How oil fever and the computer age changed Australia in the 1960s

Mining expansion, new technologies, thrills and spills in the sharemarket, a sharp political shift and cracks in the White Australia Policy laid the foundations for a national makeover. This is the second of a seven-part decade-by-decade series on the growth of modern Australia.

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