Originally Posted by
Dee Vee
You must be reading a different article than me, the article above says the $14m is government funding for additional staff in the domestic terminal to handle international services, i.e. "immigration, customs, quarantine services"
No it doesn't. It says the WA government is paying for the CIQ facilities, that's the $14M. That's a capital investment in the terminal, not the staff. The staff are paid by the Federal Government, who in turn are paid by Qantas through passenger movement charges.
the $30m "return" is an unrelated and unmeasurable economic benefit to Perth city as additional tourists are predicted to have a stopover.
... which is how just about all government spending is justified, so what's your point?