16 July 2010: The ARC Centre of Excellence will build research capacity in wide-field astronomy and have a strong focus on international collaboration and training.

6 July 2010: Professor Bryan Gaensler is among 15 researchers to be awarded a fellowship under the Australian Laureate Fellowship Scheme.

15 June 2010: The case for locating the SKA in Australia and New Zealand is outlined each year at the annual International SKA Forum. This year the meeting was held in the Netherlands.

9 June 2010: The Australian Government commits $47.3 million to develop sustainable energy solutions for the SKA.

28 May 2010: Dutch high school students take over CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope.

26 May 2010: Six radio telescopes across Australia and New Zealand have joined forces to act as one giant telescope, linking up over a distance of 5,500 km for the first time.

8 April 2010: Australia’s SKA effort has received a major boost from the Australian Research Council’s new Super Science Fellowships.

17 March 2010: CSIRO and Australian company Sapphicon Semiconductor Pty Ltd have signed an agreement to jointly develop a complete radio receiver on a chip measuring just 5 mm x 5 mm.

3 March 2010: An historic milestone was reached recently in Australia’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array telescope.

1 February 2010: Construction of CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope has begun in Western Australia.

20 January 2010: Dr Philip Diamond, past Chairman of the International SKA Steering Committee, has been appointed Chief of CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Science Division.

9 December 2009: Interactive educational website dedicated to the SKA will encourage school students to reach for the stars.

26 November 2009: Culture, future and education the focus for Indigenous Land Use Agreement.

28 October 2009: Dr John O'Sullivan receives the 2009 Prime Minister's Prize for Science for his achievements in astronomy and wireless technologies.

12 October 2009: The first Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) 12-metre antenna has passed factory testing.

17 September 2009: The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and IBM Australia have signed an SKA research collaboration agreement.

1 September 2009: The International centre for Radio Astronomy Research, or ICRAR, had its official launch in Perth.

1 September 2009: CSIRO has chosen the major science projects that its Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope will tackle in its first five years.

27 August 2009: Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, names the new $80m Pawsey HPC Centre for SKA Science.

21 August 2009: In Sydney, Minister Kim Carr and Minister Gerry Brownlee sign an agreement for Australia and New Zealand to cooperate on the SKA, including a joint bid to host the project.

10 July 2009: In Rome, Deputy Minister Adolfo Urso and Ambassador Amanda Vanstone sign an MOU between Australia and Italy on SKA cooperation.