Events
- 2 to 15 January – Major bushfires devastate coastal New South Wales—four people are killed and over 300 homes are lost.
- 26 January – Student David Kang fires two blank shots from a starting pistol at Prince Charles in Sydney, Australia.
- 27 February – Ros Kelly resigns as Minister for Sports and the Environment over the "sports rorts affair".
- 23 May – John Hewson is replaced as Leader of the Opposition by Alexander Downer.
- 25 July – Telephone numbers in Australia begin transitioning to eight digits. Mona Vale in Sydney is the first suburb to change to the new numbers.
- August – Wollemia nobilis, a "fossil tree", is discovered by bushwalker David Noble only 150 km from Sydney.
- 5 September – New South Wales state MP John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
- 4 November – Sydney's third runway opens, ensuring protests about noise levels.
- 2 December – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to aborigines that were displaced during the nuclear tests in 1950s and 1960s.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)