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HMAS Sydney

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, the first aircraft carrier of the Royal Australian Navy, is commissioned.

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