Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Industry. Half of all airline fatalities come from maintenance and inspection failures. The only airline without a fatality is Qantas. The 5,000 Qantas engineering workers who created this safety are now to be sacked, their jobs and $1 billion a year going overseas. Overseas access by treaty is confined to an Australian airline. Surely, Minister, this must be one whose maintenance is based in Australia—not one whose market advantage comes from a cut-rate, cheapjack overseas based workforce.

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