Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/March/March 25

Cross-section diagram of a submarine communications cable.

• 1900 – The SS Glenelg is wrecked off the Victorian coast, resulting in 31 deaths.
• 1935 – An unnamed cyclone strikes the northwest coast of Western Australia, killing 140 people.
• 1936 – Tasmania is connected to mainland Australia by telephone for the first time.
• 1995 – Bob Carr leads the Labor Party to victory in the New South Wales state election, deposing the Liberal/National coalition government of John Fahey.
• 1998 – Melbourne lawyer Max Green is found murdered in his Cambodian hotel room.