Popular Culture

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    Popular Culture

  • World War II ends

  • New Immigration policy

  • General Motors produces Holden "Australia's own car''

  • First Australian tv broadcast

  • Melbourne Olympics

  • First ever televised political debate = John F Kennedy v Richard Nixon

  • Australia win 38 medals at the commonwealth games

  • John F Kennedy assassinated

  • The Beatles touched down in australia

  • Prime minister commits Australian troops to fight in Vietnam

  • Ronald Ryan becomes the last person to be executed in Australia

  • More than 90% of Australians vote in favour of including indigenous Australians on the census

  • Harold Holt disappears while swimming and is presumed dead

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

  • Australia qualifies for the FIFA World Cup

  • AC/DC release their album Back in Black

  • Neighbours first airs

  • Sydney hosts the olmypics