decisions because they're was ai\ Episcopalian .bishop themselves above the de-necessary for the life of (true) who told me to mands of convention, and the country. Uve for today and not, have thie power to escape

The only person besides worry about tomorrow. So it. Mr. X who's ever tried maybe, as always, it's the' -ANNETREWEEK to make a pass at me ruluig class who consider >

Hylfi^wtthl[r.X One of the highlights of my career as a

journalist could have been spending the night with Mr. X, one of the nation's leadeis. Instead, I had the pleasure of knocking him back. Mr. X of couise won't fae its place was an orange named, but he's one of the hotel bathtowel wrapped top men in the country- round Mr. X's waist, and some mi^t say the most a cloud of aftershave. The powerful. lights were low and there

I managed to line up was a bottle in his hand, an interview with him hi If he had been any his Sydney hotel suite after other man I would have talks. He opened the door walked off right away but wearing an extremely well 1 was astonished by his tailored dark suit. 1 don't appearance and curious to usually peer at the cut of see what he'd do. men's clothing but this So again I entered the suit was stunning. hotel suhe, wearing my

After the uiterview he coolest, most poised, ex-asked if I'd like a drink presslon-as if this sort of and poured himself one. brush with the semi-naked I refused, saying I'd have ruling class happened to me to return to the ABC to everyday, write the stoiy and drop But I couldn't help in my tape. So he asked thuiking it was an odd me how long I'd take and scene-rme bundled up in hivited me to retum. a tweed coat and boots and

Back at the office my Mr. X ta a towel, colleagues suggested that We sat on the couch, conversation might not be Mr. X poured me a drink what Mr. X was after, and 1 began to realise he

However, pvlng him the was very drunk mdeed. benefit of the doubt, I Drunk and not very so-returned to Mr. X's suite ciable. and knocked again on the He wanted to talk. He door. He took about a wanted me to listen: He minute to answer. When raved and raved belligerent-he opened it, gone was |y, aggressively and snidely,

well-cut suit and ui with jibes agahis his fellow the

leaders and taunts about the stupidity of the Australian people. If 1 got a word ui edgeways it was bitten off abruptly.

He seemed paranoid at other times: once when I disagreed with him he said: "Don't try to stand over me. 1 won't have anyone stand over me."

Mr. X's bathtowel was a short one and when he crossed his legs at one stage I saw even more of him. It wasn't especially' remarkable.

He didn't make any overt passes at me apart from asking for a kiss which he didn't get.

And after finishing my drink 1 said I'd leave.

He showed me to the door charmingly and then said, "Well, you're going but I've got a lovely lady in there" (indicatmg the other room of his stiite). A touch of sour grapes, Ithou^L

So there you are. Why did he do it? My only answer can be, because he knows he's so important that journalists won't be affected by what he does privately, theyll have to report'his statements and

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Editors, A guarded congratul­

ations on your first two issues of Semper. Over the last few years the Univeisity of. Queens­land paper has been of a very low standard^ ranging from predict­able to untruthful to late and boring. ^

Your attempts in coming issutt to sell Seifiper: to the public is a brav6 step but I can see the potential'

--'Ul your fiiit editldnj^ifdr /something the public iias

been crying out for and arc starved of at the

, moment. The Brisbane press ; is thnid; not only politically

- but also In terms of cove^ ing what's actually happen­ing around Brisbane.

I really enjoyed your two scoops on the Speciai Branch chap on campus and the Terry Lewis behig appointed fire chief stories.

Good to see a semblance of investigative joumaUsm being revived. The Courier Mall followed both these stories up so periiaps you can also influence them mto a spirit of adventurism.

Semper has the oppor­tunity to be adventurous on a whole range of issues and in your presentation ofthem.

I remember years ago the Semper commemoration issues you sold in the streets and enjoyed them greatly.

Comhig. editions will have to be more diveisified,-but just a reminder, please stay away from the sledge­hammer approach.

' Good luck in the future, -^l. MC DONALD

New Farm.

PRESIDENT REPLIES

I fed oMged to reply to the ktta fiom Anna McOoniiKk in your'last iiiue. I had ilfeady told Aiina per-loiuly wtiit my views are, but the hat either mitunder-itook Of deUberately mil-npRteqted my poiitfen.

Fleue •Now me to let al your nadea know that I do not coMider- the oppicakm of any group of people Jott-.

ifled, whether that group be defiled in tennt of race, sex or id^ikm. I do not tee tbe lole function of women (or mea, for that mattn) (o pro­duce labour power foir capital I do not even coniider mysdf to be an advocate ofcapitaUnn; nor, however, am I an advocate of Marxism; as • Quiitian, 1 caanot luppoit unqualified any syitem of metdy human ot^n.

1 un pleased that your correspondent does at least jive me credit for being con-, siitent. Unfortunately, she is wrong on both counts. I do not beUeve that either lesbiuis or male -homosexuais should bo victhnised, denied jobs (i.e. jobs where one's texiul prleti-tatk>n or practices are iirelennt to the duties and/or lei Kiii-libiHties of tht job), or con­tinually belittled and degitaded; I don't even bcUeve that they ihpuld be occaskinally beUttfed

;brd<j^ed. . , / " > Anna\, MoComack is, ,Mt

teems, one of those people who cannot undentand how anyone can disagree with hit. If anyone diiagiees with her, one It JuUty of penecutLtig ('oppressing' seems to be the fasfonabie word); her or the group which she represents.

Ut me say agate, that though I disagree with Anna, she has every right to hold her views and to put them Into practice.

liie second point, coif oeming women's genitalt and menstruatkin, is quite i^

relevant It may be true that women have been taught to .view their genluds and th^ menstruation as unclean and shamefuLBut men have also been taught to view their genitals and einlssiont of sonen as unclean and shameful. Hie tiboo of which Anna writes is not an expression of the oppression of women, but of the Greek view, which held Western Society (indudbig the C3iurch) capthe for centuries: that anything material and physical, espedally the human body, and even more especially

. anything to do with pto-aeatk>n,iseviL

The wearers of the tampon-eanings may have intended to represent their sisten, but would the m^tity of women, students agree with the views expressed by them or with the tactics which they used?

After all, the nu erity of women students, even if- they do feel discriminated against, are not, at far as I awe mm\\

'• either Marxists or lesbians. That is why I descriM the

f lesbian group as 'unrepresent--ath«'.

-ALAN BEAGLEY

THE RIGHT TO CAUSE INDIGESTION

I refer to a meetfag heM hi the Refectory bet* ween 1-2 pm on Wednes­

day lat March. The chair­man gave rain as the reason for the changed venue. This propitkius downpour, in providing a maximum, cap­tive, audience, is surely proof that God sends his rain on the good, and the ttot-flo-good, alike.

But the CLCC, which or­ganised the meeting; has apparcnUy been favoured by further Oivine benevolence and Appointment; because, last Wednesday, I was introduced to several new, apparently Divine, Rights!'

1. To toke over a pUce of dining, conveisatkin and relax­ation,, during Its -period, of peak usefuloess, without pHot notkx,.and to subject students and - catering staff to am-pUiled yeUing and -demagogs' uery.. ... ' ,'.•;.'..

2. To ridicule , puMcly a member,. of the conscripted and captive audience who dared toshow reaction to a si)eak<its . reinarksi He was Invited < to address the meeting: but,'with-out the advantage .o f prior preparation, why shouM he have to? iihose who-disagreed

. with the takeover of the Refec. were • invited to leave: ;:why should they have to?

- 3. To assume that verballing' (my term for brutaUty with a blunt faistrument, tb whh: a microphone) is a mote app­ropriate ' technique for. .the asdmihitton of; ideas iiiv an leducattonal institutfon ', than -reasoned discussion and printed

material Indeed, there has been no shortage of tbe latter, some of h cogent and well argued, avaUabk on campus theseipast tiiree weeks.

4. To convene a meeting without a prior posted agenda or Ust of speakers; a meeting at which Mt. Fiekling, who counseled moderation, spoke at 3 minutes to 2, and at which Mr. Beagley, student Union Presklent, and unwhting 'host' for this assembly,' spoke at 2 pm, when the bulk of the audience had either left or were leaving.

In short, who gave the CLCC the Right To Cause Indigestion? (ReaUy, two heiphigs of Mr.. Curr for lunch isabitmiidi.).: |V; •,

The final stages of' the meeting' were deyoted to im­passioned exposure of aUeged, fine-pohit, irregularities by the Unk)n Executive in-calUng for a written vote by the Union Council on Mardi/RaUy Issues, fa ;i\viiw -of 0* above trammeUnff oadvil Liberties, this last actton is hypocrisy of the.wontUnd. . . Presumably, if it's .rahiing in the Square, or on the streets, during future. CLCC raUieV marches, these wiU assume the Right to take over City HaU, the SGIO Theatre, the Albert Street Church, the Crert Restaurant and any adjacent mlDtbar. • Who are. the fasdsU now? y •,: -PETER WEBB

St Lira's Collage.

2 SEMPER, March 15, l"978

Editorial "The government have a respon'

sibOity to protect people against them­selves."

This statement made by Joh Bielke-Petersen in the 19 SO's could very well have been uttered by Mrs. Rona Joyner hi the J970's.

And to make matters worse lately it has become increasingly difficult to differ­entiate between Govemment statements and those of the Director of STOP and CARE.

How did such a situation arise and what implications for our children's futures' wiU the efforts to "protect" them from SEMP and MACOS hold?

There is much m common between the 'success' stories of Joh Bjelke-Peter­sen and from conservative 'cranks' in many people's eyes to serious minded leader­ship' figures in other's.

THE RISE TO POWER

The smgle most unportant factor in their rise to power, fame and influence has been the Qld mass media. The stud­ious exploitation by the Govemment of its general irresponsibility and failure to serve the real community uiterest deserves much closer public scrutiny in itself.

Some years ago most journalists did not see things in this way instead many of them thought "let's allow Joh and Rona to hang themselves by their own words and stupidity", however if anyone was being stupid it was the journalists them­selves.

Joh Bjelke-Petersen with substantial aid from his press secretary Allen Calla­ghan has developed great skill at using the media to his own advantage and on his own terms. Through its channels of communication he appeals to the most basic prejudices and fears within the people of Qld.

Day in, day out, his publicly funded

press team have employed all the man­ipulative propaganda techniques which were used with such fuiesse by the Thhd Reich during the 30's and 40's to convince even freedom loving German people into suppottuig actions they would normally have deplored.

RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH

Germany was not alone in banning any opposition groups. The right to or­ganise effectively-wc have seen the same done in Russia. It should be of concem to all Queensianders that one of the first steps taken to suppress the right to free speech in both these countries was the banning of all publications which offered alternative visions of society.

Joh and Rona represent "good copy" (sic) to- the Queensland media yet if any semblance of ethical and responsible journalism is to return, then they must give more prominence to all those people who oppose Joh and Rona's interference in schools or in any other area of our lives.

If this is not done, then the personal integrity of our children and of ourselves, as well as the undeistanding that aU of us can think for ourselves and can make our our own decisions, wiU continue to be overridden by authoritarian politicians and wowsers.

This Issue Goes Public

Semper welcomes its new Queensland readers with the release of this issue to the general pubhc. We hope you will find an altemative but entertaining per­spective within this magazine and that the value of independent joumalism will become evident

The most basic assumption from which all responsible journalists should operate in reporting the daily news is that "All govemments are run by liars"-a quote from l.F. Stone, one of the greatest jour­nalists the world has ever known.

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Rona Rides On Page 7

Tiie figures behind the controver­sial rejection of expert S.E.C. opinion in favour of the massive new powerhouse just outside the Premier's electorate.

A psychotherapist puts Joh under the freudian microscope, while an astrologer looks to the heavens. Is Joh God, or is he just a goat?

Queensland's Don Quixote is still charging windmills, but they keep falling over. Featuring the docu­ments that had SEMP banned, comments in Ms. Joyner's hand­writing.

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Special Branch Story Leads To Witch-hunt Admin Interrogates Staff over" Leak" Semper's exclusive story on the Special Branch on formation in question was Campus (Vol. 48 No. 1), rather than resulting in a able to be obtained by thorough effort to ascertain the extent of police activity a wide variety of methods

' on campus has led instead to a witch-hunt by the Vice- "one of which h necessarily Chancellor's Office against Administration Staff at the ii volved University per UnWersity of Queensland.

sonnel..

It has been reported to Semper that the methods being employed by Senior Administration staff to expose- the leak "include isolating people in rooms and virtually hitting them with a "come clean and you'll avoid a lot of dif­ficulties" line.

It appears that the gen­uine immorality of the

Special Branch collecting private information on stu­dents and others, has taken second place to the so called "immorality" of efforts to make full details known of the presence of Special Branch police on this campus.

What is particularly ludi­crous about the whole sit­uation is that the in-

Already large numbeis of Administration staff have been required to choose one of several different statutory declarations to sign stating that they were not responsible for passing on any infonnation concerning the enrolment of Senior Constable Ockhuy­sen at Queensland Univer­sity.

Queensland's Special Branch Ever alert to the Communist Menace.

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Following our recent revelations about the en­rolment of a Special Branch Constable at Queensland University, Semper has un­covered another student/ Special Branch luik.

This case concerns information emanating from within Semper Office itself being passed on to Inspector Hogan, Head of the Special Branch.

The facts are as follows: Andrew Lyons, the Uni­versity of Queensland Union Secretary was present in Semper Office when he overheard a conversation between the two Editors

and the Business Manager of Semper.

During the couise of this conveisation the Editors Joked about running a scries of articles specifically on Special Branch activities over the next nine issues.

Later, on the night of the Official Opening by Zelman Cowen of the current Exhibition at the Univeisity Art Museum, Semper was told directly by Inspector Hogan himself that he was aware we were going to run this series of articles con­cerning the Special Branch.

Since neither the Editors

of Semper nor the Business Manager had passed this in­formation on to the Special Branch, Andrew Lyons had to be the starting! point for any leak.

Enquiries to Lyons revealed that he had told no one else about this series of articles on the Special Branch other than the members of A.U.S. Standing Committee.

Thus, although it is difficult to pinpoint the exact person who forwarded the information to the police, it is clear that a spy is operating within the

Students' Union. For years Trade Unions

and other social organisat­ions have been infiltrated by police spies, so the situation although serious is not exactly novel. However it does point to the need for political police forces to be disbanded as has already occurred in South Australia.

There is no justification for their existence.

^««sasy

SENATE STANDING COMMIHEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE

nspector Les Hogan Head of Special Branch.

The Senate has referred the following mailer lo the Committee for Investigation and report:

"The implications {or Australia's foreign policy and national security of proposals for a new international econoniic order".

Persons and organisations wishing to express views on this subject are Invited to notify their Intention to the Committee Secretary, (vlrT. Magi, Parliament House, Canberra, A.C.T., 2600 (tel. Canberra 72 6193), and to forward written submissions to him.

The Committee wishes to receive written submissions by 9 June 1978, however submissions after that date will be considered. Public hearings will be held after the closing date {or submissions.

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LEO OCKHUYSEN BACK ON THE JOB We're grateful to the front page of the Sunday

Sun for this picture of Special Branch Senior Constable Leo Nicolaas Ockhuysen hard at work.

In the first issue of Semper it was reported that Leo (student numl)er 652178779) seemed to be paying more attention to the activities of students than his studies.

After he stated that he was consulting a solicitor, we offered the Senior Constable right-of-reply in a subsequent issue. He declined the possibility of a budding career in joumal­ism.

He has also told us that he'd left the Force because he'd seriously injured his arm after riding a police motorcycle through a shop window.

We're glad to see he's back to normal. . . .

A poffceman grabs a demonstrator by the neck at yesterday's rally.

4 SEMPER, March 15. 1978

Semper Throws New Light On Powerhouse Confidential Report Leaked

The controversial Cabinet decision to site the new powerhouse at Tarong was made directly against the recommendation of the State Electricity Commission.

This body compfled a most detailed and expensive report on the best siting, either the Darling Downs Region (Mitoierran) or Tarong (near Nanango in Joh country). The report details why Cabinet made the wrong decision.

The Premier has been lobbying for Tarong for many years, but won in Cabinet (on February 14) only on a 10-7 vote (Liberal Attorney General Lickiss was absent), with severe opposition from Mines and Energy Minister and heir apparent to Joh, Mr. Ron Camm.

The Mines and Energy Minister had the support of 6 Liberal Ministers, how­ever he was defeated and his poUtical future must now be in doubt while Mr. Bjeike-Peteisen remains at the helm.

Mr. Camm said he has no authority to release Cabinet documents. Below wc publish the main sub­stance of the confidential SEC Cabinet report. Tliis material was leaked from Mr. Camm's department.

Background to the Decision

Premier Bjelke-Petersen's farm is 40 kilometres from

the powerhouse site.

The Tarong contract went to Conzinc Riotinto Aust­ralia. It's the largest contract ever let by the State Govcrnmcnt-in the vicinity of $600 million.

CRA is owned overseas largely by South African interests.

