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...twelve-month period ending last June, production suddenly spurted by 10%, its best performance in 25 years. About a quarter-million jobs were created, and unemployment fell from 10% to 8.8%. Said Peter Drysdale, executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Center at the Australian National University in Canberra: "Australia is moving from a spectacular recovery into a period of solid and sustained growth...
...fledgling U.S. wanted a national capital with no ties to either North or South and created Washington (1790); the Australians moved their capital to the new city of Canberra (1927); and Brazil-with many of the problems of Mexico-boldly developed Brasilia...
Australia. While Australia II was winning the America's Cup this fall, the Australian economy was also "getting under full sail," in the words of Board Member Peter Drysdale. A professorial fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, Drysdale predicted that Australia will pull out of a slump that has raised unemployment above 10%. Said he: "There is a strong mood of confidence in the Australian economy-a sharp contrast with the confusion and retreat of twelve months...
...appointed by his government to investigate the Ivanov-Combe connection and Australia's national security. It was the first time an Australian Prime Minister had ever testified in such a hearing. From a green-padded, tubular steel chair in the witness box in a converted government office in Canberra, Hawke responded to questions for four grueling days...
...admitted that in April he had told two Canberra lobbyists that the government was about to ban official contact with Combe, and asked them not to enter into a proposed partnership with him. The request, Hawke insisted, was legitimate because it was aimed at denying Combe any indirect access and thus at maintaining the "integrity of the government." Two days later, contact with Combe was formally banned...