Former prime minister Scott Morrison leads King's Birthday honours list
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The contribution of 830 extraordinary Australians have been recognised today in this year's King's Birthday honours list.
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Sydney Morning Herald
4 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘Heartbreaking beyond words': Many killed as Air India plane bound for London crashes on take-off
One television channel showed the plane gaining height over a residential area and then disappearing from the screen before a huge cloud of fire and smoke rose into the sky from beyond the houses. Firefighters doused the smoking wreckage of the plane, which would have been fully loaded with fuel, and an adjacent multi-story building with water. Charred bodies lay on the ground. At least 30 bodies had been recovered from a building at the site of the crash, rescue personnel said, and more people were trapped inside. 'The building on which it has crashed is a doctor's hostel ... we have cleared almost 70 per cent to 80 per cent of the area and will clear the rest soon,' a senior police officer told reporters. Bhupendra Patel, the chief minister of Gujarat, the state where the crash occurred, said a corridor had been set up to quickly transport injured passengers to hospitals for treatment, The New York Times reported. India's Civil Aviation Minister, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, posted on X that rescue teams had been mobilised, and all efforts were being made to ensure medical aid and relief support at the site. 'We are on highest alert. I am personally monitoring the situation,' he said. A spokesperson for India's Ahmedabad airport said all flights had been temporarily suspended. Gatwick Airport confirmed the plane had been due to land in London at 6.25pm local time. British Foreign Minister David Lammy said he was deeply saddened by news of the crash, while a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said King Charles was being kept updated. Britain was now working with Indian authorities, Lammy said. 'My thoughts are with all those affected,' he posted on X. 'The UK is working with local authorities in India to urgently establish the facts and provide support.' Britain has very close ties with India. There were nearly 1.9 million people in the country of Indian descent, according to the 2021 UK census. A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson said the Australian government expressed its condolences to those affected by the Air India crash. The Australian High Commission in New Delhi and the Consulate-General in Mumbai were urgently following up with the local authorities to determine whether there were any Australians on board. Air India's chairman, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, said its 'primary focus is on supporting all the affected people and their families'. He said on X that the airline had set up an emergency centre and support team for families seeking information about those who were on the flight. Air India has also set up a dedicated passenger hotline number, 1800 5691 444. 'Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the families and loved ones of all those affected by this devastating event,' Chandrasekaran said. Boeing, whose shares dropped 8 per cent in pre-market US trading, said it is aware of initial reports and was working to gather more information. Flightradar24 listed the crashed plane as having completed return flights from Delhi to Melbourne, Tokyo and Paris over the past five days before flying from the Indian capital to Ahmedabad overnight. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is a widebody, twin-engined plane – one of the most modern passenger aircraft in service. It was introduced in 2009 and more than 1000 have been delivered to dozens of airlines, according to the Flightradar24 website. This is the first crash ever of a Boeing 787 aircraft, according to the Aviation Safety Network database. The last major passenger plane crash in India was in 2020 when an Air India Express Boeing 737 skidded off a hilltop runway in southern India, killing 21 people. The worst air disaster in India was on November 12, 1996, when a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight collided midair with a Kazakhastan Airlines Flight near Charki Dadri in Haryana state, killing all 349 on board the two planes. The crash comes days before the opening of the Paris Air Show, a major aviation expo where Boeing and European rival Airbus will showcase their aircraft and battle for jet orders from airline customers. Boeing has been in recovery mode for more than six years after Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 Max 8, plunged into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia minutes after take-off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board. Five months later, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8, crashed after take-off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 157 passengers and crew members.