Milmerran Coal Pty Ltd, the loser in the battle, is majority Australian owned, 43.75% owned by large U.S. coal group Amax and 6.25% owned by Japan's Mitsui group.

With Milmerran's defeat, a multi-million coal -to-oU conversion project is now

in doubt; this would have been developed along with the coal project for the powerhouse supply.

Tarong will cost at least $800 million and possi­bly S 1,000 million. Four generators will be in­stalled, the first to be commissioned in 1985.

Tarong will employ 1000 people at the peak of construction, dropping to 300 at maximum out­put.

The Electrical Trades Union has threatened to withdraw all labour from Tarong, meaning that power would­n't be allowed to go into the electricity system.

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Stradbroke Residents Condemn Bridge

Residents and visitors of Stradbroke Island have voted overwhelmingly against the proposed $30 miUion bridge to link their island with the mainbnd. ! Of a total 1514 people questioned in 2 surveys, 1306, or 86.26%, opposed the bridge which would open up the island for suburban development.

The survey swere presented at a rowdy public meeting called by Main Roads Minister Russ Hinze to discuss the new project. Island residents, representatives of business, leisure, and environment groups were briefed by Main Roads officers before the meeting was opened for public debate.

The first of the surveys was conducted by the River­side Coal Transport Company, who operate a ferry service to the island. During a week in February 541 people were interviewed, of whom 511 opposed the bridge while 24 supported it and 6 chose not to answer.

The second survey, which questioned all available people of voting age, both visitors and residents, over a single weekend, was conducted by the Amity Ft. Progress Association.

Of 973 votes cast, 795 opposed the bridge. Of these, S68-out of an island population of about 2000-were residents and 405 were visitors.

The meeting at the Main Roads Department (see box) gave people from both points of view an oppor­tunity to argue their case.

Those for the bridge included Mr. R.B. Hartley, ofthe Pt. Lookout Tourist and Stradbroke Island Tourist Association, which has 10 members, who claimed that Pt. Lookout resident has invested over $1 million in expectation of a bridge being built. Other local residents told the meeting that they had bought land on Stradbroke and nearby islands for the same reason.

Mr. Hartley said that the fauna of the island was of little importance, with only 'a few carpet snakes and wallabies, .the goanna's can't even get a feed. They come to the rubbish dumps.'

He cited the high cost of living and the necessity

(cont. page 27) Millmeran requires Proposal:

additional expenditure over the Tarong

Grindjblllty Equipment Aid Storage

S5.9 million iS.s'mUlion

The S.E.C Report: Alternative "B" based on January/1, 1977

Estimated Capital Costs (mid 1977) (millions of dollars)

Tarons requires additional expenditure over the Millmerran proposal:

Electrostatic Precipitation Equipment $1? million Site Preparation $2.4 mUtlon

Tarong Pipeline 93 i<ms and terminal storage

Millmerran pipeline $7 itms. Ttie Commissions Report Included detained sections on

Teclinlcal and Ecottomie Evaluation of the Coal Tandets and Power House establishment, environment, water supply, tienedts- to the Immediate vicinities (both the same) and benefits to the regional areas. In the case ot Millmerran, stressed ex­cellent rail access, coal convanion possibilities and other de. velopmcflts that couid now from tha Millmerran site.

TARONG Tender area—Tarong South 24 kms. SW of Nanango, 14

kms WNW of Yarraman. in-situ reserves~106 million tonnes, average seam 17 metres at 29 metres. Supplementary 44.million tonnes must come partly from Tarong North iSeposIt, 15 l<ms. north ot Tarong South.

Reserves in Tarong North are staled at S3 million tonnes at less than fiOmetres and additional 47 million tonnes at 130 metres.

CRA anticipates applying for a lease over their authority to prospect—Tender Is conditional upon granting of lease within 3 months of Tender acceptance.

CRA Exploration is noted as having done Insufficient drilling to ba able to complete an accurate minlna plan.

Alternative "A" Coal values are average over Contract life and based—mld-19 77. -CRA—Tarong^

Base Estimate special Costs attributing to site Cepitaiised interest During con­struction At 8% per annum Housing and Accom. Roads and services

Millmerran 549

3.8

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12.4

2.6

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Tarong S49

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118.S

11.6

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13yts 16yrs

54.19 65.59

Reserves Set aside

110.0 110.0

>|i||llmerran 13yn 49.90 20yrs 75.10 13yrs 45.48 20yrs 68.46

9S.0 95.0 86.6 S6.6

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tonne

4.90 19.38 $7,97 0,411 4.90 19.38 10.710.553

4.50 21.00 5 9.36 0.446 4.50 21.00 8.86 0.422 4.10 23.03 10.85 0.471 4.10 23J)3 10.50 0.456

Relative costs Including Interest During Construction (mid >7 7| Power station 683.4 698.7 Transmission 72.1 72.8 Water Supply 69.5 77.4 coal Stockpile 9.2 9.0

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inflated Costs through Construction Power Station 1,297.2 1,326.8 Transmission 139.8 139.6 watersupply 114.0 123.5 coal Stockpile 16.9 16.4

1.5f7.9 I.tOli.3

Cumulative Annual Charges First 10 years 2,751 Life of Station 8,486

Assumed Rates of Inflation 10<%il977/7» 8<«il978/79 5 N thereafter

2.783 8,745

Alternative "B" Tenders for CRA ara 26.Q1 million tonnes at 19.38 for 57.84 at0.40S 31.46 million tonnes at 19.20 for $9.70 at 0.505

for Millmerran are: 23.90 million tonnes at 21.00 for$13J0 atO.633 33.90 million tonnes at 21.00 for 512.68 at 0.604 21.76 million tonnes at 23.03 for$14.81 ato.643 33.70 million tonnes at 23.03 for $14.52 at 0.634

Preferred alternatives CRA 16 year contract for 65.59 million tonnes of 19.38

QJ/tonne coal at $10.71equals $702.47 million constant mid* 1977 dollar over 16 years.

Direct average tor 16 years is $43.90million dollars per year fuel cost.

Millmerran 20 year contract for 75.10 million tonnes of 21 GJ/tonne coal at $8.86 equals $665.38 million constant mid 1977 dollars over 20 years.

Direct average for 20 years Is $33.30 million dollars per year fuel cost.

First coal deliveries would be expected In October 1985.

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WAGE LEVELS TO FALL? The RighltoWork, or the Righlto Pay Less?

A comparison of wage levels in the United States indicates (hat wage levels in Qiieensland would fall behind other states if the govem­ment introduces its projected right to work legislation.

Mr. Bjelke-Petersen promised to introdiice the legislation his election policy speech. The Premier claims that the legislation would pre­vent unions from 'undermining our way of life', but 1976 figures comparing wages in right to work and non-right to work states show that individual freedom may not be the only thing on the government's mind.

Alaska IMIclilgan Ohio Washington Indiana tiiinob

$316.71 per week 290.97 252.54 248.68 243.60 233.99

$7.82 6.81 6.81 6.38 6.00 S.B2

per hour

At the other end of Ihe scale, in States with right-to work legislation, compilable figures are as follows:-

North Carolina Mlssitsipi Arkansas South Carolina

$149.33 per week 153.20 154.84 157.96

$3.79 3.83 3.91 3.91

per hour

The National Averages at the time were $207.60 per week and $5.19 per hour.

Avenges for non ri t-to-work States were $215.65 per week and $5.40 per hour.

Averages for right-to-woik Stales were $185.58 per week and $4ii3perhour.

uivalent of union dues. The American right to The government's

work laws arise out of the attempts to introduce right 1947 Taft-Hartley amend- to work legislation in ments. President Carter has Queensland, if the Premier's invoked other sections of words were more than elect-the amendments in his bid to end the US mineis strike, presently in its third month.

Several states introduced right to work legislation but rejected it when it was found that industrial strife increased while per-capita output decreased. Some

ion rhetoric, is sure to force a showdown with the unions. Already, union solidarity has increased in response to the projected legislation.

Last week the 51,000 members of the AWU re-affdiated with the ALP. AWU State Secretajy Ed-

now use an 'Agency Shop' gar Williams said that the system whereby a unionist merger was motivated, in need not join a union but part, by the proposed new most contribute the eg- laws.

MINISTER'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST

While Main Roads Minister Russ Hinze mag- tercst. nanimously lets environ- Unfortunately this is mcntaiists and resident have Queensland, so the release a say over Stradbroke Is. of a carefully researched bridge (see story page 5), study will probably turn his purrs are soon likely out to be just another to tum to growls-or even scandal to add to the howls. growing list.

A probe into his business Further details will interests reveals quit^ as- appear in a national weekly tounding conflicts of in- within the next few weeks.

FM RADIO

POUCY SOON The Federal Govemment is soon to announce

its policy on FM radio and on the development of public broadcasting. The long awaited state­ment is expected to be announced by the new Minister for Posts and Telecommunications, Tony Staley, at a public broadcasters meeting in Sydney later this month.

Both public and commercial broadcaster have been lobbying for the last two years in an attempt to influence the Government's FM policy as it has wide implications for the national development of FM broadcasting. Qoser to home it should dispel some of the doubts surrounding the future of radio 4ZZZ-FM.

The background to the current lobbying surrounding the development of FM broadcasting goes back a long way. Like.colour television, FM radio was late to arrive in this country. Its introduction being delayed both by the conservative policies of L-CP govemments and by the opposition of commercial broadcasteis, who pre­sumably saw little need to increase the numbers of statrans, especially as this could threaten their already sizeable profits.

it was only after Labor came to office in 1972 that sensible plans began to be made for the develop­ment of the loniHgnored FM band. In July 1974 the Minister for the Media offered FM stereo Ucences under the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1905, to two classical music groups in Sydney and Melboume. Thus 2MBS-FM began regular transmissions on 24th January, 1975 and 3MBSFM on Ist July, 1975.

In August, 1975 the then history of broadcasting in Minister for the Media, Moss Australia has been built. Cass, announced the offer However once these qf radio licences under the Ucences had been granted W.T. Act to twelve educa- broadcasting sank into a tional institutions and o^ bureaucratic mire of re-ganisations connected with ports and inquiries. In the such bodies. The University two yeare or so since re­ef Queensland Union was turning to power the L-CP offered an FM licence and government has licenced this became 4ZZZ-FM. only one more public broad-

However, as is well- caster and this was in a known, Labor was tipped Country Party electorate out not long after the just before the last federal licence was offered, but election. This was widely despite a short period of seen as a fairiy cynical intense paranoia the station move. went to air. Actually, i However since the last seems that opinion was election broadcasteis have against the licences being a new Minister in Mr. issued, however during the Tony Staley. Despite couise of the election cam- Staley's reputation as a paign a Country Party can- firm Fraser supporter, didate in the Bathuist area public broadcasteis are es-undertook that the licence pecially hopeful that the offered to Mitchell College policy to be announced CAE would be granted, soon will not be all the Thus the other stations commercials'way. followed. It's upon accid- At a recent meeting ents like these that the with executive membeis of

the Public Broadcasting

was the Minister, and pro­vided he got the agreement of Cabinet, it would be his considered policy that would be adopted.

Staley clearly shouldjiot beladdled with the 'Fraser's henchman' tag. He is a highly intelligent small '1' liberal. Prior to becoming an M.P. he lectured in political theory at Mel­boume Univeisity. He jokingly boasted that while he was the Minister for the Capital Territory, he was responsible for the intro­duction of nude bathing.

On the possibility of commercial stations sim­ultaneously broadcasting in both AM and FM, (some­thing they've lobbied for), he said he "didn't like the idea at all".

On the specific issues of the guidelines for the development of public broadcasting which were

circulated by the depart­ment for discussion, Staley denied that they had been drafted so as to relegate

. student stations such as Triple Z to a permanent condition of restricted coverage. All indications coming from the depart­ment are that there will be at least two FM public broadcasting . licences offered for the Brisbane area this year. Just what catagories these will be offered in will presumably form part of the Minister's policy statement.

Indications are that the current ice age in FM radio is about to be over. Hopefully for Brisbane students this will mean that Triple Z, which has for two years been trans­mitting on low powei will finauy De able to broadcast in stereo to the whole metropolitan area.

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Association ' of Australia Staley impressed hardened cynics with his openness and informality.

Clearly he's not a great listener (o commercial radio. His tastes run more to 'fine' music, poetry and drama. Questioned about his attitude to the relative share that public broad­casters and the commercials should have with the opening up of the FM band, the Minister indicated that he peisonaliy was more in favour of parity between the two sectois. He said that the previous Minister, (P,ric Robinson), may have promised the commercials certain things, but now HE

SEMPER NOTICE TO ALL ADVERTISERS

The Trade Practices Act 1974 came into force on October I, 1974. Certain provisions of the Act relating to consumer protection place a heavy burden upon advertisers, advertising agents and publishers of advertise­ments. ._

Section 52 refers to "misleading or de­ceptive conduct in trade or commerce. It also lists a fine of $50,000 for corporations and $10,000 for individuals who falsely rep­resent that goods are what they aren't.

Also an individual or corporation in­fringing Section 52 or 53 is liable to pro­ceedings for injunction and for damages by an injured party.

In view of the obvious impossibility of our ensuring that advertisements sub­mitted for publication comply with the Act, advertisers and advertising agents will appreciate the need themselves to ensure the provisions of the Act, including sections mentioned above, are complied with strictly.

It is suggested that in cases of doubt, advertisers and advertising agents seek legal advice.

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Semper has obtained a copy of the document which, sources claim, convmced ,Cabuiet that the SEMP learning materials should be with­drawn from Queensland schools.

Qbinet had not studied the course material itself before the banning.

The government claims that 'a committee' whom it refuses to name, advised it to forbid the use of the learning aids. Both Rona Joyner and sources high within the Education Department said that they didn't know who was on the 'committee'.

The 16 pages include STOP and CARE newsletters, newspaper clippings announcing the decision to drop the MACOS coutse, and several pages of SEMP material that bear, m Ms. Joyner's handwriting, her analysis of the course.

One of the newsletters outlines the STOP and CARE philosophy on education:

'Schools cannot serve two masters-God and humanism! Either they wiU remould society into con­formity with the Christian ethic or apinst it-parti-cular/y through the teaching of situational ethics and other values-changing techniques.'

-When teachers and lecturers, loyal to God, Queen and country and with legitimate concepts of tnith. mtegrity and responsibUity, suffer for endeavouring to teach honestly and factually, without the usual radical slant...' (the rest is obscured).

Ms. Joyner's hand­written analysis of the SEMP material, some of which is reproduced, is an interesting insight into her mind.

Below we list some of the SEMP material which is intended as a guide to teachers, and Ms. Joyner's comments that were written in beside them.

Australia-a multi­cultural society Australia's culture is fun­damentally and legally Christian. We are part ofthe Westem GvUis-ation based on the Christian ethic, with cor­responding laws which apply to people of all cultures resident in this country.

Alternatives — structural alternatives to traditional families This wUI encoumge students to think tftat homosexual 'marriages' defacto relationships, communes, etc. are all valid choices open to them.

Games to explore attitudes, feelings

To evaluate wluit will be changed in the child's personality!

Homework: Work out own family tree Invasion of privacy

Exploring relation­ships Condoning or encourag­ing immorality in place of marriage.

Allow a student to see inconsistencies in a belief system. Could this become the excuse for an engineered view of Christianity?

course 'Study of Society' wliich she claims gives un­due emphasis to the com­munist way of life.

Specifically, some of her objections were against a book 'Australia Since The Camera' which has a chapter by Judah Whaten, whom Ms. Joyner claims was a card-carrying communist when he wrote; a series of books on primitive cul­ture which she says are 'largely geared to destroy our concept of sin'; a book on the Walbiri abo­rigines; and 'Western Nations', which contains several articles on the USSR.

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Encourage participants to talk about their feelings, frustrations, decisions and what they could have done to improve the genuineness of their performance Why should students in class be subjected to such mental and psychological risks as these?

