Sir Robert Menzies welcoming Princess Marina to Australia and hosting her state visit, 26-28 September 1964

The first clip has Princess Marina, the dowager Duchess of Kent, briefly stopping over for 15 minutes at Sydney's Kingsford-Smith Airport and meeting with NSW Governor Sir Eric Woodward, as well as William McMahon. This is then followed by Princess Marina arriving at Canberra's Fairbairn Airport later the same day, where she was welcomed by Menzies and Governor-General Lord De L'Isle. Later during her stay in Canberra, Princess Marina is shown visiting the Australian War Memorial, before going to the inauguration of the new Department of Defence headquarters and officially opening the building along with Menzies, who also spoke on the occasion.

u/thescrubbythug — 12 days ago

ROUND 49 | Decide the next r/AusPrimeMinisters subreddit icon/profile picture!

A portrait of Gough Whitlam in his RAAF uniform taken on 4 March 1943 was voted on as this sub’s next icon, and in doing so Whitlam has become the second Prime Minister to be voted as the sub icon four times! Whitlam’s icon will be displayed for the next fortnight.

Provide your proposed icon in the comments (within the guidelines below) and upvote others you want to see adopted! The top-upvoted icon will be adopted and displayed for a fortnight before we make a new thread to choose again!

Guidelines for eligible icons:

* The icon must prominently picture a Prime Minister of Australia or symbol associated with the office (E.g. the Lodge, one of the busts from Ballarat’s Prime Ministers Avenue, etc). No fictional or otherwise joke PMs
* The icon must be of a different figure from the one immediately preceding it. So no icons relating to Gough Whitlam for this round.
* The icon should be high-quality (E.g. photograph or painting), no low-quality or low-resolution images. The focus should also be able to easily fit in a circle or square
* No NSFW, offensive, or otherwise outlandish imagery; it must be suitable for display on the Reddit homepage
* No icons relating to Anthony Albanese
* No memes, captions, or doctored images

Should an icon fail to meet any of these guidelines, the mod team will select the next eligible icon. We encourage as many of you as possible to put up nominations, and we look forward to seeing whose nomination will win!

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u/thescrubbythug — 24 days ago

Gough Whitlam and Prince Charles arriving at Port Moresby’s Jackson Airport ahead of Papua New Guinea’s independence ceremonies, 15 September 1975

u/thescrubbythug — 29 days ago

ROUND 48 | Decide the next r/AusPrimeMinisters subreddit icon/profile picture!

A photo of the bust of Sir John Gorton at the Prime Ministers Avenue in Ballarat was voted on as this sub’s next icon, and in doing so Gorton has become the first Prime Minister to be voted as the sub icon four times! Now, onto the next round, for which the next icon will be adopted next Monday.

Provide your proposed icon in the comments (within the guidelines below) and upvote others you want to see adopted! The top-upvoted icon will be adopted and displayed for a fortnight before we make a new thread to choose again!

Guidelines for eligible icons:

* The icon must prominently picture a Prime Minister of Australia or symbol associated with the office (E.g. the Lodge, one of the busts from Ballarat’s Prime Ministers Avenue, etc). No fictional or otherwise joke PMs
* The icon must be of a different figure from the one immediately preceding it. So no icons relating to John Gorton for this round.
* The icon should be high-quality (E.g. photograph or painting), no low-quality or low-resolution images. The focus should also be able to easily fit in a circle or square
* No NSFW, offensive, or otherwise outlandish imagery; it must be suitable for display on the Reddit homepage
* No icons relating to Anthony Albanese
* No memes, captions, or doctored images

Should an icon fail to meet any of these guidelines, the mod team will select the next eligible icon. We encourage as many of you as possible to put up nominations, and we look forward to seeing whose nomination will win!

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u/thescrubbythug — 29 days ago

Robert Muldoon facing anti-nuclear protestors while visiting the nuclear-powered USS Truxton at Wellington Harbour, 31 August 1976

Also shown speaking here at the end is trade union spokesman Toby Hill.

u/thescrubbythug — 1 month ago

Sir Keith Holyoake’s interview with the BBC in London over Britain’s negotiations to join the European Common Market, and how it would affect New Zealand, 13 April 1971

u/thescrubbythug — 1 month ago

Robert Muldoon meeting with London Lord Mayor Sir Lindsay Ring, during Muldoon’s first state visit to the United Kingdom as Prime Minister, 12 April 1976

u/thescrubbythug — 1 month ago

Part three of Sir John Gorton signing copies of the painting Looking For Trouble with artist Peter Randall-Kent in Sydney, circa 1998

Couldn’t upload in full because of size limits on Reddit - here’s the first and second parts.

u/thescrubbythug — 1 month ago

Part two of Sir John Gorton signing copies of the painting Looking For Trouble with artist Peter Randall-Kent in Sydney, circa 1998

Couldn’t upload in full because of size limits on Reddit - here’s the first and third parts.

u/thescrubbythug — 1 month ago

Sir John Gorton signing copies of the painting Looking For Trouble with artist Peter Randall-Kent in Sydney, circa 1998

Couldn’t upload in full because of size limits on Reddit - here’s the second and third parts.

u/thescrubbythug — 1 month ago

Sir John Gorton was born on this day in 1911. Australia’s 19th PM and the one who spearheaded the revival of the Australian film industry - he would have been 115 today.

u/thescrubbythug — 1 month ago