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When he took up the role, Australia was boosting its exports to Korea after the latter's rapid industrialisation. He oversaw an increase from A$ 8 million in 1966/7 to A$ 36 million during 1971/72, which after
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published by Rising Sun Press, which from 1952 to 1956 irregularly issued seven 64-page numbers offering short stories, essays, humour, and critical reviews of paintings, plays, books and films.
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who in 1969 had made it a subpost staffed by a marketing officer. Fennessy was selected for his military record, and his journalism in
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of business visitors, accelerated by coal and iron ore sales, despite perceptions that Korea was a culturally and commercially ‘difficult,’ though increasingly major, market.
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