The Living Daylights 2(10)

# B.B.King and his playmate Lucille.. .Interview # Prospecting for GoldTops

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“THE TREASURER'S TRASH MADE ME VOMIT” We steal the garbage of the greats.Mick Morris lifts the lid off the private,smelly refuse o f BOB HAWKE, ANDREW PEACOCK, GRAH AM KENNEDY, FRANK CREAN, RON BARASSI & their families .first in a series o f tasteless

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AST WEEK Oliver Strewe and Ian Stocks went to the NSW south coast, to Nowra, the home of Robert McLeod, the young aboriginal militant who took his people’s frustrations to the offices of aboriginal affairs and pulled a gun on the public servants. Robert’s action was prompted by the Perkins 'F Y O U WORK ON A N AS­ Affair, but it was instigated by the SE M B L Y LINE, Y O U ’ VE GOT conditions of all aboriginals in Australia.

Nowra is a good example of white *:$: TO BE H EA LT H Y : The head o f Australia’s national poverty inquiry profesexploitation. Pelaco — the shirt, white sor R. Henderson, in a startlingly shirt people — had a factory there. modern approach to the lack o f manReaders may remember the image of the power in the ditch digging division, has black, holding a boomerang, wearing the said in a report to the federal governdazzling shirt, saying, “ Mine tinkit they ment that impoverished mass breeders fit” . Over 75 percent of the factory’ s of dullards should be paid large sums of female staff were aboriginal. It still goes money ($8 per week for the third child on: now members of the white commun­ ity are digging up sacred ground to erect a :j:$: and over) to enable them to continue to breed dullards. The money to finance sports monument, a booze palace where this bread and circus’s doctrine, first blacks arent welcome . . . it’ s called a evolved by a number o f seedy Roman leagues club. Oliver and Ian interviewed emperors, will come as usual, from the the town’s aboriginals (p.5). spent members o f the workforce — the However repetitive and childish dope pensioners. Professor Henderson has stories may seem to middle class terrace recommended that the federal governhouse closet puffers, kids are still getting ment abandon its very moderate plans busted, bashed and incarcerated by thugs for dropping the pension means test, in uniforms. Pre-signed blank search war­ which already has been negated by rants were recently left behind during a Melbourne dope raid, yet no action was :W: legislation making the pension taxable. taken against police. In fact, they trailed :•:& As usual, in reports o f this type, professor Henderson made no mention o f and busted the person who brought the making large corporations pay more. matter to lig h t. . .

This week a scarifying report of a bust :$i:: After all, what’s the point in giving beat up from Surfers Paradise, page 18, W j more money to the aged, the buggers can’t even dig a decent ditch and they from a correspondent who must remain are absolutely useless as cannon fodder, anonymous. Daylights calls for the im­ being unable to lift a machine gun or mediate legislation o f “ growing your own” marijuana — with, no doubt, piss-all £:£: throw a napalm grenade. It is totally effect — but we intend to intensify a ■S:-: untrue to suggest that professor Henderdecriminalisation campaign over the next *:&: son’s report was financed from a slush fund provided by BHP, GMH, Ford, few months, until it reaches such a crescendo o f outrage, that sane legislation Leyland, ICI, Colonial Sugar or APM (to name but a few); all o f whom have a must surely follow. Is that how democ­ strong interest in maintaining a captive racy works? work force o f willing troglodytes on low In our Letters column some weeks wages. After all if they can get away back, “ Anxious” pleaded for elucidation with paying a worker $ 6 0 a week and on the subject of the magic mushroom.

This week a wayfaring botanist by name *£• get the government, via the pensioners and the middle class to pay the rest, of “ Dutch Fred” wrote in, generously why shouldnt they go ahead and give it imparting the fruits o f his experience a bash? That’ s what pseudo socialism is upon us. In view of the fact that autumn is all about. upon us and that soon the enlightening

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fungi will spring into the morning sun, we print Dutch Fred’s letter on page 9, with some beautiful drawings sent from our Sydney office.

Incidentally, thanks for all the encour­ aging “ the paper’s getting better mes­ sages” . . . we think it is too, although not quickly enough for our satisfaction. We have a solid market in three states, steadily climbing, and plenty o f action packed pages in the pipeline. Several people have asked us to serialise a new cult bestseller, Total orgasm, which is less to do with sexual gymnastics, more a whole philosophy of mutual ecstasy. (Anyway, most men never reach proper orgasm at all . . .) So watch out for it.

Also next week: The decline and fall-out of Sylvia & the Synthetics (Madame Lash & Co) by one who was there from the beginning . . . plus the Ecology o f Shit and, no connection, a rap about Baba Muktananda, currently in the country. Also, Nat Young writes about how B. B. King ODed on the music at the Sydney concert and the parallels of riding high the wild surf.

P. S. In a fortnight we publish the issue on AWARENESS. Thanks for the contribu­ tions . . . any last minute thought on awareness, frem any aspect, are welcome, but hurry — Eds.

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h e w h ite w o r k e r s h a n d SYNDROM E IS A LIV E AND WELL: Cleverly disguising their charm­ ing racial attitudes behind a flurry of high sounding rhetoric, the ACTU exec­ utive has moved to block the army o f colored Filipino car workers (35 in all) about to descend on Australia’ s shores by refusing to check out the credentials, thus effectively barring their entry.

ACTU president Bob Hawke in an­ nouncing the decision said, “ We will not tolerate a situation where, if a company cannot attract local people to an unsat­ isfactory job with inadequate renumera­ tion in a dehumanising industry, it can resort to other sources” . Apparently those white workers who have already been “ dehumanised" by the Leyland process, dont matter a bugger, as the ACTU hasnt exactly been in a wild hurry to do anything about car plant, conditions in the past. In fact, if mem­ ory serves one correct, most of the action to humanise car plants has been taken by white local and migrant work­ ers themselves, and they have been condemned by their own executive for wild cat and irresponsible action. It would also be interesting to hear Mr Hawke’s opinions if he were asked suddenly by either industry or the federal government to allow Israeli kibutz workers into the country to alleviate the acute shortage o f rural labor.

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E T ’S H EAR IT FOR THE WIDE BROWN A T L A N T IS: For the second time this year, parts o f Brisbane started to disappear beneath the water as floods began to hit Australia’s east coast, proving that contrary to popular belief by himself and his party, Joh Bjelke-Petersen is not God.

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N A FEW MORE YE A R S H E ’D H AVE BEEN READY FOR WORLD W A R THREE: Hiroo Onoda, a sub lieutenant in Japan’s imperial army, has finally surrendered to authorities on the Philippine island of Lubang after hiding in the jungles since 1944. Despite the official explanation that Onoda came out o f hiding after being contact­ ed by his former wartime commander, rumor has it that he’d heard that there were great opportunities for car as­ sembly workers in Australia.

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PEN THE LETTER BOMB HID­ DEN BEHIND THE R A D IA T O R TO FIND THE ANSW ER: Aboriginal affairs minister senator Cavanagh said that after receiving a death threat he was totally unable to understand why anyone would want to kill him. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that senator Cavanagh refused to see the secretary of the aboriginals consultative council, Mr Phillip Hall, unless the said Mr Hall was searched beforehand. Mean­ while back in the federal madhouse, it was discovered that the gun used by Bob McLeod to hold officers of the aboriginal affairs at bay while the queen was opening parliament was loaded after all. In other words, Mr Perkins aside, they really do mean what they say.

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ELL THE PRICE OF STEAK HAS GONE UP: Backbench poli­ ticians in the New South Wales parlia­ ment are to get $80 more a week in rises worked out by themselves. Premier sir Robert Askin will get a mere $ 1 1 6 a week more.

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E DIDNT KNOW WE HAD A N Y : The future world would not be able to afford many o f the freedoms people were now fighting for, professor Henry Mayer told a Melbourne press club lunch. In a look at the world to come, professor Mayer said government would control the right to have children and even issue licences for people to have thgm. Future government would also base their policies on the needs o f the generations which came after them, thus leading them to restrict the use o f the earth’s resources materials and energy. At least it would be a pleasant change from the answers o f the present bunch o f spendthrifts.

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HE SHOW A N D TELL SESSION NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD: A senior master in political science and English literature at a Melbourne school was fined $400 for assisting in the management o f a brothel, after detec­ tives told a court hearing that his establishment, known quaintly as the Love Craft Relaxation Centre, special­ ised in “ relief” massages. The Victorian Teachers Union is understood to be using the case in its fight for a higher minimum wage.

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From the Daylights dirty tricks department M ICH AEL M ORRIS OU A R E what you throw away. So said A . J. Weberman, the father of garbology — the science o f rubbish re­ search, of journeys into the trashcan.

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mere hippie prank. Garbage got “ respect­ able” .

E CHOSE public figures, two politi­ cians, two TV stars, a unionist and a football hero. In order that personal bias wouldnt enter into our work we peoples rubbish reveals in a very short selected people for whom we held a time their personality, their lifestyle, grudging respect. their day to day habits, their quirks Then we laid out our game play. Only and the D A R K PRIVATE side of their one of our subjects was listed in the life. Garbology will - we determined phone book; but by consulting Who's in week two o f our work - replace who, reading through electoral rolls and the official government census; for it is by making a few inquiries we found their easier, quicker, and more reliable and addresses. Next we rang the city councils for the day o f garbage collection. The rest honest. A trashcan, filled to the brim with what has been thrown away, shows was relatively simple: wait until midnight, then, with our own garbage can, drive to what wasnt thrown away. Trash is the in­ the subject’s home, empty the goodies stant anthropology o f the affluent age. from their can into ours, drive home, lay The dirt tin is a diary, a personal state­ ment, a time capsule, Garbology is a mod­ it out, list the evidence (leaving no bone unturned), save the “ highlights” in her­ ern, if perverse science. Sure, it’ s messy, but isnt surgery? metically sealed containers and put out A. J. Weberman discovered the GAR­ the rest. It didnt quite work out that way. * * * BAGE CAN when, one day, he passed by Bob Dylan’s apartment. There, open to NDREW PEACOCK, Liberal poli­ the world, was Dylan’s trash. Weberman tician, shadow minister for foreign nonchalantly reached in and picked out a affairs, darling o f the Victorian branch of letter; it was a personal note to singer the Liberal party, the only Lib in the Johnny Cash, eureka! A s Weberman said, previous government to handle his port­ he was “ hooked” . Every day for a fort­ folio (minister for external territories) night Weberman collected Dylan’ s refuse, with any understanding and competence took it home and put it under the AND . . . HIS WIFE SUSAN, social but­ microscope. His findings caused an uproar terfly, panellist in the Cleo-type after­ in the musical world. What an evocation! noon womens T V program N o mans (Dylan now burns his garbage.) land, reporter for A current affair, daugh­ Next, Esquire commissioned Weber­ ter o f Victorian chief secretary Mr man to “ do” other celebrities: Cassius “ Punchy” Rossiter.

Clay, Yippie Abbie Hoffman, playwright To Canterbury, in the blue ribbon Neil Simon, and others. Thus garbology belt, through quiet, tastefully lit leafy was accepted by the serious world - no

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vistas, to the Peacocks lonely red and

black plastic bin standing in front o f their “ smart” home, waiting for us beneath a spotlight. During the transfer I feel some­ thing running down my arm. I smell tomato soup. I’ve been blooded!

Back home to the “ lab” . In this case we give (only once) a complete list o f the “ material” : 4 milk cartons Vi bread roll, gelati container, Cottee’ s blackberry conserve jar, letters sundry, Brockhoff Chocolate Ripple wrapper, 3 Carefree tampon packs, Tuft o f brown hair (wavy) brown paper bag, Berri orange juice can, Nancarrow’s supermarket bag, 2 party hats, 2 Campbell’s spaghetti and meat balls cans, Vz loaf o f mouldy bread, bandaid pack, Clinic shampoo bottle, Colgate toothpaste tube, Weet-Bix pack, Bulla ice cream pack, 2 playing cards (8 diamonds & 3 spades), shoe box, tinsel, A subscription reminder to Sir inter­ national “ mens” magazine, comix from Sunday telegraph and Sun-herald, % cake, shoe laces, Estee Alliage perfume bottle, Palmolive soap wrapper, 3 toothbrushes, dob o f butter, small rubber animal, earplug for transistor radio,

marker pen, Birdseye crinkle cut potato pack, remains o f “ T A A Survival K it” , Toorak times, Dish washing detergent pack.

6 picture hangers, eraser, hair clip, fuse box, Vincent’s powder wrapper, newspaper clippings (Melbourne Sun-pic), Notepads, Time, 2 pieces o f cardboard with childish sketches, commonwealth department o f health quarantine order for “ one maidenhair fern” , 2 membership cards for Golden Bowl Sports Centre, invitation to “ gala preview - Misadven­ tures o f Candide", envelopes sundry.

The first thing we noticed was the absence o f organic matter (with the ex­ ception o f the hank of hair. What did it mean: was it a "love lock” , disgarded after a tiff; a memory o f baby’s first hair cut, the sort of thing my mother has kept in a book called Baby’s first year; an aborted act of barbery; an act of savag­ ery?). Where’s the meat, the veg? Is this how the upper class family lives? Chips and ice cream?

No, the Peacocks must have a garbage disposal unit.

Where were the bottles: soft and hard drink? They must be out the back, waiting for the next boy scout bottle drive. Andrew in his slacks, on Saturday morning, showing the woggled young lads to the stack of em pties. . .

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The two cards, the drawings and the transistor plug: why those? One is guess­ ing here. The cards were “ lying around” the house. Susan said to the kids: “ Put those cards in the pack, Anne and Caroline (as revealed by the Golden Bowl membership cards, swimming lessons)!”

One (Anne signed) was preoccupied, drawing a thing called “ Mr K ite" and nosireebob she wasnt gonna stop now.

And Caroline was plugged into Norman Banks’ talkback radio program and this person was asking something very import­ ant . . . besides she couldnt hear what mum was screaming about. “ Right” , says Susan, tearing the plug out and grabbing the drawings, throwing them into the rubbish bin, “ NOW MR MORRIS WILL KNOW W HAT N A U G H T Y CHILDREN Y O U ARE. GO TO Y O U R R O O M !”

That done Susan settles down to work.

She is writing in a small notebook, “ 2 quarts milk” . The word “ milk” didnt come out right, she retraces the word so Andrew is perfectly sure what’s needed.

She goes on: “ 2 cordials” (what flavor, Andrew will muse when he gets to Nancarrows), “ 1 packet Lux” . . .

F urther into the notebook Andrew is having trouble with the felt tip pen. In smudgy scrawl: “ Sensible negotiations but I only hope its acceptable to the leftwing. So Labor party (indecipherable passage) won’t be. The leftwing won’t be silenced. It’s achieved only what the press have told us he’d (who? Bill Hartley?) achieved . . . Temporarily at least, SL (socialist left) have revealed in short term.” (End of joggings.) Puzzling.

Then, in the notebook, a memo: Kay Cardwell. Kate Barrie phoned to say good luck . . . Drake International phoned sat’y 11 am re interview.” (Interview? Who?) The january 7 issue o f Time featuring the face of judge John Sirica, says “ 3DB 6 3 .6 4 0 9 Lester Hanson” and then the intriguing “ N /W Cape” . Was it for a radio interview; is there a Liberal plot afoot; are they connected with the oncoming demonstration at the base? Think. No it would be for an interview. Andrew doesnt attend demos . . .

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UR N E XT mission wasnt so reward­ ing. FR ANK CREAN, benign and gentle federal treasurer. The man who is dedicated to the national economy. The man who wages war on inflation It was a warm Sunday night the night we hit Mr Crean’s “ comfortable” home in bayside Middle Park. We cruised up . . no garbage! Our jaws dropped in dismay. But then we saw a lane running behind the house and there stood two tins. Were they both his? Was one a neighbor’ s?

There was only one way to find out - on the spot garbology. His, we thought must be the neatest one; the one with Satur­ day’ s Australian opened on page three.

Back at the lab we emptied it out.

Grog bottles — so the treasurer leaves his empties for the workers, the garbos. We next came across a number o f small plastic bags. Garbage disposal is a daily task for the Creans. We opened one after the other. The small room quickly be­ came a pocket o f lethal gas. We continued working through the sludge. The treasurer is a common man — Safeway supermarket packaging told us this. The smeil attacked the nasal cavities. I was the scrutineer, close to the subject matter. It wasnt until I fixed upon the unopened Safeways pack o f mince meat, crawling with maggots that I capitulated and threw up into the treasurer’s trash. The sting went from our zeal.

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Highlights o f the Barassi garbage bombers, o f batteries o f guns, of the defiance o f Germans. Monte Cassino, the monastery that ground armies to a halt.

Such is Kennedy’ s home.

We came in the back way, weaving through dark and sinister streets, to a steep dirt road marked Private road. Our feeble machine could have gone down the slope, but it wouldnt get back up.

Leaving the car, dogs began barking first one, then two and soon every dog within the radius o f a mile took it up.

Lights in houses went on. Ahhh, the geese o f Rome. Where were the searchlights; where the flak; where the ack-ack, the sirens and the home guard. Rehearsing explanations the possible lynch gangs we continued to Kennedy’s. “ Dont worry” , I said, “ it’s worth it. It will reveal treasures.

The world will toast us.” Before us stood the walls, the overpowering fences of Kennedy, the locked gates. Before us loomed Colditz. Before us . . . THERE WAS NO RUBBISH TIN. HE HADNT PUT IT OUT. PERHAPS HE DOESNT H AVE A N Y . . . Yes, perhaps he has found a life devoid of waste, the supreme existence. But he hasnt told anyone.

Maybe he’ll tell Bob Dylan . . . We wept.

Tears o f rage, tears o f grief/ W hy couldnt I be the th ie f. . . (Dylan, almost.) * *

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ON BARASSI is our hero. The greatest, the most gallant, the most determined aussie rules footballer o f our time! As kids we used to go to the footy

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E STILL had GRAHAM KEN­ N E D Y the king of the flickering blue and silver screen, the winner of Logies, the darling o f us all. Our trump card, Kennedy is interviewed by TV mags more times than anyone in the world!

Yet he is still an enigma to us all. His garbage would be the ultimate delineation.

Kennedy lives in a fortress that is practically unassailable. Thrown into a cliff overlooking the polluted waters of Frankston, it would defy the efforts the Gauls who scaled Rome. We were remind­ ed o f Monte Cassino, of WW2, o f waves of

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the Barassis are gardeners . . .

Then there was a pack o f after dinner mints in there. The choc had melted and was running over the cardboard. Here’s how I figured it: Ron is sitting up late at night, writing training orders for his team - no one to get married during season, everyone turns up for training, no late nights, no booze, diet will be as follows . . . He noticed something melting in his mouth, Ahhh, chocolate and m int! Gag, what am I doing??? He throws the whole , kaboodle into the trash bin with a teeth cij gritting rage. What’s for the boys is for i ^ me too. He cracks a passionfruit. Seeds *jC explode in his mouth. He returns to his 5 memo . . . § One thing that actually worried us.

The bin was sitting on a little trolley.

5 Ron’s driveway has a pretty stiff gradient.

Does he have a crook back? We hope not.

just to see “ Barass” do his thing. Not a huge man, he swept all aside. A raging, blasting, steel limbed bowling ball in red and blue, a snarl over his mouth, fire licking from his eyes, he was our inspira­ tion when we played footy in the back paddocks. Now he coaches North Mel­ bourne and is lifting them, grinding them, to the top.

Wow, what garbage! We almost em­ braced it. The family, in contrast to the Peacocks and Creans, eat food mainly of the earth.

Sweet corn: there must have been 15 husks, gnawed to the quick, in his bin.

Passionfruit rind: Ron digs passionfruit.

Most people would eat about ten o f these sweet, seedy lovelies a year. Not Ron and family. I can picture the scene in front of the T V ; the whole family’ s there watch­ ing World o f sport, and one of the kids asks for another passionfruit. “ N o ” , says mum, “ you’ve had four already.” “ But” , says the kid, “ daddy’ s had six.”

Five empty strawberry boxes . . . Ron slurping into ’em . . . Lamb shanks; zuchini, the Melbourne Sun-pic, revealingly opened to the second last page and a story about what a mean and tough coach is Ron; a Time wrapper (Ron follows the world’s news); tomatoes, spuds, a florists card inscribed with wedding anniversary love being declared to the good woman, egg shells, Kit-Kat choc, remnants of Mayfair ham, and some puzzles . . .

Three green rubber gloves, soil fresh.

Where was the other? Well, we now know

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OB HAWKE, president of the ACTU, federal president o f the ALP etc, had two garbage cans, full to the brim, waiting for us.

Back at the lab, scientifically we laid it before us. The room immediately filled with the aroma of earth, of life’s cycle, o f Mother Nature. This huge glob o f matter is the stuff the planet feeds on! It, folks, was throbbing, vibrant compost - mag­ goty and malodorous. It was like a small universe, the centre of which was a browning, half eaten banana. There were beer cans. There was an empty can o f pet food full of cigar butts. The flotsam and jetsam of the affluent age was doing its own thing. It said in a roaring voice:“ Life goes on. Leave me alone.” we a) couldnt, and b) did. We reverently wrapped it up and took it outside.

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A R B O LO G Y is a new science and our cursory investigations told us it demands a methodology o f its very own and that we didnt do enough. The true face o f affluent modern man lies in his trash can. For, wrapped in newspapers, in plastic bags and in garbage disposal pits lies the essence of the lifestyle.

We hope readers will take up where we held/left off. Two minutes in someone’s trash bin reveals more than can be gleaned from a mountain o f press clippings. i— > LONG LIVE GARBAGE. I |

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New tow n eaten by white ants G RAN T EVANS HE RESIDENTS o f North Newtown in Sydney feel caught in a pincer type military manoeuvre designed to “ take out” the community there. They are likely to be steamrolled by pro­ posed expressways encroaching from the south and east, and from the north they are threatened by the creeping expansion o f the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. The immediate battle is with the NSW education department which plans to extend Sydney teachers college into North Newtown.

This latter front was opened up in february last year. The sale o f a house in Campbell street fell through when the buyer learnt through a solicitor that the area had been rezoned. The seller checked with the city of Sydney council planning department and was told that the area was to be rezoned.

News of this sneak attack spread quickly and in early march the North Newtown Action Group was formed to organise resistance. Part of the land is al­ ready owned by the education department. On this area it plans to accommodate 2500 -3 000 stu­ dents. Another area is apparently required for “ some outdoor recreational facilities” and “ ade­ quate parking” .

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believed by the Action Group that the department recently purchas­ ed a building on the western side o f Missenden road. Stage two is out of sight, but not out o f mind.

The department has obviously decided that the best policy is to say nothing about what they are doing while they quietly white ant the area. After all it has the power to disregard any local opposition.

Council zonings are not binding on it, and although “ normal” policy is to negotiate rather than resume, it has the power to re­ sume what it wants.

A petition circulated locally gained over 250 signatures from affected residents and the Action Group’s stand has been publicised and supported in the local press.

Over 60 percent of the property owners in the affected area have replied to the education depart­ ment’s offer stating their “ un­ equivocal” refusal to sell.

The education department’ s facilities and buildings will be o f little use to the mixed migrant and working class population of Newtown. It has admitted that most of its students will come from metropolitan areas — so why not build them in the outer sub­ urbs? The department’s proposals will involve the destruction o f lower and middle income housing in good condition, worsening an already serious shortage o f such housing in the inner city. Typical­ ly it is the working class which is expected to bear the burden o f adjustment.

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PISSING ON THE BURIAL GROUNDS IAN STOCKS & O LIV E R STREWE the depth o f bitterness and oppres­ S THE land rights battle hots sion that drives aboriginal militants.

-up all over Australia — as This is a picture o f a typical coun­ public servants and government try town — Nowra on N S W s south ministers start to feel the backlash coast — which, although not overtly from their own mishandling o f abo­ racist, provides an accurate and riginal problems — most o f white horrifying picture o f the treatment Australia still remains ignorant o f o f Australia’s blacks.

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NEW MEMBERS COPE :

Site for the league's club —after virgin bush was bulldozed

Looking out from A lexander Berry's flogging shed

Nowra’s close to Australia’s second oldest aboriginal settlement and is the birthplace of black militant Robert McLeod. So, as black anger grows, and death threats are made against white politicians for their efforts to manipulate black affairs, Nowra gives the opposite side of the picture: the continuing violence which blacks suffer every day of their lives.

NOWRA services a rich farming area which was carved up by white squatters in the middle 1800s. They used convict labor and employed aboriginal stockmen on low wages. Most industries, farming, timber and fishing made great profits using cheap aboriginal labor. Until the late 1880s, however, many aboriginal families and tribal groups had small holdings alongside white properties, which were cropped and gardened. These four or five acre blocks were hardly self-sufficient, and handouts of rations were available at local police stations.

In the 1880s the forced resettlement of the blacks began. Rations were cut off, children separated from their parents if they refused to move to the missions concentration camps. In some areas in the far south coast, waterholes were poisoned and blacks were hunted with dogs. Near Brush Island aboriginals were rounded up, driven on to the sand and shot. High winds still uncover skulls with bullet holes in the back o f the head . . . men, women and children.

At Nowra, blacks were moved to Orian Point, which was gazetted under queen Victoria as being set aside for the use of aboriginals and administered by the Aboriginal Protection Board. Orian Point was a wasteland isolated from the town.

The area consisted of 700 uncleared acres with good fishing grounds nearby and oyster leases. Under a dictatorial manage­ ment the “ concentration camp” persisted until after world war two, when the value o f the land was realised. The navy had already taken a bit, the council resumed some more, and in the 60s large chunks were pared off. Orian Point itself was surgically removed and subdivided for white homes. Other areas of 30 odd acres also went up for grabs. The council took a bit for a caravan park, thoughtfully building a shithouse and amenities block on top of a sacred burial ground. As in other areas o f the south coast where burial grounds have been disturbed, the bones disappeared, presumably sold to museums and universities.

A t the same time the homes of the remnants of the Jerringa tribe also came under attack. Repairs were discontinued, families encouraged to “ assimilate" into housing commission homes. When they moved their old houses were bulldozed.

Rosebery Park reserve was being quietly run down - the population dropped from over 300 to about 100 (to live in the 11 houses standing today). The school was closed, the gardens ran wild, the oyster leases sold off to white businessmen.

There was a rapid increase in value of prime waterfront land and the ubiquitous L.J. Hookers put up a proposal for a tourist resort. It was rumored he offered the local council a $90 million deal.

