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July – Bob Shanks takes over as managing director of Network Ten due to ailing ratings & totally revamps the network, giving it the name 10 TV Australia as well as introducing a new lineup with increased game show content. Most of the new shows are axed by the end of the year. August – Acropolis Now premieres in Australia (1989–1992).
The name Australia (pronounced / ə ˈ s t r eɪ l i ə / in Australian English [41]) is derived from the Latin Terra Australis (' southern land '), a name used for a hypothetical continent in the Southern Hemisphere since ancient times. [42] Several 16th-century cartographers used the word Australia on maps, but not to identify modern ...
The list below shows the leading sire of Thoroughbred racehorses in Australia for each season since 1883–84. This is determined by the amount of prize money won by the sire's progeny during the season.
6 February – Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II's accession as Queen of Australia; 17 February – Air Australia's fleet is grounded as the budget airline goes into voluntary administration. [6] 27 February – The Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party holds a ballot to determine its leader and by extension the Prime Minister of Australia ...
The 1994 Bonython by-election in South Australia is won by former Independent Labor MP for Elizabeth, Martyn Evans. On a charter flight from Cairns, a Piper Aztec crashes in the Belleden Ker Range, Queensland, killing all four on board.
The Wardandi, an Aboriginal Australian people, were the first peoples in the area. They called it "Doogalup". [5]The English navigator Matthew Flinders named Cape Leeuwin after the first known ship to have visited the area, the Leeuwin ("Lioness"), a Dutch vessel that charted some of the nearby coastlines in 1622.
Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, 2007 Greenly Island; a distant view taken from the sea (circa 1903) (State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/120) Chinamans Hat Island as viewed from the nearby coastline View of Pearson Island from its south end circa 1914 (State Library of South Australia PRG-280-1-12-263)
The earliest trams in Australia operated in the latter decades of the 19th century, hauled by horses or "steam tram motors" (also known as "steam dummies"). At the turn of the 20th century, propulsion almost universally turned to electrification, although cable trams (established in 1885) lingered in Melbourne.
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