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Tobacco fat cats gobble up dope Roxy Music breaks time barrier Primeval horror and cannonades with the Finks Authorities trample a family

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Sun sets on D aylights

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T happened at high noon today, press day. A few minutes ago the phone rang and a voice said, "T h e party's over". It turns o u t th a t there's n o t enough money to keep D aylights living in its present fo rm a t. Its best elements w ill continue as usual — in the bosom o f N ation review. The owners fin a lly lost patience w ith o u r a b ility to get o u t o f the red.

W hat w ent wrong? First, there were e d itorial misjudgments. T hat, we d o n t deny. It to o k us to o long to develop a spirited, imaginative, alternative w eekly newspaper, w hich could also hold its own on the newsstands.

The costs have been greater than the m arket can bear. D aylights was run on a fu lly professional basis, w hich means A J A salaries, air fre ig h t d is trib u tio n , fa ir pay­ m ent to co n trib u to rs and a w hole lo t o f other unforeseen factors w hich to o k money fro m th e t ill.

A lthoug h the m arket fo r a paper like D aylights is n o t as gargantuan as some people apparently imagined, we sure stirred p len ty o f response. The feedback in the last few weeks has been overwhelming.

There are three packed pages o f letters & things this issue (still o n ly a p ro p o rtio n o f those received) and fin e co n trib u tio n s arrive every day from people we've never met — eg. The traumas o f a cocaine th ie f, page 7.

If o u r death w arrant had arrived sooner, we w ould have slipped in extra pages to take care o f some o f the copy backlog.

T H A N K YO U C O N TR IBU TO RS, both comm issioned and spontaneous, acknow l­ edged and otherwise, you made it all much easier. (Alas, the great T o lkie n letters debate m ust now be c u t o ff mid-ava­ lanche.)

Some people delighted in denigrating D aylights, dubbing us capitalist rip-offs, G ordon Barton lackeys, playthings o f Fer­ ret. F or the record, no one ever interfered w ith e ditorial p o licy . Its failures are our own alone. Barton hasnt been near the place.

A n d as to the habitual -f-A put-d owners: As the sun sets on old D aylights, we say (please forgive us your_ unanswered letters).

Watch N a tio n review fo r survivors and seek o u t th e seeds o f an alternative in the Digger . . . w hich continues to be run on a collective shoestring and is soon to be published fo rtn ig h tly .

We enjoyed doing it. We had more plans than the new sprint could contain . . . we're sorry to be leaving so suddenly, b u t at last we can sleep-in in the mornings . . . we're th e gang w ho co u ld n t shoot straight, b u t we loved w o rkin g w ith each o ther and learning fro m last week's mistakes . . .

Is there any room le ft up a t N im bin?

See you next tim e around . . . eds — on behalf o f H arry G um boot, J. J. McRoach, Margaret M acIntyre, Simon Marginsom, lovely Mungo, th e BrightHghts crews, Trish F oley, the campus correspondents, Phil O 'C arroll, Graeme Dunstan, Dany Hum­ phries, Ian McCausland, Peter D ickie, Neil McLean, M att, M elvin, Big Gordie, Ann K e lly, Brian Johnstone, Cherry Ripe, Jewel Eastgate, Veronica Parry, Judith Rich, G illy Coote, o u r overseas news hounds, the beleaguered Steven Wall, Ward M cNally, Ian Stocks, Wendy Bacon, Alison G ilm our, Rod Manning, Don Sharp, the INC produc­ tio n team and m any, many others w ho know w ho we mean — y o u 'll meet most o f them again in the new improved N ation review (incorporating The liv in g daylights) starting frid a y week, may 3.

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a plagiarised potpou rri o f new s, view s and trivia w ith MIKE MORRIS

SM AY Fowler is 63. She led a peaceful life in her hom e in Pros|pect terrace, Hamilton, a suburb o f Brisbane. That is, until june 1972 when the city council whacked up N o standl ing any time on both sides o f her street.

Finding she had nowhere to park her , 1950 Austin A 70 (an innocuous auto if I remember - gentle with ballooning curves and com fortable seats) she ap­ plied for a permit to erect a carport which was duly knocked back b y the I local government authorities. So she parked the machine half on the road, half on her nature strip, as a com ­ promise.

N ot good enough said the con ­ stabulary, w ho at first warned her and later hit her with tickets. I w on ’t pay |said Ismay, and I’ll continue to park my car outside m y home. Until november ’72, that is, when the fuzz tow ed her Austin to the police station, never to be seen b y her again.

Police demanded Ismay pay the towI ing charge. No, said she: you to o k it away without consent, you pay. She rang the commissioner o f police and told him how his minions had stolen her beloved car. She contacted many, many members o f state parliament, aldermen, |federal politicians. No go.

I It doesnt end there. The p olice co n ­ tacted the woman: may we sell your car? No, said Ismay. They sold it any­ way, as “ unclaimed property” .

Meanwhile the fines — Ismay hadnt paid the parking fines. So, last ju ly they threw her in jail after she refused to oblige.

But this little saga doesnt end there, no. While the innocuous little Austin I A 70 was cooling its wheels in the yard [ at the police station the registration expired and Ismay was told to pay the renewal o f $55.50. W ho’s going to renew a stolen car? N ot Ismay, and she I told the people from Main Roads this.

Alright, said the man, return the numI ber plates. But, that’s illegal, said she.

Thus friends, last Wednesday Ismay was busted again - this time fo r not paying the car’s registration - and spent the night in the watchhouse.

Her case came up on friday, but was adjourned. “ I’ ll go to jail to show j them,” says Ismay. My hopes go with her.

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ES, we are familiar with the inefficiency o f the internal com­ bustion engine. A fter almost a century o f brainpower, billions o f manhours (and consequent atrophy), billions o f dollars in research & experiment, the bastard still w on ’t function, will never function. We all know it’s safer sharing a bath with a conga eel than travelling in an auto on a wet friday night in the metropolis. But, apart from corny re­ marks about the VW being “ Hitler’s Revenge” , claims that o f the m otor car as an instrument o f direct political action have not been seriously entertain­ ed. Until o f late . . .

Witness p oor Mr David Binchy o f Marylebone, L ondon, w h o returned

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the code o f Baden Powell was Passiona!

A huge marquee had crates o f the stuff I and I slugged right into it, must have drunk gallons o f the fizzy stuff. The only soft drink that’s safe to drink when flat. And I believe it kills germs. I love it | still.

Well, I was in a bad way on Saturday I when riffling through the newspaper. I The word “ Cottees” struck the eye. I read down. The Ricecream etc is doing OK but the soft drink aint. T hey’re closing dow n the soft drinks plant. 11 EOPLE w h o care to check ou t the wept. The company is giving a “ fran­ Sounds section o f the Melbourne chise” for the yellow nectar to som eone | Brightlights will often com e across else. I bet it w on’t be the same! entries featuring usually good folk music at the Polaris Inn hotel in North UNDERSTAND there’s a degree | Carlton. The harmony com es from the o f consternation in certain sectors lounge, the sexism com es from the o f the defence department in Adelaide. management who, just to prove it, had Some documents seemed to have gone | cops turf some 30 wom en from the AWOL - strange docos I hear. They public bar last Saturday night. seem to relate to the setting up o f some kind o f task force from Keswick bar­ O THE dole is pearls before swine racks which has the role and function o f | ehh? So if som eone wants to be a dealing with an “ emergency” . poet instead o f a drudge then that What “ emergency” is that, pray tell, | person’s a “ bludger” (a much vaunted you ask. From the sliver o f info 1 hold it term these days as the ads fo r joining seems to be not to o far removed from the w orkforce o f GMH and Ford ensue the possibility o f an imminent “ energy from the T V ). They’ re out to cut your crisis” and the unit is to be trained to allowance. deal with all forms o f contingencies like Fear not. I read there is a “ flo o d o f general panic, pillage, looting, rape etc. jo b vacancies” in the higher stratas o f Such as one would find after a widescale management. Directors get fou r times disaster. what they got tw o months ago. (G od knows what that was!) So, if y o u ’re a HE WAS so thin. My G od they I biochemist catching the surf at L om e or have starved her. The machinegun Coogee or wherever and y o u ’re worried was at “ half port” , the same position about that li'l ole dole cheque, snip out assumed b y all troops on the ready for page six o f last Saturday’s Australian action. My goodness, the girl’s so weak (it’s a story about how desperate the she can’t hold the gun up. But the other country is fo r captains o f industry), hand wasnt being used. What, w hy the take it to your em ploym ent officer and dirty rats have sewn the tight skin o f her sell your soul. Hey, everyone can be a enfeebled wrist to the inside o f her | fat cat! jacket. Every picture tells a story.

So what is Patricia Hearst up to, or I EMORIES o f a b o y scout jam ­ against? Everyone’s up themselves. The boree, somewhere in the dark and district attorney declares her an outlaw, gloom y 50s. Mountains o f mud, moving went on to generally bad mouth Ms I timelessly like som e brown, fecund Hearst in unkind words. Richard N ixon I glacier, glugged and globbled over me as was once a Californian lawyer too. So, [ I lay wretchedly upon m y paliasse o f where are we? Who knows? I myself m ouldy straw. The only sign that G od can only wish the girl my best wishes j was looking after his little follow ers o f for whatever career destiny gives her.

after a night ou t to discover his car a raz­ ed husk o f its g ood form er self. Regret­ fully he had parked the wretched mach­ ine near the barracks o f the hated-bysome-political-quarters-of-the-Republic o f Ireland, the “ R ed Devil” barracks o f the 562 Parachute Squadron. Police and army jointly found the vehicle “ sus­ picious” and sent a rob ot in to blow it up. The car was a Citroen. Binchy is seeking compensation. S o it goes . . .

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WHAT EVERYONE KNEW ABOUT THE BIG TOBACCO COMPANIES BUT NO ONE COULD PROVE . . . UNTIL NOW

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Medical Authorities warn th a t smoking o rc /in d /y cigarettes is a bad scene.

Guess who owns the name ‘Joystick’?

JACOB OLSEN READ somewhere that the big to­ bacco companies were preparing for the legislation o f marijuana and had registered as trademarks the words “ Marijuana” , “ Ganja” , “ Gear” etc. After tw o years o f vacillation I finally got around to the patents o ffice and spent a pleasant afternoon rummaging through their files. I did a recheck six months later.

I began m y search in the Section 34 books which applies to “ cigarettes, to­ baccos (raw and manufactured), smokers articles, tinder boxes, matches and all smokeable substances be they manufac­ tured or natural” . I first looked up the obvious names, but located no attempts to register these works as trademarks. It is considered unlikely that local law would accept “ Marijuana” as a trademark anyway.

I did find that in june last year application for registration as a trademark had been made on the words “ Acapulco G old” and “ Buddha” . The paranoia o f the applicant is shown b y the absence o f the defining word “ grass” in his second application. He is an individual, not a corporation, and has an address in Port Kembla.

Four months later our Port Kembla head either met another importer or had saved up to the requisite $16 to have another go. This time he applied for the words “ Turkish Green” and “ Durban Poison” .

Decisions are still awaited on all four applications.

In january o f this year Peter Gregory Richards, o f 2 Grong Grong court, T oorak (does this address exist? [ Yes, it does, e d s ]) applied for ownership o f the words

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: -h *4Iwhich could be crucial to any marijuana marketing effort — “ Maryjane” , “ join t” and "reefer” . If these applications are accepted this cute-minded Johnny-com elately will, with the expenditure o f $60 gain the right to charge rent on the commercial use o f those words.

Unless Mr Richards be a fron t for commercial interests — and I expect you Melbourne snoops to check that ou t this was not really tying the tobacco corporations dow n to any conspiracy to enter the dope trade. Then I realised that they probably would not know the argot So I put myself into the frame o f mind an ad exec, would have if he were thinking up names fo r his new product, and resumed the search.

I turned up the follow ing: PIPE DREAMS ASTRAL V O YAGER ADAM & EVE PIONEER PROGRESS DENIM

W.D. & H. O. WILLS

FREEWAY

LOTUS

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Kristinus K. G. (Germany).

ASTREL Braun A . G. (Germany).

WHEN THE OCCASION DEMANDS IT GOLDEN TEENS St REgis T ob a cco Corp Ltd (Switzerland).

WOODSTOCK JOYSTICK QUICK KICK

Warner Bros (Aust.).

Curzon T ob a cco C oy (Canada).

Svenska Tobaks Aktiebolaget (Sweden).

LUV ERA ROCKET 10

American Brands Inc.

ASTARTE (plus naked wom an dancing) PLANET

DENIMS LEVIS R. G. HERBERT (principal o f the ad agency that handles Ford and G odfrey Phillips. He was a week behind Wills' “ D enim ” , but made up for it with “ Levisf').

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AMULET RAM AYANA YUM-YUM MYTH

G odfrey Phillips Ltd Philip Morris Ltd

HI-LITE LUNA EPOCH HOPE PEACE The Japan M on opoly Corporation (T okyo). My recheck showed that Hi-Lite now has a pack design, which gives absolutely no indication o f being designed for marijuana other than some suspicious calligraphy.

Mr & Mrs Eley, Oyster Bay, NSW Christopher Lawson, Paddington, NSW

NUPLANET Three months later, b y the South Pacific T o ­ bacco C o w ho also applied Amatil and G lory X. M ATABELE M IXTURE Granted in 1916 to the T ob a cco Company o f Rhodesia and South Africa Ltd (We all know what the Matabele sm oke.) k k k

QUITE a gathering o f multinationals, and not all local manufacturers represented.

(It was interesting to note that the South African com pany, Rothmans, is still hung up on fascist words like “ O fficer” , “ Guardsmen” etc.)

Not all words were necessarily design­ ed to be the standards o f corporate cannabis. However, some are quite un­ equivocal, such as “ Joystick” or “ Quick

K ick” (with an amyl nitrate filter?). And I would be watching the Japan m on opoly Corporation, although they d o not seem the type to mince words. Douwe Egberts are a fairly sophisticated m ob (everyone knows that “ Drum” is “ Murd” back­ wards), but you would think that with their connections they would at least try “ Sumatran T ops” .

WD & HO Wills could bear watching, though their words are not exclusively drug-orientated, and they have the habit o f whacking a trademark on all sorts o f words. They appear so regularly in the files that they must em ploy tw o or three blokes who just think up new names for cigarettes.

The prize, o f course, goes to Mr Richards o f Toorak and the fellow in Port Kembla, who show a good sense o f political realities by concentrating on the com m on names o f grass only. Although such action must be the height o f capital­ ist greed, other wouldbe word-owners are advised that names such as “ Lebanese R ed” , “ Turkish . . . (insert color as you wish)” and “ Finest Quality Opiated Afghani Hash” are still available. “ Pot” is registered under Section 31, and so is free for S.34, as are another dozen names I can think o f without trying. Those prepared to invest and wait a few years may in later years be able to earn a percentage on the language. And the more in the better, because lots o f word-dealers will drive prices down.

And if you think Mr Richards has got it sewn up with possession o f “ MaryJane” (the most likely brand name o f the lot), what about “ Lady Jane” , “ Lady Mary” , or even “ Bloggs’ C ope” - it's a triple-test­ ed'. “ Anyhow, I’ll have a carton o f Astrals, and a pack o f Astarte for m y sexually deprived friend here.”

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The joys of transcendental motivation

N MID 1971, Bernard Scan­ lon, 20 year old Christian, bade farewell to his girlfriend o f one year and left Adelaide, city o f churches, for a catholic seminary in Sydney.

On arrival there Bernard came across a group o f rather gaunt shaven-headed people wearing flowing saffron robes and chant­ ing to the beat o f the Mrdunga and clanging o f kartels.

They told him they were wor­ shipping their G od — a cowherd boy. He had lived 5000 years ago, BR IA N JOHNSTONE had enjoyed more than 16,000 wives, had produced ten sons by pline o f temple life fairly readily and his friends here were earning each wife, and had even found when he joined the Glebe temple. only $20 a day on the street and time to play flute. They seemed He rose at 4.30 each morning and instructed them on several ploys full o f jo y and Bernard left im­ started the day with a cold shower to make more m oney.

- summer or winter. Following One was told to hold out a pressed.

He went on to the catholic the shower the morning devotion piece o f incense and when som e­ seminary but decided the priest­ to G od began. This was later one stopped to take it the Krishna h ood was not for him. He decided follow ed b y chanting on the beads devotee asked for a donation to to seek ou t the street chanters. On to free one from material en­ help the children o f Bangladesh or new years eve o f 1971 Bernard tanglements. (Bernard says he India. When the “ customers” entered the hare krishna temple at wasnt entangled materially when went to take out the m oney a Glebe as a celibate student. It was he joined the Glebe temple but b o o k was handed to them. In­ structions were to push it under the beginning o f a tw o year associ­ tw o fellows unentangled them ation with the movement in selves o f separate donations total­ the arm o f the customer if need be. The customer was then told temples in Adelaide, Sydney, Mel­ ling $10,000.) bourne and Brisbane.

Hare Krishna is chanted fo r the b o o k was free in the hope that When this year he returned IV2 to 2 hours and a lecture on this would obligate them to a from Brisbane to Adelaide, his the teachings o f the spiritual mast­ more sizeable donation.

However, if the donation did hometown, he decided n ot to er, Bahaktivedanta, follows, tak­ rejoin the local temple and took a ing one up to breakfast. This all not cover the cost o f the b ook , flat in town. serves to ready the devotee fo r the the Krishna devotee was instruct­ He retained contact with the rigorous day’s chanting in the ed to take it back and replace it with a cheap magazine. This was movement in visits to the temple streets.

A fter a spell in Sydney, Bern­ one o f a number o f tricks the but these grew more infrequent roving team taught devotees until he decided to sever all ties a ard, with another three temple around Australia. few months ago. He to o k a job dwellers, was sent to Adelaide to It’s all part o f what the m ove­ and grew his hair. He left, he says, get things moving. They opened com pletely blow n out b y what he up a temple at Kurralta Park and ment hierarchy in Sydney called “ transcendental com petition” . A describes as the ‘ ‘ enslavement and were soon on the streets.

At about this time, a roving m onthly bulletin is distributed in bondage o f the devotees b y the team o f six Krishna followers ar­ Krishna branches throughout the m ovement’s hierarchy” .

He’s now a “ christian” , and rived in Adelaide. Bernard said world detailing sales figures o f enjoys playing fo o ty — a frivolous they were known as the Super books, magazines and incense. pastime by the movement - for a Sales Squad. These fellows each Challenges are issued from branch collect up to a $100 a day selling to branch on the number o f sales local catholic college. incense and book s on the street. both can record.

When I asked Bernard for an They have a roving comm ission to interview last week he seemed The Australian branch was sell and collect donations wher­ challenging reluctant and said he did not want the Los Angeles ever they please. T hey have cover­ branch when the super sales team to put the movement down. How­ ed most country towns and they hit Adelaide. At this stage Bernard ever, he finally relented and re­ each grossed 300 bucks a day in claims $30,000 a m onth was being counted his experiences, both Perth. spiritually and commercially, in sent back to America from A us­ his tw o years. tralia, whopping the LA branch Bernard says they came to He says he accepted the disci­ Adelaide at a time when Bernard which was bringing in m onthly

sales figure o f about $25,000.

Com petition in the divine c o m ­ petition was extremely keen as anyone selling well was glorified by the movement. A lot o f pres­ sure was placed on those not selling well. They were told they lacked faith and that increased chanting and devotion would re­ sult in higher sales.

Bernard says that when "trans­ cendental com petition ” was at its peak the hierarchy placed a quota on each individual w ho was then pressured into selling so many books a day.

A ridiculous situation arose when some temple dwellers were on the streets from seven in the morning to seven at night trying to meet their quota.

Bernard says the m ove­ ment’s latest move in the streets is for devotees to wear wigs and don ordinary street clothes. The m ove­ ment hierarchy ordered this when it became obvious the shav­ ed heads and flowing robes tended to highlight the Krishna devotees presence on the footpath. Many people were crossing the street in an attempt to avoid dipping into their pockets.

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movement was selling more than one thousand bucks worth o f oils and clothes to Adelaide shops every week. The devious Krishna John (exploits revealed Daylights 13) sold $2000 worth o f oils to one Adelaide shop in a sole hit one afternoon.

Bernard says that apart from the obvious commercial rip off the movement is riddled with internal spiritual conflict. Most o f the temple presidents in each state have differing views on how the tea ch in g s of Bahaktivedanta should be interpreted.

One president had a free and easy style o f life under his inter­ pretation; a move to another state would find one entrenched in a rigid authoritarian code.

Bernard says that the perpetual chanting and six hours sleep per night plus the hassling on the streets make the devotee to o tired to muster any significant protest to the teachings.

He told the temple chiefs a couple o f times that he wasnt attaining any spiritual fulfilment from the chant but was told to keep on chanting and the love o f G od would take place. It never

At last, the thoroughly modem Billy show

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M U N G O M acCALLUM FTER a fortnight o f provid­ ing more splits than a sub­ urban milkbar during a banana glut and changing policies every day and twice on Sundays, that grand old team o f Snedden and A nthony are starting to com e up with what is, they assure us, the final form o f what they’d like to d o to us after may 18: and a grim and threatening prospect it is.

Billy Mackie Snedden, having switched his econom ic policy several times at the orders o f the S ydn ey morning herald, has now com e up with one where everyone will be given large sums o f m oney as soon as possible, and where inflation will be cured b y the calling o f a vast number o f con fer­ ences and the use o f what Sned­ den calls “ voluntary restraint” - a sort o f industrial version o f “ would you lie still fo r a minute darling, I'm not quite ready to com e” .

One expects this sort o f inanity from Snedden, but perhaps we might have expected something better from the Liberal party’s ow n concerned super trendy, Donald Leslie Chipp. Well, per; haps we might, but those o f us | who did have missed ou t again.

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who are to o young to vote, on the grounds that this will encourage them to go out and get good jobs that pay less than the dole, like fitters apprenticeships (only the Liberals could be so negative: you dont make the jo b better paid or more attractive, you reduce the alternative so as to force people into it. This, presumably, is what Snedden and Chipp mean b y their philosophical comm itment to the individual).

We have some interesting ideas for improving the lot o f handicap­ ped children, but these have low priorities, behind things like defence. We’ll try and get more people into health insurance, but on ly into private funds: we can’t run a government fund, because, for Christ’s sake, it might charge lower premiums and give higher rebates, and this would be bad for the private funds: and we w on’t have democratic elections for the directors o f the private funds, because people like Jack Half­ penny might get up: and w e’ll let the doctors charge what they like, because you can always change your d octor if you dont like the one y o u ’ve got. This is what Sned­ den and Chipp mean b y the Lib­ erals philosophical com m itm ent to free enterprise: under the Libs, essential services are part o f laissez faire econom ics. And w ho better to spell it out than Snedden him­ self.

In a fragrant interview with Michael Willesee last weekend, Snedden was able to summarise his views thus: “ What I am con ­ cerned about is whether I am doing my job, whether I have formulated in my mind where Australia is to go, whether I can say to Australians, ‘Australians, this is your future, Australians, this is what we are going to make o f Australia. Australians, this is the product o f our own work, our own energy, our own enterprise.’ ” This, presumably, is an example o f what Snedden meant when he said earlier: "We express ourselves in modern day language; we think in modern day language; we are part o f modern day.”

Which modern day is not re­ corded, and probably the modern day language is o f the same vin­ tage as led him to describe moratorium marchers as “ political bikies pack raping dem ocracy” in 1969, or himself as on “ the wave­ length o f his generation” when he first ran for the leadership o f the Liberal party at the bright old age o f 42, back in 1968. A t that time his old mother was quoted as saying, “ He’s my baby and I’m proud o f him.” He might still be her baby, and she might still be proud o f him: but please, please, you voters, dont let him give his old mother the m other’s day pres­ ent he wants to in may, 1974.

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Jail bait bitten

The spectre of forced feeding looms again

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WINSTON SMITH reports from L on don

Squatters Blaze q u a t t e r s in a house in Camden are barricading against bailiffs. The place is ow n ­ ed b y property speculators as­ sociated with Joe Levy, one o f London’s biggest property ow n ­ ers. The squatters had a tip-off that the police intended to evict them by entering through the ro o f early the next morning. They as­ sembled forces in preparation but nothing happened. Later they learnt that the police had ap­ proached the local fire brigade and asked for men and ladders to help them flush out the squatters.

The firemen, however, refused to assist, stating that they would not collude in creating a “ police state” . “ Next time, they’ll be ask­ ing us to turn our hoses on demonstrators,” one o f them said.

Some o f the firemen have added their names to a phone tree, organised to mobilise support at short notice.

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Dope famine HE IR A bombing campaign in England and Northern Ireland is helping to create a serious dope famine. The army and customs are searching ship­ ments like n ob od y ’s business. For every cache o f guns they find at least 20 drug hauls. And British customs officers are travelling fur­ ther afield to nail their prey. Big dope growers in M orocco are paid by them to inform on who buys on a largescale, and the load is then follow ed to England, or near enough, where the customs pounce. Three tons o f hash was seized in Amsterdam last week . . .

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housing will be interested in the proposal put forward at a recent UN population conference in O x ­ ford on “ exploding cities” . “ Get the urban p oor to build their ow n homes” was the suggestion o f John Turner, form erly a housing official in Peru, now o f the A rch ­ itects Association. He stressed the econom ic advantages: homes built by families themselves cost 30-50 percent less, and were usually much more suitable. The dangers, o f course, were those o f loss o f control and supervision. Will all housebuilders be able to join a building union? W e ll. . .

Fuzz buzz RITAIN ’S own political police are back in the lime­ light. They went through a bad patch in 1971 & 2, with allegations flying around about their using agent provocateurs, and planting active militants with explosives. In 1973 they got themselves a better PR, and even their own telly series, Special branch, which makes them out to be decent fair c o p ­ pers who only stretch the rules when life is at stake.

Suddenly the shit’ s hitting the fan again. It’s com es out that they’ve been investigating the political backgrounds o f workers involved in a sit-in at a car b od ymaking factory (Strachan’s, East­ leigh, Hampshire). They n ot only set up a “ contact” man, but had one o f their own number go round the factory pretending to be a commercial traveller. The factory, bought in 1972 to pro­ duce a new line in van bodies, was turning out only a handful each day because o f production p rob ­ lems. When the parent com pany decided to close the factory, the workers began occupying.

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e m o n s t r a t o r s , includ­ ing students and the Prison­ ers A ction Committee, disrupted Coburg court in Melbourne this week when they booed, heckled, and jeered a magistrate presiding over a court case against a Pentridge warder, William Henry Rodgers, 28.

Rodgers pleaded guilty to nine charges o f trafficking tobacco, booze, magazines, vitamin pills and a gold cross and chain.

He was sentenced to one month’s jail on each o f fou r counts, and fined $100 on each o f five charges.

However demonstrators were irate and called ou t that the case was a “ whitewash” and that the magistrate “ should be ashamed o f himself” .

The demonstrators spoke out because in their opinion the warder was really in court to face “ escape club” charges. Affidavits signed b y Pentridge prisoners dealt almost exclusively with de­ tails o f how an escape club was set up b y some warders, in particular Rodgers. The smuggling o f whisky and tobacco was only mentioned briefly in one affidavit. The prisoners — suspicious o f Rodgers — asked him to supply these articles because they wanted to see if he was leading them on or not.

Here are the relevant sections from the affidavit o f James McDade Gillespie: SECTION J “ On leaving H division I was placed in B division and at the time worked in the mill or ‘ 5 ’ gang as it is known. During the time I was working in ‘ 5 ’ gang as it is known I was spoken to b y an officer by the name o f ‘ Rodgers’.

This officer elaborated on the discussion between myself and o f ­ ficer Thompson and asked me if I was still interested in escaping.”

[Gillespie swore earlier that Thompson had offered Gillespie an escape for $2000. ] "Still being suspicious I asked this officer, Mr Rodgers, if I still reply he could d o me a favor by means o f bringing me in certain articles. He agreed to d o this and for the price o f $30 I was supplied with whisky, vitamin pills and tobacco.”

SECTION K “ After being supplied with these articles I was again asked by this officer, Mr Rodgers, if I still had interest in escaping. My reply was ‘not at this stage but I think I know o f someone w ho is’ . He asked me to let this fellow know but not to mention his (the prison officer’s) name until he gave a definite answer on the subject, and until I could assure him that he could supply the price quot­ ed.”

SECTION L “ Arrangements were made and the topic was discussed to its full extent. There are three people who know o f this arrangement to escape not including the prison officers involved.”

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(no relation) contacted the Na­ tional C ouncil for Civil Liberties and told them that the SB had used him as a spy & agent provoc­ ateur. Through his assistance they’d jailed fou r republican sympathisers. N ow he was no more use to them. He told the NCCL he feared for his life, from the IR A or the special branch.

Next day he was found dead with a bullet in the back o f his head.

His statement to the NCCL men­ tions that the SB plotted to en­ sure he’d be acquitted when he was tried with the others. He was.

National men against sexism conference WO HUNDRED men (from about 30 groups) turned up for the 2nd national conference o f Men Against Sexism, held in Leeds. There was a creche manned by conference participants, and an all-male disco in the evening, which blew a lot o f minds. Work­ shops included “ feminine men” , men and work, non exclusive rela­ tionships, men and collective liv­ ing, vasectomies, mens relation­ ship to GLF, womens liberation and the rest o f the revolutionary Left. Some guys there had just com e out o f jail after five years.

Watching a room ful o f men danc­ ing, one said, “ Last time I saw people dancing they were doing the twist . . . if men could get together like this inside, no jails could hold us . . . ” One o f the pamphlets was brought out b y a mainly car w ork­ ers collective. It discusses how the solidarity o f male workers has been weakened both in the fac­ tory (m ore machines, m ore bore­ dom ), and the comm unity (more impersonal, less social). They try to compensate b y dominating in the home. “ Yet this is no longer possible because wom en are find­ ing power, and the children are much more self-assured. So the man is in a crisis.”

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Turn it up!

OCK fans in Leeds are up in arms over the cou ncil’s im ­ position o f a 96 decibel limit on rock concerts and discotheques.

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town. The limit makes it im pos­ sible for musicians to play at levels that make any impact on the audience. If it remains, it will kill public pop music in the city.

Many leading rock bands play at around 110 decibels. Local freaks have organised tw o demos to op pose it so far.

The cou ncil claims the limit will save youth from deafness. But surprise, surprise, the ban only applies to ROCK MUSIC. If y o u ’ re a brass band fan or classical music concertgoer, you can go deaf in peace. The fact that many factory workers and city shoppers suffer much louder noise all the time doesnt seem to bother them Angry protesters have refuted the councillors arguments that 96 decibels is the pain limit, and the council is seeking a way to drop the whole business without losing face. Before the protest it looked likely that the decibel limit would be written into national environ mental legislation.

Hunger strikers then & now OMENS liberation’s getting a media b oost in the current six week BBC series on the suf­ fragettes. This week’s episode highlighted force-feeding in full technicolor horror. Timely, con­ sidering the protracted use o f this torture on the Price sisters and another member o f the Belfast Nine, on hunger strike since their, conviction last September for causing explosions at the Old Bailey court and other ruling class strongholds in London. They persist in their demand to be transferred to an Irish prison, where they can serve their sen­ tences as political prisoners and be visited b y friends and relatives.

But the government’s holding out, and meanwhile Dolores and Marian Price (23 & 20), rot in total isolation in Brixton prison fo r men, no womens jail being considered secure enough. The screws hostility extends to the male prisoners who shout abuse and catcalls from their cells as they watch the wom en being e x ­ ercised in the yard below. Marian got a brief respite recently in the prison hospital, force feeding hav­ ing destroyed her health. In 1910 Constance Lytton, a prominent suffragette, suffered heart seizure and partial paralysis for the rest o f her short life follow ing eight ses­ sions o f being forcibly fed. The methods havent changed . . .

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UNOFFICIAL and unconfirmed reports from Pentridge state that prisoner Peter Gardiner (Daylights 14) was involved in a fracas inside Pentridge which culminated in him stabbing another prisoner.

Gardiner, who was also taken to hospital with “ recurrent stomach wounds” (he recently underwent surgery for a ruptured stomach after he swallowed metal) has not as yet made a statement about the incident and is now out o f hos­ pital and back in Pentridge.

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Everyone wants to be a copper PIOTR OLSZEWSKI ICTORIAN police are cur rently embarking on a pub­ lic relations exercise to boost recruitment and to whitewash their image follow ing media re­ ports o f their unpopularity.

Chief police commissioner Jackson who recently said there was a shortage o f about 3000 police in Victoria now maintains that police recruiting had improv­ ed so much this year that new training facilities might soon be needed.

Jackson himself received ad­ verse publicity this week when the defence counsel in a “ fixed” horse racing trial said that he might call for Jackson to be jailed for refus­ ing to supply a witness’s criminal record in court. If the presiding magistrate can find n o justifi­ cation fo r Jackson’s refusal to produce the records the defence will be “ forced ” — under section 46 o f the justices act - to apply for an order jailing a witness (Jackson) who failed to produce a document. Other police publicity this week included the “ signing o f f ” o f a pioneer woman police inspector, Grace Debner.

Debner was the first police­ woman to attain rank o f inspec­ tor, the first woman to be award­ ed the queen’s police medal, the first woman to be trained in the force as a detective; and the first woman authorised to drive a police car.

Debner, sometimes described as a “ pioneer o f womens lib in the force” , called on women to b e ­ com e police because they have proved themselves “ as reliable, good workers and are capable o f work in a wide field” .

Representatives o f the sub­ urban press were recently w ooed at a special police conference at Russell street. Chief commissioner Jackson com m ended the Leader group o f suburban newspapers for their “ first class” comm unity ser­ vice article on the police force.