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When the land rights battle began in Canberra, the Nowra blacks took a new interest in their land. Real opposition began last year when the local rugby league club planned a club building and sports area on tribal land.

The Crookhaven rugby league club gained a lease for 24 acres inside the reserve boundaries. Initially the dub development was to be a 50-50 project between a black football team and a white team. The whites got the lease on the strength of this cooperation and soon opened their books for members hip.

Strangely, the books closed on black members very quickly, while whites enrolled in large numbers. Soon the mem­ bership was almost all white. The bush was levelled and late last year preparation for building started.

Local blacks erected tents on the block and faced up to the council heavies.

In the night, embarrassed club officials hastily spray painted their names o ff the development sign. But the last hand is still to be played. While almost every able bodied Nowra black confronted the queen in Canberra last month their tent was stolen, and now sits in a leagues club official’s garage. Ironically, a search through council records revealed tKat no clear title to the Orient Point larpd was ever established by the local council or the state government. Thus, these bodies may have been acting illegally when parts of the reserve were excised and sub­ divided for sale. The residents o f Rose­ bery Park have found evidence that they may be able to claim the entire area.

They express no wish to evict white residents from their homes, but if the local council and stage government have blundered there will be a very heavy compensation claim indeed. * * * Aboriginal burial ground with council toilet rampant

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ORIAN POINT and the struggles o f the Jerringa people may well be one o f the most important land rights battles in the state of NSW. If this is won there are other gazetted areas which would benefit from the precedent established. Seven hundred acres lie within the naval base at Jervis Bay, currently used as a bombing range. This is traditional Jerringa walka­ bout territory, and was gazetted on Sep­ tember 2 6 ,1 8 8 1 , under the title Reserved from sale for the use o f aboriginals, which has never been revoked. It’s a nice piece o f land apart from the shellholes and we hope they get it. k kk SIMILAR situations exist all over NSW, but the Askin government, anticipating land rights claims, has already acted. It recently formed the Aboriginal Lands Trust - which appears to be a stooge body designed to keep actual ownership out of community hands. The members were elected by postal vote, many of them unopposed, despite the call for democratic nominations and ballot box elections.

The feeling is that the rewards o f any land rights cases will be handed over to the trust which will then be manipulated to thwart full usage of the land.

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McLEOD: A YOUNG MAN FIGHTING FOR HIS ELDERS

Mrs Isobel McLeod, — “ If Robert had paid with his life for what h e believes in, I'd be proud o f him as a m oth er."

McLeod is the mother ISABEL o f Robert McLeod. In her early 40s she had to raise her family in the tin shacks that blacks were allowed to use b y white farmers.

Robert’ s father spent most o f his life being pushed around from mis­ sion to mission. He died two years QUESTION TIME IN THE SENATE: MARCH 5.

Will the minister give an assurance that the pistol in the possession o f Mr M cLeod at the Department o f Abori­ ginal Affairs was not loaded?

Senator Cavanagh: Mr Chairman, I will not give that assurance - the gun was definitely loaded. * * * ISABEL McLEOD “ I FEEL that what Robert did was right and I make no apologies for what he did because I know that what he has done is because he believes in his people. Right throughout his life, ever since he was a little boy, Robert had to fight for his color because he was black. Every school that my children went to they had to stick up for their color. Robert was always in trouble with the teachers because if anyone called him a black nigger he’d whang them first and then he’d tell the teacher why he did it. No matter he got the cane for it he felt that no one had the right to call him a black nigger. “ When my children were small we were always made to feel ashamed of what we were — of our color - because o f the cruelty of white society. We should have never been like that - and since Robbie has gone and lived amongst tribal society he’s got a real set o f values on

ago. Darren, another son aged 2 2 is going to live with tribal blacks for six months. Mrs M cLeod despite her strong religious beliefs (she was a delegate to the Eucharistic Con­ gress in Melbourne last year) fully supports her son in whatever action he takes. what we should have had years ago because we never knew anything about tribal society. We were brought up in an urban society like the white people. Dis­ crimination was very prevalent because we had to live in tin shacks. We were the fringe dwellers o f the district, and because we had to live like that our kids were made to feel ashamed o f being aborig­ inal.

"M y husband was very abdriginal and he had a chip on his shoulder and he had a complex about his color. He came from Lake Tyers and his mother died at an early age. They were kicked around from pillar to post, always chased by welfare trying to take the children away. Robert always felt for his father in this way. He felt he had to take the place o f being the head o f the family because he had more education than his Dad did. And always it was in Robert’s mind that we shouldnt have to be intimidated in this way. “ He was brilliant in school but he never finished his schooling because of hardships . . . then he got in trouble with the police. The first sentence he ever got he would have never been convicted if he’d been properly represented in court.

Tfijs is another thing that turned him bitter and sour.

"Robert has seen right back from when he was 12 years old — he was a man at 12 years old — he could see how our old people were treated. He always had this instinctiveness . . . not to let white

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society do this to our old people, because they couldnt get up and talk for them­ selves. So he made up his mind then and there that he was never going to let a white man beat him. So Robbie always had an instinct to fight for his family, for his mum and his brothers and sisters. “ What he did it wasnt for one person alone it was for Charlie (Perkins) because we believe we havent got another person like Charlie who can stand up against the treatment o f the dark people.

You know it’s only since the referendum that we’ve been counted as human beings - if we filled our census paper in and we said we were aboriginal or part aboriginal the paper was tom up and put in the wastepaper basket. Therefore we werent even counted as human beings and Robert knew these things. “ His fight is for equality and for people to have respect for us like we have respect for other people. “ Soon as I heard the news I knew it was Robert. We were at the demon­ stration because we firmly believe in our

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land rights. Our people should be given part o f the land back, because when captain Cook hoisted the queen’s flag it was already inhabited by human beings. I believe that like the maoris we should be given back part of our country. The biggest part of it is controlled by foreign enterprise, anyway.

White Australia doesnt own it either. “ Robert’s always said to me: ‘ What­ ever I do Mum I never want you to question because you know whatever I do I do for the love of my people’ . . . and that’s his life’s ambition - that he might bring some respect and dignity to the life of the aboriginal race of Australia. “ And if it has to be him, if he was shot for what he believes in, then I know in myself that I’d feel proud o f him as a mother. “ Regardless o f what anybody else feels, he’s made his point. Robert feels and I feel that if we dont do something now the children to come and his nieces and nephews will feel the backwash of what wasnt done.”

The landlord sure is earning...

G RAEM E D U N STAN H AT makes Armidale a thriving town is students. Its economic base is education and it has a university, a CAE, a tech college, two high schools and five boarding schools for the children of the rural rich.

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Academic salaries are spent and invested there and students have got to eat and be housed. There used to be a policy o f providing college accommodation for all stu­ dents but it has ceased to work.

Partly because the institutions can no longer get enough money to

build college space they need to meet ■growing enrolments. And partly because students no longer want to live in colleges - the need is for houses where friends can gather as families or communes without the hassles o f dead hand­ ed bureaucracies.

So there is a demand for town accommodation. In the past cou­ ple o f years landlords have dis­ covered that students dont mind crowding a house and, wow!

MONEY! Rentals have soared and so have land prices. According to the Daily telegraph Armidale is second only to Vaucluse and

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Hunters Hill as the highest rental district in NSW. O f course inflation helps. Land and property is safer than banks at this time so the surplus of salaries o f academics and admin­ istrators get invested in specu­ lation. Last year’s housing officer at the university is a landlord, as is the mayor (who is also a real estate agent) and nearly every member of the Chamber o f C om merce.

The fester opened into conflict last tuesday. A tenants union call­ ed an emergency meeting to deal with a bureaucratic bungle at the CAE, previously known as the

Teachers College. They had enrol­ led too many first years, 4 7 too many, and put them in accom­ modation o f the later year stu­ dents. The latter arrived with their gear but found no roof for their heads.

The meeting decided to occupy the commonroom at New ling House. This is a collection o f fibro buildings after the style of those dreadful migrant centres. It was originally put up as temporary gentlemens accommodation by the teachers college back in 1953.

By 10.30 pm the move was com pleted and some 4 0 students set up digs there.

The dean of the college found out about it and met them to wish his support. In fact the support from bureaucrats was embarras­ singly generous. For bureaucrats it was at least a temporary solution, for whereas Newling has two to a room, here were students volun­ tarily accepting 40 to a room.

Furthermore it was a dramatic tool to use to lever more funds from the bureaucrats up the line with the purse strings.

But the tenants union secre­ tary, Marea Stapleton, is a take no shit lady. She saw the problem as a general one and she recognised

THE GUBBO SPENDTHRIFTS Smith is the elected K EITH member o f the National A b o ­ riginals Consultative Council (which recently renamed itself the National Aboriginal Congress) and has an electorate which covers large areas

o f the south coast, extending south into Victoria and west almost to the South Australia border.

He works out o f the offices o f the Aboriginal Legal Service in Nowra.

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The R osebery reserve

KEITH SMITH “ OUT o f the $117 million allocated to the welfare o f my people about 75 percent is spent on white organisations it's the structure of the public service department. Put it this way: they’ve got to change this system to suit us because the system doesnt suit us and we can’t benefit the way the system is now. We’ve got to Koorie-ise this system, aboriginalise it. “ We’ve been taught to share. They say that the aboriginal’ s a drunken bastard and his women are all sluts. Because they see an aboriginal woman standing outside a hotel she’s a slut. What about all the white bastards who get in the pub and hawk their fork for a quid? Why dont they ask themselves the question: ‘Why are these young girls standing outside hotels?'

‘Why are they forced into this way of life?’

The only education facilities available to the girls are four gallon kero tins a great big bean paddock and a big white boss to stand over ’em It’s been going on up and down the coast for decades. I’ve seen the days when koories were picking in bean paddocks and getting 20 cents a bushel, and next to them whites earning 30 cents a bushel. “ They say Nowra’s not a racist town.

I’m talking about the days when this town was filthy, like every other town in NSW. They used to rope us off in the pictures. If I took my wife and kids we were forced to sit down the front, roped off like bloody animals. My missus has gone into Fossie’s to buy a dress and she wasnt allowed to try it on - because she was black. She had to buy the dress and

take it home and if it didnt fit she’d run around the missions trying to find some­ one that it would fit to sell it to ’em and pray to God they had the money to pay for it. And then go back to the lucky dip.

This is the sort of town — this town here — and they say it’s not racist! We’ve had 11 year old kids held for days at the police station. And the police havent recognised the Aboriginal Legal Service.

We havent been allowed to go in and interview our own people. “ There’s no community centre: there’s no vocational guidance; there’s only one aboriginal apprentice who’s employed by the local council to be a diesel mechanic.

You can go all up and down the business streets and you won’t find one aboriginal working in a shop, a bank or in any administrative job. You won’t find one aboriginal adult working for the council. “ The local council gets $ 2 7 ,0 0 0 from the federal government to spend in work projects, employing aboriginals and sup­ plying material for particular projects. No funds are given directly to aboriginal groups and the council rips the cream off.

Most of it just goes down the drain, on white administration and organisations that rake off the money. “ The Kangaroo Valley historical museum was built out o f the grant for aboriginal groups and built with koorie labor, but it had nothing to do with blacks. The restoration o f the Shoalhaven river bank was funded out o f common­ wealth money for aboriginals. And that’s for the benefit of the local white com­ munity - not the blacks. “ This is how the white european

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works: if he can’t beat you one way he’ ll try another. The greatest spear that he’s thrown into my people at the moment is division — saying ‘ urban blacks' and ‘tribal blacks’ . Immaterial of what the whiteman wants to call us we are aborigi­ nals - we’re all one. Under tribal law once the elders make a decision this becomes law. They have decided that we’re all aboriginals. We act on their decisions. “ When I go to Canberra on a National Congress meeting I dont go on my own initiative. I go right along this coast and I discuss all the policies with the elders.

They’re the ones making the decisions . . .

I’m only a mouthpiece.

"T h e y ’re trying to create divisions

in the rural town of learning that a group living together in protest is a group that can be mobilised for protest.

She had been handling com­ plaints from tenants and a particu­ larly outrageous one had come to notice. In december 1973 a two bedroom house was rented at $23 per week. In january 1974 it was rented as a four bedroom (with­ out any alteration whatsoever), furnished house at $47 per week (three beds and one couch had been added). A young aboriginal family had taken it at that price.

The woman has a 12 month old baby and only a fortnight ago her

eight day old baby had died. The man was out of work. The land­ lord proposed to put six CAE students in at $60 per week and so gave the family four days notice.

Marea went to see the landlord.

His name is Greg Maguire and he is a 20 year old, confident hip capitalist. He owns nine other properties in Armidale which he also rents. He also owns two clothing shops called Jeaneration and A man’s world Sparks flew at the meeting and Marea threatened to set up a black ban on his shops to which Maguire replied with

astounding arrogance, “ So what. I have handled black bans before in Albury, Wagga and Bathurst.”

So placards and pickets were arranged for thursday night shop­ ping. Groups of students walked up and down the shopping centre between Maguire’s shops. Surpris­ ing sympathy was shown by other shoppers, for previously students were seen as the cause o f high rents. “ We’re with you,” said a pair of pensioner ladies. “ I’ll bring it up at the next Chamber of Commerce meeting,” said a quite irate burgher. And the local photographic storekeeper hurried out of his darkroom to take news

amongst the aboriginal people on the issue o f half caste and full blood. Put it this way: three years ago I was ‘nothing but a drunken black bastard’, today I ’m a white man fighting a black man’s cause’ . These are the divisions they're putting amongst my people. But my people know this and they dont accept it.

WE ARE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE. “ Now is the time for us to unite.

We’ve waited 200 years for a chance like this. We’ve got to unite right across this country from the east to the west and north to south. If there is a change of government in the next two years it’ll be the end of the aboriginal race, because under a dirty filthy Liberal racist govern­ ment we’ll get nothing!”

pictures which he had developed 15 minutes later.

In A man’s world where strides can cost yer $25 a pair I spoke with Maguire. He was in the com­ pany o f his financial backer Doug Jackson and in minutes their joint crassness had blown my cool. I was raging. Heads like these, I was thinking, find their way to the top o f pikes, come the peoples anger.

Q: “ Was a punch thrown at the picketers outside?”

A : “ My solicitor has advised me not to answer questions (laughs). If I had been there it would have connected.”

And so on.

He told about the chip on his shoulder - he left school at sec­

ond year — and how his taxes keep students and bums like me in universities or on the dole. He told o f the woes o f outrageous interest charges and 16V£ percent rates. His rents arent high he explains. Others are charging $10 per person and he is charging only eight dollars (six to seven people in a three-four bedroom house). “ Why, arent you out picketing others?” he asks. He tells how he employs blacks - he has a trend­ ily dressed black as a shop assist­ ant. He tells o f the charities he supports, like crippled children, and the Police Boys Club (where he does his weight training). And he scoffs at the idea that com­ munes or any community can work except when based on greed like his own.

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IGHT on to Whitlam’ s referenda for rehabilitation o f municipal councils. It will probably be chucked out by the voters in the senate elections through sheer spite, who will thus be chucking away a kind o f freedom. The only answer to continuing state corrup­ tion, is to to de-ball the heavies and to spread the loot among the undernourish­ ed local bodies, which in turn will en­ courage greater participation by indi­ viduals in decisions affecting their own communities . . .

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N ERRATIC, rather ratty rave this week, as I cannot find (without contrivance) a linking thread to all the thoughts that tumble about this befud­ dled brain like Grapeshot. So — a lucky dip.

At last, the government is fan faring a negative income tax, which means the poor will be paid by the less poor. This modest, logical reform, has taken a long time coming and presumably the income applies to the voluntary unemployed, the layabouts. The last thing Australia needs is more drones. Every single addition to the workforce is a boost to the creation of meaningless products, inflation, pollution and a host o f other inconveniences.

Whereas every addition to the layabout community greatly enhances Gross Na­ tional Pleasure, as well as boosts the balance o f dreams and fantasies (normally cribbed from overseas).

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It is time people were encouraged to join the dole queue, made to feel proud, informed that not “ producing” is itself a contribution to future sanity. Gaudy revellers in wealth will someday come to be seen as objects of pity, perhaps con­ tempt, rather than be draped with knight­ hoods and emulated. Heroes of a materi­ alist age will yet become moral dinossaurs.

When Socrates was convicted of cor­ rupting the minds o f the young, he was asked to plea to the court as to what sentence be imposed. (Customary alter­ natives: death, jail, fine or exile.) Socrates argued that as he had devoted his life to persuading men to think less of material benefits than of their moral and mental well being, he deserved reward, not punishment, and that the state owed him a living. “ Nothing could be more ap­ propriate” , he told his accusers, “ than free maintenance at the state’s expense” . . . a statement that the Whitlam govern­ ment may not disagree with; whereas the elders of Athens dished out the hemlock.

A final quote: “ I have never lived an ordinary quiet life. I did not care for the things that most people care about: mak­ ing money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank and all the other activities — political appointments,

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HE C O N VE N TiO N A LITY o f Mel­ burnians verges on the morbid. Of all prehistoric obsessions that suffocate the city, it is the instinct to couple which runs most rampant. The majority of people are so terrified of aloneness that they devote their lives to finding a twit­ tering companion, as with most cities, but Melbourne contains no floating popula­ tion of single free flowers. Everyone has a mate, duly possessed and constantly paraded. Occasionally one observes the haunted expression of men and women between gruesome twosomes, looking at their watches, as they hurry on down the tunnel of imagined love . . . and hopefully hastily to a dreary nuclear home. Even among people who should know better, life has become merely someone to come home to . . . Wake up Melburnians, you boring, static, nuclear hasbeens . . . love freely, move loosely, live longer.

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secret societies, party organisations — which go on in our city . . . ” Why continue? Just remember that this human cornerstone of western phi­ losophy and scientific method, would still be considered a moral outcast by most today; especially the Libs. * * * HE SMALLER the town, the more pompous the mayor . . . what an ass we make of ourselves over the national anthem, plumping for the martial mock heroics o f Advance Australia fair and rejecting the haunting uniqueness of Waltzing Matilda — if one accepts opinion polls, which I dont and won’ t. Most survey questionnaires are completed by weary student employees o f research agencies hurrying up their piece work.

Opinion polls have been wrong in major elections . . . and they are basically a device o f conformism and control, per­ fected by ad agencies to con clients and worshipped by the press as a sales restora­ tive. Opinion polls are the enemy of individuality . . . how often has your opinion ever been sought? OK you dreary bombasts, choose Advance Australia fair, but I aint never gonna singalong.

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to heads, lefties, radicals, feminists and more of today's people . . . who see the world in mechanistic terms and divide public personalities into Good Guys and Gals and Bad Guys and Gals. These are the people who complain to Nation re­ view about the presence of Knopfelmacher . . . who muscle Enoch Powell from university auditoriums . . . who are blind to the charm and grace and wit of Malcom Muggeridge, and so on, right down to the measly intolerance exuded to everyday acquaintances. Fertile and articulate minds, however unpalatable their outpourings, should arouse stimulat­ ing mental swordsplay, not disgust.

Practically no one is a conscious vil­ lain. Nixon believes his objectives are honorable. If one circulates among many people, regardless of their political be­ liefs, the absurdity of most personal hatred becomes obvious. Oh, one must take stands and all that, otherwise one ends up nibbling sauerkraut at Hitlers dinner table (or most probably sniffing some of Goering’s famous cocaine) . . . but the prejudices of today’s young Turks has made most rad-lib journalism a thoroughly predictable bore and con­ versations at hairy pubs become a litany of slogans inflated to soliloquys.

Attempts at “ ideas playing” meet with a nervous grin or a sledgehammer politicism. People have lost the courage to examine their convictions . . . or to dig up the cement of inherited conclusions . . the plurality they demand of a future society is belied by the singularity with which they view the present one. * * *

SCAR WILDE once characterised lord Alfred Douglas as one who could not “ play gracefully with ideas but arrived at violence o f opinion merely” .

This son of the Marquis o f Queensberry (Bosie) turns out to be the father o f our age, and the Wilde one’s criticism o f him saturates the spectacle o f life today: dont you think?

It is easily recognised as stark intoler­ ance to ideas different from one’s own.

This is not confined to crochety wowers or rascist bucolic alfs — one expects bigotry from such quarters — but applied

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AVID FROST now says that he hates women. He doesnt know any women. David Frost is the glamorous international embodiment of the work ethic; toiling frenziedly on three con­ tinents . . . members o f his production crew are easily recognised by the stench o f amphetimine armpits as they run into a room. Even as he sits on the lavatory, Frost is known to carry on with think tank conferences, dragging his reluctant staff with him into the bathroom.

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The mind factory is back in business Y THE time this TLD ap­ than change them thus the pears at the newsagents, engineering ocka writes himself 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 student inputs will have off at the pub six times in the re-entered the education machine. week instead o f the one his study Even those who arrived at Uni/ timetable will normally allow.

CAE for the first time in 1974 are Tribes of first year girls, fresh out really going back to school for the of public school and just back 13th year in a row. Seven months from three months at Surfers or to the exams, folks . . .

Eden or Portsea or whatever, sip However, the machine’ s initial coffee and appraise the hordes o f impact is carefully muted. In the wouldbe fresher fuckers slowly past few weeks it has been subtly circling them. breaking in raw material all over The heavy politicos come out the country, with a device called of their filing cabinets and hand Orientation Week. (Sometimes, out advice to all and sundry. depending on how long they think Some of this benevolence is mis­ it will take you to be sucked in, it placed: one Monash student wrote is called Orientation Day.) to L o t’s wife as follows: “ Just for The official aim o f Orientation the information o f all those Week is simply to help first year groovy, with-it, far-fucking-out students get their bearings. In dope fiends who edited practice just about all students the Orientation seem to truck along, which en­ Handbook, thanks for ables fulfillment of the real pur­ all that handy pose — to gently transfer them all information on sex unwarily from summer into the and dope, but knowledge business, ready and I’ve been willing to be processed. Purely as tripping an exercise in orientation it is actually a failure, for thousands of people being spontaneous and having a good time is about as unreal an introduction to the machine as it is possible to con­ ceive.

The sociology o f Orientation Week is interesting though. Many tired, cynical academics undergo a remarkable metamorphosis: with Pepsodent smiles they revel in the friendship o f hundreds o f students before locking themselves in the offices for the rest of the year.

Others are content merely to , extend their personalities rather-

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since I was 16 and screwing since I could handle it, and besides I can get it cheaper.” *

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A T ITS annual council in january, the Australian Union o f Students passed motions supporting the Palestine Liberation Organisation and denying the state o f Israel the right to exist on the grounds that “ the Palestine people have the historical, cultural and moral right to the land of Palestine presently embraced by Israel” .

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time it was different the vacuum was very quickly filled with angry jews. For . the AUS with an eye to democracy — is sending these motions to each campus to be voted on in student meetings in the next couple of weeks (majority support will make them AUS policy) and al­ ready the jewish students societies have started a national “ NO” cam­ paign.

And on a rather large scale, The Zionists have distributed 8 0 ,0 0 0 colored propaganda j badges (cost abou / $5000) and have sent their president, Arnold Roth, all over the country, put­

ting down the arabs. Such organis­ ation, coupled with the strong pro-jewish bias in our culture means that the AUS motions will probably be smashed. But at least the three miEion Palestinian refu­ gees have become a political issue.

Not everyone is taking it too seriously. The Royal Melbourne Institute o f Technology’s student SRC decided to vote on behalf of its students, but this responsibility was easily handled. Rather than get tied up in boring political argument, it allowed Arnold Roth and an AUS speaker one and a half minutes each and then took a vote. * * * THE REGISTRAR o f Tasmanian CAE, a gentleman known as Black, has got things neatly wrapped up. He was the man who drew up the CAE constitution, and in it he included a provision giving the registrar tenure for life.

This means the man can only be sacked if an act o f parliament is put through to change the CAE constitution. * * * A FEW days ago a rather bewild­ ered Malcolm Fraser was sighted wandering round RMIT. He ap­ proached several people and asked them if they knew where a “ Greek meeting” was being held.

Malcolm, it seems, was doing a bit o f crawling after the ethnic vote but had got the address wrong. He finally left when one student told him that as a former minister for education he ought to have some idea what RMIT looked like.

After all, it has a particularly crowded and dingy atmosphere that is quite unforgettable.

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K id s c o n t r ib u t io n s ca n b e s e n t t o e ith e r th e S y d n e y o r M e lb o u r n e m o n ito r . I f y o u live e ls e w h e r e , c h o o s e e ith e r o n e a n d e n c lo s e a s ta m p e d a d d ressed e n v e lo p e .

M E L B O U R N E : R o b K in g , “ L o d g e R a lp h ’ ’ , D a v id R o a d , L ily d a le .

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HILE the school holidays were on we ‘asked kids to tell us what they were doing with themselves. Judging from the mail we received (and the mail we didnt receive) the answer seems to have been anything unconnected with school. Maybe it was our fault for prematurely setting the first English essay topic for the year.

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drew MacLean could be relied upon to set his mind to the serious business o f getting stuck into the system. His thoughts arise out of a seminar he attended during the holidays on self-assess­ ment, and a reading of John Holt’s The underachieving school.

M.E. sent in a piece which begins, “ Hell, my mother is a drip-dry soap commercial. The children stand at her feet and pull

her apron strings. My father is an adult dry-cleaning commercial, who uses Solvol for no purpose but to keep clean. I’m holding this pen rather tightly, feeling my frus­ tration. School is just another engine” .

Interesting sounding stuff, which develops into a well nigh incomprehensible exegesis on engines and traffic. The author notes at the end, “ I’ve got more stuff like this if you want it” . Yes

please.

Jennie MacPherson wrote from Queensland " T o all the stoned fish everywhere . . . with love, a considerable amount o f good luck, and an aspro” .

It’s good to see that everyone had such a nice holiday. However, during this time our revolutionary comrades in Chinese schools have once again seized the initiative in the world struggle against tradi­

tional learning through their rejec­ tion o f the scholasticism o f Con­ fucius. It is hard to see that it would do much good to criticise Confucius out here, but a two­ pronged attack on Pythagoras and sir Isaac Newton could well raise the level o f consciousness in the average maths class.

In the meantime keep those reports, outbursts, tirades, and artistic flowerings, flowing in.

