Heat waves kills 11 in Central Australia and 13 in Sydney
Vatican II
The Second Vatican Council opened in 1962
Menzies becomes the first Party leader to make his policy speech on TV
The Beatles tour Australia
Vietnam War
Throughout the whole of the sixties.
Australian troops encounter one of the bloodiest episodes yet with the Viet Cong
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