances, clubs or agents who are interested in hiring musicians o f his type, record companies which have a particular interest in his type o f music, even particular record producers w ho specialise in recording artists o f his category. Di sees this sort o f practical help as an alternative to specific grants to a few musicians. “ I was happy to see the travel grants made to R ob McKenzie and Glen Cardier though. The Australian music industry is so small that an artist can reach the stage when he is just not getting any creative impulse or feedback from his musical environment, and the fresh environment could give a much needed injection o f vitality. The tradition o f musicians learn ing from each other exists in America and England, whereas it doesnt seem to here.” In the next few months the board’s Music Centre will be open ed in Sydney, and Di would like to see this centre being used as much by rock and contemporary musicians as it will be b y classical musicians. It will be equipped with rehearsal rooms, a music lib rary and practical equipment such as video and tape recorders. “ There is a danger that we will be swamped by the classical musicians though - that is why it is so important that contemporary musicians learn what the centre has to offer.” Di hopes that musicians will be able to use the facilities for making dem o tapes, and rehearsals, as well as using the centre as a link with other musi cians and parts o f the industry. Eventually there are hopes for similar music centres in all states, but this will depend largely on the success o f the first. Another form o f help currently available to musicians is the spon soring o f tours, as with the tour kicking o ff in Armadale on february 27 featuring Bob Hudson, M argaret Roadknight, Mike McClennan and Graham Lowndes. It will visit Queensland from march 1-10, and then Tasmania, where Jeannie Lewis will join it from march 12-16. This however, will, probably be the last tour that Di is so actively involved in, since she feels it is unfair to spend so much time in directly helping such a small number o f artists. She would like to organise a fes tival though - perhaps an Alter native Sunbury for the Australia day weekend next year. At present Di’s hopes are high for the future relationship o f con temporary music and the music board. The fact that the board deemed contemporary music so unimportant as to leave it all to one person is one thing - the fact that that one person is Di Manson is another. Many musicians who have com e in contact with her have asked her to manage them. Happily for musicians as a whole she has refused, and now we just might see a little bit o f action in our direction from the Australian Council for the Arts, at last.

Spaniard eats Mother

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mind games, the power trips, the ego conflicts. FinaEy, one of them is destroyed. The ending is vaguely cyclical. The emperor is a small man. He HEN y ou ’re down and plays out his avatar/dicta tor/ troubled, and in a way you omnipotent/sexist fantasies on his wish every day was your last, sole subject. The fantasies are but then again no thanks, when gross, past, present and future. As the kharmic forces o f the universe the play progresses, it is apparent have delivered a series o f left hand, that his real-life m ediocfe history rips to the solar plexus and the has been the site o f far grosser referee w on ’t stop the bout . . . occurrences. The architect is the well what exactly can a poor foil, the dupe. But gradually he person do? becomes acquainted with how the The answer is, write a play West is won. He takes over, about the hard times, or maybe outplaying the emperor at his own d o an album, write a novel, knock fantasy/reality games. The archi out a few poems. Something like tect can move mountains, talk to that. birds, change the wind. He doesnt In this way y ou not only know why. That is not important. unload a bit o f it on to the He does it. The emperor tries it, typewriter keys, but (and this is but it’s like Moses versus king important) y ou put the load right Canute. The sea will not roll back on you r audience. In fact you can give them such a serve that they But enough o f the plot. It’s contemplate their own . . . yawn Arrabel translating his ruptured . . . existence, and that’s revenge. childhood into perverse entertain N ow take this guy Fernando ment. This particular production Arrabel. A Spanish chap, heavy isnt exactly as he saw it. Director catholic family, living under the Lindsay Smith and the actors kindly general Franco, his father a interpreted it in their own style. communist on the sly. Now when They expanded the opening o f the Arrabel is eight or nine, his play, and tampered with the end mother dobs his father in to o f the play to remove what was Franco, and Franco having a juicy originally an almost total circular dislike for reds has the father motion. Their statement seems to shot. Arrabel grows up a lapsed be that, well, okay it is cyclical catholic, a marxist or whatever but the sum o f past experience they call ’em these days, a hater has some effect on future o f dictators, fatherless, and most experience. o f all, with a most intense and solid Jack Hibberd, the playwright, dislike for his mother. Good also took a hand in the play. He, material for a play most people in effect, retranslated the play (a would admit. The play he writes is French translation) into a less titled The architect and The literal form and even added some em peror o f Assyria. The Mel local content. According to those bourne Pram F actory’s APG got who know, Hibberd and Arrabel hold o f it and y o u ’ll see it being have a similar feel so I assume he performed at nights in their had fun with it. A lot o f the Carlton theatre. dialogue is very Hibberd-esque, I guess this is a sort o f review though it may have been that way o f that play, although in most originally; I dont know because I senses it defies review, which is never read it. The sets were also o f a cyclical not to say it is unreviewable. A reasonable attempt to review the nature, with the designers utilising play would be longer than the old newspapers, tyres, cars and other stuff, so it look ed like a play itself, which occupies a time space o f two and a half hours. For rubbish tip, rather than a desert a two-man play that is a “ fair island. It is a brilliant set though. At times, depending on the while’ ’. fantasies the actors were trans In many ways The architect lating, it could have been tw o kids and th e em peror is like a VFL grand final at the Melbourne playing cow b oys in a dump. The Cricket Ground. There is a battle fantasies were ultimately ambigu between the two characters, the ous . . . who is going to be the girl, emperor (Max Gillies) and the who gets to put the uniform on. architect (Jon Hawkes). There is Y ou know, showing bums and not n o real identifying with either playing dead, that style o f thing. Like the conflict o f cultures in side, more a general tentative gawking, gaping, half under the play, the actors themselves standing that both characters, as offer acting identities nurtured they change m ood, emotion, from opposite poles o f the theatre direction are often opposite poles spectre. Gillies, possibly the best o f the schizoid self o f the play. In actor doing what he does in that way it is like flashes o f a Australia, is powerful enough to play out the small man’s idea o f floating madness which threatens an emperor. He offers vocal and to stop us at any time and take facial mutations good enough to over. But there is the charged atmosphere o f a fo o ty final, a outclass a ventriloquistic silent screen star. He plays the part with total involvement and the a sort o f Charlie Chaplin dictator knowing that one will “ perish” . com ic intensity, to give the script The architect and the emperor another dimension. is a confrontation between two Jon Hawkes, it is said, has a men, a series o f games, even a changing o f roles, a winner and a new theatre sort o f laid back style. It seems to be naturalistic loser on one level, and whatever but he says he can’t com e at the you make o f it on any other level. method acting scene where you Briefly, the plot. On a desert believe you are the part you act. island the architect is alone, Whatever he believes, to the naked. Serene, innocent. There is a plane crash. The sole survivor is audience he is what he acts. His performance is intense and ener the emperor. He stumbles upon getic, and totally likeable. the architect. The architect had The architect and the em peror not been conscious o f other o f Assyria, with Jon Hawkes, Max human life and is immediately Gillies, directed by Lindsay Smith hysterical. T w o years pass. The at the Pram Factory Front emperor teaches speech and theatre, starting 8 sharp. Drum history and western customs and mond street, Carlton. __ resultant paranoia. East meets

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West and with this com es the

A feast for seagulls G O U G H E. F O O T CRYSTAL V O Y A G E R : on rounds o f capital cities. HE SEA is our mother, our ancient home. Let us go back to live with her, let us worship her om nipotence and play among her tresses as she com bs them on the shore. Bitter cold and your b od y trembles with exhaustion. Som e times you nearly drown. Jeesus, big surf is really hairy. I can’t figure out why I keep on doing it . . . maybe m y friends are right when they say I’m mad . . . But Nat Young and George Greenough and Ritchie West d o it much better because they’re heavily brassed and can afford to be into it fulltime; and George has built a boat - a 38 fo o t ocean cruising yacht — so he doesnt have to hassle through the traffic and pay the little green men to park by his sea. And so he can go to all those hidden places and “ kick a pick” over the bow , live on board and paddle to the surf anytime he wants. George aims a mean camera too, and gets far back in the curl so all he can see is a little circle o f sky and land dow n a big green tunnel. People like George and Nat and Ritchie are C ool and then there’s all the p oor shits like me who have to d o the hassling and the paying and the five days at a desk and say fuck if it’s blown out at weekends. So when these high powered C ool People point cameras at each other and paste the bits into a surf movie the hasslers like me flock to it like seagulls to a rotting fish. Sometimes the movie is about as agreeable as rotting fish; some times, like with Crystal voyager, the seagulls are feasting. This discerning seagull has weathered many a surf movie ripoff and knows the good stuff when he sees it. He advises you to join the shuffling queues at Melbourne's Brighton town hall. The surfing is all California coast, mainly clean Rincon but with an offshore peak and some hidden spots. Nat aggresses on a weird little round-ended stick, finding little green pockets, smashing through to the h ook with finely controlled power. Still magic to watch, although he is no longer the undisputed master. Finally he surfs with a full-on gun, narrow and deadly, hurling it along headlong under a long teetering lip. Cut: Greenough picking over a wrecker’s yard for lead to fill the keel o f his Morning Light. Smash,