- R O B KING

School: the graveyard of learning

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HERE’S JUST no need to develop a child’s capacity to judge performance etc — kids all have an inbuilt capability to do this but school destroys it by enticing the student with success in the form o f high marks, honors and “ acceptance” . Perhaps the greatest of all the wrongs we do to children is to deprive them o f the chance to judge the worth of their own work and thus destroy in them the power to make such judgments, or even believe they can.

We see two and three year olds, continually comparing their own talk to the talk o f people around them; five and six year olds teach­ ing themselves to read, figuring out each new word on a page, continually checking what they know against what they have done, what they dont know against what they know. Then we see fifth graders handing in arith­ metic papers and asking the teach­ er anxiously “ Is it right?” They have arrived at the perverted idea that Right is what the teacher says is Right and the only way to find out if something is Right is to ask the teacher.

Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid o f what he doesnt know, better at finding and figur­ ing things out, more confident, resourceful, persistent and in­ dependent, than he will ever again be in his schooling. Already, by paying close attention to and in­ teracting with the world and peo­ ple around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school or than any o f his teachers has done for years. He has solved the mystery of language. He has discovered it, and he has found out how it works and learned to use it. He has done it by explor­ ing, by experimenting, by develop­ ing his own model o f the grammar of language, by trying it out and seeing whether it works, by grad­ ually changing it and refining it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning a great many other things as well, including a great many of the “ concepts” that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more compli­ cated than the ones they do try to teach him.

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A Syd n ey schoolkid's view o f religious education patient, determined, energetic, skilful learner. We sit him down at a desk, and what do we teach him? Many things. First, that learning is separate from living. “ You come to school to learn,” we say, as if the child hadnt been learning before, as if living were out there and learning were in here and there was no connection between the two. Secondly, that he cannot be trusted to learn and is no good at it. Everything we do about reading, a task far simpler than what the child has already mastered, says to him, “ If we dont make you read, you won’ t, and if you dont do it exactly the way we tell you, you can’t.”

In short, he comes to feel that learning is a passive process, some­ thing that someone else does to you, instead of something you do for yourself. , He learns many other things.

He leams that to be wrong, uncer­ tain, confused, is a crime. Right answers are what the school wants, and he learns countless strategies for prying these answers out o f the teacher, for conning her into thinking he knows what he doesnt know. He learns to dodge, bluff, fake, cheat. He learns to be lazy. Before he came to school, he would work for hours on end, on his own, with no thought o f reward, at the business of making sense o f the world and gaining competence in it,

In school, he learns how not to work when the boss isnt looking, how to know when he is looking, how to make him think you are working when you know he is looking. He learns that in real life you dont do anything unless you are bribed, bullied or conned into doing it, that nothing is worth doing for its own sake, or that if it is, you can’ t do it in school. He learns to be bored, to work with a small part of his mind, to escape from the reality around him into daydreams and fantasies - but not fantasies like those of his preschool years, in which he play­ ed a very active part. He comes to learn that school is just one long lesson on How To Turn Yourself Off. Schooling does an incredible number of horrible things to kids but most o f these are a direct result of testing. Almost all edu­ cators feel that testing is a neces­ sary part o f education. I wholly disagree - I do not think that testing is necessary, or useful, or even excusable. A t best, testing does more harm than good; at worst, it hinders, distorts and cor­ rupts the learning process. Testers say that testing techniques are being continually improved and can eventually be perfected. May­ be so — but no imaginable im­ provement in testing would over­ come my objections to it. Our chief concern should not be to improve testing, but to find ways to eliminate it.

In some circumstances, o f course, tests are necessary. People test themselves to check their own progress. The typist types exer­ cises to increase her rate per min­ ute. The tennis player serves doz­ ens o f balls, trying to place them accurately in this or that comer,

knowledge. But virtually none of the testing done in schools is of this kind.

Students are not, as a rule, tested to prove they can perform activities they have chosen for themselves, without endangering other people or running a collec­ tive enterprise. Testing in schools

is done for very different reasons, and by and large we are not - AN D R E W MacLEAN very honest about these reasons. * * * T o the public we say that we You sit down, and they tell better know how to help them you it’s not good enough to learn more. This is about 95 You hit the ground, your brain percent untrue. There are two is scattered to the far reaches o f main reasons why we test children: the earth the first is to threaten them into Then they put you in a pound doing what we want done, and the You crack a joke to keep amus­ second is to give us a basis for ed, but only you laugh because handing out rewards and penalties the joke’s on them. Ha! Ha! on which the educational system Then, shit! You die laughing —1like all coercive systems - must So the bastards come up with operate. The threat o f a test some crap about it being nature’s makes students do their assign­ way. Ha! Ha! ment; the outcome o f the test That’s what turns you to stone enables us to reward those who in your machine-made box in seem to do it best. The economy your machine-made grave. of the school, like that o f most Because it’ s all a lie, spelt societies, operates on greed and m. v. d. fear. Tests arouse the fear and And pebble tears come crash­ satisfy the greed. ing out in tidal strength Children are sensible people if Then eons into the future, you we give them half a chance to act grow yourself some gills and swim as if they were. Can we not treat away children with the same respect Then when you think about and courtesy that we would offer your situation and giggle wildly, to any other human being? With Guess wot? schooling the way it is, the answer Y ou ’re a stoned fish Ha! Ha! seems to be “ N o ” .

And it’s still a lie In short, all serious practice can be seen as a way in which the - JENNIE MacPHERSON learner tests his own skill and T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , march 12-18, 1 9 7 4 - P a g e 9

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MAGIC MUSH II DUTCH FRED

N ANSWER to “ Anxious” (TLD, 2 /7 ) I hereby deliver up all infor­ mation I know on the subject o f magic mushrooms. Most of it is personal, some not, and probably some of it is bullshit, but it’ s here, anyway.

The mushrooms growing in Australia are commonly known as Goldtop, Blue Meanies (shades of Yellow Submarine!) and Silvertop, or White Angel of Death.

I think the latin names for the first two are Amanita Citrana (Goldtop) and Amanita Phalloides (Blue Meanies) but I can’t be sure .

Goldtops and Silvertops seem to grow pretty profusely along the whole east coast of Australia, with not many Blue Meanies, and the position is rever­ sed in Darwin. (This being the extent o f my travels.) Goldtops and Blue Meanies give a pleasant stone (understatement) but Silvertops are supposedly deadly. I can’t comment on this as I’ve never tried them, but I met a guy at Kuranda, near Cairns, who claimed that he and a friend

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ate two each and ended up in hospital.

Goldtops, naturally, differ in size but they’re nearly always circular, and they are a creamy color with a yellowy-gold blotch in the centre (natch). This color­ ing (gold) does not stop abruptly but rather fades into the cream. The stalks are the same creamy color as the caps, and the underside o f the cap (fins or rays or whatever) is a browny color, more dark than light. When picked (out of cow shit, naturally), unless the stalk is broken, the bottom o f the mushie should be a vase sort o f shape with ragged bits of mushie skin hanging off it.

The mushroom stalk should turn blue within about 30 seconds o f pluck­ ing if it doesnt split the stalk. The amount o f blue coloring denotes the amount of Psylocibin, the active ingredi­ ent in the mushroom The more (deeper) blue, the better off you are.

Goldtops are usually about two inches across the cap when “ ripe” but I’ve found a few as big as a large saucer, and I’ve heard o f them as big as dinner

plates, but I think that’ s a kids story.

Sometimes you may be lucky and find a magic circle, a ring o f Goldtops with a red and white speckled mush­ room inside. I’ve seen one and dont believe the red and white variety (Amanita Muscaria - the kind found in fairy story books) grows in Australia. I was told o f one being found at Kuranda, but all the people who saw it were already tripping, anyway. Goldtops have a thick stalk and look like normal mushies in nearly every respect, the main difference being the coloring and a flatter cap.

Blue Meanies look very much like Goldtops with no gold. They are a uniform creamy color on cap and stalk, and are brown underneath the cap.

They also should turn blue, a lot Dluer than m ost Goldtops and a lot quicker.

Silvertops, or White Angels of Death, have a flat white cap and the stalk is a lot longer and thinner than Goldtops or Meanies. The underside of the cap is a

..THE FUNNY FLESHY FUNGI grey-silver color and the mushrooms are slimy to touch. When picked they do not turn blue. As Silvertops contain a small amount o f Psylocibin, they may be a very, very light blue, hardly enough to notice. Tell the two apart by break­ ing the stalk open along its length and exposing it to the air. Goldtops and Meanies are “ meatier” inside than Sil­ vertops, which have a stalk more like a tube. If the inside o f the stalk doesnt turn blue in a matter o f seconds, blow hard on it two or three times. If it still doesnt change color, you’ve scored a Silvertop. What you do then is up to you.

All three varieties grow only in cowshit and I’ve been told only in dairy-cow shit, but I'm not sure o f this. Goldtops and Meanies can be cooked, either in a stew or on their own for toast, etc. If you can handle the taste, they can also be eaten raw, especially if you disguise them slightly with peanut butter or vegemite (or some such crap) sand­ wiches. On their own, raw, they taste like old stale bread (to me, anyway).

Taken on an empty stomach, or merely with whatever you use to get them down, they seem to work quicker and better than after a heavy meal. If you wash the mushies down with CocaCola the whole thing will start quicker still. (At least Coke’ s useful for some­ thing.) Towards the end o f the trip Coke can be useful too, to prolong it.

Mushies seem to have different effects depending on where they grow. The mushies at Nimbin are “ fast” while the ones at Kuranda slow you down.

Mushies in Darwin and Newcastle alter your sense o f height, you feel 100 ft. tall. They are very giggly, but easy to handle.

Specifically, I know them to grow in the following places: Darwin (Humpty Doo, 40m south), Kuranda, Cairns, all the way down Queensland’s coast,

around Brisbane (they report “ poison­ ings” pretty regularly in the paper), Noosa Heads, Ballina, Nimbin, Coffs Harbor, Grafton (big bastards, 2m north of the 3-way intersection just outside town, left side of the road, facing north), Buladelah, Dungog, Ray­ mond terrace, Hexham, Taree, Maitland, Cessnock, Kurri-Kurri and Newcastle.

I’ve heard they grow around Melbourne, near the peninsula, and Sydney but wouldnt know for sure. I suppose any­ where where there are cows is a good bet.

Mushrooms are pretty much a one day affair, growing-wise, it’s best to go picking around 9 .0 0 am, after they’ve had a few hours sun and before they get too much heat and dry up and the worms get them. If your mushy is wormy (little white, fat maggoty things), you can throw it away. But I’m told if you cook the mushroom they’re OK and you won’ t die. I’ve never tried it.

Once picked, mushrooms tend to dry out rather rapidly and take on the appearance and texture o f old shoe leather, but normally, if kept some­ where dark, will last maybe two days.

They can be kept immersed in honey or syrup, this way they’re supposed to keep for over a week, but again I cannot attest to this, as I’ve never gotten around to waiting that long. When ,you

pick the mushroom, be nice, say hello before you uproot it, and believe. Just as dope grows nice and tall if you love it, so do mushrooms flock to those who love them.

Dried out old mushrooms, if they’re really dry, can be smoked, but they have to be mixed with tobacco before they’ll burn. Crush them first, please.

What kind of a stone you get I’ m not sure, as I’ve always been tripping before­ hand, but I’m told it’s pretty good.

Overindulgence over a long period can produce “ Psylocibin poisoning” , during which condition the body breaks out in small round sores, which some­ times “ weep” and bleed. It also pro­ duces continual headache, nausea, fucks up your sense of balance, and leaves you generally feeling like someone’ s building your coffin. A few of us went down with this at Kuranda after tripping once a day, and a lot of times, twice a day, for 3-4 weeks solid. Psylocibin is alien to the human system, and the body needs time to get rid of it. Tripping too often doesnt give your body this chance and you “ overload” your digestive system and, I think, poison your blood to a certain extent.

Mushies can be juiced up in an extractor and mixed with port wine or some other alcohol to fool the pigs when they come round.

All three varieties are listed as poisonous plants, under the Poisons Act or some such shit. If you overeat mushrooms you’ll be sick. You can eat a few, and then suddenly be unable to swallow any more, you’ll feel like your going to puke. That’s your body saying “ Uncle” . Most people I know normally get o ff on about three, but a lot depends on size, color and the indivi­ dual. That’s about the extent of my knowledge, but I hope it may help someone, somewhere.

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W O R K S H O P F IL M S T U D Y G R O U P — classic f i l m t h e na m e o f w h i c h is not a llo w e d to be advertised: 33 La ure l street, W illoughby, in f o 9 5 - 6 5 4 0 ( d a y ) or 4 1 - 4 1 8 3 (eve.), 8 . 0 0 pm.

2 0 0 1 : A SPACE ODYSSEY — K u b rick’ s co sm ic debris: U nio n T h e a t r e , S y d n e y U n i, 2 . 0 0 pm, 6 0c.

J U L IE T T E OF THE S P I R I T S b y F e ll in i : Op era Ho use , 7 . 3 0 pm, $ 2 . 0 0 .

THE MARX BROS GO WEST and D o n a ld S u th erla n d ALEX IN W O N D E R L A N D : Academy T w in C in e m a, Padd o, 33-4453, $2.00, 11.30 p m

P IR A N A , K A R V A S JUTE: Curl b u r l y o u t h club, 8 . 0 0 pm.

FIN C H , IT A M B U , F ITZ: H o r n s b y Pol ice bo ys club, 8 .0 0 -1 2 .0 0 m id n ig h t, $1.50.

W I T C H ’ S B R E W , B E D R O C K : Chequ er s.

T R A N S IT IO N : O ce an ic hotel.

B U L L E T : B r i g h t o n hotel.

HUSH: O c e a n ic ho tel (afterno on).

BUFFALO: C arin gbah YMCA.

P I R A N A A N D SUPPORTS: Pa dd in gt o n T o w n H a l l, 8 . 0 0 - 1 2 . 0 0 pm .

F r e n c h ’ s Tav ern , O x f o r d street, 7 . 4 5 - 1 0 . 0 0 pm.

M U S IC T V , R A D IO

T V , R A D IO

R A D I O T H E A T R E — She Meant T o Te ll H im O n T h e Island: A B C R a d io 2 , 4 . 0 0 pm.

SUNDAY P L A Y B IL L — H a p p y Fa m il i e s — A kid in t he ’ 50s looks at his parents: ABC R a d io 1, 8 . 0 0 pm .

BYE BYE BR A VE MAN — slack c o m e d y m ov ie w i t h G eo rg e Segal, others: Chan 10, 8 . 3 0 p m .

C H A L L E N G E — Dissent or D e v e l o p m e n t — Discussion panel keep ta lk in g : A B C T V , 9 . 2 0 pm.

LLEW A N D PAM H IR D J A Z Z B A N D : O l d Push, G eorge street.

North, 7 . 3 0 - 1 1 . 3 0 pm.

IA N MASON — Honky t o n k p i an o: Stage D o o r ta vern, 7 . 0 0 - 1 0 . 0 0 p m LOBBY LLOYD AND THE C O LO RED BALLS and D R A I N : Chequers.

TV , R A D IO ROOM TO M O VE with Chris W i n t e r : A B C R ad io 1, 8 . 0 0 p m M O N T Y P Y T H O N ’S F L Y IN G C IR C U S : ABC T V , 9 .2 5 p m AN E V E N IN G W IT H DON DUNSTAN: ABC TV, 10.05 p m

THE W O RLD OF JAZZ — E ric C h ild : 2 B L , 1 0.2 5 am, C H E A P T H R IL L S P IC K O F T H E G O O N S : A B C R a d i o 1, 1 2 . 0 0 noo n. M U S I C O N T H E H O U R — F A IR W IN D TO JA V A A B C puts on 4 0 m in u te s of m ovie with F r e d music each h o u r be tw e e n M a c M u r r a y as a d i a m o n d 11.00 am and 5.00^ p m : F IL M h u nt in g sea c a p t a i n f i g h t i n ’ O p er a Ho use , $ 1 . 2 ( / , 2 0 c o f f pirates: C ha n 1 0 , 8 . 3 0 f o r studs, pensioners, kids.

MADE IN USA plus pm .

PO IN T BLANK: U n io n N A T I O N A L RADIO T h e a tr e , S y d n e y U ni , 7 . 3 0 THEATRE — My Love CONTEMPORARY pm, $ 1 . 0 0 .

Must W ait — life of L U C I A — “ A m ag n if i c e n t THEATRE M atthew Fl in d er s : ABC MEADOW BAND, LEE C u b a n f i l m ” : O p e r a House, R a d io 2 , 8 . 3 0 p m .

W IL L IA M S , M A R IO N in f o 2 1 2 - 2 3 1 3 , $ 2 . 0 0 .

EROS A N D T H A N A T O S HENDERSON, AL HEAD, — original e n v ir o n m e n t a l P A U L I N E L O V E T T : K irk music pl a y : P A C T , 2 6 4 M IN O R C LA S S IC S G a ll e r y , 422 Cleveland THEATRE P it t street, S y d n e y , 8 . 3 0 street, S u r r y Hills, 8 . 0 0 pm.

V IL L A G E BAZAAR — p m , $ 1 .

5 0 .

N A T I O N AL THEATRE T H E E A G L E H A S TWO f o o d , c lo t h in g , c ra f t , etc: OF THE D E A F (U S A ): H E A D S by Jean C o c te a u: Vi l la g e Church, O xford E liz a b e th a n Th eatre, FILM Genesians, 4 2 0 K e n t street street, Paddo, 8 .0 0 -4.00 N ew tow n , che ck first (near town h a ll), pm .

798-3608.

O U R D A Y IN T H E S U N — 3 57 -1 2 00 , $5.7 0, $4.20, S E R G IO A N D E D U A R D O $ 3 .

2 0 . surf mo v ie : M a n l y Silver A B R E W — d u o classica gu itarists, count 'e m ; Screen, 5 . 3 0 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 .

WORKSHOPS, TUCKER S IN G I N G IN T H E R A IN O p er a Ho us e , 8.15 pm and K I S S M E K A T E — $4.70, $ 3.7 0, $2.70.

16MM F IL M , CANDLE, t o e -t a pp in g and yode ll ing SILK SCREENING, ROCK *50s style: M a n l y Silver P O T T E R Y , WOOD Screen, 1 . 3 0 pm, $ 1 . 2 0 , F IL M C U T T IN G WORKSHOP: R E N E E GEYER and 60c.

O l d C hu r c h, Pa lme r street, U K E L E C T I O N R E V I E W N F T A ’S I M A G E S O F T H E M O T H E R E A R T H : East S y d n e y , 8 . 0 0 pm.

— British So un ds, Sm ash, M I N D S E R I E S — Morgan, W h is k e y /S i lk s , mon-sat.

P A D D Y ’S MARKET — S IL V E R CLOUD: Stage Ca p ita l, R ed , R ed , R ed : H o u r o f t h e W o l f (t w o Shop and stare: beauties): Op era Coach, 1 4 7 A K in g street, Filmmakers C in e m a , little H ay m a rk e t, 1 1.0 0 am -5.30 C it y , monsa t, $ 2 .

0 0 .

House, 7 .

1 5 pm, $ 1 .

6 0 , D a rli ng h ur st , 4 .0 0 pm, pm. m em b e r s o n l y (jo in at d o o r S T E W A R T A N D M c K A Y :> $1.50.

Jools, in st a nt free ze -d rie d O U R D A Y I N T H E S U N — $ 3 . 0 0 p.a.).

121 C ro w n surf film : M anly Sil ver M I N A M A T A : U n i o n t h e ­ decadence, street, East S y d n e y , 7 . 0 0 a t re S y d n e y un i, 5 . 0 0 p m , Screen, 5 . 3 0 p m , $ 1 . 5 0 . p m -3.00 a m pm, $ 1 .

2 0 .

P O L A N S K I’ S REPUL­ FOLK VOYAGER S I O N plus T H E O R A M A : C R Y S T A L N e w A r t s C in e m a , 1 1 . 3 0 , w i t h Da v id E l f i c k speaking: DARTS K E L IM O C U M F IL M F i l m m a k e r s C in e m a , $ 2.0 0 . present B ob P om e ro y , 3 1 - 3 2 3 7 , 8 . 0 0 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 .

S U P E R N A T U R A L Peter Do dd s, C o li n Wa tson, F R E N C H C I N E M A — Paris 2 0 0 1 : S P A C E O D Y S S E Y : S P E C IA L — In it i a t i o n , Jo h n Cu rrie, Mai and M a n l y Silver Screen, 8 . 0 0 Par — C ha br ol , Box, Sa cri fic e, Paradise A u pm, $ 1 . 8 0 , $ 1 . 0 0 .

Lorna F o st e r : A u d i t io n s G o d a rd , Rouch et al L o st : F i l m m a k e r s C in e m a , BARTELBY with Paul 7 .0 0 -8.00 pm, E li z a b e t h ( 1 9 6 4 ) : F i l m m a k e r s 10.00 pm, $1.5 0. ho tel, 8 . 0 0 pm, 80 c .

S c h o field plus THE 31-3237, $1.00 TOP HAT w ith Fr e d C in e m a, C A R E T A K E R : N e w A rts MOROCCO: Red R il e y Asta ire, B R IN G IN G U P m em be rs o n ly (jo in at do o r wine bar, Surry Hills, Cin e m a, 7 . 3 0 pm, mon-sat.

BABY w ith H e p b u r n , $ 3 . 0 0 p.a.), 4 . 0 0 pm, 6 . 0 0 2 .0 0 -7.00 p m pm.

R A D I C A L F I L M S — Ter ra Grant, R O O M S E R V IC E A L H E A D A N D E m Tr ans e plus L e t T h e L IF E F ILM S by w ith M arx Bros: U n i o n W I L D F R I E N D S : Red R i l e y w in e People Awake (C h il e) : R o b e r t R a y m o n d : Opera Th eatre, Sydney U n i, bar, S u r r y Hills.

U nio n Theatre, Sydney House, c on ti n u o u s f r o m 12.30 pm, $1.0 0.

F O L K /C O N T E M P O R ­ U ni , 7 . 3 0 pm, fr i, sat, sun 1 0 .

0 0 am to 6 .

0 0 pm, THE MARX BROS GO ARY: Edinburgh castle, on ly, $ 1 . 5 0 .

WEST and ALEX I N $ 2 . 0 0 , kids $ 1 . 0 0 .

2 8 4 P it t street, 2 6 - 6 9 4 3 .

M A T C H L E S S (V. W O N D E R L A N D : PACT FOLK: YWCA P a p a do p ou lo s ' 7 3 ) : F i l m ­ Academy Tw in , Paddo, make rs C i n e m a , 3 1 . 3 2 3 7 , Cellar, Liverpool street.

G A R D E N I N G 1 1.30 pm, $2.0 0. t u e s d a y -s a t u r d a y , 8 . 0 0 p m ; C it y .

ANN K IR K P A T R IC K , 6 . 0 0 p m & 8 . 0 0 p m sat.

B A N D A S S O C IA T IO N OF C O L IN W A TSO N, D OUG M ID N IG H T COWBOY — NSW — 17th Bat ta li on RICHARDSON, plus uncut!: Academ y T w in R e g i m e n t p l a y the ir THEATRE o th ers: Shack F o lk , Cin e m a, Paddo, $2.50, version o f brassed r eal ity at B ro o k v a l e (near e nt ra n ce 2.30, 5 .1 5 , 8 .0 5 p m E R O S A N D T H A N A T O S : H y d e Park a nd V ic t o r ia to m a l l) , 8 . 3 0 - 1 . 0 0 am, respectively: PACT, 264 P itt street, P a r k $ 1. 0 0 .

3 .

0 0 4 .

3 0 pm, very free.

STAGE C i t y , 8 .3 0 pm,

ALL WEEK

SATURDAY

JAZZ DON D E S I L V A : L o u is tavern, P add o ( a f t e r n o o n ) .

DAVE STEVENS and M E R V A C H E S O N : Bel le­ vue ho t e l , Pa dd o , 3 .0 0 6 .0 0 pm.

E C LIP S E A L L E Y F IV E : Vanity F a ir h o tel, 4.0Q.-7.00 p m N O E L CROW’ S S TO N E D CROWS: R e d N e d ’s, C hatsw ood , 8 .3 0 -11 .3 0 pm.

DOC W ILLIS : Beresford hotel, S u r r y H ills , 7.3 0 -10 .0 0 p m D O N DE S IL V A : M a c q u a r i e hotel, T h e ' L o o , 7 .3 0 -1 0 . 0 0 p m BLUES W IT H JOHN B U R K E : L i m e r i c k Castle, Surry Hills, 7 .3 0 -12 .0 0 m id n ig h t.

DEEP BAYOU: Stage Door T a v e rn , 211-0411,

free/donation.

THE EA G LE HAS H E A D S : See fri.

TWO

K ID S B A T M A N , DESERT HAWK, LAUREL AND HARDY: F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , 3 1 - 3 2 3 7 , 2 . 0 0 p m .

A D V E N T U R E S IN F O C — panto-type c o ll e c t io n of fairy tales: In d e p e n d e n t , N o r t h S y d n e y , 6 0 c , adults t w i c e t h e price.

THE M A G IC TRAVEL B O X — kids f a n t a s y by John M u llig a n : New Theatre, Newtown, 5 1 9 - 3 4 0 3 , 2 . 1 5 p m , 70c.

SUNDAY ROCK FLAKE: V ictoria 1 . 0 0 p m , free.

K ID S B A T M A N , DESERT HAWK, LAUREL AND HARDY: F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a, Da rio , 2 . 0 0 p m THE M A G IC TRAVEL B O X : see sat.

V ID E O BUSH V ID E O T H E A T R E — D u v a l C re e k w o r k s h o p — video space workshop.F e u t r o n B uildin g, 31 Bay street, Gl ebe , 8 . 0 0 pm, $ 1. 0 0 .

MONDAY FOLK FOREDAY

Park,

RIDERS:

T H E T A M I N G F O R C E by Paul Burns — play a b o u t a fa ile d commune: Old C hu r c h, c n r Pa lm e r and S ta n le y streets.

East S y d n e y , 8 . 0 0 pm, $ 2 . 0 0 , sat, sun, m o n only.

THE HOSTAGE by B rend an Beh an: A r ts Th eatre, S urf road, Cro nu ll a , 5 2 3 - 6 8 8 8 , 8 . 1 5 pm, fri, sat, only.

T H E F A N T A S T I CS: Bond i Pavilion T h e a tr e , 3 0 - 7 2 1 1 , tues-fri 8 . 3 0 pm, sat, sun 5.00, 8.30 pm, $3.50, $4.00.

