Media: BOOK - paperback, 178 pages
Author: R. Williams
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9780645182668
Publisher: Boom Books

What happened in Australia back in 1975? Most people aren't likely to remember.

Most people know nothing about their year of birth

As people get a little bit older, they become more reflective on their lives, and they place more value on their partners, families and friends. At this time, nostalgia edges into their lives, and they start to look back at their teens and childhood, and dwell a little on their early years and inevitably on their parents. But then they get back to 1975 when it all began for them, they can't remember a thing.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Whitlam had led the Parliament for 2 years. His shine was starting to tarnish, and he was no longer seen as God, but as god. Meantime, the economy was nearly ruined, half a million people were on the dole, and interest rates on home loans were 17 percent. His ministers kept on making big changes, and some of them were sensible. Towards the end of the year, he had a long-running fight with Malcolm Fraser, and the Governor General. He lost both of these and was pensioned off as Prime Minister..

Ron Williams is a retired teacher, mathematician, computer-man, political scientist, farmer and writer. He has a BA from Sydney and a Masters in Social Work and a PhD in Political Science from Hawaii.

PREFACE TO THIS SERIES

This book is the 37th in a series of books that I have researched and written. It tells a story about a number of important or newsworthy Australia-centric events that happened in 1975. The series covers each of the years from 1939 to 1975, for a total of 37 Titles.

I developed my interest in writing these books a few years ago at a time when my children entered their teens. My own teens started in 1947, and I started trying to remember what had happened to me then. I thought of the big events first, like Saturday afternoon at the pictures, and cricket in the back yard, and the wonderful fun of going to Maitland on the train for school each day. Then I recalled some of the not-so- good things. I was an altar boy, and that meant three or four Masses a week. I might have thought I loved God at that stage, but I really hated his Masses. And the schoolboy bullies, like Greg Fannell, and the hapless Freddie Ebans. Yet, to compensate for these, there was always the beautiful, black headed, blue-sailor-suited June Brown, who I was allowed to worship from a distance.

I also thought about my parents. Most of the major events that I lived through came to mind readily. But after that, I realised that I really knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been bom about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 20 years, I was old enough to

Contents 

The Darwin disaster
The Derwent disaster
Keep your clothes on - or else 18
Naughty, naughty children
The family law bill
Introduction of Medibank
Write a letter to the Herald
Back to oz politics
Spoil the school
Thoughts on inflation
A danger warning from Fraser
Remember phoney names?
Raising loans in Australia
Roos for the table?
Medibank introduction
The tempo is increasing
Aboriginies and the police
Connor in strife
Is dissolution possible?
A day in history
Here come the elections
Ending up 1975