1991   Strathfield Massacre: Taxi driver Wade Frankum goes on a shooting rampage killing 7 people and injuring 6 others before turning the gun on himself in Sydney, Australia).

1994   Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.

1996   John Howard is elected Prime Minister of Australia, defeating Labor Party sitting Prime Minister Paul Keating.

1996   The government of Jeff Kennett is re-elected in Victoria, Australia with a 30 seat majority.

1996   A gunman opens fire at a tourist site in Tasmania, Australia, killing 35 and wounding 37.

1996   The Northern Territory in Australia legalizes euthanasia.

1997   Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality.

1997   HM Prison Pentridge in Melbourne, Australia, is officially closed.

1997   A landslide in Thredbo, New South Wales, Australia kills 18.

1999   Australia votes in a referendum to retain Queen Elizabeth as their head of state.

2001   John Howard is elected to a third term as Prime Minister of Australia.

2003   Mad cow disease is discovered in U.S. cattle for the first time. Several countries ban U.S. beef including Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Australia.

2005   A plane with 15 people on board crashes in Lockhart River, Australia, killing all 15 people.

2005   Hundreds of thousands of people rally in 300 locations across Australia to protest the proposal of their government to change industrial relations laws.