Word: whitlams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whitlam, to his credit, rebuked both Murphy and the Yugoslav government...
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...
...Whitlam's biggest problems is federal-state relations. A strong believer in increased federal powers, he has already collided with all six state premiers (three of them fellow Laborites) over his plans to give Canberra control over offshore resources. This month, four of the premiers went to London to seek the support of the Queen and Britain's Privy Council...
...Whitlam, not uncoincidentally, has already asked Britain to end the Privy Council's role as the last court of appeal for Australian litigants...
...Most of Whitlam's successes to date have been in the field of foreign affairs...