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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda jam.

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Speaker 2: Nation Jonesy demand of arms for the pub test government

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Speaker 2: bailing out Rex Airlines? Does this pass the pub.

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Speaker 3: Tests on the cards? They're looking for a buyer to

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Speaker 3: step in, but no one is at this stage. The

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Speaker 3: government's already bought fifty dollars fifty million dollars worth of

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Speaker 3: from their largest creditor. They've loaned eighty million dollars to

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Speaker 3: keep the routes running, but no serious suitor has emerged.

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Speaker 3: Should the government step in. Anthony Albanezi has said we're

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Speaker 3: determined to make sure that regional communities are not left behind,

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Speaker 3: so he's preparing maybe to buy Rex. This is a

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Speaker 3: very important airline for us.

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Speaker 2: I'd rather my tax dollars go into Rex Airlines than

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Speaker 2: some dopey, protesting UNI student, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: Well, the thing is, though it is a private business,

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Speaker 3: Quantus used to be owned by the government.

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Speaker 2: Didn't it yes a wholeheartedlyheartedly?

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Speaker 3: And then during COVID Quantus paid two point seven billion

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Speaker 3: or gave them that money to Quantis who I think

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Speaker 3: were they supposed to pay that back? And never quite got.

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Speaker 2: Around when Alan Joyce just left the country with a

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Speaker 2: big bag of cash.

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Speaker 3: I swagged with a dollar sign on.

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Speaker 2: A monorail guy from the simsuits.

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Speaker 3: Don't remember how it went, but I think we got

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Speaker 3: ripped off. Let's just put it that way. But it

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Speaker 3: meant that our airline kept going. It's very important to

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Speaker 3: have airlines that keep going. But this is a private business.

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Speaker 3: Should the government be bailing them out? The government bailing

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Speaker 3: out Rex? Is it passed the pub test?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: No, I don't think it passes the pub tests because

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Speaker 5: I think at the end of the day, if an

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Speaker 5: airline's struggling, yeah, they shouldn't get bailed out by the

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Speaker 5: government because most likely they'll spend that money on the

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Speaker 5: things they don't need and then probably end up going bust. Anyway,

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Speaker 5: I think.

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Speaker 6: It's beneficial for regional flyers, especially because my husband is

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Speaker 6: actually a five both and where he is is remote

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Speaker 6: and he depends on REX Airlines.

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Speaker 4: Oh look, I think that the Australian government should bail

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Speaker 4: them out, but then it should become the government owned.

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Speaker 4: That way, nobody's broughting anything.

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Speaker 6: I think the government.

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Speaker 1: Should bail out or help REX because I think regional

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Speaker 1: Australia needs REX.

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Speaker 6: And I think they do it tough to get to

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Speaker 6: the city for.

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Speaker 1: Medical treatment and all of that sort of stuff. So

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Speaker 1: they do need a regional airlines. I think it's the government.

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Speaker 1: Sure Conscience was owned by the government. They did it

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Speaker 1: well and sold it. When we had COVID, they bailed

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Speaker 1: them out and gave them a lot of money, and

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Speaker 1: Contus never returned the money back. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: great idea to buy Rex Airlines.

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Speaker 2: There you have it. Thank you for rule your calls.