1976 in Australia

1976 in Australia
MonarchElizabeth II
Governor-GeneralSir John Kerr
Prime ministerMalcolm Fraser
Population13,892,995
Australian of the YearWeary Dunlop
ElectionsVIC, NSW, TAS

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Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

  • 1 June –
    • Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser sets out his foreign policy objectives in a statement to the House of Representatives.[112] He expresses his concerns about the ambitions of the Soviet Union (evidenced by its intervention in Vietnam and Angola), the strength of Warsaw Pact forces confronting NATO and naval expansion in the Indian Ocean.[112] He condemns 'undue world criticism' of the United States and emphasises the importance of Australia's relations with Japan and China, as well as stressing the importance of close relations with the ASEAN countries, especially Indonesia.[112]
    • The Federal Government fails in another attempt to persuade Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen that the Australian-Papua New Guinea border in Torres Strait should be moved south.[113]
  • 3 June – After being recognised in the last year's Queen's Birthday Honours when he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Nugget Coombs resigns from the Order of Australia in protest against the recent introduction of knighthoods into the Order.[114]
  • 4 June –
    • An off-duty Victoria Police officer is shot after he attempting to stop an armed robbery of an ANZ Bank in Melbourne by deliberately crashing his car into the front door.[115][116] The officer attempts to tackle the two armed men with a jack handle which he retrieves from the boot but is shot during the struggle as the men escape to a waiting getaway car.[115] The officer is taken to St Vincent's Hospital in a serious condition.[115]
    • Joe Calcraft resigns as general president of the New South Wales Dairy Farmers' Association after holding the position for eight years.[117]
  • 5 June –
    • The Fraser Government and PNG Ministers finally decide that the inhabited Torres Strait islands would remain part of Australia, though the seabed boundary would move.[118]
    • The skeletal remains of Carolyn Trevallyan-Grattan, the great-granddaughter of William Arnott, are discovered by a doctor who was clearing land several blocks from where she went missing in the Sydney suburb of Balgowlah in 1971.[119][120] According to New South Wales Police, there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.[119]
  • 8 June – Cabinet agrees to a series of changes in the law governing the establishment, operation, management and supervision of building societies, following a run on a number of building societies, the temporary suspension of five and then the collapse of two of them, the Great Australian and City Savings Permanent Building societies, with a joint deficiency of $3.7 million. The Cabinet creates a contingency fund, funded by a compulsory levy on all permanent building societies in Queensland.
  • 9 June – Governor-General Sir John Kerr is targeted by approximately 400 demonstrators outside the Royal Commonwealth Society building in Melbourne.[121] The Rolls-Royce carrying Kerr and his wife Anne was hit with eggs, rocks, smoke bombs and ink bombs.[122] Several police officers receive minor injuries and a flight lieutenant working as an aide-de-camp was cut on the face when a protestor smashed one of the windows with a brick.[123] Two demonstrators are arrested and charged with assault, resisting arrest and assaulting police.[123]
  • 10 June – Foreign affairs minister Andrew Peacock announces he has separated from his wife Susan after 13 years of marriage.[124]
  • 11 June – Three men, a woman and a child are killed when a single engine Cessna 210 crashes near Cloncurry in North West Queensland.[125]
  • 12 June –
  • 15 June – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his wife Tamie arrive in Japan.[135]
  • 16 June – Australia and Japan sign the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, confirming the important trade relations between the two nations.[136]
  • 17 June – It's confirmed armed guards have been escorting Australian diplomats in Mexico following a threat to kidnap 29-year-old diplomat Penelope Wensley.[137][138]
  • 21 June – A Bank of New South Wales branch manager is shot and killed in the Westfield Parramatta shopping centre while chasing a man suspected of an attempted break-in at the bank.[139]
  • 23 June –
    • Governor-General Sir John Kerr is again targeted by protestors with a demonstration in Melbourne turning violent as Kerr and his wife arrive at a Law Institute dinner.[140] Protestors hurl marbles and stones at police horses, while also damaging vehicles as they arrive.[140] Ten people are arrested and a protestor is taken to hospital with a fractured ankle after she falls when a taxi attempting to get through pushes her aside.[140] The violence is condemned by both sides of politics.[141]
    • In the New South Wales Supreme Court, Justice Bill Cantor approves a compensation settlement totalling $698,542 to be paid by The Distillers Company to eight children whose mothers had taken the company's product Distaval which contained thalidomide during their pregnancies when it was sold in 1960 and 1961.[142] The company has now paid a total of $2.5 million to 25 Australian children in the past two years.[142]
  • 24 June – New South Wales police name New Zealander Philip Archibald Lynwood Western as the man they suspect of murdering the bank manager in the Westfield Shopping Centre on 21 June.[143] Western is already charged with stealing more than $76,000 in a bank robbery on 9 December 1974 and more than $89,000 in another bank robbery on 29 December 1975.[143] He appeared in court on those charges in January 1976 but was released on a $10,000 bail on 27 May 1976.[143]
  • 29 June –
    • Philip Western, being sought for questioning regarding the murder of bank manager Lyn Callaghan, is shot and killed by police at an Avoca Beach property after he fires on police.[144] Corrupt NSW Police officer Roger Rogerson later claims he was the officer that killed Western.[145] The deaths of Lyn Callaghan and Philip Western trigger a debate around New South Wales bail laws with premier Neville Wran indicating he will investigate how Western had been released on bail.[146][147] State secretary of the Australian Bank Officials' Association also condemns the decision to release an armed bank robber such as Western on bail, describing it as "appalling."[146]
    • ALP and ACTU president Bob Hawke addresses the National Press Club in Canberra.[148] In a wide-ranging address, Hawke champions an end to Australia's Westminster system of government, criticises Malcolm Fraser's trip to Asia, calls on the ALP to drop their preoccupation with Sir John Kerr and describes John Curtin as Australia's greatest ever prime minister.[149]
    • New South Wales State Cabinet decides to appoint a three-member board of review to inquire into the future of the Eastern Suburbs Railway.[150]

