Sources: ABC News Australia
Daniel Andrews announces his resignation as Premier of Victoria, Australia, after nine years in office. 2023-09-26
Victoria reports a record 1,438 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, surpassing New South Wales as the epicentre of the pandemic in Australia. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews blames the increase on illegal parties held to celebrate the AFL Grand Final and also announces that the time between doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine will be reduced to three weeks. 2021-09-30
A XPT train derails in Victoria, Australia, killing two people. 2020-02-20
Bushfires in the Australian state of Victoria claim at least one life with towns in the Grampians National Park region evacuated. 2014-01-17
Denis Napthine is sworn in as the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria replacing Ted Baillieu. 2013-03-7
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 remains of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly are found in the former HM Prison Pentridge in Melbourne, Victoria. 2011-09-1
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
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