an auto hulk is pressed into a little box. Cut: the boat getting a coat o f blue paint. Cut: Greenough bouncing, dropping dow n the face o f an ugly wind-ripped Rincon wall. Cut: Ritchie West going left, board clinging grimly high up in the racing wave. Cut: Greenough knee-deep in vivid silks for his spinnaker. He and Albie Falzon, who also shot lots o f footage, have put together a peerless first half. The second half sees the boat launched and taken on her shakedown cruise, anchored o ff the beach. Boards thrown in, paddled to the surf. Becomes a bit tedious. But Greenough has saved the best bit till last, as he did in The innermost limits o f pure fun. It is lazy and slow, dow n here under the gleaming lid o f the sea, com forted b y that light pri mordial hug. Ahead a wave forms, folds forward with deliberate dignity and rejoins itself. Within

the wave a great long roll o f neatly trapped air twist like a great gleaming monster, writhes in ponderous agony at the weight thrusting on it. Then explodes in a shrapnel o f excited bubbles, winking silver and green, slam ming softly into Greenough’s lens like boiling porridge. Then through the face and he flashes along those courtly, bowing walls on his kneeboard, camera whirring on his back to play back at one tenth natural speed. See, this is what it is like, voyaging through the land o f purest tinkling crystal. A n d G reenough stays under water till sunset, film ing the warm reds and golds as th ey play on the water. The yach t rides qu ietly at anchor, the last gull w heels above the beach, and the external waves march tow ards the land. Back at the desk next day the images o f this film still glow fresh and clean in m y mind and I lust fo r Saturday.

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G a rcon the b e st c o lle c t io n o f m ale nude p h o to g ra p h y . Im m ediate delivery. Send $ 6 .0 0 t o C hrip top h er W ilde, PO b o x 50H , T errey Hills. 2 0 8 4 .

M elb ou rn e. S in cere m ale m id 50s, o w n h ou se, car, d iv o rc e d , seeks perm anent relation ship u n a tta ch ed lady, 4 5 -5 5 . L ikes dan cin g, g o o d m usic and everyth in g nice. INC b o x 7841.

Hand crafted dulcim ers fo r sale — e xce lle n t ton e and volu m e! 15 G len d on roa d . D o u b le Bay. Dis cou n t to pensioners. Phone S y d n e y 3 6 .4 5 4 4 .

S y d n e y . A ttra ctive b i-g u y , 2 3 , vir gin, n o n -sm ok er. W o u ld like same o r y o u n g e r, f o r lovin g , y a c h t part nership. N o e f ferns. INC b o x 7842.

“ T h e re ’ s one little c - - - that can d o the stunt; it’ s E skim o N ell’ s — n o t y o u rs .” T h e old favorite fo lk tale, “ T h e Ballad o f E skim o N ell” , illustrated. $ 3 .9 5 p osted . B old B o o k s, PO b o x 1 1 7 , R ed fe m . 2 1 1 0 .

S y d n e y . Male, 3 3 , tall, slim, sin gle. S eeks the unusuaL Perhaps, circu m sp e ctly , the group scen e. Is there a w o m a n , tall, co r re sp o n d ingly cu riou s, w h o ’ d b e a fe llo w traveller? INC b o x 7 8 4 3 .

E rotic h u m o r co m ix . Y o u r old c o m ic b o o k favorites d ep icted in “ A d u lt” situations. S pecial — tw o titles posted fo r $ 5 .0 0 . B old B o o k s, PO b o x 1 1 7 , R e d fe m . 2110.

T o Chris w h o answered dalliance N o . 7 5 1 1 . Please write again, and m ake a n o th e r arrangem ent. Have b e e n away on holid a ys.

Im p orted adult supplies. Film s, m agazines, novelties at realistic prices, guaranteed d elivery. B old Im ports, PO b o x 1 1 7 , R e d fe m , 2 1 1 0 , fo r m ail order.

M elbourn e gen tlem an, p ro fe s sional, warm , sin cere, w id o w e r seeking un attach ed , sincere, lo v ing w o m a n , n o o b je c tio n to ch il dren. Perm anent relation ship in view . INC b o x 7 8 0 5 .

S ch oolgirls fa n cy — still regarded b y m an y as A ustralia’ s dirtiest picture b o o k . B anned in NSW , V ic to r ia and Queensland b u t available from B o ld B o o k s, PO b o x 1 1 7 , R e d fe m , 2 1 1 0 . $ 4 .5 0 p osted .

Dalliance A lb u ry bi-guy 22, slim , g o o d lo o k in g , straight appearance, ap p reciates m usic, d o p e , co u n try , seeks sim ilar t o 25. P h o to appre ciated . INC b o x 7 8 0 4 . A lic e Springs. G ay gu y, 3 0 , sin cere, square appearance. M oving A lic e Springs n e x t m o n th , a n x iou s c o n ta c t gu ys to 3 5. F rien d ship and g o o d tim es, d iscretion assured. INC b o x 7 8 3 8 . B risbane. M iddle aged, un i-ed u ca t ed m ale, likes o cca s io n a l d aytim e m eetin g w ith heavy b o o b s attach ed t o in telligen t exh ib itio n istic fem ale. A ls o b o rin g ly m arried o r singles, w anting m ental, ph ysica l

tio n and o th e r p rob lem s. P hone 7 6 2 .4 0 8 8 m o n d a y s 2 .3 0 -4 pm , w edn esdays-th ursdays 7 .3 0 -9 pm .

Departures O verland travel th ro u g h o u t the. w orld — A sia, A frica , S ou th A m erica, Russia, fro m tours t o full scale e x p e d itio n s. C o n ta c t the experts. Trail finders, 15 H unter street, S y d n e y . P h on e 2 8 .4 0 1 1 or 3 2 3 B ou rk e street, M elbourn e.

Dialectics A stro lo gica l M e d ita tio n . W ill c o n d u c t study grou p o r co rre sp o n d on E xistential A stro lo g y and Dane R ud hyar. J o h n F lyn n , B o x 117 , U n ion , S y d n e y Uni. P hone 8 2 .5 0 8 8 .

Deliveries Lesbian, fem in ist, h o m o s e x u a l lit erature, in clu d in g p o e tr y , novels, anthologies. D o c t o r D u n ca n R e v o lu tio n B o o k s h o p , P.O . B o x 1 1 1 , E a stw o o d , S A 5 0 6 3 . Free cata logu e m o n th ly . B o o k n e w s $ 1 .5 0 Pa.

Distress Brisbane. I’ m 2 7, m ale, in tel ligent, nice, e m p lo y e d , e x tre m e ly op en m in d ed , and c o m p le te ly d es perate t o raise $ 1 0 0 0 . O ffe r s? (N o drugs.) INC b o x 7 8 3 7 .

M o ro cca n m o n e y beads — lim ited supply. A n tiq u e, $ 1 .0 0 e a ch ; with rh odiu m chain, $ 1 .6 0 . INC b o x 7 8 3 6 . Dealers or jew ellery makers call 8 6 .1 0 8 8 S yd n e y fo r details (a fter 4 p m ).

Dealings

Diallings M e lb o u r n e . “ C h ild r e n by C h o ice ” . In fo rm a tio n and referral service fo r a b o rtio n , co n tra ce p -

B een ch eated la te ly ? ?? N o w have w h at y o u want. C o m p le te ly un cen sored , u n in h ib ited , im p o rte d

■Sexist Ads S M A L L P E N IS ? IM P O T E N T ? THE V A C U U M E N L A R G E R G U A R A N T EES P E N IL E E N L A R G E M E N T . h a v e f u e l r a n g e h a r d c o r e c o l o r f il m s

N o m in a te o n e listed heading on ly .'

T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S O N L Y ( ) N A T IO N R E V IE W A N D TH E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S ( F IR S T A V A I L A B L E O F E ITH E R P U B L IC A T IO N ( )

“ a c tio n ” p h o to s , b o o k s , films. T ry b e fo re b u yin g. $ 1 .0 0 fo r sam ple and catalogue. The Manager, PO b o x 1 3, E d g e cliff, NSW . 2 0 2 7 .

