– RAAF aircraft have carried out their first missions in the military operation in Iraq. They featured re-fueller and reconnaissance aircraft, but not the Super Hornets, with a decision on airstrikes still pending.
– Police are searching for a woman seen setting fire to an Australian flag, using the eternal flame of remembrance at Sydney’s Hyde Park war memorial.
– And after 13 years as New South Wales Governor, Dame Marie Bashir has spent her final day at work – with all the ceremony and pomp fit for the state’s longest-serving and first female governor.
