Icarus2001
Yeh it is milking the cash cow when you look at all the other taxes that various governments over the past have dumped on the poor unsuspecting public. To name just a few you have the departures tax, airport levy, noise levy, security levy, etc etc. Just to quantify how much the government is taking in an $800 ticket, depending on which airport in Australia it can be as high as $100.00. Oh and don’t forget there is GST on all of that as well. I’m frankly sick to death of big spending government of all persuasions. The sooner that someone has the balls to do something about government spending, i.e. Social Security, and hand back the huge budget surpluses in tax reductions for everyone, the sooner Australia can rid itself of the label as the second highest taxed nation on Earth.