July

  • 1 July –
    • Now convinced his daughter Juanita Nielsen has been murdered, 72-year-old Neil Smith announces he is offering a private reward of $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for his daughter's murder.[151]
    • ACTU and ALP president Bob Hawke pledges to curb his use of coarse language should he be successful in his bid to enter federal parliament.[152]
    • Random breath testing of motorists becomes legal in Victoria with police officers permitted to set up breath testing stations on or near any highway.[153]
  • 2 July – Following the murder at Westfield Parramatta of bank manager Lyn Callaghan by gunman Phillip Western who had been earlier released on bail despite having been charged with two bank robberies, New South Wales attorney general Frank Walker announces the state government would be calling for a review of relevant court procedures, stating the release of Western had exposed a "serious breakdown" of the bail system.[154]
  • 4 July –
  • 5 July –
    • 24-year-old car saleswoman Susan Knight is murdered by 26-year-old Geoffrey Charles Hunt at Dromedary in Tasmania.[157][158] Hunt pleads guilty to Knight's murder and on 28 September 1976 is sentenced to life imprisonment.[158]
    • A special conference of Australia's federal unions is held at Sydney Trades Hall where it's voted to hold a 24-hour national strike in protest of the Fraser Government's refusal to amend its Medibank policy.[159][160]
  • 6 July – Gollin Holdings Ltd sells its 50% stake in the Biro Bic operations in Australia and New Zealand to Ansett Transport Industries Ltd.[161]
  • 9 July – 12-year-old Gary John Barkemeyer is sexually assaulted and murdered by 16-year-old Mark Gregory in the Sydney suburb of Glebe.[162][163] After a two-day trial in March 1978, Gregory is sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment after a 12-man jury finds him guilty of Barkemeyer's murder, and that of 12-year-old Wayne Spencer Nixon who he murdered in Glebe on 30 January 1977.[163][164]
  • 10 July –
  • 11 July – Former prime minister and current federal opposition leader Gough Whitlam is awarded the Silver Plate of Honour by the Socialist International in recognition of "great and historic services to peace, democracy and socialism."[169]
  • 12 July –
    • Approximately more than two million workers take part in Australia's first national 24-hour strike which is held in protest of the Fraser Government's Medibank charges.[170][171] The strike brings Australia's heavy industry and much of the country's transport sector to a standstill.[170][171] However, it's also estimated 5.2 million Australian workers (mainly from the retail, commercial and public service sector) reject union calls to join the strike and still report for duty.[170][171]
    • Graham Delbridge is elected as the new president of the Australian Council of Churches.[172]
  • 19 July – Bunbury woodchip bombing: environmental activists set three bombs at the export terminal in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry. Limited damage results as two of the three bombs fail to explode, while no injuries are reported.[173]
  • 21 July – New South Wales premier Neville Wran says his government is planning to make it compulsory for women to be available for jury duty, as part of a general tightening of the Jury Act making it more difficult for people to gain an exemption.[174]
  • 22 July – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser arrives in the United States for an 8-day visit to North America.[175] He is greeted in San Francisco by new chief of protocol Shirley Temple Black.[175]
  • 23 July – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser meets with Queen Elizabeth II in Montreal where she resolves to travel to Australia in March 1977 as part of her Silver Jubilee where she and Prince Philip will tour all states and the Northern Territory, despite the threat of demonstrations against the Governor-General Sir John Kerr.[176][177]
  • 24 July –
