Chris Zappone

Qantas to accept dual citizens’ expired UK passports From Wednesday, the airlines will have to enforce new UK visa standards – even as the UK Home Office allows carriers to accept expired passports in certain cases.

Qantas to accept dual citizens’ expired UK passports

Possible next steps after the arrest of former Prince Andrew Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested Thursday — his 66th birthday — on suspicion of misconduct in public office after the latest Jeffrey Epstein files release.

The ongoing investigation of former Prince Andrew proves that NO ONE is above the law.

Governments around the world are holding their leaders accountable – the American people and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes deserve the same transparency.

www.nbcnews.com/world/united...

‘Unjustified’: Australia rejects Trump’s latest tariff hit Trade Minister Don Farrell will be in the United States for a G’Day USA event where he will meet with officials and press Australia’s case.

‘Unjustified’: Australia rejects Trump’s latest tariff hit

Qantas, union at loggerheads over job security in AI-era The ASU wants to know whether a tranche of job cuts related to technology improvements are the first of a multi-tranche redundancy plan.

Qantas job cuts: Union claims AI link amid technology changes at airline headquarters

‘Technically British’: UK visa rule change unleashes confusion for dual citizens While the change that the British government is imposing affects 85 countries, it may have a particular impact on a nation with more than a million UK-born residents.

‘Technically British’: UK visa rule change unleashes confusion for dual citizens

Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24 View flight QF6045 from Bangkok to Brisbane on Flightradar24

Yet another Airbus 321XLR - Qantas' 4th is en route to Qantas in Brisbane from Hamburg. www.flightradar24.co... (VH-OGD) www.planespotters.ne...

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files?

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk newrepublic.com/post/206857/... where is the American outrage about this immigrant’s lawless activity inside the US?

“They want us talking about furries and bathrooms so we don’t realize that they are picking our pockets, that they are closing our schools, they are gutting our healthcare, and they are raising taxes on all of us while they cut taxes for their billionaire donors."

Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Remember this.

Do not grant these two the generous presumption that they know better than to believe this is possible. bsky.app/profile/atru...

HungryPanda delivery drivers say police contacted family back home Riders embroiled in a dispute over pay and conditions with food delivery company HungryPanda in Sydney say Chinese police have asserted pressure back home to stop them protesting.

Is it possible CCP's Skynet did not recognise these protesters weren't in China? Chinese fast food deliverers in Sydney say Chinese police intimidating families over Sydney protests www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid newrepublic.com/article/2065... via @newrepublic.com

Jesse Jackson, a leading African American voice on global stage, dies at 84: WaPost

Wow.

That is cool.

I guess you could see a potential source of electoral energy in 2026/28: for the young and the Democrats.

by Clay Jones

Highly sensitive court data accessed by entity based in India Highly sensitive Australian court files have been accessed offshore in breach of the privacy act and Commonwealth contractual obligations, an ABC investigation has revealed, raising concerns of a nati...

Highly sensitive Australian court data accessed by foreign entity based in India www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

There is a behind-the-scenes tug of war going on between airlines and customers over the vast amounts of data people generate when they search for and purchase tickets. Whoever best exploits this information in coming years will gain an advantage. www.theage.com.au/business/con...

‘The accused did not stop’: Court hears how a man disrupted Melbourne airport The intrusion on the taxiway forced one Qantas flight to abort a landing, with a Melbourne safety office radioing the control tower to warn of the situation.

‘The accused did not stop’: Court hears how a man disrupted Melbourne airport

This is Darwinism in action

Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77

Of Altman film fame…Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/m...

Goldman: "Will the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time. By show of hands, how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the DOJ? None ... How many of you were ignored by the DOJ? All of them." (Bondi responds by smearing Goldman.)

F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”

FAA halts flights to and from El Paso, Texas for 10 days. (Near the border with Mexico) www.nytimes.com/2026... FAA statement tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?pa...

"No matter what President Trump and Pirro continue to do with this case, tonight we can score one for the Constitution, our freedom of speech, and the rule of law." @SenatorSlotkin

‘Unworkable’: Airlines warn aviation reforms could drive up ticket prices The nation’s airlines say the federal government’s aviation consumer protection scheme will drive up costs, and consumer advocates question what will change for passengers.

‘Unworkable’: Airlines warn aviation reforms could drive up ticket prices

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Tech stocks can keep falling. Where a Wall St icon is looking instead Investors are being forced to re-think the capital-lite shares they once loved. Hedge fund legend Dan Loeb is going in a very different direction.

The billionaire bro index is up just 6 per cent since Trump’s inauguration. www.afr.com/chanticleer/...