editorial Well folks this is It! Your new improved (we hope) Semper Floreat After nearly half a decade of Semper as a tabloid newspaper we are changing the size. Making what we believe has been a magazine preten­ding to be a newspaper into a genuine magazine - incorporating news material, of course.

We hope that you will like this size - we see a lot of advantages assoc­iated with it and would like to hear your opinions about it.

As about $18,000 of your fees are being spent on producing this maga­zine so not only do we want to make a success of it, but we want your support and help.

Any writers, journalists, cartoonists, photographers, news tps or ideas should direct themselves towards the first floor of the Union building and Semper will endeavour to use your talents.

A page of classifieds will also be in each issue. We'll print any ads at 10 cents per line for students-which should help you get what you're after and will make an interesting page of reading.

contributors Editors:

Business Manager: Typesetter: Photographs:

Cartoons:

Layout:

Julianne Schultz Jane Camens

David Meredith Annmarree O'Keeffe Greg Wolff Mark Wolff Val Dennis Greg Perry Bill Thorpe Ralph Loveday David Wixted Ross Peake Mark Wolff Ron Muir David ParaU.

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Radha Rouse Ron Muir Mark Hayes SameWhittenbar Graeme Brick net Radha Rouse Joanne Smith Trevor Hart Ross Peake Steve Gray Alan Knight

David Meredith Anne Draper Sue Dennis Val R. Dennis Ron Muir John Henderson Bill Holsworth Professor Davies Richard Spencer Brian Josephsen Grant McLennan David McGrath

Cover courtesy of Carol Lawson, of the Playhouse. • . • . Special Thanks.. . . .

to many others and especially to Tim Isles, for being so nice when retrenched.

Watch for the Schonell composition in each is?ue - offering 10 free passes.

All competition entries, classified ads, letters to the editor can bedeposited at the Union Office.

Because of the number of people away after the vac. a number of our regular features will begin in the next issue.

Copy deadline for second issue, Monday 1 March.

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contents Semper Sleuth 3 - 4No More Play in this Playhouse , 5

SemperSleuth • 3 - 4No More Play in this Playhouse 5Women's House - A Place for Women to go for

Comfort 6 -8Books for Prisoners 9.Uni. of Q. Union Finances & Power Structure 10-11Banana Radio - 4ZZZ 13Books:Big Deals 15AUS-YourUnion 16-17Whafson +Activities 18Four Triple Zed on Trial 19Administration + the Uni 20 -21Uni News 32Computers in the U.G .23.Aust. Development Assistance Aijency 24.Classifieds 24Fraser for Lunch 26Joh for Dinner. . 2 7Portrait of Electricity

A short story by Murray Bail 28 -2930 + 56

The Dole Game 31,32,33Timor. 34,35,36

A Short History Camm Exposed 37,38ASpecial Church 39Reviews Records'

Theatre Films Food Books 4 1 . 5 0

ShortStory 51Everything You wanted to know about Yoga

But were too scared to ask.. . . . . 56

Q&mm SCeoCG) THE NEW DEVICE

The newest development in male contraception was unveiled recently at the American Women's Surgical Symposium held at the Ann Arbor Medi­cal Center. Dr. Sophia Merkin. of the Merkin Cli­nic, announced the preliminary findings of a study conducted on 763 unsuspecting male grad students at a large midwest university. In her report, Dr. Merkin stated that the new contracep­t ive-the IPD-was a breakthrough In male contraception. It will be marketed under the trade name "umbrelly".

The IPD (intrapenal device) resembles a tiny folded umbrella which is inserted through the head of the penis and pushed into the scrotum with a plunger like instrument, O.ccasionally there is perforation of the scrotum, but this Is disregarded since It Is known that the male has few nerve endings in this area of his body. The underside of the umbrella contains a spermicidal jelly, hence the name "umbrelly".

Experiments on a thousand white whales from the Continental Shelf (whose sexual apparatus is said to be closest to man's) proved the umbrel­ly to be 100% effective in preventing production of sperm, and eminently satisfactory to the female whale since It doesn't Interfere with ber rutting pleasure.

Dr. Merkin declared the umbrelly to be statisti­cally safe for the human male. She reported that, of the 763 grad students tested with the device, only 2 died of scrotal Infection, only 20 experi­enced swelling of the tissues, 3 developed cancer of the testicles, and 13 were too depressed to have an erection. She stated that common com­plaints ranged ft-om cramping and bleeding to acute abdominal pain. She emphasized that these symptoms were merely indications that the man's body had not yet adjusted to the device. Hope­fully the symptoms would disappear within a year.

One complication caused by the IPD,and briefly mentioned by Dr. Merkin was the incidence of massive scrotal infection necessitating the surgical removal of the testicles. "But this isa rare case." said Merkin, "too rare to be statistically import­ant." She and the other distinguished members of the Women's College of Surgeons agreed that the benefits far outweigh the risk to any individ­ual man.

-Northwest Passage (from Women's Press, Dec. 1975)

A PART OF US AMD SOME OF THEM We've got a new policeman - Detective Senior Constable Kev White has just been appointed to the University. He's not a stranger here, he's been a part time Arts student for three years, do­ing a double government major, and he's contin­uing this year with anthropology, sociology and psychology. So as he puts it, his relationship with students Is "not just a case of us and them -its more a part of us and some of themI"

Detective White has been In the force for thir­teen years now. prior to his appointment here, he was teaching law and government at the Police Academy for nine months, and before that he was a member of the Fraud Squad.

INTO BURNING BUILDINGS

Rumours have been flying that the fire escapes in the Michie Building are unsafe, but a quick in­vestigation has revealed that all has been recti­fied. Apparently what was wrong was that the locks on the fire escape doors prevented anyone from getting into the escapes from the floors of the building, but they have been changed around now so that no one can get back out of the fire escape, onto any of the floors. This is for secur­ity reasons, obviously, and besides, who wants to get into a burning building

DO YOU REALISE THAT

Over 8 million cubic metres of sand is lost from each 20 kilometres of typical south Queensland beach during a severe cyclone season. If dump­ed In one heap this amount of sand would bury the Brisbane Executive Building to a depth of 30 metres and would cover 8 city blocks.

As the University Policeman, Detective White's job involves general criminal Investigations on campus - chiefly assaults and thefts, but basical­ly anything covered under the State laws. He urges students to take basic preventative mea­sures against crime —to mark books and prop- . . . . , _ . erty, not to carry large sums of money arourtd A Y N R A N D B Y A N Y O T H E R N A M E with them, and not to leave valuables In brief cases. 'The trouble with most honest people" he said, "is that they think everybody else is honest." Car thefts have been a big problem in the past, and Detective White emphasises the need to lock cars and not to leave anything valua­ble in them.

His other chief area of concern is the increasing number of attacks on women, most of which occur at the hitching post or on the way to the ferry. He urges girls to travel in pairs, as a girl on her own is a prime target for assaults.

And to help in his job, which after all is to help students, not to persecute them - Detective White asks us to report any incidents or anything suspicious to him. So if you have something stolen, report It straight away — the thief may be caught or it may just turn up as lost property -but either way it can only be traced if someone has reported It missing.

^Detective White wants to make it clear that he's here to help - not only if you have a complaint, but If you need some general advice on legal matters, or if you just want a shoulder to cry on. He's available during the week on the ground floor of the J.D. Story building, and can be con­tacted on: 370 6828, 370 6827 or 370 3333.

Semper Sleuth is willing to bet that a sizeable' proportion of the children bom to Tory fami­lies this year feature the names Ayn Rand" somehow. And If that sounds pretty boring think of the derivations of the names. We may have a campus in 18 years time populated with Roxayns, Joayns, Aynmarees, Aynas and so on, or Randys, Randolphs, Randwicks and on it goes....

ROLLS OF HONOUR

At Its meeting held on 27th November, 1975, the Senate resolved that appropriate recogni­tion be given In the Rolls of Honour to staff and students who gave their lives In the Korean' and Vietnam wars.

Any information regarding the names of staff and students should be forwarded to the Assistant Registrar (Admin), Mr H. B. Green.

. SEMPER SLEUTHS SUPER SILLY PRIZE

This Issues supper silly prize goes to the Presi­dent of the Union Richard Spencer and the Chairman of House Committee, Tony Bellas, for their exemplary conduct above and beyond

• the, call of duty In the creation of a quagmarie outside the union building, just in time for the first vtfeek of semester. They say that the aim was to eliminate the puddles that form there. Little did they realise that Brisbane in January/February is wet and that the truck drivers were planning a strike-so instead of puddles we got a quagmire. These two are real­ly scoring well tiiis time, they also deserve a prize for the erection of the concrete drain poles in the middle of the forum area - no doubt the mosquito breeding association were delighted when they saw the inverted concrete cyclinders with no drainage provisions.

And just to ensure that they get tiie issue's prize - S.S. would like to thank them for mov­ing the union shop to the refectory and thereby (at the time of going to press) meaning that there is no where on campus where one can buy a newspaper.:. no wonder Queensland Uni campus is accused of being ill-informed - sort of like a self fulfilling prophecy.

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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE EMPLOYMENT?

Indonesia is making Its prison inmates work for foreign Imperialists. ANS reports that the generals have allowed the ONODA CEMENT Co. to build a new cement factory near Nusak-embagon Prison Island, where tiie prisoners will mine limestone. Prisoners you see are the only "available" labor on the island (how coin­cidental).

In the Philliplnes the United Fruit Co is using prisoners on Its Tabeco Banana plantation. The Marcos regime gave the Company part of the Davas Penal Colony on which to establish the plantation.

United is also Into keeping Latin Americans oppressed. The company is partially owned by the Rockerfellers and has CIA connections.

U.S. imperialism overthrew the left-leaning Sikarno government in Indonesia in 1964 and has maintained corrupt elites in the Philliplnes since that group of islands was a U.S. colony, back in 1948, not that it has actually emerged from that statusi

ZELMAN'S WELCOME TO FRESHERS

NAME GAME

NOT ONLY are there eight farmers (six in Cabinet) In the Fraser ministry, but there are Ux men who don't like their own first names.

They are John Fraser, John Anthony. Denis Killen, Ransley Garland (he has a point), Albert Adermann and Robert Viner, otherwise known as Malcolm, Doug, Jim, Vic, Evan and lan. Cosily reassuring, don't you think I -^ (

Our Zelman did it again: take a captive audi* ence (3000 freshers) and an 0 Week handbook, and he produces a dreary, pompous rationaliz­ation of his 'non-authoritarian' position.

He might as well have said 'come be pompous with me, young freshers, and shun our student publishers.'

'The picture in fact might suggest that 1 was cheerfully defending the University, but the reality was much' less dramatic than that," he said.

"What the picture is meant to suggest Is some­thing quite different and something for which neither I nor the University stands."

Of course, he had previously tried to.win them over - "I think 1 was a pretty active student at the University of Melbourne (in 1936). I was a member of many University enterprises, in clubs and societies, on the staff of the stud­ent paper.... "

The freshers didn't even look up from their sample bags. Except when Prof. Ron Gates stood up and hitched up his pants some more — such interesting sox.

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NO MORK PLAY IN THIS PLAliiOUSli! WitlNNlf flllNls URGENT: Support Needed for Childcare on Campus

The provision of Child Care Facilities on campus has in the past always been inadequate. This has handicapped significant numbers of students notably female students many of whom have been left with no other alternative but to drop out of their zotixses. The need for Child Care provisions, has been increasing in the past few years. Surveys conducted by the Students Union in 1974 indicated over four hundred children whose parents were students or staff.

Attempts tp cope with the vast number of child­ren r\eed\t\% care have recently been jeopardized by tiie financial cutbacks of the new government. Funding for a child care scheme provided by "the Playhouse" has been indefinitely postponed by the Federal government. The playhouse is a top priority because the other childcare provi­sions are inadequate.

Until 1975 the only provision available wa$ the Campus Kindergarten. The Kindergarten Is run along traditional lines, and caters for fifty child­ren. Of these fifty, one half are to be the children of staff and the other half, the children of. stu­dents. The kindergarten is open from 8.45 - 5.00 and only caters for fixed bookings. The watting list has always been and still is very considerable.

Quite obviously a need existed for other child care facilities. In 1975 two other schemes were introduced and functioned along with the kinder­garten. A Family Day Care Programme was estab­lished. Under this programme children are minded away from campus in small groups at selected private homes. The programme is co­ordinated and supervised by a fujl time co­ordinator and an assistant.

PLAYHOUSE

The Playhouse is located on the ground floor of the Relaxation Block In the Union Complex. The playhouse Is being operated by a director who has a degree, teacher training and one and half years experience in early childhood education. She is assisted by two other staff, one of whom has 2Ji years nursing experience.

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Unfortunately the services provided by the play­house are In jeopardy. During the final semester of 1975 a submission was made to the State Consultative Committeo of the Childrens Com­mission. The submission for financial aid for staffing and equipment was approved at state level but the present austerity measures of the Fraser govt, has meant the postponement of any* funds.

This lack of funding has been a considerable set back for the playhouse. The need for this particular programme of child care cannot be over emphasized. In terms of sheer numbers alone seen in the following table an obvious need exists:

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TOTAL 40 21 68 89

The services and programme tiiat the playhouse had hoped to provide differ from those pro»''ded Under tiie other schemes.

The location means they are readily accessible to parents with the general aim of allowing parents to spend a lot more time with their children, be­tween lectures and in lunch hours. Parenti are encouraged to become involved In their children's activities and help in the planning of their prog­rammes. In many ways this Is a much more enlightened method, helping both children and parents.-

Tbe hours are to be flexible and based on four hour bookings which means children can be cared for shorter intervals rather than for whole days.

The playhouse alms to cater for the whole Uni­versity Community and to provide child care, during vacations between 5-8 at night.

A very important aim of the playhouse Is the de­sire to cater for children with special needs-such as ethnic barriers, "retarded" children and children with physical handicaps. It has been shown that intergration of these special needs children with more privileged children is bene-ficiat to everyone involved.

The playhouse has many other aims, and is int­erested in providing a programme of Childcare that Is enlightened and caters for both children and staff.

Due to the lack of funding there will be little chance of achieving aims. A desperate need exists for donations of toys, equipment and volun­teer helpers. Anyone' willing to help contact Carol Lawson at the Playhouse.

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"We were sipk, and tired of never having any­thing explained to us about what was happen­ing with our bodies, and were angry about go-ing along to doctors who incessantiy gave us moral lectures about our life styles. And so we set to work to set up a Women's Health Centre which not only took care of our bodies but also took Into -account our total health."

A place to get legal advice, to have a pregnancy test, tp get information on accommodation, to have a yoga lesson, to meet people who are agitating for political reform of the taws which oppress women. It's a multi-purpose centre to care for the health of women's minds and bodies.

The Women's Community Aid Association which runs Women's House was the formallsa-tion of a group of women who were Involved in the 'women's movement' in Brisbane and de­cided that something needed to be done to bring all the aspects of women's health togeth­er. A centre was set up at Cairns St., Red Hill, staffed by voluntary workers who began writing submissions to the Labor Govt, for funding.

Thay set up Shelta: accommodation for women on the run from Intolerable domestic situations, and a Rape Crisis Centre where women who had been raped could ring for advice and sup­port They were operating on a grant for Shelta and finally got funding for a health centre and moved to the myriads of rooms on the 2nd floor of 102-106 Roma St. Phone 229 5922, a.h. 3708902.

HEALTH

Free medical advice is given by a qualified doctor between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. The bulk of appointments have been to discuss gynaecological problems, cystitis, con­traceptive advice and to have smear tests and pregnancy tests.

fhe difference between this health service and others is that the doctor attempts to demystify bodily, processes and to disseminate as much knowledge as possibly to the women seeking help. A .woman learns how her own pregnancy test Is done and watches its progress, thus becoming more avvare of her body and more secure in the knowledge that she can control it.

As the collective wrote in an article for the Royal Nursing Federation Journal, It is "essen­tial forwomQn to know how their bodies work,' Mrfiat the warning signals for different condi­tions are, how to feel comfortable about exam­ining their own breasts for cancer, where they aren't automatically called neurotic, psychotic qr schizophrenic If thev are unhappy with the life thay are living".

The health part of Women's House alms to pro­vide a place for women with all sorts of related problems to come and "help themselves" (rather than "be treated") whe^er they have a medical, social or psychological prpblem.

Ff^OM HEALTH CENTRE REGISTER

'worried. about 11 year old daughter who Is having difficulty making friends at school'

'she was raped - causing mother-daughter prob­lems'

'alcohol problems - wanting to leave her hus­band—wanting accommodation and drying out period'

'worried about 3]& year old son's violence'

supporting mother 'just wanted to talk'

Judy Abbs gives the example of a woman who goes to a GP with a psycho-social problemwhich affects her relationship with her kids andgives her headaches. She would probably begiven a prescription for Valium for relaxation,referred to a psychiatric clinic and a child guid­ance institution. Judy said, 'There are no alt­ernatives - she is not taught relaxation therapy,or yoga Instead of being given Vallum, she isnot told how important it is to sleep and eaproperly." The Women's Health Centre is concerned withtotal health care and' holds free yoga, classesevery moming except Wednesday between 9and 9.30 a.m. Women can also have a massageby appolntinent.

At the' moment the problem is telling womenthe health service exists — and in June the problem could well be whether or not the healthexists. The centre relies on Government fundingwhich expires in June, so if no more money isforthcoming tiie future is "uncertain" to saythe least. So far 126 women have used thehealth service in three weeks, and a lot more are expected as it becomes better known.

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RAPE CRISIS CENTRE 229 5922, a/h 370 8902

The Rape Crisis Centre used to function every Friday and Saturday all night. A voluntary staff would take calls from women who had just been raped or who had been raped some time ago and wanted to talk to someone about their experience.

At the moment the rape crisis centre Is going through its own crisis - lack of people power. Any woman who Is.wilting to go on roster is asked to contact Ros Innes on 370 8902. In the meantime any woman who has been raped and wants legal advice, or just support during a court case, or to talk about their ex­perience with other women no matter how long ago it may have occurred, can ring the Women's House number 229 5922 during the day.

SHELTA

"During the 1880's and 1930's in Australia a network of women's shelters with radical ideo­logy grew up. Where are they now?" The lat­est newsletter of WCAA ponders whether the present Shelta will disappear like its predeces­sors. They see its possible demise as a result of being accepted and absorbed by the society which created Its necessity. ^

And there centainly is a necessity for emer­gency housing for women. Prior to the estab­lishment of Shelta in May 1975,86% of enquir­ies handjed by WCAA concerned accommoda­tion. Shelta has had three homes since then, and the present one in Bowen Hills Is overflow­ing witi) women and children on the run from violent - or repressive husbands and single women with children unable to find a job or a house.

In eight months, 114 women and 200 children have sought accommodation with Shelta. It is run on a collective basis, the women paying what rent they can from their income (most of them receive welfare benefits), cooking toget­her, and each family unit being responsible for Its washing and cleaning. Many women have made friends with each other at Shelta and moved out to set up a communal household with their children. Many others have returned to their violent, husbands because it Is the only security they have known, only to turn up on the doorstep of Shelta a week later with a black eye and frightened children.

In order to receive funding the Shelta collect­ive have had to compromise their political ideo­logies to a certain extent e.g. is a Liberal Gov­ernment likely to assist a group who advocate lesbianism as one way of avoiding oppression by men? They are afraid of losing effectiveness through respectability. Their aim, unlike other welfare organisations which foster dependence, IS to foster self-reliance among wonnen. Thus they must remain radical i.e., to get to the root of the oppression and dependency of women and raise each others consciousness to over­come it.

"It Is terrifying for a woman, who can only bear to get through the day by drowning in TV or a few beers, to meet women who expect that she will want to make her own decisions, and believe in her competence to do so", (from WCAA newsletter) ( « 0 A / « ^ « f « M/

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INFORIVlATION AND SUPPORT

One of the most important functions of WCCA since its earliest days at Red Hill has been the dissemination of "specialised" knowledge which is deUberately withheld by welfare agen­cies and doctors. Pregnancy tests and simple check-4jp$ such as smear tests are usually myst­ified to the extent that women are loth to go to a doctor because they don't like s/he "pok­ing around down there".

Information ebout eligibility for welfare bene­fits and legal rights as a tenant, Is often delib­erately, withheld, because governments which control the welfare services, and lobbys such as the AMA which controls doctors, realise that knowledge is power for a women to control her own body.

The information and support group which used to exist in a formal sense has disappeared as all ths women who work at Women's House have more knowledge tkan otiiers because of exper­ience but the Information files are kept In tiie central reception area for everyone to consult — and the "support" is dependent on each of the women who go to Women's House, SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL.

THE FUTURE

Women's House needs more Involvement, of people if it is to survive. The lack of volunttry assistance forthcoming means that paid staff and enthusiastic volunteers are overworked merely dispensing services. They have no time for the very necessary research and political activity to back up the immediate service. And

. of course if the centre cannot prove its viability in terms of an alternative welfare organisation, then it will not be funded. And Women's House offers not only an alternative place to go to have a pregnancy test, but an opportunity to grow i n solidarity with other women.

As the collective states: "We all have things to aff«r simply because we are women, we all have things to laarn from the womAn who coma here and from each other".

