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President Lionel Aingimea announces Nauru's first positive cases of COVID-19 in two asymptomatic people who travelled from Brisbane on March 31.
2022-04-2

The International Olympic Committee awards the Australian city of Brisbane the right to host the 2032 Summer Olympics.
2021-07-21

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

Brisbane enters a three-day lockdown after a reported outbreak of the Lineage B.1.1.7 variant, with some minor lockdown measures extending to the rest of Queensland.
2021-03-29

A mother and her three children are killed in a car fire in Brisbane, Australia, in a targeted familicide carjacking by former New Zealand Warriors player Rowan Baxter. He was the ex-husband of the woman and father of the children, and he committed suicide at the scene.
2020-02-19

Another body has been found after flooding in eastern Queensland, raising the death toll to twelve.
2017-04-8

Protestors in Brisbane burn Australian flags over indigenous rights.
2014-11-16

The ninth G-20 summit gets underway in the Australian city of Brisbane.
2014-11-15

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