Popular Culture

By amabouelola
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    Popular Culture Year 10

  • World War II ends

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

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

  • Australia 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 histrory of the games.

  • Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Texas

  • Beatlemania touches down in Australia

  • Prime Minister Menzies commits Australian troops to fight in Vietnam

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

  • More than 90% of Australians vote in favor of including Indigenous Australians on the census.

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

  • Martin Luther King Junior is assassinated, triggering riots across America

  • Australia qualifies for the FIFA World Cup

  • AC/DC released the album Back in Black; seels 49 Million copies; third highest selling album of all time

  • Neighbours first airs

  • Sydney hosts the Olympics