Sources: ABC News Australia
Daniel Andrews announces his resignation as Premier of Victoria, Australia, after nine years in office. 2023-09-26
Australia reports the highest one-day increase of new cases since the pandemic began, with 502 new cases, surpassing the previous record set on March 28 at 469 cases. Victoria records 484 new cases and two deaths, the highest of any Australian state. [https:--www.theage.com.au-national-victoria-record-484-new-coronavirus-cases-in-victoria-20200722-p55ecn.html ("The Age")] [https:--www.abc.net.au-news-2020-07-22-australia-records-highest-daily-number-of-coronavirus-cases-12481762 (ABC News (Australia))]2020-07-22
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service issues an emergency warning for a bush fire located to the east of Dunedoo in New South Wales, Australia. The warning comes amidst "unprecedented" fire conditions across the region, deemed to be worse than the conditions precipitating the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. 2017-02-12
Denis Napthine is sworn in as the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria replacing Ted Baillieu. 2013-03-7
Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).2012-02-1
Simon Overland resigns as the Chief Commissioner of Police in the Australian state of Victoria following the release of a damning Ombudsman's report on the release of dodgy crime statistics before the 2010 Victorian election. 2011-06-16
Law enforcement agencies in Victoria, Australia, the United Kingdom and Spain conduct raids in relation to allegedly corrupt behaviour by the currency subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. 2010-10-6
Over fifty-thousand Australians have been placed on evacuation alert in the Australian state of Victoria in eleven towns since Saturday due to the 2010 Victorian floods. 2010-09-6
Heavy rain in the Australian state of Victoria causes flooding in the towns of Ballarat, Maryborough and Bendigo with landslides blocking roads in the Victorian Alps. 2010-09-4
The report of the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission into the Black Saturday bushfires that killed 173 people in Victoria, Australia, is tabled in the Parliament of Victoria. It contains 67 recommendations including changes to evacuation policy and an increase in backburning. 2010-07-31