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Cooee marchers of 1915

• 1835 – Governor Bourke implemented the doctrine of terra nullius by proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could an individual person acquire it, other than through distribution by the Crown.
• 1880 – Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappeared on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.
• 1892 – Jackie Howe shears a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes at Blackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.
• 1915 – Twenty-six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the "Cooee March"; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits
• 1923 – Telephone link between Sydney and Brisbane officially opened.
• 1924 – Commonwealth Electoral Act was enacted making voting in federal elections compulsory.
• 1924 – James Clavell, novelist, screenwriter, and World War II POW, was born in Sydney.
• 1996 – Schoolboy Tjandamurra O'Shane is set alight in his school playground in a racial attack.
• 2004 – The John Howard-led Coalition is returned to power at federal election, and gains control of the Senate.