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2025 in Australia
MonarchCharles III
Governor-GeneralSam Mostyn
Prime ministerAnthony Albanese
Population27,122,411 people at 31 March 2025.[1]
Australian of the YearNeale Daniher
ElectionsWestern Australia

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The following is a list of events including expected and scheduled events for the year 2025 in Australia.

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Further information: Table of precedence for the Commonwealth of Australia

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State and territory leaders

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Governors and administrators

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Events

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January

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  • 1 January –
  • 2 January –
    • Police in Fiji confirm they are investigating the alleged sexual assault and robbery of two Virgin Australia crew members while they were celebrating New Year's Eve at a nightclub in Nadi.[5]
    • A man is shot dead by police in a hospital carpark in Taree, New South Wales after he allegedly pointed a gun at officers.[6] Police were initially responding to reports of the man firing shots into the air in Wingham 13 kilometres away.[6]
    • A 28-year-old man is believed to have been killed in a shark attack while surfing at Granites Beach near Streaky Bay in South Australia.[7]
    • A 3-year-old boy dies in a caravan fire at Boort, Victoria.[8]
  • 3 January –
  • 4 January – Two people are killed in a light plane crash near Nambucca Heads, just off the New South Wales Mid North Coast.[13]
  • 5 January –
  • 6 January – In his first major announcement prior to the 2025 Australian federal election, prime minister Anthony Albanese announces a federal Labor government would provide $7.2 billion in funding to cover 80% of the cost of upgrading of Queensland's Bruce Highway.[16]
  • 7 January – A pilot and two foreign tourists are killed when a Cessna 208 seaplane carrying seven people crashes shortly after taking off at Rottnest Island in Western Australia.[17] Three others sustain serious injuries while another person is uninjured.[17]
  • 8 January – After being lost in Kosciuszko National Park since Boxing Day, a 23-year-old bushwalker is found alive.[18]
  • 11 January –
  • 13 January –
    • A 58-year-old taxi driver and his two passengers, an 81-year-old woman and her 56-year-old daughter, are killed are when the Toyota Camry they were in was hit head-on by a Toyota RAV4 driven at high speed by a 43-year-old man travelling the wrong way on the Leach Highway in Perth.[22] Authorities allege that the 43-year-old driver, who also died in the crash, had made a "conscious decision" to enter the highway via an off-ramp and drive on the wrong side of the highway, with police also launching an investigation into whether he had committed murder-suicide.[23]
    • A 63-year-old Coles Supermarket employee is critically injured when she is allegedly stabbed in the back by a 13-year-old boy while working at a supermarket in Ipswich, Queensland.[24] The boy is subsequently charged with attempted murder.[25] With police alleging the victim was attacked with a knife taken from the supermarket, Coles withdraws kitchen knives from sale across Australia.[24][26]
    • An Australian Federal Police officer is allegedly stabbed in the neck with a pen by a 34-year-old Perth woman who they were escorted off an aircraft while disembarking at Perth Airport.[27] The woman is subsequently charged with two counts of causing harm to, and one count of obstructing, a Commonwealth public official.[27]
  • 15 January – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vows to take the strongest possible action against Russia if it can be verified that Russia's military had executed 32-year-old prisoner of war Oscar Jenkins, after being captured while serving in the Ukrainian armed forces.[28] Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton also says if that if Jenkins has been executed, Russian's ambassador to Australia should be expelled.[28]
  • 16 January –
    • A 44-year-old Sydney man becomes the first person to be charged in a new AFP operation that attempts to crackdown on antisemitic behaviour.[29] The man is charged following a search of his home in Blacktown in relation to the alleged posting of death threats to a social media page run by a Jewish organisation.[29]
    • 27-year-old Melbourne burlesque performer Katie Tangey who performed under the name of Vivien May-Royale is killed after becoming trapped in a townhouse fire in the Melbourne suburb of Truganina.[30] Police suspect the fire was deliberately lit by two arsonists in a case of mistaken identity.[30]
    • A three-year-old Australian girl dies in an accidental drowning while holidaying with her family in Bali.[31]
  • 17 January – A house in the Sydney suburb of Dover Heights, formerly owned by Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin is targeted with antisemitic vandalism.[32] Two cars are also set alight and red paint also used to damage a nearby property.[32] The attack is widely condemned.[32]
  • 19 January –
    • A caravan loaded with powergel explosives is discovered in the Sydney suburb of Dural along with antisemitic material and a list of Jewish synagogues, prompting a major counterterrorism investigation to be launched by the New South Wales Police Force, the AFP, ASIO and the Joint Counter Terrorism Team with police alleging the explosives were intended for targeted antisemitic attacks in the Jewish community.[33][34][35] A Liverpool home is raided two days after the caravan was discovered.[36]
    • A 22-month-old girl dies in a house fire in the Hobart suburb of Rokeby.[37] Her five-year-old sister is taken to hospital in a critical condition but later dies in hospital.[38]
  • 21 January – A childcare centre near a synagogue in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra is set on fire and spray painted with antisemitic graffiti.[39] NSW premier Chris Minns describes the alleged perpetrators as "bastards" who will be "rounded up" by New South Police while prime minister Anthony Albanese describes the incident as "an evil hate crime."[39] The latest attack of antisemitism prompts Albanese to call a meeting of National Cabinet, during which the Australian Federal Police confirm they are investigating whether foreign actors have paid local criminals to carry out the attacks.[40][41]
  • 22 January – Western Australia Police commissioner Col Blanch confirms a homeowner who killed a 20-year-old man who police allege was armed with a machete during a home invasion in Kalgoorlie on 29 November 2024 would not be charged.[42]
  • 23 January – Twenty bronze statues in Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens are vandalised, two of which are severed and stolen.[43] The vandalism is condemned by the Gardens' foundation chair Mark Schultz who says he hopes the alleged offenders are identified and charged with "wanton destruction of public property".[43]
  • 25 January –
  • 26 January –
  • 27 January –
  • 28 January – The Great Northern Brewing Co. halts its "Outdoors for a Cause" campaign which intended to raise money to buy land for national parks in support of the non-profit organisation Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife.[50] The $200,000 campaign results in its customers boycotting the brand, alleging the campaign would see state forests converted into national parks, reducing the freedom to partake in outdoor recreational activities.[51]
  • 29 January –
    • The Supreme Court of Queensland convicts 14 members of the religious group "Saints", including its leader Brendan Stevens, for manslaughter over the death of eight-year old Elizabeth Struhs in 2022 from diabetic ketoacidosis, which came after the group withheld her insulin medication as part of their religious beliefs. Struh's parents and brother are also among those convicted.[52]
    • Prime minister Anthony Albanese confirms the Australian Government is urgently attempting to verify a report it has received from Russia that alleges prisoner-of-war Oscar Jenkins is actually alive despite earlier reports he had been executed by Russian forces.[53]
  • 30 January – After pleading guilty to manslaughter after killing his wife Vanessa Godfrey in a hotel room on the Sunshine Coast during a drug-induced psychotic episode on 14 February 2022, Jeffrey James Godfrey is sentenced in the Brisbane Supreme Court to 12 years in jail and is automatically declared a serious violent offender.[54]
  • 31 January – An internal investigation is released which finds eight Western Australia Police Force officers did not perform their duties and were subsequently disciplined after failing to correctly assess the risks before Mark Bombara murdered his wife's best friend Jennifer Petelczyz and her daughter Gretle before killing himself in the Perth suburb of Floreat on 24 May 2024 while attempting to locate his wife and daughter.[55] Before the murders, Bombara's daughter had repeatedly attempted to warn police about her father's but to no avail.[55]

