It’s like 9/11 ever happened down under:

The Civil Aviation Authority in New Zealand has condemned a newspaper stunt involving a reporter boarding a plane at the country’s biggest airport carrying a knife and a fake revolver. Just 24 hours after two pilots were stabbed in an attempted hijack over Christchurch, a Sunday News reporter told how he was able to breach security at Auckland Airport. The reporter arrived at the domestic terminal on Saturday for the 10.30am Air New Zealand flight to Napier, carrying the kitchen knife, with a 20cm blade and a toy firearm in hand luggage. He said there were no checks and “I was free to walk on with anything I pleased.” “After checking in and simply presenting my boarding pass at the gate, I stepped on to NZ5751 for the 50-minute journey to Hawke’s Bay.”