Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

The Governor-General Lord Casey sent for the Country Party leader and Coalition Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, and he was sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Liberals elected a new leader.

In the interim, on 19 December, McEwen was sworn in as Prime Minister on the understanding that his commission would continue only until such time as the Liberals could elect a new leader.

With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

This was the period of the Country Party's greatest power, as was demonstrated in 1962 when McEwen was able to insist that Menzies sack a Liberal Minister who claimed that Britain's entry into the European Economic Community was unlikely to severely impact on the Australian economy as a whole.

McEwen was sworn in as an interim Prime Minister pending the election of the new Liberal leader.

McEwen was prime minister for 23 days, until the election of ( then Senator ) John Gorton.

* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).

McEwen agreed to accept an interim appointment provided there was no formal statement of time limit.

He was elected party leader on 9 January 1968, and appointed Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

Sir John " Black Jack " McEwen, GCMG, CH ( 29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980 ), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.

McEwen was born at Chiltern, Victoria to David James McEwen ( died 1907 ), a pharmacist from Ireland, and his second wife Amy Ellen ( née Porter ; died 1901 ).

McEwen was orphaned at an early age and raised by his grandmother.

When Menzies ' successor, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead on 19 December 1967, the Governor-General Lord Casey sent for McEwen and he was sworn in as Prime Minister, on the understanding that his commission would continue only so long as it took for the Liberals to elect a new leader.

Approaching 68, McEwen was the oldest person ever to be appointed Prime Minister of Australia, although not the oldest to serve ; Menzies left office two months after his 71st birthday.

But more importantly, McEwen was bitterly opposed to McMahon on political grounds, because McMahon was allied with free trade advocates in the conservative parties and favoured sweeping tariff reforms: a position that was vehemently opposed by McEwen, his Country Party colleagues and their rural constituents.

After his defeat, McEwen remained active in politics, but press accounts said he spent most of his time in the Washington, D. C., area residing in northern Virginia.

* John McEwen ( CP ) Deputy Prime Minister, leader of the Country Party, Minister for Trade and Industry

On the morning of 18 December Country Party leader John McEwen publicly declared that neither he nor his Country Party colleagues would serve in a Coalition if the deputy Liberal leader William McMahon were elected as Liberal leader.

The governor-general, Lord Casey, commissioned the Leader of the Country Party, John McEwen, to form a government until the Liberal Party elected a new leader.

However, on 18 December, the Country Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen announced that the Country Party would not continue to serve in the coalition if McMahon were to be the new Liberal leader.

However, John McEwen, interim Prime Minister and leader of the Country Party, announced that he and his party would not serve in a government led by McMahon.

In January 1971, McEwen retired as Country Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister.

In 1958 Fadden retired and McEwen succeeded him as Country Party leader.

However, McEwen sparked a leadership crisis when he announced that he and his Country Party colleagues would refuse to serve in a government led by McMahon.

When Archie Cameron resigned suddenly as Country Party leader in 1940, there was a deadlock between Earle Page and John McEwen in the ballot to select a new leader, and Fadden was chosen as a compromise candidate.

He was the only member of the Country Party to serve as Prime Minister in his own right ; the other two Country Party Prime Ministers, Page and McEwen, served as caretakers.

Casey could have commissioned the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, William McMahon, as acting Prime Minister or Caretaker prime minister, but instead he appointed John McEwen, the leader of Liberals ' coalition partner, the Country Party.

Hudson says ( in his 1986 book Casey ) that Casey was concerned to preserve the Liberal-Country Party coalition, and that he knew ( because McEwen had told him ) that the Country Party would not serve under McMahon.

It was obvious that the Country Party leader, John McEwen, was grooming Anthony to succeed him.

He and Doug Anthony were seen as the most likely successors to the veteran Country Party leader John McEwen, but when McEwen retired in 1971, it was Anthony who was elected party Leader, while Sinclair was elected Deputy Leader, becoming at the same time Minister for Primary Industry.

The sworn office of Deputy Prime Minister was created in January 1968, as an honour for John McEwen, the long-serving leader of the Country Party ( later renamed the National Party ) and the immediately preceding caretaker Prime Minister.

The Governor-General Lord Casey swore McEwen in as Prime Minister, on an interim basis pending the Liberal Party electing its new leader.

The Liberal Party elected John Gorton, then a Senator, as its new leader, and he was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January 1968 ( following an interim ministry led by John McEwen ).

McEwen refused to give his reasons, saying only that McMahon knew what they were.

* T. McEwen junior, Scottish Motorcycle Speed Champion, the championships held on the West Sands, St Andrews on Saturday.

Sir John McEwen Prime Minister of Australia 1967-68.

Fadden's successor, Trade Minister John McEwen, took the then unusual step of declining to serve as Treasurer, believing he could better ensure that the interests of Australian primary producers were safeguarded.

McEwen thus became the longest-tenured member of the government, with the informal right to veto government policy.

The most significant instance that McEwen exercised this came when Holt disappeared in December 1967.

As a result, McEwen told the Liberals that he and his party would not serve under McMahon.

It would be only after McEwen announced his retirement that MacMahon would be able to successfully challenge Gorton for the Liberal leadership.

* March 29 – John McEwen, Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1980 )