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₁₉₇₀- But it was not until the 1960s and 70s, when political agitation for women's rights, Indigenous rights and the end of the Vietnam war swept the Western world, that the modern environment movement was born.

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1970-Australia's first national environment organization, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), was set up by a mix of leaders in the scientific and business community.

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1970s- Australia's netball team won the World Championships 3 times in the 1970s.

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Politically, the 1972 election ended the 23-year government of the Liberal-Country Party coalition.

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Summary of the decade

The 1970s was a decade of great economic, political, social and technological change.

Politically, the 1972 election ended the 23-year government of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. The Australian Labor Party took power, led by Gough Whitlam, with the slogan 'It's Time'. The new government initiated a large range of socially progressive changes, but was scandal ridden and criticised for being excessively extravagant with public funds. The Whitlam government was dismissed by the governor-general John Kerr in 1975.

Socially, the White Australia Policy was finally dismantled during this period. It had functioned since Federation in 1901 as a tool for excluding non-white immigrants. The Whitlam government removed any ethnically specific criteria for evaluating prospective migrants, thus allowing the first influx of Vietnamese refugees in 1978. Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser agreed to accept the 'boat people' as refugees, significantly adding to the idea of a multicultural Australia.

Economically, in 1973, the formation of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and the international oil embargo precipitated the end of the long economic boom that had underpinned Australia's prosperity in the post-war period.

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The 1970s was a decade of great economic, political, social and technological change. Politically, the 1972 election ended the 23-year government of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. The Australian Labor Party took power, led by Gough Whitlam, with the slogan 'It's Time'.

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Indigenous Australians began to take up representation in Australian parliaments. In 1971, the liberal neville bonner was appointed to the Senate, becoming the first Aborigine in Federal Parliament.

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Historian Ben Pimlott argues that she was mistaken, for joining Europe, "constituted the most decisive step yet in the progress of severance of familial ties between Britain and its former Empire.... It reduced the remaining links to sentimental and cultural ones, and legal niceties." Inside Australia, the implications of british entry into europe in 1973

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1974 Australia qualified for the World Cup finals in West Germany.

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Socially, the White Australia Policy was finally dismantled during this period. It had functioned since Federation in 1901 as a tool for excluding non-white immigrants.

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Summary of the decade

The 1970s was a decade of great economic, political, social and technological change.

Politically, the 1972 election ended the 23-year government of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. The Australian Labor Party took power, led by Gough Whitlam, with the slogan 'It's Time'. The new government initiated a large range of socially progressive changes, but was scandal ridden and criticised for being excessively extravagant with public funds. The Whitlam government was dismissed by the governor-general John Kerr in 1975.

Socially, the White Australia Policy was finally dismantled during this period. It had functioned since Federation in 1901 as a tool for excluding non-white immigrants. The Whitlam government removed any ethnically specific criteria for evaluating prospective migrants, thus allowing the first influx of Vietnamese refugees in 1978. Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser agreed to accept the 'boat people' as refugees, significantly adding to the idea of a multicultural Australia.

Economically, in 1973, the formation of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and the international oil embargo precipitated the end of the long economic boom that had underpinned Australia's prosperity in the post-war period.

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The 1970s was a decade of great economic, political, social and technological change. Politically, the 1972 election ended the 23-year government of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. The Australian Labor Party took power, led by Gough Whitlam, with the slogan 'It's Time'.

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| 1980- Air pollution levels were high, and decades of deforestation had led to a major land erosion salinity

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When it came to music in the 1980s, anything went. Pop, rock, dance, country, folk, comedy – if you look at any chart from that decade, songs from a huge variety of genres rubbed shoulders on the top 50.

The list of number 1 singles by Australian artists during the 80s is just as diverse, with 23 different tracks reaching the pinnacle of the ARIA chart that decade.

