Federal Police and terrorism response officers will be visiting various country airports to carry out security reviews. (See
here).
Does anyone know which terrorist risk they are actually addressing? To spend that much money at a place like Bourke (which to my knowledge doesn’t even have an adequate fence to keep kangaroos out) seems like a misallocation of resources.
Are they considering that a small plane could take off from Bourke and head towards a major city, possibly Canberra? Why wouldn’t the small plane take off from an airport like Goulburn, or a farmer’s airstrip even closer?
This is a serious enquiry. What is the actual terrorist risk being addressed at a place like Bourke?