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| 1904 |
| | | John Christian Watson becomes Australia's first Labor prime minister, leading a minority government that survives for only four months | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Story of the Kelly Gang, produced in Australia, is the first feature-length film, with a running time of nearly an hour | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The Harvester Judgement establishes a minimum wage in Australia | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Parliament in Australia chooses Canberra as the site of the nation's new capital | |
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| 1908 |
| | | US boxer Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion when he knocks out Tommy Burns in Australia | |
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| 1913 |
| | | A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father | |
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| 1922 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence takes a house in Sydney, where he writes the bulk of his novel Kangaroo | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Vegemite is launched in Melbourne as Australia's answer to Marmite | |
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