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THE ARMY OF THE RARE* with Richard Beckel l ik e a b u t t e r ­ , STING LIK E A BEE (I AM THE G R EA T EST ); Mu­ hammad Ali Whitlam recently returned from foreign parts, an­ nounced that apart from leading the nation he was the best for­ eign minister Australia had ever had. Responding heartily to this peace of megalomania, voters, when questioned on which pol­ itician they liked the best, re­ plied that they thought that Bob Hawke was much better and perhaps a little less boastful. Ms Whitlam, in a desperate attem pt to defend her husband, said, “ Of course h e’s Australia’s best for­ eign minister, it goes without saying." Then she added: “ A r­ rogance is permitted where there is something to be arrogant ab out.” Sir R obert Menzies is believed to have laughed.

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AITING FO R SECOND WIND: Israel and Egypt after years o f futile bloodshed and hatred finally decided to sign a ceasefire agreement, not because of any new found love for one another, but more pro­ saically because both sides appear to be running out of weapons Wales branch o f the Build­ and a necessary pair of hands to ers Laborers Federation has ac­ operate them. Doubtless hatred tually retired voluntarily from will return once more sons are his position to pick up the shov­ born. el once again. (A fter long service leave of course.) This relinquish­ ment of the reins of power OU CAN PUT DOWN without being pushed is believed Y O U R GLASSES LADIES to be unique in the political AND GENTLEM EN, H E ’S history of the new world. It is GONE FO R THE DOCTOR: believed shortly that certain offi­ Driven mad by the rightwing cials of Sir R obert Askin’s prem­ leanings of both parties and the ier’s department will start a rem­ voters in New South Wales, pol­ edial education course to free itical com m entators abandon Mundey of his revisionist telling anxious readers who is thoughts and instruct him in the going to win the state’s election political ways of western man. on Saturday and instead specu­ lated how big Sir R obert Askin’s * * * Liberal margin might be. Thank­ OR DO T H EY HELP ing them in advance for their PRISO NERS: Sixty ward­ support, Sir R obert gaily an­ ers at Melbourne’s Pentridge jail nounced that once elected he broke up a sit-in demonstration planned to retire as leader and of prisoners demanding better hand over his licence to print recreational facilities and an eas­ money to a younger man. ing of their overcrowded condi­ tions by a baton charge. Thus they fulfilled both demands of INNIE THE POOH IS the prisoners. With the baton DEAD: Disneyland, Skip- charge they provided healthy py and Lassie were just three recreation and by breaking heads shows listed by the Australian they cleared the cells and added Television Childrens Action to the population of the jail’s Committee as being dangerous infirmary. Needless to say this for the tiny tots. The report stat­ humanitarian gesture was not ed that television tended to turn appreciated by the prisoners. children into zombies who no longer laughed or smiled. It also objected to the life and death h e r e is b u t o n e g o d situations depicted in most AND SCOTCH IS HIS shows and it claimed that “ child­ NAME: One in 20 Australians hood was not valued” . However, have drinking problems so seri­ the com m ittee appeared to have ous that a person could not get no answer to the fact that life through a single day without the itself is a life and death situation equivalent of ten scotches, the or that nice little children grow former minister for customs up to be nasty drunken adults.

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ELL O D E R E: In yet another profound world pronouncement, Uganda’s Presi­ dent Idi Amin m a telegram of sympathy to United States p resid en t Richard Milhous Nixon, said: “ I must compliment you most sincerely for this most courageous stand. I am sure any other weak leader would have resigned or com m itted suicide after being subjected to so much harassment because o f the Watergate affair.” It is believed that this heartwarming message gave President Nixon the strength to appear yet again on American television and state that he would not resign and that the process of dem ocracy could go to hell. However, per­ haps fortunately, he did not reveal the source of this new found inspiration - after all there was the southern vote to consider.

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ENLIGHTENED DEMO­ CRATIC GOVERNMENT: Pap­ ua New Guinea’s chief minister, Michael Somare, has warned his fellow countrymen they will be shot if they cause trouble once the country becomes selfgoverning. “ I’ll tell you straight, you fight the police, cause trouble, you just watch out, I ’ll be tough,” he said. It is under­ stood that he is also going to revive cannibalism once his na­ tion is free of Australia’s re­ straining hand.

The pause with claws OCA-COLA badly needs weather­ men to tell it which way the wind blows.

Their weathermen are the market re­ searchers, advertising agencies, public re­ lations consultants, marketing executives, etc. who have analysed, identified, re­ searched and surveyed exactly who can be persuaded to buy the real thing, and how.

With a national market of at least 8 0 0 million cans and bottles of the real thing a year, everything depends on tapping the alienation and frustration of youth. Some 3 0 0 million cans and bottles are sold to the 14 to 2 4 age group, so the groovy image has to be kept tight, paced to keep neither ahead nor behind the demand of youth for something to believe in.

The switch from Coke after Coke after Coke to things go better, and from that to the real thing, cost millions; and was only done after market research pin­ pointed a shift in the target audience away from the unthinking hedonism of things go better.

Coke is an urban drink, and to stay on top the Coca-Cola E xp o rt Corporation, which is the US parent company head­ quartered in Sydney, has to pay to keep up with the growing urban blues. Coke E xp ort makes the secret syrup in Sydney, and rails it to local bottlers round the country in stainless steel tanks.

The de-cocainised syrup, laden with additives currently under investigation by the US Food and Drug Administration on suspicion of causing cancer and genetic defects (the sort of thing they used to say about acid), is then mixed with sugar and water, carbon dioxide is forced in under pressure, and then into a can or bottle.

Most tin cans are sprayed inside with lacquer, none so thickly as Coke because the drink is so acid the lacquer is needed to prevent the real thing eating into the tin and steel. The acidity is chiefly due to the sugar content.

Australians each drink and eat one pound of sugar every three days, a world record. So far, sales of the real thing, aided by astute choices of the right words, the right music and the right musicians, have continued to soar. From soft drink sales o f 7 7 bottles and cans per person per year in 1 9 6 2 , the current level has shot up to 1 6 0 cans and bottles a year; due to top 2 4 0 by 1 9 8 0 .

Y ou might exp ect the groovers run­ ning Coke to be sitting back, enjoying the fruits of success; but instead they are very worried, almost panicking. The chief cause is the environment movement, which is knocking increasingly large holes in Coke’s groovy image.

Evidence given last week to the federal parliamentary inquiry into drink packag­ ing pollution outlined Coca-Cola’s use of police, infiltrators and employees of public relations front organisations to spy on ecology groups, report back on their plans in an attem pt to defuse them; and even the use of political police to try to jail radicals who had supposedly been abusing Coca-Cola.

In April 1 9 7 2 , students at Adelaide University planned to demonstrate against Coke, concentrating on the healthiness of the drink, the wastage of energy and resources o f the package, litter, pollution, foreign ownership, and overflowing garbage tips.

As soon as Coke heard that a demon­ stration was planned, a conference of marketing men from Coke, their can suppliers, Gadsden, and the manufactur­ ers o f the steel for cans, BHP, sat down and drew up a plan. BHP was heavily involved, because it was afraid that if it didnt help p rotect Coke from environ­ mental attack, Coke would switch to aluminium cans, as it has in Sydney and Melbourne.

BHP also directly owns the Coca-Cola bottlers in north Queensland and in Papua-New Guinea.

The strategy decided upon was for the manager of the plant and a cricket star who is on the Coke payroll to stand out

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Can Coke crush ecology? Or will the people rise up against this scourge o f urban kids, this pause with claws, this bottle which has launched a billion sips? The strategy of big business, as it faces mounting antagonism to its products, was revealed last week in a remarkable submission to a Reps House com m ittee on Environm ent Conservation. Our man, G A B R IE L L A F IT T E , form erly an inside spy on BH P, files this rep ort from the besieged bunkers o f PR m en.

front to greet the demonstrators, pretend­ ing to be glad to see them, shepherd them round the back of the plant to the “ recycling centre” which had been hastily set up for the occasion, out of the range of any TV cameras.

A fter persuading the demonstrators to drop the cans they were due to bring with them into the “ recycling” bins, they would be invited inside for a chat about “ our mutual com m itm ent to ecology", and o f course a free Coke in the board­ room .

This strategy was decided on after consideration of a number of alternatives; ranging from , a t one extrem e, allowing the demo to occur and pretending that it wasnt there, to, at the other extrem e, not allowing the marchers to leave the grounds of Adelaide University.

This could be done quickly by calling the police but, as Coca-Cola’s Adelaide advertising and public relations manager Brian Kirk-Williams explained to an e x ­ ecutive sent by BHP and the can makers from Melbourne to Adelaide to help Coke face the demo: “ Our plant is manned only eight hours a day, so what is to stop them from dropping filth, breaking windows or other acts of destruction if we dont allow them to get their kicks from a demonstration.

“If we took steps to stop the march before it started, they wouldnt get it out of their system. We could have the police here in seconds, but an incident involving police could damage our image with the youth market we rely on. I’ve had two plants attend planning meetings so that we know what their plans are. “ One o f them is out there in the executive pool, Jam ie Roberts, a graduate economist who volunteered, but he didnt look the part. So he put on a dirty t-shirt,

unpressed dirty jeans, didnt shave and then went along to the planning meetings.

I also persuaded Lin Swayne, who does public relations for Keep South Australia Beautiful, to attend meetings and send back information to us.”

The chairman of Keep Australia Beautiful, Mrs Phyllis Frost, was present at the com m ittee hearing in Canberra when the fact of KA B’s involvement in the affair became public. An hour later, she was on the witness stand, but she did not deny K A B ’s role in helping Coke ready itself for the demo.

The House of Representatives standing com m ittee on environment and conserva­ tion was also told that Brian KirkWilliams had explained to a representative o f BHP and the can makers that “the managers of radio, press and TV are good friends. I'll tell them they’ll of course have to cover the demonstration; but I can also tell them to instruct their news editors to remember the image o f CocaCola.

“They will handpick reporters and tell them what questions to ask and what attitude to adopt. I will say the recycling centre has been there for some time, and that we havent advertised it because we dont want to publicise ourselves." That was a week before the demonstration was due.

Two days later, Kirk-Williams reported back that he had been successful: “ I’ve gone to the media, and all are only too willing to co-operate. They say their news departments say demonstrations are so com m on these days, so they have decided not to cover many. They may not cover this demonstration at all.”

In the event, the demonstration was a total success. The 3 0 0 marchers brought thousands o f cans and ignored the

manager standing dressed in his Steel Can People recycling t-shirt, trying to read out his prepared press release stating how delighted he was by the whole thing.

He remained delighted as the demon­ strators drowned him out, banging cans, dancing, sweeping into the glass-walled foyer, chanting slogans at the TV cameras for 20 minutes. Equally delighted were the executives of the US parent of Coke, and of Coke’s can suppliers, flown in from Sydney and Melbourne to watch the demo.

Coke remained so delighted that, as the Canberra com m ittee hearing was told last week, Brian Kirk-Williams flew to Melbourne on May 2, 1 9 7 2 , to demand o f his protectors in the can making com ­ panies what they were going to do to get Coke out of the firing line.

Kirk-Williams explained that in the fortnight since the demonstration, people had discovered that Coke has an au to­ matic all-night answering service for shop­ keepers who run out o f the precious fluid during the day. So they could ring up at night to tape record an order for more.

Kirk-Williams, who has the title of company ecology officer as well as adver­ tising and public relations manager, said that increasingly the messages on the tape were abusive. His response to this was firstly to p rotect delicate female ears by removing the playback of the tapes in the morning from the women who used to do it, and putting a male salesman on ; and secondly, passing the tapes over to the South Australian police for them to match electronic voice structures with their tapes of known radicals.

Kirk-Williams said he had been assured by the police that a prosecution could be expected in a month. There was no prosecution, either because their faith in technology was misplaced, or because it never occurred to them that plenty of people other than “known radicals” might wish to abuse Coca-Cola.

Bruce Siney, who is Coca-Cola Mel­ bourne equivalent to Kirk-Williams, last year suggested buying a swimming pool for Monash University, presumably also on the theory that all potential demon­ strators are fanatical swimmers.

Coke, afraid that politicians would see a vote catcher in clamping down on throw away cans, or even the drink itself, looked for counterstrategies.

Coca-Cola developed a longterm and a shortterm strategy. In the longterm, they decided to get in first with the next generation of potential consumers and distributed Coca-Cola ecology kits to primary schools.

These kits, which are widely used by US corporations, explain basic ecological concepts like the food chain as “grasscow-hamburger” ; and include colorful games the class can play, by learning how to plan a model town with a Coke bottling plant, without doing any harm at all to the environment.

The short term strategy was to hire a public relations consultant who in turn hired a couple of bikini girls to wander round Melbourne beaches picking up cans.

But what is causing the panic behind the groovy public exterior is the growing realisation thal environmentalists are about to attack the real thing, not just because cans are left lying on beaches; not just because the drink is addictive and dangerous; not just over good ole US imperialism; but also because the throw away cans the drink comes in is respons­ ible for mercury pollution through the heavy usage of caustic soda in the making of both steel and aluminium cans; over the destruction o f black communities, through the mining of manganese for steel cans at Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory; and because of the damming of Lake Pedder which was flooded to provide electricity for aluminium smelters.

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E L L , the Little Fella didnt make it, but they had a movie of him instead. So I went to the Teachers Federation Hall where the Divine Light Mission had organised a satsang to gather recruits for the Maharaj’s Millen­ nium Spectacular at the Houston Astrodrome in Texas.

The Divine Light Mission charged no admission to their movie, despite the fact that it is a classy production that might help Keith Mormon out o f some o f his problems down at the State Theatre. Here it was presented in a tiny hall that reduced it to the church hall atmosphere that has killed many another audio-visual presentation o f the religious gospel.

The lone projector was sitting in the aisle and some loon was running the soundtrack back and forth thru the gate without turn­ ing the picture light on. On the rumpled sheet-screen there were no images to be seen.

Beside this on the stage was a silk upholstered armchair from Grace Bros Homemakers Store on which was perched a plain wood frame containing a larger-than-life photoportrait o f Master Ji him­ self. Beside th at was an even larger portrait painted on to a large banner that had a definite sugges­ tion o f Red Guard Mao banners.

In front o f this was a throne­ like wooden armchair (em pty) and around this vases o f flowers.

It was all very austere, suggesting an improverished but evangelical sect determined in its ways regard­ less o f the abstination obviously necessary to sustain its survival.

Tho the movie was advertised for 7 .3 0 nothing organised hap­ pened until eight when a lame folksong quartet began singing rockabilly hymns.

While the presentation was slack and the lighting very poor they managed to keep up the rhythm and sing the devoted words in an entertain­ ing fashion. I felt it was a bit o f a con laying this on when we’d com e to see the movie, but in a way it was expected.

Tongue-tied and over-earnest hardsell followed. A tight-lipped lady who seemed very worried for the salvation of us all recom­ mended we offer ourselves to take the guru’s knowledge and become as happy as she was supposed to be. E xcep t she looked no happier than the greyhaired old ladies who sit on the front rows o f regular churches and dote on the fireand-brimstone o f the preacher’s sermon. The slack presentation augured badly for the movie. Be­ hind me there was a bolt of lightning and something in the projector blew up. Another smil­ ing loon appeared at the projector and suggested I look back to the front while he attended to his problem.

Back on stage there was much bowing and scraping as an Indian gentleman in national costume walked up to the Ji portrait and rendered himself prostrate. Then he moved to the microphone and laid on his rap. A few tautological questions, a parable and a recom­ mendation we take Hindi classes from him so we could sing the hymns and know what they mean, before he introduced the movie. It was now at 8 .3 0 .

The movie began with Jordan

W HE Federal Minister for Health, Dr Everingham, delivered a belated king hit to the sugar industry this week, with a letter of criticism and admonishment. He called sugar a third rate poison and a second rate food. Shock waves now ripple through tropical boardrooms and the Country Party gathers up its skirts in defence of the sacred profit.

But the sales of crumble bars and licorice allsorts are unlikely to be dented by the antics of party politics. Everingham has already bemoaned the evils of analgesics and drawn up blueprints for the censorship o f their advertisements. Talk about shutting the stable doors after the horse has already galloped around the world . . .

The damage to society’s collective health by the drugs o f the bourgeoisie is inestimable and irretrievable. Opposition to sugar, aspirin, Coke, antibiotics, sleepers, speed, tobacco, caffeine and so on derives not from any intrinsic “badness” , as imagined by fanatics, but because the demands of an overwrought society transforms the occasional use of these delightful intoxicants into a debilitating daily habit.

The concept of consumer addiction is fundamental to this society’s survival. Everingham is one of the few cabinet ministers who senses this, and shuffles about with the usual repertoire of proclamations, paperwork and irrelevancies. Unfortunately, gov­ ernment dogooding invariably imposes further limitations on our freedom, apart from being a mammoth insult to the national intelligence and a gross admission of philosophical pessimism.

It is not surprising that Everingham should conjure up that golden boy of ambitious liberals the world over — Ralph Nader — to fuel his threats. Many Australian politicians assume an aura of ethereal sanctity as they look at the horizon and blissfully await for Nader’s Invaders. I just shiver, because Naderism is the root of all meddle. His odious crusades on my un-asked-for-behalf interfere with my freedoms directly and oppressively every day.

A t a time when the usefulness of the nation state is seriously questioned, up pops Ralph Nader, a beastly swot, puritannical, zonked on work, forging at his anvil of consumer chastity fresh implements of power for a decaying state of wield.

He has turned the car, for instance, into an object of monumental boredom and inconvenience. A whole new safety industry is born and front seat passengers can no longer turn around and talk. Apart from their uncanny demoralising effect on social buoyancy, safety belts merely give police another excuse to stop cars.

I never fail to click a twisted, suffocating belt around my waist, without realising that Nader has got us exactly where he wants us, stolidly safe and powerless, with future destination unknown apart from more straps, buzzers, alarms and other fetters o f interminable interferism.

We’re becoming mere ciphers in the uncomfortable clasp o f a paternalistic government. Do not forsake your right to take risks, or w hat’s left of it. Why should drinking water be chemicalised because brats require armor plating on their ivories to prepare them for 70 years ahead of jam tarts and sweet teas?

The great mistake of our ancestors was to surrender their grasp of the political process to a professional class. Exercising the right to vote is an abnegation of the right to participate directly in political affairs. E xactly 180 years ago, William Godwin warned: ‘‘Above all, we should not forget that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind . . . ” The role of government needs to be reduced, not fed fat with moralism. Corporations and the state continue to expand and yet the more you think about the fruits o f their polluted union, the less essential to one’s satisfaction their goodies become.

Finally . . .

This week has seen much media applause of Time magazine’s unprecedented editorial. A fter 5 0 years of pseudo invisibility, the editors have come out to thumbs down Nixon. It now seems appropriate to remind our readers of their glowing cover story on January 7 2 : Nixon - man o f the year. Mad magazine knew otherwise. Satirists inevitably make better prophets than news editors.

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Nelson’s special effects third eye what that is. I ’d have to seek that movie Chakra which I saw in for myself. But I didnt feel the London earlier this year. It both need, so he left me alone after loses and gains by being part o f revealing he had just got $ 3 0 0 0 this Maharaj movie. It suggests from the Experimental Film Fund the beginning of the world but he to shoot at the Astrodome show. I was made to refer to the Jewish- was intrigued that the Australian Christian Bible rather than to the government was buying into the Upanishads. This gave way to a act and look forward to the Joh n Hubley-type animation o f results. the “ What Does It All Mean” Sitting so long in the hall I cartoon and some Walt Disney- couldnt escape brooding on the Ji type wildlife footage. phenomenon. After all, his fat While this was all done in a face was staring down at me from fairly punchy style, the real his throne. I’ve long ceased to be a esthetic o f the movie wasnt dis- worshipper of idols or polisher of cernible until the satisfied-cus- icons, but their presence still sugtom er testimonials started appear- gests something o f their power, ing among the docum entary foot- Being more temporally inclined I age of the Maharaj’s previous preferred to take in the process in gigs. There was some interesting the room, the bowing and scrapfootage on him as a child talking ing, the prayers and responses and wildly to all-comers (tho this the self-conscious holiness of the didnt have sync sound). Then devotees. there were home movies, plugs for Outside my companion saw the Divine Airlines, Divine Sales and film as a Hitler analogy. It all Divine Data Processing. Towards seemed too much of a cliche, but the end there was a sales pitch I let my head drift into her grid from Rene Davis selling the A stro­ and I saw along with her what we’d just seen. There was a feeling dome show.

It approximated to a “ it’s of 30s dictators in the parades and gonna be greater than Woodstock, the mass meetings, tho these are folks” sort o f line and was still going on in Red Square in thoroughly convincing. ’Cept the Moscow and Peking.

Divine Flights werent free (tho The way Hitler rose on the reasonably cheap) and the rest o f backs of the youth the company didnt seem to o ap- movement and . u <, P ^ in g . the nature ' ^ ° freaks did have a resemblance to the / / gentleman in the Indian robes , x\ i offering Hindi The film was worth lessons to a gold, tho I doubt if these acidthe judges at the Aus- / j V ^ 7 casualties tralian Film Institute Ji V - / 0f would think so. It didnt use original music, but lifted slabs from Steve Miller and urban civilisation. And Ji’s offer other Californian notables. And it . . . . . , had a slack section towards the o f a ^ e n n m m of peace does ring end with Ji doing a Khrushchev hke Adolf’s Thousand Y ^ r Reich, riding round on a tractor. Also it 1 ^membered Lem Reifenstahl s relied fairly heavily on parade m° vle ° * ^ Nuremberg Rally, footage, conjuring up the Nazi/ Maoist big crowd illusions. The ton movie will be used the same sets for these were sumptuously way. I was infected with her designed (in contrast to the austerity o f th e set in the Teachers Federation Hall), tho the boy sitting on his throne had more o f a sheikish lean than a Buddha half-lotus.

As soon as the movie finished, there were more speeches and hymns. Everyone seemed a bit high (as one expects from any good movie) tho there was an invisible coercion keeping us in the room. A few made a break for , . , , , , it watched by hundreds o f pairs of eyes for a flicker o f doubt, while others were engaged in conversation by the devotees who had infiltrated into the crowd of justmquisitives as well as sincerelyhopefuls attracted by the movie.

One o f the devotees, a youthful sometime filmmaker talked to me about the movre (and his lack o f knowledge about how it had been made) and his Knowledge (which had him heading for LJ A A/1 f /n n^«v/\ Houston).\ He seemed to have , , , , grasped the Don t worry, be happy and “ Solution to yr problem is that there is no problem routines of a few years back but feels there is something special about what Ji has to offer.

Of course, he wasnt saying

a*aT 1; A few nights later I was watch­ ing G° u^ onDt?Je TV asuhe ^ traip^ed thm Pekmg^to the sound of Click C o the Shears. Then there was the film of his meeting with Mao in a library o f ancient scrolls. It was all in the good old tradition o f forei bowi at the feet o f the Chinese emperor who rose to power from being a peasant bandit.

This is a regular cycle in China, and I started to see the guru henomenon as art o f the hysteria that goes with the end o f a millennium (the second AD) Then j ^ taM a Buddhist who reminded me o f the false hets who at the end £ a millennium and of the times when Satan (the left hand of God) in the j of God ^ is not distinguishable frQm God M dless mind en. j ed these parablesand j j settled down in mind somewhere with Amy Semple McPherson buildi a Tower o f and then issi off ^ the cash So l didnt b the Divine L ^ ht brand u -s an advertisi ad that ^ ^ le what th dom want

THE WONDERFUL WORLDjfCANS AN O IL scarcity in Holland has forced the D utch governm ent to ban the use o f private cars on weekends. The citizens are whooping it up under clear skies, blissfully riding bicycles down the freew ay. Meanwhile in Melbourne a daily newspaper has offered a grant to Melbourne U to determ ine just why people go bonkers when they get behind the wheel. Here we present our tribute to those ch ok in ’, sm okin', clankin’ piles o f lethal junk — the m o to r car.

T WAS early morning on the Hume Highway near the Wagga turnoff and the semis were drop­ ping like comets.

Swooping silently in angel gear down the Great Divide, those laden juggernauts - jockeyed by wide-eyed drivers hopelessly try­ ing to control the weight of the load, the pull of Newton’s gravity, a frantic time schedule and a spiralling speed intake - crushed all in their path.

Like the Mini coming from Wagga, heading for Albury. The Kenworth caught it midships and behaved like a wheat combine,

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chewing the tiny car, barely paus­ ing, spitting it out, leaving it, bumping and bouncing over the road as its panels splattered the countryside amid a screeching of rendered metal and human cry.

None survived.

The Hume has trees that stand and take the bumps and blows of wayward and misdirected vehicles.

The trees lose some bark, some people lose their lives and the body responsible for road safety paints crucifixes on the gnarled trunks.

Many such trees line the straight ribbon of bitumen that

eats through the Kelly country between Benalla and Albury. On this strip drivers succumb to their machines and tend to drift from the straight path, lost in the vehicle’s momentum, the roadway haze and the fury of the traffic.

Some nod off, some just give up. They may wander into the gravel and spin out; they may veer to the right into oncoming traffic.

But there aint no real reason, sir.

Crosses painted on the gums . . .

So why am I standing here on a very thin and very fragile white line in the centre o f Spencer Street, Melbourne at 4 .3 0 in the

afternoon? I’ll tell yuh! Because some minutes ago I decided to cross the street. I’m trying to ignore the throbbing waves of engine warmth blowing against me, and the maniacal eyes of the drivers. Instead I’m trying to think of something objective to say about m otor cars. It’s hard, very hard . . .

I suddenly realise just how vulnerable we all are. Somewhere in the Victorian road laws is a bit saying how we pedestrians have right of way and here the only thing keeping me alive is the white line.

Hello, what's this, thinks I’m trying to focus on the sky? A car wants to attem pt a right turn.

And, glory, he’s aimed at me who happens to be standing on the spot designated for his turn. My liver is a lily, the traffic roars past - into the city, out of the city, desperate, every little car and truck. The man doing the turn is trying to toot me off my Switzer­ land, my white line. I’m ageing noticeably.

When I eventually crossed a man standing, watching the action, said: “ Shit I thought you were a gonner.”

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T,SoRt®y Scones and jam on five faces lo o k in g menacingly through tightly wound up windows of a station wagon. And slowly but surely they are edging my friend into the oncoming traffic. He’s on a m otor bike so he’s a public nuisance they think as he des­ perately tries to convey you are trying to m urder me. They smile grimly and the driver keeps on edging right, spruce in his starch­ ed bowling clothes. A vigilante.

My friend now has a pistol strapped under his fuel tank.

There’s a sign deeply rooted beside Melbourne’s Footscray Road, Welcome to Col Paige Territory. Col sells Fords to the people of Sunshine and Foots­ cray, where nothing grows but granite rocks, scotch thistle and pollution levels. The area feeds itself with its motorised violence and at peak hours goes totally insane.

Recently a visiting American was run off the road by some hoodlums driving a Ford. With beer bottles they proceeded to smash every window in his car.

That done, they dragged him to the road, kicked his ribs in, fractured his skull and broke his arm For no apparent reason. He had been in the country two weeks. Wel­ come to Col Paige territory.

Some weeks ago my neighbor­ hood panelbeater eyed the roar­ ingness of the Friday peak hour traffic, sniffed the dampness in the air, rubbed his hands and said to me: “Ahh, it’s going to be a good weekend for business. I think I’ll have to put on some extra men for M onday.”

He told me that although the Winter had been a wet one, it was not a good one for smashes. “ A wet road is no good unless it is greasy. The last two weeks have been fairly cjry, so when this rain comes the roads will be nice and slippery.”

His hands are torn, toiled and grainy. After years of tearing at metal. The fingernails are gnarled, rising in moonless lumps. Some nails are growing back, some are in the stage of falling off. They got like that from things - gear­ boxes and hammers etc - falling on them.

A huge and battered dump bin stands in squat ugliness outside the panelbeating sbop. It ingests the auto jetsam and is emptied twice a week by an orange truck which comes by, stops, reaches for the bin with steel claws, raises it skyward, upturns it, gobbles up the buckled metal, returning it to the pavement. A fascinating dis­ play.

The panelbeater’s “ business” lines the street. He bribes the local parking officers: “ All the wrecks won’t fit in the workshop.” Last week, in the gutter, an Austin looking like an electrocuted gar­ fish, headlamps distended, wall­ eyed, the front crushed inwards from both sides, the grill pouting in agony.

The place has no lunchroom so the men eat their meals in the cars, with the bloodstains. The kids who live around here play around the wrecks after the panelbeaters finish their work and go home, roaring off in their Monaros and GT C ortin as. . . ,— , - M ICHAEL M ORRIS (__ | Page 6 — T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , N o vem b er 13-19, 1973

A word from the hospital bed...

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AST WEEK while travelling in a diabolical hunk of tech­ nology known as a “ car" we were struck from behind. My passenger ended up in hospital with a broken leg and I had the stuffing knocked out of me . . .

Every year in Australia some 4 0 0 0 people are killed in auto accidents, about 9 0 ,0 0 0 are in­ jured and millions have the tripe scared out of them. But the vio­ lence of the car doesn’t end there.

The materials used in constructing the m otor car — metals, glass, plastics etc - and the materials it consumes in order to stay running - oxygen, oil and rubber - are not unlimited. Supplies are run­ ning out.

From these valuable materials the car produces toxins: CO, NO, etc, deleteriously affecting the entire ecology. It is one o f the most dangerous threats to the life of the planet.

Society has been sold the idea that the car is the supreme mode of transport. The four wheel gas­ oline lifestyle is pounded into our skulls by everyone from sparepart salesman pushing the newest in revolutionary innovations to adom the dashboard to construc­ tion executives selling the latest in concrete freeway design. To big business the m otor car is worth billions and for that reason the corporation heavies make the de­ cisions about transport systems.

The greatest difficulty in de­ vising another transport system is to change peoples attitudes and concepts of motorised transporta­ tion. So . .

A POSSIBLE EXPERIM EN T . . .

SIXTEEN city blocks are section­ ed off and two-thirds o f the streets are taken from the cars by residents for playgrounds, com ­ munity centres, or larger property lots. One portion is set aside for community garages. So, drive­ ways, garages, and carports are made available for people to use other ways.

The community garage is a cooperative effort, which makes petrol and car servicing cheaper.

The cars could be owned com­ munally, or nationally, and check­ ed to make sure they are running well. A well tuned car is safer, cheaper to run, and less polluting.

If communities bought cars joint­ ly they could expect discounts, making their cars cheaper.

The nature of comm unity is changed by changing its transport organisation. Less roads will de­ crease noise and traffic hazards in the area. People could walk through the neighborhood to get home from the garage, and see more of the community. The gar­ age would act as a place to organ­ ise car pools to various places.

Rather tban having strictly private transportation, people begin to meet and travel together. Car safe­ ty becomes less a matter of per­ sonal finance, and more a com­ munity concern. .— .

DAVID SOD

...And one from a spannerhead ■jyyf ODERN cars are being designed to as far as possible eliminate the actual sensations of driving. You hardly notice that you're doing it. This is probably unsafe because it tends to give the driver a false sense of security, but its major result is a sheer dilution of experience.

Driving a car is probably the most adventurous activity of the average person in this society. It offers danger, travel, excitem ent, a chance to display initiative and aggression. It also requires a sense of timing and coordination that is one o f the few real skills available to anybody who is otherwise manually unskilled.

On the other hand it is these very factors which make driving so dangerous; but it would be excessively foolish to pretend that they arent there. Driving a car is not just a means of getting from point A to point B, as many drivers are heard to claim. Driving, particularly in the metropolitan area, is more like swimming in shark-infested waters.

Indulge your aggression only when it is safe to do so, but do not fail to indulge it when you get the chance. Drive to win on points.

One thing that you must realise is that the majority of other drivers will kill you if they can.

Some of them try consciously to do this, others are simply agents of a greater power. Score off them by being more clever than they, not by trying to kill them back. It is unfair to score points against pedestrians or little old ladies in Minis. If you are in the habit of doing this you are a nasty coward and you might end up killing one of the poor defenceless things.

If you dont like driving you

them. But even if you are happy, relaxed and confident, they’ll probably get you in the end any­ way.

So what the hell, a short life and a merry one, be happy, relax­ ed, confident and aggressive, and kill as few people as you possibly can.

CHOICE O F CAR. IT is unfortunate that many peo­ ple have been so hypnotised by the technological mysticism o f this fat corporation-consumer conspiracy that they choose their cars on grounds totally unrelated to driving satisfaction.

Such irrelevant criteria as per­ formance, engineering sophistica­ tion, economy and, most laugh­ able of all, safety features. L e t’s face it, you only need safety features if you plan to have an accident. I would strongly advise you to avoid having accidents; they constitute a grave danger to your corporeal substance, which you will need in order to drive your car.

There is only one way to de­ termine the worthiness of a car.

Count the dials, knobs and switches on the dashboard. Give ten points for each circular or octagonal dial, and double these points if the dials are s e t, in wood.

Toggle switches also get ten points each, knobs and switches of all other kinds five points.

Double all points for eccentric arrangements, like a gearshift of the right-hand side or a handbrake lever projecting from the roof. If you have fallen in love with the car, ignore its points score and buy it anyway.

Keep in touch and we’ll try to get you some reviews of worth­ while cars like Peugeot 403s, old Rover 90s, Austin A40s, Rileys, old Buick 8s, etc . . . I I M. O ’R O U R K E

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Beep! Beep!

T he b usy little ta x i sp e e d s across tow n.

Tick! Tick! goes the meter.

Beep! Beep! goe s th e little yellow taxi.

Look a t all the little mini-cars.

They are made of very thin metal and come from Japan. Some are small enough to f it undera semi-trailer.

Beep! Beep! goes the little yellow taxi.

Buzz! Buzz! go the little mini-cars.

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The concrete-mixer truck is pouring cement for a multi-storey car park.

It makes so much noise it can drive people mad.

Beep! Beep! goes the little yellow taxi.

Clank! Clank! goes the concrete­ mixer truck.

Look a t the big 1 See how the c a monoxide and I deposits from it; pipe fill the n a rr city street ?

Beep! Beep! goes the little y; Cough! Cough! goes the big tru

Stop! says the tn a t the busy inter He is wearing a respirator becat couldn't breathe1 Beep! Beep! goes the little yel Gasp! Gasp! goes the tra ffic c

A Drudge’s Daydream DEAR DAYLIGHTS.

Thank you tor printing John Hoyland's article on jealousy. I read it through about five times and it is almost the first honest article on sex from a male I have read. I say "alm ost" because, although I have read other examples of honest male soul searching it is the first attem pt I have come across to be both objective and to come to grips w ith what the double standard does to both sexes.

Somewhere in the second issue it was stated that Hoyland's article had not prompted anything similar from your readers. So here goes; this attem pt of mine is not as objective as Hoyland's and it's w ritten w ith a great deal more caution. N ot because I am ashamed of being a "randy housewife" because I'm not. But because if my husband " R o y " were to read the piece and recognise himself he would be deeply hurt. Men pride themselves on their ability to satisfy women and dont w ant to know about it if they can't.

I have used a pseudonym because if " R o y " were to pick up mail he would ask questions th at I dont really w ant to haveVto answer. Pardon my dishonesty or discretion or whatever you want to call it. Perhaps you would call it disloyalty - most men w ould, I th in k.

"JO S E PH IN E T U R N E R " OMEN hit their sexual peak in their m id-30s; yet for an Australian married woman of this age to admit to randiness is the equivalent of her husband public­ ly declaring homosexuality. It’s just not on.

Women are supposed to be transported to the land of eternal bliss (suburbia) and surething ful­ fillment by getting married and having kids. Monogamy is the cement that binds society to ­ gether and heaven help any mar­ ried woman foolish enough to speculate whether or not this so­ ciety is worth such expensive mortar.

Heaven help her if she ques­ tions the m yth that women are “innately” monogamous. Women of m y age were trained to accept our “biological destinies” passive­ ly and to internalise our mens need for our dependency so that it can be agonisingly hard to admit that we remain, when all is said and done, human beings with human needs that the noble in­ stitution o f matrimony often fails to satisfy.

During the first years of mar­ riage, m y husband’s somewhat un­ imaginative lovemaking wasnt too hard to bear. I was young and confident and sure that adjust­ ment would come in time, just as the marriage manuals promised.

Besides, bearing and rearing babies didnt leave too much spare energy left to resent deprivation.

Roy was concerned with ad­ vancing his career and took on lots of extra responsibilities to make sure that he was not going to be overlooked for promotion.

Our sex life was minimal, a quick screw in the approved Christian position every week or so — not too much messing about with preliminaries, that was kid stuff.

I masturbated every so often but R oy didnt know that and if I had told him he would probably have felt insulted and rejected.

Mind you, I am not blaming him — this was what he expected married life to be and no one had as m uch as hinted to him that it mightnt be all that satisfactory to a woman.

I complained every so otten but he responded merely with looks of blank incomprehension. I had him, a nice home, beautiful children, what more could I want?

I didnt know either, although I did my best to find out. The books I read congratulated me on my good fortune and didnt get beyond the “candlelit dinner for two and new nightie and hair­

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style” sort of advice. I tried them : they didnt work very well.

Meanwhile, his career was his main preoccupation and he was very successful indeed. A better house, more salary, more enter­ taining and just as little sex and understanding as ever.

Perhaps he was unfaithful now and then, I dont really know. But I had reason to suspect that he was. I dont think I was jealous in the usual sense o f th at word; certainly I felt rejected and de­ prived and bloody resentful of the freedom he enjoyed.

R oy, on the other hand, tend­ ed to get very m oody indeed if I flirted or showed interest in men.

I had had a previous relationship with a very jealous man and I didnt want that scene again so I learnt to curb any tendency to public exuberence.

Because I loved him I tried to live up to the stereotype and on the whole he probably found me satisfactory enough. He was “ too busy” to help with the housework but firmly believed that a spotless house reflected a wom an’s char­ acter. Sometimes I moaned and put on a turn, but on the whole I complied with sickening meek­ ness.

My older children started school and I was left a t home with the youngest and with TV, books and rather more masturbation for c o n so la tio n .

Lonely, lonely, lonely.

It’s a cliche: Wife meets tired, uninterested husband at the door with pentup, semi-hysterical gab­ ble and complains that she is going around the bend. Husband sighs wearily and reaches for a bottle of beer from the fridge and prepares to listen tolerantly whilst wife recites her days frustrations and woes.

As sizzlingly exciting breaks in the monotony there were coffee sessions with on e’s peers, school and kindie functions, occupation­ al therapy (pottery and tennis but I didnt like pottery and have always hated tennis) to be explor­ ed in the hope that one might find something meaningful to fill in those hours until the kids arrived home and he got back from work.

Cliche fantasies about running away from home and becoming a stripper at King’s Cross; in one’s fantasies boobs never sag and abdomens dont bear traces of childbearing. One is forever 18 and delectable.

Fantasies about taking up study again and becoming a fam ­

ous woman scientist/artist/w riter/ a n y -b lo o d y -th in g -excep t-m u m.

Why didnt I take up study again?

Because he didnt damn well want me to , th a t’s why.

All up and down our nice suburban street my neighbor ladies were likewise going bonk­

ers. A t night I could hear them raging and screaming at their hus­ bands just as I periodically raged and screamed at mine.

We women never discussed our dissatisfactions, that would be breaking the line. Instead, one bragged about the perfections and

courtesy of one’s man and listen­ ed with compassionate disbelief to similarly sincere but inauthentic commercials for the bliss of matri mony.

Every so often one would hear that Maisie’s husband, or B etty ’s husband was playing up, but it simply wasnt done to divulge suspicions that one’s own man might be straying or that the husband of the woman passing on the gossip might be well known for philandering. One o f the women in the street started an affair of her own, we all pretend­ ed ignorance, but there were muted hints of her husband’s lack of “manliness” , whatever that is.

Damn all those marriage manuals with their hypocritical suggestions that sexual dis­ harmony is almost inveriably the wife’s fault. There were precious few times whem I didnt welcome R o y ’s attentions and I dieted and exercised constantly to keep myself appealing.

Damn all those prissy injunc­ tions for women to be more broadminded in accepting their husbands needs, ie. fellatio and so on. When it comes to sexual narrowmindedness men can be as uptight as any Victorian pater­ familias. Reciprocation they just dont want to know about. Damn all those snide, hurtful jokes about frustrated married women. How the hell do women get to be frustrated in the first place.

Damn all that ubiquitous prop aganda that women need to be or should be faithful and that only a slut wants more than her husband can provide. Damn our mens need for submission and dependency and ‘‘the exclusive use of woman’s body” to prop up their sense of masculine power and aggression. And damn us for a c­ cepting these sorts of inhuman victimisation.

If life was dreary and far from fun back in the days when the kids were small then the crunch came when they were all at school, all growing up into in dividuals and I hit the traumatic mid-30 years. All those simmering needs and yearnings cam e to the boil virtually overnight and for a period I fell hopelessly in love with a whole succession of men whom I never would have dared to approach.

One man conceived a passion for me which he couldnt/ wouldnt/didnt consummate be-

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cause I was a married woman and would have to be hard up i hence somebody else’s property. (pun intended).

