The Living Daylights 2(12)

Don Dunstan gags press •Brawling at Pentridge • Prying on teachers • Student news special

a plagiarised potpourri of of news, views and trivia with MIKE MORRIS

Daylight Robbery

22 today AST WEEK was our 21st issue, which we characteristically forgot to announce, and this week we try out a new logo, designed by Ian McCausland, which accepts that we are now known by one word alone. In the same breathtaking week, Living delights has been compressed to Brightlights, which will end confusion on the telephone and give extra emphasis to its lift-out autonom y. The final absurdity in this hysteria o f name calling, is . . . Swotlights . . . a weekly supplement o f happen­ ings in the mind factories. Last week’s Daylights sold out in 24 hours in many areas — especially at universities — so those who find us hard-to-get, bully your news­ agent to boost stocks. A wonderful hodge podge o f an issue this week: beginning with Brendan Hennessy’s pics from Sunday’ s prison demon­ stration (opposite) and ending in Total orgasm and a flurry o f readers grumbles. We say farewell to Dick Beckett, w ho’s been beating up the week’s news since issue one, and welcom e our own Mick Morris as the mad m onitor o f passing pies in the skies: this page. Adelaide’s boring Festival o f Arts is being thrashed to death by practically every newspaper in the land, so why shouldnt we get in for our chop too? We sent Colin Talbot who gives it a perspective not to be found in the pages o f beaux-arts (p.7). From an innocent abroad we obtained an essay o f Laos where deep in the hills he discovered not so much a war but an American way o f life (p .9). If you mention the word “ progress” to the NSW department o f education they’ll unfurl their plans to engulf Newtown with o ffice blocks and car parks. These days they seem more willing to admit the schemes o f town planners and architects than they are to listen to the ideas and philosophies o f their employees — the teachers (p .4). Margaret MacIntyre this week listens to Joni Mitchell, whom she considers one o f the most important forces in rock today. S te p h e n Coleman reviews Jackson Browne’s brilliant album Everyman, one o f the best things that’s happened to vinyl in a long time. R ob King delivers an eulogy for Gram Parsons. Feedback: Susan Peacock, in response to our garbology story tw o weeks back, is now tossing out ORGANIC MATTER ONLY. Next week: Dany Humphries interviews Elizabeth Reid, womens adviser to the prime minister; awareness — what it means and what it can d o to people; Bernadine D ohm , America’s “ most wanted” woman radical, surfaces to pledge solidarity with the Symbionese Liberation Army. Let’s close with some lines from Robin Morgan, mentioned briefly by one o f our columnists; and dedicate them to Penny Short: I will say, however, that you, men, will have to be freed, as well, though we women may have to kick and kill yo u into freedom since most o f you will embrace death quite gladly rather than give up you r pow er to hold power. — Love, EDS

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N december 12, 1969, a series o f bom b explosions rocked the Ital­ ian bank o f agriculture in Milan, killing 16 people and wounding 88. Police and the judiciary moved, as they say, quickly and in a whirlwind drive ar­ rested Pietro Valpreda, a self-proclaim­ ed anarchist, and several o f his co l­ leagues. Charges werent laid, instead Val­ preda lay in the cells fo r three years all the time proclaiming his innocence and saying the bombings were part o f a plan by fascists to stir up a rightwing backlash. -Yeah, yeah, said the turn­ keys. Last week the case finally came to court in the cooler political climate o f out o f tow n Catanzaro. A fter only one and a half hours the case was adjourn­ ed amid confusion. It seems that inde­ pendent judicial investigators have been looking into the incident and have com piled a 425 page report which concludes that the bombings were the work o f, yes, THREE NEO FASCISTS. What would Sacco and Vanzetti say?

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TREAKING, a very boring pro­ m otion campaign b y the makers o f sandshoes, has been here before . . . Job and Godiva excepted. In 17th century England it was called “ quak­ ing" and was practised b y young mem­ bers o f the Society o f Friends w ho used to parade naked as a “ sign” - a biblical­ ly motivated protest against the round­ head puritannical regime o f Oliver Cromwell, the man w h o said a gather­ ing o f tw o or m ore could be declared a “ riotous assembly” . History records that when James Nayler — a kinda quaker St Peter — entered Bristol. Friends cast their clothes before him, shouting “ hosanna” . The ruling order later paid James their anger and punished the shit out o f him. But, that’s not the point: the quakers grew in numbers during these days o f undress, attracting hordes o f gentle and inspired folk. But, com e the 18th century and the descendants o f the gentle were (may I quote from a letter sent to the London Times? “ a bourgeois coterie o f bank­ ers, brewers and co co a growers” . The 20th century sees a return to peaceful

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idealism . . . with one notable excep­ tion: Richard Milhous N ixon is a quaker. N ow aint that a spanner in the G ood Works. HH, the last o f the high divers, the heavy rollers, the crazy romantics. Alack. An American streak­ er dashed about the sun deck o f the retired hulk o f Queen Mary, dived 80 feet into the waters o f San Francisco. He was fished ou t later . . . dead.

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OW this is something Robin H ood and his Merry Men would dig: statistics on the Single Man. From America, the birthplace o f Playboy. Single men are seven percent o f the population, Twentyseven percent o f the unem­ ployed, Sixtyfive percent o f prison inmates, Eightyseven percent o f Vietnam war casualties, Ninety percent o f the homeless. CHEW ON TH AT REVS!

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Y weariness amazes me . .. From the pinnacle o f hip publishing Rolling ston e have devoted huge lengths o f co p y to what can only be called “ the Bob Dylan revival trip” . Slade and Bowie fans here may find sympathy fo r Sabine Falkenthal who wrote this to S tone: “ Please don t w orry that singlemind­ ed devotees o f Dylan-Beatles-Stones hold sway, because I believe such tastes are largely restricted to the over-20 set. May I speak fo r most 19 year olds in asserting that the era o f the Big Three’s unqualified greatness had passed b y the time their music became important to me. I would go so far as to say that, for me, Dylan was not a contem porary but a historical affair, not as distant as Chuck Berry but not as immediate as the Airplane. Although ardent appreciation o f D y­ lan, et al., is in order, I am relieved not to have been 17 and stricken b y The times th ey are a-changin’. Australian novelists have enough problems unfettering themselves from the sterilising effect o f their education system and coping with a culture that uses language like a cattle prod to keep people away from each other, without

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having to deal with the demoralising prospect o f a review o f their work by the Sydney morning herald's Thelma Forshaw. Last Saturday Forshaw found herself unable to read more than 100 o f the 760 words o f Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity's rainbow. Novelist Pynchon, whose identity is concealed from all save his publisher, first came to attention with the supersurreal and very readable V. This book is more com plex and demanding but at the same time works well for those in whom it generates some sort o f echo. It may not be the b ook for Austral­ ians; they may have no cultural affin­ ity with what Pynchon is talking about. There’s certainly nothing to be ashamed o f in saying one can’t handle the book . But Ms Forshaw does her best to put the b ook down from a position o f admitted ignorance trying to back her credentials b y name-dropping the few books one supposes she has read. MAZING news for jejuned juicers. We learn Valium and booze is a very hazardous cocktail. Last week a coroner confirm ed the fact after someone died and went on to say people shouldnt m ix alcohol and downers as the mixture could prove fatal. I spoke to several people who hold prescriptions for Valium and all expressed amazement, saying their doctor never warned them.

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IDED by the wet season, the city councillors o f Darwin have managed to “ clean up” Lameroo beach, one time far northern hippie haven. Most have headed for Bali or returned to the south where the cli­ mate is more hospitable. However, a sturdy but small band hung around, but moved to nearby grounds owned by the R AA F. The air force didnt seem to mind and all was cosy . . . that is until Darwin’s city fathers twigged, bought the land from the R A A F and expelled the squatters! But the dry is fast approaching and with it Darwin can expect the arrival o f 10,000(!) denimed and grubby pilgrims.

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UT in Sunshine, in Melbourne’s urban wasteland, the parents are raising protests about “ amusement parlors” . There’s going to be an in­ quiry “ to examine why children go to them” . They believe the parlors are dens o f sin. Blimey O'Reilly, they gotta be kid­ ding themselves! My ow n journeys into fun-amusement parlors have re­ vealed a whole new world. Incredible machines with flashing lights and stereophonic sounds. For the price o f 20 cents one can instantly learn where electricity is in 1974. More enlighten­ ing than watching televised space walks, more amusing than The box, funnier than an afternoon at the RSL, less expensive than a multiple plunge on the daily double, less hazardous than a drive to the city, more worth­ while than tw o hours shopping in Safeways, and friendlier than a South Pacific cruise. Yeah, amusement par­ lors, the casino for the kids!!! I thoroughly recommend ’em!

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Friday, 29th, March.

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Saturday, 30th March

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Ebony

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Rock Granite 9 .00- 1 .30 am

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M rs G a rd in e r, m o th e r o f in m a te P eter

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PIOTR OLSZEWSKI and BRENDAN HENNESSY mix it with police outside Pentridge prison. IC T O R IA N police and social welfare authorities have stepped up their reactionary campaign to stop demonstrations outside Melbourne's Pentridge prison. The campaign reached a peak on Sunday when tw o demonstrat­ ors were arrested and charged with loitering with intent to com ­ municate with prisoners, assault­ ing police and unlawful assault. Wires were ripped from the demonstrators loudspeakers and equipment was confiscated. During the week before, V ic­ toria’s social welfare minister Houghton made "dramatic” an­ nouncements on radio saying that Pentridge demonstrators must, and would be, stopped. On Sunday, as members o f the Prisoners A ction Committee set up their equipment, police started arriving in large numbers. Squad cars surrounded the group, paddy

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wagons parked dow n the street and m otorcycle cops rode in and out. At 1.30 pm — the publicised starting time o f the demonstration — police began to write down registration numbers o f cars pres­ ent. Demonstrators, sensing the heavy vibes, decided to move away from the main gate to an enclave, bounded b y three walls, near B division. Loudspeakers were erected and speakers began to address crowds. Suddenly, police cars blocked o ff the entrance to the enclave. Police, brushing back their hair and fastening their hats, began walking in a solid line towards the demonstrators. Police vans moved in behind them. A police spokesman shouldered his way into the midst o f the demonstrators and said: "M ove aside — dont buy it today lads.” The cop then began calling for

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“ Mr Y ork ” . Brian York, the secretary and spokesman fo r the PAC, acknowl­ edged his presence. He was then warned that it was “ an offen ce to loiter near this prison” and “ you will be arrested if you d o not desist” . Other cops then separated the main b o d y o f demonstrators and pressed them into a solid group around the microphones. The demonstrators, realising their bad position, decided to break o f f and move into a more open area. Police yelled: “ Y ou ’ll be arrested anywhere else you go — we will arrest you if you stay near this prison.” The demonstrators moved o ff, all the time keeping up their PA system commentary. Police were then ordered to single ou t York — to "get him” - but the dem on­ strators immediately surrounded him.

Police then began sheepdog tactics — follow ing on the dem on­ strators heels, rushing in, grap­ pling, then stepping back. Individ­ ual PAC members were grabbed, pushed up against trees, and warn­ ed that they were “ inciting riots” . When the demonstrators stop­ ped and tried to point their lou d ­ speakers over the prison walls, the cops barged in and broke the amplifier wires. One demonstrator, Tom Bren­ nan, who was speaking over the microphone, was dragged aside, dropped to the ground and arrest­ ed. A young woman, Pam Dahlhelm, then began speaking. A cop grabbed her in a headlock from behind and started dragging her off. Her child clung to her but was knocked aside by police during the melee. The crow d was enraged as the police dragged Dahlhelm to

a van and arrested her. Demonstrators yelled and clanked beer cans. The cops con ­ tinued to harass them, but limited their action to scuffles. Prisoners A ction Committee members then decided to call it a day — nothing more than violence could be achieved and futile martyrdom wasnt the point o f the exercise. The PAC are now in a precari­ ous position - social welfare au­ thorities, penal reformists who dont like seeing the boat rocked and the press - all have attacked them, the police have arrested them, and courts have fined them heavily. Reaction to the PAC’s activi­ ties — particularly their move to declare La Trobe university a haven for escaped prisoners - has been widespread. Page 5

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You can’t come out at school PENNY SHORT RECENTLY lost a NSW Teacher Education Scholar­ ship because I am a lesbian. O f course, this was not the reason officially given which was that I am “ medically unfit” to be a teacher. The method used by the department o f education was to arrange for me to see a psychiat­ rist at the Medical Examination Centre which is under the health commission. I had seen the same psychiat­ rist in april 1973, as part o f an initial medical check-up. This came about because everyone was given a type o f personality ques­ tionnaire to fill in with such ques­ tions as “ Do you have vivid dreams at night?” and “ Do you admire your parents?” . Apparent­ ly my answers were not entirely “ normal” and so I had to talk to a doctor. She asked me what I’ d been doing since I left school. This included playing trumpet, living in the bush, working in a secondhand furniture shop and_ looking after kids. She also asked me why I wanted to teach and then assessed me as being “ more perceptive” o f myself and others, “ more aware o f what was happening in society” and “ more individualistic” than most people. Her incredible con­ clusion was that I’d have to see a psychiatrist to see if I was suit­ able. They were “ worried about teachers having nervous break­ downs” . When I later saw the psychiat­ rist she asked me typical questions like “ why do you want to teach?” and then she asked whether I was having a relationship with anyone. I inquired whether she meant a m onogam ous h e te r o s e x u a l relationship and she said yes. I told her I wasnt. “ What kind o f relationships are you having?” she asked. “ Why d o you want to know ?” I countered. “ Because if y ou ’ re having a stable relationship with someone, then I’ll know y ou ’re stable, and I’ ll recommend that you keep your scholarship.” I then told her I was having a stable homosexual relationship. This turned out to be OK because she knew some bi-sexual people who were “ nice” . She wouldnt say that I was a homosexual in her report - she’d just say I was stable. She warned me that if the department found out they

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wouldnt like it. At the second interview, late last year, the psychiatrist first asked me casually how I’d been getting on at uni. After I’ d told her, she said “ Y ou havent been keeping your homosexuality quiet have y ou ?” She then produced a photostat cop y o f a page o f Arena (the Macquarie uni student paper) on which a poem I had written was printed. The poem was about an experience o f making love with another woman. “ What about this?” , asked the psychiatrist. She told me she had also received a phone call about the fact that I’ d been seen “ carry­ ing on with another woman on the front lawn at Macquarie uni” . A short discussion follow ed during which she asked me if I was going to behave this way in the future and said “ If the child­ ren at a school where you were teaching found out you were a homosexual they’d all laugh at you” . She concluded by saying that “ the department doesnt allow this sort o f thing” and told me that I would lose my scholarship. I asked her if there was a possibility o f appealing, but she said there was nothing I could d o about it. When I later rang Dr Orr, the chief medical officer at the Medi­ cal Examination Centre, he told me that I would lose my scholar­ ship because I had “ personality and emotional problems” which “ may be associated with hom osexu­ ality” . Sending in five favorable references from staff at Macquarie uni did not change his mind. I now have tw o favorable inde­ pendent psychiatric reports. When I told Dr Orr I was going to get these, he said patronisingly that that was good because the other psychiatrists would tell me what my problems were! After I received the official notification o f the termination o f my scholarship because I was "m edically unfit” , the NSW Teachers’ Federation contacted Mr Bunker, the acting director o f Teacher Education and Mr Buggie, director general o f education who both refused to discuss the case. There w ill b e a p u b lic m eeting on th e fr o n t law n a t M a cquarie U n iv e rs ity on W ednesday 2 7 th m arch a t 1.00 pm an d a d e m o n s tra tio n o u ts id e th e d e p a rtm e n t o f e d u c a tio n b u ild in g a t 3 .0 0 p m on fr id a y 2 9 th m a rch as th is is n o w th e o n ly w a y t o fig h t th e decision.

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Cottages &cobwebs HE NSW department o f ed­ ucation is dead as a dodo. The individual needs o f children are becom ing less likely to be met in a system which is spawning ever bigger schools run b y ambitious men w ho are further and further from the realities and needs o f the consumers o f education. A t a time when the world as a whole recognises that it can no longer take an insular view o f education, the NSW department o f education continues to ignore the experience o f practitioners, world research and opinion.

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One o f the worst things about the NSW education system is that great numbers o f kids in the sys­ tem simply dont learn to read and write properly. This is m ost obvi­ ous in the inner city o f Sydney, and increasing numbers o f people are alarmed . . . teachers . . . com ­ munity . . . educationists, and are finding out just how frustrating it can be trying to d o something about it. A year ago, a teaching member o f the Community Education Al­ liance began working up an idea she had o f a fundamentally new attack on the retarded outcom es suffered b y kids in the inner city, and came up with the Cottage School. The idea is to put 60 kids and three teachers in a large house, a non-alien, non-institutdonal environment, which be­ comes an integrated part o f the com m unity and o f the kids real life. The program involves getting kids ou t o f school as much as possible (a small bus is part o f the plan) and using com m unity facili­ ties, libraries, parks etc, to the utmost. It would be com pletely based on practical activities. Par­ ents and com m unity members would also take part. Besides plan­ ning for lunchtime meals, break­ fast and dinner would be provided fo r those kids who get their own meals at these times. Thinking that the philosophy, and the generous monetary grants o f the Karmel report would help reinforce the spirit o f the experi­

ment, the Cottage School concept was presented to the department o f education as an innovation within the state system, eligible fo r funding under the provisions o f the schools commission. It was knocked back first by the director o f primary education, Doug Swan, w ho somewhere or other got the reputation for being educationally progressive. The main point made was that there was no point in trying to discuss issues raised in the submission, because it would not be accept­ able to the NSW Teachers Federa­ tion in terms o f the comm unity involvement planned. Kay Ewin, w ho put it together, and is heading the team in the fight, to o k it to the union and got their total support fo r the school. The federation wrote to the de­ partment to urge that it be imple­ mented in february 1974. Back it went to the department, and the real hangups started b e­ com ing apparent. Three teachers working together as a team, organ­ ising a school by consensus, no headmaster? A bus? Since there arent already any buses belonging to schools there was n o system to file them under. And what would

you d o about insurance? The p ro­ posal included having the school annually funded and allowing it to spend its own m oney as it saw fit. They didnt even get to discuss that one. It’ s futile to argue with the department o f education on points o f educational philosophy. It gives no evidence o f having any. How can they comprehend the needs o f the individual child when they plan and construct schools which have 17 3rd grades. (That means 600 nine year old kids in one school, along with other grades o f similar splendid propor­ tions. Marvellous place for a child to discover a sense o f his ow n individuality and w orth.) Talk about flexibility, divers­ ity, education and schooling not necessarily being the same thing, they dont want to know. The little cogs in that constipated, self-absorbed machine care only to preserve and expand their ow n jobs. The schools are a rationale which allows them to continue planning ever larger buildings with more amd more machinery to process even larger numbers o f kids. | — |

Involuntary dullards G ILLY COOTE HILE 1000 teachers in Syd­ ney went on strike because o f the education department’ s staff ratio game, in the sooty foothills o f dow ntow n Lithgow where most o f the kids leave school after fourth form to work in the mines - a strange tale emerged. A t the beginning o f this school year, Lithgow high school had seven “ mainstream” first form classes and tw o “ general activity” classes for slow learners. However, when it was discovered that there were fou r students to o few to justify the seventh mainstream class, eight hapless kids were deft­ ly transferred into GA class. Thus there were six mainstream classes instead o f seven, and one teacher

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was reduced to support status. The teachers were very cross and held a three day strike, which was very bold action fo r Lithgow. Enter the director o f education for western districts with this sug­ gestion: Transfer another 16 pupils from mainstream to GA. There then would be enough numbers to form a third GA class . . . with its own teacher. We are left with six mainstream classes and three GA classes and 24 bewildered pawns o f the system who will in future be classed as slow learners . . . all in the name o f staff ratios. Lithgow teachers are mulling over the proposal and will prob­ ably accept it.

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An editorial o f the Townsville Daily bulletin said that PAC action “ is an intolerable assault upon the rule o f law in an ordered society. It is part o f a wider picture o f erosion o f respect for the law and contempt for tradi­ tional political processes as means o f reforming the law” . The editorial linked this action with “ street m obs trampling on the rights o f other citizens” and listed violence which has occurred in trade unions, smoke bombs in the Melbourne GPO, fire bombs in Liberal party offices, vandalism in the Sydney stock exchange, de­ struction o f property at building sites and last year’s Ford riots". The result, said the Daily bul­ letin, “ is a progressive weakening o f the social fabric, a decline in discipline, an acceleration o f moral declension, a breeding o f rebellion, and an undermining o f those essential pillars o f a strong society, hom e and family life” . The Bulletin warned that these students “ have aimed one further destructive blow at civilised soci­ ety in this country” . The PAC started actively in 1972 when Barry York, Brian Pola, R od Taylor and Fergus Robinson were released from Pentridge after six weeks jail for contempt o f court follow ing dem ­ onstrations at La Trobe univers­ ity. York says they were arrested and imprisoned under a Writ o f Attachment, an archaic British legal process which allows indefin­ ite imprisonment without a hear­ ing, trial, or recourse to appeal they were just snatched o ff the street and put away. They were released on august 4, 1972, after the vice-chancellor appealed to court on their behalf following student agitation at La Trobe. York says that going to Pent­ ridge opened their eyes. After their release they began agitating for sweeping prison reform. Until recently, their activities have been largely unpublicised by the media - even underground papers. A lso ignored has been the harassment o f the PAC members by authorities. Y ork says that one night two carloads o f warders, armed with nightsticks the size o f baseball bats, chased them away from pris­ on walls. One PAC member's car carries a dent caused by a nightstick which missed flesh. Amongst its activities, the PAC works to establish legal aid ser­ vices, seeks out injustices inside the prison and then publicises them, and hands out assistance cards to visiting relations and friends o f convicts. The PAC got 22 calls for assist­ ance in three days after handing out cards recently. The PAC says that the high­ light o f its activities has been to force social welfare minister Houghton to act on penal reform. The impending dem olition o f C division, which has been co n ­ demned for the past 40 years, is a big step forward. But C division has not been pulled dow n yet - the Builders Laborers Federation has said that no dem olition can take place until prisoners are signed up b y the union and receive union rates o f approximately $110 a week as opposed to their current rate o f 60 cents a day. So Houghton, his back against the wall, has made his attack on the PAC. What will be the outcom e? Imprisonment o f PAC members, savage rioting or penal reform? I 1

HE NOTE o f panic in international m oney circles is becom ing increas­ ingly shrill. “ Many economists admit that they are at a loss to see how global inflation can be halted,” says N ew sw eek in its current issue devoted to the “ global curse” . “ I cannot logically dispute the view” , says one o f its authoritative sources, “ that the natural consequence o f the present process is a global price surge that causes all confidence to collapse, investment in production tools to shrink in favor o f gold or fo o d and the birth o f a hideous world depression.” No wonder everyone is girding them­ selves for full immersion in The great Gatsby, clutching unconsciously at a gaudy past before the future runs them down. But before you sell the BHP check out the other side o f futuri “ A world wide depression is prii fabrication o f freelance journalist bugs, and financial sensationalist have had a miserable track rec forecasters in the past,” says Pa Samuelson (in the same N ew sw eek). uelson is the man w ho introduced the* whole mystery subject to hundreds and thousands o f students, with his thick, confident textbook, econom ics. A fter years o f piddling po, throwaway texts, this was th American interloper. How sti the book . Nursing its sturdy wandered the campus; so cheerful ridicule o f laissez nonsense “ we can d o anythin] The word depression was used the past tense, and one shared tempt for pre-keynesian dinosaur Now the tables have turned; son and the whole m od school Fixits have their back against Wall strli Their fiscal toolkit is made o f plastic . the trade cycle has broken its pattern . and readers can make their own assess­ ments as to the credibility o f the two schools o f forecast (Depression or Solu­ tion). (A t this stage I wanted to plug the only economist making sense, Milton Friedman, and then pictured all those people at the end o f chillums dozing o ff.)

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OW DO readers feel about the future, intuitively, deep down, without reference to trendy political par­ roting or psyched out guruism? Uncer­ tainty upon a bedrock o f confidence (itself on a bedrock o f uncertainty — but o f a more general sense)?

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The uncertainty, we understand, but wherefrom the confidence? Because for people in their late 20s and earlyish 30s, while there have been crises without end, there have also been solutions without global catastrophe. For white wellfed westerners, who managed to escape drafts and car accidents, life in general has been merely a series o f experts crying wolf. (Yes, there have been personal horror trips and subjectiVe evolutionary demands upon these postwar softies, but we are looking at an objective material situation.) ' ' ' Suez. Bang bang, Ming trips to Cairo. War? Y ep F ^ G T Sigh o f re 1ief. F o r' m£ n y / tm ssvtu ati o n has continually repeated itself . . . through Mid East^uphedvalss'. . v a ssi»fffl| b n s . . . mis­ sile crises (when Bob Ellis stole a car and sped to Bourke) . . so now t|iey believe that every cloud, if not stfvefthned, has a hollow centre The resulting ab(s< made the antics of interesting than tionalities o f it:

to fortunate Meanwhile, the middle class stock up on quite absurd species o f foreign snob dogs. Large, spoilt clots w h o fart, and are addicted to Pal. One day I will acquire a dingo, whose com bat speciality is the snappy breaking o f its oppon en t’s neck, and watch with delight as it clears the street o f upper class bluebloods. * * * HEN IS NSW justice minister Mad­ dison going to be locked in his own gruesome punishment cell? The indict­ ment o f the nine warders o f Long Bay

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vindicates the critics, prisoners and action groups alike. Whatever the findings o f the NSW commission into crime — and how odd they seem to some — the prisons department is one major coverup, from cop to top. It was recently pointed out in a letter to the Australian, that Mr Maddison had been warned o f the inevitability o f vio­ lence at Bathurst on several occasions . . . to what avail? When will politicians real­ ise that what is needed is not new prisons but new ideas? I to assume (as » done so in an earlier colum n), that ( the negative taxation would be without strings. Ever since the announcement, federal labor minister Clyde Cameron has been lashing out at layabouts. “ I want to get rid o f slackers who are on unem­ ploym ent benefits and just w on ’t w ork.” He is a staunch ally to The bulletin, which has been campaigning furiously against the “ dole scandal” (while its star columnist, David McNicoll campaigns for a giant memorial to captain Bligh (true). Well, you slackers out there, hang on. Y ou ’ re doing a lot less harm than people ‘w ork” for a living - slowly twisting ;ards out o f the earth, alienating >m others and dying o f Yet it’s a drag to be the weekly hassle o f dole it aint exactly recommendrou’re a bum on a queue, at least there’s no blood

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ENS movement has raised ndards o f literacy. Former Secretarial types are exploring o f subjugation with billowing e . . . and in so doing are producay’s finest journalism, as well as g the stodgy rhetorical prose o f men behind. Womens poetry is also becoming dead­ ly and unanswerable, fusing brilliantly the personal and political. Which brings me to Robin Morgan, certainly today’s major living poet, whose book Monster is out­ lawed in Canada, UK and Australia. Published last year in the US by Random House, Monster was immediate­ ly pounced on by the “ bonded together international patriarchy” and has received little recognition. It can probably be tracked down by the tenacious book browser . . . the effort will reward with its almost unbearable revelations o f the in­ nards o f the movement and fill your head with the kind o f poetry so alive that it w on ’t ever leave you alone.

