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1992 in Australia

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The following lists events that happened during 1992 in Australia.

1992 in Australia
MonarchElizabeth II
Governor-GeneralBill Hayden
Prime ministerPaul Keating
Population17,494,664
ElectionsTAS, ACT, QLD, VIC

1992
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Australia

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Incumbents

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Bill Hayden
Paul Keating

State and territory leaders

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Governors and administrators

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Events

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January

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February

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April

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May

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June

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July

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  • 1 July - Compulsory superannuation comes into effect.
  • 31 July – Janet Powell resigns from the Australian Democrats, sitting henceforth as an Independent Senator. The Victorian branch of the Democrats fractures acrimoniously, damaging the party nationally.

August

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  • 11 August – A meeting with Prime Minister Paul Keating fails to secure for the Greens commitments on global warming, endangered species protection and biodiversity.
  • 18 August – Budget expenditure promises on labour market and training programmes and reducing the sizeable deficit fail to halt the Keating Government's sliding popularity.
  • 30 August – Representatives from the Tasmanian, Queensland and New South Wales Greens, with observers from other states, form the Australian Greens Party at a Sydney meeting.

September

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October

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  • 3 October – A state election is held in Victoria. Joan Kirner's Labor government is defeated by Jeff Kennett's Liberal party.
  • 6 OctoberRose Hancock – Porteous is fined $1,000 in Perth for forging prescriptions for drugs.
  • 19 October – One of the two men charged with the murder of Dr. Victor Chang pleads guilty.
  • 20 October
    • The trial of the second man accused of murdering Dr. Victor Chang begins.
    • The Federal Opposition unveils Jobsback, its industrial relations policy designed to move from centralised wage-fixing to individual employment contracts negotiated at the enterprise level.
  • 27 October – Senator Bronwyn Bishop attacks the Tax Commissioner over alleged special treatment to the Labor Party.
  • 30 October – The second man charged with the murder of Dr. Victor Chang, Phillip Lim, is found guilty.

November

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  • 5 November – Prime Minister Paul Keating announces that the coming election would be a poll on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and pledged that if the Coalition won, Labor would allow the GST through the Senate.
  • 19 November – With the implications of Fightback! increasingly scrutinised and condemned, and elements in the Coalition "panicking", Federal Opposition Leader John Hewson declares that he would resign rather than abandon the GST.
  • 23 November – Prime Minister Paul Keating announces the end of the ban preventing homosexual men and women from serving in the Australian Defence Force[2]
  • 25 November – The High Court of Australia rules that Independent Phil Cleary had been ineligible to stand for Wills as he was an Education Department employee on unpaid leave ("officers of the Crown" cannot stand for Parliament). His Labor and Liberal opponents were also declared ineligible, as they both held dual citizenship.

December

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  • 7 December – The third series of the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends gets its official launch in Australia starting off being released on home video prior to transmitting on Australian television on 15 February 1993. The Australian releases also include Michael Angelis' later narrations of the first sixteen episodes which were first heard when the third series was first broadcasting on ITV in its country of origin. It was also the first time that Angelis' later narrations were released on home video and was also the last time the series was released by Video Selection Australia.
  • 18 December – Federal Opposition Leader John Hewson unveils Fightback Mark II which includes abandoning the GST on basic food items and childcare and the threat to cut off the dole after 9 months.
  • 22 December – The men who murdered heart surgeon Dr. Victor Chang are each sentenced to 20 years jail.
  • Adelaide receives it highest annual rainfall on record, totalling 883.2 millimetres (34.77 in).[3]

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Arts and literature

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Film

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Television

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Sport

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Courier-Mail, 10 February 1992, p.1
  2. ^ Keating, Paul (23 November 1992). "Australian Defence Force policy on homosexuality" (Press release). Australian Government. Archived from the original on 22 October 2016.
  3. ^ Adelaide West Terrace (023000) Monthly Rainfall Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Adelaide Kent Town (023090) Monthly Rainfall Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ United States Subsidies on Upload Cotton - Opening Statement of Brazil to the World Trade Organisation Archived 5 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Brazil Ministério das Relações Exteriores, February 2007
  5. ^ "History". Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Ones to watch in Delhi: Emily Seebohm". BBC News. 1 October 2010. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2022.