The purpose o f the conference was to acquaint suburban news­ paper personnel with the new police recruiting campaign.

Cadets from the police training academies are giving the police image an added boost b y visiting and working with school children, taking pupils to the city baths and teaching them to swim, visiting kindergartens, factories and shop­ ping centres and delivering meals on wheels etc.

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HICAGO: The new police chief o f the corrupt Chicago police force has initiated a massive “ shakeup” . So far 13 senior police had been dem oted and other police are having to undergo lie detector tests to ascertain whether or not they have “ criminal” as­ sociations. More than 60 police have been indicted on charges including extortion, brutality, perjury and attempted murder. So far 40 o f them have been convict­ ed.

OUTH A FR IC A : Johannes­ burg police are experiencing difficulties with the fourth floor windows o f the John Vorster Square police headquarters — two people have “ fallen” out o f these windows during questioning. The first fall victim was an Indian teacher in 1971 — an inquest later found that the Indian had co m ­ mitted suicide. On april 17 a second man, an african, fell from the windows. A senior police o f­ ficial said that the african,

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Lethobele Mazeka, may have tried to commit suicide or escape.

Turkish Fright USTRALIAN mystery man, George Cox, who says that he com es from Sale, Victoria, where apparently no one recol­ lects him, was reported to have attempted escape from a Turkish prison where he is serving a 30 year dope smuggling sentence.

Cox, imprisoned in Elazig prison, eastern Turkey, since last September for having smuggled 210 kilograms (463 lb) o f hashish from Syria into Turkey, denies that he was trying to escape — he stated in an affidavit that he had only jumped from his cell window to get some fresh air. Cox, who left the cells for fresh air with tw o other prisoners, a Lebanese and an Egyptian, also said that he was not the person who had cut through the cell window bars.

Cox, if found guilty on the escape charge, will have more “ time” added to his 30 year sen­ tence, a harsh penalty against which he is still awaiting appeal.

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F an orange is any good you can fuck it.

The mendacity o f the rivermen around the fruit-growing area o f Renmark is conspicuously frank and colorful. Rather than talk o f the yielding, long-fibred substance o f the fruit, a man can make his meaning clear b y stating that it’s fuckable. Such a statement has more meaning to the local people when they feel em otion for good fruit. Fruit and the growing o f good fruit is one o f the few things that an orchardist knows and loves.

When crossing the Murray river at the Chowilla dam site, the riverman punt-driver enter­ tained some tourists and m yself well with a story o f a man from a mule or tw o upstream who drowned in the river. The woman tourist lamented sadly, mouthing the usual words o f pity saying, isnt it terrible. Buggered if I know, said the riverman when we pulled the b od y out o f the river we got five pounds o f river-crays o f f him.

As men grow older they tend to bolster the memories o f their feats. I remember such o f an old mate Joe. There are many men around like Joe. When they are young men they can win bets, for drinking a quart straight, they can hit cricket balls for six; they can run a mile in five minutes.

No one has much to say about this, but gradually, as they grow older, they begin to remember how they drank a gallon straight for ten nights running, how they hit a cricket ball over a church steeple and killed a chicken stone-dead on the other side; h ow they used to be able to bullseye six darts ou t o f six, blindfolded, left handed, upside down throwing between their legs; and finally h ow they nicked five seconds o ff the mile time for the world record, back in ’Q2, only it was never official.

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GT—OK PAUL ZIESING OCK TV coverage in Austra­ lia has always been dismal.

The Happening series was a rather pathetic fact o f life fo r years. The annual rock festival reports are g ood in themselves, but we starve for a year and then suffer a glut o f sensationalism. The cycle goes on.

O f course the outstanding excep ­ tion is the ABC's GTK. It alone has tried to avoid the pitfalls the others wallow in. It’s not perfect, but it’ s honest.

At last G TK seems to be facing up to its major drawback, its brevity. We’ve always look ed to it for our salvation from the TV wasteland. T hey’ve given us some incredible film, but some awful rubbish too. Ten minutes can’t cater for a million different view­

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ers. We know that and we’re grateful for the attempt.

But soon w e’ll have half an hour nightly and at a later time­ slot. N o more rushed meals, delay­ ed meals or T V meals. We will watch G TK in leisure. Hopefully we w on ’t be subject any longer to disjointed programming and ruth­ less editing. Also let’s hope they use their time well.

Maybe now we’ll see some o f the film they must have but never had time to use. Maybe w e’ll get better coverage o f rock tours that com e our way. After all, some o f us have to rely on GTK reports because we can’t afford the out­ rageous ticket prices.

G TK will have time to kill so it better slay us. We can’t choose what we get but we can choose what we watch. It’s either that or back to Temptation.

Adelaide: Sweet city sue

HERE was a seven inch (16.8 cms) apology in each o f the Adelaide papers recently, inserted by South Australian Telecasters, “ operators o f Channel 10” . The com pany was apologis­ ing to Terry McRae, state parliamentarian for the seat o f Playford.

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Like the tip o f the legendary iceberg, the apology was the unobtrusive pointer to a flutter o f autumn writs surrounding the recent affairs o f McRae. Channel 10 apologised for embarrassment, inconvenience or damage caused to McRae in his work as a barrister and solicitor, in his position as a member o f the ALP or as a member o f the state government. “ Channel 10 regrets its part in the publication o f the statements made b y Mr Barry Cavanagh during the course o f the program, State file.”

(Barry Cavanagh is state secretary o f the Miscellaneous Workers Union, State file an almost-current affairs program.) “ Channel 10 has found no basis in truth for the remarks made b y Mr Cavanagh.”

In the same week Cavanagh appeared on State file McRae won $15,000 in an out o f court settlement after suing the Austral­ ian for $50,000. The background to this was a story published late last year putting forward the thoughts o f several leading A del­ aide unionists that McRae used his political influence to advantage in the industrial law circle.

Other interesting evidence available to News Ltd was inform ation on McRae’s contacts within another political party, or form er party - whatever it is on the day you read this — the DLP.

These connections proved val­ uable to McRae during a recent altercation he and some puppets had with a faction o f the state branch o f the Australian Govern­ ment Workers Association. Mc­ Rae, a staunch rightwing roman catholic w ho still enjoys the support within government ranks o f Don Dunstan, was the man who appeared to engineer the sacking o f leftwing union secre­ tary, Jim Thomson, although government intervention in the dispute actually went as far as Dunstan.

The latter refused to meet with Thom son to discuss the issue, but on five occasions allowed the figurehead leader o f the opposing faction, Brian Lear, to be seen leaving his office.

However, McRae: wanting to prevent leftwing takeover in the AGW A and knowing the govern­ ment wanted Thom son out because o f the m oney he was costing in higher awards he was winning in the court, McRae mysteriously appeared as legal counsel to the union, or at least parts o f it.

The AGWA has about 10,000 members in South Australia. It is run by a 26 member executive.

Six thousand members com e from two branches, the E&WS and the hospitals, both o f which support Jim Thomson. These members are represented on the executive by 12 people. Gerry who? The state president is Brian Lear. He and an organiser, Hugh Armstrong, a member o f the DLP, became McRae’s chief minions within the ranks. Thomson was suspended on charges o f fraud involving some $70 or so. Police said privately around the time o f his arrest there were others in the union, including Lear, who had left themselves open to the same charges.

Only Thom son was charged, has since been found guilty, sacked from the union and is working as a messenger in a government department.

McRae appeared as the union’s lawyer throughout the case. A fter 15 days court work he submitted an account to the union for $23,000.

I, who must remain nameless for protection, called Thom son’s lawyer and told him the figure.

The lawyer, Mark Harrison, calculated McRae’s work to then had been worth $4000. I rang Lear and revealed that figure to him: next morning the Advertiser reported that McRae had reduced his initial bill from $23,000 to $4000. * m-

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G IL L Y COOTE UMBER 260 Chalmers street, Redfern is flanked on either side b y identical old peeling terraces with signs in the windows written in Turkish that might say “ room to let” . No. 260 is just another house but inside it’ s being turned into a resource centre for a com m unity organisation headed by quaker Martin Tuck, with a library, workroom and study for individuals or groups who want to do something fo r themselves.

The house is open to people as a meeting place and already a group o f PA nurses has been getting together to work ou t why they’re unhappy with the system and try to find solutions.

From positions o f total powerlessness they’re beginning to find a solidarity o f oppression that’s been the nurses lot since Florence spread the rumors about total servitude and dedication.

The house is also headquarters for the Race Relations Committee w ho plan a fullscale attack on the depart­ ment o f child welfare for their racist mishandling o f aboriginal families. The committee are also peering into the murky depths o f police/com m unity relations which are particularly loath­ some round the Empress hotel and generally about as bad as they can be elsewhere.

If people want to drop in and stay for a while to help, they’re welcome.

There’s enough work to be done in south Sydney to last a lifetime, and the centre is only a month old.

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‘ROBERT STEVENS’ tells a tale o f unrequited contrition

Traumas of a cocaine thief Y WIFE and I live in Brisbane. We have been addicted to morphine, pethidine, cocaine etc., over the past four years. For the past eight months how ever w e ’ ve been on methadone (or physeptone) and contrary to some articles I’ve read in Daylights (eg. The cure that kills, TLD 13) this drug is, in our case, quite a workable substitute for morph. It may be, as is often suggested, just replacing one addictive drug with another, but that suits our lifestyle at present so we continue on 30 mgs. a day.

The experience that causes me to put pen to paper happened recently while m y wife and I were visiting Melbourne. We had been to see our d octor in Brisbane before leaving, and he prescribed us enough methadone to last us until we were back home.

However, on the way down to Melbourne, the cylinder head cracked in our old FC Holden. We chugged on down topping up the radiator every 10 minutes and decided to have it repaired before returning north. This prolonged our stay in Melbourne by another week.

We needed more methadone so we went to a GP to get enough tabs to get us through the extra week away from Brisbane. The doc. seemed a little uncertain about whether to write the prescription or not, so he rang the AM A who knew precisely zero about where drug addiction was treated in Victoria. He must have com e to the conclusion that ours was a genuine case, because he gave us 25 lOmg. tabs each.

If there are any real cocaine addicts reading this they at least will understand that methadone, though it’s a brilliant substitute for morph in some cases, has no co n tro l over th e sudden compelling drive that occurs whenever there’s a chance for a shot o f coke. And as fate would have it, while we were in the d octor’s getting the methadone scrips, I spied on a shelf a bottle o f cocaine hydrochloride, five percent. It may be hard for most people to understand what coke addiction is like, but in my case (and my w ife’s not much different) once I’ve seen a whole bottle o f that mind screwing stuff, it virtually hypnotises me. And though I'm not a thief or evil hearted, I becom e just that once the old coke has woven its evil spell on me.

I went back home after seeing the chemist and whacked up a few tabs, trying desperately to forget or at least ignore the bottle o f coke waiting for me in that surgery. But as I said, coke controls m y mind and after nightfall I became a zombie. Into the car, ’round to the surgery: jem m y! smash! grab and back home for a whack o f coke.

Oh, the pain o f finding out that as well as five percent coke the bottle also contained 30 percent adrenalin. After the first

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hit I sweat the old ticker was touching 150 revs a minute, and though m y heart can keep up with the best o f them it began to skip beats and jump up and down in my chest. My wife was getting ready for that long dreaded dash to the nearest hospital while I lay there ooh ooh oohing! and aah aah aahing! We cut the quantity down, added water and had about three hits each when, in an act that can only be described as self preservation, we poured the bottle o f C down the sink.

Then the reality o f the situation began to sink in: I mean the doc. wouldnt have to be Einstein to deduce that the two junkies that saw him in the afternoon were the thieves that did the place that night.

At this stage I wasnt so much concerned with the legal aspect o f the situation, but with having done such a shithouse thing to a doc. who had been prepared to help us. We thought about it for a while and my wife came up with the idea o f apologising and

offering to mend the damage I had done to the surgery. This I decided to do. Needless to say the d oc. wasnt exactly delighted with my efforts, and after he’d taker, a deep breath and exhaling for about 30 menacing seconds he said: “ Where’s the coke b ottle?” “ Dow n the sink,” said I. Bullshit, I could hear him think. “ It has adrenalin in it and it will kill you if you touch the stuff.” “ I know ,” said I. "T h at’s why it’s down the sink.” I offered to pay lor the damage and repair the place myself if he wished (being a cabinet maker). He said to be at the surgery b y 10.30am next day. “ What about the police,” I asked. “ If y o u ’re not there at 10.30am with the m oney, the police are going to be after y o u ,” he replied, then hung up.

It sounded as though he would accept my apologies and repairs.

But just to make sure that we hadnt misunderstood what he had said, my wife rang him early the next morning. He wasnt in a talkative m ood, but managed to

ask where the coke was and whether or not I was coming. “ Yes he’s still coming, as long as there are no police involved,” my wife said. He wouldnt answer yes or no, but did imply that the only way to avoid police involvement was to trust him and show up at 10.30am, m oney in hand.

Well, we thought, a guy would have to be a bastard to ask you to com e around and fix the place up, and have the fuzz waiting. Maybe I’m naive, but at 9.15am that morning I came innocently walking down the path to the surgery full o f repentance, tapemeasure in hand (to measure for the sheet o f glass I had broken). On reaching the gate o f the surgery I was somewhat taken aback b y the ominous sight o f silver handcuffs hanging from a blue arse. On a further brief study o f the scene it was unmistakably one officer o f the law standing in the doorw ay with his back to me.

In another act o f self preservation I split, bolting to the car, thinking what a dirty bastard o f a doc.

It’s up to each person to decide whether the doctor was only giving back what I had coming to me, or whether the doc. is a dead shit for not allowing me the chance to make up for my own stupidity, in a more civilised manner than through the hopeless system o f cops, courts and jails.

The way things have turned out, nobody is going to benefit: the doc. fixes his own surgery, I dont get a chance to pay for my own stupidity, and the cop : well, he went home empty handed. We leave for Brisbane tom orrow wondering when the long arm is most likely to descend on us, if at all.

I guess I’ve learnt a lesson, though it’s through that cloud o f junk that clutters my brain when I think. First, dont bust a surgery unless you can get away with it; if your conscience gets the better o f you or you figure y ou ’ve made a mess o f things, sit tight and wait it out, ’cause them doctors really dont understand what is meant by a drug problem.

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Fink flicks

...frightful screen scenes S y d n e y Film m a ke r P H I L N O Y C E , who's bikie movie Castor and p o llu x is screening at the S y d n e y Filmmakers Cinema in S y dne y all this week

recounts some of his experiences with a bikie gang, the Finks.

sion School, the producers, who also provided a blue com m on ­ wealth camera-car.

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HE Finks calendar is mark­ ed with the dates o f the various official runs . In October it’s the Barellan (NSW) cannon shoot. April coincides with the Griffith wine festival and provides a good setting for the annual “ c o o n ” (aboriginal) hunt. Novem­ ber is the Outlaw Run when all the bikie groups call a truce for a massive show o f solidarity and a quiet picnic. “ Only the army could stop us if we wanted to start something that weekend.”

Queen’s birthday long weekend is devoted to moviemaking at Cullen Bullen, near Lithgcw (NSW), when the b oys act out their fantasies with eight milli­ metre epics. They play parts o f bank and train bandits, rapists, coalmine slaves and freedom fight­ ers upholding the established rightwing bikie traditions. 1972’s flick was Dad and Dave’s revenge in which bikie raiders who molest the virgins o f a bikie town are hunted down by Dad and Dave, likewise on bikes. The works pay­ roll robbery (1971) script called for a real steam train which the propmen o f Finks Film Co. pinch­ ed from a siding at Portland (Vic).

Dow n the mine or up shitter’s ditch (1 973) saw the bikie raid­ ers o f the year before starring in new roles as evil owners o f a defunct coalmine w ho shanghai miners b y drugging unsuspecting bikies at the local pub. Sure enough the Finks avengers come to the rescue o f their chained mates b y demolishing the mine manager’ s o ffice with a well aimed cannon blast.

The movies soundtracks are provided b y Big Ken who fills in details o f the action at each screening like an elder passing on tribal legends. Ken was reluctant to part with the movies - even for a week — so I cou ld blow up sections for use in my own film.

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So I just got out o f it. Wouldnt everyone want to find a Utopia and get out o f this b lo o d y ret­ race?”

Gus’s soft featured, blond hair­ ed son, Mike, appears with his dad’ s shopping errand — half a dozen “ energy” chocolate bars.

Until Mike turns 17 he has to ride pillion with Gus, but that's all right, they’ve “ shared w om en” so why not bikes? “ He’ll be a g ood bikie,” says Gus. “ His mother thinks w e’re all bad. Her parting words when he went down to Barellan were, “ Dont you go gettin’ into any onions son ” .

Until five months ago Mike lived with his mother and sisters on the family farm at Dural (20 miles north o f Sydney). He joined the Finks only on weekends. But now he works alongside his old man at Dan-Dee Wrought Iron in inner suburban Leichhardt.

Gus’s welding shed doubles as HQ for the 30 odd members o f the Sydney Finks. The clubroom walls are adorned b y an assort­ ment o f female underclothing.

"W e call this our trophy room ,” explains Gus.

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Next door, in his makeshift office, seated below a large sign Phone - friend or fo e, 10c — he ORTYTW O tw o years old recalls some runins with the and bald, Gus sits yapping m ob’s foes. The office wall is about his past days as a farmer, riddled with shotgun pellet holes his present as an unofficial leader fired b y the rival Hells Angels to o f the Finks and future plans to avenge one o f their mem ber’s trade his successful welding busi­ death 18 months ago in a Finksness in on a coastal clipper. His Angels duel. Eleven o f the -Finks philosophy rings more o f hipspent over six months at Long piedom than the nihilistic atti­ tudes frequently associated with Bay during the trial proceedings. bikies.

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wall next to Gus stands his loaded rifle, ready for the Angels next visit. “ Arent you afraid o f being killed?” I queried.

Gus: “ Y ou can get killed slippin’ coming out o f a bath tub. So what? If you buy it you buy it.

Y ou dont worry about it.”

STARTED out on m y jou r­ ney to the planet o f the Finks one sunny Sunday when a few friends entered our Annandale terrace with gifts o f straw­ berry cream cakes intended to brighten up a gentle gathering. A t first I didnt think twice about the long haired strangers accom pany­ ing them; not until these tw o gents had consumed most o f the cream cakes and a couple o f flagons o f rough red. Friend and I posed identical questions . . . “ Arent they y o u r friends?” But the Finks made good the lost beverage by introducing me to an illicit source o f liquor . . . thru the back d oor o f an obliging Balmain pub. I’ve often wondered whether that publican opened his doors out o f friendliness, fear, or just to make an extra buck.

Four months later (octob er 1973), I found m yself setting out on a 400 miles Finks pub crawl with sound-recordist Chris Tillam, assistant Andrew Jacob, plus a battery o f filmmaking gear by courtesy o f the Film and Televi­

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We struck the gang just after breakfast at a highway diner 50 miles the other side o f Bathurst.

Gus provided instructions for our next rendezvous. “ Just head towards Wagga Wagga until 10 o ’clock, then stop at the first pub. We’ll be there.”

The first o f several small town country cops also met us at that pub. Ignoring a Saturday morning pickie brown-eye atop the c o m ­ monwealth car in the tow n ’s main street (“ drop your dacks, part your buttocks and show ya brown eye” ) the sergeant inquired in­ stead about the weather.

Cop: “ Nice day for the bikes.

G ood sunshine. Where are you headed fo r ? ” Gus: “ Barellan.”

Cop: “ How many o f y o u ?”

Gus: “ Oh, about 150 when we all get there.”

Armed with this info the old sarg must have alerted his buddies right along the expected route, for a roving squad car greeted us at each new town. At one town a constable delivered a well rehears­ ed sermon on peaceful coexist­ ence. “ It’ s bad news to be drinking out here on the road. In the pub if you will, like good fellas. It all boils down to this . . . What the eye dont see the heart dont grieve.

But a few old girls complain and then w e’re all in trouble. O K ?”

I guess that statement is repeat­ ed at every level o f the force.

Arriving at the Finks camp site 10 miles southwest o f Barellan, NSW, I felt like a 20th century explorer who had stumbled across a new civilisation. Or more like a 19th century missionary amidst a cannibals camp. T o put it blunt­ ly, I was scared shitless. A charac­ ter named Bum Plumber was launching gelignite bom bs from a bike sidecar-cum-rocket launcher.

In between sucking on a dead rabbit's head, Charlie the Blackfeller was being pelted with human shit pies. Som ehow we managed to avoid the shit pies and were introduced to several m em ­ bers o f the MGA. MGA stands fo r Master Grouters Association. It’s something like a

select inner circle whose members can be identified b y the miniature trowels that hang from their necks A MGA member’s favorite pas­ time is to “ whitm ont” one o f his peers b y shitting on a guy render­ ed helpless b y super-intoxication.

The trowel is then used to mould a “ whitm ont” eyepiece.

Most o f that first night at the camp was spent in fitful slumber waiting for our turn to be sacri­ ficed to the Master Groters; night­ mares o f waking to poised bikie buttocks. We finally gave up try­ ing to sleep and were joined b y Gus and a few o f the friendly boys and girls in a strangely pleas­ ant reminiscence session, listening to yarns o f dead, jailed, bashed or exiled mates, with a couple o f stories about kingsize onions (gang-bangs) thrown in.

The cannon battle was celebrat­ ed next day - a Sunday. The 37th Sunday after Coon Hunt Day. The com m on soldiers reinforced their tree trunk and mattress battle­ ments as the artillerymen pre­ pared the weaponry.

The Sydney Finks were o p ­ posed to the Riverina and Queens­ land chapters. The ceremonial bugler summoned combatants to the battleground centre for a last supper sermon cum pre footie match pep talk from Big Ken. “ Some o f us may get hurt or even killed. But there’ll be no hard feelings.”

The Sydney boys let fly with a double-banger o f a beer can filled with cement and a bike chain.

They cheered as the can sent a branch toppling into the opposi­ tion’s dugout 800 yards away.

The Queenslanders replied with a missile shot that screamed over­ head sounding like a V2 rocket, sending myself plus a $6000 Arriflex camera ducking behind the mattress battlement, almost on top o f the sound man.

Dressed in confederate uni­ form, Gus ordered his gun crew into action. “ Number one gun crew get this cannon going.”

No. 2 gun crew ’s powder b ox ac­ cidentally ignited in a momentary day for night blaze that nosedived camera and sound men back to ground. Number one gun crew hesitated only for an instant. The camera crew headed for the side­ lines, to be met by a geli-bomb launched from the Bum Plumber’s sidecar.

We kept running to a spot about 50 yards o ff the path o f any missiles, but not swift enough to escape the Queenslanders who had trained their cannon on us.

Luckily the cast iron shot landed about 15 yards in front, bouncing forward at a speed that at least allowed a sighting. They said it missed sound man Chris b y less than a foot.

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T WAS only about four years ago that if you walked into a hardware store in East Sydney and asked for a bottle o f methylated spirits, the owner would reply: “ T o drink here or take away.”

And if it was a winter night and y o u ’d had your blankets stolen the first time your house was broken into, you could wander dow n a lane and warm your hands over the crackling remains o f a house set alight in the brothel owners war.

The girls would be there, most just watching silently, standing on the road­ way, glass o f beer in hand; a lot would be mumbling words o f sympathy for the owner and his family who had knocked back the $500 to move out during Joe Borg’s (deceased via a bom b in his car) or one o f his competitors brothel expansion programs.

East Sydney, built mainly in the early 1830s for the least paid o f the colonial administration, is a square mile bounded

by College street, Hyde Park and the city centre on the west, W oolloom ooloo to the north, Surry Hills to the south and Darlinghurst and Kings Cross to the east.

It sits in a valley running from the Cross to the city and slopes downwards south to north between Oxford street and William street.

Until the claret flagons, red plastic garbage bins and chipped back bricks appeared it was called Flesh Valley by brothel pimps who thought they had a way with words.

While the battles between developers

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and residents take place on the footpaths .of the 'L oo, and while games are played at government level, n ob od y yet has thought much about the future fate o f East Sydney. The inner city residents action group has its o ffice in the upper part o f East Sydney . . . “ East Sydney Heights” at the border o f Darlinghurst.

It is the very house where without stylish renovation pre-freaks o f the early 60s gathered. N ow pensioners and w ork­ ers tread its wall to wall carpet in front o f the paved kitchen to hear the latest developments about W oolloom ooloo from people w ho speak nice.

People fighting to keep their longheld shelter in the ’L oo against skyscrapers have already seen East Sydney go to the

the ’ L oo anyway, even if the bigtime developers are kept at bay. But back in the early part o f 1969, and for most o f its history before that, East Sydney was one big brothel, a square mile o f fucking, 24 hours a day, so intense that in the pubs the petty crims reckoned the area would register at least tw o on the Richter scale.

Business was so heavy that the earlier expansion out into the back alley sheds, garages and laundries o f terrace houses was not enough. N ow partitions offered tw o girls a garage.

In winter the girls placed small radia­ tors in doorways so they could continue standing on the footpath doorstep wear­ ing bikinis or panties and bras. A few o f the older women sometimes wore top ­ coats.

Tilly Devine, Sydney’s Grande Madame, was still alive, living quietly in a house near William street and by then considered respectable enough to have c o y stories written about, her in the establishment press. She’d controlled the area as well as good slices o f Surry Hills and Darlinghurst fo r a couple o f decades - her and the cops. The cops went on to invest in blocks o f flats and move to Middle Harbor, but Tilly stayed in East Sydney, drinking and playing cards.

Seven nights a week and m ost days the tiny lanes and alleys and main streets were crowded, mainly with middle-aged men and teenage boys, half o f them tourists from the outer suburbs and the

carload ot public schoolboys and their giggling girlfriends would join the auto­ mobile squeeze between the crammed up little houses. The pros had a special dislike o f them, particularly the giggling girls.

Now the more sophisticated gigglers have moved into the little houses, “ mar­ velling” at the georgian bricks with com ­ fortable, bored eyes and telling friends o f the area's quaint seamy past. The police no longer prowl about in cars, cheered as they rode up on a footpath to turn a corner in the narrowest o f lanes, watched silently as they went in and came out o f the houses having made no arrest and avoided if they came within ten yards o f you on foot.

The crowds generally thought the situ­ ation to be a merry festive throng, a free sideshow with lots o f girls to look at, always a fist-fight or two, drunken mates to push through the doorways, plenty of pubs, windows to smash if you were brave enough, doors to piss on, gutters to chuck in. Just like the Coogee Bay new year Mardi Gras, with prostitutes.

But there was probably less trouble than the Mardi Gras because o f the order kept b y the girls. If an abusive wanderer went too far and upset one o f them, or if a client was unpaying or violent, the signal for restoring order came via the crash o f a glass in the alleyway. There’d be a quick movement at each door, the girls each reaching for a glass, stepping

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out on to the footpath and aiming for the troublemaker. It was not unusual for those passers-by gawking at this part o f the sideshow to find themselves the target o f the glasses.

Most o f the violence to the girls came from the pimps and the standover men and it was policy to keep it from the public, just as the gambling and strip clubs like to conduct their own brand of o ffice politics away from the customers so business w on ’t go bad.

There was never trouble in the pubs though, they were as safe a refuge for the desperate as was the church before the Thomas a’Becket incident. The pubs were packed with the lower managerial rungs o f the brothel owners and their friends and the lesser their role the bigger their revolver. Non-regulars quickly sens­ ed that trouble would mean at least a knifing, probably a shooting and the arrival o f the cops who only wanted their rake-off and . . . quietly.

The pubs are now crowded with car salesmen with stylish sideburns and paunches, insurance clerks daringly with hair to their collars - trying to look at ease with jaded fags standing next to their elbows at the bar. The less aggressive women are wondering if their mini skirts are a little gauche. But their boyfriends, too hip to join the Junior Chamber o f Commerce, like to see their legs.

There was no “ Squizzy Taylor Square” , oh-so-coy among little wine bars, little restaurants and little shops which make big m oney. There was never the look around fo r faces to falsely cheer.

No looking up and dow n at clothes to feel accepted.

The most popular gathering place was the hotel where the manager often served in drag, surrounded b y paintings o f 19th century ladies around the bar walls. Each face in the paintings was covered with a cut-to-shape photograph o f the manager in varying make-up When not serving he joined the mime revue show in the purple-lighted lounge to a mainly lesbian audience. The pub, perhaps trying to present a different picture o f the East

Sydney past, now, under its new owner, has faded colored photos o f racehorses and boxers around the bar walls and a jukebox in the plainly lit lounge.

Merv, who said he was a retired Eng­ lish seaman and w ho moved out o f East Sydney when “ all the poofters started m ovin’ in ” , used to sit b y his first floor open bedroom window, 24 hours a day, drinking beer and taking the odd potshot from a .22 rifle at people walking down his street. “ But I’d never shoot at the plonkos.

The old bastards had enough trouble. I’ d just shoot around fo r a laugh at the smart-lookin’ ones. Never hit anybody but I’d give ’em the shits. Y ou could hear some o f them fart from 100 yards away.

But I’d always leave the plonkos alone, just yell at them to shut up i f they were screaming at the air. Most o f them did that sometimes.”

East Sydney has always been dismissed as just “ the brothel area” possibly be­ cause its reality frightened the people who liked their “ sin” respectable, like in Kings Cross.

Kings Cross for decades gave East Sydney a shadow for the proprietors o f public issues to ignore. The Cross has always been the district officiaEy and approvingly stamped "S in ” by politicians and local aldermen, the sort o f people who say it with a wink to impress overseas businessmen at an AustralianAmerican Association lunch, describing the desperate pantomime o f the spruikers and naughty photos outside the strip joints as the city’s safety valve. The same people who talk o f Melbourne as a cemetery with neon lights, but who o f course never m entioned East Sydney where their ow n little imaginations would be confronted in the streets.

The cement backyards where plonkos would lie fo r days, groaning in agony, unable to reach the few inches to another bottle o f m etho, are now paved with brick sometimes supporting the feet o f the new supporters o f the Labor party who in m ock strine over claret and a joint discuss the politics o f raising the con ­ sciousness o f the worker.

O xford street is perhaps East Sydney’s only border that suggests what it was like.

Scattered between the m ostly shabby shops are doorways with fading tinsel signs pointing to stairs going either steep­ ly up or steeply down to even shabbier one-room ed nightspots, each with its ow n brand o f bad-perfumed humidity.

O xford street and around Taylor Square has always been the rundown sister o f Kings Cross where the tourists dont go. Freaks first made regular appear­ ances in the cheap restaurants — art students from East Sydney technical c o l­ lege who were called “ Jesus Christs” even into the mid 60s and the eccentrics acceptable to newspapers because they fed pigeons in Hyde Park. They mingled with ambitious Greek cafe owners and Italian shoe store owners w h o didnt like the Maltese moving into Surry Hills.

In O xford street now a section o f the camp world has been able to set up its ow n version o f what both the Cross and East Sydney have offered heterosexuals a pickup joint, relatively unmolested meeting places, and a knowing that on e ’s aberrations will be catered for at best and simply ignored at worst.

William street, which neatly divides East Sydney and the ’ L oo on its way from the city to the Cross has car showroom s full o f Bentleys, Jaguars and Mercedes. Along College street there is the museum, Sydney grammar school, RSL headquarters and other buildings representing the past. Elsewhere sur­ rounding East Sydney skyscrapers began going up as the brothels began closing down.

There was one street, Yurong street, the last main street before the city centre border, where there were no brothels — only a call girl service in a block o f flats and also East Sydney’s one street tree, a dying sapling caged in mesh wire.

Flashing into half the homes were the neon reflections o f a dozen or so signs: the most prominent being the bright red ABC o n -o ff glow from one o f the com m is­ sion’s several buildings that kept within a respectable block or tw o o f William street.

One stormy night an ABC crew was shooting sequences for its series Contrabandits, requiring the firing o f tw o gun­ shots in an East Sydney street. N obody

to o k much notice o f the third shot until b lood started trickling down the gutter up the road from the filming. Mixed media.

But that was about as far as any official camera bothered to go. While camera crews com bed the old Padding­ ton, wandered through Newtown and had their counterparts in postgraduate sociol­ ogy studies, n obody bothered about the area unique to the nation.

The morality o f the brothel owners would at least allow for the plonkos to keep a shelter in the area, but not so the renovators. The elderly man who wears a fez and pushes a metal b ox cart and the man who always has a cat sitting on top o f his head sleep in the parks now. The girls, even if only in a beer-sodden senti­ mentality, would defend the old resi­ dents, the plonkos and the unfashionable eccentrics o f the city. New girls wouldnt for a while. But they soon came round after experiencing the world o f the pimp and the standover man.

If ever there was a clearer example of police acting for the vested interests of those who control the mainstream soci­ ety, it was the closing o f East Sydney.

What had been either ignored or tolerated for decades (when land values were down in the inner residential areas) suddenly became the centre o f moralising from the Askin government.

Flesh Valley had kept out the “ re­ spectable” land grabbers and wheeler dealers. What nice real estate agent could show big developers the “ potential” o f areas near where all that nasty stuff was going on? As the trend to inner city living, and the expansion o f the central business district began, meeting in areas like East Sydney, the brothel owners had to do deals. The police were slow to act at first but the deals had been done at high levels.

Land prices surrounding East Sydney had gone up ten times in one year and who could overlook an investment that would return 1000 percent? So the police, who seem to little realise just what lackeys they are in such cases, acted upon their instructions, having done their ow n smaller deals with the standover men and girls.

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Some of the occupation in the Council Chamber at A .N .U during the discussion of student demands

HE FIRST stage in the edu­ cation campaign at ANU ended as I inferred it might: in the occupation o f the administration building.

