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2.13 Unknown dates. 3 Arts and literature. 4 ... Other events of 1981; Timeline of Australian history ... The Canberra Raiders are accepted as the fourteenth team in ...
22 February – Prince Philip opens the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra. Talbot Duckmanton succeeds Sir Charles Moses as chairman of The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) The Seekers' single "I'll Never Find Another You" reaches No. 1 in the UK charts. It becomes the first recording by an Australian act to sell more than 1 million ...
30 January – The first Cabinet meeting was held in Canberra. The ministers met and also lodged at Yarralumla House, later the residence of the Governor-General. [1] 1 February – The Australian Loan Council meets for the first time. [2] 12 April – HMAS Australia is scuttled off Sydney Heads.
A Thunderstorm asthma event in Melbourne kills 10 people and sends thousands to emergency departments 2017: Late July: John Cameron sets off the chain of events that became the 2017 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis. 9 December: Same-sex marriage is legalised by the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017. [36 ...
But the most significant event of 1927 was clearly the opening of the provisional Parliament House (now known as the "Old Parliament House") on 9 May 1927. On this date also, Melbourne ceased being the national capital and seat of government and Canberra assumed this role.
This is a timeline of Australian inventions consisting of products and technology invented in Australia from pre-European-settlement in 1788 to the present. The inventions are listed in chronological order based on the date of their introduction.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight , a coalition of Australian research-intensive universities.
21 March – At the conference, Arthur Calwell and Gough Whitlam were photographed outside the venue at Kingston in Canberra. Although Calwell was the Leader of the Opposition, neither man was a member of the federal executive. Menzies jibed that the ALP was ruled by "36 faceless men". [1]