Days of Wine and Rage
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A rigger named Paul Hogan does the Winfield cigarette advertisement and starts the idea of ocker-image advertising.
Australian and US troops withdraw from Vietnam.
CSIRO begin breeding dung beetles which they claim will reduce the bush-fly population by 95 per cent and mean the end of the Barcoo salute.
The first Labor prime minister in twenty-three years is elected – Gough Whitlam.
Wine-writer Kevon Kemp says it’s okay to put ice in your red wine.
The fortnightly Nation merges with the Melbourne Review to become the weekly Nation Review.
1973
Film and Television School starts.
Attorney-General Lionel Murphy visits ASIO and demands to see files.
Aquarius Festival held at Nimbin in New South Wales to celebrate the back-to-the-earth movement.
The ABC begins the controversial radio programme ‘Lateline’.
The Communist Party of Australia’s newspaper, the Tribune, is fifty years old.
Massive increase in spending on Aboriginals – $67 million.
Liz Reid appointed first women’s adviser to a federal government.
Whitlam government increases funding to writers from about $228 000 to one million dollars.
Quadraphonic sound introduced commercially.
New South Wales Dance Company formed.
National Gallery buys Blue Poles for $1.3 million (purchasing began in the late sixties).
At opening of Sydney Opera House an Aboriginal actor representing the historical character Bennelong perches on the highest sail to read a poem.
Homosexuality among consenting adult males legalised in ACT and federal territories by conscience vote.
The term ‘green ban’ comes into currency.
Neville Wran resigns from the NSW Upper House to contest the seat of Bass Hill, and wins it.
Former Liberal Party prime minister Sir Robert Menzies goes on the old-age pension after the Labor government lifts means test.
Wran becomes leader of the opposition in the NSW parliament.
Patrick White awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
1974
Australia’s first Hilton Hotel opens in Sydney.
Cinema Papers begins publication.
American Express introduces its credit cards to Australia (Diners Club arrived in the sixties).
Lake Eyre fills with water for the first time in 140 years.
John Kerr appointed governor-general. A profile in the National Times by Andrew Clark says Kerr has a ‘cloak-and-dagger’ background, a reference to his work in army intelligence during the war.
Bankcard introduced.
lta Buttrose appointed editor of the Women’s Weekly.
Gough Whitlam wins a premature election forced by the Liberal-controlled senate.
The Boy Scout movement invites female membership in mixed-sex troops.
Cyclone Tracy destroys much of Darwin.
1975
C. B. Christesen, editor of serious quarterly Meanjin since 1940, retires and is replaced by Jim Davidson who is soon nicknamed ‘Mean Jim’.
Colour television arrives.
World science fiction convention held in Australia for the first time.
Australian Council for the Arts (established by the federal government in 1968) becomes Australia Council.
Norman Gunston bemuses the world.
International Women’s Year.
The feminist ‘Coming Out Show’ begins on ABC radio.
Reg Livermore’s Betty Blokk Buster Follies.
Tony and Gay Bilson of Tony’s restaurant in Sydney introduce cuisine minceur to Australia.
Newly appointed Mr Justice Staples hears first case on Arbitration Commission bench.
Malcolm Fraser replaces Billy Snedden as leader of the federal opposition.
An article in the Australian Medical Journal pronounces that the practice of circumcision is a thing of the past.
Juanita Nielsen, newspaper editor, disappears and is presumed murdered after her involvement in controversy over redevelopment of part of Kings Cross.
Six Australian journalists are killed in East Timor.
The governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismisses the Whitlam government on 11 November and Malcolm Fraser is elected Prime Minister.
Move away from contraceptive pill to IUD, condoms and vasectomy.
1976
FM broadcasting begins.
Political commentator Anne Summers reports the growing use of the expression ‘dole bludger’.
Australian Press Council established to deal with complaints against newspapers.
Cartoonist Patrick Cook bursts onto the scene.
For the first time in Australian history, beer consumption per head falls.
Australian literature expert from the University of Sydney, Brian Kiernan, sees New Wave Australian short story emerging.
Neville Wran elected premier of New South Wales.
Digital watches come onto the market.
Theatre Australia begins publication.
Vietnamese refugees, to become known as ‘boat people’, begin to arrive on the Australian coast.
For the first time since the thirties the country population begins to increase faster than the city population.
1977
Petrol prices begin to climb.
Members of the scientific community publish a ‘statement of concern’ on the mining of uranium.