Canberra cackle: Snippets from Hansard MUNGO MacCALLUM OU’ D think that the second session o f the 28th parlia­ ment of the com m onwealth (whoops, Australia) could manage something simple, like announcing the date o f the senate elections without everything getting bugger­ ed up. Well, no, I suppose you probably wouldnt, and y o u ’ d be right. Shortly before 5 pm on thursday the prime minister rose rather ponderously to his feet in the house o f representatives to tell the honorable members (many o f them understandably worn hag­ gard by three days in Canberra deciding by how much they want­ ed their salaries raised) that the senate elections would be held, as everyone had guessed, on may 18. He also mentioned that there would be four referendums held on the same day, and sat down, with the air o f a man w ho had done his job. The trendy leader o f the o p ­ position, Billy (call me Bill) Sned­ den then rose to pour shit on the referendums; and the next four and a half hours, including dinner break, were spent mainly on argu­ ing about whether Snedden was strictly within his rights in at­ tempting to make a statement pouring shit on the referendums. At about 9.10 pm, by which

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time a lo t o f members had left Canberra for the weekend, and after two deputy speakers had tried to straighten things ou t and one member had been ejected, the Labor party’s majority decided that Snedden was not to be allow­ ed to pour shit on the referen­ dums - in spite o f the fact that both he and the Country party leader, Balding Doug Anthony, had used the intervening time to d o so. So much fo r the pressure o f legislation. *

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BUT A T LEAST it kept the other running battle out o f the way, the other running battle being about which parties and which honor­ able members were racist. The peg things were hung on was the visit to Australia o f the president o f Tanzania, Dr Julius Nyerere; and the discussions opened b y tuesday with John (Carpets) McLeay o f South Australia asking Whitlam whether he’d ask Nyerere to re­ lease what McLeay described as the “ thousands o f political prison­ ers” held in Tanzania. Whitlam said: “ I must confess that the honorable member's interest in Tanzania and other African cou n ­ tries has never flagged since he was a guest o f Ian Smith three years ago.” McLeay said he wasnt a guest o f Ian Smith: Whitlam, according

to Hansard, said, "O h .” McLeay said that Whitlam had implied that som eone had paid his fare, and Whitlam said he couldnt prove it, but it was an amazing coincidence that so many opposi­ tion members had gone to R h o­ desia at that time, which was where things died. That night McLeay said that he and an unspecified number o f un­ specified members o f the opposi­ tion would b o y co tt Wednesday’s lunch fo r Nyerere; although it was rather difficult to find anyone who was prepared to say that they were doing it because o f Nyerere’ s policies. In fact, after the lunch, McLeay himself (in what could be described as a slightly unruly at­ mosphere) went back to it, and had another rather inconclusive fight with Whitlam. But the com pounding o f the problem came when the opposi­ tion thoughtfully moved an urgency debate on the govern­ ment’ s immigration policy, during which some, at least, o f the Libs protested a fraction to o much. Some, on the other hand, didnt, like Mr B ob King (CP, V ic) who mentioned in his address: “ The A ge o f September 15, 1973, carried this headline: ‘The future for Australia is black or multi­ colored - if our people dont realise it and stop Mr Grassby’ s enthusiasm fo r colored immi­

grants.’ Where will we finish if we adopt this approach? The last headline which I wish to quote appeared in the Age o f january 22, 1974. It reads, ‘ D oor Open for US Negroes’. This is a very serious situation . . . I wonder just where we are moving.” It was no doubt this attitude which led the labor minister Clyde Cameron to accuse opposi­ tion speakers o f racism; a charge which they predictably denied, though without - given the debate, the speeches, the week and the cir­ cumstances — a lot o f conviction. A final note from the senate, the senior house: on tuesday, sen­ ator Ivor Greenwood got a reply to a question about Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe, which he put on notice some time ago, the minister for foreign affairs, Don Willesee, started his reply by saying: “ While I appreciate senator Greenw ood’ s continued interest in the illegal regime whose guest he was in 1 9 7 0 ...” The next day Ivor put in an indignant notice o f m otion com ­ plaining about “ offensive or in­ sulting comments” about senators asking questions: which has to be some sort o f breakthrough. At least he now presumably admits that being accused o f being a supporter o f the Smith regime is an insult. ,____

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Chip, chip, chipping away... Has prince Philip become a radical? If not then why is he telling conservationists to disrupt a conference attended by respectable forestere? TOM MAY reports

HIS WEEK the forestry lo b ­ b y ’ s rally — the Forw ood Conference - is being held in Canberra. Planned since 1969, the con ­ ference’s full title is “ The Fores­ try and Wood-based Industries De­ velopment Conference” and from it local and foreign timber produc­ tion interests hope to set up what’s called the “ Australian Production Forestry Plan” . The conference has been chief­ ly organised by the Australian Forestry Council, formally a group made up o f state and fed­ eral ministers whose portfolios re­ late to forestry. (Now ministers com e and go but public servants go on forever and the real impetus behind the council is its standing comm ittee made up o f the public servants who head state and com­ monwealth forestry departments. A powerful political lobby backed by forestry interests from government and business sectors has developed. Until recently this pressure group was rampaging through the forests virtually un­ checked, promoting its goals with almost religious fervor. However, recently the lobby has run into some snags. Prince Philip, president o f the Australian Conservation Foundation, has urged a b oy cott and has gone as far as to advise Australian environ­ mentalists to disrupt the confer­ ence. Also the National Parks As­ sociation o f NSW, a community organisation nominally involved in organising the conference, has pulled o u t What’s all the fuss really about? For over 100 years for­ esters have taken saw logs from

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the country’ s timbered areas. Their logging was selective and as a rule was based on obtaining an indefinite yield from the forests. Such an approach saw the total eradication o f the Australian cedar from the eastern seaboard. This tree has now virtually vanish­ ed. Independent scientists are now revealing that the foresters simply dont know the real effects o f

what they are doing. Despite the denial o f vested forestry interests serious erosion has resulted from the massive w oodch ip projects in several states. The nutrient losses are due to run-off in cleared areas which n ot only permanently re­ duces the fertility but pollutes water courses by over fertilising the streams. A lso tens o f thousands o f acres o f Western Australia jarrah forests

are affected by the deadly “ dieback” disease - a fungus called phytophthora cinnamon. There is no known cure fo r this disease other than killing the forests, fum­ igating the soil and trying to start again. Unfortunately the disease can be carried on the wheels o f ve­ hicles, and also picked up on footwear. So as the woodchippers make inroads into virgin forest

Will Donny Dunstan get away with it? HERE is always a danger, even in so called dem oc­ racies, that a government ruling with a large, secure majority, will attempt things that would not be considered if its situation were more tenuous. Simply: a govern­ ment which feels no danger o f overthrow will try to get away with moves which may be ques­ tionable. No one has ever called Don Dunstan a dictator as such, though Steele Hall did call him arrogant last week; with good reason. It seems likely Dunstan has held office long enough and securely enough to try to impose on South Australia some things he thinks it should have. Witness the Hackney highrise redevelopment, thrown out by local residents but only after a long fight; the trade and tourism office in Sydney, established with taxpayers money but with only Dunstan’s authority; the North Haven housing development, for which special legislation was pass­ ed - legislation allowing the de­ velopers o f North Haven to leave less open space than allowable

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anywhere else in metropolitan Adelaide. And now the subject o f Steele Hall’s remark: media control. Early in the week Dunstan an­ nounced he was planning to estab­ lish direct lines to all Adelaide radio and television stations. To give the public the maximum chance o f being inform ed o f gov­ ernment measures, actions and policies, he said. Also, in the government offices, there would be monitoring devices so that Dunstan’s lackeys could gauge how their information was being treated and adjudge from that what was the government’s public image. The state opposition, moving its collective ass for the first time in quite a while, protested that taxpayers m oney was to be used to set up machinery which could be used for party-political pur­ poses. Add to that, government press secretaries protested to Dunstan that his plan looked t o o much like media control and could kill o b ­ jective reporting. Armed with these arguments,

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and, unfortunately, none o f her own, TDT reporter Elizabeth D oyle questioned Dunstan on the matter. Could, fo r instance, the direct lines be used to advantage by the ALP at election times, she queried. For a while Dunstan dodged politely. But D oyle per­ sisted bravely until the busy Mr D. could take it no more. He turned on the reporter, accused her o f conducting a hostile interview and said he didnt have to take that kind o f shit, or words to that effect. Next night TDT had him on again, this time talking with their state political man, Mike Drewer, who tried to defend his program (and employer). Dunstan protest­ ed that Ms Doyle had been rude and unfair, and unobjective. Then the famous thespian premier stat­ ed that he was always as accessible for the media as possible, explain­ ing that sometimes he was just too busy with matters o f state to appear on television. Fair, but any Adelaide reporter will tell y o u just how Dunstan’ s accessibility has decreased the longer he’ s stayed in office. More and more d o secretar-

ies take responsibility for his com ­ ments, less and less does the great man throw the media a crumb o f his speech. A day or so later Dunstan announced, through a secretary, that he was going on an eight week european tour, to include an inspection o f tourist town devel­ opments in the south o f France. The Australian, obviously having just a smidgin o f fun, said he was o ff to d o some work on the Riviera (ho, ho). That sort o f attitude, but at least pointing out it was work. Then the same paper ran a brief but complimentary editorial under the rather unneces­ sary title “ le big perk” . Dunstan, through a secretary, complained to the editor o f the Australian. That editor directed his Adelaide staff that another story should be written, not including the word “ Riviera” . In other words, that piece o f news was all right only so long as it was written the way Dunstan wanted it. It’ s a pity it was Steele Hall who said Dunstan was arrogant: more people might have believed it if it was someone else.

areas they carry the disease in with them The intensity o f w o o d ­ chip activities is such that 50 percent o f an area can be com ­ pacted and disturbed. What a great public transport system for the disease fungus! And what a fungus! I f it gets sick o f travelling by land it spreads by travelling in rain run-off and in water courses. Dr Dick Jones from the botany department o f the University o f Tasmania told a parliamentary in­ vestigation comm ittee that forests in his state could now be facing a serious outbreak o f this devastatingly effective forest destroyer. Victoria has had a bad dose o f the disease and it is now spreading into the Eden w oodch ip area o f NSW. If you feel like an exercise in futility ask the NSW forestry com ­ mission to give you details o f the extent o f the outbreak and to tell you what research has been done. Other issues: the native trees that have fallen to the axe and the power saw are being replaced with soft woods, pine trees . . . sub­ sidised by your taxes. Fauna can­ not live in pine forests, the needles that cover the forest's floor kills other plant life thus making it a graveyard. A dd to this the destruction o f our remaining tropical, sub tropical and tem­ perate rain forests.

WOODCHIPS are shredded trees - small fragments o f timber. They are an early stage in the conver­ sion o f w ood to pulp for the manufacture o f paper and card­ board. Opponents o f the forestry lo b ­ by recognise that there is a g ood case to produce w oodchips from plantations o f eucalypts fo r Aus­ tralia’ s own needs and that also that softw ood is needed fo r a sensible level o f consum ption o f pulp products. What they really object to is the destruction o f the remaining 87 million acres o f na­ tive forests to supply the Japanese export market. Still, the forestry lobby is not having it all its own way. Around Australia foresters who dont agree with the present exploitive ap­ proach o f their bosses are starting to revolt. Independent experts are researching the environmental and econom ic affects o f current and planned activities. And despite terrific odds environmental organ­ isations are winning victories — even in the darkest north the Cape York Conservation Council, the Wildlife Preservation Society o f Queensland and other greenies stopped a proposed w oodchip plant at Cairns which threatened local rain forests with destruction. The Australian government are going to hold an open inde­ pendent public inquiry into exist­ ing forestry policy and practices, and into the future o f Australia’ s forests.

The Adelaide Fest of Yawns

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p op stars and actors revolve on a card­ board stage. H o h o boys, what about the imagery? No, there are even sillier things yet to note, and they will be noted. Such as the official opening. It’s dow n in the grounds o f the Adelaide university, where a bunch o f organisers and official guests are on a rostrum in front o f a lot o f people w h o own lots o f m oney or at least know the stuff intimately. On stage there are writers from South Africa, Thailand, Italy, Australia and other places too. Professor Colin Horne introduces them, saying he w on ’t be able to pro­ nounce the names o f our asian neighbors. Professor G eoffrey Blainey, chairman o f the literature board, talked, and told the audience that writers should be continued to be supported b y the state. Immediate­ ly the hearts o f the writers on grants soared like a bunch o f eagles. The opening drags on. Don Dunstan has appeared in a guru-white safari suit, and everybody wants to know his launderer. He strides across the lawn alon e There are ways to stride across a lawn alone, and he puts everything in to it with such ease so that you kn ow there is ultimately no other way to stride across such a lawn. And afterwards a party at a

house donated to the National Trust. This consists o f people with m oney getting to know writers and appearing interested. O f writers talking to people on the literature board without being offensive, or writers talking to publishers without being of­ fensive, or publishers talking to writers and literature board members without being offensive and generally everybody being inoffensive and keeping all manner o f options open, or at least unclosed. After the state government/arts fes­ tival? National Trust beer is turned o ff (they still know how to stop a party), some journey to view the work o f the alternative festival. This, as I keep on reading through the week is a group o f loosely knit artists known as the Raga Arts Co-op. Their manifesto says in precis the festival isnt for the people, so theirs is. There is to be a folk show at Norwood, a suburb, in a baptist hall. But it’s not there. After a paper chase the venue is found. It has been changed because the baptist minister with sayso didnt like them. Not what they stood for . . . to o decadent and so on. The evening arranged by Raga director

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R ob Tilbet is enjoyable with folkies like Stephen Foster and after that we all fall down and sleep. On monday the festival people give me tickets to see things and are very nice about it all. I like nice people. I am given an honorary membership to something called the festival club, a place in the ritzy Hotel Australia where you can drink grog till 1.30 am. I am allowed to take one guest. Trouble is no one else I know gets one. For instance none o f the locally invited writers to the festival. This I guess, and it’s only a guess because I couldnt be fagged asking, dates to last festival when the American poets Gins­ berg & Ferlinghetti and their mates used it as a meeting place & probably look ed & sounded damn scruffy. In fact out o f all the invited people to this festival the writers are the scruffiest They wear jeans and things. In fact I go to the club one night and check it out and find only well dressed & well behaved

David Cassidy appearing at Memorial drive. Now isnt that crazy. people, probably actors and people with money. I guess the writers are being kept away. The next day when I see the festival people again I am given another festival club honorary membership card, so I give it away. All afternoon there are lectures by writers including an expatriate rave by Sumner-Lock Elliot (New York novelist), Peter Porter (English poet) and Randolph Stow (librettist/novelist etc). Visiting Melbourne person Peter O. from Fitzroy (editor o f the magazine F itzrot) jumps down Peter Porter’s throat not literally and screams about British imperialism. I dont like the redcoats either but figure it’s time to leave. And that night it’ s a choice between B. B. King and a young p oet’s reading. Foolishly I choose the latter. At least it was a demonstration o f how abysmal poetry could be. Visiting novelists Barry Oakley, Michael Wilding and Peter Mathers are there trying to like it, but decide beer is far better. John Updike is there (you know Martha, he wrote Couples and it’ s very sexy) but found he had to leave. The interstate novelists return a little out o f it and for the rest o f the evening, the unzipping o f cans is probably the cultural highlight. The poetry is that incredibly sensitive sort - the youth cries out in angst stuff . . . yawn. However, someone called John Peter Horsam was good. * * * TUESDAY there are more lectures by writers in the lecture theatre. The high­ light though seems to be the John Updike lecture this night at the very pretty Festival theatre com plex. According to rumors his original speech was going to be on the incidence o f fellatio in the Ameri­ can novel - an engaging topic. However according to further rumors the festival organisers hadnt liked this idea and he’d changed it to sex and the American novel. But what appeared in the program, was Why write - a personal view. Naturally persons think this is a ruse to disguise the dirty stuff and he's really going to turn it on. N ow a bit has been written about the new festival centre — about how it cost so much less than the Sydney whatsitsname and took far less time to build and was better anyway. It’ s just a theatre. It’s okay but nothing special. Red carpet, grey cem ent bricks, glass doors, reason­ able chairs, chintzy ashtrays etcetera, and toilets, bars, restaurant and what all. This is where J. Updike speaks. It’ s a cold night and we head fo r the theatre, nesding there near the banks o f the Torrens, across that river from Mem­ orial Park tennis courts where John Newcom be starred so well. Apparendy he’ s done a lot fo r Australia overseas. It is said you only have to carry a tennis racquet over there, wear a sweat band on your wrist and speak in an o z drawl and you travel on the airlines fo r zilch. And o f course next to that is the Adelaide oval where Graeme Pollock cracked three big Page 8 — THE L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S — march

The Advertiser each day is writing about w hat color dresses the wives have been w earing, with whom they were staying and where, and where they went and with whom. Interesting. Necklaces, chiffons, lace, florals. sixes from the one over just a few years ago. He was in the South African cricket team, and there are South African writers here this time, one o f them, Oswald Mtshali, is black. T o press on. Walking across the grass we com e across the Raga tent, where some o f the alternative festival “ happenings" are to “ happen” . In the shadow o f the grandi­ osely lit festival theatre, the culturally lit Torrens, the Raga tent is in darkness. The tw obit generator has given out, and a minor poetry reading is being conducted a few feet away. It’ s nippy and persons are listening wrapped in blankets. Across the river, a chant rises in the air, a massed vocal appeal b y thousands o f high pitched girl-type voices, the cry, chant (call it what you will) fo r “ David” . Christ Almighty what’ s this “ David David David David David David” . I mean what is it, what is it, what is it? It is puzzling enormously. Som eone says that’s David Cassidy and b y gosh th ey are right. David Cassidy appearing at Memorial drive. N ow isnt that crazy. We walk away from the poetry reading, the 20 or so people huddled there listening towards the theatre as Cassidy’s band warms up to the screams, and his voice flies across the river. At the theatre there is a video set up and Margaret Whitlam is on the several screens. Inside the theatre John Updike is saying w hy write to a full house. Just picture all that. There must be a cultural statement there somewhere. Only Phar Lap and Graham Kennedy and Angela Davis were missing. I’m telling you that was it. It. The Big One, the one and only time there was a generous total fusion o f the cultural energies o f the universe, and standing there in the middle o f it all I got hit b y it. Hit so hard it was time for a drink, so w e gave Updike a miss, deciding to read the speech tran­ script in the morning and went drinking. Later on I caught a bit o f him. It was a reactionary plot you know. He didnt mention sex or Y-fronts or anything. Just why write. On stage as a panel were Barry Oakley & Peter Mathers w h o’d been dragged away from steaks & clarets to provide a panel, looking, if not feeling, as if they’d rather be elsewhere. At the end o f the speech Peter Mathers was roused from his slump and asked i f he wished to ask the first question. He said no, not right now thanks and in fact never did.

Only Phar Lap and Graham Kennedy and Angela Davis were missing. He has since fou n d fam e as the only man who didnt ask John Updike a question, which is better than no notoriety at all. * * * I SUPPOSE it’s at this point, or even before, I could launch into a history o f the festival. Started in 1960 or so, this is the biggest & greatest & largest & all that. I could have checked up from the festival statistician but couldnt be fagged again. I know the taxi drivers as a rule think it’ s a load o f shit because they keep telling me. Except fo r one w h o has been to opera around the world and wouldnt let m e out until I agreed he was very cultured. I know there is more traffic & people on the streets than normal, that it’ s hard to get a motel because most o f them are booked months in advance fo r this. That there are hundreds o f festival attractions — dance, mime, song, poetry, opera, music (classical, blues, jazz etc, etc, etc.) and paintings. Other things about the festival. . . well the decorations in the street, the dogs under your feet and kids collecting bottletops. The way the celebrities (John Updike etc.) walk around tow n and you can see them, perhaps touch them if you can get away with it. I stood next to John Updike about a dozen times one day, at least. I remained cool. I didnt even notice him. There was a touch o f “ streaking” (is that art?) at the festival, although not the 26-april 1, 1974

real hard thing. A bunch o f kids with fig leaves. Som eone from up the River Mur­ ray wrote a letter to the Advertiser saying streakers should be flogged (is that art?) but letters to the editor writers in A de­ laide have a habit o f suggesting things like that. The Advertiser is the sort o f paper old wom en read at the breakfast table, looking fo r the latest deaths, with a stack o f bereavement cards at hand. Hoping they w on ’t, but sort o f hoping they will. * * * THE NEXT day there are openings and closings all over the place in theatre,

“Mr Updike I’ve read yr book & yr my favorite next to the Valley of the dolls & the Ballad of the green beret”. “T h atw asn ta book.” “Well they had a film of it.” opera and whatever else and people are writing to newspapers demanding the festival should be for the people. Social commentators enjoying themselves at the festival reply that if the fo o ty grounds have poetry, then the festival will turn on the beer and cheesecake and have Ernie Sigley as a guest. This is fairly stupid because half the festival people are soused to the eyeballs anyway. The alternative festival has been run­ ning into trouble. N ot enough money, generator trouble, audience trouble, venue trouble. Organiser R o b Tilbet says the baptist church think they are the anti Christ, having seen the title The great beast 666 as one o f the proposed shows. I have gone to see Nancy Cole in Gertrude Stein's Gertrude Stein, and it is a good show. However the audience is amazing. The majority are ladies into the three score years - perhaps Gertrude’ s contemporaries, as a friend noted. In the SA art gallery, which they charge 50 cents to enter (the place is about as large as a picture theatre), are the Sidney Nolan, Ern Malley drawings. There is a big fuss over Ern Malley at this festival. It was a great poetry hoax in the 40s and Adelaide Bookseller Max Harris published the poems in Angry Penguins, and a lot o f people laughed. N ow he’ s trying to have the last laugh, it seems, but people are ignoring it. * * * PERSONALITIES: Everyone has either been, is here, or is com ing. Whitlam, Dunstan (well he lives here, and he’ s performing in a show at the zoo, but I can’t see m yself being there), R ex Crampthorne (directing), famous writers, actors, guests, critics, dramatists. The Advertiser each day is writing about what color dresses the wives have been wearing, with whom they were staying and where, and where they went and with whom. Inter­ esting. Necklaces, chiffons, lace, florals. *

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I THINK it was thursday, although it could have been friday, that Mungo MacCallum gave a talk on journalism with som eone from the Advertiser. He tells G orton 8c McMahon jokes not everyone has heard before. It is amazing how many Nation review writers are in the audience. They ask questions seemingly unrelated to any­ thing. The audience again is mainly women, and not young. Mungo’ s theory fo r this phenom enon has to d o with the form er Playford government and any bedroom laws he might have passed. Most o f this type o f audience is particularly fascist. But this is what the festival is about folks. The afternoon sees poet Vincent Buck­ ley & novelist Michael Wilding discussing criticism. It is in this talk that the politic o f the audience is most noticeable. One woman suggests that Australian poets should be sent to underdeveloped (p oor)

countries to study hardship. With lots o f experience under their belts they can return and pen mighty poems about suffering. Buckley &Wilding give this one the thumbs down, if a little numb from the question. Another woman says a load o f writers and artists are imprisoned in Indonesia. She says this is bad, especially for artists as it is okay for workers to be there, they knowing how to work hard, artists being delicate ethereal creatures. Wilding is too shocked to speak, the audience applauds the stand o f their mem­ ber. Another woman says the duke o f Edinburgh was wrong when he said the world would be better when everyone had tertiary education. She didnt think so. I cannot stand it any longer and scream out that he has never been right about anything. So this is what the festival core is a b ou t Royalists, fascists. Next festival they’ll probably invite Jackie Susanne: “ Mr Updike I’ve read yr b o o k & yr my favorite next to the Valley o f the dolls & the Ballad o f the green b e r e t” “ That wasnt a b o o k .” “ Well they had a film o f it.” 1e rk * THE Raga arts co-op have a show on friday where Nadine Gordimer spoke about racist South Africa. I dont know if John McLeay MHR was in the audience, but I guess most o f his friends were. But the Raga show: Sydney filmmaker Martyn Fabinyi has a video show with a Sydney stripper, whom he films mastur­ bating with a beer bottle. It was suggested

Meanwhile the South Australian Writers Fellow ship is having a show for visiting writers. It consists of women who write short stories for W omans day and the public service board magazine, and people who recite the works of Cohn Theile. the act didnt have class. Should have been a Jack Daniels bottle. Still, the vice squad is there and bust Martin & friend. She did the act behind a screen, but apparently, because o f the lights, the show is shad­ ow-played on the walls o f the Raga tent for passersby. Lots o f fun. Meanwhile the South Australian Writers Fellowship is having a show for visiting writers. It consists o f women who write short stories for Womans day and the public service board magazine, and people w ho recite the works o f Colin Theile. “ What do you think o f Colin Theile?" “ What’ s a Colin Theile?" “ Y ou know Sun on m y stubble?” “ Is that an illness?” THE NEXT day the Raga people were going to have a re-enactment Of the bust the night before, but fo r some reason the power has been cut off. Who knows what way the Shadow’ s mind works, or what evil etc. Sydney Stripper Gretel was planning a bondage number, playing an arresting policewoman. But no dice, so back to the bar. There is opera that night at the festival theatre and the usuals go. They must be getting very tired. Only one week down and tw o to go. Attendances for Alvin Purple are still running high. No persons have been thrown in the river yet. Visitors are getting used to the Adelaide beer. THERE are o f course dozens o f things I didnt see, couldnt be fagged seeing, didnt know where on etc. I believe a profes­ sional garbologist, doing the bin o f the festival would get some interesting stuff. Icecream wrappers, photographs o f Spiro Agnew, newsletters from South Africa, polished Swastikas etc. But that’s Ade­ laide & goodnight.

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finds West CHASE SANBORN visits the American state of Laos and finds the ninth wonder of the world DECIDED to hob-nob with my fellow countrymen at the American embassy and USAID com pound here in Vientiane. I had not been receiving very good service lately in the town and was fast gaining the opinion that farong, the Laotian name for foreigner, was being more literally translated as nigger b y the local populace and I wanted to know why.

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From the hotel, it is a ten minute walk through dirt streets and the cackling o f chickens to the embassy. Litter and ref­ use are everywhere about and the un­ painted, tin roofed houses and shops on both sides o f the rutted streets are coated with a red dust that jumps into the air with the passing o f each taxi cab and USAID vehicle.

Yet, this is not to say that the people o f this beautiful country are living in poverty. Certainly the laughter o f chil­ dren playing dodgeball in the dirt o f their school yard not tw o blocks away says nothing o f poverty. That man holding his baby above his head in the sunlight and laughing with the love that breaks with the tickling o f ribs from every face the world over, certainly this is not poverty.

But I did not com e here looking for poverty, I came looking for Americans and I found them, too. One can actually hear the power o f the American embassy before the concrete walls o f the surrounding fence swing into sight from around the Laotian houses. The roar o f diesel generators supplying electricity to this, the mightiest embassy

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here, blends with the scratching o f vermin infested dogs in a way that is not at first incongruous. A spider’s web o f radio antennae sprout from the solidly built concrete water tower resembling more an H. G. Wells fantasy than a container for water. And barbed wire runs the circum­ ference with Lao guards at the gate to keep unwanted and unauthorised Lao­ tians out. But I am a farong and can go where I like so I pay the guards no mind and pass on through. I arrived at the USAID restaurant too late fo r the noon time showing o f the NFL game o f the week in 16 mm but I was not bored. The American Women’s Bowling League o f Vientiane had just entered for a quick snack o f french fries and milk shakes before scurrying o ff to their afternoon games. Being a mere three months in the orient, I was surprised to discover that I had already forgotten to what proportions the American buttocks could attain. So I sipped my coffee, admiring these beautiful ladies and silent­ ly thanking them fo r the reminder. The fo o d in this part o f the world is surprisingly nutritious. A breakfast bow l o f Vietnamese soup, com plete with all vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and es­ sential fats, not to mention delicious taste, can be purchased for 25 cents. Sweet and sour pork fo r dinner plus fried rice costs n o more than 75 cents from the local restaurants. However, these foods simply will not sustain the American buttocks. Hence, I could deduce that these wom en rarely subsisted on anything less than American foo d . I was about to make the assertion — show me an American buttock and I will show you an embassy restaurant connois­ seur — when my reveries were shattered by the w h oop and cry o f 35 little girls dressed in leotards w ho came screaming in from the side room fresh from their ballet classes. Many o f them sat down at the red and white checkered table cloths with their mothers and immediately ordered ice cream and cakes. “ What kind o f courses d o you take in school?” I asked one o f the tykes, a bloom ing girl o f 15. “ Oh, maths and geography and Lao and . . “ Y ou speak Lao? Y ou have the oppor­ tunity o f going down to the open air market to buy produce, then. It must be very educational to be able to talk with the Laotian people.” “ Oh, no. I never associate with them. Y ou can’ t eat the food , it’ s so dirty,” she said, restraining a giggle. “ We buy all our fo o d in the commissary.” Now, I couldnt remember seeing the ripe rows o f tomatoes or the snapping green o f garden fresh lettuce o f Vientiane as being any dirtier than produce I had seen on the farm stands o f Salinas or Santa Rosa, California. I pared some o f the grime from beneath a fingernail, ashamed that this rosy-cheeked girl had so easily exposed m y ignorance. From the air conditioned luxury o f the American Community Abroad Club restaurant, I walked past the billiard room and bar for “ club members on ly” , past the swimming p ool fo r “ club mem­ bers on ly” , past the post office, and slipped by the club membership card checker and into the commissary. Dozens o f Americans were busy piling shopping carts with cans and packages o f American food s imported from home. And nearly everything was stamped “ Duty Free” in this air conditioned little supermarket. Enough cartons o f cigarettes and cases o f beer and booze were i n , evidence to

‘There were those crazy communists,watering their gardens and pulling their weeds,actually believing that that is the way to win over the people when the simplest farm er can see that it is the television set and lipstick that makes a country like A m erica great’ support not only another embassy but another black market as well. Cigarettes at $1.80 a carton were stacked along with every type o f packaged and frozen fo o d at prices identical to or lower than those found in the States. I dont understand how the government can transport all that merchandise without raising the price o f the goods. The taxpayers are undoubtedly to blame. The only things locally produced were some anemic-looking limes and wilted carrots that had been carefully washed and wrapped in plastic for to o long a time. Locally baked French bread was also on sale fo r three cents a loa f more. The extra pennies paid fo r the plastic bag that each was wrapped in rather than resorting to the nasty newspaper wrapper that com es free with each lo a f purchased in town. Yes, this is a well named club, for the American Community had most certainly moved abroad. I wanted to see where our USAID people were living here in Laos. I was anxious to see a ninth wonder o f the world located at a place known as K ilo­ meter Six just that distance north o f the city. But there was a garrison o f Pathet Lao soldiers stationed along the way so I stopped there first. Never have I seen such a group o f villains. Ranging from ages perhaps 12 to 35, wearing little green Mao caps and olive-colored uniforms, these ex-terrorists were milling about the dirt o f their yard and I could see that they were up to no g ood — they were watering and weeding the vegetable patch. What’s more, they were doing the work themselves when, for a few pennies, they could hire a Lao to do it fo r them. Now, I can understand simple things like radio com m unication between coun­ tries and the antennae that sprout from our own embassy; or mighty dams o f concrete and steel fo r electricity, airports, automobiles, air conditioners and a hun­ dred other things that America has shown irrevocably that every other country in the world needs, and should have. But there were those crazy communists,

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watering their gardens and pulling their weeds, actually believing that that is the way to win over the people when the simplest farmer can see that it is the television set and lipstick that makes a country like America great. I couldnt stomach such nonsense any longer. Believing that a country is best seen at dirt level, I decided to walk to Kilometer Six but the dust kept ruining the shine on my shoes so I hired a cab. Through the rutted streets we drove, past dogs so sick and vermin infested as to have hardly any hide left on them; past children playing in the black water o f open sewers, skipping rocks and splashing one another; past lily padded fields with water buffalo wallowing mud deep in coolness. I saw peasant wom en walking to the market with produce balanced at tw o ends o f a b am boo splint centred across their shoulders, hips weaving the slow, easy pace o f steps taken between the bouncing o f their cargo. Scattered here and there among the fields or in thick clusters o f strewn papers and excrement stood the houses o f the orient, stilted and thatched to avoid b oth heat and high water, or roofed with rusted tin. My taxi let me out to walk through the rough beauty o f Laos and past the front gate o f Kilometer Six into — Dis­ neyland. My breath came in shallow inhalations o f rest and contentm ent for I was back hom e again. Yes, it was true! Suddenly I was back in America again, an America o f airy beauty and peace. The spacious yards and large houses here are everywhere surrounded with flowers. Tall trees that once lorded it over surrounding jungles, n ow are centre­ pieces in landscapes kept manicured and flawless by a battalion o f Filipino and Lao yard boys. Lao guards dressed in blue walk the streets with their night sticks. And many o f the yards have “ Beware o f Dog” signs on the gate with barking dobermans and bull dogs. Sewage treat­ ment facilities, fire hydrants, paved streets with lights, 22,000 square foot yards, and three and fou r bedroom

houses that can do nothing but advertise the advantages o f being an American are here. I said hello to a Lao man riding by on a bicycle. Immediately, he d offed his hat and with the biggest, cheesiest grin I have seen anywhere outside o f Alabama, said, “ Yes, Suh. Yes, Suh. G ood day to you, Suh.” and rode by grinning. Now that is a man who really appre­ ciates his job. And it’ s no wonder. A com m on laborer in Laos makes 50 to 75 cents a day for such delights as ditch digging and concrete work. This old man and his wife can easily make tw o or even three times that amount working for the Americans. And the work isnt hard either — m ow the lawn, wash the clothes, take care o f the children, sew and cook , iron, d o the dishes, clean the floors, d o all the com m on things that is befitting their station so that the embassy and USAID wom en can have time for such important international matters as ballet classes, bowling leagues, and banana splits. Then, I noticed my dirty shoes and kicked myself for not stopping him while I had the chance. Through the barbed wire separating Laotian life from American prosperity, three snot-nosed Lao children, arms thrown around one another in friendship, watched for many minutes a spic-andspan American b o y playing soccer, all alone, in his yard o f trimmed hedges and smooth grass. “ Hello” , the b o y called out to them with a smile. And they faded back into the bushes without so much as a wave. And the b oy took his ball to the other side o f the house. The school that serves the American children and their parents is identical to any in the States, with clear-eyed teachers dedicated to quality American education, large softball diamonds and playing fields. And behind it, a Teen Club stocked with every conceivable table game, tennis courts and the largest swimming p o o l in the country o f Laos, all for the health and well being o f the children o f our representatives overseas. The Teen Club even owns its own pony although few o f the children are interested in riding it since many o f them have horses o f their own. And like chil­ dren anywhere in the US who have so many material choices, they are bored with the complaint that there is nothing to do in this island paradise. Very curi­ ous. I was always under the belief that money, wealth and power were every­ thing. These kids just dont know when they’re well o ff in their closed com m un­ ity for club members only. On my way back to the hotel, I again stopped o ff at a Pathet Lao encampment and looked over the fence. These enemies o f democracy were playing volleyball and laughing. The ball itself was ragged and dirty, not fit for American fun but good enough for them They stopped their game when they discovered me watching and 30 pairs o f eyes looked directly into mine. I waved and smiled but they did not return the gesture. Instead, I received the looks o f hardened veterans, looks that went far beyond hate, the utterly cold look o f men who are thinking o f no pleasure as sweet as perhaps shooting my American smile into oblivion. It was obvious that they hadnt acquired their prejudice by reading it in books. I wanted to go around that fence, past the machine-gun-armed guard and give them a piece o f my mind. And I would have done it, too, but I remembered that I just had to be at the embassy in time for the billiard tournament. It's air condi­ tioned there, you see, and Laos is so, so hot and dusty. Behind those walls so fancy free where Joe and Bill, Mark and me can live like kings as it should be, in this our very own country — the Ameri­ can state o f Laos.