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1980 It doesn’t get much more Australian than this novelty tune. Written by an Italian-American who had immigrated to Melbourne, “Shaddap You Face” was performed by Joe Dolce as a thick-accented, mandolin-playing character called Giuseppe at a time when multiculturalism was becoming seen as the new normal. A song that opened the door for Australians of all backgrounds to laugh with each other rather than pick on minorities, it also topped charts around the world.

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| 1980- All temperatures including the ocean temps surrounding Australia has rose above the anomaly

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The Australian Bicenternary was celebrated in 1988 along with the opening of a new Parliament House in Canberra.

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In April 1984, Advance Australia Fair was proclaimed as Australia's national anthem and green and gold became Australia's official national colors.

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Summary of the decade

After the social revolution of the 1970s, the 1980s witnessed an economic revolution that proved to be equally far-reaching. There was a growing political awareness of issues affecting the environment, and support for the Indigenous rights movement.

Vietnamese immigrants began to change the demography in Australia and the effects were felt throughout society and influenced public policy.

In April 1984, Advance Australia Fair was proclaimed as Australia's national anthem and green and gold became Australia's official national colours.

In 1986, Halley's comet was visible in the night sky for the first time since 1910.

In 1983, the Ben Lexcen-designed racing yacht with a winged keel, Australia II, was the first non-US contender to win the America's Cup. During this competition, the unofficial mascot was the green-and-gold clad boxing kangaroo.

In December 1985, the Australia Act 1986 (Cth) in federal parliament removed the right of Australians to appeal to the Privy Council, eliminating Australia's last remaining direct constitutional ties to Britain.

In 1987, the New York Stock Exchange crashed and the Australian economy went into recession, causing unemployment to rise significantly. The treasurer at the time, Paul Keating, told the Australian people that it was a recession Australia 'had to have'. He had previously described the Australian economy as a 'banana republic'.

In 1987, Sally Morgan's My Place was published and considered a breakthrough memoir for bringing Indigenous experiences to a wider audience.

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After the social revolution of the 1970s, the 1980s witnessed an economic revolution that proved to be equally far-reaching. There was a growing political awareness of issues affecting the environment, and support for the Indigenous rights movement. Vietnamese immigrants began to change the demography in Australia and the effects were felt throughout society and influenced public policy.

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Rosemary Follet was elected Chief minister of the austrailian capital territory in 1989

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In December 1985, the Australia Act 1986 (Cth) in federal parliament removed the right of Australians to appeal to the Privy Council, eliminating Australia's last remaining direct constitutional ties to Britain.

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1990- Clean Up Australia Day was an initiative development in 1990 to collaboratively clean up local areas help on the first Sunday of autumn

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1990 Australian Grand Prix

held on 4 November 1990 at Adelaide and was the 500th race to contribute to the World Drivers

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Keating was active in indigenous affairs and the high court of australian's historic mabo decision in 1992 required a legislative response to recognition of Indigenous title to land

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Australia experienced the biggest change in technology. The 1990s saw the introduction of the internet and the mobile phone, which began to change the face of telecommunications and entertainment.

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Unemployment reached 11.4 per cent in 1992—the highest since the Great depression in Australia. The liberal national opposition had proposed an ambitious plan to take to the 1993 election, including the introduction of a Goods and service tax.

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1990 is a lifelong underachiever who takes a job as a chef in a Melbourne nightclub

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Many Australians thought that it was time for Australia to become a republic and to work for reconciliation with Indigenous Australians. These issues were strongly supported by prime minister Paul Keating.

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Summary of the decade

The 1990s was a decade marked by the effects of the economic and social revolutions from the previous two decades. The economic measures such as removing tariff protection from local industries and the freeing up of trade benefited many, but not all. There were substantial numbers of Australians who were worse-off as factories closed and manufacturing industries reduced job opportunities, and the unemployed were often unable to transfer into the newly thriving retail, commercial and tourist sectors.

