Sources: News Limited
The number of people over the age of 16 who have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Australia surpasses 50%, with a record 309,010 doses administered yesterday. 2021-08-19
Fiji reports a record for the third consecutive day of 308 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the national total to 2,848 cases. The Ministry of Health reports that Australia is helping with the supply of vaccines. 2021-06-24
Australia suspends flights from India until May 15 amidst a surge of the COVID-19 cases. 2021-04-27
Protesters on Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, occupy the former Legislative Assembly to protest Australia's termination of the island's autonomy. In July, Norfolk Island is set to become part of the State of New South Wales. 2016-04-29
Australia suspends exports of live cattle to 11 Indonesian abattoirs following exposure of abuses on ABC Television's "Four Corners". 2011-05-31
Australian police are condemned for their failure to treat the 2007 death of an Aboriginal boy found weighted with rocks in a waterhole as anything other than an accident in Borroloola, Northern Territory. 2011-04-9
Australian businessman Lachlan Murdoch is appointed as acting CEO of Network Ten following the sacking of Grant Blackley. 2011-02-23
The Australian state of Queensland evacuates off-shore islands and low-lying parts of North Queensland ahead of Cyclone Yasi which is expected to hit the state as a Category 4 tropical cyclone late on Wednesday or early Thursday. 2011-02-1
Detainees at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney, Australia, go on a hunger strike following the suicide of an Iraqi detainee. 2010-11-16