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il^'Vi iSi?li!.SI •*''^'^^^'''-?^''^ ^*v li UUHflT6V6R HRPP€n6D TOTH€ SUmm€R OF LOV€ ? Today's Counterculture -if??*. i;...v 1. .:%rr-.: ,•-•*-.,•. , r . -.; T..»-/.-*xriF--'''*'-"'''-^**''*''^-'' VOL 48 NO, 10 OCTOBER 1079 r ? f A visit t o the Queensland Club, The Countdown Lobotomy, The Great Rock ' n ' Rolf Talk-Back Show, BirdsvUle Races, Brisbane's Best Reviews arid GartQQfis.v ^v ^^kfftaa^ssaai^iaaxci.V'^'-'Miiii:.,'.-. • Vi i-'^i-.^^r '^••^•:*^^v.!;:-c:;; •>i,!iif'^^-:\,^i.i ':.:v'i'r:i-'«y^ > w •^-^.••<^.-\ ..:.^ '.'v.";jiif".!" (.".v,-/.:-i,T;.>:^-'ir5vcx;r;;rr,-;;. .?;-'• •' "r" ';.'•;.-"rt. .- '..i'Mr:- •' ;••"::.•'.•' IK M LE!mS FUMBLING FOR THE IGNITION KEYS Congratulations to the Force on the opening of the aevr luxury police dub. It's marvellous that members of the Police Force, after their hours, keeping the streets free of crime, relax with five hours of free alcohol with their partners (cohorts). Then without a conscience fumble for their ignition keys and aftcmpt to weave home. Aren't they lucky that next morning they're one of the fortunate few who can still use the roads and resume their duties with their friendly green bags. This is just another of many examples of the infectious hypocrisy amongst the Queensland Police Force, Are there two moral values in the state of Qld today? One for Police one for the 2nd rate citizens. -A.M. PARKER Bardon THERE'S MORE TO THEATRE THAN JUST THE MUMMERS herself, even temporarily (you better believe it) resident in the Land of the Long White Shroud. Small consolation, you can bet, that like many another madwoman, f did if all for love (see my forthcoming book "Under MuWoon: A Fate Worse Than Death"). Heard on the radio here that the government has produced a pamphlet (yes, that's what radio NZ is all about, folks!) called "Advice to the New Arrival to NZ" or similar. Can't imagine how they could spin out three words "Get Out. . .Fast" to pamphlet length. WeU, what other advice is there? When travellers tell you about NZ "wages", the "more British than the British" conservatism, the "up myself further than Thou" trendyism, the closed for the weekend social life, the spirit of Bartlettism, constant wind and/or rain which laughingly passes for climate, cost of cars and pineapples, and complete absence of Indian restaurants and/or real bananas - just remember friends, it's not THAT bad . . .it's WORSE! to support "armed struggle" (read terrorism). These resolutions were defeated on every Australian campus at the biggest student meetings since the height of the Vietnam war. The AUS threat to discriminate against Jewish students by cutting off cheap student flights to Israel was also defeated. In 1975 the extreme Left leadership of AUS organised another series of pro-PLO resolutions and an Australian-wide tour of PLO spokesmen, which often erupted into violence. Mr. Bill Hartley, the wellknown pro-Arab activist and Iraqi agent, was employed at AUS in 1975/76 despite massive student opposition to any further involvement with the PLO. It is not my intention to ptit feats into persons writing to "Time Off but the factual incorrectness throughout the letter by Russell Mansfield, from the Mummers theatre group, needs rectifying. Mansfield says, "bureaucracy drowns theatre on campus and only the dedicated survive". Where is this bureaucracy? Each of the student groups, the Lunchbox Theatre Co. and the UQ Drama Society organise themselves. Their management, production teams and castings are arranged without interference from anyone. The two groups operate entirely independently of each other too. 1976 saw the involveThe statement that the ment of AUS officials in Mummers are the "only the demonstrations against dynamic theatre force on visiting Israeli dignatory campus" is even more Moshe Dayan. 1976 AUS curious. Both the LunchPresident Tasma Ockeriden box and U.D.S. groups have admitted in the PLO Inrun a years program on formation Bulletin of Novcampus, using the Cement ember 1977, that despite a Box and makeshift workformal no-policy on the AN OPEN LETTER TO shop areas around. IndiviMiddle East, "AUS conduals out of both groups ACADEMICS tinued its de facto support helped on the working bees for the PLO in 1976"! I know you've got me by in the Cement Box at the The following year, Skeptics and those who my short and curly pcibk; beginning of the year, or- STILL long to see the ferny 1977, Ms. Ockenden was ganised open rehearsals and habrs and so do you. You islands of their imagination, employed as an official of pointed that out to me display for Expo and helped peopled with singing Maoris the PLO in Beirut, and her very clearly in the first with F.A.S.T. Where have in kiwi-feather cloaks are successor as AUS President, ten weeks. I am now a the "dynamic" Mummers recommended to try this Peter O'Connor, proposed student and have not ac- been ali year? quick quiz before buying yet another PLO tour for quired my rights as a their tickets to Eketahuna: Iatel977/earlyl978. The only possible areas dtizen. The poUce will not QI: In what part of the help me. My family will that 1 think Mansfield may world was Bjelke-Petersen's hi late 1977, Mr. Justice imagine to be a controlling not help me. Yon will not character moulded? Kaye of the Victorian Sup"bureaucracy", are the help me. The doctor will Q2: Why does 75% of the reme Court prescribed paynot help me. My friends English Department and the pop. of NZ- now live in ments by the AUS to bodies Students Union Theatre cannot help me. I am alone. like the PLO, and this has (U.T.C.). Bondi? I know you've got me by Committee recently prevented any my short and curly pvblk Tlie activities of the English Q3: How would YOU direct financial gifts to the describe (in 10 words or hairs and so do you. You Department are hardly perPLO. keep on pointing that out to vasive enough to be con- less) a place so bad even In 1979, former AUS sidered a threat to freedom Bjelke-Petersen wanted to roe. president Neil McLean is the leave (in your OWTI words, of theatre groups on You know everything I campus. principal broadcaster of the please). want to know and need to programme What then, you might pro-PLO The U.T.C. is the same. know for my degree. Yes, 1 Palestine Speaks on the ask, makes life bearable in It is an open, informal want my degree. No I don't group dealing exclusively Godzone? Only the ap- controversial radio station want to fail sir and I can with sorting out the Cement pearance (with AUbran 3CR. Former AUS editor see that many, many, many Box Theatre's technical faci- regularity, bless you) of Franz Timmerman curmany, most students do not lities and confirmation of your winning little mag. rently contributes to PLO get their degree because you bookings for the space. It We read, we devour it, journals. The embattled and they do not agree. And has nothing to do with so delisted our lips AUS leadership, despite the that is stupid. They are organising student theatre barely moving as we recog- threat of a massive revolt dumb to disagree with you groups and doesn't discuss nise old friends and foes by AUS members led by and that's a thing 1 cannot in its pages. We shuddered centerist student leaders like their activities. do. I don't believe anyone when we heard that changes I cannot disagree with is, "running campus in the Editorship were due Peter Costello of Monash you sir because you know theatre." Who are these, . . jiothing must change, and Paul Brereton of everything I need to know "pseudo-intellectuals" who NOTHING! (except perhaps Sydney University, still for my degree, and I must more pictures of palm- maintains informal contact you claim are? find it out for myself and trees please, EDITOR with the PLOand proposed The only production of in that way 111 become NOTE). We in this cultural that yet more PLO speakers educated. I agree that I need the Mummers that I have swamp of the South regard be brought to Australian seen is "Joan'*, performed my degree. Yes sir I agree. you not so much as a news- campuses in 1979. I cannot disagree. Or else during the F.A.S.T. festival. magazine, as a life-support Fortunately, Justice I won't get my degree. I I think the group must system. Please. . .do not Kaye's decision brought realise how poor that night's agree. It is stupid to disswitch us off. into question the legality agree because I need my performance was so 111 bury of such a tour, and AUS my cynicism over the KATH. MACCHERONI degree. lacked the finances to claimed "professional" JAMIE COLLINS r can sec you've got me support another divisive, heights of the group and say Wellington, New Zealand by my short and curly pubic violent campus Middle no more. hairs and so do you. Which East debate. Finally, the production part of me today would you Such a record speaks of "Joan" involves a lot of like to screw? I know I need for itself. AUS' involveA JEWISH ONwell known people, who are you. Which part of me ment past and present with today will you screw? I not students. What is a SLAUGHT ON A PRO the terrorist PLO has caused student group, anyway? P.L.O. ONSLAUGHT agree 1 cannot disagree. I many students to doubt the -BARBARA ALLEN need my degree. I am a merits of their extremistBritbane I was astounded by Mr. student. My family will not led national student^unlon. Chris Hobson and Mr. help me. The police will not The description of AUS as help me. The doctor will KIWI PENETRATION Graeme Russell's publk extremist-led stands on that claim that AUS dkl no^have riot help me. My friends organisation's own sordid cannot help me. I agree. It is undoubtedly one of a record of support for the record,; . -; I need my degree. I agree. the grimmer contradktrans PLO. hi 197.4, AUS- leaders I cannot disagree. I need of Declining Capitalism that my degree. a hot-blooded, beer and organised a scries of pro-PHILIP CHESTER Why do I hate "society? beach46viiig, fun in the sun PLO resolutions which President, AUJS CARMEANE KRAUSS | little sheUa like me fmds explicitly committed AUS I Promises A collection of paintings and drawings by Lisa Anderson, Schonell Theatre Foyer, from Sth October. Finding myself left alone with an assortment of the canvases and drawings of Lisa Anderson was a rather intimidatory experience. No doubt Andy Warhol or Jodorowsky could have used some of these characters as extras. We're sitting in the and Melbourne. Neverthestudio cum bedroom of a less, the fact that these condemned terrace house in works are perspectives of a urban Brisbane. Lisa is des- Brisbane from an alternative cribing the development of viewpoint, makes them all her work, a three year the more relevant, dedicated struggle to cap- The canvasses work ture urban alienation with through the interaction bela few brush strokes and ween brillian colour and pencil lines. subject matter, provoking It is no secret that Bris- reactions of discomfort, nerbane is an imusual city, vousness and frustration, closer maybe to a country This is "Big Brother is town in many ways, yet it watching you" voyeur vioalso has a cosmopolitan Ience at its worst. A punk element. reflection of a humid police Consequently, it's no state?? Themes of the work coincidence that Lisa lives include power, isolation, in one of the few Brisbane Brisbane women, rock 'n examples of a building roll. The characters are characteristic of Sydney and often grotesque, yet there's London, the terrace house, a familiarity about some of Lisa says her work would them, probably be more welcome -PETER RONEY in the artworld of Sydney PREGNANCY CfNlRGL i T BRISBANE WOMEN'S PREGNANCY ADVISORY & ABOR TION REFERRAL CENTRE HOURS . MONDAY 4 to Spm TUESDAY 10am to 2pm WEDNESDAY 4 to Spm THURSDAY 10am to 2pm FRIDAY closed SATURDAY 9am to Noon FOCALPOINT ARCADE "B" 249 Brunswick Street, FORTTTUDE VALLEY PHONE (07) 521444 • J • CONTENTS THE QUEENSLAND CLUB 77ie top of the social ladder; a look at the elite 5 RUSSELL ISLAND Latest revelation about Joh's achilles heel 6 JUNCTION CO-OP Feminists at Gympie forge a new life out of the land 7 MUSIC FARM We visit Australia's largest live-in recording studio outsideMullimbimby 9 WIN A FREE TRIP FOR TWO TO BALI Open to dl readers; and it's easy 11 HAYDEN LEARNS FROM GOUGH Looking back and forward for BUl Hayden's sake 15 COUNTDOWN LOBOTOMY How Molly Meldntm controls the fortunes ofthe pop world and some action against it 17 POLITICAL PRISONERS Current state of play in the wide world of torture 20 REVIEW SECTION Kevin Coyne, records. Film Festival, Going Bananas, ballet, books, Joh, restaurants 22 PHIL MANZANERA Interview, plus Split Enz talking and in pictures 33 RY COODER Top muso comes to Brisbane 37 BRISBANE'S LIVING GUIDE A complete what's on for the next three weeks 38 TIME OFF: is a non-profit community newsmagazine published on a monthly basis, and distributed throughout all Brisbane Newsagents and other selected outlets. CIRCULATING TO: Theatres, Cinemas, Restaurants, Music Stores, Galleries, Music Venues, Libraries, Journalists, Public Servants, Government Officials, Teachers, University Lecturers, University Administrators, ahd Students. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Individuals $4 for 6 issues (surface mail only). Institutions $8 for 6 issues. Make cheques payable to University of Queensland Union. LIVING GUIDE: Free listings for independent community organisations and events are welcome. Telephone 3711611 with your information. 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Senior Journalist: Calvin Noack Enquiries should be made to the Editors. Sunshine Coast Correspondents: Elizabeth ISSN. 0157-0978 Dimes and Greg Gillam REGISTERED FOR POSTING AS A Photographer: Nick Udovic PUBLICATION CATEGORY B. TIME OFF October 1979 SOLAR GOOD SENSE New South Wales has streaked to the forefront of the solar energy debate with the proposal recently to construct a solar energy installation at the Abbatoirs in the central westem NSW town of Forbes. The total cost of the project is expected to be around 5130,000 divided three ways among the CSIRO and the NSW Energy Authority (547,500 each) and the Lichlan Valley County Council (535,000). It is thought the solar system will save about 75 tonnes of fuel oil valued at more than 510,000 per year. This means the system will be totally paid for in 10 years. The system is to cover 700 square metres and will preheat 120,000 litres of cold water by up to 20 degrees C. each day thus saving fuel oil. The system is the first large scale industrial installation of integrated solar collectors in Australia, and is to be incorporated into the roof of a nev/ building. The integrated method of installation is said to be the most economic method of solar energy utilisation so far available. The project, which is a relatively simple one, is expected to be on stream late this year. This sort of positive action to conserve fossil fuels is indicative of the direction that could be taken by those that use oil and could benefit from solar power. VYING FOR THE MOST USEFUL GIFT AWARD The Queensland Country Women's Association has decided to make a contribution to Intemational Year of the Child. The worthy contribution? 1,000 roses for state schoob. Wonder if the poor kids in Queensland will get diicken and rose sandwiches for their school lunches. STREET MARCH PERMITS: WHO'S WINNING? Tlie granting of street march permits on two occasions recently (for the anti-uranium movement and U.Q. Teas demos) could mean several things. The most likely is that Joh and Dr. Llew and Terry I..ewis have scored victories and the Brisbane Left have lost out. Premier Joh hasn't lost face, as he didn't have to backdown on his legislation (giving the police the power to grant or knock back JERRYMANDER AND THE BOUNDARIES A new Brisbane rock band were recently sighted paying Sally's Coffee Lounge. They're called "Jerry Mander and the Boundaries". Maybe the featured soloist in the band is really Ed Casey - playing second flddle. Rumour has it that their popularity is not too high and the questwn is now beconung "WSI they last?" FLYING HIGH Recently Reggie's little baby Ansett Transport Industries has been in the lime light what with Ampol and Bell making bids for its shares. Not so much pubhcity has been given to the neariy 100% rise in avgas prices in the last three months. Nor to the fact that in the same period the price of avtur has not risen at all. Avgas is the stuff that the small planes like Cessnas and Beechcraft operate on. Avtur is what the big 727s andDC9suse. permits). Liberal leader Edwards has in practise got wliat he wanted without having to battle for it in the joint government parties room, (probably this would •have led to another humi liating defeat for the coali tion bridesmaid). And the police don't have any problems now of low police morale and the costly/dislocating mustering of huge numbers of bewildered police. The "Left" of course arc stuck with that stinking piece of legislation which can be used against them any time Joh wants to. Reggie owns the big ones and the independent operators (who have in the last six months launched a strong cargo charter service in opposition to the twoairline policy which protects Reg and TAA from competition in Queensland) of course own the little ones. The two airlines lost the first round when four charter organisations were given contracts to operate in Queensland by the DOT in April after years of hassling. This absurd price rise that discriminates against the small operators in favour of the two major lines appears to be the second round. And it looks as though the independents are going to lose. There's a little more than just altitude that's high it seems. KNOX LIMPS OFF TO TOKYO? For those who put money on the Goings On of Queensland politicos: Time Offs best bets. Bill Knox will get the newly created post of Agent General in Tokyo. BOOl^CXCOi^ &y X>. ^ r l > u j i c / f - CNT^fO^A'SlMC^lTlS /^ tMppu€ CLAS5 wAy or Kr>iowLErt>Q€: ..rTs. D e s i g n e r , Garello B a r r e l l i , i s the new High P r i e s t of iFashion s i n c e t h e Eysterioue disappearance .of a l l h i s competitors. At l a s t , i n a world of s u f f e r i n g comes r e l i e f : - t h e Gold-plated E l e c t r o n i c Dental F l o s s RemoverI! Sighs of r e l i e f a l l round.. Do you s i n c e r e l y v.'ant to be RICH ?? .•and Young & B e a u t i f u l & Happy ?? You cen»t be» ^but you can t)retend* now v.ith Urbane® CUT-OUTS .and "CHIC PROPS. A r t i s t , Eglo Many a , before the tenements he blew u p . "Before, they l i v e d i n slums, now they l i v e i n i Work of Art " •CanH keep up v.'ith Fashion F l u c t u a t i o n s ? Let t h e ELAI^ computer ( c o n n e c t •ed to VAGUE CENT- . RAL) make a l l y o u r jdecisions foi* vou! THE (QUEENSLAND CLUB Response to Change Qubs have had a great influence on the development of Queensland. From the early colonial days of the North Australian Qub before Queensland was a separate state to the Johnsonian Qub formed in 1878, private and not so private clubs have played an important role in the social, economic and political processes of the state. Traditionally the enclaves of the wealthy and powerful, Queensland's clubs have been changing, particularly in the last decade. "Time Off" begins a series on the top clubs of Queensland commencing with the oldest: the Queensland Qub. The Queensland Club is 120 years old. Fortned on December 6, 1859, four days before the declaration of Queensland as an autononwus state, the club is the oldest in the state. Initially formed in response to the impending formation of the new state (the letters of patent for the establishment of Queensland had been approved in July of that year) the club has been closely identified with the rural interests of the state for most of its life. Like most of the top private clubs the Queensland Club has found the need to change during the last two decades. The two most significant changes were the liberalisation of the rules governing the admission of women to what was previously a "gentlemen's club" and the change in membership away from grazing to the urban professionals (doctors and lawyers). During this period a large number of clubs round the world that could or would not adapt to the changing requirements of those who would have made up their membership closed their doors. One notable example that was quoted was the coniservative political club in London "the Junior Carlton Club which had ibeen previously open to the more ^conservative landed aristocracy and ipolitical figures f • • . . Despite being regarded as the top club in Queensland the Queensland Club also found the going during this time harder than normal and changed to counter the adverse effects. The results of the club's response were a much expanded role in the club for women and a reduced median age of the 693 members. The club was formed at a ' meeting on the evening of December 6, 1859 In the Exchange Rooms in the new city of Brisbane. There were 19 members of the more influential sections of Queensland society present. Some of the names of the original 19 are still signed in the club's register now. At the time the squatters were pressing for the establishment of a separate state. Travel was slow and orders from the capital Sydney took j;;Cf!ths in reaching the burgeoning city of 5,0uu. A-'though the primary reason for the squattocruCy» d^lf?. for a separate state, the reintroduction of transportation, was thwarted by the city dwellers, the pressure for a new state was such that the letters patent were signed in July, 1859. TIME OFF October 1979 The first city of the new state was Ipswich but by 1859 many were stopping at Brisbane rather than facing the extra travel upriver to Ipswich. As a result Brisbane grew much quicker than Ipswich, especially after being declared the capital city. The North Australian Club at Ipswich was the premier club at the time of the establishment of the Queensland and it was to remain so for some time after. The rivalry between the two clubs was intense for years before Ipswich and the North Australian began to lag perceptibly behind the more robust city of Brisbane and its club. Membership of the Queensland during this time reflected the dominant activity of the state of grazing with accomodation and facilities being provided for the country members, owners of the large cattle stations being developed in the heart of the state then. There was always a contingent of members from the judiciary and church, largely urban based, but their numbers were significantly less then than at present. By the turn of the century the club was indisputably the foremost social club of the state. The state's leading citizens belonged and the activities there influenced the directions of the state's development profoundly. Because of the club's "men only" status at the time a separate club was started for the wives of the country members - this was (and is) the Moreton Bay Club. It was quite common for a prominent grazier and his wife to come to town and part ways, the grazier to go to the Queensland Club and his wife to the Moreton Bay for the duration of the visit. In 1903 (March 3 to be exact) the Queensland Club received a major challenge. On this day the Brisbane Club was formed with 53 members from the prosperous and upwardly mobile middle classes and some members of the legal professions. Since then the Brisbane Club has increased its membership and influence until today it has three times the number of members as the Queensland Club. The two clubs catered to different sectors of the growing numbers of wielders of wealth and power with the Brisbane being tvore economically oriented. And more citified. Now the differences tend to be a little more blurred as the Queensland Club has moved toward an urban professional membership. Another phenomenon that blurs the boundaries of both clubs today is that of multiple membership. Many people who decide to belong to one club generally opt for membership of several. This is the case with the majority of the membership of the Queensland Club. Of the 400 full members at the Queensland a large number choose to also belong to the United Services Club. The Brisbane Club is another popular one and the three racing clubs, the Queensland Turf, the Brisbane Amateur and Tattersalls Clubs, also figure prominently. Nearly all the members of the state Supreme Court bench belong to the club and a large number of legal identities are also represented. The membership lists show that doctors and members of the legal profession are more numerous than members of the rural industry today. Although, with the resurgence of the cattle market, this trend is expected to change slightly. The club is headed at present by Sir Sidney Roberts, listed in the 1977 Who's Who as a grazier and company manager and the federal president of the National Country Party since 1969. His clubs are the Queensland and Tattersalls. He is currently on his second year of office. As presidents of the club are given only two years before making way for another member there is a high turnover of ideas in the club. Both the manager Major Don Moore and Sir Sidney were adamant that the club was non-political, and overt business negotiations were said to be forbidden. There are only three club members who are state MPs and they were not MPs when elected. Major Moore said. Also any business activity was prevented by the club's staff. The club is situated in a 95 year old pile on the corner of Alice and George Streets looking over the Botanic Gardens. Parliament House is on the diagonally opposite corner. Construction was started on the (contlnuQa naxi Mays, R(JSSELL ISLAND: Govt's Achilles Heel? The Russell Island land fraud has leapt into tbe news again mth new allegations being made about goverment obfuscation and resistance to calls for an open inquiry into tbe dealings that went on there. Earlier tbts year "Time Off" carried the tnost comprehensive coverage of the $10m fraud, and once agatn CALVIN NOACK brings readers up to date: Crown Law Department has been in the hands of the government for at least a week without any action bemg taken on it cither. The government's non-action has heightened speculation that what one report postulates as "some latent and/or covett facts relating to the matter" may be the decisive elements causing the inaction. Late last week the Commission of Police Mr. Terry Lewis was unavailable all day for comment on the report and possible police action that may be taken on it. He was not the only one who was unavailable and the Police Minister Mr. Ron Camm was not in his office when contacted. In February this year a police report compiled by Det. Sgt Vince Mahoney was referred to the Crovfli Law department for legal opinion. In this report The Queensland state government has been caught with its pants down (the metaphor is more than apt) yet again over Russell Island. Recently available documents compiled by top ranking police officials last year reveal that the government had known of police recommendations for a full inquiry and had done nothing. And that a report, compiled by the two former MPs were named. With that there are existent some latent and/or report two others were also submitted. covert facts relating to the matter." Tlje report added that because of the These were made in early December and both supported Malioney's contention lack of co-operation with the police by that fraud had occurred on the island. the Valuer's department and other Early last week the opposition lands related reasons, it would not be possible spokesperson Mr. Tom Burns named the to deal with the matter "effectively and principal of what he termed the biggest adequately" by a magistrate's court and scandal in the state's history as a llugli that "Ministerial sanction should be sought to. . .conduct a Commission of Robert Nichols. Nichols was named in all three re- Inquiry into.. .the fraud". During the week Burns went on radio ports one of which said that a meeting of senior police had "mutually agreed station 4ZZZ and said that he considered that there was evidence of conspiracy that the government was covering up to defraud the public at large by Hugh the Russell Island fraud and he wanted to Robert Nichols, and approximately 16 have an open inquiry which would get to other persons." Or.3 of the reports made the bottom of the matter. note of "the apparent reluctance, adHowever independent sources stated mittedly on legal adwce, by tlie Valuer last week that the principal Nichols was General's Department, to co-operate overseas at present as was at least one of in the Police investigation" and went on tlie former MPs named in Mahoney's to say that "one can only wonder whether report. BURKE SHIRE: Passport to Isolation Burke Shire is one of three Queensland shires that front onto the 1,000 mile plus coastline of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northwest. It covers an area of 41,802 square kibmetres and has a populatktn of just over 1,200 peopte ~ an average of one person per 34.83 square kilometres. This statistic is useless until it is compared with Brisbanes where there are 584 persons per square kilometre. This rqiresents 20,340 times the population density of Burke Shire. For those of you who find this procession of statistics still quite useless suffice to s?.y that out in the Burke shire it gets londy at night. The administrative capital of the shire is Burketown, a village of slightly more than 270 people of whom the majority are Aboriginals. There are only 60 whites in the town. The shire council has its offices here and all council work originates here. Buiketown hit the limelight in December 1976 when Cyclone Ted devastated nearly all of it during a short trip inland from the Gulf where it originated. 'When it departed some hours later 19 families were homeless, the shire hall was demolished and nearly all the rest of the town's 30 odd buildings were damaged. Now Burketown can lay claim to the title of the newest town in Queensland with a plethora of new buildings scattered around the dusty grid of streets that distinguish Burketown from the rest of the grass plains area. But, in typical fashion, aHhough the Federal Govemment allocated Sv 50,000 to rebuildmg the town while the spotlight was on it in 1976, only lO of the 19 pronused dweUings have been built nearly three yean later. Not surprisingly, the council decided to do some work of its own. After a little brainstorming shire employee Dave Ross came up with the idea of a passport to the shire based mainly on the fact that the area is almost completely isolated from the rest of Australia. Ross figured, quite reasonably, that if it takes up to three days for a person to ring in to the shire on its single 150 mile long telephone line from Normanton, itself an isolated town further to the east, then there was good reason for assuming that Burke shire was a different countiy from Australia. There is only 18 kilomettes of sealed road in the entire 42,000 square kilometres of the shire and even this is useless for up to four months of any year during the Wet season when the region's yearly rainfall of 24-30" deluges the area. During this penod the phone is frequently cut and the town is surrounded on all sides by flood waters at least half a kilometre wide. This water is teettiing with crocodiles, snakes and wildlife all in search of the higher ground the town is on. No wonder they think in Burketown that the place is a different country. In the beginning of last year the shire council launched a vigorous publicity campaign around the passport idea (they had 25,000 made up and have sold 3,600) and gained nationwide coverage of the situation ofthe town. ABANDON AND RESETTLE The ABC sent a crew to the town and arrived at the verdict on one of its current affairs programmes that the town should be abandoned and the inhabitants resettled elsewhere in Australia. Naturally enough the locals took a very dim view of that conclusion, saying that if anyone wanted to resettle them he or she could pay for the privilege. Accordingly the whole shire of 42,000 square kilometres was put up for sale at $2,800 million. There were no takers. These ideas (and one to have the World Series Cricket team play against the locals at the Burketown cricket oval which doubles as a race track once a year) have of course attracted a good deal of notice to the isolated shire. So much so that the amount of tourist traffic in the shire so far this year has risen 150% on last year's total. In response to this "invasion" the shire has started construction on a caravan site in the heart of the twon and is directing travellers to nearby Escott Station where THE QUEENSLAND CLUB three storey colonial style building in 1884 and completed in 1886, a year before the Belle Vue hotel which used to be opposite. In recent years the club has modernised the Interior of a large part of the building particularly that area where non-members or any of the 160 women associate members are allowed. Three years ago the club decided that the spartan all-men accomodation provided would be partly given up for more plush mixed facilities for members and wives. Thp IH..^ ^ ^ ; ; - - g^ ^.^^^ by some, was a highly successful one and the club has extended the concept. All furnishings and appointments are deliberately blended with the traditional settings to give an overall effect of a well appointed country mansion where the accent is placed on comfort rather than opulence. In the older parts where the "men onty" rule still applies the originai polished wood and curtainless walls are in evidence. These areas are the billiards room, the bar ^-^^ some ^'^ t!*.S rrion's quarters and tha library. Cedar fittmgs are the rule. A recent survey of the food pro- there are excellent facilities available for tourists interested infishing,wildlife or just staring at the lunar landscapes on the saltpans that run into the Gulf of Carpentaria, nights is darts night and the place is packed. Any other day the friendly publican will bring you up to date on the cultural events of the town. RIDE THE WILD SURF Friday night is movie night. Movies are screened at the new school every week and while we were there the locals were treated to "Ride the Wild Surf somewhat quixotic considering the distance to the nearest surfing beach. Dave Ross has the papers flown in once a week lo keep up with the rest of the world. Most contact is maintained by two way radio. Even in the shire chairman's office there is a set squawkuig away in the background. Once a year the Burketown Jockey Club holds its annual race meeting. People come from all over the Gulf region and the north west. This year the prize money was nearly 510,000. To escape the heat (in August the temperature was in the 30s during the day) visitors travel to Lawn Hll station more than 100 miles from Burketown to see the spectacular gorge there. The Gregory station, situated on the Gregory River, •is a handfull of miles east of Lavjm Hills, Every year canoeists flock from all over Australia to participate in the annual Gregory canoe race which finishes at the 103 year old Gregory Hotel. The race is held in some ofthe most beautiful scenery in the shire. TTie main population centre ofthe shire is the Domadgee Mission station near the Nicholson river. Here more than 900 Aboriginals run the station with the help of a handful of priests. The main industry ofthe shire is cattle and the mission station is wholly concemed with it. With the rise of cattle prices in the area it is prosperous once again. But the tourism industry is viewed as a valuable hedge against recessions in cattle. With at least three statrans involved in tourism it's obvious that the tourist is welcome in Burke Shire. The problem is to get there. IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY YOURSELF.. .THE HARD WAY The shire hands out stern advice to the travellers who enquire about the places of interest in its borders. The people who drive four wheel drive vehicles generally fare best, it thinks, and the emphasis is placed on self reliance. The roads are out for up to four months even to 4WD. The shire's "invitation" starts off "If you want to enjoy yourself - the hard way" and describes some ofthe tragedies and otherwise that the average tourist can expect during a visit. The invitation ends - "and when you get here - don't say you weren't warned." Good advice for the visitor is to get some forewarning. It's necessary. • What do the Burketownites do with their leisure time without TV and only the ubiquitous ABC radio (even 4LM in the Isa doesn't get through during the day), to pronde company? Well, the shire has one of the highest percentages of people under the age of 14 in the state. In Burketown, the social life is centred > mainly on the Albert Hotel, Thursday 'nf vided by the club by an unknown reporter gave it top ratings when compared with some others of the top clubs of the city. After a memo from the then president to all members six years ago to the effect that the club was faced with the prospect of raising Its dues in the face of a slump in usage by members an Increase of patronage has been seen. Enhancing this trend was the diminution of new members joining the club purely as a prestige event. Dues at present are $300 jcir.ir.y ree and a VSSny rate of $270, roughly the same as the other clubs. To be a member, however, is no short road. An aspiring member has to be nominated by seven members. ' CALVIN NOACK This nomination is usually done after a thorough vetting of other members. The nomination is immediately deferred on being placed before the committee so that the whole membership can be canvassed informally. If a certain number of members disapprove the intending candidate then the application Is not put before the committee again and it lapses, thus saving face for both the club and the nominee. While there is no perceptible l'i»t for membership there are only 30 or so new members accepted oer year. Allowing for deaths, resignations and so on the increase is closer to 20, thus ensuring a stable club, both in numbers and Ideology. - C A L V I N NOACK The question on everyone's lips regarding alternative lifestyles today is "are they really effecting a societal change or are they just groups of 'drop-outs', defeatists in a working, communicating and competing-with-others game that city life offers?" "Are they going 'back to the land' with the same heterosexual family unit intact only to isolate and alienate themselves?" "Time Off" recently visited a commune with a difference, the Junction Co-op and spoke to the Association's President, Renee Heisler, a Polish woman who is remarkably unemotional and practical in explaining the Co-op's aims. The Junction Co-op Association VMS formed in Melbourne by a committee of 16, 2 of whom were men. The 40 associate members who each pay SlO a year to join in on lectures, workshops and to stay at the Co-op, are all women, however they don't exclude men. All of them had the idea that they were highly comfortable in their ordinary situation of living. They come to the Co-op which is about 5 kilometres outside Gympie, from all over Australia. Feminism, Permaculture, and the Junction Co-op To the best of her knowledge, Renee knows no-one within the •commune who belongs to any particular political party or religious sect. She returned to Australia after 7 years of living in East Germany and becoming disillusioned with the Socialist system that countries behind the Iron Curtain have. "The countries that went into the revolution started with very backward industrial conditions. They felt they had to delay equitable society till they caught up with industrial output. The basis of production remains the sanrie as capitalism. , .what you change is only the ownership." Every member of the Junction Co-op is a practising Feminist. Ms. Heisler believes that it is women who will have to be the members of society wlio bring about a change. "If you look at the society which is on the brink of change, you should ask who are the people most interested in change and who are the least mterested. It seems to me, and probably a few others, but by no means everybody, that the people most interested in societal change during the last 60 or 70 years have been women because they've been on the fight all the time. They haven't been able to get equal rights, they haven't been able to get equal pay. This they've finally acquired in most Western countries but it's become a double burden because they still have the household, they still have the kids and they still have the job." But there are two founding members of the Co-op who are men. How do they, or other visiting males fit into the commune, "A few of the men do fit in on the basis that they recognise that this is a time of change and they have to want to help start a new kind of co-operation with women. At some point now there has to be a new base of co-operation between men and women - a new basis for relationship between the sexes," TIME OFF October 1979 jji-. ->.' _-^., The Junction Co-op disapproves of communes where the nuclear family structure is practised. "We're not against the nuclear family but it would be lovely if we could fit the nuclear family with all other kinds of groups like muitimarrlage groups or homosexuals. We have all forgotten that the nuclear family is only a development of the last 50 years. 50 years ago the family' consisted of papa, mamma, 6, 7, 8 or 9 children, the grandmother, the grandfather, the maiden aunt who didn't get married, the uncle who became a widower, and a whole load of people who were employed to look after them - the servants. And they would live as a group, probably very stratified but no way would it be a tiny unit of pappa, mamma and child where there's hardly any room for a fish in a fish bowl. Now we get a nuclear family where there isn't even the child, there's only the fish bowl." Renee believes this kind of situation cannot continue disintegrating, however they do not predict a societal change to complete communal living. They are simply starting an alternative way of life based on co-operation and living with others as opposed to disassociation with others. And a thriving commune means people must specialise. "There are people who are into science, people who are into alternative healing, people who are interested in alternative agriculture and alternative energy sources. We hope to attract people who are interested in all kindsof things." Renee and four other girls, along with a rotation of steady visitors, have been living at the Co-op for two years now. They admit the building has been extremely slow and they are still not ready to hold their workshops. "All the actual carpentry is being done by women and women find it very difficult. The lack of background produces a more acutely felt inferiority in women so they fight shadows before they can get down to ttie job. It's emotional difficulties women have. . .they have been told they can't do it. We have had a lot of neighbours watching us and they were sure we couldn't do anything." But the neighbour's and the council's attitude to the Co-op has not been one of hostility, more of distance, . ."Anyone who comes to Gympie is a 'bloody foreigner' for a long time, it doesn't matter who it is. We have had the difficulties with the Shire in hiring backhoes and bulldozers but that exists because it is a very typical, rural city." At the end of last year there were 500 school-leavers unemployed around Gympie, so it seems quite natural that their parents, living in a conservative. National Party electorate, are quite frightened of alternative lifestyles. . .the words 'hippy' and 'drop-out' seem to come to mind. But the Junction Co-op wants to help the local community by running workshops and classes, especially in pottery as that is their only established craft at the moment. What the Co-op has achieved through sheer hard labour, and a few lucky finds (like second hand doors for $2, a second-hand stove and the like) is incredible. They have almost completed building a large, 2 storey living quarters with a bathroom, large kitchen, spiral staircase, balcony and a huge area for films, discussions, workshops and relaxation. The altered the architectural plans to the house by ex- that are supporting each other. Nothing is planted in rows and you tending the roof and adding extra produce your own top soil with windows. The result is an amazing, layers of ashes over manure, over modern and comfortable house. compost, rags, newspaper or any What they achieve is, to most of us, matter made of natural fibres that unachievable. will disintegrate and become a A form of organic gardening, natural fertiliser. The variety of called Permaculture, is practised at different plants and animals surthe Coop. The 35 acres of land is viving together means they will mostly ail clay and very barren. support each other and selfThis is great for pottery but a perpetuate. At the moment the disaster for growing things. The Co-op has 3 ducks, 2 cats and a garden, although it is small, looks dog. They are still in the process of like a thriving oasis amidst the dry, establishing the garden and animals grassless surrounding land. and are looking towards selfBasically Permaculture is a non- sufficiency when this is achieved. dig, non-chemical fertiliser system Apart from building and farming, with the Idea of establishing an area, the women are all making pots. They first with trees, and then plants, dig for clay straight from the ground herbs, shrubs and animals together and by sifting it, obtain a good quality, reddish clay. They have one electric pottery wheel and one and a half kilns (they're still building the second one), The Co-op has started selling Its pottery, their main outlet being the Country Market at Kin Kin which most communes around the Sunshine Coast use for selling their produce and craft work. There Is still a shortage of outlets for aiternative groups but they seem to be overcoming this by opening shops and organising activities, and another Country Market will open, this one in Dayboro, at the end of October. It is through these sorts of ventures that communes like the Junction Co-op can become seif-suffic/ent, gather ideas from others, and attract people and new members with new ideas. The Junction Co-op is planning lots of activities for the future. They hope to build two A-Frame structures next for discussions, group therapy, children's activities, film and theatre workshops and more. The range of activities and fields they could explore are endless. Yet it's something Ms Heisler believes is not happening in most communes because people are not getting together to talk to each other. "it's the differences that people emphasize. . Jt's natural to say not what have I got in common with my neighbour but to say what I haven't got In common with that person. Other communes are highly political because they're looking for a change, but in their attitude they're non-political because they're looking for change for themselves. We want a Resource Centre which would try to be a forum for all these people to come together because I think in the bulk of their experiences are probably the answers as to what can be done. The Junction Co-op wants to work not single-handedly, but on an exchange system with other communes and outside society," -BRIDGET VAN TINTEREN fl SonctuQf y of Healing More than 700 people made their way to the Tallabudgera Valley in the Gold Coast hinterlands at the beginning of the month for the second Australian Mind, Body and Healing Festival. Tony Holt's Healing Sanctuary, set as it is on 30 acres of grassy hill and forest area, split in half by a crystal clear river flanked by grassy flats proved an ideal spot for such a gathering. The setting was tranquil, secluded, and at one with the aims of the festival. The media made much of the fact that many of the participants spent a lot of their time acquiring a deep all-over tan. However, the festival:, was much more than a collection of hippy drop-outs collected together for a wild week of alternative living. In keeping with the basic precepts of most fields of alternative medicine, no alcohol or liquor was allowed on the site - a sock in the eye to the mediafreaks who came expecting to cover drug-induced orgies. What the festival did achieve was to bring to one place a collection of some of the best of modern Using a stethescope while she thinking in the fields of massage, acupuncture, force field therapy, massages the body, Gerda is able to monitor through the sounds that alchemy and psychoperistalsis. Driving forces in organising the come from the digestive system festival were Graydon Harrington the effectiveness of the massage. It is a field which, as she says, Rixon of Sydney and Peter Eedy of Brisbane, known to many for combines knowledge and technique his wprk at the Taringa Growth with the simplicity of caring for another person. The use of the Centre. stethescope allows the body to With them came practitioners relay feedback to the operator with from all parts of Australia, from regard to the effectiveness of the Britain and from the USA. Gerda and Ebba Boyesen from massage in releasing tension from Great Britain attracted a great deal certain areas of the body. John Cottone from the USA of interest in their workshops and theory sessions on the science of discussed his work on self healing psychoperistalsis, a field which and self massage with a large crowd Gerda discovered close to eighteen of interested participants. John Is a great believer in fasting as a means years ago. 8 Another interesting lecturer at the festival was Anna Flore of Sydney. Anna has worked for the past 14 years in the field of Bach Flower remedies and has spent the last ten years compounding, catalogueing and potentising a series of remedies from Australia wildf lowers. Her basic precept is that we have been provided, naturally, with the remedy for every illness that is likely to strike us - it is simply a matter of discovering it. . As well as the medically orientated lectures, there was a great deal of practically orientated work that allowed for group participation. Peter Westheimer from Mullimbimby presented Tai Chi early each morning, while Sydney dance teacher, Maya, gave instruction in the art of Indian dancing. As Maya explained, Indian dancing combines the advantages of exercise with the discipline of meditation. Like doing yoga to music was how she described it. The dance form also caters to the performers' creativity in that once the basic steps have been mastered, the dancer of cleansing the body of impurities. can create his/her own stories using He himself went on a fast of close to the basic characters. 150 days last year and while not Interesting food stalls serving a recommending that this be followed variety of delicious vegetarian foods, by the person with no knowledge of films on various aspects of alterfasting, he did recommend that one native medicine and lifestyle, and day a week be set aside for a liquid a general willingness of all those diet to allow the digestive system present to gain the maximum benet'me to clear away any excess toxins fits from their seven day experience that may be remaining in the body. all combined to make the festival one of the most successful of its For that day's fast he recommends kind ever held In Australia. drinking a mixture made by mixing The third Mind, Body and two tablespoons of lemon juice, one Healing Festival is planned for next tablespoon of maple syrup and a year - and judging from the success good dash of cayenne pepper in a of this one, the crowd should be glass of water. Fasting aside, it makes even bigger and better the third time for a very pleasant non-alcoholic around. drink. - D A V I D K.WHEATLEY ABOVE: Manager Garry Deutsher in recording studio; BELOW: engineer John Sayen at the console. By Robert Cameron First off I saw three grey donkeys grazing in the field, they were smiling, I swear. You couldn't blame them either, a picture of idyllic contentment. Music Farm is more than a recording studio, it's a pretty face sitting amiably in the most peaceful countryside in the land. Behind Mullimbimby, up a dirt road, across valleys, at Coolamon Scenic Drive, Coorabell. Australia's only live-in 24 track recording complex. 264 acres with animals (what better way to tune up the mind than horse-riding), with a river for swimming, with green and misty views forever, sunsets, you name it. Manager Garry Deutsher conceived the idea six years ago whilst working overseas The place opened in May 1976 as an 8 track studio surviving mainly on production of radio commercials.' Last year Deutsher closed it down and pumped another half a million dollars into building the ultimate in studio equipment, mostly imported, then installed by local builders, carpenters, architects who have fled the cities. This took nine months. The new Music Farm has been opened nearly four months, if this multi-million dollar Investment is to pay off, it's going to have to be a home away from home for top overseas bands. Deutsher is tightllpped about who's to visit Music Farm, but it looks like Nick ("bash it down and we'll tart it up later") Lowe and Elvis Costello will record Elvis' next album there in November. Music Farm charges a daily rate TIME OFF October 1979 STUDIOS of $820, but in the fiercely cutthroat recording industry where Deutsher Is only beginning to build a reputation, cheaper bulk rates are negotiable. And that's not expensive on anybody's standards. Main competitors include Trafalgars, Alberts and EMI in Sydney and Armstrongs in Melbourne where Michael GudinskI records most Mushroom Records artists. Gudlnski is soon to get the red carpet treatment at Music Farm. A switch by Mushroom would be a coup for Deutsher, with bands like the Sports, Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, Dave Warner. Split Enz. Rod Stewart spent half a day recuperating at Music Farm earlier this year. Others to pass through, to rest and play, to check out the recording facilities and rehearse are Cold Chisel, The Angels, Stars, Renee Geyer. Chief engineer at Music Farm is award winning ex-Trafalgar man John Sayers (he engineered Radio btrdman's albums) "and don't be surprised if top Sydney producer Charles Fisher joins the team. These days record companies will only talk to smaller bands If quality demo tapes have been made. At the moment Footloose and Gold Coast band Ratpack are doing just that at Music Farm. Others to produce there include Ayers Rock, Aleph, Geronimo and Swanny (Cold Chisel lead singer's brother's band). "Once a group arrives, they live here, everything's on tap, right down to a packet of cigarettes" explains Garry Deutsher, "People are virtually locked in here, they're forced to work." An old dairy has been converted into accommodation quarters, with all the comforts, video cassettes, everything you need. The staff Includes a full time chef who cooks for everyone. The recording studio itself is built with not one parallel surface, to stop the sound bouncing around, with lashings of felt on the walls at specific points for maximum sound absorption. The studio area sits on floating slab concrete floors. Beautiful rosewood walls and doors complete the picture. The mixing speakers in the control room are Urei monitoring, with time aligned set at 90 degrees to the engineer. There's an array of outboard gear, like Dolby and DBX noise reduction compressors and limiters, EMT reverb, plate and Photos Nick Udovic harmonisers. The automated mixing console is MCI 500 C series, 32 in, 32 out, with MCI 24 track and 2 track machines, auto locator and return to zero. If you can understand _ that, take a closer look at the Music Farm equipment, phone Garry on (066) 84 7304. Music Farm has put on open-air concerts, including a recent 1200 turnout at a Split Enz gig. We can expect more in future. The rolling lush expanses of Coorabell could well turn into a mecca of money and musos if this highly ambitious Music Farm project fires. Among others, Little River Band manager Paul Wheatley has bought land nearby. All in all, it's a breathtaking risk, but Deutsher's not stupid, and seems to have access to a money tree. Where that's coming from, Deutsher won't say, except that it's not Australian dollars. *********************************************************^ * * * * * * * •x- * * * * * * * * * * ISRAEL ANOTHER CAMPUS TRAVEL EXCLUSIVE Have you ever thought about how the Israelis built their country through the KIBBUTZ system?? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Eat, work and live with Israelis in their own land. All you do is pay for your return airfare and be prepared to work for a minimum of six weeks. The normal working day is six hours or more. 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It was the Bushman's Carnival Rodeo at Julia Creek, a dusty town in the mkldle of the north west Queensland plains 160 miles east of Mount Isa and slightly less than 1,000 air miles from Brisbane. After a difficult few years from conception the birth occurred on July 14 and 15 under a blazing "winter" sun before a combined audience total of more than a thousand on the windy grassplains a mile or so out of town near the race track. Julia Creek, the "gateway to the Gulf, had joined the rodeo circuit. A circuit that one laconic string of horsepounded flesh described as the backbone of the fastest growing sport in Oz. It could be true. This one, in a town that few south Queenslanders would ever have heard of, had attracted total prizemoney of $7,000 for the two days and had ARRA (magic letters in the rodeo world) approval. This approval from the Australian Rougli Riders' Association means that the contests are rated for the national titles conducted by tJie ARRA. The rodeo which so proudly reared its head on that weekend was not born without its hassles. For starters the area surrounding Julia Creek was traditionally sheep land and is still strongly so. But with the influx of cattle to the region the push for a rodeo gained momentum. At first the townspeople were sceptical about the idea but gradually came round. The two services clubs in the town, the Apexians and the Lions, tried their hands at it with little success then a group of young businessmen took an active interest and put the whole concept on a sound fmancial footing. All through this period a few more farsighted people were putting their backs into it. Led by Artie "Galloping Ghan" Feyers, these men scoured the region as far away as Normanton (250 miles) and Mount Isa (160) for several years to get the materials they thought were necessary for a traditional rodeo environment. That meant an all wood ring in an area where trees are only 25 foot tall and not much thicker than a man's leg. A look at the ring and one can appreciate the work that went into bringing the rodeo into existence. The whole thing was done on a voluntary basis and reflects the Australian art of making do with the materials that are available. The judges' box, mounted 10 feet above ground on an old railway carriage understructure, was formerly the detachable part of a cattle truck. The stairs leading up to the box came from tlie first attempt to mine shale oil in the area. (Julia Creek is sitting on a huge reserve of oil shale which is measured in miles not barrels or tonnes). The only other building on the rodeo grounds is the secretary's box. This 10' by 10' (approx) structure was salvaged from the police station where it had served as the black tracker's quarters around the turn of the century. So it was against this background of hard work and improvisation that the rodeo finally made it to the world of the living. The McKinlay Shire Council chipped in with S 10,000 and tlie locals did the rest. In the town on Saturday moming business was booming. One store had sold more than 20 stetson hats (considerably more than its normal monthly turnover) in the three hours of trading. All the hotels (two) and motels (one) were full and tlie shire caravan park was as full as it was during the recent floods in February when the town was cut off from the rest of the world for nearly a week. Julia Creek now forms a timely part of the rodeo circuit in the northvrest. After it conies the Merry Muster at Cloncurry, 80 miles west, then the Isa Rodeo. Then Alice Springs, Sedan Oip and the Saxby Roundup. WINWl^WMI«WMW«^iq«MWIIVWMMl^PWMKf^^ Cheap Laughs Beyond the Black Stump Unless you experience it, many don't know the overtness of sections of Australian sexism, racism under the guise of humour. Here arc a few examples as brought back to Brisbane from a Time Off staffer who's just returned from N.W. Qld. Qoncun-y: (late one night in a female school teacher's house) 'T)on't you dare say Tm only as good as an Abo you English slut!" Mount Isa: (a taxidriver on the way to the airport) "we said to the coons that if they didn't get back into their right place we 'd dig one for them ". Normanton: (a pubowner) "Well we don't exactly exclude anyone from the pubs. The Albion down the road is for whites, the (public) bar next door is for Abos, this one's for whites and the pub up the road's for blacks. You wouldn't feel comfortable in there, so it's not racism." In a different vein the Mount Isa Apexians pul together a parody of the local paper the NorthWest Star titled the Steer, m It was tills gem under the heading "Forgery ring broken up in Mount Isa". "An Irish forgery gang that had been operating in Mount Isa was broken up by police in a dawn raid tliis momuig. "Led by Micheal O'Flaharty the gang had been working a racket in hotels with lucky beer ticket dispensers. "The gang had been filing down 50 cent pieces so accurately that they had been not only using them in the machines but actually passing them off as 20 cent pieces". On the not so appropriate (?) scene was this seven par womler titled "The Social Scene". "Last Saturday afternoon saw the -local highlight of the year in the tiny town 12 of Kajabi when Sarah Smith and Johnnie Jones were joined in holy wedlock at long last". "Tlie bride, who is 18, and who, incidently, has been out with every man in town since she was 12, looked deliglitful in some kind of white thing that made her skinny knees stick out one end and her pimply face out the other. She was attended by her younger sister who was at least seven months gone. "The bride carried a bouquet of various kinds of flowers and looked like they had been knocked off from the Civic Centre a few days before. "She also wore a rock on her finger which must liave cost at least at doUar from the local store. "The groom wore his usual look of imbecility and idiocy. He also carried his usual knuckle-duster in his right hand pant's pocket. He was dressed in a pair of blue jeans, obviously borrowed from a pig farmer, as they smelt to higli heaven, embellished with a black silver studded belt, set off by a pair of thongs. "It seems he has a good start in life as his old man has been picking up his bounced cheques for the past two years, since he was released after a short stretch for armed robbery coupled with forging and uttering. "He was attended by the bride's father, who carried a shot-gun to support liim. The happy couple anticipated a blessed event in three months". Alongside this gem were two photos, one of a year old baby and the otiier of an empty road. The captions read "Young Billy Jones nee Smith seen enjoying dad and mum's wcddmg last Saturday" and "Our photographer arrived too late to catch Sarah and Johnny leaving the reception but here's the street they drove down". account of the dangers of modem chemfcalbased ice cream in which the concluding par reads: "The next time you are tempted by a luscious looking sundae, thiidc of it as a mixture of anti freeze, oU paint, paint remover, nitrate solvent, leather cleaner and lice killer. You may not find it so appetising." Yet the mag also contains a stra^ht Ihls journal is the only formal attempt at humor in the north west, the rest being in the ad hoc vein expressed by individuals in the area. The examples quoted are extreme. Wowsers, non drinkers and other assorted fringe lunatics may consider themselves exempt from. the attitudes that these examples are extremes of. Eighty five people have chosen to make BirdsvUle their home. Three and a half thousand people visit the place on the one weekend in a year. Race meetings and rodeos are big attractions in the outback, but it is not the racing which brings 7 i 0 planes and 60 coaches from over Australia to Birdsville for this weekend. "He would have won except the dust got in his eyes." That was the Auctioneer's explanation for why the local hope in the Birdsville Cup, Lucky Fella, had not won the day before. I innocently asked the cowboy in the crowd next to me whether it was really going to be that dusty at the races, and he informed me tliat it gets so dusty that the crows have toflybackwards to keep the bull dust out of their eyes. I got the message that he really wanted to watch the Calcutta which was in progress outside the pub, rather than talk to me, so we both went back to watching the bidding. A Calcutta for those who liave not misspent their youth is an Auction v^^ere you can buy a horse for a race and if it wins you collect the prizemoney. The locals nodded their agreement to the Auctioneer because, after all, Lucky Fella, had come out of the dust the year before to win the Cup. He was the one the locals wanted to own for today. We arrived at Birdsville at 4.30pm Friday, too late for the Friday races, and were followed in by a number of other planes. As one of the planes was taxiing off the runway the exit door was opened and a man on board fell oul. He didn't have a can in his hand when he fell, but his mates later said he had had plenty on the way up. Fortunately theflyingdoctor was on hand and flew him back to the Charleville Hospital. Tlie only other serious incidents 1 heard of was a man who had been dressed up as a woman wandered off on Saturday night and could not be found by the time his plane was ready to leave on Sunday, and a woman who got a badly burnt foot when die decided to test a boiling hot artesian bore drain. of the gentry within hearing range to step forward and try lus luck against the champion, Kid Sundown. After one of the later bouts I heard a local lad complaining that the barker kept cutting short the rounds when it looked like Kid Sundown was going to get beaten. Cries of "stew" and "fix" could be heard often. The dance and the Ball were mostly forsaken by the graziers or cockles in favour of the tourists andringers(cowboys) with the local girls turning up and chatting in groups until they were asked to dance. The band was country and westem and played a lot of Slim Dusty and Hank Williams. Slim Dusty's "Tnimby was a Ringer" is very big in that country. The reciative and admiring of good "bloodhorses' (dioroughbreds) and those aquine competitors at the Birdsville races attracted a great deal of interest and speculation. The winner of the first race of the day was a horse owned in Westem Queensland, but from an outstanding New Zealand thoroughbred family, who would certainly be up to Brisbane class racing. After the races, 1 had no reason to doubt tlie cowboy from the Calcutta, the crows wouldflybackwards in tliis country. THEN SHE STARTED KICKING HIM The crowd tliroughout the whole weekend was extremely well-behaved, which was extraordinary when you Lucky Fella was knocked down for $850 to a leathery looking grazier type in a big hat. An ex-Brisbane prad called Horaney won the cup and that meant someone else collected the $1,000 prizemoney to purchase dust remover for the inner tliroat. THE GREEN LIZARD • The pub, for tliis weekend and probably for every other day of the year, is the focal point of the town. The inside was burnt out a few months back, but fortunately the Green Dzard from the famous Green Lizard painting tipped off a couple of obliging folk who removed the painting to safety well before the fire broke out. The painting has since been returned. The 60,000 odd cans drunk over the threeday weekend were sold from a store room at the back of the pub bearing the name "Chandelier Bar", The trick was to crush into the Chandelier Bar, buy a supply of cans and head for the street because if there was going to be any action that's where it would be. The street action consisted mostly of drinking in the street. If you are thinking about going to Bkds^e then you shouldflyand the bigger the plane the better. I went out in a four seater, an intrepid little number called a Beechcraft Debonair which took eight and a half hours to get us there with two fuel stops and very uneasy stomachs. It's hardly believable but that plane could have taken us to Melbourne quicker because Melbourne is closer to Brisbane than BirdsWlle. TIME OFF October 1979 ^ ' i.^ *^^^;^ n^ KNOCK-EM-DOWNS & BOXING TENTS Don't think Bu'dsville leaves you with only the pub for post-races entertainment. On the Friday night there is, of course, the Dance and on Saturday night, the Ball, The dance hall is completely constructed of corrugated tin and the inside boasts a wooden floor, a few tinsel decorations and mostly green balloons. In the dust outside the hall there is the local side-show alley. There are sue sideshows, four of which are knock-em-downs, and a boxing tent which features a female country and western singer between bouts. The boxing tent drew the biggest crowds and the barker was inviting any Ball was an even more casual affair than the Dance. Halfway througli the Ball someone got bored with the whole thing and pulled out the fuses which threw the hall into darkness, and stopped the band. The crowd then wandered out to the knock-em-downs or sloped back across the road to the Hotel. The Chandelier Bar was open all Saturday night until near dawn on Sunday morning. The Saturday race meeting to most of the tourists was just a place to take photos, drink beer, and have a laugh at anything unusual. To those non-city folk it was a much more serious business as rodeos adn race meetings are regarded as not only a great form of entertainment but also cherished as a part of the Australian heritage. Country people are very app- consider the amount of beer drunk. The only fight I saw was a wliile tourist woman who got a white tourist man down in a pile of cans and started kicking him. Why the hell do people go to Birdsville for this weekend? One of the locals explained to me that the "bush" is really what Australia is all aboul - tliat the outback and the hardsliips which go with il built tliis country and city. People occasionally want to observe that real Australia and have a good tune doing it, so they come to the annual swill at Budsvaie. Perhaps he was right. Tammy Fraser is this year President of the Australiana Fund and I guess she's had at least one brush with Australiana, SHE'S been to the Birdsville Races. 13 V * ' * V'' ***• » -^ ^*-^ y\'> HAYDEN LEARNS FROM GOUGH How much has tbe federal Labor party learned from the Whitlam years? Is tbe electorate turning on Malcolm Fraser with a disdain usually reserved for headmasters and landlords? Does Bill Hayden have tbe capacity to con tbe Atistralian people into votmgfor him? PETER APPLEGARTH assesses Hayden's prospects and draws on tbe history of tbe Whitlam govemment as written in a new book "Illusions of Power" by Michael Sexton. The place was Reddiffe shopping centre on a sunny Saturday after* noon. Bill Hayden was introducing himself to the electors who would vote in a by-elccdon one week later. A woman shook Hayden's hand and exclaimed, "I'm so happy that Mr. Casey is leader of the ALP in Qld and that you're federal leader". Hayden replied, "Yes, madam, it'U be a great place with Mr, Casey as Premier and myself as Prime Minister". A few A few days later Hayden was in the Parliament delivering an Address in Reply to the Budget, The govemment's response was to call upon polished Parliamentary performer, Jim Killen. Killen's tired rendition ofthe 'dark days ofthe Whitlam years' smacked of a stand-up comedian who has seen better days. The govemment's response, like its pubUc image, is one of hopeless irrelevance. Whereas an attack on Whitlamism was effective and appropriate as late as 1977, politics has altered significantly since then. The Liberal's failure to appreciate this fact will accelerate their electoral demise. Their rehearsed responses to Labor are as unconvincing as their claims to be in control of an economic recovery. Ironically, as Fraser resuscitates the image of Wiitlam as the leader of a higli taxation, high inflation, high unemployment govemment, the image begins to fit himself. Fraser runs the risk of being tarred with the same brush that he used effectively on Wliitlam - an arrogant Prime Minister who could not grasp economic reality, let alone seek to change it. As the Whitlara-Fraser likeness becomes more apparent (and Gough created a son in his own unage) Hayden's stocks will inevitably rise. Hayden presents a political style which the conservative parties can neither match nor combat. He juxtaposes his humility with Fraser's anogance, his disdain for notoriety with Fraser's "bom to rule' credo, and his awareness of problems with Fraser's reliance on old certainties. Things have changed greatly in the last five years. Political actors like Whillam, Caims, Connor, Crean and Murphy have left the political stage. Fraser continues with his soliloquy to an ever-dwindling audience. The wonder is that none of Fraser's prompters are prepared to tell liim that the show is over. ILLUSIONS OF POWER Before the prospects for a future Labori government can be assessed, tlie fate ofthe last Labor government must be reflected upon. Tliis task is undertaken by Michael Sexton in his recent book 'Illusions of Power' (Allen and Unwin, 1979). The book opens with an account of a meeting on 13 December, 1974 between Wliitlam, Caims, Murphy and Connor. That meeting authorised the borrowing of $4,000 million. The unconventional methods used by the government to raise the money showed the desperation of a reform government whose program had been frustrated by a hostile Senate, indifferent bureaucrats and the concerted opposi,tion of the Australian establishment. Exactly one year later the govemment would be swept from office, having never really been in power. Sexton's book does not only provide a valuable historical record of the fate of a reform government, ft critically assesses each of the participants in the 13 December, 1974 meeting. Sexton summarises Whitlam's greatest strength and his greatest weakness as "his own idealistic commitment to rational progress for mankind, and yet his intolerance of, or more commonly, his hicomprehension of, those individuals or groups who did not share this commitment." TIME OFF October 1979 moments later in an aside to an aide Hayden confessed, "gee you've got to ^say some comv things at times." That incident displays Hayden's capacity to accept tbe accolades of public office in a spirit of healthy cyniasm. His unassuming nature is arguably his greatest asset in tbe quest for govemment in 1980. ''Most of BUl Hayden's classmates at Brisbane State High would have voted for Fraser at the last election. These are the working class kids who the establishment gave a free education to in tbe 1940s. Many of them went on to become members of tbe managerial and professional classes. Indeed Hayden may have become one of them bad he joined a bank instead of the police force. A simple twist of fate." Give me men to match my plains. LABOR'S PROSPECTS UNDER Men with freedom in their vision, HAYDEN And creation in their brains. With the disappointment ofthe Wliitlam years a pronounced change in the Labor Tlie combination of such characters Party might have been anticipated. into a 'Kitchen Cabinet' says something Hayden's term as leader has on the face of about the ALPs near coalition style of events been free from deliberate innovagovernment. tions. Labor's traditional links with the One signature remained to be attached trade union movement remain. to the loan authorisation before it becaine Labor's approach is essentially one of operative. That was the signature of John civilising capitalism by democratic and Kerr, Labor appointed Governor-General. mildly socialist initiatives. On a different Sexton provides an informative account levd Hayden has launched the ALP on a of Kerr's bacground. He characterises Kerr new path. He has placed economic reconas "a genuine cynic, an ideological soldier struction as the first item on the agenda of fortune with no preconceived notion for his government. This was (he thrust of the political process, a man who be- of his speech to the recent ALP federal Ueved in nothing — except hhnself. As his conference. friend from pre-war days, Francis James, Whitlam came to power with a program remarked later: "God save the Queen! of reform predicated on having a healthy Honestly, John, it's a bit much when you economy. When the economic blow-out bdieve in neither God nor the Queen." of the early 1970s occurred these programs •became largely inoperative. In many ways The book goes on to give a careful the Labor government simply did not analysis of the internal ' and external know wliat was happening. It's programs forces wliich debiUtated the Whitlam were not in accord with economic ciradminislration. It is a timely and well cumstances. In contrast, Hayden and his written account of the fate of a reform coUeagues have the dubious advantage govemment. As private secretary to of knowing that their programs wUl have Attorney-General Kep Enderby, Sexton to operate in tight economic conditions. witnessed many of the events first hand. The obvious limitations placed upon Sexton does not present poUtical events any reform programs means that Hayden's simply as a game between key per- blueprint for AustraUa in the 1980s will sonalities. 'Iliusions of Power' is a sophisticated analysis of the efforts and frus(continued next page) Give me men to match tny mountains. trations of the Whitlam governnient. Tlie chapter on Jim Cairns is titled 'Prophet witiiout Honour' and relates the story of a leader of a mass movement who found himself out of liis depth in the worid ofthe Canberra bureaucracy. Lionel Murphy is said lo have "epitomised the efforts and the frustrations of the Wliitlam government". His attempts to control the operation of ASIO are recounted in detail. Sexton concludes of Murphy, "the diversity of his talents still enabled him by the end of 1974 to deniowtrate as Attorney-General (and would enable him in the future to demonstrate on the Higli Court of Australia) that, of all the Sydney lawyers on both sides who were to play a part in the turbulent events of 1975, he was least inhibited by this background and had the best prospect of reconciling what has often appeared a basic incompatibility between the roles of lawyer and reformer." A revealing picture of Rex Connor is developed. Connor's goal of govemment participation m natur^ resources development produced virulent opposition from mining interests and their poUtical operatives. He was eventually to be overcome by such opposition and forced from the Alinistry. Typical of his rare poUtical style in the face of immense opposition was Ids rendition in Pariiament of an old Australian poem: 15 frequently refer to the number of young of Fraser that 'the emperor has no clothes'. and lalenled ALP members that were lost Yet they remain undecided about Hayden. in the electoral disasters of J975 and 17tey are the people Hayden has to reach. be an entirely different package from that 1977. Even with those losses, shadow Althougli this involves revealing more of presented by Wliitlam in 1969 and 1972. ministers like Bowen, Button, Keating, his personality, and even his self-doubts, The curtailed programs will al least enable Ryan, Wreidt and Young find few equi- the task is essential. People do nol want an Hayden to avoid the image of a latter-day valents in the Fraser ministry. Even the economic expert as national leader. They 'It's Time'merchant. small Labor backbencli boasts persons wanl someone who knows about suburban Anyone who listened to Hayden's like Neil Blewitt, Barry Jones and Gareth, life in Australia. Address-in-Reply to the Budget heard Evans. An historical parallel can be found in the person prepared to be national Bob Hawke's possible election to Par- the emergence of John Curtin as wartime leader. The speech did not succumb to Uament presents at the same time the labor leader. Cuitin's capacity to get the temptation to delete anything radical things done contrasted with the incomfrom Labor poUcy. Hayden resisted the greatest prospect and the greatest danger petence of Menzies as a wartime leader. forces that want Labor to become as to Labor's chances in 1980. Hawke's Curtin's embodiment of an emerging 'middle of the road' as the US entry challenges Hayden's capacity as a AustraUan identity contrasted with MenDemocratic Party or as right wing as Qld party leader to marshall Hawke's talent zies' anglophUe pretensions. Hayden has to Labor under Casey. Proposals included behind Labor's 1980 campa^n. Despite regenerate the egalitarianism which lurks the retrospective aboUtion of tax avoidance a natural resistance in the Labor Caucus in Australian culture. The wSUngness of to Hawke's entry, Hawke could add 2% the electorate to place their faith in the schemes and the introduction ofa wealdi lacTOss the board*toLabor's vote in 1980., tax. Labor can win without, Hawke in 1980, It can win ;Yith Hawke, But it cannot win NO MORE TWEEDLE-DEE, vrtth Hayden ^and Hawke in a pubUc fight' TWEEDLE-DUM The importance of proposing identifi- for Labor leadership. Accordingly, Hawke's entry will be a key test of Hayden's leaderable alternatives to Fraser style, Fraser ship quaUties. policies and Fraserism cannot be underrated. If Labor sUps into a Tweedle-dee, HAYDEN AND THE PUBLIC Tweedle-dum relationship with the Fraser government it will encounter the same Hayden should reaUse that people don't cynicism and resentment that Fraser is trust politicians very much and tiiat people currentiy winning himself in the opinion reaUse that the economy is not going to poUs, The hope for Labor is that the sig- improve in the near future. For Hayden nificant number of people who the this means avoiding presenting himself as opinion poUs class as "undecided" wiU a media heavyweight oreconomic Charles decide that Labor is different from Liberal, Adas. In substance Hayden need only say, "I'm not sure that I've got aU die If the same cynicism that confronts answers, but I'm sure that I can do better Fraser descends on Hayden his chances tiian Fraser". People don't expect too of winning government will be reduced. much more. To offer them more would Hayden has largely escaped the pubUc involved Hayden repeating Fraser's 1975 odium of being associated with the failure poUcy speech. of the Whitlam program. He is remembered Most of Hayden's classmates at Brisbane as the instigator of Medibank and the State ffigh would have voted for Fraser at framer of the 1975 budget which was the last election. These are the working blocked by a hostSe Senate. Given his class kids who the establishment gave a free natural contrast with the Whitlam-Fraser education to in the 1940s. Many of them went on to become members of the manastyle, Hayden stands a good chance of gerial and professional classes. Indeed being accepted as Prime Minister in 1980. Hayden may have become one of them had Tlie most underscored achievement of he joined a bank instead of the poUce Hayden has been to buOd a viable shadow force, A simple twist of fate. ministiy. Political commentators These are the electors V(^o are reaUsing (co)tt. from previous page} f** authoritarian figure of Fraser can no longer be relied upon. The electorate is turning on Fraser with a disdain usually reserved for headmasters and landlords. In 1961 a young policeman was able to engage the trust of the people of Ipswich. Nearly twenty years later Hayden needs to repeal the process on a national scale. In attempting to do this he need not apologise for his prowess in economics or for the fact that he is less certain about poUtical solutions than he was 20 years ago. The Australian people are increasingly prepared to put their trust in someone like Hayden to be national leader. All that Hayden has to do is ask for it in the right way. Maybe he can remember the barking dogs of Ipswich in 1961. PETER APPLEGARTH **/if< ;5S99saajjjXJJ.