Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...styles and architecture; Sydney and Melbourne now have a variety of eating places to compare with New York or San Francisco. Seventy foreign-language newspapers are published in Australia; Italian, Dutch and Greek clubs can be found everywhere, and the outdoor café has become a part of the Australian way of life...
...influx of newcomers is remarkable: 180,000 last year. This has put a heavy strain on Australian social services. Accordingly, the government has decided to cut the number to 140,000 this year, of whom 100,000 will pay only $25 for their journey; the rest of the cost is paid by the Australian government. The reduction will give schools and hospitals a breather, but it may lead to a labor shortage and wage increases; immigrants currently account for one-quarter of Australia's work force...
...Australia profoundly since World War II. The country still has its bush pilots and grizzled cowboys, its sheepherders who travel around their 100,000-acre spreads by motorcycle, and its "kings in grass castles'' who raise huge herds of Santa Gertrudi cattle. But these are mostly the Australians of myth, slightly larger than life. The faces of modern Australia still include the prospector and the cattleman, but they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote...
...Australian literature once consisted of bush ballads about drovers and sundowners, poems to the shearers and squatters, the track and the outback. Today the setting of Australian writing is city and suburb. Patrick White, the country's leading novelist, achieved fame with Voss, his novel about an explorer; today, in a style reminiscent of John Cheever and John Updike, he dissects the fictional suburb of Sarsaparilla, probably modeled after Sydney's leafy Castle Hill area. Barry Humphries, Australia's foremost humorist, savagely satirizes what he calls "the pseuds"-the self-consciously trendy Australians caught...
...center of the new Australian culture is the suburban club, which bears about as much resemblance to the typical U.S. country club as the Manhattan telephone book does to the Social Register. The $1,400,000 East Sydney Club, for instance, has 20,000 members who pay $5 a year in club fees. It has been described as a cross between Las Vegas and the Y.M.C.A. On a recent Sunday afternoon it bustled with several thousand boisterous Australians. On the first floor, at least 1,000 members were gathered around 200 slot machines, or sitting in the beer garden...