Sources: (ABC News
New South Wales reports a record 16 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the statewide death toll to 727. 2022-01-9
The percentage of people who have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in New South Wales surpasses 80%. 2021-09-15
New South Wales reports a record for the second consecutive day of 830 new cases of COVID-19, which is the highest number reported by any state or territory since the beginning of the pandemic. 2021-08-22
Australia reports a new single-day record of 754 new cases of COVID-19, including a record for the second consecutive day of 681 new cases of COVID-19 in New South Wales, surpassing the previous record set in August 2020 during the second wave of the pandemic in Victoria. 2021-08-19
The state of Victoria enters a lockdown for the sixth time since the beginning of the pandemic, joining New South Wales and Queensland, after a currently unexplained increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-08-5
New South Wales detects two cases of the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in travellers returning from the United Kingdom. 2020-12-21
New South Wales reports its first COVID-19 cases from prison inmates as the state reports 18 new cases. 2020-07-30
Mungo Man, the oldest human remains in Australia, is returned to Lake Mungo in outback New South Wales, where he was originally buried. 2017-11-17
In Australia, the New South Wales Police charge the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, with allegedly covering up a child sexual abuse crime committed by another priest, James Fletcher, in the 1970s. 2015-03-17
Mike Baird becomes the 44th Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales. 2014-04-17