Sources: News Limited
A teenage girl is killed in a shark attack off the coast of Queensland, Australia. 2025-02-3
The Australian House of Representatives votes 86–50 to censure former prime minister Scott Morrison for failing to disclose to the parliament and the public his secret appointments to a number of ministries during his premiership. Morrison is the first former Australian prime minister to be censured. 2022-11-30
A light plane crashes off Australia's east coast of Queensland, killing all four people on board, including two children. 2021-12-19
Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant is sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, a first in New Zealand history, for killing 51 people in last year's mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. 2020-08-27
Kiribatian President Taneti Mamau condemns Australia for the alleged apathy the Australian government shows toward small island nations in the Pacific facing the threat of global warming. 2019-09-25
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
Presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte jokes about an Australian woman being raped and murdered in Davao City. 2016-04-17
A 35-year-old Australian man tries to headbutt a pilot over the Atlantic Ocean, causing the diversion of a British Airways transatlantic flight from New York's JFK airport to London City Airport. 2012-12-19
The American-born Australian actor is being called a "potential suspect" in a domestic violence investigation. 2010-07-9
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives in Canberra for his "symbolic" three-day visit to Australia. 2010-03-9