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Australia reports a record 1,323 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, as well as a record 1,218 new cases in New South Wales.
2021-08-29

Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Spain end their evacuation flights from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
2021-08-27

Head of Australia's Department of Immigration Mike Pezzullo denies that the detention centre for asylum seekers on Manus Island must be closed. He said there was no crisis that required any closure of the centre despite Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruling it to be unconstitutional and ordering the release of the detainees.
2016-05-6

The Vatican announces Mother Teresa's eligibility for canonization after a Vatican spokesman confirmed Pope Francis' recognition of a second miracle attributed to her involving the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors. The Vatican has yet to confirm a canonization date for Teresa.
2015-12-18

the Vatican declares Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII canonized as saints.
2013-07-5

A surfer is killed by a shark off near Wedge Island, about 160km (100 miles) north of Perth in Australia.
2012-07-14

The Holy See establishes the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, for former Anglicans in Australia.
2012-06-15

Queen Elizabeth II commences her 16th visit to Australia in the capital Canberra.
2011-10-19

13,000 properties in rural Victoria in Australia are flooded.
2011-01-15

Pope Benedict XVI canonises Mary MacKillop, the first Australian saint, in front of 50,000 people in Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City.
2010-10-17