Into the 21st centuryThe Labor Party's Kevin Rudd defeated Howard at the 2007 election, and Rudd held the office until June 2010, when he was replaced as the leader of the party. Rudd used his term in ...
Indigenous people The 1960s was a key decade for indigenous rights. In 1962, the Menzies Government's Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous people should have the right to enrol and ...
Arts and the "new nationalism"Main article: culture of Australia"Australian to the bootheels": Prime Minister John Gorton established government support for Australian cinema. The Sydney Opera House w ...
Military history of Australia during the Vietnam WarPersonnel and aircraft of RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam arrive in South Vietnam in August 1964By 1965, Australia had increased the size of the Austr ...
In the early 1950s, the Menzies government saw Australia as part of a "triple alliance" in concert with both the US and traditional ally Britain. At first, "the Australian leadership opted for a consi ...
Australia enjoyed significant growth in prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, with increases in both living standards and in leisure time. The manufacturing industry, previously playing a minor part in a ...
Main article: Immigration to AustraliaPostwar migrants arriving in Australia in 1954Following World War II, the Chifley Labor government instigated a massive programme of European immigration. In 1945 ...
Main article: History of Australia since 1945Sir Robert Menzies, founder of the Liberal Party of Australia and Prime Minister of Australia 1939–41 (UAP) and 1949–66 Elizabeth II inspecting sheep at ...
Main article: Australian home front during World War II1942 Australian propaganda poster. Australia feared invasion by Imperial Japan following the invasion of the Australian Territory of New Guinea a ...
Main articles: Military history of Australia during World War II, Axis naval activity in Australian waters, and Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War IIPrime Minister Robert Menzies ...
Main article: Great Depression in AustraliaIn 1931, over 1,000 unemployed men marched from the Esplanade to the Treasury Building in Perth, Western Australia to see Premier Sir James Mitchell. Ribbon ...
Australia achieved independent Sovereign Nation status after World War I, under the Statute of Westminster. This formalised the Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial C ...
1920s: men, money and markets Australian soldiers carrying Prime Minister Billy Hughes, the 'little digger', down George Street, Sydney after his return from the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.After the ...
