Jake Nelson

The Flying Kangaroo has credited its “dual-brand” strategy for the result, with travel demand strong across all passenger segments and a record number of Jetstar customers.

Chaplain Haydn Lea found Sergeant William O’Shea’s medals last year in a Perth military memorabilia shop and noticed that they were missing a Royal Air Force Bomber Command clasp, which were awarded decades after the war to those who served in Bomber Command.

Speaking at the Herald Sun’s Future Victoria event on Wednesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that the Commonwealth will help foot the bill for the long-delayed project, including a mixture of new and existing funding.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will provide $8 million to technology developer Licella to assess the viability of a biorefinery at a Bundaberg sugar mill, while Viva Energy has been awarded $2.4 million to demonstrate SAF use and storage at Brisbane Airport.

VH-VPY was on a ferry flight to Pago Pago in American Samoa when it lost an engine and was forced to come down in the ocean about 35 nautical miles off the coast of Queensland on the morning of 10 November, 2023.

Led by the North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems at Charles Darwin University and supported by the Queensland Defence Science Alliance, the project is looking to adapt hybrid two-stroke engine drones for long-range cold chain operations such as medical drops.