Media: BOOK - paperback, 184 pages
Author: R. Williams
Year: 2022
ISBN: 9780645182637
Publisher: Boom Books

What happened in Australia back in 1973? 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 from 1939-1973. 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. 

In 1973, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House. Young people over 18 can vote for the Federal Elections, and the pensions of older people are no longer means-tested. You can spend new Fifty Dollar notes at Australia’s first legal casino in Hobart. China is OK again, with a three-year Trade agreement with Australia, and Gough being the first Australian Prime Minister to visit. Police arrested 98 Green demonstrators occupying a building site in Sydney. Women got maternity leave if they work for the Federal Government, but only if they had a baby. Men should not apply. You cannot sell kangaroo products overseas any more. The White Australia Policy is gone, and so too is the death penalty.

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

Contents:
Introduction to this Series
Vietnam wont go away
Our new ministers speak out
The national anthem
Milk deliveries
Happy holidays for some
Close the zoos?
Police dawn-raids
Garages: going, going ...
Matrimonial honeymoon is over?
Abortion in demand
There is still action in Vietnam
It's time: six month's review
Nuclear testing in the Pacific
What about coffee?
Jack Mundy and the BLF
More pay for doctors
Women in transition
The demand for civil marriages
Strikes galore
The opening of the Opera House
Watch Jim Cairns
Punishment fit the crime
Summing up 1973