> I iTnrvrrrrncojooocoxgaxoxgCTXioixioootMaoaaaa EXCH/)NC£ t MOTEL ! ^ NOW OPEN :: S«lt SilMt Bottit Shop.. Lirgi variaty of AUt, Wlntt and Spkiti. DRINK IN THE SHRDE OF OUR GRRDEN LOUNGE ^OOX ON TOP 16 EMiUNChi AND DINNER r^BRR SNflCKS HICH STRELT Toowona By SAMUEL DEJOGGINS "We found out, and it was years before we did, that dl the bread we made for Decca was going to make little black boxes tliat go into American Air Force bombers to bomb fucking North Vietmm. They took the bread we made for them and put it into the radar section of their business. When we fomd that out, it blew our minds. That was it. God damn, you find out you've helped kill God, knows how many thousands of people without even knowing it. I'd rather the Mafia than Decca." Keith Richardsof the Bolting Stones The recording mdustry is the second largest consumer industry. Record and tape sales in America are worth S2000 miUion; and the recording industry is the basis of the commercial radio industry which canies advertising worth S45000 mUUon. As a result of takeovers and the nomial operations of the market place, the numbers of independent labels has steadily decUned. Control of the recording industry is even more monopolised tl^n other industries. TTie top 4 companies control 52% of the market. Ownership of the big three reveals that: ABC - The Morgan Group holds 65% of the stock; CBS - The Morgan and RockefeUer Groups own 47% ofthe stock; RCA - controlled by the Samoff family though Rockefeller and Morgan Groups hold 30%. THE AUSTRALIAN RECORD INDUSTRY AustraUa has the second, highest per capita expenditure on records m the Western world (after Sweden). Despite the smaU size of its population, it is the sbcth biggest market for records. The local record market grew enormously in tiie fifties with the popularity of rock 'n* roU, and pop music constitutes 80% of the sales. Some 80% to 90% of tiie records sold in AustraUa are manufactured locaUy (i.e. 20 miUion LPs and 6 mUlion singles). However, these aren't AustraUan records. 90% of them are manufactured under licence from overseas. Of the seven major companies only one, Festival, is locdily owned. (It's part of tiie Murdoch empire). Of the remainder, three are American companies (WEA RCA and CBS); EMI is British owned, and PhiUps and Sony have tiieir headquarters in the Netheriands. These overseas owned companies aren't interested in producing records by AustraUans. There are large costs mvolved in producing local records. You have to pay for studio time, for highly trained people, for technicians, tiiere are costs involved in printing the covers, and more money is sucked into promotion and distribution. It involves risk and large companies don't like risks. It's far easier to land a master tape from overseas for only $200, rely on overseas promotion and you're lau^iing aU tiie way to the Rockefeller-Morgan controUed bank. And who gives a stuff about AustraUan culture? WeU, AustraUans do. The New Nationalism of the past decade has had its TIME OFF October 1979 impact not only on local films and local things he said was: T'd like to thank MoUy v/riting, which are booming, but also on (Countdown's Talent Co-ordinator)". Appearing on Countdown is the the local record industry. In the past year, a whole number of local labels have sprung difference between three thousand sales' up; as weU bands haye been independently and three hundred thdusand^leSi •: producing and distributing their own Only one of tiie many groups tiiathave records. recentiy produced their own singles has Taking Brisbane as an example, the past appeared on Countdown. That group is year has seen the Go Bet^'eens, the I^ Femme who have managed to score Riptides, the Apartments aU release suigles TWO (gasp!) Countdown appearances for on the Able Labd; as well, Razar and the reasons that have never been fuUy Leftovers have independently produced explained. La Femme are now expectuig their own singles. Razar have also produced that their record will go triple platinum. If they hadn't scored Countdown appearanEP. ances they would have been lucky to seU These records wUl all pay for themselves or make money, despite the fact three thousand records. And Countdown broke Abba!! that they won't be played on commercial radio and the groups mil never appear on Although they're old hat in AustraUa, Abba are currently engaged in breaking Countdown. It seems almost impossible for Brisbane into the American Market, and you often groups to get their records played on see articles on them in American musical Brisbane commercial radio; The Saints had media referring to them as a bright new a record in the English Top Twenty and group. You see the AustraUan Markel is still weren't played by commercial radio used to pre-tesl overseas groups and in Brisbane. Maybe it's because no Brisbanerecords before release in America or Britain. group gets on Countdown. After all it's a lol cheaper to have a film THREE MILLION BOPPERS IN dip on Countdown, sell a couple of tiiousand records, make a few more bucks THE POCKET You see. Countdown controls the on tour, see if you have a goer and another record industry in Australia. Appearing Countdown Discovery bursts upon the tv/ice a week on the nation-wide ABC world. Thanks to Countdown, AustraUa is network, the Countdown audience Is a ranking power in the Music Uidustry. estimated at 3 milUon. The program has an For consumption! amazing impact on tiie Austialian Record COUNTDOWN YANKEE CLONES Market. Despite tlie fact that it appears on the When Jolm Paul Young was crowned King of Pop last year, one of. the first ABC and you'd expect it to be promotmg AustraUan Popular Music Culture, Countdown acts as Uttle more dian a front for the Intemational Music Industry. The AustraUan groups it promotes are Yankee Qdnes Uke the Littie River Band ("Glen Shorrock tiiinks he was borA in fucking CaUfomia" - Dave Wamer). The criterion for appearing on Countdown is a Music Industry contract and a current single (for everyone except La Femme). And the Music Industry makes sure that anybody wh tours Australia appears on Countdown. Any lingering doubts aboul Countdown's close involvement with die Music Industry are dispelled when Molly Meldrum appears for the appropriately named 'HUMDRUM' segment to review new record releases. Using a vocabulary that consists chiefly of 'fabulous', 'fantastic', and 'great', band name dropping at the rate of 10 a second, it's seU! seU! seU!, as the front man for the International Music Uidustry swings into gear. As a PR gesture, Countdown came to Brisbane on the 4th September. And guess how many local groups were uivited to appear? That's right. None! The five local groups who have got current singles aren't on the major labels who are the friends of Countdown. Some Brisbane people were a bifupset about this. TAKE YOUR MUSIC LOCAL AND LIVE So that's why we were slanding outside the Brisbane studios of tlie ABC in beautiful, downtown Toowong on that fine spring day, with the sun beating down on us and the cars wliizzing past us along Coro Drive. We were demonstrating against Countdown. Razar were there with sigris thai read 'Shutdown Countdown' and 'Stamp Oul Disco' and 'Take Your Music Local and Live'. Martin Hardy from The Purge was re, holding a sign that said 'Counlwn - Opiate of the Masses'. Tlicre were nks in leather jackets, apprentice fiosa types - wearing black wrap und sunglasses. And look, folks, king strikingly non-descripl in thongs jeans. It's tnat worid-renowned nonentity, ME!! I'm the one carrying the 17 slogan that reads 'Smash the International .Music Front!!' One of the great ihings about demonstrating against Countdown is that you get to meet the Countdown Kiddies. Tlie Countdown Kiddies are the nine year olds who make up the Countdown audience who scream on cue al the end of songs and wave Uieir hands in the air during live' acts. The Countdown Kiddies decided to engage us in argument. "What's that sign mean?" they asked the Razar member carrying the slogan that read 'Take Your Music Local and live'. "It means that you should support local groups. Don't you know any local bands?" said the Razar person. "Yeah, Dave and the Derros" repUed the Countdown Kiddies. We pointed out that Dave and the Derros weren't a local group; they're from Melbourne. "Yeah", said the Countdown Kiddies, "they're from Australia, that's local!" See how insidious Countdown is? These kids don't even know any local bands. Is il any wonder that 99% of manufacturing licence fees and artist royalties for records sold in Australia are payable to people outside AustraUa? It's not only our mines and forests that get plundered but our very earholes!! As songwriters, as musicians, locals don't get a chance. 'It makes you a consumer, a Potential Moron' read anotiier one of our slogans. (The Countdown Kiddies couldn't understand that one either). DRUGS TOO CONTROVERSIAL FOR MOLLY The most sickening recent development on Countdown is that MoUy has decided to set himself up as 'moral guardian'; The Stranglers were banned from appearmg on Countdown after tiiey said they liked drugs. Nothing controversial, nothing that might provoke. . .thought, . .appears on Countdown. The height of MoUy's campaign to make everyone as stupid as himself came in his interview with Bob Mariey: "How would you define your music. Bob?" MoUy asked. "It's revolutionary!" said Bob, and smiled a particularly zonked ash from his cigarette over them a TV Week photographer who was there got them to pose with us for a story they were going to do on the demonstration. PIRANHA IN A FEEDING FRENZY After a few photographs were taken, we gave the Kiddies our placards and they ripped tiiem to pieces; their tiiought processes seemed to be "Slogans attack Countdown. , .slogans bad". It wasn't Uke Nazis burning books; their pleasure was far more simple-minded and elemental; they remmded me of a school of piranha smile. "Oh," said MoUy in horror, "I in a feeding ftenzy!! 1 couldn't help admiring how complete tiiought it was.. .FUN". the Countdown Lobotomy is. Apart from ****** the neurons that co-ordinate hand waving and screaming, there wasn't too much left. And in another time and space, the Just a fanatical loyalty to Countdown and Countdown Kiddies are resorting to trick a subservience to any culture that is questions: "OK," they say to Razar" foreign. Though one of the Kiddies was brighter VOU name a local band ". Before the Countdown Kiddies were tiian the rest. During the program he whisked away to perform their sacred apparently kept saying; "Why do we have duties of waving their hands in the air, to scream at the end of every song? They and screaming on cue at the ends of should pay us for this!" songs, and having Marc Hunter flick the Pra-fob Simions Rasurfoca \ • I ^ > / "The initial impetus of the Go-Betweens was a cross between The Monkees and Patti Sinith. The Monkees were pop and bad poetics; Patti Smith poetics and bad pop. Micky Dolenz we regarded as the definitive .60s star. Whenever I think of the Monkees, it's a sunny tnorning, the brightest colours, and David Jones' eyes. Their music is perfect, as perfect as pop could ever be; 'Last Train to Oarksville' has been written, and we are left with our own imperfection." Robert Go-Between 18 When the Monkees toured Australia in 1968, I was 12. The girls at my school were agog. The lucky ones rushed around proclaiming in loud voices that they were going to see the Monkees. 1 was a little bemused. How could these otherwise sophisticated 12 year olds be so excited about going to the zoo? It's not that I was particularly retarded or deprived, merely nol interested in television; except, of course, for faduig re-runs of the Many Loves of Dobie GUlis. Besides the Monkees TV programme was over for the day by the time I came home from school. Television was the Monkees. Pure pop. Four Beatie clones being zany for 30 minutes once a week. Very disposable. Or so I thought. For now, over ten years later the Monkees are a recognisable force in the Brisbane music scene. A couple of months ago, I was give a gift of a plastic baby with a safety pin through Its head and a copy of Alternative Title B/W Forget That Girl. At the tune I thou^t the choice of a Monkees single was an aberration. Although a {feasant enough one. But since then I've begun to realise that in Brisbane the Moidtees are very trendy. My friends are gathering coUections of dogearred second-hand singles. And various new wave bands around town are performing Monkees numbers. One of the most interesting aspects of this revival of interest in the Monkees by New Wave bands and afficionados is that there are probably the absolute antithesis of new wave. The Monkees were put together by Don Kirshner, an experienced rock enlrepeneur, to cash in on Beatlemania. The television programme was based on "Hard Days Night". Of die four mop tops chosen Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones were previously child actors. And Peler Tork and Mike Nes'mith, musicians. Apparently one of the hopefuls for a musician's role at the time was young Stephen Stills. Bul he was rejected on die grounds that he had bad teeth. Kirshner had been behind the BrUi Building pop scene where a host of writers and musicians churned out some of our greatest pop songs. People like Carole King, Neil Sedada and Diamond began there. And it was some of those great, teams that wrote the Monkees first hits. Kirshner had the formula right. Tlie Monkees had a hit TV show, and two best seUing albums without bothering to play a note! In 1966 the Monkees began a US tour with support act - Jimi Hendrix! He very sensibly and quickly withdrew. They were big. But their success was based on tiie television programme. Ui 1968 the show was cancelled, and the group dissolved. But they live on in the minds and hearts of Brisbane's chic punks and exgrammar boys. "What the Monkees mean to me? The sound that's no good on a nice stereo. But like a symphony on a tranny. Tlie closest sound to your Kapok Acoustic ill the bedroom. Soimds great in the kitchen. And besides my guitar looks like llie ones on the front of their singles. Uiey come from Brisbane too. And they 're still at the school dance." Peter Loveday of the ToeSuckers, hibernating Supports and avid coUect or of Monkees singles. They were stUl at the QIT dance 1 went to last week. It was then that I began to reaUse that interest in the Monkees was not only individual obsessions but more Uke a conspiracy. The Apartments perform a few Monkees songs. Their set was fairly lack-lustre until a glorious rendition of Daydream Believer. This was followed a little later by the practicaUy offensive You're Not The Only Cuddly Toy, But tihe Go-Betw?ens appear to be Brisbane's truly devoted fans. They didn't need much prompting to claim the Monkees as a major influence. Grant GoBetween suggested that his childhood in Caims was the culprit. In Cairns, he said, the only entertainment was television and the Monkees dominated. The Go-Betweens have had three Monkees songs in their repertoire. The Riptides refused to have anything to do with the Monkees. Mark CaUa^an, the lead singer and songwriter, remarked, "The Monkees were just there, like the Beatles". Their influence was powerfid and pervasive; but now they are virtuaUy ignored by rock historians. Dismissed as one of the minor quirks of rock 'n roU. Tlie ToeSuckers, The Questton Marks, The Patients and Razar aU perform (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone. Although this could have just a Uttle coimection with those Kings Roads doyens; it does point towards monkeemania. But why? One cynic suggested that it was because the chords are so easy. This is obviously a major consideration. Mostly, though, it is because the Monkees produced the most delicious, toothdecaying pop. Tliey were put together for TV, their best song was written by various other people, they had no particular commitment to their music or each other. It's in these ways that the purity was attained. Pure trash. Pure pop. And why are Brisbane's young punkers picking up on these corrupt clowns? Children of the TV age? Following the leader back to the 60s? Or maybe a lack of pretention which has led to the Monkees nemesis in the eyes of the music industry. Hey, hey we're the Monkees people say we monkey around But we're too busy singing To put anybody down. - A N N E JONES Its the kmd of smell that ts more than a smell. It's sensurround." Short story writer KENNETH GA UNT is talkmg about that barely tolerable male tnstttution Crystals tn public loos. This is an article of hberation and reminiscence ("then, walkmg towards the trough, be gltmpses tbe colours that heftrst saw with his father"). Of sharpened nervous systems, strength-giving perfumes, tbe sacred piss MISSION FOR THE SAKE OF MAN'S KIND I'm on a train and it's one of those matters of supreme historical importance. It's where I'm gomg, what I'm going to do. It's a Mission. Just after finishing university I went overseas. What they say is true. There's a closed-ui feelmg at uni and if you're one of those people who's been brought up to think tiiey might one day be useful you've got to go somewhere. You've got to get close to life, and that takes some doing for a uni student who has a fair idea that most things are useless but has a gut feeUng, a gut desire to be some sort of cog. Overseas and penniless is probably the besl somewhere for reconcUiation of tiiat kind, and even before the Call I knew it was aU having some effect on me. 1 was beginnmg lo realise il's mainly a matter of redirecting your dreams. Though even at uni I was never into Women's Lib in a big way, I've decided that myjjercejJtive abUities are likely to be turned to best use in that field. Tiiat's why I left my dog pound job in Malacca after only three weeks to return lo Australia. That's my Mission. And it might shock the Libbers to know that it reaUy does take a guy to do what I'm going to do. Maybe it was the whinmg of all those dogs smeUing the condemned bitches on heat, but there I was in the depot loo, piddUng into the western-style trough when it caU came to me. The force of the Vision almost struck me down, and that could've been fatal. But 1 kept control and just Ustened to the Call. By the time I washed my hands the future of womanhood seemed well and truly in them. It's all to do with the Crystals. Or lack of them. Most Third World countries are worse off than we are because most men there just never see them. And for a time I thought that was bad. The dog pound enlightenment made me realise that no women (anywhere) ever see them. It just isn't something that all men realise, and the sooner those few who aren't committed to the preservation of injustice do, the sooner they wUl locate the roots of sexism and begin to constructively work towards an aware egalitarian society. Just as I aiti now doing. ft has to be the Crystals. Now if you're a woman, you won't know what 1 mean. And precisely this is the problem. Whenever a male human bemg enters a pubUc w.C, hefeeh the Crystals. He smells them, inhales a soft, strengtii-giving perfume, and his nervous system sharpens. TTien, waUcing tov/ards the trougli, he glimpses the colours that he first saw with his father. They are there, and there Ihey remain after the piss, even after the flush. Deodorizing and opening up the sense. Tiiese are the Crystals of inequality. The weaker sex is weak aboul them. ll is, by all appearances, a conspiracy. The Crystals are after all designed solely for the apparatus designed solely for the relief of the male genitals. Rather than aboUsh Crystals completely or simulate in Ladies the atmosphere of a properiy equipped Gents, the male dominated world prefers to keep the Crystals top secret. Even men in the underdeveloped countries, deprived of the physical, mental, and spiritual powers of Crystals culture, zealously keep what they can gJean quiet in the hope that one day all men wUlte equal. I am working on the conspiracy theory. 1 just can't believe that something as important as Crystals could be kept so secret wUliout some conscious plot. How / remained unconscious for so long is beyond me. Maybe the uni years were less consciousness-raising (han 1 thought. StiU, I'm hoping to do the universUies on a sponsored lecture tour soon. The women's groups will surely sponsor me when I explain this incomparable theory of sexism and sliow Ihem the display. h's the revolution they've been waiting for. And they'll be glad it's all so simple. But that's nol the reason I came back to Australia. 1 came back for some high grade Crystals. Tlie really good ones. And since the best ones 1 know are in Brisbane, I may as well enUghten Australia first. So here I am, on my way lo Brisbane, back to a little block in the Botanical Gardens where 1 first went as a len year old. The Crystals there were superb. I remembered them back there at the Malacca doggie depot, in thai magic instant when for the first time I realised the social and economic significance of male toilet troughs. The best Crystals are medium sized, and there in the Botanical Gardens they come in shades of purple, in reds, yellows, greens, blues and oranges. Even in black. There you might sometimes see a multicolour. And the smell! I find it difficult not lo pass out just thinking out it. Indescribable. God's own fruit musl rot in comparison. It's the kind of smell that is more than a smell. It's sensurround. Stealing Ihe Crystals will be harder than you might imagine. Just bringing them into the open air wUl probably attract considerable attention, even if I'm the only person for miles. Women wiU be attracted by a source of strength, a centre of real upUftment. Men, familiar with the feeling, wiU no doubt be indignant. . .probably hostile. I will be in immense danger. That .helps explains this tenseness, tliis excitement, this sense of final Mission. It has occurred to me that in open air the Crystals may lose their powers, that maybe they can exist only in their own environment, and die the instant thev leave their dingy dunnies. Then where will 1 be? Tlien I could only inform the women, could only speak of magic Crystals and ofa conspiracy more fundamental than they ever imagined. Even with my degree they wouldn't believe me, I will play it by ear. At least now 1 am close to Ufe. At least now I feel a cog. I am travelling lo Brisbane to steal some crystals. Maybe to change the world. 1 dream of the day when women wUl thank nie for their Liberation. -KENNETH GAUNT ^•••••••••••••••"••••••••••••••••••••^•••^•••••••••••••••'•••*»»» hmmimi We serve good home style ^ * ^ « 9 ^ ^% ^ ^ ^ p «|H ^|S ^ « « ^ FINW 1 ^ ^ » J j » i J * • J ^ »il»^j*fct» Lebanese food at 83 Brunswick St, Valley. MFRI. OF M L . _.-. *yiEEP\H&- t^A&zT' aucKXACK/'-RAINWEAR ypeciALi/T/ IN pocK;aiMBiN&. CAVING: MDONTAlNt£PlN&", U&«tWLlGmi CAMPiKjG' ^ T(?A¥(*J.liJ»' ECXhPMLISiT 221 mwptmxMmv' TIME OFF October 1979 2 doors down from Water Street, next to Jubilee Snack Bar. SPECIALTIES: TABOULIE - HUMOS - KIBBEE FALAFEL - AND OTHER LEBANESE DELICACIES. BYO. Thursday - Friday - Saturday - 6pm-9pm Reservations ring 52 4228 MON-FRI 8am-4pm. iltxi •••••••••••• 19 of the field, "I'd say that the New Wave and Punk situation was the most powerful thing to happen since the begmning of rock and roU." He deplores the fact that most of the energy of that genre has dissipated into big business concerns, but understands tiie cause of that dissipation; "generaUy tiiey were working class people. If someone offers you some money and a sUuation that is better than your chUdhood, it's very difficult to resist." Regarding fellow eccentric loner Brian Eno: "I've got my doubts about him. He's a bit too arty-farty for my tastes. However, in the sense that he's an individual doing something in a very un-individual business, I respect him." KEVIN CCYNE TEDDY BEAR IN A VALLEY OF TEARS Depression and various degrees of mental pain feature heavUy in the music of Kevin Coyne, who came to Brisbane recently to promote a foUow-up album to "Teddy Bears and MUlionau'es" and to headline at a Triple Zed Joint Effort. TONY GILSON spoke to Coyne and MATT MAWSON compUed this profile and reviewed the new album. Kevin Coyne is cult the punk bands was "be material. His idealism and true to yourself, somesincerity in an often shallow thing Coyne has been and success-oriented world pushuig for years. In his of rock have ensured him music he tries to promote permanent residence on the the concepts of freedom, fringe of popular music. strengtii and self-expression. Now 35, Coyne has been "I'm vety much against playing music publicly for people being 'plastic', or 22 years, hi that time he has uniform to one design" he released eleven albums. said, "I hope I can indicate Only in recent years has he die v/ays one can obtain enjoyed a degree of success freedom." in Australia, thanks mainly High ideals, certainly, to airplay on alternative but one of the features of radio and a moderately Coyne's style of music is successful tour vdth tiiat it contams no comCountry Joe McDonald m promise. In the studio or in 1977. a live situation, Coyne's Lasl time around, Coyne music comes from the played to a seated audience heart and owes nothing to at Mayne HaU. This time, any behind-the-scenes armed only with a tape of image-makers and profitelectronic rhythm, an mongers. acoustic guitar, and a His style tends to alienpowerhouse voice, he ate a lot of people and he screamed his bizarre, manic is unlikely to ever have depressive lyrics lo a significant commercial radio standing and pogoing audisuccess. Not that he is ence at Cioudlands particularly concerned; baUroom. "I'm the sort of bloke Kevin Coyne's songs are that hangs around for a long often sung in the first Ume and waits for people person, from tiie point of to catch on slowly to what view of the mentaUy dis- I'm doing, h's not a big turbed, the paranoid, the commercial thing." suicidal. This is underCoyne has a lot of time standable. He spent four for New Wave music and years in the late sixties as a social therapist in a thinks that ex-Sex Pistol psychiatric hospital, then John Lydon and his band worked as a kind of warden public Image was way ahead in a housuig scheme for menlaUy disiurbed people. By 1972 he had liad his full of "persuading people to put down axes, watching them die or aiding and abetting in gratuitous committals to menial hospitals" and turned liis attention fuU time to music. Coyne delivers his thouglit ful lyrics ui a vocal and visual style somewhat reminiscent of Joe Cocker. He could be described as a punk-folk singer, but he refuses to put a tag on his work, describing it only as "Kevin Coyne Music". He says he has no conflict with the recent new wave of British music. He believes a basic message of 22 Coyne's new album, "Babble", is a departure from previous recordings. Uistead of playing a leading role (Kevin Coyne with Backing Band), he shares equal bUling on "Babble" with German bom singer Dagmar Krause. Both Krause and Coyne began tiieir musical careers in their early teens, Coyne in folk clubs, Krause in jazz clubs. In 1970 Krause recorded an album of electronic music and later recorded three albums with a band called "Slapp Happy". She has toured Europe extensively and has been involved Ui various theatrical projects. "Babble" is a song cycle. It was first performed at London's Rock Garden in July 1978 and has been performed by Krause and Coyne as "spontaneous theatre" tiiroughout Europe. As Coyne writes on the sleeve notes: Well they hung them from the lamp post. . .but 1 teU you honey, they won't drive us to ground." (Shaking Hands with the Sun). The first Unes of ft's My MUid provide a clue; "Sitting out on the Moors, druikuig bottles of wine, gettmg drunk, , .watching your eyes." And is "I Confess" an oblique reference to chUd kilUng? "I confess I killed the cat. . .It was an angry cat. But 1 thought U was laughing." Moors murders or not, this is a dark album, and one for which the singUig styles of Coyne and Krause are ideaUy suited. Coyne smgs with the emotion of a person whose mmd is on overioad, scrcanUng for help from an uncaring worid. Krause has an equally emotion-filled voice. She bears comparison to AustraUa's Jeannie Lewis, another singer who can give a convincing interpretation of a mind on the brink of disaster. The sixteen songs are presented ui a range of styles; U-onicaUy pleasantsounding shuffles, anguished baUads, bitter raging dirges, unsettUng child-Uke melodies. Some tracks are simply voice and acoustic guitar, others are full-fledged productions. Marjory Razor Blade would love this album. GLORIA: Jimmy Hendrix Babble is essentially a love story The lovers are shown strug- There isn't much left to gling to communicate be said about Jimmy Hendrix, or the music that he Succeeding then failing played. You either like the The lovers are lost... Does it really matter? heavy guitar solos and five minute finale's or you wish The sonj cycle met he'd sink into rock oblivion. If the Hendrix Legend some contioveisy in England when it was sug- StiU features large in your coUection then .gested that it was based on record tiie infamous Moors mur- "Gloria", put out by derers, Myra Hindley and Polydor wUI be for you. Ian Brady, The couple It has been released as a depicted on the album are a twelve inch single, with two "Gloria", and pair of misfits; "WeU tracks, MussoUni he had it all. Dylan's "All along the They pinned him and his watchtower" - the two mistress against the wall. tracks fans seem to consider the eiptome of the Hendrix sound. Both tracks are given a fairly orthodox treatment, particularly "Gloria" which surely can't hold any more excitement for the regular listener to his other albums. "AU Along the Watchtower" is a more exciting track, with the development of riffs into a rowdy, compUcated, but controUed finale. His death, almost a decade ago, hasn't seemed to deter the popularity of the guitarist, stiU claimed by many as the best in the worid. Nor has it deterred liis management from casliing in on the Hendrix cult, wUh a new compUa- lion album turning up in the record shops every few months. If il wasn't for the repetitious nature of the' tracks you could swear he was StiU holed up in some LA recording studio churning the stuff out. Granted, Polydor has a limited amount of material to release, but fans have a right to expect a more imaginative selection of songs on what the sleeve says is a "Limited CoUectors edition". Buy it if you like Collectors Editions otherwise, don't bother. -KJAZ PERRY YACHTS: Yachts (Radarscope, distributied by W.E.A.) The first Yachts' album brills to mnid the recent 'Fastnet* disaster. On first DRUMS AND WIRES: XTC (Virgin L37059) playing I was. unpressed with the undoubted musical abiUty of the band. The vocals are strong and clear, the drummmg powerful, instrumentation adequate. But on the second playing I found the material boruig and monotonous. The tracks have an overaU sameness, and famUiar sound; it has Umited appeal. Difficult to classify, it doesn't seem to be new wave; disco or whatever. PersonaUy I wouldn't play it again; I wouldn't buy it either. At record prices nowadays you could get a belter value album with more appeal. The Yachts formed in mid 77 in Liverpool. Havmg worked with Elvis CosteUo and the Boomtown Rats they have received some recognition and a foUowing in the U.K. Yachts' debut album was lecorded in New York just before Christmas and released ui August '79. They have done some major tourmg around the U.K. but the stories of "Yachting Fever" seem exaggerated. I fmd il hard to believe tiiat there wUl be any •fever' in Australia over the Yachts. ^KEVIN REID - I fmd it difficult to be objective about XTC. They have had numerous monumental smgles (e.g. "This Is Pop", "Are You Recehing Me", "Statue of Uberty") which have been virtuaUy ignornl by the mass record buying market. This criminal n^Iect also goes for their two previous album rdeases ("White Music" and "Go 2"). "Drums and Wires" js their third album and is confirmation of the fact that XTC are the greatest pop band in the world today (I say this without any reservations whatsoever). The title of the album is virtually a description of the band's new sound. Keyboards player Barry Andrews has now left the band and his "clapped out organ" and "steam piano" starts with a haunting whishave been replaced by Dave pered vocal and builds up Gregory's R 'n' B guitar to a garish nightmare of work. echoed guitar and undeThe one thing that cipherable vocals. "Roads quickly becomes noticeable Girdle the Globe" is about "Drums and Wires" probably the heaviest track is their more straight- on the album featuruig forward approach to the warbling bass, somewhat songs. This is not to imply similar to J J. Burnel. that the band have lost Other tracks worthy of any of their individuaUty mention include "Millions" but as one feels that the (which achieves a strange band is playing wrong. Oriental effect through Colin Moulding's Chamber's percussion) and material on the album seems "Scissor Man" which to be -more m the pop features a chaUenging and vem than Andy Partridge's innovative chord construcsongs. For proof one needs tion. only to look at "Ten It reaUy is hard to supFeet Tall" or the wonder- press the enthusiasm that ful "Making Plans for I have for "Drums and Nigel" (a song about a Wires". As mentioned, it boy with an mactive sex is more straightforward than organ). either "White Music" or Andy Partridge's songs "Go 2". Some people have seem to be divided into two criticised the album as areas. Tracks such as being too Ughtweight but '.'Helicopter" and "Real these people faU to underby Reel" are reminiscent stand that XTC arefirstand of the old XTC while foremost a pop band. As "Roads Girdle the Globe" CoUn Moulding said: "There "Complicated Game" forge wiU always be a place for new ground. the three minute pop song." "CompUcated Game" is 1 rest my case, an Ultravoxish piece which -TONYGILSON '' I TT TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY): ANOTHER GREEN WORLD: Brian Eno (Polygram) Both of these Eno afliums have been the subject of a recent re-Issue by Polygram. Tiger Mountaui" was originaUy released m 1974 and "Anotiier Green Worid" the foUowing year. These two albums show Tlie instrumentation is die striking contrasts of plush and weU structured Bnan Eno's work. "Tiger phU Manzanera's guitar Mountain" is more rock- work is particularly inipresoriented than anything else sive throughout (especially whUe "Another Green on "Tiiird Uncle" wliich Worid" is more low key and features such a dischordant was the first album to signal solo that it makes Steve Eno's move towards the Jones sound like Don Macfield of muzak. lean). To describe "Tiger Every song on "Tiger Mountain" as just a rock Mountain" (yes, they are album would be doing it a songs!) exists on its own gross disservice. Eno's off- credits. Taken as an album, beat approximation of a they ^ow that sometMng voice and his chaUenging could be done within rock melody constructions in- niusic in the mid-seventies stantly separate him from that could emerge as an his contemporaries. innovative work. Tliis was the first Eno "Another Green World" album that I heard. It was is a stark contrast to Us the one that sucked me into predecessor's anarchic tho wonderful worid of Eno energy. It shows Eno taking and kept me there ever a back seat role and exsince. ft is as good a place perimentuig with studio as any to start your Eno technology, various inslrucollection. j^^^^j ^^^^ strange combuiaft feaures a most un- ^^^^ ^f ^^^^^^ Musicians pressive Ust of musicians. ^^ the album mclude Shanng the credits are Roxy Robert Fripp, John Cale Music s PhU Manzanera and ^J^^ phU CoUins. Andy Mackay, Robert It is a "quieter" album Wyatt, the Riik Fairies, than "Tiger Mountain" but Brian Turrington, Genesis' no less interestmg. Eno's Phil CoIUns and the hor- vQ^als appear on only five rendous Portsmoutii ^f ^he fourteen tracks, but Surfania (who did to the even here his voice does classics what should never not take a front seat. be done to the classics) Ratiier, it is used for a Eno himself plays syn- phonetic purpose whereby tiiesizer, keyboards, guitar ^he vocal becomes an and suigsaU vocals. "instrument". This is a Witii regard to the ^vork method tiiat Eno inmaterial, one could easily troduced to Bowie on his just fall m love with the "Low"-"Heroes"-"Lodger" song titles, e.g. "Burning trUogy. AirUnes Give You So Much ^ost of the remaining More" "Put a Straw Under pjeces are brief instrumenBaby". "Motiier Whale Eye- ^^ j ^ the main featuring less" etc. etc. T^Q on his ovm. There are various weird and wonderful Uistruments to be found here. Tiiese include Castanet trombone and snake guUar, fretiess has. "Another Green World" is probably not as accessible as 'Taking Tiger Mountain" and hence requires repeated playing. After ths several classics start to emerge. What I'd consider to be Eno's best ever piece is found here in "Zawinal/ Lava" (paraUeled only by "Through HoUow Lands" from "Before and After Science"). Remember, these arc not new albums. Eno has never been a creature of habit and since the release of these vinyl pieces, he has moved on to liis latest concept of "ambient" niusic. However, both tiiese albums are classics, in the truest sense of the word and provide a rare insight into the mind of one of the most underrated musicians of modem music. get the amusing story of a 60 year old woman who camp in to Discreet Records enquiring about tliis lovely' song by some punk xock gioup (she was referring to 'Egyptian Reggae'). "Rock 'n RoU. . ." is an amusing album in parts, but with repeated playuig the joke soon wears off. For a truer depcition of the talents of Johnatlian Richman, one should pick up a copy of the first Modern Lovers album (one of the few definitive new wave albums), or their later live album. -TONYGILSON -TONYGILSON MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. . .BUT THE BEAT GOES ON: Rezillos (SIRE SRK 6069), THE UNDERTONES: The Undertones (SIRE SRK 6071). These two albums show what can and can't be achieved with the increasingly popular idiom of power pop (excuse (he cliche) The RezUlos are now zUlos set would not be defunct and "Mission complete without the inAccomplished" is a recor- clusion of their classic "Top ding of the band perfor- of the Pops". The remaining ming live at the Glasgow materia] that has been Ufted ApoUo on December S r d ftom "Can't Stand The Re1978, It features a cross- zUlos" does not differ radicut of material from their cally from their studio only studio release ("Can't counterparts. They're Stand the RezUlos") and perhaps a bit brasher and some non-originals. more energetic. Of course, any live ReOf the non-originals the best are the Kmks "I Need You" and Chinichaps "Ballroom BHtz" (made famous by the grotesque Sweet). My One coniplauit of "Mission Accomplished" IS the non-inclusion of the great "Flying Saucer Attack". "The Undertones" is an entirely forgetable affair. I know very little of this band's origins as WEA neglected to enclose a biography. This is no great crime as the music(?) on the Undertones vividly displays the band's mediocre origins. The album is fast, crass, flat, tinny, boring and shithouse. -TONYGILSON ni»«iWM«»^MMI(WIMMMMM«MMl(WMlhl||»«nAlW ROCK 'N ROLL WITH THE MODERN LOVERS: Johnathan RIchman & The Modern Lovers (Beserkley L36879) Recorded in a ladies' toilet (true!) this is a very different Johnathan Richman to the man who aeated 'Pablo Picasso' and 'Roadrunner', ft is an acoustic sound, and captures J,R. in a very whimsical mood. It features reanangements of traditional folk songs and chUdren's songs. The best tracks are 'Ice M.-m', 'Rockin' Cream Rockin' Leprechauns' and his hit (!) 'Egyptian Reggae'. Ill never quite for- • ' • : • Latest Overseas and Australian Releases FEATURING jjBMam Comprehensive stock of Microphones, stands, PP\ EULlirmtnT and associated equipment, speaker components. AMPLIFlERS:^AUDITEC,Audo Models. PHONE: 229 6155: SALES B HIRE Tubeway Army Eagles Kevin Coyne Atlanta Rhythm Section lUNDERDOG) Jam (MOD CONS) $1,00 Off All LP's and Cassettes for students TOOWONG MUSIC CENTRE 51 SHERWOOD ROAD, TOOWONG M^MIIIMMMiMlfMMMIIMMMMMMMMMHIMMa TIME OFF October 1979 23 BLUE GCHIAR Produced by Don Guest, directed by Paul Schroder. Music by Jack Nitzsche. Coming soon to Brisbane. Social Consdence movies are all ihe rage these days. It seems ironic that HoUywood, centre of cultural imperialism, with aU its vested Big Business interests, is havuig much success with such strong comments on injustice and corruption as "The China Syndrome" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Blue Collar" is another film in which the Message shares equal billing with the ' entertainment value. Almost documentary in feel, "Blue Collar" concerns itself with the exploitation of the lillle person by large organisations, and the Message is spiced with slick production, sex, dope, rock 'n roU, violence, and the mandatory car chase. Zeke, Smokie and Jerry, two blacks and one white, are workers on an assembly line. They're employed by a major car manufacturer in a production plant in Detroit. Working conditions are dirty, iioisy and dangerous. Zeke caUs the plant a novelty stcie, they over"plantation". power the nightwatchman. Their employers (clue: They escape with the safe there's no traditional "cars and are disappointed to courtesy of Ford Motors" find a mere $600 inside. credit at the end of the They also fuid a receipt fdm) pit newcomers against book, which contains eviUfers, black against white, dence that the union is young against old within the making big money on iUegal ranks of the workers in an loans. effort to hide the enemy From this point the film (the bosses). Never the less, gets heavy. Our three antithe workers are aU staunch heroes try tq,blackmaU the unionists. union, b u ^ things go ^ong. They Their union, however, horribly exploits them ahnost as haycnt the-^expertisc.; to much as the company. Their carry out a successfiflsblackgrievances are recognised by maU and the union hoods down hard. tiie union, but notiiing come changes. Pay rises are in- EventuaUy Smokie dies a effective against inflation. gruesome death in an The union seems to be an "industrial accident", Zeke extension of the company, seUs out and accepts a weU Zeke (Richard Pryor), paid job m the union, Smokie (Yaphet Kotto)and Jerry comes close to being Jerry (Harvey Keitel) are murdered and goes into FBI friends, drmking mates. custody for protection. At the end of the film They decide to burgle the pooriy guarded union office the union is no less corrput and steal union funds. Their and the factory is just as motives vary: Zeke wants to oppressive. Nothing has shake the union out of it's dianged. complacency; Jerry needs "Blue CoUar" may leave the money to support his you depressed and paranoid famUy; Smokie, an ex-con about big organisations and mastermind of the which ruthlessly deal wth burglary, wants "revenge", the individual if he/she Tlie clumsy burglary pro- bucks the system. Despite its depressing vides the fiUns lightest moment, when, wearmg dis- message, "Blue Collar" is guises bought from a entertainment, a gripping TiWofWZ ft's nothing new. Novelists Vike Jacqueline Sussan and Harold Robbins, along with various HoUywood screenwriters have been writing about these glamorous bordering on pornographic, bitter-sweet love affairs for years. Ms Jadde Collins however attempts to outdo them all by bemg sexier and more outrageous. AU attentkin grabbing stuff, as is the fact that Ms CoUins is sister to well known actress Joan Collms, has unportant theatrical agents as parents and is a deUdous looking beauty with quite a reputation as an actress (she starred in "The Stud") and now as a novelist. "The Worid is fuU of affair with a pop star, of Married Men" is her first aU people, novel and she wrote the It's so unbdievable it screenplay for the film can only be considered as after it. The story line a joke by the viewer would hardly win awards totaUy irrelevant and a misfor originality. take which was included David Cooper, the aging only so as to have a few Advertising Executive more fucks in the movie, (played by Anthony The pop star (Paul Nicholas) Franciosa), has a brief but and Linda (CarroU Baker) scandalous affah with a were unconvincing, young, gorgeous modd If the characters were from his Soap commercial sugar coated then the dia(Sherrie Lee Cronn plays logue defmitely wasn't. It tiie beautiful Qaudia), She was raw and bitter. Everyis a frustrated actress one was bickering at everythough and, m her des- body else and playuig Uttie, peration to "make ft" into scheming games - terribly the movie worid, succumbs exaggerated and much too to the desires of a fat old in-ftating. Husbands formovie producer. She duti- getting to call their wives, fuUy performs his sordid wives picking arguments, sexual fantasies, and girifriends askuig tiieir she'll never be a good lovers if they stUl make love actress (beauty and brains to their wives and silly don't mbc remember?) and repUes like "Of course of course we're led to be- at Christmas and Easter", lieve tiiat she probably has Bitterness comes to sursecret desires to be face in the end when poor somebody's wife after aU. David suddenly can't get it And the good Uttle wife m this particular story is Lmda, sfttmg at home w '• the kids getting suspicious, fat and fmstrated. When she finaUy wakes up to the fact that her husband is screwing the arse off everytiung in a skirt she has an .thrUler with mgredients of humour, a good soundtrack (you may have heard some of the music score on 4ZZZ), credible actmg and some nice directional touches. If you're looking for more than escapist entertainment in the cmema, make sure you see "Blue CoUar". -ANGUS McPSEUDONYM STafTtjo... /J^RAWIC biPtCrKXt OF t»i \fVOWA>K£ Of plMVC-{fftt6W TIWOgM^ $U£ift0Pl£. 24 THE WORLD IS FULL OF MARRIED MEN: written and directed by Jackie Collins ihowlng at local drive-ins. "P for aU the ladies he has in abundance now that he's a "free man" How frus• "*' "i"i - "^ wife's aivu.v— girlfriend s kicked hiin out of the beautiful penthouse he's paid for. I can't help but think that Ms Collms wUl run up against a lot of criticism for doing this movie, not for the frankness of sex but for the nastiness glossed over by fantasy. The beautiful, near naked women running around after weaUhy men with glamorous occupations syndrom is just a fabrication after aU. Unfortunatdy it might be a popular fabrication. The last movie 1 saw about marriage was "An Unmanied Woman". "The World is FuU pf Married Men" has und<^ie all that "An Unmarried Woman" v'.., ed and replaced it with a fantasy 'which is a lot of crap. -TILLY VAN ILLA As it tiuTied out this year's Film Festival didn't come off quite as smoothly as organisers had hoped. A regretfid Festival director, Francey, came on stage on the Festival's fmal Saturday to explain that the day's highlight, from Cuba, 'The Last Supper", which had promised a unique perspective on slavery, wouldn't be arriving. "The Baker's Bread" from West Germany had also been delayed. Mr. Francey had the sympathy of the audience who sensed tiie frustrations he'd faced trymg to persuade customs 'authorities to use thdr discretion and release the fdms which were being held up by a mere technicality. But such is the struggle of organising a FUm Festival. As Mr. Francey pomted out, Queensland is only a second rate state on the cinematic status ladder and the Brisbane Film Festival is treated with a corresponding lack of interest by authorities. 6RIS6Rn€ FILfn-F^STIVRL 7 9 Particularly refreshing was the marked absence of American and Western European films. The Festival featured a weight of Eastern European work, rarely seen at this end ofthe world. Indeed, the so-caUed Soviet bloc could lay claun to no less than six feature films on the programme. These included "A Room with a Sea View", from Poland, "A Strange Role" from Hungary, "Nick Carter m Prague" and "Cruel Love" from Czechoslovakia and 'To My Beloved" and the late addition, "A Hunting Accident" ftom die Soviet Union, There were also two Japanese films on the programme. One was the French/ Japanese co-production, Nagisa O'Shima's "L'Empire des Sens", which has gained its share of publicity as an erotic movie; passed by the Australian FUm Censorship Board only after cuts had been made, (Tltis film, by the way, is to be screened at the SchoneU in the near future, providing there arc no hassles from the Queensland censors). The other Japanese feature at the Festival was "Melody in Grey", made M TIME OFF Ocrtober 1979 •*•*•• "Mdody in Grey" is an example of the social realist tradition at Us most powerful. The mode has fallen out of current fashion with western directors, though it recently saw a popular revival with Bertolucci's "1900". "Melody in Grey" is also historicaUy set, and opens in 1918 with faithful attention to perkid detaU. The film explores, Ui an autobiographical way, the life of a young bUnd girl, Orin, througli the suffermg and sodal rejection of her thirty or so years. The documentary content of the fdm exposes a uniquely oriental and now dated social structure which obliged Orin to faU into a socially outcast group of female singers known as "Gozi". However, Orui, who loses her virginity early on, can no longer remain with this celibate grou and must continue her wanderings alone. Orin's problems arise because she is bUnd and more significantly because she is a woman, but the film also explores the dUemma of her sexuality, which both she and the director have come to terms with in an honest and open manner. The bluid girl aUows herself to be the subject of sexual exploitation because this is the only form of close human contact that Ufe has offered her. bl its exploration of tiiis theme, the film transcends the limUs otherwise imposed by time and place. "Melody m Grey" does develop into a romantic tale later on when Orin discovers comfort and protection m the person of HeUaro, the clog seUer, who becomes her adopted brother. However, the film's romantic element by no means overrides the impact of its socio-historic framework and comment. Botii elements converge in the director's flair for visual Unagery. The movie develops through what amounts to a series of pictures, each beUig so complete, that they could ahnost be mdividuaUy extracted and hung up for examination, as classic pieces of oriental art. *«4ti|i*« The Festival also underwent a minor programme reshuffle in the first week when the ItaUan 'Tree of Wooden Qogs" faUed to leave its homdand shores. But, although the Festival's course could no longer be predicted by the pages of the comprehensive Festival Guide, film buffs didn't lose out entUely. On the final weekend two ftiU feature films were obtained to replace those that hadn't tumed up. The new additions to the Festival were '• the German film, "Black and White, Like Day and Night" and a Russian special, "A Hunting Accident" based on a Chekhov story and famed for its spectacular landscape photography. The Festival organisers have promised that the missing features wiU be screened^ vhea they finally turn up, at a reduced prke for Festnal ticket holders, with the publk alao to be induded on this occasion. The tentative date now set is for the fourth of October at the Crystal cinema, Windsor. The programme explained somewhat apologetically that there was no distinguishing theme in this year's Festival, one wonders U" this is reaUy necessary. What was important was that the Festival managed to fulfil the demand for alternativefilmviewing. This year's programme did offer the filmgoer a taste of tiie variety provided by tiie medium, particularly in terms of intemational spread, plus an acceptable range of mode, with two gentle comedy pieces included, the Czechoskovakian "Nick Carter in Prague" and the British/Indian "HuUabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnies Pictures", The shorts offered a sprinkluig of both documentary styled and ammated fihns. 1977 by another of Japan's leading directors, Masahiro Shinoda. ****** in Grey, Another significant input to the Festival came from the Atstralian cinema. On the openii* evening, "The Night Ptowler", Jun Sbaiman's production of a Patrick White short story, was screened, and at a later date, "Pahn Beach" by Albie Thorns. There were also a few Aussie shorts including the two FUm Australia productions, "Now You're TaUcing" and "Five Bells". And from the FUm and Television School, "Chabc and Cheese" and "Deception". 0****^1 ire Des Sens I've chosen to take a closer look at "Pahn Beach", produced in AustraUa last year. Director, Albie Thoms, says he auned to "choose lots of stories and get them aU going at once." He was also aimmg to bring out wiiat he sees as a neglected aspect of the AustraUan character, Aussie hedonism. "Palm Beach" looks at a handful of young peopte whose lifestyles are centred around Sydney's drug and surfing subculhire of the northem shore suburbs. The actnn is amply sprinkled with cUched suspense creatuig possibUities, There's the bjg dope deal, the nark, the shooting incident, the junkie, and so forth, but somehow it just doesn't work. The fihn was produced on a low budget and the actual shootmg had to be done almost on the run. However, this doesn't exempt the director from responsibUity for the film's major faUurc, a lack of imagmation, botii in the script and the photographic work. The attempt to foUow through and Unk up major developments in the Uves of several characters is only partially successful. The most ambitious technique employed ui the movie, the contuiuous 25 background drone of the local radio station and its uiane palter of advertisements and disc jockeys which filters through the lives of aU involved, could have a lot gouig for it, but just isn't given sufficient justification within the context of the film to have an authentic effect. ****** One of the festival's eye-openers came from West Gennany, WoUgang Peterson's ''Black and White, Like Day and Night". Hiis unexpected arrival turned out to be one of the Festival's most popular moments. UiUke the other two fihns reviewed here this one was very tightly structured. There was an irresistable quaUty about this fihn that can probably be credited to the fantastic but quite irrefutable logical premises which it sets for itself from the outset. The proposition that the fUm's protagonist, Thomas Rosemund, is possessed by chess and that such fanaticism can only lead to madness, becomes evident when Rosemund as a chUd loses a game of chess and at the same tune takes leave of his senses, bites the hand of his opponent in an animal like gesture. Rosenburg's obsession about beatmg the reigning chess world champion eventuaUy leads him to blow up the table at which the world masters are to compete with a tune bomb, a fardcal event perhaps, but one which the audience accepts as a tunely, if I may be excused the pun, and mdeed fittmg resolution to the psychological fantasy. Perhaps one of tiie greatest, and certauUy one of the most unique achievements of this work is the dUector's skUl in keepuig a captive audience while the camera focuses for lengthy periods on the concentrated and tune consuming deliberations of the players over the chess board. One suspects that few members of the audience would have been prepared to sit over a game of chess in their own Uving rooms for that period of time. The director's secret lies in his ability to present the chess board as a cinematic study, to be viewed from aU possible dimensions. In order to achieve this he has employed a slow but roving camera technique, that gUdes around the chess pieces and players. Effectivdy antkipatuig the tensk>n that reaches breaking point at several moments in the drama. ****** The Film Festival organisers must be applauded for their new choice of xreening schedules, spread over two weekends. A weekends' viewing is heavy going, but the old system of a week long movie marathon was close on impossible for att but the most 'dedicated. Here's hoping they stick to the same plans next year. Finally, a parting thanks on the behalf of Brisbane film goers for the hard work undertaken by the members of the Brisbane Cinema Group to make the Film Festival happen each year. •' - SHAUN HOYT UBU: Produced and directed by Geoff Dunber for the Arts Council of Great Britain. As someone who has aspirations of some day masteruig the mysterious and demanding art of animatron, this reviews considered "Ubu" to be the h^hUght of the recent FUm Festival. FoUowuig a couple of tedious docu- with low menacing rumbles, piercing mentaries and a clever, but short ani- screeches, and word baUoons, rather than mation by Brisbane resident John Eyley, speech, and whose bodies contort grotesUbu had the packed audience in hysterics quely to suit their moods, with its unique and imaginative visual ITie film is 20 mmutes of brUUant punnery. graphic movement, stark contrast to those Based on a script by Alfred Jarry, dull, static Hanna Barbera efforts (Flintwho wrote it as a puppet play per- stones etc.) that infest afternoon televersion of Macbeth, Ubu features car- vision, toon characters who express themselves -MATT MAWSON v.^ \ - y from HEWLETT-PACKARD THE HP 41C A CALCULATOR A SYSTEM A WHOLE NEW STANDARD *A very powerful programmable calculator with 400 prog, lines or 68 data registers •Alpha - numeric display *continuous memory •card reader and printer as peripherals which add functions to calculator function library *Blank memory modules to increase memory capacity *Card Reader and printer as peripherals which add functrans to calculator function library. COME AND PLAY WITH A 4IC TODAY (and order one tomorrow) Demonstration Model at: Union Shopping Arcade Unl. of Queensland St. Lucia. 370 9817. A Dream oi«passion A DREAM OF PASSION: ~ Directed and produced by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercuri and Ellen Burstyn, showing at Schonell Theatre, St. Lucia. .\ Dream of Passion is not the kind of film you talk of liking. It's a very powerful film that sets out not to entertain, but to hit "you in the guts. ll is the story of an ageing film actress .Mya, played by Melina Mercuri, who returns to her native Greece to do the play 'Medea'. Medea is betrayed by her husband Jason, (of the golden fleece), for aiiother woman. In her anger she takes revenge on Jason by killing their two sons. The preparation of the "A Dream of Passion" play is being filmed for a is a very emotional film, television programme and but it never lapses inlo as a publicity stunt a soppy senlimentalism. It is meeting is arranged between not an entertaining film Mya and, a'modern Medea', and is definitely not Ibr Brenda. everyone. EUen is an American Underneath the story it woman in prison hi Greece is basicaUy a film about for the murder of her three guilt and the morality of chUdren. Uke the mythical revent. Dassin's handling of Medea she kUled them as this subject, specifically revenge against her husband when he took a lover. The meeting is a disaster but a friendslup develops between the two women. The fdm traces the parallel stories of the play Medea and EUen's account of her own story. EUen Burstyn is exceUent as the religious fanatic Brenda. MeUna Mercuri is perhaps a Uttle too passionate ui her role as Mya, but the Greeks are supposed to be a passionate people. aopUed to the question of a woman's right to revenge and uijustice done to her by he husband and sodety is noteworthy. He does not however draw any conclusions. He merely presents the ca".', "A Dream of Passion' is the most unpressive film I have seen in a long time. Go and see it some time when you feel up to having a ton of bricks dropped on you, -MARGARET WERTHEIM T'HE HOLy meUNTAIN A film by Alexandre Jodorowsky. The Holy Moiuitain is a polarising piece of cinema. Some people regard it as a brilliant masterpiece, others disniiw it as pretentious non.sense. IQ fact, (he differing reactions mirror (he ongoing argument over the merits ^ ^ or otherwise of SurrealisNArt in general. TtK' siirreaiisi :irlist produces images from subconscious inspiration, and .surrealism should be appreciated ;ilnu).sl on a subconscious level. It's sonieiliini; that disniK'i;r;ilos under clinical diagnosis. Viewing "Tlie Holy cificd Clirists. eadi witlfliis Miuiniain". ;i Iilm hy sur- own face. '' rciiiisi master Jodorowsky. It's an incredibly rich i^ like experiencing;! drenni. film, and the attention to OJ peiliaps a [liglilmare. Il's detail indicates a series nl' ama/ing images. Jodorowsky's genius as a ''iiimed down studenl nini-nuiker. rioters bleeding blue, green and yellow hlood. sparrows \( you enjoyed and dowers escaping fttnii Jodorowsky's previous lilni. tlieir wounds: wounds; a naked man '"HI Topo". Totx)'". and you missed lying panic-slricken on the the recent .season of''The ground while scores of huge Holy Mountain", you'll be black and yellow taran- pleased to know that the tulas crawl over liis crotch, Schonell Theatre will be cliesi and face: a young bringing this audio-\isuid man awakening ni a ware- t'easi hack I'or a repeat lunise, sill rounded hy lile- season early next year. M/e niasiei siaiiies o\ cm-MATT MAWSON ' TIME OFF October 1979 T.N. Company, at La Boite Theatre, Milton, directed by John Milson September 20-October 3. Of the three one act plays at the Gomg Bananas night of the TJV. Company, the fuial play, 'The Flaw", by Mil Perrin, was the one that had the audience rocking ta their seats in hysterics. It was a script within which three exceUent actors, Pat Thompson, Geoff Cartwright and Duncan Wass changed characters, accents and social situations very rapklly. Tlie high qualily of the The play lakes off acting and the tiglitness of and never stops spinning the production overaU, tiirougli changes as the wluch is typical of John accountant becomes a Milson's direction, makes middle class trendy, deT.N.'s shows great refer- fenduig the non-musical ences for any student in- talents of his chUd, and the terested in learnmg about boss becomes a whinging theatre. Witii "The Flaw" neighbour and less high you can be roUed m the brow and dignified. Thai's aisles simultaneously. not even half of it. The play works on (he elemen( The play begms with the of surprise that leaves audiboss coming to the home ence anticipation unfulof an accountant to teU fiUed. ft's greal. I can't him he's fired. In order give loo much of the conto liide this from lus wife tent away without spoUing tiie accountant twists tilings it. to seem Uke he's been Beginning the night is a promoted, to the chagrin bit of nonsense by a of the boss. Sydney playwright, Richard Bradshaw called "Bananas", ft's very simple and I didn't Uke it much. I won't explam what it's about as by outlining h you can't help givmg away all that it has to say. Most people who I've spoken (o (bought it was OK, though. Sandwiched between these two comedies was a really brief but poignant look at the sodal investigator's ethics ui conducting case sludies, particulariy in the area of interviewing study subjects. John Summon's "The Coroner's Report" is a harrowingly descriptive play of the cold cUnical invasion of a person's privacy. The subject was a middle aged, single woman, Irene who worked in a factory. She is shy and reluctant lo answer questions; she doesn't understand the interviewers NEW DIRECTOR AT LA BOITE La Bohe has appomted a new artistic dUector, Malcohn Blaylock. He is from professional and amateur theatre m South AustraUa and was instrumental ui getttag Steve J. Spear's plays on to the AustraUan boards. Spears plays, 'Young Mo' and the 'Elocution of Benjamin Franklin' are now among the great Australian successes m the UK and USA. It would be hoped that La BoUe, by choosing such a person for artistic director, wUl be producing more Australian plays. The policy of theatre has always been to support new and unusual drama. The last artistic director. Rick BiUinghurst, did a great deal to contmue this in the 70s. Tlirougli his imaguialive genius BiUinghurst has es(abUshed an expectation of high quaUty, new approach productions at La Boite. He is universaUy admired for his (hea(re skiUs. His successor, Blaylock, has been artistic direc- i^Kfl 0,\ h^ * WM tor to the Circle Tlieatre Co,, as weU as dircclmg for other S.A. theatre groups. In 1978 he lecin the performing arts at *^(fm.m9acH VIBKPH. .. /Dii/wca iti^^ om^a^fK,—• games. Games which Uiciude the empty cUdies, "objective" and implied value free responsibUities. It's revealed, thai the subject must fit the hypothesis conjured up by the social scientist. I wisli the psych, anthrop., and sociology departments would suspend lectures lo La Boite theatre, for an amazing lesson m "what do 1 really mean by objective assessment, with no invasion of the subject's privacy". Pat Thompson is such an excellenl aclress (hat she handles (he role faultlessly and John Milson should be commended for not underplaying the heaviness. Going Bananas with T.N.. Company is an excellent experience. Footnote: all the plays are Australian works; John Summons had a play in F.A.S.T, 1975. -BARBARA ALLEN Port Augusta. Included in the new season of plays al La Boite are two new plays from S.A., written by Stephen Measday and Doreen Clark. AustraUan plays seem to be growing in importance in the selection of theatre groups' seasons of plays. Tliis is partly associated widi the government grants system tiiat required companies to have some AustraUan playwrights' works. 1 believe, however, tiiat Australian plays are invariably interesting because tiiey are local products. WhUst La Boite is changing their leading horses from BUlinghurst to Blaylock they are rehearsing "They Shoot Horses Don'l They?" for October, in the stables out the back. This is a play from the briUiant movie, known to most people, ft's a smootidy digestable poUtical play concerning the lack of freedom of persons during (he Depression in America. La Boile has managed to hire an entire dance floor for its set. 1 hope the production is a remarkable one, as the play itself certainly is. -BARBARA ALLEN 27 COPPELIA Australian ballet production at Her Majesty's male dancing at Us besl Theatre, a new production devised and directed so much so that a couple of ockers sitting immediateby George Ogilvie, The week of F.A.S.T. is past and most of those involved are thankful - not because of disappointment in the festival, but due to exhaustion. All seven days of F.A.S.T. were just tliat! From the early (9am) warm-up sessions through days of intensive workshops to evening performances and on to early morning parties to relax (?) - and (hen of course the 9am warm-ups, etc., etc. By the end of the week There were some exgood intentions had been tremely avante-garde disseduced by bad company plays such as Sydney Uni's and there were noticeably "U times 6" and fewer faces fronting before Rockhampton's Peter, midday. StUI, most stag- Peter, Pumpkin Eater, gered back in tune for the Tighter, but still modernevening performances. istic, drama came from Sodally, the festival was 'The Rock' which was a a huge success. Besides the bfting satire on the quesnightly parties, mnumerable tion of educationalists' Holy unpromptu gatherings even- Grails. It also took time out tuated at the Student's Qub for a larger-tiian-Ufe look at and also at the R.E. and the first-year sexual encounters. Regatta by those interstate More generaUsed social visitors anxious to peruse comment came from the native habitat. Kelvin Grove part-tuners On one occasion, a large who presented a double bUI number of students staged on unemployment. The a theatrical event m iSng crude, apathetic mood of George Square and were duly informed that they were causing "a pubUc nuisance". Far from being incensed, most of the visitors were elated unagine! THEM bemg heavied by a real Uve Queensland Policeman. 1 suppose the memory was a beder souvenir than a postcard. At the fust Sunday's bar-b-que everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and mbc fairly easUy. Serious aspirations cast on the quaUty of "our fourex mate" but an empty keg and hangovers soon settled that one. Things looked a bit grun after this inUlal debauchery, but with so many strange, weird people assembled for the purpose of enjoying themselves, there was no stopping them. TTieatrically, tiie week ranged from fah to brUUant. Almost aU represented campuses put on at least one play and the bUl of fare was as varied as it was extensive. 28 the plays seemed to be weU grasped by the smaU cast. Queensland University were twice represented; by tiie Drama Sodety's "Mirrors" and by Lunchbox's "Out at Sea". "Mirrors" was a tight, terse production with the acting up to the high quality of the script. The play revolved around a meetmg between Lewis Carroll and his 'AUce' characters ten years after. Anyone expecting a Ught fairy tale was disappouited as the story was as twisted and mvolveS as was, supposedly, Carroll's mmd. Perhaps it was refreshuig not to be battered senseless with a play's meanmg but this play ^ould carry a wamuig, "Hidden Meanmg - PhD's only admitted", StUl U was exceUent theatricaUy, and shows how far this troupe has progressed since they copped a bucket earUer this year for a rather self-Ui- ly behind me (they'd been Coppelia has been around Brisbane for a long time. dragged along by tiidr In fact, there have been so many different productions wives) were completely lost of this Delibes/Saint-Leon classic that one wonders if with admiration. there is ever a chance of anyone squeezing any fresh"Jeez, Wish we had him ness out of the frequen( reworkings. playing for CoUingwood!" Then along comes the the evening came from Ann one was heard lo remark lo George Ogilvie production Jenner and Kelvin Coe the olher. superbly danced by The dancing the roles of village Australian Ballet, and the maiden and village boy. answer must be a reMs. Jenner brought a The Australian Ballet sounding YES. delightful sobrette touch have just returned from For a start this is a higlily to the role - one which another overseas tour where dramatic version of Ihe tale seems ideally suited to rave notices were the order of tiie evil toyniaker and Ogilvie's direction. She of the day. Looking at the magician, Dr. Coppelius, Uterally sparkles her way sheer polish and visual who al tempts to steal the from the first scene to the delight of this performance soul of a village lad, Franz, last. those raves were hardly surand transfer it to the doU gave Coe a prising. -DAVID K. WHEATLEY denionstrat ion of powerful dulgcnl performance of he has created. Costumes were striking "God". The Lunchbox's per- and colourful - as was the rr- '^'W^^^^^^^^^H formance of "Out at Sea" work of the corps dc baUel. Obviously everyone enjoys [ ;M!8£S.H^^^^^H was slick and professional. this particular Though the script is fairly dancing well-known, the characters Coppelia, for il shows with wrung Ihe most out of it. virtually every swiriing The three leads were sequence. The toyshop sequence powerful as ccrtifiably car. _. rT^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H nivores and the various dog- was a visual delight with lots of ingenuity in the paddling extras added depth. The rather stark costume department. Ray Powell as Dr. Copsetting carried the lean and *-' * •'J hungry essence of the play. pdius, ably supported by ' '>( Considering the his coUection of remarkable ^ ^ ^ ^ ' ' " precarwus state of drama on 'toys' literaUy fUl the stage \\ M ^ ^ ^ L '<.. this campus last year, this with magic. But the real magic of dual uivohemnet is a remarkable come-back. This is a reflection on the theatre activity being rekindled by the bigger better Cement Box. The remodeUed theatre was one of the real 'stars' of F.A,S,T. The seating was being radicaUy re-arranged up to six times a day and tiie Ughting finished up as snakes and ladders gone wrong. Whatever was asked of the Cement Box was provided. It stood up to over 50 performances, (a few) mexperienced techs, numerous set changes and re-paints and stUI survived. When F.A.S.T. was aU over, the Cement Box was ready for more while the participents were knackery material. On the fmal Saturday there was an open day for the pubUc which had all the drawmg power of a leper colony social. At least everyone present enjoyed themselves and were able to view what other worktops had produced. F.A.S.T.'s fmal flurry was a Woolongong staged performance of 'Christie in Love'. This play was fast and moving and the cast did justice to uijustice. There is a strong tip that one of the major Brisbane comparues was so impressed it is soon to perform this work, FoDowing "Christie", everyone wound down by getting tight at a ping on a spit behind ZZZ. AU got rather maudlin and melanchoUc and the week fmidied with some rather emotmnal scenes with isromises of "next Year". Happily for Anna and her motley hdpers, next year is to be in Sydney! •T^tl^^^^^^^l ^^Jn^S^^^H / • ^ '^B^t -^f^^^H -DAN FLANNERY SUBURBIA OR BUST: a Jus|-ij llWie swaj THE SECOND LEUNIG,. .a dusty little swag: by Michael Leunig (Angus & Robertson) Do you reaUse how quickly you can read the Second Leunig? I read ft on a No. 37 bus, between the dty and Toowong. I reaUy don't think that this is quite fair of Michad Leunig. It is really exhausting to be bombarded by so many emotions in one short Brisbane City CouncU Bus Ride. In one of the grisaUles (it is compulsory to use this word when writing meaningful reviews of cartoons. . .my dictionary defines it as a "pmnting executed wliolly in shades of grey". . .it's right, I suppose. . .) created by the whimsical Mr. Leunig, a sign prodaims: "A ddicate mixture of Joy, Desperation and Nonchalance is the essence of successful Eel HandUng". A litUe man bemg marched past in a cage comments: "Life itsdf is a series of eels". The Second Leunig is a series of eels, too. The Second Leunig made me melancholy. But I could remember a time when Leunig made me laugh. So the next time 1 had to go inlo the city, 1 caught a No. 37 bus and reread the Penguin Leunig. 1 know what you're thinking some people sure know how 10 wallow in urban angst right. While I was checkuig the meaning of angst, I found the word anguilliform which means shaped like an eel. Seems to be rdevanl, By Christopher Maver, Planet Press, $1.50. doesn't it. Anyway, Leunig's new book is a little sadder than his first. His images are more introspective. And he has lost much of the viciousness of his eariier work. But it is a contuiuatbn. He is not breakmg new ground. His themes are the same. And many of the cartoons are haU remembered old favourUes from Nation Review. Also included m the Second Leunig are selected moments from the voyage of Vasco Pajama and Ws direciion findmg duck. "Always pointing lo new joys." If you already own a copy of the Penguin Leunig, it's probably not worth buying (he Second Leunig. But go and stand in a booksliop and read il. It doesn't take long. -ANNE JONES Mr. Maver, the back-cover tdls us, is a 'jack of aU arts', A reading of his sUm volume "Suburbia or Bust", invites the completion of the cliche: but a master of •none. Bette midlers Floating out of red sunsets Well humoured vulgarities Refugees Always give queens an Packed tight excuse to rage, Salted sardine cans, God Escaping radiated jungles & Luv .cities... Them. but often has Uttle 'literary' The author, being an merit. Yet m the same poem extroverted and theatrical he has managed to include person of a minority sexual some Unes which show that persuasion, may, of course, with a little more regard for feel quite justified m dis- how his work looks as missing any unfavourable writing he could produce criticism as merely a veiled some damn good poems. form of 'poofter-bashing'. Lines such a s . . . WeU, dear readers, this reviewer is nol in the habit Hendrix bites & sucks bis of partaking m that great guitar AustraUan sport, so to keep Giving us our first clue... up the pace we'll launch Machine guns spit out into what wUI be hopefully, Songs ofsaigon tea... some constructive criticism. The greatest faUing in are far too good to be Mr. Maver's work is an deflated suddenly by the unfortunate by-produc( of closing the printing press. We are confronted by words on a Kill & mutate in flare & wliile background, devoid styles of hiroshima of (he non-verbal ges(uring Yellow peril or cake? and tonal inflection of (he autiior. When I s(a(ed (ha( All too often the poems Maver was theatrical, I was end this way, with what m referring, again, to (he notes street theatre would be seen (and the photograph) on the as a necessary hammering back cover, where we leam home of the point to often that 'he has done a fair disinterested passers-by, but amount of professional and a poem shouldn't need this amateur theatre.. .and poli- kind of 'footnoting', the tical street theatre'. flow of the words and Much of "Suburbia or Bust" would, in fact, make excdlent street theatre, but it is not at all successful as writing 'on the page' where much of the impact of a personal delivery is obscured. Maver's flair of working with (and through) cUches in an attempt to express his views, 'to give the worid a piece of his mind', as he says, lends a certain theatrical flavour to the writing Unes ouglit to be enougli. Mr. Maver, by being a jack of aU arts, has failed to gain mastery of the art of poetry, bu( I look forward (0 seeing and hearing hun perform. 1 mus( point out (in all due fairness) tiiat it is 1 who has chosen to review "Suburbia or Bust" as a book of poetry becuase it appears to present itself as such. The author is more ambiguous. He merely refers to U as 'tliis stuff. -CORNELISVLEESKENS N BETWEEN THE I was left with the overSHEETS: whelming impression that al By Ian McEwan. Pub- the end of the first story ished by Picador, 1979. Ian McEwan wUI not be a famUiar name with many Australian readers. He won the 1976 Somerset Mai^ham Award at the age of 28 with a rapturously received coUection of short stories called 'First Love, Last Rites'. Since then he has been at work puttmg together the second volume. In 116 pages McEwan manages to explore more of the dark side of the mind than most writers would even consider. Vide: 'Reflections of a Kept Ape' wliich deals with the relationship (sexual and otherwise) between and ape and his mistress, a first up writing success. Vide: 'Dead as They Come', a story of a wealthy businessman's love for his store dummy. All seven stories are written with a simplicity and economy 1 fmd devastating for effectiveness. And, more important, the author does not waste his and my time by "writing down" to his readership. TIME OFF October 1979 'Pornography', the giris were playing games and tiiat they had sussed oul O'Byrne's sexual trigger before even he had realised it. But it was nol rammed down my throat as a less secure writer might have done. The style is short and elegant. On occasions the word usage is like a shower (cold) dashing (he ideas down to strike before you're almost aware of them. And always readable. Tlie whole book look only an hour and a half lo read. Tlic ideas look some time longer to digest thougli. hi fact I'm StiU thinking about them. For (hose people who find a perverse delight m skating across thin, ice of twisted lives and mmds tlus book is highly recommended. For those who sunply want to get away from the traditional in writing this book is an excdlent start. -CALVIN NOACK 29 THE DEEP NORTH: By Deane Wells (Outback Press, $9.95) The character of Queensland and particularly of its patriarch, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, has long puzzled Australians. Is he a rare phenomenon true only to himself, or is he a product of a partfcular environment? 1 stUt can't conclusively answer this mysdf, although I have been in 'exile' here from Sydney for four years a move that came about from a scries of circumstances, rather than a conscious choice. It's been a question that has been consistently explored by the media. The autiior of "The Deep North", Deane Wells, weighs his case towards Joh as a self-created and self-perpetuating phenomenon. He's written a compelUng book on Joh BjelkePetersen which is likely to cause more embarrassment to the Premier than Hugh Lunn's more rambling book "Joh". Deane Wdls has pubUshed two previous books - "The Wit of Whitlam" and "Power Theory". The latter has been described by critics as a university thesis on the phUosophical morbidity of the AustraUan Liberal Party sandwiched between chapters of a book, ft didn't receive good reviews, although it is useful to poUtical science departments. "The WU of Whitlam" was reviewed as a sUm but amusing volume. "The Deep North" is assured of havuig much more impact, BiU Hayden obviously was wUUng to help push the barrow, when he launched the book at Canberra's Press Club. The book investigates and analyses the patriarchal rule of Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It doesn't just look at Joh in his Queensland context, it places him in the worid's poUtical arena. Not surprismgly, he emerges rather badly. He's not the fatherly figure he would have us bdieve, but an ingenious totalftarian with a 'nice' unage. "The Deep Nortii" starts with the reader's own approach dearly stated: "I make no apology for analysing the right-wmg of Queensland poUtics in philosophical terms, suice the most basic issues ui poUtical phUosophy are so fundamental that every poUtician, however stupid, wUl hold a view on them," 30 to separate state, society and govemment are endless. The Premier has his own private plane which he uses for poUtical campaigning paid for by the government, but the state opposftion leader was denied funds for charter fligh(s during the 1977 elections. Since the writing of "The Deep North", the new Parliament House, or Taj Mahal as it is caUed, has been opened with fourteen storeys of luxury accomodation, but there is no office space for the staff of the Labor leader, who has been given space three blocks away. Throughout the book Deane Wdls remtads us that Ufe in (he Sunshuie State is no picnic. It has been rumoured that Joh BjeUcePetersen has his poUtical coUeagues address him as "Mr. Leader" in party meetuigs. In this way the author argues he is conforming to the Fuhrei principlehe is equattag his wUl with the wUl of the state. One such mstance was the statement he made with regard to the state entermg the field of banking: "I dont want fifty reasons why the state cannot enter the field of banking. I want the Government officers to provide a way it could." Deane WeUs sets out to prove his thesis of Joh's totalitarian nature by first lookUig at comparable poUtical phUosophies from conservatism through to anarchism. These two chapters seem overly explanatory and turgid the author states that they can be overlooked by any reader wishing to get lo the guts of the book. They may have been better at the end. One of the key touchstones of his argument is how the state is viewed and used by poUticians, Conservatives lUce Jun KUlen look back to the phUosophy of Burke and argue that the state conserves the fruUs of civilisation and keeps the populace in check. The Liberal Party in general adopts a social Some have seen Joh as contract theory of the state an agrarian sociaUst. Even which rests on the consent "The Courier MaU" of cUizens for legitunised questioned his staunch antigovernment. Most ALP socialist stiid on the one supporters adopt a hand, and his determination Bethamite social utUity to control a (rading bank theory as exemplified by personal command of the taught," on the other. Gough Whitlam - the state's leader. CiyU disobedA very damaguig and In press interviews state's purpose is to ience is viewed no msufficiently pubUcised act promote the greatest weU- differently ftom common of Joh in terms of a totaU- Bjdke-PeteTsen would deny beuig of the greatest num- crime - it is seen as crime tarlan ethos, was his suc- all these charges and prober. The left-wing of the against the state. The autiior cessful aUempt to stop a ject an image of a caring Labor Party, which Deane quotes several of Joh's health survey m 1977, of fatherly poUtician. But in case, rugged Wells omits, tend towards statements to the press, Queensland Aborigines for his a more Marxist power elfte as an example of this: one Trachoma, a fatal eye individuaUsm is tinted with theory of the capitalist reads, "I wasn't elected to uifection, after he aUeged Uitheran fundamentalism state, which sees govem- aUow chaos and violence in that two members of the a Protestant work etiuc ment legislation as the only the streets and denigration survey team were members supportmg and extreme means to keep big busmess of law and order, 1 was of the ALP, He denied form of hard work, m a from exploituig the people. dected as Premier to uphold Aborigines medical society presumably where your freedom, and my freeThe two otiier theories attention because he dis- everyone is supposed to dom, and the freedom of about the state that Deane agreed with the poUtics of make it. But what sort of alterWeUs analyses are anarchism the state," some of the health officials. natives to Joh exist m which beUeves tiiat the state He has taken his phobia An example of Joh Queensland? Deane Wells has no desirable purpose, Bjelke-Petersen seeuig the of opposition to such an and totaUtarianism, which state's ri^ts as synonymous extent, that ui his elec- argues that Russ Hinze sees the individual as being with society's rights was his tioneering he has insinuated would be an even more justified only Ui terms of appointment of Senator that electorates won't rutiiless totalUarian, and tiie state. He argues, 'tiie Albert Fidd m 1975, where receive their fair share of Uew Edwards is a shabby totalitarian would he used the state agamst its the cake if they insist on genteel product of the emphasise that the state has own dtizens, in this case, voting for the opposftion. Uberal Party. He never rights against the citizens, against the ALP's chosen He has said of one elec- displays the integrity of for the torate, "Mackay is lucky Yvonne McComb, though rather than that the dtizens representative Senator Mai to get what it does after he is adroit at handling have rights agamst the Senate, state." Totalitarianism differs from all other phUosophies "I'm not here to be interrogated fella. You can go jump in the lake. m its tendency to uicor- For goodness sake, just accept what I say. I'm not here to be cross examined. porate society, state, and You're just looking for a story. I've always treated you fellas fairly — don't govemment, as one single j^^^ Bielk«-l*rtorMn to a Briibana joumallrt 1976, unit. There is no distuic- push your luck. tion made between the people of that society, the semi-permanent framework Colston, This move ignored alt the attacks on me and the media. The autiior of state administration, and 75 years of precedence. It other government members, cotnments: "If Edwards the ruUng party. also gave Fraser more num- Mr, Casey attacks and succeeds, Queensland wUl The confusion of state, bers on the Senate, when his ridicules me and the revert to a capitaUst oriensociety, and govemment, government blocked Supply government," ted economy," the Whitlam can lead to political to Of anotiier he said, Unfortunatdy, Casey paranoia. Totalitarian poU- Government, "How could we do things doesn't come wUhUi the Another example, was for Rockhampton when all ambit of tills book. His ticians are unable to see the real motives of opponents, Joh's refusal to allow SEMP they are out to do is put rise to the leadership of and cannot accept that they and MACOS to be used in skids under us. Let's get the Labor Party came too have sincere disagreements. state schools. He is quoted Rockhampton working and late, which is a pity Deane Wells argues success- m the press as saying: get rid of the two ALP because he is a popularist fully that Joh faUs into "Someone in the Education members," Uke Joh, who beUeves in Department doesn't seem this category. The political advantages Ills own variation of the Also, poUce are seen as to understand what the that have ace med to the Protestant Work Etiuc. wants BjeUie-Pelersen governLabor historian Denis merely an uistrument of government Queensland children to be ment because of its refusal Murphy in his article ui the state, often under the AustraUan Quarterly, entitled "Queensland's Image and AustraUan Nationalism" attributes Joh's success to the ineffective leadership and machinery of the ALP after the 1974 double dissolution. He writes: "Tbe Labor Party had in effect created a vacuum in Queensland poUtics which the Premier and his pubUc relations machme quickly fdled," Denis Murphy argues that it is this pubUc rdations machuie that has been more responsible for the creatwn of Joh BjeUcePetersen, than the state of Queensland. They have learnt a lot from Richard Nixon. In fact, Joh "is one of the less stable and less competent Premiers the state has had, but he is also the closest Premier ever to being a marketed product along the Unes of a Richard Nixon", Historians also attribute some of the current poUtical hegemony to the lack of secondary schooUng that existed in this state. Queensland did lead AustraUa in free hospitalisation, but it sadly lagged behmd in education. The majority of the populace left school at 13,untU the introduction of compulsory secondary education ui 1963. Joh and his coUeagues come from this generation. Humphrey McQueen in "Meanjui" (Issue 1, 1979) writes; "There is something to the view that Queensland residents are different, on average* they are much less educated, very much less unbiased, more Ukely to be AustraUan bom and less Ukely to work in a factory." McQueen argues that industriaUsation is not beuig implemented in Queensland because it would create votes for Labor. These are crudal issues outside tiie scope of "The Deep North". However the book is StUl an exceptionaUy dear and Ulustratmg work. Chapter Four, which contains many of Joh's quotes, is practicaUy a tourde-force. -MARGARET SMITH SHISKA BABB RESTAURANT •669 Stanley St, Woolloongabba, BYO, phone cook it. After a very short wait three huge pla(es number recently disconnected. appeared pUed high with If you've driven down Stanley Street, between Woolloongabba and South Brisbane, no doidit you've noticed a garish red and purple buUding covert with multicoloured signs advertismg the "SlUshka-Babb" restaurant and flashing lights. It'd be hard not to notice. Accompanied by two friends I ventured into the Shiska-Babb on a quiet week night and I'm happy to say it's not as sleazy (or exotic for that matter) as it appears. 'Kitsch' is the only word to describe the restaurant's interior. There are tables witii plastic covers, plastic flowers and waterlUly candles, Chiistmas decorations hanguig from a huge net pumed to the ceUuig, and pictures of Greece, flowers and a Greek beauty contest wmner hanging on the red walls. Elvis Presley's "Way Down" blasted from the juke box as we selected our table. Next to the juke box a colour TV was piaymg (fortunately with the sound off). the owners of the Shishka-Babb are Albanian and this night their Uttie boy, Sammy, who couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 years old, was playing at being waiter. He jumped up from the TV set and gave us our menus with a big grin. After a short whUe (they had to wash the glasses) three champagne glasses and a bottie opener appeared (for a bottle of daret?!!) Having won our hearts Sammy went back to watdiing "The Young and the Restless" as we perused the menu. The range of meals is huge - 38 different main courses from dozens of national origins. Prices are very reasonable (no meal was over S4.80) and all the meat was displayed in a refrigerated glass cabinet m the restaurant - just Uke a butcher's shop. Strange idea this but effective all the same. My friends decided on the French Pepper Steak (a fillet steak in a rich, pepper gravy - $4.50) and the Turkish GriU (a pork kebab, garUc sausage and egg - S4.80) while I chose the .Albanian Kebab (spicy minch .ind bacon - 53.90). Tlie waitress, cook and presumably Sammy's Mum took our order with the same lovely smUe as her son and rushed away to food. We turned back the white sUced, buttered bread with was supposed the accompany the meals. The salads, which came on the same plate as the meals,* were decidedly boring. The saffron rice was lukewarm and gluggy and came with canned peas (yecch!). Tlie other salad pieces however were very fresh and plentiful. We all remarked on the tenderness of the meal and agreed that Miriam had fared best with the Turkish grill. The spicy mince on my Albanian Kebab was suspiciously sunilar to the sausages on the Turkic GrUI but nevertheless very tasty and the bacon turned out to be a salty ham. The French Pepper Steak was thin, tender and smothered wUh a tasty gravy. Tiiere were no sweets on the menu but with main courses so large it is not surprismg, Turkish coffees (a very thick, gritty and slightly sweet coffee served in tiny cups) were a perfect ending. We fdt we had feasted in style and not harming our budge(s, despite the unusual surroundings. -BRIDGET VAN TINTEREN DOOLEY'S Hastings Street, Noosa Heads. (071) 47 3132, Some of the desserts Lunch 12-2 dinner from 6pm. Licensed, Children sounded tempting (pawpaw lemon meringue pie and welcome. High noon and the country show holiday found us stroUing idly along Hastings Street in search of an eating house. WhUst peering rudely into the dimness of Dooley's seeking uisphation a famUiar face materiaUsed from the gloom within and clauned us. Knowing the waitress is seldom an acceptable criterion for choosing a restaurant but at the tune U seemed lUce a good idea. Thus did we fmd ourselves, together with benevolent father-in-law and errant son, gropmg our way to an empty table m this fairly famous seafood restaurant. After a few mmutes we noticed that the place was chokkers. A good sign we thought and feU to musuig o'er the menu. The oldster murmured something about good old fasliioned cardboard menus and chose a safe Chargrilled Rump Steak with salad (S5.50). Mate finally chose lasagne ($3.95) and I decided to (ry something fishy - vine leaves and Taramsalata (S4.50). Len Evans earUer in the year cited Dooley's as evidence of the high standard of restaurants in Noosa, makuig special mention of tiieh large serwngs of highly flavoursome food. Unfortunately the fish soup upon which he heaped such high praise was not available so we could not compare. What we did eat thougli left us with a few misgivings. Easy gouig Dad uilaw was quite happy with his steak which was large, thick and tender though sUghtiy underdone for his taste. Mate's lasagne was also large - grotesque ahnost but appeared to have been warmed over and was decidedly short on flavour. The warm brown loaf and herbed was presented with complunents and was a welcome change from the usual gariic bread. The Irish coffees (S2.50) were potent and deUcious. Bored babe meanwhile occupied himself pouring milk over the green gingham doths and plucking leaves from the hanging exotica, chocolate chestnust mousse) and aU were priced around tiie two dollar mark. Seafood entrees were expensive (e.g, bug vmaigrette S6.50 and deep fried calamari $3.80) but this is to be expected of seafood in Australia it seems. Even good old fish and chips from the corner cafe has become a luxury fast food these days. hi my book Dooley's is not aU it's cracked up to be. It does however have an intimate bustling bistro atmosphere with a quiet bar for pre-duiner drinks and the decor - cool Irish greens and warm wintry b'rowns - is in the best ot taste. We fmally burst into the sunshuie agaui clutchuig gratis mints and messy chUd and were so high from the hish coffee we didn't mind too much about the food. 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'35 WHY NOT BUY A FROZEN MEAL FOR UTER WE CATER FOR PARTIES TRADING HOURS TUE TO SUN 5-15 - 9 1 5 P.M. 34.STATION ROAD INDOOROOPILLY PHONE 3764806 sagg5ftc!«jc.'QQ o •D to 34 split Enz recently undertook Possibly. At the moment we've their "Wbhrlwind" tour of Australia.got a possibility of a deal with They broke bouse records en route Chapman, If that comes through, ' but StiU that elusive bit sin^e andthere's a good chance we'll be going album has bypassed the bam. They over to America or England to do it. : have not received any significant Otherwise we'll do the album here. ebon reaction in this country since the release of "My Mistake . Split With "Frenzy", the band received Enz have been the critics darlings a tot of critical acclaim but mass for quite a while now but this sales still seem to elude the band. enthusiasm has never redly crossed I know, I don't know why, I over to the masses. Whilst on the don't think it's that bad an album. Qld leg of tbe tour TONYGILSON We're maybe not taken as seriously managed to secure an interview musically as we'd like to be. People vjitb drummer MALCOLM GREENperhaps get distracted by the visuals. and keyboards player EDDIE RAYNER. There seems to be a conscious What prompted you to undertake the "Whirlwind" tour? MG: We're a little bit in the middle of things at the moment. We're looking for an overseas deal and new nnanagement, so it was fairly pointless us leaving Australia. We're making the best of it by going on tour. What are past members of the band doing these days? Well, Em lyn Crowther (ex drummer) is having fun playing at the weekends and he's working for a P.A.. corfipany, Phil Judd has a new band called the Screamers, Rob Gillies (ex-horn player) is working for a TV company desigiiing sets and whatnot and does a little bit of playing now and again. I heard that you might be recording the next album in Los Angeles. TIME OFF October 1979 I heard that you recorded about 10 extra songs as demos for "Frenzy". Well we put two of the demos on the B-side of "I See Red". We're very proud of them. Either we'll save the rest or they'll come out on the B-sides of singles. They will come out eventually. The band's new material seems to de-emphasis away from the visuals be more up-tempo. of late by the band. The music is getting stronger. . We seem to be going to two exThere used to be just a lot of ideas tremes at the moment between very but now we're a band. The visuals up-tempo and ballads. complement now. It's a more subtle approach really. ENTER EDDIE RAYNER Have you any particular influences? Not really. The one thing that we Retrospectively what do you all have in common in the band is that we've never been great musical think of the 'Frenzy' album? I'm not satisfied with it. I think listeners. it's a good album. I can look at it How long after the release pf negatively or positively. "Second Thoughts" did you and Some people have criticised Nigel Griggs (bass) join the band? I joined the band about 5-6 Mallory Earl's production. Yes. It's not as good as we feel it months after the album was released. could be. We were in the studio for Nigel joined after Phil Judd's and a month. When it came down to the Johnathan Chunn's departure which mixing we only had a few days left. was just after a tour of the States. What would you consider to be the band's best recorded product? As far as I'm concerned, the best things we've recorded are demos, which haven't been released. "I See Red" and the two B-side cuts were done like that. bandwagon. Yeah, to a point. It's a case of progression. You have to see what is going on around you if you want to survive. .1 don't think we've sold out though. I was talking to Malcolm about the Korg synthesizer you're using now. ER: It's a vocoder. It works on the principle of so much voice and so much keyboard. Have you considered using this new PROPHET synthesizer? ER: I'd love one if I had enough money. But you can't get them here. They were designed by a pair of electronics buffs in the States It's got 40 memories. It's digital and you can store up to 40 sounds on the memory. The polyphonic Do you think Split Enz will ever synthesizer I've got at the moment, be able to achieve success in the you can only store one sound on it. USA? Yes. I feel very confident in us What do you think of this new as a band. What we've got to get wave of electronics that seems to together now is the other side of be coming into favour? things, in promotions etc. I think I think that the extreme synwe are a unique band. I see us as thesizer groups like Kraftwerk tend being a band on our own. to be very unhuman. | just like synthesizers to complement my main What's the situation regarding instrument which is the piano. songwriting wtihin the band? About your work on Phil ManTim (Finn) is the most prolific writer. Neil (Finn) and Eddie zanera's "K-Scope", what do you Rayner) get the occasional song in think of the end result of the album? as well. As for arrangements, Personally, I wasn't given much someone writes a song, plays it and freedom to do what I wanted to do. we develop our own ideas within Phil knew what he wanted and more .the song. or less told me what to play. He told Tim what to sing and Neil what to After the "Frenzy" tour, there sing. I really enjoyed playing on were some cynics saying that Split "K-Scope" because he recorded it Enz had jumped on the power pop at Chris Squire's (Yes) studio. Tim and you also worked on "Listen Now" didn't you? Just a very minimal amount. Basically we just called into the studio one night and Phil asked us if we wanted to lay down some piano and vocals. What do you think of the English groups that have cropped up in recent years? I really like a lot of them. It's happened the way I thought it would happen. All of the rubbish bands broke up while the others with a bit of potential stayed around, like Blondie and XTC etc. Returning to the question of electronics, there seems to be an incorporation of this form of music into disco. Yes. I think a lot of the electronic keyboard players these days are pretty faceless people. They play on a lot of disco records. I really like some of these new disco singles like M's "Pop Musik". A lot of these songs are just synthesizers with a bass drum and a snare drum. Do you find any difficulty in manipulating a synthesizer? It takes years to learn how to play one but once you've got the basics down, the scope is virtually unlimited. Have you heard the Human League yet? If Devo are any barometer of the power of Bowie's and Eno's patronage, the League should be popular. Well Devo have only done reasonably well. They haven't really crossed over to the masses yet. t liked their first album, but I didn't think Eno's production was particularly good. On the question of producers, is there any one producer who you were really satisfied with? Not really, Geoff Emerik who produced "Dizrhthmia" didn't bring out the best in us. David Russell (producer of "Mental Notes") was basically a pain in the arse. We'd come into the studio and he'd be out fishing. On "Second Thoughts", it was reaHy Phil Manzanera's first experience as a producer. It was a good clean sound but he didn't really push us in any one direction. pi,£A$uRZ$ or rm JFXESH ^_J> •^€:mcO>/c=-'f-l- PRICES: $10.90, $9.90 4ZZZ subscribers 36 - 1^ < iv.>wJwO . , ,^ J n ; i I cording process. The method supposedly produces a sound clear, brighter and more dimensional to ordinary recordings. The album however, despUe its bright, clear sound, is not as boppy as one might think. It's certamly not as funky as the Tex Mex albums. RY COODER Ry Cooder plays guitar, mandolin and banjo, just Ske ringing a bell, preserving and synthesizing modestly and clearly everything valuable in authentic American music..." Rolling Stona, 10th Annivartary Itua. With the onset of an Australian tour by Ry Cooder and David Lindley, the time seems ri^t to use up a Uttle Time Off space for the purpose of previewing and reviewing these two very notable musfcians to come out of America. Coodei's albums have by a promotional tour of seen him experunentmg in tiie States by Cooder and such diverse styles as blues. Captain Beefheart's Magic ragtime, R&B, Calypso, Band which recdved rave HawaUan, and Tex-Mex. He reviews is possibly best known for i,, j^s second album, his "Chicken Skin Music" "into The Purple Valley", album and the Chicken Cooder's distinctive manSkm Revue, which dolm and bottie-neck guitar displayed his love for Tex- style came mto the open. Mex. It's a fun and foUcy Randy Newman hdped him music style, origmatmg out with his third album, from Latin America. "Boomer's Story". His And more recently, founh, "Paradise and Cooder has made a break- Lunch" revealed Cooder's tiurough witii the worid's passion for Gospd music, fu-st rock album to make Veteran jazzman, Eari use of a revolutionary Tatha' Hines joined in on "digital recording" process, an impromptu .track off The album, "Bop TUl You tlus album, "Ditty Wa Drop" has just been re- Ditty", leased m Australia. After "Paradise and Uke so many other Lunch" two years passed guitarists, Ry Cooder start- before Cooder brouglit out ed his career as a session liis "Qucken Skin Music" musician, becoming album and it was yet involved with such people anotiier direction for as Jack Nitzsche, the Cooder - a direction that Everiy Brothers, Arlo possibly sprang from the Gutiuie and Captain Beef- song "Mexican Divorce" heart. His first solo album, from the "Paradise and "Ry Cooder", was released Lunch" album. Tlie style in 1970, This was foUowed is Tex Mex, Together with guitarist Gabby Pahinui and accordianist Flaco JimUiez, Cooder perfected Tex Mex and assembled the Oiickcn Skin Revue with tiiree black gospel singers. The foUow-up album was a live album featuring new versions of tunes from pre- vious albums. U was titled "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live". After that came a mostly instrumental album titled "Jazz" wliich revealed Cooder's passion for yet anotiier style of music, traditional American jazz. Cooder's voice is hardly used on the album. Which brings us to his latest album, "Bop TUl You Drop", a guitar-based album wluch goes back to styles on his earUer albums but presents them through the revolutionary digital re- But what about this David Lindley person I hear you ask! WeU Lindley is a guitarist, a steel guitarist, a vioUnist extraordinaire, and a much sought after sessmn player for such artists as James Taylor, Davkl Crosby and Gr^iam Nash, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. He toured Australia with Jackson Browne ui 1977, AustraUan audiences wiU be the first audiences to hear and watch Cooder perform songs from the "Bop TiU You Drop" album. Along with David Lindley, Cooder wiU also perform songs from other albums, songs of Lindley's, and new material rehearsed especially for the tour. If you're wUdly excited aboul the thought of another Ry Cooder tour and at the thought of seeing anotiier whizz-bang guitarist jamming witii him, there's just one more bit of information you're gonna need, . .Cooder and Lindley wUl play at Brisbane's Festival HaU on October 11. -BRIDGETVAN ILLA t^^^rt^M^^^'^MMNMlMllMMiiMl^HPMl • ^MfWMWMHI Diploma In Education Would you like :: U.Q. SPORTS & RECREATION ASSOCIATION « a relaxed sub-tropical atmosphere ? ^ an enriched cultural environment ? ^ superb practical teaching experience ? AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS M O N - I K I lO.A.M JF SO, THEN COME TO l l Ll BODY S S P L R I I O U R LISMORE and ihe NORTHERN RIVERS COLLEGE H I M LAMPS. V l l i R . \ T ( ) K S . OTHI R l O L I P M I M OF ADVANCED EDUCATION W \IL\IU.L to do the l l I I V ( . ) l ALII ILI) M ASSLl R Dip. Ed. forEnglish/History secondary teachers ( MoiiilKM i>r .Spoils Maiicinc \\\\^ INDOOR SPORTS PAVILION 370 2010 for appomtment; • For application form and further infonnation contact::: The Secretary, Northem Rivers Collige of Advanced Education, P.O. Box 157. USMOflE N.S.W.2480 Telephone (066) 21 2267 •. - . . I • ;,'.•;> TIME OFF October 1979 mm^mm 4^ 37 4ZZZ: A concert you won't want to miss is Nick Lowe, liave Edmunds and Rockpile appearing with (VIental as Anything and The Apartments fn JOINT EFf=ORT No. 16, CLOUDLAND, Saturday. Oct. 13. Prices are $5 and $3 for Triple Zod subscribers. On Saturday, October 20, JOINT EFFORT No. 17 gets underway at CLOUDLAND with Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, Ross Wilson's Mondo Rock and James Griffin and the Limousines. That's $4.50 and $3.50 for subKribers. HOTEL BRISBANE: has lots of bands booksxl for October. . .Oct. 6 - The Elks and the Dukes, Oct. 16 - Quasar and Fat City, Oct. 20 - Switch and Footloose, and Oct. 27 Mistreater antt 42nd Street. October 27 also sees the opening of the HOTEL BRISBANE for Saturday afternoon gigs. You'll be able to see the Boys Next Door there for $1 or Si.50. At the SURFAIR HOTEL at Coolum on Wed. Oct 3 you can see the Elks and the Aliens, Oct. 10 Jimmy and The Boys and Razar, Oct 17 - Ross Wilson's Mondo Rock and James Griffin and the Limousines, Oct. 24 - Boys Next Door and Oct. 31 - Australian Crawl. And if that's not enough 42ZZ also promote FESTIVAL HALL concerts. For October the big attraction Is Ry Cooder and David Lindley - October 11, for $10,90 or $9.90 for subscribers. (Articie on Ry Cooder/Davld Lindley in this Issue). QLD FOLK FEDERATION: are gening Into the swing of things for Warana. . .Monday, 1st October there's Dancing In King George Square. A noulti-coltural evening starting at 6.15pm. Saturday, 6th October, the band 'Rantan' will play at King George Square beiween 12 pm and 1pm, and also that night there's a Colonial Dance at South Brisbane Bowls Club, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane starting at 8pm. Admission is $3 atvJ $2 for members. HILLTOP HOLDOin' BLUEGRASS BAND: plays at the GLEN HOTEL, Pacific H'way, Eight Mile Plains every Friday night. BARLEY MOW FOLK CLUB: at the CALEDONIAN CLUB ROOMS, Shafston Ave, Kangaroo Point, has an evening of Cellidh-Folk Dancing on every first Sunday of each month. Runs from 5.30-9.30pm. EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND: hold regular workshops In 16th ceniuty dancing at KELVIN GROVE CAE in tho 'G' block (tho oW Ptiyslcal Sciences Block) every Monday nJght at 7.30pm. For details ring Grog Rogers on 225 2821 (business hours) or 398 1043 (after houn). THE TAR POT FOLK CLUB: at tho NATIONAL HOTEL, Queon Street, on the Ist floor, owiV Thursday nlflht at 8pm. It's $1.50 to got In or $1 for mombers and 4ZZZ subscribers. BALE 'EM UP BUSH BANO: will play at a dance organised by West End Campaign Against Nuclear Power. It's on Saturday, October 22 at the Church of England Hall, cnr. Gladstone St. and Vulture St, WEst End. Admission is $2 (or the' employed and $1 for others. GAY BALL; will bo held at Baroona Hall, 17 Caxton St, petrie Terrace, Saturday, 20th October. The band playing is Zero and there'll be a light show and juke box. It's licensed and will cost you $2.50 (f you're a 4ZZZ subscriber or student and $3 if you're not. CAXTON STREET JAZZ BAND: plays at the Caxton Street Community Centre, 17 Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace, every Sunday night - 7.3011pm. It's S4 for new members. $2 for members and $3 for visitors. Also it's licensed. fiiii^fffi CEMENT BOX THEATRE: University ot f), underneath Schonell Theatre. The Shoestring Company with their production "Dames at Sea" (a musical set in the 1930s) will run nightly at 8pm from 4th to I3th October. For bookings ring 269 4623 or 355 2589. The Popular Theatre Troupe will perform their new 'SAYS WHO' show Monday and Tuesday 8th & 9th October between 12 and 3. And the KINETIC DANCE COMPANY comes to the Cement Box on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday - 15th, 16th and 17th October. For more enquiries ring 371 1611. CAMERATA THEATRE (AVALON): Sir Fred Schonell Drive, St. Lucia, ph. 372 4917. It's a muMcal comedy and runs Thursdays to Saturdays at Spm. TWELFTH NIGHT THEATRE: 4 Cintra Read, Bowen Hills, ph. 52 7622. The Brisbane Actor's Compnay with their production, 'ON APPROVAL', will run from 26th September to 13fh October. It's a sparkling comedy for all the family and a feature of Warana. Starts 8.15pm. On the 21st, 22nd and 23rd October a short review titlod 'GREAT BANANA SPUT 2' can be seen. It's produced by Ken Lord and starts 8.15pm. LA BOITE (BRISBANE REPERTORY THEATRE): 57 Hale St, Brisbane, ph 36 162Z The TN UNDERGROUND'S production of GOING BANANAS can be seen til October 13th. It's a selection of 3 Australian plays; BANANAS by Rkhard Bradshaw, CORONERS REPORT by John Summons and THE FLAW by Mil Perrin. Thoy're all comedies. After a short break The Repertory Theatre's THEY SHOOT HORSES DONT THEY will be on. That's from 24th October till 17th Novembw. It's all about a Dance Marathon during the Depression In Anierlca from tlw film by the same name and It starts each night et Spm. SGtO QLD THEATRE COM>ANY: Turbot Street, tho City, ph. 221 3861. The Warana feature, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM wHh the QW. Theatre Co., Q|d, Ballet Co., Youth Ballet & The Qld Opera Company will run till October 6 In Albert Park. The Sydney Dance Company comes to the SGIO with Graeme Murphy's production of RUMOURS between October 3 & 6. It's another Warana attraction. And from the 3lst October till 24th November there's A MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER starring Frank Thring. ARTS THEATRE: 210 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane, ph. 36 2344, running till October 6 is CATHERINE, a play by local playwright, Jill Shearer and directed by Jennifer Radbourne, Then starting Thursday, 11th' October and playing until 10th November is the play WINTER JOURNEY by Clifford Odets. It's a backstage look at the life of an actor and is on Wednesdays to Saturdays at 8pm. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE: Oueen Street, the City. Ph. 221 2777. The QW Light Opera Company's production of WHITE HORSE INN will run from October 4th - 20th nightly at 8 with Saturday matiness at 2pm. ABEL SMITH LECTURE THEATRE: Old University. Each Thursday afternoon at 3pm the English Department presents rehearsed play readings on social/political/llterary themes. Dates and titles for October are: SCHOOLDAYS, SCHOOLDAYS (The Classroom in Literature), 11th - AN •AFTERNOON WITH BERTHOLT BRECHT & 18th - either a Modern Drama or Dream to 1642 classes. ROTORUA MAORI CULTURAL THEATRE: betvireen 27th September and 7th October you can seo this internationally famous group perform for free in King George Square, tha Botanic Gardens and various Shopptog Centres. The daily press will give time and location details. WARANA SENIOR DRAMA FESTIVAL: runs from October 2 to October 6 at The. Park Playhouse, Hampstead Rd, Highgate Hill. Phone 52 3284, for details. BRISBANE CINEMA GROUP: 2nd floor, 303 Adelaide St, Brisbane. Membership is $20 for 21 programs and is available from above address or through the American Bookstore. Here's their program for October: Tuesday 22nd RlFlFI, a Jules Dassin classic crime thriller and Tues. 16th LA GUERRE EST FINIE, a study of a group of Spanish revolutionaries exiled in Par'ts. All screenings are at the Clu brooms - 2nd floor, 303 Adelaide Street. NATIONAL FILM THEATRE OF AUSTRALIA: ts a nonprofit, subscription organisatloa Thair address )$ GPO box 2341, Brisbane, 4001, ph. 36 6958. Subscriptions are $6. Their program for October Is: Wed 3rd TROBRIAND CRICKET (Papua New Guinea) a GAMES OF THE XXI OLYMPIAD (Canada); Mon. 8th THE MOUTHPIECE (USA) and LEO THE LAST (Great Britain) Wed. 10th EFFIE BRIEST (West Germany) Wed. n t h A TOTALLY NEGLECTED GIRL {Germany) T h u n 18th MADAME X - A N ABSOLUTE DICTATOR Sl ERIKA'S PASSIONS Mon 22nd THE POWER OF MEN IS THE PATIENCE OF WOMEN & I OFTEN THINK OF HAWAII Tues 23rd a free GoetheInstitut programme WOMEN AT WAR (West Germany) tha story of a German family in Prague during the war, Mon. 29th Lillian Gish & D.W. Griffith films, UNSEEN ENEMY, NEW YORK HAT, ORPHANS OF THE STORM Wed. 31st LES ENFANTS DU PLACARD & RAFAEL OU LE DEBAUCe (France). All screenings are at Aust. Govt Centre Theatrette, Cnr. Ann a Creek Sts, ph. 36 6958 or 30 2762 ALLIANCE FRANCAISE OE BRISBANE: Presents the film L'IRONIE DU SORT, Wed. 24th October, Spm. The Address - Room 29A, Archibald Court, 21 Adelaide Street, ttie City. The film Is all about a story of the French underground set in Nantes during the German occupation. MORE FRENCH FILMS: Mondays In Room 81, Forgan Smith Building, OkJ. University between 1 and 3 there's full length feature films In French with English subtitles. Monday, 1st October M/LADY Monday 15th October UN ENFANT DANS LA FOULE & Monday, 29th October UNE SI JOLIE PETITE PLAGE. POPULAR THEATRE TROUPE: 60 Waterworks Rd, Ashgrove. Ph. 36 1745. Selected films are screened Sundays at 7pm. October 7 there's DOING TIME - 4 films on life in prison THE JAIL, INSIDE WOMEN INSIDE, ST. THERESE and MAXIMUM SECURITY. Oct. 14th there's two films on Theatre in Education SEEDS OF A NEW LIFE and CLOSE YOUR EYES AND HOLD YOUR STOMACH. SCHONELL THEATRE: University of Qld, St. Lucia ph. 371 1879. Some of October's attractions to the Schonell Include: 1900, L'INNOCENTE, LA VIE PARISIENNE, THE HINTER-A DEERHUNTER, CAREER, IN SEARCH OF ANNA, THE TEPMTER and MAHLER. We suggest you pick up a programme from the University and various shops 'around Brisbane. *iW^iL-,AiRT OLD ART GALLERY: 60 Ann The City, ph. 229 2138. Portraits from a collection of Lady Trout. will be exhibited between 23rd September and 20th October as a special Warana feature. They are by a variety of artists. THE CLOSEBURN GALLERY & TEA HOUSE: is a fun place to visit on Sundays. It's 7 kilometres past Samford on tho road to Oaytxjro, An old Dairy has been converted Into a gallery of arts, crafts and antiques on one side and a sit out area where you can munch on hom made bread or Devonshire Teas on the other. SUNNYBANK GALLERIES: Shauna Downs Shopping Centre, Cnr, Beenleigh Rd, & Wynne St., Sunnybank Hlllj. Ph. 345 6057. During October there will be an exhibition of llthographtv firom America as vvd(ar8tcmiyi Nolan painting TTitdfWt:.K«Uy and Crusade $ariwpit)'',aiMrday & Sunday the 29m aW'30th October a seminar will .be hold at the gallery. Arttstt demonstrating mc/ods." Hex Backhouse-Smith -Watercolours, Tom McCautley -acrylics, Victoria Fonteyn pstels and Rona Powel — pen sketches. Films from Grumbacher will also be shown. For more info, ring the gallery al the above number. THE PADDINGTON GALLERY: 88 Latrobe Tee, Paddington, ph. 36 6362. An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Arthur Gunthorpe will commence SOth September and run till 16th October. Also at Paddington Gallery In Oct. - the Half Dozen group will exhibit a mixture of paintings. Their exhibition runs from I9th October till November. BRISBANE ETHNIC COMMUNITY: has supplied artwork for an exhibition of Ethnic Arts and Crafts sponsored by Warana. It can be seen in the City Hall Supper Room, Adelaide St entrance from 10am October 1-5. Ph. 2250411 for details. EAGLE STREET GALLERY: 72/76 Eagle Street, Brisbane, ph. 229 2140. Paintings by Lola Thompson will be exhibited from 23rd September till 13th October. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10-5pm, Saturday 10an>12 noon, and Friday evenings 7-10 pm. INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART: 24 Market Street, Brisbane. An exhibition of photographs by Glen O'Malley will be shown from 2nd October till 23rd October. The title is "4 Months in North Qld". It's a photographic account of his travels. 1 . •o: Vl 1 STUDIO HOOKEY MADOOK: is a new concept in exhibiting the arts and promoting the efforts of unknown artists and designers. Its address Is 81 Margaret St, Brisbane. They stay open till 9pm FrWay nights and until 4 on Sundays. Also, If you're an artist, interested in displaying work, ring them on 379 3456. ARTISAN GALLERY: 10 Lambert Road, Indooroopilly, exhibits paintings ceramics silver jeweJIery, crafted furniture, creative patchwork, hand-printed fabrics and individually made clothes and accessories. It's open Mondays to SatunJays - 9.30am-4.30pm. Ci«is^»^iMii:i;f CHILDREN BY CHOICE: 97 Moggill Road, Taringa. Pregnancy and Abortion advice every weekday morning and Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening. Phone 371 5477 for an appointment. PREGNANCY CONTROL: Abortion referral centre, incorporating pregnancy help and advice. Mon, Tuos Thurs and Friday 9am5pm also Wed 4pm-8pm and Sat 9am-12pm. Focalpoint Arcade, 249 Brunswick 'St. Fortltutle Valley. Phone 521444. WOMENS HOUSE: 31 Bartley St, Spring Hill. Sen/ices include shelta accommadation, support and advice for women in violent domestic situations. Phone 229 592Z SELF HELP GROUP: for families of prisoners meet every Thursday at 10am In tho East Brisbane • Community Centre, 2 GtflShdm St, East Brisbane ph 391 7116. BB 38 vs UNEMPLOYED WORKERS UNION: If you're unemployed and live in the M/l ton-Rosafie area, the Rosalie-Milton self help employment cooperative meets every week to discuss problems and share any jobs they get. For information phone Mai McKenna on 36 5119 or U W U 221 3190. • ' • WOMENS COLLECTIVE UNEMPLOYED WORKERS UNION: Directs its energies towards the needs of women whose only source of income is state benefit, includes studenis, supporting mothers and all pensioners. They meet every Thurs. at I t e m on the Ist floor. Trades Hall. For information phone Kathy on 52 4866 or U.W.U. 229 3190. UNIVERSITY LEGAL AID SERVICE: Open lo non-students as well as students, Mon, Wed and Fri 10am-4pm. Phone 371 1611 ask for Legal Aid. CAMPUS LESBIANS: meet every Thursday at 1pm and 7pm in tho Women's Rights Room, University of Queensiand. For info.' phone 371 1611 (Business hoursL FAMILY DAY CARE SCHEME: Family Day Care is the care of small groups of children in private homes. It is based on the principle that young children need a continuing relationship with the same adults each day. Standards of care have been set by tho Dept. of Childrens Services to protect the rights of children in Family Day Care. All rnothets minding children must bo registered with the Dept. of Childrens Services. For more information ririg you local Family Day Cane coordinator: CARINA 398 1215, EAST BRISBANE 391 4130. GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY 275 7111, INALA 372 1557, LADY UOWRIE 52 8799, NEWMARKET 356 7333. PINE RIVERS 205 2322, QLD UNIVERSITY 371 1611 ext. 33, REDCLIFFE 225. 