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Further sites of illicit soft plastic storage are found in Sydney after the collapse of commercial plastic recycler REDcycle. After taking $20 million from Coles and Woolworths to recycle soft plastics at 2,000 locations, the company instead stored 12,000 tonnes of plastics at more than 44 locations across Australia.
2023-04-17

The Australian government signs an agreement with Merck Sharp & Dohme to buy 300,000 courses of the antiviral drug molnupiravir, pending regulator clearance, which would be the first pill to treat COVID-19 patients.
2021-10-4

Australia reports a record 2,070 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including 1,599 new cases in New South Wales. It is the first time that the country has reported more than 2,000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
2021-09-11

General Motors pulls out of right-hand drive markets, ending the Holden brand in Australia.
2020-02-17

Interpol's Operation Blackwrist arrests nine people in Australia, Thailand and the United States, and rescues 50 children in connection with a 63,000-member online pedophilia ring. More arrests are expected. Investigators from nearly 60 countries participated in this operation.
2019-05-23

A ship capsizes off the island of Java carrying refugees from Indonesia to Australia. Thirty people are missing and 22 bodies have been recovered, with 31 survivors rescued.
2013-09-27

The members of the United Nations are scheduled to decide on Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade.
2013-03-28

Australian television personality Karl Stefanovic wins the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the Logie Awards of 2011.
2011-05-1

With results of the federal election in Australia indicating a hung parliament, Prime Minister Julia Gillard holds initial talks with independent candidates in an attempt to form a government.
2010-08-22

Australians go to the polls with results indicating a hung parliament.
2010-08-21