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This is a house made in the 1960's. It was valued at $17000 back then, but now it would probably be worth around $700000.
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This is a telephone from the 1960's. The communication is the same as it is today, but not as good.
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This was the worlds first halogen lamp.
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First adelaide festival.
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Crown-of-thorns starfish begins ravaging the Great Barrier Reef
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This is a kitchen from the 1960's. The hoome appliances in the kitchen are much less modern than the ones today
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The last tram that ran in sydney.
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Comulsary national service for men ends.
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First tied cricket test Australia vs West indies at The Gabba.
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Federal Government directs all future TV commercials to be made in Australia
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Australia started to sell wheat to Communist China.
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Last tram runs from La Perousse to Randwick workshops
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Stephen Leslie Bradley sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of kidnap victim Graeme Thorne July 1960.
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The world’s second ‘big dish’ radio telescope opened at Parkes, New South Wales.
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Oral contraceptive pill approved for distribution in Australia.
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Valium was invented.
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Woman fined for being "unsuitably dressed" wearing a bikini at Bondi Beach.
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Obstetrician Dr William McBride confirms the anti nausea drug thalidomide is linked to birth defects.
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Busfhires rage through the Great Divide and the Dandenong Ranges on the edge of Melboune, killing 8 people and destroying hundreds of houses.
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As Astronaut John Glenn circles the Earth, the city of Perth turns on its lights. "I can see the outline of a town and a very bright light just to the south of it." Glenn dubs Perth "The City of Lights".
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Australia tallest building opens, the 25-storey AMP building.
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Australia begins involvement in Vietnam
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The Southern Aurora arrives from Sydney on the new uniform-gauge line that now links the 2 states
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Federal Government bans drug thalidomide
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The audio cassette was invented. This was a progress in technology.
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Prince Philip opens the Commonwealth Games. Australia's medal tally at the end of the games is 38, the highest score for any one country in Commonwealth Games' history.
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Philip Magalnir becomes the first Australian Aborigine to vote under the new Commonwealth electoral laws granting voting rights to Aborigines
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Australia orders the F-111 bomber
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The video disk invented.
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Aboriginal leader Pastor Doug Nicholls leads the fight against the closure of the Lake Tyers.
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On the 3rd of June, 1963, occurred the death that stunned the whole world. This death was something that changed the whole world and their perspectives of christianity. People people of Australia started to become confused about how strong their religion was and weather the religion that they were in is he right one. This event was the shocking death of Pope John XXIII.
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First stage of the Ord River irrigation project, the dam at Kununurra, opens. WA.
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Australia becomes the first nation to endorse the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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The Australian scientist Sir John Carew Eccles is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on the central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
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Menzies becomes the first Party leader to make his policy speech on TV.
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Police evict the Mapoon community on Cape York Peninsula and raze community buildings to allow bauxite mining. This becomes the focus for the growing issues of aboriginal land rights.
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Royal Commission into the Voyager disaster opens.
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The Melbourne - Voyager disaster
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Miniskirts were in.
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Acrylic paint invented.
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The first tour of the beatles to Australia. In Adelaid.
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Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre.
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Television in 1964. It was black and white, and looked like a box.
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National Service reintroduced
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Queensland Government declares a state of emergency in an attempt to end an industrial dispute at Mt Isa mines.
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The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies resigns after 16 straight years in office. Harold Holt succeeds him.
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soft contact lenses were created in this year.
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The girls were into the long coats with a skirt upto their knees.The mens were still wearing th suits.
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Prime Minister Menzies declares that Australia is at war with Vietnam.
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Dawn Fraser becomes youngest person to be named Australian of the Year.
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Lake Burley Griffin official opened.
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Nutra Sweet was created.
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The Australian ballet Company takes 49 curtain calls after its overseas debut.
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The people in 1965 were into the old school rock and country music.
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The first hydrofoil ferry service begins.
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Electronic Fuel injection for cars were inevented.
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Poeple in 1966 were still into the rock and country. Artists like jackson Browne were very popular back then.
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The women were into the short dresses that went upto their thighs.
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Joern Utzon quits the construction of the Sydney Opera House.
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Apartment blocks started to become popular in 66.
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The kitchens are very basic and they didnt have electric ovens, they used gas stoves.
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Australia changes over to decimal currency.
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200 hundred aborigines employed on the Wave Hill cattle station go on strike claiming a wage of $50 a week.
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Home appliances are abit better, but they are still the same as the previous years. Not much improvment.
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Handheld calculator was invented.
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Tasmanian bushfires.
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Homes were much older and much cheaper than they are now.
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The trend back then was long skirts, and blazers and tops.
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706L GPL telephone was the common house hold phone that people used.
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Transport was the same as is now, but not as good.
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The Federal Government announces it will set up the Office of Aboriginal Affairs.
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Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found
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The computer mouse was invented
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The RAM was invented
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john Grey Gorton sworn in as Australia's 19th Prime Minister after Harold's Holt's disappearance
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Transportation was muchly improved.
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Leather boots were in trend.
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Lionel Rose wins the Bantamweight world boxing championship after defeating Masahiko "Fighting" Harada.
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British comedian Tony Hancock found dead in his flat after overdose of barbiturates and alcohol.
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Opening of the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Pop music was big.
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Arpanet was invented. The first internet.
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The artificial heart was created.
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The bar code scanner was created.
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The ATM was invented
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Fashion in 1969 is the same as it was the past couple of years.
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The music was getting into the disco music and still into pop.
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Houses started to become more modern, but still had that 60's look.
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Ill-fated aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts an American destroyer in half in the South China Sea, killing at least 56 American sailors.
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Artist Norman Lindsay dies at 90.
