Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/March/March 5

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• 1803 - George Howe publishes the first issue of the weekly Sydney Gazette and the New South Wales Advertiser, Australia's first newspaper.
• 1824 - The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Francis Forbes arrives in Sydney.
• 1868 - Lucy Osburn and 5 other nurses trained by Florence Nightingale arrive in Sydney; Osburn is later regarded as the founder of nursing in Australia.
• 1878 - William Giblin becomes the thirteenth Premier of Tasmania.
• 1983 - The ALP, with Bob Hawke as leader wins with one of the biggest parliamentary majorities in Australian political history.