Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep Australia's 4,500 men in Viet Nam. In a bitter election campaign between Holt's Liberal-Country Party coalition and the Labor Party of Arthur Calwell, Australia's Vietniks turned out in full force, organizing the most violent demonstrations ever staged against an Australian political leader...
Britain's changing role in world affairs, as much as anything, has been responsible for the Australian awakening. During the Malaya emergency, and later during the Malaysian-Indonesian konfrontasi, when Britain's "thin red line" was stretched near the breaking point, Australia sent troops to stem Communist guerrilla activity. Britain's first moves to enter the Common Mar ket also turned Australia toward Asia...
...terms of British membership might have cut off Australia's biggest export market. Since then, Japan has become a major outlet for Australian wool, and Red China a major purchaser of Australian wheat. Australia was a leader in founding the Asia Development Bank (which will elect its first president and board of directors this week in Tokyo), and has broadly liberalized its immigration laws to permit easier Asian entry into a society that was once nearly 100% British. At present, more than 14,000 Asian students are studying at Australian universities...
...spear fish or enjoy the submarine scenery. Often enough, that scenery includes one or another of his sheilas-in-law-the beautiful wives of his three stepsons. The Sydney-born son of a theatrical manager, Holt was a prize essayist and cricketer at Melbourne University, came to the Australian House of Representatives in 1935 and became a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Menzies during World War II. Like most Australians, Holt enlisted at the outbreak of the war-the only Cabinet Minister, he claims, ever to be promoted to private -but was called back after Menzies became Prime Minister...
...Woolloomooloo, Holt has emphasized Australia's new role in Asia. "At times," he says with deep certainty, "we have been told that we are going American, just as once we were told we were clinging to the skirts of Downing Street. In fact, we're going Australian. We are realizing the importance of being Australian-to play a not-insignificant part in what is happening in this area. It is a welcome opportunity for Australia to establish her own identity...