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A telecommunications outage by Optus leaves more than 10 million people in Australia without internet and mobile phone service for more than nine hours.
2023-11-8

Singapore reports its first case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Australia.
2022-06-6

French President Emmanuel Macron tells Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison that Morrison had broken the trust between the two countries and that it was up to Canberra to repair those ties with "tangible actions". France had criticized its allies after Australia opted for nuclear-powered submarines to be built with U.S. and British technology instead of a $A90 billion French diesel-electric submarine program. Macron also urged Australia to stop mining coal.
2021-10-28

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says white South African farmers could receive fast-track visas on "humanitarian grounds" amid calls to transfer land ownership from white to black farmers, and fears over the number of racially-motivated farm killings.
2018-03-14

The results of a referendum last month in the Australian state of Queensland with voters agreeing to plans for a four-year fixed parliamentary term.
2016-04-5

Thousands of residents of Australian towns Bellingen and Moree, New South Wales are warned to prepare to evacuate as a result of heavy rain.
2012-02-2

Stock markets in Asia and Australia continue falls from Europe and the United States.
2011-08-5

Heavy rain in the Australian state of Victoria causes flooding in the towns of Ballarat, Maryborough and Bendigo with landslides blocking roads in the Victorian Alps.
2010-09-4

Australia celebrates indigenous culture in NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme "Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way".
2010-07-9

Toyota president Akio Toyoda apologies to his Chinese customers in Earth's largest auto mart.
2010-03-1