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It's Time (Australian Campaign)
It's Time was a political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam during the 1972 federal election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative ( Liberal- Country Party coalition) government, Labor put forward a raft of major policy proposals, accompanied by a television advertising campaign of prominent celebrities singing a jingle entitled ''It's Time''. It was ultimately successful, as Labor picked up eight seats and won a majority. This was the first time Labor had been in government since it lost the 1949 federal election to the Liberal Party. Origins In the 1969 federal election, the endorsed ALP candidate for the blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Ryan, John Conn, then a lecturer at the University of Queensland, had employed a highly successful door-to-door campaign. For this, he had devised a pamphlet headed: 'It's Time for a Change' followed by a dot-point list of reasons, including education, the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Lake
Dawn Alice Lake (20 January 1927 – 1 January 2006) was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer, and actor whose career spanned more than 50 years. She was particularly associated in show business with her husband Bobby Limb. Entertainer Bert Newton described her as "our greatest comedienne – Australia's Lucille Ball".Gordon Farrer, "Life and Limb, Dawn and Bobby: showbiz mourns passing of an old trouper", ''The Age'', 3 January 2006 Early life Dawn Alice Lake was born to a Balmain working-class family, the youngest of four children. She married entertainer Bobby Limb in 1953 and they had one daughter, Debbie, born in 1955. She was married to Limb for 46 years, although the marriage had its ups and downs, including a separation for a year in 1973. She lost her brother, David, to suicide in 1965.Anderson (2006) p. 38 Bobby Limb died in 1999, after which she withdrew from performing life. Career She started her career as a singer in a local dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy Order of Australia, AO (15 February 1934 – 25 May 2005) was an Australian entertainer, comedian and variety performer, radio and television host as well as a personality and actor of theatre, television and film. He was often referred to as "The King of Television" or simply "The King" and called "Gra Gra" (pronounced "gray-gray"). Honoured as an officer of the Order of Australia, he was a six-time recipient of the Gold Logie, including the List of Logie Hall of Fame inductees, Logie Hall of Fame award, and won the Star of the Year Award in 1959. He is the most awarded star of Australian television. He was known for his radio and television collaboration's with Bert Newton including on In Melbourne Tonight and The Graham Kennedy Show. Early life Childhood and education Kennedy was born in Camden Street, Balaclava, Victoria, Balaclava, a suburb of Melbourne to Cyril William Kennedy and Mary Austin Kennedy (née Scott). Kennedy's mother, who was 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Col Joye
Colin Frederick Jacobsen (13 April 1937) better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian pioneer rock singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 50s. Joye was the first Australian rock and roll singer to have a number one record Australia-wide, and experienced a string of chart successes in the early Australian rock and roll scene, performing with his then band the Joy Boys (formerly KJ Quintet). Early life and education Colin Jacobsen was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 13 April 1937 Graduating school, prior to stardom, he worked as a jewellery salesman. Musical career Jacobson started performing and recording in the late 1950s with his backing band, originally called the KJ Quintet, the predecessor of what would become the Joy Boys, which included his brothers Kevin and Keith. As Col Joye he enjoyed a string of hits on the local and national singles charts of Australia beginning in 1959 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Henderson (television Presenter)
Brian Weir Henderson (15 September 1931 – 5 August 2021) was a New Zealand-born Australian radio and television personality and pioneer known for his association with the Nine Network as a television news anchor in Sydney, as well as a variety show presenter and host of music program ''Bandstand'', the local version of the US music program ''American Bandstand''. Henderson, who started his career in radio, went on to become a long-serving Australian newsreader for 45 years, having presented the news bulletins for Sydney station TCN-9, either on weekends or weeknights, from 14 January 1957 until retiring from TCN-9 on 29 November 2002. His role as weeknight presenter at the time was subsequently given to Jim Waley. TCN-9 bulletins would eventually be relayed to regional New South Wales through Nine's regional affiliate WIN Television. Biography Early life and career in New Zealand Henderson was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 15 September 1931. His father worked as a bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Hannan
