The 23-year-old, fitness influencer Preslie Ginoski, fronted court on Wednesday after previously using his position to enter a restricted area and record video of himself posing shirtless inside the turbine of a parked aircraft, then uploading the footage to the internet. He has been fined $2,400 after pleading guilty to two charges.
Tracklaying on the transport link, which will incorporate 106.8 kilometres of rail line and 76,285 sleepers, began north of a new metro bridge over what will be the M12 motorway and is proceeding towards the line’s terminus at St Marys.
The fees have been at the centre of a row between Auckland Airport and its airline customers, with the airport arguing that upcoming price hikes are necessary to fund the NZ$3.9 billion integration of its domestic and international terminals.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said a Coalition government would take $2.2 billion pledged to the SRL, which he labelled a “cruel hoax” that will “never be delivered”, as well as $2 billion for upgrades to Sunshine Station, and tip $1.5 billion into the long-delayed airport rail.
The Federal Court was told five Australian women left traumatised over strip-searches and physically invasive examinations at Doha in October 2020 have been “shut out of their trial despite having identified very serious questions” that should be tried at hearing.
The men, at least two of whom appear to have worked for Qantas subsidiary Jets Transport Express, attempted to bring 100kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of $40 million into the country on a cargo flight from Johannesburg.