Heat on PM over meeting with Joyce
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met former Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce in late 2022, just six weeks after the airline began urging the government to block Qatar from expanding its services into Australia’s biggest airports.
Confirmation of the timing of the meeting raises fresh questions about Mr Albanese’s emphatic statements last year that he had never been “lobbied” by Mr Joyce over the Qatar decision, and triggered accusations from the opposition that the government was running a Qantas “protection racket”.
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