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Tharunka, No . 6, Tu esday May 7th, 1985.
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week.
This month IS the tenth ann iversary of the final collapse of the
South Vietname se regime in Saigon. The anniversary has
prompted long illustrated articles in magazines such as the
Bulletm and New5week. Yet . in the last decade Vie t nam has
received relatlVely little international press coverage. and not
much of that has been sympat het ic. When Viet nam has received
attention It has usually been to report on its act ivi lies in
Kamp uchea, or 10 gloat over t he lack of progress of its economy in
comparison to ASEAN nalions. II is not surprising, then, that the
articles published this month emphaSised the violence and
bloodshed that occurred as Saigon changed hands.
One aspect of the events of a decade ago which has received
continued and prominent allention has been the so-called
"psychologIcal damage" caused by the Vietnam War to the
Un,led States. ThIS damage has been part4cularlyemphaslsed In
the films the Ameflcans have made In their attempts to
understand what happened, films such as The Deerhumer,
Apocolypse Now, Coming Home and, mOSt recently, Tfle Kiffing
Fields. The Killmg Fields has one difference from the res! of the
group because the film seems to be saymg Ihal America 's period
of self-doubt and gUIlt IS over - they can go back to ASia and the
Ttmd World .
ThiS also seems to be the Intention of tile US governrnent . Tile
Reagan Admlnis trallon has been a period of resurgence of a
'confident' and 'unequivocal" US foreign policy. Secretary of
State, Mr Schultz, has argued that a big power must be prepared
ID use force to buttress diplomacy.
Defence SecrE"tary, Casper Weinberger, has argued for any
military intervention 10 be only as a last resort. w ith full publiC
backing, and With the "clear Intention of Winning " . The phrase a
" clear Intention of wmmng" IS a reference to the mytho! Vietnam
that 1\ was diVISion w ith the American people, coupled with
political inte rvent ion in the w ar effort, wh ich resul ted in the US
defeat. This IS, and always has been, an absurd propoSit ion. How
a country can drop more ordnance than thal used in all previous
wars, on an area the size of a medium Sized US state, cra teflng
almOSt ten percent of its land area, wlthoul intend ing 10 Win IS
ridiculous. The Unlled States wa s simply defeated, deCISively and
mill\arily, by a superior opponent.
The edllorsof Tharuflka mourn the passing of super engineer,
John Olip. John departed thiS edlloflal leam for a higher paid
existance on April 30.
No flowers by request .
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Ten years after the US left Vietnam we shou ld not forg et what
the results of such nati onalistiC and aggressive huffmg and
puff 109 by the US usually are. Nor should w e forgel Ihe areas in
Central America lowards which such commenls are directed.
Talk of past diVISIon IS as much directed to ending presenl
diVISions and to mmlmlsing the significance of future "pol ice
actions" - m silort, to reconStruct an
of I
EXPLANA TION
Look, it wasn 't our fault .. , r ca lly_
Vou see all these election raves ca me in at 5.00 p.m . on Wedn esday,
and then the next da y was a holiday, ANZAC Day,
a nd then the t YPcsclling mac hine broke on Friday.
A nd Friday was the Printers Pic nic D ay so
wc found thi s place where w e co uld g et it typese t .
hut we had (0 supp l y the o p erator.
A nd it was on l )' open till 4.00 p.m. and w e needed morc time.
and the t ypesetter wouldn't be fix ed until M o nda y ,
because the parts had to ('ome from Melbourne.
An d when they arrived on Mon day they didn 't fix it.
so it still wa sn't workin g a ll Tuesday at l unchtime,
so we d ecidcd to bring out two T hanmkas.
That's ri g ht. Thcmmka went WEEKL.Y.
The first pari waS OUI );Ist week w i th a ll the election stuff,
and this is the rest of ou r ori g inal 40 page bumper i ssu e.
So go home, get out the scissors . and reronstruct the real Tharunka
as nature never intended it.
\"e' re sorry to put you to all this trouble but
we know you'll understand, because it wasn't our fault!
PAPAR
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Interested In the lobofwrltlng and proofreading and laYing
up and everything else Involved In preparing TlliJrUflkiJ, then
now IS your chance .
The pOSition carrie s a meagre wage .
Wnte us a letter explalnmg
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Tharunka, No. 6, Tuesday May 7th, 1985.
WOME N &
ANZAC DAY
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Thi s yea r t h e wo m e n' s
contribution to the A nzac
D ay ceremon ies in Sydney
again provoked outrage f ro m
ce rta in se c t io n s of the
com m unity.
It is difficult to understand why
several hundred ordina ry women
wishing to include a remembrance of
women's suffe ring in w<.lrtime should
provoke such a reaction. Anzac Day is,
after all, the national day on which all
Australians, men and women, remember
the sacr if ices fellow Australians paid for
their freedom.
Yet. in 1983 a magistrate refused
police protection for women taking part in
the An zac Day ceremonies because th ey
would be "like strangers at a funera l" . It
seems that A nzac Day is about the
su fferi ng of soldiers in war, civilians are
not permitted to mourn the price pa id by
civi l ians. 161 women w ere arrested that
year. whi le proceedings in a si lent orderly
fashion down George Street an hou r
before the main ma rch. They w ere
charged w ith ca usi ng "serious alarm and
affront to re asonable persons". In 1984
the women w ere fo und to have no case to
answ er and the charges were dismissed.
A ppl icat ion to march in 1984 was
again refused and as thei r inte nt ion is to
mou rn women's suffering in war, not to
be arrested, that yea r the women
marched an alternative route to Hyde
Park. The ceremony passed wi t hou t
inciden t. so most of th e media coverage
tha t year wa s given to the M elbou rn e
w omen's march wh ere vi olence broke
ou t w hen police tried to stop wom en from
march ing .
Th is yea r the w omen's m arch from
Macquarie Place, up Macquarie Street to
Hyde Pa rk aga in passed without incident .
The w reath was thrown into t he Pool of
Rememberance and the women w ere
quietly disband ing when the police
arrested two women for putt ing a sti cker
up in Hyde Park . In the scu ff le as the
police dragged them away, another
w oman w as arrest ed and an old man w as
knocked over .
WHY DO W OMEN ' S ACT IONS
PROVOK E S UCH HOSTILITY?
Ifs t he inclusion of the word rape on
their banner wh ic h seems to hit a nerve .
Although rape woul d seem to be an
obvious inc lusion when women
remember the experiences of other
women in war. it is apparent ly not
something that the RSL wants talked
about . In raising the issue of the
connection of the military, w ar and rape,
the women have also rais ed questions
about rape in peacet ime . Questions men
don't feel comfortable answering .
\':L..__~~",_""g;
ATTITU D ES TO RA PE
Our society cond emns rape asa crime
punishable by sentences equitable to
those given 10 murderers on one hand.
ye t actively promo tes its pract ise on t he
other. Women are prese nted as bait to
enco urage the ant ics 01 heroes on TV and
in th e movies. Women are th e pr izegiven
10 the good g uys when th ey wi n. Rape is
the magic combinat ion of sex and
violence guaranteed to boost the ra t ings.
Adve n ising presents images of women
mani pul ated 10 suggest invi tat ion. So
w hi le th e law offici ally recognis es rape
as '"t he w orst th ing that can happen to a
w oman". ra pists are tried by judges w ho
believe that rape is just over w helmi ng
lust, w hich w omen invi te.
Th e sloga n tha t every man is a
potential rapist is controversial, bui the
u ut h of the statement is show n by t he
w ay every w oman li ves her life . W e live to
an un proclaimed curfew . af raid to m ove
around freely , nervou s in ou r own homes
and mistrustful of m en u nless we meet
th em in a co ntext in wh ich we fe el
protected. A w oman w ho values her
sexual integri ly cannot expect th e same
amount 01 fr eedom and independence
th at men take for granted. Rape, and t he
fear of rape, is used to prevent wom en
from becoming too uppity. (Veteran 10
women ma rching on Anzac Day, "should
rape the lot 01 you".) The rapist serves 10
keep all wom en clinging to men for
protection at all times .
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ALL MEN AREN 'T RAPI STS
A nd wha t of t hese men w e look to fo r
protecti on? Stat ist ics show that these are
the men w e are most l ike ly to be raped by
- our fathers, husba nds and boyfri ends .
These are t he men w ho caref ully cherish
the set of m yth s rapists evoke to excuse
their behaviour and blame thei r vict ims .
These myths have served so we ll to keep
rape a pa rt of our lives: She was asking
f or it - A ll wom en secretl y wan t to be
raped - No woman can be raped against
her VlliII - she led him on, etc, etc, etc. ad
nauseum.
RAPE IN WARTIME
But ifs in wa rtim e Ihat the pretended
taboo against rape is lifted and rape
beco m es 'standard operating procedure'.
" There would unq uestionably be some
raping", w rote General Patton and
unquestionably t here was . M ass rape
occu rred in Belgium, Italy, Bangladesh
and Viet na m and continues today in El
Sa lvador and Nicaragua, Soldi ers are
se nt 10 figh t 10 protect th eir homes and
Iheir w omen from the enemy. But ou r
men w ho go to w ar to protect us are
themselves th e enemy fo r someone else.
John Smai l. a Viet nam veteran, on rap e
- " Tha!"s an everyday affa ir . You can nai l
just about everybody on that - at least
once . The guys are just human, man" .
When the final cost of war is tallied, rape
is not coun ted. for women are the
leg it im ate spoils of w ar.
Women march on Anzac Day to
include rape in the tally of atr ociti es
suffe red in w ar and topoinl out this is one
aspect of warfare w hich does not end in
peacet ime, A guerilla war contin ues,
conducted by men against women. Unt il
it ends the question w hy can't feminis ts
treat everyone just as people, remains
fa tuous.
Thoru nka: No. 6, Tu esday M ay '7th: ', g8 5 ~
~kEAKTHktlUIiH
IN O\7ERSEAS STUDENT CAMPAIGNS
Overseas student s are
beginning to see some light at
the end of the tunnel. The
events that h appened in th e
pa st few days w ere extra-
ordinary.
of some
struggle
Overseas
They brought hope
result in our long
to improve the
Student Program .
Publicity wa s arranged - in th e fo r m
ba ck cover adv ert ise m ent S i n
Tharunka and Ho"i S oit - and by w ord o f
mouth . Despite t his, over 100 stud ents
turn ed up on t he day of t he rall y at Hyde
Park . Sydn ey Uni. stu dents sang and
marched all the wa y from their campus to
t he ci ty. UNSW students took public
transport. UTA laughed aUthe way 10 the
ba n k. M an ny Cal o nzo, Sec retar yGen e r a l o f the A s i a n Student
A ssociat ion, spoke at t he rall y. So d id
Sleven Gan, UNSW Overseas SlUden t
Services Director; Tina Chua , Sydney
Uni. Ove rseas Student Officer and Adam
Rorris, a m ember of Sydney University
Student Representative Cou ncil.
" Let's march 10 the A LP State
Headquarters in Sussex Street", sa id
Ada m. And w e did . We sang a few more
songs on the w ay. Having reached the
office on th e 9th fl oor, w e occupied the
reception area. We took th e lift s. No-one
was prepared to use th e stai rs. Calls w ere
made to talk to the A LP State Secretary,
Steve LoosIAY. HA snAaked out from h is
office to talk 10 us. A heated debate
ensued . We demanded an appointment
w ith Senator Susan Ryan. l oosley rang
her office but she wa sn 't in . W e left an
hou r later, with t he agreement that we
would be given an appoi ntment w ith
Susa n Ayan with in two weeks if possible .
Two hours later, Steven Gan received
a call from Loosley's off ice . Susan Ayan
had agreed 10 talk to a delegat ion of
stu dens on Thursday M ay 2. The next
day, there w as quite a number of people
w ho wa lked around the Student s' Union
with their ta ils between their legs. The
rally, the y claimed , was tOlurn out tobe a
complete fa ilure.
of
THE RA LLY THAT
N EVER W AS
A rally was suggested by a n umber of
right -w ing presidents last m ont h. That
was dur ing the height of the tuiTion fees
deba te. It w as pro posed that a rall y be
org an ised In Sydney on Apri l 1 8 . Days
passed . The tui t ion fees proposal was
rejec ted by the A LP ca ucus. Those who
Origina lly suggested the rally decided to
back off. The rall y was off, they said. But
was It? Many still believed th at even
though tuition fees were no longer on our
agenda there were other issues that
needed to be addressed . These included
Overseas
Student lees. inadequate
st udent allow ance, inadequate ch ildcare, inadequate staffing student
rati os and the like . But th ese w ere not the
concern s of th ose opportunist ic rightw ing presidents.
A. few days befo re April 18. WA hAard
r umours that th e rally was indeed on . Noone kn ew who the initiators were. The
rumour was tr aced back to Sydney Uni to a couple of dedicated individuals.
Three days before the rally, the UN SW
Students' Unio n Executive m et . The rally
was given " moral " support bu t the
condition t hat th e organizat ion which
was backing th e rall y be made known .
Phone calls were m ade. Still. none
claimed resp.onsibility. Later tha t daY, the
NSW Over seas Stu dent Collect ive,
knowing that lim e w as r unning out and
as a m atter of urgency, decided to
officially assume responSibility. The rally
w as definitely onl
DEMONSTRA TIONS
GREET SUSAN RV AN
Susan Ryan . wh o Wd~ on the <:ampl.1,e1 01 UNSW MId
Sydr.ey Univer~i l y to deliver the Occasional Ad dress al
the Ar l> fd<:uhy Graduation, wa ~ greeted both times by
d e monS H ~ l io n s concerning Oversea. f ees and
Euucalion Cutbacks.
At UN~W Ihe r~ II" was vocal clnd ....ell·iJnended.
Speeches we.e gi\'en. The Sydney r~ll ~ was amu<:h
smaller affai', due mainlr 10 the lacl th e ceremony wa sJI
b p.m. 'Jlhe, th"n 1 p .m d, cll UNSW. Here is an e~Ha ct
hum th e Preu Release prepared by Tian
Chua,
Sydn<'y Uni. OSS Offic<" . for Ihcif rally. It gi, es a good
OUlline of Ihe 'eawns fo' the proresl :
rhl' prOl <'" mrend. IQ hi):h/i):hr Ihe 'HU(" o f
ove,.ed •• Iurlem f<.-e • •/nll educal/on btsdjlei
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l!ellUine developmelll of Third W orld $Ol;C I)'.
rhe/e/o 'e. Ihc o bJcC! of ,his prote>! is locali upon JU
mlmbers of II.e JUlI>encc dnd e.pedally 5endlo,
SUs.ln Ry.tn 10 uphold a li,m COmmilmenr toward a
r;m ('{l uCJlivII whieh wou'd "ncoUl J/le pa"ieip~l ion
of 11", d is.ldvJntJ/lL'tJ.
tn he' ~peech JI UNSW, Senator Ryan auempred tV
an~ .... e' hel clilies. 5pcdking on Ihe Iherne of equity in
edUCJlion, she anempted 10 argue that the newly
inl,oduced quvl a system fOI OS Sludems would
enhance equity. People in Ihe ~ud ;ence with whom
Ih~'unh discu~~ Ihe Senators speech fell Ihat her
a,sument was bolh "dishonest Jnd palronising·.
This ....eek J depulJtion of sludems will meet SenatOI
Ry~n 10 deliver Iheir complainTS in detail. The next issue
91 Tha'unh will contJin report of that m\!Cling.
Two days after A pr illB, the NSWOSC
met at UNSW. Steven Gan (UNSW).
El izabeth Yap (NSWITI, Tian Ch u a
{Sydney Un i) and Carolyn Kim (New castl e
Unl ) were elected to be on the delegat ion
to meet Susa n Ayan. It was also decided
th at anot her rally was to be organ ised on
Tuesday. April 23 at UNSWwhere Susan
Ryan was expected to address a
g raduat ion ce rem ony . A press
conference to uncover the results of a
recent NSW OSC surv ey on t he affect of
fees on overseas st udents w as also to be
org anised on the same day.
There w as some doubl abou t Ihe
accura cy of t he reports of Susan Ryan
being on campus. We w ent ahead never theless. Aa in began to pour on Sunday.
Leaftets w ere printed on M onday. The
rain continued to pour. The NSW OSC
survey w as analysed and a report wa s
w ri tten by UNSW 's Education Officer,
Greg Giles. He sl ayed on Monday night at
the Students' Union l ofin ish the repo rt in
time for th e press conferen ce scheduled
to be on al 11 .30 a.m . t he neXI day. W e
slayed back as well. A cardboard coffin
was made . Hand m ade posters w ere put
up. Our banner wa s stolen. Cou ld this
person or persons who took our roll of
black cloth from the 3 rd f loor of th e
Squarehouse on th e night ot'April 22 ,
please return it to the OSS off ice. The
rain continued to pour ,
The weather on TueSday, Apri l 23, did
not prove to be any ben er. The slrategy to
hand out leaflets at major ga tes on Ihat
morn ing was foiled by interm luent
dow npours. That did not dampen our
resolve . The ral ly was to be on. So was
the press conference. Most of the
mainstream media came for the press
Update - The ~eet i ng ~ith Sen~ t o r SUI"n
lIyan ha . h<:!.,., poatponed to the "'ee~ br t <lr ,
her <lXeUSe h<:!ing that she had to r~5h back to
Canber<a for an e~c rgen cy ~e t ing .
Wc are re"ling ext r c",ely byr"t - o~t. 4 de"",B
,n 2 wcek are der,nbt<l l y not ou r usu~1 way of
"pe ration . lIyde Pbrk 0" Apri l I B, Utl SW on
,'pul 18 , UNSW 'again !) on April )() a nd fin~ ­
Ily , Sydncy Un. on ~ ay 2 . No t t o mention ~
nalional con f c r .. ncc t o be o<ganl.cd during
t hc .'IIIy <"cc •• (May lJ- 17) !
The le d,,",OI did achie ve mo r c t han '~e hope fo r,
WC hO"e s hown Ou r a n<Jc r to Ry"" and h~ v c proven
our po,nt . Bu t thc ~St importa n t of b I t w~ a
ou r capab'l'ty to NOb,I,.e " t a ve r y short nOliee. The spontane'ty of the5e rallies 9"vo ft
touch of raw student act'v ' s~ wh,eh 8re unhe8rd
o f thes .. daY5.
The ~pr,1 18 'dlly wa a or<Janis~ with 1 d8Ys
not.ce, ~p<ll 21 - 2 day" , April 10 - l ~ days
con ference by 12 noon . After the press
conference at the Squarehous e, th e
med ia moved up 10 the Library Lawn . We
f o llowe d . The S t udents ' Un i on
m er.aphone w as not to be found.
St ill t he rally had to go on. The
irreverent Michael 4 ugust began to
shout f rom the top of his voice 10 Ihe
crow d. Out of the blue, Lynch came
r unning w it h the megaphone.
Students began to march down to the
.Science Theate, led by t he coffm of Free
Education. Craig Ma hony, in an effort to
StOP the rally, grabbed the megaphone,
" It wa s disgusting to rally m front of a
graduation ceremony", he said. "Who
gives a luck to those students whoare not
as lucky as th ose w ho are graduating.
Who cares about those w ho are unable to
get InIO un iversity due to fees and
cutbacks. (Steven's interpretation. with 8
tuuch of sarcasm - Eds). Not su rprisi ng
re ally from a r ight -winger.
Close to 300 students marched in
front of t he Science Theatre. We sang.
Then w e sadly crema ted Free Education.
