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Charles Philip Arthur George is proclaimed King of Australia as Charles III by the Governor-General of Australia David Hurley at Government House in Canberra.
2022-09-10

David Hurley is sworn is as the 27th Governor-General of Australia, succeeding Peter Cosgrove.
2019-07-1

Australia announces that it will repatriate the bodies of up to 25 soldiers killed in the early stages of the Vietnam War.
2015-05-25

Sir Peter Cosgrove is sworn into office as Governor General of Australia.
2014-03-27

A rogue member of the Afghan National Army opens fire on Australian Army soldiers in Kandahar Province killing four, including an Afghan interpreter.
2011-10-29

Australian Army soldier, Sergeant Todd Langley, is killed in fighting in Afghanistan, bringing Australian casualties in the war to 28.
2011-07-4

Lieutenant General David Hurley of the Australian Army is announced as the successor to Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston as the Chief of the Australian Defence Force.
2011-06-1

One Australian Army soldier is killed and five others wounded following two bomb explosions in Afghanistan; the total number of Australian soldiers killed in the Afghan conflict now stands at 24.
2011-05-23

Legal advice clears Governor-General of Australia Mrs. Quentin Bryce to make a decision on who will be the next Prime Minister of Australia despite family ties to Australian Labor Party powerbroker Bill Shorten.
2010-08-27

The Fromelles Military Cemetery is opened in Fromelles in northern France containing the graves of 250 Australian and British soldiers who died in the Battle of Fromelles in World War I and had previously been buried in a mass grave.
2010-07-19