Talk:Abbott Government/Timeline


 * 18/09/2013 - Abbott Government sworn in, sacks three heads of department. Start of Operation Sovereign Borders.
 * 19/09/2013 - Abbott Government disbands the Climate Commission, and terminates the employment of Commissioner Tim Flannery
 * 19/09/2013 - Wesconnex announced
 * 20/09/2013 - Abbott rules out any changes to the GST
 * 23/09/2013 - Entire board of NBN Co offers to resign.
 * 24/09/2013 - Turnbull indicates he asked the board of NBN Co for their resignations. All but Brad Orgill complied. Orgill was then sacked.
 * 24/09/2013 - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop condemns a mass shooting attack in Nairobi, which claimed the life of an Australian couple.
 * 24/09/2013 - Peter Dutton announces a review of the troubled PCEHR program.
 * 24/09/2013 - Joe Hockey re-affirms the "PNG Solution" implemented by the previous government. Or does he?
 * 23/10/2013 - Abbott repudiates link between early bushfires in NSW and climate change.
 * 08/10/2013 - Travel allowance criticisms.
 * 29/10/2013 - $8.8B grant to RBA to bolster reserves
 * 31/01/2014 - Scott Morrison announces 40 days without any successful asylum-seeker boat arrivals
 * 16/02/2014 - There is a riot at Manus Island detention centre, resulting in one death.
 * 26/02/2014 - Tony Abbott announces $320m drought ‘hand up’ for farmers
 * 27/02/2014 - Qantas announces 5,000 job losses. The Government considers assistance to the ailing company, with major options being a debt guarantee, or changes to the Qantas Sale Act to allow increased foreign ownership.
 * 27/02/2014 - The last two states to do so, Queensland and New South Wales sign up for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan legislated by the federal government the previous year.
 * 28/02/2014 - WA Special Senate Election date announced as 5 April 2014
 * 03/03/2014 - Abbott condemns Russian military action in Ukraine.
 * 06/03/2014 - Partial repeal of the Qantas sale act passes the lower house.