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Civil works and new roads are now finished for the new Milton Precinct, which the airport estimates will provide $134.1 million to the local economy in the first 10 years, and $42.5 million in output from new businesses per year.

NASA has modified its contract with the aerospace and defence prime, which in 2014 awarded Boeing up to six crewed flights to the ISS, cutting the deal to four missions with options for two more while the upcoming mission in April 2026 will be uncrewed.

The aircraft, B-2472, was carrying Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on a parliamentary visit. Arriving in Brisbane on Saturday from New Zealand, it flew to Canberra on Monday before leaving the country on Tuesday.

In a ceremony at Torrens Parade Ground, South Australia, the Air Force marked 100 years since the squadron’s birth in 1925 and celebrated the arrival of a restored Bell UH-1 Iroquois ‘Huey’ helicopter, as well as paying respect to its veterans from the Vietnam War.

Lockheed Martin said the X-59 performed “exactly as planned” on its test flight from its Skunk Works facility in Palmdale to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Centre in Edwards, California, this week. It follows taxi testing in Palmdale earlier this year.

The creation of the PFAS National Coordinating Body was a key recommendation from the government’s response to an independent review of land uses around key Defence bases impacted by PFAS contamination.