Item 27-28 - Two letters from Robert [Leonard]

Two letters dated 5 and 7 March from Perth. In the first letter he has seen an osteopath about his glands and back and describes the treatment; finds it difficult to understand the old men so 'when the inflection reaches a need for a response I just say "Bloody Hell" & off they go again'; admires the aviaries at the zoo; prefers Perth to Sydney, more dynamic, less decadent; is getting back to living on less money and with less things. In the second letter he describes going up the Swan River (beautiful), wrecking the film in his camera; his sunburn from the nude beach. He finds the Australian middle class overconfident, ignorant, affluent, sport killers who consume vast amounts of fast food 'when they are not kicking the shit out of an Aboriginal'; describes the experience of going to the nude beach; and his part in stopping a Vietnamese schoolchild on a bus from making way for white children; has found amazing vegetarian food.