2715, VALLEY/NEW FARM 353 4008, WEST END 44 4014 WOODRIDGE 208 • 7700. TRANSPORT TO PRISON FARMS: a group of people in Brisbane are organising transport to Wacol Prison Farm and Palen Creek Prison Farm for families arxl friends who have difficulty getting there. Ring Rick Sheehan on 576 122 on Thursday afternoons only for the details. CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: gives advice and information In any subject under the sun. If they can't help they'll refer you to an organisation that can. Address Is 168 Ann St, Brisbane ph. 229 5798. LEGAL A I D : for free advico and service to all members of the public on any sort of legal problem. There are 3 offices In the Brisbane area - 160 Ann Street, the City (ph, 229 2944), Civic Centre Inala (ph. 372 4944) and at 4 Nicholas St, Ipswich (ph, 281 0033). HUMANIST SOCIETY OF QLD: 461 Ann Street, Brisbane. The aim of the society is to encourage a rational approach to human problems; to promote the fullest possible use of science for human welfare, and to provide a constructive alternative to theological end dogmatic creeds. Every Wednesday night thay have Sex and Relationship Counselling!. Other services Include Humanist Marriage Celebrants and Funeral Services. Phone them on 390 1624. MIGRANT INFORMATION SERVICE: Commonwealth TIME OFF October 1979 Bank Building, 240 Queen St, Brisbane. Phone 226 3100, has an Interpreting service to migrants in most languages. mmt: i d IIM WOMEN BEHIND BARS; agitating for better conditions for women in prison. Groups need assistance both personal and financial. Open to anyone interested 'in improving cof\ditions for women in jail. Contact MaryTheresa, cA Womens House, ph 229 5922. THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER: in Qid has well over 1000 paid up memetxirs and many thousdan supporters throughout ihe state, but this concern is not always reflected in anti-nuclear activity. We urge all people wlsnmg to STOP nuclear power and uranium mining to attend meetings held on the third Tuesday of each monih at jom a group. Each group adopts three prisoners. By letterwfiting io the authorrtie.'! and publicity on behalf ol the prisnoers. the group trios to obtain their release. A group subscription is $25. Amnesty Internationars address is 272 Pntriu Terrace, Brisb.ini;. Ph. 221 0221. They're open 10am •3pm Monday to Friday and they've recenily opened an " o p " shop - 2nd hafKf bargains, with proceeds going to tho organ isation. I^Ji m i WORKERS AGAINST URANIUM MINING: will meet at Trades Hall 6pm Wednesday, October 3. CAMPAIGN AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER: will hold their Amua\ General Meeting at the Friends Meeting House, 10 Hampson St, Kelvin Grove Saturday, 6th October, 2pm. It'll be followed by a bar-beque. Ring CANP on 221 0188 for more info. LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST ORGANISATION: have organised a Public Lecture entitled 'YOU CAN BLOW UP A SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP: AN ANARCHIST CASE AGAINST TERRORISM Towards the Defeat of the Gulag and CIA? Pentagon Archipelagos' at 1pm, Wednesday, September 26 in tho AJ Ryan Room, Qld University Union. Lecturer is Brian Laver. J47 Ann St, City or ph 221 0188 for further information; PROJECT JONAH: 25 Leichardt Street, Spring Hill meet on the first and third Wednesday of each month to organise functions and disseminata Information about Whales and Dolphins. Anyone Interested in becoming involved in the Jonah Project please phone Mai Cox on 379 9436. LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST ORGANISATION: L.S.O. believe in direct democracy based on a federation of workers and community councils with equal decision nnaking and equal wages for each person. If you'd like to find out more about the Libertairan Socialist on tha 26th July they are getting together with the Friends of the Earth and othar Libertairans for a free manifestation or you can write to them at P.O. Box 223, Broadway 4000. SELF MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION: is an anarchist, communist group aimed at forming a grasroots struggle outside any government framework. Thoy claim not to be a political party. You can write to tham at P.O. Box 332, North Quay 4000. Although they havo not printed literature for sale, thay promote and support anarchist litsrature at the Red and Black Bookshop. "^ ^ ^ AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: is a worldwide huni.m rinhts rnoverncnls which is indei«in dont ol any govornrnont, political 'action, ideology or religious crL'ed. It works for thu rclojse of inun and wom(!n imprisoned anyv.iiaro for thuir boliols, colour, ethnic ori()in or religion. It's (in.incud by individual subscriptions .ind donations. You can subscribi? to Amni'sly Iciornyiional for $16 or $6 if you're a stutluni or unemployed. Or you could DOWN TO EARTH FAIR: held at ORLEIGH PARK, West End on the 2nd Saturday of each Month. There's all sorts of arts and crafts, info on alternative lifestyles, music, activities for the children and more. If you'd like ot know more about the Down to Earth fairs ring 372 5693. CAXTON STREET COMMUNITY CENTRE: Baroona Hall, 17 Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace, ph. 360 297, bocomes alive on Sundays. Between Sam and noon there's a flea market — books, plants, bric-a-brac, groat morning teas and much more. Between 1 and 5 there's an Art and Craft Market and you can see live jazz music from 7.30-11pm, TRASH AND TREASURE: Every Sunday at Woolworths Shopping Centre, Logan Rd. Mt. Gravatt and an Ampol Service Centre, Bruce H'way, Aspley you can stroll through dozens of stalls selling second hand goods. They're basically flea markets where anybody can rent a stall for a small fee. If you're a bargain hunter they could be worth a try. MARKET ON THE MOUNTAIN: every Sunday at Cloudland Ballroom, Bowen Hills there's a market. Occasionally there are some interesting craft stalls. DAYBORO ' COUNTRY MARKET: Another market but with a difference. Stallholders are encouraged to wear colonial dress, there will be historical displays arxl musicians as well as a whole range of arts and crafts, homegrown produce, antiques, plants, herbs, wholefoods etc. The market opens in a butter factory at Dayboro Sunday, October 28. For more information (especially if you'd like to hold a stall) ring 38 2207 or 36 1355. «#PS a cLiiiii TARINGA GROWTH CENTRE: 24 Moorak St, Taringa ph. 371 5576. Runs lectures on various topics of awareness in our society today, eiwery Friday night at 7pm. The Centre also has a weekend workshops in the field of personal awareness through to healing. WOMEN'S CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE: 101 Wynnum Rd. Norman Park, have craft classes in a wide variety of arts and crafts, discussion groups and they produce Women's Liberation newsletters. Their phone number is 399 5554. AUST. CHINA SOCIETY: will hold a dinner to celebrate the SOth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The venue is the QIT Staff Club, George St, the time 7.30pm and the date 6th October. Vice Chancellor of the Griffith Uni, Professor Willett Is the guest speaker and there's cultural activities and a 5 course Chinese banquet. For bookings ring 374 1271 or 378 1407 or write to the Australian China Society, P.O. Sox 360, North Quay, a 4001, enclosing your $10 per person or $6 for pensioners, students and unemployed. ADVENTURERS CLUB: Brisbane Jazz Club & Riverside Folk Club. They have many varied activities, extonded ond weekend trips, courses and social functions. Age group is 18 years and over and the cost of membership is $25. Clubs are at 1 Annio St, Kangaroo Point. Como along any Wc-'",''''V"^/:>-'" ST LUCIA Something ugly is happening to ducklings on the uni lake. No sooner have they come out from under mother's wing than they're in a pelican's beak - that is if they haven't already had their toes nipped off by an eel. If they make it back to the shore they face being kidnapped by Sunday school picnickers, who lure the little creatures with grain. In one grim October week the brood of twelve ducklings pictured below vanished. Meanwhile Neville Bailey, controller of maintenance, says "nothing ever happens to the ducklings. I have never once heard of people taking them." We have eye-witness reports of duckling-snaffling from journalism students, .and you know you can always believe a journo. EDIfl^NI OCTOBER-1979 Students t o assess staff? BY GAIL FURNESS AND JENNY MCDONALD Future students at Queensland University may take part in the assessment of their lecturers and tutors, if new Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Wilson has his way. Student assessment of academics was one of many changes to university administration suggested by Professor Wilson in an interview with Write-Off. He made further recommendations in a statement to the Senate. The statement, which was circulated to all university departments, also indicated the kind of atmosphere he eventually hoped to create, despite morale-lowering cutbacks in university funding. The perspective of the ViceQiancellor, who has been al QU for six months, is very much that of the senior administrator of a large complex, organisation. In such a perspective the interests of students become just another factor in assessing the needs of the university. In his paper Professor Wilson wrote: "What we have to find are strategies for improving quality and developing academic excitement in our departments, at a time when a natural reaction is to become depressed about the future." WRITE-OFF asked the Vice-Chancellor how he felt these proposed changes would affect students, what their role would be in any changes, and what Ihe position of siudents would be in times of financial cutbacks. What emerged seemed to indicate that despite a liberal outlook on assessment, Ihc view from the 'top' seldom seemed to encompass the welfare, needs or rights of students. PICTURE: BRIAN BALWIN Legal aid work harming law careers The Vice-Chancellor did, however, say that he hoped the benefits would eventually "dissfminatc down" This is not to say the administration is antithetical to the student interest: it is just that the benefits which the proposed changes are assumed to bring are never examined from the student point of view. Students working in the University of Queensland's Legal Akl Service have been told that contact with such a 'bodgie organisation' could be held against them in their careers. The director of the Legal Aid Service, Mr. Noel Nunan, said this advice had been given by a n-i--..- Jli-'! •« Brisbane solictor to parents of students. The advice reflected the extreme conservatism of many members of the legal profession in Queensland, and their concern at legal services being provided without charge, he said. The lepl profession in otlicr states were much "lore aware of the social P^?^l«"" *]if* ^°f^ '"' he ped by the setting up ^^f^^ >:^ centres. The law school at the University of New South Wales actively promoted legal '*^T.,«"Ht!':„,?,L'^nr ^.J^^soulh" w S sujpijjj students to both Macquarie and Redfem legal aid centres and law lecturers took an active part in these centres, Mr Nunan said. More students at the Umversity of New South Wales have applied to work in legal aid centres than could be placed, according to Vernoica Lalethin, a third year student at UNSW. However, at QU only six students out of a total enrolment of 1000 law students at Queensland University were working in legal aid, Mr Nuna revealed. Only one lecturer, Mr Chris McKelvie, has worked at the Legal Aid Service at QU, AU lectiuers in the law school had been approached. A final year QU law student, Richard Oliver, claimed most law students found the law course at QU too timeconsuming to allow for any extra activity, Many law students said their main concern PAGE 10 Overall, students are not seen as either direct beneficiaries or participants in the proposed changes. Professor W'ison is not opposed to student participation or student needs, but his attitudes show that students need their own voice to fight for their particular interests, not only within the univera'ty, but on other political decisions affecting their interests - such as TEAS or the re-introduction of fees. Cont. on page 4 The Service received a grant from the Students' Union last year of $30,000 and employs a full-time solicitor, a fulltime secretary, and a solicitor who works three days a week. •"• • iijiiijiiJiUiiiiiiiiiiiiiijjitJiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiintnitiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiititiiHiiiiiiiiHHiiiniiiiiiiii^ I was to get through theu^ course and start making money. The Legal Aid Service was foimded by Mr Nunan in 1975. He is an arts/law graduate from tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii PAGE3 Is there life after graduation? liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiJiiiiiJininiiiiniiiiiiiijjitiiiiiHiiHniiiiiiiiiHniiitnitiiiiiiiitiiiiiiMmiiMitmiiiiiiiiitH iiiiiiin iiii 4 inii i iiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiitiiiiiHiiiii PAGE 16 PSYCH DRAMA: ESSAYS GONE Last page iiiiiiiiniiiiiiniitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiKHiiiitniniiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiimtiiiiiiiiii^ | r Page 2 THE INSIDE PAGE The Premier, Mr Bananas, was an unexpected guest at the Annual Country Banana Peeling Contest held in City Hall, Thargomindah, last week. The fremier entered the peeling contest. Needless lo say the Premier, being the fastest skinner in the bunch, peeled in an incredible 3.4678 seconds, much to the delight of a collection of Cane Toads who had gathered to witness the swearing in ceremony of Split llinze, the new rock (smashing) ftroup. 'I'he loDds later took up a collection to send tlie i'remicr to next world championships, being held in Ghana Banana, later this century. The University hierarchy is not happy with staff members in the Michie Building, According lo a recent circular, last year's electricity bill for that building alone was 540,000. The total hill was 5860,000. The director of the buildings and grounds section has suggested that staff should not make unnecessary demands on electricity _ especially between 10am and 4pm. Journalism Sludies, on the lower floors of Michie, uses almost no electricity. Reds are everywhere department: Our favourite exlay preacher and current radio talk-back voice - front man for somebody or other's Brisbane - once ran for state parliament as a Labor Party candidaic. He lost narrowly. The Griffith Uni lunch-box snatcher (see page 11) has a younger sibling. Student al Ctairvaux College (Mt Gravatt Catholic Boys School) had liis lunch stolen every day for a week. lie got his revenge on the following .Monday when he replaced ilis asual Vegemite vvith a .spread of laxative. After his lunch was stolen again, and Ihe culprit was caught spending an uncomfortable afternoon in the toilet block. Does (hat help at all, Griffith? Some people are occasionally possessed by an extremeley urgent desire to point the bone at our politicos. (Especially aboriginal recipients of the nonGlaucoma treatment plant. To those, we suggest a trip to the Queensland University's department of journalism. There are a number of bones being pointed all the time, and several arc for hire or lease. Kadaitcha men, bone clutched firmly in hand, have been obscene stalking the corridors of learning. These are the real old time witch doctors. They are credited with having the power of Ufe and death over their followers or acolytes. The idea of a visit is to support the move AFTERNOON SO API E fans will be glad to hear Nine is running a competltbn In which viewers are aiked to recall the storylines of Days of Our Lives for the last five years. Firsl prize is a complete film copy of General Hospital and a year's supply of Valium. UP THE ROAD AT SEVEN, the emphasis it on news. . .The Channel hat jutt completed a hush-huth deal for a Conoordt tuper- Sonw professranal rugby league players have found a good way to make money out of Sodal Services. Tiic players chose to defer weekly match payments and collect their money as a lump sum. This allowed them to receive the dole for all but the week the lump sum was picked up. As the dole is a minimum of S.'>1.45 a week and the football season lasted some 20 weeks, that gave the players the chance to make some SIOOO. Noticed that the Telegraph and CourierMail are underlining large numbers of their headlines? Could it be because no one was paying attention to tiiem before? I hear that soon they'll be issuing free rulers to .slap the wrists of non-attenders. Playboy is wellknown for its amazing straddling of the double standard. But how do you like this — a recent centrefold subject was quoted as saying her greatest dislike was voyeurism. FOR NATURE LOVERS. it's rumoured .'Aal did some investigative reporting on that rarely-seen nocturnal native species King's . Crossius Flirtcous. LATEST in the series of US superspecials is "Network Battle of the Stars Hollywood Celebrity Roast". The casts of Eight Is Enough and the Muppet Show do battle to find out who really are the puppets; Charlie's Angels expose Wondcrwoman as Colombo in drag; Grizzly Adams finds romance with a Russian circus bear in the Love Boat; and Quincy beats the MASH stars in a half-hour autopsy search for Gomer Pylc's brain. for an independent dcparlmcnt, in the hope that journalism traditions will survive and he pissed along lo younger generations. THE TV ratings battle hots up again this week. sonic jet, which will enable their on-thespot news gathering team to break stories BEFORE they happen I That's one better than O's live-eye submarine. The ABC is countering by putting a new lens in their box-Brownies. MEANWHILE, the whisper from the Mountain h that Channel Nine will scoop the ratings pool with an in-depth documentary, "The Laylow Brothert Hit the Big Smoke". IN THEIR latest expose, Mike and Mai take their four-wheel drive into the wilds of Sydney and their zoom lenses into the very innards of the Bullock's Kidney. 2 WRITE OFF OCTOBER 1979 Poor old Aunty ABC is a surefire chance lo maintain her unbeaten record of losing every survey since she kicked up her skirts and turned on her transmitter almost 20 years ago. A WELLKNOWN QUIZ show mogul has made a pilot program called Mastermouth. Guest panelists will compete against one another to talk the studio audience to sleep. In the scenes I previewed, Diana Pisher just managed to beat Bernard King. CHANNEL O'S SECRET WEAPON for the turvey battle it believed to be the 32nd rerun of ''QiHigan't Itland". Ferretarta heard that the Broadcasting RubberStamp Tribunal gaw a "C dassificatkin to tha programma. Law grad aims for African parit BYJUNECUMiVllNGS The outcome of the Zimbabwe constitution talks in London will affect the future of Columbo Plan student Godfrey Chanetsa. Born in Zimbabwe of school teacher parents, Mr Chanetsa considers himself privileged but says he realises that this carries responsibilities. "In a developing African counlry where there is no parliamentary syslein of opposition parlies, sliulcMts play an opposilion role and speak lor the people," he said. Mr Chanetsa said Soutii Africa .siudents were politically aciive and saw their role as a conlrolliny force on yovernmcnl. While studying law at Ihc University of Zambia, Mr Chanetsa said he could speak oul aliout events in Rhodesia and .South Africa. "This was during the Angolan War and we feci wc influenced the Zambian attitude to that war," he said. "We were also concerned about the way Zambia was developing and tlie multi-national rip-offs. These things wc demonstrated against," "1 think studenl political activity should be taken to violent ends if there is no other way. In Rhodesia and South African societies, there is no other way than by force." "The conference on Rhodesia is a result of violence, ll was the impact of siudents that deposed Haile Sclasce," he said. Godfrey Chanetsa has few studcni friends. He finds living in Queensland "very boring". He said thalAuslralian students, unlike their British and American counterparts, were ignorant of and unable to discuss African or overseas affairs. Mr Chanetsa said that this was due to isolation and media coverage of African affairs. "There is an intentional way of reporting that looks down on anything African," he said. "This is reflected in ihc Australian attitude - many people approach me 10 ask What do you think of Idi Amin?" According to Mr Chanetsa the average Australian sludeni is politically uninformed. "There is a pretence here that everything is okay. There is no place where everything is all right. Students have lo involve ihemselves with social issues." "Take the aboriginal situation. I think they are one of the mosl oppressed groups in Ihe world. My oppression has been nothing com- there is no chance to build a new Aborigine. But education may help him to relate his past to his prcsenl." Mr Chanetsa would like to promote the aboriginal cause at ComAborigine say that in monwealth level. This desire fits in with English. But tribal origins are their only form of his long term objective identity and it represents to gain a seat in a newlyZimbabwe a rejection of the white constituted man's identity," he said. government. He is confident the conference in The African identily, London will achieve Chanetsa explained, was agreement on a constia new concept of recon- tution. ciling some of the old With this committkinship values with an ment Godfrey Chanetsa educated progressive aims to complete a two idcnlity, to create a new year Master Degree in man. Social Planning in the "The idea of people Netherlands before regoing back to roots is turning home. disappointing," Mr "Then, as a Chanetsa said. privileged person with "There will never two degrees, there is so '~again be a traditional much I could and must Aborigine in this land. do," he said. Being an isolated group THE NEWS partHi to the Australian aborigine," said Mr Chanetsa. "Their main disadvantage, compared to the black South African, is that their labour is nol in demand. Nobody wants il. The South African Government wQl forever rely on bltick labour. This realisation, plus the learning of new low-lcvcl technical skills is raising the consciousness of blacks and their white oppressors. The aborigine does not even have this role." , , "Going back to tribal life is a mylh. ll is a contradiction to hear an Wtiumi asssssss: WRITE OFF vol 1 no 1 was produced by second year journalism students at Queensland Universitv with a little help from our friends: Marie Blanch (typesetting) Matt Mawson (graphics) Nick Udovic (photo processing) Tim Low (graphics) Rob Cameron (organisation) Third-year journalisrn'students (feature-writing) (headlines) Editors: see .Last Look, back page. , ssssssssssssssssSsssssss DfaBeinit. Qld academic lashes out at uni tenure criticism Clainris of academic incompetence in Australian Universities have been rejected by a prominent Queensland academic. Dr Paul Reynolds, president of the UniverDr Reynolds said thai Senate on July 26th that sity of Queensland Staff the concept of academic he saw evaluation of staff performance as part Association. was tenure had been tradiapplied by of the accountability answering criticisms tionally process within the inmade by Dr David Kipp governments of all shades of political opinion. stitution. of Murdock University While permanent "It helps each of us in Western Australia. tenure had been almost improve our work and {Letters to tbe Editor, automatic in the past, raises morale," he said. Australian, July 28). it was the policy of the "University teaching is However, Mr Eugene Federation of Australian a fairly unique kind of president Univetsity Staff AssociaO'Sullivan, occupation. In few other of the Students' Union tion (FAUSA) tliat staff jobs is it assumed that of the University of should be tenured only individuals can perform Queensland, said aca- after a rigorous prowell wilhout training. demic incompetence was bationary period. "Somehow, the posa matter of concern for session of a Masters students in many TRADITION degree or a PhD is different courses. expected lo carry with Dr Reynolds desLecturers and above it, as a bonus, teaching cribed claims of incom- were under probation competence." petency as "bogus jar- for three years, after The Vice-ClianccUor gon, a whole farrago of which they had a right said the expectation unsubstantiated alle- to expect some measure existed that individuals gations by an academic of job security. without teaching exfrom a small Western Professor Brian perience were able to Australian university that Wilson, Vice-Chancellor perforin nol just adecan not be applied to of the Umversity of quately bul well. the academic profession Queensland told a Dr Reynolds said as a whole." meeting of the University that academic staff Psych drama: essays gone BY PETER ADAMS Forty-six essays are missing from the Psychology Department. The essays, for first-year subject PY 102, are worth 50 per cent of the subject's total marks, and precede a final exam with the same weighting. The essays were due asking why there was in two weeks later. He also in on October 9. adequate security in the suggested that the Students were to leave Undergraduate Course department may pro-rate them in a padlocked Centre. the essay mark off the metal strongbox in an Psych tutor Rob exam rate, as there was open room in the Under- O'Shea who phoned usually a high correlagraduate Course Centre. students the following tion rate between them. Staff believe someone weekend advising them Mr McBain .said the tipped the box to make of the essays disaster, the papers fall back out was tight-lipped when disappearance of such a of the chute. Write-off talked to him. large number of essays The essays were prob- He referred us to flie was "most uncommon". ably taken sometime late Course Controller for In the fulure, essays in the afternoon or early the subject, Dr Boris would be received, as evening. Crassini. well as distributed, in Psych staff think it Dr Crassini was as tutorials, allowing better could be a student prank equally guarded. Asked supervision, he said. taken too far, or the what would happen to At present the fullwork of a student trying the assessment of the time attendant at the to boost his or her own students involved, Dr Undergrad Course assessment. Crassini said: "Wc'lj Centre was on vacation The dissapperance of tell that to the students." and the centre was being the essays has upset The head of the Psy- supervised by tutors on many of the studenis. chology Department, Mr a rotation system. DeNot only are they un- J.D. McBain, denied pending on fulure staff sure about what they will rumours that students cuts, the present system have to do lo replace would have to resubmit may become permanent. the essays, but the delay the essay. "It's an anomalous in finding out their He said they could position as to whether marks has interrupted submit their notes, or we're being screwed or their study schedules. possibly submit another they are," Mr McBain Students are also essay on .another topic said. Australian students should study African music, according to a world authority on ethnomusicology who visited Qld uni this semester. Professor Kwsbana Nketia, one of the founders of Ihe study of ethnomusicology, was visitiqg the university's Depvtment of Music. Professor Nketia is director of the Institute of African Studies in music. The Amencan Africa to study the Ghana, the African Per- music that Westerner's musical forms, "It is this exchange forming Arts Group and listen to is particularly the Dance Company of influenced by African' that makes the use of Ghana. He is the Chair- beat and rhythm," Prof music important in the process of change and man of the Arts Coimcil f^etia said. "In terms of people's transformation," Prof of Ghana. interest in jazz and rock, Nketia said. 1 think some A member of the TRY introduction to African Ashanti tribe of Ghana, music would be imPtofessoT Nketia's inEthnomusicology was portant. Western rock & terest in ethnomusicthe study of the oral jazz music has its roots ology began with the traditions, as well as the in Africa, but this is not music of his own peopte. written forms of music. realised." He has written several T^ofessor TTkiotia said. books, the most recent Professor Nketia said The oral traditions in he believed the influence being "The Music of music were uncommon of African music was Africa." to western forms of growing, particularly in music. By Marcus Breen America. American musi"Wa are surroanded dans vegularly went to by forms of African BONGO IN THE CONGO - YEAH! favour the Vice-Chcncellor's proposal of an on-going evaluative process. "But no purpose is served by a witch-hunt." He said that continual assessment of academic staff took place for promotion purposes. Dr Reynolds said that the evaluation of an academic's performance should be a tripartite process involving peers, superiors and students. While students, as the consumers, had a right to an input, a process in- volving only them would lead lo a bad evaluation he said. Mr O'Sullivan said that this year the Union had undertaken a series of counter-faculty or alternative handbooks to be compiled from questionnaires which had been circulated to first and second year students in order to evaluate the courses, lecturers and tutors. By John van Blommestein Refec pricesf staff eat for less BY SHEREE TAYLOR SPECIALIST MEDICO URGENTLY NEEDED FOR UNI SPORTS By WENDY DIXON and JULIE ANN HART The university health service urgently needs a specialist in sports medicine to cope with an increasing number of sports injuries among students. But the service cannot childhood and family, or to do with what's hapget, the money it needs pened previously in their from the uni either to lives. M.irital problems employ the extra doctor are also very worr>ing. or to give her space to "Often parents have work in. high expectations of children, while Acute illnesses, viral their infections, glandular some studenis have very fever, accidents, contra- high cxpeclalions of ception and .stress, arc themselves and get dissome of the other typical tressed if they feel they reasons for student visits are not meeting the reto the health service. quirements." According lo health The health service needs n new service director Dr. Janet badly Irwin, studies have building and extra staff shown that between 10 according to Dr. Irwin, Dr. Irwin said a new to IS per cent of students have some mild building had stayed on to serious disabling the drawing board for stress. the past five years. "There has been the "We'd like another occasional suicide and staff member, especially that's a great worry to someone who specialises us. This is not common, in sports medicine bebut most year's there's cause we gel a lot of one," she said. sports injuries, but the However, Dr. Irwin university doesn't have said there was no more the funds, nor do . we stress at Qld Uni than have the room. anywhere else. "However, they do "It's obvious studenis support us adequately are more disabled by for the staff we've got." psychological and emoTwo full-time and two tional problems than are part lime doctors are manual workers, because employed, with three if you are under psy- visiting psychiatrists and chological stress, it is a clinical psychologist, as very difficult to concen- well as one part-time trate on your studies. and two full-time nursing "Considering the sisters. All the staff are paid number of students here, it is remarkable how well by the university through grant. most of them cope. Of a government "We don't have the course, you can't blame the university for every- time or the staff to do thing. Students should more than wc do now," work out a rea.sonable Dr. Irwin said. "In a year about program for them25,000 people pass selves. , "Also I think some tlirougli our doors, for students have left eitiier medical or nursing over problems from services." The University or Queensland Union will hold a Special Election Meeting on Thursday, November 8. The meeting is to be held in the E.G. Whitlam Room at 6.15pm. Non voting positions to be held are as follows: (2) Assistant Union Secretaries (1) Women's Rights Organiser (part time pakl position) (1) Chairperson of Council (1) Rep. on the Board Rumours that students are paying more for their daily bread than the administration staff are always doing the rounds at QU, Write-Off investigated and found the rumours have more than just gossip value. While the two studenl refectories, the Students' Union refectory and the Biological Sciences refectory charge .'55 to 60 cents for sandwiches and rolls, the staff canteen is charging 35 lo 40 cents for the same items. Mr H.B. Green, administration registrar, said thre should be a move to stop students using the staff canteen. "After all, students do have their own facilities," he said. are But students NO COMPARISON The manager of tne Staff canteen, Mr Denis Simocas, believes one reason could be the inexperience of those running the refectories. Mr Simocas has been in the business for 35 years. "They try hard but I don't thmk you can expect any more from them,"he said. Mr Allan Shawcross, for the manager Students' Union refectory, said there was "no comparison" between the refec prices and those charged by the staff canteen. "The Refec runs at a loss, there is no profit," he said. "That's why, we liave to be subsidised by the Students' Union fees to the tune of $100,000". Mr Shawcross suggested that the staff canteen enjoyed benefits that were not available to either of the students refecs. usually on very limited budgets. If they can save up to 20 cents on a sandwich - well, why not? If Mr Green wants studenis to stop using Ihe staff canteen he could do one of two things: •Make sure the staff canteen prices are brought more into Une with prices charged by the two student refecs, 0/ *Get the adminislration to give the students' refecs the same benefits the staff canteen obviously enjoys. Both ffie stiideni refecs are responsible for all their service charges and the Biological Sciences refec has to pay rental lo the Siudents Union. But what aboul the staff canteen? Wliile the administration doesn't interfere with the running of the student refectories il PRICES TIED The manager of the certainly does with the Biological Sciences refec, staff canteen. Mrs Margschinke, said The interference she was surprised when seems to take the form told of the price dif- of .the dictating of cerferences between the tain prices, low rental staff canteen prices and and a smaU subsidy. those charged by the two Obviously the refecs. administration doesn't "Our prices are tied mind subsidising the staff to those of the Union canteen so staff can have refec because we lease low prices. However, it the building from the won't subsidise the IJnion," she said. .students refectories. UNION HOLDS SPECIAL of Governors of inlernational House (1) Union Transport Officer (1) Legal Aid Director (1) Union Nights Convenor (1) Guest Speakers Convenor (1) Assistant Chairperson of Council (1) Film Director (1) Video Director (1) Environment Of. ELECTION MEETING ficer (1) Electoral Officer (3) Deputy Electoral Officers (1) Music Room Director (1) Incoming Delegations Officer (2) Student reps, on the Board of Campus Travel Membership of various committees will also be elected. Nominations close at the start of the Special Election Meeting. Full details are available in a currently circulating Mini Sepmer, or from Annette Read, Union Secretary. WRITE OFF OCTOBER 1979 3 —V/I&Vf^eJ-- Prof Wilson.. .unis as ogres Here is what Prof. Wilson had to say. Have you found the climate VH Queensland favourable toward the University? More than I'd expected. I've travelled fairly extensively along the Coast with the graduation ceremonies and the External Studies programs. Through these I've met many leaders of the community and all are very positive. And certainly people that I've interacted with in Brisbane seem more positively inclined than I'd thought. Universities are not very popular anywhere these days; they're seen as ogres that eat vast sums of public money and turn out unemployable graduates. FROM PAGE 1 It seems to me, one might be able to do with less overall adminislration if you have people who are in the job for five years, and who interact directly with department heads and who are there long enough lo know intimately the details of the departments, and their needs and priorities, and to make some assessment of those. So my feeling is that it will, in fact, lead lo less administration. The number of committees that operate in this institution is incredibly large. Less money for quality education if the student can be assiu-ed of confidentiality. There hasn't been enougha ssessment in the place. We can hardly resist attempts by the What about the rela- ouiside world lo call for tive important you give us to be accountable if to research and teaching? we don'l have some care fn your Senate paper you in how wc do things implied they arc of equal ourself. But i don't value but earlier this year think you can use you said teachers could accountability criteria Have your proposed be of limited, short-term which relate to business, changes to the adminisvalue only? industry, or anything tration to do with the There are some people outside. Whal I want lo fact that there has been who don'l do very much do is make the place a c'Uback in financing research and yet remain more accountable interor to do with the need for change in the vivy tlw very good teachers. But nally. But I'm not inil requires a lot of effort terested in having poUadministration is orto maintain oneself a- ticians come in to ganised? breal of one's discipline I think what I'm so one can talk of one's evaluate us. trying to suggest is a subject the way it is now. What is your position belter system to operate Subjects like physics and on students participating in whenever one has a chemistry have lotally in univcrsily decisionvery large, complex changed since I learned making? university. But the rele- them. I've been used to a vant aspect is the fact One of the best recog- system when there's been that money is very light. Revenue is going to dec- nised ways of main- significant student input. At one time it was very rease in real terms one or taining oneself abreast of two per cent a year, one's discipline is to fashionable to participate aclually do research in il, but nowadays very few whereas the salary bill studenis have the time of the University tends to and publish material that increase something of can be criticised by other or wanl to spend the people. There is really an time necessary lo make that order a year. onus on a university in- welWnformed judgeTherefore whal is hap- dividual in research and ments, pening, and what has teaching positions to let 1 know that in the happened over the lasl his or her work be critiUniversity 1 was at, four or five years, is cised. Simon Fraser, was one that the proportion of of the most active in the university budget What is your attitude terms of sludent poUallocated to salaries has tics. A quarter of the been going up. This towards tenure? I've got nothing governing body wcr? means less money availstudents. They were very able for materials, sup- againsi tenure, but I active and so forth, but plies, library books and think it might become as time went on fewer all the things that re- tougher to get. 1 think late to the quality ofthe il is too easy lo get here, and fewer people would run because they found education of the people. because I don't think one has the data base on that to do the job one can make the properly they had lo Will your proposals which best decision for the spend a vast amount of for restructuring the cur- university carly in time at it. Sludenis, by rent organisation of this somebody's so career. and large, have become university mean more or think wc should gelI more career oriented all fewer administrators? tougher. over the world. You I hope eventually it find it very difficult to will mean far less. At the find well-informed Would you like to moment we have a students who are variety of committees, involve students in the prepared to participate. some of which meet a process of a.'iscssment? lot. A lot of people arc Yes. People seem to AI the recent lied up with basically ad- Ihink Itiut asking the Australian Vice-Chanministrative decisions. students is the last thing cellor 's Committee They arc only elected for Ihcy ought lo do in meeting, it was stated one or two years and so lerms of assc.s.sing thai the committee suj>liavc little continuity in leaching abilily. I'm used poried a major review the system. This means lo a fairly elaborate they have lo learn the student evaluation. These of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme whole system, use it for things are always very (TKAS). Wliat is your a relatively short period scary and frightening to position on this? and then they're out do: frightening for the and someone else comes academic staff more than I certainly think thai in. for the studcni, I think. there should be. I 4 RIGHT OFF OCTOBER 1979 haven't looked inlo il in dclail, but il is clear from what I know of TEAS that there seems lo be no increase in TEAS allowances. It seems to me to be a very unfortunate occurrence, ll essentially stops people going fulltime to university if they can't maintain themselves at some reasonable level. People are now looking into a possible form of loans, but students are opposed to loans rather than grants because they have to pay them back. And that's a reasonable position lo take. But I think that the important thing from the governments' point of view is to provide the opportunity for studenis to maintain Ihemselves while Ihey are at univcrsily. Would the introduction of fees turn universities into elitist institutions? I don't think il would make any difference. It might stop some people from coming, but the socio-economic background of the people who come now is not all that different lo what it was in 1972. 