Steven Gan spoke. Susan Ryan was not
to appear , A pparent ly w e got the dale
wrong . She w asn't to be on campus until
Tuesda y. April30. Nevert heless, Iherally
rece ived wi de m edia coverag e fro m both
the m ainstream press and Channels 7,
10 and 0 ,
An other rally wa s planned for April
30. Apr il 23 w as only a dress rehearsal th is time around we are doing it for real.
Susa n Ryan will be def initely on campus,
We can 't let such a golden opportunity
sl ip away. W e are gen ing closer to
secu ring a resolution from our anti-fees
campaign,
N ~I
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ho~rs l
Given Lhe t i .... eons tr,,;nts , t he ra,n), loIe"ther
and lack of publ i eity , the attenden .. e of those
ull ,ea ... e r e beyond ou r " x pcetation s . Th .. nk .
to thoae who avppo eted uS and defi na t ely nO
th"nks t o t hO l e who woeked a g ~ins t US !
NATION A L O VE RSEA S
STUOEN T CON FERENCE
Being th e most act ive OSS in
A ustralia - mai nly due 10 a progressive
Student s' Cou ncil - w ith the except ion
of right-w ingers, Liberals and the like, UNSW OSS has t aken up t he grand role
of hOSllng the National Ove rseas Student
Conference.
Th e Nat ional Confere nce will be held
on th is campus during the M ay recess
WIth student leaders from all across
A ustrali a. It is to be the very fi rst t ime t hat
such an event is organ ised since 1979.
Hopefu lly it will pave t he wa y to a un ited
na l ional overseas studenl movement)n
A ustralia. The conferenc e w ill explore all
issues of concern 10 overseas studems.
You are inVited to participate. For more
info rmation con tact your OSS .
STU DEN TS' UNI ON
COUNCIL ELEC TION
It's the l ime of the year again, the
Student s' Counci l Elections. LaSt ye ar for
t he very fir s! time in UNSW' s history, an
ov er sea s stud e nt wa s el ec te d to
represent a Faculty (Kian K. Um Eng ineering). This time around w e are
not fie ld ing one bU I eight candidates.
Tw o ha ve alre ad y been e lec t ed
unopposed. One in Arch itectur e, the
ot her in Science, We have one running in
Applied Science, two in Commerce and
three in Engineering. So go all out and
vote for them come week 10. Support
those w ho are committed in representing
you on the Studenl Council. Every single
vot e counl s.
VERSEA S STUD ENT COL LEC TIV
Tharunka No 6 Tuesday May 7t h 1985
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5
ME1>ICAL A1>VICE ••
"Doctor Killdare" , "The Young Doctorers". (Oh,
and " Prisoner" - fO get the medical consume rs'
point of view). And one or tw o ambit ious loons had
been impersonatin' the old trick-cyclists for yer s.
For illustration - one psychosurgeon w as so
impressed w ith a particular paTient's emulation of
his scalpel style that he let him stand in and assist
during transorbital lobotomies, Th is patient (Xl ,
much to the amusement of the surgon, w ould
cover his mad eyes and dive his finger rand omly at
a section of the eJl:posed brain, which sect ion the
surgHon would (with a chuckle) excise .
It seemed to work as well as anyth ing . The only
problem was it gave Patient X too much power in
the hospital.
Other patients. knowing they were up for
psychosurgery, took to bribing Patient X with
cigarettes in attempts to improperly influence the
outcome of their surgery - "Just a bit off the
hippocampus, please!". And then, one day, the
psychosurgeon t ired of Patient X's antics and
slipped with the scalpel during X's own leucotomy
THE DOCTORERS' DISPUTE
Ifs time for a post-mortem on the so-called
doctorers' dispute. "So-calledl" Well, I mean to
say. Just how many doctorers you drink with were
out on strike. will ye be tellin' me thet, then?
But tha's anuther story. and long in the telling
of it , To get to the oats of the thing. now. You may
have thought in your slothful ignorance that all the
barney was about money. the filthy lucre. Or about
socialised medicine. Let me put you right as virtue
on those two counts.
The plain truth of the matter. friend, is that the
procedural specialists were fighting tooth and nail
for the very air what fills their lungs on a regular
basis (allow me the metaphor without your
wailin·). And who. you will be quick in the ask in',
was seeking to deprive these worthies of the bread
in their fat bellies? Who wanted to see their
spouses and little ones sent moaning to the poor
house? Was it that ogre of all our lives, God rot it,
the government? No, nOI that party (it being too
busy holding Royal Ccmmissions into the
eJl:cessive number of Royal Commissions).
Twas it then. you may be jumpin ' ahead of me.
the great unwashed. the plain people of Sydney?
No. it weren't them neither - they were waitin '
for the bus. Who the heck then, you will be crying
out without respite. was it?
Orrightl Twas no other man that the raving
loony, which fellow is fondly called "the
psychiatric pat ient!" Ye all know a few of these,
such as sit at bus stops, slaver ing at the gapin'
mouth and bein' a threat to the children of this fair
islel
There are no less than fifty-two of these
moon-galers impersonating procedural
specialists!
How did such a fearfu l state of affa irs come to
see light of day. you w ill no doubt be Qu ick to
Query? Now tha t's a yarn in itse lf . so drive t he
chooks outside and stoke up the fire .
Now that yer settled with ale tipp ling to your
thirsting rubbery lips. I'll let yer know w hat I
know. How do I know? I have a man on tile inside.
you might say. Placed at the bleeding heart of the
NSW public hospital system. a more reliable
source of information than Vatican Video. and a
finer golfer thi S Side of Arcady you wou ldn't be
finding . In Ir ish Wit. he's fond of calling himself
" Deep InCISion"
Anyroad. ye all know, of course, how much tt-,e
SOCial workerors, God bless their paint-flecked
overallS. hate and re vile the doctorers. most
especially the procedural spec ia list s. T he
Orangemen and the Catholics have not a patch on
this feud!
Now, one day not a few years back, one
particular social workerer twas sittin' at the Youth
Refuge nursing the most worthy of hang-overs
and a cursin' and a cursin' the doctorer what
WOUldn't sign her sick certificate. Ooh, a terrible
predicament. you will agree I But was our hung
over friend goin' to take this sort of elitist
treatment Iyin' down (or slumped, as thecase may
be - I'll not quibble)?
Not on your nellie, and yer a twit if you thought
it fer a minute. Not in these daysol "direct action" ,
So she and a few colleagues got a little plan into
their throbbing heads. Twas this - to give a
number of psychiatric patients a bit 01 a holiday,
work-eJl:perience and social skills tra ining - all in
one happy bundle. And to g ive them egg -rotten
doctorers a come uppance more stirrin' than the
Potato Rebellionl
These laudable goals wer e to bevouch safed by
training the loon ies in all t he SUbtle gu ile of
impersonating medica l doctorers.
A J esu itical plot? I' ll not deny the truthl A wi ld
and fanciful scheme? Assur ed lyl An ambitious
and naughty boast ! T is true, againl But it worked
me boy. and there's the wond er in it, as long as t he
Lord w alks th is cruSty ea rthl
The loons were lor ried out to a secret bush
hideaway, (Recently vacated by a group of social
workerers undertakln' the guerr illa traming so
they could indulge in a bit 01 pot -shottlng on their
forthcoming Womens' Weekly Nicaraguan
holiday).
Of course al! them televisory programs made it
easier (what med1cal student would pass posts
w ithou t ·em?). Dem SOCial workerers plonked the
loonies down in fr on t of endless medical videos " A Country Practice". " Marcus Welby MD",
beq,n to ue her
t he r ... ily ,
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But back to those patients near and dear t o the
hea rt of our present story. There was no skimpin'
on their trainin'l
The sorry loons were taught early in the piece
how to do the windsurfin ' (which was fearful hard
in the bush!). And you wouldn't credit the effort
that went into teach in' the poor eyeball-rollers the
subtle art of diagnosis - how to check the health
of the corporate body - gold futures, the Dow
Jones, investment profiles, Mercedes Sports
leasing .
Then the essentials of Life and Death surgical
procedures: the ha ir transplant and the plastic
surgery, mind you!
So what, your t imely interrogative mig ht run,
was the upshot? A success, unqualified! No
sooner were these straight jacket we arers
shunted back to civilisat ion than they w ere havin'
10 kn ock back offers left right and centre Profes sor of Surgery, Psych iatric Regi strar.
Visit ing Fellow in Haemoto logy. Proctolog ical
Specia li st. Now the real doctorers soon co tt oned
on to t he ripe old fa ct that something of note w as
happening, parkin ' spaces for t he Mercedes
Sport s were gen in' rarer than hens' teeth ! 'Twa s a
Crisis of Epic Proport ions.
W ell . I won' t burden you with the rest - that
you know already, The newspapermen have
covered It m its length and breadth - the
speecl1es and posturing. tile deals In the offing
But now, as the chooks come cluckm' back In tile
embers are dying. you've got the understanding of
It Take a contented. knowmg quail at your aiel
Now you can place a l1and on your hea rt and
sympathise With the procedural speCiali st wl10
complained. "You'd have to be mad to be a
dOClorer !"
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Tharunka, No. 6, Tuesday May 7th, 1985.
Features
6
READING THE
TERRITORY:
An article on race, c ulture and Abo ri g inality.
On Saturday 13 Apfll. a lead article appeared III the
Salurday Review sectIOn of the Sydney Mornlllg Herald.
'Why Ihe Oreamlllg can nover come back '. wrll/en by
Shlva Nalpaul. Tho author IS a cosmopolit an Tfill/dad ·
bom In dian wh O was recofllly IfJ Australia. but If) the
Norlhern Teff/tory III particular ThiS arllcle IS a response
10 Ihal slory. which was a collec/lon of Ignoralll observations and biased commCllIan es on /lIe Australian
Aboflgllles.
,
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Pop Jo urnali sm
Her Story and His Story
Ab Orl g mal hi story IS not confm ed to the ou tbaCk.
reserves and r,' issions. Their urban presence has always
been mai nta med except m the early years o f the Po rt
Jac kson sett lemen t when small-po x and ethnocentric
hatred drove them fu rther than t he outSkirts o f the
co lonia l gaol. Despi te the allegation that Abongmes
were not even fit to be servants (u nli ke Black America~s)
Abongines have always been exploited as cheap labour
The pastoral Industry. those kmgs and queens In grass
casUes. was bUilt WI th Abongmallabour. kn owledge and
blood. Abongmal women and children w ere dragged
away from communl l les. espeCially If they were deSignated as ·half-cas te·, and found them selves as housemaids from CaIrns to M osman and Toorak
Who are the Aborigines?
ThiS question has tor ment ed Aus t ralia n history since
th e European mvaslon Nalpaul at one stage. m a typical
meandermg style. believes It IS a good question to ask
whoar e theAbo ngmes Yet he suspec ts the Cattlemen·s
ASSOC iation IS bemg 'hypocntlcal and dlsmgenuous' for
statl ng the same. But to conluso t tlmgs further. Nalpaul
IS not even sureol how he Wi shes to address and utltlse
the term or concept o f ·race· At one pomt he casllgates
the w ay m w hiCh Abongmal pursuits and benehts are
allegedly undertaken m the name of an Abongmat rac e
ThiSISdespite Na ipaul con tmually deSCribing and referring to AbOri gines as ·full-bloods·. 'mlxed descent" and
olher terms typical o f raCial discourse
In Nalpaul's arti cle th ere IS a preoccupation Wi th
genealogies and the colour and tones o f vanous people's
skin . Naipaul"s approach is concerned with race. Wh o
is in the race ? What punty has th e race. o r m contr ast
impurity? Naipaul has imposed upo n a people a colour
susceptible to mathematical equat ions such as qua rter.
hall and eighth . Thi s categori sation is one 01 pigment
tone and nothing else. It is a racist analysis.
The legislative books of the various State and Commonwealth Parliaments are litt ered with Acts (thankfully
now superseded ) that have attempted to define the
Abo rigi nal individual and community in Similar terms.
~
ThiS was usuaUy not Intend ed as a method 01 IdentifYing
thos e elig ible for bene fits but as a means of denymg
them citizenship
Only the dommant class can call others hall-caste or
of mixed descent , thereby dlsquall fymg an Abongme 's
cultural qualifIcatIOns o r Abongmallty. A class domln·
atmg the access to media and polit ical agenda-sellmg.
and ready to deny people thelf eXistence. Isa tyrannyof
the highest order
The Australlall (April t 985) newspaper wrote:
Nalp aul was struck by Ihe w hlleneSs of mosl
A bon gln es. th e re m arks on Ihe lf subs /anlla/lnfu·
Slons 0 / Chlflese, If/S ll and Scol/lsh blood. saylflg
·,t takes a practised ey e to dIscern the Aboglgmallly
o f many of !hese la wn d welllllg. Chns tlamsed.
AustralJamsed r eoresentatl ves of the ··race·· w hose
genetic exotiC Ism and de facto asslllllla l lOn make
absurd all those claims 10 senSlllvltles and vulnor·
abilities. .
T he A ustralian Slims up an arrogant rac ist slu r on a
w hole population . Tne pa in. destruct ion and persecution
over AbOrlg lnallty has o nly been rece ived by Aborigi nes.
No ·wh,te· can le-owner or w nter has ever su ffered because of confUSion III Identl fymg thelf ·race·.
A definition o f who an Abonglne IS can only come from
Abongln es. otherWise ItIS Imposed upon them . Charles
Per"ms. an Abonglnal Common wealt h bureaucrat. has
sta ted tha t any defInition of who IS an Abongme must
mclude three aspects Firstly. ances try to the Indigenous
people o f the contment of Australia. Tasmania and th e
Torres Strait Istands. Secondl y and thIrdly. a recogmtlon
by the AbOrlgm al com munity and a wlllmgnes s for that
person to Identify as an Aboflgme
Aborigines, Punks, Mods
and Teddyboys
Under the gUise 01 cultural perception . Nalpaut questIOned the Abonglnallty of those who ptay reggae or
country and we stern musIc and wear Mlchael Jackson
t-shlrts. But Nalpaul has probably nOt read 'Subculture
the meaning of style'. or Levl·Strauss or Jacques Dernda
wh o all co ver the ptlenomenon o f bncotage In Readmg
the Country. Stephen Muecke devotes a chapter to
bncolage and ItS relatIOnship 1'lIth A bongmes
Bncolag e accordmg to Muecke'Is a practice. a way of
liVing which IS creative and economical' He also believes bllcolage IS the activi ty 01 roammg and collec tlllg
useful bits and pieces to keep things gOing or even make
them function bett er
BnCOlage IS concerned WIth surVival. tlvlng. pract lcahtie s and good t imes . AbOri gines are no less Abo rig inal
fo r usi ng a fo rty- four gall on drum as a fife stove. so why
should th ey be con Sidered so for weaflng a I-shirt or
playing and rec iting reg gae? They are a Ilvmg people, not
a m useum exhi bitio n. Thelf Wil lin gness to adopt some
Euro pean cultur e is a choice tha t IS mfl nltel y bett er than
pretending it does nol exist. This movement and adoption
is a fluid posit ion demanding th e appropriat ion o f anyth ing that is usefu l.
BriCOlage and bricoleurs are presen t m all c ultures.
Soul music is the combination of traditional gospel music
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White w alking down a street or across a Ileld people
will look. but Will not necessarily see. Bemg able 10 read
th e place you are passmg through and cons tru ct a
meaning to It. are learnt skills and not Innate properties
Paddy Aoe. an AbOrlgme from Broome 01 the NYlgma
tribe. and Stephen Muecke, a lecturer atthe New South
Wales Institute of Technology. have published a bnlllant
new book, Readlllg tho Country A passage of LOUIS
Allhusser'sopens the book and problematlses the aspeCt
of seeing wha t you look at. that IS understanding how the
factors of pollllcS and repre sentation Iniluence ·tru th and ·reallty· The passage IS
I veflluro /0 suggos//llat our age Ihreatens one day
10 appear IfJ the history 0/ human culture as
marked by the mOSI dramatic and dllllculltflal Of
all. the dIscovery of and trallllllg m the meanlllg 01
IlIe ·Slmplest · acts of OXlstence. seelllg. Ilstelllllg.
speaking. readlllg-tllo acts wlllch rela te people
to Ihelf works.
ThaI passage sounds as th ough It descn bes somethin g. but what ? May be a Cosmopolitan o r Cleo art icle
on nn Ab o riginal ce ntre-fo ld . A nyway ItS gender bias IS
mdlca ti ve of tile en tire article.
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Nalpaul's article (which IS an edited verSion of a story.
'Priml l ive Chic m Aus tralia'. appeanng m an Amencan
magazme New Republic) IS a typical example 01 pop,ournallstlc anatysls. The narrative Isa conglomerate of
anecdotes followed up Wi th flowery ·supenor analytical '
deductIOns. The follo wmg passage IS an examp le o f thiS
pop-journa lism:
In our day tllC A boflgllle flas been cos tumed m the
haule couture of prevallmg mtel/ec/ual fashion.
He has been hailed as all ecological sallll. obdurate
freed om IlglJter, mystI cal dandy. Clo thed In the
garmenls 0 / mod ish fantasy. he emerged from /lI e
mists of forge tfulness.
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With pop musIc Punks are the modern brlcoteurs taking
Icons, plastiC toy s, reggae. biker's ,ackets. sklll's boots.
mod thrashes and bondage to create their new style fhe
teddy bOys of Bntam stole and Iransformed the EdwardIan style reVived m th e 1950s by Savllle Row tor wealthy
Sloanes. The mods also reversed the role of commodities
todefme a style They used the motor scooter. suc h as a
Lambretta. once the respectable transpo rt 01 Audrey
Hepburn. as a symbol of menace and solidarity These
disruptive modes. styles or forms o f liVing are no tess
onglnal, tradi tional. or mega-trendy They arc the Simple
acts of exchange Dick Hebdlge m hiS book ·Subcultu re:
the meaning of style beheves tile dlscontmulty of til e
normal IS subverSIVe, thus It IS not a surrender
ThiS bflcolage can atso extend past the adapt Ion of
clo thes , mUSIC and mel al objects. II also mcludes language. Nalpaul , as arrogant as he IS. Immediately believes Abongllles spcakmg Eng liSh are styleless culture
weakened people He wri tes
Aboflgme (very sad. very lost) lalks m ,1 dilapidated
palols·. want to go back wesl, me beellthlllkmg.
I been worry and worry /or my coulllry . .. · /IIS odd
1I18r the qUOSI for au/han/IClly [SIC] - <11 an y ra te
m thiS case - should be coupled to /lIe threadbare
rags of a Pldglll Engflsh whIch robs tile mdlVldual
of rhe power 0/ self expresSion ..
ThiS IS a familiar mlsl ake, accordmg to Stephen
Muec ke. who IS 8 IlIlgulSt and collec tor of Abong lllal
language and story tefhng AbOrlgmal Enghsh should
not be seen as a bastard verSion of standard Enghsh.
Thls canatsoapplytoany migrant English oryouth subcultural style Although ItS not BBC. ABC or Ox fOld
Dictionary, It has a style. a repertolfe o f meanmg and
expression It IS th e way 01 expresSIOn which gIves the
meanmg. expeclally III Aborlgmallalk Slephen Muecke
writes In Readl/Jg the COUn/ry
Tile repOtl llOIlS. !he vOice mflecllolls and the
gos/ures are all part of a Slyfe whlc!) IS recogmz·
able fight across Aboflglllal Austrafla, ancolage.
1/1 any lorm. sets up a double VISion. tI lorces
lux/aposltlon of forms. and new meamllgs must
emerge Thens a pleasure III the texl of bocolage.
s pleasure m seemg the edifices 0/ ianguaga
Iremble a III lie as I1 becomes a kmd 01 poelry
Nalpaulls obViously one who looks bul does not see
He hears but he does not know what he hears. So bhndly
he t rembies as he vlflt es condemnmg those who do not
hi mto hiS square hale The m an III questIOn also mlS'
IIlterprets land nghts and Ihe politics of AbOrlgmallty
and receives a pI/me pOSit ion m the newspaper_ He
represents the dommant view and values and while
th ey ref use to acknowlege the attempts o f Australi a to
form and discover new worlds they must be coun tered
History and the presenl demand Justice for the Abongenes,
or the BI-Centenary celebrations Will only mean 200
years o f not understandmg the country Let a ne,y
wo rld eme rge.
