Pat Hughes shot down more German aircraft than any other Australian pilot when the Luftwaffe attacked during the Battle of Britain.
The Australian government speaks reassuringly of a “stabilised” relationship with Beijing. China’s national broadcaster portrays a very different state of affairs.
Underhanded tactics on the upwind leg.
Governor-General David Hurley’s job is almost done. But his final trip overseas,his 19th in the job,was as moving as any that had come before.
Gippsland-born Frank Bladin became Air Vice-Marshal of the RAAF. Eighty years ago,he played a crucial role in the D-Day airborne landings on Normandy,France.
The causal factors of violence against women and children are well known. Little is new other than cyberstalking and surveillance as tools of abuse. The long-standing problem of agencies competing for inadequate resources does not assist victims or aid in violence reduction. Executive government needs to undertake effective law reform and provide adequate funding for first-class services.
Defence spending is set to rise to $100 billion a year by 2034,in large part due to the risk of conflict in the Indo-Pacific as China rapidly builds up its military.
Defence firms fear the “sword of Damocles is about to drop” as the government seeks to stop the $50 billion budget from spiralling out of control.
The Point Cook base,which was essential to Australia’s WWII efforts,trained the country’s first pilots and sent them to war. Conservationists are fighting to save its “irreplaceable” buildings.
The energy minister said the Royal Australian Air Force advised that the Hunter Valley airport couldn’t accommodate the PM’s usual plane.
Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon suffered serious injuries during a routine training exercise at RAAF Richmond on Wednesday night.