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Patrick White (top left) and Manoly Lascaris with the dogs c1950 gelatin silver photograph Peggy Garland papers National Library of Australia |
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6th Ben 13th Ben 20th Ben 27th Cherish |
5 CBS releases Greetings from Asbury Park N.J., the debut LP by Bruce Springsteen.. 14 Elvis Presley gains the highest audience in television history for his worldwide broadcast of the Aloha From Hawaii concert. 16 Maverick journalist Francis James is released into Hong Kong, three years after being arrested in China. He had been arrested in late 1969 after writing articles claiming that he had visited China's nuclear test site. 26 The Perth Concert Hall opens - Partick White is named Australian Of The Year 27-29 Comedian Paul Hogan hosts the second Sunbury Rock Festival outside Melbourne. Featured acts include the return of Oz rock pioneer Johnny O'Keefe, plus Friends, The 69-ers, Coloured Balls, Madder Lake, Band Of Light, The Aztecs and Blackfeather. Jenny Brown, writing for The Digger, is critical of the second festival: "Musically, Sunbury was a mediocre success. Unlike last year's there were few surprises, and only a handful of acts seemed to have something special up their sleeves ... the Coke was warm and the pies were cold." - Thousands of country music fans gather in Tamworth for the inaugural Australian Country Music Festival. |
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Love You To Want Me 10th
I'd Love You To Want Me 17th
You're So Vain 24th
You're So Vain |
9 The Rolling Stones arrive in Sydney for their third Australasian tour 10 Australia's first legal casino opens at Wrest Point in Hobart. 11 The Rolling Stones play in Auckland 12 The first group of American prisoners-of-war is released from North Vietnam. 14 The Stones play at Milton Park Tennis Courts, Brisbane 16 A reception and press conference for the Rolling Stones is held at Montsalvat, outside Melbourne 17-18 The Rolling Stones play 3 shows at Kooyong Tennis Centre, Melbourne, supported by Madder Lake 20-21 The Rolling Stones play 2 shows at Memorial Drive Park, Adelaide 24 The Rolling Stones play at the Western Australia Cricket Ground, Perth 26-27 The Rolling Stones play at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney 28 Federal Parliament introduces a bill to reduce the voting age from 21 to 18. |
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One Night/Cadillacin' Slippin' & Slidin' / Fly On My Nose Goodbye Lollipop / Bumper Bar Song |
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You're So Vain 10th
You're So Vain 17th
You're So Vain 24th
You're So Vain 31st
You're So Vain |
8 Fifteen people are killed in Australia's worst mass murder, when the Whisky A Go Go nightclub in Brisbane is firebombed. Many patrons perish because the fire-escape door at the rear of the club has been sabotaged and the handles greased to prevent people escaping. 12 Two men are charged with the firebomb attack on the Whisky A Go Go. 16 Attorney General Lionel Murphy orders a Commonwealth Police raid on the Melbourne HQ of ASIO, alleging that the spy organisation was withholding intelligence about the activities of Croatian extremists in Australia. 17 Yes begin their first Australian tour at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. The Australian concerts are later cited by the group as among the best of their career, and during this tour their much-maligned concept album Tales from Topographic Oceans is conceived. 19 Yes perform at Brisbane Festival Hall 21 Yes perform in Adelaide. 23 Yes perform in Melbourne. 26 Yes play the final show of their Australian tour in Sydney. |
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Killing Me Softly With His Song 14th
Killing Me Softly With His Song 21st
Top Of The World 28th
Top Of The World |
1 Mushroom Records is launched with the release of McKenzie Theory's album Out Of The Blue, the first Australian all-instrumental rock album, and The Great Australian Rock Festival, a triple album chronicle of January's Sunbury Rock Festival. 6 The new Australian film, Libido, premieres. The feature includes four separate stories, directed by David Baker, Tim Burstall, John B. Murray and Fred Schepisi. 15 Spectrum play their farewell show at Melbourne's Dallas Brooks Hall 16 Newly formed Melbourne band, Skyhooks, play their first gig at St Jude's Church Hall in Carlton. 27 ABC female script assistants strike over wages and conditions. The stoppage is the first strike action by ABC staff in the Commission's 40-year history. |
