Sources: BBC
One person is killed and eight others are injured after a magnitude 7.6–7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of eastern Indonesia, causing damage to buildings, and shaking buildings as far away as Darwin, Australia. 2023-01-9
Australia begins lodging a formal complaint against China with the World Trade Organization over anti-dumping duties on imported Australian wine. 2021-06-19
The linguistics journal "Diachronica" publishes Australian research implying that a tracement of the country's indigenous languages can be made back to a single, common language known as Proto-Australian, which was spoken around 10,000-years ago. 2018-03-28
More than 140 pilot whales die in Hamelin Bay, Australia, after beaching themselves. 2018-03-23
The U.S. military is in discussions with Australian officials about the possibility of basing long-range bombers, whose striking distance would include the South China Sea, in Australia. 2016-03-8
A dozen members of the Australian Federal Police are expelled from Vanuatu, following a diplomatic row over the arrest of the Prime Minister of Vanuatu's private secretary in Australia last month. [http:--au.news.yahoo.com-thewest-a---world-13653101-australian-police-thrown-out-of-vanuatu- (AFP via Yahoo News Australia)]date=July 2019 2012-05-10
Residents in the New South Wales town of Bega evacuate as the Australian flood crisis continues to worsen. 2012-03-2
John Brumby concedes defeat in the Victorian election; Ted Baillieu becomes the new Premier of the Australian state of Victoria. 2010-11-29
Australia sends an official to the Indonesian province of Maluku to investigate claims that Detachment 88, part of the Indonesian National Police, tortured a group of separatists. 2010-09-12
The World Trade Organization orders Australia to change restrictions on New Zealand apple imports imposed due to the fear of fire blight. 2010-08-9