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Dear Semper, Sorry to have wasted so much

space last week replymg to an article that wasn't there. Never mind, I'm sure you're familiar with the kind of allegations I was talking about. Anyway, here as promised is a more sober assessment of what Herzog is up to.

You may have noticed that John Herzog is a great supporter of "moderate" industrial unions, and that he believes such unions to be more democratic than their "militant" counterparts, A look at several of the

moderate" unions he mentions casts some doubt on this claim. The President of the Federated Ironworkers Association is one Laurie Short, who won the posi­tion in a rigged election back in the early fifties and has remained there by the same means ever since. (The same Laurie Short is one of the three ABC Commissioners who have backed Sir Henry Bland in his recent moves.) The Australian Workers Union is a byword in industrial circles for the kind of remote, unapproachable bureaucracy which is paralleled only by the "labor corpora­tions" in the USA. As for the usefulness of such unions to theu- rank and file members, ask anyone (especially a woman) who is covered by the Federated Oerks Union or the Shop Distributors Association how much protection they get from their union.

The fact is that the militant unions arc those which are most likely to take action in response to the needs and initiatives of their rank and file. This is obviously directly related to the amount of democracy in the union concemed. For example, the former NSW branch of the BLF, surely the archetypal mili­tant union, went lo considerable lengths to democrarise its struc­ture. Among other things, it was the first union in Australia to set a limit on the number of years its office-bearers could remain in office. (Jn contraist, the officers of "moderate" unions tend to be professional scat-warmers who. generally end their careers in safe Labor seats,)

This distinction helps to explain John Herzog's support for compulsory unionism. In a closed-shop situation, the rank . and file are completely at the mercy of the official union. If it lets them down, they have no opportunity to set up a real organisation which could better protect their interests'. Once the employers get their supporters . into positions of leadership in the union, a situation exists in v/hich, as far as Ihe workers are concemed, there might as well' be no union at all. Naturally, such unions have excellent industrial relations. A similar situation exists in fascist coun­tries such as Spain and Singa­pore, where the govcrnmcnl has either supprcs-scd or co-opted the worker-based unions and set up government-controlled

unions with compulsory membership * which serve the function of stifiing worker unrest.

So where does this leave AUS? Tlic parallel is fairiy straightforward. AUS is Australia's largest union, with the potential to mobilise some quarter of a million students. The success of the September 30 strike suggests that we are beginning.at last to realise that potential. If rank-and-file support for AUS campaigns con­tinues to grow at the rate-it has ' done over the last years, wc will become an extremely powerful force in Australian politics; in particular, we can be infiuential in making an already unpopular government even more so. Naturally, the •government doesn't take kindly lo this developmcni, and is doing every­

thing Ul its power to cripple or discredit AUS, And because of the peculiar make-up of the student body, there will always be a small but active core of peop]p in our own ranks who are prepared to help conserv­ative governments achieve this aim.

While this core is numerically insignificant (the Liberal Qubs at both Brisbane universities have folded this year, while the DLP gained less than I per cent of the vote at the last federal election), its members have con­siderable advantages in the form of ..outside financial assistance and support from University Administrations and the media. Yet despite these advantages, they are visibly losing groimd as thousands of otherwise • quite conservative students begm to take an active part In campaigns on the issues that affect them directly. The organised Right faces a crisis, and has had to re-think its tactics. In the past, such people have tried to

•destroy AUS by getting campuses to secede. This tactic has been a total failure. Accord­ingly, their new strategy is to keep AUS in existence, but work from vi/ithin to make it ineffect­ive,

John Herzog is neither a new nor an isolated phenomenon. His efforts are part of a co-ordinated nationwide campaign by the very same forces that have been trying for years to destroy AUS. The bulk of his article which wasn't published last week was lifted verbatim from the latest publication of the Australian Liberal Students Federation. The arguments he used in his election campaign have reappear­ed this week, word for word, in Ihc election propahanda of Geoff Purcell, the notorious DLP stooge at QIT. Most signi-.-ficant of all, he admits to being a friend and disciple of the police informer Michael Danby, the outgoing SRC president,at Melbourne University, who has conducted a vendetta against AUS for the last two years over an issue.of greal and pressing importance to the welfare of Australian students, namely the Middle East. Worthy .company indeed fbr'the man who brought you Bjelke's industrial relations policy, '•; .

The tactics of thjs seedy-coalition wi;re not restricted to •getting the Herzogs and Purcells of (his world into positions of ii^fluence. They arc also present-

. ing simultaneously on most of the larger campuses a series of spurious "refonn" motions which would completely alter the structure of AUS. The effect of this restructuring would be to split AUS into five separate State unions, conceivably with five different policies on every issue. Presumably the idea behind this is that the Right would then pick off-AUS one Stale at a time-starting with Queensland. The duplication of resources involved would neces­sitate an immediate .rise of around S2 in membership fee.': with no gain in service. In addi­tion, their plan lo have National Officers • elected on campus rather than;, at Council would mean lhat only those candidates with access to a.huge propagan­da machine-ic careerists in the major political parties-would stand any cha'ncc.of election.

The aim of this strategy is to retain AUS as the'one official voice for Australian students, but make sure that it-was^silcnt on any".. issue -.which. might

'• embarrass the' Ad mihistrat ions or the government. It would be a return to the situation of the

•• 1950s when NUAUS was a kind of gentleman's debating club and the leadership' justified their existence by putting on their suits once or twice'a year, and drinktog tea with the Minister.- , ' o r course AUS'has'its faults.' Of course our National Officers

sometimes make< mistakes-they-are only human, and drastically overworked. But where AUS differs from most unions is that we discuss our mistakes in pub­lic, learn from them and remedy the faults in our structure! Over the last few years, we have shifted our attentran to specific areas of need^ among our mem­bership, such as women, trainee teacheis, part-timers, mature stu­dents. We have restricted our international campaigns and dropped the divisive and time-consuming Middle East issue. We have largely devolved the imple­mentation of national policy on . to Regional Conferences which anyone is free to' attend. We have set up a Planning Commit­tee to receive and recommend genuine proposals for reform. The intimidating "heavies" who used to be so conspicuous in AUS positions have been largely replaced by a gentler, more approachable, more human type of leader. All this has come about because it was what ordinary students wanted. You may have disagreements in some areas with our National Offic­ers, but surely you can trust them more than a man who h s • never declared his policy on TEAS, education funding, assess-' ment, university democracy, women's rights, homosexuals, trainee teachers, part-timers, housing or the Government's education policy.

The Federal Govemment has picked out tertiary education as one of the "defenceless" sectors of the community which will bear the brunt of its economic policy. If we are to survive the next two years and retain any of the gains we have fought for over the last decade, we wiil need a strong, active national union. For the sake of your own welfare, 1 urge you to support the Friends of AUS Committee.

Doug Fraser

A 4ZZZ CRITIC Dear People,

I hesitate to go' once more into print about . the radio station but I feel bbliged tb-• . point oiit that the promised > series of "Spiecials" to replace the scrapped volunteer pfograni • "In Depth" have failed to ap­pear.

Even the example bandied around at the original' "In Depth" a.\ing session, the ... Pacifica program on Timothy ,. Leary.'iitts yet to .appear on air. / is it surpifjsing that 4ZZZ has ;. made bitter enemies of half the In Depth collective and cynical disbelievers of the rest?

Without slandering the hard woricing staff of 4ZZZ it is true to, say that they have, set theu-. program standards too high too soon to, allov/ outside groups more than the role of host to a parasite that descends briefly -only to disappear in warch of more sensational news, much in the fashion of the rest of the mass-media.

The creation of an "Alter­native" depends on acompletely different approach, not" least importantly in the area of winter-personal relations. >

It is not as if the other, areas of the station arc free frorn the faults laid at the door of the In Depth, group. It is relatively., common tp hear badly presented ' snippets of the ."poor taste joke" variety and ahnouncere who can hardly read the names off record covers. .

When will - they leam that havuig the "Right Line" means far less than having a construc­tive approach to Involving ttic cssentUl^volunteer pco] ]e, thosc :

' with something to say,-, .those ..'denfed . access by otlierVmcdia.

those willing to try even if they

•pphrey ion

Ih a shock move, the Queens-. land Governor, Sir Colon Aden­oid today dismissed the Belch-Pearson government and ordered a general election to be held on December 26. The sackhig followed months of coalition bickering which came to a head over the proposed visit by the Swedish pop group Abba.

Although the ex-premier Mr Belch-Pearson and his deputy Mr Jox agreed on the Abba issue, such harmony did not prevail in the full cabinet nor at the meeting of the joing government parties, held yesterday. Mr Belch-Pearson's support for Abba was attacked by a number of conservative members who drew attention to the fact that two Abba members were living together in a non-matrimonial state and that the group was generally undesirable because they hailed from Sweden, a country that was "infected with socialism," The National Party leader was not prepared to alter his.stand and replied that Abba must be allowed to visit Queens­land, for although they may have been "living in sm" they had not had any association with drugs and this was the main issue, A '-• Liberal backbencher, Mr David Brine then tabled affidavits from witnesses who claimed to have seen Abba members indulging in drug-taking in a Swedish sex-shop. This dramatic revelation left Mr Belch-Pearson ma small minori­ty and he was then attacked by a number of members who expressed horror at his apparent shift to the left.

After some debate, the meet­ing carried a .no-confidence motion in Mr Belch-Pearson. Despite this, he refused to resign and brawls then broke out in the party room. In the ensuing

.strife, two backbenchers were crushed to death when former Main Roads Minister Russell Whinge jumped on them from a chandelier. Police eventually stopped the brawling and made several arrests amid cries of "police state" and "fascists" by government MPs.

Following this chaos, the Governor, Sir Colon Adenoid, conferred with his chief legal advisor >.(Mt Isa magistrate Gideon Beerbarrell) and then dbmissed the Belch-Pearson government, announcing Decem­ber 26 as the date for a state election. Mr Albert Pield was commissioned to form a care­taker government and his minis­try is as follows: Premier, cultural affairs and

sport albert Pield Consumer Affairs and grammar

Wilma Ford Public decency and morals

Errona Jointer

Fisheries and police Bart Lourikeet

Race relations and fascism Raphael Clientello

Cosmic relations and prayer (Rev) Fred Nurk

Treasurer and riot control | Zelpersbn Cowman

Attorney-General and education Adolf Porterhouse

Transport and health Sandbags Sleeperson

aren't perfect? Yours in Deepest Depression

Andrew Herrington

AND ANOTHER

Dear Semper,.. Just to try to straighten out a

misconception which appears to have arisen out of my recent article m Axis, In lio way did. I wish to infer that Semper con­spired" with 4ZZZ t o . refuse •publication of an article on the axing of In Depth from 4ZZZ {programming. However, I do. not delieve 'that ZZZ encourages public political criticism of the station,. ll.aIso believe that cer­tain; attje'inpts have been made tp

•stifle.that criticism., Unfortunr ately, often construct ive'?'critic-ism is obscured by emotional persohal vilifications which

University representative on the Trust Council rarely attended Trust meetings and failed to'sup­port the Trust on the Regent Theatre issue..

The true facts of the matter . are lhat the University of

Queensland is represented on the • Council ofthe National Trust by

Professor Sir Zelman Cpwek. Sir Zelman was, until the matter of the future of the Regent Theatre became controvenial, a regular attendant at meetings of the Tru$t Council and in that capa­city made many invaluabte'con-fributions to the Trust's deliberations. When the Regent Hieatre became an Issue be-

• tween the Trust and the Trustees of the Mayne Estate and the University, Sir Zelman indic'-''ted

• that because of, the apparent .conflict of interest which then .;;frose,- he/would, prefer not to

' atteiid National Trust Council meetings until the matter was j-esolved. Sir Zelman has subse

seldom contribute to any way . /quently refrained from so forward. ' ' _ 3 t^jidattending.

1 hslieve that rriticism (ranS-. / Il is for this reason alone that I believe that criticism (ran^ ' havp a very constructive purpose

and should be welcome amongst the progressive forces thai exist

. in this society. I believe, that.. ' Semper has contributed in a

positive way to the ongoing growth of a comprehensive criti­que ofthe media in this country.'

I would hope that this con­tinues and is adopted by other groups who. are; also presently engaged in^ challenging the straight media. -' •, ; <-

Yours in solidarity Anne Marie Radshaw.

;M/^NE ;ly|IST^KE Dear^ir [sic], .; •

. I refer to yburTeature article on the properties owned by the -Mayne Estate which article appeared pn pages 6 and. 7 of the issue of Semper Floreat dated October 20th, 1976. .

The.second paragraph of the .second..columnipfvthat article .• quotes reiriarka attributed to i-Z •llspokcspersbn'.for - the Trust.'*'^' ThejK" remarks'lm'piied tTiat the'?

It is for this reason alone that Sir Zelman has been absent from recent Trust meetings. It is not correct to state, that in general the representative of the Uni­versity on the Trust Council rarely attends meetings and ihe Trust .'very much regrets that a member of its staff should have conveyed, this^erroneous impres­sion, , . • .

I hope that you will publish this ^letter in .order to have recorded the true facts of the matter, f-• '• Yours faithfully

.•-'': Peter Forrest Director

National trusl of Qld

A REPLY - .:[At the "time of goiflg to print

last week. I had becnJcd to be­lieve that the information in my

. article on properties owned by the Mayne Trust wasiaccuratc. 1 would now Jikc, to. apologise to

! Professor Sir Zelman Cowan for r'f.'.any misrepresentation which •; may: have occurred by publica-

,^'-tioh of the artlcle;-Ja,S.l

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CEDAR BAY INQURY

The Opposition justice spokesman, Mr Keith Wright on Tuesday called for the immedi­ate release of the departmental inquiry into the Cedar Bay raid. Mr Wright said he believed that the report would prove that the civil rights of residents had been totally disregarded and that some police officers had totally disregarded their responsibility as law enforcing officers.

"This week and last week 1 asked certain questions in the house on the issue which has now become known as the Cedar Bay affair, or should I say scandal. I have not received a satisfactory answer to any of these," Mr Wright said.

