Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explanation why "Crocodile" Dundee earned $8 million last weekend to become the nation's hottest film. Its name is Paul Hogan. Who, you ask, is Paul Hogan? He's that guy who volunteers to "slip another shrimp on the barbi for 'ya" in those wildly successful ads for the Australian board of tourism. He is also the creator, co-writer and star of "Crocodile" Dundee, and, without a doubt, its greatest asset...
...AUSTRALIAN government the timing of the American decision could not have been worse. The Labor Party under Prime Minister Bob Hawke had already begun to suffer an alarming drop in popularity, most notably because of a crisis in foreign exchange. Emergency measures had to be enacted to shore up the plummetting Australian dollar. Treasurer Paul Keating voiced his fear that Australia was heading for "banana republic" status. And so, in light of looming economic disaster, the government introduced the so-called "horror budget" which called for massive federal cutbacks...
...contrary, whenever a nation tries to dispose of its surpluses, furious fights erupt, even among old friends. Australian Foreign Minister Bill Hayden has been thundering that subsidized American sales of wheat to the Soviet Union and sugar to China, traditional Australian markets, could undermine the bilateral defense alliance. Thais are so incensed by subsidized American rice exports that a Bangkok newspaper recently ran the headline BEST FRIEND U.S. CUTS THAILAND'S THROAT...
...media can also report whatever is said on the record in the Australian proceedings. To head off extensive disclosure, the British government earlier this month asked the court to "treat the allegations made in the book as being true." But the government stressed that "except for the limited procedural purposes of this action," it was not conceding the truth of the charges. Still, the Guardian crowed, BRITAIN ADMITS MI5 ALLEGATIONS. Such headlines dismayed some intelligence agents. Said one operative: "They may end up making Wright's book a best seller...
...represent a policy change of sorts. Thatcher balked at any tougher measures, like a ban on air links with South Africa; the London-Johannesburg route is a highly lucrative one for government-owned British Airways. When she turned down Hawke on a boycott of South African farm products, the Australian sputtered, "I'm all for unity, but if it's a question of unity or credibility, I'll go for credibility...