The super-pressure balloon lifted off from Wānaka Airport and will now spend 100 days or more flying around the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, where it will measure neutral wind in the upper atmosphere.
Grace Tame has faced calls to be stripped of her Australian of the Year award after she chanted “globalise the intifada” which the NSW Premier has said incited violence against Jewish Australians.
Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been awarded one of the highest honours, the Companion of Order of Australia which has caused a lot of backlash.