It’s been so long since my For an agonising year after he had declared that (cliche again) “we femaleness has been acknow­ could be nothing but distant ledged and wholeheartedly ap­ friends” I lay awake at night and preciated that my never very cursed his scruples or cowardice in secure self esteem has eroded to a between wondering if I was really wisp. Fantasy is one thing but the not worth it and that was why he thought o f taking my clothes off for another man brings me to refrained.

Sometimes I wonder if my kids stark terror. What if, after dredg­ and Roy see me as a human being ing up every possible bit of cour­ at all — certainly few men seem age and racing some man off, he to . Is it because I’m forbidden rejected me? territory, property, and anyway At long last I’m back at uni­ past the age of masculine interest? versity studying for that w orth­ Sex is difficult enough when while vocation and its certainly kids are small but it becomes very better than sitting at home brood­ strained indeed when there is an ing or rushing around doing a adolescent awake and studying in whole lot of unnecessary house­ the next room . Habituation has work. Roy has reached the top blunted whatever attractions one and thankfully is content to bask has retained and one’s husband in it instead of discovering some doesnt look too bloody interest­ new ambition. He is a lot less demanding about housework now ing either.

You know precisely how he is and even helps, age has mellowed going to approach you, what he is my aggressive careerist.

Y et, my discontent still drives going to do, how you are expect­ ed to respond and how you will me to swill down valium and take a few too many drinks whenever feel afterwards. Used.

Y o u wake up to the fact that the opportunities arise. Partly you have been used for years and this is because I am in the com ­ that any recriminations on that pany of much younger women score will fall on deaf ears. For (some of them feminists) who th a t’s what marriage is all about would reject out of hand the sort and few men feel any guilt about of marriage I existed through and accepting, without question, a who regard R o y ’s sort of pos­ wom an’s body and other matrim­ sessiveness as a barbaric survival. onial services.

Because I am non moralistic One should feel gratitude that and non judgmental, they confide he isnt a wife belter, a boozer, a in me. Believe me, their con­ womaniser, or a no hoper who fidences brutally underline the doesnt provide the necessities for sort of predicament I’m in. I listen his family. And one does. One to their criticisms of marriage, sex counts one’s blessings until they roles and sexual relationships and wear and fray in one’s fingers. cannot but concur with their Every so often, when the strain analyses. I groove on their un­ of being Mrs Perfectly Faithful abashed sexuality their courage Housewife becom es unbearable I and their freedom and whilst I hive off to the local GP and coax envy them bitterly I pray that him into prescribing tranquillisers. their ideals may never be tarnish­ M onogamy in tablet form. ed.

Marriage, as an institution is Fidelity in a pill. Instant relief for aching flesh. I look into the faces getting pretty shaky, and I for of my peers clustered in the wait­ one, couldnt care less if as it is ing room flicking through the presently structured it quietly col­ tattered womens magazines (none lapsed. Something better has to of the modern risque one's, just take its place and while ever men the respectable weeklies with their feel the need of sacrificial victims, potted solutions) and wonder how virgin brides, stainless wives, while many of them are there for the they themselves acknowledge no same reasons as I, and what such constraints then marriage is a symptoms they produce for the sham and rotten confidence trick. benefit of the longsuffering GP. Fortunately, the term “frig­ Sexual deprivation and frustra­ idity” is less bandied around than tions can produce a great many it was in the 50s and 60s, but quite authentic symptoms. Every­ surely it is not too much for men thing from period pains to miscar­ jto acknowledge that cold, re­ riage with backaches and other luctant wives merely reflected the woes in between. I know, I’ve sorts of atmospheres that men (suffered a lo t of them myself. themselves help to produce with Why try to be Mrs Perfectly anti woman, anti sexual attitudes.

Faithful Housewife?

Mine has been a good marriage Weil, for starters, there is my by usually applied criteria and husband who loves me in an un­ R oy has been a model husband excited sort of way and kids who using these same standards of would suffer if I threw my cap judgment, but really, is it enough? over the windmill and started When I remember the sorts of screwing around. humiliations I used to impose on There is my own cowardice myself trying to wring a little and fear of R o y ’s retaliation. passion out of a more or less Shyness; women who grew up in indifferent husband, I cringe. But the fearful 50s were not trained to it’s not much good feeling bitter be sexually forward.

I just or self-pitying about it because wouldnt know how to deliberate­ my problems are not mine alone, ly set out to get laid. Cynicism: I they are Mrs Anywoman’s. dont imagine that other womens Women are still putting them ­ husbands have much more en­ selves through hell trying to live thusiasm or prowess than my own up to the impossible, still buying and besides, I would hate to be this creme, this eyeshadow, and party to another woman’s depriva­ as an ultimate obscenity buying tion. Lack of opportunity; how squirt goo to drown their natural many seductive men do you odors so that some man will imagine lurk about suburban com e to find them desirable.

Women are still being exhorted supermarkets? Meter men and en­ cyclopaedia salesmen are not all to attem pt the impossible, to be P a n tin g P assio n flo w er and that attractive either.

But right deep down where I Patience Pureheart all within the dont like to look very often is the same, handy for all sorts of un­ dreadful suspicion that I am not pleasant labor, body. And it ’s all really very sexually attractive. such a waste of time, men dont R o y ’s lack of passion may have seem to be all that much interest­ had a very good cause. I suspect ed in women and sex anyway. that any man who wanted me Page 10 - T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , N ovem ber 13-19, 1973

Earth - Fire - Water

LO R IA Fletcher is one of the few aboriginal artists in Australia. She works in ceramics.

About her past, she said, "T h ere’s nothing there, just hardship and struggle.’’

Born in Weipa in 1 9 3 7 she attended a mission school where “ nobody ever talked about going on to higher levels. We hardly even knew you could. So almost nobody went o n .”

It was her m other and Auntie K itty Dick who taught her abo­ riginal legends while she was a child. Her first artistic endeavors were on bark and these were sold to tourists.

Gloria came to Sydney three years ago and did a tech course in ceramics.

Her various works are attem pts to keep a distinct aboriginal cul­ ture alive. The actual motifs and designs in her work are from traditional sources. In her mind aboriginal culture is not for the

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museums. If it is to survive it must be continually rejuvenated She also has an almost m eta­ physical theory about her art. “ Many of m y pots are bound in chains just as we are bound to the universe,” she says. Gloria has her own way of expressing earthfire-water. She moved her hands as if she was going to begin work; “Mud, clay-volcano-the-seas-the universe.”

A figure looking up into the sky, to the moon, into the uni­ verse is Gloria’s metaphor for imagination. “ Modern people never look up into the sky any­ more. They just race from their home and TV sets to work, and then back home again. Their eyes down or straight in front of them .” A figure looking up into the sky and the m oon recurs in her work along with her various moon surfaces.

Though modern technology, she added, had made this field a

little problematic by landing a man on the moon.

Her main work consists of tiled panels. On average these are made up of 24 six inch tiles. They are heavily embossed with a linear pattern which breaks the recti­ linear structure of the panel. The tiles are richly textured both through relief and color. The color contradicts and comple­ ments the modelled form. She uses natural glazes, particularly iron, which are applied unevenly thereby giving a large range of colors and surface textures to her work.

Earlier next year Gloria will be having her first exhibition outside of Australia. She will exhibit in Japan for four weeks and South Korea for four weeks.

Presently she has an exhibition at the Divola Galleries 1 6 5 -1 6 7 Rowntree Street, Birchgrove, NSW. |— | GRANT EVANS

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AN INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS I

T WAS in the Shaolin monastery, set in the rugged terrain of Honan province that Bodhidharma, father of Zen Buddhism and first patriarch of China, spent the latter part of his life, meditating and developing Shaolin temple boxing (“ch ’unfa” — way of the hand).

This defence, used by the gentle monks as protection against the maraud­ ing bands who roved near the temple, carries with it legends of extraordinary feats by the monks in warding off their attackers, of incredible leaps ( “ sing-yi”) from standing and sitting positions.

From the marriage of rigid physical training and meditation evolved five dis­ tinct Shaolin styles: dragon, snake, crane, praying mantis and tiger, the expressions of the five elements — dragon being yin or negative vitality and tiger being yang or positive vitality. The movements o f the creatures were emulated in the styles in “ soft” and “hard” techniques consisting of blocks, kicks, punches and application of reverse-joint techniques.

Like Aikido, some of the movements of Shaolin temple boxing follow the yin/yang principle of receiving energy (yin) and redirecting it (yang). Unlike Aikido one does not harmonise with the opponent’s energy, instead, working di­ rectly against the energy to neutralising.

A master’s performance has the grace and elegance of the swan’s flight, the lethal power of the cheetah, the hypnotic effect of the cobra.

All training focuses on the develop­ ment of the “chi” — the “life-energy” or bio-electricity - the central concept of Taoism. Chi, centred in the abdomen just below the navel, flows through the body along subtle paths from the soles o f the feet to the top of the head. Meditation practice was the closing of the five gates or senses and centring the chi by circulat­ ing it in a microcosmic orbit from the abdomen up the spine to the brain so as to discover the immortal golden light between the eyes.

One of the most closely guarded Shaolin secrets was the knowledge of the 7 0 8 points along the passages of the chi; 142 being those to which lethal pressure could be applied.

However, this knowledge was used for healing purposes and the prevention of ailments by restoration of the energy flow blocked along the different paths.

This was the basis of the theory and practice of acupuncture which inserted needles along the paths to stimulate the free flow of chi. The emphasis was on prevention rather than cure and as Lu K ’uan Y u says: “The saints and sages of old did not wait for illnesses to manifest and then cure them. They cured them while they were latent.”

UNG FU (pronounced Gung Fu) sprang from Shaolin, but a less re­ fined art was practised in Canton from where many Chinese emigrated to Ameri­ ca. Tai Chi Ch’uan (“ supreme ultimate” ), with its slow harmonious circular move­ ments, is the least aggressive of the arts, but among the most widely practised in the West. It was evolved by Chang Tsang

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Kung Fu is based on the principle o f the yin and the yang, a pair o f complementary and interdependent forces that act continuously in this universe. In the symbol, the yin and yang are two interlocking parts o f “ one w hole” , each containing within its confines the qualities o f the other.

The com m on mistake o f m ost martial artists is to identify these two forces, yin and yang, as dualistic (soft style and firm style). But yin-yang exist as one inseparable force o f an unceasing interplay o f movement. They are neither cause nor effect but should be looked on as sound and echo, light and shadow. I f yin and yang are viewed as two separate entities, realisation o f the ultimate reality o f Kung Fu w on't be achieved.

' Fen who was said to be inspired by a bat­ tle he witnessed between a bird and a snake.

The Chinese Zen temples were forced to close after the B oxer Rebellion, but the pure Shaolin spirit lives on in Japan in the form of Shorinji Kempo. Headquart­ ers is the Shorinji temple (Hombu) centre of the Zen Kongo sect on the island of Shikoku.

Doshin So, its founder, was trained in China by the great Shaolin master Buntaise. He was repatriated to Japan after the war and established the temple in 1 9 4 6 . So explains that the Shaolin secrets have only been recently unlocked as the masters were afraid of the great potential harm through their misuse.

Training is concentrated on developing chi, which is used “ to defeat an op­ ponent without physical force or the strength of a blow from the fist” .

“Kenzen” is the operative Shorinji prin­ ciple, Ken being boxing or physical move­ ment, Zen being calm or stillness which is applied in the daily discipline and training of Shorinji students.

Kicking, open and closed fist striking and hitting with base of the palm are the basis of the a rt’s Eleven Fundamental' Techniques. Kicks to the mid-section and blows to the temple are two o f the most common techniques. To progress to the rank of Seikenshi (black belt), 1 0 0 tech ­ niques must be mastered. It is estimated that there are about 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 practition­ ers in over 1 5 0 0 hombus throughout Japan.

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“ superstar” exponent? The ultimate tri­ umph of mind and body over sword and rifle or the next inevitable stage in the epoch o f film blood and guts? Why the mushrooming of martial art schools?

Perhaps these films are the completion of the cycle from the anti-hero of west­ erns to the warrior hero of the East, its precursor being the immortal Seven Samurai.

Films such as Fist o f F u ry , and Five Fingers o f Death are highly stylised with scant plots, instead concentrating on lightning speed and accuracy of the hero as he devastates the opposition. They have a special appeal as “they tend to use special effects to dramatise the energy. A man raises his hand and vapor flows from his palm. It seems very exotic, but it’s simply a visual metaphor. The Chinese moviemakers feel that they have to make things a little more concrete, just like Hollywood” .

But do we see beyond the im pact of the kick or blow?

Indeed, the argument against “mind­ less violence” has no place in this con­ text. In the case of Bruce Lee, the final visual image is the result of many years of hard and disciplined training. Winning at all costs is not the theme of these films; it is m an’s preservation o f honor.

But Bruce lee is NOT Kung Fu and Kung Fu is NOT Bruce Lee. He developed a highly unorthodox style, which he called “jeet kune do” (“ intercepting fist w ay” ) which was based on an intensive anatomical study of martial art move­ ments. Its premise being: immobilising the opponent from the “ ro ots” (the legs, linchpin of any stance) one could virtual­ ly control him at will.

Lee also developed a rather unique double reverse roundhouse kick, which he used with remarkable effect in Fist o f Fury. Stressing the need for an individual approach Lee said that “each one of us is different and each one of us should be taught the correct form. By the correct form, I mean the most useful techniques a person is inclined tow ard.”

With such a proliferation of styles and schools, a suitable introduction for many people would be the study of the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu as it dramatically demonstrates the circular continuously flowing chi. A following publication by James Yimm Lee is a valuable aid to such study. But note: the author stresses the need for a competent instructor, especial­ ly for learning the “Chi Sao” technique.

So beware the fast-buck instructor who teaches you Kung Fu or Wing Chun in ten easy lessons!

For those wishing to pursue this art, there are a number of instructors in Sydney who hold classes in Wing Chun and Shaolin styles. Edmund Lee holds a Wing Chun class at the gymnasium at the University of NSW; Serge MartichOsterman, a superb Shaolin exponent, is to be found at Sydney University. Mr Yu, who is also at the University of NSW, was head of the Fifth School in Hong Kong and was trained for 15 years by a Taoist monk. He often demonstrated the five essential principles which must always be borne in mind: Avoid rather than check, Check rather than force, F o rce rather than injure, Injure rather than maim, Maim rather than kill.

BRIAN WILLIAMS

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DO IT YOURSELF RUNG FU 1 Actually, this was never meant for publication. I started out taking notes on Wing Chun in 1962 so I could teach Kung Fu to my eight year old son when he became old enough. As my son grew older, however, his interest turned to tennis — not the martial arts. I was afraid that my years of note-taking had been wasted. Then I decided to write on Wing Chun in hopes that >t would benefit aspiring martial artists.

Through my brother Bob, I was intro­ duced to my future Wing Chun instructor, Bruce Lee. Because of my unfortunate past experience in other schools, I really appreciated the simple and direct style of Wing Chun and its practical application.

What you practice today, you can use today.

I was fortunate to be able to study under the late Bruce Lee and be his assistant instructor. When he was living in Oakland, we were in daily contact. He was always there to clear up any doubts I might have about his style of Kung Fu,

Mr Yip Man

and I kept copious notes on the pertinent points and techniques.

Television and motion pictures have tremendously increased the amount of interest in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean martial arts, and as a result schools are springing up everywhere.

Some are good; some are inferior.

Eventually, Kung Fu schools will go through the same type of upheaval and turmoil that karate schools have gone through in past years. There will be the inevitable bickering, pettiness, and ruth­ less exploitation of the ignorant public by the unscrupulous.

I hope this will give the layman a clear perspective of Kung Fu so that in his quest for knowledge he will enrol in a good school. Those who use this for home training may pick up some useful pointers. If Wing Chun (Kung Fu) is help­ ful then I'm glad I took the time to take notes.

J. Y IM M LE E, Oakland, C alifornia

According to legend, the Wing Chun (literally, “beautiful springtime” ) style o f Kung Fu was founded by a woman, Yim Wing Chun, some four hundred years ago.

Yim Wing Chun learned her basic self-defence from a Buddhist nun, Ng Mui, (nuns were quite active in the arts a t various periods, and some were supposed to have been fierce fighters) and passed the style down through the centuries to Leong Bok Sul, Wong Wah Bo, Leong Y ee Tai, Leong Jon, Chan Wah Soon, Yip Man (the present leader o f the Wing Chun style), Leong Sheong and Wong Soon Sum. Although Yim Wing Chun learned from another, she is still considered the founder of the Wing Chun system. She felt that too much emphasis was placed on the “ hard horse” and “ hard style” so evident in the other systems, and being a woman, she believed that a wiser course of action should be taken to com plem ent the “hard” way. In order to apply energy more efficiently, she devised the chi sao practice, a unique feature o f the Wing Chun style in which one flows with the opponent instead of trying to dominate him. Since structurally this style complem ents opponent strength rather than trying to dominate it, Wing Chun is ideal for women. It is an aggressive style with very com pact, economical attacks and defences.

Yip Man, the forem ost authority o f the Wing Chun art today, is responsible for bringing the style from China to Hong Kong.

STANCES Right square stance

T o assume th e square stance, dis­ trib u te y o u r w e ig h t e q u a lly on b oth feet and bend y o u r knees. P o sitio n y o u r hands at th e c e n te rlin e (joan sien), placing y o u r rig h t h an d f o r ­ w ard o f th e le ft.

R em ain in th e square stance, b u t place y o u r le ft hand fo rw a rd o f th e rig ht h an d.

Left square stance

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Right stance

To assume a rig ht stance fro m the square stance, move y o u r rig ht leg fo rw a rd , b u t d is trib u te m ost o f y o u r w eigh t on th e rear leg. C o n ­ tin u e to guard th e centerlin e.

T h e le ft stance is the reverse o f th e right stance.

Left stance

DO IT YOURSELF KUNG FU 2 CENTRELINE THEORY The centerline (joan sien) is an integral part of the wing chun style of kung-fu. It is the nucleus on which the defenses and attacks of wing chun are based. The centerline influence can be seen in all wing chun stances, hand positions, shifting of horses, advancing and retreating.

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( A ) In a square facing stance place y o u r rig h t hand fo rw a rd and y o u r le ft hand at th e c e n te r o f y o u r chest. (B ) W hen y o u change th e p o sitio n o f y o u r hands, regardless o f th e stance, never leave th e ce n te rlin e u n p ro te c te d .

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This series illustrates h o w to guard th e ce n te rlin e d u rin g th e e x e c u tio n of several jabs in a tra in in g exercise. S ta rt the fin g er ja b fro m th e m id d le o f y o u r chest so th e ja b p ro te c ts th e c e n te rlin e as it travels fo rw a rd . (1 ) F ro m the c o m p le te d le ft fin g er ja b p o s itio n , (2 ) begin a rig ht fin g er ja b by re tra c tin g y o u r le ft hand as y o u sho ot o u t y o u r rig ht hand. (3 ) C o n tin u e to m ove y o u r right hand fo rw a rd and y o u r le ft hand back. (4 ) W hen y o u r rig h t hand is fu lly e x te n d e d and y o u r le ft hand is in fro n t o f y o u r s te rn u m , th e rig h t fin g er jab is co m p le te d .

F ro m th e square stance assume the rig h t s ittin g horse stance (jo r m ah) by tu rn in g y o u r b o d y to w a rd the rig h t. K eep m ost o f y o u r w e ig h t on th e rear fo o t. L o w e r y o u r le ft hand, tu rn y o u r palm to w a rd th e flo o r, and bring it across y o u r b o d y u ntil it is in line w ith th e rig ht hand.

(5 ) In a le ft stance place y o u r le ft hand fo rw a rd to cover th e centerline. (6 ) In th e rig h t stance th e rig ht hand is fo rw a rd .

IMMOVABLE ELBOW

Left Sitting Horse Stance The immovable elbow theory (but doan jiang) is very im portant in wing chun. T heoretically, it works like a hurricane. The eye o f a hurricane is always still, but its periphery is constantly moving and exerting trem endous force. The immovable elbow works similarly.

The hand and forearm can move in any direction, but the elbow never moves. It remains ab ou t three inches in fron t of the body.

Also, the hand and forearm should never pass the imaginary perpendicular line th at intersects the elbow. If the arm is pressed to o hard, it is b etter to give way with the whole body than to give way with the elbow or violate the boundary line. The distance between the thum b and little finger on the left hand is the co rrect distance th at the elbow should be from the body.

In the immovable elbow th eo ry , boundary lines limit the sideward and up-and-down m o v em ert of the hand and forearm .

The height o f the boundary is the eyebrow s, and the lowest boundary line is th e groin area, although the elbow must never dip below the navel. The width of the boundary extends just past the shoulders.

