TAGGED: 1960s
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On 21 June 1966 Australia was shocked when Labor and Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell was shot at close range after attending an anti-conscription rally at Mosman Town Hall, Sydney.

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Upon arrival at Essendon airport Calwell was surrounded by a tight circle of news reporters questioning him about the incident.

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In the following days, GTV9 political reporter Tom Jones interviewed Arthur Calwell’s wife Elizabeth about how she is coping with the stress of the incident.

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Calwell was released from hospital amidst a heavy police presence with media warned not to approach him or they would be arrested.

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A scriptwriter and a director argue their approaches to the problem of a comprehensive documentary about Australia: one favours an experimental style, the other a more conventional approach.

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Life in Cairns is 'sort of relaxed', says the narrator.

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A caller offers a carpet square for sale on 3DB's Tradio, a buy, swap and tell talkback program hosted by John Anderson.

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A caller voices concern about the 'barefooted youth of today' on 3DB's Talk it Over with Pat Jarrett, journalist and broadcaster and guest Hilma Cranley, schoolteacher and unionist.

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This song features on a six-track EP that was the first recording of an Indigenous Australian singing his own compositions in a country music style.

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This six-track EP was the first recording of an Indigenous Australian singing his own compositions in a country music style.