Born in 1999

A selection from Wikipedia's '1999 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

• 1 January – A memorial service is held at Constitution Dock in Hobart to remember the victims of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
• 1 February – An unprecedented rush for Telstra shares helps vault Australian share prices to a record high, as investors focus on the continued strong performance of the local economy with the all ordinaries index surging 29.9 points.
• 22 March – Tropical Cyclone Vance hits the West Australian coast with winds of 230 km/h. The small coastal town of Exmouth is badly damaged.
• 27 March – The ALP government of Bob Carr is re-elected in the 1999 New South Wales state election.
• 14 April – A massive hailstorm hits Sydney, with most of the damage being centred on the Eastern Suburbs. It is the second-costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing $1.7 billion in insured damages.
• 30 May – A Belgrade court convicts Australian aid workers Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace of espionage. Pratt is sentenced to 12 years in jail while Wallace is sentenced to four years.
• 21 June – Senator Mal Colston joins fellow Independent Brian Harradine in supporting the Federal Government's $17 billion sale of the second portion of Telstra (constituting another 16 per cent), allowing the proposed sale to pass through the Senate and become finalised.
• 6 November – A referendum is held to determine whether Australia should become a republic & whether a preamble is inserted into the constitution recognising the Aborigines as Australia's first people.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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