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

Australian federal police raid the headquarters of the country's public broadcaster, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, regarding the alleged publication of classified material in a 2017 report on allegations that Australian Special forces engaged in unlawful killings and gross misconduct in Afghanistan. The day before, police raided "Herald Sun" journalist Annika Smethurst's home regarding an alleged leak of national security information.
2019-06-5

A suicide car bomber kills one person and injures fourteen others near the Australian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2018-03-2

Australia and Indonesia sign a code of conduct to govern diplomatic ties following revelations in late 2013 that Australia's Defence Signals Directorate had tapped the phones of the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
2014-08-28

Australia apologizes to Indonesia for breaching its territorial waters while conducting operations against people smugglers in Operation Sovereign Borders.
2014-01-17

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

Australia suspends exports of live cattle to 11 Indonesian abattoirs following exposure of abuses on ABC Television's "Four Corners".
2011-05-31

Australia and New Zealand mark Anzac Day. Events occur in Afghanistan, France, Turkey and Vietnam, while Julia Gillard heads to South Korea.
2011-04-25

The bodies of two Australian soldiers killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan begin their journey home.
2010-06-9

Australia immediately suspends all new asylum claims by people from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
2010-04-9