Over 100 years after the Australian Government launched a competition for the design of a new capital, Marion Mahony Griffin wife of Walter and co-designer of Canberra as we know it is finally being recognised.
New documentary features King s time in Australia
published : 17 Feb 2021 at 06:36
17 Visitors look closely at framed photos of His Majesty at the Australian embassy. A new documentary commemorating the King s time in Australia produced by the embassy will be aired on TV Pool until Thursday. (Photo by Pornprom Satrabhaya)
A new documentary commemorating His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn s time in Australia produced by the Australian embassy in Bangkok will be aired on TV Pool until Thursday.
His Majesty lived in Australia for six and a half years between 1970 to 1976. The then-Crown Prince studied at the King s School in Sydney for two years and at the prestigious Royal Military College, Duntroon and trained with the elite Special Air Service Regiment for four years.
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As Australians try to put the upheavals of past year behind them and warily look ahead into 2021, probably one of the last things they want to contemplate is the prospect of a pugilistic election campaign.
However, this August, a 10-month window will open for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to call a House of Representatives and half-Senate election. Notwithstanding Morrison’s publicly stated preference to govern for a full three-year term, the guessing game about the timing of the federal election has already begun. There’s speculation about a poll in the spring of 2021. This chatter will only intensify in the coming months, accompanied by phoney campaign posturing.
Rock engraving throws spotlight on Australia s top-secret World War II mustard gas program
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Ross Ashley Bryan, far right, second row from the bottom, was one of the RAAF chemical warfare armourers at Innisfail in 1944.
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In 1943, a young man carved his name, the date, and his place of birth, into a rock outside the old Glenbrook Railway Tunnel, at the eastern side of the Blue Mountains.
Almost 80 years later, that small act has highlighted his remarkable involvement in the top-secret Australian storage of deadly mustard gas during World War II despite a ban on its use after World War I.