Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 14

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• 1803 - Lieut-Col David Collins commissioned in England to found a new settlement on Bass Strait, preferably at Port Phillip.
• 1815 - The road over the Blue Mountains is completed to the Macquarie River.
• 1962 - Bushfires ravage Lara and the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, causing 14 deaths.
• 1968 - Poet Dorothea Mackellar, dies. Her most well known work is My Country.
• 1977 - Actor Peter Finch dies.
• 2002 - Controversional MP Pauline Hanson resigns as leader of the One Nation Party.
• 2002 - CASA grounds 5000 light aircraft that had used contaminated Mobil fuel.