Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cocos Islands have posed a troubling question for Australia: whether or not to impose the benefits -and the ills-of civilization on the islanders. Britain ceded sovereignty over the islands to Australia in 1955, and Canberra simply assumed that the Malays were content with Clunies-Ross rule. No one knew for sure, of course; the present ruler, John Clunies-Ross, a fifth-generation descendant of the islands' original settler, forbade the Australian administrator to set foot on Home Island, which he considers his private domain. Canberra's comfortable ignorance was jolted three years ago when a group...
...administration of the island, it cannot allow the Malays to continue without the rights of citizenship and the protection of its laws. Last week Minister of External Territories Andrew Peacock visited the Cocos. After two days of negotiations with Clunies-Ross, he achieved an agreement, subject to Canberra's approval, under which Clunies-Ross conceded Australian sovereignty and agreed that the island be ruled by an elected chief executive, presumably himself. Included in the agreement were provisions for Australian teachers, an appeals system for major crimes, and transportation to Singapore and Christmas Island. The currency in which the Malays...
...thrower. Senator Neville Bonner, an aborigine, has introduced in the Australian Parliament legislation that would in effect restrict boomerang making to his race. It has got nowhere-partly because Bonner had no success trying to demonstrate the superiority of the aboriginal product. At a press showing in Canberra, he scaled a boomerang that got stuck in a tree; the embarrassed Senator had to shinny up to retrieve it. In other words, the demonstration-er- boomeranged...
...administering it in recent years as a United Nations trustee. The two territories, which together constitute the eastern half of New Guinea island (the rest is the Indonesian province of West Irian), were given a joint name and administration in 1949. Under U.N. pressure to loosen its paternalistic hold, Canberra has granted progressively greater powers to a local assembly and promised self-government whenever the majority of Papua New Guineans wanted it, giving them the chance to participate in general elections, which wound up this month...
...have never had much clout in Australian politics. Last December, however, militant young "Abos," calling themselves "black Australians," staged a violent demonstration in Brisbane. For the past month, to dramatize their case for land rights, they have been operating an eleven-tent "Abo Embassy" across from Parliament House in Canberra. "We are tired of hanging around the white man's door waiting for crumbs," cried Abo Journalist John Newfong. The Abos' next target: Interior Minister Ralph Hunt, whom they hope to defeat in elections late this year...