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Topic: Australian referendum, 1974

	Australian Labor Party - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While standard practice in Australian English is to spell the word labour with an "-our" ending, in reference to the name of the party it is spelt with an "-or" ending.
		The Australian Labor Party is a democratic and federal party, which consists of both individual members and affiliated trade unions, who between them decide the party's policies, elect its governing bodies and choose its candidates for public office.
		After failing to persuade the Australian voters to support a referendum approving of conscription which bitterly divided the country in the process, Hughes and his followers were expelled from the Labor Party.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Alp (2363 words)

	AAS Biographical Memoirs - Robert Gordon Menzies 1894-1978
		The Australian National Research Council, the predecessor of the Australian Academy of Science, organized a symposium in Canberra in 1954 under the chairmanship of the highly respected Chief Justice of the Commonwealth, Sir Owen Dixon, at which the plight of the universities was discussed.
		The president of the Australian National Research Council, the distinguished anthropologist, Professor A. Elkin, wrote to the Prime Minister outlining the plight of the universities and sending the text of a resolution passed at the symposium.
		Australian astronomers were interested in the building of a large telescope in Australia to facilitate joint optical and radio observing, and because a large part of the southern sky contained important stellar objects not visible to northern hemisphere telescopes.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/aasmemoirs/menzies.htm (14161 words)

	Timeline 1974
		1974 Sep 12, Haile Selassie I, "King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah," was deposed by the military from the Ethiopian throne.
		1974 In Pennsylvania the firefly was decreed as the official insect.
		1974 Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal split from the PLO and was sentenced to death in absentia.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1974.HTML (9803 words)

	Flag History - Other National Symbols - National Anthem
		On April 8th, 1974, an opinion poll of 60,000 Australians was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to determine which tune the public preferred out of God Save the Queen and the three proposed alternatives.
		Further to this on 21 May 1977 a national song poll was held in conjunction with four referendum questions to amend the Australian constitution.
		Australians were asked to state their preference for a tune for a national song and once again Advance Australia Fair emerged as the most favoured.
	www.australianflag.org.au /nationalanthem.php (1002 words)

	Australian stuff
		Australian telephone numbers, at least prior to the touch-tone, programmable, email capable, text-message era, were digital-only.
		The Australian head of state is the Governor General, whose duties are mostly ceremonial.
		Australians just vote the members of political parties into office, and the majority party votes in the Prime Minister as leader.
	www.geocities.com /twin_spires/Australianisms.html (4718 words)

	HOWARD, JOHN WINSTON, Australian political leader. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Columbia Encyclopedia > Howard, John Winston, Australian political leader
		A graduate of Sydney Univ., a conservative lawyer, and a member of the Liberal party, he was elected to parliament in 1974 and served as minister for business and consumer affairs (1975–77) and treasurer (1977–83) in the government of Malcolm Fraser.
		He strongly supported retention of the British monarch as head of state in the 1999 referendum.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ho/HowardJo.html (119 words)

	Electoral Newsfile 84: Referendum 1999 Information Guide
		The Australian Electoral Commission's role at the referendum is to provide voting services to the electors of Australia to enable them to have their say on the proposed laws to alter the Constitution.
		Australians living or travelling overseas will be able to vote at approximately 100 different overseas locations including Australian embassies, consulates and high commissions or they will be able to vote by post.
		The referendum is carried only if it is approved by a majority of voters overall and a majority of voters in a majority of States, ie, in at least 4 of Australia's 6 States.
	www.aec.gov.au /_content/How/newsfiles/084/news84.htm (2074 words)

	The Monarchy
		Drawing on the campaign for a republic in Australia, Jim Bolger proposed a referendum in New Zealand and suggested that the turn of the century was an appropriate time symbolically for this country to break its remaining constitutional ties with Great Britain.
		Although the Australian referendum was lost by the advocates of a republic, support for change has been consistently stronger in Australia than in New Zealand.
		While either the success of a republican referendum in Australia or an unpopular succession to the throne may advance the republican cause in New Zealand, this chapter has shown that the most convincing arguments for change are demographic.
	www.geocities.com /noelcox/NZ_Monarchy_2.htm (4902 words)

