You do touch on a point bus driver wrt to Mr swan. ......but what about loss of tax revenues? Unfortunately, the penny will never drop with the clowns in Canberra either. Qantas's position of outsource everything that's not nailed down, preferably to an overseas provider, will also add to the dint in the tax revenue can that the pollies in Canberra receive. However, until the chairmans lounge is outsourced, they simply won't give a toss. Somebody else's problem.
Just like US debt.