THE P H IL A N T H R O P IS T — a good d r a m a , lotsa h u m o r, a l i tt le bl oo d : Independent, North Sy dn e y , 929-7377, 8.15 pm, wed-sat only.

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MELBOURNE SYDNEY CONTINUED iTheatre, Newtown, 18 1 -5 101, wed-sat, 8 . 0 0 pm.

I J E S T E R S — an unusual I c o m e d y t h r il le r: N im rod [ T h e a t r e , 1 0 N i m r o d street, I Darling hurst, tues-sun 8 . 3 0 I pm, w e d and sat 5 . 3 0 , 8 . 4 5 I pm.

I t HE E M P IR E B U IL D E R : ■N e w T h e a t r e , 5 4 2 King [street, Newtown, 15 1 9 - 3 4 0 3 , fr i, sat, sun j o n l y , 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 2 . 0 0 . | ONE S E A S O N ’S K IN G : ‘ Q’ L u n c h H o u r Th e a t r e , I A M P C irc u la r qu a y , 1 .1 0 ] pm, m o n - f r i only.

W H O ’ S W H O : Ensemble, 1929-8877, 8.00 p m , sat I 5 . 0 0 pm, 8 . 0 0 pm.

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, 3181.

TUESDAY

C o m m u n e co ffee lounge, 5 8 0 V ic t o r ia street, N o r t h M e lb o u r n e .

PETER PARKHILL: F r a n k Tr a y n o r s , 1 0 0 L i t t le Lo nsd ale street, C it y .

B IG B R O W N E Y E S (1 9 3 6 , R a o u l Walsh) w i t h C ar y Grant, Jo an B ennett — SHANGHAI GESTURE (1 9 4 1 , v on S t e rn b e rg ) G ene Tierney: NFTA, Dental theatrette, cnr Grattan s t re e t and F lem in gton road, C a r l t o n , 8 . 1 5 p m .

CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH: Unio n t h e a tr e , M elbo urne Uni Union bu ild ing , 1 . 3 0 p m , tic kets at t h e do or .

LA H O R A DOS H O R N O S (parts 2 and 3) and W H E N TH E PEOPLE A W A K E — a d o c o on A l l e n d e : U n i o n t h e a tr e , above address, 7 . 4 5 pm .

R A D I C A L F I L M S : S .Y .A .

L a t r o b e uni, 6 . 3 0 p m .

M U S IC

M E E T IN G S

Polaris Inn hotel, 551 Nicho lso n street, N orth Carlto n.

C O M M U N IT Y A C T IO N AND THE E N V IR O N ­ M E N T : H o p e f u l l y pr actical w a y s o f h o w y o u can help im p r o v e /s t o p destruction of ou r e n v i r o n m e n t , w i t h Jack M u n d e y ( B L F ) , K e i t h Tarran t (P ort Phi llip E n v iro n m e n t C en tre), Ch ris L o o h r a n ( P . I . R . G . ) G a b rie l Lafitte, C o li n B e n ja m i n ( V C O S S ) , Peter E ll y a r d (adviser to Moss Cass): R o b e r t B l a c k w o o d hall, M o n a s h un i, 1 . 3 0 pm .

ROCK A Y E R S R O C K : Gippsland Inst, of Tec h., Ch ur c hi ll .

BLUESTONE: C ou n ci l C lu b hotel, Preston.

KUSH: Croxton Park hotel, Preston.

M A IN L Y V A R IO U S IN ­ T E R E S T IN G M U S IC IA N S :

E X H IB IT IO N IS M JUS A N D OZ F U N K A R T I — or “ W h at 's F u n k A r t and 1 Wi ll I t Sell?” : T h e Ar I G a ll e r y of N S W , mon-sat 1 1 0 . 0 0 a m - 5 . 0 0 pm, t h u r 1 0 . 0 0 a m - 1 1 . 0 0 p m , Sunday 1 2 . 0 0 n o o n - 5 . 0 0 pm.

M IM I J A K S IC B E R B E R — ( “ L y ric a l A bstraction” : IS e b e rt G a lleries, 39 iG u r n e d street, Paddo, mon-sat 11.00 am-6.00

I pm [STO N EW A R E POTTERY I by J ane t M a n s f ie ld : Diugla |Galleries, B a lm a in , 8 2 7 - 3 0 1 8 , thur- sa t, 1 1 . 0 0 | am -6.00 p m [JO H N W IL L IA M S pics ( e x h i b i t i o n : Ph o to gr ap he rs (G a l l e r y , 3 0 E b l e y street, | B on d i J un c tio n, 3 8 9 - 0 6 2 6 , | m o n - f r i 1 1 . 0 0 a m - 5 . 0 0 pm, | sat 1 1 . 0 0 a m - 4 . 0 0 pm.

FIL M L A H O R A DOS H O R N O S (part 1) (Solanas) and T H E C H R O N IC L E O F A N N A MAGDELENA BACH ( St ra u b) : U n io n thea tre , M elbourne Uni U n io n building, 7 . 4 5 pm.

F IV E SH O R T F ILM S — Scars, D a r k , F a ll o w Fields, St e p h a n y , Isolated: A gor a the atre , L a t r o b e uni., 8 . 0 0 pm, Free.

M E E TIN G S GROUP M E D IT A T IO N : A na nd a Marga, 141 B a r k ly street, C ar lto n.

OUTDOORS

D IS T R A C T IO N S l A T O M I C E N E R G Y EXHIBITION — the ( u l t i m a t e bu z z: A us tr a li a n A t o m i c E n e r g y C om m ission, New ll la w a r ra road, Lucas Heights, 9 . 0 0 a m - 4 . 0 0 pm, free.

UNI OF NSW FOOD CO-OP: cram m ed duck, out of stock: mon-fri 1 2 . 3 0 - 2 . 3 0 pm , 4 . 3 0 - 5 . 3 0 J pm, t h u r 5 . 0 0 - 9 . 0 0 pm.

I T A R O N G A Z O O — eat 1 th ere or take awa y, w h a t e v e r ’ s y uh bag: Fe r ry from number 5 wh ar f, C irc u la r quay, in fo 9 6 9 - 2 7 7 7 , $ 1 . 5 0 , kids 40c.

NSW SQUARE DANCE SOC — The Hap pie st 1 L o o k i n g Pe opl e In T o w n | A r e P u ttin ’ on a D em o: | info 7 9 8 - 5 3 6 1 , free.

BOOK NOW D O N B U R R O W S I Q U A R T E T : O p e r a House, tues m ar c h 26, $5.00, $3.35, $2.50.

H E R B IE MANN: O pe ra House, m arc h 2 1 , 2 5 , 8 . 3 0 pm, $ 5 . 3 0 , $ 4 . 2 0 , $ 3 . 2 0 .

(T H E F IR E S O F L O N D O N (— hea vy UK classical I gr ou p: O p er a House, 8 .1 5 pm, $ 5 . 0 0 , $ 3 . 7 5 , $ 2 . 5 0 .

ABC R E C IT A L S E R IE S 1974: ap ril -n ov , Opera House, see sat papers f o r sub scriptio n for m s. |t h e N A T I O N A L BALLET OF SENEGAL: I Cap ita l Th e a t r e , m ar c h 25 t o april 19, $ 3 . 7 0 , $ 4 . 7 0 , $5.70.

JACQUES L O U S S IE R T R IO — classical jazz, | sorta: in f o 212-2244, m ar c h 2 0 , 2 2 , 2 4 .

[S Y D N E Y P H IL H A R M O N IA S O C IE T Y — 1974 season: in fo 9 2 9 - 6 2 1 5 , or I Box 3 4 5 4 G P O , S y d n e y . | O P E R A T IO N ROCK ’N R O L L — B il l y T h o r p e and [ the Aztec s, La D e Das, i B an d of L ig h t , Stevie W r ig h t : H o r d e r n Pavilion, I m ar c h 2 4 , 1 . 3 0 - 7 . 0 0 pm, $1.60.

MARGOT FONTEYN, IV A N NAGY and T H E S C O T T I S H B A L L E T : info I SMH, Box 2 52 5 , GP O , 1 Sydney.

F IL M S

A R R E S T I N G M U S I C — by the Police Band ( w o u ld you believe): Tr eas ury Gardens, 1 2 . 1 0 , 1 .1 0 pm.

TRIBUTE TO THE G O O N S : Flagstaff Gardens, 1 2 . 1 0 , 1 .1 0 pm.

TV WAR AND Channe l 2, 8 pm.

T H E C H A R E P O R T : so c io lo g ica l Channe l 7 , 1 1 . 1 0

PEACE: P M A N H e a v y no s t a lg ia , pm.

R A D IO T H E M A I D O F O R L E A N S : T chaikovsky’s Op era, 3 A R , 8 . 0 0 pm.

WEDNESDAY ROCK H O T C IT Y BUMP BAND: Whitehorse hotel, N u n a w a d in g .

RED HOUSE ROLL BAND: C roxton Park ho tel, Preston.

A Z T E C S , C L O U D N IN E : In conc ert at Sa n d o w n Park hotel.

K U S H : S u n d o w n e r hotel, Geelong.

B IG P U S H : Geor ge hotel, S t K ild a.

FOLK COBBLERS: Polaris In n h o tel, 551 N ich ol so n street, N o r t h C ar lto n.

JAZZ

F RA NK

TRAYNOR: Beaumaris ho tel, Beach road.

MELBOURNE CHAMBER O R C H E S T R A plays jaz z C a m b e r w e ll Civic C en tre , 8 .0 0 pm , $ 4 . 5 0 , $ 3 . 5 0 , $ 2 . 5 0 students. J azz music at classical prices.

BLUES

D UTCH T IL D E R S BLUES B A N D w i t h J uli en Casser: F r a n k T r a y n o r s , C it y .

N EW M U S IC YOU: Commune coffe e lounge, N o r t h M e lb o u r n e .

OUTDOORS T R IBUTE TO THE G O O N S : Treasury Garde ns , 1 2 . 1 0 and 1 .1 0 pm .

A R R E S T IN G M U S IC by the Police B an d: Fl ags ta ff Gar den s, 1 2 . 1 0 and 1 . 1 0 pm.

TV BLOW UP (1 9 6 6 ) , (A n to n io n i) — David H e m m in g s and Vanessa Redgrave, Vera Miles, V e r u s h k a , Jill K e n n i n g t o n — abou t trendy Lo ndo n: Ch a n n e l 7 , 9 . 0 0 p m .

T H E L O V E M A K E R S (A O ) ( 1 9 6 2 ) , Jean -Pau l B e l m o n ­ d o , C la ud ia C a r d i n a le , P a u l Frankeur — dram a: C h a n n e l 7, 1 1 . 2 0 p m .

R A D IO J E A N N IE L E W IS AND THE CONTEMPORARY A U S T R A L IA N SONG — Selec tions f r o m F r e e Fall t h r o u g h Fe ath erless F l ig h t : 3 A R , 9 .1 2 pm .

THURSDAY ROCK M IS S IS S IP P I, T R A IN : W a lt z i n g Matilda ho te l, Springvale.

RED HOUSE ROLL B A N D : W h it e h o r s e ho te l, Nunawading.

JIG S A W : C ro xto n Park ho te l, Pr eston.

B I G P U S H : G e or ge ho te l, St K il d a .

B. B. K I N G , S I D R U M P O : Festival hall.

T R IN IT Y : R .M .I.T .: Lunch.

K U S H : M a t t h e w F li nd er s ho t e l , C ha d s t o n e .

FOLK JOHN AND J U A N IT A , P H IL D A Y , S A M H A L L : Dan O ’ C o n n e ll, cnr C a n n in g and Princes streets, North Carlton, 8-12 pm.

ROB FOOT, BRUCE M cN IC H O L : T a n k e r v i ll e Arms, c n r J o hn so n and N ic h o l s o n streets, C a r lt o n , 8-1 0 p m .

JOHN CROWLE: Frank Traynors, C ity.

JAZZ DAVE R A N K IN AND THE E L A S TIC BAND: A lm a ho te l, 32 Ch ape l street, S t K ild a.

Y E A T M A N : OWE N Pr ospect H i l l h o t e l , Hig h street, K e w .

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F R A N K TRAYNOR: E x c h a n g e h o t e l, C heltenham .

N IC H O L S O N STREET R E B O P P E R S : Polaris In n ho te l, C a r lt o n .

F IL M BLACK GOD W H IT E DEVIL (R o ch a) and A N T O N IO DAS M O R TES: U n i o n t h e a tr e , M e l b o u r n e uni U n i o n b u ild in g , 7 . 4 5 pm .

F A M I L Y L I F E ( t r y to see it) and F U T T O C K S E N D (no , it is n o t m isp elt ): A l e x a n d e r t h e a tr e , Mo n as h uni, C l a y t o n , 1 . 3 0 p m .

R A D IC A L F IL M S : S .Y .A .

L a t r o b e uni, 7 . 3 0 p m .

M E E T IN G S IS T H E R E A N A T U R A L P R E V E NTION AND CURE FOR CANCER?: M o o r a b b i n t o w n hall, 7 . 4 5 pm .

Put on b y Bahai, Presented by c h a ir m a n of N a t u r a l H e a l t h F e d e r a ti o n .

IN A U G U R A L M E E T IN G : Baysid e Contact, P or t Phillip E n v iro n m e n t C e n t re , 1 4 Sprin g road, H ig h e t t .

TV TH E JUD G E A N D JAKE WYLER (1 9 7 2 ) — with Bet te Davis: C h a n n e l 0, 9 . 3 0 pm .

G E O F F S T O N E ’S W o rl d in C am e r a: C ha nn e l 2, 1 0 . 1 5 pm.

U G E T S U ( 1 9 5 3 ) — Dram a fa nt asy set in 1 6 t h c e n t u r y Japan: C han nel 7, 1 1 . 1 0 pm.

R A D IO B U X T E H U D E and M I S S A B R E V IS I N G — Bach: 3 A R , 3 . 0 0 pm.

BOOKS AND ID E A S : 3 A R , 7 . 1 5 pm.

A MERRY PROGRESS: 3 A R , 1 0 . 1 5 pm .

FRIDAY ROCK A Z T E C S , A R T H U R F U N K : W h it e h o r s e ho tel, Nunawading.

RED HOUSE ROLL B A N D : S u n d o w n e r ho tel, Geelo ng .

P H A S E 2 : Ge or ge ho te l, St Ki ld a.

CLOUD N IN E : Prospect H il l ho tel, K ew .

B A N D OF L IG H T , P A N T H E R : Te a ze r, C ity .

F O X : J a n ’s D an ce , L i n c o ln R o o m , T r a k C e n t re , 4 4 5 T o o r a k road, C it y .

M A T T T A Y L O R : M o o r a b b i n t o w n hall.

MISSISSIPPI: Gordon In s t i t u t e o f T e c h , Gee lon g.

B L U E S T O N E : D i M a r c o ’s hotel, Essendon.

M A TT TA YLO R , AYERS ROCK, BUSTER BROWN: Chelsea c i t y hall.

K U S H : H o tel In ternatio n­ al, B r o a d m e a d o w s , also at W in d s o r Regis ho tel, Prah ran .

SKYLIGHT: W in d s o r Regis, BJ's, Pr ah ran .

H O T C IT Y JUMP BAND: M atthew F li nd er s ho tel , Chadstone.

FOLK D A N N Y SPOONER, J U L I E W O N G and others: O u t p o s t I n n , 5 2 Collins street, C i t y .

VARIOUS A R T IS T S : U n i o n ho t e l , C a r lt o n .

COBBLERS: Polaris In n ho te l, C a r lt o n .

JOHN C R O W LE, D IA N N E H O L L IN S , JIM K E N V Y N : Frank Traynors, C ity.

JAZZ B R I A N B R O W N QUARTET: Commune, N o rth M elbourne.

S T O R Y V IL L E JAZZM EN : M a n o r H ou s e h o t e l , cnr Swanston and Lo nsd ale streets, C i t y .

DAVE R A N K IN AND THE E L A S TIC BAND: R a i l w a y C lu b ho t e l , Port M e lb o u r n e .

FIL M PLAY IT A G A IN , SAM (M ) and H E R O N IU S M E R K E N (M ): T ra k, 445 T o o r a k ro a d , 1 1 . 4 5 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .

P O R T N O Y ’S COM ­ P L A IN T and THE C R IM S O N PI R A T E : U n i o n t h e a t re , M e l b o u r n e uni U n i o n b u il d in g , 1 . 3 0 pm.

B A R R IE R ( S k o li m o v s k i) and T H E C H R O N I C L E O F ANNA MAGDELENA BACH: Unio n t h e a tr e , a bov e address, 7 . 4 5 p m .

L A S T R A D A : Alexan der th eatre, Monash uni, C la yto n , 7 .3 0 pm.

C A T C H 2 2 — a d a p t a t io n o f t h e b o o k , on e o f th e fin e s t anti-w ar fil m s : A t h e n a e u m t h e a t r e , Co ll in s street, c it y , 1 0 . 3 0 p m .

O N E A R M E D S W O R D S M A N — authentic Chinese film : Capitol, S w a n s t o n street, 1 1 . 3 0 p m .

CONDOR (S anjines) and T O U T V A B IE N : Unio n th e a t re , Melbo urne uni U n i o n bu ild ing , 7 . 4 5 pm .

T i c k e t s at t h e a tr e o ff i c e , or 347.4186.

O N E A R M E D SWORDSMAN: Capitol, 1 1 . 3 0 , see fr i d a y .

TV W H EN TH E G IR L S T A K E OVER (Night Owl Theatre) — sexist counter-revolutionary fa nt asy w i t h a sad end in g: C han nel 9 , 1 1 . 2 0 pm.

R A D IO W O R L D O F J A Z Z — E ric C h il d : 3 L O , 1 0 . 2 5 pm.

A M E R IC A N TOP 40: 3 K Z , 7 -10 pm.

MY LOVE MUST W A IT — Joy H o llyer.

Life of Matthew Flin d er s : 3AR, 8 . 3 0 pm.

SUNDAY

FOLK

TV TH E T O T A L S E D U C TIO N — H itle r ’s pro p ag an da te ch ni q ue s: C h a n n e l 2 , 8 pm.

MR AND MRS S M IT H ( 1 9 4 1 ) — G o ld e n Y ea rs of H o l l y w o o d . M o r e a n c ie nt f li ck s f o r image wat chers: C h a n n e l 9, 12 m id n it e .

IN CONCERT: Allm an Bros, B lo o d S w e a t and Tears, Poco: C h a n n e l 7, 1 0 . 3 0 pm .

TH E A F R IC A N Q U EEN — yet again: Channel 7, 1 1 . 1 0 pm.

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

S K Y H O O K S : San R e m o hotel.

B L U E S T O N E : D i M a r c o ’s ho tel, Essendon.

JOHN RUPERT A N D THE HENCHMEN: W h it e h o r s e ho te l, N u n a w a d i n g .

B IG P U S H : C r o x t o n Park ho t e l , Preston.

T R ID E N T S and P IP P A P E R E Z — a f lo o r s h o w : S u n d o w n e r hotel, Ge elong.

P H A S E 2: Geor ge ho tel, St Kild a.

AZTECS, ABEL LODGE: 9 6 D anc e, B ri g h t o n t o w n hall.

RED HOUSE ROLL B A N D , K U S H : So ut hsi de 6, M o o r a b b i n (a f t e r n o o n ) .

GARY Y O U N G ’S FAT C A T S , C L O U D 9 : Blaises, O r m o n d hall, Prahran.

S K Y L I G H T : Prospect H ill ho tel, Kew (a f t e r n o o n ) , Matthew Flind ers hotel, Ch a ds to ne (evening).

M IS S IS S IP P I: Matthew Fl in d er s ho tel, C had st one (afterno on).

YEARS:

SATURDAY ROCK MATT TAYLOR, RED HOUSE ROLL BAND, F O X : G e t I t O n at t he F . P . C . Y . C lu b , F r a n k s to n .

M A D D E R L A K E : C a u lf ie ld t o w n hall.

A Y E R S R O C K , M A C K E N Z IE THEORY, D U T C H T IL D E R S : Te a ze r.

P E T E R P A R K H I L L : D an O ’C o n n e l l, C a r lt o n , 3-6 pm.

D U T C H T IL D E R S , PETER L IL L E E , PETER IN G L IS : C om m une, N orth M e l b o u r n e , 1 0- 3 a m .

GUESTS: Outpost Inn, C it y .

PHIL DAY, MIKE O ’ ROURKE", JULIE W O N G , P E T E R P A R K H IL L : Frank Traynors, C ity.

JAZZ DAVE R A N K IN AND THE E L A S T IC BAND: Lemon Tr e e ho te l, 10 G r a t t a n street, C a r lt o n , 3-6 pm.

T H E P L A N T with M I F F Y : Polaris In n ho te l, C ar lto n.

JU N C T IO N C IT Y JAZZ B A N D : Prospect H il l hotel, Kew. V IC T O R IA N JA ZZ CLUB: M a n o r House hotel, C ity .

ROCK F A N T A S Y : C r o x t o n Park ho tel, Preston.

M IS S IS S IP P I: Icelands, R in g w o o d .

C A P T A IN MATCHBOX, B O O T L E G F A M I L Y : Will play in W e r ri b e e , o n l y 3 0 miles a w a y .

S I D R U M P O : Sacred H e a r t chu rc h hall, S t A lb a ns .

SKYHOOKS, GLENROWAN, ROCK G R A N IT E , DADDY COOL Show: O r m o n d hall, Pr ahr an .

ATLAS: St V i n c e n t ’s Y.C .W ., Strathm ore.

K U S H : T e a z e r, C it y .

SKYLIGHT: W in s to n Charles, T o o r a k .

FOLK PETER P A R K H IL L and m or e! O u t p o s t In n , C i t y .

DANNY SPOONER and GORDON M A C IN T Y R E : Frank Traynors, C ity.

FILM

WHATEVER

C A T C H 2 2 — a da p t a t io n o f t he b o o k , one of the fin e s t anti-w ar films: Athenaeum, C it y , 10.30 pm.

B L O O D OF THE

SELF COMMUNICA­ TIO N S P R O P O S IT IO N S : C o m m u n e , N orth M e lb o u r n e . I f y o u ’ re n o t in this scene y o u d o n t k n o w w h e r e i t ’s at , m a n .

peace of mind inside discover it D. L. M. INTRODUCES

Bal Bhagwan Ji to speak about the experience o f spiritual Knowledge revealed by his brother GURU MAHARAJ JI to all who ask SYDNEY TOWN H A LLl8M arch 8PM ADMISSION FREE

F IL M O N E A R M E D SWORDSMAN: C a p it o l , 2 .0 0 pm .

M E E T IN G S THE RELEVANCE OF B U D D H I S M : T h eo so p h ic a l Society , 1 8 8 Co ll in s street, C ity.

ROSSINI, MAHLER, SH O S T A K O V I T C H : M e lb o u rn e Symphony Orchestra.

Robert B la c k w o o d hall, Mon ash uni, 1 .1 5 p m .

N I A G G R A : La M a m a , 2 0 5 F a r a d a y street, C a r lt o n .

POOR T O M ’S P O E T R Y B A N D : C om m une, North M e lb o u r n e .

R A D IO A M E R IC A N TOP 40: 3 K Z , 9 - 1 2 pm .

CLEO L A IN E A N D T O N Y H YAM S QUARTET; Wa v ed on : 3 L O , 9 . 3 0 a m .

E L V I S P R E S L E Y — hits and ba c k g r o u n d story: 3 L O , 1 0 . 0 0 am .

SH E M E A N T T O T E L L H IM O N T H E I S L A N D — Francoise K en aki s: 3 A R , 4 .0 0 pm .

S U N D A Y N IG H T R A D IO 2: 3 A R , 7 . 3 0 . O n e of the best prog rams on radio.

HAPPY F A M IL IE S — growing up in A u s t ra li a in the 50s: 3 L O , 8 . 0 2 pm .

P R O G R E S S IV E A L B U M S : 3 X Y , 8 . 0 0 pm .

MONDAY ROCK BLUESTONE: Prospect Hill ho t e l , K e w .

JOHN R U P E R T A N D T H E HENCHMEN: C roxton Park ho t e l , Pres ton .

ALLSORTS PHIL DAY: Tr ayn or s, C i t y .

BLUESTONE: Hill ho tel , K e w .

F ra nk Prospect

COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG: Unio n thea tre, M e lb o u r n e uni Union b ui ld ing . T i c k e t s at d o or , 1.00 pm.

TOKYO STORY (o zu ) plus 1 0 t h T o k y o M o t o r S h o w : Prin ce Phi lip t h e ­ a tr e , M elbo urne un i, 7 . 3 0 pm.

A S IA F E S T IV A L A t M e l b o u r n e uni.

LIO N D A N C E : Co ncr ete L a w n , 1 1 . 3 0 am.

• F A IR , CHOP­ FOOD STIC K S C O M P E T IT IO N : C o n c r e t e L a w n — t o u r the o rie n t throu gh your stom ach : CHINESE COOKING

E X H I B I T I O N : U ndergraduate 1 . 0 0 - 2 . 0 0 pm.

ALL WEEK FETES I f y o u k n o w of a n y , please let us k n o w .

THEATRES

F IL M TV G O IN ’ TO T O W N (1935) — M ae West and Paul Cavanagh: Channel 0, 11 .1 5 pm .

Bar ry C o n y n g h a m : 3 A R , 8 . 5 5 p m , N e w A u s t r a li a n

L o un g e,

TV THE LIVING R A IN F O R E S T — Web o f Li f e , in te n de d to show w h a t ec ol og y is all a bo u t : C h a n n e l 2, 8 . 0 0 p m .

R A D IO R O O M TO M O V E : 3LO, 8 .0 0 pm.

C H O P S T IC K S — 24 variations and 17 short pieces by B o r o d in , Lizst, R im s k y -K o rs a k o v and others: 3 A R , 8 . 1 5 p m .

M B O C b y Ross Ed w ar ds and I C E C A R V I N G S by

Keatons Sydney

IS NOW E N T E R T A IN M E N T .

We want floorshows, bands, acts, Y O U .

Telephone 61.3883 Keatons — 45 Oxford St., Darlinghurst.

O N Y E R M A R X — the Aussie M a r x Bros: Pr am Factory, 325 D ru m m o n d st, C a r lt o n , tues-sun, 8 pm, $2.50, $1.50 stud ent s, 347.7133.

