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8 March 2025 Australia is considering joining the European-led coalition of the willing to support a lasting ceasefire in Ukraine, a statement issued by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Stamer's office read on March 8. France24 correspondent Gregory Plesse tells us more. #Australia #Ukraine #peacekeeping Australians were in Gloucester Valley Korea when I served there and for 6 months I was attached to the Australian Signals Unit in Kure Japan 1955/56 prior to returning to the UK for my Regular Commission Board at Westbury Wiltshire which I passed and gained entry to RMA Sandhurst in September 1956 (Intake 21 Dettingen Company) Intake 21 Passing out parade in 1958

4 March 2025 More Australians consider US President Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping. In a poll of 2009 Australians, conducted before the weekend’s disastrous White House event with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, 31% rated Trump the greatest threat to world peace, compared to Russian President Putin (27%) and Chinese President Xi (27%). 15% were unsure. Almost half (49%) said they felt less secure since the election of President Trump. 17% feel more secure. “This is a potentially seismic shift in Australian thinking about America,” said Dr Emma Shortis, Director of the International & Security Affairs Program at The Australia Institute. “One in three Australians now view the leader of our most important security ally as a bigger threat to world peace than the leaders of the world’s two most powerful authoritarian states. “This is not limited to Australia. For example, nearly half of all Danish voters see the United States as...

Euronews | December 31, 2010 | 17 likes, 3 dislikes Flooding across Australia's northeast is continuing to cause chaos and shows no sign of abating. The country's now recorded its wettest spring, causing six major river systems in Queensland state to burst their banks. An area bigger than France and Germany combined has been affected, with some 22 towns across the state inundated, leaving some 200,000 people stranded. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been touring some of the areas hit by the worst floods Australia's experienced in about 50 years. http://www.euronews.net/ and they are getting worse with Brisbane threatened yesterday  whilst on the other side of the country there is a shortage of water getsomenuts07 | January 11, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes Footage of the Lake Clifton Fire on Monday 10 January 2011. Perth News - ABC Perth - Austr...

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Surprise - look who is heading the tables today! Practice 2 (Friday Afternoon) Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps 1 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:26.053 36 2 23 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:26.157 0.104 38 3 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:26.350 0.297 42 4 14 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:26.370 0.317 30 5 22 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:26.374 0.321 38 6 10 Timo Glock Toyota 1:26.443 0.390 42 7 17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:26.560 0.507 33 8 15 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:26.740 0.687 19 9 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:27.040 0.987 29 10 3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:27.064 1.011 35 11 4 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:27.204 1.151 32 ...

2008 Formula 1 - Australian Grand Prix