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She has serious object­ions to the content of a

Ms. Joyner also has a list of 140 books listed in a document called 'Cen­sorship in Education'. In­cluded are Gone With The Wind, The Lucky Country, To Sir With Love, and The Doll's House, (see box)

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•Summer of the Seventeenth Doll' (Uwlor) •The One Day of the Year' (Seymour) •Impact Assignments In English' (Heath) 'My Brother Jack' (Johnston) •Clean Straw for Nothing' (Johnston) 'Cartload of Clay' (Johnston) 'Cider with Rosie' (Lee) 'The Catcher In the Rye' (Balllngcr) 'Franny and Zoooy' (Bellinger) •Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenter' (Balllnger) •The Power and the Glory' (Greene) 'The Potting Shed' (Greene) •The Comedians (Greene) 'Brighton Rock' (Greene) 'The Tin Drum' (Gunttier Grass) •Cat and Mouse' (Gunther Grass) 'Greening of America' (Reich) •Bring Larks and Heroes' (KeneaUy) 'Farewell to Arms' (Hemmingway) 'The Sun Also Rises' (Hemmingway) 'For Whom the Beii Toils' (Hemmingway) 'Brave New World' (Huxioy) •Chrome Yellow' (Huxley) 'Doors to Perception, Heaven and Hell' (Huxioy) Coonardoo' (Pritchard) 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Lee) 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (Joyce) 'Exiles' (Joyce) 'TheHostage' (Behan) 'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearn' (Moore) 'Soledad Brother' (Jactcson)

I 'The Rainbow' (Lawrence) 'Sons and Lovers' (Lawrence) 'Women In Love' (Lawrence 'Women Who Rode Away' (Lawrence) 'Moon is Down' (Steinbeck) 'Mice and Men' (Steinbeck) 'Grapes of Wrath' (Steinbeck) •Pearl Burning Bright' (Steinbeck) 'Mrs. Dalloway' (Woolf) 'To the Lighthouse' ((Wooif) A Thundering Good Day* (Couper)

'Lucky Country' (Home) 'But What If There Were No More Pelicans' (Home) •Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)' (Albee) The works of W. Burroughs and E. Albee 'Street Car Named Desire' (Tennessee Williams) 'Glass Menagerie' (Tennessee Williams) 'Baby Doii' (Tennessee Williams) 'Death of a Salesman' (Miller) 'After The Pali' (Milter) 'The Crucible'(Miller) 'A View From The Bridge' (Miller) 'The Ginger Man' (Oonleavy) 'The Fringe Dwellers' (Neno Gair) 'Piper In The Market Place' (Cook) 'The American Tragedy' (Orelser) 'Breakfast at Tiffany's* (Capote) 'In cold Blood' (Capote) 'Fillets of Plaice' (Durrell) •The Loved one' (Waugh) 'Decline and Fall' (Waugh) 'How to bo a Survivor' (Erilch) 'Passage to India* (Forster) 'Howatd'i End' (Forster) 'Where Angels FMr to Tre>d' (Forster)

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'Catch 22* (Heller) 'Something Happened' (l-leller) 'Focus' (Miller) 'Wayward Bus' (Steinbeck) 'The Feminine Mystique* (Friedan) •The Female Eunuch' (Greer) •The Outcasts of Foolgarah' (Hardy) •Midnight Cowboy' (Horllhy) 'The Just* (Camus) 'The Possessed' (Camus) 'Crime Passionel' (Satre) 'Krapps Last Tape* (Beckett) *Endgame' (Beckett) 'Waiting For Godot* (Beckett) 'Not After Midnight' (du Maurler) 'Look Back In Anger* (Osbourne) 'To Sir With Love (Anoullh) 'Guess Who's coming to Dinner' (Anoullh) 'Antigone' (Anoullh) 'Ermine' (Anoullh) 5 Television Plays.. .'Conflicting Generations' 'Patch of Blue' (Kata) 'First Man, Ust Man' (Carson) 'The Drifters' (MIfchener) 'ThePlgman'(Zindel) 'My Darling. My Hamburger' (ZIndel) •I Never Loved Your Mind'(ZIndel) 'It's Uke This, cat' (Neville) 'The Longest Weekend* (Arundel) •Wild Cat Falling* (Johnson) 'Under Milk Wood' (Thomas) 'A Nice Fire and some Moonpennies* (Heffronj •LOve Story' (Segali) 'Admission to the Feast' (Beckman) 'Runaway Sun* 'The Prime of M Iss Jean drodle' (Spark) •Loiita' (Nabokov) 'Endless circle' 'Go Tell it on the Mountain' (Baldwin) 'Another Country' (Baldwin) 'Blues for Mr. Charles' (Baldwin) •The Well of Loneliness' (Hall) 'Black Like Me' (Griffin) 'Gone With The Wind' (Mitchell) 'The Godfather' (Puzof 'Into The Whirlwind' (Ginsberg) •Soul On Ice* (Cleaver) 'The Assistant* (Malamud) 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (l^wrenc«)

'The Doll's House' (Ibsen) 'Nana' (zola) •women of Rome' (Moravia) 'Marjorle Mornlngside' (Wouk) 'Three Sist(«rs' fChekhov) 'Taste of Honey" (Delanoy) 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' (Sllllloe) 'The Group' (McCarthy) 'Voices' (Summerfleld) 'English Today i l l ' 'Actions and Reactions' Patchwork Two'

'The Lord ot the Files' (Qolding) 'Improving on Blank Page' (Cook and Gallasch) 1 'Playboy of the Western World* (Synge) 'The Way of All Flesh* (Butler) 'The Grass Is Singing' (Lessing) 'Coming of Age in Samoa* (Meade)

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ROM 'someone in the Education Department does not seem to know what tbe govern­ment wants children to be tau^t.'

Match 22,1977.

September, 1977.

September 28,1977.

January 17,1978. February 22.1978.

'Messageways On a Sniall Planet, Book 1' banned. Economics teachers are forbidden to discuss tfie Building Society crisis. Teacher's seminar on MACOS banned. MACOS course banned, SEMP course banned.

In other developments on the state's education battleground, legal opinion seems to indicate that Cabinet's intervention in removing SEMP from schools may have breached the law. Section 37 of the Education Act states the sole statutory power to determine syllabus is vested in the Board of Secondary School Studies, and not the Minister or Cabinet.

This opens the way for legal action if any teacher continues to use SEMP materials. The Queensland Teacher's Union has pro­mised 'full moral, legal and financial support' to any teachers who ignore the governments directive.

The fate of confiscated MACOS material is still unknown. It is at present held, 'under lock and key' according to some sources, in the Education Depart­

ment. Parent groups who paid

for the material were sur­prised to find that it was still the property of the Minister after its confis­cation.

There arc some quite interesting possibilities though. The material, worth several thousands of dollars, could sit and gather dust. On the other hand the government could destroy it, a move which would closely resemble totalitarian book burnings, or it could be sold off to southern states.

The latter alternative would of course mean that what the Queensland Government deems to be mind-polluting material would be exported to cor­rupt the morals of south­erners.

NO COMMENT NEEDED

Honsing priority HARSH as it may seem, the Queensland

Honshic Cominlsslon's policy ot not according a top hoosinr priority to battered wives Is reallstie.

There are others, Including families whose houses have been destroyed by fire, who are clearly In greater need.

It would not be practicable to put battered wives in a special housing' priority. It would mean in some cases, one family would occupy two homes — the husband'-a ftntt the • wife's.

Then there Is human nature to consider. Many a battered wife might leave home, and with reason, only to retum home when her fear and her husband's temper have cOoleti.

Courier Mail editorial, 3/2/78

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8 SEMPER. March 15,1978

State Government

Refuses Right toWork

to ALP Candidate

North Queensland schoolteacher Bill Wood is still trying to find work after having been refused employ­ment by the State Govemment.

Wood, who was the ALP candidate for Leichardt in the Federal election, was told that his appointment as Acting Deputy Principal at Mossman Hi^ had been cancelled just three days after he began work.

A North Queensland politician is said to have been the driving force in Wood's 'dismissal'. The local National Party member, Martin Tenni, has denied that he had anything to do with it

It is the second time that Wood has been re­fused a job with the Edu­cation Department after standing for the ALP.

After he lost the state seat of Barron River in the 1974 election Wood and four other teacheis were informed that they would not be re-employed as teacheis, apparently at the peisonal direction of the Premier.

BILL WOOD

After a strong reaction from the Education De­partment, Mr. Bjelke-Peter­sen acquiesced and said that the teachers could be em­ployed, but only in Labor electorates.

Bill Wood then spent 6 weeks teaching in Rock­hampton, but resigned, saying that he didn't want to move his family from their home in Caims. It wasn't until 12 months later that he was re-employ­ed.

The Constitution re­quires that Pubtic Servants resign to contest an elect­ion, but it y/Xi not until 1968, just after Joh Bjelke-PetCBcn became Premier, that the re-employment of failed political candidates was not automatic. Queens­land is StiU the only state that has refused a job under these circumstances.

It certainly seems that

the Premier's predecessor, Frank Nicklin, was trying to protect public servants who had resigned to stand for election when his government introduced the Crown Employee's Act in 1958. Several times the Act mentions the principle that they be re-employed.

If the Act had tried to legislate to enforce re­employment, it may have breached the Constitution, but the Nicklin Govern ment's intention that public servants be re-employed could hardly have been put in stronger terms.

Wood has applied for jobs, at non-public schools in North Queensland and for work in Canbena, but as the retraction of his position in Mossman occuned after the schools had been appointed their teacheis for this year, he has not been re-employed to date.

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Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen has finally set off on his secrecy shrouded trip to Japan, leaving the state in the hands of Liberal leader and deputy Premier, Bill Knox.

The Ascendancy of Mr. Knox into the Acting Premier's role has started many people wondering. . .just where has Mr. Knox been for the past two months?

So little has been heard from the second most important man in the coalition government that many of us had forgotten his existence. Mr. Knox doesn't create many ripples at the best of times, preferring to maintain a low profile on all controversial issues.

However, his silence on the billion dollar powerhouse fiasco was awe-inspiring.

The media generally seemed to forget that there is more than one party supposedly running this state and I count myself among that number.

Mr. K nox made no public pronouncements on the question of whether the power station should be sited at Millmerran or Tarong and indeed it seems no-one sought his opinion.

State Labor leader, Tom Bums, however, stirred the possum this week by commenting on Mr.Knox's silence on all the major issues of recent weeks.

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On Thuisday the 9th of March, a string of media releases appeared on telex machines all headed. . . 'Statement by the Acting Premier, Hon.W.E. Knox, MLA'.

FIRST RELEASE The first was headed

'Advisory Panel for Edu­cation Select Committee' and said that more people could be co-opted onto the advisory panel.

This was apparenriy on the basis that the inquiry was not so much into the theories of edcuation, but rather what the community at large expected of education in Queensland.

However, Mr. Knox's first media release in a long time didn't meet with much success. Ihe Inquiry chaii man. National Party MLA, Mike Ahern, immediately jumped to the attack and virtually refuted Mr. KNox by saying that an advisory panel which was any larger than the three cutrent mem­bers would get too bogged down and take too long to report. So much for that... .

Then Mr. Knox launched into 'the AWU and the ALP'.

He said there was likely to be plenty of feuding in the wake of the reunion between the large Aust­ralian workers union and the Labor Party. It was Mr. Knox's opinion that the AWU would become rapidly disenchanted with the ALP unless it could successfully combat the ex­tremism and left-wing elements that had captured the Labor Party over the past few yean.

NEW LIBEL LAWS Turning his attention

elsewhere, Mr. Knox then spoke on the topic of 'New Libel Laws Ques­tioned'.

He said he was con­cemed about allegations by Rupert Murdoch that the Commonwealth Law Reform Commission might try to muzzle the press. Mr. Knox said any re­strictions on the freedom of the press would also infringe on the rights of the individual. Very nice sentiments, but rather

strange coming from a man who has maintained a deathly silence on the question of the Civil Liberties infringements imposed in the ban on street marches by his colleague, Joh Bjelke-Petersen. The Liberal leader should also have had a twinge of con­science following the remarks made by Federal Tasmanian Liberal back­bencher, Michael Hodgman. Hodgmun told young lib­erals meeting in Brisbane that the Queensland Government had caused a lot of concern in Australia by banning street marches. He said the right to assemble peacefully had been guaranteed by a thou­sand yeais of tradition in common law and that he would resign from a govern­ment that banned street marches. Mr. Knox has so far remained silent on the attack.

Back to the media statements, and Mr. Knox then gave a little reassur­ance to the Liberals' friends in big business. Under the heading 'New Order for Dragline' he congratulated Evans Deakin for winning a contract to build a drag­line for the central Queens­land coalfields. As our Treasurer, Mr. Knox saw this as an indication that development projects were underway in Queensland once again. It. remains to be seen whether other businesses arc quite so

happy with the economy as a whole.

Mr. Knox followed this with a tired old sop to the people of Brisbane on an issue that will probably win him a couple of votes when we nexl take part in our three-yearly exercises in democracy. Headed 'New Airport Run­ways for Brisbane Needed' (sic), he gave a nice little serve to the big boys in Canberra. Mr. Knox said the Federal Government should be tired of all the wrangling over the site of Sydney's new airport and that if they turned their attention to Brisbane they'd have no such hassles. He told them 'emphatically that there'd be no dispute on the siting of a new airport 'we just want the job to be{dn.'

Finally, with an eye to the country vote Mr. Knox said 'State needs equal petrol prices now*. He said too many Queensland people are disadvantaged by unfair petrol prices, and called on Federal MPs to push through a bill aimed at reducing petrol prices in rural areas.

All in all, not a bad. effort from our Acting Premier but he must have been a trifle disappointed. Confronted by such a glut of public statements the media generally took one look at the list of state­ments and chose to pub­licise only the first.

-DAVID RUSSELL

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It sounds like hype and it smells like nihilism, but Britain's New Wave of Punk Rock music has the feel of a genuine cultural insurgency.

Spikey hair, deliberately-ripped clothes, moronic stares and safety pins through the cheeks—all just a pose to offend and titillate.

The music itself is urgent, insistent and unpolished—a throwback to more primitive forms of rock. It has to be that way because its propelling force is (he rage and frustration of young working class people who have been lied to, swindled and cast aside by the modern Welfare State.

Punk is supposed to be an-ti-everything. But really it chooses its targets with precision: institutionalized boredom, the dole queue, high-rise flats, TV. In short, the status quo.

And in a social order based on pitting one group against another. Punk knows which way to jump: turn on to Punk and turn off to racism.

Punk has no central com­mand and no correct line. It's a network of bands, scenes and individuals with common working class origins and

common outlook inhabiting a nether-world of low-paid gigs where individualism 'and musical virtuosity are no par­ticular assets.

The ties that bind them are reflected in their song titles: "Police State" (by the Staines); "Boredom" (Buz-zcocks); "White Riot" (Clash); "Pretty Vacant" (Sex Pistols).

The first Pu.nk group to gain notoriety is The Sex

made you a moron / poten­tial H-Bomb."

Now the Pistols get baimed by local councils from per­forming all over England,

• and^hey are victimized ih i serie^of physical attacks by royalist vigilantes. No longer able to perform under their own name because of the notoriety, and receiving a number of death threats, they go underground, appearing ks a mystery group when on tour.

"IthlDklheSexFlslolsare absoiuldy Moody revolting.. I fdt uncleaH for 48 hours af­ter I saw them"—Member of Pariiamcnl (Tory).

It's not only the lackeys of the ruling class that can't stomach Punk. A lot of radicals are put off by the sensationalism and the per­verse code of decency. For in­stance, the New York-based. Maoist newspaper The Guar­dian calls .Punk a "cruel hoax" and a "social disease." It says the Pistols look psychotic in their photos, and it psychoanalyses Punkers as depressed neurotics with no grounding in true oppression.

The Clash know different:. "We're a garage band living in a garage land." Their music derives from their social milieu, and it's not about love and romance.

In their first album, called The Clash, they sing of the " W e e k e n d " - a 48-hour reprieve from the weekday jail-on wheels. As Mark P. of Sniffing Gioe sa^: "The Clash album is Uke a mirror. It reflects all the shit."

Joe Strummer of The Clash elaborates:

"1 don't care whether anybody tries to change society as a result of what we're doing, but I ain't gonna let anyone stop me saying what I feel about it, because I know that society stinks. The Clash ain't inciting anyone. We're just reflecting the truth that we see. If our audiences are as angry as we are about it then maybe they'll do something about it. But it's their responsibility."

The Punks ridicule the hippies for having failed to

change the world and for mis-undentanding society. "They were so complacent," says Rotten, "Th'ey let it all—the drug culture—flop around them. Yeah, man, peace and love. Don't let anything af-

PIstols.Their manager talks feet you. anarchism; and they bring ''We say bullshit! If it of-out their f«rst single, fends you, stop il. You've got

"Anarchy in the U.K.": to or else you just become

do what we want and we play by nobody's rules"—Tony James of Generation X.

With Punk crashing into the headlines, the music in­dustry senses a windfall. But Punk bands resist. Johnny Rotten is defiant:

"I don't like the star trip which they are trying lo push me into. They don't realise what they're doing, they're trying to tum me into another Rod Stewart. . , Won't you get a surprise."

Poly Styrene, who previously worked for Woolworths and is now the singer in an all-women's band, has similar doubts about the music business: "Well, there are a lot of record people interested but I wouldn't like to get into the position where I lose con­trol."

Concern for autonomy and a desire to avoid the pitfalls of early rock, which produced decadent super­stars, is prevalent amongst many bands. The idea is to write the songs, sing them, perform them yourselves and hopefully gel them recorded on the smaller, new labels such as Deptford Fun City, Stiff, Illegal and Step For­ward, all of which are now recording Punk artists and therefore taking a significanl step away from the big business monopolies.

Punk musicians are short on money; they often live at home with their parents out of financial necessity. In The New Wave Magazine {a Punk fanzine). Dead Fingers, who produce and perform (heir own songs, declare they can live on $6 per day and $100 per gig.

Example: at a Rock Again­st Racism concert, the Buzz- cocks are paid SISO to cover the expenses of the group, (heir manager and assorted roadies—more (han half a dozen people in all. There's no expense accoun( for the cost of making the 300-milc round-trip.

