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Australia, as of 2014, had a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.8 babies born/woman, reflecting a sub-replacement fertility rate; the replacement rate is 2.1 children born/woman. [34] This TFR has a recorded low of 1.74 in 2001, and a record high of 3.55 in 1961. [ 35 ]
Other hits Songs peaking at number two included "Running Bear" by Johnny Preston, "If I Had a Girl" by Rod Lauren, "What in the World's Come Over You" by Jack Scott, "Mule Skinner Blues" by The Fendermen, "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" by Brian Hyland, "I Found a New Love" / "Defenceless" by Lonnie Lee, "Please Don't Tease" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, "Peter Gunn" by ...
Australia's first woman Premier was Carmen Lawrence, becoming Premier of Western Australia in 1990. [3] The short-lived Australian Women's Party sought to ensure equal representation of men and women at all levels of government. Quentin Bryce was the first woman to hold the position of Governor-General of Australia between September 2008 and ...
From 12 October 2003, ABC-TV series, Love Is in the Air, was a five-part documentary on Australian pop music with "Episode 2: She's Leaving Home" describing female pop stars and how many travelled overseas to try to further their careers, Lea was described, "[a]ccomplished television regulars like Laurel Lea had the look, the sound and the ...
The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued til the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which resulted in great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.
Merle Estelle Thornton AM (1930 – 16 August 2024) was an Australian feminist activist, author and academic. She is best known for her 1965 action at the Regatta Hotel where she and Rosalie Bogner chained themselves to a bar rail to protest the ban on serving women drinks in public bars in Queensland, Australia.
Shirley Abicair was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Some sources show her year of birth as 1935, but a contemporary account shows she was 23 or 24 on arrival in the UK and, as she had completed tertiary studies in Australia, the earlier date seems more likely.
7 March – Arthur Calwell becomes leader of the Australian Labor Party. 23 May - Tsunami that affects all of Australia, losing lives. 10 June – A TAA Fokker Friendship, Abel Tasman, crashes at Mackay, Queensland, killing 29 persons. To date (2020), this remains the worst loss of life in a peacetime air crash in Australia.