With things are going from bad to worse for Qantas, politicians and High Court judges should reconsider accepting the perks on offer from our once beloved national carrier.
which revealed that a clear majority of Australians – 70 per cent – believe it is unacceptable for our pollies to accept free Chairman’s Club memberships.MPs cannot have their Chairman’s Lounge cake and eat it too. It is surprising that it has taken so long for such practices to produce the sort of abject public humiliation suffered by Nationals MP and federal opposition trade and tourism spokesman Kevin Hogan on Monday’s episode of ABC’s.
It’s not just a problem for pollies or, allegedly, their offspring. On Wednesday, the High Court revealed that every current judge is a Chairman’s member. This revelation, somewhat inconveniently for the High Court, came at the very time its learned associates handed down their judgment confirming the illegality of Qantas’s sacking of 1700 baggage handlers at the height of the pandemic.
For the High Court judges, as with our politicians, it’s not their objectivity per se, but the issue of perception and the erosion of public trust that comes with these kinds of perks.
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