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Australian diary

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

The Israeli’s and I didn’t get off to the best start. Maybe they just didn’t like the cut of my jib; my intimidating 5’2” frame, my name, the contents of my passport. I’m in Bangkok airport, just one little check-in gate away from my final leg to Tel Aviv. The painful 8-hour layover has well and truly beaten out of me any lingering childhood naivety about the glamour involved in plane travel.

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Laura Jayes is a Sky News Australia Political Reporter and journalist.

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