Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Did the government not anticipate the potential for Qantas grounding its fleet in this way? Did the government advert to the possibility of millions of dollars being lost as well as the inconvenience to travellers? Again, why did the government not take the step under section 431 of preventing the grounding of Qantas's fleet before it actually occurred?