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| Subject: Paranoid statists: OZschwitz parliamentary tours suspended Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:34 pm | |
| The public will no longer be able to tour Queensland's Parliament House now Australia's terrorism alert level has been raised.
An email detailing altered security arrangements was circulated to state politicians and their staff on Friday less than two hours after Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Australia's threat level had gone from medium to high.
The deputy clerk of parliament, Michael Ries, announced that until further notice, the parliamentary precinct threat level had also been upgraded to high.
"The changes to precinct security are due to an upgrade in the national threat level to 'HIGH'," Mr Ries wrote.
"I wish to emphasise that the changes that are being introduced are precautionary only."
Beginning from Friday evening, extra security officers would be assigned to the Brisbane buildings and there would be an increase in patrols.
Public tours had also been suspended, Mr Ries said.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/24979315/qld-parliamentary-tour-suspended/ |
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