SWOTUGHTS Inside the mind factories. A weekly round up of student news.

Zionists steamroll AUS Palestine policy SIMON MARGINSON PART from Armidale, La Trobe and perhaps Syd­ ney (where the controversy over the womens studies course in­ volved several hundred people last year) most Australian campuses have been politically dead fo r almost tw o years now. The hardcore leftists - maoists, trotskyites, a couple o f anarchists still exist but are ignored by everyone else; they have spent their time running round in ever decreasing circles o r sitting in pubs lamenting student apathy and middle class complacency. Gone are the endless round o f meetings, demonstrations, occu ­ pations, demands to adminis­ trations and heroic revolutionary gestures. . . And while student bureaucrats whether on campus SRCs or within the Australian Union o f Students - continue to potter around with various little projects and committees, their works some o f it masturbatory and some o f it valuable - is not usually the stuff o f which mass movements are made. Anyway, few students kn ow they exist. People point to the end o f the campus turmoil in the US, the rise o f religion (Divine Light, Hare Krishna, Children o f God, Jesus Freaks, etc.), the ascension o f Gough, dope, whole foods, con r munal living . . . Analysis is legion, and often contradictory; explain­ ing it all on a national scale is probably a futile game to play w ithout a bit o f hindsight. The sociologists can have a got at it in ten years time. I f they d o it will be interesting to see what they make o f the current debate over Palestine. The AUS sponsored motions on the Middle East might be a real turning point — perhaps the start o f a whole generation o f cam­ paigns - or they might be a one shot bummer that everyone (ex­ cept maybe the Palestinians) is going to forget fairly quickly. Right now, it is impossible to say. * * *

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A BIT o f history might at this stage be useful. A t its annual council in january, the AUS passed 11 motions on the Middle East. The main thrust o f these was (i) to “ not recognise the exis­ tence” o f the state o f Israel and NUIS (the Israeli students union), (ii) to recognise the GUPS (General Union o f Palestine Students) and support the forces o f Palestinian liberation, (iii) to open dialogue with Palestinian libration with a view to dissemina­ ting their literature here and (iv) to call for the release o f all im­ prisoned liberationists. AUS council, consisting o f representatives from most tertiary campuses, passed these motions quite clearly but it was decided to send them to each university and CAE for ratification. The decision to take it to the people was im peccably democratic but it had pragmatic value as well. Such a controversial stance could not be taken without a clear mandate (or AUS, which always has c o m munications problems anyway,

might find itself right ou t o f sympathy with the students w ho pay for it). As well as organisa­ tional security, there was the issues to consider as well: taking it to the campuses was felt to be a good way o f starting some sort o f public debate about the Pales­ tinians plight. But there were problems. One was the wording o f the motions, which were hastily drafted. The first seemed to be saying that AUS did not believe Israel was actually there, bringing back memories o f the Liberal party’ s China p olicy; another said that “ AUS supports the liberation forces o f Palestine” , a blanket support which includes the Black September movement. This was not originally intended at all, and AUS president Neil McLean was to spend part o f the next few weeks trying to persuade voters to interpret the m otion in a more limited fashion. He had little success, though it was a better approach than one speaker to o k at last thursday’s M elbourne meet­ ing. Trying to make the error more palatable, he exclaimed: “ When it’s the French against the nazis you call it resistance; when

it’ s Palestinian resistance you call it terrorism.” AUS’s main problem , though, stemmed from its opponents. The p r o -z io n is t je w is h student societies mounted a mighty resis­ tance o f their ow n backed by large amounts o f m oney from Jewish Boards o f Deputies and the like. Their stance was not without its problems, too, fo r there was a split over how much importance to concede the Palestinians. The campaign button Israel Yes, Pales­ tine Yes, terror No angered the Jewish Board o f Deputies in Mel­ bourne - which favors a classic Zionist position denying the exis­ tence o f the refugees. I also hear Arnold Roth, the main jewish student spokesman, was rapped over the knuckles fo r not spending the campaign m oney quickly enough! But despite these hassles, from the outside they appeared to put up a pretty good showing. More leaflets were handed out than, during the heyday o f the moratoria, and student newspaper editors could not cop e with the dozens o f anti-AUS letters.

THEN came the actual campus votes, which started tw o weeks ago and close this week. Already well over half the universities and CAEs have decided and the result has been a total rout for the pro-Palestine AUS position. Mar­ gins o n some o f the m otions in Melbourne and Sydney were close to 10 to 1 against. O f the original 11, a number o f “ even-handed” minor motions have got through, such as one stating that a realistic settlement must accom m odate the rights o f the Palestinians. But none o f the major ones have been accepted. Campuses to com plete voting include Sydney university, Mel­ bourne university, Monash, RMIT and UNSW. Crowds at the meet­ ings have been big — approaching 2000 in Sydney and Melbourne though it was a dismal day at Monash where on ly 600 or so turned up to a poor standard debate. I attended the meeting at Mel­ bourne university last thursday. Approxim ately 1800 people heard a faltering presentation o f the “ Yes” case that helped to confirm com m on expectations that the

motions would be beaten. So, by the end o f this week AUS should have a clear mandate to support Israel and the NUIS! While this policy is personally unacceptable to most o f its executive officers there is no doubt that it will be carried ou t in the obscure realms o f student diplomacy: at the Asian Students Association con feren ce(!) Aus­ tralia will support NUIS m em ­ bership and oppose that o f the General Union o f Palestinian Students. While an all-out campaign on behalf o f the Palestinians is now impossible, National U will probably continue to run some anti-zionist material (possibly alongside pro-zionist articles, which will be a mindfuck for editor Frans Timmerman). A couple o f the “ even-handed” motions that mention Palestine will probably be passed overall and this may be enough o f a mandate for AUS to run a speak­ ing tour by a Palestinian. *

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THE W ATERGATE exposers will soon be in our midst. Washington p ost journalists Bernstein and Woodward - whose brilliantly researched stories started it all — are to tour Australia in july. Details have not been settled but they will appear on campuses in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Armidale and Canberra. The tour is being organised by the Australian, in conjunction with AUS. *

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LA TROBE SRC’s decision to declare the campus a haven for escaped prisoners provoked a classic law-and-order editorial from, o f all things, the Townsville Daily bulletin. It went through the last 10 years o f the protest movement, laying shit on every­ one — the maoists, prisoners action, the anti-conscriptionists, the Ford strikers, secondary students, Jim Cairns, Lance Bar­ nard - and finished up with: “ Mr Pola and his colleagues have aimed one further destructive blow at civilised society in this country.” Well, TDB, that was basically the idea.

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Sydney economics department splits —professors canned

S Y D N E Y E c o n o m ic s F a c u lty is rig h t in to th e mass p ro d u ce d m in d s business . . . a s p lit, p a ra d o x ic a lly , is p ro b a b ly th e o n ly th in g th a t w ill h o ld a n y th in g to g e th e r, as d is s a tis fa c tio n w ith th e course increases.

COMMITTEE set up b y the econom ics faculty has issu­ ed a severe censure o f Sydney uni’ s tw o econom ics professors, Warren Hogan and C. G. F. Simkin, and has recommended bi-sec­ tion o f the econom ics department in order to overcom e staff co n ­ flicts and student dissatisfaction. The explosive report, which runs to 39 singlespaced typed folio pages and nine pages o f appendices, was com piled b y a com m ittee o f five appointed by the econom ics faculty in Septem­ ber last year. The com m ittee re­ ceived submissions from more than half o f the non professorial staff o f the econom ics department w ho were critical o f the present state o f affairs, and none which defended it. The critical submissions includ­ ed one from G. A. J. SimpsonLee, who is dean o f the econom ics faculty. According to SimpsonLee, in the words o f the report “ the tw o professors have over the past few years held consistently to a com m on doctrinal position, al­ though conflicts in matters o f judgment, o f personalities, and o f administration may have some­ times served to conceal this. Given this basic issue o f ‘ belief’ held dogmatically, it is understandable that the department has becom e divided and that talk is n o longer possible in an accepted academic fashion. While it is not impossible for a department o f econom ics to encompass b oth factions, the hard line consistently taken by the tw o professors makes this unlikely in our department o f econom ics.” The report, com pleted in december 1973, came before a meet­ ing o f the econom ics faculty over a fortnight ago. The com m ittee’ s convener, G. P. Mills, o f the ac­ countancy department, moved a m otion in line with the report’s recommendations, that the eco­ nomics department be split in tw o. Many faculty members, h ow ­ ever, felt that they had not had an opportunity to read the report and discussion was postponed to a

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further meeting on april 19. By that time, lobbying will have reached a climax. The dispute in the Sydney eco­ nomics department reaches back at least five years. It came to its first climax at the end o f 1971 when the appointment o f two tutors was not renewed b y Warren Hogan. Since then it has been recurring. On its academic side, the dis­ pute is between those staff mem­ bers, which include Hogan and Simkin, whom the report de­ scribes as favoring “ professional econom ics” and those who are said to favor “ political econ om y” . The “ professional economists” insist that their brand o f eco ­ nomics should be com pulsory for first and second year students, and anything else should be optional. The “ political econ ­ omists” want some o f each type o f econom ics taught in the regular courses. The split doesnt just revolve around the merits o f the brand o f econom ics, as the dean suggests. It revolves, on the staff side, around the freedom to teach. The staff complains about the repression o f views and about personal victimi­ sation. Students complaints are more varied. They say that the Hogan and Simkin courses are boring, overloaded with technicalities and mathematics, and inadequate for their future needs. The Econom ics Society con ­ ducted a questionnaire survey on the courses given and submitted its results to the faculty com ­ mittee, w h o included them in the report. In E conom ics I, 371 students answered the questionnaire. Only fou r percent found the course stimulating, 40 percent found it “ satisfactory” , 42 percent found it “ disappointing” , 18 percent found it boring, and tw o percent made no answers. In Econom ics II, which pre­ sumably contains the survivors o f E conom ics I, nil percent found

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the course “ stimulating” , 25 per­ cent found it “ satisfactory” 51 percent found it “ disappointing” , 32 percent found it “ boring” and tw o percent didnt answer. Other answers to the question­ naire are even more devastating to the present scheme o f things. In September the econom ics students held a “ day o f protest” and circu­ lated proposed new courses drawn up with the aid o f staff members and accommodating both types o f econom ic outlook. Eighty percent o f Econom ics I students said they would prefer the “ day o f protest” courses, as did 85 percent o f Econom ics II students. Disliking the system is one thing, getting a change is quite another. At the recent faculty meeting Warren Hogan challenged the right o f the comm ittee to make a report. He claimed he had never made a submission to it. His colleague Simkin vented his dis­ pleasure in a letter to the co m ­ mittee. The real hurdle, however, is the proposed solution for splitting the department into two. For this step, a head o f department would have to be appointed b y the pro­ fessorial board or senate and, though this isnt inevitable, he would probably have to be given professorial status. This decision is out o f the hands o f the faculty. Moreover, all academic deci­ sions are ultimately made by the professorial board, who would only overrule tw o o f their own kind in an extreme situation. The dispute in the econom ics department, moreover, is being represented by the supporters o f Hogan and Simkin as a dispute between radicals or socialists on the one hand and academically respectable people and (it goes very much without saying) politi­ cally conservative men as well. With law, medicine and engineer­ ing departments being politically conservative, Hogan and Simkin will be given a primary p ool o f votes. | |

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WOTRAGS looks at the (ANU) experience ( TLD 2 /1 1 ) student press each week. indicates. Already another news­ The idea’ s pinched from Nation paper, Pelican (W A) has also had review, but this whole section o f an edition held up, ostensibly on the media (about 20 regular news­ the grounds o f obscenity. If any­ papers) represents the bulk o f the one is looking for a printer, the “ uncontrolled” comm unication in most co-operative seems to be Q u a lity Press on Sydney Australia. 660.2988. Such problems aside, the student press is generally trucking N ATION AL U, the AUS weekly, along OK. As usual, L ot's wife is currently under heavy fire. This (Monash) is coming out with an year’ s editor, Frans Timmerman, excellent short news session and a form er editor of Tharunka very readable layout while Far­ (UNSW), seems to be running a rago (Melbourne) is going fo r heavy political line in the paper depth. It had a good feature and not much else. supplement in its second edition Predictably, Frans is being on “ Rural Australia” . No great criticised for being “ biased” (so scoops have eventuated anywhere; is Womens w eek ly), but a more the best news story so far is a telling attack is that U is almost beautiful piece on the front page unreadably boring. Part o f the o f Woroni (AN U ): the annual problem lies in the neanderthal financial report of General layout, though this noticeably Mystics Pty Ltd, the world’ s improved in the last edition largest multinational (Chairman o f (N o.3). Directors, lord J. Christ). Interestingly enough, the only T op publication, though, is the break from heavy politics in U so brilliant Disorientation handbook far was the full page cartoon on from WA university which includes the back page o f No.3, devoted to Every student's guide to first year tipping shit on our own Richard units, which tells the new minds Neville, climaxing with a drawing what they’ re in for before they o f him on a psychiatrist’ s couch get swallowed up by the factory. proclaiming: “ I have this delusion It’s a critical look at all first year that I am Mick Jagger . . . ” subjects, together with four sets National U has a contract with o f figures: tabulations o f interest, its printer, but most student news­ workload, difficulty and lecturing papers couldnt get one and their quality. Each figure, scored out o f main hangup this year could be ten, is based on a survey run last getting newsprint, as the Woroni September. Some o f the marks

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ALL WEEK A D ELA ID E pm, $3.50, studs, half price. ♦Gar go yles : b a w d y m e d i­ eval revue b y M u r r a y C o p ­ land, T h e a t r e 6 2 , tues to sat 11.15 pm, $2.50, $ 2 . 0 0 , or sit on cushions on f l o o r f o r $ 1 . 0 0 . ♦ H a m l e t o n Ice: an a du lt p a n to m im e , S h e rid a n the atre , 50 Mackinnon parade, North A d e la id e , thurs to sun 8 . 1 5 pm . ♦E u re k a S to ckad e: A d e la id e u n i thea tre guild, OPERA U n io n thea tre , Ade laide ♦ T h e R eb el M a i d : English lig h t opera, A c a d e m y uni, w e d to sat, 8 . 1 5 pm. t h e a t re , 186 G o o d w o o d ♦Be M e I f Y o u Can and Journey Of A roa d, G o o d w o o d , thurs to W a t c h M o rta l: Flind ers uni sat, 8 . 0 0 p m , $ 1 . 5 0 . st ud e nt t h e a t re present a rock opera and m u lt i F IL M m ed ia sh ow , Matthew * A D o l l ’ s Hous e: f i l m of Flinder s the a tre , Flind ers Ib sen ’ s p la y starring Claire uni, thurs to sun, 8 . 0 0 pm , B lo o m , Glen elg cinema $ 1 . 5 0 , students $ 1 . 0 0 . one, 7 . 3 0 p m , $ 2 . 2 5 , studs. ♦ N o T i m e F o r Fig Leaves: $ 1. 1 0 . c o m e d y , A M P t h e a tr e , tues ♦C rys ta l V o y a g e r : Surf ing m ovie, music Pin k F l o y d , to sat, 8 . 0 0 p m , $ 1 . 5 0 . Fi rs t False Ste p: W a y hall, M a u g h a n chur ch, ♦ H e r Olde Kings 4 3 F r a n k l i n street, tues, m e l o d r a m a , Music H a l l, 3 1 8 Ki ng W i l ­ w e d , thurs, sat, B rig hto n tow n hall f r i , W o o d v il le liam street, we d t o sat, t o w n hall sun, 8 . 0 0 pm, 8 . 3 0 p m , $ 8 . 5 0 , $ 7 . 5 0 ( b u t includes f o o d ) . $1.50. ♦S h ak u n tala Kalidasa: In d ia n f i f t h c en tu r y clas­ THEATRE ♦ A d e l a i d e A n t h o l o g y : S.A . sical d r a m a by t h e Per­ t h e a t re c o m p a n y w i t h f o l k f o r m a n c e S y nd ic a te , L i t t l e sin ger M a rg ar e t Road- the atre , A d e la id e uni, tues k n i g h t re-cr eat e early days to sat, 8 . 0 0 pm, also sat pm, $3.10, studs. of A de la ide , E dm und 2.00 W r i g h t house, tues t o sat, $ 2 . 1 0 . ♦ D r e a m s , Deat hs and 1 . 0 0 pm , $ 1 . 5 0 , studs. 75c. ♦O ptim ism or T h e Mis­ Entranc es: M o n as h stud ent ad v ent ure s of Candice: th e a t re gr ou p supper show, N a t i o n a l T h e a t r e o f t he W o m e n s lib cen tre, Bloor D eaf, b r il li a n t ne w c o m ­ cour t ( o f f C u r ri e street), pa n y o f de a f p e rf or m e rs 1 1 . 0 0 p m , $ 1 . 5 0 , studs. $ 1. 0 0 . from New York, Her ♦M acbeth: experimental M a je s ty ’ s, tues to sat, 8 .1 5 dr a m a , S alisbu ry Te achers pm, also 2 . 0 0 p m sat, c o ll e g e the a tre , Sm ith $ 5 .7 0 to $ 3 .2 0 . road, Sa lisbury East, wed ♦ T h e C o m e d y o f Errors: S o u t h A u s t ra li a n thea tre to sat 8 . 1 5 pm , $ 1 . 2 0 . ♦ O u t A t Sea and T h e R a f t company, A rt s the atre , Of t he Medus a: South Angas street, m o n to fri, Au s tra li a n Crea tiv e W o r k ­ 8 . 1 5 p m , sat 5 . 0 0 p m and 8 . 3 0 p m , $ 3 . 7 0 , studs, half shops, y o u t h t h e a t re w i t h a d if fe re nc e , co rn er F lo re n ce price. terrace and S erp en tin e ♦I c e A g e : by G e r m a n p la y ­ road, Belair, thurs t o sun, wright Tankred Dorst, 8.15 pm, $2.00, studs. P rin c e A lfred college $ 1. 00 . the a tre , tues to sat, 8 .1 5 pm, also sat 2 . 3 0 pm, K ID S $ 3 . 5 0 , $ 2 . 5 0 , studs, half ♦Z ag re b C ar to o ns : really price. ♦Vincent: Tom Fl em in g br il lia nt, S .A . govt tou rist presents a p o r t r a it in words bureau t h e a t re t t e , tues to and a c t io n of t he painter fri, 1 . 0 0 pm , 2 . 3 0 p m , 4 . 0 0 V i n c e n t V a n G og h, Sc ott pm , free. the a tre , tues to sat, 8 . 3 0 ♦C hi ps and A l f Hercules C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦Lunch Hour Concerts: Instrum ental and choral ensembles, and organ reci­ tals, U n io n chur ch, 12 F l in d e r s street, m o n to fri, 1 .1 0 p m , 5 0 c . ♦ Y o u t h o f S. A . Performs the A rts: Orchestras, c ho ir s , soloists. Unio n c h u r c h , 12 Fl ind ers street, t u e t o sat ( e x c e p t thurs­ da y ), 7 5 c .

M ELBOURNE and H is Search f o r the A m a z i n g Sc a rle t W o d g e : E ld e r pa r k, schools, and various parks a r o u n d t o w n . A C T IO N ♦ A u d i o V is u a l C on c e p t s — T h e W a y o f t h e Cross: a m u lt i - m e d i a even t, C h r is t ­ ch ur c h, N orth A d e la id e , tues to sat, 6 . 0 0 p m , to 6 . 3 0 pm , $ 1 . 0 0 , studs. 5 0 c . E X H IB IT IO N IS M ♦ H a b i t a t G a l l e r y : paintings by Ber na rd Hesling, 75 Melbo urne street, N orth A d e la id e , tues to sat 1 0 . 0 0 am to 8 . 0 0 p m , sun 2 . 0 0 pm to 5 . 0 0 p m . ♦ L id u m s A rt G a ll e r y : Da v id B o y d and others, Th e C o m m o n , Beaum ont, tues to sat 1 1 . 0 0 am to 6 . 0 0 pm . ♦ C o n c e p t s : e x h i b i t i o n of co n c e p t u a l and post image art , 1 4 P o r t e r street, Parkside, tues to sat 2 . 0 0 to 6 . 0 0 pm, free. ♦A rt G a ll e r y of So u t h Au s tra li a : S id n e y N o la n , abo rig in al art and G e r m a n exp ressionism, N o r t h T e r ­ race, m o n to sat 1 0 . 0 0 am to 5 . 0 0 p m a n d 7 . 0 0 pm to 9 . 3 0 pm, sun 2 . 0 0 p m to 5 . 0 0 p m and 7 . 0 0 p m to 9 .3 0 pm. ♦A Lady of Fa s h io n : exh ib itio n of womens fashions from 1800 to 1 9 4 0 , C a r c le w , 11 J e f f c o t t street, N o r t h ade la id e , tues to sat 1 0 . 0 0 am to 9 . 0 0 pm, 6 0 c , kids 30 c . ♦ S . A . Sc ho o l of A r t : in t e r ­ na t io n a l post er e x h i b i t i o n , S ta n le y street, N orth A d e la id e , tues to f r i d a y 9 . 0 0 am to 5 . 3 0 p m . ♦ C r a f t C en tr e : e x h i b i t i o n o f p o t t e r y , we av ing, macra m e , le a t h e r w o r k , etc, by S .A . c ra f t s m e n , Little R u n d le arcade, 7 G r a w l e r place, tues to f r i 9 . 0 0 am to 5 . 3 0 pm . V ID E O ♦ F e s t iv a l V i d e o * 7 4 : a n y ­ one invi ted (after 20 min ut es in s t r u c t io n ) to use video resources to m a k e in fo rm a tio n program s about Festival, Festival t h e a t re f o y e r . Ta pes can be viewed at F es tiv al the a tre , C e n t ra l r a i lw a y s ta ti on , Marion shopp ing c en tre and A rt gal ler y. Ph o ne 3 3 2 - 4 9 6 6 fo r fu rth e r infor­ m at io n.

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FILM S ♦ A L L W E E K — FILM S: ♦T h e s e m a y cha nge a t a m o m e n t ’ s no tic e, so check w i t h c in e m a t o be sure. ♦ T h e G o d f a t h e r ( R ) , till we d . The Garden of Finzi-C ontinis (M ) and Seven Deadly Sins ( M ) fro m th u rs : C arlto n c in e m a , Faraday st, thurs-sun, 7 . 4 5 p m , 9 0 c , 347.5524. ♦ M a c b e t h ( M ) (Pol ans ki) and B r o t h e r h o o d of Sa ta n ( M ) u n t il w e d : Fo o t s c r a y G r a n d , Paisley rd, mon-sat, 7 . 4 0 pm , $ 1 . 4 0 , 6 8 . 1 1 3 8 . ♦ E n g la n d M ade Me (M ) and Trave ls W i t h M y A u n t (M ): Dendy M a lv e rn , Glenferrie rd, 7 days, $2.50, 509.0555. ♦P o s e id o n A dventure: Hoyts C a m b e r w e ll , 734 B u r k e r d , ni gh tl y 8 , sat 2, 5, sun 5 p m , $ 2 , $1 stu. 8 2. 1 0 0 0 . ♦ A M a n F o r A ll Seasons a nd B ria n’ s S o n g : D e n d y B rig h to n , C hu r c h st, ni gh tl y 7 . 4 5 p m , sat 3 . 3 0 pm , sun 1 .4 5 p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 4 0 stu, 9 2 . 8 8 1 1. ♦ T h e Sensualist ( R ) : T r a k , 4 4 5 T o o r a k rd, ni gh tl y 6, 8 . 3 0 p m , sat 2 . 3 0 p m , sun

5 p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , $ 1 . 2 0 stu, 24.9333. ♦ D a y F o r N igh t ( N R C ): R iv o li T w i n 1, C a m b e r w e l l J u n c t io n , ni g h t l y 7 . 4 5 , sat, sun 4 . 1 5 p m , $ 2 . 2 5 , $1 stu, 8 2 . 1 2 2 1 . ♦ L o v e ( G ) : R iv o li T w i n 2, above address, ni gh tl y 8 . 1 5 , sat, sun 5 p m , $ 2 . 2 5 , $1 stu, 8 2 . 1 2 2 1 . ♦Sounder until w ed, 8 pm, th e n commencing thu rs, Lo v e and Pain a nd the W h o le D a m n thi ng ( N R C ) and B ut t e rf l ie s are F r e e (N R C ): Hoyts M a lv e rn , D an d e n o n g rd, ni g h t l y 7 .3 0 p m , sun 5 pm, 50.3193. THEATRE ♦On Yer M arx: Aussie M a r x Bros. P r a m F a c t o r y , 32 5 D ru m m o n d st, C a r lt o n , tues-sun, 8 pm, $ 2 .5 0, $ 1 .5 0 stu, 347.7133. ♦Ice: La Mama, 205 Faraday st, C arlto n, fri-sun, 9 p m , $1. ♦ O e d ip u s Rex by Sop hocles, pres b y T i n A lle y P la y e r s : Unio n t h e a tr e , M elbo urne Uni U n i o n , 8 . 1 5 p m , bo ok ing s: 53.8072. ♦ T h e S h i f t in g H e a r t , dr a ma

M e lb o u r n e , 4 t h f lo o r , J o h n by R ic h a rd Beynon: M e d l e y big, G r a t t a n st, Kenwood Theatre Group, 572 Glenferrie rd, tues-fri, 11-5 . ♦ C a rtie r B re s s o n H a w t h o r n , thurs-sat, 8 .1 5 (p h o to g ra p h s ): 17th pm, $ 1 .2 0 . c e n t u r y Pastoral H o ll a n d , ♦ T h e Class C u r t a i n : T a i t t h e a tr e , 1 0 7 Le icester st, Gr ac e Cossington S m i t h , N a t i o n a l g a ll er y , St Kilda C a r lt o n , fri-su n, 8 .1 5 pm, $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 s t u , rd. ♦ D o n Wa lters: Sense ’ n’ 347.1515. a funshow: ♦ T h e R e m o v a li s t b y David n o n s en se , W i ll i a m s o n : Russell Str ee t E w i n g g a ll er y , M e lb . U n i the a tre , C ity, mon-sat, U n io n , m o n - f r i, 1 0- 8 . Voigt: Paintings 8 . 1 5 pm , pr e- din ner fr i/s a t ♦D a vi d pastel dra win gs, 5 . 1 5 pm , $ 4 . 2 0 , $ 1 . 7 5 stu, and season t ic k e t available, B a r t o n i: I n t e r n a t io n a l 654.4000. 54 S m ith st, ♦ L o c k U p Y o u r Dau ghte rs: gallery, tues-sat, Musical c o m e d y , prod. Ian C o l l i n g w o o d , B r o w n : P u m p k i n Players, 1 0 - 6 , sun 2 - 6 pm. 3 1 4 C h u r c h st, R i c h m o n d , BOOK NOW tues-sat, 8 . 1 5 pm. $ 1 . 5 0 , ♦S e rg io and Eduardo 42.8237. Classical gu ita r, ♦Princess t h e a t re : Spring A b r e u : Dallas Bro ok s hall, $ 2.60, st, C i t y , mon-sat, 8 pm, $ 3 . 6 0 , $ 4 . 6 0 , apr il 2 and 6. m at sat 2 pm, $5.50, $ 6 . 5 0 , $ 8, c hn and pens Also at R o b e r t B la c k w o o d hall, M o n a s h U n i , a p r i l 4 . half price, 6 6 2 . 2 9 1 1 . ♦N ation al F o lk Festival: Brisbane, R ic h a rd L e it c h , W arren Fay, M ik e A C T IO N O ’ R o u r k e , W o rk s h o p s , $ 6 ♦ C lo t h in g Sale: M e lb o u r n e including t w o bo oz e -u ps — tow n hall, lo we r hall, un be at a bl e value. tues-sat, 9 - 5 , fr i 9-9. ♦ A u s t r a l ia n M u s ic I n d u s t r y C o n v e n tio n : Southern E X H IB IT IO N IS M Cross ho tel , $ 1 6 9 (wives ♦ M o d e rn C h in e s e $9 0 ), dont miss it, P a in tin g s : Uni of e ve r y on e w i l l be there.

SYD NEY ♦ T h e E m p i r e B u il d e r: N e w the a tre , 542 K in g st, N e w t o w n , 8 . 1 5 pm , $ 2 . 0 0 , f r i, sat, sun o n ly . ♦The Ea gle Has Two Heads: Genesians, 420 Kent st, Sydney, 7 9 8 . 3 6 0 8 , f r i, sat o n ly . FILM S ♦The Lover by Harold ♦ A t t i c a : Ci nd a F i r e s t o n e ’ s Pi n te r: Q T h e a t r e , A M P , b r il li a n t m o v ie on the C ir c u la r Quay, m o n - f r i, w h it e washing o f police 1 .1 0 pm . m u r d e r in a N e w Y o r k ♦Jesters: a goo d show. state prison, F i l m m a k e r s O z z i e old bo y s o n hols, C in e m a , 8 p m , tues-sat, N im ro d th e a tre , 10 $1.50. N i m r o d st, D ar li n g h u r s t , ♦I n d o n e s i a n f e a t u re f il m — 33.3933, tues-sun, 8.30 A k h ir Sebuah Im pian : T h e pm ; w e d , sat 5 . 3 0 p m , 8 . 4 5 A u d i t o r i u m , A n z a c House, pm. College st, S y d n e y , info ♦ W h o ’ s W h o : a 8 4 . 2 3 4 7 , tues, t h u r , m o n soph istica ted, br a in teasing on ly , $ 2 . 2 5 , kids 85 cents. farce, E n s e m b le t h e a t re , 8 ♦ A W i n t e r ’ s T a le : M a n l y pm, sat 5 p m , 8 p m . Silver Screen, t h u r - m o n , ♦The F a n t a s t ic k s: B o n d i 8 pm, $ 2 .0 0 .. Pa vilion the a tre , Bo nd i Beach, tues-sun, 8 . 3 0 p m ; sat, sun, 5 pm , 8 . 3 0 p m . THEATRE ♦S m a ll C r a f t War ning s b y ♦The im a g in a r y Inva li d w ith the S tratford National T e n n e s s e e W illia m s : th eatre, T h e a t r e of C an a d a : Op era I n d e p e n d e n t House, in f o 3 5 7 . 1 2 0 0 , wed-s at , 8 . 1 5 p m . ♦ L e a r by E d w a r d B o n d : 8 . 1 5 pm. ♦ T h e N a t i o n a l Ballet of Parade t h e a tr e , 8 p m , sat, 2 Senegal: C a p i t o l t h e a t r e , pm , 8 pm . mo n, tues, w e d , t h u r , 8 . 1 5 ♦ T h e C ra d l e of He rc ul e s by pm ; fri, 6 p m , 8.1 5 p m ; sat, M ic ha e l Boddy: O pe ra 2 .1 5 pm , 8 .1 5 pm , House, in f o 6 6 3 . 6 1 2 2 , 8 pm, $ 5 . 5 0 , $ 4 . 5 0 . $3.70-$ 5 .7 0 . A N IM A L ACTS ♦T a r o n g a Z o o : see t h e ape house babies, N o . 5 w h a r f . C irc u la r Quay, i nf o 9 6 9 . 2 7 7 7 , $ 1 . 5 0 , 4 0 cents kids, 9 . 3 0 - 5 pm .

