Culture
People of the 1970’s began to follow the 1960’s trend, such as people were dressing up groovy which in their days they were called hippies which was originally from the 1960’s. The 1970’s was filled with a lot of people wanting no war wanting love and peace, many of their citizens were struggling with the poor economy. The economy was poor; in many places the prices of stuff began to rise but no one had any control of that changing. Another thing that was very bad was having energy crisis’s which was a major thing back then. In the 1970’s people were creating things that would change the future and turn it to a new perspective.
Entertainment
The 1970’s had different entertainment to today’s society. There were many more movie makers and broadcast producers which they used their success to create new work that you would be able honor for decades. The first 24 hour network was founded in 1979 which was the ESPN program. There were many movies made in the 1970’s, like animated, SC-FI, and horror. In the 70’s it was very popular to be involved in rock music and disco’s, many of the music, TV shows/movies and toys are still used and are still popular in today’s century.
Indigenous issues, feminism
1970’s was a difficult/tough time for indigenous issues and feminism. The drama from the 1960’s had continued into the 1970’s. There were many protests about social and political movements which were then taken in the Western countries. 1970 had a large range of Indigenous people that used to live in the poor conditions. In 1976 it was a law that had gotten recognized that Aboriginal people had the right to be able to claim their land. The Aboriginal’s were then counted into the national population which was the first time for them. When this change had started to occur there was an increase in Aboriginals moving into Australia. The number was risen to 160 915 people. Women’s rights were totally different in the 1970’s, such as the working conditions, the rights, and the wages. The women had pushed the other gender (men) to let them work as child bearers, housewives or keep them in some routine for them to follow. Early 1970’s women took at-least one-third of the workforce and were still paid less then any of the men working in the same job. 1972 the government agreed that is women do the same job as the men then they should get the same amount of pay as them. Also in 1979 the women had won the right to get maternity leave.
Government
A lot of changes had happened in across the world in the 1970’s. Just as the Vietnam War had come to an end the the world economy began to change. The 1973–75 recession put an end to the general post-World War II economic boom. It differed from many previous recessions where high unemployment coincided with high inflation. Gough Whitlam was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The Leader of the Labor Party from 1967 to 1977, Whitlam led his party to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He won the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have his commission terminated in that manner. Unfortunately Whitlam had just begun a reformation of social attitudes.
Small video about 1970’s lifestyle
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