Jump to content

1978 in Australia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following lists events that happened during 1978 in Australia.

1978 in Australia
MonarchElizabeth II
Governor-GeneralSir Zelman Cowen
Prime ministerMalcolm Fraser
Population14,192,234
Australian of the YearAlan Bond and Galarrwuy Yunupingu
ElectionsNSW

←

1978
in
Australia

→

Decades:
See also:

Incumbents

[edit]
Sir Zelman Cowen
Malcolm Fraser

State and territory leaders

[edit]

Governors and administrators

[edit]

Events

[edit]

January

[edit]
  • 1 January –
    • Another Vietnamese refugee boat arrives at night, from a camp off the Malaysian coast.[1]
    • The Festival of Sydney begins.
    • A jail warder, Victor Sullivan is struck on the head by a prisoner at Parramatta Jail.
  • 2 January – Senator Neville Bonner attacks the Queensland Government over delays in its housing reconstruction programme for Mornington Island, which was ravaged by Cyclone Ted more than a year ago.[2]
  • 3 January –
    • Bela Csidei, a prominent Sydney businessman, is alleged in the Darwin Magistrates' Court to have been involved in growing marijuana in the Northern Territory.[3]
    • Acting Health Minister Mr McLeay reiterates the Federal Government's election promise to keep the Medibank levy and ceiling at the same level for the next six months.
    • Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen announces that he will ask churches throughout Queensland to hold a day of prayer for rain, suggesting a date of 15 January.[4]
  • 4 January –
    • The Australian dollar is devalued from 89.4 to 89.2 due to a drop in the US dollar to bring the effect devaluation since November 1976 to 15.3%.[5]
    • Acting Prime Minister Doug Anthony announces that the Federal Government knew that Arab nations operated a blacklist for more than 20 years and that some Australian companies were on it, but that the Government had never been told officially that certain companies were being boycotted.[6]
  • 5 January –
    • Corrective Services Commissioner, W. McGeechan, talks 120 maximum security prisoners back into their cells after a 5-hour protest sit-in at Parramatta jail.[7]
    • Aboriginal Senator Neville Bonner makes a complaint to the Queensland State Licensing Commission about the Mount Isa hotel which refused him service on Boxing Day.[8]
    • Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Minister Michael MacKellar reverses a department decision thereby allowing a Uruguayan woman to join her widowed brother, Ruben Molina, in Sydney.[9]
  • 18 January – New South Wales Premier Neville Wran meets with prison union officials about their demand that Bathurst Jail be reopened to relieve over crowding and staff shortages in other prisons.

February

[edit]

March

[edit]
  • 14 March – Stephen Matthews, aged 20, swept from the Natural Bridge off Albany, by a King Wave. Rescued by whale ship, the Cheynes II. First recorded survival of someone swept into the sea at The Gap and Natural Bridge.[11]
  • 30 March – Commonwealth Police (Federal Police) begin arresting 180 Greek-Australians said to be involved in a conspiracy to defraud the Department of Social Security.[12]

April

[edit]

May

[edit]

June

[edit]

July

[edit]

August

[edit]

October

[edit]

November

[edit]

Arts and literature

[edit]
Main article: 1978 in Australian literature

Film

[edit]

Sport

[edit]

Births

[edit]

Deaths

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "38 refugees in latest boat to reach Darwin". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 January 1978. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Senator 'disgusted' at Aboriginal homes delay". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 January 1978. p. 2.
  3. ^ "Csidei named in drug case". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 January 1978. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Rain prayers suggested". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 January 1978. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Value of $ cut again". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 January 1978. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Govt knew of Arab blacklist But it appears to have had little effect, says Anthony". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 January 1978. p. 3.
  7. ^ Allison, Colin (6 January 1978). "McGeechan talks angry prisoners back to cells". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Isa Hotel complaint". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 January 1978. p. 2. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  9. ^ Lukas, Isabel (6 January 1978). "Immigration Dept refusal reversed by minister". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 2. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  10. ^ Bowers, Peter; Brown, Malcolm (14 February 1978). "Fraser calls troops". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  11. ^ "The Natural Bridge". GlobeVista. 2008. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  12. ^ Grabosky, Peter. N. (1989). "Chapter 6: The great social security conspiracy case". Wayward Governance: Illegality and its Control in the Public Sector. Australian Institute of Criminology. pp. 93–112. ISBN 0 642 14605 5. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  13. ^ "Five dead in storm: fires rage on". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 April 1978. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  14. ^ a b Bowers, Peter (16 May 1978). "Menzies dies at 83". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  15. ^ "First gay Mardi Gras". National Museum Australia. 2022. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  16. ^ "Hunt for girl, 18, goes on". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 June 1978. p. 2. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  17. ^ Mellor, Bill (2 July 1978). "Darwin wakes with a capital hangover". The Sun-Herald. p. 3. Archived from the original on 1 January 2024. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  18. ^ Findlay, Tracey (3 August 2015). "Police renew appeal for information on local couple missing 30 years". Hornsby Advocate. Daily Telegraph-NewsLocal. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  19. ^ Owens, Warren (8 October 1978). "Wran back - and how!". The Sun-Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  20. ^ Robertson, David (9 October 1978). "The fastest man afloat: Warby breaks own record". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  21. ^ Murdoch, Lindsay (23 October 1978). "Pilot tells of UFO then vanishes". The Age. p. 1. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  22. ^ Harper, Catherine (16 December 1978). "Brett Whiteley takes an art hat trick". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  23. ^ "Literary award to 'late starter'". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 May 1979. p. 3. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  24. ^ Sayers, Stuart (13 October 1978). "Expatriate grips the novel prize". The Age. p. 2. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  25. ^ DuBose, Martha (16 November 1978). "Could it become a gift tradition?". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 8. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  26. ^ "Sheffield Shield: final standing". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 March 1978. p. 42. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  27. ^ "Veteran Langford turns clock back in marathon". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 August 1978. p. 31. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  28. ^ Clarkson, Alan (20 September 1978). "Finally it's Manly... grandly". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 28. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  29. ^ "100,000 at VFL final". The Sun-Herald. 1 October 1978. p. 2. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  30. ^ Bourke, Tony (8 November 1978). "Arwon turns up trumps for Nowra". The Age. p. 1. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  31. ^ Herbert, Adrian (31 December 1978). "Apollo first to Hobart - second line honour victory for skipper". The Sun-Herald. p. 2. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  32. ^ Boys found dead were at centre of custody fight
  33. ^ "Fiona McFarlane". www.swansea.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  34. ^ "Famous Qld bowler dies". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 January 1978. p. 26. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  35. ^ "R J Heffron dies at 87". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 July 1978. p. 1. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  36. ^ "Biography - Dame Alice Miriam Berry - Australian Dictionary of Biography". 5 March 2016. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  37. ^ "Johnny O'Keefe, rock star, dies". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 October 1978. p. 1. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1978_in_Australia&oldid=1257956782"