A mass meeting on campus was interrupted b y news that a small spontaneous group had begun sit­ ting in the corridor outside the vice-chancellor’s office.

David L ockw ood - who was addressing the meeting at the time - called for people to join the occupiers.

A bout 150 people then marched to the building. They decided to occu p y the council chambers, the Mills R oom o f the university chancery. Once in the room, dis­ cussion began as to what were the exact demands they would put to university council which was meeting in the same room next morning. The discussion, which lasted for 12 hours, was free o f violent arguments and disaggreements with various motions pass­ ed to expel the administration heavies who wandered in to o b ­ serve proceedings.

The m otion that was finally passed was: ‘ ‘ It is moved that the board o f the school o f general studies be directed to discuss the implemen­ tation o f the following demands: 1. Staff-student control, on an equal basis o f representation, in

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:he determining o f course con:ent.

2. Student choice o f the means o f assessment.

3. An end to overcrowded classes by the repetition o f lectures and tutorials, not b y the introduction af quotas.

4. The establishment o f a wom ­ ans studies course, the content o f which to be decided b y the women o f the university.”

It was then moved that the miversity council should be made :o pass our m otion. A fter taking :are o f all the serious business, the jroup embarked upon singing, eat­ ing and drinking as preparation was made to stay the night. Sleep­ ing bags, more fo o d and grog were acquired to make the stay more pleasant.

There were several staff mem­ bers who were on side and they :umed up to lend their support, in fact, one lecturer in philosophy

decided — as the occupation was so important - she would put to the vote whether to continue her class or retire to the occupied room s in the administration build­ ing. Her class voted to join the occupation.

The admin gave us free use o f their kitchen (some called the gesture “ repressive tolerance” ) which was a great asset as co ffe e and biscuits could be freely dis­ tributed among the 50 students who spent the night in the room.

By 6 am most peoples knowledge o f old songs was exhausted, as was their capacity fo r chess, cards and grog. S o the group settled down for a tw o hours sleep.

At eight we met again and once more discussed and confirm ed the m otion we had passed the night before to make sure solidarity reigned supreme. Once this was done, we prepared to meet cou n ­ cil. A t ten Council filed in to the

strains o f the Mickey Mouse Club anthem - they looked a trifle bemused by the sight o f a hun­ dred-odd students facing them.

(Our ranks had been swollen by the return o f those who did not stay the night.)

The thought o f dealing with students is one that council m em ­ bers probably find repugnant. H. C. (Nugget) C oom bs, the chair­ man o f council, decided he would take us on b y himself. This move was a wise one as when other council members did speak they embarrassed everybody, including C oom bs himself. One member, sir Norman Cowper, admitted during the discussion that he had not heart o f Woroni . . . remarkable for a man who is supposed to be running the university.

The council, as would be ex­ pected, rejected our m otion as they objected to the implication o f our demands. And as the im ­

plications o f our demands were progressive, they showed their true colors. It had already been decided we would accept no amendments to our m otion, as we had vetoed the idea o f com ­ promise. We told council this.

They proved impervious and p ro­ ceeded to move amendments.

They then tried to pass a gutless compromise motion.

When we saw that it was use­ less to try and explain our de­ mands to Council, we walked out to reconvene at the union building. Once there, we voted to continue to use direct action to gain the implementation o f our demands and we decided to o c ­ cupy the next meeting o f the board o f the school o f general studies, as they have the power to advise Council to grant our de­ mands.

This will take place on friday.

ANDREW BENJAMIN

INSIDE: Swotrags, Flinders, Tas CAE (p.12); AUS and a few Easter hang-ups (p.17).'

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CAMPUS papers are a t i o n a l u continues to MANY improve, though still hardly pushing the "L on g March” to in the forefront o f innovatory North West cape in may to protest journalism. Twelve pages instead against the presence o f US bases o f eight made the last one a lot in Australia.

Empire times (Flinders) is one better visually because there was room for a few pictures, and a o f these, and the last one I saw graphical cover. The wide range o f (april 1) also had material on the news items included tw o articles Greenpeace movement against on the Middle East, one anti- nuclear testing in the Pacific, zionist and one pro-zionist. Thailand, Chile, the trial o f Kevin The student votes on Palestine Gilbert as well as shorter news and reviews. ET is laid out through­ have had their effect . . . out in neat and attractive four * * * CENTRE SPREAD by Peter column pages; a very readable Conrick is an article called The design that has overcome well the state o f the student movement. limitations inherent in a paper The guts o f it talks about what that has to be typewritten instead has happened recently in Thai­ o f typeset. With Woroni, Lots land, Greece and Indonesia. While wife, Farrago and Rabelais it is a noting that student movements in good way ahead o f most student western Europe, Japan, North publications. Prize for the worst I America and Australia are “ wit­ have seen this year must go to nessing a period o f quiescence” Country honk. I can’t remember Conrick says that this is “ o f a where it is from and I have no temporary nature” and asserts intention o f looking at it again to that “ an effective leadership find out. The lads who edit the capable o f directing and coordin­ thing thought they would write ating struggles on a national and out the headings instead o f using international level” is what is letraset, and then they must have required. I suspect that it’s not as decided that looked nice, so they simple as that; as Peter himself wouldnt need any pictures . . . the acknowledges to some extent the content is as ratshit as the layout, social factors underlying student being the usual stuff you get from radicalism are very different in the ocker cult. A couple o f weeks Australia from those in third back I was saying how good it was world countries. There is no that w e’d all got beyond that sort guarantee, no matter how well o f stuff. Ho hum.

The last Farrago before easter they’re organised, that our stu­ an interview with dents will take to the streets in contained the near future. Which no doubt Charlie Perkins. Rather interest­ suits Bob Santamaria, assorted ingly, he comes across here as very vice-chancellors, the yanks and pro-ALP, at least in terms o f the party’s policies: “ The ALP has South Africans, to name a few. great potential in aboriginal •k k k WORONI reports that the big affairs.” On Cavanagh: “ He has news at ANU these days is the had to make some reassessment o f $61,000 union deficit: “ It is his position, but he is basically a general policy that, overall, the good bloke and there is great union should break even.” It value in people with a good seems the audit will be substan­ heart.” Other concerns at Mel­ tially qualified, to o . Allegations o f bourne these days are prison mismanagement and misappropri­ reform, opening up the university ation are flying around . . . for for community use, SRC in-fight­ details, see Andrew Benjamin's ing, the administration’s refusal to report (see page 11). provide badly needed child-care The econom ics faculty is facilities and the fo o d in the another Woroni target, not union.

From Tharunka (UNSW) I just surprising when you consider the 50 percent failure rate in first give you a quote: “ The univer­ year. The head o f the faculty, sity’s professorial board is con ­ professor Burgess Cameron, cerned at the dangers it sees in a doesnt seem to be to o worried — secondary school curriculum that he only comes in to the campus emphasises the personal and social on the tw o days a week he has needs o f the students rather than lectures. Not bad on over $20,000 a rigorous teaching o f subjects.”

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AN TH O N Y FORW ARD AST Wednesday, Lindsay Allen and myself happened to wander into the college electrician’s o ffice at Tasmania CAE. There in the corner o f the o ffice OUTSIDE the door o f the cafeteria’s cold storage room, sat a bag o f meat.

Now, according to a certain staff member, bags o f meat are frequently left to sit in a thawed condition, surrounded b y flies and even (as in this case) with holes in the plastic bag, in the electrician's room , whilst waiting for someone from Nationwide F oods (the cafeteria operators) to place it in the refrigerator.

Being an upright citizen, Lindsay rang the health depart­ ment, thinking that the horror o f

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W Economics production line N A recent article, Thomas Weisskopf, a member o f the U n io n of Radical Political Economics (URPE) in the United States wrote: “ Ten years ago hundreds o f thousands o f college students worked their way through Paul Samuelson’s introductory text in an effort to learn the mysteries o f economics. If they complained at all, they complained that ^ the book was to o long, or too dull or too difficult. “ Today, many more thousands o f college students continue to w ork th e ir w ay through Samuelson, but now there are many more complaints; not merely about its length, its tedium, or its difficulty, but about its inadequacies, its biases, and its failure to deal with the

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An "Australian edition” o f S a m u e ls o n ’ s magnum opus ( Econom ics: an introductory analysis) appeared in 1970. Partly re w ritte n by professor K. Hancock and Dr. R. Wallace, both o f Flinders university (SA ), the local version is virtually the same as Samuelson’s original, except that some Australian material has been added and the original “ racy language” (read overwhelming verbosity) has been somewhat toned down.

Yet, as one might expect, despite the rewriting the same com p lain ts which Weisskopf mentioned have surfaced in Australia.

The new protests, however, are not just directed at the S-H-W text, but at the whole m eth od of teaching which

such a grave health menace would bring health inspectors in their droves dow n on Nationwide Foods. The health department told us to ring the health inspec­ tor’s office at city hall, who in­ form ed us that the chief health inspector was out for the day and that there was nothing they could do. N ow Lindsay is a persistent fellow , he INSISTED that action be taken. Finally, a health inspec­ tor o f lesser importance than the absent chief, was summoned to talk to us on the other end o f the telephone wire. A fter saying how dreadful it was for quarter o f an hour, he inform ed us that he could not com e to the college to see the alleged meat crime, be­ cause there were no cars available at city hall. The whole fleet (the WHOLE fleet), were being used at the time, he said, and there was

simply no way that he could perform his duty in this matter, even though it grieved his heart to admit it.

To many people THAT would have been the finish o f THAT. A fter all, what could one d o when the meat inspector could n ot get a car? But our Lindsay Allen, the students rights always uppermost in his thought, offered to pay the taxi fare o f the said inspector if he would only com e and inspect our meat. But no, said the inspector, he really did not know whether he had time enough to spare from his already high workload anyway, (the implication being that OURS was a trivial matter when com par­ ed with the day to day m on ­ strosities which con fron t the aver­ age city hall health inspector), and besides, the chief inspector was away, and he really did not know

Our history has been stolen from us.

Our heroes died in childbirth, from peritonitis, overwork, oppression, from bottled-up rage.

Our geniuses were never taught to read or write.

We must find a past adequate to our ambitions.

We must create a future adequate to our needs.

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Hancock employs in running the econom ics course at Flinders university.

And that good professor is not impressed.

As one can quickly gather from reading the b o o k - no mean feat in itself Hancock is an A L P /s o c ia l d e m o cra t with e x tr e m e r ig h tw in g v ie w s, something which he can’t quite hide in his econom ics courses.

Seeing himself threatened on a number o f fronts within the university, he seems to be conducting a counter-attack, the results o f which could well result in another fracas like that in the econom ics faculty at Sydney university. (See TLD 12).

Last year a number o f students were prominent in agitating against the econom ics courses. In previous years they had been awarded first class honors, but when the final results emerged they received only second class levels. Before the results were announced, Hancock had, albeit privately, remarked that one o f the students concerned wouldnt

d o very well because he had spent to o much time “ with those communists” .

Then, towards the end o f last year, a member o f the philosophy department staff proposed a course on the philosophical basis o f econom ic theory. But, horror o f horrors, it was to be presented by a marxist/leninist.

The economists, led by Hancock, were aghast.

At that time the philosophy department was part o f both the school o f social sciences, which includes the economists, and the school o f humanities. There had previously been a great deal o f opposition to the group assessment methods u sed in th e p h ilo s o p h y department, and, shortly after the controversy over the philosophy o f econom ic theory course, the philosophers were not so subtly ejected from the school o f social sciences. Observers outside the department suggested the action was in retaliation against the philosophers for intruding on the economists home ground . . . and

doing it with a marxist analysis.

Academic imperialism rides again.

But H ancock’s problem s didnt end there. 1974 has seen a new group o f students objecting to the biased nature o f the Econom ics I curriculum, even to the extent o f th em organ isin g on-campus alternative lectures.

The professor wasnt slow in replying to the dissenters. Despite the fact that his econom ics course is supposed to be "value free” no “ value judgments” enter into it with a strict demarcation b e tw e e n “ e c o n o m ic s ” and “ politics” , Hancock has issued a sheet titled Marxism to first year students in what can on ly be described as a blatantly political act.

Headed Econom ics I: course material no. 7, the sheet is a reprint in part o f Solzhenitsyn’s letter originally published in the British Sunday times, tw o months ago.

The extract can be most charitably described as a stupid polemic, a caricature o f marxism

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I *G T K : m o n -th u rs , C h2, | 6 .3 0 p m .

M U S IC ♦ Y a rra Y a rra J a zzm e n : O ld M e lb o u rn e M o to r In n , B e n ja m in C ella r. ♦S u p p e r Show: F ly in g | T ra p e z e c a fe , B ru n s w ic k stre e t, F itz r o y .

POETRY ♦ D ia l- A - P o e m : 3 2 9 -6 0 3 9 .

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P O L IT IC S ♦ D is a r m a m e n t W eek: I C IC D w ill have speakers in th e streets d u rin g th e week, 2 08 Lt Lo nsdale I stre e t, c ity . ♦B an D ie ld rin P e titio n : P ort P h ilip E n v iro n m e n t C e n tre , 9 5 - 4 7 3 8 or G illia n I W h ite 9 9 - 5 4 2 4 .

THEATRES ♦O restes T r ilo g y : c o m m .

I fr id a y , prom ises to be q u ite s p e c ta c u lar, note | e a rly s ta rt, Pram F a c to r y , 325 D ru m m o n d stre e t, I C a rlto n , w e d -s u n , 6 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 studs, 3 4 7 -7 1 3 3 . : ♦W o rd s an d M usic by S am u el B e c k e tt, plus L a d y Lazaru s (a s k e tc h ): A c to rs and m usicians a tte m p t to com pose a piece, La M a m a , 205 F a ra d a y s treet, C a r lto n , th u rs -s u n , 8 .3 0 p m . ♦ T h e O rganiser b y T im B a ld w in : new A u s tra lia n p la y , A c t o r ’s th e a tre , 1 9 6 C h u rc h s tre e t, R ic h m o n d , fri-s u n , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 2 , $ 1 .5 0 studs, 5 0 - 2 5 3 4 . ♦ Q u o ta tio n s o f C h a irm a n M ao b y E d w a rd A lb e e : I G u ild th e a tre , M e lb o u rn e u n i u n io n bld g , P a rk v ille , 1 .3 0 p m , 5 0 c , 3 4 7 -4 1 8 6 . ♦The D ra g o n : U n io n th e a tre , M e lb o u rn e un i I u n io n , 8 p m . ♦T he Glass C u rta in by I W illia m B ates: th re e-a c t I com edy satire about [th e a tre scene in I M e lb o u rn e , T a it th e a tre , 107 L e ic e s ter street, I C a r lto n , fri-s u n , 8 .1 5 p m ,

studs, $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 3 4 7 -1 5 1 5.

E d w a rd ♦The Sea by street B ond : Russell m on-sat, th e a tre , c ity , p re -d in n e r fri 8 .1 5 p m , $ 4 .2 0 , $ 1 .7 5 5.1 5 p m studs, 6 5 4 -4 0 0 0 . ♦O p e ra Season: C heck d a ily papers f o r m o re in fo , Princess th e a tre , Spring stre e t, c ity , m on-sat, 8 p m , 6 6 2 -2 9 1 1 . ♦ T h e P rim e o f Miss Jean B ro d ie : D ir b y E liza b e th H ind s, t ill fr i, V ia d u c t th e a tre , 27a C ro m w e ll ro a d , SY, 2 4 -1 9 3 7 , 8.1 5 p m . ♦ M a c b e th : Shakespeare version, p e rfo rm e d b y th e M a lv e r n th e a tre co, m on-sat, 8 .1 5 p m , 29 B urke ro a d , E . M a lv e rn , c om m sat.

F IL M S ♦T h e se m ay change at a m o m e n t’ s no tice, so check w ith cinem a to be sure. ♦ L o v e and Pain (N R C ) plus T o F in d th e M a n , L lo y d B ridges (M ): C a rlto n c in e m a , F a ra d a y stre e t, thurs-sun, 7 .4 5 p m , 90c, 3 4 7 -5 5 2 4 . ♦ L o v e and Pain (N R C ) plus T o S ir w ith L o ve ( N R C ), o r w h a t to do w ith a bunch o f slum kids if you must teach th e m . Last Tan g o in Paris (R ) fro m thurs: F o o ts c ra y G ra n d , Paisley ro a d , m o n -s a t, 7 .4 0 p m , $ 1 .4 0 , 6 8 -1 1 3 8 . ♦ T ra v els w ith m y A u n t (M ) and E n g la n d M a d e M e ( M ) , G ra h a m e G re e n e d o u b le: D e n d y M a lv e rn , G le n fe rrie road, 7 days, $ 2 .5 0 , 5 0 9 -0 5 5 5 . ♦B la zin g Saddles (M ), h ila r io u s s a tire on c o w b o y s, or so th e y say: D e n d y B rig h to n , C h u rc h s tre e t, n ig h tly 7 .4 5 p m , sat 3 .3 0 p m , sun 1 .4 5 p m , $ 2 .5 0, $ 1 .4 0 studs, 9 2 -8 8 1 1.

Sensualist (R ) ♦The fin is h in g soon: T r a k , 4 4 5 ro a d , n ig h tly 6, T o o rak sat 2 .3 0 p m , sun 8 .3 0 p m 5 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .2 0 studs.

2 4 -9 3 3 3 . ♦The Young and th e D am ned (M ) (L o s O lv id a d o s ), B u n u e l’ s film a b o u t th e backstreets in M e x ic o . G o o d supports, to o : Palais, Ir Esplanade, St K ild a , n ig h tly 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 ,

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$ 1 .2 0 studs, 9 4 - 0 6 5 1 . ♦ D a y f o r N ig h t ( N R C ) : R iv o li T w in 1, C a m b e rw e ll J u n c tio n , n ig h tly 7 .4 5 p m , sat, sun 4 .1 5 p m , $ 2 . 2 5 , $1 studs, 82-1 2 2 1 . ♦Save th e T ig e r (M ) w ith Jack Lem m on, a w a rd w in n in g film a b o u t th e re fle c tio n s of a m id d le ageing businessm an: R iv o li T w in 2 , above address, n ig h tly 8 .1 5 , sat, sun 5 p m , $ 2 .2 5 , $1 studs, 8 2 - 1 2 2 1 . ♦ L iv e and L e t D ie ( N R C ) till w ed, P o s e id o n A d v e n tu re ( N 4 V -0 ) com m ences th u rs : H o y ts M a lv e rn , G le n fe r r ie and D an d e n o n g roads, n ig h tly 8 p m , sun 5 p m , 5 0 - 3 1 9 3 . ♦ L iv e and L e t D ie ( N R C ) till w e d , c heck w ith cinem a fo r fu r th e r de ta ils : H o y ts C a m b e rw e ll, 734 B u rk e ro a d , n ig h tly 8pm , sat 2p m , 5p m , 8 2 -1 0 0 0 . ♦ L iv e and L e t D ie ( N R C ) t ill w e d , th e n c heck w ith cin e m a : H o y ts B e n tle ig h , 3 5 9 C en tre ro a d , n ig h tly 8, sat 1, 4 .1 5 p m , sun 5 p m , 97-1 6 0 0 .

G A L L E R IE S ♦Y vonne D a n ie ll — p ain ting s, re tu rn s to serious p a in tin g a fte r raising a large f a m ily , op en ing tues: B a rtin i In te r n a tio n a l G a lle r y , 54 S m ith stre e t, C o llin g w o o d , tues-sat, 1 0 a m -6 p m , sun 2 -6 p m . ♦ A R o o m o f O n e's O w n : 3 d iffe r e n t w o m e n ’s p ain tin g s, E w in g g a llery , M e lb o u rn e uni u n io n , m o n -fri 1 0 a m -8 p m , sat 12 n o o n -6 p m . ♦ G ra c e C ossingto n S m ith : A u s tra lia n im pressionist re tro s p e c tiv e e x h ib itio n fin ishes s un, N a tio n a l G a lle r y , 1 8 0 S t K ild a ro a d , closed m on, 1 0 a m -5 p m o th e r days, 1 0 a m -9 p m wed. ♦ H o lla r P rin ts : m a in ly etchings o f landscapes, insects in E n g la n d , 1 7 th c e n tu r y , N a tio n a l G a lle r y , see above. ♦ M a r k S t r i z i c : P h o to c h ro m e p r in t s , d o w n s ta irs an d R o n R o w e , m ac h in e cera m ic s, upstairs: R e a litie s , 6 0 Ross stre e t, T o o r a k , m o n -fr i, 1 0 a m -5 p m , sat 1 0 a m -2 p m , b o th end sat.

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F IL M ♦H e a d F ilm s: fa r o u t so to speak, B la ck Fu ngus, M a n d a la , K -T a p e , and o th e rs , F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , 3 1 . 3 2 3 7 , 1 0 p m , w e d . to s at., $ 1 .5 0 . ♦ C a s to r an d P o llu x : P re m ie re , d o c o on G u y s o f th e F in k s M o to rc y c le C lu b and A d r ia n R a w lin s , love and peace preach er, F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , St Peters la n e , D a rlin g h u rs t, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 8pm , tues-sat, $ 1 .5 0 . ♦ T r u f f a u t ’ s D a y F o r N ig h t: A cadem y T w in , P addo , 3 3 .4 4 5 3 , 2 .3 0 , 5 .3 0 , 8 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 .

DANCE ♦ S la n s k , th e Polish N a tio n a l song and dance c o m p a n y : C a p ito l th e a tre , 2 1 1 .2 5 2 2 , m o n -s a t, 8 .1 5 p m , $ 3 . 7 0 , 4 .7 0 , 5 .7 0 plus concessions. ♦ M a rg F o n te y n , Iv a n N ag y and th e S c o ttis h B alle t: R eg en t th e a tre , tues-sat, 8 .1 5 p m b o o k firs t usual agencies.

THEATRE ♦ D im b o o la : a w e d d in g re c e p tio n p lay b y Jack H ib b e r d , B o n a p a rte s th e a tre re s ta u ra n t, 3 5 7 .2 5 9 6 , m o n -th u r s $ 7 .0 0 , fri-s a t $ 8 .0 0 , in c l. fo o d . ♦T he Genesians present: T h e C o m e d y o f E rro rs b y W . S hakesp eare, G enesians, 4 2 0 K e n t s tre e t, 7 9 8 .3 6 0 8 , f r i, sat o n ly . ♦ S m a ll C ra ft W arnings: by Tennessee W illia m s , In d e p e n d e n t t h e a tr e , N o r th Sydney, w ed-sat, 8 .1 5 p m . ♦ C o ra lie L a n s d o w n e Says

N o : b y A le x B u z o , w o rth a lo o k , good as usual, N im ro d s tre e t th e a tre , 3 3 .3 9 3 3 , tues-su n, 8 .3 0 p m , w e d 5 .3 0 p m , 8 .4 5 p m . ♦ T h e R o c k y H o r ro r S h o w : a science fic t io n rock ’ n ro ll B -m o v ie a w a rd w in n in g m usical, N e w A r t C in e m a , G le b e , 6 6 0 . 3 9 2 2 , tues-sat 9 .3 0 p m , plus 7 .1 5 p m w e d , f r i, sat, $ 3 .8 0 , $ 4 .8 0 . ♦W h o ’ s W ho: by W a te rh o u s e and H a ll, E n s e m b le th e a tre , M ils o n ’ s P o in t, 8 p m , sat, 5 p m , 8 p m . ♦ T h e F r o n t Page: b y th e N a tio n a l T h e a tr e C o m p a n y o f G re a t B rita in , d ire c t fr o m th e O ld V ic , H e r M ajesty’s t h e a tre , 2 1 2 .2 2 4 4 , 8pm , $ 5 .5 0 , 4.50, 3.50 plus concessions, m atin e e s w e d , sat, A n z a c D a y , 2 p m . ♦ N a th a n a nd T a b ile th : Q Lunch Hour th e a tre , 1.1 Opm , m o n -fri. ♦The P la y b o y of th e W e s tern W o rld : b y Jo h n M illin g to n S yn g e , O p era H ouse, 6 6 3 .6 1 2 2 , 8pm , e x c e p t sun, $ 5 .5 0 , 4 .7 0 , 2 .7 5 , studes on m o n , tues, w ed. ♦ H e llo a nd G o o d b y e : by A t h o l F u g a rd , A u s tra lia n th e a tre , 4 1 . 3 8 4 1 , tues-sat, 8 .1 5 p m , sun 7 .3 0 p m . ♦ L e a r : b y E d w a rd B o n d , O ld T o te P arade th e a tre , 6 6 3 .6 1 2 2 , 8 p m , sat 2 p m . ♦ L a b o ra to ry T h e a tre , P o lan d : in A p o c a ly p s is c u m F ig u ris , D ir e c to r J e rz y G r o to w s k i, tues, th u r o n ly , b o o k fir s t 3 1 .6 6 1 1 . ♦ T h e D ra g o n V a r ia tio n : by R o b e rt K in g , M a ria n s tre e t th e a tre , th u r-s a t, 8 .1 5 p m , sun 7 .3 0 p m , $ 3 .5 0 , 2 .7 5 , d in n e r also a v a ila b le , b o ok firs t.

E X H IB IT IO N IS M ♦M atthew F lin d e r s Personal B elongings: on e x h ib itio n at L ib r a r y of N S W , m on-sat, 1 Oan> 5pm , sun 2 p m -6 p m . ♦ S o m e R e c e n t A m e ric a n A r t : w o rth a geek, see Blue Poles and Us v ideo at th e same tim e , A r t G a lle ry of N S W , m on-sat 1 0 a m -5 p m , th u r to 1 0 p m , sun 1 2 -5 p m , 2 0 cents, fre e on tues. ♦ P a in tin g s b y S te in m a n n , H a r t, F rie n d , Johnson, o th ers : S tra w b e rry H ill gallery, 6 9 9 .1 0 0 5 , I 0 a m -6 p m . ♦ L i o n e l H o w e s Photography: la r g e e x h ib itio n o f pics, T h e P h o tographers G a lle ry , 3 0 E b le y stre e t, B o n d i J et, m o n -fri 11 a m -5 p m , sat I I a m -4 p m , 30c .

SOUNDS ♦ S te w a r t and M cKay: Rock and a little ro ll, Jools, C ro w n stre e t, East Sydney. ♦ S ilv e r C lo u d — R o c k: S tagecoach . ♦S ound F a c to ry — S o u l/r o c k : W h is k e y , 8 -3 a m , $ 2 .0 0 . ♦ T ra n s itio n — R o c k: O ceanic h o te l, w ed-sat o n ly .

K ID S ♦ A rt fo r th e Young: p ain ting s esp. chosen fo r k id s , The C laredale G a lle r y , T u rra m u rra , 44.6 20 1 , tues-fri, 1 0 a m -3 p m , sat, 1 0a m -4 p m .

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P a v ilio n , M a y 7, tic k e ts on sale now , all agencies, $ 5 .2 0 , 4 .2 0 , 8 .4 5 p m . ♦ J im m y E d w a rd s , E ric S ykes: in Big B ad M ou se, next w eek, E liz a b e th a n theatre, Newtown, 8 .1 5 p m , m on-sat, tic k e ts at usual agencies. ♦ C o n c e rt fo r E c o lo g y A c tio n : w it h Jo h n H o p k in s , m em bers o f th e Sydney Symphony O rc h e s tra and th e R e n a is s a n c e P la y e r s , Sydney Town H a ll, 7 .4 5 p m , m a y 5, booking s a t M itc h e lls . G race Bros. *M u s ic < f V iv a A u s tra lia : y o u th series, classics, e x p e rim e n ta l, ja z z , O p era H ouse, tues, m ay to S eptem b er, six concerts fo r $ 8 , fo r in fo ring 2 9 .8 4 4 1 . ♦Q u e en slan d F estival of th e A rts : M a y ’ 7 4 , w rite 5 th f lo o r , C o m m o n w e a lth B ank b u ild in g , K ing G eorge S qu are, B risbane, or p h o n e 2 9 .3 8 0 5 . ♦ A u s tra lia n Festiv a l o f th e P e rfo rm in g A rts : present th ru m ay th e Best of A u s tra lia n Jazz, looks g o o d , w r ite 9 S un crest avenue, fo r deta ils or ph o n e 9 2 9 .4 8 5 3 , starts m ay 5, w ith U n ity J azz E n s e m b le , G a la p a g o s D u c k , D ic k H ughes. ♦ A c k e r B ilk a nd his P a ra m o u n t Jazz B an d: H o rd e rn P a v ilio n , m a y 4 , $ 4 .5 0 , 3 .5 0 . ♦Women’ s Abortion C am paig n M a rc h /D e m o : M e lb o u rn e , C it y S qu are, S ydney, W y n y a rd P a rk , 1 0 .3 0 a m , m ay 1 1 , m ore info 0 2 . 6 6 0 .1 990, 0 3 .3 4 7 .1 5 6 4 .

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F IL M S ♦T h e se m a y T change at a m o m e n t’s n o tic e , so check w ith cinem as to be sure. ♦ A lv in P u rp le: G len elg C in e m a 1, n ig h tly , 2 9 4 -3 3 6 6 . ♦ T h e S ensualist: G len elg C in e m a 2 , n ig h tly 8 .1 5 , 2 9 4 -3 3 6 6 . ♦ A T o u c h o f Class: H o y ts C in e m a 3 , m o n -s a t, 1 1 a m , 2 p m , 5 p m , 8 p m , sun 5 p m , 7 .4 5 p m . 8 7 . 5 5 8 2 . ♦ L iv e and L e t D ie : H o y ts C in e m a 1, m on-sat, 1 1a m , 2 p m , 5 p m , 8 p m , sun 5 p m , 7 .4 5 p m , 2 2 3 - 2 2 3 3 . ♦ P a p illo n : H o y ts C inem a 2 , m o n -s a t, 1 1 a m , 2 p m , 5pm , 8pm , sun 5pm , 7 .4 5 p m , 2 2 3 - 6 1 0 0 . ♦ M a rn e : F o ru m , n ig h tly 8 .1 5 p m , 2 6 7 - 1 5 0 0 . ♦ T h e E r o tic M a n : V illa g e , n ig h tly 8 p m , 2 9 5 - 4 1 6 6 . ♦ B lu m e in L o v e : V o g u e , 8 p m , also th u rs 1 1 p m , sat, sun 5 p m , 7 4 - 2 3 3 3 . ♦ A lv in P u rp le: C a p ri,

2 7 2 -1 1 7 7 . ♦ M a g n u m F o rc e : M a rio n , tu e s -th u rs , 2 9 6 -1 1 5 7 . ♦ T h e W a y W e W e re: F a ir L a d y , m o n -sat 1 1 a m , 2 p m , 5 .1 5 p m . 8 .1 5 p m , sun 2 p m , 7 .3 0 p m , 5 1 - 7 7 7 7 . ♦ T a m in g o f th e S h re w : W a rn e r, m o n -s a t, 11am , 2 p m , 5 p m , 8 p m , 8 7 -5 6 6 5 . ♦The E x o rc is t: W ests, m o n -th u rs 11am , 2pm , 5 p m , 8 p m , fr i a nd sat 1 0 .4 5 a m , 1 .4 5 p m , 4 .4 5 p m , 7 .4 5 p m , 1 0 .1 5 p m , sun 2 p m , 5 p m , 8 p m , 5 1 -4 4 1 1 . ♦L ad y K u n g -F u : S ta te , n ig h tly 8 p m , 5 1 - 2 6 2 1 . ♦ S im o n , K in g of th e W itch es and V o ice s : M e tro , n ig h tly 8 p m , 5 1 .3 3 4 4 . ♦P a p e r M o o n : d ir P eter B o g d a n o v ic h , Sturt, n ig h tly 8 p m , 5 1 - 2 5 5 2 . ♦ P rim e of Miss Jean B ro d ie and C a b a re t: Rom a C in e m a , 2 1 a G ilb e r t place, c o n tin u o u s sessions fro m 1 .1 5 p m , 8 7 - 4 6 2 1 .

THEATRE ♦ A ll in G o o d T im e — A rts th e a tre , C om edy: tues-sat A ngas s treet, 8.1 5 p m . ♦ F id d le r on th e R o o f — M usical: C o tta g e th e a tre , D e q u e tte v ille terrace, K e n t T o w n , 8 .3 0 pm . ♦ A L it t le N ig h t M usic — M usical com edy: H er M a je s ty ’s, unsold tic k e ts cheap to s tu d e n ts , 15 m in u tes b e fo re c u rta in opens. ♦ H e r F irs t False S tep — M e lo d ra m a : O ld Kings M u s ic H a ll, 318 K ing W illia m stre e t, w ed-sat 8 .3 0 p m , $ 8 . 5 0 , $ 7 .5 0 (b u t includes fo o d ). ♦ T w o o f a K in d : Q th e a tre , 8 9 H a lifa x street.

E X H IB IT IO N IS M ♦ A r t G a lle ry o f S A — S ensberg and A rm s tro n g e x h ib itio n : S c u lp tu re and p a in tin g , N o r th te rra c e. ♦ P e te r’ s Piles of Paper

Pieces — a paper even t: 8 8 Jerningh am stre e t, N o r th A d e la id e . ♦ S ta te L ib r a r y o f S A — A n t h r o p o lo g y disp la y: N o rth te rra c e. ♦ B u n d illa S a n c tu a ry — W illia m Ricketts sculptures: 11 6 W a lk e rv ille te rra c e, W a lk e rv ille . ♦Sydenham G a lle ry — e x h ib itio n b y L iz Fraser: 16 S y d e n h a m s tre e t, N o r ­ w o o d , tues-sat 1 p m -5 p m . ♦Contemporary Art S o c ie ty — c o n c e p tu a l art b y B ob R am s e y: 1 4 P o rte r street, P arksid e, d a ily 1 p m -6 pm .

