The Premier, Mr Henry Bolte, launches a 1 million public appeal. The State Government to grant 750,000 in three stages and guarantee a loan. Stage one was the excavation of the site in March. The artist later calls for the director, Mr Eric Rowlinson, to be sacked. Geoffrey Bartlett's The Messenger, a five-metre steel and aluminium sculpture finished in bronze, to stand in the moat on the northern side of the entrance forecourt.
Vandals shatter the top corner of the water window.
The original window pane was imported from Germany. Mr McCaughey announces the purchase of Picasso's Weeping Woman. Weeping Woman stolen and missing for 17 days before being found undamaged in a locker at the Spencer Street railway station. The theft case remains unsolved. The Murdoch Court at the northern end of the complex opens.