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Australia reports its first local COVID-19 cases in two weeks, when a doctor in Brisbane tests positive.
2021-03-13

A knifeman kills two elderly people after storming their home and then tries to attack police officers on a highway in Brisbane, Australia. The attacker, who is shot dead by police, has been identified as a 22-year-old man inspired by the Islamic State. He was arrested in early 2019 when he tried to join the group in Somalia.
2020-12-17

Solomon Islands bans all travelers from China, South Korea and Japan. Health minister Dickson Mua also says that the country has suspended flights to Brisbane, Australia, and banned all civil servants from overseas travel in an effort to contain COVID-19.
2020-03-14

A man shoots to death a woman and a seven-year-old boy then himself in the Queensland town of Biddeston, west of Brisbane, Australia.
2015-03-2

The ninth G-20 summit gets underway in the Australian city of Brisbane.
2014-11-15

Former Kenyan presidential candidate Quincy Timberlake is charged with murder in the Australian city of Brisbane.
2014-09-2

2013 Brisbane train crash: A train overshoots the end of the tracks and crashes into a railway station's ladies bathroom in Brisbane, Australia, leaving 14 people injured.
2013-01-31

Police in the Australian state of Queensland remove an Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Musgrave Park in the state capital Brisbane.
2012-05-16

A man who plunged to his death from a seventh-floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia was participating in the internet craze of "planking", Australian police have said.
2011-05-15

The floods in Queensland, Australia, worsen further with 20,000 properties in the capital Brisbane expected to be flooded and 4,000 homes flooded in the nearby city of Ipswich.
2011-01-12