‘Genesis of a Gallery’ exhibition of masterpieces from the National Gallery collection tours Australia.
Singer Robyn Archer makes first Sydney appearance at the Limerick Castle.
Australian Democrats Party formed under Don Chipp, former Liberal government minister.
Malcolm Fraser wins federal election with record number of seats.
Queensland cane toads reported moving south.
1978
Explosion in Sydney Hilton Hotel kills two and injures nine – thought to be a bomb planted at commonwealth heads of state conference.
Jogging books appear on the market.
Effervescent vitamins sweep into fashion, especially the Roche product Berocca, rumoured to cure hangovers.
The former governor-general, Sir John Kerr, publishes autobiography with a justification of his dismissal of the Whitlam government.
Gough Whitlam publishes a book in reply.
Centre Point Tower in Sydney becomes Australia’s highest structure.
Gough Whitlam retires from parliament.
Illnesses from oysters bring Australian oyster-eating virtually to a stop.
Johnny O’Keefe, musician, pioneer of Australian rock, dies.
‘Genesis of a Gallery, Part Two’ exhibition of masterpieces from the National Gallery tours Australia.
Robert Gordon Menzies dies.
ABC current affairs programme ‘This Day Tonight’ ends.
1979
We begin talking to tape recorders when booking taxis.
The weekly Nation Review ceases publication and appears in new form.
In February 1979 Don Dunstan, reformist Labor Premier of South Australia, announces his resignation.
Robert Hawke decides to enter federal politics.
US magazines Playboy and Penthouse begin publishing Australian editions.
Light beer is marketed.
Mineral water begins to be part of the restaurant menu.
Acknowledgements & Notes
1: Smith, Vivian, ‘Twenty Years of Sydney’, Southerly, no. 2, 1977, p. 210
2: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Story of an Underground Paper’ – rewritten from articles from various sources at the time
3: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Wendy Bacon v. The Commonwealth’ – adapted from ‘One all draw and forty to go’, Bulletin, 13.2.71, p. 21
4: Bacon, Wendy, ‘An Editor in Jail’ – adapted and abridged from ‘Getting High in Jail is Talking Shit’, Thor, 1971, no number, p. 9; and ‘Eight Days Hard’, Mejane, March 1971, no. 1, pp. 6�
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5: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Inspector and the Prince: a profile of Darcy Waters’ – adapted from ‘Prince of Bohemia’, Bulletin, 14.2.71, p. 21
6: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Myth of the Male Orgasm’ – from Sex, a Thor pamphlet, University of New South Wales, 1971, pp. 8–10
7: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Yes, if asked in a survey I would say I’m a liberated lady’ – adapted from Bulletin, 3.6.72, pp. 46–7
8: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Defenders of Sexiness and Violence’ – adapted from Bulletin, 23.6.73, p. 44
9: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘For the Course, for the Strike – and for the Party’ – adapted from ‘Good Party Men’, Bulletin, 4.8.73, p. 41
10: Brennan, Richard, ‘A Film Producer Comes Out’ – abridged, from Nation Review, May 30–June 5 1975, vol. 5, no. 33, pp. 16–17
11: Bartlett, Norman, ‘Où Est Le Porno?’ – abridged from Meanjin Quarterly, no. 1; 1971, pp. 102–8
12: Murray, Les, ‘Sidere Mens Eadem Mutato’ – from The Vernacular Republic, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1976, pp. 115–19
13: Jennings, Kate, ‘Couples’ – from Come to Me My Melancholy Baby, Outback Press, Melbourne, 1975
14: Anonymous, ‘Pat Yank’ – from Tracks, no. 12, 1971, p. 5
15: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘An Anti-Conscriptionist, the Night before He Went to Jail’ – unpublished, 1972
16: Roberts, Nigel, ‘After/the Moratorium Reading’ – from In Casablanca for the Waters, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1977, p. 28
17: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘I Say Whitlam Doesn’t Matter’ – adapted from an article in Digger, Melbourne, 2–16 December 1972, no. 8, p. 7
18: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Shades of the Electorate’ – adapted from ‘Macarthur Baby’, Bulletin, 25.11:72, pp. 25–7
19: Oakes, Laurie,& Solomon, David, ‘The Moment of Victory, 1972’ – from The Making of an Australian Prime Minister, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1973, pp. 7–11
