The Iran war is prompting Qantas to scale back flights within Australia, but it's flying more to Paris and Rome.
The airline's scaling back domestic Qantas and Jetstar flights about 5%.
Qantas says fuel prices have more than doubled since late February and remain highly volatile.
Australia Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking the airline is estimating its fuel bill will be around $3.3 billion for the next 12 months – nearly a billion dollars more than expected.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In Australia to see price money. Mate, Hello, that have
we got competing? I mean, how's this is this dovetailing?
And I referenced yesterday's speech by Angus Taylor, which I
happened to watch live. So he's trying to say something
that will appeal I'm assuming to the paul In Handsome crowd.
But the other day Matt Canavan Nationals he said something
that's similar to what Angus was saying. So is everyone
(00:20):
saying the same thing?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now, well, certainly the opposition are. They know that immigration
is a major problem in the country. I mean practically
it means the housing supply hasn't caught up at all.
I mean to know the numbers. I mean, in the
first three years of the Labor government they bought into
Australian net migration of one point four million people. Now
(00:41):
that's bigger than the city of Adelaide. When you put
it in those terms, you go, well, hang, hang, we
can't keep doing that, can we. And that's what most
Australians feel. If you do any polling, people will say
that immigration numbers is very high on the list of
concerns for people, particularly with the lack of housing. So
Angus Taylor stood up in front of an audience yesterday
the speech that you watched. John Howard was there in
(01:03):
the front row, who famously, of course, when he was PM,
said we will decide who comes to this country in
the mode in which they come. And so Taylor is
trying now to link and he hasn't put numbers on it,
by the way, I had his immigration spokesman on Sky
last night and he wouldn't either. They're going to wait
to unload that when they get close to the election,
which is still two years away. But Angus Taylor, as
(01:24):
you would have seen, said that people should not be
allowed into Australia if they don't believe in democracy, freedom
of speech and freedom of association, warning that quote, we
have stopped celebrating our great nation. Now these are all
very motherhood statements. How do you prove that? Where do
you go to get people who believe in the great
Australian values? What are they? I would say that in
(01:46):
twenty twenty six many Australians who've been here for their
whole lives couldn't tell you what that exactly is. How
this is all going to work in practice is not
exactly clear, but one thing that is clear is that
will be a focus on countries quote social democracies. Who
are they Well you obviously in New Zealand, but the UK,
(02:07):
the US and Japan were the three countries that Angus
Taylor mentioned and so that's a clear reference to we
would be limiting the number of people coming from the
Middle East and from parts of Africa. Now that's not
gone down well with the Greens. They've called the policy racist.
Tony Burke, who holds a seat in Sydney full of
people who've migrated for the Middle East, also slammed the
(02:30):
policy in saying that Angus Taylor doesn't know what he's doing.
So this is the first real shot I think by
in the lead up to the next election.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So two part question. Part one is so they're all
the right, center right conservatives whatever you want to call them,
on roughly the same page. Does Angus Taylor gain from
the Paul en Hanson crowd? Does he get them back?
Part two? Can the government defend what they're doing? And
when it's Ghazans and stuff say no, we want more
of these sort of people. Are they in trouble with this?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, the government can't defend that And they've in fact
talked already quietly about what they might do with the
wait for this figure, sixty five thousand visa overstayers who
are currently in Australia and have been here for many years.
How do you round those people up and move them
out of the country without someone saying, well, you're just
(03:20):
being like Donald Trump and his ice mob and you're
trying to ruin the good lives of people who are
trying to stay in Australia. So one nation Ken Angus
Taylor pull a vote back there. Potentially the first test
will come with this Pharah by election, which is coming
up in a few weeks. We will see who wins that.
I'm predicting an independent tier will win that seat. So
(03:42):
Pauline has forced these people on the center right of
politics as you put them to go down this track.
We'll see what it does in the polling when that
comes out next.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I also watched yesterday Jacinerellen with is this a crisis
when three of you key ministers quit and you've got
to find three or four new ones?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, they obviously all think that they're going to have
potentially a loss at the next election, or they might
lose their own seat. She's lost four. In fact now
one went last year, and I'm todd there's two more
that will go between now and the election, so that'll
make it six. So Yes, insiders tell me that what
she's doing is rounding up fellow travelers, promoting them into
(04:23):
positions of ministers to try and stop herself being axed
before the election. That's what her great fear is. So
she's promoting people from her own faction, and that's getting
ready for the election. She hopes she'll still be there.
