Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some areas are suffering 40% unemployment. One estimate predicts that the total loss to the nation may amount to $7.5 billion. Australia, which relies on agriculture for half its export earnings, may also find it difficult to regain the markets it is steadily losing. Lamented the national daily, the Australian: "The drought is not just a rural catastrophe, it is a national disaster...
Then there's the voices. They didn't use Australian actors-not many lurking in L.A., I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling...
...authentically Australian, provincial...
Magpie to mopoke: diurnal and nocturnal Australian birds; hence, "dawn to dusk...
...ongoing battle of British royalty vs. the press, Queen Elizabeth II has won a decisive round. After Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch's splashy London tabloid the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) ran the first installment of confessions by a former palace pantry servant, the Queen took the unprecedented step of suing Murdoch's news organization and her onetime employee for damages. In an out-of-court settlement last week, the Sun agreed to pay the $6,000 it would have given the ex-servant and he ponied up his $150 advance, all of which the Queen donated...