'World first': Government moves to radically overhaul Australia's international airports

By Michael Koziol, Political Reporter
Updated January 22 2017 - 2:23am, first published 12:15am
Changes could enable 90 per cent of travellers to be processed automatically, with no human involvement. Photo: Penny Stephens
Changes could enable 90 per cent of travellers to be processed automatically, with no human involvement. Photo: Penny Stephens

International passengers would be whisked through immigration and customs without stopping or even encountering humans, while passport scanners and paper cards would be a thing of the past, under a radical overhaul of Australia's airports due to start this year.

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