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KiiMmsss N£W GICJN LAW Government legislation that would make you shiver

VOUCt GOOD SAMARITANS Police cadets help retarded people

CONSUMER GUIDE TO LAND SHARKS Essential information if you intend to buy or sell land

STARS OF FEDERAL POLITICS Hawke, peacock and Hayden. What are their futures according to astrology

LEIGHTON FORD Is this visiting super evangelist a blatant fraud

JOBS FOR THE BOYS How to leap bounds in the Queensland Public Service plus a sickening case of victimisation

LIVING GUIDE Complete entertainment rundown and reviews on food, film, music etc

COMPUTER COVER-UP A scandal exposed at Qld University

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New Gun Law Under Firci By MARK PLUNKETT

Plans to increase police powers under a revised Firearms Act are the most serious threat to the in­dividual liberty and freedom yet proposed by the Bjelke-Petersen Government.

With characteristic irony under the seemingly commen­dable guise of controlling the proliferation and spread of offensive weapons the Government is poised to smash away the traditional citizens rights.

Cabinet documents show that the new law has more to do with extending police powers and by-passing the crucial safe-guards of the Lucas Enquiry than with guns and by using exaggerated clains of possible terrorism will create an amazing potential for political harassment and in-tunidation of dissidents.

Under the police will be able to:

' illegally detain citizens without arrest or warrant (Clause 85),

*enter and search homes by day or night without a warrant (Clause 86),

*force anyone to submit to photographing, voice, finger pahn, and toe printing, and voice tests, (Clause 91, 1). These records need not be destroyed even if there is no subsequent court case (Clause 91,3).

•seize anything without warrant yliich "he reasonably suspects has been is being or is about to contra­vene the Act or which he believes will afford evidence" (Clause 90,1).

According to civil liberties lawyers "merely to know of a sale of a fireann to a person of *bad repute' (Clause 57, c) would appear enough to render the person with know­ledge *privy' to the sale and so guilty of an offence (Clause 58, 2). The result would be startling." It would

plunge Queensland jurisprudence back into the 16th century Star Chamber days when one could stand trial for a 'state of mind'. "

The proposed legislation also reverses the traditional "innocent till proven guilty" onus of proof from the prosecution to the de­fendant for a whole variety of matters.

activists particulariy students have made it only too easy for the police to say they entertained the pre-requisite 'reasonable suspicion' to detain without arrest, enter and search premises, seize material and even plant drugs imder the power of section 130 M a of the Health Act.

The greater potential for political abuse posed by the

For example the defence must disprove that he has never seen the purchaser before (Clause 99). To make matters worse a person so convicted could not appeal to a higlier court.

The cabinet documents reason "the prosecution is put to the cumbersome I ask of proving teclmical evidence that the object is in fact an effective silencer."

They also say "the new provisions are modelled on the Health Act wherein similar power is given."

Queensland radicals, citizen protesters and even ALP candidates have been the victuns of police harass­ment and intimidation using the anti-drug provisions of the Health Act which the Criminal Law inquiry chaired by His Honour, Mr. Justice Lucas found had been "grossly abused".

The life styles of left

Firearm Law will be that the police powers would conceiv­ably apply to most orthodox of lifestyles as conventional people in the eyes of the police are as likely to have guns as 'longhairs' are to have drugs.

These extensions of police powers resemble many ofthe recommendations of the Lucas Report, but that inquiry would not counte­nance any increase of police powers without equal guaran­tees for civil liberty safe­guards.

The Lucas Report cautioned "It w6uld do us no justice to take the recommen­dations and consider them by

themselves." Yet this is pre­cisely what the Queensland Civil Liberties Council says "is precisely what ' the Government is doing."

Government policy on police abuse is simply to

change the law for them to allow them to do legally what they are now doing illegally. The cabinet brief notes: "Recent trends en­courage offenders to chal­lenge authority to. . .arrest (before investigation)".

Hence it argues: "The result is mostly ineffective enforcement and this section is intended to reinforce authority with power to detain a suspect. . ."(Clause 163).

This philosophy was recently typified by the Police Minister Mr. Camm when arguing for the intro­duction of random breath tests when he said: '*the duty of the Government is to protect law-abiding citizens and ensure that the person who commits the ^ crime or offence is not given the protection of the law. To do this the law must have teeth - aiid this means the police should not be hindered..."

Hence it is that while the menace of drugs is used as the necessary excuse to trample over traditional rights so it is with the Fire­arms Bill that the Joint Government Parties brief argues that the existing laws "are wholly inadequate for the present age where terrorism. . .(is) more sophisticated and more prevalent."

"It would be ludicrous to provide police with power of search for a pubUc place only but void it for it when they are lawfully in other than public premises but wherein a terrorist may well have gained access." (p 13, item 65).

Once a meiiace is created however specious, anything is justified it seems in destroying it. Unsubstan­tiated clahns by Deputy Com­missioner Vem McDonald that radicals had recently been seen with guns may he just the beginning.

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NOWRrAttY

It may have come to the notice of the more astute of readers that the media is far more adventurous and seemingly non-conservative than it has been m the past.

Some journalists who are supposed^ responsible for this state of affairs were heard to say recently the situation redly had nothing to do with them at all.

No. It was all to do with the fact that the conser­vatives had such a strangle­hold on the country's politics that the riff raf in the media could say what they liked and it would make no difference to the political balance of power.

In fact some went so far as to say that as soon as the balance became tricky they would be shut up again and forced to toe a conser­vative line.

What was that about dissent only being tolerated so long as it was ineffective?

OZ CINEMA OVEfftEAS

Australian films continue to raise interest in both 'Atnerica and Europe -thanks ^o some intelligent maricethig by both State fUm

.corporations and producers alike.

Festivals have been held on both the west and east coasts of the U,S. with critics showing a mixed response to this sudden influx of new material.

One of the more interes­tmg opinions on the rebirth of cinema 'down under' was published in the Los Angeles press.

The critic in question hailed Australian cinema as a vibrant alternative to the tked, superficiality of much American fihn and an equally refreshing alternative to the excessively obscure European product.

SOME OUTSAT LAST

Whilst on the subject of fihn, the most excitmg pro­ject yet attempted withm the Australian cinema is now underway.

And who but the brilliant Phil Noyce (of Newsfront fame) would tackle the con­troversial issues suriounduig Keir's sadking of the Whitlam Govenunent.

As a result of *his in depth examination of the 1975 coup, he wfll become the first major director within the country to stop playuig it politically safe usuig scripts based hi our distant past to avoid stirring the pot.

Noyce is confident this will be his most sucessful fdm and has been keephig details about its content secret so that it can be judged from a fresh perspec­tive when released.

It is mterestmg to note that Phil Noyce is a product of the Sydney fihn maker's Co-operative, which is the home of independent film making in Australia.

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NO NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE?

The premier J. Petersen said recently that uranium "has been around for 30 years and there hasn't been a catastrophe yet" (Courier-Mail, p. 2, May 2).

Which makes one wonder whether he has heard about Harrisburg's partial melt down. Ch even the NRC's report that there were more than 1,600 incidents involving safety at US nuclear plants last year. And that reactors were closed down for periods exceeding a week (soipttiiafis as long as two months) more than 40 times.

That all happened last year.

This year there has been a disaster that spewed radiatbn into the atmosphere and caused readmgs to

quadruple in places 200 miles away.

Perhaps the difference is that Harrisburg was only a disaster and not a "catas­trophe". But then agam it is never very easy to know the mental processes of our premier. loJArTtw f[tl Hi\i&^' CAKi 0N>t9S ane£tl^^'

...AND WHILE ON THE SUBJECT...

The second and third nuclear reactor accidents in the US in a month were reported to have occurred near Chicago and m Alabama last month. In both accidents radioactive water was released inside the plants, and-radio­active gasses escaped into the atmosphere. The mcidents were described as "not serious". Ho hum, just another eveiyday occurrence.

MUTANT THRESHHOLD? THERE IS NONE

The US National Academy of Sciences relea%d a report recently which sakl that all

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radiation has an adverse effect on the human body. It confirmed that there was no threshhold bdow which radiation had no effect in mcreasing the incidence of cancer and genetic defects.

BUT, it said, the risks of everyday exposure from X-rays, cosmic rays and nuclear power were "low".

Even so, the findmgs make a mockery of the "scientific" figures that are generally touted by nuclear apologists of safety levels.

"All this crew really know, it is becoming obvious, is the sfaortterm effects of massive overdoses which will kill in hours, days and weeks.

Their "acceptance levels" of radiatbn that they have been trumpetmg about for so long are just not true. And they have not one clue of the year- or decade-long effects.

Added to this, is the fact that when experimental new radiatH)n detectbn equipment was tested in a so-called "safe" area of England's' ' Aldermastin reactor complex it w^iit crazy and mdicated that workers m the "safe" area were in fact lethally oveidosed. Yet these woikers who had been m the section for years showed no visible signs of the poisoning despite regular chedcs by medical and radiatk)n techniques.

Lookmg forward to your first '*nuclear baby"?

THE LUCKY COUNTRY?

Vince Gair,biietirne'lie.ader of the DLP, is back in Oz. And he reckons that the imemployed youth of Oz ought to be m the army. Why?

"We should get some­thing for our money".

Some reason. How would he like to be

17 again with no prospect of a living wage on the horizon? What about the prospect of not working ever again?

We all can't be politicians. If we were the current abysmally low worth of politicians would disintegrate completely.

Still. . .we must be thankful for saviours of the national situation like this person. That's why we are where we are of course.

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY MAKE MONEY ...

Last year the Bank of NSW made a pretax profit of $188 million up some­what over its 1971 profit of $35,6 million.

In the uitervening years we were supposed to be experiencing a recession with unemployment touching the half million mark.

So. How dkl they do it? Sunple. They used your

money. Up to September 1978 the Wales paid $614 million m mterest to the public for leaving its money (some $12,000 million) in the bank's vaults.

Then they lent it out to bom)wers (who could have even been among the depositors). And hi so douig received $1,351 milUon or just over twice as much as they had to pay out.

Take out wages, building upkeep and taxes and what's left is profit.

Money, lovely money. Oh to own a bank m these hard times...

RADAR LOVE-HATE?

Remember the radar gun that the cop used to shoot you with as you drove at excessive ^eeds through Brisbane streets? They have been absent from the road scene for some time now.

Recent news from the US of A where these little horrors originated is that radar equipment there has been clocking trees at 80 plus miles an hour and houses at over 20 mph. In evidence where this information whas brought before a US court recently a judge dismissed one case of speeding and suspended another 950 similar ones.

Nice news for the Qld pohce just when they are reintroducing radar guns and traps to the Brisbane roads.

KOREAN A-BOMB?

Australia and South Korea have just signed a uranium safeguards agree­ment which will allow the export of 80,000 tonnes of Oz yellowcake there up to 2000AD.

Assurances have been made that it wOl only be used for peaceful purposes.

Heavily armed patrols of the DMZ between South and North Korea is still the order of the day and the South Korean aim is to reunite the whote country under *Tiee" South K domination.

What price a good nuclear device?

THE ROYAL TOUCH

The premier of Queensland has never made any secret of his love of pomp and circumstance.

But one wonders whether Liz II would be suitably impressed with the colour of the premier's department letterhead - it is a delicate shade of rpyal |)urple. ,

Perhaps it' is a case of "I'etatecestmoi"?

TEN YEARS AFTER

Punk may be all the rage in town right now but m gown land down on the Queensland University campus thmgs are rather different.

Cream, The Band and Neil Young, musical heroes from a decade ago are among the current most listened to musicians among the eUte of tomorrow.

And if you dare to venture down to the Relaxation room room Students Union, where among the pinball machines and pool tables, there is a juke box that belts out songs like the Beatles' "I Got To Get You hito My Life" and Eric Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff.

Is other information on the biggest campus m Oz as far behind the tunes?

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Goo(K8amaritans bi Police#6rce

The Queensland Police force is using its cadets m an effort to improve its public hnage by rostering them for duties in nursmg homes for the terminally ill and institutes for crippled ami subnormal children. And it is douig it on the cadets' own time.

This was revealed to TIME OFF recently and con­firmed last week by an instructor of the Police Academy at Oxley.

The cadets are sent to 14 different institutions which have numerous points of operations around Brisbane. The cadets,, ranging from 16 to 19 years of age, arc placed in everyday situa­tions with people who have been disadvantaged in some way or are ill. They range from cripples to drunks, t o . the termmally sick to the. nientally deficient and subjroj normaL

This practice of using; ^voluntary' cadet police wis started this year after the Police Commissioner Teriy Lewis had seen sunilar schemes operating overseas last year and decided to haye a programme runmng in Qld.

The program consists o f a week's work in the institutions and 40 hours of weekend 'voluntary' work per year.

It is obviously a scheme with much potential ,

; especially as this sort of uivolvement with disadvan­taged and deprived sections of ^ e human estate is npt currently behig practiced in the traditional police trainhig program.

But the cadets are ex­pected to perform these duties on a **voluntaiy basis" \ ^ c h is complete with a rostering system hi' their

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The police force is doing good work. It is sending its cadets out to institutes for tbe dis-advantaged, the sick and tbe ill. But is the deal on tbe level? Or is it an exercise in cynicism? An exercise coldly calculated to improve its not so brilliant public image? It is, but not just this, as CALVIN NOACK finds out:

normal time ofl". And the program is now accepted as a part of their trahung and is expected to be retamed in the fioUce training program.

A sunilaj scheme exists in South A\istralia but it is beheved die program is conducted totally within the training thtie and is an integral part of it.

The instructor of the Academy stated that the reasoning -'behind the scheme was to improve pubHc relations and also to give the cadets a broader outlook on life ani the development of understandhig some ofthe situattons '''ihey can be expected t9 face in theh

jobs as poUce, hopefully with an enhanced ability to handle them.

Activities range from tending the temiinally ill to talking with subnormal children and organising events for cripples. None of these things is easy to do when first attempted.

Nor is it easy to deal with the formerly normal person who goes crazy and runs amok with a gun.

But the hope is that exposure to all the different conditions of complicated society in this context will give pohce the extra edge to deal with a situation in these fields may do so while tiiose who do not are

successfully, where failure would normally be the result.

Previous to this project the cadets only received lectures m the various types of psychology all of which was theoretical work.

The response from the organisations visited has so far been very favourable and the force will assess the merit of the scheme after the cadets have finished writing theh accounts of what they did.

But the instructor was adamant tiiat the scheme would contmue. He said there were "one or two" who expressed their displeasure but apart from that he thought the majority of cadets were favourable.

It can only be hoped that it is and tiiat it is fully mcorporated in the traditional training program. This is because the cadets who genuinely want to do voluntary work not forced to m their own personal time.

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LAND SHARKS So. You want to buy some

land do you? Which do you want? A slice of Russell Island swamp? Or would you prefer a stretch of Bundilla Lakes that hasn't been dredged up yet? Pehaps a syndicated share as tenant-in-common of a heap of space that the land dealer SAID was to be freeholded (later on) but which now is mort­gaged to some fmance company who gets first option on the land should your agent go broke (con­veniently for hhn).

You can have your choice of any number of plans and schemes designed to separate you from your money and some are difficult to tell from genuine sales.

But you must not look. Not too closely at either the land or the legalistic document set up for you to sign (without your lawyer handy).

For it is an axiom in the real estate busmess that there are gullible people just looking for ways to lose money to the sharp operator.

But don't thmk that gullible people are stupid. No, far from it. According to de­tectives who have dealt with land swifties for a long time it is the middle class person with some extra cash who is most often taken for the ride.

The ride usually don't think twice about hiring a soUcitor and generally would not look at the type of **baigam" deal that isoften touted about anyway. The person with no money would like to buy some of the **bargahis" but can't, so it is usually the person who has extra money that could be

Over the past three issues of TIME OFF various aspects of land deals and Junny business" concerning land have been discussed at some length. Misues of rather liberal company and other laws together with understaffed and organised public and police services helped an unscrupulous few **take" a gullible lot for an expensive ride during the halycon days of the land boom back in the late 60s and earlv 70s. ^

There is every appearance of another land boom just over the spacetime horizon.

Are we any better able to cope with it and the expected strife it could bring vr will we fail yet again to leam from history?

CALVIN NOACK hoksat this question and others related to it in the last ofthe articles on the pleasures and pains of land buying and selling:

invested in something and land looks the best and safest bet.

Because he has the brains to woric out what is said on most legal forms he dispenses with the lawyer. Then tiie smart operator moves in with

promises and descriptions and photographs - and a ready supply of Ues.

The land shade is aided by the incredible amount of red tape and tune consuming labyrmthine bureaucracy that surrounds land transactions.

Not only is the Land Commission and all its myriad sections and depart­ments involved but there are tiie Tities Office, tiie Marine and Tourism department (for oceanfront and), the Vahier-General's Department and the surveyors to contend with.

And the Ust doesn't stop there. If there is any irregularity with the land there could be visits to tiie

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Attorney-General, the Corporate Affairs Commission, or the SoUcitor-General's department.

The number of separate acts of parliament that affect land transactioii^ is as numerous and varied. And the amendments make them trickier still as the government sees fit to change some acts once a year.

This changing of the acts regularly particularly after an hregularily was given pub­licity in the media, was described by the shadow mmister for housing and lands, Mr. Tom-..Burns, aS •*bandaid legislation" which repairs the faults of m-completedly considred legis­lation after the damage had been done.

Not only do documents have to be in tripUcate m some mstances but they have to be on the ri^t paper and done hi the approved fashion. Which of course keeps sur­

veyors in money. A couple who turned up

at the Land Admmistration Buildmg m town last week were told that tiie plans they had to their newly acquired^ property were not done on proper Imes and tiie man behind the desk wondered how tiie Titles Office had managed to issue a number (arcane mystery tiiat) for it.

The land shade had his job made easier by the terrible tangje tiie land boom caused in tiie Tities Office, the Land department, the Corporate Affairs Commission and the Fraud Squad, The squad relied on information from the others so the situation was aggrava­ted;

All of these departments have been expanded and have just about caught up with' tiie backlog of work that tiie land boom in the early 70s caused. ,; The Coiporate Affairs

Commission was severely criticised by Mr, Justice PD. Connolly who said tiie Commission ought to have detected some cases of fraud tiiat were very blatant. He made the comment then that; the commission was operating on so low a budget tiiat it was amazmg that the oonunission could function reasonably at all.

Shice then the situation' has unproved but nt enou^, so tiiat should the expected land boom eventuate the commission would be able: to cope. The government;; would need to vote riiore money to the commission; tp be able to guarantee thev

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pubUc that investi^tiqnf, uito corporate nfisfle^s could be done swiftly and soon after theh occurrence. At the present there is a tune lag of months before any action can be taken.

Also the Companies Act makes it difficult for tiie commission to act decisively in such a way to deter criminals. And notiiing is bemg done to tighten it up. This would naturally encourage any sharp operator who sees money to be made in this state, A land boom is an ideal time to hide behind ob-fuscatory laws. It is well known tiiat this govern­ment has a poor record in catching corporate criminals.

The Land Adminis­tration has been ploddmg on since the early 70s in much the same wasy as it did during them. At present it can take months for an application to change lease­hold land to freeholding and there is so much papenvork (Uterally mountains of it) that documents are a long time m the tracking down and a lot longer in the execution because of the need to crossreference with other documents in the numerous sections made necessary by the chaotic land laws.

There are no less than 39 listings m tiie Lands Department PABX and the average buyer can expect to use at least half a dozen of those m any transaction.

The state lands minister N. Hewitt said in pariiament on May 2 tlut Alf Grant was no longer a member of the group that has proposed the $10,850,000 development

; of the Mooloolaba airstrip. Yet it transphed just eight days later that employees workhig hi the section deaUng

- with specif leases did not know that the entire file had. been sent to the Receiver-General (whoever that is) for study so that Grant's hiterest hi the least

could be transferred over to help pay for some of the debts still outstanding after his land companies involved in the Bundilla Lakes crash folded.

The Titles Office has had a good deal of the work taken off its shoulders with the state government's scheduling of land without jurisdiction (such as islands Uke Russell Island) to specific local councils. This process has some way to go yet before it is anywhere near completion but it has eased tiie labd of the Titles Office considerably.

The office was not expanded much and would agahi be a sitting duck should a big jump.in numbers of appUcations be experienced as part of a land boom.

The Fraud Squad as an arm of the poUce force got a significant booost by the state government during its buUdup of the force during the 70s. The squad is the most pubUc servaht-Uke section of the poUce and also the most poorly paid. Which is why the numbers of active field agents engaged in tracking down wldte coUar crindnSs has leapt from the earlier number of two to six.