	AAS Biographical Memoirs - Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988
		George was the grandson of Thomas Huxley and the grand nephew of another George Huxley from whom the famous biologists Thomas Henry Huxley (the prominent spokesman for Darwin and advocate of his new theory of evolution) and Julian Huxley were descended.
		The Committee on Australian Universities, chaired by Sir Keith Murray, had recommended that careful consideration should be given to the relationship between the existing Australian National University and the Canberra University College which, prior to 1960, had prepared students for the degree examinations of the University of Melbourne.
		Accordingly, he arranged for the Australians to attend as representatives of the Academy, and at the same time suggested the establishment of a committee, to be chaired by Huxley, to 'deal with questions of justification, telescope design, and Anglo-Australian co-operation'.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/aasmemoirs/huxley.htm (9100 words)

	Ancient heritage, modern society - Australia in Brief - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		In 1967 the Australian people voted overwhelmingly in a national referendum to give the federal government the power to pass legislation on behalf of Indigenous Australians and to include Indigenous Australians in future censuses.
		The referendum result was the culmination of a strong campaign by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
		It was widely seen as a strong affirmation of the Australian people’s wish to see its government take direct action to improve the living conditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
	www.dfat.gov.au /aib/history.html (1443 words)

	Australian Quotes & Notes - The Quotes - 1950 to the Present
		These changes can only be brought about by major efforts by the Australian government in maintaining and establishing a system of law and justice, in health, education and agriculture and technical training, and by bringing indigenous people into public administration and by membership of all political institutions.
		Australian women embraced the contraceptive pill from the mid-1960s and they were in charge of their own bodies as never before.
		In the event of a successful introduction which may be made or arranged by you, and provided the interest for a term does not exceed eight percent per annum in total, we would be prepared to pay a brokerage fee of two and a half percent deducted at the source to you and/or you nominees.
	www.australianquotes.com /quotes_1950-present.html (18674 words)

	CNN.com - IN-DEPTH: East Timor
		It was almost a year to the day that Australian troops had led the United Nations peacekeeping forces sent to the Indonesian province and Australians had taken the Timorese cause to their hearts.
		For Australians, a passionate sporting nation, the athletes embodied the fighting spirit of the East Timorese struggle for independence from their Indonesian masters.
		In 1989 Australian became one of only a handful of countries to extend formal recognition to East Timor’s incorporation as the 27th province of Indonesia.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/etimor/stories/un.html (674 words)

	AUSTRALIA: Ex-Prime Minister Ducks Questions on East Timor Invasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whitlam, who is revered by many as one of the great Australian social reformers, has doggedly refused to acknowledge that he erred in his support for Suharto or ignored East Timor's right to self-determination.
		This is despite numerous government documents and accounts from journalists and former diplomats pointing to Australian complicity in the invasion and the subsequent killings and famines that may have killed as many as 200,000 East Timorese or one-third of the population at the time..
		At the National Archives briefing, Whitlam reacted angrily when asked if at his 1974 meeting with Suharto he stated that his preference was that East Timor's future lay with Indonesia and that this should be achieved by way of an act of self-determination rather than through an invasion.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=26896 (1045 words)

	John Winston Howard, Australian political leader — FactMonster.com
		A graduate of Sydney Univ., a conservative lawyer, and a member of the Liberal party, he was elected to parliament in 1974 and served as minister for business and consumer affairs (1975–77) and treasurer (1977–83) in the government of Malcolm
		He retained power after the 1998, 2001, and 2004, elections, becoming the third Australian prime minister to win four terms.
		He strongly supported retention of the British monarch as head of state in the 1999 referendum, has opposed a formal national apology for Australia's mistreatment of the aborigines, and has increased Australia's involvement in the Asia-Pacific region.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0824338.html (180 words)

	Green Left - EAST TIMOR: The Indonesian-Australian invasion
		The centre was so convinced of the Australian government's support that it immediately began briefing the Australian embassy on its planned covert operations.
		This pretence was part of a greater pretence: that the Australian government supported democracy in the region in general.
		Howard and his foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer repeatedly assured the Australian people that they could rely on the Indonesian military to do the right thing in East Timor, even as the militia violence against East Timorese independence supporters was being broadcast on television sets worldwide.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2000/421/22753 (1113 words)

