Macca’s stages global menu “heist” for Australian diners

McDonald’s Australia is raiding its own international menus, bringing cult favourites from Japan, Canada, the UK and the US to local restaurants for a limited time.

McDonald’s Australia is giving local diners a taste of the world without the airport queues, jet lag or awkward currency conversion.

The last stand of Captain Thunderbolt

The morning of 25 May 1870 broke cold and grey over the New England tablelands of New South Wales. Frederick Ward, the man the colonies knew as Captain Thunderbolt, had seen too many such dawns to fear them. For nearly seven years, he had outrun every trooper sent after him, slipping through the ranges like smoke, robbing coaches and stations with a courtesy that made him almost a folk legend. Almost.