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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