A Look Back At

Born in 1965

What Was Life Like in 1965?

Who Was in Charge?

Prime Minister

Robert Menzies

Monarch

Queen Elizabeth II

What Things Cost

Petrol (per litre)

$0.05

Loaf of Bread

$0.14

Average House

$7,500

Weekly Wage

$22.00

Events of 1965 in Australia

A selection from Wikipedia's '1965 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

  • 7 January – The first hydrofoil service begins on Sydney Harbour.
  • 22 February – Prince Philip opens the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra.
  • 31 March – Merle Thorton and Rosalie Bogner chained their ankles to the front bar of the Regatta Hotel in Brisbane in protest against the Queensland liquor laws that banned women from pubs.
  • 27 April – Police raid Melbourne's Austral Bookshop and seize copies of The Trial of Lady Chatterley, a banned book which recounts of the British obscenity trial of author D. H. Lawrence.
  • 21 June – The Premier of Tasmania, Eric Reece, announces the Gordon Power scheme will "result in some modification to the Lake Pedder National Park", but it was still in development and no further details were revealed.
  • 30 October – English model Jean Shrimpton wears a controversially short white shift dress to the Victoria Derby at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia – a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.
  • 5 November – The 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, is deployed in Operation Hump in Vietnam.
  • 16 November – Australia imposed economic sanctions on Rhodesia following that country's unilateral declaration of independence.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Popular Toys & Games

  • Operation
  • G.I. Joe
  • Spirograph

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective) on 1 January 1965

I Feel Fine / She's a Woman

The Beatles

This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.