♦ L o v e O f F o u r Co lo nel s by Peter Ust in ov : Pavilion th e a tre , C as tle H ill Showground, 634.1157, we d , f r i, sat. BEBOP ♦S o u n d F a c t o r y : Wh is ke y , thur-m on. ♦ S e b a s tia n H a rd ie : Stagecoach. ♦T ro upadors: Oce anic hot el, Coogee, wed-sat o n ly . ♦S tew art and McKay: Jools, C r o w n st, D ar io , 3 1 . 5 2 2 8 , 9 p m -3 am . E X H IB IT IO N IS M ♦ M ic h e le F erm an is: e x h i b i t i o n of gr otties and fa nt a sy figures. O l d Bak e ry G a llery , 22 R os ent hal avenue, La n e Cove, 10 a m - 6 p m , tues-sat. ♦G eo rg e H o ffsted ter: p h o to g ra p h s. O range Door s, O x f o r d st, Paddo, 1 2 . 3 0 pm. ♦ In te rn a tio n a l Posters Exh ib itio n From New York: H o g a r t h Galleries, 31.6839. m on -s at , 1 0 . 3 0 a m - 5 . 3 0 pm. ♦ T e n Le adi ng Potters: T h e P o tters Gallery, 97A B o u r k e st, ’ L o o , 3 5 7 . 1 0 2 1 , tues-sat, 1 0 . 3 0 - 5 . 3 0 pm .

♦ M a tth e w F lin d e rs , N a v ig a to r: his letters, books, maps etc. L i b r a r y o f N S W , mon- sa t, 1 0 a m - 5 p m ; sun, 2 p m - 6 p m . Fr e e. ♦Janet M a n s fie ld : st oneware p o t t e r y . D iv ol a Galleries, 1 6 5 R o w n t r e e st, Balmain, tues-sun, 11 a m - 6 pm. ♦Pa blo Picasso: 1 3 original graphic w o r k s e xe c u t e d in ceramics. Lord of the Rings, 2 8 G l e n m o r e road, P a d di ng to n, 3 3 . 4 6 6 4 , 10 am-5 pm. ♦ E x h i b i t i o n o f J ew e lle r y from Tibet and Ne p al : A rg y l e A rt s Cen tre . C O M IN G UP F re e b ie s : A u s tra lia ’ s Lea ding Jazz G r o u p s , A B C Recor di ng Sessions. I n f o , 4 3 . 0 4 3 3 , ext . 4 7 7 7 . ♦ABC Y outh C o nc e rt : br oc hu re f r o m B ox 4 8 7 , GPO, Sydney. ♦ A B C Recital Series 1 9 7 4 : infQ PO bo x 4 8 7 , G P O , Sydney, 2 0 0 1 . ♦ABC 1974 Or c he s tra l Season: book ing s n o w f o r s u b s c rip tio n s , 151 Eli z a b e t h st, S y d n e y , 9 am to noon. ♦ R o y a l Easter S h o w : A p r il 5-16.

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SYDNEY TUESDAY F IL M ♦ N F T A ’s Ophul s-Pa bst season — A M o d e r n H er o, T h e E x il e : A M P th e a t re t t e , C ir c u la r Q u a y , $ 1 . 2 0 , 7 .1 5 p m , m em be rs o n ly , $ 3 . 0 0 to j o i n at door. ♦ T o u c h e z Pas A u Grisbi ( 1 95 3 ): F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , m em ber s on ly, 6 pm, 10 pm, $ 3 . 0 0 t o join at do or. ♦ B e r t o lu c c i’ s T h e Spiders St rat e gy plus S k o l i m o w s ki’s W a lk o v e r : Union thea tre , 7 . 3 0 , $ 1 . 5 0 . * 2 0 0 1 : A Space Odyssey, M a n l y Silver Screen, 8 pm, $ 2. 0 0 . C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦R o b e rt P ik le r — Chamber O rch estra: C onservatorium , 8 pm, $3.20, $

2. 0 0 .

P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦The Don B urro w s Quartet: O p er a House, 8.15 pm, $5.00, $3.75, $ 2 . 5 0 . C he ck first. ♦P e te r B oothm an Ense m ble : L i m e r i c k Castle, Ann street, S u r r y Hills, 7 . 3 0 - 1 2 pm. ♦ A b b e y Jaz z Band: L o r d Dudley. ♦Ec lpse A l l e y Five: V a n i t y Fa ir ho tel, 7 . 1 0 pm. ♦T im Brown — Piano: W o rth b rid g e h o tel, 7 . 3 0 - 1 0 . 0 0 pm. ♦ I a n M ason — Pi a no : Stage D o o r Ta v e rn . * Al Head: Red Rileys, S u r r y Hills, 8 - 1 2 p m ♦G reg Lawrie and Ian Winter Ban d: French’ s Ta v e rn , 7 . 4 5 - 1 0 . 0 0 p m ♦R e gg ie R o o k e r , M a rc o m F a t b a c k : Wh is ke y . ♦ B i l l y T h o r p e and A z t e k s S k y li g h t : Chequers. TV , R A D IO ♦ B l u e Hills Episo de 4 , 9 6 3 , 2 4 1 : A B C R a d io 1, 6 .4 5 pm. ♦ N e w S o c ie t y — Julie Rigg on W o m e ns H e a l t h Cen tre, L e ic h h a r d t : A B C R a d io 2, 7 . 1 5 pm. ♦Poison D a r t — A lo o k at the pr imeval ju ng le of B or ne o: C ha nn e l 10, 7 .3 0 pm. ♦C h e q u e r b o a r d — T u r k i s h m ig ra n ts ta lk about adjusting to meat pie con d iti o ns : Chan nel 2, 8 . 0 0 pm. ♦ B e h in d The Legend, W i ll i a m Bligh — T h e old tu rd faces a n o t h e r m u t i n y as governor of NS W: C ha nn e l 2, 8 . 4 5 pm. ♦ F o r e i g n I n t r i g u e — movie of in trig u e m urder, r o m a n c e , L u c k y Dog, A j a x , W i n f ie ld etc: C ha nn e l 1 0, 1 0 . 0 0 pm. ♦ O n l y T w o Can Play — movie w i t h Peter Sellers about a sex crazed lib ra ria n , of course: Ch a n n e l 9, 1 0 .3 0 .

WEDNESDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦M ick K ea ro n, Bernard Bolan d, P h y l L o bl , Jack H opkins, Hugh K eo ugh : E li z a b e t h ho tel , 8 pm, 70c. ♦R e g g i e R o o k e r : W hi ske y. ♦ S k y li g h t , M a d d e r Lake: Chequers. ♦ B i l l y T h o r p e : Liv e rp oo l theatre. * 69ers: B r i g h t o n hotel. ♦C hr is Ta p p e r a l and Dave Fu rn iss : Forest Lo dg e ho tel, 7 . 3 0 - 1 0 . 0 0 pm. ♦M erv A ch e s o n Trio: Bel lev ue ho tel, Pa ddi ngto n, 7 .3 0 - 1 0 pm. ♦ I a n Ma so n: Stage D o o r T a v e rn , 7.1 0 pm. ♦G reg Lawrie and Ian Winter Ban d: French’s Ta v e rn , 7 . 4 5 - 1 0 p m ♦ P e te r Boothm an E ns e m bl e : L i m e r i c k Castle, 7 . 3 0 - 1 1 . 3 0 pm. TV ♦ C o u n te r p o in t — T h e U2 S t o r y — Fr anc is Pow er, T h e N o n S p y , C au gh t W it h His F l y O p e n : C ha nn e l 2, 8.50. ♦ G r a n d S la m — E d w a r d G. R o b in s o n and Janet Leigh et al, t r y t o k n o c k o f f $ 1 0 m illion of d ia m on ds : C ha nn e l 1 0, 9 . 0 0 p m ♦ T h e F l a m e A n d T h e Fi re — T h is do co takes us o f f to t h e dar kes t cor ners of the w o rl d w h e r e w e witness eerie ritu a ls , brutal in iti at io ns , p r im it i v e tribes, and a d r ib bl in g sense of m onotony: C ha nn e l 7, 9 . 0 0 pm. ♦C a r r y O n Regardless W i t h The Carry On Cre w: C ha nn e l 9 , 1 0 . 3 0 . ♦ L a t e ni gh t m ov ie — M a n y Rivers T o Cross — R o b e r t T a y lo r calls the TV

re p ai r m a n to clean the dead Indian s o u t of the back of his set. N o w read on : C han nel 2, 1 0 . 0 0 pm. ♦C ontem pt m ovi e with B rig itte Bar do t, Jack Palance — Se x y w i f e puts her assets b e t w e e n t he balance sheets, husband is a pig: C ha nne l 7, 1 0 . 3 0 pm. ♦ R o a r in g 20s — with H u m p h r e y Bogart, James Cagney, lots of others. O nce again, George and E d d ie c o m e face to face, b u t this t im e behind guns. Can you take a no th er dose?: C han nel 2, 1 1. 2 5 pm. FIL M ♦C u l D e Sac by Polanski, Battl esh ip Potemkin by Eisenstein: Opera House, 7.30, $2.00. ♦ T h e Spiders St rat e gy — W a lk ov e r: U n i o n thea tre , 7.3 0 pm. $1.5 0. * 2 0 0 1 — A Space Odyssey: M a n l y Silver Screen, 8 pm, $ 2.00 .

THURSDAY TUBE, R A D IO ♦P ick of t h e G o o n s : A B C R ad io 1, 8 pm. ♦The Wheeler Dealers: m ov ie w i t h James Gar ner, Lee R e m ic k and t he en tir e staff of t h e N e w Y o r k Big Board, Chan nel 7, 9 p m ♦ W a l t z o f t he To re a do rs : Peter Sellers organises a r m o r and a m o r , c n a n n e l 9, 1 0 .3 0 pm. POP M U S I C ♦Don M o rris o n : Red R i le y ’ s, Su r r y Hills, 8 - 1 2 pm. ♦R e d L i o n F o l k Cen tre: Jo h n M c N e il l, T o m and Hugh Keough, Andy Saunders, T r e v o r S u t t o n , Red Li o n In n hotel, 8 - 1 0 pm. ♦ D o n D e Silva: M a cq ua rie hotel, ’ L o o , 7 . 3 0 - 1 0 p m ♦ U n i t y Band: Ol d Push. ♦ D i c k Hughes: Stage D o o r Ta v e rn , 7-1 0 pm. ♦J u n io r and t he G o ld To p s : French’s Ta ve rn , 7.4 5-1 0 pm. ♦P e te r Boothm an Ens e m bl e : L i m e r ic k Castle, 7 .3 0 -1 1 .3 0 pm. ♦ S k y Ligh t, M a d d e r Lak e: Chequers. ♦B a nd o f L i g h t : M a c q u a ri e uni, lu n c ht im e . FILM S ♦ N F T A ’s Ophuls-Pabst season — A M o d e r n H er o, The E x il e : Aust G o vt Centre, Phi lli p and H u n t e r sts, C ity , $ 1 . 2 0 , 7.1 5 pm. Me m b er s on ly. ♦A n to n io Das M or te s (R oc ha, Brazil ’ 6 9 ) , plus Dillinger is Dead (Italy ’ 6 9 ) : U n i o n theatre, 7 .3 0 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦Phallic Fore st , W a iti ng fo r Lucas, Live B et w ee n Evil — ta le s fro m subu rbia : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a, 3 1 . 3 2 3 7 , 1 0 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦ D e liv e ra n c e : U n io n theatre, S y d n e y uni, 2 pm, 5 0 cents. A C T IO N ♦2nd Runnymede Pop Festival — p o pu la r music and poems from the medieval period w i t h T h e Renaissance Players: G r e a t Hall, S y d n e y uni, 8p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , students, pensioners $1.50. ♦ T h e a t r e W o rk s h o p : Ch ur ch , 3 1 . 6 2 7 0 , 8 Free.

Old pm

FRIDAY C LA S S IC S ♦2nd Runnymede Pop Festival: see thu rsd ay . ♦C h o r a l Music of T o m a s Luis Da Victoria (1 5 3 5 - 1 6 1 1): Conservat o r i u m , 6 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 . ♦ C o l le g iu m M u s ic u m — Z u r i c h C h a m b e r Orchestra: Opera House, 8.1 5 pm, $ 4 . 7 5 , $ 3 . 5 0 , $ 2 . 5 0 . Check first. P O P U L A R M U S IC * B ill y T h o r p e : N S W uni, lu nchtime. ♦ B ul le t, B u f f a lo : R o c k d a l e Police Boys Club. ♦O th e r Ends: Anzac M e m o ria l h a ll, N th Sydney, 7 .3 0 -12 p m *6 9 e r s : B rig ht o n hotel. ♦La De Das, Si m ba, A r m a g e d d o n : Chequers. ♦ D o n D e Silva: M a cq u a ri e ho te l, t h e ’ L o o , 7 . 3 0 - 1 0 pm. ♦Noel C ro w ’s Sto n ed Crows: W o o lp a c k hotel, Pa rra m at ta , 7 . 3 0 - 1 0 pm. ♦Blues G u i t a r : Hang To e,

P repared b y S tephen W a ll, w h o also acts as T L D o u tp o s t and c o p y h o st, T uesdays to T h u r s d a y s , at 18 A r t h u r street, S u rry H ills , 6 9 8 .2 6 5 2 .

217 C o m m o n w e a lth st, S u r r y Hills, 7 . 3 0 pm, 5 0 cents. ♦ D o c Willis Jazz Ban d: A l b u r y hotel, Paddo. ♦East Coast J azz Band: U n i t y Hal l ho te l, B alm ai n. ♦ R h y t h m and Blues Jazz Ba n d: W h it e H o r s e hotel, N ew tow n, 7-10 p m ♦J e an ni e L e w i s a nd T h e Peter Boothman Ba n d: Fr e nc h' s T a v e rn , 7 . 4 5 - 1 0 pm. ♦ D e e p B a y o u : Stage D o o r Ta v e rn , 7 . 3 0 - 1 0 p m ♦Kevin G o ode: L i m e r ic k Castle, S u r r y Hill s, 7 .3 0 - 1 2

pm.

♦ S t u a r t and M c K a y , Lee Willi am s, Don Fletcher, C la y : O range Doors, Oxford a nd R e g e n t sts, Paddo, 8 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦ L i n d a B ran: -Red R i l e y ’ s, Su r r y Hills, 7 . 3 0 - 1 2 p m ♦R ed L io n F o lk Centre — D av e De Hugard, Mary H al l, Sh a m us : R e d L i o n I n n hotel, 8 - 1 0 pm. ♦ A l H e a d : E m m a ’ s Bar, M a r k e t and Cla ren ce sts, 5-7 pm. ♦Tony S he pa r d, J ohn Su m m ers , N i c k G r e y , H a i r of the D og : E li z a b e t h hotel, 8 pm, 8 0 cents. THEATRE ♦ E r o s and T h a n a t o s — a new Aust m u s ic a l e n v ir o n m e n t a l play based o n H e r b e r t M a rc u s e ’ s Eros and C iv il i s a t i o n : Pac t, 2 6 4 P it t st, C i t y , 8 . 3 0 pm D o n a t i o n . S a t u r d a y also. TV ♦S p le n d o u r I n T h e Grass — m ov ie w i t h N a t a l i e W o o d and W a r re n B e a t t y re sex in t h e s ou th : not a l u m p of hash in your stash: C han nel 1 0, 9 p m FILM S * N F T A classics. Clash by N ig h t — F r i t z L a n g ( 1 9 5 1 ) , also D e s t i n y ( 1 9 2 1 ) : A M P the a tre , C ir c u la r Quay, 7.15 pm, $ 1 .2 0 . Members on ly. J oi n at d o o r $ 3 . 0 0 . ♦The S p i d e r ’ s S tr at e gy : U n i o n the a tre , $ 1 . 2 0 , 5 pm. ♦ A n t o n i o Da M o r t e s plus Dill in g er is D e a d : U n i o n the a tre , 7 . 3 0 p m , $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦Attica: F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a, 1 0 pm. ♦ S l e u t h : U n i o n the a tre , 2 pm , 5 0 cents. A C T IO N ♦The Great Moscow Circus: W e n t w o r t h Park, info 212.2244. Adults $ 6 . 0 0 , $ 5 . 2 0 , $ 4 . 2 0 ; kids $ 3 . 2 0 , $ 2 . 7 0 , $ 2 . 2 0 , 8 pm.

SATURDAY C L A S S IC S ♦ S y d n e y U n i O r g a n Assoc, presents Da v id Kinsela p la y in g Ba c h, Reger, S cho enb erg : Great H al l, U n i of S y d n e y , 8 pm, $2, st udents $1. P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦Don De Silva: Louis T a v e rn , P a dd o ( a f t e r n o o n show). ♦ D a v e S t e ph e ns and M erv A ch es on : Bel levue ho tel , Paddo, 3- 6 pm. ♦ E c lip s e A lle y Fi ve: V a n i t y F a ir ho tel, 4- 7 pm. ♦Four Day R iders: F r e n c h ’ s T a v e rn , 7 . 4 5 - 1 0 pm. ♦ D e e p B a y o u : Stage D o o r T a v e rn , 2 1 1 . 0 4 1 1 , 7-12 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 . ♦Blu es w i t h J o h n B ur ke : Limerick Castle, Surry Hills, 7 . 3 0 - 1 2 pm. ♦Noel Crow ’s S to n ed Cro ws: R ed N e d ’ s, 25 S p r in g st, Chatswood, 8 .3 0 -1 1 . 3 0 pm. ♦ D o n D e Silva: M a c q u a ri e hotel, the ’ L o o , 7 . 3 0 - 1 0 pm. ♦ C o u n t C ope rn icu s, John Currie, Le e W i lli am s , D o n F le t c h e r , C la y, Olim pia, A la n W a r d : Ora ng e Do ors, O x f o r d st, Paddo, 8 pm, $1.50. ♦East N ea s do n Spasm Band, A l W a r d , M ora g, J ef f and T r ic ia : E l i z a b e t h ho tel , 8 pm, 8 0 cents. ♦D oug Ashdow n with others: Pact F o l k , Y W C A Cellar, L i v e r p o o l st, 8 pm, $1.50. ♦Meadow B and , D an J o h n s o n , D o u g R ic h a rd s o n , T e r r i Welles, and ot her s: Shack F o l k , B ro o k v a l e (near e nt ran ce to M a ll), 8 .3 0 -1 .0 0 am. $1. ♦ F o l k C lu b — sing-a-long: E d i n b u rg Castle ho te l, 2 8 4 Pitt st, 8 pm. ♦Al Head: Red R i l e y ’ s, 8-1 2 pm. ♦Morocco: R ed R i l e y ’ s, 1-7 pm.

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♦ B a r r ie M cA skill Armageddon S im b a : Chequers. ♦ B i l l y T h o r p e : Car in gb ah YMCA. ♦ H o m e : Cu rl Cu rl Y o u t h C en tre . ♦Hom e: D e n n is o n hotel, B o n d i J u n c t io n .

(M arxist), Tom Zu bricki (C ounter C ulture), Bozo ( M o s c o w Ci rcus). C h a n n e l 2, 9 . 2 0 pm.

K ID S ♦ T h e M a g ic T r a v e l B o x : New the a tre , New tow n, 2 . 1 5 pm. ♦ A d v e n t u r e s in F o l k — kids th e a t re : I n d e p e n d e n t th e a tr e , 2 pm, 6 0 cents, adults $ 1 . 2 0 . ♦The Ol d Woman Who Li ved In A Sho e: A M P t h e a tr e , C ir c u la r Quay, $ 1 . 6 0 , kids $ 1 . 0 0 , 2 p m

C L A S S IC S ♦ A B C M us ic on t h e H o u r : O p e r a Ho use , c o n t i n u o u s 11 a m - 4 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 , kids 2 0 cents.

A C T IO N ♦The A rg yle Annual C el eb ra ti on s — includes a pub cra wl, m oc k c o u r t , ch a ri t y stalls, processions, stars of stage, silver screen and tele. F R E E -P IS S -U P on t he V il la g e G r e e n , in f o 2 7 . 6 0 0 8 , 1 0 a m - 1 0 pm. ♦The Great Moscow Cir cus : W e n t w o r t h Pa rk, 1 pm, 4 pm , 8 p m $ 6 . 2 0 , $ 5 . 2 0 , $ 4 . 2 0 . K id s under 1 2, $ 3 . 2 0 , $ 2 . 7 0 , $ 2 . 2 0 . F ILM S ♦ A n to n io Das M or te s, D ill in g er is dea d: U n i o n t h e a tr e , 7 . 3 0 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦A id o, Slave of Lo ve : Filmmakers C in e m a , $ 1 . 5 0 . M i d n i g h t show. ♦T al es F r o m S u b u r b ia — Phallic F o rest etc: Film m akers C in e m a , 10 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦Attica: F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a, 6 pm. ♦ S c h o o l ’ s O u t — a n t h o lo g y o f f il m s on sch ooling and a nti sch ooling: F i l m m a k e r s C in e m a , 4 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦ B a t m a n , W i z a r d of O z , Desert H a w k : F i l m m a k e r s C in e m a , 2 pm. ♦The S p i d e r ’ s S tr at e gy : Union the a tre , 5 pm, $ 1. 2 0 . TUBE, R A D IO ♦ P i c k of t h e G o o n s : A B C R a d io 2, 1 2 . 0 0 noon. ♦Contact — a prog ram a bout migrants: ABC R a d io 2, 5 . 3 0 pm. ♦ F r o m t he Prom s — A r t h u r F i e d le r : ABC R ad io 2, 7 . 3 0 pm. ♦Geronimo — more H o l l y w o o d lies w i t h C h u c k Connors, Adam West: C ha nn e l 10, 8 . 3 0 pm. ♦ N a t i o n a l R ad io Th e a t r e . B ut F o r W h o m C h a r l i e — a social c o m e d y : A B C R ad io 2, 8 . 3 0 pm. ♦ L u c k of t h e I r i s h — movie w ith Tyrone Power as news r e p o r te r d r e am in g about Leprechauns: C h a n n e l 2, 9 . 3 0 pm. ♦ T h e W o r l d of Jazz : Eric C hi ld , A B C R a d io 1, 1 0 . 2 5

pm.

♦ D a r k C i t y : m ov ie w h e r e in C h a r i t o n H es t on loses his kna c ke rs on a roulette w h ee l and t h a t ’ s a lie, C h a n n e l 9, 1 0 . 5 5 pm. ♦ T h e H a u n t e d Stran gler: w i t h Boris K a r l o f f getting his rocks o ff , C ha nn e l 1 0, 1 2 . 0 5 am.

SUNDAY T V , R A D IO ♦Three Coins in the F o u n t a i n — U nb e li ev a bl e, s e n t im e n t a l, s chm al tz , c en tre d a r o u n d a R o m a n Fi at F a c t o r y . C ha nn e l 10, 2 . 0 0 pm. ♦ T h e A u s tr a li a n Sea L i o n — D o c o . C h a n n e l 2, 3 .0 5 pm. ♦ T h e C el tic In h e r i t a n c e — Stirrings on the C eltic fr inge of B rit ai n. J ohn Pringle, do co, A B C R a d io 2, 7 . 3 0 pm. ♦Frost Special — On c o n fro n ta tio n b e tw e e n A u s t. Govt. and aboriginals. C ha nn e l 7, 7 . 3 0 pm. ♦ F r o m In di a and Ne p al — Doco on M a h a ra ja h of B ik an e r — n o t mild b u t elitist. C h a n n e l 2, 7 . 5 5 pm. ♦Sunday P la y b ill — F r e e d o m o f th e Vices: A play set in black S o u th A f r i c a . A B C R a d io 1, 8 . 0 0

pm.

♦ B r i t t e n C an tic le on T . S. E l i o t — A B C R a d io 2, 8 .1 5 pm. ♦The Robe — R ic ha rd B u r t o n ’ s sequel t o t he Jock S t r a p : C h a n n e l 9, 8 . 3 0 p m ♦Blue: Movie with Terrence Stamp as an a c t i o n pac ked la m e d u c k in M e x i c o , C ha nn e l 10, 8 . 3 0

pm.

♦ A l t e r n a t iv e s : Bruce S m i t h ( C hr is tia n) , A lex Car ey (Hum an ist), D ipak Das ( H a r e K ri sh n a ), Ross Poo le

K ID S ♦ T h e Magic Tr a v e l B o x : New Theatre, New tow n , 2.1 5 pm.

E X H IB IT IO N IS M * Bush V id eo Theatre: Recent N im b in tapes, g ra p h ic computer e xp e rim e n ts , abor ig ina l c or ro bor ee s. 31 B ay street, G le b e , $ 1 . 0 0 , 8 p m F IL M * N FT A Women Season: M anpower, D e s t r y Rides again, O p e r a Ho us e , 7 .1 5 pm, $ 1 . 6 0 , $ 1 . 2 0 stu den ts, m embers o n ly , join a t door $3.00. ♦Moving On: F ilm and Maker, R ic h a rd M aso n, Filmmakers C in e m a , m em be rs o n l y , 8 pm. *Le D o u lo s : Fr e n c h C in e m a , J. P. M elv ill e ( 1 9 62 ), Filmmakers C in e m a , 4 pm, 6 pm, m em be rs o n l y , jo i n at do o r $3.00. ♦Batman, D ese rt Hawk, Wizard of O z: F ilm m akers C in e m a, 2 pm. ♦ A u s t r a l ia n W i l d l i f e Series: O p e r a House, 10 a m - 6 pm c o n t i n u o u s ly , $ 2 . 0 0 , kids $

1. 0 0 .

♦ F a m i l y L i f e : S o m e t h in g fo r everyone, Union T h e a t r e , $ 1 . 5 0 , 7 pm. POPULAR ♦ F u n d Raising S h o w f o r K i n o P r o d u c t i o n : A l l sorts of musos, Paddington T o w n H a l l, in fo L i n T r a c y c/o Total E nviron m ent C en tre , 2 7 . 4 7 1 4 , 8 pm-1 a m $ 7 . 0 0 per c o u p le or less. ♦ B u ffa lo , Gunga D in , To -D ay, D av e Gaffey, Puma , Halcarny: Avalon C om m u nity H a l l, 11.30 a m - 5 . 3 0 pm, $ 1 . 4 0 . ♦B illy Thorpe and T h e A zt ecs , Home: Sydney T o w n Hal l. ♦B u ffalo , Puma: Avalon C om m u nity H a l l, 1 .0 0 p m - 5 . 3 0 pm. ♦ J o h n J. Fr a nc is a nd Band, R ic h a rd C la p t o n , Rick T a y l o r , A n n His sink : K ir k • G a ll e r y , 4 2 2 Cle ve la n d st, S u r r y Hills, 8 . 0 0 , $ 1 . 5 0 . ♦Merv A ch es on : Stage C lu b , 4 - 7 pm.

MONDAY FILM S ♦ N o r t h b y N o r t h w e s t plus F o r b i d d e n Plane t: U n io n T h e a t r e , S y d n e y U n i. 7 . 3 0 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 . ♦Pasolini’ s Gospel A c c o r d i n g t o St M a t t h e w : Science T h e a t r e , U n i of N S W , 5 . 1 5 pm , $ 2 . 0 0 . ♦ S h o o t t h e Pianist plus L u n c h on th e Grass: O p er a H ous e, 7 . 3 0 , $ 2 . 0 0 . T V , R A D IO ♦Soper at Large: The relationship between a n im a ls , plan ts, and landscape. C ha nn e l 2, 6 . 0 0

pm.

♦Room to Move w ith Chris W i n t e r : Progressive r oc k, A B C R a d io 1, 8 .0 2

pm.

♦ T h e N a k e d and t he D ea d: C l i f f R o b e r t s o n as a ni n e t y day w o n d e r in a 1 4 5 m in ripp in g gri p pe r. C h a n n e l 9, 9 . 0 0 pm. P yth o n : A ll ♦Monty E n g l a n d P r o u s t sum ma ris in g c o m p e t i t i o n . C h a n n e l 2 , 9 . 2 5 pm. ♦ A n evening w i t h R ic ha rd N e v il le and R ic h a rd Walsh (who?): Channel 2 , 10.05 pm. F R E E DOPE ♦ G u i n e a Pigs needed fo r M arijuana T ria ls : Fr e e dope in exch ange for sim ple a lp h a - n u m e r ic tests. N S W H e a l t h Co m mi ssi on , 9 Y o u n g st, C it y . In f o 20.563 m o n d a y m o r ni n g o n ly . P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦Dingos, Skylight: Chequers. ♦ M e r v A c h e s o n ’s M a i nstreamers: Bellevue hotel, Har gra ve st, Paddo. 7 .3 0 - 1 0 pm. ♦ B illb o Razz: Modern Jazz, Lim erick Castle, S u r r y Hills. ♦Four Day Riders: F r e n c h ’ s Tavern, 7 .4 5 -1 0 . 0 0 pm.

ADELAIDE TUESDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦ M o o n s h i n e Jug and String B an d: M o d b u r y ho tel, 8 . 0 0 pm , 60c. C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ E l d e r Hall Fre e C on c e rt: James W h it e h e a d and L a nc e Do ssor play Beet­ hoven and Strauss, El der hall, A d e l a i d e uni, 1 .10 pm , free. ♦The H u n g ar ia n St ate S y m p h o n y O rc he st ra: con­ d u c t o r E r v i n Lukacs, Festi­ val the a tre , 8 . 0 0 pm, $ 7 . 2 0 t o $ 3 . 2 0 — f r o m behind t h e gold cu rt ain . ♦ A B C Prize W in ne rs ’ Reci­ tal: w in ne rs of 1 9 7 3 A B C in s tr u m e n t a l and vocal c o m p e titio n s , A de la id e t o w n hall, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 3 . 0 0 t o $ 1 . 0 0 , studs, half price. F IL M ♦The C an d id ate (dir. Micha el R itc hi e ) and T a r ­ gets (dir. Peter Bogdano­ v ic h ) : new NFT A O ff H o l l y w o o d season, Rothm a n ’ s th e a tr e t t e , W a y vi lle showgrounds, 7.40 pm, m em be r s only (m em ber­ ship $ 3 . 0 0 — ove r 18 years, jo in at do o r ), program $ 1 . 2 0 , studs. 80c. ♦ E x p e r i m e n t a l and Others: program of new ex p e ri­ m e n t a l f il m s , M a t t h e w F l i n ­ ders thea tre . Fl in d ers uni, 8.15 pm, $2.00, studs. $

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DANCE ♦Australian M o v in g So c ie ty : dance, video, f i l m event, w i t h dancers Bob Beswick, Jaap Fl ier, A n n e A n d e r se n and A ll a n Possent on sitar, Ch ris tc h ur ch hall, 6 0 J e f f c o t t street. N o r t h A d e la id e , 8 . 0 0 pm, $ 2 . 0 0 , studs. $ 1 . 5 0 . THEATRE ♦B re a d and G i ft s: Jesus revues, Holy T rin ity chu rc h, 87 N o r t h terrace, 8 .0 0 pm, $2.0 0. K ID S ♦Songs F r o m M ilkw ood : L i t t l e T h e a t r e o f th e Deaf, H e r M a je s ty ’ s, 2 . 0 0 pm, $ 3 . 0 0 , $ 2 . 0 0 , kids 60c. ♦The Au s tra li a n Ballet: exce rpts f r o m past p e r f o r ­ mances, suitable f o r kids ove r seven, A p o l l o stadi­ u m , 2 . 3 0 pm, $ 1 . 5 0 , kids 60c. A C T IO N ♦ H a p p e n i n g : music, film, video, p o et r y , bring y o u r o w n event, Rag ate nt, E ld er Park, 8 . 0 0 pm, free. ♦T ra n s c en d e n t a l M edita­ t io n : 11 Fr e d e ri c k street, W e ll an d, 8 . 0 0 pm, free. TV ♦ D e a d Ring er: Bet te Davis ( 1 9 6 4 ) , N W S 9, 12 noon. ♦ W i ld A ust ral ia — Beyon d t he D u n e : Bird life in th e C oor on g, A B S 2 , 6 . 0 0 pm.