S E S S IO N S — la y back music w ith Rod F r e e m a n - S m ith , G a r e th Breach and Moses C a r m e n : Back th e a tre , Pr am Factory, a bov e address, thurs-sun.

WHY BOURNEMOUTH? and T H E M I S S I N G L I N K b o th b y J o h n A n t r o b u s : A c t o r ’ s th e a t re , 1 9 6 C h u r c h st, R i c h m o n d , f r i-s un , 8.1 5 pm, $2, $1 stude nts , 419.1630.

THE ONE D AY OF TH E Y E A R by A l a n S e y m o u r : A l e x a n d e r t h e a t r e , M o n as h uni, C l a y t o n , m on -s a t, 8 . 1 5 pm, sat 1 pm, $ 3 . 5 0 , $ 2 students, 5 4 1 . 3 9 9 2 .

T H E N A T I O N A L BALLET OF SENEGAL — ends sat: Palais, lower E s p la n a d e , St Ki ld a, ni g h t l y 8 . 1 5 pm, sat 4 . 1 5 p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 5 0 students, 94.0651.

T H E GLASS C U R T A IN : T a i t t h e a tr e , 1 0 7 Leice st er st, C a r lt o n , fri-sun, 8 . 1 5 pm , $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 5 0 students, 347.1515.

THE RE M O V A LI S T by David W il li a m s o n : Russell S treet th e a tre , C it y , m on-sat, 8 . 1 5 ; pr e -d in ne r fri/s at , 5 . 1 5 pm, $ 4 . 2 0 , $1.75 students.

Season t ic k e t available. 6 5 4 . 4 0 0 0 .

L O C K UP Y O U R D A U G H T E R S — a musical c o m e d y : P u m p k i n Players, 3 1 4 C h u r c h st, R i c h m o n d , tues-sat, 8 . 1 5 pm , $ 1 . 5 0 , 42.8237.

WHAT THE BUTLER S A W pr o d u c e d b y Lo ris Bla ke: W i l l i a m s t o w n L i t t l e Theatre, 4 A lbe rt st, W illia m s to w n , wed- sa t, 8.1 5 p m , $ 1 , 3 9 7 . 7 8 1 2 .

E N E M Y by Robin Maugham, di rec te d by E li z a b e t h H ei nd s : V i a d u c t the a tre , 2 7 a C r o m w e l l st, So u t h Y a r r a , wed- sa t, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 2 . 5 0 , $1 students, 318.1937.

L IL IE S O F T H E F IE L D : M a lv e rn t h e a t re c o m p a n y , 29 Bourke road, East M a lv e rn , thurs-sat, 8.15 p m , $ 1 . 4 0 , $1 s tu de nts 25.6650.

T H E O P T IM IS M O F T H E M IS A D V E N T U R E S OF C A N D ID E by Voltaire, p e r fo r m e d b y t he N a t i o n a l Theatre of the Deaf ( m i m e ) : Princess t h e a t re , Spring st, C i t y , m on -s a t, 8 pm , m a t i n e e sat 2 p m , $ 5 . 5 0 , $ 6 . 5 0 , $ 8 , c h il dr en and pensioners ha lf price, 6 6 2 . 2 9 1 1.

F IL M S These m a y change a t a m om e n t s notice, so chec k w i t h cinem a t o be sure.

F L O O R SHOW C A P T A IN R O C K ni g h t l y at t he Flying Trapeze resta ur ant , 20 1 B ru n s w ic k st, F i t z r o y , 4 1 . 3 7 2 7 C L A S S IC A L

C O N TE M P O R A R Y AUSTRALIAN S IN G E R S SO N G W R ITE R S M U SIC IA NS PERFORM ING ORIGINAL MATERIAL iazz folk country rock classica blues flamenco c

every Sunday 8pm $ $ .5 0

ADELAIDE i

POETRY DIAL-A-POEM, 3 2 9 . 6 0 3 9 an y tim e.

TV

rin g

A N D R A D IO

G T K : mon-thurs, Channel 2 , 6 . 3 0 pm.

L A T E L IN E : mon-thurs, 3 A R , 1 0 . 1 5 pm.

G A L L E R IE S F IV E PIE C E S — J ef f S t e w a r t , b l o c k of ice, wall dr a w in g , five questions, woman in p e ttic o a t lighting system: Ew in g G a ll e r y , M e lb u n i un ion , 10 a m - 6 pm , til sat.

P A IN T IN G S PAST A N D P R E S E N T — a selected gr ou p of pain ters b o r n a f t e r 1 9 3 0 : R ealit ies , 6 0 Ross st, T o o r a k . Special pre vie w, wed, 6-8 pm; m o n - f r i, 1 0 - 5 . 3 0 ; sat, 1 0- 2 .

BARBARA GROSSMAN — paintings, J o h n L o a n e — etchings: Po w e l l street g a lle ry , South Yarra, m o n - t h u r s , 1 0 . 3 0 - 5 . 3 0 ; fri, 1 0 . 3 0 - 7 ; sat, 1 0 - 1 2 .

C H IN E S E M ODERN P A I N T E R S o f t he 1 9 t h and 20th c en tu ry, w a te rc o lo r and in k, h a n g in g in t r a d it io n a l scrolls, including c a l li g r a p h y : M e l b o u r n e uni ga ll ery , 4 t h f lo o r , Jo h n M e d l e y bu ild in g , tue s-fri, 11- 5 pm.

JAZZ SOUTHERN JAZZ BAND: Flagstaff ho te l, South road, D a r li n g t o n , 7 0 cents, students 5 0 cents.

M erran and John, P.O. Box 135 Upper S tu rt 5 1 5 6 . Phone: 2 7 8 1811.

TUESDAY

OPERA

North East road, In g le w o o d , 8 . 1 5 p m . Free.

THE E X C U R S IO N S MR BROUCEK: W ednesday.

OF see

M U S IC A L E V E N T S

OPERA

C L A S S IC A L

T H E F IR E S O F L O N D O N — Pe ter M a x w e l l Davies.

M us ic a l V i v a su bs c ri pt io n co nc e r t: Adelaide to w n hall, 8 . 1 5 pm , $ 2 . 2 0 to $ 4 . 2 0 , students ha lf price A N D R E TC H A IK O W S K Y — Pa rtitas Nos . 3 a nd 6 by B ach : A d e l a i d e t o w n hall, 11 a m , $1 to $ 2 , stude nts h a lf price.

VAL D O O N IC A N IN CONCERT: C e n t e n n ia l hall, 8 .3 0 pm, $5.50, $4.50.

THE E X C U R S IO N S OF M R B R O U C E K — Janacek — new opera of SA: Festival t h e a tr e , 8 pm, $ 3 . 0 0 t o $ 5 . 0 0 , students half price.

A N D R E TC H A IK O W S K Y — Bach recitals: A d e la id e t o w n hall, 11 am.

POETRY IRVING LAYTON — poetry readi ng and discussion of modern Ca n ad ia n p o e t r y : N o r t h 1 lec ture theatre, F li nd er s uni, 1 1 am.

M U S IC A L E V E N T S TH E FIR E S OF L O N D O N — Pe ter M a x w e l l Davies; H Y M N TO SAINT MAGNUS and M ISS D O N N I T H O R N E ’ S M A G G O T : A d e la id e t o w n hall, 8 . 3 0 p m , $ 2 . 2 0 to $ 4 . 2 0 , students half price FILM S R .A .G .A .

ARTS CO-OP presents fil ms by SA f jl m m a k e r s : E ld e r Pa rk, 8 pm.

THEATRE

DANCE

T H E I M A G I N A R Y I N V A L I D — M o Here: H e r M a j e s t y ’ s, 8.15 pm, Stratford N ational Theatre of Can ad a, $ 6 . 0 0 , $ 4 . 5 0 , stude nts ha lf price.

A REMNANT — Jack E m ery : A .M .P . theatrette, 8 . 3 0 p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , stude nts half price.

C O R A L IE LANSDOWNE SAYS NO: Theatre 62, B u rb ri dg e ro a d, Hilto n, 8 .15 pm. N i m r o d St r ee t t h e a t re , $3.00, stude nts half price.

GARGOYLES — bawdy m ed iev al revue direc ted by M u rray Copland: Th eatre 6 2, 11.15 pm , $2.50, $ 2 . 0 0 , or cushions on f l o o r

S L A N S K : see tu e s da y , but also at 2 . 3 0 p m .

$ 1.0 0 .

TH E B R ID E OF GOSPEL P L A C E — Esson, S o u t h Australian Theatre Company: Arts t h e a t re , A ng u s street, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 3 . 7 0 , s t ude nts h a lf price.

THEATRE T H E I M A G I N A R Y IN V A L ID : see tuesday, b u t also at 2 pm .

T H E B R ID E OF GOSPEL P L A C E : see tuesday.

R E M N A N T: see A tuesda y.

C O R A L IE LANSDOWNE S A Y S N O : see tuesday.

G A R G O Y L E S : see tuesda y.

GERTRUDE S T E I N ’S G E R T R U D E S T E I N : S c ot t t h e a tr e , 8 pm, $3.50, students half price, also A .M .P . theatrette, 1 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 — N a n c y Cole.

S N O O K E R E D !: A de la id e U n i F o o t li g h t s C lu b , N e w L i t t l e T h e a t r e , 1 1 . 3 0 pm.

La t e nigh t supper revue, A d e la id e uni, N e w U n io n B uildin g, $ 1 . 5 0 , students $

S A I N T S A E N S — So n at a f o r bassoons a nd pian o, P O U L E N C — S o n at a f o r c la rin e t and bassoon, G L I N K A — Trio path e tiq u e for piano, c la rin e t and bassoon, p e rfo rm e d by Phi llip M ie c h e l, M a x Nie l, Brian C h a p m a n : U n i o n t h e a tr e , M e lb o u rn e uni un io n bu ild ing , 1 . 1 0 pm. Free.

H E R B I E M A N N — M a rc h 1 5, 2 3 , Dallas B ro o k s hall, $ 5 .3 0 , $4.3 0, $3.30.

A U D I T I O N / C O NCERT, Orm ond hall, Prah ran , w i n n i n g gr ou p w in s $ 5 0 0 AND a spot (yes f o lk s , spo t) o n N e w Faces, get it, ha ha. Se c on d prize $ 2 5 0 and in st a nt fa m e w i t h t o p name entertainment agency.

Ri ng Jovan P r o m o t io n s , 9 3 . 5 2 7 8 .

p r e s e n t s a s e r i f s OF SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS

kirk gallery 4 2 2 Cleveland st surry hills

JAZZ YARRA YARRA JAZZ BAND: Ol d Melbo urne M otor In n , Flem ington road, North M elbourne, 7 . 3 0 pm , mon- sa t, and 3 p m Satu rda y a f t e r n o o n .

BOOK NOW

< R < G A L L £W every Sunday 8pm

J O H N N Y G O T H IS G U N ( D a l t o n T r u m b o ) : C a r lt o n c in e m a , Faraday st, thurs-sun, 7.45 pm, 90 cents, 3 4 7 . 5 5 2 4 .

FIDDLER ON THE R O O F : Footscray Grand, Paisley ro ad, mo n-sa t, 7 . 4 0 p m , $ 1 . 4 0 , 6 8. 1 13 8 .

E N G L A N D M A D E M E (M ) an d T R A V E L S W I T H M Y A U N T (M): Dendy M a lv e rn , G l e n f e r r ie roa d, 7 days, $ 2 . 5 0 , 5 0 9 . 0 5 5 5 .

A MAN FOR ALL S E A S O N S ( G ) — re-release of R obert Shaw’s film : D e n d y , B r i g h t o n , C h u r c h st, ni g h t l y 7 . 4 5 pm, sat 3 . 3 0 pm, $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 4 0 students, 9 2 . 8 8 1 1.

THE S E N S U A L IS T (R ): T r a k , 4 4 5 T o o r a k ro a d, ni g h t l y 6, 8 . 3 0 pm, sat 2 . 3 0 p m , sun 5 pm, $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 2 0 students, 2 4 . 9 3 3 3 .

THE H IR E L IN G : Ri v ol i Twin-1, Camberwel l J u n c t io n , ni g h t l y 7 . 4 5 , sat, sun 4 . 1 5 pm, $ 2 . 2 5 , $1 students, 8 2 . 1 2 2 1 .

L O V E (G ) — a t e n d e r love story w i t h a d i ff er e nc e : Ri vol i Tw in -2, above address, ni g h t l y 8 . 1 5 , sat, sun 5 pm, $ 2.25, $1 students, 8 2 . 1 2 2 1 .

T H E G O D F A T H E R (R) — from th u rs d a y : Hoyts M a lv e rn , G l e n f e r r i e road and Dandenong road, ni g h t l y 8 , sat 2 p m , 5 p m , sun 5 p m , $ 2 , $1 students ( n o t sat), 5 0 . 3 1 9 3.

C R Y S T A L V O Y A G E R (G) — surf mo vie , w i t h some music by Pin k Floyd: Bri ght on town hall, m o n - f r i, 8 . 3 0 pm, Gee lo n g Pix on Sunday, 6 3 . 1 0 3 9 .

DANCE SLANSK — T h e Polish N a t i o n a l Song and D an ce C o m p a n y : Apollo S t a d iu m , 8 p m , $ 3 . 5 0 to $5.50.

K ID S

K ID S

T A L E S F R O M N O O N A M E E N A — M arionette Theatre of A us tr a li a : Prince A lf r e d College t h e a t re , 1 0 am and 8 p m , $ 2 . 0 0 and $ 1 . 5 0 , c hil dr en 6 0 cents.

ZAGREB CARTOONS: S o u t h A u s t G o v t T o u r is t Bu reau T h e a t r e t t e , 1 pm, 2 .3 0 pm, 4 pm.

Fr ee.

Rea ll y br il li a n t !

EVENTS R .A .G .A . A R T S CO-OP — poetry, music, munga: E ld er Pa rk, 8 pm . Free.

W R I T E R S W E E K — John Updike: Festival th e a t r e , 8 . 3 0 pm , $ 3 . 0 0 . S tu d en ts half price.

TV T H E C O S M IC P O IN T OF V I E W — d o c u m e n t a r y on 9 0 ye a r old h ip p ie , Fr e d R o b in s o n : A B S 2, 1 0 . 0 5 pm.

R A D IO

THE CHESKOO RAREE SHOW — pantomime: S c ot t the a tre , 10 am, $ 1 . 5 0 , kids 6 0 cents T A L E S F R O M NOONAMEENA: see tuesday b u t 8 pm only.

ZAGREB CARTOONS: see tuesday.

TV F R O S T O V E R H O L L Y W O O D — Zsa Zsa Garbor on womens lib era tio n. Fa r ou t!

W R I T E R ’S W E E K PETER PORTER: Sta te Li b r a r y L e c tu r e thea tre, 9 . 3 0 am.

POETRY READING: M u s e u m law n, 12 noon.

READING OF ERN MALLEY P O E M S : Sc ott th e a tr e , 2 pm.

S P E A K IN G O F B E C K E T T w i t h Jack E m e r y : Scott theatre, 5 pm.

F IL M S SA M E D IA RESOURCE C E N T R E : N e w A us tr a li a n C in e m a, B aptist hall, cnr N o r w o o d pde and C h u r c h ave, 8 pm, 8 0 cents.

THERESE DESQUEYR E A U X — Georges F r a n ju and S I G N S O F L I F E — Werner Hertzog. National F i lm T h e a t r e of A us tra li a . “ Images of t he M in d ” season.

7 .3 0 pm.

St at e Govt Theatrette, St at e A dm inistration B uild ing, V ic t o r i a square. M e m b e r s o n ly .

Membership $ 3 .0 0 (over 18 years — jo in at do o r ) .

Pr ogram $1.20, students 8 0 cents.

THEATRE Th re e Au s tra li a n one act plays: T H E L E S D A R C Y S H O W — Jack H ib b e r d (worl d prem iere); A M A R R I E D M A N — James Searle; THE FROG — Pa trick Wh el an : M a t t h e w Flinders thea tre, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 2 . 0 0 , students $ 1. 0 0 .

T H E I M A G I N A R Y I N V A L I D : see tuesday TH E B R ID E OF GOSPEL P L A C E : see tues day .

A R EM N A N T: see tuesday.

C O R A L IE LANSDOWNE S A Y S N O : see tuesday.

GERTRUDE S T E IN ’S G E R T R U D E S T E I N : see Wednesday, b u t 8 . 3 0 on ly.

G A R G O Y L E S : see t uesday.

S N O O K E R E D : see W ed ne sd ay.

EUREKA

STOCKADE:

see W e d n e sd a y .

HELLO AND GOODBYE: see wed n es da y .

HAMLET ON ICE — M ic ha e l B ro d ie and R o n Blair. A d u l t p a n t o m i m e : S h e rid a n theatre, 50 M a c k i n n o n par ade, N o r t h A d e la id e , 8 . 1 5 pm.

DANCE S L A N S K : see t ue sda y.

K ID S T A L E S F R O M N O O N A M E E N A: see tuesday ZAGREB CARTOONS: see tuesday.

DAN M ORGAN AND THE B O U N C IN G B U N Y IP O F BANDICOOT REACH d irected by Warwick C oop er: Play hou se, 15 L o m e avenue, M a gi ll , 4 . 1 5 pm.

M E E T IN G S A . U . S . — in v o lv e m e n t in t he M id d le East: F l in d e r s uni, 1 . 1 0 pm .

FLORA AND FAUNA

MAJOR A U S T R A L IA N POETS: VL5UV (Radio u n iv er s ity ), 1 1 . 3 0 am and 8 pm .

W O M E N , O U R B O D IE S , O U R S E L V E S : V L 5 U V , 10 am.

NEW M ATHS FOR PAR­ E N T S : V L 5 U V . 1 1 am.

WEDNESDAY ROCK “ H a t f i e l d ’ s t he d e p a r t m e n t store t h a t never closes — H a t f i e l d ’s the s u p e r m a r k e t of love and u n d e r s t a n d ­ ing” : M a u g h a m Church, R o c k oper a, $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 2 . 0 0 .

FOLK J E F F R Y A N : Plaza, 1 p m , F li nd er s uni ver sit y.

EVENTS F L O W E R D A Y : fl o w e rs all over the damn place pa r t ic u la r ly at t he Fl or al Fiesta — E d m u n d Wr ig ht House.

B O G I E ’ S: Inn, Lower

C IN E M A O F S U R P R IS E AND P A R T IC IP A T IO N e vent devised b y Geor ge A n d e r so n . D ra m a st udio, Flind ers un i, 1 1 . 1 5 pm.

C H IC K E N S G R E A T C H IC K E N D I S H E S : N W S 9 , 1 . 5 0 pm.

OTHERS L A U N C H I N G OF R A G A B A G — a mag azine in a bag. F r e e eats, drinks and movies: E ld e r Pa rk, 6 pm .

THURSDAY ROCK “ H a t f i e l d ’s th e d e p a r t m e n t store . . . ” etc: see wed.

JAZZ COLONEL In g le w o o d

1. 0 0 .

EUREKA STOCKADE — musical play di rec te d by Robert K im ber: U n io n the a tre , A d e la id e uni.

HELLO AND GOODBYE — A t h o l Fu gar d. T h e L i t t l e T h e a t r e , A d e la id e uni, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 3 . 5 0 .

M IL IT A R Y A R M E D SERVICES M A S S E D BANDS: Memorial D ri v e , 8 pm, $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 5 0 , students half price.

W R I T E R ’S W E E K Lars Gustafsson, Ric har d Tipping, G eo ffrey Th urley, D o n a ld Horne, Barry O a k le y , Peter C o lm a n , Mungo M acC allum and o th ers.

St at e Library Lecture Theatre, 9 .3 0 a m to 5 . 1 5 pm.

NADINE G O R D IM E R : A d e la id e t o w n hall, 8 . 3 0 pm.

FLORA AND FAUNA ANOTHER FLOWER D A Y : see Wedn esday.

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GERTRUDE S T E I N ’S G E R T R U D E S T E I N : see Wednesday, bu t 1 pm A . M . P . theatre on ly.

OPERA THE MR

E X C U R S IO N S BROUCEK:

OF See

W e d n e sd a y .

“ H a t f i e l d ’ s t he d e p a r t m e n t store . see Wednesday.

BLUES S M O K E S T A C K L I G H T N I N G : Eagle hotel, H indley st, 7.30 pm, $ 1 .0 0 .

JAZZ D IC K FRANKEL AND T H E D IS C I P L E S : So m ers et ho tel , 9 p m , 8 0 cents ( t o Red Cross), 1 9 7 P u l t e n e y st, C i t y .

C L A S S IC A L KARL GUNTER and NOREEN STOKES play Bach, Mozart and Beet ho ve n: A d e la id e t o w n hall, 8 . 1 5 p m .

HANS HOTTER: Public Master Class, Edmund Wright Ho us e, 8 pm , $ 1 . 2 0 , students 6 0 cents.

R E C IT A L OF NORTH INDIAN CLASSICAL M U S I C : Festival t h e a tr e , 8 pm , $ 3 . 0 0 t o $ 5 . 0 0 .

FILM S A L IC E 'S RESTAURANT a n d Y E L L O W SUBMARINE: Roma C in e m a , 2 1 a G i l b e r t place, 1 1 . 4 0 p m , $ 1 . 6 0 , students $1.40.

P E R F O R M A N C E : W in d s o r t h e a tr e , 1 C o m m e r c ia l roa d, B ri g h t o n , 8 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 , students 8 0 cents.

THEATRE T H E I M A G I N A R Y I N V A L I D : see tuesda y T H E B R ID E OF GOSPEL P L A C E : see tues da y.

C O R A L IE LANSDOWNE S A Y S N O : see tuesday.

THREE A U S T R A L IA N ONE ACT PLAYS: see thu rs da y .

G A R G O Y L E S : see tues da y.

HAMLET ON ICE: see thu rs da y .

S N O O K E R E D ! : see W ednesday.

EUREKA

STOCKADE:

see W e d n e sd a y .

HELLO AND GOODBYE: see W e d n e sd a y .

DANCE S L A N S K : see tu e s d a y .

K ID S T A L E S F R O M NOONAMEENA: see tuesday ZAGREB CARTOONS: see tuesday.

DAN M ORGAN A ND THE B O U N C IN G B U N Y IP O F B A N D I C O O T R E A C H : see thu rsday.

EVENTS K A I R O S ’7 4 — Jesus rock concert.

8 pm, R ym ill Park.

C IN E M A O F S U R P R IS E AND P A R T IC IP A T IO N : see thu rs da y THE G R E A T BEAST — m ulti media ha pp en ing presented by R .A .G .A .

A rt s C o- o p : E l d e r Pa rk , 8 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 , students $ 1 . 0 0 .

W R I T E R ’S W E E K e&Yy*<«D M IC H A L I: S c o t t t h e a tr e , 8 . 3 0 p m , $ 3 . 0 0 , students $ 1 . 5 0 .

THEATRE THREE A U S T R A L IA N ONE A C T P L A Y S : See th u rs d a y .

T H E I M A G I N A R Y IN V A L ID : See tu e s da y also 2 pm.

T H E B R ID E OF GOSPEL P L A C E : See t ues day .

C O R A L IE LANSDOWNE S A Y S N O : See t ues day .

A R E M NA N T: See t ues da y.

G A R G O Y L E S : See t ues da y.

S N O O K E R E D ! : See Wedn esd ay .

HAMLET ON I C E : See t h u rs da y .

EUREKA STOCKADE: See W e d n e s d a y .

HELLO AND GOODBYE: See W e d n e s d a y .

DANCE S L A N S K : See t u e s d a y also at 2 . 3 0 pm .

A u s t ra li a n D a n c e T h e a t r e .

C H IL D R E N OF T IM E — L iz Dalm an, H A I - K Y O — Ja p p F lier etc: Scott t h e a t re , 8 pm .

C IR C U S G R E A T M O S C O W C I R C U S : West Parklands, 8 pm, $ 4 . 2 0 to $ 6 . 2 0 .

F ILM S A L I C E ’S RESTAURANT a n d Y E L L O W S U B M A R I N E : See f r id a y .

SATURDAY ROCK

K ID S

“ H a t f i e l d ’s t h e D e p a r t m e n t S tore . . .” etc: See Wednesday.

DAN M ORGAN AND THE B O U N C IN G B U N Y IP OF B A N D IC O O T REACH: See t h u rs d a y b u t a t 11 am and 2 pm.

BLUES

EVENTS

S M O K E S T A C K L I G H T N I N G : See f r i d a y .

C IN E M A O F S U R P R IS E AND P A R T IC IP A T IO N : See t h u rs d a y .

T H E G R E A T B E A S T : See friday.

F E S T IV A L C R A F T M A R ­ K E T — C r a f t A ss oc ia ti on o f S A E l d e r Pa rk plus C r a f t Demonstrations and stro lli ng minstrels, 1 0 am til l dusk.

FOLK Some rse t ho te l. A n y o n e w e lc o m e to sing. Fre e, 1 9 7 Pu lt en ey street.

C L A S S IC A L C O L L E G IU M M U S IC U M — Zurich.

Paul Sacher, c o n d uc to r : A d e la id e T o w n Hal l, 8 pm . $ 5 t o $ 2, stu den t ha lf price.

TV R O C K ’N ’ R O L L L I V E S — T h e G r e a te s t R o c k 'n* R o l l

B and in t he W o r l d — T h e R o l l i n g S to n e s : D ocum entary.

NW S-9, 6 pm .

K E IT H M IC H E L L AT T H E L Y R I C — recalls past p e rf o r m a n c e s at t h e L y r i c t h e a tr e . L o n d o n : A B S - 2 , 7 . 3 0 pm.

ROCK ON — Top A u s tr a li a n R o c k G r o u p s in C o n c e r t a t R y m i l l par k: A B S - 2 , 6 . 1 0 pm.

W R IT E R ’S W E E K R. K. N arayan: Ed m u n d W r ig h t H ou s e , 8 . 3 0 pm. $ 3 , stude nts ha lf price.

C IR C U S G R E A T M O S C O W C I R C U S : See f r id a y .

SUNDAY C L A S S IC A L S O L O I S T S FR O M C O L L E G IU M M U S IC U M — Zu rich : Adelaide T o w n H al l, 8 . 1 5 pm.

W I L L E M V A N OTTERLOO AND THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY O R C H E S T R A play M o z a r t : A B S - 2 , 8 . 2 0 pm.