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DO IT YOURSELF KUNG FU 3 FOUR CORNERS The boundaries of the four corners are the same as those o f the immovable elbow: the eyebrows at the to p , the groin area at the bottom , and the area just past th e shoulders on either side. The four corners are divided into four equal areas, or gates. F o r instance, the top half of the side of the forward hand is the outside high gate. Any attack to this gate will be blocked to the outside. A ttacks to the inside gate will be blocked inward.

Within each gate there are also tw o separate areas as seen in the side view: a forward area and a rear area. Any attack to the forward area will be blocked by the forward arm . A ttack s to the rear area will be handled by the hand th at is back.

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THIS supplement is extracted from the book Wing Chun (Kung Fu) by J. Yimm Lee, Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, California. The books are available in some city bookshops.

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Outside High Forward

T h is is an e x a m p le o f a fo rw a rd , outside high b lo ck w ith the right hand. N o te : O ne hand is high and th e o th e r is lo w .

Outside Low Forward

A fo rw a rd , o utsid e lo w block can be accom plished by e xe足 c u tin g a lo w , o u te r w ris t block w ith th e rig h t hand.

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Inside High Forward

Inside High Rear

A n e x a m p le o f th e fo rw a rd , high inside gate b lo c k is th e le ft p alm -u p b lo c k .

A rear, inside high b lo ck can be p erfo rm ed w ith a rig ht slap block and a le ft straigh t punch.

Outside Low Rear

Inside Low Forward

Inside Low Rear

T h e rear, o utsid e lo w b lo c k can be execu ted w ith a lo w , le ft slap blo ck.

T h e fo rw a rd , inside lo w b lo ck can be accom plished w ith a rig h t slap b lo c k .

A rear, inside lo w b lo c k is e x e 足 cuted w ith a le ft slap b lo c k .

Outside High Rear

H ere is a rear, o utsid e high b lo ck (slap b lo c k ) execu ted w ith the le ft hand.

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DO IT YOURSELF KUNG FU 4 ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT Practicing econom y of movements in both defense and offense and keeping within the boundaries of the four corners is the heart of sil lim ta o . Any style which blocks and attacks

s im u lta n e o u s ly will be structurally faster than a style which incorporates a block and then an attack .

The C h in e s e call the sim u ltan eou s block and attack lin sil die dar.

(5 ) T h e rig ht arm is b ey o n d th e b o u n d ary line of the rig ht u pp er gate. T o o m uch m o tio n is w asted . (6 ) A n econ om ical b lock w o u ld be a slap b lo c k to th e high gate. R e m e m b e r to keep y o u r hand w ith in the b o u n d a ry line.

Figures 1 throu gh 4 show the wasted m ovem ents th a t I am expending to c o u n te r m y o p p o ­ n en t’s tech niq ue. T h is is n o t an exam p le o f lin sil die dar.

(7 ) T h e b o u n d a ry line is again v io la te d . T h e b lo ck is to o e x tre m e and the m o v e m e n t is w asted . (8 ) A lo w o utsid e w ris t b lo ck is faster to e xecu te and stays w ith in the b o u n d a ry line. N o tic e h o w th e rig ht hand is guarding the c e n te rlin e (jo a n sien).

THEORY OF FACING Since the structure o f wing chun is based on straight punches, guarding the centerline, elbow in, and immovable elbow, knowing how to face you r opponent (jiue ying) is essential.

(1 ) N e ver use this b lo ck in w ing chun. It violates the b o u n d ary line b y passing the s ho uld er. (2 ) A p a lm -u p b lo ck is a m ore e con om ical w a y to d efe n d y o u r outside high gate.

(1 ) I am n ot facin g m y o p p o n e n t nose to nose. C o n ­ s equ ently, all m y o p p o n e n t has to do is com e in at an angle and m y c e n te rlin e is useless.

(3 ) T h is lo w b lo c k is to o e x tre m e —to o m uch w asted m o tio n . (4 ) Y o u can defend th e same area m o re e c o n o m ic ally w ith a slap b lo c k to th e lo w gate.

W hen I face m y o p p o n e n t (2 ), I preserve m y cen te rlin e and m ake it in v io late . I am able to b lo ck m y o p p o n e n t’s le ft punch because I am facing h im .

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HE PILOT banked his craft approaching Andamooka Is­ land to let us have a clear view of Lake Torrens. “T h at’s Andamooka ahead now,” he said. “Great place. Lousy strip, if it’s wet — gets very soggy - might have to use the emergency on e.” So saying, our helmsman gently arc­ ed a township revealing vertical holes amongst mountains of mul­ lock, occasional open cu t swathes and heat-reflecting corrugatediron homes.

This is Andamooka - king o f the southern opal fields; 4 0 0 odd miles from Adelaide; where men work hard and play hard and thrive on the anticipation o f both.

Our landing was perfect. Two cars waited on the end of the runway, having sped from town following our “ we’re here” cir­ cuit. Luggage was transferred; legs^ stretched. Reinhold (sometimes called R on) and his mate greeted us warmly . . . they knew our pilot from earlier visits. We bounc­ ed into town. The main street “ the boulevard” to tourists — was a quagmire. Red water lay inches deep between squelshed up wheel tracks o f sticky clay mud.

Crudely painted signs pro­ claim “gems for sale” . Cannibal­ ised car bodies lie a t all angles, indiscriminately dumped. Many homes are built from combin­ ations o f rocks, hessian, asbestos and roofing iron. The roads serve simply to link the "houses togeth­ er, curving where necessary over hillocks and around shafts to do so. There are no telephone or **$^8?** .*si power poles, letterboxes or phone booths and very few fences.

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Notes from the Andamooka under­ ground

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society . . . until you contemplate the sturdy Japanese safe in your motel room. When it rains in Andamooka the miners down tools and drive into town to enjoy a beer o r two. The comm unity appears to accept this ritual readi­ lyDrinking Southwark in one of the bars on a wet Andamooka afternoon is a memorable experi­ ence for most city escapees. No one, it seems, has a surname. One meets Gus (mine host); L ottie (who cooks like a dream ); Arnold and his wife and daughter; Walter; Peter (who enters soaked, clutch­ ing tw o old books and a large box of tissues); Reinhold again (his brother is driving a truck to Adel­ aide); Pepe the local portraitist; and several miners whose broad smiles beam through dark, lined faces.

Most o f the miners wear tough, browned faces. Some are in shorts and singlets; unlaced boots, beards, and long hair. Their style is nat­ ural — ever ready to laugh o r express opinions in a loud, gestic­ ulating manner. Many have arrived from Europe and found Anda­ mooka the perfect tem porary ou t­ let for their talents and ambitions.

Many stories are told - some for the benefit of the visitors.

Someone tells o f a successful sui­ cide who strapped dynamite to his chest; and how his remains and that o f his house were pushed into his shaft by bulldozer.

There are inferences o f standover men from interstate, no dates, no packdrill o f course.

Stories abound about mistresses and disputed claims, o f thefts and corruption. Laughter, however, is

ram pant. Rain (and the beer) helps cleanse the soul and breaks down the suspicions o f what others intend and do. Rain is therapy in Andamooka.

Peter is 72, he looks younger.

He was bom in Pilsen (“ where the beer com es from ” ) and has been in Australia 2 4 years. He is a qualified architect and structural engineer.

We readily accepted his invita­ tion to visit his air conditioned home that evening. He joined us for dinner and later we set off, a party o f seven, with a flagon o f red and some reservations about our several legs being pulled. Peter lives in a house built by Walter some 17 years earlier. It is half built into a hill and consists of three sections. Peter asked us to wait until he lit his home before we entered.

By the light of a solitary lan­ tern we crossed his front door, passed immediately through the kitchen area and the next room which was dimly lit by a candle rammed into a stubbie.

The next area, the “Opera House” , measured approximately 10 feet by 1 2 . (Other candlestubbies provided sufficient light to reveal his bed on one side and an upright piano on the other.

Peter indicated that we could occupy the several chairs packed into the room or sit on his bed.

Overhead, his joke about air con­ ditioning became obvious. A tear in the canvas ceiling revealed cracks in the roof thatching through which the stars twinkled.

Peter beamed at us - his pleasure at having a small and more than slightly humbled audience increas­

ed as he lifted the piano lid and drew the armless office swivel chair closer to the keyboard.

“Should we start” , he asked “by playing G od Save the Q ueen?" Then a quiet aside "I think you might be anarchist, to o ” . His rough, aged fingers, denying their eight years in the shafts, commenced dancing across the black and whites revealing a man of intense compassion. He played his native national anthem with great pride; he played De­ bussy with flair and many pieces of Chopin.

He played and he played, paus­ ing now and again to translate some folk lyrics that we might understand the temper of the movements. He spoke, too, of his childhood and his schooling; the war years and of coming to Aus­ tralia. Then he played again.

Occasionally he’d pause for a mouthful of claret or a puff on a smoke. He told of his beloved inherited violin, since sold, and of conversations with Hepzibah Menuhin. He apologised for his hands being less supple than they once were. “Tom orrow ” , he said, “ my friend is coming to tune the piano. But tom orrow you are go■ _ »> ing.

Tomorrow, before we went, I returned to take some photos.

The piano tuner and two mates were there. One didnt like me taking photos of Peters home.

“What are you - some bloody communist or somethin’? Takin’ pictures an’ askin’ questions?

Talkin’ to Peter ’ere.” The sun was shining outside, the sky was blue — no sign o f rain.

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On O ctober 2 4 , KEV IN G IL B E R T appeared in the New castle m agistrates court charged with having written a letter containing a th reat to kill the Queen. Gilbert pleaded not guilty. His counsel told the cou rt th at a request to the prosecution to see the letter had been refused. The case has been remanded until December 18. Gilbert was released on parole two and a half

years ago, after having been given a life sentence for murder. His articles have appeared in Nation Review and the Aboriginal Publication F o u n d atio n ’s magazine Identity, he is the editor of Black Australian News. He is the author of a book to be published later this year.

White poison’s gonna kill yuh kids they can understand, th at’s all th ey’re capable of wanting. And th ey’re getting it, so you can’t say that they’re stupid.

These dirty, life-stained passionate old men have fixed it so that people like you, as distinct from us blacks, have com e to believe that it really won’t matter if the birds dont fly anymore because th ey’re all long time passing into dog food tins or because their guts are loaded with DDT as well as all the other muck that the drug houses flog us to keep their dividends up.

It really won’t matter if 1 9 8 4 is just around the corner because old Sir W hat’s his name did OK out of it all just before things started to crack, eh? Which is all he cafes about. That, and shutting up guys like me who go around saying that it’s wrong. That murdering all the wallabies is wrong. That corruption is wrong. And especially that the appalling misery of us not so stupid aboriginals shouldnt be allowed to continue at the indefinite pleasure of those rat/pig/pol bastards.

Christ! I wish they’d all forget to nomin­ ate!

Aldous Huxley once called the whole thing a Cosmic Intelligence Test. I dont know, as my aboriginal fathers did, about the Cosmic part. But I do know that if we just see it as a plain, simple, garden variety sort of intelligence test, then almost the whole of white Australia rates the mark of “Failed". With distinction.

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OU KNOW, when you really come J I to think about it, you have to admit that, as a race, the Australian aboriginal is much, much more intelligent than you whites.

Hitler, who pinched his ideas on race from theorists such as de Gobineau and H. S. Chamberlain, classified us as one of the four pure races left in the world. A pure race is a superior race, he reckoned, and therefore more intelligent. But over the past 2 0 0 years English country gentle­ men (and others) who came to settle in the Antipodes have had a rather unmen­ tionable country sport — one that got ’em a lot more excited than any riding to hounds would ever have, I might add, and the Australian aboriginal race somehow became a little less pure than it once was.

Nevertheless, Hitler was right. Us blacks have only been mongrelised for a mere 2 0 0 years. Quantitatively, or should I say qualitatively, white people have several thousand years o f extra mongrelising up their sleeves. So that means that not only are we blacks purer, like, but brighter, too.

It is because o f this self-evident fact that aboriginals are better equipped with the necessary grey matter that keeps us all alive and kicking in this dog-fight they call life, that they havent ever been quite as gullible, as stupid as that great oozing jelly-like mass known as the white middle class. (A t the crunch, most o f us claim to belong to it, dont we?) T hat’s why blacks give our Uncle Toms the arse while you whites not only elect yours but keep on reelecting them even while they can be seen to be killing your kids in front of your own stupid faces! Dont think for a moment that it’s only the Yankee great sil­ ent majority that is crazy. Dont think . . .

When us blacks see one o f our Uncle Toms come sliming up to the mission for his annual visit, dressed like a king and o f course in the Mercedes, we dont bloody cheer. We chunder. It’s so bloody ob­ vious. He’s com e to deliver a line of bull, pat the babies on the heads (not forget­ ting to wash his hands afterwards), tell them how if they make sure 'n work within the system, well then they’re gonna be alright in maybe another 200 years, and mainly y o u ’re liable to get hurt if you dont toe the line and ’bye folks, until next year. And all the time he knows that his black brothers are busy chundering up the sheep’s guts they had for breakfast and wondering how many of their kids have died to pay for that beaut car on account of how ol’ Tom won’t use the position he’s in to help them buck the system th at’s keeping their kids dying which is exactly why he can afford those wheels in the first place. It’s stuff like that that makes those mission blacks, those poor, stupid, uneducated jackies just that little bit smarter. They’re not fooled by it.

But the jelly is. There isnt hardly one member of it who doesnt think that getting an extra $ 5 or maybe $ 5 0 a week is what it’s all about. And so long as the mugs can be kept thinking that, can be kept from understanding the structure of this universal delusion which the psy­ chologists call their conditioning, then the rats, the big money boys’ll go right on m aking their $ 5 0 0 ,0 0 0 or their $ 5 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 extra a week.

It makes me laugh how stupid people are. We read all about how the two top politicians in America, the two top politi­ cians, have been shown up as filthy, criminal rats. Now you just dont get to be that powerful unless there’s something wrong with you, something different about you. Even among the small few who do hide a heart somewhere under­ neath their grey serge suits there has to be a level of cunning, a level of craftiness, a

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TH E P O LICY M A K ER S Our tribesmen raised a banner In a just and noble manner A nd the tramp o f feet go seeking Human rights in its own way.

Yet I yearn to see the working Of real men, above m ere clerking Who take, and keep an office F o r reasons truer than pay.

Oh, those stupid sneering faces Peering from appointed places Where honesty as virtue Is rarely ever found Where “m anhood" stands fo r treason Against all com m on reason A nd childrens flesh is devoured B y the cruel and bloody pound. razor-instinct for survival that makes them do the dirty or have to do the dirty pretty often. So you can imagine what the ones without a heart are doing.

Or can you? After all, th at’s all going on in the silly US isnt it? We dont really believe that our politicians would do things like that, do we? Even though evidence to the contrary is daily scream­ ing at us from the block type of all the newspapers.

Even the establishment’s own bastions, the mass media, have to report about it.

Christ, if they didnt what else would there be to write about? Then o f course for every 1 oz. th at’s reported on, there’s about a ton o f slime underneath. All the journos, know it. The gutless ones can’t write about it much beyond the 1 oz. level because there’s these memoranda coming down like hail from heaven from their press bosses telling them what they can’t know about. The ones with guts can’t write it, can’t talk about it, because the whole com plex o f corruption that makes up the living pageant that is 20th century Australia makes bloody sure that they can’t quite get enough of the evi­ dence to blow it. And without that evidence, they’d get slaughtered. (Phrase by courtesy of Sir Asher.)

It really is as simple as that. Y et still you stupid gubs keep swallowing the crap. Why? Well, it seems to me that the reason why us blacks arent fooled so easily as you lot is because most of us are closer to the basics o f what life is all about. We havent been quite so com fort­ able as you have and th ere’s nothing like a bit of discomfort to make you get your priorities straight. Also, there’s not so

much shit burdening our minds, so we can see more clearly just what’s happen­ ing in this country you took off us, never mind about the Hew Hess Hay. Remember how Yankee Doodle’s No 2 man was supposed to be Mr Law 'n Order? Trumpeting about the virtues of getting and spending and being respect­ able and never questioning anything? It kept ’em quiet for years while he made a fortune out of kick-backs. Now if you all hold on to your breaths for a minute, I’ll tell you something — a secret that most all blacks know — the secret of our new Dreaming: IT ’S T H E SA M E H ER E. But they’ve managed to get you so hung up' on words without substance like “ de­ cency” and "respectability” and all that stuff that all they have to do is put on a nice grey suit, stick on their smile and trot out to lead you around by the nose, mooing.

Point is, it’s killing you. Killing your kids too, while you dont even realise it.

While you keep your head in the sand. In the name of law ’n order, honesty, decency, hard-workingness, respectabil­ ity, profit and progress and DDT the rats are fixing it so your kids w on’t ever get to see kangaroos, wallabies, butterflies, birds or even an honest old garden snail.

(That’s supposing of course that they survive long enough after N ixon’s pressed that nuclear button that he was itching on the other day to even have time to miss such things.) Not that any of that stuff is the real stupidity, anyway. Be­ cause the rats who are causing it all, the big money boys, the politicians, are get­ ting ou t of it what they want all right.

Money. Power. Sex. Prestige. T hat’s all

Can't you see that m en o f error A re a human, jungle terror Let loose within the office O f a man “who should have cared?"

A nd the arrant heartless city Spawns a man devoid o f pity To prey on the misfortune o f the souls So helpless bared.

Can’t you change, o r pause a m om ent, Cure y o ur heartsick soul’s sad fo m ent Can’t you listen to an ego Or a voice that's not y o u r own?

Please rem em ber, Mr Kicker That the flesh was made but quicker A nd a man must grow in stature Of the soul to match his throne.

CAN’T TRUST A HIP CAPITALIST N THE beginning there was Fuetron, a quintessential yellow painted building with Mick Glasheen’s geodesic dome crown­ ing the roof, just off Sydney’s Broadway. It was to be a home for future-oriented activities video, film, synthesised sounds, conceptual art, environmental de­ sign.

All this came to be, but dis­ appointingly with less vigor than hoped for. The Bush Video group took over one floor, an art gallery another, a film processing business another and down on the ground level a shop opened selling pers­ pex objets, beanbagsr pseudoScandinavian fabrics and modern furniture from the Fuetron fac­ tory.

But Fuetron hasnt exactly ful­ filled its promise as a centre of alternative vision.

Meanwhile the man behind the scheme, owner o f the building and of the whole Fuetron business, John Bourke, was buying up a block around the corner - 1 to 37 Glebe Point Road. In recent weeks the buildings sprouted his signa­ ture bright yellow hue and there was much talk of a counter culture centre.

Chris Dalton’s Institute o f Na­ tural Health moved into one of the buildings from their previous premises in Surry Hills. Next door they opened a whole foods store.

A gay lib group started living in one of the buildings and the Bush Video people squatted in another.

The core o f the whole scene is the Omnibus Performing Arts F ac­ tory, which opened a few weeks ago with weekend rock shows or “ parties" as they prefer to call them, at $ 1 .5 0 entrance “ Bring your own cushion and candle — it’s basic but it’s got potential” .

Out front there’s the Magic Pudding coffee shop and the three floors will house drama, music, markets and whatever performing arts com e together there. A lot of people have been giving their time and labor free to get the place ready.

The whole Glebe Point Road conglomerate is called Omnibus, a pulling together o f varied energies,

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“ a new place to com e and be yourself” . It’s hoped that a craft centre will soon occupy one of the remaining buildings. The Glebe setting is ideal - directly opposite Sydney University, in a vital area where many counter culture ideas have blossomed.

The question is, how firmly is Omnibus based on alternative so­ ciety lifestyle, philosophy and values?

Michael Elvins, the coordinator of the scheme calls it “an experi­ ment to get a lot of people co ­ existing” . Elvins had for some time been looking for a home for his Omnibus concept and had ample disillusioning experience a t deal­ ing with developers on whose land he wanted to set up a creative centre.

A string of near misses led him’ to wealthy young businessman John Bourke, who also happens to own great chunks o f property at Balmain and three million dollars worth o f township and farmland at Mullumbimby. Bourke is a cap­ italist conscious o f the impact of alternative comm unity lifestyles on society at large and is influenc­ ed by his spaced-out organistartist brother Lindsay.

Elvins drew up a feasibility study for John Bourke, set to work with assorted freaks to con­ vert a former neon light factory into the Performing Arts F acto ry and is paid $ 5 0 a week to pro­ mote the scheme and find further suitable tenants for the rest of the block.

But Bourke’s values, for all his counter-culture jargon, throw a note o f discord into this dream of harmony. His insistence that all Omnibus activities must operate as “ commercially viable units” puts a strain on the tenants and an emphasis out o f key with alterna­ tive ideas o f cooperation and love replacing competition and greed.

