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People have been cramped into their homes for the better part of a year, so it makes sense that they would want to get away. So much so, in fact, that people are willing to board a plane with no planned destination. Australia‘s Qantas Airways Limited created the “Flight to Nowhere” package. Per CNN, this […]
Police in Australia arrested and charged a woman with incitement for endorsing an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook. Zoe-Lee Buhler’s partner livestreamed her arrest on the social media platform, which shows Victoria police entering her home with a warrant and handcuffing her in her pajamas. “You’re under arrest in relation to incitement,” one of the officers says, explaining […]
Cast Away could’ve been a lot shorter. Three men were rescued from a small Pacific island after drawing a massive SOS signal in the sand that was spotted from the air, authorities told the Associated Press. The men were stranded on Pikelot Island—an uninhabited spot in the Micronesia archipelago—for nearly three days before searchers on an Australian […]
A small plane headed to Australia from Papua New Guinea crashed last week because it was overloaded with cocaine, per FOX 5 New York. Australian Federal Police announced Saturday that a Cessna model light aircraft planned on departing with the cocaine in tow from a remote airstrip at Papa Lea Lea in the early afternoon of July 26, and climbing to about 3,000 feet to avoid […]
Moments after being attacked by a shark while swimming off the coast of Australia’s Fitzroy Island, Anika Craney was captured on camera after being airlifted to Cairns Hospital in Queensland, shouting, “I still love sharks, sharks are beautiful!” “There were doctors on scene at Fitzroy Island and they provided first aid…[Craney] ended up with a possible fracture of the […]
Australia’s southeast coast has seen its second fatal shark attack this week. NBC News reports that on Saturday, an unidentified 15-year-old boy was mauled by a shark off the Australian coast. The teenager was surfing at Wooli Beach, about 370 miles north of Sydney when the incident took place just before 2:30 p.m. local time […]
As a result of the continued destruction of their habitat, which was only hastened by the 2019-20 bushfires that devastated Australia, koalas could be in danger of going extinct in the state of New South Wales in the near future, according to a year-long parliamentary inquiry. This report, put out on Tuesday, reckons that the animals could die […]
Scientists have discovered the footprint fossils of what could be one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs to inhabit the earth at the time it was alive, CNN reports. Per the outlet, researchers analyzed the fossils of footprints of a giant prehistoric creature found in Queensland, Australia, and discovered that they are even larger than a T. Rex’s. “To put that into […]
An Australian zookeeper was critically injured Friday after she was mauled by two lions, CBS News reports. Emergency services were called to Shoalhaven Zoo near Sydney on Friday morning. When they arrived, they found an unnamed 35-year-old woman with severe injuries to her head and neck. The employee was airlifted from the zoo to a nearby hospital where she […]
Dr. Daniel Reardon, 27, was admitted to a hospital in Australia last week after he accidentally got four magnets stuck in his nose, CNN reports. Reardon, an astrophysicist based in Melbourne, thought he would try to utilize his time in self-isolation by creating a sensor that could tell when your hands were close to your face. The CDC suggests that people can […]
