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Editorial
Yeah, it's the end of semester, which for us means no more Lot's Wife until next semester, and for everyone else
means exams, so best of luck to all. The mid semester break means that there will be no excuses for late articles
next semester, because everyone will have had plenty of time - it also means that there's plenty of time to
consider/forget this edition.
Pro-choice week had a high profile on campus, but unfortunately appears to have failed to open the minds of some
students. Rather than rationally considering issues raised, such as the need for a Women's Room on campus, a
group of Liberal Students decided to "visit" this room. The group was allegedly lead by Alan Rosengarten, Chris
James and Dean Kennedy and included only one woman, Meralie Armstrong, who announced the groups arrival
to the two women in the room at the time. The men remained in the corridor, directly outside the door to Women's
Room for a considerable period of time, apparently attempting to announce the canditure of Christopher James for
MAS Women's Co-ordinator. The women in the room were eventually left "disbelieving, furious and disgusted".
This incident has affirmed and reinforced the need for a Women's Room on campus (although this is unlikely to
have been the intention of the perpetrators). This room provides a place for women to escape discrimination and
harassment which does occur on campus, to discuss issues affecting them as women (in private and comfortable
surroundings), or simply to relax with a coffee. It is used by many women on campus - not just students but also
academic and non-academic staff and visitors to campus. Most would agree that the necessity for such a room is,
in theory, transitory; remaining until such a time as true equality has been acheived. Realistically, however, the
need for such a room is still all too obvious, and appears likely to remain so for the forseeable future.
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Womens Room Blockaded
Smoking
Your Driving Future
The New Monash Union — Your Union
ACER at Halls?
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Women's Room Blockaded
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n Wednesday the 16th
May.theWomen'sRoom
was blockaded by a
g r o u p of m a l e L i b e r a l
students and their token woman,
Meralie Armstrong, The two of us
in the Women's Room were
harassed, intimidated, angered
and trapped. It was physically
impossible for us to get out. We
had to defend our right to be there.
Where do they get off invading
the rights of women, invading our
space, and taking away women's
ability to exist where men don't
have power?
It is because of this attitude that
the need for women's space exists. Within the structures of
patriarchy and capitalism, women
are denied the right to organise
autonomously; to speak; to be
heard. Men have control of
by Dr. Cherilyn Tillman
n April the U n i v e r s i t y
Council approved a "Policy
widi respect to smoking" for
Monash. The aim of the policy is
to protect non-smokers from the
effects of passive smoking. This
policy means that as of 1 July all
University owned or,occupied
buildings and vehicles will largely become no-smoking areas.
There will, however, be some
smoking permitted areas in most
buildings. These will be clearly
sign-posted as 'smoking
permitted' areas, so if you don't
see such a sign the area is a 'nosmoking' area.
by Emma Kins
The Women's Room is a place
where women have control of
their own space. Some men obviously find the concept of
women's autonomy a threat to
their egos. They came up in a
mob. None of them would have
had the guts to come up here
alone. They obviously knew they
wouldn't be welcome but refused
to accept the fact that women have
control over a space which excludes them and their egos.
Smoking
The major smoking permitted
areas which will be accessible to
students will be:Menzies Building
Foyer areas surrounding the lifts
on the 9ir., 10th and I lUi floors
Union Building
See guys? This is what it looks like from the inside!
money, power, political structures, industry and the family.
Women have the right to struggle
against these oppressive structures.
The need for women's space is
partof die political expression and
raising of women's consciousness.
Nomanhastherighttoinvadethis
space. Any man that thinks he
does have the right is completely
fucked. Liberal honchos, such as
Meralie Armstrong, Christopher
James, Gabriel Valla and their
cronies, who have nominated What happened on Wednesday
themselves for the position of was one of many disgusting
Women's Co-ordinator on PAC, incidents on this campus where
obviously have no comprehen- women have been sexually
sion or understanding of women's harassed, threatened with assault
political struggles. If women and dehumanised because they
attempt to gain liberation from refuse to be silent. To those men
within the structures of patriarchal who invaded the Women's Room
society, they will always be strug- — FUCK OFF!
gling on male terms, towards male
perceptions of equality. Women
must organise outside these
structures in order to make
women's difference central to
their fight for freedom from male THE WOMEN'S ROOM
oppression.
IS WOMEN'S SPACE.
Some of the cafeterias (currently
being determined by various
Union committees and die Union
Board).
Halls, S-E Fiats and other
residencies
Residential rooms and a minority
of communal areas. Determination of the communal areas which
will be smoking-permitted will be
left to the occupants.
Smoking will continue to be permitted in the University grounds.
Advice on quit smoking courses
and programmes will be available
from the University Health Service.
Your Driving Future
by Peter Jeans
F
rom the 1st of July onwards, legislation (subject
to ammendment) will come
into effect bringing new regulations for all new licencees. Under
the new proposal, drivers will
have to hold P-plates for a minimum of three y e a r s , with
increased restrictions in the first
year. The minimum age for
obtaining an L-plate permit
will be 16 years, and it can be held
for up to two years, with a minimum of 1 year before being
eligible for a probationary
licence.
The Probationary (P-plate)
licence issplit into two categories:
the RED LICENCE and the
GOLD LICENCE. Regulations
covering both licences are as follows:
RED PERMIT
(a) power resttictions - no 8
cylinders, t u r b o ' s , +
Modifications
(b) zero blood alcohol
(c) limit one passenger per
car
(d) other usual requirements
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(a) a comprehensive conversion test to be passed
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(b) no violation of first
probationary licence conditions
(c) zero blood alcohol content
Any combination of the above two
licences may be held for three
years to obtain a Full Licence,
though the conversion test has to
be passed to get a Gold or Full
licence. The conversion test will
be a computerised "hazard test",
requiring the participant to identify hazardous situations on a
touch sensitive computer screen.
The aim of the new Graduated
Licence Scheme is to reduce the
road toll amongst the highest risk
group (young and inexperienced
drivers), by reducing the risk of
having an accident by increasing
the risk factor over time. Young
and inexperienced drivers have
been shown to have a substantially
greater risk of having an accident
than more experienced drivers,
daring night hours, and when carrying more than one passenger
(Fig 1). Although the night
restriction hasn't been proposed,
the passenger restriction is being
implemented to reduce the accident
ri.sk in the fu^t year of driving.
It is also planned that young
drivers will not be allowed to
drive high powered vehicles. The
infoimation that this resu-iction is
based on is highly suspect As you
can see (Fig 2) the data contradicts
itself in the second and third year,
and the sample sizes are quite
small. High powered vehicles by
this classification could also include 4wd's and trucks etc, further changing the results. No-one
however would argue that high
powered vehicles are safer - so
this legislation is probably sensible.
The total set up of the new regulations, computers and paper work is
expected to cost around 3.5 million dollars, with a 1.8 million
running cost each year thereafter.
Most of diis cost is expected to be
recovered due to accident reduction , but the added cost of the new
testing scheme will make it even
more expensive to gain your
licence.
It is possible diat because of die
passenger restriction you will
have oven more young drivers on
the road, and tliis added risk is Just
assumed to be insignificantly
small. They slate that the average
vehicle occupancy is less than
1.32 a vehicle so it will have no
major adverse effects on the
environment. Unfortunately
Monash people will be put at an
increased disadvantage, car parking
is already a big problem, and carpooling will in the next few years
be less effective due to the icgulatrans.
Basically it will be a big headache
for cveryonel!
You however have the chance to
change the legislation by writing
to:
VICROADS
290 Burwood Rd
Hawdiom 3122
Suggest, for example, that the passenger restriction be applied only
at night (which has been calculated to be almost as effective), or
that the P-plale age be lowered to
17 so that by the time people get
to Uni, Uiey can participate car
pooling if necessary.
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The New Monash Union
Your Union
by James Backwell
O
n July 1st 1990 Monash
University changes.
Chisholm Institute of
Technology ceases to exist, and a
new "greater" Monash comes into
being. Greater Monash will have
three campuses — Caufield,
Clayton and Frankslon. Currently, two unions service these three
campuses: Chisholm Student
Union and Monash University
Union. As a part of the amalgamation, a commitee, the Merger Implementation Commitee (MIC)
was created to set the merger in
action. MIC set up six working
parties to investigate aspects of
the amalgamation. One group —
Working Party Five — was
created to investigate Student Organisations and Services.
A union must be:
1. Unified: There should be one
union.
2. Representative: the union
must represent all of its members.
3. Demotratic: representatives
should be elected from the constituency.
4 . Automatic membership on
enrolment or employment
5. Relatively autonomous from
t h e u n i v e r s i t y in decision
making
6. Flexible in structure: the
University is continually expanding, the union must be able to
respond to this reality.
7. Stable and continuous: for the
maintainance of quality of service
a union must have continuity.
8. Independent legal status
9. Able to serve and communicate with its membership.
A proposal outlining a new-cross
campus union that will be responsive to student needs and continue
to provide quality services was
produced. The new union is a
hybrid of the two existing unions
to become the new Greater
Monash University Union.
The Need to Amalgamate
Conservatives at this institution
have questioned the need to see
any amalgamation of the unions at
all. The minority on the Working
Party called for a five year
moratorium on any change. The
MIC, quite rightly, saw this as unacceptable. A new Monash must
sec one union; one union to represent the interests of all students on
all campuses. The old saying, "in
unity there is strength" is as true
for students as for any other
group.
From July 1st 1990, we all become students of Monash University. Students at Clayton must be
able to enjoy the same rights and
privileges as those at Caufield and
Frankslon. Services that are superior on one campus should be extended to the others. The
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economies of scale that expanded._
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services could produce may mean'
lower costs and, hopefully, lower
union fees.
A new union also gives us the I
chance to create a union that is 1
The working party used these
guidelines as a check-list, and the
proposal reflects this. The final
sffucture proposed took into account many submissions and
came up widi a skeleton structure
that can be diagramatically represented. (see diagram)
The Union Council directs the
policy direction of the union.
Policy such as the non-support of
racist, sexist or miliataiist publications or an anti- fees policy. The
council would be able to initiate campaigns of interest to
all students. "Special interest"
groups such as part time, overseas, graduate, and Women students would be able to have their
voices heard and action taken to
support their interests.
The Funding Executive will
determine the unions' annual
budget. Its members will include
staff, students and university
representatives. It will ensure
financial accountability and
responsibility.
On the campuses, a Student
Council will represent the interests
of all students. It would initiate
and direct campaigns and welfare-type services. It would act as
a student voice on that campus.
The Campus Union Board
would act as the current union
board does. Staff and university
representatives are present to
ensure that the union has contact
more responsive to student needs.
with the university, and vice
At Monash the current union's
versa, and that staff interests are
stiiiclure is still representative of
represented. Like the current
1960's. While it provides many
union board, this board would
quality services, many students
have its various committees
have for years been unsatisfied
reporting to it. Committees such
with the Monash University
as catering committee would perUnion structure and have sought
to change it.(see edition 3 of Lot's . form it current established role as
a liason body between the Catering
Wife 1990).
department, the student population and the Union Board.
The New Union
As stated previously inLol's (edition 4,1990), any union should be
built on nine guiding principles:
Sports and
Recreation
Association
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University
Council
Joint Finance
Committee
CLAYTON
Union
SluDenl
Booard
Council
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Union
Council
CAULFIELD
Union
Student
. Board
Council
Funding
Executive
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tional until 1992. Until then, much
is to be put on paper to ensure the
smoothest transition possible.
Aspects still to be investigated fall
broadly under four headings.
1. Interim Union Council This
body, with cross-campus student
and staff representatives, will
oversee the implementation of the
proposal. It will act as a path for
communication betweem Monash
University Union and Chisholm
Student Union, and will facilitate
joint meetings between campus
union grouDS with common interests. Groups such as Clubs and
Societies and mature age and part
timers must be in contact with
their Chisholm counterparts as
soon as possible — as of July 1 st
1990, we are all from the same
university.
terms and conditions of employment. Unfortunately, due to a campaign of lies and misinformation,
the working parties commitment
to staff concerns has been overlooked. What has been achieved,
however, is the creation of an interim staffmg committee whose
role shall be to oversee the union
amalgamation in relation to slaffmg
concerns. The commitee's membership will include staff, uade
unionrepresentatives,management
and students. I hope this arrangement will beable to achieve an
e n v i r o n m e n t in which all
concerns can be addressed and
attended to.
3. Service Agreements To ensure
of the quality of service at both
Monash and Chisholm are maintained, service agreements will
be entered into to guarrantee the
continuation of the current standard
of service.
2. Staffing As stated-in my previous article in Lot's Wife, any
unions' most vital resource is its
human resouces. One of the ut- 4. Referendum and Review The
most priorities is the maintainence MIC has made a commitment to
and hoped improvement of staff see a referendum before the
FRANKSTON
Union
Student
Board
Council
University Council approves the
new union's constitution. The
date for this is yet to be fixed, but
it will occur sometime in 1991.
Within a minimum of three years
after the creation of the new
union, a university-organized
review will occur. Thus the union
will undergo an ultimate accountability test, something the university
is not prepared to undergo itself in
relation to the amalgamation.
The creation of a new union is a
significant achievement for
Monash students who have been
attempting to do Uiis for decades.
The task for all concerned in the
process is to ensure that interests
are maintained and that the ultimate goal—the maximisation of
benefit to all students — is
realised. Negative rhetoric from
conservatives attempting to stall
any form ofchange will no longer
suffice. It is up to all of us to work
together in this endeavour.
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Ut.ws
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the
smooth running of tKrtCO
those
roads. This is clearly evidenced
by a recent accident on Normanby
lans are presently underway to construct an office road, which resulted in the closure
building for the Australian of the toad, and subsequently the
Council for Educational Research blocking of some deliveries to
on campus. The proposed site is on Halls.
the north east edge of the campus, Secondly, the construction of furbehind Richardson Hall, on the ther car parks will debilitate the
hill overlooking the lake.
environment even further. Halls is
intrinsicly a residential area, and,
There are a number of concerns
which have been raised in relation as such, a pleasant environment is
tothis proposal. A meeting of desirable. The construction of a
Halls residents was held on Mon- new building, and the necessary
day 14th May to alert Halls stu- by products (such as car parks),
dents of some of the ramifications will infringe on the valuable
of the proposal, as it seems that "green belt" between Halls of
these students will be amongst residence and the University. The
those most affected by the con- Deputy Vice Chancellor has assured the Residents' Committee
suuction.
that this will be taken into acThe meeting was attended by over count.
100 students, and addressed many
of the issues involved. It is These concerns have been raised
feared that the construction at University Council, as well as
will inevitably cause serious its various sub committees. There
disruptions to many students appears, however, to have been
study, as the commencement of inadequate communication bebuilding is mooted to be at the tween die University Council and
same time as the 1990 final the various committee of the Halls
exams, and to continue of Residence. A leUer from the
Chairperson of the Residents'
throughout 1991.
Committee, Sally Taylor, to the
Additionally, there is concern Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor
over the personal safety and John Hay, expressed "disappointsecurity of residents and their ment at the lack of opportunity for
property, both during the con- participation in the primary disstruction and afterwards. It is cussion stages".
i n e v i t a b l e thai with more
people regularly using the It is undeniable that the presence
area; an increase in the security of such a prestigious organisation
on campus is valuable for the
risk will occur.
University as a whole. The fringe
Also noted was the fact that there benefits for the sacrifice of an area
will be increased u-affic flow, and of Monash land include an opporsubsequent need for increased tunity to attract greater research
parking space to cater for addi- grants to Monash.
tional su-ess on the already limited
resources. This is a problem for Discussion took place at the
two reasons. First, the traffic fiow University Council meeting on
level around Halls and Normanby Monday May 21 in regard to conroad is already placing strains on cerns of Halls residents, and the
by llelga Svendsen
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investigate problems, such as the
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The issue lo be resolved here is
not whether or not to have the
ACER on camous. The advantages of this are clear. The
issue is whether the proposed site
is the most appropriate, and if all
concerns have been adequately
addressed. Negotiations continue
to attempt to balance competing
interests, and confirmation of a
proposal is expected to be
finalised in the forseeable future.
Ode to — Jim Henson
by Helna Svendsen
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for the consume tion of a new Hall
for Monash. Halls of residence are
presently full, and every year
there is a waiting list of students,
asdcmandfarexcecdscapacity.lt
seems illogical to allocate this
land to an unrelated body, and
then have to search for another
location for another Hall.
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F
ew of us would not have
had the joy of experiencing
"Sesame Street" when we
were kids. It is even more unlikely
that any of us have not come
across some of the other Muppets,
or any of the odicr creations of J im
Henson (including the characters
from The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth
and The Fraggles) at some time in
our lives. All of us will have been
touched by that experience.
Jim Henson died last week from a
severe bacterial infection. He will
be missed by many of us who
grew up in the Sesame Street era,
but he has left us with many
legacies of his gift as a puppeteer.
His fascination with puppets
began when Jim was still in high
school. A local Washington DC
television station announced it
was looking for young puppeteers, and Henson promptly
created a hand puppet out of his
mother's old green spring coat,
and made his debut performance.
From there, the stage was set. Jim
Henson succeeded in expanding
the art of puppetry, and redefined
what was possible and believable.
As a tfibute to the artist. Lot' i Wife
thought it would be befitting to
catch up with some of Jim's
greatest friends - the Muppets
themselves - to gain an insight
into the man, and to give them a
chance to pay their respects.
Of course, the most notable character is Kermit. Whilst understandably upset by the loss of his
dear friend, Kermit still found a
few moments to spend with Lot's.
"He was a good man", Kermit
said. When asked if he had any
final words he would like to dedicate to Mr Henson. Kcrmitreplied
"no", because Jim "had an uncanny knack of always knowing what
I was going to say, before I had
even said it myself".
Also present at this interview was
Miss Piggy, who was distraught.
"Jim was always there when I
needed a friend. He was the one
who first introduced Kermic to
me, you know. For that, I will
never forget him".
We found Robin, the other
famous frog, halfway up the
stairs. He was clearly feeling the
loss of his creator, and was somewhat less verbose than when Jim
had been there to back him up, and
declined to comment.
The Swedish Chef was preparing
a traditional Swedish dish in
honour of Henson, and was thus in
the process of violently converting cabbages to bnissel sprout
with a very large firearm. "Norsca
norgen vaas volvo saab yon smorgasboard schnapps" he said, and
then proceeded to cry into the
brodi.
The world of Muppetland has a
dark cloud over it at the moment a cloud that will evenuially disperse as the Muppets learn to get
on with their lives independent of
their creator. Jim was the light of
their lives for many years, and that
light shone through to the audiences of his shows. We hope die
light, will continue to shine.
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Ut.ws
World
by Luke Harris
G
rab five billion badly
designed bipeds. Give
them a rather watery
world to play with, ensure that
some are rich and others poor, that
resources are uneven, and competition constant, and you are sure
to get something closely approaching chaos. At least, that's
the way it feels to most of us,
reinforced by the constant bad
news bias of the media. Who
knows what's really going on out
there, beyond the full-colour
coverage of disaster and day-today politics? There is no "big piclure", no single answer or ready
solution, but this shouldn't discourage the casual observer from
making their own judgments. In
this light, come take a brief flight
around the world with this pointform article, stopping off in a few
places that help illustrate the perverse and conuadictory development afoot in mid-1990.
Lake Baikal, USSR :
1. Home to 20 per cent of the
v'orld's fresh water, also to
several rare species. In go
heavy metals, pesticides and
toxic chemicals.
The Aral Sea, USSR :
2. A vast inland lake, drying
rapidly after rivers were
diverted for grandiose
irrigation projects. Prognosis; The Soviets are becoming greener, hopefully
soon enough to save Baikal,
but the Aral is almost dead.
The end of the World is not nigh,
but the 1990's is a time when we
decide whether a fundamentally
degraded environment is a good
payoff for Industrial prosperity.
South to —
Wanted
Litter
Campaign
Co-ordinator
by Katrina Robeig, Union
House Committee
Peru:
Poor, coup-ridden, a place where
the only civilian governments are
corrupt ones, and the chief cashcrop is Cocaine. Democracy
seems to have arrived, but the
main presidential candidate is an
admirer of Margaret Thatcher, not
a hopeful sign for Pcnivian slumdwelleis. As usual, the destitute
will bear the pain of World-Bank
enforced reforms, as well as
vicious attacks from Maoist
guerillas. The
"Sendero
Luminaso" (Shining Path) group.
Whether you blame the World
system or blame the Peruvians,
the 1990's look bleak here.
but perhaps the rich-man's club of
Western Europe is not the best
model to follow. Predicting
Europe's course has become an
impossible game, but the theme
will be power and material affluence.
East, to —
News
education system and increasing
self-doubt, the US A still offers the
best of just about everything,
except help for the poor, and
humility. President Bush smiles,
refuses to eat broccoli, and fudges
America out of its era of
hegemony.
Fiji:
A key debating point on the right
of indigenous peoples to choose
their own political destiny.
Rabuka may have looked the
perfect third world tin-pot despot,
but he was acting outof legitimate
concern. On the odier hand, Indian emigres were once forced to
come to Fiji, and now it is their
home. Even people who lived side
by side for a century are still consumed by suspicion, hatred and
misunderstanding. To the credit
of both sides, dialogue continues
and a compromise may be possible.
Last —
Waterlogged Bangladesh.
The Pacinc Ocean itself:
Yearly, the typhoon season means
death, as tidal waves sweep the
absolutely poor from their homes
across the flat.
'Some scientists think the vast EI
Nino effect is on the rise again,
spelling no rain for our wheatbelts and a lot for South
A m e r i c a ' s western coastal
deserts. The fluctuations of
agricultural fortune around the
Pacific rim may be an important
economic and political wild-card
for the 1990's.
Ganges Delta:
Europe:
The best-laid plans of the
"Eurocrats" for the EEC lose
attention for a moment lo a soon
united Germany, and the Berlin
wall is sold in little bits to tourists
from Arkansas. By luck almost all
of Eastern Europe isfreedat once,
Still with the environment —
To paradise on Earth —
Next —
If the "greenhouse" is real, it
spells double and a permanent
task for air organisations. Population increases have proven to be
Bangladesh's only area of growth.