M ackay, Q u eensland. Y o u n g gu y, 2 1, b i-cam p , seeks co m m u n ica tio n w ith others sim ilar age in area. V ie w friendship. IN C b o x 7840.

Ind icate with cross where c o p y is to b e p ublished . Insertion co s ts are co n sta n t fo r each appearance irre spectiv e o f p u b lic a tio n /s used.

P lease insert this a d vertisem en t in: N A T IO N R E V IE W O N L Y (

M arat/Sade op e n s Brisbane reper t o r y ’ s La B oite theatre, late june. Intensive w o rk sh o p s n o w w ith cast co re group . E xcitin g ideas. In fo rm a tio n b o x 3 0 8 , T o o w o n g . D u om o.

variety. D iscre tio n req u ired , assur ed. INC b o x 7 8 3 9 .

(M -F ) (F -F ) F U L L A C T IO N S L ID E S , PR IN T S F O R D E T A IL S SEND STAM PED A D D R ESSED EN VELO PE TO : R IC H A R D S L A B S , B o x 2 7 9 , P. 0 . G R A N V IL L E , 2 1 4 2 .

A ll c o p y m ust be printed IN B LO C K L E T T E R S o n this form — c o p y su b m itte d in any o th e r style is u n a cce p ta b le . T e le p h o n e nu m bers and addresses m ust in d ica te c ity o f lo ca tio n . D w ellings and Dalliance ads m ust c o m m e n c e w ith their lo c a tio n , eg. Canberra. C o p y is u n ce n so re d e x c e p t where necessary fo r p u b lish er’ s legal p ro te ctio n .

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Set of 10 photos ten dollars

D E A D L IN E S D -n otices f o r N a tion R e v ie w : n o o n , T u esd a y p rio r to p u b lica tio n . Dr n o tice s f o r T h e Living D a yligh ts: n o o n , Thu rsday p rio r to p u b lica tion . INC B O X N U M B E R S

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A dvertisers using INC B ox nu m bers f o r replies m ust a llow 3 w ord s in te x t and add 20 ce n ts fo r this fa cility — we forw a rd replies w eek ly . D alliance ads m ust use INC B ox n u m b er, w h ich we a llocate b e fo re publishing. A D V E R T IS IN G C O S T S A ctiv ity ca te g o rie s determ in e the basic co st. C ateg ory (A ) is fo r free p u b lic m eetings ($ 1 for 21 w ord s). C ategory (B ) is fo r individuals ad vertising u n d e r a n y heading ($ 2 fo r 21 -w ords). C ateg ory (C ) is fo r any b u s in e s s enterprise advertising u n d er any heading ($ 3 fo r 21 w o r d s ). ALL A D D IT IO N A L W O R D S 1 0c EAC H . R E P L IE S V IA IN C B O X N O S . All replies t o INC B ox nu m bers m ust b e in a sta m p ed, sealed, u n addressed e n v e lo p e with the adver tiser’ s D -n o tice b o x n u m b er clearly w ritten in th e t o p le ft co rn e r. This envelopV is to be e n c lo s e d in a se co n d o n e addressed t o : INC Dn otices, G PO B ox 5 3 1 2 BB, M el b ou rn e, 3 0 0 1 . D alliance re sp o n d e n ts m ust in clu d e $ 2 p a y m e n t with ea ch rep ly w hen sending to IN C fo r forw ardin g to advertisers. N o n -co m p ly in g letters are d e stro y e d .

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ing their first directory. Get one for yourself, it's free; then you pay a buck for the newsletter and zap, y o u ’re part o f the Learning Network. Send to Bruce Abra hams, 9 Burgoyne street, Gordon, NSW 2072. STEPH EN W A L L NOTHER one for you Blue. Methane, fuel o f the future, a 90 pager on how to transform shit into fuel, what to use, where to get it, how to d o it and what to d o with it once you have it. Hurry up though Blue, ’cause some o f the heaviest research organisations in the world are about to blast the whole concept out o f our range. Get this b ook before the boffins jargonise the methods; it’s put out by a group o f people based in the UK countryside and it’ s simple yet comprehensive. Reminds me o f the methane worker w ho threw himself into his w ork; he couldnt swim but he went through the motions. Enough o f this filth. Send one pound ten for an air mail cop y to Andrew Singer, Bot-

tisham Park Mill, Bottisham Cam bridgeshire, England.

THERE’S a new learning/skills ex change in Sydney. Called The Learning Network, it is not a conventional organisation, it does not manufacture a product, or create a service to be sold to consumers. “ The network is an idea, a consciousness-raising, lib erating environment, a ‘w eb ’ pro viding access to people and things, a comm unity form ing catalyst.” What’s all that mean? Well, there are d iscu ssion/learn in g/action groups about to begin, there’s a newsletter and all sorts o f other goodies. It is n ot much use rehash-

^M ELBO U R N E: H + Continued from centre spread. F IS T O F F U R Y (M ) a k a ra te f i l m , t i l th u rs d a y , th e n W H A T ’ S U P D O C ? (G ) — a g o o d g ig g le : F o o ts c ra y G ra n d , P a isle y s tre e t, F o o ts c r a y , 7 d a y s , 7 .4 0 p m , $ 1 . 4 0 , 6 8 .1 1 3 8. TR AVELS W IT H MY A U N T (M ) — E N G L A N D MADE M E (M ): D endy, M a lv e rn , G le n f e r r ie ro a d , M a lv e r n , 7 d a y s , $ 2 .5 0 , 5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 . THE BABY (N R C ) and THE R U L IN G C LA S S (M ): D endy, B r ig h to n , C h u rc h s tre e t, B r ig h to n . N ig h t ly 7 .4 5 , S a tu rd a y 3 .3 0 , S u n da y 1 .4 5 pm , $ 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 , 4 4 5 T o o r a k ro a d , n ig h tly 6 .0 0 p m , 8 .3 0 p m , S a tu r d a y 2 .3 0 p m , S u n d a y 5 .0 0 pm , 8 .0 0 p m , 2 4 .9 3 3 3 , $ 2 .5 0 . I A M C U R IO U S , Y E L L O W ( R ) : P a la is, S t K ild a , n ig h t ly 8 .1 5 , S a tu rd a y 4 .1 5 p m . $ 2 .5 0 , 9 4 .0 6 5 1 , $ 1 .5 0 s tu d e n ts . THE H IR E L IN G (N R C ): R iv o li T w in 1, C a m b e rw e ll J u n c t io n , n ig h tly 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 stu d e n ts , 8 2.1 2 2 1 . C R IE S A N D W H IS P E R S — t i l l W e d n e sd a y — L O V E (G ) b e g in s th u rs d a y — a w a rd w in n in g H u n g a ria n f i l m : R iv o li T w in 2 , C a m b e r w e ll J u n c t io n , n ig h t ly 8 .1 5 p m , S a tu rd a y , Sun 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 . L A S T T A N G O IN P A R IS (R ) f r o m th u rs d a y . T R I P L E E C H O (M ) w it h G le n da Jackson and O liv e r R e e d , a n d IM A G E S w it h S u s a n n a h Y o r k : H o y t s M a l v e rn , G le n fe r rie a n d D a n d e n o n g ro a d , n ig h tly 7 .3 0 p m , S a tu rd a y S u n da y 3 .4 5 p m , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 s tu d e n ts . 5 0 .3 1 9 3 . C A B A R E T (M ) t i l W ednes d a y , L O V E , P A IN A N D THE W H O LE DAMN T H IN G fro m th u r s d a y : H o y ts , C a m b e r w e ll, 7 3 4 B u rk e ro a d , n ig h tly 8 .0 0 p m , S a tu rd a y 4.1 5 p m , Sun d a y 5 .0 0 p m , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 , 8 2 .1 0 0 0 . T H E G O D F A T H E R (R ): H o y ts , B e n tle ig h , C e n tre ro a d , B e n tle ig h , n ig h tly

rfcleC cU d e on M a r ily n N W S -9 , 7 .3 0 p m .

P OE TR Y R A G A ARTS GROUP — G in g e r W o rk s h o p , also m u s ic , film s , e tc : 1 A r t h u r s tre e t, U n le y .

E VE N T S N A T U R A L DANCE C L A S S : c n r Q u e e n and W illia m s tre e ts , N o r w o o d , $ 1.0 0 .

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R OC K SLADE IN CO NCERT: 8 .0 0 p m , M e m o r ia l d riv e , $ 4 .7 0 .

