Word: whitlam
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Their case has been bolstered by an independent commission appointed by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to study the land rights of Australia's indigenous population. The commission recommended this year that ownership of the land should be retained by the aborigines and that there should be no further exploration or mining without their permission. Confronted with the choice between poverty and the wrath of the green ants, the aborigines give every indication that, for the time being at least, they would rather remain poor...
...campaign since the Depression had aroused such interest or such strong emotions. "I realized in 1972 that we needed a change to free ourselves from mentally constipated attitudes," Novelist White (The Eye of the Storm) told an overflow crowd in Sydney's stunning new Opera House. "Mr. Whitlam has helped Australians to heave themselves out of that terrible morass which caused so many talented Australians to leave the country for the wider world outside, where their ideas and ideals won recognition." Said the Prime Minister: "We have given Australia a new pride and standing in the world ... We have...
Snedden, 47, a somewhat drab and uninspiring speaker, could scarcely hope to match Whitlam's charisma. In the campaign, he tried to capitalize on something more important to voters: inflation, which under Labor has jumped from an annual rate...
Though many economists found Snedden's patchwork anti-inflation package of wage-price controls an unconvincing program, his emphasis on money matters put Whitlam on the defensive. Only midway through the campaign did Labor regain the initiative by pointing to its own inflation suppressants: a combination of tariff cuts and an upward revaluation of the Australian dollar. "It's possible to freeze meat and vegetables but not their prices," snorted the Prime Minister, knocking down the ON SERVICE idea of a wage-price freeze...
Basically, the campaign was about an issue even more important than inflation: what direction the country should take for the next decade. Since becoming Prime Minister, Whitlam, 57, has radically changed the course of Australia's foreign policy, making it clear to both the U.S. and Britain, the traditional big brothers, that Canberra will no longer follow the lead of Washington and London. Many of his proposed domestic reforms were stymied, however, by the opposition of the Senate, which rarely initiates legislation but does have veto power. During the first four months of this year alone, the Senate...