The Airline Passenger Protections (Pay on Delay) Bill 2024 would, among its other provisions, introduce compensation for passengers hit with delays of longer than three hours, and require the transport minister to implement an airline code of conduct.
Senior Labor ministers are facing a grilling over claims unnamed ministerial colleagues are questioning whether the citizenship of Fatima Payman would affect her ability to remain in the senate.
Regional Victorian rents have notched a fresh record after modest price growth over the past year, which experts warn will put more pressure on already stretched affordability outside Melbourne.
In its preliminary report, the transport safety watchdog said that the Chipmunk VH-POR, a former military training aircraft that collided with the ground shortly after takeoff on 26 April, killing its pilot, appeared to have two unfastened latches on i…