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Robyn Ironside is The Australian’s aviation writer, and has twice been recognised by the Australasian Aviation Press Club (in 2020 and 2023) as the best aviation journalist. She has been with The Australian since 2018, and covered aviation for News Corp since 2014 after previously reporting on Queensland state politics and crime with The Courier-Mail.

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Zookeeper Oscar Croshaw, 27, feeds Spartacus, a 35-40 year old crocodile at HartleyÃs Crocodile Farm in Far North Queensland. Picture by Sean Davey.

Overseas travel ban makes tropics outlook grim

Spartacus the croc leapt out of the water to snatch his dinner at a farm north of Cairns on Wednesday, and for a moment the problems created by COVID-19 melted away.

Robyn Ironside

Aviation

Tom Caska pictured in Africa who runs Aerologix, an

Grounded pilots take to the air in drones

Airline pilots are in increasing demand as operators of unmanned aircraft.

Robyn Ironside

Australian of the YearScience

Professor Steve Webb, Clinical lead of REMAP-CAPPicture: Sean Middleton

Global reach has saved untold lives

Steve Webb has co-ordinated efforts to uncover some of the best intensive care treatments for COVID-19, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives.

Jacquelin Magnay

TRAVELNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 10: Two passengers walk past a Qantas jet at the International terminal at Sydney Airport on March 10, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Qantas has cut almost a quarter of its international capacity for the next six months as travel demands fall due to fears over COVID-19. The airline today announced it was altering routes to London and would be parking eight of their 12 A380 aircraft. (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images)

‘No overseas travel until next year’

Australia’s chief health bureaucrat has warned the country’s international borders are unlikely to reopen until at least 2022.

Robyn Ironside

Cyclone KimiNation

Warning signs erected in Cardwell as Cyclone Kimi approaches the Australian coastline in Far North Queensland. Picture by Sean Davey.

Kimi upgraded to Cat 2, stays off coast

A BoM tracking map predicts the cyclone will head south before turning back on itself but it will stay off the coast.

Charlie Peel, Jess Malcolm and Robyn Ironside

EXCLUSIVEAviation

18/11/2020: Virgin CEO Jayne Hrdlicka, on a windy day with a Virgin aircraft airside at Brisbane Airport on her first day as CEO at Virgin Australia, Brisbane Domestic Airport. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen

Virgin’s new crew set for takeoff

Against all odds, Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka has assembled a top shelf executive team to rebuild the airline.

Robyn Ironside

CHEESE REBRANDNation

Dr Stephen Hagan photographed in Darwin,is campaigning to have to have Coon Cheese renamed to a less racist term.Picture LENN CAMPBELL

Racist hate mail slurs against cheese activist

The Aboriginal activist who campaigned to change the name of Coon cheese is now the target of white supremacist hate mail.

Robyn Ironside

Nation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 14: Tennis players and their support teams are seen disembarking Flight EY460 carrying tennis players and their support teams participating at the Australian Open at Melbourne Jet Base adjoining the Melbourne International airport on January 14, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. All players and staff arriving in Melbourne for the Australian Open must complete 14 days of hotel quarantine and will be housed across three hotels; the Grand Hyatt, Pullman Albert Park and View Melbourne. Quarantining players will be able to leave their rooms for up to five hours a day, but only to attend dedicated quarantine training venues set up at Melbourne Park, the National Tennis Centre and Albert Reserve. Players will only be permitted to train once their day two COVID-19 comes back negative. All other staff and officials will need to remain in their rooms at all times for the 14 days of quarantine. The 2021 Australian Open will be the largest international sporting event to be held in Australia since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Airlines demand end to premiers’ border wars

Business and industry leaders have joined Qantas boss Alan Joyce in calling for an end to the border games crippling the country.

Robyn Ironside

AviationAviation

QANTAS chief executive Alan Joyce reached for a bottle of gin at the recent opening of a QANTAS Lounge at Heathrow Airport and grabbed a bottle of local Green Ant Gin.

Qantas quip ‘a bid to steal bookings’

Facing more competition on the lucrative Golden Triangle route this year, Qantas is accused of trying to steal bookings from rivals with an underhanded tactic.

Robyn Ironside

TOKYO GAMESOlympics

Olympian Jess Fox in action during a training session at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium as she continues to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics. Picture. Phil Hillyard

Olympians second-class citizens

Olympians face an uncertain next few months amid changing border restrictions and the government’s second-class treatment of Olympic athletes.

Jacquelin Magnay

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