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Incumbents
Premiers and Chief Ministers
Governors and administrators
Events
- 1 January – 1962 Cabinet papers are released to the public.
- 7 January – West Australian Premier Carmen Lawrence announces a February 6 election date.[1]
- 9 January – Prime Minister Paul Keating denies any involvement in a multimillion-dollar salami venture with a Hungarian company in the NSW Hunter Valley, as had been alleged by Senator Michael Baume.
- 13 January – National Party Leader Tim Fischer calls on Japan to apologise for Japanese atrocities committed during World War II.
- 20 January – A funeral is held for former Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck in St. George's Cathedral, Perth.
- 21 January – The Australian dollar slumps to its lowest level since early 1987 (US 66.3c) prompting international investors to abandon the currency and a rescue intervention effort from the Reserve Bank of Australia.[2]
- 22 January –
- Prime Minister Paul Keating releases a statement revealing that he is suing Senator Michael Baume over comments he made in a 3AW radio interview about Mr. Keating's involvement in a Scone piggery, Danpork and tax concessions for which he applied.
- Shell Australia announces plans to close more than half of the nation's oldest colliery, the South Bulli Mine, leading to 230 job losses for New South Wales coal miners.
- 25 January – The Remuneration Tribunal announces that MPs will have their pay boosted by 1.4 per cent from March 11.
- 28 January –
- The Federal Government curtails MDS microwave delivery as a secondary pay TV system to satellite and calls off the auction for new MDS licences, a decision which Prime Minister Paul Keating claims is to stop "inferior technology" – the microwave system – from hijacking the pay-TV industry.[3]
- Federal Treasurer John Dawkins announces that the Federal Government is revising its Budget forecasts for growth in 1992–93 from 3 per cent to 2.5 per cent.[4]
- 31 January – New South Wales Transport Minister, Mr. Baird, announces that 2,000 jobs will disappear from the State Rail Authority this year and stressed that all redundancies would be voluntary.
- 6 February – Elections in Western Australia see the ALP government of Carmen Lawrence voted out and the Liberal Party voted in. Richard Court becomes the new premier.
- 7 March – Two prisoners, Peter Gibb and Archie Butterley, escape from the Melbourne Remand Centre with the help of prison officer Heather Parker.[5]
- 13 March – Paul Keating and the ALP win the federal 'unwinnable election' and are re-elected for a fifth term in power.
- 4 August – Coles Myer announces a $4 billion expansion plan creating 100,000 new jobs & spanning five years.
- 28 August – HMAS Collins (SSG 73), the first of the Collins Class submarine, becomes the first Australian-built and designed submarine to launch
- 23 September – The IOC selects Sydney to be the site of the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 26 November – Construction begins on Brisbane’s new $250 million International Airport Terminal.
- 11 December – Dean Brown and the Liberal Party win the South Australian elections, winning government from Lynn Arnold and the ALP.
Arts and literature
Film
Television
- 3 March – The "birthday cake interview" with John Hewson takes place on A Current Affair. Hewson's confused explanation of the effect of a consumption tax in the Coalition's Fightback! package is seen as a crucial factor in the surprise re-election of the ALP at the federal election.
- 30 July – A Country Practice is axed after 1,058 episodes by the Seven Network. The final episode aired on 22 November, Network Ten pick up the series the following year, but it is nowhere near as successful as the Channel Seven version and is axed soon after.
- 25 November – Ray Martin presents his final episode of Midday. He moves on to A Current Affair in 1994 and is replaced in the Midday role by Derryn Hinch.
Sport
Births
- 3 March – Nicola Bolger, football (soccer) player
- 11 March – Demi Harman, actress
- 8 May – Pat Cummins, cricketer
- 16 May – Steven Solomon, sprinter
- 9 June – Jack Debreczeni, Australian rugby player
- 16 July – Billy Ward, Olympic boxer (died 2013)
- 31 July – Christian Byers, actor
- 11 August – Luke Erceg, actor
- 4 September – Mark Vincent, pop opera singer
- 9 September – Tessa Wallace, swimmer
- 13 September – Aisha Dee, actress
- 11 December – Tyrone Gilks, motorbike stunt rider (died 2013)
- 13 December – Shaun Edwards, rules footballer (Greater Western Sydney)
Deaths
References
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