Westwards to —
systems and greed. It's time to do
something innovative here, rather
than doing nothing at all. A question for the 90's — did man cause
the great Sahelian drought by
overgrazing?
The USA
Rich, frenetic and immensely
powerful. Apathetic and often ignorant voters stay away from the
polls in droves. Only millionaires
can afford to mn for the Presidency,
yet Americans really do believe in
their system, and perhaps they
have something. Despite a patchy
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Guerilla wars, inapprq)riate borders,
man-made famine and environmental degradation — you've
heard it all before, it's real and it's
not going away. African governments have a crisis of resources
and willpower — trapped by
politically necessary patronage
Violence and stagnation vie with
nights of optimism. To choose
one over anodicr as the trend of
the 1990's is a conjurer's trick,
without validity or substance. We
can hope for peace, but also
recognise that certain divides of
wealth, belief and system will always create political factions of
varying severity.
r
Outrageousi
CONSECUTIVE exams and a hard place, and more scheme. Top this toxic cock- say the least. When is someover
consecutive days is importantly a case of tail offwith only two days of one in the Engineering
n a major breakthrough in
probably enough to send administration oversight. official swat vac and you Faculty going to open their
the struggle against litter on
you scurrying for the The stress and pressure on have a recipe for disaster to eyes...
campus, the Union House
Committee has agreed to support
library, but imagine four the poor student will be
the appointment of a temporary
engineering exams in three soaaring as all the exams are
EGYPT HOUSE
Litter Campaign Coordinator to
days ? Unfortunately one worth 90% and over overall.
FEL-FELA HESTAURANT - BYO
organise an Anti-Litter Week in
poor engie won't just be
the first week of second semester
fantasising about this Don't forget that a second
(16th - 20lh July). If agreed to by
academic nightmare, as he chance costs, after taking
Union Finance, this will be a paid
position over approximately 6
crams to jump this intel- into account the fact that
weeks. If you are interested in
lectual hurdle.
supplementary exams are
applying for this proposed position
long gone. As a result a
• Function Room
please contact John Ould on
• Group and Student Discount
This is very much a case of second chance nows costs
extension 3135 or keep an eye on
more
under
the
HECS
the Student Employment Board.
being caught t)etween a rock
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by Ben Hider, Chairperson,
Public Affairs Committee
A union for the future
wo meetings of the Public
Affairs Committee (PAC)
were held today. The first
was to consider the election of the
MAS Women's co-ordinator.
Despite the fact that quite a few
people nominated, there were
only two valid nominations. I
wonder if the males who
nominated realised how many
women they could have offended? Congratulations, however, to Anita Johnston, Uie first
MAS Women's campaign co-ordinator.
T
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nMay 15,lhe Merger Implementation Commilcc
(MIC) met and approved
the recommendation put forward
by the Working Party on Student
Organisations and Services as part
of the amalgamation between
Chisholm and Monash. The
recommendation outlined the
creation of a new union for the
larger university. It will be a
multi-campus union, including
Frankslon, Caulfield and Clay ton.
Unlike the current Monash
University Union, the new union
will be responsive to student
needs. It will sec a mote studentorientated union that will
endeavour to provide quality representation and services to all of
the University population. A
fuller account of this proposal is
contained in this edition of Lot's
and I am happy to answer any
questions or clarify any points
about the proposal or its status.
Attack on the Women's Room
It has been reported lo MAS that
a group of students, mainly men,
converged on the Women's Room
and allegedly harassed two of the
women sitting in the room. Shouting at diem and arguing with
them, the group continued the
harassment for a time and then
left. I completely condemn this
behaviour and hope that the
authorities severely discipline
these little boys for this blatant
sexual harassment. Male violence
such as this proves certainly the
need for a Women's Room.
Tenancy Advice Service
MAS, as reported in this column,
is creating a tenancy advice
service. CurrenUy, advice on the
process of obtaining a house or
flat is available. MAS is still looking for students to help advise
others of their legal rights and
responsibilites. If interested,
please call me on ext 3141.
Yours in Union, Jimmy.
by Tim Gatluso & Man Nicol
"The first time ever I saw yoin
face, I laughed because you're
ugly". Note: that sentence has no
relevance to this article and it
should be totally disregarded.
Last Thursday, May 17, proved to
be one of the biggest successes in
recent Union Night history (just
ask anyone who was there). You
can forget your Hoodoo Gurus
and Paul Kellys, because as huge
as they were, they were upstaged
by Relax With Max and
Bachelors From Prague at the
Activities Jazz NighL Although
the crowd was smaller (as was
anticipated due to Uie upcoming
exam period), everyone fu-ed up
and bopped their little hearts out
all night. To add to the jazz atmosphere, we threw in a few tables
and chairs for people to mellowout in at the back. Combine all this
with the coolest bar in town, a
strange-smelling, smokey haze
throughout the dimly ht rooms,
and two wild bands who whipped
the crowd into a frenzy, and
you've got one absolutely humungous night. As Lou Richards
would say on that one day in September, "the atmosphere was
electric."
OK, now it's time for a quick quiz.
What do you get when you cross
the Activities Commencement
Ball with Green Week? Answer:
The "Despica-Ball". Yes that's
right; this year. Activities is hold-
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Oh yeah, just before we go, here's
something you might want to
know: TISM are coming to
Monash!!!
The second PAC meeting today
(held a huge one minute after the
first) considered the issue of
racism, and the relationship
between racism, power and discrimination. The other issue
considered was the Victorian
Certificate of Education (VCE).
The first motion concerning
racism had been placed on
notice from the last meeting, and
condemned (yes condemned) the
Wembley stadium concert/rally in
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MAS Carpool
Service
M
any Monash people are
filling their cars and
expressing support for
the carpool service. We hope that
the University administration will
soon recognise our value and provide some financial backing.
We have lifts available and
wanted from all over Melbourne.
This month we are making a special appeal to drivers from the following areas to offer lifts to and
from Uni —
Ringwood — Bayswater
Frankston — Mt. Eliza
Chelsea — Camim
Doncaster — Templestowe
all Western suburbs
Kew — East Hawthorn
Caulfield —East St Kilda.
Roger Sharp informs us that last
Friday he counted cars coming in
the Main Enu-ance between 9.00
am and 10.00 am Of over 600 cars
90% contained one person.
Come and see us at Uie MAS Carpool Service at the back of the
Small Cafe.
LofsV/ife
The second motion about racism
concerned the production of antiracism badges. Why is it that the
same people who supported the
previous motion opposed this
one?
Finally, look out for the debate on
abortion in the first week of the
second semester. Forums on the
VCE and the Multi-Function
Polls and Speakers from Eastern
Eiu'ope are also planned.
Yours in Solidarity.
Ben Hider Chairperson
Public Affairs Commiltro.
Bike Plan
Update
Co-ordination is one obvious key
to our parking/environment problem.
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ing its legendary Commencement Ball in second semester,
(not much of a "commencement"
to the year we admit, but we
thought there were already too
many balls in first semester and
you'd appreciate our move), and
what better time to have a ball
than at the commencement of
Green Week. Sooooo, on Monday 23rd July at the Palace, we'll
be holding the inaugural Commencement of Green Week
"Despica-Ball", featuring none
other than those guys who play
"under the clocks", Weddings,
Parties, Anything supported by
Falling Joys. How much would
you expect to pay for this mammoth
event? — don't answer — there
will also be a DJ playing before,
between, and after the bands. Now
how much would you expect to
pay? — well still don't answer.
There is a hot meal and dessert,
and best of all, free beer, wine,
and soft drink from 8.00pm 'til
1.00am, (after that it's only $1.50
for pots and $2.00 for spirits for as
long as you want to stay). You get i|
all this for a low, low, $32.00 a '
ticket. Tables of 10 and 12 will go
on sale on Monday May 28 at
1.00pm sharp from the Activities
Office for deposits of $100.
Queue up early 'cause they'll sell
fast — better get your tables
organised right now !!
support of Nelson Mandela. This
was done for two reasons: first, it
echoed the Nazi Nuremberg Rallys; second, some of the songs
were anti-white (according to
most of the Liberal/DSA alliance). I have to confess I don't
understand these peoples' mentahty. How can a rally against the
oppressive Soudi African regime
be racist or echo the Nuremberg
rallies which supported the
wholesale destfuction of many
races and people?
Cychsts are playing an active role
in the formulation of a draft
Monash Bike Plan. Over 60
cyclists have already provided information and suggestions via
Monash Bike Plan questionnaires.
(More copies are still available at
the MAS Carpool Service).
OnMay 15di,30cyclisLs attended
a Bike Plan Meeting where we
contributed to a summary map of
bike routes and cycUng hazards
around campus. We also pooled
our knowledge of shower and
locker locations at Monash.
Frustration widi existing conditions
has generated a larger number of
suggested actions to make the
University more biker-friendly.
In response to the needs voiced by
cyclists we have targeted 'a bike
lane up North R o a d " a n d
' b i c y c l e p a r k i n g at Huntingdalc Station' as two areas for
action.
Anyone wishing to be involved in
these campaigns or offering support should see us at the MAS
Carpool Service.
Thui^day 24th M a y , 1990, page 9
FtATl^^^S
Rob Defends a Jolly Mess
Was it Rob Jolly's fault that the State Bank suffered
massive bank losses?
Does he blame the Socialist Left for his resignation?
Is the Greek Government trying to undermine our
Olympic bid?
The former Treasurer tells Barry Yau in an edited
interview;
Lot's:
In your letter of resignation as Treasurer you
gave two reasons for resigning, the first being
the intolerable pressure imposed on your family.
It must have been very hard being a family man
and also Treasurer?
Jolly:
There area number of different aspects. Probably the
most difficult aspect is really dealing with the media
and the impact it has on your family because probably,
over thepast 12 months I was Treasurer [Iherehasl
been a front page story at least once a week. I've had
many phone calls at home from the media because I
have a listed phone number, so it is easily accessible
and also the kids copped a hit offlackat school and the
pressure on my wife was very great coupled with the
fact I was working 100 hours a week; so when you put
it all together, it was very difficult.
Lot's:
Your second reason for resigning was your 'increasing concern that the destabilising forces in
the Victorian Labor Party will further erode the
standing of the Victorian Government. Was this
a veiled criticism of tlie faction system?
Jolly:
/ accept the faction system as a reality but what happened the few days after the [March 241 election was a
break-out of public brawling in the ALP, including
comments by somi members of the Parliament in the
press plus members of the ALP outside the press particularly [by] certain leaders of the Socialist Left. That
generated responses highly damaging to the Government. There's no doubt if it continued, the Government
would have been undermined. That was the important
factor in my decisions. I discussed it with the Premier
and he felt it was in the best interests of the Government [for mel to take the course of action I did.
Lot's:
In what way did the media act hysterically after
the March 24 election?
Jolly:
/ think the hysteria mainly occurred over the State
Bank/Tricontinental issue, which anybody who knows
anything about the issue knows I had to remain at
"arms length" from any decisions of the State
Bank/Tricontinental. On no occasion did I attempt to
interfere in the decisions, but that perspective was lost
and also the number of federal seats lost in Victoria
caused a great deal of panic and this produces all sorts
of reactions — interestingly erutugh, a lot weren't
agmnst me, yet ultimately the pressures came that toay
and it's a fact of life that prime pressure came from the
Socialist Left.
hOt's:
After 8 years as Treasurer, what was youi
greatest achievement?
Jolly:
The fact that we achieved the lowest unemployment
rate for 81 months in a row. When we came to Government Hn 19821 the Victorian ecorwmy was just going
down thegurgler and it's no longer the case. We are a
very powerful centre for private investment and we
have become export-orientated.
Lot's:
Do you think people will look back 20 years
from now and associate you with the massive losses of the State BaiUc?
i
Lofs
Wife
Thursday 24th May, 1990, page 10
"No-one really suggests ttiaf it was my responsibility
Jolly:
Inevitably the fact that I was Treasurer, being in the
wrong place at the wrong time, vnll have some impact.
Those who are more dispassionate and objective will
recognise there was nothing I could have done and it
goes back to Tricontinenial, rather than the State Bank,
and Tricontinental's board was appointed by the State
Bank Board, not by me.
Lot's:
So you had no control over the loans made by
Tricontinental?
Jolly:
None whatsoever.
Lot's:
Do you think you should have been given the'
responsibility?
Jolly:
Weil, you can't. I think it's contradiction for a political
person to be involved in commercial decision making
when you are competing on equal terms with the
private sector. You are damned if you do and damned if
you don't, because there is no doubt in my mind that if
a Treasurer would lose his or her job immediately if
they interfered with individual commercial loans.
Lot's:
So should the State Bank be privatised?
Jolly:
That's an issue that's been raised because it has lifted a
new level of responsibilities, a level that is in fact
inherently impossible to attain. I persoruilly do not
advocate the privatisation of the State Bank.
Lot's:
It seems that uiuler the system anybody who
was Treasurer would be blamed?
Jolly:
It really sets an impossible standard for ministerial
responsibility, a standard that meatts if something like
the State Bank goes wrong it comes back to you simply
because you were in the position. In a technical sense if
you look at articles written about ministerial responsibility in The Age, The Financial Review, no one really
suggests that it was my responsibility. What they do
suggest is because 1 was there it became a liability.
Oljonpic Games B i d '
Lot's:
You have been tiven the special responsibility
to win the 1996 Olympic Games for Melbourne.
What are the chances of us getting the Games?
Jolly:
/ think they are very good. The Melbourne Olympic Bid
Committee has worked very well together. It's been a
combination of Government, business, trade unions,
and sporting interests all workingwith the aim of Melbourne xoinning the bid in 1996.
Lot's:
J n the past. Premier Cain often referred to you as
his 'chosen successor'. Did you have any ambitions to be Premier?
Jolly:
No, but I had an ambition to be Treasurer which ivas
fulfilled and I was hopeful I would be able to continue
in that position for the remainder of the Cain Government. Events made that impossible, but I'm still of the
view that I uiant to play a constructive role in the
Labor Government as it is now and assist in winning
the election next time.
FElATun^tS
Domestic
Murders
by Maria Dimopoulos
O
n May 31,1989, the Women's Coalition
Against Family Violence held the Domestic
Murders Commemoration at the Melbourne
Town Hall. Members of the Coalition represent
community legal centres, community health
centres. Domestic Violence and Incest Resource
Centre, and women's refuges that have daily contact
with survivors of family violence.
The public commemoration was organised in
order to highlight the extent and seriousness of
violence against women and children. There was
a lot of media attention given to the Queen St. and
Hoddic St. murders and subsequent public outrage and concern to prevent such incidents in the
future. When a woman is killed by her spouse/de
facto/father, it often goes unnoticed in the media,
and even when it is publicised, it is perceived as
an isolated personal tragedy, and not as a social
crime with social causes that need to be addressed.
Thus, reporting on such incidents is rarely accompanied by a sense of outrage or moral panic as in
the former case.
The work done by the Coalition prior to the Commemoration involved researching media coverage
of domestic murders, trial transcripts where available, and meeKng with families of women and
children who were killed as a result of domestic
abuse. Once we began to invesHgate the available
material, a more comprehensive research project
seemed appropriate, given that justice could not
be done to the issue without a more directed, concerted effort.
To date in Victoria, there has been no comprehensive analysis of domestic violence which results in
murder. According to the recent Law Reform
Commission Discussion Paper', (which makes reference to the detailed study undertaken by Alison
Wallace in NSW ), more homicides occur within
marriage than in any other single relationships in
society. 43 per cent of homicide victims were
killed by memliers of their own family. Women
are particularly vulnerable in spouse homicides.
73 per cent of offenders are male. Furthermore a
history of domestic violence was evident in almost half of the spouse killings. Separation, or the
threat of it, was the precipitating factor in 46 per
cent of wife killings . Clearly then, the marital
relationship provides the context for some of the
most violent encounters in our society.
Thus, despite a community perception that
stranger and street violence has markedly increased, particularly in the light of the Hoddle
and Queen St. massacres, both national and state
inquiries into violence have emphasised that the
most prevalent form of violence takes place in the
home and is perpetrated by a male family membier.
It is thus disappointing to note that the background to the inquiry by the Social Development
Committee into strategies to deal with the issue of
community violence lies in the killings in Hoddle
and Queen Streets in 1987^. Such categories of
violence account for only 18 per cent of deaths.
Domestic killings constitute almost half, thus
being the largest category of homicides in Victoria.
Vet rarely do such murders, overwhelmingly
committed by men against women and children
in their own homes , attract such prompt and
urgent responses.
In light of these issues, the Coalition is now
conducting a comprehensive study of domestic
homicide as they relate to domestic violence.
Domestic murder which claims the lives of so
many women and children every week in
Australia is the extreme end of a spectrum of
domestic violence occurring daily in the home.
We want the Project to draw attention to the fact
that women and children are subjected to ongoing
violence within the supposed "safety" of their own
home.
Guest speakers have been invited to
Monash to speak on this project investigating domestic murders In Victoria.
This public lecture is open to all, and w/ill
be held on Thursday May 31st, 1.00 pm.
Check Daily News for Venue details
Broadly, the aims of the Project are:
•
To conduct action research into the deaths
of a sample of women and children
murdered by their spouse/partner/father
in Victoria.
•
To publicly raise the issue of the serious
implications of domestic violence.
•
To examine the impact of the role of police,
the courts and the media in relation to
domestic murder.
•
To develop and publicise recommendations
regarding the practices of the police in
response to domestic violence and media
coverage of domestic violence and murder.
•
To develop and publicise recommendations regarding policies and practices
within the legal processes as they relate to
domestic violence and murder.
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We are currently seeking the support and involvement of interested community groups or individuals, particularly family members or friends
of women and children who have been murdered.
You can contact either myself or Petrina
(Researchers) on 380 9693.
Such research can of course not bo analysed in
isolation from the wider issue of domestic
violence and the historical and cultural context in
which it occurs. Women and children continue to
consHtute the majority of those subject to family
violence, while men continue to constitute the
majority of those who perpetrate violence. Such
violence can only be understood in the.context of
gender power imbalances in our society.
Footnotes:
1. Law Reform Commission of Vic. — Discussion
Paper No. 13, March 8 "Homicide"
2. A. Wallace "Homicide: The Social Reality",
NSW Bureau of Crime, Statistics and Research
1986.
3. Wallace pp. 98-1 (X).
Social Development Committee — Parliament
of Victoria — "Inquiries into Strategies to Deal
With the Issue of Community Violence", Dec.
1988.
In half the cases where women killed their
husbands, this was a response to an immediate
threat or attack by the husband — Wallace
pp 95-97.
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"IT was critical. I tried to kill myself so
many times. The subsequent years were a
schizophrenic nightmare. It was as
frightening as any equivalent description
of hell." This is an account by Richard
Morrison, a talented artist who suffers
from schizophrenia, of what it is like to
live with this illness. Schizophrenia
Awareness Week begins Sunday May 20,
and is organized by the Schizophrenia
Fellowship of Victoria. Its purpose is
simple - to heighten community awareness of the nature of this distressing illness, the way it affects sufferers, their
relatives and the community in general.
A knowledge of schizophrenia is particularly vital at university. This disease
will afflict one out of every hundred
Australians in their lifetime. Three
quarters of the people who develop
schizophrenia, do so between the age of
17 and 25. As a student, it is more than
likely that at sometime during your
university degree, someone you know
through your studies will have a nervous
breakdown. You will think they're pretty
weird and probably ignore them. You
won't understand what has happened, or
why they are acting strangely. They are
nxost likely to drop out of university. The
tragedy is that it is at this early stage,
during onset of the illness, that
schizophrenia is at its most treatable. The
sufferer is likely to be perceived by
friends as weird and as a social liability
rather than a person suffering from a
brain disease. Without our understanding or recognition, that person will
receive no support and slip into a lonely,
terrifying world from which only 20% of
sufferers completely recover.
What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a group of illnesses,
probably resulting from chemical imbalances, deficiencies or structural abnor-
The Causes of Schizophrenia.
malities. It creates a breakdown in the signalling system of the brain. The breakdown means that the messages which
pass from one brain cell to another become scrambled so that the person with
schizophrenia lives in a frightening and
chaotic world. The links between the way
they think, perceive, feel and act, become
split from each other — hence the term
"schizophrenia" means a split or fragmented mind.
But schizophrenia is not split personality.
The "Jekyll and Hyde" characterisation is
a false and cruel myth. The illness is a
severe deterioration in personality
functioning. Just as a your own group of
friends will show a number of different
types of personality, a group of sufferers
will show the same variation. The only
difference is that the latter group share a
peculiarly debilitating illness that makes
them susceptible to severe withdrawal,
fluctuating and unpredictable changes in
behaviour, and inappropriate emotional
responses.
Untreated, schizophrenia is one of the most
terrifying and disabling conditions known
to humankind. It is also generally
misunderstood, shamefully neglected or
savagely stigmatised - but mostly ignored.
People with Schizophrenia.
Sufferers from Schizophrenia are not to
blame for their condition. It is an illness,
not a personal weakness. They are not ill
because of abnormal family relationships
or bizarre child-rearing practices. These
theories have never been supported by
any reputable research evidence and
cause untold hardship on relatives of sufferers: it is shocking enough to watch
your daughter or son suddenly elicit
bizarre and often frightening behaviour,
to watch them deteriorate to a withdrawn
life full of fear and overwhelming
anxiety, but it is a severe injustice to be
mindlessly blamed for their hardship.
Schizophrenia is stated unequivocally by
many to be a brain disease or diseases.
The exact nature and the causes are poorly understood. Genetic, biochemical,
viral, immunological, developmental and
stress factors may be involved. Increasingly, it is suspected that a physical
"predisposition" causes some people to
react to environmental influences in a
particular way, leading to schizophrenia.
The point to be made nowadays, is that
we believe schizophrenia has a clear
physical basis. An acute schizophrenic
episode is beyond the capabilities of
modern psyciiotherapeutic and counselling techniques. Although such therapy
forms are an essential aspect of treatment,
in acute phases, treatment requires
medication and hospitalisation to
counteract the illness on a direct, physical
level. Tragically, this is usually against
the persons's will, as many at this stage
do not believe that they are ill and need
help.
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Schizophrenia used to be considered the
equivalent of a death sentence, just like
cancer. Like cancer, the picture today is
very different. Follow-up studies after 10
years now indicate that 25% of sufferers
are likely to recover completely from a
schizophrenic episode. 50% will improve,
but many will require an extensive support network. However, 15% will be
unimproved and hospitalised, 10% of
whom will be dead, mostly through
suicide. These results show that a diagnosis of schizophrenia does not imply a
single outcome. As well, the outcome for
many offers greater cause for optimism
than previously existed.
The principal reason for this change is the
discovery of effective medication. Antipsychotic medications ("psychotic" meaning
an inability to distinguish reality from
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fantasy) are a group of medicines
developed during the 1950's. They are
used to control the psychotic s)Tnptoms
of schizophrenia, such as delusions and
hallucinations. In former times,
schizophrenia was a one-way ticket to
extensive incarceration in a psychiatric
hospital. With the aid of these medicines,
most people with schizophrenia can now
live in the community. However, the
medications only control the more bizarre
symptoms of schizophrenia, they do not
cure schizophrerua. Taking this medication
becomes an essential, but irritating part
of a person's life.
Institutional Custody to Community
Neglect.
Despite the revolution in medical care
and our knowledge that schizophrenia
can have a better outcome through effective medication and community support,
people are still unable to obtain the treatment, care, and rehabilitation that would
make this better outcome a reality.
Families are left to flounder and to work
out how to cope through a process of trial
and error.
The 1950's to 1980's saw governments in
Australia adopt a policy of
deinstitutionalisation. The thrust of this
policy is to move away from incarceration in large, dehumanising mental institutions to a reintegration of mentally ill
people into the community. The positive
ideology behind this is obvious. The
practical consequences have been disastrous.
People were de-institutionalised before
the support facilities necessary for
successful re-integration were made
available in the community. The government did not recognise that
deinstitutionalisation, if properly instituted,
is not a cost-cutting measure. People do
not automatically become better once
they are out of hospital. Mental institutions
were certainly unpleasant places to be,
but they did ensure some peace, and
constant supervision for patients. People
with mental illness require the same care
and attention in the community as they
received in hospital — they are simply
not getting this.
Deinstitutionalisation has produced a
substantial group of destitute homeless
mentally ill persons who move in and out
of rundown boarding houses, overcrowded squats and shelters, who are on
the streets or who wander aimlessly
around Australia. Staff of community hostels
complain of an emergence of a new subgroup of mentally ill young men that indicates that the health care system has
"dumped" its mentally ill people into
the community, without adequate support.
nitude of the problem, as well as provide
housing, group support and care for sufferers and their families. Most of all, the
Fellowship wants us to understand that
people with schizophrenia suffer from an
illness which is severe enough. Don"t
make it worse by causing isolation and
stigmatisation from the wider community. Schizophrenia Awareness Week
is a platform that seeks to bring these issues to the public's attention: OK, if s a
really heavy topic, but ifs out there and we
have to start listening.
Schizophrenia and Families.
Family life is often devastated by the impact of schizophrenia. Social lives of all
family members are severely affected. A
study by the Schizophrenia Fellowship of
Victoria found that 50% of members of
such families suffer physical and emotional health problems which are seen to be
aggravated, if not caused by, caring for
their mentally ill relative. Families are
unpaid primary carers, but the strain is
often too great and or unbearable.
People in the grips of a schizophrenic
illness are often terrified. Plagued by
uncontrolled and menacing thoughts,
they can menace others, particularly those
who are closest to them. Often relatives are
forced to call for the police to assist them
— for their children to be taken and
institutionalised against their will
because they have deteriorated to the
point where they are a danger to themselves
and others:
"Life at home was hell - calling the
police to drag away a screaming, sick
young man, hving in constant crisis.
When the phone rang late, your
stomach lurched."
This comment from Anne Deveson paints
the picture. Sadly, Anne's son committed
suicide. The help she and her son needed,
never came.
Schizophrenia Awareness Week.
Many people who work in the field of
community health, perceive the problems
created by schizophrenia as more serious
than those created by teenage drug
abuse, but the corresponding level of
community understanding and exposure
is far less. The Schizophrenia Fellowship
of Victoria seeks to redress this problem,
to educate the community about the mag-
[All the art work in this article was
created by Richard Morrison and
Graeme Doyle, two extremely talented
artists, who suffer from Schizophrenia.
Richard has struggled valiantly with his
illness. Today, he is a successful young
artist, living and working alongside other
artists in our community. The photos
were taken by Ron Robertson and
reprinted vwth permission from The Sunday
Herald colour magazine.]
For further information, please contact
the Schizophrenia Fellowship of Victoria
on 521 2433. Information will be available
from a table the front of the Union Building, on Tuesday May 21 and Thursday
May 23 during Awareness Week.
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by Rodney Ross
S
O what happened? Why was Deng
Xiao Ping, Time magazine's man
of the year in 1985, ordering the
troops to suppress free speech in
Tianamen Square in 1989? Why were
we not prepared for this incident? Was
our outrage justified, or should we be
just as incensed with the triviality and
ignorance of China's past history by
our intellectuals and media. As Professor Ryckman (alias Simon Leys — a
heretic amongst intellectuals for a long
time, 'til his observations were brought
home graphically last June), said "lef s
not kid ourselves. The facts which I have
been describing... may have been distasteful
and unpalatable — there were also public
knowledge. They were all too easy to collect
— there was no need to search for them,
they keeping coming at you' their
evidence was as plain and as a punch on
the nose".
In the early 80's 'Sixty Minutes' made a
journey to China. Their report imprinted
on Australian memories, images of a live
fish being cooked and eaten within one
minute, but it did not show the abysmal
poverty, the appalling health and
hygiene of China, nor the political
prisoners that still, to tliis day, languish
in Chinese jails.
Instead of watering at the mouth at the
thought of exquisite Chinese cuisine, we
should have had watering eyes with the
gross human right violations, that have
been and continue to be perpetrated in
the "People's" Republic of China.
However, they saw the light last year.
Tiananmen Square opened their eyes, to
so speak — or did it? Such recent converts
who "have finally realised that they got it
wrong in the past should not lead us to
be deceived into thinking that they have
got it right now" — [Padriac P. McGuiness).
Once again ii\substantiality claims about
Tiananmen by journalists, obscure reality
in an emotive, but seemingly authoritative
maimer. The wildly exaggerated
figures that were changed when a
calmer atmosphere prevailed, cause
cynicism and scepticism to creep back
in with the Australian public.
So what do the journalists show us now?
Well, they are back to their old mode of
extolling the wonders of China, the
mysteries that are just waiting to be explored
behind the bamboo curtain. The Great
Wall, Tibet and the Silk Road among
other things.
Lofs Wife Thursday 24th May, 1990, page 14
This pretty picture does not hide the shed
blood. The wholesale destruction of
China's culture, the rape and pillage of a
seemingly ageless people. China is now a
hollow country. It has hollow leadership
with banal and irrelevant policies — ones
built for a revolutionary sruggle in the
40's not the exigencies of life in the 80's
and 90's.
Which brings on the central point of this
articles — given the anachronistic and
violent Government still 'linxdy in control
of the P.R.C., can we reasonably or
humanely send back Chinese students
studying in Australia who arrived before
the Tiananmen incident? Bob Hawke's
open display of emotion was touching,
but if there is not action to follow up the
compassion what is the use of that compassion?
The following complaints were expressed
to me by a spokesperson for the Chinese
students:
1.
That even though the Government had
offered 'special' visas these would cause
bona fide students to have to pay full fees
for their courses (whereas now most are
subsidised), also the 'special' visas were
only valid 'til 31 /1/91. If the student's
courses extended beyond this they had
no security.
The 'special' visas could also cause them to
be subject to 'special treatment if they are
forced to go back to China — there is no
guarantee as to what the Australian
Government will do when the special
visas expire early next year.
There are approximately 120 mainland
Chinese in Monash. Half of these are students, who have annually rertewable
visas, and the other half are made up of
various academics, and short term
visitors. Students who did not want the
accompanying problems with the special
visas, therefore did not apply for one,
and are now concerned with what the
Australian Government's attitude will be
to them. I tried to find out the new Minister
for Immigration's policy, but as yet have
not received a reply to my letter.
The most distressing problem for these
people is the uncertainty. So as to be able
to get support for their applications for
refugee status, they will need our support
— this means your support. If in the elections the environment can be a major
issue that turned people's votes, shall not
the more, fellow humans! Do we 'give a
damn' about the environment, but not
human refugees? Do we weep with Mr.
Hawke when the problem was on
television, but not when the people are
on our doorsteps. Do we whore out our
compassion to the lowest bidder i.e. the
lowest cost to us personally.
Let it not be said that Australians have
lost the qualities that have set us apart in
the International field. Let us support
these people — especially those who
arrived before Tiananmen — in their
endeavours to obtain permanent residency
in Australia. It is the least that we can do.
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The First Anniversary
OfThel\/lassacre
by lustin Corfield
W
ith the first anniversaiy of the
Tien An Men Square Massacre,
there have been a host of
commentators who were not there, some
of whom have never visited China, and
who are often not even Asian specialists,
who have chosen, in the face of all the
evidence to the contrary, to impute that
there was no massacre in Beijing on the
night of 4June last year.
Now, with the benefit of evidence that
has later emerged, it is known that the
vast majority of the people who were
killed in Beijing were not actually killed
in the Square itself. But to claim that
because of this discrepancy, nothing did
happen in Beijing on that night is changing
the facts.
What did happened has received so
much coverage already that any further
analysis is somewhat redundant — and I
was not here at the time (although I was
in Beijing two months before the massacre).
What has not been emphasis, however, is
that on that night there was an outburst
of popular discontent throughout the
entire country.
Interestingly, earlier this year there were
demonstrations in Taiwan, Nationalist
China, about the right of elderly deputies
to sit in the National Assembly. There,
the Government, which is democratically
elected, used such restraint that one elderly
deputy died.
This, however, highlighted and contrasted
a democratic, forward-looking Goverrunent
in Taipei, with its old adversary, the
undemocratic, backward-looking Government in Beijing. These elderly Taiwanese
deputies were elected in the only
democratic elections ever held
throughout China, a fact that seems to
have been overlooked by much of the
coverage of Taiwanese demonstrations.
The demonstrations in Beijing which led
to the Tien An Men Square Massacre
were not a result of the students trying to
emulate Taiwan or Hong Kong. Even if
this were true in some cases they were in
the minority. However, once the outburst
of popular anger and resentment flared
up on the night of 4 June, the "people" —
the factory workers, the labourers, office
workers, clerical staff, and the building
workers, joined the disturbances and
these may well have aimed to bring
down the entire communist hierarchy
where nepotism and corruption have
been allowed toflourishunchecked.
With the nrst anniversary of the massaae,
we should remember the struggle of the
people — those who died, those who
remain in prison, and those still suffering,
abroad or at home, and make sure that
the revisionists who claim that there was
no massacre do not allow their views to
alter the truth.
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25 Worst things
about Sex
l.lhe time wasted Before it.
2. Ihe time wasted after it.
3. Sharp teeth.
4.9{p batteries.
S.9{p rubber sheet.
6. 'Hg baby oil.
Caterpillar
Ihe television's off
Ihe television's on
"Kfd and blackjn his eyes
A handraised, then impact
I tense and wait
!^ muted in fiction
Tor the whiplash atmosphere
Intertwines Ukf vines
To release its force on me
.Ground my purple plum's blossoming blush
(!His dinner was burnt, it's true)
7. friction bums.
8. Tfte hammcclibreaking.
9. Ihe trampoline breaking.
10. Ihe wind breaking.
ll.JicCosedmind.
12. Jl cCosedmxmth.
(I walked into a door, that's all)
Ihe television's on
13. 'Being overworked and underpaid.
14. Losing the k^y to the handcuffs.
15. Losing the rhythm.
Ihe television's off
They apologise in never-never land
Jrenzy prepares his meat
friendly, familial five-minute solutions
16. lising the rhythm.
17. ^yiaving to go in the middle of it.
18.9{ptgetting out in time.
19. Ilne^qpectedtastes.
!He 's coming home late
'While I stand here, stewing in acid
anddrunk.and...
This sky-blue prison
M my so-pathetic self
Is leeching my soul
(But I haven't anyv£ere to go)
20. yinding out the person is a drag.
21. Jinding out the person is in drag.
(I don't mind being by myself, ready)
The television's off
22. 'Popping in une?(pected[y.
23. 'Popping out
uneûtedly.
24. 'Popping offune3(pected[y.
I'mnot brokftt but broke
The television's on
Ihat screaming, crying, moaning mess
Ifledmy prison arulnow?????
(Plays its dirges
1 am happy in my little cocoon
fn my mind
Soon I'll be butterfly safe and then
Jis I bury those blows along with..
fWe art free).
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(The children need a home, after all).
1990
IsabeUe "Kiuger
Essay
/ was sitting at my desk.one day
attempting to write my history essay
The caffeine tossed and turned in my tummy
IfeCt as light as an overwrappedmummy
Ihe grey matter in my head refused to work.
and Ifelt like screaming and going berserk.
9dy contact lenses played up ingreat style
Ihe pages blurred • it was really a trial
Nightmares
Jleadache, hunger and eyes hanging ou t
this was worse than being in a drought
Ihe essay was due the very ne^ct day
I did not really have time to play
I swore thereafter never to study history again
'Writing these essays zms worse than overbearing men
Ihat night I dreamt about standing in a precinct
watching the past slowly becoming e?ctinct...
Ignoring the noise that pervaded from the bo^
the aches and pains, the hole in my socks
I studiously bent my head and read
even though I was dying to go to bed
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(Hammers started banging in my head at full speed It was wellafter midnight Tijhen I wrote the last zvord
This unnecessary suffering seemed quite absurd
(My stomach growled- it wanted a feed.
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iSe stmcfi of state sewerage suffocates us, mtfi
tHe never ceasing odours of racefiatTtd.
So putrid tfiat it sodi^ tHrougfi tfie s^n to coat
the bones of our dead-suffering ancestors.
The shit in the cesspool STVirls round and around,
tripping up the hungry, the destitute, the homeless,
the angry children ...
ihe slippery hands of vultures, whose pity reeks
of the carcasses of the forgotten, willnever be
able to grasp the reality: the poverty within us.
Ihe revolt canfed, now it speaks, words of disgust,
luords of dignity. Our tears of rage tear bloody
valleys into our cheeks- The acidity eats away
to reveal the inner strength.
Soon they will wade, sink_and drown in
the contempt we havefor them.
"We spend OUT nights and days andlives shovelling
the shit out of the cesspool
"Wade through the cesspool andyou wade
through me.
And they calmly aski "'Why co-en't you dead?"
'We pit baciiat the claws of ignorance. "We vomit
into the "made-up"powder-heads with our owngun
poivder, made up from the decades of seething
silence, that is angrier than words; their tools wfdck
we refuse.
Listen to my silence.
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"Stuff it" I said. "Why wait until Tuesday for 'The
Big Gig". I think I'll have breakfast with the Doug
Anthony All Stars ... and I did.
Lot's - Where did you guys meet?
Tim - no way, bugger off, next question (and
general agreement from Richard and Paul)
Tim - We met in the bloody Balkans when I was
working on a gulag archipelago. It was my first
novel, and I was a bit nervous about it. But it
seemed to come up well, they locked me away
and 1 grew a beard, and then I met Richard and
Paul, in Stalag 13.
Paul -1 was working on a film at the time. I was in
the bar scenes. 1 don't know if you remember,
there was a fist up my bottom at the time - it was
a great film, with lots of lovely colored lights on
me.
Tim - The real truth is impossible to believe.
Lot's - Why did you bestow such an honour on
Doug "the big guy" Anthony?
Richard - We're not talking about Doug Anthony.
It was Douglas Wilhelm Anton. He was a black,
gay activist in Berlin in the 1920's, who vanished
not so mysteriously in 1939.
Lot's - Tim, the election - earth shattering heartache
or a learning experience?
Richard - I'll speak for Tim, as Tim's campaign
manager. We only managed to get 3.5% of the
vote, or some 3000 votes in all. 1 think this is a
rather poor result, and 1 think this is mainly due
to the fact that we didn't actually campaign in the
electorate at all during the entire campaign.
Lot's - Cenymander?
rim - Yeah, I think there's a gerrymander at work
in Kooyong. I think that the more big houses there
are, the loss polling booths there are. 1 was really
appealing to the rich people, and 1 think the poor
people of Kooyong were the ones that let me
down a lot. 1 might go for the Senate next. I
dragged Peacock down with me. That's what I
wanted to do. I wanted to destroy the man. 1 did single handedly 1 brought Peacock down to his
knees.
Richard - Because when it comes to being shallow,
vaccuous, and pretty, Tim wins hands down.
Lot's - Hobbies, interests? An insight into the
men?.
Richard - Sex is Tim's adventure
Tim - Sex is my adventure.
Paul - Whaf s the question?... I don't have any
hobbies.
Richard - Sex is Paul's adventure as well.
Paul -1 like to dabble in sex. Art is my adventure.
Tim - We're goint to paint a tram
Lot's - How do you handle being mega sex symbols
Paul -1 don't think we're sex symbols. Do you
think we're sex symbols?
Tim - Every step of the way we denounce sex, and
every step of the way we present sex completely
without any eroticism whatsoever. I don't think
people find us sexy at all. I think on the whole
people find us fairly vile and ugly, stupid, pimply,
rancid little creatures who they wouldn't give the
time of day. Certainly no-one has ever approached me for sex. Or Richard, or Paul. I'm
saving my wrigglys until I'm 40.
Richard - Also, Tim's got a saying, and 1 want you
to print this - to all the kids out there at Monash
University - remember, "Full balls, empty head"
Lot's - Your new album Icon - the word's not in the
shorter Oxford dictionary. Whafs it mean?
Tim - That's for you to work out. It's not for us in
interviews to explain what we do to people or
every single nuance of an album to people. The
album was full of ideas and concepts some of
which are very ambiguous and vague. If we were
to explain it then that would take away the
mystery of the music. Wagner didn't sit down and
write essays about everything he wrote - well, he
did actually...
Lot's - How would you describe you music? I was
sort of thinking rap, thrash, country-western,
psycho, gospel, rhapsody, highland, harmonic,
Rock 'n' roll, folk style?
Tim - Just say sexy. We are in a position that no
rock and roll band is in, we can do country and
western and gospel, folk and classical music all in
the same five minutes, mainly because, the whole
idea of DA AS is one of an eclectic garbage bag full
of anything we can get out hands on...
P«H/... armson ...
Tim... arms on. Hans is our roadie.
Lot's - Do you guys really dislike God or what?
Tim - We've got a really close relationship with
God. Jehovah really gives me the shits, and Allah
really has his finger on the pulse.
Richard - I'm more of an old Testament man
myself, 1 think. You know, all of that eye for an
eye stuff. That's pretty wild I think. You watch,
Mohomed and his pals will all be goose stepping
in our loungerooms in a fortnight.
Lot's - You pick on the moonies, the catholics, the
commies, hippies, the Hari Krishnas, sexually impotent, drunJcen, drug pushing, scumbags
Tim - just say scientologists, forget the rest...
Lot's- . Have you made any oiemtes?
Tim - Yes, we get the odd death threat, most of
which we disregard, a couple of which we have
taken quite seriously. Some guy actually tried to
stab me, and followed my family around for days.
There is a guy from the anti abortion lobby - or a
woman, we don't know - who wrote an
anonymous letter, and who wants to boat us to
death with a plastic foetus.
Lot's - which group gave you the greatestreaction?
Tim - I'd have to say the left. The Left as a whole
are the most cheerless, humourless pack of
sodomiting wankers. The Left have completely
lost all their balls, all their teeth, and they don't
know what to do about it. So all they can do is
knee jerk out towards us. We arc not a target for
the left, they're our target. There is nothing more
boring than socialists and marxists standing
around whispering, still trying to flog their second
grade ideas off to a world that doesn't listen to
them anymore. Tiannamen Square has destroyed
anychanceof the world becoming socialist. 1 don't
care if there is a difference between communism
and socialism. As for Mao Tse Tung - What a
wanker! I'd have thought after Joseph Stalin the
university students of Australia would realise that
perhaps becoming Young Liberals would be a
much belter course of action. All 1 will say is that
dialectical materialism has had a conversation
with itself and has disappeared up its own arsehole. OK?
Lot's - Do vour ideological poles ever come between you guys?
Richard - The Polish I think are very ideological
Tim - idealogical poles ... well, look, we've been
picketed by fascist skinheads, by the extreme left,
and by Born Again Christians. We've been attacked
by Moslems and anti abortiotusts. If you can upset
people on the extreme right, the extreme left, and
the extreme middle, where else are we supposed
to go? We've gone the full pendulum, it seems
that instead of going from left to right, we just
seem to go completely round, and do a circumference.
Richard - Pendulums don't swing around. They
swing from side to side
Tim - Yeah I know, where as we go WHOA (he
said, with wildly gesticulating arm movements,
somewhat akin to a windmill)
you are going to get into a whole world of strife.
Because, no matter what you say, you are going to
upset people, and the more intense your beliefs
are, and the more fervently you express them, the
more violent the reaction will be. The truth hurts.
It does hurt
Paul - but I didn't go out of my way to look silly -1
just grabbed whatever... 1 didn't spend money on
it.
Paul - gets a laugh thougK
Paul brown ...
Lof's- Is there a line?
Tim Is there a line? Sure, there's a line. The line is,
"Is it funny?". If the answer is yes, then we'll do it.
If the answer is no, then the joke will be cut.
Lof's - The record was banned in England. They
rejected the book too didn't they?
