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A majority of voters in Australia vote to reject the establishment of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
2023-10-14

American social media service Facebook announces it may block Australian users from sharing both local and international news stories on its platform, should the Australian government enact legislation that would require technology companies in the country to pay local news organisations.
2020-09-1

Australian network newspapers, Nine’s "The Age" and "Sydney Morning Herald" newspapers, report that a Chinese spy, Wang ‘William’ Liqiang - who defected to Australia, gives counter-espionage agency the names of senior military intelligence officers he says funded and conducted operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia.
2019-11-23

Voters in Australia go to the polls to elect new members of the House of Representatives and half of the Senate.
2019-05-18

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says his country is willing to accept some asylum seekers from the Middle East and Asia, currently in detention camps on impoverished Pacific island nations. Presently, 267 refugees in Australia for medical treatment, some accompanied by a relative, are set to be returned to Nauru’s detention camp. Australia is hesitant about the offer, concerned that it could encourage people smugglers.
2016-02-19

An al Qaeda affiliate has freed Jocelyn Elliott, an Australian woman kidnapped in Burkina Faso along with her husband.
2016-02-6

Australia's ABC News claims that the People's Republic of China hacked plans for the headquarters of the country's spy agency ASIO.
2013-05-28

Astronomers in Asia, Australia and North America observe a total lunar eclipse.
2011-12-10

A dog is discovered carrying the hendra virus in the Australian state of Queensland near the town of Beaudesert. It is the first time the virus has been detected in a species other than flying foxes, horses or humans.
2011-07-26

Over fifty-thousand Australians have been placed on evacuation alert in the Australian state of Victoria in eleven towns since Saturday due to the 2010 Victorian floods.
2010-09-6