Trying out a few different systems for timelines.
I don't consider a bulleted list a timeline. It's a list, not a line! I thought a fancy wikitable might do the job, but I just discovered EasyTimeline.
See Category:Graphical_timelines for some interesting, welldone timelines.
Pros:
- like a timeline (prettier!)
- scales pretty well up or down
- easy to edit
Cons:
- Hard to start up, maybe
- Takes up more space than the bulleted list it replaced
Timeline: Australian history in the 1990s
| Events |
Year |
Events |
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- Hawke is replaced by Paul Keating
- Prominent heart surgeon Victor Chang is gunned down
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1991 |
- Seven people die in the Strathfield massacre
- The Coode Island chemical storage facility in Melbourne explodes, leaving a toxic cloud hanging over the city for days
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- The Sydney Harbour Tunnel opens
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1992 |
- New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner resigns after a corruption inquiry finds against him
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- The High Court delivers the Mabo Decision, which rules that indigenous native title does exist. This effectively extinguishes the concept of terra nullius.
|
1993 |
- Keating defeats John Hewson in an election that had been widely described as being "unwinnable" for him; the Australian Greens stand candidates for the first time
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1994 |
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- The Northern Territory legalises voluntary euthanasia, but it is overruled by the federal government when Liberal MP Kevin Andrews proposes the Andrews Bill
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1995 |
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- The High Court hands down the Wik Decision, which holds that indigenous native title can survive the granting of pastoral leases.
- All Australian states and territories agree to introduce uniform gun laws following the deaths of 35 people in the Port Arthur Massacre
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1996 |
- Liberal John Howard becomes Prime Minister, defeating Paul Keating after a record 13 years of Labor government
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- Expelled Liberal MP Pauline Hanson forms the One Nation Party
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1997 |
- Eighteen people die when the Bimbadene and Carinya Lodges collapse at Thredbo Alpine Village at 11.30pm on 30 July
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- A major strike results when Patrick Stevedores attempt to introduce non-union labour to reduce the influence of the Maritime Union of Australia
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1998 |
- The Australian Stock Exchange is demutualised and floated as a public company, becoming the world’s first stock exchange to be listed on an exchange.
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- Both houses of the federal parliament pass a motion signifying both recognition of and regret at past treatment of indigenous Australians.
- Australian soldiers are deployed to East Timor as part of the INTERFET peacekeeping force
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1999 |
- A referendum on changing to a republic is unsuccessful
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