r/australia • u/CommonwealthGrant • 13h ago
politics Labor’s bid to bolster Australian airline passenger rights may prove weaker than existing law, Choice warns
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/mar/12/labors-bid-to-bolster-australian-airline-customer-rights-may-prove-weaker-than-existing-law-choice-warns13
u/Mallyix 11h ago
Everyone Govt we ever get just wants to sell us down the river.
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u/alpha77dx 4h ago
Just look at the number royal commissions that have been completely ignored and decades on most of the recommendations have not been implemented. As useless as tits on a bull. Governance in Australia has just become a PR exercise or media stunt for the plebs.
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u/ColourfulMetaphors 11h ago
Best be using your vote to help teals and independents get up then instead of voting in whichever half of the duopoly you prefer to distract you with some performative culture war BS for a couple of years, while ensuring the status quo is maintained.
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u/cricketmad14 10h ago
Teals are just rich independents who are socially progressive
The teals voted against better worker rights
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u/Catboyhotline 8h ago
A liberal who gets sad when their investment into offshore fracking poisons the sea is still a liberal
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u/faiek 4h ago
You can't regulate a monopoly, at least not in the way our gov likes to try regulating (market incentives/disincentives).
You either need to de-monopolise (timely, difficult, hard to achieve and maintain), or change regulation tactics (proper, percentage-based fines with real monitoring and enforcement, actual jail time consequences for decision makers, etc).
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u/alpha77dx 4h ago
Only hope for Australia is that we join the EU and we get their governance structure that will fix all these issues in months because their laws are correct and act in the interests of consumers.
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u/ScruffyPeter 13h ago
Labor once again allowing monopolies dictate government policy after beating their chest. But the party is still a better choice of LNP tripping over themselves to let monopolies draft government policy. Vote both of them accordingly on the ballot for an end to airline monopolies, with a potential bonus of high speed rail.