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SIMON BIRMINGHAM, SENATE OPPOSITION LEADER: Hello, Sarah. It's great to be with you.
So it is remarkable in that sense that as the government has sought to come up with excuse after excuse for why it rejected the application for these 28 extra services into Australia, all of those excuses turn out not to have even been raised with the applicant during the 11 months it was under consideration.
These are all part of what turn out to be multibillion-dollar lost opportunities for Australia's tourism industry and our economy overall, as a result of a decision to not approve and allow those extra flights. If even Qantas is willing to take a fresh look at the evidence now, well then certainly the Albanese Government should be willing to take a fresh look at the evidence too.
SARAH FERGUSON: Who should they have brought to the committee today, who was missing that you wanted to question, who you wanted to question? SARAH FERGUSON: When you were in government, what was your experience, if you had any yourself, of the way Qantas does go about its government business?
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