1967 in Australia explained
The following lists events that happened during 1967 in Australia.
Incumbents
State and territory leaders
Governors and administrators
Events
January
February
March
April
- 4 April – The Australian government announces it will not ban the oral contraceptive pill, maintaining that the risk of thrombosis is "very slight".[8]
- 7 April – Australian military adviser Major Peter Badcoe is killed in action in Vietnam during an operation in Hương Trà District with the 1st ARVN Division Reaction Company.[9]
- 12 April – Australian Roman Catholic bishops publicly declare their opposition to the war in Vietnam.[10]
- 29 April – A majority in the New England region of New South Wales voted against the creation of a new state in the referendum.[11]
May
June
July
- 1 July – The postcode system of postal address coding is introduced throughout Australia.[18]
August
- 1 August – Qantas drops the word 'Empire' from its name.[19]
September
October
- 1 October – The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service is established.[22]
- 20 October – Australia unlinks the Australian dollar from British currency, when the British government makes a decision to devalue the pound sterling.[23]
November
December
Unknown and general dates
- Holden exports its 100,000th car and launches its first compact sedan, the Torana.
- Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings as rival gangs battle for control of the city's lucrative gambling and prostitution rackets
- Bomber aircraft from No. 2 Squadron RAAF Canberra are deployed to Phan Rang airbase in South Vietnam
- Federal Cabinet decides to drop the word 'British' from the cover of Australian passports, and agrees that it will have to amend the Nationality and Citizenship Act to change the designation 'British subject' on the inside of passports.
- Australia Square Tower, Australia's first true skyscraper, is completed.[26]
- In an exceptionally dry year across Victoria, South Australia and southwestern New South Wales, Melbourne records only 332.3mm[27] and Adelaide only 257.8mm,[28] in both cases this being the driest year on record by a substantial margin.
- Acquisition of Land Act 1967 is passed by the Parliament of Queensland
Science and technology
Culture
Arts and literature
See main article: 1967 in Australian literature.
Film
- Interaction: Moving and Painting (dir. Gil Brealy) wins the AFI Award for Best Film
- Journey Out of Darkness (dir. James Trainor)
- The Pudding Thieves (dir. Brian Davies)
- Robbery (dir. Peter Yates)
- Shades Of Puffing Billy (dir. Antonio Colacino)
- Wheels Across A Wilderness (dir. Malcolm Leyland)
- Forgotten Cinema (dir. Anthony Buckley), the influential documentary about the rise and fall of the Australian feature film industry
Television
- 10 April – The ninth Logie Awards are held on board the TSS Fairstar cruise ship. Graham Kennedy wins his third Gold Logie.
- 10 April – This Day Tonight, Australia's first national nightly TV current affairs program, premieres on ABC-TV, hosted by Bill Peach.
- 25 June – The ABC participates in the historic Our World broadcast, the world's first live, international, satellite television production.
- 5 July – The Seven Network premieres a new situation comedy series My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? starring Gordon Chater, John Meillon and Judi Farr, and the Nine Network premiered the spy drama Hunter, starring Tony Ward.
- 15 June – ATV0 broadcasts the first colour television program in Australia when it televises the horse racing from Pakenham, Victoria.
- 28 August – The popular ABC soap opera Bellbird begins its ten-year run.
- 11 September – The children's television show Adventure Island begins airing on the ABC.
- 16 September – The first live telecast of a football grand final in Australia was the screening of the 1967 NSWRFL season's grand final between Canterbury-Bankstown and South Sydney at the Sydney Cricket Ground.[34]
Sport
Athletics (track and field)
Australian rules football
Cricket
Golf
Motor racing
Rugby league
Rugby union
Squash
Tennis
Yachting
- 18 November – Dame Pattie, Australian challenger for the America's Cup was defeated by the American defender Intrepid which won the series 4–0.
- 30 December – Pen Duick III (France) won line honours in the 1967 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in a time of 4:04:10:31. Rainbow II (New Zealand) is the overall winner.
