1960s

By John_Manalo
  • Period: to

    1960

  • 2nd Logie awards are held, but not televised

    2nd Logie awards are held, but not televised

  • First Adelaid festival is held

    First Adelaid festival is held

  • Stilletos are widley popular at the time due to popular music

  • Communication

    Australians have used the telephone as the first form of contact

  • Music

    Classical music was popular

  • Hotels and theatres open for the first time on Anzac Day

  • Last Hobart tram runs

  • Hi Jinx, wins melbourne cup. Odds were 50 to 1

    Hi Jinx, wins melbourne cup. Odds were 50 to 1

  • "Australian Ballet" is founded

  • "Four Corners" is premiered on ABC TV

  • NSW national team, wins Sheffield sheild

  • Australia to sell wheat to Communist China

  • Last electric tram service runs in Sydney

  • Constructions begin for Australian square. Said to be a 7 year building process

  • First Parkes Radiotelescope oppened by govenor general

  • Songs "i'm gonna knock on your door" by Eddie hodges ranked #1 for 1961

  • Woman fined for being "unsuitably dressed" wearing a bikini at Bondi Beach

  • Perth dubbed "city of lights", influenced by Atronaught John Glenn

  • Steve Irwin is born

  • Cahil Expressway is finally completed

  • Australia wins a total of 38 at commenwealth games

  • The Red Sales aerobatic team, flying Vampire jets, crashes in practice, killing six people

  • First production performed by Australian Ballet: Swan Lake

  • "Working The Man" by roy orbison is named #1 single for 1962

  • Council House, Perth is oppened

  • First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, Ivan Skripov, is expelled as a spy

  • Short films are shot in australia, submitted at venice film festival

  • Beatles tour Australia

  • Brittish milliary nuclear testing grounds at maralinga is ceased

  • Australia becomes the first nation to endorse the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  • John Carew Eccles is given Australian Of The Year award

  • Double Decker Trams are tested on sydney rail network

  • Mary Quant introduces mini skirt

  • Maquarie University is founded

  • Robert Vagg sets world record for men's marathon

  • First Issue of "The Australian" is printed, first nationwide newpaper

  • World Largest Concrete Arch is oppened

  • Queensland Government declares a state of emergency in an attempt to end an industrial dispute at Mt Isa mines.

  • Rolling stones tour australia

  • Dawn Frasier becomes youngest reciever of australian of the year award

  • Australian ballet finds succes overseas, receiving 49 curtain calls in total

  • Official Opening of captain cook bridge

  • First Hydroboil ferry is introduced in sydney

  • Prime Minister Menzies commits Australian troops to fight in Vietnam.

  • Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre

  • Roma Mitchell is Australia's first woman judge, after her appointment to the South Australian Supreme Court Bench

  • The Beatles latest album "A hard day's night", topps charts

  • The first Australian conscripts fly out for Vietnam. Anti-conscription and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators could not get near the RAAF base at Richmond

  • The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies resigns after 16 straight years in office. Harold Holt succeeds him

  • Australia changes over to decimal currency

  • The Beaumont children, Jane, Arnna & Grant disappear from the suburb of Glenelg

  • Joern Utzon quits the construction of the Sydney Opera House

  • Australia's first satellite communications earth station opens at Carnarvon in WA

  • The first edition of the pop magazine Go-Set is published in Melbourne

  • John Urtzon rerited from work on the sydney opera house, dispite initial concept

  • Harry Chan elected first ethnic Chinese mayor

  • The Manchester United football team tours Australia.

  • The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service is established.

  • Australia Square Tower, Australia's first true skyscraper, is completed.

  • Ronald Ryan becomes last man hang, leads to abolition of the death penalty

  • First batch of students enter maquarie university

  • The postcode system of postal address coding is introduced throughout Australia

  • Australia unlinks the Australian dollar from British currency, when the British government makes a decision to devalue the pound sterling

  • Australia's first satellite, WRESAT, is launched on an American Redstone rocket from Woomera, South Australia

  • Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found

  • Canberra: John Grey Gorton sworn in as Australia's 19th Prime Minister after Harold's Holt's disappearance

  • The Seekers are named Australians of the Year for 1967.

  • Boxer Lionel Rose beats Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo to become world bantamweight champion.

  • Three Australian journalists are killed by the Viet Cong in Saigon.

  • The town of Meckering, Western Australia, is badly damaged by an earthquake.

  • Mike Wenden wins his second gold medal at the Olympics for the 200 metres freestyle

  • Melbourne: Opening of the National Gallery of Victoria

  • Opening of musical Hair with controversial 30 second nudity scene

  • Sir Paul Hasluck becomes Governor-General of Australia after the retirement of Lord Casey.

  • NASA switches the main transmission feed of the Apollo 11 moon landing to Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Canberra, then Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, which then broadcasts the mission to the world.

  • Prime Minister John Gorton announces that a withdrawal of Australian Army troops from the Vietnam War would begin in 1970.