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Nationalist Party is fromed
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Period: to
Mordern World and Australia
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End of WW1
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Country Party founded
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QANTAS founed
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Edith Cowan becomes first woman elected to an Austalian Parliment
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce becomes PM
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Compulsory voting introduced
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James Scullin becomes PM
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Great Depession begins
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Phar Lap wins Melbourne cup
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The United Australia Party is formed
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Joseph Lions becomes PM
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Sydney Harbor Bridge is opened
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Jack Lang (Premier of NSW) is sacked by the Governor
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The ABC is formed
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Charles Kingsford Smith killed in air crash
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Aboriginal 'Day of Mourning'
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Robert Menzies becomes PM (first term)
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WWII breaks out
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John Curtin becomes PM
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HMAS Sydney sunk in the Indian Ocean with a loss of 645 men
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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Darwin bombed bby the Japanese
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Ben Chifley becomes PM
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Japan surrenders to end WWII in the Pacific
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United Nations Organisation if formed
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Australias first car (the Holden) produced
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Robert Menzies becomes PM (second term)
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War breaks out in Korea
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ANZUS Treaty is Signed
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Quenn Elizabeth II ascends the throne of England
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Petrov spy scandal
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SEATO is formed
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Olypmic Games in Melbourne
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Television comes to Sydney
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Australias troops sent to Vietnam
1st batallion, 778 soldiers -
Harold Holt becomes PM
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US President Lyndon Johnson visits Australia
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Referendum - Aborigines in QLD, WA & NT get the right to vote
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Aborigines included in the Census for the first time
get date -
Gough Whitlam becomes PM
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Robert Hawke becomes PM
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Parliment House in Canberra opened