Simultaneously, the newly arrived Vietnamese, Chinese, Islamic and other communities were changing the social fabric of Australian society. Nearly one in four Australians were born overseas, representing about 100 countries. Many Australians thought that it was time for Australia to become a republic and to work for reconciliation with Indigenous Australians. These issues were strongly supported by prime minister Paul Keating.

The terms of two prime ministers dominated the 1990s. Paul Keating of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) was elected as prime minster from 1991 until 1996. Subsequently, John Howard was prime minister of a Liberal government from 1996 until he lost his parliamentary seat in 2007.

Australia experienced the biggest change in technology. The 1990s saw the introduction of the internet and the mobile phone, which began to change the face of telecommunications and entertainment.

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The 1990s was a decade marked by the effects of the economic and social revolutions from the previous two decades. The economic measures such as removing tariff protection from local industries and the freeing up of trade benefited many, but not all.

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| 1990- Numerous protected areas have been created under the national Biodiversity Action Plan to protect and preserve unique ecosystems

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2000- the Millennium drought is said by some to be the worst drought recorded since European settlement

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2000- sea water was used to provide the major cities with water once the water went through desalination plants

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John Howard and russian president vladimir putin have a political meeting over relations

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2000 International multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Olympics Scandal Now Spreads to Australia. The Olympic scandal expanded to a new front yesterday when documents were made public showing that the Australian Olympic Committee offered tens of thousands of dollars to two African members of the International Olympic Committee the night before the decisive vote on where the 2000 Summer Games would be staged. Sydney was awarded the Games after it defeated Beijing by two votes.

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Law of provocation abolished in Victoria
The Crimes Act was amended to remove the defense of provocation which had been used to have murder reduced to the lesser charge of manslaughter. From this point on, situations in which a person kills as a response to long-term abuse and family violence would be taken into account.

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In 2005, following thh September 11 attacks, the 2002 bali bombings and the benbrika plot, the Government introduced new counter terrorism laws which, among other things, allowed for preventitive detention and control orders prohibited incitement of terrorist acts, and prohibited reckless provision of funding to terrorists.

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At this time Australia had harsh anti-refugee policies and many were fighting for a more open bordered country.

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2010- was Australia’s wettest year since the 2000’s

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2010- temperatures began to drop a lot but also marking the 2000s as the hottest decade for them

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2010 When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.

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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games were Australia's best ever, with a record three medals and a string of top ten finishes. Australia matched its team size from Torino 2006 with 40 athletes - however for the first time ever there was gender equality in an Australian Olympic Team, with 20 men and 20 women.

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No indigenous person was elected to the House of Representatives, until West Australian Liberal ken wyatt, in August 2010.

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Matildas Earn Gender Equity with the Socceroos

The Matildas will earn the same pay as Socceroos players under a landmark deal announced by Football Federation Australia. This makes the Matildas the first female team in world football to be guaranteed equal pay to their male counterparts(2018).

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150 years ago in Australia women had no political voice, few protections from poverty or harm and Indigenous women had no rights at all. We've come a long way since then, but there's still important work to be done. Trace the history of women's rights in Australia and the issues still lagging behind. The future is gender equality - but it's up to us to make it happen!
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following timeline contains images of deceased persons.

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150 years ago in Australia women had no political voice, few protections from poverty or harm and Indigenous women had no rights at all. We've come a long way since then, but there's still important work to be done. Trace the history of women's rights in Australia and the issues still lagging behind.

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The Labor Party replaced Rudd with Julia Gillard in 2010 owing to Rudd's unpopularity both among his frontbench and the public, so then Julia Gillard became the first woman prime minister in Australian history.

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A MASSIVE wave of protests shook Australian cities as part of the global day of action against war. No one expected them to be so big. The weekend began with what would have been the largest anti-war demonstration ever in this country(2018).
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A MASSIVE wave of protests shook Australian cities as part of the global day of action against war. No one expected them to be so big.