Petiiaps the backlog of reports vri^ drop from a six

or seven year wait to a mere two or three year wait. The RusseU Island land deal report was only released in 1978 even though most of the sales had occurred in 1969-71. And the Bundilla l ^ e s deal had crashed in 1973 but it was last year late before the Fraud Squad report of just three pages was completed.

But don't despair. There is hope that the whole mechanism surrounduig land action, as fragile as it is and

as full of holes, could be gettmg faster. Alf Grant and Mooloolaba airstrip is in train much more quicldy and the whole proposal is bemg more cautiously dealt with. Even the Titles Office knows about it as does the Fraud Squad. And there hasn't been a spade of earth turned yet.

The best protection though stiU remams the ability of the buyer and his/ her speed in pickmg up on irregularities and notifying the appropriate authorities.

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Slims OF FEDERAL POyTICS Dimng the past issues Time Off has carried tbe

astrological charts of Malcolm Fraser and Australia. Leading astrologer ROBERT CONNELL has predicted that there will be an early federal election with Andrew Peacock not Fraser leading tbe Liberal Party. This issue he looks at the horoscope of Peacock, ACTU president Bob Hawke and ALP leader Bill Hayden.

Hai/vke During the past few years

the media has consistently begun rumours that Bob Hawke will go dhectly into poUtics and become the leader of the parUamentary AustraUan Labor Party and eventuaUy, prune mmister.

Although this rumour has arisen on at least six occasions, it has never happened. If we go to the horoscope of Bob Hawke we may weU be able to find the answer and that is NO.

Bob Hawke was bom while the sun was in Sag­ittarius, and it was in con­junction with his Mars, which gives him a very powerful image and impression on others. These two jslanets were in his second house which represents money and security. Saturn is also placed in his second house, whidi , makes him very security conscious.

Bob Hawke was bom while the sign of Scorpio was rising on the eastern horizon, and it is through this sign that he wiU pro­ject himself to the worid; Scorpio is one of the most powerfiil signs ot have on the Ascendant, and there are probably more people with this sign rising who reach celebrity status than any other sign, especiaUy m the poUtical arena.

It is uiteresting at tiiis stage to note that Bob

Menzies, who was also a Sagittarian had Scorpio rising, and so there is a similarity between tiie two men, and if you look at the type of personaUty both of these men possess you wUl see the similarity.

However much of the similarity is only of the surface of the diart. Bob Menzies had a see-saw chart which made him a great political' opportunist.

This see-saw motion however is not present ui Bob Hawke's chart. In fact, it is probably a more difficult chart hi many respects. Bob Hawke has a Grand Square and Cosmic Cross in his chart, which is said to be a make or break aspect. Many who have aspects like this m tiieh chart faU by the wayside and achieve nothing, or they reach the heights of their career and become ex­tremely famous, as indeed has

Bob Hawke. Both Venus and Neptune

are configured in this Grand Square which gives him a great underlymg sympathy with tiie underdog, and the man who can't fight for hhn­self It causes him to have within his nature a kind of divuie discontent that makes him strive for high ideals that are not easily reaUsable here on earth.

Indeed the whole of Hawke's chart shows that he is oneof the great ideaUsts of this country, highly per­ceptive of the needs of the common man,

Hawke's Moon is in Pisces, almost in the same position as that of the prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, but it is more favourably aspected than Fraser's and m a more favourable house position which gives him an under­lying sympathy and emotional pattern which has come out in his television appearances.

I have previously spoken of the Saturn transit to this point as causmg popularity problems for the prime minister. This transit could also cause problems for Bob Hawke, but because of the difference,^, in house position of the ttioon m his chart, it wiU manifest itself in a different manner, probably in a more mter-nalised manner than Fraser's,

;S^^^/ii-S:^'i M/b' kisim '^ij^-Mi^^r/M<i

The whole of Bob Hawke's chart mdicates a great deal of personal power and charisma, of which everyone is probably weU aware, through his long career with the ACTU and the ALP.

Considering this power, this public charisma and his obvious uifluence over the people of this country, why then will Bob Hawke not go mto politics?

The answer is found in the second house of his chart. His sun, Mars and Saturn are all placed here and make Hawke profoundly conscious of his own personal security. In his present position he has the power his own nature seeks, and the sense of personal security his nature needs.

If he were to go into poUtics m a dhect manner, he would have to give up his present position and present security. To be sure, if he decided to go directiy into j arUament, he would be given a blue ribbon Labor seat, and he certamly would not have any problems getting dected.

It is after this pohit that Bob Hawke would have to face the battle of becoming the parUamentary leader. The Labor party as a nde does not like newly elected members being elevated to positions of leadership quickly, and it is possible that with the present internal processes of the ALP, Hawke would have to wait five years, perhaps a decade to get to tiie position of being par-Uamentaiy leader.

Personal power is of great hnportance to Hawke, and his Sagittarian sun and Mars would make hhn too impatient to wait for this to occur. As well as that he has already been in a position of

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pK)wer and infiuejnc ' jty many years, and He, ,i^uld not Uke to give that'up^ for anything as uncertain as his diance of becoming prune minister. It can also be argued that he has more power in his present position than any prime minister could ever have.

Next year, the planet Uranus wiU cross his as­cendant and this could make him take chances that he would not normaUy indulge hi. Uranus crossing the ascendant is perhaps the most uncertain of all planetary

transits and pubUc figures have had the unexpected happen to them under this transit.

It is possible that under this transit Hawke will attempt to break free of restrictions and obUgations that have held hhn back, and his opponents wiU fmdit difficult to predict what he will actually do..It is quite unlikely that he will follow the course that many ob­servers see - that of going into parUament.

He wttl certainly do the unexpected, but going mto parUament wiU not be one of them.

Havden Questions in political

astrology are sometimes difficult to answer for so many variables have to be taken mto account: there is ths chart ofthe country.and the charts of various leaders.

BUI Hayden's chart is very much that of a prune minister for a number of reasons.

The fust and foremost.of these is that he has Saturn in conjunction with his sun (placed m Aquarius).

This is a planetary aspect ^in.the national chart, and "more than half of those men who have risen to the position of prime minister have had this aspect m their own natal charts, and he is the only leader in the poUtical arena at the moment who has this aspect present in his chart, : BiU Hayden's chance of wmning an election will depend upon who he is campaignhig against. If by some chance Fraser manages to survive till the "next election, which seems (extremely doubtful, and Hayden were runnmg agamst hhn, Hayden would whi haQj^down.

V.iWweVer the chances are tlui;:He, will be runnhig agahist /Andrew Peacock, who

will in aU probability replace Fraser. Then the odds would be even, or perhaps balanced a little in favour of Peacock. This however will depend on how well Peacock can muster the flagging support in this country for the liberals. This will be difficult considering some of the Saturn transits in the

. national chart. Would Hayden be a good

prune minister? The answer to this is both yes and no. Bill Hayden's chart shows him to be*'a Mr. Nice Guy, and though this wiU appeal to many people, it may also become his own undoing.

Uke Peacock, he has his sun in Aquarius and moon m Sagittiaiius, but his ascendant is the sign of Libra which is much softer than the Scorpio rismg of Peacock. This may give the impression that he can be got at through his emotions, which in||tfie sense is quite right, tt^s without doubt a; very emotional man, and there is probably very littie guile in him, which seems to be an essential in the charac­ter of any poUtician. *

While he wiU not have the very smooth tongue of Peacock, he will be able to

Flora jAi TRA'^str' m. acquit himself weU as an orator and in pubUc debate.

However the seeming soft­ness of the man doesn't account for the fact that he has Pluto on the midheaven of his chart, and in a very powerful T-Square with Uranus and Mercury, which indicates that those who take his softness and charm as a sign of weakness are unaware that underneath this exterior is a bar of iron, which could ". hit them on the headt . at unexpected moments. It will give hun an instinct for self-preservation that could appear rather remarkable v^en it shows itself

His Sagittarian moon in the third house shows that he can communicate weU and that the public could take him to heart.

In the next year or two, Pluto will conjunct his ascendant. This indicates that his relationships, botii intimate and pubUc will undergo great transfor­mation, and his personaUty will go through a change that wUl bring to the fore some important but often unacknowledged aspects of his psyche. It could be a period of either crisis or cUmax in his new Ufe.

In the next few years as this occurs, BiU Hayden will find himself face to face with many aspects of his own personality which he has perhaps chosen to ignore in the past, and the pubUc may in fact see new aspects of the man that they had not previously envisaged.

His tremendous drive to achieve power wUl surface, and he will suddenly be able to take control of every­thing around him, and this may surprise many of his opponents who have looked at what they consider his weakness. If BiU Hayden can handle the powerful energies of this transit of Pluto across his ascendant, he could make a very good prime minister, taking an even-handed view of the traditions of the past in projecting the life of the country into the future.

Neptiine this year in Square with his Mars-Jupiter conunction in his twelfth house will probably bring some chaUenges to his leader­ship ofthe opposition, but he wUl probaby have -enough strength to overcome these in order to face the chaUenge of an election, which may actually be sooner than most people think.

Peacock *w

In the past few months I have mentioned on a number of occasions that in aU probabUity Andrew Peacock wUl replace Malcolni Fraser as prime mmister of this country.

Since I first mentioned the topic it seems that the media have been takmg more and more notice of Peacock as a personaUty. It seems that he

is, m some senses .being groomed for the position of leader ofthe nation.

With, the popularity of Fraser ^declining and the popularity of Peacock rising, it is interesting to speculate from his horoscope, what sort of leader he will be.

Andrew Peacock was born whUe the sun was in

e » -m • W M

Aquarius, Scorpio was rising on the eastern horizon and the moon was in Sagittarius, which aU add up to a great deal of charisma. Certainly he has much more charisma than is indicated by the horoscope of Malcolm Fraser and in aU probability he wUl be a much better leader.

Many of the most powerful poUtical figures in the worid have had Scorpio rising, and on our own door­step we find Bob Menzies and Bob Hawke, who both had this sign on theh as­cendant. While Peacock has an interesting chart, it is not as powerful as either of these two figures.

With Mercury in con­junction with his sun he has a better mind than most and both of these planets are m square with is Uranus. This wiU help with his pubUc unage in many ways, and will make him spe^ weU,

However, the Uranus positioned m his seventh house will not make him a great marriage prospect, and it is not surprising that-he has gone through a divorce.

Probably the institution of marriage wiU not be good for Peacock at aU, but he may find that if he is to con-soUdate his position as leader he wiU have to marry agam.

There was a time when a smgle man had little chance in the poUtical game. AU that seems to have dianged now. Pierre Trudeau m Canada was single when he first became prime minister of that country.

When NeviUe Wran was elected premier of New South Wales he had recently gone through a divorce, and re­married a few months later. This didn't harm his chances in that respect.

a great deal more charisma than Fraser.

His stocks are on the rise at the moment. Pluto is trinmg his Mercury and a Uttie later his sun, which will help him to gain intellectual insights about many subjects, and enable him to project these ideas out to the pubUc, These aspects wttl also enable Wm to gam power.

However at ahnost the same time Uranus wUl cross his ascendant in Scorpio and

If Andrew Peacock becomes prime minister within the next few months, which is very possible, he will during the following year experience some very unexpected reversals in his fortune and public image.

Recently there were rumours- about his friendship with American film star

Shirley MacLame, and it is interestmg to note that his Venus is in with her sun m Capricorn, which is a sure sign of affection between people. However the rest of theh horoscopes together don't make a good match.

Andrew Peacock will probably make a good prune minister but he is hardly Ukely to be a great one, yet he wiU lead the country with

square his sun and Mercury. This could mean tiiat his reign as prime minister would be somewhat short-lived, and this could cause a number of power struggles to arise in his Ufe.

If he becomes prune minister within the next few months, which is very possible, he will during the following year, have to ex­perience some very unexpected reversals in his fortune and pubUc unage. In fact, when the next election is decided, he may

actually find himself the leader of the opposition rather than prune mhuster.

Hiis Uranian transit wtil pose the question to him; does he really believe in what he is douig? He has many planets in fixed signs hi his chart, and he may have some difficulties in keeping up with the changes that go on around him.

During the next two years he will also have the rather confusing transit of Neptune gomg over his moon. This wUl cause much change in his personal and emotional Ufe, and he may have some difficulty m handUng these in the inUial stages of the transit.

This is an aspect which will greatly sensitize his reactions to and per­ceptions of the world. It is sometimes considered a psychic transit, but there arej

few signs of psychic abflity in his chart, and this hi the long run could cause a great deal of emotional confusion m his life. It wiU also cause hhn to have a great many ideals, which he will have great difficulty m livuig up to.

Yes, Andrew Peacock will become prime minister, but probably only for a short period.

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Leighton Ford* Fraud ? By PETER STEINHEUER

It's kneeUng room only at a packed out Festival HaU, WaU to WaU Christians m the HaU which earlier in the week had been labeUed a den for pot smokers, and they're aU here to get it on with BiUy Graham alone, Leighton Ford, the man who last week the average Brisbaneite stUl thought was trying to sell them a new Falcon.

But no, buddy, this man's busmess is Salvation, available on terms if you like, low mileage and only taken to church on Sunday by careful owner.

When I arrived to unexpectedly find the place full I was asked to wait until the support choh, whose name I can't recall had finished one of their up tempo hymns, a real rager entitled 'The Way to tiie Lord". '

Escorted to my seat, back row right side of haU, 1 noted a bimodal age distribution, with peaks of 6 months and 83 years.

Support act Robert Coleman after making apoUgies to the semi comatose assembly for daring to have a - wait

. for it - beard, behed into a version of "I WUl Witness". Cold Chisel must be shivering m theh boots.

Next up was Keith Wright Labor MLA who told us he had come out of the Heathen closet twenty years ago at the last BUly Graham crusade. Tonite we get big Leighton, Billy's brother-in-law, but not tUl after mterval.

Well, interval was the time required for the buckets to be passed around for donations to the crusade. Only i30,000 required. Of course BiUy Graham's suite costs $300 a nite in Sydney and someone has to pay for the TV ads.

The man himself is a gaunt, un-hisphing figure, not at all like the homely face in the press advertisements. His set consisted of such standards as "Come On Down", "Love is just a five letter word", and a ragmg Uve version of • % Son Sandy" which puts the studio version to rest forever (yes, pre-recorded cassettes of the man were avaUable for purchase in the foyer).

Between numbers Leighton thanked m aU ifor coming to '*this beautiful Festival HaU'* and told us how he'd spent the morning taUcing scriptures with aborighials hi the paik, before settiing down to a nosh-up dmner at

the Crest, Then it was bn to a dedication to

BUly Graham witii "He Am't,Heavy -He's My Brother In Law"i plus a material. Nepotism rules, eh?

StUl, the whole tiling's not unlike the Sullivans reaUy..

A notable exception from the set was '"Stairway to Heaven", but the crowd seemed awestruck enough. The support choir joined in for a storming last number, during which took place the traditional march of the converts

to the promised land m front of the stage, accomparued by a gaggle of Crusade stooges. And that was it.

AU that was left was for the groupies to wait anxiously at the stage door, the audience to be wheeled bade onto theh buses. No, there was no waHdng on water, parting o f t h e staUs or other fun.

Perhaps the only mhacle on the nite was tile fact tiiat 3000 semi-geriatrics were stUl out of theh beds at 9pm at nite.

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"There is no doubt that there is a consistent poUcy in the government of jobs for the boys. It's only be­cause we keep our eye on it that it isn't worse."

Tom WaUace, secretary of the 18,000 strong State Service Union speaking on the state pubUc service where most employees are members of his union.

"Jobs for the boys" is the weU known phrase that covers preferenti^ treatment extended to friends of people in high places.

Jobs for the boys can occur within the pubUc service (someone being pro­moted ahead of someone better quaUfied) or from outside (plum jobs in the pubUc service gomg to people from outside of it).

Whatever form it takes it affects the morale and efficienty of the pubUc service.

'Teople make a career of the pubUc service and do theh jobs seriously without leaking information. Then they see some mate of some­one mfluential getting the plum position. So the career worker thinks Vhat's the use? I do my best and an outsider comes in and steals the position*. It's demorali­zing for that worker and for the other woikers it's not much good either."

Although he did not spell it out in so many words it was obvious that WaUace saw )'obs for the boys' as potentiaUy the most des­tructive issue facing the Queensland pubUc service.

One of the most common ways m which jobs for the boys' are initiated is to gazette a job with the proviso that there is no right of appeal against the person select^. (It is normal practice to aUow disaffected parties the right to appeal agamst the selection of a certain person for a job and

The premier of Queensland Mr. J. Bjelke-Petersen recently created a furore when he accused the public service in this state of "leaking" information "in all directions". This accusation, like everything the man says, made front page news and caused a stir in the service that last several days.

A counter to this statement was that the government was providing jobs forthe boys. CALVIN NOACK talked with tbe secretary of the powerful State Service Union Mr. Tom Wallace who provided an insight into the workings of the public service and some lesser known aspects to the jobs for the boys debate:

this appeal is normaUy done by the union for the dis­affected individual although some make their own cases).

Last year the union made representations to the premier J. Bjelke-Petersen concerning the withdrawal of the right of appeal on two job offers. They were rela­tively minor positions but were in ministerial offices.

The positions were clerk for the office of the minister for mines and special duties officer in the office of the minister of education.

The reason the premier gave for refusing to review the union's complaint at the withdrawal of the right of appeal was "it is essential that the appointees be capable of workmg closely with and estabUshing a good rapport with the mmisters."

Which is another way of saying that the people who fiUed those positions were selected not so much on theh abiUties to do the jobs as more on how weU their ideas and attitudes fitted those of the ministers in question.

The union decided to take the matter further and sought legal advice.

But first it went to the commissioner of administrative investigations to get a reversal ofthe refusal only to be told by the com­

missioner that he could not question the merits of a decision made by cabinet or a minister.

The legal opuiion was not promising either. In six quarto pages the lawyers said that because the positions were gazetted by the governor-in-council they were effectively law under the act and regulations, and so were removed from the realms of such minor things as appeals.

So the union lost on that one. But the fight isn't finished. Even though the right of appeal issue has stopped the union persuing some suspected cases of "jobs for the boys" h stUl keeps tabs on those positions advertised with the "no appeal" clause added.

The union doesn't lose aU the tune.

Recently the SSU was successful in an application to hai' the "temporary" employment of persons in the Rural Rjconstruction Board who displaced members of the pubUc service.

In that situation five persons were employed from outside the service, four of whom were formerly retired and of those four one was 74 years old.

Although the SSU did not raise the issues of the right to work of the young and the right to creative leisure of

the elderly, it sought the removal of those persons so others could work and it won.

The issue was brought to the notice of the union in January this year. Mr, Wallace took steps immediately to have the situation rectified.

After a hectic month during which the media took up the issue, asking the unemployed what they thought of formerly rethed persons receiving up to $19,000 a year in tiie jobs, the premier advised that two of the persons employed would be leaving their jobs "in the near future".

The premier added that cabmet had decided to dis­continue the practice by departments of appomtmg temporary employees to perform work normally done by public servants.

The other three tem­porary employees would be replaced by quaUfied officers on theh leaving the Rural Baord,hesaid.

The union had been in opposition to appointments from outside the pubUc service for a substantial period of time and the cabinet decision represented a major breakthrough hi its war against jobs for the boys.

"Right now there doesn't seem to be as many [jobs for the bosyl as there used to be", WaUace said. 'The fact that we don't let jobs for the boys pass and we're bringing them before the pubUc aU the time has added to our strength m deaUng with them."

'Take the new commis­sioner [for the Industrial Court - the controversial sixth member]. He'U probably be a friend. And he'U be on the same wage as a district judge". Judges receive $49,270 a year.

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FQRIHEBOrS By MARK PLUNKETT

The poUticisation of the Queensland PubUc Service by discrimination and pat­ronage is one of the most abominable legacies of the Bjelke-Petersen admuiistra-tk)n and it wUl have poUtical hihuence long after his depar­ture from office.

Key positions have been consistentiy stacked with select poUtical favourites whUe dissidents have been carefuUy excluded and weeded out.

In a ten year career of oorruptmg Westmmster democrats safeguards the entrenchment of a National Party pirt)Uc service comp­lete with permanent tenure and safely hidden in anony­mity, is one of BjeUce-Petersen*s most sinister acts of subversion.

His strong executive style of government has done away with the traditional neutral and impartial pubUc service replachig it with enthusiastic advisers and puciUanimous adndnistrators characteristic of presidential systems. His 1974 poUce statement that: **We regard the PubUc Service as a career structure of an impartial and non-poUtical nature where officers are not preferred or rejected on tiie basis of theh poUtical beUcfs" (Nov 4, 1974, Southport) has Uttie basis infact.

Special Branch Screenings of Recruits

Political discrimmation beghis with Special Branch screenhigs of recruits thus underminhig the essentia raquhement of a "strict adherence to the prmciple of open competitive entry" (Boyer Report, 1959).

