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...conservative-controlled Senate, it appeared that Whitlam might easily get his job back. For one thing, there seemed to be some truth to Whitlam's protest that he had been the victim of a ruthless power play. Then again, Kerr had named as caretaker Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 45, the tough but untested leader of the conservative coalition composed of his own Liberal Party and the rural National Country Party...
...toppling of New Zealand's Laborites was a matter of lively interest in Australia. Three years ago, Labor governments were elected in both countries within a week of each other. This week Australian voters go to the polls to resolve the constitutional crisis created when Malcolm Fraser, head of the Liberal-National Country Party coalition, was named by Governor General Sir John Kerr to form a caretaker government, replacing Labor Party Leader Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister (TIME, Nov. 24). Australia's Labor Party, like New Zealand's, was accused of economic mismanagement in office. Though voting...
...statement to the press, Sir John defended his unprecedented action as a "democratic and constitutional solution to the current crisis." The new elections, he argued, will enable "the people to decide the issue which the two leaders have failed to settle." Meanwhile, the Senate majority, under orders from Fraser, approved the budget and adjourned, thus ending the fiscal impasse...
...election campaign was beginning to take shape. Whitlam will obviously try to capitalize on the public's anger at what it considers to be Kerr's usurpation of power; he hoped to gain a large sympathy vote by hammering away at the theme that Fraser gained office shamefully. As he told a press conference last week, "Clearly the great issue, almost the sole issue of this campaign will be whether the government which the people elect with a majority in the House of Representatives will be allowed to govern from now on." The Labor Party will also stress...
...Fraser is expected to base his campaign on themes he has been pounding at for months: the scandals involving some of Whitlam's close aides, Labor's antibusiness attitude and the mismanagement of the economy that has led to a current 16.9% annual rate of inflation and the worst unemployment since the 1930s...