1963 Australian federal election
The 1963 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 30 November 1963. All 122 seats in the House of Representatives were up for 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 consecutive term in office.
Image: Portrait Menzies 1950s
Image: 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
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are set down in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia.
Australian House of Representatives
The Australian House of Representatives in 1901
Frontbench and despatch box
The House of Representatives chamber at Old Parliament House, Canberra, where the Parliament met between 1927 and 1988
