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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Martin Farrer

Morning Mail: Virgin pilots warn of fatigue, Albanese attacks ‘shallow’ Dutton, tourist’s terror attack escape

Virgin Australia aircraft at Sydney airport
Virgin Australia aircraft at Sydney airport. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Morning everyone. Working at the limits of fatigue, back-to-back 11- or 12-hour days and a roster system “not fit for purpose”. These are some of the complaints made by Virgin Australia pilots, who say in our exclusive top story this morning that working practices pose a “clear, present safety risk”.

In other news, Anthony Albanese accuses Peter Dutton of having a “wrecking” strategy, a bizarre “two-hour-long pagan mass” given by Argentinian president Javier Milei, and an Australian tourist tells how he escaped death in a terror attack in Afghanistan.

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