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YELLOW FLOWERS IN THE ANTIPODEAN ROOM by Janet Frame. 248 pages. Braziller...
...emotionally and economically. Australians whose families had left Britain generations before still referred to England as "home," still looked to London for their literary, social and international opinions, and if they sometimes rejected this guidance were still marked by it. Remote and provincial, a kind of British fly in Antipodean amber, Australia was a complacent mixture of Victorian respectability at the upper levels and a rough-and-ready bush socialism below...
This, on the testimony of Robert Graves (in 'Lars Porsena' or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language), is an antipodean ballad in which is celebrated Australia's addiction to a certain adjective which goes as profanity in Britain, i.e., "bloody." The lines more or less tell the story of Rogue Yates, a relentlessly robust novel in a little-known genre-the Australian western. Author Ronan's sunburnt bloody stockman is a dwarfish near-albino of repulsive appearance and character, named Tony Yates. His father, an ex-convict, used to beat his gin-sodden mother with...
...London Economist lent its weight to the Australians' complaint in an article titled "Aboriginals in Fleet Street." "The Queen's otherwise triumphal passage [is being] marred by something for which neither royalty nor antipodean affection can be blamed. The fault [lies] with certain London daily newspapers . . . Several correspondents covering the tour have expressed the hope that they could return at leisure and really learn something. It might pay their employers to help them...
...Ming"-antipodean lingo for Prime Minister Robert Menzies-had made an election promise last fall to outlaw the Communist Party. The defiant Reds had called quickie strikes on the Melbourne and Brisbane waterfronts, tied up shipments of wool and meat abroad. A fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...