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

Three people are taken to hospital after a mass stabbing at the Australian National University in Canberra. The attacker has been detained.
2023-09-18

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

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

Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull has called a historic double dissolution election with both houses of Parliament being dissolved and an election to be held on July 2.
2016-05-8

The Parliament of Australia considers the Turnbull Government's proposed legislation to legalize the growing of marijuana for medical use. The bill is expected to pass.
2016-02-10

The Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott faces a possible leadership vote when the Parliament of Australia resumes sitting after backbencher Luke Simpkins announces that he will move a motion calling for a leadership spill.
2015-02-6

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd shows a two-hour presentation on his health reform plan at a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra.
2010-04-19