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Australia In The Late 60s

Political

  • Vietnam War 1st November 1955 - 30 April 1975
  • Equality for women
  • They campaigned for independence, fairer wages, a free accessible system of education and the rights of Indigenous Australians
  • Indigenous rights
  • ‘Freedom ride’ a bus tour of western and coastal NSW towns to expose the social discriminatory barriers between Indigenous Australians and white residents
  • There were 3 main political parties: Australian Labor Party, Liberal Party and Country party.
  • Young men who won the birthday lottery, were then shipped to vietnam to fight with America
  • In 1964 It become compulsory to the army at the age of 20 if chosen by the birthday lottery
  • 1967 referendum
  • Race for president
  • Indigenous land rights movement
  • Robert Menzies was prime minister from 1939-1941 and again 1949 till 1966
  • Lyndon Johnson becomes the first serving US President to visit Australia 1966
  • Robert Menzies was the Prime Minister through the 60s until 1966 - Liberal
  • Harold Holt- Went swimming on 17 December 1967
  • John Gorton was elected Prime Minister in 1968
  • The australian public mourned JF Kennedy
  • In 1968 the Draft Resistance Movement was established and the first man was sent to a civilian jail for compliance

Political

The Vietnam War

Vietnam

War

The arrival of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) in South Vietnam during was the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Almost 60,000 Australians, served in Vietnam; 521 died as a result of the war and over 3,000 were wounded. The war was the cause of the greatest social and political dissent in Australia since the conscription referendums of the First World War. Many draft resisters, conscientious objectors, and protesters

were fined or jailed, while soldiers met a hostile reception on their return home.

'Freedom Ride'

The Freedom Ride

12-26 February 1965

This introduces you to Student Action For Aborigines organisation and explains how students from the University of Sydney drew national and international attention to the poor living conditions of Aboriginal people and the racism that was rife in New South Wales country towns. This event was the beginning of resetting the relationship between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people in contemporary Australia

Harold

Holt

Harold Holt went for a swim

Australia's 17th Prime Minister, Harold Holt was in office from 26 January 1966 to 19 December 1967. He was pronounced missing after he went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, Portsea. Four decades after Harold Holt's bizarre disappearance, a coronial inquiry confirmed that he had accidentally drowned.

Political

Social

  • Riots due to the social movements - women advocating for equal rights as men (e.g. equal pay, more opportunities to work)
  • Everyone was expected to present a certain way
  • New ideas to live a certain way
  • In 1960, the average family had 3.67 children, compared to 3.12 in 2013. "There were four Catholic families of 10 or more children within two blocks,"
  • Protests and Civil Rights movements
  • The 1960’s saw a rise in city apartments and ‘high-rise living’
  • The birth control pill came about, giving women more sexual rights/freedom
  • younger generation began to challenge the values their parents had of how to live, they wanted to alter the way of living and began to oppose against the social and political values of the people around them

Social

Equal Rights

Womens Equal Rights

In 1969, feminist Zelda S’Aprano was a big advocate for equal pay and worked with the Meatworkers’ Union.

An Average Family

Expectations

  • What was expected: Men were the main breadwinner or job holder in families Women in the workforce rose from 38% to 43%
  • Social conditioning was very strong (e.g. women were expected to be housewives, children were expected to seen and not heard, everyone was expected to go to church etc)
  • In 1960, the average family had 3.67 children, compared to 3.12 in 2013

Social

Social

Cultural

Cultural

Fashion

60s Fashion

There was great social change during the 60s, the baby boomer generation was growing up and wanting there own style. Designers took risks with their fashions, using colourful fabric and daring designs. 60s fashion broke social traditions, there was either 'formal' or 'casual' wear and distinct separations as to what was for women and what was for men. The 60s brought us unisex clothing, like denim jeans. One fashion item that appeared in the sixties was the mini-skirt. In the past all skirts and dresses were at least knee length, so the new short hemlines were quite the scandal, for exposing more skin than ever publicly seen.

Celebrities

Singers and actors

A time were television and film was newly introduced, this became a new craze and still is today. There was also many famous singers from this era.

  • The beatles
  • John wayne
  • Doris day
  • Elizabeth taylor
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Cary grant
  • Elvis
  • Julie Andrews
  • Paul Newman
  • Sean Connery
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Australian tours by The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Searchers, Tom Jones, Herman’s Hermits, P.J. Proby, Eden Kane
  • The Beach Boys
  • The Rolling Stones

  • Some songs that used protest:
  • Bob Dylan's “Only A Pawn In Their Game” (January 1964) ...
  • Nina Simone's “Mississippi Goddam”(March 1964) ...
  • Sam Cooke's “A Change Is Gonna Come” (December 1964) ...
  • Phil Ochs' “I Ain't Marching Anymore” (August 1965) ...
  • Barry McGuire's “Eve of Destruction” (August 1965) ...
  • Aretha Franklin's “Respect” (April 1967)
  • The Easybeats ‘friday on my mind’
  • 1976-first colour show on air
  • The world title fight between Lionel Rose and Alan Rudkin becomes the most watched telecast in Australian television history.
  • Rugby NSW GF telecast 1st time
  • St George wins the last of 11 consecutive rugby league GF
  • Robert Vaughn = heartthrob of the time
  • The parkes observatory role in relaying live television of man walking on the moon from the apollo 11 1969

Cultural

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