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9 people are feared dead and 88 are rescued by Australian authorities after a boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island.
2013-07-12

Australian art critic, historian and documentary maker Robert Hughes dies in New York City.
2012-08-6

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

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

The Australian airline Qantas grounds its entire fleet due to an ongoing union dispute, with a lockout to start on October 31, 2011.
2011-10-29

Australian criminal Matthew Johnson is found guilty of the murder of drug boss Carl Williams in Victoria's Barwon Prison.
2011-09-29

The Australian Army reports that another Australian soldier has been killed by an improvised explosive device lost in fighting in Afghanistan.
2011-08-22

Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia cancel flights to New Zealand and postpone flights to Argentina due to the continued presence of volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue eruption.
2011-06-16

Australian airline Qantas announces plans to offer 350 flight attendants voluntary redundancies.
2011-06-3