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1980 in Australia

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The following lists events that happened during 1980 in Australia.

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Malcolm Fraser

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  • 1 December – A memorial service is held for former Australian prime minister Sir John McEwen at St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne.[47]
  • 2 December – The Federal Government lifts controls regulating the interest rates offered by banks on customer deposits.[48]
  • 15 December – The Azaria Chamberlain inquest begins in Alice Springs.[49][50][51]
  • 17 December
    • Turkish Consul-General, Şarık Arıyak and his bodyguard, Engin Sever, are shot dead in the street outside the consulate in Dover Heights, Sydney, becoming the victims of Australia's first political assassinations.[52][53] The obscure international terrorist army, the "Justice Commandoes of Armenian Genocide", claim responsibility for the deaths only 20 minutes after the shootings.[52][53]
    • A Woolworths store in the Wollongong suburb of Warilla is bombed, causing $300,000 worth of damage.[54]
  • 19 December – A Woolworths store at Maitland, New South Wales is bombed, suffering more than $300,000 worth of damage.[54]
  • 20 December – A Woolworths store at Orange, New South Wales receives a call from a man threatening to bomb a Woolworths store unless he is paid $1 million.[54]
  • 23 DecemberVictoria decriminalises homosexual acts between consenting adults, with the Royal Assent of the Crimes (Sexual Offences) Act 1980.[55]
  • 24 December – Woolworths' Town Hall store in the centre of Sydney is devastated by a bomb blast – the chain's third store to be targeted in nine days.[54] Authorities received only 10 minutes' warning of the bombing, which miraculously caused no serious casualties after 2,000 shoppers and staff were evacuated from the area.[54][56]
  • 26 December – Police offer a $250,000 reward for information relating to the recent Woolworths bombings.[54] The reward is the largest ever offered in Australian history.[54]
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