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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

Labor accused of ‘dragging feet’ on reinstating program that monitors airlines for potential price-gouging

Transport minister Catherine King
Transport minister Catherine King and treasurer Jim Chalmers said on 18 October that ‘ACCC market scrutiny will help ensure airlines compete on their merits’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP


More than two weeks after announcing it was reviving an airline industry monitoring program, the Albanese government is yet to formally direct the competition watchdog to conduct the investigation.

After months of scrutiny into Qantas’s influence in the government’s decision to block rival Qatar Airways’ push to boost its flights to Australia, the Greens and independent senator David Pocock in October knocked back a proposal to extend a Senate inquiry on the topic.

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