Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Road Safety) Share this | Hansard source

I couldn't help that. I'm sorry. Rank hypocrisy—it really gives me a knot in the guts, and there's a classic example.

Qantas have actually said they're going to be in the black in two months. So what does it take to get through the heads of that side of the chamber that Qantas have used a pandemic for the opportunity to outsource jobs that are there and will be there? As the borders come down and we kick in, you should watch the flights come up on the screens next week. Watch all the flights come in for Christmas. Dare may I suggest: check how much it cost us to get here to Canberra, because we all probably came on Qantas, unless some drove. Check the prices that Qantas are charging us to go home. Make no mistake, they're having a ball. They can't help it. They're rubbing their greedy hands together—they won't have any skin left.

I've got to tell you, my disdain for Mr Joyce is not a secret in this place. I had many—and you were at one of them—inquiries when he shut down the airline. Remember that magnificent piece of bastardry not only for Australian travellers but for worldwide Aussies trying to get home? They say, 'Oh we forgot about that.' He has eight other accomplices. He is ably backed up. I'm calling for this mob to resign. Joyce must lead the charge and resign, because there's no guts on that side. The Prime Minister is lacking guts. He's too busy flicking money. He's hand in hand with Mr McCormack and their mates at Rex. I'll tell you what, what about Richard Goyder, the chairman? Why should he escape scrutiny while he is on his $584,000 of Qantas's money. It's Qantas's money; it's not earned by the greedy board. It's earned by the 30,000 workers. Madam Deputy President Lines, you used to represent Qantas workers. Your great union stood up for Qantas workers for many, many years. You know the negotiations we've had. It's $584,000, and yet Mr Goyder did not make Qantas great—the workers made Qantas great—but he couldn't wait to get his claws into the till, ably backed up by, as I said, Mr Joyce.

There's Maxine Brenner, with $364,000; Jacqueline Hey, with her $211,000; Belinda Hutchinson—she gets an AC; I don't know what for—with $283,000; Michael L'Estrange—another with a set of initials, AO, with $223,000. There's Todd Sampson. That's the last time I'll ever watch him on TV; what a state of hypocrisy that fellow showed. And there's Antony Tyler, Barbara Ward AM, and Paul Rayner. What a terrible situation for 2,000 families going into Christmas. (Time expired)