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  On October 13, 1972, RAAF transport aircraft and helicopters started moving emergency food supplies to starving people in the New Guinea highlands. A combination of frost and drought had turned parts of the area into a wasteland, resulting in a famine.
  Australian defence reservists will be recruited for longer and military bases across the country upgraded under a $1 billion boost to the nation's defences.
  From the Archives, 1989: Chaos as Australia's domestic pilots resign en masse
  Australia's airline industry was thrown into chaos when the nation's 1640 domestic pilots resigned en masse. The move was a dramatic escalation in an ongoing industrial dispute between pilots, domestic airlines and the federal government.
  by Hugo Kelly, Mark Metherell and Jennifer McAsey
  A NSW RAAF base is hosting personnel in self-isolation after they attended a Sydney pub now linked to nine cases.
  Drones could soon be bringing your everyday desires right to your door – or window.
  Australia has been publicly commemorating Anzac Day since 1916, but this year it will be different in the age of the COVID-19 virus – with physical separation.
  Australian Defence officials are looking to how a plane from China held up a Royal Australian Air Force plane from landing in Vanuatu.
  Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said ADF teams would help the national health systems deal with the unprecedented crisis.