Portal:Australia/2006/January

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January 1

• Australian volunteer firefighters kept busy on New Year's Day

January 2

• Row over Australian flag at Bondi Pavilion
• New South Wales firefighters continue to battle fires, threat eases

January 3

• Southern Ocean whale slaughter to resume
• Miners survive underground fire in Tasmania
• Sydney Opera House 'No War' activists face court for paint cans
• Australian government to consider dropping US FTA amendment

January 4

• Australia records hottest year on record
• Australia First begins revival campaign

January 5

• Australian Labor Party announces new Climate Change Policy

January 6

• Ponting breaks cricket records
• Australia exports less to US despite FTA
• Bill Sweetenham cleared of bullying allegations

January 7

• Indonesian fishermen jailed for fishing offences in Australian waters
• Australian government says technology could reduce emissions three times more than Kyoto

January 8

• Truckies could foot the bill for NSW Pacific Highway upgrade
• Woman killed in shark attack at Amity Point, Australia

January 9

• First Tropical Cyclone of 2006 forms off West Australia

January 10

• Cyclone Clare batters Western Australia

January 12

• World's biggest polluters won't cut back on fossil fuel

January 13

• Australia accused of bullying East Timor over oil field treaty

January 16

• West Australian Premier Geoff Gallop resigns

January 17

• Terrorism expert says Osama Bin Laden could be dead
• Australia to explore a national identity card

January 18

• Missing asylum seekers found off Cape York
• Australians unite against whaling in Southern Ocean
• 40 Asylum seekers missing off Torres Strait
• Australian senate inquiry receives 4,000 submisions on abortion pill

January 19

• West Papua refugees sent to Australia's Christmas Island Detention Centre
• Corby's 20 year sentence reinstated

January 20

• Message in bottle travels from UK to Australia
• Australian Wheat Board inquiry begins
• Mark Latham in fight 12 months after resigning as Australian opposition leader

January 21

• Alan Carpenter "effectively" new Western Australian Premier
• Australian Defence Minister resigns

January 22

• 'Australian Values' to be taught in NSW schools

January 23

• Greenpeace, Sea Shepherds end Southern Ocean whaling protest
• Four Australian states ablaze, two dead, homes lost
• Bali Nine refused access to federal police files

January 24

• Australian Prime Minister announces results of reshuffle
• Julian McGauran defects from Australian National Party

January 26

• Rural Victorian fires worsen

January 27

• Aboriginal Sovereignty Day Declared
• West Papuans refugees forced to fly 4000ks despite tuberculosis fears
• Queensland's biggest oil spill in 35 years
• Storms a mixed blessing for Victorian firefighters

January 28

• Australia's million-dollar-a-month Nauru detention centre for two refugees
• Anti-whaling Sea Shepherd crew detained in South Africa

January 29

• Firefighters find burning body parts in oil drums
• Corby's star witness convicted of rape
• Australian government hopes to establish triage by phone
• Amélie Mauresmo wins Australian Open

January 30

• Teacher confesses to having sex with student
• Two people charged over burning bodies in drums

January 31

• West Papuan refugees may face death if deported