Tim - The book's through now. The record might
take a bit longer, because there are menhons of
the IRA and that sort of thing, about which the
English are particularly twitchy, with some good
reason. But I don't thmk our use of the KA is anything but ambiguous.
Lot's - so how would you describe that shirt for the
viewers?
Lof's - "Bottle" - you were saying you were watching "Kimba the White Lion?
Paul - You know that scene where Daniel Boone
has opened up that tree house, and they've all got
drinks - the tables are flooded with drinks, and all
the monkeys and everyone are having a party,
and they all get knocked out on Jungle Juice, and
thaf s when what's his name - the evil Lion comes in with the black eye, and it was because of
that. We just saw that scene and it rose up atid
said "You've got to write a song about this". So we
sat there, and it just happened. It was one of those
experiences.
Richard - If people think it speaks of some great
emotional crisis then they'd be very wrong.
LoCs - "Bottles" - that's a great song. What inspired
it? I think a lot of people got a shock when you
sang it on the "Big Gig" -1 think they were waiting
for a fuimy line.
Tim - Especially with Paul's bowels hanging out of
his stomach.
Paul - It happened one night when we were sitting
around watching old re runs of "Kimba the White
Lion". I don't know, it just came to us.
Paul - Tell it to the inventors mate...
(Richard disappeared for a few moments, and
returned in different clothing)
Paul - "Drink from Cans" - thaf s what we're
trying to say.
Tim - We played all the instruments on the album.
Aren't we clever?
Lof's- all of them?
Tim - you bet
Richard - except for some.
Tim - we had a couple of friends in the studio who
joined in because we were all bored and pissed.
Richard - So we're more like a clock, is that what
you're saying? Never, ever mix your metaphors
around me again.
Paul - What on earth are you wearing?
Paul - Don't ever, ever?
Richard -1 bought a new shirt
Richard -1 didn't say ever, ever. I said never, ever
Paul. Get your ears unblocked.
Paul - That brown one you are wearing? Do you
think brown and black leather go together?
I did most of the brasswork, Richard plays drums
and guitars, so he did all that sort of stuff, and
also Paul plays a bit of sax. Although not very
well. He did most of the playing in 'Change the
Blades".
Lof's - How far would you go for a laugh?
Richard - yeah ...
Lof's - Any final words?
Tim - The thing with us is that we never sit down
and say "How can we offend people this week?
How can we upset people" All we do is we say
what wo think is funny. And wo say what we
believe. And as soon as you say what you believe,
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a blue Tshirt, and a baseball cap either.
Tim - Study and drink a lot.J
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P.S.Icon is out on the DAAS Kapital label, and includes hits such as / Want to Spill the Blood of a
Hippy, Dead ElxHs and My Baby's Cone to Jail.
Multicultural Week! 30/7
Are you Ready?
Look
out for this on-coming, colourful chain of events on the week beginning the 30ttl
July
Calling all zealous and enthusiastic participants for this year's MULTICULTURAL fanfare of "UNITY IN DIVERSITY."
Set your distinctive culture of your motlierland aSfaz^
Let the best in you shine forth
Here's your gold opportunity. Grab it.
Special Highlights include:
• Food Bazaar/Carnival — 30th July
• Multicultural Night — 3rd Augus
Be sure to make yourself available for this week's exciting events!
Come let your voice be heard
your suggestions made known.
For further information, please come to our checkpoint — the O.S.S. Lounge^ UniopBuilding
%!fe,
or contact
^ ^
• - Matt Villani (Programe Co-ordinator) — 565 ext. 6136
Or any of the Committee of the Monash Overseas Students Services.
BENEFIT GIG $3
7,
Friday June 1, 7.30 pm,
Glory Box,
the Inked Factor
& Roller Coaster.
Compared by. The New Generation
Venue: The Richmond Club
Lofs Wife Thureday 24th May, 1990, page 20
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Chemical Reaction
byPmiel
O'Hagan
CHgMICAL REACTION — a project
joimly mitiaieiJ by VVcsi ilieatre and the
Hazcheni Confimiltcc.
Directi?d by Wanda Dopierola
Writer in rcsfdoncc - Pam Leversha
Performance -~ Donna Aston, Michael
Carmen, Peter Edmonds, âgryana
Popov.
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Touring throughout the western suburbs;
schools, community groups, etc
Public Performance — SiUurity 25 May
8.00 p.m.
Resistance Centre, 14 Anthony Slitei,
Melbourne.
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Tickets $10/S6 discount for pre-booked
JSSmMM:..
A i ^ ' g e ofactivist groups will have information stall on the night and discussions
winbehcld after the play about how to gci
i9y(>lvld. Drinks will be available.
fsfU'Tili
V h y y6& mention protection of the cnviit^mcnt, the imihediaic image ihnt is
conjured up is,one of tree and woodchipping. West theatre's new play "Chemical
Re?ictioa", tackles issues literally in our
baci^d.
The play was d e v e f o ^ ^ W p o n s e to the
increasingly dang^jul'SituaSion in the
western suburbs with the tlireat (^chemical wastes, fires and toxic leaks, I'olt&wing
an approach from Wostutb and the
Chemical Hazards AcUon Group seeking
help to rais&^wareness and action. West
has attempted, to create, a play that
demonstrates die iâ{4y of life for people
in the area, as well as provide some optimism anddircction for finding solutions.
The gross nature of advertising and consumerism is cleveriy interwoven into the
play. The role of capital lo niak.c a profit
from anything is highlighted by two obnoxious characters who ha*? jumped on
the bandwagon of die environment b y \
6XPI.CISI' ^Ktrying fo sellproducts »rhich-iyiU "bringy?
se^tybyminimisingrisk^', ,~,;ji ,'*
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Scenes depicting a local family draw out
the genuine diversity of reactions to living' The recent battle to s^^ve Ijie ^t^lscray
Football Club is also incbi^^'ted into the
under the threat of chemical coclctails.
plot along with some astute interchanges
Fear, denial, cynicism along with anger,
between 'Boh' the local politician and
frustration and action are all apparent
'Bob' the bu-iincss executive. Despite the
liiimoious mk'niions, the scene is too
close to re<ilit\ to totally gloss over.
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The plJir not only successfully
catasU'ophe. T o klsep your head clear to
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following instÎions." '
natweot the uisues, but It also raises questions and provides some insight into the
"Grandma, How can you keep your head
need toorgnniseandtakecolleclive action
clear in a toxic cloud?"
to fight tor sqlulioniu________
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The play opens dramatically, with scopes
inmdc one of the local factories, tlsiies,
rol.iiL'il 10 occupational health and safety,
the btresscs in the workplace, fumes, acci»
dents are humorously but vividly
rccrcninl lodrive home the points.
November
Spawned a
Monster Morrissey (EMI)
by Lisa Bardellini
"NOVEMBER S P A W I ^ D A MONSTER"
is yet another fine offering by Morrissey.
This record, perhaps gives a trickle of
insight into the sombre childhood of the
man himself and the experiences which
affected him emotionally.
The rich, intricate sound combines with
hues of black and white lyrics to deliver a
single which creates an aura of dark,
provoking thought.
"Jesus save m e from pit, sympathy and
people discussing me . . ." "November
Spawned a Monster" is highly addictive;
a transcendent effort which tells Ihe painful story of a disabled child trapped within
a body separate from ihe mind.
"The wheels beneath her are hostage to
kindness".
Jeff Dahl Group — Scratch Up Some
Action — Dog Meat Records.
JEFF Dahl used to be the front man with
the Angry Samoans. Here he has a twelvetrack album out on red vinyl. It is available
on that awesome Melbourne based label,
Dog Meat Records, at cheap local prices
(around $14.00).
fcy Ned
MacDonald
Hate Your Friends — The L«monheads (Augogo) [EP]
THE Lemonheads have the same status as
Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and Mudhoney.
Don't confuse Ihe Lemonheads as one of
these — however, they are the closest
thing to a punk band to be heard in years.
These four boys have got attitude; in the
way that the guitar ruthlessly buzzes and
the bass kicks or in the way that the beat
drives your spine lo hospital. There are 14
tracks on Hate Your Friends; it is a
record that encompasses a few American
releases. There are copies floating around
on lemon coloured vinyl. It's available at
local prices.
The Lemonheads have the same simple
appreciation of noise and melody that
made Husker Du's first records so essential. Their cover of "Amazing Grace" has
to be heard to be believed as does "Rat
Velvet", "UHHH" and "Fed Up". The
Lemonheads are young, loud, fast, noisy
and scientific.
Jeff is a man with frizzy hair and a silly
goalie, he has a modey backing band of
equally freakish characters. Serious
failures Uiat never made it to the leather
codpiece school of fashion. Scratch Up
Some Action is a record that goes beyond
looking good. It sounds good, A set of
sU'ong songs that are given the patented
rumbling, smash-thcm-up, motor-city-action guitar technique.
Negative Waves — Bored — Dog
Meat Records [EP]
THE Easyrider picture on the cover gives
this album by Geclong's most famous
foursome away. They like their hair long,
they like to ride their BMXs hard and they
like to play. The Cover of Remedy is a
treat. Also the version of AC-DC's
Whole lotta Rosie is exemplary.
There are covers on this one you'd do well
to notice: the Stooges' "1970", Rory
Erikson's "Two Headed Dog" and VU's
"White Lighl/White Heat". So what does
that say about the Jeff Dahl Group? They
like rock 'n roll music.
The key elements of Bored are freedom
talent, hair, guitar, mean infiuences and
volume. Now, if you want this to be captured on record, pick up a copy of Negative Waves by Bored. It will shock you. It
will two guitar-rock you. The shrieking
vocals will smash your mind. This will be
a classic some day.
Pounding pigskin, slapping bass and more
of the double guitar credo. Jeff Dahl
knows how to write his own. With an
unusually melodic style for a record of
this volume Scratch Up Some Action is
essential American rock listening,
Sorry guys, the Classifieds idea is obviously a dead loss. For the whole of first semester
we managed to attract approximately 6 classified ads. Not exactly a promising start.
So, that's it. Kaput. Finite. No more classifieds in Lot's Wife. We tried, but obviously the
market just isn't there.
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Ridge (Condoms Cleared) * Corrpct Crossword: Simon Yung & Anthony Emery
The categories for the next competition are:
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collap.se no-onc will be smiling.
by Tim Coyne
One of the key points of economic change
highbghtcd by the recent OECD report
was the abysmal level of savings in
Australia. Itsuggests that this is indeed an
important area, whic|,4cquires major
policy ch
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n the latest OECD survey, some key
points were highlighted .T relation to
the Australian economy and it's worsening plight. Whilst economists argue
about whether a recession is with us, the
person in the street is probably more
qualified through experience to answer
that question,
The key role of savings in the Japanese
pou-war success story was reccndy oathned by one of the world's leading business
consultants. Professor Peter F. Drucker,
who is Professor of Social Sciences at die
Claremonl Graduate School in California.
This article appeared in the Wall Street
Journal, January 9,1990 asa lead feature.
Dnicker suggests that one of the major
reasons for Japan's rapid and unprecedented growth was not through laciors
such as culture, or structure, but it's low
cost of capital. American and other
It is the first time in our economic history
tliat we are experiencing high inflation,
high unemployment, huge external debt.
continually rising current deficit, low
savings ratio and record levels of persmial
debL It seems that as long as the Hawke
Government continues along it's present
path, onr wonderful standards of living,
that they keep telling us we have, will be
no more. When it comes to an economic
western companies were paying 10 per
cent to 15 per cent for money, regardless
of whether ihey were short-term borrowings, fixed debt or equity. The Japanese,
however, have been paying around 5 per
cent as a result of not having to borrow
overseas (one of Ausb^lia's problems)
due to it's large savings base. This savings
ba.se was built after llic war, on advice of
the Occupations ocomomic adviser,
Joseph Dodge, a Detroit banker. He suggested that savings be made tax-free as an
incentive to slave off disaster, amongst
other policy changes. It worked, within
weeks inflation disappeared and in six
months the savings rate mmed up from'a
negative dissaving rate, and continued to
rise. At die same time, lax revenues increased when these accounts, which were
tax-exempt, were scrapped in 1988; practically every Japanese - poor, middle or
affluent had one. Drucker notes that the
highest concentfation of these tax-exempt
accounts was among fairly low-income
earners.
He also notes that any country which has
given tax cxcmption/dcfcrmcnt to saving
has had the samcexperiencesas Japan; the
middle and low-income earners take advantage of Uiis savings incentive offered,
which fuelled the explosive growth of the
Japanese economy and export drive.
While the rest of the world seems to be
taking note of Japan's success, the
"world's greatest we^surcr!", Paul Keating, and the countiy's "most comical"
opposition have rejected the idea. It
seems the major parties are oblivious to
any source of logical discussion which
occurs, which may in fact be worth consideration in view of our economic
problems.
Labor Students
by James Harrison
A
n issue of immense importance
and concern within the union
movement at present is that of the
Builders L a b o u r e r s F e d e r a t i o n ' s
"agreement" with labour-hire agency
Troubleshooters Available. Last
Thursday the Trades Hall Council passed
a resolution that if the deal was not called
off then it would not support any BLF bid
for re-rcgisttaiion. This decision should
be supported in its entirety on die grounds
that such agreements, and the labour
practices which ari.se from them, are a
direct threat to the rights and employment
conditions of all workers involved.
Troubleshoolcrs Available is an agency
w Inch suppht s I ihosircrs tu huikhng sites
on a set rdte of pay in total disregard of
awarciwages indcondiuons Suchasilualion
leaves eniplo>ccs opi. n L(i c \plojtauon and
without rights toannual leave 01 withdraw
their labour lu strike in return, all
labourers employed by Troubleshooters
will haomi. munbcrs of ihi. Bl F
I or the n i l to m lU a dt il wiili An organisnion clostl> linkul with the 'New
Right" and mttiit on crippling trade
unionism Irom wiihm ts a reflation of
not only hnvk desperate the BLF is to
increase its incnitKr';hip but also h w
irrcsponsihlL iiid i iiLnnt !t,s Iwdcrship
hashttome
igma of going
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gi AI F tluh ineeung <jn May
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lifiL was the "abortion
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Liberal Students
by Merahe ^mtbtrtrng
P
olitics IS a funny business li
requires dedicaiion, pauence and
a commitment to what >ou believe
Very few people are prip irod to iiiiikc
what IS commonly fcgardcd as a social
sacrifice, h> being tnilv Lomnutted to a
particular uloology tii the exclusion of all
other Ivlnds or )X)mLs of VKV. AS one
formerLibcralixililKlansaid "Youcitlicr
liave to hi mad, socuiltv inopi or overly
ambitious lo join a jioliUcal pari), aiui
remainacti'di involved"
However, v-oasidenng so few people are
prepared to mv olvc Dicmsclv cs, and openly
dedarc their ixilUKal views, the majoniy
of j)eop]e arc ficc lo clioobc what ihe> arc
offered ai-turjing to the mcnt.s and
policies of political parties or mdividtu
Unfortunately these days WIKII tl
policies and platforms of the mam i WIK
seem to the average voter a link li ird t.
differentiate, people are looking lor dicr
nauvcs.Tliescmaynotnccessardj 11 I'îe
to deliver what is required, but tt
a^
seen as appropriate representation cit I!K
increasing number of polidCalh J M
lusioned people. In the icicnt I edi i
•OfHX'J > 1
eke lion, the media '
Ausualians as apathjic inel ! I
naiv;,insteadofiar£« i) iKic
ilK luJ
vvhedier the maat p i
vonomic
V laWc solutions to
and social problen
MUiough a numhe r o) {Xitiuc jl eommcfttaturs came to the lonciUiion ihi
Federal Opposiuon had
appropriate cei nonnt pcili ics, tcfed-'
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> Australia's burdening economic
e '!> \s, tbe fact remains Uiat our complex
! LtOral system with its emphasis on
prefereul il voting, meant that the
iiimtirU) p irtics could undermine the
wtvic ^lluutlon, and determine the outen i> h ' Iding die balance of power.
I nto die '90's, a new problem
Ausu-alian politics
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ill • main parties
he II minority
and little directii
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' proSTems f M B M B t , " " " ' ^ ^ ^ ^^^^
with minority
their own, not
to reach a
ues that will
jup out of the
economi,er than ever
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Conversation Multi-Cultural
Week
Group
by EddyChong
by Colin McNaughlon
What is your personal code?
E
ach individual at some time or
other has to choosca personal code
by which they will live — even if
it is to have no code at all! The code which
I will espouse isresponsibleand ecologically
sound, which can give the individual
purpose and through this, give humankind a future. The aim of this article is to
challenge the basic assumptions of many
people, and give a possible alternative to
them. We should never forget that ihe
governments who rule us are ultimately
the servants of the people, and it is their
duty to represent our wishes. When
governments fail us, our own actions can
change the world. If wc want an alternative future, the choice is ours.
As a producer — Choose work that is
free of violence, oppression and unsustainable practices; do not support those
forces which harm our natural and human
environments. Keep to two children per
couple — remember — one child in the
First World consumes the same as fifty
from the Third World.
As a consumer — As concerned human
beings we must begin to consume and
waste less — and live more. As wc do
consume, we must become more aware of
the impact our choices have upon resources
and people. Although our consumer dolliu
may not be able to bring down a multinational company, it does have an effect;
support local companies and organisations.
As a thinker and communicator — look
at yourself and try to find meaning in your
actions and feelings — try to escape
materialism and find less purpose in the
pursuit of material possessions; there is
much more U) life. Honour justice, the rule
of law and reject the rule of dominance on
all levels. Lxarn, educate, write, speal;,
campaign and think are some of things
you can do to increase awareness and
breakdown the barriers. Ignorance may be
bliss — but it kills.
As a participator — Protect your local
ecosystem and community for a local and
international voluntary organisations. Use
your vole. Expose changes, lies and
corruption. Use the law and constitution
to challenge the legitimacy of the Slate's
actions.
If every person in the world declined to
manufacture, bear or use arms, or to
tolerate injustice, peace would break out.
In essence the motto of this code is 'Think
globally, act locally!'. Think of your actions on a global level and act upon them
on a local level.
"When die forms of an old culture are
dying, the new culture is created by a few
people who are not afraid to be in.secure".
(Redulf Bahro). Are you one of these
people?
S
ince the admission of the first batch
of overseas students into AusU'alian
tertiary institutions in 1951, overseas
student enrolments in Monash Uni. have
grown tremendously. At present, there
exist many different overseas student
clubs of various cultures and nationalities
in Monash Uni., thereby providing a
variety of "flavours" to the multi-cultural
"society" of Ihe university.
No doubt the main purpose of getting into
a tertiary institution is to obtain a degree
and to be Gained academically for a fuhire
career: but tertiary institutions such as
Monash Uni are also a place for coming
into contact with people of different
cultures, ideas, and to broaden one's
knowledge of Ihe rest of the world.
The Overseas Student Services (OSS) of
Monash Uni was founded primarily to
represent and further the interest of overseas students in Monash Uni. Beyond that,
OSS also recognises ihe imporuince of
fostering cultural exchanges between
overseas students and the general student
population, thus resulting in projects and
efforts designed to promote interaction
and which create an awareness of the
diverse cultures among the students.
One such project is the Multi-Cultural
Week, a week of fun and exchanging of
different cultures amongst the many clubs
with their interesting and diverse cultural
and national background. Every year
around llie month of July, clubs lake these
opportunities [o promote cultures from
their country or origin respectively. This
was done tluough video shows, cultural
and sport demonstrations, exhibitions,
food-fair, some "spectators involved"
competitions or cultural games and usually
topped off with the highlight of the whole
week—a dinner, dance and fashion show
night.
The Funniest
Marx Brother
by Ernest Zanatia
E
veryone laughs at 'YiaM|CJT of
the Marx B r o l h c r s ^ H ^ w ^ ^ c o
and Groucho. For the bcller pai||pf
seventy years, people have considMd
these three to be amongst the grcaifsl
comedians of all lime.
*
On Multi-Cultural Night, Monash
University's overseas studenls always
bring with them glorious cultures in arl
and pei'ormances from tlieir counu-ics.
Every Mulli-cullural night, part of that
legacy unfolds as dancers revive midilional
dances and singers marrv ihe past with the
present through songs.
Prior to ihe performance, a delightful
Chinese dinner is served to guests. Last
year, visitors to the Multi-Cultural night
were entertained with cultures evolving
from a melting pot of nationalities — the
lion dance by CAV, a string of dances
such as Mountain dance and Bamboo
dance by the Filipino Society, candle
dance by Mumsu, a Chinese instrumental
by (he Chinese club, a Thai dance, guitar
solo by Chong Hua and many others.
Many traditional costumes, worn by
women on special occasions such as a
marriage or a religious festival were displayed by Monash's very own "models"
at the fashion show.
OSS will be holding another Multicultural Week this year with bigger and
better displays. A foodfair will be held on
Monday 29di July, in conjunction with a
tent decorating competition. Many
cultural clubs will be invited to participate
in the whole week. During the foodfair,
each participating club will begiven a lent
to decorate according to their culture and
sell their traditional foods. Prizes will be
given and profits from the sales will be for
the club's own benefit.
It will be a week conccnrated on recreating
dazzling cultures, a time to understand
and appreciate others' cultures and most
of all, a time of fun and merry-making
(after the long and tedious mid-year
exams!). So. if you belong to a club and
wish to participate, please contact Mat
through Ihe OSS lounge or direct exl
6136.
OSS might miss your club in their invitation, but they sure want you lo be part of
the whole event.
sciousness is that of Karl Marx. You must
accept ihc values of his llieory uncritically.
Of course, how do we know that Commo
is not suffering from Bourgeoisiegenerated false consciousness himself?
We don'L
,ny now. How about the
iiought up. Proleuirial
mple! According to
; the whdte of a society's culture,
and way of life is false. That is, we
muS^ destroy is, as it is keeping the
workers from becoming happy.
Karl Marx wanted tomake the workers
uibafiRy. Why? ^ M H H H i i U l d r i s e up
Proletarian
Power Purchase
by Jeremy Boone
C
omrades since the last colunum,
Marxist Marketing has taken off.
My compilation album of 24
working class songs has received gold
status.
