Like the muddy hand from the grave, Macquarie is suddenly circling Sydney Airport again. Michael West reports on the ultimate circus of privatisation, where Macquarie pillaged the most prized asset in Australia, the unregulated monopoly which is this country’s gateway to the world, and is shaping up to do it again.
Source: Vultures’ Reprise: MacBankers bob up in takeover battle for hapless Sydney Airport – Michael West
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been left red-faced after an explosive device used during sniffer dog training was left in a suitcase at Sydney Airport.
The AFP apologised after the suitcase, containing about 230 grams of plastic explosives, accidentally ended up in the hands of a female passenger on Tuesday afternoon.
The device, which was not live, was hidden inside the unclaimed suitcase during what the AFP said was a “routine canine exercise”.
The suitcase containing the explosive device was then mistakenly given to the woman whose luggage was damaged during her flight.
The woman only discovered the device once she was in Cessnock. She took it to the local police station, where officers evacuated their building as a safety precaution.
AFP Sydney Airport commander Wayne Buchhorn said the AFP was taking the error seriously.
“The canine instructor who inadvertently left this device behind has been identified and will be the subject of a formal Professional Standards Investigation,” he said.
AFP = Awfully F***ing Pathetic
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