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The 60s
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Heat Waves
Heat waves kills 11 in Central Australia and 13 in Sydney -
Vatican II
The Second Vatican Council opened in 1962 -
Menzies becomes the first Party leader to make his policy speech on TV
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The Beatles tour Australia
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Vietnam War
Throughout the whole of the sixties. -
Australian troops encounter one of the bloodiest episodes yet with the Viet Cong
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90% of white Australians vote in referendum for proposal to count aborigines in the census and to allow the federal government to make special laws for them