Word: whitlam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Former Australian prime minister E. Gough Whitlam originally presented this gift on July 4, 1975, as part of what he called Australia's role in celebrating the United States bicentennial...
Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced that Harvard would receive the gift on July...
...rate from 5% to a high of 17% during what he called the "three dark years of Labor." Capitalizing on concern over unemployment (which went as high as 5.3%), Fraser claimed that one job had been lost for every seven minutes Labor was in power: "Don't give Whitlam the chance to break the job-a-minute barrier because if you do, I'm sure he will...
...late last week polls showed Fraser leading Whitlam by 52% to 42%. More than anything else, it was the soft economy-and the soaring price of Labor's ambitious social welfare program-that proved Whitlam's undoing. For most of Australia's middle-class voters, Whitlam's program, which included a new national health scheme providing free medical care for all and expanded education and welfare benefits, was simply too much too soon...
Closer to U.S. A wealthy sheep rancher from western Victoria, Fraser has promised cutbacks in domestic programs and tax cuts for individuals and business incentives. He will also move to pull Canberra's foreign policy back onto its pre-Whitlam path. Fraser has criticized the Labor government's steps to improve ties with Communist and Third World countries "while neglecting friends and allies with whom we share political ideals and philosophies." That would forecast a return to Australia's traditionally close foreign policy relations with Britain...