A search is underway for four Australian Army air crew missing after their helicopter ditched into water near Hamilton Island on Friday night.
Fears are growing four Australian aviators are dead after an army helicopter crash in Queensland on Friday while participating in military drills.
which this year sees more than 30,000 personnel from 13 countries taking part. Those exercises have now been paused. Mr Marles revealed the details of the crash alongside Chief of the Defence Force Angus Campbell and Brigadier Damien Hill, this year’s director for Talisman Sabre on Saturday morning.with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin with Mr Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane.“Defence exercises which are so necessary for the readiness of our Defence Force are serious.
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