From the Archives, 1946: Crowds mass to see first flight to Canada

First published in The Age on September 16, 1946 BY AIR TO CANADA First Flight Started The Skymaster WaranaCredit:Jack Lawson Civil aviation in Australia was carried another step forward yesterday, when the A.N.A. Skymaster Warana took off from Laverton at 4 p.m. on the first flight of the Australia-Canada service. Calling at Sydney, Fiji, Canton Island, Honolulu and San Francisco, […]

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Stephen Hoadley: Twenty years after 9/11 – where to now for America?

OPINION The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks raised two questions. First, what we have learned? And second, where do we go from here? In my view, we, the Western democracies, have learned to take international terrorism seriously and worked out how better to guard against it. Invading Afghanistan, assassinating Osama Bin Laden (and numerous other jihadist fighters), bombing Isis […]

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