Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Biological disasters

The History of disasters of Australia is an outline of natural disasters in Australia and its territories.

This page is a subpage of WikiProject Australian history.

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Tagging and Categorising Articles

Main page categories

The disasters of Australia category structure is:

Main Category:Disasters in Australia

Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Australia

Category:Earthquakes in Australia

Category:Fires in Australia

Category:Bushfires in Australia

Category:Mining disasters in Australia

Category:Railway accidents in Australia

Category:Shipwrecks on the Australian coast

Category:Shipwrecks of Western Australia

Category:Shipwrecks of NSW

Talk page Template

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For full details about using this talk page template see Template:WP Australia.

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• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Australia articles)
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• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Australia articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Australia articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Australia articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Australia articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Australia pages)

Importance

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Australia articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Australia articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Australia articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Australia articles)
• The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA

Resources

• Natural disasters in Australia
• Natural Disasters - facts
• Natural Disasters
• South Australia - Natural Disasters
• List of disasters in Australia by death toll

Guidelines for Writing Natural Disaster Articles

Naming

If a disaster is widely known by a particular name, then the article should use that name as its title. For example:

• Ash Wednesday bushfires
• Thredbo landslide

If a disaster does not have wide recognition with a particular name, then it should be titled in the form {{date}} {{location}} {{disaster type}}.

Examples:

• 2003 Canberra bushfires
• 1974 Brisbane flood
• 1989 Newcastle earthquake

List of biological disasters

A great number of the following events are drawn from Events By Category at the Emergency Management Australia - Disasters database.

Major events

These are more than likely to be notable, but please move down to bottom section if you believe they are not.

• 1788 1788 Widespread, Australia, Rabbit Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1892 1892 Lismore, New South Wales Typhoid Outbreak Dead=5 Injured=47 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1900 1900 New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory Bubonic Plague Epidemic Dead=550 Injured=650 Affected=1200 Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1900 1900 Sydney, New South Wales Black Rat Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1917 1917 Widespread, Victoria Mouse Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1918 1918 Australia-Wide (mainly New South Wales) Influenza Epidemic/Pandemic Dead=12000 Injured=100000 Affected= the don is here Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1920 1920 NSW and Qld, Prickly Pear Infestation Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1946 1946 Australia Polio Epidemic Dead=1013 Injured=10000 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1952 1952 Western New South Wales and Northern Victoria Locust Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1979 1979 Widespread, Victoria Mouse Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1984 1984 New South Wales Locust Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1984 1984 New South Wales-Victoria Mouse plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1984 1984 Widespread, South Australia Locust Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1985 1985 Adelaide, South Australia Legionella outbreak Dead=3 Injured=16 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1988 1988 Adelaide, South Australia Legionella Outbreak Dead=2 Injured=9 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1990 1990 Wheatbelt, Western Australia Locust Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1992 1992 Far North Queensland Dengue Fever Outbreak Dead= Injured=850 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1993 1993 South-Eastern Australia Mouse Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1994 1994 SE Australia (South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales) Food Poisoning Outbreak Dead=1 Injured=170 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1997 1997 Tatura - Stanhope Region, Victoria Anthrax Outbreak Dead= Injured=1 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1998 1998 Sydney, New South Wales Water Supply Contamination Dead= Injured= Affected=4000000 Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1998 1998 Melbourne, Victoria Legionella Outbreak Dead= Injured=18 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1998 1998 Sydney, New South Wales Mystery Disease Outbreak Dead=2 Injured=6 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1999 1999 South-Eastern, South Australia Salmonella Food Poisoning Dead= Injured=500 Affected=10000 Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1999 1999 Sydney, New South Wales Influenza Oubreak Dead=4 Injured=115 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1999 1999 Adelaide, South Australia Salmonella Oubreak Dead=1 Injured= Affected=507 Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 1999 1999 Mangrove Mountain District, New South Wales Disease Outbreak Dead= Injured=10 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1999 1999 North-Western Sydney, New South Wales Rabbit Plague Dead= Injured=6 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 1999 1999 Western New South Wales Mouse Plague Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 2000 2000 Melbourne and Northern Victoriatoria Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Dead=2 Injured=100 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 2001 2001 Australia Meningococcal Outbreak Dead=25 Injured=700 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 2002 2002 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Gastroenteritis Outbreak Dead=1 Injured=300 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 2002 2002 Melbourne, Victoria Food poisoning outbreak Dead= Injured=256 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 2003 2003 Cairns, Queensland Dengue Fever Outbreak Dead= Injured=305 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 2003 2003 Melbourne, Victoria Food Poisoning Outbreak Dead=1 Injured=106 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database

• 2003 2003 Northern Territory Hepititis A Outbreak Dead= Injured=14 Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M

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• 2005 2005 Launceston Salmonella Outbreak Dead=0 Injured=58 Affected=0 Homeless=0 Est Cost=$0M

resources - EMA Disasters Database