Late 70’s

1975

• Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir, is released
• Full-time colour broadcasting is launched in Australia
• Graham Kennedy said the crow call ‘Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!’ during a live ad on The Graham Kennedy Show. Studio operators pulled the plug and went to black. Kennedy was immediately fired and banned for life from GTV-9

1976

• Australian soap operas The Young Doctors and The Sullivans begin on air
• Hawthorn werepremiers of the Victorian Football League
• Manly defeats Parramatta in NRL

1977

• Australia experiences its worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, in which 83 people died
• A new political party, the Australian Democrats is launched
• Anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith
• Popular soap operas Bellbird, Number 96 and The Box are all cancelled

 1978

• Sydney Hilton Bombing killes 3 people and injures 11 others
• November 21 marks the last day of commercial whaling in Australia
• Johnny O’Keefe and Robert Menzies pass away

1979

• A fire at Luna Park Sydney kills 7 people. The park is forced to close
• The Australian Federal Police is established
• My Brilliant Career, directed by Gillian Armstrong, is released
• The Australian 60 Minutes begins on the Nine Network
• Prisoner makes its debut