A federal election was held in Australia on 30 November 1963. All 122 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election. There was no Senate election until the 1964 Australian Senate election
Robert Menzies 1960 colour
Arthur Calwell 1966
The toilets of St Brigid's; the reason for the 1962 school strike and the beginning of state aid to non-government schools.
Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, the North-west Cape communications facility which was built in the 1960s
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Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United
1963 Australian federal election
…There was no Senate election until the 1964 Australian Senate election. The incumbent Liberal–Country coalition government, led by Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, won an increased majority over the opposition Labor Party, led by Arthur Calwell. This was the only time that a Federal Government won a seventh…
Official portrait, 1950
Article in Melbourne Punch detailing Menzies's feat of topping the state school examinations at the age of 13
Declaration of War Broadcast, September 1939
Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, with his British counterpart, Winston Churchill, London 1941