    • A bomb explodes just after midnight at the Imperial Hotel in Moree, New South Wales causing extensive damage to the foyer area.[178] Police charge a 38-year-old man and a 19-year-old man with having maliciously used an explosive substance.[178]
    • A 7-year-old boy is stabbed in the neck and chest in a toilet block adjoining the Kippax Fair Shopping Centre in Canberra.[179] He is found unconscious and bleeding heavily by a shopkeeper and taken to Canberra Hospital where he undergoes surgery.[179] A 13-year-old boy is arrested and charged with malicious wounding and assault.[180][181]
  • 25 July –
    • Five protestors are arrested during another demonstration against Governor-General Sir John Kerr after 100 demonstrators gather outside St Stephen's Presbyterian Church in the Sydney CBD where Kerr is attending a thanksgiving service to mark the 75th anniversary of the union of the presbyterian churches of Australia and Tasmania.[182] The church is vandalised with "Sack Kerr" graffiti which prompts Kerr's secretary David Smith to issue a rare statement on Kerr's behalf in which he expresses his "loathing" and "disgust" while condemning the vandalism.[183]
    • Moshe Dayan addresses a crowd of 3,000 at Sydney Town Hall in the first of a series of lectures in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, having been invited to Australia by the Zionist Federation of Australia.[184] Around 1,000 demonstrators from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation jeered his arrival at the venue.[184]
  • 26 July – Queensland's deputy premier and treasurer, Liberal Party leader Sir Gordon Chalk announces he will be retiring from politics on 12 August, taking premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen by surprise.[185]
  • 27 July –
    • Federal opposition leader Gough Whitlam and his wife Margaret survive the 1976 Tangshan earthquake during their visit to China.[186] The Tientsin hotel they are staying in splits in two during the quake which measures at 7.6 on the Richter scale.[186] Margaret Whitlam, who receives a severe gash to her leg when a mirror shatters, describes the event as "absolutely terrifying" while her husband says he was impressed by the lack of panic.[186]
    • Newcastle City Council votes to rescind an invitation to Governor-General Sir John Kerr to open a new administration building and to attend a civic reception due to a "strongly expressed adverse reaction" from local residents and a "wish to avoid likely embarrassment and incidents".[187] Lord Mayor Joy Cummings who did not vote for Kerr to open the building said the council had been put in "a shameful position of inviting the Governor-General and then disinviting him."[187]
    • A 2½ year old boy survives falling 60 metres from a cliff at Clifton, New South Wales.[188]
  • 29 July –
    • In Brisbane, a police inspector hits a girl on the head with a baton during protests by university students through city streets, sparking calls for an inquiry into police powers.
    • Papua New Guinea prime minister Michael Somare personally orders the deportation of a 34-year-old Townsville man.[189] According to Somare, he had ordered the man to "pack his bags and go back to his own country" following an incident in which the man, a manager an earthmoving company, told a local worker not to arrive at work "dressed like Michael Somare" after his lap-lap became entangled causing a wheelbarrow of cement to overturn.[189]
  • 30 July –
    • Four men are killed when the single-engined Cessna 182 they were in crashes near Griffith, New South Wales while en route from Deniliquin to Narromine.[190]
    • The body of 44-year-old taxi driver Cornelius van de Pavoort is found locked in the boot of his taxi in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg.[191] A jury subsequently finds 22-year-old Steven Jeffrey Collins guilty of van de Pavoort's murder and he is sentenced to life imprisonment.[192]
  • 31 July – After 22 years in the New South Wales state parliament, 67-year-old former NSW Liberal Party leader Mac Hewitt retires.[193]

