Sources: Kotaku
British High Court judge Finola O'Farrell rules Australian mining corporation BHP liable for the 2015 Samarco dam collapse in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, considered the biggest environmental disaster in the country. 2025-11-14
Australia and Nauru announce a joint security treaty that will see Australia sending Nauru AU$100 million (US$64 million) in direct support over five years in exchange for Nauru consulting Australia before signing any bilateral agreements with other countries. 2024-12-9
The Vietnamese government releases Australian democracy activist Chau Van Kham from a 12-year prison sentence on terrorism charges following an appeal by Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. 2023-07-11
China condemns yesterday's formation of a new security alliance between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian saying that the alliance risks "severely damaging regional peace... and intensifying the arms race". 2021-09-16
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
Bosses at Australian radio station 2Day FM suspend all advertising until Monday after several major advertisers withdrew their business in the wake of the death of Jacintha Saldanha. 2012-12-8
The Australian town of Yenda, New South Wales, is flooded as floodwaters move through the Murray–Darling Basin. 2012-03-7
Thousands of protesters demonstrate in the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia against the coal seam gas industry. 2011-10-17
Pope Benedict XVI also removes William Martin Morris as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba in Australia for allegedly advocating the ordination of women and married priests. 2011-05-1
An Indian man is set on fire in Melbourne, Australia, in the latest in a series of attacks on Indian nationals in the country. 2010-01-9