Punk concerts are frequen( and can cost as little as $2, offering a main band and usually a( leas( two suppor( groups. Which demonstrates the Punk consensus (h t there should be plenty of tive music for supporters to par-(icipate in, ei(her by forming their own band or by coming along (0 (he gigs (o "pogo" and "grapple" (bo(h frcne(ic Punk dances).

The s(yle of Punk music Is reminiscent of early rock in

PUNK ROCK-MEDIA STEREOTYPES?

"There are many ways to get what you want / 1 use the best / I use the rest / I use anarchy / 'Cause I wanna

apathetic and complacent yourself. You end up with a mortpge watching T.V. with 2.6 kids out in Suburbia— and that's disgusting. All

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terms of its raucous un­polished sound and heavy beat. Its most likely precur­sors were (he New York Dolls, managed by Malcolm McClaren, who now manages the Sex Pistols.

Reggae music.is a favorite amongs( Punk Rockers, par­tly because of similar con­tent. Bo(hmus>cs(ylestakethe form of an angry protest against living conditions and whereas Punk is a tirade agains( the urban jungle of (he indus(rialized West and its obligatory boredom. Reggae concentra(es on (he appalling poverty and op­pression in the Third World. (Sec The Open Road, No. 2, Spring '77.)

Bob Mariey's "Them Belly Fuir(bu( we hungry)" is as explicitly rebellious as the .Prefects' (yet anolher New Waveband) "Birmingham's aShithole." Don Le((s, black DJ and also a Ras(afarian s(resses, "The reggae thing and (he punk (hing are just black and white version of (he same (hing." As fur(her reinforcement (o (his Unk, Bob Mariey has recorded Lee Perry's "Funky Reggae Par-(y," fea(uring (he line "No boring old faKs will be there / It's a punky reggae party tonight."

"Maybe we'll call our next single 'We hate the Nadonal Front' "—Steve Jones of (he Sex Pislob.

Much (0 the despair of racists and fascists. Punks usually ge( along well wi(h other ethnic groups, especially Wes( Indians.

At first, the far right felt that the return to short hair and popular use of the swastica emblem T-shirts (which, incidentally, say "Destroy") was promising for (hem. As well, an early lack of direcdon in Punk did produce some fascistic sym­pathisers, just as (he ram pan ( sexism seemed (o reinforce (he basic sexual dominance paderns compatible wi(h right-wing ideology.

Rock Agains( Racism, a movemen( that has reacted positively to Punk, is largely a Tro(skyist front, but i( has helped Punk rockers target (heir (rue class enemies, in­stead of pitting (hem against black people. Gigs are organised to raise money for fines incurred in demon­strations agains( (he Na(ional Fron( (a neo-nazi party). The Cimmerons, a reggae band, plays alongside the Punk group Generation .X, and the climax of (he evening is both bands jamming on stage shou(ing "Black and White... Unite."

VVhile many Punk groups, even the Sex Pistols at (imes, claim that they're non-polidcal, all but a tiny minority express loathing for the ultra right, even though the media likes to link

bring you anarchy / It's the ,^0,5 hippi„ are becoming onlywaytobc." likethat."

"Anarchy" is banned from the BBC, the Pistols call a television interviewer "a dirty fucker" on a national hookup, and they get

And this from the Clash's flrst album:

"Hate and war Is the only thing we've got today / And if I close my eyes it will not go away. / We have to deal with

.terminated by two different it, it is our currency / I'm recording companies. A going to stay in the city, even follow-up single on Virgin when the house / falls down. Records. "God Save the 1 don't dream of a holiday Queen," is similariy black- when hale and /.war come balled. It's main lyric: "She. around." ain't no buman being / They "Weny what wc think, wc

Punkers with the National Front. The media approach to Punk is (0 sensa(ionalise stories about random vomit-ting over old ladies and to grossly, exaggerate minor violent incidents; i( has suc-ccssfull] manipulated Satur­day afternoon fighting bet­ween (he Punks and (he Teds (supporters of early rock and roll who tend (0 be politically right-wing) by giving front page publicity (0 every minor occurrence,

"I. really (hough( that people would recognize that what appears in (he newspaper is bullshi(, but (hey don't!" complains Ro(-(en. "That's what shocks mc about (he general a((itude of the public. They're ex­cessively stupid. Their whole lives are centred around whal the Daily Mirror or Sun says."

"I kick people because that's whal Punks are sup­posed to be like, isn't 1(7"-Captain Sensible of (he Damned.

For all its wholesome per-verseness, there are some disturbing loose, ends remaining in Punk. Violence can be a theatrical show-s(opper and a valid ex­pression of anger, bu( (00 of-(en i( is unchannetled: bands fight among (hemselves, Punks in the audience beat up eachother, the audien­ce throws objects a( (he band (ahhough this last is being in­creasingly discouraged).

.Sexism is another'bring­down. The word "cunt" is a popular insult. Steve Jones of the Pistols isquotedas saying thathe likes "birds with big tits" and "slapping bihls' ar­ses."

Punk women dressed in stockings and suspender bells seem to reinforce sexual stereotyping too, while on (he periphery of Punk there are the Stranglers, who are (o(al misogyhists. In this respec() it's not tod different from th«

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Joh's Stars - Thank Heavens! Goodness Me! affliction there is nervous tension and change- avoided and ignored. There is often an excellent ability. ^ " ^ <3f humour, and few rinancial problems arc

indicated.

MercuryiNeptune Opposition Mercury In Capricorn Scheming and deceptive. Apparent deception

Rational and serious, this pladng makes for may result ftom beating about the bush and an extremely ambitious and ralculating person, stalling. The imagination is fertile, but not always Methodical and formal, there may be a 'stick positively used. Worry and lack of self confidence in the mud attitude where decision making is common, conarncd. A good memory is usual. Under affliction, nanow mindedness and over caution VenusfMars Semisquare may appear. ji^ Hypersensitivity is common. FamUy and

' ^ 1 r^tionships may be strained, and the sulSSBUoids to expect loo much of people.

Jgn, and ofte i The subjcrfii^y be difficult, quarrelsome and Frccdoi) capriciouy. Partnh^hips may be difflcult.

und(r sijy-Wr^4«M/Kp/rer Sqid^^ !ely, and Thne is an

Extreffles\f

Venus In Aquarius Venus is unemotional in tl

a personal detachment is afidctid^i. of expression and independence afOJctipn, likely to tj eccentricity.'A cer: while personal mi and detachment may

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Mans In Sagittariu. The subjectpii

energy. New ideas 1 may seei others, and the drivelassoq tinlli can lead to impulsiveness Scepticism if afflictdi. Ui the tendency to exaggei te, to control.

thiisia<firj( dnih abuni VejtmeStui^ Square

'WtetiaH Ai ition and success. ifl&n seOsh, thoughttess and

There is a strong 'sacriflce for and austerity in relationships are

Jupiter In Scorpio Will.power and skill in allam

rooted convictions arc present/'

S The. jubject pacing ^aU mindei

iess action, duty' themi _ common,

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Argui>«ntative ait& eccentric, with a tendency to be conJradictpfy, the subject may also be nervous and^»fitic. Self control must be develop­ed. ^.^6

and deep ere is

tendency to exaggerate, and self-il!(lulgeii be a problem. Moderation must be cotaciousfy^Mars/Neptune Quincunx developed. When afflicted, pride, conceit and A tendency toward escapism and negative aggression occur. Suspicion is always present, stimulus. Perseverance, shrewdness and determination are characteristic. Mars/Pluta Opposition

Objectives can become obsessions, which the subject may overcome, often at the expense

Saturn In Taurus ofoihcn.

Caution, a strong will and stubbornness ate JuplterjNeptune Trine ptcsent. Tlic subject is methodical and practical, involvement with charities is common. There but under affliction dour, avaricious and lacking fa a strong interest in religion. There may be in generosity. Emotfon is steady and controlled. sUange or unusual difliculties in life, and a Beauty is not appreciated, TTiere may be ^^^ j^ ^^^^ pedodically from the world, thoughtlessness and narrowmmdcdness. '

Uranus In Capricorn Powers of leadership, with good orpm'sing

ability, Under affliction, rebellious and dom-ineciing, emphasised in other areas.

Neptune In Cancer The ability to escape from reality is present

with this generation influence. There may be dreaminess, which, under affliction, can tum to escapism.

Pluto In Gemini This general k>n influence can contribute

to mental restlessness and a duality wMch can result in two faced attitudes and actions. Changeability is ptcsent, and may need con­trolling.

INTERPRETATION OF THE ASPECTS OF MAJOR INFLUENCE

Sun/Moon Quincunx There is a tendency to be overbearing or

anogant. There will be a generation gap between family members. This aspect can, however, be an incentive to the accompUshinent of career objectives.

SunjMercury Conjunction Flexibility of mind is apt to suffer with this

conjunction, particularly if it is a close one, as in this case. There is a tendency for the subject' to be stubborn and dogmatic. In cases of total atniclion ptejudice may show.

SunfSatum Square There is a severe limitation of self-expression,

perhaps a sense of personal inadequacy. General health may sufTei.

Sun/Uranits Combust Conjunction This conjunction contributes to stubbonmess

and perversity. There is considerable originality and Independence. Unconventionality may be a source of talent, with particular attention being paid to the political sphere.

Moon fMats Opposttktn Not good for health. The subject may be

irtiuible, impulsWe and combath«, as well as quarrelsome and exdtable. Self indulgence and excitability may be present.

Moon/Uranus Quincunx Stubbornness and fanaticism often combine

with real talent and ability. Hwre is • tendency to over estimate problems and ignore acvioe.

Moon/Pluta Combust ConjunOion The inclination to impulsiveness b strong,

and if under aflUction, leckktsitess.

Mercury/Jupiter SextUe An acthre mind. Controvenial questk>nt t n

Jupiter/Pluto Sesquiquadrate Fanaticism and a desire to exploit othen

may occur on occaswn. Wastefulness is a common tendency. Personal inadequacy is com­pensated for by destructiveness.

Saturn/Uranus Square Tensions and depression is common, caushig

probably long term personality difficulties.

Uranus/Piuto Quincunx Disruptive and destructive. Sudden emotional

outbursts are likely to occur as the result of inner tension.

SUMMARY INTERPRETATION

This subject's chart has six Planets-Sun, Venus, Moon, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto-in total affliction. Of 26 aspects, only 3 are of a derinitely positive nature. The chart is a seesaw type, indicating more than any other star pattern, extreme inner tension.

The subject has difficulty in ex­pressing inner emotions. Inhibitive factois from several planets make him reserved, perhaps aloof with family and close friends. A cap­acity for deep inner emotion is denied. Strain, quarrels and inner tension are present. The subject is exceptionally stubborn and per­verse, with a tendency to exaggerate matters. There is exceptional will power and dominance, manifested in good organising ability. Caution and reserve make this person austere in both outward and inward life.

Arrogance and a disregard for othen is present, and some narrow-mindedness manifests itself exter­nally. There is definite shrewdness and buaness ability, coupled with suspicion and ambition. Origmality and independence, under affliction, become eccentricity and impulsive­ness. The subject is easily irritated.

Political acumen is shown in the placings of Venus and Jupiter, giving ambition and ability in this field, coupled with much drive from the position of Mars. Inner tensions are held in check in order to realise career ambitions. There is an in­terest in charities and the welfare of others, although this interest is coloured by the personal views of the subject. There is a tendency to be beneficial in the way which appears best to the subject rather than to the specific needs of the groups concemed, as shown by the escapist tendencies of Neptune, and the ability to avoid controversy, as indicated by the Mars/Neptune positions.

The subject's health may suffer, specifically as a result of severe tension and inner stress.* Overwork and strain may ruin a constitution which is already liverish and sen­sitive. There is an eccentric sense of humour, and few financial problems can be expected.

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Exhibitton of entries in art eompalitkin. Frl. 17,Sat 18th. lOam-IOpm, Sun. 19th March, 10am to Spm, Admission free. Cater's Oriental Carpets Ex­hibition, 27 Latrobe Tee, Pad­dington (366173) Exhbitktn df Antk|ua Pile Rugs Sat. 18-Fri. 31st March. Tues to Sat. 9am-Spm. 37 Lekhardt St, Spring Hill (221 9583)

Exhibition of Batik by Patricia Andrews Tues to Sat, 10am-4pm, Friday 3-WBd. 29th March. Craft Association Gallery Galloway Galleries and Fine Arts Centre, Cnr Gregory Tee & Brookes St., Bowen Hills <52 1425) Oil Paintings by John Guy Fri 17-Fri. 31st March. Mon& Tues. 10am-6pm, Wed-Frl. 10am-6pm, Wed-Frl. 10am-10.30 pm, Sat & Sun, Ipnv Bpm. Institute of Modem Art . 24 Market St, (229 5985) Exhibitkin of contemporary paintinfp from the Canadian Council Art Bank 14March-5April,Tues-Sat. 10am to 5pm. New Central Galleries, Grand Central .Arcade, 205 Queen St. Mixed ExbtbHton, Thurs 1 6 -Fri. 31 March. Monto Frkiay, MixMl Exhibitkin, Thurs 1 6 -Fri. 31 March. Monto FrWay. 8.30am-4.30 pm, Sat.S.SO am to 11am. The Potters Gallery, cnr Birley & Lei(^ardt Sts, Spring Hill (221 9498) Exhbrtkm of Pottery by Naw Zealand Master Pottar, Royca McGlashan. Fri. 3-Thurs. 30 March. Exhiiitton of pottery by OavM Smhh, From Fri. 31st March. Tues to Fri., 10am-2pm, Sat, 11am to 5pm, Sun. 2pm to 5pm. Queensland Room, McDonnell and East, George Street, Oil paintings by Andcey, Kham •ndGantla. 20-31st March, Mon-Fri. 8.20 am-4.40 pm. Ray Hughes GaUery^ V En­oggera Tee, Red Hill (36 3757) "History of Austrslto': Part 2 Colonlaf-Drawings by Keith Loobay. 25March-13 April, TUBS to Sat, 11am-6pm. Univeisity Art Museum, Forgan-Smith Bldg, Uni. of Old. "Varesaiy-Thra« ganaratfom of European print maken" 30March-30 April, Mon to Fri, 10amr4pmiSun. 2pm-5 pm. Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery 10 Cintra, Rd, Bov«n Hljii (524761). Painting by John Almd. 5-23 March, Tues to Sat, . 10.30 am-5.30pm.

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Every Wad. Bpm. folk music. Wayfirers. Every Fri. Spm Talks, damonstratk>ns, films Every Second Saturday Party Trips-book week Itaod 17th March weekend canoeing 19th March Horsariding Oeepsea fishing. Swing at Easter: Trip to Trial Bay (near Kampsey) 30th March Parachute course starts 31st March Weekend Bunya Mts. MORETON SHIRE ART COM­PETITION; ACQUISITIVE PRIZES $300, $200, $100 closes April IQ. full details Shire Clerk, MOreton Shire-Council, po box 192. Ipswich, 4305. MARKETS contact Heather Ross ph. 371 1611. 1611. sell potplants, leatherwork, jewellery etc. ProvMe own staM/blanket/table. NO CHARGE. Mondays-Griffith Uni. Union. Tueadays-Kafvin Orova CAE UnkNi Wsdnasdays-Qki Uni. Unk)n. DEBATING FESTIVAL Uni of Sydney Union, ph. 8601355. Intamattonal Debating Fasthral. 10-14 July. UNEMPLOYED WORKERS UNION MEETING Trades Hall ph. 221 4160 Thure 10 am 16th March. LECTORES Lyceum Club Rms, 3rd Floor, ArchtbBlt Ct, 21 Adelaide St. Brisbane. Sir Theodore Bray CBEDGU Tues. 21 March 7.30 pm. Institute of Mod. Art. presents

ph. 229 5985 Geoffrey .femes on Canadian Art admission free-Wed. 15 March 8 pm. Institute of Mod. Art. presents

TRIPS All Road Scenic Touts Taaiw^h Cotourad Sands depart 8.30, 4 days a week, 9 hrs. M V St. Helena Star cruises Manly to htstorle St. Halena Island 4d8ys8week,-4Khrs. ' Tipplers Haven now offers evening accomodation South Stradbroke Island. Bushwalking Club members ph. Neil Gibson 3451469 A central Travana. Blua Pool, SUkway Falls. Fountain Falls. $2.50. Kangaroo Point . Cliff rescue night 21st March, 7.30 pm. E.G, Whitlam Room, UnL of Qld. Formal maating.

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THE LAST WAVE: Directed by Peter Weir, Regent Theatre, Queen Street. (221 8177). Mon-Sat. H a m , 2, Sand Spm, Sun. 2, 5 and S p m .

Peter Weir has become one of the few Aust­ralian fihn directors to have gained an inter­national reputation.

He has done so largely on the basis of three films-Cars that Ate Paris, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and his most recent fihn The Last Wave.

Through a combination of relatively good scripting and excellent photography, editing and direction he attempts to explore aspects of the supernatural.

