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...Queensland, beautiful one day, perfect the next," burbles a middle-aged vacationer in a tourist ad for the state in northeastern Australia that has one of the country's most glorious coastlines. In a version written by Australian Comic Gerry Connolly for a TV comedy show, a beaming Japanese businessman delivers the punch line, "Ah, Queensland, beautiful one day, Japanese the next...
...urban hotels and shoreline properties, and by a 48% upsurge, to 215,600, in Japanese visitors in 1987. Last February, for the first time, Japanese arriving in Australia outnumbered tourists from any other country. According to a report by Lloyds Bank, 70% of land earmarked for development on Queensland's Gold Coast, a 25-mile strip of sun and fun, is controlled by Japanese interests...
TIME AUSTRALIA Editor Jefferson Penberthy is the man who has given the magazine its distinctive mix of Australian energy and traditional TIME quality. Last May, for example, he assigned Queensland Correspondent Frank Robson to find out why a number of Aborigines were dying in prisons and jails under mysterious circumstances. At the same time that Robson's cover story ran, a Royal Commission was established to investigate the problem. Last month TIME AUSTRALIA won two of the prestigious W.G. Walkley awards, Australia's highest journalism prizes, for Robson's story and for Photographer David May's cover picture of jailed...
...with 72 for a white Australian. According to Dr. Michael Gracey, a medical researcher in Perth, high levels of infection, unbalanced diets and poor hygiene are all contributing to impaired growth among Aboriginal children. Trapped in a cycle of poverty, some 200 Aborigines rioted in two Outback towns in Queensland and New South Wales this year. Two weeks ago, 40 demonstrators demanding better housing stormed a government office in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart...
...genocide. Such suspicions are rooted in history: in the early 1800s, white settlers massacred Aborigines, sometimes shooting them for sport. The Aborigine population, plagued by cholera and influenza, fell from more than 300,000 in the late 18th century to about 170,000 today. At a science conference in Queensland two weeks ago, Historian Gwen Deemal-Hall alleged that the state government was injecting young Aboriginal women with a contraceptive drug to slow the growth of the indigenous population. Queensland officials denied the charge...