Alastai r Walt on
Co· Ed it o r of th e Ab o rigin al
Bulletin, published bv the Aboriginal
LBw Researc h Unit. UNSW.
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Tharunka, No. 6. Tuesday May 7th, 1985.
Features
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ABORIGINAL
The 'House' as it is known to
Aboriginal students on th e campus of
UNSW has recent ly been purchased by
the Univers ity for th e use of Aboriginal
students. It is situated at47 Botany Street,
Randwick and is open to all Aborigmal
students and others w ho may be
interested m con ver sing or soclal!zing
with Abonginal students.
There has been some resentment
against the Aborigmal students on
campus from other students. about the
Aboriginal Centre . The Aboriginal
Students Centre was bought from the
University by money that was
bequeathed to the Aboriginal Studentsol
the University 01 N.S.W . by Mrs. Alice
Gange in 1974. She provided m her Will,
"that the money be used lor the
maintenance and welfare of Aborigmal
students". The money for the Aboriginal
Student Centre did not come from the
UniverSity budget as some people had
originally thought.
The aim of the Aboriginal Students'
Centre is essentially to act as a support
centre and meet ing place primarily for
Aboriginal students. It will. however, in
th e nea r luture also be established as a
resou rce centre as well. This will provide
AbOriginal students with resources such
a~ a Quiet ~tudy area, typing fa cilitic~.
research material on Aboriginal people
and Aboriginal organiza t io ns f rom
around Australia . Th is research material
w hen available will also be open to other
students on campus as w ell.
The Aboriginal Students' Centre in
the future w ill, and has already done so i n
th e short tim e it has been open, provide a
way to establish and secure the iden tity
of Abo riginal students on campus for
those who l ee I the need and ambition to
STUDENT
do so. The affiliation of Aboriginal
students to the Centre is important for
several reasons: (1I the first being the
ala r ming rate at wh ich Aborignal
studen ts wh o have entered UNSW and
have then dropped out, (appro xima tely
90% of Aboriginal students between
1971 and 1984 have dropped out of
University). the Centre wit give the
needed support 10 Aborigines to help that
they succeed In gaining a degree from the
UNSW; (2) to assist in the establishment
of an Aboriginal identity on campus,
particularly since UNSW has the highest
number of Aboriginal students in
Australia; (3) a meeting place for
AbOriginal students on campus Will
encourage not only the interaction of
Aboriginal students between themselves
but also the interaction with community'
based AbOrlgmal groups; (4) prOVide the
impetus towards an awareness and
understanding of local and national
problems which AbOriginal people face
w ithin th e structure of a white society.
Many people are unaware that those
Aboroginals w ho fm d their way
to
Universi ty. know lillle about other
Aborigines and th e problems th ey l ace.
Some wh ite folk think th at because a
person claims to be an Aborigin e they
~hould know all there is to kno w about
traditional and contemporary Aboriginal
society. This is generally not the case. It
takes time to learn and to crea te an
identity, which is difficul t for some
Aborigi nal students prior to universi ty
who have had little knowledge or
interaction with other Aboriginal people
and th eir trad itions. It is hoped that the
Aborig ina l Students' Centre will help to
create an awareness of Abor igi nal issues
and identity not only for the Aboriginal
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students who m ay be opening new
horizons but also for those students wh o
are already versed in the contemporary
and tradit iona l issues of Aboriginal
society.
The benefit s of such ident ity with the
awareness of Aboriginal issues not only
helps Aboriginal students on campus but
can be generated thr oughout the rest 01
the Un ive rs ity population .
The Aboriginal Students' Centre. wilt1
the help of the money intrusted to the
University Administra t ion. w ill flourish in
such a way that Aboriginal studen ts can
find support in those w ho iden tify as
Abongmes as well.
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RAZOR GANG CUTS HIT
RESEARCH
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What's that Lump In my Soup?
Recent Budgetary measures
are threatening a variety of
research facilities in Australia.
These facilities produce some
of the vital basic field and lab
research which locates,
identifies and analyses hidden
threats to our health.
Two of the most recent victims are
industrial heil!th reseilrch, eduG.llon and
food con tel11 analysis (fibre, protein, fat,
carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and sail
etc). The laller is performed fo! the
National Health and Medical Resea rch
Council (N HMR C) joint ly b y the Will is/
Greenlield teilm at UNSW's School of
Food TeChnology and Pro!' Wahlquist ilt
De akin Un i versity. Ind ustrial-health
research and education is conducted by
the lidcome Worker's Health Centre for
the Union Movement. Confirming the
well known po li ti cal clout o f th e
sc ientifi c/aca demi c co mmun i t y
(demonstrJted by the lack of effectiv e
respo nse to the fund ing cuts whi ch
re cently stri pped away millions from the
CSIRO), both servi ces could be red uced
below a sustainable leve l of Jctivity, and
disappear.
In The NatiOllal Tim es (No . 738)
Deborah Smith report s on the food
analysis fiasco. In that article Or Heather
Greenfield of UNSW pointed out the
irony of the N HMRC being originally set
up in the 1930's to do food analyses, yet it
is now being recommended. in the name
of "rationaliz<ltion", that it should slash it s
$150,000 food analysis budget.
transferring the work to other overstretched, under-financed bodies like the
Health Department.
Food Research in Australia started as
"fodder research" at the CSIRO -poking
about in the caule feed to finu the
goodies and the gremlins. Only as an
ahe rth oug ht did scientific medi cine
embark on looking for the right kind of
food for mankind. (sic) Continuing thi s
story of disinterest, Or Greenfield points
out that since "claiming nutrition as its
hallowed perogative", the Australian
medica l profession has largely neglected
the su bject with the exception of "ma les
in their prime" type problem s such as
heart di sea se. ( Rece nt personal
experience confir ms thi s, in th at severa l
women I know su ffering intractab le
maladies have been relieve d of thei r
symptom s by strict dietary avoidance of
th ose food s containing thing s to which
they are i ntolerant, se nsitive and allergic.
Without knowledge o f food content ,
such "exclusive" diets are much less
effecti ve).
Or Greenfie ld specu lates that the low
fun ding priority given to nutrit ion is
linked to it s association with cook ing and
dietetics, which Smith observes is "a
prom inent ly fema le profession with
paramedical statu s".
Professor Wahlquist of Deakin : " It's
vita l we know what is in the food weeat. If
we don't, it's vcr)' hard to give the best
Nutrition. th e
Jdvice Jbout diet".
ullimate preventative medical treatment.
takes a step back to the dark ages with
these moves. Some cases of canc<'r. heart
disease. mcntal retJrd,ltion, epilepsy.
arthritis. diabetes. hypoglycJemia .md
m.my other ailments appear linked with
certain components of food; many may
respo nd to remedial diet changes if
c.lUght early.
The righ t to a sJfe wo rki ng
erwironment also take sa step off the edge
with the threats to Federal financial aid at
the Udcombe Workers Health Centre.
The ce ntre sta rt ed independcntly in 1977,
be ing estJblished to fill the need for
expert advice whi ch was sympa th etic to
the interests of the employee side of the
ndustrial fen ce. ("Consultant s" in the
private sector have gained somewhat of a
reputat ion for ove rcau ti o usness wh en
face d with bringing down a repo rt critical
of their employers, often the on ly party
able to afford their services. Government
H ea lth Department s hav e been
extrem ely ca reful not to be seen as
" irresponsible" or "alarm ist" as thei r
parent funding bodies may also have to
pay for any ou tlay whi ch In adverse
report may entail ).
Students and staff at this Un iversi t y
can be grateful for the work of the
Work e rs Hea lt h Centre (WH C) on
advising union sa fety co mmittees about
the hazards and risk s constituted by
various substances found around the
Universit y. In 1983.they provided a report
which identifics the seriousne~s of the
condition of th e library asbestos
insul.llion. which the UNSW
Administr,lIion figures to pr('scnt ,1 low
priority problem.
Eric C.lmpbell (SydJJ<'Y /"dornin).i
Herald 8/4/85) reported th,lt five CEP job~
will be lost of the 25 at the WHC in
August. ,md that the Centre itself may be
forced to close in mid-1986 when a three
year FederJI Department of Hea lth gr.mt
expires.
Campbell quotes Brian Mason.the coordinator, ,15 saying that the cen1!e stands
to lose $120,000 p.a. or 25% of its budget.
The rest of the budget is provided by NSW
government levies from union member s
and court awards from compensation
pa ymen t s. As w ell as resea r ch.
info rm atio n gJthering, che mical Jnalysis
and Occ upJtional health education, th e
cen t re 's five doctors also Hea t about1 ,200
patients for work-related injuries.
WHC's hopes lie w it h J grant from the
Commonwealth OepJrtmen t of
Employment and Industri JI Relations,
whi ch would allow them to ma intain thei r
wages bill at barely award level.
An yo ne lobbying Federa! A LP
Members to support the se tWO vital
re sea rc h efforts would be d oi ng
themselves and future genera tions a
favou r.
A, MYRTLE
Tharunka, No, 6, Tu esday May 7th, 1985,
Features
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STUOENT POLITICS
If you ' re a new student, or if you've been here a while, you may be
confused over the state of student politics 'on this campus , And
you ' re probably not alone! Who 's who - the left, the right .
independents] MATTHEW ABBOTT talked with three student
groups,
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The Liberal Club's President, Peter
Robinson, believes ttlat Iheir whole
basis, is to promote 'liberali sm', If you
don't know what Ihis means - it goes
someth ing along the lines of holding
seminars, having guest speakers discuss
government policy, plus the holding of
social fu nctions, "We are a club", said
Robinson,
It seemed that the Liberal Club didn't
really address themselves particularly to
any conten t ious issues on campus well. at least none were discussed, It did
indeed appear that they are a 'club',
How ever, it was stated "we're not socia l
butterfl ies",
You may think that by their name, the
Liberal Club are an affiliate of the Libera l
Club - not so says Robinson, who said
that there is no alliance, nor is there any
financ ial backing by th e Liberal Party.
"The club is not answerable to the party,
we're not connected. There's no reason
for any connec tion - there's nothing in it
for th e party", said Robinson.
As for the Liberal Club being a
springboard to higher pol itics, "yes and
no" was the response, this decision being
entirely up the individual club members,
bu t certainly, for those wanting to f urther
their political aspirations, Robinson said,
that it was a step in the right di rection.
The recent Increase in the popularity
of l,beral Conservallve candi dates on
Australian campuses, accordlll g to
Roblllson, has been due to "the fact thal
what the ALP/l eft articulate is no longer
re levant 10 students"
He cued th e examples of Sydney
University With the Liberal President,
Mark Heywood, Ihe Liberal leadership at
the University of Adelaide, the UniverSity
of Tasmania, the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology - to name but a
f ew, (nOI inc l uding Queens l and
campuses).
Robinson furthe r stated that students
aren't interested in what's happening in
lebanon, Nicaragua, or the sta te of
Queensland Un ions, They are, he said,
concerned with the immediate issues of
the institution they are attending; issues
which affect the education they are
receivin g.
" There IS a large silent majority, who
no longer want to be tainted through the
detached actions of radical left res, This
maJority is only politically active because
they have had a gutful of the radicallelt
- who are destroying Ihe image of
responsible people" .
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Still f urther to the political left, there
is a varied group called th e Independent
left, Being, as th ey call it, a collective,
there is of course no President , However,
Steven Gan. a member of the group,
discussed their presence on campus,
Gan says that th e Independentleh is
made up of a whole range of progressive
students coming together, seeking
progressive changes within the ca mpus
and in the community in general. They
are made up of students who have
di ff erent ideologies, for instance,
feminists, Ma r xists, socia l ists and
overseas students, yet who all have a
common "strong leaning to the left" .
Of cou rs e th e collec t rve has no
affiliation w ha tsoever wrth any poitlcl8l
party, (w hich seems to be the trend With
all student group), not sharlllg a IlIle With
any party, Agalll, thelf baSIC platform " to try to IIllllate progressive change on
campus".
OK. But what's "progresSive" Well,
accor din g to Steven Gan, rt's
"progressrve " III a sense that you
crlllcally analyse the socIal/ economIc
andpolrti caf system, tryrng to frnd
alternatives, " ObViously w e are not
happy with the status, We want 10 fIght
for a beller future ", says Gan .
His explanation for the increase in th e
support of the Liberals is that most
students are apolitical. being ignorant of
many issues on campus (and apathetic)
and, he says, they (the Libs) have been
able to mobil ise this apolitica l group. He
said he can't see it (the increase in
conse rvati sm) happening on th i s
campus, because it was one 01 th e more
progressive campuses in Australia . (But
it seems it already has happened ). - Gan
emphasised that although they were a
co llective being made of diffe ring
ideologies, th e Independent le ft did have
so lidarity , addressr ng theme Ives to
rss ues as a group. ''When we vote, we
vote as a block . No, there's no
fac tronalism here", he said.
And what are some speCIfiC Issues
that concern the Independent left? Gan
Cited the perennial fees debate, overseas
sludens quotas and Visas, the oppoSItion
to educatron cutbacks, plus Issues such
as chlldcare and accommodation
Well, that about wraps it up, Of course.
none of th ese groups will agree w ith the
desc ripti ons of the other groups , That's
politics I guess!
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Moving furth er left. we have th e All"
Club, who until this yeltr had a fair
amount of control within the Students'
Union. This year's club President, Vivien
Fleming, explains th at the aims and
objectives of the Club are to "organise
debate and discussion, for m embers and
supporters of the ALP around issues of
concern on campus. To provide a forum,
lor all people who are 01 a labor
persuasion, to meet , discuss, plan
actions, get involved in campaigns" .
The ALP Club also claims they are in
no way affiliat ed w ith the Labor Party,
there being no provisions under rules and
constitu tions 01 the Aus tralian Labor
Party for university clubs to be affiliated.
Further, there is "absolutely no financial
backing from the ALP, Never has been",
said Fleming.
Is the A LP Club a recrui tment grou nd
for prospective Labor politicians? Again,
this is up to the individual members.
"Being a member 01 the ALP Clubdoesn',
imply fun her politics, however, if by th e
way people become interested in th e
ALP, we ll th at's really good" .
What issues do the ALP Club pursue?
A ccording to Vivien Fleming, all sorts of
issues are discussed; issues perta ining
mainly to the University, The opposition
to the introduction of tertiary fees , the
support of overseas students and their
struggle against visa charges, increase'J
representation on the Professorial Board,
Faculty Boards, etc . "We were instu ,
mental in the 1983 Library Campaign,
aimed al reducing governmen t
cutbacks", Other issues are considered
by th e ALP Club rssues not
ImmedIately related to the campus, but
anything that student s are IIlteresled Ill.
Flemlllg gave th e example of the Clubs
fIrst meetrng th,s year, where Jeannelle
McHugh, the member for PhIIlIP, spoke
on the rssue of Nuc lear DIsarmament
"The Clubobvrouslyhaswrder IntereSts",
she sard.
Vrvien Flemlng 's explanation lor the
increase in the Liberal s populaflty across
Australian campuses is that " the Liberals
thought it would be a good idea if they
organised themselves" . Further, she
sees activity by any student political c lu b
to be inverse ly re lated to the governmen t
in power at the t ime - that is, t hose clubs
whose part ies aren't in power, leel their
parties should be, and thu s do something
abou t it, and th is is reflected in their
campus popularity. However, the ALP
Club is certainly not on the decline,
According to Fleming, quite the contrary,
in fact th e membership on this campus is
increasing "with lots of enthusiastic
people joining the club".
As lor claims of fa ctional ism, ther e is
none wrth in the Al.P Club. " Obviously
there are peollle with different ideas on
cenain issues, but it's not fact ionalised ,
We don 't have a leh ALP Club, or a right
ALP Club, We have a club who works
together ". Fleming furth er said, " alter all,
we are a club" ,
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THE lOSS OF HOPE
I loved him, you know. No - I love hi m . He
was a man who d ied ma ny yea rs ago, 8efore I
was bo rn . But I know him and love him. We
u ndersl and each other, you see. We' re so close
even though he 's
well , wherever he is . He
knew w hat it is all about. I came to him in
despai r and he he lped me to understand myself.
He might have saved my life. , , I'm not sure yet.
I first met h im in a bookshop - he's an
aut hor, you know. I met him in the shop and he
asked me a question: why is it, he said, thal
man, sensing the absurdity of existence, and
u nable 10 come to terms wit h the unive rse, does
not commit suicide? I laughed, loudly - not
beca use I thought his question was funny - it 's
probably the most serious question that can be
asked - I laughed because it was such an
obvious question; and because I had asked the
same question many times in a thousand for ms.
That's how I know we understand each other.
Anyway, I did n't answer h im - I couldn't
because I didn't know. And bes ides, he already
knew the answer.
Gradually I got to know hi m better,
intimately, as we conversed in the shop but
then, sudden ly, right there in Ihe shop with
people looking for books all around me, I found
out that he was dead. Died in a car accident.
1960 . Shocked, I slowly put his book back on the
shelf. And then I was f uriou s, How could he be
taken away f rom me so quickly? I felt like I was
going to burst from ange r and f ru stration. I ran
out of the shop and ran th rough the street
screaming fu r ious ly in my head. I was so angry,
Why? Why did he have to die? He was only fortysix. So young. A car accident, so , . stupid, so
useless. He had so much to teach the world, to
teach me, He was ful l of so many more g reat
works. S uch a waste, I ... What could I do? He
was dead - he left me without hope. Left me to
fend for myse lf.
It's hardest in the small hours of the night you know, when il's so quiet that all you 've got
to listen to is your soul - that's whe n dying's so
tempting - that's when I need him most ... and
he's gone , What hope do I have left?
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AT MY DESK I
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Tharunka, No. 6, Tuesday M ay 7th, 1985.
Features
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"QUEENSLAND, QUEENSLAND UBERALLES))
It is now four months since the
Queensland power dispute began. In that
time the State Govern ment has taken
several steps which, o n the ir own, are not
exceptio nal for a governme nt of BjelkePetersen's ilk, but which when taken
together add up to an exceptional assault
on both the operation and legitimacy of
orga nised labour.
The w ho le affair bega n last Decem ber (scc box ) wit h
a dispute between linesmen, me mbe rs o f the Electrical
Trades Union (ETU ). and the Sout h East Q ueensland
Electricit y Boa rd (SEQEB). The ETU members wen! on
strike over the use o f con tract labour. They stayed out
un til Joh declared a Slate o f Eme rgency - and sacked
them. At the same lime Joh threa tened the power station
o perator s with fines of up to $50,000. Out o f a job, and
with their su pport from the res t of the industry
undermined , the l inesmen were left high and dry. At thi s
point Joh put the boot in. U the linesmen wanted to
come back to w or k, he said, well the y would have to
agrec to his condi tions. Thesc cOlHl i lin n~ include longer
work in g ho urs, no - strik e ag reem en t s, loss o f
superann ua tion and the loss of u nion prefe rence. So far
about 150 of the 1,000 original stri kers have accepted
these terms.
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CONTRACT LABOUR THE ISSUE
29 on forced labour w hich is breached b)' legislation
allowing the electrici ty authorities to order any person to
carr y o ut an)' work to ensure the main tenance 01 the
supply o f electricit y;
- several Conventions gU;)r,lnteeing the right to strike
are broken by the no-strike provisions:
- Interna tio nal Convenant o n Civi l and Po litical Right s
(ICC PR ) Articl e 14.2 which presu mes innocence un til
gu ilt is proven is brok en by the amendment s to the
Ar bitratio n Act which presu mes non-att endance 10
work to be a strike;
- llO A rt icle 2wh ichguara ntees un ions(andemp loyers
orga nisa tion s) fr eedom fr om i nterference fro m
governm ent is broken by t he M inister for Indust ri al
Relations having the right to de-re gister a u nion .