The Minister for Police, Mr Newbery, issued a statement that was reported on Sunday which indicated that he had not yet received the ilepartmcn-tal police report conducted by Inspector Becker.

Mr Wright said: "I am ad­vised that the report is already in the minister's hands and that he only too well knows its recommendations.

"1 also understand that the report has confirmed the allega­tions made against the police who conducted the raid, and that one member of the police force who participated in the raid be charged with a serious offence.

"The reason why I bring ihis to the attention of the public is that I am seriously concerned that a cover-up of this report is taking place."

PoUce Minister Newbery in his statement on Sunday indicat­ed that he was going to Perty.

"I believe' the report is al­ready in his hands, and that by now Cabinfct has had an oppor­tunity to review it. Why than has. he said, not only publicly but also in the house, that he hasn't yet received the report.

"If the -report recommends that a serious charge be laid agamst a particular police officer then the recommendations of the report ought to be acted upon swiftly so that the matter can be resolved.

"There is a cloud hanguig over all honest and hard work­ing police, both those that Were involved m the Cedar Bay raid and the rest ofthe force.

'The issue is obviously one of great importance and the public have a right to know about what the minister intends to do.

"Since the minister issued a misleading statement last Sunday and since nothing has been said about him receiving the report 1 am worried that the cover-up is ah-eady underway."

Examine what the minister said on September 8 in the ministerial address to the pariia­ment and look back now in hindsight it can be seen that

it any wonder that the sentences were harsh, said Mr Wright,

Later it was found that the convictions are nullities and with the re4rials yet to be held this aspect of the case has already cost. an enormous amount of money and occupied the time of the full court.

Meanwhile a man who had photographed the aftermath of , the raid, and his wife were

(arrested on five year old charges because they refused to hadn over Ibc.photographSi

There is evidence to suggest' that both the West Australian police ans sergeant Ray Mar-chant of Cooktown police knew for three and a half years that these charges were outstanding and took no action.

The two were then extradited to Perth before a pending appeal to the high court can come he-fore that court. Their lawyer was at first refused permis­sion to interview them without a police officer being present, tie was later refused access to them at all.

"We have evidence to suggest too that it was the police minister Mr Newberry who appealed du-ectly to his West Australian counterpart for the extradition order.

"All this shows a pattern of cover up, conspiracy, and an attempt to prevent the course o ofjuslice," said Mr Wright.

Cost of survey In an attempt to discredit

the claims of the residents of Cedar Bay that they were living

. on a miners lease a survey of the lease was ordered. While Ihe two top mines department surveyors, plus their assistants, spent neariy a week in the area a State government boat had to stand off-shore to act as a fioaling hotel

The four people charged on drug charges have all been re­arrested. However, the eight people charged with vagrancy have not been. "Yet it is pos-sible they can be rearrested at the whim of the police depart­ment at some time in future," according to Newbery.

Tlie Premier and the Police-Minister have attempted to slander and denigrate anyone calling for an inquiry, even when Ihe Liberal convention, several august legal bodies and Ihe Young Nationals hoined in the chorus.

Afier enormous pressure was brought to bear on the govem­ment thijy finally conceded to

, hold the departmental inquiry, and now we find. that Ihc minister will not release the results of the mquiry as he has promised.

"It would seem that in a short time the Minister for police, Mr Newbery, has shown himself to be an inexperienced

some of the things Mr Newberry has said have since been proved to be totally inaccurate.

"I-want to Vefcr in particu­lar to the inconsistencies and to the evidence that now exists which shows that the minister has not been frank and open with the public on this issue.

"Indeed at the worst there may be evidence of a cover-up, at attempt to prevent the course of justice, and an attempt to mislead parliament."

Looking at the September 8 statement the minister indicated that the raid was conducted with a view to apprehending an escapee from the Cirns watch-house. Yet Inspector Gray had already told. reporters ihat he would not mount an operation of that size in an attempt to apprehend a single escapee.

The police minister in his September 8 statement went on to say that one man was con­victed of growing 520,000 worth of illegal drugs net when the

hearing was conducted they carried the evidence into the court in a shoe box.

The minister also said in-novocably that the the residents of Cedar Bay were squatting illegally on Crown land. Yet there is evidence in. a survey done by the Mines Department which shows beyond doubt that they were legally on a miner's homestead lease.

In his statement to the house Mr Newbery said that the residents of Cedar Bay were living in squalor and the stench of human excrement was over­powering, and yet a signed statement by a qualified nursing sister, the evidence of lawyers and photographs all deny the minister's claims.

In a report in the Courier-Mail on September II, 1976, the minister claimed that the whole raid cost only S4580.8I. This figure is surely spurious when describing a raid on a remote area which included the movement of 23 State police­men and police women by land, sea and air.

"From the start the whole affair has been a shambles, and it is worthwhile reiterating just some aspects of the government mismanagement," Mr Wright said.

The courts In this massively expensive

raid four people were arrested for marijuana. convictions and eight on vagrancy charges. It would appear that even some of these arrests constitute illegal custody.

The 12 were then held over­night in the Cooktown watch-house and brought before a per-.TOn who had no right fo act as a magistrate. He even' had to ask the police prosecutor what sentences he should impose. Is

and fiimbling administrator. He has continually ducked questions that I have put lo him in the house and did so again this morning.

"I believe that he is covering up the report of inspector Becker and 1 believe that he has misled pariiament.

"It is the tradition of British pariiament that when it has been established that the pariiament has been misled the person responsible must resign.

"( calf for the immediate release of the departmental inquiry.

"And I call on the police minister to resign," said Mr Wright.

In November the Women's Bookshop will be celebrating its first year's trading. It has been a very "new" venture begun with a small grant from the Inter­national Women's Year Secretar­iat. It has been an uphill struggle to keep the door open and to supply readers with the latest editions of feminist literature.

Despite the lack of capital and reserve funds, a number of devoted women carried on, and -will continue to do so. The Collective meets fortnightly and welcomes any new women who would like to join.

All women are invited to visit the shop, have a cup of coffee, and if interested, to assist with the. selling of literature, and maintenance of the shop.

tn Queensland, or for that matter in Australia, any time is the right time for doing a bit of Joh bashing. However, the release of the small and modest booklet "Under Investigation" this Saturday night is some­what opportune. Opportune, be­cause it seems at this point in time more and more Queens-landers are being pushed beyond that point of endurance called the middle of the road, that arid stretch that the Premier of Queensland. and Ihe State National Party have used for so long as the reason d'etre for some of theu- more lunitic policies and actions.

The Nationals' defeat at Lockyer two weeks ago, apart from confirming the "Liberal­ism" of Toowoomba was also an expression of exasperation on the part of some Queensland electors as well as the local media. Burning dowir hippie homes, refusing to attend Mao Tse-tung's funeral and harmonis­ing with Flow "The Law is for Porteclion of the People," doesn't win votes when reality is a bit closer than the com­munist Peking or decadent Can­berra.

But all this is "enlighten­ed" Queensland of the present. And it is into "enliglitened" Queensland of the present that come Under Investigation. Under Investigation is about the past, Joh's past, and it attempts to bring together as concisely

as possible the various scandals that have surrounded the Queensland Premier since he gained office in 1968. But the importance of Under Investiga­tion is that it illustrates the capacity of the political system in Queensland to adapt to the excesses af a leader tliat a number of people feel we need.

Under investigation attempts to summarise in simple language the numerous allegations made against the Premier, of Queens­land from trafficking in mining authorities, evading taxation and misleading parliament to involv­ing himself in the Uranium Club and of course the much refuted involvement with Nema Hold­ings Ltd.

In looking at these various issues, Under Investigation at­tempts briefiy to sketch in some background for the average Joh-watcher; some fo the political and business heavyweights behind the scenes, how far back the connections go, the actual extent of the Premier's busi­ness interests and so on.

Whether you believe Joh tb be "the conscience of democ­racy" (Nation Review), "a bible-bashing bastard" (Gough Whitlam), or "the greatest poli­tical fraud" (Melbourne Age), 1 suggest you need a copy of Under Investigation. If it doesn't show you what you're up agamst, it'll show you what you can get away with.

WCDMENS BOOKSHOP

The social activities are to be extended to interests of women in the community. With this in mind, a function in the form of a Social Evening at the Book­shop, has been arranged for FRIDAY OCTOBER 29 at 8 pm -to meet a Yoga Teaclier "Madeline" who will open a discussion dealing with Yoga and Relaxation, and its benefits to mental and physical health. Wine and cheese will be served. This evening is open to all women.

As well this will be an oppor­tunity for women to see the shop, to join in the talk, meet other women, and browse through the books.

It is planned lo hold such

Social iivenings once u month, with Guest Speakers, and to en­large the shop to enable women interested in arts und handicrafts lo display and sell their works.

At the Firts Birthday Party, to be held at the shop on SUNDAY NOVEMBER 7, at 7.30 pm the book "Against Our Will-Men, Women and Rape" by Susan Browmiller, will be launched. This book is an international best seller, and will be available for S2.9S a copy. A reading must for all feminists.

AH interested women are welcome to come to the Birth­day Party.

Bookshop Collective Women's Bookshop

and Social Shro

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NO JOBS! Graduates from Queensland University will probably have diffi­

culty finding suitable employment at the end of this year. It is anticipated that 2279 students will graduate at the end of 1976 with pass degrees in courses offered by this university.

Marion Kratzing, the Ap­pointments Officer at the Uni­versity of Queensland's Counsell­ing Services said: 'Those stu­dents graduating in paramedical fields' like Occupational and Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Social Work will probably have no dif­ficulty gettuig jobs, and Medi­cine and Vet Science should be okay, but those graduating in areas associated with the build­ing industry, like Engineering and Architecture, will probably find it difficult to get jobs. Students graduating in Arts andr science will probably find -jf' more difficult than usual to got' jobs too."

In August the Fraser Govem­ment announced plans to curtail the PubUc Service, and then later in the month announced that the Public Service would cut its growth by about 2 per cent. In the past, more than SO per cent of students graduating in Arts and Science have been absorbed into the public service and other govemment related areas, so these cuts are likely to affect a large number of gradu­ates with general degrees.

The recruitment office in Brisbane of the Australian Public Service has not worked out the number of students they will be able to take on. In January about 300 students applied for assistance in findmg employ­ment to the Professional Employment Service. The PEO has still got 193 graduates from last year on its books lookuig for jobs,

Marion Kratzing said: "Whereas about five yeais ago students graduating with a general degree would have had the choice of at least five jobs, now it will be a matter of graduates taking whatever job is offered to them"

This could mean if a large number of graduates are unable to find employment at the end of the year there could be residual pool of unemployed

graduates flooding the labor market, just as there is a growing pool of unemployed school leav­ers glutting the market.

Mr Jim See, the Du-ector of the employment services in Queensland, said: "Graduates are now realising that unless they do a specifically vocation­ally oriented coune there is a possibly that they wont be able to get a job.

J'But a large number of employers are now considering taking on graduates when be­fore they would have employed a school leaver, because doing a degree indicates something about the person's capabilities and application. So if students don't adopt an elitist attitude about having^ a degree they have a reasonable chance of getting a job-dcpenduig of sourse on their Interests and their willingness to move witliin Australia."

One person involved in find­ing jobs for graduates and professionals said that he thought that the responsibility lay with the State and Federal government to get underway with some of the projects they've been talking alwut for years, like the proposed air­port, the dams the Premier said would be buiU along the Bris­bane River to prevent floods like the 1974 flood recurring, the bridge on the Homibrook Highway to Redcliffe and so on.

lie thought that if these pro­jects were implemented jobs would be provided for a large number of graduates from engineering and architecture, two of the particulariy hard hit areas. The implementation of these policies would also provide employment for a large number of the unskilled workers also currently unemployed.

None of the people associ­ated with finding employment for graduates thought that the universities were producing too

!many graduates; because it is ; virtually impossible to predict

labor trends when the time lag of the years involved in ob­taining a degree was considered,

Marion Kratzing said that students entering tertiary insti­tutions should take the course they are most interested in rather than takuig one in which they expect they will be able to find employment, because of the vagaries of the job market such predictions are irrational.

Students wanting assistance on finding jobs after graduation are urged to consult with Ms Kratzing before applying for jobs and interviews. She can be contacted on 370 QIH ext 596.

Julianne Schultz

SEXISM IN

SCHOOLS A conference on sexism in

schooling was held last weekend (Oc^ber 23-24) at the Teachers Building, Spring Hill, 125 train­ing teachers and students from many areas of the State register­ed for the conference, although, considering 58 per cent of. teacheis in Queensland are women, the number who attend­ed was disappointuig..

The aims of the conference,' as stated by Sylvia Innes m her introductory address, was limit­ing and unambitious. Firstly she wanted to . explain areas of sexism in the education system and secondly to show their re­sult on the female students.

Examples of sexism in schools are seen in the different duties assigned to men and women all through the hierarchy of the school. These duties are continually reinforcing the stereotype images of masculinity and femininity.

The text books studied in school also continually reinforce. the stereotype female through illustrations, subject matter and the perspective of history.

The mothercraft courses that are compulsory for all grade 9 females gouig to State high schools spcU out very cleariy to female students what is expect­ed of them as women: marriage, and babies to be brought up in an idyllic middle class, suburban home.

The sexism of the education system.is seen cleariy when the statistics are examined:

58 per cent of the teachers arc female;

2 per cent of thcssc women arc head leacliere,

7 per cent arc deputy head teachers.

Not satisfied with kicking people on the ground, SLL thug Greg AdIer vents his spleen on SWP literature

AGAINST VIOLENCE IN WORKERS' MOVEMENT

The latest outrage in a series of thug attacks by members of the Socialist Labour League on left wing opponents occuned outside the Sydney Trades Hall on Sunday, October 17. As the October 21 edition of Direct Action reports: "During the afternoon, two people, Dave Deutschmann of the SWP [Socialist Workers Party] and Keith Olerhead of the SL [Sparticist League], were quite badly injured, both as a result of unprovoked assault by SLL members, Deutschmann needed hospital attention as a result of a vicious intentional kick to the side of the head as he lay on the ground from a previous blow. Olerhead suffered a heavy blow to the stomach and a full-foice elbow in the face. Another SWPer and an SL member received bloody noses from the assaults of the SLL tliugs."

The result of this persistent course of indoctrination is that female students leam a low self-esteem, lack self confidence and when, after leaving the school, usually get a lower paid, less satisfying job. The effectiveness of the brainwashing is such that despite different class origins, the outcome is the same. The majority of women have a fear'of rape, dependency on men, and inferiority complex when compared with males.

One relieving contradiction is what is being fostered in the decadent school system is the presence of the Feminist High School group.

The Feminist High School Group was for many people at the conference a new discov­ery. A small group of women students from, a few Brisbane high schools formed the organi-satk>n firstly for an awareness of the subjugation of women in their position and secondly, to act upon these areas in some way.'

These women, mainly from senidr cksscs, were extremely capable . and articulate about their subject, although it probab­ly should not be surprising considering the voluminous examples of sexist exploitation anddiscrimmation they have to cope with. So, the first half of their "rcason....for being," theu-awareness of the situation, was verycorapetantly displaywl by the address they gave to the con­ference. But .carrying out the second:; part was more difficult. With opposition and discouragement given from 11 sides, head teachers (male and female), school. mistresses, teachers (male and female) and

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Why did these attacks occur? The Socialist Labour League,

better known by many as the Healyites after the leader of their international committee, Gerry Healy, publish the weekly paper Workers News in Sydney, where they are stongest. They have a few people in Brisbane and have occasionally been seen selling their paper on this campus. Apart from their pro­pensity for violence, the Healy-ite leaders are also well known for their paranoid attitude to­wards the distribution of left win literature to theh- rank and-file members, especially litera­ture which criticises the SLL leadership.

, The violence in Sydney occurred outside a public SLL meeting, at the Trades Hall. SWP and SL members had arriv­ed early to sell their own papers and hand out literature to any people entering the meeting who may be interested. This is an absolutely normal thing for all such meetings. The SLL exercis­es its democratic right to do so Itself on numerous occasions. But this time, as often before, the SLL leaders objected to the activity of their rivals, fraudul­ently claiming that SWP and SL members were obstmcting the entrance to the Trades Hall. (This IS invariably the pretext for Healyite assaults'.) What particulariy enraged the SLLers was the distribution by SWP members of a document defend­ing their American co-thinken from the slanderous accusations of the Healyites, that -George Novack and Joseph Hansen (collaborators of Leon Trotsky during his lifetime) were accom­plices of the Soviet GPU. Afraid that their members might be in­fluenced by ideas which contra­dict their Own, the SLL leaders again tried to insulate thek rank and file from political ideas by physically intimidating the SWP and SL members. This is purely and simply a denial of the right to freedom of expres­sion. It cannot be tolerated by anyone fighting for social justice,

Deutschmann described his own assault to Direct Action. He was moving to the aid of a fellow SWP member, he exphiin-cd, when % tall blond SLLer moved in as though he was going to get pretty vicious so I re­treated to the other side of the road. He ran straight at me and hit mc on the side of the head. There was someone behind mc too but I didn't see who it was. Before this character Mtmc I saw (SLLer) Greg Adler comhig froni the other direction scream­ing 'Get him!' After I was hit the. first tim I went down on

my knees and then Adler punch­ed me on the other side of the head. This put rae right down on the footpath and i tried to pro­tect my chest and head. I know that at this stage I was kicked in the head because that is the thing that I felt most but I was also hit elsewhere. I also got kicked on the shoulder because I have a boot mark there. In short, I have bruises on the arms and thighs, so I must have been kicked and punched several times."

A long history of violence This is by no means an isolat­

ed incident of Healyite violence; they have a long history of it. In this they merely follow in the footsteps of theu- parent organisatkin in Britain, the Workers Revolutionary Party, led by Gerry Healy. In 1966 (November 17), Ernest Tate was selling literature outside an SLL meetmg (as the WRP was then called) in London's Caxton Hall when six young SLL toughs under Healy's personal direction jumped Tate smashing his glasses and bringing him to the pavement. They then repeatedly kicked him in the head, genitals

and kidneys. Tate had to be hospitalised.

When Gerry Healy visited AustraUa in 1975 SWP and SL membeis werd outside his June 16 meetmg at the Sydney Trades hall selling their literature. SLL national secretary was seen to point out SL members who were then jostled and punched in the face. On May Day 1976 SLL leaders tried to intimidate left wing rivals'who wished to sell their papers.to SLL members m the May Day procession. In May too, sellers of the SLL paper. Workers News harassed a woman Communist • Party member selling Tribune . at- Sydney's central station. In July of this year the US socialist Willie Mae Reid toured Australia for the SWP. At her main Sydney

' meeting (July 15) a group ofabou disruption by screaming at the speaker and'the chair, chanting and waving papers. Many mem­bers of the audience signed a petition signifying theur disgust.

The pattern of SLL thugery is a long one. If it is allowed to rantihue; the consequences could soon become tragic. Such violations o f - the norms of democracy in the' left and labAr iiiovement must be condemned as widely as possible' to ensure that there are "« lepitioris: A'nyb'ne who ha.s had such 6x"iierience with the SLL can "register thek disapproval with the Socialist Workers Party. Just ring 36 6^85 for details.

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other students (male ahd female) and advice to be patient, etc, thek attempts towards any action were stifled and defeated, it was difficult for them and other interested attendants to the conference to suggest any effective ways of getting the message across.

The members of the con­ference seemed, in the majority of instances, unified in thek convictions for the need for change, and also the dkection. the change should take. Apart from one person who wished to negate the cited extent of sexism in schools, end also, indirectly to justify heiself and her own performance as deputy head mistress, by illustrating examples from her school where females had excelled themselves in male dominated areas, there appeared to be common con­sensus that some form of action was necessary.

One of the only instances where points of view differed was towards the Teachers Unnn. After the address of Cathy Block, an official of the NSW Teachers'Federation, it became obvious, in the forum that followed, that many women felt degrees of animosity towards thek union. Quite a large section of the teachers and trainee teachers had the attitude that the union was a male dominated and controlled organ with the personal interest of a few politically or otherwise ambiti­ous officials at heart.

This is significant in that most of the resolutions agreed to at the end of the conference called on the union to support and lobby for thek acceptance.

It seems rather ambitious to rely upon the union to work for the ratification of these motions when women's voices, leave alone representatives are so scarce within the union there seems little enthusiasm for changing the situation.

Quite a few resolutions were put forward and voted on at the conclusion of the conference. It was encouraging to see many radical ones being put forward (mainly due to the clear thinkmg

of Gay Walsh), and passed, demanding that the QTU support the elimination of dis­crimination agamst homosexu­als, females, pregnant students, etc.

Although, for Queensland, these resolutions would be widely considered daring and radical, the fact remains that the main contents of the confer­ence, and the resultant resolu­tions are simply a repition o of disputes that have been carried out in the southern States over the last few yeats. With the relatively few membeis of the Queensland teachers acknowleglng awareness or even kiterest in the topic of sexism, it appeals it wiU remain the point of contention for a few females who wUl continue to scream about the injustices riddl­ing the present education system without much attention being paid to them.

Ad education can merely transfer the biggoted opinions and misconceptions and standards of the community which buUt and perpetuates its existence, it is obvious that education cannot be improved untU society is improved.

However,-it is also obvious that the most practical and bcneficiat area to attack and cor­rect the present problems of society with the greatest results is hi the schools where a' new generation is now formhig. But until the whole system is purged and a new one constructed on new foundations, there can be no hope for a universal improve­ment of Queensland's education.

Liz Taylor

RELATION TO

Why has the Local Government Minister brought in special legis­lation "empowering the Queensland National Trust to control the CuiTumbin Bkd Sanctuary"?

The Trust Director, Mr Peter Forrest, doesn't know.

"The origmal National Trust Act vras a carefuUy prepared piece of legislation," he said,

"Not the Mmister has brought in amendments which are not only completely unnec­essary, in our view, but could restrict our operations."

Mr Forrest was studying the BiU . yesterday. Under the Queensland legislative system, he said he could not obtain a copy of- the proposed legislation be-for the fkst readmg, and in the Opposition had to debate it sight-unseen.

"We have told the Mkiister in various letters that although we thought the Trust could operate the Sanctuary now, we appreci­

ated that the Govemment had the numbeis to pass any amend­ments it liked.

"What we granted was ration­al discussion with the Minister, so we could ensure there would be no interference with the normal activities of the Trust."

The former owner of the Sanctuary, Mr-Alex Griffith.has given the Trust all the shares in the various companies controU-ing the Sanctuary. But Mr Fouest said the runnhig costs and income tax of these com­panies amounted to about $300,000 per year.

"One of our main concerns with the legislation was that we might not be able to liquidate

FRASER ISLAND Since the release of the final

report of the Fraser Island Environment Inquiry, conserva­tionists have awaited the re­sponse of the Federal. Govern­ment. The report, a substan-tiaat document of over 200 pages, has recommended that all export of mineral sand from Fraser Island, except from a few specified areas, should cease. This is in Une with the powers vested in the Federal govern­ment Ul relation to the power of the States. By having the power to prevent exports of muierals from the island, the Australian Government can ef­fectively put the two sand mining companies at present operatmg on the island out of business. The commissionen have also recommended that the island "be recorded as part of the national estate as soon as possible. This can only mean that they intend to see it gazett­ed, in toto, as a national park. As such,-the final report has vindicated the claims of con­servationists and the members of the Fraser Island Defence Orga­nisation.

Feds play: The baU Is now in the Federal

government's court: it has the power and the justification to close down sand mining opera­tions on Fraser Island. Whether or not it wiU do so depends on its acceptance or rejection of the Inquky's recommendations. As of yet it has taken no action apart from assuring that it will study the report carefully.

The Queensland Government's response to the report was quick and typically counter-productive. The Premier immediately announced that, as far as he was concemed, the final pronouncement on the island's future was made in 1971 by an interdepartmental report on Fraser Island and Round Hill Head, This report was so bad that nobody rcaUy took it seriously. It recommended a token extension of the exist­

ing national part further south­wards, but did not include areas that had been praised as worthy of preservation.

No doubt attempts will be made to destroy the credibUity of the commission and the commissioners of the Eraser Island Envkonmental Inquiry. Moves of this kind have akeady been made by the sand-mining companies and the local poli­tical-commercial clique in Mary­borough. The commissioners and thek advisers have been branded "partisan" while parochial refer­ences to thek "southern" origm have been used since the Inquiry opened last year.

The commission was by no means a partisan body, k con­ducted ksetf wkh objectivity and thoroughly examined aU evi­dence presented to it. Wkh re­gard to expertise, the com­mission consisted of two lawyers, a marine enguieer, a resource economist, and a geo­grapher, aU top men in their respective fields. The commis­sion, then, cannot be faulted on its expertise.

Perhaps the only weakness of the commission's report is its lack of comment on forestty. Although the Inquiry's terms of reference restricted to sand mining; .excluded forestry, the exclusion is a serious one. For although the Australian govern­ment can control the export of mineral sands, it has no power (or given the limited terms of reference o'f.the commission, no justification) to limit or phase out environmentally destructive forestry operations on the island. Moriiovcr, al this stage, k is unUkely that the present Federal government or the State govemment will open an inquiry into forestry on Eraser Island.

Novcrthelcss, the final report is a substantive document and a landmark in the history of governmental environmental protection in Australia.

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these companies, transfer the Sanctuary dkectly to the Trust, and save on the unnecessary running costs.

"This Bill docs not clarify the skuation," he said.

"Rushkig this legislation through, wkhout proper discus­sions wilh the National Trust, bears no relation to democ­racy as I thought it operated.

"You can't tell me that a reconstitution of the University Senate would be passed before detaUed discussions with the Vice-Chancellor," he said.

He criticised the Minister's interpittatibn of the agreement drawn up by the Trust and Mr Griffith.

"Mr Griffith will not be paid a salaiy of 510,000. He wUI receive some repayment of the money he has put into the

Sanctuary, and he will continue to Uve in the modest, two bed­room house there."

Mr Forrest emphasised that Mr Griffith would in no way profit from the handover of the sanctuary.

"He wUl be an advisor to the Trust, and we think h is only fair that he has some financial security, after he has made this very generous gift to the Trust.

'The Minister has taken the $287,000 liability ofthe Sanctu­ary out of context," Mr Forrest said.

'This is quite an acceptable figure; you must remember that the cash turnover is over one miUion per year, and the assets arc worth many times the debts."

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SACKED "I'm gettuig out," an American

teacher is reported to have said, before leaving Queensland after he was dismiss­ed by the Queensland Education Depart­ment for a conviction relating to cannabis. "I saw this sort of thuig happen in the States 10 years ago."

In July, four teachers were, found in possession of smaU quantkies of cannabis, were convicted by a magistrate, and sub­sequently suspended from teaching. After a hearing by the PubUc Service Board, regarding the act relating to Indictable offences, the Queensland Education De--partment decided not to remstate the four teacheis. They were permanently dismissed.

Of all the indictable offences, posses­sion of marijuana is the least serious. But the decision to dismiss the four teachers was the harshest penalty the board could have brought down. Protesting thai the teachers were being "doubly punished," the Queensland Teacheis Union began a campaign of "rolling strikes" in schools.

Then, on Tuesday October 26, the strikes were caUed off. The Board of Teacher Education had ruled that the teacheis should be suspended until June 30 next year, and that deciston was accepted by the Queensland Teachers Union. But Mr Bird, Minister for Educa­tion, stUl stands staunchly by the State Government's poUcy not to employ people convicted of drug offences in the department of education.

So ended the sap of the four teachers, who must accept the Board's decision and find whatever employment they can for the next eight months. One has returned to America, one has remained unemploy­ed, and two have taken laboring jobs.

Ray Harrison, the teacher who now finds himself out of work, said, "if the drug convictions hadn't happened at this particular time, I doubt if the whole thing would have escalated as it did. With this present govemment there's not much you can do though. They think they're on to an electoral winner by bashing students, drug takere, and so on. Until people show them that they're not, the situation won't change.

