Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Governor-General William J. McKell, at Menzies' request, dissolved Parliament; a general election will be held on April 28. Said Menzies: "Let us go to our masters the Australian people, and ask them where they stand on the crucial issues of Communist conspiracy, of law and order in industry, of public safety...
Both World Wars came close to the camp. Although in 1914 200,000 Turks were mobilized on the border of Egypt against the 3,000 English troops, Reisner "backed the British and sat tight." Australian soldiers encamped a mile north of the Harvard camp, and by January 1915 "the region was filled with troops...
...Australia, a Communist-led dockers' union has just relaxed a costly, month-old slowdown strike over a variety of wage and overtime issues which the Government charged were pretexts to hide the real reason: the Communist plot to slow down the British Commonwealth rearmament. The Australian government has tried in vain to deport British-born James ("Big Jim") Healy, Communist boss of the dockers. Last week Australia's efforts to cope with Communism received a heavy blow when the High Court voided a 1950 law outlawing the Communist Party and giving the government power to "declare" union officials...
...Zealand, dockers have been on strike for three weeks. Troops have been loading and unloading ships, but because freezing-plant workers support the dockers, many ships that would have carried meat to Britain left New Zealand with nearly empty holds. As in the Australian strike, the surface issues concern wages and overtime, but the government charges that the real reason is the Communist aim to hurt the Commonwealth. To deal with strikers, Prime Minister Sidney Holland has broad powers. So far, he has used them with restraint. The majority of New Zealanders, including many unions, seem to be backing...
...catching 500 rabbits, giving them the needle, turning them loose. Since a rabbit does not die until ten or twelve days after being infected, it has plenty of time to pass the disease around. In Asia's "Year of the Rabbit" (see WAR IN ASIA) hordes of Australian rabbits had already been myxomatosized...