Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 16


 * 1824 – Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrive in the area the Aborigines call Corayo on a bay called Jillong.
 * 1929 – Rothbury Riot in which police shoot at locked out miners, killing Norman Brown.
 * 1936 – A Brisbane to Adelaide air race is held to commemorate South Australia's centenary.
 * 1947 – The reconstructed Regent Theatre, Melbourne opens after it was destroyed by fire in 1945.
 * 1948 – HMAS Sydney (R17), the first aircraft carrier of the Royal Australian Navy, is commissioned.