Other
Births
- 4 January – David Wilson, rugby player
- 7 January – Ricky Stuart, rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
- 8 January – Steven Jacobs, television host and actor
- 13 January – Annie Jones, actress
- 3 February – Aurelio Vidmar, soccer player
- 16 February – Paul Paddick, singer and actor (The Wiggles)
- 3 April – Mark Skaife, racing driver
- 9 April – Graeme Lloyd, baseball player
- 11 April – Lachlan Dreher, field hockey goalkeeper
- 17 April – Barnaby Joyce, politician
- 23 April – Rob Pyne, politician
- 2 May – Rob J. Hyndman, statistician
- 2 May – Kerryn McCann, athlete
- 5 May – Danny Kah, ice speed skater
- 7 May – Martin Bryant, perpetrator of the Port Arthur massacre
- 14 May – Shaun Creighton, long-distance runner
- 15 May – James Bradley, author
- 20 May – Aaron Harper, politician
- 29 May – Jim McDonald, politician
- 30 May – Rechelle Hawkes, field hockey player
- 31 May – Stephen Silvagni, Aussie rules footballer
- 20 June – Nicole Kidman, American-born actress
- 24 June – Tracey Belbin, field hockey player and coach
- 3 July
- 5 July – Robert J. Kral, composer
- 12 July – Martin Lynes, actor
- 17 July – Peter Lonard, golfer
- 30 July – Victor Dominello, politician
- 9 August – Lars Kleppich, sailor
- 8 September – James Packer, businessman
- 4 October – Nick Green, rower
- 5 October – Guy Pearce, actor
- 13 October – David Gibson, politician
- 26 October – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born country music singer
- 28 October – Mark Taylor, politician
- 1 November – Tina Arena, singer
- 29 November – Sean Carlin, hammer thrower
- 16 December – Miranda Otto, actress
- 22 December – Paul Morris, racing driver and businessman
- 28 December – Paul Foster, football (soccer) player
Undated
Deaths
- 4 January – Ezra Norton (born 1897), newspaper proprietor
- 22 January – James Alexander Allan (born 1879), poet
- 3 February
- Ronald Ryan (born 1925), last person hanged in Australia
- Eric Edgley (born 1899), theatre performer and impresario
- 7 February – David Unaipon (born 1872), Aboriginal author and inventor
- 9 February – Fred Hoysted (born 1883), racehorse trainer
- 13 March – Bessie Rischbieth (born 1874), feminist and social activist
- 14 March – Ernest Henry Burgmann (born 1885), Anglican bishop and social critic
- 29 March – D'Arcy Niland (born 1917), author of The Shiralee
- 7 April – Peter Badcoe (born 1934), soldier and Victoria Cross winner
- 24 April – Robert Richards (born 1885), Premier of South Australia
- 24 April – Eric Baume (born 1900), journalist, author and broadcaster – first "beast" on the talk show Beauty and the Beast
- 13 May – Lance Sharkey (born 1898), Communist activist
- 15 May – Jessie Traill (born 1881), artist
- 13 June – Gerald Patterson (born 1895), tennis player
- 18 June – Clive Latham Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu (born 1889), Businessman and public servant
- 2 July – Ivo Whitton (born 1893), golfer
- 4 July – Ray Parer (born 1894), aviator
- 6 July – Joseph Maxwell (born 1896), soldier and Victoria Cross winner
- 26 July – Robert Tudawali (b. c1929), Indigenous actor
- 30 July – Arthur Stace (born 1885), pavement scribe known as Mr Eternity
- 15 August – Dave McNamara (born 1887), Australian rules footballer
- 25 August – Stanley Bruce (born 1883), eighth Prime Minister of Australia
- 25 August – Robert George (born 1896), Governor of South Australia
- 13 October – Kerr Grant (born 1878), physicist and education administrator
- 3 November – Justin Simonds (born 1890), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne
- 13 November – Helen Mayo (born 1878), pioneer in women's and children's health
- 16 November – Ernest Durack (born 1882), New South Welsh politician
- 17 December – Harold Holt (born 1908), seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia
- 29 December – Eric Woodward (born 1899), Governor of New South Wales
- 31 December – Arthur Mailey (born 1886), cricketer[44]
See also
Notes and References
- http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/australian-visit/ Australian Visit (1967)
- http://www.bio.mq.edu.au/school/centres/museum/ Macquarie University Biological Sciences Museum
- http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/naturaldisasters/ Natural disasters in Australia – Culture and Recreation Portal (Australian Government)
- http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=21&pageName=before#5 Australia's Prime Ministers – National Archives of Australia
- http://www.ausflag.com.au/flags/naval1911.html Ausflag – Australian Naval Ensign
- http://www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/Publications/research_guides/guides/royalty/chapter09.htm National Archives of Australia – Royalty and Australian Society: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- http://www.latrobe.edu.au/about/history.html History of the University – La Trobe University
- http://www.abc.net.au/time/series.htm '97 Series
- http://www.aattv.iinet.net.au/badcoe.htm Maj P.J. BADCOE, VC (Post.)