The ACTU, and the union movement, have of co urse
u nivers ally condem ned the new legislatio n. They have
moved to attack it in fou r wa ys. Firstly, the campaign by
the ETU w orkers has continued , lead ing to the most
pro minent exam ples of the draco nian nature o f th e new
Although the issue of contract labour has been lost to
legislat ion. Such examples include:
- breaking up of pickets around SEQ EB depots has led
to hundreds of arre sts;
- four journalists called to give evidence in Court cases
The second response has been horn local unions
initiati ng spontaneous action against the Q ueensla nd
Go vernment. Fo r example, the Telecom workers ceased
repair ing t he govern ment's phones on 6/ 4/ 85 and the
NSW transpo rt workers blocka ded the state on the
1714/ 85.
Blocka des have also fOlmed the main part 01 the third
type of union response, that o f ACTU-Ied industrial
action. However, like the other strikes and bans, the
AC TU mass-blockade o f Queensland on the 19th of April
fail ed to deter Jo hn .
No r has Joh shown much co nsideration lor the other
ACTU strateg y - nego tiat ions. Both the ETU and, later,
the AC TU, have sho wn co nsiderable re straint in their
attempts to negotiat e with theQueenslandgovernment.
Indeed the A CTU's moderate and flexible stand , as
shown by the o ffe r to accept no-strike provisions in
return for th e re-instat ement o f all the sacked workers,
a certai n extent, it remains the faClOr at the heart of t he
;lClUal d isp ute; although much b ro ader issues have been
raised by the actions 0 1 the government d uri ng the last
four mo nths. Co ntract la bour involves an individual
co ntract betwee n each employee and their emp loyer .
and usuall y also mini mi zes th e o bli ga tions of the
employer in regard to sickness, superannu ation and long
service. As such . co ntracts represent a basic anack on
both the abi lityol unions 10 o rganize. and the co nditions
that they have won fo r them selves. O ne o f the majo r
victories which Joh has wo n has been . therefore . to have
electri city produced wh ile con trJ ct I,l bou r is employed
in the industry.
But si nce then Joh hJS gone much fu rt her.
int rod ucing a battery o f new legislation wh ich makes
pe rmanent the emergency powers wh ich he had al ready
intro duced . The new legisla tio n , among o ther things
(sce box ), remove s power wo rkers from the ju ri sdi ction
of the Queensland Industrial Commissio n and bri ngs
them under a new tribunal ; eff ecti ve ly pro hibit s strikes
in the power ind ustry; extends secret ballo t p ro visions
before disputes; inlroduces individual liability in
relation to strikes and lockou ts; and provides a 150
percent increa se in penalties fo r offences.
REACTION TO THE NEW LAWS
No t surprisingly the new anti-union legislation has
drawn Slrong criti0m f rom the ACTU and the un io n
movement , as w ell as lrom ci vi l liberti es groups.
Civil li berties groups have emphasised the
inlringement of basic rights, such as the ri ght to strike,
wh ich the new legislat ion contains. They have also
pointed to a number of Conventions, of which Au stralia
is a member, wh ich are violated by the new laws. These
includ e:
- International labour Orga ni sation (llO ) Convention
THE STORY SO FAR.
3-12-84 labou r.
4- 12-84 -
500 elect ri cal wo rkers strike over contract
mike spread s. total of 1,500 on strike.
7-12-84 - Queensland Industria! Commissio n o rders
negotiatio ns.
9- 12-84 -
the negotiations still dead locked .
7- 1-85 -
negotiations ad journed in deadlock.
13-1-85 -
Queensland GO'/ernrn ent en ters the d ispute.
14-1-85 - Sout h East Queensland Electr icity Board
(SEQ EB) ad mits to talking to co nt ractors o n 4 jo bs.
18-1-85 st ri ke begins in ea rn est , sto rms ca use
blackout s to 80,000 hou ses and SEQEB o rd ers workers
back o n the jo h to repai r the damage.
22-1-85 - unio n pr oposa ls for negotia tion over fo ur
contracts are rejected .
7-2-85 - Indu st rial Commissio n convenes talks, orders
men back . SEQEB delivers letters to men urging a relurn
to work to avoid government retaliation . Government
declares state of emergency.
8-2-85 - Governm ent o rd ers the sacki ng o f the striking
worker s.
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10-2-85 -
reports th,1I a nel;:otiated sett lement is close.
11 -2-85 -
workers Silcked.
17-2-85 -
!:\overnment stance unchanl;:ed.
21-2-85 - govemment 'peace plan' announced,workers
are to ret urn 10 wo rk , but may not ~ h ave previously
engaged in harassing existing em p loyees ~ and will ha\ e
to ,l grec 10 no-strike condit ions, in addition the 361~
ho ur week wa s extended to 38 hours and the nine day
fo rt night was return ed to ten days ,lo h 'putSthe boot in'
as revenge for t he 1980 power worker s strike which won
these cond itions.
5- 3-85 - Electrici ty (Co ntinUity of Supply) Act (1985)
passed, Sta te 01 Emergency in the power industry is now
permanent .
24-3-85 - Govern ment u nveils laws to outlaw strikes in
.111 essentia l services, these laws will also preven t the
Industrial Co mmission lrom ·interfering '.
6-4-85 - Teleco m wo rk ers apply repair bans to Sta te
Government pho nes.
12-4-85 -Joh announces $25,OOO.OOO suit to compensa(c
government for losses in the fi rs t strike.
19-4-85 -
ACTU ,lttempts blockade of Q ueensland.
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Co ntinued.
has given the lie 10 Jo h 's rh elo r ic of ilfespomible union.
The AUSl ralian Union mnvement has generally, of
laIC. been concerned to project a responsible image.
And it s success. through Ihe Accord especially. is
undo ubt edly one o f the f.. ctors which has sp urred Joh in
his att acks.
WHA T IS BEH IND THE DISPUTE
The mOl ivations of the Q ueensland government, and
its Premier , to mOlmt such a vigorous anti-union
campaign al Ihis ti:ne arc twofold. Firstly. there is the
slat e of the Queensland economy, which in il s struClure
has, al preserll, more in common with the Third World
Ihan t he fi rs!. It is based around Ihe e)(por\ of a handful
of primary and extractive commodities - Alumi nium.
Iron O re, Copper, Grain, Sugar and Cattle - most of
which have suffered badly from conuildion s in the
world markel for primary and mineral products.
Q ueensland h"s virtually no industrial bilse,and the only
income generated in the secondary and tertiary seClOrs
comes from tour ism.
The poor state o f the economy is lefleCled in the
unemploymenT figu res, which al 11.8 percent of the
workforce arc the highest in Au stralia. B)' w"y 01
compa rison the n.. tiona l ;lVerage is 8.3 percent, and Ihe
ra te in NSW and ViCloria is 9.8 and 7.8 percent
respectively.
Jo h h;IS therefore been left wi th no alternative but to
all ack the Unio n ~ in o rder to limit t heir powef 5 to reac t
to t he d eclining econo mic situ" tio n . ;md to protecl
p rofits from future w"Be de m.. ntl s. M oreover. Ihe antiu nion camp.. ign h;IS provided a useful srnokescreen
around. and scapegoat for, th e economic ills 01 the state.
Jo h 's second motivation derives from the ideology 01
the 'hardlin e' section of conserva l isnl wo which he
belont;s. Inspired by the success of Rcagan and That cher.
and represented by spokesmen such as Hugh Morgan.
this group has mounted a conlinued and increaSingly
effeClive campaign to win SUI)POrl fO/ their views,
particularly worrying for thi s group has been the
mounting success with which the ACTU has managed 10
enWr discussions about issues outside wages and
conditions fo r its members. Central to this has been Ihe
participation of union representativ(,'S in the /\ccord and
the Economic Summil . bOlh of which encro"ch heavily
upon the traditional rights of Capital.
Ironically . it is Ihe very sllt'cess of Ihe d rive for
respectabilit y which has limited the /\CTU and ALP
respome to the new laws, The ACTU has been careful
not to alienate the ten tative su ppor! it has received in
other stat es f rom some o f the more bro.ld-minded
elements of the ruling class. In those slates the ACTU's
industrially o rient ed policy h"s more appeal than in
industrially b .. ck ward Queensl"nd. Such respectabil ity
has a price though, o nc clemen t of whi ch is the need to
increase the power of the (\ CTU cen tr,l l ,Ipparatu s: with
the "l1endant poss ibility of diverging needs and aims
between the cent re .1nd the peripher y. Hence Simon
Crean's "embarrassment " at Ihe spontaneous action of
the Perth workers who grounded ,I British (\irwa ysjet on
the w;ly to Queensland.
The Federal Gov('rnment. 100, ha~ been very careful
nOI to harm its image. With the dollar as weak as Bob
Hawke's credibili ty there is no way the Federal
Governmefllwill undertake anything that could be seen
as being hOSlile to C.. pital. Hence Hawke is unlikel y 10
deploy his main weapon - High Cou n action 10 enforce
the l abour and civil riglll s Conventions. Two other
avenues fo r putti ng pressure on the Q ueensland
Govern men t chang i ng Queensland 's tax reimbursement at Ihe n e~ 1 Prem ien' Confe ren ce and
refu sing aid to Queensland 's ailing suger industry - are
both likely to see Jo h indulge in an orgy of Canberr abashing, and hence also have limi led value tot he Federal
Go vern ment.
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THE LAWS IN BRIEF
(l ) Ele<:tr ici l y (Continuily of Supply) A d (1985).
This Act creates a per manent state of emergency in
the Q ueensland I)Ower industry. Un d er the Act the
Electricity Au thority CJn direct any emplo)'ee to do an)'
work associa ted with the supply of electrtcity. The
penalty for non -compliance is dismissa l and / or ,1 501.000
fine. The Act also introdllCes contrJcts (overrid ing the
Elect r ica l Engineering Award ) for work in t he indust ry.
The contracts include a no-strike clause, a ten day
fortnight (formerl y 9 dJys) and a 38 hour week (formerl y
36 \11 ). Section 5 of the Act prohibit s such act ivit ies as
picketing or harrassinJ.; sc.1b labour. This section has
been interpreted in the broadest terms by the police,and
it is under thi s section that most of the arrests have been
made. Members of Ihe medi" Me also liable to Jrresl.
(2) Electrici ty Authorities Industri .. 1 Cau ses Act.
Dismissal without not ice fOI suike 0 1 incitement to
stri ke, Also excluses t he Queensland Indu stlial
Commission from disput es. The Commission is 10 be
replaced by a lIubin,ll, The Elect r ic.ll Authorities
IndustriJI Causes Tribunal . to which th ere is no righ t of
WHAT NEXT?
In the im med iate fu ture Ihere seems l illle likelihood
of the posit io n 01 the Queen sland Government being
fo rced to change, While this situation rema ins, Joh and
h is legislation sl aml as a rallying point fo r re actiona ry
fo rces arou nd th e cou nlfy. In addi tio n, t he festeri ng
appeal.
(l l Amendments to the Queensland Arbitration &
Conci li.t lion Act.
The definit ion of st rik e h"s been ch;mged to include
any variation of normal work praClice. o r any discussion
of such action by tw o or more people. There is no
protection fr onl victimi sa tion for union orga nisers. In
addit ion the powers to deregister .1 union h;lve been
taken fro m the Industrial Commiss io n and given to the
Minister lor Industri"I Relations.
Thi s ,\ ct JI.o Jllows arrcst wi t hout a warrant. or the
police 10 demand per sonal d etails of anyone committing
- or suspected of having com milted - ;111 offence (and
also includes perSons with them ). I'('n"lty fo r noncompliance up to $500.
(4) Induslrial (Commerci.l l Pr .. Cl icesl Act (1985)
En1plo~er s now have the right to sue for damages
c;lus('d b\ lightning str ikes, demalCill ion disputes ete.
There is also provision fo r fines of S5O.000 for individuals
and 50250 ,000 for unions.
VACATION
EMPLOYMENT SCHEME
W e h ave sever a l vacation
p la ce ments ava ilabl e to Hea lth/
We lfare stud ents. (Teacher/ Law/
Med icine/ Psycho logy/ W elfare/
A ll o f th e Th erap ies etc. ,)
On e sit u at ion re quires two
students from Monday 6th May to
go to a holiday o rgan ised by
Bondi Jun ctio n C H.C
The ca mp is for int. retarded chi ldren and
will be held in the Blue Mou ntains fo r 5
days. The payment will be $200 pe r week.
The others are da y jobs w ith ha ndicapped
children. A onewlowone situat ion,
Abo ut $30 per day.
dispu te provides thesl' torces with an avenue to
continually press the ACTU and the Accor d to self
destru ct. By carefully ,l\ t;lcking the le,lst popul.1r of
unions and ci vil liberties in J Slate w ith a fra ctuled
commitn1entto such CJuses, Joh has managed tocreale a
situation where maKimum "nti-union feelin g can be
e~tended to the union movement " s a wh ole.
,\ s for Joh's tactics. he ha~ moved in twO direriions.
Fi rstly he h"s begun to .l11ack other go\oernment
employee unions. The Queensland l eachers Union
(QTUj for eKample, is at present being challenged by J
rebel organisa ti on, th e ProfeSSional leachers
Assocation, which has Ihc suppo rt of the Minister for
Education. The QTU feal S thi s is the fi rst stCp in "
campaign thJt will sce them sacked and le-hired in the
SJme wa y.and with the same lesuits, <IS the linesmen,
Joh 's other move has been 10 funher consolida te hi,
electoral position. The new Electoral Disllicts Bi ll wi l l sce
Joh 's stra nglehold 011 the elector.. te of Q ueensland
tightened even furthe r. ~ h is the wors t zon.11
ge rrymander in the history of t he world". claims Dr. Ken
W iltshire of Q ueensland University.
The even ts in Queensla nd cert ain ly m ark .. Sign ifican t
polari rkl tion in Australi .. n po litics. While it is clearl y too
earl y to be calling it facism , the tren d il ind icat es is
d isturbing. Andrew Peacock 's opport unist ic alliance
wi th Jo h , for example . suggests th "t Ihe nex t UberJ I/
Nationa l Part y govCII1I11ent wou ld go a lot fur the r th~ n
Fraser ever did . And it is not on ly liberal/ Na tiona l Party
governme nts which show these tenden c ies. decisions in
Sydney and Canberra of late ha ve shown a sim ilar
disrega rd l o r civil liberti es. Wh en fOf ced inlo an
industrial co nfrontalion an A LP govern ment has to
choose whether 10 su pport a u nio n or no t, and the
evidence o f past dispu tes suggests Ih at they are not
adverse to enact ing Icgislat io n like Jo h 's at such times.
Moreover, people such as Joh will co nt in ue to cl eate
si tuat ions w here such tensions arc exposed and probed ,
INith the Federal Governmenl hamstrung by its policies,
it comes d own to Ihe individ ual citizen 10 prOlect Iheir
o wn rights. At the moment, there fo re, Jo h 's two b iggest
allies arc apathy and the feeling tha t it can 't happen here.
M ARGA RET SAPSFO RO
As thi s is urgent, wou ld you plea se ring
699-5301 or very late evening 451-8983,
THANKYOU
SYDNEY UNIVERSITY
SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
HOSTS
1985 NATIONAL SCIENCE
STUD ENTS' ASSOC IATION
CONFE RENC E
Cellar, Ho lme Building
MAY 16 - 19th
Theme:
"Science : Wh en ce, Wh erefo re, Whi ther ?"
Sp ea kers include:
Sarlath Ro nayne, Ra n l o hnsto n,
Ma ri e Kerr , Da vid Ed ge, Ro bin Ro land,
Jim Fa lk and jan lowe
Issu es:
Technological Change, Nuclear Nonsense,
Science an d Soci al Po licy,
Resea rch Funding, Tes t-tube Babies,
Fo r mo re d etail s co nta ct :
Martin Dunn - 699-1 951
Sea n O' Malley - 569-9773
Tha runka has o ne co py of the pl anned
programme
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RUTH lOST
Women's Officer
Safety. when o n campus at nigh t , is a big concern for
many students - women and men . Yo u have read in the
last issue of Tharunk,1 that th ere has bee n some prob lems
w ith the "Special Squad". a squad o f three peo ple who
patrol the lighted walkway between 4 p .m. and
midnight. Fo llowing a le ller I wrote to Peler Koller, th e
Pro perty M anager ,a bout th ese concerns, I wa s i nvited to
a meeting with the Director of Equa l Employm ent
Opportun ity, Peter Ko ller and the Deputy Pr inci pal
(Ad min istration ). lan Way.
At t hat meet ing wc discussed the problem s I had
outlined in m y li!lter , and the outcom e was quite
satisfa cto ry. The Propert y Manager will be looking il1l o:
providing a car to facilitat e th e Squad' s patrolling of
the large area they have 10 cover.
making replacement of lights on the Basser Steps a
priority, as is the replacement of lights alo ng
the lighted walkway.
po~sibily replacing Ihe Squad's radios to ensure Ih at
Ihey are always functional.
formulating some guidelines to issue to patrol officers
about how to look after any victim s of an assault or
other incidences.
Add it ionally, in fu ture th e female member of the
Squad will be notified whenevel possib le, to be present
tu pr ovide suppOrt for any wo men complJ inant.
The lighted Wa lkway
The walkwa y begins at Gate 9 (H igh Street) and
extends down Chancellery Road. Librar y Road.
Engineering Road . Architertu re ROJd. and Ihe Main
Walkway 10 Anzac Parade. (see map). If }'OU are worried.
wait anywhere along the lighted walkwa y and ,1 member
of the Squad will walk with you 10 AnZJC Parade when
they come by. The Walkway is li t by orJnge sodium
lamps. Try to travel the shortest possible distance 10 get
to il.
There is always a patrol person at the Barker Streel
gate. so if an incident occurs. you shoul(j head there. or
to the nearest phone and rin g 697-2200 or 697-2221 .
Phones CJn be found in the main lobby of the School of
MechJnica l and Industri.11 Engineering, the Undercroft
and the Electrical Engineering Building , ou tside the cafe
in AGSM. the Theatre Lobby in Bio. Sciences, Bio-Med
Library enlrJnce.lhe l ibrary, Roundhouse, Blockhouse.
Squarehouse. top of Basser Steps, We stern Campus ,md
eJch Residential College.
PLE ASE NOTE: The Basser Steps are not part of the
lighted walk w ay nor are they well lit. Students who are
re turning alo ne to Colleges. etc.. at nigh t are better off
wJlking down I·tigh Street. as the Special Squad does
pil trol t he street. or "maintJin a presence" there as the)'
put i1.
If An Incident Occ u rs
If you are subjected to any unwantc{i harassment,
abuse or violence in any form, PLEASE don't hesit;lle to
contact liS:
RUTH JOST - \"'omen's Officer
663- 1911 or 697-5454
CHR rSTlNE ElKERTON 697-5418
Student Counselling,
I ,1m currently trying to put together ,1 file of C.ISC
histories of men ,1nd wom en wh o have been vi ctim s of
such harassment. If in the past you have su ff ered in th is
way. please come in and see me. All this will be
absolutely con fidential, as I only want to use th e det'lils
01 such cases (no names) to illustrate the need fur more
securi ty on campus. This w ould be !lluch appreci,lted by
all who are on campus at night.
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Over Easter I al1ended the "Higher
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La Trobe UnIVersIty. One of the most
positive th Ings to come ou t of this was the
fo rmation of a national network of
women students. The network will
fu nC tion both as an informa t ion
exchange and suppon network for
women working around women ' s issues
on campuses.
I am the NSW contac t person for the
network, and have been busy mailing off
mformation about it to women 's groups
on campuses all ove r the state.
We are planning to hold a national ~
conference for women on campus some
tim e In August. so w e're curren t ly
organismg regional meet ings for women
to discuss what they w an t to get out of
the conference, what form it should take,
w here it should be held, etc. etc. Then,
we 'lI r.ave a State-wide meeting on June
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formula te our ides and submi t t hem to
the Victorian women who are doing the
national co·ordlnation.
