Cutlery on Australasian flights........

Having recently flown into SYD on the VS200 I was well aware (after reading of it on here) of the plastic cutlery being used on flights into Australia for reasons of security as a result of events on 11 Sept 2001.
You can imagine my surprise that after flying Air New Zealand from SYD-AKL and Emirates AKL-MEL in the last week both flights had stainless steel cutlery being used?
Can anyone provide any info on what the score is?
Would be most interested to know.....

Thanks

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If memory serves me right the Australian government changed it's position and now allows metal cutlery, this happened maybe 3 months ago.

Of course, the metal is as blunt as Neil's..... Nope can't go there.

In Feb I had plastic out of LHR but metal cutlery on the return.

I am fairly sure we had metal cutlery on our flight to SYD last August.

I stand to be corrected but the use of plastic wasn't as a result of 9/11 (though that did happen for a while) but due to a couple of incidents on planes where people were attacked with metal cuttlery and the Australian Government imposted a no metal rule.

Thanks for the replies......
We had metal cutlery on the VS200 from LHR-HKI but then plastic from HKI-SYD as my travelling companions remarked on it and I told them what I'd read on here.......
If the Australian Govt have changed their stand then I hope VS quickly change their arrangements as their plastic cutlery is horrible to use.....

A bit of an update....
On the VS201 home the other day we had metal cutlery on the SYD-HKI leg but plastic on the HKI-LHR journey......ie the opposite to the outward-bound journey.
So IMHO, there doesn't appear to be any firm pattern as to what cutlery they use...........