Sources: News Limited
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September. 2025-08-11
Rex Airlines, Australia's third-largest airline, suspends all domestic Boeing 737 flights and enters voluntary administration. 2024-07-30
Four people are injured, including bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, in a mass stabbing at a church in Sydney, Australia. The perpetrator is arrested. A mob clashes with police outside the church while trying to attack the detained suspect. 2024-04-15
Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth win the 2021 Bathurst 1000 in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. 2021-12-5
The governments of Papua New Guinea and Australia confirm that the Manus Regional Processing Centre will close following a ruling by the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea. 2016-08-17
Mike Rann, the Premier of the Australian state of South Australia, announces that he will be resigning on October 20 to be replaced by Education Minister Jay Weatherill. 2011-08-8
Stock markets in Asia and Australia continue falls from Europe and the United States. 2011-08-5
The report of the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission into the Black Saturday bushfires that killed 173 people in Victoria, Australia, is tabled in the Parliament of Victoria. It contains 67 recommendations including changes to evacuation policy and an increase in backburning. 2010-07-31
The Israeli Foreign Ministry says 527 of the captured activists, as well as the bodies of those killed, have been placed on flights bound for Turkey and Greece: seven more are still in hospital: three other captured activists β one man and two women from Australia, Ireland and Italy β remain in Israel "for technical reasons". 2010-06-3
A man detonates a homemade bomb outside a shopping mall in Darwin, Australia, wounding 15 people. 2010-02-3