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| UpdatedOngoing job cuts in Airservices Australia leave the network at "breaking point" and senior managers express fears the new regime is "a huge risk to public safety", an ABC investigation reveals.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, federal-government, melbourne-3000, melbourne-airport-3045, vic, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedDamaging winds lash Victoria overnight causing blackouts and more damage to properties already affected by last weekend's wild weather.
Topics: weather, mount-dandenong-3767, melbourne-airport-3045, melbourne-3000, templestowe-3106, box-hill-3128, healesville-3777, toolangi-3777
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| UpdatedA flight from Sydney to Malaysia ended up in Melbourne after the captain entered the wrong coordinates into the plane's navigation system just before take-off, a safety investigation finds.
Topics: air-and-space, air-transport, sydney-airport-2020, melbourne-airport-3045, malaysia, australia
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| UpdatedTasmanian health authorities warn of a potential measles outbreak, with the state recording its first case in two years.
Topics: infectious-diseases-other, launceston-7250, hobart-7000, melbourne-3000, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedParamedics and firefighters respond to an incident at Melbourne Airport where a Tiger Airways plane made a priority landing after a unusual odour was reported in the cabin.
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| UpdatedSerious concerns are raised over safety procedures at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, after what senator Nick Xenophon describes as a "near miss" involving three planes.
Topics: air-transport, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedAirline investigators may take up to a year to determine the cause of a flight diversion to Darwin earlier this week with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau confirming it considered the event a "serious incident".
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, air-and-space, darwin-0800, melbourne-airport-3045, singapore
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government steps up screening of European travellers, after deporting a French national found carrying three cans of chemical mace and extremist material at Melbourne Airport.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, terrorism, melbourne-airport-3045, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA Jetstar plane heading from Melbourne to Singapore turns around mid-flight and lands in Darwin after the pilot notices a fault in one of the flight instruments.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, darwin-0800, melbourne-airport-3045, singapore
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| UpdatedThe creation of Australian Border Force is placing "horrendous" pressure on staff and leading to long delays at Melbourne Airport, the union representing ABF airport officers says.
Topics: security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, melbourne-airport-3045, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedWater is returning to the main terminal of Melbourne Airport, after a burst water main on Francis Briggs Road cut of supply early this morning, airport officials say.
Topics: water-supply, water, air-and-space, melbourne-airport-3045
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Dr Colin Grant says that horses will be the first animals moved into the new quarantine facility on Melbourne's outskirts.
Topics: quarantine, melbourne-3000, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedQantas drops two daily flights between Perth and Melbourne and decreases capacity on some of its services between Western Australia and Sydney.
Topics: air-transport, perth-airport-6105, sydney-airport-2020, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedOperations are returning to normal after more than a dozen flights were delayed from Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport as cold weather and "wing icing" prevented take off.
Topics: weather, air-and-space, melbourne-3000, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedCustoms and Immigration staff walk off the job for two hours at airports and seaports across the country in response to what unions say is a Federal Government attack on workers' rights and conditions.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, industrial-relations, immigration, australia, sydney-international-airport-2020, brisbane-airport-4007, melbourne-airport-3045, perth-airport-6105, adelaide-5000, hobart-7000, canberra-2600, darwin-0800
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Travellers on a plane from Melbourne to Canberra on Monday are warned to be aware of measles symptoms after a passenger on the flight became infected during an overseas trip.
Topics: infectious-diseases-other, health, states-and-territories, act, canberra-2600, melbourne-3000, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedThe National LGBTI Health Alliance raises several concerns in a submission to a Senate inquiry into airport and aviation security, detailing the experience of one anonymous person whose prosthetic was detected in their underwear while they underwent a body scan.
Topics: discrimination, gays-and-lesbians, australia, melbourne-airport-3045, sydney-airport-2020
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A man pleads guilty to trafficking drugs with a syndicate that flew marijuana in domestic flights from Melbourne to Brisbane in checked-in luggage.
Topics: courts-and-trials, drug-offences, brisbane-4000, brisbane-airport-4007, melbourne-3000, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedAn AirAsia X flight which made an emergency landing in Melbourne this afternoon has taken off for Malaysia.
Topics: emergency-incidents, air-and-space, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, sydney-international-airport-2020, malaysia, melbourne-airport-3045
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Protesters were removed from a plane in Melbourne after trying to stop a Tamil asylum seeker being transferred to Darwin.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-airport-3045, darwin-0800
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Australia's air safety watchdog has issued a warning about the safety of transporting lithium batteries after it found they caused a fire on flight about to take off from Melbourne airport earlier this year.
Topics: air-and-space, fires, emergency-incidents, melbourne-airport-3045, fiji
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| UpdatedVirgin Australia's Chief Customer Officer Mark Hassell explains that from today passengers can browse the web and use devices in "flight mode" but phone calls on board will still be banned.
Topics: industry, air-transport, travel-health-and-safety, safety, mobile-phones, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, sydney-airport-2020, melbourne-airport-3045, australia
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| UpdatedThick fog over Adelaide has caused headaches at the city's airport, with at least one plane caught in a holding pattern before being diverted.
Topics: weather, adelaide-5000, sa, melbourne-airport-3045
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| UpdatedA Victorian woman was allegedly concealing 38 grams of methamphetamine inside her body when stopped by a drug detection dog team at Darwin Airport.
Topics: drug-offences, darwin-0800, melbourne-airport-3045, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAustraliain preacher and Islamic State supporter Musa Cerantonio has arrived back in Australia at Melbourne Airport.
Topics: melbourne-airport-3045