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Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia. The suspect is later taken into custody.
2024-08-25

The United Nations accuses Australia of breaching its human rights obligations after the state governments of New South Wales and Queensland refuse to allow UN inspectors into detention facilities.
2022-10-23

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian announces her resignation after the Independent Commission Against Corruption revealed that they are investigating her over a series of suspicious historical community grants.
2021-10-1

Australia reports a record 2,070 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including 1,599 new cases in New South Wales. It is the first time that the country has reported more than 2,000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
2021-09-11

New South Wales declares a "national emergency" of their state COVID-19 outbreak caused by the Delta variant after 136 new cases are reported in the past 24 hours.
2021-07-23

Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologizes for saying there was "no slavery" in Australia. He says that he was referring specifically to the fact that the first Australian colony of New South Wales was set up without the widespread use of slave labor.
2020-06-12

The bodies of three people killed by bushfires in Australia are found – two near Glen Innes, and one at Johns River – as fires that have destroyed at least 150 houses continue to burn in eastern New South Wales and Queensland.
2019-11-9

A state of emergency is declared in New South Wales, Australia, as a bushfire continues to burn out of control. More than 500 personnel from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Fire and Rescue NSW and the Australian Defence Force are tackling the bushfire, which has torn through the Holsworthy Barracks and threatens the suburbs of Sydney.
2018-04-15

A large number of fireworks accidentally go off in a barge at a New Year's Day show in Terrigal, NSW, Australia, causing thousands to be evacuated from the beach by police and the two people on the barge to suffer minor injuries.
2017-12-31

Heavy rains in the Australian state of New South Wales leads to evacuations or warnings in the towns of Cooma, Goulburn, Queanbeyan and near the town of Kiama.
2012-03-1