14 October stuff that happened on this day or when I can be bothered to look it up

1824 – W. C. Wentworth and Robert Wardell begin publication of The Australian, the first independent newspaper in Australia. 

1829 - The breaking of the 4 year drought in NSW. 

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Thu 15 Oct 1829

1829 - Governor Darling proclaimed the Nineteen Counties of New South Wales which re-defined the Limits of Location, Location, Location beyond which settlement was prohibited.

1840 With the road from Adelaide to Port Adelaide completed the two Aussie Rules football teams could finally get down and dirty on the field. 

"A great procession of people, said to number 5000, travelled down the new road to Port Adelaide. Some 450 vehicles from four-in-hand barouches to bullock teams and donkey carts, as well as 500-600 equestrians made the journey. At the Port a regatta was held and 450 people sat down to a lavish lunch provided in the warehouses of the South Australian Company who had built the road. "

1879 – Author Miles Franklin born at Talbingo, New South Wales. 

1889 - The first electric tram in Oz was flung open for posteriors to be parked upon the bench seats as the people swayed to the rhythm from Doncaster to Box Hill

Opening day 

1923 – Severe floods in Melbourne, two drown. 

Fatalities in Melbourne

1927 - HMAS Adelaide arrived at the British Solomon Islands Protectorate as part of a British punitive expedition. The Royal Australian Navy operated as part of a British empire force in one of the first instances in which Australian forces intervened in regional affairs.

1935 – The Hornibrook Bridge opens, connecting Brisbane and Redcliffe, the 2.8 km bridge is one of the longest timber and girder bridges in Australia. 

1958 – Death of Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer and geologist, aged 76. 

1959 – Radio comedian and quiz show host Jack Davey dies. 

1959 – Death of Errol Flynn, flamboyant film actor, in Vancouver, British Columbia, aged 50. He shares coffin space with six bottles of whiskey, a parting gift from his drinking buddies. 

1968 – The town of Meckering, Western Australia, was badly damaged by an earthquake.

Murrumbidgee Floods June 25, 1852

 

The night of June 24, 1852 saw the river Murrumbidgee swell to breaking its banks, flooding the original township of Gundagai (Gun-da-guy).

European settlers had established buildings on the low lying ground, too close to the river.
Wiradjuri (Wee-rad-jury) men came to the rescue of the Europeans - even though they'd tried to warn them against building the town and buildings where they had - Indigenous people were often the saviours of those who'd dismissed/ignored or treated them badly. 
Previous floods had seen Wiradjuri people rescue Europeans in the 1840s.
The Wiradjuri men of whose names we know were Yarri (Coonong Denamundinna) Jacky Jacky, Long Jimmy and Tommy Davis.
They rescued an estimated 69 people in bark canoes over three days and nights.
No one knows the exact number of people who lost their lives as the population was often increased with drovers, but with 250 people living in the town, at least 80 - 100 people died, untold livestock losses and only 3 houses left standing after the flood water receded.
And, of course, no one knows how many Indigenous people died.

2017 saw a mark of respect and thanks to the Wiradjuri People with the statue of Yarri and Jacky Jacky and one of the bark canoes used to rescue people.

Sources:

https://indigenousx.com.au/the-heroes-of-gundagai/

https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/disaster/flood/display/111080-%22the-great-rescue-of-1852%22-

https://www.visitgundagai.com.au/discovergundagai/sculpture-the-great-rescue-of-1852

https://csaa.asn.au/2022/08/08/gundagai-yarri-and-jacky-jacky/

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101627922

https://www.visitgundagai.com.au/discovergundagai/oldgundagai