by Helen Trinca
51 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
52 Ibid.
53 Ibid.
Chapter 6: SYDNEY UNI AND THE OCTOPUS GIRLS
1 Sue Clilverd (McGowan), interview with HT, 31 May 2012.
2 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
3 VSJ, letter to FH, 4 September 2006.
4 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
5 Clive James, email to HT, 22 February 2011.
6 Mungo MacCallum, interview with HT, 25 March 2011.
7 Honi Soit, 15 October 1959.
8 Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interviews with HT, 15 and 21 February 2011.
9 Jane Gardiner (Iliff), interview with HT, 15 March 2011.
10 Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interviews with HT, 15 and 21 February 2011.
11 Sue Clilverd (McGowan), interview with HT, 31 May 2012.
12 Mungo MacCallum, interview with HT, 25 March 2011.
13 Richard Walsh, interview with HT, 18 July 2011.
14 Jonette McDonnell (Jarvis), interview with HT, 26 June 2011.
15 Sue Clilverd (McGowan), interview with HT, 31 May 2012.
16 Angela McGrath (Wills), interview with HT, 11 April 2011.
17 Mungo MacCallum, interview with HT, 25 March 2011.
18 Winton Higgins, interview with HT, 28 February 2011.
19 Clive James, email to HT, 22 February 2011.
20 Bob Ellis, ‘Out-takes’, in The Best Australian Essays 2003, ed. Peter Craven, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2003.
21 Richard Walsh, interview with HT, 18 July 2011.
22 Sue Clilverd (McGowan), interview with HT, 31 May 2012.
23 Program for Dead Centre, collected by Dr Laura Ginters, Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, and Robyn Dalton, for their forthcoming book, The Ripples Before the (New) Wave: Sydney University Dramatic Society (1959–64).
24 Libby Smith, interview with HT, 5 July 2011.
25 Ibid.
26 Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interviews with HT, 15 and 21 February 2011.
27 MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 23 July 1996.
28 Clive James, email to HT, 22 February 2011.
29 Carol Tattersfield, ‘Young, Square and Angry’, in supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly, 30 December 1959.
30 Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 1960, p. 38.
31 MSJ, quoted by Christopher Henning, ‘The Essence of Being a Writer’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 September 1997.
Chapter 7: ADRIFT IN CASTLECRAG
1 ‘Title Deeds’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 2008, p. D02.
2 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
3 CSJ, interview with HT, 15 July 2012.
4 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
5 CSJ, interview with HT, 23 July 2012.
6 Diana (Didy) Harvey, email to HT, 30 June 2011.
7 Libby Smith, interview with HT, 5 July 2011.
8 Winton Higgins, interview with HT, 28 February 2011.
9 CSJ, interview with HT, 24 July 2012.
10 Ed St John, interview with HT, 4 July 2011.
11 Libby Smith, interview with HT, 5 July 2011.
12 Program for Dead Centre, collected by Dr Laura Ginters and Robyn Dalton.
13 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
14 Louis MacNeice, ‘Bagpipe Music’, Collected Poems, Faber & Faber, reproduced with permission, David Higham, London.
15 Sydney Morning Herald, 9 January 1959, p. 1.
16 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
17 CT, tribute to MSJ, posted on the internet, July 2006.
18 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), interview with HT, 13 August 2011.
