- Racial Discrimination Act is passed in the federal parliament.
- Yorta Yorta man Sir Douglas Ralph Nicholls is appointed Governor of South Australia. He is the first non-white person to serve as the governor of an Australian state, and is the only Aboriginal person to have held an official’s office. He retires due to ill health on 22 April 1977.
- Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) allows Aborigines to own traditional land & make claims for Crown Lands.
- Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency is established, rapidly achieving a 40% reduction in the number of Aboriginal children in children’s homes.