CANBERRA – AUSTRALIAN Iron Ore bound for China is being spiked with sophisticated nano-bugs which allow Canberra to watch and listen to millions of Chinese conversations around the People’s Republic. The technology, first developed by Mexican drug cartels for use in the United States, turns steel made from it, and therefore entire buildings, into surveillance…

Australia’s new American submarines are all haunted, according to a French historian. “That is why they are giving them to you,” said Jacques St Just Gateau, Professor of Naval Economics at the prestigious Ecole Bateau in Paris. “These boats are all stalked by the ghosts of nuclear accidents. The Americans never reveal their nuclear accident…

Science Desk NEW research has shown that Australia is moving north faster than was thought. The island continent, which broke off from Gondwanaland about 33 million years ago, has been generally drifting north on its own tectonic plate ever since. It used to be thought that this drift was at about 7 centimetres a year…