After airport dinner and a sleepless night flight from Hong Kong, plus additional security searches at the plane doors, I landed in Brisbane early yesterday morning to an arrivals hall teeming with tense looking security guards. Got the chance to use e-passport for the first time but slightly disappointed at the lack of stamps in my passport. Lots of bustle, mutters about which direction to go, convoys and the need to get this over quickly, with one particularly bossy American. Watching all this while waiting for the bus to the domestic terminal, I wondered who was expected and guessed it must be someone fairly important from the size of the convoy that arrived with a police escort. Next clue was the posse of cameras being kept back by security. Finally someone appeared: a slim, dark skinned
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