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Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia. The suspect is later taken into custody.
2024-08-25

New South Wales reports Australia's first confirmed death from the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a fully vaccinated man in his 80s who had experienced breakthrough infections and also had underlying health conditions.
2021-12-27

Australia's Special Broadcasting Service suspends China Global Television Network and China Central Television from broadcasting in the country following a human rights complaint from pan-Asian human rights organization Safeguard Defenders.
2021-03-5

Australia and East Timor settle a dispute between the two countries in the Timor Sea.
2017-09-2

A Somali asylum seeker sets herself alight in Nauru to protest her detention on the island by Australia, one week after an Iranian asylum seeker did the same thing.
2016-05-2

Voters go to the polls in the Australian state of Victoria for a state election. The election sees Labor, led by Daniel Andrews, defeat Denis Napthine's Liberal–National Coalition, the first time a one-term government has lost power in the state since 1955.
2014-11-29

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth.
2011-10-30

Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia suspends flights to Perth, Western Australia, due to ash from the eruption in Chile, with flights to Tasmania and New Zealand also cancelled.
2011-06-15

Thousands of people attend pro- and anti-carbon tax (part of a phase-in of an emissions trading program) rallies in Sydney, Australia.
2011-04-2

Bushfires threaten the suburbs of Brigadoon, Baskerville, Willendon, Red Hill and Herne Hill in Perth, Western Australia.
2011-02-6