Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/August/August 17
- 1895 – The Albert Railway Bridge opens in Brisbane.
- 1953 – Actress Noni Hazelhurst is born.
- 1980 – Two-month-old Azaria Chamberlain disappears at Uluru, her mother claimed a dingo took the infant.
- 1991 – Wade Frankum commits the Strathfield Massacre in Sydney.