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Australia reports a record for the ninth consecutive day of 18,243 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 341,437. Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania all report record numbers of new cases.
2021-12-29

Australia reports its first cases of the Omicron variant in two people who travelled from Southern Africa and are currently in quarantine in a hotel in New South Wales.
2021-11-28

An Australian court orders British consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser to stop selling several versions of the popular painkiller, Nurofen, that were identical to its standard ibuprofen pills but nearly twice as expensive.
2015-12-14

Australia issues a blanket ban on issuing visas for residents of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries worst affected by the Ebola epidemic.
2014-10-28

Detectives from Scotland Yard contact police in Australia over the apparent suicide of Jacintha Saldanha.
2012-12-9

Residents in the New South Wales town of Bega evacuate as the Australian flood crisis continues to worsen.
2012-03-2

More than 100 people flee their homes from bushfire in Perth's east.
2011-02-6

Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland dies in Switzerland after a lengthy illness.
2010-10-11

A trade agreement between Australia and the European Union comes into effect stopping Australian wine being marketed using terms such as champagne and port.
2010-09-1

Australia summons the Israeli ambassador to explain why three new suspects over the Dubai killing of a Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, used Australian passports.
2010-02-25