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January 1 onwards – Torrential rain causes widespread flooding and damage to parts of South East Queensland and the North Coast of New South Wales.
January 11 – An Airbus A319 lands at the new Wilkins Runway in the Australian Antarctic Territory, becoming the first passenger flight from Australia to Antarctica.^[2]
January 15 – An Australian Sea Shepherd activist, Benjamin Potts, and his British colleague, Giles Lane, are detained on board the Japanese whaling vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 after boarding the ship which was inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary near Antarctica.^[3]
January 15 – Victoria Police officers use capsicum spray to subdue unruly Greek spectators at the 2008 Australian Open, during a match between Konstantinos Economidis and Fernando González.^[4]
January 17 – An explosion in a wine processing shed at Drayton's Winery in the New South Wales Hunter Valley kills two men including winery owner Trevor Drayton, and injures one.^[5]
January 23 - After 128 years, the final edition of The Bulletin is published. Its demise was announced on January 20. ^[6]
February 8 – A controversial plan to deepen Melbourne's shipping channels by dredging Port Philip Bay begins.^[7]
February 13 – An apology containing the word "sorry" is made by Kevin Rudd to Indigenous Australians for the stolen generation as the first order of business of the new Parliament.^[8]

March 2 – Specifications of the Kyoto Protocol will take effect in Australia.
March 30 – The gag order applied to David Hicks by the Guantanamo military commission is due to be lifted, allowing him to discuss his detainment at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
March 31 - Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited will close its Clovelly Park manufacturing facility, ending more than 50 years of manufacturing at the site. ^[9]
July 1 – 36 State Senators elected in the 2007 election will take their seats in the Australian Senate.
July 15 to July 20 – World Youth Day 2008, the Catholic Church's youth festival, will be held in Sydney.
October 18 – A general election will be held in the Australian Capital Territory.
TBA - Chatswood to Epping Railway Line will open.

January 5 – Fox Sports commentator, Clinton Grybas, dies at 32. The circumstances surrounding his death are currently unknown and an autopsy has been performed.
January 14 – Nine Network revamps its logo and on-air graphics as a part of a bold new network re-launch, returning the famous "Nine Balls" logo after a two-year absence, except this time as extremely thin discs instead of balls.
February 7 - Ray Martin quits Channel Nine after 30 years at the network.^[10]
February 8 - Former The Great Outdoors host Shelley Craft quits Channel Seven and moves to Channel Nine to take over from Toni Pearen as host of Australia's Funniest Home Videos.

January 6 – Australia retains the Border-Gavaskar Trophy when it beats India by 122 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground, equalling its own record of 16 consecutive Test cricket victories.^[11]
January 7 – The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suspends India's cricket tour of Australia after objecting to a three-match ban on Harbhajan Singh for allegedly calling Australian player Andrew Symonds a "big monkey".^[12] The tour suspension is lifted on January 9 after umpire Steve Bucknor is removed from the third test.
January 20 – Central Coast Mariners FC claim the premiership for the A-League 2007-08 season.
January 14 to January 27 – The 2008 Australian Open Tennis Championships are held at Melbourne Park. Serbian Novak Đoković wins the men's singles, the first Grand Slam title since the 2005 Australian Open not won by Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal. He is also the youngest player to win the Australian Open, and the first Serb. Russian Maria Sharapova wins the women's singles title.^[13]
February 6 – Australia defeats Qatar 3–0 in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match at Telstra Dome in Melbourne.^[14]

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 *[[July 15]] to [[July 20]] – [[World Youth Day 2008]], the [[Catholic Church]]'s youth festival, will be held in [[Sydney, New South Wales|Sydney]].
 *[[October 18]] – A [[Australian Capital Territory general election, 2008|general election]] will be held in the [[Australian Capital Territory]].
-*TBA - [[Epping to Chatswood railway Line]] will open
+*TBA - [[Epping to Chatswood railway Line, Sydney|Chatswood to Epping Railway Line]] will open.
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