*Th0 Queensland PubUc Service Board regularly re­

quests from Special Branch information when considermg appUcations for sensitive positions". (Courier Matt, 20.9.70, p, 18).

Such screenmgs (based on notoriously inaccurate in­formation, see NSW Privacy Committee Report on Special Branch, March 1978 and tiie Report of Justice White on South AustraUan Special Branch) could only be jus-

and ChUdren's Services 78 recruits last year, (PubUc Service Annual Report, 1976-77).

The only reason why these departments should be regarded as havmg 'sensUive' positions is because they ad­minister contentious govern­ment poUcy.

Rejection of entry of a former radical based on a ten year old Special Branch file

Dr. Mai Colston refers to a Special Branch film being taken of hhn during a May Day march "which probably caused me to lose my job after the election". He concluded his account by saying: "Big Brother does watch us m Queensland."

Possible convictions for offences of dishonesty should be the only poUce record that would be tolerable m a

. ^ ^

tified where a breach of secrecy would endanger state security yet there are no positions withm the juris-* diction of state governments vdiere this coidd imaguiably happen.

"•Sensitive positions" are given a blanket interpretation to "include departments of Health, Aborighial and ChUdren*s Services," which constitute 19% of tiie total pubUc service witii 5184,459 and 2,871. officers respectively. Health had 420

where the last entry was over seven years old was reported last year.

An anti-Vietnam war protester, Larry Drake, employed as a Mam Roads ni^twatchman was sacked after his Special Branch fUe was forwarded to his depart­ment, just two days after a letter on the war appeared in the local press. Depart­mental officeis confirmed tiiat unsatisfactory perfor­mance was not the reason for his dismisisal.

poUticaUy hnpartial recruit­ment. In Queensland there is a need for a Security Appeals Tribunal as recommendwl by the Hope Royal Commission mto ASIO for federal pubUc servants adversely affected by security files of tiie poUtical poUce forces. (Royad Com­mission on InteUigence and Security, second report).

The need to caU in Special Branch to exclude politkal opponents is veiy much a vote of no confidence hi the abiUty of the PubUc Service

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JOBS FOR THE BOrS Board to ensure poUtical neutraUty through its ex­tensive powers of investiga­tion and disciplining of offending pubUc servants (s 32 (1) PubHc Service Act).

Regulations insist that public servants devote them­selves exclusively to pubUc service duties, not to comment pubUcly (Reg. 36), not to disclose information (Reg. 36 (b)), nor to engage in politics (Reg. 37), nor to attend any contentious poUtical meetings in pubUc buildings belonging to the Crown (Reg. 51). Over the years these disciplinary regu­lations have been enforced; 1971-72, 23 tunes; 1973-74, 33 times, 1975-76, 41 trnies, 1976-77, 27 times.

Petty political retaliation and persecution is common against public servants whose private poHtical activities have been opposed to the ;Government's. This is despite the traditional devices to guarantee impartiaUty and 'the fact that these political .activities were within the bounds prescribed by pubUc service regulations.

The transferring of Fraser .Island environmentaUst John Sinclair from Maryborough to Brisbane as an Adult Education Officer although a greater need for his services existed at Maryborough was an act of pure poUtical ven­geance.

Government , Health Officer at Thursday Island, Gune James was swiftly transfened followmg a fahly innocuous article on health neglect that appeared in the press.

The Medical Superinten­dent of Miles, one time ALP Roma candidate and activist, Dr. AUen Saltan was sacked followmg a campaign of persecution that involved fines for such trivial mis­demeanours as drinking coffee in the nurses rooms.

What Happens To PubUc Jobs for the Boys: Servants Who Run As PoUtical Patronage PoUtical Candidates?

There is a long standing convention that public servants (who must in law) resign temporarily to stand as candidates wUl auto­matically be reinstated if unsuccessful. In Qld this convention does not apply to public servant ALP candidates.

Dr. Mai Colston in his first unsuccessful bid for the Senate on returning to his pubUc service office was given 24 hours to clean liis desk out and move to another department "without an office, with no apparent res-ponsibUity and for a short time without a chair. Such is the life of a vanquished political candidate."

The Actmg Principal at Mossman State School, now State MLA, BUI Woods returning to his post after defeat as a candidate in the 1977 federal elections, was told by the Director General

In Queensland the practice of filling key positions in the pubUc service at the upper echelon level with former poUtical staff of ministers originally recruited outside the public service is rife.

The most recent in February after eight years as right hand man to Mr. BjeUce-Petersen and Press Secretary Mr. Allen CaUaghan was given a specially created position: depty co-ordinator and promotions officer of Culture, National Parks and Recreation department on $26,000 annuaUy. This was a

. non-appealable position, class 17 and it is expected that Mr. CaUaghan will go on to be head of the Department whh the rethement of its present head expected in three years time. Mr. CaUaghan is also tipped to become chairman of the State Fihn Corporation in

There have also been instances of ^'.outright nepotism where minister's children have received plum jobs.

of Education that his position no longer existed.

In contrast, two defeated Liveral State members, Denis Young and David Byrne were both reinstated to the service on the same level after theh 1977 defeat at the poUs.

Clearly Qld needs to foUow the NSW precedent of writing this convention into tiie Public Service Act to prevent this political re­taliation that serves as a dis-mcUnation for pubUc servants to seek poUtical office.

July foUowmg special legis­lation transferring it to his department in tfie current session of pariiament.

Former Private Secretaries to the Premier and other ministers have gqjpe on to become Under Secretaiy to Departments. One even became a commissioner under the same portfoUo to his former boss.

There have also been instances ' of outright nepotism where ministers children have received plum jobs.

hi July 1975 both pubUc service unions accused the Qld cabinet of "opening the gate to patronage" by the mechanism of removing the right of appeal and makmg acting appomtments. The Secretary of the State Service Union Mr, F, WaUace comp­lained over the position of Supreme Court Register following it becoming vacant.

Mr. B.J. Nutter, secretary of the Professional Officer's Association protested when the appointment of the former forrester at Yarram in the premier's electorate as acting deputy dhector in Parks and Wildlife Services, thus giving the appomtee an advantage over other officers since there is no right of appeal against acting appomt­ments.

The appointment of Sid Shubert to the highest paid position in the State PubUc Service, Co-ordmator General was criticised in Par-Uamei|it as "a blatant case of p(ifitical patronage." It was iaM Mr. Shubert had joined the National Party some months before the appomt­ment which took place on the same day Sh Charles Barton resigned without the usual three months hiatus. These allegations were later described by the premier as a "baseless smear" and denied by Mr. Shubert

Whether they be true or false is hi a sense hrelevant. Irregularities in appointments to senior positions are so commonplace nowadays that any such aUegations will always generation suspicions and militate agamst pubUc service morale.

As it was stated in Pai^ liament: "People have a right to ask, *Is the new appohit^e a Joh man? Is he a member of tiie National Party? Has he paid the price of poUtical party aUegiance whidi under ordinary chcumstances would

(cont. page 48)

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PuUk: Service Discrimination

By MARK PLUNKETT

The Federal Labor Depart­ment's Queensland ConunUtee on Discrhnination hi Employment and Occupa­tion is currently investigatmg a specific instance of poUtical discrhnination against an applicant for a Queensland pubUc service position.

Mr. Michael O'NeiU of Toowong was refused a position hi the Queensland Department of Health for which he had been originaUy accepted because of a ten year old Special Branch fUe.

In April 1977 Mr. O'NeUl applied for a position as Health Education Officer (Drugs) with tiie Qld Healtii Education CouncU - a position for which he was eminently qualified havuig held a sunUar position for a number of years with the New South Wales Health Commission.

Shortly after his inter­view Mr. O'NeiU was m-formed over the phone that he had been accepted. AU that remamed was the for­mality of PubUc Service Board clearance and O'NeUl was told tiiat he would probably conunence work within two weeks. O'NeUl expressed some slight apprehension that his security fUe might prove an obstruction. .

He had learnt that Special Branch had a file on hhn dathig to when he was active hi the anti-Vietnam war movement vvMst a University student in the late sbcties.

He and the fonner Special Branch head Inspector Les Hogan had been acquahited when both were feUow parishioners at the Cooparoo

CathoUc Church, O'NeiU was President of the local youth club and Inspector Hogan often helped out by being the poUceman on the door during dances, etc,

O'NeUl was informed by friends that Les Hogan, in an effort to convince them not to associate with the radical moement that was then growmg on the campus revealed that files were being kept on him and his brother.

O'NeUl was twice arrested for trivial offences arising out of anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. On the fust occasion the charges were dismissed by the Magistrate. On the second he forfeited baU. On no occasion has he ever been convicted for any cruninal offence.

Finally two months passed having heard no word from the Health Department.

O'NeUl fust made some discreet inquiries through a member of Parliament who was himself once a Special Branch officer who was of the view that with 'sensitive positions' reference was made to poUce files. He was also of tiie opinion that O'NeUl's position of drug education was a sensitive position poUticaUy.

Finally O'NeUl rang tiie Health Department officer he had been deaUng whh. He expressed regret and genume distress at the circumstances and felt tiiough O'NeiU's worst fear had been con­firmed and "that other matter" had caused problems.

O'NeUl went into the city and confronted the PubUc Service Board. After ex­plaining what had happened to an officer of the Board, he was left alone for over 30 minutes m the hiterviewing room whUe his

case was checked out, FinaUy the officer returned lookmg "rather tight around the jaws" and aUeged to O'NeUl that the PubUc Service Board had no knowledge of any appUcation for the position, O'NeUl was stunned.

Finally O'NeUl took his case to the, Minister for Health, Dr. Dew Edwards. As O'NeUl arrived at Dr. Edwards office he bumped mto the Health Department official who had made aU the arrangements leaving Edwards office.

Edwards denied havmg personal knowledge of any security fUe being kept on O'NeiU and said that he would never aUow any dis­crimination in his depart­

ment. He said that documents that he had been supplied with mdicated tiiat O'NeUl had been mterviewed and recommended to the depart­ment to fiU the vacancy.

He said that the sunple explanation of tiie PubUc Service Board ignorance was that the recommendation did not proceed beyond the Health Department because at the last moment tiie Treasury had withdrawn funds for the positions.

No explanation was given for why the same position was advertised again in late 1977, O'NeUl wrote asking that his previous application be re-activated. He was not granted an interview and, his appUcation was rejected.

(cont. page 48)

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LMMiMi INDEX:

MUSIC 18 MUSIC REVIEWS 22 CINEMA 25 DRIVE-INS 26 FILM REVIEWS 26 THEATRE 27

DANCE 28 KIDS 29 VISUAL ART 30 FOOD REVIEWS 32 SUNSHINE COAST 33 TOOWOOMBA 34

INCORPORATING THE GOLD AND SUNSHINE COASTS, IPSWICH AND TOOWOOMBA

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{In this section, Artists are listed in alphabetical order . . .For listings by Venue, see Venue Cross Index).

FRIDAY 18 MAY

FRIENDS: NEWNHAM HOTEL Newnham Rd, Upper Mt. Gravatt ph 343 1666 7.30-11.30pm. HUSTLE: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 7.30-11,30pm. IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St. Valley ph 52 n o i 7.30-11.30pm. JUNCTION: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd. Ferny Grove ph 351 2390 7.30-11.30pm MARDI GRAS: KURABY HOTEL Paclfk: Highway, Kuraby ph 341 3333 7.30-11.30pm. PERSOiU TO PERSON: HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St, Valley ph 52 4344 7.30-1 am.

PIRATE: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall ph 265 1555 $2 7.30-11.30pm. SPIRAL: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-1.30pm. WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-1 i.30pm.

SATURDAY 19 MAY

CROSSROAD: KURABY HOTEL Pacific Highway Kuraby ph 341 3333 7.30-11.30pm. HUSTLE: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 276 19227.30.11.30pm. IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St. Valley ph 52-1101 7.30-11.30pm. ;iUNCTlbN: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd, Ferny Grove ph 351 2390 7.30-11.30pm FRIENDS: NEWNHAM HOTEL Newnharti Rd, Upper Mt. Gravatt ph 343 1666 .SO-11.30pm.

HUSTLE: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph.275 1922 7,30-11.30pm, PIRATE; HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall ph 265 1555 $2 7.30-11.30pm. SEASON OF THE WITCH: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 Mc­Cullough Rd, Sunnybank no cover charge 7,30-11.30pm. SPIRAL: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11,30pm, WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd. Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-11.30pm. ZERO & APARTMENTS: NEW FARM PARK mid after­noon till dusk.

MONDAY 21 MAY

IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St, Valley ph 52 1101 7.30-11.30pm. MISTREATER: SKATEWAY Mt. Gravatt $1.70 7pm-10,30pm. SPIRAL: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd, Sunnybank ph345 1081 7.30-11.30pm.

TUESDAY 22 MAY IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St. Valley ph 52 1101 7.30-11,30pm. SPIRAL: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd, Sunnybank ph 345 1081 7.30-11.30pm. WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-1 L30pm,

WEDNESDAY 23 MAY

IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St. Valley ph 52 1101 7.30^11.30pm. KLUTE: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd, Ferny Grove ph 351 2390 7.30-11.30pm. MISTREATCR: RIVER CRUISE departs Hales Wharf North Quay $3.50 BYO 7-11.30pm, PERSON TO PERSON: plus floor show HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St, Valley ph 52 43447.30.11.30pm.

'PIRATE: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zjllmere Rd, Boondall ph

265 1555 $2 7.30-11.30pm. SPIRAL: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd. Sunnybank ph 345 1081 7.30-11.30pm. WICKETY WAK BANO: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7,30-11.30pm.

THURSDAY 24 MAY

FRIENDS: NEWNHAM HOTEL Newnham Rd, Upper Mt. Gravatt ph 343 1666 7.30-11.30pm. HUSTLE: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 295 1922 7.30-11.30pm. IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St. Valley ph 521101 7.30-11.30pm. MARDI GRAS: KURABY HOTEL Paclfk: Highway. Kuraby ph 341 3333 7.30-11.30pm. PERSON TO PERSON: HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St, Valley ph 52 4344 7.30.11.30pm. PIRATE: HOMESTEAD'HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall ph 265 1555 $2 7.30-11.30pm. SEASON OF THE WITCH: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 Mc­Cullough Rd, Sunnybank ph 3451081 7.30-11.30pm. SPIRAL: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-11.30pm.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

FRIENDS: NEWNHAM HOTEL Newnham Rd, Upper Mt. Gravatt ph 343 1666 7.30-11,30pm. HUSTLE: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd. Salisbury ph 275 1922 7.30-11.30pm. IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St. Valley ph 52 1101 7.30-11.30pm. JUNCTION: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd, Femy Grove ph 351 2390 7.30-11.30pm MARDI GRAS: KURABY HOTEL Pacific Highway, Kuraby ph 341 3333 7.30-11.30pm. PERSON TO PERSON: HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Bruns­wick St, Valley ph 52 4344 7.30pm-1am.

PIRATE: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zllimere Rd, Boondall ph 2851555 $2 7.30-11.30pm. SEASON OF THE WITCH: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd. Sunnybank ph 34510817.30.11.30pm. SPIRAL: EVERTON PARK

HOTEL Flaxton St. Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm. WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-11.30pm.

SATURDAY 26 MAY

FRIENDS: NEWNHAM HOTEL Newnham Rd, Upper Mt. Gravatt ph 343 1666 7.30-11.30pm. HUSTLE: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 7.30-11,30pm. IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St. Valley ph 52 1101 7.30-11.30pm, JUNCTION: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd, Ferny Grove ph 351 2390 7.30-11.30pm PIRATE: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall ph 265 1555 $2 7.30-11.30pm. SEASON OF THE WITCH: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd. Sunnybank ph 345 1081 7.30-11,30pm SPIRAL: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St. Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm. VENTURE: KURABY HOTEL Pacific Highway Kuraby ph 341 3333 7.30-11,30pm WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-11,30pm.

MONDAY 28 MAY

IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St, Valley ph 52 1101 7.30-11.30pm. MISTREATER: SKATE WAY Mt. Gravatt $1.70 70m-10.30pm. SPIRAL: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd, Sunnybank ph 345 1081 7.30-11.30pm.

TUESDAY 29 MAY

IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St, Valley ph 5211017.30.11.30pm. SPIRAL: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd, Sunnybank ph 345 1081 7.30-11.30pm. WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE

JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-11.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 3D MAY

IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St, Valley ph 52 1101 7.30-11.30pm. KLUTE: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd, Ferny

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Grove ph 371 2390 7.30-11.30pm MISTREATER: RIVER CRUISE departs Hales Wharf North "Quay $3.50 BYO 7pm-11.30pm. PERSON TO PERSON; plus floor show HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St. Valley ph 52 4344 7.30-11.30pm. PIRATE: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd. Boondall ph 265 1555 7.30-11.30pm. WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-11.30pm.

THURSDAY 31 MAY

FRIENDS: NEWNHAM HOTEL Newnham Rd, Upper Mt. Gravatt ph 343 1660 7.30-11.30pm. HUSTLE: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 7.30-11.30pm. IRON DUKE: WATERLOO HOTEL Ann St, Valley ph 521101 7.30-11.30pm. MARDI GRAS: KURABY HOTEL Pacific Highway Kuraby ph341 3333 7.30-11.30pm. PERSON TO PERSON: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm. PIRATE: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd. Boondall ph 265 1555 $2 7.30-11.30pm. SEASON OF THE WITCH: SUNNYBANK HOTEL 275 McCullough Rd, Sunnybank ph 345 1081 7.30-11.30pm. SPIRAL: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm. WICKETY WAK BAND: JINDALEE HOTEL Sinnamon Rd. Jindalee ph 376 2122 $3 7.30-11.30pm.

FRIDAY 18 MAY

RANTAN: CALEDONIAN CLUB O'Connell St, Kangaroo Point ph 391 7309 $1 Spm.

SATURDAY 19 MAY

RED BRICK BAND: RED BRICK HOTEL Annerley Rd, Annerley $1 7.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 23 MAY

THE WAYFARERS: ADVENTURERS CLUB Annie St, Kangaroo Point ph 371 2683 $2.50 Bpm.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

RANTAN: CALEDONIAN CLUB O'Connell St, Kanganoo Point ph 391 7309 $1 Spm.

SATURDAY 26 MAY

RED BRICK BAND: RED BRICK HOTEL Annerley Rd, Annerley $1 7,30pm.

WEDNESDAY 30 MAY

THE WAYFARERS: ADVENTURERS CLUB Annie St, Kangaroo Point ph 371 2683 $2.50 8pm.

SATURDAY 19 MAY

HARD LIVIN' COUNTRY: MELBOURNE HOTEL 2 Browning St, West End ph 44 1571 $3 7.30-11.30pm.

TUESDAY 22 MAY

COUNTRY FEVER: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St. City ph 221 7111 7.30-11.30pm.

THURSDAY 24 MAY

COUNTRY FEVER: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St. City ph 221 7111 7.30-11.30pm,

SATURDAY 26 MAY

HARD LIVIN' COUNTRY: MELBOURNE HOTEL 2 Browning St, West End ph 44

1571 $3 7.30-11.30pm.

TUESDAY 29 MAY

COUNTRY FEVER: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St. City ph 221 7111 7.30-1 i;30pm.

THURSDAY 31 MAY

COUNTRY FEVER: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St. City ph 2217111 7.30-11.30pm.

FRIDAY 18 MAY

MILEHAM HAYES* DR JAZZ: THE CELLAR Mary St. City ph 341 5544 8pm. 1.30am. VARSITY FIVE: PELICAN TAVERN St. Pauls Terrace, Valley ph 52 1250 no cover charge 7.30pm. ON JAZZ BAND: MELBOURNE HOTEL 2 Browning St. West End ph 44 1571 7.30pm-1 am.

TUESDAY 22 MAY

PACIFIC JAZZMEN-ADVENTURERS '.CLUBS Annie St. Kangaroo P ^ t ph 371 2683 $3, $2 members Spm. CAXTON STREET JAZZBAND: with Andy Jenners COMMUNITY HALL Caxton St, -Brisbane 7.3a 11pm.

THURSDAY % MAY

CHILLI BEANS: MELBOURNE HOTEL 2 Browning St, West End ph 441571 $2 7.30pm.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

VARSITY FIVBT/f. PELICAN TAVERN St Pauls Terrace Valley ph 52 1250 no cover charge 7.30pm. ON JAZZ BAND; MELBOURNE H O T E L 2 Browning St, West End ph441571$37.30Tl1pm. MILEHAM HAYES' DR JAZZ: THE CELLAR Mary St. City ph

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MORETON BAY JAZZBAND: BASKETBALL STADIUM Dixon St, Auchenflower 7.30pm.