Even after our child­hood ends many of us remain susceptible to the "snakes under the bed" syndrome, the suspicion that lurking in in those shadows or in our own minds is some ominous presence which because of its failure to be identified (as in Picnic at Hanging Rock) fills us with ap­prehension.

After viewing all three of these films, it becomes clear that a continuing in­terest of Weir's lies in awakening an audience's sense of mystery and fear ofthe unknown.

Weir seeks to capitalise on this. However if any movie is going to largely base its success on creating such responses in an audi­ence, then that movie de­mands a touch of genius.

Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski at their best, exhibited such a genius, however I feel that Peter Weir, although un­doubtedly a good film­maker, has yet to reach such heights.

I have rarely heard any­thing but praise expressed over Pictik at Hanging Rock yet I VI2& not very excited about this film at all.

It may be that people with strong literary back­grounds were able to dis­cover more in this film than people like myself (mine fits more closely to that of a self-confessed

^audio/visual junkie, movies, " television, slides etc.)

Although Cars That Ate Paris was a failure in many respects (at the box office as well as cinematicalty), I felt that'it was a superior nim to Picnic and showed signs of the potential which Weir has finally started to realise in Ihe Last Vave.

The Last Wave Is an hiteresting and enter­taining film and for a great variety of reasons. One is the standard of

acting. A "name" Richard Chamberlain was imported especially to boost the market appeal of the film yet he delivers an excellent performance.

But it was a local actor who impressed me the most.

I have followed with interest the performances of David Gulpilil in four major Australian films, each of which attempted in its own way to comment on aborigi­nal mythology, culture and race-Walkabout, Mad Dog Morgan, Storm Boy and now The Last Wave.

Critics may argue lhat this second "discovery" of the aboriginal people (following on closely from Cook's) reeks too much of exploitation, however for better or worse these fihns have given us a chance to at least observe a series of developments in Gul-pilil's acting career.

David Gulpilil in The Last Wave manages to create a "presence" which although partly the result of the direction and photo­graphy is really striking.

He has said that The Last Wave is the fitst film to describe authentically aboriginal "dreamtime" and mythology and that such films about the aboriginal way of life were important for his people.

However the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney seemed to think otherwise jvhen shortly after the film's release they took steps to stop the film being ex­hibited.

The were not fully happy with the way blacks and their culture were being presented in the film.

So what is the film about, briefiy the plot shows Chamberlain as a Sydney lawyer becoming involved in the legal defence of an aboriginal murder case.

The more he becomes

immersed in the case, the more some puzzling de­velopments conceming links between the aboriginal race and his own cultural history take place.

It is during the process of creating this mysterious link that Weir is able to very successfully introduce some rather brilliant surreal sequences. The credits seem to suggest that even the notion of The Last Wave was Weir's own inspiration although I seem to recall

that such an idea was raised in an article in Nation Review some time ago.

I have dehberately not been too specific about some aspects of the con­tent of the film because I personally have never enjoyed reading a preview and having some of the best moments ruined, and after all, seeing is definitely better than reading.

-BRUCE DICKSON

T H E BEAST': by Snoo Williams, Directed and designed by David Bell, La Boite Theatre, Hale St., Milton (36 1622). Season runs until Saturday, April Ist.

"The Beast" is La Boite Theatre's second stab at staging a Snoo Wilson play. This itself is a feat because Snoo Wilson is political, iconclastic and contemporary and writes the kutd of plays that are successfully per-fonned on the London fringe but are rarely viewed by Brisbane audiences. This first night audience of La Boite stalwarts seemed most intrigued if puzzled by a 'biographical fantasy on the life of Aleister Crowley'.

The play loosely covers two segments of Crowley's life, a sojourn in Belgium and a period at a farm­house called the Abbey in Cefalu, Sicily. It deals with the practices and philosophy of Crowley, black magician, occultist, The Beast 666. Sex magic was the means towards Crowleys goal; that of gal­vanising the will and dis­covering its true nature. To this end Crowley per­formed acts of worship with his Scarlet Woman of the moment and she engendered a special magical current.

Wc leam too that Crowley recoils from little that polite society decrys-incest, coprophilia, rape, blasphemy and an abandon­ed use of heroin, opium and cocaine. "Do what thou wilt shall be all the law" and Crowley unfiinchingly puts into effect his guiding principle in his fairly mac­abre search for self-know­ledge.

In flashbacks we sec that Crowley's childhood

hints at his future per­suasion of interests. His father was a raging fanatic in a primitive religious sect. The ycung Crowley broiled cats, seduced maids and read (a scene sadly cut from the production) Col-eridgcs opiated poetry.

Ll Sicily Crowley helps his acolytes to discover their true will althou^ it seemed more like a sadistic exploitation of the ingenuous. He is hounded out of the country, the beginning of a persecution that he suffered the rest of his life.

Crowley is judged, History affirms his depravity in an address given by a bespectacled schoolgirl. Elsewhere Crowley is accused of being a shabby fraud, an un­scrupulous megalomaniac, a drug fiend. A judge disser­tates on the national moral problem created by witch­craft fanatics. Snoo Wilson neither condemns nor vin­dicates Crowley. If he sees him as an emotionally bank­rupt junkie, if he suspects

Crowley did not grasp the essence, he still deals with him sympathetically as an enigmatic non-conformist, a revolutionary who sought knowledge through magic and a bizarre discipline of will.

I thought David Bell's hotel set design for the first act worked well. It was a Beeba's style twen­ties restaurant complete with piano, fronds and fringing although the per­formance of the flashback scenes in that context ob­scured their meaning. The 'abbey' setting could have been more lurid.

In fact the play worked best when it reached visual climaxes as in Crowley's crockery onslaught on Laria, the Scarlet Woman, in the first act and the acolytes cocaine and self-punitive attacks in the second. The play just needed to be more suggest­ive of an opiated vision.

The actors themselves did not translate this state of mind althou^ Marina Bossov as the Scarlet Woman came closest. Greg Silverman as the Beast was physically impressive but diminished in the Beast's magnetism by too pacey a delivery that began to sound mechanical. Luigj Forzin in a cameo role of a Sicilian policeman was great.

The direction also under­cut the play's constant ironic humour because it was not sure-footed enough. It did not find focus in either the visuals or the text and you were left to ferret by yourself for Snoo Wilson's point of view. For all this it is slill the most interesting night of theatre that Bris­bane is offereing at present.

-DI PRIEST

THE CLUB: by David Williamson, produced by Nimrod Theatre, Spm, Her Majesty's Theatre (221 2777) closing 1 Sth March,

In The Club' William­son has turned his talents to a ^eat Australian in-stitution-the football club,

As theatre from Sydney's Nimrod Theatre, The Qub' is fat removed from the 'good sport' veneer of the football field, and con­sequently provides more in­terests.

Back-stabbing and 'big business' wheeling and deaUng are all part of its game-brilliantly brought to life by the ori^nal cast of talented actors from the Nimrod.

The ruthless Club ad­ministrator, Gerry (Jeff Ashley), Ted, the obstinate President (Barry Lovett) and Jock, the nard-nosed vice-president (Roa Haddrick) are the men of power in the club. Only one, Jock, has ever played first class football.

In the Committee Room plans are made to buy or sell footballers as if they ^ were new or worn-out machinery. Although they are the life-blood of the Club, neither the players nor the referee are con­sulted in its running-they are merely implements.

Traditional talk of honour and fair play in the sporting world ignores the underlying thrust for profit, motivation vital to pro fessional Club's survival. They're in it for the money, not just the love of the game or their club as they have us beUeve.

One of the play's greatest strengths is the way in which the characters are developed. As the play progresses, the dialogue forces the audience to keep changing perspectives, so that the hated become the loved, and friends-enemies. No character is static.

The best example of this is Ted, who is at first seen to be 'the villain', an auto­cratic president. He becomes a pitiful broken man, whose simple love of football has led hins to bankruptcy. t

Yet The Club in typical Williamson fashion is also full of great comedy, with some great caricatures of Australian footballers and supporters. Laughing at ourselves coufd well become a new national passtime.

It is worth seeing for the humour alone. David Williamson's scriptwriting rarely lets an audience down and the Club is no exception.

-DEE ISHMAEL

WHEN WE ARE MARRIED: By J.B. Priestley, produced by the Queensland Theatre Company, SGIO Theatre.

This is one of Priesfleyi comedies where satire is the underiying theme. Set m Yorkshire around the tui>. of the century, we see the chaos created when three most respectable middle-aged couples discover thdr marriages are invalid. The paison had not been officially qualified to pe^ form the marriage cere­monies, some 21 years pre­viously.

The starchy manner's of Edwardian north country England are cleverly sent up. The household servants and visiting tradesmen add great amusement to the

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ssiipsm msTisws confusion. The sedateness of the bourgeois household is thoroughly disturbed.

Fitst performed in 1938, the play is still relevant as a satire of genteel ed-wardian society. It is re­levant in much the same way that Oscar Wilde's plays are.

The QTC production pays great attention to

historical detail, in doing so the play alas is too much of an exercise in technique. Comic lines emphasise the getting of laughs to the detriment of satirical meaning.

Nevertheless it's a good production. Well worth seeing for the splendid re-duc ed price available for students. Roger Newcombe,

well known from his tele­vision work, is the best actor in his role as the dominated husband. NIDA graduate Ingrid Mason showed, in her portrayal of the spicy servant girl, what a few years at that most intensive school can do.

-JOHN DREW

TORA! TORA! TORA!

Kamakaze! Theatre Troupe.

A Mid-December meeting of socio-politco thespians gave bulh to Kamakaze! Kamakaze! considers itself the agit prop theatre arm of

the Civil Liberties Co­ordinating Committee. The major principles guidng the content and performance of kamakaze lie somewhere between: blatant propag­anda, irony as a revolution­ary act and friction being the mother of pearl.

Its most successful per­

formance to date had been to hoodwink the Special Branch and Queensland Police Force outside the Brisbane Magistrates Court where they staged the pro­cession of Christ into Jer­usalem on Psalm Sunday. Unfortunately for the Son of Man he was arrested in spite of the fact that he

claimed to have a permit. This performance managed to receive full coverage on all television networks.

Kamakaze! next played at the Learning Exchange's 'Ahepa HaU Dance. True to their bushido code and backed by the X-men (terrific) the Zen lunatics of Kamakaze! zeroed in courageously. Unfortun­ately in the ensuing melee two stukas and one pilot were destroyed by the actions of the West End punks. Wilting beneath a hail of beer bottles and broken microphones, Kama­kaze beat a tactical re­treat. This however will not deter Kamakaze from future missions. They will perform anywhere its director is reported to have said-parks, pavilions, piers, beats, bogs and backstreets.

Their style encompasses the indexical, the ironical and the symbolical. Its targets are rich profiteers, class traitors and their henchmen, opportunists etc.

When in town the cast and crew of Kamakaze stay at (he South Brisbane Watchhouse and travel courtesy of the Queensland Police Force.

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STOP PRESS: Cinekazc havt recently shot their first film entitled 'The love life of Eric Chen'.

-DIPRIEST

WrrCHES PIZZA R E S T A U R A N T : 139 Kennedy Tee., Red HiU (36 3838) BYO. ItaUan and Specialist meals, open 5-12pm. nightly except Wednesdays.

I find it pleasing to say that here is a restaurant with very little to critfcise and much to recommend.

Witches was brought to my notice by a friend and I am grateful for the many enjoyable nights I have suice spent there.

Besides the generally installed airconditioning and high quaUly of the food, rectified the problem), the first thing that im- h is easy to spend a pressed me was the relaxed, whole night eating, drinking cosy atmosphere of the and talking whilst receiving place. (Early in the piece very friendly service from this atmosphere wasn't the proprietors who make quite so comfortable be- every effort to please you. cause there was a real Your drinks arc kept smoke problem within the ice cold in a freezer, and room which always le- variations on the manner suited in sore eyes. How- in which your meal is made ever to their credit, foi- are welcomed (e.g. pizzas lowing some criticism, the are supplied with either owners, Liz and Steve HaU, plain or wholemeal dough,

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and the possible com­binations of ingredients are almost endless).

Prices for the three dif­ferent size pizzas range from S2J00 to $4.50 and there is a corkage charge of 20 . cents per person,

A specialty dish which I would recommend at least trying is Witches Magical Pizza (a closed pizza or calzone) at a price of $3.50. Have it with wholemeal fliour. . . you'll find it very filling and different from the cal-zones made in the Valley.

The Minestrone (Sl.SO) is worth tasting and also ask about the Boccocini ($3.50). The helpings for this latter dish are not all that big but it is very tasty especially with as­paragus fUling.

With each of these meals you can share a giant salad which really is an amazing sight, when it first arrives.. Jt is also saturated in a very flavoursome dres­sing.

To fmjsh off the night (if you at this stagie are trying to sober up or are still hungry), try the ex­ceUent range of reasonably priced, Italian icecreanis (e.g. lemon granita). The Ricotta Caffe with Tia Maria and cream is sUghtly more expensive but very enjoyable too.

The entertainment for the night is provided by watctiing Steve HaU ex­pertly throw pizza dough on to the ceiling. We wsre gomg to publish a photo of ^ but couldn't clean the flour and yeast off the camera lens in time.

Hard as it may seem to believe after having read this totally syco­phantic review I have never scored a free meal at Witches yet.

It really is a good night out.

-BRUCE DICKSON

CENTENARY POOL RiESTAURANT: Gregory Tee, Spring HiU (221 0483), Ample parking* BYO, Tropical and Caribbean meals, open Tuesday to Sun­day 6pm until 10pm, closed Mondays.

It really is a pleasure to be able to review a second restaurant for this issue which also provides Brisbane people with the opportunity for a highly enjoyable night out.

The Centenary Pool Restaurant is one of the new wave of international dish restaurants of which I have spoken before (See Semper, vol. 48 no. I).

The proprietors, John Stanwell, Bronwyn Nich­olas, Helen Hambling and Kevin Hayes have rather incestuous Unks with a number of other places round town, including The Red Hill Restaurant and the New Curry Shop (both wiU be reviewed in future issues).

The menu is rotated and can vary from night to night and week to week, however the favourites are prepared on most ni^ts. A very popular dish is the Stuffed Pot Roast Beef which is beef with olives, pepperoni, capers, raisins and prunes prepared in a sauce made of orange juice, chicken, capsicum, onion, garUc and carrots. (Did I say simpUcity?)

To experience the full range of dishes you would be better off going to see for yourself however I wiU name a few more to give you an idea of the varied types available.

You can order Eggplant Fritters (SI.60), cream of canot soup ($1.20),

lestaurants are a distinct ripolT price if you like to diink with youi meal), but also does not charge any corkage fee. Plus KC buckets are pro­vided for an patrons.

A few other extras com­plement the relaxed at­mosphere. Example, l^ees menu is basically meat based however vegetarian dishes will be pre­pared if requested. Another feature is the quick service with a minimal delay between couisei

Trees menu is a-la-carte with a difTeienoe. Instead of individual prices for each dish, an overall fee of $10 is charged. This is a bonus for eateis who like to plan their budgets. For that 510 you consume 4 couises. However, if you are the type of diner who is sated afier the fmt two courses (entree and main dish), then the $10 levy may be uneconomical fat you.

You have a choice of four entrees. I tried the Oiicken Livers Madeira which is sauteed in butter, liberally blended with a Madeira onion sauce and served on a bed of lice. In­cluded in the entrees is Eggs Moscovitch (caviar and sour cream) and Quiche Loiraine which I am told is quite de­lightful. GarUc bread i& a stand-

aid extra. For the main course, a

choice of 5 dishes is offered. I chose Fillet Mignon, which arrived bacon wnppcd with baked poUto and assorted fresh, hot vegeubles. Then up rolls a salad cart with such things as cuiried macaroni, waldoif salad, lettuce, tonutocs, cu­cumber and so on.

Also served with the n«in course is a range of tempting sauces. From talking to others, aU the beef dishes were tender and properly prepared.

Each week the chef cooks his specialty. The night I was there it was steak Dianne, other nights Veal Paprika and Chicken Almondine.

Still within the $10 1 tried Forbklden Apple fot dessert, nned with pahn dates, walnuts, honey, an orange sauce and whipped cream, other choices: Russian Cheesecake, Peach Supreme Chantilly or a cheese piatter. I couldn't complain.

Then as much Hawaiin Kona coffee as you can drink. Decor is modem and tasteful, with at toast enough room for privacy.

All in all reasonable value for $10, provided, that is , that you desire 4 courses.

-ROB CAMERON

But if you are having visions of a money hungry food chain which will soon rival Kentucky Fried and PUiiza Huts, then I have created a totally false im­pression.

Ihe contribution of all these people in providing Brisbane with altemative low priced but pleasant eating houses is some­thmg which deserves much greater recognition than diat.

Mangoes SouscaiUe (in chiUi and lemon sauce), an in­teresting meatloaf dish call pulpeta at $3.60, lemon Iamb S3.80, Iamb vnth peaches (How AustraUan can you get?-true patriots), beautiful banana fritters with rum cream $1.40 and fresh fruit punch.

