Word: australians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moderates and leftists for Labor's ideological soul. Moderate Laborite Robert Mellish had held the seat for 36 years, but left-wingers seized control of the Bermondsey party machinery, and the disillusioned Mellish forced a new election by retiring. The local leadership then selected the boyish Tatchell, an Australian immigrant who quickly adopted a position supporting better housing and education, along with radical socialism and homosexual rights. He had first attracted attention when he called for "new, more militant forms of extraparliamentary opposition which challenge the government's right to rule...
...election Monday, that disorder left its mark. Bermondsey, an urban working-class district held by Labour for the last 60 years, fell instead to the Alliance candidate by a whopping 38 percent in a special election, when Simon Hughes, a 31-year-old lawyer, thrashed Peter Thatchell, a brash Australian expatriate noted for radical stands...
...Merlin behind the magic is Gillian Armstrong, the young Australian director who established a reputation for intelligent, graceful and feminist filmmaking with her critically acclaimed debut My Brilliant Carter. That film formed the foundation of the now-thriving Australian movie industry, along with Breaker Morant, Gallipoli and Picnic at Hanging Rock...
...Starstruck breaks the pattern. Armstrong has billed her latest work as "A totally different kind of Australian film," and she's no liar. She offers a precocious musical parody of quite a few of the icons of modern culture, including politicians, movie musicals, sexism in the music industry, the pretenses of bourgeous "punks," and even, egad, the current obsession with making movies about new wave musicians...
...Australian Intrigue (Contd...