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Watch closely, the explosive sniffer operator makes a note each time a passenger gets "sniffed". It is all a matter of quotas.

Dally at the end of the x-ray machine baggage roller until the sniffer operator pulls over a new "customer" then nip through.

I beat them every time! :}

There is quite a push from the Feds to reintroduce ID requirements. They are using the "terrorism" flag to get what they want, but is really to combat organized crime ie keeping tabs on known criminals thus getting the industry to do their work for them.
So therefore there is an assumed lower risk that there would be a bag substitution. Why would that happen if it is just Big Joe from the Finks travelling. Also they are working off the old school theory that a bad guy putting something nasty on an aircraft does not want to be on it when it does what it does. These days the bad guy tends to get on board with the bag with something nasty in it. It will have his bag tag on it. That's what the baggage Xray machines are for. That's why there is 100% bag screening. Then it doesn't matter who's name is on the bag, as long as whatever nasty is in the bag does not get on the aircraft.
In the end reality has to be considered. Someone wanting to do something nasty wants to make an impression. The assessed risk is they won't waste their time (or life) on a smaller aircraft and less people. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

Not so much quotas as record keeping. When they get audited by Homeland, the spooks will know how many passengers have gone through screening. The screeners will need to demonstrate that they have ETD'd a sufficient percentage of the pax to meet the "random and continuous" percentage that will exceed whatever magic number the spooks will decide is adequate.

Nowhere does The Department of Home Affairs say that security has to be "affordable", so they have nothing to admit to.

I just walk straight to the bomb sniffer, it's maybe one extra minute and gives me chance to get dressed before I head to the gate.

Yes, you look dodgy !

National Terrorism Threat Advisory

Well, we could just use the "head in the sand" technique. Didn't work too well in London, Barcelona, France..........
But (more) seriously.....you have to have a two pronged approach. One, using your "band-aid" approach to provide some sort of deterrent for idiots...and two, secret squirrel, back room, cloak and dagger stuff...to weed out the nasty, intelligent ones. We don't hear much about the number twos, as we don't need to...but it's certainly going on.

Agreed! However Propstop, I have a sad feeling that such an event is more or less inevitable for Australia in the not-too-distant future!:(

Then we will really see the excrement hit the rotary oscillator!:mad::mad:

There will be massive amounts of finger pointing by Politicians of all persuasions and a gross knee jerk reaction in legislation which will do nothing at all to prevent another occurrence, but will cause huge inconvenience for the general Public and gross restrictions on personal liberties.:mad: