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...Whitlam, to his credit, rebuked both Murphy and the Yugoslav government...
...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...
Dawn Raids. Whitlam continues to suffer from the actions of some members of his erratic Cabinet. Attorney General Lionel Murphy got him into a mess by overreacting to complaints by the Yugoslav government about Croatian terrorists' using Australia as a training ground. Murphy personally led an extraordinary invasion of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization to unearth files that had supposedly been withheld from him. It was rather as if a U.S. Attorney General had stormed the FBI. Shortly after that incident, federal and New South Wales state police staged dawn raids on 68 Croatian homes. Australians barely had time...