Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

I serve notice that we're going to move an amendment to the Social Security Amendment (Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment) Bill 2023 that will go after Qantas. I speak with authority here. My family were one of the original investors. Qantas received $1.57 billion in compensation for the disaster which was the disease outbreak, which was called COVID. They received $1.57 billion. In that period of time, the CEO of Qantas has personally received $22 million exit packages and bonuses and wages of an estimated $125 million. If we are handing out disaster packages and if we are not monitoring, then someone can get away with one hell of a lot of money. While we've chased people in my electorate around because they had 50 cattle die instead of 100 cattle, we did absolutely nothing about a bloke at a company getting away with $1 billion plus.

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