As far as I'm aware, the government minimum network for capital city ops has stopped. Regional is different and ends at the end of September. Arnold, REX is proposing to use the government subsidy to start another airline (for want of a better definition) after crying poor and telling the whole country they were going to go broke. That was, and still is a LIE.
QF and JQ are just doing what they did before covid. Nothing more, but certainly less. And now REX has insisted that the government strip them of any subsidy because they have the gall to fly a previously monopolised route. Personally, I think it will make it worse, the subsidies stop in a couple of months anyway and AJ is ruthless.
I for one don't believe for a second they will actually press ahead with the jet ops, they know it would be suicide, but that's not the point at the moment.