Science and Technology
- 17 March – Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station is opened near Canberra.
- April – Dung beetles released between Broome, Western Australia and Townsville, Queensland in the Australian Dung Beetle Project, led by Dr. George Bornemissza of the CSIRO in an attempt to control the buffalo fly.
- 1 May – Health authorities begin the first national polio immunisation campaign using the new Sabin oral vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk.
- 29 November – Australia's first satellite, WRESAT, is launched on an American Redstone rocket from Woomera, South Australia.
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