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The Australian House of Representatives votes 86–50 to censure former prime minister Scott Morrison for failing to disclose to the parliament and the public his secret appointments to a number of ministries during his premiership. Morrison is the first former Australian prime minister to be censured.
2022-11-30

Australians vote to elect a government for the next three years. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, leader of the conservative Liberal Party-led Coalition, dissolved both houses of Parliament in May in a bid for a Senate more friendly to his agenda. The final result showed the Coalition with a bare 1 seat majority in the House with 76 seats and the Australian Labor Party with 69 seats.
2016-07-2

Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull has called a historic double dissolution election with both houses of Parliament being dissolved and an election to be held on July 2.
2016-05-8

Australia issues a blanket ban on issuing visas for residents of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries worst affected by the Ebola epidemic.
2014-10-28

Australia raises security for its Parliament after conducting raids that arrest dozens of suspected terrorists.
2014-09-19

Australia's High Court rules same-sex marriages held in the country are invalid.
2013-12-12

Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian territory to legalize same-sex marriage while the Government of Australia launches a legal challenge in the High Court.
2013-10-22

Residents in the New South Wales town of Bega evacuate as the Australian flood crisis continues to worsen.
2012-03-2

More than 100 people flee their homes from bushfire in Perth's east.
2011-02-6

Prime Minister Julia Gillard confirms she does not support the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia,
2010-06-30