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There has also been talk in Canberra that Australia might eventually declare itself a republic. Whitlam has let it be known that he considers the Queen something of a constitutional anachronism. "The monarch is usually resident overseas," he noted dryly. Presumably his affections for Queen Elizabeth were not increased by the fact that he received a Christmas card from Buckingham Palace addressed simply to "The Prime Minister of Australia." No name was attached to the card...
Even before being sworn in, Whitlam had recalled the Australian Ambassador to Taipei and instructed Canberra's Ambassador to France to start talks with the Chinese in Paris aimed at establishing diplomatic relations with Peking. Now the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations was directed to back moves for a neutralized zone in the Indian Ocean. He was also told to reverse field and support Third World resolutions against white-supremacist Rhodesia. A Rhodesian information of fice in Sydney was ordered shut down. South Africa was told that sporting teams selected along racial lines would not be allowed into...
...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...