If you are interested in participatmg in
the Sydney regional meeting, please drop
m to the next Women ' s Collective
meeting for more detai ls. These are held
every week on Thursdavs at 1 p .m . in the
W o m en' s Ro o m on t ile first floor of the
Roundhouse . Or if you can't make it, give
me a ring on 663-1 9 1 1 or pop up to the
Women's Office on the second floo r of
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Hopefully. last Issue gave you all an
Idea of what the Women's Resourc es
Project IS all about. Our first monthly
wom en's film night Will be screentng
Wednesday 1 st May and henceforth first
Wednesday of every month Each flJm
Will be an anempt to understand the
world and women's Situation tn 11
I am currently In tl1e process of
contac ttng ethniC groups/ indiViduals on
campus as to the possibility of crea ting
women groups on campus. I see these
groups as being a Vital integral part of thiS
project rn developing the necessary
rnformatlon and cultural networks, as
these supply the mcans 10 support and
encourage w omen to express thell
particu lar needs and conc erns using and
creating resources wrthln the univerSity
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i---- -- - -THE GRAVE
I am calm . I am su rprised at how calm I am.
I1 is da rk here. It is da rk here and I know w hy
it is dark. Behi nd me I am cush ioned; above, if I
ra ise m y hands only a few inches I can feel a
padded. velvety surface. behind which I know is
board-oak, I wou ld imagine, and beh ind that.
above that. I know also what lies. I lie. looking
up, but I see nothing. It is very da rk. It is very
Quiet. I am ca lm. I am ca lm although t his is a
co ffin. Th is is my coffin.
I know I am not dead. I do not remem ber
dying. My memories since rece nt events I do
remember have, admitted l y, a certain
spaciousness, black and blan k. How long I have
been asleep I do not know. It can not have been
very long, of course. I am not sure how I came to
be here. I can guess, I ca n aSk. I can wonder:
how could t hey believe me dead? How could
they bury me alive?
Rising panic now. hands t hump on t he
coffi n -base, on the padded (to' stop me hurt ing
myself?) boards above; I w rench myself
upwards, jackknifed, fall w eakly, breathe
heavily, become calm again. I must not pan ic: I
have read about the ones who panicked.
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I remember now. I remember how they cou ld
think me dead. I was almost. It was on ly
something fami liar for t hem , just another
patient. For me it was so mething special. I
remember coughing at a din ner party, speckling
the hors-d'oeuvres with my blood. It was
upsetting, every tiling seemed upsetting, I was
upset the meal could not con tinue: had nobody
see n anyone dYing before, why should t hey stop
on my account? I remember nothi ng afte r they
put me under the gas in the operating ro om. So
clean those rooms, so we ll, they seemed to
greet me with d istaste, as if they wou ld r eject
my taint like a body would reject a new but
Inapt organ as something so unlike as to be
offensive. The doctor - I remember him well explained how much he understood how I felt,
what It meant to Ille to be as I was, and I thought,
you understand nothing you prick, you think you
understand because you have seen so many of
me, cut up so many others like me as to know us
inside out; but it is always som eone else you
carve up on your theatre bench (shall owly
padded, like a coffin ), II is alwa ys 'oits of
someone else you hack ou t and t hrow to the
inci nerators. But it is me who is dy ing, and it is
me I know is killing m e, it is parts of me that fight
like parasit iC insects against their host. When
you explained everything so reass uringly, with
a co nfidence born only of habit, I could feel the
pract ised, plastic insi ncerity as palpably as the
rms of your office chair, as palpably as the
padding beneath me now, beca use I knew that
' no problems' was w hat you told all of us, even
those you never talked to again. No problems for
ou, never any problems, no matter what
happened.
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So, I went into a coma. And, you said I was
dead. And you bu ned me. Which was a mistake
beca use now I haven't felt better in years.
I am st ill calm . I am surprised al how ca lm I
still am . I think about the premature burials I
have read abou!. How had they got out? Some, I
know, had been 'released' by gr ave robbers
100klOg for trinkets , or medical students
searching for cadavers to be dissected. I
remember I)ow it was done: a hole dug at the
head of the grave, the box broken open, the
corpse r emoved by the ears . And if the co rpse
should grasp back with hopeful hands, what
would they think : a premature burial. would
tlley think that first? or last? Would they kill me
With their spades in fright? But graverobbers are
uncommon these days, most robbery from the
dead is ca rried out by the grave diggers or
morticians themselves. I can feel th e gaps in my
teeth, surprising that didn't wake me up. I was
luc y also there was no post -mortem, lucky all
th~ her-death cosmet ics t hat the dead suffer
did not kill me. A ll the cosmetic stitch ing and
surgery: it is surprising I survived . It is
surprisinQ anvone su ives.
(They say trlat crimi nals in A m erica are
executed not so m uch t hro ugh death by
electrocuti on as deat h by post- mor tem . The
chair o nly st uns).
How had t he other s esc aped? Had some
screamed, while the air lasted? Had some
th rashed about in their boxes, disturbed t he
death and stone above, like we all thr ash in our
boxes in the hope that outside we may briefly be
seen? But there may be nobody up there. Try the
lid.
8ehind the spongy resistance of the
padding, I fee l another movement . The lid gives
upwards, slight ly and slowly. Surely there are
na ils. Perhaps I am not yet buried . But there is a
re sistance, as of ea rth; how firmly is it packed?
There sho uld be six feet of hard-pressured earth
above m e, how can the lid be moved at all? But it
does; I can hea r a trickle of powdery dirt beside
and above m y left ea r, spatte ring on tile base of
the box. Its' sound is odd, it sounds very dry, like
old ea r th. The lid m oves slowly, no sig n of nai ls,
but I am g lad it moves at all . It is diffi cult. w hi le
easy, my arms, becau se of th e cramped space,
have li ttl e leve rage. I use my knees, that is
ea sie r, I bend my legs and b ri ng my feet back,
their soles slid ing ac ross the co ffin flo or. The lid
see ms insubstan ti al, I ca n fe e l myself lOSing its
to uch in the da rk ness, as if it wer e rising ahead
of me. I fee l strange ly elated. and numb, my life
seems to exte nd in to th e box Itself, till all is
throbb ing . I feel as if I have been swallowed,
now I am no longe r ca lm . I am being ingested by
the box, absorbed. It is unc ommon ly hot, is it
delirium? I pause; the air seems syrupy, perhaps
I am already suffocating. Shou ld I not just
scream, leave the lid, save my breath and
scream, how can I have believed I cou ld move
the lid? Am I already scr eam ing, I cannot hear,
but I can , I ca n sti ll hear the trick le of earth, dry
powdery soil at the corn er above my head. How
far can the lid be moved? 11 the ea rth is loose will
it not just co llapse on me, f il l the box as I shift
the lid and bury the a ir I ha ve? W ill it be loose
enough to choke me but f irm eno ugh to hold me
here? Now I have choices, it is easy 10 panic. Can
the lid be stew ed at all? Sho uld I trv?
I try. The lid is high enough to be clea r of the
co ff in 's rim. There were no nails. I try to sli de the
lid back from my head. It moves; it seems too
eo.sy, what am I sliding it into, a pocket of air
unde rground? Surely not a bu rrow? M ore soil
fall s from the roof of the grave, it falls in. I can
hea r small clods hit the coff in base, I can fee l
them, I can fe el a fin e cllok ing dust. some han gs
in the air and it is difficult to breathe, I should
not have tried to move th e lid. If I m ove it furthe r
it may tu rn under the weight of th e earth, the
whole r oof may fa ll, the coff in lid may twist and
strike m e, pinn ing me here to be suffocated . I
must be st ill , the roof may fa ll. but the eart h is
chok ing, unbe lievably it m akes m e sneeze, I
want to cough bu t it w ould ch oke me, earth s ifts
through my hai r, dry sa ndy so il fi lls the hallow s
around my eyes, I can hear and fe el the box
f illing. t he roof giVing w ay, I mu st GET OUT .
Somehow, I can, so me how I can claw up
through the gap, the ea rth falls past me, my legs
w ill be trapped, somehow , up, I can fee t the
earth drag, it fight s for m e, somehow, I worm
through the earth, my lungs, the dirt IS In my
ears, I cannot breathe, I will drown in di rt, it
slides through my clothes, it fill s me, the grains
cling, somehow I must, I must , I drag myself up,
I must be out. somehow, the dirt dr ags I, must 1,1
must be out, be dirt , somehow, I claw.
Somehow I am on the surface. I stand from
the grave. I walk from it, shruggi ng it from me. I
brush the ea rt h from myself, it run s in my
sweat; it r evolts m e, I know it too w ell, it clings
like kin. The earth of my grave is ch urn ed like a
ga rden bed from wllich all has been uproOled;
my pockets are fu ll of it, an d I can feel it in my
shoes . Buried w ith pockets and shoes, bu t they
can only hold earth .
It is n ight. The graveyard is dark but of cour se
my eyes do not need to adjust. Once fr ee of
gr ave-dirt. th ey see clea rl y, for the lig ht up here
has a thousand times the illu mination of below .
The moon is out and it shi nes like day; I feel al ive
with light, f feel alive. Here in a graveyard, I
laugh; ru nning dusty fingers through gritty hair,
the dust dries in sweat.
I do not yet feel free. I need other s: this could
be j ust a hopefu l dream, I need to be convinced I
am free of de lir ium . M ad fea rs creep through my
joy: perhaps I am a lone. Perhaps I. a prematur e
buri al, am the only remain ing h uman. It is as
quiet as a grave here; have I emerged from one
to another ? Have I. protected from heat and
blast by six feet of imagined deat h, have
survived where mankind has died. However
outlandish, I need to be told otherwise, and a
gr aveya rd is no place for the newly living. I
beg in to wa lk, looking for a str eet behind the
stones, for the Sexton 's house. I hope my
appear ance is not greatly frightening. I w o uld
not want them to th ink me living dead,
Between the ston es I wa lk. I ca n feel myself
comi ng properly alive because I ca n feel my
fear. I am livi ng : I can not like graveyards. M y
ordea l begin s to te ll; perhaps there are real
w al king dead he re, perhaps there are others
w ho ha ve w oken as I during the night only to
fi nd th emselves trapped, but who, unlike
m yse lf, remai n tr apped. How many prematures
have w oken during the night, with no one to
hear the m? Th ey w ould not know, they w ould
shout, th ey wou ld screa m and kick, perhaps in
pani c, perhap s confidently. Som eone will come,
they th ink, som eone w ill hear me. As time
w ould pass they wou ld weaken, calling
inter m ittently, soon they would think, no one is
t here, no one can hea r me, no one has noticed,
thei r air would grow th ick, breathless they
would cry, alone, and finally as tile blackness
inside the box comes beh ind their eyes, on their
last thought they w ou ld curse, they would think,
they know, they know , they do not care, they
want me todie. Jf such as t hese were ever let out
they would have enoug h lear and hate in them
to smash th is wor ld IOt a rubble.
It is th rou gh m using on these that I am
almOS I on the m an befor e I notice him . He is
whi stli ng c heerfully, t idyi ng the graves.
Occupat ional necessi ty Ilas m ade him cheerful
in this most cheerless of places, Good. He wi ll
not scare easily. My dusty visage will not render
him unthinking . He knows the dead, he knows
they do not w alk, he knows the difference. I will
expl ain , perhap s this has happened to him
before. He is a slight. old man and he has not
seen me yel. At least I will be able to make him
awa re of my presence in a completely ordina ry
way. I clea r my throat, " Excuse me". I say w ha t ghost would do tha t? I am figh t : he turns
easily, surpr ised but not shocked. I am just a
tr(>sspasser, lost perhaps, I He starts back in horr or. It is frightening, but I
know it m ust be the grave dirt ; I must look a
fr ight, hagga rd, fearful . I smile; I open my arms
to expla in,
BUI he is still afraid. he is paralysed with
fear. You fool, why fear me, what is wrong with
you? Perhaps he IS a graverobber, but why t hen
is he alone? He must have seen I am liv ing, t hiS
foolish ness has gone on too long, surely he
can not sl il believe .. .
And I catch a glimpse, mercifully sllort, of my
refl ection in Ilis spectacles, and I think, perhaps
I Ilave not been buri ed alive after all.
I hold out hands to him and I see them too,
they moulder and shine, greenly, not just a trick
of the Ilahl. these sponqV, decayed hands.
And so I ki ll the little caretaker, my long dead,
deep -sea -green hands choke the life from hIm,
and soon he is as dead as I.
And we wait together.
JOHN H'ARRIS
Th arunka, No. 6, Tuesday May 7th. 1985 .
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On Tnursday. April 11 . Sena to r Colin
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Democrats. visited ca mpus at the invita ti on of the UNSW Au stral ian Democrats
Clu b. and spoke on issu es rel ating to
defence and the ANZUS Treaty.
Senator Mason voiced strong criti cism of t he Commonwe alt h Gove rn me nt's pol icy of al low ing visits by nuclear
w eapons capable US warships. He noted
that Billy M cMahon. wh en Pr ime M inister, sa id that "under no circ umstances
should nuclear arm ed sh ips be allo w ed
into Australi ar. port s" . One of the f irst to
support th is was the then President.
IRichard Nixon.
The present government has provided
no cohere nt answe r as to w hy these
ships vi sit, other t han for rest and
recrea tion (R&R). Thi s. said Senator
M ason, is not a good enough reason fo r
putt ing the countr y at risk. The risk is t ha t
if US wa rships armed w ith nuclea r
missi les aimed at the USSR regularly
visit Perth and Sydney then it is only
logical. from the Kr em lin's poi nt of view,
to targe t m issi les at these places.
The ANZUS Treaty is proclaimed by
t he Libera l s, and 10 some extent. by the
ALP, as an unconditiona l saviour of the
A ustralia n people. Living under the
"nuclea r um brella" gives us the
satisf action of knowing that we are an
integ ral p art of the M A D (mutually
assured destruction) scheme. However.
the government has done virtually
nothing in aid of CIVil defence .
Senator Mason analysed the relevant
sections of the ANZUS Treaty, and
indicated the inadequac ie s of the
provisions. Article II I provides that:
The operative w ord hers is "consul!"'.
That is the extent to whi ch the treaty
affords A ustralia any protection. This can
be con tras ted w it h Ar t icle 5 of the NATO
agreement. w hich stat es that a ll
Signatories wi ll pledge assistance in the
fo rm of armed force. Furthermore, any
aCllon to " me lt the common danger"
must be taken in accordance with . .
constitutiona l processes; that is, any
action by the US wou ld need the approval
of the US Congress.
These considerations led Senator
Mason to assert that "We me living in a
fool's paradise" .
It may be reca ll ed tha t the Aus tralian
Democrats introduced a bill in the Senate
to proh ibit nuclear ships from enteri ng
Austra l ian ports . Senator Georg e
Georges said t hat he su pported the
substan ce of the bi ll . but wou ld not
support it as it was intended to embarrass
t he Labor Party . Senator M ason
s ul.J ~::H~Qu~ntly chi;l ll ~ng e d Senator
Georges to int roduce his own bill to the
same effect. and the Democ rats would
then support this. Tw o montl1S have
passed. and predictably, no action has
been taken.
The Austra lian Democrats are a party
of new ideas. and University students are
in a good position to contribute new
ideas. The UN SW Australian Democrats
Club has been formed for this reason We
w elcome people to our meetings. and
encourage to join. If you have any
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referral basis and uses its often unique insight in to our
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Volunteers are essential if thi s se rvic e is to be
successfully maintained and expanded, and are
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be effected. volunteers u su ally are exp ect ed to
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Volu n teers u nde rgo an e xten sive t raini ns
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Tha runka. No. 6 , Tu esd ay M ay 7th, 1985 .
Tharunka interviews Manny Calonzo.
Secretary-General of the Asian Student
Association (ASA).
Mannv is currently on an Australian .peaking tour
addre.sing campuses on the plight of the .tudent.
and peoples of the T hird World. He ia in A ustralia as 8
g ue ... 01' t he Au stralian Student International
Networit (AS IN) . Tha runka 'met him when he waa on
campus to give 8 luncht ime address on Education in
the Third World .
Could you describe t he rea SOilS fo r your v isit to
Austra lia and w hat you have done wh ile you have
been here?
The main objectives of my tour here, which was
arranged by ASIN, were fir s!ly to develop an
understanding of the realities in Th ird World countries
primarily In the Philippines; secondly to promote
international Issues and to encourage Australian
student participation in these issues; and thirdly to
develop a critical awareness about the international
S!tu8t!on with acritical analysis of Austrlaia in the global
SituatIOn.
and students can perform what is called the role of being
catalysts for social change or a sector that can hasten
the people towards action .
We believe that we cannot Isolate the campus from
the broader society and the problems we are
encountermg in the educational system are but a
manifestation or reflection of the bigger social
problems.
W hat would you l ike to encou rage A u stral ian students
t o do? W hat rote ca n they play?
The Students in Australia, and In other Fi rst World
coun tries. enjoy relative freedom . You can make use 01
relative freedom. For example, Australian students ca n
launch an effective campaign asking for the release of
detained student leaders and activists, such as in Nepal,
where 4JXMJ students and teachers were arrested for
participating in a weektong protest campaign pressing
for educational reforms.
In Bangladesh last March martial law was imposed
and as a result 150 political leaders from trade unions
and student councils were detained .
Similar problems eXist in Korea, Indonesia. the
Philippines and Sri Lanka All these issues can be
anatysed and disseminated in Au(;tratia and tha
Australian students have a particu lar role in doing that.
W hat is your reaction t o the new s of f ees f o r OS
students in Au stralia?
Could you please describ e the A SA?
The ASA is the only regional body of national student
organisations in the Asia-Pacific region . It was formed
in 1969 . The office of the Secretariat was th!;:n located in
Ma laysia but because of the changes in ASA's policies,
pa rticu larly against imperia lism and the like, it was nOI
allowed to be registered by the Malaysian government,
and it was moved to Hong Kong in 1973. Today the ASA
has 2 1 member organisations from 17 countries.
First of all, Australian students enjoy better educational
opportunit ies that Third World students, but the
imposit ion of fees allhe lertiary level I think is arbitrary
and unreasonable. since the right to education belongs
to alt. In ThirdWorldcountries. the right to education is a
basic Struggle . For example. in the Phi lippines we have
What type of o rganisat ions join ASA? Aft er all, some
A sian countries are not allow ed stu dent un ions, are
they?
The level of the student movement in the Asian
countries differs from each other. primarily because of
the existence of repressive regimes or mart ia l law. M ost
of our member organ isations are t he representa t ive
organisa t ion for the ir country, but they are not
necessaril y a students' un ion.
Are any Au stralian groups m embers?
Yes. Formerly it was AUS. The Austral ian member now
is the Australian Students International Network which
was formed last October. It is a group of concern ed
A ustralian students involved in international solidarity,
~upport and developing understanding of international
Issues.
What are the m ajor issues face d by the A S A?
The ASA is united on t he defence of student and human
rights. It recognises the r ight of self-determination and
self reliance of the peoples 01 all countries. And lastly it
works with other groups in the construction of a New
Internat ional Order that is free from all forms of
domination and control.
Cou ld you give us a few specifi c examples?
For example, the Committee in Defence of Student
RightS, which is chaired by the New Zealand Students'
Association. is sponsoring a Solidarity Week onJuly 17 . That week has been called as a week of protest
against student repression and t he highl ight of that
w eek is the mass-act ion on July 4th. Th is day was
chosen to emphasise that most Third World countries
are suffe ring from imper ialism, and pa rticularly US
imper ialism. Aside f rom that we are also employed in
the campaign fo r the nuclear free and independent
Pacif ic. That campa ign recognises the pri mary
requirement of having genuine sovereignty. which also
implies the removal of all foreign bases and facilit ies.