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III KS NEEDED "7 For the past few years there have been a small number of students In External Studies at University of Queenland "living" In Boggo Road. The Prisons Department has declared Itself in favour of the scheme and in accord­ance with this declaration has atiowed Brian Hazell from the University Counselling Ser­vices to make regular visits to these prison students. Brian found that their first problems was tack of access to teachers: a similar prob­lem to that of other external students only much worse. It can only take one unfriendly vtfarder to make communications with a lecturer impossible. Another problem faced by prison students is the unsympathetic nature of the surroundings in which they study — they have very little time in which to study; a limit on the number of books they can have in their cell at one time and a general atmosphere decidedly unsympathetic to academic pur­suits. Brian is doing what he can to overcome these two problems but he is appealing to stu­dents to help him with another. The prisoners need books to study from. The Prisons Depart­ment for all its good will give no financial support to the Prison students. Consequently they must buy their own books - no money, no books. Brian Is calling for DONATlONiS of books for the subjects listed below. If you have done any of these subjects and are willing to donate the books contact either Brian Hazell or Semper Floreat for the book list (which has over 100 tities).

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Problems In Australian History HT135 Modern Europe Nineteenth Century EX122 Ancient History-A CN110 Theory of Education ED120 Introductory French Language FR100 Renaissance Literature EN201 Restoration 18th Century Literature EN202 Romantic Literature EN203 Victorian Literature EN204 Algebra I MP103 German Language Al GR111 German Language A2 GR112 Problems of Philosophy PD100 Modern Political Ideologies GT105 Modern Political Ideologies GT105 Cornparative Education ED200 Politics of Nori Violence EX203 Introduction to Literature A EN102 Introduction to Literature B EN103 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature EN202

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mm [i3ius....iiii[]i lauis. ...UIIEI An extraordinary meeting of Council was held in tiie J.D. Story Room on Wednesday 21st January. The meeting was called because - 'In view of the wishes of the President, Richard S] encer, that the alterations to the Union buildings be completed; and the absence of supply suffici­ent for this purpose; tiie Acting President, Alan Grieve... decided to convene an Extraordinary Meeting of the 65th Council to consider tiie appropriation of money for this project' It was moved:

THAT ALL MEMBERS OF COUNCIL NOT PRESENT BE AC­CREDITED WITH AN APOLOGY DUETOSHORT NOTICE AND PLACEMENT IN TIME OF THE MEETING

Carried BRIAN TOWLER asked if Julianne Schwenke would be resigning from her position of Music Representative. JULIANNE replied no, because shewas enrolled in Beethoven 1. (??) The resignation of Meredith Gresham was accepted, and Kadha Rouse was appointed Acting A.U.S. Secretary. And now to the tun and games. RICHARD SPENCER informed council tiiat the minutes otthe Union House Committee which were at that moment under consideration, were not correct minutes. The following amendment to the minutes was moved:

THAT THE FOLLOWING WORDS BE ADDED AFTER "ORIENTATION WEEK"; That between $1,000 and $2,000 would probably be available, added apart from that already spent on Activities alterations and that this money would be used to expedite and begin alterations on Union Building before the next meeting of Council when extra finance would be available.

UHC/14.That this Committee authorises Trading Sub-Committee to act on quotes received by Tony Bellas for alterations to the Union Bulldlns.' RICHARD SPENCER said that it was his impression tiiat alterations to Union Building would proceed before the onslaught of students, when tiie refec became 'Strangled by Students'. Other notable state­ments from our President were his comments (frequent) that the members of House Committee were playing 'Mind Games' in tiieir alleged attempts to cloud the issue, which was apparentiy whether or not there was a clear set of priorities in the alterations to Union build­ings over tiie vacation. Richard felt that confi'sion had arisen when it was thought that all the money was to go to Acth/ities coupled with the mistaken attitude tiiat the Executive was trying to Empire build. (The money for use on the Union Building is to go to the entargment of the Executive Suite, relocation of the Finance Office, and the Clubs and Society's Room. TONY BELLAS asked if ihfi accuracy of the House Committee minutes (for which he is responsible) was being questioned. Richard replied that this was so. After extensive discussion in Council and after the adoptioi\ of an Amendment, UHC/

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Those of you who have listened to 4ZZZ-FM will know the pattern: - the best in Rock music, mainly albums, which, although they constl-tue 75% of record sales, are neglected by the commercial stations whose interest in music extends about as far as the amount of money they can crank out of i t Triple Zed also plays a broad selection of generic music: Blues, Country, Jazz, Classical.

- not only the best of music, but ifs all in stereo. With the simple addition of an FM tuner to your Hi Fi equipment listeners can receive music of exceptional quality.

- Triple Zed also broadcasts access programs and educational programs in off-peak hours. These are a breath of fresh radio after the muted and insipid programs broadcast by tiie ABC.

- Brisbane's only independent journalists prepare 4ZZZ News Broad­casts. Once again, these are a far cry from the Right oriented programs universally produced by the mass media.

antenna to Mt Cootiia. A new transmitter is already on its way from thjD U.S. This wil) give Triple Zed a massive 10KW. of stereo sound and the signal is sure to reach both Nortii and Soutii Coasts, making tiie station Brisbane's most powerful.

Thus far the station can only broadcast 19 hours a day - except for 24 hour programming on Fridays and Saturdays - but as the station settles into a routine and as more volunteer announcers are trained, the station will run ail round-the-clock service.

You can help. The easiest way, if you haven't got the time or inclina­tion to join our volunteer staff, is to take out a subscription. For $20 a year subscribers receive discounts at The Schonell Theatre, La Boite Theatre in town, a montiily copy of tiie station's Radio Times, and discount entry into all tiie 4ZZZ dances and concerts.

As part of the station's fund raising, it intends to bring the best of Australia's Rock groups to Brisbane on a regular basis. A monthly

staff pos­ing I ARTICLE BY Steve gray

Now 42ZZ is by no means perfect In the first place, a minute full-time staff of twelve, with the help of a few dedicated volunteers, are struggling to run the station with very limited resources. Inexperience, too, is a problem, but given time and organisation, all these minor hass­les can be overcome. Problems notwithstanding, the achievement thus far is magnificent. On the University campus stands Australia's only independent Rock station. 4ZZZ-FM is also Queensland's only new station in 30 years.

And the future? Hopefully by April, 4ZZZ-FM will be moving its

spectacular, dubbed by the station The Joint Effort', will be held on campus. It is also hoped that the station will eventually be able to promote overseas acts as well as expanding their iocial circuit. For anyone who is interested, 4ZZZ needs more volunteers to comple­ment its staff. It is impossible for 12 people to run a fully fledged radio station. They can only form the nucleus of a much larger staff. So, if you're an artist, cartoonist, carpenter, electrician, technician, announc­er, singer, group, or you just want to help, please go down to the sta­tion and volunteer. Without the help of students, both financial and

Ehvsical. the station nannot survive. In return, you get Brisbane's est Radio Station: 4ZZZ-FM

Jt2 NEW BOOKS BRKAKINC YOUR BANKROLL

Want some GOOD CHEAP books to buy?

Got some GOOD CHEAP books to sell?

The Union Book Exchange provides a service to anyone who wants to buy, or sell, 2nd

Hand.

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General Reading Books

Lab. Coats

Academic Gowns

Calculators

SIkle Rules

Records

Cassettes

ASWELLooo The Union Book Exchange sells

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"Most students consider the University Book­shop a huge rip-off", says Richand Spencer, President of the Student's Union.

" I defy Mr Spencer to show me where the prices are cheaper anywhere in Australia", says Mr Sandison, assistant manager of the Uni­versity Bookshop.

Well, at least some new books will be selling cheaper than anywhere else right here on cam­pus. The University of Queensland Union oper­ates a second-hand bookshop on the St. Lucia campus and a bookshop for medical texts at the Herston medical school. This year the Union will be selling pre-clinical medical text­books at St. Lucia-in the shopping arcade where A.U.S. Travel used to be, and the second­hand bookshop will be expanded to sell stati'on-ary at discount prices and in the future, hope­fully, "radical literature and magazines" in the style of the southern Third World Bookshops.

Already sales at the second-hand bookshop have Increased dramatically over those for the same period last year. The manager, Mr Tom Begg, said that many students buying books there have mentioned the article in the Courier Mail and expressed their agreement with Rich­ard Spencer's claim.

Is the University Bookshop a ripoff or not? Well, the Administration runs it, and in their terms it Isn't — because they only make a 3% profit. Their prices are usually the recommen­ded retail price suggested by the publishers, less 10% discount. They can't sell any cheaper because of overhead costs e.g, they employ about 40 people. They have to employ that many people to give the type of services they do e.g. credit accounts, holding large amounts of stock during the year, special orders. The meagre profit they do make goes to finance the University of Queensland Press publishing ventures.

However, obviously in student's terms, the University Bookshop is a rip-off if they can purchase books cheaper somewhere else. The difference in price between medical textbooks sold last year at the University Bookshop and those sold at the Union's Herston bookshop was sometimes as high as $10. The University Bookshop doesn't give a discount on books under $2.50 whereas at least one bookshop in the city gives a 10% discount to students and teachers on any book, novel or textbook. This shop, The Book Nook in Wallace Bishop Arcade, like other city bookshops doesn't carry a lot of set texts because veryoften it will be left with stock it can't sell.

The following is a sample of this year's com­parative prices between the University Book­shop and Union Bookshop:

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AUTHOR

Travis

Chusid

Katz

Northern

Crouch

Langman

Cruikshank

Jawetz

White & Smith

Leninger

Goth

Vender

Ganong

Robbins

Maitland

Knott & Voss

Leason & Leason

G. Gr. & Orahily

Ham

TITLE

Handbook of Speech Pathology and Audiology

A Correlative Nurological Anatomy

Audiology

Hearing in Children

Functional Human Anatomy

Medical Embriology

Medical Microbiology

Review of Medical Microbiology Gray's Anatomy

Principles of Bio-chemistry

Biochemistry

Grants Atlas

Medical Pharmacology

Human Psysiology

Review of Medical Physiology

Pathological Basis of Disease

The Vertebral Column

Propriocaptive Neuro-Muscular Function

Histology

Anatomy

Histology

UNION

$32.50

$8.50

$21.80

$14.50

$12.50

$12.50

$14.90

$ 7.80 $41.50

$15.00

$16.50

$25.80

$16.90

$13.80

$ 9.80

$28.50

$11.50

$15.90

$11.50

$21.00

$28.50

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$44.10

$8.95

$26.35

$18.25

$15.75

$15.00

$18.15

$ 8.95 $48.00

$16.45

$18.40

$31.00

$20.15

$17.30

$11.60

$36.55

$11.00

$22.80

$13.50

$28.20

$34.15

Students will also get a good deal on stationery at the Union's second-hand bookshop e.g. a 73 g.s.m. ream of cream wove paper sells for $3.95 at the Union shop while a ream of poorer quality (61 g.s.m.) sells for $4.85 at the Uni­versity Bookshop. The Union bookshop has pads for SOc while the cheapest at the Univer­sity Bookshop is 65c.

Well can the Union give the same service as the University Bookshop? They certainly won't give the convenience of credit —it's either cash or cheque payment. However they will order specially from overseas, and they will endeav­our to keep books currently on pre-ciinical text lists in stock throughout the year.

With regard to the second-hand operations, any student can buy and sell. Students set their own price on books they want to sell and they receive the money less 10% commission when the books are sold.

The Union bookshop is not setting up in oppo­sition to the University Bookshop - |t can't, tt is merely extending the service it provided at Herston to the St, Lucia campus for a couple of weeks as well as providing cheaper stationary and an outlet for the buying and selling of second-hand books.

Radha Rouse

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You are a member of AUS and, as such, are entitiad to its services and to participate in its activities. Almost alt tertiary students are mem­bers of the Austrellan Union of Students (AUS) vie the affiliation of their local student govem­ment body to AUS. The Union has grown in size to about 250,000 students on 74 campuses throughout Australia).

On first examination, AUS does not appear to fit the normal definition of a trade union. How­ever, two inseperable features of a trade union ere present in AUS.

Welfare and services: AUS operates similarly to a trade union by campaigning for increases in tertiary allowances, provision of adequate child-care facilities and housing for students, etc, end a)so for better financial assistance for colleges and universities.

There are atso two service departments used by tens of thousands of students every year. AUS Student Travel provides you with cheap charter flights overseas and a variety of tours eround Australia and overseas. AUS Friendly Society provides inexpensive policies and free advice on general, health and life insurance. Travel and Insurance Offices are now located In the Union Building where the Union Shop used to be.

Political function: AUS provides unified stud­ent representation at a national and state level. For example, the AUS Education department mokes regular submissions to and has discuss­ions with relevant politicians and governmental Education departments and committees. Co­ordinated with these activities are gress-roots information and mass-action campaigns on campus and in the community. AUS fought successfully for the abolition of tertiary fees and for a tertiary allowances scheme, and is continuing to fight for assessment reform and reforms in the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. The AUS Education department em­bodies the very reason for the existence of students - to be educated under equitable and rewarding conditions.

And, of course, students as members of ti^e community have needs and interests related to issues wider then only the "bread«end-butter" aspects. AUS recognises that inequal­

ities in education are a product of wkler inequalities in the community, and given the continuing inequalities of Australian society, there is a real need for progressive and radical movements. Historically, students have often been initiators and active participants in such movements, and the national student union has iieen an important forum in which the students' polhical desires can be expressed and put into action. For example, AUS and its constituents were active in campaigns against the Vietnam war, apartheid and racially selected sporting teams, e.g. the Springboks and around various environmental issues.

In pressing for student demends, the benefit of elliances with other groups has become increasingly apparent. AUS is making a cons­cious effort to cooperate with trade unions and other community groups on issues of common interest, such as the recent "green bans" and better public transport. In this way there is a broadening and strengthening of forces striving for change in oiir society.

Race relations: For some years, AUS has been playing a supportive role to the Aboriginal movement nationally and locally. AUS now funds the Black Resource Centre (in Brisbane) which distributes information and publicity material to all Black 9'oups in Australia and white supporters. The centre also initiates and helps coordinate campaigns such as land rights, and opposition to the racially discriminatory Queensland Acts. On a local level,' many stud­ent unions have Race Relations Officers and committees wich work on campus and with the local Black community.

Women's department: A new department in AUS reflecting the changing pattern of activ­ism on Australian campuses. Formed in 1975

in response to the expressed need of campus women's groups for a central communication and resource centre, its campaigns are focused on areas of greatest concern to women in tert­iary institutions. Campaigns include analysing and confronting sexism in education, investi­gation of the positkm of working women on campus, better child-care facilities, and a sex­uality campaign based firstly on the need for greater counselling on contraception and abor­tion, and secondly on the need to change the ig­norant and destructive attitudes towards homo­sexual students. Almost two thirds of the campuses now have women's groups.

Overseas Students Service: This department was formerly only active around helping the thousands of overseas students on various campuses with their problems in adjusting to an alien culture and their hassles with govern­ment bureaucracies. However, AUS's opposi­tion to epartheid and its contact with the Zimbabwe African National Union led to a. campaign by Zimbabwean students in Australia as well as AUS against the repressive actions of the racist white minority regime of tan Smith. Similarly, the surveillance by the, Malaysian Government agents of Malaysian students, studying in Australia, and the jailing of students who engaged in "Unacceptable" political actiwty jn Australia upon returning home, has highlighted the need to expose both the inter­ference of the Malaysian Government in the legitimate activities of Malaysian students in Australia and the repression of workers, peasants and students in Malaysia itself.

Aquarius is the cultural affairs department of the Union. It has traditionally held arts festivals and run campus tours of overseas and local artists. However, lack of finance and the need to restructure the department caused the suspension of its activities in 1975. However, It is functioning again this year on a regional basis.

Your Union produces many publications to keep you informed of what it is doing. National U, the national student newspaper is published regulerly during the academk: year. The 'Union also produces the Alternate News Service, as well as numerous other newsletters, booklets and submissions 'from its various departments.

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ANNUAL COUNCIL

There used to be an August and a January Council but now there is just one: a horrendous week in January when delegates from all mem-ber campuses in Australia gather in Melbourne to debate policy, decide what to campaign for this year, and allocate money to the various departinents of A.U.S. to carry out these cam: paigns. The week is horrendous because it is physically and mentally exhausting. U.Q.U. sent a delegation of five this year, end we ended up having to work shifts as Council wor­ked almost 24 hours a day, towards the end of the week, Mental exhaustion is not only from concentrating on the motion before one which has to be dealt with in accordance with the views of students back here on campus (if those vievK are known) but also trying to fathom the procedural motions which' may stifle debate, "steam-roll" a dubious motion through etc. A third exhausting factor, especially if one is a new delegate, is attempting to grasp the various power games that are continually played, main­ly between the various factions qn the Left, e.g. Trotskyites v. Maoists.

It's unfortunate that a lot of bullshitting and power-tripping goes on - however, business does get done eventually and the important thing is that the outcome of Council means cold hard cash allocated to carrying out cam­paigns this year on: Timor, T.E.A.S., Queens­land Acts, Trainee Teachers (for the first time a trainee teacher organiser has been appointed), Abortion, Southern Africa, anti-Rockerfetler (Australia is being blessed with his presence to celebrate America's bi-centenary).

Other business of Council includes allocating money to different Departments so they can carry out research, provide a resource centre and information point, employ full or part-time organisers; election of national officers and service board members (a detailed account of this year's elections will appear in the next Semper - but we can note that for the first time A.U.S. has a woman as president: Tas Ockenden)

Most finance comes from constituent fees: each campus collects $2.50 from each student — it is contained in the $70 students service fee. Other finance may come from the services area i.e. travel and insurance if they happen to make a profit. Last year they made a loss.

Annual Council is a necessary evil. Actually much of it is enjoyable. The much maligned bureaucracy of A.U.S. happens to be the way A.U.S. functions at the moment. I f needn't exist for all time in Its present state and it con­tains provisions for change, i.e., the Planning Committee.

REGIONAL CONFERENCE

The first Qld. Regional Conference of A.U.S. was held on the weekend of 14th and 15th February at Q.I.T. Delegates from Brisbane and Townsville Universities end Colleges of

Advanced Education met to elect this year's officers and discuss activities for 1976. New Officers should have been elected at the A.U.S. Annual Council so their election will be ratified by constituents in en Extraordinary Resolution. Those elected are: Regional Organiser Doug Fraser

(Griffith Uni) Qld Executive Member John Campbell

(U.Q.U. • Union Secretary) Qld Rep on Education Policy

(a)Generel Rep Gay Walsh (U.Q.U.) (b)Trainee Teachers' Representative

Michail Walker Qld Rep. on Planning C'tee . . -Claire Gallagher

(James Cook)

The Regional Organiser (R.O.) is a full time paid employee of A.U.S. who co-ordinates activities on al) campuses in this state. The job involves travelling continually between campuses and the executive in Melboume, speaking to students about A.U.S. and ascertaining the particular needs of this region in order to campeign effectively for student

- demands.

The Executive Member (Exec. Member) repre­sents Qld at National Executive Meetings which supervise A.U.S. activities between Councils, tt is the job o the Exec. Member to accurately express the wishes of the region as expressed by the R.O. and delegates to regional confer­ences.

The Education Policy Collective is the national co-ordinating body which determines research to be done, how to structure campaigns such as T.E.A.S. and Teecher Trainees and how to allo­cate money, what sort of leaflets to write etc.

The Planning Committee is concerned with the structure of A.U.S., how the bureaucracy func­tions and particularly how to run Annual Coun­cil with a minimum of time wastage and a maxi­mum of indibjdual delegate participation.

It was decided that a Regionel Activist Cemp should be held on the Anzac Day week-end in conjunction with a Regional Conference. The idea of an activist camp is to disseminete organ-

16/17 Ising skills and discuss tactics for specific cam­paigns in 76. Experienced activists and Nat­ional Officers of A.U.S. will be invited to at­tend workshops at the camp so inexperienced delegates wijl learn the rudiments of managing the mass media, approaching Administrations, writing campaign leaflets and all the other things one has to know to make A.U.S. funct­ion as it should i.e. getting information to stud­ents end lobbying Admin.'s and Governments for improved student end community life.

One of the major campaigns in the Qld region this year will focus eround the Tertiary Edu­cation Allowance Scheme (T.E.A.S.) With the new coalition Govt, there is e possibility that the provision of a pittance to live on will be replaced by a loans system —thus students would be in debt when they finish university. Even if T.E.A.S. is continued as it is the money granted is in many cases inadequate to live on. Another major campaign will be to focus stu­dent and community attention on the repres­sive Queensland Aboriginal and Torre; Strait Islanders Act of 1965 (known as the Queens­land Acts). These Acts restrict the movement of blecks on reserves, empower the Dept. of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Affairs to decide what job a black is allowed to do and what his/her wages should be, decide even how he/she should spend the wage etc. A work­ing party of interested persons will be set up to organise the campaign. All white student activ­ity will be in conjunction with the Black Re­source Centre In Little Roma Street.

All this planning that goes on at Regional and National Conferences is useless if students don't get involved. There's been e lot of grumbling gbout apathy by the hard core activists — and it does exist. You know and i know that studying takes up, a tot of time, that hobbys, and just being with your friends takes up a lot of time - but giving even your minimal support to these campaigns against the injustices of this Stete and this country needn't take very long.

It takes only a few minutes to write to your local member of pariiament expressing your disgust at the racist Queensland Acts and asking he/she what they are going to do about it; it takes only a few hours out of your life to march in a demonstration to show you believe blacks should have the same rights as yourself.

A.U.S. is not an end in itself. Like any trade union ifs there to look after students welfare In terms of education — helping you to look fight for assenment with a minimum of heed-aches, the right to a living wage while you study etc. A.U.S. acts as a political voice for your demands as a student and a citizen. A.U.S, WILL NOT REFLECT YOUR OPINION UNLESS IT HEARS IT. So if you have any suggestions or enquiries please get yourself up­stairs to the A.U.S. Office in the Union building or if you're shy or the A.U.S. Secretary is out leave anote, essay or whatever at unkin office.

