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Travellers with the misfortune to be flying this week can expect a return to the hellish airport scenes and excruciating waits suffered at the start of the July school holidays.

Snaking lines, the scourge of all travellers, were back at Sydney and Brisbane airports this morning, as some states start their third school term this week.

With fans flying in for a highly-anticipated State of Origin decider, Brisbane Airport was readying for a tidal wave of 57,000 passengers today, its second busiest day since the pandemic began in 2020.

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Sydney Airport was expecting almost double those numbers today, with 110,000 passengers estimated to process through its under-pressure terminals.

Figures obtained exclusively by 9news.com.au revealed Sydney Airport had to cancel 15 per cent of all domestic flights at the start of the July school holidays, when lines grew so long they stretched outside terminal doors.

In total, 344 domestic and 59 international flights were axed out of Sydney, as too few staff at the airport were quickly overwhelmed with luggage and check-ins.

The airport has struggled to replace about 15,000 staff it shed during the pandemic, and it is especially short on baggage-handling and security screening workers.

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Melbourne and Brisbane fared better than Sydney in the opening days of the holidays, according to the data given to 9news.com.au, with those airports cancelling 9 per cent and 7 per cent of domestic flights, respectively.

Australians have endured infuriating waits at airport terminals since COVID-19 travel restrictions were lifted.

During the Easter holidays, Qantas boss Alan Joyce drew the ire of many when he blamed "not match fit" passengers for delays and chaotic queues which caused some people to miss their flights.

Earlier in the year, some phoning Qantas call centres were left on hold for hours.

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Last week, analysts at Fitch ratings agency said they expected a "full recovery" in domestic travel by the end of 2023.

It would take another 12 months, around the end of 2024, for international passenger traffic to pre-pandemic levels, they said.

Passenger traffic was down around 30 per cent in April 2022 at Sydney and Melbourne airports combined, compared with April 2019.

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An Australian activist who shouted "Where is Peng Shuai?" and held up a sign with the same message was removed from Centre Court during the Wimbledon men's final.

Drew Pavlou, from Brisbane, an activist who made a similar protest at the Australian Open this year, said he shouted the message during a stoppage in play and was then forcefully removed from the stadium on Sunday.

"I didn't want to disrupt the actual match itself so I waited to make sure there was a break in the play and then I just basically held up a sign saying 'Where is Peng Shuai?'" Pavlou told The Associated Press.

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"And I just said, 'Where is Peng Shuai? This Chinese tennis star is being persecuted by the Chinese government. Why won't Wimbledon say something?'"

Peng is a retired professional tennis player from China who last year accused a former high-ranking member of the country's ruling Communist Party of sexual assault. She has made very few public appearances since then.

On Monday, four activists wearing "Where is Peng Shuai?" T-shirts were stopped by security at Wimbledon and had their bags searched.

Pavlou said he smuggled the sign onto the grounds of the All England Club by folding it up and hiding it in his shoe. He also had a T-shirt with the message tucked into the waistline of his jeans.

He shouted the protest early in the third set of the match between Serbian Novak Djokovic and Australian Nick Kyrgios. Djokovic eventually beat Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

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"I tried to be as loud as possible," said Pavlou. "I screamed it because I wanted people to hear it."

Pavlou said security wrestled him to the ground and then four of them restrained him with his arms behind his back and brought him to a public area outside Centre Court. He said he was then told to leave the grounds.

In a tweet, Pavlou said described how he was "crash tackled" by security staff and forcibly removed from the Wimbledon ground.

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1546232570588712960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

He tried to re-enter a short time later but a security guard told him his tickets had been canceled.

The All England Club said Pavlou was removed "after disrupting play by shouting, running down the stairs and causing a nuisance to their fellow spectators."

At the Australian Open in Melbourne, a spectator was removed from the grounds for wearing a T-shirt supporting Peng but the tournament later reversed its decision and allowed people to wear the clothing as long as they didn't congregate in large groups or cause problems for other spectators.

Peng disappeared from public view last year after accusing former Communist Party official Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. Her accusation was quickly scrubbed from the internet, and discussion of it remains heavily censored.

Peng won two Grand Slam women's doubles titles in her career, including at Wimbledon in 2013.

The women's professional tennis tour cancelled its tournaments in China because of the situation surrounding Peng.

More than half of Australians experienced a reaction to at least one of their first two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, but less than 1 per cent sought medical advice for it.

Those are the findings of a new study by AusVaxSafety, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, which surveyed more than three million Aussies after they were vaccinated.

The second Pfizer dose and the first AstraZeneca dose were the doses who made most Australians feel unwell in the days after the injections, the study found.

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Almost 55 per cent of people who had Pfizer reported a reaction after the second dose, while only 36 per cent had a reaction to the first dose.

Almost 53 per cent of people who had AstraZeneca reported a reaction after the first dose, and only 22 per cent reported one after the second dose.

The most common symptoms were pain at the injection site, headaches, fatigue and muscle aches.

Most people said the symptoms were "short-lived" and resolved themselves within eight days of the vaccine being administered.

Only 0.9 per cent of people sought medical advice in the three days following vaccination, the study found.

Researchers also found that adverse events were more frequently reported by people with underlying medical conditions, including a history of anaphylaxis.

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They found the chance of a reaction to a vaccine was "higher for women than men, for people with a history of anaphylaxis, and for people reporting certain underlying conditions, including obesity, immunodeficiency, or chronic inflammatory disease".

The researchers also discovered that the frequency of reactions were higher for the COVID-19 vaccines than for other vaccines in Australia.

"Perhaps because mRNA and viral vector vaccines more often elicit transient mild to moderate side effects than other vaccine types," the researchers wrote.

The study surveyed 3,035,983 people who received COVID-19 vaccines between February 22, 2021 and August 30, 2021, asking them about any reaction they may have experienced three days and eight days after they received a vaccine.

It included frontline workers, older adults, people with underlying medical conditions and Indigenous Australians.

The authors of the study have said they are continuing to monitor COVID-19 vaccine safety in Australia, including for booster doses.

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