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Japan becomes Australia’s largest overseas export market. Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin is the first woman to become a federal minister
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Federal legislation allows Aboriginal peoples to vote in federal elections under certain conditions
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ALP government is elected to office on 2 December, Gough Whitlam becomes prime minister
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Melbourne hosts the Olympic games.
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Oral contraceptives for women are commercially available
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Aboriginal people are given the vote in federal elections
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Referendum to count Aboriginal people in the census and to allow the Commonwealth to make laws for them; referendum has the highest majority ever
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Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch is published
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Anti-apartheid demonstrations are held during the South African Springbok rugby tour in Australia.
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Woodward Royal Commission on Aboriginal land rights recommends limited land rights
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Federal Racial Discrimination Act comes into operation.
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Major growth in trade with Asian countries
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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivers a general national apology to the Stolen Generations.
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First atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima Japan on 6th August. End of World II