Radha Rouse Acting Local A.U.S. Secretary

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UNI BUSHWALKING CLUB For many people with a hankering towards outdoor activities, the Bushwalking Club pro­vides an ideal service. The Unhwrsity dub has about 90 active nnennbers (approx. equal numbers'of male and female) participating in a range of ectivities of course, bushwalking is our main aim and there is a trip organised for every weekend.

Meetings are held every second Wednesday night, the first being at 7.30 p.m. on Wednes­day 25th February In the Relax Block. We ex­pect to get a large number of interested people at this meeting and sikies and supper wili be provided afterwards.

So if you wish to experience the Joy of camping out In the wilds or simply floating around In a distant crystal clear pool come along to our first meeting or contact one of the committee members.

EVANGELICAL UNION Despite what you may have heard or ChristisnsI You've heard of them before. Despite what you may have heard or read or what you think, there are still people who believe and follow Jesus. And this is what E.U. is on about. JESUS. What he did 2000 years ago, what he sold and is still saying to-We are not talking about tiradltions or concepts but life end what it means to live. It's not enough to talk about concepts and know all the theories ebout life. That really leads no­where. You have to live, to be alive. You're not a concept You are a person. And sp is Jesus. And Jesus gives us (not concepts) but LIFE b.u. IS a group ot people who have found that Jesus Is real, he's alive. He provides the ans­wers to so many questions we have about the world, about people and esisecielly about ourselves. Come and meet us any Wednesday 1 p.m. in Rm B18 (Engineering School).

LEGAL AID Students are informed thet the Students' Legal Aid Scheme is operating on Monday, Wednes­day and Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. (excluding lunch, 1 • 2)

Students are invited to call at our office locat­ed in tiie Union building) or to phone for an appointment (371 1611) to discuss their legal problems with Senior Law Students - Legal Assistants, who will be conducting interviews on the above mentioned days.

We look forward to providing a friendly and efficient service, william Beattie (Director)

Graham Knell (Assistant Director) Noel Nunan. (Administrative Secretary)

FIJIANS AT THE UNI

Fiji with a population just over half a million is one of the smallest independent nations of the world. Of course, the country had to strug­gle through 76 years of British colonialism to become "independent". To those of us who were in Fiji during independence, it didn't mean much - except that we had another long weeV-end and the Chief Minister, suddenly became the Prime Minister, and a new post was created - that of Governor General.

Alt these chenges didn't change the people of Fiji one bit Not a single Fijian forgot to goto the pub on Friday and the church Sunday, If that was a regular event for him or her. More so, the regular flow of Fijian students to the Queensland Uni continued.

The Fiji Students Association has been efflia-ted with tiie University Union for almost 15 yeers. Last year the membership of the Associa­tion including Associate members would have been close to forty. The Association, apart from i«s frequent but irregular "piss parties" atso has several regular functions every year; the main function being the independence function in October. The Association also participates in various sports including soccer, table tennis and cricket

^Anyone can. become en Associate member of the Fiji Students' Association. We do need your support. Whether you're male or female, Lebour or Liberal (not Peanuts though), a cricket or succer fan, or even a TAB punter, you're ell welcome. The ultimate eim of tlie Association is to promote happiness, irrespect­ive of how it is obtained. If you would like to be Associated with Fijian students please do let us know. The address for correspondence is:

The Secretory Fiji Students' Association

18 High view Terrace St Lucia 4067

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4 triple zed on trial is it true that Four ZZZ is requesting $70,000 from Student Union sources? If so why does Four ZZZ literature claim that the station is funded entirely by subscription? And why does Beatson want the station to be entirely disassociated from the Union? If students fund Four ZZZ why isn't it a stud­ent station? Quote"Four ZZZ is a political 'Statiqn not a community access station". Whose m^^T^-The politics of a bunch of elitist. Bureau smug and rather really medioc;e/ppportunists. inevitable, but stop pretendrh gift to B "

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Triple Z rooK«u in tfte basem^nr-of th^k^ec extensions. Nd^gne saw who put i t ^ w e , and no one (at therttation at leasthl wfows who wrote it (it wasm, signedkJ^e^rtheless raises some questioV . whipt)/$nould be ansy/er-ed.

/s it true that Four ZZZ^ from Student Union source

requesti^g-$?0X^

In 1976 Four Triple Z is rMVjng mately $50,000 for capital eqt^i _ mitter, tower, buildings, studiof^ii^pment) which always remains the property^/the Uni­versity of Queensland Union. The'itation _ also receiving only $13,000 towardX actual

' running costs, from the union. This corhpares to over $700,000 spent on capital expend iKi re on the Schonell Theatre.

Semper Floreat annually costs the Union about twenty thousand dollars a year to run. Eigh­teen thousand dollars is being given to Semper this year by the union.

If so, why does Four ZZZ literature claim that the station is funded by subscriptions?

It doesn't! Although the

It doesn'tl Although the University of Queens­land Union is the largest contributor to the sta­tion it should be remembered that the Queens­land Institute of Tedmology Union has contri­buted $12,000. Other major contributors include the Australian Council for the Arts ($10,000) and several Trades Unions. Heavy emphasis is placed on the importance of sub-

' scriptions because the stetion naturally wants to become independent of grants as soon as possible. Two station staff are engaged full-time in running the subscription scheme and raising funds through various promotions.

And why does Beatson want the station to be entirely disassociated from the Students Union?

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The Beatson referred to is Jim Beatson, the station co-ordinator. It should be pointed out here, that the station's policy is determined by weekly rneetings of all staff. Staff members including Beatson are subject to the decision of these meetings. Jim Beatson however acts as a spokesman. As for being disassociated from the Studen^ Union/.this I'm afraid just had to be. •"••e UnidhJsJ^^riio^XlegallyJjM^rporated body,

""licence .granted ^pZ'the Uniqn would

Well I can't refute subjective accusations that the station staff are elitist, bureaucratic, smug and mediocre. However, they're not opportun­ist - the full time staff work a six day week for about seventy dollars a week clear. Ross Dan­necker, the station engineer, who is a former tutor in electrical engineering, turned down e highly paid job with a private company so that he could work at Triple Z.

/actbrjranStoQuWnslandljniS*T^I^^^^^^ //7ewte/;/e, but stop pretending you're god's working-focthrefe^fiarfe to get a licen()e;"we had ^'^' f® Brisbane.

lion of..tiynjb it over to Sitolman , . ; . , . . ^ „ . Cowen sSTfrentMstation couTdbe-th^^ '. ^ ° " ^ believe in the Diety and have some equivalent of the qVSsiWd University News!. , " 'oubts about what, he, she or it bestows on the

' i^ts to'all of Bris-;/-89<^ citizens of Brisbane.

'sity Campus. VVhIle ' , ' > ... tn conclusion, people who want further Infor-mation.-about the station's operations and or­ganisations are quite welcome to drop in for a chat y3u don't have x6 resort to putting

s fl.?nv?hous notices on our walls.

Also Four Triple "not just tl ^

goings op^^^w jUriTorr ouficil may well 6e fascinatina^^e handful of ^ople who hand around^^frUnion Building, it's pret^ small cheejrfothe rest of the city.

ifx^ents fund Four ZZZ, why isnt isa stu-deni^tion? ^

Z is legall^oj^rated by two com-with'^sjwwirdjirectors. Of these

i^ ur pa sevecvlhree' Queerhiland OMI' electioiTL One nominated by a i .T . Unidn. The station's full\'me ste

i, Alan Knight

About thj wri ter . . . Alan Knight is a director of tiir^n1|3anie^_that operate Four Triple Z.

^.^ ._. HelnTformereditQr of Semper Floreat who H^bn coordinator) is now^orksJfrBrrsban|.|s^ journalist. duncil, another by the >- \ ^ r two are elected by the

,-«l{rectlY elected from the rbp'ulation in Annual

Quote: "Four ZZZ isf access st

quote? Four Hrst ijion commercial,

iTljis constitutes radio and

' the station is not a full comi )n. HoweveTjjvel )mmu<riTyaccessin a poten .mediuVn. We have atread^h

vievvtsioints exi com tlws/'mas:

te S c etaqL Mike Evar

^f^icaf station, not a Video ACC^K, Centre. 109 Edward St, Brisbane Whose politics? 4000 / ^ > - ~ ~ ^

Phone: 221 0987722T,0889^

The Video Acce vCent e is a media resource centrg^for cor]|* W)Q/tV groups, set up in 1974

F i l m , H ' ^ ^ | d ^ ^ i o BoaVd of tfie ;ouncil.<1^R(pds^video and audio

Jahd print -and screening facilities, rpgul^ workshops in video on Wed-

lipde^s. Anyone can come along 'tillt with equipment loans

^fiht tp .community groups — blacks, conservationists, etc. s a large library of video and

Queensland's ii radio sta-Ib^ugh for mi\ca\. It's

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Outlaw Pornography DirggtojL.BfiDgbJB^flfi'^. auyio tapes made by users on just about every to come on air, but sh mind. We have sent mi circulars to Brisoane inviting them to become

unasn-t-madrup than one hundred

unity Groups^

In addition, the station i$rtj;innlng a series of workshops to acquaint peome with its opera­tions. The workshops will be^ven by people who are experienced in specialist areas relevant to broadcasting. For example, the compere of T.D.T. Peter Weir, will give lessons in inter­viewing techniques.

Whose politics? The politics of a bunch of elitist, bureaucratic, smug and really rather mediocre opportunists.

g: freeways, women's health, Timor, land ghts, dance, theatre. To find out more ring

us on 221 0987, or 221 0889. Hours of operation:

Mon. 10.00 a.m. -- 6 p:m. (later by arrangemerit)

Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Tues. Closed Wed. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thurs. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. WORKSHOPS:

Wed, 7.30 p.m. Sat 11 a.m. Portapak operation

2 p.m. Advanced: editing, "lighting, sound etc.

J ing us a couple of days in advance of work­shops so we know how many people to expect.

Portapak operation

UNI. POWER STRUCTURE The University is a large and complex institution. General policy on academic matters and the allo­cation of funds Is ultimately determined by Senate but only after prolonged and careful as­sessment by a large number of Individuals and Committees. As a general rule any major change In degree courses or the establishment of new courses is initiated within a department A pro-, posal wilt then be considered by the Executive Committee of the appropriate Faculty Board and transmitted with or without amendment to the Faculty Board. Students are represented on ell Faculty Boards with numbers ranging from 2 to 10 or approximately five per cent of total numbers. The Faculty Boerd may reject the pro­posal, refer it back or emend and approve it for onward transmission through the Education Committee to the Professorial Board. If changes in rules are involved the proposal goes from the Professorial Board to the Senate through the Legisletlve Committee. Senate approval is required before the proposal can be implemen­ted. Any of the committees of review including the Senate may refer a proposal back for further and more detailed consideration or if the matter is one of general University concern, refer it to other Faculty Boards for information and com­ment. On the other hand if the changes are relatively minor end do not involve more than one Facutty it is possible for tiie proposal to be given Executive approval, by a Faculty Execu­tive, Dean, President of the Professorial Board, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) or Vice-Chancellor.

The Vice-Chancellor is the chief administrative officer of the University and is responsible for the implementation of the academic policy of the institution and for the performance of a vast range of duties delegated to him by the Sen­ate. He is assisted by a Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and e Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Fabric and Finance). The day-to-day running of the University Is in the hands of the Registrar and a large administrative staff concerned with commitments such as academic services, student services, admissions, examinations, records, statis­tics, research, scholarships and prizes, typing, business services, public services, minor works and maintenance of buildings and grounds,

The manner in which business is trensacted is outiined in the following diagram. The paths of academic matters with the light line, the paths of resource matters with the heavy line. The functions of the major organizations and com­mittees Involved are as follows:

Senate Is the governing body of the Uni­versity with the power end author­ity to appoint and dismiss staff and to manage end control the affaiis of the University, tt has 7 ex officio members'the Vice-Chancel­lor, the Director-General of Edu-

..;g cation, the President of the Pro-•y-'. ' fe^oriet BoanJ, PresWent of tiie

University of Queensland Staff Association, President of the Uni­

versity of Queensland Union, the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and the Roman Catholic Arch­bishop of Brisbane. 11 members, two of whom shall be MLA's, appointed by the Gov­ernor in Council. 1 member eppointed by the Pro-fessorial Board. 3 members appointed by and from the graduate staff. 2 members appointed by and from the body of students 1 member appointed by the Queen­sland Council of Churches. 8 members appointed by Convoca­tion.

The Professorial Board is responsible for ad­vising the Senate on all matters concerning the teaching and re­search staff of the University, the general conduct of the courses of study, research and examinations, the conditions for enrolment or entry to courses and student dis­cipline. It may do these, things either on its own initiative or in response to specific requests from the Senate, Vice-Chancellor, Fac­ulty Boards, Schools, Departments or its own Committees. The name and composition of the Professorial Board are being re­examined. Its .present membership consists of the Vice-Chancellor, the Deputy Vice-Chancellors, the Professors, the Deans, Heads of Departments and the University Librarian.

Faculties There are thirteen Faculties res­ponsible for making recommendat-tions conceming new courses and alterations to existing courses, re­search activities associated with courses, details of subjects, and details of examinations. In addit­ion the Faculties may in proper cases grant deferred, supplemen­tary or special examir^tions and generally advise the Professorial Board and Senate on all matters referred to them.

Departments There are 61 Academic depart­ments which are responsible for providing the teaching and other services required by the Faculties with which they are associated. Except in special circumstances

• each member of the teaching and research staff is attached to an aca­demic department. The Senate on the advice of the Vice-Chancellor after consultation with members of the staff of the department and

the Standing Committee of the Professorial Board, appoints one member of a department to be its Head for periods ranging from three to five years in the first instance.

Senate Commitees The Academic Committee advises the Senate on academic af­fairs and teaching arrangements. The Legislative Committee advises the Senate on the form of all stat­utes and rules. The Finance Com­mittee deals with or advises on all matters relating to finance, acc­ounts, investments, property, insur­ances, business and the general financial affairs of the University. The Buildings and Grounds Com­mittee deals with or advises on buil­dings, premises, furniture, grounds and recreation facilities. The Lib­rary Committee deals with or ad­vises on buildings, premises, furni­ture, grounds and recreation facilit­ies. The Library Committee deals with or advises on all matters rela­ting to the Library including staff, purchases, binding, cataloguing, facilities, and regulations for the use of its resources. The Publicat­ions Committee supervises the effic­ient control and administration of the University Press and its publica­tions. The Research Committee is responsible for the disposal, alloca­tion and general supervision of and the use of research funds. The Ap­peals Committee deals with appeals by students against any action tak­en in relation to the application of the Exclusion Rules

Professorial Board Committees The Standing Committee exercises on behalf of the Board such powers as tiie Board determines but deals particularly with academic staff matters such as study leave, conditions of appoint­ment, selection committees, requests for salary adjustments and rates of pay of. part-time staff. It reviews all departmental requests for new staff and submits a list of recommended priorities to the Board. The Education Committee reviews all the matters reported by the Faculty Boards and recom­mends the action that the Profess­orial Board should take in relation to them. The Promotions and Reappointments Committee con­siders alt applications by academic staff for proihotion and re-appoint­ment- and submits a list of recom­mendations to the Board. The Post­graduate Studies Committee deals with all matters related to post­graduate courses and rules includ­ing the Ph. D.

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RESEARCH COMM'.

SENATE

LIBRARY COMMITTEE

FINANCE COMM.

APPEALS COMM. <h

LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE

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BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE

ACADEMIC COMMIT.

PROFESSORIAL BOARD

I STANDING COMMITTEE

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

POST-GRADUATE STUDIES

COMMITTEE

PROMOTIONS ANO

REAPPOINTMENTS

COMMITTEE

FACULTY BOARDS EXTERNAL STUDIES < — : >

FACULTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES

Flow chart representmg the flow of aca­demic and resources matters within the University of Queensland administration. The light lines indicate the movement of academic matters and the heavy lines the movement of resource matters-with the departments, professorial board and senate dealing with both resource and academic matters.

iiiii.n3ujs....ij[ii.nsiijs....ij[ii.i3iijs.. iGE TEACHING 8. I.M.L.

Many jtudents who are just sterting their first year at this haven of learning, or many who have been here for years but, like me, and have been Vtfalking around in a daze, are unaware of the existence of an underestimated, but very import­ant section of the University. Semper therefore wishes to draw attention tt) the Institute of Mod­ern Lenguages, which since 1934 has been a ser­vice department attached to the University, end whose administrative headquarters are now sit­uated on the ground floor of the Social Sciences building.

The Institute of-Modern Languages w«s set up originelly to provide courses for people whose needs were not met by secondary schools or the University, and as a result, courses were adapted to what students wanted, rather than the stu­dents having to adapt themselves to set cour­ses. Twenty one lenguages are offered in 1976, including English as a foreign language. A day course in English is offered for overseas students studying at the University, and an evening course for highly skilled migrants.

The Institute employs forty-six part time staff, and one full time academic staff member, the Director, Mr Max. B rand le. The most advanced courses ere teught in the foreign lenguage itself, end although the courses concentrate on the spo­ken lenguage itself, consideration is given to culturat aspects as well.

The Institute itself consists of four offices on the ground floor of the Sociel Sciences building - a tutor's room and a well stocked tape library and copying room. The three thousand tapes in the library are available on loan to the IML stu­dents. Students also have access to the University Languege Laboratory whenever possible, but as the Institute is not a degree grianting body, stu­dents can only use the facijities when they are available.

The most popular languages taught are, in order, Frnech, German, Spanish, Italian, Indonesian

. and Japanese. The remaining languages offered are Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Modern Greek, Modern Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Neo-Melenetien (Pidgin or Tok Pisln), Polish, Portu­guese-Brazilian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Viet­namese and English. The popular courses attract full enrolment each year, providing the neces­sary finance to allow the Institute to concentrate on the le^ comnion languages. Mr Brandie sees thsi as one of the main aims of the Institute — the promotion" of the learning of Asian, Middle Eastern and migrant languages, and the provision

of courses in languages not offered elsewhere. For example, the IML was the first institute outside Papua New Guinea to offer reguler cles-ses in Pidgin as a language.

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The courses at the Institute are completely sep­arate from any University degree courses, and no credit is given towards a degree. The IML empha­sises spoken aspects of the language, whereas University courses endeavour to cover the wkiest possible range of academic matter. Mr Brandie explained that as the IML is catering for a totally different set of needs than the University, it as­sumes e complementary role with the degree de­partments. People of all backgrounds, regardless of their previous educational standanis, can at­tend - more than half of the students are people just returned from overseas who want to go back again, better equipped to speak the language of the country they intend to visit.

As the IML is the only institute in Brisbane where advanced English is taught, many students are migrants wishing to gain a more thorough knowledge of English than is offered by the Mig­rant Education Centre. Some students join IML courses in order to learn the language of their migrant parents. Based on enrolments in the past few yeers, over 30% of IML students are Univer­sity graduates, and about 10% are currently en­rolled in undergraduate or postgraduate courses at the Brisbane Universities.

Mr Brandie is quite certetn that of all cities the size of Brisbane in the industrialised world, there would not be one with poorer adult education facilities. To his knowledge, the IML Is the only institution providing a versatile and serious teac­hing programme, to which the general public has access. In spite of the fact that many adult educa­tion courses in Brisbane are free, the IML has no difficulties in competing with them. The IML courses are not designed, as leisurely hobby courses, they ere a serious attempt at teaching foreign languages, some at four level;. The IML has the widest range of different languages of any institution in the country.

The Australian University Commission's Working "arty on Language and Linguistics reported last year:

In particular, the Working Party considers that, without prejudice to degree courses pro­per, a greater amount of language teaching should be undertaken through continuing and aduit education classes - through courses of the type provided by Institutes attached to Universities and Colleges of Advanced Educa­tion.

Another major aim of the Institute is to correlate its teachings with the theme of travel — obviously a prime factor inspiring people to take up the study of a foreign language. As a result, the {ML has this year developed an educational pro­gramme for prospective traveileis. The Tourists' Europe, which begins on the 4th March. Ten days after this was announced, the course was booked out for both semesters —an indication of the need for such programmes. Enrolments for this year closed on the 16th February, but late enrol­ments can be considered — and there's always the July semester or next year. A one semester cou«e costs $20, and a full two semester course

$40. Linda Heron

ANEW Jfrn Wl Ot Wi^

Located in the ground floor of the new Biological Sciences Library, it provides all the amenities of the main refectory and seats up to 350.

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teMmmt^ THE UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY PENALTY POINTS SYSTEM

The loans system of the Undergraduate Library is now being comput­erised. Several handouts explaining the use and facilities of the Under­graduate Library computer system are placed in conspicuous racks in the Library.

On your Student Card will be printed your Library User Number, which is now needed for all borrowings from the Undergraduate Lib­rary. This number will be included on most Student Cards. If your Student Card doesn't have this number, please ask at the Loan En­quiries Desk. Manual loans will still be necessary for some categories of material.

The old fines system and manual operation for borrowing remain in force at the Central and Branch Libraries, where you will still need your embossed Borrower's Disc.

For the Undergraduate Library, with a couple of exceptions, fines for overdue books are abolished. Instead, a new penalty points system has been introduced, points imposed on the following basis:

1 point for each day overdue on Standard (one week) Loans and 10 points for each day overdue on Short Loans. (See the handouts "Loan System Explained" and the yellow in­formation folder). The handouts explain how extensions may be arranged.