The rents he is charging for premises that his tenants have had to clean up and renovate them ­ selves are at normally high co m ­ mercial rates. The Performing Arts Facto ry is paying $ 2 0 0 a week, raising to $ 4 0 0 a week from the end of December. The Institute of

Natural Health are paying $ 1 0 0 and will have to raise another $ 2 0 0 a week when they expand into further space they’re thinking of occupying soon.

Bourke undoubtedly believes he is piloting a scheme "conducive to a better way of life” and he talks of all kinds of plans — which will take years to approve - for opening out the buildings into a natural health restaurant and con­ necting floor levels for further unity.

But despite his hatred of the Them /Us dichotom y separating the capitalist mind from the coun­ ter culture in-group, he’s got a long way to go to break down the distrust. And no wonder.

As I talked to Michael Elvins and some of the Omnibus tribe of voluntary helpers over pumpkin pie in the Magic Pudding Coffee Shop, a grey-suited stranger wand­ ered in and inquired if this was the building that was up for sale.

Bourke later adm itted that he turned down the m an’s offer be­ cause it wasnt high enough.

A phone call to Bourke's own Peter Craig Real Estate company revealed that the Omnibus Per­ forming Arts Facto ry was indeed on the market for $ 2 1 0 ,0 0 0 .

Bourke claims his tenants would be protected in the event of a sale, but it makes you wonder how deeply com m itted he is to the mutual ideals of Omnibus if h e’s willing to sell out for the highest personal gain.

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OT A LL of us want to go to the country, except in short bursts. Many o f us are partly turned on to the “ Rainbow Fam ­ ily of love and life” , but still exist within the structures of the estab­ lishment.

Many of us draw our creativity and express our talents right in the midst of it all. So we need many centres throughout the citie s* countryside and world.

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Road, Glebe.

In some ways we may be co n ­ sidered a comm unity centre for social and political action, linked with groups such as womens lib, gay lib, builders laborers and whatever consciousness raising groups we can get together with.

But th at’s not all, for our L et it Flow m otto can not only lead to the assimilation of all these groups but also it can be the key to reaching the ultimate High, the fourth transcendental state where you become part of the infinite cosmos outside space and time.

It seems now is the right time for Omnibus. The obstacles that have had to be surmounted were innumerable, especially those dealing with the system, such as the obtaining of licence’s. But there’s hard core of people who have thrown themselves into set­ ting up Omnibus ans who w on’t easily give in unless locked up for bankruptcy.

When the place began to pay its own way through the charging of admission to live rock and light shows we were closed down for entertaining without a licence.

Little did the pigs realise that they opened our heads on to another level of consciousness with the whole Omnibus trip.

We’d become so involved with Legalities, financial problems, heavy physical labor and just get­ ting the place together that w e’d lost sight of some of our goals. By having to register as a club in order to have rock nights we began to see ourselves as a club and a family again.

The dances were cancelled for the weekend but the coffee shop stayed open. On the Friday night everyone found it quite unpleas­ ant to say “Sorry no ro ck ” ; by the Saturday night there was speed and excitement in he air for everyone was discussing the total possibilities of Omnibus as a club and as a centre for the “fam ily” .

By the Sunday night the spirit set in on the coffeeshop; people were jamming, talking, relaxing and just letting to with the light show.

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Just over an hours drive from Melbourne OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK 1 0 .0 0 A.M. TO 5 .0 0 P.M.

T ’S exam time. The kids who read this page will not need to be reminded. They are well aware that their entire consciousness has undergone a dramatic transforma­ tion during these past weeks.

The general reader, however, will probably recall exam time on a physical level, perhaps even with a shudder, but the experi­ ence and its meaning will by now probably be lost. But, like so many sublimations of the dis­ tasteful, the state of conscious­ ness induced by examinations continues to lurk and exert its form of control, out of reach of the mind.

It was once believed that there was virtue in undertaking arduous and unpleasant tasks. They were felt to be good for the mind and spirit, rather in the way that cold showers were thought to be good for the body. Exam s are recalled by this generation not with pleasure but with a kind of pride in the fact that they came through it all.

Exam s, for those who missed out on the war or the Depression, are the great initiation into the mean game of life, the struggle for survival. They are a cathartic experience. Those who passed were entitled to consider them ­ selves endowed with superior virtue. Those who failed were

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ACER is regarded with a certain bound to the conclusion that amount o f awe by the teacher, they were of lesser virtue. but also with fear and suspicion.

Times have changed however.

But, despite the erosion of The unpleasant is no longer uni­ public confidence in its value, the versally equated with virtue, and public examination has survived war is no longer equated with manliness, or even with human as an institution. In Victoria these examinations take place in the dignity. The successful doubt the fifth year in technical schools, virtue of their success, and the and in the sixth year in high failures suspect merit in their schools. failure. Examinations are regard­ In recent years, the technical ed with distrust by a substantial schools have been inclined to section of the community. Educa­ throw in the towel and confess tionalists come out in open revolt that they are unable or unwilling against examinations without to educate their students to the feeling in the least deviant. At standard of a public examination. junior levels, exams are abandon­ ed and replaced by progressive They have, therefore, with very assessment of work done during loose external supervision, been setting their own examinations or the year. devising other forms of assess­ The older teachers worry ment which will enable a respect­ about this sort of thing, but they able number of their charges to know that they are outnumbered be passed. and outdated. At the Australian In the high schools, HSC sub­ Council for Educational R e­ jects are taught often by young search, the backroom boys of teachers who do not themselves education devise curious tests of the subconscious, examinations believe in the value of public examinations, but who cannot of the multiple choice answer escape the knowledge that success type which aspire to produce or failure at the end of the year scores of innate ability to work will have a profound effect on the with numbers, words and con ­ future lives of their students. cepts.

The students, sensing the However, in the end the tests only succeed in producing scores dilemma of their teachers, adopt o f equivalence between the sub­ the reasonable attitude — if they conscious of the examinee, and dont believe in the exams then that of the backroom boy. The why should we? This may mani­

fest itself in extrem e forms as is evidenced by the program of ‘Brother John and the Creative Learning Collective’ ( TLD no. 2).

More frequently it is manifested in the form of passive resistance, or apathy if you like, during the first two terms of the year.

Finally, sometime during third term , both teachers and students are driven by their accumulated guilt to a state approaching anguish, and they seek redemp­ tion through self punishment.

They drive themselves to trans­ cend the state of consciousness which has prevailed, and to re­ place it with one which will en­ able them to pass.

This drive for transcendence often has pleasurable side effects, and students frequently find that exam time is the first time that they have any real appreciation of the subjects they are studying.

This is in part an illusion, induced by the exclusion of most other varieties of reality, but it pro­ duces the conviction in the minds of many students that meaning can be created by independent activity of the human brain.

Exam time, and the months preceding it, is also a time when many intelligent students drop out. The hypocrisy and internal inconsistency o f the education system is on open display. It

In the Coral Sea of time, Drifting aimlessly.

Then washed up on a New Y ork beach, Where dictionary beer-mugs are discussing the relevance of the toilet bowl, Flute heroes discussing the relevance of the cocktail olive, And me wondering about relevance.

Time wrecked upon the beach.

The Saracen hordes swarm upon my body, The seaweed rags flutter from the flagpoles, The rain coming so tired and thin and desolate, Dylan’s harmonica cloudburst Around the bewildered puppy, His eyes as large as his sorrow.

Rom e crumbling into a seven hill golf course, And a grin put upon one face, And a smile wiped off another.

Are these people real?

My eyes are devouring my head, And with it my mind And with it myself.

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A R D E L SHAM SULLAH

THIS IS all by way of introduc­ tion to the two pieces we present this week. Both are the work of final year students. Heather Joh n ­ son is a fifth form student at a technical school situated in a Housing Commission estate on the outer reaches of Melbourne; Ardel Shamsullah is in sixth form at Melbourne High School, an anomaly in the State system, which he rightly describes as “that bastion of the establish­ m ent”.

There is no common theme.

Heather titled her piece simply An A pple Eating Institution.

Ardel called his poem Alcatraz Night.

I have put these two pieces together because they are indica­ tive of the workings of the mind caused by the search for trans­ cendence which takes place in the final year of school. They rep­ resent a refusal to allow the separation of the personal, the social, and the cultural, which the education system seems to de­ mand.

have to beat this apple eating institution.

Definition o f an apple eater: It is a person who, without realising it, looks at the world with only logic, reasoning and facts, leaving little or no room for imagination and their ability to see things as they really want to, not as other people see them. Y ou dont have to see things as other people see them.

Take, for example, an abstract painting. One person will see his interpretation, and another might see something entirely different.

It depends on the experiences and influences he has had in the past.

“An elephant only looks big com ­ pared to a person; If you were to compare it to a mountain, the elephant would be small.” It is only the way you have been conditioned to think and see.

We all have traces of apple eaters in our minds — without these traces we could not com ­ municate. It is when you refuse a bite of the apple, that is when you can die — for the majority have already been bitten.

A L C A T R A Z NIGHT

Mattresses roasting over a marshmallow, And prunes popping into eye­ balls, And into the mouths of trams As they gorge the metal track, Which snakes into a smoky asylum.

occurs to these students that if the system is both inane and arduous, that they might be better off finding reality elsewhere.

H EA TH ER JOHNSON

O DOUBT the teachers of our institution are nowhere near the approval of our attitude.

Even the word "teachers” disillu­ sions me. The fact that we look at them in this manner reduces any feeling we have for them.

Teachers are people who have been greatly influenced by their past experiences, good or bad.

And they want to use their past experiences in the present. They

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see the past as a record of experi­ ences by which they can trace back information that will help them in the present. But the past is not happening now. How can you believe in something that has already happened. It is not here now, nor is it likely to return in this lifetime.

Whether you realise it or not, everything you do now has a consequence in the future. Y ou

cannot confuse past experiences with the understanding which has com e with them . Sure, under­ standing is all based on previous experiences but — (I am a hypocrite - this writ­ ing is confused and senseless.)

I guess I was trying to be someone I’m not, a someone who people would believe because they seem to make good sense.

And seeming isnt the answer. We

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WATERGATE has proved be­ yond any doubt that straight politics can be fun, and educa­ tional. So I am turning over these pages two weeks hence to the Politics o f the School, Stories, articles and artwork pertaining to student government, SRCs the perfect system, spon­ taneous outbursts, or any other form of wheeling and dealing are hereby solicited.

Send them to me C/- PO Box 5 3 1 2BB, GPO Melbourne, Vic. 3001 ROB KING

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[The carnal curiosity of the pre-teen When a group of adults and children in Denmark were recently shown porno films, scientific instruments recorded severe heart tremors from adults and tranquility from kids. “ N ot in front of the children, dear” is just another phony middle class shibipleth. Here SASHA SO LD A TO W comes clean about sneak peeking in the swimming pool dressing sheds and reveals what the Green Park pull-off gang w ill do for you and $2.50.

E X U A L liberation move­ ments have probably altered relationships between people to some extent, but people in this co n text have been understood to be adult people. What’s happened to kid people? And sexual rela­ tionships between kids and adults. “ Since she was eight months old she (aged two and a half) has indulged in bad habits. A t first she simply rubbed her thighs by cross­ ing her legs. I have taken her twice to a childrens specialist. The first time, March, 1 9 3 1 , he said we were to distract but not scold her.

We did distract her but with no success. Her nurse was very patient.

“The second time, September, 1931, he said she must be stopped at all costs and if everything else failed we would have to try ap­ paratus. I had a trained hospital and m aternity nurse with me. She and I never left the child, and after a fortnight she was much better. Then she found other ways of rubbing (sitting with her heel under her, standing with one leg lifted, sitting with legs tightly together, though not crossed) and since then she has been gradually getting worse again. She is un­ usually intelligent.”

We seem to have com e a long way from the time when Catholic nuns would insist that girl boarders recite Hail Mary while washing their “ private parts” in order to prevent evil and dirty thoughts.

And Catholic boys o f 13 and 14 being warned that they only had 12 ejaculations - so they’d better save them up to r marriage. One fellow I know was so scared after learning this he avoided touching his cock for the next two years.

He’d pulled himself off about 15 times and he just couldnt risk not being able to produce children.

That was eight years ago.

Y et there seems to be a recog­ nisable smell that comes from my past which I still occasionally recognise in the present. I went swimming at Redleaf Pool a few weeks back. Redleaf is one of those Sydney bay beaches, just up from Double Bay shopping centre, enclosed for protection and with long, wooden, functionally aus­ tere dressing sheds at the en­ trance.

It was empty when I walked in to get changed, and I just stood there. Haunted, regressing under the weight of an erotic environ­ m en t Wanting to get in and take off my trousers, quickly, and then efficiently drag on my togs. Like I’d done 13 years ago when I made sure that I’d keep my shirt on till last Avoiding the adven­ ture.

While I was undressing, two kids walked in. Brothers, about 14 and nine. I was feeling that strange anxiety o f me age 12, that rather nice terror which confused me because I didnt know why. . They both had yellow bathers to put on and were tussling with each other while they undressed.

And the older one kept sniding glances between my legs. Glancing at my prick without looking. And I kept doing the same with all my favorite schoolmates. As though not interested, looking a t their pricks and waiting for the mo­ ment when the gym teacher or any other man would undress.

Trying to stay in the sheds for as long as possible.

I can now count at least 17 people from my past who were fucking a teacher before the age

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of 16. And everyone was too naive to even think it possible.

So what was I doing when I was a kid? Masturbating like crazy and having fantasies. Keeping a masturbation book of pictures that turned me on - ads from the back o f Pix and out of the Read­ ers Digest, and a photograph of Sean Flynn and Tab Hunter. I threw it out after two weeks in case it was discovered.

Public toilets attracted me like mad. There was the ritual o f masturbating before each weekly music lesson so I’d play better.

And going down to the toilets behind the Camberwell Public L i­ brary in Melbourne where it was dark and a bit smelly. And the hope that something might hap­ pen, something along the lines o f my night fantasies o f going into a cubicle and getting a stiff and being discovered and screwed. Or being followed in by two guys who would follow m y come-on and hurriedly undress me naked and both screw me hard. The only time it could have happened I fled terrified.

I question now whether it is all a matter o f dirty old perverted men doing dreadful things to in­ nocent young kids. Kids do initi­ ate, but this process is often squashed either by fear (as it was over and over again in m y case) or by the authority structures o f adults and parents to whom chil­ dren belong.

I was talking to a girl who used to go to Gurigania, a progressive free school in Paddington. We were talking generally about what was happening in the school and one of the things that cam e up was that all the kids there were constantly discussing sex.

There was a man who hung around the school quite a bit.

What was he like? A bit funny, she said. He wore a coat, the same coat all the time, but we didnt mind him. We just saw th at he liked being with us so he hung around. He didnt talk much.

One day we decided to get him by himself and get him to pull himself off in front o f us all. Did he mind? No, I dont think so. He couldnt get stiff for a while. I think he might have been a bit embarrassed. You were putting a lot o f pressure on him though, werent you - you were in a position of power over him? Oh yes, but we really wanted to see him do it. And it didnt m atter so much because he liked us. We were really interested.

Then he started pulling him­ self. We didnt touch him at all. We just spt around him and watched.

Was he enjoying it? I dont know. I think he was pleased to be doing it for us. Anyway, this woman came in and told us all to go away and then chased him out. He didnt blow. We were a bit sorry about that. He didnt com e back for about six weeks - maybe he was embarrassed.

We talked on for about another hour. The idea o f homosexuality was obviously not novel or freaky to her. She hadnt m et many, though, so she asked questions. It surprised me that they werent the ordinary "whar. do you do in bed, what does sperm taste like” ques­ tions that I was used to answering.

Rather they were explorations in­ to attachm ent and emotion. We compared my feelings towards men with hers. And she wanted me to spell out what my actual responses were towards women.

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She wanted me to describe my emotional feelings about cunts. It was difficult discarding the in­ hibitions which prevented me from being truthful. I kept want­ ing to protect her because th at’s what we’ve been conditioned to do.

It reminded me of the kid who went to a gay dance. No one knew what to do with him, because everyone assumed something had to be done. Finally someone ap­ pointed themselves his p rotector - it’s OK, I’ll look after him. I’ll keep an eye on him, to which the kid responded: Fuck off! No one looks after me. I look after my­ self.

But preciousness still found its way into his relationships: hesi­ tancy about screwing him up the arse because o f the fear of hurting him. Fear o f allowing him to scream with pleasure in case it was really rape.

While I was doing the beat down in Green Park in Sydney one night it was interesting to watch the patronising role be­ tween kids and adults reverse.

There was a gang o f about eight kids playing football in the park.

What attracted my attention was that they were playing there at about 1 1 .3 0 at night. Kicking someone’s shoe around.I sat and watched them while around me and up and down the street camps were prowling

around for a fuck. Furtively and silently while these kids yelled and screamed and ran around and tackled each other and scored goals.

They finished their game and wandered up the hill. I was sitting by myself, smoking, and one of them cam e up and asked for a smoke. He was about 15 and cocky, with a tooth missing.

Um, can I bot a smoke off you mate, gee th at’s beaut, thanks a lot mate, can I also have a match, oh thanks mate. Uh do you mind if I have one too, gee thanks mate — I put my foot down when they’d cleaned me of half a packet.

They stood around, smoking and carrying on a bit. Then one of them, standing at a bit o f a distance, suddenly looked at me and asked, listen, mate, you wouldnt know anyone around here w ho’d like to have a pull? I was a bit stunned. Oh, we’re really cheap, he continued, only $ 2 .5 0 for a pull.

I found out a bit about them in between them racing off scream­ ing ou t at every passing poofter hey d ’ya want to have a pull?

Freaking ou t all the amazed queens.

They cam e from Tempe and apparently did the beats on the weekend when they got bored, or had nothing else to do. Green Park and a park in Leichhardt were

their scene - all the other places were either too heavy or bad business. They all had different roles within the group and did different things - a couple of them pulled, another didnt mind sucking so long as the cocks were clean and one o f them had a big cock so he did the screwing when it was wanted. They charged ac­ cording to the job and reckoned on a good night they’d make 50 bucks. The two older guys, about 18, saw to it that no one got heavy or didnt pay up.

It was a bad night at Green Park they told me as they were leaving, so they were going to push on. They drove o ff in their van and left me unsure as to whether they were bullshitting.

But that didnt matter all that much because I liked them.

I liked them because they were being resourceful about sex and playing around with it in any way that interested them. They were taking the freedom to discover.

It reminded me of my friend Kate. She was two, and a few of us took turns every night to have a bath with her. She used this time to investigate parts of the body - nipples and breasts, noses, toes, navels.

One day she grabbed my cock and started playing with it — squeezing it, tugging at it, general­ ly finding ou t about it. I told her not to squeeze to o hard because it hurt. Play with it gently I said and then wondered why I’d said that.

She was hardly likely to injure me, and I realised I was being very self-conscious about what was go­ ing on. I was actively preventing having an erection although the situation was more than potential­ ly erotic. All the fears about fucking with children.

That’s one of the things th at’s wrong with all the sex education stuff - not that it’s inadequate or misleading, but that it’s all irrele­ vant. It’s a cop out for parents and adults, a way of not facing relationship situations with kids — denying experiences. And it hap­ pens not only in school, it hap­ pens also in that game called “bringing children up”.

An example was a friend of mine who made the decision that it would be good for her daughter to see her fucking. A t any rate she should see a guy with an erection, at least.

We were in the country, lying in bed one morning, going through a bit of pre-fucking pet­ ting. Her daughter kept coming in and out of the room and I was lying there, erection fully ex­ posed, having my cock played with. And the kid didnt care a damn. Wasnt interested. When we had a fuck she wasnt to be seen.

The next morning she cam e into the room. She was fuming.

She woke me up and started yelling at me - get out of bed, put your pants on, go on, quickly, you’re not allowed to lie there any longer. I asked why. Because no one is allowed to sleep with my mother except my father.

Sex as such was not of im­ portance to her. What was import­ ant was sorting out and under­ standing the anxiety state pro­ voked by a breakdown of a heterosexual monogamous rela­ tionship - an adult relationship.

And she was a kid, and I an adult, and neither could respond except by throwing anxiety tantrums or using power manipulation.

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V arrooo-ooom m m ! goes the shiny red GT coupe as it races past.

Look a t its fa t tyres and high-speed spoiler, t can hit trees a t 140 mph. ie e p ! Beep! oes the little yellowtaxi. n a rl! S n arl! goes the shiny red GT.

The bulldozer has metal tracks instead of wheels.

It can easily push over an old house to make way for a petrol station.

Beep! Beep! goes the little yellow taxi.

Chug! Chug!

Make way! Make way!

The rough tough tow-truck rushes through the tra ffic.

There is a 24 ca r pile-up on the freew ay.

