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Australia and New Zealand begin evacuating their citizens from New Caledonia amid civil unrest.
2024-05-22

An explosion and fire aboard a boat injures at least eight people, some of them critically, on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia.
2021-04-4

A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs, with the full moon dimming slightly as it passes through the Earth's penumbral shadow. It is visible from most of North America, the Pacific Ocean, parts of East Asia, and New Zealand.
2020-11-30

Eleven countries in Asia, North America, Oceania, and South America sign the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
2018-03-8

Joko Widodo, the President of Indonesia, cancels a planned visit to Australia following violent protests in Jakarta that resulted in one death and 12 injured.
2016-11-5

The government of Australia refuses entry to American singer Chris Brown because of his 2009 conviction for domestic violence against his then girlfriend Rihanna.
2015-09-27

Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).
2012-02-1

Astronomers in Asia, Australia and North America observe a total lunar eclipse.
2011-12-10

Australia sends an official to the Indonesian province of Maluku to investigate claims that Detachment 88, part of the Indonesian National Police, tortured a group of separatists.
2010-09-12

Australia immediately suspends all new asylum claims by people from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
2010-04-9