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_4_36/ai_104635097 Catholic Peace Fellowship
- http://www.abc.net.au/newengland/about.htm About ABC New England North West NSW
- http://lakepedder.org/resources/reports/lpcomenq/future.htm Interim Report – The Future of Lake Pedder
- http://www.abc.net.au/messageclub/duknow/stories/s888141.htm Didj "u" Know – Stories of the 1967 Referendum
- http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/featurearticlesbyCatalogue/9AC14A2C1A1A1671CA2569DE00296986?OpenDocument THE AUSTRALIAN NOTE ISSUE – Australian Bureau of Statistics
- http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/obits/dunstan/default.htm ABC News Obituary – Don Dunstan
- http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/world-and-us-anticyclonic-high-barometric-pressure-records World and US High barometric pressure records
- http://www.milesago.com/Almanac/1967.htm MILESAGO 1967 Almanac
- http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1467,CH2070%257EMO19,00.html Australia Post – Our History
- http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/history/details15 About Qantas – Our Company: History
- https://books.google.com/books?id=FSqDDn5Ws2cC&dq=1967+queensland+public+demonstrations&pg=PA25 The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement 1950s–1990s
- 16 December 2007.
- http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/npws_40th_anniversary NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service 40th anniversary
- http://www.indexfx.com/aud.html IndexFOREX Australian Dollar currency profile
- http://www.parks.sa.gov.au/simpson_cp/about/index.htm Simpson Desert Conservation Park History
- http://www.harold-holt.net/ The Harold Holt Murder
- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289865200.html Top of the town
- Web site: Melbourne Regional Office (086071) monthly rainfall . 17 February 2014 . 24 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045349/http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=-1771196780&p_stn_num=086071 . live .
- http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=-1771196780&p_stn_num=023000 Adelaide West Terrace (023000) Monthly Rainfall
- http://members.pcug.org.au/~jsaxon/space/book/Epilog.htm Honeysuckle Creek – Epilogue
- Bornemissza, G. F. (1976), The Australian dung beetle project 1965–1975, Australian Meat Research Committee Review 30:1–30
- http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/trek/4wd/dung2.htm Dung Beetle – Part 2
- http://foodsafetymatters.gov.au/polio/gp/acute_poliomyelitis/polio_in_Australia.pdf Polio in Australia
- http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~woomera/wresat.htm Wresat – Australia's First Satellite
- Web site: Masters . Roy . Roy Masters (sport) . Messenger can watch a better league broadcast in the US than south of the border . . Fairfax Digital . 4 October 2009 . 10 May 2009 . 7 October 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091007142959/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/messenger-can-watch-a-better-league-broadcast-in-the-us-than-south-of-the-border-20091004-ghve.html . live .
- http://www.stawellgift.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=42 Australia Post Stawell Gift
- http://www.geocities.com/geetee/bios/pollock.html Judy Pollock: Athletics Gold
- http://www.time-to-run.com/marathon/athletes/clayton.htm Derek Clayton – Hall of Fame entry
- http://afltables.com/afl/seas/1967.html#fin AFL Tables – 1967 Season Scores
- http://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow1967.html AFL Tables −1967 Brownlow Medal
- http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/1967_to_1971.htm 1967 – 1971 Full Points Footy
- http://content-www.cricinfo.com/baggygreen/engine/series/60417.html Australia in South Africa test series, 1966–1967
- http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/260057.html#champs A history of the Sheffield Shield – List of Winners
- http://www.worldsquash.org/uploads/mens_team_pen.pdf World Men's Team Championship
- Web site: Walsh. G. P.. Mailey, Alfred Arthur (1886–1967). Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 21 March 2018. 15 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130615050318/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mailey-alfred-arthur-7464. live.