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Invested as Chancellor of the University of Melbourne for the first of
three consecutive terms. Publishes first
book of memoirs Afternoon Light. Chapters include:* A portrait of my parents * Two crucial years: 1939-41; Churchill * Three British Prime Ministers * Six Australian Prime Ministers * Three American Presidents * My Suez story * A critical examination of the modern Commonwealth * The Crown in the Commonwealth * Our relations with the United States of America * The revival of Liberalism in Australia * Two Australian episodes in the matter of parliamentary privilege * Two great Americans * A lawyer looks back * Cricket - a diversion. |
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McEwen Government, December 18: Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears
in the surf at Portsea, Victoria on 17 December. His body is never
recovered. A record national
referendum vote of 90.8% approves the ending of constitutional discrimination
against Aborigines. The "Yes" vote affirms the Australian citizenship
of indigenous Australians (accepting that Aboriginal people be counted
in the census) and allows the Commonwealth Government to legislate on
their behalf. The referendum gives Aborigines some of the status that
the Constitution of 1901 had not provided. The first US
naval communications base in Australia is opened at North West Cape, WA. |
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'Six Day War' between Arab and Israeli states; the Suez Canal is closed. Britain announces
plans for military withdrawal from "east of Suez", including
Malaysia and Singapore. Race riots in
the USA; emergence of the Black Power movement. First heart
transplant is performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard in South Africa.
Pantyhose is invented. |
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