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This article focuses on socio-political issues as of 1909. The reorganization of the Austrian Cabinet has followed upon the recent adjournment of the Reichsrath amidst a glory of flying inkstands, fisticuffs, and objurgations unusual even for the Parliament of Cisleithania. Baron von Bienerth remains Prime Minister and keeps his Ministers of Interior and Defense. All the other portfolios have been distributed among representatives of the pacific nationalities and parties. Trial by jury reaches its acme of absurdity in the case of the murderers of Senator Edward Ward Carmack, now proceeding at Nashville After more than three weeks of elimination of the intelligent, a jury was found on Saturday which contains four absolute illiterates, two others who can barely read, while all twelve swear that they have not read a newspaper since the shooting.

The article offers information on the International Committee for Scientific Management (CIOS) and its responsibilities. Albrecht M. Lederer was appointed as chairman of the organization during the 12th international congress of CIOS in 1960 in Australia. CIOS is reportedly responsible in disseminating managerial knowledge around the world. It also designates the International Academy of Management to refine and standardize the meaning of the terms "operations research and "work study" and "formologies."

The article discusses the trend in which U.S. companies has been using Australia as an export base and a jumping-off place for selling to the sterling area as indicated in the case of W.A. Sheaffer Co. who pioneered in tapping Southeast Asian markets from an Australian base. It details the factors attributed to the success of W.A. Sheaffer, including quick cooperation from the government, proximity to consumer markets, and having a ready market for pencils and pens. It also discusses the continuous increase in the drive for export sales.

Focuses on the war experience of a U.S. soldier. Incidence related to the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor, Hawaii; Action of the soldier and his battalion against the attack; Expedition of the soldier in Australia; Encounter between the soldier and a good-looking girl; Details of a Koala Bear presented to the soldier by the girl; Attack on the ship of the soldier in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea; Relation between the soldier and the Koala bear.

This article presents information on political conditions in the world during 1895. North Carolina has now a Republican as one of her Senators at Washington for the first time in nearly twenty-two years. John Pool, the last representative of the party during the reconstruction era, retired on March 4, 1873, and both seats have since then been filled by Democrats. The Italians seem to be having a hard time of it in their colony of Eritrea, where they are at war with both Christians and Mohammedans, the Mahdists and the Abyssinians. The article also talks about new taxation which the colonies of Australia are proposing.

This article focuses on the political developments in various parts of the world. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's earnest efforts in behalf of a settlement at Niagara have earned him the gratitude of friends of peace. The habit of sneering at the Administration's policy of watchful waiting has not died out. Australia has been having her trouble over a labor-preference bill, though of an order the reverse. In two successive sessions of the Common Wealth Parliament, the Government have passed through the House a bill forbidding the preferring of trade unionists in employment on public works.

More than seventy years ago the Australian Audubon arrived in Australia with a mission to observe, capture, and describe the birds indigenous to the island-continent. Originally an undergardener at Windsor Castle, John Gould was no novice in ornithological science. He had published "European Birds" that gave him a European reputation. He was now to reap still more glorious laurels. So completely did he accomplish his task that subsequent observers have added but little to the achievement. While Gould, between 1838 and 1840, described 682 species, another alien, Gracius Broinowski, only twenty years ago, described but 700. To this date only 800 species have been recorded.

The article reports on the latest developments in the international business situation amidst the second world war as of October 1942. In the United Nations front, U.S. shipyards manufactured nearly a million tons of freighters and heavy tankers in September 1942, in addition to the ships being constructed in Canada, Australia, Great Britain and India. In the Axis front, Japan is experiencing production issues and is not expected to launch over 600,000 tons of merchant vessels in 1942.

The article reports that mining of gold has never suppressed, not even after the Great Depression. It states that the value of gold has increased in Australia and Canada, by the suspension of gold standards. It mentions that Lake Shore Mines, Canada, produced 9 million dollars of gold, during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 1931, and is now producing at the rate of 12 million dollars a year.