August

  • 1 August –
    • The 483-page report of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration is released, recommending overturning the centralised system of decision-making in the Commonwealth Public Service and allowing much greater sharing of power between officers and departments. The report is the product of two years of work.[194]
    • 29 Australians are evacuated from Peking, China following the 1976 Tangshan earthquake as Chinese authorities warn of the possibility of a new powerful earthquake.[195]
  • 2 August –
  • 5 August – New allegations are made on ABC TV's This Day Tonight claiming that Australian servicemen killed unarmed civilians in Vietnam.[199]
  • 10 August –
    • The New South Wales Government guarantees an extra $15 million for the Sydney Water Board to create 750 more jobs the 1976–77 financial year in an effort to relieve increasing unemployment in the state.[200]
    • Max Hodges is removed from the position of Queensland Police Minister due to his unresolved disagreements with the Queensland Police Union. He is replaced by Tom Newberry.[201]
  • 17 August – The 1976 Australian federal budget is handed down by the Treasurer of Australia Phillip Lynch.[202] It predicts a deficit of $2,608 million and an inflation rate of 8–9% by mid-1977.[202]

September

  • 1 September –
    • 24-year-old convicted armed robber Stephen Leslie Shipley hides in a laundry van to escape from Parramatta Gaol where he is serving a 20-year sentence.[203] He had previously escaped from Long Bay Gaol in 1974.[203]
    • 22-year-old labourer John Barry Keading is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 29-year-old Brian Meldrum in a park in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne on 8 November 1974.[204] Keading had pleaded not guilty and claimed he gave a confessional statement because police officers had threatened to bash him.[204]
    • Cigarette and tobacco advertising banned on television and radio.[205]
    • Geoff Cahill, the state secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party, resigns.[206][207]
  • 2 September – New South Wales premier Neville Wran rushes to Sydney radio station 2GB believing he could convince a man claiming to be prison escapee Stephen Shipley to surrender to police.[208] The man claiming to be Shipley spoke with 2GB announcer Holgar Brockmann while another man claiming to be Shipley's friend spoke with Wran, and claimed they were calling from a payphone in Sydney's northern suburbs.[208] New South Wales police later said they believed the phone calls to 2GB were a hoax.[209]
  • 3 September –
    • ACTU president Bob Hawke calls a meeting for 8 September in an attempt to resolve the industrial disputes which had disrupted the ports of Sydney and Melbourne.[210]
    • Meanwhile, a defamation action brought against Sydney radio station 2GB by Hawke is settled out of court.[211] Hawke had alleged he had been defamed in three breakfast news bulletins on 31 January 1975 which had caused damage to his reputation.[211]
  • 5 September – A father urges the New South Wales government not to release his 31-year-old son, convicted murderer Allan Raymond Bassett.[212] With Bassett's life sentence about to be reviewed, his father writes a letter to state justice minister Ron Mulock appealing for his son's continued detention at Long Bay Gaol.[212] Bassett was sentenced to life imprisonment in September 1966 for murdering Carolyn May Orphin in Wollongong on 11 June 1966.[213]
  • 7 September
    • Three men are killed when a single-engined Cessna 172 crashes into Lake Powlaphanga near Charters Towers, Queensland.[214] A fourth man survives.[214]
    • A two-year-old girl and her mother are injured when they are mauled by a lion at Bullen's African Lion Safari Park in the Melbourne suburb of Rockbank.[215]
    • New South Wales premier Neville Wran announces Edwin Lusher will conduct an inquiry into legalising casinos within the state and says he believes the first legal casinos could be operating in the state in 1977.[216] With the decision to legalise casinos already having been made, Lusher's role simply to recommend how to achieve their introduction.[216]
    • The US Navy's nuclear warship USS Truxtun arrives in Melbourne.[217][218]
  • 10 September –
  • 12 September – 84-year-old Sir Edward McTiernan retires after serving 46 years as a judge on the High Court of Australia.[221]
  • 13 September – Britain's Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher arrives in Australia for a nine-day visit to Australia on the invitation of Australia's Liberal Party.[222]
  • 30 September –

