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International travellers free to fly with liquids at last under new security plan

INTERNATIONAL travellers will no longer have water bottles, perfumes and other liquids confiscated as they board planes under a radical overhaul of airport security.

The easing of restrictions will begin next year as Australia's international airports begin rolling out new explosive detection equipment.

The shake-up, announced by the federal government on Sunday, also promises to cut waiting times for passengers by easing bottlenecks at security gates.

Under the current tight rules to guard against terrorist attacks, international travellers are forced to surrender all liquids - from water and soft drink to sunscreen - in containers larger than 100ml.

About 8000 items - including water bottles - are handed over at Sydney International Airport security checkpoints each month and as many as 1250 duty free items, including perfume and alcohol, are also seized.

But Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said that would now change.

The new technology, which has been trialled at Sydney airport, would enable authorities to detect the smallest trace of explosives in liquids.

"The easing of restrictions will no doubt be widely welcomed," Mr Albanese told The Sunday Telegraph.

"It will make air travel easier and less stressful for passengers as well as free airport security staff to better focus on their core screening responsibilities without the distraction of having to confiscate items from people's bags," he said.

"While preventing acts of terrorism remains our number one priority, we're also determined to minimise the disruption and inconvenience experienced by passengers as they transit throughout major airports, including by deploying the latest technologies."

One of the main gripes expressed by travellers is having duty-free goods seized.

The restrictions were introduced in 2006 following fears that terrorists would take liquid explosives on international flights.

Despite the rules being in place for five years, passengers routinely failed to understand the restrictions, and continued to try to take banned liquids onto flights.

Many passengers get caught out because some duty-free stores fail to place goods in secure bags.

Some European airports have removed the liquid ban, provided their flight originated from outside the EU and they were transferring to another destination.

The global ban on liquids at airports was introduced after British police foiled a terror plot which involved detonating liquid explosives on a series of trans-Atlantic flights in 2006.

Mr Albanese said authorities had been determined to lift the bans as soon as possible.