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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 Australian senator Ben Small had been a ship's officer, bar owner, paramedic, ambulance trainer, and logistician before entering politics?
... that Scottish painter Gordon Coutts left Australia without paying maintenance to his estranged wife, but was arrested in New Zealand?
... that Fontainea venosa is a vulnerable rare plant in Australia?
... that Gil Kim played professional baseball in the Netherlands, China, Australia, Spain, and Venezuela, scouted in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and coaches in Canada?
... that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam?
... that Jack Critchley, state parliamentarian then senator for South Australia, was invalided home from the Western Front with "wry neck"?
... that Mabel Freer was deported from Australia because she could not speak Italian?
... that the Leschenault Lady, which is believed to be the oldest operational Australian-built steam locomotive, is returning to steam today (22 August) after a lengthy overhaul?
... that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game?
... that "one of early Australia's biggest manhunts" was organized to catch Chinese Australian bushranger Sam Poo?
... that Wendy Solling was a nun, a sculptor and one of the first women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia?
... that the dominant species in the Iron-grass Natural Temperate Grassland of South Australia are often not grasses at all?
... that an Australian state premier said he would be taking a spear to meetings on a tax-distribution dispute?
... that in 2010, Lauren Mitchell became the first Australian female artistic gymnast to win a world title?
... that before Arthur Phillip commanded the first fleet of convicts to settle Australia, he was employed to spy on France?
... that Australian official Jack Emanuel was awarded the George Cross in 1971 after being stabbed to death whilst trying to resolve a land dispute with the Tolai people of New Guinea?
... that in 2007, Arthur Gray's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
... that the Australian rugby sevens player Dietrich Roache kept the Australian national sprint champion out of the Australian Olympic team with his speed?
... that it is compulsory for educational providers of international students to register with CRICOS in Australia?
... that Australotitan is the largest dinosaur discovered in Australia?
... that Edward Thonen, one of the miners killed in the Eureka Rebellion, had gained notoriety in England as a jewellery thief prior to his emigration to Australia?
... that Australian rules football coach Sampson Hosking named himself in Port Adelaide's team at the age of 48?
... that Walter Bassett arranged for the construction of the first wind tunnel in Australia?
... that Australian rules footballer Kate Lutkins, the best on ground at this year's AFL Women's Grand Final, played with a painful foot injury that required surgery?
... 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 2022 Optus data breach affected over a third of Australians?
... that Nicole Kidman is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
... that Belinda Archer won Australia's first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships team medal in 2003?
... that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia?
... that the 2007 Heineken Cup Final was the last rugby union match for coach Pat Howard before he returned to Australia to take over the family pharmacy business?
... that Towa Tei's "Sometime Samurai" remained unfinished for eight years until Australian singer Kylie Minogue re-recorded the song in 2004?
... that to learn the rules of American football, Australian Adam Korsak, who was named the best college punter in 2022, played Madden NFL 06 and watched Any Given Sunday?
... that Bessie Anstice Baker, a convert to Catholicism, was the first Australian woman to receive a Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal?
... that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
... that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
... that the specific epithet of Platycephalus endrachtensis is from an old word for 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 the South American plant Phyla canescens has invaded wetlands and floodplains in the Murray–Darling basin of Australia?
... that Paddy Morgan conceded the final of the 1976 Australian Professional Championship rather than play with Eddie Charlton's balls?
... that "The Potato King of Colorado" survived a shipwreck, mined for gold in Australia, and helped establish an alcohol-free Methodist colony?
... that indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd has depicted colonial figures including Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip as pirates?
... that the English-Australian cricketer Bailey Wightman made his County debut for Kent whilst playing club cricket for Tunbridge Wells after an outbreak of COVID-19?
... that Australian soprano Ada Baker toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in Perth in 1889?
... that constable Joseph Luker, the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
... that South Australia became the first place in the world to give women the right to stand for parliament due to an opponent's "great miscalculation"?

More current events - (scrolling list)

25 October 2023 –: Two people are killed, and more than five buildings are destroyed, as more than forty out-of-control bushfires continue to burn in the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. (ABC News)
16 October 2023 –: Australia's internet safety commissioner fines American technology company X Corp. for AU$610,500 (US$385,000) for inadequately addressing child sexual abuse content on Twitter. (AFP via The Manila Times)
15 October 2023 – 2023 Israel–Hamas war: Thousands of people attend rallies in support of Palestine in several Australian cities. (ABC News Australia)
14 October 2023 – 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum: A majority of voters in Australia vote to reject the establishment of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. (Reuters) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
11 October 2023 – Australia–China relations: China deports Australian journalist Cheng Lei following over three years of detention and a conviction on espionage charges. (AFP via The Manila Times)
26 September 2023 –: Daniel Andrews announces his resignation as Premier of Victoria, Australia, after nine years in office. (The Guardian)
18 September 2023 –: Three people are taken to hospital after a mass stabbing at the Australian National University in Canberra. The attacker has been detained. (ABC News Australia)
12 September 2023 –: The New South Wales government in Australia bans logging in a 8,400-hectare forest area, identified as home to 106 "koala hubs", as part of a conservation effort to establish a 315,000-hectare Great Koala National Park. (AFP via RFI)
8 September 2023 – Australia–Philippines relations: Australia and the Philippines upgrade their bilateral relations to a strategic partnership. (Reuters)
8 September 2023 –: One person is killed and five others are injured when a car crashes into pedestrians and two other vehicles in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The driver is arrested at the scene. (ABC News Australia)
30 August 2023 – 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum will be held on 14 October. (ABC News)
29 August 2023 –: In a study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Australian doctors report the removal of an eight-centimeter Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman. This is the first documented case of such a parasite in any mammalian brain. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
27 August 2023 –: Three US Marines are killed and 20 others are injured when their MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor crashes on Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia. (BBC News)
24 August 2023 – Adass Israel School sex abuse scandal: The County Court of Victoria in Australia sentences Malka Leifer, the principal of a Jewish religious school in Melbourne, to 15 years in prison for the sexual assault of two sisters. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
19 August 2023 – 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Sweden defeats co-host Australia 2–0 in the third place play-off. Sweden defends its podium finish from the previous edition, while despite the loss, Australia records its best finish at the World Cup. (Fox Sports)
16 August 2023 – 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: The current European champions England advance to the FIFA Women's World Cup final for the first time after defeating co-host Australia 3–1 in the semi-final. They will play against fellow first-time finalists Spain. (CNN)
8 August 2023 –: Western Australia repeals a five-week-old law aimed at protecting Aboriginal sacred sites in the state, citing complexities in implementing the law. (AFP via Manila Bulletin)
6 August 2023 – 2023 Netball World Cup: Australia wins a record 12th Netball World Cup title after defeating England 61–45 in the gold medal match in Cape Town, South Africa. (The Guardian)

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