Prohibited Articles

Devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, including:

• devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons;
• animal stunners and animal killers;
• disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays.

Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:

• items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and cleavers;
• ice axes and ice picks;
• razor blades;
• box cutters;
• knives with blades of more than 6 cm; scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the fulcrum;
• martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge;
• swords and sabres.

Tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

• crowbars;
• drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills;
• tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels;
• saws, including cordless portable power saws;
• blowtorches;
• bolt guns and nail guns.

Objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:

• baseball and softball bats;
• clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks and night sticks;
• martial arts equipment.

Explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

• ammunition;
• blasting caps;
• detonators and fuses;
• replica or imitation explosive devices;
• mines, grenades and other explosive military stores;
• fireworks and other pyrotechnics;
• smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges;
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.