Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, near the end of the same trip. Fraser and his encourage attended a press conference and left shortly after. When the Wadsworth crew finally waved goodbye to the Australian contingent, they shuffled back to their Yard headquarters and sighed with relief. About 30 minutes later, Anderson and Neal received a call from the airport saying they were missing the Australian Secretary of Defense. After a short frantic search, they located the gentleman who bored with the press conference, had "snack...
Sydney's Sunday Telegraph proclaimed it to be "Australia's D-day-a day aimed at determining our destiny." Even the conservative Australian Financial Review hailed it as "one of the most unusual and hopeful experiments we have ever witnessed in this country." Only five weeks after he won office, Prime Minister Bob Hawke, 53, made good on one of his most daring campaign promises by bringing together leaders of labor, business and government for an unprecedented National Economic Summit Conference. Its purpose: to reach a consensus in solving Australia's chronic economic problems...
...Dave has not noticed, in attacking us for too few Australian voices, that many of the leading characters are not Australian. When The Thorn Birds plays in Japan, France and Italy no one will speak Australian. Everyone will speak Japanese, French and Italian...
...been a contentious issue. If all had gone according to plan, the Socialists would have held their 16th biennial congress in Sydney, Australia. But last February, at Brandt's request, Portuguese Socialist Leader Mario Scares extended a formal invitation to the P.L.O. to send an observer. The Australian Socialists, led by newly elected Prime Minister Robert Hawke, objected strenuously, since they did not want to give the impression that they were "instant radicals," as one Australian at last week's meeting put it. Thus the Congress had to be moved to Portugal at the last minute...
MARRIED. Rachel Ward, 25, English actress who played the cassock-chasing heroine of TV's The Thorn Birds; and Bryan Brown, 35, rugged Australian actor who was her spurned husband in the mini-series but who struck real-life romantic sparks while they were filming; both for the first time; in Cornwell, Oxfordshire, England...