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Prime Minister Scott Morrison abandons the country's plan to vaccinate all Australians by the end of the year amidst medical advice that makes the vaccination program uncertain.
2021-04-11

An Australian security contractor is killed outside the Australian embassy in Baghdad. There are unconfirmed reports that he was shot.
2016-05-13

A pregnant Australian woman in the state of Queensland tests positive for the Zika virus.
2016-02-10

Two Australians, a doctor and his wife, have been abducted in northern Burkina Faso. The Al Qaeda-linked, Mali-based "Emirate of the Sahara" is responsible, according to SITE.
2016-01-16

9 people are feared dead and 88 are rescued by Australian authorities after a boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island.
2013-07-12

The Government of Papua New Guinea reacts angrily after the new Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr threatens the imposition of sanctions if elections are delayed.
2012-03-15

Australians commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin by Japan during World War II.
2012-02-19

Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith announces that women will be serving in frontline-combat roles in the Australian military within five years.
2011-09-27

Australian crime figure Judy Moran is sentenced to 26 years in jail for her part in the murder of Des "Tuppence" Moran in Melbourne with the actual murderer Geoffrey Armour also sentenced to 26 years.
2011-08-10

The Australian Commonwealth and Westpac banks cut fixed home loan rates.
2011-08-9