Beep! Beep! goes the little yellow taxi.

Honk! Honk! goes the rough tough fow-truck.

The pedestrian is much slower than a motor car and much softer too.

They are hard to see in the d a rk and lots o f them are knocked down.

Beep! Beep! goes the little yellowtaxi.

Fuck o ff! says the pedestrian.

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T R E E T S are there to have visions upon and about, regard­ less o f what T. S. Eliot intimated.

Streets are interesting. Apparently in the strict sense, a street is a metalled road with houses on one or both sides.

Y ou can add to that that they have cars in the middle. It is okay to be in the street but if you stray then you can be said to be "on the street” which is not socially the same, but certainly earns more money.

Metalled roads are those which consist o f broken stones which are then streets. It seems that dirt roads are just roads and not streets. Most o f our streets, th at’s city streets, are bitumen so the cars can traverse, which is unfair to pedestrians or footpads.

As a child, when Coca Cola was just a vision in movies, we would often betake ourselves to a road or street with a pad and pencil (perhaps a flask o f raspberry-ade and tom ato sandwiches for re­ freshments), to note the number plates o f each car which passed.

A t th e end o f a day we would have hundreds o f these numbers but unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, I can’t recall why. I believe it passed the time when the local football team were play­ ing an “ away” match.

S

O YOU remember the time when I jammed your car?” don Juan asked casually.

His question was abrupt and unrelated to what we had been talking about. He was referring to a time when I could not start the engine of my car until he said I could.

I remarked that no one could forget such an event. “ That was nothing,” don Juan asserted in a factual tone.

"Nothing at all. True, Genaro?” “ True,” don Genaro said indifferently.

“What do you mean?” I said in a tone of protest. “What you did that day was something truly beyond my comprehension.”

“T h at’s not saying m uch,” don Genaro reto rt­ ed.

They both laughed loudly and then don Juan patted me on the back.

“Genaro can do something much better than jamming your ca r,” he went on. “True, Genara?”

“T rue,” don Genaro replied, puckering up his lips like a child.

“What can he d o ?” I asked, trying to sound unruffled. “ Genaro can take the whole car aw ay!” don Juan exclaimed in a booming voice; and then he added in the same tone, “True, G enaro?” “ T ru e!” don Genaro retorted in the loudest human tone I have ever heard.

I jumped involuntarily. My body was convulsed by three or four nervous spasms. “ What do you mean, he can take my whole car aw ay?” I asked. “ What did I mean, Genaro?” don Juan asked.

“Y ou meant that I can get into his car, turn the m otor on, and drive aw ay,” don Genaro replied

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with unconvincing seriousness.

"T ake the car away, Genaro,” don Juan urged him in a joking tone. “ It’s d o n e!” don Genaro said, frowning and looking at me askew.

I noticed that as he frowned his eyebrows rippled, making the look in his eyes mischievous and penetrating. “ All right!” don Juan said calmly. “ L e t’s go down there and examine the car.” “ Y e s !” don Genaro echoed. “ L e t’s go down there and examine the ca r.”

They stood up, very slowly. F o r an instant I did not know what to do, but don Juan signaled me to stand up.

We began walking up the small hill in front of don Ju an ’s house. Both of them flanked me, don Juan to my right and don Genaro to my left, always within m y full field of vision. " L e t ’s examine the car,” don Genaro said again.

Don Juan moved his hands as if he were spinning an invisible thread; don Genaro did likewise and repeated, “ L e t’s examine the ca r.”

They walked with a sort of bounce. Their steps were longer than usual, and their hands moved as though they were whipping or batting some invisible objects in front of them. I had never seen don Juan clowning like that and felt almost embarrassed to look at him.

We reached the top and I looked down to the area at the foot of the hill, some fifty yards away, where I had parked my car. My stomach con tract­ ed with a jolt. The car was not there! I ran down the hill. My car was not anywhere in sight. I experienced a mom ent o f great confusion. I was disoriented.

From Jou rney to Ixtlan by CarJos Castaneda.

V ictoria Street A bbotsford, hum drum Friday evening. The F J just sitting there, reactions from the passersby m ixed, one (m an) very irate, the owners arrive, two women, one with a small child, they are not part of any group, they just painted their car, they are on their way to South Australia to pick

A street number

Then o f course there’s walking streets when y ou ’re lonely and without friends, preferably in the rain. Or looking out on to the street from a window. Basically streets are there for people to use and whoever invented them did a fine job.

The first street must have been made a long time ago, although technically, until the bullock cart, they would have been “ roads” .

There seems to be no divine at­ tendance for one in the street, although St Christopher came close before he lost office. He was 12 feet high and carried Christ across a river. F o r those on the street there is apparently a patron saint although how th at’s justified heaven knows.

But back to the streets, and off the cars, which came after streets and people, and should leave be­ fore. Holland for instance banned driving one Sunday recently be­ cause petrol is scarce and they were on the wrong side in the Middle East war. T hey’ve also got com ­ munity bicycles there to ease traf­ fic, which means someone in power doesnt like cars much and more power to him/her.

Trains and trams, known as streetcars over there, are all right and in fact better and generally nicer than cars which are ugly, grotesque and mean. There are so many fast cars on the roads crowding each other that it was quicker to get from place to place in the city in 1935.

In Tokyo the police wear gas masks to ease the fumage. And in America, because M otor City has turned into a perpetual motion machine, the cars keep rolling out and trains are going out o f busi­ ness. Y o u ’ve got to hand it to Ronald Reagan, preferably in a dark street with hobnail boots. No, seriously, hand it to Ronald be­ cause public transport is becoming non-existent; Los Angeles is being ; buried under smog from its miles of solid tarred highways. They dont care about trains, they dont care about streetcars.

However one man did. William Jam es Sidis, immortalised in the

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Samuel Rosenberg essay The Streetcar Nam ed Paradise Lost, actually spent his life collecting streetcar transfers (tickets), and wrote a book on them and pub­ lished magazines on them, and in fact did litde else. He entered Harvard University at age 11, showing he was fairly bright, and when he graduated, dropped out and studied peridromophily (riding trams and collecting tick­ ets).

William obviously knew more about what the street held than most of us. He died in 1 9 4 4 , probably around the time Ronald Reagan was making one o f his f o r g e tta b le B-grade movies.

Ronald’s coming to Australia, and staying at Rohan Delacombe’s house. He is apparently promoting the Red Cross appeal, because he knows all about blood, and the spilling of same from bodies.

And talking about Fascists, Benito Mussolini and the Third Reich both sent messages of con­ gratulations to Victoria (the State) on its centenary celebra­ tion, in 1935. He said "Italy and the Fascist Government send their greetings and cordial wishes.”

He said more. Nazi Germany said the same. It’s recorded in Victorian and Melbourne Centen­ ary Celebrations Book, 1 9 3 4 -3 5 .

Y o u ’d never know there had been a Depression. What a lovely book.

Full color, full of pictures of warships, flags and greetings from friendly nations.

There was a minute’s silence last Sunday on the 11th hour of November 11, remembering those for whom the road tolled.

The other thing is I dont think anyone should be writing about streets. You should be o u t there doing something about them.

Writing about them isnt in the same street as being in them.

COLIN T A L B O T SIR, — I’ll soon be leaving Mel­ bourne for a large country town and I think the people and politi­ cians of this day should know why.

Although city-bred, the com­ plete inability to escape the* nervemangling effect of the infernalcombustion engine is the main reason for deciding that the quali­ ty of life in a super-city has, for me, sunk below the “poverty” line.

I may find employment prob­ lems outside the metropolitan area, but no amount of'remunera­ tion can compensate for the rela­ tive unavailability during normal waking hours of a beach or park to retire to for a spell of peace.

When I arrived in Melbourne some months ago, I searched for a place within reasonable distance of the city and a quiet park. I looked at my map, noticed a large patch of green in South Yarra (Fawkner Park), and investigated, but even standing in the centre the roar of traffic was disturbing.

“What about the beach?” I thought. Next day I thought again; there’s a main road within rumble distance of almost every beach from Port Melbourne to Frankston.

No luck with the Botanic Gar­ dens either; they’re beautiful to the eye, but nowhere within can one escape a constant aural re­ minder of our civilisation’s num­ ber one god.

I also investigated Yarra Park, Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens and many other near-city open spaces, but only on Williamstown Beach and in parts of Royal Park and Yarra Bend Park could I es­ cape continuous vehicle noise.

The very idea of running access roads into a park is self-defeating.

Roads should give access to a park’s edge, but the centre should be reserved for people.

M. MANSFIELD (St. Hilda).

The Age 3 /1 1 /7 3 .

MUSIC W hatever’s going to happen strength that seemingly deny her 2 2 years. Her control and deliv­ ery, and especially the feeling she both projects and communicates suggest an enormous natural ex­ OAN Armatrading was born in perience other singers take years Basseterre, St Kitts, in the West to acquire. The numbers present­ Indies, some 22 years ago, anded, with tw o exceptions, are joint moved to England in 1958.

Armatrading/Nestor composi­ Pam Nestor was born in tions. It is a pity the album Berbice, Guyana, and went to notes are so limited, as it would England in 1 9 6 1 . They first met have been interesting to see who is in 1 9 6 9 , and started writing to ­ responsible for the Elton John gether shortly afterwards. This piano and arrangements that are album represents their first re­ found in a number o f the songs. corded work, so saith the liner The backing is based on a notes. piano/acoustic guitar/percussion The most outstanding feature formula that works most effectiv­ of a consistently very good album, ely. The piano is well suited to is undoubtedly Arma trading’s N estor’s style, but is distracting in voice. It has a richness, depth and that it is so recognisably Elton

W H A T E V E R ’S FOR US - Joan Armatrading (C ube R ecords, 2 3 2 6 0 2 3 ).

John's jerky feel. The production is good, with a surprising instru­ mental clarity.

The supplementary string and horn arrangements are added with sensitivity, and a good balance is maintained throughout the entire album. The same can be said of the harmonies, which are used to promote the mood and feeling of the number, rather than a decorat­ ive nicety.

Armatrading opens the work with My Family in a voice deep and sumptuous, and follows it up with City Girl, in which she flies to a vocal level that could almost be termed falsetto. We all know only a male voice is capable of that . . . but it is the only way to describe the rubber band quality she manages.

The lyrics are mainly simple and uncomplicated, and rely on her singing abilities to add the color and emotion.

Whatever’s F o r Us, the title track, is an updated version o f Que Sera, Sera. Instead of what will be will be, they have sub­ stituted, “ . . . whatever's for us, is for us.”

Child Star is one o f the best songs, both as a written number and in the treatm ent and presenta­ tion she gives it. Her display of vocal seesawing and octave travel is stunning. In fact the whole album is so uniformly good, the highlights are hard to pick.

The second side picks up in pace and power, with Mean Old Man and the heavily percussioned All The K ing’s Gardens. Give It A Try is a soulful ballad, and again the versatility she gets is so smoothly managed that the whole thing keeps on flowing.

The album is made more re­ markable by the fact th at this is her/their first. If she/they can improve on this, their next efforts will be eagerly awaited.

ST U HAWK

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Hendrix:Man and Musician

A FIL M A BO U T JIM I H EN ­ D R IX : Trak Cinema, M elbourne and elsew here.

N THE ephemeral world of pop music a myth can be created in one brief performance, as indeed one was at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 when the Jimi Hendrix Experience made their American debut. A Film About Jim i H endrix examines this myth, tracing Jim i’s career in film clips and interviews from the begin­ nings o f his success in London in '6 7 to his final performance at the Isle of Wight Festival shortly be­ fore his death in 1970.

Carefully edited interviews with personal friends and con­ temporary musicians are alternat­ ed throughout the film with clips of Hendrix in performance - but neither are allowed to dominate the screen for too long.

There are no pretensions to ­ wards this film being a biography - no attem pts are made to show us “the inner Hendrix” or News o f the World details of his private life. Instead we see Hendrix the guitarist in one of the most intel­ ligent and satisfying rock and roll films made to date.

Hendrix is one of the few rock musicians able to stand up to this treatment, for as the film itself demonstrates, he was possibly the most outstanding and influential musician to grace the rock scene in the '60s.

The film is worth seeing for Hendrix’s performances alone, and they cover each of his developments from an early in­ congruous ‘Top of the Pops' type performance in London, to his brilliant and menacing version of The Star Sqangled Banner at Woodstock.

From the early clips it is all too easy to see why Hendrix’s show­ manship eclipsed his musical interest for the majority o f the pop audience. Sex has a wider appeal among kids than music when the chips are down, but in early Hendrix they had both.

When he felt shackled by his stage act however, and attempted

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to change it, the sex won out and the audience felt cheated if he .neglected to mock-fuck his guitar and wiggle his arse. So much so that after the initial splurge o f success, Hendrix ran a continuous battle against his image. Great albums like Cry o f Love (released after his death) were ignored by the same fans who broke their necks to be first to own Are You E xperienced by sexy Jim i Hendrix in 1967.

This misguided reverence is obviously still alive and well in Melbourne: the interview with his father, A1 Hendrix, himself a musician (“ I knew Jimi would get further with his guitar than I would with my saxophone” ), brought sniggers from an other­ wise sympathetic audience. Clear­ ly, to some, Hendrix is such a ‘superstar’ that immaculate con­ ception is the only explanation.

Hendrix’s pre-stardom days are dealt with briefly in the film through a number o f interviews, the most notable being th at with a girlfriend from his Harlem days who swings her way through, with an infectious humor and en­ thusiasm, pointing ou t the vagaries and muddleheadedness in Hendrix’s character with great affection.

The interviews seem to fall sharply into male and female lines, with only a couple o f excep­ tions. Each of the women inter­ viewed - and they include former girlfriends as well as Linda Keith, who discovered Hendrix and in­ troduced him to Chas Chandler his manager, and Germaine Greer - speak of Hendrix the personal­ ity, and together they build a substantial picture o f the vulner­ abilities and strengths which were so closely tied to his career and talent. They say much for the generosity and good nature of Hendrix as well as revealing the huge shock effect that sudden success had on him.

The time and the current life style have a great deal to do with the success o f any pop musician, and so it is important th at this

film manages to convey a clear image o f this while concentrating primarily on Hendrix. This is also done through interviews, with people such as Pete .Townsend, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton - with Little Richard thrown in for cdmic relief.

The males tend to talk not so much about Hendrix as about his effect on them as musicians.

Townsend’s description o f the paranoia created amongst guitar­ ists by Hendrix’s arrival in London and their subsequent need for emotional reinforcement paints a very amusing and, I imagine, accurate picture o f the slighdy jaded swinging London pop scene o f the late ’60s. Clap­ ton, who he had never met before, suddenly rang him and invited him to the pictures. Strange, thought Pete, but he went. At intervals Clapton began to chat about ‘that guitarist’ Hendrix, and a friendship was formed.

Through these interviews the film becomes n ot only a film about Hendrix, but also an in­ formative docum entary on the upper echelons of the pop scene in England during this time.

The end result is a good tight film, one not limited in interest to diehard Hendrix fans, as it so easily could have been. The sound in places is murky - in fact much of one interview is lost because it has been filmed very scenically by L ’ Arc de Triomphe, much to the detriment o f the sound, which is largely o f the traffic.

In other places, however, when the film itself is murky, it is well worth it, for this is in the case of some o f Hendrix’s more obscure performances, such as an early clip from the Marquee in London and one o f his shortlived band, The Band o f Gypsies. The one interview with Hendrix himself has been taped in gaudy color from the Dick Cavett Show in the States, and it reveals Hendrix as an amusing and articulate inter­ viewee.

One thing which did stand out, at the end o f the film, was the notable absences among those

interviewed. Chas Chandler, his manager, though he was thanked in the credits, was missing. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer from the Experience, was present, but only to say that Hendrix was not as naive or as easily manipulated as people suggested. Noel Redding, bass player with the Experience, who has filed a suit against the Hendrix estate for millions of dollars, was absent. Eric Burden, who blew his mouth o ff to the daily papers on the death of Hendrix was, perhaps fortunately, absent.

Perhaps they refused to appear.

Perhaps for political reasons they werent asked. It would have been interesting to hear what they had to say, for there was room in the film fo r many diverging opinions.

The only one opinion that was really constant throughout the film was that musically Hendrix was a genius, and I doubt if anyone would want to argue with that- M A R G A R E T M A C IN T Y R E

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interview:

TV

‘W o n d e r fu l Winged Royal Wedding: All chan­ jFriend” : ATVO, 7.30. nels but “ 0 ”. t r ‘Great Parks o f the ] W o rld ": ABV2, 8.30. “ Cedi Beaton” : ABV2, 'l U u c s d a ^ il0.35.

RADIO ROCK “Wooden Prince” — BarFlake, Mississippi: Croxton ’ tok, Budapest Philhar­ Park Hotel. monic Orchestra: 3AR, Madder Lake, Tank: Waltz­ 11.10pm . ing Matilda Hotel.

Matt Taylor: Station Ho­ MEETINGS A lte rn a tiv e Education: tel, Prahran.

B ea u m a ris Community Sixtyniners: Matthew Flin­ ders Hotel.

Centre.

Flake: Whitehorse Hotel.

Upp: Penthouse Hotel.

ROCK

FOLK etc

Mighty Kong: Whitehorse John Crowle; Frank TrayHoteL nors.

don MacIntyre: Outpost Inn. Traditional Folk (9 pm) and Experimental (1 am): Commune.

Gordon McIntyre, Philip Day, Graeme Lowndes: Frank Traynors.

John and Juanita Boothroyd, Jacko Kevans, Mike Gallagher: Dan O ’Connell Hotel.

THEATRE

Atlas Warrigal Youth Club.

Sixtyniners (afternoon), Mississippi (evening): Mat thew Flinders Hotel.

John Rupert and the H en ch m en : Whitehorse Hotel.

Big Push: Croxton Park Hotel.

Flake: Southside Six. S tre e t scene, Captain M atchbox: Parade for Fitzroy Festival, Smith Street, Fitzroy.

The Plant: Polaris Inn Ho­ tel.

Jerry and the Reboppers: 4 3 Hardware Lane, Jazz and Bepop, 1-5 pm.

Club, Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clay­ ton, 2.30 pm.

“George 3/4 and Dragon 1” : Claremont Theatre, Claremont Street, South Yarra, 2 pm.

community thing but all are welcome. It runs till November 25 with pro­ grams at the Fitzroy Town Hall, Napier Street, phone 41.5037.

& u c id c u i ROCK ROCK Sid Rum po: Teasers.

Threshold in a R ock Op­ Threshold in a R ock Opera: era “Paul” : Camberwell Camberwell Civic Centre.

Civic Centre.

Fantasy : Croxton Park Ho­ PO ETRY tel.

Flake: Icelands, White­ Poor Tom ’s Poetry Band: horse Road, Ringwood.

Commune.

NIAGGRA: La Mama.

FOLK etc Philip Day and guests: Nimbin Party — some Frank Traynors.

“An Element of Doubt” : Tait Theatre. “ Happy Birthday Wanda June” : Actors Theatre, cnr C h u rch and Cameron Streets, Richmond.

“The Cripple Play” : La FO LK etc Mama.

“A Bunch of Ratbags” : 1973 Salzburg Festival: Contemporary Folk: Com­ (many? all?) well known Viaduct.

3AR, 8.00 pm. “ S t o p w o r k !” : Russell mune (9.00 pm) musicians, informal jam Ja ck O ’ Kevins, John sessions, maypole, feast, Street Theatre.

Crowle, Mike O’Rourke. dancers, didgeridoo, fancy Fat Albert: Frank Tray­ dress, fairy tales. Nimbin & Q d u rd av t nors.

Land Co-op Benefit (6 ROCK Joh n and Juanita Booth- pm): Ormond Hall, MoubROCK royd and others: Outpost ray Street, Prahran, $2.

Ariel, Mississippi: Dingley Inn. Brown Quartet: Council Hall.

Madder Lake, Tank, Flake: Melbourne Mandolin Con­ Brian Madder Lake: Exchange Blaises. cert: Open Stage, 117 Commune.

Danny Spooner and Gor­ Hotel, Cheltenham.

McKenzie Theory, Myriad, Bouverie Street. Carlton. don McIntyre and guests: Ayres Rock, Matt Taylor: M a tt Taylor, Captain THEA TRE Frank Traynors.

Dandenong Town Hall.

Matchbox: Prahran Town Concert: National Gallery Sixtyniners: Teasers.

Hall.

“An Element of Doubt” : Great Hall.

Big Push: Whitehorse Ho­ Sid Rumpo, Ayres Rock: Tait Theatre. tel.

G len W av erley High Happy Birthday Wanda Julie Wong and Marg Roadknight: Outpost Inn. John Rupert and the School.

