Wingham Public School Archive
including Wingham District Rural School
A Project of the 2014 Sesquicentenary of Public Education in Wingham
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The Seventies
In The News
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From Peace and Love and very short skirts of the early 70s to disco fever and space shuttles, the 1970s was never dull. In the USA, the Watergate scandal set the bar for political stories...until in 1975, Australia's Governor General sacked then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
Space exploration was rarely out of the news in the 70s. Just months before the end of the 60s, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Before the end of the 70s, NASA had launched Space Shuttles into orbit, and brought them home again safely.