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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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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
Articles related to disasters in Australia should be tagged on the Talk page with

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

Rating Articles
When tagging articles, the articles class and importance can be rated. Please see WikiProject Australia/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.
 * |class= |importance=

Class
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Australia articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Australia articles)
 * 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

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.

Examples:
 * 2003 Canberra bushfires
 * 1974 Brisbane flood
 * 1989 Newcastle earthquake