Health authorities have issued an urgent warning after a person visited shops, supermarkets and a university in Melbourne’s southeast while infected with measles. Victoria’s Department of Health said the person was infected with the highly contagious viral illness by a returned traveller in Victoria. While infectious, the person is understoodContinue Reading
A few weeks on from a terrifying mid-air incident on a Boeing plane, airline executives, aviation experts and whistleblowers have raised concerns about safety practices at the manufacturer. In footage which horrified the world, a door plug suddenly blew off an Alaska Airline flights from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, CaliforniaContinue Reading
Controversial Covid-19 figure Dr Brett Sutton is among Australians recognised on the Australia Day Honours List. The 54-year-old doctor has been appointed to the Order of Australia (AO) “for distinguished service to the people of Victoria through public health administration and governance, and to medicine”. Dr Sutton became a veryContinue Reading
KAMPALA: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged Addis Ababa and Mogadishu to open dialogue to settle their dispute over Ethiopia‘s maritime deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland.Tensions in the Horn of Africa have escalated since landlocked Ethiopia struck a deal with Somaliland on January 1 thatContinue Reading
Investigators seeking answers about what caused an Alaska Airlines plane’s near-catastrophic mid-flight blowout earlier this month are working without a key piece of evidence: audio from the flight’s black box cockpit voice recorder. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said at a press conference the in-flight audio of AlaskaContinue Reading
Warmer and drier conditions across much of Australia over the summer are likely to send household power bills soaring by as much as 25 per cent. That’s according to money saving expert Joel Gibson, who said while wholesale power prices are down in Australia, it often takes six months toContinue Reading
To the ancients, it was pure magic. It was dark. It was translucent. It was impossibly sharp. Now what may be one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered hints that obsidian was the black gold of the stone age. Divers near the Italian island of Capri have recovered a chunkContinue Reading
In a bánh mì shop in Uganda, some 11,000 kilometres away from Australia, Fosca Anirwoth understandably doesn’t know exactly who Malcolm Turnbull is. “But I know he’s a person of great influence,” she says. Now the new restaurant where Anirwoth works at in the country’s capital Kampala is hoping thatContinue Reading
Despite their own financial woes, most Australians are still keen on helping out nations dealing with famine, drought, and natural disasters, according to new data. A new survey of 1055 Australian voters found a growing majority of Australians — 60 per cent — back the federal government funding overseas aidContinue Reading
An Australian man who wasn’t even a particularly huge fan of coffee is now raking in millions a year from the popular beverage. Craig Dickson, who co-founded specialty coffee roasting company Veneziano Coffee Roasters alongside friend and business partner Rocky Veneziano, acknowledged that it is a little ironic. “I wasContinue Reading