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Neither Ms Gillard - who is currently in Delhi - nor Mr Abbott would comment on the update.

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The African National Congress committee did not respond to CNN's repeated requests for comment, but it has said that the new bill is needed to update secrecy rules that have not changed since the apartheid era decades ago.

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Airbus declined to comment on the report, though an unnamed official told AFP news agency that it was normal to update airlines following an accident.

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