Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 2

6d "kangaroo & map", used at Woolloongabba Queensland

• 1837 – the Supreme Court of South Australia is established by Letters Patent, five days after the founding of the colony.
• 1913 – Australian philately proper begins with the Kangaroo and Map series of stamps.
• 1943 – Australia sends its first envoy to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
• 1961 – Combined oral contraceptive pills are first sold in Australia
• 1992 – George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States to address the Parliament of Australia.