The Age
4 hours ago
- The Age
A Shakespearean portrayal of a retiring type
'Three of my aunts, Betty Terry, Joan Terry and Sheila Brown all spent their entire working lives at the Herald,' writes Tony Terry of Toowoomba (Qld). 'Betty in the turf department while Joan and Sheila were copy takers. Upon her retirement, in her early 80s, Aunty Sheila was presented with a caricature of herself by John Shakespeare (C8). In her later years, this became one of her most prized possessions. It was brilliant. Vale John.' Bill Leigh's drive-by on the welfare state (C8), got the dander up of many a reader this week with Granny also in the firing line for running it. One such reader was Gail Grogan of Toongabbie who opines: 'Bill may be lucky enough not to have fallen on hard times. Or, maybe had the luck of the draw, birthwise, but empathy and understanding are needed if we are not to end up like the US.' 'I thought ICE stood for 'In Case of Emergency',' says Richard Thurston of Tallwoods Village. 'But I now know it's 'I Cause Emergencies'.' 'The poor kid's version of the air rifle (C8) was the spud gun,' says Geoff Carey of Pagewood. 'By sticking the narrow-ended barrel tip into a raw potato, the trigger motion created enough air pressure to release the potato plug in a semi-harmless way. To cover one's tracks after raiding the pantry, simply volunteer to peel the potatoes – win-win!' 'Spit balls, a teacher's nightmare, were silent classroom weapons children made by chewing up paper, then rolling it up into soggy balls (Granny always preferred bits of pencil lead but each to their own) to be fired about the classroom,' recalls Joy Cooksey of Harrington. 'The weapon-makers were as difficult to detect as it was to remove the balls stuck to the ceiling.' Among all this bad behaviour and ordnance, Roger Epps of Armidale has 'refrained from contributing for fear of putting ideas into young minds. Suffice to say, my efforts in backyard rocketry, homemade weaponry and explosive missiles shocking near and not so near neighbours caused my poor mum, on a number of occasions, to come rushing out hissing 'Quick! Come inside before the police arrive'. Prudently, I am not disclosing the suburb in which I lived.' ScoMo's King's Birthday bonus, had Roger Bendall of Darling Point paraphrasing the mighty Gough: 'God save the King because nothing will save the Council of the Order of Australia.'
Sydney Morning Herald
4 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
A Shakespearean portrayal of a retiring type
'Three of my aunts, Betty Terry, Joan Terry and Sheila Brown all spent their entire working lives at the Herald,' writes Tony Terry of Toowoomba (Qld). 'Betty in the turf department while Joan and Sheila were copy takers. Upon her retirement, in her early 80s, Aunty Sheila was presented with a caricature of herself by John Shakespeare (C8). In her later years, this became one of her most prized possessions. It was brilliant. Vale John.' Bill Leigh's drive-by on the welfare state (C8), got the dander up of many a reader this week with Granny also in the firing line for running it. One such reader was Gail Grogan of Toongabbie who opines: 'Bill may be lucky enough not to have fallen on hard times. Or, maybe had the luck of the draw, birthwise, but empathy and understanding are needed if we are not to end up like the US.' 'I thought ICE stood for 'In Case of Emergency',' says Richard Thurston of Tallwoods Village. 'But I now know it's 'I Cause Emergencies'.' 'The poor kid's version of the air rifle (C8) was the spud gun,' says Geoff Carey of Pagewood. 'By sticking the narrow-ended barrel tip into a raw potato, the trigger motion created enough air pressure to release the potato plug in a semi-harmless way. To cover one's tracks after raiding the pantry, simply volunteer to peel the potatoes – win-win!' 'Spit balls, a teacher's nightmare, were silent classroom weapons children made by chewing up paper, then rolling it up into soggy balls (Granny always preferred bits of pencil lead but each to their own) to be fired about the classroom,' recalls Joy Cooksey of Harrington. 'The weapon-makers were as difficult to detect as it was to remove the balls stuck to the ceiling.' Among all this bad behaviour and ordnance, Roger Epps of Armidale has 'refrained from contributing for fear of putting ideas into young minds. Suffice to say, my efforts in backyard rocketry, homemade weaponry and explosive missiles shocking near and not so near neighbours caused my poor mum, on a number of occasions, to come rushing out hissing 'Quick! Come inside before the police arrive'. Prudently, I am not disclosing the suburb in which I lived.' ScoMo's King's Birthday bonus, had Roger Bendall of Darling Point paraphrasing the mighty Gough: 'God save the King because nothing will save the Council of the Order of Australia.'
