The following lists events that happened during 1978 in Australia.
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Events
January
- 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 January 15.[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.
March
- 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.[10]
- 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.[11]
August
- 25 August – Michelle Pope and Stephen Lapthorne disappear. Still missing as of 3 August 2015.[12][13]
Births
- 4 January – Paul Licuria, Australian rules footballer
- 14 January – James Mathison, TV host
- 25 January – Jason Johnson, Australian rules footballer
- 1 February – Tim Harding, singer (Hi 5)
- 7 February – Frank Drmic, basketball player
- 8 February – Mick de Brenni, politician
- 16 February – Lance Thompson, rugby league player (d. 2018)
- 1 March – Gavin Woods, water polo player
- 14 March – Karyne Di Marco, hammer thrower
- 18 March – Brooke Hanson, swimmer
- 4 April – Sam Moran, singer (The Wiggles)
- 18 April – Matthew Lloyd, footballer and coach
- 30 June – Ben Cousins, AFL Footballer
- 8 August – Kate Ritchie, actress, radio & television personality
- 16 August – Ben Galea, rugby player
- 18 September – Melanie Gibbons, politician
- 20 September – Scott Minto, rugby league player
- 22 September – Harry Kewell, soccer player
- 25 October – Matt Shirvington, track and field athlete
- 22 November – Steven King, plays with Geelong Football Club
- Fiona McFarlane - author[14]
References
- ↑ "38 refugees in latest boat to reach Darwin". Sydney Morning Herald, p1. 2 January 1978.
- ↑ "Senator "disgusted" at Aboriginal homes delay". Sydney Morning Herald, p.2. 3 January 1978.
- ↑ "Csidei named in drug case". Sydney Morning Herald, p.1. 4 January 1978.
- ↑ "Rain prayers suggested". Sydney Morning Herald, p.1. 4 January 1978.
- ↑ "Value of $ cut again". Sydney Morning Herald, p.1. 5 January 1978.
- ↑ "Govt knew of Arab blacklist But it appears to have had little effect, says Anthony". Sydney Morning Herald, p.3. 5 January 1978.
- ↑ "McGeechan talks angry prisoners back to cells". Sydney Morning Herald, p1. 6 January 1978.
- ↑ "Isa Hotel complaint". Sydney Morning Herald, p.2. 6 January 1978.
- ↑ "Immigration Dept refusal reversed by minister". Sydney Morning Herald, p.2. 6 January 1978.
- ↑ "The Natural Bridge". GlobeVista. 2008. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Latest Media Releases Missing Persons Week 2015: Missing Persons Stephen Lapthorne & Michelle Pope". www.police.nsw.gov.au. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Fiona McFarlane". www.swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
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