A Look Back At

Born in 1974

What Was Life Like in 1974?

Who Was in Charge?

Prime Minister

Gough Whitlam

Monarch

Queen Elizabeth II

What Things Cost

Petrol (per litre)

$0.09

Loaf of Bread

$0.31

Average House

$22,000

Weekly Wage

$110.00

Events of 1974 in Australia

A selection from Wikipedia's '1974 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

  • 24 January – Cyclone Wanda makes landfall near Double Island Point. Large parts of South East Queensland, particularly Brisbane, and northern New South Wales are flooded.
  • 26 February – Mungo Man, a human skeleton estimated to be 40,000 years old, uncovered at Lake Mungo
  • 25 March – The Liberal Party led by Charles Court wins the 1974 Western Australian state election.
  • 12 April – Tasmanian Attorney-General and Deputy Premier Merv Everett resigns to contest the Senate. He is replaced by W.A. Neilson.
  • 18 May – The 1974 Australian federal election is held. Labor retains with 66 of the 127 seats, compared with 67 of 125 in the old House.
  • 18 May – The 1974 Australian referendum is held simultaneously with the federal election.
  • 6–7 August – Australia's first and only joint-sitting of the two houses of Federal Parliament takes place in Canberra.
  • 7 December – The 1974 Queensland state election is held. Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen had campaigned on "the alien, stagnating, centralist, socialist, communist-inspired policies of the federal Labor government".

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Popular Toys & Games

  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
  • Connect Four

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective) on 1 January 1974

Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)

Helen Reddy

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