What can student s do? And how effecti ve can their
participati on in broader campaign s be?
Students have some inherent tr aits and characteristi cs
w hich la rge ly defin e their role in any stru gg le, for
example they are artiCUlate, they can explain fa cts, they
can present analys is, they are concentrated for some
time, yet are very mobile. Another positive tr ait is that
we have aquired skills in organ isi ng and in expla ining
issues. With these traits and characteri stics the youth
60 universities and 630 colleges and all of them are
charging exorbitant tui t ion fees, making education
inaccessible to t he ordinary people, especially the
workers and the peasants. In fact, even in the secondary
level there is an alarming drop-out rate. Out of 100 who
enter firs t grade only 66 finish primary and only 14.5
fin ish secondary level. This is not surprising since 90
percent of the population live below the poverty line.
The poverty line for a family of sill is 80 pesos a day.
but the industrial workers in Metro Manilla make only
43 pesos a day. The poverty line means the minimum
level where a family can eat two meals of rice.
vegetables or dried fish a day. a yearly change in
clothing and some basic medicines and educa tion up to
the grade six level.
resist the miserable state of Philippine education and
the women who oppose their con tinued explo itation as a
gender and as a class. We also have the church people
who believe that the genuine meaning olthe gospel isto
apply It to the basic social rea lities.
ASIde from Ihe political prisoners there has been a
growing trend of 'salvaging ' or summary extra -judicial
execution of political dissenters. Most of the Victims are
the peasants who are suspected to be members or
sympathisers of the New People's Army (NPA). There
are also the many techniques of torture bemg used. In
the countryside you can truly see the war situa tion _
bombing, straf ing, mass arrests and mass executions.
These are especially common in areas where there is
difficult access for the mass media. lawyers and human
rights organisations.
How m uch does aid support Ma rcos in the
Phi lippines?
The Austral ia n aid in 1983 -84 was S1,460,000. h is nol
as big as Iha t given by the US but the Quantity is
irrelevant. the assistance aids in Ihe greater
suppression of the r ights of the people .
That puts A ustralia in a difficul t situation . you fee l you
should give aid, but wh en it prop s up a regime like
M arcos.
Actually the human rights violations 01 the Marcos
government have been effectively exposed locally and
internat ionally, and for that reason alone the Aust ralia n
government mu SI review its foreign policy in relation to
the Marcos government .
15 aid a good t hing t hen or are there more problem s
tha n benefits?
Aid is a good idea provided there are nostringsauached.
It is good if It benefits the people, but in most cases it is
given to support an ellisting social order. Th e military
assistance does not benefit the civi lian commu nity, but
is used in the cou nter-insurgency efforts of the
government .
The NPA: What is t hei r situat ion at t he m oment ?
The NPA has made qual itative and Quant itative
advances in the laSI few years. Even the Defence
Minister has said there will be a mil itary stalemate
between the NPA and the armed forces w ithin three
years. Politica l observers believe that armed revolution
wi ll succeed by the end of the century.
The NPA has grown into a truly national
revolu tionar y organisat ion. In 1969 it had only 60 r:1en
and w omen with 35 old rifl es but now it has more than
20.000 sold iers in 62 of the count ry's 73 provinces.
Newsweek estimates the mass base of the NPH at
around 4,000.000 . It is nOl a mere figh ting force, but a
You 're f rom t he Philippines. Wou ld you l ike to
descri be t he situation there at present7
Two words can accurately describe the SItuation. crisis
and resistance . The Fi lipino people are suffering a very
severe economic crisis. the worst in our countries
postwa r history, and as well there is an intensified
political struggle, pa rt icularly in the ci t ies. but also in the
countryside .
What of the US role in the country?
The Philippines is wh at you could call a neo-colony of
the US. The Philippines provides cheap. docile and
abundant labour force for the US and we supply
essential raw mater ials. The more than 20US bases are
the mOSt visible example of how the Philippines is
strategica lly indispensable to the US dominance in the
Asian -Pacif ic region .
Wh at is it like living in the Philippine s whil st opposing
the Motco s regime?
For those at the forefront it is a li fe and dea th stru ggle:
we have 1,000 political prisoners. And w ho are these
prisoners - they are the tr ade un ionists w ho f ight for
just wages and the right to unionise the peasants who
oppose landgrabbing, the youth and the st udents who
political one. the NPA has won wid e Support and
recognition from the people including those sectors
which are indifferent to or host ile to revol utionary
activity l ike the Roman Catholic clergy.
The NPA goes to t he peasant communities not to
fight but also to pa rticipate in the daily activities olthe
peasants, such as planting or harvesting. They also
maintain peace and order, administer justice. punish
those who stea l.
After M arcos goes will t here be armed stru ggle o r w ill
traditional politicians assume control?
Marcos is not the only problem of the Philippines
society. The problems of the Phi lippine people are
deeply embedded and have an historical basis. For the
present, t he people's str ugg le is not on ly to oUSt Marcos
but is for the alteration 01 the socia l, politica l and
economic structu re. I t hi nk tha t the on ly difference
between the t raditional Jtol it icia ns and Marcos is that
Marcos is in power.
lan & Oavid
Tha ; unka.
Letters
No. 6. T~esday May 7t h, 1985.
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RE·RESPONSE
Dear Eds.
Re: Your lasl issue's caption competition.
Over the last couple of issues. and
from conversations with certain
members of you r editorial team. you have
been pleading fo r student contributons
for Tharunka (it's the students
newspaper so the students should be
contributin g etc .. etc).
Well. last issue. young Craig Butler
and myself decided to come to your aid
and we sent in an entry which contained
eight different captions. Now these
camptions were funny (I know because
we're funny kids). {ycs. you are a funny
pair - Eds}. but you didn't publish any of
them. Now I didn' t run around Mech. Eng.
last year plastering " Vote for Get Smart"
over everyth ing just to have my
contributions rejectedlln understand you
received about thirty con tribu tions, why
didn't you publish the lot? Certainly it
wasn't a case of not having enough
room, aiter all there w as space enough to
print a full page cartoon. The reason that
students contribute is so that they can
see their articles in print - take that
away and yo have a lot of people who w il l
be reluctant to contribute next time.
"
WHO'D WANT
YOU
8351678
WOW -
FREAK ME OUT!
7
Dear Eds.
After three years at this University I've
decided to honour your paper with
my ideas.
Firstly I would like to comment on that
self-righteous and hypocritical group of
tough butch women who roam the upper
campus committing the injustices they
procl aim to be fighting against (I'd call it
nagging not fighting). They establish a
Women 's Room in which only women are
allowed (I think men bother lesbians
when they are trying to pick up women).
th ey vote fo r a W omen's Officer in w h ich
only women m ay vote (even though I
th ink t hey just choose the ugliest and
butchest candidate. since every year an
ugl ier one seems to wi n). They ban
Playboy from the Union store but ignore
s uch m a gazines a s Cleo and
Cosmopolitan.
Every now and then they hold
demonstrations in memory of those
women raped in w ar. That"s OK by me,
but w hy is it that t he on ly wom en
marchtng are t hose t hat have as m uch
cha nce of getting raped as I've got of
w i nn ing the lottery and lotto on th e same
day (even though I don't play either of
th em). Is it perhaps that they're scared
that a war would go by w ithout them
being raped?
Secondly I'll answer a Question which
has been asked in a number of Tharunka
issues. that is the reason why students
are apathetic when it comes to voting at
Students' Union Elections. As a student
who hasn't voted in three years, 1"11 tell
you the reason is that University
politicians are an expensive ($20 1
enrolment fee) joke and as such shou ld
be treated accordingly. How about non compul sory unionism you fucking
leeches?
B3516713
P.S. I won't give my name since 50 fat
broads in boiler suits coming to get me is
not my idea of funl
Dear 8351667 - your fantasies of fifty
women coming to get you have got as
much chance of being turned into reality
as we've got of winning the Lottery and
Lotto on the same day - The £.is.
Dear Eds,
For all thos e whoarewondering who 1
am and w ish to know more about me - I
have the following astrology chart:
Ascendant -
This bring me to mv next gripes ~
false contributions. in the form of letters
to the Editors which have been written by
an Editor and signed using a false name.
Now guys. that's not really playi ng by th e
Marquis of Queensberry Rules, is it? 1am
aware of one of these types of leners
written by one of your editors - If you
wanted to say something why didn't you
sign it? Now I won't say anything more
about this false letter because I'm not in a
nasty enough mood, but it's not really a
reflection of student feeling and attitudes
if you write letters to yourself. Anyway. I
hope it was just one isolated case _
I trust you will take note of my
comments.
Pieces
Sun - Cancer in the 4tfJ house
Moon - Virgo in the 6th house
Mercury - Gemin i in the 4th house
Venus - Gemini in the 4th house
Mars - Cancer in the 5th house
Jupiter - Leo in the 51h house
Saturn - Scorpio in the 9th house
Uranus - Cancer in the 5th house
Nep tune - Libra in (he 8th h ouse
Pluto - Leo in the 6th house
Node - Capricorn in the 10tfl house
Midheaven - MC - Sagilarius
Yours faithfull y.
Craig Mahony
Indust ri al Engineering
P.S. Feel free to reply under this leller ,
P.P.S. By the wa y, can yo u guys vote fo r
m e in the elections?
If anyone can Interpret my chart
would be extrem ely gra teful.
Yours fa ithf ully .
M arcy Roche
A rchite cture
HAVE AN OPUS DAY
Dear Eds,
Thankyou for all the new insights into
Warrane in Tharunk. No. 4. Through
observations made ove r the cou rse of my
degree, in college. I feel I can add further
to you r revelations.
It is interesting 10 note that th e
upheaval caused by fact ions such as
Food and Fart has bee n limite d to
scr ibb l i ngs within t he anonymous
confines of th e college lift. But God
knows. if you were in the same I.Q.
bracket as thes e two people, you 'd need a
lift to o.
Sincerely.
John Hutchinson
811B959
P.S. Farl -
you 're all hot air.
A nswers :
1. Re: your sense of h umour:
I don't th ink. that the man who
suggested nailing your scrotom {yes we mean you} to the desk. so you can get
out of an exam has any claim to be a judge
of humourl
2. Re: False names on contributions:
Wllal could you m ean?
A. Myrtle.
Clive Many,
Tl1e Observer,
Teresa Green,
Clark. Rubber,
Susan Cutler,
Simon Lee.
Debbie Forb es.
Margaret Sapsford.
3. Re: Vote for you:
We did a quick survey around the
office - this is what we got:
Males: "We can't vote".
Females: "Who ·are thes e guy persons
anyway?" - The fds.
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NOT SO LIBERAL
LIBERALS
Dea r Eds,
1 wish 10 protest the incursions made
into student political life by "dodgy",
extremist organisations. I particularly
object to the links w h ich are apparent
between mainstream conse rvative
student groups which also seek to anract
"moderates" and small " L" Liberals, and
ultra - right, anti - soci a l outside
organisat ions,
During Orientation Week at UNSW,
while all other political stalls around the
Library Lawn were handing out, as well
as their own propaganda. m ateri al
supporting the Palm Sunday Nuclear
Disarmament Ma rch , students at t he
Liberals ' sta ll d istri buted a leafl et
advertising a pro-nuclea r . anti disarmament march / rally to be held at
the same ti m e as th e "vote with your
f eet" march, at a pl ace "to be
announced" , The leaflet was headed
with an Australian flag fl anked by the
Union Jack and t he Stars and Stripes.
and procla imed somet hing like "Support
Anzus! Support the Al liance with the U.S.
aga inst Communist World Dominancel "
The student s distributing Ihis leaflet
by im pl ica t ion equate " Nu c lear
Disarmament : East and W est" with
communi st world dominance. they
support the Reaganist objective of
"peace" t h rough Mutually Assured
Destruc tion, and try to Just ify the
diversion of scarce resourc es to the
incessa nt build-up of soon-obsolete arms
wh ile mi llions of people die through
inadequate food, fresh water and shelter.
This should alarm many of the small "L"
Libera ls and "moderat es" they seek to
attract. In particul ar, however, these
students should be informed that the
contact name and number on th e lea flet
was that of Liberty Research.
Liberty Research has been closely
associated with the ultra-Right Leag ueol
Rights (their memberships overl ap) and
has been accu sed of the propagation of
Nazi philosophies through anti · Semetic
consp iracy theories. Its publications have
zealously defended the minority racist
Sou th ·African regime. It has described
th e World Council of Churches as
"comm unist" and even attacked M alcolm
Fraser during thi s period of government
for supporting th e right of blacks 10 vote
in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). M any of
Liberty Resear Ch'S foll ower s are
members of either the Liberal or National
Country Party_and they operate as a fa rRight pressure group whi ch has been
credi te d w ith sw inging the Liberal Part y
fa r to the Right recently on race -related
issues, such as during the A s ian
immigrat ion degate last ye ar.
Alth oug h Liberty Research does not
appear to opt fo r the overt "thuggery"
which has made some othe r extreme Rig ht racist gro ups. such as National
Action, so notorious, specific leadi ng
lights of Liberty Research (also members
of the Liberal Party) have been connected
With interna tIOnal right-Wing terrorist
organisations, and in particular with the
t raining in A ustralia of fascist Ust9sha
teno nst groups.
It IS qUite beyond me to comprehend
why any "moderate", small "L" Liberal.
or even "New Conservallve" student
coul d possibly wan t to be associated with
a gro up such as liberty Resea rch . I am
particu larly concerne d th at a campus
club cou ld be used as a recruiting ground
for a body w hich supportS blatantl y racist
and undemocratic governments and
would -be governments overseas. and,
pres um ably , in Australia also. The
s uper io r i nt ellectu al and tac t ica l
standing of Libert y Research makes it no
less offensive th an groups such as
Nat ional Act ion . The fact remains th at it
has proven itse lf to be a group of racist
Ultra· Rightists ("better dead fe llas th an
re d yell as") w hose Influen ce has grown
out of all proporti on due to t heir studied
infil tration and proposed take -over of
m ainstream gro ups such as the NSW
Liberal Party.
Has this process begun in the UNSW
Liberal Club also? For t he peace of m ind
of its members and all oth er stud ents at
th is University. I believe it is encumbent
on the organisers oflhe libera l Cl ub,to
explain the Club' s posit ion regarding
ra ci sm, fascism. and specifically th ei r
co nnect ions w ith Llberl y Research .
including the distributi on of that group-s
leaflets on campu s.
8446547
Over to you Libs -
The Eds.
Tharunka, No. 6, Tuesday May 7th, 1985.
STAND TO THE LEFT
PUSHY PAPER PUSHERS
Dear Eds,
Goodness gracious me, I don't know
what all this fu ss is at UNSW, I mean the
SU is a God -fearing democracy JUSt like
up here in Queensland, by gaily we've got
our communiS ts up here too, tryrng to
drsrupl law and order, I mean they're
communists they're law· breakers, and
boat ·rockers, if God had meant us to be
commles we would have been born With
red blood in ou r veins, they should all be
locked away in gaol somewhere, or made
to wa lk In srngle fil e so we can shool
them one by one.
I mean goodness gracious me. look at
all the communists trying to disrupt
everything as usual by holding a rally
against tu it ion fees. that Peter Robinson
is a fine upstanding young chappie who
doesn't beat about the bush, my word he
doesn· t. He knows how to deal with these
Labor people, yes, my word, by golly, good
gracious me he's got his head screwed on
: he
brought a football coach on campus to
coincide w it h the Union's pr ivateenterprise bash against tuition fees, my
word. if students don ', want to pay
$1 ,500 a year then they ca n go back to
Russia for all I care.
t know that some people Ih ink the
Liberal Club is a bunch of unfeeling
fascists. but they 're ordin ary law-abiding
cit izen s. peop le l ike me who are
constantly held to ran som by greedy CUIthroat Unions. Ordinary people whothink
t hey (the Liberals) are stupid fasc ists and
missed the football coach 's speech in
favour of the anti-fees rally, well they're
nOI ordina ry people, by golly, they're
labor people and communists in disguise.
Send them all to Russia, that's what I say,
and that includes the thousands of
students who opposed fees, t here are
communists everywhere .
And we can't have communists
running the Students ' Un ion, oh no, I
mean, when
was running in
that election at SU Counci l he didn 't have
t he Ch ristian courtesy to answer Larry
Anthony's (son of my good fr iend Ooug)
quesllon: "Are you, or have you ever been
a member of t he Communist Party?" A
relevant quest ion from a smooth, blonde,
and enterprising young white man.
Young larry is such a nice boy. knows
how to deal w ith commun ists and Labor
people (
. ):
goodness gracious me, he even f ro thed at
the mouth, glvrng that commie a word or
{wo ... it's a shame he only turned up to
Counci l JUSt before the vote and
disappeared soon after. But being busy
makes a man so busy, by golly, I know all
about thaI, when I tr y to organ ise my
Storm troopers to beat up Labor people rn
the st reets of Brisbane, goodnes s
gracious me. Yes. my w ord we need more
people like Larry Anthony and Peter
Robi nson in the Students' Union, so that
all the decent. honest, hardworking
Christian people who want to pay for the
privilege of studying don' t have their
money wasted on anti·fees rallies, Oh no,
what these people rea lly want is a Union
that will hold weekly cocktail nights with
guest speeches on football tactics, by
golly.
I know, why don't we abolish the
Union altogether, I never did like Unions.
They're full of commun ists: I'm sure that
those snappy youngsters - Larry and
Peter - can do the job as soon as they
seize power.
Anyway, I can't see the pageanymore
so I"I lend my impersonation of Gillies
(A .I.P.). It"s ge ll ing a bit cold in here too, I
think 1"11 throw another boong on the fire.
Yours in union· bashing,
(Sir) J o h Belching· 8 ullshit,
Penthouse Suite.
Kinga roy- Bastille Hilton,
Queensland, 4 999
Dear Eds,
I'd like to compla in about those
mem bers of a ce rtain left wing
organisation who continua lly harrass
passers-by outside the Blue Room and
along the library lawn steps.
Having been offered the chance to
purchase t heir publication and pol itely
refusing many times, I hard ly gave them a
second Ihought . However, when one
member, obviously "a battler ", wearing
thongs and an awfu lly expens ive -looking
watch, approaches you offer ing his
advice (or h is organisation's) on how the
coun try should be ru n, and how you
should VOle, and with whom you should
sympathise, and persisting to do so after
you rud ely turn your back on him, one rs
forced to say: "WH Y DON 'T THE Y
MIND THEIR OWN FUCKING
BUS IN ESSI".
t know my position is not unique,
having watched other stUdents in
similar positions with these 'paper
pushers'.
To those sellers who go politely
about their business, I add that this
attack is not against them. I also hope
that they sm arten up their comrades.
Hopefully yours,
A . Noid .
P.S. Keep up the good work Tharunka. I
th ought the Palm Sunday Rally spread In
the 'Batman' issue was superb.
I HEARD A RUMOUR
Dear Eds,
I suppose it is approaching SU
election time, but the rumours I've heard
recently concern me greatly,
These rumours. eds, are to do w it h
freedom of speech and what appears to
be a dreadful sacrilege perpetrated by and
dare I say it Rumour 1
I have been told that
. took
the Overseas Student Services Director
into his office for an hour and tried to
harrass Steven Gan into changing his
report on Ihe ant i- fees meet ing in
" Basica lly, it seemed
wanted S t even t o withdraw his
sta tement that
t he
meeting w ith the ot her r ight w ing
delegaes - such as Mark Heywood,
President of Sydney Un i apparently did reconsider and came back
into the meeting later but this does not
give him the right to try to stop people
from reporting that he origina lly
Rumour 2
That after the Orientation Week issue
. was
of Tharunka appea red,
heard to say that he 'd get "the boys" onto
Tim Menzies to make sure he is more
careful about wha t he writes in future Intimidating the media is a terr ible
offense.
