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Opposition Leader Billy Snedden's Liberal-Country party coalition got an equally rousing endorsement from the country's top football coach, Ron Barassi, and tried to ignore the polls that showed Labor gradually inching ahead...
Think Again. According to last week's polls the electorate was almost evenly divided between Whitlam's Labor Party and Opposition Leader Billy Snedden's Liberal-Country Party conservative coalition. GO AHEAD, exhorted Laborite banners. "I am appealing to the people of Australia to give a fair go to the government they elected 17 months ago," said Whitlam, 57. THINK AGAIN, countered the Liberals. "The Labor experiment has been tried and it has failed," Snedden, 47, told audiences...
...Though Snedden had been derided by one of his critics as a Milquetoast who "couldn't go two rounds with a revolving door," he has, in fact, turned out to have a distinct knack for political combat. He has unexpectedly put the more charismatic Whitlam on the defensive by his broadsides against Whitlam's abrasive policies. In foreign affairs, Snedden has accused Whitlam of needlessly alienating Australia's two closest friends, the U.S. and Britain, and has promised a more traditional, pro-Western policy...
...home, Snedden scored points by promising to restore the incentives to foreign investment that Whitlam took away-necessary incentives, Snedden argued, if Australia is to develop its vast resources-and pledged to give free enterprise a looser rein. Most important of all, he promised to put a curb on the country's worrisome economic problem, inflation, which is now running at the rate of 14% a year. He promised that he would resign in six months if he could not curb inflation-a promise that most Australians viewed with skepticism...
...longstanding tax concessions. But 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...