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A man accused of murdering a Newcastle resident who was out walking his dog tried to rob a petrol station while armed with an improvised explosive device (IED) minutes before the alleged attack, a court has heard. Zack Mavin, 24, Read More …
A man had five homemade rockets, 27 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and almost 1.5 kilograms of rocket fuel at his Adelaide home because of his “unhealthy hobby” of manufacturing bombs, a court has heard. Lawyers for Phillip John Copley told Read More …
A man has been charged with multiple firearm-related offences following the execution of a Firearm Prohibition Order in the state’s Orana Region. About 8.50am on Tuesday 29 September 2020, detectives attached to Orana Mid Western Police District attended a home Read More …
Geelong Detectives are appealing for information after two suspected bombs were found outside a house in Waurn Ponds on Sunday. Emergency crews were called to Monterey Drive around 2:45am after a device was set on fire near a letter box. Read More …
The new commitment will go to MAG International, an organisation working to destroy landmines and help people rebuild their lives after conflict. According to MAG, Australia’s funds will transform an additional 190,000 square meters of contaminated ground into a sustainable, Read More …
A group’s attempt at revenge for stolen drugs has left an innocent 55-year-old woman “traumatised” and six men facing up to 25 years in prison after an improvised explosive device was detonated on the balcony of a Canterbury home in Read More …
Cambodia will bolster its demining force by 2,000 men and women and deploy a broad strategy to clear the country of all land mines and unexploded ordnance by 2025 with the backing of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Australia, Read More …
Trekking down a tourist trail 20 kilometres outside Norseman, in Western Australia’s Goldfields region, a couple were shocked to find explosives scattered around the area where they had stopped for lunch. The couple alerted Shire of Dundas CEO, Peter Fitchat, Read More …
Australian government has continued its support for mine clearance activities in Cambodia by providing AU$7.6 million from 2020 to 2024 through the Clearing for Results-Phase 4 (CFR-IV) project. The information was made known by H.E. Pablo Kang, Australian Ambassador to Read More …
The bomb squad, the dog squad and the army have been called in after forensic cleaners found explosives in a shed at a house in Kew. Gelignite and a small mortar were among the items found in an overflowing and Read More …
A family on an evening walk has found an apparent homemade explosive device near a popular walking track in south eastern Victoria. Police are investigating after the “suspicious device” was found near the Rokeby-to-Neerim rail trail near Lavinia Street about Read More …
The South Australian bomb squad described a firecracker containing almost 150 nails and rocks as an “improvised hand grenade” which was found in the possession of a man in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, a court has heard. The court was told Read More …
A South Australian man became inspired to try and make his own weapons — including explosive devices and a deadly toxin — after watching a television show, a court has heard. Benjamin John Whitehouse pleaded guilty to possessing a sawn-off Read More …
A NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team operation is being conducted at Tapitallee, west of North Nowra. Around 7am at least half a dozen unmarked vehicles assembled in a Tapitallee street. The South Coast Register understands teams from the Australian Federal Read More …
An improvised explosive device found in a raid in the northern Melbourne suburb of Reservoir has been detonated, police said. Victoria Police entered a house on Joan Court before 2pm on Tuesday and found the bomb along with four stolen Read More …
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Australia of up to eight hundred fifty (850) Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Increment 1 Block 1 (JCREW I1B1) Systems and related equipment. Read More …
In a first-of-its-kind event, expeditionary forces from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States arrived in Guam August 14 to conduct Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) training in exercise HYDRACRAB. HYDRACRAB brings together more than 100 Sailors from four Indo-Pacific Read More …
Serious security deficiencies have been uncovered at Townsville Airport, with fake bombs passing through screening undetected. In April this year aviation inspectors, with Home Affairs, conducted what is known as red teaming tests. Two fake improvised explosive devices passed through Read More …
A man has been convicted in Australia of plotting to blow up an Etihad flight in a terror attack, using a bomb hidden inside a meat grinder. Khaled Khayat, 51, conspired to bring down the flight from Sydney to Abu Read More …
Police have set off four controlled explosions in the backyard of an Adelaide home, but say the incident is not connected to terrorism. The home at Heytesbury Road at Davoren Park, in Adelaide’s north, was raided by police last night Read More …