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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...
...next elections, which must be held by November 1972, the opposition Labor Party under Edward Gough Whitlam, a capable but lackluster politician, has its best chance for victory since 1949, when it last ruled. If the Liberals win, however, McMahon will probably be replaced by a stronger figure in his own party. In both parties, the survivors of the era of Sir Robert Menzies are being crowded by a new generation of bettereducated, broader-minded, less complacent men. Among the Liberals are Malcolm Peacock, who at 31 is the country's Army Minister, and Steele Hall, 40, the party...
...twelve years as the A.C.T.U.'s brilliant, abrasive chief lawyer. When he succeeded to the union's leadership last year, he be gan tackling everyone and everything. He described the national steel monopoly, Broken Hill Proprietary, as rapacious. He called Cabinet Member Billy Snedden, who is considered McMahon's heir apparent, "an intellectual cripple." He blasted then-Prime Minister John Gorton as "a coward, a charlatan and a sham" for refusing to debate him on the issue of the 35-hour work week...
...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...
...McMahon's most obvious assets in the job will be his wife Sonia. 38, a striking blonde who at 5 ft. 9 in. stands two inches taller than her husband. The evening before McMahon's victory, a photographer caught Sonia descending the stairs from Canberra's Parliament House just as a fortuitous gust of wind caught her high-slit black crepe maxiskirt. "The wind blew at the wrong moment," said Sonia. Not necessarily. Some observers suggested that the resulting thigh-high picture might well have swung a few votes in McMahon's favor...