Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/May/May 9

The Big Picture, the opening of the Parliament of Australia on 9 May 1901, painted by Tom Roberts.

• 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.