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In 1967 Peakhurst High School could now boast 4 forms enrolled at the school and we would have our first students sitting for the School Certificate.

 

Our leaders in 1967

  • Prime Minister – Harold Holt until 19 December, then John McEwen

  • Governor General – The Lord Casey

  • Premier of New South Wales – Robert Askin

  • Premier of South Australia – Frank Walsh until 1 June then Don Dunstan

  • Premier of Queensland – Sir Francis Nicklin

  • Premier of Tasmania – Eric Reece

  • Premier of Western Australia – David Brand

  • Premier of Victoria – Henry Bolte

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Major Events in 1967

January

  • Singing group The Seekers - Athol Guy, Judith Durham, Keith Potger, and Bruce Woodley - are named Australian of the Year

February

  • First student intake at Macquarie University

  • Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia

March

  • La Trobe University is officially opened

April

  • The Australian government announces it will not ban the oral contraceptive pill, maintaining that the risk of thrombosis is "very slight"

  • Australian Roman Catholic bishops publicly declare their opposition to the war in Vietnam

  • A majority in the New England region of New South Wales voted against the creation of a new state in the referendum

May

  • Indigenous Australians are given the right to be counted in the national census after a national referendum and legislation changing citizenship laws

  • The new Australian 5-dollar note goes into circulation

  •  Health authorities begin the first national polio immunisation campaign using the new Sabin oral vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk

  • Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas

June

  • The Tasmanian Government passes a Bill revoking the national park status of Lake Pedder, allowing the Hydro Electric Commission to construct a dam flooding the lake

  • The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

July

  • The postcode system of postal address coding is introduced throughout Australia

  •  The Groop wins Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds

August

  • Qantas Airways drops the word 'Empire' from its name

  • The popular ABC soap opera Bellbird begins its ten-year run

September

  • Proposed changes to Queensland laws governing public demonstrations results in 3,500 people protesting in the streets of Brisbane. Queensland Police arrest 114 people

  • The first live telecast of a football grand final in Australia was the screening of the 1967 NSWRFL season's grand final between Canterbury-Bankstown and South Sydney at the Sydney Cricket Ground

October

  • The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service is established

November

  • Singer John Farnham, then known as Johnny Farnham, releases Sadie (The Cleaning Lady). It was his first Number 1

December

  • Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea, Victoria

 

 

1967

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