This seemed doubly astounding to me-first thatĪustralia could just lose a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of this had never reached me. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. On my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, wherein I encountered the startling fact that inġ967 the prime minister, Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into the surf and vanished. My thinking is that there ought to be one person outside Australia who knows.īut then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. I am forever doing this with the Australian prime minister-committing the name to memory, forgetting it (generally more or less instantly), thenįeeling terribly guilty. Flying into Australia, I realized with a sigh that I had forgotten again who their prime minister is.
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