Transport Minister Catherine King says it is unlikely budget airline Bonza will make a financial comeback after the regional budget airline plunged into voluntary administration on Tuesday. Thousands of travellers were left stranded and confused after a former business partner of the embattled airline abruptly repossessed all of four ofContinue Reading
Federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has downplayed any tensions with her state counterparts, after states erupted over $33bn in infrastructure cuts following an infrastructure review last year. At the time, NSW Premier Chris Minns was one of the most outspoken critics of the federal government, after 17 of the state’sContinue Reading
Australia’s war on gas guzzling utes in the name of reducing emissions may be putting another species on the endangered list — the grey nomad. The great Australian tradition of caravanning, whether taking in the Great Australian Bight along the Nullarbor Plain or through the red centre to Uluru, willContinue Reading
Interest rates risk going even higher unless the Albanese government works with the states to get the nation’s multi-billion dollar spend on roads, rail and bridges in order, the International Monetary Fund has warned. In its annual Australian “Economic Health Check”, the fund said while Australia was likely to avoidContinue Reading
The Albanese Government will ramp up its spending over the next decade to patch up small country roads that have fallen into disrepair amid extreme weather events due to climate change. Roads to Recovery funding will soon double to $1bn a year and the government will spend an extra $40mContinue Reading
Long-serving backbencher Russell Broadbent has quit the Liberal Party and will now sit on the crossbench. News of the move emerged late Tuesday morning and follows Mr Broadbent’s crushing preselection loss to Mary Aldred for the federal seat of Monash over the weekend that party room sources said was theContinue Reading
Facing allegations of being too close to Qantas, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sought to turn the tables, launching a sensational question time attack on the former Coalition government. The opposition has accused the government of being “too close” to the national carrier and has sought to probe whether QantasContinue Reading
An under-fire Transport Minister has conceded an incident at a Qatari airport three years ago fed into her decision to block Qatar’s bid to double its flights into Australia. Catherine King signed off on her decision on July 10, the same day she signed a letter to five women whoContinue Reading
Transport Minister Catherine King has backed the government away from a junior minister’s assertion she blocked Qatar Airways’ application for an extra 28 flights a week done to protect Qantas’ profitability. Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones told The Australian Financial Review on Monday that while the government could “drive prices down”Continue Reading