Top end needs you
Long-term residents at RAAF Base Tindal reckon they can tell a newcomer. Newcomers use the base pool in June when the temperature - in the high 20s and low 30s - is still "too cold" for the locals.

Balloon baptism
It was a case of throwing new Air Force balloon pilot Squadron Leader Shane Thompson in the deep end as he took command of the balloon for the first time at the 16th World Hot Air Balloon Championships in Mildura.

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