1984 and Social Control Conference
Sydney
Workshop List
Saturday
Introduction: Peter Sheldon
STATE
Drew Cottle: Examination of the State: the need for more state research.
Brian Martin: Bureacracy
Bob James: Spies in Australia - Not a Civil Liberties Issue
Ian Langham: Against Conspiracy Theories
Lunch: Review: Women behind Bars presents: Feminism and social control.
LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
Ian Dodd: Law and Society: Too Many Regulations?
Wendy Bacon: Ideas about Civil Liberties: (reputation and privacy) How they are being used in aid of political coverups in 1984
Val Plumwood: Are the State and Capitalism Enough? Factors in the explanation of Social Control in environmental areas. (Nuclear Power & Forestry)
FRAME UP - 50 min video, followed by discussion with film maker Irina Dunn
PRISONS
Open forum with members of: Prisoners Action Group, Half-way house and others.
Sunday
TECHNOLOGY
Richard Badham: Where do our choices come from?
Hamish Reid: Networks of Control: Looking at control as a tool of technology
UNIONS
Film: Know your Friends, Know your Enemies - 20 mins
Pat Mackie: Is the Wobbly Philosophy relevant Today?
Rebel Worker Group: Accord or Discord?
Libertarian Workers: Beyond the final Illusion
RACE and RACISM
Peter Karantinos and Chris Kirkbright: Black Communities
Lea Loeve: The effect of Racial Discrimination on our Society. A Participatory Discussion.
Ariel Salleh: The Consumer Society and Instrumental Culture. Workshop.
MEDIA: SURVEILLANCE, DISAPPEARANCE, INTERRUPTIONS
Roxby Mismanagement Services: Surveillance, Disappearance, 'Operation protection' Roxby Downs 1983.
Lunch Concert - Free Besieged (Greek political band)
Video - Settle Down Country, CAAMA
PATRIARCHY AND FEMINISM
Julie Bishop: Big Brother/Big Sister: Social Control Within and Without the Womens Movement in 1984
Kerry Carrington: Prostitution: Work or Deviance - Social Control of Sexually Repressive Society's Dirty Work
INTERRUPTIONS
Built N Ghost & Super 8 Group: Reception/Transmission
CONSUMERISM AND SOCIETY
B.U.G.A. U.P. - Brian Robson: Advertising and Social Control.
David Vaile: The Development of the management of Drug Dependence and Drug Addiction
WORKSHOPS
R. Nelson & P Lane: The Dynamics of the Australian Prostitutes Collective
D. Homburg: Prostitutes: Control of our lives
Maurie O'Connor: Psychiatry: the confused Politics of Mental Health
MEDIA IS NOT MAGIC: USEFUL RADIO
Tony Collins, Nicola Joseph, John Tebbit: 4ZZZ, 2SER, 2RSR, 2MCE
MONDAY
LIBERTY AND FREEDOM
Drew Hutton: The Ecology of Freedom: Substance and Rhetoric in the Transformation of Australian Society
Cat Steel: Necessity is the Mother of Liberty
George McIllroy: Practical Liberty and the Democratic State.
Peter Karantinos: Hobbsean Man.
Discussion
Lunch - Concert: Mountain Womens Bush Band
Conference Book
List of Papers Published in the conference book 1984 and social Control - Papers from the 1984 and Social Control Conference. Published Sydney 1985.
Preface.
1984: Orwell's and Ours........Noam Chomsky
Review of Reviews of Rooted in Secrecy.......... Joan Coxsedge
The State and the Explanation of Nuclear Technology..... Val Plumwood
Bureaucracy ................................... Friends of the Earth (F.O.E) Canberra
Spies in Australia - Not a Civil Liberties Issue ....... Bob James
The Dangers of Technospeak ................... Richard Badham
Networks of Control ...............Hamish Reid
Wages Accord or Class Struggle ................ Rebel Worker
Beyond the Final Illusion .................... Libertarian Workers for a Self Managed Society
The Effect on Racism on Our Society ............ Lea Loeve
Big Brother/Big Sister: The Womens Movement in 1984..... Julie Bishop
Strategies for Change - Prostitutes .............. Roz Nelson (C.A.P.)
1984, Advertising and Social Control ............ B.U.G.A. U.P.
The Management of "Drug" Dependence ......... David Vaile
Psychiatry: The Confused Politics of Mental Health ... Maurie O'Connor
Talk on Talk Back Radio .................... John Tebbutt
The Ecology of Freedom .................... Drew Hutton
Necessity is the Mother of Liberty .............. Cat Steel