Australian Events
Posted in 1943
- Dorothy Tangney and Dame Enid Lyons become the first women elected to Federal Parliament.
- Conscription for military service outside Australia is announced by Labor Prime Minister Curtin.
- A Labor election poster states: Great Britain has 4,500,000 men under arms - 10 per cent of its population; By 1944 the USA expects to have 8 per cent of its population under arms; Australia has 800,000 men under arms - or 11.5 per cent of its population.
- About 180,000 United States servicemen are based in Australia.
- United States first lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits Australia.
- Qantas, the British Air Ministry and BOAC re-establish the Australia-England air link that had been cut by advancing Japanese forces.
- Cinematographer Damien Parer wins Australia's first Oscar for his coverage of the war.