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Pro-Palestinian protesters climb the roof of the Australian Parliament building in Canberra, Australia.
2024-07-3

Australia reports a record 98 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including a record 35 deaths in New South Wales.
2022-01-28

Australia announces rapid antigen tests will be made free to concession card holders amid a nationwide shortage, but resists calls for universal free access.
2022-01-5

China has "indefinitely" suspended all activity under a China–Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, its state economic planner said. This has occurred after China imposed sanctions on Australian wine and coal while failing to renew Australian hay import permits, and Australia states cancelled participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative and are reviewing Chinese company Landbridge Group's lease on the Port of Darwin previously provided for 99 years at A$506 million.
2021-05-6

Australian voters in South Australia, the Melbourne division of Batman, and the Perth electoral district of Cottesloe go to the polls in three separate elections.
2018-03-17

Heavy rain caused by former Tropical Cyclone Oswald continues to cause significant flooding in the Australian state of Queensland with the capital Brisbane amongst those affected.
2013-01-27

Turkey's ambassador refuses visas to Australian and New Zealand archaeologists to conduct a survey of Gallipoli Campaign battlesites over concerns about a statue built by Sydney's Assyrian community commemorating the Assyrian Genocide in World War I.
2010-09-29

Australia celebrates indigenous culture for NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'.
2010-07-7

The World Trade Organization overturns Australia's ban on importing New Zealand apples, which had been in place since 1919.
2010-04-12

An inquest into the deaths of five Afghan asylum seekers opens in Australia.
2010-01-25