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On The Air Out Of The Blue Stillpoint Split Ends/For You The Great Australian Rock Festival -
Sunbury 1973 |
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Top Of The World 12th
Top Of The World 19th
Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree 26th
Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree |
10 Sxities pop star Mike Furber commits suicide in Sydney. Furber, whose pop career had petered out in the late '60s, had reportedly become depressed after his sacking from the musical Nuclear (although rumours circulate that he might have been murdered because of alleged underworld entanglements). - A bill to legalise abortion on demand within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy is defeated in federal Parliament. 12 4000 people descend on the small farming town of Nimbin on the NSW north coast, for the Aquarius Festival of Alternative Lifetyles. Organised by promoter Johnny Allen, the featured performers include acrobat Philip le Petit, the Mornington Islander Aboriginal dance troupe, performance artists The White Company, New Zealand multimedia troupe BLERTA (led by actor and musician Bruno Lawrence), South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand), Lindsay Bourke and Captain Matchbox. The Festival leads to many young people settling in the area and establishing communes, and Nimbin becomes Australia's "alternative lifestyle capital" in the 70s and 80s. 31 Spectrum's I'll Be Gone is the final rock single played on Melbourne's 3AK. Once the leading pop station in the city, it takes up a so-called "Beautiful Music" (MOR) format on June 1.
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A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree 9th Tie
A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree 16th Tie
A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree 23rd Tie
A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree 30th Tie
A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree |
1 The RAAF Receives the first six F-111C supersonic fighter-bomber aircraft 2 The Adelaide Festival Centre opens 8 The special Aunty Jack Rox On airs on ABC-TV 13 The Victorian government orders that all children's nightwear be labelled with flammability ratings after six-year-old Tammy Doherty dies when her dressing gown catches fire. 16 ABC-TV's The Comedy Game features Flash Nick From Jindivik (Part 1), a bushranger spoof by Grahame Bond. The character reappears a four-show miniseries in 1974. 17 Chain performs at one of the last gigs held at Garrison Disco in Prahran, Melbourne. The popular venue is being forced to close due to pressure from the local council. The farewell concerts are recorded and later released as Garrison: The Final Blow Vols I and II by Mushroom Records. 18 The special Aunty Jack Rox On airs on ABC-TV; the special includes performances by Rory O'Donoghue's group Cool Bananas, which features Stevie Wright as guest lead vocalist. 23 ABC-TV's The Comedy Game features Flash Nick From Jindivik (Part 2) 25 HMAS Supply leaves Sydney to rendezvous with NZ frigate Otago at the French nuclear test zone at Muroroa Atoll in the South Pacific. The two ships are sent as a protest against French nuclear weapons testing. 30 The federal Tariff Board tables the report of its inquiry into the film and TV industry, recommending a radical restructure of the production, distribution and exhibition industries.
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Daddy Cool Indelible Murtceps |
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Daisy A Day 14th
Daisy A Day 21st
The Morning After 28th
Heaven Is My Woman's Love |
3 The new supporting mother's benefit comes into force 6 ACTU president Bob Hawke is elected federal president of the ALP 8 En route to a gig supporting touring UK band Lindisfarne, an equipment truck belonging to rock group The La De Das is wrecked in a head-on collision on the Hume Highway, between Holbrook and Albury. Bassist Ronnie Peel and roadie John Brewster are hospitalised and most of the group's equipment is destroyed. Three weeks later they play at a benefits gig in their honour, held at the Green Elephant (aka the Duncaster Theatre in Kensington, NSW) and featuring Sherbet, Buffalo, Pirana, Lotus, Home, Country Radio, I'Tambu, The Original Battersea Heroes and Hush. - Former ALP leader Arthur Calwell dies in Canberra, aged 76 18 The Whitlam Labor government implements its controversial decision to reduce all tariffs on imported goods by 25%. The decision soon has a catastrophic effect on local manufacturing industry. 25 Murdoch University is established in Western Australia.
