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Florence Margaret "Pearl" Thomas1881–?

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Florence Margaret "Pearl" Thomas
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Florence Margaret
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Pearl
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Thomas
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Birth 1881
 Victoria, Australia

Note: Adopted Jan. 1884 aged 3 by Oliver Henry POTTS and Elizabeth CARR. Birth certificate may have Pearl registered as Margaret Florence not Florence Margaret.
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Death of a maternal grandmother 20 August 1882 (Age 19 months)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

maternal grandmother - Mary Jagger
Death of a maternal grandmother 20 August 1882 (Age 19 months)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

maternal grandmother - Mary Jagger
Australian History 1882 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Marriage of parentsView family
13 November 1883 (Age 2)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

father - Oliver Henry "O. H." Potts
mother - Elizabeth "Betty" Carr
Australian History 1883 (Age 2)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a paternal grandmother 3 February 1884 (Age 3)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

paternal grandmother - Mary Ann Toomath
Birth of a sister 8 June 1884 (Age 3)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Elizabeth Violet Potts
foster 1884 (Age 3)
 

Adoption of a brother 1885 (Age 4)
 

elder brother - Herbert Henry "Bert" Thomas
Death of a father after 1885 (Age 4)
 

father - James Trembath Thomas
Death of a mother after 1885 (Age 4)
 

mother - Mary Carr
Birth of a brother 15 July 1886 (Age 5)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Oliver Henry "Olly" Potts Jr.
Australian History 1887 (Age 6)
 

Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne.
Birth of a brother 7 April 1888 (Age 7)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - John Carr Potts
Australian History 1889 (Age 8)
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Birth of a brother 17 January 1890 (Age 9)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts
Australian History 1890 (Age 9)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Death of a paternal grandfather 6 July 1891 (Age 10)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

paternal grandfather - John Henry Potts
Birth of a brother 26 October 1891 (Age 10)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - William Robert "Bill" Potts
Australian History 1891 (Age 10)
 

Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.
Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted.
Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status
Note: A severe depression hits Australia
Australian History 1892 (Age 11)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Birth of a brother 27 May 1893 (Age 12)
 Frankston, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P.
Residence September 1893 (Age 12)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

Note: According to JJ Potts this is the date the family moved from Frankston to Healesville.
Australian History 1893 (Age 12)
 

Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.
Australian History 1894 (Age 13)
 

Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.
Australian History 1895 (Age 14)
 

Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.
Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland
Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River
Birth of a brother 21 June 1896 (Age 15)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
Australian History 1896 (Age 15)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 16)
 

Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year.
Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia.
Birth of a sister 12 February 1898 (Age 17)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Sarah Elizabeth Annie "Betty" Potts
Australian History 1898 (Age 17)
 

Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.
Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join.
Birth of a brother 4 July 1899 (Age 18)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Harold George Wilson Potts
Australian History 1899 (Age 18)
 

Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.
Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world.
Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War.
Australian History 1900 (Age 19)
 

Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution.
Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent
Australian History 1901 (Age 20)
 

Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General
Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne
Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy
Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time
Australian History 1902 (Age 21)
 

Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles.
Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag.
Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered
Australian History 1903 (Age 22)
 

Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.
Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army
Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister
Australian History 1904 (Age 23)
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Birth of a brother 8 October 1905 (Age 24)
 Victoria, Australia

younger brother - John Walter Thomas Potts
Death of a sister 8 October 1905 (Age 24)
 Victoria, Australia

elder sister - Mabel Eloise "May" Thomas
Adoption of a brother 8 October 1905 (Age 24)
 

younger brother - John Walter Thomas Potts
Australian History 1906 (Age 25)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Marriage of a brotherArthur James Trembath Thomas - View family
14 September 1908 (Age 27)
 

elder brother - Arthur James Trembath Thomas
sister-in-law - Elsie Constance Hague
Australian History 1908 (Age 27)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History 1909 (Age 28)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 29)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 30)
 

Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded
Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia
Note: The first national census is conducted.
Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed.
Australian History 1912 (Age 31)
 

Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time
Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra
Australian History 1913 (Age 32)
 

Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'.
Australian History 1913 (Age 32)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 33)
 

Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's.
Marriage of a brotherJames Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts - View family
17 July 1915 (Age 34)
 Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts
sister-in-law - Evelyn Maude Langley
Marriage of a sisterElizabeth Violet Potts - View family
27 November 1915 (Age 34)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

brother-in-law - Leslie Roy Langmead
younger sister - Elizabeth Violet Potts
Australian History 1915 (Age 34)
 

Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.
Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory.
Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia
Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister
Marriage of a brotherJabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P. - View family
11 September 1916 (Age 35)
 Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P.
sister-in-law - Ruby Caroline Miller
Australian History 1916 (Age 35)
 

Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'
Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme.
Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded
Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected
Marriage of a brotherCharles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A. - View family
15 September 1917 (Age 36)
 Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
sister-in-law - Beryl Mayo Watson
Australian History 1917 (Age 36)
 

Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.
Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks.
Australian History 1918 (Age 37)
 

Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens
Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'.
Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V
Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead.
Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth.
Australian History 1919 (Age 38)
 

Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea.
Australian History 1920 (Age 39)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 40)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 41)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 42)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Marriage of a brotherJames Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts - View family
2 November 1926 (Age 45)
 Sea Lake, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts
sister-in-law - Violet Marquerite Kirk
Australian History 1926 (Age 45)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Marriage of a brotherHarold George Wilson Potts - View family
8 December 1927 (Age 46)
 Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Harold George Wilson Potts
sister-in-law - Emma Haines Sedgman
Australian History 1927 (Age 46)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Death of a sister 15 March 1928 (Age 47)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Sarah Elizabeth Annie "Betty" Potts
Australian History 1928 (Age 47)
 

Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History 1929 (Age 48)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 49)
 

Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings
Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History 1931 (Age 50)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 51)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Death of a mother 20 May 1933 (Age 52)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

mother - Elizabeth "Betty" Carr
Australian History 1933 (Age 52)
 

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Australian History 1936 (Age 55)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 56)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History 1938 (Age 57)
 

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History 1939 (Age 58)
 

Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government
Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised.
Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway
Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires
Australian History 1940 (Age 59)
 

Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin
Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.
Australian History 1941 (Age 60)
 

Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.
Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk.
Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45.
Australian History 1942 (Age 61)
 

Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese
Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.
Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia.
Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor
Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua)
Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby
Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay.
Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies.
Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure.
Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws.
Australian History 1943 (Age 62)
 

Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.
Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway
Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula.
Australian History 1944 (Age 63)
 

Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.
Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians.
Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville.
Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians
Death of a brother 4 February 1945 (Age 64)
 Brighton East, Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Herbert Henry "Bert" Thomas
Australian History 1945 (Age 64)
 

Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.
Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo
Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders
Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government
Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders
Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations
Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time
Australian History 1946 (Age 65)
 

Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme
Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council.
Death of a brother 1948 (Age 67)
 Prahran, Victoria, Australia

elder brother - Arthur James Trembath Thomas
Death of a father 10 August 1948 (Age 67)
 Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

father - Oliver Henry "O. H." Potts
Australian History 1948 (Age 67)
 

Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Australian History 1949 (Age 68)
 

Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins
Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections.
Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements.
Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government.
Australian History 1950 (Age 69)
 

Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.
Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party
Australian History 1951 (Age 70)
 

Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History 1952 (Age 71)
 

Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Death of a brother 23 September 1954 (Age 73)
 

younger brother - John Carr Potts
Burial of a brother September 1954 (Age 73)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - John Carr Potts
Australian History 1954 (Age 73)
 

Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party
Australian History 1955 (Age 74)
 

Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement
Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence
Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill'
Australian History 1956 (Age 75)
 

Note: Television in Australia is launched.
Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics
Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage
Death of a brother 21 August 1957 (Age 76)
 Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
Burial of a brother August 1957 (Age 76)
 Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
Australian History 1957 (Age 76)
 

Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.
Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success.
Death of a brother 26 January 1959 (Age 78)
 Auburn, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts
Burial of a brother January 1959 (Age 78)
 

younger brother - James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts
Death of a brother 16 February 1960 (Age 79)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - William Robert "Bill" Potts
Burial of a brother 19 February 1960 (Age 79)
 Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - William Robert "Bill" Potts
Death of a sister 5 May 1960 (Age 79)
 Surry Hills, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Elizabeth Violet Potts
Burial of a sister May 1960 (Age 79)
 Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Elizabeth Violet Potts
Australian History 1962 (Age 81)
 

Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT.
Note: Malayan Insurgence ends
Australian History 1964 (Age 83)
 

Note: The Beatles tour Australia;
Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne;
Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity;
Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old;
Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War.
Australian History 1965 (Age 84)
 

Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History 1966 (Age 85)
 

Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;
Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt.
Australian History 14 February 1966 (Age 85)
 

Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.
Australian History 1967 (Age 86)
 

Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;
Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton;
Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings;
Note: Talkback radio is introduced;
Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney;
Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party;
Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia.
Australian History 1968 (Age 87)
 

Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;
Death of a brother 1969 (Age 88)
 Healesville, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Oliver Henry "Olly" Potts Jr.
Australian History 1969 (Age 88)
 

Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;
Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die;
Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney;
Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958
Australian History 1970 (Age 89)
 

Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War
Australian History 1971 (Age 90)
 

Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament;
Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon
Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest.
Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory.
Australian History 1972 (Age 91)
 

Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage.
Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves
Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam
Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China
Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving.
Australian History 1973 (Age 92)
 

Note: The Sydney Opera House is opened
Note: The White Australian Policy (established 1901) is officially dismantled
Note: Vietnam War ends
Note: The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18
Note: Unionists save the historic 'The Rocks' area of Sydney from demolition by introducing 'Green Bans'
Note: Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Death of a brother 27 May 1974 (Age 93)
 

younger brother - Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P.
Australian History 1974 (Age 93)
 

Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy
Australian History 1975 (Age 94)
 

Note: (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister
Note: The 'Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act removes the right to appeal High Court decisions to the British Privy Council. Appeals to the Privy Council direct from State Supreme Courts remain until 1988.
Note: South Australia becomes the first state in Australia to legalise homosexuality between consenting adults in private.
Note: Whitlam government introduced the Aboriginal Land (NT) Bill into Parliament. The bill proposed land rights in the Northern Territory based on land claimed on grounds of need as well as traditional affiliation and traditional landowners maintaining control over mining and development.
Australian History 1976 (Age 95)
 

Note: The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private.
Australian History 1977 (Age 96)
 

Note: Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem
Note: Granville rail disaster killed eighty-three people
Australian History 1978 (Age 97)
 

Note: The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney
Australian History 1979 (Age 98)
 

Note: Australian women win the right to maternity leave
Note: Kakadu National Park and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park are both proclaimed.
Australian History 1980 (Age 99)
 

Note: Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Uluru (Ayers Rock), reportedly taken by a dingo. The Coalition wins the 1980 Australian federal election.
Australian History 1981 (Age 100)
 

Note: A referendum is held in Tasmania to vote for whether or not the Franklin Dam should be built.
Death of a brother 7 April 1982 (Age 101)
 

younger brother - John Walter Thomas Potts
Australian History 1982 (Age 101)
 

Note: Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane. The National Gallery of Australia is opened.
Australian History 1983 (Age 102)
 