BOOK NOW • W in t e r Trees — a lte rn a tiv e th e a tre , m im e , ritu a l, b a lle t, p lay p ro d u c tio n of T h re e W o m e n by S y lv ia P la th : L it t le th e a tre , A d e la id e un i, m ay 2 n d -4 th , and 9 t h - 1 1 th , $ 1 .2 5 , studs 75c.

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SOUNDS * J e r r y th e V o c a lis t: plus e x o tic percussionists, O ld Push, 7 .3 0 -1 1 .3 0 p m . *E c lip s e A lle y F iv e — T ra d ja z z : V a n it y F a ir h o te l, C a m p b e ll s tre e t, 7 .3 0 p m , free . * T im B ro w n — J a zz p ian o : N o rt h b ridge h o te l, 7 .3 0 -1 0 .0 0 p m . *G re g L a w rie a nd Ian W in te r — R o c k : F re n c h ’s W in e b a r, 7 .4 5 -1 0 .0 0 p m . * la n M ason — H o n k y to n k p ian o : S ta g e d o o r T a v e rn , 6-1 0 .0 0 p m . * H o t C it y B u m p B and, S ebastian H a rd y — R o c k: C hequers. *P ira n a , La D e Das — R o c k : M e a d o w b a n k high school. * A b b y J a zz B an d: Lo rd D u d le y h o te l, W o o lla h ra , 7 .3 0 -1 0 .0 0 p m . ♦P eter Boothman E n s e m b le : L im e r ic k C astle.

C L A S S IC S ♦S m e ta n a Q u a rte t: C zech C h a m b e r E n s e m b le , O p era H ouse, 8 .1 5 p m , $ 4 .5 0 , $ 3 .5 0 , $ 2 .2 5 , check firs t, 2 9 .8 4 4 1 . ♦The Sydney Sym phony Orchestra: Mozart, T c h a ik o v s k y , O p era H ouse, 8 p m , $ 3 .7 0 , 2 .8 0 , 1 .9 0 , in fo 3 1 .0 2 1 1 . ♦ J e n n ife r B ate : English organist, plays B ach, M e n d e ls s o h n , P a c h e llb el, G re a t H a n , S y d n e y uni, in fo 4 2 8 .1 4 8 3 , 8pm , $ 2 .0 0 , studes $ 1 .0 0 .

F IL M ♦Executive A c tio n : A ssassination o f K e n n e d y , A c a d e m y T w in , 2.1 5, 5 .1 0 , 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 . ♦ H is to r y o f th e C in e m a Series: U S S R M e jra b p o m , 1 9 2 5 , th e m echanism of th e b ra in , F ilm m a k e rs c in e m a , 6pm , 1 0 .0 0 p m , M em b ers o n ly $ 1 .0 0 , jo in a t d o o r $ 3 .0 0 . ♦ O f f H o lly w o o d Season: T a k in g O f f , G e t to K n o w y o u r R a b b it, A n za c H ouse a u d ito riu m , C olleg e s treet, $ 1 .2 0 ; 8 0 c stu, m em bers o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 . ♦ L a d y Sings th e Blues: w ith D ia n a Ross, M a n ly S ilv e r S cre e n , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 . ♦ M a n fr o m D ee p R iv er, W a rh o l’s H e a t: R a n d w ic k R itz , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .8 0 .

T V , R A D IO ♦ F r o m In d ia and N e p a l: T h e flo o r o f H ea v e n , doco on th e K a tm a n d u V a lle y , C h 2 , 7 .5 5 p m . ♦ C h e q u e rb o a rd : I'm in a h u rry to becom e an a d u lt, th e fir s t o f a trilo g y a b o u t adolescents, C h 2 , 8 .0 0 p m . ♦O ur Joan S u th e rla n d : bless her, sings th e role o f G ala te a in a recording of H a n d e l’s A cis and G a la te a , R ad io 2 , 8 p m . ♦Movie: A ssassination B u rea u , w ith D ia n a Rigg, K u rt Jurgens, O liv e r R eed, pla^ new spaper reporters and assassinators, C h 7, 9pm . ♦ H e ll O n Fris c o B ay: w ith E d w a rd G . R o b in s o n , A la n L a d d and o th e r cops and robb ers, no lig h tw eig h ts a llo w e d , C h 1 0 , 1 0 p m . ♦R oom a t th e T o p : a yo u n g a c c o u n ta n t th ro w s th e c alc u la tin g m achine to th e w in d s and falls fo r th e boss’ s d a u g h te r, Ch 9, 1 0 .3 0 p m .

WEDNESDAY F IL M ♦Executive Action: assassination o f K e n n e d y , A c a d e m y T w in , 2 .1 5 , 5 .1 0 , 8 D m . $ 2 .5 0 . ♦ S h irle y T h o m p s o n vs th e A lie n s plus E is e n s te in ’s

Prepared by Stephen Wall, who also acts as T LD outpost and copy host, Tuesdays to Thursdays, at IS Arthur street, Surry Hills, 698.2652.

S trik e : W allace th e a tre , S y d n e y u n i, 6 p m , 5 0 c . ♦Fat C ity : w ith J e ff Bridges, U n io n th e a tre , S y d n e y u n i, 5 0 c , 2 p m . ♦ A fr ic a n Q u ee n : B ogart, Hepburn, T a n g e r in e T e m p le , O x fo r d and R eg en t streets, P addo , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 . ♦ K in g L e a r: b y Russia’s K o zin ts e v , O p era H o u s e , 7 .3 0 p m , in fo 2 1 2 .2 3 1 3 , $ 2.0 0 .

♦ L a d y Sings th e Blues: w ith D ia n a Ross, M a n ly S ilve r S creen, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2.0 0 .

M E D IA ♦ R a d io play: London A ssurance, R a d io 1, 1 1 .0 0 a m . ♦ W ilfr id T h o m a s : looks at th e p o p u la r arts in B rita in , A B C R ad io 2 , 7 .3 0 p m . ♦Perspective: W h o O w ns th e Sea, do co on o u td a te d international l aws p resen tly w o rk in g to H o w a r d H u g h e s ’ advantage, C BC p ro d u c e d , C h 2 , 8 .5 0 p m . ♦Access: c o m m u n it y groups d o th e ir o w n show using A u n ty ’ s gear, this week, th e N S W m en tal h ealth asso ciation, C h 2, 1 0.1 5 p m . ♦The B eat G e n e ra tio n : m ovie w h ic h m ay even have som e c o n n e c tio n w ith th e t itle (it hasnt re a lly : a lo t o f actors being “ angry youn g m e n ’’ ), Ch 7, 1 0 .3 0 p m .

A C T IO N ♦ M r D . M o re y : D e p u ty d ire c to r o f P ro b a tio n and Parole w ill ta lk on prison re fo rm and th e penal re fo rm m o v e m e n t. T h a t ’s w hat th e pro g ra m says a n y w a y , H u m a n is t H ouse, 10 S h e p h e rd stre e t, C h ip p e n d a le , 7 .4 5 p m . ♦See th e ABC Access program recorded : to n ig h t ring d a y tim e , 4 3 .0 4 3 3 e x t 4777.

SOUNDS ♦ Ia n M ason — H o n k y to n k pian o : S tag e d o o r T a v e rn , 6-1 0 p m . ♦B o b B ernard A ll stars — M a in s trea m ja z z : O ld Push, 8-1 2pm . ♦ H a rb o r C ity J azz B and — D ix ie ja z z : B ro n te Charles h o tel, 7 -1 0 p m , free . ♦C h ris T a p p e ra c , D ave Furniss — Jazz: Fo rest Lodge h o te l.

G leb e, 7 .3 0 - 1 0 p m . ♦ M e rv A ch eson T r io — Jazz: B ellevue h o te l, P addo, 7 .3 0 - 1 0 p m . ♦ F la k e — H ea v y ro c k: G o o d tim e C harlies A stra h o tel, B o n d i, 8 -1 0 p m , $

2. 0 0 .

♦ S im b a , Sebastian H a rd y — R o c k : C hequers. ♦ R ic h a rd C la p to n B and — R o c k : F re n c h ’s W in e b a r, D a rio , 7 .4 5 -1 0 p m . ♦ D a rts K e lim o c u m F o lk C lu b : M a in ly tr a d itio n a l, E liz a b e th h o te l, 8 p m , 7 0 c . ♦John B u rk e — Blues: L im e ric k C astle.

THURSDAY T V , R A D IO ♦ L iv e T e lecast o f A n za c D ay M a rc h : no w , w h a t can be said th a t hasnt been said a lre a d y , Ch 2 , 9 .0 0 a m . ♦ T h e P ick o f th e G o ons: (H e e lio o o ), A B C R ad io 1, 8pm . ♦ G ig i: a m o v ie about A m e r ic a n film stars speaking w ith F re n c h accents. M a u ric e C he va lie r is m ea n t to add charm and a u th e n tic ity . (In fa c t, he sits on patio s and p o n tific a te s w ith bo ring g aelic w h in e ), C h 7 , 9 p m . ♦ T h e E rn ie S ig ley S h o w : if yo u happ en to fin d yourself s m a s h ed, straig hten o u t w ith this show , C h 9 , 9 p m . ♦ B .B . K in g in C o n c e rt:

unedited

Sydney

p e rfo rm a n c e , ABC TV, 9 .5 0 p m . ♦A D is c u s s i o n on P a ra p sy c h o lo g y : a BBC d o co w ith believers and sceptics ta lk in g it o u t, R a d io 2 , 1 0.1 5 p m . ♦ A u s tra lia n F o lk Series: rep ea t o f D e c la n A f f le y ’s B o u n d f o r B o ta n y B a y , R a d io 2 , 1 1 . 1 0 p m .

SOUNDS ♦D on D e S ilva — T r a d ja z z : M a c q u a rie h o te l, T h e L o o , 7 .3 0 -1 0 p m . ♦D eep B ayou — Blues, ja z z , e tc,: Stage Door T a v e rn , 7-1 2 p m . ♦The U n ity Jazz E n s e m b le : w ith Evi P ic k ie r, O ld Push, 8-1 2 p m . ♦ G o ld to p s — Blues: F re n c h ’ s W in e b a r, D a rio , 7 .4 5 -1 0 p m . ♦ S im b a , S ebastian H a r d y — R o c k : C h equers. ♦ F la k e — H e a v y , heavy ro c k : G o o d T im e C harlies, Astra h o te l, B o n d i, 8-1 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 . ♦ E ig h t D a y C lo c k — Big band/rock: K e a to n s , O x fo r d s tre e t, S u rry H ills , 8pm . ♦ D a d d y C o o l an d others: H o rd e rn p a v ilio n , 3 3 .3 7 6 9 , 2 p m , $ 2 .0 0 . ♦R h o n d a M a w e r, B rian Crawford, Derrick C h e tw y n : T r a d f o lk w ith a little c o u n tr y , R ed L io n In n h o te l, 8-1 0 p m , 7 0 c . ♦ M o ro c c o — F o lk ro c k : L im e r ic k C astle.

F IL M ♦ T h e B alla d o f Joe H ill: O p era House, 2pm , 5 .4 5 p m , 8 .3 0 p m , $ 3 .0 0 , K ids $ 1 .5 0 a t e a rly shows. ♦ L a d y Sings th e Blues: w ith D ia n a Ross, M a n ly S ilve r S creen, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2. 0 0 .

A C T IO N ♦ U n i N S W F o o d C o -O p : th u rs d a y eve n in g , 5 -7 p m , cheap f o o d , f r u it , vegs, nu ts, p a p e r bags. ♦ A n z a c D a y M a rc h : bring flags, m ed als, o ld 3 0 3 s e tc, m ak e war not p o ke r m achines, begins about 9 a m ., M a r tin P lace.

FRIDAY SOUNDS ♦ R ic h a rd C la p to n — R o c k : F re n c h 's W in e b a r, D a rio , 7 .4 5 - 1 0 p m , fre e . ♦P u m a — R o c k : L a n e C ove T o w n H a ll. ♦ S im b a , W itc h e s B re w — R o c k : C he q u e rs. ♦ M o d e rn Jazz: W h ite H orse h o te l, 21 K in g s tre e t, N e w to w n . ♦The Unity Jazz E n s e m b le : w it h Evi P ic k ie r, O ld Push, 8-1 2 p m . ♦ D o n D e Silva — Jazz: M a c q u a rie h o te l, T h e L o o , 7 .3 0 -1 0 p m . ♦N oel C ro w ’s S to n e d C ro w s — Jazz: W o o lp a c k hotel, Parramatta, 7 .3 0 - 1 0 p m . ♦D eep B a y o u — Blues, ro c k , ja z z : Stage Door T a v e rn , 7-1 0 p m . ♦ D o u g A s h d o w n , J u n io r and th e G o ld to p s , Lee W illia m s — C o u n try , blues: O range D o o rs , c n r O x fo r d Reeg en t s treets, . . P. addo . and■ R , $ 1 .5 0 , 8 p m . ♦ O ld E ng lish Pub F o lk songs; B elle v u e h o te l, P a d d o , 7 .3 0 p m . ♦ A r n o ld G nauk, M o ra g C h e tw y n , D ec la n A f f le y — T ra d f o lk : R e d L io n In n h o te l, 8 -1 0 p m , 7 0 c . ♦ D a rts K e lim o c u m F o lk C lu b : E liz a b e th h o te l, upstairs, 8 p m , 7 0 c . ♦Tobasco F o u r — T ra d ja z z : L im e r ic k C astle.

R A D IO , T V ♦J a zz on a F r id a y N ig h t: M ik e H a rris ta lk s w ithi E ric ...............................................

C h ild a b o u t th e h is to ry of ja z z in th e m ovies, A B C R ad io 1, 7 .1 5 p m .

♦ R o a d to S in g a p o re : m ovie w ith B o b H o p e and B ing C ro s b y , C h 9 , 1 0 .3 0 p m . ♦ U n d e r T e n Flags: W W II d ra m a a b o u t a G e rm a n surface ra id e r ta k in g a h eavy t o ll on allied s h ip p in g , w a te rtig h t p lo t b u t o u t o f m y d e p th , Ch 1 0 , 1 1 .1 5 p m .

N O S T A L G IA ♦ T h e Pirates o f Penzance: by R o c k d a le M u n ic ip a l O p era C o ., R o c k d a le T o w n H a ll, 8 p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 5 0 .

F IL M ♦ N F T A Classics: H ea rts of th e W o rld , 1 9 1 8 , B ro k e n B lossom s, 1 9 1 9 b y D .W .

G r if f i t h , AMP th e a tre , C irc u la r Q uay, $ 1 .2 0 , m em bers o n ly , jo in fo r th re e n ik k a . ♦ S le u th : U n io n th e a tre , S y d n e y u n i, 2 p m , 5 0 c . ♦Lonesome C ow boys, H e a t: S cience th e a tre , U n i o f N S W , 7 .3 0 p m , fre e to m em b e rs , $ 2 .0 0 to jo in at d o o r. ♦ C ry s ta l V o y a g e r: surf and good m usic, O p era H ouse, 7 & 9 p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , kids h a lf price. ♦ B u tc h C assidy an d th e Sundance K id plus V a n is h in g P o in t: M a n ly S ilv e r S creen, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2. 0 0 .

DANCE ♦ F o l k Dance T r a d itio n a l: B W IU 5 3 5 G eorge s tre e t, 8pm -1 2 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

SATURDAY SOUNDS ♦ F re e J a z z : A B C rec o rd in g of G alapago s D uck, 3 .3 0 p m , G o re H ill, tic k e ts fr o m 4 3 . 0 4 3 3 e x t. 4 7 7 7 . ♦ N o r th b r id g e J a z z B an d: S tra ta h o te l, C re m o rn e , 3 -6 p m . ♦ M e rv A ch es o n — Jazz: Stage C lu b , 4 -7 p m . ♦ D a v e S te p h e n s — Jazz: B ellevue h o te l, P addo , 3 -6 p m . ♦ D o n D e S ilva — Jazz: M a c q u a rie h o te l, T h e L o o , 7 .3 0 -1 0 p m . ♦N oel C ro w ’s S to n e d C ro w s — Jazz: R ed N ed s, 25 Spring street, C h a ts w o o d , 8 .3 0 - 1 1 .3 0 p m . ♦The U nity Jazz E n s e m b le : w ith E vi P ic k ie r, O ld Push, 8 - 1 2 p m . ♦ F la k e , Pirana — R o c k : C u rl C u rl Y o u t h C e n tre , $ 1 .6 0 . ♦ P u m a — R o c k : B la c k to w n C a th o lic c h u rc h hall. ♦B and o f L ig h t, S im b a , W itch es B re w — R o c k: C hequers. ♦ F la k e — R o c k : C arin gbah Y M C A , $ 1 .6 0 . ♦ B a n d o f L ig h t — R o c k : G re e n a cre Y o u th C e n tre . ♦ H u s h , G e e z a , Sebastian H a r d y — R o c k : H o rn s b y p o lic e b o y s ’ c lu b , $ 1 .6 0 . ♦ F o r e d a y R iders — Blues: F re n c h ’s W in e b a r, D a rio , 7 .4 5 -1 0 p m . ♦ S w a n , A c o u s tic G u ita rs , J o h n E w b a n k and Friend s: O range D o o rs , O x fo r d and R eg en t streets, P addo , $ 1 .5 0 , 8pm . ♦ F o lk C lu b : singalong, E d in b u rg h C astle h o te l, P itt s tre e t, 8 p m . ♦ D a rts K e lim o c u m F o lk C lu b : E liz a b e th h o te l, C it y , 8 p m , 8 0 c . ♦Joh n B u rk e — Blues: L im e ric k C astle. ♦ C o lle e n M eehon, D oug R ic h a rd s o n , T e r r i W elles and ba n d and others: S hack F o lk , e n tra n c e to W aring ah M a ll, P ittw a te r r oad, Brookvale, 8 .3 0 - 1 .0 0 a m , $ 1 .0 0 .

F IL M ♦ H e a d F ilm s : F a r o u t so to speak, B la ck F u ngu s, M a n d a la , K -T a p e , and others, Filmmakers C in e m a , 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 4pm , $ 1 .5 0 .

HARRY M. MILLER by arrangement with MICHAEL WHITE presents

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW ALIVE ON STAGE WITH REG LIVERMORE Music, Book and Lyrics by RICHARD O’ BRIEN Directed by JIM SHARMAN Designed by BRIAN THOMSON Nightly Tues-Sat. at 9.30 PM and 7.15 PM Wed/Fri/Sat. B ook at the theatre and all agencies.

Phone bookings 660.3922

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★ Alex Buzo’s Coralie Lansdowne Says No at Nimrod 1 ♦ C a s to r an d P o llu x : P re m ie re , do co on guys of th e F in k s m o to rc y c le club and A d r ia n R a w lin s , lo ve and peace p re ac h er, F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , St P eters la n e , D a rlin g h u rs t, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , 6 p m , $ 1 .5 0 . ♦W.C. Fields Old Fa s h io n e d W a y , and O lso n and J ohn so n H e llz a p o p p in : plus episode tw o o f th e 1 9 3 9 serial, O v e rla n d w ith K it C ars o n , U n io n th e a tre , S y d n e y u n i, 1 p m , 8 0 c , kids 60c. ♦S w a n Lake: L e n in g ra d K iro v B a lle t, O p e ra H ouse, 2 4 1 .2 4 1 6 , 2pm , $ 2 .0 0 , kids h a lf. ♦ C ry s ta l V o y a g e r: O pera H ouse, 4 , 7 , 9 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , kids h a lf p ric e . ♦ M id n ig h t M o v ie : Z u lu , Filmmakers C in e m a , 31.3237, 1 2 m id n ig h t, $ 1 .5 0 . ♦ B u tc h C assidy and th e Sundance K id , plus V a n is h in g P o in t: M a n ly S ilv e r S c re e n , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2.00.

STAGE ♦ K e e p T ig h t ly C losed in a C o o l D r y Place, plus C alm D o w n M o th e r : tw o plays by A lte r n a tiv e T h e a tre A c to rs Com pany, O ld C h u rc h , c n r P a lm e r and S ta n le y streets, East S y d n e y , 8 p m , $ 2 . 0 0 , stu $

1. 0 0 .

♦ T h e P irates of Penzance: by R o c k d a le M u n ic ip a l O p era C o , R o c k d a le T o w n H a ll, 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 . 5 0 .

T V , R A D IO ♦ S a tu rd a y M o rn in g Jazz: w ith E ric C h ild , ABC R a d io 1 , 1 0 .2 5 a m . ♦ P ic k o f th e G o ons: A B C R ad io 2 , 1 2 n o o n . ♦ O e d ip u s at C olo nus: S o p h o c le s ’ last p la y , S ir John G ie lg u d plays O e d ip u s , A B C R a d io 2 , 8 .3 0 p m . ♦ T h e V ic t o r B orge S h o w : h u m o r at th e k e y b o a rd , 9 0 th t im e a ro u n d , C h 7, 7 .3 0 p m . ♦ F o u r C orn e rs : new s, in fo , C h 2 , 7 .5 5 p m . ♦ S a n ta F e T r a il: m ovie w ith E r ro l F ly n n and R o n a ld R eagan, a neat com bo eh?, Ch 1 0, 8 .3 0 p m . ♦ C re a tu re F e a tu re , T h e Pit and th e P e n d u lu m : w ith V in c e n t P ric e , swapping id e n titie s w ith th e m ost fa m o u s o f S p a in ’ s grand in q u is ito rs , C h 7 , 9 .3 0 p m .

K ID S ♦ T h e M agic T ra v e l B ox: K ids T h e a tre at N ew Theatre, 51 9 . 3 4 0 3 , 2.1 5 p m , 7 0 c . ♦ H u c k le b e rr y F in n : plus serials, Filmmakers C in e m a , D a rio , 2 p m . ♦ A d v e n tu re s in F o l: kids p la y , In d e p e n d e n t th e a tre , 9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 2 p m . ♦T he O ld W o m a n W h o Lived in a S hoe: A M P th e a tre , C irc u la r Q uay, 3 0 .4 2 5 4 , 2pm , $ 1 .0 0 , A d u lts $ 1 .6 0 .

A C T IO N ♦ V illa g e C e n tre c ra ft and arts m a rk e t: O x fo r d street and N ew com be stre e t, P addo, 9 a m -3 p m .

SUNDAY F IL M ♦NFTA W o m e n Season: W o m a n o f th e Y e a r, th e A fric a n Q u ee n , O pera H ouse, 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .6 0 , $ 1 .2 0 , m em bers o n ly , jo in at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 . ♦ F r it z th e C a t, plus MASH: (a n o th e r gory d uo???), Science th e a tre , Uni of NSW , 6 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 non m em bers. ♦La R eligieu se plus Witchfinder G e n e ra l: U n io n th e a tre , S y d n e y un i, 7 p m , $ 1 .5 0 . ♦ L a tin A m e ric a n C inem a: B lo o d o f th e C o n d o r, Jorge Sanjines 1 9 6 9 , F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , m em bers o n ly $ 1 . 0 0 , 4 p m , 6 p m . ♦Robert R a y m o n d ’s W ild life F ilm s: O pera H ouse, c o n tin u o u s fro m 10 a m -6 p m , $ 2 .0 0 kids h a lf, f a m ily o f 4 $ 5 .0 0 . ♦ B u tc h Cassidy and th e Sundance K id , plus V a n is h in g P o in t: M a n ly S ilv e r S creen, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2. 0 0 .

O F F S P R IN G ♦ T h e M agic T ra v e l B ox: K ids th e a tre a t N e w th e ­ a tre , 5 1 9 .3 4 6 3 , 2 .1 5 pm , 7 0 cents. ♦ H u c k le b e rr y F in n : plus serials, Filmmakers C in e m a , D a rio , 2 p m .

A L T E R N A T IV E THEATRE ♦ K e e p T ig h tly Closed in a C o o l D ry Place, plus C alm D o w n M o th e r: tw o plays by A lte rn a tiv e T h e a tre A c to rs C om pany, O ld C h u rc h , cnr P alm er and

S ta n le y Sydney,

streets, East 8 p m , $ 2 . 0 0 , stu

$ 1. 0 0 .

T A IL S A N D SNEAKERS ♦ A B C M u s ic on th e H o u r: O p era H o u s e , 1 1 a m -4 p m , $ 1 .6 0 , kids 2 0 c .

E L E C T R O N IC S ♦Sony E l e c t r onics E x h ib itio n : quad, c o lo r video e tc ., O p e ra H o u s e , E x h ib itio n h a ll, in fo 2 6 .2 6 5 1 , 2pm to 9pm , free .

T V , R A D IO ♦ T h e D a y o f th e In s e c t, W ill M a n W in ? : d o c o , A B C R ad io 2 , 1 0 .4 5 a m . ♦ L a u re l and H a r d y : W ro n g A g a in , 2 .5 5 p m . ♦ T h e G re v ille M e m o irs : fo r 5 0 years he had “ listened at th e d o o r, he had heard som e secrets and in v e n te d m o re ” . Q u een V ic to r ia and D israeli w e re n o t a m u se d , A B C R a d io 2 , 4 p m . ♦S e c o n d R e ith L e c tu re : A lis te r B uchan on T h e S h iftin g S tru c tu re s of W o rld P o w er, A B C R ad io 2, 5 p m . ♦ D a v id Cassidy: highligh ts fro m R a n d w ic k C o n c e rt, 1 2 ,0 0 0 te e n y b o p p e rs c a n ’t be w ro n g , C h 7 , 6 .3 0 p m . ♦Sunday P la y b ill: The S ervant b y H a ro ld P in te r, p o ig n an t pauses galo re, A B C R a d io 1, 8 p m . ♦The Legend of L y la h C lare: m o v ie w ith P e ter F in c h , K im N o v a k and Er nest Borgnine, H o lly w o o d m o v ie star saga, Ch 7 , 8 .3 0 p m .

V ID E O ♦B ush V id e o : London, N im b in and o th e r tapes, F e u tro n b u ild in g , 31 Bay stre e t, U lt im o , $ 1 . 0 0 , 8 p m .

SOUNDS ♦ M e r ry n Joseph, P eter B o o th m a n E n s e m b le , plus others: K ir k G a lle ry , 4 2 2 C levelan d s tre e t, S u rry H ills , 8 p m , $ 1 .5 0 . ♦ F re e Jazz: A B C recording of J o h n Sangster S e p te t, ring 4 3 .0 4 3 3 e x t. 4 7 7 7 .

MONDAY SOUNDS * F o r e d a y R iders — Blues: F re n c h 's W in e b a r, D a rio , 7 .4 5 -1 0 p m , free . * la n M ason — H o n k y to n k pian o : Stage D o o r T a v e rn ,

6-1 0 p m . ♦ J e rr y ’ s Vc e x o tic per O ld Push, ♦ R e d H oui A lr o y Bar C hequers.

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F IL I ♦ N F T A ’s F rer L a P roie Pou R en d e zvo u s O p e ra House $ 1 . 6 0 m em ber f o r $ 3 .0 0 . ♦ H itc h c o c k 's N o rth -W e s t p li P la n e t: U nic Sydney ur 7 .3 0 p m . ♦ A n t o n io d; R ocha: Scier Uni of NSV $ 2.00. ♦ B u tc h Cassic S u n dance V a n is h in g Po S ilv e r Screer $

2.00.

A U D IO V ♦ I n te rn a tio n a l C om posers: f m usic, ABC 8 .4 5 p m . ♦ R o o m to M o ’ o n ly progre p ro g ra m , w W in te r, ABC 8pm . ♦ M o n ty Pyth C ircus: delves i a n d seek olyn 9 .2 5 p m . ♦ O n e N o rth e i d o c o on Cana* Ch 2, 6pm .

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TUESDAY

M U S IC ♦ T r in it y : St K ild a to w n hall. ♦B lu es to n e: C o u n c il C lub h o te l, Preston. ♦ A zte c s : C ro x to n Park h o te l, Preston. ♦ G a r y Y o u n g and his F a t C a ts ; S ta tio n h o tel, G re v ille s tre e t, P rahran. ♦B ig Push: G eorge h o tel, S t K iid a . ♦ S h a d o w fa x : C ro x to n Park h o te l, Preston. ♦ P a n th e r: Prospect H ill h o te l, K ew . ♦Melbourne Artists W o rk s h o p C o n c e rt: U n io n th e a tre , M e lb uni un io n , 1 -3 p m . ♦ V a rio u s fo lk : C o m m u n e c o ffe e lo ung e, 5 8 0 V ic to r ia stre e t, N .M e lb o u rn e .

Day: F rank ♦ P h il T r a y n o r ’ s, 1 0 0 L t Lo nsdale s treet, c ity . ♦R e d s y n : Polaris In n h o tel, 551 N ic h o lso n stre e t, N .C a rl to n . ♦A n evening o f r h y th m and bliss, w ith R h y th m and Bliss, G race, m ovies, p lay , h e a lth fo o d : O rm o n d hall, M o u b ra y s treet, P rah ra n , L ig h t, b u t not heavy.

F IL M ♦Les Parents Te rrib le s : ( ’ 4 9 ), Jean C octeau d ire c tio n , tense, good a ctin g , plus Les R em orqu es (T h e T id e s) G re m illo n , w ith Jean G a b in , N F T A , D e n ta l th e a tre tte , G ra tta n s treet, cnr F le m in g to n road, C a rlto n , 7 .4 0 p m , $ 3 m em b e rs h ip plus tic k e t.

G A T H E R IN G S ♦Group Meditation: A n a n d a M arg a, 141 B a rk ly stre e t, C a rlto n . ♦Seminar on O p en E d u c a tio n , R ep o rts on F re e Schools: B eaum aris education group, B eaum aris civic cen tre.

R A D IO & T V ♦ T h e M agic R o u n d a b o u t: fo r th e leisured p o o r, C h 2, 3.1 5 p m . ♦ R e b e llio n o f th e H anged: C h 7, 1 1 .1 0 p m , h ardship in M e x ic o in 1 9 1 0 .

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6-1 Opm . ♦ J e rry ’ s V o c a ls : a ided by e x o tic percussions, ja z z , O ld Push, 7 .3 0 - 1 1 .3 0 p m . ♦ R e d H ouse R o ll B an d , A lr o y Band — R ock: C hequers. ♦ M e r v A c h e s o n M ain s trea m e rs — T ra d Jazz: B ellevue h o te l, Paddo, 7 .3 0 -1 0 p m . ♦Peter Boothman E nsem ble: L im e r ic k C astle.

F IL M ♦ N F T A ’s F re n c h C in e m a: La P roie P o u r L ’O m b re , R en dezvous de M in u it, O pera House, 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .6 0 m em b e rs o n ly , jo in fo r $ 3 .0 0 . ♦ H itc h c o c k ’s N o r th by N o rth -W e s t plus F o rb id d e n Planet: U n io n th e a tre , Sydney u n i, $ 1 .0 0 , 7 .3 0 p m . ♦ A n to n io das M o rte s , R ocha: S cience th e a tre , U ni of NSW , 5 .1 5 p m , $ 2.00. ♦B u tc h C assidy and th e Sundance K id , plus V anishing P o in t: M a n ly S ilver S cre e n , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2.0 0 .

A U D I O V IS U A L S ♦ In te rn a tio n a l R o s tru m of C om posers: A v a n t garde music, ABC R a d io 2, 8 .4 5 p m . ♦ R o o m to M o v e : S y d n e y ’s only progressive ro c k p ro g ra m , w ith Chris W in te r, ABC R a d io 1, 8pm . ♦ M o n ty P y th o n ’s F ly in g Circus: delves in to th e hide and seek O lym p ics , Ch 2 , 9 .2 5 p m . ♦O n e N o r th e rn S u m m e r: doco o n C an ad a's w ild life , Ch 2 , 6 p m .

C L A S S IC S ♦The S ydney S ym phony O rchestra: p la y B e e th o v e n , M e n d e ls s o h n , B e rlio z, O pera House, 6 .3 0 p m , check 3 1 .0 2 1 1 firs t, $ 2 .6 0 .

M U S IC ♦ A y re s R o c k : W h ite h o rs e h o tel. ♦ R e d H ouse R o ll B and: C r o x to n Park h o te l, Preston. ♦ U p p : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G eelong. ♦B ig Push: G eorge h o tel, S t K ild a . ♦F ox: B re n tw o o d high school. ♦Bushwhackers and B ullo c kies Bush Band: Polaris In n h o te l, 551 Nicholson street, N .C a rlto n . ♦ M ic h a e l H an ra h a n — Classical g u ita r: Joannas, 3 7 6 Ly g o n s treet, C a rlto n . ♦Fendermen: D o rs e t C o u n try and W estern C lu b , D orset G ardens h o te l, C ro y d o n . ♦ F r a n k Traynor: B eaum aris h o te l, Beach road. ♦ D u tc h T ild e rs : F ra n k T r a y n o r ’s, c ity . ♦ F re e Jazz: Com m une c o f f e e l o u n g e , N .M e lb o u rn e .

F IL M S ♦ B r in g in g up B aby: K a th a rin e H e p b u rn plus T h e Sisters, B e tte Davis: N F T A , D e n ta l th e a tre tte , Grattan s tre e t, cnr F le m in g to n road, C a rlto n , 7 .4 0 p m , $ 1 .2 0 , 8 0 c studs. ♦Bronco Bullfrog ( 1 .3 0 p m ), C h ild h o o d of M a x im G o rk y (’ 3 8 Russian classic m ovie) 7 .3 0 pm , A le x a n d e r th e a tre , M onash un i, C la y to n , u n io n big. ♦Garden of the F itz i-C o n iin is : A gora th e a tre , L a tro b e u n i, B u n d o o ra , 8 p m . ♦ G o t A t : a v ie w a t sex-role socialisatio n, plus Satdee nite b y G illia n A rm s tro n g , a y o u th discussion, E w ing G a lle ry , 1.10pm, M e lb o u rn e un i u n io n .

