To alter the Constitution to establish the Commonwealth of Australia as a republic with the Queen and Governor-General being replaced by a President appointed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Commonwealth Parliament. To alter the Constitution to insert a preamble.
During the 20th century Australia became an older, more culturally diverse, and much more urbanised society, holding wider religious affiliations, placing greater value on home ownership, with more females than males, and with a workforce more concentrated in service-industry based, 'white collar' occupations.
8 February – An oil slick pollutes Victoria's Ninety Mile Beach. 12 February – Carmen Lawrence becomes the Premier of Western Australia, and Australia's first female premier, after the resignation of Peter Dowding. A report is released which condemns the police rescue effort during the Newcastle earthquake.
2000 is to date the last time in which no Federal, State or Territory elections were held and the first time that no general election was held for any house of Parliament since 1942.
Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; the International Space Station in its infant form as seen from STS-97; the 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia; a U.S. Air Force MH-53 flies over the 2000 Mozambique flood; an Air France Concorde ...
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In December of 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court rules to end the vote recount in Florida in the Bush v. Gore case, giving the presidency to George W. Bush after a prolonged legal battle following the election.
On 3 June 1992 the High Court of Australia recognised that a group of Torres Strait Islanders, led by Eddie Mabo, held ownership of Mer (Murray Island). In acknowledging the traditional rights of the Meriam people to their land, the court also held that native title existed for all Indigenous people.
2 to 15 January – Major bushfires devastate coastal New South Wales—four people are killed and over 300 homes are lost. 22 January – Industry, Technology and Regional Development Minister Alan Griffiths resigns over the "sandwich shop" affair, causing a Cabinet reshuffle.
1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launches during STS-31, a Space Shuttle Discovery mission. 1991 — The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East, by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq. 1991 — The World Wide Web publicly debuts as an Internet service.
23 July — Queensland Premier Rob Borbidge criticises cuts by the Federal Government to drought relief funds. 24 July — The West Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashes seven convictions against former West Australian Premier Brian Burke. The Thredbo landslide occurs, killing 17 people.
3 December – The Anzac Bridge in Sydney is opened to traffic. 4 December – A gas explosion at Kogarah railway station, Sydney kills two people. 7 December – A full bench of the Federal Court of Australia rejects Minister Tickner's appeal against their 7 November ruling.
23 October – The first general strike in Australia in 65 years takes place in New South Wales. October to December – The world's largest blue-green algal bloom takes place on the Darling River, and after the deaths of over a thousand livestock, leads the New South Wales Government to declare a state of emergency.
28 August – HMAS Collins (SSG 73), the first of the Collins Class submarine, becomes the first Australian-built and designed submarine to launch. 30 August – Caucus' Economic Committee attacks Prime Minister Paul Keating over the Dawkins Budget.
18 December – Fires at Woomera Detention Centre are lit by detainees in protest. 25 December – 6 January – Bushfires rage across New South Wales. No-one is killed. The south coast tornado occurs during the 2001 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
4 April – The Wiggles' sixth album, Wake up Jeff is released. 8 April – Nine people die in a fire at a home for the intellectually disabled in Melbourne, Victoria. 28 April – Port Arthur massacre: Martin Bryant kills 35 people and injures 21 in a shooting spree at the Port Arthur historic site in Tasmania.
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the moon's descending node of its orbit on Tuesday, May 10, 1994. It was visible over a wide swath of North America, from Baja California across the Midwest of the United States up through Ontario and Nova Scotia in Canada.
3 September – The 1988 Australian referendum is held and propositions on 4-year parliamentary terms, recognition of local government, religious liberty and other issues are defeated with 60% of the electorate voting against them.
>What happened in 1995 Major News Stories include Windows 95 released, Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Nerve Gas attack Tokyo Subway, Barings Bank collapses, A Car Bomb devastates Oklahoma City Federal Building on 19th April , after a NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery the Balkans War comes to an end ...
What happened in 1993 Major News Stories include Pentium microprocessor introduced, Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center, US and Russia sign the Start II treaty, Beanie Babies go on sale, Federal Agents raid religious cult in Waco TX, Earthquake and Tsunami Japan, Brush Fires destroy world's second largest ...
1 December – The Commonwealth Freedom of Information Act becomes operative. 14 December – The Tasmanian Wilderness Society, led by Bob Brown, stages a blockade of the Franklin Dam site in Tasmania which continues into 1983. On the same day, UNESCO agrees to list the Tasmanian Wild Rivers as a World Heritage Site.
Among the major events that happened in 1999: the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton came to a conclusion, the situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia escalated into a war, and Space Shuttle Discovery became the first vessel to dock with the International Space Station.
2001 was dominated by the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan after the Taliban government did not extradite Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
On October 12, 2000, two suicide pilots of a small bomb-laden boat pulled alongside of the USS Cole at midship, offered friendly gestures to several crew members, and detonated their explosives.