1965 In Australia

EVENTS

actor, dancer and choreeographer Sir Robert Helpmann is named Australian Of The Year

the Australian Conservation Foundation is formed

the Australian Foundation Of National Trusts is formed

Northern Territory patrol officers forcibly round up the last groups of the Pintubi Aboriginal people still living an independent traditional lifestyle, and resettle them on the Papunya and Yuendumu missions

Events by Month

January

The Kinks and The Rolling Stones tour Australia

the first Hydrofoil service begins on Sydney Harbour (January 7)

Evonne Goolagong wins the NSW junior hard-court title (January 10)

The bodies of two 15-year-old girls, Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt , are found at Wanda Beach in southern Sydney. In spite the offering of an unprecedented £10,000 reward, the murders are never solved (Jan. 11)

The Vehicular Ferry ''Empress Of Australia'' begins operating between Sydney and Hobart (Jan. 16)

Queensland police are given the power to arrest without warrant and ban anyone aiding the striking Mt Isa Mines workers. Union leader Pat Mackie is banned from the site (Jan. 27)

February

Judge Aaron Levine overturns the obscenity conviction of the editors of OZ Magazine

Charles Perkins leads The Freedom Ride, which travels through country NSW, protesting the racial discrimination against Aboriginal people.

Margaret Smith ( Margaret Court ) wins the Australian women's tennis singles title for the sixth consecutive year

Esso-BHP strikes gas at the Barracouta well in Bass Strait (Feb. 18)

Freedom Ride participants including Charles Perkins are ejected from the Moree municipal swimming baths after protesting against its policy of not admitting Aborigines (Feb. 20)

Prince Philip opens the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra (Feb. 22)

Talbot Duckmanton succeeds Sir Charles Moses as chairman of The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)

The Seekers ' single ''I'll Never Find Another You'' reaches #1 in the UK charts. It becomes the first recording by an Australian act to sell more than 1 million copies and eventually sells more than 1.75 million

March

The Australian Amateur Swimming Union stuns the nation with its decision that Olympic champion and 1964 Australian of the Year Dawn Fraser will be banned from all amateur competition for ten years. The decision follows an inquiry into Fraser's alleged misbehaviour during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (Mar. 1)

the Australian Labor Party wins the South Australia n elections, taking government for the first time in 32 years. Labour leader Frank Walsh becomes Premier, replacing Liberal leader Sir Thomas Playford , Australia's longest-serving premier, who had held office for 26 years, 4 months (Mar. 6)

the first drawing of the national service Conscription lottery (Mar. 10)

The Queensland government legislates to ban picketing and restricting pamphlets and banners at the Mt Isa mine. The strikers workers return to work later in the month (Mar. 17)

George Johnston wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel '' My Brother Jack ''

April

Police raid Melbourne 's Austral Bookshop and seize copies of '' The Trial Of Lady Chatterley '', a banned book which recounts of the British Obscenity trial of author D.H. Lawrence (Apr. 27)

Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces that an Australian combat force will be sent to South Vietnam in response to a request for military aid from the South Vietnamese government

May

the ALP is defeated in the NSW state election after 24 years in government and the Liberal Party, led by Robin Askin takes power (May 1)

The 1st Battalion Royal Australian regiment leaves for Vietnam on the ''HMAS Sydney'' (May 27)

the official opening of the Captain Cook Bridge , which spans the Brisbane River

TV variety show '' In Melbourne Tonight '' celebrates its 2000th performance. Since its premiere in 1957 the show had earned the Nine Network over £AU4 million in advertising revenue and it attracted more viewers per capita than any other television show in the world, with the network rumoured to be paying host Graham Kennedy more than £AU20,000 per year (Jun. 14)

at a speech to the Australian Club in London, PM Sir Robert Menzies declares that Australia is in a state of war in Vietnam (Jun. 30)

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

the Siding Springs Observatory opens

ARTS AND LITERATURE

Clifton Pugh 's portrait of R.A. Henderson wins the Archibald Prize for portraiture

Larry Sitsky 's opera ''The Fall Of The House of Usher''

Peter Sculthorpe 's '' Sun Music I ''

Joan Sutherland returns to perform in Australia after 14 years overseas

the Canberra School Of Music is established

Ballet In A Nutshell (later the Sydney Dance Company ) and the Australian Dance Theatre form

the South Australian Theatre Company is formed

Sydney 's Philip St Theatre stages its famous comedy revue ''A Cup Of Tea, A Bex and A Good Lie Down''. The production runs for twelve months, and the title passes into common usage.

Thea Astley 's ''The Slow Natives'' wins the Miles Franklin Award

'' The Ambassador '' ( Morris West )

'' The Merry Go Round In The Sea '' ( Randolph Stow )

FILM

''Faces In The Sun'' wins the AFI Award for Best Film

TELEVISION

Jimmy Hannan wins the Gold Logie Award

SPORT

Cricket: Australia lose a five test series away to the West Indies 2-1. The West Indies side includes greats such as Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai, while Australia featured opening batsmen Bill Lawry and Bobbie Simpson.

Cricinfo series page

Rugby League: St George wins the tenth of a record eleven consecutive premierships in the NSWRL. They were not to win again until 1979, their last premiership as at Jan 2006.

Rugby League

BIRTHS

May 15 - Glenn Seton , racing driver

June 4 - Michael Doohan , motorcycle racer

August 2 - Joe Hockey , politician

DEATHS

SEE ALSO

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1966

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