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On this day Kevin was sworn in as the 26th Prime Minister. Julia Gillard became Australia's first female Deputy Prime Minister. They were sworn in by the Governor General.
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Australia signed the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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This was a milestone in Australian politicital history - the first to be preceded by a welcome to country from local Aboriginal people.
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This apology was for the effect of past governemnt policies on Indigenous people.
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1000 participants gathered at Parliament House for a two-day Australia 2020Summit organised by the government to generate ideas and strategies.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein attended the opening of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing. They had been in China earlier that year during an official world tour.
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Formerly the Governor of Queensland from 2003 to 2008, Ms Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Governor-Genreal, the first female to hold this office.
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Bushfires in northen Victoria take 173 lives and destroyed 2000 houses and 4500 square kilometers of country, exceeding the record of australia's worst bushfires, the 1983 'Ash Wednesday' disaster
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Australia's more favourable performance during the global fiancial crisis (GFC), when all the G7 economies contracted, enabled the formation of a wider international body, the G20
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Tony abbott became the leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition after a Party room vote against Malcolm Turnbull.
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The Howard governemnets unpopular Work Choices is replaced with the new Fair Work Program. A big change in Industrial relations processes.
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In a leadership challenge, Keven Rudd was elected leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party and beacme Prime Minister for the second time.
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