The Australian Prime Minister

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• The Australian Prime Minister
• was Malcolm Fraser who came
• into office after the infamous
• dismissal of Gough Whitlam

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• The king of Australian
• TV was Bert Newton
• who won the Gold Logie
• that year

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• The Brownlow Medal
• went to Collingwood's
• Peter Moore with 22 votes

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• Australian Television saw
• the premiere of 60 Minutes
• and Prisoner

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• Australian of the Year in 1979
• was Australias first Aboriginal
• Senator Neville Bonnor (AO)

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• Rupert Hamer was
• Victorian Premier

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• In June Saddam Hussein
• Became President of Iraq

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• On September 29 1979
• Carlton beat Collingwood in
• The AFL Grand Final with more
• than 113,000 in attendance

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• In February snow fell
• in the Sahara Desert

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• Actor John Wayne died
• of cancer on June 11

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• The French Open winners in
• 1979 were Bjorn Borg
• From Switzerland and
• Chris Evert Lloyd of the US

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• On May 4 Margaret Thatcher
• Became the first
• female Prime Minister
• to Great Britain

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• Luna Park in Sydney was
• Struck by tragedy in
• June when the Ghost
• Train fire killed seven people

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• 96,433 people attended the
• Melbourne Cup which
• was won by
• Hyperno- the odds were 71

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• At the 52nd Oscars
• Kramer vs Kramer
• took Best Picture

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• On November 287 an
• Air New Zealand
• DC-10 crashed in
• Antarctica,
• killing 257 people

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• The Top 5 Australian Songs of 1979
• 1/ UP THERE CAZALY - Two Man Band
• 2/ COMPUTER GAMES - Mi-Sex
• 3/ CMON AUSSIE CMON - Mojo Singers
• 4/ ON THE INSIDE - Lynne Hamilton
• 5/ GOOSE BUMPS - Christie Allan

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• Women were elected to the
• Legislative Council in Victorian
• Parliament for the first time

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• According to the Gallup Poll in
• December 1979 the event most
• important to the Australian public
• was the situation in Iran

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• Zeppo Marx died on
• November 30, aged 78

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• Border is named 12th man
• for Australia

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Monty Pythons Life of Brian premieres
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• US Skylab disintegrated
• over Australia

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• Mother Teresa of India was
• awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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• Camp David peace treaty
• is signed between Israel
• and Egypt