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Australian Wikipedians' notice board

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7 August 2024 – 2024 Summer Olympics: French police detain Australian field hockey player Tom Craig for allegedly purchasing cocaine. (DW)
6 August 2024 – 2024 Summer Olympics: Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics; Fourteen-year-old Arisa Trew wins the gold medal in Women's park skateboarding, becoming the youngest Australian to ever win an Olympic gold medal. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
30 July 2024 –: Rex Airlines, Australia's third-largest airline, suspends all domestic Boeing 737 flights and enters voluntary administration. (AFR)
30 July 2024 – 2024 Summer Olympics: Several athletes test positive for COVID-19, including Australian swimmer Lani Pallister, forcing her to withdraw from the 1500 metre freestyle swimming event. (Al Arabiya)
29 July 2024 –: Sakina Muhammad Jan becomes the first person to be jailed under Australia's forced marriage laws after ordering her 21-year-old daughter to marry a man who later murdered her. (BBC News)

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1853 – A Jubilee Festival was held in Hobart to mark the cessation of convict transportation to the colony.
1885 – The Broken Hill Proprietary Company (later to become the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton) is registered as a company in Victoria.
1914 – Recruiting begins for the First Australian Imperial Force. Australia had offered a force of 20,000 troops.
1920 – The Princes Highway is opened, connecting Sydney and Adelaide via Melbourne.

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Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Australia:

Requests · Ariadne Australia · Awakenings Festival · Drought Force · Electoral reform in Australia · Fossils of Australia · Landforms of Australia · Sculpture of Australia

Images requested · Cheryl Kernot · MV Pacific Adventurer · Poppy King · Rosemary Goldie · James Moore · OneAustralia · Australian major cricket venues

Verification needed · Architecture of Australia · Australian performance poetry · FreeTV Australia · Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission · List of political controversies in Australia · Punk rock in Australia

Quality watch:

Good article candidates
- Premier of Victoria — Discussion
- Fair Work Ombudsman v Quest South Perth — Discussion
- Sophie Scamps — Discussion
- Kevin Rudd — Discussion
- Boyd Exell — Discussion
- Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva — Discussion
- Tiger quoll — Discussion
- William Perry French Morris — Discussion
- Simon Stuart (general) — Discussion
- Gnaraloo worm-lizard — Discussion
- Zephyrarchaea marki — Discussion
- James Davis (escaped convict) — Discussion
- Manifesto (2015 film) — Discussion

Requests for adminship
- none currently
General announcements
- Grants: Project Announcement - Women's Art Register Art+Feminism Event
Planned meetups
- Perth – 28 July 2024
- Brisbane – To be decided
- Melbourne – Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne/46 - Tuesday 13 August, 2024
Peer review
- BP Refinery v Tracey — Review
- Nestory Irankunda — Review
- Beard, Wives, Denim — Review
Deletion discussions

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