1 October 2026
But the passport would not disappear from the process as travellers would have to register online ahead of time.
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3 October 2026
Home affairs department orders all federal government agencies to conduct review of ‘legacy technology’ amid fallout from AI agent hacks This week, the home affairs department ordered all federal government agencies to conduct a “legacy technology stocktake” that requires a plan for each agency to “reduce legacy technology systems” to a level within the agency’s risk tolerance and appetite, the direction stated .
3 October 2026
The epicentre was at Leongatha, 130km south-east of Melbourne, with residents reporting houses shaking just after 2am 8 earthquake struck Victoria in the early hours of Saturday morning, shaking Melbourne and waking people across the whole region. Geoscience Australia said it detected an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4. 8 at 2. 01am near Leongatha, 130km south-east of Melbourne, with the tremors felt across the city’s eastern suburbs.
3 October 2026
Driver arrested at the scene after vehicle strikes multiple people in a crowd, leaving 10 injured including three children New South Wales police said a five-year-old girl and a 67-year-old man were in a critical condition, with eight others in a stable condition after the crash on Saturday morning.
3 October 2026
Hapag-Lloyd duly raised its 2026 profit guidance this week – a palatable appetiser before Mærsk, its partner in the Gemini shipping alliance, does the same (again) in a month’s time? Those in the bull camp think so. The Danish carrier, which reports third-quarter results on 5 November, is forecast to disclose quarterly Ebitda ranging between $5. 4bn and $5. 5bn, up about 80% on the second quarter and roughly double a year ago.
3 October 2026
Athens provided the backdrop for Aviation Connect 2026 this week, with sunshine, warm temperatures, and the occasional rain shower – a fittingly changeable setting for an event that had plenty going on. The Tuesday-to-Thursday event spread delegates across a collection of rooms and tracks covering pharma, GSSAs, air cargo handling, cargo airport development, road feeder services, airline ground services, GSE, and ramp operations. It is one of the things that makes Aviation ... The post Aviation Connect: air cargo’s favourite event, but with an unfortunate early dip… appeared first on The Loadstar .
3 October 2026
Later this month, finance ministers from APEC‘s 21 member economies meet in Hong Kong, the first time the city has hosted the gathering. On their table is a digital infrastructure financing initiative, prepared with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), aimed at funding gaps in broadband, cloud computing and data centers. It will be presented as development policy. Shippers, forwarders and port operators should read it as trade policy, because data centers ... The post ‘Data centers are the new ports’ – and APEC finance ministers want to fund them appeared first on The Loadstar .
3 October 2026
Flydubai has had an interesting week – but the drama on the Tel Aviv flight rather overshadowed its launch of a freighter service in a bid to catch growing demand for ecommerce, specialised shipments and regional trade ill-served by narrowbody belly capacity. Yesterday, the airline introduced three B737-800 freighters, each capable of carrying 23 tonnes of payload, giving flydubai Cargo its own scheduled capacity for the first time. “We have seen strong ... The post Flydubai Cargo unveils routes for freighter network launch appeared first on The Loadstar .
