Good morning. Thomas Morgan here with today's AM newsletter.

This morning, an ABC investigation reveals that a Howard-era minister who once voted to outlaw offshore casinos played a role in founding one.

But first, passengers and crew aboard flydubai flight FZ1073 are being hailed as heroes as questions grow about the co-pilot's motivations.

Flydubai fallout: The pilot who stabbed his colleague and allegedly tried to crash flight FZ1073 had undergone "Islamist radical indoctination", Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says.

Disaster was only averted after the wounded captain unlocked the cockpit door, allowing passengers to subdue the attacker and steer the aircraft out of a nosedive.

Aviation experts are marvelling that passengers managed to save the flydubai flight. One expert says the chances of a plane surviving a 4,000-metre plunge at nearly the speed of sound made survival chances "close to zero".

LuckyBet: Leaked documents reveal Howard-era minister De-Anne Kelly helped co-found an online, Caribbean-based casino. That company is accused of breaching online gambling laws Ms Kelly had argued in favour of.

Mark Dennis: Australian and Cambodian police are investigating the accused paedophile's links to charity Sunrise Cambodia. Dennis died after being charged with possessing child abuse material.

The Anthropocene: Defining when the Earth entered a new epoch is turning into a complicated debate. So why does it matter, and what does a nuclear bomb have to do with it?

Assistant Citizenship Minister Julian Hill is set to announce a crackdown on lawyers who help people pursue baseless visa claims, in the government's latest effort to reduce migration numbers. In one instance, he says legal firms are advertising being able to coach people "on how to claim they're bisexual".

Also in federal politics, Michelle Grattan dissects Labor's bruising week as Anthony Albanese jets away from a gloomy domestic scene and towards the Pacific for a "Pre-COP" climate meeting.

This fearsome four-legged friend is one of the Mexican National Guard's newest recruits.

So what have officers decided to name their new canine recruit? It's one of the questions in this week's Friday quiz, which also challenges you to answer how researchers managed to get an AI chatbot drunk and spilling secrets.

The UAE, meanwhile, says it will investigate the circumstances and motives of the incident, including whether it was linked ​to ‌any militant activity.

Israel has honoured five of its citizens who helped prevent a flydubai plane crash on Wednesday as it calls for the pilot who allegedly caused the mid-air altercation to be extradited.

Former federal minister De-Anne Kelly has been revealed as a co-founder of offshore casino LuckyBet.

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