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Two people are killed, and more than five buildings are destroyed, as more than forty out-of-control bushfires continue to burn in the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia.
2023-10-25

The United Nations accuses Australia of breaching its human rights obligations after the state governments of New South Wales and Queensland refuse to allow UN inspectors into detention facilities.
2022-10-23

Queensland closes its border with Greater Sydney at 1 a.m. (AEST) after its premier Annastacia Palaszczuk declared all of Sydney a COVID-19 hotspot on July 29.
2020-08-1

Searches are underway for three members of the United States Marine Corps missing after a MV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. Twenty three of the twenty six people on board have been rescued.
2017-08-5

The death toll from Cyclone Debbie and the associated flooding in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland rises to five people.
2017-04-2

Consequences of heavy rain from Cyclone Debbie kill at least three people and force 20,000 others to leave their homes in New South Wales and Queensland.
2017-04-1

A Category 4 severe tropical cyclone travels over the Whitsunday Islands and crosses the coast of Queensland, Australia, near the town of Airlie Beach.
2017-03-28

Flood warnings are put in place and roads are closed after a heavy rain continues to fall in the northern parts of the Australian state of Queensland.
2016-03-14

Tropical Cyclone Nathan intensifies to a Category 2 system as it nears Cape York Peninsula in the north of the Australian state of Queensland.
2015-03-11

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