Around 650 staff members at Qantas Ground Services, who serve mostly Qantas Freight and QantasLink operations, will vote on whether to take industrial action over what the union has called “Joyce-era tactics to relentlessly pursue short-term profits over worker and passenger standards”.

MILLIBEAM has revealed Rakurai, a new hand-held counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) built around a proprietary Australian-developed radiofrequency (RF) architecture that the company said delivers greater performance, broader frequency coverage and improved power efficiency than conventional electronic warfare systems.

An Australian-developed advanced solid rocket motor has completed its first successful flight test at the Koonibba Test Range near Ceduna in South Australia, demonstrating the nation’s growing ability to design, manufacture, integrate, and validate critical missile propulsion technologies.

Australia will become the first nation outside the US to operate the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile, with a $736 million investment delivering a new generation of long-range air-to-air weapons designed to maintain the Royal Australian Air Force’s edge in an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific.