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2 THE AGE, Wednesday 12 February 1986 REVIEW The visa that never was A demeaning look at life in 'liberated' households PRESENTATION: Police Sergeant Brian Stooke, left paraplegic after being shot while on duty, wilt be presented with $500,000 raised ty a police appeal The presentation will take place at 9.45 am on the 10th floor of the police headquarters, 380 William Street. Melbourne. CONCERT: -The Melbourne. Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl from 8 pm-. PARLIAMENT: Federal Parliament sits from 10 am.

Kews improves but cut the small talk "AND now, with sport, here's Drew Mor-phett," said Mary Delahunty (The ABC News at 7pm). "Thank you, Mary," said Drew. "I loved the red last night but this is much more ABC." "I'm sure the corporation will be pleased," said Mary. This exchange followed news from Canberra, from the Philippines, from Egypt: parliaments reconvened, Marcos dithers, the Tomb of Maya is unearthed but, in the studios of Ripponlea, Drew Morphett is discussing the color of Mary Delahunty's dress. The ABC News might well have improved, but the small-talk still sounds as forced.

After this, 'The 7.30 Report' found its jost, John Host I'm sorry, I'll read that again its host, John Jost, in better sympathy with his auto-cue and, generally, in much more relaxed form. Also, his forehead, his eyebrows, and his mouth (in descending order) are at last working in perfect synthesis; no longer does one wait for the first to wrinkle before the second rise and the third moves. Last night, Jost's studio guest was Bill Hartley, who gave a reasonably cogent interview and answered at length Jost's pertinent questions which began "Why shouldn't they (the Labor Party) expel you?" and ended with Jost flapping his lips and being cut-off in mid-sentence to reveal John Jost in the then all-too-present flesh, betraying in a technological instant the fact the Hartley interview had been prerecorded. 'There followed a good report from Steve Kerry about a Senate select committee's recommendations that the capturing of whales and dolphins should be phased out As dolphins described parabolas in front of capacity crowds (leading one to wonder what marine parks would replace the dolphins with: trained tput?) my wife put the whole argument into perspective. "Why not ban zoos?" MICHAEL SHMITH NOW here's a fine old.

mystery. Eric Butler, the national director of the ultra-right League of Rights, has been refused a visa to visit South Africa. Or to be strictly accurate, not actually refused but had his visa application sink without trace in a featureless ocean of diplomatic inactivity, which amounts to the same thing. Butler has long been one of Pretoria's most vocal supporters in this country. Predictably, the knockback has left him-puzzled and a mite miffed.

Yesterday, he could only suggest that the snub might be connected with his book, 'Censored History'. This was published here six years ago and, according to Butler, received much publicity in Canada last year during a court hearing involving a teacher who drew on the tome for anti-Jewish material used in his class. How this ties in with South Africa might not be immediately obvious to those with a non-conspiratorial view of life. But the Butler explanation is that the South African Jewish Board of Deputies has become aware of the Canadian ruckus and leant on the Botha Government to give him the cold shoulder. Unlikely? Well we think so, too, but that's the Butler suggestion and it ties in with another eye-popping conspiracy theory which features as the front page splash in a recent League of Rights newsletter.

This is to the effect that Pretoria and Moscow are secretly in league to force mineral prices up. This will bring the Western industrial powers undone, which will suit the Kremlin because all sorts of disasters will follow. Frankly, we are far from convinced but think you ought to know about these things. Butler, incidentally, has visited South Africa many times already. Indeed, he confided to us that at one stage he probably knew Rhodesia better than Australia.

He first went to southern Africa in 1963 and visited almost annually between 1965 and 1977. He was refused a visa once before, in 1979. We didn't dare ask why. tor. It could be useful the next time your wife suggests that you wash the dishes and she nips out to do a spot of welding.

For our part, we can say without fear of contradiction that the energy required to understand the Veterans' Entitlements Act is in the order of 100 mets. Doggone politics THINKING of South Africa, it is our melancholy responsibility to report that politics is going to the dogs. This became official yesterday when the Australian representative of the banned Pan African Conference demanded that a South African judge at next week's Canberra Royal Show be sacked. Mr Maxwell Nemadzivhaoanl yesterday fired off telex messages to the media drawing attention to the alarming fact that Mr 1. Lankenau, one of South Africa's leading authorities on toy mutts, sporting terriers and dalmatians, will officiate at the show.

"The back-door entrance of a South African judge of dogs is a stab in the back against international efforts to isolate racist South Africa in an fields as well as deliberate to undermine and frustrate the Federal Government's efforts to discourage contact with South Africa," Mr Nemadzivnanani fumed. Naturally, this column immediately rang Mr Kel Duncan, director of Canberra's agricultural society, who fumed, or perhaps barked, right back. "Overseas judges for dog shows are booked up years in advance," he said. "Mr Lan-kenau was first invited to Canberra in 1982. At that time South Africa was not as politically unacceptable as it is now.

