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The following lists events that happened during 1964 in Australia.
List of events
Viscount De L'Isle
Sir Robert Menzies
State and territory leaders
Governors and administrators
- 29 January – The
Royal Australian Air Force takes delivery of its first two
Mirage fighter jets
- 3 February – The first double-decker carriages begin trial runs on the
Sydney rail network
- 4 February – Cyclone Dora strikes north west
Queensland
- 10 February –
Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier
HMAS Melbourne and the destroyer
HMAS Voyager collide, with the loss of 82 lives
- March – There is a split in the
Communist Party of Australia and the
Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) is formed
- April – The Menzies government refuses to ratify the
International Labour Organization convention on
equal pay for women.
- April – The editors of Sydney satirical
Oz magazine –
Richard Neville,
Richard Walsh and
Martin Sharp – are charged with printing an obscene publication
- 8 April – The 191 miles (307 km) Moonie oil pipeline to
Lytton Oil Refinery opens
- 24 April – Melbourne woman Judy Hanrahan becomes the first female teller appointed by the
Bank of NSW since World War II
- 27 April —
Sir Garfield Barwick resigns as
Minister for External Affairs to take up his appointment as the new
Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- 29 April —
Lake Burley Griffin reaches filled maximum level for the first time.
- June –
Macquarie University founded
- 12–30 June –
The Beatles' 1964 world tour in Australia and New Zealand.
- 6 July – Warrant Officer Class 2, Kevin Conway of the
Australian Army Training Team died; he was Australia's first
Vietnam War battle
casualty.
- 15 July – The first edition of
The Australian is published in Canberra, Australia's first national daily newspaper, published by
Rupert Murdoch's
News Limited.
- 17 July –
Donald Campbell sets new land speed record of 429 miles per hour in his jet-propelled car "Bluebird" at
Lake Eyre,
South Australia
- August – The
Tasman Bridge across the
Derwent River opens in
Hobart.
- 2 October – The
Gladesville Bridge, then the world's longest concrete arch, opens in
Sydney.
- 17 October — Prime Minister
Robert Menzies inaugurates
Lake Burley Griffin,
Canberra.
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- 26 October – Notorious Perth
serial killer
Eric Edgar Cooke is executed at
Fremantle Prison; he is the last person to be hanged in Western Australia.
- 10 November – Prime Minister
Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of
National Service.
- 10 December – The Queensland government declares a
state of emergency in an attempt to end the
Mount Isa Mines dispute
- 16 December – Melbourne's
La Trobe University is founded
- 31 December –
Donald Campbell sets new water speed record of 276 miles per hour at
Dumbleyung Lake,
Western Australia
-
Sir Percy Spender is appointed President of the
International Court of Justice
- The launch of
ATV-0 marks the birth of the third commercial television network, now known as
Network Ten
- Singer
Johnny Chester hosts a new ABC TV show called Teen Scene, which also features his backing group The Chessmen as the house band.
- 20 October – Police drama
Homicide begins a 12-year run and sets the pace for Australian television drama.
- 11 November –
The Mavis Bramston Show premieres on HSV 7 in Melbourne.
- 15 January –
Scott Emerson, politician
- 16 January –
Chris Dittmar, squash player
- 25 January –
Mark McPhee, cricketer (died 1999)
- 25 February –
Dale Last, politician
- 3 March –
Sandy Bolton, politician
- 4 March –
Karen Knowles, entertainer
- 13 March
- 26 March –
Martin Bella, rugby league player
- 8 April –
Michael Caltabiano, politician
- 15 April –
Lee Kernaghan, country singer/songwriter
- 19 April –
Peter Jackson (died 1997), Australian rugby league footballer
- 30 April –
Ian Healy, cricket player and commentator
- 2 May –
John Hathaway, politician
- 19 May –
Peter Jackson, rugby league player (died 1997)
- 28 May –
Jeff Fenech, boxer and trainer
- 3 June –
Matthew Ryan, equestrian
- 7 June –
Gia Carides, actress
- 9 June –
Jane Kennedy, actress and comedian
- 11 June –
Carl Barron, comedian
- 22 June –
Tom Crebbin, Australian rules footballer
- 23 June –
Tara Morice, actress, singer, and dancer
- 1 July –
Clayton Lamb, Australian rules footballer
- 4 July –
Martin Flood, quiz show winner
- 13 July –
Leanne Benjamin, ballet dancer
- 3 August –
Michael Healy, politician
- 4 August –
Andrew Bartlett, politician
- 5 August –
Dale Shuttleworth, politician
- 10 August –
Andy Caldecott, motorcycle racer (died 2006)
- 14 August –
Jason Dunstall, Australian Rules football player
- 19 August –
Dermott Brereton, Australian Rules football player
- 5 September –
Frank Farina, soccer player and manager
- 11 September –
Kathy Watt, cyclist
- 16 September –
Chris Franklin, comedian
- 27 October –
Mark Taylor, cricket player and commentator
- 28 October –
Darius Perkins, actor (died 2019)
- 29 October –
Eddie McGuire, businessman and television presenter
- 29 October –
Jackie Pereira, field hockey striker
- 9 November –
Mark Dalton, basketball player
- 19 November –
Peter Rohde, footballer (Carlton F.C.)
- 23 November –
Marilyn Kidd, rower
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- 9 December –
Larry Emdur, television presenter
- 16 December
- 22 December –
Sam Cox, politician
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