Editing 2000 in Australia (section)

===January===
*1 January
**Serbian President [[Slobodan Milosevic]] releases Care Australia worker Branko Jeken from imprisonment in Serbia.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kremmer|first1=Christopher|last2=Marshallsea|first2=Trevor|date=2 January 2000|title=Care worker set free|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-care-worker-set-free/129517827|work=The Age|page=16|location= |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref>
**The National Archives releases 1969 Cabinet documents.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nicholson|first1=Brendan|last2=Daley|first2=Paul|last3=Macdonald|first3=Janine|date=1 January 2000|title=1969 Cabinet papers|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-1969-cabinet-papers/129517977|work=The Age|page=13|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052831/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-1969-cabinet-papers/129517977/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**Pakistani cricketer [[Shoaib Akhtar]] returns home to Pakistan after the ICC rules that his bowling action during a recent match was illegal.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ray|first1=Mark|last2=Wilkins|first2=Phil|date=1 January 2000|title=ICC bans Akhtar|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-icc-bans-akhtar/129518097|work=The Age|page=32|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052207/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-icc-bans-akhtar/129518097/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*2 January &ndash; A massive oil spill occurs off the coast of Phillip Island, endangering the region's penguin population.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ketchell|first=Misha|date=3 January 2000|title=Penguins die as oil spills along coast|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-penguins-die-as-oil-spills-along/54585195|work=The Age|page=3|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806085440/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-penguins-die-as-oil-spills-along/54585195/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*3 January &ndash; 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>{{cite news|url=http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/01/nazi-j17.html|title=Australia a "safe haven" for Nazi war criminals|first=Mike|last=Head|author-link=Mike Head|date=17 January 2000|work=[[World Socialist Web Site]]|access-date=12 January 2015|archive-date=26 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226001123/http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/01/nazi-j17.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=MacDonald|first1=Janine|last2=Mann|first2=Simon|date=4 January 2000|title=Nazi row: Canberra refuses to step in|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-nazi-row-canberra-refuses-to-st/129518249|work=The Age|page=1|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052209/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-nazi-row-canberra-refuses-to-st/129518249/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*7 January &ndash; Alleged Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs returns to Australia, arriving at Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne, and met by a barrage of protesters.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mann|first1=Simon|last2=MacDonald|first2=Janine|date=8 January 2000|title=Konrad Kalejs flies in to a storm of protests|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-konrad-kalejs-flies-in-to-a-stor/129518369|work=The Age|page=1|location= |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref>
*8 January &ndash; Queensland Labor Member for Woodridge, Bill D'Arcy resigns from Queensland Parliament due to the controversy caused by the Net Bet scandal.<ref>{{cite news|title=Showdown - Double election puts Beattie to test|newspaper=The Sunday Mail|date=9 January 2000|ref=p.1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=<!--not stated-->|date=10 January 2000|title=ALP loses majority as sick MP quits|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-alp-loses-majo/129518510|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=8|agency=Australian Associated Press|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052830/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-alp-loses-majo/129518510/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*10 January &ndash; [[Civil Aviation Safety Authority|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>{{cite web|title=Avgas Fuel Contamination|url=http://avstop.com/news/avgas.html|access-date=12 January 2014|archive-date=17 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017105854/http://avstop.com/news/avgas.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Naidoo|first=Manika|date=11 January 2000|title=Planes hit by new fuel fear|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-planes-hit-by-new-fuel-fear/129518648|work=The Age|page=1|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806053712/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-planes-hit-by-new-fuel-fear/129518648/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*11 January
**Australia's biggest ecstasy haul is discovered in Brisbane and seven are arrested.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bearup|first=Greg|date=12 January 2000|title=Right on target with $36m drug bust|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-right-on-targe/129518722|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=3|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052834/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-right-on-targe/129518722/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**Another 83 asylum seekers arrive in Darwin.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
**Australian troops return home from [[East Timor]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Dodd|first=Mark|date=10 January 2000|title=Troops head home on leave from East Timor|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-troops-head-ho/129518844|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=5|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052201/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-troops-head-ho/129518844/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**A commuter train derails in Hornsby, Sydney.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/la/latabdoc.nsf/0/c20843906ce4dd84ca256a4b0083ba85/$FILE/A9RB6AA.tmp.pdf|title=Special Commission of Inquiry into the Glenbrook Rail Accident|date=April 2001|first=Peter Aloysius|last=McInerney|publisher=[[Parliament of New South Wales]]|access-date=12 January 2015|archive-date=12 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112101130/http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/la/latabdoc.nsf/0/c20843906ce4dd84ca256a4b0083ba85/$FILE/A9RB6AA.tmp.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Malcolm|date=20 January 2000|title=State told to act urgently as more trains leave the rails|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-state-told-to/129518966|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=6|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052832/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-state-told-to/129518966/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*12 January &ndash; [[Leonard Fraser]] is committed to stand trial over the murder of Rockhampton schoolgirl Keyra Steinhardt.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
*21 January &ndash; Former Queensland Labor MP, [[Bill D'Arcy]], is named as the political figure facing child-sex charges.  He is committed to the District Court on 49 charges relating to his career as a school teacher.<ref>{{cite news|title=D'Arcy on sex charges|newspaper=The Courier-Mail|date=22 January 2000|ref=p.1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Klotz|first=Suzanne|date=22 January 2000|title=Former Labor MP to face trial on sex charges|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-former-labor-mp-to-face-trial-on/129519164|work=The Age|page=14|location=|access-date=6 August 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806052832/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-former-labor-mp-to-face-trial-on/129519164/|url-status=live}}</ref>