Surfing’s first professional domestic league is to hit the waves in 2028 with a fit-for-TV Surfing Super League and surfers paid a salary. The league (or SSL) was launched in Sydney today (August 19) and organisers say the eight-team competition […]

Jail sentences have tripled for anyone convicted of damaging war memorials in Tasmania in the wake of damage done to a memorial earlier this year. A MP’s private bill was amended in the Upper House to lower the jail term […]

Sightseeing flights over the Gold Coast could enter the eVTOL age in 2028 under a tentative deal that has just been signed. Japan’s SkyDrive makes electric VTOL (Vertical Take-Off Landing) aircraft and signed a letter of intent to supply five […]

Diesel generators have had to power Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, located in the Ukraine, three times in a week even as fuel supplies dwindle, the United Nations says. The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) briefly had to rely on […]

El Nino is turning up the heat for the new bushfire season in NSW as widespread efforts to prepare gather pace in the face of overseas duty. More than 100 specialists from agencies, industry, academia and the public attended a […]

The airshow at the beach is to stay on the Gold Coast after Queensland secured the event for two more years. The 2026 Pacific Airshow’s Gold Coast event returned last weekend after last year’s event was cancelled due to cyclone […]

2026 Shitbox Rally day two around the Parachilna-William Creek in northern South Australia. The rally started from Adelaide on Saturday, August 15, and will finish in Darwin this Friday, August 22. All photos are courtesy of Box Rallies. Click here […]

Shitbox Rally drivers are crossing the outback to raise money for a worthy cause (cancer research), personal challenges (breakdowns) and make new friends. More than 240 teams in the seven-day 3700-kilometre rally left Adelaide on Saturday (August 15) bound for […]