Talk:Abbott Government/Timeline

• 18/09/2013 - Abbott Government sworn in, sacks three heads of department. Start of Operation Sovereign Borders.[1]
• 19/09/2013 - Abbott Government disbands the Climate Commission, and terminates the employment of Commissioner Tim Flannery [2]
• 19/09/2013 - Wesconnex announced[3]
• 20/09/2013 - Abbott rules out any changes to the GST[4]
• 23/09/2013 - Entire board of NBN Co offers to resign.[5]
• 24/09/2013 - Turnbull indicates he asked the board of NBN Co for their resignations. All but Brad Orgill complied. Orgill was then sacked.[6][7]
• 24/09/2013 - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop condemns a mass shooting attack in Nairobi, which claimed the life of an Australian couple.[8]
• 24/09/2013 - Peter Dutton announces a review of the troubled PCEHR program.[9]
• 24/09/2013 - Joe Hockey re-affirms the "PNG Solution" implemented by the previous government.[10] Or does he? [11]
• 23/10/2013 - Abbott repudiates link between early bushfires in NSW and climate change.[12]
• 08/10/2013 - Travel allowance criticisms.[13][14][15]
• 29/10/2013 - $8.8B grant to RBA to bolster reserves[16]
• 31/01/2014 - Scott Morrison announces 40 days without any successful asylum-seeker boat arrivals [17]
• 16/02/2014 - There is a riot at Manus Island detention centre, resulting in one death.[18]
• 26/02/2014 - Tony Abbott announces $320m drought ‘hand up’ for farmers [19]
• 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.[20]
• 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.[21]
• 28/02/2014 - WA Special Senate Election date announced as 5 April 2014
• 03/03/2014 - Abbott condemns Russian military action in Ukraine.[22][23]
• 06/03/2014 - Partial repeal of the Qantas sale act passes the lower house.[24]