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 The US military says it has grounded its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet following a fire on board one of the multi-million-dollar jets.

The descendant of the Fairfax founder, who is also donating $1m to the Walkleys, had some thoughts about how things had changed since the sale of the business to Nine. Plus: Aunty’s new top lawyer Former Rural Press owner, John B Fairfax, with the Young Journalist of the Year, Mridula Amin. Photograph: Adam Hollingworth Former Rural Press owner, John B Fairfax, with the Young Journalist of the Year, Mridula Amin. Photograph: Adam Hollingworth Thu 17 Jun 2021 22.35 EDT Last modified on Fri ...

Date Time ABC’s Mridula Amin is Young Australian Journalist of Year Mridula Amin is a reporter and photojournalist with ABC News. She has also worked with The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, SBS and VICE. She graduated from Macquarie University in 2018 with a Bachelors of Media/Bachelors of Law and is an admitted lawyer of the Supreme Court. ABC reporter and photojournalist Mridula Amin has been named Young Australian Journalist of the Year at the Walkleys Mid-Ye...

18 April 2021 6:20pm The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia has responded to the scathing report published by the ABC making allegations against Archbishop Makarios and his lifestyle. The report, which is founded on anonymous sources who spoke to Background Briefing accuses Makarios and the Archdiocese of funnelling money from aged care facilities. In its response, the Archdiocese has expressed its grief and surprise that such a report was underway, using the dire predicament of many elder...

1 / of 2 Greek Orthodox Church took tens of millions in rent from aged care home at centre of deadliest COVID outbreak ThuThursday 15 updated 1 AprApril 2021 at 2:57am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 3 s An ABC investigation has found a group of taxpayer-funded aged care homes funnelled $31 million back into the coffers of one of Australias largest churches. Share Print text only Cancel A group of taxpayer-funded aged care h...

Former New Guard insider reveals neo-Nazi groups recruitment tactics By Alex Mann and Kevin Nguyen Posted 2 updated 1 AprApril 2021 at 9:01pm A former senior member of the New Guard has revealed the strategies the group used in attempting to recruit members. ( Print text only Cancel A former insider has detailed how Australian far-right organisations methodically identify, radicalise and recruit young people into white supremacist movements. George*, who spoke to Background Briefing on condit...

Victims of horse racing Ponzi scheme search for their missing millions FriFriday 12 Peter and Kath were investors in the punters club, The Edge. ( Print text only Key points: Seven years after a horse-racing gambling syndicate collapsed, investors still dont know where all their money went A court has found the syndicate was actually a Ponzi scheme Police have declined to prosecute the scams middlemen In 2012, a workmate in the oil industry invited Peter to join "The Edge", a secret punting clu...

2, 2021 /CNW/ - On February 3, Government of Canada officials will host a background briefing for media on ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE). Following the briefing, the Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, will make an announcement and take questions from the media.

History, while he was standing next to another one. so you take all of that, and he is still in first place. and the biden campaign had a background briefing with reporters in los angeles ahead of this evenings debate could where they said that they dont think that anything really is going to stop him at this point, because he is the only candidate with a coalition that includes the overwhelming support of african-american primary voters. which could make all the difference in the democratic pri...

Youre looking for out of this meeting? >> well, i think that the presidents team did a background briefing, where they talked about hoping to have progress vis-a-vis china and the technology that they are trying to promote around the world for wireless technology, that would give them an edge. theyre hoping to get some type of an agreement from the nato allies to try and prevent china from being able to dominate this space, so if they were able to get some type of statement or agreement that com...