The revolution will begin by consumer
purchase' To think. Parliament House
stormed to thelune of Communism in the
UK" by Leon TroLsky and the Icepicks, or
control of Channel 10 to play endlessly
video hits of 'The People United".
This, of coursîSidS f n e » the Boonist
Party Program of the Process of
Prolelanan Power Purchase Revoluuonary agitation has been a tonsistcndy poor
performance here m Australia. The simple
fact IS that the Working Class is alienated
from ihcir Class Consciousness, alien Jtcd
from each other and alienated from everything but "Neighbours", With this lack of
class consciousness, no revolutionary fervour will ferment. The revolution would
only sum if Hawthorn lost the fooly, and
then it would stop for the Sunday night
8.30 movie.
But the reality is the continuing exploitation. Theexlraclion of ???of surplus value
from the proletariat continues at an alarming rate.
As a result, a new revolutionary program
must come imp being.
The PrdC^sofProIefarrarK^cr
Purchase (PPPP) or "Pee.
Via Ihe creation of Marxist Marketing and
the comodification of the Revolution we
will build an ertipire. We will buy all we
can,—generate proletarian profit and use
accumulated capital against the forces of
capiuil.
Willi diis capital wc can storm the capital
and defeat the forces of capital by buying
out all of their capital.
We will buy out BHP, Shell, Ford, the
little man down the road who exports his
workers.
We would buy, buy, buy. If we cannot
lake full conlrol dien we sell, sell, sell and
smash the market from its foundation.
With an economy in collapse, the society
will be vulnerable lo a united attack by the
Boonist Proletarian Paraffooperb Revolutionary Vanguard (BRPRV)iin<}Jakc con-
"'• f f ,
~'4 4-
To diink, no more "Neighbours" on Channel 10. The ALP up against ihe wall first.
The Liberals second
Just the gentle sounds ol Poletarian partying as we ji.sher in a new era of communist
activity;
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T M i f J f C T R ^"^-^Cv
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Power to the people comrades, power to
the proletariat and power to the
proletarian power purchasing.
^r^
'til next edition smash Urianium Police
Suites.
i-ollowing on from that, the only true con-
GROOVY
|C<&LwAiWS
by Cluberella
A
s the assessment angot increases,
let's hope Club Culture becomes
more lively! Things have been a
bit slow Clubwise, most likely due to the
tests and essays piling up with tlie end of
semester.
Wednesday 9 May saw the opening of
Impact at High Society, WestTield Tower
in Doncaster. Unfortunately Cluberella,
the Clubber with a conscience and a seminar
paper, didn't attend but she was informed
about it anyway. "Pretty Daggy — if you
want theStripey Shirt Brigade then it's for
you.
Thursday May 10, United was Deep in
Vogue at the Cadillac; well, Cluberella
certainly wasn't overwhelmed! Poor
show, guys. DJ. Oliver was amiable
although his music wasn't so user-fricndly!
The supposed Madonna Celebration
didn't really seem to happen except for the
blurred videos showing on the screen. But
the following Thursday at the Caddy was
much better — back to the United of Old,
being Wild, Hot and Sticky!! Jelly
Wrestling II, Slippery When Wet and a
sure-fire way to haul in the Uni StudlEJs.
by Leigh Branagan
I
t's fun, exciting and a great way to
keep ni and healthy. What is it? It's
Squennis, a new game which combines the skills of tennis and squash,
without requiring an ability to play cither.
Played on a small enclosed rectangular
court with two or four people, the rules arc
simple and easy to apply. The court has
two nets which help lo make the game
more exciting. The racquets are similar to
racquet ball racquets and the ball is soft
and spongy and about the same size as a
tennis ball.
A busy Friday was had on the 11th May
wilh Life by Najee on Parade at the Metro.
Suits from their new shop further down
Bourke Sueet were on show, so outfit the
Man in your Life with Najce.
But Cluberella was Xpressing herself at
Chasers, while the Public Enemy Album
launch got underway. Their new release is
entitled "Fear of a Black Planet", however
DJ Mark James showed No Fear wilh his
full on vinyl rotations. He deserves credit
for some of the best beats (Black and
Beautiful) I've heard in a long while.
The game has been designed for both the
highly skilled person and those who have
difficulty with squash and tennis but still
want 10 have fun and keep fit.
The Squennis court we have at Monash is
the only one in the world and is located
between the pool and the tennis courts.
Wednesday 16 saw the Chevron launch ils
Pool Competition. All wanna be hustlers
register at 8.00 pm. Competition starts at
8,30 pm. Pool sharks take the bait every
Wednesday at the Chevron.
If you are interested and want to have a
game, then call into the Sports and
Recreation General Office and see the
Recreation Officer.
There is no cost, however, the court will
only be open between 9.00 a.m. - 5.30
p.m. Monday to Friday.
Arts & Crafts
by Luke Harris
C
reativity may be far from your
mind as the countdown to the
exams continues, but afterwards
— why not take the opportunity lo pursue
an old hobby or a recent, inspiration at the
Monash Arts and Crafts Cenue? Students
benent from a 25 per cent discount
The many and varied courses begin over
June, July or even August, and operate in
the mornings, afternoons or evenings, so
you can attend at the most convenient
lime. Painting courses include Life Drawing,
monosh
Lot's Wife Thursday 24th May,
Impressionism, Landscapes and Seascapes, Fashion Drawing and Wildlife
Painting. Craft and Pottery are widely
covered through courses such as Tcrracotla
Wheelwork, Pottery for beginners, Leadlighting, Jewellery, Soft Toy-making,
Decoupage, making environmentally
Safe Products and many more. Study
skills can be enhanced either by our keyboard or typing classes and for science
students by a very useful course on
scientific drawing covering art of presenting visual information.
Meditate,and become one with Clayton
S
o, exams and the end of term are
charging towards us like Razorback, and it's about now you feel
that you should have brought the spare
ammunition, and Slasher. In fact, life is
looking both grim and short. Not to worry
though, because your trusty companion,
the MFC brought Otto, the pickled pig
onion who proves more than a match for
good 'ole raze (who despite his blood
curdling scream, and surgical grade
incisors, c a n ' t stand the smell of
vinegar!). Once again, the Monash Film
Group has lent its ever ready helping hand
(and Otto) to those in need. Get a boost
from the MFC as we approach this
dreaded lime of the year, as we present:
1990, page 24
Remember that the Pioneer Stereo Competition ends at Sanction on Tuesday 22
May, to be drawn the next Tuesday the
29th. So get all of those Blue passes
stamped to be eligible for the prize.
(the Universe in your second week) in our
Zen Meditation or relaxation courses, or
take any of a variety of courses related to
knitting, sewing and applique.
The centre has excellent and versatile
facilities, and welcomes any suggestions
from students as to which classes they
would like to see running. To satisfy your
curiosity, drop in and pick up our
brochure, containing many other courses
in addition lo those mentioned here. Now
is an ideal moment to book into somediing
that's guaranteed to take your mind off
tedious studies, for a while, at least.
On Thursday, May 24lh a Commercial
screening at 7.30 p.m.
Bored with mainstream Clubbing? Well
here's something different, a few of the
smaller nights and names going on down,
the other side of Town! Saturdays try
being Used and Abused at 397 Swanston
SU'eet with Alternative Dance Music from
RRR DJ Lawrence Hudson.
Tuesday, ID's in Greville Street features
DC#3 and D.J., Dr. Cid spinning the disks
from 10 pm - 3.00 am and with no cover
charge!
Two unusual openings occurred on
Thursday May 27th, the first being
Asylum on the comer Koornang &
Dandcnong Roads, Caulfield (even the
address is a bit crazy?!): free Tequila Inoculations and Test tube shooters. So get
committed to the Asylum every
Thursday!
Next Universe got off the ground at Nu
Dance Club in Dandcnong (good spellers
must live 'round here). The alcoholic
campus-dwellers have been targeted with
the $6. entry giving you free beer, wine
andsoftdrink until 12. Also.if you happen
to be near Springvale on a Sunday night,
then take a look at Base comer Springvale
and Heatherton Roads. With Johnny
Course in charge of the HipHopHouse
Dance Music, all should be well.
Meuo Friday May 25lh, Parade into the
wee'icend wilh the Designers from Bridge
Road. Seven of Richmond's newer labels
will be showing.
Chevron, Saturday May 26lh sees free
Laybacks at the Galliano/Sambucca/Falls
Creek snow promotion: your chance to
win a Weekend's skiing for 2.
Traniiformers, Thursday 24th sc« GO101 live at Contact, get Tlie Message
from ihe band.
ALSO on May 24, Cadillac houses the
Unite "Drugstore Cowboy" Premiere
Party, with free laybacks and film
merchandise giveaways.
The Big news to keep you occupied
between exams is the Biology
Warehouse Parly on Queen's Birthday
Weekend, Sunday June 10th at 663a
Chapel Su-ect, South Yarra. There's sure
to be seme Chemisuy as well between
DJ's from the Chevron and Chasers.
Adva.ic- I'ickcts $15 plus booking fee
availat!'. rom Ccnual Station and other
Record ops. Be quick as only a limited
number aie able lo be bought before Ihe
night
Passes — Visit MAS Tuesday and
Thursday between 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm
to stock up on all your favourites before
the break.
Peruse their display for Billboard and new
Chevron Passes.
So 'til July,
CLUB ON STUDIOUSLY!
When Harry Mel Sally
JBorn on the Fourth of July
with Billy Crystal, followed by a film wt
can all relate to,
starring Tom Cruise in his best role yet,
and this is followed by
Women On the Verge Of A Nervous
Breakdown.
Harlem Nights,
starring funny man Eddie Murphy.
All this for only $5.00
Then on Friday, May 2Slh, we present in
a membership screening at 7.30 p.m.:
Good luck to all with exams, and if you
don't think you went too well, not to
worry, you can always do it in January...
at Lauobc.
Sec you in there — gulp.
^lîXW^
La êtiU
VoCciise
by Eugene Alhan
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on
reat storm clouds rage with the
fury of Prospero's vengeance;
' dashing the passing shop of his
usurper and bringing (hem into his
bewitched domain, setting the scene for
a most remarkable tale.
The island which had been both prison
and sanctuary for Prospero and his kindhearted daughter Miranda is fashioned in
the shape of a man's tormented face —
that of Prospero'sor perhaps his deformed
servant Caliban, son of Sycorax the witch.
Helen Morse's performance as Ariel is
captivati ng as she dances above the waves
casting spells upon the unwary visitors to
the island.
Caliban is played bV Frank Gallagher as
the pitiful half man/half fish slave to
Prospero who plots to kill him. He is
humorous, uagic and reminiscent of J.R.
Tolkien's Gollum from "The Hobbit".
runs away. Her brief spell of happiness
however is short lived as she is captured
by the police for her thieving and placed
in a girls' reform school.
Perhaps the most impressive performance
is that of John Gaden as Prospero around
whose anguish the story is created.
by Carole jean
The once Duke of Milan is reduced to
exile and a bitter man because of a desire
to understand himself and the realm of the
spirit. He neglects his worldly duties and
is betrayed.
La Petite Volcu.se (the Little Thief) is
the legacy of French filmmaker Francois
Truffaut who died in 1984.
It is the result of a screenplay originally
written by Truffaut and Claude de G irvay,
and brought to fruition by Claude Miller
who both wrote and directed the film.
The audience is swept into the darkness of
his rage and the joy of his relinquishment.
The conflict between 'order and chaos'.
The Tempest is Shakespeare's last play
and arguably his best.
Set in provincial France sometime in the
1950's we meet Janine (the little thieOJanine (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg)
has been abandoned by her mother, and an
unknown father, into the care of her insensitive and uncaring aunt and uncle. By die
age of sixteen she has become an expert
thief in order to obtain the sophisticated
clothes and cinema tickets to create a
world in which she can live out her
daydreams. In the words of her aunt,
Janine seems destined to follow in the
footsteps of her mother, "interested only
in movies and men", and it is indeed at the
movies that she meets her first love, the
forty-three year old and married Michel
(played somewhat unconvincingly by
Didier Bezace). Soon after this, however,
she meets Raoul with whom she eventually
The MTC interpretation is both entertaining and rcmarkahlc m its strong performances, splendid settings and costumes
and a theme that is still very pertinent
today.
The Tempest runs rrom 12 May to 10
June in the Playhouse at the Victorian
Arts Centfe.
In the past, MTC Shakespearean productions have remained rather safe, but in this
interpretation the Director, GaleEdwards,
has let imagination run free. This is the
MTC's first production of The Tempest,
a play that has been absent from
AusU'alian stages for over a decade, and ii
is well worth a look.
This lack of definite ending is one of the
main weaknesses of the film, although
presumably the audience is meant to be
left with a sense of hope for Janine's
future life. The real highlight of the film
is, however, Gainsbourg's performance as
the rebellious adolescent searching for
love and belonging in a world which does
not seem to care for her. Her acting is
conu-olled, mature and convincing. While
the story itself is adequate to hold die
viewers' attention, Gainsbourg's acting
sets the film above the average, and for
that alone The Little Thief is recommended.
The Little Thief is currently screening at
the Brighton Bay Cinema.
Timmy Says —
I
"Woof!"
Benefit for Wilderness Society
T
he other day as I strolled casually
along, lost in revelhy that comes
from having die self satisfaction of
knowing that another edition of )Loi's
Wife was out of the way, I spied a somewhat familiar figure. Sitting to one side of
my way ahead was Timmy the Dog. Not
being detered by the fact that he was frothing a tad at the mouth, I approached-him,
eager to gauge his opinion of our latest
efforts. This latest edition was clutched to
my side to a such a degree that my knuckles were white. While Timmy lacks a tertiary education, is none too aniculate on
most things, and is far from being an
Australian statesperson, I decided Uiatany
congratulatory remarks I could badger out
of him would boost my already overinflated ego and enable me to continue
wading in the mire of my own self glory
and delusion for the rest of the day.
After quickly scanning the copy which I
thrust towards him, breaking only to
scratch his ear, he replied quite catergorically "Woof!". Obviously Uiis was a congratulatory remark, even though Timmy
has no previous journalistic experience
and by a cruel stroke of nature is neidier
able to record nor inicllectualise his
thoughts But that was enough for me, and
I sailed down the street the roar from a sea
of praise ringing in my cars....
To Farrago,
''get "Wild"
at
Junction Oval Club Room
(Enter off Aughtie Drive)
Sunday June 10th
(Queen's Birthday Weekend)
$ 1 3
$ 1 0
(concession)
Food Provided
Full Bar & merchandise available
10 Bands
includes:
6 Comedians
Details
Her unhappy stay in the reform school is
also brief as she manages to escape and
return to her home village upon realising
that she is pregnant to Raoul. Again
rejected by her aunt and uncle, the last
scene of the film shows Janine on a bus
heading off to an unknown and unceruiin
future.
—
Wilderness Society
Oxo Cubans
Swinging Sidewalks
Brave New Worl
Rod Quontok
My Three Sons
—
Telephone 670 5229
by Lisa Bardellini
T
he opening "Used and Abused", a
spin-off of the 3RRR program,
"New, Used and A b u s e d '
promised a lot, and Laurence Hudson
delivered the goods with all the enterprise
ofa master DJ.
The opening night on Saturday 5th May at
397 Swanston Street (opposite RMIT)
proved to be a new haven for the alternative clubbers, especially those wanting to
catch the first train home in the wee hours
by Mark Elliott
Vince Jones "Dr Jazz" — Townhouse
Hotel, Swanston Street, Carlton.
D
escribed as "Australia's consummate jazz performer", Vince
Jones has returned to Melbourne
to play a series of April and May shows at
one of Melbourne's newer jazz venues,
Dr Jazz, at the Townhouse Hotel
Along with Sydney's Dave Addes on alto
sax and guitarist Guy SU'azzulo, who
respectively replaced Ian Chaplin and
Doug De Vries (who can now be seen in
Steve Vizard's in house band), Jones'
vocal and trumpet talents were supported
by Jes Saarelaht on piano, German drummer Nikko Shaylde, bassist Rolf Stube
by Alex MacLeod
P e l l e g r i n i s , 52 B o u r k e S t r e e t ,
Melbourne
It is a small bustling unpretentious Italian
cafe, clad in genuine 1950's lino. The
waiters and waitfesses are Italian, very
friendly and helpful, although you may
sometimes have a feeling that they are
delicately ignoring you. This is merely
because they are vague or overly busy.
Considering the place is open from 12
noon to 11-12 p.m. it is quite forgivable,
and there is much to direct your attention
anyway. One can quickly and painlessly
crowd-watch through the thin band of
mirrors placed at eye heighL There are the
of the moming. (Open 10.00pm -7.(X) am). be overplayed on radio and in other alternative clubs during the last three months.
It was also good to see Morrissey's solo
efforts being played alongside Smith's
classics since Mozza has been virtually
ignored since his departure from The
Smiths.
The music provided a diverse range of
ficsty tracks to keep you on the dance
floor Laurence kept the night rolling with
brackets of Indie Pop, golh, tfash, ska and
early 80's classic hits.The wide selection
of artists kept everyone entertained — I
found myself hoping for a song I didn't
like so that I could take a breather — yes,
brilliant moves such as playing "The
House of Love" followed by Duran
Duran's "Girls on Film" and "The Happy
Mondays" to top it off, proved to be just
another exercise in Hudson's craftsmanship.
It was a welcome relief to hear minimal
Stone Roses since the band have tended to
and regular percussionist, Ray Perera.
Jones took the stage at 10.00 pm for the
first of two forty-fiveminute sets, opening
with an up-tempo bop instrumental,
allowing each member to solo and blow
away any nervousness. In previous shows
it has seemed that the band often provided
backing for Jones' vocal and trumpet, but
he appeared more confident with this line-up,
and acted more as a front man for an
egalitarian ensemble. The lactic provided
the night's highlights in a rich arrangement of "Everything Happens to Me",
which received a new lively, poppy treatment, and in the range of solos played by
the band, including a brilliant percussion
solo in "Not Much".
Of the new additions, Dave Addes shone.
Working constantly, his solos were full of
frenetic bop energy, such that he was
while playing, the mood of the whole
usual range of coffees. Cafe Latte, Vienna, Cappucino, Short or Long Black etc.
cheap at$l to $1.50-. There is also a large
range of pastas ranging from Spaghcui
Bolognese at $4.50 through to Lasagna
and Gnocci (my favourites) to Marinara at
$7.50. They serve large nelpings, complete with perfect freshly stale buuered
bread. The desserts range from Gelati to a
substantial selection of pastries at $2.00 to
$3.50.
They're great with kids, and it's a way of
avoiding McDonalds when taking out
younger siblings and simultaneously astounding them with your sophistication.
Service is very quick, never more than 5
minutes and for a place to drop into for a
quick cheap tasty filling meal widi free
The night carried on with such names as
The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus,
Birthday Party, Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pop Will Eat Itself alongside the Ukes of
Blondie and The Specials.
397 Swanston Street is an ideal location
for Hudson's Club, with a relatively large
dance floor to cater for the jamming mas-
room heightened; his solos accompanied
by a room of toe and finger lapping. This
playing skill was most apparent, however,
in its diversity, shown in a sad, mellow
and reflective blow in "I'm a Fool to Love
You", which captured perfectly the mood
suggested by the title.
In my opinion, Doug De Vries' guitar
playing is a notable absence. Guy
Strazzulo's solos were crisp, but 1 felt that
De Vries' lush, strummed accompaniments were sorely missed in some
material, though it provided the opportunity for new arrangements of some
songs.
Jones loo, seemed more confident and
comfortable in his new surroundings.
Whereas at ID's for instance, he faced a
predominantly collegiate crowd, and
often looked to be consciously trying to
impress, tonight he appeared relaxed and
entertainment (other customers) — nothing beats Pellegrinis.
P.S. For you (Metro) Night clubbers, it's
half as expensive and tw ice as good as that
other place up the street. Fast Eddies.
The Regent Atrium 3Sth Floor Collins
Place East.
Continental breakfast $16.50 per person.
Many people would probably be aghastat
the idea ofpaying this much for breakfast,
although they would often readily, pay
this much for dinner.
Ausmilia doesn't have the cosmopolitan
tradition of eating out for breakfast like
North Americans and Europeans. Instead
ses. Drinks were reasonably priced but
unfortunately water was a hearty 80c a
glass (fascists!!!).
It looks as though "Used and Abused" is
going to be a force in the Alternative
Scene. The $7 entry fee couldn' t be better
spent and judging by the large crowd for
the opening Saturday nights are starting to
look a tad euphoric.
For all those people who haven't been to
an Alternative Club, perhaps Tennyson's
words from "Ulysses" are enough to
motivate...
"'tis not too late to seek a newer world"
casual, possibly feelmg more empathy
with the audience, which was largely middle
aged and would have been better
acquainted with his older, and covered
selections.This casualness showed in his
long-fiowing, spoken inuoductions, relating the inspiration or history behind a
song's conception. Such conversation is
always welcome as it creates a rapport
between performer and audience rarely
found in more rock-pop-oriented shows.
Overall, the music was wonderfully
played, drawing mainly on the last two
L P ' s and the "Come In Spinner"
soundtrack, though including a liberal
number of '50's and '60's standards and
pacier tunes from earlier albums. The
crowd appreciated the show warmly.
Vince Jones has the happy.relaxed aunosphere of a coffee and chat with an old
friend — the perfect foil for a week of
University blues.
we are condemned to soggy cereal-type
things which used to inspire me to drink
saline, take panadol and return to bed.
At the Regent Atrium, one doesn't have
the superb views, but a sumptuous range
of food. One stumbles into the seats, gently pushed by the waiting staff, who place
damask over you and ask what dose of
caffeine you require. After this, it is necessary to practise moderation and restraint
with regard to the sumptuous quantities of
food. I keep it simple, having one serving
of everything.
After 14 or 15 serves of food and a few of
the many different fruit juices available, I
don't feel like lunch or dinner.
k£.\/iE:v/S|
Ursula's Dream
by Justine Copley
F
rom the ashes of the long forgotten
music of the past has risen a new
Phoenix — Ursula's Dream. No.
that sounds too dramatic doesn't it?
