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Significant Events of Srila Prabhupada During Australia and New Zealand Visit.

9 May 1971 First arrived in Australia. Sydney temple at Oxford St, Paddington.

10 May 1971 Installed Deities of Radha and Krsna, Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha. Initiated first Australian disciples.

12 May 1971 Completed preface to unabridged Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

Spoke at Sydney Grammar School and Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross.

31 March 1972 Arrived Sydney. Temple at Hereford St, Glebe.

3 April 1972 Addressed students at Sydney University.

4 April 1972 Interviewed on ATN 7 Today Show.

Spoke on ATN 7 Bob Rogers Show.

5 April 1972 First arrived in Melbourne. Temple at Burnett St, St. Kilda.

6 April 1972 Installed Deities of Radha and Krsna.

Initiated first Melbourne disciples. Awarded sannyasa to Hanuman Goswami. Addressed monks at Tarrawarra Abbey, Cistercian Monastery in Yarra Glen. Spoke with the Abbot, Dom Kevin O'Farrell.

7 April 1972 Spoke to capacity crowd at Melbourne Town Hall.

8 April 1972 Returned to Sydney.

9 April 1972 Initiated disciples in back garden of Glebe temple.

14 April 1972 First arrived in New Zealand. Auckland temple at Landscape road, Mt. Eden.

Spoke at Auckland Town Hall.

15 April 1972 Spoke at Gandhi Hall.

16 April 1972 Lectured at Barry Lett Art Gallery.

17 April 1972 Addressed students at

University of Auckland.

18 April 1972 Installed Deities of Radha and Krsna, Sri Sri Radha Giridhari.

Initiated first New Zealand disciples.

8 Feb 1973 Arrived Melbourne.

Spoke at the Hare Krsna Shop in Little Lonsdale St.

9 Feb 1973 Gave evening lecture at Palais Theatre, St. Kilda.

10 Feb 1973 Installed Deities of Radha and Krsna, Sri Sri Radha Vallabha. Initiated disciples.

12 Feb 1973 Arrived Sydney.

15 Feb 1973 Appearance Day of Lord Nityananda.

Installed Deities of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

16 Feb 1973 Spoke at Paddington Town Hall.

17 Feb 1973 Spoke at Sydney Town Hall.

18 Feb 1973 Initiation ceremony in back garden of Glebe Temple.

19 Feb 1973 Arrived Auckland. Temple at Gribblehirst Rd, Mt. Albert.

23 Feb 1973 Spoke at Auckland's Intercontinental Hotel.

25 June 1974 Arrived Melbourne.

27 June 1974 Lectured at Melbourne Town Hall.

28 June 1974 Addressed monks, trainee priests and Yarra Theological Union Students at St. Paschal's Franciscan Seminary, Box Hill.

Spoke with the Reverend Gordon Powell, head of Scots' Church in Melbourne, andthe Right Reverend J.A. Kelly, Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Melbourne.

29 June 1974 Presided over Melbourne's third annual Ratha-yatra festival.

30 June 1974 Initiated disciples.

Spoke at Ormond Hall, Prahran.

1 July 1974 Addressed rowdy students at Melbourne's La Trobe University.

2 July 1974 Spoke with officers-in-charge from the Dairy Research Laboratories at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

6 May 1975 First arrived in Perth, Western Australia.

Stayed in house at City Beach.

14 May 1975 Spoke with Justin Murphy, Scientific Services Officer from CSIRO.

16 May 1975 Spoke with doctors and staff members from the Western Australian Alcohol and Drug Authority.

17 May 1975 Arrived Melbourne. Temple at Danks St, Albert Park.

18 May 1975 Inaugurated ISKCON's Australian headquarters.

Installed Deities of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

19 May 1975 Spoke with Father Frank Wallace, Acting Provincial of the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

20 May 1975 Initiated disciples.

Spoke with Professor Don Ferrel from La Trobe University's Department of Modern Indian History.

21 May 1975 Spoke with Mr. Moore, director of research of the Department of Social Welfare.

22 May 1975 Spoke with Raymond Lopez, prominent Melbourne criminal barrister and Wally Strauss, solicitor.

19 April 1976 Arrived Melbourne.

20 April 1976 Spoke with interviewers Mike Barron and Carol Jarvis from Melbourne TV networks.

23 April 1976 Initiated disciples.

Spoke with Brian Dixon, State Minister for Sport and Recreation.

24 April 1976 Spoke with Professor Ian Watson from Department of Philosophy at La Trobe University.

25 April 1976 Met with Australian devotees for the last time.

26 April 1976 Arrived Auckland, New Zealand.

27 April 1976 Initiated disciples.

28 April 1976 Installed Deities of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra.

1 May 1977 Approved of name "New Govardhana" for Australia's first Krsna conscious farming community.


- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu