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  1. 14 hours ago

    Hazel Hawke's photo of Bob Hawke on a motorbike, April 1951

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  2. 20 hours ago

    April 5, 1979: The Fraser government proclaimed an area of Arnhem Land as the Kakadu National Park.

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  3. Apr 3

    Prime Minister Gough Whitlam with Indonesian President Suharto in Townsville, April 4 1975

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  4. Apr 3

    April 4, 1972: Prime Minister Billy McMahon announced a design competition for a new High Court building in Canberra. He said the court would be located in the Parliamentary triangle, north of the Administrative building. The building opened in May 1980.

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  5. Apr 2

    April 3, 1973: Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced all pregnant federal public servants would be entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave at full pay, whether they were married or unmarried. The government also reduced long service leave qualification from 15 years to 10 years.

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  6. Mar 30

    Building Canberra's Australian American Memorial, March 31 1953

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  7. Mar 30

    March 31, 1988: Australia's 20th prime minister Sir William McMahon died in Sydney. He served as prime minister from 1971-1972.

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  8. Mar 30

    War Cabinet meeting, including prime ministers Frank Forde, John Curtin and Ben Chifley, March 31, 1943

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  9. Mar 29

    Alfred Deakin, picnic at Queenscliff, March 30, 1912

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  10. Mar 29

    March 30, 1914: Norfolk Island was placed under Australian authority. It became an Australian territory in July of that year.

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  11. Mar 29

    March 30, 1901: Voting in Australia's first federal election concluded after two days.

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  12. Mar 28

    March 29, 1900: Australia's 18th prime minister John McEwen was born. He served from December 1967 until January 1968, as well as as acting prime minister for 550 days.

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  13. Mar 28

    March 29, 1901: Australia's first federal election began, the only poll with voting over two days. Voters elected 75 lower house MPs and 36 senators.

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  14. Mar 27

    March 28, 1922: Neville Bonner, the first Indigenous Australian to sit in federal Parliament, was born on Ukerebagh Island NSW. An elder of the Jagera people, he served as a Queensland senator from 1971 until 1983.

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  15. Mar 26

    March 27, 1981: The Fraser government awarded a knighthood in the Order of Australia to Prince Charles.

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  16. Mar 25

    Joseph Lyons' cabinet farewells Attorney-General John Latham in Sydney, March 26 1934

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  17. Mar 25

    Prime Minister John Curtin with General Douglas MacArthur and General Thomas Blamey, March 26 1942

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  18. Mar 24

    March 25, 2014: Prime Minister Tony Abbott added Knights and Dames to the Order of Australia honours. The awards were scrapped in November 2015.

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  19. Mar 23

    March 24, 1927: Federal Parliament held its last sitting in Melbourne before moving to Canberra, the new national capital.

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  20. Mar 23

    March 24, 1990: Bob Hawke won a historic fourth election, defeating Andrew Peacock despite a swing to the Coalition. He remained as PM until 1991.

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