The weekend began with what would have been the largest anti-war demonstration ever in this country.

CENTRAL MELBOURNE came to a total halt on Friday evening as a quarter of a million Victorians massed against the war.

The turnout represented one in 10 adult Melburnians.

The demo easily dwarfed the largest moratorium march against the Vietnam War in 1970 and the 150,000-strong union rally against Jeff Kennett in 1992.

Michele O'Neil, state secretary of the textile workers' union, opened the rally, declaring that war was wrong, with or without United Nations support. She received thunderous applause.

Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Leigh Hubbard and Democrats senator Natasha Stott Despoja were among those who made the same point.

Victorian Peace Network organiser Damien Lawson called for civil disobedience and industrial action to stop the war.

Construction union state secretary Martin Kingham was loudly cheered when he announced that Trades Hall had voted for a lunchtime stopwork rally on the first working day after war breaks out.

As the first marchers filled Federation Square, the rear of the demonstration was still six blocks back, with protesters swamping Swanston St from shopfront to shopfront and blocking side streets.

Many stood patiently in the heat for two hours only to go home without marching.

Earlier, protesters queued at suburban stations for trains into the city. On one packed tram, passengers took up the chant "No Howard, no war."

Hundreds of high school students went on strike earlier in the day to protest.

Unions including teachers, construction workers, metalworkers, liquor trades, textile workers, electricians and public servants marched to join the rally from Trades Hall.

The rally united young and old, Christian and Muslim, white collar and blue collar.

Other speakers included Greens leader Bob Brown, federal Labor MP Maria Vamvakinou, singer Peter Garrett and 17-year-old Kurdish refugee Ala Ismail.

There were hundreds of homemade placards attacking Howard and Bush, street theatre and puppets like those on anti-capitalist demonstrations.

Long after the speeches had finished, protesters were still dancing and celebrating the size of the movement in Federation Square.

The Melbourne demonstration set the pattern of the biggest ever anti-war protests in city after city as well as smaller towns up and down the country.

Organisers say up to 100,000 protested in Adelaide, 100,000 in Brisbane, 20,000 in Perth, 15,000 in Canberra, Hobart and Newcastle.

They were joined by 5000 in Lismore, 3000 in each of Byron Bay, Bellingen and Armidale, 2000 in Cairns, 1500 in each of Darwin and Mackay. Protests were also held in Rockhampton, Geelong, Kempsey, Nambucca and Foster and the Sunshine Coast.

The biggest demonstration of all took place in Sydney.

More than 350,000 filled Hyde Park and spilled into Elizabeth and surrounding streets.

The march was a huge carnival of people power and homemade signs.

Veteran journalist John Pilger received deafening applause and cheers when he spoke of the power of the demonstrated by ordinary people challenging war.

"What's wonderful is that the plastic patriots and their propaganda have failed.

This weekend more than 30 million people all over the world are doing what you're doing.

They are your comrades. Two million people in London. Five million people across the continent. Forty-two US cities.

Never has there been such a massive opposition to a war before it began.

Never has there been such a world-wide resistance to the terrorism of state power.

Let me assure you finally - our movement is too big to be defeated.

This is not to say that the Bush gang can be stopped immediately.

But the power of public opinion, the moral power and the political power - your power - is far greater than perhaps even many of you realise.

Howard fears public opinion, Bush and Blair fear public opinion.

That's why their propaganda is so virulent and their apologists are so shrill.

They prefer the old lie that people are apathetic-some apathy.

Let us reassure Bush, and Howard and Blair that they have every reason to be afraid.

For they, and not the Iraqi people, are the real enemy and we are the majority."

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2010 When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace. 

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2010 The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games were Australia's best ever, with a record three medals and a string of top ten finishes. Australia matched its team size from Torino 2006 with 40 athletes - however for the first time ever there was gender equality in an Australian Olympic Team, with 20 men and 20 women. 