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Dicky King still MIA on matters Aviation?? -

Senator McKenzie & Smith APP Bill 2024 - Dicky King MIA??

Yesterday in the Senate Senators McKenzie and Smith's 'Airline Passenger Protections Bill 2024' had it's 2nd reading debate: Hansard (from 1st 'Bills') & Airline Passenger Protections (Pay on Delay) Bill 2024

   

Senator McKENZIE: "..The minister has failed on multiple counts. It has been this chamber and the opposition that have had to drag her kicking and screaming to address the obvious failures within our aviation sector. The ACCC cancellation and delays reporting has been reinstated thanks to the work of the opposition. In the evidence to the aviation inquiry last year it was clear: Qantas and Virgin operate under consumer protections when they're flying internationally. Why shouldn't their customers onshore here in Australia be protected by a similar framework? If the minister's not going to step up and do the job, we're very happy to do it for her. We're looking forward to hopefully sending this to an inquiry for further expansion of the issues.."

(14:20)

Senator CANAVAN: "..This government does seem to be doing something—running this protection racket, which I've mentioned—and then sometimes just seems to be completely asleep at the wheel. We haven't heard from Minister King. I don't know where she is. She has just completely disappeared off the face of the earth—

An opposition senator: "She's waiting for a flight!"

Senator CANAVAN: "..Yes, she's at the airline lounge, waiting for a flight, perhaps! We don't know. Where has she been? As I said, she has got this major report on slot allocation in Sydney. We've heard no response from her. What the hell is going on? Now we have a government that's seemingly not taking up these commonsense ideas, instead saying, 'We're doing more reviews,' and it could be months and months before Australians receive any kind of relief or response.

Why don't we just get on with it and pass this bill? It's very, very simple. It would make the minister actually do something. This bill doesn't outline in detail what the requirements would be. I think that's appropriate for an overriding piece of legislation. All the bill says is that the minister must, within 12 months, come up with some of these rules to protect Australian consumers. At the very least, passing this bill might actually make the minister for infrastructure do something. That would be good because she'd have to, within 12 months, do something for a change. Right now, it's pretty hard to understand what the minister for infrastructure is doing apart from just running a protection racket for Qantas..."

(56:30)

ATCOs threaten 1st strike in 22 years?? -

Plus courtesy Senator McKenzie, via X:

Senator The Hon. Bridget McKenzie
@senbmckenzie

Transport minister King must address poor senior management at AirServices Australia to prevent this Government agency being responsible for more flight cancellations and delays for Australian families
Air traffic staff threaten first strike in 22 years

Hmm...good luck with getting any sort of response from miniscule Dicky King, who is still MIA on matters of aviation safety, she does however seem to have plenty of time for self-serving, pointless, political point scoring with QWN and a WOFTAM Dorothy Dixer... :

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Dicky King the worst Minister oversighting Transport EVER?? https://auntypru.com/forum/showthread.ph...6#pid14176 &  What comes next? Poindexter Parker - Dicky King and Betsy's anointed one (referral to the NACCAs)??  

God help the GA industry because this useless miniscule never will...

PS: BRB tote is open for the worst Minister, oversighting Aviation, of all time??...

MTF...P2