J E Z E B E L and N O W V O Y A G E R — N a tio n a l F ilm T h e a tre of A u s tr a lia — “ Im ages o f th e M in d ” sea so n : 7 .3 0 p m , S ta te G o v e r n m e n t th e a tr e tte , sta te a d m i n is t r a t i o n b u ild in g , V i c t o r ia sq ua re . M e m b e rs o n ly , M e m b e r s h ip $ 3 .0 0 (o v e r 18 — j o i n a t d o o r ) . P ro g ra m $ 1 .2 0 , s tu d e n ts 8 0 c .

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CATACOM BS — open n ig h t, a n y o n e ca n p la y : 1 H a c k n e y ro a d , H a c k n e y .

B IE D E M A N N A N D T H E F I R E B U G : see W e d ne sd a y. D A M E S A T S E A — T o rc h P la y e rs : 8 .1 5 p m , S c o tt th e a tr e , 30s m u s ic a l, $ 1 .6 0 , $ 1 .0 0 . N A T IO N A L D A N C E CO O F S E N E G A L : see W e d nesd a y.

B IE D E M A N N A N D T H E F I R E B U G — T h e r r y D ra m a tic S o c ie ty p re s e n ts a m o r a lit y w it h o u t a m o ra l: W illa r d h a ll, W a k e fie ld s tre e t, 8.1 5 p m . N A T IO N A L D A N C E CO OF SENEG AL: F e s tiv a l th e a tre , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 5 .7 0 , $ 4 .7 0 , $ 3 .7 0 . s tu d e n ts * 2 . 20 .

MEETING C e n tre f o r th e re a l a p p ro a c h to p e o p le . M e e tin g to d iscu ss a lte rn a tiv e s to e x is tin g p s y c h ia tr ic i n s t it u tio n s : 8 .0 0 p m a p p r o x , 1 W illia m s tre e t, N o r w o o d .

TV M A R I L Y N — d o c u m e n ta r y

J AZZ YARRA YARRA JAZZ BAND: O ld M e lb o u r n e M o to r In n , F le m in g to n ro a d , N o rth M e lb o u r n e , 7 .3 0 pm , m o n d a y - s a tu r d a y , p lu s 3 .0 0 p m S a tu rd a y a fte r n o o n .

COURT D R A M A M E M B E R S V . H O S P IT A L EM PLO YEES U N IO N : C o m m o n w e a lth In d u s tr ia l C o u r t, 1st f lo o r , 451 B o u rk e s tre e t, C it y , 1 0 .3 0 - 1 2 .4 5 , 2 -4 p m . D ress in f o r m a l.

TV GTK: ABV 2 m ondayth u r s d a y 6 .3 0 p m . S E S A M E S T R E E T f o r k id s o f a ll ages: A B V - 2 , m o n d a y fr id a y , 3 .0 0 a m a n d 4 .3 0 pm .

RADIO CO U NTRY & W ESTERN: 3 K Z , 5 - 5 .3 0 am , s o ng s f o r

e p is o d e o f B B C , s e ria lis a tio n o f T o l s t o y ’ s n o v e l: A B S 2 , 9 .1 5 p m . W I L T O N ’S , T H E H A N D S O M E S T H A L L IN T O W N — P e te r S e lle rs , W a rre n M itc h e ll, S p ik e M illig a n , R o n n ie B a r k e r a n d K e it h M ic h e ll — p ro g ra m act t y p ic a l o f L o n d o n m u s ic h a ll in 1 8 5 0 s : A B S 2 , 1 0 .0 0 pm .

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sleepless e d ito r s . A M E R IC A N T O P 4 0 : g o o d so ng s n o t a v a ila b le h ere , 3 K Z , 2 .3 0 - 3 .0 0 am . V A R I E T Y - m u s ic h a ll, c o m e d y : 3 K Z , 3 .3 0 - 4 .0 0 am . M U S IC TO M ID N IG H T : 3 L O , 1 0 .0 0 p m - 1 2 . 0 0 m id n ite .

CI RC US M O S C O W C IR C U S : B o o k a t M y e rs , $ 4 .2 0 , $ 5 .2 0 , $ 6 .2 0 , 6 6 2 .3 0 5 0 , o r see it a ll o n T V fre e .

BOOK NOW D A V I D C A S S ID Y : M a rc h 1 0, M C G , $ 3 .2 0 . V A L D O O N 1C A N : M a rc h 5, F e s tiv a l h a ll, 8 .1 5 pm , $ 5 .2 0 , $ 4 .2 0 . S L A N S K — T h e P o lis h N a tio n a l S o n g a n d D a n c e C o : M a rc h 1 9 -3 1 . THE N A T IO N A L THE ATRE OF THE DEAF: M a rc h 9 -1 6 , P rin c e s s th e a tre , 8 .1 5 p m , m a tin e e s : m a rc h 1 4 a n d m a rc h 16, 2 .0 0 p m . A D E L A ID E F E S T IV A L : M a rc h 9 -1 6 . M O R N IN G OF THE EARTH: D a v id B o w ie , 6 3.1 0 9 3 .

U N L I K E L Y DE LI GH T S K O O -W E E -R U P POTA T O F E S T IV A L : F e b ru a ry 2 7 - m a r c h 2 . F e s tiv a l B a ll,

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A d e la id e a ir p o r t . Keep w a t c h in g a ll c h a n n e ls th r o u g h o u t th e d a y f o r th e c o n t in u in g saga: N W S -9 , 1 2 .0 0 n o o n .

IN ENGLAND, a non profit organisation called “ Uncareers” publishes a 40 page Directory o f Alternative Work. It lists vacancies and ideas for idealistic and non

fe b r u a r y 27, C a rn iv a l m a rc h 2. B e c o m e P o ta to F e s tiv a l Q u e e n ! o r A u s tr a lia n P o ta to P ic k in g C h a m p io n ! L a rg e p riz e s f o r th e d a rin g . BALLARAT B E G O N IA F E S T I V A L : m a rc h 1 -1 1 . 11 fa b u lo u s f u n - f ille d d a y s a n d n ig h ts o f m u s ic , a r tis tic o r ju s t p la in f u n — rin g B a lla r a t 3 1 .1 9 9 1 or 3 1 .2 0 0 8 ( A H ) . BELM O NT COMMON R A IL W A Y , G EELO N G : R eal s te a m tr a in s and m u s e u m Vz m ile tr a c k — 5 0 c f a m i ly , 2 0 c a d u lt, 1 0 c k id s ( b y d o n a tio n ) .

TH AT’S it fo r this week. The statistic for the week is 6388 — that’s how many lucky people were fined in 1973 for merely placing a limb out o f a car win dow. Safety first? Send feedback to PO b o x 8, Surry Hills, 2010.

B A N D r e c it a l: C it y sq ua re , 3 .0 0 p m , s u n d a y . POETRY R E A D IN G S : m o n d a y , M L C th e a tr e tte , 8 .0 0 p m . THE CHESKOO R AR EE S H O W w it h T o m W itt in g s lo w : C it y s q u a re , 1 2 .0 0 n o o n . R o lle r c y c lin g , w a te r s k iin g , g ir l g u id e s , b a to n tw ir lin g , c o u n t r y a n d w e s t e rn , U k r a in ia n d a n c in g , c ir c u s p o w e r lif t in g . . . Parks, m a te . O h y e s , a n d s p o r t t o o , a n d a r i p - o f f g u id e f o r 5 0 c e n ts , a n d s p e a k ers f o r u m in F lin d e r s p a rk w h ic h is p r o b a b ly th e o n ly th in g w h ic h is n t s p o n s o re d .

E X T R A P LA Y S

(o r th e s lig h tly less b o r in g s tu ff) MARDI GRAS: F r id a y , m a rc h 1, 9 .0 0 p m . THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS: S id n e y M y e r M u s ic B o w l, S a tu rd a y 8 .0 0 p m , s u n d a y 2 .3 0 p m . LITERARY AW ARDS D IN N E R : U n io n , M e l b o u r n e u n i, 6 .3 0 p m . ABC PROM CO NCERT: S a tu rd a y , M e lb o u r n e to w n h a ll, 8 .0 0 p m . S A L V A T I O N ARMY

L IL IE S O F T H E F IE L D b y W . E . B a r r e t t, p re s e n te d by th e M a lv e r n T h e a tr e C o m p a n y : A M P th e a tr e tte , B o u rk e s tr e e t, m onday, 8 .0 0 p m .