TUESDAY 29 MAY

PACIFIC JAZZMEN: ADVENTURERS CLUB Annie St. Kangaroo Point ph 371 2683 $3. $2 members Spm. CAXTON STREET JAZZBAND: with Andy Jenners COMMUNITY HALL Caxton St, Brisbane 7.30-l lpn i .

THURSDAY 31 MAY

ON JAZZ BAND: MELBOURNE HOTEL 2 Browning St, West End ph 44 1571 $2 7.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 30 MAY

AL CROTTY: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St, City ph 2217111 7,30-11.30pm. RAY GIBSON: NEWNHAM HOTEL Newnham Rd. Upper Mt Gravatt ph 343 1666 7.30-11.30pm. WOMEN'S NIGHT: THE CURRY, SHOP 409 George St, City ph 221 1656 May 22 & 29 $1 BYO 7.30pm till late.

%mw> FRIDAY 18 MAY

BEETHOVEN'S DISCO: BROWNS PLAINS HOTEL. Browns Plains Road, Browns Plains ph 200 2555 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. BOBBY OSBOURNE DISCO: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zlll-nr)ere Rd, Boondall ph 265 1555 7.30-11.30pm. GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King GeorgeSquara City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed smart, no jeans 6.30pm-1am. J.G. DISCO: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George Sx, City ph 221 7111 $1 licensed smart & casual 7.30-npm. THE LORD GEORGE: GEORGE HOTEL Cnr Mary & George Sts, City $2 licensed smart & casual 7pnv12mklnlght.

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DilSiC® THE MOON BAR DISCO: BELFAST HOTEL 388 Queen St. ph 221 0388 no cover charge licensed smart & casual 7-11 pm.

SATURDAY 19 MAY

GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square. City ph 221 7788 $3 llceensed smart, no jeans 6.30pm-1am. J.G. DISCO: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St. City ph 221 7111 $1 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm. THE LORD GEORGE: GEORGE HOTEL Cnr Mart & George Sts. City $2 licensed smart & casual 7pm-12 midnight. THE MOON BAR DISCO: BELFAST HOTEL 388 Queen St. ph 221 0388 no cover charge licensed smart *"& casual 7pm-11pm. UNNAMED DJ.: NATIONAL HOTEL 502 Queen St. City ph 31 2281 $2 licensed smart & casual 6pm-12 midnight.

MONDAY 21 MAY

MAO MAC DISCO: HACIENDA HOTEL 294 Brunswick St. Fortitude Valley ph 52 4344 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey

Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: EVERTON PART HOTEL Flaxton St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7,30-11.30pm. FLASHEZ DISCO: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd, Ferny Grove ph 351 2390 7.30-11.30pm.

TUESDAY 22 MAY

BOBBY OSBOURNE DISCO: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall ph 265 1555 smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm! GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square. City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed, smart nojeans6.30pm-1am. MAD MAC DISCO: HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St. Fortitude Valley ph 52 4344 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. MOONDOGGIE DISCO:

KURABY HOTEL Pacific Highway Kuraby ph 341 3333 smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm.

WEDNESDAY 23 MAY

GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square, City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed smart, no Jeans 6.30pm-1am. MAD MAC DISCO: HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley ph 52 4344 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm. MOONDOGGIE DISCO: KURABY HOTEL Pacific High­way Kuraby ph 341 3333. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 Ifoensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm. THE LORD GEORGE: GEORGE HOTEL Cnr Mary & George Sts, City $2 licensed smart & casual 7pm-12 midnight. UNNAMED D.J.: NATIONAL HOTEL 502 Queen St, City ph 31 2281 no cover charge licensed smart & casual 6pm-12 midnight.

THURSDAY 24 MAY

BOBBY OSBOURNE DISCO: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zjllmere Rd, Boondall ph 341 3333 smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square. City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed, smart noieans6,30pm-1am. MAD MAC DISCO: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samfond Rd. Ferny Grove smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

BEETHOVEN'S DISCO: BROWN'S PLAINS HOTEL Browns Plains Rd, Browns Plains ph 200 2555 licensed smart & casual 7,30-11.30pm. GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square. City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed smart. noieans6.30pm-lam. J.G. DISCO: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St. City ph 221 7111 $1 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm. THE LORD GEORGE: GEORGE HOTEL Cnr Mary & George Sts, City $2 licensed smart & casual 7pm-12 midnight. THE MOON BAR DISCO: BELFAST HOTEL 388 Queen St. ph 221 0388 no cover charge licensed smart & casual 7-11pm. UNNAMED DJ.: NATIONAL

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SATURDAY 26 MAY

BOBBY OSBOURNE DISCO: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall ph 341 3333 smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed smart, no jeans 6.30pm-lam. J.G. DISCO: MAJESTIC HOTEL 382 George St, City ph 221 7111 $1 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm. THE LORD GEORGE: GEORGE HOTEL Cnr Mary & George Sts, City $2 licensed smart & casual 7pm-l 2 midnight. THE MOON BAR DISCO: BELFAST HOTEL 388 Queen St. ph 221 0388 no cover charge licensed smart & casual 7pm-11pm. UNNAMED DJ.: NATIONAL HOTEL 502 Queen St, City ph 31 2281 $2 licensed smart & casual 6pm-l 2 midnight.

MONDAY 28 MAY

FLASHEZ DISCO: FERNY GROVE TAVERN Samford Rd, Ferny Grove ph 351 2390 smart & casual 7.30-11,30pm. MAD MAC DISCO: HACIENDA HOTEL 398 Brunswick St. Fortitude Valley ph 52 4344 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxton St. Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm. UNNAMED DJ.: NATIONAL HOTEL 502 Queen St, City ph 31 2281 licensed smart & casual 6pm-l 2 midnight.

TUESDAY 29 MAY

BOBBY OSBOURNE DISCO: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 114 Zillmere Rd. Boondall ph 265 1555. GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed smart, nojeans6.30pm-1am. MAD MAC DISCO: HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St. Fortitude Valley ph 52 4344

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MOONDOGGIE DISCO: KURABY HOTEL Pacific Highway. Kuraby ph 341 3333 smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11pm.

WEDNESDAY 30 MAY

BOBBY OSBOURNE DISCO: HOMESTEAD HOTEL 144 Zillmere Rd, Boondall ph 265 1555 smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm-GENERAL JACKSONS: CREST HOTEL King George Square, City ph 221 7788 $3 licensed smart, no jeans6.30pm-1am. MAD MAC DISCO; HACIENDA HOTEL 394 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley ph 52 4344 licensed smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. MOONDOGGIE DISCO: KURABY HOTEL Pacific Highway, Kuraby ph 341 3'333 smart & casual 7.30-11.30pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: EVERTON PARK HOTEL Flaxtor St, Everton Park ph 355 9344 7.30-11.30pm. SIGHT & SOUND DISCO: SALISBURY HOTEL Toohey Rd. Salisbury ph 275 1922 licensed smarts casual 7.30-11.pm. THE LORD GEORGE: GEORGE HOTEL Cnr Mary & George Sts City $2 licensed smart & casual 7pm-12 midnight.

(An alphabetical listing of those hotels offering live enter­tainment supplemented with names of Artists and days for which they are booked).

ADVENTURERS CLUB: Annie St, Kangaroo Point ph 371 2683 THE WAYFARERS (Wed). CALEDONIAN CLUB: O'Connell St, Kangaroo Point ph 391 7309 RANTAN (Frll. EVERTON PARK HOTEL:

Flaxton St. Everton Park ph 355 9344 SPIRAL (Thurs-Sat). FERNY GROVE TAVERN: Samford Rd, Ferny Grove ph 351 2309 KLUTE (Wed) + JUNCTION (Fri & Sat). HACIENDA HOTEL: 394 Brunswick St, Valley ph 52 4344

PERSON TO PERSON (Thurs-Sat). HOMESTEAD HOTEL: 114 Zillmere Rd. Boondall ph 265 1555 PIRATE (Wed-Sat) FUGITIVES (Wed). JINDALEE HOTEL: Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee ph 376 2122 WICKETY WAK BAND (Tues-Sat). KURABY HOTEL: Pacific H'Way Kuraby ph 341 3333 MARDI GRAS (Thurs-Fri) VENTURE (Sat May 26) and CROSSROAD (Sat May 19). MAJESTIC HOTEL: 382 George St. City ph 221 7111 COUNTRY FEVER (Tues & Thurs) AL CROTTY (Wed). MELBOURNE HOTEL: 2 Browning St, West End ph 44 1671 JAZZ, COUNTRY & BLUES. NEWNHAM HOTEL: Newnham Rd, Upper Mt. Gravatt FRIENDS (Thurs-Sat) RAY GIBSON (Wed) PELICAN TAVERN: St. Pauls Terrace, Valley ph 52 1250 VARSITY FIVE (Fri).

RED BRICK HOTEL: Annerley Rd. Annerley RED BRICK BAND (Sat). SALISBURY HOTEL: Toohey Rd, Salisbury ph 275 1922 HUSTLE (Thurs-Sat). SUNNYBANK HOTEL: 275 McCullough Rd, Sunnybank ph 345 1081 SEASON OF THE WITCH (Thurs-Sat). THE CELLAR: Mary St. Cityph 341 5544 MILEHAM HAYES OR JAZZ (Fri). WATERLOO HOTEL: Ann St, City ph 52 1101 IRON DUKE (Mon-Sat).

FRIDAY 18 MAY

JOINT EFFORT NO 4: CLOUDLAND Bowen Hills Richard Clapton, Western Flyer, Footloose $4, $3 ZZZ subs.

FRIDAY 23 MAY

JOINT EFFORT NO 5: QIT COMPLEX Sports, Fair Exchange and one other band

(not yet confirmed) $ , $3 ZZZ subs.

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SUNDAY 20 MAY

CURRY SHOP; 409 George St City THE RIPTIDES will be playing $2 BYO Spm start for further info. Ph 221 1656.

FRIDAY 18 MAY

QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: ABC STUDIO Ferry Rd, West End 1st ABC South Band Orchestral Concert conducted Vanco Cavdarskl, soloist Geoffrey Spiller, (trumpet), compere Howard Ainsworth ad mission free 8pm..

SUNDAY 20 MAY

QUEENSLAND ARTS COUNCIL HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE Queen St. Brisbane concert by Mike McClellan with Geraldine Doyle $6.40, $3.40 students, pensioners, and children Spm enquiries ph 221 2777. BACK SOCIETY OF QLD: THEOSOPHICAL AUDITORIUM 355 Wickham Tee, Brisbane a recital by the Jubilate Singers $+ & $2 pensioners students Spm enquiries ph 370 9788.

TUESDAY 22 MAY

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: Uni of Qld, programme featuring Robert Huestis harpslcord, Fred Rees harpslcord works by Antonio ValentI Bach, ScarlottI, Soler, performance room, 1.10pm.

WEDNESDAY 23 MAY

BRISBANE STRING CONSORT:

CITY HALL CIVIC ART GALLERY Brisbane works by Purcell, Mozart, Dag Wiren and Bach admission free 5.15pm en­quiries ph 263 6596.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY

ORCHESTRA: CITY HALL Brisbane 2nd ABC Family/Youth series Concert conducted Vanco Cayaj;5kl. soloist Dele OWIng (vidlVnl,' compere Bruce Short. Works by Suppe, Dvorak, Grieg and Tchaikovsky 7.30pm.

SUNDAY 27 MAY

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: Uni of Qld, programme featuring Arthur Johnson, baritone. Beavan Crabtree piano. Works by Bracanln, Schubert. Performance; Room, Spm. QUEENSLAND YOUTH ORCHESTRA: Gardens Point, George' St concert by Junior string Ensemble, QYO 111 and Percussion Ensemble $1, students pensioners 50c 3pm enquiries ph 221 9124.

TUESDAY 29 MAY

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: Uni of Qld. programme featuring Martin Woolley bassoon, Regis Danlllon piano. Works by Bois-mortler, David. Ravel. Htndsmlth, Performance Room, 1.10pm.

THURSDAY 31 MAY

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY: MAYNE HALL Uni of Queensland a choral concert with works by Bach -Magnificat in D, Anerlo - MIssa Pro vdefunctus. Praetorlus -Caticum Trium Puerorum. In aW of the Hugh Brandon Scholarship. Wine & cheese evening included after concert! $4. $2 students.Spm

QUEENSLAND OPERA COMPANY: Her Majestys Theatre, Queen St. LUCIA Dl LAMMER-MOOR by Donizetti, conductor Graeme Young, producer John Nllson, designer James Ridgewood May 30 continues In June $12.50, $9.50 students & pensioners Spm enquiries 221 7749.

One of the world's most famous and prestigious opera companies, the D'OYLY CARTE company. In Gilbert & Sullivan's greatest and funniest operas,THE MIKADO lOLANTHE &• HMS PINAFORE bookings at Her Majesty's Theatre, ph 221 5081 commences Ju le l l .

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HEARTS ON THE NIGHTLINE: Richard Glapton (Interfusion thru Festival L36932)

Richard Oapton is a true' enigma for the Australian music Kene. He is one of the very few to successfully fnse elements of American and European music and still emerge with an individual style to call his own.

"Hearts on the Nightline" is a perfect example of this fusion. This can be accounted for by the fact that the songs for the album were conceived m .Berlin and recorded in Los Angeles.

The album seems to be divided into two distinct sides. The first reflects the European influence while the songs on the second have more of an American feel to tiiem. , Clapton has assembled an Impressive cast of musicians for "Hearts on tlie Nightline". There is guitarist Jerry Weems (ex-Edgar Winter and Ian Hunter), bassist Dennis Belfield (Seals 'and Croft), and saxophonist Rafael Ravenscroft (Al Stewart) among others. Clapton's new producer PaUas Smith has also shared production credits on various other projects such as the

Allman Brothers, Canned Heat and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

The album opens with the title track. It is a rousing, rolliclcing _ number, being more up-tempo than most of Clapton's work. This track liighlights the strength and uniqueness; of Clapton's voice. He seems to be able to stretch and contort his vocal chords in ways most others would find impossible.

Clapton claism that the song is a cynical statement on the lonely-hearts that plague the phone lines on late night talkback radio.

Followirig this is "Passing Trains." This is the first track that showcases the two themes that pervade ihe songs on this album. The first of these is his continual reference to trains and

' railway tracks etc, while the other is the sense of

reflection and isolation. The song opens with

sounds of a. train in motion (similar to the opening of Bowie's "Station to Station") .andgoeson . to be a beautifully executed ballad. Even though it is written in the first person, the song never approaches the point of self-indulgence.

"Ace of Hearts" is a slight deviation from the thematic concepts mentioned above, but stiU manages to conjure up vivid images of backroom card dealing and self-isolation. It is on this track that the American element starts to become apparent. Dennis Belfield's bass sounds similar to a lot of the soul/disco bassists that have emerged from America in recent years. The song as a whole however, does not lower itself to the current disco sub-standards.

"Down the Tracks" closes the side. I found this to be the iiighpoint of the album. It couples a brilliant lyric with a strong backing track: "Here in the carnival all that survives/Are echoes of simple and happier times/ You make a dollar and you make a dime/ But I'm just searching for the simple life."

This track shares the lyrical brilliance of "Winter­time in Amsterdam" from "Goodbye Tiger".

As mentioned before, the second side reflects more the American influence. This is to be found more so in the instrumental than the lyrical content. Here agam Belfield's bass is reminis­cent of the disco sound while Jerry Weem's guitar sounds like Waddy Wachtel's backing for Linda Ronstadt.

The one thing that sets these songs apart from such material is Clapton's voice. His phrasing on "Out on the Island" coupled with Ravenscroft's sax playing separates him from his contemporaries.

"Sometimes the Fire" is

another good piece. This time Ravenscroft .hands over his sax to Joel Peskin who surprisingly meets the former's standard. On record this piece is immediately impressive, but in a Uve context it is supposed to be a killer.

The only two tracks that fail to impress are "Mam-street Shuffle" and "Throw Me Down a Lme". On these two songs, Clapton treads too closely to the thin line of mediocrity. The lyrics are not up to the usual standard while the backing also lacks inspiration.

"Hearts on the Nightline" differs from "Goodbye Tiger" (his last effort) in its emphasis on keyboards as opposed to guitar. With this alburn Clapton has produced a fme set of songs which finally crystallise the fusion of American and European music referred to previously. It will be a hard album for the man to improve upon.

-TONYGILSON

MCGUINN; CLARK & HILLMAN (ST Ccapitol 11910).,

Another combination of old familiar faces, ytt another reunion, it was good to see them live in Australia last year, playing and singing as if ten yearsjliadn't passed at aU. .

This, their fhrst recorded joint effort is a finely balanced and produced work, emphasising individual talents

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whilst maintaining a group adhesiveness. One senses the sparic of old musical com-padres getting it on in the studio together, bringing out the best in each other.

Roger McGuinn, the Byrds origin^ founder, takes a fairly laid back role on this LP, to enable the lesser exposed Gene Clark and Chris Hillman showcase their latest works. His song **Don't you Write Her Off has been lifted from the LP as a single and looks like doing good business.

Chris Hilhnan is the most committed rocker of the group, and his three songs "Long LongTime", *«toppin' Traffic", and "Sad Boy" reflect the patiently evolved style of a serious musician who has travelled thru some rather diverse territory.

Gene Clark, as the poet/ songwriter, does not disappoint this writer, who happens to think Clarke's 1974 **No Other" a meister-weric of the 1970s. Of his four contributions "Little Mama", and "Backstage Pass" are particularly out­standing.

Roger McGuinn completes the album with a delightful pastoral lyric entitled "Bye Bye Baby" a fme sequel to "Chestnut Mare", his dassic song from the Byrd's "Untitled LP".

Although there is much more that could be said about this fine album, it would be better left for you, the potential listener to go grab a copy and appreciate it for yourself.

-HUGH MAXWELL

FREE PUBLICFTY

Brisbane's LWino Guide Is at your service. Take advantage of its free listings by sending any information (big or small) about local "goings on" to the Living Gukie Editor, Tims Off, University of Queensland Unkm Building. St. Lucia, Qld. 4067, or telephone 371 2568.

JUST A STONE'S THROWAWAY: (import) CBS 34155. WILD CHILD: Valerie Carter (import) SBP 237255.

Who knows where she came from, this superb vocalist and song\ 'riter. A child of Smog City, a friend of Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and Lowell Geoige, Valerie Carter kicked off her recording career with a superb LP. "Just a Stone's Throw Away" in 1977.

And what a debut! Even granting the assistance of every L,A. music notable, young Valerie performed with a freshness and vitality that had not been heard for a long tune.

As is often the way, the critics loved the album, but for reasons mysterious, it was not to be the platinum seller that many of her associates seemed to be able to achieve with far less effort and inspiration.

So in late 1978, a long awaited second LP sur­

faced, "V/ild Child", in which Ms Carter attempts to antici­pate the tastes of her potential audience.

On first listening, it appears a trifle bland, com­pared with the first LP, but after further evaluation, one realises that "Wild Child" is dealing with a different set of life's realities, namely the exigencies of meaningful relationships and perhaps different musical formats are indicated.

Whereas on "Just a Stone's Throw Away", the bouncy, rocking style synched with the late night hanging out lifestyle of truckstops, and romping in the hay with lonesome cowboys, it may have seemed a trifle incon­gruous to the singer to use such musical settings for composition which involve more complex degrees of emotional commitment.

On "Wild Child", Valerie Carter is supported by some of LA's young blood session musicians, and their influences have obviously obtruded. Not altogether for tlie worst, I would suggest, on tracks such as "Lady in the Dark", one of the most exhilerating songs I have heard in ages.

With its powerful arrange­ment and orchestration led by producer/pianist James N. Howard, Valerie really lets it fly with superb delivery and no-nonsense lyrics like "and it will bring you to your knees/ when you love her then she leaves/ if you don't understand what she needs."

This is essentially late night music, brimming with sultry moods and ambivalent passions and desires. Valerie Carter is a true artiste, not content to wallow in vocal conceit or plastic renderings. Call it "blue eyed soul" if you will, but it's sure soul.

The title and fmal track **Wild Child" dispels any lingering doubts one may

have about her latest stylistic development. Radiating warmth and tenderness Valerie Carter's reading of David Batteau's exquisite composition is as superb a version as you'd ever hope to fmd.

-HUGH MAXWELL

MISSING LINK'S INNER SANCTUM: Various Artists (Missing LinkMLPS).

"Inner Sanctum" is a com­pilation of tracks from various acts. They are pieces that have not yet been ex­posed to the mass market.

The opening track is the Bleeding Heart's 'Tfit Single". This is a brilliant piece and it puts shit all over the Sports version of the same song. *Twist Senorita" by the Sports has been lifted from their limited edition "Fair Game" EP. It is a looping acoustic piece which gets you singing tiie chorus over and over after a few listens.

