Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0343; Australia With the Prime Minister
- Episode Number
- S0343
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-513tt4gd80
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- Description
- Episode Description
- In 1975 the Governor-General of Australia--who, as Mr. Buckley puts it, "is generally expected to do nothing more adventurous than escort visiting presidents and kings to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier"--dismissed the Prime Minister, Mr. Gough Whitlam, and appointed Mr. Fraser. One month later, the voters confirmed Governor Kerr's judgments by giving Mr. Fraser's party a landslide victory. Three years later he was in trouble in the polls, at least partly because, although his government had brought down the inflation it had inherited, it had not brought down unemployment. Today's conversation starts slowly, with Mr. Fraser a little inclined to evasion ("I think it's impertinent for me to make a judgment about the kinds of policies the United States ought to pursue." WFB: "We'd be very grateful, because ours aren't working"), but it improves as we go along, covering matters from economics, to Australia's participation in the World Wars and the Vietnam War, to the proper relations with authoritarian regimes such as Argentina's and Chile's. MF: "We're all affected by the world around us--what the United States can do, the physical power of the United States compared to the Soviet Union. Where does the weight of the hundreds of millions of Chinese fit into that particular equation? And Australia is a nation of 14 million people only, and small nations, I think, have to tread their paths with skill." Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1978-10-26
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Foreign relations; United States; Australia; Fraser, John Malcolm, 1930-
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Fraser, Malcom
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.588 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0343; Australia With the Prime Minister,” 1978-10-26, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 28, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-513tt4gd80.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0343; Australia With the Prime Minister.” 1978-10-26. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 28, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-513tt4gd80>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0343; Australia With the Prime Minister. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-513tt4gd80