BH,
I am also an AN refugee, I was under the impression that the money gathered from the AN tax was never used for employee payments. It was just a convienient name that the government saw as a means of revenue.
The last time I talked to Mentha he said that the government had only given the administrator a loan to cover initial payments which had to subsequently be paid back from the sale of Ansett Assetts.
I may be wrong because you can't believe everything M & M tell you.