What’s the point of Alan Joyce if he can’t make planes run on time?
Without minimum service standards imposed by parliament, Qantas risks becoming a cheaper and nastier version of Aeroflot with million-dollar executive salaries.
It is a statement of the bleeding obvious to observe that even in the age of modern communications, free trade and jet airliner travel, Australia is a nation defined by the phrase “the tyranny of distance”.
We are not just a long way from the rest of the world but are tyrannised by vast distances internally. Perth is famously the world’s most isolated capital city. France could fit into Australia’s landmass about 14 times over. Our largest state is bigger than Texas and Alaska – combined.
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Nick Dyrenfurth is the executive director of the John Curtin Research Centre.
