Passengers at Adelaide Airport could be facing disruptions from next week if security screeners follow through on their threat to strike. The workers want a 15 per cent pay rise, and then a four per cent annual increase after that. Read article
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The murderer spat on passengers, ripped a telephone from the seat of a plane and tried to urinate in the aisle during two attempts to fly him on commercial airlines. Herring, 66, who is notorious for his extraordinary displays of anger and abuse, is due to be deported after spending two decades in jail for […]
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Police say a tourist who had been missing at Litchfield National Park overnight has been located, safe and well. A helicopter joined the search this morning at the park, about 60 kilometres south of Darwin. Read article
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Tactical police officers with guns drawn stormed Deniliquin Airport on Tuesday and Thursday. But it wasn’t a hostage situation — Local State Protections Support Unit (SPSU) police were doing tactical training to practice resolving high-risk situations. Read article
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A 30-year-old Welshman has been charged by police in Australia after a backpacker in fancy dress was set on fire. New South Wales Police said a 31-year-old Frenchman was attending a party at a backpacker hostel in Sydney wearing a mummy costume made of toilet paper when he was allegedly set alight by a fellow […]
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Australian tourist Tyson Dagley, 20, pleaded no contest on Thursday (August 23) after being charged with third-degree negligent homicide in a Hawaii personal watercraft crash that killed a California teen, Kristen Fonseca, 16, on August 5. COMMENT: Unfortunately for Dagley, police investigators recovered a video clip of the defendant standing on a jet-ski posing for […]
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A Chinese backpacker who arrived in Australia just four months ago has been killed in a hit and run at Gatton. The Hong Kong tourist had left the BP/McDonalds complex at 7pm on Wednesday and was riding a push bike to the Gatton Caravan Park where he was staying. Read Article
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An American man sailing solo around New Zealand who was reported missing by his family last week has been found safe and well in Picton. Detective Sergeant Linda Simpson of the New Zealand police missing persons unit says 26-year-old Sean D’Epagnier was located by Picton police on his sailboat Alexandra in Waikawa Bay about 8pm […]
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A FRENCH tourist has been located by searchers and has been charged by police after a two-day search at Strathdickie, near Proserpine. The 27-year-old went missing from Strathdickie last Thursday morning and he was located by police on Friday night and was airlifted to the Townsville General Hospital for treatment. Read Article
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Stevie Rochelle Bamford, the 21-year-old Australian woman who was recently convicted of falsely reporting that she was raped in Phuket, was deported to her native country earlier today, having served a fifteen-day jail sentence. Bamford apparently had an argument with her Australian boyfriend when she came home late one night after a night on the […]
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