11 might reduce the number lo some cxtcni because il might pul people who arc on the borderline on the other side. 1 don't think it wiU do us any good because my experience of increased fees in Canada is that Ihe Government simply gives you that much less. So the univcrsily doesn't have any more money to play with. So from my point of view I don't want fees introduced because it costs us to Collect Ihcm, and we wouldn't be able lo keep ihem. There would be a major effect on enrolments if fees arc raised to about $2,500, wluch overseas students are going to pay. It's not so much the employment situation at the end of it. It is the fact that a job with a degree is not going lo pul one inlo a sure financial future any more. So quite apart from the difficulty of gelling a job, one isn't assured ofa significantly higher income. to take a year off and so on. So it is essentially something like less than 5 per cent at the end of April without a job. And the figures for Queensland are very similar to that. Well, that's only What is the unemploy- aboul one-quarter or ment posiiion for one-fifth of the graduates? unemployment rate for There has been a lot people of the same age. of publicity aboul un- Of course, there is a employed graduates and large proportion who this may be having an haven't got the jobs impact on students who they've wanted. So it is not a horror arc doubtful whether to go to university or not. story, although you tend As of the end of to hear about the inApril, the unemploy. dividual horror stories. ment rale of 1978 Are there some areas graduates in Australia affected ihan was aboul 9 per cent. more Of those about 4.3 per others? Yes. Surprisingly encent weren't looking for and jobs. This would include gineering those going on to post- architecture are the People keep graduate work and those wrosl. had had taken their deg- saying that universities rees part-time and are doing non-relevant already had a job, and Ihings - we should be others may have decided Icacliing more in the applied areas, so the students can go out and get jobs. But you can't think of much more applied areas than engineering and architecture. The Humanities is bang on the 9 per cent and Humanities is not a specific training for anything. The best, of course, is still Medicine and Dentistry; those highly specialised areas where you can hang up your own shingle and practice. In a recent interview you were asked about the possiblity of a common afternoon off a week for all studenis. You replied that you would look into the feasibility of it. Have you? Yes, 1 mquired and was told il wasn't feasible. Prof Wilson., .meeting community leaders PICTURES BY JOANNE LESLIE BY BRETT DEBRITZ AND JOANNE LESLIE The Veterinary Science Faculty and the Faculty Board are split over the running of Pinjarra Hills Farm. Some critics say the farm should be sold for its real estate value, while senior staff members have defended it as an important teaching aid. As a icachinj! aid, Ihc larin f.ivos SUKICUIS a knowledge of dilTercnl l)rccds. proper liaiuilinij methods and field lostiiii!. ... a break from rectal palpations. No Parking Charges Yet BY JOHN VAN BLOMMESTEIN AND L.J. WALKER The University has delayed the introduction of charges for cainpus parking after opposition from staff and student groups. The report of a commitlee appointed by the Vice-Chancellor was recently circulated among staff associations and the All have rejected the new parking proposals. The plan entailed charging all people who bring a vehicle onto campus. The report recommended that three charging zones be estabUshed, along the lines of the present priority system. The same ADLV areas would be maintained and re-named red and blue zones. The general parking areas would be green zones. SENSATION A sticker purchased at the beginning of the year would aUow a vehicle to be parked in the designated area. The annual recommended fees for motor vehicles were S40 for red, S20 for blue and SlO for green zones with motor cycles halfprice. The level of fines would also be raised to discourage irregular parking and to protect the rights of permit holders. Mr Tony Franks, Chief Traffic Officer, said that the parking charges were to provide extra funds for maintaining and improving existing parking facilities. He said tahl parking for less than Sl a week for staff and less than 40 cents a week for students, was nol expensive. SENSATION "People should realise that unless the University gets more money to maintain and improve existing parking areas, the sub-standard and unsealed ones wiU deteriorate, forcing people to cram into the sealed car parks, causing furlher overcrowding, chaos and even damage to vehicles," Mr. Franks said. Union President, Mr Eugene O'SuUivan, said that the introduction of parking charges and zones would not be beneficial to students. "Apart from paying the bulk of the money, students would not be able to park in the areas closest to the libraries and lecture theatres, as they were included in the red zones," he said. Mr. O'Sullivan said that the Union was finalising a submission to be put lo the Buildings and Grounds Committee. Mr O'Sullivan added that while it was Union policy to protect the interests of its members, he supported the concept of parking charges, "Because people will never change their altitude of parking in the most convenient car parks, the solution is to build one or two-storied car parks near the buildings." Mr O'Sullivan said that the University had no funds to build car parks, which would cost about Sl million, so the best way to provide funds was to charge fees. SURPRISE "There is a need to build car parks near the Union complex, the Chemistry, Engineering arid Hartley Teakle buildings," he said. According lo Mr O'SulUvan the Brisbane City Council was assisting to alleviate parking problems at the University by constructing bitumen "bikeways" through Guyatt Park, west of the Avalon Theatre, across back slrecls lo within the vicinity of Toowong raQway station. "When work is finished in a few months, I hope cyclists will travel by pubUc transport or otherwise to Toowong where their bicycles are stored, and then cycle to and from the campus," he said. "If people do this, it will certain help to aUeviate the parking problems at the University." SURPRISE Mr Franks said, "At present adequate parking exists at the University, bul studcnl-s and staff try to park as close to the buildings as possible. They overpark and illegally park in the inner parking areas in preference to the peripheral ones, causing obstruction and chaos." This created a false impression of a shortage of parking areas, said Mr F'ranks, who added that parking areas for 4,430 vehicles existed on the campus, but the maximum number parked there at any one time was 4,160. According to Mr Franks 14 parking areas and five and a half kilometres of road were available for parking. However, only two inner parking areas, one on the northern side of the Commerce Building off Circular Drive, and the olher west of the Chemical Engmeering building off CoUege Road, were for use by students. The farm, cuverini! : ' ) | hectares, and only h) k Home I res ftom ili'c University, sluuild be re;idily accessible lo Vetcfiniiry slitdcnts. However, a rcceni edition of the Veterinary students niauazine, "Speculum", claimed students were only allowed llmiled access lo the Droiigliiniasler cattle. The erilieisni was in a report made hy (he Veterinary Stiulents' Association Faculty Review Commitlee. It said: "The only involvement with the Droughtma.ster stud that is reluctantly offered to students is occasional rectal palpations." However, the director of the farm, Mr Bruce Wilson said the statement is "completely and utterly wrong." SENSATION Problems of supervision and safety often restricted student access, he said, llic large numbers of students made individua! teaching difficult. "I:ighty people can- Mr Franks did nol foresee an increase in vehicles at the Univenity, and surveys indicated that larger vehicles were being replaced by smaller ones because of rising petrol and motoring costs. "The increase in smaUcr cars has allowed us to reduce the size of some parking bays and thereby provide more parking space on those sites," he said. BAN At present, ilie Drought master .stud is under review within the faculty. Another issue which has caused differing opinion is whether or nol the farm .should exhibil slud animals in Royal Shows. Professor Trevor ileath, Dean of the Beterinary Science Faculty .said he had no objections to exhibiting animals in Shows. "The issue is whether or nol Shows give loo much attention to things other Ihan production," he said. .Animals are shown and judged on now itiey IOOK aim some people say irrelevant attributes are too much taken account of." TRY According to the director of Ihe farm, Mr Wilson, there were' ",i whole lot of arlil'ieialities" in the showing and jiulging of slud caltle. lie said the judging should deal with details of weight gain and performance lesling us well. "Hie slud world doesn't do Ihat al the moment." he said. Professor llealh said showing .stud animals were important for Iwo reasons. "One is that it lia.s brought a lot of credit in slock owning circles lo the University," he said. "The olher thing is that whether we like it or not we have to make money," he said. According lo I'rofcs.sor Heath, the farm is run as close as possible as a commercial operation and so far has done reasonably well. Despite the differing opinions on the issue, Professor Heath said the aim of the farm should be kept in mind. "Those same slock arc used to a fair extent of teaching which is really what we're all aboul." LEONIE BIDDLE Mr Muller died in January, 1953, leaving his work unfinished and the identity of his enigmatic grotesques open to conjecture. Miss Louise Muller, his daughter, said her falhcr had kept meticulous records and files of all his work, but that they had been destroyed in a fire in Ihcir home in 1952. Miss Muller said she knew no more than was presently known about the identity of the grotesques. The exact identities of only two of Mr Mullcr's grotesques are undisputed, according to Professor S.C. Mahoney, who retired from the French Department in 1977. They are: Professor J J. Stable, first professor of English and Modern Languages; and Professor Henry Alcock, firsl professor of History and Economics. Two olhcr unnamed grotesques are commonly accepted as workers who used to be on campus. One was a bespectacled construction worker who was never withoui his pol of beer, and the other, a pe.ssimistic foreman of works who always carried an umbrella, even on siuiny days. HORROR Ttie remaining grotesques include a sullen scribe with a quill, a laughing scribe with an inkhorn, a footballer, a philosopher with a bandaged face, a mariner with his chin in his hand and a warrior with sliicld. "Mr Midler's ironic scn.sc of humour and reticence have shielded the identities of his grotesques, which must have Amnesty at U.Q. Amnesty International has come to the University of Queensland campus. Amnesty, a human rights organisation wliich works to free prisoners of conscience and others imprisoned for their beliefs, has operated world-wide for 1 8 years. Tlie group is working for the release of Ukrainian writer and journalist, Mykhaylo Osadchy, who has already served seven years in Soviet labour camps and now faces three years of exile in the Soviet Union. SHOCK Great Court has grotesque secrets Speculation surrounds the identity of the 32 stone grotesque leering down from the sandstone walls that enclose Queensland University's Great Court. Farm director BRUCE WILSON. .safety problems in student access. By ANNA FRIED PROBE i5ii The stone figureheads are the work of master stone-carver John Theodore Muller, who chipped away in the Great Court for almost 24 years, from 1939 "If motorists used the until 1953, until he was parking areas in the para- more than 80 years old. meters also, there would be no parking problems," DRAMA he said. Mr Franks said that 18,000 vehicles moved through the Umversity on each week day. not examme anim;iis whenever Ihey feel like il," Mr Wilson saiil. Head of the Dcparlmcnt of Animal I'rodiiclion. I'rofcssor SimpsonMorgan said the very nalure of Ilie farm often prohihiled students from greater involvement with Ihc animals. •'We'll never tiave as many animals as we'd like." Been inspired by a combination of his own imagination and by those he saw around him day after day, year in and year out," Professor Mahoney said. Mr Muller had been approached many liines by Ihc University Buildmgs and Grounds Committee who had asked him to carve a likeness of himself, either as a correct portrait or as a grotesque. "They assured him that the Iradhional medieval master-mason did such things," Professor Mahoney said. SURPRISE Although two plaster likenesses of Mr Muller were made, he h.id shied away from reproducing them in stone, Professor Mahoney added. "llic two plaster Ukencsses of Mr Muller still exist, wailing to be remodelled in stone and set up among the other works of the master," he said. Miss Muller has one of the plaster likenesses of her father and Fryer Library has the olher. Osadchy was senior lecturer in Journalism at Lvov University and editor of the IJniversiiy newspaper. In 1966 he was sentenced to two years in labour camps on charges of 'nationalism' and 'anti-Soviet propaganda". After his release he wrote an autobiographical novel, 'The Cataract', based on his trial and his experience in the camps. This was circulated unofficially, and was smuggled out and published in West Germany in 1972. That year he was reancsled. Osadchy has two children: a seven yearold daughter and a 13 year-old son. He has seen his daughter only once. Amnesty's QU branch will send postcards showing Osadchy's picture to President Brezhnev protesting against Osadcliy's continued detention, PROBE The QU branch is also trying to help a South African, the Reverend John Dube Manzi, who was detained without trial for political reasons in Swaziland. As new cases arise, urgent action groups within the branch arc formed. They wTile letters and send telegrams direct to the authorities concerned. Postcards of O-iadchy arc available from Tom Poole in Ihe History Department. Amnesty Inlernational, University Branch, is open to staff and students ~ see Peter Butler in the Law Department. RITE OFF OCTOBER 1979 5 Pages Hybrid car halves fuel costs BY J U D Y A R T H U R Queensland uni's mechanical engineering department has invented a car powered by a combination of electricity and petrol that will halve fuel consumption without losing performance. Dr Duncan Gilmore, the depattmenrs research fellow working on Ihe ear, said the car's design would boost the efficiency of the petrol engine. "Petrol engines are most cffieieni when the accelerator pedal is pressed to the floor. Presently, only 10 per cent of the petrol's energy turns the car's wheels, the rest is lost as heal," he said. "The new concept incorporates a smaller engine and an electrical system so 25 per cent of the petrol's energy turns the wheels. The engine works more efficiently at full power than a standard car but uses less fuel." Dr Gilmore said the car was a modified version of the Ford Falcon autotnatie. "A Falcon was chosen because we wanted a typical Australian vehicle," he said. Us 4100 cc engine was replaced by a smaller Mazda 1200 cc engine to reduce petrol consumption. "The Mazda engine was the best of its size available in Australia," fir Gilmore said. LESS POWER He said a reduction in engine size meant less power. An electrical system, consisting of an electric motor and generator, a flywheel and a 48 voh battery pack, was fitted lo compensate. "The small Mazda engine provides just enough, energy to keep the car moving al speeds over 60 kilometres an hour," he said. "However, when acceleration is required, energy is also tapped from the electrical system. The flywheel operates when acceleration is needed for a short time, such as during hill climbs and changing lanes in traffic. A smaller computer determines the source of energy lo power the car." Dr Gilmore said the car's electrical system could also operate on its own, which was ideal for driving in city traffic. "The all electrical operation is meant lo cope with stop-start driving in heavy city traffic because the car's computer cuts out the petrol engine at low speeds," he said. "The exhaust fumes which cause the worst pollution problems in the city at presenl will be eliminated." 20K RANGE The range of the all electrical operation was aboul 20 kilometres. He said the car gave better fuel economy around town than on highways because the electrical system operated on its own at low speeds. "This is the reverse of present vehicles which give better fuel economy at higher speeds tlun around town," he said. He said Ihc car gave better overall petrol economy than the standard Ford Falcon. "It does about M.S kilometres per litre compared with the presenl Falcon's 6.5 kilometres per litre." The concept of the car was developed in 1974 by Professor Keith Bullock, head of the department. La.st year a prototype was constructed. Work was carried out under a Sl 13,576 grant from the National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council. TWO YEARS "The car is still in the development stage," Dr Gilmore said. "Il will be at least two years before a demonstration vehicle is constructed." Dr Gilmore said the car would cost about $3000 more than the present Falcon, as il had more parts: "However, the fuel saving should offset the original high outlay for the car." He said an older car could be fitted with Ihe new system, but fuel saving would be less than the initial outlay for the extra parts. The car's maintenance costs would be similar to those of vehicles on the markel now. Bul Dr Gilmore said discussion on the price and maintenance costs for the car was speculation. It was unlikely the car would become avaCable on the commercial markel, "It would take a lot lo convince car companies that it is a viable proposition to markel this car We have lo convince ihcm thai people will want to buy a vehicle that is $3000 more llian an ordinary one," he said. Dr GUmore said that al present usage rates, world oil revenues would last only another 40 years. 6 W R I T E 0 R F OCTOBER 1979 THE PEOPLE... THE ISSUES \ wtittm A costly joke...and not funny Hot off the press: Write Off, the paper that lifts the lid off the St Lucia campus. Write Off came off through Ihc efforts of second and third year journnlt.sm students, working on and off lo bring you news of whal goes on on-campus. Some have claimed wc have ripped off a wellknown orfolh inside and out.side the iiuluslry. "From what you find out and your own gut feeling, you can tell what people want to hear about," Wayne. Wayne sees Ilic role of commercial radio as providing popular enierlainmeni relevant to current trends and moral standards of the day. Ilis programme tries lo reflect what people are doing and want to know. Wayne is aware ofthe proven impact of radio on tho formation of societal attitudes and beliefs, lie admits he uses his programme as a vehicle lo express his own views hut he always keeps in mind what people want to hear. "I always work with the majority, and the majority seem to like what 1 do," Wayne said. Critics of the media see advertising pressure as a major hazard for announcers. Wayne re- gards il as an integral part of the business worid. "That's the name of the game and if you can add a little more mileage to a product, tiiat's great," he said. "If you have six car dealers advertising of a morning, it's not unusual for a dealer to ring up, and offer you 'perks' - take you to lunch, provide you with a car." Bul did he see this practice as slightly unehtical? "No, I think that's just being a good businessman," he said. Involved in Ihe eariy day.s of disco in Brisbane, it was a natural progression for Wayne to try for il Job ill radio. EGO "I've a huge ego," Wayne said, "and ihal's what prompted my entry into radio. I ihink you need an ego lo he successful." But the main reasion for his success, he said, was his family life. "If you are happy at home, you're happy at work." "I have empathy for all kinds of relationships, be they husband and wife, parents and children, or boyfriend and girlfriend." But Wayne is not interested only in material success. "When I say successful, I mean witiiin yourself - I think that's the most important kind of success." , -ALISON MUIR Counsel will help students Students at Queensland University are apprehensive about seeking counselling help, according to Ms Elizabeth Wilson, a psychologist working with the University Counselling Service. "Students have three basic types of problems", she said. "These are personal, educational/vocational and study problems." "Il's a big thing at any time in your life to admit that you need help," she said, "and reaiiling that it isn't necessarily a weak thing to do is also a major problem io be overcome." "There is the same ratio of males to females, and there's no difference in their problems," said Ms Wilson. Although numerous studies have been conducted to try and evaluate the effectiveness of eounselling, this is a difficult thing to do, .she said. PROBLEMS Ms Wilson said "the service has specialised counsicllors on hand to deal with problems like bad study habits und asserlivcncss training." "Certain counselling techniques are better suited to .some people than others, and it is important for a counselior to reaUse when they aren't the best person to help a particular client," said Ms Wilson. EXAMS "Counsellors have no qualms about referring clients to other psychologists within the service," she said. "Fven we [counsellors] have supervisors to help us with any problems we may experience either privately or in the counselling relationship." Ms Wilson said that there were noticable client trends throughout Ihe year, with more students seeking counselling in the beginning of each semester, when course problems arise, and at the end, when exam pressures cause worries. And il's that time of year again (exams) so if any students have problems, you know where to go for help. By ALISON MUiR WniTt Off- OCTOBER 1979 7 Job hopes grim for Arts grads BY LESLEY HERITAGE Graduates, you're six years too late. No job awaits you, in a market which nas been glutted with graduates since 1974. Bachelor *sf Aits 'llie nuinber of Degree graduak's form rees were accepted Qucen.sland University the greatest pa I of ihe readdy, .Kcording to gruiluiitci rclurning to Fmploygraduate fn -ly of Professional study after Qucen.sland I niversity, meni Office manager in full-time stt Phil completion of a degree and they ) ,rm the Brisbane, is now 20 per cent. greatest part of ihose Murray, Half of tho.se seeking full-tin employThere, a person with ment. a generalisl degree was graduates are from the because she Arls faculty. As to wher. i.isl year's favoured of The nuinber without graduates fou'.d employ- ^'•'^ ment, the i;ii!versity of conventional vocational University gtadualcs who Qiiecisland < ounselling 'raining yet possessed have difficulty finding a Services carried out a Pt^r.^ona qualilies of job is encouraging yet survey. malurily, diligence and small. The Counsellor's The areas of eniployapplication over three .survey revealed that only nienl enlere.i by ..\rts years of study. seven per cent of 1478 Graduates vere ihe mo.st .Mr Murray hammered grads liad "much diffidiverse of jin l';icully, Ihe tradii:nii;il avenue the need lo be realistic. culty" in find ing employMany jobs would not ment when asked at UMching of work continued ui lake a con- he what many Arts Apri! .^0. [.ess than that were actually employed. siderable share at 40 giadlialcs expected. "People have niiscoiiA surprising element per cent ^>i Aris graduceplions aluuit jobs," he is how B.A. graduates ates. said. In retail for find jobs. Figures from the example people found a Only half register with Graduate ("ateer.s Council lot of reward in terms the Commonwealth IMTIof •Ati.strah.i depicted a of knowing how suceessployiiieul Service on an trend nway from I'ul Ihey were by setting /\u.stralia average, teaching. targets and jchieving Itmploynient agencies Since 1 "76 the them. said they seldom .see number of humanities "Think of the career people with Arts degrees. graduates going lo not just the job," he .said. "How to start finding teaching has dwpped by The Labour Market a job was to find out almosi half. Analysis prepared by about yourself," .Murray Other areas absorbing the Department of l-iii- .said, "Hducate yourself Arts graduates are Psy- ployment and I'ouih about the labour market, chology/Personnel/WelAffaiis used the term then look about the area fare, Secretarial, .Manage- "sub-graduate". This of your choice." ment/Administration/ described ihe job lo Non-Specialist and which mosl humanities "The graduate was to Liferary/Creative/Fnier- graduates were in- realise that job openings tainmenl. creasingly forced to were not all at the beginning of the year, bul The area of manage- enter. throughout the year," he ment/administration is expanding especially in The Analy.sis said that said. the option to this was private enterprise. "Some people may Retail trade was one post-graduate vocational have to wail months for area where generalisl deg- training. their job." Train for dole The (^mmonwealth Employment Service is planning a new program for the unemployed, titled "A weekly clip across the ear". The scheme trains dolies to accept verbal abuse from CES officer] and prospective employers. The government will finance the scheme by deducting SI a week from each dole cheque. Politicians are 'using blacks' Politicians used social issues like aborigines for church purposes. Stale White and Mainland Affairs Gauletier, ,Mr Snorts, sa"(d yestenlay. The politicians' involvement only multiplied the problems of the indigenous races," he said. Mr Snorta said poUticians did not achieve anyihing. "I'm referring to political bodies like the Worid Council of Uniting Politicians and its Australian associates, which take such a radical stand," he said. MORE HELP FOR DISABLED BY MARK STARKEY Physicallyhandicappcd students should be extended every facility to enable them to study effectively, according to campus agencies. There were at least 70 students on campus I') 78 suffering in from paraplegia, quadraplegia, alcoholi.sm, vir.ual or hearing defects and chronic illness. A special University commiltee investigator of niatters related lo handicapped students reported Ihal increhsing numbers of disabled siudents were likely to enrol in Ihe fulure. The cominittee Ixised this production on the increase of road aividents, advances in !';ciiical technology and ciKouragenieni from V/elfare and rehabililalion ;i;;encies for patient.s In train for paid e:nployinent, rather dian exist on pensions. MOBILITY Mrs Ursula Ihighes of the Counselling Services said that during the last ten years the university has become highly conscious of the needs of handicapped studenis, especially those with a mobility problem. "I know that the university, both through the special committee and the academic staff, is only too willing lo meet the challenges of providing for these students," sliesaid. "We see il as very important that those who want lo come to the university should be helped." "Even though emphasis is placed on a particular student's abilities rather than disabUities, siudents should ask for help and report any barriers they meet. Tliey should recognise this as part of their independence." "It appears mosl unfortunate that a poUtical body like the stale government should be deliberately cementing the concept of racial discriminalion by pretending that it exists, when all observation of Mrs Hughes said that the facts indicates that il prospective students does not. should advise the university a year before so that any special facilities can be worked out for them. Tliis could involve undergoing work sample tests of their ability to carry oul tasks as.sociated with courses in which Ihcy may be interested. Numerous arrangeinnets for handicapped studenis are co-ordinated by the ViceChancellor's special committee. iliese include counselling, health services, examination arrangements, braille, lipreading, tape-recording and special parking facilities. Architectural provisions arc also important. These include provision of sheltered walkways, library carrels and the absence of barriers to mobility such as steps, turnstiles and inaccessible lifts. Students in wheelchairs appreciate special (oilet facilities and the location of door handles, pubUc phones .ind drinking fountains ;jt appropriate heights. The commitlee also recognised that disablement, in some cases, is accompanied by the social problem of formation of friendships. The committee said the that although department of Social Services provides various allowances for handicapped persons, the expenses were stUl greater than for ablebodied stuilenls. I'hese extra costs were nol considered the Federal when tJovernmcnt .set the levels of allowances, the committee claimed. Bernadette McGarry, who is doing second year Arts from a liattery-powered wheelchair, is aware of the problems faced by physicaUy handicapped students. Bernadette attended Corinda Stale High School, one of the few schools able to adequately accommodate wheelchair students. She would like to become a remedial teacher, but found only one teachers' college would accept her. "I wouldn't mind doing Social Work, bul even if I was accepted academically into the faculty I would have to refuse or defer Ihe offer because of acccssiblity problems," she said. "My main problem at the moment concerns timetable arrangements. Oasses can'i foUow one another too closely because I take a little longer to get to some ofthe places." LIBRARY Bernadette was able Vo use het abilities to advoJitagc when she helped make a film with Wendy Cooper of main library on the needs and capabilities of handicapped siudents who use the library. "As a result of the film we got some privileges such as special desks, keys for toUeis, Ufts and lockers," she said. IT'S UP YOUR STARS. LEO: There's a pioniotion or possibly a demotion in store this week. So make a king-sized effort and you'll be a tearing success, but don't chew off more than you can bite. VIRGO: At ten past ten on Ihe morning of the 20lh, as you're approaching a house with pink shutters, beware of a short fair stranger bearing gifts. Virgone! LIBRA: Don'l upset the balnace this week or there will be an injustice done. You wUl be well balanced aU week if you have cWps on both shoulders. SCORPIO: Take care ihis week to refrain from stinging remarks; it is fatal to upset those close to you, SAGITTARIUS: The Sagittarian male is Ukely to experience a hard problem this week, but sleep on it and you should wake up with the solution in band. Today is good for catching up on the household chores; the washing and ironing. CAPRICORN: Don't butt into your children's affairs today, even if the kids aren't as surefooted as you'd like them to be. AQUARIUS: Although this is you 'get back to nature week', beware of mountain climbing as there is the possibUity of being knocked off. The male Aquarian shouls gel down to the bare necessities this week and he's sure to feel a rise in spirits. PISCES: Due lo recent bad weather _ and a cloud conven- ' tion, this star sign was oul of view. ARIES: Baa-d news for Arians this week. Don't be wooUy headed in matters of finance or you'll be taken unawares and fleeced in your business dealings. TAURUS: ware of spenduig or end up in the stay out of shops. Beoveryou'U red china GEMINI :A split is in store: you'll have a rough time keeping body and soul together, CANCER: Due to the extreme mental fatigue of tbe authors, Cancer has been cancelled. iMNMWIMltlWllNMAfWlNMMMlMlMnMlMl WiC Write Off reviews film MAD YANKS PAY OUT MAD $1-5m ON MAD MAX "Mad Max" could be one of the most successful films to surge out of the Australian film production boom ol the past decade. Technically, it has many faults. The soundirack is uncomfortably loud at times and Ihis kills the effect of the se(iuence iis supposed lo enhance. The shoddy editing is apparent particularly- when the fUm and soundirack . aren't synchronised. ArlLslically, "Mad .Max" suffers from a mundane story line. Tlie plot has elements of the iircdictablc western and action flick, flavoured with a touch of revenge, but the script is lacking any real substance. So how does "Mad Max" seU itself? The answer is ACTION! HORROR .Some critics have chosen to overlook the action and pan 10 WRITE OFF OCTOBER 1979 the film as exploiting violence in the worst possible way. Certainly, one of the film's attractions is the portrayal of violence, Bul surely how the violence is interpreted depends •on the individual. DRAMA Studies of violence in films have shown that people are more upset by violence when il affects characters they closely identify with. Such identification couldn't be a problem in "Mad Max". Director and writer (!eorge MUler has presented his characters on a purely surface level and has made no attempt to delve into their personalities, Mel Gibson, who stars as Mad Max is hailed by George Miller as having "screen presence and a wide range of abilities. , , " If Miller is correct, then Gibson doesn't get much of a chance to show it. His por- trayal of Mad Mux is too straight-laced to impress. On the other hand the villain, Toecutter, is played to perfection by Hugh Keays-Byrne, a well known Australian character actor. His portrayal of Ihe charismatic bikie leader is outstanding. TRY Warner Brothers are said to have paid $1.5 miUion for distribulion rights in the Utiitcd Stales, This is the most lucrative offer ever made for on AustraUan fUm. Hailed as the cull film of the decade, panned as an exploiter of violence, "Mad Max" continues to puU in the crowds reuardless, -PETER ADAMS ffello again, AtunchkinsL' Well, this week, in iluncliaboui, we decided lo sample the fare at the Cafe International House, and what a delight it was! We arrived aboul 6pm, and had a good chance to absorb the decor and atmosphere. The decor has been lastefuUy done in Early Ugly formica, with a cute tiling design on the lavatory floor. The atmosphere may be best described as 'quiet trendy', which obviously suits university lypcs, as we noticed a number of colleagues diiifng there. The menu, as in all high class Cuisineries, is written on a blackboard, and changed daUy according to the whims of Ihe Chef Du Maitre, and the leftovers from the previous day. We chose Bread a la, TipTop from the extensive range of entrees, FOOD foUowed with Fried Chops a la Trevor, vegetables lightly boUed to death, finishing with a delightful Glace Pauls Chocolate. Our companion chose the same entree, bul had steak a la puirido for the main course and finished with a cunning Utile confection entitled Fruit Tropicale, served warm from ihe lin, for afters. The wine we chose for the occasion was a Diamanlina Diesel ^'«f picking, naturally) a rather numbing little drop, bul pleasant on the cars. The service was very good - serve yourself - and the cost was mildly outrageous at $2.50 per head (bodies of course, are slightly extra). WORLD NEWS Chinese train Nearly 100 students from China could be training in Australian universities and other educational institutions by 1981 according to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrew Peacock. The training scheme would be sponsored by the Chinese government. The Australian government would provide up to six months of this tuition. All other training costs would be paid for by China. The firsl four Chinese students would arrive next Augusi with the rest expected laler next year or eariy in 1981. Good gracious it's WAR c BY BRETT DEBRITZ In a shock announcement early this morning, the Premier of Queensland, Mr. Johannes Bjelke-Peterson declared war on the rest of Australia. Speaking from his Kingaroy homestead, Mr Bjelke-Peterson announced hostUities had begun between Queensland and the rest of the nation. In a Joint statement, the Premier and the leader of the Liberal Party Dr Llew Edwards said that the lime had come for Queenslanders to "stand up and be counted." "My gracious goodness me, I'm quite adamant about lliis point, and I'm quite sure that the majority of Queenslanders, as always, are right behind me on this one" said Mr Bjelke-Peterson. Mr BjeUce-Pelerson said that initiaUy cabinet was hung over the mailer - but after several hours spent dangling from the rafters they had come to see his point of view. The exportation of pineapples and Kingaroy peanuts has ceased indefinitely. According lo newly appomted Reichmarshal RusseU ("call me Heinrich") Hinze, "We're going lo starve the bastards inlo submission". All men between the ages of IS and 85 have been recruited into the army (previously known as the Queensland Police Force). Women are to bake pumpkin scones to feed the troops. They wUl foUow Mrs BjelkePeterson's prize recipe which has scooped the pool in the annual Kingaroy Bake-Off for the last 25 years. When notified of the Premier's decision, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, went into a state of deep shock. When induced to imlock the bathroom door, Mr Fraser said that lie would do everything in his power to resist Mr BjelkePeterson's forces. "We've StUl got voters up there in Queensland," the Prime Minister said. "And I don't want to lose either of ihem." Mr Bjelke-Peterson said that he was unconcerned about the preparations under way in Canberra, as he was sure that God was on his side. "When I spoke with Him this morning. He assured mc 1 was doing the right thing," he said. Meanwhile, the Minister for Immigration, Mr MacKeUar, said that he had received over one and a half million applications from Queenslanders hoping to migrate to AustraUa. The Minister said that the hopeful northerners would have lo undergo a rigorous examination lo lest their ability to cope with life in the twentieth century. However, crude, homemade rafts carrying Queensland refugees have already been sighted al ihe mouth of Sydney Harbour. Mr BjeUce-Peterson said that his wife, Florence, would stUl run for the next Senate eleciion - despite the outbreak of hostilities. "Afler aU, tlus is a democracy," he said. The professional ambitions of senior staff at the Seven Hills College of Art are intimidating students and destroying art education in Queensland, according to Brisbane artist David Paulson. Mr. Paulson said the senior staff confusion and fear through the trative system. six practising artists had resigned from the staff this year because the adminislration and aU had been replaced by high school art teachers, he said. Mr Paulson said the final year students had been "tossed to the wind" because neither the senior staff, who were teacliing four hours a week, nor the replacement teachers, were aware of these students* development over the past three years. "There are no artists, left on the staff. The senior staff are art educators; professional social climbers who feel they can be ambitious in the art word as adminLstrators, not artists, "They force first year students to draw in a certain way to meet thejr own limited expectations, and so discourage what art education should -be all about - individual expression. "Students arc intimidated by faUurc if cultivated adminis- thcy do not comform to these expectations, because it is the art educators who rubber stamp or pass or faU dn their work," he said, "You need artists with some experience of being in the competitive art world, who can give a Httle of that experience," he said. Art education could not go anywhere while il remained under the mantle of technical education, Mr Paulson said. "Non artistic, non aesthetically educated people are professional career men who think that art education can be run like any other trades course," he said. "Artists know that art education has its own direction and cannol impersonate other types of education. "Rampant technology is tlu-eatcning the civilising influence of art, fcchnology trains the apprentice and produces the industry. But in art, there is no tramuig, there is no apprentice and no Griffith switch on results anger students BY TRACY WILLIAMS Students at Griffith University are in an uproar as the administration prepares to release students' exam results for publication next year. In last semcinster's was a studenl on the University Union of Committee Students, also disagreed exam period, the .Aca- Academic which met during exam with the pubUcation of demic Committee of lime. Griffith University exam results. "It was an opportune reversed a decision il "It shows little faith lime for them lo put m the teaching methods made last year opposing the motion through as of this university and the publication of exam there were very few the capabilities of its .residts and recommended Mt Peacock said that to a Council meeting studenis on campus lo 59 per cent of the on July 2 that students' oppo.sc it, however I