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LOTS
WIFE
DAY
Tuesday May 2nd
From 11am- 2pm
Have a say in the direction of your
student newspaper. Come learn about
the joys of laying out at 2am eating cold
pizza and chips. Meet some of the infamous
people behind the names. Get more value
out of your union dollar, etc.
PROGRAM 11am-12am Layout Workshop
No.l 12am-lpm Discussion - The direction
of Lot's Wife lpm-2pm Layout Workshop
No.2
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CONTENTS
You're Looking at it
2
Gay Tertiary Tax
5
IVIcHorror
6
Mayday
7
Onions
9
Recycling Supplement
11
Dear America
15
Trent & Survey
17
WHODUNWOT
Layingout; Cris, Victoria, Greg, James, Steve,
Mase, Woofa
Secretarying; Sandy Guy
Typesetting; Eric Toh and Adam Bums
Ad Manager; Stephen 'I coulda sworn I sold page 2'
O'Connell
Editing; David Strover, Luna Ruiz, Erica Pearson
Printing; News Printers Pty.Ltd Sheparton Victoria
Proofreedlng: Andrew "who me make a mistake?"
Smith
Jupiter vs Rainforests
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everal hundred protesters gathered along the riverbank at Fishermans Bend, here
in Melbourne, a cool Thursday night on April 13. They had gathered to attempt
a blockade of the Jupiter Island, a ship carrying rainforest timbers from South East
Asia. Most of this timber comes from the virgin rainforests of Sarawak, part of
Malaysia.
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The blockade was in solidarity with
the Penan and other tribal people of
Malaysia. A speaker addresed the
crowd, telling of the Penan people
who are fighting for their very existence. The Penan have lived since time
immemorial in the rainforests of
Sarawak. They now find that they
must blockade the timber industry
moving into their rainforest home or
else perish.
Already this year more than 100
Penan have been arrested for blockading the loggers. They have been
detained without trial and there are
reports of up to 15 Penans per cell, little or no food and b e a t i n g s .
Nevertheless, the Penan have vowed
to continue the blockades.
The speaker pointed out that every
second of every day, an area of rainforest the size of VFL park is
destroyed on this Earth. Rainforests
now only cover 21 percent of the
Earth's surface. The logging also
removes 100 species a day from the
Earth. Despite the blockades, the
forests of Sarawak are being logged at
the rate of seven square kilometres a
day. These forests have been in existence for 150 million years.
It was also pointed out that shipments of rainforest timber from
South East Asia arrive in Melbourne
every three weeks, implicating
Australians in the annihilation of the
world's rainforests. The Rainforest
Action Group who organised the
demonstration is trying to encourage
the Australian Government to ban inports of rainforest timber, and to
implement environmentally sound alternatives; for example, stable
plantation forestry and the use of
second hand timbers.
The RAG had planned this
demonstration for some months, and
it showed. The emphasis was on nonviolent direct action. Forty-four were
on surfboards and kayaks to place
themselves infi-ontof the ship. Police
managed to keep some protesters
away from the ship, and threatened
arrest. Some managed to grab onto
the bow of the ship, no one was arrested. No one expected to be able to
stop the ship, but the strength that
comes from a united action was
rewarded. Organisers were more
than pleased; they only expected 20
out on the water. They felt that the action had been a great boost to the
campaign. The Sydney RAG had
painted in huge letters upon the ship
Jupiter 'Stop Rainforest Destruction',
this delighted the crowd back on
shore. News also came through that
the Waterside Works Federation had
placed a 24 hour ban on unloading the
Jupiter in support of the blockade.
Finally, the message from the
demonstration was clear. Rainforests
are crucial to life on Earth, home to
half the ten million species of plants
and animals on Earth. To destroy
them would be an environmental
catastrophe 'as irreversible as any
nuclear holocost'. The fate of rainforests rests with our generation.
That's the bottom line.
The Rainforest Action Group is located at 672B Glenferrie Rd.
Hawthorn 3122 Phone:819 2888
Damien Ridge
OiiXS ^"E Cfiairperson s report
Secondly the Connell Report recommended that the composition of Union
Board be changed. The proposed new
Union Board would have no ex-ofBdo
members of MAS, like it has now.
MAS totally rejects the structure of a
new Union BoEurd which would not have
provision for MAS representation.
The MAS Constitution clearly states as
objectives, the protection and development of the interests and welfare of
students and the representation of students in all matters.
Office and the Student Welfare Service be
funded and administered through the
Union Board. Under no circumstances
could MAS Bupp(n*t this recommendation.
MAS strongly believes that those services
overwhelmingly provided for or run by
students should be the responsibility of
the legitimate representative student organisation on campus - the Monash
Association of Students.
Student Welfare and Student Employment are successful services which have
been in MAS since their inception.
Both oT^nisations have thrived and
provided students with excellent services
- to now suggest these services should no
longer be under MAS is to Pick the Eyes
Ouf of MAS.
Normally the practice is that when an
organisation functions well, the organisation is commended and allowed to
continue its good work under the structure which has fostered its growth and
supported it.
If, however, the University were to
adopt Ass. Prof. Connell's recommendation re: Student Welfare and Student
Emplo3mient, students could only draw
one conclusion and that conclusion would
be that when students do something well,
rather than acknowledge it, the University would 'pinch' these services and claim
them as their own.
MAS is stil working on its response to
the Connell Report which will be finalised
this week. As of May 1, copies of the MAS
response to the Connell Report will be
available at the MAS Office.
The next Council Meeting is scheduled
for May 15. I will keep you posted as to
whether Council deeds with the Connell
Report at this meeting or the subsequent
meeting on June 26.
Naturally, should something occur
before then I will let you all know.
Finally, a respite from the Connell
Report and a plug for TJpdate' a leaflet
MAS will be producing to keep students
informed of what's happening at Monash.
The first Update' will be available this
week from MAS, in the Small Caf, Grill
Room (sorry, slip of the tongue) - West
End Cafe (what a WANK!), Upstairs
Dining Room, Wholefoods, Hargrave
Cafe, Libraries and Daily News Sheets
stands, so look out for it and read it, so you
too can know what's happening at
Monash.
Bye for now.
Fatima Alisak
Chairperson
AEMAS
In November, 1988, The Connell
Report was released. University Council
appointed a six member sub-committee
into the Connell Inquiry which will
receive submissions until May 11989. The
sub-committee after reviewing submis-
sions received will report to Council with
a preferred option which Council is then
most likely to accept. As yet, there is no
date to MAS's knowledge as to when the
sub-committee will report to Council and
when Council will make a final decision
on the Connell Report.
Associate Professor Connell made
numerous recommendations which he
believed would solve the problem of perceived conflict on Union Board.
Firstly, the Connell Report recommends that M ^ no longer be funded
through Union Board but directly through
the Joint Finance Committee and Council.
MAS supports this recommendation as
we believe this would prevent the Union
Board from acting as 'financial police' interfering with the MAS budget.
MAS believes for the Joint Finance
Committee to be a successful and equitable committee, JFC should continue to
operate as a small committee, a maximum
of eight members and that JFC should
retain its present practice of having to
reach a unanimous decision.
Since the inception of the Joint
Finance Committee which currently has
a membership of six, unanimous decisions
have been reached between students,
staff and administrators.
You see, the catch is, if JFC cannot
reach a unanimous decision, the disgruntled party can goto Council. Now the
problem is however, that nobody wants
anyone to go to Council as it suggests the
Committee cannot keep its 'House in
Order*, so the pressure is on for everyone
to compromise and allow one and all to
achieve fair deals'.
The Connell Report has recommended
that JFC become a twelve member committee, the unanimous clause be dropped
in favour of a two-thirds affirmative vote
of the Committee.
Deja vu. Union Board Phase II, let's
shift the problem rather than solve it.
This, I believe, would be the outcome of a
twelve member JFC with a two-thirds affirmative vote clause. Hence MAS
opposition to Connell's recommendation
on the membership and structure of JFC.
MAS proposes a maximum of eight
members for the J F C with representatives from students and staff and
retention of the unanimous decision
making process.
Horror Scopes
o Taurus
O Virgo
O Capricorn
Be wary of people wearing black.
They are either Anarchists, postmodernists or constantly going to
funerals. Avoid the Small Caf at all
costs this week. The planets are in the
right position for rediscovering nature
and planting trees foryour birthday. Get
back to the real world. (PS Technology
is bad!) Lucky colour, green.
Beware the chemistry pond. Strange
mutations of spiny lobsters are known
to lurk here. Your secret interest in
genetics mnay lead to bizarre consequences, but beware of hybrids lurking
in the West End Caf. A good week to
write a letter to Lot's Wife. Lucky colour,
yellow.
@ Cancer
O Libra
Venus opposite Scorpio for three
weeks attracts others to you. This is because you are the only person stupid
enough to go to all the physics pracs
while everyone else was at the Notl.
This may well improve your social life
briefly, but remember you won't be invited back to many parties if all you talk
atx)ut is quantum mechanics. Time to
discover a new interest. I suggest Zen
meditation. Lucky colour, bright orange.
The decreasing power of the moon
leads to some serious soul-searching.
Now's the time to sell your red Laser
and rediscover your leftist leanings and
public transport. Don't turn away old
friends or other water signs as only they
can understand you real life dramas.
Eating lobsters or other seafood will
only worsen your problems. Lucky
colours, turquoise and sea green.
You will be waiting in line for the
photocopier in the library, when suddenly five spiny lobsters will emerge
from the screen. Weilding copytex
cards and singing Rick Astley songs
may turn them off, but it will be a near
escape. This could be a good week or
discovering Christ. Lucky colour, white.
'Connell Report'
Hands up those of you who have
heard of the Connell Report and
know its content? Did I hear you
say *ConneU Who?\ 'What?', TVho
Cares?* Well care you should as
this report could have a profound
affect o n s t u d e n t s e r v i c e s if s o m e
of the r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e t o
be adopted:
At the Union Board Meeting 7/87 the
following motion was moved by Andrew
Norton and seconded by Darren Olney,
members of the Liberal Club at Monash.
"That this Union Board request the
University Council to set up an independent inquiry into the Union's role in
the University - the terms of reference
being:
1. To examine the Statute and Constitution of the Union and recommend to
Council changes, if any, which might improve the services provided to the
University community by the Union
budget;
2. In particular, to inquire into:(i) the relationship of the Union Board
to the Monash Association of
Students
(MAS) and to the Monash Association of
Graduate Students (MAGS);
(ii) the overlap of aims, objects, services and activities between the three
bodies;
(iii) the role and composition of the
Union Board;
(iv) the representative role, if any, of
the Union Board.
3. To seek submissions from Union
Board members, MAS, MAGS and other
interested Union members.
In November, 1987, Council appointed
Associate Professor H.B. Connell, a member of the Monash Law Faculty as a one
person committee to conduct the inquiry.
In January, 1988, the Committee called
for written submissions from both ind i v i d u a l s and groups within the
University. Notices to that effect were
placed in Lnt's Wife and Sound.
O Pisces
At times your life will appear like a
Shakespearean tradgedy. Beware of
spiny lobsters at work, but don't let them
get to you. Remember worse things
happen at sea - or in Northern
Queensland. Check out 'Slate of
Shock' at the Kino this week. As you are
such a wonderful and strong person,
you will now doubt overcome these
ovenwhelming odds in a very short time.
Lucky colour, anything but grey.
® Aries
Sexual obsessions lead you astray
this week. Watch out for people resembling Cynthia H y p h e n - H y p h e n .
Relationships with spiny lobsters could
be touch and go. Lucky condom colour,
pink.
O Gemini
©Leo
You will discover post-structuralism
in the Caf. but will be struck with a copy
Das Kapital hurled from the top of. the
lining Wing, and be brought back to your
senses. Don't travel alone, especially at
night when giant spiny lobsters abound.
Lucky colour, anything paisley.
Time to remember you are not king
of the jungle at Monash. Get off your
fantasy role throne and have a rave with
the Caf ladies. Better still, grow some
dreadlocks, leave school and become
a brickies latxjurer. Lucky colour, black
and white (earn the Pies).
P a g e 4 l ^ f s wife Wednesday April 26 1989
It is unacceptable that an organisation
be allowed to exist on paper yet be denied
the opportunity to pursue its aims and obj e c t i v e s by being excluded from
participating in the decisions which will
affect the welfare of its members.
The Connell Report recommended that
student representation on Union Board
comprise of:
(i) eight undergraduate students of
the University elected
by the general
undergraduate student body;
(ii) two graduate students of the
University elected by the
graduate
students.
Were the student representatives on
the Union Board to be solely drawn from
the general student body via some elective
process there would potentially be no
avenue for ordinary students to have matters of importance brought before the
Union Board for its consideration.
Generally elected s t u d e n t representatives are not accountable to the
whole student population, have no base at
which they can be contacted by studenca
and have no physical resources to offer
any assistance to those wishing to make
submissions to the BoardA Union Board that consisted of
generally elected representatives only
would create a situation where Barrow
Pushing would attain 'State of the Art'
status.
Students will continue to come to MAS
for assistance as we are the only recc^nised representative organisation of the
entire student population. If MAS had no
voice on the Union Board, recourse to
University Council would be the only option.
For the same reasons we feel that
MAGS, GSA and SAMU should also
retain their right to representation on the
Board
Thirdly the Connell Report recommended that the Student Employment
© Saggitarius
You will be taken on an adventure
into the unknown and discover the
mysterious world of fungi, be warned!
Reading books in the Bio-med may be
helpful. But personally I recommend
dope, it's safer. Lucky colour, gold.
O Scorpio
® Aquarius
Neptune in Venus means it's time to
put your leadership qualities to good
use and carry the flag at the Uay Day
march on Sunday. Remember the
maxim 'if you don't fight you lose'. Affairs of the heart are more important
than essays right now. Lucky colours,
revolutionary red or black.
You will solve the world's problems
over lentil burgers at Wholefoods on a
Thursday and will join forces with the
reincarnation of Abby Hoffmann in an
attempt to shake the evil spirits out of
Dawkins'office. Don't tnjst anyone over
thirty, or with a moustache. Lucky
colour, anything psychedelic.
Gays and the Graduate Tax
A
s you may know, the federal government recently introduced the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, otherwise known
as the tertiary tax, as part of the re-structuring of higher education in Australia. What does this have to do with gays, you
may ask? Nothing immediate, perhaps, but in the long term it could have substantial (albiet unquantifiable) results to the detriment of the gay community.
Ihe imposiiion of the tertiary tax, along
with the wider plan for higher education, needs
to be seen in the context of the ideological direction of the current government towards
privatisation (the same is true of the Thatcher
government, and look what they have done to
gays). To justify this the government uses some
strange rhetoric - some of which is quite
frightening.
It claims for example, to want to increase
the number of students and the number of
graduates. What better way could there be than
to start charging for courses? The government
claims, somewhat paradoxically, that disadvantaged groups such as women, mature-age
people and working-class people are already underepresenied in higher education. Few would
deny this, nor that the removing of fees was a
constructive first step towards redressing that
imbalance. However, the government is now
claiming that because the number of people from
poorer backgrounds at institulesof higher education has not risen to reflect the size of that group
in the community (although il has risen), it is unfair to expect the taxes of the working-class to
pay for the education of the middle-class and so
fees should be re-introduced. In other words, because the first step didn't go far enough, instead
of taking the next steps, they undo the first. Incidentally, the next steps could include
increasing funding to government schools,
changing the entrance requirements of universities, and increasing the size and availability of
living allowances.
It's easy lo see how this sort of reasoning
could be applied to gays. To take a typical example: if the setting up of a Police Gay
Community Liason Committee doesn't work
perfectly in ensuring complete co-operation and
trust between police and gays to help stop gays
getting bashed, why bother to lake any further
steps when we can just disband the committee?
community is to be pursued successfully. Our
obvious 'allies', if you will, are other groups
who suffer from oppresion, bigotry and
descriminalion as wc do, such as women,
migrants. Aboriginals, and so on. But, of course,
The same is true with students. Students arc
often enlightened socially and support the rights
and aspirations of gays. T^is is not to deny that
there are homophobic students, just as one cannot deny that there are r^ist and misogynist
gays. The important point, however, is the
similarities which exist between tlie two groups.
Like gays, students would be naive and foolish
ifthcywcretocxpcctanythingscmi-dccenifrom
the government without fighting for it. Like
gays, students are consistently ignored, and like
gays, students form a community whose votes
could be significant but which arc. as yet, scattered and unorganised. With this much in
common and with this much potential power to
do each other good, to refuse gay support for the
student's case is tantamount to cutting our own
collective throat.
The tertiary tax and associated 'reforms'
threaten the capacity that Higher Education institutions have both to question the structure of
society and to provide a reassuring environment
in which individuals can come lo terms with
their sexuality. How many gays can date their
'coming out' to their days at University and for
how many is the idea that society can be changed
inextricably bound up with the questioning of
'givens' that they experienced during their tertiary education? Could the government plan
affect these processes? It can. IUKI inevitably will
for a number of reasons.
This then is a reason why gays in particular
should be opposed to the tertiary tax. It is aquestion, if you like, of survival. Gays will never be
a majority and so we will always need the support of others if our agenda in the wider
support IS a two-way street and we can not validly expect any support from these other groups
unless we offer them ours (and, it seems to me,
to get the bail rolling, we need to offer them our
support first).
Firstly the simple fact of fees will encourage people to move throught their tertiary
education as quickly as possible in order to incur
as little debt as possible. This means people will
spend fewer years at University and a higher
proportion of their time will be devoted excliLsively lo academic work. Hence the amount
of lime available for the opportunities discussed
above will decrease along with the chances of
anything positive arising out of them. For example: coming out often takes a lot of time both
in discovering the need and desire lor it
beforehand and begining to realise its implications as one does il. This time, and a generally
supportive background, are often provided very
well within tertiary insiituiions. Surely any
means of making entry into the gay world easier
and happier is of direct benefit to the entire gay
community and anything that threatens that
should be opposed.
Secondly, another major plank of the
govcmmcnrs plan (of which the tertiary tax is
pan and parcel) is an increased emphasis on
areas important lo Ausiralia's export and trading
potentials. In other words disciplines such as Engineering. Bio-Genetics and Nuclear Physics
will progress to the detriment of Social Theory.
History and Politics. I have nothing against Engineering but it is noteworthy, and no
coincidence, that the disciplines in danger arc
precisely those likely to inform people dial a
community which bashes and discriminaies
against gays is not inevitable or that
homosexuality is not an abenalion of an age of
'liberated' sexuality, but always existed and always will.
Thirdly, the imposiiion of fees at public institutions makes the up-front fees and such
obscenities as" the new. private. Bond University
more acceptable, and the very concept of private
universities more attractive. Can anyone
seriously contemplate a University set up and
financed by Alan Bond having a Gay Group?
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Finally, a word is perhaps in order about the
image that the media present of students. It is true
that students do break glass, commit trespass and
arc angry. It's also true, however, ihat students
(unlike police) are careful not to use violence
against people; and gays, surely, should be the
first to understand why people get angry when
they are not listened to. I have heard the argument (from a gay friend) that, if students insist
upon breaking the law (such as by irespassing),
what else can, or should, they expect but to be
arrested, beaten and regarded (by ihc police, the
government and the wider community) as
criminals? The corollary of this sort of argument
is that, if two men have sex in Queensland or
Tasmania, it is only right thai they should go lo
prison.
Be aware of ihe tertiary tax and associated
issues. Know that the government's plans for
highereducationhaveprofound implications for
the gay community arid start opposing them. If
the topic comes up in conversation, point out the
salient facts and when h arises, as it will, at the
next election, consider it carefully before you
vote.
Michael Casey
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McDonald's- a McHorrorStory
McDeadly
Ii is becoming clear that diet plays a major
role in the development of many diseases in
Western Countries. The average McDonalds
meal is high in saturated fats, refined carbohydrates (sugar) and salt, and low in fibre
(complex carbohydrates) vitamins and minerals.
There is evidence linking refined carbohydrates
to diabetes, gall siones and to a lesser extent
heart disease. Constipation is related lo low fibre
diets, as are haemorrhoids, appendicitis, large
bowel cancer (the most common internal cancer
in AustraUa), breast cancer, obesity, heart disease and even varicose veins! Saturated falsplay
an important role in heart disease, breast cancer
and bowel cancer to name a few. McDonald's
can only be described as dishonest when it
describes its products as an important part of a
nutritious diet in its 'Nutrition Guide'!
MacDonaJd's food is based on meat that is high
in saturated fats and has no fibre. It is now
recommended that Australians should increase
plant foods and decrease fats it the diet. On a
global scale, it should be remembered that farm
animals eat an amount of plant food that would
feed IS.CKK) million humans! Oh yes, there are
low and lots of yukky chemicals in McDonalds.
Who knows what long term effects they have?
McBoycott
Melbourne singer Judy Small sings
about the opening of a new McDonalds
store every 17 hours somewhere in the
world. Does this worry you? If not, read
on, for behind those golden arches and
Ronald's warm smile a nightmare is
taking place...
' Poorer countries find they must sell land or the
produce from land lo wealthy countries lo pay
I off foriegn debts, buy technology and buy
I manufactured goods. Some Third World
, countries are exporting their staple crops as
animal feed, to fatten cattle, often ending up in
a Big Mac.
McStarvation
McDestruction
TTie world's population is approximately
4.(X)0 million. More than 1,000 million people
, are chronically hungry. 40,000 people die as a
result every day. The cause of this hunger is not
scarcity of food and not scarcity of land. It is due
to the policies of powerful industrial nations.
^nurtured by chtes in the Third World (The
Hunger Machine, Jon Bennett, 1987). There is
enougli food produced today to feed the world
population of the year 2000, and more could
easily be produced.
McDonalds is the prototype of the large part
played by giant First World corporations in
world hunger. It has investments in vast amounts
of land in poor countries, sold by Third World
elites. Small farmers were evicted in the sales.
They were growing food for their own people.
Only two percent of our world is now
covered in rainforest, and it is disappearing at the
rate of one VFL park every second. Rainforests
support half of all Earth's species. They can't be
replaced. McDonalds is one of many US corporations using poisions to destroy vast areas of
Central American rainforest to create grazing ,
pastures for cattle to be sent back to the Stales as
burgers and pet food. They also use the timber
as part of their packaging (little recycled paper
is used).
Western Australia (Red Rooster). Worker's who
attempt lo start a imion can be sacked. In Melbourne, an 18 year old male can expect to make
a hefty six dollars an hour (even after midnight)
at McDonalds (Mulgrave McDonalds).
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The Ads protray McDonald's as a happy, circus-like wonderland where everything is nice.
McDonald's even give tiny amounts of money
to charities to hide their vicious deceit. But
McDonald's remains a cancer in our society. It
is not the only cancer in our society, but it is a
malignant one. Won't you be tempted to walk
past those golden arches next time? Try
Wholefoods instead!
Damlen Ridge
(Adapted from a leaflet made by London
Greenpeace)
McExploitation
McDonalds and other junk-food chains get
away with paying low wages lo young workers.
Would you believe as low as $2.50 an hour in
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MAYDAY
On Sunday May 7, several thousand people will gather outside the lYades Hall building to march through the city to the Yarra bank where they will listen to speakers,
socialise and peruse various stalls selling books, food, stickers and promoting left
wing perspectives on the issues of today.
This is ihc annual May Day March which
brings logeiher trade unionists and other
progressive people and organisations. It has
been likened to the left's version of Moomba, as
people march behind colourful union banners,
wave flags and placards, chant and sing and
catch up with their friends and the latest gossip
of party splits, SGIIOULS and realignments. (With
two new left parties, plus the Rainbow Alliance,
and the approaching dissolution of more old left
parties, this year's march should be really confusing!)
clubs swinging, the strikers retaliated with
stones and the police opened fire. Several striking workers were shot by police.
In recent years. May Day has been much enlivened by the involvement of the workers' and
progressive organisations of Melbourne's ethnically diverse community. Tlic Turkish, Creek
and Italian socialist organisations, among
others, have brought sometlting of their culture
of radicalism, where marches and meetings are
celebrated as festivals with dancing, costumes
and the participation of whole families and all
age groups. This has contrasted with staid
British legacy of earnest men plodding determinedly through the city. The social movements
of today such as envirorunentalists, feminists,
peace and gay activists have also brought more
colour, excitement and imagination to May Day.
These men were anarchists and included the
two recognised labour leaders, Albert Parsons
and August Spies. None of these men had been
at the demonsu-ation at iJie lime the bomb was
thrown. Anarchists and their sympathisers
throughout Chicago were persecuted, their
homes raided and newspapers shut down. The
socialists, social democrats and liberals fell over
thcm.sclvcs to disavow and denigrate the anarchists. Five of these men were condemned to
death. One, Louis Lingg, died in his cell the night
before the oiher four. Spies, Parsons. Adolph
Fischer and George Engle were hanged on
Novemeber 11 th. 1887.
The communists, socialists and,
even, social democrats have
adopted the heroes of Haymarket
and stripped them of their real
identity.
And this is important, as May Day is a day
for the celebration of the victories of the working and progressive people, as well as a time to
reassemble and re-assess the struggle against
class, sex and race oppression, imperialism and
for peace.
Origins of May Day
Back in 1884, a conference of American and
Canadian trade unions set the date of May 1st
1886 as the day on which strike action would
take place to win the eight hour day. Whereas in •
Australia the eight hour day movement had already achieved great successes since the
Melbourne stonemasons had the world's first
eight hour day victory back in 1856. the North
American trade union movement had litUe success in lowering working hours.
The eight hours struggle focused upon
Chicago, where the labour movement was lead
by revolutionary anarcho-syndicalists. Militants
in the labour movement were convinced that
revolution was imminent, and that workers faced
a bloody struggle against the bosses and state.
They had learnt their lesson back in 1877 when
the Federal troops had aided local police and
private armies in smashing a big railroad
workers strike. The state had also leaml how to
try to crush the rapidly growing organised labour
movement. In May 1886, 30,000 Chicago
workers had downed tools. At one factory,
police arrived to protect the scabs being brought
in to break the strike. The police waded in with
In a following demonstration in Haymarket
Square more violence erupted resulting in the
deaths of workers, their supporters and police.
As numbers had dispersed as it started to rain,
someone had thrown a bomb at the police,
which was answered by shooting into the crowd.
Eight men were arresied and framed to avenge
the death of the police.
In recognition of the 'Haymarket Martyrs'
and the ongoing international struggle to reduce
working hours, the Second International
Workingman's Conference in Paris 1889
declared that on May 1st workers all over the
world should strike to call upon the 'State' to
legally reduce working hours.
The history of May Day has been
distorted by the opportunistic left,
including in Australia.
The history of all time teaches us that oppressing,
maintain their tyranny by force and violi
George Engle (one of the Haymarket Martyrs)
However, an injustice has been done to the
HaymarketMartyrs, and to anarcho-syndicalists
the world over. The communists, socialists and,
even, social democrats have adopted the heroes
of Haymarket and stripped them of their real
identity. The history of May Day has been distorted by the opportunistic left, including in
Australia.
Australia's First May Day
T h e first m a r c h in Australia was held
in Barcaldine, Queensland in 1891 when
1,500 s h e a r e r s marched in protest against
the a t t e m p t s of graziers to s m a s h their
union a n d cut their wages. The first actual
May Day celebration was held in 1890, in
Melbourne, when the Trades Hall Council called a public meeting. Melbourne's
first march was in 1893. Since then marches h a v e been held in ninety-six years.
(Unfortunately, t h e March is held on a
Sunday, r a t h e r t h a n May 1st every year.
In m a n y countries around the world, May
Day is either a public holiday, or workers
stop work for an hour during the day.
Many times over t h e y e a r s , anarchists,
joined by a few other nnilitants, h a v e held
marches
on
May
1st.)
May Day propaganda distributed by the
May Day Committee (a committee whose
m e m b e r s h i p a n d qualifications a r e a
mystery) informs us t h a t the m a i n aim of
May Day h a s been to promote socialism in
the recognition t h a t working people will
never be free of exploitation, poverty a n d
injustice while capitalism exists. There
h a s always been a complete denial of
anarchism a s a political ideology seeking
to end exploitation a n d oppression, b u t
going a step further a n d abolishing s t a t e
terrorism, private property and nation
states. The role of a n a r c h i s t s in international a n d Australian labour history is
w r i t t e n o u t or a b u s e d .
However,
Melbourne's May Day m a r c h e s have also
always reflected t h e issues of t h e day. In
the First World W a r the d e m a n d s of May
Day included opposition to conscription,
opposition to Menzies a n d international
fascism before a n d d u r i n g t h e Second
World War, to t h e Cold W a r during the fift i e s a n d conscription a n d A u s t r a l i a ' s
involvement in Vietnam in the sixties.
Opposition toimperialism a n d support for
people's struggles for cultural, economic
a n d political independence throughout
the world h a s also been a continual focus.
This year, the May Day Committee of
Trades Hall, h a s chosen to again pinpoint
imperialism as a cause of militarism a n d
war.
March on May Day
Despite all the sectarian bitterness, it
is important for people to march on May
Day. Solidarity is a fragile thing amongst
the left, but it has to be sought as it is
truer than ever that 'divided we fall'.
JeannleRea
Lot's Wife Wednesday April 26 1989 P a g e 7
R
ecently there have been criticisms
made about the activities of the
United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping forces on the Namibian scene. An edition of
last week's Age suggested that UN forces
were late to arrive, low in numbers and
speaking with the wrong people; that is,
South African troops as opposed to
SWAPO troops. This is by no means the
first time that the UN forces have been
the subject of complaint. In the past,
directives to the force have been Inconsistent. Canada once recommended that
its detachment to the UN force to *shoot
to kiir when the UN security council did
not see this directive as a necessary
measure. Countless times the UN forces
have been accused of late arrival at
trouble spots.
Lateness is something which is difficult to
remedy considering the fact that troops can be.
given very little notice in emergency situations.
The problem could be dealt with by training the
force in the one place, eliminating the ideological inconsistencies at the same time. Centralised
training methods and consistent ideology would
make for farmore internal cohesion and efliciency.
Ideally iheentire force should be set-up purely to act in its capacity as a peace-keeping force.
This would mean it would be ready lo act immediately and could be easily organised in new
locations in the event of an emergency. This
would be expensive, but considering recent
tune-wasting blunders, it may ultimately cost
less mreal terms. Considering factional differences between East and West within the UN. there
IS also the question of placement; why not 50 per
cent trained in the West and 50 per cent trained
m the East?
The UN force arriving in Namibia a couple
of weeks ago only had 1100 of the 5000
promised troops, and it arrived later than expected.
The problem of control of the force members
is an issue that needs to be tackled. Presently the
troops making up the force are trained in their
respective countries. Naturally each country iin
presses its principles and training methodology
on the members it recruits for the UN force. Field
commanders, who have the ultimate say on tlie
field of action, are also trained by representative
counlrics. Thus there is not necessarily any consistency in strategy and technique between field
commanders and the overall UN policy.
The central body, the UN .security council,
only has theoretical control over field M;lion in
the present stniclure, thus allowing diffenng
ideologies and the methodologies to be dis
played on ihc field. This has been shown in the
past to be a problem.
Whatever happens, it is crucial that an independent constitution be drawn up dealing solely
with the aims, objectives and limits of the UN
peace-keeping force. This needs to detail
specific roles, training guidelines and decision
making questions.
The force was never created as an offensive
body, but in order to help create a peaceful
world. Most of the world takes the actions of the
UN force seriously; clearly more thought needs
to be given to its internal organisation,
Heather Douglas
Legal Action Group
For more informalion: The Blue Helmets, a
review of peacekeeping (UN Publications
1985).
What's On
Music - Adult Recorder
Fun Run, Friday April 28
Develop your musical skills and technique
playing in a small group under the tuition of
Rose Ovendcn, Wednesdays 7-9 pm. starting
laic April. Bookings at llicCaulfield Arts Complex. phone 524 3287.
On Friday April 28. a fun run is being held at
lunch time to raise money for the Australian Kidney Foundation. The run begins opposite the
Sports and Recreation centre at 1:20. The run
goes twice around the Ring Road. Prizes nd
trophies are up for grabs for both male and
female participants, All runners get free drinks
and snacks. Come and support a worthwile
cause. Sponsorship forms available from
Mumus and Union Desk.
Robert Blackwood Hall
Sunday May 14. 6.3()pm - Jazz in the foyer;
7.30pm Musical Mayhem Concert. University
of Melbourne Institute of Education (formerly
Melbourne CAF.) present a Musical Mayhem
featuring Big Bands. Choirs, Wind Symphony,
Clarinet Choirs, Orchestra and many smaller ensembles, including the exciting African Drum
and Dance Ensemble. Admission: Adults SIO,
Concession Sf), Family $25. For further information and tickets, please contact (BH) 341 8369
(AH) 557 5339.
Monday May 15. 1.15pm - Lunch Time
Concert. Monash UnivcrsityOrchesira, Presenting popular classics including 'Finlandia' by
Sibelius and 'Fingal's Cove' by Mcndclsson.
Admission Free
P a g e 8 U t s Wifc Wrdncsday April 26 1089
Monash University
Orchestra
Autumn Concert - Friday May 5, 8pm at
Religious Centre. Conducted by David Adams,
tlie program includes Mozart's Prague Symphony. Sibelius' 'Finlandia' and 'Herbrides
Overture* by Mendelssohn.
Tickets are $6 adults and S4 concession.
available at the door or from tabic in the Union
Building. Any inquiries, contact Richard Green
on 589 3744.
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There's power in an onion
As Billy Bragg sings, 'There's power in an onion*. Given his background, though,
he really hasn't had much to sing about. Ever since I can remember, I've been totally opposed to compulsory onion ism. Let*s face it, who would want to be compelled
to join an onion against his will? As there is currently a test case before the Equal
Opportunity Board opposing student oniontsm, it is high time we presented the NO
case for student onionism.
are dished up in the name of student control or
It only requires a cursory glance of contemstudent resources. Privatise the lot, I say. I would
porary politics to realise how powerful onions
have grown. Not only trade onions, but also student onions. Lurking in dank corridors, like
mushrooms, our student onion leaders, including former NSU President, Tracey Celery, plot
away, spending our money on things that most
of us will simply never use.
Take, for example, the Sports and Recreation
Black Hole, which devours- 22 per cent of our
stundent onion fee each year, How many students ever go for a swim, play football or squash,
or make use of the gyms? I for one don't, and I
don't see why the militant few should be spending my money on useless activities such as these.
If these people want to get fit, let them do it with
their own finances. How many times ayeai must
St John's Ambul ance come to our campus before
these people see reason?
And then there's Clubs and Societies and the
Art and Craft Centre. Mind you, while I don't
object to the odd peep through the window at the
nude drawing classes, I fail to see why my good
money should pay for these people's perversions. As for the more popular groups, such as
the Windsurfing Club, I say 'Cut the financial
umbilical cord - let them sink or swim'. If they
aren't financially viable, why should I be expected to rescue the C&S Titanic?
But the worst is yet to c o m e . . . Onion catering. Anyone who has spoit any time at this
God-forsaken hole will reahse the honors that
rather pay S20 for a decent sit-down meal with
all the trimjnings than the half-baked attempts at
catering proposed by that radical sludentonionist Mr Graeme Sweeney. Go now, Mr
Sweeney, go quietly and quickly. Resign. I say,
and lum it all over to private endeavour.
Finally, and most insidiously, we have the
dental and medical servive provided by my
money. I have rarely been sick, and when I do 1
go to my father's practice. Nor have I ever had
' a tooth out, unlike David Moody, whose self-in, teresl was responsible for the implementation of
' this voracious devourer of student's money.
Have you ever seen his teeth? I have, and it
wasn't a pretty sight. Why should I pay for his
total lack of oral hygiene? Let them all rot for all
I care.
There arc many other things that my student
onion fee is wasted on every year, including student welfare, films, the billiard room, child care,
student theatre and the John Medley library.
Bum 'em all to the ground! If students really
wanted these things, they should be willing to
pay for them. I certainly don' I. and don't see why
I should be penalised for the careless minority
who have children and who are interested in Art.
And onions smell.
Peter Nugent
Gayly News
For those into lists (who are awaiting a sequel to 'A Zed and 2 Noughts'): 8 memorable
suspected causes of homosexuality:
1. Loud disco music
2. Smoking marijuana
3. Astrological influences
4. Masturbation
5. Vasectomy
6. Too many women teachers
7. Atavism
8. Uncut meal (eating the meat of uncircumciscd pigs)
Many Victorian physicians beheved the key to preventing masturbation was good nutrition. Subsequently, Physician John Harvey Kellogg invented/rW/c»gg*55rca^asfCerea/j.
E.M. Forster's Maurice was not published until 1971, though finished in 1914, presumably a gay loves two gay lovers 'get away' unpunished.
George Bush, during the 1980 Presidential campaign told reporters, 'I don't think
homosexuality is normal behavior, and I oppose the codification of gay rights.' In 1986,
Bush addressed a gathering of the Moral Majority saying, 'America is in crying need . . .
of the moral vision that you have brought.'
Ronald Reagan:
'. . . in the eyes of the Lord, homosexuality is an abomination.* He also called
homosexuality 'atragic illness' and 'ancurosis'.
The Freemason's Hospital reaction to AIDS has (of course) been bettered many times over
in the USA.
D
In 1985, Republican State legislators in Pennsylvania proposed a law which would have
made it a first-degree misdemeanour for any person with AIDS to touch a non-infected
person.
D
In 1985, Delta Airlines banned passengers with AIDS from flying on its aircraft.
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In 1986, the US Justice Department ruled that employers were within their legal rights to
fire employees who have AIDS, if the firing was based on fear, no matter how irrational.
D
Bette Midler:
'For Christ's sake, open your mouths; don't you people get tired of being stepped on?'
D
Gore Vidal (US writer):
'There is no such thing as a homosexual, no such thing as a heterosexual. Everyone has
homosexual and heterosexual desires and impJuses and responses . . . '
D
Paul Newman:
'I'm a supporter of gay rights. And I'm not a closet supporter either. From the time I was
a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so
many qualities that make up a human being . . . by the time I get through with the things
that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low
on the list that it is irrelevanL
Student Suffering From Compulsory Student Onionism
Why Bother?
How John Howard manages to talk bullshit
and seriously expects us to believe it,
Braving mutilation, extreme violence
and nauseating trendy scum, your intrepid 'reporter' (?), Crazy Greg
ventured into 'the best party on campus'
to see 'our next Prime Minister' give a
talk.
The atmosphere in the room was electric,
'short back and sides' haircuts reigned supreme
- never in my life have I seen so many designer
shirts and Levi's jeans in one room! Everyone
waits in eager anticipation for the guru of wishiwashiness. I just wish to God that I had live
footage of Harvey Kalman's 'rabid dog on
amphetimines' impressions.
Suddenly the bespectaled Monarch of the
Liberal party appears accompanied by a bunch
of Narc-squad lookalikes and. inevitably, Mr Vitalc. The crowd applauds and Vi tale gives a short
(and boring) account of John Howard's life.
Vitale finishes by saying that we give a rousing welcome to the 'next Australian Prime
Minister'. The next Australian PM? You must
be joking!
So, what exactly did John Howard have to
say? Well, not much really. I mean he started by
saying that the Liberal party was the only viable
alternative to the ALP (if you ask me. I really
cannot see any difference between the two
nowadays). I mean, the Liberals make all these
promises they never see through and the ALP actually push these promises through when they
come into power!
Of course there were some absolute gem
quoaiations to draw on; for example, 'The
Libera] party is not owned by anybody'. Who is
he trying to kid? For Christ's sake Elliot is the
president of the Liberal party! Tlicn the quote
that the Liberal party is ' . . . no! ai ihc beck and
call of sectional interests'. Isn't this ilie party
which relics on the private business sector, or am
I mistaken?
The 'Libera! party is for the entire
community'. Wait a second dudes, whatexactly
is the Liberal stance on mulliculiuralism? It
seems that Mr Howard's talk is rife with contradictions but then again who am I to pass
judgement?
Now we get to the fun part; Liberal Party
education policy: John Howard proposed that
the tertiary tax be removed. Well it sounds
firomistng so far, and then suddenly the shit hits
the fan: S600 per year up front fees. Johnny tells
us this is 'more attractive for getting payment out
of the way', and of course this won't be a disincentive to working class people, mature age
students or women, Why you ask? Well, Mr
Howard also promises that 25 per cent of all
places will be allocated by scholars hips, and the
other 75 per cent of students will have loans
availiable to ihcm. And where will the money
come from? Johnny wa,"; pretty vague on this
point - actually, he had no idea! Finally we have
Johrmy's arguments for voluntary student
unionism, 'students as individuals are more
important* he cried, and how will students be
granted their individualism? By withdrawing
from centralised control. Does this mean that
only union members wil 1 be allowed to use union
facilities, and how docs Johnny propose to control non members? Again no answers! I don't
know why I bother going to things, because it
seems whenever a politician ojiens her or his
mouth all we get is a torrent of faeces, no valid
statements, no answers, just crap!
OLD MANAGEMENT STVLE ... NEW MANAGEMENTST^LE
Lots Wife Wednesday April 26 1989 P a g e 9
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h o s e people w h o saw t h e r e c e n t lunch t i m e performance by Yothu Yindi at Monash witn e s s e d a band w h o Is unique in Australian m u s i c . They are the first group t o fully
incorporate traditional Aboriginal m u s i c with contemporary music, and t h e y are very successful. Not o n l y have t h e y just put out an album on a major record label but last year t h e y
c o m p l e t e d an e x t e n s i v e tour of the US with Midnight Oil.
Audiences In America, Korea, Canada and Australia
have all acknowledged Yothu Yindi. Their performance
begins with three fully decorated musicians using
clapsticks. didjeridoo and vocals to perform traditional
songs of the Amhem Land region. Usually these
traditional songs are greeted with stunned silence by
a totally captivated audience. Then, after about fifteen
minutes and with the addition of drums and guitars
Yothu Yindi launch into their contemporary music. It
is fantastic to watch the transformation of the band
onstage, as they merge one style of music which is
thousands of years old into modem rock'n'roll.
The lead singer and songwriter of this band is a man
called Mandawuy Yunupingu. He formed the group in
1986 in his home community of Yirrkala in north-east
Amhem hand. Yirrkala is a very long distance from
Mushroom Records in South Melbourne where he was
giving an interview.
Mandawuy spoke at length of the deep respect he
had for Midnight Oil. On a personal level, their album
'Diesel and Dust* awakened him to the possibilities of
political music. On a wider scope, he saw them as
being the first white band to grasp the reality of
Aboriginal Australia and try to change attitudes;
"The sort of thing they are trying to say is, "let's not
talk about petty things, let's not talk about tokenism.
let's talk at>out the real things." And Midnight Oil have
been exposed to the real thing when they went out
touring Aboriginal communities in Central Australia
with the Warumpi Band."
But what are the 'real things' about Aboriginal
communities? What are conditions like on Aboriginal
settlements in remote parts of Australia?
In an interview, after the desert tour. Midnight Oil's
drummer Rob Hirst told me he was shocked by the
living standards. What Rob Hirst saw was poverty,
homelessness and a dependancy on alcohol and other
stimulants;
'It was a real eye-opener. I mean IVe travelled
through quite poor parts of the Tliird World, but I had
to pinch myself to realise that this was Australia. It
was poorer and more run down than anything I have
ever seen in India of Indonesia.'
Knowing the state of these communities I asked
Mandawuy why he thought there were such enormous
problems. In his opinion, it is mainly because there
has been a breakdown in Aboriginal society and he
emphasised the fractured relationship between
parents and children.
Although many remote Aboriginal communities
may appear to be autonomous, this is rarely the case.
Almost all communities are kept afioat by huge
numbers of dole cheques which usually end up in the
hands of the white pereon who runs the general store.
But most infiuential of all Is the Department of
Education's school house which is staffed by a
graduate with their Diploma of Education.
To Mandawuy the education system imposed on the
settlements Is the single most destructive factor
because it breaks down the relationship between
parents and children:
'It's always been education in isolation. It's not part
of our community. White people think they're going to
grab the Aboriginal kids and teach them the "three R's"
and thre're going to try and assimilate them to be like
white people. But it's never been the case, it's always
been failures, because obviously the system can't work
when there is no parental involvement.'
Accondlng to Mandawuy, solutions to the education
problem lie in bi-lingual schooling, having education
as an extension of the home environment, but
primarily in Aboriginal people taking control of their
own education;
'We want to take ownership of the problem and solve
it ourselves."
In some ways these words may sound like those of
someone who is solely bent on getting what s/he
wants, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Mandawuy simply speaks of Aboriginal people
regaining control of their own communities and he
believes this can only be achieved through changes on
both sides;
'In years to come we have got to get a level of
understanding where respect is given and difterences
considered. We've got to share this countiy together
and respect each other.'
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It is this type of conciliatory attitude which has
created some of the positive projects between
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. Yothu
Yindi are part of the "Building Bridges' double album
which was released earlier this year. On this album
some of Australia's most successful artists, including
Crowded House. Midnight Oil, Coloured Stone. The
Saints and No Fixed A<Mress contributed songs to
raise awareness and increase understanding between
black and white Australia.
Yothu Yindi's contribution to 'Building Bridges' is a
traditional song which is on the B-side of their single
"Mainstream'. In many respects the song 'Mainstream'
represents the ideals of the 'Building Bridges' concept.
Using a traditional Aboriginal metaphor Of harmony
and balance, the song asks the question, 'why can't
black and white people come together like saltwater
and freshwater?'
'It Is an Aboriginal metaphor which has been in
exlstance for fourty to sixty thousand years. That's
how we come to balance our views on environment, on
land, on those things that should be left alone. That's
the sort of balance we know. If natural things like
water can do it. why can't human beings? Why can't
black and white?'
It is these sorts of perceptions which could only
come from a culture which is very different to white
Australia that makes Aboriginal bands so vital and
unparalleled.
Another example of these unique perceptions off
Yothu Yindi's album, is the song Yolgnu Woman'
(Aboriginal Woman) which speaks of women being in
a 'different dimension". I asked Mandawuy what he
meant by these words.
In his society a woman's role stemmed from her
religious position. Whereas most while Australians
speak of a male god. for his people It is always a
woman. Women are seen as the creative life force and
the ones concerned with "keeping the culture working".
Unlike white women who are perceived as being
'isolated prisoners of the home". Aboriginal women are
a very strong group;
'Maybe eighty to ninety percent of the time back at
my home ground, in my community, women have a
very Involved system where they are always there in
their masses. They are together, whether it's crying,
or arguing, or dancing, or disciplining. They hold that
very strongly.'
Both Yolgnu Woman' and 'Mainstream* are from
the first side of'Homeland Movement' which features
the contemporary music of Yothu Yindi. The second
side features the traditional songs which revolve
around the clapsticks, didjeridoo and vocals chanted
in Aboriginal language. Although the record sleeve
explains the story behind each song, it is still not easy
to understand. As 1 listened to this music 1 became
very conscious that this music Is veiy foreign to
someone living in urban Australia.
I asked Mandawuy what he hoped someone like me.
coming from a totally different culture, would gain
from this traditional music. After a pause he said;
*I would like you, if you're sitting in your lounge
room and listening to it, to appreciate the music.
Appreciate what Australia we come from and show it
to other people who come to this country. This Is our
music, this is part of what Australia is all about."
Clinton Porte OUB
Round and Round it should Go!
Recycling is here at Monash I As yet it is only in its early stages, but there is a plan, a dedicated group, and heaps of support from staff and students from many different walks of life.
Monash is currently only recycling paper and as not everyone is aware of this project, only a
small proportion of all paper is being recycled. We need everyone's help to make the project
work, we need your helpl
To impart as briefly as possible what you need to How t o r e c y c l e :
know in order to be an efTective ecological agent in the
Ixjcate a bin (a green bin with a sticker on it)
recycling project at Monash (much of this is useful for
3 in the Biology building
elsewhere too), I will outline what you should know In
12 in the Menzies building
point form. The key to the sucess of the project is
3 In the Union
firstly, an increasing awareness of recycling of
(Lot's Wife. Medical Centre and MAS)
resources and secondly, a co-operative attitude
5 In Administration
towards the scheme.
12 In Main Library
2 In Law Llbraiy
3 in Hargrave Librabry
The n e e d to recycle:
21 in Maths/ Computer Science
I in Lots Wifellll feds' note)
° Get the full use of the earth's resources;
(more have been added since)
•* Reduce the demand on the forests:
" Decrease the amount of rubbish:
" Recycle all clean paper ie. without food In It,
<* Reduce the demand for mining ie. sand,
non-waxed and without foil attached.
aluminum etc.:
** Set an example for other campuses/institu** Have a box by your working place and discard
tions in Australia:
all old notes etc. This can be emptied in the
** The Greenhouse elTect;
green bins when full.
° Earn the university some money (from paper)
to put back into the project
" Take the time to separate packaging Into
paper/cardboard and other bits and recycle
T h e potential for recycling:
the paper.
" Reuse and reduce (see next sections)
Paper
" computer paper
0 photocopy paper
** old notes
•* dally news
<* newspaper
* cardboard
" Often photocopies can be made from old uncreased photocopies, ie. use the other side.
•
Organic waste
Reuse envolopes, paper, plastic bags, bottles
and anything else that you can think of.
Remember to recycle It when It Is finally discarded.
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I THINK! therefore . . .
I RECYCLE glass, paper, oil, food scraps, etc.
WHY?
As part of the one third of the world's population which cons u m e s four fifths of the world's resources we have responsibilities, s u c h a s not wasting these resources and taking
steps to avoid environmental problems (green house effect,
hole In the ozone, destruction of rainforest) associated with
our u s e of resources.
We will save energy and resources thereby helping u s to
achieve a sustainable and more equitable future.
Recycling and reusing reduces polution a n d waste in the
production process.
Recycling and reusing creates Jobs.
Reducing our household rubbish will save space at rubbish
tips a n d will cut collection costs a n d help keep down council
rates.
o Try to choose products that have taken less
energy to produce (this is not always possible.
but have a try anyway).
° Try and reduce the amount of foam cups you
use by keeping it for the day.
" Watch what you buy. What Is It made from (try
to buy paper made from 1CX) percent recycled
paper .that Is not de-Inked or bleached, and do
you really need It?
Co-operation
1. To ensure the working of the recycling project on
campus, could you please be careful not to put your
waste In the wrong binl Old food can render a bin dill
of paper valueless. All bins used In the recycling
project should be clearly marked, so watch out for
them.
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(ride a bike, u s e public transport, drive smoothly); paper (use
both sides): hot water (wash dishes only once a day)
I REUSE paper a n d plastic bags;, envelopes, b u y milk in
reusable glass bottles
Reduce your consumption:
"• Try to buy commodities that use the least
amount of packaging.
3. You can also help the recycling cause by
replacing the daily news. Lot's Wife and Monads when
you finish with them. If this is done, then not so many
will have to be printed, which will spread the thinning
forest reserves Just a little bit further,
For more information, read all the other articles on
recycling and watch out for our information table in the
Union foyer fhan 8 May to 12 May.
Erica Stecher
° Use the backs of old photocopies and computer paper for drawings and notes and then
recycle them.
Alumlnlnum cans
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the use of and the demand of the bins, the more the
recycling aim will be taken seriously.
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* Request paper recycling bins for
your department. They are available from Harry Wright. Central
Services, ext 4082.
* Take advantage of paper made
from recycled paper which may
soon be available from the book
co-op.
* Reduce the amount of paper at
Monash. Replace Daily Bulletin/I>ot's Wife, and so forth,
where you found them so someone else can read it. Don't let them
end up in Engineering lecture
theatres on the floor.
It's your m o n e y Ralph . . . and
Victoria and J a n e t t e and Kate
and Edward and Phillip and J o h n
and e v e r y o n e e l s e pajrlng Higher
E d u c a t i o n C o n t r i b u t i o n (HEC)
fees, t h a t t h e university i s wasting every week it delays bringing
in an Environmental Officer t o
organise a c o m p r e h e n s i v e recycling program for Monash.
Quite apart from the fact that a recycling program reduces demand for our
limited forest resources, it creates jobs.
is self-funding and would earn the
university an extra $1,000 per week
(over $50,000 per year!). And this is
only from fully recycling paper - imagine how much could be saved by
recj'cling cans and bottles.
Every week the university spends at
least $250 throwing away paper worth
at least $750 to recycling companies. A
few paper recycling bins can be found
around the place (usually hidden under
computer printers) if one looks very
hard, but this is not good enough!
* Write (on the back of an old
photocopy] courteous signed letters to Harry Wright. Central Services
demanding
an
Environmental Officer and make
sure you receive an adequate
reply.
It's your money, your world, and
your future.
For further information on recycling
and conservation issues, some to our
meetings (general Tuesday lunchtime,
recycling Thursday lunchtime) and
look out for our information table in the
The Recycling Collective, along with Union from May 8 to May 12.
the entire Conservation group is lobbyRecycling gives you money from
i n g t h e u n i v e r s i t y n o w for
Environmental Officer to organise a nothing and a cleaner, nicer world.
Margaret Safran
comprehensive recycHng program, ofTer
environmentally sensible alternatives
to the transport problem at Monash
and deal with other environmental issues. There are many ways you can
help:
THE EARTH
There is a
sudden discovery
in the world
of science!
The earth
rests in the
boughs of a
giant oak tree!
Retired physicists
Die of shock!
Botanists become
so overbearing
they need to
be locked up!
Religous fanatics
look for someone to blame whilst
fanatically rewriting their dogma!
NASA sends out a space shuttle to
bring back samples. It returns to
shock the world once moreThe tree is marked to be felled
by the intergalactic logging company
for paper pulp!
Mark Walker
P a g e 1 4 Lots wife Wednesday April 26 1989
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A FEW WORDS ABOUT
RECYCLING PAPER
It takes 17 trees to m a k e 1 ton of paper. Paper products cons u m e 3 5 % of the world's a n n u a l wood harvest. Over 2 0 0
million trees are saved each year due to current recycling efforts.
74% less air pollution Is produced from t h e manufacture of
recycled p a p e r c o m p a r e d with t h e p a p e r from virgin
pulpwood.
Recycled paper u s e s 5 8 % less water compared with v l r ^ n
paper construction.
Lack of consumer demand is cited a s the main factor limiting t h e recycling of paper. In other words, more recycled
paper would be produced If the public demanded it.
PLEASE RECYCLE T f f l S AND ALL PAPER!
T/xe !Kpcl<in '"KgCCWar
Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam
Directed by Bill Couturie
Commences Village Centre, April 27
The average age of students reading
tliis review is nineteen. This was the
a v e r a g e a g e of A m e r i c a n ( a n d
Australian) soldiers who went to fight
in Vietnam between 1965 and 1972.
Many thousands died, many were
wounded and all who returned are
deeply emotionally scarred.
The Vietnam War was a national
liberation struggle to oust the French
colonialists, then a civil and class war
amongst the Vietnamese. The United
States Government turned It Into the
live theatre of the Cold War. There was
nothing cold about the Cold War to
people's of Third World countries where
the superpowers played out struggles
for i d e o l o g i c a l a n d e c o n o m i c
supremacy.
The greatest losers in the Vietnam
War were the Vietnamese people who
have suffered war and its repercussions
for at least two generations. It is the
Vietnamese who are struggling to
rebuild a country where crops still will
not grow because of all the chemicals
in the soil, where children are still bom
twisted and deformed because of the
defoliants absorbed by their parents,
where tens of thousands of people are
permanent invalids due to war wounds.
where too much ofthe GNP still goes on
defence Instead of health, education,
housing and other such development,
where poverty and bitterness remain
widespread and where the people
receive little international aid because
their government is still not recognised
as legitimate by other governments.
However, the Vietnamese won their
war, and in doing so defeated the
world's greatest power, the United
States. But whilst the US Government
lost face and national pride took a beating, it is the men and women who
actually fought the war who have been
the scrapgoats for America's defeat.
Vietnam veterans have become an embarassment to the American (and
Australian) Government, because they
are a constant reminder of the defeat in
Vletnem. They are also a problem bec a u s e they a r e not a good
advertisement for the joys of life in the
armed services and the rewards for
defending the country.
Vietnam veterans constitute one
third of America's homeless. Many have
deep psychological problems and cannot a d j u s t . Many are poor and
unemployed and roam the country unable to settle in one place. (This.
though, is not as surprising seeing as
it was the poor who ended up in Vietnam b e c a u s e they could not get
exemptions, like Dan Quayle did!) Vietnam veterans' organisations have
fought for recognition, for comp>ensation for defoliant poisoning, for
employment and counselling programs
and to be understood.
Dear America: Letters Home From
Vietnam was made with the assistance
and support of Vietnam veterans' organisations. It is supposed to be
non-political. The purpose was to show
the realities of the war for the young
Americans. The Director and Copi-oducer. Bill Couturie. said 'We tried
to show the arc ofthe war; how the soldiers were gung ho in '65 and anti-war
in '69.'
The d o c u m e n t a r y is, however,
profoundly political and is a very
powerful anti-war statement. Indeed,
Couturie said in an interview tn Melbourne this year that he was motivated
to make the film to counteract the influence of Rambo films. He said that at
screenings of 'Rambo 2'. the US Army
were lining up boots outside cinemas
and attempting to recruit patrons.
Dear America's particular value lies
in it being real. There has been much
worthy discussion about the recent
spate of Vietnam films with each claiming to be telling 'the real story", but Ihey
were stories. The fictional Vietnam
films contain actors who. when their
character dies, walk off and continue
their lives. The people who die in Dear
America are either fertilising Vietnam's
soil or residing in Arlington Cemetary.
The stories told by the letters home are
real, rather than a re-writing of history.
This is particularly important because
many of the people who read this
newspaper wouldn't remember the
Vietnam war and the only images they
have of Vietnam are gained from the
recent movies and the television show
'Tour of Duty'. The fundamental
problem with gaining history from
these mediums is that they are often
wrong. This Is especially so in the case
of Tour of Duty'. The producers of this
show seem to forget that the US lost the
Vietnam War. and many people lost, or
had their lives scarred, in the process.
Vietnam was a gruesome experience,
watching real footage ofthe war shows
how it really was, realising that the
people on film are really dead brings a
lump to the throat like no fictional film
ever can.
The commentary Is made up of letters written by soldiers which were
collected in a book published by the
New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Commission. Couturie asked
prominent actors to read the letters, as
he felt that professional actors would be
able to read them evocatively. Few actors who were asked to participate
refused and all worked for the award
rate. The readers Include Robert
Denlro. Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox,
Kathleen Turner, Tom Berenger, Wtllem Dafoe and Ellen Burstyn amongst
others. Several of the writers were killed
In action, and hearing the letters of
young men asking their sisters If their
girlfriends are remaining faithful, or admitting that they don't think that they
will get out alive and then being killed
has to bring a lump to the throat.
It is the music that must speak for
the "Vietnam generation" and Couturie.
as a product of that generation, emphasises the the role of music. In
interviews he continually refers to it as
the rock'n'roll war and consequently
sought permission to use the music of
Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan. The Rolling
S t o n e s . The Doors and Bruce
Springsteen's ironic 'Bom in the USA*.
Most ironic Is of course that much of
this music is against the war and yet It
Is what the soldiers listened to as they
killed the Vietnamese. Particularly
chilling is the sequence filmed of a
bombing raid to 'Gimme Shelter'.
This is a 'must see' film for anyone
who wants to know what really happened in Vietnam. Unashamedly
presented from the soldier's point of
view it Is the only Vietnam War movie
which Is respected by the vets themselves. It's the sort of movie which faces
up to the US Involvement In Vietnam,
maybe It's time Australia did the same.
It would also be timely to see something
written from the Vietnamese point of
view. If you've seen the other Vietnam
movies you don't know anywhere near
half the story, this movie shows what
fictional stories cannot express. Vietnam has been called the rock and roll
war and the music Is fantastic, but then
*60's music Is vastly superior to the garbage we get now. as can be seen by the
fact that there are so many Tour of
Duty" albums being released. See this
film and you will have an Idea of why so
many people oppose war, and In par-'
tlcular why so many tried to stop the
Vietnam War. It Is one of the few truly
evocative films released lately and
definitely not to be missed.
J.Rea and D.Strover
AUSTRALIAN ANTI-VIETNAM WAR POSTERS
Dear America only uses real footage
which the producers obtained from the
television networks, veterans and even
the Pentagon. The film contains some
recently declassified material and some
that was considered unsuitable for
television for patriotic reasons. The
footage is not any more gruesome than
most viewers have seen In 'the movies'.
but Is significant in Its reality. It Is
worth remembering that this is what
people watched on television news In
the late '60s and Is what turned ordinary Americans and A u s t r a l i a n s
against the war. The film taken by the
soldiers themselves is particularly distressing in its niavety and the youth
and helplessness ofthe participants.
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Nothing's Left!
Tsiolkas and Foster in What's Left: Marxist dialectics or a buffalo stance seemed
to have opted for the buffalo stance
(probably the one they can appreciate
more). They certainly don't seem to understand historical materialism or dialectics.
They are correct to point out that history
is made by masses of people, that is, classes. This is certainly the Marxist position;
however there is nothing inconsistent
here.
The traditional concept is that the
mode of production is constituted by the
relationship between the forces and relations of production, the forces being the
various classes. Thus the classes which
bring about social change are part of the
mode of production even if they may be
alienated from it. Tsiolkas/Foster seem to
try and isolate class from the mode of
production when they separate politics
from production. This reflects a real
misunderstanding of Marxism. They
divorce Base and Superstructure from
each other rather than viewing them in a
dialectical unity as 'orthadox' Marxism
does. (1). Using this method of historical
materialism reveals that in order to
change the mode of production the social
r e l a t i o n s of p r o d u c t i o n m u s t be
revolutionised also as a matter of course.
It is not a question of one or the other.
Part of the reason Tsiolkas/Foster see
Marxism in this way is that they've
reduced the 'mode of production' to little
more than the production of things. This
is only one of their misinterpretations. It
is quite easy to set up a caricature of Marxism as an absolute truth, and then knock
it down. However, there is only one absolute truth in historical materialism that the natural and social world is in a
permanent state of flux; nothing is static.
This method enables Marxists to gain an
understanding of the dynamics of social
change.
Tsiolkas^oster seem rather to have a
static view of the world, such that they
pick up on what Marx said in the
nineteenth century and call that the sum
body of Marxist knowledge, rather than
appreciating how modern Marxists view
the world using the legacy of Marx-historical m a t e r i a l i s m . R a t h e r than
inheriting a 'dogma' Marxists gain a
method of understanding history. If they
bothered to read the papers of the serious
revolutionary Left, such as The Guardian
or Direct Action, or their theoretical work,
they would get an idea of the depth and
richness of the Left's political understanding of the world, in terms of concrete
political and social reality, notjusttheory.
It seems obvious that they've never done
this.
They also caricature the view that the
parties have of themselves; they don't
proclaim themselves the Vanguards of the
revolution', such a view would be nonsensical and thoroughly un-Marxist and is
confined to a few bizarre Trotskyist sects.
Rather the vanguard is the sum total of
people actively seeking social change; the
idea of the party is that these people
should organise politically and collectively in order that they should form an
effective counter-hegemony to capitalism.
)
This is the essence of Gramsci and Lenin's
thought and activity. These caricatures
are based more on the intellectual
products of academia removed from
reality rather than on the activity and understanding of the Left.
western world's population except for a
few years in Nineteenth century England
(3). A richer, more sophisticated understanding of class allows us to see that a
large majority of Western people are
working people who do not own a vast
amount of wealth and therefore have common interests. The service sector of the
economy is expanding in the Western
world, yet this doesn't change the fundamental class nature of society.
It is interesting that Tsiolkas/Foster
should raise epistomology. The organised
Left parties enable people to put together
their collective experiences and ideas of
society and to discuss and evolve their
ideas and to put them into practice collectively rather than as atomisedindividuals
(4) in society with only a narrow experience of it. For disempowered people
(we are disempowered as isolated individuals) this is the only consistent way
to do this. Thus these people have a better chance of knowing the world and
understanding it because they have a
broader experience of it.
Furthermore, it is difficult to understand reality unless one is actively trying
to change it. So a dialectical (there's that
evil word again) unity of theory and practice is r e q u i r e d ; a u n i t y which
Tsiolkas/Foster cannot achieve while
they're wanking away in the ivory tower.
Rather than getting abusive. 111 leave the
last word to the Satan of Orthodoxy, Engels:
Furthermore, Tsiolkas/Foster have a
bizarre view of class which emerges from
their misunderstanding of the mode of
production. Working people are defined
according to whether they produce or not.
Putting aside the political absurdity of
such an idea, this has never been a
premise of Marxism. To put it simplistically, class is based on social relations,
that is, whether people sell their labour
for a wage or a salary or not. Clearly
people who work in the service sector,
either from a private employer of for the
state are part of this class (2). Furthermore, the industrial working class has
never constituated a majority of the
'What these gentlemen all lack is
dialectics. They always see only here
cause, there effect. That this hollow
abstraction, that such metaphysical polar
opposites exist in the real world only
during crises . . . that here everyting is
relative and nothing absolute - this they
never begin to see. As far as they are concerned Hegel never existed .. .'(5).
Jeremy Smith
Resistance
Bibliography:
1. Engels to F. Mehring. July 14. 1893. 2.
Marx, Capital Vol 11038-40 3. Krishan Kumar
Prophecy and ProgreBs P 202 4. Andrew MilDCT The Road to St Kilda Pier P 79 5. En^Is
to C Schmidt, October 27, 1890
MONASH ANTI APARTHEID
ACTION GROUP
NAMIBIA
A NEW BEGINNING
A Talk by Joe Kaapanda
Australian SWAPO Representative
Thursday 27 April
in the Balcony Room
PaQ© 16 Lot's Wife Wednesday April 26 1989
St Kilda Film Festival - April 2 6 - 3 0
The St Kilda Film Festival starts
on Wednesday April 26 at the National Theatre on the c o m e r of
Barkley and Carlisle Streets, and
c o n c l u d e s on S u n d a y 30th (at
Theatreworks, in Acland Street).
There is a y o u n g people's media
day on Sunday.
The Festival features short films made
in Australia ranging from 5 minutes to
around an hour. It includes animation
and experimental films as well as feature
length films made by independent film
makera.
Of special interest, are the two special
sessions of Swinburne Students* films on
Friday at 8.00pm and Film and Television
Student's films on Saturday at 4.00pm.
Don't miss this opportunity to see a
selection of independant and locally made
short films which are seldom shown in
mainstream cinemas.
Cost: $6 - $4 concessions per session.
After School
Going to school can be pretty boring.
I'm not sure if Bill Mousoulis is trying to
say that after school is also pretty boring
for some kids. However, this film sure is.
Screening Thursday 27th at 6pm.
Suburban
Encounters
This is weird! The film itself is very
conventional, with talking heads occasionally doing something for a change
of scenery. But the subject and characters
are bizarre. At the beginning an ordinaiy
looking middle aged man sits in his suburban kitchen telling the interviewer that
he has seen UFOa, and then shows her the
ground they burnt landing in a paddock.
Fair enough. But as the film unfolds, we
discover that this man is actually from
Venus, as are his friends. OK, but that's
not all. They are also chosen people who
have received particular wisdom fi-om
God to save the rest of us. While the film
drags on a bit, the subject matter keeps
you watching. The filmmaker, Jo Bell, has
succeeded in presenting some pretty
weird characters in a non-sensational
manner, which actually makes them even
stranger. Imagine what 60 Minutes or
Deryn Hinch would do this story! Screening on Saturday 29th at 8pm.
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P e s t o : A Death
Sentence
A wacky and amusing film which uses
a pseudo-documentary style to find out
what is happening to the youth of today!
The answer . - . yes, you guessed it, the
evils of the green weed . . . Pesto! You
won't be able to go to Lygon (or Fitzroy)
Street and eat Italian food again and feel
the same. Full of unexpected moments.
Showing Wednesday at 6pm.
Program details:
Wednesday, April 26
• 6-7.30pm Make my Day/ Pesto/
Paper Dart/ Invisible Girl
• 8-10.30pm Telegram/Rabbit on the
Moon/ Cruel Youth/ Still Flying/
Bonza
Thursday April 27
• 6-7.30pm After School/ Passiona/
Man of Straw/ Higher Than High
The Contract
Afilmmade in 1987 by Swinburne studentDavid Ogilvy about an ageing couple
whose son wants them to move to a retirement home Tor their own good' and so he
and his wife and son can move into their
house. The film sensitively portrays their
situation and resolves it with an interesting twist. Showing with a program of
other Swinburne films on Friday 28th at
8pm.
•
8-10.30pm Lucky Girl/Boomalli/
Crack in the CurtainaTKelvin and
his Friends
Friday April 28
• 6-7.30pm Shadowlands/ Living
Room/ Horrible Man/ Smoke EM
• 8-10.30pm Soulmate/ Sycamore
Street/ Letterboxes/ The Contract/
The Woodsman
Saturday April 29
• 2-3.30pm Bridging Sydney Harbour/ Love In Vain/ The Road
• 4-5.30pm Australian Film School
Program
• 6-7.30pm BertolV Valley Of Desire/
The Big Lunch
• 8-10.30pm Other World/ Suburban
Encounters/ The Bear/ Universal
Provider
Sunday April 30
• Young people's Media Day
THEATREWORKS, Acland St.
Higher Than High
Now, who hasn't dreamed of flying? In
this most amusing and clever film by Virginia Murray, a young man actually does
something about this primeval instinct. It
involves a bunch of weather balloons, a
suburban barbeque, a deck chair, a lot of
helium and a fair whack of courage.
Presumably based on a real event, this
one is wonderful. Showing Thursday 27th
at 6pm. (It is also screening with David
B r a d b u r y ' s expose on Aboriginal
Australia at the Kino.)
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reviews
36 FiUette
Ajilm by Catherine
Breillat
Melbourne season begins Friday, April 28
at the Brighton Bay Cinema.
Novelist, script-writer and director,
Catherine Breillat (responsible for the
scripts for David Hamilton's 'Bilitis',
Fellini's 'And The Ship Sails On' and a
host of others) turns her pen on herself in
'36 Fillette'. Adapted from her own novel,
it is an autobiographical account of her
'rites of passage', her loss of virginity.
Lili, a rather testy 14 year old, is on
holiday with her brother and parents in a
caravan by the sea. Like so many adolescents, she is bored and frustrated, and
strikes out against convention and parental restrictions.
Dressed to attract attention (and to
defy her parents), she sets off one night
with her unbelievably ludicrous brother
for the local disco. She meets Maurice, a
40 year old, laughably stereo-typed
chauvanist, who then sets out to seduce
the stroppy and teasing Lili.
The games they play with each other,
following and denying their desires, are
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Contract
ugly . . . but I guess they must be real for
some people.
The film is quite direct in its portrayal
of the events, which I found refireshing.
Also refreshing is 16 year old Delphine
Zentout's (Lili) cherubish proportions . ..
a welcome change to cinema's tired obsession with Neo-Twiggy body shapes.
Unfortunately, the film is let down by
the over simplification of the characters.
All the men are two-dimensional bastards, with the exception of a totally
superfluous, two-dimensional non-bastard, who offers Lili some 'words of
wisdom' (which make the little pieces of
paper wrapped around Bacchi chocolates
sound like Plato or Kafka).
Although Lili is more fleshed out (so to
speak), she is hamstrung by the constant
direction to look sullen and sensual.
Technically, the film is weak: the
camera work is pedestrian, the lighting is
flat and lifeless, the editing is very ordinary (and down-right sloppy in places),
and the pace of the film is constantly slow.
The film has no heroes, no heroines (..
. but then, the loss of ones virginity rarely includes such figures). It makes it
difficult to want to identify with anyone in
the film, 80 we are condemned to remain
distant: observers, voyeurs. From that
position, it does constitute a fairly intereating study of one adolescent female's
sexuality.
Geof Branton
reviews
Julian Bream
The Hypnotic Master
Imagine the Concert Hall at the Victorian .
Arts Centre filled with an audience
anxiously waiting for a reserved, almost
dwarf-like man to appear. An audience,
from heavy metal guitar freaks to chamber music enthusiasts, slowly falls to
silence as the house lights fade, and out
steps Julian Bream, the master guitarist
and undisputed successor to the great
Andre Segoria. Mr Bream acknowledges
the applause of the audience with a perfuntory nod, and proceeds with his guitar
to the centre stage and sits on a stool.
Afler quietly checking that his guitar
is in tune, he then almost hypnotically
phases out everything except his guitar.
The audience senses that he about to play
- not for them, but for himself and his instrument. They are drawn almost to a
similar trance-like state - there is nothing in the world except Bream and his
guitar.
He begins to play. There is not a
speaker, amplifier or microphone in sight.
Julian Bream has the incredible ability to
project the sound of his guitar throughout
the Hall, whether seated in the front or at
the rear of the circle, he can be heard with
uncanny presence.
His repetoire is staggering. He played
pieces by Sot written in the last century,
and other pieces written only forty years
ago. Anyone who saw the television series
'Guitarra' that traced the history of
Spanish guitar, screened on SBS last year
will know that.
Mr Bream is not only a maestro of
guitar, but also at the lute and other
guitar ancestors. It is often said of the
guitar that it is the easiest instrument to
learn - but the hardest to master. No-one
living has mastered this instrument better than Julian Bream. His fluency, the
emotion his playing possesses, and his encompassing technical skill is almost
enough to discourage pupils of the guitar
into thinking that a lifetime of devotion to
music just may not be enough to equal the
talent of the world's greatest guitarist.
Adam Bums
*I feel that most people listen tocanned
music about 95 per cent of the time, and if
you can give them the real thing [without
amplification], why not do it?'
~ Julian Bream
l^'^w reviewsThe Legend of King
O'Malley
playing at St Martins
Theatre until May 7.
What Really Hurts
The Zimmerman
Amidst a bare, patinated stage, with a
scantly but brightly set backdrop, we have
the first setting of the Australian Federal
Parliament; primitive but ignited with
energy, argument, life. *What'a the difference between politics and a parrot's
prick?' This, and many more of the burning questions of existence are answered in
'The Legend of King O'Malley', performed
by St Martins Youth Arts Centre.
Something of a breakthrough in
Australian theatre, this show first graced
the stage in 1970. It marked itself as one
of the true successes in local writing,
presenting a new genre.
This is an attempt to combine - with a
modern touch - the old-style tradition of
vaudeville with the new-wave style
characterised by freedom and ad-lib
where the stage is sparse and it is the act i n g which m a k e s t h e s c e n e r y ,
environment and intensity.
'Forget facts, for legend lives' - this is
the opening, emphatic message. King O'Malley, the central protaganist, begins
his escapades in homeland America,
preaching to his disciples, revelling in his
rhetoric. He is an old style evocation of a
Swaggert or Baker, armed with a buxom
belle and sceptre with a dollar sign at the
top.
Illusions of a glorious future attract O'Malley to Australia, where he becomes a
member of the first Federal Parliament.
Conflict abounds as 'real' social issues
emerge from an otherwise absurdist/satirical parody of politics.
We meet face-to-face the early - and
sadly still p r e s e n t - bigotries of
Australians, as well as Billy Hughes' mercenary approach to conscription. This
play charges the Labor party with political pragmatism, and disregard for moral
integrity, social justice and human rights.
Is it history in its broadest sense or merely myth? Doubtless the issues remain
alive and poignant today.
Definite weaknesses in the script
where it sometimes appears to be a cut
and paste affair, too fi-agmentary, cannot
dowse the truly admirable performances
of the young cast of ten. Great verve, versatility and spirit shine through in this
team effort. Of particular note was Angel,
played by Erica Peel with a cheeky charm.
Also, Rosy, portrayed by Justine Anne
Goss, was voluptuous, passionate and had
a fine, rich singing voice.
Anthony Crowley's musical arrangements added a touch of class to the
overall, and Chris Thompson's refined
direction refined what could have become
a theatrical melee due to an erratic script.
While not earth-shattering, this
production has many admirable qualities.
Innovative, amusing, well acted, visually
and musically pleasing, it is, overall, an
evening well spent.
David Manne
reviews
After the War
Gary Moore
The music on this album is best described
as resembling 'Mr Mister' on speed. Gazz
tries to unburden his political conscience
and the result ia something very sad indeed. The only aspect of note is that Ozzy
Osbourne tends Moore a hand on one
track, but unfortunately he sounds like he
must have swallowed that rat. Recommended only to those who like Thin Lizzy
(with whom Moore used to play) played
with two dead guitar amps and a drum
machine. One question Gazz, why didn't
you wait until after the war?
Page 18 Lot's wife Wednesday April 26 1989
Solid, listenable but ultimately unispired.
Nevertheless the more one listens the
more it appeals. The "B'si dels far more interesting, perhaps even a little
Dylanesque.
Bill, Ben Weed
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Tucker: The Man
and his Dream
A film by FYancis
Ford Coppola
Screening at the 'McDonalds of Cinema',
Hoyts (Boo hiss) - wait for it to move on
to another cinema.
It seems ironic that such a sordid place
as Hollywood has produced a triumvirate
of'Golden Boys' (Coppola, Lucas, Speilberg) who spend a lot of their time
berating the political and corporate institutions that "helped make Hollywood
what it is today.'
Last year Speilberg gave us 'Roger
Rabbit'; a thinly veiled attack on those
that drive the wheels of progress at breakneck speeds, without consideration of the
long-term costs and effects.
It is appropriate that Coppola and
Lucas should team up to make 'Tucker:
The Man and his Dream' (as director and
executive producer respectively).
Preston Tucker was an engineer in the
1940s. He has a dream . . . to build'the car
of tomorrow . . . toda/. Supported by his
enthusiastic family and a menagerie of
committed and loyal employees, he set
about making the dream a reality.
The dream car, the Tucker Torpedo,
was the fore-runner of so many automative features we now take for granted: disc
brakes, seat-belts, fuel injection and
aerodynamic styling among them.
As always in the land of 'Free
Enterprise', the little innovator was perceived as a threat and became a victim of
the TDirty-Tricks-Departments' of 'The
Big Three'auto-manufacturers in Detroit,
and at least one 'pissing in the pocket'
type senior government representative.
. . . David and Goliath, without the
moralistic optimism, (that is, Goliath's
also got a sling, a bigger rock and someone to trip David from behind).
(The story should have afamiliar ring
to it you've followed the history of Coppola
and his Zoetrope Studiod. Zoetrope was
established in 1969 to help create opportunities for other film-makers, and the
'Majors' did all they could to see that
Coppola's dream was contained and
crushed).
There is a rich vitality about 'Tucker':
the art deco shines and Joe Jackon's
soundtrack draws the film along at
sprightly pace.
The camera work is good throughout,
and great in places, as you would expect
from Vittorio StoraroCReds', 'Apocalypse
Now', 'The Last Emperor'), utilising all
the theatrical tricks he's developed with
Coppola on previous collaborations.
Jeff Bridges ('Starman', 'Tron', The
Morning After') plays Tucker with ,
warmth and wit, aided by a well penned
script. All the performances are strong I
(Martin Landau excells as Tucker's associate, Abe Karatz), and Jeffs dad, |
Llyod, puts in a fine (uncredited) appearance as Tucker's political adversary.
(And while on film trivia, Coppola I
played the tuba for the recording of the
music played by the band at the launching of the 'Torpedo*, and the music was
arranged by his dad. Carmine Coppola).
This is a film for anyone who has ever
had hopes, hopes dashed, dreams, dreams
shattered . . . the pessimism is real, but I
cannot preclude the optimism.
In the words of the man himself (Mr
Tucker): 'A man with a dream can't stop
trying to realise that dream any more
than an artist who can stop painting, or a
composer composing . . . '
It's no disgrace to fail against tough I
odds if you don't admit you're beaten. And I
if you don't give up.
find it funny, in fact I found it quite offensive. Unfortunately, rather than exposing
OK. DonH bother justifying it. Vfe^ve racist stereotypes for what they are, this
all been there - the trendy art deco
play reinforces them by displacing the
downtrodden position onto the latest rarepro cocktail bar that's ruined a
cial victims - the Vietnamese and the
good local pub but where everyone
Aborigines - or those perpetual victims:
wants to be seen. Preferably with their
women and homosexuals. By placing the
Futura parked outside. Ws the same
'wogs'
above women or Vietnamese
every night - once they're drunk its
people, the structure that produces
hard to tell the yups and yobs apart
racism is perpetuated.
Shakers, at the Universal Theatre, is a
At first I thought perhaps I was just
wry look at the cocktail set Irom the other
taking it the wrong way but the way the
side of the bar. The four Shakers waitresgags
were set up and timed suggested that
ses, clad in their uniform Levis and Doc
rather than laughing at the, racism the
Martens shoes, have to deal with middle
audience is expected to participate in it.
aged businessmen, obnoxious yups and
While pointing out that Greeks and
the Jim Beam and Acid Wash crowd on a
Italians are discriminated against, re-apnight out on the town.
plying the discrimination to Vietnamese
The play gives the four actors the opor Aborigines does nothing to change the
portunity to portray a number of
situation.
characters, ranging from old men to
I can only conclude from the informacheckout operators to TV executives. But
tion about the last version of'Wogs' that
the most detailed characterisations are
a lot of the skits have been changed. I
those of the waitresses. The otherwise fast
would be interested to hear what other
pace slows at various points as they reveal
people who have seen Wogs' thought.
their dreams, fears and pasts.
Carol (Tracy Callender) is a Monash
Arts graduate who couldn't get any other
job after she graduated. She wants someOn April 28, Melb<]ume concert-goers will
thing better, but she doesn't know quite
have the opportunity to experience the
what it is. What she doesn't want is to setmost exciting, and possibly the biggest,
tle down, get married and have kids - well
choral concert of 1989. 250 voices, from
the choirs of Melbourne University,
not yet. But that is exactly what Adele
Monash University, and the Melbourne
(Lynne McGranger) wants from life. Her
University Institute of Education, will
escape from Shakers will be via a $160
combine to perform David Fanshaw's
engagement ring in the Dunklings
masterpiece,
African Sanctus.
catalogue, marriage and kids.
Nicki (Anna McCrossin) is an aspiring
In African Sanctus, David Fanshawe
actress who thinks that plays are boring.
weaves traditional African tribal music,
Her one audition shows that she has a
taped from his tour of Africa in the early
long way to go before she can leave
1970's with the equally ancient words of
Shakers behind. Mel (Sally-Anne Upton)
the Latin Sanctus, setting them to brilis the new girl at Shakers. She'd been
liant modern rhythms. The result is a
tryingfor months to move up-market from
fascinating harmony capturing the pasthe Red Lion beer and darts pub. She is
sion and intensity of both cultures and
yet to be disillusioned by Shakers, but alblending them into an inspiring and enready the work load and the clientele are
regetic modern choral work.
beginning to take their toll.
This will be the largest performance of
Directed by Simon Palomares (who co- A/ricanSancius that Melbourne has seen.
created, wrote and performs Wogs Out Of
Merlyn Quaife is the guest soprano
Work), Shakers os on at the Universal
soloist, and the concert will be conducted
Theatre (19 Victoria Street, Fitzroy)
by the renowned Melbourne conductor,
nightly at 7pm, and Sundays at 5.15pm
Faye Dumont. This captivating work will
until April 30.
be performed at 8.00pm on Friday April
22 in the Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash
J o h n Tsilokas
University. Tickets ($14.00 and $8.00
cone.) are available from the Robert
Blackwood Hall, and at the door. For further information please ring Katie Purvis
I went to see thi s because it had such good
on
29 7735 or Kate Gorringe-Smith
reviews when it was on last time.
2991834
However, I was disappointed - I didn't
Shakers
African Sanctus
Wogs Out of Work
Stevie Starr
Unusualist at the Universal Theatre.
Supported by The World Champion Backwards Talker as part of the Comedy
Festival
Ever satin the most boring lecture imaginable and wondered if it was humanly
possible to find something worse? Seek no
more, ithasbeen discovered; PAYING for
the most boring lecture imaginable. I
speak here of The Great Stevie Starr's
supporting act, The World Champion
Backwards Talker. You may have seen
her before, on Red Faces, where she was
gonged after about ten seconds (and by
the way, all I craved during this performance was a six foot metal disk and a
large mallet). This woman is BORING!!!
In the first ten minutes of her 'act' she
asked the audience to give her names of
suburbs and the like, and she would say
them backwards. Did you know that
Humpty Dumpty backwards is ytpmud
ytpmuh?
The main act was the Scotsman, Stevie
Starr - unusualist. Now, I thought I had
a great stomach, eating a warm mars bar
in the foyer so soon after Easter; Ha!
We're talking about swallowing light
bulbs, Rubiks cubes and lighter gas here!
Okay, so when I heard about the puzzle
swallowing, I thought he would down a
normal sized Rubiks original. But even
the key chain sized cube is enough to
make the audience gag a bit.
The act was quite entertaining (although after the Backwards Talker,
public toe nail clipping would have looked
quite good). Stevie cannot only do amazing things in the 'swallowing without
heavy vomiting* department, he also includes the audience in his act and tells a
few gags ('scuse the pun). The show
doesn't get as boring as I thought it might
(after all, I didn't expect to be staring at a
Scotsman's wee behind waiting for smoke
rings to pour forth).
My only gripe is the swallowing of live
goldfish, (No, he doesn't substitute wet
carrot slices for an illusion ...) This made
me cringe not with disgust, but at the
cruelty.
Overall, the show is good and if you like
the unusual you should go see it. For your
own sake though, get there late! You may
just be lucky enough to be refused entry
to the supporting act.
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Lois Wife Wednesday April 26 1989 Page 19
LETTERS
should a SWAPO soldier kill an
Kill them all
brutally b a s h e d , raped
Dear Lol's,
Australian (if you are at all unsure
Dear Lots,
murdered? Whose rights a r e '
I am writing in reply to a number
of letters published in Lot's Wife
criticising nne for my opposition to
this year's Community Aid Abroard
(CAA) campus appeal. My reasons
for opposing this appeal, which is
about the response you will get, ask
some tocals how people responded
when we sent aid to the North
Vietnamise during the war).
£ds' Hole: Monash students sent money to
""» '^^'™3' l-'bsration Front, a SoutI,
J a n e W h i t e and A m n e s t y violated when her children no longer
International (Al), open your eyes! have a mother? Whose rights were
We live in an increasingly violent violated when Frank Vitcovich went
Full of
It!
Vietnamese HberatJon movement - get your
i n t e n d e d t o raise money for iaos right next time.
South-West African Peoples
While in the tastfew weeks I have
Organisation (SWAPO) were, I
received quite an education on
thought, clearly outlined in my first
South West Africa, I have heard
letter. It appears, however, that they
nothing to change my mind. While
were open to misinterpretation so I
SWAPO uses violence to further its
would like to take this opportunity to
political aims, and while Australian
clarify a few points.
troops are In the firing line, I believe
1. My opposition to the appeal
it is wrong to send them money for
has nothing to do with the stated
society and the abolition of the
Dolt!
and
death penalty has in no way helped
01 a crazy rampage? Whose rights
are violated when drugs - through
to decrease violence in our society.
trafficking - pervert the minds of this
Does it take a madman to brutally
country's future?
Dear Everyorie,
murder someone you know before
Did you watch 60 M/nyfes(4 April
We urge you to ensure that your y^u will realise the severity of our
1989) on Satanism and child
department is involving Kself as fully p,e()icament?
e x p l o i t a t i o n , not to
as possible in the recycling of
sacrifk:es? Are those - who used a
Can we seriously rehabilitate
mention
resources and the minimisation of someone like the lunatics of the
mere child as a sex slave, and
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sacrificed babies, worth the air they
H o d d l e and Q u e e n S t r e e t
A comprehensive recycling
massacres; In fact, should we try to breathe? If you say 'yes', then
scheme has yet to be developed on rehabilitate them? And even if they answer this: If Hitler had been
campus, but paper reclycling bins j i j gg, ||,g imprisonment for our caught after World War II, would you
aims and objectives of SWAPO but
are available on request and should •protection', there is a one percent have called for the saving of his life
rather with the methods they use to
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chance that they may escape and - a life that violated the 'inalienable'
Requests for Paper Reclycling
carry out these goals.
Bms should be made to Harry
2. I recognise that both sides in
do it again. Should we be expected rights of millions of people?
gg ,^8 rest of society to foot the
Wright (Cer)tral Services) Ext: 4082. responsibility of further crimes?
the current war in Namibia have
Nobody would be playing God
with the death penalty in our society.
committed atrocities, killed civilians
We trust that you are aware of
| realise that your argument is When we put down a sick animal,
and represent a threat to the
the urgent need to tackle the
valid in certain countries where the we do it for its own good - if we put
Australian forces in that country,
increasing
death penalty is exploited by one or down a mass murderer, we would
however, no-one has seriously
degradation of the earth, and hope
another regime, but how about
be doing it for everyone else's good.
suggested that Monash students
that you will act responsibly and
Liberal-democracies, like Australia?
In fact, I fear I have degraded the
environmental
send money to anyone other than whatever reason, I wouW again urge support recycling in your area.
Yours in a common future,
SWAPO and therefore they are the CAA to find a new object for the
only side that I have criticised. I appeal or to cancel it altogether. I
would certainly oppose any appeal would urge MAS to use whatever
that raised money for the South powers it has to force CAA adopt
African Army and I'm sure my one of these two options-the union
current critics would support one In policy on militarism should provide
Recycling Collective
Monash Conservation Group
Spirit of Plagiarism
Dear Lot's,
While it is always nice to be
even if death penalty does not act as animal in this comparison.
g deterrent, which I think it may
If you really believe in your
(y^ould you risk killing someone
cause, be prepapared to put up with
knowing you would be executed?),
i' " h e n society's violence knocks at
then at least it eradicates the
your door. I hope sincerely that you
possibility of that 'sub-human'
^'^ "ever brutally raped or killed.
committing further atrocities, while
0 " ' ''"^s should not be merely
the rest of society has to pay for i^'^Q^'i ''V "^e '^"^ 'ha' 0^' ^leart is
, guidelines on what actions would be
remembered, I must take exception
beating or our brain is functioning 3. SWAPO's main methods of appropriate for MAS to take - and, to Dave Taylor's letter (Lot's, April his/her keeping.
You speak of rights - stop but more by the quality which we
prosecuting its war of liberation (or finally, I would urge students not to 19), in which he chose to resurrect
carry it out.
revolution, or whatever) appear to donate money to this years CAA my 'Spirit' in less than reverential deluding yourselves - whose rights
David Pringis
are violated when a woman is
consist primarily of mine warfare, campus appeal.
style.
lanvanTets
booby trapping and ambushing. The
I have been wary of daring Dave
that opposition.
Australian contingent in Namibia is
Science Ml since I first encountered him. A
tasked with clearing those mines
hirsuite chap, budding columnist,
and traps - there has already been
and author of the short-lived 'Furry
one soldier seriously injured in a
Tales'back In 1987.
mine clearance exercise - and
Now, Dave suggests that I used
obviously were an Australian patrol
to mimic Hunter S Thompson,
to pass through a SWAPO ambush
poorly at that. Without resiling from
I am uite sura that the SWAPO
my admiration for the Gonzo Guru,
soldiers would not ask for ID before
I am, thank you Dave, my own man.
opening fire. So the argument that
Your references to brains, and to
SWAPO poses no threat to the
Grovel
Australians is clearly falsa.
Dear Lot's,
style would come as revelations to
any survivors of the turgid Tayles
On behalf of the Liberal Club and
you once told. Why did your column
suggests that if fighting breaks out myself I offer this open letter of
last just two editions? Need I
between SWAPO abd our soldiers apology to all those who were
enquire?
The Third World Action Group
then the Monash groups will review turned away from John Howard's
To quote the good Doctor, Dave,
its appeal. Why must we wait till speechon Wednesday April 19.
you 'Dyed-in-the-wool Ian' you, may
someomne gets killed? K makes
you find yourself naked, in a sealed
Clearly, I underestimated the
more senseto me to stop the appeal sire of the attendance as I am told
room with a 900 pound acid-crazed
before n o t
Elk, in season no less. And
after any incident that about 100 people were turned
occurs.
away. Many of those people are
remember. Dear Dave, with such a
4. We are told that S W A P O has rightly annoyed and I accept
creature all night long.
promised to use the money for personal responsibility for not
A Furry Tail indeed!
community work and therefore we t»oking R1.
don't have to take responsibility for
BUT_ THEY
Shane Lucas
I would nevertheless liketothank
anyactbnsof its military wing. That these people for preservering with
has to be the biggest cop-out I have the unsatisfactory substitute of a
heard in a tong time. While it might 'broadcast' into R1 and hope that
makeyoufeelgoodinsidetodonate they continue their patronage of
a couple of bob to some 'poor Liberal Club Functions.
repressed Africans' I'd suggest you
I would also like to thank Central
take a g o o d long look at the Services and Rotunda Staff for their
consequences of your actions handling of the matter.
beforehand. If you do deckle to
Once a g a i n , my sincerest
donate money, I hope you are apologies to all concerned.
willing to accept the abuse you, as
Peter Vltale
a Monash student, will receive
Monash Liberal Club President
N3S0>d JHJ- 1^"^
LETTERS'Poor, poor pitiful me
Money Going Cheap
used in place of the short term loan,
Dear Editors,
particularly to allow students to work Dear Lot's,
these vindk:tive acts of rudeness
they
which are merely poorly veiled
mechanics, cleaners and the like
are our
equals,
motor
I wish to express the most
attempts ofthe Footscray Technical
are never as funny as the likes of
sincere exclamation of praise for
Schools' (GS5) campaign to bleed
Miss Kelsey. It takes a
Melissa Kelsey and the printing of
the PSS of government grants in
school to breed such talent
including that the university had services is a fact of life, students
her letter 'Whinge On' (Lot's Vol 29,
order to purchase a new netball
'decided to stop Issuing loans also must plan and budget for their
edition 6).
hoop.
W.Popp's article; 'Whatever over the vacation to save up the
happened to Student Loans' made money needed.
a number of incorrect c l a i m s ,
Because paying for goods and
private
Martin Hourigan
Arts/Storeman and Packer
needs and future requirements. For
Miss Kelsey has highlighted a
Student loans are still available example, assuming the current rate
previously taboo issue which is
misplacement of rubbish bins (re:
Pedagogue]
1 . A person
it is
ravaging the social fabric of Monash
Miss Kelsey and her article) under
emphasises
trivial points
criteria; in fact, for the period reasonable to anticipate the 1990
Uni and indeed the world. As a
the guise of funny jokes' must be
learning. 2. Narrow minded person
altogether'.
to those who meet the eligibility of i n f l a t i o n will c o n t i n u e
Acts
such as the
heinous
PS:
PEDANT (ped'ent) [see
who
of
January 1 1989 to April 19 1989 a Amenities fee will rise by up to eight
fellow product of the presecuted
treated with disdain, as indeed all so
who insists upon exact adherence
total of $109,165 in loans has been per cent to possibly $305 for the
Private School System (PSS), I wish
called funny jokes. After all, while
to rules.
approved. This represents a 48 per 1990 academicyear. Accordingly, it
to join her in adamant
cent increase on the figures for the would be prudent to save about
against the latest rash of quote
same period last year.
'Prime examples of rudeness'.
$8.70 per week for the balance of
It would be unfortunate if those 1989 in order to have sufficient
Like
her,
protest
I am f r u s t r a t e d ,
'poorer students' who do need the funds to meet a commitment which
infuriated and (as a flash on Jimmy
assistance of the student loans will arise during the re-enrolment
Swaggart purges the Panasonic)
scheme were deterred from seeking period in December.
recovering
financial help by the
i m p o t e n c e , d u e to
incorrect
Popp also claimed that there
from
a bout
of
emotional
were no 'binding mechanisms by
trauma, because of the plague like
Short term loans to assist with which the loans offce could recover
proportions of this working class
statements of the article.
payment of enrolment fees were its money'. This is not so - loans are
propaganda.
initiated in 1987 to coincide with the required to be repaid and the bad
The very notion that a university
introduction of the Higher Education debt write-off for loans is low and
student, let alone one of the PSS
Administration Charge (HEAC). comparable to that of commercial
(dare I say CatholK?) should think
While the HEAC existed in 1988 so lenders.
they are 'better than others', is not
did short term k>ans. Due to (i) the
Loans, which after all have to be
only slanderous but simply a load of
abolition of HEAC in 1989 and (II) repaid, should only be considered
fibs. Just ask any student here at
the cessation of government grants as a last resort when in financial
Monash if they are more intelligent,
to top up loan funds, it was decided strife, but students faced with
deserve better pay, are better
to give students the option of unexpected financial
problems
applying for an extension of time to should seek assistance theorgh the
looking, use more
appropriate
dental floss, than your average
pay their Amenities fee (I assume Student Finance Officer in Student
motor mechanic and I am sure they
this fee is the 'Union Fee' referred to A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , g r o u n d
will answer in the negative.
No friends, we must stamp out
by W. Popp). This extension was University offices.
floor,
GMW Joyce
COUTRlgUT^?
Senior Assistant Registrar
SUBMISSION FOR FUNDING FROM UNION BOARD
BUDGET LINE ITEM:
TITLE OF PROJECT: RESEARCH
INTO SEXUAL ASSUALT ON CAMPUS
SPONSORSHIP: Monash Afisociaticm of
Studente, Adnninistrative Executive.
CaORDINATORS: Dr. Pauline Neetor
(Senior Lecturer, English Department), Dr.
Marian Aveling (Senior Lecturar, History
Department), Julie Larsen (Student Welfare
Officer), M a r g a r e t J a m e s (Equal
Opportunity Co-ordinator), Sati Ozbek (Arts
lit), Maria Dimopouloe (Arts/Law V), Fatima
Alisalc (MAS, AE ChairperBon), Emma King
(ArUllI)
4 An i n c r e a s e d a w a r e n e s s a n d
understanding between different cultural
g r o u p s of
t h e i r c u l t u r a l l y specific
experience of sexual assault, and assaults
thai are racially motivatal.
5 A reduction of violence t h r o u g h
i n c r e a s e d a w a r e n e s s of p r e v e n t a t i v e
measures.
6 Acquisition of skills in research study
and collation of d a t a , t h r o u g h active
involvement of Union members.
empowers the victim to speak out about a
previously privatised experience of assaul L
1 Forums, speakers, exhibitions and
n i m s a s a base forfurthur discussion and a
method of collecting information about the
issues raised. The forums will be designed
to piDvide extensive encouragement and
support to women
disclosing personal
experience. Furthermore there will be an
attempt to increase understanding about
the cultural difference in the meaning of
rape
through direct participation of
m i g r a n t g r o u p s on c a m p u s . T h e i r
INVOLVEMENT/PARTICIPATIONinvolvement will be encouraged via the use
PURPOSE:
of a n u m b e r of multi-lingual posters.
OF UNION MEMBERS:
1 To collect data on the incidence of
t Direct participation in forums and The above methods are a crucial prequisite
for the conduct ofthe following surveys.
sexual assuiilt on the Monash campus.
workshops,
2 Survey and questionnaire to gather
2 To collect data on the usage and
2 Utilization a n d co-ordination of
evidence for any need lo improve existing
a d e q u a c y of c u r r e n t s e c u r i t y services existing information.
provided by the University (eg.Becurity bus
3 Liaaing with members of existing services. This technique will also be used to
service),
Committees and Sub-conunitteea dealing make contact with victims and to gather
together their experiences. T h e survey
3 To determine means of improving the with sexual h a r r a s s m e n t
should not only act as a point
of data
provisionandaccessofsecurityservices on
campus and in the Union building.
4 Direct i n v o l v e m e n t t h r o u g h t h e c o l l e c t i o n , b u t a l s o a s a m e t h o d of
community
education.
gathering
of
data.
4 To present recommendadons to the
University based on data collected, to
5 Productim of information booklet
3 Recording of oral histories.
ensure that action is taken to prevent and
6 Participation in surveys.
4 Consultation with existing services;
eliminate violence on campus.
7 Recording of oral h i s t o r i e s a n d SWAB, security services, Monash Sexual
Assault Center and local police , This will
6 To e n s u r e t h e p r o m o t i o n a n d pergonal experiences of vidence.
m a i n t e n a n c e of a s a f e , l e a r n i n g
8 Utilisation ofexisting research skills of enable an accurate review and assessment
of the edicacy c^ available services and if
environment.
etaffand students.
6. To review the adequacy of existing
9 Active participation in the discovery of required, the initiation and promotion of
services that deal with the incidence and factual information r ^ a n l i n g incidents of further support programmes for victims.
aftermath of sexual assault on campus.
sexual assault and violence through careful
7 The generation and djgeemination of and critical inquiry.
5 The investigation ofthe ways in which
information on available services and
10 Involvement in facilitating any available services are dealing with issues
procedutivs dealing with violence on campus. necessaiy changes within the immediate of sexual assault
e n v i r o n m e n t of U n i o n m e m b e r s ,
6 Utilisation of secondary clinical and
8 To develop and maintain cordial and consequently improving the services to all s u r v e y m a t e r i a l to b a l a n c e recorded
boieGcial relations with the Victoria Police Union members.
findings.
in relation to the above.