Rumour 3
That
is going to sue the
Director of Student Publ ica tions for
defamatron of characier over the last tour
issues of Tharunka and apparentl y has a
QC up his sleeve,
Rumour 4
That when a cert ain tetter was
published perta ining 10 th e extra cu rricular activities of
th ere wa s a great outcry fro m
and
that lelters shou ld nol be
published w ithout names attached yel
was also going around
threatening that if he fou nd out wh o
wrote it then that person migh t come toa
sticky end. I wonder why they didn 't
allach their name,
?
W ell , I'm sorry boys. but freedom of
speech is a right in this country and just
because people say things that don ' t
sound very nice doesn't mean it s
libellous, .j(I don't want to be " punched out "
either but I do want this letter publ ished
so 1"11 sign it
The listener,
Dear Eds,
I know you are looking forward to a
very deep, mean ingful and intelligent
debate as to whether we shou ld or shou ld
not have a Women's Issue Ihis year. Let
me say that Jan and Helen's arguments
(i n Tharunka No. 4, p.28) aga inst a
Women's Issue left me unconvinc ed and
a trifle confused . On the one hand they" .
,. ant women to contribute 10 every issue
... " and then go on to say that men ".
don't bloody well read
Women 's
issues" . If that is the case (and I don't
think it is) and we follow that logic
through then they wou ld not read what
women have to sa y anyWhere fu llstop.
That's bullshitl
You also left out a very Important
pornt, and that IS that women nOI only
wrrte the W omen's Issues. they do all the
prodUCtion work as well , I.e . lay·out .
graphiCS, bromldrng etc In other
words, learnrng all the relevant skrlls . I
feel that many women's lack of
knowledge about the process of pulling
out the paper and the mystlfrcatl on
surroundrng rt. hrnder their partrcrpatlOn
rn the naper.
I fully agree tha t women should not be
Isolated Into one rssue, but enough
women do not con tribute to every issue,
and many never will t ill t hey know that
being an editor doesn 'l mean you mUSt be
su per human. and that they can do it and
do it w ell . Until such time I reckon we
need a Women's Issue . Plus they are
grea t fu n to work on.
Maria Avakoumides
8 158306
Dear M aria. whmever happelled to the
Women who worked on Ihe Women's
Issue in previous years. Surely Ih ey
should now be de-mYSlified enough 10
gi ve u s a hand! - Isabelle iJ(Jd J O.
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Dear Eds,
Remember (he Aed Soks Collective?
We ran for Students' Union Execut ive
positions in 1984 as a col lectivAwhn saw
the need for reform of the w~y in which
the S,U. had been r un in previous years.
last year we campaigned on:
• action against racial discrimination and
racism.
• action against sexual discr imination
and sexism,
• an open. participatory, non Partycon trolled S.U.,
- open access to educa tion for all,
especially disadva ntaged groups i.e. no
fees, more TEAS, mo re education
funding .
Thrs year In our different ways we
have sought to act ively promote these
objectives. If you share our alms we ask
t hat you vote rn the Week 10 Students'
Union Council elections, for the
Independent Left candidate s who w e fe el
are sympathetiC to these goals.
Last year, Bron Brown lost the
election for President by only two votes,
Oavid Vai le lost the election for
Sec/ Treas by 20 votes. If you su pport our
pr inc ipl~s and don 't want to see this
happen again, it is extremely important
for every Single one of you 10 vote. As
they say on the esclI lators 8t rnilw<lY
stat ions, "Stand to the Leftll"
Ruth Jost - Women's Officer
Steven Gan - OS S Direct o r
David Vaile - D irector of Student
PUblications
Dron Brown - 1 984 Women' s Officer
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STUDEnT TRaVEL aUSTRaLld
P.S. my compliments to the Observer.
Dear "The Listener" - thankyou for your
leller. It is amazing how rumours
originate and propagate through the
populace. Do you write down all the
rumours that you hear? Do you believe
them all? You must also be aware of how
facts can be " fiddled" 10 suit either end 0/
the political spectrum - J.O.
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Tharunka, No. 6, Tuesday May 7th, 1985 ,
University Union
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UNIVERSITY UNION BOARD OF MANAGEMENT POLICYSTATEMENTS
GOREY, D enn is Willi am
Statemen t
publication.
not
avai l able
'"
lime
for
2. Improve the Quality 01 food available to
student s - cu rta iling the amount of 'Iunk; '
l ood generall available.
3. Restric t the sa le and promotion o f cigarettes
on campus .
FLE M ING, V iv ien
H,. my name's V,vlen Flemmg and I'm
runmng for the poSII.on 01 Ordm ary Members'
Representative on the UniverSIty Union Board
01 Management ThiS IS my fourth year al
UniverSity and Since commencmg my studies
In 1982 rve played an active role In studen t
politiCS I have spen t two terms on t he
Students' Union Council and am presemly the
Students Union Representative to the
UniverSity Salety Committee and the PERC
Managemen t Committee. I feet that t have the
e~peflence In UniverSity concerns and the
comnllt ment to sWdents' needs that no other
candidate for thiS poSlhon has
The UnIverSIty Union Board 01
Managemem suffers Irom one malor problem
a pronounced lack 01lemale representa t ion
Presently 16 out of I he t8 Board pOSlllons are
fltied _ only one of these Boards members IS a
woman. As the on ly woman Board member's
te,m e~p"es With these elections. the
potemlal e~lsts for a board 01 18 people to be
Without one w oman representat",e . Please
don' t allow th.s to happen - vote lor awoman
w ho Will actively defend all women on
ca mpu s, particularly on matter s suc h as
chl ldcare and sexual harrassment. 40%0lthls
Campus' population (I.e. women f deserve
representa t ion
Issues o f co ncern 10 st udents presentlY,
and wh ich I Will e ndeavour to have
Imptemented, metude a dlfferenllal pllcmg
policy. St udents al th is UllIvers+ty are
SubSidiSin g aca demiC sta ff to diScount food
through UniverSi ty UllIon l aclll tl es which are
paId for by OUR Ices . To overcome thiS
appalling mequ allty It IS es sential that a
dlileren !l a l pflClng pot ICY. like that
expellmented With dUllng t he Chllstmas
vaca llon, be Implem ented. We must not allow
ac ad emiCS to retain thi S "p"vll ege" at the
e ~pense of studen ts
W ALLER , Nathan
Sta t ement
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BA RA L, Liane
Bemg a medical student , t am co ncerned
prunallly wit h the 11eal th Issues that con ce rn
the student populati on In generat an d medical
students In partl cuta r On becom mg a member
o f the University Board o f Management, I
Intend ' 0:
1. Keep the "Got ' House" open
4 Recllly the ,"equality 4th and 51h year
medical students ellperlence With regard to
paYing full Union lees
5 Improve student I,ealth by Installng a lull ·
tUlle w oman medical of ficer available to
female students by appointment
Vote 1 L,ane Baral
2 John Sloman
DAVIES , David Chalm ers
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ROB INSO N , Pe ter
The UniverSity Union Board 01 Management
leQulres strong student representallon I1
needs people who ale gOll1g to ensure tha t
studen t needs and rt!qwrements on Camp us
arc met The Board ca n onl y opera te effecllvety
If those Invol ved are suffiC ient ly mOllvated
towards wanllng t o Impro ve hfe on Campus
Food Outl ets: In gener al the food on I hls
campus IS enough to make you wa nt togo on a
starva t ion dIet II1defll1uely (The only
ellceptlons being The Fernery on Lower
Campus, and tll" AGSM Cdlt,I",," - wh,ch IS
In the hands o f pflvnt e co ntractors)
P, obl em Areas: Plaza Mdk Bar - fill the
lel"geratlon (soft Ice-cream IS not the gol.
pr OVide outs.de tables, Install pay phones. set
UI) a TV monitor for Campuswlde
Btue Roo m: It really should be a hcensed ba r
to ne should not give up the fight I In the
meanllme let's Improve the ever declinlllg
standards ( 11 '5 gelling w orse week by w eek).
Esme 's. The Queue for servi ce .s l US t far too
long Often the Queue spIlls ou t t he door It IS
an IndIctmen t on managemen t tha t
some tim es you wait up to 15 mlnuleslor acup
of co ffee l Soluti on - se parate Qu eues for
beverages and food
Undercroft - Engin eers deser ve a better deal on
mlcldte campu s
Sc.ence Ca fetefla the menu needs to be
,mproved.
Th e Roundhouse . su ffers from the sam e
problem as the .
SCience Caletella: needs greater vall ety In hOt
lood menu.
C u lt u ral A ff air s: Beller promotion all round IS
needed, beller acts on the Lawn
Buildin g S ecu ri t y : Greater secuflly for SU
Off ices to prevent furt her break -m s
VOTE 1 PETER ROBINSON
LET'S IMPROVE LIFE ON CAMPUS
SLOMAN, John
Fmal ye<lr Marketing, M ember, UnIOn
Board o f Management
I'm lunnlng for re ·elechon because I W<lnt
the Union to take the mlllallve and
1 Creale another Esme's
2 Build an upper campus Bar
Both of t hese could be Incorporated In a
radical development of the Commerce
Courtyard, which could also prOVide a
stallonery shop, Iccord (new secondhand).
bookshop. chemiSt and '>OSt office
ThiS space cou ld als~ be used to prOVide a
covered seatmg area and would also grea t ly
alleViate overcrow(hng dUllng tunch hour
The Undercroft Should be completely
renovated and prOVide BBG f acilities
And the Golf House. that lunny white
building on the corner of High and Botany
Street (jUS t behind the Chancellery) that you
sec people With lies and/ or white coats
commg out of. IS run by the Univer Sity UllIon
ThiS bwldmg can and shoutd be made a
hcensed / e atmg place co ffee shop With a BBO
and beer garden
These Issues and a revrew of FOOD PRICES
are curr ently bemg inVestigated by the House
Commit te e and Strategic Ptannlng
Commlllee, I am a memberof both com mlltees
and If re ·e /ected, th ese propos at s wil l become
realities .
I have also been pushing t he Union to
continue t he flghtlor a Bar on upper campus.
Atso thi S year, due to the good relations
between the Union and th e Studen ts' Union,
w e ha ve successfully organtsed several large
combmed l uncllons for mem bers and have
bIgger and better ones planned lor later m the
year I,mend to follow up all these lIChons and
contmu e to pursue other matters m the
,"terests 01 members
WhO! we need IS Increased co·operatlon
between the two Unions and for the UniverSity
Unton to get back to baSICS, the provISion of
good, cheap services for members
To get thIS, VOTE FOR
PETER LYNCH
AN DREW BONE
DAVID DAVIES
JAMES WAD DELL
JOHN SLOMAN
lOt the Ordinary Members reps on the
UnlverSlly Union Board of Mangement
WAD DELL . James Sim on
S, atement
pubhcallon
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VOTE 1 JOHN SLOMAN
2 NATHA N W ALLER
lor Ordlllary Members' Board
M ember' House Com mmee
Str ategic Pl anning Committee
Cul tura l Alla "s Commm ee
LYN C H , Peter A nth o ny
I have be en a st udent at thi S UnlverSI'yfor
three yea rs, I am studYing fOf a deg ree m
Mining Engmeeflng I am currently t he
PreSIdent of the St udents' Union and also a
member 01 the Union Board o f MlInagement
DUllng my ShOrl lime on , he Board I have
ptayed a part In such things as getting th e
Union 10 repeat ItS anti -smoking policy,
reassess the ch arg es Imposed on stude nt
clubS and SOClell es hol ding function s In Union
premises, In my opinion 11 presen t ly COSIS
member s tOO much I have also been
responSible 10 rh te Installation o f a bfeathanalyser for t he Ba'
UN IVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES UNION
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT ELECTIONS 1985
Notice is hereby given in accord,Hlce with the provisions of the Unhersity of New
Soulh Wales Union Constitution that the following nominatiom hilVt' b('t'n
received for candid,lIure .1t the eleC1ion~ to the Union BOMd of !'I.lanagen1{'nt.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
UNION BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
ELECTION OF FIVE ORDINARY MEMBERS
1985
VOTI NG TI MES ARE AS FOllOW S:
M o n 20 May :
Tues 21 M ay:
Wed 22 May:
Thu r 23 May :
11 am - 2 pm
11 am - 2 pm
4.30 pm - 6.30 pm
ll am - 2pm
11 am - 2 pm
4.30 pm -
Fri 24 M ay :
11 am -
6.30 pm
2 pm
Coyc red area in front o f Lib rary
Coyered area in fronl o f libra ry
Blue Room
Ro undho use
Rou nd ho use
Ro und ho use
Covered area in front of library
GENERAL VOTING PROCEDURE:
Voters will be requ ired to p resen t to the polling clerk their UN SW Unio n card ,
yal ida ted for 1985 and to state th eir full name and co urse, Votin g is by perso nal
yote,
J.M . Cannon
Registrar
ORDINARY MEMBERS (5)
DEN IS WILLlAt'vl GOIUY
VIVI[N FL[MING
NATHAN \-\ALl[R
LlANE BARAL
DAVID CHALM(RS DAVIES
P(l(R ROBINSON
JOHN STEI' HEN SLOMAN
PETER ANlHONY LYNCH
lAMES SIMON WADDELL
ANDRE\....' lAMES BONE
A s the number o f n o minations r eceived exceed s places available ,I week long on
C.l rnpus ballot will b e condu ct ed from 20- 24 Ma),. 1985.
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LIF E M EM BE RS (2)
BRUCE LANC E MA RSH
ALASTAIR WALTON
RO UERT JOHN MURRA Y
AS the number o f nominat ions recei ved exceed s places avai lable. a pOS tal ballot will
be co nduc ted . Ball o t p apers wi ll be fo rw ard ed t o elec to r s o n or by Wedne sd ay, 1
M ay 1985. THE BALLOT W I LL ClO SE AT N O ON ON FRI D AY , 24 MA Y 1985,
},M . Cannon,
Regislar
29 April 1985.
Tharun/(a, No. 6, Tuesday May 7th, 1985.
University Union
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UNIVERSITY UN ION
1985 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES GRANT
T he Un ivers ity U nion m ainta ins a m odest fund to prov ide fi nancial
assistance (grants or loa ns) to members of clubs, societies, groups and individu als
engag ing in cu ltura l ac ti v it ies . Each ap p li cation will be cons idered by Union
officers pr io r to prese ntat io n to the Board's Cul tural Affa irs Committee. If this
committee approves the app lication, it then becomes a firm recommendat ion
to the Board of Management.
The primary concept is that g rants shou ld be used for the promotion of
cu ltural activities on CClrnp1tJ . Some suggested activit ies include: student theatre
projects (ca baret, puppetry, street theatre as we ll as more conventional forms),
dance, music (a ll kinds), arts and crafts act ivities, multi-cultural activities,
ex hibitions, ete. We are look ing for exciting and innovative projects.
CONDITIONS
( J ) This fund is open for application
U n iversity of N.S. W. Clubs,
Societies, grou ps and ind ividua l members engaging in cultural
activities. Priority will be given to those organisatio ns which
do not have access to othe r sui ta ble sou rces o f funds .
to
(2 ) An eva lu ation and fin ancial breakdow n is required o n co mp letio n
of the project.
Application fo rms and further detai ls are available from: Jane WCSlbrook ,
Applications close on Friday, 31 Ma y.
UNIVERSITY UNION
Peop le may have seen that notice-boards
are now being placed in the University Union
eateries.
There are two types of boards , one is
behind glass and lockable, and the other is a
normal access pin-board. Ple ase put anything you like, but pinned. upon the pin-board .
The other notice area is for University
Union pamphlets and p ropaga nda only.
These boards were obtained through your
ordinary member represen tatives on the Board
of Management. Please do nol ruin our chances
for more.
ALAS TAIR WA LTON
Cultura l Prog rams Ma n a g t r,
2nd F loor,
Hlockhouse (Lower Ca mp us )
T cl: 663 2225 Ex I. :W()
THE GOLDEN MOUTH
The UniverSity Umon Debate's sub-commlllee inVi tes
coll eges. cl ubs and SOClelles and interested people
who can get team together to parti cipa te In Ihe flchest
debatmg competd lon In the Hlstoryof Western CIVIlisation
Commencmg Week 7 With heats. through to the fmal In
Week 11 Interested persons shoutd con tacl Mafia
Rmaldl. 663-9 162, for apphcallon form s and details
Winners of each heat Will receive a bottleof champagne
and S150 In gold SI COins will be awarded 10 th e final s
winners. SIOO for runners-up and S50 for 3rd place
A LASTAIR WALTON
Tharunka, No . 6, Tu esd ay rylay 7 th, 1985.
ClUbs & Societies
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BOARDSAILlNG
CLUB
SKI CLUB
CHEAP LIFT TICKETS & SK LESSONS
uft
Tickets (Thredbo) - July 7to 14 (7
days) s 100 for the week .
ski lessons: July 8 to 12 (5 days) 5 X 1
hour lessons, $19 for f ive;
Bot h the above prices are not mispr int sll
Get the above deals at:
Wednesday
Roundhouse -
May 1 , 1 st Floor ,
1 p.m . - 5 p.m .
Wednesday May 29, Ground
Roundhouse - 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Floor,
Recently, the Boardsailing Club has
been quite active, with good turnou t s
despite the lousy wea t her. This year we
have a booking ollicer (Martin Hoogland )
who can be contacted so that member s
can use club windsurfer s and equipment
at any time during the week and on
weekends other than official club days.
We are organising a camping trip for a
number of days just after Ses';;ion 1
exams. This wi ll probably take place
somewhere on the central coast and we
will be staying in caravans or tents. In
previous years these events have been
well attended and good fu n has been had
by all.
For those members and prospective
members, who are beginners, the cfub
has a number of small sails which are
excellent to learn with and a number of
experienced boardsailers who enjoy
teaching . For information regarding the
camping trip (details to be included in
next news letter) a nd membe rship
enquiries contact: Stuart Patenon
(President) on 697-4339 (W) Applied
Science Room 212. or 398·7649 (A.H ).
Please fee l free to drop in for a cha t . For
information regarding booking of boards,
please conlact : Martin Hoogland (Sec.)
on 697-4324 Applied Science Room
2 13 .
Remember. to tak e advantage of
these deals. you must be a member of the
UNSW Ski Club.
Join at any time at the UNSW Sports
Association. Third Floor, Squarehouse .
Enquiries: Matthew Downie on 95 ·1 055 .
SKI GEAR SA LE
When: Sunday May 16, 10 am Where: SPQRTSKI
5B5 George Street,
(jUSI down from Hoyts)
4 pm
OS SPORTS
The Overseas Student Services will be
o rganising the annuat vo lleyball and basketball tournament over the May re cess
( 13/ 5/ 85-19/ 5/ 85). Entry forms can now
be obtained at the Gym co unter. Entry
tee is S6 per team . Any enquiries please
contact Gariel Wong - (663 3784) or
Clement Tan -(663 3630). All University
students are welcome to participate.
Organiser !
CHOC SOC AFFILIATED!!!!
DA rELINE Th ird Casoc meet 109.
April. 1985.
In an election, the vast majority of the
voters at the recent CASOC meeling
voted to affiliate a new club on campus.
C HOC SOC has officially come into
existence.
This club claims to represent all the
chocolate lovers at the uni . regardlessol
race, colou r. creed. or cavi ti es. It IS a
non-pol it ical club created purely lor the
joy ol l aste. It will cater to all the sweet
teeth that are hiding in mouths all over
Campus.
CHO C SCC offers!
• one smartie per member per day .
• discountS at chocolate shops to be named.
• great get ·togethers With lots 01 ChOCOlate
prOVIded.
choc 'n' cheese lunches.
o big CHoe soe HOP at tha and 0 1 the
year
It sounds li ke a lot 0 1fun. w hIch IS what
unl Il le IS supposed to be.
So why not lam?
Come out 01 the closet
and pig-ou t m publICI
You are not alone l
CHOCOLATE LOVERS UNtTEI!!
