Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most comprehensive and possibly most successful effort to integrate the Vietnamese has been made by the Australians. Their campaign, in fact, represents a radical break with their once notorious "white Australia" policy. Upon arrival the refugees are housed in government-run hostels for four months to a year. There they study English and attend orientation classes. Most get jobs quickly and keep them. Australian employers find the refugees exceptionally hard-working and stable. Explains Melbourne Social Worker Phillip Benoun: "They've hurdled the obstacles of their escape, getting into a refugee camp and being accepted as immigrants in Australia...
...debilitating end of the Boer War, three Australian soldiers are brought to court-martial. The charge: murdering some Boer "civilians" they have captured in a vengeful raid, along with a German missionary whose death has provoked a murmur of international reproach. The soldiers' commander, Lord Kitchener, wants to make an example of them so as to disarm world opinion about his unedifying conduct of a nasty...
...fate, Breaker approaches the dimensions of a Renaissance grunt. If the film that bears his name is perhaps a bit too much cut on the square, if its technique does not quite match its fine eye for moral distinctions, it is nonetheless another distinctive achievement from the fast-rising Australian film industry. -By Richard Schickel
...patterned. But whereas Clark reflected an older, more urbane sensibility, Hughes, 42, is as brash and electric as his subject. He is sometimes seen in shirtsleeves; his blond hair is always unruly. Instead of Clark's patrician, High Church accent, Hughes speaks in a matey, sometimes too hearty Australian that lapses easily-and quite appropriately-into slang. Talking about Chicago's pioneering building developers, for instance, he says that their policy was to "grab the block, screw the neighbors...
...work that needs to be done in this world is almost without limits, and so is the robot's potential ability to do it. In the field of farming and food processing, for example, Unimation has been asked to design a robot that can pluck chickens. Australian technicians are already testing robots to shear sheep. One machine first stuns the animal with an electric shock, then closes in with its shears. Clipping the back and sides is not too hard, but the technicians still report "significant difficulties" in finishing up the neck and head. In Japan, Mitsubishi has devised...