Aviation white paper may include plan to recompense people whose flights are cancelled or delayed; treasurer to present budget; and bushfires have hit frog populations
Morning everyone. The federal budget will dominate the news today but let’s start with a development that will be of great interest to the bottom line of anyone who has ever boarded a plane in Australia: airlines could soon be forced to pay compensation to passengers who are bumped off flights.
We’ll be looking into how that might happen, plus everything you need to know in advance of the budget, and how Mark Zuckerberg has conquered martial arts.Pugh’s mountain frog , which lives in boggy rainforest habitat and has a call that ‘sounds like a bit of a fart’, was among the hardest hit by the black summer bushfires.
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