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"Now that is something you don`t see every day" was the exclamation of people on hand to see an F-111 parked at petrol bowsers at a local petrol station near West Wyalong, New South Wales.

Technology & Innovation

The embarrassingly easy, tax-free way for Australia to cut the cost of electric cars

This article argues that by adopting European vehicle emission standards, the price of Australian purchased electric vehicles could fall, and the range of models increase.

An animation of the stereoscopic global image of the asteroid Ryugu, captured with an Optical Navigation Camera.

Technology & Innovation

Planetary Defense Test To See If An Asteroid's Path Can be changed is about to be launched

NASA, via SpaceX, is launching a small spacecraft to assess whether it is feasible to knock an asteroid off course.

Commander of the 1st Brigade, Brigadier Ash Collingburn, DSM, hands a 1st Brigade football to a child from Timber Creek at a Community Day activity at Nackaroo Airfield at the Bradshaw Field Training Area in the Northern Territory during Exercise Koolendong 2021.

Military Management

Do companies lean harder on non-parents

Working parents have a lot to deal with, but their non-parent fellow workers may have to work harder or undertake additional duties to cover for them—resentment and conflict may result.

Major Kimberlea Juchniewicz checks her mail box with her four year old son Maximus while embracing flexible work arrangements of the Project Boomerang initiative.

Executives And Employees Dramatically Differ On How Things Are Going And The Future Of Work

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers have been able to experience the luxury of working from home, and we appear to love it—or do we?

Plan Jericho is undertaking a number of advanced sensing activities, including high altitude balloon launches and sub-orbital rocket launches. Air Force's Jasper hitched a ride on this launch to accompany the high altitude balloon into the stratosphere.

Technology & Innovation

Why These Badass Balloons Are the Pentagon's New Secret Weapon

High-tech high-altitude balloons could enhance military capability and provide a force multiplier for existing weapon systems.

Pilot officer Alex Walsh of the Royal Australian Air Force orders a coffee and food from an Olinda business as he takes a break from his duties assisting the community of Olinda with storm recovery efforts to have some lunch and support the local businesses who are still operating.

Decaf coffee is increasingly popular as people reduce their caffeine intake. But is it any good?

Despite the negative opinions of some coffee aficionados, decaffeinated coffee is growing in popularity.

ADF members conducting interview

Communication & Cognition

Applying for jobs? Here's why some employers give you personality tests

Ask psychologists about the validity of workplace personality tests, and you’re likely to get many different answers.

ADF member connecting cabling to satellite

Technology & Innovation

Parkes radio telescope, aka The Dish, celebrates 60 years of scientific discoveries

Sixty years after being built in a sheep paddock, the Parkes Radio Telescope is still helping to explore the universe.

Sunrise at Sarbina Point, Shoalwater Bay Training Area, QLD during exercise Talisman Saber 07.

Experts say simple steps have helped Victoria’s stillbirth rate fall for the first time in 20 years

A program coming out of Victoria shows promising results in reducing the number of stillborn deaths.

A United States Air Force F-22 Raptor takes off from RAAF Base Amberley during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019.

Strategic Influence

Time To Start Fielding Tomorrow’s....... Capabilities Today

In this article, David Deptula—USAF LTGEN (Retired) and currently Dean of the Mitchell Institue for aerospace studies (a think tank)—argues that the USA urgently needs to turn new technologies into operational capabilities.