JOIN TODA VIII
Everything al the store (only open to
UNSW Ski Club Members) WIll be
dIscounted 20-50%11
You must be a member of the SkI Club
_ Jom at the Sports AssocIatIon at any
tIme EnqUlnes - Mlchael Green on
920-5258
ROLE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
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Un iversi l y Church
Why not CHECK OUT THE UNIVER·
SITY CHURCH? You may never have
been inside a church belore. You may
have gone irregularly or you may be a
regular churchgoer.
Whatever the case you will lind the
University Church differen t Irom most you won 't be bored with fo rmalities but
challenged to listen to the Bible carelully .
The chu rch meets twice each week . In
small gro ups at 7.00pm on Sundays in
the Chaplaincy Building and as a large
group on Friday s at 7.00pm in the Keith
Burrows LeClure Theatre. (see articl e) .
WHAT IS ROLEPLAVING?
Roleplaymg IS a game A game of ImagInatIOn where you can be anythIng o r
do anythmg beyond the realm 01 normal
human pOSSIbIli tIes
All It lakes IS ImagmatlOn to mak e It
happen l
You can be the Captam 01 the Slarshlp
Enterpnse. James Bond 007. Batglrt.
Merlin the MagIcIan. Wonderwoman. Cle·
opatra. Conan the Barbatlan. Jeannle. or
even Superman
The choice IS up to you
How does 1\ work?
FIrst 01 all you have a set 01 rules whIch
say what each character IS capable 0 1
domg and what SkIlls they have. The
rules descnbes the wo rld m whIch the
characters live and partICIpate e g Medlevat SocIety. 20th Century. Earth. the
Irontlers 01 space. etc. etc. etc.
You then get pads and pencils and
dIce and create a charac ter. Now WI th
the company 0 1 your Iflends and a releree (or game master ) you are ready to
enter the wo rld 0 1 roleplaymg!
Form ore in lo rm ation con tact the Roleplayers' Asso ci ation vIa Greg Bright (VicePresident) 665 8730.
OR leave a message at the Studen ts
Un ion
OR attend the meet ings every Monday.
Malhews B Bldg. rm 308 tpm.
The Roleplayers' Associat ion wil l be
co nduct ing an advanced Dungeons and
Dragons tournament during sessi on It.
We will be holding a compet ition for the
best modute to use in the tournament .
The module must be fo r levels 4-7 with
a party size 0 1 5-6 players. The clo sing
date for ent ries is the tirst Monday o f
session 11 (i.e. wk 1).
Th e prize is a S30 o pen o rder at ' Mind
G ames'fantasy and games store (as well
as the honour 01 having your module
used in the tournament) .
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MUSOC
JUSI over six weeks old now, M usoc
(M usic Society) has proven to be
creditable. The club now has about 150
members, many of whom play mu sical
instruments. Don't be misguided by
Musoc th ough . The club is not only there
for th ose who can play music, il is there
lor those who enjoy listening to any or all
types of music. for those who are keen in
learning about music, and for t hose who
simply want to have a good lime.
Musoc hopes to discourage 'musica l
inhibition'. In fa ct, the last two meetings
tha t the club held provided a good
example of this. There were a few
members who simply gOI up and just
played wha tever th ey liked - original
and non·original music - for the test of
the gong. Some stuff was quite serious,
while other stuff was quite farcical. Whal
is important is that everyone enjoyed
being there, whe ther they were playing
or listening.
Naturally some instrumentS are more
portable than others so t ha t not everyone
can bring t heir drumkit or piano along to
meet ings. So Musoc is organIsing a
couple of jam sessions where members
can have a bit more access to such
instrumen ts. r he next one is on Frid<ty
10th M ay, and w i ll be more like a
" party" . This WIll probabty be at a ha ll and
detai ls for t hIS WIll be fi nalIsed at the next
meet ing .
The socIety also has cultural Interest
and already has had an outIng to see
Amadeus - at a dIscount price The bIg
SOCIal evenl of the sessIon. though. will
be the Harbour CrUIse on Wednesday
night. 29th May .
So far. the pl?ople I've met III Musoc
have been great fun I smcerely
encourage you tocorne along and get mto
some "MUSIcal ExpreSSIon" Even If you
Just wnte poetry or lyriCS
who knows.
you may get It together WIth someone
else's musIc and have a smash hIt on
your hands
Musoc IS Interested In hear 109 any
Ideas or suggestIons. Our meet lOgs are
held In Ihe M att hews Room 132. every
second Tuesday at lunchllmes - 1-2
p .m . Check out the notlceboardon level 3
of the LIbrary and 'Wot'sOn' m Thafunka
for further actiVItIes
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PS Thanks to all the aC\lve and passIve
partIcIpators In Musoc so far We hope
your co·operatlon contmues
OPU N KA
Film/Video course~
Opunka. The UnIversity of N S.W .
Film Group. will run a professional film!
VIdeo course start 109 in May. The cou rse
IS deSIgned to prOVIde a baSIC knowledge
of using Super 8. 16mm and VIdeo
eqUIpment as well as lighting, budgetmg ,
edl tmg and scrIpt wrI tIng.
The cou rse WIll consIst of eIght tw o
hour classes consistIng of a maximum of
ten peopl e. It will commen ce o n
Thursday. 2nd M ay at 6 .30 p.m. in the
J ohn Clarke Gallery, 3rd Floor, Square·
house.
The charge for the course (covering
materials and coffee) will be 540 for
Opunka members and S50 to others.
Opunka hopes during Session 2 ,
19B5, to run a lollo w up cour se which
would possibly make a short f ilm; and
also 10 run a Film Mak ing and a Scr ipt
Wriling competition.
For more details please call Ma rkus
Lam ben on 609·0912 during work
hours . If you would like to ensure a place.
drop us a note addressed toOpunka Film
Group, The Un ion Box 5, UN SW, P.O.
Box 1 , Kensington . 2033. If on campus,
you can put the addressed note in the
internal mail bag in your School office .
For information about Opunka , you can
ri ng the President , D avid Samuel on
371· 5025 .
David Samual
President, Opunka Film Group
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Carolyn
CAVING CLUB
HAVE YOU TRIED IT IN
TOTAL DARKNESS??
Discover tt-e ult ima te experi ence come cavi ng. We w ill show you rea l
ca.ves, wi th.out tourist stai rs and fights,
WIth bea ut Iful and strange formations
mysterious holes and adventure. Cave~
are undergr o und labyr I nths o f
dramat Ically scu l ptured rock w i t h
interminable passages, bottomless pits
and large een e caverns. Challenge your
body and imagi nation in a Sport that
expl ores the underground unknown . •
Trips are run on week ends and
holidays for people of all levels of
exper ience. Club meetings are in the
Common Room of the Round house al
6 .00 p.m. on the fi rst Tuesday of each
month.
For infor ma tion contact: Danielle on
33·5888 or Bob - 623·5967.
Wot'S On & Classies
Wots
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WEDNESDAY 8
The CHESS CLUB wiU be holding a Beer
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2 p.m , in Room 106 in the Mech. & Ind.
Engineering Building . All welcome .
Admission is on ly SOC and anyone also
interested in Chess playing shou ld come .
The Chess Club will also be having Chess
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THURSDAY 9
ALP Club meetings are held every secon d
Thursda y (wat ch for notices around uni).
The ALP Club provides a for um for
discussion and action around issues of
c oncern to ALP m embers and supporters
on campus. All welco me . I pm . 2pm
Morven Brown G4. Phone: Sharon on
303 -805 .
HU MANIST PARTY mee ting from I p.m .
every Thurs. - Morven Brown. If you
woul d l ike to f ind o u t what the
Humanistry Party is all about. get
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Tharunka, No , 6, Tuesday May 7th, 1985,
LES COMPERES Bay -
Village Double
In French with American subtitles.
Les Comperes is an extravagently
the glitter thing
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French comedy. It provokes the kind of laughter
which ruptured spleens have made famous .
This is authentic Inspector Clouseau comedy:
sheer lame·bra ined slapstick rivalling Fawlty
Towers for t he brilliance of its executionl
It is a very difficult f ilm to describe to anyone
who hasn't seen it: like most comedy of the
c inema it loses a great deal in th e interpretation
to the written word. Les Comperes must be seen
to be believedl Basically th e f ilm is b uil t on a
unique plot in which two men search for a
runaway feenag er who each believes is h is son.
.' The star of the film combines the crazy looks ,
of H a rpo Marx with the bizarre facial
express ions of Peter Tork o f the Monkees. He is
the perfect idiot - the sublime fool.There a re
traces of Woody Alien in this sympathetically
portrayed weirdo, but where Woody delights in
conversations with neurotics about the best
ana lgesics and tranquilisers (qu . Play it Again
Sam), this suicidal maniac is gladdened by the
thought of a dialogue with a manic depressive.
Les Comperes is essential. Take time out for
some serious fun and see it!
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M ICHAEL QUINTON
WHORE IN A MADHOUSE - By Dario
Fo & Franca Rame
Rather than a play this show i s five
m onologue s by four very ta lented Australian
women . They are l yne tt e Curran , No ni
Hazelhurst, Sue Ingleton and G illian Jones, The
script s have been translated from the celebrated
Itdl idll J,Jt:!rls uf the Fa an d Rame duo who were
responsible for such gem s as "Female Parrs" and
"Won'r Pay, Can'r Pay". Thi s ada ptati o n
main ta ins the strong femini st content and th e
u se of colloq uiali sm s in its' translation.
"The M or h e r", the longest piece, is a rath e r
drawn out saga involving a mother 's (ly nette
Curran ) respon se to her son being arrested for
terrori sm. Curran caplUres the full range of
emotion s from the blee ding heart liberal , wellspo ken and angry at first , then se lf-doubting and
drained as she explores her own fa ili ngs, and
f in ally, resolute and firm when she confronts th e
system which her son re acted against.
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ga n g . Gillian lones cleverly portrays U lrike's
treatise on the socie t y which ha s impri soned
her, based largely on her notebooks comp iled
f o r her "suicide" . Dressed only in a whit e smock,
GilJian captures the sterility, iso lation and
precision of a modern German detention
ce ntre. For me, it evoked mem ories of some of
the heavier scenes from the movie "Dark
THE ROAD TO ST. KILDA PIER George Orwell and the Politics of the
Australian Left
Stained Wattle
Press. $6.50.
According to Andrew Milner, the maximum
possible number of socialists in A ustralia at present.
is somewhere between 6,000 and 10,()(X) people.
While this figure is probably a little low, there is no
question of the accuracy of Milner's conclusion from
this figu re - socialism is very much on the margins-of
the Australian politicat map. Most of this fairly short
book is devoted to exploring why this should be so
and what can be done about it . This central them e is
wound around two other them es - Milner's own
experiences of the Australian l eft since arriving in
this country seven years ago, and a discussion of the
work of George Orwell. The mixture of th emes does
not make for an easy review. especially when they
share varying amounts of space in each of the
sections of the book which deal in turn w ith the
history of the Old and New left, a persona l cr it iqueol
those positions, and finally some suggestions 01
future action.
His discussion of Orwell has a two· fold purpose.
To begin with, he wishes to defend Orwell, in theyear
1984. from the large volum e of comm ent which
completely misses Orwells' point , The tendency to
concentrate upon 1984 and to treat it as a work of
prediction rather th an warning has lead, Mil ner
comments. to the avoidance 01 Orwells' message.
And indeed, the film 1984, for example, did JUSt t hat.
With its technological and visual accuracy, to
Orwells' words, Orwe!l's message was successfully
rende red an anchronism, and displaced to another
continent and anot her era ,
M ilner thinks th at Orwell is much more
accessible in works such as The Road 10 Wig8n Pier,
and he uses quotes from it to tntroduce his crrtlClsms
of the Old and New Left. He attacks the mlddledassishness and crankishness of the left, t he "stupid
t;ul( ul Russia" (and later Chma), the myopia of the
organised sects of the '"half gramophone/h alf
gangster left" , and most importantly th e false hope of
SOCialism fro m above, in all ItS incarnations from
technocratic laborism to stalinism . On each of these
points. M i lner makes important and timely
observations. wh ich in th e best style of Orwell ollen
cut through accepted sentiments. Although this style
wi ll probably get him into trouble with th e more literal
minded of t he left, because he does in time s indulge
in personal illustrat ions, capped wi t h witty bu t gross
over ·statement.
Milner hopes to re scue from Orwell, and from the
Old Left struggles of the first half of t he 20th century,
a socialism which " smells of revolution and the
overthrow of tyr ants" . Wh ile this may seem to some
to be outdated and perhaps overly idea listic it is
surely preferable to qu ietism and lack of direction 01
the last decade . It is ali th e more refr eshing that this
book has appeared at such a time. It is short, sketchy
and has many weakness es.IThesecl ion on feminism
for example . . " ), yet it has a great deal to offer. Not
th e least 01 its str engths is to show the valu e of
Orwell"s words "in order to defend socialism, it is
neces sary to begin attack ing it" .
DAVID COX
Times".
In rhe words of producer Sue Hill , a ll of th e
mono logues are linked by the theme of
(wome n's) su rvival. I must say tha t these two
plays certainly evoke empathy to a woman's
plight but I fear on ly the politically committed
will have the concent ration span to absorb the se
two pieces sim ultaneously.
"Whore in a Madhouse" lives up to its t itle.
Gillian l ones is unrecognizable in her ne w role
as a loud-mouthed, seen -i t-all Honky Tonk
co n f rontin g her ma le psychiatrist. Her n oncha lant responses to the seemingly inane and
predictable line of questioning is a source of
much mirth. But the absurdities allo w the
aud ience to exp lo re the thin line between
st reetwalk ing and the " I love lucy" stereot ypes .
Just as the whore becomes tangled between
the uncertainty of her self-respect and fear of
degradation that her work implies (to males).
the scene shifts to Noni Ha ze lhurst doing a
sp ine -chilling ve rsion of "/ Don'r Move, / Don',
Scream, My Voice is Gone". ( In 1973 Franca
Rame was abducte d by right-wing extremists
who sexually assaulted her and covered her
body with cigarette burn s). The interpOSing of
these two scen es is a re j ection of the frivolous,
humorous prostitute theme for the more se rious
one of the overall violence against women.
D" ' pil" som(" iuspil'nl :1< (ing, Slrrrl, ur ", ,, lll"IlOW
bil(',1 10 work ..rrn l i\'l'ly ill (his p-,·rfonn:llu·('. -rlll';Il h>rs
W('r(' h;nnp"1'I'd hy a low htldg('1 SI;IW' !>I'u iug: hy 1<>11).;
hn-ab IX'I"'(·"11 SI\ '!lt'S aud hy ;111 lItll','slx >I1sin' ;ltld it'IWt'
(In; li lll y sdwol SllIIlr-nlS) who S(,(·ItH"tl 10 I hi nk I he play ",:IS
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:lIId ;ltllli ,'n,,' off. Slill il is \,'d! wOl'1h ;1 I"i<"win.~ ;1 1 Si
"olu·('Ssioll .
"A/ice in Wonderlessland" is a parody on a
parody. Sexuality and lust are examined with th e
ferocity of a mealaxe. Sue Ingleton has her
audience ga-ga. No sacred cow was left
unmilked in her demolition job of the
crumbling world of sexual fantasy . Sue walked
the line between insanity and acting and won.
i\lICHAEL QlJINT AN
IEFF LEE
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Fontana, 1984, RRP S5.95.
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Tharunka, No . 6 , T uesday May 71h. 1985.
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AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL
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GREAT MOMENTS IN
OBFUSCATION
RECORDS AND FIRSTS
The quote of the week come s from an
interview With Pat Soone on a Sydney
radiO station . The wealthy has- been was
asked about hiS fn endshlp With Ro nald
Reagan . a man dearly beloved of this
page. Soone replied . " Reagan IS a man
of strength ... and strength is required
these days. to wage peace" .
PAW STORY Most people are familiar With thevarlatlons In the reporting o f even ts between.
say. the mornmg papers and the afternoon tabloids. Somehow "Small Wha rehouse Flfe " becomes "B laZing Inferno ".
Welt. It'S not qUIte that bad between Ihe
student papers yet. but NEWSWIT was
certainly a great deal more Irreveran t
t ha n Tharunka in ItS repo rl on the
kangaroo'Spaw found on And rew Bone's
desk (see th e very serious report In
Tharunka No. 4).
Here's how NEWSWIT reported it:
"A lett er addressed 'To the Leader' wa s
checked by police for fing erprmts after
being fou nd m a Sl udents' Union office
at the UmverSlty of N.S.W. on 3 April.
It probably wasn't the letter that caused
the alarm as much as the kangaroo paw
that fay on top ol lt. And the head that lay
aid to the rebels i n Nicara g ua came up The call was a
first because t he fI fty year old Senator w as In space at
t he li me. or brttlng the eart h In the Spaceshullle. HIS
presence there gave NASA a cler c lalm to the record for
the world 's biggest ellort at carrying po liti cal fav ou r.
The Senator Just happens to be Chairman o f the Senat e
Committee overseeing the Shuttle programme. An yway . Ron could have saved himself a ca ll. because t he
Bill was defeated .
Ro nald Reagan has managed 10 pull 011 another I lrsl.
and NASA has set what must be a wortd rec o rd . Bo th
events came together last week when the Presiden t
called his mate. Sena to r Garn. to see if the Senator was
intending to vote Ron 's way when the Sill lor mdrtary
O UT OF TOUC H
D ICTI ONARY
Readers may recall last week's item hlled NEWSPEAK 85. The item concerned the changes the Publisher's o f the Ol(ford Dictionary had to make to t he
defin itions o f word s such as capital ism for a Ru ss.a n
edition of Its dictionary . We would lIke you to Imag.ne
you are the publi sher of the Oul of TOUCh dictionary .
and that you have requests from the follOWing orga nlsaIons for dlctlonarres - The Festival Lig ht. Greenpeace
and T he A L P. What word wo uld y ou c onSid er the most
contentiOus. and what changes w ould you make. Some
\'fords whIch could give problems are: censorship.
culling . christian ity. morals. religion. Inhibit , power.
control. sterilise. option, policy statement and wil d life.
Part 2
on lhe tabl e beSide a can o f beer was
undoubtedly that 01 the same kangaroo.
not o f Andrew Bone. the hard-drin king
Secretary-Treasurer whose ollice the mtruder had occu pied .
The letter IS understood to have contam ed leftist cliches and complamed
about yobbos. and may have been meant
for US PreSident Peter Lynch . It was
probably a prank rather than a political
act. forth e left would not kill a kangaroo.
while the right has nOlhlng against Lynch
or Bone. sell-proclaimed yobbos who
campaigned With the " Lynch the Rads
and Bone the Feminists".
Lynch w as seen to put the head In a
plaslic bag and state: ''I'm olf to see the
Vice-Chancellor. But firs t I'm going down
to the bar" .
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CAPTION COMPETITION
RESULTS
Las t issues' capt ion competition seem s to have been
too difficult. and the number of entries was sm\lll. The
drawing used was from Punch and c.lrried the original
capti on - "Oh t/Mt. it$ only ,lthing.llll,ljig for seeing if
rhe chocolales have soft cell/res". I1 was then used in
!'ullch's caption competitio n with Ihe w inning enlry
being. "/ seC' Ille IrisiJ SecrC'1 Service h.1Ve bugged (IS
.1~ain".
This week s best effon comes from the ever-present
/irnmy Olsen who. commenting on the couples
obviously languid pose. suggests that the drawing wa s of
tw o engineering student s having eti<luelle lessons. the
ninth fl oor of [he la w Building or Ihe type of
backgro und Jo nathan Shapiro would like to have had.
but was denied by geographic ci rcumSlance. Since Ihis
weck the Cou ncil el('cti ons are on, so wc have J fi tljn gl~'
poli tica) subject for thiS issue :
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