Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared the facility the best in the country as the inaugural flight took off.
Anthony Albanese has declared the new Western Sydney International airport the nation’s best and applauded the former Coalition government for keeping the site in public hands.
“This is an absolutely extraordinary day,” the prime minister said on Sunday at the official opening of the airport at Badgerys Creek in Sydney’s west, the culmination of decades of planning and political consternation over a location.
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While the human remains are yet to be formally identified, police believe they belong to an adult male.
