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Australia's and worst
* 2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
More than two years of intensive research was undertaken to chronicle the historical events that resulted in what was then Australia's worst peace time disaster.
* 1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
* January 13 – Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires.
* February 16 – The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfires ever.
* February 2 – One of Australia's worst crimes, the Anita Cobby murder, occurs.
** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster
It was Australia's worst military disaster since Gallipolli.
This was almost certainly Australia's worst weather-related maritime disaster of the 20th century with the loss of the coastal steamer Koombana.
* 1961: In arguably Western Australia's worst bushfire, many small communities were destroyed including 132 houses in Dwellingup.
* 1968: On 14 October, the town of Meckering was almost destroyed in Australia's second worst earthquake with a magnitude of 6. 9 on the Richter Scale.
The sinking is the worst maritime disaster in Australia's history.
The Mount Kembla Mine disaster was the worst peace-time disaster of Australia's history, until the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria.
He was later wounded in the Second Battle of Krithia and invalided to Australia, but returned to command the 5th Division, which he led in the Battle of Fromelles in 1916, dubbed " the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history.
This is still considered Australia's worst mining disaster.
At the time it was Australia's worst civil aviation accident.
He ended the series with the worst average and economy rate of Australia's front line bowlers.
The greatest flood, in 1916, killed 65 people out of a town population of 1, 500 and remains one of Australia's worst natural disasters in terms of life lost.
* January 18 – The Granville railway disaster was Australia's worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train.
The Australian War Memorial describes the battle as " the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history.
* Australia's worst cyclone disasters-Queensland State Disaster Management Group
Australia's performance at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games was its worst in almost four decades.
In 1996 the ran aground on Hebe Reef, off Low Head, causing the worst oil disaster in Australia's history.

Australia's and coal
The Hunter Valley is also one of Australia's most important coal mining areas.
It is estimated that Australia's Burning Mountain, the oldest known coal fire, has burned for 6, 000 years.
Major acquisitions following the Consolidated Zinc merger included U. S. Borax, a major producer of borax, bought in 1968, Kennecott Utah Copper and BP Australia's coal assets which were bought from British Petroleum in 1989 and a 70. 7 % interest in the New South Wales operations of Coal & Allied Industries also in 1989.
Australia's energy policy features a combination of coal power stations, and hydro electricity plants.
: A group of 7 people protesting against Australia's inaction on climate change walked onto the site of the Hazelwood power station and temporarily stopped one conveyor belt which carry coal from the mine to the power station.
ASEN runs campaigns to stop the expansion of Australia's coal and Coal Seam Gas ( CSG ) industries, because of their destructive effect on the climate, the land and community health.
The suburb was the location of the Balmain Colliery, Australia's deepest coal mine.

Australia's and mining
In particular, Nauru made a legal complaint against Australia's failure to remedy the environmental damage caused by phosphate mining.
Today Western Australia's economy mainly relies on mining, agriculture, and tourism, with the state supplying 46 % of Australia's exports.
The mining sector is reliant on rail to transport its product to Australia's ports for export.
It is Australia's premier international mining conference.
Broken Hill is Australia's longest-lived mining city.
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company became Australia's largest mining company, and later became part of the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton.
In the 1850s Victoria was Australia's gold mining centre, its population increasing from 80, 000 in 1851 to 540, 000 in 1861.
1969 – 1970: The Poseidon bubble ( a mining boom triggered by a nickel discovery in Western Australia ) caused Australian mining shares to soar and then crash, prompting regulatory recommendations that ultimately led to Australia's national companies and securities legislation.
The gold mining settlement of Hillgrove about 40 km east of Armidale was the site of Australia's first hydro-electric scheme, remains of which are still visible.
Wiluna and the Mid-West region are the site of Western Australia's most advanced uranium mining projects.
Assaults on Chinese miners and racially-motivated riots and public disturbances were not infrequent occurrences in Australia's mining districts in the second half of the 19th century.
In addition to mining, Mount Kembla has a significant agricultural history ; in particular the Cordeaux Valley area which was one of Australia's top fruit growing industries, exporting as far away as London in its hey day as one of the country's best apples producers.
Rangelands support Australia's valuable mining industry ($ 12 billion / yr ), tourism ($ 2 billion / yr ), pastoralism ($ 5. 5 billion / yr – cattle $ 4. 4 billion & sheep $ 1 billion ).
In 1846, Western Australia's first mining operation was established at Yarrabah ( near present-day Mundijong, mining lead, silver and zinc.
Karratha's economic base includes the iron ore operations of the Rio Tinto Group, sea-salt mining, ammonia export operations, North West Shelf Natural Gas Project, Australia's largest natural resource development and the newest Natural Gas Project called Pluto LNG which is situated adjacent the existing North West Shelf LNG facility.
This, together with the central Queensland mining railway, constitutes Australia's only significant rural rail electrification.
The town has been featured twice ( once in 1977 and again in 2012 ) on Four Corners, an investigative news program, exploring the effects of Australia's various mining booms on local rural communities.
Creswick was the site of the New Australasian Gold Mine disaster on 12 December 1882, Australia's worst mining disaster in which 22 men drowned.

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