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Ca nberro Busines.\ CentreBradfield St. IJ0/1'1/er .-\CT lWlAustralianBook Reviewtlze essential magazinefor Australian booksin the May issue:Marilyn Lake on Icons, Saints & DivasIvor Indyk reviews Brian Castro's StepperDon Anderson reviewsRichard Lunn's Feast of All SoulsRobert Adamson onGeoffrey Lehmann's poetryJohn Tranter on Kenneth SlessorNew Subscribers $44 for 10 issuesplus a free bookPh (03) 9663 8657 Fax (03) 9663 8658No confidenceFrom Don LinforthIn the article by Margaret Simons onSenator Cheryl Kernot (<strong>Eureka</strong> SLreel,March 19971 the Senator is reported assaying that a joint sitting of the Senateand House of Representativesfollowing a double dissolution 'wouldhave the numbers to push througheverything that has been on the tableand hasn't been passed by the Senatebeforehand'.In my reading of Section 57 of theConstitution, the only measures that ajoint sitting can di scuss arc those whichhave been passed twice by the Houseof Representatives and twice rejected (orunacceptably amended or not passed) bythe Senate, with three months' intervalbetween the two presentations tothe Senate. I think these measures haveto be enumerated in the documentationfor the double dissolution.Furthermore, a double dissolutioncannot take place less than six monthsbefore the expiry of a House of Representatives,that means Mr. Howardcannot call one later than October 1998.Don LinforthHampton, VICNo standingFrom H.f. GrantSuccessive Federal Governments fromthe '80s including the present cannotescape the odium attached to th eall eged rorting of pari iamcntary travelall owances especially by Senator MalColston. This is compounded by thedifficulty that the Labor Party is experiencingin regaining its social soul andthe Coalition in trying to find it.T he Language used on the subjectby the Prime Minister, the Leader ofthe Labor party and their coll eagueswas aptly described by George Orwell( 1903-19501, English satirical novelist,essayist and critic in these words:'Po litical language-and withvariations this is true of all politicalparties from Conscrva ti ves to Anarchists-is designed to m ake liessound truthful and murder respectable,and to give appearance of solidityto pure wind.'Equally the late US PresidentHarry Truman who knew andrespected what the public expected ofpoliticians was wont to quote HoraceGreeley ( 181 1-18721, founder editor ofthe New York Times: 'fame is a vapor,popularity an accident, riches takewings, those who cheer today maycurse tomorrow, only one thingendures: character.'Belatedly the Prime Minister hasnow announced that Governmentwould introduce reforms to the systemfor vetting pa rl iamentary travel all owances.Reforms to be effective, however,should be complete and wide rangingand include arrangements outside theParliament or Government that all owan independent committee or tribunalto initiate, investigate and decide oninstances of malpractice relating to allparliamentary allowances andprivileges.Action of this nature would be am ea ns of re-affirming the high principlesand practices which politicians,commonly profess to subscribe onelection to office as well as helping torestore Parliament's standing and theGovernment's credibility.The latter is under siege given the'pain with ga in ' measures in place andin prospect for the thousands of agedand deprived, unemployed, underemployedand low wage earners withoutallowances or superannuation.H.J. GrantCampbell, ACTN o illusionsFrom fohn KerschJust prior to the col lapse of the former,corruption -riddl ed National PartyGovernment of Queensland, legislationwas enacted to grant holders ofPastoral Leases automatic 20-yearextensions.Several people, including myself,strongly rcsi ted its application toleases deemed to be ' multi-livingarea' in size. On ex piry these werethe heritage of many young ruralAustralians to have the opportunityto draw a o ne living-a rea bal lotblock. The enthusiasm for this processwas demonstrated by the 3,000applicants for the best of such blocks,in the Injune area.We were assured by the Partyheavies that the extension would applyonly to aggregations under threeliving-areas. In the finish, aggregationsof up to even seven living-a reassecured the extension (for exampleChatsworth Sth in the Cloncurryregion, Far North Queensland I.The major beneficiary of thisgolden-handshake was the McDonaldfamily with aggregations possibly in12EUREKA STREET • MAY 1997
