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...become institutionalized within government. Not only does the Howard government maintain some three dozen media advisers to deliver its message; like its recent Labor predecessors, it also uses additional people in the state capitals to monitor local media and produce transcripts. If a Labor frontbencher is interviewed on Perth radio, there's a good chance that within a few hours the relevant minister will be responding to the remarks; if a prominent commentator criticizes the government, that will also be passed back to Canberra and duly noted. Less surreptitiously, the Government Members Secretariat in Parliament House churns out material...
...while plundering the country for his personal benefit. How can the coalition ever hope to "restore" democracy in Iraq, when it is doubtful that it ever existed there? The solution for the U.S. and its allies is to put a new dictator in charge and go home. David Lenhoff Perth...
DIED. SHIRLEY STRICKLAND DE LA HUNTY, 78, the first woman to win consecutive Olympic titles, in 1948, '52 and '56, including three gold medals in sprinting and hurdling for Australia; in Perth. Also a mother and nuclear physicist, she chased rabbits while growing up on her family farm but took up running seriously only a couple of years before her first Olympics...
When Georgia's rugby team plays England in Perth on Oct. 12, thousands will be watching on big screens in downtown Tbilisi. In the former Soviet republic, rugby is now second only to football in popularity, especially since the national team beat arch rivals Russia to qualify for the Rugby World Cup. But most local teams don't have stadiums to play in, the players pay their own way to matches, and "if they swap shirts at the end of a game," says sports journalist Paata Tortadze, "they may find themselves without kit the next week." In places like Georgia...
...merchandise, J.K. Rowling has a fortune estimated at $450 million, according to the London Sunday Times rich list, making her $50 million wealthier than the Queen of England. Her personal life has picked up too. She has bought multimillion-dollar houses in London, Edinburgh and the Scottish hills near Perth. And at the end of 2001, Rowling, 37, married Neil Murray, 31, a steady, brainy anesthetist she had met through a mutual friend. Last March they had a son David, who joins Jessica, 11, the daughter from her brief first marriage. Rowling has admitted that--no surprise--Harry...