Anyway, all bias removed, this new band
"Ursula'sDream" is good. Finallya cover
band has found the right connection; good
music, presence and proficiency. If you
like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The
Cult, The Cure, The Beatles, etc., this
music is for you.
Hotel. Ilie place was packed with friends
and onlookers who were treated to
"Telegram Sam", "Bad Gin", "Taxman",
Purple Haze", "Boys Don't Cry", "Foxy
Lady" and "Rock 'n' Roll" (Led Zeppelin) to name a few.
It took a while for the band to warm up,
this being their first pubUc gig. I don't
know what took the guys so long to go
public as their cohesiveness was evident
and their proficiency even more so.
AH bands start from the bottom, but I can
sense that this band won't stay there for
long. For one, they're writing their own
music which is fresh and new, so different
from a lot of the pretentious crap that
exists presently. Secondly, they're close
to humble, not shy, mind you, but their
egos aren't exxtly likely to surpass t
ability.
Their next gig is Saturday May 26lh at the
Richmond Club Hotel,at 9.30 pm.
I enjoyed a memorable Saturxlay night a
few weeks ago at the Richmond Club
loves
by Geoff Drechsler
Planet, and then we took it straight across
to North Carolina to Mitch Easter's
studio. His claim to fame was that he
produced the first two R.E.M albums and
a lot for American underground guitar
bands.
Lofs - How did The Someloves come
about?
Dom It started out as a studio project
back in 1986 when I did a tour of Sydney jLot's- What made you decide to work with
with a band called The Stems. I stayed Mitch Easter, as opposed to working with
with Darryl actually, the other guy in the someone in Australia?
band. We had similair interests in music Dom • Well we didn't really make the
and also liked a lot of other things, and he decision that we wanted Mitch Easter for
put the idea to me to record a couple of our album, it sort of just happened. Darryl
songs. That was the first single which was wrote him a letter saying, "We've got this
It's my time. We did that at Trafalgar and band called Someloves. Would you be
that's how we started off.
.interested in mixing some songs?." So we
Lot's - How different is it to you than
met him in America. He did "Know You
playing with The Stems?
Now" for us. Then we had to do an album,
Dom Both bands have that sort of melodic
so he did that for us as well. Basically we
pop kind of thing, but this is a bit more
made friends with him the first time we
contempory I guess, a more of a modem
went over to America, and we kept in
guitar album. The Stems were overtly a
touch. Thats how the album eventuated.
sixties revival band. People used to say
Lot's - What's the rest of the line-up for
that all the time, we used to deny it It
the band?
would give us the shits. It was a very small
underground thing when The Stems first
Dom Well they're mainly just friends of
started. We did one album and did fairly
the band from the music scene. A few of
the people are people from small
well.
Lofs - You started recording the album in American bands, that Mitch knows. His
wife played keyboards on the album.
•86?
Theres one guy Bobby Sartley who's in a
Dom Well that was the first Someloves
band over there called The Windbreakers.
single, which was an independent thing
Theres another guy called Jamie Sutler, he
which came out on Citadel, but the actual
plays bass and sings in an American band
album came about last year in Perth.
called the Spongecones, which are like a
Lot's - And then Sydney and North
Beatles uibute band.
Carolina. So how did this recording in
Lofs - For you as an artist, do you think
three different locations come about?
the Someloves are better than The Stems?
Dom Well the Sydney connection was
Dom - Yeah definitely, I'm happier playwhen we recorded Know You Now in late
ing. I still like the music that The Stems
'87, so that's the oldest track and thats the
did. Theres a bit more freedom in this
only thing that we've done in Sydney.
band. It's pop music. We write Classic
The rest of the album started off in Perth.
crafted pop songs. So you can come fi-om
We did drums, bass and a few guitars and
any kind of field really. The Stems were
quite a bit of lead vocals in a studio called
based on a sixties pop sound.
Lofs-Is this the bread and butter ofyour
life?
Dom No, not really, were not into big
success and that kind of thing. We just do
it because we like the music, we like writing songs. I'm holding down a day job,
and so does Darryl. We're not doing it to
try to become mega rock stars or anything,
because the kind of music we do, only
appeals to people who are interested in
guitar pop bands, maybe people who like
bands like The Sunnyboys, maybe The
Stems or The Church.
Lot's - Bands like The Stone Roses out of
England, The Sundays, The Church are
really big at the moment Do you think
there's a greater interest in that son of
thing at the moment? What do you think
of it?
Dom I think it's great, England is finally
coming up with bands, and music that to
me is interesting, and Uiey are bands thai
I like, bands like The Primitives, The
StoneRoses.HouseofLove. I'mnottoo
much into the dunce and synthesised stuff.
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number of well-known reggae and
African artists also played on the new
record, including the guitarist from the
iggy Marley, not surprisingly, Wallers, Earl "Chinna" Smidi.keyboaid
began his musical career under die player Franklin "Bubbler" Waul, and
direction of his father. Bob Marley. Chicago-based Ethiopian band, Dallol.
This involvement with music began with
the Melody Makers who featured the
children of the Marley family as members, The Rastafarian emphasis on social juswith Ziggy, (who at the time was only tice and Africanism is apparent in their
eleven), singing vocals. It was, however, new album. "Justice" (the story of Steve
another six years before the youthful band Biko, the subject of the film "Cry
produced an LP," Play the Game Right" Freedom"), "Love is the Only Law" and
"All Love" (which stems from Bob
Marley's classic "One Love") are all
Since then, the band has won a Grammy songs which stand out on the LP. Probably
for Best Reggae Album in 1988, as well the song which best sums up die attitude
asa Jamaican awardforbestalbum. While and direction of the Melody Makers is
playing, they have supported bands and "Black My Story (Not History)". The
artists such as U2 and Sting, with whom song moves through die African continent
they performed "One World" with. In and its history, illuminated by backing
addition they have toured with Stevie vocals sung in, Amharic, die Ethiopian
Wonder, The Clash, Peter Tosh and language by members of Dallol.
by Justine Copley and Geoff Drechsler
Z
Jimmy Cliff. The new LP "One Bright
Day" was recorded in the Bahamas, at Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Compass Point Studios with the final will be playing at Festival Hall on die 27di
production being done in New York. A of May.
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The 39th Melbourne Film Festival
By Sandy Guy
T
he Melbourne Fikn Festival was
established in 1952 to fulfil public
demand for conlact with developments in international cinema. While
there are now many more opportunities to
see foreign films, by way of television and
alternative cinemas, the Festival
programme is evidence of the vast array
of world cinema which can still reach
Australian shores. In fact, 80 per cent of
films shown during the Festival are unlikely to be seen again, and the majority
of films invited from foreign sources are
not guaranteed an Australian release.
Films are chosen from hundreds that are
submitted fiom around the world, and an
equal number are viewed by the Festival
director at key overseas fitai festivals.
These films are invited into the country
solely for the Festival, are shown here for
a very short time, and are then re-exported. While early festivals became
synonymous with European cinema, over
(he least decade the Melbourne Film Festival has taken a more global approach,
searching out films from the emerging
industries of Africa and Latin-America,
the independent cimema of North
America, and particularly the thriving
Asian cinema, which has contributed a
large percentage of films shown in recent
years. It is no different this year, with
films from Taiwan, China, Japan, India
and Hong Kong.
Festival director, Tait Brady, believes
audiences' interests have developed accordingly, and says of the breadth of the
program: "My personal favourites illustrate Uie variety of films that will
screen in ihis year's Festival. The Killer
is a stunning police thriller from Hong
Kong which niakes Lethal Weapon look
like "Brideshead Revisited". At the other
extreme is Surname Viet, First Name
Nam, a mesmerising feature length
documentary on Vietnamese immigrants
living in America. While stylistically the
films are oceans apart, I would hope the
same audience would appreciate the two
films equally. I see no conUadiction in
this, particularly considering the burgeoning interest in popular culture through ihe
'80s and now into the '90's".
The Melbourne Film Festival will again
feature the only International Short Film
competition staged in Australia, with
more than 400 entries coming in from all
over the world. They combine with
around 60 feaau^ - length films invited to
make up Australia's largest and oldest
film event.
The main venues for this year's Festival
will be the Astor Theatre, St Kilda, and the
Slate Film Theatre, City, with selected
sessions at the Valhalla Cinema,
Northcote and The Carlton Moviehouse.
For information regarding the Melbourne
Film Festival, and subscription forms,
contact the Festival Office on 663 1395 or
663 2954, or call into the office, which is
situated on the second floor, 45 A'Beckett
Street, Melbourne.
"In Angel Gear" is also quite valuable
viewing for the way in which the scenes
are constructed and directed, and also for
the strong character performances.
Visually, the play was quite cffcctiv
was used both as a means to direct attention and, by moving the spotlight from one
area of the stage to another, the director
reflected the actual cycle of drugs and
prostitution. Light was also important in
that colour was analogised with life itself;
"colours bleed into their edges, bleed into
the one bleeding grey - the awful grey that
d e f e a t s every p o s s i b i l i t y " . Red
symbolised the feeling of being aUve.
Drags provided this sensation, "bleeding
into grey" when the "high" begins to lose
its momentum. Saskia Post and David
Trennick, who played Karin and John,
revealed all too accurately and intensely
this notion of smving for the day when the
red will banish Ihe grey from their Uves
forever. In fact, the level of intensity often
The Last Great IN ANGEL
GEAR
Wrestling Show
by Shaie Paterson
By Paul Burgess
I
f you are down in the dumps and you
need a few laughs to cheer you up,
then this is the show for you. The show
has no real plot; instead, a number of
"wrestlers" entertain as they thump and
crash their way around the ring.
Among the wrestlers are the "Dog" and
the "Ice Woman", and an audience member named Colin. Up for grabs is $50,000
for the winner of a battle royal, in which
all the wresUers get up in the ring and strut
their stuff. The fighting is fierce and a few
of the audience members nearly get taken
out. One wrestler known as "Flash Harry"
is disliked immensely by a few of the oUier
wrestlers.
The announcer, who sounds like a CTOSS
between Darryl Eastlake and a pregnant
elephant at times, provides a number of
laughs with his over-exuberance.
The women's bouts are the funniest, as
they look and sound like bickering little
children in a playground: they pull hair,
and the "Ice Woman" uses many deadly
techniques including "The Tongue", and
a method in which she spikes her opponent with her lethal and sharp fiat-top
hairdo—which the announcer claims is
crafted from imported walrus hair.
The men's bouts have many highlights
including "The Grapple", "The Indian
Death Clutch" and "The Body Slam", all
to the delight of the audience. Undoubtedly, one of the best wrestlers to watch was
"The Dog", a "fierce" cave man who,
looking manic, ran around the hall
screaming and yelling abuse to all, occasionally with a mixture of snot and slag
dripping from his mouth.
All this and a near-midget referee who
gains attention from the crowd wiUi his
high leaps and his agility makes for a great
show. There is also "security", two big
solemn looking characters outfitted in
black, including balaclavas, complete
with "Security" printed across their
chests. No matter how lough the wrestlers
look, if a wresUe occurs outside the ring,
security is there to stop them.
Altogether, the show is great; however, it
could have been made better with some
acting and more noise.
The Last Great Wrestling Show, as part
of the Next Wave Festival, will run until
May 27 at the Fitzroy Town Hall, and
from May 30 at ihe Old Greek Theatre.
Tickets are $16, $12 children & concession. For bookings, phone 650 1977 or
Bass.
I
n an age where the subject of AIDS is
superfluous coming to the fore, "In
Angel Gear" raises some very important and controversial issues. All of the
characters of "In Angel Gear" live life
bound up in the perpetual cycle of
"punishment and reward", punishment
being acts of degradation such as prostitution and the reward being the "hit". The
realism and pathos of "In Angel Gear" is
such that it is shocking in its intensity.
Although many of the scenes are quite
explicit, they do not, and are not designed
to, unleash the audience"s voyeuristic
impulses. Radier, they serve as mere collaborative devices, intended to create an
understanding of the vicious cycle into
which addicts and prostitutes can become
locked. "In Angel Gear" also reveals to the
"AIDS conscious"vicwer, the way in
which the importance of protection
against AIDS can often be undermined by
the more immediate need for some quick
money and a subsequent "hit". The aim
underiying this, therefore, is to highlight
what really does happen, despite all of Ihe
publicity about AIDS. The playwright
[Sam SejavkaJ is not condoning or
condemning these practices, he is merely
representing them, leaving the viewer to
interpret for his or herself.
reached by their performances was such
that the comic relief provided by Judith
Lucy and Franz Dozherty, who played the
quite "spacey" couple Jan and Shane, was
often wholeheartedly welcomed. Overall,
"In Angel Gear" was a thoroughly informative and an altogether enjoyable play,
revealing that "Next Wave theatre may
play an increasingly important role, not
only in entertaining the public, but in
bringing to the fore important social issues. If you are interested in seeing "In
Angel Gear", leave conventional auitudes
towards prostitution and drugs behind,
because there are some quite explicit
scenes which may offend. It is on at St
Martin's Theaue; May 17-20, 23-27, 30
June 3 at 8pm. Bookings; 650 1977 or
Bass.
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I
Go Jump!
by Maree and Mark
C
hoosing to jump from an
aeroplane 10,000 feet
above the ground may not
be everyone's idea ofa good time,
but more and more people are
taking the plunge. It's easier than |
you think to take that first step
from land-locked obscurity to airborne thrill-seeking.
"Where can I experience this",
you ask. Well, once you become a
member of the Monash Skydiving
Club, we can direct you towards
two excellent drop-zones (called
drop-zones for obvious reasons,
DZ for short). Riviera Skysports
operate from the Baimsdale airfield in the picturesque Gippsland
Lakes area. They of fer a variety of
options for the discerning thrillseeker from the first jump at
10,000 feel, to staying safely in
the aircraft just for a joy ride.
Commando skydivers are situated
in Packenham, and run regular
static line courses, only a short trip
out of Melbourne down the highway.
The quickest way to experience
the "buzz" of freefalling at 200
kmh is via the Tandem Jump. The
idea of the Tandem is that you are
sttapped to a highly experienced
skydiver who does all the work,
including a soft stand-up landing.
(5nly half an hour of instruction is
required prior to the jump, leaving
the passenger free to take in the
sights and sensations and give a
rather distorted smile to the
cameraman.
For those who want to "do it themselves", Accelerated Freefall
(AFF) is the way to go. Training
is conducted over one day covering topics such as; Stability
Freefall, Canopy Control and
Landing, Aircraft Procedures,
Emergency Procedures and
Height Awareness. On your first
jump from 10,000 feet, you exit
the aircraft with two instructors
who maintain a hold on you
throughout the dive. Their main
jobs aretoseethatyougo through
all the tasks allocated and that you
activate the parachute at 4,500
feet. Yes, you get to pull the ripcord! An automatic safety device
is also attached in the very unlikely event that you forget! A
cameraman is available to take
those never-to-be-forgotten mug
shots on both tandem and AFF
dives.
Static line training is also offered
by both Riviera and Commandos.
The course runs over one day, culminaiing in a jump from 4,500
feet, under a modem, rectangular
shaped parachute (called a square
in skydiving terms). With this
type of course, the parachute is
automatically opened as soon as
you decide to undertake, you can
be assured of the most professional tuition, the most modem
up-to-date equipment and,
without a doubt, the thrill of a
lifetime.
you leave the aircraft and you are
free to enjoy the six to seven
minute canopy ride to the ground.
Static line is the oldest most traditional type of training. Over the
years it has proven to be effective,
but now more and more people are
looking for the freefall experience. If you decide on the
static line course, freefall will not
be achieved for at least six jumps,
and then only for a three second
delay. AFF, as already mentioned,
will give you 40 seconds of
freefall on your first jump. AFF is
now the most widely accepted
course in tlie USA, and has been
running in Australia since 1983.
The biggest advantage gained is
the fast improvement in freefall
skills which cannot be matched in
the static line course. Riviera
Skysports specialises in AFF
uaining, and offers cut rates for
group bookings.
OK, so how much is this going to
cost you? Costs vary from DZ to
DZ. Riviera Skysports offer the
AFF course for $320 and Static
Line for $220, which includes two
nights accomodation. Commandos run AFF courses for $450 and
Static line for $250. Sports and
Recreation give a rebate of $202
and $120 respectively. So, there's
a basic mn down on what's available. Keep an eye on the Daily
News for meetings, or feel free to
contact: Riviera Skysports Maree at 808 5574 or Commandos - Mark at 803 5156.
•Video information session coming up soon.
Second Hard Parachute for sale:
No matter what style of training
Used once, never been opened
S. 7., Beer
& the Ball
by Luke Harris
D
ermie slams it into the
goalpost, the Collingwood fans jeer in
delight, and a cold winter wind
wafts down onto the ground
smelling of meat pies and beer.
Footy on a Saturday in Melbourne
brings to mind a ton of cliches and
myths, but there's usually more to
it than that, especially if one
watches the crowd as much as the
game. As a Carlton supporter at a
Hawks-Pies match, this was pretty easy to do.
Quarter time, the umpires huddled
in the centre, the players got
yelled at and the crowds swarmed
out of their seats in search of the
legendary pastry pie witli a hint of
meat. VFL Park food is both
nutritious and miraculous —
miraculous because a bucket of
chips and a can of drink becomes
50 per cent more expensive inside
the ground than out of it. It's obviously freighted in from Moorabbin via Hobarl.
The red leather eUiptical spheroid
reappeared, and Hawthorn
proceeded to steer it between the
uprights several times in mechanical fashion. Being in die back row,
my eyes gradually became locked
into a focus of about 100 metres,
which made reading The Football
Record a difficult task. At halftime, the foolhardy Magpie
cheersquad had a chanting "shootout" with the Hawthorn mob, with
the background distraction of
Dermott urging the mums of
Australia to buy "Tip Top" bread.
For all of his teeth and curls, Dermott was having a bad day of it.
Collingwood, against the wind,
kicked the first goal. I worked out
the wind direction with the help of
two clues. The fiag of the spectator on my right was slapping me
in the face, and the smoke of his
and a thousand other cigarettes
were drifting past me to accumulate in the Southern stands. Suddenly, one of the players evidently
noticed a five cent coin in the
grass, because they all dived on
each other and started wrestling
for it, forgetting ihe ball, which
made its way through the HawThe big TV screen at VFL Park is
thorn goal. Behind me, a small
a sepia-toned affair (just like they
child screamed almost loudly
must have had in the old days), set
enough to shatter the glass in the
into a big "V". Given that it's the
super-boxes, probably because
AFL these days, they may have to
she had just been told by her father
nip the thing over. An ad for
that they were supporting a team
"Visco-2000" appeared, just the
that hadn't won a premiership inthing ID wash down the meat pie
31 years. A streamer leapt forth
I'd recently eaten. Little Leaguers
from the stands, but failed to
ran around, an interview came on
stream, collapsing in failure next
screen and was ignored, and the
to a "BYO Sorbent" sign.
PA informed the owner of white
Torana CZE-273 that he had left
his car in first gear and that it was
circling the stadium.
Third quarter play saw die 'Pies
revive, and previously furled flags
became less so. Showers arrived,
and a thousand flowers bloomed,
in the form of umbrellas, evoking
little pity from diose of us under
cover. A forward pocket player
did a desperate lead after a rare
mark by Taylor, butB.T.wasbusy
doing up his shoelaces, and then
kicked into the man on the mark
anyway. Platten was dumped
hard, but his Afro protected him
from serious head injuries.
Watching the shivering crowd
and the stop-start play, I
wondered how the poetic Age
sportswriters were going to
portray this match. A flare went
off in the members' stand at this
point, attracting several police
and afireextinguisher. A group of
firemen dien arrived, but seemed
more interested in the game, perhaps wishing to question the
players afterwards.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of
victory, Collingwood let it slip
away by four points, and the
;rowd bolted for their cars.eager
to be Uiefirstto start die inevitable
tfafficjam.
Even in a stadium that has die
character of a block of concrete,
and the charm of a detention
centre, footy still shines out as one
of the most exciting spectator
sports, far ahead of the great
pretender, basketball.
Triathlon
each leg (so you need a swimmer,
a cyclist and a runner).
by Justin Wilson
The general format for individual
competitors is:
M
onash Triathlon Club
HEREBY ISSUE A
CHALLENGE to any
and all athletes on Campus.
August 26 this year marks the annual Monash Triathlon — "The
Volcanic Winter Time Trial" —
and within diis year's race will be
conducted a relay event for
Monash students/staff.
500m swim (in pool) — six laps
of ring road cycling (= 15km) and
two laps running (= 5km). In the
relay event however, one competitor from each team completes
Lofs
Wife
Substantial prizes for winning
Monash team (as well as prizes for
overall teams, if you're that good)
are being awarded, so start training now.
Within the two weeks prior to the
race we also will be running "The
I n a u g u r a l Monash Menzies
Stair Climb" an individually
timed assault on die fire escape of
our wondrous landmark.
Stay tuned folks (you might even
become a legend like me!).
Thursday 24th M a y , 1990, page 29
\Lt.rrt.^B\
Letters Policy
Every letter submitted
to Lot's Wife must be
accompanied by your
name, telephone number, and student I.D.
number. If you have a
valid reason for withholding your name; this
will be done, however,
this will be the exception
rather than the rule. To
have your name withheld your must see the
Editors.
Shorter letters will be
given preference. The
preferred length is
approximately 200
words (Yes, we know
that this week there are
many letters over this
length, but given the
amount of letters we
are receiving, we will
be getting more viscious
in the future).
Thirdly, your letters
must be legible. If we
cannot read your writing, then we cannot print
it.
Dear "Name Withlield"
Thank you for pointing out that
condoms inside condom keyrings are
entirely unsuitable for sex (Lot's
Wife, May 10). Condom keyrings are
not made in Australia, and we had to
import them from overseas tor Orientation Week. While these keyrings are
very popular and excellent for promoting condoms, they are certainly not
intended for use. You will recall that
Ansell condomswere also handedout
at the sale sex tent, and these were
detinately intended for use!