MESSAGE 6

On accumulation of 100 penalty points, you will receive "Computer Message 6", advising that your borrowing privileges are automatically cancelled. Immediately you are advised of this catastrophe, you must ask personally at the Loan Enquiries Desk for the date when you will be permitted to borrow again.

The following ban period will operate for two weeks after the day you apply at Loan Enquiries for your "borrowing privileges restoration date." When you have "done your time", the 100 points against you are cancelled, and you may borrow again. During the borrowing ban period, you may read in the library, but the computer at the charge-out Terminal wili immediately show the operator that you can't borrow, so don't try!

But that's not alL If you rush off and accumulate a second 100 points during that same semester, tiie borrowing ban is again imposed, plus a $5.00 fine.

if you* think you have a valid cause not to receive these impositions, apply to a Readers' Adviser or to Acting Undergraduate Librarian (during first semester) Mrs Chris Will, for consideration of your appeal, within 15 days of receiving "Computer Message 6".

If you know you are guilty, however, apply again at Loan Enquiries, and you will be told that your borrowing privileges are withdrawn for two weeks after the date on which you pay the fine. Longer borrowing bans may be imposed for ver\' naughty students who persistentiy of­fend by totalling up hundreds Of points time and again.

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All points you may accumulate are cancelled at the beginning of the following semester, so you start the new semester with a clean sheet.

The only other Undergraduate Library fine now imposed will be for material kept out for over six weeks. Then, you will receive an account for: (i) cost of a replacement; (ii) the administrative costs; and (iii) a fine. Points wili also accumulate at the rates explained above. Your bor­rowing privileges will not be restored until you have returned or paid for the material.

The old fines system has been abolished for several reasons. The com­puter system will benefit all by speeding up borrowing procedures. Also, it has always cost the library more to extract payments from erring students than the fine was worth! Acting Undergraduate Librar­ian Mrs Will stresses that the Library is a service to students, and the new procedures are intended as a kind of "public relations" exercise to show that the Library is not merely a revenue collectori

Ron Muir.

DO YOU NEED

T^extbooks Recomrnended. reading

Pleasure reading . Audio tapes

Magazines r4icro films

a comfortable chair a microfilm reader a tape player

THEN VISIT

Central Library' Undergrad. Library or your nearest branch library'

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANO UBRAiUES

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Alt Women's Festival, Tasmania April 16th-19th 1976. We liave heard of a number of women planning to go. Jnformati'on from Women's Liberation or Women's House, or write to Denlce Martin, c/- Post Office, Derby, Tasmania.

Free Learning Gentie, 235 Boundary St, West End. The Children's activities carried through during the school holidays, will be continuing for the weekends. Phone 44 -1766 for inform­ation. •

Women's House General Meetings every Tuesday nights at 7.30 p.m. Do you want to know what services are available now that times and dates have been set? Women's Community Aid Association at Women's House 106 Little Roma St., Brisbane, now has the Rape Crisis, co-ordination of Shelta, Women's Health and information and support, established and devel­oping. Drs'' ours Mon 7 p.m. • 9 p.m.: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. All services free. Roster open for women to help, your ideas, your involvement, will strengthen and enthuse the women already active. Phone 229-6922.

BRISBANE PSYCHOTHERAPY ASSOCIATION Planning is in progress for the establishment of an interdisciplinary association which will prONdde opportunities for on-going learning and training in the psychotherapeutic discip­lines. This is the outcome of two visits by Mrs Isce Wittenberg, a psychoanalyst from tiie Tavistock Clinic. Membership of the Associa­tion wili be open to ali people whose profession generally may be described as therapeutic and dynamically oriented and who choose to dis­cuss their therapeutic work regufarly with colleagues. Further information may be ob­tained ,from Ursula Hughes, ext. 6772.

For Sale: Four wheels. Suit Cortina with near new 560X13 Retreads. Only $45 ono. Ph 38 5587 after 6 p.m.

Motiier Hubbard's Clothes Cupboard, 101 Wynnum Road, Norman Park Genuine pure silk dresses, blouses, shirts, dresses of the 20's and 30's, beautiful old material and styles. Special reduced prices for women in the movement,, and students. Lots of gear fof fun-parties and theatre. Also brac-a-brac and beads and broach­es. Phone 399 5554 or 399 3593.

FREE LUNCH TIME COLOUR FILMS: The Sub-Department of Fine Arts at the University of Queensland proudly presents a new series of Art films by Lord Clerk, entitled "Pioneers of Modern Painting Nos. 1 - 6"

The films will be shown at the Abel Smith lecture Theatre, University of Queensland, St. Lucia at 1.10 p.m. commencing Frklay 12th March, 1976, then 19th March, 26tfi March, 2nd April, 9th April and 23rd April. Each film is 45 minutes long.

If you enjoyed Lord Clerk's series "Civilization", this new series is a musti The films cover roughly the same territory as the "Modern Masters" show which came to Sydney and Melbourne last year.

See the works of the impressionists and post-impressionists. Enjoy seeing the works of Manet, Courbet, Monet, Picasso, etc. in won­derful colourlll

The shows are free, so come along ahd bring your lunch! 11

titttitttliiltitttttililtllliiniitlilltlitltltiitiitt Women's Abortion Action Campaign commit­tee, meets every Monday night at 5.30 at the Women's House, 106 Little Roma St. City. Phone 229 5922.

tlitlltltilMtlittimttltltlittlilltf titit UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND MOTOR­CYCLE Cl,UB There will be a meeting to discuss the forma­tion of a social and recreational club for motor­cycling students in the Relaxation Block on Monday, 1st March, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. The interests of all present will be discussed in order to form the objectives of a University Motorcycle Club (see p. 33 of the Orientation Handbook). We wish to organize an outing soon after that date, to which all student motor­cyclists are welcome. If you, ride a bike, wheth­er a 50cc step-through or a 1000 cc super-bike, there'll be something for you.' For furth­er enquiries, contact Ron Muir, P.O. Box 390, West End, 4101.

HUMAN Relations Group - self knowledge and improved communications. Sunday evenings discussion group. Ph. 33 5824 or 370 7711.

Women's Bookshop and Social Shop, 6iB Wynnum Road, Norman Park. Phone 399 3780. Feminist and human sexuality books. Non^x-ist Children's books. Open Mon • Fri 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

arts theatre plays: 210 petrfe terrace.

Saturday March 6; Final performance of 'Ten Little Niggers", 8.15 p.m. (refer review in this issue of Semper).

Thursday March 11: Gala Opening at 8.15 p.m. of "The Heiress'' - Directed by Russell Jerrett

SYMPOSIUM ON SURVIVAL, Qld 197iB.

Come and held Queensland Conservation Council (Q.C.C.) run the following sympos­ia., 16th March. 1976 -- Brisbane Tomorrow Environmental Disaster OR Sub- tropical paradise. 25 March. 1976 - Survival of Qld. 1st April 1976 - Environmental (Action) Armchair Supporter or Survivor.

For too long the people of Queensland have let the Qld govt, and the multi-national com­panies exploit and steadily destroy Qld's environment. Help Q.C.C. change this. Ring 221 0188 for information.

RECORDS, CASETTES and

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direct from the U.K. by efficient mail order service. Wide repertoire, outstanding value. Send for FREE 40 page catalogue, now.

Jo Jo*s Records 60 Adams Street

Birmingham B7 4AG England

TYPING SERVICE. First Class Electi-ic Type-writer. Reasonable rates. Ph: 2635766. Mrs Agney, 5 Rochett St, ASPLEY, 4034.

Need a babysitter with transport. Reasonable rates, ariy time Phone Jill 374 41056

Armpit freak requires friend (male or female) with similar inclinations. Also interested in deodorants, shaving. Phone 371 1821 A.H.

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OVERSEAS AID

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he Iping the underprivileged

to help themselves

The Australian Development Assistance Agency was established in December 1974 and became responsible for the co-ordination of Australia's Overseas Aid Program. This function was prev­iously dispersed among a number of govern­ment departments.

In the last ten years, monetary aid from Aus­tralia to developing countries, increased by approximately 250%, The United Nations long-term objective, to devote at least 0.7% of Gross National Product (G.N.P.) to official develop­ment assistance, was accepted by the Australian Government. In 1974-75, an amount approach­ing 0.6% of G.N.P. was provided.

There are basically two forms of aid - bilaterial and multilaterial. Bilateral aid involves negot­iation and dispersion of all aid through direct agreement between the individual donor and individual recipient countries. Multi-lateral aid involves the channelling of development assist­ance through various agencies and financial institutions.

Apart from assistance to Papua New Guinea, Australia's bilateral aid is concentrated in the Asian and Pacific region. In 1973-74, $66m was devoted to bilateral aid within this region. Approxirinately 40% was spent on projects, equipment, experts and related activities, and the remainder went towards the training of per­sonnel and the provision of food. Various aid schemes directed at personnel training, admin­istered by Australia include: Colonfibo Plan, Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan; South Pacific Aid Program; Australian International Awards Scheme; Australia Papua New Guinea Education and Training Scheme; and the Commonwealth Co-operation in Educa­tion Scheme. In 1973-74, ome 4,000 trainees were sponsored by the Australian government.

Over the past few years, a shift in emphasis has occurred regarding the training requirements for students. In 1967-68, approximately half of all sponsored students in Australia vyere study­ing at an undergraduate level. In 1973-74, the proportion of undergraduate arrivals fell to approximately one third of all new arrivals, and this decline is continuing. The decrease in und­ergraduate entrants reflects the change in over­seas governments' attitudes to the level and type of training required to satisfy their coun­try's needs. More students are being sent into Australia to participate in international Train­ing Courses, post-graduate studies and individ­ual training attachments.

A.D.A.A. is responsible for the welfare of ail overseas students and the study and training arrangements for sponsored students. On arrival in Australia, the student is met by an A.D.A.A. representative and welcomed to his new but temporary home. An induction program of two or three days follows, the aim of this being to provide the student with infonnation and guid­ance to ensure a smooth commencement of training, hampered by as few personal difficul­ties as possible. The student is generally introduced to his Edu­cation or Training Officer, during his induction period. The Education Officer or Training Offi­cer becomes, for the studetit, a point of con­tact, a source of help, for both his academic and social welfare. Perhaps more importantly, the Education Officer, or Training Officer pro­vides academic counselling throughout the stu­dent's stay in Australia.

For many overspas students, English is a prob­lem, despite the fact that they had attained a good standard in their own country. English tuition is provided for sponsored students, usually prior to the commencement of their academic course.

Tutoring is also arranged in any academic sub­ject in which a student experiences extreme difficulties.

One of the many problems to be overcome by the student whilst in Australia, is the sense of isolation and loneliness. The problem is particularly bad in the earlier part of his stay. The student has been, in effect, transported from an environment of constant familiar support and protection, to one where such do not seem to exist. For some students this prob­lem becomes magnified to such an extent, that they are unable to handle it on their own. A.D.A.A. provides the services of a Social Worker who can help smooth such difficulties. The personal welfare and counselling services provided by the Agency are extended to both sponsored and private students.

Voluntary associations have been established in major towns to assist the official Agency in welfare endeavours. Interested people have become involved in such areas as reception on arrival, English assistance, hospitality and assistance in finding long vacation employment. The help of these various organizations has been appreciated by A.D.A.A. and its predeces­sors, and by many of the overseas students whom tiiey assisted.

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OVERSEAS STUDENTS ORIENTATION WEEKEND

Organised by: • AUSTRALIAN, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE AGENCY

in coiyunction with: O.S.S. (SbQ.CC.O.S.

Time: Saturday 28th Feb -Sunday 29th Feb '76.

Where: Lower Lecture Theatre .Vet. Science Building University of Queensland

Sessions Open to All Overseas Students,

ft fori (SHIs'FOOD, DRINK & EMPTINESS'

Friday, 13th February, 1976 Lennons, Brisbane

Approximately 300 members and guests turned up at the Brisbane Press Club on tiie first black Friday of this year to hear tiie Prime Minister, Mr, Fraser speak. They also came, one would expect, to enjoy the pleasantry of a luncheon at Lennons and the flowing alcohol, although some journalists were heard to say that the drink waiters weren't moving fast enough.

The Prime Minister arrived at 12.30 p.m. The luncheon began. This was Mr. Fraser's first visit to Brisbane since the elections on December 13th. At 1.05 p.m. Mr. Fraser began his speech, which upset this ntild mann­ered reporter because she hadn't yet begun the third course, i imagine Mr. Fraser might have missed out on his; that, or he eats in one hell of a hurry.

One is led to suspect, however, that Mr. Fraser wished to have complet­ed his speech before the decision was handed down as to whether a full 6.4% wage increase would be granted.

Mr Fraser spoke on the economy, and such things as public service ceilings, restraints, unemployment, the Price Justification Tribunal, and the Unions, all of which we know goes to make the economy what it is. At 1.40 p.m. during question time, the Prime Minister was told that a full 6.4% increase had been granted. When asked his reaction to this, Mr. Fraser referred the journalist back to his speech. The question was rephrased by another journalist, and he was also referred isack to the speech.

Answering a question from Paul Davey, A.B.C., Mr. Fraser did say that the economy and working men and women would have been better serviced by a different decision, in his speech earlier, Mr Fraser had said, 'The Government believes that an increase of 6.4% would be in the interests of no one. It would undermine the confidence of both consumers and industry in Australia's future."

Speaking of the unions, Mr. Fraser said, "Now they propose to destroy even more jobs in the pursuit of illusory paper wages, perpetuating the wage-price spiral which only benefits the few at the expense of the many."

In the speech there was an inevitable verbal attack of the opposition, but it was difficult to find anything startiingly new or particularly newsworthy in what Mr.' Fraser had to say; and all this was going on while I was missing out on the custard trifle. Many people ate while the Prime Minister spoke but this intrepid reporter was too busy taking. notes for fear that Semper would not receive a copy of the speech, which by the way they did.

Mr, Fraser made a strong appeal in his speech for a fairness for the average Australian in his or her present economic situation. He said "Many decisions have been hard ones, but they are decisions whigb serve the over-riding goals of Australians. We have taken the decision! We believed to be in Australia's interests. The Australian people electee us to do a job. We will do that job."

Sections of the speech sounded similar to the rallies we heard and saw in Brisbane in October and November of last year, and Mr. Fraser took the opportunity of this meeting of the Brisbane Press Club to strength­en a familiar argument. He said, "Democracy will fail if democratic Government cannot persuade people that they must not demand of Government more than resources make possible. This is the great test of democratic leadership, the great challenge to the people of the Western democracies - are we to be seduced by the irrational promises of Socialism which cannot, by their very nature be realised."

For those students who are perhaps worried, Mr. Fraser, when question­ed on the future of the Legal Aid Office replied that it would remain available but would need to be ona more economic basis. He said there was no intention of making it available to those who could well afford to pay for it themselves."

The luncheon was over by 2.30 p.m. and this person went home with an appetite not quite satisfied, and the powers of reasoning wondering just why I'd gone there in the first place.

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(lueenslanders learned a disquieting lesson from the news ban journa- "MQ, but you could have used a commercial flight." lists imposed on the Queensland Premier: if Mr Bjelke-Petersen had "What about security?" his way the Sunshine State would be g o v e m * f H « l t f ^ ^ plane had to be used on the grounds of security censorship. ' ^ : ' " ? " t : ! S i ^ ^ " ^ ^ " ' "^^ '^°? °^ doi^jjaishould have come from personal or party funds, TU u *u u Jl- X , ^'•.z:^-^^^r^''r,."'^ ' " notfrom public funonkMy attitude is exactiy the same concerning the The ban on the handling of news frwn4WremleT'oY1iis office came courier Mail adveSlsefilnt. It should have been charged to personal on January 3 0 - o n e day after Mr^^efke-Petersen excluded veteran or party funds." ' Courier Mail reporter Keith F r y d a y ^ m a news conference on the grounds that Mr Fryday had criticisewiim at a pre-Christmas function. Mr Bjelke-Peterser

The ramifications were clear; journal jits who dared criticise the Queens- " T t P h t m ^ P ^ - -^ land Premier in carrying out their fssignments ran the ris excluded from a major source of State GovenimenLflfiijMn other "Jjjj words, if they wished to be able to Ittend Jolft'Uflelinys, I h e ^ d to •'^appr be nice to him; some might say, shadq of Indira Ghar

Three other journalists had attendf tiie conference anfl they too.

Keith Fryday began his career as Since 1949-with tiie exception State Pariiament.

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He to Mr Fryday: You should be aware of yo criticise. Fryday: I am sure of my facts, Joh. "Are youaware I was invited to go to Victoria?" "Good luck to you, Joh, but you should not have used the ment plane?" "0 id you expect me to walk?"

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[I January 29 - only a few days be-vas called on at short notice to re-was ill. When he walked into the

inference he was asked to leave.

Friday 13, after a deputation sent leciat general meeting of Queens-

FAJA executive committee.

be lifted and Mr Bjelke-Petersen would _ of seeing properiy assigned journalists. In

lay had retired. Former executives of the Courier •many who came out of retirement to wish him principle of the news ban.

John Atherton, stressed his confidence in Mr and expertise as a reporter. His record in this surpassed.

February 6 - t h e AJA general meeting called unanimously endorsed the decision to impose the

reports from both Mr Fryday and tfie Premier's

{utation eariy in the week failed to resolve decided to send another. -

and the new meeting - set down for stponed twice until February 1 3 -

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There ware three guides. One did all tiie talking, the others nodded in agrBBment They wore plain maroon jackets. The tall one with short hair had extraordinary blue eyes, but that is probably irrelevant. We were given special shoes to wear, like cotton slippers, and the older women were giggling - it was like dressing up. Inside, it was a museum like any other. The rooms strangely impersonal, exhibits arranged in cabinets against the wall, special objects located towards the centre. We crowded around the guide. He spoke In a quiet voice. "Before we proceed, I must ask you to refrain from smoking. What you see here are his possessions, and you will not find a sinjgle, solitary ashtray. He was living proof, you might say, against the anthropological argument that tobacco is an instinct fundamental to Man. Some people" - here, a note of disapproval altered his voice - "out of malice or to test him would give him expensive ashtrays as gifts. We have a small roon. full of them.". "Goodnessl" 'The other tiling, of course, is tiiat smoke has a corrosive effect on permanent exhibits. This is well known." "Like the cave^paintings in Lascaux, France." "Exactly. N o w - " "What aboutjEinnk?"j man asked, interi'upting. "He took the bccasionalsmall glass, in private. Now"-turning to the first exhibit-here we have his chair. This he sat on during his last twenty-five years, received visitors in it, and so on. Note tfie flattened contour of the seat Caused by his body weight" The chair was imrnediatoly surrounded. Last year, the museum attract­ed 142,870 visitors from all comers - tourists, family people and even businessmen. There vyere two New Zealanders down the front wearing . nylon haver^cks. They had the best positions. The chajiv^a$oft brown one/had ordinary curved sides, and a blurred stain where'his head'must have been. Although it was encased com­pletely in^gliiss they'd put a piece of rope across the arms as double protection, tike a man who wears a belt as welt as suspenders. It was easy to imagine him sitting there, hunched slightly forward, his body> weight-exerting prewure dovvnwards. SomGiJOB asked,"Was he such a heavy man?" "I canteil you / ' tiie guide replied. 'The pictures you've seen tend to suggest a large man: Last recorded, his weight was actually 113 lbs (51 kilos). -He had an abhorrence of figures, by the way - as you probably kiiow. PrBferiied\ pronouncements, slogans, instructions, coiinter-proppsals, manifestos, modifications to previous judgemants. Thatsdrt of thing." .

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The guide who had moved off waited patiently at the next exhibit Some Americans and others werB quickly taking photographs of the empty chair. They rBJoined. wearing that peculiar'breathless expression of pho tographers, as our guide was reminiscing,

" I rerhember the day we met He was speaking and looked at me. 1 ^ llsten^d^^tt was tfiQugh guns were thundering lie had that effect My experierice of his rnagnetism, but purely personal. Then he died a t .

seventy, almost seventy^ne. I remember the day as if it were yester-djy." An austere Englishman murmured, "Three score and t e n . . . . "

' To some of us," the guide went on, "it seemed impossible that he would die. His sheer presence vvas someti i ing. . . ."

His voice (or his memory) trailed off. Everyone waited, then followed his hand as it tapped the top of the cabinet. Horizontal, neatiy labelled, was a piece of blue carpet, raised to waist level where it could be stud­ied closely.

'This was taken from under his desk," the guide explained. "He had the habit of clearing his throat, and at the same time, shuffling his feet Those worn patches you see were made by his shoes - size eights. In effect, he had scratched evidence of his existence on earth, mater­ially speaking, altiiough to us onlookers now, we can conjure up all kinds of thougiits. What was he tiiinking as his feet shifted and scraped? Was he frowning?"

Having asked these questions tiie guide himself peered at the carpet

"We were anxious to include one of his shoes, btlt could only obtain the sock you see on the left Black. For all his boldness he was basic­ally conservative." N . '

Our surprise must have shown, for he smiled.

"Conservative, yes, In dress."

The worn carpet was strangely compelling. Then the sock. It was dirty and needed mending. We moved on to another ropm, following the guides. With each step we seemed to draw closer to him, acquiring greater knowledge, like a fan spreading outyvards. And there in the next room stood a tall empty rectangle, of wood, painted creani. It toowas roped off so nobody could "use" i t

"Gallows?" a man said, aloud.

