This was the US Space Laboratory satellite named Skylab. However, it did not fall to earth in the 1980s, but on 11 July 1979. It disintegrated over Australia, dropping most of its pieces over a 160km wide strip of land in Western Australia, between the main Sdelaide-Perth highway and the Indian Pacific railway line.
Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie - 2009 1980s The Future Has Landed 2-7 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G
The avErage weakly income in Australia in 1980s are $ 55
The presence of an ozone hole was first detected by the Nimbus-7 satellite and the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument in the mid-1980s.
Ozone layer is thin over Australia. It is due to its location near poles.
Night Owl was established in Australia in 1975, and grew considerably in popularity during the 1980s.
Venus is the only planet where unmanned spacecraft have successfully landed and explored. The Soviet Union's Venera program landed several probes on Venus in the 1970s and 1980s, providing valuable data about the planet's atmosphere and surface conditions.
Non-European migration is completely new to Australia. During the 1980s Australia experienced large scale Asian immigration, and then during the 2000s to the present Australia has experienced Arab immigration. However, because Arabs have poorly integrated into Australia they are not considered Australians.
Many countries have Liberal parties including Australia and Canada. The Liberal Party in the UK became the Liberal Democrats in the late 1980s.
Slip-Slop-Slap is the iconic and internationally recognised sun protection campaign prominent in Australia during the 1980s
Many places in Western Australia, South Australia and western Queensland record extremes of heat on Christmas Day, but there are no official figures for the hottest Christmas Day anywhere on record in Australia. Locals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia speak of a day in the early 1980s when the temperature touched on 50 degrees Celsius.
Is was the 1980s when Australia and New Zealand significantly minimized government intervention in the economy. The same was true for the United States.
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