“Australia’s Prime Minister Mr Harold Holt is missing.” They were the words that echoed from television sets and radios across Australia on December 17, 1967 — the day Holt stepped into the surf at ...

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As Minister of Immigration, Harold Holt established a milestone of sorts in 1952 by ruling that Japanese wives of Australian servicemen could enter Australia in spite of the tight restrictions on ...

The Daily Telegraph’s 140th birthday celebrations turn the spotlight on 1960-1969. A large scale search was on to find Prime Minister Harold Holt, JFK’s killer was caught and man landed on the moon.

John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is “Australian to my boot heels.” He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, ...

"Australia's Prime Minister Mr Harold Holt is missing." They were the words that echoed from television sets and radios across Australia on December 17, 1967 -- the day Holt stepped into the surf at ...