Sources: Kotaku
Five Malian gendarmes are killed and four others are wounded in an ambush on a convoy escorting mining equipment to the Australian-owned Morila Gold Mine in Sikasso Region. Jihadist group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin claims responsibility for the attack. 2021-09-29
New Zealand suspends its quarantine-free travel bubble with Australia for at least eight weeks amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant. However, there will be managed return flights for the next seven days for New Zealand citizens who wish to return home. 2021-07-24
Voters in Australia go to the polls to elect new members of the House of Representatives and half of the Senate. 2019-05-18
Three people are killed and twenty injured after a man drove a car into the Bourke Street Mall in the CBD of the Australian city Melbourne. A man has been arrested and Victoria Police say the incident is not terror related. In the next few weeks, the death toll would rise to six. 2017-01-20
Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull has called a historic double dissolution election with both houses of Parliament being dissolved and an election to be held on July 2. 2016-05-8
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
Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. 2012-02-4
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
Several governments in the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore ban the import of food from areas near the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant following the recent incidents. 2011-03-24
A Queensland man is missing presumed dead in floodwaters in Bajool while parts of central New South Wales are declared disaster zones after a week of heavy rains in eastern Australia. 2010-12-3