October

November

  • 4 November – A White Paper on defence is tabled in federal parliament by defence minister James Killen.[232] This notes that Britain, Australia's traditional protector, is no longer a significant power east of Suez and that Australia's defence must become increasingly self-reliant.[232]
  • 5 November – In Brisbane, after a trial that lasted 126 days, a jury finds three men not guilty of official corruption charges.[233] One was a serving policeman, the second the person who had allegedly been involved in trying to bribe him and the third a policeman who had retired.[233] That last man, Jack Reginald Herbert, was later to admit his guilt during the Fitzgerald Inquiry for this and many similar crimes, and implicate Terry Lewis as an active member of "the joke".[234]
  • 10 November – The Fraser Island Report recommendations are accepted by the Federal Government but resisted by Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.[235]
  • 15 November – Ray Whitrod resigns as Queensland Police Commissioner, claiming he could no longer function under such a high level of government interference.[236]
  • 18 November – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announces that Treasury will be split into separate departments of Treasury and Finance.[237]
  • 28 November – Federal Cabinet agrees to a 17.5% devaluation of the Australian dollar (which brings it almost to parity with the American dollar) and the 'adoption of a flexibly administered exchange rate, along the lines of a "managed float".’[238] Financial institutions would be closely monitored to ensure that lending 'comes back from recent excessive and unsustainable levels', government expenditure would be reviewed once again and the strongest possible arguments for restraint would be put to the December quarter National Wage Case.[238]

December

Full date unknown

Arts, music and literature

Main article: 1976 in Australian literature

January

February

  • 6 February – British group The Hollies arrive in Sydney to commence their fifth tour of Australia.[254]
  • 17 February – American singer Neil Diamond arrives in Australia for a series of concerts.[255]
  • 23 February – American singer Neil Diamond takes exception to the No Smoking signs during his concert at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion and invites the 5,000 concertgoers to light up cigarettes during his concert.[256] Speaking in state parliament the next day, NSW Chief Secretary Peter Coleman confirms Diamond had breached safety regulations and said the concert promoters had been dismayed at Diamond's behaviour and that Hordern management was sending Diamond a letter advising him of the breach.[256]
  • 27 February –
    • It's announced that the 1975 Archibald Prize had been taken away from John Bloomfield, who is deemed to have been ineligible due to his portrait having been painted from a photo rather than still life.[257] Kevin Connor is subsequently named as the 1975 Archibald Prize winner for his portrait of Frank Kitto.[257]
    • American singer Melanie arrives in Australia prior to a concert at Sydney Town Hall.[258]
    • Israeli singer Yafa Yarkoni arrives in Australia for a 10-day concert tour.[258] Upon her arrival, she criticises the United States and the Soviet Union for creating political turmoil in the Middle East, saying she believed that Israel and Arab countries could find peace without superpower interference.[258]

March

  • 13 March – Shirley Bassey returns to Australia for another concert tour.[259][260]
  • 30 March – A photography exhibition by Lord Snowdon opens in Sydney which features over 200 selected studies from Snowden's career.[261][262] There had been an incident at a preview of Snowdon's exhibition on 25 March where two journalists were physically ejected, accused of attempting to ask questions regarding Snowdon's separation from Princess Margaret.[263]