Jun e” : Actors Theatre, cnr Henchmen: Croxton Park Colored Balls, Fat Alroy: Church and Cameron THEATRE Hotel.

Kew Town Hall.

Streets, Richmond.

Sherbert: International Ho­ Ray Brown’s One Ton “The Cripple Play” : La Happy Birthday Wanda tel.

Gypsy, Lord Dog, Sixty­ Mama., Jun e” : Actors Theatre.

Captain Matchbox: Polaris niners: Chelsea City Hall.

“A Bunch of Ratbags” : “The Cripple Play” : La Inn. Nemesis, Flight, Sixty­ Viaduct.

Mama.

Captain Matchbox: Polaris niners: Beaumaris Com­ “ S t o p w o r k !” : Russell Inn. 551 Nicholson Street, munity Centre.

Street Theatre.

North Carlton. 8.00-12 pm.

OTHERS Buster Brown: Altona Civ­ Fitzroy Festival of All Na­ ic Hall.

FO LK etc KIDS tions: Almost all events are Fat Alroy: Station Hotel, Danny Spooner and Gor­ Prahran. ’S c r a m b le ” : Saturday free. It’s meant to be a

’Jridan

THEATRE “Happy Birthday Wanda June” : Actors Theatre.

“The Cripple Play” : La Mamma.

“A Bunch of Ratbags” : Viaduct. “ S t o p w o r k !” : Russell Street. “ An Element of Doubt” : Tait.

OTHERS Fitzroy Festival o f All Na­ tions, Italian Concert of Classical and Modern Mus­ ic: Fitzroy Town Hall, 8.00 pm.

Cat Stevens Film and oth­ ers: Rear o f church, 124 Napier Street, Fitzroy.

Free.

SYDNEY v u e s& cu i

Natural Health Discussion: Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, 8.30 pm.

^ u d a n

£a\ u rd cu t

ROCK ROCK ROCK TV & RADIO Resident Group: Miller’s Itambu, Pirana: Mona Vale Band of Light: Chequers. Brighton Hotel.

Millers Brighton HoteL Resident Group: Miller’s The Royal Wedding — to Memorial Hall.

Balmain Millers Oceanic HoteL be viewed with Com Camp benefit: Oceanic Hotel.

FOLK etc H ot R o c k e t: Atomic and Chemicals: Town Hall.

Band of Light: Chequers. Flakes Dizzy and The Heroes, Band Energy Commission Lucas Channel 7, 2 and 9.

New Mother Earth with of Light, Lotus: Rockdale Heights, 8-12. No admi& FOLK etc Renee Geyer: Rocks Push. sion. No cameras.

Masonic Hall.

Don Silver, 12-3, 6-12.

Dizzy and Heroes, La De Millers Brighton Hotel.

C om m une 2, Jeannie Drinks half price, 6-8 pm: Das, Itambu: Sutherland Millers Oceanic Hotel.

Lewis, Ian Farr and I Old Push.

Police Boys Club.

C h u ck B e rry Show , Music Room, Adrian Ford — Jazz piano, Friends: Home: Chequers.

Itambu: Hordern Pavilion.

ROCK Opera House.

French’s Tavern.

Band of Light: Revesby Home: Chequers.

Eclipse Ally Five: Vanity Rocks Push: See Tuesday.

YMCA, 8-10 pm.

Resident Group: Miller’s Old Push: Jeff Bull, 6-12 Fair Hotel.

Band o f Light: Manly Vale FOLK etc Brighton Hotel.

Ross Collins: Northbridge pm.

Hotel, 10.30-11.45.

Folk, Trad, Irish, Aust: Resident Group: Miller’s Hotel.

Oceanic Hotel.

Rocks Push: See Tuesday.

Elizabeth Hotel.

FO LK etc CLASSICAL & OPERA M erv.

Acheson Trio: Band o f Light: Chequers. Old Push: “Unity Jazz Band”.

Bellvue Hotel.

Rocks Push: See Tuesday.

Violin Concerto No 5 Pact Folk: YWCA. FOLK etc Old Push: Unity Jazz (Mozart), Symphony No 7 Contemporary/Folk: The CLASSICAL & OPERA Band, 6 pm. ( B e e th o v e n ): Syd ney Rocks Push: See tuesday. Shack.

Pact: YWCA. Opera House.

Geoff Bull’s Olympia Jazz Old Push: “ Unity Jazz Symphony No 3 (Bruck­ Traditional Folk: WineBand: Unity Hall Hotel. ner), Violin Concerto No 1 Band”. 6-12 pm. burgh Castle.

MEETINGS (Szy m an ow ski): Opera Irish Rebellion-type Folk: CLASSICAL MEETINGS House.

Century Hotel.

Forum on the National Merv Achison Band: Bell­ Health Scheme with Megan Requiem Mass, (Verdi): Teahouse and Library: Old vue Hotel, 2 pm.

MEETINGS Stoyles (getting into it) Church — Cnr Palmer and Sydney Opera House.

Bill Haesler: Cricketers versus Sue Gallie (getting Victoria Street Squatters Stanley Street, East Syd­ Arms Hotel, 3 pm. out of it): Info. 57.4428, Open Meeting: 109 Vic­ ney, 31.6270. Open TuesMEETINGS Eclipse Alley Five: Vanity BMA House, 135 Mac­ toria Street, Kings Cross, day-Friday, 2 pm-11 pm.

Fair Hotel, 4 pm. quarie Street, Sydney.

Open Theatre Workshop: 6.30 pm.

Geoff Bulls Olympia Jazz Tenants Union Meeting: Puppet-making Workshop: Old Church. 7.30 pm. See Band: Unity Hall Hotel, 6 Victoria Street, Kings Old Church, 6.30 pm. See Friday. pm. ross, 8 pm.

Writers Workshop: Old Friday.

R od M cK u en : Opera P o e try Reading: Old Church. 8.00 pm. See Fri­ House. day.

Church. See Friday.

ROCK

Thursday

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CLASSICAL & OPERA Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart): Rockdale Town HalL OTHERS Luna Park: Try the New Astrospin. Chuckonyatux.

Dobell’s Estate Painting: Opera House, Exhibition HalL

Environment Centre: Ring Judy, 579.6159 for details.

Lights Film Workshop: Old Church, Palmer Street, East Sydney, 1 pm.

Free speech?: The Domain.

Question time: Wayside Chapel, 8.00 pm.

Webster: Wayside Chapel, 6.30 pm.

Dobells Estate Paintings: Opera House Exhibition Hall.

ROCK FOLK etc Hush: Corrimac Commun­ ity Hall, evening.

Rocks Push: See Tuesday.

H ush, Local Battlers: Drinks half price. 6-8 pm.

Hellensburg Oval, 12 noon.

Leon Russell, The Shelter MEETINGS People, Blackgrass: Randwick Race Course.

WEL, Co-ordinating Meet­ ing: Iron Workers Hall, 188 FOLK etc George Street, 9 pm.

Contemporary Folk/Rock: Darlinghurst, Kings Cross, Kirk Gallery.

The Loo, Resident Action, Rocks Push: See Tuesday. Open Meeting: Palmer Street Church Hall.

CLASSICAL & OPERA Drug Referral Centre, 43 Craigend Street, Kings Beethoven Violin Sonata, Cross, 31.2579: Training No 3, 10: Sydney Town meeting. Anyone interest­ Hall. ed welcome.

F i g h t s

-Notices A p p lican t m ust have good re fe r­ e n ce. N o ca p ita l req u ired . INC box 6073.

Dalliance

C an berra. T w o outgoin g young m en w ish d allian ce w ith sim ilarly disposed young lad ies, 2 1 -3 0 .

Have ow n house. D -fee refun ded.

IN C b o x 6 0 7 4 .

C anberra. Naive b u t n o t stupid e ffe m in a te m ale p o e t n eed s a frien d (p re fera b ly m u sician ) to m ake th e big tim e. S e x , e tc , ir­ relev an t. (A m C arlto n U n ite d ’s p ra y e r.) G en u in e. INC b o x 6 0 7 5 .

H ob art. H e, 2 8 , h um an. R e a s o n ­ ably civ ilised (?). R e c e n tly tran s­ ferred. E n jo y s reading, co n v ers­ ing, w ining and dining. S ee k s sim ilar she to share leisure tim e.

IN C b o x 6 0 7 6 .

H ob art. B i-m ale, late tw e n ties.

Average build and lo o k s . S e e k s sim ilar m ale fo r casual d allian ce , d iscretio n e s se n tia l.

IN C box 6 0 7 7 .________________________________ H ob art. M iddle aged lady d esires d iscree t d allian ce w ith w ell hung vigorous stay ers. In y o u r pad..

R e p ly w ith p h o to and v ital statis­ tics. Age e tc ., n o t im p o r ta n t, only d is cre tio n and p e rfo rm a n ce. A ll le tte r s answ ered s in cerely . INC box 6063.

A delaide. B i-m ale , a ffe c tio n a te , sin cere, m ascu lin e, 35, g ood bo d y , n eed s gen uin e m ale co m ­ p a n io n sh ip .

In te re s ts in clu d e th ea tre, film s, c o u n try and b each .

INC b o x 6 0 6 6 .

A lice Sprin gs. C am p g u y , 2 4 , wishing t o m e e t o th e rs p f sam e age and y o u n g e r fo r m u tu al pleasure. IN C b o x 6 0 6 7 .

S y d n ey A rm id ale. C am p guy, early 3 0 s . T ir e d o f stra ig h t fro n t.

Passive. L ik e to m e e t activ e n on u p tig h t guys to 4 0 , m y h o u se.

D in n ers, d a llia n ce , frie n d sh ip . No ferns. F e e refu n d ed i f n ecessary .

INC b o x 6 0 6 8 .

G old C o ast. Y o u n g su p e r-fit, well bu ilt, h ea lth co n sc io u s, travelled, ed u cated m an o f 2 8 seeks o ld er w om an to 5 5 fo r o cca s io n a l o u t­ ings and m u tu a l s a tis fa ctio n , in terestin g and sensuaL IN C b o x 6069.

M e lb o u rn e , R o s a n n a . Y o u n g m an m id 2 0 ’s w an ts an ea g er and w illing p a rtn er. P le a sa n t, c h e e rfu l m ale p re fe rre d , b u t fem a le pos­ sible. I f m a le, th e y o u n g e r th e b e tte r . IN C b o x 6 0 8 7 .

M e lb o u rn e b u sin essm a n , 4 6 , in­ te llig e n t, ta ll, slim , v a secto m ised , seek s m ee tin g s w ith in terestin g w om en, 1 8 -5 0 , fo r m u tu a l pleasu re and frien d sh ip . W ide range o f in te re s ts . IN C b o x 6 0 8 8 .

M e lb o u rn e , fair, h an d som e and ed u ca ted y o u th , 2 0 , seek s a ttr a c ­ tive, in te llig e n t w o m an, 2 7 - 4 0 fo r d iscree t, sen sitiv e d a llia n ce . INC box 6 0 8 9 . _____________

M elbo u rn e. Male 3 0 ’s, m arried, w an ts sensitive fem m e. A ge no b arrier. F o r co m p an io n sh ip and b e a u tifu l m eetings.

P referab ly d ay tim e . S in c e r ity and d iscretio n assured. A ll rep lies answ ered.

P h o to a p p reciated . F e e s refu n d ed .

IN C b o x 6 0 7 9 .

M e lb o u rn e b i-g u y , 3 0 , h appily m arried , ow n b u siness, lov es dal­ lia n ce, w an ts t o m e e t o th e rs sim ilar, n o hang ups, e s o te ric in te re s ts . IN C b o x 6 0 9 1 .

M elbo u rn e. Y o u n g m an, 2 4 years, in tereste d in the arts w ould like to m ee t m an , late 2 0 ’s early 3 0 ’s, w ith sim ilar in terests. IN C b o x 6081.

M elbo u rne A d ven tu rou s m ale, late 3 0 ’s, bo u n d f o r NSW early D ecem b e r, req u ires o ne-w ay lif t w ith a n o th e r m ale. Sh are leisu re, frien dsh ip, holiday sou gh t. INC box 6082.

B risb an e. G u y , 2 0 , w ish es t o m ee t w om en f o r u n in v olv ed sex. S o m e w om en o u t th e re m u st be sick o f e m o tio n a l u p se ts to o ! IN C b o x 6072.

M elbourne. M ale, g radu ate, e x e c u ­ tive, late 3 0 ’s seeks d iscree t casual relation sh ip w ith an in tellig en t fem ale. IN C b o x 6 0 8 3 .

Q ld. O p p o rtu n ity fo r m ale cam p to own th e ir ow n m ix ed bu siness.

M elbourne.

C am p girl, sensitive and f unloving.

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L a tr o b e V a lle y . H o m y S p a n ish guy, ( 2 5 ) , sp iritu a lly fre e , dis­ c r e e t, cle a n , sin cere, b ro a d m in d ­ ed , k e e n on oral/ anal in te r c o u rs e , see k s u n in h ib ite d c h ic k s to 4 0 , also h o t co u p le s to 4 0 . INC b o x 6093.

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d rin k s w e ek ly ). N o in v o lv em e n t p referre d . D a llia n ce o n ly if d e s ir­ ed. G en u in e . D is cre tio n assured.

IN C b o x 6 0 6 5 .

S y d n e y . B u sin e ssm a n , en d fo r tie s , p ro fe ssio n a l b a c k g ro u n d , w orld trav eller, wide in te r e s ts , w ishes to m ake up f o r lo s t y ears. D esires casu al reg u lar re la tio n s h ip w ith in terestin g , sen su o u s y o u n g lady fo r fun tim es, in te lle c tu a l and p h y sic a l s tim u la tio n and m u tu a l e n jo y m e n t.

D is c re tio n assured.

INC b o x 6 0 9 4 .

S y d n e y . T w o surfs g oin g t o Qld fo r tw o w eek s re q u ire tw o c h ic k s to share run, fo o d and van. IN C box 6 0 9 5 .

Sydney.

M ale, m id 3 0 s , ta ll, sm o k e s, drinks, b u t fru stra te d , seek s d a llia n ce w ith a ttra ctiv e fem a le, d a y tim e , n ig h tim e , y o u r p la ce o r m in e. INC b o x 6 0 9 6 .

S y d n e y . Male 4 5 y ears, single, u n iv ersity g ra d u a te.

In te re s te d p o litics , h is to ry , m u sic, th e a tre , w ishes to m ee t fu n lo v in g un­ a tta c h e d in te llig e n t fe m a le , 3 5 - 5 0 years. V iew to co m p a n io n sh ip , d a llia n ce, m arriage o r w h atever m u tu a lly ag reeable. A ll rep lies an sw ered , fee s re fu n d e d . IN C b o x 6°97.

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Syd ney.

Young fla m b o y a n t, crea tiv e m ale w h o tu rn s o n to m u sic, p ain tin g , p o e tr y , p h o to g ­ rap hy. S e e k s u n in h ib ite d a rtis tic fem a le , 1 8 - 2 2 , fo r a m u tu a lly b e n e fic ia l re la tio n sh ip . IN C b o x 6098.

S y d n e y , W o llo n go n g . P ro fe ssio n a l guy, ca m p , 4 5 , square lo o k in g , slim , p le a sa n t lo o k s . In te re s te d , frie n d sh ip , e sca p a d e s, o th e r m a les to 4 5 . A lso co rre s p o n d e n ce an y ­ w h ere. S in ce re . A ll an sw ered. D is­ cr e e t. IN C b o x 6 0 9 9 .

S y d n e y . S q u a re lo o k in g ca m p guy to sh are m y life and fla t. My in te re sts are n u d ism , b o d y b u ild ­ ing, squ ash , cam p in g , m u sic. M ust b e n u d ist seek in g sin cere p erm an ­ ent re la tio n sh ip .

Age 2 8 -3 8 .

P h o to i f p o ssib le. D is c re tio n . IN C box 6100.

M e lb o u rn e . A ttra ctiv e redh ead.

2 8 , o w n private p rem ises, w ill dally m y p la ce by a p p o in tm e n t, p re fe r m arried b u sin ess ty p es. “ C a ro le ” IN C b o x 5 8 3 6 .

S y d n e y . M ale. 4 0 , 5 ’ 5 ” . Wide in te re s ts in clu d e cla ssica l m u sic, film s, th e a tre , read in g , o u td o o rs.

O w n h o m e , N o rth sid e. D esires to m e e t fem a le sim ila r in te r e s ts fo r c lo s e fr ie n d s h ip , m arriage.

G en u in e ad . IN C b o x 6 1 0 1 .

S y d n e y . F o r m e r s c h o o lm a s te r w ill a c c e p t y o u n g lady Dupil fo r p riv a te tu itio n . M u st be d ilig en t, a tte n tiv e and p rep ared to adapt h e rs e lf to tra d itio n a l d iscip lin a ry m e th o d s . IN C b o x 6 0 6 4 .

S y d n e y . Is th ere a m a tu re fre e m in d ed w o m a n n ee d fu l, d iscre e t, so c ia l and in tim a te . C o m p a n io n ­ ship m ale, v irile fo r tie s , p refera b ly N o r th side f o r a fun tim e . R e p ly IN C b o x 6 1 0 2 .

Syd ney.

G irls, (s tu d e n t, un­ m a rried -m o th er, e t c ) in retu rn fo r o c ca s io n a l co m p a n y (m e e t fo r

S y d n e y . A re y o u a w arm loving, in te llig e n t, in te re s tin g , life loving, a ttra ctiv e fe m a le , 2 5 - 3 5 , see k in g a m ale lo v er and c o m p a n io n . I f so w rite to : IN C b o x 6 1 0 3 .

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M e lb o u rn e . G u y 3 0 , seeks sim ilar aged, n o n -e ffe m in a te guy. view frien d sh ip . In te re s ts in clu d e ou td o o rs, w eek en d tra v el, h i-fi. INC box 6092.

P U B L IC A T IO N In d ic a te w itn cro ss w h ere c o p y is to b e p u b lish ed . In s e rtio n c o s ts are c o n s ta n t f o r ea c h a p p e a ra n ce irre ­ sp ectiv e o f p u b lica tio n / s used.

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M elb o u rn e. M ature P isc es guy n eed s fem a le . T ra v el A u stra lia , O verseas M arch . T r u th , love e sse n ­ tial.

W ill co v e r n ecessa ry e x ­ p en ses.

A ge 2 5 - 3 0 p re fe ra b le .

P e a ce . IN C b o x 6 0 8 6 .

M e lb o u rn e . L o n e ly cam p guy, 2 4 , seek s e d u ca te d , h o n e s t guy, fo r reliable frien d sh ip . N o t in te re ste d in o n e n ig h t sta n d s. IN C b o x 6090.

B r is b a n e .

A ttra c tiv e , b u b b ly b lo n d e, 3 6 , w o u ld lik e to m ee t o th e r w ick ed fem a le fo r gay tim es. R e c e n t p h o to . IN C 6 0 7 1

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M e lb o u rn e . S h o r t, s e x y gay guy.

E a rly 3 0 ’s w an ts sm all guy m id 2 0 ’ s,p re fe ra b le O r ie n ta l or E u ro p e a n . C lea n , stra ig h t lo o k in g . ________________ INC b o x 6 0 8 5 .

M elbo u rne.

In te llig e n t, q u ie t, sensitive cam p girl seeking same fo r sin cere m ean in g fu l re la tio n ­ ship and gay tim es. P refer b u tc h 1 8 -2 6 . IN C b o x 6 0 7 8 .

M elbo u rne. Eu rasian m ale, 2 1 , stu d en t, d escrib ed as g ood lo o k ­ in g , in tellig en t, a ffe c tio n a te , w an ts sin cere m ale frien d fo r p e rm a n en t re latio n sh ip . IN C b o x 6080.

B risb a n e. Y o u n g m a n , 6 f t , slim, clean shaven, square lo o k in g , like to m ee t y ou n g , slim guy fo r m u tu al s a tis fa c tio n . P h o to ap­ p recia ted , re tu rn e d . IN C box 6070.

o th e r f o r frie n d sh ip and p erh ap s a b e a u tifu l a ffe c tio n a te re la tio n ­ ship. In te re s ts are a rt, m u sic, th e a tre , b o o k s and ju s t a b o u t an y th in g else . IN C b o x 6 0 8 4 .

N o m in a te o n e lis te d h ead in g o n ly — D alliance a p p e a rs o n ly in Living D aylights.

I All c o p y m ust b e p rin te d IN B L O C K L E T T E R S o n th is fo rm — co p y s u b m itte d in a n y o th e r s ty le is u n a c c e p ta b le . T e le p h o n e n u m b ers an d add resses m u st in d ica te c ity o f lo c a tio n . D w ellin gs and D a llia n ce ads m u st co m m e n c e w ith th e ir lo c a ­ tio n , eg. C an b erra. C o p y is u n ce n ­ sored e x c e p t w h ere n ecessa ry fo r p u b lish e r’s leg al p r o te c tio n .

