In 1978, the Town of Narrogin, like many others in country shires, was continuing to introduce deep sewerage and reticulated water. Singer Johnny O’Keefe passed away. The VB Commodore was a bigger seller than the Ford Falcon, cementing a rivalry between owners that would last for decades. Part of the sky fell in when 1979, when Skylab crashed in the remote south-east of the state and people around the world heard of Rawlinna and possibly Esperance for the first time. The Shire of Esperance fined NASA A$400 for littering. Many more people were affected by the introduction in 1979 of the right to Maternity Leave. This was also the year when passenger services were suspended on the Fremantle line, and not returned until 1983 after a big public outcry. Lots of things were big back then: big shoulder pads for women, big financial deals, big financial failures and a big royal wedding when our present King married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. Australia won the Commonwealth Games in 1982 and some of us probably watched Matilda the Kangaroo from office televisions while sipping the International Roast coffee that had become an office budget standard: our consumption of coffee had quadrupled since WW2. We were careful not to spill it near our chunky new desktop computer, if we were one of the lucky ones: in 1982, Time decided that the home computer would be Person of the Year. The word Apple had acquired a whole new meaning.

1978
George Ayres JP
Murray Buchan JP
Malcolm Dempsey OAM JP
May Mapleson JP
Noel Muir JP
Leslie Norrish JP
Roger Pettman JP

1979
Peter Allan JP
Trevor Cangemi JP
George Cash AM JP
Darlene Cattach JP
Bruce Duncan JP
Neville A Gale JP
Norman Gobbart JP
Walter Jenkins JP
John Lea JP
Wendy Mann JP
Janet Mason JP
John May JP
Colin Philippson OAM JP
William Spurr JP

1980
Joseph Bellini JP
Ian Crawford JP
Ray Gannaway JP
Robert Gillam JP
Ian Goyder OAM JP
Yvonne Graham JP
David Henderson JP
Shirley Humble JP
Keith Hywood JP
Michael Kenny JP
David Manners JP
Thomas Massam JP
Robert McCarthy JP
Peter Mulvay JP
Terence Murphy JP
Victor Stoyanoff JP
Graham Warmington JP
Eric Wells JP

1981
Franklyn Brown JP
Terrence Donaldson JP
Keith Drew JP
Colin Dunkeld JP
Graham Dustan JP
Laurence Hatwell JP
Graeme Macarthur JP
Kim Male JP
Paula Mathieson JP
Ian McDonagh JP
Trevor Tough JP
Peter Vlachou JP
Alec Woodgate JP

1982
Alan Bates JP
Frank Creagh OAM JP
Donald Davies JP
James Dwyer JP
Dennis Hoult JP
Robert Isaacs AM AM JP
Debra Kesacoff JP
Bob King JP
John Lowe JP
Graham Mabbs JP
Maxwell McNabb JP
Ross O’Neil JP
Douglas Patterson JP
Marguerite Pearce JP
Clifford Rickard JP
Elaine Robinson JP
Peter Smith JP
Melva White JP
Robert Woodgate JP