♦ B a lla d o f Joe H ill: R M IT , R ad io th e a tre , 2 .3 0 p m . ♦ A M a n F o r A ll Seasons: D e n d y M a lv e rn , 1 1am .

R A D IO ♦London Assurance (B o u c ic a lt): AR, 1 1a m , 1 9 th c e n tu ry fa rc e . ♦G o o n s : L O , 7 .3 0 p m . ♦ C a t B a llo u : C h 7 , 9 p m , Jane F o n d a , L e e M a rv in . ♦A ccess — th e N S W M e n ta l H e a lth A u t h o r it y show s ho w p e o p le d o n t care: C h 2 , 1 0 .1 5 p m .

THURSDAY

M U S IC ♦Dingoes: Matthew F lin d e rs h o te l, C h a d s to n e . ♦ A y re s R o c k : S t A lb a n s h o te l. ♦B u s te r B ro w n , R ed H ouse R o ll B an d : W a ltz in g M a tild a , S prin g v ale . ♦ T a r k io : W a u rn Ponds h o te l, G e e lo n g . ♦ A z te c s , A tla s : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g . ♦ T a n k : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G eelon g. ♦ C lo u d N in e : G ro v e d a ie h o te l, G eelon g. ♦Phase T w o : P o w erh o u s e b u t o n ly if th e creases in y o u r trousers are s tra ig h t.

Yugh! ♦Fox, P a n th e r: H o te l International, B ro ad m eado w s. ♦ D ia n e H o llin s , D a n n y S p o o n e r, B ushw h ackers and B u llo c k ie s : D an O ’ C o n n e ll, cnr C an nin g and Princess streets, N . C a r lto n , 8 -1 2 p m . ♦ M y s te r y F o lk A rtis t: T a n k e r v ille A rm s , cnr John so n and N ic h o ls o n streets, C a r lto n , 8-1 Opm . ♦John C ro w le : F ra n k T r a y n o r ’ s, c ity . ♦ O ld ie s c e le b ra te beating th e nips, by w a tc h in g fo o ty . ♦ D a v e R a n k in J a z z B and: A lm a h o te l, 32 Chapel stre e t, S t K ild a . ♦ O w e n Y e a tm a n : Prospect H ill h o te l, H ig h street, K ew . ♦ F ra n k T r a y n o r : E x c h a n g e h o te l, C h e lte n h a m . ♦ M a x i m u m Load: B eaum aris h o te l, Beach road. ♦J a zz W o rk s h o p : Polaris In n h o te l, 551 N ic h o ls o n s treet, N .C a r lto n . ♦A de M o n s b o ro u g h , V ic C o n n o r, J im B eale: Joannas, 3 7 6 L y g o n stre e t, C a rlto n .

G A T H E R IN G S ♦ C r e a t i v e Dance Workshop: Anglican church h a ll, c n r G eorge and M o o re streets, F it z r o y , 8 .3 0 p m , fre e — beginners w e lc o m e . ♦Drama Workshop: 1 0 -w e e k series, D ia m o n d V a lle y L e a rn in g C e n tre , 4 .1 5 pm p rim a ry kids, 7 .3 0 p m a d u lts , ring 4 3 5 -9 0 6 0 .

MARKET ♦La T ro b e U n i: fo o d , vegies, clo th es , e tc , 1 pm o n w a rd s, brin g y o u r ow n stall.

R A D IO & T V ♦ T h e U n k n o w n R eaches of th e M in d : A R , 1 0 .1 5 p m , on p a rap s yc h o lo g y (E S P ). ♦ T h e A u s tra lia n Leg en d — B oun d f o r B o ta n y B ay: AR, 1 1 .1 0 p m , D e la n A f f le y sings songs fr o m th e tra n s p o rta tio n era. ♦Frankenstein: Ch7, 1 1 .4 0 p m , o rig in a l Boris K a r lo ff version.

FRIDAY M U S IC ♦ M a t t T a y lo r : S w in b u rn e Tech, B u rw o o d ro a d , H a w th o rn . ♦D in goes: R M IT , lu n c h . ♦ E b o n y : M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C hadstone. ♦B u s te r B ro w n : E p p in g M e m o ria l hall. ♦ R e d H ouse R o ll B and: Whitehorse hotel, N u n a w a d in g . ♦ A z te c s , Fox: Sandow n Park h o te l. ♦ C o l o r e d Balls: S u n d o w n e r, G e e lo n g . ♦John G ra h a m and Blackspur, Graham

Chris & Eva 51.9563 or leave messages 5 1 .74 2 5 , write Flat 8 , No, 7 Irving avenue, Windsor, 3181.

L o w n d e s , C a n c e r G u lc h : S w in b u rn e T e c h , B u rw o o d ro a d , H a w th o r n . ♦ A v a lo n : E p p in g M e m o ria l hall. ♦G ay L ib D an ce : 152 H o d d l e s t r e e t , C o llin g w o o d , 9 p m -1 .3 0 a m . ♦ F u ll M o o n , Sid R u rn p o : T eazer. ♦ L a y back sessions w ith th e M e lb o u rn e A rtis ts W o rk s h o p , w ith C o m p o s t, G ra h a m L o w n d e s , G e o ff H ales, C a p ta in R ock, M y ria d : B ack th e a tre , P ram F a c to r y , 10pm , $ 1 .5 0 . ♦S h ark s: N th C o u rt, M e lb o u rn e un i (lu n c h ). ♦S kyhooks: W a rra n d y te h a ll, 8 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .2 0 . ♦Brendan Shearson, R ic h a rd L e itc h , John G ra h a m : O u tp o s t In n , 5 2 C o llin s s tre e t, c ity . ♦ T a v e rn F o lk : U n io n h o te l, c n r F e n w ic k a nd Am ess streets, C a rlto n . ♦Bushwhackers and B u llo c k ie s Bush B and: P olaris In n h o te l, C a rlto n . ♦ P h il D a y , M ik e O 'R o u r k e , D ia n n e H o llin s : F ra n k T r a y n o r ’ s, c ity . ♦ S tic k B ra ith w a ite (a ro u n d 8pm), Undertaking (E le c tric f o lk — la te ): Joannas, 3 7 6 L y g o n s tre e t, C a r lto n . ♦Four C o u n ty C eild h e w ith G e o rg e H agen: D orset G a rd e n s h o te l, C ro y d o n . ♦ P a n th e r: Prospect H ill h o te l, K ew . ♦ B ria n B ro w n Q u a rte t: C om m une, N .M e lb o u r n e . ♦ S to ry v ille C lu b : M anor H ouse h o te l, c n r S w anston and L o nsdale streets, c ity . ♦ D a v e R a n k in J a z z Band: R a ilw a y C lu b h o te l, P o rt M e lb o u rn e . ♦ M a x i m u m Load: B eaum aris h o te l, Beach road.

F IL M ♦ T a k e th e M o n e y and R u n (M ) plus W a lk a b o u t ( M ) : T r a k , 4 4 5 T o o r a k ro a d , T o o r a k , 1 1 .4 5 p m , $ 2 . ♦ T h e D is cre e t C h a rm of th e B ourgeoisie (B u n u e l): A th e n a e u m , C o llin s s treet, $ 2 . 2 5 , $ 1 .1 5 studs. ♦ T h e Id io t : 1 9 5 8 Russian classic, M on ash u n i u n io n , 7 .3 0 p m . ♦Libido: Alexander th e a tre , M on ash u n i, 1 .3 0 p m . ♦ M a c b e th : A g o ra th e a tre , L a tro b e u n i, 4 .3 0 and 8pm . ♦ W o m a n ’ s D a y — d u ll and m undane, plus L iving T o g e th e r, plus Seven th B u rn in g : E w in g g a lle ry , 3rd f lo o r , M e lb o u rn e uni u n io n , 1.1 Opm. R A D IO & T V ♦ N o th in g o f in te re s t.

SATURDAY

S un rise: B rig h to n to w n h a ll. ♦ A z te c s , A tla s : ‘G e t it o n ’ F ra n k s to n p o lic e and C itiz e n s y o u th c lu b . ♦ S k y lig h t: P rospect H ill h o te l, K e w . ♦ C lo u d N in e : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G e e lo n g . ♦ B ig Push: C ro x to n Park h o te l, P reston . ♦ C o lo re d B alls: S o u th s id e S ix ( a f t ) . ♦ S h a rk s , D u tc h T ild e rs : S iriu s (C a n o p u s B o x H ill) . ♦ A v a lo n : R e m b ra n d t R o o m s , H a w th o r n . ♦ R h y th m and Bliss: B eaum aris C iv ic C e n tro . ♦E b ony, A y e rs R ock: T e a z e r. ♦Melbourne Artists W o rk s h o p (see f r id a y ): Back t h e a tr e , Pram F a c to r y , 1 0 p m , $ 1 .5 0 . ♦J a zz N ig h t: G ra n d W a z o o , O rm o n d H a ll, P rah ra n , 8 pm -1 a m . ♦ N e w H a rle m J a z z B an d, G ra h a m Low ndes and m o re ja z z bands: ♦ P h il D a y an d G uests: D a n O ’ C o n n e ll, C a r lto n , 3 -6 p m . ♦ M ik e D e a n y and J u lie Wong: Com mune, N .M e lb o u r n e , 1 0 p m -3 a m . ♦ G ra h a m L o w n d e s , P eter P a rk h ill: O u tp o s t In n , c ity . ♦ D a n n y S p o o n e r, G o rd o n MacIntyre, Graham Low ndes, John C ro w le : F ra n k T r a y n o r ’s, c ity . ♦J a m Sessions: Joannas, 3 7 6 L y g o n s tre e t, C a rlto n . ♦ C o u n tr y Fev e r: K ing sto n h o te l, R ic h m o n d , 2 -6 p m . ♦ M a x i m u m Load: B eaum aris h o te l, Beach road. ♦ D a v e R a n k in Jazz B and: Lem on T re e h o te l, 10 G r a tta n s tre e t, C a rlto n , 3 -S p m . ♦The P la n t w ith M if f y : P olaris In n h o te l, C a rlto n . ♦ S k y lig h t ( a f t ) , J u n c tio n C ity Jazz B and (e ve ): Prospect H ill h o te l, K e w . ♦ V ic to r ia n Jazz C lu b : M a n o r H ouse h o te l, c ity . ♦ D a v e R a n k in J azz B and: U n io n h o te l, c n r F e n w ic k and Am ess streets, C a rlto n .

C L A S S IC A L ♦ M e lb o u r n e Sym phony O rc h e s tra C o n c e rt: Ita lia n girl in A lg iers o v e rtu re (R o s s in i), G o vo va c Piano C o n c e rto , R a c h m a n in o v a n d B e e t h o v e n S y m p h o n ie s , M e lb o u rn e to w n h a ll, 8 p m .

F IL M ♦Savage Messiah ( M ) : K en Russell style — re c o m ­ m en d e d , A th e n a e u m , c ity , 1 0 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .2 5 , $ 1 .1 5 studs. ♦ A M a n fo r all Seasons: D e n d y M a lv e rn , 3 .4 5 p m . ♦The B e d -S ittin g Room , plus T h e G o o d , T h e Bad and The U g ly : A g o ra th e a tre , L a T ro b e u n i, B u n d o o ra .

M U S IC ♦ M a d d e r L a k e : S t P e te r’s, E .B e n tle ig h . ♦ A y e rs R ock: M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C h a d s to n e (a f t ) . ♦ A y e rs R o c k , S k y h o o k s , Chelsea C ity H a ll. ♦S id Rum po: M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C h adstone (n ig h t). ♦ R e d H ouse R o ll B and,

K ID S ♦P ro fe s so r Ziggle and R a in b o w Esq: C la re m o n t th e a tre c e n tre , 149 R ic h a rd s o n s tre e t, M id d le P a rk , 2 p m .

MARKET ♦ V ic to ria M a rk e t: t o p end o f c ity , fr o m 6 a m . ♦Prahran Market:

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R A D IO & T V ♦ C o u n try M usic: KZ, 5 .3 0 -8 p m . ♦ G o o n s : A R , 1 2 m id d a y . ♦O e d ip u s at C olo nus (S o p h o c le s ): A R , B .3 0 p m , H eavy c u ltc h a w ith sir J o h n G ielg u d and Joan P lo w rig h t, good s to ry . ♦ A m e ric a n T o p 4 0 : K Z , 7-1 Opm . ♦ H o u n d D og M a n : w ith , w a it fo r it, F a b ia n , D o o k ie S tevens, d o n t fa il to miss it, ChO, 1 p m , B on a p p e tite . ♦ P o c k e tfu l of M iracles: G le n n F o rd , B e tte Davis, C hO , 7 .3 0 p m . ♦T he G ia n t C la w , T h e N ig h t O w l T h e a tre : C h 9 , 1 2 .2 0 p m , a m azing science f ic tio n d o pe fre a k special.

SUNDAY M U S IC •S k y h o o k s : St A lbans Sacred H e a rt C hurch H a ll, W in ifre d s tre e t, S t A lb a n s .

• T a n k : Icelands.

•Fox: T e a z e r, 3SS E x h ib itio n s treet, c ity .

• B ru c e M c N ic o l, D iane H o llin s : O u tp o s t In n , c ity .

•D a n n y Spooner and G o rd o n M a c In ty re : F ra n k T ra y n o r's , c ity .

•F re e Jazz: Com m une c o ffe e lo ung e, 5 8 0 V ic to r ia street, N .M e lb o u rn e .

•Mozart, B e e th o v e n , Schumann, Bartok, T c h a ik o v s k y p lay e d by H e n ry W enig (c e llo ) and Margaret Schofield (p ia n o ): M usica V iv a , 10 G ro s v e n o r stre e t, G le n Iris , 7 .4 5 p m .

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M U S IC • C lo u d N in e : G eorge h o te l, S t K ild a .

•B lu e s to n e : P ro s p e c t H ill h o te l, K e w .

•N ia g g ra : La M a m a , 2 0 5 F a ra d a y s tre e t, C a rlto n .

POETRY • P o o r T o m ’s P o e try B an d: C om m une, N .M e lb o u r n e .

C L A S S IC A L • M e lb o u r n e Sym phony Orchestra: M e lb o u rn e to w n h a ll, 8pm , see S aturday.

M E E T IN G S •Economic Growth, Resources an d P o llu tio n C o n tro l: ta lk by J. C le m e n ts , S to re y H a ll, R M IT , 4 .1 5 p m .

F IL M •S u n d a y M o rn in g , an exercise in m im e and m o o d , plus B e llb ro o k , a p ro file o f a c o u n try to w n : E w in g g a lle ry , 3 rd f lo o r , M e lb o u rn e uni u n io n , 1 .1 0 p m .

• K in g K ong , plus M ig h ty Joe Y o u n g — a great d o u b le : Fan ta s y F ilm S o c ie ty , F o r m ore in fo p h o n e 6 6 3 -1 7 7 7 a n d ask f o r Paul o r M e rv .

• A n im a l C rackers, plus H o rs e fe a th e rs , Marx B ro th e rs : A gora th e a tre , L a T ro b e un i, B u n d o o ra .

M E E T IN G S •A fte r N o s tra d a m u s — great prop hecies f o r th e fu tu re o f m a n k in d , M r R o n Davies: T h e o s o p h ic a l S o c ie ty , 1 8 8 C o llin s s treet, c ity , 7 p m .

•In d o n e s ia — D r E rnst U tre k : U n ita ria n C h u rc h , 110 Grey street, E. M e lb o u rn e .

•Quakerism in my E x p e rie n c e , M rs D aisy N e w m a n : Friends H ouse, 631 O rro n g ro a d , T o o r a k , 1 2 m id d a y .

R A D IO & T V •R o o m to M ove: C hris W in te r, L O , 8 p m .

• R o s tr u m : A R , 8 .4 5 p m , F in n M o rte n s e n , suite fo r th e w in d q u in te t, ne w m usic.

•W e b o f L ife — th e Living T u n d ra : C H 2 , 8 p m .

•M o n ty P y th o n 's F ly in g Circus: with the a ll-E n g la n d P roust-sum m arising c o m p e titio n — I nu dge, nudge, k n o w w h a t | I m ean?: C h 2 , 9 .2 5 p m .

• A n E vening w ith R ic h a rd N e v ille and R ic h a rd W alsh, th e tw in k ing dick s choose some books: Ch2, 1 0 .0 5 p m , but M a rle n e D ie tric h is b e t t e r . . .

•B lo n d e V enus: (1 9 3 2 ), w ith M a rle n e D ie tric h , C h 7 , 1 1 .1 0 p m .

R A D IO & T V • R e i t h Lectures: A R , 5 p m , w ill raw m aterials shortages cause changes in w o rld pow er?

• D a y o f th e Insect: A R , 1 0 .4 5 a m , w ill insects ta k e over th e w o rld?

•G r e v ille M em o irs: AR, 4 p m , salacious V ic to r ia n d ia ry (p o ss ib ly ).

• T h e S e rv a n t, b y H aro ld P in te r: L O , 8 p m , should be re a lly good.

•D is n e y la n d — C h a n d a , th e B lack L e o p ard o f C ey lo n : C h 7 , 6 .3 0 p m .

• R o y a l C o m m a n d V a rie ty P e rfo rm a n c e — “ one of show business's m ost

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•T h e M an who S h o t' Liberty Vallance: F o o ts c ra y G ra n d , Paisley s tre e t, F o o ts c ra y .

•A M a n fo r all Seasons: D e n d y M a lv e rn , 3 .4 5 p m .

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• T h e M a g n ific e n t Seven: ChO, 8 .3 0 p m , or . . .

•T h e Agony an d th e Ecstasy: Ch9, 3 .3 0 p m , w ith C h a rlto n H es to n as M ic h e la n g elo a nd R ex H arris o n as Pope Ju liu s , or get sto n e d , screw , tr ip , m as tu rb a te , p a in t, d raw , spin, p lay m usic, go to sleep . . . w h y are y ou reading th is a n y w a y ?

• T h e H a n d th a t C radles th e R o c k — W o m e n : C h 9 , 1 0 .4 5 p m , w o u ld you believe a b o u t W o m e n 's lib?

•In s ig h t: C h 7 , 1 1 .3 0 p m .

•In th e W ake of th e B o u n ty : ( 1 9 4 4 ) , w ith E rro l F ly n n , ChO, 1 0 .5 0 p m , A u s tr a lia n p a te rn a lis t, racist, sexist d ra m a a b o u t F le tc h e r C h ris tia n living it up in T a h iti an d giving th e native girls V D , w h o o p in g cough possibly an d o th e r w estern specialities.

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SOUNDS I ♦ M o o n s h in e Jug and S trin g B and: M o d b u r y h o tel, 8pm , 60c. * F ra g ile — R o c k : T iv o li h o te l, 2 6 1 P irie s tre e t. ♦ C h o ra l S o c ie ty C o n c e rt: E ld e r h a ll, A d e la id e uni, 1 .1 0 p m , free . ♦O rg an R e c ita l: A ll Saints c h u rc h , H o ld e n s treet, H in d m a rs h , 8 p m .

F IL M ♦Cisco Pike (Kris K r i s t o f f erso n, K a re n Black) and S hock C o rrid o r: NFTA O ff H o lly w o o d season. S ta te govt th e a tre tte , S ta te a d m in b u ild in g , V ic to r ia square, 7 .4 0 p m , m em bers o n ly m em b e rs h ip $ 3 — over 18 years — jo in at d o o r ), p ro g ra m m e $ 1 .2 0 , 8 0 c studs. ♦ P a t G a r r e tt an d B illy the K id : d ir Sam P e c k in p a h , students o n ly , U n io n hall, A d e la id e u n i, 1 2 .0 5 p m .

A C T IO N ♦ M a rx is t S e m in a r: Ron W itto n , M u ltin a tio n a ls in A u s tra lia , S o u th dinin g ro o m , A d e la id e u n i, 1.1 Opm. R A D IO & T V ♦B re a d , L o v e and D ream s: G in a L o llo b rig id a , S A S 1 0 , 1 .3 0 p m . ♦ T h e T e n d e r T r a p : F ra n k S in a tra , D e b b ie R ey n o ld s , A D S 7 , 10am . ♦The C h a lk G a rd e n : D eb o rah K e rr, A D S 7 , 9 p m . ♦ W o m e n — O u r B odies, Our Selves: R ad io u n iv e rs ity , 1 0am . ♦ M a jo r A u s tra lia n Poets: R ad io u n iv e rs ity , 1 1 .3 0 p m and 8 p m .

WEDNESDAY SOUNDS ♦ M u s h ro o m Rock — D ingoes, M a tt T a y lo r , M adder Lake: Festival th e a tre , 8 p m , $ 2 .7 0 . ♦ N a n tu c k e t — R ock: P oo raka h o te l, Bridge road, P o o ra k a (c o u rte s y C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦ D o v e — R o c k : F in d o n h o te l, 261 G range road, F in d o n (c o u rte s y C en tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦ U n c le S a m ’ s W h itehou se Disco — R o c k : D o n Polski c en tre , 2 3 2 A ngas stre e t, 8pm , $2. ♦ C o lo n ia l Bogies — Jazz: In g le w o o d In n , lo w e r North East road, In g le w o o d , 8 .1 5 p m , free. ♦ C a ta c o m b s — f o lk : open night w e lc o m e to p la y . 1 H ackney ro a d , H a c k n e y .

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♦ B illy B unters — F o lk : 1 6 8 G o uger stre e t. ♦ T h e W o m b a t: H ig h la n d e r h o te l, 647 N o rth East ro a d , G ille s Plains.

F IL M ♦Dirty L itt le B illy : students o n ly , U n io n h a ll, A d e la id e u n i, 1 2 .0 5 p m .

A C T IO N ♦Examinations and A u th o r it y in th e U n iv e rs ity — d e b a te : L it tle th e a tre , A d e la id e u n i, 1 pm .

R A D IO & T V ♦ C h a n n e l 7 R o c k -A -T h o n — E lvis in D o u b le T r o u b le , Jailhouse R ock, It H a p p e n e d at th e W o rld ’ s Fair, al so Yellow S u b m a rin e : A ll-n ig h t rock nostalgia, A D S 7, 1 0 .3 0 p m -1 0am . ♦ N o rm a n L in d s a y F estival —■ C ousin fr o m F iji: A B S 2 , 1 0 .2 5 p m . ♦ P ic k o f th e G o ons: 5 A N , 9pm .

THURSDAY” SOUNDS - F lig h t — R o c k: P oo raka h o te l, B ridge ro a d , P oo raka (c o u rte sy C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ).

-D o v e — R o c k : F in d o n h o te l, 261 G range road, F in d o n (c o u rte sy C en tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ).

-M o o n s h in e Jug and S tring B an d : H o te l F in s b u ry , 8pm , $1.

-S o u th e rn J azz Band: F la g s ta ff h o te l.

S ou th road, D a rlin g to n , 70c, studs 5 0 c .

- Ia n B ro w n S e x te t — Jazz: T iv o li h o te l, P irie s tre e t, 8 p m , 50c .

-A n z a c D ay C o n c e rt: songs o f th e tw o w o rld wars.

F estival th e a tre , 2 .3 0 p m , $ 2 , $ 1 . 5 0 , $ 1 .

A C T IO N -T h e E d u c a tio n F a ir: speakers on e d u c a tio n , e n te rta in m e n t, disp lays.

E ld e r p a rk , 1 pm .

R A D IO & T V -A n z a c D ay M a rc h : e x c itin g live telecast?, A B S 2 , 1 Oam. -A n z a c D ay O ra tio n : titilla tio n , N W S 9 , 9am .

-A n z a c D a y M a rc h : o k a y , b u t w e d o n t w a n t y o u to miss it, A D S 7 , 1 0am .

-W a r and Peace: it ’ s one of those days, A B S 2 , 8 p m .

- T h e U n k n o w n Reaches o f th e M in d : p a rap sycho log y fo r A n za c D ay, 5CL, 9 .4 5 p m .

FRIDAY SOUNDS ♦ V a m p i re .

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STEPHEN W A L L M e rra n and J o h n , P .O . B o x 1 3 5 U p p e r S tu r t 5 1 5 6 . P h o n e : 2 7 8 -1 81 1.

P o o ra k a h o te l, B ridge ro a d , P oo raka (c o u rte s y C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦ D o v e — R o c k : F in d o n h o te l, 261 G ra n g e ro a d , F in d o n (c o u rte s y C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦P u sh , O n e M a n ’ s B and: Largs P ier h o te l (c o u rte s y C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦ S m o k e s ta c k L ig h tn in g — B lues: E agle h o te l, H in d le y s tre e t, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 1 . ♦ D ic k F ra n k e l and th e D is c ip le s — J azz: Som erset h o te l, 1 9 7 P u ltn e y s tre e t, 9pm , 80c. ♦ M ile E n d H o te l — F o lk : 30 H e n le y Beach ro a d , M ile E n d , 8 p m , fre e . ♦South Australian Symphony O rc h e s tra : C o n d u c to r C a rlo B ag n o li, F estival th e a tre , 8 p m .

F IL M ♦ S c o rp io (B u r t L a n c a s ter) and T h e O ffe n c e (Sean Connery): Brighton W in d s o r, 1 C o m m e rc ia l ro a d , B rig h to n . ♦ T h e C o n fo rm is t and T h e B a ttle o f A lg ie rs — late s how : R o m a C in e m a , 21a G ilb e r t place.

A C T IO N ♦ R a d ic a l Lesbians M e e t­ ing: W om ens C e n tre , B lo o r c o u rt (o ff C u rrie s tre e t), 8 p m .

R A D IO & T V ♦ H o w T o Be V e r y , V e r y P o p u la r: B e tty G ra b le , A D S 7 , 12am . ♦N ever S ay G oodbye: E rro l F ly n n , SA S10, 1 .3 0 p m . ♦ B ria n C add and F a m ily : A BS2, 8pm . ♦N one but th e B rave: F r a n k S in a tra gets h e a v ily in volved w ith a ra d io , N W S 9 , 8 .3 0 p m .

SATURDAY SOUNDS ♦P u sh — R o c k : P oo raka h o te l, B rid g e ro a d , P o o ra k a (c o u rte s y C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦Issi D y , M u ltip lic a tio n : F in d o n h o te l, 2 6 1 G ra n g e road, F in d o n (c o u rte s y C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦ S m o k e s ta c k L ig h tn in g : see f r id a y . ♦S o m e rs e t h o te l — F o lk : A n y o n e w e lc o m e to p la y , 1 9 7 P u ltn e y s tre e t, fre e . ♦ R ip p le S ole R o c ks O f f and D r E p h ra m B e rry and T h e J e lly Legs — re a lly g o od: A d e la id e CAE r e fe c to r y , 8 p m . ♦South A, u s t r a l i a n S y m p h o n y O rc h e s tra : see fr id a y .

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R A D IO & T V ♦ T h e 3 0 0 S partan s: R a lp h R ic h a rd s o n , S A S 1 0 , 1 2a m . ♦M r Benn Goes B allo o n in g : an a n im a te d a d v e n tu re series a b o u t a little m a n w h o dresses in cloth es o f d iffe r e n t period s and visits fa r o f f places, A B S 2 , 5 .2 0 p m . ♦ R o c k ’ n R o ll Lives — B la ck is B e a u tifu l, p a rt 2: Im p o rta n c e an d in flu e n c e o f b la c k e n te rta in e rs fr o m D onny H a th a w a y to J im m y H e n d r ix , N W S9, 5pm . ♦ P ic k o f th e G o o n s : 5 C L , 1 1 .3 0 a m . ♦ M y W o rd : 5 C L , 1 .1 0 p m .

SUNDAY SOUNDS ♦P ush: E agle h o te l, H in d le y street (c o u rte s y C e n tra l B o o k in g A g e n c y ). ♦C a ta c o m b s — F o lk : 1 H ackney ro a d , H a c k n e y , 8pm , 80c.

F IL M ♦ S c o rp io an d T h e O ffe n c e : see f r id a y . ♦ M in n y a nd M o s c o w itz : d ir John Cassavettes, W a lk e rv ille W in d s o r, 66 W a I k erville terrace, G ilb e r to n . ♦T e rra M em T ranse (R u s s ia n c ritiq u e of e x p lo ita tio n o f masses in B ra z il) a nd Just B efo re N ig h tfa ll: U n io n h a ll, A d e la id e u n i, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 1 .

A C T IO N ♦ O ld A u s tra lia n W o olshed D an cin g — brin g kids: gam es ro o m , A d e la id e un i, 2pm .

R A D IO & T V ♦ T h e L iv in g F o re s t — th e N ew F o re s t in E n g la n d , w ild lif e e tc: A BS2, 5 .4 5 p m . ♦ W ild C argo: an a erial w ild life survey in th e K arib a D am area in A fric a , S A S 10 , 5pm .

MONDAY R A D IO & T V ♦ V e r a C ru z : G a ry C o o p e r, B u rt La n c a s ter, N W S9, 7 .3 0 p m . ♦S o p e r at Large — C airn g o rm s: firs t o f six p ro g ra m m e s in a series designed to show th e relationships b e tw e e n a n im a ls , p lan ts and landscape in c o u n try and to w n . T h is w e e k , S c o ttis h Cairngorm m o u n ta in s , A B S 2 , 6 .0 5 p m . ♦ C h in a since C h a irm a n M ao: R a d io u n iv e rs ity , 8 .3 0 p m .

E C E N TL Y received a copy o f a small booklet entitled A select b ib lio g ra p h y on the en viro n m e n t (w ith a special emphasis on the technological and economic aspects). It is a little more academic than the usual Access entry, but then it's a little different from the usual academic bibliography. Geoff Lacy, the compiler, is well known for his efforts w ith Retrieval, a bi-monthly radical info source from Melbourne.

Like Retrieval, the bibliography reflects a progressive or leftish bias if for no other reason than when it comes to environmental matters, a conser­ vative view is hard to find.

The reason for including the bibliography here is that the environ­ ment problem needs all the help it can get. It is an issue almost forgotten by the straight media; sort of unfashion­ able as a result of press overkill. As crazes go, the "energy crisis" replaced the "environment crisis" and now "streaking" is replacing them both.

The predictability of it all bores me frigid. The more cynical reader might see this as a natural, logical progression in times like ours. Whichever way one looks at it, we still have an environment problem and we are not going to hear much more about it from the media. I recommend this biblio­ graphy to those who wish to find out more about this wasting planet. Send 35 cents to PO Box 40, Kingsford, NSW 2030 for a copy.

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hour o f the kero lamp a fte r a hard day behind or in fro n t o f the plough, depending on the state o f y o u r technology.

There are many other useful in fo sources published b y th e FAO and held in stock in Australia. Too m any to list here. It w ould seem best fo r you to take a le tte r addressed to the Australian Governm ent Publishing Service n e xt tim e y o u 're in to w n . Ask fo r a list o f th e ir FAO p ublications held in stock. It was published in th e ir m o n th ly listing o f p ublications in february.

Send to PO B ox 84, Canberra.

It is free and the FAO booklets are cheap and good. W hy, you m ight even end up on th e fe rtiliser salesman's list.

ET 'S b u ild a b e tte r mouse­ trap: said the Ford Founda­ tion social engineer. No, let's firs t fin d o u t i f we w ant to catch any m ore mice, reasoned the voice in the wilderness. O f course we do, countered the defence department contractor, in the name o f progress we should elim inate a ll mice.

In England, the mice in the wilderness is the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, "a ragged bunch of raucous washed out semi-marxists", as the N ew scientist recently called them. Be that as it may, the BSSRS puts out a really interesting and certainly original bi-monthly magazine called Science fo r people. If you are under the impression that science and technology are apolitical, T HAS been quite a w hile and sometimes it seems that most since we had an in fo gem fo r people do, then this mag is for you. It yo u . Blue, so here's an in fo will knock the concept out of the source fo r the autum n evenings.

I'm aware" people too. The latest "fully sure you w ill fin d some o f theissue, FAO for instance, details the kind of booklets and books inform ative.warfare Help the US corporations and US you keep y o u r feet on the d irt,government so to are using in latin America speak. The Food and A g ricu ltu re and the role scientists played in the Organisation is a body o f international counter revolution that killed Allende big tim e fo o d freaks w hich aims at and his government; the role the gathering and disseminating food United Nations plays in screwing up growing in fo rm a tio n . Y o u probably the third world with technology and, know this already b u t did you know of course, the science and technology th a t th e federal governm ent has quite a scene in Britain. A sub will cost you two pounds for the year (air mail) and fe w o f th e ir p rin to u ts in stock? It is far you can send to BSSRS, 9 Poland easier to order fro m Canberra than street, London. fro m F A O headquarters over there in International Bureaucratland.

You could try , fo r instance, the FAO Better Farm ing series, consisting H A T is it fo r this week. Send o f 23 booklets o f 33 pages each us y o u r in fo gems e ith e r to covering topics like animal husbandry, me c/o PO Box 8 , Surry H ills fo o d crops, m arket gardening and lots or to the Access co-collator, Virginia o f o ther a ctivities related to making a Fraser, 350 V icto ria street. N o rth buck in th e donga or just plain survival.

