Sources: BBC
A 41-year-old Australian former soldier is arrested and charged with the murder of an Afghan man while he was deployed in Afghanistan, becoming the first Australian military member to be charged following the release of the report. 2023-03-20
An Afghan Tajik asylum seeker who has been held in immigration detention by Australia for eight years sues the Australian Government in the Federal Court. A former employee of the Islamic Republican government, the man fled an assassination attempt by the Taliban and argues that his family is still being targeted in Afghanistan and that his indefinite detention prevents him from organising their escape from the violence. The Government has requested the case be dismissed and denied they had any legal obligations towards Afghan citizens. 2021-07-22
A suicide car bomber kills one person and injures fourteen others near the Australian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. 2018-03-2
43 Afghan migrants on their way to Australia are detained by Indonesian authorities. 2011-03-31
Australian SAS Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith is awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in action in the offensive in the Shah Wali Kot region in Afghanistan in June 2010. 2011-01-23
92 Afghan asylum seekers escape from the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin, Australia as part of a protest with four people being hospitalised due to dehydration. 2010-09-1
Federal Defence Minister John Faulkner rules out withdrawing Australian troops from Afghanistan, alleging it would undo nine years of hard work. 2010-07-16
Three Australian soldiers and a United States Army soldier are killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan with nine NATO casualties overall. 2010-06-21
The bodies of two Australian soldiers killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan begin their journey home. 2010-06-9
Australia immediately suspends all new asylum claims by people from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. 2010-04-9