Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Save it for your contribution, Senator Smith. I am sure it's going to be compelling. But, you are right: it's been 23 days since the press release and still nothing's been done. It is like Catherine King's infrastructure review, which is now over a hundred days late. Again, it's been sitting on her desk. This is the most tardy of infrastructure ministers, and it must be an incredible embarrassment to a prime minister who hoped that infrastructure would be a key part of his legacy as Prime Minister, given he held that shadow portfolio for so long.

We know Australians want an aviation industry that simply gets the basics right, and for too long it hasn't. They want planes to take off and land on time, they want their bags to actually arrive at the same place and at the same time that they do and they want to actually be able to afford a ticket. But, because of the very cosy, personal and political relationship between Anthony Albanese and the former CEO Alan Joyce that continues to this day, the Labor government continues to run a protection racket for one of the most egregious corporates in Australian history.