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...give Newport its most competitive race in decades. Mounting the challenge has cost him $9 million, but he figures the money is well spent. The major purpose of Bond's nautical campaign is to promote his projects in Western Australia, particularly Yanchep Sun City, a recreational development near Perth. On that score, says Bond, "we have already won." Almost as an afterthought, he adds: "Only the sporting outcome of the race is left to be determined...
Meanwhile, across the continent in Perth, the capital of Western Australia, buzzes of anguish rose from local apiarists (Bufo marinus, of course, also relishes bees), when several specimens got away from another consignment from Queensland. These Bufos, however, were quickly isolated near Perth Airport, and it remains only for authorities to check adjacent drainage every two days for the next three years to make sure that the toads or their progeny get no further...
...Whitlam can effectively argue that Labor's social program has been blocked by an obstreperous Sen ate, while in foreign affairs the country has gained a stronger and more independent voice. Whitlam, 58, is also a more popular and commanding figure than the untried Snedden, 47, a former Perth newsboy who took over as Liberal leader after the 1972 elections. The race will be close. But most observers feel that the government, having recovered well from the Gair affair, starts out as a slight favorite to retain office...
...million people live in coastal cities. Together with such other way stations as Cookamidgera, Ivanhoe, Broken Hill, Bookaloo, Tarcoola, Koolyanobbing and Doodlakine, Kalgoorlie forms a new standard-gauge rail link across the continent. This single 2,461-mile track now connects swinging Sydney on the Pacific with tranquil Perth on the Indian Ocean. While the U.S. is cutting back on trains, Australia just added a third weekly transcontinental express in each direction. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan made the trip and reports...
...Indian-Pacific rolls out of the night and finally into the first suburban fringes of Perth. It is 6:45 a.m. Kitchen lights glow in the freshly painted frame houses backed against the track. The sleeping-car porters rap hard on the compartment doors to make sure all passengers are awake. A disc jockey, piped into the train from a Perth radio station, is playing his morning selection. "Now here's a good one," he says, and the song begins, "Pardon me, boy, is that the Indian-Pacific...