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Incumbents
State premiers
Events
- Neville Bonner becomes first Indigenous Australian to sit as a member in the Parliament of Australia
- Evonne Goolagong is named Australian of the Year
- 3 January - Sudden hailstorms lash the Sydney area causing widespread damage to houses and properties, as well as traffic chaos and nearly $150,000 worth of damage to fruit and vegetable crops at Cobbity.
- New South Wales Transport Minister announces that intensified police weekend patrols might become a regular part of the campaign to cut the road toll after 8,148 New South Wales motorists were arrested or charged over the New Year holiday weekend.
- 4 January - Federal Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam says in Port Moresby that Papuan leaders seem to accept completely the Australian Labor Party's timetable for independence of Papua New Guinea. The timetable provides for self-government as soon as a Labor Government comes to power in Australia, and independence in 1976.
- Immigration Minister Mr Lynch gives a ruling that three Asian doctors at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, who entered Australia under the private overseas student program, will be sent home, but may apply to return to Australia as migrants conditionally.
- 2 November - President Nixon gave Prime Minister William McMahon an unqualified endorsement of the Anzus alliance, saying that the United States would honour its commitments under the alliance, which he described as one of America's fundamental pillars in the Pacific.
- Sonia McMahon, wife of Prime Minister McMahon, captures international attention when she wears a daring full-length dress, with a long slit down the sides revealing her legs, to a White House reception. The dress was designed by South Yarra fashion designer Victoria Ciscijo of Valencia House. Sonia McMahon would be most remembered in years to come for this dress.[1]
- 24 December – Cyclone Althea hits Townsville and surrounding islands, killing 3
- State Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in Queensland in response to escalating protest to the 1971 Springbok tour
- Australia and New Zealand Announce Pull Out Of Troops from Vietnam
Arts and literature
Film
Television
- 4 January – American children's educational TV series Sesame Street premieres on ABC.
- 28 July – Pick-A-Box, hosted by Bob and Dolly Dyer, airs for the final time. It had first been broadcast as a radio program in 1948.
Sport
Births
- 17 January – Peter Winter, track and field decathlete
- 26 January – Lee Naylor, track and field athlete
- 14 February – Lisa-Marie Vizaniari, discus thrower
- 19 February – Lisa McCune, actress and singer
- 26 March – Rennae Stubbs, tennis player
- 2 April – Todd Woodbridge, tennis player
- 20 April – Grant Smith, field hockey player
- 4 May – Miles Stewart, triathlete
- 3 July - Julian Assange, activist
- 2 September – Gregory Corbitt, field hockey striker
- 18 September – Kate Starre, field hockey midfielder
- 1 October – Andrew O'Keefe, highest-rating television personality
- 20 October – Dannii Minogue, singer, actress and television personality
- 29 October – Matthew Hayden, cricket player
- 10 November - Monique Allen, gymnast
- 14 November – Adam Gilchrist, cricket player
- 19 November – Michelle Andrews, field hockey midfielder
- 6 December – Brendan Garard, field hockey player
Deaths
References
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