Monday 20 June 2022

Official visit to Sri Lanka

The visit follows a phone call between Minister Peiris and Minister O'Neil early last week and coincides with the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and Australia.

Voyager 1 Starts Sending NASA Random Data, Nobody Knows Why Yet

"A mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission," according to Suzanne Dodd, JPL project manager for Voyager 1 and 2. "The spacecraft are both almost 45 years old, which is far beyond what the mission planners anticipated." Dodd also points out that interstellar space is a "high-radiation environment that no spacecraft have flown in before," so a few strange events that take some time to explain should come as no surprise.

Voyager 1 Starts Sending NASA Random Data, Nobody Knows Why Yet
https://au.pcmag.com/news/94123/voyager-1-starts-sending-nasa-random-data-nobody-knows-why-yet

Dan Tehan pleads with Anthony Albanese to visit Sri Lanka to address refugee concerns amid humanitarian and economic crisis

The shadow Immigration Minister has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to fly to Sri Lanka to meet with his counterpart after people smugglers allegedly told asylum seekers they would not be sent back by the new "refugee-friendly" Australian government.

Dan Tehan pleads with Anthony Albanese to visit Sri Lanka to address refugee concerns amid humanitarian and economic crisis | Sky News Australia
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/dan-tehan-pleads-with-anthony-albanese-to-visit-sri-lanka-to-address-refugee-concerns-amid-humanitarian-and-economic-crisis/news-story/e341e4135ee20dc865fef74b8e5c04a7

Australian migration levels still lagging behind pre-COVID rates

WITH INTERNATIONAL borders now open for almost six months, there are new patterns of people movements (both long-term and short-term) emerging that will have longer-term implications.