The State education department pushed for the harshest penalties on the marihuana issue not unlikely for political gain. It certainly aUowcd MLAs like Mr Charles Porter to have a field day denouncing "the crudest of radical m-dustrial stand-oveis" by the QTU. Mr Nathan, Mr Bkd's press secretary, said that the honorable minister "particulariy Uked" Mr Porter's statement to the effect that "the portentous comments on 'double punishment' and 'natural justice* arc really so much double-talk; dismissal almost invariably follows conviction for a criminal offence in virtually every walk of Ufe."

Despite Mr Porter's statement to the contrary, dismissal does not always follow on the conviction of such a minor "criminal offence" as possession of cannabis. Not even ki the Public Service. The QTU knows a number of cases where pubUc servants have, not been disniissed after such an offence, Ray Harrison said "Wheie teacheis are singled out and not treated the same as other people k makes you wonder how justice is bekig done." One set of rules for teachers, and another set, less harsh, for other people employed in State departments.

In a letter to the Mt Isa North West Star, Mr Bird vwote that "Mr CosteUo's {president of the QTUl claim that the cause [for the teachers'strikes] is against double punishment is as transparent as U is fraudulent." He cites 11 other cases in which teacheis were dismissed, for indictable offences during the past five years: five for sex offences against school children; two for "gross indecency with males''; one assault on "a female"; one robbery wilh violence and two for steal­ing.

Although Mr CosteUo was interstate, and therefore unayaUable for comment on this, the spokesperson for the union, Mr Clark, said "Mr Bird's letter changes the emphasis of what the dkpute was about. Possession of marifuana is not a major crime. The union would not have supported anything where the chUdren are concpmed." • •'

Further on in his letter, Mr Bird accused Mr CosteUo of hypocrisy and double standards. He noted that this had been "Ulustrated briUiantly" in a cartoon appcaiuig in the Townsville DaUy BuUe­tin. The cartoon refeis to the opposition of the Teachers Union when the Depart­ment sought to remstate four school chUdren who had been found using drugs in July last year, and contrasts this to the union's stand against the dismissal of the four teacheis. Mr Bird said "The cartoon apUy depicts Mr Costello takuig a lesson, chalked on the blackboard as 'a lesson in double standards,' whUe the chUdren are apparently being encouraged to chant the rhyme,.,.

Kids who transgress ShaU have no redress

And be banished for ever from school.

But teachers convicted Of sins that are wicked

ShaU remain to set the rule," Mr Clark pointed out the in appro­

priateness of this comparison. The chUdren who had been found using drugs were "found smoking cannabis in the school grounds. The teacheis who were convicted were found at a private farm house arid at a regular check-point on Coronation Drive. The teacheis did not have drugs at school."

' "I don't involve my personal vices in my professional Ufe," Ray Harrison said. "People who smoke marijuana just don't come out and say they do-for obvious reasons."

The Queensland Teachers Union is not going to punue the reuistatement oi the-four teachers untU next June since . the Board of Teacher Education brought down thek decision. What they are con­cemed with, however, is that, ki future, teachers convicted of similar offences get a fak hearkig before the Public Service Board.

An interestkig aspect of the dispute between the teachers union and the Education Department was the way the press handled the matter. Ray Harrison went to great length to avoid publicity (present pubUcation excepted), but he assumes that it was, perhaps, the court reporter on the Telegraph >yho went through the court records and> stumbled across his conviction. Follovring this, a. very smaU article appeared in the Tele­graph which just mentioned at the end, in brackets, that he was a teacher. Next day the Courier-MaU picked up the stoiy

and obviously went to Mr Bkd for. comment. "Of course he was forced to come out and say that I should be dis­missed," said Ray. One might wonder whether in fact Ray Harrison plight stiU be in a job had it not been for the way in whigh the Courier^aU pursued the issue.

Apart from the very misleading way in which both the Telegraph and the Courier-MaU went onto report the strUces (by making much more of the sclioold that did not "go out" rather than those that did), k was particularly fascinating the way the Courier's editorial Une changed as the weeks went by. OriguiaUy it came out in support of the teachers, but changed, in mid-stream, to support the government's stand. Had pressure been brought to bear on the editorial writer? . . . A penon, concemed that Mr Bird was making defamatory statements

.about Ray Harrison (to the effect that he was a "drug addict") rang the Education Minister's personal secretary the day before the Courier-MaU's edUorial Une changed. The very phraseology the-secretary used on the phone was. used, almost yerbatkn, the next day in the Courier-MaU.

Jane Camens

LEARNING EXCHANGE

Once upon a time, there existed in the land of coal and sugar, a civU rights move­ment, and the civU rights movement begat the Vietnam Moratorium movement which begat the awakenmg of the awareness that aU was not good in the schools of the land of coal and sugar.

So it came to pass that a group of people came together and saw it fit to caU themselves "the coundl for democ­racy in schools." Whereupon a senimar was caUed and the seminar begat the first lieaming exchange in Brisbane. However it was badly sited and came upon many difficulties and so it faded into obscurity.

But aU was not lost, as a dedicated few were working behmd the scenes and sub­mitting proposals to the then govern­ment, the provider of monies to struggl­ing ideaUsts and dedicated Utopians.

The schools commission looked upon the submission and saw that it was good and in seeing that it was good provideth monies for the setting up and runnkig of a leamuig exchange.

And so the peoples of the land of coal and sugar smUed warmly and set about looking for a pen>on who could be trust­ed, and she was found.

So it came to pass that Jessica was the co-orduiator, whereupon she gathered about her a dedicated band of whinsome Utopians.

Alas a difficulty occurred, and so did others, but these were quickly seen to whither and fade and so the dreams of many materialised before thek very eyes.

Firstly they found a shop and they caUed it hiome. And they found paint and appUed it and called k lovely.

So, in what seemed the twinkling of an eye, they had a party and they caUed it an opening and many of the peoples of the land of coal and sugar came, and it was recorded on video tape and the local peoples looked upon, this happy place and smUed warmly.

They were pleased at what they saw. Wherefore they asked "why does this

place exist?" and thek questions were answered.

"Because," they heard if say, "we are poweriess pwople, and are not encourag­ed to be resourceful in the schools. We are not aUowed to be self actuating indi­viduals. This is so we wUl always be dependent on people high up to do things for us and to give us things. This is not good, because those who giveth can takcth away, and so they do."

And k was further explained, sayuig "They take away our Ufe and give us a Uving death. They take away our free­dom and give us 'rights.' They take away our enquiring minds and give us mindless-ness."

However some were not as hardly done by as others and some saw that if wc start encouraging people to do things for themselves they wiU be pleased wkh the products of thek labors and wUl come to ask themselves why they could not do these thmgs before, and they might see it is -not in the interests of a smaU few for them to do these things for them­selves.

But t his is 0 nly the beginning.

And others came and looked at the exchange and were bedazzled by what they saw,

"Behold," they said, " This is truly wonderous. For you have here something for free."

"Yea," we of the learning exchange nodded, '-'We have many things too. We can giveth to you much information on many thuigs. We can teUeth you where to get advice on contraception, who to see to leam Spanish, what to do when the landlord tries to cometh on strong with the big stick,-and detaUs on the rights of school students. We can teU you why uranium must not be mined, and where you can go in the country to Uve if they do. Oh yea, we are a veritable mine of information."

But we dn not exist by dispenshig alone.

We are mortals too, and we need the peoples of the land of coal and sugar to come to us and offer thek information. We needeth the people to come to us and say, "Behold, I bring gifts. Here is my name and address and I can teach people to do these things (whatever they be."

We have put to death the ogres and you wiU be safe in this place, so do not fear.

You wUI be comforted whUe filling out our availabiUty form with mere tem­poral pleasures such as tea/coffee and the subtle deUghts of tim-tams.

And akhough we are in the gutteis some of us are lookmg at the stars.

The leamuig exchange is funded by the schools commission and can be found sulking in a double story buUding on the comer of boundaiy st, and corbet st west en Q 4101, ph 44 1766.

And further to this deUghtful tale of the sharing of wisdoms and knowledge amongst the people in the land of coal and sugar.

A dark shadow is pieparing to cast itself over this fust learning exchange and is due to faU on or about January 1977, in the form of a monster which devours doUars and cents. If the good people don't have any to fee the insatiable demands of rent and other overheads they could weU be gobbled up too.

In January the $13,000 grant that they have reUcd upon for the last two yeais mns out, so any stray money you have around would be gratefuUy ac­cepted.

The Leamuig Exchange offers about anything from Hindu lessons through macrame to canoe-buUding, and if they can't help theyll endeavor to put you in contact with someone who can.

It also functions in an unofficial sense, as a broader community service in that it helps people with legal hassles, is. involved wkh chUdren's activities (runs a playground group for kids during the holidays) operates the Rubbish Bene-factory, which recycles "stuff to play centres, etc, and is a general droppuig in place for aU sorts. Ih fact whUe there a pregnant young lady arrived, apparently with time to kUl and a few legal hassles, another one of the colorful locals popped in "not so pissed" as she had been over the weekend, a couple of non descript dogs amused themselves sniffing the postman and Ucking up an abandoned ice-block. ' '

k's a reaUy nice place to be inyolved with eUher dropping ki to say "Gidday," learning something, or teaching some­thing. It's a coUective so to get involved doesnt necessitate startkig at the bottom and working your way up.

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The line being pushed on abortion at the moment is, "we demand the right to control our bodies, our Uves and our fertQity." Abortion is however a very "in" thing to support, ask any of your femmist friends. In the same light, and to be consistent, a correct line on drugs might be: WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO CONTROL OUR BODIES' OUR LIVES AND OUR MINDS. The problem is of course that "rights" are not inaUenabie, as is implick in the deamdn that they be granted, or recognised. "Rights" are concepts which have an historical piucess, and which emerge as rights only when some form of social consensus has been reached as regards them. They take away our freedom and give us rights!

In this vein witness the Health Act in our lovely State which is being used by police to enter houses of people they don't like for set ups and which is cited as an excuse for entry regardless of drugs. The second is to justify increased spend­ing on the State bureaucracy so that increased money goes to the bureaucrats, and the paper factories can be enlarged.

At the moment the state bureaucracy is being reorganised along southern Unes-in a typical capitalist efficiency/integra­tion move-so that very soon our Senior Psychiatrist of today wiU emerge clothed in a new title-Director of Alcoholic and Drog Dependent Persons Services. In the southern State he would also be "and inspector" which would be thrown in just after director, but evidently Queens­land isn't that organised yet. Things wiU need a little time to consolidate.

The trouble, apparently, is the.power of the poUce force. They have a big hand in formulation of drug policy, witness Mr Newbery being sent to the aforementioned Melbourne conference to keep a watch on Edvrards, the Health Minister, hi case you've forgotten (and we'd expect as much of universky stu­dents around exam time) Mr Newberry is POLICE MINISTER, the guy who order­ed Cedar Bay in coUusion with Mr KUlen (watch these men). . So, to get the shit on the new drug laws together, our intrepid reporter snuck off to Pariiament hotise to consort with poUticians, secretaries and other yes men. Like Bob Mariey said, "never make a poUtician do you a favor, he \yUl always, want to control you forever." So, we arrived at parliament house, incognito in refiecting dark glass-. These were worn so that when those important people looked at one in the eyes they would be intimidated by a reduced rcfiection of themselves, showing them how small they stood hi our reporter's eyes. Isn't symboUsm wonderful?

So, off to Tom Burn's office for some chaos. They didn't seem to know much more than was in the papers. Evidently that's the way in Queensland poUtics. Anyway, Tom himself took a moment off from having a drink wkh representatjvy;

of our class enemies Gournalists) to have a rave about these new drug taws. WhUe one of the only down to earth people who we met, he displayed typical bour­geois pragmatism and. a certam class col­laboration, as is the wont of bourgeois puppets. If you can have a concept of the Queensland Pariiament as a bourgeois puppet theatre then you'll understand what I mean, k's who. pulls the strings that counts, and the working class cer­tainly doesn't.

Despite promises, of further raves the followmg day, Tom Bums was "busy," or at least that's what his private secretary said. His private secretary is a paid up member of the Australian JournaUsts Association, a representative of the enemies of the workuig class. What hope have we? • Like Tom said, "Labor was a pro-hibkion party y'know."

So there isn't going to be any good things coming out of the State Labor Party for a whUe, and they're going to support the increased drug penalties.

A Uttle look at the, state of dmg penalties is worthwhUe here. GeneraUy speaking, a fint offence in Queensland is S300, as opposed to a bond m the south. This" is of coune for possession. Any­thing else is pretty uncoot anywhere, but maximum penalties of Ufe and or $100,-000 wUl be a big increase everywhere. What it is gouig to mean is that police are going to be shot. Quite frankly, that seems to be the only response from a rea^nably inteUigent person (this is our last edkion so don't bother wrking ui to protest!). The shooting of police wUl put more pubUc sympathy on thek side, and further increase thek,power. That means more repression, I look forward to this situation and ks revolutionary potentiaU-ties, lots of other people are scared though. Advice: buy guns nowl

So, the whole drug thing goes on, trudge trudge.

MeanwhUe, back at 234 Gray,Street, South Brisbane, the Cannabis Research Founcation has set up offices. These people are a group of serious folk who arc starting to work in the Icplisation of

cannabis in AustraUa. They're not a deal­ing house, they're not-narcs, they're out to print and distribute bulk information on the potentiaUties of grass.

For instance, did you know that cannabis could be used to make paper. They can icxtract (and sell, or give away) the THC and they can make high quality

The "right" to use drugs of any de­scription is a logical extension of an emancipatory perspective, however, one that is not generaUy given ak. The repres­sion of that "right" and the hold up on its bemg granted is an implicit position of bourgeois democracy, one that is mani­festing itself in a big way in Queensland at the moment.