24 MSJ, letter to JT, 14 November 1961.
25 FB, email to HT, 1 June 2012.
26 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
27 Ibid.
28 CT, email to HT, June 2012.
29 Deslys Hunter (Moody), interview with HT, 17 August 2012.
30 Denise Bradley (Haren), interview with HT, 6 June 2011.
31 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
32 Ibid.
33 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
34 Jonette McDonnell (Jarvis), interview with HT, 26 June 2011.
35 CT, tribute to MSJ, 2006.
36 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
Chapter 8: TILL DEATH US DO PART
1 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
2 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
3 Jill Olson (Roehrig), interview with HT, 6 July 2011.
4 CSJ, interview with HT, 23 July 2012.
5 Jill Olson (Roehrig), interview with HT, 6 July 2011.
6 CT, email to HT, 16 June 2012.
7 CT, email to HT, 14 November 2012.
8 CT, interview with HT, 16 June 2012.
9 CSJ, interview with HT, 15 July 2012.
10 FB, letter to HT, 4 October 2011.
11 MSJ, letter to FB, 30 June 1967.
12 Winton Higgins, interview with HT, 28 February 2011.
13 CSJ, interview with HT, November 2012.
14 CT, email to HT, 14 November 2012.
15 Oz magazine was published in Sydney 1963–69 and remains one of the best-known products of the 1960s counter-culture. Neville, Walsh and Sharp (along with Peter Grose, for a time) edited the magazine. Neville and Sharp went to London in 1967 and co-edited (with Jim Anderson) the London version of Oz, which was published 1967–73. In 1964, Neville, Walsh and Sharp were convicted of publishing an obscene publication by a magistrate and sentenced to jail terms. But they won on appeal.
16 Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interviews with HT, 15 and 21 February 2011.
17 CT, interview with HT, 16 June 2012.
18 Ibid.
19 Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interviews with HT, 15 and 21 February 2011.
20 Antony Minchin, interview with HT, 14 June 2011.
21 Marilyn ‘Mandy’ Chapple (Taylor), interview with HT, 11 June 2011.
22 CSJ, interview with HT, October 2012.
23 CT, tribute to MSJ, July 2006. The Belvedere Private Hotel was at 81 Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay, and was run by Swiss hoteliers. It was demolished in 1969 to make way for the Kings Cross Tunnel and Expressway.
24 MSJ, letter to JT, 13 June 1965.
25 MSJ, letter to JT, 27 July 1965.
Chapter 9: AMERICAN DREAMS
1 MSJ, letters to JT, 27 July and 15 September 1965.
2 CT, letter to JT, 31 July 1965.
3 CT, letter to JT, 12 June 1965.
4 MSJ, letter to JT, 27 July 1965.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 CT, letter to JT, 31 July 1965.
8 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
9 MSJ, letter to JT, 15 September 1965.
10 Ibid.
11 CT, letter to JT, 26 September 1965.
12 Henry Breitrose, interview with HT, 10 July 2011.
13 CT, letter to JT, 26 September 1965.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
17 Tom Bell, interview with HT, 5 July 2011.
18 Jill Olson (Roehrig), interview with HT, 6 July 2011.
19 MSJ, letter to JT, 25 October 1965.
20 MSJ and CT, letter to JT, 14 December 1965. Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941; Marianne Moore, 1887–1972, was an American modernist poet.
21 MSJ, letter to JT, 28 November 1965.
22 CT, letter to JT, 10 February 1966.
23 Ibid.
24 CSJ, interview with HT, 15 July 2012.
25 MSJ, letter to JT, 27 December 1965.
26 Ibid.
27 MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 25 February 1966.
28 CT, letter to JT, 25 January 1966.
29 MSJ, letter to JT, 10 November 1965.
30 CT, letter to JT, 25 January 1966.
31 MSJ, letter to JT, 25 February 1966.<
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32 MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 25 February 1966.
33 MSJ, letter to Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), 25 April 1966.
34 MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 30 March 1966.
35 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 25 February 1966.
39 Tom Bell, interview with HT, 5 July 2011.
40 Ibid.
41 MSJ, letter to JT, 30 March 1966.
42 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
43 CT, letter to JT, 6 April 1966.
44 MSJ, letter to JT, 5 May 1966.
45 Ibid.
46 MSJ, letter to JT, 31 May 1966.
47 MSJ, letter to JT, 15 June 1966.
48 CT, letter to JT, 13 June 1966.
49 MSJ, letter to JT, 5 May 1966.
50 MSJ, letter to JT, 23 July 1966. (The Orchestra of French-speaking Switzerland was founded by Ernest Ansermet in 1918. He remained its music director till 1967.)
