Current events in Australia and New Zealand

This page deals with current events that take place in or are of interest to Australia, New Zealand, and/or the territories of those countries (such as Norfolk Island and Ross Dependency), and/or current events that involve Australians and/or New Zealanders.

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April 21 2005

• Bus drivers in Auckland working for Stagecoach have voted to strike for six days from May 5 in support of their claim for an extra $2 an hour. New Zealand Herald
• 700 coal miners strike for the day in the first national coal miners' strike in New Zealand for more than a decade. The miners want a 6% wage increase, but their employer, Solid Energy , is offering 2.8%. New Zealand Herald

April 19 2005

• The largest moving object on Earth, the iceberg B15A in Antarctica has collided with the Drygalski ice tongue, a feature large enough to be included in Antarctic maps. During the collision, a five-kilometre-long section of the ice tongue was broken off. (ESA)

April 15 2005

• Australian police in Melbourne have discovered a large amount of ecstasy hidden in an ship bound from Italy. (BBC News) (bloomburg news)

News collections and sources

• Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.

See also

• 2005 in New Zealand