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The Land Down Under
Tragic Bushfires Claim 64 Lives in Hobart and Southeastern Tasmania
Last Legal Execution in Australia
Sydney Underworld Killings Trend Sparks Fear
Ban on Married Women Working in Public Service Lifted
Currency Change: Australian dollar replaces pound in decimalization shift.
Robert Menzies: Retirement and Succession to Harold Holt
Tragic disappearance of Beaumont Children at Glenelg Beach
Indigenous Australians Granted Voting Rights in Queensland
Prime Minister Reinstates Conscription
The Beatles' 1964 World Tour Arrival
Tragic sinking: HMAS Voyager disaster leaves 82 sailors dead
Charges of Obscenity: ''Oz'' Magazine Editors
Troops Sent to Vietnam War
Enfranchisement of Indigenous Australians at Federal Elections
Sydney-Melbourne Railway Link by Spirit of Progress
End of the First Phase of the Malayan Insurgency
Sydney Opera House Construction: $102 Million Cost
"Wild One" makes Johnny O'Keefe the First Australian Rock'n'Roller to Reach the National Charts.
Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit "A Pub with No Beer" becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success.
16th Summer Olympics Held in Melbourne
Television launch in Australia.
Australian Labor Party Split of 1955
Ending the "Six O'Clock Swill" in New South Wales
Royal Visit and Petrov Affair: Political Division in Australian Labor Party
First nuclear test in Australian zone: Operation Hurricane by UK off Western Australia.
Referendum on Banning Communist Party Fails
Australia signs ANZUS treaty alongside US and New Zealand
Australian Enters the Korean War: Assisting South Korea.
Australia Joins Malayan Insurgency
Robert Menzies: Return to Power as Liberal Party Leader
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