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...Australian Labor Party has less than a year to improve its general standing in the minds of voters. If he is to win office, leader Kim Beazley can't rely solely on the rises in home mortgage rates that would hurt borrowers and leave Prime Minister John Howard vulnerable. Nor should Beazley count on Australians giving Howard the kind of thump U.S. President George W. Bush received last week for his grim war in the Middle East. To fix its brand, as they say in the trade, Labor has to go beyond Iraq and I-rates. "We have spent...
...squandered the nation's prosperity; after 10 long years, there's crumbling infrastructure, a skills crisis, the childcare shambles and extreme industrial relations laws. What does Beazley Labor stand for? Investing in the future; a fair reward for effort; building up the nation; a cleaner environment; regional security; Australian values. Howard would feel comfortable with that list?sometimes the two leaders stand behind the same white picket fence. Of course, it's the actual policies that have to pass muster, first with the professional scrutinizers and then with voters. The tighter the fit between the oratory and what Beazley puts...
...helping turn the gaze of Australian painting away from the bush and toward the urban fringe where, as he put it, "Ninety-five percent of Australians actually live," Arkley was right on the money. And at the time of his death in 1999 aged 48, there were no limits to what he seemed capable of achieving. His color-saturated screens of suburban living rooms unfolded triumphantly around the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale; just opened was his first sell-out show in Los Angeles; and a new series of freeway paintings was in the works, suggesting infinite possible directions...
...years of scouring P.N.G., Richards, who's attached to the South Australian Museum, believes he has discovered almost 100 new frogs. Of these, he has managed to "describe," or scientifically classify and name, 30; he still has about 70 whose features must be studied carefully before they can be classified as a new species. "We are really only scratching the surface," he says. "Every time anybody goes searching in P.N.G. anywhere, they find new things." Richards estimates that 350 species of frog have been identified on the island of New Guinea, but predicts the number will eventually pass 600. With...
...bones had been found. They unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes. "Who wept for him?" Near Pozi?res, whose capture in 1916 cost 8,000 Australian lives, Carlyon stood on a height known as the Windmill. From there, "you could almost sketch in what a German would have seen on the first day of the Somme," he says, hands sweeping an imaginary horizon. "The observation balloons, a great arc of gray smoke where the British were attacking...