The Plays: The Police Commissioner's Grandmother, Original Script, Pages 61-73. 1979.

Rejection letter, Wild & Woolley, 20 December, 1978.

Rejection letter and some advice for One Moment The Street, Peter Knox, 16 December, 1978.

Examiner's Report, M.A. (Qual.) Thesis, The Glamour and The Grot: Towards an Ethnography of the Gay Bars of Adelaide, 29 November, 1978.

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Assessment of A.E. Yeatman for the thesis The Glamour and the Grot: Towards an Ethnography of the Gay Bars of Adelaid (M.A. Qual., 1978).

One of the things I did pick up out of all this was the sociological technique of "Participant Observation", a technique which first came to prominence in works such as Street Corner Society.
I was to use this technique, with varying effect, in a number of works in the decades to come.

Colin Griffith, Circa 1978.

Pix. Some early attempts at photography. 1970s.

Photo, England, some ruin or other, maybe Leeds, Circa 1978.

Photo, London, Circa 1978.

Photo, London, Circa 1978.

Photo, In England, I think, Circa 1978.

Letter to the Advertiser on The Fall Guy, Circa 1978. Published.

Thesis Prospectus, Flinders University, 1978. Supervisor Allan Patience.

Thesis Prospectus, Flinders University, 1978. Supervisor Professor Allan Patience., now an Honorary Fellow at Melbourne University.

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With Martin Portus outside a cave in Malaysia, Circa 1977.

Memoirs of a Cold Australian, Circa 1977.

I showed up unannounced in the offices of London Gay News and promptly became friends with the editor, Peter Burton, visiting his flat in London and his second home in Brighton. He wrote a book called Gin and It.
He was kind enough to include one of my stories in his anthology The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364266.The_Mammoth_Book_of_Gay_Short_Stories

Letter from Martin Portus, Circa 1977.

In doorway of sex shop in Oxford Street, Sydney. Circa 1976.

In doorway of sex shop in Oxford Street, Sydney. Down on their luck journalists would pass the job between themselves. . 

 

Cairns and District Centenary Playwriting Competition, !0 August, 1976.

tabloid Story, Acknowledgement, 29 July, 1976.

Expression of interest, The Great Suburban Suicides, Angus & Robertson, 26 July, 1976.

Not really suitable, Thanks anyway letter, Preview, Circa 1976.

Martin Portus with his parents in Adelaide, both of whom have passed away now. They were very kind to me. Circa 19076.

Original academic record, Macquarie University, 5 May, 1976.

Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University, 5 May, 1976.

Academic Record, Macquarie University, Printout, 5 May, 1976.

At the Adelaide Festival, 1976.

Struggling to finish a course Religion and Ritual, Macquarie University, 4 March, 1976.

Exam results, Macquarie University, 1975.

Photo, faded sailor, Circa 1975.