excess of 40 living-areas. It is likelythat the next major beneficiary was theA. A. Company.Can I therefore ask the followingquestions?As the then Vice-President of theQueensland National Party, Directoron the board of A. A. Company andprincipal of the McDo n ald familycompany, did Don McDonald in factdraft the extension legislation ?Now the Federal President of theNational Party, is h e using the currentWik confusion to secure freehold overthis country, as I heard him suggeston an ABC radio interview on April8?Thus completing the rape of theaspirations of many potential younglandholders.John KershMaxwelton, QLDNo can doFrom Fr JM GeorgeFr J Honner (ES, March, 97) recommendedMichael Winter's article, 'ANew Twist to the Celibacy Debate'.Winter reduces early church motivationfor celibacy to 'morbid attitudesto sex' and 'primitive taboo'. Hisviews are not 'new' but are found inold celibacy studies by J.&. A. Theiner(1828), H. Lea (1867), F.X. Funk (1897),etc.French Jesuit historian, ChristianCochini and oth ers, today, wouldreject Winter's reduction in the lightof mainstream celibacy-doctrine andpraxis within the early church.Many early church married laity aswell as married clerics abstained frommarital acts in penitential preparationfor Eucharist. Moreover, just as abstinencefrom food did not imply thateating was m orbidly dishonourable orprimitive taboo, neither did pre-Eucharisticmarital abstinence imply negativitytowards the conjugal act.Indeed the wider church hadreject ed Manichean , Gnostic,Montanist and Encratite h eresies fordenigrating marriage. True! among the85 eastern and western Church Fatherswere some with negative attitudes tomarriage. However those limitedviews did n ot impact upon the abovementioned motivations for abstinence.The early church regarded marriedlay and clerical pre-eucharistic abstinencefrom food, wine and conjugalacts (totally good in themselves) asincreasing the efficacy of liturgicalprayer ('by penance'). Unlike strictrules of fasting, conjugal pre-eucharisticabstinence was merely a 'counsel'for married laity-a matter of personaldecision.'Efficacy-motivation' stood behindpermanent clerical celibacy. The earlychurch understood priests as incontinual mediation for the people.This 'mediation' was seen as more efficaciouswith permanent celibacy. Later,other motives were underlined, forexample, sacerdotal configuration to thecelibate Christ, 'Apostolic origins', etc.Cochini in his OriginesApostoliques du Celibat Sacerdotal,discusses wider issu es, such as thecontroversial Trillion Canon 13 mentionedby Fr Honner. Cochini exposesthe fictitious 'Paphnutius intervention'at Nicaea (uncritically acceptedby Winter). He distinguishes two categoriesof early celibate priests. He alsoclarifies 'Ritual-purity' terminology inits use for old Levitical priesthood andNew Testament presbyterate.The former professor at InstitutCath olique de Paris, the late Jean CardinalDanielou described Cochini['sinitial research as 'a true service to thechurch'. Henri Cardinal de Lubac,another outstanding scholar, describedthis 'serious and extensive research ...as of the first importance'. (Winter'sviews- popular today in scholarlycircles-need to be challen~ed 1 ).John M GeorgeWaverley, NSWNoWikFrom Michael PolyaFrank Brennan's article on Wik{E ureka <strong>Street</strong>, April1997) is misleading.Even if Aborigines could claim thevalue of the land in compensation inthe event of Native Title being extinguished,the value of the land wouldnot be too great, partly because itwould be generally unsaleable, or onlyto other Aborigines and thereforecould n ot be used as security for a loanand in any case the value would bediminished by the value of compensationthat would be payable to lesseesfor improvements, which in manyinstances would greatly exceed thevalue of the land itself.Native title does create a system ofland tenure akin to that of entailedestates in Europe, which only benefitsthe m ost parasitic and useless strata ofsociety, to wit the hereditary nobility.Michael PolyaWatson, ACTAustralian Options * *Journal of left discussions fo r * *social justice and political change.Issues I-8 have included themes: Unemployment,Privatisation Plunders, Future of Unions, ElectionQuestions, Green. 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Amount: $ ..........................Signature: ....................................... .................. .Return to: Australian Options, PO Box 431, Good wood SA 5034,L------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------~§jThe Halifax-Portal LecturesThe Second Series of Ecwnenical LecturesSponsored by the Catholic and Anglican Bishops of NSW6th May 199713th May 199720th May 199727th May 1997"The Orthodox Churchesin Australia in 1997"ARCHBISHOP AGHAN BALI OZIAN,Armenian Apostolic Church"The Anglican Communion onthe Eve of Lambeth"(World Wide Ang li can Communion)REv DR BR UCE KAYEGeneral Sem:tary, the General Synod of Australia''The Uniting Church in Australia in 1997''REv DoROTHY McRAE-McMAHONDirector for Mi ssion for the Uniting Church inAustralia"The Legacy of Halifax and Portal"Ms DENISE SULLI VANSecretary of the Bishops' Committee forEcumeni cal and Interfaith RelationsThesday Nights at 7.30 pm-FREE ENTRYSanta Maria Del Monte School Hall, Strathlield, NSW(cnr Carrington Ave and The Boulevarde)Refreshments served at 7.15 pmAnglicru1 Viscount Charles Halifax ( 1839-1934) was involved in mosl questions facingthe Anglican Church of his day. Abbe Etienne Ponal ( 1855- 1926), a French Yincentian,met !he Viscount in 1889. Their friendship led to dialogue about Church reu nion. TI1eMalines Conversations ( 192 1-1926) between Catholics and Anglicans hosted byCardi nal Mercier was their most notable success. TI1ese two men express the spiritthai these current lectures seek to foster.FOR FliRTH ER INFORMATION CONTACT: SR PATRICIA MADI GAN OP,LI AISON OFFICER FOR I':CUMEN lSM. I' OLOlN(; HO USE
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