Popular culture

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    Popular culture

  • World War 2 ends

  • Arthur Calwell introduces a new immigration scheme, this will have a major impact on Australia and its culture

  • General Motors produces a Holden "Australia's own car"

  • Austalia airs its first television broadcast

  • Australia host the Olympics in Melbourne

  • First ever televised political debate = John F Kennedy vs Richard Nixon

  • Australia wins 38 medals at the Commonwealth games, the highest medal tally in the histroy of the games

  • John F Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Texas

  • Beatlemania touches down in Australia

  • Prime Minister Menzies commits Australia troops to fight in Vietnam

  • Ronald Ryan becomes the last person to be executed in Australia

  • More thsn 90% of Australians vote in favour of including Indigenous Australians on the census

  • Harold Holt, Australian's 17th prime minister, disappears while swimming and is presumed dead

  • Dr Martin Luther King Jnr is assassinated, triggering triots across America

  • Australia qaulifies for the FIFA World Cup

  • AC/DC release thie album back in black; sells 49million copies; third highest selling album of all time

  • Neighbours first airs

  • Sydeny hosts the Olyimpics