20: Horne, Donald, ‘The Meaning of Defeat’ – abridged from Death of the Lucky Country, Penguin Books, Ringwood, 1976, pp. 9–12, 17
21: Clark, Manning, ‘The Violent Option’ – extract from speech given in Sydney Town Hall on 20 September 1976, published in Myfanwy Gollan, ed., Kerr and the Consequences, Widescope, Melbourne, 1977, pp. 29–30
22: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Donald Horne – profile of a republican’ – adapted from ‘The Honourable Art of Stirring the Establishment’, Pol, winter 1976, pp. 67–8
23: Pi O, ‘The Mother’ – from Panash, Collective Effort Press, Melbourne, 1978, p. 146 (his the symbol of the international anarchist movement: no copyright on this poem)
24: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘A Subject of Derision’ – adapted from ‘Le Ghetto scene, baby’, Bulletin, 30.8.75, pp. 52–3
25: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Balmain is Cannery Row’ – adapted, Bulletin, 18.9.76, p. 63
26: Jordens, Ann–Mari, ‘The Stenhouse Circle and Balmain, 1851–72’ – slightly abridged, from ‘The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid Nineteenth Century Sydney, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1979, pp. 51–6
27: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Breaking Literary Decorum’ – unpublished
28: Viidikas, Vicki, ‘Listening Backwards’ – from Knäbel, Wild &Woolley, Sydney, 1978, pp. 56–7
29: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Great Pub Crawls’ – adapted from ‘Two Great Pub Crawls’, Bulletin, 21.8.71, pp. 42–3
30: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Getting Credit’ – adapted from ‘The Joys of Alienation’, Bulletin, 27.12.75, pp. 50–51
31: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Luncheon with a Royal Highness’ – adapted from ‘A Credit to Le Ghetto’, Bulletin, 15.11.75, pp. 49–50
32: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Pears Soap Story’ – adapted from ‘Seeking Transparent Purity’, Bulletin, 29.5.76, pp. 51–2
33: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Camping in Balmain’ – adapted, Bulletin, 19.6.71, pp. 38–9
34: Tranter, John, ‘Sonnet 95’ – from Crying in Early Infancy, Makar Press, Brisbane, 1977, p. 54
35: Wilding, Michael, ‘The Tabloid Story Story’ – abridged and slightly revised from a tailpiece article ‘The Tabloid Story story (with comments by Frank Moorhouse and Brian Kiernan)’, in The Tabloid Story Pocket Book, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1978, pp. 295–316
36: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Poet and the Motor Car’ – adapted from ‘Signs and the Times’, Bulletin, 12.6.71, pp. 44–5
37: Hall, Rodney, ‘Rodney Hall on the Death of a Cult-Hero’ – from the Introduction to Voyage into Solitude, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1978, pp. xii–xvi
38: Dransfield, Michael, ‘Poem for Charlie’ – from Voyage into Solitude, University of Queensland Press, 1978
39: Adamson, Robert, ‘The Thoughtless Shore’ – from Southerly, no. 1, 1974, pp. 44–7
40: Afterman, Allen, ‘The Poetry of Michael Dransfield and Charles Buckmaster’ – from Meanjin Quarterly, no. 4, 1973, pp. 169–72
41: Rodd, John Laurence, ‘Burnie’ – an extract from the story ‘Burnie and the UFOs’, Tabloid Story Pocket Book, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1978, p. 43
42: Horne, Donald, ‘Donald Horne on James McAuley’ – abridged extract from The Education of Young Donald, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1967, pp. 224–9
43: Malouf, David, ‘Where in the World was Kenneth Slessor?’ – from Southerly no. 2, 1974, pp. 202–6
44: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Last Expatriate’ – adapted from ‘The Passing of a Long Tradition’, Bulletin, 13.10.73, p. 39
45: Malouf, David, ‘David Malouf Replies’ – a letter to the editor, abridged, Notes and Furphies, no. 3, October 1979, pp. 3–4
46: Herring, Thelma,& Wilkes, G. A., ‘A Conversation with Patrick White’ – from Southerly, no. 2, 1973, pp. 132–43
47: Murray, Scott, ‘Interview with John Duigan’ – extracts from Cinema Papers, issue 16, April–June 1978
48: Hibberd, Jack, ‘Dimboola – Play to Film’ – from Theatre Australia, November 1978, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 13–15
49: Keneally, Thomas, ‘Going to the Fair’ – from Playboy Australia, December 1979, pp. 165–79
