Entertainment Music and Television Television was introduced into Australia just in time for the Melbourne Olympic Games. The first broadcast was in September 1956. The early TV sets costed a fortune for the average household so you would often see crowds of people looking through the shop windows at the black and white TV screens. In the first year of its arrival only 10 000 were sold but during the next three years 600 000 sets were sold. Early channels …showed first 75 words of 285 total…

…showed last 75 words of 285 total…trough the decades of time to become the popular (*cough*) music of today. "Rock and Roll" singers such as Johnnie Ray, Elvis Presley and Bill Hayley had an influence on the style of clothes at that time for the young generation. Dancing and discos also became a very popular social event for the disco divas and "hard core" rocker generations. Australia in the 1950's Itiel Bereson Australia in the Twentieth Century the 1950's Anna Ciddor