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Contents 1 Featured content 1.1 Featured article 1.2 Featured picture 2 Other items 2.1 Did you know 2.2 In the news

Featured content

Current week: 24 · 28 weeks to go

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Other items

Did you know

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...that the town of Bismarck in Tasmania was renamed Collinsvale due to anti-German sentiment during World War I? ...that Indigenous Australian activist Michael Mansell convinced Lybian leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to officially recognise a separate Aboriginal Australian passport in order to draw international attention to the issue of native land rights? ...that Wally Koochew was the first VFL player of Chinese background? ...that Wing Commander Stanley Goble and Flying Officer Ivor McIntyre, piloting a single-engined seaplane (pictured), became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air in 1924? ...that a series of storms in south-east Queensland spawned two of the most powerful supercells and tornadoes in recorded Australian history? ...that the lamington cake is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the Governor of Queensland at the time of its invention? ...that during the first seven years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars? ...that in New South Wales, a Sentencing Council which is the first of its type in Australia, conducts research to improve the consistency of sentencing of criminals? Start a new article

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In the news

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May 26: Paul Lennon resigns as Premier of Tasmania, and is succeeded by David Bartlett. Lara Giddings succeeds Bartlett as Deputy Premier. Apr 19: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched the Australia 2020 Summit in Canberra. Apr 13: Quentin Bryce named as the designated successor to Michael Jeffery as Governor-General of Australia. She will become the first female to hold the position. Mar 16: The Australian Government announces that the wrecks of the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran and the HMAS Sydney have been found off the coast of Western Australia. The ships sank after a battle in 1941. Mar 16: Lewis Hamilton wins the 2008 Australian Grand Prix Mar 13: Melbourne, Adelaide, and Hobart experience some of their warmest weather on record for this season as result of an Australian autumn heatwave. More current events... Current events on Wikinews