I could go on but check it out for yourself. You will enjoy the friendly table service and the SO's/60's decor of the building. (It

tempos and such Uke, and quite honestly, it's come out a mess. They're point-int at something that just isn't there, and shouldn't be there-the inherent quaUties of simpUcity have been overlooked or plainly ignored. The result is that

Their latest effort The Centenary Pool Restaurant, which they reopened fol­lowing yeats of disuse and after beating a host of competitors for the lease, is speciaUsing in tropical and carribbean style dishes.

The reason for this is that they felt it was time tliose fniits and food mat­erials which are most suited to the cUmate in this part of the world could and should provide the basis for a local cuisine. . .so after a quick dip to beat the heat in the Olympic pool you have your chance to put their theory to the test.

If I was to give a blanket description to the meals at the Centenary Pool I would say they are care­fuUy prepared, wholesome, pleasing to the palate and

quite refreshing in their ^plicity.

was one of Brisbane's eariiest trendy modem buUdings).

-BRUCE DICKSON

TREES GALLERY RESTAURANT: 185 MoggiU Road, Taringa (370 8092) BYO, 6.30 - 1 2 pm (closed Mondays)

A pleasantly atmospher-ed middle price tange res­taurant is Trees GaUeiy Restaurant where the pto-prietor Bob WilUams offers many extra services which are most welcome.

Trees was estabUshed in January of this year. Being converted office space the restaurant kitchen equipment is all new and an inspection of the kit­chen shows more than adequate cteanUness.

Trees is BYO (Ucensed

PLASTIC LETTERS: Blondie (Chrysalis)

Right now, lookuig rehospecthely at Blondie's first album, it has all the earmarks of a mmor classic. Most everything about it was good; barely a bad song, no bum notes, and Debbie performing Uke the star she is. It was 'power pop' of a type unheard in maybe a decade.

Cynics might have said that Suriing, Spector and the Shangri-Las plus synthesizer equals Blondie, and while I wouldn't be that haish, tbe first album was aU their influences coming together at once, it established their roots and portioned them. They believed that a step forward could not be made without first coining to terms with their past. The second album would be the step forward, taking them uito the '80's.. . .

'Plastic Letters', then, is that, though it might better be described as a stumble rather than a step forward. It's a perplexing set, I'm sure only that I'm confused by it.

The first album was a soUd foundation to build upon, but 'Plastic Letters' has detracted from it en­tirely. Not only does it seem rootless, or at leasi usuie of it's roots, it's direction­less also.

This is an odd coUection of odd songs penned by various combinations of group members. Preoccupa­tions remain the same-cheap thriUs, B-movies, the radio, getting laid-it's just the package that's changed. Ifluences, uisphations, and points of reference dis­appear as quickly as they appear, it's only safe to say that it's commercial, sassy pop. It's disjomted the, as much as anything it it's instrumental ovcr-ambltiousness.

I think what Blondie have tried to do is get away from the some­times monotonous, there­fore boring, straightforward approach. They've opted for 'big' arrangements, changing

othervnse good song^ have been destryocd by in­strumental and anangemen-tal toying.

And the ironic thing is that the best numbers are not only the simplest, but also the most derivative-'Denis', rightfuUy the single, is pure Buddy Holly, and '(I'm AJways Touched By Your) Presence, Dear' is pure Byrds.

AU this would lead one to suspect that Blondie can be nothing more than a proficient revival group, and I know that's not right-it's Uke calUng Dr. Feelgood a revival group, anci that's ridiculous!

The groups first album was great, and very much contemporary in any terms. 'Plastic Letters', all thing? considered, reveals yet more potential. There are some very fertUc, albeit over-ambitious, imaginations at work here, and in parts, soin.e_mnst evocative, at­mospheric music. And Debbie's stiU got THAT voice.

Blondie are not a spent force. Let's not crucify them for this album-it was an exploration that failed, but one that may, ui the long run, turn out to be a necessary and important part of the group's evol­ution. Grab a copy of the sin^e, 'cos it's great, and look forward to the next album...

Iam. Cee Walker

GENTLE TO YOUR SENSES: Mel McDaniel (Capitol ST 11694)

Luckily for Nashville in particular and contemp­orary country music u general, a dedicated group of younger rouskrians and producers have started to make their presence felt in the last five yei'ts. People Uke Dennis Linde (who produced this LP), TompaU Glaser and BiUy Swan et al. have fought a rearguard

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ssMFsm msirisws actkin to recapture some of the authenticity and style countiy musK once enjoyed before Chet Atkins, Billy Shetrill and other numbeis men tried to achieve the big sales from 'crossovers' into the pop charts by taking countiy music up­town".

The resultant bland style dubbed "countrypolitan" by the critics is well known to most people through the music of such artists as OUvia Npwlon-John and later Chariie Rich.

Mel McDaniel's music is alive with the elements from which country music was originally built. He's not as raunchy as rockabilly singers like Gary Stewart or Johnny Paycheck with their hard drinkui', honky tonk style. Mel's your more meUow picker, voice as rich as matured bourbon, the kinda voice that gives you goose bumbs when he sing? of "bein' in love when we were young/makin' love when wc woke in the momin'". Aided by some crack session players like Jerry Shook, Cliip Young and Johnny Gimble, Mel takes us on an emotionally charged journey through love's labors lost and some­

times regained. He's not totally laidback however and knows how to boogie on, as ewnccd by his per­formances on "Roll YOur Own" (Nashville Ganja) and "Sould of a Honky Tonk Woman". To provide moments of levity, he docs a superb tongue in cheek

number called "Plastic Giri", which js about as good as any delineation of male, sexist values since TompaU Glaser's "Put An­other Log On The Fire". When Mel comes home early one night to find Wendy (his Ufe sized, wife sized plastic girl) in a coital trysl wilh his best friend Eari, he sings, "I never though Wendy would be the cheatin' kind/I didn't think Eari would let me down/but you never know in these crazy mixed up times/there's an awful lot of weirdos runnin* round."

Not as musically ad­venturous or sophisticated as i Mickey Newbery, not yet imbued with the styUstic experience of Way-Ion Jennings, Mel McDaniel is stiU doing very weU indeed, and I'm looking forward to his outing.

Max Hughes

CONSEQUENCES LOL CREME 8 KEVINGODLEY(Meituty)

I'm sure most people who read record reviews must have come across this tale, but for those who haven't if goes like this.

Once upon a time in the British Isles there was a rather classy pop band who caUed themselves 10 c c . (Hiere was a stoiy popularised ui the music press that this name was derived irom the average volume of human male ejaculation that arrives at any given whatever...a story I'm convinced is probably true).

Names askle, Messis. Stewart, Gouldman, Godley and Cremem produced a string of suites and albums notable for exceptional production, bright music, and the odd cryptk: lyric. Then one day a child was bom to Godley and Creme in the shape of a metallic object no bigger than a common fist; this chUd they christened "Gizmo".

Now this Gizmo is a gizmo thai clamps on to the blunt end of a guitar near where the strings stop. It has little doodads thai mechanically "bow" the guitar strings — aUowing the player to produce a continuous sustained lone on one or all strings. Wilh a Uttle imagination and careful reproductionit enables an electric guitar to become a reasonably facsimile of many things that it previously wasn't, from a single vioUn to a string orchestra, to a storm, a choir, etc. the rationale bcliind "Consequences" was that it be made lo show the world the marvels of this dcwce, and hopefuUy to convince every guitarist worth his/her licks lhat they jusl had lo have one.

The original intention was to produce a demon-sliallon E.P. - the project eventually became a triple

Godley and Creme chose an ambitious theme as a basis for the work.... the accompanying booklet describes "Consequences" as "The story of man's last defence against an irate Nature " - One wonders if even Wagner would be game to take this on. The theme does however allow the use of some very weU executed sonic structures and sound effects relating to the extremes of weather. These effects dominate the first part of the set, and employ experimental production techniques as weU as use of the Gizmo.

The drama of the opening statement then ebbs away as Peter Cook takes over. The English comedian scripted and produced a playlet that, while mildly amusing out of context, tends to lessen the impact of the story. Although a clever effort, using multiple tracking to produce all the voices and conver­sation, il is totally out of place on this album. Cook's play leads us to the final record, where one 'BUnt', the hero of the piece, performs his piano concerlo-"......an offering to counter balance the force of Nature's anger".

The trouble with this and most of the rest of the music on "Consequences"is lhat it sounds like it was written while the work was in progress, and while being interesting on its own terms, it pales beside the possibilities. Surely a work of this magnitude should be years in the making to succeed with more time spent in composition and more attention paid to developing melodies and structures that could capture more fully the dynamics and tensions impUed in the theme.

A word of praise must be given for the photography and artowrk in the albums booklet - perhaps the ex­pansion of these images into an animation accompanying the music would have been wothwhUe.

On the whole, a work of mixed strengths - not a failure, not a success. At over twenty doUars per boxed issue, I can't see it sweeping up the charts. One hopes that returns from Gizmo sales will help offset what must have been a massive production biU. I, at least, intend to gel one of the gadgets.

If you are a coUector, a rock archivist, or just curious, have a listen to "Consequences" - it's not all it hopes to be, but ut shouldn't be overlooked. As a final word (perhaps just to keep Phonogram happy), I have to say that I have found remaining 10 cc. members Stewart and Gouldman's latest effort, "Deceptive Bends", somewhat more listenable.

- SANDY POLLARD

The main criticism which can be leveUed though is that, whUe the album flows easUy and Mike doesn't hit any wrong notes, at no stage does the album really catch the imagination or reach out and grab you at a gut level-everytWng is just a little too much under control.

Probably the stand out track is an old blues tune call "You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond", on which the vocal con­tribution of Graham Lavendis (an old friend of Mike McCleUan's and ar­guably the best blues voice in AustraUa) really adds some fire and emotion.

The album is good but could never really be des­cribed as great", but then that is not McCleUan's style. His is the art of the laid back singer/songwriter and in this field he does well.

If that's your thing, then this album is cer­tainly to be recommended, and since Mike has recently been dropped by EMI this may be the last we will hear of him for some time, although there is talk of him heading for the States to try his luck there. We can only wish him luck and hope he does better there than here.

Ian Dearden

HURT: Chris Spedding (Rak)

To many duis Spedding Is famiUar only as the black leather dad greaser who played guitar for Biyan Feny, but to just as many more he*s almost a cult idol. As a session man he's played with all kinds, from John Cale to the Wombles, and it's reputation as such that eventually found hun with Ferry. Notwith­standing this *5uccess\ Chris Spedding still wants to be a star m his own right.

The man has said that it's his ambition to produce the perfect '3 chord, 3 minute, 3 verse' pop songs, and that he wants his albums to be Uke greatest hits coUections. 'Hurt' is the most recent in a long Une of attempts....

Unfortunately it's nothing Uke Chris Sped­ding's Greatest Hits. I fact, it's very average in any sense.

'Hurt' is a safe, un-adventurous album-rock approached in a time hon­oured fashion. The classic approach does not classic results necessarily make-the songs are short, fast and simple, but reaUy not very exciting because there's Uttle you haven't heard before.

Spedding Ukes to portray himself as he lone-wolf, rebel rocker, but these lyrics come across as Uttle more than decoration. His voice

is thin (and I know it's not deUberately deadpan this time), sometimes it even sounds like Bryan Ferry (in part due to Chris Thomas' pro­duction)!

But Spedding is re­cognised as a" guitarist, not a vocaUst, so what of his playing? It is, like the rest of the album, completely competent but unremark­able, lacking in real passion and intensity. Too clean, too neat.

And that's ,the whole problem with 'Hurt*. Within the framework Spedding's chosen there's little Scope for any real depth and feeUng, and if that's not his intention, if indeed he wants to produce nothing more than enjoyable, throw-away pulp,' then he's faUed again, because it's simply not strong enough.

Cee Walker

AN EVENING WITH MIKE MC CLELLAN-LIVE: Mike McClellan.

Mike McOellan is rated by feUow musicians and others in the know as probably one of the best acoustk: guitarists in Aust­raUa, and this Uve recording does not damage to his reputation in (hat respect. His voice b pleasant and easy to Usten to, and (he overall feel of the album is quiet and controUed ex­cellence.

BING CROSBY SINGS THE GREAT COUNTRY HITS: Bing Crosby (EMI)

Bingoes Bang, yahoo! You've got to laugh as over the air waves floats the 'crooning lonesome cowboy' style of Bing sing­ing the great country hits.

Real sentimental shiff. Doff your stetsons and

lay your Colt 45 aside because now is foot stomp-int and tear jerking nos­talgia time. "Shoot pardner, this coyote sure can wail."

There is not a word to describe the degree of com-merciaUty this record em­ulates. Incredibly putrid, soppy sopranos lend a gentle backdrop for Bings' soulful surrenderings to the true cowboy spirit. Then there are these bizarre lilting vioUns on 'every* track which reaUy make me want to have a boohoo. One can't help but reminisce about the time you had your heart stole away one moonUt night beneath the old corral. Shoot darn!

Lovely stuff but I have to take it off because the culture shock is too great. We're big kids now and there are horseless carriages and we don't carry guns(?) and we can't go riding off into the sunset and oh! shucks Bing it's just too old hat. Sob, Sob.

-A. STRACHAN

A WHOLE NEW THING: BiUy Preston (Festival)

Here's another album by Billy Preston, and Uke his others, it falls short because BUIy doesn't have the mus-kianiihip, songwriting nor the vocal ability to hit the big tune. StUl he is a sUck dude and his big hearty smile is a seller. Nice gouig BiU.

This album smacks of the Ukes of Stevie Wonder, Buddy Miles, Bog Bozzzz and even Leon RusseU as it winds its way about a number of musical styles.

In general BiUy Preston makes use of rocky riffs somehow inculcated in the disco idiom. There are lots of chord changes above the regular rhythmic pattern with sustained keyboard fiUing the gaps. To add diversity there are typical brass burbles here, there and everywhere which most 'musos' working in this field use.

This style of arranging does make the album in­teresting. However, I kept waiting for something to happen and it never did. A blasting guitar solo or some dynamic vocal dex­terity would have justified the bouncy and fairly com­plex arranging. This how­ever never happened and is this lack of imagination that separates Mr. Preston from his more successful contemporaries.

So in general the album offers nothing new except nice background and dance music. It is not what you'd caU poUshed as it doesn't have the rhythmic com­plexity to credit it as praisworthy funk, nor the hard drinng pound to get you stomping to good old rock and roU.

For the discerning Uni­vetsity coUegiate ear I suggest giving it a wide berth in Ueu of spending the time more profitably indulging in idle conver­sation with. lazy Arts students in the Refectory.

-A . STRACHAN

JO JO ZEP & THE FALCONS: LOUD & CLEAR (Oz)

The trend to gunmicky singles has been created whoUy and solely by new wa^ faiuticism attempting to push it into the charts. Picture sleeves, colored yinyl, 12" 45's, uncredited tracte-it's all been tried, and often worked.

The whole schmere is just beginning to hit Aust­raUa. The Skyhooks have just released a 12" single (though they're not the first-the Saints di4 it already in the UK), and now JoJo Zep and the Falcons have released 'Loud & Clear'-a Uve, 5 track, 12",45rpmEP.

JoJo Zep's brand of R&B is one that has suffered in the studio. They're a Uve group, and on 'Loud & Clear' they can reaUy flex theu mus-cles-thc whole thing is bouncy and as tight as any

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analogy you care to think of.

Of the five tracks, only two are group originals-Gary Young's 'Girl Across The Street', which is boring and rather siUy, and Joe CamiUeri's 'Riding In The

'Moonlight', which is better, don Covay's 'Young Girl' and Frankie MiUer's 'Aint Got No Money' are weU done, but my favourite

• track is 'Honey Dripper', the Joe Liggins boogie standard, which reaUy swings (in a jazz sense).

Probably the best way to describe 'Loud & Clear'

would be to say that it's •everything on record that JoJo Zep are Uve.

I would only Uke to hope that the Sports get to cut a record like it. . .

Cee Walker

ROCK 'N' ROLL AGAIN: The New Com­mander Cody Band (Arista A L 4 1 2 5 )

Good to see the "Commander" (george Frayne) back in action a-gain, with a new band and a new record labe. Let's hope he finaUy achieves the dusive commercial success he's wori(ed so hard for,

these last ten years. Always something of an outlaw and eclectk:, he has dabbled ui a lot of different musical styles from westem swing, country rock and blues to straight ahead rock V toll. He has expressed an intense disUke in the past for the hip easy Ustenmg style of the L.A. formula country rock sound. This LP certO ainly beats no resemblance to that genre, so Cody has definitely not sold his musi­cal integrity to catch the easy, surefire way to success' a la Eagles.

On Rock 'n' RoU Again, Cody's funky blues piano sets the pace for his soUd group of players. Not the

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most echnicaUy briUiant vocalist, he compensates with loads of fecUng, inject­ing the music with an un-mistabakle joie de vivrc by way of his wicket nuances and gutsy growUng timbre.

