Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Australia's Hawke...
...except for a $435,000 short-term trial of cloud seeding. Yet the drought's consequences are seeping into every pore of his nation's welfare. Some areas are suffering 40% unemployment. One estimate predicts that the total loss to the nation may amount to $7.5 billion. Australia, which relies on agriculture for half its export earnings, may also find it difficult to regain the markets it is steadily losing. Lamented the national daily, the Australian: "The drought is not just a rural catastrophe, it is a national disaster...
...ravaged farms. Some farmers are selling $20 sheep for as little as 10?. Others, trying to keep their stock, are buying hay at five times the regular price. Ranchers in southwest Queensland have sent some 350,000 sheep to healthier pastures in the north; in Victoria and South Australia, hardened farmers with tears in their eyes have shot more than 100,000 aging animals they had bred for years. Sums up Cattleman Geoff McLeod: "We have got the backside out of our trousers...
Beats me why they couldn't just bundle the whole crew up and send them to Australia and get the scenery for free. The upshot is that everything on the station, called Drogheda, looks a bit wrong: wrong tools, wrong guns, wrong gates and so on. Believe it or not, they've even got singing shearers. Never mind, the Yanks won't notice. They like television to look cheap even when it's expensive...
...Kensington Palace, nine-month-old Prince William the Charmer sat not entirely still for just one more photo session. The young royal intermittently bared his six new teeth, chewed on a daffodil, and hugged his stuffed koala, perhaps in anticipation of the family's upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. Breaking with a tradition that calls for heirs to be left safe at home while their parents travel, Prince Charles, 34, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, are taking the baby with them. But while they pursue their six-week, 45,000-mile itinerary, William will be billeted...