M O R E M U S IC H E R B IE M A N N A N D H IS S E X T E T : Festival th e a t re , 8 pm. $ 5 . 5 0 t o $ 3 . 5 0 .

F IL M A L I C E ’S RESTAURANT a n d Y E L L O W S U B M A R I N E : See f r id a y .

W O M E N V I S I O N — Film s by fem ale m em b e r s of Sydney F ilm M a ke r s C o- op , 8 0 c . E ld e r Park, 8 pm.

THEATRE THREE A U S T R A L IA N ONE A C T P L A Y S : See t h u rs da y .

HAMLET ON I C E : See th u rs d a y .

EVENTS C IN E M A O F S U R P R IS E AND P A R T IC IP A T IO N : See th u rs d a y .

A R M E D SERVICES MASSED BANDS and A D E L A ID E F E S T IV A L

CHORUS — Open C o n c e r t : 2 . 3 0 pm.

DANCE P o e tr y R e a d in g S m ith La w n s : U n i , 3 pm.

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A us t. D an ce T h e a t r e : tuesday.

See

S U N D A Y SCHOOL

K ID S ZAGREB CARTOONS: See tuesda y.

J O U R N E Y O N A COBB A N D C O . C O A C H — by t h e P e rf o rm in g P u p p e t Co: State Government t h e a t re t t e , 9 . 3 0 am, 1 pm, 2 . 3 0 pm . 30c.

C IR C U S

R A D IO

G R E A T M O S C O W C I R C U S : See f r id a y .

W O M E N , O U R B O D IE S , OUR SELVES: V L 5 U V , 8 pm.

NEW MATHS FOR P A R E N T S : V L 5 U V , 9 pm.

MONDAY C L A S S IC A L C O L L E G IU M M U S IC U M — Zurich: Adelaide T o w n H al l, 8 p m . $ 5 t o $ 2, students h a lf price.

TV A N E V E N IN G W IT H . . .

— A n h o u r w i t h pu bl ic personalities sharing t h e ir OPERA favorite stories, poems, plays, songs and anecdotes O P E R A T I C A R I A S A N D f e a tu ri n g D o n D u n s t a n and ENSEMBLES: Festival L i v i n g D a y li g h t s bo y t h e a t re , 8 pm. w o n d e r r e p o r t e r Ri cha rd A N D S O T O M U S I C K — N eville: A B S - 2 , 1 0 pm.

T h e T r i t o n T r i o : E d m u n d I T H A D T O BE Y O U — W r i g h t H ou s e , 8 . 1 5 p m . Gi ng e r Rogers: N W S - 9 , 12 $ 3 . 5 0 , s t ude nts $ 1 . 7 5 . no on.

M U S IC A L E V E N T C A R N IV A L OF THE A N I M A L S — Sa int-Saens f e a t u r i n g D o n D u n s ta n reciting a t t he A de la ide Z o o : 8 pm . $2 st ud en ts ha lf price.

THEATRES T H E I M A G I N A R Y I N V A L I D : See tuesda y.

T H E B R ID E OF GOSPEL P L A C E : See tu es day .

C O R A L IE LANSDOWNE S A Y S N O : See T u e s d a y .

G A R G O Y L E S : See t ues day .

S N O O K E R E D ! : See we d nesday.

T H E I C E AQ*E — D or st : T h ea tre 62, R egi on al T h e a t r e C o , Prince A l f r e d C olleg e th e a t re , 8 . 1 5 pm.

HELLO AND GOODBYE: See we d nesday.

P E R F O R M A N C E SYNDICATE — Rex Cram phorne: A u s t ra li a n

OME FEEDBACK from Victoria. "Most Australian libraries are unfortunately stuffy, middleclass institutions catering almost exclusively for the medi­ ocre middleclass mind — however this situation could soon change in Victoria — librarians are about to get their collective conscious­ ness raised. And not before time.

The Committee of Younger Lib­ rarians has organised a seminar on alternative literature covering alternative lifestyle, radical and counterculture (did you say con­ sciousness raising, Bruce?). This seminar happens on Saturday, march 30, at the Toorak library conference centre, 338 Toorak road, $outh Yarra."

Well I can't see the "conscious­ ness" of ya average bookworm being drastically changed let alone raised with yet another seminar.

Still, for more info, contact the Committee of Younger Librarians, c/o 3 /36 Jolimnnt terrace. East Melbourne. Phone (03) 341.2064.

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RE YOU really interested in the sort of info minutia that USA, 95969; he'll send you an I/Access regularly indulges in? This attractive brochure I'm sure 1one is for you then — The inter- But hurry. tn a tio n a l d ire cto ry o f little maga\zin e s and small presses, "the only 1 continuing international record of living literature". Huh? Feel asfnigLEM Gorman, an Australian w rite r and publisher living gin of guilt laying this one on ya 'cause I havent seen it myself. So in London, has been commiswhat . . . I'd probably misjudge its signed by Paladin to write a book worth anyway. Besides, the depth to be called People together, on of my research is now equal to the the subject o f comm unal living flow of readers feedback. If the and w orking ventures. The book directory doesnt do much for w ill m ainly be concerned w ith the you, then maybe the Small press British experience but the pub­ review will quench your thirst for lishers (bless th e ir little h ip poc­ a bit of your living literature — kets) w a n t considerable 0 Z and comes out six times a year, costs NZ coverage. Clem is try in g to $5.00; the directory sells for gather in fo rm a tio n on communes, $4.95. Since I have no idea what food co-ops, co-operative child either publication looks, feels or creches, w orker-ow ned factories, | reads like. I'm justifying this c ra ft co-ops, artists collectives, rough nugget purely 'cause I like film co-ops, c o m m u n ity-ru n play [ the concept. Oh, screw the justi­ schemes and adventure p la y­ fic a tio n and write a speedy aero grounds, etc, etc. It could be a to Len Fulton/Dust books, PO good book. If you w a n t to help Box 1056, Paradise, California, our Clem d o in ' his thing in the old

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MAN IN Q U E S TIO N — JOHANNES BJELKEPETERSEN — In t e r v ie w w i t h Q u e e n s la n d ’ s fa m o u s flying p r e m ie r: A BS-2, 8 . 5 5 pm .

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C IR C U S G R E A T M O S C O W C I R C U S : See f r id a y .

OTHERS M A R G ARET ROADK N IG H T — H IS T O R Y OF THE BLUES: Sher ida n the a tre , 1 1 . 3 0 pm . $ 1 . 5 0 .

M a c k i n n o n parade. N o r t h A de la id e .

ALL WEEK TRASH and FLESH — Andy W a rh o l: Capri C in e m a , G o o d w o o d , 8 pm. $ 2 . 2 5 and $2.

K ID S A lm o s t Free Spaces: C h il d r e n in vi te d t o j o i n in dr a m a , music, dance & p a p p e t r y in R y m i l l Park.

E X H IB IT IO N IS M L i d u m 's A rt G a ll e r y — □ a v i d B o y d and others:

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HE US Central Committee of Correspondence (another CIA front?) has published a mail­ ing list of movement organisations in the States. It lists about 1500 groups and change organisations in the US and Canada — arranged region by region — also lists a few foreign activists. Costs a buck from 310 N 33 Street, Philadel­ phia, PA 19104, USA.

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END PURE and applied in fo gems, recipes fo r enlightenm ent, "h o w to h it higher consciousness" game plans and anything else you th in k m ight help me get my rocks o ff to PO Box 8, Surry H ills, 2010.

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A rt G allery of South A u s t ra li a — S y d n e y N o l a n , abor ig ina l art and G e r m a n expressionism: N o r t h T e e .

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URFERS PARADISE is es­ sentially a moneymaking proposition - a “ hole” for the old and affluent to die in. It’s not some civilised town where young and old can live peacefully and without glimpse, at least, of bu­ reaucratic gangsterism and all that shit which goes with bigtime money grubbing.

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night, the local cops raided a block o f flats they had been watching for some time. Saturday ran into Sunday and Sunday into 9 am m onday when they ceased their activities in time fo r morning court sessions.

The outcome o f monday’s courtcase fed Queensland state papers with gutsy frontpage news.

The Brisbane Telegraph announc­ ed “ FIFTEEN ON DRUG CHARGES” and followed it up with an account that made one poor guy arrested on a provable phony rap look like a giant crim.

What happened - and shouldnt have, everybody made mistakes that night — was just another big ballsup o f truth and justice. The story is an often repeated one and a sad lesson for those involved: it is one o f young, uninformed guys who broke under police pressure, who didnt have a chance from the start; o f pigs who bully and "persuade” using.that age-old cop trick o f promising a “ light” sen­ tence.

Everybody should know the policeman’s idea of a light sentence can be up to five years behind. When being questioned, dont confess anything, you dont have to.

Below, an honest description o f the bust by two participants, muso’s on the local scene, whose first names I use. With occasional comments by Kerry, Rob’ s girl­ friend.

ROB: We came back from doing a concert and we’d been back about half an hour, three quarters o f an hour. Somebody left a key in the door.

Subsequently the door opened and two uniformed police and a detective walked in. They sniffed the atmosphere and claim­ ed to recognise the odor of can­ nabis. They immediately started examining cigarette butts and ashtrays on the table.

Did they have a warrant?

ROB: No. I asked them for a warrant. Apparently it’s the law they can search anywhere without a warrant.

T E R R Y: They said they didnt need a warrant for a bust.

R OB: They immediately started antagonising people there. Accus­ ing them o f being "druggies” . . .

"W e hate druggies!” . They got there at one and left at about five in the morning. They went through all the material in the ashtrays and found things which to them were suspicious. Pieces o f foil and things like this, implying that the foil was used as a wrapper for the “ dangerous” drug cannabis in the form of hashish.

TERR Y: We were just sitting there listening to a tape before that. They pointed one of us out at a time and asked us if we had any drugs on us. We said no and they asked whose flat it was. They took Alan to his room, it was his flat. Searched his room and found nothing. None o f us saw it but they hit him a few times - that is what he says - so he handed up what he had on him. They came out and said who’ s Gary and who’s Terry? So we identified our­ selves and they went back into Alan’s room again. Came out and picked up my shoulderbag and asked whose it was. I said mine.

They took me into Rob's room.

ROB: Before this happened one of them took Kerry and me into our room and searched the room.

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antique top hat. They smashed a drawer in half, they tipped every­ thing on to the floor. Searched it very thoroughly and didnt find anything. They made a few threats.

What kind o f threats?

ROB: They said well, seeing you live here, it’s your flat and I said no, although I am staying here.

They said we’ve got enough evi­ dence, if we dont find anything on anybody you two get the whole rap, that type of threat.

Then they started on Terry.

They took you behind a cur­ tain?

TE R R Y: Yeah. The cop searched my shoulderbag and couldnt find anything. He asked me where my grass was and I said I didnt have any. They proceeded to beat me up. Another cop came in and held me while he hit me. Held me up by the hair. He hit me a couple o f times, then I was on the mattress

They knocked you down?

TE R R Y: Yeah, a couple o f times.

That was through a punch in the stomach. The other cop walked in and grabbed hold o f me and pull­ ed me up by the hair and said “ stand up for the sergeant” . And while he said that the other was hitting me in the stomach and back o f the head.

Were you aggressive at all, was anyone?

TERRY: No way, I would think.

ROB: They had Alan for posses­ sion. They took me into his bed­ room and stripped me and didnt find anything. In fact, they didnt find anything in the whole flat although they went through it for over three hours.

Except for Alan who had it in his underpants?

TE R R Y: He was the only onp who had it. Apparently they pull­ ed a knife on Gary, too, a big breadknife.

ROB: Tjey threw an orange at him and put his head in a sink o f water. Threw him around the kitchen. There were three girls there they didnt touch. They took Alan back into his room and beat him up again. Although we dont

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have proof of that we certainly heard it. He came out and he was shaking and he looked like he was going to be sick because I saw him then. They took us o ff - three cops, one guy. The rest o f the cops were in the main room.

H ow many police were there altogether?

K E R R Y : Five in the room, 15 altogether we were told. They were outside as well.

ROB: The first three went and rang up some more. They arrived about three quarters o f an hour after the first lot arrived. After a few hours they’d been through the whole place, beaten up Gary and Terry, taken Alan away and arrested him. Incidentally, four other guys were in the flat. They were also taken into separate rooms, beaten a little and let go), as a warning, I suppose.

TE R R Y: They said to me — this was, I think his name’ s Zoppy, he’s a short bloke with blond hair, the one who was holding me up ROB: Soppa.

T E R R Y : After about half an hour he said to the other guy, “ It’s all right, we’ve found grass on him.”

I said, “ No, you havent.” This was still in the bedroom He said, “ Well, we’re going to say that, is that all right with you?” I said no and they continued with the beat­ ing until in the end I said yes. He said, “ Will you sign a statement saying that we found it?” First of all I said no, then I said I would.

He said I could get up in the courtroom on monday morning and say any amount o f bullshit.

Did you sign the statement?

T E R R Y: Yes, I did. A t Surfers police station.

ROB: While this was going on Kerry and I were called in by one o f them. One o f the legal tenants is in hospital and he went through her bedroom asking questions pertinent to her articles o f cloth­ ing about which we knew nothing.

K E R R Y : He said if he didnt find anything here he’d make up a charge for both o f us.

ROB: Before that, in my room, he said that he hated “ druggies” , too.

He was a uniformed policeman with one stripe who I could iden­ tify. He was the meanest of the lot, and said he would do any­ thing to put “ druggies” behind bars. He said, “ Well, son, I’ve been ttirough an your things and found nothing. I’ve been through you and found nothing, but I’m going to arrest you before tonight’s fin­ ished.” He was trying to scare me.

I asked on what grounds and he said, “ Well, I’ll pin something ony ou .”

TE R R Y : There wasnt any ques­ tion about how we looked. I had a blood nose when I walked back into the room and Gary had a blood nose, too, and he was limp­ ing. He could hardly walk three days later.

ROB: they wears down

Alan had a cut nose and broke Gary’s glasses, he glasses. And he had a cut his face.

Cary is a working musician, too?

T E R R Y : Yeah, a drummer. His was the most severe beating.

ROB: Anyway, at the end of it all — Alan was already at the police station - they took us all down and put us in this room at the bottom and sat us all apart. This cop who didnt have anything to do with it, who was on duty, came out with a roll o f news­ papers and started hitting us around the head.

He was trying to get you to answer questions?

TE R R Y: I'd had enough beating for one night, I didnt want any more. There was nothing I could do.

ROBERT: They took me in last for my statement and I was told all this crap about how everyone had turned me in. They made me admit I’d been smoking. They spent about an hour and a half on my statement, also putting in im criminating evidence about de facto relationships which had nothing to do with the case. Sim­ ply because I am living with my girlfriend who I am about to marry. A t the bottom they said, “ Do you have anything you would like to add, beware that it can be taken down as evidence against you .” I said the flat wasnt legally in my tenantship and the judge is supposed to read that in court. But he didnt. They made us sign those statements under pres­ sure. Alan and Gary were admit­ ted to the Southport lock-up at five in the morning. Terry and I went in at six or so. On sunday afternoon Gary was taken away and questioned by senior detec­ tive sergeant Bignell. He had a phony dealing charge planted on him. Gary told a lady he was beaten, he was in for about three hours being interrogated.

Sunday night went around and it came up to monday morning.

All the time we were in the lock-up we were refused legal ad­ vice. We were refused a phone call and we were refused bail, al­ though we could have a visitor for three minutes. Not enough time to organise anything, especially since it was sunday. On monday morning we were processed and fingerprinted and photographed.

We werent given a briefing by our respective arresting officers . .

Did any o f y o u have a chance to say anything in court? Did you . say the statements you signed were in fact not true?

ROB: No, we couldnt. The judge in my opinion was most unfair.

ROB: No, he did it out of malice.

That was Rutherford, SM, South­ We could have him for assault, port. He did all the drug cases as a too. block. He read the charge to a person, made him stancj up and T E R R Y : The cop took about an plead and then went on to the hour and a half making out my next. He did it all as a unit. statement. He wrote it out and said, “ Is this alright?” He made it However, he sentenced everyone individually. He sentenced me up the whole way. Then he pulled with a $100 fine, no time to pay a bag of grass from his drawer and and in default six months jail. For said, “ I want to charge you for a charge, allowing my premises to possession. I’m going to let you be used for smoking cannabis, pick out how much we got down my arresting officer told me I there.” Out of his own bag, his would only get a light sentence own drawer! So I just picked out when he advised me to plead guilty. a pinchful and he put it in an envelope. He wrote down what So you did plead guilty? That he’d “ found” and I signed it. was a mistake, you know.

What do you think would have happened if you 'd not signed it?

ROB: Yes, I know now. The judge set up ten people to go to jail because he didnt give them time to pay. We were all told we were vagrants and drifters and we had no right to be on the coast. We were given an hour and a half in which to raise our fines behind bars, not being allowed to see anyone. In all, we hocked $1300 worth of guitars for a $250 loan.

We lost our jobs, we lost the place we were living in.

All this, of course, indicates an infringement of one’s private life, something the Queensland state government doesnt hold as sacred or to be respected. To the horror o f resident legal men and home­ owners alike, a recent bill gave the police full go-ahead to bust into peoples houses sans warrant. Now, under the Health Act, the pigs can do over your home on any pretext at all - but they’ll be looking for those “ illegal drugs” you can bet!

Someone has written to the local mayor, Council for Civil Liberties rep, Queensland police chief and Mr Whitlam about the affair. But, for what it’ s worth, I dont believe there’ll be any inves­ tigation.

LEPERS SMUGGLE SMACK selves forward and embracing wetly. In ETAIL drug traffickers and drug most cases this ends the investigation users, already worried by police and before it gets underway. customs harassment, now face the threat If all these hurdles are crossed, con o f leprosy, according to medical and sideration is what to do with a leper missionary sources working among lepers when he is arrested. Leprosariums are in North Thailand. not jails and inmates are free to come and Like the opium poppy itself, the roots go as they wish. Police cannot put the o f this new problem originate in Burma. leper in a cell with others arrested nor can With the disruption of traditional opium they be put in jail, if they are convicted, and heroin smuggling channels by Bur­ because other healthy prisoners will riot. mese and Thai police last year, drug Further it would be blatantly unfair to merchants are now searching for new the healthy prisoners. ways to move their goods to the market The sources said that drug syndicates and they have hit upon the use of the have moved fast to capitalise on the oldest outcasts, the lepers. advantages offered by lepers and there are Several factors, the sources said, increasingly numerous reports from their recommend lepers for use as transporters patients o f approaches by persons offer­ o f narcotics. First, as outcasts they are ing large rewards for stockpiling and already on the lowest rung o f the social handling o f narcotics. ladder. There can be no worse stigma Those who accept the offer, the; attached to them even if they are arrested sources said, have been coached in for possession o f drugs. Second, arrest, methods o f secreting narcotics on various itself is an extremely remote possibility. parts of their bodies. Since, in advanced Even the most dedicated police offi­ cases, the lepers are too handicapped by cers would rather turn away than risk their disease to handle drugs with any contact through body search or examina­ dexterity, special body harnesses are tion o f a leper’s personal effects. often used inside their clothing to trans­ Leper camps, the rankest and most port heroin under their arms or in other avoided areas in any country, are likewise areas close to the diseased body. immune from search and provide ideal Although leprosy continues to be a sites for stockpiling narcotics. The mystery disease, many authorities believe sources also said that the lepers have been it is contagious. quick to learn to protect themselves from -B an gkok morning post occasional questioning by throwing them­

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Meaty Madness L A R R Y D RAK E H ELLEY, vegetarian, atheist, poet o f genius, had a theory that the idea o f hellfire dated back to the ice ages when man, the natural vegetarian, deprived o f his vegetation, was foreed to eat flesh to stay alive. The terrible consequences: tearing pains in the guts, horrible diseases, physical degeneration o f all kinds became, Shelley thought, inextricably associated with the cooking fires that were needed to make the eating o f flesh bearable. it is difficult to be sure, and unwise to be dogmatic, about anything in the complex field o f human health; but there is an enormous amount o f evidence to suggest that Shelley may have been right.

There can be little doubt that the human body evolved on a vegetarian diet. The biological evidence is overwhelming. Anthropologists group monkeys, apes, men, tarsiers and lemurs as primates — meaning the most important group o f animals — and man heads the list. ALL the other primates are vegetarians, except the tarsiers and lemurs eat a few insects which are much closer to fruits and nuts than they are to ' animal flesh. Biochemist Frank Wilson (in his book Food for the golden age) writes: “ Many animals will die rather than eat food which is different from their accustomed diet. The lucky fools!

They have an unanswerable instinct to guide them and no intelligence to interfere. That is our doubtful privilege.”

The teeth o f the primates are designed for biting and chewing soft vegetable foods like fruits, shoots, roots and nuts; and are quite different from the teeth o f the natural carnivores - dogs, lions, cats etc - which are sharp and daggerlike for tearing into flesh.

The intestine is one o f the surest guides. Man and the other primates have a longish intestine, not as long as the grass-eating animals, but much longer than that of dogs, lions and cats. The carnivores can thus pass flesh foods through their short intestines before it has time to putrefy, Man cannot do this and much of the flesh eaten by humans putre-

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fies in the intestine, generating poisons which cause diseases, None of the other primates in their natural state, living on their natural diet, suffer from cancers, In Past centuries cancer was look­ ed on as a rich man s disease and was known as the Royal Rot. In those days, only royalty and rich men could afford to eat the most expensive foods - animal foods, It seems significant that the 20th century equivalent of royalty, the Hollywood stars, have had an ex­ traordinarily high ratio o f death from cancer, In all the affluent societies, where flesh-eating has, increased enormously in this century, cancer has also increased at a terrifying rate. Nobody has compiled statistics o f the cancer rate amongst vegetarians. A year or so ago I offered to make a survey for the Cancer Foundation, on an expenses only basis, o f the eating habits of cancer patients in the world’ s leading hospitals. The foundation didnt bother to reply to my letter, The biological evidence contains many other significant points too numerous to be included here, but one deserves mention: man’s kidneys are identical with those o f the monkey; and the kidney, more than any other organ (as the eliminator o f poisons) indicates the amount o f protein that should be eaten. A lion’s kidney is twice as big as a bull’ s and almost as big as an elephant’s, The case against flesh-eating is not based solely on health considerations. The economic case is equally impressive. An acre of land will produce at least seven times as much in vegetable foodstuffs (measured by calories) as it will produce in animal flesh. In Australia and other affluent societies, huge quantities o f grain are grown for the sole purpose o f producing pig flesh, the ratio o f seven to one being roughly applicable. That is, the grain fed to pigs would supply humans with seven times as much food value as does the pig flesh which it grows. The same thing applies to the increasing trend towards the lot-feeding of cattle. In a half starved world, we simply cannot afford to have many flesh eaters.

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SPORT? JIM M cKENZIE UCKING Australia, said Neil. I can’t stand this place.

Australians are the most anti-intel­ lectual, racist, sexist morons in the world. All they ever want to do is get drunk and watch fo o t­ ball. Jesus H. Christ on a Harley fucking Davidson.

“O kay,” said the doctor, look­ ing up from his usual corner. “ I’ll bite. I’ll argue that Australians are less like that than anyone else, but on two conditions. The first is that this is an argument about more and less. Australians may be the least slobbish people and still be pretty bad, provided everyone else is worse. I dont want to be understood as saying that every­ thing’ s good enough. That way lies conservatism and apathy. But looking at some of the ways in which we are less fucked up than other places might enable our attacks to be a little better direct­ ed than the outburst you’ve just made. But get this straight. Even on the least thirsty days in sum­ mer, I’ m usually parched.”

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“ I think I know what the second condition is,” smiled Judy, heading for the bar.

When the doctor had taken his first appreciative pull o f whisky he began. “ Let’ s start with the last one. Watching football. I have to show that Australians are less spectator sportsmen than any other country in the world.”

"Y o u can try,” said Neil. “ Look at the VFL crowds.” “ Mmm. But consider compar­ able countries. I’ll have to leave out Africa and most of Asia you can’t have much in the way of spectator sport without a cer­ tain amount o f affluence, and I He was o ff again as soon as the take it the point is that Austral­ glasses were on the table. ians are being accused o f being slobs compared to some allegedly “ I said fully professional, and more civilised people, not that that made me think o f something. they have more spare time than All the developed countries - and Bengali farmers.” a lot of the underdeveloped ones “ O f course,” said Judy. “ Stop too — support a large number of bullshitting around and start.” fully professional athletes. That is, “ Neil drew our attention to the people who earn so much from V FL. But european soccer crowds playing a game (and I dont mean are really enormous, and they’re coaching, or endorsing advertise­ often violent. A game between ments) that they dont need to Rangers and Celtic, for instance, work at all. French cyclists, Jap­ or one o f the lead ups to the anese sumo wrestlers, soccer play­ World Cup. Or the scenes in Am ­ ers pretty well everywhere dont sterdam after Ajax won the world have other jobs. Almost all the big club championship, if you want to VFL and R L stars work during the dismiss the Scots and Mediterran­ week, which is unheard o f else­ eans as hot tempered. South where. Not enough Australians America is about the same. The watch footy to provide the largest ever stadium crowd was money.” just under 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 for a soccer “ Hold on,” I objected. “ What match in Brazil. That’ s almost two about our golfers and tennis play­ VFL Grand Finals at once. Italy, ers? They dont have jobs.”

Spain, Germany — who are you “ Sure, they’re full pros,” he going to put up as your cultivated agreed. “ But they’re not support­ european?

They’ re all soccer ed by Australian spectators. Most crazy.” o f their money comes from tour­ “ What about France?” I offer­ naments overseas. Australia pro­ ed. duces a lot of good athletes, but “ There’s fully professional soc­ that’s not at issue. Australians cer in France, and in the south dont watch sport as much as other both rugby codes have pretty people.” fanatical followings.

But the “ But we only have a small French really go for cycle racing. population,” said Neil. “ If only The Guinness book o f records one percent of Londoners went to estimates that the working time the football, you’d have a bigger lost and so on due to the Tour de crowd than if twice that propor­ France is more thah 300 million tion of Sydneysiders went. That’s pounds sterling. Now that’s not the reason there’s less money in just drinking money.” sport here, not lack o f interest.”

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work. A better example is Canada.