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WEDNESDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦ C a ta c o m b s : op en night, a n y o n e w e l c o m e to play, 1 H a c k n e y road, H a c k n e y . ♦Colonel B og ie ’ s: Ingle­ wood Inn, L o w e r N o r t h East Road, In gl e w o od , 8 . 1 5 p m , free. C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ E l d e r Hall F r e e Concerts: D a v id Ga ll ig ar and others pl ay B r i t t e n , M e ll o rs and V a u g h a n W i lli am s , Elder hall, A d e l a i d e uni, 1.10 pm, free. ♦The H u n g a r ia n State S y m p h o n y O rc he s tra : con­ ductor Janos Ferensic, see tuesday. ♦ M us ic For Brass and Voi ces : A d e l a i d e Brass en­ semble and the A de lai de Singers, Bonython hall, A d e la id e uni, 8 . 0 0 pm, $ 3 . 0 0 t o $ 1 . 0 0 , studs, half price._____________ F IL M ♦ E x p e r i m e n t a l and Others: see tuesda y. ♦ A u s t r a l ia n N e w Cinema: F il m s by B er t Deling, Bronte S la ug ht e r, also N im b in f il m s , Ragatent, E ld er park, 8 .0 0 pm, $

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THEATRE ♦ M a g i c T h e a t r e Ens em ble: El der par k r o t u n d a , 8 .0 0 pm. ♦ B r e a d and G i ft s : see tues­ day. K ID S ♦Songs F r o m M i l k w o o d : see tuesday. ♦ T h e A u s tr a li a n Ba ll e t: see tuesday. ♦Se rg io and Eduardo A b r e v : Bra zil lia n classical guit ari st broth ers, A d e la id e t o w n hall, 2 . 0 0 p m , $ 3 . 0 0 , $ 2 . 0 0 , kids 60c. A C T IO N ♦ W o m e n ’ s St ud ies M e et ­ ing: 1 W il li a m street, N o r ­ w o o d , 8 . 0 0 pm. ♦Talks On Indonesia: Ernst Utrecht, N ap ier building, r o o m 5, A de la id e uni, 1 . 0 0 pm. TV ♦ J un e Bri de: Bet te Davis ( 1 9 4 8 ) , N W S 9, 12 noon. ♦ W i ld A us tra li a — Across t he S tr ai t: bird life in the Bass S t r a i t islands, A B S 2 , 6 .00 pm.

THURSDAY P O P U LA R M U S IC ♦Southern Jazz Band: F l a g s ta f f ho tel, Sou th ro a d , D a r li n g t o n , 70c, studs. 5 0c. C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ E l d e r Hal l F r e e Concerts: A d e la id e St ring Quartet play H a y d n and Wesley-

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MELBOURNE TUESDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦ U P P : C r o x t o n Park ho tel, Preston. ♦ T r a x i o n : G e o r g e ho tel, St K ild a. ♦ M i s s is s ip p i: M elbo urne uni, lu nc h. ♦B lu e s t o n e : C o u n c i l Cl ub ho tel, Preston. ♦Captain Matchbox: Treasury gardens, 12.10 ♦ P a n th e r : Pr ospect H ill hotel. ♦Captain Matchbox W h o o p e e Band plays those o ld f a s h io n e d c a t c h y songs: F l a t s t a ff gardens, 12.10 and 1 . 1 0 pm. ♦Southern Command Band: Fl a g s ta f f gardens, 1 2.1 0 a nd 1 . 1 0 pm. ♦J acques Loussier T rio : Dallas Bro ok s hall, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 4 . 6 0 , $ 3 . 8 0 , $ 2 . 8 0 . ♦ M u f f : Polaris I n n hotel, 5 51 N ic h o l s o n st, Nth C ar lto n. F ILM S ♦Joyless St r ee t and L e t t e r From An Unknown W o m a n (also A G M a t 7 p m ) .

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★ National Theatre of the Deaf,Adelaide,see All Week M e rra n and J o h n , P.O. B o x 135 U p p e r S tu rt 5 1 5 6 . P hone: 2 7 8 -1 8 1 1 . S m i t h , E l d e r hall, A d e la id e uni, 1 . 1 0 p m , free. ♦ G e o f f r e y T o z e r : pianist, A d e l a i d e t o w n hall, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 4 . 0 0 to $ 2 . 0 0 , studs, ha lf price. F IL M ♦ T h e Joyless Str ee t (G re ta G a r b o ) a nd M a n of A r a n (dir. Robert Flaherty): C lassics screening by N F T A , St at e go vt th ea trette, S t a t e a d m i n bu ilding , V i c t o r i a square, 7 . 4 0 pm, m em b e r s o n ly (m em ber­ ship $ 3 . 0 0 — over 18 years — j o i n a t d o o r ) , prog ram $ 1 . 2 0 , studs. 8 0c. ♦ A u s t r a l ia n N e w C in e m a: see w e d nesday. THEATRE ♦M a g i c T h e a t r e Ens e m bl e : see Wednesday. BALLET ♦The A u s t ra li a n Ballet: C oncerto, Perisy n t h y o n , C a r m e n , Festival t h e a tr e , 8.00 pm , $ 7 . 0 0 , $ 3 . 5 0 , studs, half price — ballet f o r t h e masses! K ID S ♦Songs F r o m M ilkw o o d : see tuesday. ♦Dan Morgan and the B ou n ci ng B u n y i p of B an di ­ coot Rea ch : Playhouse, Murray Park College of A d v an ce d E d u c a t i o n , 4 .1 5 pm. A C T IO N ♦ G r o w t h M e e t i n g : C en tre f o r t he real app ro a c h to people, 1 W i l l i a m street, N o r w o o d , 8 . 0 0 pm. TV ♦ I n T h is O u r L i fe : Bet te Davis ( 1 9 4 2 ) , N W S 9, 12 noon. ♦ W il d A u s t ra li a — A t the Edge of t h e Sa lt Plain: bird life near T o w n s v il l e , A B S 2 , 6 .0 0 pm.

FRIDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦S m okestack L i g h tn in g: Eagle ho te l, H i n d l e y street, 7.30 pm , $ 1.0 0 . ♦D ick Frankel and the Disciples: Some rse t hotel, 19 7 P u l t e n e y st reet, 9 . 0 0 pm, 8 0 c ( t o R e d Cross). ♦J acques Loussier T rio : A d e la id e t o w n hall, 5 . 4 5 and 8 . 1 5 pm , $ 5 . 2 0 to $3.60. C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ E l d e r H a l l F r e e Co ncerts: A d e la id e uni Chamber Orchestra play M ozart, El d er hall, A d e la id e uni, 1 .1 0 pm , free. ♦F est iva l C o nc e rt : artists f r o m A d e la id e eis te dd fo d co m p e titio n s , Pu l t e n e y g r a m m a r school hall, S o u t h terrace, 8 . 0 0 p m , $ 1 . 0 0 . F IL M ♦German Ex pr e ss io ni s t Film s: also some original music, Ragatent, E ld e r park, 8 . 0 0 p m , free. ♦Burn (M arlon B ran do ) and Where’s P op pa?

(George Segal): Roma c inema, 21 A G i l b e r t place, c ity , 11.40 pm, $1.6 0, studs. $ 1 . 2 0 . ♦A Str ee t Car Named Desire (M arlon B rando) and Theatre of Bl oo d: W in d s o r c in e m a , 66 W a lk e r vi lle terrace, Gi lb e rton, 8 . 0 0 p m , $ 1 . 0 0 , studs. 80c. ♦Just Bef or e N ig h t f a l l and Bless The Beasts And C hi ld re n : Wi nds or cinema, 1 C o m m e r c ia l road, Brigh­ ton , 8 . 0 0 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 , studs. 80c. BALLET ♦ T h e A us tra li a n Ballet: see thursday. THEATRE ♦Bread and G i ft s: see tues­ day. K ID S ♦Sergio and Eduardo Ab rev : see Wednesday. ♦Dan M or ga n and the B oun cin g B u n y i p of B an di ­ co o t Reac h: see thursday. A C T IO N ♦ W o m e n ’ s Li b : W o m e ns centre, B lo o r c o u r t ( o f f Currie street), 8 . 0 0 pm . ♦Gay Li b : guys, ring 5 1 - 6 5 5 1 f o r details. TV ♦Now Voyager: Bette Davis ( 1 9 4 2 ) , N W S 9, 12 noon. ♦W i ld Au stra lia — T o T h e Island: M a cq u a ri e island's soot y albatross, N W S 9 , 12 noon.

SATURDAY PO P U L A R M U S IC ♦S m okestack Li ght ni ng: Eagle hotel, H in d le y street, 7 . 3 0 pm, $ 1 . 0 0 . ♦S o me rse t ho tel : A n y o n e w e l c o m e to play, 197 Pul­ te n e y street, free. C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ P r o m e n a d e C o nc e rt : S .A . S y m p h o n y Or che st ra, c on ­ ductor P at ri ck Thomas, A d e la id e t o w n hall, 8 . 0 0 pm.

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music dep t, B o n y t h o n hall, A d e la id e uni, 2 . 3 0 pm, free. A C T IO N ♦Poetry From A Truck: C it y area, 1 0 . 0 0 am. F ILM S ♦ B urn and W here’ s Poppa?: see fr id a y . ♦A S tr e e t Car Named Desire and T h e a tr e of B l o o d : see fr id a y . ♦Just B ef o re N ig h tf al l and Bless The Beasts And C h il d r e n : see fr id a y . BALLET ♦ T h e A us tra li a n Ballet: see thu rsd ay , b u t also 2 . 0 0 pm. THEATRE ♦B rea d and G i f t s : see tues­ day.

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and t he of B and i­ thu rs da y 2 . 0 0 pm.

A C T IO N ♦ G ala Festival F r e a k O u t : Johnny Ego and t he allstars band, and best of ot her Raga a t tr a c tio n s f r o m all med ia, venue — w a t c h da il y press, 8 . 0 0 pm, $1.50. ♦Folk Da n ce : f e at u ri ng Bo ga du ck Bush ba nd , b u t a n y o n e in vi t ed to play, Eld er par k, 7 . 3 0 pm. ♦D em o nstratio n: against US bases in A u s t ra li a , U S C onsular Agency, 919 M a r i o n road, M i t c h e ll park, 1 0 . 0 0 am. TV ♦ R o c k ’ N R oll Lives — R o c k and R o u g e : lo o k s at G l i t t e r rock scene, f e a t u r ­ ing Da v id B o w ie , Suzie Q uatro, A li c e C oo p er , N W S 9, 6 . 0 0 pm. ♦ R o c k O n : A u s t ra li a n ro ck p e rf or m e rs ta ped at R y m i l l par k, A B S 2 , 6 . 1 0 pm.

SUNDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦Catacombs: 1 Hackney ro ad, H a c k n e y , 8 . 0 0 pm, 80 c . FILM S ♦A S tr e e t Car Nam ed Desire a nd Theatre Of B lo o d: see f r i d a y . ♦Just B ef o re N ig h t f a l l and Bless The Beasts And C h il d r e n : see f r id a y . TV ♦ D a v i d F r o s t — A Crisis O f Conscience: F r o s t on a b o ­ riginals in A u s t ra li a , A D S 7, 7 . 3 0 pm. ♦ A lfie: M ic h a e l Caine, N W S 9, 8 . 3 0 pm.

MONDAY A C T IO N ♦ G a y P r id e W e e k Organis­ ing C o m m i t t e e : all w e l­ come, S h a n t i ll y coffee lounge, 4 Ke n si ng to n road, N o r w o o d , 8 . 0 0 pm. ♦Womens Lib Gen er al M e e t i n g : W o m e n s cen tre, Bl o o r c o u r t (off C ur rie street), 8 . 0 0 pm. R A D IO ♦ W o m e n — O u r Bodies, O u r Selves: R a d io un iver­ sity, 8 . 0 0 pm. ♦China Sin ce C h a ir m a n Mao: R a d io univ ersity , 8 . 3 0 pm. TV ♦The Sky’s The Lim it: musical c o m e d y w i t h Fr e d Astaire , A D S 7, 1 0 . 0 0 am. ♦Close U p R o d M c K u e n : Special on R o d M c K u e n , S A S 10, 1 1 . 3 0 pm. ♦An Ev eni ng W i t h Don D un s ta n: Famous S. A . a cto r presents his fa v o r i t e li te ra tu re , A B S 2, 1 0 . 0 0 pm. ♦M onty Pythons Fl yi ng Circus: A B S 2, 1 0 . 5 0 p m .

♦ N F T A : D e n t a l t h e a tr e t t e , G r a t t a n st, cn r F l e m i n g t o n road, C a r lt o n , 7 . 4 0 pm. Season ti c k e t available or $ 1 . 2 0 , 8 0 cents students. ♦ The R u lin g Cl ass: A le x a n d e r t h e a tr e , Mo n as h uni, C la y t o n , 7 . 3 0 pm. A C T IO N ♦Group Meditation: A n a n d a Marga, 141 Ba rk ly st, C arl to n. ♦ M e e t in g T o F o r m N e w Bran ch: C ou n ci l f o r the Single M other and her C h ild , 13 Roma st, Ben tleigh, 8 pm . Ring 6 6 3 . 4 5 5 1 f o r details. R A D IO ♦The N o n -P e r m issive S o c ie ty : 3 A R , 1 0 . 2 0 am, T h e V e r y R e v . lain G e or ge beats up t he w o rld situation. TV ♦ I n Search of t he Lost W o r l d : A T V - 0 , 7 . 3 0 pm. ♦Some D is t a n t S h a d o w : A T V - 0 , 9 . 5 0 pm, a b o u t role play ing , by t h e a u t h o r of T a lk in g t o a Stranger. —

WEDNESDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦Panther: W h ite h o rs e hotel, N u n a w a d i n g . ♦D in goe s: C roxton Park hotel, Preston. ♦Hot C i t y B u m p Band: S u n d o w n e r ho tel, Geelong. ♦ F e e t Firs t: Ge or ge hotel, St Kild a. ♦Ariel: Rusde n St at e College, lu n c h M on ash . ♦Captain Matchbox: F lag sta ff gardens, lunch. ♦ C lo u d N in e : Prospect Hil l hotel, K e w . ♦Bushwhackers And Bulloc kies Bush Band: Polaris Inn hotel, 55 1 N ic ho ls o n st, N t h C ar lto n. ♦F ree Jazz: Commune Coffee Lounge, N th M e lb o u r n e . ♦ F r a n k T r a y n o r : Beau ma ris ho tel, Beach road. ♦Jacques Loussier T r i o : Dallas Bro oks hall, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 4 . 8 0 , $ 3 . 8 0 , $ 2 . 8 0 . ♦Cabaret: Alexander theatre, Mo n as h uni, C l a y t o n , 1 .3 0 , 7 . 3 0 pm. ♦S t e e ly a rd Blues: A gor a the a tre , La Trobe uni, B u n d o o r a , 8 pm. ♦D utch T i ld e r s: Frank T r a y n o r ’ s, C it y . ♦ T h e S outhern C om m a nd in C oncert: Tre as u ry gardens, 1 2.1 0 a n d 1.1 0 pm . ♦The Captain M a tch b o x Wh oo pe e Band playing some songs o f yeste rye ar : T r e a s u ry gardens, 12.10 and 1 . 1 0 pm. F IL M S Blonde Venus with M arlene D ie t ri c h and Quality Street w ith Katherine Hepburn, N F T A : D e n t a l t h e a tr e tt e , see tues. R A D IO ♦ I’ m Sorry To Bother Y o u : 3 L O , 11 am, an old woman withstanding eviction. TV ♦The Longest N ig h t: k id n a p p e d rich girl buried alive in c o f f in , 9 pm, GTV-9.

THURSDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦Dingoes: W h ite h o rs e hotel, N u n a w a d i n g .

♦Jigsaw: C ro xto n Park ho tel, Preston. ♦ T a n k : S u n d o w n e r ho tel, Gee long. ♦Upp: W a lt z i n g Matilda, Springvale. ♦Big Push: G e o r g e ho tel, St K ild a . ♦ C lo u d N ine: G r o v e d a le ho tel, Gee lon g. ♦A r ie l, Hot C ity Bump Band: Rem brandt R ece pti on s, fancy dress c a m p dance, supper, B Y O , G l e n f e r r i e road, H a w t h o r n . ♦Stevie W r ig h t Ban d: Prahran Tech, lunc h, M a t t h e w F li nd er s , evening. ♦M att T aylo r: S t a ti o n hotel, Prahran. ♦ E b o n y : S t A lb a n s hotel. ♦ T a r k i o : C a m b e r w e ll Civic C entre. ♦M ike O ’R ourke, Bob H u d s o n , A n d r e a M a c I n t y r e : D a n O ’C o n n e l l, cnr Can ni n g st and Princes st, N t h C a r lt o n , 8 - 1 2 pm. ♦Sam H all: Tankerville A rm s , cnr John son and N ic h o l s o n sts, Fitzroy,

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♦John C r o w le : Frank T r a y n o r ’ s, C ity . ♦Dave R ankin A nd His Ban d: A lm a ho t e l , 32 C hapel st, St K ild a. ♦ O w e n Y e a t m a n : Prospect Hil l ho tel, Hig h st, Kew . ♦F ran k T rayn o r: Exchange hotel, C h e lt e n h a m . ♦J a zz W o r k s h o p : Polaris In n hotel, 55 1 N ic h o l s o n st, N t h C a r lt o n . ♦Jacques Loussier T r i o : Dallas B ro o k s ha ll, 8 . 1 5 pm, $ 4 . 8 0 , $ 3 . 8 0 , $ 2 . 8 0 . C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ H u n g a r i a n State Symphony O rchestra: M e l b o u r n e t o w n hall. FILM S ♦ F illm o re w ith S ant ana , Grateful Dead, H o t Tuna: A l e x a n d e r the a tre , Mon ash uni, 7.30 pm, $1.50, m em ber s 5 0 cents. ♦M .A .S .H .: A gora the a tre . La T r o b e uni, 8 pm. R A D IO ♦The N o n - P e r m iss i ve S o c ie ty , contd: 3AR, 1 0 . 2 0 a m. ♦ B o o k s and Ideas: 3 A R , 7.1 5 pm. ♦A Merry Progress, G a m b le r s and Spo rti ng Blades: 3 A R , 1 1 . 1 0 pm.

FRIDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦Hot C i t y B u m p Band: W h it e h o r s e ho tel, Nuna­ wad in g. ♦Big Push: C r o x t o n Park hotel, Preston. ♦Dingoes: Sundowner hotel, Gee lo n g. ♦ S k y : G e or ge hotel, St Kilda. ♦ U p p : In t e r n a t io n a l ho tel, Essendon. ♦Ariel, Glenrowan: Swi nbour ne Tech, Haw thorn. ♦Stevie W r ig h t Band: Wi nd s or Regis, Prahran. ♦ T a n k , Ste vie W r ig h t Band, Easybeats: T e a z e r, 255 E x h i b i t i o n St., C it y . ♦Matt Taylor, Ch ain : M atthew Fl in d e r s ho tel, Chads tone . ♦ MacKenzie Theory: Sw inbourne Tech, H aw thorn. ♦Dingoes: Sundowner hotel, Gee lon g. ♦ B lu es to n e: Di M arc o' s hotel, Essendon. ♦Fox: Winston Charles, Toorak. ♦ C lo u d N in e : Pr ospect H ill hotel, Kew. ♦Danny Sp o on e r, A d e la Fenton, Peter Pa rk h ill : O u t p o s t In n, 5 2 Collins St., C it y . ♦Bushwhackers and B ullockies: Polaris Inn hotel, C a r lt o n . ♦Hugh McEwan, Jim K e n w y n and m or e: F r a n k T r a y n o r ’ s, C it y . ♦ B r ia n Brown Quartet: C o m m u n e , N. M e lb o u r n e . ♦Storyville Jazz Band: M a n o r Hou se ho tel, cn r S w a ns to n and Lo nsdale sts., C it y .

♦2001: A go r a the a tre , L a t r o b e U ni. ♦They Call M e T r i n i t y : A l e x a n d e r the atre , Mon ash U n i, 7.30 pm , no m em b e r s h ip needed. ♦C asi no: Cap ito l theatre, Sw a ns to n st, 1 1 . 3 0 pm. ♦Crystal Voyager: W i l l i a m s t o w n t o w n hall, 8 pm. THEATRE ♦ F o r t u n e & Mens Eyes: M on as h Players, G u il d t h e a tr e , M e lb . U ni , 8 .1 5 pm. R A D IO ♦ T h e P r im a ry Years: 7.1 5 pm.

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SATURDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦Big Push: Wh ite ho rs e hotel, N u n a w a d i n g . ♦Trident: C ro xto n Park ho tel, Preston. ♦ B lu es to n e: S ou ths ide Six, M o o r a b b i n , aft. ♦Sky: Georg e hotel, St K ilda. ♦Din goes, C lo u d N in e : B rig ht o n t o w n hall. ♦B lu es to n e, Tank, Upp, Nemesis: Blaises, O r m o n d hall, Prahran. ♦ C h a in , H o t C i t y B u m p Ban d: G e t i t on at F P C Y C , F r a n k s to n . ♦ E b o n y , Dingoes: Te a ze r, C it y . ♦ B lu es to n e: Di Marco’s hotel, Essendon. ♦Skyhooks: Swinbourne Te ch , H a w t h o r n . ♦T arkio: Beth Wi sem an Cen tre , St K ild a rd. ♦ T r i n i t y : Xavier Boatsheds, K ew . ♦T an na s M a n d a la : Chelsea Civic Cen tre. ♦ A r i e l : M a t t h e w Flind ers hotel, Chad ston e, aft. ♦La De Das: M atthew F li nd er s hotel, Chadstone, eve. ♦Ariel: St Peters, E. Bentleigh. ♦Panther: Prospect Hill hotel, K ew . ♦ P o o r T o m ’s P o e t r y Band: Toorak li br ar y , Yo u ng L i b r a r ia n ’ s Assoc, concert. ♦Phil Day, Chris Gilbert-Percy: Dan O ’C o n n el l, C arl to n, 3-6 % pm. ♦J ul ie W on g, John and J uanita, Bob H uds on : O u t p o s t Inn, C ity . ♦Phil Day, Graham Lowndes, and Bob H u d s o n : F r a n k T r a y n o r ’ s, C it y . ♦D a v e R a n k i n Jazz Band: Lemon Tree hotel, 10 G r a t t a n st, C a r lt o n , 3-6 pm. ♦ P l a n t w i t h M i f f y : Polaris Inn hotel, Car lto n. ♦J u n c ti o n C i t y Jazz Band: Prospect Hill hotel, Kew . ♦V icto rian Jazz Club: M a n o r House hotel, C ity . C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ H u n g a r i a n State Symphony Orchestra: M e l b o u r n e t o w n hall. FILM ♦The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat ( M a ra t / S a d e ) : A thenaeum, C it y , 10.30 pm. ♦T ho s e M a g n if ic en t M e n in Their F ly in g Machines: A gor a the atre , L a tr o b e Un i, 1 .3 0 pm. ♦Casi no: Capitol, S w a ns to n st, 1 1 .3 0 pm. ♦ I f and L i t t l e Fauss and Big H als y; and Chil drens films a t the same ti m e : Agora theatre, Latrobe

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A C T IO N ♦Group Meditation: A n a n d a Marga, 141 B a r k ly st, C arl to n. R A D IO ♦C oun try Music, Ads, S p o rt : K Z , 5 . 3 0 - 8 . 0 0 am, music to c o m e d o w n to. ♦Wings Ov e r D ag e n h a m : Pick o f t he goons, A R , 1 2 . 0 0 m id d ay . ♦ B u t F o r W h o m Charlie?: By S. M. B ren nan , A R , 8 . 3 0 pm, satire. ♦Am erican T o p 40: KZ, 7-1 0 p m .

C L A S S IC A L M U S IC ♦ H u n g a r i a n State Symphony O rchestra: M e l b o u r n e t o w n hall. F IL M S ♦Modesty Blaise and B ed azzled: Trak, 445 Toorak road, Toorak, 1 1 . 4 5 pm, $2. ♦The Pe rsecutio n and Assassination o f Jean-Paul M a r a t : A t h e n e u m , Collins st, 1 0 . 3 0 pm. B ril li an t. ♦England Made Me : A l e x a n d e r th e a tr e , Mo n as h U ni , 1 . 3 0 pm.

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SUNDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦F a n ta s y : C ro xto n Park hotel, Preston. ♦ U p p : Icelands, R in g w o o d . ♦ M a rg R o a d k n i g h t , Peter M c K a y : O u t p o s t In n , C ity . ♦Danny Spooner and Gordon M acIntyre: Frank T r a y n o r ’ s, C it y . C L A S S IC A L ♦K in g O e d ip u s : Music theatre a d a p t a ti o n of fa m e d play, M o n ts a lv a t G r e a t hall, H ill cr e s t ave, E l t h a m , 8 . 1 5 pm , $ 3 . 5 0 , students $ 3 . 0 0 . FILM S ♦C asi no: C a p it o l , C i t y , 2 pm. ♦Tora, Tora, Tora (G ): Fo ot s c r a y G r a n d , Paisley st, Fo ot scr ay . ♦ C asa bl an ca (H um phrey Bogart) + R h a p s o d y in Blue (G e or ge G e r s h w in ) : Dendy B ri gh to n, Ch ur c h st, 6 pm. A C T IO N ♦Home made Cakes, Produce, Fancy Go od s : G r e e k , A u s t ri a n and C el t ic N a t i o n a l D ancers (3 p m ) , M alv ern M u n ic ip a l Band (2 p m ): Ice cream, lu c k y dip, crazy bu bbl e, fish bo w l, M a lv e rn C en tra l school, 12 noon. ♦The Go d W ithin : The p e rfec tio n of m at te r, Th eo so ph ic a l S o c ie ty , 188 Collins st. C ity . ♦ L ib e r a l P a rt y R a l l y : L w r M e lb . t o w n hall, Sw a ns to n st, arvo. ♦D ram a Park t he a tre : P u m p k i n Players + T h e People Sing, w ith th e A u s t r a li a n Boys Choir (special for li tt le boy perverts). R A D IO ♦ T h e Passing of D r M : L O , 8.00 am, about the founder of A lc oh o lic s A n o n y m o u s in Au strali a and t h e ir G r o u p T h e r a p y techniques. ♦ C a n t ic le N o . 4 : Be n ja mi n B ri tt en , 8 . 1 5 am, A R . ♦C oun try and Western Show: DB, 8.0 7 am. ♦Am erican T o p 40: KZ, 7 - 1 0 pm. ♦ A G i f t o f Tears: Inside t he m in d of a w o m a n seriously injured in a car accid ent, 4 . 0 0 pm, A R . ♦The C elt ic Inhe rit an ce : Sun da y night R ad io 2, A R , 7 . 3 0 pm.

MONDAY P O P U L A R M U S IC ♦John R u p e r t and T h e H e n c h m e n : C r o x t o n Park hotel, Preston. ♦Sid Rumpo: O a k le ig h Tech. ♦B lu est on e: Prospect H il l hotel, K ew . ♦Phil Day: Frank T r a yn o r 's , C ity . ♦N iaggra: La M a m a , 2 0 5 Fa ra d a y st, C ar lto n. A C T IO N ♦ P o o r T o m ’ s P o e t r y Band: C o m m u n e , N. M e lb o u r n e . ♦People Say: Your shoelace is un don e. Tr am s, offices, shops, hi pp y c o m m u n e s etc. F I LM S ♦NFTA: The G la d ia t o r s (P e t er W atkin ). U n io n the atre , M e lb . U n i, 1 .3 0 . ♦ I v a n the T e r r i b le (Pt. 1) and T e n Days T h a t S h o o k T h e W o rl d : U n i o n thea tre , Mon ash U ni. ♦A nim al Crackers and Horse Fe athers: Agora theatre, L a t r o b e Uni. ♦ D il lin g e r is Dead ( F e r re r i) and D re a m L i f e : U n i o n theatre, M e lb . U ni, 8 . 0 0

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R A D IO ♦Hom age to M a n h o ld H u g u e , X a v i e r M o n t sa I v a t a g e , Lux Perpetua, A ttila Rozay, composer, A m y Karolyi, poet, and I n t e r i o r / E x t e r i ­ ors, R ic ha rd M eal e: A R , 8 .4 5 pm. N e w music f r o m 1973 Rostrum of Composers. ♦Room to Move: Chris W in te r, L O , 8 . 0 2 pm. TV ♦ T h e Living Lakes, W eb of Li fe: A B V - 2 , 8 . 0 0 pm. ♦ M o n t y P y t h o n ’ s Fl yi ng Circus: A B V - 2 , 9 .2 5 pm, new series in living c o lo r ( t oo bad y ou o n ly got black a nd w h it e ).

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IGHTYFOUR percent o f M e lb o u r n e u n iv e r s it y students are for the first time now walking about with photos on their union cards. Why? First, there were the ludicrous actions o f the Melbourne Students Representative Council executive. The SRC had a policy o f opposi­ tion to photos which was reaffirm­ ed late last year. The policy stated that if the administration ever tried to introduce photos there would be a strong campaign against them. Instead o f mounting such a campaign, the executive o f the SRC agreed to the com prom ise: a compromise which, in the end, proved ridiculous.

