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...present Prime Minister, William McMahon, is likely to prove a transitional figure. McMahon, 63, is an urbane, cultured man who two months ago succeeded John Gorton as Prime Minister and head of the long-ruling Liberal Party, which despite its name is notably conservative. He was previously known as Australia's most effective Treasurer. But he is a man of limited vision, and what Australia needs in the 1970s is someone with great imagination. When TIME'S John Shaw interviewed McMahon, he asked, "What are your thoughts on the future of Australia?" All of Shaw's questions...
...Your article on Australia [March 22] is a well-written, well-informed piece of news on current Australian politics. But your heading, "Fall of the Larrikin," is very unfair to John Grey Gorton. He may have some faults and would be quick to admit them, but a larrikin [hooligan], no. Rough-hewn and outspoken, yes. He is a tough, typical Aussie...
...Fraser affair satisfied Liberal leaders once and for all that Gorton was not the man to lead their party -which has ruled Australia since 1949 in coalition with the smaller Country Party-into next year's elections. The Liberals sustained heavy losses under Gorton in 1969 and 1970, when their popular vote dropped to 38% (from 43% in 1969). In this year's state elections, the opposition Labor Party came to power in western Australia and almost won in New South Wales. After a three-hour Liberal caucus, Gorton's colleagues deadlocked...
...Gorton's successor is short, balding William McMahon, 63, who has served in Australian governments for 20 years and hankered to become P.M. for almost as long. He is remembered as Australia's most competent postwar Treasurer, though he was transferred to the less important Ministry of External Affairs in 1969 because Gorton wanted to clip his wings. The hard-working McMahon soon reorganized the department, changed his title to Foreign Minister and remained a key figure in the government...
...Prime Minister's policies are not likely to differ markedly from his predecessor's. "I will be very anti-Communist and very anti-socialist," said McMahon. Like Gorton, he supports Australia's commitment of 7,100 troops to Viet Nam; indeed, in his first act last week, McMahon named Gorton as his Defense Minister. At home he must deal with an increasingly familiar phenomenon-persistent inflation (7.6% last year) combined with a sluggish economy. But his immediate job is to rebuild the party before the 1972 elections, when the Liberals must face a revived Labor Party under...