Word: whitlam
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According to the most recent public opinion poll, approval of Whitlam has slipped to 51%. More significantly, another poll indicated that support for the Labor Party had slid to 44% last month, down from the 50% it received in the December general election. If another election had coincided with that poll, the conservative Liberal-Country...
Party coalition might have found itself back in federal power. The Liberal Party demonstrated its strength at the state level last month by increasing its majority over Labor in Victoria. Australian state elections often do not reflect federal voting patterns, but Whitlam had incautiously characterized the Victoria contest in advance as a sounding board for his policies...
...Whitlam has had other problems...
...introduced a record number of 114 bills in its first parliamentary session, many of them promised more improvements in the quality of life than he could immediately deliver. Complained the political correspondent of The Australian, a national daily that was one of the few major newspapers to have supported Whitlam's election: "[The bills] are like much of Labor's initial six months -long on potential but short on performance." Most important to voters, perhaps, Whitlam's government has failed to curb the inflation rate...
Australians, long spoiled by a plenitude of jobs, seem less moved by Whitlam's success in reducing unemployment...