Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 2


 * 1876 – SS Georgette runs aground near Busselton, Western Australia; Grace Bussell and Sam Isaacs help to rescue the passengers.
 * 1811 – Reverend Samuel Marsden sends the first large export of wool from Australia to Britain.
 * 1823 – John Oxley become the first European to navigate the Brisbane River.
 * 1916 – Twelve members of the Industrial Workers of the World are convicted in Sydney of conspiring to commit arson and sedition.
 * 1972 – Gough Whitlam becomes Prime Minister, leading the first Labor government in 23 years.
 * 1984 – The Hawke Government is re-elected with a reduced majority.
 * 1986 – Justice Mary Gaudron is the first woman appointed to the High Court of Australia.
 * 1994 – Australian government agrees to pay reparations to aborigines that were displaced during the nuclear tests in 1950s and 1960s.
 * 1998 – The Linton bushfire claims the lives of five volunteer firefighters from Geelong.