out in the historic Wool Store building in Brisbane. A man is charged over an alleged plan to fire-bomb Parliament in Canberra. Queensland Premier Wayne Goss announces an independent inquiry into the logging industry on Fraser Island. 22 January – Tram dispute talks break down in Melbourne. A gas leak causes the evacuation of a Melbourne building. 23 January – The industrial tram dispute continues as 250 trams blockade the city of Melbourne. 24 January – An Australian is shot dead in Bougainville. A fireworks explosion occurs at an amusement park on the New South Wales Central Coast. 25 January – Opposition health spokesman Peter Shack embarrassingly fails to produce the Coalition's long-promised health insurance policy. The Federal Opposition abandons its Medicare policy in what critics regarded as an embarrassing turnaround. The International Olympic Committee President arrives in Melbourne, giving a massive boost to Melbourne's Olympic Games bid. 26 January – Allan Border is honoured in the Australia Day Honours. 27 January – A riot breaks out at a Brisbane jail. 28 January – Prime Minister Bob Hawke pledges millions for a new Melbourne sports stadium. Police arrest a man in Melbourne alleged to be the infamous loaded note bandit. 30 January – An inquiry into the Grafton bus crash begins. 31 January – A freak storm tears a path of destruction across Mount Isa, Queensland. February 2 February – Cyclone Nancy hits the town of Maryborough in Queensland. 7 February – Commonwealth Games athletes are welcomed home with a parade through the city streets of Melbourne. 8 February – An oil slick pollutes Victoria's Ninety Mile Beach. 12 February – Carmen Lawrence becomes the Premier of Western Australia, and Australia's first female premier, after the resignation of Peter Dowding. 14 February – A report is released which condemns the police rescue effort during the Newcastle earthquake. Austin Lewis is removed from the shadow frontbench for declaring that Andrew Peacock was "gone" if the lost the next election. 15 February – The Reserve Bank of Australia cuts official interest rates by half a percent – a move which Federal Opposition MP John Hewson described as "blatantly playing politics". 16 February – Prime Minister Bob Hawke announces a 24 March election date. 25 February – A televised debate between Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock reinforces Bob Hawke's position. 28 February – Bob Carr moves to suspend Standing