12 January – Chelsie Dawber, footballer 16 January – Abigail Paduch, judoka 31 January – Princess Ibini-Isei, football forward 6 February – Erin Cleaver, track and field para athlete 25 February – David Fifita, rugby league player 30 March – Riley Day, sprinter 28 April – Ellie Carpenter, footballer 4 May – Nicholas Hamilton, actor 15 May – Jacob Bragg, runner 16 May – MelindaJ Barbieri, football midfielder 1 July – Emily Hodgson, footballer 13 July – Ella Connolly, sprinter 15 July – Jarrod Freeman, cricketer 2 November – Tess Coady, snowboarder 11 November – Aretha Brown, Indigenous youth activist 16 November – Josh Green, basketball player 7 December – Bailey Smith, footballer 11 December – Emily Whitehead, artistic gymnast Deaths 1 January – Colin Vaughan, 68, Australian-Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1931) 5 March – Dame Roma Mitchell, 86, Governor of South Australia (b. 1913) 27 March – Sue Wah Chin, 98, entrepreneur (b. 1900) 30 March – Michael Pitman, 67, biologist 2 April – Bunney Brooke, 80, actor 10 April – Mary MacLean Hindmarsh, 78, botanist 21 May – Dulcie Holland, 87, composer and music educator 1 June – Sir Raymond Ferrall, 94, businessman, author and cricketer 19 June – Ron Casey, 72, Australian rules footballer and television commentator 3 July – Vivian Bullwinkel, 84, army nurse 14 July – Mark Oliphant, 98, physicist 14 June – Greg Wilton, 44, ALP politician, only serving member of the House of Representatives to have committed suicide 7 September – Bruce Gyngell, 71, television personality 19 October – Charles Perkins, 64, Aboriginal activist 1 December – Doug Waterhouse, 84, entomologist 26 December – John McLeay, 78, Liberal politician See also 2000 in Australian literature 2000 in Australian television List of Australian films of 2000 References Australia Years of the 20th century in Australia Australia 2000s in Australia