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Old 18th Sep 2020, 00:00
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When is someone in government going to call extortion, extortion?

Never one to waste a crisis, he’s at it again.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp....15-p55vq2.html


Qantas Group chief financial officer Vanessa Hudson said the group will look at what "incentives" state governments can provide when deciding where to base its workforce, which prompted a flood of promised support from east-coast governments.

So enter the state governments falling over themselves to throw money at Qantas at the mere suggestion that they are doing the sums on whether to move HQ.

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the state would offer "every assistance to Qantas so they can keep as many of their employees as possible in NSW".

and,

"We think that we have a very attractive offer to make and we'll work through that to try and have as many jobs as we possibly can in our city and state," Mr Andrews said during his daily press conference in Melbourne.

I have no issue with a government fighting for jobs, especially at the moment, but if history is anything to go by, this is a grab for government money destined for private hands.

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