Call Australia home: push to contain Qantas
The chief executive of Qantas, Alan Joyce, will tell a Senate inquiry tomorrow the amendment, proposed by the independent senator Nick Xenophon and backed by the Greens, would curtail his business's ''right and entitlement'' to compete in international aviation.
Labor had opposed the amendment - which targets the issues at the heart of Qantas' industrial disputes - but with anger still hot over the airline's decision to ground its fleet at the weekend some in the ALP now favour a reconsideration of the national carrier's obligations.
''I think we need to look at what it means to be the national carrier,'' the Labor senator Doug Cameron said.
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Call Australia home: push to contain Qantas
On ya senator Doug Cameron..getting closer, nearly got it with the headline...
Call Australia home, or I still prefer, Save our Qantas.
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