	Faith Bandler - Biographical Information
		At the age of 13, her father was kidnapped from the island of Ambrym, in what is known as Vanuatu, and brought to Australia to work as an unpaid labourer in the Queensland cane fields.
		Faith was also a founding member of the Federal Council for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, becoming the director of its referendum campaign in 1967, NSW State Secretary from 1962 to 1970 and General Secretary from 1970 to 1973.
		In 1974, Faith decided to direct her energies to the plight of her own people, the 16,000 descendants of South Sea Islanders.
	www.australianbiography.gov.au /bandler/bio.html (160 words)

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		You can spice it up by adding a handful of dried fruits, by topping it with some mustard and grated cheese or, if you've been bold enough to do it on a stick, by filling the hole where the stick was with jam.
		In a wonderful essay published at the time of the referendum which chose AAF as the anthem, some (forgotten by me) author made the point that Waltzing Matilda was much more appropriate.
		Twelve Australian women, from their sixties to their nineties, talk about their lives, and about being alive today.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/usenet/news.answers/australian-faq/part6 (11228 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| The road to a royal referendum
		The policy would form a core manifesto commitment, but "since 60 to 70% have consistently shown support this would not be a vote- winning tactic," says Mr Pimlott.
		Both Italy, in 1945, and Greece, in 1974, disposed of their monarchs through referendums.
		Were it not for the politicking, Mr Pimlott says a referendum could be a good idea.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/510125.stm (497 words)

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		1921 -1924 - The Australian commonwealth bank which was up to this point the "peoples" bank, manipulates on "the right to draw" Commonwealth notes without gold payment or security to eventually demand and force drawing rights of 31,000,000 pounds.
		1974 - Sept 25, Australian prime minister Whitlam devalues currency by 12% and links it to an average of other counties.
		The high court has done more than all the referendums have done in effecting these changes, and all without actually changing the written constitution { through "interpreted law" - sort of like "creative accounting"}.
	www.whale.to /b/dates2.html (2244 words)

	Australian History quiz -- free game
		Which of these men succeeded Sir Robert Menzies as Australian Prime Minister, and is remembered for his quote "All the way with L.B.J.", referring to the Australian involvement in Vietnam?
		In 1999, a referendum was held in Australia.
		At the Sydney Olympic Games, held in 2000, six famous Australian sportswomen carried the torch around the arena prior to Cathy Freeman lighting the Olympic Flame.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=92661 (635 words)

	soc.culture.australian FAQ (Part 6 of 6) (monthly posting) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In a period of just a few years, the Australians gave the world "Gallipoli," "Breaker Morant," "My Brilliant Career," "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith." Critics slavered over the output of directors like Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Fred Scepisi and Gillian Armstrong.
		The mighty Australian film industry faltered -- partly because of recession and unemployment but also because its proficient pool of talent opted for the bigger budgets and wider distribution offered by the studios." [Entries mostly taken from a Maltin's 1991 TV Movies and Video Guide.
		Careful, He Might Hear You Chain Reaction A Cry in the Dark: The Azaria Chamberlain story, with Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain Dawn The Devil's Playground The Fringe Dwellers The Getting of Wisdom Ground Zero Heatwave High Tide Kangaroo Sons and Lovers goes to Thirroul in NSW, where it's not nearly grimy and cold enough.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/australian-faq/part6 (11131 words)

	Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties [1974] ATS 2
		(b) failing such procedure, by the signature, signature ad referendum or initialling by the representatives of those States of the text of the treaty or of the Final Act of a conference incorporating the text.
		(b) the signature ad referendum of a treaty by a representative, if confirmed by his State, constitutes a full signature of the treaty.
		The expenses of the Commission shall be borne by the United Nations.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/dfat/treaties/1974/2.html (8550 words)

	Australian Constitution & Cyberspace: Landmarks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This page highlights key Australian legal developments, in particular those relating to the constitution and cyberspace.
		Cases are those in the High Court unless otherwise identified.
		1944 rejection of Commonwealth referendum on constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and religion
	www.caslon.com.au /constitutionprofile17.htm (1478 words)

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