Absolutely NOT. Our Airline/Air Nauru/Nauru Airlines etc receives NO subsidies from the Australian government and certainly it is not supported by the Australian Taxpayer as you suggest. It may receive income from the Oz govt, but no subsidies - and that is a major difference.
It is an Australian airline in that it holds a full Aussie AOC, not a foreign AOC like most airlines with overseas ownership. A fine line, maybe, but one nonetheless.
And YES, if our taxes are used to prop up an operation, then Aussie businesses should be the beneficiaries - nothing more, nothing less.
How'd you feel if your taxes were used to subsidise footwear manufacture, for example, in Asia, Europe or elsewhere? Oops, forgot, the then Aussie government destroyed that industry here some time ago.
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