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ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Among strategists, geography is used in an effort to refine Australia’s strategic thinking and impose hierarchy and order on Defence spending and structure. Yet in the first decades of the 21st century the geographic calculus was bedevilled by fundamental shifts in power. As much else changed, so did Australia’s sense of the world around its continent, transformed by a shape-shifting, expanding sense of region. In the 1980s and 1990s, Australia helped build an ambitious ge...

Towering over buildings and trees, it's a sight worth staying up late for. "I still can't believe how much of an angle they can get it up on around that bend without tipping the truck over," says truck enthusiast Hamish Price. It's no easy feat moving the blades up such a tricky road, needing a high-tech blade manipulator from Korea for the job. "It can tilt up to 60 degrees and we can yaw it out the side of the trailer 15 degrees," says Smith Cranes transport manager Mark Thomson. All so the blades can get around the tight turns of the Pahiatua Track.

First stage of NZ's largest wind farm to be switched on in October after year-long delay Newshub 8/05/2021 Alexa Cook First stage of NZ's largest wind farm to be switched on in October after year-long delay Replay Video UP NEXT The first stage of New Zealand's largest wind farm is set to be switched on in October, a year later than planned. Construction of Mercury's Turitea Wind Farm started 18 months ago, and it's not been without its challenges.  Looking more like a UFO than a wind turbine - the giant 55-metre blades are carried one-by-one up the Tararua Ranges. Towering...

In 1978, Tucson native Mark Thomson took a leap of faith. He decided to leave business school at the University of Arizona and buy a small liquor store in Campbell Plaza with the help of his father. At the time, he didn’t know much about fine wines, liquor or beer.  Forty-three years later, Plaza Liquors and Fine Wines, 2642 N. Campbell Avenue, is still in business in the heart of the city of Tucson. The shop has persisted through the rise of big-box retailers and made a name for itself through its eclectic selection of local products. While Mark has his eyes on retirement, he plans t...

Tuesday court round-up — Hungry delivery driver outfoxed By Crime and Courts Team May 4 2021, 7.30pm Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Hunger pains A hungry Fife delivery driver was found in a ditch by police after trying to journey to buy breakfast with more than double the alcohol limit in his system. At Dundee Sheriff Court, Euan Murray admitted to driving while over the limit on March 29. Murray had left his home at Strathview, and headed along the B9131 road between St Andrews and Anstruther, l...