April

May

June

July

  • 2 July – American singer Dobie Gray arrives in Australia to perform at concerts in Sydney and Melbourne.[281] At a media conference in Sydney he says as a black artist he is concerned about his upcoming five-week tour of South Africa due to the country's apartheid policy.[281]
  • 10 July – Daryl Braithwaite confirms Sherbet's manager Roger Davies has been negotiating an international recording contract in the UK, amid the success of the band's single "Howzat."[282]
  • 11 July – Pianist Roger Woodward resigns from his role as artistic director at Music Rostrum Australia Ltd citing his belief that the organisation, which was formed in 1973, was no longer working towards its original aims.[283]
  • 13 July – New South Wales premier Neville Wran condemns the New South Wales Police vice squad for inspecting works by artists such as Brett Whiteley, Donald Friend and Christopher Boock at an art exhibition in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra.[284] After Wran complains to Assistant Police Commissioner Mervyn Wood for the "unnecessary intrusion into an art exhibition" he states that "the day is long since passed when some display of genitalia, eroticism or copulation is regarded by the average person as offensive."[284]
  • 21 July – American country singer Charley Pride arrives in Sydney to commence his second tour of Australia which begins in Canberra.[285]
  • 28 July –
    • Tenor Donald Smith annonces his resignation from The Australian Opera citing his lack of trust and faith in the organisation.[286] Smith's son Robin Donald also criticises The Australian Opera.[287] With the three-year option on his three-year contract not being taken up, Donald accuses management of singling him out due to the longstanding conflict with his father.[287]
    • American entertainer Dinah Shore arrives in Australia for a seven-day visit, as a guest of the Australian Government and Melbourne's Australian-American Association.[288] Accompanied by Tennessee Ernie Ford, Shore will record two 90-minute television specials at the Sydney Opera House.[288]

August

September

October

November

1977

Film

Television

February

March

April

May

  • 21 May – The final edition of No Man's Land goes to air with Channel 9 axing the live women's panel show hosted by Mickie de Stoop, Robyn Miller, Prue MacSween, Carole Browne and Jeanne Pratt.[320] The axing follows the Australian Broadcasting Control Board's questioning of "unsuitable material" and "expressions" used on air by a university lecturer during a discussion on 4 May.[320] De Stoop, the program's producer, takes responsibility for the axing stating: "I'm disappointed. I wish I could blame Channel 9, but it was my fault as producer; I let something go to air that should not have."[320]

June

July

August

September

  • 2 September – It's revealed ABC chairman Sir Henry Bland had been canvassing the ABC's commissioners regarding a proposal to take Alvin Purple off the air due to a large number of complaints about the show's content. ABC Staff Association president Ian Wynne describes any move against the show as "unwarranted political interference."[332]
  • 4 September – ABC chairman Sir Henry Bland issues a statement confirming Alvin Purple would be taken off the air until the next meeting of the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 16 September.[333] This decision leads to weeks of public debate and discussion regarding censorship and political interference with ABC content.[334][335] One of the ABC's commissioners Marius Webb describes Sir Henry Bland's decision to censor Alvin Purple made it look like he was "a hatchet man" for prime minister Malcolm Fraser.[336] Acting general secretary of Actors' Equity Joan Evatt also describes Bland's decision as "outrageous and ludicrous."[336]
  • 10 September – ABC TV in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory is intentionally blacked out by ABC staff at 9:15pm who deliberately refuse to show a substitute program in place of the fourth episode of Alvin Purple.[337] ABC chairman Sir Henry Bland criticises the decision, stating: "I'm extremely disappointed that people who profess to be responsible and to provide a public service should be so utterly irresponsible and idiotic."[337]
  • 16 September – Sir Henry Bland confirms he and the other ABC commissioners were in unanimous agreement that Alvin Purple should be allowed to return to the air, which averts planned industrial action by ABC staff.[338]
  • 21 September – The ABC TV sitcom Who Do You Think You Are? starring Barbara Stephens premieres.[339]

October

November

December

Sport

January

February

March

April

May

June

  • 12 June – The first rugby union test between the Wallabies and Fiji is held at the Sydney Cricket Ground where Australia defeats the touring side, 22-6.[361]
  • 19 June – The second rugby union test between the Wallabies and Fiji is held at Ballymore in Brisbane where Fiji are defeated 21-9.[362]
  • 26 June – The third and final rugby union test between the Wallabies and Fiji is held at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Fiji is again defeated by Australia 27-17 but violent on-field brawls and a walk off by Fijian players makes for a controversial finish to the 1976 Fiji rugby union tour of Australia.[363]

July

August

  • 1 August – For the first time since 1936, Australia finishes an Olympic Games without winning a gold medal.[379] The team returns home from the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with just five medals - one silver and four bronze.[379] Australia's poor performance leads to much debate and discussion.[380][381][382][383]
  • 2 August – Prince Philip condemns the proposed government inquiry into Australia's performance at the Olympics, describing a potential inquest reviewing the team's performance as "deplorable" and "pathetic."[384]

September

October

November

December

Births

Deaths

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October

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See also

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