Other tracks to be found on the first side include the Victims' ^Television Addict" and ' Mechanics in a Relaxed Manner" by the Pelaco Brothers (featuring Steve Cummings and Joe Camillerij.

Side two opens with Dave Warner's "Summer '78", it*s a sort of Beach Boys meets David Bowie affair, being an anthem for tiie '78 surf generation. "Nobody Wants Me" by tiie brilliant News is easily the h i ^ g h t of the album. It sounds like the

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(r. R\ material to be foimd ont he early stooges albums. It features slowed-dowii pubk guitars and a ^azedj Sittfiflg vocal (a la Iggy),

*'She's Got tiie Money"by Young Modem is also some­thing for the credit side. It has heavy overtones of the 60s pop revival that was pioneered by bands like Blondie, but it still manages to retain a strong sense of individuality.

The tracks by bands such as the fielair Bandits and tiie Millionaires detract from tiie overall quality of the an)um. They are flimsy tfirowaway things that do nothing to impress the listener.

"Inner Sanctum" has the one m^or problem of a lack of cohesiveness. This was probably unavoidable, being a problem inherent in com­pilation albums. "Inner Sanctum", however, has the bonus of containing some real gems, thereby elevating it above the stajidard of most albums of this nature.

-TONYGILSON

ON THE OTHER HAND THERE'S A FIST: Jona Lewie (Stiff L36835)

Jona Lewie is one of those eccentrics who dwell on the outdcirts of British rock. One critk has referred to him as a "cross between Kraftwerk and Fats Domino." It is therefore no surprise that Stiff have picked up on this man's quirky talents.

"On the Otiier Hand There's a Fist" displays a great variety of styles. One can find traces of the blues

("111 get by in Pittsburgh"), pop, ((The Baby, She's on the Street") and balladeering ("Bang-a-lang-a-boom-er-ang-man") as well as the sli^t touch of lunacy in such pieces as "Feelin' Stupid" and "The Fairground Ride".

The sound on the album is mainly acoustic but there is a strong emphasis on elec­tronic keyboards in some pieces. The one instrument that seems to remain dominant in the mix is the slide guitar. Tim Branston, Malcohn Hme and Jona Lewie himself all play slide on the album.

Other celebrities to be found include ex-Rumour hornblowers John Earle and Dick Hanson as well as note­worthy English session musos such as Ken Butcher, Helen Robinson and Clive Chappel.

Unlike much of the material released by %tTif, Jona Lewie is quite easy to listen to. There is so much diversity to be found on "On tiie Other Hand There's a Fist" that Lewie does not corner one particular audi-

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thing on this album tiiat most people would like, even if much of tiie remaining material alienates part of his potential listeners.

-TONYGILSON

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ALBERT CINEMAS: 183 Albert Street. City. Ph. 221 5777. CRYSTAL THEATRE: Legeyt Street, Windsor. Ph. 57 3708. FORUM CINEMA: 160 Albert Street. Cityp. Ph. 221 3255. GEORGE: 346 George Street. City. Ph. 221 7866. PARIS: Albert Street. City. Ph. 221 2277. QUEEN STREET (HOYTS -formerly the Odeon Theatre): Queen Street, City. Ph. 221 8516. SCHONELL THEATRE: Univer­sity of Queensland, St. Lucia. Ph. 371 1879. TOOMpUL: Sandgate Road, Toombul. Ph. 366 4884. VILLAGE TWIN: 701 Brunswick Street, New Farm. Ph. 358 2021.

(Always phone cinema for confirmation of any programme listed below. Late changes can occur at short notice).

m WEEK 17-23 MAY

ALBERTS: 1 HEAVEN CAN WAIT 2 CAT FROM OUTER SIPACE (G) 3 DEATH ON THE NILE INRC) Mon-Sat 11am. 2. 5 & Spm. FORUM: FANTASIA |G) Mon-Sat 11am. 2m, 5, 8pm. GEORGE: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (NRC) Mon-Sat 11am, 2m. 5m 8pm. PARIS: THE MAGIC OF LASSIE (G) Thurs-Sat 9.15am. 11,45am (Finishes 19 May) COMING HOME Thurs-Sat 2T5pm. 5.05pm. 8pm Mon-Wed 11am. 2pm. 5pm, 8pm. HOYTS QUEEN ST: SPIDERMAN STRIKES BACK (NRC) Thurs-Sat 10am. 12.20pm. 240pm (Finishes 19 May)

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (R) Thurs-Sat 5pm & Spm, Mon-Wed 11 am, 2, 5. Spm. SCHONELL; WOMBLING FREE Thurs & Fri 11am JOE COCKER MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN Sun 4pm NEWSFRONT + SMALL CHANGE Sun 6 + Spm Mon & Tues 7.30 & 9.30pm TOOMBUL: THE MAGIC OF LASSIE (G) Thurs-Sat 9.30am & 12.15pm (Finishes 19 May) SPIDERMAN STRIKES BACK (NRC) Thurs & Fri 3pm (Finishes 18 May) COMING HOME Mon-Sat 10.30am and Spm. VILLAGE TWIN: 1 ELVIS THE MOVIE (G) 2 SARGENT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (NRC).

(Always phone cinemas for confirmation of any programme listed below. Late changes can occur at short notice).

WEEK 24-30 MAY

ALBERTS: 1 HEAVEN CAN WAIT 2 THE DEER HUNTER (R) 3 THE WARRIORS (R) Mon-Sat 11am, 2,5.8pm. FORUM: ODD ANGRY SHOT (M) Mon-Sat Ham. 2. 5, Spm Sun 2 & 5pm. GEORGE: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (NRC) Mon-Sat 11am, 2,5, Spm. HOYTS QUEEN ST; MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (R) Mon-Sat 11am, 2, 5. Spm. SCHONELL: RAISE RAVENS (NRC) + ALLONSANFAN (M) Fri. Sat, Tues & Wed 7.30pm & 9.30pm. LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE (M) Sat 1.30pm Sun 6pm GREASE (NRC) Sat & Mon 3.15pm Sun 4pm 2001 (G) Sat 5pm. Sun Spm. Mon 1pm ALLONSANFAN (M) Mon Spm. TOOMBUL: MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (R) Mon-Sat 10.30am, Spm. VILLAGE TWIN: 1 ELVIS THE MOVIE (G) Mon-Sat 11am, 2. 5. Spm 2 THE WARRIORS (R) Mon-Sat Z30pm & 7.30pm.

I (The following is a list of the current films being screeried at the major cinemas around Brisbane. AU the films have been placed in alphabetical order and the theatre at which they are showing has been supplied also. For exact screening dates and time vlease check cinema listing). ALLONSANFAN: SCHONELL BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: GEORGE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE: ALBERT 2. COMING HOME: PARIS, TOOMBUL DEATH ON THE NILE: ALBERTS ELVIS THE MOVIE: VI LLAGE TWIN FANTASIA: FORUM GREASE: SCHONELL HEAVEN CAN WAIT: ALBERT LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE; SCHONELL MIDNIGHT EXPRESS: HOYTS QUEEN ST, TOOMBUL ODD ANGRY SHOT: FORUM RAISE RAVENS: SCHONELL SPIDERMAN STRIKES BACK: HOYTS QUEEN ST.TOOMBUL SHAMPOO: S C H O I ^ ^ L L

SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BANO: VILLAGE TWIN 2. THE DEER HUNTER: ALBERT 2 THE MAGIC OF LASSIE: PARIS THE WARRIORS: ALBERT 3. VI LLAGE TWIN 2. WOMBLING FREE: SCHONELL

NATIONAL FILM THEATRE OF AUSTRALIA: Aust Govt. Theatre. Cnr Ann & Creek Sts, City ph 36 6958. THE WIDOWHOOD OF KAROLINE ZASLER - set in the northern provinces of Yugoslavia, the film deals with the problems of people faced with the conflicting demands of rapid industrialisation and traditional agricultura May 21 (Mon) 7.30pm. WALKING TALL - colour. English sub­titles Dieter Wittow^i is a locksmith In a steel works, his wife Hanna works gainst her husbands wishes. This conflict is overshadowed by the mis­representation of Dieter in a press interview during a strike, which draws the ridicule of his colleagues. May 22 (Tues) 8.30pm FASHIONS OF 1934 - William Powell and Bette Davis a conman and a designer capture the Parisian fashion worid. THE LAST WALTZ - the Band's farewell concert In 1976 at Bill Graham's Winterland in San Frahcisco, where they had made their first major rock appearance In 1969. May 23 (Wed) 7.30pm.

FRENCH FILM DEPARTMENT: Room 81 Forgan Smith Bldg Uni. of Qld LA CHASSE ROYALE with SamI Freg. Claude Brasseur, Jean Champion, Ludmiila Mikael. Suzanne Flon Henri and his friend Philippe are going as usual to spend the hunting season with the game­keeper Metzer. Henri wants to enjoy the primitive and violent pleasures of hunting; Philippe wants to shake off the grief of a broken love affair.

THE FAR ROAD - the study of a railway worker and his wife, covering several decades of their lives is the centre of this sharply etched story of a country In transition with superb location photography in north Japan evoking the vanished era of the steam locomotive. May 28 (Mon) 7.30pm. THE MAN WHO HAD HIS HAIR CUT SHORT -extraordinary sense of beauty and horror, it is based on a novel by Flemish writer Johann Daisne, ostensibly the story of a teacher's obsession with one of his students, it is in the form of a confession on the part of the schizophrenic hero which Delvaux has transposed into subjective cinema suggesting the metaphysical through a kind of "magic realism", slight djs-figurennents of reality, a subtle-innuendo between dialogue. Image and natural sound. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL about a group of elegant bourgeois at a sapper party who suddenly find that they are unable to leave th room. May 30 (Wed) 7.30pm.

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(Always phone Drive-in for confirmation of any screenings listed below. Late changes can occur at short notice).

WEEK 17-23 MAY

BOONDALL: SUPERMAN THE MOVIE (NRC) + BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (G) 7.15pm. CAPALABA: GREASE (NRC) + AMERICAN GRAFFITI (M) 7.15pm. KEPERRA: AMERICAN 7.15pm WESTERN: AMERICAN &.15pm. WOODRIDGE: SUPERMAN THE MOVIE (NRC) + BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (G) 7.15pm. GALAXY: THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (M) + SLEEPING DOGS (M) 7.15pm. REDCLIFFE: THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (M) + SLEEPING DOGS (M) 7.15pm. BEENLEIGH: THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (M) + SLEEPING DOGS (M) 7.15pm. RICHLANDS: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER (NRC) + RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORSE (M) 7,15pm. STRATHPINE: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER (NRC) + RETURN CF A MAN CALLED HORSE (M) 7.15pm.

GREASE (NRC) + GRAFFITI • (M)

GREASE (NRC) + GRAFFITI (M)

THE WARRIORS MEAN MACHINE

WEEK 24-30 MAY

BOONDALL: THE WARRIORS (R) + THE MEAN MACHINE (M) 7.15pm. CAPALABA: (R) + THE (M) 7.15pm, KEPERRA: THE THIRTY NINE STEPS (NRC) + PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (G) 7.15pm. WESTERN: THE WARRIORS (R) + THE MEAN MACHINE (M) 7.15pm. GALAXY: HOOPER (M) 7pm. REDCLIFFE: HOOPER (M) 7pm. BEENLEIGH: ROSIE DICKSON NIGHT NURSE (R) 7.15pm. RICHLANDS: ROSIE DICKSON NIGHTNURSE(R) 7.15pm. STRATHPINE: ROSIE DICKSON NIGHT NURSE (R) 7.15pm.

ALLONSANFAN: Directed by Padre Padrone, starring Marcello Mastrioanni, coming soon to Schonell Theatre.

In their story of a reluctant revolutionary, Paolo and \ittorio Taviani offer a thinly disguised parable on the contemporary failings of the left. The settting is Italy, 1816; Fulvio, an aristocrat who has been invoh^d in a re­volutionary movement is released from prison.

The authorities hope that the local language); and (c) he will lead them to a secret revolutionary sect, the Sublime Brothers. But Fulvio has had enough of revolution and returns to the comfort of his wealthy family estate.

He is, however, lured back to the movement by his former lover, Chariotte, and becomes increasingly embroiled, against his will, in the plans of the sect to ferment a peasant uprising in southern Italy. Through a (tragic) comedy of errors, Fulvio finds himself part of the armed expedition to the south.

In "Allonsanfan", the Tavianis make a powerful attack on political naivety and ideological emptiness in the would-be revolutionary left.

Their attack made from a position finnly within the left focuses on three elements that weaken the left: (a) rich bourgeois intellectuals (like Fulvio) who, when the going gets rough, drop out and prefer to stay in bed; (b) revolutionary adventurers who are ineffectual and naive trouble-makers (the sect arrives in southern Italy to find that they cannot speak,

left-wing sectarianism which subverts unity and solidarity

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on tiie most important questions (the sect's meetings break up in quarrels whenever anything important has to be discussed).

Marcello Mastrioanni after many years returns in a role worthy of his talent and is ably supported by a superb cast. The fihn is a visual delight and a superb example of what the filmmakers' art is all about especially in the use of a music score by Ennio Monicone.

-PAUL COMINO

"Allonsanfan" notes of interest. The Tavani brothers film "Padre Padrone" was the highliglit of last year's Brisbane Fihn Festival and will follow at the Schonell in August. In an interview, the Tavianis spoke about their work: **We were bom with neo-realism.

"Our entry into tiie cinema.came when we saw Rossellini's PAISA. As children we lived the ex­perience of the war. We saw an immobile situation (Italy under Fascism) broken up by the war and the resistance.

When we saw PAISA, we saw this traumatic experience

of ours up on the screen as a film: an experience that

, we had thought to be private ' and particular was in fact communal and communcable. . Later on, neo-realism

; became very bourgeois and Rossellini and Visconti took other roads. And in, fact when we made our furst film in 1961, we had started on a different path ourselves.

' It was then that we decided to detach ourselves from the narrow neo-realism of the Italian cinema and

, insert ourselves into the . wider strand of realism that

runs from Shakespeare j tiirough to Brecht...

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LA BOITE THEATRE: 57 Hale St, Milton CHRISTIAN BROTHERS by Ron Blair May 20-26 $5.50 bookings now open, ph 36 1622. "Brothers" presents us with a 1950s Christian Brother taking his Imaginary class through a day's lessons. So magical is the author's pull on universal welt-springs of understanding and emotion, so understated the direction, so masterly the acting that they do not merely trans­cend their bounds but actually bind up audiences of whatever character into a celebration of what Is the very best not only in theatre, but in human experience.

AVALON THEATRE: Sir Fred Schonell Drive, St. Luda THE ARCHITECT AND THE EMPEROR OF ASSYRIA directed Keith Avent. also play spart of Emperor May 3-26 $3 adults, $2 students, $1 Camerata members Spm 372 4917. THE TN COMPANY: 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills HAPPY END by Kurt Wevill and Bertolt Brecht set in the gangster world of Chicago in 1919 May 18-June 9 for further information ph 52 5888. BRISBANE ARTS THEATRE: 210 Petrie Tee, Brisbane ALL FOR MARY comedy by Kay Bannerman and Harold Brooke, director Margaret Brown May 17-June 9 $4, $3 students 8.15pm (Wed-Sat) enquiries ph 36 2344. LA BOITE THEATRE: 57 Hale St, Milton THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR comedy by Shakes­peare, director Graeme Johnston May 30-June 30 $4, $3 students, pensioners and children Spm (Thurs-Sat), 6.30pm (Fri), enquiries ph 36 1622. U^:lVERSITY OF QLD DRAMA SOCIETY: THE CEMENT BOX THEATRE Woody Allen's GOD May 22, 23, 24, 30 & 31 all In the lunch hour for further information ph; 371 ,1611 (Eugene Gillfedder).

AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY THEATRE presents: COUNT DRACULA by Ted Tiller, director Jennifer Radbourne, Park Playhouse, Hempstead Rd, Highgate Hill ph 266 1190 May 26 & 26 Spm. THE QUEENSLAND SCOUT ASSOCIATION presents: at Schonell Theatre, St. Lucia the 1977 GANG SHOW May 4-19 $6. $5.50 or $4 adults, 'h price children 7.30pm & 1,30pm. The Gang show is a show that appeals to the general public as well as Scouting supporters. The show contains sketches, singing and dance routines. A continuous spectacle of colour, music and costumes.

I m QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY: SGIO Theatre, Turbot St, Brisbane GONE WITH HARDY by David Allen, director John Krummel, designer Fiona Reilly, with Judith Fisher, Reginald Gillam, Trevor Kent the story of Stan Lauren before he teamed up with Oliver Hardy commences June 6 - June 30. Group bookings now available ph221 3861. TWELFTH NIGHT COMPANY: 4 Cintra Road, Bowen Hills TRAVESTIES by Tom Stoppard Opens June 21 a champagne comedy of ideas. A smash hit in London and New York Tom Stoppard has been hailed as the wittiest English playwright since Wilde and Shaw ph 52 5888.

CHINESE OPERAS: SCHONELL THEATRE Uni of Qld St. Lucia live oh stage from Hong Kong May 23 Purple Hairpins May 24 Deitt Ching 8.30pm enquiries ph 52 7952 or 52.7760 6.H.

REDCLIFFE MUSIC AND ARTS SOCIETY: R.M.A.S. Theatre, Redcllffe Showgrounds, Oxley Ave, FRESH FIELDS comedy by Ivor

Novello directed Gilbert Spottls­wood May 11-19 $2 adults, $1 children Bpm (Wed, Fri, Sat). BRISBANE REPERTORY THEATRE - LA BOITE: VISIONS by Louis Nowra. directed John Neilson La Boite 57 Hale St. Milton ph 26 1622 $4.50 and $4 concessions closing May 19 Spm (Thurs & Sat) 6.30pm (Fri).

QUEENSLAND BALLET COMPANY; S>.Q>.\.0. Theatre, Turbot St, City CLOWNS, GAMES OUT OF COURT, LA VENTANA with guest stars from the Australian Ballet Company Harold Collins, director May 15-19 $6 students, $4 pensioners and children Spm bookings ph 221 5177.

THE KINGFISHER: Malcolm C Cooke & Associates and Hayden Price Attractions at Her Majesty's Theatre directed by George Ogilvie.

Although it played in Brisbane for a lamentably short season, *The Kingfisher" provided a trifecta of talent in the theatrical stakes - script, direction and acting were all winners.

At first it is all too easy It has become fashionable to classify this play by the to include a homosexual noted British playwright element in modern theatre, William Douglas Home as a but seldom is it handled highly commercial collection as well as it is in *'The of frothy witticisms. But Kingfisher", while superbly memorable Withers and McCullum lines are scattered through give very good performances, the script, there is sufficient although Miss Withers at sting in the tail to give tiie times seemed a little forced, audience something solid to and I personally would have think on as the fmal curtain liked to see John McCullum comes down. give a little more rounding

Home takes as his themeN out to his character, an emotional triangle Frank Thring is excellent involving Cecil (John - he gives us love and McCullum) who, in spite of a laughter, hate and tears, in multitude of failings, loves a beautifully rounded per-and is loved by both Evelyn formance. (Googie Withers) and his Brisbane audiences will see butler (Frank Thring). Thring in a much longer

The . three prmcipals season later this year when captivate the audience right he plays in the QTC from the first lines. It is a. production of *The Man Who play with no dull moments, Came To Dinner". On the as the three take us through basis of what we have seen the highlights of tiiirty years in "The Kingfisher" it will of bedroom exploits - some be a performance well worth real, some imaginary, but all looking forward to. hilarious. -DAVID K.WHEATLEY

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Aust. Youth Ballet This month sees the inaugural season of a new ballet

company, formed by a leadhg Brisbane dancer and chor­eographer.

The Australian Youth Ballet, founded and dnected by Inara Svalbe was formed in July last year, and drew very favourable audience res­ponse with their first per­formance "The Shining Child" in St. John's Cathedral.

The company of 27 dancers ranging in age from 9 to 14 years was fonned to give specially talented young dancers experience in working as a company.

**The children get to work with a professional stage crew, and we try to develop in them a professional attitude to their work," Inara Svalbe explains.

"We also try to extend them, to give them harder woric than they would normally tackle in their exam syllabus," she said.

Support for the company has not been restricted to its enthusiastic audiences. Famous Australian dancer» Sir Robert Helpmaim, and John Field, Director of London's Royal Academy of Dancing, have willingly lent

their patronage, and the company has received an in­vitation to perform at an international youth festival in Britam next year.

The three ballets for tiie inaugural season were created by Inara Svalbe mainly be­cause of the difficulty in finding ballets that suit children.

"Obviously it looks ridiculous to have children performing grown up love scenes," ^ e said. "But we wanted to perform woiks that would appeal not only to a child audience, but to adults as well."