Note: Australia wins the America's Cup;
Note: Bob Hawke defeats Fraser and leads Labor back to government.
Note: The Australian Dollar is floated.
Note: The Ash Wednesday fires kill 71 people.
Australian History 1984 (Age 103)
 

Note: Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem.
Note: The one dollar coin is introduced.
Note: Labor wins the 1984 Australian federal election.
Note: Medicare is established.
Australian History 1985 (Age 104)
 

Note: The government grants the freehold title of a large area of land in central Australia, including prominent landmarks Uluru and Kata Tjuta, to the Mutitjulu people, who in turn give them a 99-year lease.
Note: The last state to do so (New South Wales) abolishes capital punishment.
Deathyes
 

Family with parents - View family
father
James Trembath Thomas

Birth about 1847  Penwith, Cornwall, England

Death after 1885 (Age 38)  

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mother
Mary Carr

Birth March 1846 31 29  Manchester, England

Death after 1885 (Age 38)  

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Marriage: 12 March 1873 — Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
2 years
#1 elder brother
Thomas Arthur James Trembath.jpg Arthur James Trembath Thomas

Birth 8 July 1875 28 29  Booth Street, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia

Death 1948 (Age 72)  Prahran, Victoria, Australia

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18 months
#2 elder brother
Herbert Henry "Bert" Thomas

Birth 1877  Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia

Death 4 February 1945 (Age 68)  Brighton East, Victoria, Australia

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1 year
#3 elder brother
William Ernest Thomas

Birth 1878 31 31  Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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1 year
#4 elder sister
Mabel Eloise "May" Thomas

Birth 1879 32 32  Victoria, Australia

Death 8 October 1905 (Age 26)  Victoria, Australia

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2 years
#5 herself
Florence Margaret "Pearl" Thomas

Birth 1881  Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#6 brother
Andrew Thomas

Death yes  

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Family with foster parents - View family
father
Potts Oliver Henry.jpg Oliver Henry "O. H." Potts

Birth 26 January 1862 37 27  Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia

Death 10 August 1948 (Age 86)  Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

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mother
Carr Elizabeth.jpg Elizabeth "Betty" Carr

Birth 12 April 1858 43 41  Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Death 20 May 1933 (Age 75)  Healesville, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: 13 November 1883 — Frankston, Victoria, Australia
-7 years
#1 elder brother
Herbert Henry "Bert" Thomas

Birth 1877  Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia

Death 4 February 1945 (Age 68)  Brighton East, Victoria, Australia

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4 years
#2 herself
Florence Margaret "Pearl" Thomas

Birth 1881  Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#3 younger sister
Potts Elizabeth Violet.jpg Elizabeth Violet Potts

Birth 8 June 1884 22 26  Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Death 5 May 1960 (Age 75)  Surry Hills, Victoria, Australia

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#4 younger brother
Potts Olive Henry Jr.jpg Oliver Henry "Olly" Potts Jr.

Birth 15 July 1886 24 28  Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Death 1969 (Age 82)  Healesville, Victoria, Australia

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#5 younger brother
Potts Kohn Carr.jpg John Carr Potts

Birth 7 April 1888 26 29  Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Death 23 September 1954 (Age 66)  

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#6 younger brother
Potts James Abraham Garfield.jpg James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts

Birth 17 January 1890 27 31  Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Death 26 January 1959 (Age 69)  Auburn, Victoria, Australia

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#7 younger brother
Potts William Robert.jpg William Robert "Bill" Potts

Birth 26 October 1891 29 33  Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Death 16 February 1960 (Age 68)  Healesville, Victoria, Australia

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#8 younger brother
Potts Jabez Jager.jpg Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P.

Birth 27 May 1893 31 35  Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Death 27 May 1974 (Age 81)  

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#9 younger brother
Potts Charles Ernest Herbet.jpg Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.

