Federal Transport Minister Catherine King is refusing to appear before the Senate committee set up to examine the Albanese government’s decision to block Qatar Airways from operating additional flights.
The government has been under fire since Minister King rejected the proposal, which would have seen Qatar Airways operating 28 additional flights between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane each week – which Virgin argued would have cut airfares by up to 40 per cent.
“While Senator McKenzie is wasting time on a political stunt, I am spending time doing the hard work the Coalition never did to set our aviation sector up for the future,” the minister said in a statement. In response to Ms King’s refusal to attend, Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham accused the Transport Minister “hiding from scrutiny".
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