Sources: ABC News Australia
A semi-trailer crashes into two police cars along the Eastern Freeway near Kew, Victoria, Australia. Four police officers are killed, making it the deadliest incident for law enforcement in the history of Victoria. 2020-04-22
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
Bushfires in the Australian state of Victoria claim at least one life with towns in the Grampians National Park region evacuated. 2014-01-17
Ted Baillieu resigns as the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria as his embattled government was pushed close to collapse. 2013-03-6
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
The Thomson and Mitchell rivers flood in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. 2011-08-13
Judy Moran, the matriarch of the Australian Moran crime family, is convicted of the murder of her brother-in-law Des Moran in Melbourne, Victoria. 2011-03-9
Several rivers flood in the southern state of Victoria, including in the capital Melbourne. 2011-01-14
John Brumby concedes defeat in the Victorian election; Ted Baillieu becomes the new Premier of the Australian state of Victoria. 2010-11-29
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