Producer John Alcock has used brass and strings to good effect, construct­ing a soUd platform on which Cody can buUd his no-nonsense rock sound, his vocals being heartUy butt­ressed by the work of his two harmony singers Nicolette Larsen and Charra Penny.

Some searing guitar solos alternate wUh punchy sax Unes, executed by Darius Javaher and Cisco G. res­pectively. Craig Chaquico from Jefferson Starehip con­tributes some aurally chaU-enging lead guitar on "Where Were You". The mix is a bit harsh on top session steel player Bobby Black, whose presence in the line up is hard to spot. It's the most ob­scured pedal steel I've faUed to hear since Buddy Cage's appearance on Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks".

One track off the album "Seven-Eleven" made the singles charts in the US. It's a soUd rocker on the theme of shopUfting, whose lyrics caused some con­troversy to the point where Cody is said to have altered one verse in order to de-glamorise the state of this urban art. "Six Years on the Road" was my favourite track, its meUow piano and vocals suggesting a feeUng of cosmic exhaustion pro­duced by the tortuous Ufe­style of a travelling musi­cian. "Midnight Man" re­iterates the old blues theme of the late night lover man comin' round again to thriU the pants off yet another "lucky" lady. "Widow" addresses the problem of the woman left at home whUe her old, man is out on the road playing his rock 'n' roU across the country.'Danny' is a eulogy to a friend whose bright eyes and personal vivacity are finally ex­tinguished by his procUvity for the needle and spoon. "Rock 'n' RoU Again", the title track, teUs Cody's own story of his decision to make a comeback after the break up of his pre­vious long standing band The Lost Planet Airms) a lot of his faithful foUow­ing wanting to hear the ex-Ufeguard, ex- painter-artist, ex-Midwest Tavern brawler, do his thing again. WeU, C.C, you've come back, keep the good songs roUing in.

Max Hughes

ALL FOR A REASON: Alessi (Festival)

With the lineup on this record you'd think you were about to be knocked out by pure style. What a thrill to see such ri^ tuosos as the Brecker Bro­thers, Steve Gadd, David Sanborn, David Spinoza etc. m the backmg band. Alessi however don't carry it off

The music on this album basicaUy incorporates old standard disco rhythms and Ucks. The backing is im­

peccable but the arranging doesn't aUow it to expand which is a pity because the song writuig is good. Maybe the Alessi Brothers are striving to be too commer­cial.

Pleasant vocals teU us about the hardships of Ufe and the pursuit of Miss Right, the ideal woman. These are a couple of love sick crooners using a laid back melodic 'feel' for their whimperings. (The old com­mercial success recipe.)

One track which does stand out is Air Cushion. it has exceUent backing and like some of the other

tracks incorporates that exciting complex rhythmic structure that seems to be the trade mark of disco or funk. Also throughout the album are the occasion­al guitar solos, which are very good, and the exceUent brass section of the Brecker Brothers.

These latter features redeem the album and it is defmitely worth listening to from the pouit of view of hearing the Ughter, more pleasant side of commercial music infused with superb backing.

~A. STRACHAN

'ROBERT CrORDON WITH LINK WRAY': (Private Stock)

Robert Gordon was once lead vocaUst for the Tuff Darts, a New York group of Max*s/CBGB's circuit fame. He left that quite promising position because his heart simply wasn't ui smgmg 6O's/70's style rock. Robert Gordon's real passion was pure, un­adulterated 5^\ rockabUly.

It's funny that his debut album should come at this time-ui case you hadn't noticed (and you probably haven't), the worid is currently enjoying some­what of a rockabiUy revival. Companies Uke Sun are reissuing their rockabiUy catalogues, and, especially in the UK, there are quite a few young rockabUly groups.

Some of the English groups, -lUce Shakin' Stevens or the Whiriwinds, are quite good, but many of them are interested only in cul­tivating and continuing the Ted's image. Robert Gordon is an American who probably doesn't even know what a teddy boy is-his music is the product of no less than a love of the genre. Maybe he is caught in a time warp, but as he says, he's not trying to recreate something, this is the way he reaUy feels.

Gordon has made this record as though it was the SO's, he's even got the help of a genuine SO's reUc/legend/boyhood idol, Lmk Wray, on guitar.

It's not a great album, but then it's not bad either.

Gordon's voice is suit­able, Wray's playing is ex­

ceUent, the band bouncy with just that right amount of looseness, and though I am one who beUeves that sophisticated equipment and techniques can be det­rimental to a music Uke this, the sound is quite good.

The material is a mix­ture of old and new, but the best and most auth­entic numbers are oldi» Uke BiUy Lee RUey's 'Red Hot' and 'Flying Saucer's Rock'N'RoU* and Cari Perkins' 'Boppin' The Blues'. Link Wray's com­positions (Gordon doesn't write) are more modern and countryish, not as vital in comparison.

'Red Hot' and 'Flying Saucer Rock N' RoU' stand out as the best songs though-thcy're the wUdest; note that wUdness is criteria for good- rockabiUy. But StUl, something has been lost between 1957 and 1977, I suppose you could say it's the naivete (cliche), and no matter how hard you try it'U never be the same.

As any patron of Mel­bourne's Hound Dog Bop Shop will teU you, what's the point in Ustening to Robert Gordon's 'Red Hot' when you can stiU hear BiUy Lee Riley's original. I agree, but I do feel there's a place for Robert Gordon, and that's in 1978.

If you've ever heard rockabilly, and you Uke rock N' RoU, you'U pro­bably love Robert Gordon. If you Uke Robert Gordon, the try Elvis' 'Sun Sessions' album, and if you Uke that, then. . .weU then, you're hooked...

Cee Walker

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BRIGHT RED: Red Hot Peppeis (OZS: 1007)

First heard teU of dieae people fnmi a New Zealand friend who had seen them playing m Ouistchurch. Her rep<Mts suggested quite an excituig and different combo. Lo and behold that they should mi^te to come play ui Aussie and foUow the foot­steps of Split Enz and Dragon. It was qith quite a deal of antkipation and excitement that I popped

their fust LP on the turn­table.

All the members of Red Hot Peppers are versatUe to say the least, one Robbie Laven contributuig his mul­tiple musical talents on some twenty different in­struments on this album.

Their lead singer Marion Art J, has a charming voice (not unUke Maria Muldaurs) wliich is equaUy suited to sweet country bluegrass numbers as it is to toichy jazz baUads. On a section of a three part suite titled "Summer Solace", Maffon works over the Lennon/ McCartney song "I've Just Seen a Face" which lends itself well to an up tempo bluegrass treatment with Robbie Laven contributing a superb fiddle break.

Apart from "I've Just Seen a Face" and an old jug band standard "Heebi;. Jecbies", all the other tracks were vmtten and ananged

by the band. Production and en­

gineering were immaculately handled by Melbourne studio whiz lap MacKenzie, imparting and presenting the music with a crystal clear, sharp yet soUd sound and feel. This rich texture and clarity should appeal to a wide audience, and it is to be hoped that the band is promoted by their record label in a way that will achieve this. They are cer­tainly distinctive in the AustraUan musical mUieu. I would strongly urge 4ZZZ-FM to play this record as much as possible, and to get theh promotional act together and bring The Red Hot Peppers up to Brisbane so we can catch them Uve. the "Shaky Isles" loss is AustraUa's gain.

Max Hughes

JOHN PETER RUSSELL-AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONIST: On Exhibition at Univeisity Art Museum, Univeisity of Queensland, until March 19.

John Peter RusseU is not a truly AustraUan artist, da ims that he is are presumptuous. It is the question of when does an artist achieve national identity. By his birthright or his work?

Compared to the Heidleberg school of Australian impressionists who struggled to develop an authentic AustraUan unage ui the world of art, RusseU may weD have been conadered as a contemporary as an unpress-ionist, but not as an Australian. Rarely in RusseU's work is the richness of McCubbin, Roberts or Streeton to be found. The broad open spaces of "AustraUa FeUx" are replaced by somewhat claustrophobic and embarrassed strokes, which ghe a van Goghian style ihather than personal RusseU.

Imprisoned by an im­pressionistic style, RusseU uses Mediterranean tones to give a gentle portrayal of his microcosm. The use of blues, mauves and greens aUows him to take frequent, almost repetitive looks at the seaside. This is no doubt related to the island home off the French coast where the artist Uved for a few years.

The portrait of van Gogh, a friend of RusseU, and other protraits, bring reUef lo the constancy of colour and style that emerges in many of the seas and landscapes.

honicaUy, it was van Gogh, and other French impressionists, who in­fluences RusseU's style and technique, and yet RusseU chooses to use a pr&-im-pressionist portrait style, quite different to van

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Gogh's innovative work with portraits {e.g. "Port­rait of Lieutenant MiUiet", September 1888).

The exhibition is by no means cheap or overrated. It represents a fine example of impressionistic'art in a European context. Fine contrasts of technique and style present glunpses of what may have been a great coUection of works had it not been for RusseU's preoccupation with strick impressionist oU-colour technique. Perhaps this is because he saw his art more as a rich mans hobby, and thus felt less the need to come to grips

with a wider perspeclive of styles and form.

Water-colour impressions of AustraUan objects-"Quarry Sydney, 1920"-allow the more abstract "Aussie" in RusseU to lay itself bare. SimUariy examples of his sketching and the tasteful works of the suspended beauty of his blossoms, allows RusseU's audience to share in his aesthetic vibrations.

This is an exhibition of contrasts and colour. Des­pite some superficiaUty in content, it is a show worth seeing.

-MARCUS BREEN

THE WILD AND WOOLEY COMIX BOOK: Edited by Pat WooUey. (Wild & Wooley, Sydney) $5.95.

AustraUan Underground Comix by Ian McCausland-NeU McLean-Martin Sharp-Phil Pinder-Lauren Ols­zewski and Pioter Olszewski-Gerald Carr-Emte Althoff and Peter Andrew-Peter LiUie-Peter Dickie-David Potter-Jon Puckridge-Bob Daly-Greg and Grae-Dan Bromlev.

The WUd & WooUey Comix Book is AustraUan 'underground' comics pub­Ushed in this country.

The sources for much of the material have been some of our great but (sadly) now defunct independent newspapers including Oz and The Digger.

Pat WooUey, a comic fanatic, was responsible for compUing the coUection. Besides this AustraUan material, she has in her coUection over SOO original issues of underground comics from America, Eng­land and HoUand.

WhUst some of the ca^ tooning in this book has achieved an often rough, but original style, much of the remainder seems to have been influenced by the American 'head' cartoonists including Gilbert Shelton, R, Crumb & Co. These have a heavy emphasis on stoned humour and the 'dope' vision (version?)

However a feature of these comics when they are al their best is their satirical edge and their abiUty to give the honest version of what is going through' people's heads regardlesss of whether this may super ficiaUy paint them as male chauvinists, poUtical react­ionaries, etc.

If you are into poUtics and have your own hardened version of a 'correct poUtical/ideologjcal line' then no doubt the content of many of these so caUed 'underground' comics wUl appear rather dubious.

However in my opinion they seem to tread a healthy but rather fine Une between reinforcing some of our worst social attitudcs(racist, sexist, etc.), and cuttuig through the complexities of poUtical theorising and rhetoric which dominate many people's minds.

There is a need for us not to deny those more basic and honest responses which we often conceal in particular social settings in order to keep face with our chosen peer groups,

The WUd and WooUey book features cartoons

which treat male and female sexuaUty in a way which a few years ago many would have found offen­sive (and which some notorious Queensianders stUl do!) yet there is a refreshing honesty in much of it.

OveraU if some of the content does occasionally fit the 'mindless' catagory, other cartoons in a humour­ous and highly visual manner attempt to convey a better understanding of the dilemmas and traumas

wc are often confronted with.

Carol Porter's cartoon, "Another Day, Another...' which is reprinted in this issue of Semper is only one example of this.

That cartoon obviously raises the question of jusl how often women are stereotyped by men as 'moody bitches' purely because they refuse to tolerate sexual objectificat­ion by men.

-BRUCE DICKSON

gone back on the spiral to the preindustrial community to create, on a higher plane with the most advanced scientific and spiritual thought we can achieve, the planetary, meta-industrial viUage. . . so now we need to dance out the death of indust­rial civilisation and ex­perience, not its painful, apocalyptic destruction, but its joyous, miUennial

destruction. And if we cannot, then we wiU not create our destiny, but be forced to endure our

fate." If you don't beUevc

him, I can't exactly blame you. He gives his references at the back, and you can get a copy of 'Passages' in the bookstores for about 75 cents. Happy reading.

-MARK HAYES

"EVIL AND WORLD Irwin Thompson, (Harper $3.25.

ORDER": William and Row 1977),

WiUiam Irwin Thompson cannot write anything that doesn't provoke thought and speculation. Like Theodore Roszak and Arthur Koestler, he is a cultural historian and more, a polemicist for whaf he sees as the enormous cultural changes occurring in our civilisa­tion.

Even more convincing, he has set out, via the Lindis-fame community on Long Island, N.Y., to reverse those trends in a creative way by delving deeply into the mythic and cultural detritus of history for lost know­ledge and information.

Tliis is a recurring theme in his work from "At the Edge of Hisfory" (1971) "Passages about Earth" (1973) and his most recent "Darkness and Scattered Light" (1977).

"Evil and World Order" is a coUection of essays and introductions to books he has written over the last few years and pubUshed in sources as diverse as 'Tlie New York Times', Tulane Drama Review,', and Tlie New Alchemy Journal.'

GreU Marcus, in a recent in a report, but in the review of 'Darkness and living culture of the corn-Scattered Light' in Rolling munity of Findhorn'. Stone, said that Thompson This is aU heady stuff, describes Lindisfarne as a and 1 tend to agree with 'contemplative education him. I, too, get leery devoted to the study of when I read reports from reaUsation of a new planet- learned foundations funded ary culture.' Marcus, in the with blood money from deUghtful cynicism which the miUtary caUuig for 'a RS reserves for everything hoUstic perspective on life; except Mick Jagger, com- entaU an ecologic ethic; mented that 'that is the entaU a sclf-reaUsation ethic, sort of description that . .'But 1 get very normaUy makes mc reach apprehensive as he praises for my Sex Pistols album, David Spengler's "Revclat-if not my revolver. . . ion: The Birth of a New But Thompson pulls it off. Age." He grabs me by the short Spengler is an unashamed and hairies, and doesn't elitist, which is not too let go,' bad, but his cUtism mani-

His introductions to fests in an intensely ob-'Findhorn' are the most scure statement on New interesting. Thompson Age energies and the rise takes two extremes: Stan- of a higher form of man ford Research Institute at ^ith evolved consciousness. Menlo Park in CaUfornia, Thompson's appologia and Findhorn in northern for that is to say that Scotland. At SRI they talk 'cultural transformations do to important people in the not proceed in easy trans-world, itions; they move in

At Findhorn, they talk quantum leaps, and only to plants. To really app- a conversion experience or reciate Findhorn, which he a revelation can give one regards very favourably, you the energy to leap across must read 'Changing Images the abyss that separates of Man', which is PoUcy one worid view from an-Report 4 from the Centre other.' That's the hole for the Study of Social into which every apologist PoUcy at SRI. The in- for something runs when terestuig tlung about up against the wall. SRI, which sucks $6 mUlion The first essay, "Medi-from the US Defence De- tation on the Dark Ages, partment annuaUy, and Past and Present", is a good Findhorn, which operates introduction which opens in harmony wUh elves and up Thompson's arguments devas, is lhat they arc in a succinct way. "At headmg for the same con- the Edge of History" pre­clusion, scnts the same points more

Thompson is amused by expanded and developed, this, saying that 'the ad- but this essay is interesting ministrators of the Kettcr- for its brevity and pro-ing Foundation who granted vocativcncss. SRI the quarter mUlion 'CivUisation is lurching (which funded the PoUcy to another Dark Age. In Report 4) would be horri- this dark age wiU remain fied by, 'The Findhorn smaU communities, Uke Garden' and could not see Lindisfarne, deUberately that the new world view named after the earUcr and the new image of man community of monks in are already embodied, not Scotland, which 'have

THE EXCHANGE HOTEL: ATCHERLY HOUSE

So you wanna see some Uve rock'n' roll? In Brisbane? Think again, kid.

In Melbourne there is a thriving pub scene; you can see top Une groups just down the road at the local. And in Sydney there is any number of theatres, wine bars and clubs that feature live entertainment But In Brisbane-zUch. DuUsviUe.

So it certainly did arouse my interest when 1 heard of new plans for the Excliange Hotel. Fomierly the home of Moose Malone and the Country Cas.sanovas, it was now to become Bris­bane's first 'new wave' nightspot. The Survivors were booked for the 'gala opening', as weU as which we were promised constant jukebox sounds.

WeU, it hardly turned out that way....

When 1 arrived, mid-evening, I found the Sur­vivors standing on the foot­path outside. They ex­plained that they weren't aUowed to play because they're not members of the Musicians Union (which is understandable considc^ ing they'd never played in a union controUed^ situa­tion)-somehowL-the Union got wind of this, and banned them. Accepting that, begnidgingly, I was StiU curious to see what was going on.

