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Compulsory national service training for men ends.
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Federal Government directs all future TV commercials to be made in Australia
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Australia to sell wheat to Communist China
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Philip Magalnir becomes the first Australian Aborigine to vote under the new Commonwealth electoral laws granting voting rights to Aborigines
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Australia becomes the first nation to endorse the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Menzies becomes the first Party leader to make his policy speech on TV
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Judy Hanrahan becomes the first woman teller appointed by the Bank of NSW since the war. This was a big step in closing the gap between the rightd of men and women.
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Canberra: Federal Government fails to ratify the ILO convention on equal pay for women. This is a major blow for qomen who were fighting for equality
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Prime Minister Robert Menzies commits Australian troop to help fight the war in Vietnam. This was done in support of the U.S. and other countries fight Communism.
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The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies resigns after 16 straight years in office. Harold Holt succeeds him.
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On the 14th of February 1966 Australia officially converted to decimal currency from the pounds and shillings system.
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In Darwin, Harry Chan elected first ethnic Chinese mayor. This is a major step in the abolishment of White Australia.
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Ronald Ryan is the last man to hang in Australia for the murder of a prison warder while escaping from Melbourne's Pentridge Jail. His execution would result in the abolition of the death penalty.
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90% of white Australians vote in referendum for proposal to count aborigines in the census and to allow the federal government to make special laws for them
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Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found. This was terrible accident that shocked the nation and brought tears to the eyes of millions of Australians
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John Grey Gorton sworn in as Australia's 19th Prime Minister after Harold's Holt's disappearance
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After a decade of racing the U.S.S.R., the U.S. finnally puts the first man on the moon. "One small step for man, one giant leap for man kind."
