Year 9 Contextualisation Unit: Film 'The Sapphires': Australia in the 1960's

Image courtesy:

http://www.manmonthly.com.au/news/manufacturing-made-love-not-war-in-the-1960s

• My Place 1960s

  Comprehensive website containing a decade summary, history and politics, society and culture, science and technology.

• Social trends in the 1960s

  1960s - the tea lady, smoking and the introduction of the pill.

• ABC Timeline of major events

• https://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/stories/2012/01/19/3414788.htm 

• 'Freedom Ride' bus tour through rural NSW - 80 Days That Changed Our Lives - ABC Archives

• Referendum remedies the Constitutional treatment of Aboriginal people - 80 Days That Changed Our Lives - ABC Archives

• South Australia the last state to end six o'clock closing - 80 Days That Changed Our Lives - ABC Archives

• Commonwealth Arbitration Commission prescribes equal pay for equal work - 80 Days That Changed Our Lives - ABC Archives