When he was appointed there was absolutely no thought of thwarting the Federal Government's wishes and we would certainly not wish to do so now. At this stage, however, it Would not just be difficult to arrange a replacement judge, it would be impossible." AMERICAN feminism or rather the kneejerk reaction to it has given rise to an insidiously sexist species of sit-com in recent years. Two of them 'Who's the and 'Growing Pains' sidle on to your screens tonight on Nine (at 7.30 and 8.00 respectively). Role reversal is the theme common to both but the description should be used advisedly. Both feature extruded plastic blonde mothers who have either just returned to the paid workforce or risen like oil of aloe to the top.

Both have agreed to delegate the domestic duties to men, Mr Moms who think the job is a doddle. Both women have unlimited time for sex between satin sheets and sympathy over the scrambled eggs and both have spawned pygmy orators who could outwit Oscar Wilde. See where satin sheets get you? Now for the neithers. Neither ever gets ruffled. Neither ever looks rumpled.

Neither is ever seen in the office, where no doubt they spread so much sweetness and sunlight even Doris Day would puke. I defy any working woman to identify with either of them. The ail-American nuclear family of five featured in 'Growing Pains' is headed by Jason and Maggie Seavers. Jason, an impossibly young-looking psychiatrist who must have swapped his teething ring for a brass plate in the one transaction, has moved his couch back home so that he can dispense wit and wisdom to the kids as well as his clients. We see him on the job, but never her.

Maggie is a reporter with the local newspaper, but she is so preoccupied with scrambling eggs (which she cooks and cleans up so much for role reversal) that I cannot see her ever scrambling out of the house, much less meeting a deadline. Jason, "a liberal takes a textbook approach to child-rearing. She is of the smug "I'll stand back and let you blow it" school. He does, of course, when the child to whom he gives an inch takes a mile. It is a situation which provides her with a perfect oppor- Numerous complaints have been made from time to time respecting the evasion of the stock tax by owners of stock in New South Wales.

Advantage has been taken of the provisions of the act which allows stock sent from New South Wales into Victoria to be reJ crossed over the border within three months without payment of duty. Thd abuse has arisen by New South Wales stock owners, who. availing themselves of the provision for a refund of duty, within three months, send stock, principally sheep, into Victorian territory. -and depasture them on the public roads! and commons. With three months oj good feeding the sheep are brought to condition fit for the market, when they-are sent back across the border and sold' in the New South Wales market This, complaint about travelling what may be called foreign stock along the roads of; this colony has been a grievance with farmers near the border for some the Department of Agriculture sev eral weeks ago took up the matter by-communicating on the subject with Customs authorities, but it was found that-nothing could be done to remedy the abuse without an amendment of the! Stock Tax Act.

'The Age' 12 January 1889- Count your 'mets' "ORDER! ORDAH! Er Gidday. This broadcast is coming to you live from the Senate chamber where honorable senators have returned, suntanned and rested, from investigating how the other 99.9 per cent of Australians exist er In coming weeks we can expect the House to discuss several Important matters, like how to keep the price of petrol up, and how many 'mets' are required to make an average Senate speech." What is a we hear you chorus. Well you might because we had never heard of it either until yesterday. Even now, after having it carefully explained to us, we still have scarcely a clue. We think we have grasped, however, that a "met" is a measure of the degree of energy expended and that it will be used under the new Veterans' Entitlements Act to help assess how an old war injury has impaired a veteran's enjoyment of life.

The following example, taken from a vastly more detailed list should give you the idea of how various simple tasks around the home and garden rate in "met" terms. Lying down, strolling: 1-2 mets. Piano playing, washing dishes: 2-3 mets. Showering, welding: 3-4 mets. Shovelling, 19 minutes of squash: 11 mets.

We suggest that you cut this table out and display it carefully on the refrigera tunity to be practical, placatory, patient and patronising in the face of petulance. Despite the occasional throwaway line, 'Growing Pains' is an unrealistic and demeaning observation of a dual career household. So is 'Who's The Boss?" In the opening seconds, Tony, a basketball bouncing young widower, bundles his beaten-up daughter, Samantha, into a beaten-up van, drives out of the violent slums of New York and into the leafy lanes of middle-class Connecticut where he finds Angela. An advertising executive and divorcee, she needs a housekeeper and nanny for her son Jonathan, an infuriat-ingly literal child who responds to the direction "See who is at the door" by peering out the window. Angela's well-placed reservations about Tony are over-ridden by her interfering mother (Katherine Helmond of 'Soap'), a free-range turkey who thinks she is a free-range spring chicken.

Tony is not content to confine his domestic activities to dispensing coffee and cornflakes. A self-appointed moral watchdog, he takes a dim view of Angela's romantic relationship with her boss on grounds that she is compromising both her virtue and her satisfaction at achieving promotion on merit If she has done all right for herself so far one way or another how come she needs an unemployed philosopher in jeans and joggers to tell her where to go from here? The short answer is that she does not. The winning numbers in last night's Tatts 2 draw were 51 and 22. The first division prize is $743. A CRITICAL GUIDE TO TODAY'S PROSEUU2S LEARN PRACTISE EXPERIENCE MEDITATION with Iu Cawler Sit Feb.

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