The aviation green paper isn’t the circuit breaker the Albanese government needs on Qantas. It simply kicks the sector reform can down the road again.
It’s ironic that Transport Minister Catherine King described aviation as “an industry that has been allowed to drift for too long” on Thursday morning as she launched the federal government’s new aviation green paper.
But King’s green paper is a classic kick-the-can-down-the-road exercise – which remarkably forms part of an even larger kick-the-can-down-the-road exercise. The only big idea under this heading is the prospect of greater “cabotage” rights for foreign airlines to carry domestic passengers – but the green paper then immediately says the government has no plans to change its current ad-hoc approach to cabotage rights, which only really permits cabotage in exceptional circumstances.
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