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

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that the parliament will pass a law to prohibit the construction of a new Russian embassy in Canberra due to national security concerns regarding the embassy's proposed location adjacent to Parliament House.
2023-06-15

The Australian House of Representatives votes 86–50 to censure former prime minister Scott Morrison for failing to disclose to the parliament and the public his secret appointments to a number of ministries during his premiership. Morrison is the first former Australian prime minister to be censured.
2022-11-30

Charles Philip Arthur George is proclaimed King of Australia as Charles III by the Governor-General of Australia David Hurley at Government House in Canberra.
2022-09-10

The Parliament of Australia votes to make same-sex marriage legal in Australia.
2017-12-7

Reports emerge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's discovery of classified Australian documents, related to Chinese intelligence activity abroad, in the Canberra home of a woman allegedly acting on behalf of the Communist Party of China.
2017-06-5

Australia raises security for its Parliament after conducting raids that arrest dozens of suspected terrorists.
2014-09-19

The Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, advises the Parliament that two objects possibly related to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been located in the southern Indian Ocean.
2014-03-20

Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on an official trip to Canberra. The two countries sign agreements valued at over A$10 billion.
2010-06-21

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives in Canberra for his "symbolic" three-day visit to Australia.
2010-03-9