Army run by special-forces officers

Perth : FOR the first time in its 114-year history the Australian Army is being run by an elite group of special-forces officers.The new Chief of Army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell was a senior officer with the Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment.His deputy Major General Rick Burr is a former commanding officer the SASR and […]

Alan Bond: Disgraced Australian entrepreneur dies aged 77

Sydney : Controversial Australian businessman Alan Bond has died at the age of 77, his family have announced.Mr Bond died on Friday morning at the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth days after undergoing heart surgery. Mr Bond, who was born in the UK, became one of Australia’s richest men, funding Australia’s shock win of the […]

Australia mass surveillance ‘among most aggressive’

Perth : Australia conducts one of the world’s most aggressive mass surveillance programmes, US journalist Glenn Greenwald has said.Mr Greenwald was one of the reporters who broke the 2013 story on internet surveillance by the UK and US.He told broadcaster ABC that Australia was “probably the country that has got away with things the most” […]

Australia-led MH370 search to be called off in 2016

Canberra, June 4: The search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 led by Australia is expected to be called off early next year, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said on Thursday. Australia’s JACC, which is leading the arduous and expensive search in the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777, said it would not be […]