The gutter press has been announcing, joyously, big increases m the drug penal­ties over the past weeks. There appears to be no on giving out information though, so we have to put gutter press announce­ments down to contacts and being in the right place at the right time: applause, applause. Semper, not being a paid up member of the capitalist press club, and not being party to "all tiie news they ought to read" ethics, stUl got the scoop (Semper 5 for 76).

ft seems that some weeks ago there was a conference ki Mejboume (Mel­bourne is the capital of that decadent southern State Victoria) of ministers involved in matters of drug dependence at which the AustraUan Govemment put up proposals for unform legislation to deal with the problems associated with drug dependence. There appears to have been general agreement by aU the States on the proposed legislation, except that Victoria fek that the $100,000 penalty for trafficking was excessive, thejc felt that when you got over about $50,000 and/or Ufe it was aU the same. The Queensland deletation were the other dissenters. They felt that the AustraUan Government's differentiation between soft and hard drug trafficking was too easy, so they propose to make no dif­ferentiation. It was on this basis that the gutter press leaped out with "Ufe now for drug pushen" and other stories about pot (I wish they'd stop using that word) landing people in gaol.

Joh, people's enemy No I, is pushing (pun, pun) these haish drug laws to sati­ate his power lust, and to mcrease the coercive power of the state-there's no doubt on this one.

back' in September, wkh Lockyer on the ascendant, Joh suddenly dis­covered that there was a drag pipeline from North Queensland to the southern

States. He reported that Cairns poUce had seized a million dollars worth of mariju­ana and burnt it in two very successful raids.

This might account in part for the drought which has struck the whole of the east coast of AustraUa this month. Oh God!

As part of his attack on the drug pipe­Une Joh declared that a special drug squad would be set up in Cakns, just to make Ufe tough for people up there: watch out kkls!

The whole drug thing is used by Joh, and other politicians, for only two reas­ons. The fkst is to frighten people, so that the poUce force can be given more power and it can be explained away in terms of "we need k for stopping drugs." paper from the wonderful Uttle Hemp plant. This would solve the problem of clearing AustraUan forests, woodchippmg, and othier thkigs lUce that. But of course, It's not being done.

They have other thmgs gomg too, so drop by, they'd love to see you.

The other thing to look at is this amazing incongruity in drug classifica­tion in this State. UntU 1974-75 a very exact taUy of drug offences was kept, under e i^t dkferent categories by the police. Suddenly in 1974-75 the cate­gories were reduced .to seven, but seven very general categories. LUce instead of Hemp and HaUucinogen being different categories both became incorporated under HaUucinogen. It's a very shady trick, which ought to be righted. Now the mcidence of drug users being prosecuted is reported as rising, and about 90 per cent of attempted prosecutions are successful. However, there's no figures available on the number of people detained or the number of people hassled by the drug squad, or the poUce generally for that matter.

PoUce ought not to be allowed to decide wh6 looks suspicious, but of couise they are.

It is nice to have the temporary reassurance that the matter of the new drug laws has not yet even gone to the Minister's committee, and so they won't come in untU at least the next State parUamentary session (if then). But such reassurances are pretty hoUow when the poUce StUl go around fuckkig people over on drug charges and when it s(UI isnt trendy to talk in defence of drugs.

It seems that cool lines emanate from the south, so, "get off your aises I'U sec you out in the streets."

Garcth Steadman Jones

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Union ffl< GYGAR VS UQU

ews Notice is hereby given of an

Extra-Ordinary Meetuig of the 65th Unfon CouncU to be held on Thursday November U , 1976 in the E.G. Whitlam Room commencirig at 6.15 pm.

The major kem of busuiess will be the consideration of the FJectoral Officer's report on the 1976 Annual General Elections.

John CampbeU Union Secretary

65th CouncU

SPECIAL ELECTION MTG 66th UNION COUNCIL

Notice is hereby given of the Special Election Meeting of the 66th Unkin CouncU to be held on Thursday November 25,

(1976, in the E.G. Whitlam Room commencing at 6.30 pm.

The foUovring non-voting CouncQ positions will be filled by the 66th CouncU at this meeting: 1. Cliairpcrson of Council (see

specific announcement). 2. Deputy Chakperson of Coun­

cil. 3. The Editor(s) of Coundl of

Semper Floreat (see specific announcement)

4. The Finance Secretary Two (2) Assistant Union Secretaries

6. Social Action Committee (a) Local Social Action Di­rector (b) No more than ten (10) member of the Union

7. Accommodation and Housing Committee (a) Convenor (b) No more than five (5) members of the Union

8. Union Health Officer 9. Stu. Representative on the

Board of Governors of Inter­national House

10 Union Transport Officer 11 Public Rights Committee

(a) Convenor (b) No more than six (6) members of the Union

12 Drafting Secretary 13 Library Liaison Officer 14 Activities Director (a fuU

time paid position) 15 Union Nights Convenor 16 Guest Speakers Convenor 17 Concert and Recitals Con­

venor 18 Fine Arts Director 19 Music Room Director 20 Assistant Local AUS Secre­

tary 21 Local AUS Industrial Rela­

tions Officer 22 Local AUS International Of­

ficer 23 Local AUS Environment ,

Officer 24 Locak AUS Services Officer 25 Local AUS Welfare Officer 26 Incoming Delegations Officer 274ZZZ Station Co-ordinator 28 Four (4) Student Directors of

4ZZZ (27,2:8 takes office Jan 1)

290rientation Director (to take office immediately upon elec­tion)

30 Two (2) Assistant Orientation Directors (to take office :im-mediately upon election)

31 Film Unit Director 32 Video Unk Director 33Threc (3) Student Represen­

tatives on Senate Improve­ments Committee

34Three (3) General Represen­tatives on Finance Advisory

. Committee 35 Hospital Area Commktec:

Orie(l) Publicity Officer One (1) Therapy Representa­tive

36 Three (3) Student representa­tives on the Campus Kinder­garten Management Board

Nominations for non-voting positions other than Semper Floreat Editor and Chakperson of CouncU close at the com­mencement of this meeting. .

All officers and committees appointed at this meeting will take office from December 18 unless otherwise specified in these announcements.

John Campbell Union Secretary

65th Council

CHAIRPERSON OF 66th UNION COUNCIL

Nominations are invited for the position of Chakpcison of the 66th Union CouncU. Nomi­nations open on Thursday Octo­ber 28 and close on Tuesday November 16, 1976, at 5.00 pm at Union Office. The appointment wUl be made at the Special Election Meeting of the 66th Union Council to be held on Thursday November 25 in the E.G. Whitlam Room com­mencing at 6.30 pm.

Any member of the Union may nominate for this position. Nomination forms are avaUable from Union Office.

John Campbell Union Secretary

65th Council

SEMPER EDITOR 1977

Nominations are now open for the position of Editor(s) of Semper Floreat. Nominations close on Thursday November 11 at 5.00 pm at Union Office. •

Candidates arc required by that date to forward details of their quaUfications and poUcy statements which wUl be circu­lated to Union CouncUlors.

The appointment wUI take place at the Special Election Meeting of the 66th Union Council on Thursday Novem­ber 25 at 6.30 pm in the E.G. Whitlam Room. Candidates wUI be able to address the meeting and will be open to questions from Councillors.

John Campbell Union Secretary

65th Council

VACANCIES ON THE 66th UNION COUNCIL

Nominations are invited for the following voting positions on the 66th Unbn Council:

One (I) Representative of Agri­culture Faculty Students.

One (I) Representative of Part-time Commerce and Econom­ics Faculty Students

One (1) Representative of Den­tistry Faculty Students

Two (2) Representatives of Part-time Education FacuUy Students

One (1) Representative of Music Faculty

One (1) Representative of Over­seas Students

One (1) Representative of Post Graduate Students

Nominations open at 9.00 am on Tuesday October 26, 1976.

Nominations close at 5.00 pm on Tuesday November 16, f976.

Nomination forms are avail­able from Union Office. Part-time students wiU be sent nomination forms upon written request.

Any active member of the Unkin who is enrolled for a Doctorate or Master's degree or . for a Master's qualifying exami­nation may nominate for the position of Post-Graduage Stu­dents' Representative.

Any overseas student may nominate for the position of Overseas Students' Representat-We.

Any member of the Union may nominate for Ihe position of representative of the faculty and status (ie part-time or fuU-time) in which he/she is enroU-ed.

Candidates for election who have a bona fide intention of altering thek faculty or status during the term of. the 66th CouncU may nominate for elec- ' tion to a position on that Council. Written notice of inten­tion to change facuky or status must be submitted wkh the candidate's nomination.

No'pctson shall nominate for more than one of the above Union CouncU poskions.

The positions' will be elected at the Special Election Meethig of the 66th Union'CouncU'to be held on Thursday November .

25, 1976, in the E!G. Whklam Room commencing at 6.30 pm. John CampbeU Terry Yates Union Secretary Electoral 65th Council Officer

UNIVERSffY ELECTIONS

Student representatives on Faculty Boards

Nominatbns are hereby call­ed for Student Representatives on Faculty Boards Usted here­under. Nominees should note that these positions are totaUy separate from faculty represen­tatives on Ihe University of Qld Union CouncU (please not that it is possible to be both a represen­tative on a Faculty Board and Union CouncU).

Nominees should complete the separate Nomination Form for Faculty Board Representa­tives and fulfiU the University requirements that are outlined in this notice and on the form.

BOARD OF FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE Two (2) representatives of the

Undergraduate Architecture Students,

One (1) representative of the undergraduate Regional and Town Planning Students.

One (1) Representative of the postgraduate students

BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS Seven; (7) representatives of

undergraduate students ki the FacuUy of Arts

Three (3) Representatives of Postgraduates ui the Faculty of Arts (Post graduate for this purpose is anyperson enrolled for a higher degree in the Facuky of Arts, but not employed as a Grade 3 Tutor or above)

BOARD OF FACULTY OF COMMERCE & ECONOMICS Two (2) representatives of

undergraduate students.

BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION Three (3) student representatives

enrolled for the degrees of Bachelor of Education Stud­ies, Master of Education, Master of Educational Ad­ministration, Doctor of Philo-. sophy in an Education Field other than .Physical Educa-or for a certificate or diploma in the Faculty of Education other than the Diploma in. Physical Education.

BOARD OF THE FACULTY ol? SCIENCE • Five (5) representatives of.

Updergrariaate Science students.

ASUVN STUDIES-' Two (2) student representatives,

a major part of whose under­graduate or postgraduate work is in the field of Asian Studies.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE at the begkinkig of the Special Electron Meeting of tlie 66th Union CouncU on November 25 which commences at 6.30 pm and at which the appohitments are made.

Nomination forms are avaU­able 'at Union Office and candi­dates must be nominated .and seconded by persons who are quaUfied to stand for the posi­tion in question.

Nominations should,be hand­ed to the Admhiistrative Sec­retary or Unbn Secretary at Unten Office, , John Campbell Terry Yates Unk)n Secretary Electoral 65th Council Officer

P a g e l O : ' •.

Teny Gygar is a public figure. Under Parliamentary pri­vilege he says what he pleases about various individuals on a number of subjects so. it is with­out regres that we take up a Uttle space here to give a short objective account of Gygar vis a vis the Union,

Gygar was associated with the Union for a number of years before he was elected to State ParUament in the seat of Staf­ford. During tkat time he was among the unpopular minority right wing on councU. In those days there were distinct factions. It was at councU meetings that Gygar displayed a pedantic and vindictive nature, rigorously pur­sumg needless points of order , and resorting to graphic personal attacks on his opponents.

Understandably Gygar was re­garded with a mixture of con­tempt ahd humor by a majority of those associated with Union CouncO. Of course they felt the joke had gone a little too far when he was elected to State parliament.

Then there was his miUtary involvement. A keen member of the University Regiment he had carUer served in Vietnam and had reapplied for service. At Universky he had argued not only in favor of Australian in­volvement in Vietnam but revell­ed in the detaQs of guerilla tac­tics. Not to be outdone by anyone he was known to have argued in favor of the My Lai massacre as being 'justified."

Gygar never really got very far in the Union (the same applies to his political career in the State Parliament although he is making wonderous appear­ances in the Courier-Mail). His last association with the Union involved his defeat as candidate

ELECTION RESULTS

The foUowing are results con­tained in the Electoral Officer's Report foS-the 1976 Annual General Elections. Those wUh the highest number of votes are listed here although they are not necessarily elected as the repot has to be accepted by Union Council at an Extra-ordinary Meeting on Thursday Novem­ber II. For more detaUs copies of the electoral officer's report can be obtained from Union Office.

John Campbell Union Secretary

65th Council

EXECUTIVE: President-Spencer Treasurer-Young Secretary-Henderson Education VP-Davison Services VP-Shawcross General VP-Beatson Local AUS Sec-Henog Area VP (St Lucia)-Coles

ARTS REP FULLTIME M. Hughes G, Mason-Johnson C, Jensen S,Waitrowski J. Cole

ARCHITECTURE M. Bamett

EDUCATION F/T C. Bartlett

ENGINEERING D.Buckley

, I.Webb

LAW • D. Paratz

SOCIAL WORK G.Pocker

UNION HOUSE CTE B.HUl H.Ross L Davison -L. Gormley E.O'SulUvan W. Beattie *

AUS DELEGATES ' .. R. Cosgrove • " . ,

L, Davison > P. Annear-C, Jensen . , . . , :

for law rep in 1974. His defeat to a woman would have been a doubly bitter blow to Gygar.

The now defunct Universky Liberal Club was the private property of many of Gygar's associates. For a number of the Liberal heavies home was Crom­well College. So it is not surpris­mg that a petkion attacking the student unk>n has eminated from CromweU College. In fact Gygar himself had the petkion' and leaflets supporting k distri­buted. The petition caUs for students not to pay union fees, ie for non<ompulsory unionism. This is more than a Uttle absurd when one considers that student services fees pay for essential university services throughout all Australian Universities. At this stage the Federal Government is not prepared to fuiid these services-even Bjelke-Petersen supports the charges. UQU is primarily a service 'institution-its "trade union" functton is an important but ancUlary respon­sibility. So Gygar is pursuing a dead end course of action,

So far Gygar has presented three sets of his petUions to Parliament wkh 46, 17 and 51 signatures respectively. Not bad for a campus of 20,000-but not quite enough to entice Joh to call oul the army against the Union yet.

One can only conclude that Gygar is using the instkution of Pariiament to pursue a personal veiidetta against the Union. This is a deplorable situation and one which should be condemned by his own party.

As an indication of Gygar's approach the foUowing article is reprinted from Semper Floreat September 1974. '"

PERC TUCKER - GOING DOWN FOR THE THIRD TIME

n i icmponiy luikr cl Iki Qnttiu. Uad ruUuoMlir)' A.L.P., rttcTncluf, niUi* he b ti|liiti« IM hli poUtlctt ur-TinI tai ll it^mttii wucuig (or > tUepcwmo.

Vfttb 1 Stolt EStttion loemist. vni Uborpopulitilr >t iUlowcitcbbslMe 1949, nic CU tee tiw WTttist on Ihe wdL In the Uil State election U»ra wu 1 iwiw oTI.)«10 LebM end fere only held Ul leel bjr 26 vote! titer (mfcieiuti. U* nttttct Uul tie mutt uke ttie Mtlatlvc fnm fnaia Jeh ui4 inb Uie nempipet bttdUnct or hb dtyt tie numbend.

rctt hu bee* tiyint 10 do tUi In (he euntn( FuUtmeatuy lenion by ueiti-itai hb reroMtira u OpoatiUoii Uidei •0 M Ont on Ul leet tt Qucetlso line to uk the itiubtion two quciUoai. TUt. bu led to «lul b beconint known u "the eteTCK o'clock tamaci*** ud let«a ptcuiiUeir, A.LP. puUtBealuUni and ittaUr nrUuMBt to<n> KvinBiiv wlUi tnbemnncnt.

At UM tine for qitaetieii* ippntdiei there b * ItRrioo In Uw (II of tlie PuUi. ayntuy chtmbir. A tonndtnt mile niu tooet Ihe ftce ot Piemler Joh, Litcnl leader Sir Oordon Cbilk peichu oa the a4M of hit itil Uke t biro of tny, tiin-njnii frao eir to ear and lybblni hb haadi in tntidpiiien; end enn the nore loaintmbukai bick bcnehenon both lidei ikow a Itini ipirk ot well coocetl-edUfe.

Vou could heir a pin diop u ika dap­per Pttc rim lo Ui feet and lUm with the tloM hoaouRd phtate "Mr Sptikar, I dbect ny iiueitloi) willuwt Mtice to the HosowaMe.the Premier.'* >

The (peetttot looka down hopfan fo ae« toflM hiroie fi|ttre, like a tiMtM •itdiilor Iiclni dntnicUoa wilh a biave bctit - uaroitvaalely Iho Inneuloi b s o n reaioticent ot "Vooottock" in Ih* Snoopy ortooBt - the waK nemii] •apmaloo and lilileaa eyet, Ihe cenaia. ly ifcti be will bhader aiouiid In fiolt. las (lUnpU lotet altboine, and then run bitdfut into a tree - nd in Ikb

etkalieebalwayiioh. K ist« at dttjioiatioa tnpt thisuib

In Pwc^ «oica u he tika hb qudthxtt-be hai filled to auny tlnw* befon - u n . lyhecanitumpjahjiiilonce. '

Al h« llwi to aiuwer Joh'i unill kaa Ml faded, il hai widened into eaier anil-dptUon-Sir Gotttonia nearly beilde . hbnaatf wilh |lee bouodaf up and down b bii Nil to nrii Joh OB (pcihapi unaw. anthatJohnetdiBodiiiiuloUpike ' can on tny Labor membef be can) ud from the tovtnuncnl back benchtn the letcliooa ire vailed. Tbe lerriMe liio, Don Une, Cbl WUer and Ua frawlw lloal laocouly u Perc b denoUahed yelatalo - and Charlet Poller tooki downlopeilatulyrnwiUiKltrinlhe ' rear leenlnily db(uitcd lhat the lUn-dard of oppoittion couid b* ao low tai-a Uw Weunlflbtat ayitem of Conei*. meaL , ,,

WiUiUw4i{HUd hKOOiiattlowk hr back ials Ua Mat OH iMt of fuetUoa UiM ia abBoH an BBtirciimax. tta ttpMT. Uai 1 ^ wtt follow, hut Uaiaalaanu It oraf > and Pm wta lU quietly HIIIM •ilh a yacaal look at»i«ac* oa Ua wis toMowlwnonrJoh'bbad, hriuMbe' can aaa tha wenli •'26 Votaa" iBKiOed then ta ktlen o( fin, and fela i M e MB. UcdUfelillHblBiptttWt'eyia; "^

"TehyOyiir".

w m CORnER mi

^Richard Spencer

At the last meeting of Union CouncU k was recommended that examination results be not pubUshed in the press wkhout individual student consent. Sub­sequently the Universky examinations commktee has recommended to the Professorial Board that students may individuaUy request the Registrar to withhold thek results from press publi­cation. The eariieis this policy coiUd be implemented would be first semester 1977. Under the present system of blanket publication some students m our universky get parking fines and delay payment of those fines so that their results wUl be withheld from publica­tion. The new proposal deserves fuU student support.

Malley refectory mural The Union's fine arts committee has

recommended that Brisbane artist, Ann Thompson paint the proposed refectory mural. Ann has accepted and wUt work on the mammoth project over the Christmas break. The mural space agove the food service outlets measures ap­proximately 150 feet by 6 feet and represents a great challenge to an artist. Following the mural a complete change in interior color scheme is planned along with the introduction of planter boxes and rearrangement of tables.

MisceUaneous CouncU has recommended that a

student representative be appointed to the Senate pubUcations committee so that we might find out more about the operation of the University Press and ks relation' to the Universky Bookshop. Also the Union has also requested the University bookshop to remain open at least one night per week for the whole of 1977 for the benefit of evening students.

The Union is presently seeking the views of coUege student associations on. the matters of possible conversion of part of coUege accommodation to non-coUegiate housing and on the establish­ment of a University student residence commktee. Subsequently council will formulate policy in these areas.

"Last time I was at the CURRY SHOP, it was hot!!!!"

SCHONELL DRIVE ST. LUCIA

Beef, vegetable, prawn, chicken curries, to eat in or take away. Take away curries: $2.00 Otherwise $2.60

5:30 on

S'he §tQte find ^he inion

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THE UNION VIS A VIS THE STATE GOVERNMENT

Recently a commktee of back-bench government members has been looking at the Union and its structure. As to whether they want the Union spUt into a Union and an SRC we don't know and apparently they don't know themselves. To shed some light on the issue the foUowing articles explain some aspects of the Union's' structure and demonstrate the action that the Union has taken to expose various innuendos raised about the Union wkhui ParUamentary ckcles.

At the meeting of Union CouncU on October 21 the following motion was passed:

'That (1) this union holds that any State govemment legislative proposal regarduig the University of Queensland Union should be prepared in consulta­tion with the Union. (2) any considera­tion of legislative proposals without con­sulting the Union would represent a deplorable' expression of contempt for the student body at the Universrty of Queensland. (3) The above views be communicated to the State Education Minister." .

In the meantime the Union is re-ceivmg full legal opinion on its present unincorporated position, and the ad­vantages and disadvantages of incorpora­tion in various forms. If the State Govem­ment attempts to restrict student auton­omy and break up the Union on thek terms we wiU be weU prepared.

Richard Spencer

THE UNION IN LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

The Union is presently an unincor­porated association-one of the few univeisky unions wkhout corporate status.- This means that the Union is governed simply by its own constitution-ks legal identity is somewhat Ul-defined although considerable progress has been made in recent years in the definkion of the legal character of unincorporated associations.

Presently if someone wishes to sue the Union they must sue the Union president or perhaps the Union councillois or perhaps every student who has voted in a Union election (and has thereby shown an intention to be bound by the con­stitution). The Union president is in­demnified by the Union in the ordinary exercise of his office. Also if the Union wishes to sue it must do so in the name of the president. This situation applies for trading. Union business names, companies and the proprietorship of newspapers arc all taken out in the name of the president. The changuig of office bearers can create problems which would not be as accentuated if the Union was a corporate body.

However, k is kresponsible to talk of the Union being incorporated unless mention is made of the many forms and terms of possible incorporation.

Firstly the Union could be incor­porated by Act of ParUament, ie by amendment of the U of Q Act to give legislative embodiment to the present Union constitution. Then there is the ReUgious Educational and Charitable Institutions Act (Qld) under which most church organisations and the RNA (show) are registered. The Qld Compan­ies Act is a possibUky (s 21 provides for a non-profit company) as is the Co­operative and other Societies Act (Qld).

The Union has survived reasonably well for over 60 years as an unincor­porated association. On the financial side the Union has been very self-reUant, eg the Schonnel Theatre and later the kitchen extensions were built with the Union's own resources-other Aus­traUan unions received major outside funduig for similar projects. The Deputy Chairmart of the Universities Commission this year. Prof Bull, has readily admkted that UQU has received inadequate and disproportionate funding from the Fede­ral'government over the years. Further­more the University Administration has shown a miserable attitude towards fkianciaUy assistmg the Union. How much aU of this has becii dependent upon the union's legal status, the student control pf the union, inadequate and inconsistent lobbying on the part of the union or lack of consideration on the part of the U.C. and the administration it is difficult to say but k is definkely attributable to some cbmbuiation of aU the facton'mentioned.

Briefly the possible advantages of

Pagell

incorporation could be-cJarification of the Union's insurance and Utigation positions and clarification of the union's capacity to trade and hold real property off the. campus. Disadvantages could depend on the restricrions imposed in incorporation. Despite the approval of the .University Senate k is evident that some members of pariiament resent the Union's off- :ampus trading venture Stereo FM Centre in Adelaide Street, It is conceivable that action could be taken to prevent the Union from operatmg this shop and perhaps from even contributing to radio station 4ZZZ.

Obviously the potential danger is that the govemment wUl incorporate the Union restrictively on thek terms for thek own poUtical purposes and not in the mterests of students. State Cabinet has never been overly sympathetic to the student union. Then there is one of the more krational"members of parlia­ment, Terry Gygar, Liberal member for Stafford who it would seem has a person-

• al vendetta against the Union. WhUe there are a number of reasonable

.government members who understand the structure purpose and needs of the Union there is at this stage no guarantee that the jcynt parties will not entertain regressive legislation to break up the union in its present form and inhibk student autonomy and activky as well as underminkig the economic viabUky of the Union.

The Union is presently undergomg healthy reform and consolidation of ks trading-it does not need the big foot of the State govemment.

Qearly there is a need for students to govern thek own affaks. Student activity and consciousness is iow-semesterisation and contkiuous workloads fill the stu­dents' minds and examination pressure completes the factory atmosphere. One of the few instkutions that can work for change in the University is the Union. The State Government must never be aUowcd to inhibit that capacity.

R.W.

THE UNION IN STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Over the last few years the Union has been reviewing its infrastructure with a view to makmg k as efficient as possible. The University of Queensland Union has a particular stracture in that it incorpor­ates both student representative and service functions. At all other large campuses, wUh the exception of WA, where WA Guild has a similar structure to our own, these functions are provided by two separate bodies, usually an SRC and a Union.

The present union structure has some obvious disadvantages: Where students play an integral part in the inqnagement of the Union the biggesst problem is con­tinuity. At tlie present time four full time student office bearers control the union's operations; the president, secre­tary. Treasurer and services-vice-presid­ent. Each year these people,tend to be replaced at election time; combuied with resignations during the year, this repre­sents a considerable lumover in manage­ment. This particular problem lessens if the managers are good, as they are at the present time. However, in the past, weak management has resulted in some prob­lems for the Union, particulariy in view of the lack of continuity with office bearers.

Currently the Union's overall manage­ment is at the best point m many years. The result is that long term planning is taking place, and 1977 wUl undoubtedly be a good year for the Union. The execu­tive of the union has worked hard in 1976 to achieve such a situation and in the future the Union will certainly bene­fit.

UnUke the southern unions the student representatives at Q-jcensland have more responsibUities. This is good because it minimises the chances of syphoning off Union funds for esoteric political ends. If representatives have to make decisions with trading areas Uke the Refectory in the back of thek minds thek decisions wiU be more responsible and more responsive to the needs of students.

Although students often feel anta­gonistic toward the Union for a varied number of reasons they know they have the right to run for election and effect policy, and hence, change.

At other unions thb is not the case. Tlicre are few active student rtpre-sentatives in the Union activities the

unions are run totally by administrators. This has led, I believe, to entrenched pubUc service type bureaucracies where no one can lose his job and student union fees arc wasted on over-large administration costs, everyone with a secretary and little regard for cost. The mentaUty being that the bureaucracy budgets for the coming year and puts up the fees accordingly. In Queensland we attempt to rationaUse our services, operating at optimim efficiency. This accounts for the large discrepancy between student fees in Queensland and at comparable universities; par­ticulariy in view of the wider range of services offered here.

Undoubtedly the Universky of Queensland Union could make altera­tions for the better in its structure. However, on balance, the system we presently have is better than the ob­vious alternative. This docs not mean the stmcturc of the Union should not change. Obviously it must be volatile, changing to suit new circumstances. But the change must come from within. It would be of Uttle value to impose a new and Ul-considercd structure on an organisation that has evolved with certain traditions over a considerable number of yeats.

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1. Has the Min i s t e r ' s ai:tentlon been drawn to d i squ ie t ing rumours that the finances of the University of Queensland Union have been so d i sas t rous ly mLsmanaged that there i s serious doubt whether the Union w i l l be able to meet i t s overdraft repayment as they f a l l dtie.

2 . I s i t t rue t h a t , because of inadequate controls the Union Executives overspent i t s budget by $50,000 l a s t year , thereby further exacerbating i t s already severe overdraft problems.

3. Should the Union be unable to meet i t s f inancia l coitnnit-ments, w i l l th i s Government or any s t a tu to ry body be l i a b l e for the Union's debts .

UNIVERSITY'S IgPLY; ,

The University of Queensland Union has an overdraf t with the Coimonwealth Bank of Aust ra l ia with a presen t tnaximum of • ..'-$515,000. This overdraft was o r i g i n a l l y negot ia ted in order.: to finance the c a p i t a l development of the Union Complex and i n pa r t i cu la r the establishment of-a commercial centre for the provision of t rading serv ices to students and to construct the Schonell Theatre. More recent ly , the overdraft has been u t i l i s e d to a s s i s t in the cap i ta l costs of extending and modernising kitchen f a c i l i t i e s a t the Union. The need for the Students Union to finance cap i ta l development of t h i s kind has been due, in pa r t , to the r e l a t i v e l y low level of c a p i t a l support that has been made ava i lab le by way of grant compared with s imi la r student unions in o ther Univers i t i e s .

By agreement with the Bank, when the overdraft was f i r s t negot ia ted , the Senate of the Universi ty undertook to pay a l l monies accruing to the Union r e su l t i ng from the col lec t ion of annual student service charges d i r e c t l y to the Union's account with the Bank and th i s i s current p r a c t i c e . In the overdraft agreement, the Union i s required to reduce the overdraft by $35,000 feer annum over a four-year period which commenced in 1975 and then by instalments of $100,000 per annum in 1979 so as to achieve f u l l clearance of the overdraft by December 1982.

This agreement has been met and i t i s expected that the Union w i l l continue to honour i t s undertaking in t h i s respect . The l a s t increase in s tuden t s ' service charges was applied in 1974. Over the intervening period, the Union has suffered severe increases in wages and other cos ts r e f l ec t ing the rapid ra te of i n f l a t i o n in the coiranunity general ly , but i t has not been e l i g i b l e for or received supplementation of i t s , incojw as has the University i t s e l f .

Late l a s t year, the Union experienced a severe cash flow problem due to rapidly increas ing cos t s , an excess Inventory and a s ign i f ican t increase in c red i to r s . These problems were overcome ear ly th is year by an advanced payment against student serv ice charges accruing in t h i s year. A new f inancial con t ro l l e r was en­gaged by the Union, and a s ign i f ican t improvement achieved in cash

flow by a reduction in inventor ies and in the leve l of c r e d i t o r s . However,'without an improvement in t o t a l income the Union expects s imi la r t igh t l i q u i d i t y to continue during the year.

At i t s las t meeting, the Senate of the University approved a submission from the Students Union and a lso from the Sports and Physical Recreation Association for an increase in the level of s tudent service charges to apply in 1977. In i t s submission the Vtiioa has indicated that the level of subsidy required towards the provision of student ca te r ing services t h i s year has been reduced by 30% compared • with 1975, and i t has a l so been able to overcome losses experienced in o ther t rading se rv i ce s , espec ia l ly the Schonell Theatre., in 1975 and these a c t i v i t i e s are now •' ; t rading prof i tably . By reason of the agreement, with the University the Bank receives d i r e c t l y a l l income made avai lable by the Senate by way of grant representing student service charges . . ' co l lec ted by the Univers i ty . The Union may need ass is tance in meeting i t s cash flow needs . l a t e t h i s year by reason of con­t inuing increases in cos t s but expects t ha t th i s s i t u a t i o n w i l l be s ign i f i can t ly improved as a r e s u l t of the increase in s tudent service charges to apply from the beginning of next year. The Ualon i s a voluntary unincorporated body but i s solely responsible for meeting i t s f inancia l commitments.,. -The University has not accepted any l i a b i l i t y for such.commit­ments nor has i t provided any guarantee t o the Bank in respect of i t s current overdraf t arrjangements with the Union.

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The foUowing letter and statements were sent to aU Uberal Government mem­bers on September 29. Executive memben of the Union made personal contact with a number ofparUamentarians at this time. •

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Xt has cono to ny attention that certain issues regarding ^he Union haVB been discussod by Govornnont nombars. I undorstand it has been suggested that the Union hos donated consid«rable suns to the Australian Labour Party for the purposes of the last Federal election campaign. In relation to this allegation and other issues, I would like to sake the following points.

m DOMATICmS TO POLlTrCAL PARTIES

1. To the best of My ftnowladge the University of Queensland Union has never given money to the Australian Labour Party for the purposes of the 1975 Federal election or for any other purpose.

2. At • Council meeting in November 1975 a notion proposing the allocation of Union money for party political purposes was ruled ultra-virus the Union's Constitution by the Union Council Chairperson.

UKIOM eOHSTITUTIOHAL PBOTEgTION

3. < Tha Union constitution precludes' any donations to -political parties vis. Ssotien S.O) • ticiu ot the subjects set out in Saetlen

'5 of this Constitution shall be int«rpcatod as subject to the proviso that the Union shall tonialn indopandont of' any religious or political organisation and shall not pronote or assist any religious denoKiination or bul ief in preference or ' precedence to any othur or engage in the practico of party politics.

4, In March,. 1976 a ror'-rcndum pursuant to the Union Constitution was held on the del>:cion of the words "or engage in the practice of party politics" from Soction 6.(3). This referendum was heavily and dccisivuly defeated,

UNION STRUCTURE I'ROHOTliii RRSPONSIBIUTy

5. The University of Qiwensland Union is a service body enploying professional officers and managers. Student Office Bearera ura charged with thn roaponaibility of ensuring that the doinestia affairs of the student body arc handled competently and efficiently. This has led office bearom to ba c«*P°(ialbl{ and avanhandiid in tliolr edninistratlon of the Union.

"SYPHONING" OF FLIHDS TO A.U.S. In the last few y.iars the only aUocation the University of Queensland Union han mode, to A.U.S. apart from affili;.tion fees ia an amount of S7D0-00 in 1975 to aid the fundii..| of a :,urvoy on the educratioiial poUoaes of all politica. parties and the subsuquont publishing of these findings. This was done in accordance with the Union's constitution. I would point out that education welfare is a major

.responsibility of tin-' Union.

UNION FINANCES SOUWD 7 The Union's s» .uru-financial position is 'bornis out by the • original draft reply by the Onivotuity of Queensland to a

recent parliamentary question - please find attached question and answer,

STUDENTS SOPPOnT UNIVEHSITY OF QUEENSLAND UNION AUTONOHV

8. In August, 1976 a plebiscite was hold on the following ootibn:

THAT TUK MEHUERS OF THE UNION DECLARE: (i) THAT IT IS ESSENTIAL TH.\T TIIE STUDENTS' UNION

CONTINUE TO BE SELF-GOVERNING AND FREE PROH EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE.

(ii) aHAT TIIE STUDENTS CONTINUE TO COVERN THE UNION JN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNION CONSTITUTION WHliUl CUARANTEES THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OP STUDENTS TO LLECT AND RECALL riEPllESr:NTATIVES, TO DECIDE CONTENTIOUS ISSUES DY REFERENDUM) AND TO DB^IAND THAT SUCH REFERENDUM BE CALLED.

(Ill) THAT THE STUDENTS' UNION CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES AS DECIDED IN ACCQRDAHCE WITH TUE DEHOCBATIC PROCEDURES OUTLINED ABOVE.

7et of thv' students who voted supported tho notion.

I trust ths above olacli'luii thu iaauus that I understond, havu boon raised and I would point out that myself and other nombtfrs of the Union Executive would wulcomu and appreciate personal anqulxius about the Union from motiibers. •_

Yours siriMraly, y/ ',.

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RICHARD SPENCER PRESIDENT, tltilvfeft^lTV OP (lUEENSIAHD UNION.

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NUSAS (National Union of South Afric­an Students) from 1969 to 1971. He was' "banned" by the South African Govern­ment in 1973 for five years and was due to serve two years in gaol (following 14 arrests). He arrived in AustraUa on a borrowed pkssport in September 1974 and was granted political asylum.

At an Australian Council for Overseas Aid member organisation seminar held in Canberra from August 19 to 20, Mark Hayes recorded this interview for "Sem­per Floreat", with Curtis,

What were you actually doing when you were involved in South Africa?

In South Africa I was In the student movement, wliich is quite a different thing to being in the student movement here. Simply being involved politically against the Government in South Africa makes you an object of controversy, an object of attention. You'll find that you will be victimised by the government, you'll find your contacts will be lost, many people who you would be friends with, with whom you share common beliefs, you can't just bridge that gap between people, assuming people arc on your side. Because there arc much deeper divisions in the society you must be quite clear about who you are and what you are on about.

What came out of that was a realisa­tion that if we were to live in that soci­ety, and not be part of apartheid and not be part of white elimination, then we had to make some real decisions. One of these decisions was, for example, what a lot of us did was to refuse to use any facilities that were segregated, which means not using any public transport, any hotels, any sports matches and so on. But out of that we fhpn found that we were then thrown on our own time, on our own re­sources much more. We were able to build up a much better way of working together, of sharing things together, simply talking with each other, and inter­acting as people much more rather than being distracted by all these other things.

What is happening in South Africa now is that kind of life is becoming now a way of life for the prople of the present generation. And the important thing for them is the revolutionary change; this is what they Uve for, what they live about, and, of course what they die for. It is that sort of level of reality that Australia doesn't have at the moment, but that is coming, 1 thmk.

It is either gouig to be forced on us willy-nilly by a Conservative government that is going to change the society drastic­ally; 1 can foresee quite clearly that there is going to be conscription in the country Ul five or six years time, and young Aus­tralians are going to be sent off to foreign countries again to fight for causes they don't believe m. I can see growing un­employment, I can see real restrictions on the people in terms of what we have; the press, the radio, the media around the country on which views can be expressed. I think the reality is going to be forced upon us, and the option we have is simply to.go along with that, and I want to start now and start building our own kmd of reality, which is a much more difficult challenge. And the hope is that it is not too late. ' What ever happens there m South Africa, out of that society there is gomg to come a new society, whclh will be

more just, more equal and very much more real.

What did the South African Govem­ment actually go and do to you. How did you eventuaUy have to leave the country?

Well, they've got a neat Iktlc legal gimmick called a "banning order"; they don't need to use the courts at all for this. Tlie minister simply serves a decree on you and that decree lasts for five years. It makes il illegal, fkst of all, for you to be in the company of more than one person at any point in time. So that's the end of any sort of social life, or gathering, and you can be arrested for this. I was arrested for having dinner with my family, or playing cards with friends. They then make il illegal for anything you say or do to be reprinted or repro­duced in'any way or form. You can't become a public figure in any sense, nothing that you say can be broadcast or printed or copied down. They make it illegal for you to be in certain places-any educational institution, any factory or any place where workers gather. They make il illegal for you lo belong to cer­tain organisations and they've got a list of 420 organisations. They make it il­legal for you to leave a certain area. And then with that law go the laws which make it legal for the police to go into any premises at any time, to tap telephones, to open mail.

So they have a system of completely legalised persecution, of complete curtail ment of your freedom. The law is intelli­gently applied-it's clever. So that it's not ju.st you who's penaUsed by these laws, it's other people. For example, if you attend a gathering and you're a "banned" person, the other people at the gathering can be charged with attending a "banned" gathering or meetuig. If your words are reproduced, you can be prose­cuted, and the person who has reproduc­ed them, the reporter who has written them down, can also be prosecuted. So, it's a whole very inhuman system devised to completely limit people's freedom and effectiveness in a society, to completely cripple them.

And with that, of course, there goes the whole terror of the laws which they have such as the Terrorism law, which has a minimum of a five year sentence and in which the onus of proof is reserved. [Un­der normal ckcumstances in criminal law, the onus of proof rests on the prosecu­tion to show the accused did the act. Curtis is describing a situation where the onus is on the accused to prove that he did not do the act. The prosecution need only present evidence damning of the sc-cused-MH) Then there is the whole position of an active security police force with enormous powers, who can shoot people, people die in prison, people vanish completely without any recourse to law. The police can detain anybody at any time without specifying the reason, or even specifying that they have detain­ed people.

In a society where you are completely at the mercy of the state, which may act completely arbitrarily, but which really acts in a particularly planned and deadly fashion. It has a particular view of soci­ety and particular goals.

And then, of course, if you are black, the laws l have mentioned apply to everybody. You face an additional two or three hundred laws which discriminate agamst you, in a whole variety of ways that cut into your family life, cut into your education, cut. into your career, specifically where you may live, who you may talk to, every aspect of your life is specified on some sort of racial grounds, with heavy penalties which are actively enforced.

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And you were eventually forced to leave South Africa.

1 was faced with two options. I had been banned. 1 was now more of

a threat to the people I was working wkh than a help, because wkh me I brought this whole banning thing. 1 could be prosecuted, they could be persecuted for being with me. At the same time 1 had been convicted a number of times for breaking my banning order, in a consist­ent process of penecution. 1 had been arrested 14 limes, and faced a minimum two years in gaol followed by another set of charges which I knew carried a minim­um five yeare gaol sentence. The prospect 1 had was of spending seven years in gaol, completely restricted, unable to do any­thing creative m society, or leaving, and trying to find ways of working to change South Africa from outside. 1 decided to take that option and take the risks in­volved, of leaving the country illegally and arriving at the mercy of an unkown government in a strange country. I had no papers and applied for political asylum which was fortunately granted. And smce then I have been able to find ways to work effectively in this country both in respect to the apartheid skuation and in the situation that you have here in Aus­tralia.

Do you see the sort ot thuigs you have just described about your life m South Africa possibly occuring here?

I think that almost anybody can see that Australia has taken a sharp turn to the right, and 1 think that the present government, as one of ks first priorities has the goal of entrenching itself very fu-mly ki power, which is the process that hajjpened in South Africa. 1 thuik that they're going to narrow dow* thp free­dom, tne options that are available to people wkhm this country, and that they'

are gomg to move in the same dkection that white South Africa has moved, pre­serving what they have got at almost any cost to the people who haven't got k. Tliat includes people outside the society and the people who are less privileged in the society, the poor, the blacks and others.

Are you aware of the recent NSW police raid on the Tuntable Falls com­munky near Nimbin?

