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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Rather than mouthing tired cliches about getting people around the table, why didn't the minister or the Prime Minister say to Mr Joyce, 'Don't ground your fleet; we'll intervene,' and thus avoid 48 hours of chaos for the travelling public? Does the minister seriously contend that the CEO of Qantas would still have grounded the Qantas fleet if he had received such an assurance?