Morning Mail: The MPs in Qantas’ Chairman’s lounge, judge rules on Australian right to privacy, lost Mayan city found

Membership to the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge and Virgin’s equivalent is understood to be extended to all federal members and senators. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Morning everyone. More than 200 current federal politicians have declared membership of Qantas’ Chairman’s Lounge, analysis of parliament’s register of pecuniary interests shows, as debate swirls over the free upgrades and benefits that the prime minister received from the airline (and that he has declared).

Meanwhile, a court has recognised a right to privacy in Australian law in a groundbreaking case that led to a $30,000 compensation award; nine days of horror in Gaza’; and researchers find a lost city in the Mexican jungle.