Media: BOOK - paperback, 160 pages
Author: R. Williams
Year: 2016
ISBN: 978099460157582
Publisher: Boom Books

The Born In ... series is has been created to record the events that made news in Australia year-by-year. Each volume describes the happenings that affected people, and is designed to make you remember and wonder at things you'd forgotten or didn't know about. They're also designed to get the older (and younger) generations talking about the past to rediscover heritage that otherwise would be forgotten.  

As people get a little older, they become more reflective, and they start to look back at their teens and childhood ... but when they get back to their birth year they can't remember a thing which isn't surprising. 

In 1958 the Christian brothers bought a pub and raffled it; some clergy thought that Christ would not be pleased. Circuses were losing animals at a great rate. Officials were in hot water because the Queen Mother wasn't given a sun shade. School milk was hot news and bread home deliveries were under fire.  

Contents:
Preface to this Series
January
 - Idle Thoughts
 - Churches and Gambling
February
 - Lasseter's Gold
 - Whinging Poms
March
 - Bread Handling
 - School Milk
April
 - Artificial Insemination
 - Pubs and Art Unions
May
 - Fun on Sundays
 - Computers are Coming
June
 - Hurseys in Tasmania
 - The Death Penalty
July
 - The Middle East
 - Menace of Hire Purchase
August
 - Empire Games
 - An Aborigine Hell-Hole
September
 - Police in the Spotlight
 - Birth Control
October
 - Youth in the Spotlight
 - SP Betting
November
 - Federal Elections
 - Electric Jugs
December
 - Tidying up the Herseys
 - Summing up 1958