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Spectrum Je t'aime |
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Heaven Is My Woman's Love 11th
Delta Dawn 18th
Delta Dawn 25th
Delta Dawn |
1 The Prices Justification Tribunal is established 10 Renowned Australian journalist Lillian Roxon dies of an asthma attack at her New York apartment, aged 41. Roxon, who moved to New York in 1959, was Australia's first female foreign newspaper correspondent and wrote the landmark book Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia (1969) the first work of its kind ever published. 21 The Victorian government releases statistics which show that the number of drivers admitted to hospital after car accidents has dropped 51% since the state introduced its compulsory seat belt laws. 23 Federal Education Minister Kim Beazley Snr tells parliament that agreement has been reached with the states for the federal government to take over the funding of universities and colleges of advanced education from 1 January 1974. The agreement also signals the abolition of tuition fees for university courses and the introduction of a federally-funded student allowance of $1600 per annum.. 25 The South Australian capital of Adelaide is stunned by another sensational multiple child kidnapping -- the second such case in less than ten years. Joanne Ratcliffe, 11, and Kirste Gordon, 4, are abducted from Adelaide Oval while attending an Australian Rules football match with their families -- Joanne with her parents, Kirste with her grandmother. Although not acquainted, the families are seated near each other, so when Joanne goes to the toilet, Kirste's grandmother asks Joanne to take Kirste, and they return after a few minutes. About half an hour later, Kirste again needs to go to the toilet, so Joanne takes her a second time. This time they do not return, and after fifteen minutes, Mrs Ratcliffe goes looking for them. They are not at the toilets, and the Ratcliffes and Kirste's grandmother spend the rest of the match searching for them in vain. Several witnesses later report seeing the girls over the next two hours. Ken Wohling, Assistant Curator of the oval, sees the girls leaving with a man, but suspects nothing, and they leave unhindered. Over the next ninety minutes there are four more sightings, including one placing them just outside the ground, talking to a middle-aged man, while they apparently tried to catch a kitten under a parked car. Three of the four witnesses report that Joanne was distressed. In a cruel twist of fate, one of these witnesses is a man who sees them as he is driving past the oval. Seeing Joanne in distress, he briefly stops his car, but then decides that it is none of his business, and drives on. Kirste and Joanne are last seen with the unidentified man about three kilometres from the oval, ninety minutes after they left. Neither they nor the man are ever seen nor heard from again. 27 The South Australian government offers a $5,000 reward for information about the disappearance of Joanne Ratliffe and Kirste Gordon. The hunt for the two girls intensifies with the setting up of a special operations centre and a task force of twenty police officers. It is the biggest investigation of its kind in South Australia since the mysterious disappearance of the three Beaumont children from Glenelg Beach in January 1966. It is widely believed that the Adelaide Oval abduction and the Beaumont case and are the work of the same man. Descriptions of the suspect in both cases are very similar, the modus operandi is similar, and in both cases the suspect and the children all vanished without trace. Neither case has ever been solved. |
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Total Union (LP) Bound For South Australia / I Need Women 12 lb Toothbrush/Country Blues |
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Delta Dawn 8th
Delta Dawn 15th
Never Never 22nd
Never Never 29th
Can The Can |
9 The Australian dollar is revalued up by a further 5% 11 The socialist government of Chile is deposed in a brutal military coup led by fascist general Augusto Pinochet. The presidential palace is attacked by aircraft, and President Salvador Allende is killed, although initial reports suggest that he committed suicide rather than be captured by the coup leaders. 15 Manly-Warringah defeat Cronulla-Sutherland in the NSW Rugby League Grand Final 26 Eighteen pensioners are killed and twenty-one injured when a tour bus plunges down an cliff into the frigid waters of Tumut Ponds Dam, near Cabramurra. The roof of the bus is ripped open during the crash, throwing passengers out along the cliff face as the bus falls. 29 Richmond beat Carlton in the VFL Grand Final |
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Jamaican Farewell / Red Hot Momma Duke Of Earl / Jambalaya Straight As A Die (LP) |
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Can The Can 13th
Can The Can 20th
Can The Can 27th
Can The Can |
