Sources: BBC
Several athletes test positive for COVID-19, including Australian swimmer Lani Pallister, forcing her to withdraw from the 1500 metre freestyle swimming event. 2024-07-30
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade tells its citizens to leave Israel, citing a high threat of military reprisals and terrorist attacks. 2024-04-19
A car crashes into a beer garden in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, killing five people and injuring four others. 2023-11-5
A suicide car bomber kills one person and injures fourteen others near the Australian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. 2018-03-2
Australian infrastructure and transport minister Darren Chester says in a statement that debris recovered this month in Mozambique was highly likely to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. 2016-03-24
The United Nations Security Council unanimously supports an Australian proposed resolution for an international investigation and an end to hostilities near the site. 2014-07-21
Voters in the Australian state of Western Australia go to the polls for a Federal Senate election. 2014-04-5
Thousands of people living on the Mid North Coast of the Australian state of New South Wales face a flooding risk, with the town of Kempsey under particular threat and with ten thousand people isolated. 2011-06-15
Several governments in the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore ban the import of food from areas near the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant following the recent incidents. 2011-03-24
Federal Defence Minister John Faulkner rules out withdrawing Australian troops from Afghanistan, alleging it would undo nine years of hard work. 2010-07-16