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Singapore reports its first case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Australia.
2022-06-6

Australia reports a record 77 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2022-01-18

Thousands of people are reported stranded on a local beach awaiting evacuation near Mallacoota, Victoria, Australia, as bushfires enter the coastal town. Four people are reported missing. Elsewhere, a volunteer Fire and Rescue NSW firefighter died battling a bushfire near the town of Jingellic.
2019-12-30

The bodies of three people killed by bushfires in Australia are found – two near Glen Innes, and one at Johns River – as fires that have destroyed at least 150 houses continue to burn in eastern New South Wales and Queensland.
2019-11-9

A state of emergency is declared in New South Wales, Australia, as a bushfire continues to burn out of control. More than 500 personnel from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Fire and Rescue NSW and the Australian Defence Force are tackling the bushfire, which has torn through the Holsworthy Barracks and threatens the suburbs of Sydney.
2018-04-15

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says white South African farmers could receive fast-track visas on "humanitarian grounds" amid calls to transfer land ownership from white to black farmers, and fears over the number of racially-motivated farm killings.
2018-03-14

A beachgoer in Australia discovers dinosaur footprints believed to be around 130 million years old while combing the shore for shells.
2016-09-7

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

Indonesian detainees riot and light a fire at the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin, Australia.
2010-08-29

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives in Canberra for his "symbolic" three-day visit to Australia.
2010-03-9