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Australian Events

Posted in 1971

  • Neville Bonner is the first Aboriginal member of ParliamentMcMahon Government, March 22.
  • Government announces Australian troop withdrawals from South Vietnam.
  • Neville Bonner is the first Aboriginal member of Parliament.
  • The first Australian census to fully include all Aborigines is conducted.
  • "The 1971 census showed that the percentage of the population born in Australia fell from 90.8% in 1947 to 80.5%, while the percentage of European-born rose 8.6% to 17.2%. Although increasing, Asian-born people comprised only 1.3% of the population."
    The Macquarie Book of Events, 1983 p 71.

† Australia's Prime Ministers