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Four people are missing and feared dead after a helicopter crashes off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
2023-07-28

Flooding continues in Australia, with over 220 people being rescued from floodwaters in New South Wales in the past 24 hours.
2022-11-15

Australia reports that it is suffering a plague of mice across New South Wales, from the Queensland border all the way to Victoria. Mice are chewing through walls and ceilings, and are estimated to have caused $100 million in damage to crops and grain stores. Homeowners setting traps are reporting catching 500 to 600 mice per night.
2021-05-22

The New South Wales Northern Beaches outbreak reaches 17 cases, leading to fears of a second wave in the state. Western Australia and Queensland have reimposed border restrictions on people travelling from New South Wales.
2020-12-17

The bodies of three people killed by bushfires in Australia are found – two near Glen Innes, and one at Johns River – as fires that have destroyed at least 150 houses continue to burn in eastern New South Wales and Queensland.
2019-11-9

Police in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, charge a man with several crimes under the Terrorism High Risk Offenders Act.
2018-04-21

A Eurocopter 120 helicopter carrying five people crashes into the sea near Hardy Reef off the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia. Two people are killed.
2018-03-21

The death toll from Cyclone Debbie and the associated flooding in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland rises to five people.
2017-04-2

Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland.
2012-02-4

A Queensland man is missing presumed dead in floodwaters in Bajool while parts of central New South Wales are declared disaster zones after a week of heavy rains in eastern Australia.
2010-12-3