Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not threaten to:
(a) destroy, damage or endanger the safety of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any part of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities; or
(b) kill or injure anyone who is, or may be, within the limits of a Commonwealth aerodrome or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years .
(2) A person must not make a statement or communicate information, being a statement or information that he or she knows to be false, to the effect, or from which it can reasonably be inferred, that there has been, is, or will be, a plan, proposal, attempt, conspiracy or threat:
(a) to take or exercise control, by force, of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or part of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities; or
(b) to destroy, damage or endanger the safety of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or part of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities; or
(c) to kill or injure anyone who is, or may be, within the limits of a Commonwealth aerodrome or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years .
(3) For the purposes of an offence against subsection ( 1) or (2), absolute liability applies to whichever one of the following physical elements of circumstance is relevant to the offence:
(a) that the aerodrome is a Commonwealth aerodrome;
(b) that the air navigation facilities are Commonwealth air navigation facilities.
Note: For absolute liability , see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code .