50: Maiden, Jennifer, ‘Kitsch’ – from Southerly, no. 3, 1974, pp. 312–13
51: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Cafe Society: Table-to-Table Fighting’ – from Conference-ville, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1976, pp. 115–22
52: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘A Change of Restaurant’ – adapted from ‘Change of Restaurant’, Bulletin, 8.7.72, pp. 50, 61
53: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The New Bar’ – adapted from ‘Drinking in Decor’, Bulletin, 17.4.71, p. 47
54: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Old Bar’ – unpublished
55: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Angel is Gone’ – adapted from ‘Lurex and satin in place of beer?’, Bulletin, 9.6.73, p. 46
56: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Newcastle is Gone’ – adapted, from ‘The Ghosts of George Street’, Bulletin, 18.12.71, p. 42
57: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Hilton Arrives’ – adapted from ‘The Joys of Alienation’, Bulletin, 27.12.75, pp. 51–2
58: Gollan, Myfanwy, (ed.) ‘The Value of Lunch at the New Hellas’ – abridged extract from Kerr and the Consequences, Widescope, Melbourne, 1977, p. 10
59: Colebatch, Hal, ‘Saturday Afternoon at the Ned lands Hotel’ – from Spectators on the Shore, Edwards & Shaw; Sydney, 1975, p. 78
60: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Pot v. Alcohol’ – adapted, from the Bulletin, 31.7.71, pp. 45–6
61: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Conference Tactics – writers at a conference’ – adapted from ‘The Conference as Communication’, Social Alternatives, vol. 1, no. 3, November 1978, pp. 17–20
62: Campbell, Frank, ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic – political economists at a conference’ – abridged, from ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic – First Australian Political Economy Conference’, Arena, no. 43, 1976, pp. 23–6
63: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The End of Anti-Communism – anti-communists at a conference’ – adapted from ‘A red–hot issue that’s cooling down’, Bulletin, 29.9.73, pp. 42–3
64
: Huilgol, Glynn, ‘Developing a Dialogue – feminists at a conference’ – adapted from ‘Feminists Manage to Rate Zero’, Nation Review, 29.8.75, vol. 5, p. 1181
65: Maddox, Julie, ‘Sexism is Insidious’ – a letter to the editor, Nation Review, 5.9.75, vol. 5, p. 1194
66: Intervention, ‘Towards an Australian Marxist Intelligentsia’ – editorials from Intervention, no. 1, 1972, pp. 3–6; and no. 5, 1975, pp. 3–4
67: Mortimer, Rex, ‘The Benefits of a Liberal Education’ – from Meanjin Quarterly, no. 2, 1976, pp. 115–26
68: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘An Anarchist Comes to Power’ – adapted from ‘The Penalty of Wilful Personal Enthusiasm’, Bulletin, 21.7.73, p. 46
69: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Blooming of Little Anarchism’, unpublished
70: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘A Radical Country Newspaper’ – adapted from ‘A Country-town Radical’, Bulletin, 17.7.73, p. 38
71: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Radical and other Christmases in the Seventies’, unpublished
72: Morphett, Tony, ‘Tony Morphett – Born-again Christian’ – from On Being, September 1979, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 28–30
73: Sunderland, Jane, ‘Australian Feminist Periodicals in the Seventies’ – adapted and abridged from article (with notes and bibliography) in Hecate, vol. v, no. 2, 1979, pp. 22–30
74: Allen, Yvonne, ‘Women’s Hostility – political weapon or personal poison?’ – from Refractory Girl, winter 1979, pp. 7–10
75: Clark, Andrew, ‘Portrait of a Powerful Australian Woman’ – abridged, from the Bulletin, 24.4.79, pp. 61–4
76: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Bush against Laundromat’ – adapted, from Man and landscape in Australia (with notes), Australian National Commission for Unesco, Canberra, 1976, pp. 173–9
77: Forbes, John, ‘Breakfast’ – from Southerly, no. 4, 1976, p. 296
78: Allan, Ranald, ‘Death in the Early Morning: two no-bull deaths’ – from Southerly, no. 3, 1973, pp. 301–4
79: Cosmos, publishers of, ‘Enter, Cosmos’ – from Cosmos, vol. 1, no. 1, 1973, p. 2
80: Horne, Donald, autobiographical notes
81: Viidikas, Vicki, autobiographical notes
82: Colebatch, Hal, autobiographical notes