Sources: BBC
One person is confirmed killed and thirteen others are injured in floods caused by Cyclone Alfred as it passes through Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. 2025-03-8
Australia and New Zealand begin evacuating their citizens from New Caledonia amid civil unrest. 2024-05-22
Australia reports its first local COVID-19 cases in two weeks, when a doctor in Brisbane tests positive. 2021-03-13
A knifeman kills two elderly people after storming their home and then tries to attack police officers on a highway in Brisbane, Australia. The attacker, who is shot dead by police, has been identified as a 22-year-old man inspired by the Islamic State. He was arrested in early 2019 when he tried to join the group in Somalia. 2020-12-17
Australia is to send refugees from Nauru and Manus Island to the Philippines. 2015-10-9
Attendances at services to commemorate Anzac Day break attendance records in Australia and New Zealand. 2015-04-25
The members of the United Nations are scheduled to decide on Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade. 2013-03-28
The Australian airline Qantas is fined NZ$6.5 million for breaches of the Commerce Act in New Zealand, the biggest penalty for price fixing in the history of that country. 2011-05-12
The American-born Australian actor is being called a "potential suspect" in a domestic violence investigation. 2010-07-9
A record-breaking half a million Australians take extra time off work "sick" as Australia Day approaches. 2010-01-25