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Incumbents
Premiers and Chief Ministers
Governors and Administrators
Events
- 30 January – John Howard becomes federal Liberal Party leader and thus federal leader of the opposition after the resignation of Alexander Downer.
- 18 February – Elections in the Australian Capital Territory replace the minority Australian Labor Party government of Rosemary Follett and elect a minority Liberal Party government of Kate Carnell.
- 25 March – Bob Carr leads the Labor Party to victory in the New South Wales state election, deposing the Liberal/National coalition government of John Fahey that had been in power since 1988.
- May – The Australian Grand Prix is moved from Adelaide to Melbourne after the Premier of Victoria spends what is reported to be quite a large amount on securing the rights to the race from 1996 onwards. Protests ensue about what many saw as the turning of public parkland into a private racetrack.
- June–July – Qantas is privatised.
- 1 July – Telecom Australia changes its domestic trading name to Telstra.
- 15 July – The Queensland state election produces a hung Parliament, with Labor holding a one-seat majority over the Liberal/National coalition. However, irregularities are reported in the seat of Mundingburra, which was won by the Labor Party. After a recount, the seat goes to the coalition. This, combined with the decision of Gladstone-based independent Liz Cunningham to support the coalition, ensures that the coalition form the government in Queensland.
- 31 August – The cast bronze statue of the dog Larry La Trobe situated on the northern end of Melbourne's City Square is stolen.
- 20 October – Brenda Hodge, the last person to be sentenced to death in Australia before the full abolition of capital punishment, is paroled from prison after serving eleven years of a life sentence.
- 24 October – Anna Wood, 15-year-old schoolgirl from Sydney, dies after taking ecstasy at a rave. Her death sparks a media firestorm and a national debate over the use of illicit drugs.
- 3 November- After a six-month trial, David Harold Eastman is convicted by a jury of the assassination of AFP Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester. He is sentenced to life imprisonment and can only be released by approval of the ACT parliament, Federal Parliament and the Governor-General.
- November – The rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) escapes from an island testing station in South Australia & quickly spreads into Victoria. It is estimated that the feral rabbit population would be permanently reduced by 60%.
- 3 December – The ANZAC Bridge in Sydney is opened to traffic.
- 4 December – A gas explosion at Kogarah railway station, Sydney kills two people.
Film
Television
Sport
Births
- 6 January – Paul Izzo, footballer
- 13 January – Brianna Davey, soccer player
- 15 January – Christopher Cristaldo, footballer
- 16 January – Mikaela Turik, cricketer
- 18 January
- 21 January – Alanna Kennedy, soccer player
- 24 January – Callan McAuliffe, actor
- 26 January – Jordan Drew, footballer
- 31 January – Taylor Corry, swimmer
- 11 February – Alex Haas, canoeist
- 18 February – Mitchell Oxborrow, British-born soccer player
- 4 April – Jacob Melling, soccer player
- 8 April – Hagi Gligor, footballer
- 11 April – Sarah Mason, New Zealand-born surfer
- 12 April – Angela Donald, artistic gymnast
- 21 April – Matt Crouch, footballer
- 25 April – Scott Galloway, footballer
- 27 April – Nick Kyrgios, tennis player
- 5 May
- 11 May – Erinn Walters, athlete
- 15 June
- 18 June – Olia Burtaev, swimmer
- 23 June – Eva Lazzaro, actress
- 30 June – Jai Opetaia, boxer
- 5 July – Torita Isaac, athlete
- 6 July – Brooklee Han, American-born figure skater
- 13 July – Dante Exum, basketball player
- 15 September – Awer Mabil, Kenya-born footballer
- 29 September – Yolane Kukla, swimmer
- 3 October – Jay Andrijic, tennis player
- 7 October – Tiffany Eliadis, soccer player
- 12 October – Stefan Mauk, footballer
- 1 November – Nick D'Aloisio, entrepreneur, computer programmer and designer
- 7 November – Michael Dameski, actor, dancer and singer
- 23 November – Brittany Broben, diver
- 20 December – Feliks Zemdegs, speedsolver
- 22 December – Holly Ferling, cricketer
Deaths
- 13 January – Max Harris, 74, poet and author
- 26 January – Ian Tomlinson, 58, triple and long jumper
- 5 March – Gregg Hansford, 42, motorcycle and touring car racer
- 6 March – Olive Zakharov, 75, ALP senator
- 11 March – Isabel Letham, 95, Australia's first surfer
- 29 March – Antony Hamilton, 42, actor, model and dancer
- 2 April – Trevor Ashmore Pyman, diplomat
- 24 April – Stanley Burbury, 85, 21st Governor of Tasmania
- 27 April – Peter Wright, 78, British MI5 officer and author of Spycatcher
- 12 May – Len Beadell, 72, explorer and roadbuilder
- 17 May – Frank Knopfelmacher, 72, philosopher
- 12 June – Sir Talbot Duckmanton, 73, ABC general manager (1965–82)
- 26 June – John Jefferson Bray, 82, SA Supreme Court judge
- 22 July – Harold Larwood, 90, English cricketer
- 2 August – Fred Daly, 82, ALP politician
- 8 August – Harold Stewart, 78, poet and author
- 17 August – Ted Whitten, 62, AFL player
- 18 August – Philip Hodgins, 36, poet
- 27 August – Dick Bentley, 88, comedian and actor
- 30 August – Dame Pattie Menzies, 94, wife of Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies
- 24 October – Anna Wood, 15, victim of water intoxication after taking ecstasy
- 26 October – John Sangster, 66, jazz musician
- 1 November – Sir James Ralph Darling, 96, headmaster of Geelong Grammar School and chairman of the ABC
- 10 November – Jim Willis, 85, botanist
- 5 December – Gwen Harwood, 75, poet
- 8 December – Arthur John Birch, 80, organic chemist
- 12 December – Andrew Olle, 48, ABC TV journalist
Unknown
- Warringah Council becomes the first council in Australia to use dung beetles to pick up dog droppings.
References
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