Sources: News.com.au
Logistics company DP World, which accounts for around 40% of Australia's freight transport, suspends operations at four ports in Brisbane, Fremantle, Melbourne, and Sydney, after a cyberattack was reported, which federal police is investigating. 2023-11-10
Perth, Brisbane and their respective surrounding towns enter lockdown as coronavirus spreads from the Sydney cluster. People will only be allowed to leave home for essential work or study, medical or compassionate reasons, essential shopping, or outdoor exercise (with restrictions), and masks must be worn outdoors. 2021-06-29
Australia reports its first local COVID-19 cases in two weeks, when a doctor in Brisbane tests positive. 2021-03-13
A knifeman kills two elderly people after storming their home and then tries to attack police officers on a highway in Brisbane, Australia. The attacker, who is shot dead by police, has been identified as a 22-year-old man inspired by the Islamic State. He was arrested in early 2019 when he tried to join the group in Somalia. 2020-12-17
Former Kenyan presidential candidate Quincy Timberlake is charged with murder in the Australian city of Brisbane. 2014-09-2
Up to 1600 homes in the Moreton Bay region near the state capital Brisbane are also threatened with flooding. 2013-01-26
Police in the Australian state of Queensland remove an Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Musgrave Park in the state capital Brisbane. 2012-05-16
The Commission of Inquiry into the 2010–11 Queensland floods hands down its report with engineers at the Wivenhoe Dam outside Brisbane to be referred to the Crime and Misconduct Commission. 2012-03-16
A man who plunged to his death from a seventh-floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia was participating in the internet craze of "planking", Australian police have said. 2011-05-15
The floods in Queensland, Australia, worsen further with 20,000 properties in the capital Brisbane expected to be flooded and 4,000 homes flooded in the nearby city of Ipswich. 2011-01-12