Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Rex Airlines provides a vital service to regional Australia, a service that hundreds of thousands of regional Australians depend on. I must say, listening to the media comments this morning from those opposite, we had Mr Littleproud saying he believes that everything needs to be on the table and it seems that we had members of the Liberal Party saying that we should never own an airline and criticising the investments that we've made to date to keep the airline flying. So it does seem that there's a bit of a divide over there, in fact a significant division, between the Liberal Party and the National Party. Who pays the price for that division? It's people in regional communities that depend on these airlines to ensure that they can travel around the country. We believe we're making the right decisions for Rex and we look forward to participating in the second sale process.