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Adelaide Festival
First Adelaide Festival of Arts held in march -
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Adelaide Festival
First Adelaide festival of arts held in march -
Big Dish, Contraceptive pill
World second big Dish radio telescope opened at parkes, NSW. Oral contraceptive pill approved for distribution in Australia -
Commonwealth Electoral Act, female queen
Act extended rights to enrol and vote to all indigenous australians. Roma Mitchell appointed as australias first female queens counsel. -
australias population
population of australia raised to 11 million -
The beatles tour, national daily newspaper
Beatles tours in australia, national daily newspaper launced. -
Racial disrimination, mini skirt, Vietnam war
NSW in protest against racial discrimination. mini skirt skandal.Australia commits troops to war in vietnam to support US forces -
Robert Menzies, phohibit of indigenous discrimination
Robert menzies retires, south australia phohibits indigenous discrimination -
Australian Referendum, Harold Holt
Australian referendum suppots giving the commonwealth power to legislate for aboriginal people, priminister harold holt dissapears while swimming. -
News ltd's newspaper house
Fire destroys Ltd's newspaper house on north terrace, adelaide -
Commonwealth arbitration commision, vietnam war
the acceptance of principle of equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender, protests against australias involvement in vietnam war -
First pope to ever visit australia
Pope paul VI is the first pope to visit australia