Linfox executive chairman Peter Fox is happy to talk about JobKeeper. That is, other people’s JobKeeper.

But after admitting he and father Lindsay were wrong to claim last month that Spanish-owned cash ferrying competitor Prosegur was using government wage subsidies to undercut Linfox’s Armaguard business, he wasn’t having a bar of Senator Rex Patrick’s attempts to turn the tables on Linfox’s own affairs.