Sources: ABC News Australia
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
Australian art critic, historian and documentary maker Robert Hughes dies in New York City. 2012-08-6
Australian newspaper publisher Fairfax Media announces restructuring plans which will lead to a cut of 1900 jobs. 2012-06-18
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
Thousands of Australians are evacuated in northern New South Wales and Queensland due to rising floodwaters with parts of Queensland declared as a disaster area. 2012-02-3
A team of Australian and British geologists claim to have the found the world's oldest fossils in the Strelley Pool rock formation in the outback of the Australian state of Western Australia. According to the Monday, August 22 Huffington Post online video and short article about them 2011-08-21
Australian crime figure Judy Moran is sentenced to 26 years in jail for her part in the murder of Des "Tuppence" Moran in Melbourne with the actual murderer Geoffrey Armour also sentenced to 26 years. 2011-08-10
Indigenous Australian Kim Scott wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his book "That Deadman Dance". 2011-06-22
The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin warns that Australian travellers face more disruption from ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. 2011-06-20