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After careful observation of many groups of wrasse, D.R. Robertson, a zoologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, found that the death or disappearance of a male has a startling effect on one of the several female fish in his harem: she becomes a male. Within a few hours of her liberation from the influence of a male, the head female in the harem begins to display male mannerisms. She reconnoiters the borders of the absent male's territory and pays aggressive calls on the other females. Within four days her courtship and spawning behavior cannot be distinguished...
Retreating to a farm near the tiny town of Mudgeerebar in the northeastern state of Queensland, Hawes designed a boomerang that incorporated modern principles of aerodynamics. He insists that his boomerang comes reliably back to the thrower, whereas the aboriginal product often does not. Be that as it may, Hawes has become Australia's boomerang king. He employs seven workers, who turn out 60,000 boomerangs a year. Most are sold in gift shops in major Australian cities, but a quarter of the output is shipped to North America and Europe for sporting clubs and wives whose husbands have...
...this is too much for Hawes' biggest competitor, the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs, which every year sells 40,000 boomerangs made by aborigines living on missions. Department spokesmen insist that only aboriginal boomerangs can make two complete circles in the air before dropping at the feet of the thrower. Senator Neville Bonner, an aborigine, has introduced in the Australian Parliament legislation that would in effect restrict boomerang making to his race. It has got nowhere-partly because Bonner had no success trying to demonstrate the superiority of the aboriginal product. At a press showing in Canberra...
Crowned heads have saved themselves more than once by deploying their secret weapon, the Royal Glare. A case in point was what Australia's former Prime Minister John Gorton describes as "one of the greatest fun evenings I can remember." On a cruise off Queensland on the royal yacht Britannia, "people decided that everyone else ought to be thrown in the water," says Gorton. Prince Philip was thrown in, and then Princess Anne. I was sitting beside the Queen. I was about to throw her in, but I looked at her and there was something...
Reluctant Sellers. Japanese companies are increasingly offering long-term development loans to be repaid in ore, and directly investing in their overseas sources of supply. In Queensland, Australia, Mitsubishi has signed a long-term coal contract: in return, it is lending the developer enough money to help build a small town for the workers, a dam and reservoir, roads and a rail line. Despite this, Australia is one of several countries that have acted outright to discourage the sale of some raw materials. It has urged Australian corporations to stop selling bauxite to the Japanese in ore form, arguing that...