I should also point out that recent
research shows that condoms are
very reliable, provided that a few
niles are kept in mind:
1. Don't leave condoms out in the sun
or in warm places, ie: wallet.
2. Use water-based lube, not oilbased lube, ie:KY Jelly, not Vaseline.
3. Learn to use condoms first - practice on yourself or a cucumber for
example. Read the Instructions.
Condoms work!
Damien Ridge
AIDS Information Committee
Dear Suzanne?
The Editors reserve the
right to edit all submissions.
The next letters deadline
will be Tuesday July
17th.
Dear Suzanne,
I was fascinated to read your reply,
as it demonstrated your stunningly
poor grasp of the team's reply and
again proceeded to make vacuous unsubstantiated'economic" statements.
Also of interest was the strangely
familiar writing style - but more of that
later.
First to the demolition of "your" letter. To begin with, all the arguments
we presented were couched in terms
of an individual rationality paradigm.
This was designed to make you feel
comfortable, like a child reminiscing
fondly on those wondrous fairy tales.
Some people obviously don't know
when they are home.
Secondly, your statement on
debt/equity biases was incredibly
courageous. Financial economists the
world over have not mastered the intricacies of optimal capital structure
and so I am amazed that you have
such an intimate understanding of the
issue that you can unambiguously
state that present structures are inefficient.
Thirdly, If you woukl like to claim
that savings are doubly taxed you
might also attempt to define savings.
It's strange isn't it that I have obviously
misinterpreted the tax treatment of the
preferred savings vehicle of most
Australians( housing ) . Perhaps you
would also like to explain why the
market doesn 't adjust interest rates to
allow for their tax treatment. You could
also attempt to reconcile this with the
public's general liquidity requirements.
aureiy you are not claiming that only
the physical constnjction of goods Is
productive ?
Your obsession with exportgeneration is also fascinating, and
seems to ignore Import substitution
and the more general relationship between absorption and income in the
economy as a whole.
Finally, Suzanne, I would like to
apologise for setting you up the way
we did. The whole tag team concept
wasTlot discouraged by our mutual
friend and poliiical aspirant Derek
Francis. When it appeared that you
had had enough punishment he took
it upon himself to attempt to prolong
the debate. He did this (as you are well
aware) by writing your last letter for
you. The brilliance of his strategy is to
be commended. It was an act of
genius on his part to convince you that
the economic manure "you" wrote last
edition was valid. Therefore I sincerely
apologise and hope that this little incident does not achieve Derek's ultimate goal • to destabilise the Liberal
club and remove you from your position as president. If this does occur, I
for one will be sorry, for it may enable
the Liberal club to once again become
a force on campus.
Yours in support,
Fourthly, if you wish to Claim investment is unproductive, then you
might also like to define the term.
Blair Comley
P.S. This letter Is thirty words
shorter than "Suzanne's".
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Nilufer Mythes the
Point
Chokky Ball D. J.
Defended
DtaiLot's Wife,
DearLo/'i,
Just a few commenLs on "Myths and
Facts About Workcare' by NiluterGunay
in your last edition-
(I) Her "fact" response to the myth that
"Workcare is being sent broke by
fraudulent workers" begins with "A
minority of workers try to cheat
Workcare". Nobody denies this, but a
minority of cheats may be enough to cause
severe financial problems which could
jeopardise the scheme. Further, the fact
that some workers are able to get away
with fraud provides an impetus foKa
return to the old and unsatisfactory private
insurance scheme.
(2As a fourth year economics student,
I have difficulties with Gunay's dismissal of unfunded liabilities as a
problem. The fact that the liability
has to be paid off over thirty years
does not detfact from its "unfunded"
(i.e. we don't know where the
money's coming from) status.
(3JTie question of "bosses'" attitudes
towards prevention is dealt with
poorly. The organisation of society
is such that firms care about profits
rather than about the health of their
employees. This may be regarded as
unfortunaie.butihe way to deal with
it is not to "blame" employers, but
to make them concerned by having
the government rigorously enforce
Occupational Health and Safety
Laws and by using variable
Workcare levies as incentives for
better performance. Union blustering is unhelpful: they should be
looking at incentives and working
with government and business to
find ways to make Workcare work.
If they do not, a return to a private
system, where insurers act as passive conduits for employers and the
causes of the stream of debilitating
"accidents" are never addressed is
inevitable. While on the subject of
passive conduits, I would have to
question the extent to which
Gunay's article is based on Trades
Hall information or simply culled
from it.
R. B.Trager
No Such Thing as a
Free Car Park
Oear Editors,
I would tike to complain about the
VCUSA poster which appeared today
(lulay 10) informing students that there
is "free parking today" and "park
anywhere you like." This annoys me
because:
(a) The fact that inspectors are taking
iridustrial action does not make illegal
parking legal - the VCUSA (or any
organisation) should not encourage
people to break the law.
(b) People who have paid for a parking
permit ha ve some sod of right to better
parking than those who don't.
(c) It is encouraging people to drive to
Monash when we should be discouraging it (for environmental and
other reasons).
L. Chandra
It was with pleasure that I read
Lot's Wife article on the Chokky Ball.
We hope that all who attended had a
great time and enjoyed themselves.
t\Jluch enjoyment at the Ball was obviously derived from the music
provided. In staging the Ball, we tried
to provide music to suit most, if not all,
tastes. Thus, it seems a shame that
we did nottotally satisfy your reviewer.
We consider that the music we
provided on the night, and have always provided, to be the very best.
This fact is borne out in the fact that
we can sell 9,500 tickets in one day for
the Ball. Our DJ on the night. Dean
Cherney, was, in our opinion, great,
and we certainly had great feedback
on the night as to how good people
thought he was. Miss Alexander may
not have enjoyed Dean, but judging
how packed the dance floor was all
night, the vast majority of ball-goers
did. It seems ironic that in the same
article, iW/ss Alexander
praises
Chaser's Saturday Night, a night, by
the way, that Dean DJ'sH
Brendan Quinn
Promotions Executive —
Chokky Ball
W o m e n ' s Room
Invaded
Dear Lot's,
We are angry,
disgusted,
humiliated and hurt at the attack upon
Feminists and the Women's Room
today (Wednesday May 16th). Two of
our friends were sitting in the
Women's Room this afternoon,
when a female Liberal student (who
is currently running for the University
Council elections)
entered the
Womens Room and asked if the five
men accompanying her could enter
the room. Her officially distributed
speech states that she "truly recognises the significance of students'
rights on campus" wnich is farcical
When she was calmly told "no, the
men could not enter the Women's
Room because it is only for women",
the five men proceeded to stand in the
doorway, directly blocking access in
and out of the room, and began to yell
at, and abuse the two women inside.
The women were told by them that
three of these liberal male students
were nominating themselves for the
position of women's co-ordinator,
despite the fact that the position is
open to all women students only at
Monash.
These boys may find sexual^
harassment and threatening behaviour a joyous and humorous occupation but it will not be tolerated by
us. If they are having any more fantasies of this nature we advise them to
leave this university and have themselves committed to a mental asylum.
Yours in disgust, anger, rage, fuckoff arseholes, you make us sick,
Rose and NIfufer.
Sure, Feminism is Dead
DearLoi's,
I really fear living in a world in which
people say "Feminism is Dead", when
women are still raped, bashed, over-
worked, underpaid, excluded, exploited,
spat on, pushed around, abused, assaulted,
ignored, brainwashed, imprisoned, oppressed, depressed, repressed, suppressed, marginalised, whistled at, yelled
at, threatened, talked down at, intimidated, feared, afraid, used, murdered,
crying, beaten, having nervous breakdowns, poor, suiciding, factory fodder,
homeless, trodden on, down trodden,
"doormats", without confidence, with
guilt, the "other", second class citizens,
called sluts, bitches, whores, tarts, molls,
sex objects, dependent, trapped, guarded,
unsafe to go out at night, kicked, punched,
slapped, illiterate, uneducated, "just a
hole", patronised, struggling, straining,
treated like shit, insulted, frustrated, objectified, humiliated, punished, attacked,
without adequate, free, safe contraception, laughed at, battered, misrepresented,
unsafe in their homes, ordered about,
harassed, coerced, slaves, joked about,
stereotyped, restrained, vicumised,
treated as inferior, lal)elled, held in contempt, "sex symbols", controlled, prejudged, subordinated, prostituted, hurt,
hated, weeping, screaming, suffering,
fighting.
No, it isn 't really an issue anymore, is
it?
Rose Kizinska
A Perspective on the
"Sick Powerplay"
Dear Lot's,
What happened outside the
Women's Room last Wednesday
afternoon, as mentioned in an article
in this edition, gave me a rude but
timely awakening. So this is university. They just prefer, in the interests
of efficient social control in this place,
to provide a maladaptives'quarantine
corner for these sad cases of females
still not achieving of the requisite
adaptation to a iotxitomised semi-existence on hands and knees, everalert to the slightest bidding to rollover
and lay back and take it if the man's
world so prefers (actually these
"deviant marginals" for themselves
hold a very different view of all this, but
they are nowhere to the point, obviously!). In consideration of the
tenuous position of the Women's
Room and those who use it, the five
men really did put on some Show and
Tell.
I was in turn, disbelieving, furious
and disgusted. This mob's utterly
mindless act lacked the least common
decency or basic human consideration. They were entirely careless of the
brutal repercussions
their sick
powerplay would have. For never was
there any attempt whatsoever at a
reasoned and non- confrontational
airing of grievances and differences, it
would have been too much like treating us as people. Manifestly, their
single aim was Assertion of Manhood.
Mates in Solidarity United. Ra-Ra. I
understand they were in "need" of this
little fix, after having come the worse
off in an all-male dispute shortly
before. So they went for the easiest
scapegoat that came Into their collective braincell. We were seen as nothing more, and not
conceivably
anything less, than "justified"prospective doormats for their jacklxiots.
Furtive, vicious and perverse,
nevertheless their sordid little rout, attempted "R-Reign of Terror!" (accompanying fanfare and Rambo-grunts)
doubtless achieved its aim in achieving the sperm count of these pathetic
little bullies. Worms all - whom I
Lot's
couldn't positively identify, I spit at
from a great height.
In anticipation of such original and
devastatingdismissalsas"hystericar,
"irrelevant", "immature" and "frigid".
Sisterhood survives and thrives,
S Rahatungoda
A Different Perspective
Dear Lots,
I feel obliged to clarify the position
of myself (Derek Francis) and Meralie
Armstrong concerning the assault on
the women's room last week. I was
casually walking through the union
building last Wednesday when I
noticed a group of Liberal acquantices
proceeding to the second floor of the
building. I inquired as to theirpurpose.
and to my dismay and disgust found
they were planning to enter the
woman's roomto declare Chris James
as a candidate for women's officer. I
attempted to dissuade them from such
action through rational argument, but
had little effect. I followed them
upstairs to continue to try and prevent
the invasion, without success. Finally,
I suggested they send Meralie into the
room to ask if they could enter. They
followed my advice, received permission, and entered the comdor outside
the room. Not wishing to get involved
in the ridiculous action Meralie and I
maintained our distance about six
meters away from the corridor. The
group were asked to leave, but did not,
until Meralie and I finally persuaded
them to do so, from our positions a
considerable distance away. I hate to
think what may have happened i(
Meralie and I had not been there to
control the rogues, but am thanklul
that fate provided us wilh the opportunity to prevent a more nasty situation from occurring. What concerns
me, is allegations that we were involved in or any way condoned the
attack. We hope this letter clarifies our
position, and we sincerly hope that all
rational people, and particularly the
feminist collective are appreciative of
myself and Meralie, in being the
champion protectors of female rights
on campus.
Yours Sincerely,
Derek Francis (and Meralie
Armstrong)
Abortion Continues
Dear Lot's Wife,
I could not help but notice the six
letters criticising my letter "Abortion: A
Male Perspective" (less the mistitled
letter on littering).
I would like to compliment Kerren
Clark on her reasoned approach to an
often emotive issue. I would do her a
disservice if I did not compose this
letter in kind.
The basic point of contention in this
issue is the question: "is the foetus a
human being?" Pro-abortionists assert that the foetus is not a living
human being, but magically becomes
human when it leaves its mother's
womb.
Modern technobgy has since exposed this fable. In the film entitled
"The Silent Scream", the most modern
ultrasound techniques were used to
film an abortion through the walls of
the womb. When the curette first cut
into the foetus, it moved markedly
away from it - clear proof that it felt
pain: a doctor's scalpel culling into an
Wife Thursday 24th May, 1990, page 31
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inflamed appendix would not elicit a
similar response because ttie latter
cannot move by itself or feel pain.
Oppressed by
Mothers' Day
How can an entity of human
parents which, in six weeks, breathes,
possesses its own heartbeat, feels
pain and moves of its own accord be
called an inanimate collection of cells?
Dear Editors,
Based on this
reasoning,
widespread abortion disgusts me, because it involves the senseless
destruction of millions of innocent
human beings.
Suryan Chandrasegaran
EcoAaw
Single Mothers A Man's Issue
Dear Lot's,
I note with disappointment that a
major notice in the Daily News of
9/5/90 advertised an tuIAS Pro-Choice
Weel< discussion on single motherhood which contained the statement
"all women welcome". What about us
males? It is difficult not to assume that
we would not be welcome. Why not?
There are many men like myself, who
would be interested in learning about
the issues associated with single
motherhood. Particularly as I am a
Med student, I feel that an awareness
of these problems will be valuable to
my future practice. I might add that my
interest in these issues would not extend to apportioning blame or passing
moral judgement but rather to the
stresses on the single mother,
Why also was it held in the
Women's Room, and not somewhere
more accessible to everyone. Surely if
the IvlAS is serious about promoting
awareness of this area, it would make
sense to have opportunities available
to all students. There is nothing to be
gained from preaching to the converted, and if the organisers want only
some types of people there, then send
out relevant invitations and don't ask
for MAS patronage. If they are
prepared to take MAS (and therefore
ail students') money, then they should
be prepared to make everyone "welcome".
Sella Turcica
Med II
Mothers' Day: A Naive
Perspective
Dear Ken-en
Call me strange, but I was under
the illusion that Mother's day was a
celebration of the fruition of the most
basic and fundamental gift of any
evolutionary species, the ability to
procreate.
Call me even stranger, t>ut I was
under the delusion that this somehow
makes the female the superior sex, in
that the choice to become pregnant
lies ultimately with the woman. She
has the real choice whether to continue her existence through procreation, and the man becomes dependant
upon this choice. The celebration of
Mother's day merely commemerates
the exercising of this choice to have
children. The decision also serves the
wider purpose of continuing the
species.
All woman should be proud to be
born with the ultimate ability to be the
determining factor in the continuance
of the human race.
Heather Jamleson
Kerren Clark - your article on
Mottier's Day did not do justice to itie rest
of the sensible arguments put forward in
Lot's Wife (10/5/90) on women's behalf.
The part I object to is the insinuation that
only women and not men are oppressed.
Firstly, Mother's Day is not only advertised as a time for the "good housewife"
as you put it. About every second TV ad
featuring women throughout the year
depicts the "career woman" - affluent,
successful, and single just as much as the
average housewife. Every third TV ad
depicts men as hopeless, stupid individuals - lost at home unless the "know
all" wife helps him find his socks.
Secondly.Father's Day is not depicted
as a day where men are the breadwinners
off with ihe kids, rather, ads tell us what
we can buy dad so that he can fix up the
home. The common stereotype (often
pushed by women), is that a "real man"
has to lie able to make extensions on the
house or fix the plumbing, do the lawn,
etc. Life is not (as you would insinuate)
ideal for men. Many men arc not "handy"
around the house and are constantly put
down for it by men and women alike.
I ask you whether Madonna and Kate
Ceberano film clips are not "oppressive"
for some men? The point is that men and
women are stereotyped wrongly and
harmfully by the media, not just women,
and that women now are involved in
serious oppression of males and female!
alike. Continue on your righteous campaigns if you will - I'm all for women's
rights, but don't forget alxiut the othei
half.
David Pringit
Arts/Law D
Treating Babette
Dear Lot's
I would like to express my concern
with the treatment that Mrs Babette
Francis received from students last
Tuesday 15th May. While I personally
find little that I agree with in Mrs
Francis' views and those of her group
"Endeavour Forum" (Women Who
Want To Be Women), I find it appalling
that others who similarly disagreed
found that they had to express their
views in the manner they did.
Mrs Francis was called a "supercilious bitch" and abused by certain
feminists in a way which is selfdegrading to the extreme. May I suggest that if these people cannot act in
an adult manner when confronted with
views dissimilar to their own, that they
do not (a) attend speakers such as
Mrs Francis, and (b) they do not purport, as a feminist collective, to represent women in general.
Their poor public image is largely
due to such unfortunately not uncommon behaviour.
Rosemary Morris
Arts/Law II
(Eds note: No-one at the lecture
claimed to be speaking on behalf of
any group or association (except Mrs
Francis), and it should be note that the
topic of the discussion was abortion an emotional issue).
Men's Role
Dear Lot's,
I refer to the article entitled
"Sexism" by Nilifer Gunay in the last
edition of Lot's Wife.
Ms Gunay makes the following
point: "To class women-only groups
as sexist, and to base this analysis
purely on the argument of gender exclusion is invalid . . . " I fully take this
point. It is necessary that wo men have
space in which to analyse feminist
issues in a feminist environment, from
the point of view of women's reality. It
is true, however, that many men feel
alienated and threatened by anything
that smacks of feminist separatism. It
is easy to reply to this by stating that
this is their problem, and that they
must simply come to terms with it as
such. This is not, however, useful from
the point of view of breaking down
such patriarchal stnjctures. Inorderto
bring about true equality of power and
self-expression, it is necessary that
both women and men fully accept
each other's different qualitative views
of reality, without compromising their
own self-worth. Alienation is no way to
bring this about. Therefore, while
women-only groups have a place in
the struggle for equality, they are not
finally going to to solve the problem.
This brings me to another of Ms
Gunay's points: "The patriarchal system cannot assist; men cannot assist
except through support and practical
work." The first part of this statement
is clearly true. What feminist
philosophy has labelled "the patriarchal system" is obviously not going fy
assist in its own destruction. The
second part of the statement is true,
except in the case of men who are
thinking beyond patriarchal structures. What is ultimately necessary is
for both men and women to discard
ways of thinking which have been conditioned into them by male dominated
culture. This requires the active
philosophical participation of both
sexes. Otherwise if all change is to be
initiated by women, t!ie patriarchal
system would eventually (and I don't
believe this is imminent) be replaced
by a "matriarchal"? one.
To summarise: I wholeheartedly
agree with Ms Gunay that womenonly groups are important for women
to have space to analyse their own
reality in a non- intimidating environment. I do not agree, however, that
men have no active role to play in
structuring a society beyond patriarchal domination. Both sexes have an
equally important part in this endeavour.
Chris Needham
"Sexism" quibble
Dear Lot's,
I might just make a quick comment
about Nilufer Gunay's article in the last
edition: "Sexism". For the most part I
found the article interesting and intelligent - something which was common
to the features in the magazine, with
the exception of the "Pro-Lite" crap. I
did, however, find her statement that
"men cannot assist except through
support and practical work" disturbing.
While women's only groups are quite
okay on her (sound) reasoning, it
seems that this attitude must result in
four groups: women working against
gender- inequality: passive men;
women alienated from the first group:
and forces against the first group.
This, to me, seems an unsatisfactory
scenario for the way forward. It would
be foolish to deny that the experience
of oppression and exploitation must
primarily be documented by women in
their own terms. I believe, however,
that all people have much to gain from
the demise of gender- inequality: I
cannot see how a system based on
power is a truly "good" system from
anyone's point of view. In the light of
this, an agenda based on a movement, its opposition and the passive Is
an agenda for conflict and destruction,
rather than for education and change.
Of course, whether change can really
be achieved within an educational
framework such as we have today is
a bit of a worry. The same can be said
ol women's groups: there are no outsiders, we are all inside patriarchy. Let
us hope we all escape.
Mark PIcton
Right To Life = Control
Dear Alex Robbins,
.Good stuff! Your magazine feature
"Abortion: A Realistic Approach"
{Lot's Wife 10/5/90) impressed me.
The tight, agitated prose was excellent; the sparing use of emotion, a
contrast to that of the blissfully ignorant young lady. The "only one day
a month" problem looms large - how
about writing an article on Rev Joh
"hepatitis turned me blind" Peterson
next week in good "Kaz Cook's mother
no bones about it" style.
Suggested artwork: the contraceptive stock shelves of the Monash
University Health Service (great
variety available). Include a list of
health and social risks of young
(teenage) mothers giving birth, and a
couple more heart-wrenching accounts of avoidable pregnancies
causing uncalled for upset and suffering. Perhaps you might remind your
dear readers that the obligations lie,
too, with the males of this world.
What about a quick interview with
a Field Officer from the local Department of Social Security - one DSS
Field Officer I know can't come to
terms with the number of young single
mothers our society produces, leaving
them lonely and pushing "poorly"
brought-up children around shopping
centres. Could Lot's Wife perhaps organise a tour of inspection and life
education for our young universitybased pro-lifer? A couple of shifts witnessing domestic violence, child
abuse and demeaning poverty with a
Community Policing Squad, a day
with a community legal centre, a
magistrate's court, the family court, an
outer suburbs shopping centre, a
public hospital casualty ward, and a
day hospital would do the trick. Consideration of the number of people
wasting away from AIDS, the risk of
death during pregnancy of mothers in
third world countries may also be
worthwhile.
For many mothers and their
children, the right to life means the
mother being in control of her life birth control and practical education
included. And while on sexism, how
about a blast at MAS Activities, who
deal in night club passes with
derogatory Images of women as
sexual objects. Then, perhaps, a
round up of the attitudes of the various
churches in Australia to women.
Matthew Walters
Ben Speaks Out
To my dearest Tony,
I found your letter of love to be
distinctly peculiar in many ways.
