The 1960's

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  • Adelade Festival of Arts a major success

  • Period: to

    Important Events In Australia

  • Australian doctor identifies Thalidomide link to birth defects

  • Australia begins involvement in Vietnam

  • Australia orders the F-111 bomber

  • The Melbourne - Voyager disaster

  • Dawn Fraser barred by swimming union

  • The Beaumont children disappearance

  • Ronald Ryan the last person to be hanged (pictures are hung, people are hanged

  • Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared presumed drowned

  • Earthquake flattens Meckering

  • Southern Aurora collision