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Kiwis will soon face full-body scans at Australian airports or be banned from flying, in a radical security overhaul that could create greater airport delays.
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The Tongariro Crossing’s name was changed in 2007 to the Tongariro Alpine Crossing in a bid to dissuade tourists from attempting the day-long trek taking little more than jandals and a water bottle – only to be caught by the unpredictable weather.
Thousands of Australians fled their homes as floodwaters engulfed parts of the country’s northeast, damaging properties and ravaging crops a year after natural disasters cost the economy about A$9 billion .
Flood waters rose on Monday in parts of Queensland but residents of a threatened town in the Australian state were thrown a lifeline with news that the levee on a swollen river might hold.
Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.
Authorities were using military helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane Sunday to evacuate thousands of residents stranded by rising floodwaters in the eastern Australian state of Queensland, the government said.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has renewed his attack on proposed law changes limiting the airline’s ability to hire foreign flight crews, arguing they will force it to dump services to Darwin and Cairns.
On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, which marks 60 years of her reign as Head of State of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms, an exhibition of 60 press photographs is on show at Windsor Castle.
Racial outbursts and protesters rushing at New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Sunday morning, failed to dampen Waitangi celebrations in the Bay of Island’s town of Paihia on Sunday.
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