By the 1980s, Suharto's grip on power was maintained by the emasculation of civil society, engineered elections, and use of the military's coercive powers. Upon his retirement from the military in Jun ...
Suharto (About this sound pronunciation (help·info); 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was the second President of Indonesia, holding the office for 31 years from Sukarno's ouster in 1967 until his res ...
The Indonesian Presidency was established during the formulation of the 1945 Constitution by the Committee for Preparatory Work for Indonesian Independence (BPUPKI). The office was first filled on 18 ...
The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to 700 oil wells as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 after conquering the country but being dri ...
Shortly afterwards, the U.S. VII Corps, in full strength and spearheaded by the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, launched an armored attack into Iraq early on 24 February, just to the west of Kuwait, tak ...
The following names have been used to describe the conflict itself:Gulf War and Persian Gulf War have been the most common terms for the conflict used within western countries. These names have been u ...
In 1901, when the six British colonies in Australia federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne and Sydney were the two largest cities in the country, but the long history of rivalry be ...
The bicentennial year of Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, and the founding of the city of Sydney and the colony of New South Wales. 1988 ...
Prior to the publication of Keynes's General Theory, mainstream economic thought held that a state of general equilibrium existed in the economy: because the needs of consumers are always greater than ...
House of Reps (IRV) — 1983–84—Turnout 94.64% (CV) — Informal 2.09% Party Votes % Swing Seats Change Australian Labor Party 4,297,392 49.48 +4.34 75 +24 Liberal Party of Australia 2,983,986 34.36 ...
Hawke was born in Bordertown, South Australia to Clem, a Congregationalist minister, and his wife Edith (known as Ellie), a schoolteacher. His uncle, Albert, was the Labor Premier of Western Australia ...
The Greens were in a formal alliance with the Australian Labor Party in the Tasmanian Parliament under the Bartlett and Giddings governments between 2010 and 2014, and signed a formal agreement with t ...
The Australian Greens are part of the global "green politics" movement. The charter of the Australian Greens identifies the following as the four pillars of the party's policy: "social justice", "sust ...
At a political level, the most influential organisation is the Australian Greens. In recent years the Greens have at times held the balance of power in the Australian Senate. The strongest areas of fo ...
The Australian Democrats' electoral fortunes have fluctuated throughout their history.During the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments (1983–96), the Australian Democrats held a theoretical balance of ...
