Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/May/May 9

1900 - The Sierra Nevada is wrecked off Portsea, Victoria; 23 lives are lost.
1901 - The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
1927 - The federal government moved to Canberra from Melbourne with the opening of the Provisional Parliament House.
1980 - Swimmer Grant Hackett is born.
1985 - Melbourne criminal Christopher Dale Flannery disappears without trace, presumed murdered.
1988 - New Parliament House is opened on Capital Hill by Queen Elizabeth II.
1991 - Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is released.