Sakina Muhammad Jan becomes the first person to be jailed under Australia's forced marriage laws, after ordering her 21-year-old daughter to wed a man who later murdered her.
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Federal cabinet ministers Linda Burney and Brendan O'Connor announce they are retiring and will not recontest the next Australian federal election.
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It's confirmed the wreckage of the MV Noongah, which sank in 1969 with the loss of 21 lives, has been discovered off the coast of Southwest Rocks, New South Wales.
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French police confirm they are investigation allegations that a 25-year-old Australian woman was allegedly gang raped by five men in Paris in the early hours of 20 July.
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Two Australian broadcast technicians in France for the Nine Network's Olympics coverage are allegedly assaulted in Le Bourget.
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A major IT network outage occurs in Australia and globally affecting a large number of companies and services.
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Electronic prescription provider MediSecure confirms the personal data of 12.9 million Australians were stolen in the large-scale data breach earlier in the year.
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Fortescue Mining announces that approximately 700 of its staff are to be made redundant.
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Former New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet announces he is leaving parliament to take up a position as BHP's United States head of corporate and external affairs.
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A 23-year-old surfer has his leg severed in a shark attack on the New South Wales Mid North Coast near Port Macquarie.