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This is a list of disasters in
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
by death toll.


100 or more deaths


50 to 99 deaths


20 to 49 deaths


Between 10 and 20


Gallery

Image:Port arthur outside.jpg, The
Port Arthur massacre Port Arthur massacre may refer to: *Port Arthur massacre (China), an 1894 event in which Japanese troops killed several thousand Chinese in the Liaodong Peninsula *Port Arthur massacre (Australia) The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting t ...
claimed 35 lives in 1996 when Martin Bryant opened fire in the former penal colony. Image:AA Blackhawk A25-218.jpg, Two Australian Army S-70A Blackhawk helicopters, similar to the one pictured, crashed in 1996 near Townsville, killing 18 Australian soldiers. Image:Eureka Stockade.jpg, A memorial stone to some of those who died during the Eureka Stockade in 1854. Image:SkymasterCrashFuselage.PNG, The
1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash On 26 June 1950, a Douglas DC-4 Skymaster aircraft departed from Perth, Western Australia for an eight-hour flight to Adelaide, South Australia. It crashed 22 minutes after take-off, east of Perth Airport. All 29 occupants were killed in the ...
claimed 29 lives. Image:SevenMileBeach1946 2.png, The 1946 Australian National Airways DC-3 crash claimed 25 lives.


Significant incidents resulting in fewer than 10 deaths

Image:2003CanberraBushfires.jpg, The
Canberra bushfires The 2003 Canberra bushfires caused severe damage to the suburbs and outer areas of Canberra, the capital city of Australia, during 18–22 January 2003. Almost 70% of the Australian Capital Territory's (ACT) pastures, pine plantations, and nat ...
of 2003 claimed 4 lives. File:Cardross memorial 2b.jpg, Roadside memorials at Cardross, Victoria, where 6 teenagers died in a hit-and-run accident on 18 February 2006. Image:SouthernCloudcrash2.png, The crash of the
Southern Cloud The ''Southern Cloud'', registered VH-UMF, was one of five Avro 618 Ten three-engined aircraft flying daily airline services between Australian cities for Australian National Airways in the early 1930s. Disappearance On 21 March 1931, the ''S ...
in 1931 claimed 8 lives.


Significant incidents of Australians being killed overseas

Excludes deaths attributable to war.


See also

* Lists of shipwrecks *
Timeline of major crimes in Australia This is a timeline of major crimes in Australia. 19th century 1800s *26 January 1808 – George Johnston played a key role in the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's recorded history, the Rum Rebellion. Johnston late ...
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List of massacres of Indigenous Australians Numerous clashes involving Indigenous people (on the continent "Australia") occurred during and after a wave of mass immigration of Europeans into the continent, which began in the late 18th century and lasted until the early 20th century. The ...
* List of natural disasters in Australia *
List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll The following is a list of all known disasters in Antarctica which have resulted in fatalities. It includes disasters which happened on land, as well as in the waters surrounding the continent. See also * List of disasters in Australia by death ...
* List of disasters in Canada by death toll *
List of disasters in Croatia by death toll The list of disasters in Croatia by death toll includes major disasters and accidents - excluding warfare and other intentional acts - that took place on Croatian soil and resulted in 10 or more fatalities: __NOTOC__ See also * List of disasters ...
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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which relate to the United Kingdom or Ireland, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable ...
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List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, listing major disasters (excluding acts of war) which occurred in New Zealand and its territories or involved a significant number of New Zealand citizens, in a specific incident, where the ...
* List of disasters in Poland by death toll * List of disasters in Sweden by death toll * List of disasters in the United States by death toll


References


External links


Emergency Management Australia Disasters DatabaseMajor bushfires in Victoria
(PDF)
The William Booth Memorial Home Fire (Australia's Deadliest Building Fire)
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