They have a slightly bigger popu­ lation, and at least as many hassles with distances. But as well as ice hockey, which the Americans watch too, Canada has a fully professional league, right across the continent, playing a variety of gridiron. The Americans watch their own version, so it's entirely Canadian supported. That’s where the Sydney Rugby League player Mark Harris went last year, if you remember any of the reports. All those men do is play football and train for it, and they play right across Canada. All on the support o f about 20 million people, and their travel bills must be shocking.

Australia can’t even organise a league that takes in more than the suburbs o f one or at most two near­ by cities. Y et we play league in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Woll­ ongong, Canberra that’s five large cities in a reasonably small area. Or Adelaide, Tassie and Vic­ toria for rules. Why not? There simply isnt the support. They can’t get in enough paying cus­ tomers to pay for the travelling, let alone fulltime players.” “ But I thought” , I spoke up for my home town, “ that, propor­ tionately speaking, Melbourne watches more football than any city in the world.” “ I ’m afraid it’s very small beer,” said the old man, but not another word would he say until I had taken the hint and bought another round . . . “ The most football watching

city in the world is certainly not Melbourne. I've mentioned Glas­ gow, havent I? And Manchester too, and Rio and so on would be in it. But I think the prize would go to Green Bay, Wisconsin. Popu­ lation is about 63,000. The stadi­ um holds 50,000. Every seat for every game is booked out before the season has even started. O f course, a lot o f them fly in from interstate - but that really proves the point, doesnt it? How many Australians would fly anywhere to see a home-and-away game?

Americans do so every week.” “ But look at the television coverage o f Australian sport,” said Neil. “ On Saturday in Melbourne, there’ s nothing else to watch.” “ Nor is there in America on Sunday,” was the reply. “ American television gives over 24 hours a week to sport - and that’ s just the national coverage, not count­ ing local events. What does Archie Bunker do on sunday? If you remember, Nixon intervened to try and stop the 50 mile television blackout around grounds. And the european networks are sports mad too. The BBC gave 170 hours to the last Olympics. A few years back, I remember the choice being European Champions Cup soccer final on both BBC and ITV , while BBC2 had a program of snooker.

Weekend television everywhere is sport. It’ s enough to drive one to drink.”

coverage. “ People sometimes say our papers are overloaded with sport,” he replied. “ But what they’re comparing them with are the qual­ ity papers. The popular press reg­ ularly devotes about the same space to sport as to, say, finance.

You can buy papers with pages o f footy or ice hockey or whatever anywhere, ghost-written articles by fullbacks, the whole thing. In most places, including Australia, there are papers, even dailies, which dont. If you compare the Sydney Mirror with the Times of London, o f course the Australian press is full of football. It’ s just not a fair comparison. Try one of the pop dailies in Britain, or, say, the Minneapolis Tribune or some­ thing. In fact, the educated classes in Australia are quite unusual in their lack o f interest in sport.” “ What do you mean?” asked Judy, a shade hotly. She and the doctor have a running battle over elitism. “ I dont think it’ s very rash to say that a higher proportion of factory workers watch sport than university graduates do, in any country. But just as Australians in general watch less sport than others, Australian university peo­ ple are far less interested than university people anywhere else, at least in English-speaking coun­ tries. You couldnt spend a year at Oxford or Cambridge and not know who won the boat race; or at Cape Town or Stellenbosch and not know who won the annual rugby game. American and Cana­ dian universities are something else again. You ’ve heard of the fund-raising campaign L e t’s give our football team a university to be proud of. But most Australian students would be at a loss to give the result o f any intervarsity com­ petition. The more I think about it, the more amazed I am at how little interested in sport Austra­ lians are.” “ The Melbourne Cup,” tried Neil desperately. “ Australians watch racing. We’ re the only country in the world to hold a holiday for a horse race.” “ Yes, other countries develop­ ed their traditional holidays be­ fore commercialised sport began, so they gave them different names. But whatever their origin, holidays are days for watching sport for a large proportion o f the population. New year’ s day in America could equally be called Bowl Game Day. I dont think it’s more significant that Victoria’s spring holiday is called Cup day than it is that one of America’s major holidays is called Thanks­ giving. After all, another major holiday in Australia is called Anzac day, but you could hardly make out a case that Australia is a particularly militarist nation. We havent had anything like a mili­ tary coup for quite a while, and military men dont hold a high place in public esteem.” “ We were talking about rac­ ing,” said Neil. “ And you’d better hurry up a bit, the bar’s closed already, and you havent even fin­ ished sport, let alone racism, sex­ ism or anti intellectualism.”

“ I’ m sorry. I’ll try to finish racing, at least. We’ll have to leave the others till next time. Racing is pretty big business everywhere. A horse called Secretariat made quite a stir in America, for in­ stance. The French have the Arc de Triomphe, the English the Der­ by, the Irish . . . ” At this moment, Fred the bar­ man rather forcibly drew his at­ tention to the fact that we were the last people left in the bar. The doctor was promising to discuss the other criticisms that Neil had made of Australians at the next While Judy was complying, opportunity. with this unsubtle hint, I asked the guru about the newspaper

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FEW weeks ago Sydney cor­ respondent Cherry Ripe slammed a Slade concert in a review. And on seeing the concert it was difficult to disagree with her musical judgment, but it was also difficult to ignore the fact that they thrilled a huge majority of their audience. Or that a major­ ity o f their audience is under 16.

And o f course that follows with David Cassidy, and Sherbert and . . . So this week we present some views and reviews from some of that majority.

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OBYN, whose review o f the Cassidy concert in Mel­ bourne is below, has been an ardent David Cassidy fan since she first spotted him in the Partridge family a couple o f years ago. She was very excited at the chance to see David Cassidy in the flesh as well as the chance to attend her first rock concert. When Cassidy finally appeared on stage her com­

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- M ARGARET MacINTYRE HE first group on stage on sunday was Mr George and they were alright. They wore aqua colored clothes which made them look cool, and it was really hot.

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The classroom critics NE AFTERNOON last week in Melbourne, photographer Manning and I took an armful of singles out to Fawkner technical school to be reviewed by some of the discerning members o f the public - 10 members of form two to be precise.

F or the enthusiasm and thoughts below we can thank Vicki, Bev, Kerry, Lee, Gael, Berry, Karen, Paul, Shane and the Great Baba (alias Rocky). It was clear that the singles most heard on the radio were those most loved, and it was also evident that if Fawkner tech’s form two had their way Susie Quatro would take over the world. Requests for Aunty Jack, Slade and Smoking in the boys room all had to be refused since we were trying to gather opinions on comparatively new singles.

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H USH: Maneater (Warner Broth­ ers).

Pro: “ It’s alright. It’s got a good beat and it’s sort of different to every other sort of song I listen to. It’ll be a hit.”

Con: “ It’s alright, but there’s not enough sort o f going on in the band.”

LEO S A Y E R S : The show must go on (Chrysalis).

(This was greeted with shrieks of recognition.) “ Oh yeah, this is good. I really love this, he sounds like Rod Stewart. It’s going to be good but not a big hit. It’s entirely dif­ ferent, the voice sounds different and it sort of echoes. It will sell 'cos you need something dif­ ferent."

S U S IE QUATRO: Daytona demon (RAK).

(Oh yeah, the heavy breathing.

Everyone immediately joined in “ Do you mind if we sing miss?” )

“ She’s terrific, it’s got a really “ I’ve got it and I’ m sick of it. good beat about it. I like 4 8 crash We played it all night at a party better though, and Sticks and one night ’cos no one else brought stones. 48 crash has got some records.” really good drumming and it’s got “ The beginning sounds as if a better beat than this. This is just he’s got a pain in the stomach. It’s all the same level.” not as good as See m y baby jive, “ She’s a really great singer, it’s too plain. Sort of yuk. But it’s because she sings pretty clear. not as daggy as some of them ” Y ou can understand her, but with A L IC E COOPER: Teenage lament others you can understand some '74 (Warner Brothers). of the words but not all of them.

(Which was one of the few I And she’s great on T V .” really enjoyed.)

R O C K Y : “ She’ s got the heavi­ “ It’s sick/alright/rough enough. est bass guitar and she’s got But (and all agreed) it’s not as it right down to her, to her . . . to good as School's ou t." her whatdoyoucallit.”

JIM STAFFOR D: Spiders and “ She’s got a really good band snakes (MGM).

— if she didnt have that band I “ That’s good. It’s different. dont think she’d be too good just Some people just copy others like as a singer." that stupid guy in Kush who tries FLIP SIDE: “ Horrible. The rec­ to copy David Bowie. At the start ord companies always put a good it sounded daggy, but it’s really record on one side and a rotten good. I’d listen to it but I wouldnt one on the other to sell them ” buy it.”

JACKIE M O O R E : Sweet Charlie JAMES T A Y L O R /C A R L Y SI­ babe (Atlantic).

M ONS: Mockingbird (Elektra). “ Ugh! That’s horrible. It’s PRO: “ It was grouse." really slow, I dont like it at all.”

CON: “ Nah, it had the same “ It’s alright for some people, sort of beat all the time.” but we’re used to all those fast PAUL: “ It was dead - dead songs.” rock.” “ Yeah, Johnny Famham sings M AR C IE JONES: Gonna get mar­ like that, or he used to but now ried (Atlantic). he’s changed, ’cos the times have (This was well known and a changed.” firm favorite. The girls sang along “ Just hearing Susie Quatro and and the boys tapped their feet.) then turning on to that - well, it’ s “ It’ s terrific. It’s really rugged.” not on the good side.”

(And they promptly played it K A REN : “ But it will pass.” again.)

MR G EORGE: Lazy Susan From this, a discussion about (Phillips). favorite artists arose with Slade, “ It’s got the clapping and the Gary Glitter and Susie Quatro em­ different noises. It would prob­ erging slightly ahead (on points) of ably be alright for a concert at Sweet and Alvin Stardust. Obvi­ the Music Bowl, you know, ‘Music ously it is the beat that matters for the people’ or something, but the melodies didnt rate a mention. not as a new record.”

According to form two, the idea is R O Y WOOD: Forever (Harvest). to play it loud and play it fast “ Oh yeah, Roy Wood did See that is the way to make a hit m y baby jive, I love that.” record.

the best, apart from David Cas­ sidy. They were only young and they sang and danced really well.

David Cassidy was really good and he sang really well. And he romped about the stage a lot. He’s a lot prettier than he is in the Partridge family on TV. He sang his new songs first and he has got a really good voice. He played the piano on stage in one song.

Everybody was clapping and David must have been hot because everyone was hot and because of the heavy breathing when he finished a song.

I really like him because he is so kind, and so pretty looking and because o f his songs I suppose. I’d really like to meet him and talk to him but I probably wouldnt know what to say. I’d like to touch him and that is why everybody reaches out down the front — to touch him.

I liked his clothes. I didnt expect him to move about the stage as much. I liked the way he moved up and down the stage.

I liked it best when he played Cherish because it’s my favorite song. I like the old songs he did with the Partridge family better than his new songs.

It was really crowded and some girls were screaming which was pretty stupid because they didnt have to scream If I had been down the front I might have screamed a couple of times be­ cause I wouldnt be able to help it with him so close.

You couldnt really see well enough and it was hot but I wasnt disappointed. I was very happy because I’ d seen him.

- ROBYN OING to a David Cassidy show is not like going to a concert. The music is incidental.

All those suppliant arms raised in quivering adoration. More like going to mass.

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The show has a simple but tight structure. Starting with long numbers and long pauses between, they get shorter and Cassidy’s strung out hipchat is dispensed with as he gets more breathless and the pace more staccato.

He is the scrubbed-antiseptic California kid. The Clearasil pro­ mise. The overworkedness is real.

On the TV set from six in the morning to six at night, then on to the recording studio, for literally years on end. A sheltered billion dollar earner, the pressure from his lady-manager doesnt let up. He’s her clockwork brainchild, and his popularity is deliberate and well calculated.

None of this detracts from his charm. He is a spunky bronzed elder brother for every pre teen posterpaster in the audience. He has a knack for exuding youthfullness in an almost forcedly honest manner. He learnt to handfe the camera early. He’s a self-confessed Media Child, a product o f the very means he exploits. The audience are media children too, bound to him by an instinctive empathy that their emotional idolatory compounds to frenzy point. No arrival or departure at an airport goes unannounced. Try getting out of Heathrow on a day he’ s going out: chances are you’ll miss your plane. This sort o f coverage is something he encourages, at the same time having to go to elabo­ rate lengths to avoid it like fleeing from concerts in equipment vans that look more like armored cars.

The overestimated crowd at Randwick racecourse turned out to be a rather meagre 15,000 (F aces drew 30,000).

The scorching asphalt flat in front o f the stage was a jampacked mass o f pushing fainting bare-little-bodies.

They managed to push the stagebarrier down once, and there was panic when they thought the stage would collapse. Cassidy coming on as an elder brother . . . “ Sit down . . . Sit down!”

Me, I wandered away wellsunned, stunned.

CHERRY RIPE

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D A R E L NUGENT T ’S friday mid-afternoon and B. B. King approaches his tiresome sixth hour o f taking to the Australian press. Suddenly everybody wants to know about the Blues Boy from Beale street.

There are receptions to attend, television interviews, straight radio, art exhibitions to open, and two days later he is to perform to 50 0 0 people at Sydney’s Hordern pavilion.

Suddenly everybody wants to hear B. B. King. Quite amazing, seeing that his biggest selling al­ bum in Australia - B. B. King’s greatest hits - didnt even notch up national sales in excess of five hundred copies. However, ad­ vanced ticket sales in Melbourne and Sydney have given the tour promoters reason to provide addi­ tional concerts in these cities.

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B. B. King is the most widely heard blues artist in the world today. He’s known and enjoyed by millions o f people who arent aware o f any other blues artist. To an extent B. B. King has broken his “ blues” tag, because he isnt exclusively the property of the blues or rock audience.

What actually turned you on to the guitar?

B.B.: Well, the only instrument in the area where I grew up - the only instrument that you could find around the house — would be a guitar or maybe a harmonica or something like that. There were no music stores in the area, no­ body teaching music so that was about all you would find and usually you would find an old guitar in the attic of everybody’ s home. O f course when you went to church, the sanctified church, the preacher played the guitar, who happened to be my uncle’ s brother in law, but in the larger churches, like baptist & catholic churches, you had piano and or­ gan, but nobody had them in their homes so you had no access to them.

How did you break into radio?

B.B.: Well, some people that I knew had just started a radio station, which was the first black operated radio station in America.

They were business men and they figured that I had talent when I went over there. In fact, the day I went to the radio station was the day I went on the aip

They had a new product that was called “ Peptikon” . So I wrote a jingle for it, I never got paid for it, which would be different to­ day, but they put me on the radio. I was new, the product was new, they were new and believe it or not all o f us have been around through these many years. I saw my old boss, Mr Ferguson, about two or three years ago and now he’ s a commissioner in Memphis.

He sold the radio station. To give you an idea, I think they paid $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 for the station and they sold it about 12 or 15 years ago for $2 million.

Was it during this time that you were associated with Sonny B o y Williamson?

B.B.: Sonny Boy Williamson was one o f the reasons for me going to that station. I used to hear him when he w?s on another station, over in Arkansas. When I left Indianola and went to Memphis, I found that he was over in West Memphis on another station, so I went over there that day and asked him if he could let me go on the radio. He said yes and let me

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sing one number.

I sang this particular number and it so happened that he had two jobs for that night and one o f them he didnt want because it didnt pay much money. So he called the lady - her name was Miss Annie - and he asked her if she had heard his show and she said yes. So he said did you hear the boy sing and she said yes so he said “ Well I’m going to let him play for you tonight and I will be back next week, is that O K ?” So she said, “ Fine baby, but you better play” .

So I was at Miss Annie’s place, that was in West Memphis, and I played there that night. It was beautiful for me because I’d never made $12 a day in my life. I didnt know there was that much money in the world.

So Sonny B o y actually gave you your first professional gig?

B .B .: Yes. So the lady told me that if I would get a job with the radio like Sonny Boy had, then she would use me every day and I would get room and board and a day off. I started thinking about it, $ 1 2 , oh my God, it would get me a new pair o f pants, a new gui­ tar, it could get me a lot of things.

My job was to entertain the girls you see, while the fella’s go in the back and gamble. And you know, I dug that. I was a very young fella at that time and they were beautiful girls. So the next day, after playing that night, I went back to this radio station. I only had ten minutes at first but they would let me advertise where I was working.

What musicians did you experi­ ence playing when yo u were a teenager?

B .B.: Blind Lemon Jefferson, LonBoy was one and Louis Jordan and many others. T. Bone Walker.

I didnt get a chance to be around with them long enough to learn anything from them but the sound was like . . . maybe you’ve been around sometimes and you have heard somebody say some­ thing that stays with you. Well I could hear music, I still do. I could hear music and it just stay­ ed with me, just seemed like that

person was still there playing in my ears.

In the 5 0 you averaged over 300 one night stands per year. A t that time did you ever get to the point where you felt that you couldnt do one m ore?

B.B.: Well I get lazy sometimes, I guess like everybody. I’ve been like that many times, where I’ve got lazy and didnt want to go on but I went on anyway. I was glad I did because usually the concert was out o f sight. I have never missed one by not wanting to go.

It’s just like getting up in the morning, there’s been many a time I didnt want to get up but if I had something to do then I got up. So yes, that happens, you get to places where sometimes you dont feel like going and yqu say; “ Oh m y God, why do I have to go on” . But you still go on because you know it’s your job and you must. But I have never played one that I didnt enjoy even when I didnt want to go.

I’ ve been 27 years on the road, I’ve only missed 13 days or 13 dates playing. I’m pretty proud of that record. One o f the reasons why I wouldnt miss them if pos­ sible is because of the people. I’d think of the many people who had come from maybe miles around to see me that night. Some people had to maybe get off work that day or maybe borrow money to get a ticket. I could go through a 100 things that I could think of that would make me want to go on and not disappoint the people.

So this is one o f the reasons why I dont. Like I said, I felt like not going but I would go because I felt like the people were depend­ ing on me. Not only the men that were with me, or the management or the booking agents or the promoters, but the people.

What number Lucille (his guitar) are you using at the m oment?

B .B .: This is Lucille the 14th.

Each one o f this model I call Lucille and I’ve been buying this particular model ever since then.

It is an EF355 Gibson stereo.

In the late 60s several British rock musicians named B. B. King as being their main guitar influence.

H ow did you feel about being rediscovered because o f what

these musicians publicly claimed?

B .B .: I thank them, I’m grateful to them. That had been one o f the things that opened the door for me. It was mainly due to the fact that we had people like the Beatles, Eric Clapton and maybe Michael Bloomfield. They are the people that have said that they listened to me, Muddy Waters and many o f the guys like myself.

That had caused, I think, a lot of the doors to open. Because a lot o f places wouldnt accept us until a lot of the younger groups used to go in and play in those places first.

Are blues audiences younger to­ day than your audience in the 40s, 50s and 60s?

B.B.: When I started I was young and I had young fans but they were usually my age or older. We have more young fans today be­ cause then there werent so many people interested in the blues. We had very few whites, whereas whites today make up quite a bit o f the blues audience. Over the past few years we’ve begun to get more blacks, young blacks. We’ve always had many older blacks, that’s what has supported me all these years.

You have been involved in prison reform for about four years; how did you become actively involved?

B.B.: First, we were playing in a place in Chicago called Mr Kelly’ s and it was the first time that they had ever had blues there. They had just appointed a new director for the Cook County Directional Institution, who happened to be a black guy and he asked me if I would come over and play for the inmates as he had told them that he would ask me. So I told my management about it and they in turn told the record company that I would do it, I had said that I would.

They recorded it and the press went in with me andwe found that about 70 percent o f the people that were there were blacks. Young blacks, in their early teens. And that they had been there, some o f them for months. Just arrested. So they told the press that if they were found guilty, the time that they had been in there did not apply to the time they were sentenced to.

Say if they had been in there for nine months and were given a year, then the nine months did not apply to the sentence. The same thing, if you were found not guilty of any crime. They didnt compensate for the time you had been in there. They told the press that.

There was a press report the next day and then we found out later that one of the national networks did an in-depth story on that kind of situation and inter­ viewed a lot of the same people we had talked with. What they did, they started to speed up the system then and not let people be in that long. Or they made the bail so that a lot of the guys could get out ’ cause a lot o f the guys there couldnt meet the bail. That made me very happy, made me feel like I really did something.

What do you think o f prisons in general?

Riley B. King. What does the “B " stand for?

B.B.: Nothing. My mother named me, she never told me that it meant anything but just a B. Kept it from sounding so dry you know, Riley King, Riley B. King, that’s all I guess.

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HE VIRTUES of FM radio have been loudly extolled by audio freaks and equipment manufacturers in this country for some years now. Friends returning from overseas wax breathless about its technical superiority to AM radio; they talk of a choice between a dozen or more stations, and debate ranges on the further advantages of UHF as against VHF broadcasting (see Jim Boot, TLD 2 /5).

Such enthusiastic support may have brought FM to us more quickly. It has also overshadowed the crucial question of how we should use FM when we get it.

The answer is not so much a matter of finding ways to fill 14 metropolitan stations, since to think of FM as simply as twice as many stations with stereophonic reception is to ignore its potential entirely.

Two Melbourne people (David Grif­ fiths and Geoffrey Greenwood) with an interest in such things have presented their own submission to the government FM inquiry. The submission sees FM as the first of several technological innova­ tions that could radically reorganise the communications system It proceeds from the fairly obvious assumption that little can be said about FM until the faults of the present radio system are appreciated.

Their primary criticism of the present organisation and content of radio is that it encourages conformity and maintains the status quo. It does not challenge or question society’s form. Radio tends to entertain and distract rather than inform and stimulate; it diminishes the power and habit of critical thinking; it concen­ trates on the trivial and the sensational; it lacks meaningful controversy, diversity and experimentation.

Straight radio acts in the interests of an economic and political elite. It tends to exclude minority groups from effective participation in the life o f the com­ munity. It avoids meaningful audience feedback and public dialogue; with the help o f advertising it works to delude the majority o f people into accepting the image o f reality.

Griffiths and Greenwood argue that to replace this existing system with mere variations ,is to reinforce and impose a single pattern when we should instead be developing and offering more oppor­ tunities, more diversity in organisation, control and content. We should be intro­ ducing a system of broadcasting that is decentralised and accessible.

The tendencies that any new system of broadcasting should guard against can be illustrated simply.

Radio shares many of the limitations o f newspapers and television. The public is a glob o f individuals who receive expressions from the mass media. The media is so organised that it is difficult for the individual to answer back immedi­ ately or with any effect. (Mrs X ringing up a talk-back show has three minutes to make her point. Her inability to control the conversation or answer the commen­ tator’s points as he does hers deprives her argument of any weight.) Most impor­ tantly, we are all dependant on the media for a sense of what is happening to ourselves and our surroundings; yet a disparity exists between the image of society expressed through the mass media and the reality people experience in their everyday lives.

This latter tendency is well known.

The “ hidden” messages are the implied assumptions and expectations, such as the assumption that whole issues can be categorised into news items. Events, issues and people are selected for repor­ ting and interviewing for their conson­ ance with pre-existing images. A news editor predetermines the interest value of an event; the journalists and interviewers are then compelled to find incidents,

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aspects and angles that fulfil these proph­ ecies.

The news media’s penchant for sen­ sationalism, violence and conflict encourages an inclination to play up the secondary role of events and play down the primary role of ideas. We know that sporadic violence in a largely peaceful demonstration inevitably attracts more attention than the issue at stake: but the extraordinary thing is that the “ issue” is often not mentioned at all.

The recent “ Perkins affair” is most instructive here. The media focused on the conflict between Perkins and the minister - or Perkins and the department head - rather than discussing the issues raised by his statements. Aboriginal rights have not been advanced one iota - nor have their claims been further articulated - despite media coverage o f the “ issue” every single day for three weeks.

The media’s “ stereotype” influence is more difficult to detect. The “ hip” radio stations aim their programming at the “ average” teenager with a passion for David Cassidy and Slade. The “ house­ wives” stations aim theirs at the “ aver­ age” suburban housewife. They pan­ der to the lowest common denominator so the largest possible listening audience can be included. Few members o f this audience are “ average” , but all have something in common with the imaginary “ average listener” . But what o f those people who are excluded from identifying by their very circumstances? In this way, the media subtly reinforces the exclusion of the poor, the old, the incapacitated, blacks, migrants and others from what they are led to believe is their own society.

Another media influence is the “ scape­

what he actually says that gets attention, but whether he’ll be “ in trouble” again.

An extension o f “ personalisation” is the media view that whatever wellknown or influential people do is newsworthy; often this “ news” actually takes the form of speculation on what someone is think­ ing about or will do next.

To expect that these tendencies should disappear is probably naive; yet a real alternative is to report events and issues in terms o f social issues. The present tendency is trivial. A classic example of media trivia is the recent saga o f Ronald Biggs; the press devoted roughly twice as much time and space to the sex life o f a convicted thug as it did to the Queens­ land floods. *

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SO FA R , attention has largely been devoted to'the elements and influences of news presentation. However, radio also dishes up a lot o f the information-entertainment mix, which in itself has an ideological role. Entertainment has the appearance o f being value-free. In news, talk-back and current affairs programs, entertainment values are balanced with information values so that the lines become blurred between the trivial and the serious, the important and the un­ important. Issues are labelled, packaged and presented as “ news” or "current affairs” . The nature o f real events and experience is altered to be thus saleable.

We need to realise that the public reality of “ news” and “ current affairs” has very little to do with the private reality o f the “ issues” reported and our own experi­ ence.

A result of this “ selling imperative” of the media is what has been called the “ culture of the spectator” - a thing

syndrome through which we the real issues b y finding and

Marcuse & McLuhan have referred to. It’ s a culture prom oted and perpetuated by

blaming scapegoats. Blaming unions for industrial strife and inflation, blaming communists for student dissent, blaming the poor for their poverty and blaming the teachers for the education crisis.

The other aspect of the media’s ten­ dency to avoid real issues is its readiness to “ personalise” the news. It is often a way o f finding an “ angle” — an item highlighting the hardship of a particular person or family is more likely to be used than an article discussing the problem of poverty. The corollary to this is an elitist approach, where the statements o f influ­ ential people dominate the news. The utterances o f prince Philip are invariably news because he is prince Philip — regard­ less o f their particular significance. Again, from now on Charles Perkins will be news whenever he says anything: it won’t be

television, radio, newspapers, magazines, fashion, cosmetics, public relations and advertising. It attempts to “ deny and hide the daily private reality of exploitation, pain, suffering and inauthentic he or she experience” , and the individual is instead persuaded into accepting a “ public and official reality” .

