Police believe the 17yo gained access through a hole in the fence.
Gee, what value for money this 'Home Affairs' monstrosity has been, hey?
Holes in perimeter fences of airports while people who work there are put through a third degree (and it's apparently going to get even harder) to obtain an ASIC. Before this we've had things like the Department of Home Affairs ignoring repeated warnings from a German gun-dealer who suspected parts for possibly hundreds of Glock pistols were being posted to Australia in separate packages. Home Affairs ignored every warning until it turned out the packages arrived and were collected. The NSW Police then had to clean up the mess left by Border Farce (part of HA).
Let me see, we've also had priceless circa 1780s botanical samples collected by La Peruse and stored in a museum in France, requested for research for loan and despite being labelled with BIG LETTERS and accompanied by copious amounts of permits and other documentation, Home Affairs (e.g. 'Border Farce') sent them to the incinerator as "illegal plant material".
Should also reserve special mention for the wonderful gun laws that put every law-abiding gun owner through multiple hoops and required hundreds of dollars of expenditure to install safes, etc. and maintain licenses while a 17 year old kid can just walk into an airport with a shot gun. Note: you have to be 18 to hold a firearms license.
The more monolithic these departments get and the more complicated laws get (we are now well over 70 pieces of 'anti-terror' legislation), the more incompetent the administration becomes.
I don't want to make this an ALP/LNP thing but others on here who have jumped to blame a State Premier might take note of the fact of whom the government was when the gun laws and the stupid Border Force act was written and passed. Such laws in their original form had such 'essential' provisions such as criminalising "bringing the Commonwealth or the Monarchy into disrepute" or similar, bet that's going to make a lot of difference, will have the terrorists shaking in their boots - considering just about every federal politician could be guilty of that one. It makes you wonder what drugs the people were on or what wild, conspiracy laden universe they were inhabiting. I don't think there's too many of these over-the-top laws that haven't been found wanting when tested.
Another example was the youtube channel "juice media" being visited by the Feds and 'warned' that their mock coat of arms (an OBVIOUS parody, with Kangaroo and Emu's heads being replaced with surveillance cameras) might be in breach of the new (anti-terror) law of "impersonating a Commonwealth entity". Look up the debate in Senate estimates and watch former AG Brandis struggling to justify that rubbish.
The term 'goons' would seem to fit.