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Australia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In the same month the new Labor prime minister John Curtin made his famous appeal to the USA for help – an appeal that was interpreted by some as the severing of the link with Britain. |
 | | It had been expected that large-scale immigration would relieve the labour shortage, but by creating new demands, notably in housing, schools, and hospitals, it aggravated the situation and was one of the contributing factors to post-war inflation, which reached a crisis point in 1951. |
 | | A new trade agreement between the two countries in 1957 had safeguarded the preferences laid down by the Ottawa agreements of 1932, and many Australians considered that British membership of the EEC would imperil Australia's economy and entail the dissolution of the British Commonwealth. |
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