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.