Jimmy Hannan (25 August 1937 – 7 January 2019) was an Australian radio and television personality, variety show host, singer, entertainer and game show host of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the pioneers of television, he appeared regularly on variety show ''In Melbourne Tonight'', and later hosted his own musical variety show ''Jimmy'', later called ''Tonight with Jimmy Hannan''. Hannan hosted music show '' Saturday Date'' from 1963 until 1967, which featured such performers as Billy Thorpe and Olivia Newton-John. He won the 1965 Gold Logie award for most popular personality on Australian television. Early life and career Hannan had his start musically performing in a big-band. As a teen idol, he often performed with people such as Johnny Devlin and Little Pattie. He released the single "Beach Ball", originally recorded by the City Surfers, in 1963. The song was written by Roger McGuinn who went on to become a member of the Byrds. The single reached number No. 2 on the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Faulkner
Charles Stephen Faulkner (21 October 19224 December 2000), professionally Chuck Faulkner, was a Northern Irish–born Australian actor and US radio talk show host. He was best known for his role as Detective Senior Sergeant Keith Vickers in the Australian television police drama ''Division 4''. Early life Faulkner was born on 21 October 1922 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was named 'Charles Stephen' after his father, but his mother started called him 'Chuck' from an early age, and it stuck. He migrated to Australia with his parents in 1927, at the age of four, growing up in Chippendale, Sydney, alongside his two sisters. He lived in Australia for nearly 20 years, before relocating to the States with his wife Essie, after both of his sisters married American servicemen. Initially, Faulkner wanted to become a jockey, but after entertaining the forces in a concert party, show business beckoned. He garnered years of experience in the United States, attending and graduating from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Curran
Lynette Curran is an Australian actress known for many roles in Australian television series and films, including the soap opera '' Bellbird'', and the films '' Country Town'' (1971) and ''Bliss'' (1985). Career Theatre She started acting in the theatre in 1964. Theatre work includes ''The Country Wife'', '' Rookery Nook'', ''Richard II'', ''Just Between Ourselves'', and ''Ashes'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She also played in ''Steaming'' for the Seymour Centre in Sydney.Atterton, Margot. (Ed.) ''The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz'', Sunshine Books, 1984. p 54 Film and television Curran was a cast member of soap opera '' Bellbird'' when it started in 1967. She left the series permanently in 1974; at the time she left she was the program's last remaining original cast member. Curran acted in the film version of the serial '' Country Town'' (1971). She made several other film appearances in the 1970s, with roles in sex comedy '' Alvin Purple'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Crocker
Barry Hugh Crocker (born 4 November 1935 Official Barry Crocker website) is an Australian -winning character actor, television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a vocal style. Crocker is known for his iconic Australian films during the 1970s, including '' The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' (1972) and its sequel, '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Barber
Anthony Ferraro Louis Barber (born 28 March 1940) is a British Australian Gold Logie award-winning television game show host, radio announcer, singer and media personality, who has been active in the industry since the early 1960s. Biography Early life Barber was born in Oldham, England in March 1940. He has said that he "owes much of his enthusiastic and driving personality to a loving Irish grandma and a whole street full of aunts who kept the spirits high during the dark years of World War II." He moved with his family to Australia in 1947 and was educated by the Sisters of Mercy and the Irish Christian Brothers. He attended Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, graduating in 1960. In his own words:''"The Sisters of so-called Mercy taught me to sing & dance, the brothers taught me to bob & weave. The navy taught me to play rugby."'' Radio Barber started his media career in 1961, as a cadet announcer at radio station 6GE in Geraldton, Western Australia. By t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison McCallum
Alison MacCallum (born 7 April 1951), also written Alison McCallum, is an Australian rock singer from the late 1960s and 1970s. Her two studio albums are ''Fresh Water'' (March 1972) and '' Excuse Me'' (October 1975). In March 1972 she issued her most successful charting single, "Superman", which peaked at No. 12 on ''Go-Set''s National Top 40. In August that year MacCallum provided lead vocals for the Labor Party's campaign theme song, " It's Time", for the 1972 election. By the late 1970s, she had concentrated on session work and then "disappeared from public view". According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, MacCallum was "a soul/blues stylist of considerable flair and passion". In September 2014 Sony released a 2× CD compilation album, ''The Essential Alison MacCallum''. Early career Alison MacCallum was born on 7 April 1951 and raised in Maroubra, a Sydney suburb. She began her music career in 1967, at the age of 16, as the singer in a succession of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
