Born in 2016

A selection from Wikipedia's '2016 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

• 2 February – The Federal Government reintroduces its bill for the Australian Building and Construction Commission on the first parliamentary sitting of 2016.
• 2 July – A double dissolution federal election is held. On 10 July, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claims victory for the Liberal–National Coalition which was returned with a reduced majority.
• 26 July – A royal commission into juvenile detention in the Northern Territory is announced, after the Four Corners program airs footage of abuse of detainees at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.
• 9 August – The 2016 Census of Population and Housing is held. Intended to be conducted mostly online, the census website is unavailable for the entire night, with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) blaming denial-of-service attacks for the outage.
• 27 August – A general election is held in the Northern Territory. The Country Liberal government of Adam Giles is defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Michael Gunner.
• 28 September – The entire state of South Australia is left without electricity after a massive storm damages electrical transmission infrastructure.
• 3 October – The Redcliffe Peninsula railway line in Queensland opens 131 years after it was first proposed.
• 15 October – A general election is held in the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Andrew Barr, wins a fifth term.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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