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Murdoch had never played two-up with a newspaper, and he was eager to try for a run. So in 1956 he bought a Sunday paper in Perth for $400,000, then four years later spent $4 million for the Sydney Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid weakened by incessant circulation wars. His Sydney invasion literally touched off new fighting. When Murdoch outbid a rival publisher for an Anglican Church printing plant, the rival tried to occupy the building. Murdoch allies rounded up a gang of hammer-wielding thugs and recaptured the plant after a bloody fight. At the same time...
Reversing a Whitlam ruling, Fraser opened Australian ports to U.S. nuclear-powered warships and also offered docking privileges at a new port being constructed near Perth in Western Australia. Since Australia's own army and relatively small navy are insufficient to guard its 12,210-mile coastline or ensure control of supply lines across the Indian Ocean, Fraser has enthusiastically supported Washington's opening up a new base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
Garth Godoman Perth, Australia
...occasional kangaroo. Tourism rose from 3,000 in 1970 to 40,000 last year. Mail from round the world is running at 200 letters a week, many from prospective settlers who apparently see the province as a potential Elysium-on-Hutt. An air service flies in from Perth (370 miles south) twice weekly, first circling the capital as a signal to the prince to clear the grassy landing strip of grazing cattle...
...Stresses. Shay Gap was founded for sound business reasons. Officials of Goldsworthy Mining Ltd., aware that high wages alone could not keep needed workers in the Pilbara for long, decided to build a community that would make life in the outback more tolerable. Their Perth-based architect, Lawrence Howroyd, 45, quickly realized that merely air-conditioning the houses and sealing the windows to keep out dust and insects would not be enough. In the Pilbara, he explains, "the environment throws up all kinds of stresses to which people are not accustomed-the heat, the isolation, fear of children...