always find it amusing that so many pilots are staunch Liberal party followers. If it wasn't for Labour how much fun do you think we'd have negotiating EBA's, it's hard enough as it is.
And the Labor party has been the friend of the pilot? Must be cause we're all working class glorified bus drivers. I don't care if they've changed, but it will take a long time and a lot better policies to forget what they did to assist our pay and conditions back then.
As for the carbon tax, its not just the $6-$7 for an airline ticket its every thing will get slightly more expensive as a result of basic costs increasing such as electricity, fuel and gas supply. None of these industries will change at all unless the tax is countered with some sort of realistic incentive payment to move to cleaner energy, the additional cost is just passed onto the consumer because they are basically cartel or monopoly industries. The end result is less expendable income for those to buy things such as solar panels, efficient cars etc... The mining tax had at least some credibility behind it, carbon tax, same as GST with some sort of warm fuzzy feeling associated with it, nothing will realy change except cost of living.