Australian
News................intense international
and Australian
media surrounds disappearance
of baby Azaria Chamberlain at a
Uluru - Ayer's Rock Campsite - parents
Lindy and Michael
Chamberlain
state that the baby was taken by a dingo, but
the child is
not found................Australian
Olympic Committee votes to send team for
Moscow '80 Olympic
Games, despite pressure from Australian PM
Malcolm Fraser. Some decline
to take part................Australian Royal
Commission into
the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers
Union, leading to
criminal convictions of 11 Union members,
concludes...............Multicultural Television
Broadcasts S.B.S.
(Special Broadcasting Service) begin in Sydney
and
Melbourne................Tidbinbilla Space
Tracking Station officially
opened near Canberra................International
News................Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
assassinated................Mount St
Helens volcano in Washington
erupts................Polish Independent
Trade Union 'Solidarity' formed by Lech
Walesa................Beatle John Lennon
shot................Soviet
troops enter Afghanistan to support
Moscow-backed government in
Kabul................Bid to free 53 hostages
from the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran fails................'Who shot J.R.?'
episode in TV-soap
'Dallas' becomes most watched TV program in
history................
Top 10 Australian Singles........I
Got
You - Split Enz.....Turning Japanese - The
Vapors.....Crazy Little
Thing Called Love - Queen.....Another Brick in
the Wall Part II - Pink
Floyd.....Brass in Pocket - The
Pretenders.....Can't Stop the Music -
Village People.....Space Invaders -
Player.....More Than I Can Say -
Leo Sayer.....Funkytown - Lipps, Inc......Please
Don't Go - KC
& The Sunshine Band................Sport
Australia
Awards - Male Athlete of the Year - Alan
Jones (Victoria)
Motor Racing................Prime Minister
- Malcolm
Fraser MP.....Leader of the Opposition
- Bill Hayden MP......Governor-General -
Sir Zelman Cowan.....Australian Country Music
Awards Top
Selling Record - Slim Dusty - 'Walk a
Country
Mile'................Archibald Prize Winner
- No
Award................Australian Film
Institute Award Winners
Best Film of the Year - Breaker Morant
[Producer Matt
Carroll/Director Bruce
Beresford]................Australian of
the Year...........Professor Manning Clark
[Historian].........Young Australian of the
Year........Peter Hill
[Quadriplegic swimmer]................Olympic
Gold........1980
Moscow - Michelle Ford - 800 metres freestyle
swimming........Men's 4 x
100 metres medley swimming relay (Mark Kerry,
Neil Brooks, Peter Evans,
Mark Tonelli)................Academy
Awards........David
Bradbury: Nominated for Best
Documentary Feature: Frontline........Anna
Senior: Nominated
for Best Costume Design: My Brilliant
Career........Jonathan Hardy,
David Stevens, Bruce Beresford: Nominated
for Best Screenplay
Based on Material from Another Medium - Breaker
Morant................Cannes........Jack
Thompson for Best Supprting Actor, Break Morant
[Director: Bruce
Beresford]........Venice Film
Festival........no
presentation................Gold
Logies Winner.................Mike Walsh