1962 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1962 in Australia.

1962 in Australia
MonarchyElizabeth II
Governor-GeneralWilliam Sidney
Prime ministerRobert Menzies
Population10,742,291
ElectionsSA, NSW, WA

1962
in
Australia

Decades:
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
See also:

Incumbents

State Premiers

State Governors

Events

The toilets of St Brigid's; the reason for the 1962 School Strike and the beginning of State Aid to non-Government schools
  • 16 July – The Goulburn School Strike started. This was a education strike in Goulburn, New South Wales, where, in response to a demand for the installation of three extra toilets at a local Catholic Primary School, the local community closed down these schools and sent the children to the Government schools. The Catholic Church declared they had no money to install the extra toilets. Nearly 1,000 children turned up to be enrolled locally and the state schools were unable to accommodate them. In 1963, Menzies made State aid for science blocks part of his party's platform in response to the public debate engendered by the Goulburn strike.
  • 15 August – The Red Sales aerobatic team, flying Vampire jets, crashes in practice, killing six people.[1]
  • 28 September – Paddington tram depot fire: One fifth of the Brisbane tram fleet is destroyed when the Paddington tram depot is burnt down in suspicious circumstances. 65 trams are destroyed.

Arts and literature

Television

Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 17 January – Frank Hurley (born 1885), film maker and photographer
  • 3 December – Mary Gilmore (born 1865), poet and journalist

See also

References

  1. Disaster struck RAAF aerobatic team, Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre.
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