Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are going to be considerable stresses on the commodity-exporting part of the Western Pacific economy over the next 18 months or so." He noted that Australia had been severely hurt by low prices for agricultural exports. But after expanding at a barely perceptible .5% this year, the Australian economy will rebound to a 3.8% clip in 1987, Drysdale forecast...
Says TIME Senior Editor Donald Morrison, who will help coordinate the Australian-American effort: "We are embarking on this venture because we are committed to Australia and because we want to remain a major publication in this important market. We were delighted to find such a terrific partner. In its long history, the Fairfax organization has demonstrated the same kind of dedication to journalistic quality we have striven for in our 63 years...
Such special Australian content will be edited in Melbourne by a staff of 14 that includes some of the country's most talented and experienced journalists and is headed by Editor Jeff Penberthy, 43, who has worked in the U.S. and Japan as well as his native Australia for a variety of newspapers and business magazines. Penberthy's task will be to give TIME an Australian idiom while at the same time preserving the magazine's international character. Says he: "International events and impressions of this country abroad are having a critical effect on the Australian economy and affecting...
...dawn one day last week two Australian drug runners, Brian Chambers, 29, and Kevin Barlow, 28, were hanged at Pudu Prison in Kuala Lumpur. Although they were the first non-Asians to be sent to the gallows under Malaysia's harsh narcotics laws, 36 other drug traffickers have been executed since a 1983 amendment imposed the mandatory death penalty for the possession of more than 15 grams of heroin. When Chambers and Barlow were arrested in November 1983, they were carrying nearly 180 grams...
Last-minute appeals for clemency for the two Australians, which were sent to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the human rights organiza- tion Amnesty International, proved unsuccessful. Hawke subsequently condemned the hangings as "barbaric." In response to the argument that no one has the right to take another's life, Mahathir replied, "You should tell that to the drug traffickers...