The photographs listed below are in the National Archives collection and depict some key events of 1977. High-resolution copies of these images are available – follow the links to enlargement pages.
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Meeting HR Dharsono, the Secretary-General of ASEAN
Greeting Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Vietnamese refugees arriving in Darwin in small boats
Josephine Zammit, member of the first Australian Ethnic Affairs Council
Douglas Nicholls, the South Australian Governor who resigned months later
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip speak to well-wishers
Prince Charles with Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum on the ABC music show Countdown
Crowds outside the Sydney Opera House during the Royal Tour
Governor-General John Kerr with former Prime Minister Robert Menzies
Don Chipp, leader of the Democrats, at the Tally Room on election night
Phil Lynch, John Howard and John Carrick at Government House
Bill Hayden replaced Gough Whitlam as Leader of the Australian Labor Party
Galarrwuy Yunupingu at the presentation of the Yirrkala petition
A miner at Peak Downs Coal Mine, Queensland
Computers at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra
Escarpment country near the Ranger uranium deposit, Northern Territory
NSW Police Rescue at work following the Granville rail disaster
‘Norm’, the leisure-loving star of the fitness campaign ‘Life. Be in it’
Life in a lighthouse off southern Tasmania
The Queen with cricketers Dennis Lillee and Australian captain Greg Chappell