The company has a busy year ahead, with lots of functions around Brisbane, a tour of south-west Queens­land in July, and a new ballet which will go into rehearsal in August to be performed during the Warana festival.

Picture: a scene from DEGAS, a ballet illustrating the image of the famous painter who devoted much of his time to ballet and dancers.

-DAVID K.WHEATLEY

'If dancing is tiie only form of exercise you do, then it will contribute to National Health," said Dr. David Russell, Head of tiie Department of Human Movement Studies.

This question of how much energy is actually used in dancing, or what amount of water flows around a swimmer's body, or how much oxygen is used while running, could soon be answered.

This "analysis of tiie motion of movement", known as Bio mechanics is among topics for questions to be discussed and evaluated at workshops at Conference '82.

These woricshops will be under the direction of dancers, swimmers, runners and many other athletes and physiologists to discover the most economic ways to use their energy and still retain top levels of performance.

XDne of the purposes of this conference is to improve the performance of atheltes int hefuture", said Dr. Russell.

This conference - Con­ference '82 is seen to be a

Dance & Fitness (Zonference

As you 1)ump' your way around the disco floor, or waltz to StiBUss, take a moment to think about how much energy you're usuig. At the time, you may thuik you've used it all.

dramatic step forward for Dance. Dr. Russell stated tiiat, "A feature of tiie conference will be the dance section. This section will combine the scientific and educational aspects of dance with perfonnances from groups it is hoped will come from different countries."

Conference '82 is unique, since it is the fnst time that these three confereces (The Intemational Conference of I Sports Science, The Inter­national Dance Confernece, The VI Commonwealth Con­ference on Sport, Physical Education and Recreation) will combine.

The last conference on Health, Physical Education and Recreation in 1978, was held at Edmonton, Canada.

Dr, Russell estimated tiiat some 1,500 people were expected to attend. "Scientists, coaches, educators, administrators and members of medical and allied professions and per­formers will meet in scientific, clinical, and workshop sessions, with in­vited speakers from Common­wealth and other countries," said Dr. Russell.

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Human Movement Studies at Queensland University will host Conference '82. He said that he was approached by the Australian Council for Health, Physical Educa­tion and Recreation, organisers with the Australian Sports and Medicine Federa­tion and other national bodies of Conference '82.

The projected cost, according to Dr. Russell is expected to be between $75,000 and $100,000.

The timing of this con­fernece is not coincidental. Conference '82 will be held from 23-28th September.

The Games begin on 30th September, a mere 2 days lapse.

"One of the attractions of such a conference is the

» games. -JENNIFER CHAMBERS

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BRISBANE ARTS THEATRE: 210 Petrie Tee, Brisbane PETER PAN directed Jason Savage May 7-20 10,30am and 2pm (Mon-Fri) 2pm (Sat) bookings and further information ph 36 2344. TWELFTH NIGHT THEATRE: 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills ALICE IN WONDERLAND May 7-19 $3 10am & 2pm (Mon-Sat). LA BOITE THEATRE: 57 Hale St, Milton MULGA BILL AND THE MAN FROM IRON BARK May 7-18 $2.50 adults. $1.50 children 2pm (Mon-Sun). BRISBANE ARTS THEATRE: 210 Petrie Tee, Brisbane RAGGEDYANNE by Jay McKee and Jan Bates May 26-August 11 $2,50, $1.50 children 2pm (Sat) enquiries ph 36 2344. THE YOUNG TWELFTH NIGHT COMPANY: May Vacation Work­shops Tues 8-18 activities include Mime, Puppetry, Painting, Mask Making, Dance, as well as stage crafts, voice and role playing, workshops are designed for par­ticular ages please wear old clothing. Week 1 $25 Week 2 $35 RIALTO THEATRE: Hardgrave Road, West End NODDY COMES TO TOWN A musical fantasy May 4 to May 19 $2.50 adults & children. 44 3274.

PLANETARIUM: Mt. Cootha Botanic Gardes the Planetarium presents a new programme NORTH STAR TO SOUTERN CROSS 3pm and 7.30pm (Wed, Sat, Sun) please note children under 6 not admitted. STrictly no admittance after start of programme $2 adults, $1 children 370 8513 between 12 noon and 7pm (Wed-Sun). CRUISE TO TANGALOOMA ISLAND: Launch leaves

HAMILTON GAME FISHING WHARF every Wed, Fri & Sat at 10am. returns approx. 5.30pm $16 adults, $8 children includes morning and afternoon tea and a smorgasbord lunch for Infor­mation ph 229 5955.

FRASER ISLAND: The National Fitness Camp at Fraser Island is an excellent spot for those wanting to get away from the city but not prepared to camp out. Accommodation is in clean, well-kept cabins which are set up to accomodate family groups or larger sporting groups, clubs etc. Total accomodation available is 58. Family units are fully self contained and hirers may do their own catering or have it supplied by the camp manager. The camp is situated 34 kms, from the southern tip of the island, on the ocean front and just 80 yards from the beach. There is an excellent swimming hole near the camp and fishing off the beach. A short trip to the inaind lakes and rain forest reveals interesting flora an d fauna and bird life. The 70 mile trip up the ocean beach is recommended stopping at various points of interest along the way, e.g. Cathedral coloured sands, wreck of the Maheno, Indian Head. Costs are very reasonable and all bookings of the camp can be made through the Brisbane National Fitness office. Ph. 221 4905.

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LEARN TO MEDITATE: Simple practical techniques that anyone can use to acquire peace of mind and enhance creative living, classes conducted by students of St. Chinmoy Medi­tation at the U. Nations ph 399 5098 free 3 week courses. THE PSYCHODRAMA INSTITUTE OF OLD: Psycho-drama is a method of learning through the spontaneous enacting of life situations. It involves the use of action, space, time and fantasy-tech­

niques using both verbal and non-verbal communication. It has a body of theory and a system of practice which is combined by the Director to assist both the individual and the group towards new behavioural Insights. Experiences can range from spontaneous fun and drama to role plays of social issues or intensive psychotherapy for further information ph 36 5588. SI VAN ANDA YOGA COURSE: 43 Ashgrove Ave, Ashgrove ph 38 3141 beginners courses: postures, relaxation, breathing, diet meditation. Mon. & Thurs 6pm-7.45pm. Commences May 28 runs for four weeks, enrolments close May 25. The Yoga Education Centre, Brisbane was established in 1972 in affiliation with the Yoga Education Centre, Melbourne. Co-principals of the Centre are Mr. Brian McCarthy and Mrs. Joyce McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy has studied under the Director

of the Yoga Education Centre. Melbourne, Shri Vijayadev Yogendra. He also received training at the Yoga Institute, Bombay. A SYMPOSIUM will be held Saturday 19 May, 2pm Physiology Lecture Theatre No 1, University of Queensland. GURU MAHARAJ Jf: the practical path to peace and self-knowledge. Free talks Mons 7.30pm and Thurs 12.30pm at Divine Light Mission 85 Elizabeth St, Brisbane ph 229 5771.

ADULT LITERACY: Toowong P&C adult reading classes ph 371 4740. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: ph 221 7920. BUS SERVICE: City Council Bus routes and timetable enquiries ph 225 4444. CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: 371 4266. CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: ph 229 5798 or 221 4343. LETAL AID OFFICE: ph 229 2944.

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i#l!)iDAlB!iiT TRIBUNE FAIR: Senior Citizen Hall, Boundary Road, West End May 26 (Sat) plants, clothes, books, take away food, home baked bread and cakes, jumble ca |p

CABARET: WOODWARD THEATRE Kelvin Grove CAE May 29June 1 7.30pm and tbe theme is kids.

STREET BAND: meets Tuesday nights at 60 Waterwords Rd, 6.30 to watch Dr. Who. 7 bring a plate. 7,30pm music begins We are looking for anybody interested in creating politteal music and theatre for streets, parks, shopping centres etc.. Including singers, muqos, clowns, jugglers, acrobats and the rest but no previous necessary contact John or Duncan 361 1745. CAMPAIGN AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER: National Fitness Association offices, 147 An St, City May 22 and 29 Spm GAY SOLIDARITY: Room 14 Uni of Qld Union Building ph 371 1611 or 229 3190 May 22 and 27 1pm. ALTERNATIVE LIFE SYSTEMS: Activities. Uni of Qld

ph.371 1611 7.30pm. JOH'S FOES STREET THEATRE GROUP: 291 St. Pauls Tee Valley May 23 and 30 6pm. CAMPUS LESBIANS: Wom^is Rights Room Uni of Qld May 24 and 31 1pm and 7pm ph 371 1611. WANDERERS ADVENTURE CLUB: YMCA 146 Mary St.

City May 22 and 29 the club Is aimed at the 18s and over age groups. Programme includes bushwalking. canoeing, sailing, gliding, squash, tennis, theatre etc. 7.30pm ph 221 4844. OVER FORTY CLUB: YMCA 146 Ann St. City May 21 and 28 programme includes theatre. outings, dining. dancing, weekends away. 7.30pm ph 358 1493. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: free lectures weekly at 5th floor Centaur HOuse, 99 Elizabeth St, Toowong ph 371 4879 Wed at Spm, Sun at 2pm.

ANTHROPOLOGY MUSEUM: Michie Building, Uni of Qld. St. Lucia - the construction of an Aidedeya - a ?tc^ress Report May 2- July 6 lOam-12 noon. 1pm-4pm (Mon, Wed, Fri). BRISBANE CIVIC ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM:

of items from the collection Natural History, Anthropology, History and Technology THE MUSEUM PREPARES specimens under preparation for display (demonstrations on Sun) May 1-20 10am-4.55pm Mon-Sat 2pm-4.55pm Sun. BRISBANE GPO MUSEUM: 1st Floor, Southern Wing, GPO, Queen St, Brisbane. Displays featuring "Communications Through the Generations" including mails, telegraph, tele­phone, radio - Tues & Thurs, 10am-3.30pm free enquiries 224 1215. MIEGUNYA FOLK MUSEUM: 31 Jordan Tee. Bowen Hills Tues. 10.30am-3pm. Sat & Sun 10.30am-4pm, or for groups by appointment, adults 5oc, children 10c. enquriesi 262 2892. NEWSTEAD HOUSE: Newstead Park, Newstead. Mon-Thurs. 11am-3pm and Sun. 2pm-5pm enquiries 52 7373.

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ORMISTON HOUSE: Wellington St, Ormiston Sun, 1.30pm-4.30pm and weekdays for groups by appointment admission 60c enquiries 286 1425, REDLANDS MUSEUM: Smith St, Cleveland open to groups by appointment enquiries 286 1475 or 286 1600). WOLSTON HOUSE: Wacol Wed-Sun 10.30am to 4.30pm adults 50c. children 20c enquiries 382 4917.

EAGLE STREET GALLERY: 72/76 Eagle St, Brisbane ph 229 2140 paintings and drawings by Marit Hegge and Robyn Bauer 10am-5pm (Tues-Frl) 10am-12 noon (Sat). GALLOWAY GALLERIES: Cnr Gregory terrace and Brookes St. Bowen Hills ph 52 1425 oil paintings by Harold Lane May 25-June 15 llam-6pm (Mon & Tues) 11 am-10.30pm, (Wed-Fri) tpm-5pm (Sat& Sun). MARSHALL ROOM GALLERY: 1st Floor, 237 Edward St, City ph 31 1245 paintings by Dorris Lenton and Rosemary UPton May 17-25 David Fowler Art Group exhibition May 26-June 8 8.15am -4pm (Mon-Fri) 8.15am-11.30am (Sat). ROYAL QUEENSLAND ART SOCIETY: 419 Upper Edward St. Brisbane ph 221 3455

members exhibition May 29-June 29 9am-5pm (Mon-Fri). CINTRA HOUSE GALLERIES: 23 Boyd St. Bowen Hills ph 52 7522 paintings of Thursday Island and Cape York by Ray Crooke May 22-31 11am-5.30pm (Tues-Sun), CRAFTS COUNCIL GALLERY: Cnr Grey & Melbourne Sts. South Brisbane ph 44 7556 weaving exhibition by Dorothy Devine May 17-23 10am-4pm (Tues-Sat). INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART: 24 Market St. Brisbane ph 229 5985 works by visiting overseas artists Maria Mentz and Kim Head May 25^une 16 10am-5pm (Tues-Sat). QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY; 5th Floor. MIM Building, Ann St. City ph 229 2138 AUSTRALIAN COLONIAL PORTRAITS features 70 works drawn from collections throughout Australia Will provide opportunity to see work of convict artists as well as todays artists. May 14-June 6 10anrv5pm (Mon-Sat) 2pm-5pm (Sun).

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Ct. PHILLIP BACON GALLERY: 2 Arthur St. New Farm ph 358 3993 paintings and pastels by ROBERT DICKERSON May 1-20 10am-6pm (Tues-Sun). BOSTON GALLERY: 6 Boston St. Clayfield ph 262 2016 exhibition of paintings from the Northern Rivers district, NSW May 4-21 11am-7pm (Wed-Sat). LES GALLERIES DU PADDINGTON: 88 Latrobe Tee. Paddington Craft workshop by GLORIA LOGAN (including copper enamelling) May 8-18 10am-6pm (Tues-Sun).

BRISBANE THE TOWN GALLERY; 77 Queen St, City ph 229 1981 works by GARY BAKER from 8 May, works by IRENE AMOS from 28 May llam-6pm (Mon-Fri) nam-4pm (Sat). GALLOWAY GALLERIES: Cnr Gregory Tee and Brookes St. Bowen Hills ph 52 1425 oil paintings by PIERRE ABRAHAM May 4-24 nam-6pm (Mon & Tues) llam-1.30pm (Wed-Fri) 1pm-5pm (Sat & Sun). TERRACE GALLERIES: 2 Petrie Tee, Brisbane ph 36 6333 oil paintings by LAUNA CLARK traditional landscape with soft hues May 1-25 12.30pm-7.30pm (Tues-Sat). WOOL EXHIBITION CENTRE: 281 Adelaide St. City exhibition of wool pictures by BETTY PERKINS BARBARA GEISEL and others May 1-26 9am-4pm (Mon-Fri). VICTOR MACE FINE ART GALLERY: 10 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills ph 52 4761 works on paper by JOHN HOWLEY May 1- June 16 10.30am-5.30pm (Tues-Sat). MC INNES GALLERIES: Rowes Arcade, 205 Adealide St. City ph 31 2262 special collectors exhibition May 11-23 9am-4.30pm (Mon-Fri).

THE POTTERS GALLERY: Cnr Birley and Leichardt Sts, Spring Hill ph 221 9488 exhibition by KINGSLEY MARKS May 10-31 10am-4pm (Tues-Frl) 11am-5pm (Sat) 2pm-5pm (Sun).

iW ARTISTS INVITED TO EXHIBIT: the 23rd annual Brookefield Show will be held on May 19 and 20. Artists and craftspeople are invited to exhibit paintings, drawings and pottery in the competition to be held and for sale and dl^lay pur­poses. Entries close May 13 and full details are available from Mr. Newman, ph 374 1793. CRAFTSPEOPLE INVITED TO

EXHIBIT: The Rosewood Creative Arts Committee will conduct a Craftfest on May 27, at Rosewood in conjunction with Lion's Rodeo. Craftspeople are invited to exhibit, demonstrate and sell their work. Full details available Mrs. Taylor ^ih 64 1557. ROYAL QUEENSLAND ART SOCIETY: RQAS GALLERY, members' exhibition, 419 Upper Edward St. Brisbane ph 221 3455 May 29%iune 29 (Mon-Fri). RQAS GALLERY has

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moved to basement. 419 Upper Edward St. The redecorated gallery will open General Meeting Tuesday May 29. Spm. RQAS ART TUITION vacancies, evening and day. Fees: $4 per lesson, studio, 1st floor, 419 Upper Edward St, ph 221 3455 10am-3pm Tues-Fri.

QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY: 5th Floor. MIM Building. Ann St, City ph 229 2138 WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN - Survey exhibition of photographs, plans and maps of the work of the American architect, who in 1912 won the international planning com­petition for the City of Canberra May 11-J une 10 10am-5pm (Mon-Sat) 2pm-5pm (Sun). JAVEEN-BAH GALLERY: Cnr Price and White Sts, Nerang. AQUA an exhibition of Wildlife photo-art by Steve Parish May 6-21 9am-5pm (Mon-Sun).

SUNSHINE COAST - OUR ENVIRONMENT: our competition is open to amateur photographers who would like to make a contribution to the Sunshine Coast's particular environment and lifestyle by sub­mitting photographs with the theme: "Sunshine Coast - Our Enyironment". Entries are limited to two prints in each of the two categories — colour and black and white. There Is an open section and a section for school students, both offering excellent prizes for competition winners and aihners-up. These prizes have been generously donated by the sponsors whose names you see below. The Competition has t)een planned as part of the World Environment Day festivities. The presentation of prizes to winners will take place at Spm on Saturday. June 2 at Fairhill Nurseries via Yandina - scene of this year's Sunshine Const World Environment Day Festival. Entries will be judged by a panel of three judges the week prior to the Festival. Winners and other highly recommended entries will be displayed at Buderim Gallery during the week leading up to Saturday. June 2. Winning entries will also be published in

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the Chronicle on Tuesday, May 29. CONDITIONS: 1. Limit of two prints In any one section. Z Photographs must have been taken on the Sunshine Coast within the past twelve months. i.e. since World Environment Day, June 5. 1978. 3. Prints entered should be a maximum of 10"x8" in size and mounted on art board. 4. Sponsors and sponsors employees and their families are excluded from entry In the competition. 5. Organisers will not accept responsibility for the condition or possible loss of entries. 6. Entries will be available for collection irom Monday. June 4. at Buderim Gallery. 7. The decision of the Judging panel is final and no correspondence will be entered Into. Please send entries Xo Sunshine Coast Newspaper Company. P.O. Box 56. Maroochydore, 4558 - or direct them to our offices at Nambour, Noosa. Maroochydore and Caloundra. Entries close Monday, May 21 at 5pm.

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LOS PARRAS & JEANNIE LEWIS: CONCERT Qld Teachers Union Hall, Boundary St, Spring Hill presented by the New Song Movenrtent and the Chile Solidarity Committee $7 Spm. BRISBANE WIND PLAYERS: at Slvananda Yoga Centre. 43 Ashgrove Ave. Ashgrove. Mon May 21 at Spm Herbal tea and munchles served. Bring blanket or cushion to sit on $3 adults. $1 students and pensioners, THE UMANS, THE APART­MENTS, ZERO: Sat 19 May NEW FARM PARK 2pm-6pm no open fires and no litter and no cars to be parked on grass.

POPULAR THEATRE TROUPE: BUSH DANCE and POETRY READING music by Red Brick Bush Band 60 Waterworks Rd, 18 May (Fri) $ 2 ^ 7.30pm beer 8t wine on sale. BOB PIDDINQTON EL PID: FLAMENCO GUITAR THursdays CURRY SHOP Geonge St $2 BYO Spm.

pooi iMew THE LOQUAT TREE: The Loquat Tree, 782 Brunsw/ick St, New Farm (opposite the Village Twin) BYO open for dinner Wednesday-Monday. Closed Tuesdays. Ph 358 3885.

I had originally visited "The Loquat Tree' earlier this year, and had come away disappointed. Since then, I have heard so many good reports about the place that I decided to give it another try. I'm glad I did - on this second visit both food and service were both more than satisfactory.

**The Loquat Tree" is a spot to enjoy leisurely dining, since many of the dishes are oven cooked. So allow yourself two hours or more for a complete meal.

From the very interesting range of entrees we chose Seafood Chowder, ($2.45) and Avocado and Prawns ($4.50). Presentation of the avocade was particularly pleasing.

Other dishes in the entree section include scallops in Pernod and scallops mornay

(both $3.95), avocado vinaigrette ($3.50), rockmelon in green giner wine ($1.25), artichokes mornay ($1.75), brains in garlic ($2.25), pate maison ($2.20) and minestrone (?0c).

* The main courses vary from basics (rack of lamb

$5.95) to more exotic dishes such as lobster with mush­rooms, white wine and cheese sauce ($9.50).

Included are several house specialties: lamb Emily ($5.85) an interesting com­bination of baked lamb rolled round an apricot filling, and duck Irene ($6.25) - duck with ginger.

As well as the lamb Emily which lived up to the ex­cellent reports we'd heard of tile dish, we tried chicken stuffed with avocado, cashews and a piquant sauce ($6.95). Again excellent -particiiarly the sauce. Both dishes were served with well-cooked fresh vegetables.

Other dishes on the menu included scallops mornay ($6.25), barramundi Veronique ($6.25), Dutch lamb cutlets ($5.85), Queensland honeyed bacon ($4.75), veal stuffed, with sage andonion and lemon sauce ($5,95), and fillet bordelaise($5.85).

