source : the age
Christmas Island locals yesterday woke to an unusual sight, a large rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX being towed in by two large ships.
The starship was launched from Texas on July 24 before making a controlled landing in the Indian Ocean days later.
It will remain off the northern coast of the WA island until it’s retrieved by SpaceX.
Photographer Chris Bray captured the rare sight by drone.
“The thing that struck me the most was just how big it was, it’s enormous, 50-something metres long, but it’s not until you see it floating out their in the water behind a ship, and it looks big,” he told 9 News Perth.
Here’s what’s happening across the nation and around the world:
- Three migration agents have been suspended or stripped of their registrations after allowing unqualified people to use their credentials to provide immigration advice, in a crackdown exposing further misconduct within Australia’s migration industry.
- If the Swans followed the standard script for AFL clubs on the eve of finals, they would be pushing for a two-match ban for the players who have caused such embarrassment to the club, the game and themselves.
Welcome to our live news blog for this Wednesday, the 19th of August.
Making headlines today, regional towns in Western Australia are outperforming the nation, including its capital cities, when it comes to house price growth – but one town in particular is outpacing the rest.
Across the state, regional areas recorded an average dwelling price growth of 2.1 per cent – the highest average growth out of all states and territories and on par with South Australia, the latest Cotality Regional Market Update shows.
Regional Australia’s housing market has continued to outperform the capital cities, despite a broad slowdown that has seen value growth in almost every major regional market slow or decline in the past three months, that report found.
