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Events relating to australia
Australian author David Malouf is first published as a poet, with his collection Bicycle and Other Poems
Australian feminist Germaine Greer publishes The Female Eunuch as a wake-up call to women
Australian tennis player Margaret Court achieves the grand slam in singles, adding it to her previous grand slam in doubles
19-year-old Aboriginal tennis player Evonne Goolagong wins the singles title at Wimbledon
Aborigines pitch a Tent Embassy on Australia Day outside parliament in Canberra to highlight political injustices
Gough Whitlam is Australia's prime minister after Labor party victory
The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace
Patrick White is the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Cyclone Tracy devastates the Australian city of Darwin on Christmas Day, destroying 80% of the domestic buildings
The island of Papua New Guinea wins independence from Australia
There is political turmoil in Australia after the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismisses prime minister Gough Whitlam
Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr appoints Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister
Robert Muldoon is prime minister of New Zealand after a National Party ;election victory
Malcolm Fraser becomes the Australian prime minister, winning the first of three general election victories
Australian entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch buys Britain's establishment newspaper, The Times, and its related titles
Stolen Generations, by Peter Read, reveals the scandal of Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents
Australian novelist Thomas Keneally publishes Schindler's Ark and wins the Booker Prize
Bob Hawke is Australia's prime minister after a Labor victory in the election
David Lange becomes prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour election victory
Australian bowler Dennis Lillee's total of 351 Test wickets sets a new record
Peter Carey publishes Illywhacker, a novel narrated by a 139-year-old Australian
French agents blow up Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour
Ayers Rock is returned to the Mutitjulu people and given its Aboriginal name, Uluru
Simultaneous acts passed in Canberra and Westminster give Australia full judicial independence, ending appeals to the UK Privy Council
Robert Hughes describes the penal system of colonial Australia in The Fatal Shore
