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| 1963 |
| | | Australian tennis players Margaret Court and Ken Fletcher achieve the grand slam in mixed doubles | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Australia sends a first contingent of 1500 troops to fight in Vietnam | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Robert Menzies retires as Australian prime minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Gurindji people at the Wave Hill station walk out in protest, launching the Aboriginal land rights movement in Australia | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Australian prime minister Harold Holt swims in heavy surf near Portsea, south of Melbourne, and is never seen again | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Australian tennis player Rod Laver is the first to win the Grand Slam a second time | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian author David Malouf is first published as a poet, with his collection Bicycle and Other Poems | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian feminist Germaine Greer publishes The Female Eunuch as a wake-up call to women | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian tennis player Margaret Court achieves the grand slam in singles, adding it to her previous grand slam in doubles | |
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| 1971 |
| | | 19-year-old Aboriginal tennis player Evonne Goolagong wins the singles title at Wimbledon | |
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