Melbourne. What are yo u radical A couple o f these booklets w ould be librarians doing? Hoarding? just th e th in g to rationalise another

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PEACE, LOVE & NATURAL LIVING WE A R E A W AR E OF TH E V IR T U E S OF N A T U R A L L IV IN G ON OUR OWN PIECE OF G R O U N D and wish to have as neighbors like m inded souls A fte r much searching we have fo u nd a really beautiful p ro p e rty o f freehold land and have negotiated a purchase. Mountains fo rm one boundary, state fo re st another. S ituated 45 miles fro m M aryborough, it consists o f undulating tONbilly c o u n try w ith large flats. Eight dams and tw o creeks provide plenty of water and the soil is generally excellent. R ainfall average is over 4 0 " and the clim a te trem endous. $1500 w ith in 8 weeks, another $1500 w ith in 20 weeks w ill secure a piece o f this land w ith 19 other families. For all in fo rm a tio n w rite as soon as possible te llin g us a little ab o ut yourselves. The Advertiser, Box 1003, P.O., BU N D A B E R G , Q LD . 4670. If you have some friends who m ight be interested, please tell them o f this ad. and/or pin it up anywhere it m ight a ttra c t peace loving people

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f whether he, (being the sub­ ordinate), could act without the chief’s consent. But, said he, he just might be able to com e up to Mt Nelson, just maybe.

Anyway, to cut a lengthy and extremely boring story short, the health inspector did finally come to view our meat (which he pro­ nounced unfit for consumption and illegally stored), but informed us that there was very little he could d o considering that the cafeteria people denied any knowledge o f the meat having been delivered and that we could not PROVE that the meat com­ pany w ho supplied the meat had left it sitting on the floor in front o f the freezer. Anyway, thereby hangs a tale, Nationwide did not quite get caught out THIS time.

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Semester fight in reverse ASTER has drawn attention to the extended vacations that many Victorian CAEs have.

Thanks to campaigns over the past few years, many CAE ’s are on mid semester breaks o f up to two weeks.

The semester fight, ironically, is now being fought in reverse in many places because administra­ tions increased the number o f academic days in a year, and thus the work load.

Melbourne tech is also the centre o f a status problem long considered b y the other CAEs as “ big brother” in the Victoria Institute o f Colleges system, RMIT feels it has outgrown even this status. Where to now ? Well the chances o f RMIT being grant­ ed university status are so low as to be negligible and the problem is there is no other pocket to put it in. The situation shows the flaws in the organisation o f tertiary education in Victoria. No other state attempts to run three differ­ ent levels, it may also be the only state with such a brilliant educa­ tion minister. Divide and conquer, but forget the students seems to be his policy. By ignoring RMIT in allocating funds and deciding on its status he is strengthening the argument that the Australian government should administrate as well as finance tertiary educa­ tion in Victoria.

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Emily McPherson College SRC (lovingly known as the “ Carlton Cookhouse” ) is having problems getting a co p y o f their constitu­ tion from the administration, so it can change it and gain more free­ dom from the elderly matrons who administer the campus like a secondary school.

WILLIAM BRUCE e c e s s io n , it must be getting closer. Take, for example, the venerable West Australian, april 18, the banner reads WA to keep queen. So you read on and y o u ’re into something like this . . . G od save the queen will remain the STATE govern­ ment’s NATIONAL anthem.

Straightaway, any humorist would realise the implications that maybe Charles Court and his cabinet already see WA as a na­ tion unto itself.

But to add more co lo r to the tapestry, Court decided that for sporting or other occasions an appropriate “ alternate” anthem will be chosen. So yours truly could only leave you with the supposition that there will be the March o f the Hamersley iron ore, or the Overture to Mitsubishi in F major.

Then 400 miles north o f the national capital — Perth — not Canberra, lies the sovereign province o f Hutt River and no doubt while it is celebrating its fourth independence anniversary (april 21), the appropriate anthem will be played.

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and blatantly incorrect in its assertions. Full o f the usual smears (marxist m ethodology is “ d e c r e p it an d h o p e le s s ly antiquated’’ , “ primiti ve’ ’ , “ s u p e r fic ia l” , is a “ sheer delusion” , etc., etc.,), it actually blames the Vietnamese people for the bloodbath the USA created in Vietnam ( “ we have already witnessed the longest war o f the twentieth century so far, and it was not capitalism that rejected negotiations and a truce fo r 15 to 20 years . . .” ). Students last week said they were wondering whether their next handout was going to com e direct from the United States Information Service.

The outcom e o f all this is rather difficult to predict. A good deal will depend on just how far the dissenters are prepared to go in registering their opposition.

The signs are already there that Hancock is prepared for another purge o f the "trouble-makers” .

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UST as predicted in the last issue o f TLD, the professors at Monash have decided against the much disliked semester system, in spite o f themselves.

At its april 9 meeting, the professorial board voted to end the current trial timetable o f tw o semesters and tw o exams per year, and to return to the old system o f three terms per year.

The question was hardly academic, so to speak, since many students were anxious about the non bureaucratic problems o f continuing with semesters, both educational and social. They had voiced their worries in a campaign to force the university to throw a campus referendum before mak­ ing the final decision.

It was partly this threat o f actual participation b y students in decisions that made the professors vote the way they did. When the idea o f having a campus wide vote on the issue was raised at the meeting, the professors hastily stifled it. Nevertheless, most o f them were aware that student pressure was likely to continue if they went ahead with semesters.

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Terms back in, Left back out their stance was that semesters made problems even for the m ind-factory managers.

Many overworked students tended to just fold up and d o nothing at all, the time o f staff was not fully used, and the volume o f bureau­ cratic trivia doubled. In short, semesters just didnt deliver the goods efficiently. And that, after all, is what universities are about.

Meanwhile, the man whose job is to becom e addicted to bureau­ cratic innovations, the aca­ demic registrar, is most upset by the reversion to terms. He just had all his computers and timetables working nicely when they sprang this on him. As he put it at the meeting: “ We w on ’t have time to put them in their boxes.”

body, has also seen a small change resulting from a vote. The Monash Association o f Students is no longer controlled b y the Left.

In elections for the administra­ tive executive held on april 8-10, a slate o f fresh-faced “ independ ents” took m ost o f the seven positions going. They were led by a chairman candidate who, sur­ prisingly for an independent, was a member o f the Liberal party. He was beaten, but three o f his followers made it.

Since the other jobs went to middle-of-the-roaders, it is now obvious that the days o f leftwing dominance o f student politics at Monash, once the centre o f mass media attention, are long since gone. Moves are now afoot to strengthen grassroots student con trol o f the bureaucracy, which was the original idea behind MAS ANOTHER less serious bureauc­ anyway. racy on campus, the student JOHN ALFO R D

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HE infamous Australian Union o f Students (remem­ ber the jewish debacle - better still, try to forget) has once again proved its lack o f direction. The occasion was the Easter Social Action/Environment Conference, where people “ dedicated to social change” argued fo r tw o days over how to divvy up $6000.

What was surprising was that the tw o groups — greenies and power freaks — started o ff in amazing accord, agreeing that social change involved local community-based action, and that improving the environment and resident action groups were basically the same struggle.

But conflict is the essence o f change, and since AUS is as malleable as putty, conflict had to arise.

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required was a devolution o f power so that people could control their own lives. This could only occu r through supporting local com m unity action whether environmental, resident, education or whatever. A ll that AUS could d o was act as a resource base, giving these groups whatever they could (mainly m oney and students). Hence they argued fo r a National Community A ction conference with subsidies for low-incom e earners.

The greenies retaliated with an anguished cry for tin cans. They claimed that a National Can Campaign would highlight such problems as multinational cor­ porations, resource wastage, energy use and littering. The only way to achieve all this was a fulltime officer to contact all (?) local groups and find out what

n ecessarily becoming more feasible as communications means for a campus the size o f ours. The other good feature o f such planning allows the unshackling o f our long standing dependence on eastern states news service and printers, both o f which are becoming increasingly tenuous to secure.

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Perth, home o f Uni-West. And after all is said and done if the Long March doesnt achieve much, at least someone may lead us towards the truth and secession.

The Perth Long March organisers are Rev A ffleck and R od Cole (ex editor G rok WAIT) and David Parker, guild vicepresident. The Perth comm ittee is, 1) Arranging billets and, 2) Organising Perth buses: cost for the trip is estimated at $100 return.

3) The permitted propaganda: all o f which is supported and to an extent funded b y the guild o f undergraduates: Uni-West.

The danger o f violence has been appropriately raised b y the m ost dangerous people themselves, ie. commissioner Court and his police department. It would be

they were doing. On the side, he/she could also defend Social Action/Environment from the nasty AUS heavies dedicated to destroying them.

After two days it had to com e to a vote, and what a vote.

Initially all motions on spending the money were lost. After much haggling and ratshit hand counting, the split was $5500 for an officer and $500 for a conference. Those wanting change gave up and left the greenies trying to work out what their Iofficer can do.

All in all, a tragic affair. AUS wanders lonely as a cloud, its greenie faction looking to it for help. Meanwhile people every­ where are massing for change.

Send your tin cans to 97 Drummond street, Carlton, and may God (?) bless.

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reasonable to expect police interference for the whole length o f the WA jaunt. Despite the gloom y forecasts, David Parker estimates at least 150 students from Uni-West will be partaking, and that number from a campus like WA is staggering. *

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ON THE matter o f WA student publications, Pelican, due to the heavy pushing, mainly o f guild chairman “ Dennis” Schapper, is now an incorporated body, and com pletely autonomous, under the name o f Student Publications Incorporated. A m ost interesting feature o f Student Inc. is that it allows for expansion into other fields o f media, video, film and FM radio. All o f which are

FROM THE rumors that have persisted around the Pelican office, it would seem quite certain that a J. J. McRoach type character has been spreading good cheer.

His most successful appointment was at the last union night, where he struck the lush-freaks a mortal blow and made all who were there realise that this was just the start, never the end. *

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YES FOLKS, that family favorite R ob Pascoe is part o f the devious plot to place Pelican in the forefront o f student publications and if the new first issue by Gray and Blazevich is any indication it would seem from here on in it’s every editor for himself. ie ie ie

IT IS most interesting to note that Lang Hancock’s Independent press will print Grok (the WAIT journal) and, due to company policy, not to touch anything called Pelican.

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Children in jails

“It seems to run the family” A mother and daughter tell WENDY BACON how the state tore their family to shreds

HE minister for child welfare in NSW announced recently that there will be a review o f the child welfare act and suggested that widesweeping “ reforms” would probably follow. His announcement was given prominent coverage in the daily newspapers — unlike the inside workings o f the department which, up to the present time, has operated through closed courts and closed institutions.

In recent years, there have been tiny signs that the security o f the department is cracking. There have been articles in the alternative press, demonstrations by the womens movement and even a bit o f material on the ABC. Scandal after scandal has emerged from its adult counterpart, the corrective services department, headed by Maddison.

Healey, the minister, has responded to this pressure, but, notably, not with an “ inquiry” but with a “ review” . Once again, information will be kept from outsiders. All we’ll hear o f the review will be broad policy statements — there’ll be no chance to know if they are any closer to the truth than the usual bullshit. Not that an inquiry, especially if it was run by the government, would tell us everything anyway.

In recent weeks I have been talking to the Rileys, o f Greenacre in Sydney’s western suburbs. Mrs Riley is the mother o f four children — Marlene (2 7 ), Stephen (who was killed several years ago in a car accident), Gary (2 4 , now in Parramatta jail) and Christine (1 4 ). Darby, a close friend o f the whole family, is a mate o f Gary’s who spent time with him in Gosford and Tamworth Boys Homes and various NSW jails.

My discussions with them and others who have been in child welfare institutions suggest to me that if there ever was a “ for real” inquiry into the child welfare department, it would show that the department’ s present role guarantees that many o f those in its “ care” spend a large part o f the rest o f their lives in adult jails. It would show, too , that if a genuine change in the nature o f its institutions was intended, most o f the existing custodial staff would have to be sacked. The thugs and sadists that are attracted to child jails could never do anything other than reinforce the notion o f punishment.

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MRS RILEY: I left their father in 1956 because o f drunkenness. He wouldnt work, so I had to work to keep the kiddies. It was too much and he wouldnt work so I had to leave him. A girlfriend to o k the kiddies over to my mother.

Their father follow ed them and my uncle shot him in the leg. The kids were then put on welfare. My mother didnt tell me until it was to o late in case I went back to him. She thought it was best for me and the kids to stay away from him which it was, too. The kids were made state wards and sent to Sydney. Before all this, the kids had never been away from me even overnight and this broke us up.

MARLENE: When we were first made state wards, Chris — who was only three — and I were sent to Bidura; and the boys were in a place dow n the road. It was really horrible because we'd never been awqy frpm J^ qre, ^ e U ^ . ^

boys at the pictures on Saturday and wave to them. Then they to o k the b oys away but wouldnt tell us where. Then they took Christine away. So there I was by myself with all these strangers who reckoned they were doing the right thing b y you. They just fed you, told you to have a shower and go to bed. They wanted you to forget that you had a brother and sister at all.

MRS R ILE Y : The b oy s were sent to a place in the Blue Mountains. The head was a g ood fellow w ho lived at the home with his fam ily and the b oys settled down alright. Then Stephen was sent out to some foster people, Gary was sort o f shocked after this . .. the wife o f the head was so worried she kept him home from school with her. I used to go up every fortnight. Gary looked like som e­ one who was very ill - you know how (] tljeyv j o o l ^ yery old and with this queer

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in their eye. I got quite a shock too Stephen had gone but that’s what do. Y o u ’ve got no say. After that got very obstinate . . .

When we were together it wasnt good. Once we slept under a blanket fo r a month because their father had nowhere to live. But still and all, we were together. When a kid is taken away from something like that, it hurts. It hurt me and I’m a grownup.

M ARLENE: When we were all split up, Mum was practically a nervous wreck.

She was only living in a room in town. I was put with this aunty whom I’d never met. She was a sadist, fair dinkum. She to o k m oney from my mother as well as the m oney she got from Welfare. She only to o k me so she could play martyr, and fo r a slave. If I was sitting on a chair and she came into the room with her adopted son, she would make me sit on the floor. When m y mother came ou t to see me, she used to send Chris, the son, along to the bus stop with us. She said if I told m y m other anything she would kill me.

I reckon that marked me for the rest o f m y life. It made me understand a lot o f things but it made me terribly stub­ born. I hated everyone then.

In the end I just couldnt take it. One afternoon, I got the kid and half killed him. I bashed hell out o f him and ran away. They caught me and charged me with “ uncontrollable” . That was the first time I went to Parramatta.

MRS R IL E Y : Later on I could have them with me at Christmas time and when I applied. The trouble was that you had to be without work for six months. No one would keep a woman and four kids for six months - it’s just impossible. I wouldnt ask anyone to d o it. I got them out but if I got into debt I just had to put them back in.

M ARLENE: We didnt get Christine back until she was 14. They kept telling us that she was with the same people all the time.

We talked it over and decided that if she thought that was her real mother and father we would leave her there. But when she was put in Linw ood Hall for

running away, she asked to see her real parents. We went to see her and to o k her out straight away. (That was just after m y eldest brother Steve was killed.) A p ­ parently they had been moving her around to different foster people. She’d had a rotten time . . . but even we were just another set o f strangers.

We tried to give her everything to make up for that but I dont think she ever felt like one o f us. Perhaps it would have been better if we hadnt done so much for her.

Steve was more stable than Gary or I. When he was old enough to work he came out and got a job. He went okay. * * *

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A RLEN E : I got on pretty well with the other girls in Parramatta. At that time authority was to me something

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T THIS p oin t Darby broke in to talk about Tamworth. H e and other men I have spoken to have n o hesitation in declaring the Tamworth boys hom e to be worse than any adult jail in NSW — including Grafton which is notorious for its persistent floggings. Tamworth was opened in 1948 to allow fo r th e “ segrega­ tion o f very incorrigible types o f b o y s” .

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I couldnt stand. I vowed after I left my aunty that I would never back down to anyone again. I wanted to play up, so everyone had to play up. There was a girl that stood at the end o f the dormitory (it held 40) and shouted, “ shut up you girls or we’ll lose our privileges” . Then I’d yell out: “ Get fucked, play up, make all the noise you like, bugger ’em .”

They used to put us in solitary - but they couldnt keep us there for more than 72 hours. Bashings were automatic — if you got into trouble, straight up to the males. N ot just slaps, they’d punch you, knock your block right off. Some o f them would just d o things like slap your face until your ears rang but if you cried y o u ’d get it worse. The best thing to do was stand there and take it.

We used to get rotten fo o d in those days - there was maggots in the Milo and weevils in the porridge.

There was a lot o f tension — there was one particular woman, a senior officer w ho was a real bastard. When we had visitors we were searched because some o f the girls used to sneak smokes in — they might put them up themselves, in plastic.

Well, we had to strip right o f f and hold our arms out, and jump up and down.

She’d be feeling you.

A lot o f girls wanted to have a go at her. The tension mounted so much that one day we gave her a real bashing. Then we went mad and ran out, one would follow the other like sheep, we didnt have anywhere to go. Then we thought, bugger ’em, we’ll get on the roof. They couldnt get us down. Those coppers were really rotten. They didnt care if we were girls or not. We were getting knocked and punch­ ed down. They cut up bits o f hose and used them to bash us with. They bashed this Wendy that much that she had blue and black welts all up her back.

It kept on going . . . when we got up on the ro o f we’d think about the things they’d done to us, we’re not having this rotten fo o d and all o f that . . . but when we got down, we couldnt stand up and explain to them. So when we were up there w e’d let all the abuse out.

It was the best job.

The men wouldn’t come near you . . . they couldn’t stand the smell of shit AWKINS, the minister fo r child welfare in 1961, in his report fo r that year, recognised the “ overcrowding” at Parramatta. O f the riots he went on to say: “ Throughout the unsettled period, discontent was not general, but was con ­ fined to a small group o f girls . . .

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given included objection to a prohibition against smoking and dissatisfaction with delays in discharging.”

The older girls who had been involved in the riots were sent to L ong Bay. For the you nger ones, a new institution was created - Hay jail — an old prisoner o f war jail — was reopened. Marlene was among the first arrivals. k

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A R L E N E : We arrived in what seem­ ed to be the middle o f the desert at six o ’clock at night. Outside the jail didnt look to o bad but as soon as you got through the grille it was rotten. The only thing that was swept was the hallway.

The cell was full o f spider webs.

There was a mattress and one blanket, a little stool bolted to the ground and a small table. There was a little window near the ceiling with three bars across it.

During the first weeks we had to scrape the inch thick whitewash from the walls and paint the cell. That to o k me three weeks. A fter that we made the gardens, and cement footpaths — we were just like laborers.

There were wom en screws and some men w ho were there just to bash us.

When they came in the morning at six o ’clock you had to be standing on the mat, facing the door, with your eyes down. If you werent you got a “ b ou n ce” — that’s half a meal. If you gave any cheek or anything, then y o u ’d be un­ privileged and miss out on the meal altogether. I got so many “ bounces” that I was skinny as a rake.

They used to give you a bucket at night to go to the toilet in.

Y o u ’ve got to keep six feet apart no matter where you are, even in the show­ ers. We were made to march everywhere lifting our knees right up. Y o u ’re not allowed to look anyone in the face. That was really hard fo r me. Mum had always taught me to look people in the eye - if they dont to me I think they are sneaky.

But we were drilled not to talk to them, not to lo o k them in the eye, and if we did, it was a “ b ou n ce” .

There was on ly 14 o f you, so you could hear a pin drop. When someone whispered it made a great echo. Before you could say anything you had to click your feet, stand to attention with your hand straight up in the air, like a soldier and say “ report to y o u miss” . They might keep you standing there fo r 15 minutes.

If you said you wanted to go to the toilet, they’d say “ on the dou ble” , then y o u ’d click your feet and run all the way there and back. If you were to o slow y o u ’d have to d o it again.

When the sewerage busted we had to clear it out. Believe it or not this was the best jo b . The men wouldnt stand near you because they couldnt stand the smell o f shit.

We were allowed to talk fo r 10 min­ utes every day. We sat on the verandah, crosslegged and six feet apart. Y ou still werent allowed to lo o k at anyone and had to talk about the weather and things like that. Hullo Marlene, it's been a nice day hasnt it. Yeah. If you didnt speak loud enough, they’d yell out. Then you had to yell, “ Hullo sir, how are you

A R B Y: Tamworth has much the same routine as Hay, but if any­ thing it is worse. I was talking to a guy one day . . . wasnt actually talking, just communicating with a wink. We were standing to attention and I didnt realise that one o f them could see me. Next thing I was called out: “ Munro! Report to you sir! Take one pace to the left and turn to the right.” Then I had to run dow n to the grille, where I said, “ Report to you sir,” and he said, “ Yes, com e in ".

I stood there. He said: “ Y ou were talking to Flanagan.” I said, “ No sir” . He said: “ Are you calling me a liar?” I said: “ No sir.” He said: “ Yes you are, you just said you didnt talk to Flanagan.” I said: “ I didnt sir.” He said: “ Y o u ’re calling me a liar again.” He punched me in the face so I put up my hands to feel the blood. He hit me in the head and said, “ Dont move unless y ou ’re told t o ” . He said go to the grille and face it, so I ran out. “ Yes sir, report to you sir.” He said: “ Yeah, get Big Bertha ou t.”

So I had to get this bit o f sandstone about tw o and a half feet long, very thick and wide. Y ou ’ve got to squat down and push it back and forth on the concrete.

It’s alright when you first kick o f f but it gets a bit hard after a while. I did that for about tw o hours. Then he came out and said: “ Munro.” I knew I had to stand to attention, but when I tried to get up I couldnt. My legs were aching to o much.

He knocked me o f f my feet and ordered me up to the cells. I ran up to the cells with my legs right up in the air like we had to. I came to attention at the cells door. “ Strip o f f .” So I took my gear off.

Inside was another cell - you know, like in the cow b oy movies. They gave me an iron bar about eight inches long and told me to scrape it in tw o grooves in the bars. I stood there doing that until 10 o ’clock that night.

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today, sir.” That was recreation.

If som eone got a parcel, it was shared out on Sundays. We’d sit at the table six feet apart and a screw would walk around and share out equal amounts. Then th ey’d say “ eat” .

I got so many ‘bounces’ that I was as skinny as a rake The worst bastard was one particular screw. He used to com e up and scream into your ear “ halt” . Then we had to stop altogether. If one girl was slow he’d yell in her ear, “ What’s the fucking matter with y o u ? ” I f she was new and cried, he’d laugh in her face. He was a real sadist.

He came undone this way: every night when the wom en had their tea break, one was meant to stay with us in the cell block. He used to tell them all to go o ff because he could manage okay. Then he’d go into any cell that he wanted to and put the word on. The girls were so terrified that about ten o f them let him get away with it. Then he came into my cell one day and I thought, I ’ve got you now. I knew he wasnt supposed to be there without a woman so, even though he was bashing me, I screamed my head o ff and wouldnt let him out the door.

The wom en came running over to see what was going on. One said she’d go to the papers if he wasnt sacked. Then the other girls all yelled out, even one in the hospital w ho he had touched the day after her operation. He went . . . but he probably was only shifted to another place.

MRS R IL E Y : There are people like that in all the institutions. What about that officer in G osford that Gary told us about? The b oys were sent to help in the officers houses — they were called houseboys. The wife o f this officer used to make the b oys knock her o f f and he used to watch.

MARLENE: Chris, my younger sister went to Hay twice. That was several years ago. Things were pretty much the same. The prison had been fixed up by then o f course . . . they made canvas bags

I missed out on my Sunday egg Next morning they came and gave me a mattress and blanket. I was still stand­ ing there with nothing on and it was pretty cold. They gave me a tub to shit in. Then I saw that I could sit on the tub and keep scraping. It seemed alright to me. Next thing they came up and looked through the peep hole and sprung me. So I had to spend all day in there and missed out on m y Sunday egg.

MARLENE: Y ou ’ve got n o idea how much that means to you, if you dont get nothing, to have a lolly or egg or some­ thing on a Sunday.

D ARBY: They have a point system. Y ou might be really good at marching or at making your bed, and you get points.

After a while I could fold my clothes in ten seconds. Then you jump up and click your heels and stand to attention.

Y ou dont know how many points they are writing down. The first six on the ladder were able to talk each day - for five or ten minutes. I was a good friend o f Gary’s, so the first time I could talk I said: “ G ’day Gary, how are y ou .” “ Al-

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Continued from page 19 right Darb.” Then they said, “ Munro!”

So I jumped to my feet. They said: “ Y ou’re not allowed to talk about what you're here for, you're not allowed to talk about Gosford, you’ve just got to talk about things that have happened.’’

Well you dont know what's happened because there’s no wireless, no nothing.

So all you could say was: "Jees it's a grouse day, Gaz.” “ Yeah Darb, real nice.” “ Jees I worked hard today . . . ” You can’t even tell a joke.

In bed at night, you’ve got to lie with your hands out even if it’s freezing. So you won’t pull yourself.

I got that thin up there. I was 15 when I went there, about five foot ten and about ten and a half stone. I got down to six stone. They had to send for the doctor. He said, “ Turn it up, look what you done to the kid” . Dead set, I used to shake all the time. After that they had to give me pills and fed me up a bit. But I’ve never recovered from that joint.

My grandmother who brought me up didnt know what was going on because she couldnt read or write so I wrote to my sister Ann and they came up to see me, but I couldnt talk to them or nothing. They went and saw people about it to try and get something done.

MARLENE: If you forget to say “ yes sir” or "report to you sir” once, you’re on a bounce. So when you first get there you hardly get any food. They work you like dogs. . .

When I went home I hated it. I was terrified o f cars. I got a job, but then the boss was perving up my dress. (I didnt like men then. I thought they just used girls up.) I had a go at him. So I got the sack. I got together with some girls from Parramatta and eventually went back in again. Me and mum were only living in a room and I felt she’d be better off without me. I’ll go out on my own I thought. You know, big 15 year old.

I felt as though I was on my own when I came out. I didnt like nice girls. I liked the ones in Parramatta because we had been through so much together.

MRS RILEY: Anyone has got to be in these kind o f places to know what a difference it is when you come out. After Marlene was in Parramatta she was practi­ cally marching around the streets. Y ou’d sing out and she’d pull up. That’s no good for kids.

Gary ran away from a boys home; for that he was sent to Gosford, and he was in there and in Tamworth until he was old enough to get out. The running away was his only offence until he was an adult, if you call that an offence. There was a silly little thing much earlier about stealing pigeons - just boys stuff.

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MRS RILEY: When he came home from jail, he seemed alright, but you can see in a person’s face a difference. You can tell that it goes deeper than they let on. So I said to him: “ Y ou’ve got to change your attitude, it'll do you no good.” “ Well society never did me any good, so why should I worry about it,” he would say.

Some people even commit suicide in there. But if you ’ve got a bit o f will power, like Gary ha?, they dp,n,t break you, they only make you worse. To break a person is to cut him up so he’s no longer a man. They treat them as animals in there, and I’m surprised they are not worse than they are.

MARLENE: When Gary got out last time, we went to the pub and he kept thinking that people were looking at him but they werent. I’ve seen others who've come out behave like that too. There is a lot of them around here. Basically good kids who come from broken homes and are made state wards. Before you know it they are in Gosford boys home and from there they graduate to jail. At first they only do silly things, then they get other ideas . . . When Gary came out after being in jail, he said he wouldnt have anything to do with “ fences” (people who get rid o f the goods) any more and he wouldnt rob any poor bloke down the road either.

He had the idea if he could get some money he and I could go back to the bush, to Dubbo, where our relatives are, he would be alright . . .

Gary had only been out for about a year when he was arrested again. He was sent straight into the Circle - the maxi­ mum security isolation block at Parramat­ ta. The authorities said that this was because he had played a major part in the 1970 riot at Bathurst. After 18 months, he was sent to Long Bay where he tried to escape. After the escape attempt he was severely flogged by warders, several o f whom have been dismissed following a public inquiry. Ever since that attempted escape, he has been back in the Circle.

For a long time, he had no tobacco or reading matter. At the moment, he faces a 14 year sentence for his alleged part in two bank robberies. He has yet to face court on the attempted escape.

DARBY: Gary’s got a lot o f mates in jail.

If he could get out o f the Circle, it wouldnt be so bad for him. At least he would feel a bit okay then - but that’s what they dont want you to feel.

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O RE tours have been confirmed to th re a te n y o u r p ockets: on m ay 15, W illie Dixon, w rite r o f L it t le red rooster, / ju s t wanna m ake love to yo u , 7 th son and countless o th er a ll-tim e greats, w ill h it A u s tra lia w ith the Chicago Blues.AII Stars. The All Stars consist of Carry Bell Harrington (harp), Buster Benton (guitar), Lafayette Leake (pian o ), C lifto n James (drum s), a n other g u ita rist w h o is a t present nameless, and son Freddie Dixon w h o relieves W illie on d o u ble bass. M a tt T aylo r w ill be to u rin g th ro u g h o u t A u stra lia and N Z w ith D ix o n and Sid Rumpo w ill be a bonus fo r Perth and A d e la id e audiences.

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R um ors o f an im pending breakup fo r Yes m ay p u t an end to the hopes fo r th e ir to u r in October. E xp la n a tio n s as diverse as co n tra cts and th e D iv in e L ig h t M ission have been p u t fo rw a rd as reasons f o r th e possible s p lit. A n o th e r one to cross o f f y o u r list is Melanie — it was a b u m steer.

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O n th e recording scene: M elbourne band Skyhooks have been signed b y M ushroom and w ill be going in to TCS studios in a couple o f weeks tim e w ith Ross Wilson to p u t d o w n every o rig in a l song th e y have. F ro m these th e y w ill choose th e best fo r th e album th a t Ross w ill pro d u ce fo r th e m late in m ay. Cloud 9 have been signed b y W E A and have Ian M eldrum as p ro d u ce r, a tte m p tin g to salvage his re p u ta tio n a fte r th e Colleen H e w itt debacle.

King Billy's slip o f th e tongue at th e H o b a rt p op festival has had nasty repercussions fo r M ushroom . T h e y have had to re m ix th e Aztecs' track and recut the whole album on the concert, pushing back the release date to tw o weeks hence. All for the sake of one word!

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WO YEARS ago the dominant avant garde pop music was com ing from groups like Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and Jethro Tull. It was a kind o f late reaction to the 1966-67 psychedelic-acid-flower-power-Kesey & Leary-phenomena and as sure as psychedelia was doom ed to be superseded on the assembly line o f adolescent fads so also was its musical by-product Until recently n o particular new musical form had emerged to challenge psychedelic rock. Only since midway through last year with the arrival o f Berlin, Transformer and Aladdin sane has the David Bowie-Lou Reed ethos been sufficiently powerful to chart out a new frontier fo r the pop music scene.

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That image making is not the prerogative o f the media, it is everybody’s escape from the rather tainted reality o f co n ­ temporary society.

Against hard-hitting, socio­ logically perceptive lyrics Bowie and Reed placed an amalgam o f gut-reaction 1950s rock and late 1960s musical sophistica­ tion. In short the crucial ele­ ments o f the p op music scene were blended together in music which looked back to its roots and forward to innovative experi­ mentation.

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Critics have served R o x y Music badly simply because they havent understood what Bryan Ferry has been trying to do. Words like freaks, decadent, tasteless have been thrown around by people not able to see beyond the positively baroque rock ’n’ roll and the bizarre lyrics. They couldnt see that lead singer, pianist and com poser Ferry was not ca sh in g in on the glitter-freak-transvestite scene.

Ferry created a classic 1950s rock ’n ’ roll band — saxophone, piano, drums and tw o guitars, he used his decidedly white, at times presleyish voice, his ability to write songs with 50s themes and 70s lyrics, and the cosm ic sound o f Brian Eno (n ow replaced b y Eddie Jobson) to create that rare thing, a genuinely original sound.

The result, on one level, was decidedly decadent and tasteless but on another level it was extraordinarily clever. Take, for example, The strand, from R o x y ’s second album For you r pleasure.

There’s a new sensation A fabulous creation A danceable solution To teenage revolution . . .

Tired o f the tango?

Fed up with fandango?

Bored with the beguine?

Samba isnt y o u r scene?

Weary o f the waltz?

And th e m a sh ed -p o ta to schmaltz?

On one level Ferry was playing games, being decadent and nostalgic about the numerous dance crazes o f the 50s; on another level he was creating rhymes worthy o f T om Lehrer or Ogden Nash and he was placing them against a background o f good, solid, progressive rock ’n ’ roll.

In one week a double helping o f this group has arrived in the form o f Bryan Ferry’s solo album These foolish things and the third R oxy Music album, Stranded.

These foolish things is a curio piece. Interesting in the same way Bowie’s Pin ups is interesting and perhaps not as much o f a rip-off.

If anyone had seriously doubted Ferry’s allegiance to the 50s here is a powerful refutation in the form o f 13 songs spread from the late 40s These foolish things to the mid-60s A hard rain's a-gonna fall and encom ­ passing all those incredible US writing teams who seemed to be able to disgorge unlimited supplies of sentiment about teenage love, high school hops, college rings, partytime traumas and maudlin departures — who else but Leiber & Stoller’s Baby I dont care, Jerry G offin & Carole King’s Dont ever change, Kolber and Mann’s I love h ow yo u love me and Wilson & Christian’s Dont worry baby. A cursory nod to the English scene in the form o f Lennon and McCartney’s You won't see m e and the Stones’ Sympathy fo r the devil, and as rock comedian Martin Mull would say “ He gets right back to his roots on record".

The collection is interesting because o f its diversity. On one level Ferry looks to quite

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sophisticated Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan material and on another it is some o f the most dire music ever to masquerade under the name o f pop. Always Ferry's musical and vocal treatment is unusual being at the same time an act o f devotion and send-up. The subtle elaborations o f the original music exaggerate the limitations o f early rock kitsch and Ferry’s vocals, wavering and fiftyish, balance delicately on the edge o f thoughtful reinterpretation and downright satire.

T o play Stranded directly after These foolish things is to see exactly how Bryan Ferry has metamorphosed 50s music into the 70s.