From the sweets section we chose galaxy surprise ($1.95) - an interesting combination of ice cream and fudge sauces, and chocolate souffle with orange liquer. This was a disappointment, and certainly not worth its twenty minutes wait.

Other choices in the sweet section included pineapple and kirsch ($2.10), fresh fruit pancake ($2,10), aifd fresh fmit salad ($1.75).

A cheese board selection is also available ($1.85).

. Ser\ice throughout the evening was efficient and pleasant.

Given the quality of food, **The Loquat Tree" has to be rated as giving extremely good quality for money. It is also worth remembering that it is open on Mondays - a night when so many places close their doors.

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BANSHEE: SURFAIR INTER­NATIONAL HOTEL David Low Highway, Mudjimba 8-11pm $1.

WEDNESDAY 23 MAY

SPORTS; SURFAIR INTER­NATIONAL HOTEL David Low Highway. Mudjimba $4 8-12pm.

WEDNESDAY 30 MAY

JIMI AND THE BOYS: SURFAIR INTERNATIONAL HOTEL $4 8-12pm.

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SURFAIR INTERNATIONAL HOTEL: David Low Highway, Mudjimba LEE CONWAY 8pm-12 midnight

FRIDAY 18 MAY

PIONEER GRILLE: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland, 7.30-11pm smart & casual meals 6-9.30.

SATURDAY 19 MAY

PIONEER GRILLE: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland 7.30-11pm smart & casual meals 6-9.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 23 MAY

PIONEER GRILLE: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

PIONEER GRILLE: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland. 7.30-11pm.

smart & casual meais 6-9.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 30 MAY

PIONEER GRILLE: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland 7.30-11pm smart & casual meals 6-9.30pm.

THURSDAY 31 MAY

PIONEER GRILLE: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland 7.30-11pm smart & casual meals 6-9,30pm.

m% FRIDAY 18 MAY

DAX DISCO: THOMPSON'S HOTEL Mooloolaba $1.50 7.30-11pm. GALAXY DiSCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland 7,'30-npm smart & casual $2.

SATURDAY 19 MAY

DAX DISCO; THOMPSON'S HOTEL Mooloolaba $2 7.30-11pm. GALAXY DISCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headlands 7.30-11.SGpm smart & casual $2.50. SUNSHINE DiSCO: NOOSA HEADS HOTEL Main Rd, Noosa Heads 7-10pm. Free.

WEDNESDAY 23 MAY

DAX DISCO: THOMPSONS HOTEL Mooloolaba $1.50 7.30-

, 11pm. GALAXY DISCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headlands 7.30-11pm smart & casual $2.

THURSDAY 24 MAY

DAX DISCO: THOMPSONS HOTEL Mooloolaba $1,50 7.30-11pm. GALAXY DISCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland 7.30-11pm smart & casual $2.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

DAX DISCO: THOMPSONS HOTEL Mooloolaba $1.50 7.30-11pm. GALAXY DISCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland 7.30-11.30pm smart & casual $2.50.

NOOSA HEADS SLS CLUB:

8-11pm$2meals6-8pm.

SATURDAY 26 MAY

DAX DISCO: THOMPSONS HOTEL Mooloolaba $2 7.30-11pm, GALAXY DISCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Haedland 7.30-11.30pm smart & casual $2.50. SUNSHINE DISCO: NOOSA HEADS HOTEL Main Rd, Noosa Heads 7.10pm.

WEDNESDAY 30 MAY DAX DISCO: THOMPSONS HOTEL Mooloolaba $1.50 7.30-11pm. GALAXY DISCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headland 7.30-11pm smart & casual $2.

THURSDAY 31 MAY

DAX DISCO: THOMPSONS HOTEL Moolooaba $1.50 7.30-11pm. GALAXY DISCO: ALEXANDRA HOTEL Alexandra Headlands 7.30-11pm smart & casual $2.

wmm BUSH DANCE AT KIN KIN HALL: Kin Kin RANTAN May 26 7.30pm.

STRAND THEATRE: CALOUNDRA Thurs 17 May 10am MAN FROM BUTTON WILLOW -1- SNOWWHITE AND ROSE RED 1.30pm THE MAGIC OF LASSIE + CARTOONS 715pm CRIME BUSTERS (NRC) -I- SPIDERMAN (G) FRI 18 May 1.30pm THE MAGIC OF LASSIE -*• CARTOONS 7.30pm 16mm surf movie PLAYGROUND IN PARADISE 9.30pm COMING HOME + shorts. Sat. 19 May 1.30pm THE MAGIC OF LASSIE + CARTOONS 7.15pm COMING HOME + MIXED COMPANY (NRC) Mon 21. Tues. 22, Wed 23 May 7.15pm COMING HOME + MIXED COMPANY (NRC) Fri 25. Sat 26. Mon 28, Tues 29. Wed 30 May 7.15pm HOUSE CALLS + THE BIG FIX.

CALOUNDRA: gates opne 6.45pm, show time 7.20pm ph 91 3262 May 17-21 FORMULA 1 SPEED FEVER (NRC) + KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (M) May 22 -nd 23 THE GETTING OF WISDOM + PICTURE SHOW MAN (G) May 24-28 THE BOYS pROM BRAZIL (M) + SLEEPING DOGS (M) May 29-30 NEWSFRONT + CADDY.

CHENREZIG INSTITUTE; Eudio 27 May -2 Nune "Cause and Effect. . .not only do our present actions of body, speech and mind bring results in the far distant future, but they also effect our immediate physio-psychological sate of being, ; The more se are able to work with its energy flow and so directly change our way of life to become more positive and open to people. Scott Brusso an American Monk who has studied Buddhism for six years is presently the Teaching Programme Supervisor, will conduct the course. Enrolment fee $20 Food and Facilities $28 Accommodation $l-$3 per day. INTERIOR DECORATING: classes to be held at Noosa 7.30pm to 9.30pm. For enrol-,ents and venue phone or write 11 Adori St. Currlmundi, 91 3628. PYRAMID ENERGY: Research Group meets every second Wednesday of the month at Red Cross Hall, Nambour 7.30pm

COTTAGE CRAFT COURSES FOR KIDS: A childrens craft cottage will be set up next school term as part of the Sunshine^ Coast Year of the Child activities. To be held every Monday and Wednesday, 3.15-. 5pm and on Saturdays 9am to, noon. All primary school age children would be able to learn pottery, painting, weaving and macrame. Attendance bookings shall be made with Loretfa

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Young, (071) 43 3252. Defensive cycling courses also to be arranged in the near future.

MiitDiimif NOOSA ROLLERDROME: Eumundi Road, Noosaville •nights 7.30-10pm. Tuesday,, Thurs, Fri, Sat. •Afternoons 2pm-4pm, Sat & Sun •Morning 10am to 12 noon, Sat, * Ladles session 9.15am to 12 noon, Tues •School Holidays lOam-12 noon, 2pm-4pm, 7,30pm-10pm Mon to Sun. WORLD OF MATCHCRAFT: Nicklin Way. Caloundra "2.5 metre Paddleboat *331 vessels in Spanish Amriada '40 displays In matehcraft open daily 9am-5pm closed Xmas Day and Good Friday.

COOLOOLA CRUISES:

EVERGLADES ADVENTURE CRUISE cruise through the Noosa

^ Lake District to discover Cooloola Everglades and the tropical wonderland of Kin Kin Creek. Adults $10 Child (5-14) $5 includes morning and afternoon tea Lunch T-Bone $2; sausages $1.50. COOLOOLA SAFARI Enjoy the Everglades Adventure Cruise by launch and the remainder of the safari by four wheel drive bus. Adults $13 Child (5-14) $6.50 includes morning and afternoon tea Lunch T-Bone $2. Sausages $1.50. CAMPING AND CANOEING Campers with their gear and canoe join the Everglades Adventure Cruise and are taken to a selected site in the Upper Noosa River area of the National Park. They are picked up on a return trip when desired. Adults $15 Chitde (5-14) $7.50 BBQ lunch (first day) T-Bone $2. sausages $1.50. Subject to seasonal variation so CHECK WITH COOLOOLA CRUISES (071) 49 7884 for bookings.

T • « HBA FRIDAY 25 MAY

CHAPTER HI: White HORSE HOTEL Ruthven St, 8-12 midnight $3. COUNTDOWNS: Crown Hotel Margaret and Neil Sts, 8pm-12 midnight $2,

THURSDAY 17 MAY

FLASH JACK: •+ variety of other artists NEWPORT HOTEL Cnr Kerries and Neil Sts.

SATURDAY 19 MAY

SCHIEHALLION: FARMERS ARMS FOLK CLUB Farmers Arms Hotei'lCabarlah 7.30pm $2.

THURSDAY 24 MAY FLASH jAfcK: + variety of other artists'NEWPORT HOTEL Cnr Kerries and Neil Sts,

SATURDAY 26 MAY

FARMERS ARMS HOTEL: Quiet night with a variety of artists and audience fam session. BYO instrument 7.30pm $1.50.

:D(I§G# THURSDAY 24 *MAY

GREG WOODS 4WK: as D.J. WHITE HORSE HOTEL Ruthven St.8pm-12mldnlght$3.

FRIDAY 25 MAY

ZACK'S HOTEL: Ruthven St 8pm-12 midnight $3 adult disco with Jimmy Aspro as DJ licensed 8pnn-12 midnight.

WINDY CITY JAZZ BAND: FARMERS ARMOS HOTEL Cabarlah 7,30pm $2,

FRIDAY 18 MAY

JIMMY STROHFELD: FARMERS ARMS HOTEL Cabarlah •»• the Bush Boys Spm $1.50.

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THURSDAY 31 MAY

STUDENT RECITAL: Arts Theatre DDIAE free 1-2pm.

MONDAY 28 MAY

WEEK 17-23 MAY

DOWNS DRIVE IN: Drayton Rd GREASE (NRC) 7.30pm. GARDEN CITY: Taylor St THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (M) 7.30pm.

WEEK 24-30 MAY

DOWNS DRIVE IN: Drayton Rd THE THIRTY NINE STEPS (NRC) 7.30pm. GARDEN CITY: Taylor St UNCONFIRMED.

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SUNDAY 27 __MAY

AIME SAUSAGE CO: CHILDREN'S THEATRE Balinese Gamelon, clowns, Commodia opening of Acme Sausage Co 1pm $1, 50c Ring DDIAE for venue (to be announced).

SUNDAY 27_jyiAY

CONCERT: Acme Sausage Co Childrens Theatre 7pm $1 50c ph DDIAE for venue.

MONDAY MAY 28-JUNE

CHILDRENS THEATRE: Primary Play, Gamelon, Primary and Secondary play. Pantomime (Cinderella) Acme Sausage Co 10.30am $1 50c venues .will be in Toowoomba and environs Ring DDIAE for details.

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ARTS BUILDING DDIAE FOYER: State Designs and Graphic Topography Jack dnd AnnSaunders-Mann .-. . DOWNS GALLERY: Arts Centre Greyhound Terminus Bldg, 135 Margaret St mixed exhibition of painting and pottery. LINTON GALLERY: 421 Ruthven St, Mixed exhibition of painting and pottery. CREATIVE 92: 92 Margaret St, Craft exhibitions with painting and pottery.

40DB-FM: stereo community radio broadcasting on 102MHz 10am-12 noon ' newspaper readings for the blind- 6pm-10am classical and jazz member­ship with voting rights $40 subscription $25 4DDB-FM would like to hear frbnfi in­dividuals or community groupis interested in presenting fine music, drama or literature prog- rams.

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It was a last minute dedsim to go see a fibn. Gemak and I tkdded on the Deer Huntei. We searched through the Courier Mail. No Deediunter. Shit. After turning down the SF garbage that foOowed in the wake of Star Wars and steering a path clear of the Walt Disneys we finally agreed on Tleaven Oin Wait*'.

We sped into town to the tune of "You're so Vain, Wanen Baby" and saeeched to a halt in a padcing space outside Festmtl Hall, narrowly avoiding two Cjongregational Baptists who were hurrying to get mside to hear the words of wisdom from Leighton Ford.

Passing the Festhral HaU entrance, Cernak paused to listen: an elderly fellow who showed a startling resemblance to the drummer from Max Meiritt and the Meteors who was standing nearby turned and said "Coming to jom the crusade ey? Actually Tm into Zen," Between clenched teeth I said, "Cernak let's get out of here!" "NO" she said 'Vait I want to hear this."

Leighton Ford, immaculate, with a voice like a reaping ho<^, was giving forth the spiel: "How many of you here for yaw first time? Well well well. So where have you. . .No, I won't ask where you've been, TU just say how ghd ah hem that you've oome tonight. (Applause) How many here are twenny farv? Wave your song sheets. Well wett well. How many are twenny farv or under? Wave your song sheets, better still, stand up. (Half the haU stands up, amidst general titter). Well well well, says Leighton, aiKl let's sing for Jesus!"

"How can you Cernak?" I ask her.

"It's interesting" Interesting!? For

I'm bewildered and remember, Cernak is

stand this

a she says.

moment then I

always on the lookout for tips and pointers on how to manage a crowd, for the time when she institutes her own religk>n, which she plans to use in a takeover of tlw Catholic Church and the institution of matrilinear monardiy. She's planning on capitalizing on the move away fiom the traditional male trinity of father son and holy ghost, which is leading to the renewal of worship of Mary, the Nfothsr of God. Mary worship goes back

to the birth of civilisation when aU the world worshipped the Great Mother, known variously as (be White (goddess, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hera; when the Goddess was the boss of aU the gpds and women ruled the world. All it needs is a catalyst to bring back the matriarchy, she says. So she watches Leighton Ford for style. Mother Mary, what next?! It reminds me of the book I'm planning on writing, called "Living with a Mega­lomaniac",

Fmally we arrive at the theatre in time for the second half of a short on Arnhem Land which has 84 zoom shots on a

crocodile's fangs and 112 pan shots of resentful tourists being driven around the rivers in a flat bottom boat by a guide with a fixed grin and a glazed look.

After the interval we're treated to a Cigarette Ad which Cernak assures me is all sexual symbolism. (How? "Well," she says, "it stands to reason -look at those men, those tough rough macho style buddies out there rounding up the lithe, free spirited, naked horseflesh. What do you tWnk is going to happen when they get them into the conal?" "You mean?" "Yep", she says).

TIME OFF Mav 17th, 1979

The the Feature: It opens with bioep bulging Warren Beatty limbering up, calling the plays in a football stadium, working on his bung knee. The story goes like this: Wanen Beatty, a physical jerk, who has a dream of playing in the SUPERBOWL the final of the football league, has an unfortunate encounter with a couple of trucks in a road tunnel. He's on a bicycle. An over zealous escort from Heaven (an angel, loosely speaking) puUs him out seconds before the accident, a bit squeamish. That's against the rules in Heaven, so Warren Beatty is given a second chance on Earth with a choice of bodies. He settles for the stupendously rich Leo

Fanisworth, art industrialist, and becomes embroiled in the aJffairs of this eccentric magnate.

Mrs. Famsworth is trying to kiU him with the help of Famsworth's secretary. After testing it for a trial period, he finally plumps for the magnates body, throws the business empire into turmoil, and buys the Rams (his okl football team) in order to realise his made hope of playing quarterback in the superbowl His dreams ard almost fulfilled when tragedy strikes -with the help of his celestial friends he tries to save the situation in the nick of time.

A strange sensation at the end of the fihn is evoked when the supporting case feel somehow sure they have been witnessmg a sig)ernaturai event, but can't imagine just how. The fihn is a lightweight schmultzy comedy, but Cernak and I both found it hilarious. In fact I had to convince Cernak it was best to keep a handkerchief stuffed in her mouth in an attempt to stifle her shrieks of laughter which threatened to have us thrown out. I spent the movie sitting next to a tearful Cernak, she was flitting her sides, emitting a painful, stiffled, chortling moan.

ROBERT WHYTE

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A typical transformation of commercialised U. S. performers. 29 year old Tom Waits flies into Brisbane May 5 and heads to radio 4 ZZZ for an interview. He can't do it. Waits has the shakes, withdrawal pains, chainsmoking, phlegm, twitching, a nervous gesture, what is he doing at the bottom end ofthe world.

Four hours later the complete professional has thousands eating out of his hand, serene piano solos, flagon at hand, a debris strewn Louis Armstrong melody, stand up comedian, satirist, west coast memories, four encores, a poignant decadence.

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Watts having difficulty at the 4ZZZmike

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Computer Cover-up Computer science is in the same league as

nuclear energy to the average person in the street ~ something that pro7nises to bring greater benefits to humanity yet which is shrouded in the mystery of esoteric knowledge not nonnally avail­able to us.

So it is with something approaching bemuse-7?wnt that TIME OFF learnt of a jnajor ruckus in tbe Queensland University world. Behind all the dry academic debate there is real drama involving $30,000 of students' money each year, coveriip accusations and the intransigence of the Prentice computer centre. Add to this academic hostility and you have a picture of the state of affairs in the intellectually rarified atmosphere of tbe university's comptiter circles, CALVIN NOACK reports:

A row that has been brewing on the Queensland University campus has flared into a major controversy embroiling the Prentice Computer Centre, the depart­ment of Computer Sdence aiKl the university adminis­tration.

The controversy centres round whether the newly aug­mented computer centre is being adequately utilised with computer science staff and students alleging that it is underutilised while students have to pay for computer tune from their own pockets to finish assignments that should be covered by depart­mental grants.

Academic staff are up in arms about the 'Inability of university's academic com­munity to gain adequate access to central computer resources" while researchers are finding their programs restricted through lack of computer access.

The situation was such that in March the vice-chancellor Mr. Brian Wilson ordered that the centre, which had been closing for the weekends in recent tunes, be opened on Sundays for students and that,computer

tune be charged for at a quarter of normal rates.

And the computer science department has allocated all its funds for student com­puter assignment time for the year to just the first semester, leaving students without any funds but their own to deal with an increased computer woricload in the second semester. There are two semesters for each academic year.

Last week the vice chancellor announced the setting up of a special com­mittee to investigate the needs of the university for computer ^ime and access and the ways in which the centre (which has recently taken delivery of a new computer facility that more than doubles the existing computer capacity) can satisfy these needs.

If all these moves and countermoves are not enough then there is also the allegation that the statistics supplied by a "secretive" computer centre have.been "cooked" and that some students are gettmg free tone on the $3 million computers because they know members of the computer staff.

Prentice Computer Centre is ahnost unique in Australian university circles in that it uses real money for its opera­tions and not ^notional' money or 'funny money'. Tunny money' is the term designated for free time on the computerterminals.

For instance, the centre allocated $1500 worth of computer time for Expo Uni a year or so back and $700 for a student to draw a chess set and pieces on a display terminal. It is almost an accounting device to enable access to the computer without the necessity for actual money to change hands and is only possible when the computer is operating below maximum capacity.

Terminals are the equip­ment that is used to get required information into the computer for programming and analysis. The computer science department is allocated 30 terminals for its 300 graduate students.

And this computer is operating well below capacity with only some 11% of its total capacity being utilised, according to statistics quoted in a letter to the vice

chancellor in April this year. In that letter revenue from

the computer for 1978 was quoted at only 8% of a cal­culated $9.5 million theoretical income.

Those figures are idealised ones but the centre's director is on record as saying that the centre's not expected to reach saturation level till 1981-82.

In the lig t of these figures which seem to indicate the underuse of the facility it has been argued by the computer science staff that the centre could quite easily lower its access pricing structure by as much as 400% without gettmg anywhere near the available computer capacity.

This would allow students to do four times as much work for the same money as they are spending now. This point gains extra validity when it is considered that a study done last year showed that undergraduate students in the computer science department (which is about 300 strong) spent an estimated $30,000 of their own money for assignments during last year.

Further, the study shows

TIME OFF May 17thJ979 3^7

Computer Cover-up a conelation between the grades a student secured and the amount of personal money spent. The more spent the higher the grading. No reason was advanced for this connection.

The computer science students are not very happy with the situation although, because of the department's move to spend all the years fimds in first semester, they have not had to use any of thek own fiinds for assign­ments yet.

Of all the students spoken

with not one was satisfied with the situation of which the Prentice Centre was the centre. All said they needed more time than was alloted by the financial-quota system to complete the assignments and one said that the terminal equipment added to the cost because there were a large number of terminals that were malfunctioning and forcing costly runs of programmes.

Another criticism was the restricted opening hours of the centre. At present it is open from Sam till 11pm Monday through Friday and Sam till Spm. One argument advanced to the vice chancellor was that the centre should be open 22 hours a

Super Cop Back On The Beat

OvU Rights activists will be sorry to hear that Senior Constable Domonic Cacciola of the Queensland Special Branch is going back to the beat to Mobile Patrols.

Know as "Mick** to his pals in the force and **the student friend" to demon­strators his portly presence and snappy spectacular arrests wUl be missed at future 'Right'to-March* demos. Dangerous radicals ard. subversives aUke will heave a sig^ of relief that their plotting to overthrow the lawful authority of the state may now proceed less threatened.

It won't be so much for

his Queen's commendation medal that he will be remem­bered as the six references he gets in Justice Lucas* Criminal Law Inquiry.

Just once more for the record the Inquiry observed (in paragraph 63, page 45): "No proceedings, crimindl or departmental, have been bought with respect to these matters. This puts things in the same position as the 'Southport* affair where not only have no proceedings

'been commenced^ all the prineipdb, Pitts, Jeppesen, Horgan and Cacciola have been promoted.**

In respect to the South-port affmr the Inquiry found: **As we are absoiitefy satined these things happened: the police oncers (with the exception of constable Davey) set about this task without the sligfitest reffffd for the truth: they (X)n5pired together to commit perjury and forgery and dimaxed that conspiracy hy the actual commission of those crimes.** (Para. 31, p. 17).

day seven days a week, with the other two hours used for maintenance. As one student put it "it's a drag having to wait hours for a terminal." And then it mightn't woric properly.

The computer sdence students are also upset at having to work with the slower and costlier old computer when there \s a newer and faster machine available.

And they particularly resent the attitude expressed by the Centre director that students should be taught the value of dollars and cents by having to pay for computer time or as he put it '*there is value arising from some reasonable const­raints over student usage in that students are educated to know that computer time is not a free resource."

Such an attitude does not endear the students to the Centre. When it is coupled with allegations of secrecy and cooking the books the situation grows worse. It is true that the management committee makes the decisions but it relies heavily on the information it receives from the Centre. Dr. Leslie Goldschlager put it on the Une when he said in his letter to the vice chancellor that "it is clear that.. .com­puter availability is totally out of line with capacity and academic computing needs. It is equally clear that no minor perturbation will adequately open the centre."

Dr. Goldschlager said that the computer sdence sttff had argued for a 50% access to computer time for student and research usage by the end of 1982 and added that the present figure was running at about 3%.

He said there was adequate access for researchers who were forced to curtail or drop major projects because ofthe lade of access.

Then he accused the centre of behig secretive and nto releashig full and accurate statistics on the

computer time usage. ^Tbe centre allocated

about $1500 for funny money usage yet it is not possible to get research money. Highly trained aca­demics can't get access to the computer."

"And the centre is de­fensive. It's not telling all its statistics. There have been rumours that the computer staff have been using the

computers for their own pirojects without having to pay for them."

He questioned the validity of the ; released statistics saying that some were ridiculously low in compariosn with other universities. One mentioned that of the Physics depart­ment which spent about $9,000 last year at the centre. He said that on other campuses this figure would Imve been m the six figure region.

The director of the Centre Alan Coulter refused to take any responsibility for the present situation arguing that the computer manage­ment committee of which he is only one, was responsible for the policy deciswns like how long the centre would stay open and what rates it would charge.

During a 10 minute mter-view where the director re­peated this and said very little else in reply to a series of questions he mentioned that the number of termini was to be mcreased (but not as many could be built as he would like) and he confirmed that it was good for students to know the vdue of computer time.

On most of the issues raised in this artide he had nothiiig to say except that it was out of his area of res-ponsibflity. He had no policy powers.

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New Ombudsman Under JVIicroscope

The appomtment of a man who has spent 46 years m the public service (and more recently its head) is to be the dtizen's watchdog against public service maladministration and beaucratic incompetence does little to inspure public confidence in the institution of the ombudsman.

By MARK PLUNKETT

Haydn Sarget likened it to appointing "the head of the mafia to investigate' the mafia", When Su- David Muir leaves the position as Chair­man of the Queensland Public Service to be the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative In­vestigations (or simply om­budsman) he will be entitled to receive $260,000 in super­annuation according to reports. With his new $40,000 a year ombudsman salary Sir David, who is now 62 years of age, wUl be entitled to remain in office for another eight years although as a public servant he would have had to resign at 65.

The extension of the retiring age from 67 to 70 for ombudsman was made |

law in a special Act of Pariiament when the present ombudsman was approaching 67.

When it was announced by the Premier that the ombudsman was to be introduced into Queensland after every other mainland state had one Mr. Bjelke-Petersen siad that it was likely to be somebody with a legal background and "not likely to be drawn from the public service" (CM, 9,1.73).

The Courier Mail edi­torialised: 'There might be some reservations about a public servant becoming Queensland's first ombudsman". Nevertheless the first ombudsman Sir David Longland was five years previous a chairman

of the Public Service Board and his public service career began at the age of 16 years.

There are naturally many reservations about a career public servant becoming ombudsman.

S. 81-8 of the Nebraska Public Council Act explicitly provides that the ombudsman is "to be a person well equipped to analyse problems of law administration and public, policy and shall not have been acrively involved in partisan affairs,"

Although the Courier Mail reasoned there is benefit in appointmg a man well versed in CJovernment practice with an under­standing of bureaucracy it is dear many people will see him in a position of conflict when investigating his career long chums with whom he

may have worked or even appointed.

Any man who has spent an entire lifetime working in the public service naturally adopts the public service mentality. Members of the

public find it hard to be convinced that this public service mentality is anything other than extended con­servatism based on bureaucratic insensitivity.

While these criticisms may no doubt be unkind, the public psyche cannot be ignored. Even Sir David Longland was aware of the criticism that his appoint­ment caused and that it would be logical for some people outside the public service to feel that a senior public servant should not have been appointed om­budsman.

Indeed it was he who said: 'The presence of ombudsman has psycholog­ical value. This office gives confidence that there exists a watchdog for the people that will hold the adminis­trator accountable." (Professional Officer, Jan/ Feb, 1976).

Sir David in Action What will Sh' David Muir, the new Ombudsman,

be like? The following is a case study of how he followed up a Queensland Civil Liberties complaint that public service regulations had been possibly broken by the Premier's former press secretary, Allen CaUaghan. MARK PLUNKETT reports:

The new ombudsman, Sir David Muir showed himself to be unwilling to take action into a complamt against a high ranking official the Premier's office alleging a serious breach of public service regulations.

Sir David, when chairman of the Public Service Board, refused to act against Allan

CaUaghan, the Premier's Press Secretary following complaints by the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties that by attacking two Labor senators and denigrating civil liberty activists on a radio program he breached public service regulations prohibiting political commentary.

On the 4BC Open Line programme the QCLC alleged that CaUaghan had said: "The demonstrators need the violence, the street is theh only forum," And "their cause would faU to pieces without violence."

Mr. Peter Applegarth for the QCLC executive wrote: "Of his numerous overt political comments, one of the most deplorable was to impugn the public standing of two senators (Senators Evans and Ryan) who had addressed a pubHc meeting at the City HaU on Sunday

31 October on a BUI of Rights. He noted their absence from an iUegal march on the following day and said they were a *lot of roaring Uons'. Not oiily is it ironic that the Government News and Information chief should be critical of the Senators' failure to break the law, but in choosing the reason for their presence in Brisbane, Mr. Callahan was engagmg in political com­mentary."

Acknowledging that

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Institute of Technology campiis are being gassed with a neurotoxk chemical that may also cause cancer and mutant activity in humans.

The gas is methyl bromide and approximately five tonnes of it will be rdeased into the atmosphere round the campus m the period startmg May 10 and contmuing till late August.

Last week two Brisbane that the gas was safe at or less current affairs TV programs than 10 parts per mUlUitre ran segments on the gas of atmpsphere. The students and its use as an exter- and staff have previously minating agent of the des- tried to have the safe level tructive West Indian dry dropped to one ppm. wood termite and treatment The protesters based their of the harmful aspects of the arguments on information gas was in one case non- gathered by them over the existent and in the other precedmg weeks foUowing superficial. the revelation of the planned

The extermination fumigation project. There had procedure is to cover the been no accompanying in-buUdings with PVC plastic formation on the effects of strips held together by metal the chemical apart from the dips resembUng clothes pegs, news that the areas sur-. The process will be done by rounding the fumigated a local pest exterminating buUding would be evacuated firm Rentokil. when fiie plastic was taken

On Tuesday May 8 a down so that humans would group of QIT students and not come into contact with it staff met with members of in dosages in excess of the Governiiient Fumigation lOppm. Steering Committee and In some cases this involved clashed over file gas. the closure of the

The government southeastern freeway to committee refused to recog- traffic, nise the possibility of mutant It was reasoned that if effects on humans and the chemical could have a assured the assembled throng deleterious effect on a person

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travelling in a car through the area in a very short period of time then the chemical was dangerous and more facts were necessary.

The facts as they emerged did not present a very savoury picture for long term occupancy of fumigated buildings.

There is no research on the long term effects of methyl bromide in any amounts on humans continually exposed to it. What research there is has not been completed and so the authorities state that "no detrimental long term effects of acute or chronic exposure to methyl bromide are known."

Methyl bromide is an aUcylating agent. Other chemicals due to their action as aUcylating agents are cancer and mutation causing. There is a real fear that methyl bromide could also cause cancer and mutations through its aUcylatmg activity.

It is also a neurotoxin. That is, causes or aggravates sub-clinical neurological dis­orders such as diabetes and epUepsy. People prone to or sufferiim from these dis­orders (which are the largest single group of Ulnesses to

remain undiagnosed and untreated apart from the venereal diseases) wUl be more prone to the effects ofthe chemical.

These . people and pregnant women, who also run an increased risk of foetal damage, were not warned of the possibUity of risk from the chemical.

Further it is not necessary to release the huge quantities of the chemical into the atmosphere as there is an economical way of recovering it. But it takes more tune. The committee denied this and said that only RentokU people would be at risk when the gas is released into the atmosphere.

Considering that this is the largest amount of methyl bromide to be released into tlie atmosphere in the world at any one tune there are a large number of unresolved questions surrounding it and its effects that no amount of accusation or denials will dispel.

The program should be suspended tUl aU the avaUable facts and issues are well known and any necessary safeguards taken.

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Confessions of a Brisbane

Taxi Driver

Episode Three

The Story So Far: Harry Hempenstall, a slack

Brisbane cabbie is getting out of his depth at the Terrace Motel apartment of one Alicia Sabine, advertising whiz kid and coke freak.

High pitched screams filled the smoky haze of Alicia's boudoir. Harry untied the ropes that bound her feet together. Gradually they found their way back onto the bed. His ears were StUl ringing, sort of lUce being at a high altitijde. He swallowed. As he lay there looking at the smaU candle burning on her dressing table, she had skpped off to get some cold drinks. He wondered what time it was. As if some sort of orientation was needed. He hoped that his cab had not been towed away or

stolen. Soon Alicia had returned with a

couple of glasses of some obscure con­coction. He noted her expression. It was one of general placidity. She joined him under the sheets. "What time do you have to take your taxi back Harry?"

"In the morning, about six o'clock." "Do you drive cabs aU the time, or

is it just a part-time job?" "Actually I'm an executive

millionaire, who is very lonely, and I do it just to meet people and taUc to them."

"WeU, in that case you won't be in any hurry to run off."

What had she in mind for seconds, Harry wondered. Perhaps she has a horny Doberman locked in the closet, or a couple of kinky dwarfs coming over for a naked tag wrestUng match. Out in the other room 4ZZZ-FM boomed away. Hariy imagined a spaced

out announcer wondering what record to play next to entertain the city's insomniacs.

Just then, Harry heard a knock on the outside door. So did AUcia. She even looked a little flustered. For a couple of seconds. Throwing on a dressing gown, she staked out to get to the bottom of this unscheduled internaption.

Harry heard a man's voice. A door dosed. Soon he was looking across the room at a rather angry looking dude, who appeared a trifle drunk.

"Harry, this is my husband Roger, he just dropped by to say hello."

Harry felt she could have added "Didn't you dear".

"Who's this dreary cocksucker anyway, I've never met him before." Roger inquired by way of a statement.

"I'm a visiting masseur from the Adonis health studio", Harry replied, flexing his flaccid biceps.

"WeU, weU Alicia, bit of hired beefcake, Hope you're charging this to your card, not mine."

"Would you care for a drink Roger, a smoke perhaps?"

Alicia was standing near the edge of the bed, symljoUcaUy poised between the two malfe

"Make alot out of this racket, stud?" Roger ahnost slipping for a moment, then steadying himself. "God Leesh, you've certainly come a long way from playing the cute Uttle girl from KUlara,"

"Nostalgic isn't he?" Harry com­mented, trying to sound worldly.

"How'd you lUce me to kick your arse from here back to the Cross or whatever hole you creeps are bred in."

"Now, Now Roger, where's that, scintillating wit AUcia told me about.

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You can do better than that." "WeU it's good to see aU your brains

aren't south of your navel Joe Stud. What have you been saying about me madam?"

"Just that you were a boring turd with no Ubido who looks at people in unimaginative stereotypes."

Harry noticed AUcia step badk when she said that as if she were pushing it a bit too close to the line. She actuSly moved backwards until she sat on the edge of the bed. Reaching down for what Harry imagined was her drmk but coming back up with what looked awfully much Uke a small calibre re­volver.

"Fuck off Roger", she said cocking back the lever.

"You twisted Uttle bitch. I'm going to break your neck before you pull that trigger."

Harry had never wished so much in aU his Ufe that he could go to tlie bathroom.

Roger began to move slowly toward Alicia, his face reddening, and his fists dinched.Crack. A sound. Harry watched powerlessly as Roger crumpled and hit the deck, moaning then suddenly every­thing was quiet.

Alicia put the gun down. Harry hadn't moved a muscle. There was a smeU of gunpowder in the room.

**What should we do now?" AUcia turned to Harry.

"Do I look Uke the resourceful type" he gulped.

"WeU, we've got to do something." 'Terhaps, we could shove him in a

large trunk, put it in the boot of the cab, and dump him at the mouth of the Brisbane river."

Alicia took a long drink. Lit a dgarette. "Want to go overseas Harry? Say South America for instance?"

"Sure, are you shouting? Will that be my reward for disposing of the body?"

"What body?" AUda asked. Hariy was puzzled at that remark.

For as long as it took him to look down on the floor, to see Roger open his eyes and start giggUng hystericaUy, then sit up.

"Bet that had you worried, old cock!" Roger uttered, still laughing.

"Hollywood!" Hanry thou^t and began to laugh too, thinking of his taxi radio operator and the quote earUer in the evening.

"Vou seem Uke a cool customer Harry old boy, I'm sure you could be made an offer you couldn't refuse." Roger was in the process of Ughting a cigarette.

**What we're suggesting Harry is that you become an ad-hoc partner in a smaU business concern." AUcia further elaborated.

"OK. Already, what do I have to do, how much will I make, how long wiU it take, what are the risks, and finaUy what's involved?"

if he really would be seening them soon from the window seat of a plane winging off across the Pacific.

Cruising down Wickliam Terrace with the hail light on, he saw a guy waiting outside the Tower Mill motel. The cab pulled up as if by instinct. The guy got in, said to take him to

"Sunple Harry, AUcia and I need someone we can trust to go to South America to make some business con­tacts. Because of our own tight schedules, we can't go away for at least six months, and if you could see your way clear, say in the next month, to making a trip abroad, it would be most appreciated."

"Have you got a current passport Harry?" Alicia inquired, ever the practical partner.

"Yeah, in anticipation of a trip to Bali last year I never quite made."

"Good, how about leaving in two weeks?"

Hariy was nobody's fool except his own, and realised that there was something a trifle odd about this couple. But what the heU he thought, they might be for real.

"It's a deal" he said. For the next half hour, Harry was

regaled with the minutiae of travel, what was required of him and other basics. He listened intently, stUl a trifle mcredulous about the whole evening.

Finally he told the Sabines he had to split, they gave him their phone numbers and invited him to dinner on the foUowing Monday night, where further details could be sorted out. Roger wrote Harry a cheque.

Stepping out ofthe Terrace Motd elevator, Hany gazed at his watch. It was two m the morning. Car 54 sat in the parking space waiting with infinite patience for its reprobate driver. Harry switched on the radio. It was very quiet. Miliat to do now.

With a spark of somewhat dimmed creativity, the driver sat momentarUy staring at the city Ughts, wondering

Pinnochio's, Harry knew that iiis night was nearly

over. Unbelievably he had made as much money farting around as he would have playing it straight.

As they drove through the Valley, the streets seemed a little easier. The guy asked Harry about where he could score a fuck. "Wliy don't you ask someone at Pinnochio's?" Harry suggested, wantmg to add, that he was sure that the people who hung out there weren't just around for the music and the atmosphere.

Harry drove back along Ann St to Beverley's 24 hour snack bar in George St. He was famished. He had just pulled up the cab when he was hailed by a couple of young women with their milk shakes and burgers.

"Take us to Toowong driver?"

"Yeali, can you wait a tick till I grab a carton of milk, the cat gets thirsty late at night."

All the way along Core Drive, the girls gabbled to Harry about some concert they'd seen that niglit. All Harry could think of was hitting the sack. Joe, the day driver would pick the car up from liis place in the moming. He could sleep in late.

They pulled up outside a big house in Elizabeth Street. "Want to come in and see some home movies driver? And rdax in our new turbo tub."

When wiU it ever end he thought. "OK. I'U bring in something to

smoke."

(Will Harry drown in the Turbo Tub? What sort of home movies do these women make? None of your business).

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Sir David In Action (from page 41)

regulation 37 prohibits pubUc service officers from taking part m poUtical affairs, Sir David did not consider that on the information in the QCLC letter that Mr. CaUaghan had not contra­vened the regulations.

In the meantime, a Uttle more than a week later, CaUaghan was back on air reading from the QCLC letter to the PubUc Service

Board Chairman, Sir David Muh, justifying his position.

The QCLC wrote again to Sir David indicating that they regarded: "Mr. CaUaghan's reading of communications between the QCLC and the PubUc Service Baoid", and the disclosure of the letter was another possible breach of PubUc Service regulation 36 which says that officers shaU not pubUcly comment on admmistration or "use for any purpose other than m the discharge of official

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duties mformation gained by or conveyed to him through his connection with the PubUc Service,"

QCLC sought legal advice that suggests the disclosure of the letter could not be con­sidered to be in "the dis­charging of offidal duties" by Mr. CaUaghan as News and Information Officer.

Almost a month later Sir David repUed in a two sentence letter that: "After ftiU and careful consideration of all the aspects, the PubUc Service Board is of the opinion that no further action is caUed for in this matter." No reason and no explanations were forth­coming.

Peter Applegarth considers Sir David Muir's inabUity to give a satisfactory account of his decision as most disturbing. "I hope in his new job as ombudsman he wUl be more responsive to pubUc complamts against the Govenunent."

Public Service Job Discrimination

(from page 16)

Edwards also undertook to make further mvestigations and write a letter confirming his explanation or providmg any new or additional in­formation.

On the 11 July, Edwards in a two sentence nonsensical letter wrote:

"I refer to your discussion with me and wish to advise that the position, as explained to you, was regarding the fUling of the vacaiicy within the Division of Ifealth Education.

"I therefore suggest that if there are any further

vacancies, if you are interested, you should apply for theni and your appUcation will be con­sidered along with others received."

A close coUeague working in the same area and having deaUngs with the Qld Health Education Council has since learned and confirmed that O'Neill had heen,wanted for the position but pastpoUtteal opmions and activities, especially his assodationwith his brother Dan had prevented him being employed.

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not be necessary to ensure his pubUc service advance­ment?' "

Concern has over the years been expressed that the practice is so **rife" that pubUc servants aspiring for these positions are adopting a *Vhat's the use" attitude "destroying pubUc service morale and efficiency." (CM 10.12.76).

One appointment to a senior position in the Tourist Bureau in recent times so

•outraged the pubUc service that a petition from 180 pubHc servants was sent to the premier protestiing. The State Service Union secretary complained at the time: "We are most concemed about the incidence of cabmet appoint­ments."

When the former federal Housing Minister Kevin Cairns was gWen a spedal position as an economists with the Department of Industrial Development the union asserted: "It seems

obvious the action was not motivated by any special requirements of the position but on poUtical grounds entirely outside the efficient and effective operation ofthe pubUc service."

"Equal opportunity and fair competition" (Caiden, G,, Commonwealth Bureaucracy, 1967, p. 337) in the promotion system *1)ased on merit" (Coombes Report) is the device where­by maximum efficiency and impartiaUty is ensured. It is thought "patronage and favouritism would look after itself, once equaUty of opportunity was achieved," (Coombes)

In Queensland these tradi­tional safeguards are avoided by making senior select positions non-appealable. Anything oyer class 15, which is about a thhd of the top positions down are non­appealable (see Reg. 127). Hence no other pubUc servant has a chance to bid.

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