What else was happening throughout Australia in March, 1999?

• March 19: John Brumby resigns as leader of the Victorian Labor Party.
• March 21: Channel Nine's 60 Minutes program airs a controversial report which claims that former Prime Minister Paul Keating lied to Parliament about when he divested himself of his joint share in a Darling Downs piggery, as well as accusing him of fleecing his business partner Al Constantinidis of the majority of the profits.
• March 22: Victorian Shadow Treasurer Steve Bracks becomes leader of the Victorian Labor Party.
• Tropical Cyclone Vance hits the West Australian coast with winds of 230 km/h. The small coastal town of Exmouth is badly damaged.
• Dick Smith, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority resigns, followed by board member Janine Shepherd the following day.
• March 23: Prime Minister John Howard is criticised by the Opposition and Democrats for his proposal that the concept of "mateship" be introduced into a preamble to the Australian Constitution. He also creates controversy by proposing that Aborigines should be referred to in the preamble as having "inhabited" the land rather than being "custodians" of it.
• March 24: Media mogul Kerry Packer publicly endorses views that the Federal Government should deregulate the media and abolish cross-media ownership rules which stop Packer from taking over the Fairfax newspaper group, as well as calling for foreign ownership restrictions to be lifted.
• March 27: The ALP government of Bob Carr is re-elected in the 1999 New South Wales state election.