Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Senator Evans. I refer to the fact that the CEO of Qantas, Mr Joyce, had numerous meetings with ministers at which he pointed out the damage that the union campaign—

Senator Carr interjecting—

Why don't you do a bit more leaking? He pointed out the damage that the union campaign was causing to the airline and the fact that it could lead to the company grounding its aircraft. Given that the minister is a former union official and given that 28 out of 31 senators opposite are former union officials, does the minister seriously expect Australians to believe that not one member of the government anticipated Qantas doing what its CEO had warned them about and grounding its fleet? Why didn't the minister see this train wreck coming?