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Chips Rafferty starts forming Australia's filming company
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Menzies introduces legislation to outlaw communist party.
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28 people die in ANA Skymaster crash South-East of Perth.
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Win awarded to Frank Sedgman 1st, Ken Mcgreogr 2nd, and John Bromwich 3rd.
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Commonwealth Police raid communist party
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Coloratura Soprano Joan Sutherland wins mobil quest.
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CSIRO reports successful trial of myxomotosis.
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Communist ban declared unconstitutional.
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The latest womans fashions are short dresses over full skirts and stiff petticoats.
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Official opening of School of Air.
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Former President Ben Chiffley dies.
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Boxer Jimmy Carruthers becomes Boxing World Champion.
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Australia retains the davis cup after beating the US
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10 people killed and 137 injured at train crash at Benalah.
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Women win 4 Olympic gold medals while Men win 2.
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Former Prime minister William Morris Hughes dies
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Lang Hangcock discovers iron ore inHamersly Range.
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Australian Troops come back from Korean war .
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first 2 atomic bombs droppped at Woomera by British.
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British drop another atomic bomb at Woomera , known as operation totem.
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Oil is discovered in the Exmulf Gulf
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Queen Elizibeth arrives with Prince Phillip for Royal tour.
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Australiana Flag raised in Princess Elizibeth Land making it the worlds most Southern settlement.
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George Howard breaks white mans law which prohibits aborigines to be on hotel premises.
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John Landy breaks record by running 1 mile in 3min and 58 sec.
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World Premier of Charles Chauvel's film Jedda
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NSW is now the 4th state to accepted extended hours they are now open untill 10pm as oposed to the earlier 6pm of other states.
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The arrival of Australia's i millionth post war migrant
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Summer of the 17th Doll by Ray Lawler opens in theatre
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Australian troops take part in Malaysia's first action against communist guerillas.
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The circular quay loop of the underground tunells opens in Sydney.
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Shearers strike when wages are decreased by 5%.
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Sir Eugene Goosens leaves Australia after being fined 100 pounds for importing prohibited goods, incident photographs and films.
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Start of free mass vaccination program with Salk polio vaccine.
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Cabinet decides to legalise poker machines in clubs.
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First television broadcast from TCN-9.
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Britain explodes first of the Operation Buffalo series of 4 atomic texts.
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Shearers' strike ends when the wage rate is increased.
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Inauguration of the the ABC's first television broadcast by Prime Minister Menzies.
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The Duke of Edinburgh opens the 16th Olympic Games.
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Sydney's first drive-in cinemas open at French's Forest and Chullora.
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The Fairfax Group launches the magazine Woman's Day .
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Joern Utzon wins Sydney Opera House design competition.
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Australia's union movement steps up campaign for equal pay for women workers.
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First In Melbourne Tonight Show (IMT) starring Graham Kennedy on .
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Britain conducts first of three "Operation Antler" nuclear weapons tests.
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Remains of The Bounty found off Pitcairn Island .
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Britain explodes its first balloon-borne atomic bomb, the last in the "Operation Antler" series
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Severe drought throughout Australia. Government prepares to import wheat from Canada to meet shortfalls.
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Formation of the National Civic Council, chaired by Mr B.A. Santamaria, which grew out of the organisation known as "The Movement", pledging to fight communist influence in trade unions.
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Quiz show Pick a Box starts on TV, They're a Weird Mob, by Nino Culotta (John O'Grady) published, also Voss by Patrick White and On the Beach by Nevi Shute.
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Thousands of Greek men riot when the bridal ship Castel Felice is 9 hours late.
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Australia's biggest reservoir, Lake Eucumbene, is completed
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New world record for the mile as runner Herb Elliott clocks in at 3 mins 54.5 secs
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Antarctic explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson, dies at the age of 76
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The 27-year-old wreckage of the Southern Cloud passenger plane is discovered in the Snowy Mountains
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ICI Building opens in Melbourne. It is the tallest building in Australia .The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) opens
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Actors Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner arrive to film On the Beach
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The Reserve Bank formed to take over the central banking function of the Commonwealth Bank
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The Snowy Mountain Scheme's first big power station, Tumut 1, begins operation
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150,000 people turn out to see American evangelist Billy Graham
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Sir Ian Clunies-Ross, chairman of the CSIRO, dies aged 60
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Artist Albert Namatjira, aged 57, dies after a heart attack following influenza
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St George finish the season unbeaten as they defeat Manly in the Rugby League Grand Final
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The Antipodeans hold their first exhibition. The artists include Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, David Boyd, Robert Dickerson, John Percival and Clifton Pugh