In every p8ck,there's a joker. This one was middle aged with a rectangu­lar, face, holding a girlfriend in her tyyenties. She waslthejone who laughed. The guide cleared his throat /

'This is important If you could Jpok at this. His body travelled .through what ypu see before you, sOlmetirrieVsiBvei time^^ If be paused in tin's doorway, as I'm re he did, his sliape woiild fiave been framed; and since no full-length portrait exists, this is the nearest.we have. All tfiat is required," he said, staring at tiie joker, "is a li^^^

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Then the Englishman spoke up. Like several others, he was taking notes.

"How-tall was he?" The guide knew exactiy.

"Neatly pallndrom.icI 1.81 metres. If you prefer it, 5 foot 10. He had - let's see - a foot to spare in the doorway. Nevertheless, he instinct­ively stooped. This gave the impression, to some, that he was a man of hufnility."

Everyone laughed. How could anyone think such a thing?

Smiling, the guide said, "Let me ask you a question. Is Humour more important than History?"

Now obviously this was directed at the joker. A murmur spread as the question was repeated. The Englishman tapped his nose with a silver propelling pencil. Humour more important than history? One of tiie young ones, a student wearing sandshoes, replied by asking a question:

"Did he laugh? Was he that sort of type?" "Yes," a woman added;she had hairs above her lip. "Was he happy?" The student turned to her.

"You're confusing the issue. I said, Old he laugh - not whether he was happy or n o t "

ft I: I'm sorry! I don't see the difference/' She turned to the rest of us. I though she was going to cry. The guide smiled at the floor.

"Happiness," he said, "is notoriously difficult to describe."

People began nodding.

'The most rudimentary textfiook tells us it takes seventeen facial muscles to laugh, yet only tiiree to frown. So! His most obvious quality was not so much happiness, perse, but the ability to attract loyalty. People looked up to him. He became an inspiration... a comparison. Would that occur if he was patently happy? i think that is the question

>we should be'asking.

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Lips were pursed. Most, I think, took the point No one added to it; and the guide moved slightiy away to the side wall.

A woman whispered jto her husband, "Arnold, my legs are sore." "Not yet Listen to what the man is saying."

The guide was pointing at marks on the wall.

"A similar exhibit to the doonvay. He came here one morning and hap-. pened to sit down. We think he was trying to remember something.

Anyvyay, it'was right hers. And tiiis is the shape his shadow made."

The lines on the wall suddenly made sense, like a country on a map, unvisited, but quite familiar. Helpful arrpws pointed to features which

might otherwise have gone unnaticed: NOSE FROM SIDE CHIN (WHILE NOT SPEAKING), ELBOW, SITE OF HANDS. PELVIS, etc.

"Apart from knowing that he sat right here," said the guide quietiy, "it does provide some idea of his body mass, altiiough what you see is one-dimensional. He grew from something small into this shape. All tiie graduations, his history of growth, are contained therein, but invisible. It doesn't quite show his thinness, but the stoop of his shoulders is evident"

So we were standing a yard or two from where he had sat! It produced powerful sensations: curiosity, silence. Then people could be heard trying to work out the position of the libs, filling in the outiine.

A woman complained: "Well, t like to know the colour of a man's eyes." "G rey/' someone told her. "Weren't they blue? I thought I saw a picture once."

While they argued others went on with guide, trailing as you do in museums, searching ahead for things not yet seen.

We entered a small room which had a simple coffee table, glass-topped, placed in the centre. The guides exchanged smiles as we crowded around, trying to work this one out A coffee table. Was that all? The student noticed a little arrow on the glass. It encouraged discussion, speculation. The young man was quite eager now: "I think I see some­thing else too."

Then the guide stepped in.

"Very good. We almost missed this one ourselves. I am referring of course, to the fingernail trapped under the glass. He must have been trimming, and it snicked out, to lodge between the sides.

A woman pulled a face. "Is It worth preserving?" "It's part of him," the guide reminded her. Cleariy, some of the womenfolk thought it pointless.

"A small example," the guide argued, "of the growth of his extremi­ties."

If only the fingernail was easier to see; I think perhaps that was the trouble. It could then be examined closely and carefully. A raised plat­form and special lighting would do the trick.

"So much is unknown about great men," said the guide, moving towards a showcase opposite, "that every scrap of evidence plays its p a r t . . . piecing together the whole."

Here, he showed up a cup and plate, still dirty, mounted on velvet

The joker elbowed his girifriend: "The last Supper." The guide did not seem to hear.

"Undoubtedly, the plate is the most important Traces of his last meal are visible: lamb chops, mashed potatoes, carrot with peas. On tiie edge there you can see traces of ketchup."

cont 'd Too many people were trying to see. Flashlights began sparking. Those New Zealanders had the best positions again. There was some ill-natur­ed shoving.

"Some of you come around near me," tiie guide demanded, before continuing. The other guides pushed the timid ones inwards.

"You perhaps know about his appetite. I t was so healtiiy it made cer­tain people upset Somehow tiiey assumed all famous men would have perfect table mannersl But he sat down to eat, nothing else, and to get it over with as soon as possible."

" I had no ideal" declared a lady; and she spoke for others. "Surely," said the New Zealanders, both turning, "it's a sign of hon­esty." Thejoker laughed. The guides nodded however,

"If ever a man dsserved food it was he. Who was it said: we must eat in order to think?" "I know!" shouted the student Heads turned in his direction. He pul­led faces and went on clicking his fingers. "God, now I've forgot ten. . . "

The cup and plate put us in a subdued, reflective mood. It forced us to see him from an ordinary unexpected angle: bent, inserting food into his mouth. Quite opposite to the established picture. Yet, instead of reducing our interest it seemed to bring him closer. A few yards away a much smaller cabinet.

" I think this one can be passed over quickly," the guide said, scratch­ing his neck. "We are still in the throes of decyphering i t One of his habits was to slip out unnoticed and mingle with ordinary people. He liked to keep in touch. This is a bus ticket he used one afternoon. One of us found it, stilt crumpled. You will appreciate tiiat to keep it in its original state - screwed into a ball by one of his hands- means the number cannot be read. His destination on that day remains unknown. But that's our problem. And we're working on i t Now, if you could step along h e r e . . . "

The woman with aching legs held him by the sleeve. He tumed, frown­ing. "Bob, show tills lady to the .toilets."

The rest including her husband went on: but two or tiiree led by the young man, crawled underneath the cabinet, squinting up at the bus ticket, perhaps hoping for the edge of a number, or something, not not­iced by tfie museum staff. They returned dusting tfiemsehres, wearing thoughtful expression!.

By tiien our group found itself divided by a strange barricade, it jutted out from a wall, V-shaped. Thus it ingeniously prevented each on­looker "using" tiie exhib i t -a mirror fixed fairiy high on the wait Naturally people tried. A women (with rubbery lips) had one hand poised for automatic hair-adjustment; and unable to stop the process took out a hand-mirror.

Our guide waited for quiet I noticed he perspired slightiy.

"His mirror: its importance must be apparent to everyone. For at least twelve years"-he paused to let it sink i n - " i t registered his Image several times a day. What is perhaps important: it has been estab­lished he was tfie last person/to use i t His face, which was drawing to a close, was tiie last to be fegiitered. And," he added, bowing his head, "we intend to keep it tiiat way."

Nobody spoke. An old membar of the group, but wearing a floral shirt, said, "He used it for shaving, for instance/'

The guide noddded. "Odd tiling was, you all know what he looks like - tiie bushy hair sticking o u t - (I tiiink he said bushy hair stick­ing outi - w e l l , he found as he grew older he had to shave more. I say odd, because tiiaf s against tiie physiological ti^nd."

The floral shirt nodded.

"I only use the razor every two days now/' He tumed to us. "It's not a nice feeling, I can tell you." 'Three score afid ten/ ' murmured the Englishman again. "Oh, don't le f s bring eny gloom into this."

Feet shuffled. We were strangers, but a vague unpleasantness spread.

"His shaving gear is in tiiat cabinet tiiere. But for some reason it doesn't attract as much interest as other exhibits."

So we missed that one, and, after seeing his pillow and a photograph of the sky taken from his window, assembled around what looked like a stamp-dealer's cabinet Out of the comer of my eye I noticed the guides shepherding back a middle-aged couple; tiiey must have wander­ed off. Ours gave a sudden smiie.

"Who here takes an interest ill graphology?"

A man who hadn't spoken before, shrugged, "We all do. I fs extremely difficult to avoid/'

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The guide laughed. He was one of those men wlio say **touche^'. Four specimens of handwriting were laid out in rows; character was bound to be revealed. The pushing and shoving increased as everybody tried to see, some using their elbows; but the lucky ones down the front sud­denly lifted their heads.

'This is no damned good. It's nothing." I think many of us felt dis-aappointed then. " I fs upsldedownJ' "Yes, yes," conceded our guide, "these sheets were taken from his desk. He had one of tiiose blotters with leather comers/' "Whafs tiie point tiien?"

"It's one stage removed/' admitted our guide. "But! Why should you expect everytiiing to be clearly revealed? Let us admit it: he was not easy to understand. We were witii himI We know! He could be quite nasty sometimes. Vain. Often moody. Some days childish almost But a genius. A man of his calibre cannot be 'read' head-on. As it is, you are prhrileged to be standing as close as you are now/' p. 51 ' * '

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One of the favourite past times of Australian politicians is dole bludger bashing and tiie newest thug in tiie arena is none other tiian Big Mal. He may be new to this old game but he has certainly managed to bring it to new levels of sophistication.

*And he has discovered it can do wonders for your image politically. Cheers all round. Big headlines. Thousands still unemployed. And all tiiat the regulations mean is that people will find it harder to get the dole. They will still be unemployed.

The Commonwealth Employment Service (C.E.S.) is, as everyone knows, where you go to get the dole. But what most people don't realise is that they actually only act as agents for the Department of Social Security who are the people who actually give the dole appli applicant his cheque. What the C.E.S. does, however, is works test

- the claim for the doie. In other words to use plain language and not officiaiiese they certify to the D.S.S. tiiat the person claiming the dole is actually a genuine work seeker for whom they have no job available. And what Big Mal has done with his new regulations is given the C.E.S. far wider powers of discretion in the way tiiey works test a claim. Si if the C.E.S. decides tfiat someone is no a genuine work seeker tiiey can now very easily send a report to O.S.S. and have the dole claim cancelled.

The new rules are quite simple. People who leave jobs on their own ac­cord, what reason and people who are sacked for bad behaviour will be in trouble when they claim. And if you are thinking of taking a working holiday, don't bother to claim tiie dole because the C.E.S. will consider you a traveller and not a genuine work seeker. The same applies if you shift to the Gold Coast or any other area the C.E.S. considers is an area of low employment prospects. And tfie C.E.S. can now force you to take any employment it considers suitable, no matter what your skills or experience are. And don't wear any trendy gear to the local C.E.S. because if you dress in a manner they consider unsuitable or if an em­ployer complains that you were not dressed properiy the dole may be a thing of the past for you. If you do manage to fill In a forpi you had better have your proof of identity ready because you will need itto get

So by now it must be obvious that tiie C.E.S. is no way an employment service. The only function it has is to ensure that the people who are claiihing the dole are got off it as soon as possible, by any means avail­able. It is no more than an enforcement agency for the Department of Social Security. And the statistics bear tiiis out Only 26% of tiie people who register with the C.E.S. are found jobs. And as few as one quarter of airthe staff of the average C.E.S. office are actually engaged in trying to find people jobs. The rest are supervisors, people working on dole claims, people sending out letters, people filing cards and so on. It is obvious from the priority they give in manpower allocation what the true function of the C.E.S. is. And tiiey are not even very efficient It is reputed to cost the C.E.S. $13 for every person who walks in the door.

POOR r>UBLIC IMAGE Obviously the C.E.S. has a number of problems, not tiie least of which is its public image. If tiie government was serious about reducing loss to tiie economy of people who were unemployed tiiey would spend a bit of money updating tiie C.E.S. As it is tiie C.E.S. is no more tfian a factory which produces cannonfodder for industry, because almost all the jobs tiiat tfie C.E.S. receives are for unskilled labour. And because people on unemployment have no choice tiiey are sent to the» jobs, most of which are paid tiie award rate or as is often the case under tiie award. Most ef tfiese employers would not be able to obtain labour if it were not for tfie C.E.S. In a sense tills is little more tfian industrial conscription. . , And another problem is not really tiie fault of the C.E.S. but it does compound the problems it has. In Australia tiiere is a hard core ot people who are unemployable or who wish to remain unemployed. This has been estimated to be as high as 100,000 but may well be as low as 50,000. It is, never tiie less, a substantial number of people They are the alcoholics, tiie people who have handicaps, physical and mental which precludes them from working. There is tiie changing band of people who simply don't want to work. And because tiie C.E.S. is tiie only source of money tiiey have tiiey tum up to play the dole charades every week. So what has happened is tiiat the dole gives subsis-tance to a vast group of people who would otherwise starve. But there is no other form of benafit evailable for tfiese people apart from tfie invalid pension. The result is tiiat the C.E.S. is a defacto welfare ser-vice. But defacto welfare service or not, life will be hard for Australians unemployed in tiie next few years. And they won't be able .to expect much sympatiiy from tiie C.E.S. ^^ Whittenbar.

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CES The Comomwealtii Employment Service. Where you go to ^ get the dole.

DSS Department of Social Security. The people who actually pay the dole.

Mafcoim Fraser He replaced Gough as Prime Minister a while ago. Known as Big Mal to his mates, he got his son on the dole. But recentiy he has done a bit of dole bludger bashing to keep the Capos happy. Not a nice man.

Employment afficer The guy who interviews you at a CES office. Believes all people who come to the CES are bludgers. Is generally a fascist, sexist, racist highly trained dole bludger basher. To be approached witii caution. Beware the animal may bite.

Beferral The act of sending you to a job. This happens when tiie EO (see ajjove), after ringing an Employer comes back witii the niaws tiiat you have to go for a job interview.

' Try to look eager. And when he gives you an ES7 the form will tell you where to go, who to see and what

' time you will be Interviewed. Ask for fares to the inter­view. If tiie EO doesn't offer fares say that you had no money to get to tfie inteiview ehn tfiey ask why you didn't make It Say you were too embarrassed to ask

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D This is marked on the back of your ESI and means that you declined a job. To have this rrtax^ei on your card means that almost certainly you will loose the dole be­cause the EO will put in a SU44 to DSS.

FTH In red, also on the back of the card means you failed to report to an arranged job interview. Very bad. You will be sent a

2U Letter which will ask you to call at a specific time to explain why you never did get to the job or why you didn't reply to a telegram asking you to call in at the CES.

P usually in blue means you were placed in the job. Good boy. The CES will be proud of you. The placement will go on the statistics and if there are enough of them every two years there may be an increase in staff of the office.

21$ Letter also asks you to call at a special time and is sent out if the CES hasn't heard from you for at least a month. Naughty

boy. You should call at leave once every month to avoid these letters as the EO will try very hard to get you a job when he interviews you.

HorHP In red in the centre top of tfie cani means you are a handicapped person. This will cut down tiie number of jobs they can send you to and gives you hundreds of ex­cuses why you didn't turn up at jobs. A good one is hay fever or epilepsy. A good idea is to put on a fit in the off­ice. Is guaranteed to keep you away from work for months. The handicaps are divided up into different types. My favourite is '1'. This means you are a bit cracked. Tell the EO you get flash backs from your last acid trip. This confirms his worst suspicions about hippies -hippies? Act in a peculiar manner. My favourite is to come in late in the afternoon when things are quiet and engage the staff in a ridiculous conversation. Good fun on a mushies trip because you want to talk any way. Say you don't want to be drafted by Fraser. Say you are all sorts of strange people. Ask obscure questions. After you become well known you will never be sent any where. Vou may even be given the invalid pension. &ood luckl

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THE TIMOR INVASION -A Short Story

At 4.30 a.m, Sunday December 7th last, twelve Indonesian warships begen to bomberci the capi> tal of East Timor, Dili. Shortly afterwards, eight Indonesian pianes dropped waves of paratroop­ers in and around t^e city. Simultaneously, hundreds of Indonesian troops stormed ashore in small boats from the warships. One of the most blatant acts of aggression in our immediate reg­ion — the Indonesian invesion of East Timor had begun.

Throughout the day before, the government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, barely 10 days old, had been evacuating East Timorese from the city to the surrounding mountains, Only a small number remained. This included the Chinese population of Dili. On the first day, almost the entire Chinese population was massac­red.

iFrom the brief radio messages received in Dan/vin that eluded the Australian Government's screen of silence, it became apparent that the East Timorese forces withdrew to the outskirts, to the south, where the forest-covered hills rise steeply, There a defence line was formed, which not only held the Indonesian attack, but was strong enough for e counter-attack. Two days later, East Timorese forces still heid two-thirds of Dili, tt would not be until another massive attack on Christmas Day that the Indonesian forces were able to take Dili.

DARWIN MONITOR CENSORSHIP

The Indonesians were eager to delude worjd opinion that the "volunteers" had quickly quiet­ened any resistance. However, this was more an aspiration than reality. The only outlet different from Indonesian sources was monitored in Dar­win. This, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, desperately tried to silence. The Outpost Redio Network in Darwin had been receiving messages from. East Timor since the struggle began. Following the Indonesian invasion on December 7, the Darwin Telephone Manager's Office placed a written order on the noticeboard and also verbally informed ell radio operators to Ignore messages eminating from East Timor. Aii radio operators were then asked to sign the sec­recy provisions of the Post and Telegraphs Act.

The workers concerned refused these instructions and contacted the Federal Secretary of their union, Wai Rowlings, Mr Rowlings, along with

; other Federal Officers, unanimously instructed the Derwin operators to ignore the direction and

^pointed out that it was their moral duty to make 'public ali messages received from East Timor. The notice was subsequently removed.

However, tho Dannrin Telephone Manager, l\ r McLeod, said that he had been told by the Aus­tralian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO)

to channel all messages to the Department of Foreign Affairs. It is obvious that these messages were to be lost in the bowels of bureaucracy. Ordinary Australian people - Telegraphic work-ers - had taken a moral stance against manipula­ting big power politics.

CHRISTMAS DAY ATTACK

At 9 a.m. on Christmas Day, massive Indonesian attacks were launched on Dili, Baucan, Luai, Licrca, Tilomar, Aipeio and Barzatete. These attacks followed within days a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution (December 12) calling for the immediate withdrawal of Indonesian troops from East Timor.

According to Hamish McDonald, Melbourne Age correspondent in Jakarta, and Fretilin sour­ces, between 10,000 to 15,000 more troops were poured into East Timor. The Indonesian Generals had planned for a very short war but now they were committed to pouring more troops into East Timor just to gain a foothold.

The massive assults in Dili and Baucau (site of the airport), forced Fretilin troops and Militia to re­treat from both towns and to regroup in the sur­rounding hills. The attacks on the other centres were preceeded by heavy naval shelling and air bombing. Troops and amphibious tanks landed on nearby beaches. To the north, Indonesian troops landed at the coastal village of Aipeto and pushed on to Bargatete. Liquica was also taken. The towns of Tilomar and Luai were attacked. To the south of Dili, Maubere and Viveque were taken. Alien also fell.

Once they had taken these towns, the Indones­ians found that they were hard to hold. Shortly after the New Year the towns of Liquica, Bar­zatete', and Maubere were retaken. Alien became isolated and Baucan airport was surrounded.

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Recently Viveque was retaken. From just a mili­tary point of view, it seems incredible that such a large invasion force with the aid of naval, air, and tanks has been unable to penetrate into a country defended by merely 3,000 troops. In fact, this force is now starting to push the Indo­nesians back from the territory they have joined. However, if we look at the nature of the contend­ing forces, the situation no longer seems incredi­ble.

The large Indonesian force is a cumbersome one in an alien land. They have no support from the population. They are unfamiliar with the terrain. They are also not fighting for the survival of their country. The mode of warfare they must use is conventional warfare. This mode, after Vietnam, includes the massacring of people and the defolia­tion of crops. The much smaller Democratic Republic of East Timor forces, however, have a large degree of support with the population. They are familiar with the terrain. They are also fighting for the survival of their country. The mode of warfare which they employ is guerilla warfare. In Timor, this mode has already been proven successful. During Worid War I I , 400 Australian commandos, with the aid of sympath­etic Timorese were able to keep 20,000 Japanese soldiers at bay for the duration of the war.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTAL COMPLICITY

What was the Australian Governments reaction to this further aggression? The Australian govern­ment continued to maintain that there were no-Indonesian regular troops in East Timor. To the Australian government they were merely "volun­teers". But to this, one must ask the question? Has anyone ever known of "volunteers" to possess twelve warships, eight planes, and an un­specified number of tanks? The absurdity of the "volunteer" fiasco was reported by the Courier

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Mail correspondent, Bruce Wilson. (He was later expelled from Indonesia for writing this article). Mr Wilson reported that during the visit by the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister, Adan Malik, to Dili earlier on this year one could tell that the soldiers were "volunteers" because they had a badge saying so pinned onto their Indonesian regular army uniform.

The Australian Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Peacock, was also put on the spot by the leaking of a secret deplomatic communique from Aus­tralia's Ambassador to Indonesia, Mr Woolocott, to him. In this communique, published in the Canberra Times, Mr. Woolocott showed that he was under extreme pressure from Indonesian officials. He urged the Government to accept the inevitability of East Timor becoming tl e 29th Province of Indonesia. "Let the dust clear" he urged. He further urged the government to silence the groups and individuals in Australia who had publicly stated that they were opposed to Indonesia invading a free country and stated that Indonesian troops held no more than ten per certt of East Timorese territory.