7 Use of available demographic data to
9 To educate and increase student and
compare findings and draw conclusions.
staff a w a r e n e s s in relation to sexual METHOD OF RESEARCH:
assault. 10 To develop and utilise skills
which will be incorporated in the production
of a booklet
Introduction: In proposing to conduct PRESENTATION OF
research into this area one needs to keep in RESEARCH:
BENEFITS:
mind t h a t t h e r e i s a universally documented
\ Creating an atmosphere on campus tendency of t h e victim to privatise and
a n d a m o n g s t U n i o n m e m b e r s t h a t internalise experiences of sexual assault
1 A reportin the form of a booklet, based
encourages women to speak openly about Hence much difficulty will beencountered in upon the findings of the research will be
the fear and incidences of sexual aefiualt on the application of the observational position produced a t the conclusion ofthe proposed
of conventional social science. Although activities. The booklet will endeavour to
this campus, which will facilitate change.
2 I m p r o v i n g provision of s e c u r i t y every attempt will be made in providing provide s t a t i s t i c a l d a t a coupled with
services on campus a n d in t h e Union statistical modes of data analysis, an accounts of personal experiences. An
essential pre-requisite to the gathering of attempt will be made to give a balanced
building.
3 Establishment of broad networks of such dat& is to contribute to, and assist the evaluation ofthe research findings which
support and co-operation between staff and willingness of victims to disclose and seek p l a c e s i t i n a b r o a d e r s o c i o l o g i c a l
perspective. It is hoped that the research
students in dealing with sexual assault and h e l p from a v a i l a b l e s e r v i c e s . An
e n v i r o n m e n t m u s t b e c r e a t e d t h a t benefits will include: improved insights into
violence on campus.
UNION RESEARCH PROJECTS.'
the University environment; the h { ^ . o f
improved services for all Union members;
better social mechanisms for coping with
issues of sexual assault and dranonatrate
the needs and ramifications of change.
2 The booklet shall be distributed
throughout the Union and copies will be
m a d e available in all r e l e v a n t Union
departments, including MAS, SWAB, Lot's
Wife, Monash Libraries, Monash Health
Service, and Monash Medical Centre.
3 This research will be an important
contribution to theintellectual and learning
vitality of our institution, and will form the
basis of recommendations and practical
applications.
PROPOSED BUDGET:
1 Speakera
a) Dianne Margitta, Co-ordinator, Crisis
S u p p o r t Unit, C o m m u n i t y Police
Co-ordinating OfBce.
Photoct^ies and
d i s t r i b u t i o n of a v a i l a b l e information
COST: $26:00
Hospitality
COST: $25:00
b) Representative from Monash Sexual
Assault Centre
Photocopies and
distribution of available information
COST: $25:00
c) Dianna Orlando, Domestic Violence
and Incest Resource Centre.
Speakers Fee
COST: $50:00
Hospitality
COST: $25:00
d) Three Representatives from difTerent
cultural backgrounds,
Refuge Ethnic Workers Program
Speakers Fee x 3
COST: $160:00
Hospitality
COST: S50:00
e) Debbie Verhoevcn. Visual Arts Dept.,
Monash Uni.
Photocopies and
d i s t r i b u t i o n of a v a i l a b l e information
COST: $25:00
Hospitality
COST: $25:00
P u b l i c i t y of S p e a k e r s : p h o t o c o p i e s
COST: $50:00
2 Films
a)'Damsels be Damned'
Rental; A.F.I. $40:00
b) 'Come On'
Rental: A.F.I, $20:00
c) -Give UB A Smile'
Rental: A.F.I. $30:00
d) 'It's J u s t a Compli ment Luv' Rental:
A.F.I. $35:00
e) 'It's Not Your Imagination'
Rental:
A.F.I. $30:00 f
0 'Devrim'
Rental: A.F.I. $30:00
g) 'Broken Mirrors'
Rental: Distributors $80:00
h) Shame'
RenUl: Distributors $80:00
Publicity of Films: f^otocopiea
COST: $50:00
Refreshments:
COST: $100:00
3 Posters
a) Design $150:00
b) Printing:
SYBYLLA Publications $500K»
4 Booklet
a)I'rinting $4,500:00
b) Typesetting
at $10:00 per p a ^ x 30
COST: $300:00
c) Graphic Material
Film $6 per roll X 2
COST: $12:00
Bromide paper
COST: $150:00
Developer
COST: $80:00
Point tape
COST: $50:00
Wax
COST: $10:00
Blades
COST: $10:00
Miscellaneous
COST: $100:00
d) Stationery
Photocopying
COST: $30:00
Paper
COST: $30:00
Mail
COST: $50:00
e) Transport
COST; $50:00
5 Miscellaneous $100:00
SUM-TOTAL:
SPEAKERS
FIIJ^IS
POSTERS
BOOKLET
MISCELLANEOUS
TOTAL:
$
450:00
365:00
650:00
5,372:00
100:00
7.000:00
PROJECTED TIME FRAME OF
THE PROJECT
Films and Spcukurs • One Week May
1 5 - 1 9 Collation of Surveys and Data •
Throe Weeks Production of Booklet - Four
Weeks
sport WitH the Insomniacs Australian Universities'
We dedicate this week's sports column to the 93 people who
died in the tragic crowd cnwh at Hillsborough on FA Cup semi
final weekend.
We extend our deepest synqpathy to Liverpool Football Club
and all their supported who bave saffcred so much before and
are svETering so much now.
Of all the bereavement messages received, this one says it
all;
'Look after them, Sfafllika, from all the lads at Klrkby.
The authorities must make sure that they didn't die in
vain. Soccer's saddest Saturday must never happen again.
Madrid's Euro Dream
Becomes a Nightmare!
It is a rare o c c a s i o n Indeed that
will lure your correspondent from
h i s warm, comfortable bed and
i n t o his cold l o u n g e / t e l e v i s i o n
room at four o'clock in t h e morning. This was s u c h an o c c a s i o n .
European Cup semi-final. S e c o n d
leg. AC Milan versus Real Madrid.
live from Milan's San Slro
stadium. On paper t h e biggest,
m o s t important club m a t c h in
Europe t h i s s e a s o n .
Real Madrid have all but clinched
this season's Spanish league title, but
even that may not be enough to save
their manager L,eo Beenhakker.
More than any other club in Europe.
Madrid is forever lurking in the
shadows cast by the giants of its past.
After 23 long years, both supporters
and directors alike want to taste Champions Cup victory again: to taste the
icing, not just the cake.
AC Milan, complete with Dutch imp o r t s . played some of the most
attractive club football in Europe last
season in clinching the Italian League
title. This season, injuries and form
lapses have robbed tham of further
domestic success. If they don't land the
Champions Cup, manager Arrigo
Sacchi's Job could be on the line.
So much to play for. So much to win.
So much to lose.
The Match - AC Milan vs Real
Madrid.
'I'm not giving away secrets like that
to Milan. If 1 had my way. 1 wouldn't
even tell them the time of kick-olT.'
Bill Shankly. 1965, asked whether
he would name a team for that night's
European Cup semi-final.
Twenty-four years later. Real Madrid
kicked ofTamongst the 'San Slro fog' little knowing that Milan's players would
provide far more fireworks that their
fans ever could.
Two m i n u t e s later, the referee
stopped play and we observed a
minutes silence as a mark of respect to
those who had died at Hillsborough. It
was a touching, emotional moment; the
fans sang "You'll never walk alone' in
Malian.
The game recommenced and !"or 15
minutes Real looked much the better
side with Schuster, Gallego. Michel and
But agueno displaying their wares.
Sanchez's early booking seemed to take
the ed;:!' off his game, but It would not
have siirprised anyone if Real had
taken an early lead.
li wasn t to be and In an instant the
^game had turned. After seventeen
minutes Mii.iii suddenly found themselves in front. The ball fell at the feet
of Ancelotti who let fly from twenty-five
yards, catching Buyo off his line.
From there it was all one way trafTic
as Gullit and company began to run the
show. Only seven more minutes had
past when Ancelotli's delightful cross
landed on Rijkaard's head to make it
two. Suddenly the Italian side was looking irresistable.
All this frenetic goal scoring seemed
to sting Real back into action. They
were unlucky not to receive a penally
when Butragueno was brought down
after half an hour, although perhaps
the Spaniard was a little bit too theatrical for the Belgian referee.
Milan marched relentlessly on
towards greater things, with the brilliant Gullit driving yet another nail into
Madrid's coffin right on the stroke of
half-time. It all looked so easy as the
Dutch master played a lovely one-two
with Donadonl before nodding home
his cross froiii the edge of the six yard
box.
Half Time:
AC Milan 3: Real Madrid 0
The game ain't over till it's over but
the fabled fat lady had plenty of reason
to start singing after only four minutes
of the second half had expired. Goal
number four was a triple Dutch treat
for the Milan fans.
Frank Rijkaard's floated cross was
nodded down by Gullit to the mercurial
Van Basten. who swivelled onto his left
foot and gave Buyo no chance from
close range. Rarely has such a big
match been so lop-sided, and there was
more to come.
All of Holland held its breath as Gullit went olT injured in the 56th minute,
the only sour note in the red-and-black
concerto. On came a pretty useful substitute in the form of the brilliant, it
greying. Vlrdis.
Four minutes later the thrashing
continued. Milan played a short corner
to Donadoni, who fired from the outside
box past a despondant Buyo for goal
number five. Milan's consumate display of soccer excellence was almost
complete.
The last half-hour was no dilTerent
to the first hour except that M ilan didn't
score. Not for a moment did they let up
the p r e s s u r e . Rarely did Madrid
threaten.
Final Score:
AC Milan 5: Real Madrid 0
AC Milan now go on to meet Steaua
Bucharest of Romania in the European
Cup Final in Barcelona on May 24.
Elsewhere in Europe. Sampdoria
will meet Baicelona in the Cup-Win
ners Cup Final, whilst Napoli will meet
•VFB Stuttgart in the final of the UEFA
Cup.
FOOTNOTE - Apologies lo Richmond
supporter and part-time Cliche Coach.
Julian Collins. More on this next week.
Triathlon Championship
Ten finely t i m e d a t h l e t e s repres e n t e d Monash at the first official
Australian Triathlon Champions h i p s , held at S y d n e y Unl o n
April 2nd.
The race was to consist of a 1 km
swim in the pool, followed by a 26km
cycle and 7km run. both within the
university grounds. But bad weather
meant a change to the 1km swim followed by a 10km run, with a shortened
ride circuit at the end. Monash triathletes performed well, with the team
finishing third over all.
All this was of course, a mere warmup to the main event of the week-end:
the boat races, in which the Monash
team of Sabina, Steve. Troy and Simon
thrashed all comers. Sydney had no
answer to the superior depth and skill
of Monash, despite nnishingwlth more
beer around them than in them,
Blues
The Asshole Award goes to SBS
television, who reported the event, kept
us watching for two and a half weeks,
then the day after they promi-sed it
would be s c r e e n e d , said they'd
scrapped it.
It was great to see the enthusiasm
of those who look part, particularly
those competing in their first race. It's
this kind of support which will ensure
the event becomes a regular, hopefully
staged here at Monash in the not too
distant future.
• Training is held on T\iesday and
Thursday nights at Monash pool (entry
free). Come along if interested or contact through the club letterbox behind
the union desk. The Monash triathlon
will be held this year on August 20 . . .
stay tuned for details.
Monash Triathlon Club
News
The Monash Blues started off the
To even things up, the under 19's
amateiu s e a s o n with s o m e fine drew with last year's section three
Premiers Old Paradians Purple. Hopeform - a win against Unl Blacks.
After s o m e indifferent pre-season fully this year will be a good one again
for Coach Steve Giles and the boys, with
form, the Blues played really well
them in the finals for the third year In
for t h r e e and a half quarters
succession.
before injuries caught up with
t h e m and Blaclis staged a miniThis week First's and Seconds's play
revival. Monash won by two
Old Trinity at Monash and the under
goals.
19's
play down at Old Brighton. Scores
Unfortunately the Reserves started
the season with a four-goal loss. next week!
However, coach Marcus 1-lanlon can be
satisfied with the effort of many players
and also with the depth that the club
has at this time at senior level.
Go Ashesi
What's Good for Football?
It's good to see Carlton languishing
near the bottom of the ladder. The
alleged 'rich m a n ' s club'is never
slow off the m a r k w h e n 11 comes to
signing u p the cosily players from
interstate where other clubs might
not be able to dig deep enough into
the finacial coffer. However, h a s the
time come w h e n this Is no longer
good enough? It is r u m o u r e d that
the m a t c h selection committee
doesn't show enough interest in the
youngsters coming u p through t h e
r a n k s . Youngsters continue to be a
fruitful source of talent for m a n y of
the less financially secure clubs
and it m a y be time for t h e Blueboys
to take notice. Remember Mr Elliot,
money can't buy everything (as Mr
Skase well k n o w s with his Brisbane
boys!)
Many supporters had difficulty
coming to terms with two interstate
teams Joining the 'VFL in 1987. Don't
worry lans they're not up lo it - yet! The
Weagles are lacking in talent since the
great Koscoe retired at the end of last
year and also because of the mass exo d u s of p l a y e r s to o t h e r c l u b s
(Wrensted - Collingwood: Caton and
Matera - Filxroy; Ishenko and Gastev Bears). Another bunch of talented WA
footballers led by Sir Derek Klckett
avoided playing for the Eagles because
of numerous reasons and hence not all
is well in the West. Hopefully the Roos
can inllict further damage on Sunday!
The B e a r s a r e like the ' H a c k s
Composite' team with Richo, Capper
nd Rainesy all just playing out their
[ays in the warm Carrara sun.
One disturbing feature about the
league that is becoming more apparent,
is the emergence of'Americanised' team
names and paraphenalia. Looking
through the papers at team selection
(FYlday to the uninitiated), I noticed
teams listed under the club names
Richmond Tigers, Melbourne Demons,
Foolscray Bulldogs and SlKilda Saints.
Fair dinkum, let's keep this game
Australian - it's bad enough going to
the footy when the interstate teams
play and seeing baseball - type caps
with Eagles or Bears written on them definitely not good for football! Let's
keep the merchandisers sticking to
beanies and scarves with numbers and
player's names for the duH'el coat!
The Good, Ordinary Player
This week's good, ordinary player is
Melbourne's Steven Newport. Since
graduating from the Law faculty last
year, 'Newte' has killed em in the ruckroving berth in the opening matches of
the '89 season. Each week he has t>een
voted among the best by one or more of
the league's scribes and this could only
mean that graduating complements
your football! Goodonya Newle, and
we're hoping lo see ya on the platform
on that Monday night before the '89
Grand Final standing beside whoever
you tie with.
Remember fans, the team in the
ninth possle on the ladder has same
amount of v^ns as the top team and
that's definitely . . .
. Good For Football
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1 .Do you believe any of the following are hoDpening at Monash?
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4.Do youthink Administration is doing enough for our safety?
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5. Are you awarethat there is a Monash Sexual Assault Centre available at Monash Medical Centre?
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