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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 politics in The Simpsons have caused controversy in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Japan?
... 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 when Australian Brihony Dawson debuted as the first non-binary host of reality TV franchise The Challenge, they decided not to imitate the "ominous" style of the U.S. host?
... that Mabel Freer was deported from Australia because she could not speak Italian?
... that Australian and Greek troops under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross Campbell held off a force of over 1,000 German paratroops on Crete for ten days?
... that George Poynter Heath, the first portmaster of Queensland, Australia, was responsible for establishing 33 lighthouses, Booby Island Light being the last one?
... that constable Joseph Luker, the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
... that concrete bus shelters in Canberra, Australia, now considered an icon of the city, were initially labelled as "lunatic" by a reporter for The Canberra Times?
... that Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe was the top try scorer at the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, the first time the feat had been achieved by someone not from Australia or New Zealand?
... that before the Second World War, Australian army officers used the pages of Britain's Army Quarterly and Defence Journal to argue for greater self-reliance in defence matters?
... 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 indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd has depicted colonial figures including Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip as pirates?
... that Tonia Shand became Australia's first woman high commissioner to Sri Lanka in 1988?
... that at 100, Eric Tweedale is the oldest living Australian rugby international player?
... that 2022 documentary The Australian Wars explores "the great Australian silence" about massacres of Indigenous Australians?
... that an exhibition match of Australian rules football was contested in London on 28 October 1916 between two teams of elite footballers also serving in the First AIF?
... that before Arthur Phillip commanded the first fleet of convicts to settle Australia, he was employed to spy on France?
... that the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is the only contemporary art museum in the country with a permanent collection?
... that Victorian post office official William Rundell also collected stamps in his spare time, acquiring 48 copies of the "Sydney view" stamps of New South Wales?
... that Kate Baker arranged to republish the Australian novel Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy after locating half of the original manuscript under some lumber in the offices of The Bulletin?
... that the Australian government tried to censor a film of Quail Island's starving koalas?
... that Charles Green was probably the youngest Australian Army infantry battalion commander during World War II?
... that Australia has three major Japanese language schools?
... that Daviesia devito and D. schwarzenegger are two Australian peas?
... that the founder of the Australian Flying Arts School took flying lessons so that he could travel throughout the Queensland Outback providing art lessons to its inhabitants?
... that "one of early Australia's biggest manhunts" was organized to catch Chinese Australian bushranger Sam Poo?
... that Australian religious sister Bridget Partridge fled her convent in 1920 dressed only in her nightgown, precipitating a national sectarian scandal?
... that the first judgement of 2022 from the High Court of Australia was considered a loss for a labour hire organisation, but a win for labour hire organisations?
... that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest?
... that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?
... that by 2001, almost 2000 Trees For Life volunteers were growing 1.5 million plants every year?
... 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 the recently restored Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Roebourne is the oldest church in North West Australia?
... that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game?
... that Nixon's "Slaughtergate" scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?
... that Joe the Pigeon was granted a pardon by the Australian government after being sentenced to euthanasia?
... that Lowe Kong Meng imported goods for Chinese miners during the Victorian gold rush and became one of the wealthiest men in Victoria?
... that following a career-ending injury while playing Australian rules football, Justin Clarke became a Rhodes scholar in 2021?
... that although the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled, Iceland's planned entry for that year was chosen as the alternative winner in several countries, including Sweden and 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 Australotitan is the largest dinosaur discovered in Australia?
... that Collingwood coach Robert Harvey gave Anton Tohill his AFL debut in 2021, having played International Rules Series against Tohill's father in the 1990s?
... that the specific epithet of Platycephalus endrachtensis is from an old word for Australia?
... that in 2007, Arthur Gray's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
... that in the 1980s, Amanda Villepastour, now an ethnomusicologist at Cardiff University, was the keyboardist in Australian new wave band Eurogliders?

More current events - (scrolling list)

3 May 2023 – 2023 Sudan conflict: Australia's Royal Australian Air Force evacuates 36 Australians from Sudan, reportedly overnight. (Sydney Morning Herald) (ABC News Australia)
21 April 2023 –: Wreckage of the Imperial Japanese Navy ship SS Montevideo Maru, sunk during World War II, is found after 81 years in the South China Sea, off the coast of Luzon Island. The ship, which was carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war, including 850 Australian POWs, represented the largest loss of life for the Australian armed forces during the Second World War. (CNN)
20 April 2023 – Solar eclipse of April 20, 2023: A hybrid solar eclipse occurs across the South Pacific in Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia. (The New York Times) (People)
17 April 2023 – Recycling in Australia: Further sites of illicit soft plastic storage are found in Sydney after the collapse of commercial plastic recycler REDcycle. After taking $20 million from Coles and Woolworths to recycle soft plastics at 2,000 locations, the company instead stored 12,000 tonnes of plastics at more than 44 locations across Australia. (9 News) (The Guardian)
13 April 2023 – 2022–23 Australian region cyclone season: Cyclone Ilsa; Cyclone Ilsa makes landfall between De Grey and Pardoo Roadhouse in Western Australia, Australia, as a category five cyclone. (ABC News Australia)
1 April 2023 –: Professor Alan Jamieson of the University of Western Australia's Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre announces that his team has captured footage of a snailfish species, Pseudoliparis belyaevi, swimming at 8,336 metres (27,349 ft) in the Izu–Ogasawara Trench off Japan's southern coast. This is the lowest depth recorded for any fish, and closest to the estimated maximum depth possible for fish to survive. (BBC News)
28 March 2023 –: Clive Palmer sues Australia for AUD$296 billion over an iron ore project, over which his company, Mineralogy, had previously lost a lawsuit. (ABC News)
25 March 2023 – 2023 New South Wales state election: Labor is declared the winner after Chris Minns wins at least 47 seats. Premier Dominic Perrottet concedes defeat and resigns as Liberal leader. (Reuters) (Bloomberg)
20 March 2023 – War crimes in Afghanistan: A 41-year-old Australian former soldier is arrested and charged with the murder of an Afghan man while he was deployed in Afghanistan, becoming the first Australian military member to be charged following the release of the report. (CNN)
21 February 2023 –: The Philippine Air Force and Navy locate on Mayon Volcano, Albay, the debris of a Cessna 340 aircraft that went missing after taking off from Daraga for Manila on February 18. However, the whereabouts of the two pilots and two Australian passengers on board have yet to be located due to inclement weather. (AP via ABC News)

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