EXHIBITIONS NEEDLEW O RK AND TAPESTRY: 3 rd f lo o r , 1 8 0 F lin d e r s s tre e t, 9 .0 0 a m -8 .4 5 p m , f r i d a y ; 9 .0 0 a m -1 2 .0 0 pm S a tu rd a y , 9 .0 0 a m - 5 .4 5 p m m o n d a y . P O T T E R Y b y W a r r a n d y te A r ts A s s o c ia tio n : A M P th e a tr e tte , 5 3 5 B o u rk e s tre e t, 9 a m - 1 0 p m d a ily . H A N D IC R A F T S : Low er P laza, S o u th e r n C ro s s , 9 .0 0 a m -9 .0 0 pm fr id a y , 9 .0 0 a m - 5 .0 0 p m S a tu rd a y , 9 .0 0 a m - 5 .3 0 p m m o n d a y . HANDW EAVERS AND S P IN N E R S : G u ild , 31 V i c to r ia s tre e t, 1 0 .0 0 a m -4 .0 0 p m S a tu rd a y o n ly .

IN T H E H E A R T O F T H E B R IT IS H MUSEUM by J o h n S p u rtin g , p re s e n te d b y th e F r a n k s to n T h e a tre C o m p a n y : f r id a y , 8 .0 0 p m , AMP th e a tr e tte , B o u rk e MOOMBA N O S T A L G IA s tre e t, C ity . b y W in e a n d B r a n d y p r o MR JO N A H and D O N T d u c e rs : L o w e r to w n h a ll, K N O C K J O N A H — m u s ic a l pm S a tu rd a y , p la y s p re s e n te d b y M e l 6 .0 0 - 1 0 .0 0 1 1 .0 0 am -1 0 .0 0 p m s u n d a y b o u rn e R e v iv a l C e n tre : and m o n d a y . R ia lto th e a tre , K e w , S a tu r S T A R S B Y N IG H T A N D d a y , S u n da y, 8 .0 0 p m . P la n e ta r iu m , 304 M Y T H R E E A N G E LS by D A Y , Sam a n d B e lla S p e w a c k : S w a n s to n St., 11 a m , 2 p m , A M P th e a tr e tte , S a tu rd a y , 3 .3 0 p m S a tu rd a y o n ly . 8 .0 0 p m . M OOM BA W ORD M ACH S K Y B E R S b y B a r r y R ec- IN E , D o rc h e s te r, A le x a n d e r k o r d p re s e n te d b y A d e lp h i g ard e n s, 6 - 1 0 .3 0 p m sat, th e a tr e g r o u p : A M P th e 9 a m - 1 0 .3 0 p m s u n , 6 -1 0 p m a tr e tte , s u n d a y , 8 .0 0 p m . m o n .

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RADIO P IC K O F T H E 5 C L , 1 1 .3 0 a m .

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ROCK M A N S F IE L D P A R K h o te l, $ 1 .5 0 , G ra n d J u n c t io n ro a d , M a n s fie ld P a rk .

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8 .0 0 p m , S a t u r d a y 1 .0 0 p m , 4 .1 5 p m , s u n d a y 5 .0 0 p r.i, 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 stu d e n ts and p e n sio n e r s, 9 7 .1 6 0 0 . CRYSTAL VOYAGER, s u rf m o v ie w it h so m e m u s ic by P in k F lo y d : B r ig h to n to w n h a ll, m o n d a y - f r id a y , 8 .3 0 pm , 6 3 .1 0 3 9

profit projects; for example, living and working in residential thera peutic communities, cooperative workshops, com m unity action projects, alternative schools in formation and counselling net works, alternative media, working in developing countries, radicals in the professions etc. An Uncareers directory for Victoria is at present being com piled by the Graduate Careers Council o f Victoria. The co m pilers need help — they need ideas, information and on-going project details for work situations differing from the mainstream scow. So if you k n ow o f good work situations, openings, organ isations let the GCC o f V. know at • 191 R oyal parade, Parkville, 3052; Ph. 347.4644.

Merran and John, P.O. Box 135 Upper Sturt 5156. Phone: 278-1811.

FOLK M O O N S H IN E J U G A N D S T R IN G B A N D : M o d b u r y h o te l, 6 0 c .

IT LOOKS like some o f the DLM proselytes are about to devote some energy and resources to some o f our more material p rob lems — which is good and really about time. They sent the fo llo w ing feedback to Access: The Divine Light Mission in Sydney is building up a file on alternative technology as prepara tion for DOVE — a festival in the Nimbin-style, which will be held on a 160 acre site o f f Main Arm road, Mullumbimby in july. The theme and aim o f the festival will be to set up teaching/learning situ ations in alternative technology and other crafts and skills, includ ing a fullscale pottery class which will be run b y the world-famous potter Gwyn Hanssen. The whole

thing will be an attempt to focus the energy o f as many alternative life style people as possible in the one spot at the same time so that real comm unication and teaching/ learning o f skills will occur. The DLM hopes that a permanent com m unity will arise out o f DOVE on the same site at Mul lumbimby. In the meantime, the alternative technology file is avail able for anyone who wants to obtain inform ation from it, or to contribute something to it. Par ticularly, it contains overseas books and pamphlets on alterna tive sources o f energy and au tonom ous housing which are not generally available in Australia. Contact: Neville, Divine Light Mission, 14 Wentworth avenue, Sydney, 61.2962 or David, 662.3171.

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F OLK CATACO M BS — Tony H o s i, J u d it h C ro s s le y a nd o th e r s : 1 H a c k n e y ro a d , H a c k n e y , 8 0 c , 8 .0 0 pm .

R E P U L S IO N , R o m a n P o l a n s k i; JE T ’A I M E , JE T ’A I M E , R esn a is: N a tio n a l F ilm T h e a tre o f A u s tr a lia “ Im ages o f th e m in d ’ ’ season: 7 .3 0 p m a t R o th m a ns th e a tr e tte , W a y v ille s h o w g ro u n d s . G oodwood ro a d . M e m b e rs o n ly . M e m b e rs h ip $ 3 .0 0 (o v e r 18 y e a rs — j o i n a t d o o r .) P ro g ra m $ 1 .2 0 , s tu d e n ts 8 0 c .

S O V IE T SONG AND D A N C E E N S E M B L E : see f r id a y .

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N A T I O N A L DANCE COMPANY OF SENE G A L : see W e d n e s d a y .

M O N T Y P Y T H O N ’S F L Y IN G C IR C U S : A B S -2 , 9 -1 0 pm .

A M B A S S A D O R h o t e l, 1 0 7 K in g W illia m s tr e e t, 8 -1 2 pm , 50c.

B IE D E M A N N A N D T H E F I R E B U G : see W e d n e sd a y . DAMES AT SEA: see t h u rs d a y .

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EVENTS

B IE D E M A N N A N D T H E F I R E B U G : see W e d n e sd a y . DAMES AT SEA: see t h u rs d a y . N A T IO N A L D A N C E CO O F S E N E G A L : see W ed n esd a y.

G A L A F A I R : W e llin g to n s q u a re . N o rth A d e la id e , 1 0 .0 0 a m - 4 .0 0 p m . B lin d W e lfa re A s s o c ia tio n — d is p la y s and s ta lls .

M A N S F I E L D P A R K h o te l, G ra n d J u n c t io n ro a d , M a n s fie ld p a r k , $ 1 . 5 0 .

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R O C K A N D R O L L L IV E S — J o h n , P a u l, G e o rg e and R in g o . T h e f i r s t o f fiv e s p e c ia l p ro g ra m s o n r o c k ’ n r o ll : N W S -9 , 6 .0 0 p m . K E IT H M IC H E L L AT H E R M A J E S T Y ’S — f i r s t o f th r e e p ro g ra m s p re s e n t ing p a s t p e r fo rm a n c e s a t fa m o u s L o n d o n th e a tre s . DISTRACTIONS P re s e n ts s o m e o f th e p r o d u c t io n s a t H e r M a je s ty ’ s R O Y A L V I S I T 1 9 7 4 — a r f r o m 1 7 0 5 t o th e p r e s e n t: riv a l o f H e rs a n d H is R H a t | A B S - 2 , 7 .3 0 p m .____________

T H E S O V IE T S O N G A N D D A N C E E N S E M B L E a nd P O E M O F D A N C E S ( B a l le t ) : W a rn e r th e a tr e , 1 0 0 K in g W illia m s tre e t, 1 1 .0 0 a m , 2 .0 0 p m , 5 .0 0 p m , 8 .0 0 p m .

MAN IN Q U E S T IO N — LEONARD FRENCH. D o c u m e n ta r y o n th e A u s tr a lia n a r tis t: A B S -2 , 9 .4 5 pm .

RADIO O n e o f a series o n th e F e s tiv a l o f A r t s p e rs o n a l itie s and fe s tiv a l p re v ie w s : 5 C L , 1 0 .1 0 a m .

GALLERIES B E L A I R C E L L A R S : P a in t in g s and H a n d c r a fts , 2 .0 0 - 6 .0 0 p m . THE H IL L S K IT C H E N RESTAURANT: 1 2 .0 0 n o o n - 8 .3 0 p m . E x h ib i t i o n b y T e re n c e T e r r y : 1 9 C o rra m a n d e l p a ra d e , B la c k w ood.

tu e s d a y - t h u r s d a y , 1 1 .0 0 a m -6 .0 0 p m , f r id a y 1 1 .0 0 a m -9 .0 0 p m . “ A d a m K r ie g a l” , 8 8 J e rn in g h a m s tre e t, N o r t h A d e la id e . L ID U M S G A L L E R Y : tu e sd a y -s a tu rd a y , 1 0 .0 0 am 5 .0 0 pm , S unday 1 .0 0 p m -5 .0 0 p m . E x h ib i t i o n o f opal je w e lle r y , D a v id B o y d ’ s p a in tin g s a n d p o t te r y b y B a r r y S in g le to n .

fto o & tto to F I LM E N V I R O N M E N T A L C IN EMA: G e o rg e A n d e rs o n and s tu d e n ts and “ The S even Y e llo w M o n th s ” — a n ew f i l m b y A g g y R ea d .

THEATRE R e x C r a m p h o rn e d ire c ts P E R F O R M A N C E S Y N D I C A T E in a n e w w o r k . F L IN D E R S D R A M A C E N T R E p re s e n ts th re e o n e act FI LM A u s tr a lia n p la y s . T R A S H and F L E S H , A n d y M U R R A Y P A R K C A E p re W a r h o l: C a p ri, G o o d w o o d , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 and $ 2 .2 5 . sents a n e w p la y f o r c h il d re n — D ir e c to r , W a r w ic k C o o p e r: “ D a n M o rg a n and FOLK PANCAKE K IT C H E N — th e B o u n c in g B u n y ip o f B a n d ic o o t R e a c h .” ja m sessions and s in g a lo n g : u p to 4 0 c e n ts c o v e r ch arg e , H A M L E T O N IC E — A n a d u lt p a n t o m im e : S h e r i 13 G ilb e r t p la ce , A d e la id e . d a n th e a tre .

OTHERS DOROTHY PLAK — “ C re a tiv e C r a ft W o rk s h o p ” : D r o p in f o r a d v ic e o n a n y c r a ft y o u m a y care to m e n tio n . 5 7 M a g ill ro a d , S t P e te rs.

GALLERIES LLE W ELLYN G A LLE R Y:

OTHERS CRAFT F A IR : m a rc h 1 6 -1 7 , E ld e r P a rk . C o n ta c t C r a ft A s s o c ia tio n i f y o u w is h to c o n t r ib u te . I RAGA ARTS GROUP: R e g u la r fr e e c o n c e r ts in p a rk s a ro u n d to w n , f e a tu r ing J o h n n y E g o and h is a ll-s ta rs b a n d .

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W e can’t run ’em if w e can’t read ’em.Do ’em neat.

present life span. Y ou all know that all evil everywhere will be totally eradicated for the absolute infinity within the time that the present generation of children w ho are your salvation are living freedom fo r the all enveloping infinity. Teach your children what you are presently spreading to them, for it is o f God and therefore perfection. The revolution is over in America, due mainly to the powers contained within and w ithout music o f the pyschedelic generation. Write yourself a truthfilled bible. Write a history o f the life and death o f all humanity. Sing and dance and celebrate for we are the generation that is making music that celebrates the total and complete eradication o f all bad and all evil everywhere in this lifetime. I send all o f gods’ love to you all forever more. CURLY L om e, Vic.

The beast speaks “ TRAPPED” o f Wodonga was both amusing and rather sad. I thought I'd present the other side. I’m just home and it’s pay day. I know it’s pay day, the missus always puts a dress on then . . . over her blue jeans. From a 1947 w om en’s journal, she read where deodorants block up the skin pores and are harmful and she aint going to be otherwise convinced. I’ve dropped hints like “ fancy being able to smell the neighbour’ s garbage in a rain storm” . I’ve $84.60 cash, o f which $26 goes for rent, the rest for the kids’ lunches, the TV, the pile o f overdue accounts from everyone except the milk man. Sure I’m suspicious, but a row could well put another bill on the pile and this is what greets me. She’ s looking forward to the menopause, she thinks it’ s a rest from men. Her d octor told her it’ s okay for her to menstruate 10 days a month. Oh, I could stretch it out. Besides the “ no deodorant use” she w on ’ t clean any o f the teeth she has left, her cooking finished o ff the rest. She watches so much TV her glasses now look like the bottom o f a Coke bottle. She knows all of Tony Barber’s personal life b ut thinks Watergate’s a new housing development. She wraps the kids’ lunches in the daily paper before reading it. I see where the average wage is $110, so I’m missing ou t everywhere. I’ m frightened to go to a marriage councellor as he’d suggest suicide. "Sydney H u b b y" McMahons Point, NSW.

Bootlegger RECENTLY, listening to good music, a d oor into a realm of higher consciousness was opened unto me. This d oor led into a rather different space than the usual ascetic delights music provides. This was concerned with more everyday affairs: the abnormally high prices o f those bits o f plastic and strips o f tape which convey these delights. But there is a way to beat these rip-offs. It involves a system o f buying records, taping them, then reselling the once-played records. R ecord new @ $6.50. C90 cassette @ $1.00 (oneside). Resale o f record @ $3.00. Price paid for album b y owner of tape: $4.50. Price paid for record: $3.00. Everyone benefits. All we need is a good medium for advertising the sales and w e’ll have music for the people. H ow about it TLD. KEVIN LA V E R Y Brian Hill, Vic.

Breaking the chains DEAR TRAPPED, Have just read your letter in the last issue o f TLD. Y ou just said it all. But apart from your personal pergatory o f the moment, I feel I should tell you that you can write, and you should write a lot more. Now is the time. Your letter ought to be emblazoned along every factory wall, along every office facade. It ought to appear on the front page o f every businessman’s office newsletter and commercial journal. It is pure truth. It is also prophecy, because it represents the awakening o f woman hood in this day to the repressed role to which she has been condemned for too long. As to what you can do, taking into consideration the welfare o f the children, I suggest to you that you take department o f social welfare or its them away with you and salvage what equivalent and take legal steps to you can from the home-jail. Clear out ensure your husband contributes his while it is at “ w ork ” . What he is doing share — they’re his responsibility to o — to you is clearly to be classified as if he w on't d o so wUlingly. Or leave “ mental cruelty” . Advise the central them with him, as so many men leave social welfare office — state and federal their children with their wives without — setting out your case in as clear a second or a first thought. terms as your letter, with as much If you stay, assert yourself and extra detail as possible. If you have any refuse sex if you don t want it. It’ s photos which back you up . . . maybe maddening but a husband feels n o guilt one o f his best will be enough . . . send at wanting sex more often than his them with your dossier. wife, yet if she refuses even once a A t the same time contact as many year, she can be prey to incredible wom en's welfare groups. Perhaps it guilt. It’s unfortunate that w om en may be an idea to contact them first. usually find themselves in the position Their files should be overflowing with o f denying, but it’s not fair that we similar cases o f social injustice. should feel guilty about this. Insist on Finally, the best o f G od’s luck to a say in family outings and d o as you you. And just remember, y o u ’ve got wish, such as seeing friends; it’s your evolution on your side. right and you neednt be apologetic FRED BAXTER about it. Daw Park, SA. Or else stop complaining. If you dont make a move it’s not because the rules o f society, your husband or anyone else has trapped you, rather you are trapped by your own fear. Fear o f the unknown life that you would lead apart from your husband; “ TRAPPED” o f Wodonga (TLD 2/7) fear o f having no male around to asks someone to tell her the right handle all the difficult and dirty jobs move. The right move depends on what and to turn to if things get hard for she really wants and how she really you ; fear o f being categorised as an feels about her husband, her children “ inhuman monster” for leaving your and her responsibilities to them, but I children; fear o f emotional scenes and unpleasantness. It could b e one, all, or can see several possibilities. Leave; and if y o u ’re scared or lonely none o f these fears but if you that the help I’ve contact your local council social acknowledge does exist, and are worker or a government social worker mentioned to find out organisations o f people in dissatisfied with the present situation similar circumstances who could give and yet, d o nothing to change your y ou em otional support and practical situation, then what is it but fear o f advice. There are no physical holds on some sort. Fear then is ready with new you — you're not chained, not bound excuses for inertia whenever the old ones are solved. by law to stay. JANETTE LANSDOWNE If you want to take your children Beverly Hill, NSW. with you seek financial help from the

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Mayonnaise on Turkish Delight TO WHOEVER reads this letter, good m orrow to you. A friend o f mine said to me that y o u people kind o f like “ off-beat” items. Well I have a small suggestion to put to you. In your next issue, or whatever, you could have a section in which you could ask your readers to put forward their suggestions as to the question, or rather statement as to their favorite recipe, drink, or particular o f fo o d when on e g e ts th e M A R IJ U A N A “ munchies” . Yours very stony L A R R Y MATTHEWS, from HaHaVille.