Like the Survivors, I'd got the impression that this was going to be a 'new wave' venuc-I'd expected to find masses of madly pogoing punks. Instead I found a disco Uke any other disco in town. No punks, no nothing. Perhaps it was better that the Survivors didn't play, be­cause this audience would­n't know how to take them.

If ever there was a non-event, this was it.

Which was in com­plete contrast to just a few weeks later, at the Atcheriey House.

The Atcheriey is a rather unusual place; a private hotel which has, in it's basement, a large room with a bar at one end and a stage at the other. It's caUed the Citadel, and had been operating a Uttle while as a venue for blues bands. The Survivors were ap­proached and asked to play there; they agreed.

The Citadel was seething with punks. Every one in Brisbane (about 100) turned up lo see the local heroes. It's funny that punks should take the Survivors into their hearts, 'cos they're hardly 'punk' as you might im­agine it. BasicaUy they're a pop group; what endears them to the punks is that their roots are recognisably punky enough-the Who, Kinks, Move, Small Faces, 6O's Brit-pop in general.

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Their Uve sound might not be unfairly described as a much poppier, eatly Eddie and the Hot Rods.

At the atadel the Sur­vivors deUvered a typicaUy robust set-they're ex­ceUent musicians, but they don't let that get in the way of having fun. They can always be fun, every­body had a good time. And as an added bonus, the Velvet Underground's favourite sons, Brisbane's own Leftovers, took the stage and played a couple of numbers, which was line untU an amp blew up.

The Citadel organisets should have been weU pleased with the night-the place was packed, a con­trast to the handfuls that ever turned up to see the Union Blues Band. WeU,

they must have been pleased, became the Sui vivors were asked back.

The foUowing week, they returned. This night went much the same, untU a few punks decided to throw furniture about The whys and wherefores of which I'm not sure, I only knov the result was that the Citadel has stopped bookuig 'new wave' groups.

So, you've got no­where to go again. Wliatcha gonna do? WeU, you can always go out and smash up telephone boxes. . . .

(By the way, if you're interested, the Survivors fint single, 'Baby Come Back' is soon to be re-released by Suicide Records, and the Leftovers debut single may soon be released, if aUgoesweU).

-CEE WALKER

PUNK (From page 10)

nuuDrtttectn rock scenis wilh its stereotyped female stars: Joni Mitchell as vulnerable romantic, Janis Joplin as downtrodden blues mamma, Linda Rondstadt as sex kitten of rock.

But Punk, has its poten­tially feminist dimension as weU. There arc all-women bands like the Slits and Xray Spex, who, while not ex­plicitly feminist, have rejec­ted the alienated rock star and groupie syndrome. Poly Styrene of Xray Spex notes she has few hangers-on: " 'Cos 1 don'l put on a sex thing, they probably think I'm a dyke anyway."

More articulate is America's Patti Smith who has established herself as cen­tral to current rock. A poet and reggae inspired anar­chist, she comments on freedom of expression and the music industry. "We believe in the total freedom of communication and we will not be compromised. Freedom means exactly that; no limits, ho boundries... rock and roll is not a colonial power to be exploited."

The impact of the Tom Robinson Band; whose theme tune is "Glad to be-Gay," represents another blow to Punk sexism. As con­scious supporters of Gay Liberation and feminism, Ihey are more coherently radical than most Punk groups. Their line: "Op­pression destroys individual as well as political Uberty."

With such contradictory elements, it's no wonder that Puiik has yet to crystallize as a coherent movement to change society. Punkers don't quite know where they're going, but at least they have an inkling of how to get there. As Tony James of Generation X says:

"We wrote the songs, SQ why have another guy sing them? Sing them yourself, which is what Punk Rock is about. Do it yourself!"

&nux FROM THE WILD & WOOLLEY COMIX BOOK (REVIEWED ON PAGE 25)

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2B SEMPER, March 15.197&

Goodbye Strad­broke?

(From page 5)

for children to leave for school at 6 am as benefits of the bridge that would accrue on top of tourist opportunities.

On the other hand, local resident GaU BeU said:

'I may be under a mis­apprehension here, but 1 beUeve that government is a servant of the majority. So as to be consistent with [the surveys] the govern­ment must be against the bridge also. According to the reports thus far, it would be a mistake on my part to assume this to be the case.'

'EnUghtened people see great tourist potential in Stradbroke Island depend­ent on 3 things.

'Firstly, uniqueness-that is, not a duplication of the Gold Coast Secondly, main-tainuig the present quality of Ufe-tranquUity, freedom and the absence of major crime on the streets and beaches. Thirdly, ensuring the survival of our unique flora, fauna and tourist attractions.

'Of course, the key to these and to Stradbroke's future is to keep it an island at all costs.'

Local Shire chairman Dick Woods spoke strongly for the proposed bridge, saying that his councU wanted to open up the surf beaches to the Bris­bane pubUc.

Queensland Conservation CouncU spokesperson Daryl BeUingham pointed out that

" the State Govemment cUuned to be committed to the principle that a potential. developer had to prove that development would not be 'detrimental' to the environment In this case, he said, the onus of proof seemed to be on the residents and conservation­ists, not the potenUal de­velopers. •

No resolution came from the meetuig. Minister Russ Hinze said that his depart-

. ment would now conduct an' environmental impact study and would call an­other meetuig in 4 to 6 months time.

Equal Chance? On the surface, the

pubUe meeting to discuss the Stradbroke Bridge seemed to give both sides an equal chance to- put their point of view.

But it wasn't quite like that

Minister Hinze obviously supports the scheme, as do local poUticians and some business groups.

Main - Roads Department officen gave a balanced report of . possible alter­native routeS for tlie bridge, intended land use, and en­vironment problems. They

' certainly seemed to present a good pubUc service sum­mation of the issues in­volved.

However, presentation is inedla, and media creates consciousness. The de­partmental briefing, because

it was so slick, so weU organisedr-witb cinema screen sUdes, 3 micro­phones, artists' impressions of the bridge, coloured maps, and the bulldog­like Russ Hinze as a sort of obese Paul Sharrat acting as compere/Democratic Logie winner-was undoubt­edly the most effective pre­sentation of the meetuig.

The department, under ministerial direction and no doubt inspired with the ideal of building bridges and loads like roman aqua-ducts, would certainly have overwhelmed any peison who came as an unuiform­ed party.

Although it is probably inevitable that the mystifying technologies of the media wUl always be used in a surreptitious fashion to propagandise the innocent bystander, it is a pity that the people who live on and visU Stradbroke couldn't have access to an equal technology to put their case.

Two basic inadequacies in the Main Roads version of the new suburban Strad­broke tended to be ob­scured by the whiz-bang projectois, microphones, and reports.

The first, and lesser prob­lem is that whenever things Ukc sewage disposal, or erosion due to road con­struction were mentioned, the Main Roads people could only say that they didn't know what they were going to do. However the technolo^es existed, they said. This isn't terribly reassuruig when problems poUute the bay, tamt fish, or make land untenable, have to be faced.

The second reservation felt by many of the people at the meeting was that, although only few areas are at present intended for urban use, monstrous tracts could be in the future.

These areas are presently zoned 'non-suburban' be­cause they are stiU being used by the sand miners, but the department admits that they could be re­considered later.

If the bridge is built, the most optimistic result wUl be 3 or 4 settlements connected by highway to the southern bridge. The possibiUty stUl exists, how­ever, for the present non-urban land to be made, into suburbs.

In which case, goodbye Stradbroke.

Mr. Hinzc's seeming im-PBrtiaUty~on the Stradbroke Bridge issue is confusing. It is neither his style nor his politics. From the Courier MaU 7/8/77:

'Stradbroke Is. will be connected to the mainland by bridge. That's the very definite message the Main Roads Minister Mr. Hinze gave at a speckd conference at Parliament House. As far as Mr. Hinze is con­cerned the bridge will be built.'

Three months later he was quoted as saying 'the bridge is not certain to be built.'

The opinion of one pun­dit was that the environ-mentaUst groups, coupled with the obvious wishes of both residents and visit­ors, is too powerful a lobby to ignore. By con­ducting a pubUc debate, the Minister can then mike his decision for the brkige within the air of demo­cracy.

FOABC Hold Conference on Media

The Friends of the ABC, (Qld) hdd a very sue-, cessfu] conference at the New Botankal Gardens on Saturday, 4th March.

Papers were deuvered on a wide range of aspects of the media and the ABC. Marius Webb, the most progressive of the current Commissioners flew up from Sydney to give one of the opening addresses.

TOPICS COVERED

Pressures on the ABC both internal and extemal. The Links between the ABC and the Community, The Broadcasting Systems

of Sweden, Britain, The Netheiaaflai, and 0SA', and ;hypothetical' models for AustraUa were dis­cussed.

PAPERS TO BE PUBLISHED

The standard of research in each paper was exceUent Copies of each talk wUl be pubUshed soon (most lUcely late April,early May) and wUl be available from Marjorie Roe, Audio Visual Services, Undergraduate Library, University of Qld, St. Lucia. 4067.

Any people interested Ul jomuig FOABC can also use the same contact point.

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GRAFFITI OF THE MONTH AWARD

One of the best toUet graffitis we've seeii' hi a long time: "Women are ctUed birds because of the worms they pkk up."

NAME OF THE GAME

IPSWICH RD. BUSTS

Hitdihikcn oa Ipewich Road watch out Lately there's been a ttep-ap io poBce acthity, whereby marked isad unourked police cm are atopi^g hitcbhiken and busting them for small amounts of camublB.

Major reshuffles in .the Telegraph newspapers have an ominous* significance for impartial poUtical reporting in Queensland. Not that the AustraUan media is noted for It's honesty in this area of the news.

Ace political roundsman Ian MiUer has been shoved out of the position upstain to features writer without promotion in grading fol­lowing criticism that his stories were "too critical." Readeis may recaU how the editois canceUed his Wednesday column during the election campaign last year because it was con­sidered "too political."

Features writers usuaUy are given a Super A Grade, but Millar was not pro-, moted. '; '•

His positioh as poUtical roundsman' has been given to Chris LandsdeU whose last job was PubUc Rel­ations ' Officer for the National Party during the last State and Federal elections.

At least Alan CaUaghan wiU be happy.

AJA President Quentui Dempster is also understood to be furioiis not over the Millar removal but also over his own demotion back to the Industrial round.

THE MISSING PAGE

Natfon Review corres­pondent Denb Reinhardt, who has the dubk>u3 |dea-suie of communicating the state of QueenaUnd to the test of the lutkin, recently toM the story of an affair of the heart and more between i govemment Mbilster and i femal poll.

In t^e Queensland Par-lismentary Library, (hat page h n been ripped out.

An iropoftant part of Mt. laa'a history has gone missiDB.

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LONGER HOURS-SHORTEfl TEMPER

ConfUct has arisen within the inner sancUons of state Cabinet Charles Porter, the new Liberal mUiister often backs Premier Joh bpt not, it seems, on the issue of extended trading hours for Brisbane retaUcns. One' shopkeeper says Charles came in to purchase some detergent. The shopkeeper asked hhn if he was in favour of what his favourite Premier is fiercely lobbying for. "I'm definitely not", ssid Oiaries and walked out of the shop looking angry.

SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RELATIONS REPORT

' The AustraUan CouncU of Churches Executive Com­mittee, meethig in Sydney,

.has_ welcomed the pubUc­ation of the Report of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships.

The Council's Executive Committee agreed to "congratulate the Com­missioners for theu thought­ful and extensive work in discovering and highUghtuig areas of need and concem in human relationships in Australia".

The resolution stated that "whUe not committing ourselves to the support of every recommendatbn we commend the report for its recognition of the diveisity of human experience in Australia." The CouncU also caUed on the Govemment to estabUsh a committee composed of Govemment and non-Govemment per­sons to promote wide pubUc consideratioii of the report.

Interesting comment from writer Craig McGregor (editor of a compUation book oil Bob Dylan) after he interviewed Dylan in Brisbane last Sunday for a Southern newspaper: "He's, easy to taUc to but that might be because I no-lon^r care too much about him. I'd rather he asked me questions." McGregor was tiie only joumo Dylan would talk to 80 far in AustraUa.

UNEMPLOYED WORKERS UNION

The newly-formed Un­employed Worken' Union is asUng to be admitted to the Trades and Labour CouncU.

In a submission which was presented to the

TLC on Tuesday, March 14, the lOO^trong UWU

' requested that they be sUowed to use facU­ities at Trades HaU, be notified of retrenchments so that the newly unem-. ployed can be enroUed, and that unemployed work­ers be aUowed to retain their union membership without paying fees, where possible.

the latest figures put Queensland's unemploy­ment at 63,846 or 8.59% of the workforce. This is the highest in AustraUa ' and represents 23 persons for each job vacancy.

UWU Treasurer Ray • Quumsaid that the union . would take poUtical action in an attempt to force the goveminent to cease using unemployment to fight in­flation, and social action to remove the stigma of un­employment

Mr. Quuin said,"We in­tend to set up a grievance centre as a contact point for the unemployed and as an organising base for the union.

Information on the rights of the unemployed under the Social Security Act wUl also' be distributed through the centre."

Membership of the UWU is free.

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ApparenUy promote) doubt Parker and CosteUi could fiU a big haU {1. so this trip wUl be a pn Umuiaiy for somethin bigger later on.

New York gutter rockei Parker is a brUUant Uv( act, and CosteUo, a on< time early member of thi Sex Pistols, is taking ofj here in a big way foUl owing EMI's Australian pr motion of his album M Aim Is Triie.

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PREMIER TRIES TO STOP DRUG INQUIRY

Last week Premier Joh Bjelkej'etersen tried to halt the Natkinal Drug in­quiry for a few days.

He rang Judge WUliams, who is holding the inquiry, in an attempt to obtain the services of Mr. Cedric Hampson, a lawyer assist­ing the country-wide drug probe.

The Premier wanted Mr. Hampson to act on his behalf daring the FuU Court appeal in the conspiracy case against hhn.

The case arises out of Mr. BjeUce-Petersen's •quashing of an Investiga­tion into the batoning of i student dating a demon-sttatkminI976.

Apparently . he , rang Judge wnUams to isk Mm to' halt the inquh^ so that Mr. Hampson could have a

, few days to represent him hi tbe case.

His attempts ' were thwarted when the pro-

' secutton lawyers in the con--spitscy case refused to sgiee to a fixed date for a hearing. •dtrM^MMtirCtititittrirdir^

DOLE COMPUTER FREAKS OUT

In a belated response to tbe Crazy Grszleis caU to aack down on so^caUed dole bludgers, the Social Service Computer here hi Brisbane fUpped its loyal lid over tiie Xmas-New Year break-and wiped sU recipients of unemployment benefits here in Queerulsad from its memory bsnks.

If you tUnk that is funny, you should have been tm the receiving end, a wait fot up to 6 weeks for the delayed money to come through.

Naturany, landlotds wete extremely tderant and your children would have enjoyed the taste of healthy Queenslind air.

PERKY PERKS

MetropoUtan member of parUament has amazing ac­cess to the State Stores Bosrd.

Each week he gets sent 5 cartons of smokes and unknown large quantity of grog. Taxfiee.

^UOTE OF THE WEEK: "Life is pleasantly tough

I don't expect it to be anything else.

-SIR X>HN KERR

SOCIAL SECURITY DEPT. THE DOMINO THEORY FEELING INSECURE.

THE MAN WHO FELL DOWN UNDER

Dsvid Bowie, ageing eccentric space creature, wUl tour AustraUa later this year. Hot on the commercial success of hb latest LP "Hetoea" Bowie wiU include Bridiine in hb agenda. It was planned for sn earUet date but personal hasdes are cainhig'delsyL

THEIR AIM IS YOU

Record uidustry sources are predicting good news-for mankind. In Iste '78 Grsham Parker i and thei Rumour plus Elvis 'Cos­teUo are tipped for a cheap quick tour of the capital cities. Details stUl to be confirmed but Brisbane con­cert wiU probably be held at a smaUer venue than Festibal HaU: good chance for Mayne HaU,

First. MACOS, then SEMP, now the Utanhim Resources KU. The Educa­tkin Minbter Val Bbd has abandoned plans to titt thb up and dbtribute it to schoob even though hb departmental officers have been compUfaig it for weeks.

Next -step ^ Bird - teUs schoob to take hiformation on uranium from the Fox Report, a complicated and esoteric document which schoob obvkiusly wUi not use.' Schoolkids' uranium CHokubun will be. nlL

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On unemployment, the Mt. Isa Department of Sodal Security is finding it; cannot oops with the large niimben of people after smploymmtand bene-fits and that tanricas were breaking down. - W h i l e the present staff is'Struggling to cope wilh the back log of forms the Government is refusing to fill three vacant positions while the Director of Social Services (Mr. Atkinson) said on national Ty last week:

'The staff situation In our offices throughout Is good."

as ' SEMPER, March 15,1978