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ANU: Aunty Jack renames Canberra HE LEVEL o f activity in Canberra, or more specifi­ cally at the Australian National University, is not decreasing due to the approach o f winter. As temperatures dropped to an all time low , plans were afoot fo r new and varied undertakings. On the radical scene, the issue that has divided the university, is the AUS policy concerning the recognition o f the General Union o f Palestinian Students as a legal student union o f the area now represented by the National Union o f Israeli Students and naturally enough the expulsion o f the above mentioned zionist union from the Asian Students A ssociation. See Marginson’s national story. On a lighter, if not more cul­ tured note, we all watched with pleasure as Aunty Jack was crowned Queen o f Canberra day. Her first royal decree was to change the name o f Canberra to South Wollongong. To help cele­ brate our city’ s name day the city fathers granted us a merry-goround which has delighted, expanded the consciousness o f and raised the stomachs o f many o f our worthy citizens. The problems o f education have resulted in undertakings o f a radically different nature. On the one hand an all out fight against the exam system is taking place, and on the other, it seems as if the Learning Exchange is about to get o ff the ground. The attack on the exam system is being based on a demand for university democracy. While the energy behind the Learning Exchange is aimed, not at reform, but at posing an alter­ native. The most prolific and active group on campus — besides the marxists - is the ANU poetry society whose journal, Canberra p oetry, appears four times a year. It is the voluminous verse o f these lads and ladies o f light hand and swift speech that provides setting for many an enjoyable time. Not to mention a profoundly cultural experience. ANDREW BENJAMIN

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fo r students to design their own courses after first year. First year will consist partly o f three optional “ trunk courses” : Life system s and energy conver­ sion will explore the inter-relatedness o f processes in the physical word, and the nature and objec­ tives o f scientific inquiry. P ercep­ tion, sym bol and m yth will show how we acquire knowledge o f the world, how we represent it, and how we transmit it in the form o f languages, codes and myths. Finally, World in transition will examine the nature and interdependance o f the various insti­ tutions which our increasingly com plex civilisation has set up to cop e with its problems and the likely impact o f these problems in the years to come. This is the sort o f approach to higher learning from which the 17 other Australian universities have ___ shied off. ROB PASCOE

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up a subcommittee made up o f six faculty deans and two students (only one o f w hom represents the 12,000 undergraduates) and have asked for a report. So far, this subcommittee has com pletely ignored all but one o f three lengthy student submissions and that only because its writer - the undergraduate rep - bothered to translate it into administrationese for the deans. Weary o f com m ittee games, a group o f students, including some from Cochrane's own faculty, want a decision that is more broadly based. Feeling that 98 professors in conclave may be a little unrepresentative, they are setting up a Semester Referendum Campaign to press for full staff and student participation in the decision. They plan to push the administration into throwing a campus referendum before the final verdict is delivered. ,— , JOHN ALFO RD ______________

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It was agreed that photos would be introduced, but that they would be optional: students could decide for themselves. Stiff chance. The administration not only failed to inform students adequately o f the optionality o f photos, but also tried every ploy imaginable to convince enrolling students to have photos taken. The photos were made to seem a natural step in the process o f enrolling: a step one really had to go out o f one’s way to avoid. They were told, often falsely, that faculties required several photos so, while there, why not one for your card? Those, then, are the factors contributing to the situation where 84 percent o f students have photos: SRC naivety, admin dup­ licity. So the matter was again raised at the most recent meeting o f the SRC. Motions were put reaffirm­ ing, once again (oh, shit), policy against photos and, secondly, expressing regret that the presi­ dent and vice-president agreed to what proved to be a farcical co m ­ promise. Attempts were made to dilute the first m otion com pletely by r e s t r ic t in g o p p o s itio n to com pulsory photos only, thus justifying the present situation and, also, the initial compromise. T h ese attempts, however, proved unsuccessful since the motion eventually passed expres­ sed opposition to com pulsory and optional photos. The m otion expressing regret was, forseeably, lost. The matter was almost left at this, but a m otion calling a general meeting o f students to discuss the issue was put, and passed. These actions arise, primarily, through a fear that the excep­ tionally high number o f o f students who had photos taken will be used as justification by the admin to have photos made com ­ pulsory. The registrar, with a most singular lack o f conviction, denies this. What needs to be put to the students, and what has been almost totally ignored in the SRC debates on the matter, is the primary reason why photos were introduced in the first place. This is important, because the photos are one step, albeit a small one, in the increasing elitism o f the uni­ versity as a social institution. The only reason the adminis­ tration could want photos is to make sure, more entirely than ever, that nasty non-students dont dare use university resources. IMRE SALUSINSZKY

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SWOTLIGHTS PAUL COMINO UMMER BLEW the blinds away from the windows, then slowly sucked them back, as a lethargic country high school student yielded to another daydream, and another world. He was observed only by the aged and chalkmarked Mona Lisa on the otherwise naked concrete wall. “ Therefore, If y = 2x . . .” G od Zorba where are you! Come! Dance in my brain! The fearful crescendo o f the old air raid siren, now used to signal period changes, forced him to leave his beloved friend, the warm sands and the Mediter­ ranean blue. Fifty odd doors opened in the three blocks, imaginatively titled A, B and C. They became busy ratholes as the o c­ cupants hastily made their way to the marshalling yard for assembly, myself among them, at a more leisurely pace. My I thoughts were lost in the sound o f heels along the black w ooden corridor, and I prayed that my anger would not over­ power me now, in 1973, the year o f my long-awaited liberation. Pushed and shoved along, the assembly area was finally reached. Ranks formed. R ow after row o f expressionless faces. No sweet smiles, no youthful zest, no large Italian-brown eyes, no midnight black Greek hair. No beauty to rub against the clitoris o f my mind. We all stood there. A brown paper bag jumped o ff a nearby garbage tin and cartwheeled over the quadrangle, prodded by the breeze. I looked around. A t this education factory there was all the exuberance o f an over-fed cat basking in the sunlight. Oh God, for some stimula­ tion! For a vibrant, warm personality! For a thought tickler! The school captain approached the microphone fo r the traditional reading o f the school prayer. What a leader he was! What an inspiration to the multitude! Most o f the prize pricks became prefects, then one from each sex with the best scholastic record was made a captain. The boys captain was a mousy type who lisped, had ultra-conservative ideas, and arse-licked to excess.

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He floundered forth. There were several shuffles and whispers from the juniors in the middle row, but the prefects were quickly dow n on them, swooping at the opportunity to increase their personal tallies fo r the day. The girls were particularly catty in the execution o f their “ duties” . The change o f life for the high school student seemed to com e with this office, which entitled one to sup with staff, to stand at the top o f stair­ ways telling people not to run, and to support the former group in their deci­ sions and attitudes, instead o f questioning them.

“ Give to all w h o work here the true love o f knowledge. May the thpirit o f loyalty and devotion bind us all more clothely together, that we may labor not for our own advantage, but for the com m on g ood o f Critht Jethuth our L ord.”

“ We betheech thee to bethtow thy blething on thith t h k o o l. . . ” G o for your life A d olf! Stir ’ em up! He was nearly through. I waited for the clincher. My guts sensed it was coming soon, this brazen hypocrisy . . . due . . . right . . . now!

I looked up to see what our leader was up to.

The assembly was dismissed by the boss, (resplendent in his Zorro outfit), and we moved o ff fo r “ playlunch” . Why this world o f trivia when it could be so much? Was it because neither students nor teachers had experienced any other environment? Having left school three times before reaching sixth year, I had seen a little more than my classmates. One job was in a mental hospital, where I witnessed at first hand the grotesque and pathetic side o f life. Problems far above those which to o k top priority with the students. Perhaps it might be an idea for everyone to try the “ outside” for a while, as that is where on e’s education inevitably lies. Oh fuck was I bored! Why? For what? Day after blood y day, the same old bullshit, the same old stone wall faces in front o f the class and in it. I stalked home through the dry afternoon and looked at my calendar. Three weeks to go. Hold on! O f course the only reason I had been there for all these long and frustrating years was to get a scrap o f paper, which, as we all knew, would enhance our em ploym ent prospects considerably. Later I was to learn that this is not so unless one intends to go to a university, in which case a good pass becom es a ticket in. So I was left with n ot a single compensation. I dived under the shower to get ready for the sixth form farewell that night. The table-seating com m ittee had been open to requests from both sides all week, so that student-teacher incom ­ patibles were not forced to share each other’ s com pany for the whole evening. I was never rated so highly on any list during eight years at high school. The dinner was sumptuous, the co m ­ pany feigned all the usual airs and graces, (which, had they not been expected would have made them even more sicken­ ing than they were), and then - the speeches. The girls captain rose. I await­ ed her comments eagerly. “ Mr Jones, staff, fellow pupils. During our six years at school, we have learnt much more than simply geography, his­ tory or mathematics. We have grown up together, all pulling our weight. We have learnt a lot about each other. Our person­ alities and our dreams. But m ost o f all the school has prepared us for the outside world. It has given us an encouraging push, and now it is up to us to becom e decent, successful, and worthy members o f the community. I thank y ou .” Amidst the applause, the emotional scenes and the raised glasses, I quietly disappeared into the night, across the dog track, and home. I was still looking out m y window in the fetal hours. The m oon was mesmerising, and the seductive wind was tongue kissing the trees and tantalisingly whirling m y soul around. The wind and that oncoming storm had spoken the truth.

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COURT AND SPARK Joni Mitchell(WEA: Asylum 7E-1001)

bay. On Song fo r a seagull Joni was able to write about her mar­ riage breakup in I had a king in beautifully real, but romantic terms. In those days o f love, peace and happiness there was room for romance in everything, but now it seems that the “ p h oto beauty” o f the party Saying, laughing and crying/ You k n ow it’s the same release simply saddens Joni. The romance o f those early LPs dis­ appeared with the times, and never has the world Joni sings o f appeared so real as in F or the roses and Court and spark. The same situation deals with Joni’ s Search fo r love/ That dont seem to cease, which was first brought to our notice in All I want from Blue (1971): I am on a lon ely road and I am travelling, travelling . . . Looking fo r something, what can it be. The three early LPs suggest that love is graspable, within reach, that in a sense it is just a matter o f the male in question’s OK. N ow she seems to question that OK, and compares the lover to a church, a cop, a mother, using the approval that she seeks against her. Yet still she prays for someone strong and somewhat sincere to release her from her search - bringing her back to the same situation.

MARGARET MacINTYRE ourt and spark is the sixth in a fine string o f albums from Joni Mitchell. Like her last two albums it is not immediately accessible on first hearing, but Joni Mitchell albums are among the f0w things these days one can actually buy on trust. It takes time for the beautiful lyrics and intricate swooping and soaring melodies to com e together in your mind but once they have you will find many songs from Court and spark as unforgettable as those from F or the roses, her last LP. The first song to jump o ff the album at you is the second track o f side one, Help me, with its familiar lyrics - Help me, I think I ’m falling in love again. Familiar in the sense that since her first album in 1969, Song to a seagull, Joni has been falling in and ou t o f love on record, always searching for that spark o f the title song. But Help me marks a real change, which we saw beginning on For the roses. Whereas on Clouds, released in 1969, love takes the form o f the tender uncertainty o f I dont kn ow where I stand: Picked up a pencil and wrote “ I love y o u " in m y finest hand, Wanted to send it but I dont k n ow where I stand and on Ladies o f the canyon (1 9 7 0 ) it is shown as a total comm itment in Willie. Willie is m y child, he is my father, I would be his lady all m y life. on F or the roses Joni’s demands and illusions have changed. All she is looking for now is A ffection and respect/ A little passion/ A nd yo u want stimulation - nothing more/ That's what I think. No longer is the lover the all-giving master - in fact, in this case, he is quite clearly a rat and she has no qualms in telling him so. In Help m e the emphasis has changed again. This time she is falling in love again, but to the refrain o f: We love our loving But n ot like we love our free­ dom. Freedom is an important thread to this album, as the next song shows. Free man in Paris is written as reported speech, a form o f presenting another’ s case which Joni uses beautifully. In an early interview Joni Mitchell described her way o f songwriting: “ I step back and carry on a conversation with myself. It’ s almost schizo­ phrenic. Y ou lay out a case and argue with yourself about it to no conclusion.” In Free man she lets he who spends his life: Stoking the starmaker ma­ chinery Behind the popular song recall his days as a free man in Paris with I'd go back there to ­ morrow/ but fo r the work I’ve taken on. She presents the real question in one line: Lately I wonder what I do it fo r - a question which only the man him­ self can answer, an answer he feels

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but is unable to articulate. Joni Mitchell’s perceptive o b ­ servations get an airing in Peoples Parties, proving that parties are the same world over, from Laurel Canyon to Carlton. N ot that it is quite your usual collection o f guests for Carlton: All the peop le at this party/ They’ve fo r a lo t o f style T hey’ve got stamps o f many countries/ T hey’ve got passport smiles but the plot is the same: the cold,

insecure, frightened people on the border o f the party, all nursing their particular inhibitions in the state when, however much they know about give and take, they feel to o vulnerable to give. It is Joni’ s most self-critical song to date, and whereas she takes her lover to pieces in Woman o f heart and mind (from F or the roses), she does a pretty good axe jo b on her social self here. Regretfully she w ishes. . . I had more sense o f humor/ keeping the sadness at

The title track, Court and spark is, like California from Blue, a love song to her adopted home state, California. Joni refuses the spark from a future love w h o has seen through her niceties to her fears, to remain with LA, City o f fallen angels. It’s that “ spark” that she is waiting for in Car on the hill: It always seems so righteous at the start When there’s so much laughter When there’s so much spark F o r th e right and the glory in the m orning. Battle h o n o rs wave in steel a n d gold B ought for the y o u th o f a nation

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When there’s so much sw eet­ ness in the dark. And it is that spark which she obviously has with her lover in Just like this train, one o f the most beautiful tracks on the al­ bum. She sits and observes a train waitingroom, a carriage, each with clever, thoughtful detail, then dreams o f the pleasure I'm going to have/ Watching yo u r hairline recede. After all the dreams and disillusions o f the past which she expresses in the previous song Down to y o u : Everything com es and goes Marked by lovers, styles o f clothes Things yo u held high And told you rself were true. Joni is determined to just L et things slide and wait for the fu­ ture. But to d o this she has to com bat her jealous loving, a fight she loses with the plaintive words: I can't find m y goodness I lost m y heart Oh sour grapes Because I lost m y heart. Raised on robbery is a rocky cameo o f a barroom lady, with some nice guitar from one o f the all star session musicians used, R obbie Robertson. Trouble child is a song full o f human frailties — Joni’s inability to communicate, to talk sense to the trouble child, w h o in turn is suffering in a world o f his/her own: Y ou really can’ t give love in this condition Still y o u know how yo u need it. There is no point o f communica­ tion - the gap between a dream o f h ow the world should be and Joni’s view o f reality is to o broad for the child to feel any empathy Joni’s advice. It is an echo o f the world o f Cold blue steel (F or the roses) and the title track o f Blue. Perhaps Trouble child is a gradu­ ate from both those worlds, exam­ ined now, ’ 74 style. Twisted is an Annie Ross/ Wardell Gray song, the first song written by anyone else to be recorded by Joni. In early reviews it was heralded as Joni’s answer to Bette Midler, but I think it is far more likely that Joni Mitchell is an Annie Ross fan and that this is one o f her favorite songs. She has certainly studied the Annie Ross vocal and reproduces it almost precisely, a couple o f octaves higher, sensibly avoiding imitation in a couple o f lines that only Annie Ross cou ld deliver. After Trouble child, with all its visions o f the mind dissected b y psychia­ trists in the cold sterile world o f a hospital, this crazy song o f sanity is just what we need. A nd it reminds us o f what a classy singer Joni is too. If you havent heard Joni Mitchell, take a chance and buy Court and spark, and i f you are patient you may have found your­ self a favorite record. Each one o f her LPs has been an attempt to present the truth as she sees it, and each attemprhas grown as the artist has grown. I’m looking for­ ward to sitting back and watching Joni Mitchell grow old gracefully.

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Let’s do some living... FOR EVERYMAN: Jackson Browne (Asylum SD 5067). N 1970 David Crosby told Rolling ston e about a 20 year old songwriter called Jackson Browne, w ho was going to be “ the best fucking^ songwriter in Amer­ ica today” . Crosby put his voice where his mouth was to sing harmony on the lad’s first album, one o f the new Asylum label’ s first releases, in 1971. Called “ Jackson Browne” , the record surpassed everyone’s ex­ pectations. This pretty looking young punk with the thin voice laid them all out with Jamaica say you will, Under the falling sky and all the rest o f similar quality. A f­ ter com ing up through the mill with Tim Buckley and the crowd, a torrid affair with the Velvet Underground’s N ico at 17(1), playing in Warhol’s Dom club, New York, and pinching Linda Ronstadt’s band and a rumored unreleased record on Elektra, Browne has bloom ed into the sensitive minstrel that Dylan pre­ tended n ot to be. Now pushing 24, a very old head on young shoulders, Browne can d o n o wrong. For everyman worms its way into your life. A fter three months with it, it has taken over completely, the record

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for all seasons, perhaps the ulti­ mate suburban country com posi­ tion. From the revamp o f the Eagles’ Take it easy written by Browne and Glenn Frey o f the Eagles, to start, drifting into all Browne songs, culminating in the title track, the talent never stops. As a com posite sym phony o f songs, it rivals the Eagles’ Des­ perado or the Byrds’ N otorious

Byrd brothers for style and flow. (Interesting to note that the idea for Desperado came from Browne, w ho as early as 1972 was toying with the Doolin Dalton Gang idea fo r this present record. He also helped the Eagles on their effort, com pounding his amazing tal­ ents.) Take it easy drifts b y way o f Sneaky Pete’ s pedal steel and the

electric guitar o f one David Lindley into Ouh lady o f the well, putting himself in perspective: But it’s a long way that I have come/ Across the sands to find y o u here among these p eop le in the sun . . . It's so far the other way m y cou n try’s gone. The Lady is his mystical, dusky refuge, painted, like the next song, with Colors o f the sun. Browne’ s relig­ ion is his idealism, his longing to take success-but not be burdened with its consequences. I thought I was a child expands: I t’s such a clever innocence/ With which you d o y o u r sorcery . . . I thought I was a child/ Until you turned and smiled . . . Browne, like every impression­ able young man, myself included, reacts strongly to the thought o f romance, or a love lost. With just a hint o f despair These days closes the first side, the arrangement “ Inspired by Greg Allman” , who did it on his solo album released recently. Well I ’ve been ou t walk­ in’/ I dont do too much talkin’/ These days/ These days I sit and think a lot/ A b ou t the things that I forg ot to do/ F or you . Honesty is the best policy. Red neck friend, a raunchy rocker and the obvious single release, opens the second side, then another lady song, The times y o u ’ ve com e. Then a strange one, Ready or not, a cleverly cynical tale o f boy meeting girl, moving in, and morning sickness. Browne shys once again from any respon­

sibility, the point etched into the listener with the help o f Lindley’s raspy electric fiddle. Sing m y songs to me floats along: Because it seems to me/ That there may never be/ A better chance to see who I am/ Come tim e le s s ly dancing dancing through m y dreams. Joni Mitchell helps out on electric piano, as the song slides into F or everyman with a Russ Kunkel drum roll. Listen to it yourself; it is, excus­ ing the obvious line, written for every man. If you miss this record, then you can forget music in general. Give it a couple o f plays. If you think you dont like it, go back to Neil Diamond and think seriously about selling your stereo. Jackson Browne can only get better, which is a formidable task considering the standards he sets himself. Task for the week: Listen to the transition between Take it easy and Our lady o f the sun. If you can show me where the two different drummers credited for the tracks interchange, y ou get to review Browne’s next album, for y ou ’re a better man than I. And file the name David Lindley. His talent as a session man rivals that o f Browne as singer/songwriter. If he doesnt outdo the likes o f Bromberg and the other sideliners who made good (including Robertson & Allman) then you can have a 12-month subscription to Readers digest. i— i

...so then we may die GRIEVOUS ANGEL: Gram Parsons. (Reprise) ROB KING HERE is much sadness in music, and many people listen to and enjoy sad music. There are otherworldly qualities in sadness which make it an ap­ pealing emotion. But when a writer o f sad songs dies, perhaps o f his own hands, then it is the worldly pain and suffering which surfaces. The im­ mediacy of the suffering is in focus. Suddenly it seems not that pain ennobles man, but simply that it overcomes him Such is the case with Gram Parsons. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that Parsons lived an often tortured existence. There would perhaps be a moral to be drawn from discovering the reason why, but I doubt it. He was a romantic, whatever, in the 70s style. Maybe he lived and died in the service of ideas which are illusions, to love without guile and to be true to oneself. Grievous angel is the title o f his last album, and it seems to em­ bod y an almost weary acceptance that he must follow his path until the end, no matter how desperate it might become. He joined The Byrds for a short while in 1968. He had been trying to popularise country music among younger musicians, and The Byrds were the first group to understand him When he left them, he took with him the impressionable Chris Hillman,

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which emerges is guilt - unsophis­ ticated, mid western, protestant guilt. There are songs about meet­ ing at the dark end o f the street, about a lover who is a devil in disguise, and about Sin City (San Francisco). Perhaps it was Parsons’ titanic, and ultimately unsuccessful, strug­ gle against this guilt which at­ tracted Jagger and the Rolling Stones to him. It is said that Wild

the most beautiful o f love songs, horses, a song about the infliction and the endurance o f pain in a as in Brass buttons. The warmth and vitality o f a love affair which personal relationship, was written fo r Parsons. He recorded it well has passed is recalled in the mem­ before it appeared on Sticky fin­ ory o f objects and scenes. It is in gers, and it became the central Parsons’ temperament to direct piece for the Burritos’ second our thoughts to the transitory nature o f the affair, and to the album. In the Grievous angel, death is fragility o f his own sense o f con ­ ever present as the final solution, trol. And yet only that which has the ultimate repose. Thousand been experienced can be lost, and dollar wedding, the groom looks the one is as real as the other. about him with mounting concern This is what makes Gram Par­ as the guests furtively exchange sons a greater artist than those notes, and the bride does not whose music he sort to promote. arrive. Finally the groom ’s friends It is not his death which makes take him to a hotel, where, under him great, although, ironically, it the anesthetic o f alcohol, they does affirm that he is real - an explain to him the lies and decep­ elusive quality in the world o f tions he has lived with. In the modern music. mounting depression, the question Parsons is prone to rouse him­ is asked: why doesnt someone self from reflection with the odd spike his drink, why dont we do uptempo tune. This was more him in? A nd so is proposed an act frequent in earlier years, but there o f mercy, a last alleviation o f are tw o tracks on Grievous angel suffering. which get it on a little. True to his In the Sweetheart o f the rodeo, equivocal nature, one o f the songs Parsons selects a Merle Haggard he chooses to give the rocking song with a similar theme, L ife in treatment to is Tom T. Hall’s I prison. A man, given a life sen­ can’ t dance, a wry and good tence fo r first degree murder, humored lament along the lines wakes up every morning hoping the title suggests. that he will be killed instead. But There are similarities between he knows that this will not hap­ Parsons and James Taylor. But pen for death to him is no punish­ whereas, in the west, Parsons was ment, only release. And although let to run his course, in the east, he prays for this release, his guilty Taylor was preserved and honored soul accepts as inevitable the tor­ as a monument to human suffer­ ment which is its due. ing, his success unable to suppress While on paper these kind o f the lines o f anxiety and despair obsessions might seem morbid and drawn across his face. It seems to woven into the life affirming me that, however you value sounds o f acoustic guitar, man-' human life, the fate o f Gram dolin and violin, they are simply Parsons is preferable to that o f the revelations o f life’s delicate James Taylor. i— i child. There is a sense o f loss in

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BANG THEY’RE BUSTED A Y M cRoach suggest that all smokers maintain one minute’s silence in memory o f this week’s smuggling busts - a lo t o f good dope never got in. Approximately $3000 worth o f genuine buddha sticks were discovered b y Tullamarine airport quarantine officers last week. The sticks were glued in a cavity in one com er o f a table. Customs said it was the first time this method had been used to smuggle drugs (what customs really meant is that it's the first time they’ve discovered this m ethod) and one officer said, “ It was cunning and unique.” McRoach said, “ It was a b loody shame.” Meanwhile, on the same week­ end, over at Melbourne’ s outer west station pier, customs officers arrested a New Zealander on board the liner Marconi and charg­ ed him with attempting to smug­ gle 28 pounds o f cannabis into Melbourne. From Perth comes news o f this bust: “ A bit o f news which might interest you. My sister’ s husband got busted in Perth fo r possession o f four grammes o f marijuana,

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and was fined $500. This is five times the Melbourne standard fo r the same charge. A guy w ho was with them copped $1000 fo r pos­ session o f 13 seedlings and 500 seeds. “ Bail was set at $500, and my sister comments that it seems that when you get busted, in Perth, they try to make the fines so heavy that you have to serve the sentence. She says that the magistrate took the whole busi­ ness very seriously, despite the fact that he was supposed to be a lenient guy.”

DOPE ACTIVISTS WHERE ARE YOU? cROACH is pleased to re­ port that AUS is organising what they call a “ tw o phase” marijuana campaign. AUS say their campaign will: “ . . . initially focus on inform a­ tion collection offences, penalties, police violence and civil liberties — and inform ation dis­ semination. Posters comparing penalties with those for other ‘ crimes’ and ‘ what to d o when busted’ posters will be distributed as well as findings on police activ­ ities and the law.” AUS are also proposing a na­ tional conference to unite activists and plan legalisation tactics.

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cROACH has observed many smokers who go to a lot of trouble with smoking gimmicks which, besides M being awkward to prepare, often result in a harsh, inferior toke. Cheap small pipes and poorly designed fancy chillums fit this category — M cRoach prefers the good old well prepared joint or a well cared for hookah. This week, McRoach has uncovered the “ ultimate” smoking gimmick dubbed after its demonstrator as the Bosco Bomb. The “ Bom b” is useful as a social stimulant, but its EXPLOSIVE nature can result in a good deal of wastage of precious dope.

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GRAMMAR BOYS N POT! 5 suspended DOPE FINK OF THE WEEK AWARD cROACH has not hesitation in presenting this week’ s award to certain prefects at the “ exclusive” Sydney Grammar school. These prefects busted six form students smoking dop e in Hyde Park during their lunch break. According to a pupil w h o witness­ ed the sad events, the prefects “ took tw o kids to the head­ master’ s office where they were questioned. The prefects then rounded up another three pupils and all were expelled.” The pupil also said that later another stu­ dent was caught for possession and tw o more admitted smoking after “ close examination” . Sydney Grammar school head­ master Mackerras, spoke to drug squad detectives on tuesday m orn­ ing. Mackerras maintains: “ I dont believe I have heard the whole truth. When you stir a pond a lot o f mud com es up. I believe the five boys are directly concerned but so are several others who I think have information. I believe they are holding back inform ation about the incidents. A nd I am concerned the boys have a source for the drug.”

n o t h e r w e e k , another poll on dope, this week courtesy o f Melbourne Truth who “ sought opinions on the permis­ sive society” . The survey revealed that 15 percent o f the com m unity thinks that marijuana should be legal compare this to last week’ s Mel­ bourne Herald survey which gave a comparative figure o f ten per­ cent. M cRoach studied the reports in great detail and arrived at these conclusions. 1. The tw o reports reveal that, over a period o f one week, the percentage o f those w ho consider marijuana not wrong has increased by 50 percent, from ten to fif­ teen. If the increase continues at this rate we should see the entire population o f Australia in favor o f

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DOPE LYRIC OF THE WEEK

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ACTIVISTS in NSW, SA, WA, Tas., and NT - M cRoach wants to hear from you.

DOPE QUOTE OF THE WEEK OES TO Trinity, a 22 year old woman who, according to Melbourne Truth's latest drug expose, The road back from hell, married a pusher but then realised she was more in love with his dope. Trinity told o f the time her husband to o k delivery o f a coffee table leg o f solid hashish smuggled into Australia. Trinity said, “ Everyone was smashed fo r days, even the dogs.”

IT HAS been announced that a Marijuana A ction Group will co m ­ mence organisations in this sterile city. Briefly, the Canberra MAG intend to: Issue a dope information broadsheet; Offer legal and financial assist­ ance and inform ation for busted smokers; Sell cheap dope at La Trobe uni’ s dop e co-op (TLD, 2 /6 ); Set up an extensive publicity campaign to “ remove popular mis­ conceptions about grass from the minds o f the masses” .

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M e lb o u rn e . G u y , 2 4 , slim, hand­ s o m e , like t o m e e t n ice y o u n g girl fo r friendship an d outings. A m lo n e ly . W o u ld have sex o n ly if required . IN C b o x 8 1 2 3 .

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S y d n e y . A ttra ctive, soph istica ted la d y , 3 7 , u n in h ib ite d , d iscreet, wishes t o m e e t sim ilar m an fo r m utual e n jo y m e n t, sensible c o n ­ versa tion and c o m p le te relaxation e tc. INC b o x 8 1 2 9 .

