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2000 in Australia

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:More citations needed The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Australia.

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IncumbentsEdit

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Sir William Deane
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John Howard

State and territory leadersEdit

Governors and administratorsEdit

2000 is to date the last time in which no Federal, State or Territory elections were held and the first time that no general election was held for any house of Parliament since 1942.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

EventsEdit

JanuaryEdit

  • 1 January
  • 2 January – A massive oil spill occurs off the coast of Phillip Island, endangering the region's penguin population.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 3 January – When Federal Justice Minister, Senator Amanda Vanstone is asked whether alleged Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs would be welcome when he arrived in Australia in the coming days, she replies, "Would you expect a situation where any Australian citizen would not be?", an answer which caused much controversy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 7 January – Alleged Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs returns to Australia, arriving at Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne, and met by a barrage of protesters.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 8 January – Queensland Labor Member for Woodridge, Bill D'Arcy resigns from Queensland Parliament due to the controversy caused by the Net Bet scandal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 10 January – CASA issues an Airworthiness Directive which grounds all aircraft after being advised the day before that more contaminants had been found in fuel produced at Mobil's Altona refinery in Melbourne.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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FebruaryEdit

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  • 16 February – 21–year–old Jamie Wurramara, who stole $23 worth of biscuits on Christmas Day 1999, is sentenced to a year in jail under the Northern Territory's mandatory sentencing laws, prompting a wave of protests around the nation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 25 February – The Federal Opposition calls on Aged Care Minister Bronwyn Bishop to resign after revelations she waited four weeks to act on reports that elderly residents of the Riverside Nursing Home were given kerosene baths in an effort to rid them of scabies, a skin rash.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 29 February – Katherine Knight murders her partner John Price by stabbing him 37 times in Aberdeen, New South Wales. She proceeded to decapitate, skin and cook the victim in a crime that shocked the country.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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MarchEdit

  • 16 March – A nationwide recall of Herron headache tablets is ordered after a Brisbane doctor and his 18–year–old son are hospitalised with strychnine poisoning.
  • 18 March – Herron offers a $250,000 reward to try to find out who tampered with its paracetamol products. A 32–year–old Brisbane man is subsequently arrested.
  • 20 March – Queensland Premier Peter Beattie announces that State Cabinet has approved a $30 million deal to exclude trawling from 35 percent of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and reduce the fish catch from the reef by 15 percent.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 25 March – Brisbane City Council election - Jim Soorley is elected for a fourth term as Lord Mayor of Brisbane, defeating Liberal candidate Gail Austen.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

AprilEdit

  • 6 April – Train carriages derail at Redfern, Sydney. No passengers are involved.
  • 10 April – Prime Minister John Howard reaches agreement with the Northern Territory Chief Minister Denis Burke on mandatory sentencing. In exchange for Commonwealth funding, the Territory's laws will be changed to give diversionary programmes as a substitute for jail time to children accused of minor crimes. Police will have discretion to give children who've committed more serious crimes access to these programmes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 27 April – Four elderly people, between the ages of 65 and 88, are hospitalised after catching the potentially fatal Legionnaire's disease at the new Melbourne Aquarium in what became Victoria's worst outbreak of the disease with possible exposure to up to 10,000 people.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

MayEdit

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JuneEdit

JulyEdit

AugustEdit

  • 10 August – Beginning of the Sydney gang rapes by a group from up to fourteen men.
  • 15 August – Queensland Attorney–General Matt Foley announces that the Government has ordered an independent investigation into allegations of widespread electoral rorting within the Queensland Labor Party.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 17 August – It is announced that the current Queensland Assistant Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson will replace Jim O'Sullivan as Police Commissioner when he retires on 31 October.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

SeptemberEdit

OctoberEdit

  • 10 October – It is revealed that Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith has incurred almost $50,000 on a taxpayer-funded Telecard for a service he says he hasn't used for years, but which he admits he gave to his son.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

NovemberEdit

  • 1 November – Former Queensland Labor MP Bill D'Arcy is found guilty of 18 child sex charges committed while he was a school teacher.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • November – New South Wales suffers its worst floods in 40 years, with 240 cm of rain falling in one week.
  • 22 November – Jim Elder resigns as Queensland Deputy Premier, citing allegations of electoral rorting within the Labor Party currently under investigation by the Shepherdson Inquiry.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Arts and literatureEdit

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FilmEdit

TelevisionEdit

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  • 1 January – The Seven Network introduces a new ribbon-style logo to celebrate the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first one in the network's history not to have the number 7 inside a circle.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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SportEdit

BirthsEdit

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DeathsEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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