Word: matilda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brass band struck up Waltzing Matilda, and the Odd Couple strode to the dais in Melbourne's Exhibition Building. Two former Australian Prime Ministers of opposing parties, Sir John Gorton (Liberal, 1968-71) and Gough Whitlam (Labor, 1972-75), were on the same political platform...
...sector of the travel market that even the ABCs do not cater to: passengers who are both on a budget and unable to plan ahead for cheap charter fares. They include, in Laker's definition, the less than affluent citizen "who gets a call that Aunt Matilda is very sick and wants to visit her before she dies...
...Americans from Beirut. His eyes were puffed and squinty. But there was genuine warmth last week when he strode onto a red-carpeted podium on the South Lawn of the White House and welcomed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to the U.S. As the last strains of Waltzing Matilda faded away, Ford stressed how "particularly close" Australia is to the hearts of Americans...
...singing and the shoving of people into the water went on for several hours by dockside but the loudspeakers stopped after "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and then "Waltzing Matilda." Even the vanquished crew of the Cross joined the hysteria. Alan Bond, who sank nearly $9 million into the fruitless campaign, put on a show for the crowd, jumping into the water nearly on top of his boat's designer Bob Miller...
Australia, Advance Australia Fair and Waltzing Matilda (an uplifting dirge about the suicide of a sheep rustler). A choice was made by a poll (in which one-half of 1% of the population was selected to represent the nation as a whole). Advance Australia Fair was chosen as the anthem by a bare majority...