Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/October/October 10

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• 1880 - geologist Lamont Young and four others disappeared on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.
• 1892 - Jackie Howe shears a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes at Blackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.
• 1915 - Twenty six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the 'Cooee March'; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits
• 1923 - Telephone link between Sydney and Brisbane officially opened.
• 1924 - Commonwealth Electoral Act was enacted making voting in federal elections compulsory.
• 1924 - James Clavell, novelist, screenwriter, and World War II POW, was born in Sydney.
• 1996 - Schoolboy Tjandamurra O'Shane is set alight in his school playground in a racial attack.
• 2004 - John Howard-led Coalition is returned to power at federal election, and gains control of the Senate.