Heffron was 72 at the time of the election and his age and the longevity of the government were made issues by the Askin's opposition which described it as being composed of " tired old men ".

The Sydney metropolitan area at the time was marked by increasing strains on state infrastructure and Askin's Government's pro-development stance was largely attributed as an attempt to alleviate these problems.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > Askin's given name was Robin but he changed it legally to Robert in 1971, prior to being knighted in 1972.

Since his death in 1981, however, Askin's legacy has been tarnished by persistent unproven allegations that he was involved in organised crime and official corruption.

When Premier Cahill died on 22 October 1959, he was replaced by Askin's friend and parliamentary contemporary, Robert " Bob " Heffron, which tended to calm his aggression and opposition towards the government.

Askin's government was marked by strong opposition to an increase in Commonwealth powers, a tough stance on " law and order " issues, laissez-faire economic policies, and aggressive support for industrial and commercial development.

Despite these positive reforms, Askin's government maintained a brutal prison and corrective regime that was to culminate in the Bathurst Gaol riots in 1970 and 1974.

The most notable of these was the sensational article co-authored by David Marr and David Hickie, headlined " Askin: friend of organised crime ", which was famously published on the day of Askin's funeral in 1981.

This was followed by David Hickie's book " The Prince and The Premier ", which detailed Askin's long involvement in illegal bookmaking and the allegations that he had received substantial and long-running payoffs from organised crime figures.

He also alleged that, later in Askin's premiership, Abe Saffron became the " bagman " for Sydney's illegal liquor and prostitution rackets and most illegal gambling activities, collecting payoffs that were then passed to Askin, Allan and others, in return for which his father was completely protected.

Askin's last intervention was to support his Minister for Lands, Thomas Lewis, in his bid to be Askin's successor instead of the Deputy Leader and Minister for Education, Sir Eric Willis.

It was reported that Lewis had offered to upgrade Askin's knighthood from Knight Commander ( KCMG ) to Knight Grand Cross ( GCMG ) of the Order of St Michael and St George, while Willis was uncommitted.

The first article, headlined " Askin: friend of organised crime " was famously published on the day of Askin's funeral in 1981.

Following the ousting of Askin's successor, Tom Lewis, by the party, Willis was elected as the Parliamentary Leader of the Liberal Party and subsequently became Premier.

Upon Askin's retirement in January 1975, Willis was seen as the favourite to take the premiership.

Wayne was originally named Louella, after founder J. Henry Askin's daughters Louisa and Ella.

He was made the Premier of New South Wales following Askin's retirement from politics and held it until he was replaced by Willis in a party vote.

He began his interest in politics by assisting in Percy Spender's successful campaign for Askin's local seat of Warringah as an Independent candidate at the 1937 Federal election.

Citing an " impeccable " and highly-placed source within the illegal gaming empire established by Perc Galea, Hickie alleged that that Askin and his police commissioners, Allan and Hanson, were paid bribes amounting to 100, 000 per year from 1967 until Askin's retirement.

Askin's successful opposition campaign centred on warning of a Labor-dominated single house subject to " Communist and Trades Hall influence ".

With Askin's death, investigative journalists were freed from the threat of legal action under Australia's punitive defamation laws — unlike the United States, Australia has no constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and there is no precedent like that in US law that makes truth an absolute defence.

He has guest starred in series such as My Name Is Earl, Parenthood, and Parks and Recreation, and continues to work in films such as 28 Days, Deep Impact, Pushing Tin, Cedar Rapids, Leatherheads, The Perfect Man, Eat, Pray, Love, So Undercover, and R. I. P. D .. Mike is a published playwright of plays such as Three Years From Thirty and Diverting Devotion, and he recently adapted his play for Peter Askin's film Certainty, which will be released in the fall of 2012.

However, despite Askin's initial support, Willis refused his help, preferring to gain the leadership on his own merits.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

And for the first time a representative of the highest office in the land would have been liable to the charge that he had attempted to make it a successorship by inheritance.

`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.

Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.

Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

Soon the office work claimed all her time.

They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.

Around this time, the Alcott family set up a sort of domestic post office to curb potential domestic tension.

It was possibly at this time that Albert was made Arch-Chamberlain of the Empire, an office which afterwards gave the Margraves of Brandenburg the rights of a prince-elector.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

And they too could be removed from office at any time that the assembly met.

It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.

Around the same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

The system was slow by today's standards, but at the time the additional cost and complexity of networking on PC machines was such that it was common that Macs were the only networked personal computers in an office.

Although the duty of Abbreviators was originally to make abstracts and abridgments of the apostolic letters, diplomas, etc., using the legal abbreviations, clauses, and formularies, in course of time, as their office grew in importance they delegated that part of their office to their substitute and confined themselves to overseeing the proper expedition of the apostolic letters.

He spent considerable time in Dallas, at the campaign's local headquarters on Lemmon Avenue, where he had an office.

Paul Yandura, speaking for the White House gay and lesbian liaison office, said that Clinton's signing of DOMA " was a political decision that they made at the time of a re-election.

The Movie has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.