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Australia announces that it will reopen its international borders to fully vaccinated tourists on February 21, after a closure of almost two years in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Western Australia is expected to continue to close its borders to tourists.
2022-02-7

Western Australia will become the first state and territory to mandate a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for essential, mining, and healthcare workers, due to the spread of the Omicron variant.
2021-12-22

Western Australia lifts a five-day lockdown in Perth and surrounding areas after it reports no community cases.
2021-02-5

Western Australia reopens its hard border for the first time in seven months after it was closed due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-11-14

University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers report, in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth.
2017-12-18

Authorities confirm that bushfires have killed four people, including three German backpackers, in southern Western Australia near the town of Esperance.
2015-11-18

The High Court of Australia rules that the Senate election in the state of Western Australia was void, meaning that a half-Senate election will be held in that state.
2014-02-20

Thousands of protesters demonstrate in the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia against the coal seam gas industry.
2011-10-17

The Australian Government announces that it will establish two new Immigration detention centres in Northam, Western Australia and Inverbrackie, South Australia and end detention of children and family groups.
2010-10-18

Eleven of Australia's most important convict sites including Hyde Park Barracks and The Domain in Sydney, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia and Port Arthur, Tasmania are added.
2010-08-1