Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saintly qualities still apply? Australian Anglican Ross Walker, a social worker in Canberra, says they have not changed much since Jesus' time: "Love, self-denial, continuing self-sacrifice and grace are all necessary." Though saints "like to keep what they do private," he says, their very personalities often betray them: "They are all inspiring, larger-than-life people...
Closer to U.S. A wealthy sheep rancher from western Victoria, Fraser has promised cutbacks in domestic programs and tax cuts for individuals and business incentives. He will also move to pull Canberra's foreign policy back onto its pre-Whitlam path. Fraser has criticized the Labor government's steps to improve ties with Communist and Third World countries "while neglecting friends and allies with whom we share political ideals and philosophies." That would forecast a return to Australia's traditionally close foreign policy relations with Britain...
...powers never before exercised in Australia, the Governor General also dissolved Parliament and proclaimed new elections for Australia's House and Senate on Dec. 13. From one end of the continent to the other, the public was stunned-and Whitlam's Labor Party supporters were outraged. In Canberra, the federal capital, Kerr's action was being assailed as a "legal coup d'etat" that could trigger the most bitter election campaign in Australian history...
...word of Whitlam's ouster spread through Canberra, a crowd of his sympathizers gathered in front of Parliament House chanting: "Shame, Fraser, shame!" and "We want Gough!" Responding to their cries, Whitlam, whose election in 1972 had ended 23 years of rule by conservative parties, emerged to greet the demonstrators and lead them in a chorus of Solidarity Forever, international unionism's anthem. In Melbourne, hundreds of protesters stormed the headquarters of Fraser's Liberal Party, stoned it, and smashed its windows. Melbourne union leaders proclaimed Friday "Stop the State Day," calling on 500,000 workers...
...legend of Prince Leonard grows, the Canberra government and the Western Australia state government are finding his quixotic tilts at their bureaucracy increasingly nettlesome. Federal authorities recently issued a starchy departmental memo instructing that Casley must not be addressed by his title. "The Australian government does not recognize the existence of Hutt River province," says the Prime Minister's office. To Canberra, Prince Leonard remains plain Mr. Casley of Lockhart Street, Como, Western Australia...