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Dorothea Mackellar

• 1803 – Lieut-Col David Collins commissioned in England to found a new settlement on Bass Strait, preferably at Port Phillip.
• 1815 – The road over the Blue Mountains is completed to the Macquarie River.
• 1962 – Bushfires ravage Lara and the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, causing 14 deaths.
• 1968 – Poet Dorothea Mackellar dies. Her most well known work is My Country.
• 1977 – Actor Peter Finch dies.
• 2002 – Controversial MP Pauline Hanson resigns as leader of the One Nation Party.
• 2002 – CASA grounds 5000 light aircraft that had used contaminated Mobil fuel.