The events of the last few weeks have proved beyond doubt the Australian Government's complicity with Indonesian invasion. The United Nations had appointed a special envoy, Mr. WInspeare Guicciardi, to investigate the situation in East Timor. Initially, his trip from Europe was delayed by the apparent fighting in East Timor. Upon his arrivai in Jakarta, Mr. Guicciardi, was promptly told by Adan Malik that. Indonesia would not help him to visit areas held by the Democratic Republic of East Timor. Failing to Guicciardi came to Australia. He assumed that the Australian government would respect the authority of the United Nations.

His initial requests for help fall on the deaf ears of the government. He then proceeded to attampts to contact these areas through the mon­itor in Darwin, owned by a Fretilin member, Mr Tony Bello. The monitor owned by Mr Bello was seized by Commonwealth Officials as Mr Bello was travelling out to bushiands outside Danwin to receive a message from East Timor which was to arrange with Mr. Guicciardi his passage in East Timor.

The uproar that eminated from broad sections of the Australian population at the clumsy attempt at preventing Mr, Guicciardi from visiting areas held by the O.R.E.T. forced Mr. Peacock to offer Mr. Guicciardi passage to East Timor. The pas­sages offered was a Portuguese Corvette. The destination was the town of Same. This was a hollow offer however. The town of Same is on top of a high plateau which rises steeply from an almost non-existent coast. The requests for Mr Peacock to allow Mr Guicciardi use of an Aus­tralian aircraft emblazened with UN identifica­tion were ignored. In the meantime, Indonesian planes were bombing all the possible airstrips where the UN could land. Frustrated, Mr. Guic­ciardi returned to Europe. The Australian and Indonesian governments had successfully preven­ted, the UN envoy from becoming the first non-military, observer to enter D.R.E.T. held areas since December 7. They were also successful

of exhibiting to the world that they had some­thing to hide and that they were both deeply in­volved in the attempt to abuse a nation's inde­pendence.

What is needed is that the Australian govern­ment to take a principled stand to recognize the Democratic Republic of East Timor as the legi­timate government in East Timor, as weli as con­form to the United Nations Security Council resolution of December 12 and demand the im­mediate withdrawal of Indonesian troops from the territory. A quickly growing body of people in Australia are demanding of the government that it take this principled stend and that it sever all diplomatic, economic, and military ties until this goal is reached.

Trevor Hart, Secretary, Campaign for an Independent East Timor c/- Builders Workers Industrial Union, 5th Floor, Trades Hall, Edward St, City, 4001. Phone 524866.

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CAN THE INDONESIAN ARMY SURVIVE IN EAST TIMOR?? [This background paper was tabled at tha Nationalu Timor Conference held at MInto outside Sydney Both the deteriorating economic conditions-

rural impoverishment has also seriously affect­ed the lower echelons of the Army - and the numerous contradictions and rifts inside the military 'have put severe limitations on the fighting capability of the Indonesian Armed Forces. Failure of any military operation could be disasterous for the Army, could even make it fall to piecesi

on January 10-11; Professor Utrecht was a form­er top adviser tb President Sukarno who is now Research Director of the Transnational Co­operative, in Sydney. This artide is important to those who are wondering-if the people of East Timor are able to survive the Indonesian invas­ion.

It is obvious that, as a consequence of the two criminal invasions in East Timor during last Dec­ember, the Jakarta generals have ventured^their

[troops into a hornets' nest. There is no certainty tbatri hey will win tha wa>i On Ihe Mm>a>yri<' seems that FRE1\ELIN, whose popularity and riilitary strength b ve been underestimatsok ; y t le Indonesian ag f ssors, will be able to organ i e a protracted guetrtlla war in i npenetrabie mouptainous interli^r. SioCfiJa t jginning of last year Partemicia^^he state-owned c il company whith in fact haplbecome a private «nerprise of the Idnu Sutoyb-Suhar. V ent almost b^rupt , the ifountt; 's econo c n the verge^f total collapse. It is t le Indonesian government can afforl c 3Sts of maintaining an elxpeditionary t Bp^ Ji^Of for, let us s^, six ?rt6nlV>s. Be>jdes

When it started the "East Timor belongs to Indonesia" campaign, the Jakarta government was fully aware of the very limited fighting

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Jftvanese Afmy DiwtJiojj^'Diporfe i j^VBr^vi]^>^J^^^§tJy)a), TtTBseiWTTdivjsfons c JnCitule more than 5g6-oL the Indonesian 1 rmydMost soldiers In DBrYtralSnd East Java

ve to take care of extended fanftttres. J^^fY^^ »? tra income to feed destitute relatives, ancT this ^^ cond income they usually derive from petty

f rruption and small abuses of power. In order obtain extra income they often terrorize the'

local po iation. It is obvious that sending a sol aler to tasi i imor inevitaDly creates an almos insoluable problem: who will seek the extri

jceful" ways to incor Indonesian territory,

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and APODETI ^vrtbCSs' o '^ ^° '"*^° an Timor into soldiers to be sen(flS«'< tc

East Timor. When tvNwcame obvious FRETELIN was unD^taHle by these traitors, units of the West Timor-based I ^siarLArtpy^emselvBs^had to gd^to actior

gg-agaiiTsr^hT^RETELIN troops. The latte In ^W^&S^^''^ ability to cieap'jtjia^iojder ares

between West^flnd^ast(^iroQE^«fiiidb^^ intruders, lew^najhe <tekarta geiwals n< other choice than to prepare a fulQ:@f gt n tack on Dili and otherplaces on the norti coast.

likely that in the near future these younger officers will put an end to the fascist military reign of Suharto and Ibnu Sutowo. The East Timor Declaration of Irtdpendence on November 28, 1975, partly frustrated the Indonesian plans for the Timor invasion.'The preparations fbr an invasion, were then not yet completed. In an attempt to minimize inter­national intervention the Jakarta generals had to send off to East Timor an insufficiently prepared expeditionary force of about 1500 KKO marines, RPKAD.soldiers and BRIMOB policemen. This force could only conquer] parts of Dili and Baucau, and was not able to jaufiwhuanii ntinaUnon r»BSTiiUIMf»«<»onohok

It is widely known that inside the Indones' ian Army there exists rival groups. The centra

ilitary elite in Jakarta maintains its positio employing specially trained, better eq

ped and bette|>^id elite troops, the e mentioned i t o A D and the JONPOMAD

ilitary Police). Also the commanfljsrs Ql>the various army division

special troops. The Command e Trpioooeaoro" Division has tht

ng R&iders'Ninder his copimand, while e Commander of the "Brawijaya

controls his lower ranking soldiers b ing special troops to whew h ^ given the name "Banteng R8fcMf6*V lang" special troops protect the ' f < t h o "g;t i>*.an^i" r>K«. inn TV Epuaa troops often arbitrarily lower ranking soldiers.

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at Aileu. They only succeeded in butcherinj about 2000 innocent civilians, most of then

hinese.

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^^''^^^'*^l^'l^f'iu?^\^'r?fi '"t^rnatlonal in terventionYiacTb^an-^^Dirtli^^ United Nations, the' Jafona generals then \ ac to send otf a much Wgger military force, i)f

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income for the many poor relatives during th« , r- A period in which the soldier has to fulfil his mill- Also inside the military elite one can f«nd co" tary duties in East Timor. So most "Diponegoro"^licting groups. During the January ib-u and "Brawijaya" soldiers are not interested in 1974, "^j*'^Ja'^^'W'^/^fJ"^'^"'"•^^^^^^ the war in East Timor because their poor relatives commander of KOPKAMTIB ^Commander o need them in Java. In other words, it will be diffi. the Restoration of Secunty and Order) arnda cult to send "Diponegoro" and "Brawijaya" an attempt to oust Suharto from the pres d units to East Timor, and it seems that so far there ^"cy. Sumitro was too powerfu^ to be elim n are no "Diponegoro" and "Brawijaya" troops ^ ^ «' '°"9' Suharto succeeded tnfirmgh involved in the war in East Timor. According to « commander of KOPKAMTIB. The confjici the news received at Danwin, the invasion troops between Suharto and Sumitro has not bee consist of units of the Indonesian Marines (KKO) terminated so far - on the contrary, it isst. units of the Special Troops (RPKAD) put at the simmering and some day in the future therej lisposal of the central military leadership in may be a second eruption. The conflicts n Jakarta, of the West Java "Slliwangi" Army s' e the Army render jt a danger to society

Division and of the Mobile Brigade (BRIMOB) Among the younger generation of otticer of Indonesia's State Police. there is growing discontent, and it is not u

But also thia>second bloody invkion co lc not Jfnnihilag FRETELIN. On the\:ontraFy about 70?^f East Timor's territqW is stil under FR^ELIN's control. The Indonesiini are now trying to realize the first/Sarilof thpii plans to incorporate East Timor/wit nesian territory. They want to sm5w the UnT ed Nations that they have successfully restor ed "law and order" to East Timor. The sec ond phase wili be to persuade the United Nat ions to allow them .to stay in East Timor anc to prepare an "act of free choice", that is, tc stage a fake referendum by forcing the pop

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such a war would be to Orjng in more troips, perhaps more than 50,000 soldiers. Would it be possible for the Jakarta generals to step up their assaults on FRETELIN? The answer is certainly "no"l Although the Indonesian Army might rely on some military aid from the United States In the form of weapons and equipment. It will financially as well as politi­cally, not be able to maintain for at least six months up to 50,000 Javanese soldiers in East Timor. The soldiers of "Diponegoro" and "Brawijaya" will definitely resist such full-scale foolish operations, because their desti­tute relatives back home need them more than their corrupt generals in Jakarta do. The Timor future ofthe Indonesian generals is bleak and a disasterous defeat is around the] corner provided that FRETELIN can hold outj at least six months!

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CAMM MPOSED! '•Uranium has only been used in nuclear weapons twice in the world: Hiroshima and another littie town - Nagasaki.' tr

It is statements like these which set Ron Camm, deputy leader of the National Party, twenty years in the Queensland state parlia­ment, fourteen years a minister, longest serving, main roads Minister on his way to become the longest serving mines Minister, apart from many of his colleagues.

It is the frank honesty of the man which ex­cludes him from the mainstream politicking in this country, especially now that Fraser and Joh have perfected the Nixonian 'Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies." technique. He does of course engage in political double talk, but the 56 year old cane arid cattle farmer shines through. It is the humanity which was the undoing of Billy Snedden and Jim Cairns. Call it stupidity If you like.

Arriving at Mineral House at the appointed hour to endeavour to determine the immediate future of mining in Queensland now that the Tories have been returned to our federal par­liament, and the major Queensland poljcy maker's attitude towards sand and uranium mining, the aims to achieve Australian equity in mining companies and to ascertain if there is any validity in the rumours that Joh was about to be on the end of a cabinet room coup.

During the life of the Labor government in Can­berra, mining exploration in Queensland virtual­ly came to a standstill. 1 suggested to Mr Camm that this possibly represented a blackmail of a reformist government by the business commun­ity. He insisted; 'The Labor government never formed a clear policy on mining. The compan­ies were never sure where they stood."

'The Federal government has tremendous pow­er over mining in this country. They are respon­sible for the granting bf export markets, it is a very powerful position. They also have overall control over the flow of capital into the coun-

.try. "Hopefully the new federal government will be willing to let the states work in their fields of expertise — to the granting of leases and the , conditioning of work. "Mining companies have been more active in their approaches to the government since December 13, although it is still earty days now. •• •. "It Is unfortunate to think that many of the oil Companies who were drilling here before 1972 have now left and have gone to Indonesia,

Sumatra, New Guinea and Thailand, Our con­ditions can't be as attractive here as they are in those countries, otherwise, they'd be. drill-ing here — those countries welcome overseas capital for exploration." Much of the criticism of the mining industry has been directed towards the companies involved and the percentage of these which are Australian owned. Mr Camm said: "Australian invwswrs seem rather loathe to put their money into risk ven­tures, and I don't blame them. Millions of dollars are spent without any return. I'd like to see every mining company operating in Queensland owned by Australians but I don't .think that that is practical. "I'd like to see a government subsidy for the exploration of oil. The subsidy to be paid back on the proving of a payable oil field, or income tax deductions for expenditure involved in oil exploration. These are the sorts of concessions we should give companies. Saying we'll give x, dollars per barrel of oil is no concession, until they find oil. "Without contributing one penny the Austra­lian governments state and federal have a share in mining ventures in excess of 60 percent be­cause of income, sales and payroll taxes and royalties. Why should we risk the limited capi­tal we have In Australia when we get 60% of the profits without putting one penny into it, let us use our money for other development work we need in Australia." At the mention of conservationists Mr Camm became somewhat defensive. VVhile praising some dedicated members of the movement, he warned of the danger of destructive elements like "the communist leader directing the con­servationist green bans in N.S.W. and Victoria, which infiltrate such movements and hold up development at any cost".

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He then went on to say that mining in Austra­lia actually touched such a small percentage of the land that it was irrelevant. Refusing to con­sider the fact that mining involves removing of substances from the soil, niaterials which cannot be replaced, he said: "Out of that very small area of land comes thousands of millions of dollars". Doning his old cap at Minister for Main Roads he said: "Besides much more land is destroyed by road works than by mining. And as mines minister I refuse to grant leases to as many areas as 1 allow to be mined. Com­panies who mine have to restore the land to its natural state, or to a state as directed by the local Government"

The message was coming through loud and clear, that the community needs the benefits of mining. The time was right to test the ques­tion of uranium mining.

With the uranium issue about to explode like the bombs it produces, Camm said: 'There is more to uranium use than nuclear warfare, the whole world could arm themselves with nuclear weapons without worrying one iotd about Aus­tralia. We would like to think that a lot of our uranium will go into nuclear reactors for the generation of power. There has only been the use of uranium In nuclear weapons twice in the world's history - Hiroshima and another little town, Nagasaki. Why should we defy the people of Queensland the benefits that would obviously come our way if we ^oid uranium. We can afford to sell it, and still keep plenty for ourselves."

After discussing the safety precautions enfoi"-ced by the mines department the longevity of Queensland coal deposits, the possibility of another electricity crisis in '76, it was time to approach the leadership question.

Asked if he would like to be premier, Ron Camm after prefixing his reply by commenting on the responsibilities of the job, the excellent job being done by Joh, said: "I think that anyone who goes into politics would naturally like to get to the top, yes, 1 suppose if you a k me, yes I'd like to be Premier."

Which pretty well sums up Ron Camm: Queens­land's longest serving main road minister, after the gauntlet awarded to the longest serving Mines Minister, and maybe even the top of the tree and the pie in the sky. ' " '" »

cont: REPLY TO RON CAMM

A Nasty Way to Die

Radiation poisoning is not the nicest thing from which to die. Your skin peels off, your heir falls out end you are continually nauseous. "I would just like to ask sonra of these men here particularly the ones from the Atomic Energy Commission, If they ever saw anyone they loved die because their bones were rotting away. My father went very slowly. My uncle went quite fast; he had only two months," reported Pat Ellison, daughter of a uranium minef testifying at a U.S, Dept. of Labour heering on November 21,-1964 in Washington D.C.

Had the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki been dropped in Queensland, the people of Proser­pine and about twenty other "little towns" would have died - horribly.

It seems to be assumed that exploration, mining and development of minerals and fossil fuels is ipso facto a good and desirable thing, A French intellectual, Jacques Ellul, has a name for this sort of thinking: technique. He suggests that technique Is "any complex of standardized means of attained a predetermined, result but which converts spontaneous and unrefiective behaviour into behaviour that is deliberate and rationalized; with technique, ends become means." 'Development' Is assumed to be a good thing regardless of the damage done directly to natural areas such as Fraser Island or Mt.

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Etna or of the dangers of the products and the uses to which those products are put, as is the case of uranium mining. Let us look at It close­ly for a moment.

A high level military base is soon to be estab­lished at Miillumbimby in Northern New South Wales, about four kilometres north west of Byron Bay. From Byron north to Fraser Island are some of the world's richest deposits of sand minerels particularly zirconium.

The fast breeder reactor, one of the three major types of nuclear reactor presently being used or developed for nuclear power program­mes, uses enriched uranium and plutonium for its fuel. Plutonium is the second most deadly substance in the world (the most deadly sub­stance is Americanium, also a product of this type of reactor). It is tasteless, odourless and soluable. If inhaled or ingested it causes leuk­emia as It lodges in the marrow of the bones ancf destroys the white cells of the blood. Plu­tonium hes a half4ife of 24,400 years, and must be kept absolutely isolated from the bio­sphere for 500,000 years until it decays to a 'safe' level.

The fuel rods in the Fast Breeder Reactor are made of Zirconium. The major company Involved In the mining of Fraser Island is Dillingham Mining Co of Aus­tralia Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dilling­ham Industries of Hawaii. This company is in turn owned by the Bank of American Group of American companies, which also owns Getty Oil, a major shareholder of Pancontinental Mining Co, which recently announced a mas­sive find of uranium in Northern Australia.

Also In this group Is Kaiser Steel, maior shere-holder of Hamersley Holdings Ltd and Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corp. major share­holder of (Queensland Alumina and Comalco Ltd. This company (Bank of America Group) also owns the Lockheed Aircraft corporation, recently shown to be invo(\rad in interesting dealings;othar than selling aircraft,

Though Deputy Prime Minister Anthony whose Federal Electorate Incidentally, is Rich­mond which encompasses Byron and Mullum-bimby, assures us that no nation will get Aust­ralian Uranium unless it signs the Nuclear Non-Prollferation Pact, one of the signatories on that pact, the USA, continues to develop Nuclear weapons (MIRVS etc) and accelerates its Nuclear power programme, despite a fighten-ing safety record. Financial benefits accruing to Queenslanders are ali very nice perhaps at the same rate that our coal is sold to Japan? Perhaps 3% cut to the Blacks?

The communist bogey raises Its ugly head againi They're everywhere — nasty business this. The conservation lobby In Queensland are not communists, whatever that means.

If Mr. Camm becomes premier, with hand on heart and head held high, loudly and proudly may we sing "God Save Australia".

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It is one of the modern paradoxes that gay people often need a god or religion more than heterosexual people, and it is in the faces of these homosexual people that the Christian church has traditionally slammed its doors.

This was recognised by Rev. Troy Perry seven years ago in Los Angeles-and led to the founding of the Metropolitan Community Church, a Christian church with special out­reach into the gay community. It began with an ad in the Los Angeles Advocate, the Los Ang­eles newspaper of the gay community and has since grown to embrace 20,000 people in 94 congregations in six different countries.

Troy Perry, visited Australia in January to cele­brate the first anniversary of the church in Australia. He founded the church because he was convinced "that even if people don't care about camp men and women at least god does." Before starting this church he was a Pentacostal minister and heterosexually married, until his life changed efter a time spent in the army.

He said: "If the established church had been doing its job there would have been no need for MCC. As a christian church with outreach into the gay community, we are not directed towards lustful homosexual activity the same as

the established churches are not directed to­wards lustful hetero activity, but to loving homosexual relationships. The established churches opposed to us quote scripture at us without realising that the writers in the bible were referring to lustful homosexuality, not loving relationships."

M.C.C. is endeavouring to be accepted into the National Council of Churches in the countries in which it has been established. Troy Perry thinks that this will probably come about quite soon in the United States, as MCC there has the support of the Episcopal (Anglican) and Church of God (Congregational) churches. No doubt the entry of MCC into these organisa­tions will be made more difficult by the pope's recent statement on sexuality.

Just how far MCC has to go before it is recog­nised-is exemplified by this story which Troy Perry tells — in his booming southern accented Anfierican voice.

"MCC in Boston wanted to make a donation to a disaster fund being sponsored by the Catholic Aid Association. When the minister arrived with the clothes to be donated the nun collecting the goods, asked him what church he represented as he was wearing a dog-collar. He replied that he represented the Metro­politan Community Church. She questioned him further andhe explained that it is a church for Homophials. She replied saying: 1 didn't know that they had a church for bleeders."

Although MCC is directed towards gay people. Troy Perry stressed that if people are happy in tiieir own denominations MCC encourages

them to remain In them and stand up and be counted. However, two thirds of the menibers of MCC have come from other Christian denominations, in which they felt alienated. The other third had no church background and were "converted".

In Brisbane MCC meets every Sunday night at the Friend's Meeting House in Kelvin Grove, On the night that I interviewed Troy Perry 1 attended the service he was conducting. And although I am not 'gay' it was an amazing experience. The sen/ice was derivative of the Presbyterian and methodist sen/ices but with a joy and happiness I've never experienced before in a church service. It was an electrifying experience seeing homosexual couples worship­ping together - the love and joy in the room on the wet stormy night was overwhelming.

For further information about MCC phone Campus Camp - 22 9373 or watch for notices in Nation Review.

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ERICCLAPTOW 'E.C. Was Here" ^.S.O. Records 2394160 Erci Clapton's long climb back after three years ost to heroin addiction was heralded by a con-»rt at the Rainbow Theatre in London organized jy Pete Townshend. But the record of "tfiat con-Mrt did not do justice to the event and it was not x>ssible to assess whether he had in fact returned to form. The next two albums, "461. Ocean Boulevard" and "One ih Every Crowd" were beautifully understated works. I personally like ooth very much yet others were disappointed by the lack of fire, complaining that Clapton was not really exercising his talent.

Those who were unhappy with Clapton's low key nonchalance on those recent studio albums will rejoice at his rediscovery of the more direct approach as is indicated by this live set. Now* adays, he is healthier and more confident and It shows in his playing here. His backing band know him well enough to push him when he needs it, and as a result of George Terry's intimWatIng guitar work, Clapton is heard here ripping out some fluid electrifying solos.

