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Did you know? consists of a series of "hooks", which are interesting facts taken from Wikipedia's newest or recently expanded Australian related articles. The choice of articles is subject to a series of criteria, see DYK rules for more information.

... that Scottish painter Gordon Coutts left Australia without paying maintenance to his estranged wife, but was arrested in New Zealand?
... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground and was wrecked?
... that "The Potato King of Colorado" survived a shipwreck, mined for gold in Australia, and helped establish an alcohol-free Methodist colony?
... that Australian Madeleine Steere played water polo professionally in Turkey after studying biomolecular science in the United States?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
... that a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900, would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
... that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games, they were ineligible to win medals?
... that the health of prisoners in Australia is impacted by their lack of access to Medicare, the country's otherwise-universal health care system?
... that an Australian High Court case found a hotel chain to have used third-party contractors to avoid paying employees their required benefits?
... that Turkish international soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales, Australia?
... that Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire"?
... that convict James Davis escaped custody in Australia and lived with Aboriginal Australians for 13 years?
... that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings?
... that Australia-born rugby union player Jason Jones-Hughes was the subject of a protracted legal battle over his international eligibility after Wales called him up for the 1999 Rugby World Cup?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that Bill Dunn, an Indigenous Australian pastoralist approaching retirement, sold his station at half-price to the Jigalong community despite receiving full-price offers from non-Indigenous people?
... that Australiformis semoni is a parasite that infests marsupials in Australia and New Guinea and whose infestation could cause debilitating ulcerative granulomatous gastritis?
... that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
... that Monica Smit was ordered to pay Victoria Police's legal bill of about A$250,000, despite winning a lawsuit against them?
... that Margaret Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Australian Senate?
... that Australian politicians may face the pub test?
... that Episode 2351 of the Australian soap opera Home and Away was filmed in England, marking the first time the serial was filmed overseas?
... that pumices erupted by the Protector Shoal volcano in 1962 floated to Australia and South America?
... that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee?
... that in 1939, a teenage Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
... that Aboriginal soldier Tim Hughes was decorated for remarkable bravery, exceptional coolness and initiative during the Battle of Buna–Gona?
... that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
... that Jack Critchley, state parliamentarian then senator for South Australia, was invalided home from the Western Front with "wry neck"?
... that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
... that to learn the rules of American football, Australian Adam Korsak, who was named the best college punter in 2022, played Madden NFL 06 and watched Any Given Sunday?
... that BoysTown was reported as having the largest case of child abuse in Australia's history?
... that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League's largest semifinal comeback ever?
... that Australian NFL player Laki Tasi got into American football at the suggestion of a burger shop owner?
... that starting at age 16, future Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci was named top sewing machine salesperson three years in a row?
... that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?
... that the search for a lost radioactive capsule along a 1,400-kilometre (870 mi) stretch of road in Western Australia was likened to looking for a needle in a haystack?
... that Episode 8055 of the Australian television soap opera Neighbours is the first episode in the show's history to star and be directed and written entirely by women?
... that Nixon's "Slaughtergate" scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?
... that a species of Australian ant has special workers that make honey, and is considered a delicacy by Aboriginal Australians?
... that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$66 million out of pocket?
... that the 2022 Optus data breach affected over a third of Australians?
... that the political and media storm around so-called African gangs in Australia has been described by academics as a moral panic?
... that Marie Breen retired from the Australian Senate to care for her husband, who had been badly injured in a car accident?
... that Peter Read coined the term "Stolen Generations" to refer to Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families by Australian governments?