How on earth can you feet capable
of commenting on my bias or lack
lurrt^s
thereof when i cnair Public Affairs
Committee (PAC) meetings, I do not
know. After all, your name doesn't
appear on any PAC attendance list.
Dear Lot's,
At no point have the Liberals
claimed I chair PAC meetings in a
biased manner. They have claimed I
write a biased column, its not the
same thing. In fact I go out of my way
to ensure that the Liberal and Alert
ticket representatives get a fair hearing.
I didn't say that by annoying
Lilyerals I was succeeding in my job. I
said I must be doing something right
(or should that be left?) it's just not the
same thing. I would appreciate it if
you didn't distort my words.
Finally. I fail to see how my behaviour can affect any political party's
credibility, as I don't belong to any
political party.
Yours Most Sincerely,
Ben HIder
Chairperson Public Affairs
Committee Monash
Association of Students
Winter is coming, this might mean
a new ski-season to some or higher
heating bills to others. To the people
employed to keep this union and its
surrounds tidy it means that instead of
spending four or five hours everyday
tidying up the litter outside on the
lawns, they spend a similar amount of
time inside. Cleaning up after the inconsiderate fartbreaths that haven't
yet realised that by tittering they are
not just making fools of themselves,
but of anybody unfortunate enough to
be sitting with them.
If you happen to be sitting next to
a fart breath, make him/her pick up the
cans, bottles, cutlery, crockery, plastic
bags, newspapers and cigarette butts
that will be left behind if you don't, and
make sure that F.B. recycles them, or
puts them in a bin.
Remember, if you can't show
respect for your environment, you
can t show respect for yourself.
Yours in litter
Chris Buckingham
Arts II
Dear Editors,
It is with a degree of concern that I
write to you regarding my colleague
and fellow columnist, Jeremy Boone,
of completely Left fame. Has he
wimped out?
Grow Up Boys
Dear Lot's,
As a male student I would like to
register my disgust at the recent behaviour of Chris James (Hons Pol)
and Derek Francis and their eight
anonymous henchmen who, on Wednesday 16th, chose to barge uninvited
into the Women's Room.
What I mean Is this: in recent
issues, Jeremy has avoided not merely
any attempt at presenting a communist/socialist case, but also has
failed to provide any leftist dogma.
Instead, he seems to have been perThis act of "heroism" on the part of
suaded by the arguments in my own
column and has abandoned his former James and his cronies has revealed
misconceptions to embrace Liber- them as the misogynists they are.
Their haired of all women, which they
tarianism.
have tried to disguise as contempt for
The evidence for this is clear. those demanding equality, has finally
Firstly he gleefully discusses smash- resulted in this act of violence.
ing the state, secondly and possibly
No one has as yet been seriously
more importantly, Jeremy's latest
column is about trying to make a fast hurt, yet It is clear that these thugs
buck out of Ivlarxist melodies may well graduate to more violent as(aka'loony Tunes"). Is Jeremy really saults on women.
a closet capitalist?
This sort of behaviour would not be
If so, Jeremy is most welcome in
the Young Uberals Branch I am president
of, as new members are always welcome
(if they have the Right idea ...)
Lots of Love and Libertarianism
Ernest Zanatta
tolerated from 1 st year students, from
honours students it is Inexcusable.
These students must be shown that
they are in the minority when they
infringe on the rights of others to a
safe, relaxed study environment.
Grant Siteggs 1st year.
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Sam Ring
The Sci Eng Gospel (with apologies):
A Word for All Seasons • Fuck
Dear Lot's,
Jeremy Embraces
Libitarianism
ITS
debate. Could you please print the
whole thing again?
Fucking Drivel
Rubbish !
A/OTTT-
Telecom Sexist?
Our most versatile word... It can
describe many emotions. No other
word can be used with so many grammatical usages. It can be used as a
noun (I don't give a fuck), as an adjective (it's a fucking beauty), as a verb in
its transitive form (he's well and truly
fucked up), in the past tense (sic) (I am
fucked), in the present tense (I am
fucked), and in the future tense (well
I'll be fucked). Here are some versatile
everyday expressions:
Denial — I didn't fucking do it.
Perplexity — I know fuck alt about it.
Apathy — Who gives a fuck anyway?
Greetings — How the fuck are you?
Resignation — Oh fuck it.
Suspicion — Who the fuck are you?
Directions — Fuck off.
Even notable people throughout
history use this word, proving that Sci
Eng students are not the crass slobs
we are made out to be:
"What the fuck was that?"... The
Mayor of Hiroshima.
"Look at ail those fucking Indians"...
General Custer
"That's not a fucking gun"... John
Lennon.
"The fucking throttle's stuck"...
Donald Campbell.
"Who's going to tucking know?"...
President Nixon.
"I thought I could smell fucking
petrol"... Nikki Lauda.
"What lucking map?"... l\Aark
Thatcher.
"Any fucking idiot should understand
that"... Einstein.
"It does fucking look like her"...
Picasso.
"How the fuck did you work it out?"...
Pythagorous.
"Fuck a Duck"... Walt Disney,
"I don t suppose it's going to lucking
rain?"... Joan of Arc.
"Scattered showers my fucking
arse"... Noah.
"I'm not fucking drunk"... Mike
Willisee.
"That fucking hurt"... Kevin Magee.
"Fucking Arts students"... Nick
Welsh.
With Compliments,
Nick Welsh, Steve Boger,
Sci Eng II
Dear Lot's
Upon looking up the Melboume
Telecom Yellow Pages the other day,
I was suprised and angered to discover an ad, for the yellow pages
themselves, which effectively excluded 50% of the audience which it
was trying to attract.
The ad is enclosed, and it is hoped
that you will reproduce it so that it may
speak for itself.
Businessmen? And this, coming
from a government
department?
Haven't they acquainted themselves
with the most recent government style
manual, which is theoretically meant
to set the standard guidelines for all
government publications? Surely they
couldn t miss the new chapter on the
use ofnon sexist language?
Aside from the official guidelines, it
is disappointing that such a large and
influential government service is not
more up to date with their attitudes.
Shame Telecom, Shame.
Yours faithfully
Samantha Drummond
Art9/Law4
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Disgrace to whose
gender
Daa Lot's,
We are writing to express our disgust
at the abusive and abysmal behaviour of a
group of radical, and obsessive feminists
who attended the talk by Babelle Francis
on "Abortion and Feminism".
Eruptions of Drivel
Greetings to you,
Upon watching the strife of the
Hawaiins, the lads have created a
product to deal with volcanic eruptions. "Emulsion of Krakatoa", guaranteed to ward off unwanted lava flows
and magma.
The Easter Sunday Lagerfest was
a success, with dozens in attendance.
Our latest batch of home brew could
be best described as adequate (one to
be laid down and avoided).
One more use for yuppies. You
could put them out at night and worm
them occasionally.
By the way Danny O'Hagen, you
look stupid! The lads of the village
don't understand the Arts vs Sci Engie
Regardless of wliicli side of the debate
you are on, this tieliaviour was indeed
abhorrent and reprehensible, and those involved are a disgrace to their gender. It is
disappointing thai diey are unable to rationally and calmly discuss their points of
view with others who liold contrary views.
This completely destroyed the credibility
of the statement made at tlie PAC Committee by one of die feminists who attended, dial pro-lifers tend to be die
antagonists. Their shocking display of
contempt at this meeting was conclusive
proof of diicr real intentions.
Yours in disgust,
Tim Coyne, Ecops III
lUartin Sheehan, Arts II
MHos&bQn
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Monash University Prize
for Poetry
The Monash University Prize for Poetry
is definately open to undergraduates,
contrary to the typing error (which was
not a proofreaders error) in last week's
edition oiLot's Wê. (apologies to all
concerned) So, we'll Uy again:
Undergraduates are now invited to submit entries for the Monash University
Prize for Poetry, valued at $150. Entries
must be lodged with the Registrar by
5pm on Monday October 1,1990.
Entries must be the original work of the
candidate, be typed, and no more than
150 lines in length. Each entry should
be submitted under a nom de plume and
must not bear the author's name. No
more than three entries may be submitted by a candidate in any one year.
Each entry should be inscribed with the
candidate's nom de plume only, and be
firmly attached to a sealed envelope
which contains the candidate's name,
nom de plume, address and student
number.
La Musica
Ireland's finest folk group The Fureys
and Davey Arthur will play in Melbourne for two concerts only — Tuesday May 29 and Wednesday May 30 at
the Melbourne Concert Hall Special
guests for these concerts are Melbourne
band The Travelling Wallabies (The
Travelling Wallabies can be seen each
Thursday night at Molly Bloom's
Hotel. Port Melbourne). Bookings available through Bass.
Robert Blackwood Hall:
Saturday May 26 at 8pm: Melbourne
Youth Music Council presents Percy
Grainger Youth Orchestra, George
Dreyfus Youth Band, Melbourne Youth
Choir and the Junior Strings Orchestra
Tickets are $10, $7 concession, phone
690 8624.
Monday May 28 at 1.15pm: Lunchlime
Concert John O'Donnell, Organist. Admission Free.
Thursday May 31 at 8pm: Avila College presents The Performance of the
Creative Arts, featuring music, drama
and arL For further information and tickets, phone 807 6677.
Saturday June 2 at 8pm: Melbourne
Welsh Male Choir present theirannual
"Night of Song", singing traditional
Welsh Choral Music. Conducted by
Bill Mead, and featuring guest artist
June Bronhill. Admission is $16, concession $12. Further information, phone
801 1292.
Young Composers: New or previously
unperformed works which draw on the
following combination of instruments
(with or without voice) - Soprano,
Violin, Viola, Cello, Flute, Oboe, Bass
Clarinet (or Clarinet), Piano - are invited to audition for Astra Chamber
Music Society's Young Composers'
Concert 1990. The concert will be held
at Elm Sfeet Hall, North Melbourne, at
4pm on Sunday September 30. Awards
totalling $1000 are offered for the
selected pieces. Deadline for submission scores is Friday August 24, For
further information, contact the Asu-a
Chamber Music Society on 372 1040.
Open Mind: The Open Mind project is
an initiative of the Victorian Arts
Centre. It provides Melbourne audiences with a stimulating programme of activities tanging from lectures to art
forums, These include:
Don Quichote De La Mancha,
Cervantes' story of an epic journey
which has inspired musicals, films, and
even a religious novel by Graeme
Greene. Sunday May 27 at 3pm at the
George Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts
Centre.
Christianity, streams of counsciousness and the illumination of Biblical
Themes. Speaker: Dr Francis Macnab.
Sunday June 17 at 2.30pm, Collins
Street Uniting Church.
Silver Threads and Golden Needles
by Sue Walker, Director, Victorian
Tapestry Workshop. Sue will talk on
"Australian Tapestry". Tuesday June
19,11.30am, George Fairfax Studio,
Victorian Arts Centre.
Treading the Boards
La Mama presents Over The Hill,
looking at middle age, menopause and
mid-life crisis. Written by Merrilce
Moss, performed by Camilla Blunden
and Chrissie Shaw. Opens Wednesday
May 30, Wednesday to Saturday at
8.30pm, Sunday 5.30pm until June 10.
Tickets $10, $6 concession.
Also at La Mama, a late show — Gay
Dancin' Monkey, an evening of songs
written by Phil Motherwell and Joe
Dolce, performed by Joe Dolce and
Linn Van Hek, plus new songs by Joe
Dolce performed by The Asylum Choir.
Opens Thursday May 31, Thursday to
Saturday at 10.30pm until June 9. Tickets $6, $4 concession. All bookings
through Readings Bookshop, Carlton,
phone 347 6142 till 6pm.
Crispin Theatre Company present Hamlet the Dane by William Shakespeare,
May 31 to June 7 (excluding June 3 and
6) at 7pm, The Chapter House, St Pauls
, Cathedral, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
, Members of the public are invited to
view any part of the production process.
The show will also be promoted the
week prior to the opening, wiUi
demonstrations of fencing duels in die
Bourke Su-eet Mall. All bookings can
be made through Bass.
Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26 Panchanan Sardar on Sitar and Debu
Bhattacarya on Table perform together
for Give Your Heart to Africa Amurt
and Amurtel Benefit Concert. Mclba
Concert Hall, Melbourne University,
Royal Parade, 7.30pm both nights. Tickets $15.50, concession $9.50.
Astra Chamber Music Society, in association with the festival Mahler,
Vienna and the Twentieth Century
are holding a concert at Old Customs
House, 400 Flinders Sueet, Melbourne
at 8.15 on Friday, May 25. The
programme comprises works for choir,
suing quartet, piano and chamber orchestra. Tickets are $15, $7 concession,
and are available by phoning 372 1040.
•Lot's Wife. Thui^day 24th May,.1990, page 34
The Red Shed Theatre Company's
production of In Cahoots, a fast-paced
comedy, begins with the Annual
Parents and Friends evening of the First
Acland Street Brownie Pack, but becomes an evening of surprises! It soon
becomes apparent that there is more to
this Brownie pack than meets the eye,
as we discover that they are using the
pack as a cover for an intemalional network of clandestine Brownie activists!
Head for Theatrcworks and catch In
Cahoots, which plays for six performances only - May 26 to June 3, Tuesday to Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm at
Theatfeworks, 14 Acland Street, St
Kilda. Tickets are $16, S7 concession.
For bookings, phone 650 1977 and Bass
11500.
Antony and Cleopatra by William
Shakespeare, an English Deparunent
Production, will be held at "The
Alexander Theatre, Monash University
May 25 to 30, June 1 and 2 at 8.15pm,
with a matinee at 2.15pm on May 30.
Adults $12, students $6, Group Concessions (20 and over) $5 per student. For
further information, phone 565 2156,
for bookings phone 565 3992.
The Australian Dance Theatre, the
South Australian based contemporary
dance company, are in Melbourne for
the first time in more than five years.
They will perform a quadruple bill of
their most popular repertoire works
from Thursday June 21 to Saturday
June 30 at 7.30pm. It will be the first
dance company to perform at the recently completed Malthou.se Theatre Complex
Brown Owl and the District Commissioner
in a scenefrom"In Cahoots"
Lectures and Seminars
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies.
Seminars take place on Thursdays at
11.15am in Room 515, Menzies Building. All enquiries phone 565 4993.
May 24: Dr Glen Chandler, Community Development Officer, Lombok,
Indonesia, about the project to which
she is a consultant.
May 3[:Red Khmer Village Control in
Cambodia and Rural Response, 19701975: work in progress, Ms Kate
Frieson, PhD Candidate, Dept Politics,
Monash University.
Monash University Centre for Migrant
and Iniercultural Studies, Centre for
Southeast Asian Studies and Victorian
Indo-Chinese Communities Council of
Victoria are holding a Conference entided Indo-Chinese Communities in
Victoria. The Conference will be held
on June 16 from 9am to 6pm at Rotunda 3, Monash University. The cost is
$30, $20 full-time students/pensioners:
evidence required) includes lunch and
coffee/tea breaks. Registfation closes
Friday June 8 at 5pm. For further information and registration forms, contact
Centre for Migrant and Intercultural
Studies. Monash University.
^tSas&bOA
•
Other Attractions
Lifeline • Volunteers Needed.
Lifeline Melbourne provides a
telephone counselling service in six languages - Arabic, English, Greek,
Italian, Turkish and Vietnamese. Volunteer counsellors talk with callers about
personal and family difficulties, information needs and a range of other
problems. Would you like to help? Are
you a good listener? Concerned about
people and their problems? Able to
commit yourself to regular voluntary
work? Willing to learn new helping
skills? If so, you could be selected to
train as a Lifeline Volunteer Telephone
Counsellor. You will gain skills, challenges and satisfaction at being a part of
a vital community service. For further
information, phone Lifeline's Office on
662 1677.
Monash University School Holiday
Program enrolment day for July school
holidays is Tuesday June 12,1pm in
the Student Welfare Office, First Floor,
Union Building. Payment in full (based
on family income) is required on enrolment. For further information, contact
Beraadette Muir, Child Care
Co-ordinator, Student Welfare Office,
phone 565 3186/3126.
During Epilepsy Week, which will be
held on June 10 to 17, the Epilepsy
Foundation of Victoria has permission
to hold a "tin shake" on Victorian Highways. This is planned for Saturday
June 16. Students are asked to help collect at any intersection - please contact
Glcnyse Guinan on 813 2866 as soon as
possible if you are able to help.
liruno Man.ser, a Swiss illistrator who
lived for six years in the Sarawak
jungle with the Penan uibc, will speak
at the YWCA, 489 Elizabeth Street,
Melbourne at 8pm on Friday June IS.
He will tell the story of the Penan and
their desperate struggle for ffibal survival in the face of rainforest logging in
Sarawak. Bruno Manser will also be
joining a public protest at Australia's
biggest Malaysian Rainforest timber importer called "Timber Sales" on Friday
June 15. For further information, phone
the Rainforest Action Group's 24 hour
hotline on 826 6656, or the RAG office
on 417 7450.
The Rainforest Action Group will also
be holding a movie screening entitled
"Blowpipes and Bulldozers", which
will screen at the Glasshouse Theatre,
RMIT, 360 Swanslon Street, Melbourne
at 7.30pm on Friday June I. All welcome.
Members of the public are invited to
Government House on Sunday June 17
from 12 noon to 5pm to salute The
Australian Ballet. Tickets are $5,
children $2, with delicious afternoon
tea available in die Stale Ballroom.
Tickets available at the gate.
Monash University Revue Script
Workshops will be hold in the Conference Room from 5pm to 8pm on
Thursday May 24 and Wednesday May
30. All welcome.
SCRATCH! Radical Cartoonists in
Australia Ever had something to say
about the boss, about who does the
housewoik, DSS queues, living with
AIDS, death squads in El Salvador? Do
you like to scribble and draw? Then
you may like to be a part of a magazine
where radical/community/underground
cartoonists from all over can chat about
their work, let one another know about
the various campaigns and movements
for which ihey draw. SCRATCH! needs
letters, articles, reviews, announcements, and most importantly,
some of your latest cartoons. For further information, phone (08) 31 5472,
or write:
SCRATCH
Don't forget the Community Garage
Sale at the Monash Student Creche
Co-operative, 18 Beddoe Avenue,
Clayton, which will be held this Sunday, May 28, from 10am to 2pm. All
enquiries, phone the Creche on 544
4959.
Mature and Part Time Students
(MAPS) General Meeting to ratify
the constitution will be held on Tuesday, May 29 at 1.10pm in the MAPS
Lounge. Copies of the constitution
are available at the ofTice. Amendments must be submitted at least two
working days prior to the meeting,
CI- Labour Studies Resource Centre
South Australian College of Advanced
Education
Kintore Ave
Adelaide SA 5000
PUBLIC MEETING
VERY FAST TRAIN
Need o r Greed?
RADICAL
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Issues related lo • the 'Very Fast Xnin.
UK MukJ Function Polls • Public Tnusport
Chalnd by Dr Joe Caunllkxl,
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Films
WE KNOW YOU'RE
OUT THERE...
One of Melbourne's best kept
secrets!. The State Film Centre of Victoria Film and Video Library is a free
public library, with thousands of films
and videos for you to borrow. To join,
all you need to do is phone, write or call
in for a Borrower Registration form.
Membership is absolutely free. Hours
of opening are: Monday - Wednesday
and Friday 8.30am to 5pm, Thursday
(late night) 8.30am to 8.30pm. For further information, phone the State Film
Centre on 651 2006.
The Elwyn Morey Centre together
with the Krongold Centre, offers excellent resources and facilities for children
and families. Vacancies exist for 1991
for four year old children in the Kindergarten Programme. For further enquiries, contact the Elwyn Morey
Centre on 565 2887, or call in any time.
The Elwyn Morey Ccnffe is situated
within the Education Faculty, Uirough
the connecting hallway from the Education Building.
• • •
The State Film Theatre presents
Landmarks, independent Film and
Video from the British Workshop
Movement. The programme of six
screenings will run from May 21 to
May 26. Further inquiries, contact the
Slate Film Tlieatre on 651 1490.
Kino, Collins Place Cinemas::
Drugstore Cowboy, starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. Season starts May
24.
Jesus of Montreal, one of the most
original and successful pictures
produced in Canada. Season starts June
29.
Return Home. Melbourne director Ray
Argall's first feature film. Season starts
July (date to be announced).
Exhibitions
Australian Centre for Contemporary
Art presents an exhibition of the work
of Melbourne artist Tony Woods. The
exhibition will run from June 6 to July
8 at the Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, Dallas Brooks Drive, The
Domain, South Yarra. Hours of opening: Wednesday -1 lam to 9pm,
Thursday and Friday - 1 lam lo 5pm,
Weekends 2pm to 5pm (closed Mondays, Tuesdays and public holidays).
For further information, phone 654
6422.
RMIT Union presents Personal
Dialogues, works by Michael Cawley,
PhilUp Jones, Matthew Hooper,
Rabindra Naidoo, Jeff Brumby, Joy
Hirst and Concetia Liberton. Opening
May 21 at the Swanslon Sueet Gallery,
Level 2, Building 18,342 Swanston
Street, Melbourne. Monday lo Friday,
10am 10 5pm until June 1.
Static, a photographic exhibition which
combines powerful imagery with innovative technique. Igor Bradac, a
graduate in Fine Arts Photograpphy
from Phillip Institute, makes his
photographic debut at Linden Art Gallery, 26 Acland Street, St Kilda. Exhibition dales are June 6 to 17, Wednesday
to Sunday 1pm to 6pm. For further information, phone 417 7544..
Brighton Bay Cinema, 294 Bay Street,
Brighton:
Venus Trap, a German psycho sexual
black comedy. Currently showing.
/ Love You To Death, lively
Hollywood black comedy starring
William Hurt and Tracey Ullman.
Opens Friday May 25.
Longford Cinema, 59 Toorak Road,
South Yarra. Currently showing:
My Left Fool, the moving and beautiful
film of the life of Irish writer, Christy
Brown, starring Daniel Day Lewis.
The Vanishing, spooky French thriller
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Sandy Guy (phone 565 3183) who
hopes everyone has a nice midsemester holiday
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