E.C. Was Here is predominantiy a slow blues album, but that label does not fully reflect the range of material presented on the record. Of the six songs, three could rightly be called that while the Bobby Bland song Further On Up the Road is an uptempo blues. The remaining two tracks. Presence of the Lord and Steve Winwood's Can't Find my Way Home come from the days of the Ill-fated Blind Faith.

it Is interesting to note (and understandable, l suppose) that no nnaterlal the last two albums Is cinlMded. Clapton wrtainly features tracks from them in his concerts but producer Tom Dowd apparently considered it was time to emphasize Eric's more dominant guitar role. Presence of the Lord encapsulates the shift Into a tougher stance. It begins quietly and lazily with Eric and Yvonne Elliman sharing the vocals and as it winds down to what the audience expects to be the end, it suddenly lungw back with incredible vigour and volume. Also significant is the Inclusion of Robert Johnson's Rambling On My Mind. As far as I know,' this song featured

Clapton's first recorded vocals when It was re­leased on John Mayall's Blues Breakers in 1965. Other tracks are the Derek and The Dominoes' Have You Ever Loved A Woman and Drifting Blues which provides the only disappointment of the record, lasting a brief three minutes before (X>ming to a rather abrupt close.

For me, virtually anything Clapton does Is worth hanging on to, even though he does go through some chameleon-like changes. But this album Is especially memorable because Eric Is demon­strating the blues power that some had thought was gone forever.

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this reco rd was premature. Certainly, by any standards, it must be regarded as a disappoint­ment.

TANGERINE DREAM "Ricochet" Virgin Label L 35736

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CAPTAIN ROCK "Buried Treasure' Mushroom Label L 35718 Mild mannered librarian Bob Brown, disguised as Captain Rock, has succeeded in establishing a substantial following as a rock comic In Mel­bourne. His first regular work was at the legen­dary Flying Trapeze Restaurant and it was here that various members of the rock business came into contact with his type of rhusic-hall humour.

Unfortunately, somehwere between the stage and the vinyl, something has gone amiss. Brown des cribes his show as a vaudeville act with songs and dialogue. It seems to me that the success of vaudeville routines depends significantly on the visual elements of gaudlness or exaggeration. Without this, vaudeville humour loses a lot of Its flavour. This then is the problem - with the ab­sence of Brown's elastic face and suitcase of hats, his songs are merely quaint ing long ditties. His parodies of fifties rock, for example, lack impact without the gyrations and the sneers.

A further problem, in terms of album produc­tion, is that there is no credible development of an identity on tfie record. Apart from the Captain Rock persona. Brown disposes of several caricatures In quick succession. We have some­thing from Noel Coward, a piece of ockerism, a couple of dope songs, a cossack, a pirate, a vam­pire, etc. Such an unconnected diversity may work on stage where the fabric of character can be reinforced by sight, but records require some uniformity of approach* to be sustaining.

The music itself is of a fair quality, with contri­butions from various members of Skyhooks, Captain Matchbox and Daddy Cool. It Is not enough, however, to save the record from the doldrums. The most attractive songs are Give Ma A Home Among the Gumtrees and Steamed Vegetables, both of which would be called whimsical rather than funny.

In view of the uncritical response to his stage

EDGAR FROESE "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale Virgin Label L 35677

Tangerine Dream have travelled a long way from their standard rock line-up of the mkJ-sixties. The three members now manipulate vast banks of electronic gear with which they have produced some truly startling vwrk, culminating with Phaedra and Rubycon. The Dream are expert at initiating a sound pulse and, through various graduations, changing its direction and impetus until its interaction with other tones and patterns creates atmospheric vistas of pure sound. Ricochet, their seventh group album, purports to be a live recording from their recent European tour, the title originating from a French game they played during that tour. On stage, the group rely totally on collective improvisation - which of course means difficulty in maintaining a consistently high concert standard (witness their dismal Sydney show as against the brilliant per* formance in Brisbane). As such, their album owes more to the studio than normal live recordings in that fifty hours of tapes were vetted and the best portions of these were grafted together with additional instrumentation. That the whole thing works amazingly well bears testimony to their ability as musical technicians, but ultimate­ly it is the music itself which impresses.

The trio employ the same cyclical progression and evolution of themes exploited in previous works but the dynamics involved here make this album more active and almost aggressive — or perhaps I should say it is more self-assertive. The tranquil - undulations pf Phaedra have become vigorous and stimuictihg due to the skilful juxta­position of rhythms combined with direct per­cussive effects (even drums make an appearance on this record).

As anyone who has attended their concerts knows, Tangerine Dream music is a special ex­perience, it is delicacy without prettiness, power without violence. It succeeds by way of seduc­tion rather than assault, dependant on under­currents and waves of sound to transfix an. audience. Edgar Froese sees vast new landscapes being opened up with electronics. To that ex­tent, he and his group are significant exponents

show, one can only conclude that the release oflof a new style,, as their music already far sur-

peties the level of synthesized gimmickry that fome muiidans are content to produce.

Concurrent with Ricochet, Edgar Froese has released his second solo effort, inspired by the group's Australian tour last year. As with Aqua, freedom from group constraints has enabled him to make more use of special effects. For example, the title track records his impressions of the jungle ai seen from his aircraft window while approaching Kuala Lumpur. To reinforce this Image, several animal noises and engine whines appear. Yet it is the use of such an unsubtle technique Which heightens the weaknesses of this skie. A further problem Is the lack of dimension

— i.e., the sparse sound detracts from the overall vision.

However skle two Is a different proposition. Called Maroubra Bay, it Is as far from Little Patti's vdew of that place as it could possibly be. Qf..course, style is part of the reason but mood is also a great factor. It begins with an ominous pattern which pen/ades the rest of the track. But this is understandable when considering the prev­iously mentioned Sydney concert and Its attend­ant disasters. Still, It is an exceptional piece, full of depth and emotive strength. Although not compulsively attractive (as is Ricochet), Epsilon in Malaysian Pale contains more than sufficient merit for anyone who regards the synthesizer as a serious instrument.

It HUDSON BROTHERS "Totally out of Control Rocket Records L35661

This le yet another middle period Beatles imita­tion, but It Is more blatant than most in that almost every track depends heavily on some Iden­tifiable guitar riff, bass line, or lyric from the Fab Four. Occasionally, there Is a bonus, as in Straight Up and Tall which Is Introduced with a dose relative to a Doors Trademark. The album .title it of course a misnomer — with the slick, neat production, there Is never a hair out of place.

The Hudson Brothers must have something in their favour because, not only do they have Bemie Taupin as producer on this their second aibu, they apparently have a television show running In the U.S. However, if this record Is indicative of their abilities, I don't think we are missing too much. 1 suggest that it be treated with the neglect that it deserves.

SURE RTR AMP "Crisis? What Crisis?" Ai& M. Records L 35725

Supertramp have been perfonriing, in one guise or- another, for five years, but the history of their popularity is much shorter. Their first two al-bifrhs, Supertramp and Indelibly Stamped did irttle to lift them from obscurity but it was the third line-up and the third album which marked the turning point for the band. Apart from the rehewal of confkience brought dbout by the

recent membership shuffle, they were introduced to producer Ken Scott who took control of Supertramp's studio sound and refurbished It. The immediate acceptance of the album. Crime of the Century, raised the status of the band from a non-entity to e respected name almost overnight

Crisis? What Crisis? is a stylistic ally of, and a log-ical progression from the Crime album, In pre­senting a new collection of material, it does stray far from the recently successful formula. The music, enveloped in an ambitious expansive sound, Is just as confident and agile, displaying a high degree of dexterity and freshness making allowance for a healthy dose of versatility. Yet, at the same time, their brand of rock Is engaging­ly accessible.

The band claim, with some truth, that each in­dividual member is essential to their musical klentity, but the key points of reference are pro­vided by the two founders and only originals left in the band, Richard Davies and Roger Hodgson not only supply the distinctive keyboards and guitar combination, they also write all their own material, linking reason^ly articulate lyrics with accomplished Instrumentation. Songs like Ain't Nobody But Me and Lady also Impress because they show the band working on some interesting harmonies.

Although they would not be considered a jazz-rock group, elements of jazz regulariy appear throughout their work. Poor Boy contains some

•good indications of this influence and is also a fine example of John Heliiwell's talent. He plays various wind instruments on the record, with particular emphasis on saxophone. But on this track he momentarily forsakes sax to produce an amiable flute solo.

Admittedly, there are some doubts that I have about the material. The slower tunes have some weaknesses in that, lacking the drive of the brisk­er songs, they are. almost non-descript. To com­pensate. Ken Scott has indulged in overkill with

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strings, which was not really an adequate solu­tion. On balance, however, the album's presen­tation will serve to consolidate Supertl-an^p's reputation.

'The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and Tlie Holy Grail' Charisma Label 6369 964

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No matter what medium these people choose to invade, whether it is television, film, stage, books, or records, their wonderfully waiped scenarios not only survive the adaptation but attain new strengths. For example, it is usual to discover that movie soundtracks are embarrassingly insignificant when isolated from the celluloid. Not so with this album as its perpetrators have In­telligently made appropriate adjustn)ents. Inter­spersed with the soundtrack, tfiere Is a running commentary from the 3pm showing of the film at Sllbury Hill. Also, we are treated to a guided tour of the cinema's toilets, carpark and audi­ence.

The Monty Python crew have, quite correctly, selected only those scenes from' the film which rise above the lack of visuals. A number of these, including the .Holy Hand-Grenade and Autono­mous Collective routines, deserve to become clas­sics in ^e same fashion as the Lumberjack Song and the Dead Parrot sketch. As such the album has Its pwn self contained credibility and Is well able to stand alone.

With the gifted sense of the ridiculous that we have come to expect, this record Is an essential for Python devotees. But It is suggested that you see the film.f irst to savour the surprises. Theri the record becomes the icing on the cake. Or, aa Edward Heath reportedly said, "Certainly cheered me up a lot after losing two elections and the leadership of the Conservative Party".

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HAMLET: Stillborn Queensland Theatre Company SGIOTHEATREFeb. 11

The Scarlet Lady (with Apologies to Sam Orr) and I dropped along to the bastion of middle class 'Surburban' theatre on Wednesday last to see the QTC's first effort in what promises to be a good year of theatre, with variety and zest being the keynote of their forthcoming productions.

Unfortunately, the first of these was quite stillborn. Perhaps it was Opening Night nerves, perhaps it was the usual Brisbane 'First-Nighters', more interested in their clothes than in seriously appreciating the piay, but I found the opening performance of QTC's Hamlet a rather boring affair. At times, It appeared that the Director, Jo MacColum, had deserted his actors, as they alternately frolicked about the stage in boyish abandon (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) or were left hanging in space with arms and legs akimbo (Bernardo and Francisco).

Acting was in most cases patchy. Martin Harris (Hamlet) did not seem to have settled down'in his role, and thus was not quite capable of portraying the depth and range of emotion required of a character in Hamlet's position. Rosalind Muir-Smith gave a capable perform­ance in her roje as Gertrude, although traces of 'Rookery Nook' remain still, I feel. Joe James (Cla udius) and Douglas Hedge (Polonius) gave good performances, although I found myself being distracted by the obviousness of their stage makeup. I particularly liked the fact that whenever a character made a sudden move­ment, what appeared to be a cloud of powdery dandruff sprang up about him, lending a rather saintly effect, but hardly appropriate. However, the character parts played by John Nash (The Ghost), and Phil Moye (Gravedigger) were very enjoyable, particulariy Phil Moye, for I felt that John Nash was hampered in his portrayal by the fact that the 'Ghost' wore great clunky boots, which did just that during what seerned his interminable entrances and exits up and down stairs. Gaye Poole (Ophelia) added comic relief in her role as the dunib blond who goes into her second childhood after her Daddy experiences a gut reaction to Hamlet's sword.

An extra week of rehearsal would probably have 'lifted' the whole production. The stage setting was good, but little things like light leaks through the set from backstage, entran­ces that were not painted completely out of sight from the audience, so that an unfinished portion was visible, and bad sound, tended to ruin my appreciation. One thing t can say; Listen for the Drum - I am neariy certain you will hear i t . . . . I'm nearly certain people two blocks away heard i t . . . . and to think I once thought the shock value of the play was in its action.

To sum up, the play was average, definitely not good enough for QTC and Jo MacColum, but I suspect it will improve markedly during its first few performances.

John Henderson

COSTUMES FOR HAMLET James Ridewood designed the costumes for Hamlet, the Queensland Theatre Company's first production for their 1976 season. The cos­tumes, made of bright velvets, silks and the more sombre tones of leather, were tightly packed together on racks at the theatre's work­shop at Salisbury.

"We fished around for a while, talking about what sort of a look we were after," said James Ridewood. "We settled on something between coming out of the Medieval period into the Renaissance."

"We tried not to make things too elaborate or on the other hand not too simple. Some of the costumes have elements of a slightly primitive nature, like the fur, and the way we treated some of the fabrics, they look vaguely.... not barbaric but over rich and overdone."

James has been a resident designer with the aT.C. for 2 years. Other Q.T.C. productions that he has designed both the set and costumes for include The Taming of the Shrew,' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The One Day of the Year and The Removalists.

However this is the first time James has design­ed only the costumes for a production. Peter Cooke designed the set for Hamlet.

'There is a problem associated with the play^ in that it is such a familiar play. Maybe people haven't seen a lot of productions of it but people have seen photographs of other produc­tions and there's several films around of it,',' James said.

But the budget for Hamlet was generous al­though James would not disclose the actual amount. New materials were bought and 6 machinists employed. "Everything was made especially for this show, which was really a pleasure to be able to do that and not to strug­gle," said James.

"People say, T/Vhere do the ideas come from?* Well I suppose they come from a lot of placesr.;, I think a lot deperids on whether you like tHie play or the way its going to be done or whetheV you're excited by it." - '

James prefers to design period costumes rather than more contemporary costumes. He feels it is slightly easier to stress aspects of a charact-, ers personality in period costume. ,.

"With period costumes where to a large extentj they are, to our eyes unfamiliar its easier todo. things which not sort of say, This character's* good, this is bad,' nothing that gross, but to^ give a slightly broader hint of what the per­son's like," said James. ' ,

James was hoping that audiences would be ex­cited by Hamlet. He said, "When the produc-. tions finally on and you feel you've done a: good job, 1 really get quite a charge out of i f f .

Sue Dennis I f

TEN LITTLE NIGGERS

No one really goes to an Agatha Christie play or reads one of her many books for insight into the human predicament which is a good thirig because she has very little to say on that.. Neither does anyone go to see Christie iqf. memorable characters because the most that' can be said about her characterisation Is that: she has a great gift for the stereotype. But don't get me wrong; I have never read one of the] laste Dame Agatha's books that I did not en-" joy . iO

The aspect of writing over which she has mast­ery was the way she constructed the story. So ' that the only thing required of a production of Ten Little Niggers is that acting does not t^ the road of the story. The Brisbane Arts^ Theatre productioh fills this requirement. Tl\et., acting skills required In this play are not greaj:j but the cast carries out its task raasonat^|y(t well. ,v,.-|j

For those who have read the book, the pla]|g, Is somewhat disappointing In that it does not

have the same atmosphere of relentless ten-or nor is the denouement of the play as satisfac­tory as it is in the book - In fact it is rather a cop out The play must have been written with the film in mind.

One note about the production: the furniture supplied by James Penny Interiors is too good for the set but otherwise the production is just what is necessary for a Christie thriller.

David Meredith

ilms AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK

Australia After Daric should be boycotted. Not only Is a lot of It nonsense, but it presents a superficial and sensationalistic view of Australian sexuality when it could have been educational and even erotic.

The nonse.ise consists of segments of film show­ing a male bikini designer adjusting the bottom half of his product on the body of'a naked giri in his shop at the Gold Coast (seems highly un­likely to me); female tourists sunbaking nude on Daydream Island and swimming nude in the hotel pool at night (Realty? Australia is an exciting place once night fallslll)

The thame, I suppose. Is 'Australian leisure act­ivities' or 'aren't we (white males) lucky?' In a depiction of the lancj of beer and bare tits we even get to feel guilty about the blacks: we are shown brief shots of drunken Aborigines while the 'commentator* reminds us that because the

Cvhites took their land and corrupted them they are unhappy. Then we can despair over the ugli­ness of drunken Caucasians gambling and enjoy­ing themselves in the dust out West somewhere before returning to the titillating spectacle of nice clean people eating strawberries and cream off each other's bodies.

* I was never sure whether the narrator was putting everyone down or sending himself up, so when he says that businessmen, after a hard moming at the office, ''deserve" the attention of two nude female nnasseurs, all one can say "aren't white boui^ois males lucky?"

If the trea^ent of sexuality is not educational and not erotic then at least It could be amusing. And there are in fact a few amusing segments when Count Copernicus does his (polished) thing. But mostly the film made me angry.

Women are depicted as beautiful objects for the pleasure of men — whether It be the "pleasure" dealt out by (the untalented) Madame Lash (she's not even a good actress), or a convenient clothes horse for someone's particular fetish, or simply a suntanned bum to gape at If women are shown as enjoying themselves e.g. a naked woman roll­ing around in mud, we are told she doesn't have a mind — she "doesn't know why" she enjoys i t

Thus this film, far from being truly liberated or liberating reinforces all the myths which restricts the sexuality of both sexes, and especially stereo­types women's role. Lesbianism was dismissed as something which slightly strange men (M?!) get off on along with masochism and fetishisml While male homosexuals, we are told, are gaining in acceptance these days. Well one wouldn't think so from the bigotry displayed by most of the audience• one Friday night at the Village Twin: the audience reaction was the most dis­tressing aspect of the film. We are shown part of the church ceremony of a homosexual marri­age in Perth, at the end of which, the newly married men kissed. A groan of revulsion (whet­her heterosexist bravado or genuine distaste I'd hate to guess) went up from the audience and a young woman squeaked "its disgusting" in voyeuristic delight. We've got* a long way to

go baby and that goes for the Australian Film industry too.

Radha Rouse.

THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ

'A man without land is a nobody' says Grand­father Simcha'(Zvee Scooler) to Duddy Kravltz (Richard Dreyfuss), as he tends his small back yard vegetable lot. This is enough to send Duddy on an apprenticeship course tiirough the 1948 world of Montreal. Throughout the film he 1$ driven by a burning ambition to be a somebody. He does not want merely to drive his father's cab for tiie rest of his life.

During his apprenticeship he. takes on a num­ber of incidental jobs. He works as a waiter in a tourist resort, where he seems to never

stop working. He sets up Dudley Karie Enter­prises, produces weird Bah Mitzvah documen­taries with a drunken film maker (Denholm Elliott), unwittingly carries a suit case of heroin across the border for his idol. Max Dingleman (Henry Rameri and promises to go into the pin-ball machine business with an epileptic (Randy Quaid).

At the Castie des Mpnts tourist resort Duddy meets and falls In ''love' with a French waitress, Yvette (Michellne Lanctot). She shows him. a beautiful piece of • land with a lake, which Duddy invisages as a potential 'Kravltzville'. All his resulting actions, however immoral, are for this one reason, the attainment of this land.

During his apprenticeship he hurts many peo­ple, and is constantiy knocked down. This only makes him come up fighting even stronger. Aided by a quick mouth, ferocious tenacity and an almost lack of compassion, Duddy gets his land. He uses people, and associates with them only for what they can give him.

His Unclde Benjy (Joseph Wiseman) is on his death bed and tells Duddy that he is 'a pusher, a little Jew boy on the make.'

Duddy convinces himself that once he owns the lanc| all his mistakes and actions will be forgot­ten (and forgiven). He is saving a small area for his Grandfather, who at the end of the film, discovers how Duddy has obtained the land, and says he* no longer wants a plot. In this act­ion, Duddy has flnflly rid himself of his Jewish heritage which has always slowed him down. Perhaps now, Duddy has graduated into the worid. Indeed, this is emphasized by the rejec­tion of the 'Boy Wonder', his hero, who has practically come to beg Duddy for a share In the real estate. Not only has ^e come to grips with adulthood, but also he has come to grips with a worid that demands success for survival. Ouddy's apprenticeship is completed.

His 'friend' Virgil, the epileptic, has an ambit­ion as well. He believes that no person can achieve anything unless he is in a group. He wants to get all the epileptics in the worid into a union, and to make sure their rights are safe.

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The clearest memory I have of the first time I visited the Tortila Restaurant was leaving it. Three times. Strange I know, but all perfectly understandable. It all began in those tranquil days of early 1972, when we had Billy McMahon for Prime Minister and no one dreamed of the dreaded social­ist menace soon to infest Canberra. At this time I had the mis-fortune to be intimately associated with a young lady with a prodig­ious thirst for probably the worst red wine ever bottled - a wine known by the rather confusing title of Cold Duck. Now she was, I confess, a generous young lady with both her body and her rnoney and she was want to take this poor undernourished student body out to dinner on regular occasions. Many regular occasions. I never did decide if this was out of pity or whether it was to keep me nour­ished for my other duties. Never the less, with great firpnness of Intention she would drag me, my motorcycle and two bottles of the dreaded Cold Duck out to dinner at the Tortilla.

Now Cold Duck, as well as having doubtful qual ities as a wine has a devastating effect on my bladder. In fact my body shows a great deal more survival instinct than I do by demanding re­moval of the stuff more or less as quickly as I can drink it. Under normal circumstances such private functions cause no problems. But In those dark days the Tortila was unllcenced and shall we say sans toilet. In fact, as I quickly discovered, the nearest was a marathon 200 yeards away. So two or three times during the meal, my face set in a determined grimace I would rush out the door and walk briskly up the arcade to Elizabeth St, launch myself across the traffic and relief in sight, walk to the back of the public bar of the pub conveniently located directly across the street from the arcade and ah . . . ecstacy

By the third run of the evening you were becom­ing something of a regular and the sight of you risking your life on the street in a desperate bid to reach the toilet in time was enough to raise the sporting instinct of any public bar. Conseq­uently each return trip drew more cheers of en­couragement from the bar regulars and by the end of the night I was on first name terms with all two drunks in the bar. The things one does for a feed . . . .

But things have changed. The Tortila now has a licence, a trendy bar, a barbecue, and best of all toilets. The decor Is shall we say National Geo­graphic Spanish complete with electric imitat­ion chandelier and standard blackboards on the wall advertising the house red. Best of all is the sleezy little bar with its thrill for paranoid drin­kers. At first I refused to drink at the bar be­cause suspended directly over the stools are these gigantic red roofing tiles at an incredibly sharp angle. Naturally I had no Intention of risking sitting under the tiles which were probably laid by some demented roof tiler in a moment of drunken lucidity. However my fears were ground­less. During one particular evening when a laYge number of Tullamore Dews were rapidly remov­ing my inhabjtions I drunkenly grabbed at these same tiles for support to avoid sliding to the floor and to my surprise found that the damn things were plastic. Since then my fears about being brained by a falling tile have waned and I now sit at the bar.

I must confess that basically I like the Tortila. Probably because it is one of the' few Brisbane restaurants open on a Monday night but mostly because the food over the years has been on the whole edible. And when I last visited things were much the same as always. I like to indulge in a beer to start with so I generally go for some­thing with a bit of flavour that will complement the taste. On this occasion I ordered an old favo­rite Gambas Al Ajillo, which for those that don't read Spanish consists of fresh raw prawns grilled in butter, olive oil, garlic and served on safron rice. That was a free translation from the

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menu. Generally this is not a bad way to get things moving but on this occasion the chef vi«nt mad with the oil and forgot the garlic. Which was a pity. Maybe it was a case of Austra­lian taste, because over the years I have noticed that many of the spicey dishes seem to have cal­med down a little for the steak and eggs set. At $2.75 a serving it was not too bad, and so, we pressed on regardless, as the Boys Own says. The wine waiter appeared and I ordered a Portu­guese Rose called Barros. It comes in a trendy crock and pleased the current lady no end. Even better it is not a bad Rose. At this point my current lady opted for a Paella Valencia at $4.50 a serve as her main course. What usually occurs is that the Paella is served as a communal dish but as I was keen to have the Polio A La Chilindron ($.75 a throw) again, she shared her sih with one of the other members of the party. Paella, with its exciting combination of chicken, ham, Span­ish sausage meat and shell fish (that menu again) has always been a disappointment to me. My lady likes it but both times I have tried it the meal jilst did not seem to get up and go. I think the rice is a little too overpowering for the quan­tity of meat. You are confronted with a sea of rice glue with odd bits of interesting things sort of bobbing around in It. It seems to lack unity as a dish and so I was well pleased to have opted for the chicken casserole. Once again the steak and eggs set seems to have struck because the peppers and olives which give the dish its lift don't seem as spicey as in the Cold Duck days, i think this is a bit of a pity but it is still about my favourite dish at the Tortila. It comes In a small casserole dish and they provide' a plate if you want to serve it. The dish also has a little rice as a bed and in this case it adds to the meal. It seems to provide just a little balance to what is quite a rich dish.

As usgal by this stage we had demolished the Rose and our appetites and so we retired to the bar to recuperate. I don't seem to need to use the toilets as. desperately as In the old days but al­ways make a point of inspecting them each tinne any way a sort of trip down memory urinal.

Alan McLeati

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This Is one of the finest books of short stories that I have ever read. The movement of Austra­lian short story writers into surrealistic writing and away from the narrative short story style of the characterically Australian short stories of the past is proceeding in an excellent way, with the likes of Murray Bail and Peter Carey.

In fact this book of Murray Bails moved me so greatly that I feel at a lose to write a review of it Maybe the best way for me to review it is to refer to some of the stories.

Heubler, which is according to Lucy LIppard's review in Quadrant is Douglas Huebiel- an American Artist who had an exhibition in New York consisting of a catalogue alone. In the story Bail decides to photograph every per­son alive, and to start with he locates twenty three types, which he portrays with disturbing perception.

The Drover's Wife - which I think must vy for being my favourite story in the book Is a re-write of an Australian classic in relation to Russel Drysdale's famous painting.

Zoellner's Definition has been panned by a number of critics, but I found It quite a fine Story, describing a man by describing parts of

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his body with attention to details like the hairs in his ears.

The Life of the Party is a fine story about a man in middle class Australian suburbia who arranges a barbecue and then spends the time in a tree in his backyard watching his guest cavorting without him.

And so they go on.

Bail writes with a tight style, sort of pushing reason and logic past its logical limits and at the end achieving a new impact but not a stunning­ly unrecognisable impact-after reading tfie stories I sort of thought-well I've been there in mind before and now often a situation will arise and I will see it in terms of Bail's twisting of the situation. Read Portrait of Electricity (pp. 2 8 . . . in Semper) and think back to the times you have gone on a juided tour or read an article about such a tour (There was just such an article in the Courier Mail a few weeks ago, when the journalist toured the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington and was taken into Hoover's old study and the guides were described as standing back in admiration.

It is a brilliant book, the University of Queens­land Press has excelled itself with it. And some­time when we are not three days behind the deadline we may do another review of this ex­cellent book.

Ja.S.

A PLACE AMONG PEOPLE Rodney Hall University of Qld Press

In his second novel, A Place Among People Rodney Hall has been able to maintain his poets-eye-view on Ilfe, with its associated imag­ery, economy, sensitivity and grasping for de­tail on the wider spectrum of a novel some 250 pp.

In this book Hall rocounts with terrifying detail the transitional years of an outsider, Collocott, who is utterly alone in a small backwater com­munity in bayside Brid)ane of the fifties. With­in this setting, Collocott who Is 37, balding, five feet five inches tall lives his life. Afraid of the potential conflict which would be created if he were to make a. stand, he Is a man who is "passive by nature and threatened by the past" he faces the possibilities of love (and life) with the same self conscious trepidation he feels when ordering fish and chips".

However as the story unfolds Collocott is put In a situation where he is forced to take a stand opposed to that of the community in which he lives. He takes the side of the old aboriginal woman, who is tormented by thoughts of what the Queensland Act can do to her, of her life in a reserve, of the degradation forced on her by

rape. By taking this stand, which in fact terrifys the man, he eventually draws the towns people, (who had despised him as a strange eccentric) to 5 ' . (Appreciation' he ihe took. Because OT this he has gained tht self confid­ence to come to terms with his past, which en­ables him to "tack up the For Sale sign on the verandah".

Rodney Hall is able to evoke a sense of reality with his use of sensual detail in describing the characters and the oppressively Brisbane situa­tion in which they live - with its humidity and dullness and the oppressiveness and the noise of the insects in the growth, the excessively lush growth. The book hums with them. He is also able to turn his hand to portraying the characters with a similar appreciation of detail. The description of Collocott in the first para­graph is such that it haunts the reader through­out the book: "He was like a child's drawing of a man, with a circular face, a knob of a nose, staring eyes, tacked on arms and legs and ahat balanced ridiculously square on his head." Any­one who cannot picture the man after a descrip­tion as powerful and succinct as that may as well give up there. The only problem with such Intensity of description is that the reader con­fuses characters, having read about so many similar but different individuals.

This power of description is not isolated or limited to the central character, but pervades the entire book. So much so that on a drive to Redland Bay a few days after finishing the book, induced an uneasy sense of. deja vu — such is Hall's power, it has a style which is "graceful, cunning, witty, simple and terrify-ingl *

The book Is published by the University of Queensland Press in the paperback prose series, this is the eighth book in the series and is a fine representation of the high standard of prose presently being produced in Australia, and especially being picked up, fostered and published by the University of Queensland Press in conjunction with the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

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HE ELECTRICAL EXPERIENCE Frank Moorhouse Animus & Robertson

Frank Moorhouse must be one ofthe greatest of the Australian short story writers. His work is economical, original, sharp and pervasively powerful, and additionally he is a very fine craftsman.

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books, so much so that in the notes and ack­nowledgements at the back of the book he lists the places where the keen reader can find out more about the characters dealt with in partic­ular stories In this discontinuous narrative. The characters are particularly reminiscent of those in The Americans Baby, a book which until recently had received an R certificate from the Victorian equivalent of the Literature Board of Cpntrol.

Tha Electrical Experience although devoid to a certain extent of the overt sexual and erotic imagery and stories of The Americans Baby; is in a much more subtle way sensual. So that the very sensuality of it becomes overwhelming — the reader becomes totally involved with the characters and despite a dislike of them, all their weaknesses and shortcomings are spot­lighted and made completely rational although totally Inexcusable. This left me (as have all of the Moorhouse stories I have read) entranced by the work, trapped in a web of loathing and dislike of the characters and the situation, but trapped, completely spell bound by the power' of the work.

This is not simply a gut reaction, because when I analyse the work, I realise that simply by the style and manner which Moorhouse employs - his very craftsmanship would have captivated me any way. ^

Anyway to the story. As has already been men­tioned this book is a vei7 discontinuous narra­tive. It is about George t , McDowell (there is a

story about George adding the T. to his signa­ture) who Is one of the small time business men who believes in the Great American ideal with a little man getting to the top, he Is a manufacturer of areated drinks on the south coast of NSW (the area in which Moorhouse grew up), he is a rotarlan, a Mason,a subscriber to Readers Digest, an apostle of progress, of electricity, refrigeration and the wireless, a realist and rationalist, the father of two daugh­ters (one who has been flitting through Moor-house's stories for some time - TerrI who exposed him and herself in her relationship with a- real live man from Coca Cola in the US of A.)

Moorhouse's portray of these personalities flits from time to time, oscillating like a graph of cos squared. But his portrayal is a devastating exposure of both the futility of the Producer/ Protestant Work Ethic and the hedonistic life of the urban young who have rejected the other concepts.

As the blurb on the back on the books says: 'In his most recent "discontinuous narrative" Frank Moorhouse enhances his already consid­erable reputation as an ironic chronicler of Australian civilization.' And he does it oh so very well.

The book is published by Angus and Robert­son, and received a gold sticker award from the National Book Council 1975 Awand for Austra­lian Literature. Appearance-wise the book is highly successful too. It has a bright cover, but

the back is a muddy brown with white type, and throughout the book there are pictures which illustrate the type of people and life style Moorhouse Is parodying - with photo­graphs which could come from a family album dating from the 1930's. Thrown in for good measure are George T. McDowell's solutions to particular problems, such as How to Measure the Weight of fee. How to Keep l\^llk from Going Off when you are going on a picnic with­out an ice chest.

I can't recommend the book too highly, although I would suggest that you start on one of the others, for a more gradual introduction to the characters, by which time you will be totally hooked I'm sure. He is presently work­ing on his fourth book Stories of Romance and Mystery, which should be just as good.

Ja. S.

THE FIRST JOURNEY Antiijone Kefala Wild & Woolley, Sydney Antigone Kefala was born in Rumania, but Hved in Greece, the home country of her parents, before moving to New Zealand and Australia. Much of her poetry has been written about the alienation of migrants living in Australia, and the two short stories in the book reflect the same perception of life and human nature that is evi­dent in her poetry.,Jhe First Journey, the story of Mr Cadavia, a young cellist in Greece, reveals

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It's very hard to describe just what Antigone Kefala has achieved In such a short, simple book without wanting to quote passages from the stories that will help to explalri. So -

"He called 'talking* the disease of youth. Talking too much and doing too little. And out of all these questions which seemed so tremendous and so important, and which had to be answered now and forever, we all tur­ned out to be neat little conservative adults, all pretending to be disillusioned by life, but settling down, looking after our material well being, and complaining everyday that we must do something othenvise we will get Into a rut."

If you feel that she's put into words something you were afraid of but would never admit, then this book is well worth your reading.

Linda Heron

SHARDIK Richard Adams Penguin Books

Those of you who dreamt about nothing but rabbits for months after reading Richard Adams' brilliant first novel, Watership Down may find yourself a little diappointed by his second book, •^rdik. Certainly, Adams' Imagination is as vivid

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and powerful as ever, in his incredibly detailed portrayal of the Beklan Empire and its nnany var­ied inhabitants; and of the huge bear Shardik, whose well timed (if unintentional) rescue of the Ortelgan hunter Kelderek triggers off a major revival of an old religious belief. Equally vivid is the damage that this new religious cult causes, the accurate presentation of the corruption of power — religious or otherwise — and, the grue­some picture of the cruet child slave trade, ano­ther product of the Ortelgan's blind, confused belief in their "Lord" Shardik. Adams also leaves his readers with that distinctive uncertainty that only religion can create - was Shardik really imbued with the Power of God, or was he just a rather harassed, oversized bear, who happened to kill off the right people at the right time? We are left as much in the dark as the Ortelgans, but we are allowed to be sceptical. However, al­though the book has potential as a rather scat­hing fantasy, I feel RlchanJ Adams marred Its impact by using extremely long, dull passages of complicated comparisons and descriptions - something that prevents him from being an almost-Tolkien and brings him close to a cross between Ovid and Sir Walter Scott, But If you have the time to wade through the duller passages you might find, like i did, that I was slowly beginning to believe in beai

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Even the non-poetical amongst you might enjoy reading the four latest books in the Second Series of Paperbadc Poets. 'Immigrant Chronicle' by Peter Skrzneckl, a poet of Polish-Ukranian des­cent, contains quietly reflective poetry about the

experiences of immigrant families in their newly adopted countries. Mingled with his memories of his parents, his ancestors, and of Poland, are his childhood Impressions of Australia, Its animals and people; of his school life and his youth, of growing up and experiencing the atmospheres of migrant hostels, hospitals, railway stations - the places that formed his first Impressions of Austra­lia. The poems are simple, expressive and genu­inely felt perception of life In a strange land.

Richard Tipping's 'Domestic Hardcore' provides a complete change of pace -- full of fast flowing poems, clever words thrown together whiph, annoyingly, say exactly what they intend to (at least I think sol). The poems are a really witty and unusual-(not to mention exhausting) com­mentary on all sorts of commonplace things — from mangoes to socks.

•Will's Dream', by Philip Roberts, is perhaps the hardest of all the books to get into, being a sort of long narrative poem centred around four char­acters-Will, Big Mary, Pymbal and Blake. Its a fascinating mixture of blank verse which almost turns into prose, and very clever poetry. If you can persevere through the rather confused relat­ionships in the poem, Roberts' portrayal of the crazy patterns of human thought processes is well worth uncovering.

Peter Kocan's The Other Side of the Fence' is the most striking of the four, and the most bit­ter. His poetry is written about the institutional­ised world of the "criminally insane" and mental­ly retarded, seen from the inside. It's a harsh realistic picture of the criminals as the outside worid sees them, coupled with a scathingly sym­pathetic attempt to describe their agony. Read it and see how your conscience holds out.

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Several made sad, clicking sounds with their tongues. "He must have had," said someone admiringly, "a strictly methodical mind to mark his days like that I'm surprised."

This brought a simple answer. "It's out of fashion these days," a man said. "People tend to use mechanical self-advancing calendars." The group nodded. There was wisdom in that Then I think It was the Englishman spoke.

"One knows he was methodical, even fastidious. There are those stories too about his tightness with money. It's all connected. But what> was he really like? One only knows about him." At this the guide became angry. "You may say he was fastidious. Alright But I would have thought the way to study a man isnot by trivia and gossip, but by his influence. This museum - created with some difficulty, I might add ~ concen­trates on showing the force of his existence. He had weaknesses, of course. Great men are invariably selfish, intolerant He disliked dmnks, advertising, talk of the weather, women's perfumes, cigarette ash, indecision, coat-hangers and fools." He waited as some of us found scraps of paper, the backs of envelopes

to take this down. ''He was uncomfortable with the opposite sex. He disliked oranges, and anyone touching him. Never married. Towards the end of his life he'd smile at the head? of small children. His.Qvlam.aswerBstriDed flan­nel He was always hungry, although he never exceeded 113 lbs. He was suspicious of photography, but later grew to respect i t Any question?

K i r e raPa^'^raTre^^ to move, so absorbed were we In the list he'd given us, adding it to what we already knew. A clearer picture was beginning to emerge and with it, a kind of spreading elation We m we were standing close to him, on the very edge of important,, n mate knowledge. To move would break the flow. The guides E v e r begarclapping and pushing, whistling Hke, ™ve ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ became confused. One of our number, shouted, Quit this shoving. 'We're movinjg. we're moving." So we entered, or were herded into, the adjoining room, probably the last, for we could hear the turnstiles dicking behind a wall. Our

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bad-temper could have also been due to museum fatigue. It had taken a"'. steady toll. Some stood one-legged like African birds, finoleum tiles on. concrete not exactly helping'. The guide was all smiles. He must have noticed our annoyance. He pointed to the now-typical glass cabinet Almost immediately those in front drew back, the women especially; they could not disguise their ' disgust All 1 could see was a shallow metal try. The guide cleared his throat "Not everyone's cup of tea, this one. I should explain: we werp In two minds whether to include it or not But to be squeamish would be to miss the point Bodily functions are at once both fundamental and in­tensely personal. Remember too the banal fact that nothing succeeds In levelling a man than the sight, or the concept of, his ordure." "You mean 'shit'," said a figure down the front, one of the New Zealanders. Turning to us, he grinned. "There's a turd on the tray here." -uejecia. uoproiogicai aata," corrected the guide. I wondered how they'd got It. The joker put a handkerchief up to his nose.

"Please," said a woman with a pained expression. "You're not funny."

The guide quickly went on, "Interesting to realize the obvious: that this ^ was inside him, and rejected by him. Let me say that again. This was part of him, part of - for want of a better word - his life-force. Hence its undoubted imoortance." Hearing this, people returned to the cabinet, and some began making'^^ rapid sketches. This encouraged others. A flashbulb went off. Those-iH towards the back soon found it difficult to glimpse a corner of the ti-ay, i i let atone appraise the substance inside. The fascination may weli have been primordial. That would explain the persistent but blank expres- , sions people assumed as they pushed fonvard, anxious to improve their , positions. Again, noticeably less interested were the womenfolk, ri One had elbowed her way out saying, 'The last thing {want to see is < that" She was ignored. -'

The guides stood together, hands in their pockets, surveying this scene. Ten or fifteen minutes passed before our man spoke up.

"Please," he said in a loud voice. 'This way, please. Thankyou. One final item.is here." Adding, over his shoulder, "A recent, major acqui­sition." This is the small room by the exit door. A cabinet was lit by a single spotlight Under glass lay the handpiece (only) of a black telephone. Attached was a foot or so of dusty cord: ripped from a wall.

"And through these wires," the guide was saying, "through the electrl- • cal copper, springs, the black Bakelite you see, he spoke, propelled his thoughts.".

The two guides were looking over our shoulders. They were breathing reverently. We j:ould see dandruff caked on the earpiece,

"His breath travelled along these wires, his personality travelled along these wires."

The words fell on the discarded telephone. The rest of the room lay in ^' darkness. Someone coughed. "Any questions?" asked the guide.

Then a woman asked, "What was his voice like?"

I think that was one of the things we all wanted to know. The guide, clearing his throat, smiled, "Lat me attempt an imitation."

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HP 25 (programmable) $174.00 HP 55 $295.00 Hp 65 $722.00 Hp 22 $148.00 Hp 80 $253.00

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Mathematician ^ Mathematician Prog.

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Financier Programmable Models

$33.00 $48.00 $80.00 $65.00 $65.00 $65.00

$110.00

Canon NEW CZ8127 t $39.00

CZOlll $75.00 CZ0123 $65.00

NEW CZ 2901 (9 memories) $99.00 CZ0911 (Programmable)$10S.00 CZ 8109F (Financier) $58.00

F - 7 $100.00

(^•ALITROK 1419 1420

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SANYO

CANON

GENERAL POCKET AND DESKTOP MODELS SANYO CY 2161 PD $195.00

CY0112P $113.00 CY2051P $117.00 CY2157 $ 67.50

NOVUS COMPUTER $48.00

CX8145 CX8133 CX8134 CX8034

LD81 LE81M LE84

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$17.00 $26.00 $25.00

All Canon Rechargeable Units and Battery Packs $12.00 All Sanyo Rechargeable Units and Battery Packs $10.00

Do come in. Our friendly staff will be glad to help you.

union calculator shop MON-THUR 9AM to 7PM PH.3709817 MAILORDERS FRIDAY QAM to SPIV! 3711611 ADD $3-00

The HP 25 features 72 functions and operations including log and trig functions (the latter in degrees radians or grads), mean and standard devia-I tion, summations, rect-1 angular/polar and decim&l hours/ conversions. It also offers eight addres­sable memories four level stack, and forty-nine pro­gram steps with a key code merging facility ~ all to gjve maximum pow­er.

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Beades calculators, the Union Calculator Shop has a variety of hi-fi equipment to suit both the purse watch­ing amateur and the exacting enthusiast. Brands such as AKAI, Kenwood, JVC, Sansui, Sony among others, are available at as low a price as $300 for a perfectly matched system.

BLANK CASSETTES AND TAPES

BASF

C 60 Super $2.20 C60SM-$1.90 C 90 Super $3.00 C 90 SM - $2.50

ALSO 5" and 7" tape reels

DISCOUNTS AVAH-ABLE FOR QUANTITY BUYS

HITACHI

UDC60 $1.90 UD(»0 $2.50

UDC120 $330

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