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Evacuations are ordered for the towns of Tara, Wieambilla, and The Gums, Queensland, Australia, after more than 32 buildings are destroyed by ongoing bushfires.
2023-10-28

Two police officers and a civilian are killed and two other officers are injured when gunmen open fire at a remote property in Wieambilla, Queensland, Australia, where police were investigating a missing person report. The three perpetrators are later killed by police.
2022-12-12

In Australia, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces that Queensland residents will have access to influenza vaccines across the state amid an increase in the number of influenza A cases after two years of low case numbers due to COVID-19.
2022-05-23

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 wildfire destroys much of the Queensland Heritage Register-listed Binna Burra Cultural Landscape holiday resort, including its famous lodge, in Binna Burra, Queensland, Australia.
2019-09-8

Prosecutors in the Australian state of Queensland drop manslaughter charges against American surgeon Jayant Patel, who pleads guilty to charges of fraud.
2013-11-15

Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland.
2012-02-4

John-Paul Langbroek stands down as the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian state of Queensland with the sitting Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman favoured to take his place.
2011-03-22

Dr. Jayant Patel is convicted at the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia of three charges of manslaughter committed while working at the Bundaberg Base Hospital.
2010-06-29

The Australian authorities say a Chinese bulk carrier which ran aground off Queensland has caused widespread damage to the famed Great Barrier Reef. The cleanup is likely to be the biggest operation ever undertaken there.
2010-04-13