Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 2

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• 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 - 12 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 - Hawke Government re-elected with a reduced majority.
• 1986 - Justice Mary Gaudron was 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.
• 2003 - Mark Latham defeats Kim Beazley by two votes in a party room ballot to become Opposition Leader.
• 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen is hanged in Singapore for drug offences. He is the first Australian to be executed since 1993.