6 The fourth Arab-Israeli War -- the so-called "Yom Kippur War" -- begins. 10,000 Egyptian troops attack Israel across the Suez Canal and Syrian forces attack from the Golan heights. The Arab armies, better trained and more aggressive than in previous conflicts, inflict heavy casualties on Israel in the early days of the fighting, but they fail to capitalise on their early success. Israel then pushes into Syrian territory, and encircles the Egyptians by crossing the canal and taking the west bank, but they are only able to carry out their counterattack after a US President Rixhard Nixon orders a huge airlift of materiel to resupply the Israeli forces. 9 The first Australian $50 notes go into circulation 13 The coastal freighter Blythe Star sinks off South West Cape, Tasmania. 17 Enraged by the United States' blatant military support for Israel, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia orders an embargo on the sale of Saudi crude oil to the United States, causing the price to quadruple within days after decades of stability. The oil embargo and the steep rise in the cost of crude oil precipitates an international economic downturn that persists for most of the 70s. The oil crisis is later recognised as a crucial factor in the failure of the reform governments of Gough Whitlam in Australia and Jimmy Carter in the United States. 19 World-famous Australian author Patrick White is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and uses the prize money to establish the Patrick White Award. The inaugural winner is author Christina Stead 20 The Sydney Opera House is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II 24 Four police are injured and 77 protesters, including former BLF secretary Jack Mundey, are arrested during a stormy demonstration in the inner city Sydney suburb of The Rocks. A squad of 50 police are called in after demonstrators barricaded themselves inside a row of partially-demolished houses. The action is part of a concerted campaign by resident groups, unions and heritage groups who are trying to prevent demolition and redevelopment of many historic areas of the city. The Rocks campaign is one of the first uses of the union "Green Ban" by the Builders Labourers Federation as a means to prevent further demolition. The historic suburb contains some of the oldest houses in the city, but its prime harbourside location and proximity to the city centre makes it a rich prize for property developers. The struggles escalate over the next two years, climaxing in the kidnapping and presumed murder of activist and publisher Juanita Nielsen [-> 7/75] 25 Another 21 people are arrested during protests in The Rocks, Sydney.
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Whitlam begins the first state visit to China by an Australian
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Can The Can 10th
He Did With Me 17th
Angie 24th
Angie |
6 Gala Supreme wins the Melbourne Cup 23 PM Gough Whitlam announces a dollar-for-dollar subsidy scheme for the new Visual Arts Board, which is intended to encourage Australian art galleries to buy new works direct from contemporary artists. 24 Aborigines nation-wide vote to elect a National Aboriginal Consultative Committee to advise the government on Aboriginal needs and issues 26 Former Shadows bassist John Rostill is found dead in his London home studio by his former band-mate, guitarist Bruce Welch. Rostill was still seated in his chair holding his bass, having apparently been electrocuted whilst recording. Rostill, who replaced original Shadows bassist Jet Harris in March 1962, became a successful songwriter, penning both If You Love me Let Me Know and Let Me Be There for Olivia Newton-John. Tragically he did not live to see both songs become million-sellers when they were released in America early in 1974. 30 Sydney's new Her Majesty's Theatre opens, replacing its historic namesake, which had been destroyed by fire. - famed American jazz drummer Buddy Rich is arrested on marijuana possession charges during his Australian tour. He pleads innocent and the charges are subsequently dropped.
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A Breath Of Fresh Air (LP) Steel Guitar / Covered Wagon I'm Gonna Miss You Babe / Hey Baby Way Out West / Shine A Light Rock'n'Roll Sandwich 129/Sweet Talking Spoon Song |
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Angie 8th
Angie 15th
Angie 22nd
Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) 29th
Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) |
2 Papua-New Guinea achieves self-government. 3 Famous Sydney eccentric Bee Miles dies, aged 71. 21 Faraday School kidnapper Robert Bolan is jailed for sixteen years. 31 AC/DC give their first public performance at Chequers nightclub in Sydney. |
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A Strange Fantastic Dream (LP) Rock'n'Roll Fight (Going On) / Sorrowful
Eyes Tales of Old Grandaddy All I Wanna Do Is Rock (LP) I Am Pegasus / Country Christine Waltz Terminal Buzz (LP) |
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