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16 December 2024 – 2024 Australia heat wave Walpeup, Victoria, Australia, reports a temperature of 47.1 °C (116.8 °F), the hottest temperature reported in the state since 2019. Extreme heat wave and fire risk warnings are also issued for areas across Australia. (The Guardian) (ABC News Australia)
The Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University selects "Matilda" as Australia's word of the year. [ 426 ] The 2023 ARIA Music Awards are held in Sydney where Genesis Owusu wins Album of the Year for Struggler and Troye Sivan is named Best Solo Artist for " Rush ", which is also voted Song of the Year .
The event was run as a virtual event where participants ran the length of the course on their local streets using an app. [138] The same happened in 2021, when Sydney was in another lockdown. [ 139 ] Under the Southern Stars music festival was cancelled in 2020, and in April 2021 that year's was postponed to 2022.
Noel Clarke, Australian rules footballer (b. 1930) Judy Gamin, Queensland politician (b. 1930) 8 August – Dame Olivia Newton-John, singer, actress and activist (born in the United Kingdom and died in the United States) (b. 1948) 9 August. Bernie Crowe, Australian rules footballer (b. 1932) Ian McCausland, artist (b. 1944) 11 August
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to ...
The state was not evacuated because of the floods. New South Wales State Emergency Service (SES) had responded to over 12,000 requests for help and 1000 direct flood rescues since 18 March during the storm, with the coastal area between the Mid North Coast and Greater Sydney being the most affected by the storm, where the SES had given flood evacuation warnings in many areas of these regions.
11 July – Australia records its first death from the COVID-19 pandemic for 2021, [dubious – discuss] as Sydney records 77 cases of community transmission. [ 40 ] 14 July – Following a relocation from Sydney , then Newcastle , Queensland defeat New South Wales 20–18 at Cbus Super Stadium in the third match of the 2021 State of Origin ...
5 January 1863 is Sydney's first recorded 40 °C (104 °F) day, when the mercury hit 41.6 °C (106.9 °F) at Sydney's Observatory Hill. [11]During January 1896, a state wide heatwave blasted through NSW and caused the mercury in Sydney to hit 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) on the 6th and 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) on the 13th, this ended Sydney's longest streak of days under 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) which lasted ...