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Australia reports a record 98 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including a record 35 deaths in New South Wales.
2022-01-28

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes the Alpine National Park in Victoria, Australia, with tremors felt throughout the state and in parts of New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania. Some buildings in Melbourne are damaged but no casualties are reported.
2021-09-22

Australia reports its first case of the highly contagious Lambda variant in an overseas traveller who had been in a New South Wales quarantine hotel in April.
2021-07-6

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

Protesters on Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, occupy the former Legislative Assembly to protest Australia's termination of the island's autonomy. In July, Norfolk Island is set to become part of the State of New South Wales.
2016-04-29

Mike Baird becomes the 44th Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales.
2014-04-17

Barry O'Farrell resigns as Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales after giving misleading evidence to the Independent Commission against Corruption.
2014-04-16

Former fugitive Malcolm Naden is given a life sentence and some for two murders in the Australian state of New South Wales.
2013-06-14

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

Voters in the Australian state of New South Wales go to the polls for the NSW state election with the Liberal-National coalition led by Barry O'Farrell winning government by a landslide.
2011-03-26