Sources: ABC News Australia
Australian David Hicks wins an appeal in the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review against his conviction for providing material support to terrorism in 2007 in a U.S. Navy court in Guantanamo Bay. 2015-02-18
Former Australian parliamentarian Craig Thomson is found guilty of theft and fraud during his time as national secretary of the Health Services Union. 2014-02-18
Australian Schapelle Corby is granted parole (along with 1,290 others) in Indonesia after serving nine years in a Bali prison for drug smuggling. 2014-02-7
Bob Carr, the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, releases a report into the handling of the case of Ben Zygier who died in Israeli custody in December 2010 and was believed to be a Mossad agent. 2013-03-6
Australians living in the north-western Sydney suburbs of Richmond, Pitt Town and Grono Point are evacuated as the Nepean-Hawkesbury River system floods after Warragamba Dam overflows. 2012-03-3
The Australian airline Qantas announces plans to cut 500 jobs. 2012-02-16
Filmmakers Mike deGruy of Santa Barbara, California and Andrew Wight of Victoria die in a helicopter crash in the Australian town of Berry, New South Wales. 2012-02-4
Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses his appeal in England's High Court against extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault allegations. 2011-11-2
The Australian Army reports that another Australian soldier has been killed by an improvised explosive device lost in fighting in Afghanistan. 2011-08-22
Indigenous Australian Kim Scott wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his book "That Deadman Dance". 2011-06-22