Major Events in the 1960s

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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