Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/August/August 21


 * 1842 – Hobart was proclaimed a city.
 * 1943 – Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney are the first Australian women elected to the Australian House of Representatives and Senate respectively.
 * 1984 – The Federal budget is televised for the first time.
 * 2005 – 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.