A pearl from Curl DEAREST elves, people, wizards and warriors carrying on the fight to eradicate evil for all time everywhere. We of Spaced H oney Dew salute you. D o what you now know you have to d o forever more and feel the cry o f all angels everywhere sending all their powers to help you in your cause and you alone and you united with God from 5,000,000,000 light years advanced over Nixon. Love is all you need so why desire anything else. M oney is for free but it’s worth nothing. Share everything you own which is what you create and own nothing and gain everything. All music is transitional dependence on all intergalactic brothers and sisters whose all encompassing eternal love will help you and me and everyone save the planet earth within this

RE Margaret MacIntyre’s T op Ten: 1. Beethoven Sym phony N o.6. 2. Sibelius Sym phony No.5. 3. Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K 364. 4. Vaughan Williams Fantasia on them e o f Thomas Tallis. 5. Tchaikovsky The nutcracker. 6. Dvorak Sym phony N o.3. 7. Rachmaninov Preludes. 8. Bach Brandenburg concertos. 9. Schubert — just about anything. 10. Stravinsky Le sacre du printemps. (N ot necessarily in order o f preference.) What does this say about me. Does this mean . . . that it’s all over? Personally speaking, the music columns are all ratshit, so w hy an editor? BARN EY KOLLNER, Rutherford, NSW. S ch u b ert was p o m p o u s t o o . E d s.

On your pat baloney IT was with considerable interest that I read the article by Pat Flanagan on Solzhenitsyn in TLD 2/7. I do n ot claim to be an expert or even reasonably well informed on the Soviet system or marxism-leninismstalinism et al, but I find this article pretty grim. Flanagan’s main argument seems to be that Solzhenitsyn is only an individual and thus can be ignored. Bullshit! Society, any society, is made up o f individuals, and they cannot be ignored. I f a Solzhenitsyn is deported, w hy w orry, he is n ot a worker, not a member o f the idealised working class! Solzhenitsyn does not break any new ground, it has all been said before, but w ho to o k any notice o f it before? His case brings into the open the persecution o f the individual who speaks openly about what he believes in and is persecuted for doing so. I suggest that Flanagan has lost sight o f the forest for the trees and is no longer concerned with people but rather fine sounding slogans and worn phrases eg “ bourgeois” . “ class ideology” , “ petit bourgeois” , “ civil

liberties” . Solzhenitsyn is fighting for class rights, class justice, class freedom, and as such should be praised rather than pissed on. AN D REW BLIGHT, St Ives, NSW.

Yeah, and what about Lulu? COLIN Talbot just has to be out o f his mind! “ The Lady Singers” (TLD 2 /7 ), with not even a passing reference to tw o talents w ho are undisputedly blessed with, I quote “ unique sensibility . . . timbre o f the voice . . . the ability to sing (well), the ability to look physically good on record covers, an apparent general tallness, the ability to play musical instruments (mostly) and to write lyrics and com pose music ■ or at least interpret lyrics with great sensitivity.” I’ m referring, o f course, to Peggy Lee and Bobbie Gentry. Hasnt Talbot ever heard Lee’s I can sing a rainbow, There'll be another spring and the soundtrack o f The lady and the tramp? Or the definitive classic interpretations o f Black coffee, He's m y guy and the beautifully arranged The folks who live on the hill. And Bobbie Gentry! What about Ode to Billie Joe, Mornin' glory, or her versions o f Max Allison’s Parchman farm, and John D. Louderm ilk’s Tobacco road, not to mention more recent releases. I’ve left out mentioning the ridiculous, one short paragraph dis missal o f Dory Previn until last because this seems to be an arbitrary, misjudged and tin-eared opinion o f an original and disturbing talent. Has Talbot really listened to The veterans big parade, Michael, Michael, Beware o f young gtls, Angels and devils the following day, and so on ? Or is he unconsciously (maybe) reacting to the putdown of the whole w o u ld -b e -h ip p ie -lo v e -d r u g s -u n is e x media-manipulated “ scene” and the countless rip offs involved. There were other notable omissions in Talbot’s article. Has he ever heard o f Carmen McCrae? Or Morgana King? Or Mary Travess? Or Sarah Vaughan? Or Shirley Horn? The case rests! RON HERBERT Austimner, NSW.

Swines before pearls I WISH you wouldnt insist on “ correcting” what I say. Last week you altered "intensional” to read “ inten tional” — making utter nonsense o f the sentence. “ Intensional” is a term often used b y semanticists and anyone interested in linguistics. Pardon me, but your ignorance is showing. Similarly you altered “ un-sane” to read “ insane” — a subtle but quite > important change in tone and meaning. ‘ The letter was typed, so you dont have the excuse that you couldnt read it properly. Believe me — I know what I'm saying. I hope this doesnt sound arrogant, but it is annoying to have one's ideas twisted around simply because some goon hasnt heard certain words or expressions before. ROBERT V AN KRIEKEN.

The good oil of anarchy I HAVE been reading your paper since I arrived from London last november. Y ou are a really good friend and every tuesday I'm looking forward to see you in the newsagent and I go through your pages like a maniac and I feel happy to know that I’m n ot alone. I decided to write to you because lately I’m getting disappointed, even offended, I dont expect you to be “ perfect” but at least be genuine and dont contradict yourself. I'd like to know a few things before I start to tell you m y point o f view. Are you an anarchist paper? If you are, what sort? What is the purpose o f your paper? H ow would you change the present society — by violence or by examples? I take it you are an anarch ist and you try to persuade people to be such. I say you will fail for two reasons:

1) Because the majority o f your readers are already in this “ anarchist trip” and they dont need to be con vinced ; what they need is to know that there are a lot o f others with the same ideas and they are not the only “ crazy" ones. So TLD should be the means of communication between these peoples and I think that most o f your articles should be based on this subject, be cause it is not really yours but is ours. As you say in Vol. 2 No. 1: “ O f our many failings we are aware, but each week we believe the mixture improves, the energy flow thickens and ideas begin to dance . . .” So let’s start to exchange ideas and good vibes and try to build something positive in place o f what we criticise. 2) You assume the same level as many other parties (communist, fascist etc) which involve leaders, propaganda, power etc . . . and you therefore break the first principle o f anarchy — using powers through revolution, to force other people to believe that your way is the best. If this is anarchy, it makes me b lood y sick! Fuck the Anarchist party and all those idiots w ho call it such. Let's evolve anti-governmental systems. Let’ s set out to completely change this society. We must realise that we are a small minority and being such, easy to be destroyed, especially on a “ party” basis. But we are not “ losers” and we still have the chances, especially nowa days, as we watch the capitalistic empire going bankrupt. Therefore the main purpose of TLD should be to keep this minority to gether anonymously and unofficially. The peculiar fluidity o f anarchism is reflected in its attitude towards organ isation. By no means does all anarchy reject organisation, but none seek to give it an artificial continuity, the fluid survival o f the libertarian attitude itself is what is important. In fact, the basic ideas o f anarchism, with their stress on freedom and spontaneity, preclude the possibility o f rigid organisation, and particularly o f anything in the nature o f a party constructed for the purpose o f seizing and holding power. The agricultural commune is the only answer if you want to work for your needs. It’ s the only way to get all o f us together and build our own society and give a good example. But unfortunately even then we w on 't be com pletely free because there are prac tical problems that we can’ t avoid (eg. buying land which involves bureauc racy and money, buying tools and fertiliser to work the land, trying to survive until y o u grow your own food ). That’s why I’m still “ sucking pol lution” , but the thought of getting this relative freedom keeps me alive. So dont you b lood y print bullshit like: “ In Australia ’ 73 anyone w ho works is either a fool, oppressed or believes in their jo b .” A nyhow comrades, if I may call you such, I feel much better now. I couldnt live relaxed until I did it. Peace and kindness from a citizen o f the world. NINO,

(unmistakable name to be an Italian), Melbourne, Vic

Dont let ’em hide PLEASE keep up your practice o f putting a name (o f writer, reporter, cartoonist, artist. . .) to every entry. Everything that is written is written by som ebody. We are surrounded al ready by words, products, services, rules, impositions, advertisements, advice etc, to which n o one will put his or her name. Normal journalism stinks so much because the journalist doesnt have to sign his articles. I say it is extremely important that TLD maintain the strict policy o f putting a name to every entry, or an explanation for its absence. PHIL O ’CARROLL Albury, NSW

Take a risk odalisque

WiHiamstown Ferry b y Bill Beasley in River Yarra Sketchbook. (Rigby)

There’s a ferry at the bottom of our river GLEN HALFBACON E L B O U R N E ’S Williamstown ferry has ceased for ever. “ The cost to repair and return it to working order was beyond us” Williamstown’s acting city engineer, Mr Baker, explained on friday. Since 1931 the Short road ferry has plied the 250 yard Yarra near where it spews into Hobsons bay, the northernmost point o f Port Phillip bay. Linking Port Melbourne with Newport at a point adjacent to the belching power station, it was Melbourne’s only vehicular ferry. Services started at 6.15 am daily, finishing after 8.30 pm. Car drivers always checked to see if they were

JEW EL E A S T G A T E HE WIFE o f the mayor o f L.A. or somewhere went missing fo r a week. The mayor was trying to explain this away on TV recently when the wife inter rupted: “ I have been discreet all m y life . . . I just wanted recogni tion from my husband.” This wom an’s actions are symptomatic o f a general social malaise. Let this be a warning to all “ husbands” - whether legal, de facto, or “ still-looking-thanks” . Let it be an encouragement to all similarly “ discreet” females. It is symptomatic o f the feeling o f fe males in similarly “ permanent” relationships. The post-war myth o f female emancipation is at last being exploded. Dont let this ex plosion be merely defused by paternalistic arguments such as “ being feminist only reinforces sexism” — such arguments serve only to put the underdog back in her place, to shut her up. But sexism implies just that — that the female be the underdog. Whereas feminism is the examin ing o f this role — a seeing through it. It is now appropriate to be fem inist as a means o f throwing o f f these sexist roles. Sexism is rife. Feminism is an attempt to tran scend it, not to confound it. When these roles have been seen through, we will have becom e non-sexist. We will then be pri marily persons, and only second arily “ females” or “ males". When we have becom e thus non-sexist, then feminism and all sexism as such, will have “ withered away” . Only persons will remain. In the meantime, however, it is appropriate to speak o f “ fem in ism” and “ sexism” . Today, the conflict between the myth o f emancipation and the social real ity o f the female being still the

underdog, is apparent. T od ay’s female is legally emancipated, but socially emaciated. And females are now feeling this contradiction, this frustration. They want to be recognised as persons, first and forem ost. The time is ripe for radical feminism. The first move for a slave is to resist the system o f slavery. Women have been martyrs fo r too long. It is time to resist the roles - revolt against oppression. It is not necessary, or even desirable, to organise a physically violent form o f revolution. The tyranny if thus overthrown would only be replaced b y yet another tyranny - “ power to the wom en” is no better than “ power to the men” . No, females dont need to revolt as a movement. The required revolu tion is an individual personal one. We need to revolt against our own conditioning, our own role-play ing where it is self-defeating. And I’m not suggesting an anti-male revolt either. I am suggesting an individual anti-female-role-playing revolt, in your own way. One o f the most self-defeating roles com m only played is that one played in particular b y females the role o f the underdog. Females see themselves as the underdog, the chronically passive servant, w h o has no feelings or desires o f her own. She chronically puts herself dow n, subsuming her own wants under those o f her “ mas ter” . This is not necessary. The sky will not fall on your head if you refuse to lie dow n when you feel like sitting up and barking. There is room in day-to-day living for your wants too. Try it. Express your real feelings — assert your real desires. Y ou can free your real self - b y simply being your real self - living!

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within the first 34 vehicles in the waiting queue, for that was her capacity — caravans, trucks and trailers confusing the count. Originally doom ed to re dundancy by the Westgate bridge, the ferry’s expectancy was ex tended in 1970 with the collapse o f a 4 50-foot bridge section. The bridge is currently years behind its original schedule. The only remaining ferry ser vice across the Yarra (tourist ferries excluded) is one and a half miles upstream. Operating from Francis street, Yarraville, it takes workers to GMH and the aircraft factories at Fishermen’s Bend.

B. B. King tour

egen d ary biuesman, B. B. King, soon to Australia, will not perform before prisoners at Sydney’s Long Bay jail and Melbourne’s Pentridge jail, as indicated by earlier publicity. Philip Walker, a representative o f the tour's Australian promoter, R obert Raym ond, said that he had com m enced negotiations with authorities at both prisons. In Sydney he contacted the Robin H ood comm ittee, a charitable bod y which organises social activities on behalf o f Long Bay prisoners. Walker said that Robin H ood showed little interest and, although they did state they would talk to warders, nothing eventuated. R e p resen ta tiv es for Mel bourne’s Pentridge jail were, sur p r isin g ly enough, extremely interested but before final negoti ations could be effected, B. B. King informed the promoters that he did not wish to proceed with prison concerts. According to Walker, King,

who does a lot o f prison work in tourStates, and heads a foundation the which raises m oney for prisoners to study music and purchase instruments, decided against the move in Australia because he felt it was “ degrading an ideal to a publicity stunt” . King also decided against prison work because his tour comm itments were to o hectic and because in the States his prison activities were o f a personal nature due to his involvement with, and allegiance to, negro prisoners. The itinerary for King’ s Aust ralian tour, which promises to be a blues fan’s delight, is as follow s: Brisbane, Festival hall, march 9; Sydney, Hordern pavilion, march 10; Adelaide, A pollo stadium, march 11; Perth, Her Majesty’s theatre, march 12; Melbourne, Festival hall, march

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L E SLIE M cIN N E S HE TREE is not, as is so widely thought, merely a harmless, indeed benign and beautiful inhabitant o f bushland. Trees have minds: they know what they're about and they are invariably up to no good. Tell me if you doubt this: Why d o they thrust out those ideal perches fo r birds? Why d o they put on a show o f great color and leafiness? Why does their bark crinkle and strip o f f in beautiful patterns? Why d o they sway so provoca tively in the wind? Can you tell me this?

WE MUST LOOK FOR MOTIVES. The tree means to evoke a lulled sense o f peace in us; to play upon that human defect, viz; a sensitivity to sensuous rhythm; to hypnotise us into a state o f purely perceptive appreciation through touch and smell and sight. In other words - and I shudder to think o f the danger to undisciplin ed children on picnics - THE TREE IS LEWD! The tree is a brazen appeal to the satyr in man’s often poorly trained character. Y o u ’ve all heard the stories — Nude Rom p in Forest

Heathen Rites in Secluded Glen Naked Swimmers in Bushland Setting It just goes on and on. Man succumbing to enticement. Weak morals are obviously synonym ous with the lover o f the bush. The sinuous cry o f the tree is answered b y the gross and primitive instincts o f the bushwalker, "I com e to your soughing wind breathed limbs, I com e” . And there you see another victim, weak willed man, forced b y a barrage upon the senses to walk the flowering gummed path; lost to the worthy austerity and

decency o f the telegraph pole forever; to becom e now a defector from the suitably dressed and painted timber o f the town. Trees must n ot be allowed their insidious attack on man’s frail tightrope o f morality. Man’s ability to deny the cry o f lust from the bush is strong only when it is bolstered by numbers and by constant and prayerful vigilance and pruning. Show yourself strong and d o not fear to snip the offending branch. Keep dow n the growth o f your garden to a well disciplined and ordered shrubbery. Teach your children the dangers o f loi

tering in virgin bushland. The purity o f untouched treelife is a myth. Every state forest harbors a potential force o f crude attack, waiting and lurking; ready to drag the unsuspecting into the pun gency o f new-rising sap and the final degradation o f naked wan dering and a wattle and daub hut, signs o f the bushman-slave o f the deceptive green shadows. He is a forsaker o f civilised life, a selfindulgent savage. Deaf to all entreaties to return his ears hear only the chatter o f bush creatures and the ever whis pered allurements o f the trees.

P rin te d b y R ic h a r d N e v ille a t 1 7 4 P eel S tr e e t, N o r t h M e lb o u r n e f o r In c o r p o r a te d N e w s a g e n c ie s P t y L .td , th e p u b lis h e r a n d d is t r ib u t o r , 1 1 3 R o s s ly n S tr e e t, M e lb o u r n e So h ere w e go ro u n d th e m u lb e r r y b u s h . H e re w e go r o u n d th e m u lb e r r y b u s h — m u lb e r r y b u s h , m u lb e r r y b u s h ! n e v e r h a v in g seen a m u lb e r r y b u s h in o u r liv e s .