Keating leads the ALP to another victory in the 1993 elections.

In 1993, the Australian government proposes making Australia a republic, severing ties with the British crown by 2001.

Younger Australians favor the creation of a flag which does not contain the Union Jack.

Australian filmmaker Jane Campion directs her first big-budget film, 1993’s “The Piano,” about a fierce, silent, mail order bride shipped to New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century.