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Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia. The suspect is later taken into custody.
2024-08-25

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes the Alpine National Park in Victoria, Australia, with tremors felt throughout the state and in parts of New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania. Some buildings in Melbourne are damaged but no casualties are reported.
2021-09-22

Australia reports 361 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including a record 319 cases in New South Wales, which is the highest single-day total of new cases for the country this year.
2021-08-7

A C-130 water bomber crashes in southern New South Wales, Australia, while helping control a bushfire. Three American firefighters are killed.
2020-01-23

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

Police in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, charge a man with several crimes under the Terrorism High Risk Offenders Act.
2018-04-21

The search continues for three missing people in the Australian states of New South Wales and Tasmania. Four deaths have so far been confirmed in the Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania and NSW.
2016-06-7

Mike Baird becomes the 44th Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales.
2014-04-17

Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland.
2012-02-4