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ABC News Australia declares that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the current government have been defeated by Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party. However, the number of seats to declare a majority or minority government is uncertain.
2022-05-21

Australia designates the entirety of Hamas, including its political wing, as a terrorist organisation, and also designates Atomwaffen Division, Tahrir al-Sham and the Guardians of Religion Organization as terrorist organisations.
2022-02-17

Australia designates the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah and the neo-Nazi paramilitary group The Base as terrorist organisations.
2021-11-24

A recently declassified Australian intelligence report from 1998 reveals that the government was fully aware that the Indonesian military had massacred peaceful protesters from the Free Papua Movement, which was not publicly acknowledged or condemned by Australia at the time. "Guardian Australia" speculates that supporting photographic evidence may have been destroyed by Australian authorities.
2021-09-19

At the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, the Government of Australia announces that it will create an Australian space agency.
2017-09-25

The Australian government announces that it will hold a referendum on recognition of local government in the constitution simultaneously with the federal election on September 14.
2013-05-9

The High Court of Australia rules against plans by the government of Australia to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia.
2011-08-31

The Government of Australia sends a QANTAS jet to evacuate Australians trapped in Egypt while the United States Government charters jets to evacuate its citizens.
2011-01-31

The Australian government proposes a new "flood tax" to raise funds for reconstruction work following severe flooding in the east of the country.
2011-01-27

The Australian Government announces that it will establish two new Immigration detention centres in Northam, Western Australia and Inverbrackie, South Australia and end detention of children and family groups.
2010-10-18