“I wish the Australians were with us”. Eighty years ago this week, as the Allies launched the greatest seaborne invasion in history, a key British general voiced what many were thinking. Knowing that the D-Day landings – the first step in liberating Western Europe from the Nazis – would beContinue Reading
Roughly 18 bull sharks are detected lurking in Sydney Harbour on a typical summer’s day, but the famed body of water has been especially inundated this year, one expert has revealed. The apex predators tend to favour shallow areas near the shore at dusk – the exact conditions that sawContinue Reading
The Philippines wants a “Christmas convoy” to cheer up troops and sailors stationed in the middle of the South China Sea. And it could spark an international crisis. Manila has given the green light for a group of 40 civilian boats to sail through the contested Spratly Islands to distributeContinue Reading
Divers with the Royal Australian Navy have suffered minor injuries after an incident involving a Chinese warship off the coast of Japan. The federal government has confirmed the naval personnel were hurt on Tuesday while performing a mission in support of United Nations sanctions enforcement. Defence Minister Richard Marles saidContinue Reading
A key piece of evidence that could help determine the circumstances of the fatal crash of an army helicopter off North Queensland has been found. Defence on Tuesday said a Royal Australian Navy dive team had recovered the Voice and Flight Data Recorder (VFDR), also known as the “black box”,Continue Reading
Chinese spy ships are expected to head towards Australian waters in coming days, ahead of joint military exercises with the United States and 11 other nations. Exercise Talisman Sabre 23 officially kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony aboard HMAS Canberra at Sydney’s Fleet Base East. But since 2017,Continue Reading
The odds of survival for the passengers aboard a lost sightseeing submarine are vanishingly small. And it’s a risk every submariner faces each time they slip beneath the waves. The one pilot and four passengers aboard the 6.5m submersible “Titan” began the descent on a 10-hour round trip to viewContinue Reading
After three years of mouldy misery across much of Australia, take heart – this winter is set to be mainly dry and bright. The downpours that caused a run on dehumidifiers and anti-fungus remedies for NSW residents in particular, plus devastating floods in places, this time 12 months ago areContinue Reading
Plans to build a cruise ship terminal at Sydney’s historic Botany Bay have been scrapped by the NSW government, after locals campaigned against the development for five years. Molineaux Point and Yarra Bay, in Sydney’s south, were both flagged as possible locations for the terminal but faced massive backlash fromContinue Reading
Mark McGowan has been accused of being “out of his intellectual depth” after he was captured smack-talking a federal Liberal MP while in China. On the first day of his historic trade mission in Beijing, a microphone inadvertently picked up the Western Australian Premier’s disparaging comments about federal opposition defenceContinue Reading