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Regional airport securityDate: 05 September 2004
Australia's airport security union has called for a bi-partisan approach to ensuring regional airports deliver the highest possible security standards for passengers. " There is a gaping hole in the fabric of Australia's airport security safety net while our regional airports do not deliver the highest possible security standards," Jeff Lawrence, LHMU Airport Security Union National Secretary said today. " John Howard's commitment to protecting Australians will forever be undermined while he allows the fabric of our security safety net to be frayed by the continuing problems at regional airports. " We have to close this hole if we don't want terrorists to clamber through, using our country airports as a base to threaten our major metropolitan centres." Latham announcement delivers improved securityJeff Lawrence praised Mark Latham's announcements of better regional airport security and called on the Federal Government to match these promises." The delivery of permanent passenger screening facilities, staffed by trained and qualified security personnel, has been a key demand of LHMU union activists at airports across Australia now for several years," Jeff Lawrence said today. " Mark Latham's announcement delivers this security to key regional airports." Last month the Howard Government announced it would buy hand-wand security devices for regional airports, but they would not be used regularly - only during terrorist alerts. Security scandal" The unprotected planes which fly out of Albury, first to Canberra and then on to Sydney, are a security scandal of the first order." This Qantas Link Albury to Sydney flights, via Canberra, should send shivers down the spine of any security expert - because you can catch a plane to our national capital without a security check. " Passengers are asked to get off in Canberra for their first security check - but they are regularly told by cabin crew to leave their hand luggage aboard the plane while they walk over the tarmac to the airport building. " Each time that plane leaves Albury we have the potential of a massive security threat, not just as the plane flies into Canberra but also into Sydney." Disappointed that National Party leader ignores country airport crisisMr Lawrence pointed out that the LHMU Airport Security Union first started campaigning around this issue more than three years ago - well before the tragedy of September 11." Our members continue to be disappointed that the Howard Government has preferred lower standards for important regional airports than that for the capital city airports. " We are puzzled by the fact that the Minister for Transport, John Anderson, as the leader of the National Party, who has a specifically rural constituency, has ignored this crisis and allowed these lower standards."
The LHMU proudly represents around 130,000 hard working women and men throughout AustraliaFor further comment: Jeff Lawrence, LHMU Airport Security Union National Secretary 042 524 2724
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