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Form a circle,there’s lustre in a cluster

People of the world get together,you have nothing to lose but your territorial im peritive!So saysVERONICA PARRY,who argues we should drop our shields of frightened insularity and spread our warmth

HE KIDS in our animal be­ havior course got to think­ ing the other day. It’ s a phenome­ non which occurs with remarkable regularity when y o u ’re involved with non-structured learning. It happened out o f a discussion on the film WR: mysteries o f the orgasm — non-structured courses do things like that. We got on to the idea that human beings are social animals and if left to their own devices will innately develop strong social bonds. These bonds are adaptive; they allow us to live full peaceful lives in harmony with the environment. But western society, based as it is on a monied economy, feels itself threatened when man strives to express these innate tendencies. So it works in devious ways to condition us into an asocial de­ humanised form that can be pack­ aged and sold cheap on the slave market. It was felt that this un­ natural breakdown o f our basic social drives has gone to o far. We can see it in all sorts o f horrifying human behavior and if it con ­ tinues, it may lead to the downfall o f our great western empire - the story o f Rom e all over again. It was such an exciting thoughtprovoking thesis that although the idea is not new, I reckon it’ s worth retelling in its biologic light. OK, so we’re social. What does that mean besides going to a lot o f wars, parties and the footie? Lots o f animals are social for all sorts o f reasons. Slaters in a woodheap are social because they all like dark wet places. When you turn over a log and find it crawling with these bugs, it’ s not because they are attending the grand an­ nual slater convention or having a big love in. They’ re simply re­ sponding to the most favorable environment. Each is probably not even aware that there are others o f the same ilk around. I guess we all go to the beach for the same sort o f reasons but that’ s not the basis o f our sociality. Som e animals are social be­ cause by being close together they condition the environment there­ by making it a comfortable place in which to be. One reason why fish school is because all their excrement conditions the water with chemicals and odors that make survival easier within than without. We d o this too; a cozy place with good vibes is usually one where people have been be­ fore. The feeling o f sitting in a chair warmed by someone else’s bottom is much nicer than plonk­ ing on an icy cold one. Animals are also social when it com es time to mate. Y ou could argue that any bi-sexual species is automatically social but the argu­ ment usually doesnt last long when you think o f the con ­ sequences o f two solitary animals mating. After the deed the female fo x or cat pisses the male o ff with the greatest possible speed. Or else as in spiders and praying mantises, she saves the energy and simply eats him. Again humans are known to behave in like manner at times but we neednt labor the point. Some very social animals, how­ ever, have to have lots and lots o f like-minded bodies around in or­ der to mate. Like group sex and

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orgies, the deed is perfected th r o u g h s o c ia l facilitation. Bydgies and sea birds are notori­ ous for copulating en masse. Lastly, some animals are social because their very survival de­ pends upon it. These are the species that can’t clap single hand­ ed; to attempt to d o so fo r long either drives them crazy or they starve to death. Now this kettle o f sociality fits us, the good old hom o sapiens ape that survived in semi-arid savannah plains b y form ­ ing into hunter-gatherer societies. (Will the chauvinist gentlemen readers please note that hunter and gatherer are printed in the same lower case letters — both activities were equally important in our survival. In fact, I’ve heard it said that matrimony grew out o f our need fo r an omniverous diet — a bit farfetched but fun.) So that’s us. For some THREE MILLION years w e lived as hunter-gatherers usually in groups o f 12 to 20 people clustered non-randomly around the place. We shared dominance in fields each was best skilled in and gen­ erally just grooved in on together­ ness via music and ritual. Music is perhaps at the center o f our social behavior. Moving from the rhythm o f the heart, it unites all hearts into a com m on beat — slow and soothing fo r love, fast and frantic for war. The man w ho has no ear fo r music has no soul and is to be treated with suspicion. Shakespeare said some­ thing like that. Music is the ampli­

fier o f m ood. Men go to war by it, adore or appease a G od by it and win fo o ty games by it but always in a tightly bonded spirit o f cam­ araderie. We’re not the only ones. The kookaburras cacophony is used in defence o f territory but like us, they also use these rousing choruses to enhance the family social bonds. As with our hearts, so with our souls. Still today in many tribes, the condition o f each individual’s soul is the concern and responsi­ bility o f the group. If a member loses his soul (western jargon = depression) the group is com pel­ led to help him find it and keep it in good nick through lots o f love and support. What a far cry this attitude is from the way we tackle the problem o f lost souls; either drug ’ em up with valium or stick ’em in the looney bin. How else is man innately so­ cial? He loves to eat, work and play together to such an extent that sheer jo y emanates from these occasions. That’ s what Gibrahn is on about and what people living in communes discover without trying. But now, let’s look at US, the perfect golden product o f healthy western society. You, the fella w h o’s reading this very article on the train or bus. Y o u ’ re pretend­ ing to be engrossed but really it’s likely that your just keeping your eyes busy so’s you w on ’t have to look at that guy or chick o p ­ posite. T o d o so is a no-no, some

culturally conditioned thing to keep you from being human. With apologies to newspaper workers, a blank piece o f paper would d o the jo b just as well, wouldnt it? Music? When’ s the last time you sang with someone and ac­ tually pitched in with the har­ m ony? Or danced in a circle hold­ ing hands? That music is still a staple o f life goes without ques­ tion. But h ow do you get it these days? Some anonym ous jock modulates the top ten through the air, it’s picked up by the tranny and goes straight to your brain via you r own private ear plug. Egad! Even ants are given “ music” o f this sort to work by according to T. H. White. Dancing? People dont d o it much these days but with all due respect to Pink Floyd, when they do, it’s usually a mesmerised stomp to an acoustically induced psychedelic trip, an individual mind blowing experience. Most o f the noise from a rock group is near the threshold o f pain so one often wonders where the thrill ends and the agony starts. Who the hell took the spontaneity and togetherness out o f music and movement??? I’ve got a sneaky feeling that some repressed western freak up there is dead scared that if hu­ mans came together again and rediscovered that jo y was a daily event, the system would fall apart. Why else is there such a mania against dope? If you ’ re happy, you may not want to work the

nine to five and if you dont work the nine to five you w o n ’t be able to buy brick shit houses and fill ’ em up with hoovers, tellies and frozen peas. Christ, if you quit consuming we’ re gonners for sure! Can you honestly imagine what' would happen to our industrial empire if people started to cluster again in groups o f 12 to 20 sharing simple things like house­ hold appliances and cars? If peo­ ple bought one Holden instead o f 12, GMH would be bankrupt in­ side a year. And Lord knows what would happen if clusters o f people started talking to one another. Y ou know that the first action in a revolution is to ban groups meeting. As long as the group is just mum, dad and the kids isolat­ ed in their own b o x with the telly at full blast to keep their com ­ munication down to the odd grunt, y ou ’ re OK. And when the pressure cock is about to explode, you can let ’em out to the pub where they’ll get pissed and harmless as soon as possible or let ’ em yell it out at the footie or for the more pious, let ’ em pray it out at church, providing o f course that the church agrees to reinforcing the enslavement procedure. Am I exaggerating this condi­ tioned asocial theme? If so, when was the last time you really had a heart to heart talk with someone, or better yet, when was the last time you really listened to some­ one or simply and silently let your eyes meet another’s. To bring the point home, let me tell you a story. It’ s the 5.45 New York Central to Philadelphia run; same train, same carriage, same faces behind the same news­ papers as there had always been from time dot. Train enters tunnel at 6.02 on schedule but, oh hor­ ror, it stops dead . . . lights go out. Moment after silent tortuous moment goes by in total darkness, broken at last by the gentle m uf­ fled sobs o f one overwrought soul. As a remedy, someone, believe it or not, starts in a timid way to croon We shall overcom e and one by one papers folded and the chorus began to swell in number. Some even struck up a tw o part harmony. Soon time and fear in total darkness disappeared co m ­ pletely as the chant took on meaning and volume. Just at the moment o f honest heartfelt fervor the b lood y lights went on! Instantly, each mouth slammed shut, faces reddened, some coughed a little, all eyes fell and with a mad shuffle o f paper every member immediately re­ turned to his isolated asocial cocoon . This event so typifies the message than an author on human behavior dedicated his b ook to the people o f the NYC 5.45 Philly run. What if every guy reading Day­ lights right now put it down and allowed his eyes to meet with another’s; stranger or friend, no matter. It’ s easy once you try. Y ou would instantly becom e aware o f what it means to be a natural human and even if you can only muster up a wee second's worth, I can guarantee that it would result in a warm tingle and leave you with the desire to try it again. So, go on, what’ s stopping you?

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HESE R E M A R K S assume th a t having an orgasm is a n a tu ra l b o d y event — m uch lik e sneezing — and, lik e m any b o d y events, is a k in d o f re fle x a c tio n . G iven th e rig h t c on di­ tio n s , y o u r orgasm w ill ju s t happen; all y o u w ill have t o do once th e c o n d itio n s are set u p is go alon g w ith it . B ut, in o rd e r to go along w ith an orgasm , y o u have to k n o w h o w to set u p th e rig h t c o n d itio n s . I o ffe r here a set o f exercises w h ic h can d o ju s t th a t. Y o u w ill learn to use

y o u r b re a th in g and c e rta in m o vem en ts to b u ild te n sio n and energy in y o u r b o d y in a p a tte rn w h ic h s im u la te s th e m o vem en ts th a t a u to ­ m a tic a lly precede an orgasm , th a t, in fa c t, have to be p resent f o r c o m p le te orgasm. A s y o u practise th is p a tte rn , y o u w ill begin to get in to u c h w ith e x c ite m e n t, te n sio n a n d o th e r b o d y feelings w h ic h u n til n o w yo u m ay n o t have k n o w n y o u had. As y o u recreate th is e x c ite ­ m e n t and again in y o u r exercises, y o u w ill

learn h o w to a llo w y o u rs e lf t o to le ra te m ore e x c ite m e n t, m o re pleasure th a n y o u c o u ld be fore . F in a lly , I w ill sh o w y o u h o w to ta k e th is increased c a p a c ity fo r pleasure a n d e x c ite ­ m e n t, and jo in w ith y o u r p a rtn e r to d e ve lo p even m ore e x c ite m e n t w h ic h can c u lm in a te in a co m p le te in v o lv e m e n t to g e th e r — b o th p s y c h i­ ca lly and p h y s ic a lly — and in th e e n jo y m e n t and p o e try o f a to ta l orgasm It is possible — w ith tim e a n d p ra c tic e — to

E x c e rp te d fro m th e b o o k T o ta l orgasm b y Jack Lee R osenberg, c o -p u b lis h e d b y R a n d o m H ouse Inc, N e w Y o rk a n d The B o o k w o rk s , C a lifo rn ia .

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Y O U R SUCCESS w ith these exercises w ill be based on h o w m u ch y o u can a llo w y o u rs e lf to get in to u c h w ith y o u r b o d y sensations and y o u r fee lin gs — to relax and open y o u rs e lf to y o u r n a tu ra l fe e lin g o f aliveness and flo w in g energy, th e same energy and aliveness th a t y o u exp erien ce as sexual e x c ite m e n t. F irs t o f a ll, un d e rsta n d th a t th e in fo rm a tio n y o u need is in s id q y o u . As y o u w o rk o n these exercises, y o u w ill e xp erien ce b o d y sensations and perhaps em o­ tio n s th a t seem to spring u p fro m nowhere. Y o u w ill e n c o u n te r feelings w h ic h surprise y o u . such as jo y , e x c ite m e n t, loneliness, fea r, anger and g rie f. I t is im p o rta n t t o realise th a t since y o u are try in g to get in to u c h w ith y o u r fee lin gs, y o u sh o u ld view these experiences as signs o f success, as clear m arkers th a t y o u are g e ttin g deeper in to u c h w ith y o u rs e lf. O fte n people are cau ght b y surprise b y th e stre ngth and th e sudden appearance o f feelings th e y d id n t k n o w th e y fe lt. T h e re fo re th e ir response is t o h o ld on, to resist th e feelings, to w a n t to p u ll b a c k to m o re fa m ilia r g ro u n d , to w a n t to regain c o n tro l o f them selves. T r y n o t to d o this. A g o o d o rgasm presupposes loss o f c o n tro l. L e t y o u r na tura l b o d y re fle x take over. Go w ith y o u r b o d y ; t r y t o get in to w h a te v e r feelings w a n t to com e o u t. T h o u g h such an experience m ay be u n fa m ilia r to y o u a t fir s t, yo u w ill q u ic k ly see th a t y o u r b o d y is o n ly liv in g o u t a n a tu ra l, h e a lth y response and th a t th e strong e m o tio n s y o u n o w fe e l w ill pass in a w h ile . I f y o u w o r k o n these exercises and feel n o th in g — s o m e th in g is w ro n g ; y o u are h o ld in g o n to o tig h t. H o w e ve r, it is d if f ic u lt to speak fo r a n o th e r person. D o n t be a fra id to in n o v a te fo r y o u rs e lf. I f , as y o u w o rk w ith th e exercises, y o u get an im p u ls e o r fe e lin g t o d o a certain th in g d iffe r e n tly th a n I suggest, o r to t r y so m e th in g new — d o it . B u t keep in m in d th e basic p rin c ip le s . S o lo n g as i t leads y o u to w a rd s increased feelings in y o u r b o d y and e m otions y o u c a n 't be o n th e w ro n g tra c k . In fa c t, y o u ve ry w e ll m ay be o n th e o n ly tra c k th a t w ill w o rk f o r y o u . Y o u m a y as w e ll face the fa c t th a t these exercises w ill p u t y o u in to u c h w ith a s tro n g resistance to y o u r ow n pleasure. P art o f th e plan is t o he lp y o u to b u ild a to le rance to pleasure and e x c ite m e n t. Some people feel th a t if th e y re a lly le t go and e n jo y themselves se xu a lly n o w th e y 'll have n o th in g le ft fo r th e fu tu re . In o u r c u ltu re i t is considered " a d u lt " t o p o s tp o n e pleasure and "s a v e " some fo r to m o rr o w . . . i f y o u eat all y o u r cake no w , y o u w o n 't have i t w hen y o u 're h u n g ry so y o u le t it s it a ro u n d u n til i t m o ulds, and th e n y o u d o n t have i t a n y w a y . O thers s e c re tly fe a r th a t th e y w ill d ie o f over-pleasure; in fa c t in some languages th e orgasm is re fe rre d t o as " th e little d a a th ", recognising th e orgasm’ s s im ila r ity to th e u ltim a te " le tt in g g o " — death. I f y o u can id e n tify these fe e lin g s in y o u rs e lf no w , y o u are be ginnin g to get in to u c h w ith h o w y o u 're s to p p in g y o u rs e lf fr o m th e fee lin g o f to ta l orgasm . F in a lly , th e w o rk is an awareness tra in in g exercise. By be g in n in g to experience (n o t th in k a b o u t) h o w y o u m ove, breath e and feel d u rin g in te rco u rs e , y o u w ill get to k n o w y o u rs e lf b e tte r an d w ill open up th e p o s s ib ility o f m o vin g aw ay fro m p a tte rn s w h ic h have p re v i­ o u s ly b lo c k e d y o u r pleasure. Even i f y o u decide n o t to in c o rp o ra te these exercises in to y o u r orgasm ic p a tte rn o r y o u r sex life , b y reading th is y o u w ill have th o u g h t a b o u t w h a t y o u r present p a tte rn is, w h a t y o u feel lik e in in te rco u rs e , w h e re and w hen y o u are tense or tire d and w h e th e r y o u are re a lly w illin g to let y o u rs e lf e n jo y y o u rs e lf. By d o in g th is , y o u w ill have made a big step to w a rd s lo v in g y o u rs e lf a lit t le m o re . Y o u w ill have g o tte n in to u c h w ith w h e re y o u are n o w , and y o u w ill have seen th a t perhaps th e re is a cho ice fo r yo u .

HOW TO WORK SOM E O F th e exercises are to be d o n e alone; others are do ne w ith a p a rtn e r. Y o u w ill be w o rk in g alon e f o r a w e e k o r m o re b e fo re y o u begin w o rk w ith y o u r p a rtn e r. I t is a go od idea to have y o u r p a rtn e r begin his o r her s o lita ry w o rk a t th e same tim e yo u do. T h a t w a y b o th o f y o u w ill be a t a b o u t th e same place w h e n yo u begin y o u r w o r k to g e th e r. H o w e ve r, d o n t w o rk alo n e to g e th e r, o r in any o th e r s itu a tio n in w h ic h y o u 'll have to be aw are o f a n o th e r person. In ste a d , t r y to get y o u r head in to a place w h e re y o u can have a g o o d tim e w ith y o u rs e lf alon e — d o in g s o m e th in g fo r y o u rs e lf, spending tim e o n y o u rs e lf, n o t w a n tin g to a cco m p lish a n y th in g , n o t tr y in g to learn a n y ­ th in g , ju s t a llo w in g y o u rs e lf to " b e " . O nce y o u get in to th e s o lita ry exercises yo u m ay begin to feel som e changes in y o u r b o d y pa ttern s o r m o ve m e n t. Perhaps th e changes w ill be s lig h t at fir s t, b u t th e y 'll be enough f o r yo u to get th e feel o f w h a t th is a p proa ch is all a b o u t. Perhaps y o u 'll pay m ore a tte n tio n to y o u r sexual e xp e rie n ce , fe e l less tense; perhaps y o u 'll b re a th e m o re ea sily; perhaps y o u 'll be m ore aw are o f y o u r o w n fee lin gs. Y o u m ay n o tic e an increase in y o u r fre q u e n c y o f u rin a ­ tio n . W h a t's h a ppen ing is th a t y o u 're o p e n in g y o u r pelvis, y o u 'r e p a y in g a tte n tio n to the sph in cters th a t h o ld th e b la d d e r, and y o u can te ll w h e n th e y 're tig h t. As y o u re la x th e m y o u feel as i f y o u have to u rin a te m o re o fte n , so y o u m ay have to in te r r u p t y o u r exercises. D o n t w o rr y a b o u t it. A n increase in fla tu le n c e is also a sign o f lo o se n in g y o u r in te rn a l stru c tu re s . A lo t o f th e c o n tro ls th a t w e n o rm a lly keep on o u r bodies and w h ic h m akes us a d u lts, as opposed to c h ild re n , begin to le t go. T h is does n o t mean th a t y o u c a n 't get c o n tro l o f th e m again. I t m e re ly means th a t y o u 'r e b e g in n in g to feel th e m again, ju s t as y o u w ill begin to feel sexual experiences m ore . . . instead o f tu rn in g th e m o ff . O nce y o u be gin to fee l these changes, y o u 'll be re a d y to begin w o rk w ith a p a rtn e r. T h e fir s t th in g to d e cid e is w h o to w o rk w ith . I t m ay surprise y o u th a t I S U G G E S T N O T W O R K IN G W IT H Y O U R M A T E OR U S U A L S E X P A R T N E R . B u t y o u s h o u ld co n ­ sider th is . T h e change can add s o m e th in g to th e le a rn in g process and can lead y o u to a vo id some o f y o u r set p a tte rn s and b la m in g games. A lso , w h e n y o u re tu rn to y o u r m ate f o r in te rco u rse , y o u w ill have less chance o f tre a tin g th a t loving , caring, e x c itin g s itu a tio n as an exercise. I am n o t tr y in g in an y w a y to ta k e y o u fr o m y o u r n o rm a l sexual p a rtn e r. T h e p ro g ra m is in te n d e d to add to y o u r pleasure, n o t separate y o u fr o m y o u r loved one. B u t I have fo u n d th a t w h e n tw o pe ople are used t o each o th e r, th e y te n d to b rin g o ld p a tte rn s o f response in to new situ a ­ tio n s ; th is can in h ib it th e new p a tte rn s o f m o vem en t y o u are tr y in g to develop. W h e th e r y o u w o r k w ith y o u r m ate o r n o t, it is v e ry im p o rta n t th a t y o u w o r k w ith som eone w ith w h o m y o u fe e l q u ite c o m fo rta b le . Unless y o u are a t ease w ith y o u r p a rtn e r, unless yo u feel a b s o lu te ly no d e m a n d o r e x p e c ta tio n fo r help, y o u w ill n o t be able to le t go in to y o u r o w n e x c ite m e n t an d e n jo y m e n t. Y o u m a y end up pleasing o r p e rfo rm in g o r w a itin g fo r som e­ one else to p ro ve so m e th in g fo r y o u . I t w ill n o t be necessary to be c o m p le te ly nude w ith y o u r p a rtn e r, and y o u w ill n o t have any ge n ita l c o n ta c t d u rin g th e exercises. T h e illu s tra tio n s in th is a rtic le are d ra w n in th e nude so th e b o d y m o vem en ts can be sh o w n m ore c le a rly . These c o n sid e ra tio n s m ig h t m a ke it easier fo r y o u to w o rk w ith som eone o th e r th a n y o u r m ate. D o n t o v e rlo o k th e p o s s ib ility o f w o rk in g w ith som eone o f th e same sex; i t m ay be easier to f in d som eone o f y o u r o w n sex w ith w h o m y o u w o u ld feel c o m fo rta b le w o rk in g a n d w h o w o u ld share y o u r in te re s t in d o in g these exercises.___________________________________________

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By th e w a y , i t can be a go od idea f o r tw o couples to w o rk to g e th e r, b u t d o n o t w o rk w ith m ore pe ople th a n th is , o r th e g ro u p exp erien ce w ill take ove r; y o u w ill lose th e sense o f y o u r o w n d e ve lo p m e n t. These exercises are fo r y o u r awareness tra in in g ; th e y are to be d o n e s lo w ly and w ith a great deal o f awareness o f w h a t is ha ppening inside you. K eep y o u r exercises and y o u r sex life separate, b u t fre q u e n t, and hope­ f u lly b o th w ill get b e tte r!

WHERE TO WORK P IC K A ro o m o r a space th a t y o u lik e . . . w hen w o rk in g w ith a p a rtn e r, th a t y o u b o th lik e . It sh o u ld be som ew here y o u w ill n o t be d is tu rb e d , e ith e r b y an in tr u d e r o r b y to o m u ch noise. T h e te m p e ra tu re in y o u r space sh o u ld be " b o d y w a rm " so y o u can s lip o u t o f y o u r clo th e s w ith o u t goosebum ps, a n d so y o u can move w ith o u t sw eating. L e t's assume y o u have p ic k e d o u t y o u r space a nd are n o w sta n d in g in i t . L ie d o w n o n y o u r b a ck f o r a m o m e n t. W hat d o y o u hear? M u sic, t r a ffic o r co n versatio ns w ill keep y o u fr o m cle a rly he aring yo u rse lf. A lso , e x te rn a l sounds lik e m usic w ill in te rfe re w ith th e d e v e lo p m e n t o f y o u r in te rn a l rh y th m s . T r y f o r a tim e o f day in y o u r space w h e re b a c k g ro u n d noise is a t a m in im u m . T h e flo o r is u s u a lly th e best place t o w o rk , th o u g h a bed w ill d o i f i t is a ve ry large one. If y o u use a b e d , m a ke sure y o u ca n n o t feel lik e y o u 're go in g ove r th e edge. Perhaps y o u can m ake a d o u b le bed d o f o r exe rcisin g alo n e . I re a lly feel th a t a n y bed sm a lle r th a n kingsize w ill n o t do f o r y o u and y o u r p a rtn e r to g e th e r. In fa c t, I p re d ic t y o u w ill end u p w o rk in g o n th e f lo o r a n y w a y . It a llo w s m o re ro o m fo r m o ve m e n t, and m o re s ta b ility fo r th e g ro u n d ­ ing exercises. A n o th e r a rg u m e n t in fa v o r o f w o rk in g o n th e flo o r : it w ill h e lp to keep th e exercises separate fro m y o u r sex life (assuming y o u d o th a t m o s tly in b e d ). A ls o , f o r persons w o rk in g o u td o o rs : o n a b e a u tifu l, m o dera te d a y n o th in g c o u ld be b e tte r!

ABOUT TIME I S A ID e a rlier th a t y o u w a n t to w o rk in a space w h ic h w ill b rin g y o u m in im a l e x te rn a l s tim u li. T h is th o u g h t ap plies to in te rn a l b u t extra n e o u s s tim u li as w e ll, such as a lc o h o l, to b a c c o or grass. D o n o t in d u lg e in s tim u la n ts o r depres­ sants b e fo re e xe rcisin g ; th e y w ill ju s t ta k e y o u aw ay fro m y o u rs e lf and y o u r e ffo rts w ill be w asted. T h e best tim e to d o th is w o r k is w h e n y o u are calm and clear. I f y o u have a heavy a p p o in tm e n t t o rush o f f to in an h o u r, i t ’ s n o t a g o o d tim e t o start exercising. M a ke a nich e o f tim e and space a ro u n d y o u rs e lf, lu x u ria te in it — tre a t y o u rs e lf. It's best to w o rk c o n s is te n tly f o r several w eeks. F o llo w y o u r fe e lin g s, o f course, b u t a llo w fr o m th e s ta rt a w a y t o w o r k at least once a d a y fo r tw o w eeks, th re e w eeks, o r ho w e ver long u n til y o u feel y o u have it . O nce yo u get sta rte d , y o u 'll u n d e rsta n d w h a t " u n t i l y o u feel y o u have i t " means. R ealise th a t eve ry person is u n iq u e ; each takes his o w n rig h t a m o u n t o f tim e . S om e p e ople w ill need o n ly o n e series o f b re a th in g exercises and th e y 'v e g o t it . O thers w ill be slo w e r g e ttin g th e ir r h y th m to g e th e r. W h a t y o u w ill be w o rk in g fo r is g e ttin g a sense o f y o u r o w n n a tu ra l r h y th m I f seven o r eig h t sessions leaves yo u u n c e rta in w h e re y o u are, com pare notes w ith y o u r fu tu r e p a rtn e r (th e person y o u w ill be w o rk in g w ith o n th e to g e th e r exercises, w h o is n o w also w o rk in g a lon e). T h e m o re relaxed y o u are and th e m ore fre q u e n tly y o u practise, th e soo ner y o u sho uld be ready fo r w o rk in g w ith a p a rtn e r. A ll th e exercises y o u w ill b e d o in g go in a sequence, w o rk in g alon e o r w ith a p a rtn e r. We a lw ays s ta rt at th e head, go to th e eyes, d o w n to th e ja w and th e m o u th , th e n w e go to th e neck, th e u p per chest . . . th e n s y n ch ro n isin g th e b re a th in g (ch est-a bdom inal b re a th in g ), th e n

have orgasms th a t are n o t lim ite d in fe e lin g to y o u r g e nital area alone, b u t th a t f i l l y o u r e n tire b o d y and psyche; orgasms th a t w ill leave y o u no urishe d and f u lfille d as never b e fo re ; orgasms w h ic h are n o t fo rc e d in any w ay, b u t w h ic h are a n a tura l b o d y event. In fa c t, as y o u practise these exercises, y o u m ay com e to see th a t pre vio u sly y o u a tta in e d an orgasm b y p u s h in g on y o u rs e lf, and th a t th is ve ry p u shing b lo c k e d a n y in te n s ity in th e orgasm w h ic h re sulted. These exercises d o n t p re te n d t o be th e ra p y o r s u b s titu te fo r th e ra p y . T h e y are an e c le c tic c o lle c tio n o f useful to o ls ; w h a t h o ld s th e m to g e th e r is th a t th e y w ork. M o s t sex manuals te n d t o c o n c e n tra te y o u r a tte n tio n u p o n pleasuring y o u r p a rtn e r; / w a n t to s h o w y o u h o w to give plea sure to you rself. W h ile i t is desirable to b rin g pleasure t o a p a rtn e r, i t is easy to fa ll in to a "p e rfo rm a n c e tr a p " w h e re y o u fin d y o u rs e lf a lw ays w o rk in g to please th e o th e r person. In m y exp erience, th is is a good means o f increasing y o u r te n s io n , b u t n o t y o u r e n jo y m e n t o f sex. I t can be in ju rio u s to b o th persons i f i t s h ifts th e re s p o n s ib ility o f e x c ite m e n t to som eone or so m ething else. Special h e a lth pro b le m s are be yo n d th e scope o f these rem arks a n d sh o u ld be b ro u g h t to th e a tte n tio n o f a th e ra p is t. N o w le t's begin.

JACK LEE ROSENBERG to th e pelvis, th e n b rin g in g th e energy d o w n in to th e legs and g ro u n d in g i t , le ttin g y o u get th e feel o f energy in y o u r f e e t . . . th e n b a ck up to w o rk w ith th e s y n c h ro n is in g o f all these m ovem ents tog ethe r. *

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F R E Q U E N T L Y , in de scribing th e exercises, I fo u n d m yse lf saying " h e o r she th is " o r "h a v e h im o r her do th a t " w h ic h becam e im p o s s ib ly clu m sy. T h e s o lu tio n I chose is t o m o s tly use he in th e b o o k w hen I mean w h ich e ve r ge n d e r fits y o u r s itu a tio n . I f y o u , th e reader, are w o rk in g w ith a w o m a n , in y o u r m in d s u b s titu te she everyw here I say he, etc. A n d bear w it h me. We need a new p ro n o u n fo r m in th e language, b u t th a t's an u n d e rta kin g to o b ig fo r m e!

BREATHING & MOVEMENT T H E T Y P E o f b re a th in g th a t I w a n t to encourage y o u t o t r y in these exercises is called dia p h ra g m a tic breath in g. W ith th is ty p e o f b reath in g y o u get a m a x im u m a m o u n t o f a ir w ith a m in im u m a m o u n t o f e ffo r t, using b o th y o u r chest and y o u r a b dom e n. T h e d ia p h ra g m is p u lle d d o w n , th e chest is exp ande d and th e b e lly is pushed o u t, p u ttin g th e greatest pos­ sible vo lu m e o f a ir in to th e lungs. In a h e a lth y b o d y , rh y th m ic a l p e lv ic m ove­ m e n t is an inte gral p a rt o f b re a th in g . T h e re fo re , y o u w ill fin d th a t m y exercises em phasise helping yo u learn h o w to c o o rd in a te y o u r p e lvic m o ve m e n t and y o u r b re a th in g to g e th e r. T h e rh y th m o f sex requires an e x h a la tio n w ith every fo rw a rd sw ing o f the pelvis. I f yo u in h a le d u rin g fo rw a rd m o vem en t, y o u r d ia p h ra g m co n tra cts and prevents th e " le t t in g g o " in th e abdom en necessary f o r org a stic release. F u r­ th e r, i f y o u h o ld y o u r pelvis rig id ly , p ro p e r breath in g c a n 't ta k e place, because th e pelvis p a rticip a te s in every bre a th cycle . In th e e xe r­ cises fo r p e lv ic ro c k in g , y o u w ill p ra c tic e th is p rin cip le . T o check o u t y o u r o w n b re a th in g p a tte rn , y o u m u st fir s t fig u re o u t h o w y o u sto p y o u rs e lf fro m m a kin g a c o m p le te o r f u ll e x h a la tio n ; th a t is, how yo u use muscle c o n tra c tio n s to in h ib it a fu ll e xh a la tio n . In th e exercises, I call th is tra in in g th e b re a th in g p a tte rn . The w o r k is slow , and a great deal o f c o n c e n tra tio n is re quire d to pay a tte n tio n to h o w y o u 're m o vin g and h o w y o u 're b re a th in g . Y o u 'll fin d th a t y o u progress in steps o r levels; y o u 'll p e rio d ic a lly reach a plateau w here n o th in g seems to be happening, w h e n all o f a sudden y o u w ill break th ro u g h and m ove on fr o m th e re . Y o u r p r o b ­ lem w ill lie in try in g to go to o fast, and in going be yond y o u r b o d y 's level o f to le ra n c e f o r th e increased o x y g e n a tio n and increased feelings th a t com e w ith " le tt in g go” and w ith deeper breathing. T h e re fo re , w h ile a t fir s t i t m ay seem as i f lit t le is happening to y o u , y o u have to a llo w tim e f o r y o u r b o d y to ove rcom e its o ld patterns. As y o u w o rk th ro u g h th e exercises, y o u m ay fin d th a t each new one brings a new flo o d o f e m o tio n s, w h ic h in te rru p ts y o u r n e w ly estab­ lished sm o o th b re a th in g and m o vin g p a tte rn . This is w h a t y o u s h o u ld lo o k fo r a n d p a y a tte n tio n to W h a t is ha ppen ing is th a t y o u r b o d y is " le tt in g g o " o f an o ld p a tte rn o f te n sio n . T h e e m o tio n y o u feel is energy released as th e p a tte rn is b ro k e n . Y o u w ill w a n t to stay w ith th e e m o tio n u n til i t subsides, to a llo w it to be expressed f u lly . W hen a new e m o tio n com es u p , sto p , go back to a place in th e exercise sequence th a t feels c o m fo rta b le and move th ro u g h th e sequence again fr o m th is safe, c o m fo rta b le place, w a tc h in g y o u r b re a th ­ ing p a tte rn closely. R em e m be r, y o u r breath in g is y o u r " fe e lin g th e rm o m e te r"; so pay close a tte n tio n to it . _

a fte r repeated a tte m p ts — bre a k th ro u g h th e te n s io n , fre e in g th e area. W o rk y o u r w a y th ro u g h each exercise in th is m anner. L e t y o u r b re a th p a tte rn , n o t y o u r "p ro g re s s " th ro u g h th e exercises, be y o u r gu id epo st.

EXERCISING ALONE

I W O U L D lik e n o w to in tro d u c e y o u to some o f th e e x p e rim e n ts and exercises I have developed fo r w o rk in g alone w ith y o u r b re a th ­ ing, m o vem en t and energy flo w . These exercises are done in sequence; y o u m ay have tro u b le g e ttin g th ro u g h th e m a ll in one session. W hen y o u 'v e do ne th e m all once, y o u m ay decide th a t some are n o t as useful as o th e rs : s k ip th e m i f y o u w ish. T h e ove ra ll sequence o f exercises w o rk s fro m th e head d o w n to th e fe e t, the n back up. Y o u w ill de ve lo p y o u r o w n sense o f h o w lo n g to practise each one. I t sh o u ld ta ke a b o u t tw o hours to d o eve ry exercise p ro p e rly in sequence. It is m o st im p o rta n t th a t y o u establish y o u r b re a th in g p a tte rn th ro u g h th e b re a th in g exercise and experience some tin g lin g b e fo re y o u r go o n to th e m o v e m e n t exercises. Y o u sho uld do these exercises s lo w ly and w ith a great deal o f a tte n tio n and awareness. T ry to im a g in e th a t y o u r awareness is som e­ th in g lik e a s ea rchligh t going over y o u r b o d y , so th a t w hen I ask y o u to be aware o f som ething , y o u b rin g y o u r to ta l a tte n tio n . . . y o u r search­ lig h t . . . to th a t area. E xperie nce th a t area in re la tio n s h ip to th e o th e r areas; i t becomes an illu m in a te d fig u re o n a da rk ba ckgrou nd.