PA YM EN T All m o n ie s sh ou ld b e p a y a b le INC P ty L td . E v ery ad m u st be prepaid — in clu d in g re p e titiv e and d u al-p u blic a tio n a p p e a ra n ce s — and a cco m ­ p a n y in itia lly s u b m itte d co p y .

D E A D L IN E S D -n o tic e s f o r N a tion R ev ie w : n o o n , T u esd a y p rio r to p u b lic a tio n . Dn o tic e s f o r T h e L iving D aylights: n o o n , T h u rsd a y p rio r t o p u b lica ­ tio n .

INC B O X N U M B E R S A d vertisers usin g IN C B o x n u m b ers f o r re p lies m u st allow 3 w ords in t e x t an d add 2 0 c e n ts fo r th is fa c ility — w e fo rw a rd re p lies w eek ­ ly . D a llia n c e ad s m ust use IN C B o x n u m b e r, w h ich w e a llo c a te b e fo r e p u b lishin g .

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C a te g o ry ( B ) is f o r individuals a d ­ v ertising u n d er a n y h ea d in g ( $ 2 fo r' 2 1 w o rd s). C a te g o ry (C ) is fo r an y b u s in e s s e n te rp ris e adv ertisin g u n d er an y h ea d in g ( $ 3 fo r 2 1 w o rd s ).

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D a llia n c e re s p o n d e n ts m u st in clu d e $ 2 p a y m en t w ith ea ch re p ly w hen sen din g to IN C fo r fo rw a rd in g to ad v ertisers. N o n -co m p ly in g le tte r s are d e stro y e d .

R o sev ille. Ju d y y o u r reply to m y ad m o s t in te re s tin g b u t y o u gave w rong phone n u m b er.

Please w rite again. T ed .

S y d n e y . C am p guy. S lim , frie n d ­ ly , y o u n g lo o k in g 4 0 , sq u are a p ­ p e a ra n ce , w ishes to m e e t sim ila r guy, 2 5 - 4 0 w ith view t o lastin g co m p a n io n sh ip and d a llia n ce .

T h is is a g en u in e e f f o r t to m e e t a sin cere an d c o m p a tib le frie n d .

IN C b o x 6 1 0 4 .

S y d n e y . S in ce re guy, 1 8 , seeks rfe ctio n a te , a ttra ctiv e g irl1 *fo r arfr g en u in e frein d sh ip and co m p a n y .

P h o to if p o ssib le. IN C b o x 6 1 0 5 .

Doings H e a lth serv ices f o r th e co m ­ m u n ity . P u b lic m eetin g . W hy is T h e A u stra lia n M ed ica l A sso cia ­ tio n h y steric a l? 2 pm , S u n d a y ,

N o v e m b er 1 8 , U n ita ria n C h u rch , G re y S tr e e t , E a s t M e lb o u rn e .

P h o to p referre d , n o e ffe m in a te s .

IN C b o x 6 0 6 0 .

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T h e O ld C h u rch , c o m e r P alm er and S ta n le y S tr e e ts , E a s t S y d n ey .

M elbo u rne. W ould fe m a le lik e to jo in m ale f o r travelling A u st. and overseas, s ta rt M arch 7 4 . G o o d v ibes, sp iritu ally in clin e d , ch a rm , tru th , love essen tia l, o v e r 2 0 years p refera b le . I w ill h elp w ith fi­ n a n ce. C o n ta c t f o r m ore d etails, IN C b o x 6 0 6 1 .

E tm y s p h e re s — n ew , interna-^ tio n a l, avant-garde litera ry jo u r-’ n al — seek s su stain ed ex p e ri­ m e n ta l m aterial. 7 - 1 0 pages per c o n trib u to r . 2 H au g h ton C rt, B o x H ill, 3 1 2 8 V ic.

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W eek en d e n c o u n te r g ro u p fir s t tw o d a y s o f D e c e m b e r and p rev iou s evening. S c h u ltz in­ spired m eth o d s.

C all G o rd o n M eggs on 6 6 5 . 9 2 8 0 o r w rite PO b o x 2 2 9 , C o o g ee , 2 0 3 4 .

T H E R E S E : E x clu siv e ly f o r fe­ m ales seek in g d is c r e e t fe m a le co n ­ ta ct. M em b ers in P o rt M o resby , B risb a n e, C a n b e rra , S y d n e y , Mel­ b o u rn e , H o b a rt, A d ela id e, Perth , D a rw in , also o th e r citie s , to w n s and c o u n tr y areas. W rite in co n ­ fid e n ce f o r o b lig a tio n fre e d etails s en t in p lain en v elo p e. T H E R E S E , B o x 4 9 8 4 , G PO S y d n e y , N SW 2001.

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Departures S y d n e y . G u y 1 8 seeks c h ic any age t o share trip o f A sia, En glan d.

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S y d n e y . Q u e e n sc liff C astle needs ^ 2 eager m inds, so p re fe ra b ly fe­ m ale, t o pay $ 1 1 w eek ly. S u m ­ m er. 1 5 5 Q u e e n sc liff R o a d , an y­ tim e, b e r-b o o m .

S y d n e y , L an e C ove. Y o u n g broad ­ m in d ed guy share c o m fo r ta b le h om e. A ll m od co n s. Parkimg, clo se b u s, hou se p ro u d , n o n e st, ow n ro o m , $ 2 0 . 4 2 8 . 1 1 8 2 .

B risb a n e, S t L u c ia T w o a d jo in in g tw o b e d ro o m fla ts v a ca n t soon.

S u it bi-girls o r o th e r girls in te re st­ ed th ese pages. IN C b o x 6 0 4 7 .

M o m in g to n P en in su la fa rm h o li­ day caravan f o r b ro a d m in d ed you ng w om an. J o i n in fa rm life, som e ch e rry p ick in g , clo se beach es. IN C b o x 6 0 4 9 .

M e lb o u m e -B a lw y n . Q u iet, re lia b le p erson need ed to share tw o b ed ­ ro om , fu rn ish ed hou se w ith guy, 2 3 . G a y o r bi preferred . $ 1 7 . IN C box 6048.

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H o b b it re q u ired to share $ 1 3 9 m o n th , 2 b d rm u n it, S t L u cia . P h o n e w. 7 1 .3 8 1 1 , Ia n C am eron .

S y d n e y . M y re sea rch in to life has sep arated m e fro m m y lo v e r b u t never m y s a n ity . T o reg ain h e r and co n tin u e , a h o m e is n ee d e d . If, and o n ly if y o u love lif e , S h a k e ­ speare and th is un iv erse, th e n w rite d o w n y o u r th o u g h ts and o ff e r o f help. T h a n k y o u m y frien d s. We have n o t y e t begun to L I V E . PO b o x 3 3 3 , M arou bra. K E L L Y .

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Sexist Ads 'M HOPING this column at­ tracts a few compulsive/ obsessive information gatherers the sort of people who have minds like computerised information storage systems but can’t find where to plug them into the wall.

This one is for you. It’s a NSW Government monograph, very rare, almost useless. It’s called GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS in AU STRALIA . It’s 2 3 9 pages of where to plug into the published information files o f the state and federal governments. I bought it; paid $ 5 .0 0 for it and I couldnt put it down. I suspect that if you really want to know how the system works, this book is part of tne camouflage. Covers all states.

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There are ten books in the series. In order th ey begin with Introduction to Metalworking (1 ), Hand Tools (2), Measuring Tools and Equipm ent (3), Lim it System s, Tolerances and F its (4), Filing (5), Scraping (6 ), Drilling (7), Offhand Grinding (8), Hand Tapping and Thread Cutting (9), Basic Fitting Projects (1 0 ).

So what, you might ask. Well, the manuals are so clearly w ritten that you com e ou t o f reading them with a “ what is so com plicated about fitting and turning e tc ” feeling. Having not put blade to m etal I may be fooled but the diagrams and te x ts are as clear as The Living Daylights, (at least).

Metal w ork virgin? I suggest you buy th e first tw o volumes and find ou t if you can muster the confidence to buy the remaining eight and get stuck into it.

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A G PS, PO B ox 8 4 , Canberra ACT Well, there is a bo ok for you to o . I t ’s 2 6 0 0 , or your nearest Governm ent called Uncareers, comes from England Publications and Inquiry Centre. and here’s a quote: “ D ont be put o ff * * * too much by th e fact that m ost things The Sydney Filmmakers Co-op puts in this directory are fairly inform al and out a catalogue o f their film s available no n -in stitu tio n al. . . ” , for hire. All you need is access to a This directory lists a number of 16m m projector and you can teach possible “ unfixed slots” in which being yourself film viewing! T hey are in the “ successful” and getting a “ career” are process of compiling a supplement to no t the dom inant prerequisites to per­ this catalogue so I'll let you know petual bliss. (Latterday version o f all when it is available. In th e m eantime, if the beer you can drink.) It’s not such a you are interested in film, send $ 1 .4 0 fantastic b o o k b u t at least it’s got to SY D N E Y FIL M M A K E R S CO-OP, vision. Send $ 2 .0 0 or so to : UN­ S t Peter’s Lane, Darlinghurst 2 0 1 0 , and C A R E E R S , 2 9 8 6 Pershore R d., B ir­ take a cut lunch o u t to your mail bo x. mingham 5, UK. R efactory Girl is a quarterly That is it for this week. Feeling womens study jou rnal w ritten and aggressive? Lay a rave on me. Send published b y a national w om ens collec­ good info Sources to A PP2, P.O. B ox tive. T he articles are about women, 8, Surry Hills, 2 0 1 0 . Send $ 1 .4 0 and sometimes topical, som etim es histori­ I ’ll send you th e A lternative Pink cal. It appears to be w ritten fo r the Pages. “ intelligent” reader and lacks much o f the conventional rh etoric. It is prob­ ably the m ost professionally produced womens magazine in Australia. Costs 75 cents a t some bookshops o r a sub for $ 2 .5 0 a year. R E F A C T O R Y G IR L , 25 Alberta St., Sydney 2 0 0 0 . *

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LETTERS & Yeah, yeah Stalin Dear Editor, Richard Neville replies to Grant Evans and company that “ Revolution and spiritual com m itm ent are far from incom patible, as the extraordinary career o f Gandhi made clear. Or per­ haps you pin the red m erit badge on his contem porary, Stalin . . . ” Well, in my opinion, you do pin the red m erit badge on Stalin. It was Stalin who smashed the Fascists and made the Soviet Union into the force which is the main bulwark against everything we progressive m aterialists (ie. Marx­ ists) hate, including the Gordon Bartons and Richard Nevilles o f this world w ith their do-gooder intentions.

On the other hand, who was Gandhi?

When Gandhi was alive India was a lot o f niggers living in shit — today India is still a lo t o f niggers living in shit. If Richard Neville w ants to be a nigger then good luck to him. However, he must be a real dumb nigger if he thinks he is going to be tolerated by those who seek to establish a civilised com ­ m unity.

I w elcom e Neville and his Living Daylights as one more good reason why we need a revolution.

LEONARD AMOS, Wynnum, Qld

Capitalist slander D EA R RICH A RD , I w ouldnt w rite a letter to the Herald complaining about its anti socialist philosophy. I expect a capital­ ist like Fairfax to be anti socialist. I naively expected something different from you. B u t considering who owns your paper, my expectations were a bit ridiculous.

Anyw ay, I support Grant Evans and Co in their objections to T L D ’s anti socialist flavor. Instead of answering Evans’ points, you retreated to the well tried capitalist slander that Stalin was a Marxist, and that Leninism equals Stalinism , bureaucracy, etc, and that Evans shouldnt be answered because maybe h e’s a Stalinist too .

The fa ct that the likes o f Rennie Davis are blissed ou t by the Guru G um boots o f the world means precise­ ly nothing. Ju st w hat is wrong w ith a scien tific approach? M ysticism , like in­ stitutionalised religion, is a safe refuge for those w ho can ’t or d ont want to figure out w hat has gone wrong.

It seems to me that a paper that doesnt tread on any reactionaries’ toes cannot justify its existence. I found th at Digger was digging up some really good m uck, and thus has a valuable role.

L e t’s hope that TLD improves and stops being a trendy Nation Review. I was also disappointed that I had read so many o f the articles elsewhere be­ fore. These criticism s may be a little unfair, considering y ou ’ve only been going a few weeks. B u t then again, was I expecting too much in the first place?

FRANS TIMMERMAN, Kensington, NSW

One for the pessimists Sir — I was just beginning to enjoy Garry P atterson’s strip sketch (T L D 3) as a simple bu t effective com m ent on a them e of, say, conservation. And then I noticed the depressing dictum at the fo o t o f the page, Pessimists read down, optimists read up — depressing be­ cause, given that the cartoon was about progress (for want o f a better word), it becam e pessimistic no m atter which way you looked a t it.

Let me explain. Cities, obviously, have g ot to change — but to suggest that they disappear altogether is rather dreary at worst and unrealistic at best.

Peasant economies, as someone point­ ed ou t a few pages on from the cartoon, have had their day. All the back/to/nature crowd notwithstanding, did we build com puters and atom ic bom bs and obliterate a couple o f fair­ sized cities simply to run back to our holes in the desert feeling ashamed o f our human potential? So we make booboos. So what?

riding the waves, ballooning or par­ ticipating in ro ck concerts is no t for Australian blacks. McCausland prefers to confine them to performing folksy corroborees in Central Australia.

Dunstan’s account o f the Nimbin com m unity (TLD 2) paints a picture o f a com m unity o f arrogant middle-class nasties.

W ithin the space o f a few pages we have: A V IC IO U S attack on particular per­ sonalities within the black movement, on blacks in general (with a nice w hite sneer: “T hey came and they boozed” ) and an apologia for the racist premises on which the festival was based.(On this point I accept unreservedly Gary F o ley ’s account o f the situation; I believe that the festival should never have been held while on e iota o f doubt remained vis-a-vis the question o f the land being “ sung” .)

AN A TTA C K on a representative o f the gay liberation movement, an un­ And even if the suggestion o f Garry warranted generalisation about gays Patterson’s sketches is merely th at the (“th e gay who lives o ff the bourgeois city should disappear m etaphorically, affluence o f th e bar scene . . . ” Which shall we say, and th at we should all do gay? Where?) and an a ttack on sexual our stint in th e wilderness (briefly) like liberation movements in general. all self-respecting Herman Hesse’ AN ACCEPTANCE, in th e name of heroes, like all Jesus Christs and like all folksy, “w hole com m unity” o f sexist superstar prophets before him . . . Well, practices. At least Dunstan is honest what then? Was there ever a prophet enough to admit that Miss Nimbin who came back in from the desert with Showgirl 1 9 7 2 was placed on a par his words o f wisdom before there was a w ith the prize cow. That he sees wicked tow n or city fo r him to come nothing wrong w ith this we can per­ back to? haps see as a testim ony to his organic The only way you can possibly country sensitivity. picture a prophet is Martin Sharp's I sincerely hope that Dunstan’s com m ents are n o t representative o f vision o f the Sentim ental B loke in a land o f sweeping plains.

Nim bin people, for th ey are highly So le t’s forget about those m ythical objectionable. I no more want to live natural paradises o f the past. It’s just a in an organic, w hole com m unity based bit too easy to rip o f f Granny’s w it and wisdom and sit on it, saying, Lordy, let’s rest right here and groove on old m other earth, brothers and sisters, while the rest o f the world jacks itself off. What’s happened to imagination?

Where are our blueprints for com puter­ ised cities? (And dont give me a refer­ ence to K afka or anyone else w ith a case o f th e horrors.) A fter all, th ere’s a little b it o f nature in computers, just as there is in lovely crisp com ies from cereal packets.

If we dont like the nature we find there, let's conceive o f something else to put the dear old girl in to — and not, for atom ’s sake, an earthy potato sack.

Sacks o f spuds are ju st to o bloody heavy.

Your friendly laborer on brick veneer flats, G RAH AM JACKSON, Lavington, NSW

on racism and sexism than I want to inhabit McCausland’s “ Australia Un­ lim ited”. I hope we can posit more profoundly radical alternatives than these.

JILL JOLLIFFE, Canberra, AC T

Natural death R D R A K E ’S article The modern ■^’ ■“■medicine m an is a p o x on good health (TLD, 1) shows a remarkable ignorance o f some o f the facts about diseases, their treatm ent and preven­ tion. I t ’s a pity you printed it in what, otherwise, promises to be a very good paper.

While the article does contain a few grains o f truth they unfortunately lie buried amid a welter o f illogical and ignorant ravings. I’m a scientist, in no way connected w ith any branch o f m edicine or pharmacy, but the follow­ ing facts seem obvious to me.

1. The National Heart and Cancer Foundations spend a hell o f a lo t o f their m oney researching the CA U SES o f these diseases and this undoubtedly includes investigations on people who havent got either disease. (One obvious p roof o f this is the huge am ount o f money spent researching the lung can­ cer-smoking link.) T hey dont, as Drake says, “ squander it o n an idiotic search for new wonder drugs, e tc ’’.

2. B efore Pasteur, th e average life expectancy in Europe was less than 4 0 years. People in those days lived in an unsmogged environment and ate na­ tural food grown w ithout any “ chem­ ical fertilisers” . Their fertilisers were, in fact, human, animal and vegetable

THINGS

Odious artwork Sir — Ian McCausland’s “Australia U n­ lim ited” (TLD 1) is an odious piece o f bunyip nationalism-cum-racism. I hope that no one who subscribes to revolu­ tionary social ideas would be interested in living in an Australian idyll while any m ilitary m achine zaps the outside world. I find it a rather sick and parochial notion.

It also seems that cosm ic bliss,

T H E m alicious ru m o r con­ cerning a n ew ly app oin ted U n d e r-S e c re ta ry m e n tio n ­ ed in TLDZ, was indeed as w e said, a m alicious ru ­ m o r. It was traced in this w e e k ’s N ation R eview , to co n spirato rial rightists.

Exhibit 21 — a pile of sandbags with a

Black mark against Slim Sir — I was intrigued to see you discover Slim Dusty ( TLD 3 , page 2 1 ), the Australian folksinging “legend” who “always wanted to take the music and do something o f my own w ith it — Australian songs, Australian lyrics! ” Slim Dusty is truly Australian to the core. Y ou may not be familiar with that lam ent o f his for Ja ck y (or is it Jack y -Jack y ?), the aboriginal who performed some truly heroic deed, thus demonstrating that — in D u sty’s words — “although his skin was black his heart was w hite” .

A strangely moving ballad. I com ­ mend that great Australian, Henry Lawson, to your atten tion n ext w eek; he had some typically Aussie views on Jew s, blacks and others o f their ilk.

D. H.

wastes. Incidentally, I wonder if Drake knows that the m ost com m only used fertiliser in Australia today is birdshit?

It’s euphemistically called super­ phosphate !

3. On the subject o f smallpox, Drake surpasses even him self in his illogical reasoninq. The reason that only four unvaccinated children died from smallpox (I’m using Drake’s fig­ ures) in the 2 5 years prior to 1 9 6 2 in England and Wales was not because they were unvaccinated. It was because o f a thing no t m entioned by Drake — but perhaps h e’s never heard o f it — a branch o f the government health serv­ ice called the Port Health A uthority.

No one, bu t no one, was let in to the country w ithout docum entary proof o f vaccination. The odd carrier got in, which probably accounts fo r the four deaths, but if the precautions hadnt been taken then the number o f deaths among the unvaccinated children wouldnt have been four bu t probably 4 0 ,0 0 0 or even m ore while the num ber among the vaccinated ones would still have been only 82. Still on the subject, isnt it just possible th at those who were vaccinated were the very ones considered to be at greater risk.

4. As a closing thought, I wonder what Drake would do if he copped a load o f syphili s from one o f his bed companions? It’s very easy to do this; syphilis is almost at epidemic level right now in Australia. Would he go to a doctor for treatm ent? Or would he stick to his organically grown natural foods while the spirochetes gradually ate out his brain sending him deeper into the insanity from w hich he al­ ready appears to be suffering?

FED UP WITH IDIOTS, Adelaide, SA

surprise in the middle. Exhibit 13 an indiscreet, talking, living, breathing, naked, video sculpture couple.

The people’s choice.

Cops arrest — indecent exposure. This, for some reason, I hear,

the Art Gallery

embarrasses

of NSW ( where

the trustees of

it is at ). But they do not stop it.

It is nice of them, I feel.

This huge 50 artist exhibition closes Sunday, so I thought why not do a ‘review’ of this 100 % Oz exhib...

It is weird, fun and very likeable VICTOR K. 1973 T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , N ovem ber 13-19, 1973 — Page 27

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