Австралия в 1967 году: основные события

The following lists events that happened during 1967 in Australia.

First student intake at Macquarie University. 3 February – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia; he was executed for the murder of prison warder George Hodson while escaping from Pentridge Prison on 19 December 1965. 7 February – Black Tuesday in Tasmania – massive bushfires devastate much of the Tasmanian capital of Hobart and surrounding areas. 8 February – Gough Whitlam defeats Dr Jim Cairns and Frank Crean to replace the retiring Arthur Calwell as leader of the federal Australian Labor Party.

1 March – The Royal Australian Navy replaces the British White Ensign flag on all its ships with the Australian White Ensign. 1 March – The Duke of Edinburgh visits Australia. 8 March – La Trobe University is officially opened. 13 March – Bessie Rischbieth protested against the Mounts Bay reclamation project on the Swan River and the building of the Narrows Bridge and dies.

4 April – The Australian government announces it will not ban the oral contraceptive pill, maintaining that the risk of thrombosis is "very slight". 7 April – Australian military adviser Major Peter Badcoe is killed in action in Vietnam during an operation in Hương Trà District with the 1st ARVN Division Reaction Company. 12 April – Australian Roman Catholic bishops publicly declare their opposition to the war in Vietnam. 29 April – A majority in the New England region of New South Wales voted against the creation of a new state in the referendum.

25 May – The report by the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission on the Gordon Power scheme was tabled in parliament and the Government of Tasmania sought approval for $100 million funding. 27 May – Indigenous Australians (technically only the Aboriginal race – see Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)) are given the right to be counted in the national census after a national referendum and legislation changing citizenship laws, but voters reject a third referendum question about breaking the nexus between the sizes of the Senate and the House of Representatives. 29 May – The new Australian 5 dollar note goes into circulation.

1 June – Don Dunstan succeeds Frank Walsh as Premier of South Australia, after Walsh retires under pressure from his party. 7 June – Launceston, Tasmania, records the highest barometric pressure on record for Australia with a reading of 1044.3 millibars or 30.84 inHg. 25 June – Sydney underworld figure Richard Gabriel Reilly is murdered. 29 June – The Tasmanian Government passes a Bill revoking the national park status of Lake Pedder, allowing the Hydro Electric Commission to construct a dam flooding the lake.

1 August – Qantas drops the word 'Empire' from its name.

1 October – The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service is established. 20 October – Australia unlinks the Australian dollar from British currency, when the British government makes a decision to devalue the pound sterling.

27 November – Singer John Farnham, then known as Johnny Farnham, releases Sadie (The Cleaning Lady). It was his first Number 1.

17 March – Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station is opened near Canberra. April – Dung beetles released between Broome, Western Australia and Townsville, Queensland in the Australian Dung Beetle Project, led by Dr. George Bornemissza of the CSIRO in an attempt to control the buffalo fly. 1 May – Health authorities begin the first national polio immunisation campaign using the new Sabin oral vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk. 29 November – Australia's first satellite, WRESAT, is launched on an American Redstone rocket from Woomera, South Australia.

27 March – Bill Howard from Wodonga won the Stawell Gift starting from 5 yards in a time of 11.6 seconds
28 June – Judy Pollock breaks Ann Packer's world record (2:04.3) in the women's 800 metres, clocking 2:01.0 at a meet in Helsinki, Finland. 9 September – Derek Clayton wins his first men's national marathon title, clocking 2:21:58 in Adelaide.

16 September – South Sydney defeats Canterbury Bankstown 12–10 in front of 56,358 people to win the 1967 New South Wales Rugby League Grand Final. The Penrith Panthers and the Cronulla Sutherland Sharks are introduced into the New South Wales Rugby League competition. The newly founded Cronulla Sutherland team finish in last position in the New South Wales Rugby League competition, claiming the wooden spoon. Brothers defeats Northern Suburbs 6–2 to win the 1967 Brisbane Rugby League premiership.

The All Blacks defeat Australia 29–9 to retain the Bledisloe Cup.

The first Squash racquets international championship is held and won by Australia.

8 July – John Newcombe wins the men's singles at Wimbledon, defeating Germany's Wilhelm Bungert 6–3 6–1 6–1. 10 September – John Newcombe wins the men's singles at the US Open, defeating the USA's Clark Graebner 6–4 6–4 8–6. Roy Emerson defeats Arthur Ashe 6–4 6–1 6–4 in the men's singles final at the Australian Open. Nancy Gunter defeats Lesley Turner Bowrey 6–1, 6–4 in the women's singles final at the Australian Open.

18 November – Dame Pattie, Australian challenger for the America's Cup was defeated by the American defender Intrepid which won the series 4–0. 30 December – Pen Duick III (France) won line honours in the 1967 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in a time of 4:04:10:31. Rainbow II (New Zealand) is the overall winner.

3 March – The Duke of Edinburgh laid a foundation stone for a new Western Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was completed in 1968 (known as the Ponsford Stand after 1986). 7 November – Red Handed, ridden by Roy Higgins and trained by Bart Cummings wins the 1967 Melbourne Cup in a time of 3:20:40. 14 November Australia wins the men's association football South Vietnam Independence Cup in Saigon in the final against South Korea. The Manchester United football team tours Australia.