It may have never crashed an aircraft, but Qantas is crashing a prime minister.
Tin-eared Klepto is far behind the curve:
A growing number of politicians say there’s a case for banning flight upgrades for personal travel – either solicited by an MP or offered by the airline – increasing pressure on Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to look at changing the rules.
The push comes as teals MP Allegra Spender vowed to cancel her Qantas and Virgin VIP lounge memberships, as did independent MP Helen Haines, while the Prime Minister was unable to say if anyone in his office had ever inquired about a Qantas flight upgrade on his behalf.
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Teal independent Monique Ryan says she gave up her Qantas chairman’s lounge membership because of the “insidious activities of lobbyists” in such areas.
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Opposition Senate Leader Simon Birmingham says it is a “shocking indictment” on Anthony Albanese that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet engaged in “linguistic gymnastics” over his alleged role in the decision to refuse Qatar Airways greater operation in Australia.
Refer Klepto to the National Anti-Corruption Committee, whoops, Klepto already invited it into the Chairman’s Lounge too:
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre, might we have muttered at the sinking of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), the ship that torpedoed itself.
If the NACC was, as many suspect, set up to fail by the duopolists of the two major parties, the people they put in charge could not have served them better.
The NACC’s decision that there was nothing left worth discussing in the aftermath of the robodebt catastrophe — with a justification that read to the scandal’s victims like “too hard, can’t be bothered” —was a death blow to the agency’s standing as an instrument for restoring public faith in government.
Unless you are at the corrupt fake left Guardian which is only looking for excuses when covering the story at all:
The accrual of personal airline status credits by public servants, politicians and their staff travelling for work may influence which carrier they fly with despite rules that insist on the cheapest fare, an expert in aviation loyalty programs says.
Tin-eared Klepto flying free to his $4.3m lovenest and its $100m publicly upgraded driveway is more than the public can handle.
