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...rule, Time South Pacific reports on the region's most influential people. Here, our focus is on Australians who live away from the big cities and reveal other facets of the nation's character. Tom Dusevic met Peter Burton, who turns grass into T-bones in the Kimberley; Elizabeth Keenan visited the kitchen of Warrant Officer John Benstead, 22 years an Army cook and now based in Townsville; Michael Fitzgerald tracked down Doug Pekin, a dogger who maintains 500 km of dingo-proof fence on the Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful...
...rule, Time South Pacific reports on the region's most influential people. Here, our focus is on Australians who live away from the big cities and reveal other facets of the nation's character. Tom Dusevic met Peter Burton, who turns grass into T-bones in the Kimberley; Elizabeth Keenan visited the kitchen of Warrant Officer John Benstead, 22 years an Army cook and now based in Townsville; Michael Fitzgerald tracked down Doug Pekin, a dogger who maintains 500 km of dingo-proof fence on the Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful...
...sheep and wheat man whose home is near Geraldton, 2,500 km to the south and west, Peter Burton, 63, has grown very fond of the Kimberley. "If you live here and die here you have to go somewhere else," says the wiry farmer, rolling a cigarette. "Because you've already been to Heaven." Some district cattlemen consider him a blow-in, but Burton is finding this stage of his life busier than he expected. "Supposedly ret-ired," he says, with mischief in his eyes. "I was happy catching crayfish and sinking piss." But now he's living at Springvale...
...Their only legal recourse is the 1996 Helms-Burton Act: it makes foreign firms liable, at the President's discretion, to U.S. lawsuits or forfeiture of U.S. visas if they do business in Cuba on property confiscated from Cuban-Americans or U.S. companies. But so far not even President Bush has been willing to let a Helms-Burton suit go forward, largely for fear of alienating allies like Spain that have big investments in Cuba. "The Administration just won't pull the trigger," says Nicolas Gutierrez, 42, a Cuban-American attorney in Miami who represents the De la Camaras...
...Helms-Burton law essentially prohibits the U.S. from dealing with Raul if he succeeds Fidel. But some State Department officias confide that if Raul does take reform steps and reaches out to the U.S., it would be the height of folly for Washington to remain on the sidelines, no matter how many votes that might preserve in the politically potent Cuban exile community in South Florida...