Australian retailer Godfreys enters voluntary administration with the company's 54 stores expected to close as a result.
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A 29-year-old woman survives an attack by a bull shark in Sydney Harbour.
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Another monument for Captain James Cook is vandalized in Fitzroy North's Edinburgh Gardens in Melbourne.
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Queensland state Labor MP Jim Madden resigns from parliament to vie for a position as a local councilor with Ipswich City Council in the 2024 Queensland local elections on 16 March.
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Cyclone Kirrly crosses the North Queensland coast at Townsville as a category 3 system before weakening.
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Researchers Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer are named as 2024 Australians of the Year.
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Victoria's worst beach drowning event in twenty years occurs near Forrest Caves on Phillip Island when a total of four people from Melbourne's Indian community drown at an unpatrolled beach.
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The Bureau of Statistics' population clock ticks over to estimate Australia's population has reached 27 million.
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Former premier of South Australia Steven Marshall announces his intention to resign from state politics after more than ten years in parliament.
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Eight attendees of the Hardmission Festival at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse are taken to hospital in a critical condition after suspected MDMA overdoses.