Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most obvious change in Australian life has been spurred by the mining boom of the past five years, which has more than offset the steady decline in farm income. There have been sizable finds of uranium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, oil and natural gas. A huge bauxite mine is being developed in the remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. But the center of the expansion lies in Western Australia, which occupies 1,000,000 sq. mi. and has about as many residents. At Kalgoorlie, where Herbert Hoover once managed a gold mine, vast nickel strikes have revived...
...Liberals are Malcolm Peacock, who at 31 is the country's Army Minister, and Steele Hall, 40, the party leader in South Australia. Foremost among Labor's rising stars is Robert James Lee Hawke, 41, the controversial and amply sideburned president of the 1,750,000-member Australian Council of Trade Unions...
...most spectacular effort was his recent triumph over "resale price maintenance," or price fixing, which had been scrupulously observed by Australian retailers for years. Hawke arranged for his union to buy a partnership in a Melbourne department store, Bourke's, and promptly began to cut prices. Dunlop's, the British-based firm that is heavily involved in manufacturing in Australia, at first refused to supply Bourke's unless the store obeyed price-fixing orders. Hawke retaliated by threatening a strike against Dunlop's, and the manufacturer gave in within 24 hours. The government quickly pushed...
...trying to start a "dialogue" with Peking. In other steps toward establishing a new posture in a changing world, McMahon gave the Soviet Union permission to establish a trade office and a shipping agency in Sydney, and approved the sale of $2,240,000 worth of Australian sugar-cane harvesting machines to Cuba, despite Washington's apparent displeasure...
...long journey from the U.S. to Australia with their two daughters in 1962, refugees from the nuclear-fallout scare of that year. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Stone, 37, lived for five years in New York, where he worked for United Press International. As the senior reporter on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's top television news show, he earns $11,200 a year, which he reckons would be worth twice as much in U.S. terms...