First Non-stop Flight From Australia to London

Qantas Airways has begun regular non-stop service between Australia and London. The first 17 hour plus flight took off from Perth in Western Australia. The maiden flight of a new non-stop regular passenger service between Australia and Britain has touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, operated by Qantas Airways, arrived Sunday in […]

19 injured in vehicle attack in Melbourne, Australia

An Australian man of Afghan descent drove his vehicle into Christmas shoppers in the Australian city of Melbourne on Thursday, injuring 19 people.  Although the incident appears to be an intentional attack, Australian authorities have made it clear that they are not treating it as a terror related incident, citing the suspect’s history of mental […]

Veterans Day around the world

Veterans Day, or Remembrance Day or Armistice Day, as it’s also known in the Commonwealth countries, just ended.  Let’s see how people honored their militaries’ sacrifices. In northern France, a 100-gun salute commemorated the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele.  Reenactors from around the world gathered and fired restored WWI artillery pieces. Passchendaele, which took […]

Everything’s getting worse: A sobering report from Aussie counter-spies

Terrorism. Foreign espionage. Covert influence operations. Cyber espionage. Theft of industrial secrets. Encrypted communications. It’s all getting to be too much to keep up with, Australia’s domestic intelligence agency said in a staggering new report. “During this reporting period, a range of factors contributed to the steadily worsening overall security and operational environment,” Australian Security […]

Joint Strike Fighter plans stolen in Australia cyber attack

A hacker stole non-classified information about Australia’s Joint Strike Fighter programme and other military hardware last year after breaching the network of a defense contractor, the defense industry minister said on Thursday. About 30 gigabytes of data was stolen in the cyber attack, including details of the Joint Strike Fighter warplane and P-8 Poseidon surveillance […]

I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.

Leah Libresco is a statistician and former newswriter at FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism site. She is the author of “Arriving at Amen.” Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes […]

Chinese Australians in supercars protest India on its 70th Independence day

On Tuesday 15th August at around 12:40pm, a fleet of supercars, organized by a Sydney-based Australian Chinese automobile club, started their parade, led by a red Bentley covered by Chinese flag pattern. Bentleys, Lamborghinis, BMW, AUDI and Maseratis were among the 10 luxury cars that joined the parade across Sydney, passing three universities including Sydney […]