51 MSJ to JT, 18 September 1966.
52 CT, letter to JT, 10 September 1966.
53 Jill Olson (Roehrig), interview with HT, 6 July 2011.
54 Ibid.
55 MSJ, letter to Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), 9 October 1966.
56 Ibid.
57 FH, interview with HT, 31 March 2011.
58 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
59 MSJ, letter to Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), 9 October 1966.
60 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
Chapter 10: LETTERS HOME
1 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
2 CT, letter to JT, 3 December 1966.
3 CT, interview with HT, June 2012; Allegra May, interview with HT, 6 July 2012.
4 CT, letter to JT, 3 December 1966.
5 MSJ, letter to JT, 5 December 1966.
6 CT, letter to JT, 8 February 1967.
7 MSJ, letter to Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), 26 April 1967.
8 Allegra May, interview with HT, 6 July 2012.
9 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
10 Ibid.
11 CT, email to HT, 14 November 2012.
12 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
13 MSJ, letter to FB, 30 June 1967.
14 TSJ Oral History Project, 1980.
15 MSJ, letter to Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), 26 April 1967.
16 MSJ, letter to FB, 30 June 1967.
17 CSJ, interview with HT, 23 July 2012.
18 MSJ, letter to FB, 30 June 1967.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 CT, letter to JT, 6 June 1967.
25 Tomas Kalmar, interview with HT, 5 October 2011.
26 CT, letter to JT, 16 June 1967.
27 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
28 MSJ, letter to FB, 12 September 1967.
29 FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.
30 MSJ, letter to JT, 9 October 1967.
31 CT, letter to JT, 2 October 1967.
32 CT, letter to JT, 9 October 1967.
33 CT, interview with HT, 10 June 2012.
34 MSJ, letter to JT, 9 October 1967.
35 CT, interview with HT, 10 June 2012.
36 Evan Whitton, ‘Operation Cover-up’, Weekend Australian, 18 January 1997, p. 27.
37 Ibid. I have also drawn on Evan Whitton’s excellent summary in Can of Worms 11, Broadway, Fairfax Library, 1986; and Hansard of TSJ’s maiden speech, and other newspaper accounts.
38 TSJ, Oral History Project, 1983.
39 CT, letter to JT, 28 December 1967.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 CT, interview with HT, June 2012.
43 Ibid.
44 CT, letter to JT, 28 December 1967.
45 CT, letter to JT, 10 January 1967.
46 Ibid.
Chapter 11: AN EXPAT IN LONDON
1 Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interview with HT, 15 February 2011.
2 Winton Higgins, interview with HT, 28 February 2011.
3 CSJ, interview with HT, 15 July 2012.
4 CSJ, interview with HT, 23 July 2012.
5 Daniel Le Maire, interview with HT, 16 June 2011.
6 CSJ, interview with HT, 15 July 2012.
7 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 CT, tribute to MSJ, July 2006.
11 Martha Ansara, interview with HT, 3 August 2012.
12 Diana ‘Didy’ Harvey, interview with HT, 26 August 2011.
13 Christine Magid (Hill), interview with HT, 14 June 2011.
14 Ibid.
15 Chrissie de Looze, interview with HT, 25 March 2011.
16 CT and Martha Ansara, interviews with HT, June and August 2012.
17 CT, letter to JT, 11 May 1968.
18 Chrissie de Looze, interview with HT, 25 March 2011.
19 Michael Chesterman, interview with HT, 10 February 2012.
20 MSJ, letter to FB, 15 February 1969.
21 Ibid.
22 CT, letter to JT, 10 February 1969.
23 Ibid.
24 MSJ, letter to FB, 15 February 1969.
25 CT, letter to JT, 5 March 1969.
26 TSJ, Oral History Project, 1983.
27 I have drawn on a number of newspaper and internet sources to describe these events. Ted St John covers the events in A Time to Speak, Sun Books, 1969, as does Alan Reid in The Gorton Experiment, Shakespeare Head Press, 1971.
28 Sir William Watson, The Prince’s Quest, 1880.
29 Alan Reid, The Gorton Experiment, Shakespeare Head Press, 1971, p. 215.
30 TSJ, Oral History Project, 1983.
31 CT, letter to JT, 21 May 1969.
32 CT, letter to JT, 5 August 1969.
33 Ibid.
34 FB, interview with HT, 29 September 2012.
Chapter 12: TO THE EDGE AND BACK
1 CSJ, interview with HT, 23 July 2012.
2 Christine Magid (Hill), interview with HT, 14 June 2011.
3 FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.
4 FH, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.
5 MSJ, letter to Margaret and John Minchin, early 1970.
6 FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.
7 Chrissie de Looze, interview with HT, 25 March 2011.
8 Sue Sheridan (Young), interview with HT, 25 March 2011.
9 Ibid.
10 Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interviews with HT, 15 and 21 February 2011.
