Travel Reference
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2006
Melbourne hosts the Commonwealth Games, the largest sporting event ever to be held in the city: in
numbers of teams, athletes and events it eclipses the 1956 Olympics.
2009
Victoria records its hottest temperatures on record. The Black Saturday bushfires that follow leave
173 people dead, more than 2000 homes destroyed and 4500 sq km burned out.
2010
Adam Bandt becomes the first member of the Greens Party to be elected to the federal House of Rep-
resentatives in a general election. He retains the inner-city seat of Melbourne in the 2013 federal elec-
tion.
2010
The conservative Liberal-National Party coalition returns to power in the Victorian state parliament,
after 11 years in the political wilderness.
2011
Victoria is devastated by the worst 'flood events' in its recorded history, with the central and northern
parts of the state worst hit, including the towns of Horsham, Shepparton and Swan Hill.
