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BACKGROUND: In August 2017, Royal Australian Air Force fitters and mechanics were carrying out maintenance on an Aircraft Arrestor System in Townsville, QLD. A BAK-12 unit (some 3,500kg) fell off the truck and onto a Corporal, severing one leg and almost the other. After the event investigations...

It is idiotic ideas like this one that are causing some historians to wonder about not just the USA, but the West in terms of what happened during the French Revolution - where a major push was made to rename and reinvent everything - this story is UK Daily Mail from Australia - as always with...

Guess China has decided the tourist trade isn't worth it anymore... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/07/china-travel-warning-australians-told-they-may-be-at-risk-of-arbitrary-detention China travel warning: Australians told they may be at risk of arbitrary detention Updated...

I once wrote a blog called "Diansours in the Garden: A New View Over the Chicken Shed, it was a bit of a joke but also true in a way - I'd have expected this story on a slower news day and yes my heart goes out of the family ...

In the comments, the predictions are 1) that there'll also be pressure on the faculty to graduate women at as high or higher rates than men, even though with lower entrance exam scores they should be flunking out more. And, that 2) employers will begin to shun women engineers or Australian...

http://www.unz.com/isteve/science-denialism-down-under/#comments Original source: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous-arrival-has-no-date-dons-told/news-story/f3c3a28637afd33b1c090ba0ec74202b STEVE SAILER • JUNE 29, 2019 From the Weekend Australian: Indigenous arrival has no...

For links see article source..... Posted for fair use..... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/australias-flu-season-has-us-health-officials-bracing-for-a-bad-winter-and-wishing-for-a-new-vaccine/ar-BBFWIvV?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp Australia's flu season has US health officials bracing for a...

For links see article source..... Posted for fair use..... http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/arrested-sydney-raids-stop-terror-attack-48924340 Police disrupt plot in Australia to 'bring down an airplane' By ROD MCGUIRK, ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — Jul 29, 2017, 6:36 PM...

I realize this is the sort of article the MSM is going to play up to try to make all the new immigration policies look bad; so I am posting it with that caution. However, the Homeland Security/Airport Immigration folks need to wise up and treat people with dignity - especially those whom it is...

Hummm...... For links see article source..... Posted for fair use..... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-bitcoin-idUSKCN0XT0H6 Technology | Mon May 2, 2016 5:11am EDT Related: Tech, Australia Australian Craig Wright says he is bitcoin creator: BBC SYDNEY | By Byron Kaye...

Nice to see the media thinks that the Air Force are not Military... http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/09/14/13/14/australia-to-deploy-forces-to-middle-east Australia will send 600 military personnel to the Middle East as part of international efforts to wipe out Islamic State extremists...

Another reason to avoid having a presence on FB... http://realestate.bryanellis.com/4607/foreclosure-via-facebook/ Foreclosure Via Facebook? Posted by Carole VanSickle on Thursday, June 9th 2011 It has not happened (to our knowledge) in the United States, but in Australia, at least one...

By Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press – Thu Jun 9, 9:02 am ET CANBERRA, Australia – Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been trampling the Outback for more than a...

It's been a horror day over here. Melbourne's hottest day in recorded history, at 46.4C / 115F, with hot northwesterly winds blowing up to 90 km/h. Everyone knew it was going to be a bad bushfire day, but the reality is... well, horrendous. I just watched a press conference in which it was...

Indian Ocean driving Australia's big dry: study By Science Online's Anna Salleh Australia's severe drought is being driven by temperature fluctuations in the Indian Ocean, scientists have found. The findings will help give farmers more reliable long-range weather forecasts, the Australian...

South-east Aust heatwave 'among worst in 100 years' 28/01/2009 5:18:00 PM Victoria and South Australia on Wednesday sweltered in a heatwave which is developing into one of the worst in 100 years. Adelaide by midday had already exceeded its forecast 44deg. It hit a peak of 45.7deg (114F)...

Yeah, sure, it was a bad day for the banks, but was it that bad? Makes you wonder just how bad he thinks things will be. Australia tries to reassure as banks hit by bad debt jitters 5 hours ago SYDNEY (AFP) — The Australian government insisted Monday that the country's banks were sound after...