Media: BOOK - paperback, 184 pages
Author: R. Williams
Year: 2019
ISBN: 9780648651147
Publisher: Boom Books

What happened in Australia back in 1964? Most people aren't likely to remember.

Ron Williams has created this series to record the events that made news in Australia year-by-year. Each volume in the series describes the happenings that affected people, real 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. 

So what made news in 1964? You might be surprised. In 1964 HMAS Voyager, an Australian destroyer, was sunk in a collision with the air-craft carrier, Melbourne. Stamp collecting was disappearing as a hobby, wine was no longer plonk, and mothers were waging war on old-fashioned tuck-shops. (God bless them. The tuck-shops, not the mothers). The Beatle cult was angering some people. The TAB: to be or not to be? Can true Reds get fat? Did Billie Graham have lasting effects? Prostitution was proposed as a safety valve against rape. Judy Garland got bad Press in Melbourne and left Oz in a sulk.

Please note this book is filled with articles from the year, not photographs.

Contents:
A brand new idea about smoking
Have stamps been stamped out?
Opposition to the Beatles
Menace of fat communists
Does Billy Graham still work?
Retarded children
Our white Australia policy
University mayhem, maybe
Some day I'll wish upon a star
Care of unwed mothers
Are things better in Spain?
Ned Kelly is still making news
Call for National Service
Real signs of real war
Nurses through the dirt
Rape also in the news
Church of England: Catholic?
Prostitution as a safety valve
Drinking and the young
Christmas id here
The end of a good year