I've heard about it, yes. That's the sort of scenario that you'll see more and more in the future. The society is going to be less willing and less able to tolerate any sort of diversity, be it personal di­versity or social diversity, particularly

' organisational diversity or the sort of diversky that threatens economic rela­tionships. With thai 1 think that you're also going to get an mcreasing, if you like, decadence, an increaskig destructive pattern of social behavior among people-heavy drinkuig, heavy use of drugs. I'm not condemning these as immoralky in a wowserish way but as a decay, if you like, of human energies, of human potential, of human spkit. 1 think that process is happening as well.

The analogy you can make, if you like, is with the Germany that Escher writes about; the 1930s-1936, 1938-Germany shortly before the Nazis took over.

I don't think it's overdramatic to make that sort of analogy, but that is certainly the sort of dkection that Australia is starting to face in an increasingly rapid way. And 1 think it's common not only in Australia but also in many Western countries.

Neville Curtis, thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

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was Jfe// fftfe /s the last issue of Semper for the year (and it very nearly didn't appear). We hope, that yoti've enjoyed reading Semper as much as we've enjoyed producing It. We hope that next year's editors, who will be elected in November will be willing to continue the weekly format despite the work involved. We would particularly like to thank Mark, Ross, Janet, Mark D., Greg, Annmaree, Alan, Greg, Rob, Alan, Denis, Barry. Paul, Richard, Radhd^ Peter, Col, Janice, Anna and all theothers (sorry if we left you out-we still love you). Especially thank you to all our friends who have endeavored to keep us sane this year, and tolerated our ups and downs. •

Thanks also to John Irwin and all the people at Warwick Daily News.

Julianne & Jane

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QUEENSLAND POLITICS * Defending A.U.S PL6 ^student Strike PL3

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ON SUING . SEMPER

Well Semper is doing well in the writ p m c . When Sleuth read Tuesday's Courier-Mail he noticed that the editors of Semper had been served with a writ for defamation by George Cook o f . t h e Community Stan-ditids Organisation and Rita Greathead of the Parents of Tertiary Students Association. Sleuth then contacted the editois to find out why they hadn't told him about the writ being served. Much to Sleuth's surprise he discovered that the only thing the editors knew about the writ was what they had read in the afore­mentioned Courier-Mail. Sleuth then suggested that the editors contact the Courier and demand that ^. apology be printed as no such writ had been served. However at the fateful hour of foift o'clock.on Tuesday Octo-

, ber 26 the Uttle man with the writ arrived. The editors inform­ed Sleuth that they still don't know why the writ was served. Sleuth would appreciate any information on the writ, as he will then contact the ed i to i s -as he is in constant contact with them.

When Sleuth .read the writ he observed that George Cook had a job, although Rita Greathead was classified as being the wife o f Mr Greathead. Most interest­ing

fBLACK BOY" Well we're all used to seeing

I articles about women with head­lines using the word girl-«ven if the woman is in her sixties, but it is unusual for a man to be called a boy. But the Courier-.MaQ managed It on Wednesday with a headline "End Apartheid Says New B o y " - S l e u t h was

I interested to see w h y . upon I leading the article it was dis-I covered that the article referred

t o the black Prime Minister of Transkei-Mr Kaiser Matanzima.

I Sexism and racism live o n in the I nunds pf Queensland newspaper l iub-ed i ton .

PLAYBOY . [GYGER

Why does conseiwtlwTeiiy [Gygar (SiLA" Stafford): .want I Rtybpy vleatallsed: in \t)ueeii8> Ihhcl!, He.tays it's.biBCtW).he I wants to be able to read the I jimportant articlei' published-^in ^iq^^agiuiae-Ui^«^wliy:^Jpi^

Sutei-^lusts after women.' -biit ISIeutii is suspicious, especiaUy. after the yAit array of dmllar literature shown to be on-his desk by the TDT report last' Friday. His action is particularly strange because Sleuth;: .was informed by reliable sources several months ago that Playboy

jwovld be available in'Queens-' land by Christmas. . . S o ; what.

[game Is Mr Gygar playing-I attracting more ; votes in the

chauvanistic electorate '• ol- Staf-. fordin'aybel

jgRlVAFE Pi i ' : : Mr Bert Oaws u ,a ."pHvate

I eye" and in his spwe'- t ime serves writs ; o n unsuspecting. people. When he d id ' the dirty ^ deed to the editotff o f Semper he ssid being - a '^riv»t« «yo" was., nothing''l ike th'Ss' movies made it o u t to be. and ^hcn prb?

ceeded to show the assembled pthering his scais from being attacked by criminals-including a long scar on his belly ("pro­truding because of hernias, I don't drink beer") where he was hit by a bullet. Apparently the life of a private eye in Brisbane involves finding missing people - h e found an 11 year old boy under the boy's parents h o u s e -hanging by a rope, his body decomposed after seven days.

In the past the life of a "private eye" used to involve getting photos of people screw­ing so that there was proof of adultaiy for divorce cases~a matter of breaking into houses and finding people in com­promising situations. Fortunate­ly that has now ceased with the revised divorce laws.

Sleuth commented that the television sfeemed to show life as a private eye pretty accurately, Bamaby Jones seems to do much the same thing on com­mercial television. But if you have aspirations of being a "private e y e " and with the graduate employment situation the way it is it may be worth considering, be prepared for bullets in your body, and tins o f . paint tipped over you when serving writs.

BLAND t.D.T It's been rumored that Henry

Bland is keeping a close eye on Brisbane TDT after their excel­lent work on Cedar Bay and Cooloola mining among o t h e i s -and they have been advised to tone down their presentation and be more selective with issues.-yfMV ^ t l^Wft iH5> P

CGREY_GORTON: John Gray Gorton looked

washed out this we.ek-not what you might ex'pe6t":for-a-.yisiting, lecturer. i f t - -

-:He./addr^sse<r^t.he trendies taking a Socblogy subject, for 15 minutes,-: then renieirtbercd that

. he hadn't mentioned the Senate. That was worth another six minutes. >"

John Grey described the Fraser Govemment as Conservat­ive, rather than Liberal. He would like to see the Liberal left wing and the Labor right wing combine to form a middle party/ Which just about de­scribes his politics.

SUNSHINE One of the belly aching

,V!LAs in ,State. parliament has suggested that Queensland change the color o f number plates. His suggestion was that number p h t e s be green and yellow, to promote the tropical nature of Queenslahd and that

•.Sunshine State be virritteq on the ^plates. Identification is f ine-but

Queensland is already the l a u d ­ing stpck o f Australia, why give the dreaded soutfaemen any more ammuRli:ion. -•

f)MBITlQNa ; The"-dark ,brick wall8,of'the ,.

Univer^ty ',- Staff ^ Association . aub'tHJj^iloon.be,briWitened;by,' •

' an ejaiibition o f naintliigsj.^yia,,', BrisbifieHifHsf;^" Kayt ip tp i , : : ' • Tbp U'paint i futs ' to be shown . will'be 8 ireprw""***^*" e l ec t i on .• of Mrs Upton ' s work; and,wi l l ' s , include: "ofli, charcoals ; 'and. framed batik works. Some of thp;. . paintings : have as subjects th«

:people^of. western Now South, Wales towns o f Broken-Hill .»rid'WilldWiiia. There."are•also*' hudevd;udl6}/"8nd portraltsi'Mrs JUpiorT has lived in Brisbane ,

V^for*iihe' jiaJst; 13 years,.painting , vjmd'teaching ,art.: She received ;

:=r'he|i'edriy! a h training in Londdn,, ' ^^^jfifti^f.[br.?vseveral .years' was;r' . v f Government Artist in .Ugan^.' .V •-; This'ris^Ythe' fust time that- a , •. ' iMge art^ exbibltloh has been

shown in the Staff Club.TKe;}. paintings will bp - on ' dbplay ;f froni November 1, for approxi- '

rjnatelvrqne/raqfltb. ., ; • : . ; .

GRIN and BEAR IT It's going ie{ be' a hot and

sticky summer. And wel l just have to sweat it out. Although we're barely into November we're already cooking in Queens­land heat, in a melting pot of political paranoia whicii was being stirred up by Joh i" his preparations for Christmas. The Premier would have liked to call an early State election in Decem­ber if his campaign of law'n' order proved to be the magic ingredient that wouM make his party's poUcies gell. If the Nationals hadn't polled so pooriy in Lockyer Mr Bjelke-Petersen might have baked h is ' cake and eaten.it too . But as things turned out, foiling Joh's Christmas hopes, Queensianders will just have to simmer slowly under the oppressive Son through the long hot summer.

But one can't really appreci­ate the fuU extent of the heat until one leaves the Big Smoke and heads for the "great out­doors". As chance would have it , I was invited to brave the country last weekend.

Driving out west during the time of the exlipse, I happened to pass through the Lockyer district, now returned to com-

. fortable obscurity. The only in­dication ttiat there was ever a by-election in the area was a large road sign featuring "GROUND BJELKE" in red and black paint. Very revolu­tionary graffiti for this part of the worid. Trafelling on, over the range, over the flat wheat belt, into the night, 1 finally arrived at the heat of it a l l -right, in Bjeike Country.

Bjeike Country, like Marlbro Country, is partially polluted by smoke. Just as dhe has to light up American-brand tobacco to be transported to Marlbro. Country, in B.C. one has to r pollute one's system with a i peculiar brand o f pre-packaged | Joh-style politics in order t o live a reasonably decent life. Firey young tempers west of Dalby are soon smothered with a veiled threat: Either you support the National Party or you won't have any social Ufe worth mentioning. If you happen to like "social life" you adapt.

It's just a fact of life, out where tiie sorghum, wheat'and barley grow, that if you want tb have a good time you join the National Party. Joh looks after' lis own, and "Out Wert" it & he Young National I'arty that

lOoks after and arranges most of, if not all, the functions wliicl' allow the young people to meet., driiik, and he m e n y together.

' It's no wonder that'most lyt-tht young p e o p l e - i n the district

..vote for Joh. • . •_

•; "X 'newcomer to "the' district \ might face a tough ; decision chosing whether to accept the National Party and ,be included in the social events, or vote something else and forge social interaction. But sooner or later the isolation gets to you, and eventually you make the "right" decision.

"What sort of social life do you think we'd have if we didn't go to the National Party functions?" one of the locals demanded, "Only the postman and a few of the workers from Dalby vote. Labor." The ALP doesn't have the finances, and the postman probably doesn't have the time or the inclination, to organise the sort of grant Xmas party that the Nationals are plannmg to hold. The National Party has a guarantee o f constant support so long as. they continue to provide the only entertainment in the dis­trict. They have a monopoly on fun. If the postman doesn't want to spend a lonely cheeriess Xmas, he might just "pop in" at the National Party "Do"--j«st to see how awful it is you under­stand.

Anyway,. Bjeike Country surely does,k«oW how to turn on the hospitality. Queensiand­ers are renowned for their friendliness and generosity! Isn't it written into oiir con­stitution, or our unofficial anthem, or something, that "every Queensland heart wears a smile"? A heapin' helpin' of this line northern hospitality was why I ventured into the country for the weekend. And it lived up to its expectations. The pate was spread lavishly, and the champagne flowed generously, and nobody discussed politics, and everybody talked about the weather. It was a very hotmight -but we all just grinned and bared it!' JanecitnaM

Jbii '.on foot and mbuthi disease: Just becaiise a- fewl migrants want their^spicy tucker! I faO to see why tfae Australian [ community as a whole should I suffer the possibility of disease.'

Joh on motel bibles: I mark! special sectnns and my favorite | verses.

Joh on Lemon squash: Good, j nes me, that's nice. ' '

A sick Joh on Medibank: ^ - Edwards [his health minisr] terf kindly offered his servfces [ for nothing.

Joh on the luxuries, women and glamor -of the Wrest Pohit | casino: Isn't that terrible.

loh on Flo: Florence was i \ city ttrl before we .married. It took t et a while (o leam to be a good firmer's wife.

On courtmg Flo: One time t said to n>y wife, who Is'now my wife, to Florence '•would yon like .to come to pariiament housed and listen to a debate one of these nighta-we sit an night time."

On successful courting: It led to the point where two year* Uter we were married.

Joh ^ on flying and father­hood: Right before they (his kkls] went to school they'd fly around the State and even 4own to Bridiane -with me, strapped alongside my little, shigle-engined aeroplane. (They bred'em tough in those days.) - Joh and the worker: The 40

hour week has gWen the oppor­tunity to many to while away thek time in hoteb.

Joh on the Labor Party (Sep­tember 1975); If they keep gofaig the way Jhey do, goodness me,, there w'o'iit be any left, they'll have to mend their ways very smartly. .,

On fighting Labor.' My good' ness, there is a deep respon* sibaity.

J o h on Idi Arnin aiid freedom of choicie: What's the difference between Uganda and Queensland .-Uganda had flrst dioice.

Joh on Don .Dunstan: If youi can eat like a m w ; fly like a crow and squiiwk like a crow you should exjiect to be'shot I likeone. :; •

:Joh on Govigh:.Mr Whitlam's I men wHl. go'^ipiind and roiihd [ ttntO the^- ca t^ up .with them-•8eIviBf,-?i^''.,;^;'--'

Still .qn ipoiigh: It ifrhit poli< ties I dkigreewith, not the man I . . . baihe!* a politfcian like the

„ . , . . , . J X.. . v J "** of iM?>;fl(e knows how to SMH became worned that their; t ^ v ^ ^ ^ r i t 1,^ ^ y ^ut of paper would not'apipMi:,on the' ---''5> ' ^ ^ - - •

NEW THEATRE A group of professional

actors in Brisbane have formed a new theatre group-The Actors Theatre. They vrill be present­ing the Moliere play The Misan­thrope at the Conservatorium ol Music Theatre at QIT from December. 5-11. For more' information phone 349 4026 or 392 2M2i

TO STRIKE , Several issues o f . the Austra­lian, d i d ' n o t ; appear last week due. to a prUiteis'Strike. The

streets and a court order wiu!^ isstied to the printers iiot to'go on strike. The SMH printers promptly responded b y g o h i | o n > strike. /•'•'"'"•k'-

qoestfona; : - : . / • - , V • • • . • ; • • ^ • • • . •

Joh speaking .. on. finance: Aurtralis ii.banlm^t. It^ia eyenj

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