Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems certain that kuru was the result of a slow-acting virus, transmitted from one Fore to another by cannibalism. Women and children who ate the brains of tribesmen who died of kuru far outnumber men as kuru victims. Cannibalism was stamped out-or so the Australian government thinks -about twelve years ago. Gajdusek reports hopefully that there has not been a single case of kuru among children born in the past twelve years...
...politics or science or both. This was not always the case. For a millennium and a half the worst horrors were theological. The fear of hell and the hope of heaven gave shape to some of the greatest achievements of the pictorial art of Europe. On this eschatological basis, Australian-born Critic Robert Hughes has compiled a catalogue of terrors and delights, drawn mainly from Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch masterworks. Man, it is clear, has found it considerably harder to envisage felicity than its opposite, and so the infernal regions have been illustrated in a highly spirited fashion...
...Queensland Alumina Ltd. operation, for instance, Australian ownership is less than 1%; the remainder is held by British, Canadian, U.S. and French companies in consortium. Mount Goldsworthy Mining Associates, which ships 4,000,000 tons of iron ore to Japan annually, is 8% Australian and 92% British and American. The only large project in which Australians hold a majority interest, Gorton was told, is the Mount Newman iron mines, where their share...
...David Fairbairn, Minister for National Development, notes that many large companies, "particularly in oil and motor vehicles, have been established here for many years, making substantial profits from Australia's political stability and sound economic management." But, says Fairbairn, they have not made many moves to take in Australian investors, partners or managers. "This is not partnership," he says...
Marshaling Money. One way the government hopes to counter the problem is by increasing Australian capital available for new investments. It recently started the Australian Resources Development Bank, a semigovernmental institution that marshals local funds and directs them to new projects. In its biggest project so far, the resources bank helped the Australian backers of the Mount Newman iron mines raise development money. Now some federal officials would like to establish a similar organization that would borrow funds outside Australia on behalf of Australian investment. For his part, Gorton has so far not taken threatened legislative steps to provide...