February

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  • 2 February – Residents in the six suburbs of Townsville are told to evacuate their homes by midday after a slow moving weather system brings intense rainfall and widespread flooding to North Queensland.[56] A woman dies after an SES boat with six people aboard capsizes in floodwaters at Ingham.[57]
  • 4 February – A second woman is found dead following flooding at Bemerside, Queensland.[58]

Future and scheduled events

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Arts and Entertainment

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January

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Sport

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January

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February

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Deaths

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January

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February

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  • 4 February – Dale Tapping, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1965)[142]

Holidays

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Further information: Public holidays in Australia
Holiday Date ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA Ref.
New Year's Day Wednesday 1 January Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [143]
Australia Day Monday 27 January Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Royal Hobart Regatta (only observed in certain areas of Tasmania) Monday 10 February No No No No No Yes No No
Labour Day (WA) Monday 3 March No No No No No No No Yes
Public holiday under different names Monday 10 March Canberra Day No No No Adelaide Cup Day Eight Hours Day Labour Day No
Good Friday Friday 18 April Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Easter Saturday Saturday 19 April Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Easter Sunday Sunday 20 April Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No
Easter Monday Monday 21 April Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Easter Tuesday Tuesday 22 April No No No No No Yes No No
ANZAC Day Friday 25 April Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
May Day Monday 5 May No No Yes Labour Day (QLD) No No No No
Reconciliation Day Monday 2 June Yes No No No No No No No
Western Australia Day No No No No No No No Yes
King's Birthday Monday 9 June Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
Picnic Day Monday 4 August No No Yes No No No No No
Royal Queensland Show (Brisbane area only) Wednesday 13 August No No No Yes No No No No
Friday before the AFL Grand Final Friday 26 September No No No No No No Yes No
King's Birthday Monday 29 September No No No No No No No Yes
Labour Day Monday 6 October Yes Yes No King's

Birthday

Yes No No No
Melbourne Cup Tuesday 4 November No No No No No No Yes No
Recreation Day (all parts of Tasmania which do not observe Royal Hobart Regatta) Monday 3 November No No No No No Yes No No
Christmas Eve

(from 7pm to 12 midnight)

Wednesday 24 December No No Yes Yes Yes No No No
Christmas Day Thursday 25 December Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Boxing Day Friday 26 December Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
New Year's Eve

(from 7pm to 12 midnight)

Wednesday 31 December No No Yes No Yes No No No

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