Word: whitlam
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Australian Prime Minister E. Gough Whitlam presented the gift July 4 as part of what he called Australia's role in celebrating the United States Bicentennial...
Although not all the details about the gift are complete. Whitlam said the professorship, to be called the Australian Bicentennial Chair, will be "at research level and form a center for Australian Studies by other universities...
...Whitlam, speaking at the Australian-American Association Ball in Sydney, Australia, said he hopes the chair would be the first step in expanding American studies of all aspects of his country...
...Whitlam said in his speech that he commends "this proposal to the great companies and corporations--which operate in the two countries. Some of them, I trust, will see the chair as a focal point for further research endowments in their own names in disciplines of special interest to them...
Slender Majority. Whitlam's firing of Cairns compounds the difficulties of the Labor Party, beset by economic problems and falling popularity. Only two weeks ago, it lost a by-election for a seat in Tasmania that it had held for 21 years. As a result, Whitlam's slender majority in the lower house has been reduced to three. Many political observers are predicting the financial scandal may well be the "extraordinary circumstances" that opposition Liberal and Country parties Leader Malcolm Fraser said he would need to take the country to the polls later this year...