11 Christine Magid (Hill), interview with HT, 14 June 2011.
12 New Horizons: The Alternative Society, BBC TV, 1970.
13 Winton Higgins, email to HT, 2 November 2011.
14 MSJ, letter to Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), 20 May mid to late 1970s.
15 R. D. Laing argued that mental illness could be seen as a natural response to stress, especially in families.
16 FH, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.
17 In his book, Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist 1927–57, Macmillan, London, 1985, R. D. Laing wrote: ‘I have never said that parents or families or society “cause” mental illness, genetically or environmentally…I have never called myself an anti-psychiatrist…However I agree with the anti-psychiatric thesis that by and large psychiatry functions to exclude and repress those elements society wants excluded and repressed’, pp. 8–9.
18 FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.
19 Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), letter to John Minchin, 21 September 1971.
20 MSJ, postcard to Michael and Colleen Chesterman, 21 May 1972.
21 MSJ, letter to Margaret Minchin, 4 September 1972.
22 A collection of Zen literature first published in Japan in 1957.
23 MSJ, letter to Margaret Minchin, early 1973.
24 Ibid.
Chapter 13: A ROOM OF HER OWN
1 MSJ, letter to Margaret Minchin, early 1972.
2 Ingrid Wilkins (Relf), interview with HT, August 2011.
3 Ann ‘Mir
iam’ Fenton (Herbert), interview with HT, 9 October 2011.
4 Diana Herbert’s diaries, 1970–74.
5 Robert Hughes, Things I Didn’t Know, 2006.
6 Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, London, 2006, Introduction.
7 FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.
8 MSJ, postcard to Margaret Minchin, 5 September 1973.
9 A Pure Clear Light, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, Chapter 25.
10 MSJ, letter to Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), 28 December 1973.
11 MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 27 December 1973.
12 Diana Herbert, interview with HT, 19 October 2011.
13 Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), interview with HT, 24 July 2011.
14 Christine Magid (Hill), interview with HT, 14 June 2011.
15 FH, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.
16 Robert McPherson, interview with HT, 4 May 2011.
17 Dave Codling, interview with HT, 21 July 2011.
18 Ibid.
19 Ann ‘Miriam’ Fenton (Herbert), interview with HT, 9 October 2011.
20 Dave Codling, interview with HT, 10 January 2013.
21 MSJ, letter to Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), undated.
22 Frances Barrett, interview with HT, 5 December 2012.
23 Rod Tiffen, ‘China Does Not Respond Positively to Humiliation’, smh.com.au, 29 July 2009.
24 FB, letter to HT, 28 June 2011.
25 Patrick St John, interview with HT, 15 February 2011.
26 CSJ, interview with HT, 15 July 2012.
27 TSJ, Oral History Project, 1980.
28 CT, tribute to MSJ, July 2006.
29 MSJ, quoted in Neil Norman, ‘How the Booker Saved Me from the Job Centre’, Evening Standard, 14 October 1997, p. 25.
Chapter 14: MADAME BLAVATSKY
1 MSJ, letter to Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), 20 May, probably mid-1970s.
2 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
3 MSJ, letter to JMcC, 4 May 1980.
4 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
5 MSJ, letter to Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), 3 July 1980.
6 Winton Higgins, interview with HT, 28 February 2011.
7 Daily Mirror, 13 November 1964.
8 MSJ Tapes, March 2004.
9 FB, letter to HT, 28 June 2011.
10 MSJ, letter to Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), 25 November 1980.
11 MSJ, letter to Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), 3 July 1980.
12 Ann ‘Miriam’ Fenton (Herbert), letter to family, 7 July 1980.
13 MSJ, letter to Vidya Jones (Sue Hill), 25 November 1980.
14 Ann ‘Miriam’ Fenton (Herbert), letter to Tim Herbert, 21 June 1980.
15 Tim Herbert, interview with HT, 19 October 2012.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ann ‘Miriam’ Fenton (Herbert), letter to parents, 3 June 1981.
19 Roslyn Grose (Owen), interview with HT, 15 April 2011.