Sources: BBC
A car crashes into a beer garden in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, killing five people and injuring four others. 2023-11-5
Australian Deputy Prime Minister and National Party Leader Barnaby Joyce and a small group of Liberal Party backbenchers join the Labor Party in criticising the Liberal-National Coalition Morrison Government's inaction on the United Kingdom's imminent extradition of Australian publisher Julian Assange to the United States, arguing that Assange has not broken any Australian laws. 2021-12-14
A worker at Auckland Airport tests positive a day after the country restarted reciprocal travel to Australia. 2021-04-20
Interpol's Operation Blackwrist arrests nine people in Australia, Thailand and the United States, and rescues 50 children in connection with a 63,000-member online pedophilia ring. More arrests are expected. Investigators from nearly 60 countries participated in this operation. 2019-05-23
The United Nations appoints a three-member panel led by Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby to investigate alleged human rights breaches in North Korea. 2013-05-8
Heavy rain causes flooding in the Australian state of Queensland with one man reported dead in the northern Brisbane suburb of Caboolture. 2013-02-25
Australian artist Ben Quilty wins the Archibald Prize for his portrait of artist Margaret Olley. 2011-04-15
David Bartlett resigns as the Premier of the Australian state of Tasmania. 2011-01-23
Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, the Vice-President of Iran describes inhabitants of the United Kingdom as "not human" and "a bunch of idiots run by a mafia". He also describes Australians as "a bunch of cattlemen" and says that Koreans "need to be slapped". 2010-08-12
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appoints the country's first population minister, Tony Burke, as part of a strategy for managing population growth. 2010-04-3