Maria Vamvakinou (Calwell, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to wholly owned Qantas subsidiary Jetstar’s AWAs, with remuneration between $41,000 and $46,000 for cabin crew. I again refer the Prime Minister to the comment by Jetstar CEO Alan Joyce:

... most people would regard [that] as a phenomenal salary ...

Isn’t it the case that the phenomenal salary in Qantas or Jetstar is the salary of CEO Geoff Dixon, who under the terms of his new contract will be paid nearly $4 million a year? Why, under the government’s legislation, is there a wages race to the bottom for Jetstar and Qantas cabin crew but a race to the top for the CEO?

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