Birth 21 June 1896 34 38  Healesville, Victoria, Australia

Death 21 August 1957 (Age 61)  Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia

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#10 younger sister
Sarah Elizabeth Annie "Betty" Potts Sarah Elizabeth Annie "Betty" Potts

Birth 12 February 1898 36 39  Healesville, Victoria, Australia

Death 15 March 1928 (Age 30)  Healesville, Victoria, Australia

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#11 younger brother
Potts Harold.jpg Harold George Wilson Potts

Birth 4 July 1899 37 41  Healesville, Victoria, Australia

Death 4 August 1995 (Age 96)  

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#12 younger brother
Potts John Walter Thomas grave.jpg John Walter Thomas Potts

Birth 8 October 1905  Victoria, Australia

Death 7 April 1982 (Age 76)  

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Birth  Western Australia, Australia

Death yes  

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herself
Florence Margaret "Pearl" Thomas

Birth 1881  Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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Marriage: yes

Florence Margaret "Pearl" Thomas has 15 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (15)

Parents John Carr + Jane Irvine
1 Grieve Morton Carr 1879–?
2 Jessie Elizabeth "Elsie" Carr 1881–1958
3 Ethel Jane Carr 1883–?
4 John Herbert "Todd" Carr 1885–?
5 Evelyn May "Eva" Carr 1887–1958
Parents Oliver Henry "O. H." Potts + Elizabeth "Betty" Carr
1 Elizabeth Violet Potts 1884–1960
2 Oliver Henry "Olly" Potts Jr. 1886–1969
3 John Carr Potts 1888–1954
4 James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts 1890–1959
5 William Robert "Bill" Potts 1891–1960
6 Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P. 1893–1974
7 Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A. 1896–1957
8 Sarah Elizabeth Annie "Betty" Potts 1898–1928
9 Harold George Wilson Potts 1899–1995
Parents Private + Mabel Eloise "May" Thomas
1 John Walter Thomas Potts 1905–1982
 
Birth
Adopted Jan. 1884 aged 3 by Oliver Henry POTTS and Elizabeth CARR. Birth certificate may have Pearl registered as Margaret Florence not Florence Margaret.

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First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.

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The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

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An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne.

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The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

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The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

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A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.

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Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Residence
According to JJ Potts this is the date the family moved from Frankston to Healesville.

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The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.

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South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.

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The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.

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The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution

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In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year.

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The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.

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The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.

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Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution.

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(01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General

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The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles.

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The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.

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A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital

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Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

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Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country

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The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.

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Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.

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The Royal Australian Navy is founded

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Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time

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Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.

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The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place

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Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's.

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(25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.

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Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'

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Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.

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(08 AUG) Battle of Amiens

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Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea.

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The airline Qantas is founded

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Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

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The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

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Vegemite is first produced

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The first Miss Australia contest is held

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The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

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Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.

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Western Australia celebrates its centenary

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Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings

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Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia

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The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

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Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments

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The last Thylacine dies

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The radio series Dad and Dave begins

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Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games

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(April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government

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A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin

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3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.

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Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese

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Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.

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Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.

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the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.

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Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme

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Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

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Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins

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1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.

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Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand

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First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.

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Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party

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Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement

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Television in Australia is launched.

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The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.

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Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT.

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The Beatles tour Australia;

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Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland

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The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;

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Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.

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Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;

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Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;

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French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;

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More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War

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Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament;

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The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage.

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The Sydney Opera House is opened

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Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy

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(November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister

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The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private.

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Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem

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The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney

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Australian women win the right to maternity leave

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Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Uluru (Ayers Rock), reportedly taken by a dingo. The Coalition wins the 1980 Australian federal election.

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A referendum is held in Tasmania to vote for whether or not the Franklin Dam should be built.

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Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane. The National Gallery of Australia is opened.

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Australia wins the America's Cup;

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Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem.

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The government grants the freehold title of a large area of land in central Australia, including prominent landmarks Uluru and Kata Tjuta, to the Mutitjulu people, who in turn give them a 99-year lease.



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