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Authorities in Thailand seize more than a ton of crystal methamphetamine thought bound for Australia

Wtop 29 May 2023
Decades of political instability have made Myanmar’s frontier regions largely lawless and exploited by drug producers and traffickers. The U.N ... making it hard to know the traffickers’ plans ... Australian police said in 2019 that they seized 1.6 metric tons of meth at the Melbourne waterfront that was hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Bangkok.
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Authorities in Thailand seize more than a ton of crystal meth thought bound for Australia

Korea Times 29 May 2023
Police officers stand behind seized crystal methamphetamine during a news conference in Bangkok, May 29. AP-Yonhap ... The U.N ... making it hard to know the traffickers' plans ... Australian police said in 2019 that they seized 1.6 metric tons of meth at the Melbourne waterfront that was hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Bangkok ... Last year's U.N ... (AP). .
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Thai authorities seize more than a ton of crystal meth thought bound for Australia

Canoe 29 May 2023
BANGKOK — Law enforcement officials in Thailand said Monday they seized more than a ton of crystal methamphetamine in a southern province last week that they believed was bound for Australia ... Australian police said in 2019 that they seized 1.6 metric tons of meth at the Melbourne waterfront that was hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Bangkok ... .
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NH natives who died in Lost 74 tragedy being added to Hampton Beach Lady of ...

Portsmouth Herald 26 May 2023
The Evans was in escort to the Australian light aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, Vejr said, and with other ships was engaged in anti-submarine training exercises ... However, there was confusion on the Evans’ bridge as to the ship’s position in relation to the Melbourne.
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Discovery of clusters of two types of bacteria in the tentacles of corals sheds light ...

Phys Dot Org 17 May 2023
Our new study reveals yet another layer of complexity in coral reefs ... Further work is required to understand whether these interactions are beneficial or harmful to the coral ... These samples were shipped to our laboratory at the University of Melbourne to investigate the elusive tissue-associated bacteria ... DOI ... Provided by University of Melbourne ... ....
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Read all about it: A beginner’s guide to the 2023 Ockham Book Awards

RNZ 17 May 2023
The 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are announced tonight in Auckland ... What’s the story? Hawke’s Bay writer Cristina Sanders re-imagines what happened to 15 hardy folk who survived the wreck of the General Grant (a gold-laden ship that met its end en route from Melbourne to London in 1866), then spent 18 months on sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands.
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'The ship sank all over again': Families of victims in wreck recall Gordon Lightfoot

North Shore News 05 May 2023
The ship sank in Lake Superior near Whitefish Point, Mich., during a storm on Nov ... One of those men was Muljo's grandfather, Ransom Cundy, a watchman on the ship ... "When I first heard the news, it went through me like the ship sink all over again," Deborah Champeau said by phone from Nashotah, Wis ... Her father, Robert Rafferty, was a cook on the ship.
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Delivery time for some imported cars increases from weeks to months: Industry

RNZ 03 May 2023
Delivery times for new and used cars have blown out by weeks or months in New Zealand as ships stack up off Australian ports ... 'Feast or famine' as shipping delays cause bottlenecks. The shipping delays are also pushing up vehicle storage costs ... However, as of 3 May Melbourne's port had 17 ships queuing for slots when it would usually have one or two.
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Car dealers waiting longer for new stock to arrive

NewstalkZB 03 May 2023
Delivery times for new and used cars have blown out by weeks or months in New Zealand as ships stack up off Australian ports ... Photo / Supplied ‘Feast or famine’ as shipping delays cause bottlenecks ... However, as of May 3, Melbourne’s port had 17 ships queuing for slots when it would usually have one or two.
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AFL 2023 quarter-year review: Stats, results, analysis for every team

Sportingnews 27 Apr 2023
Fremantle and Gold Coast have been utterly disappointing while Melbourne has flown under the radar ... Melbourne . North Melbourne ... Brisbane have taken down premiership favourites Melbourne and Collingwood comprehensively while bypassing North Melbourne and GWS with relative ease ... Thrashed by Melbourne and Geelong.
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Melbourne Explores Methanol Bunkering Hub with Maersk and CMA CGM

The Maritime Executive 26 Apr 2023
A project to explore developing a methanol bunkering hub at Australia’s Melbourne port is being supported by shipping companies including Maersk and Svitzer as well as CMA CGM’s ANL subsidiary ... “As Australia’s largest container port with around 3,000 ships ...
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How Britain's wartime hero Winston Churchill secretly demanded Australia send him a platypus - and ...

The Daily Mail 25 Apr 2023
'Six freshly captured platypuses, housed on a ship... Winston was eventually put aboard the cargo ship MV Port Phillip which set sail from Melbourne for the 20,000km journey on September 28 ... Winston the platypus was eventually put aboard the cargo ship MV Port Phillip (above) which set sail from Melbourne to Liverpool on September 28, 1943.
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The bizarre moment AFL coach Ross Lyon gives a young footy fan his packet of ...

The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2023
Ross Lyon continues to defy expectations in his return to St Kilda, just ask this young AFL fan who was left stunned after receiving the most bizarre of gifts from the Saints mentor ... He was still coaching at Fremantle at the time but the rumour mill went into overdrive that he was about to jump ship and return to Melbourne ... .
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The defence review says Australia is at little risk of a land invasion – but that’s not where the threats end

The Observer 24 Apr 2023
But it is important to be very clear about what Monday’s document does and doesn’t say about the threats Australia faces ... Defence strategic review ... “What would be the point of China wanting to occupy Sydney and Melbourne, militarily, and could they ever do it?. “Could they ever bring the numbers here? It would be an armada of troop ships to do it ... .

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