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FREEING THE NECK & CHEST \

Place on e ha nd o n y o u r che st and one hand o n y o u r a b d o m e n as y o u b re a th e . T h e re sh o u ld be a rise in th e che st a n d th e a b d o m e n , th e n a collapse, a le ttin g go, o f th e che st and th e ab dom e n d o w n again. Id e a lly th e chest begins th e w ave, th e n th e b e lly rises; a t th e crest o f th e w ave b o th che st a n d a b d o m e n le t go fo r e x h a la tio n ; d o n t push, y o u r n a tu ra l b o d y elas­ t ic it y w ill fo rc e th e a ir o u t. T h e sequence is n o t o f great im p o rta n c e h o w e ve r, as long as b o th th e chest and th e b e lly p a rtic ip a te f u lly in y o u r in s p ira tio n and e x p ira tio n . Some p e ople are a b d o m in a l b re a th e rs; th e y n a tu ra lly f ill th e ir ab d o m e n firs t. T h a t's o k a y to o . T h is m o vem en t sh o u ld flo w in a s m o o th w ave so th a t it goes d o w n y o u r e n tire b o d y , and w ith p ra c tic e it w ill. C o n tin u e th is b re a th in g awareness u n til y o u feel c o m p le te ly re la xed and are b re a th in g easily.

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F ir s t o f a ll, w h ile y o u are ly in g on th e flo o r o r o n a b e d , feel i t push up against y o u , and the w e ig h t o f y o u r b o d y pu shing d o w n against it. Y o u r knees sh o u ld be u p ; fe e t fla t on th e flo o r. N o tic e w h a t parts o f y o u r b o d y to u c h the flo o r . Pay a tte n tio n to any area th a t seems to be tense in y o u r b o d y . T ig h te n th a t area as m u ch as y o u can and exaggerate th e ten sion. N o w le t it go c o m p le te ly . As y o u do th a t, exhale. Tense as y o u inha le, re la x as y o u exhale. N o w b rin g y o u r a tte n tio n to y o u r face. T ry to fe e l y o u r fa c ia l expression. Pay a tte n tio n to th e te n s io n in th e m in u te m u sculature o f y o u r face. W hat is th e fe e lin g y o u are expressing w ith y o u r face? E xaggerate th a t expression . . . tense it to its u tm o s t. See w h a t i t is th a t y o u r face is expressing. G ive th e expression a vo ice as if it co u ld ta lk . Y o u r face m ay say: " I am te n s e " o r " T h is is s illy " , o r " I 'm w o r r ie d " etc. L e t th e m com e o u t o f y o u if th e y w a n t to — th e n let the expression go. As y o u d o th is , exhale th o ro u g h ­ ly fo u r o r fiv e tim e s. T h en begin to breath e s o ftly , being sure th a t th e e x h a la tio n is n o t fo rce d b u t ju s t a le ttin g go. Y o u can feel th e a ir co m in g in y o u r th ro a t, in y o u r m o u th and in y o u r head. Pay a tte n tio n to y o u r b re a th in g and to y o u r bre a th — n o t to w h a t i t does, b u t to w here it com es in and w h e re i t goes o u t o f y o u r b o d y . A llo w th e a ir to move in to y o u r b o d y th ro u g h y o u r nose. E xhale and feel th e stream o f i t w ith y o u r hand. Pay a tte n tio n to y o u r chest. D o y o u keep y o u r chest exp ande d w hen no a ir is com in g in? O r y o u r stom ach? D o y o u exp and y o u r stom ach on in h a la tio n o r e x h a la tio n ? D o y o u feel th e in h a la tio n d o w n in th e p it o f y o u r stom ach? D o w n to y o u r pelvis? In to y o u r ge nitals? Can y o u feel y o u r ribs e xp and on th e sides? In th e back? M a n y people, up on increas­ ing th e vo lu m e o f th e ir chests, h o llo w o u t th e ir back a t th e same tim e ; thu s th e vo lu m e is n o t re a lly increased. D o n t t r y to change a n y th in g in y o u rs e lf y e t — ju s t becom e aware o f w h a t y o u are doing. Im agine fo r a m o m e n t, th a t instead o f y o u r b re a th in g th e a ir, th e a ir is bre a th in g y o u . Im agine th a t th e a ir is s lo w ly m oving in to y o u r lungs, and s lo w ly is p u lle d o u t again . . . w ith d r a w in g and co m in g o u t o f y o u . Y o u d o n t have to d o a n y th in g at a ll; th e a ir is d o in g y o u r b re a th in g f o r y o u . J u s t experience th is. L e t's im agine th a t y o u r bre a th is flo w in g in to d iffe re n t parts o f y o u r b o d y . As y o u take a b re a th , th e a ir flo w s in to y o u r nose and m o u th . A s y o u le t th e b re a th o u t, it flo w s d o w n in to y o u r pe lvis, in to y o u r hands and in to y o u r b e lly . Im a g in e th a t i t goes th ro u g h y o u r b o d y to d iffe r e n t p a rts w ith each successive breath . S ta rt b y having i t go in to y o u r toes, th e n in to y o u r fe e t, in to b o th legs, com in g up in to y o u r pelvis, and in to y o u r hands, th e n th ro u g h o u t th e rest o f y o u r b o d y , on e p a rt a t a tim e . Im agine th a t th e p a rt o f y o u r b o d y to w h ic h th e a ir is flo w in g expands a lit t le as th e a ir moves to th a t area. F in a lly , as yo u begin to do th is b re a th in g , pay a tte n tio n to th e sequence w ith w h ic h y o u breathe. C hest firs t? A b d o m e n fir s t? * • e t ■#« « mm *.■ «.# .** t * » . * * •

emerge. Just a llo w these to com e up. D o n o t be a la rm e d ; th is is supposed t o be h a ppen ing. I f y o u are pa yin g a tte n tio n y o u 'll n o tic e th is same tin g lin g present in an orgasm , unless it is sh u t o f f b y re s tric te d b re a th in g . K eep b re a th in g ; y o u are b e ginnin g to learn t o to le ra te e x c ite m e n t! T h is fe e lin g o f tin g lin g is present in o u r bodies all th e tim e w hen w e le t go and p a y a tte n tio n to it. It m e re ly means y o u are a liv e ! W hat y o u are e xp erien cing is an exa ggeration o f y o u r n a tu ra l awareness o f being alive.

N o w ta k e a d e e p b re a th an d, w ith o u t e xp e l­ lin g th e a ir, h o ld y o u r b re a th an d m ake th e m ovem ents o f b re a th in g . R epeat th is exercise fo u r o r fiv e tim e s, f illin g y o u r lungs and m a kin g th e m o vem ents o f th e ch e st and a b d o m e n . S to p and rest, and th e n d o th e sequence again fo r fiv e re p e titio n s . T h is exercise frees y o u r dia ­ phragm and starts th e b re a th flo w m o vin g ; it also gives y o u a fe e l f o r the exaggerated m o vem en ts o f b re a th in g , and h o w close t o th is e xa ggeration y o u n o rm a lly com e. Begin t o ad d som e so u n d t o y o u r b re a th in g . As y o u ta k e a b re a th in , im agine th e a ir going c o m p le te ly d o w n t o th e b o tto m o f y o u r pelvis . . . lik e a huge y a w n , in w h ic h y o u f i l l y o u r w h o le b o d y w ith air. W hen i t gets to th e b o tto m le t i t go, open y o u r m o u th , le ttin g th e a ir com e o u t o f y o u ve ry m u ch lik e a sigh . . . a sound o f release . . . (h u h h h ) a c o m p le te ly le ttin g -o u t, le ttin g -g o so u n d . T h e v ib ra tio n in th e th r o a t relaxes and releases th a t area. C o n ­ tin u e to m ake th e so u n d . It does n o t have t o be a lo u d so u n d , b u t yo u s h o u ld e m it a so u n d each tim e y o u b re a th e th r o u g h o u t th e exercise. Keep y o u r m o u th open. A s c h ild re n w e used to m ake sounds all th e tim e , b u t n o w , as a d u lts , we are c o n tro lle d and q u ie t. F o r m a n y p e ople, th e m ere th o u g h t o f th e sexual e xp erien ce w ill cause a gasp and a s h u ttin g - o ff o f so u n d . T h e re is no ru le th a t e x c ite m e n t is s ile n t! Begin t o a llo w y o u r e x c ite m e n t to em erge th ro u g h y o u r sounds. P ractise m a k in g d iffe r e n t k in d s o f sounds. These w ill enhance y o u r re p e rto ire f o r sexual c o m m u n ic a tio n w it h o u t w o rd s . D u rin g in te r­ course, sounds can be s tim u la tin g and e x c itin g to y o u r p a rtn e r, besides being a means o f c o m m u n ic a tio n . N o w y o u have begun to establish a d ia p h ra g ­ m a tic b re a th in g rh y th m , s o u n d in g as y o u exhale. T h e n e x t exercise f o r fre e in g th e neck a n d chest w ill stre n g th e n th is rh y th m , and m ay begin to cause y o u r hands o r o th e r parts o f y o u r b o d y t o tin g le . T h is p a tte rn o f fu ll-to rs o , n o isy b re a th in g and tin g lin g m u s t be k e p t up th ro u g h all th e exercises th a t fo llo w . Each tim e y o u t r y t o exercise a p a rt o f y o u r b o d y th a t is tense, y o u r b re a th in g m a y sto p . I f i t does, go ba ck, reestablish y o u r b re a th in g p a tte rn and tr y . to e x a rc is a th e tense a rea again. .Y o u . cam *-»

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T H IS exercise is used to fre e th e u p p e r p a rt o f th e b o d y , th e che st and th e ne ck. I t is m ost easily u n d e rs to o d i f y o u s tu d y th e hand p o s itio n s , f o r th e y in d ic a te th e m o tio n o f th e shoulders. T o be gin, lie o n th e flo o r w ith y o u r knees up; place y o u r arm s o u t t o y o u r sides, y o u r hands p a lm d o w n . N o w ta k e a b re a th in a nd ro ll y o u r hands and arms u p in th e d ire c tio n o f y o u r head . . . n o tic e y o u r chest w ill com e u p , y o u r b a ck w ill arch and y o u r head w ill ro ll ba ck. N o w ro ll y o u r hands in th e o p p o s ite d ire c ­ tio n and exhale. Y o u r w h o le a rm and sho ulder, neck a n d head w ill fo llo w . R epeat th is fiv e tim e s, ta k in g a b re a th each tim e y o u r ch e st rises an d le ttin g i t o u t each tim e y o u r che st is co n tra c te d on th e fo rw a rd m o ve m e n t. N e x t, d o th e same ro ta tio n o f th e hands, arm s and shoulders, b u t th is tim e change th e m o tio n s o f y o u r head and neck. In o th e r w o rd s , w here y o u r head was ro llin g back n o w it sh o u ld com e fo rw a rd as y o u in h a le , ad d in g pressure t o y o u r chest . . . and w h e re y o u r head was fo r w a rd , it sh o u ld n o w be ba ck as y o u exhale. C hange o n ly th e head and neck m o tio n . D o th is fiv e tim e s. N o w , re tu rn to th e o rig in a l exercise; as yo u d o it n o te h o w m u ch m ore fre e y o u r m ovem ents are. H ere’ s a less c o m p lic a te d exercise to fre e th e chest and neck. T a ke a b re a th and raise y o u r arm s u p and over y o u r head in a high arch, enlarging y o u r chest c a v ity (b reathe in as m uch as possible). As y o u le t y o u r b re a th go, p u t y o u r arms back d o w n . D o th is sequence o f raising y o u r arms over y o u r head as yo u b re a th e in and lo w e rin g th e m as y o u b re a th e o u t fiv e tim es. N o w reverse th e process. A s y o u ta k e a breath in , p u t y o u r arm s d o w n ; as y o u le t y o u r bre a th o u t, raise y o u r arm s in an arch ove r y o u r head. P u t y o u r arm s d o w n again, ta k e a b reath in . Do th is fiv e tim e s. N o w go ba ck to th e o rig in a l w a y , th is tim e le ttin g y o u r arms fa ll (fiv e tim e s ). These exercises are a ll designed to loosen th e che st, and t o get y o u to begin to bre a th e a lit t le m o re d e e p ly.

T h e feelings y o u m ay be e xp e rie n cin g , if th e y are th is close to th e surface, are n o t new. Y o u p ro b a b ly have ju s t been h o ld in g th e m un der c o n tro l b y lim itin g y o u r b re a th in g . Let th e m happen. Begin to p a y a tte n tio n to th e m as th o u g h th e y w ere an in te re s tin g ph eno m e n o n . Le t y o u rs e lf experience w h a t th e y are, b u t avo id th in k in g a b o u t th e m o r an alysing th e m .

Y o u r hands m ay also begin to tin g le . T his w ill c o n tin u e . If th e tin g lin g in y o u r hands gets so great th a t y o u r hands begin to c o n tra c t, y o u 'v e gone to o fa r. T h is m uch b re a th in g is b e yo n d th e scope o f w h a t we w ish to do . S lo w y o u r b re a th in g pace. H o ld in g on to y o u r feelings is o fte n re fle c te d in y o u r hands; th e w ay y o u h o ld y o u r hands o fte n can be an in d ic a tio n o f y o u r feelings. A closed fis t m ay mean anger o r th a t yo u are h o ld in g so m e th in g in ; m a n y p e ople grasp a t th e bed an d h o ld o n to it as th e y approa ch orgasm . T r y n o t to h o ld on as yo u exercise; le t y o u r hands rest o p e n , oalm s up in a re ceptive p o s itio n . T H E E X E R C IS E S so far have been asexual, so as a "side salad" here is a technique fo r the man to kn ow when he has reached " th e p o in t of no retu rn ", w hen he is about to ejaculate. Masters and Johnson, in their w o rk on hum an sexual inadequacy, developed a technique called the "squeeze technique" th a t is designed to train the male to gain more control over his p o in t of no return. B riefly, the technique consists o f th e wom an sitting between the man's legs and stim ulating the man either orally or m anually to the point o f ejaculation. The male tells her th a t he has arrived at the " p o in t o f no retu rn ", and she squeezes his penis by placing her th u m b just below the head on th e side facing her, her index finger just above the ridge of the head on the side away from her, her other fingers below the ridge; she squeezes fo r eight to fifte e n seconds, until his erection is somewhat dim inished. This is repeated fo u r or five times fo r three sessions. By this tim e, the male has learned to recognise his point o f no return. Th e next step is actual vaginal contact. Th e fem ale, now sitting astride the man, stuffs his soft penis into her vagina and w ith o u t moving allows the man to have an erection and to get used to being inside her. Then, when his p o int o f no return comes, she w ithdraw s his penis and squeezes it in the same manner as before. This is done three times fo r three sessions. T h e couple can return to these exercises any tim e the man needs to reinforce his control over th e po int o f no return.

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Bouncing, rocking and cocking the pelvis. Panting. The Belly rest. Squatting. Masturbation..

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Casting the first bin I WOULD like to tell you that I consider your lead story ( TLD 2/10) headlined “ Treasurer’ s trash made me vom it” in very bad taste and approach­ ing the sensationalistic journalism o f the Sydney tabloids or Melbourne Truth. I doubt that leftwing sen­ sationalism is much better than rightwing. Your headline did not have the same emetic effect upon this reader (fortunately for the newsagent) but I made my symbolic gesture o f protest (after being an enthusiastic supporter and buyer since the outset o f TLD), by refusing to buy this issue, although I shall thus never know o f the more delightful pieces which might lurk inside. Otherwise all the best for your paper — a pity I only got stirred to write by a complaint, for I appreciate TLD very much and shall buy future issues if it returns to its revolutionary rather than offensive flavor. (If you feel your analysis o f people’ s garbage is justified' i n . the interests o f the environment, then I hope your writer himself is without sin and his bin is free o f beer cans, contraceptive packaging and empty tins o f dog food .) MIKE WILKINS Coorparoo, Qld

Deliderisation I READ with interest your garbology article (TLD 2/10) and agree, the matter should be looked into in greater depth. And as a garbage man with seven years uninterrupted service to the com munity I would like to share with readers o f Dayligh ts a little o f the miscellaneous information, gleaned from my years o f experience working in the trade. Firstly, let me assure one and all that I have passed m y apprenticeship. The necessary T on Up has been acquired. One hundred and six stitches inserted in my skin to help repair the damage caused by various articles, broken bottles, razors, tins, etc over the years. I can now find little items of value, hidden away, even in the dark­ ness o f a wet Sydney morning. And as the ultimate test, have sometimes sensed that something of value lies beneath the lid o f that nondescript tin and after deliderisation have found the assumption to be correct. The garbage bin as reflection o f life, personal and general is a truism indeed. Positive proof o f the evolution o f our species can be foun d in abun­ dance, b y the study o f garbage. Watch closely the changing trash o f a local girls school. As the years pass, the tampons and sanitary pads and bloodied panties, thrown ou t have increased incredibly, obviously as a result o f earlier puberty. As a sign o f the permissive times the same tins becom e more and more silver lined with empty contraceptive pill packets, sometimes accompanied with heavy written and photographic porno, to add a touch o f color to the teenyboppers trash. The personality o f the garbage bin owner is quite often open to analysis. To quote a few prominent types:

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BIG TINS, with not much inside. Extroverted, with illusions o f grandeur. TWO SMALL tins, side by side — schizophrenic. HIDDEN behind the gate. Intro­ verted, paranoiac. • LEFT OUT on the road. Suicidal. IF THEY are jammed into the rose bushes or at the top o f 20 or so steps. A definite case o f sado masochism could be deduced. Remember when to be a garbage man was just one stop up from being a shit collector? Slowly over a period o f time, the wages crept up, the hours worked crept down, the society around became more affluent. As a result the perks im proved, the Christmas tips increased until the m aterialists lo o k e d on with envy at the goodies showered upon these knight errants. The garbage man is needed: almost everybody can look dow n on him and feel a little more superior and yet he can be respected in some way b y everyone. People grudgingly admire the chap, maybe for his fitness, or his strong stomach, or his ability to laugh at what other people chunder over. Like the Pony Express o f old, the garbage must be collected. These color­ ful adventurers brave the worst of nature’ s elements, fighting daily in a heroic bid to stop humanity stagnating in its ow n filth. So next time you happen to be strolling dow n a suburban street and you notice the garbage cans, lined up like protective sentries, their auras glowing like friendly beacons, meditate for a while. Then see if you can mentally communicate with them. For, believe me, they are all on your side. M.J. STITT Bondi, NSW.

Who’s up who I FIND some surprising similarities between your article on methane power {TLD, 2/11, p.20) and one in Earth garden (EG, no.8, march 1974, p. 44). For example, Daylights says: “ Methane or march gas is the most simple o f the paraffin or methane hydrocarbon group. It’ s lighter than air

but forms an explosive mixture with it which is safer than petrol vapor as far as fire is concerned. The octane and anti-knock value o f methane is higher than petrol and its calorific value, weight for weight, is seventeen per cent greater.” Whereas Earth garden says: “ Met­ hane is the most simple o f the paraffin or methane hydrocarbon group. . . . It is lighter than air and is practically insoluble in water and only moderately soluble in alcohol. Though it will not burn in its pure state, methane forms an explosive mixture with air, though it is safer than petrol vapor as far as fire is concerned. The octane is higher in methane than in petrol. It has a high anti knock value. Its calorific value is 17 per cent greater, weight for weight, than petrol.” I can think o f three possibilities. (1) Both articles are b y the same author. TLD credits Veronica Parry. EC gives no author, suggesting it’ s by either Irene or Keith Vincent Smith. (2) TLD ’s article is based partly on EG’ s. In this case, surely some credit, in the form o f a footn ote or reference is due. (3) Both the authors ( T L D and EG) used the same basic reference to work from , in this case acknowledgment should be made to that reference. I believe TLD should publicise and help increase the readership o f articles o f interest and importance. If, h ow ­ ever, credit belongs to another source, then this should be made clear, not only for purposes o f acknowledg­ ment, but also as a guide for further reference. STEPHEN WILBOURNE Carlton, Vic.

Thank you I’M ANXIOUS. G ood work. Thank you Dutch Fred. Going by the article, the only mushies I have had were silvertops and I had five: no ill effects — great hit — no ill effects. YOUR ENLIGHTENED MUSHROOM. MUNCHING FRIEND

Empty vessel IN Y ER BIN, McKenzie, is the only place for that load o f crap (“ What’ s up sport” , TLD 2 /1 0). The first couple o f

sentences showed promise, maybe Neil should have written it? Neither should you feel encouraged because “ if nothing else you ’ve generated res­ ponse” . I only made it to the middle of the next paragraph before emptying m y stubby all over yer b lo o d y hopeless article, regretfully my Sporting globe copped it too. STONE THE CROWS Kangaroo Flat, Vic.

FM for the people DROWNED ou t b y sound waves (TLD 2 /1 0) or was it the printed word (or w ho let the government get their hands on radio)? Som e o f the chief advantages o f FM (for my m oney) are hi fi quality, low interference and the possibility o f stereo transmission. Perhaps the logical extension o f som ebody’ s sound studio (John Fran­ cis?, Studio 20?, John English? . . . many more) is an FM transmitter. Could there be publishers, jour­ nalists and technicians out there just dying to get together a real radio station? Why wait for 2SM to make it a hit when you can grow your own, eh? A L E X STUART Kinetics Workshop, Newbridge, NSW.

Letters to the people THE SADDEST thing about our super­ society is that it has all but lost what men get together fo r — com munity. We, the masses o f ordinary people o f Australia, need a means o f communica­ tion. It is as simple as that. There is no way in our society that an individual can talk to the rest o f his com m unity except via some mass medium, such as paper, radio or TV. But all existing mass media are control­ led by a few professionals. These few have om nipotent powers o f (1) selec­ tion o f material to be broadcast, and (2) philosophy — or vocabulary or terms o f reference — within which all news or views shall be expressed.

And quite obviously existing con­ trollers o f mass media have vested interests in what is broadcast. They aim to sell their medium and so exclude unpopular or simply individual material. They use their media to advertise for those who can pay: and also therefore tend to avoid criticism or other embarrassment o f actual and potential advertisers. They have political or other ideological axes to grind. There is no means available to the ordinary man to make his views or his news known to the public. We lack something which is basic to to healthy community life, namely, mass-to-mass communication. It is essential for social harmony, social progress and social justice that people know what their neighbors think. Agreements and disagreements aside, much is achieved in the way o f human coexistence if people simply understand how their neighbors think, what they think about, and the terms or concepts in which they think. Since the government collects the taxes and makes the rules, it must be the government’s jo b to provide this basic service, a com munication facility, a mass-to-mass medium. A practical proposal? A means to effecting mass-to-mass com munication is a government-run, no-vested-interests, local newspaper. Just how local? Perhaps a paper with the range o f distribution o f Albury’ s Border morning mail. Trial and error would settle this question. Perhaps the same type o f facility could exist at state and national levels as well. What would the paper contain? Statements, messages, news and views by and on behalf o f individuals. No professional journalists; no advertising; no propaganda from relig­ ious or political groups; just a whole paper o f “ Letters to the people” — from the people. This simple but radical device must help to save us from the accelerating suspicion and estrangement which is destroying our community. PHIL O'CARROLL Albury, NSW.

Guess who’s discovered Tolkien TO ALL you lovers o f wizards, hobbits, goblins, trolls, dragons, elfs, dwarfs, ants, and other fantasy phe­ nomena; good news. J. R. R. Tolkien would have to have been the most talented writer the world has known. I have just finished reading The h obbitt and The lord o f the rings and have found each an enchanting masterpiece. After reading these you will claim that the adventures o f Bilbo and Fredo must be true because n obod y could possess such an imagination to create these adventures. Read these books and write into this column to convey your reactions to the TLD public. D AVID ROSSITER, Nunawading, Vic

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WEEK in a strange town. No ties, no emotional in­ volvement but casual screwing with a horny looking man with a good body. He turns me on just being around him for a few hours. BUT immediately after we meet in the afternoon he wants to screw. I am unaroused. His technique is to bang around my labia with his dick while sucking violently on my lips and tongue - almost to the point o f pain. How to handle the situation? I dont want to just tell him to piss o f f because we enjoy each other’s company ou t o f bed. My reactions are difficult for me to analyse. I feel used but I am using him to get sexual satisfaction. I’d resent him getting more so I want an orgasm for every ejaculation. This “ unemotional” fucking should involve mutual physical pleasure and sexual satisfaction, however I feel degraded that he doesnt bother to arouse me first so that I can also enjoy fucking him. How d o I explain this to him? He has only been in Australia two years, speaks good conversational English but gets lost in philosophi­ cal conversation. I end up telling him that I dont want to fuck him now. He persists so I say OK but slow down, be gentle please, there is no hurry. But this doesnt get the response I want. No gentle turning on — just more passionate kissing and squeezing. N ow that I’ve said I

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will I can’t refuse this thoroughly randy man without seeming like a tease. By now I am starting to feel a little randy — and I pretend to be more. We copulate. He prefers the male dominant — consents to me dominant but he still controls movement and rhythm — I am not enjoying either. I decide to concentrate on bringing him to a quick climax — then I masturbate on his limp dick. By now I am randy enough to want an orgasm This sort o f sexual experience is not good enough even for casual sex. There was n o feeling o f closeness and cooperation in plea­ sure giving and receiving. This is the way I feel but he is happy and satisfied. I try to see the sequence o f events through his eyes: he makes sexual advances, woman says no, he persists with passionate em­ braces, woman consents, acts very randy and wants more after he ejaculates. « This must reinforce in his mind the notion that a woman w ho says “ no” really means “ yes” but w on't admit it. That she likes to play the game o f being seduced. T o take it further, he might get it into his mind that wom en like to be raped. So I think I really ballsed the whole thing up. Not only did I fail to alter his sexual approach I fostered in him a really chauvinis­ tic attitude to women. I w on't fuck a migrant again.

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ANON ITH REGARD to a recent article in you r magazine about the artificial island villages in the Solo­ mon islands, may I say a few words. Firstly, this is probably the first article on any aspect o f the Solom ons that has appeared outside o f an anthropological journal or similar publication. Point being, no one has heard much o f these beautiful islands and now your writer has been there and discovered what a really fantastic place it is. I moved from Brisbane to Honiara (the capital town on Guadalcanal island) with my brother and parents in 1957. I now live most o f the time in Brisbane, b u t the Solom ons remain very firmly my spiritual home. Over recent years, I have toyed with the idea o f publicising the Solom ons to freak travellers, it being (apart from Tim or) the closest foreign, interesting territory to Australia. It is thus within the limited budget o f freak travellers and provides no major language hassle or visa ballsup, being a British Protec­ torate. My unease about publicising the group is the understandable reluctance to introduce travellers o f any kind, because o f the way they fuck up any beautiful place (eg Bali, Katmandu, Penang and a million other scenes). However there is now a sizeable straight tourist trade and it looks as if the Solom ons is no longer to be left alone drifting along at its own mellow rate. T o give some idea o f the scale o f interference tourism brings; when the cruise ship your writer was on visits Honiara, the white population more than doubles. The only problem I can see to a freak traveller trade is the lack o f cheap accom m odation and the fact that the air fare is nothing short o f extortion. O nce you get there, local food is very cheap so perhaps it may be a bring-your-own environment trip and use local shipping once you ’re up there. Honiara is certainly an interest­ ing enough place, but the outer islands are the really interesting places. In the Solom ons are both Melanesians and

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but I think this is a unique cultural want to go to the western Solomons, blend, and com bined with the we just steam o ff as soon as we can. incredibly cosm opolitan expatriate We would be sleeping most o f the population (Fijian, Indian, Chinese, time on the deck o f a boat or in tents English, Australian, etc) really makes or grass huts. It w ould certainly not be the place an interesting example o f Kuta Beach (Bali) style luxury and we racial symbiosis. D ont misunderstand would have to procure and prepare our me; there are really bad interracial ow n food. I imagine people w ould get vibes evident from time to time, but sea sick, possibly the shits and maybe compared to other colonial set ups the fever (if the correct health procedures Solom ons are a Garden o f Eden. were not observed) and they may Consider this possibility, fellow suffer acute culture shock. However, Daylights readers: A bout december a this sort o f venture has definitely n ot plane load o f us gather in Brisbane (say been attempted to date and it would 20 or 30 o f us) and blast o ff for a two be a real experience. or three m onth voyage o f discovery. In Assuming we couldnt travel b e­ Honiara w e live in a tent or grass hut tween the Solomons and Australia by group on the beach outside the town, any means other than the rip o ff we could probably live near villages airlines I w ould say 400 bucks is a and share in the really peaceful life minimum figure. If we charter a Fokthese people lead. After checking out ker from Brisbane it w ould probably all the interesting scenes on Guadal­ save more than 50 bucks on the regular canal, we hire a local inter-island fare. As a final incentive, good s can be trading boat (or if possible, use the purchased tax-free (but not profit free) regular services o f these numerous if they are collected on the plane as boats) and trip o f f to Savo island to see you leave the Solomons. the active volcano and live for a while If there is enough interest shown in on the beach there or stay o n the boat, all the time fishing for fo o d or buying this idea I will go ahead and make the indigenous Megapode eggs and some enquiries about the w hole thing. tropical vegetables from the local So folks anyone who is interested in a market. We could move from island to trip to the Solomons at the end o f this island at our own leisure if we hired year as roughly outlined above, please our ow n boat or as the opportunity1 contact Lloyd Wright at 2765 Moggil arose if we used the “ regular” inter­ Road, Pullenvale 4069, Qld. island boats. For historic interest, the Solomons were first settled b y Europeans almost 200 years before Australia (by the Spanish I think) and w e could fossick around for the remnants o f that early settlement Also another imported curio, w orld war tw o, has deposited its metallic garbage everywhere. A t one stage w e could d o the long sea voyage to some o f the most distant islands in the group, having names like Rennel and Bellona or Sinkiana which are far out places in much more than a spatial sense! They are reminiscent o f islands further over in the east Pacific such as Tahiti. The main feature o f such a sojourn would be that it is self-sustaining; if we are at Santa Isabella and decide we

Activities envisaged include skin diving on coral reefs, climbing into live volcano craters, fishing (if neces­ sary), walking up icy fast flowing streams in search o f Monitor lizards, fossicking for old Spanish artifacts, investigating the battle fields o f the worst and most pointless battles o f the Pacific war, living around villages o f the local Melanesian and Polynesian people, swimming (sea and river), boat­ ing, camping, etc. Y ou name it w e could possibly fit it in. If no one shows any interest in this through your pages, I may try to organise it at university campuses, though I would prefer it o ff campus.

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L L O Y D WRIGHT Pullenvale, Qld.

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Pr in t e d by R ic h a rd N e v il le at 2 Sul liv an street, M o o r a b b i n f o r I n c o r p o r a t e d N ews ag enc ies C o m p a n y P t y L t d , t h e p u bl is h er a nd d i s t r i b u t o r , 1 1 3 Rosslyn street, West M e l b o u r n e . “ C h r is ti a n it y gave Er os poiso n t o d r i n k — he d id n o t die of it , t o be sure, b u t deg e ne ra te d in t o vic e.”