Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continent to the other, the public was stunned-and Whitlam's Labor Party supporters were outraged. In Canberra, the federal capital, Kerr's action was being assailed as a "legal coup d'etat" that could trigger the most bitter election campaign in Australian history...
...sworn in, they came in private cars; government drivers had stopped work to demonstrate for Labor. Warned John Halfpenny, militant secretary of the metalworkers union: "We do not accept Fraser as Prime Minister. It is a dictatorship, and we will not cooperate with it." Bob Hawke, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, however, urged workers to remain calm. At week's end, nonetheless, police tightened security around Fraser after he had received several anonymous threats on his life...
Died. Annette Kellerman Sullivan, 90, Australian long-distance swimmer who became one of vaudeville's international stars; of a heart attack; in Southport, Australia. Kellerman outgrew her childhood bowleggedness and developed a figure that earned her such accolades as "the form divine" and "the diving Venus." In 1907 Kellerman shocked Boston by appearing at Revere Beach wearing a skirtless one-piece bathing suit and was promptly arrested for indecent exposure. On vaudeville stages in Europe and the U.S., Kellerman dived into a glass tank from heights of 75 ft.; she also starred in aquatic movies. In 1952 Kellerman...
...more than 30 years and a 16.9% inflation rate. Then came the scandal that gave Fraser his immediate issue: two Cabinet ministers were forced to resign from Whitlam's government on charges of misleading Parliament about covert negotiations for "overseas loans" through questionable channels to develop Australian energy resources. Between May 1974 and last month, Whitlam's approval rating in the polls dropped from...
...Whitlam, a crowd-pleasing orator, is at his best in a fight, and in recent weeks he has been drawing his largest audiences in years. No Australian government has been subjected "to such utter cussedness and harassment," he said. If Whitlam is not inclined to duck the present face-off, neither is Fraser, particularly after picking up the public support last month of respected former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies...