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Australian PM accused of seeking upgrades from Qantas boss (www.bbc.com)

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[–] jagungal 1 points 3 months ago

A new book by Australian journalist Joe Aston claims Albanese made several calls to ex-CEO Alan Joyce, and received upgrades on 22 flights taken between 2009 and 2019.

Look, I'm not one to stick my neck out for politicians, but this seems like clever wordplay. An MP, then the transport minister, and now PM made several calls to the CEO of our national air carrier, and also received a bit over two free upgrades on flights over 10 years? It seems like we're expected to make the inference that he asked for these based on coincidence and hearsay. Perhaps he earned them via a fequent flyer program.

Really this all should be referred to a federal ICAC. Oh wait...