PETER Dutton is being painted by colleagues as a political Superman: intimidating to Labor, vital to the Coalition team, future Liberal leadership material.

A MAN in his 50s died yesterday in a parachute mishap in central Victoria while on a training exercise. A spokeswoman for parachute club Skydive Nagambie said the man was a member who had recently started the sport, and was undertaking training for his parachuting qualification. "Obviously skydiving like other..read more

Firing air-to-surface missiles and parachuting in hundreds of troops, Indonesia began a new campaign early yesterday to crush separatists in Aceh province in its biggest military offensive since it invaded East Timor.

Two experienced skydivers plunged to their deaths in a parachuting accident in Nagambie, north of Melbourne, on Friday.

Two experienced skydivers plunged to their deaths at Nagambie, north of Melbourne, yesterday. It was the third parachuting tragedy in the small central Victorian town in two years and the second this year.