Starting with the 4 /4 rock 'n' roll beat belted out by the drummer and bassist (it is interesting that R o x y Music has never had a permanent bassist presumably Bryan Ferry argues that the instrument serves only a most basic function in a band), the group use synthesiser, violin, saxophone, oboe, guitar and piano to weave fantastic melodic elaborations around t he everpresent beat. The beat is raw, simplistic 50s and the melodies, which generate so much o f the group’s intellectual and emotional power, are the sophistication o f the 70s.

Consider the album’s most successful track, M other o f pearl, which opens with a raunchiness and violence reminiscent o f the Stones and after three verses swirls away into a jerky, almost funky, attack on suburban trendies.

Thus verses like: But no dilettante Filigree fancy Beats the plastic you and Thus even Zarathustra A n oth er time loser Could believe in you are balanced against a chorus line o f: I f y o u ’re looking fo r love In a looking-glass world It's p retty hard to find.

The song, superbly elaborated and developed, moves naturally into Sunset, a poetic conceit, worthy o f the metaphysicals, where Ferry equates the sun with a departing lover.

Oh such a shame y o u must leave All day long yo u were a friend to m e Still the m oon is com fort until morning Perhaps the track Just fo r you , a haunting and powerfully emotional ballad captures most perfectly Ferry’s mixture o f 50s sentiment and post-Dylan lyrical thoughtfulness.

Buttercups, daisies And m ost anything They wither and fade A fter blossoming spring Time conquers innocence Pride takes a fall In knowledge lies wisdom That’s all.

Stranded is R o x y Music’s finest album and one that deserves attention from anyone interested in what’s happening out on the new frontier.

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M A R G A R E T M acINTYRE O sit five people dow n and have them listen to and re­ view 21 records in one evening is lunacy. And since that is what we did, dont expect anything else.

Each person gave a mark ou t o f five according to their tastes the results ranging from Lyndsay’ s minus 100 for the New York Dolls to R odn ey’s ten out o f five for Frank Sinatra.

Flying Burrito Brothers — Philips International ($7.95 - tw o LP set).

17 ou t o f 25 This is a double album record­ ed live b y the Burritos after all the famous names like Gram Parsons and Sneaky Pete had left the band. Yet it doesnt seem to have suffered.

"H e ’s a great vocalist. He’s really singing, not just churning out the words.” Merle Haggard’s Sing m e back hom e, George Jones’ She thinks I still care and Jagger/Richard’s Wild horses stand out particularly on the albums.

Wild horses is a brilliant version o f the song, with only Sneaky Pete’s pedal steel being missed from the original studio version. “ A brilliant album. ” Sylvester and the H ot band Blue Thumb Records (Festival).

14 our o f 25.

Who are “ Sylvester and the Hot Band? We’ve no idea, but Sylvester appears in drag on the cover.

Everyone in the room was handclapping and footstom ping.

This will make a great party rec­ ord. “ Obviously he thinks that Aretha Franklin is the greatest thing since sliced bread.” ‘ ‘ He sounds like a black Frankie Valli w ho’s spent to o long in church.”

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Frank Sinatra: Songs fo r swinging lovers - Capitol (EMI).

3216 ou t o f 25.

This is much better than the shit he does now. The 16 songs include You make m e feel so young, It happened in M onterey, That old devil m oon and just about every other song y ou ’ve ever liked from that era. “ Let’s use it as a pick me up after things like Deke Leonard.”

"Y eah, and Cheryl Dilcher.”

"W here d o you pick the holes?

It’s so g o o d .”

CCS - EMI. 716 ou t o f 25.

A n English big band, centred around good old Alexis Korner, w h o’s on vocals as well as guitar.

Lyndsay: “ I really dig the sing­ ing and the band is really tight.” “ Sounds like England’s Isaac Hayes.” YAWN. “ No, it sounds like a slightly freaked out James Last.”

Once again, technically it’s OK, but the result is dull.

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the cosmos. “ It’s Liverpudlian Noel Coward with smatterings o f Gilbert and George.” “ T hey’re probably more im ­ portant than the Beatles.” Sturdey.

G od bless the child is mutilated, the lyrics rendered utterly mean­ ingless. Whiter shade o f pale was taken o ff after half a verse. No matter what though - the band is terrific!

Linda R onstadt: D on t cry n ow — Asylum (WEA).

12Vz o u t o f 25.

Her version o f Silver threads is great, but so was Dusty Spring­ field’s version - in fact it was better. Desparado brought R ich­ m ond undone: “ Her voice would melt butter. The Carlton Club o f the Country Music Association will be able to lock the doors and dream o ff to Korumburra.”

Lyndsay: “ Ugh, it’s awful. It’ s schmalzy.”

N ew York Dolls Mercury (Phonogram).

- 9 6 ou t o f 25.

In case - 9 6 seems a little dramatic it should first be made clear that only Richm ond and Lindsay voted on this record. And Lindsay gave it - 1 0 0 . Abstentions were granted since the Dolls in­ advertently snook into the review pile. “ It’s m oronic. It’s awful.” “ No it’s not. It puts rock and roll back where it belongs - in the gutter.”

Lambert & N u ttycom be: A s you will - 20th Century (Festival).

6 V2 ou t o f 25.

A duo — that much is obvious.

But short o f the fact that Denis Lambert & Craig Nuttycombe both play acoustic guitar and seem to take it in turns to play each other’s songs, nothing is known o f them. This album was produced at Sound City, Cali­ fornia, so presumably they’re American lads. The first co m ­ ments to surface on this after the blasting from the Dolls were ones o f relief - “ nice and gentle” .

"Yeah, but innocuous.” Muzak.

D ek e Leonard: Iceberg — United Artists (Festival).

- 3 ou t o f 25.

All we know about Deke is that he is a Welsh guitarist, that his band as well as the album is called Iceberg, that he’s now left “ Iceberg” and that his solo album Kamikaze has received favorable crits the world over - however — " I ’m bored stiff.” “ Yeah, I’ve spent many a happy hour not listening to this.” Brenton: “ It sounds like Slade trying to play like Led Zepplin . . . from the b ottom o f a fish tank.”

Kracker: Kracker brand - Rolling Stones Records (WEA).

816 ou t o f 25.

The first release on the Rolling Stones label, and it’s not surpris­ ing to find that Kracker are pro­ duced by the Stones’ producer Jimmy Miller. It’s loud enough and they borrow a few riffs from the Stones. “ All very English.”

Scaffold: Fresh liver - Island (Festival).

2016 ou t o f 25.

Scaffold are a Liverpudlian group consisting o f Roger McGough, Mike McGear (McCart­ ney’s brother), and John G or­ man. They have been around fo r years (remember Lily the p ink?) and their performance falls some­ where between com edy, poetry, folk and pop. This has one bril­ liant poem about a rock musician: Man I'm hanging upside dow n in

Dave Cousins: Two weeks last summer - A&M (Festival).

4 ou t o f 25.

This is the man who left Strawbs last may to a blast o f quotes and publicity. “ We’ve be­ com e to flash, to o contrived, to o complacent. Our rehearsals are a disaster fitted in between pub closing hours.” He was rumored then to be about to form a new band with Rick Wakemen (Yes), but instead he chose to go it alone. “ Donovanish.” Rodney:

“ Echo plus wafty spiritual senti­ mental ia.”

O v e ra ll reaction: “ Quate nace.”

Kathy Dalton: Am azing Kathy Dalton - DiscReet (WEA).

816 ou t o f 25.

This is on Frank Zappa’s Disc­ Reet label, but as with Kracker and the Stones, it is difficult to know just w hy Zappa chose to release this album. As a singer she’s OK - starts o ff really well, but she seems to run down by the end o f side one.

McCuiness Flint: Rainbow Bronze (Phonogram).

5 ou t o f 25.

Tom McGuiness (from the original Manfred Mann) on guitar, Dixie Dean (bass), and Hughie Flint (drums) are joined by Lou Stonebridge (keyboards) and Jim Evans (guitar, pedal steel). This is about the fifth lineup McGuiness Flint have had in the past few years and this is their first album.

Nothing outstanding, it’s sort o f country rock for want o f a label — “ just a record.”

Philip Goodhand-Tait - (through Festival).

- 5 ou t o f 25.

Philip is an English pianist/ singer/songwriter w ho has copied his first album cover straight from Randy Newman’s Sail away cover - apart from that he and Newman have nothing in com m on. A p ­ parently he has a follow ing in England & the US. “ Nowhere.” “ England’s own Brian Cadd.”

Gryphon - Transatlantic (Fes­ tival).

816 ou t o f 25.

This will probably be o f inter­ est to English folk music buffs as usual, no real information about the band, but they are an acoustic band, using recorders, bassoon, crumhorn and man­ dolins. “ Nice enough.”

Jobriath - Elektra (WEA).

216 out o f 25.

Jobriath has received a great deal o f hype both in England and America - some o f it very amus­ ing, since his manager Jerry Brandt appears to be madly in love with him and is sure that he was sent by God to take up the Beatles’ mantle. He is being cast as a sort o f American Bowie with style but manager Brandt’s fan­ tasy seems to be one o f the heart rather than the head. “ After all the hype - this is nothing.” “ Read the lyrics - they are unbelievable: Blow blow blow away/It's very gay to blow away.”

Bonnie Raitt: Takin’ m y time Warner Bros (WEA).

14 out o f 25.

She sings and plays 12 string guitar and she does both very well. Mose Allison’s E verybody’s cry in' m ercy and the old rocker Let m e in stand out, but overall it is a pleasant and enjoyable record.

One o f the best o f the evening.

The reason it only scored 14, no higher, was that b y this time Richmond Sturdey was falling o ff chairs and generally wrecking the place and decided to give it 0 out o f 5. It still passed!

equally. Y ou are n o t h olding y o u r partner's hands any more than she is holding yours. S it in this p o sition fo r a b it and begin to lo o k in each

Excerpted from the b o o x ^ ^ ^ T otal orgasm b y Jack Lee Rosenberg, co-published b y Random House Inc, N e w Y ork a nd The Bookw orks, California.

PRELIMINARIES FOR W O RK IN G WITH APARTNER Some wom en can achieve orgasm easily by m asturbation, and yet, when w ith someone else, fin d it im possible to reach a clim ax. Men more o^ften fin d th e y reach a clim ax to o soon.

It is extrem ely im p o rta n t when w o rkin g w ith a partner th a t you m aintain contact and com­ m unication w ith th a t person so th a t you can experience the feelings in yo u r own body and allo w them to occur, and also be aware o f the presence and effe ct o f th e other person upon you . . . and yo u upon him . This coincidence of feeling, o r com ing together, is part o f the goal you w ill w o rk towards.

As I have said before, these exercises w ill put you in close to u ch w ith your em otions. This is true whether you are w o rkin g alone or w ith a partner. Y ou m ay have added d isco m fo rt if you are not used to exposing yo u r feelings in the presence o f another. A ll o f a sudden, as you start breathing, you m ight "e x p lo d e " into feeling. Many men, in particular, are not used to feeling like they are going to cry. Crying is a norm al occurrence in this kind o f w o rk ; you can feel like crying more easily when you increase y o u r overall feeling content. We all have a number o f things to cry about. If we d id n t, we w o u ld n t be human. It's your partner's jo b to let you know you can go through this, to reassure yo u . L e t these feelings o u t!

Some people believe that because someone is crying o r is in to his feelings deeply, something has to be done a b o ut it. In this w o rk, you are to just m erely be w ith y o u r partner and a llo w him or her to have feelings; there is nothing th a t you can do about it, or th a t you have to do. Just be there, stay in contact, and allow.

Crying o r feelings o f loneliness or wanting to be held are one ty p e o f em otion th a t may come up. A n o th e r type th a t may arise in this w o rk is anger and resentment. If you get in touch w ith some anger, kic k or h it a p illo w . The feelings must be let out, b u t p o t taken o u t on y o u r partner. Just a llo w them to happen. These feelings may surprise you by their intensity.

You m ay feel like y o u 're going to k ill yourself o r somebody else; you have "catastrophic expectations" w hich, when fo llo w e d to their ultim ate conclusions, w ill reveal themselves as unfounded fantasy. You can co m fo rt yourself by know ing that you can tu rn these feelings o ff. You know how to do th a t; you've been doing it fo r a life tim e .

If you are in a space where yo u r feelings seem overwhelm ing, where you can't go on, you can always seek counsel, and I recommend very strongly you do seek professional help if you even suspect you need it. Call a psy­ chologist or psychiatrist and ta lk to him . Let someone else share y o u r feelings; this may be the m ost im p o rta n t thing in yo u r life. If you shut o f f y o u r feelings now and go back in to y o u r iceberg, you may never get to them again.

When someone begins to realise how turned o ff he is and seeks professional help, ;t's usually a m ajor step in his life.

If y o u r feeling space doesnt seem "m o re than you can handle", just return to it again later; it w ill be d iffe re n t then. Come back to it just as you do w ith y o u r breathing . . . a little at a tim e. In this way, you w ill be able to w o rk through the feeling; soon it w ill no longer bother you.

If the vibrations become so strong that you feel th a t th e y're overwhelm ing, put yourself on y o u r side in a fetal position, curled up like a baby, and just lie there, breathing slow ly . . . y o u r breathing, tin g lin g , everything, w ill calm dow n in a couple o f m inutes. You have a safety valve; you can always shut the energy o ff. If y o u r partner gets in to this space, many times

by just having him curl up in the fetal position and holding h im , you can be o f help. Put yo u r arms around him very much like you hold a baby, n o t around his head, b u t around his body.

In describing this set o f exercises, I often need to distinguish one partner fro m the other, and have run in to language d iffic u ltie s . H ow ­ ever, I settled on "a c tiv e " and "passive" as a compromise, w ith the reservation th a t when I use the w ord "passive" I am im p lyin g a passive (that is open, receptive) p a rticip a tio n .

Begin w ith yo u r partner by deciding upon a series o f times to meet; a llow at least one to tw o hours fo r each session, perhaps three times a week. M y advice is that each o f you take a fu ll session o r week o f sessions in each role as "a c tiv e " or "passive", then switch roles fo r the next session o r week o f sessions. D ont tr y to trade roles a fte r each exercise or you w ill lose yo u r energy charge and yo u r rh yth m .

You may not be able to w o rk through the entire sequence fo r several sessions. If you do them all the firs t session, you are w o rkin g too fast and need to spend m ore tim e on each exercise. If you can, im agine yourself m oving in slow m o tio n — th a t's th e way this w o rk should be done.

W O R KIN G W ITH A P A R TN E R HEN exercising w ith a partner, it is not necessary to w o rk in the nude. In fact n u d ity sometimes gets in the way. If it o u t th a t this is the case, th a t yo u r n u d ity creates unreal expectations, then p u t some clothes on.

The most im p o rta n t th in g is to get used to being w ith another person. Being w ith another means accepting where he o r she is . . . not expecting anything, demanding an ything , feel­ ing any demand on yourself or p u ttin g any expectations on yourself. When this is possible, when you can really lo o k a t the o ther person w ith acceptance, w ith o u t m aking a demand, then it is possible to begin to w o rk together. If you can't do th is, then you should discuss what it is th a t keeps you fro m doing it. Name w hat it is you w ant fro m the o th e r person; make your demands e xp lic it. Consider this an im p o rta n t part o f the exercise and tr y to get to a place free o f demands before you begin.

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SENSING A N O T H E R . A fte r you have estab­ lished y o u r relationship verbally, the firs t thing to do is to lie dow n together, each w ith a hand on the other's belly close to the solar plexus, and feel the o ther person's rh yth m . Y ou may notice q u ite a b it o f nervousness now and th a t yo u r partner's b e lly m ig ht be quivering slig h tly.

In this position, you can feel his heart and how it beats. You can feel his excitem ent. Lie this way fo r at least five m inutes by the clock . . . u n til yo u r rhythm s have begun to flo w to ­ gether. A t this p o in t y o u 'll notice th a t yo u r

breaths seem to come somewhat at the same tim e. D ont make any e ffo rt to have this happen. Just lie still and pay a tte n tio n to the other person's breath rhyth m .

EY E -A LO G U E . This is a silent, no-sound-at-all exercise. S it up, as in the illu s tra tio n , jo in hands and lo o k at each other. As you jo in hands, do so in such a way th a t you hold each other

oth er's eyes to establish the feeling o f pres­ ence. By "presence" I mean are you here? Is yo u r partner here? It is possible to be present in the body, physically in th e room , b u t not present w ith yo u r w hole being.

Sometimes just being present w ith another person is enough to cause you to become nervous, tu rn o ff, go away, close up, o r alter or stop y o u r breathing. L o o k at the o ther person; see if she’s present, and acknowledge her.

C ontinue this eye-alogue fo r a tim e ; continue to make contact. (An eye-alogue is sim ilar to a dialogue; the difference is th a t you use yo u r eyes o n ly.) Remember, d o n t ta lk d u rin g this exercise . . . ju st look.

leading. Keep silent during the exercise: ta lkin g w ill o n ly distract you. Take tu rn s; let th e lead come fro m one o f yo u , then flo w to the other.

A llo w y o u r movements to be slow and gentle.

Start on y o u r knees; move to a standing position. A llo w this m ovement to happen. Y ou are getting in to u ch w ith y o u r partner's sensitiv­ ity to you and w ith y o u r sensitivity to her. It's amazing how much you can sense w ith yo u r eyes closed.

Now share yo u r experiences verbally w ith y o u r partner; ta lk about w hat you discovered about yourself and about her. Share how it fe lt to be active or passive, the fo llo w e r or the leader.

F o r the rest o f these exercises, one partner w ill be "a c tiv e " and the o ther "passive".

(Remember both partners are a ctually active participants in this process.) Choose which o f you wishes to be "passive" firs t; y o u 'll switch places later so both o f you w ill experience both roles. A ll the exercises in this section are directed to the "a c tiv e " p a rticip a n t to read to the "passive" partner, w ho does them .

D E V E LO P IN G A B R E A T H IN G P A TTER N .

Now you are going to help y o u r partner

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N ow each o f you close y o u r eyes and p u t yo u r a tte n tio n in to yo u r b o d y, inside yourself.

T ry to fin d y o u r centre, a place o f calmness inside yourself. Experience w hat it is like to be w ith yourself. Stay "th e re " fo r at least a m inute. N ow come back to th e present. Open yo u r eyes and be aware o f y o u r partner again.

What is it like to be "h e re "? H ow do you feel "h e re "? Compare this "h e re " w ith your " th e re ", y o u r inner self. Go inside again.

Experience yo u r "in s id e " m ore fu lly . . . come turnsback again . . . open yo u r eyes now, and again make c o n ta c t w ith yo u r partner. Each o f you can co ntinue to sh u ttle back and fo rth between the "h e re " and the "th e re ", com paring your inner experience w ith yo u r outer.

SENSING A N O T H E R E N E R G Y . S it op­ posite yo u r partner on the flo o r. N ow rub y o u r hands together ra p id ly fo r a m in ute to generate heat and energy in yo u r hands.

Put yo u r hands up next to each o th er, about a quarter o f an inch to an inch apart. Y ou w ill feel the other person's presence or "v ib ra tio n s ", even though you d o n t touch her hands. Close

y o u r eyes now and w ith yo u r hands si ill alm ost together, feel the oth er person’s presence w ith yo u r hands. Extend this to a movem ent or "d a n ce "; d o n t to u ch , b u t be aware o f where the o ther person is. Keep y o u r eyes closed during this "d a n ce " and y o u 'll fin d o u t who's

develop a smooth breathing pattern. W ith o u t touching yo u r partner, p u t yo u r hand over any tig h t area you see on yo u r partner's b o d y. Y o u r partner w ill feel the energy fro m y o u r hand.

Many times this energy w ill enable her to relax her body.

The upper chest, in the clavicle area, and the lower chest, at the solar plexus, are constricted in many people, so just rest y o u r fingers on these areas and, as yo u r partner exhales, add a little pressure firs t on one area, then the other, to encourage her to let the air o u t com pletely and use this increased torso space fo r better breathing.

Now as yo u r partner takes a breath, push dow n on the chest w ith the palm o f y o u r hand, increasing y o u r pressure as the air is expressed o u t and decreasing it as she inhales. Regulate yo u r pressure to fo llo w her breathing move­ ment. Stay sensitive to her rh y th m . W ork in this way u n til her breathing seems deeper, more regular; about five m inutes should do.

N ow p u t one hand over yo u r partner's belly and one hand over her chest and again bring y o u r awareness to the belly-chest area. Do not touch her at firs t. The "passive" partner, as she inhales, brings her chest up firs t and then her belly up, to touch yo u r hands. What you're try in g to do now is make y o u r partner aware th a t she should be breathing w ith her chest firs t and then w ith her belly, w ith both o f them going down together on the exhalation. H o w ­ ever, if yo u r partner breathes b e lly firs t and chest second, then both dow n, go along w ith th a t sequence. As I explained in y o u r firs t exercises, some people are " b e lly " breathers and w ill go belly firs t. The im p o rta n t th in g is th a t both parts, chest and b e lly, participate in a complete breath.

NEXT ISSUE A t last, the climax.

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pelvis with legs. Grounding the energy. O n all fours.

PH EW !!!!!!

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vists there wish to correspond with southern activists to discuss actics, procedures etc. Write to M cRoach, C /o TLD and corres­ pondence will be forwarded.

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A N Y smokers maintain marijuana laws to remain as they are - most think decriminalisation will result in exploitation by tobacco com ­ panies, and fear the dreaded effects o f commercialisation.

Others see illegal dope as a revolutionary tool - Jerry Rubin, in D o it said: Make p o t legal and society will fall apart. K eep it illegal and soon there will be a revolution.

Unfortunately illegal dope can also be an effective weapon A G A IN S T revolutionaries — heavy busts, fines, jail and general harassment. Dope is one o f the most obvious, and most effective, excuses for police to bust politi-V cally active freaks, or non work­ ing “ dropouts” .

Those who fear commercialis­ ed dope are in for a shock if they look around themselves — dope is a commercialised scene B dope can be as dear, if not dearer, than

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its weight in gold, all because there is a g-r-reedy chain o f avari ­ cious middlemen between the actual source o f the dope and the smoker.

There’s also the whole field o f rip off dope b ook reprints and M cRoach has noted an unhealthy upsurge in the range o f “ smokers paraphernalia” being touted in the ad columns o f hip American magazines.

Probably the nastiest o f these is a little creature known as a Hightime tray, a “ special tray for special stuff” . Can you dig it?

It’s made o f walnut stained carved solid hardwood and is “ di­ signed to keep all your stuff together and accessible the entire time you ’re high” .

T o McRoach it looks like a pot smokers prepackaged teevee din­ ner.

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Then from the kitsch folk at Interplanetary in California comes the super smoking electric pipe which, according to Interplanet­ ary is “ the ultimate in smoking simplicity” , brought to you by none other than the notorious “ Modern Technology” . The elec­ tric pipe operates on two batteries — a small electric pump produces a steady flow o f dope smoke when the button is held down.

What to d o if you ’re stuck with a bundle o f army surplus gas masks? Simple, put Free Enter­ prise to work and market them as grass masks — “ Shit, what a hit” .

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D ope activists in Albany, where a guestimated 200 smokers are scattered among a population of 12,000 to 14,000 report dissatisfaction with the recent change o f government (from labor to “ liberal” ) and state that they are facing difficulties at the hands o f a local catholic DLP magistrate and a new super heavy drug squad pig.

Recently in Albany, bail for a possession bust was set at $2000 (april 5, Albany court o f petty sessions). Albany activists would also like to correspond with other experienced activists. Once again, send to M cRoach.

the “ only way to clean your grass — over 50,000 sold” . There’ s no more inform ation in the ad ex­ cept detailed instruction on where and how to send the $US4 this trip costs you. There is a m oney back guarantee but h ow many heads are going to contest this in court?

Can you “ imagine a 24 inch straight pipe that really isnt straight, that com es in six de­ licious candy colors, that is super super-charged and screened, and that smokes as co o l as a water pipe w ithout the trouble o f water” .

M cRoach can’t really imagine it, but it exists — “ it” is an E Z Bender pipe that is “ so unique that it has a patent pending".

Wow! The pipe is actually a long piece o f flexible tubing that can be bent into any shape and costs you $US4.50.

There are many other ultra commercial gimmicks around — roach clip earring pieces that arent really functional, pieces o f w ood with marijuana stencilled on it — leave it around and impress your friends, etc — to o many to mention. S oon some profit oriented head will com e along with prerolled filter tipped joints prepacked in 20s.

However, if you en joy smoking to make your own. For example M cRoach has details o f how to make a superb hookah out o f recycled waste materials — for “ how to make” instructions send ten dollars to M cRoach, or buy next w eek’s TLD.

informed that $10,000 worth ot dope he was growing had been burnt, he said: “ What a terrible waste.”

Norton was busted while pad­ dling a surf ski half a mile from shore — his ski was intercepted b y Cairns police launch, Rita. Police said that after Norton was taken ashore he was shown tw o dope plants that had been found. He was asked if he knew anything about the plants — the Cairns post stating f

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said, “ Yes brother: m e,” and show ed k the police o ffic e r tw o large ft In dian, hem p plantations ■ ’ row ing in plastic bags, ■ o n e on top o f a h ill and ■ the oth er in dense ra in ■ fo re s t. Som e o f the plants ■ w e r e 8 to 10 ft. high,

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N orton was com mitted to the criminal sittings o f the Cairns district court on may 26.

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OES to all those so called heads w ho have ripped-off their smoking colleagues. Darwin correspondent Ken Hare Chillum reports: “ Having just hauled my ass overland and arrived in the con ­ tinent o f Australia for the second time I still find the price o f the good smoke is too fucking high.

And to add insult to injury it’s grown b y a bunch o f country HE THIRD annual dope cowfreaks who have no idea of bust benefit will be staged how to cure it or even cultivate it. in the clubs and societies hall, Seeds are just scattered in the university o f New England, “ later ground and allowed to grow as this m onth” . they please. Then the plant is just cut and dried. Not even compres­ HE La Trobe Marijuana sed with anything like honey or A ction G roup’s marijuana spirit — just dried. benefit concert No. 2 proved to “ Som e bastard is making a hell be another good stoned night. o f a raise and it looks to me like Smokers attendance was large and the growers. small and quiet. There were no “ The price o f hash is even busts. Bands including Captain more laughable and you dont M atchbox, Fat Albert and Poor even get an ounce. Just something T om perform ed well, particularly called a “ deal” . Have you never with the aid o f a $50 dope deal heard o f scales in this place? provided as “ musicians amenities” “ Getting back to grass. To be b y the benevolent La Trobe forced to pay anything between MAG. $25 to $35 for a “ deal” and the La Trobe dope correspondent, fucking stuff only comes from Smoker McHash, will provide in­ 200 miles up the road is to be interested activists with all pertin­ ripped o ff. Much the same scene ent details on h ow to get these existed in my home town o f concerts o ff the ground — write Cardiff, Wales in early ’ 67. Acid C /o M cRoach, C /o TLD. was being bought in bulk from the factories for just under ten pence a deal and sold on the street for one pound a tab. Later one dealer started selling for 50 pence so everyone scored from him and the other dealers had to lower their prices.

ECOMMENDED, and pre­ “ This is what has to happen sumably developed, by here, otherwise you ’re just going to continue to be ripped o ff.

Jethro o f Queensland w ho writes: “ This is a neat little trick you “ What is the counter culture into in this place? The very thing might not have heard of. First that binds us all together, in our you get really stoned (“ smash­ com m on belief that what we are ed” ), then find a big mirror some­ doing is right, continues to be at where — a shop window at night the mercy o f a bunch o f longhair­ works okay if the lights are out. ed capitalist pigs w ho have got no Stand about six feet away from your reflection, all the time star­ more thought about us than the ing at your eyes (weird). Keep drug squads.”

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BANG THEY*RE BUSTED DR UG CHARG ES T A LK OF NOOSA

SQ U A D chief lan Lane, because of seniority, will be one o f the suburban detective ser­ geants soon. Big plans in- , dicate he might be second­ ed to Sydney Drug S q u a d within a year or so. H is ' replacement is D et Sen Con K en R ogers. Rugby league threequarter W ayne H ore (160 games fo r W ests firsts) will be his speedy offsider in the search for j,p edlars.

Newcastle morning herald:

DOPE QUOTE OF THE WEEK ACTIVISTS to Arthur Stuart Nor­ KORNER ton o f Cairns. N orton re­ GOES

OPE smokers are always cently appeared in Cairns magis­ seeking ways to improve trate’s court on possession and growing charges. During the hear­ their stash and the Arizona manu­ ing N orton’s arresting officer stat­ facturers o f Marygin have cashed ed that when the defendant was in — their ad says that Marygin is

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walking very slowly until your nose touches the glass. Stop walk­ ing. By this time you have prob­ ably freaked and you will find you have entered your head from the inside. It’ s enough to scare The living daylights out o f you. I can’t think o f a name for this but I’m sure you ’ ll be able to after trying it.”

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LIBERATE Grass com m it­ tee for Darwin and the NT is being established and the acti-

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T he large nu m ber of persons charged and convict­ e d for drug o ffen ces in the N am b o u r C ourt this w eek has caused a lot of talk in the N oosa-T ew antin area. T here has been m u ch criticis-m of police m e th ­ o d s in obtaining evidence and entry to premises.

It has been rep o rted th at-m an y o f those charged could n o t afford lo defend the charges against th em ­ selves and so took the easy way out and pleaded guilty. This is a e o m m o n problem , not restricted to d rug charges, but one w hich applies to m any people in o u r society. Pursued to the N th degree, the indiv­ iduals’ failure to fight w hen in nocent, could see our goals filled w ith w rongly convicted people.

It w ould be far b etter if cases, w here those charged, p ro teste d their innocence, were allowed to take their course, so th at all the evidence and c o u n te r charges against police could see the light of day T he Federal G o v e rn m e n ts present a tte m p t to provide full legal aid to those in need o f it w ould certainly benefit the in n o ce n t and ensure th at the difference betw een “ co n v ic ted ” and “ pleaded gu ilty ” w ould be a tru e re­ flection o f the facts. ~

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[AM AZING SEED OFFER

L A Y Seedlotto — win tw o free seeds. The game is sim­ ple: 1. Send dope news, informa­ tion, clippings etc. to McRoach C/- TLD. 2. Write on the top o f your

letter “ yes I’d like seeds” or some thing to that effect.

3. A gentle shuffling o f entries will take place and those names drawn get the seeds. I f y o u dont: require seeds do still write in.

Stoned raves are welcome.

W A R N IN G d n g e s tio n of large amounts of cannabis has been determined by the surgeon-general to remove 57 percent of all human aggression

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Send Letters & Things to P. O. Box 5312 BB, G.P.O. Melbourne, Victoria, 3001

A missionary in our midst?

WITH regard to the sexist Total orgasm (Daylights 14), how to get it, etc, it seems that from reading the text we can assume that females and males are advised to do all the exercises — BUT looking at the pictures most o f the positions for the “ below ” role are given to the woman and the “ above” role to the man. It looks like the missionary position (except on occasions) is being encouraged. It’s also odd that the man was clothed when the frontal penile view was required — a m odest artist w ho cant bring her or himself to draw a penis hanging from a great height?

CASSANDRA GRAHAME Neutral Bay, NSW

Worth 1000 words HOW ABOUT SOME MORE OF Y OU R BEAUTIFUL NO-REASON PAGES O F PICTURES WITHOUT WORDS. DONE BY LOVING PEOPLE.

Getting soft WHAT happened to the famous “ weekly flash o f w it, wisdom and song, bursting and crowing with earthly and celestial delights” ? I fear your rag is submitting to "w eek ly hurdy-gurdy o f dejas vu . . . drack boredom o f every­ day media and party platform out­ pourings” .

As a regular customer, since that first masterpiece o f literary anarchy and chaos, I demand you deliver what you promised last year!

As for your proposed Brisbane Brightlights, it should have been in from the start. It’ s a great town when you have the guts to tear away our fearless peanut’s plastic careers and peep into the back room s. I cant remember a single meaningful mention o f our fine city in your rag that wasnt spewed out o f the typewriter o f some ignorant, cynical southerner.

If your reader w ho offered a Brizzie Brightlights wants any help, I’ d be glad to render whatever service I can.

A note to Margaret MacIntyre. How about some mention o f Railroad Gin? Apparently, Swotlights has never heard o f U o f Q or James C ook U or QIT or the Queensland teachers colleges!

Wake up — y o u ’re getting soft.

CLIVE COOK o f the north

A cool rag ... to riches WHILE sitting (straight) on the bus the other evening after a hard (straight) day’ s work, I perchanced to glance across the way towards a fellow passen­ ger who appeared engrossed in a cop y o f Daylights (probably the No. 14 edition), while stroking the nosey pro­

tuberance on his bearded face. This prompted me to recall that once, long ago, I had read the first tw o odd editions o f Daylights and had com e away feeling vaguely dissatisfied.

Since then, however, I had dis­ covered the consciousness blowing properties o f the eternal weed — grass o f course — and as a result m y predis­ position for such an edifying rag as this had increased immeasurably. Not only that but I espied an eye-catching article entitled (I think) “ Magic Mushie” which perked up my interest infinitely.

The net result o f this chance visual contact was for me to dive into the nearest rag seller upon alighting and purchase a co p y to peruse at m y leisure. And the final verdict? This acrimonious heap o f shit is without a doubt the best thing to happen to the contemporary rag scene since J. C. de­ cided NOT to play full-back for the arabs.

Man, what a co o l rag. Every page was a delight; from G um boot to Sw ot­ lights, from Brightlights to Daylight R obbery, from articles b y one (farting) Faithful to Stu Hawk to Barry Cade to Willy Young (etc, etc). But what really hooked me was supercool J.J. (Puff on M cRoach!) and an enlightening Friend in Bjelke land w ho writes things (and does he what!). I have only one com ­ plaint to make about the latter and that is that he get his facts right.

