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An Australian security contractor is killed outside the Australian embassy in Baghdad. There are unconfirmed reports that he was shot.
2016-05-13

9 people are feared dead and 88 are rescued by Australian authorities after a boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island.
2013-07-12

Australian art critic, historian and documentary maker Robert Hughes dies in New York City.
2012-08-6

Another 6000 Australians in northern New South Wales are expected to become isolated over the next few days as a result of flood waters including residents of Goodoga and Lightning Ridge.
2012-02-9

Thousands of Australians are evacuated in northern New South Wales and Queensland due to rising floodwaters with parts of Queensland declared as a disaster area.
2012-02-3

Australian criminal Matthew Johnson is found guilty of the murder of drug boss Carl Williams in Victoria's Barwon Prison.
2011-09-29

The Australian Army reports that another Australian soldier has been killed by an improvised explosive device lost in fighting in Afghanistan.
2011-08-22

Australian crime figure Judy Moran is sentenced to 26 years in jail for her part in the murder of Des "Tuppence" Moran in Melbourne with the actual murderer Geoffrey Armour also sentenced to 26 years.
2011-08-10

The Australian Commonwealth and Westpac banks cut fixed home loan rates.
2011-08-9