{"id":846539,"date":"2026-08-07T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846539\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:54:11","slug":"australia-news-as-it-happened-marles-says-cabinet-is-not-divided-after-burkes-immigration-address-called-off-trump-denies-reports-of-us-missile-shortage-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846539\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news as it happened: Marles says cabinet is not divided after Burke\u2019s immigration address called off; Trump denies reports of US missile shortage amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian air crew has flown an American from an Antarctic base to a New Zealand hospital in a rare midwinter rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The Airbus A319 Long Range aircraft, with the call sign Snowbird 1, flew from Hobart to the US McMurdo Station in Antarctica on July 31 in response to an \u201curgent request for assistance\u201d, the jet\u2019s Melbourne-based owner, Skytraders, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The United States Antarctic research base, McMurdo Station.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f8f2291d7194a4884856f5b2c1fd3641f04ed7bc.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The United States Antarctic research base, McMurdo Station.AP<\/p>\n<p>The jet landed after a five-hour, 30-minute flight at the Phoenix Airfield near McMurdo in darkness and temperatures as low as minus 43 degrees, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The American was flown on the same day to Christchurch Hospital, as weather conditions at the Antarctic air strip worsened, said Skytraders, which is contracted by the Australian Antarctic Program.<\/p>\n<p>The US National Science Foundation told the ABC that the patient was admitted in a \u201cserious condition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Health Ministry would not comment on the American\u2019s condition or say whether they remained in hospital.<br \/>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian air crew has flown an American from an Antarctic base to a New Zealand hospital in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-846539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}