Psylocybin is not, as he suggests, similar or identical to Lysergic Acid.

For a start, Lysergic A cid b y itself is, unlike Psylocybin, non-hallucinogenic and only becomes an active agent when chemically com bined with a diethyla­ mide group. Another point is that Lysergic Acid is not necessarily man made as it is a constituent o f ergot, a naturally occurring purple fungus.

Apart from these minor deviations, however, I thoroughly tripped on his article and have enclosed the appro­ priate recompense for the tw o preced­ ing editions so as to read the bullshit he has already written on the mind expanding mushroom saga. Please for­ ward post haste.

STONED, Bondi, NSW Dear Stoned — please send a more specific address. Eds.

C*p chop I’ VE FOLLOWED your articles on jails with great interest. A s an ex-juice freak w ho has been known to overindulge, I’ve been locked up in many different cop shops overnight.

The conditions in these cells are b lood y awful — no beds, no mattresses, no pillows — only filthy blankets and a cement floor. Except for the Mel­ bourne watchhouse - no cells had a chair or bench to sit on. A ll cells, except Parramatta jail, had proper toilets.

Most o f your correspondents accuse the cops and screws o f being heavy, but only twice have the cops given me a hiding — once at the Preston (V ic) police station and the Melbourne watchhouse in Russell street.

If there is to be an inquiry into prison conditions, let’s widen it to include the cop shop cells.

PETER HETHERINGTON Parramatta, NSW

Third World’s 2nd mention IN Piotr Olszewski's story (Daylights, 14), I was quoted as saying that the Third World Bookshop “ acts as V ic­ torian agent for Ribald and Screw ” . I wish to emphasise that the shop is n ot the Victorian agent for Ribald or Screw, or anyone else. The shop is purely a retail outfit. As a retailer the shop does sell Screw and Ribald, and it may be the only such retailer in Vic­ toria, but that does not make the shop an agent.

Would you please correct this unfor­ tunate misquotation in your next issue.

LES CARR, manager, T h td World B ookshop, Melbourne, Vic PS. In The Australian (1 8 /4 /7 4 , page 3) the Festival o f Light Freaks quote our dear Victorian chief secretary, Mr Rossiter, as saying the “ government's opinion was that every person has the right to see, view and hear what they like . . .” Perhaps you could check that out and ask him to explain the incon­ sistency between opinion and practice.

Carna Blue Boys IT IS a pity that Srila Prabhupadas’ movement has been given bad publicity due to the ripping o f f done b y that heavy cat called “ Krishna John” .

True devotees o f Krishna are always straightforward in their dealings and are always thinking o f ways and means o f making Sri Krishna, that Transcendental Blue Boy, attractive to people — not repulsive to them. “ Chant the H oly Names” .

ANON

Liberate Dope RELATING to the remarks M cRoach made in Daylights 11 about the ex­ tremely ineffective means o f com ­ munication between dope smokers. I left NZ at the end o f 1973, and before then hadnt taken the opportunity o f trying grass or o f meeting people w ho used it, although I had read a fair bit about the drug. Since then I have met several marijuana smokers, some o f w hom had friends who had been busted.

So far as I can see, the only w ay in which the whole marijuana problem can be solved is b y having use, posses­ sion and preparation o f the drug no longer declared a criminal offen ce in any way, to have it legalised. I know this sounds a lot to ask. It strikes me that pot smokers, for the most part, are a singularly ineffective group o f people. They seem to be able to suffer their fines and prison sentences in glum

acquiescence.

As with womens lib and gay lib, the only answer seems to be a situation where the dope smokers are prepared to com e out into the open, as I believe they have done in Melbourne. It will have to reach a stage where people are openly growing the stuff and smoking it en masse. I w ould also advocate the use o f car stickers, monogrammed T-shirts, jackets, etc. Sm oke m ore d ope cou ld be one sticker. Another could be Plant m ore trees and grow m ore grass or, Sm oke grass? Been busted? Phone . . . where the number o f the local dope smokers union (or equivalent) is given. The situation is near a crisis point: to o many people are being persecuted b y the legal enforcem ent setup o f the puritanical society in w hich we are living. The inequality o f the law is also apparent, although this is something that per­ meates the w hole legal system. They call it justice.

A t a “ smoke-in” no one, if things go well, gets busted, whereas there was a case reported in Adelaide this month about a man (laborer, late 20s) w ho was arrested, charged with possession o f several ounces o f grass, and fined $425. This reduces the law from an ideal to an obscenity. He was smoking p ot with some friends when the place was raided. I am thinking o f sending the SM concerned a letter advising him o f several references relating to mari­ juana which he may care to read. There may be a case fo r a massive letter writing campaign to magistrates w ho have a history o f harsh sentences for possession.

Relating to the rights o f busted smokers, these will have to be made clear again and again, because too many people are probably incrimina­ ting themselves. A g ood lawyer would be o f little use to me because I advocate the direct flouting by as many people as possible o f the laws relating to the use o f grass.

If the pot smokers and similar freaks arent prepared to com e together and help each other, then I fear that they don t deserve any help.

RON G. WELCH Kensington, SA Thanks Ron, we at D aylights are work­ ing on it. Watch this space. Eds.

Poor Old Brisbane RE A L LY isnt it about time that Qld was returned to the dusty shelves o f Victoriana, and rem oved from the forum o f modern politics.

Recently I enjoyed three weeks o f spare time, visiting one o f the most beautiful countrysides inhabited b y the m ost indescribable barbarians on the recommendations o f several agencies, and can only say that Queenslanders are in m y opinion, short o f marbles and, basic sense o f taste, so where does that leave them.

So what, pass us another tube mate.

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they are to spur the thinkers on to greater heights and to allow a mistake in nature to finally Bjelke-Petersen itself out o f existence. The cyclones were but a flash in the pan, so to speak, they didnt clear out all o f the shit; hopefully nature will do better next time.

P. MILSOM, Glenelg, SA

Paper & cans RE Veronica Parry’s article (Daylights 14). It’s been suggested b y some o f m y more negative friends that cans taken to re cycling centres probably end up at the tip. Do you (or she) have any in fo?

Ms Parry also mentioned the local paper drive — is there such an animal?

Or, better yet, are there any permanent paper re-cycling centres in Melbourne?

M ARGARET LEVY Melbourne, Vic

Shit a brick I READ with much enjoyment, delight, relief, and yet disbelief, your article The ecology o f shit (Day­ lights 11). Ms Veronica Parry should first o f all be heralded and recognised for her seeming literary first.

As many people just dont know, I thought I w ould mention a couple o f facts. Firstly, there are two types o f treatment o f disposals and shit. There is the anerobic digestation system, com m only known as the septic tank (no reference to Americans intended) and the aerobic digestation system, which is used b y most municipal authorities. This consists o f a large above ground tank into which all the local sewerage pipes converge.

Large quantities o f air are pumped into the tank, this activates certain organisms which destroy harmful bac­ teria. A fter this, the liquid (which it is at this stage) is chlorinated and some­ times channeled through large settle­ ment ponds where any untreated solids are supposedly settling out. It then runs out into rivers, oceans, etc. This is a reasonably efficient method o f dis­ posal but unfortunately it is wholly unprofitable and uneconom ic to run.

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There are the costs o f building and maintaining, but this is not covered b y any returns whatsoever.

A t the Bondi plant in Sydney where methane is used to run the operations, a little thought has been given in the monetary sense but as Ms Parry pointed out, they still pump the shit into the sea!

T o get around the main point o f this letter; I think an answer to all our shitty problems has been found. Here are some quotes about it before I tell you what it is.

1. It has no discharges o f liquid, solid or gaseous pollutants and is potentially profitable wherever used!

2. It treats waste with twice the solids concentration and fermentation contact times in approximately 15 percent o f the tank volumes o f municipal systems.

A nd to quote the inventor: “ Basi­ cally, we have discovered that the gas-fertiliser-protein process, which I have developed since 1952, requires on ly two-thirds the capital investment and one-third the annual operating expense o f aerobic processes, which give no worthwhile returns.”

Boggles the mind does it not?

A n Australian farmer has developed a treatment plant which produces a number o f useable com modities. This is what he claims to get from 500 gallons o f 20 percent solids; 1) 4000 cu ft o f 700 b tu /cu ft o f bio-gas.

2) 185 lbs o f protein o f 12 percent moisture content which has an amino acid content four times that o f the waste. 3) 4500 lbs o f liquid fertiliser reasonably high in ammonium car bonate. NB The amino acid quantity and quality and animal protein com ­ pare very favorably with soya bean and cottonseed meal which it can replace in a standard diet as a feed ingredient.

The gaseous product is valued on what the inventor calls this con ­ servative estimate: 300 cu ft o f gas = 1 gallon o f 110 octane petrol. Conver­ sion to gas from petrol is simple according to the inventor and reasonably inexpensive. The fertiliser, although it is n ot as good as super­ phosphate, has a sym biotic relationship with soil micro-organisms. It therefore needs no lime alkalizers. Hail to the organic farmers.

I do not claim to have all the answers to all the problems but I feel it is about time we all stopped talking and started doing. The earth is in a lousy, stinking mess and a plant such as this is the first step in millions o f miles o f change and awareness. Perhaps one day soon Yin will meet Yang and som ebody will wake up to the fact that it will w ork!

Before I go I would like to add to my list o f reactions at reading Ms Parry’s article. Amusement! Thank you Daylights and Veronica Parry for a most enjoyable newspaper. “ Nations may battle and the world may rock with revolution but the land will care for him w ho cares for it.”

MAL LEE Canowindra, NSW

The Shit conspiracy THE DICE Man once raved “ I ’m par­ ticularly concerned with m y next bow el m ovem ent” . He w ent on: “ There seems to me definite limits as to what society will stand for. All sorts o f eccentricity and nonsensical horrors can be permitted — wars, murder, marriage, slums — but that bow el movements should be made anywhere except in the toilet seems to be pretty universally considered despicable.”

I enjoyed Veronica Parry’ s article about shit (Daylights 11) and dont even give one where she got her infor­ mation. I mean everyone knows meth is better than pet. But the problem at hand is still “ H ow should we present our shit to the w orld ?” Sent dow n your average toilet it really becom es to o wet to work with for all practical purposes.

In fact, the whole design o f the modern water closet is com pletely absurd. For starters we shouldnt sitshit, it’s more natural to squat-sit. And furthermore, w hy waste all that clean water?

Okay, we wind up with a hole in the floor, the house is less cluttered, con ­ stipation becom es a thing o f the past, plumbers have less to w orry about — giving them a case for a 30-hour week, shit becom es more easily converted to meth, and the city air is smelling better.

But don 't hold yer breath, Freud wasn’t the on ly one that discovered a lot o f anal-repulsive types about!

For further reference: all in fo came from Bucky Fuller, K en Kern and Luke Rhinehart. I aint fair and help­ ful, just a name-dropper.

DANIEL PO TTY

Parliamentary politics versus The Separate Reality G R A E M E D U N ST A N

SO The Living Daylights takes up the posture o f polemics for the establish­ ment politics. The cover looks like a colored Nation review. The editors announce the in-thing to do is to get your name on the electoral roll (it’s a party and even G um boot is invited and going'.) And Mungo MacCallum, the much gloried journalistic warrior o f L abor’s last victorious battle, weighs in “ with a blast from Canberra” .

A nd good stuff too. Them Liberals are gonna paint the flowers grey, says Mungo, th ey’re gonna round up the draft dodgers, says G um boot. It’s fiery and em otional and all very convincing.

Yes, yes the Liberal and Country part­ ies and the DLP are bad news. But not that that is news. I would like to assume that it is a general consensus among Daylights readers, that Snedden w ould, if he could, be as devious as N ixon but he doesnt have the talent.

So I guess it was an historic edition o f the paper. I can hear the Canberra press gallery murmuring “ the day D ay­ lights grew up” and so on. The new editorial policy does seem to have that tone for there was a startling lack o f reserve in its sudden embrace o f the ALP and parliamentary dem ocracy. It was done with a com bination o f hip, flair and missionary zeal. As I said, startling.

A nd yet I am uneasy. I concede all the arguments and yet, and yet . . . Am GEE D obe, fellas, gosh I ’m sorry. I I crazy or is it the w orld? When did it w on ’t get m y facts wrong and be a becom e so imperative to m y life to naughty b o y anymore. I admit I did vote Labor or even to vote? Is it my tell fibs and there was one good true head is ou t o f joint or is it the heads in blue dinky di mistake. But what’s in a the Daylights office? name, do you really think a name . i.. Just last week I picked up the matters all that much D obey b oy Australian and saw that tw o Laborite (yawn). I nearly forgot to post this heroes, Hayden and Cameron, had co l­ letter since I do have post graduate luded to make it m ore difficult to qualifications in apathy, but after survive without contributing to the reading the bullshit in Pelican for a econom ic wastelands. They had tight­ couple o f years I decided to get o f f my ened up on the dole (that paltry $23 a arse and do a diploma in knocking. w eek) by requiring that you accept Then at least you can accuse me o f work at a standard below your train­ anything but being a total apathetic. ing, experience or inclination — or And I am glad to see that you do starve. A Mr Spicer, speaking on behalf acknowledge that Pelican is a venerable o f the employers in the metal trades institution. I think I was in WA last industries, said h ow pleased they were year. that “ incentive, or com pulsion” had TISDELL, been added to oblige the take-up o f South Perth, WA jobs offered. So Labor ends conscrip­ tion for the army and n ow conscripts for the w orkforce . . . and with no SOME o f your readers may be trying provision for conscientious objection to decide whether to bu y a share in either. Wadda ya think now, Gum­ Coordination Cooperative Ltd, o f f ­ b oot?

They make mistakes, you say. I say spring o f the Nimbin Aquarius Festival.

The spirit o f Aquarius lives on, and this their essential mistake is so basic that it coop has been form ed simply to handle can’t be seen past. Their very style o f government stinks — it’s elitist, it’ s Continued opposite centralist and it is technocratic. A nd if

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you want to measure ’ em b y their lifestyle, check o u t the d otty ramblings o f Ms Gough in the Womans day.

The essence o f good government is that all the institutions o f the society it reflects are non oppressive. A t each and every point in the vast and intri­ cate com plex o f people, committees, associations, companies, cooperatives, trusts, parties, federations and so on that make up a fabric o f a good society, there is a sense o f community.

That this does not exist in Australia, that all the institutions from post to police, schools to supermarkets all have functional facades hiding a hollow, decaying humanity, is the major in­ dictm ent o f the straight society.

But Labor doesnt even recognise the problem. The same hollowness and decay pervades its ow n party structure just as it does the public service through which it chooses to act. So Hayden has a great health scheme but in your heart you know that more m oney and m ore certificated personnel means bigger, more powerful, more rigidly hierarchical institutions. It will have no im pact on the quality o f hospitals as healing environments for fear and life­ lessness will dominate the human rela­ tions o f the institution just as they do now.

It’ s the lesser o f tw o evils, you say.

The essential evil, I say, is that the choice o f government is being present­ ed to us as the lesser o f evils. It is the very nature o f evil to bewitch you into seeing the world as a choice between evils. Which is starting to sound mysti­ cal so let me illustrate the point with a report from Nimbin.

Easter was the occasion for a gath­ ering at Tuntable Falls.

Tuntable is n ot all paradise. There is a natural, endemic conflict be­ tween the dreamers and the doers.

One group thinks to o big, the others to o small and, although they are part o f the organic w hole at Tuntable, they tend to forget it. So it was that the election o f co-ordinators required by

the Cooperatives Act, threatened to be a heavy time. It looked as if Tuntable was evolving its own party system o f politics and all the bad feeling associat ed with it.

But it didnt. The election meeting decided that the way they did things was as important, if not more so, than what was done. It was emphasised that community must be a thing experi enced in the here and now. So a solution to the election dilemma was sought.

There was a lot o f discussion and eventually it was decided that those who wanted to be coordinators should com e forward, there was no obligation to give policy speeches. T o laughter and applause, w ouldbe leaders present­ ed themselves. Fourteen in all and they were asked to work it out among themselves w ho the seven officebearers would be. So this group went o f f to talk and the meeting naturally broke into small group discussions, some laughing, some singing, some talking earnestly about issues. Meanwhile, the nominees sat in a circle and rapped. It was proposed they use the dice to decide but no one had any. Eventually it was decided that seven should stand up and seven did and these were called coordinators.

Simple really, a general consensus and n o bad feelings. The com m unity at Tuntable grew some more.

I asked friends there what they thought about the double dissolution, for it was troubling me. I got tw o replies.

The first said one must never look evil in the face. He was referring to the Medusa myth, you know, the evil Gorgon with snakes for hair and a gaze that turned you to stone. When we confront evil directly it enters us and petrifies our imagination so that w e can no longer see the alternatives for which we came to fight. Perseus slew Medusa b y using an indirect approach, the reflection o f his shield.

The second reply was in fact such an indirect approach. We should con ­ test the senate with a group associated under the grandiose name o f The Sepa­ rate Reality. A party slogan would be Anything is possible and the only requirements o f candidates was the promise to forget to renominate if elected, that any senate type question be answered with a riddle and that elected candidates wear a jester’s outfit, harlequin patches, bells and all. Who­ ever you vote for, a clown gets in!, we sloganised, so make sure y ou vote fo r a clown who gets y ou laughing.

It's a crazy idea but somehow deli­ cious. It has a grassroots flavor. It demystifies the game which is some­ thing that writers like Mungo, whose beer and skittles life is so intimately dependent on the game, could not see let alone commit themselves to.

But please not Daylights too. You dont have to prove yourself worthy o f the press gallery. We love you as you are. J. J. M cRoach fo r senate!

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From previous page the legal side o f land holding in order that an alternative com m unity might have a location.

Most people b y now have some knowledge o f the 1000 acre Tuntable Falls farm paradise bought b y the coop . Y ou probably also know that over 300 shares at $200 each have been taken up. A b ou t 40 o f these coop members are currently living on the property and doing the pioneering leg w ork in establishing the community.

The other 250 odd members including myself, m y wife and tw o young child­ ren are still in the cities and towns making preparations, earning money, settling prior commitments and generally preparing to cut the old life loose in order to start the new. Some have said they are unable to join the com m unity permanently for a year or more while for others it will be only months or weeks.

My personal reasons for joining the coop include: the seeking o f a viable alternative to the “ bigger, better, brigh­ ter” way o f life which partners the commercial rip o ff; the logical exten­ sion o f m y fo o d and health freak trip into organic fo o d growing and living in a less polluted environment; to allow the children to grow in a relatively unspoiled environment, establishing com munication with and under­ standing Mother Nature and man’s dependence on Her; to live in a com ­ munity where communication and cooperation are the key words rather than the nuclear family’s isolation and alienation; not to be a hermit but to live in a com m unity large enough to offer a great variety o f skills and knowledge so that the exchange for both adults and children (and let there be many) will be always fruitful.

Fortunately m y wife agrees with my reasons and welcom es the anticipated change in lifestyle. The other members will certainly have their personal dis­ satisfactions and ideals and in the exchange a mutual evolution must pre­ vail. There are certain to be hassles as there have been already and the solu­ tions can only add to the collective wisdom.

Finally to anybody who is having difficulty deciding, for fear that they may not measure up or because they are not ready to move just now, or whatever reason, but w ho really feels they w ould like to be part o f this venture, we need you now, as an active or passive member, so that the pur­ chase can be finalised and we can escape the moneylender’ s grasp.

Sydney Coordination Centre, 76 Darling street, Balmain, NSW, 2041

Alternative Melbourne

tres etc are rapidly becom ing a fanati­ cal “ countercultural” pre-occupation all over the place. (If you havent discovered the concept you can get a cop y o f the Sydney/Adelaide A lter­ native pink pages at your nearest hipcapitalist bookstore — $1.20.)

But this proliferation doesnt negate the usefulness o f inform ation per se; information doesnt need to be an excuse for action. Access to info is necessary if people are to get what they want out o f the power structure that manipulates them. Obviously one basic tenet o f this society’s operation is that the fat cats up top are in the know and the rest o f us are, to varying extents, propagandised into ignorance.

Information and power go hand-inhand — valid, even though simplistic.

They dont teach you about trade union politics or fo o d co-ops at school, but you learn about supermarkets and GMH pretty fast on TV. The directory is an attempt to provide people with the kind o f infor­ mation that you need to make survival in an Australian city bearable and creative. Info about alternative medi­ cine; radical and sexual politics; free legal aid; tenants rights and residents action; where to get cheap and healthy fo o d ; employm ent and un-; creative child care; progressive culture and learning; and so on . . .

We feel that function o f the direc­ tory (a concrete collection o f info tools that you can lay out in front o f you, read and inter-relate — eg. on one page you have info on dope activists groups, and on another a list o f places where you can get legal assistance after a bust) is closely linked with the functions o f places like the Learning Exchange, Link-Up and the Light Powder & Construction Works, w ho we are working with. (These three places are centres for collection and dis­ semination o f information that is con ­ stantly being updated, expanded, used, and revised as a result o f experience — an ongoing process.)

For the directory to be a living and useful to o l we need to be in touch with YOU and what you ’re doing. Everyone knows things that we can all use: a local milkbar that stays open all night for people with the munchies; a g ood place you know o f for buying goods cheaply or secondhand; an activist group or co-operative scene you ’ re involved in and want others to know about. Perhaps you have used some service that you found helpful, or amidst the bullshit and bureaucracy o f government etc, a person w ho was human and friendly? If you know about things that you think w e w on ’ t, ring on 51.7150 or write PO b ox 386, Prahran, 3181.

(We’ ll be publishing approximately in the middle o f this year.)

KEVIN & M A RY, Prahran, Vic

SINCE we can't afford to put in an ad, here’s our spiel, thinly disguised, letterform.

With the assistance o f many people we’re putting together an “ alternative MY mother came to see me at last, directory” about Melbourne and the instead o f me visiting her. Perhaps surrounding country. Alternative direc­ a part o f a family game, most cer­ tories, information and resource cen­ tainly. I escaped medication this

Living with the shrinks

morning, probably because I slept in, so drugged I had a beautiful repertory sleep. Three meals a day, group thera­ p y at nine, a place in a maddened crowd, far from the outside such.

I might clue you in as to where, w hy and h ow I am; in the loon ey bin, to be exact, Broughton Hall, Rozelle, Sydney. Dragged between the alterna­ tive and straight, western and eastern cultures, I chose to com mit myself to a psychiatric resort.

O ctober last year I found m yself to be a “ psychic broadcaster” , as I clas­ sify myself. I felt (knew?) that people could read m y thoughts wherever I went and that through some electronic freak that radios and TVs could see me or hear me.

I thought I had a medium to reach the p op stars this way. This last para noia was brought to a halt b y a girlfriend w ho replayed old populars such as Grace Slick with Go ask A lice, when she's 10 feet tall.

M y psychic sickness dragged m y b o d y a few hundred miles, this b od y container at least.

I returned to Sydney intending to leave a few days later for a life in a hippy shack, share farming, but then decided I w ould w ork to get m oney together to lead a life with m oney. I still intend to do so. This place with its free supply o f downers offers a coun­ teracting measure to the many uppers I smoked; ingested in some way or an­ other and w ho’ s to say which sin is worse. I can be clean here and the police w on ’t hassle me as if I was squatting in some untenanted place or blowing grass in their faces.

Hiding on the other side? Many w ould say so, but m y rapid changes o f decision are not being tolerated; as when I wanted to leave before a week which was the time I agreed to stay inside. There are few possessions left from all those that I had lost, given away, left or had stolen, which I w ould like to collect but I evade that issue.

If you are alone and mad from whatever, this place may help. Treated like a guest as if to repay for under­ going alienation injury. Y ou are allow­ ed to wear clothes but they take your drugs away and give you theirs. I’m in ward three at the mom ent and there is a fourth one being built. The lawns are cut and a little creek flows through the sandstone pathed gardens.

We are all poisoned in one way or another. The w orld passes by outside as it does any residence. If you are voluntarily admitted all you have to do is tolerate the other inmates, and they are interesting to observe and hear.

Especially when you are so doped.

The on ly thing I resented was to be told n ot to read, but I still do, and havent been hassled.

When I arrived I wept and had an “ interview” with head man Harry Free­ man. Since then I’ve undergone a very patchy or patchable physical checkup.

In group therapy I said I’d go out and job hunt but instead I had a bash on the guitar and over ate. I advise all broken, broke gutter bugs to com e crawling.

M. M. R ozelle, NSW

I CAN’T help replying to the gush and gab on Tolkien in the letters to Day­ lights recently. I had expected that his death w ould bring about a cooler climate in which to appraise his works, but it seems to have unfortunately resulted in his canonisation.

Tolkieq was n ot a great writer. In The lord o f the rings overblow n rheto­ ric substitutes for style, and there is a total lack o f character development, the inhabitants o f Middle Earth spring­ ing, like Athena from the forehead o f Zeus, fully form ed and armed with their fossilised philosophies and ideals.

His talent lay in his imagination partly (the uniqueness o f which could even be open to dou b t — many o f the names o f individuals and races, for instance, have a direct historical or sound philological origin), but mainly in his skill in gathering into schematic cohesion the various elements o f western Europe’ s m ythic subconsciousness. This talent alone does n o t qualify Tolkien as the greatest writer in the entire history o f the novel. Tolkien greater than Balzac?

J oyce? Conrad? D ostoyevsky? Heming­ w ay? Thomas Mann? Lawrence Durrell (read The Alexandria quartet, chil­ dren)? John Dos Passos? Gide? Stein­ beck?

Camus?

Turgenev?

Hugo?

Goethe? T olstoy? Faulkner? Scott?

Sartre? Melville? Kafka? Pull the other Legolas, it’s got bells on.

I would like to kn ow exactly what Mark Baldock means b y describing J.R.R.T. as “ the mastermind o f expres­ sionism” , and LO TR as “ a delving thought provoker” . The w hole poin t o f LOTR is that you dont have to think, it’ s all there on the page — the good get better and the bad get killed. There is no real sense o f redemption through struggle, no querying whatsoever that there may be any other course o f action than identifying the enemy and chopping o f f his head.

These brief comments are n ot in­ tended simply as negative criticisms o f LOTR et al, because the works them­ selves d o not seek to go beyon d their ow n limited boundaries, and there is no need fo r them to do so. The novels are entertainment, enchanting and mas­ terly entertainment within their field, but nothing more. M y gripe is with the evangelists w ho attempt to elevate T ol­ kien’ s w ork to the level o f “ scriptures” or “ the most enchanting and imagina­ tive novels ever written” , descriptions which even he would have utterly rejected.

Brett Anderson claims in his letter that anyone w ho disagrees with the last quotation is a dickhead. If I thought he had the mental capacity to steer his mind around the less navigable rocks in the literary rapids I’ d refer him to an Argentinian named Jorge Luis Borges who, although essentially a writer o f short stories, w ould show him what imagination, thought provocation, and style really are. Call me any adolescent names you choose, Anderson, but I’ll take Death and the compass, The man on the threshold, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The aleph over The hobbit and LOTR any day.

I like LOTR, it’ s a great escapist rom p, but Tolkien is sadly dead, and no, Virginia, Middle Earth never really existed.

Hobbitomaniacs com e out o f your burrows and see things a little more clearly.

“Fuck-ups in K. Williams’ head”.

Tolkien’s b o o k Lord o f the rings is one o f the most beloved and follow ed books in the world. Does it mean nothing to Tolkien disbelievers that in America there are whole communes devoted to Tolkien? In these com ­ munes they speak an elfish language devised b y Tolkien and they also live in the same lifestyle as in Lord o f the rings. Therefore, there must be something to Lord o f the rings than just reading it.

In our w orld everything is decaying, w e cover this up b y modernising the lifestyle. So in order to survive in this world, we tnust believe in something non-existent. In other words, people are turning to Lord o f the rings for something to believe in and read.

Also there is another side to Lord o f the rings. From books on Celtic and Irish myth, etc, I have found where Tolkien obtained much o f his main points and characters. Tolkien got the names — Dunn, Bifur, Bofur, Dain Bombur, Nori, Gandalf, Thorin, Thrain, Thror, Fili, Kili, Fundin, Dori, Ori and Gloin from a story-poem called the Elder Edda. (The name Gandalf means “ magic elf” , and he is supposed to be a half breed, a mixture o f elf and dwarf. D ont forget that Tolkien bended this to get the other Gandalf.

The Mark [Rohan was called this] means a track o f land held in com m on b y a medieval com m unity o f freemen.

Middle-Earth was used by the people o f earth long before the medieval times. It was called this because heaven was above, hell was below , and earth in the middle, hence Middle Earth.)

The reason Tolkien found all this information was because he was professor emeritus in literature at O xford uni in England. I am n ot saying that Tolkien based Lord o f the rings on our ow n history, but it is more than likely.

Also, it is proved that Tolkien found the dwarf runes (in the H obbit) from an early Celtic language. There was a stone found, the Jellinge stone, that has these same runes inscribed on the stone. It was made between 983 and 987 b y king Harold Bluetooth in mid-Jutland to honor his parents.

I am not trying to disprove Tolkien’s Lord o f the rings, though you might think I am. When I first found these startling discoveries on where Tolkien “ might” have formed the basic ideas for Lord o f the rings I had to go back and read some Tolkien in order to not forget what a brilliant, beautiful and incredible story it is.

Long live Middle Earth!

PS. If anyone wants to join the Tolkien Society write to Australian Tolkien Society, Michael O ’ Brian 158 Liverpool Street, Hobart.

Tasmania. 7000.

PPS. Tolkien is m ost probably walking in the forest o f Lorien now. A book written by Tolkien called Silmarillion concerns the first and second ages o f Middle Earth, it is coming out soon. Tolkien started at literature and then wrote Lord o f the rings, w e read Lord o f the rings and then read literature.

Elen sila leimenn’ omentielvo — a star shines on the hour o f our meeting.

WINGFOOT Tom Bombadil’s house

M A RK CHRISTOPHER BUTLER, Eastwood, NSW

Hobbit Fan Club TO READ Lord o f the rings or n ot to read Lord o f the rings, that is the question. A fter reading Daylights 1 4 ,1 came to the conclusion that the above question is indeed the question. To quote K. Williams (N o. 14) — “ My padmate and I have no hesitation in correcting the title to the more appropriate one o f “ Fuck-ups in fairyland’ .” Well, I can give an even more appropriate title to K. Williams —

T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S -

Hobbit by Leunig

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Two views of Anzac Day

HREE O’ CLOCK on a warm Wednesday afternoon in Cottesloe - a beachside locality somewhere in the middle class anonym ity o f Perth’s “ better” suburbs. 1 h id gone to put a latter in the little red postbox situated conveniently just across the road.

T o post that letter - with its tale o f woe and misery - required only a few short steps. I had to venture out o f my house for perhaps 30 seconds, before dart­ ing back inside to hide from the world, to conceal the wretched­ ness by which I was consumed.

Human suffering is an odd thing. It can't be measured in quantitative terms, as one would

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count the number o f lifeless bodies and wounded soldiers on a battlefield after the sound and the fury has com e and gone. I thought I had reached the depths o f my despair that afternoon — nothing had seemed to work for me, n oth ­ ing productive seemed to be hap­ pening, I felt I was going nowhere.

I began to wonder whether I needed the sorts o f social props others call “ necessities". Over and over again, a word kept com ing into my mind - “ self-actualisa­ tion” . How desperately I wanted to find motivation within me!

The letter duly posted, I turn­ ed to confine m yself within the bowels o f the house. But then he

was there. A brown-suited, welldressed old man, with the mani­ acal gaze o f an Australian w h o has seen the world go b y but tried to cling to it. His piercing blue eyes were focused n ot on me, but on the well-manicured lawn on which he lay. His hat - a brown derby was still clamped tightly on his head. His little blue shopping bag was a few feet away.

Like some long forgotten NCO w ho greets the ailing anzac with some cheery phrase “ them bosch are still coming, soldier!” ' — on a field in Flanders, I strode over. He was only to o ready to be lifted up, and grasped my shoul­ der eagerly, as ready as any man

P rin te d b y R ic h a rd N e v ille at 2 S u lliv a n s tre e t, M o o ra b b in f o r In c o rp o ra te d N ew sagencies C o m p a n y P ty L t d , th e p u b lish er and d is tr ib u to r , 1 1 3 R osslyn s tre e t. W est M e lb o u rn e . P o p u la r e n te rta in m e n t is b asically pro p ag an d a f o r th e status q u o .

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A p h oto by BRENDAN HENNESSY A story by ROB PASCOE

to continue in the fray. He apol­ ogised for having dropped his shopping bag - no soldier is allowed to part with his rifle but at least his brow n derby hel­ met was still securely in place.

Together we struggled to the front gate o f his house, a few doors up. “ Are you in the army?” he asked. It was not the sort o f question I had expected. “ N o."

Ignoring my answer, the veteran then proceeded to tell me o f his recent $20 rise in some war pen­ sion, and attempted valiantly to continue alone on his way to ­ wards the front d oor o f his house.

He stumbled, and I rushed to scoop him up, helping his frail

form along the hallway and into the kitchen. For some unknown reason, he began to confide his war experiences to me. He ex­ plained rather apologetically that he had been "silly” enough to be wounded “ down there” , pointing below his waist. “ Do you know what I mean?” he asked. Things were moving too quickly for me; I had no inkling o f what he was driving at until he began unzipping his fly. “ Y ou probably havent seen one o f these before” , he continued in his whimsical way, and pulled out a length o f rubber tubing bandaged to his abdomen. The sight o f this man’s surrogate-penis instantly banished my own melancholia.