Flashback Friday: Checking out March, 2013 | Photos
THIS week we bring you the second Flashback Friday installment from March, 2013.
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In this gallery you will see featured donations to the Leeton Town Band, celebrating Catholic Schools Week at St Joseph's and St Francis, two new recruits were signed to the Phantoms and touch football grand finals were played and won.
The Leeton-Whitton Crows pre-season really started to hit its stride, while Leeton's young athletes were participating in athletics carnivals.
What else was happening across Australia in March, 2013?
- March 13: The Country Liberal Party in the Northern Territory elects Adam Giles as party leader while Terry Mills is overseas on a trade visit to Japan. Giles is sworn in as Chief Minister - Australia's first indigenous head of government - the next day.
- March 21: Prime Minister Julia Gillard makes a speech apologising on behalf of the Federal Government to families affected by forced adoption in Australia.
- March 21: Simon Crean calls on the Prime Minister to bring on a leadership spill to resolve tensions in the Labor Party, which she does. Expected challenger Kevin Rudd announces he will not contest the ballot, and Gillard is re-elected leader unopposed.
- March 28: A freak accident kills three pedestrians when a wall collapses in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton.
- March 30: The Murrawarri Republic declares its independence from the Commonwealth of Australia.
Flashback Friday: Checking out March, 2013 | Photos
