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2006
1. COMMONWEALTH GAMES took place in
Melbourne. Australia
finished on top of the
medal tally for the fifth consecutive time and won a record
221
medals (84 gold, 69 silver and
68 bronze).
2. TOM
JONES
became officially Sir Tom and a
Knight Bachelor.
3. PAYPHONE local calls
in
Australia increased from 40 cents to
50 cents.
4. RICKY PONTING became the first
Australian to score 100
runs in his 100th Test.
He also became the first ever Test player to score a
century
in each innings of his 100th
Test match.
5. THE HAMISH & ANDY SHOW national Australian radio
program
commenced. (Hosted by Hamish Blake and
Andy Lee.)
6. CD sales were reported to be very
low. (e.g. Superfly’s Let’s Get
Down, sold only 63 copies in the whole of Australia –
and
yet made the Australian Top 100
singles chart.)
7. LEIF GARRETT, ‘70s US teen
idol,
was charged with possessing heroin and
fare evasion.
8. KOBE BRYANT (LA Lakers) scored
81
points, the second most in America’s
NBA history.
9. BERNARD FANNING won ARIA awards for Album of
the
Year Tea and Sympathy and Best
Male Artist.
10. GINA RINEHART,
daughter of the late mining magnate Lang Hancock, was named by
BRW
(Business Review Weekly) as Australia’s first
female billionaire.
11. THE
CHASER'S WAR ON EVERYTHING debuted on
ABC TV.
12. TROY CASSAR-DALEY won a Golden
Guitar for Male Vocalist of the Year. SARA
STORER won for Female Vocalist.
JOHN WILLIAMSON won for Album of the Year (Chandelier of Stars).
KASEY
CHAMBERS won for Single of the
Year (Pony).
13. JOHN LAWS was the year’s top
earning
radio broadcaster with an income of
$14 million.
14. ALLISON DURBIN, 54 year old NZ born Australian
singer,
was charged with trafficking, cultivating and
possessing cannabis.
15. ROGER FEDERER won his
7th
Grand Slam tennis title winning the
Australian Open.
16. EDDIE
McGUIRE was appointed CEO of the
Nine Network.
17. U2 won five Grammy awards
including Album of the Year,
Song of the Year (Sometimes
You Can’t Make It On Your Own). GREEN DAY won for
Record
of the Year – Boulevard of
Broken Dreams.
18. Queensland BULLS
defeated
the Victoria Bushrangers to win the
Pura Cup.
19. GARY GLITTER was sentenced to 3
years
in jail for molesting two young
Vietnamese girls.
20. BILL GATES was named as
world’s richest person with wealth estimated at $50 billion. JAMES PACKER
was
named as Australia’s richest person with
$5 billion. | 
