Sources: News Limited
The death toll from drownings during the week across Australia increases to seven after a fisherman dies after being swept off rocks near Sydney. Three people remain missing and one other was injured. 2025-04-20
Singapore reports its first case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Australia. 2022-06-6
The bodies of three people killed by bushfires in Australia are found β two near Glen Innes, and one at Johns River β as fires that have destroyed at least 150 houses continue to burn in eastern New South Wales and Queensland. 2019-11-9
A Eurocopter 120 helicopter carrying five people crashes into the sea near Hardy Reef off the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia. Two people are killed. 2018-03-21
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service issues an emergency warning for a bush fire located to the east of Dunedoo in New South Wales, Australia. The warning comes amidst "unprecedented" fire conditions across the region, deemed to be worse than the conditions precipitating the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. 2017-02-12
Australia, Malaysia and the People's Republic of China reach an agreement about the costs and direction of the ongoing search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean southwest of Western Australia. 2014-08-28
A possible new species of giant jellyfish is discovered, washed up on a beach in Australia. 2014-02-6
Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, Rwanda and South Korea join the UN Security Council. 2013-01-1
A Chubb Security security guard is shot dead in a gunfight after being ambushed by gunmen whilst delivering cash to a Bank in the Sydney CBD, Australia. 2010-06-7
Mary MacKillop is to become Australia's first saint, after being approved by the Holy See for canonization. 2010-02-19