A bit of foreign butter seems rather insignificant compared to having your aircraft maintained and crewed by cheaper foreign sources.
Exactly what the office and management would like to us to think.
Lobey is spot on,they play the 'You're Australian,We're Australian,spend your money with us' sentimental approach and then in the same breath source anything they can offshore.
Twiggs might say that it is a insignificant amount of an insignificant item but it adds up to a huge amount of money.The office would like us to think "it's only butter,so why worry".
I think it was an American airline who saved millions by taking the individual packets of peanuts off.
Think about how many packets of butter they serve everyday and how much that would mean to Australian dairy farmers.
That is if the 'Spirit of Australia' is interested.
Butter,uniform shirts,paper work,maintenance, it all adds up.