graduates to suggest that Griffith tmist rely on nominees were highly results be published nexl don't think it was pur- such dubious publicity qualified research year. posely opportune," she exercises as publishing workers. The resl were said. The latest issue of results lo draw attention post-graduate students. Griffith's studenl news"1 took up a petition lo them," she said. but I could only find AU the nominees paper, "Mini Griffiti", Sian said the attitude would study in scientific urges students to be about 90 people to sign of Ihe Chancellor, Sir and technological fields. vocal in Iheir opposi- it, so it was held to be Theodor Bray, was that The special research tion to the decision invalid." students Uved in a coni"The issue originally areas lo be studied and to sign a letter pubUshed in the paper came up last year, the petitive socieiy and as included spcciaUsts opposing the pub- idea being that publish- graduates would be sent medicine (immunology), lication of exam re- ing results in a newspaper out mto that society, aeronautical engineering sults. was a way of letting hopefuUy nol too and meteorology. people look at the shodked by it and not Roni Lewis, I-duca-JEREMY SEETO university and perhaps blaming Griffith for lion Officer at Griffith, validating it as a teaching having faded to prepare has been established that institution," she said. them. The proposal had The Studenl Umon is he or she has a total aversion to home-made been put lo various aca- investigating the posdemic committees, in- sibiUty of producing a biscuits. eluding Sludent Affairs, journal of student theses the Academic Com- which would aUow In the latest raid an mittee, the Studenl siudents Ic read high unpatrolled lunch-box Union and aU of the quaUty work of other containing home-made schools within the uni- students without hunlmg versity, and aU bul one through the newspaper Griffith University's cakes, biscuits, and sandwiches was taken. of the schools opposed to find their marks, phantom lunch-snatcher the idea. For the sludeni at is Slill at work. According to Roni the Queensland University The box was later Reports from the only recourse for there are two courses of discarded, minor universitv indicate found students is lo action, that the thief indiscrim- denuded of cakes and individually say they do Either fill in a form sandwiches, but with uialely attacks the nol wanl their results at the adminislration lunches of both lecturers biscuits Untouched. pubUshed. buUding before Seplemand students. "The learning aspect bcr 30 slating that you Tlie victim comThe thief is believed mented: "It can only be and the phUosophy that do nol want your results lo be the same one who one of those poor Griffith is an alternative published and receive worked the campus some tasteless studenis. l>os- university is supposed to them in the maU a few weeks ago. be more important than days later, or do what sums. After aU, what m the little piece of paper the majority do and academic could resist my The phantom goursafety-pin punk-pink at the end," she said, race for the paper at mand has no apparent chicken doughnut Sian Lewis, Chair- 6.30am the day results preference for any parperson for the Griffith are released. ticular food, althougli it snaps," Biscuits don't grab snatcher Qld art education ^being destroyed' industry. "Art is individual expression and is not to do with how," Mr Paulson resigned from the staff of the coUege two months ago, in protest against the administrative system. His stand was supported by 200 students and 32 staff members from the fine art department al the college. "I resigned because, as an artist, 1 will not be judged by a panel of Public Servants on what contemporary art education is," he said. He was to be judged on two charges associated with the 'Ilic affair' al the coUcgc. "Dragan Ilic, a performing artist, told a group of over 200 people al the college that he would take off his clothes, and that his body was the new surlace tor electronic pencils. Is that obscene, or corrupt, or a form of artistic exprflssiorti Mr Paulson said there had been no adverse re- action from college administrators to llic's performance untU a sensationalised version of the event hit the pages of the Sunday .Sun. "The report was a misrepresentation, and the damage done is unbelievable. By referring to the performance as a sex lecture, the paper scandalised something thai was well within decency, and which was about art education, lie denigrated art education by turning what was valid expression into a sex scandal. "Studenis are upset that the performance was called a sex lecture, because it denies their right and their access to a contemporary art education. "Art education is noi about forcing students to draw a particular way so they come up to the standard set by professional educators. It is about individuaUsm, so aps power drills are important. Mr Churcher agreed that the staff situation at Seven HiUs, where "Nobody can define yomig people arc trained what drawing is. Drawing as teachers, is unacceptis .anything and every- able. thing, and lUc's perfor"These teachers might mance was just anolher view," he said. be using studenis to try Painter and art teacher oul their own altitudes Roy Churcher supported and ideas, whereas they the view th,it art educa- should be beatmg things tion in Queensland was out for themselves," he being destroyed. said. He saw the role of the He saw the decLsion to buUd the college 10 coUege as that of a place kilometres from the cily for creating the foundaaJ a "deliberate attempt'^ tions of a Ufe's work, to destroy art educati6n rather than as a Iroining place for future producin Brisbane. "When the college was tion, "Students aren't in town, the studenis could walk down George getting these foundaStreet and be in touch tions because the emwith the hub of the city. phasis is on the diploma Stuck out at Seven Hills, at the end of their transport is restrictive, course," he said. and the building itself is Mr Churcher said inappropriate for a events which foUowed college of art because the llic affair were typithere isn't a single room cal examples of the that would hold the coUcge staffs entire studenl body. I inadequacy. The only llunk there was a deliberate policy lo fragment response was to "put the place," he said. someone's head on the block." RITE OFF OCTOBER 1979 11 Heat's on for the Thoy blit7ed Berlin, they shook San Francisco, but they've been banned in Brisbane. •Yes that wacky bunch of loveable kooks the Scorched Lunettes, have got themWords and Pictures selves banned from playing live gigs anyby ANNE SINCLAIR where in Brisbane - including on campus at Queensland University. "And what really tivities in that lovely sucks is that we're all country and sent them studenis here at this home to Australia. university," 59 year-old "We weren't there mature-age student and five minutes before the Scorched Lunettes lead authorities started singer. Vera Goebbels, picking on us," keytold me. boards player Les Speaking from their Cunniling snorted. •home-away-from-home" "Just cause we set the cily watch-house aUghl the 747 before it - Vera and ihe olher crashed at Brisbane airmembers of ihe aU-girl port," Vera snapped. group were just a little "Musically speaking of angry. course." "We're not beaten A few weeks in deyet, though," bass- tention at the Wacol guilurist I'ixie Violent psychiatric centre didn't screamed. dampen the group's "Tomorrow when spirits though, or their we're relea.sed, we're fiery fetish. heading out to St. Lucia "We enrolled at Qld to confront the Vice Uni, and left a few nasty Chancellor. burns at the Admin, "He'd belter be office I can assure you," armed." drummer Anna Vera boasted. "We Rexia giggled. dipped the forms in The Scorched nitric acid before wc Lunettes, arguably the posted them." Vera Goebbels.. .vibrant and versatile most violent new-wave How do the girls group this counlry has manage to combine produced, have pledged study and heU-raising a few first-year studenis pranks and are yearning to stop at nothing to give during the semester? in the library with my for some real destruction their devoted fans the "Well, Nicky brings poison darts and Pixie, and carnage. kmd of entertainment her flame thrower to who works part-time in "This goddamn ban, "they've always campus every day hidden the refectory has been it's sapping the group's wanted." slipping razor blades vitaUty," Vera said in a in her Adidas bag," Vera In their five year explained, "and in- into the sandwixhes for serious tone, "If we rampage across three cinerates other students months." don't get a chance to continents, the Scorched • in class when the "And the funny thing show concert-goers our Lunettes have been lecturer isn't looking." is," a bemused Pixie said, stuff soon, something's arrested 47 times, "No-one's noticed yet." gonna blow-up soon," mobbed 16 limes, and added "I, myself, have Bul the girls are tiring she had they're heads busted managed to knock off of their Utile university "more times than you can shake a hot dinner al," Probably the Lunettes' most outrageous concert was al Wembley Stadium in 1975. Lead guitarist, Nicky Awfull, sprayed the audience with 200 litres of kerosene and ignited them with a flamethrower from stage. "It lit the sky up for mUcs," she laughed, reminiscing. The girls then headed for the west coast of the U.S. "We played 12 gigs "The ToeIhere as Cutlers' before wc heard Interpol was on our trail," said Vera, "Wc then hot-footed it to South America, where we picked up a nice consignment of grenades, sub-machine guns, poison dart pipes and quite a few nasty cases of the clap," she said, Bolivian poUce caught wind of the gals' acThe lovely Lunettes at rehearsal. Lunettes Lunettes lead guitarist Nicky Awlull in pensive mood as she plans a routine. Male orgasm myth exposed Is there such a thing as male orgasm? For decades scientists have argued about it, philosophised about it, and, in recent years, conducted countless studies. But as Dr Mary Jane who sec their penises as Dr Angst found Kwell, president of the seal of all sexual epUeplic rats could mate pleasure, arc just a bunch with the female rats, UQSMOS (University of of babies. I hale them. even if the female rats Queensland Society for Only the spherically- didn't want to. Tlie nonMale Orgasmic Studies) minded male can be epileptic rats just sat said in her opening addthought of as mature be- around exposing themress at the Society's cause he can identify selves. ninth annual dinner: "We with the female to a The results of recent Jtill don't know." much greater extent than studies on male orgasmic the penile-oriented male. or non-orgasmic capacity Bul do we? Recent The former's identifi- are clouded by the fact findings by Dr, Fern Herpes and her colleague. cation with his baUs are that many men simulate Dr. Lavinia Shoot, in- the closest thing he has orgasm to please their dicate that the mystery lo female breasts," Dr partners. Nearly 25 per is on the brink of being Herpes said. cent of Ihe students in solved. Dr, Shoot, who came the Herpes/Shoot survey Working under a grant to a different conclusion, admitted the had faked from CSIRO on campus. to Dr Herpes, had said: orgasm at some time in Dr. Herpes and Dr. Shoot "Men don't have two their relationship. conducted a study of This was either types of orgasm. They 300 male sludenis bet- just Ihink they do. My because they were tired, ween the ages of 18 and own findings reveal that or because they knew 23, Their findings in- they don't even have their partners would be dicate that not only is one kind of orgasm." hurt if they didn't there a male orgasm, "ActuaUy, there is no climax, or because they there may actuaUy be such thing as the male had headaches. two distinct kinds. Lastly there is the orgasm. What passes for About 43 per cent of orgasm in the male is question of tbe multiple the men in the Herpes/ reaUy a mUd form of orgasm. Do men have Unfortunately, Shoot study were found St. Vitus' Danne. This them? to have trouble attaining afflicts more than 55 per here we are still very orgasm consistently or cent of the male popula- much in the dark. The only person ever did not attain orgasm tion in this counlry, and if Dr Herpes wasn't so lo do research in this at aU. A whopping 50.5 per hyped on orgasm she'd area was Dr Helen Hagcrcent admitted they had admit she was wrong. Bamf in 1975. From two distinctly d''ferent But as far as she's con- January through April cerned, everything is of that year, Dr Hagcr kindsof orgasm. Another 4.5 per cent orgasm," Dr Shoot said. Bamf personaUy tested It should be noted more than 3000 students had no opinion. Four students fell that Dr AmeUa Angst selected at random, for asleep during their inter- of the Anatomy Depart- duration and number of views, which accounts ment, is in close agree- orgasms. for Ihe olher 2 per cent. ment with Dr Shoot. She She died tragically at After careful ques- believes that what passes the age of Iwcnly-eighl. tioning, psychological for male orgasm is acShe never recorded testing and physical tuaUy a disease. But her findings. So were do examinations, Dr, Herpes contrary lo Dr Shoot, we stand? Is Iherc such said "There arc two she believes the affliction a thing as male orgasm? types of male orgasm. is actually a form of Can men enjoy sex withThe PenUe orgasm and epUepsy localised in the oul il? Is a low orgasmic tho spherical orgasm," groin. capacity psychologically Of the two orgasms, or physiologically inDr Herpes said the speriDr Angst said this duced? cal orgasm was the more was shown in her recent To quote Dr Kwell mature. study of 100 male rats, in her recent interview "Men who arc en- 50 of which had epilep- wiih University News, amoured of their penises. sy. "Who knows?" 12 niGHTOFF OCTOBER 1979 'Good record' for attacks on women By day the grounds of Queensland University are relaxed and picturesque. But for many women returning to their cars or colleges at night, the university grounds are threatening. He said this was a Wide, unUt areas and good record considering stories of prowlers make the number of people on walking at night a campus. frightening experience Bul he believes that for aU but the brave or many more attacks went the stupid. unreported. This year seven "Many women are attacks have lieen afraid of reporting an reported lo the chief attack, but any report to security officer and us is nol a police report," safety co-ordinator, Mr he said. Tony Franks. "We would like all attacks to be reported in the hope that we can see a pattern and nail offenders." Security on campus is being tightened up. Security Officer, Margaret Sauer was appomted lasl year and will soon be joined by an additional offfcer, who wiU take the security force lo four. However, one of these musl slay in the administration block to operate the radio, leaving fewer ' to patrol. "The security service has also begun a threeyear program of lighting, which has been delayed by lack of finance," he said. "Last year Ughts were installed on the East and West Engineering Roads for people returning to the coUeges." Mr Franks said that the security service worked closely with police at Taringa, IndooroopUly,' and Toowong. The University also had a poUce officer on campus. -JILL SUDBURY K T Write Off reviews The recent television documentary on the Prophesies of Nostradamus will send the nervous scuttling for Erika Cheetham's book of the same name. The Prophesies of Nostradamus is not the kind of book one sits down and reads from cover lo cover, ll is more an encyclopaedia of world events - past, present, and future. Born in southern France in 1502, Michel de Nostredame could be considered Ihc world's greatest and mo^t accurate prophet. Ilis predictions concerning Hitler (whom he caUed Hisler), Napoleon, the French Revolution, Louis Pasteur, and EUzabcth I have aU come true. He correctly forecast features of modern technology including baUislic missiles, jet fighters, and submarines. On our fulure, the Prophet is vague. The only date he provides us with is 1999, when the "great King of Terror" will come from the sky, "Before and after," he says, "War reigns happily." Because the quatrains were written in an ohsciue combination of French and Latin, interpretation is difficull. Tlie Corgi edition contains translations and notes on interpretation to aid the reader, Ms Cheetham puts forward several theories about the unresolved prophesies most of which tend to spell doom. It seems that, according to No.slradamus, the immediate future of humanity is by no means rosy - but at least the end of the The jazz-rock group Santana has been around long enough to be part of the rock music "establishment", but that doesn't mean they are jaded. Their performance as the headline act in "Marathon Rock" on October 7 at Festival HaU had enough energy to put any new wave band to shame. The group played as a single, tight unit, with a soUd rhythm core provided by three drummer/ percussionists. Carlos Santana played lead guitar in his unique style and also acted as conductor, signaUing the sound-mixer to turn par- ticular group members up lo produce the best sound for each song. His guitar playing was more remarkable for its expression and subtlety than for technical brilliance, though he proved he could reel off notes in rapid succession when the mood demands it. "Moonflower", the beautiful jazz-flavoured instrumental from the 1977 double album, showed Santana at his besl, weaving iniprovi.sed melodies around the soft STAGE If the Popular Theatre Troupe ever takes up academia, be sure lo attend the lectures, and prepare to be bolh in- the radio, I saw it on formed and entertained. the teUy." The four-person show That's if their classes jumped, danced, and are as good as their per- bounced from sketch lo formance of Says Who?, sketch, attacking anyone a satirical look at the and anyihing from the Rupert Murdoch to TV mass media, at Cement Box Theatre in ads. October. For a leclure-lenglh The actors, Therese 55 minutes, the Troupe CoUie, Ken MacLeod, covered the history of Roger Rosser and radio, television, news- Kathryn PorrUI, gave a papers, and the influence Uvely performance. The of the industrial revolu- set, though sparse, was tion on the media. skUlfuUy used. The play's title is explained in the first If you get a sketch, when a character finds aU his infor- chance to see the Popular Theatre Troupe, make mation coming from the the effort because they media, fUlered through are worth it. contacts with other How do you know people. they are worth it? How do you know You read il in the something's true? paper, didn't you? "I read il in the -PKTER GREGOR Y papers, I heard it on A nuclear calamity could occur sometime during the 1980s, according to Nostradamus predictions. BOOKS worid is not yet nigh. BRKTT DEBRITZ According lo White Australians their black counterparts are nol only pagans and cannibals, they are stupid pagan cannibals. So says author Robert Brain in his n»w book Rites Black and White (Penguin 1^79). Tlie White Australians back their view with numerous examples, most of them false. Brai:rs book clearly and concisely points out in the introduction the falsity of these examples. The rest of the book concentrates on comparing the esoteric and apparently iUogica! riles of the Black Australian with the less esoteric but transparently illogical rites of the White .Australians. Brain is a Tasnianian anthropologist, an ironic combination considering the history of race relations in that state. In this book he has done what many students of anthropology have wanted to do; used his own culture in an anthropological study. The result is an illuminating and readable book with appeal to audience far wider than anthropologists. .Move over, Donald Home, because Ihe Uterary view ofthe lucky country may never be the same. -l-LISABl-TH M.AWSON music chords of the organ. It was during these moments that his motto, "Play from the heart", became meaningful. Hits like "She's Not There", "Well All Right" and "Black Magic Woman" brought the biggest reaction. The curtain-raisers for the "Marathon", the RusseU Morris Band,performed well, bul suffered from the usual support act problem of an unsympathetic audience. Bob Dylan was blown across the winds of time, and deposited himself at the end of the seventies. He has come back from a long spell of isolation in limbo; the sixties were gone, the eighties were coming. The brashness of punk lefl society with a taste for realism. Mysticism sounded as old as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney was going 'Back to the Egg", and John Lennon had forgotten how lo sing. Bob Dylan relaught himself to sing, a new voice encouraged by something new entermg his music. . .mysticism. Blow by blow Dylan has sketched his new reaUty on Slow Train Coming. His reaUty is not unusual, but the province of all. We arc Unked by the necessity to serve. That view is h'ddje .Money, the New York poUceman turned rock-star, produced a better response. However, his patter between songs was confined to semi-coherent remarks about Brisbane being like. . .er.. dike.., y'know,. ..Miami. Towards the end of his act the word "Marathon" began lo take on gruelling connotations. an uncomproniismg one. With reUgious context undeniable, Dylan sings: "either ya got faith or unbelief, there ain't no neutral ground." Ambiguity arises here and there; is it God, or fellow men, or loved ones, who dot the audience accepting his comments? To state opinion is unnecessary, for Dylan has no love for the opinionated; he has nol so much redefined the enemy, as consciously identified them. "When He Returns" is the closing track of Dylan's introspective trip into the most maligned of the mystical philosophies. Is Dylan really reUgious, or does he legitimise, for his own and But Brisbane artist Randall Armylage has designed an invincible craft to ensure that he and six crew members will be around to cfean up afterwards: that's if he can raise the capital 10 build his "Time and Matter Machine". The fund-raising campaign has begun with an exhibition of Randell's paintings, screenprints, sculpture and jewellery. The show is al the City Hall's Artist Gallery until December 7. Randell has already built a model of his machine. l l consists of triangular shapes joined together lo make more complex and varied shapes. The design was inspired by belief that the structure of the universe is composed of grid lines forming triangular patterns. When sleeping in the same room as the model of the Time and Matter Machine, Randell found he was lime travelling. Time travelling, according to Randell, begins vvith a humming vibration. Then there is division along whatever grid you are on. Locking in again, you can move along any grid in the universe. He described humming as the most ART satisfying part of time travel. He intends lo build a pocket sized model so he can travel all the lime. -LORRAINE SMITH Randall Armytige.. .in timg more generations, the power of faith? I can only say that the answer for me lies within these words from "When He Returns": "How long can you falsify and deny What is real? How long can you hate yourself For the weakness you conceal?" SLOW TRAIN COMING Bob Dylan (CBS) Side One: Gotto serve somebody. Precious Angel, 1 believe in you, Slow Train. Side Two: Gonna change my way of thinking. Do right to me liaby (Do unto others). When you gonna wake up, Man gave names to all the animals, When He Returns. DAVID TAYLOR The Undertones' music is simple and much is borrowed, but the result is quite amazing: (his (s on an album that just makes you feel good. The music is 60s rock 'n" roU with a good dose of punk. But don't let this put you off I've listened to the album at least 50 times and my head is stUl in one piece. Tlic lyrics arc something else again. Dealing with themes of hypocrisy and frustrated idealism, they conjure up the problems of the adolescent trying to break out of childhood. Tlie best track is "Male Model", which begins with a speeded up "Jumping Jack Flash" riff, probably intended to be some sort of allusion to Mick Jagger. Ostensibly it is a fun song, but subtly il is an expression of mass dreams for something Itopelessly unat tamable. THE UNDERTONES ~ "iTie Undertones (Sire) Side One: Family Entertainment, Girls Don't Like It, Male Model, 1 Gotto Getta, Wrong Way, Jump Boys, Here Comes The Summer. Side Two: BUly's Third, Jimmy Jimmy, True Confessions, She's a Runaround. I Know A Giri. Ustening In, Casbah Rock. -DAVID ORTH WRIGHT OFF OCTOBER 197913 * * * * * * i/e$r A * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * T O X I C COMIX ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ M M M M M M M M M M M NO. 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The two-kilometre bikeway uses existing backstreets and a specially constructed path across Guyatt Park. This route diverts cyclists from the traffic on Sir Fred Schonell Drive. Cyclists using Sir Fred Schonell Drive say it is only a matter of time before a rider is hurt. The bikeway, the fourth in Brisbane, is a project of the Brisbane BY JONATHAN BORTHWICK City CouncU's BUteway Committee. The Cominittee was established following a submission by the University of Queensland Siudents* Union for a bikeway to the campus. The Council wants lo encourage giealei use of bicycles by uni students and staff. ll has allocaied SI 10,000 for bikeway construction this year. The State Government has given only SIO.OOO. Council alderman, \U Joe St. Ledger,expressed concern at the lack of interst shown by the State and Federal govern governments, Canberra lias an elaborate network of wcU maintained pa I lis. "Surely jt is lime the State and i-cileral governments became realist icaUy involved in the funding of .safe paths for cyclists," he .said. Cyclists see the path as a good idea, hut one said that until the campus and city were connected along Coronation Drive, the Gailey Koad bikeway would be of token value. "Cyclists should be encouraged in the city, where the real crisis, both urban and ecological, is," "People who wanted to avoid Sir Fred Schonell Drive have always been able to slick to the backstreets," he said. Alderman Denver Beanland said he welcomed the bikeway, which is in his ward. He said il would make a "signirieant" improvement to the safety of the large number of cyclists in ihe area. Alderman Beanland .said he hoped this would be the start o f a network of bikcways to the campus. Open at last after 43 years. . .UQ's marathon course, knovvn as the Great Court, daily thunders under the tread of the hordes of diligent runners wSvo take part in the university classic, the leciuieto-lecture dash. At lunchtime the course is taken over by crowds of students eager to enjoy the university's cultural, culinary, and wide-open intellectual life. The Great Court is not only six times as big as Sydney University's Quad, but out-jacarandas it by five to one. Chaplain chosen for tour Leaving Brisbane's climate and the easy-going life style of its people are the biggest regrets of AngUcan Chaplain, the Reverend Ronald Henderson. Father Henderson is leaving after three years as full-time chaplain at both Sl. John's CoUege and the Queensland Umversity, "1 will be leaving for England in October to study theology at Oriel College, Oxford, for two years," he said. "Afler that I hope to return lo Brisbane to the cUmate and people 1 love." Born in Victoria, the holder of a Bachelor of Arls degree in English Uterature, Father Henderson has been at Queensland University for six years. "It has been a privilege lo work here. I enjoyed the company of students, their enthusiasm and their friendship," he said. He said there was less poUtical activism by Queensland University students these days; even the street marcli issue had quietened. Father Henderson spoke of the good ecumenical spirit among chaplains on the university campus, each of whom counseUed about SO students weekly. "Counselling, however, is only part of our duties. We are involved in sponsoring lectures and films, organising pubUc lectures, conductuig religious services, study groups and other community events," he said. ^ O H N WALKER Course sliould suit Jobless Graduate Unemployed graduates in statistics and computers will benefit from a ttew postgraduate course to be offered at the University of Queensland next year. A course-work masters degree designed to provide in-depth training in the operation of computerised information systems wiU betier prepare the graduates for entry into their profession. The course will also provide graduates wishing to remain on the dole the option of developing their research skUls. Tbe stats and computers masters, called Master of Information systems, is offered by the Commerce department. Applicants for admission to the two years full-time course must possess a bacehlors degree in statistics and computer courses. The Coursework Masters degree, developed in the 1970s, means pass and honours graduates may obtain their degree through course work. The University had previously offered only the traditional masters degree. TARGET How many words of four letters can you make from the lelters diown here? In makmg a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must contain the large letter. No plurals; no foreign words; no proper names; no improper names, TODAY'S TARGET: 24 words, good; 34 words, amazmg. In 1979, a coursework masters degree, Master of Literary Studies, was offered lo external students for the first time. Acting Director of External Sludies, Dr. C. Custan said the two year correspondence course removed a stumbUng block for country students wanting to do their Masters of Arts. It is hoped the second part of this course by correspondence wdl be offered, in 1981. Another n«w maslcrs course was offered this year, the twelve month Master of Community Health in Nutrition course. Only graduates with postgraduate employment in a relevant' field wcreeUgible. The course involves seven months academic study at Queensland University and four montiis fieldwork in the Phillipines. Mrs Margaret Gilliland, Lecturer in Biochemistry, said it would help community workers in developing ihe woftlgan^^ F RX QlflN S D C countries near AustraUa tackle the problem of malnutrition. Other changes will allow people wilhout formal matriculation qualifications wiU now be able to study in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics. The Dean of the Faculty, Professor H.M. Kolsen, said that the requirement of senior mathematics for enlry into the faculty had been relaxed. Not only would students wilhoul niathcmalics as part of their matriculation be eligible, but adult students withoui matriculation qualifications may also be eligible. Profcs,sor Kolsen said a new mathematics subject would be introduced 1980, enabling from studenis who had not matriculated in mathematics to cope with the mathematical aspects of the faculty's courses. Professor Kolsen said the new entry requirements made Commerce and Economics the second university faculty afler Arts, lo accept unmalriculated students. The Anthropology and Sociology Department will continue its course on the Aboriginal Australian foUowing the success of the course since its introduction tliis year. The course is conducted by the head of the department. Professor Bruce Rigsby, and Hiram Ryan, a former worker with the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service. -JULIE BUSCH Test in scores Australio V I n d i o R.U. Chappell, not out 1 B.U. Chappell, not oul 1 30 U.R. Chappell, b. Y.E.S. Kirmani S.O. Chappell, b. M.R. Mani 100 G.E. Chappell, b. Miss Mani 1 O.H. Chappell, c. Much Mani, b. K.M, Lani. 60 S.O. Chappell, b. S.O.D.R. Mani 3D2 U.P.U. Chappell, b. Al Mani 105 P.O.Q. Chappell, b. la Tol K. Mani 13 G.F. Chappell, Ibw Much To Mani 17 N.O. Chappell, c. and b. Arma Geddon . . . 29 Sundries and Moondries 31 NINE for 666 Few f a v o r e d Interest at Doomben on Saturday will focus on the running of the first Coalition Handicap. F.xpcrls say that favourite, Flo's Delight will be hard to beat if he can get the .spUt. Big i5us.s, the maio contender, may have i«o much weight and Doctor Loo is a lightweight who has yet to impress. Young Beryl - a dark horse flyer Could provide surprise. Mere are comments on all runners RIG RUSS Trained al Bcxiey Rowns on the Gold Co,i!i|, a roughic with big weight and a lol of guts. Known for his unruly behaviour, he has a bad mouth and always wants a bit. Tills is his first start since being scratched from recent overseas engagements. Not fancied. . . EARTHQUAKE »CQ0MB - an aged mare carrying a bit of weight bul has some sort of chance following her recent big win. RACING Will earn a start in Canberra if successful here; a wellbuilt mare with an ample chest. Worth watching. THE PORTER by the black Coon Boy oul of a white marc, Honky Belle, this aged grey was bred in I-ngland. Ran a shocker in Ihc Ariiacoon Stakes when Flo's Delight whipped the field and dictated the race. lite ride in this has been snapped up by Aboriginal rider, Darby McCarthy, who is expected to make good u.se of the whip. Colours are aU black. Doesn't appeal for the distance. YOUNG IfERYL something of a flyer and could pilot this field home. An ungainly type, she is a maiden performer who has yet to score, but could be an overnight bag. To notch her first, slie wUI have to really stretch oul. So far connections have been unable to find a rider. Could show the others something. One to watch. FLO'S DELIGHT - by Police Slate oul of Right To March, his ability as a stayer can he traced back to the great Gerrymander. Trained at Kingaroy on tea and scones, he usually outfoxes the opposilion and leads with contempt. R. Sparkes will be on top. Hard to beat but could be in for a surprise if YOUNG BERYL turns it on, RONAn CARE by Macos out of Scmp, a scrawny type with a reputation for interference and an aversion to stud duties. Races in blinkers. Hard to have. DOCTOR LOO earned a start when it was decided that stablcmate SirWUliom was not up to the pace. Has yet to show his supporters anything and has been beaten by Flo's DeUght each time they have clashed. Lightweight with smaU credentials. Not suited to the field, the pace or the distance, save your money and buy a beer instead. RITE ORF OCTOBER 1979 16 Tests trim student body Fn» '° .^^ •"^'''"'''^ £'HifS 5:^i^HF of rooms sporting goods S a """"^ " " ' ' ' ' ""'' Associated facUities on campus are the temiis courts, swimming pool, outdoor voUeybaU courts, and five krass Qygjj ' '^ Howcvcr there are less obvious facilities for those students aiming to keep fit away from these sports. The weight training room contains a multipurpose machine purchascd twelve months ago '••This machine takes the frustration oul of weighl training as the weights can be changed by puUinu out a pin and inserting it in the 'P?^^'' ^'^ Armstrong "" These were fun cornpetitions with the accent °" .""^'^'' '" ' ^°"='' *^"iP6^ ^h^ P'°«^t , „ i '^Sl"' ^X h« Sports and Physical Recreation Associa''»" . '% ^°"f.'"".'.I^ "'"'"^'"f '° !"'£ ""= ""''^ of =>" ""enibeni on ""mpus. camp,"s , Miss ArmsUong , . . ,said thai one of the problems was trying to make sure students knew about activities. During Orientation Week, studenis were «!"«" Un.sport a magazme outhnmg facilities, . J^'' ""'8='""/^ 8^^ a '^'\, <=°«"8e bul P ° f ^ly "»»«d ,many Brisbane people can now visit three local exercise clinics io have their life-styles examined and fitness tested. One of the clinics is on campus and is run by the Sports and Recreation Association. The consultancy service was started by the Director of the Sports and Recreation Association, Dave WUliams. "The consultancy was initialed basicaUy to fulfill a need in the community," Dave said. "The tesls provide a base value from which individuals can assess the unprovemcnt in their fitness. "We've also had welltramed athletes doing the tests to monitor their training programmes." Dave said that the consultancy was virtually self-sufficient financially was open to and students, uni staff and members of the Sports and Recreation Association. "But anyone over the age of 35 who has not Roy Rankin measures body fat been active for a number of years is required to He then took "An improvement in obtain a doctor's clearance for the test," measurements of height, fitness is associated with weight, body fat, and aerobic exercise which he said. blood pressure. places a stress on the A consultation costs He explained the sig- heart and lungs," Roy ten doUars which covers nificance of eacli test, said. the costs of the exer- referring especially to "Aerobic exercise cise physiologists, Roy the link beiween high includes jogging, cycUng Rankin and Sue Lewis, blood pressure and coro- or swimming," he said. who do the testing. nary heart disease. Roy explained, howThe Recreation OfThe exercise test is ever, that the exercise ficer of the Sports on a bicycle had lo be longer than Association, Pam Arm- performncd ergomeler, a machine fifteen minutes to have strong, arranged for maintaining a constant an cffecl. Write-Off to sit in on a workload. The frequency of typical consultation. By matching heart exercise is also imporTlie patients, Nick rate to workloan the tant. and Jacquie AvelLsoff, patient's fitness can be "An individual should bolh twenty-five, said approximately gauged. exercise at least three they played social sport, The lest was not limes a week, starling but wanted to know how strenuous, and both moderately and building they could improve their Jacqui and Nick up the intensity," Roy levels of fitness. expected something said. Nick is a Telecom harder. Two hours were spent clerk and Jacqui is a Once he had inter- testmg and advising the German teacher. preted the results Roy couple. Roy started the lest explained how ihey Jacqui and Nick said with questions about diet could improve their fit- they would come bacli in and lifestyle. ness and lose weiehl. three months lo monitor ACADEMIC FLAB By DAVID MORRIS University of Queensland lecturers and tutors are trying to improve their poor physical condition. :nt#. ~ 1 >• -u. ».:/! not make the eiiort to mto muscle she said. ^^^ weilh^frainS., lould ^y actively supporting S n it^^n L m Andv ^«= ^porls Centre the part Mo^^n 1*^ f^^rnt In time studenl would meet for weightlifting. "^' In the past 18 months, 80 per cent of the 300 people to pass through the University Sports Association Fitness Assessment Centre have been Campus staff. Mr. WiUiams, the Sports Association director said: "The majoriiy of staff and siudents examined al the Centre were al poor fitness level." W-" cot — ° OX a. 16 WRIGHT ORF OCTOBEH 1979 A handful of purists insist on keeping to the Uadition of fool slogging, a group the natives caU •joggers'. More dcmoaatic than the race of oW, the new nuiialhon pcimils each contestant to travel his own path, so long as he completes the course by a set time. What's more the race is open lo women! A major hazard is the busloads of spectators who foUow the race, thwarting the progress of the faster competitors in tlK marathon. Perhaps the most diamatk: part is the race from the chariot park to the winners dias. Whh a handful of books they prepare for the final dash, abandon charntj and sprint the last few hundred cubits on fool, AU this, one competitor cbimed, for the gkiry ofa degree. SSSSSbSSSSSSSSSatjaSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSbfcibbSSSSSSSSSS^^ c s iSss IJU< IT "Most staff and studenis who come to see us know they are not very healthy, but not sick enough to see a doctor. They come for advice on exercise and dieting because they have no idea where to start themselves." Mr. Williams .said a smaU number of athletes also attended the fitness assessment centre to find out how fit they really were. Most staff at llie university were frightened to have their fitness level tested because of what they might find, Mr. Williams said. for propulsion. •SB'S tr « >• " £ • .. en^^ .-.Co a.uJ£ z Mr. WUliams said universities were breeding grounds for the three major heart disease factors - obesity, inactivity and stress. This modern marathon has changed consWerably from the ritual of bygone times. Contemporary contestants use chariots of aU sizes, shapes and conditions. Some only have two wheels, one in front of the other, but most haw four. A brave few use a device with two pedals o a< Oo their progress. "The chances of improvement are exceUent if a program of graduaUy intensifying aerobic exercise is foUowed," Roy said. Pam Armstrong said that during semester from three to five patkmts a week made use of the consultancy. "We fmd that the numbers increase during the university vacations when people have more lime," she said. "We keep records of aU patients, bul these are strictly confidential and help give the individual an indication of overaU Pam improvement," said. Students wishing to do a test should contact Pam Armstrong at the Sports and Recreation Associalion. History records the Olympic that flame burnt a thousand years in tribute to the Gods who brought glory to the ancient vrarM. Now another flame heralds the oracle of St. Lucia's Olympian tradition. Carrying the flame to the contest are the hundreds of combatents, eager to engage in sacrifice to win the coveted garland of academic achievement. - D O N KASSEL 2So o £o tu I^S^N«»ftK»NII( U 2i5|i £ E.a. £5• 5«•. 8E o o >.T) M CC o E UI E? IS ISo^iilliyigll £"ni-u°QOnS£a:!aQ c • S c —c 12 = = 5»t: =&Jtf5^,,«^VvvsNj-j:sj