Australia facing historic cyclone: ‘Everyone is on edge’
Ilsa reached the highest Category 5 intensity Thursday over the Indian Ocean and is expected to maintain that destructive level as it crosses the Pilbara coast by early Friday.
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COAS General Manoj Pande Meets Australian Defence Forces Chief, Army Chief, Discusses Defence Cooperation
Gen Manoj Pande interaction with his Australian counterpart at the Australian Defence ForcesCanberra: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Manoj Pande on Thursday received a Guard of Honour at the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) headquarters. He met Australia’s Chief of the Defence Force Angus Campbell and Chief of the Australian Army Lt General Simon Stuart to discuss defence cooperation.General
TikTok hit with UK fine, Australia government ban
DefenceTalkTikTok was dealt fresh setbacks Tuesday as Australia joined a list of Western nations banning the Chinese-owned apps from government devices and Britain fined it for allowing children under 13 to use the social media platform. The popular vi…
Keeping an Old Italian Tradition Alive in Australia: ‘Passata Day’
Two sisters are among the dwindling few who gather family and friends once a year to make a 12-month supply of tomato passata, a purée that is a staple of Italian cuisine.
Australia Is Quitting Coal In Record Time Thanks To Tesla
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Like so much in our modern era, Australia’s high-stakes gamble on renewable energy starts with an Elon Musk Twitter brag. South Australia’s last coal-fired power plant had closed, leaving the province…
Australia in China’s shadow: Lessons for other nations from Canberra-Beijing relations
“Australia has provided an imperfect but nevertheless useful exemplar of how governments can respond effectively to China’s multifarious security challenges,” writes author Euan Graham.
Australia To Ban TikTok on Government Devices
Australia will announce a ban on TikTok on government phones this week, following other countries in barring the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns, Australian newspapers reported late on Monday. From a report: Prime Minister Anthony Albane…
Lockheed wins Australia’s biggest ever space contract, worth estimated $4B AUD
The Defense Department here, in an unusual move, announced that Lockheed had been directly awarded the contract for what is expected to be a $4 billion AUD ($2.86 billon) commitment to Australia’s first sovereign military satellite program.
Malka Leifer Found Guilty in Student Sexual Abuse Case in Australia
The verdict against Malka Leifer, who had led an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls’ school in Melbourne, stemmed from sexual crimes against three sisters.
Army to use Pacific Pathways to test assumptions about ‘contested logistics,’ prepositioned stocks
“We’re already learning a ton about what the future of army prepositioned stock should look like,” said the Army’s 8th Theater Sustainment Command Brig. Gen. Jered Helwig.