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7 March – First day of the Australian Track & Field Championships for the 1995–1996 season, which are held at the Sydney Athletic Field in Sydney. The 10,000-metre championship was conducted at the Zatopek Meet in Melbourne, Victoria on 14 December 1995.
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history. [3] The attack led to fundamental changes in Australia's gun laws.
28 April 1996 Port Arthur, Tasmania 35: 24: A spree shooting by Martin Bryant. The deadliest mass shooting in Australia. Led to the National Firearms Agreement between Australia's states, territories and federal government, mandating licenses and registration for gun owners and users, and banning semi-automatic long guns in most
1 June 1996: Palmerston, Northern Territory: 0 6 [n 1] 6: An intoxicated man fired at police officers, wounding four and a bystander. The gunman was shot in the arm by police and arrested. [25] 28 April 1996: Port Arthur, Tasmania: 35 24 [n 1] 59: 1996 Port Arthur shootings: A man shot and killed 35 people and wounded 23 others during a ...
Top 25 singles of 1996 < 1995 1997 > Other Australian top charts for 1996 top 25 albums Triple J Hottest 100 Australian number-one charts of 1996 albums singles The following lists the top 100 singles of 1996 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Singles Chart. # Title Artist Highest pos. reached weeks at No. 1 1. "Macarena" Los del Río 1 9 2 ...
The 1996 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 38th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 2 March 1996. It was held on 2 March 1996. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Senate were up for election.
Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) is an Australian mass murderer [1] who shot and killed thirty-five people and injured twenty-three others in the Port Arthur massacre on 28 and 29 April 1996. [2] He is currently serving thirty-five life sentences, and 135 years without the possibility of parole, at Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania.
Wheel of Fortune was nearly cancelled at the end of 1996 after dismal ratings, but the show continued its long run instead. 18 July – Australian long running children's television series Play School celebrates its 30th birthday with a one-hour special on ABC at 4:00 pm. 30 July – British sitcom Father Ted premieres on the Nine Network.