Photo: stock A cutter built nearly 130 years ago and lovingly restored will be at the heart of the 2025 Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Tasmania. The state’s Events Minister, Nick Duigan says the festival at Hobart’s waterfront will run from February 7-10 with the theme already decided. “The 2025 festival theme is ‘The Pacific’…
Flashback … the NSW Waratahs take on their Fijian rivals during the 2022 SRW grand final in Melbourne. Photo: Sarah Friend/DFAT A historic trans-Tasman clash will round out the 2025 Super Rugby Women’s (SRW) season after the draw was released today. The winner of the SRW competition will be crowned on April 12 at North…
The new heated chair lifts have begun operating at Banff. Picture: supplied An almost-new lift experience has come to the ski fields of Banff in Alberta, Canada – a high-speed, heated chair bubble. The Super Angel LX six-passenger bubble chair began operations at the Canadian Rocky Mountain ski resort of Banff Sunshine Village in Alberta…
Lloyd J. Austin (right) and Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles in Darwin on Sunday. Picture: US Department of Defence The American and Fijian military are expected to strengthen ties as outgoing US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin shores up ties in the Indo-Pacific region. The US and Fiji are expected to open talks on signing a…
The Pentagon building in Virginia, US. Photo: stock THE US has given itself almost 70 days to deliver US$5.5 billion worth of military supplies to Ukraine before the American change of government. In September, US President Joe Biden said he planned a “surge” in security help for Ukraine, including giving them all remaining approved funding…
Picture: SLSA Japanese university students are avoiding designed safe swim areas on beaches and other warning signs due to a language barrier. That was the finding in a new survey of Japanese students was conducted by Monash University’s drowning prevention researcher Dr Misaki Shibata. He found that three in five of respondents (wrongly) believed that…
A US Navy F-35C; the same type used in the airstrikes. Picture: US Department of Defence US military aircraft have attacked Iranian-backed Houthi targets in Yemen and in Syria over the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday (US time), airstrikes were launched against weapons storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, Pentagon spokesman Major-General Pat Ryder…