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- <title>
- Mar. 09, 1992: World Notes:Australia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 09, 1992 Fighting the Backlash Against Feminism
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- AUSTRALIA
- Those Wild Colonial Boys
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Prime Minister Paul Keating started it, that's for sure.
- First he violated protocol by putting his arm on Queen Elizabeth's
- back during her visit to Australia last week. Then he hinted
- that the country might become a republic, which would end the
- Queen's role as head of state.
- </p>
- <p> Britain's rowdy tabloids had a field day, with headlines
- like HANDS ORF, COBBER! and Australian political foes accused
- him of disrespect. Keating retorted that he had learned
- "self-regard for Australia, and not some cultural cringe" toward
- Britain. He repeated the hoary complaint that Britain's swift
- loss of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942 had left Australia
- defenseless.
- </p>
- <p> In London, British Defense Secretary Tom King called
- Keating's charge "historically quite inaccurate." Keating's
- rudeness, snapped Terry Dicks, a Conservative, was unsurprising
- in "a country of ex-convicts," a reference to the British penal
- colonies started there in the 18th century. The Labor Party's
- Ted Leadbitter denounced Keating as "an utter buffoon." The
- Queen let it be known she would have no comment.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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