CONSERVATIVES WIN AUSTRALIA ELECTIONS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Prime Minister Paul Keating's dream of having an Australian president open the 2000 Summer Olympics - not Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth, or Elizabeth, may refer to: Living people
Bohemia John Howard's conservative coalition scored a landslide victory In politics, a landslide victory (or just a landslide) is the victory of a candidate or political party by an overwhelming majority in an election. Landslides can occur when one candidate or party is perceived as far superior to its opponents, through unfair over the Labor Party in parliamentary elections as Australians rejected Keating's grand visions of a republic and greater links with Asia in favor of pocketbook issues. Voters also apparently felt Labor had become stale and arrogant - particularly the 52-year-old Keating, who is often criticized for having an abrasive, imperial style. Labor had governed for 13 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time last four under Keating. Howard, who calls himself "an ordinary Australian bloke," targeted his campaign at ordinary Australians, particularly families and small businesses. Keating painted a big picture of greater links with neighboring Asia and a plan to sever TO SEVER, practice. When defendants who are sued jointly have separate defences, they may in general sever, that is, each one rely on his own separate defence; each may plead severally and insist on his own separate plea. See Severance. Australia's links with the British monarchy This article is about the monarchy of the United Kingdom, one of sixteen that share a common monarch; for information about this constitutional relationship, see Commonwealth realm; for information on the reigning monarch, see Elizabeth II. . He wanted to declare the country a republic with an Australian head of state by 2000, when Sydney hosts the Summer Olympics. Australia is an independent country, but like several other former British colonies, it retains the British monarch as ceremonial head of state. Howard, a monarchist mon·ar·chism n. 1. The system or principles of monarchy. 2. Belief in or advocacy of monarchy. mon , has pledged to let Australian voters choose between the monarch or a republic, but he's in no hurry to decide the matter. Instead he advocated tax changes, support for families and a plan to cut the power of labor unions, which have been major allies for Keating. He spent the campaign hammering at the widening gap between rich and poor, and the stubbornly high unemployment rate of over 8 percent. "We have been elected with a mandate, a very powerful mandate," Howard, 56, said in his victory speech. "I am very conscious of the enormous responsibility placed upon me and my colleagues by the verdict of the Australian people today," he told cheering supporters. |
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