While the past five months have seen the unfolding of an international health emergency with a very human dimension, when Blackbird boss Ian McDonough looks back on lockdown, he may remember this unprecedented period for different reasons. For around the end of March is when the tectonic plates started shifting …
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Covid: Australia hopes to roll out almost 85 million vaccine doses
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The crisis in the aviation industry goes far beyond holidays and jobs for cabin crew, important though those are. The Government’s abject failure to get the planes flying again is devastating for our aerospace manufacturing industry and will kybosh ambitions to be an open, free-trading economy post-Brexit. Most outrage has …
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The closure of international borders, flight caps and quarantine procedures owing to Covid-19 pose a grave threat to global shipping supply chains and the welfare of seafarers, the head of Australia’s maritime safety authority has warned. Mick Kinley, chief executive of Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa), said there was an …
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