Photo: stock The WA government has a problem – it wants to return $170 million in unclaimed money only the owners can’t be found, it says. The unclaimed money has been listed on a public WA Register of Unclaimed Money. The register was recently updated with around 147,000 new records, which included large individual unclaimed…
A USAF B-52H Stratofortress is prepared for take-off at Guam early this year. Photo: US Air Force Master Sgt. Amy Picard China continues to improve and expand its military power at a rate that has impressed at least one senior US military commander. US Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo leads the US Military’s Indo-Pacific Command and…
Photo: ANDREW KACIMAIWAI AUSTRALIA and Japan have begun to expand defence ties amid ongoing Chinese intimidation on the high seas and of Taiwan as North Korean troops fight for Russia in the Ukraine. The decision was announced by Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles, Japanese Minister of Defence Nakatani Gen and…
Picture: stock A Las Vegas round will again kick off the new NRL season after the 2025 men’s and women’s fixtures were announced. In the men’s competition, a split opening round begins on March 1 (US time) with premiers Penrith facing Cronulla-Sutherland, and Canberra taking on the NZ Warriors at Allegiant Stadium. The round continues…
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…