Sources: BBC
Australia signs a vaccine swap agreement with Singapore that will allow it to receive 500,000 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Singapore later this week. 2021-08-31
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
Australia and the United States reach a deal to relocate asylum seekers from Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island to the U.S. 2016-11-13
One British woman is killed and two others are wounded in a stabbing attack on a North Queensland backpacker hostel, Australia. 2016-08-24
The search continues for three missing people in the Australian states of New South Wales and Tasmania. Four deaths have so far been confirmed in the Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania and NSW. 2016-06-7
Australian electronics retailer Dick Smith, placed in administration by creditors in January, will close 301 stores in Australia and 62 in New Zealand with nearly 3000 people to lose their jobs. 2016-02-25
Australia and the United States lift sanctions against Fiji following recent democratic elections. 2014-10-31
Censors in Australia effectively ban the award-winning Swedish film "Children's Island" due to scenes of child nudity, with anyone caught selling or showing the film in public risking up to 10 years in prison. 2014-02-27
Tropical Cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, and causes widespread flooding. 2013-01-25
A 35-year-old Australian man tries to headbutt a pilot over the Atlantic Ocean, causing the diversion of a British Airways transatlantic flight from New York's JFK airport to London City Airport. 2012-12-19