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Register/History/Australia

Australia

1883
The Windsor opens in Melbourne, the oldest grand hotel in Australia
1994
Crown opens in Melbourne on the Yarra Crown Hotels Australia
1999
The Louise opens in the Barossa Valley The Louise
2002
Longitude 131° opens facing Uluru, its tented pavilions raised off the sand Longitude 131°
2003
James and Hayley Baillie open their first Australian lodge Baillie Lodges
2008
Southern Ocean Lodge opens on Kangaroo Island; it burns in the 2020 bushfires and reopens in 2023 Southern Ocean Lodge
2015
Barangaroo Reserve opens in Sydney: a container port demolished and the pre-colonial headland rebuilt from sandstone dug out of the site Barangaroo, Sydney
2019
Scenic Eclipse enters service as a discovery yacht with two helicopters and a submarine Scenic Eclipse
2019
Emerald Yacht Cruises launches Emerald Azzurra Emerald Yacht Cruises
2023
The House of Versace declines to renew the Gold Coast licence; the Medusa tiles are removed and the hotel reopens as the Imperial
Every event names at least one entry in the register. The same events appear in the Library’s whole chronology at History, and the entries themselves at Australia.