Whilst this “ reality” is inextricably tied to that conveyed by “ news” and “ current affairs” programs, it essentially amounts to the selling of consumer crap — beer, cigarettes, cars, clothes, tooth­ paste, celebrities, politicians, where to live, what to think and how to live.

Consider the media treatment o f Nimbin and any other “ back to the earth” experi­ ments or festivals. It has been, to say the least, scanty and has not once attempted to explain the aims and advantages of

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such a lifestyle. While commerce was able to cash in on the “ hip generation” in all sorts o f ways (from jeanery to under-25 travel packs, coolly advertised in freak language), the Nimbin alternative is simply too far removed from commercial possibilities.

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FM will include commercial stations, although there’s no place for such stations at all. We need a system of radio whose prime characteristics are its userorientation, plurality and tolerability.

More specifically, the system should be independent of government and commer­ cial interests, should provide the most accurate information possible to those within the system, and be organised in such a way that it remains sensitive to the needs of its users and in particular to those users whose resources are most limited in relation to their needs. It should have room for growth and change, and involve widespread participation on the part o f the public in its design, operation and control.

We need to revise our attitudes about what constitutes “ good” and “ bad” radio. “ Good” radio tends to be defined as the smoothness, swiftness, articulate­ ness and expensiveness o f the professional broadcaster. What is good may in fact be amateurish - people talking with people about everyday life. There is an emerging professionalism among broadcasters similar to other professions; the “ expert’ s” m onopoly depends upon a secrecy which enables the growth o f a myth.

For instance, people interviewed for radio should be given the opportunity to hear the tape after it is recorded and edit or change anything they dont like, are ashamed of or wish to modify. Once people become involved this way, they learn a great deal about the subjective process that characterises the media? and the process of demystifying the media has begun.

The value judgments involved in a news program are of course legion: which issues and events are selected for investi­ gation, who is assigned to cover the story, how much time is allowed for investiga­ tion of the story, who is selected to be interviewed, the need to avoid sameness in content, the need to preserve balance in each item and to balance between “ soft” and “ hard” news, the length o f the program, the order of presentation, assumptions about the audience, the sur­ rounding stories and so on.

'The main concern is the possibilities, o f community radio. Whether stations are to perform a role similar to that per­ formed by suburban newspapers in relation to the big city dailies, or whether they will be based in municipalities or university campuses is not the main issue.

Radio can and should bring people together instead o f segregating them Radio should bring together poor people, old people, young people, blacks, women, students and schoolchildren to produce and edit their own programs. Radio should aim to stimulate personal concern and involvement rather than replacing it.

Radio should encourage dialogue between different parts o f the community.

Radio is potentially capable of making our institutions more responsive to the needs of the persons they are meant to serve. An essential prerequisite to this is that radio itself becomes more responsive to the needs of the people it is meant to serve. * * *

The submission by Griffiths and Greenwood, contains a useful list o f references fo r anyone with a fledgling interest in FM and the media generally. Copies o f the com plete submission have been run o f f by the Learning Exchange; thev are certainly worth a look and can be qot ■frofh 430 Waverley road, East Malvern, Victoria.

The phone number is 211-5413.

The Festival is arse about M ICH AEL O ’ ROURKE VER 20 years or more ago, the serious-minded and re­ sponsible persons o f Melbourne in whose heads the idea o f a great festival was slowly shaping turned to the ancient wisdom o f the original inhabitants for an escape from their sore perplexity.

Procuring an unusually stable, sincere, upright, honest, highminded representative o f the Sable race, they conjured him to present them from his primitive tongue a jolly word which would serve as a name for their festival, indeed as a rallying-cry.

God knows what came over him. Perhaps it was the thought o f all that poisoned flour, those pois­ oned wells. Perhaps it was the more recent years of indifference, or last week’s patronising hand­ out. Whatever, he answered with a bitter jest:

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“ Call it the Moomba festival.” “ And what does that mean, my man?” they inquired. “ It means, ‘let’s get together and have fun’ .”

The word Moomba may or may not be an insult in one o f the dialects of the Victorian tribes, but its meaning in English is coarse, to say the least. M oo signifies bot­ tom, behind, arse or posterior; ba means on or in. Thus the word Moomba may be freely rendered as Up you r bum!

The concept o f Moomba is a grand one. Here all obtainable aspects o f contemporary life are brought together. A huge pile of kindling; but who brings the fire?

How can such an all-ertcompassing design fail so noticeably to have any hold over the imagination?

The crowds are genial, interested, but vague. All those people are little more than a huge peripatetic audience. You go to “ have a look” at Moomba. You go to observe; there is very little oppor­ tunity to do anything else. Enter­ tainment is thoughtfully laid on usually on stages. The audienceperformer dichotomy is maintain­ ed to the point of roping o ff the stages so you can’ t get too close.

The role o f people attending an event is set within fairly clear

limits by the nature o f the event.

Provide “ entertainment” , and you have an audience. Give them “ art” and you force them to withdraw even further. Present sport and they loosen up and become a crowd. People know how to be­ have in these circumstances, and generally are unaware that a quite different form of behavior is pos­ sible. When people interact, we call it a “ party” , and you’ re not supposed to do it in the street with strangers.

Festivals that do bring about this kind of interaction have al­ ways been characterised by two factors: a change in, often a re­ versal of, the social order, and a relaxation o f laws and other social controls. The ritual breaking o f taboos has tremendous cathartic power.

The Alexandra gardens carnival perhaps induces catharsis with its infernal machines. Or perhaps the habitues o f this fell pastime have become addicted to the adrenalin rush they get when all their senses insist that they are in imminent danger o f death. Certainly the carnival and this year’s desolate and eerie city square provide fine settings for a new and horribly superficial Inferno. In the Alexan­ dra gardens: the whirling arms overhead bearing coffins from which fall unearthly shrieks, the horrors promised in a leering rasp from the Ghost Railway (now called Trip to the Lost Planet or some such), the whole illuminated with lividelectricity;and the Shuff­ ling crowds in the city square, amongst the ghastly make-believe trees, awash in recorded music from the past. “ The objective of the festival” , claims the official program “ is to provide popular entertainment in a carnival atmosphere for the citi­ zens o f Melbourne. Secondly, the festival seeks to develop, foster and encourage popular interest in the arts.” They’re not doing too bad a job o f that, I suppose. But what do you get at Moomba that you can’ t get anywhere else? The royal show has more of a carnival atmosphere. But how do you cre­ ate a carnival atmosphere? All

right, I will relent and tell you.

Moomba needs not a king, but a Lord of Misrule, with a corps of devoted followers who wear their shirts backwards (or some such) and whose intent is to cause con­ fusion, dismay, mirth and jollity.

People won't do it for themselves; would you? We’re too scared.

Why not a mock parliament with mock police to enforce absurd laws? Oh, nothing too radical, of course - it wouldnt need to be.

Within certain defined boundaries (to protect the aged, the infirm, and the humorless) all men with brown eyes could be asked riddles and made to pay forfeits if they fail to answer correctly. The sillier the better such laws.

And how about booze? Why on earth is the festival so notice­ ably dry? Why shouldnt pubs be allowed to stay open until mid­ night? Why couldnt public trans­ port operate until two or three am? Certain areas in suburbs such as Fitzroy, Prahran, or Richmond could be closed off to private traffic and thrown open to revelry of all kinds until the early hours of the morning.

And for a rallying-cry, why not Moomba! with its original and beautiful meaning? Damn all the conventions that make us such separate and acute individuals!

Screw all divisions - hippy, skin­ head, artist, businessman - and let everybody get drunk or stoned together.

It won’t happen. We’re still too scared. What if everybody got too drunk and started smashing, burn­ ing, raping and looting? What of all the extra drunken drivers on the roads? Think of the expense, think of the dangers. Think o f anything, any damned excuse will do. We’ve gone too far on the road to paranoia to turn back now. But how painful it is to walk among the festival crowds, never daring to establish any contact with any of the people and they, too, self-effacing in the fear that any approach would be misinter­ preted. I could never take the first step. Could you? For G od’s sake let’s try to find some way to make it happen next year. j— j

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A ll's peaceful at M elbourne's In ternation al W om ans D ay rally and march - approx. 5 0 0 w om en marched through th e M oom ba-ridden streets chanting "Jo in U s", " E q u a l Pay fo r Equal W o rk" and " F u c k David Cassidy".

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ported in its literature and its action all oppressed peoples, particularly womens liberation, because our oppression is derivative o f wom ens oppression. Mar­ tin Smith was in a m inority o f one at a CHERRY RIPE (TLD, 2 /8 ) has gone recent GLF meeting when he violently sour! After reading his trappy article objected to even having a discussion on Slade, I find he lacks an ear for meeting on the relation o f Gay Libera­ music. Evidently, Mr Ripe did not like tion to womens liberation — because forking out $4.70 for his ticket, or he WL we said had nothing to d o with fell asleep and didnt appreciate it. As homosexuals! shown b y the great record sales, few 2) If the GLF did n ot form ally people would agree with Mr Ripe’s endorse that particular prison reform tripe. H opefully he will be converted demonstration, it has endorsed sim­ b y the time o f their next tour (which, ilar protests in the past, and would hopefully, will be soon). Like an olive, have undoubtedly done so again if time Mr Ripe, get stuffed! had allowed. T on y Green was perhaps SLADE FOREVER, technically incorrect in announcing Sydney, NSW GLF as a sponsor o f the demonstra­ tion, but Martin Smith is totally incor­ One doubts that Ms Ripe, or any­ rect in saying, GLF is a “ single issue” one, could sleep through a Slade organisation and w ould n ot help organ­ concert! ise such a protest.

3) GLF has helped organise and has sponsored similar protests by groups fighting oppression which are not AS A MEMBER of the Communist specifically around gay oppression. In party and o f Gay Liberation, may I take recent weeks the G LF has officially issue with former Liberal party state affiliated to the Sydney May Day councillor Martin Smith and well committee, as a general statement o f known prison reformer (?) Peter French support o f the aims o f May Day which include the struggle against all oppres­ (TLD, 2 /9 ).

Peter French is just wrong when he sion.

4) Martin Sm ith’s red-baiting is an says the CPA has not protested those held illegally or for expressing political attempt to say that on ly gay com ­ dissent in “ marxist countries” . The munists and SYAers oppose his posi­ CPA has been vocal in its opposition to tion. In fact, Martin Smith is in a denials o f socialist dem ocracy in the minority o f one (or perhaps tw o) in Soviet Union and elsewhere, and has the GLF. 5) Martin tops it all b y recom m end­ earned bitter attacks from the Soviet bureaucracy fo r its stand. What has ing the sexist rag Stallion to readers.

French done that has been anywhere Stallion, like Playboy, Gay or other rip-off sexist rags, might occasionally near as effective?

As for the CPA being a “ national run a reasonable article to keep up its jo k e ” , the Master Builders' Associa­ “ image” . But posing it as “ Australia’ s tion, Metal Trades employers, ASIO only national gay magazine for and b y and the real powers in this country the gay com m unity” (gay male com ­ dont share his view. The CPA may be munity that is) has nothing to do with small and get few votes in elections gay liberation. But m aybe journo Mar­ (though not in union ballots), but our tin has found a new home and/or jo b impact is there and growing.

DENIS FRENEY, As for Martin Smith, his red baiting Sydney, NSW and ill inform ed letter, in which he takes upon himself the mantle o f spokesman o f Gay Libaration, shows he should go back into the Liberal party.

DO YOU know Ms Oppenheimer?

A few corrections: 1) Gay Liberation has never been a Gentle lady, representative o f in Australia, astrologer, single issue organisation. It has sup­ Amnesty

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psychic, eightyish at least, lived b y the seaside in Sydney’ s eastern suburbs where the first light o f every Australian day touched the earliest. Friend o f all, adviser to many. I met her once. I believe the original thought, respon­ sible for the creation o f the “ Age o f Aquarius” festival in Nimbin, genera­ ted from the mind o f this cosm ic lady.

IfUhis is true, Nimbin, then, today and tom orrow will be her swan song. A few months ago she entered another stage o f metamorphosis and died.

M. J. STITT, Bondi, NSW

Peanut butter with melon & ginger jam IN RESPONSE to Stoney Mathews from HaHaVille (TLD, 2 /8 ), I too would like such a reaction. T o give you a starter, here is some o f our Murchy Delights.

T op o f the list is Sm edley’s, good old “ Smeds” , tinned strawberries (imported from England). Really nice with ice cream, topped with cream.

(Anyone knowing where some more might be had, scarce with Britain’s econ om ic problem s?) Try Smed’ s with our local loganberries — yum, yum, really good.

Another g ood y is tuna patties, taste is something else. Can be complicated to make so make prior preparations — well worth the effort. Dig to hear some more ideas.

THE ELVES OF GLOSSOP Toyland

A letter from paradise A REPLY to Will Tetley (TLD 2 /7 ): am sitting in a $10 a week fleahouse catching up on my reading when thud! bang! crash! (no, the plumbing hasnt fucked up again). A sensitive soul cries out from the street — fark! as the crows w ould say if they could pro­ nounce “ F ” . What a load o f horseshit!

Reminds me o f what Henry Miller realised in Nexus. Feeling sorry for

himself over a broken relationship he realised that he him self had broken his heart. A neat defence. And one applicable to Mr Tetley, the Sartre o f the antipodes.

Vague references are made to that amorphous b o d y known as the coun­ terculture. G od! The new knights o f that com m odity left untended by the decline o f the religious. Self-righteous­ ness. Back-to-times-that-never-existed ostriches. Refusing to see times change.

Nimbinites learning their dead skills and housewives frantically attending their toastmistress clubs and flowerarranging courses are on a par. Both are trying to o hard.

Relax chillun! Seek for a while, dont try. L ook at the fog and when you feel confident enough, see if there is a path through it. The path may lead you to do things you shouldnt but do them and you might see you are not what y o u think you are. It is a start.

An illustrative digression. Tw o people I spent time with, got to know a little (d o we ever kn ow anybody?).

One was 28 years old; former Rhodes­ ian SAS soldier, also a former mer­ cenary against black liberation fronts in Africa. Known as Z. The other an outwardly gentle social worker o f the type that abounds in L on don ’ s East End. Hereafter known as B. B felt his allegiance with the poor, oppressed and expounded the values o f gentleness, peace etc while chain­ smoking Gauloise plain. B disapproved o f Z ’ cos of his background. But at least Z had killed and could honestly live his present lifestyle knowing for him peace was n ow a reality. He realised he had a long way to go but he realised he had time. B was one o f the most fucked-up, narrow-minded twerps I have ever had the displeasure o f knowing. Light as all-fuck, hanging on to his possessions like they were a life raft. Z was generous and considerate.

Who shall judge?

R. BLAKELY Gerald ton, WA

Call any vegetable I AM writing to find out from any beautiful person/people about the

group marriage scene within Australia.

I w ould be passionately pleased if TLD. could devote an issue (or even just an article) to this subject. Correspondence to the address below would be appreci­ ated.

By the w ay, TLD, devote more time to offbeat type trips, if possible please, ’specially the native Australian food scene (y’know, jams, berries, grubs, etc), which are available to the native food freak. Other ideas: rundown on Australian cheeses (Bodalla, Bega, Tilba, etc); the charismatic movement; the occult; all o f which could well do with an article being written about them.

I. FAULKS, Jaspers Brush, NSW

Surfs up THANK you for your generous review o f Crystal voyager b y one Gough E. Foot. Gough E. I hope you can get into the surf more often in the future, as the city blues is getting to ya.

George Greenough is an incredible sur­ fer but even “ the fish” can’ t get upside down in the tube with a 12 lb camera strapped on his back.

D A V ID ELFICK, Palm Beach, NSW

About God LET ME lay some theology on ya. Big Gorty and Nets(?) illustrated comment (Letters, TLD, 2 /8 ) proposed that G od is a creation o f man’ s imagination. The theist may argue sarcastically that this makes man’ s imagination greater than the power that created it.

It will be pointed out to him that it is only an assumption that things have to be created. A clever philosopher may develop a theory showing how matter has always existed.

Even so, there is obviously some order in the universe. Energy is not matter — reason is n ot the same process as dreaming — an atom is never a vacuum etc.

I suggest that order implies control and control implies intelligence and power as great as or greater than that which is controlled (in this case

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everything). Christians and others believe that this power is Ultimate Love and call it God. A power that is not love would leave no room for beauty, human love, jo y and other gifts.

They believe that love requires more than one, the lover and the loved. If there is a return o f love, even if on a lesser scale, the relationship is far more satisfying for both. So G od created life forms (us) capable o f love. Love, however, is b y its nature, voluntary, so G od gave us free will and, instead o f intimidating us b y its power and glory, hid from us b y giving us egos which are con cerned mainly with worldly existence. To be aware o f G od is to transcend the screen caused by the ego.

There is no scientific proof for all this, the p ro o f is purely personal, and is obtained in a way which cannot be communicated satisfactorily from one ego to another.

MATT, Townsville, QId PS: Excessive preoccupation with theological matters is a health hazard and interferes with plain old living and loving, which is what w e’re here for.

Get into it I COMMEND your lucid article on the hope-fiend whackery o f Garry Davis (World Service Authority) “ Tearing D ow n World Barriers” . What a w onder­ ful idea if every conscientious Day­ lights reader w ould take a giant step outside their humdrum smoke-screened1 pseudonym, their drill-grey boring, boringv boring involvement with preCarl Jung, pre-Dylan Thomas, preeverything post dinosaur freudian panicon odasm (fuck, fu -c k . . . tcku . . . ufrc . . . ckuf! I mean NR and TLD and Rolling stone are boring-boring-heavy, weighty-morphie-leaden — the is lifeless and shallow pre-Carl Jung, committing the depth-psychology needs o f the human; psyche (I suggest that the “ revolution" b e not stagnated but pro^ gressed: let us refine this com mendably gained ground w e have claimed: you have loosened the tie, now kiss the neck. Be literary. D ont bore your readers.)

Well I had to say it — but I’ve digressed: I wanted to suggest most virulently that each reader do the follow ing series o f steps right now.

1. Pass up that next toke on the pipe.

Your faculties need to be “ alert” for the next 30 minutes.

2. Take a pen and writing paper and write to (a) World Service Authority, Eerste Leliedwarsstrat 1, Amsterdam, Holland, requesting an earth citizen passport and (b) Planet Citizen Registry, C /o World Association o f World Federal­ ists, 73 Metcalfe, Suite 708, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, requesting (i) Plane­ tary citizenship, (ii) Passport.

3. Get a petition together and ask that your house, street, town, city, state or country be “ mundialised” ie. made international territory in the name o f world peace — in the name o f interna­ tional cooperation at a popular, folk level. Rally your friends together for an “ International Law” march, demon­ strating for recognition o f international citizenship.

A ct now : we can save ourselves! It is the answer — if you want it, get into it! Y o u are to blame for what you are, the “ society” you decry. Y ou must change yourself.

A n yb od y w h o'd like to join me in an international law rally as described please write straight away to: Bruce Quilty, 22 Nicholson street, Balmain 2041, or pay a call I dont mind.

I dont want to be part o f this antique nationalist paranoia (arms races, borders, petty politics, baulking on internationally urgent issues, the impending horror o f war, oppression b y a government not o f your choice).

N ot any longer, stop now! Stop!

BRUCE QUILTY, Balmain, NSW

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There’s no jail like Home ITTING in suburbia it’s hard to feel passionate about anything much except the traffic noise and the astronomical cost o f cat food. One sure way to get stirred up, though, is to reflect on the slow-fading traces in my head left by seeing Home, the new Sydney womens film. Two days later, my cunt contracts in sympa­ thy, and I can still feel the tension and nausea induced by the obliga­ tory virginity test shown in the film.

The storyline o f Home is simple. You dont have to try too hard to show the rotten injustice and the ultimate in legalised brutality laid on women by society to remind us all of our place. Girls in the homes are shown scrubbing floors — that’s supposed to be educational - in military-like assemblies, and being searched before going to bed.

The filmmakers, Leonie Crennan, Robyn Murphy, Barbara Levy, Margot Knox and Sue Varga, have been intelligent and credible in the subtlety they bring to bear on the subject. The points are generally made via a rather understated discussion between

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Beryl and Toni — two former wards o f the state who have been through the whole system o f girls homes in NSW for most o f their lives.

Beryl, who committed no crime other than being an orphan, ran away from the convent she had been in since she was 18 months old and was declared “ uncontrollable” . She was sent to the Glebe shelter - a remand centre for the childrens court.

Part o f the evidence in such cases always revolves around the girl’s sexuality — hence the virginity test at 13 years old! The implica­ tions to be drawn from the pro­ cedures and the law is that girls are not supposed to fuck, pre­ sumably till they marry - the old double standard in its most elaborated and obscene expres­ sion.

Does any man ever have to prove he is a virgin as part o f court evidence?

Beryl was “ lucky” — she was sent to another convent.

Toni began her career in the girls homes by wagging school when she was seven. After some time in the Glebe shelter from

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where she was sent to Bidura, she “ graduated” to Parramatta and then Hay, the toughest home in NSW. All told, she tried to escape 36 times and for her pains went right through the system. When­ ever she completed her time she would be out for two weeks and picked up again for “ EM D ” “ exposure to moral danger” . EMD is a charge that embodies all the traditional notions o f women as the weaker sex, in need o f protec­ tion, kept indoors out o f harm’s way, and the idea o f the fallen woman, unable to control her sexual urges like a responsible adult (read “ man” ) when tempta­ tion falls across her path.

A t the magical age o f 18 the state decides you are old enough to look after yourself and doesnt want to know about you. Toni was let out recently but has now discovered her real age is 21. She was kept in for three years longer than legally proper according to Leonie Crennan, who has been working as a solicitor in her spare time between films.

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“ We didnt even begin to get into the problems of what happens when the girls get out.” This was partly due to lack of funds (Home cost the Film and Television school $2000), but also because it was impossible to ask women to expose themselves, to put their experiences on the line when they mostly want to forget it ever happened. Beryl says she is not worried about intimidation but after Toni appeared on TDT last year during their expose of the girls homes and the child welfare department, the rumor went round that a basher from Silverwater womens prison would get her.

Home is part o f the womens movement campaign on the girls homes and was finished just in time to open a week o f womens films at the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op on march 5. *H om e and other Sydney Womens Film Group gems are now doing the rounds. They will be screened in Adelaide at the Festival on march 17.

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Send it up to Murdoch M AY I, through your pages, make an appeal to your readers. Murdoch uni­ versity will open its doors to students in march 1975. It has a com mitment to being different and among the more traditional disciplines it has programs which will be looking at the alternative way.

While the library is building up collections as fast as it can we would appreciate the assistance o f believers, protagonists, aficionados, proselytisers and others w ho can put us in touch with suppliers and publishers o f under­ ground, liberation, alternative, reform and revolutionary literature whether it be ephemeral, pop, serious or other­ wise. We would particularly appreciate being put on the mailing lists for free material. We have no inhibitions about the format o f publications. Leaflets, duplicated news sheets, posters, rec­ ords or tapes are valued as much as regular hardbound books. If anyone wishes to dispose o f accumulations o f this category o f material, especially backruns o f newsletters, periodicals, etc, we would gladly be the recipient.

Science fiction is also o f great interest to us.

Our need is multiple: for current awareness, student interest and study, and future longterm research.

PACE freaks, star gazers and cosmic cowboys should be interested to know a South Aus­ tralian amateur has discovered a fresh comet.

After Kohoutek’s big flop earlier this year fellow astron­ omers and the daily press seem a bit hesitant about getting excited over the latest solar spinoff. But Bill Bradfield, a member o f the SA Astronomical Society sent de­ tails o f his discovery to the Ameri­ can Astro Physical Institute which confirmed his findings and tagged it “ Bradfield’s Comet 1974 B ” .

Bradfield has been charting the comet’s orbit and estimates it will reach its perihelion (the point at which it is nearest the Sun) on march 19 when Bradfield says it should be, repeat should be, visible to the naked eye at ten degrees above the western horizon about one and a half hours after sunset.

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More advice for trapped

Dear Trapped: As your husband crawls upon your corpse every night to masturbate, and as you lie there, unmoving in the moonlight, the very apex o f the crea­ tion you have striven so long to imi­ tate, I d o imagine he feels as little desire for y ou as you for him.

Does that surprise you ? I doubt it does. Y ou seem to be a woman o f subtle perception — undoubtedly you gave it half a thought some years ago, as an interim, before you resumed your continual self-pitying dirge o f misery.

Yes, dear lady, wretched self-pity. For. this is all fuckwits think o f — their

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I WAS heartily amused and deeply disgusted to read Trapped of Wodonga’s, teary eyed little article (TLD, 2 /7 ); may I be the first to offer this lady some o f the advice she so desperately needs:

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wretched lot — and you are a fuckwit.

As such, you have reaped your very just harvest.

H ow terrible is the beast to whom you are a slave! He is jealous o f you, in his ow n boorish way. Perhaps he loves you (though bores are unimaginative, and cannot express this). But I doubt y o u think on that . . . The way “ H e” keeps you pinned dow n with his “ threats” ; the way “ He” hustles every­ one away; the way “ He” w on ’ t let anything happen; the way “ He” im ­ prisons “ me” . Y ou scarcely have time to cast a thought away from yourself.

Over the years, I wonder how much you have striven to create your very evident passivity: or was it always there? If you have not the guts to d o anything now, what would you d o if “ H e" (the immovable b lock to your imaginary Nirvana) was suddenly re-

m oved? I have no dou bt y o u would soon find another b o d y to lie under corpse-still, to bewail piteously as your jailer.

M y advice is this: stop being such a cock yourself. N o one can imprison you by threats — only you can d o that.

No one can “ prevent things from hap­ pening” . Your predicament is your own fault.

If you want to leave, leave. Do you seriously imagine he would cast your children destitute into the street? If you want to say, stay. If you want more action, get it yourself, and stop waiting for someone to get it for you.

He doesnt use you as a corpse — you use yourself as one. If you are bored with his pre fuck gambit, put your hand over your passive little cunt and have the guts to say “ N o !” ; if you want to relate to him, do so, and dont let him be so childishly hysterical.

W. G. BUICK, University librarian, Murdoch University, WA

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