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One person is killed and several others are injured when a helicopter stolen from Cairns Airport crashes into a hotel in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
2024-08-12

An Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker living among the community in Australia sues the Commonwealth government in the Federal Court for detaining him in two hotel rooms for over a year. This is the latest in a growing movement of refugees suing Australia for alleged human rights abuses.
2021-07-30

An explosion and fire aboard a boat injures at least eight people, some of them critically, on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia.
2021-04-4

Australia receives their first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine.
2021-02-28

An Australian and two Chinese citizens, one of whom was a tourist, are stabbed and injured by ISIL sympathisers in Hulhumalé, Maldives. The attackers are arrested.
2020-02-6

The European Union, Australia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Turkey ground all Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets. This means 40% of the global fleet is now grounded, with Indonesia, China and several airlines grounding their aircraft yesterday. Boeing states they will issue a software update for the model within weeks.
2019-03-12

Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson says free trade talks between Australia and China are deadlocked over differences of opinion on the removal of investment limits for state-owned enterprises.
2013-04-18

The Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard announces that the next federal election will be held on September 14.
2013-01-30

A surfer is killed by a shark off near Wedge Island, about 160km (100 miles) north of Perth in Australia.
2012-07-14

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group announces plans to cut 1000 jobs in Australia.
2012-02-13