2005 in Australia.html

2005 in Australia
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor-General	Michael Jeffery
Prime Minister	John Howard
Population	20,328,609
Elections	WA, NT

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Years:	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Film
5 Television
6 Sport
7 Births
8 Deaths

Incumbents

Main article: 2005 Australian incumbents

Events

11 January - 9 people are killed in Bushfires in South Australia, making them the worst fires seen in Australia since Ash Wednesday.
25 February - Parts of the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Fields erupt into rioting following the death of a 19 year old in a police car chase.
26 February - The ALP government of Geoff Gallop is re-elected in Western Australia for a second term.
2 April - The Shark 02 Royal Australian Navy Westland Sea King helicopter crashes off the coast of Nias, killing nine people.
17 April - Bali Nine are arrested for drug smuggling in Indonesia
2 May - Douglas Wood taken hostage in Iraq. He was rescued on 15 June.
6 May - The scandal concerning the 2001 deportation of Vivian Solon first came to light.
26 May - National Sorry Day renamed National Day of Healing
27 May - Schapelle Corby convicted of drug smuggling by an Indonesian court & sentenced to 20 years in gaol, later reduced to 15 & then reverted to 20 years.
1 June - 2005 Indonesian embassy bioterrorism hoax
27 July - After 10 years in power Bob Carr resigns as Premier of New South Wales & is replaced by Morris Iemma on 3 August.
21 August - Michelle Leslie is arrested in Bali after being found with two ecstasy pills in her handbag at an open-air dance party just outside of Kuta. She is found guilty & sentenced to three months in prison on 18 November, but is released on 20 November as she had already served her sentence.
29 August - After describing Bob Carr's wife Helena as a "mail-order bride", NSW Opposition Leader John Brogden resigns. He attempts suicide on 30 August.
1 October - The 2005 Bali bombings take place, killing 23 people (including the 3 suicide bombers) & injuring 129. Of these, 4 of the dead & 19 of the injured are Australian.
2 December - Van Tuong Nguyen is hanged in Singapore for drug offences. He is the first Australian to be executed since 1993.
11 December & 12 December - 2005 Cronulla riots take place, with the rioting centred around Cronulla & other beachside suburbs. There is also rioting in the Greater Western Suburbs area of Sydney & attacks on people of Middle Eastern descent are reported in Perth & Adelaide.
31 December - Sections of the Trans-Australian Railway near Nurina on the Nullarbor Plain were washed away by flooding, halting passenger and freight services for up to five days.

Arts and literature

Andrew McGahan's novel The White Earth wins the Miles Franklin Award

Film

13 October - The Australian government passes a bill granting film directors a share of the copyright in their films.
26 November - Look Both Ways wins best film at the Australian Film Institute Awards 2005.

Television

8 January - Australia Unites: Reach Out To Asia raises $20 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami relief effort. It is also the first time that Australia's three major commercial television stations have co-operated to broadcast such an event.
25 May - Graham Kennedy dies at age 71. The network on which most of his shows aired, the Nine Network, passes up the offer to broadcast his funeral & the Seven Network arrives, axes Nine's coverage and Seven picks it up and wins it. Nine does eventually show parts of the funeral live.
26 June - Douglas Wood is interviewed by Sandra Sully about his time as a captive after Network Ten pays a reported $400,000 for an exclusive interview.
15 August: Big Brother: Greg Mathew, along with twin brother David Mathew, also known as "The Logan Twins" is announced the winner of the fifth series.
20 November - Madonna's Warner Bros. single "Hung Up" defeats Gold Digger by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx to be crowned the title of the ARIA single debuting at #1. This was the last Top 50 ARIA charts on ABC TV's Rage to be shown on the Seven Network. Only Seven Local TV and ABC TV will continue the Rage's Top 50 Charts until the end of July 2006, when it launches jtv.
16 December: Good Morning Australia finishes its 12 year run on Network Ten from the studios of ATV-10. Host Bert Newton leaves Ten and signs up and returns the Nine Network to host game show Bert's Family Feud.

Sport

4 March – First day of the Australian Track & Field Championships for the 2004-2005 season, which are held at the Sydney Olympic Park in Homebush. The 10,000 metres (men and women) were conducted at the Zatopek Meet in Melbourne, Victoria on Saturday 4 December 2004. The relays were conducted at Canberra on Sunday 6 February 2005.
6 March – Giancarlo Fisichella wins the Australian Grand Prix in his first race for Renault F1 at Albert Park.
19 March – Sydney Kings defeat Wollongong Hawks 112-85 in Game 3 of a series sweep in the NBL Grand Final series. The win completed the only three-peat in league history.
3 April – Suzuki rider Troy Corser takes both race victories in front of his home crowd, Phillip Island at the Superbike World Championship round.
3 July – Brett Cartwright wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 2:18:16 in Brisbane, while Jackie Fairweather claims the women's title in 2:34:34.
26 August - The inaugural A-League national association football season begins. In the first game, Adelaide United FC defeat the Newcastle United Jets 1-0 at EnergyAustralia Stadium in front of 13,000 people.
3 September - The Melbourne Phoenix defeat the Sydney Swifts 61-44 in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy netball grand final.
12 September - Cricket: England wins The Ashes back from Australia for the first time since 1987 in The 2005 Ashes series
24 September - The Sydney Swans (8.10.58) defeat the West Coast Eagles (7.12.54) to win the 109th VFL/AFL premiership. It is the first flag for the Swans in 72 years.
2 October - The Wests Tigers defeat the North Queensland Cowboys 30-16 to win the 98th NSWRL/ARL/NRL premiership. It was the first finals series for the Wests Tigers.
2 October - With heavy rain cancelling the second race at Imola, Troy Corser secures his second Superbike World Championship.
9 October - Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly win the Super Cheap Auto Bathurst 1000 for the Holden Racing Team. It was Skaife's fifth win, and Kelly's first. It was also a seventh consecutive win for Holden, extending the longest winning streak in the races history.
16 October - Valentino Rossi wins his fifth consecutive Australian motorcycle Grand Prix on his Yamaha at Phillip Island.
1 November - Makybe Diva wins the Melbourne Cup horse racing event for a historic 3rd time in a row and is immediately retired.
13 November - French rallyist François Duval and co-driver Stephane Prevot take victory for in their Citroen Xsara at the season ending Rally Australia.
16 November - The Socceroos qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1974, by defeating Uruguay in a penalty shootout at Telstra Stadium.

Births

15 October - Prince Christian of Denmark, the first child of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark & Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, who was born in Hobart, Tasmania.

Deaths

8 January - Campbell McComas, 52, impersonator, broadcaster, comedian
11 January - Miriam Hyde, composer and pianist
24 January - June Bronhill, soprano opera singer
16 March - Bob Bellear, first indigenous judge
25 March - Davis McCaughey, Governor of Victoria
26 March - Paul Hester, drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House (suicide)
23 April - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Premier of Queensland from 1968-1987.
April 23 - Al Grassby, politician and minister in the Whitlam government
29 April - Sara Henderson, 69, author
1 May - René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
25 May - Graham Kennedy, 71, radio and television, performer
9 June - Gloria Ida Logan, 78, artist and lecturer
16 June - Ross Stretton, ballet dancer and director
25 June - Harry Gibbs, Chief Justice of the High Court
3 July - W. Rubuntja, Aboriginal artist and activist
15 July - Ronald Wilson, Justice of the High Court
17 July - Joe Vialls, conspiracy theorist
18 July - Amy Gillett, cyclist
29 August - Margaret Scott, 70, author and poet
8 September - Donald Horne, academic and social critic
9 September - John Wayne Glover, serial killer
12 October - Frank Galbally, 82, lawyer, criminal advocate, defender in celebrated murder trials; described as the “father of Australian multiculturalism”.
18 October - William Evan Allan, World War I veteran
24 October - Frank Wilson, actor
1 November - Michael Thwaites, intelligence officer and participant in the Petrov Affair
5 November - Hugh Alexander Dunn, diplomat
10 November - Kristian Fredrikson, stage and costume designer
2 December - Peter Menegazzo, cattle baron
3 December - Peter Cook, Labor senator
December 3 - Lance Dossor, concert pianist
5 December - Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, entrepreneur
12 December - Eric D'Arcy, Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus
26 December - Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man & the major shareholder in PBL, which owns the Nine Network, Crown Casino & a large number of magazines.

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Contents

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

Film

Television

Sport

Births

Deaths