I’ve got Pauline on my mind

By Mike Welsh…..

I’ve been thinking of Pauline Hanson lately. Wondering if she’s gone for good this time or just catching her breath. When I have Pauline Hanson on my mind I also have the Easybeats on my mind. Please Explain, you ask!!!

There have been only two occasions on which I felt I even remotely close to being crushed to death by a crowd of excited and irrational people.

The first time was in 1965 in my hometown of Launceston, Tasmania.  Two friends and I made the rookie mistake of loitering (unwittingly) inside the same record bar, as the hottest pop band in the country was conducting an “in-store”.

It all happened in the blink of an eye.  One second we were standing at the back of the store in front of a makeshift stage which had magically filled with five skinny, longhaired blokes, three of whom were called…