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Passengers caught in the security scare today. Photo: Markmyersboom Twitter Source: Twitter
SWANS fans flying to Melbourne for today’s AFL Grand Final are in a race against time after a a security scare sparked delays at Sydney Airport.
Passengers were evacuated after the man walked into Terminal 3, used for domestic flights, without passing through security screening this morning.Qantas said the delay only lasted about an hour, although any ardent Sydney Swans fans travelling to Melbourne for the AFL grand final this afternoon probably broke into a sweat.
Mosque vandalised: Abuse spray-painted on Muslim community site in Brisbane
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Scott Morrison champagne toast in Phnom Penh ‘crass, sickening’: Greens
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Toasting his Cambodian “dirty deal” with champagne was a crass and sickening move by the immigration minister, Scott Morrison, the Australian Greens have said.
Toasting his Cambodian “dirty deal” with champagne was a crass and sickening move by the immigration minister, Scott Morrison, the Australian Greens have said.
Morrison signed a memorandum of understanding with Cambodia’s interior minister, Sar Kheng, in Phnom Penh on Friday to allow refugees processed on the Pacific island of Nauru to resettle in Cambodia. Afterwards, the pair toasted their deal with champagne.
The acid test: Australian journalists must ask what agenda they serve
At the end of a week of much media hysteria about terrorism, the Senate passed arguably the most significant restraints on press freedom in this country outside of wartime
It requires us to seek truth, whether the truth is ugly and discomfiting or whether it is reassuring and soothing. It requires us to ask questions – a lot of questions – of very powerful people, without fear or favour.
It requires us to take the time to get things right rather than assuming in cavalier fashion that an error in the internet age is never wrong for long. And it involves taking steps to ensure we don’t inflame the tinderbox: truth is not inflammatory, but dog whistling and ethnic stereotyping certainly are.
To put it simply, this story requires what great journalism always requires: that no agenda is served other than the interests of the readers. If we are asking the state to be accountable and not abuse its power and position, then best we hold ourselves to the same standard.
If we meet this basic test, then perhaps we’ll be worth defending.
Newscorp any agenda the government wants
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