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Did you know? consists of a series of "hooks", which are interesting facts taken from Wikipedia's newest or recently expanded Australian related articles. The choice of articles is subject to a series of criteria, see DYK rules for more information.

... that in 2007, Arthur Gray's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
... that the Victoria State Government has ordered 100 G-class trams, which is the largest domestic order in Australian history?
... that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth?
... that 2022 documentary The Australian Wars explores "the great Australian silence" about massacres of Indigenous Australians?
... that Australia-born rugby union player Jason Jones-Hughes was the subject of a protracted legal battle over his international eligibility after Wales called him up for the 1999 Rugby World Cup?
... that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
... that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam?
... that Ged Kearney represented Batman in the Parliament of Australia from 2018 to 2019?
... that Barcroft Boake, the author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a stockwhip a few months after it was published?
... that South Australian Labor premier Des Corcoran was mentioned in despatches for courage and skill in evacuating casualties during the Korean War?
... that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game?
... that politics in The Simpsons have caused controversy in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Japan?
... that Australian military chaplain Andrew Gillison took up arms to snipe at Turkish soldiers in Gallipoli?
... that Monique Ryan ran for election to the Parliament of Australia after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper calling for an independent candidate?
... that Australian gamer Zer0 led his team to an Apex Legends Global Series championship with a substitution teammate to whom he had never spoken before?
... that the government of Victoria, Australia, has a program to remove 110 level crossings by 2030, the fastest rate in the state's history?
... that starting at age 16, future Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci was named top sewing machine salesperson three years in a row?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd has depicted colonial figures including Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip as pirates?
... that the blind cave eel is the longest cavefish in Australia?
... that pumices erupted by the Protector Shoal volcano in 1962 floated to Australia and South America?
... that BoysTown was reported as having the largest case of child abuse in Australia's history?
... that Jack Critchley, state parliamentarian then senator for South Australia, was invalided home from the Western Front with "wry neck"?
... that St Mary's Anglican Church, Busselton, Australia, has been a part of six dioceses, namely Canterbury, Calcutta, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Bunbury?
... that Tupou VI was crowned by D'Arcy Wood, an Australian, in order to respect the tradition of native Tongans not touching the king's head?
... that Eva Duldig, who was interned by Australia during the Second World War, later represented the country at the Wimbledon Championships?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that John Dique constructed the machine used by the first Australian patient to receive dialysis?
... that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground and was wrecked?
... that in 1939, a teenage Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
... that Marie Breen retired from the Australian Senate to care for her husband, who had been badly injured in a car accident?
... that the South Australian Labor politician Ernest Roberts served two tours in South Africa during the Second Boer War?
... that Zali Steggall, an independent member of the Parliament of Australia, is an Olympic skiing medallist?
... that a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900, would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
... that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?
... that the memorabilia of Jennie Scott Griffiths, a Texan who died in California, are housed in the National Library of Australia?
... that Bill Dunn, an Indigenous Australian pastoralist approaching retirement, sold his station at half-price to the Jigalong community despite receiving full-price offers from non-Indigenous people?
... that Australiformis semoni is a parasite that infests marsupials in Australia and New Guinea and whose infestation could cause debilitating ulcerative granulomatous gastritis?
... that Episode 2351 of the Australian soap opera Home and Away was filmed in England, marking the first time the serial was filmed overseas?
... that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia?
... that Mark Hutton was the first Australian to be a starting pitcher in a Major League Baseball game?
... that Australian politicians may face the pub test?
... that David Dexter, who wrote the New Guinea volume in the series Australia in the War of 1939–1945, was a commando who served in East Timor and New Guinea?
... that the developers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number suggested that Australian customers pirate their game?

More current events - (scrolling list)

30 September 2024 – Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu: Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian)
28 September 2024 – 2024 AFL premiership season: The Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans 120–60 in the Australian Football League Grand Final to win their fourth AFL premiership title. (The Guardian Australia)
26 September 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict: Israel rejects proposals from the United States, Australia, and the European Union to initiate a temporary 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
23 September 2024 – 2024 AFL season: In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting system was introduced, and also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia)
18 September 2024 –: Alleged Ghost developer and administrator Jay Je Yoon Jung is arrested in Sydney, Australia, on five charges related to the encrypted communication network's development and operation. (The Register)
11 September 2024 – Israel–Hamas war protests: Victoria Police arrest 39 people and fire stun grenades, rubber bullets, and pepper spray at anti-war and pro-Palestinian protestors picketing outside a military weapons expo in Melbourne, Australia. (Al Jazeera)
27 August 2024 –: Australian Police and New Zealand Police announce they have concluded a joint illicit drug operation that resulted in 1,611 arrests and 2,962 charges nationwide. The police also confiscated almost 1,400 kilograms (3,100 lb) of illicit drugs and over 2,500 cannabis plants, worth 93 million AUD (US$63 million). (DW)
25 August 2024 –: Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia. The suspect is later taken into custody. (Reuters)
15 August 2024 – Israel–Hamas war: Peter Dutton, the leader of Australia’s Liberal Party, calls on the Australian government to ban the entry of Palestinian refugees fleeing from conflict in the Gaza Strip, which is met with significant condemnation from several politicians and organizations as promoting racial stereotypes. (ABC Australia) (Al Jazeera); SBS World News reports that the Australian government has rejected a majority of Palestinian visa applications, accepting 2,922 applications and rejecting 7,111 applications while granting 8,746 visas to Israeli citizens and rejecting only 235 applications. (Al Jazeera)