Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/October/October 17

1854 - The Melbourne daily newspaper The Age was first published.
1898 - The Perth Zoo opens with two lions and a tiger.
1900 - Natural gas is found at Roma in Queensland
1917 - The two halves of the Trans-Australian Railway meet.
1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian (later American) novelist, and author of Careful, He Might Hear You, was born in Sydney.
1938 - Les Murray, poet and essayist is born in Nabiac, New South Wales.