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Australia and Tuvalu sign a new security agreement, whereby Australia agrees to protect Tuvalu during natural disasters, pandemics, or military aggression.
2024-05-9

A hybrid solar eclipse occurs across the South Pacific in Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia.
2023-04-20

The number of people over the age of 16 years old who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Australia surpasses 80%, which is the major milestone set by the federal government for its vaccination program.
2021-11-6

An Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker living among the community in Australia sues the Commonwealth government in the Federal Court for detaining him in two hotel rooms for over a year. This is the latest in a growing movement of refugees suing Australia for alleged human rights abuses.
2021-07-30

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull survives a challenge by conservative Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton for leadership of the Liberal Party, with 48 votes to 35.
2018-08-21

An accident on board the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, leaves four people dead.
2016-10-25

An Indonesian court rejects Andrew Chan's and Myuran Sukumaran's appeal against the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo's refusal to grant them clemency against the death penalty as organisers of the Bali Nine plot to smuggle heroin to Australia in 2005.
2015-04-6

Australia declares its war in Afghanistan over while the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, visits Afghanistan.
2013-10-28

A man dies in floodwaters near the Australian town of Araluen, New South Wales, with the hospital in the town of Numurkah, Victoria, being evacuated.
2012-03-4

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth.
2011-10-30