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...secessionist uprising has begun to stir in the Torres Strait Islands, a balmy archipelago off Australia's remote northern coast. Charging neglect by the government in far-off Canberra, the 5,000 mostly Melanesian islanders are demanding self-rule, along with $3.5 billion in federal compensation. Their main gripe is that Australian-based fisheries are exploiting the waters surrounding the 15 islands, which include those whimsically named Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...
...important Pacific power last week decided to do something about the growing Libyan presence. In an unusually blunt announcement, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke ordered that the Libyan embassy, or People's Bureau, in Canberra be closed. There was "compelling and incontrovertible evidence," said Hawke, that the embassy was "serving to facilitate Libya's destabilizing activities." Hawke was especially concerned about Libyan attempts to stir up trouble among Australia's 170,000 aborigines. Gaddafi last month reportedly offered funds to help establish a separate aboriginal nation, a charge he has since denied. Said Hawke: "Libya's record of subversion...
...missile hit the wheelhouse, killing the Australian captain, identified as Robert Wilcox. Australia protested to Iraq yesterday through the Iraqi ambassador in Canberra...
...appeared just a trifle fatigued during his seven-day visit to Australia last week. Arriving directly from a six-day tour of Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji and New Zealand, the peripatetic Pontiff marked his first visit to the island continent with a blitz that , included stops in the capital, Canberra, the state capitals of Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and the outlying -- very outlying -- city of Darwin and town of Alice Springs. Despite the hectic pace, his Holiness was never too busy to shake an outstretched hand or, in the case of a sedentary koala named Simon, a diffidently...
...Asian nations that are dependent on commodity exports, for which prices are deeply depressed. In both Indonesia, a major oil exporter, and Malaysia, a supplier of rubber and tin, virtually no growth is expected through 1987. Says Peter Drysdale, executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Center in Canberra: "There are going to be considerable stresses on the commodity-exporting part of the Western Pacific economy over the next 18 months or so." He noted that Australia had been severely hurt by low prices for agricultural exports. But after expanding at a barely perceptible .5% this year, the Australian economy...