Older women
We like the paper and were pleased to read in Issue no. 5 Sally Low's glowing report of the Older Women's Network Theatre Group in Sydney on I.W.D.
But why, oh why were older women performers left until last when "so few people remained to watch"?
As older feminists ourselves we are rapidly and sadly coming to the conclusion that ageism is rife everywhere even in the Women's Movement.
Tuesday Afternoon Group of Women's Liberation
Adelaide
Political advertising
It seems that the government's three-mine uranium policy may be the next Labor policy to be Liberalised.
No wonder they want to ban political advertising. If they continue to promote themselves as a Labor party, they may get sued for misrepresentation.
David Munn
South Brighton SA
For the old, too
In the advertising for your paper which starts "Whether you're ..." and goes on to list various categories, we have noticed an omission which we feel to be discriminatory. While you have both young and youthful, you fail to mention the other end of the age scale. What about the old and indeed the middle aged?
The left is really weak on this issue. We hope you will consider this, and include these people in your list in the future.
Matilda Bogner
Kirsty Magarey
Blackforest SA
[The correction has been made: see page 4. — Ed.]
Self sufficiency
In the editorial of March 12 the phrase of "greater self sufficiency" was used as part of "the alternative to the big business agenda for Australia". I fail to understand how an editorial writer is capable of appropriating such a fashionable and stupid idea.
The idea of self sufficiency is autarchic. It holds out the promise that Australia can hold itself alone in the context of internationalising economy. I fail to see why this should be held out as an alternative. Why should a paper whose predecessor once envisioned a world beyond the disastrous fantasies of nationalism now retreat back to that nationalism? The growing economic interdependence of the world, mineral water and orange juice notwithstanding, is a moment of celebration. The links that unite classes of different nations are being forged. Class interest, as opposed to national interest now has an even deeper economic foundation and has truly great political possibilities. In any case, if the question is to be asked why orange juice should be imported, we might well ask why oranges should be grown in the Riverland where they are wreaking havoc
What does self-sufficiency mean? More importantly, where does it lead you to? Does it lead you into the arms of the national bourgeoisie ... or to that section that supports the autarchy of "self-sufficiency". From a slip to a fall ... surely we can do better comrades!
Jeff Richards
Prospect SA