Timelines...

DATE	WESTERN AUSTRALIA	AUSTRALIA	THE WORLD
1930		Phar Lap wins Melbourne Cup
1931		One third of Australia’s workers are without work
1932		Sydney Harbour Bridge opened Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) was established.
1934		aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is first to make aerial circumnavigation of globe & first aerial crossing of Pacific Ocean; crashes on second leg of flight from England to Australia
1935		Australia’s population reaches 6,629,839
1939		Australia enters Second World War (1939-1945)	Second World War (1939-1945) Discovery of penicillin
1940-46	Australian Army occupied Prison during the Second World War, using it as an internment centre for enemy alien civilians & detention barracks for military personnel (Western Command Detention Barracks)
1942		the Battle of the Coral Sea, Australian & USA forces combine in stopping Japanese advances	First main frame computers built in England & U.S.A
1944			First jet airplanes operational in Germany (Me262)
1945			August Allied forces drop atomic bombs on two Japanese cities: Nagasaki & Hiroshima (it is the first &, so far, only tine nuclear weapons have been employed in world conflict) Second World War ends with unconditional surrender of Axis Powers Italy, Germany & Japan
1946	Army move out of the Prison - extensive repairs necessary.	Trans Australian Airlines (TAA) began operations	Chinese Revolution and Civil War (1946-1949); communism established in China when Mao Tse-tung proclaims People’s Republic in 1949
1947			Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattan & Shockley
1948		Mass manufacture of motor vehicles begins in Australia with production of first Holden car
1950			World population reaches 2.3 billion people (1 billion in 1830; 5.4 billion in 1992; & 6 billion in 1999) Korean War (1950-1953)
1952	First Australian oil refinery constructed at Kwinana		Contraceptive pill for women produced
1954		Petrov Affair Aborigines given franchise in NSW, Vic and SA, but not NT, Qld or WA.
1956		Olympic Games held in Melbourne
1957			U.S.S.R. launches first Earth satellite named ‘Sputnik’ (‘Fellow Traveller’)
1959		Population of Australia reaches 10 million	In U.S.A. Robert Noyce produces first micro chip
1960			Second Indo China or Vietnam War (1960-1975) U.S.A. commences space program
1961			First manned space flight by Yuri Gargarin (U.S.S.R.) Structure of DNA molecule determined First transatlantic television transmission by satellite
1962		Commonwealth and WA electoral acts amended to provide for votes for Aborigines.
1963	Probation and Parole Act, Western Australia established
1964	tried & convicted for murder, Eric Edgar Cooke was last man hanged at Fremantle Prison (capital punishment abolished in W A in 1984)	The first national newspaper printed - The Australian.
1965		Australia becomes militarily involved in conflict in Vietnam
1966		Australia’s population reaches 11,550,462 14 February, decimal currency introduced (pounds, shillings & pence replaced by dollars & cents)