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A hybrid solar eclipse occurs across the South Pacific in Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia.
2023-04-20

Australia signs a vaccine swap agreement with Singapore that will allow it to receive 500,000 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Singapore later this week.
2021-08-31

After eight years in power, the Liberal Party is defeated by the Labor Party in a landslide election. Mark McGowan is set to become the Australian state's new Premier.
2017-03-11

A beachgoer in Australia discovers dinosaur footprints believed to be around 130 million years old while combing the shore for shells.
2016-09-7

Australia and the United States lift sanctions against Fiji following recent democratic elections.
2014-10-31

Australia warns of bushfires due to a 40C (104F) heatwave affecting the country.
2014-01-15

Prosecutors in the Australian state of Queensland drop manslaughter charges against American surgeon Jayant Patel, who pleads guilty to charges of fraud.
2013-11-15

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

Malaysia bans the import of horses from Australia following an outbreak of Hendra virus.
2011-07-20

The Australian authorities say a Chinese bulk carrier which ran aground off Queensland has caused widespread damage to the famed Great Barrier Reef. The cleanup is likely to be the biggest operation ever undertaken there.
2010-04-13