User:Longhair
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Longhair is an Australian editor and administrator.
Contributing to the English language Wikipedia since August 31, 2004 and an administrator since August 1, 2005.
On this day in Australia
- 1840 – John Ridley, the English-born inventor and agriculturalist, arrives in South Australia.
- 1861 – On the Burke and Wills expedition, Charles Gray dies of dysentery near Lake Massacre, South Australia, on the return journey from the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- 1935 – Australia's national airline, Qantas, operates its first overseas passenger flight, from Brisbane to Singapore.
- 2003 – The Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (pictured), near Woomera, South Australia, is closed, with detainees transferred to the Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, near Port Augusta.
- 2005 – The Bali Nine, a group of nine people later convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin from Indonesia into Australia, are arrested in Indonesia.
- 2005 – Ownership of a replica of HM Bark Endeavour is transferred to the Australian National Maritime Museum.
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