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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

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong expresses concern over growing attacks by residents of settlements on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, saying that "such violence threatens to only inflame tensions and those responsible must be held accountable".
2023-10-31

Australia begins a mass vaccination campaign with the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is one of the first people to receive a vaccine.
2021-02-21

The Mary River turtle, which is endemic to the Mary River in south-east Queensland, Australia, is added to the Zoological Society of London's list of endangered species.
2018-04-12

The search for three members of the United States Marines Corps lost in a MV-22 Osprey crash in Shoalwater Bay in the Australian state of Queensland is called off.
2017-08-6

Australia commemorates the one-year anniversary of the execution of the ringleaders the Bali Nine.
2016-04-29

More evacuations take place in Queensland, Australia, as flood waters continued to rise and the Australian prime minister says damages could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.
2011-01-4

Detainees at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney, Australia, go on a hunger strike following the suicide of an Iraqi detainee.
2010-11-16

Australia and Malaysia remember the 1945 Sandakan Death Marches on their 65th anniversary.
2010-08-15

Australia celebrates indigenous culture in NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme "Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way".
2010-07-9