In Australia there is the apparently anomalous situation of a highly developed labor group with extensive economic and political power, in a laud that is in a low state of industrial development. The first labor supply in the land was convict to a very considerable extent, but it must be recalled that the country was not developed in an intensive fashion until after the gold rushes of the fifties. The strategy of Australian labor has always been based on the lack of surplus population. Intensive organization of a small population and a careful limitation of immigration is at the basis of every success it has made. Furthermore, Australian labor leaders have never been faced with the task of organizing groups other than British in racial composition.

The article provides world news briefs. The importance of the victory of the Battle of the Coral Sea in Australia against the Japanese army is discussed. The Allied occupation of Madagascar and the consequences if Japan had succeeded in taking it are considered. The periodical "New Republic" expresses its beliefs about the U.S. State Department's policy toward Vichy France.

The article presents information on various literary publications. The Hubbard Publishing Co., Philadelphia sent several parts of 'Picturesque Hawaii,' of which there will be eight in all. The second number of the Bulletin of the Geographical Club of Philadelphia contains an account of a journey to the Grand Falls of Labrador by Henry G. Bryant. These are situated about two hundred and twenty miles from the mouth of the Grand River on the southern edge of the great central plateau. The article on Australia, with which the Scottish Geographical Magazine for April opens, is by Miss Flora L. Shaw, the special correspondent of the London Times.

The article presents information about various publications and books. T.Y. Crowell & Co. will undertake a complete edition of the works of George Eliot with illustrations. The Fleming H. Revell Co. will issue shortly "The Growth and Development of the English Printed Bible," by Richard Lovett and "Social Life Among the Assyrians and Babylonians," by A. H. Sayce. Lovell, Coryell & Co. have in preparation a new collection of stories, principally of Australian life and character. It is titled "My Friend the Murderer, and Other Mysteries and Adventures," by A. Conan Doyle.

The article focuses on the political and governmental leadership of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in Australia. It reports on the victory attained by the Australian Labor Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister Whitlam, during the said election in December 1972. Meanwhile, the Australian Prime Minister has sent a message to U.S. President Richard M. Nixon depicting his strong opposition in the bombings happened in Vietnam in December 1972. Furthermore, the Prime Minister has also made diplomatic relations with other countries including North Vietnam, China, and East Germany.

The article presents the author's experience of visiting Australia. It discusses the climate, wild life, art and politics of the country. The politics seemed to the visitor singularly placid. Candidates for parliament are selected by caucus of the principal parties, therefore, only those who have served long apprenticeships of loyal party service have a practical chance to assume positions of power. Without any primary system whereby the young can challenge the senior party regular, politics develops into a contest between experienced professionals.

To the Western world, preoccupied with the problems posed by sputniks, disarmament, NATO and North Africa, the sudden crisis which has arisen in the Western Pacific over the Indonesian claim to that part of New Guinea which is administered by the Dutch seems a tiresome irrelevance, a side issue and a nuisance. To Australians who are responsible for the other half of New Guinea, the situation is charged with potential dangers which they fear are not appreciated elsewhere — a crisis on their immediate borders which puts their whole foreign policy in Asia to a sharp test.

Seven hundred capitalists is a lot of capitalists to see at once. They are members of the blue-serge and gray-flannel and pin-stripe international, just like the people in the corridors of the U.N. or in any professional, technical or administrative convention the world over, including the other side of the Iron Curtain. The so-called free world seems to be divided pretty clearly into three groups. First are the United States of America, Canada and Australia, the other predominantly white or white-governed Dominions, Latin America and, to a much lesser degree, Great Britain itself.

The article summarizes the business activity in several countries in 1936. Australia has set import quotas on U.S. automotive equipment. Business activity in Canada rose by 5% as executives are more optimistic with the budget. In Germany, construction contracts rose, unemployment fell, and the tourism industry is expected to the benefit from the Olympic Games to be held in Berlin.

The article previews the Challenge Round match between Australia and the U.S. Davis Cup tennis teams. According to the author, before the U.S. can meet Australia, they need to get past the team from Sweden comprise of Sven Davidson and Lennart Bergelin. The author states that the Americans are favored over the Swedes because American Vic Seixas has won the U.S. Open title and Tony Travert is also a former U.S. Open champion. He adds that the U.S. team is also likely to defeat Australia.