The National Party by the way of pre selecting the
candidate to stand against her, who very nearly won the
(04:43):
same area during a federal election. So I think she's
in trouble with her own seat.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, quantus man, you think about you putting your petrol
in your car, imagine putting in on a plane. I mean, unrelay.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Their estimates on their fuel bill is around three point
three billion dollars for the next twelve month stats up
on the estimate earlier by eight hundred million dollars. So
they are really feeling the effects of the shortage of
ab gas or get fuel. We get most of it,
if not all of it, from international sources. A lot
(05:16):
of it comes out of China and South Korea, so
their fuel bill is going through the roof. And of
course the other problem that they've got and that has
led to higher air fares is that because Emirates, Qatar
all of the Middle Eastern airlines are not able to
give regular and reliable flights through those travel hubs in
(05:36):
the Middle East. People are jumping off and putting themselves
on Quantus flights that fly Melbourne Perth Perth. It's a
London Direct, Earth and Paris Direct and going through the
Middle East. So every seat on every Quantus plane is full,
so you know they're doing well in that regard, but
the fuel situation is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Do you fly Quantus when you go to Europe?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
One hundred percent? I've fly either Condesce or with Emirates,
which is part of the.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
System, part of the same thing. I was watching Harry
and Meghan yesterday and I can't remember the woman I
was watching explain it, and I thought she did it
extremely well. So yes, when you go to a hospital,
of course you're going to have a bunch of kids
lined up going, oh aren't they lovely? But at the
end of the day, he's not sold out, she's not
sold out. And they fall in between stalls, haven't they.
They're not royal, and they're not material enough to have
(06:25):
anyone actually pay any money to go and see them.
They're sort of tragic grifters in the middle, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, the word grifter keeps coming up, Yess the hospital.
As you said that, it's predictable, so I should update
you because I know you'd be on the edge of
your seat about what might happen today. The Duke will
visit the Western Bulldog's AFL team, which is holding some
function for a thing called November. He will then go
to Canberra. He's going to visit the Australian War Memorial
(06:52):
and he will visit with Indigenous veterans, a tender reception
for Invictus Australia and attend the last post ceremony before
coming back to Melbourne. The Duchess well, she was very
busy yesterday baking for a tata. Last time she was
here it was banana bread, so she's turned her attention
to frattata. Now. She was at a homeless women's homeless refuge.
(07:13):
She's having the day off. I want to work too hard.
When you're making tomorrow though, you'll be very interested that
the Duke and Duchess will participate in the Melbourne Scar
tree Walk.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You say, yeah, I say, I know Melbourne quite well.
What exactly is that?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's in Yarra Park. I'm going to go down there
and have a look today before they go there tomorrow.
Apparently it's a red gum tree where there's been bark
peeled off it by Indigenous Australians to make canoes.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay, and you've spent a bit of time in Melbourne,
you weren't aware of that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I never heard of the Scar tree Walk. No, so
that's what they're doing tomorrow. And then, of course the
Duke has his Edge Summit, seventeen thousand dollars a table.
We'll see how many people.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, they've slashed the price on that, so you might
be able to get a cheap the end of it.
I may go, well, we'll see you next week, Steve
Price out of Australia. The other thing I was looking
up the Intercontinental Cujie Beach. They've still got tickets for Megan.
This is for the weekend. It's limited. This is the
depressing thing. It's limited to three hundred, so she can't
even drum up three hundred. I mean, but what most
(08:17):
of it's as far as I can work out, this
one evening where you listen to her drone on the
rest of the time, they ending with a disco. So
you're paying three thousand dollars for a weekend. The Intercontinental
Cujie looks quite good. You go listen to her drone on,
there's meals included in alcohol, and then they end with
a disco. I mean, what, well they have one of
(08:38):
those light up floors.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm interested.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The only thing is that all I need to see
is it was a silent disco and that that just
would have finished it off for me. For more from
the Mi Casking Breakfast, listen live to news talks.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
In Australia to see price money. Mate, Hello, that have
we got competing? I mean, how's this is this dovetailing?
And I referenced yesterday's speech by Angus Taylor, which I
happened to watch live. So he's trying to say something
that will appeal I'm assuming to the paul In Handsome crowd.
But the other day Matt Canavan Nationals he said something
that's similar to what Angus was saying. So is everyone
(00:20):
saying the same thing?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now, well, certainly the opposition are. They know that immigration
is a major problem in the country. I mean practically
it means the housing supply hasn't caught up at all.
I mean to know the numbers. I mean, in the
first three years of the Labor government they bought into
Australian net migration of one point four million people. Now
(00:41):
that's bigger than the city of Adelaide. When you put
it in those terms, you go, well, hang, hang, we
can't keep doing that, can we. And that's what most
Australians feel. If you do any polling, people will say
that immigration numbers is very high on the list of
concerns for people, particularly with the lack of housing. So
Angus Taylor stood up in front of an audience yesterday
the speech that you watched. John Howard was there in
(01:03):
the front row, who famously, of course, when he was PM,
said we will decide who comes to this country in
the mode in which they come. And so Taylor is
trying now to link and he hasn't put numbers on it,
by the way, I had his immigration spokesman on Sky
last night and he wouldn't either. They're going to wait
to unload that when they get close to the election,
which is still two years away. But Angus Taylor, as
(01:24):
you would have seen, said that people should not be
allowed into Australia if they don't believe in democracy, freedom
of speech and freedom of association, warning that quote, we
have stopped celebrating our great nation. Now these are all
very motherhood statements. How do you prove that? Where do
you go to get people who believe in the great
Australian values? What are they? I would say that in
(01:46):
twenty twenty six many Australians who've been here for their
whole lives couldn't tell you what that exactly is. How
this is all going to work in practice is not
exactly clear, but one thing that is clear is that
will be a focus on countries quote social democracies. Who
are they Well you obviously in New Zealand, but the UK,
(02:07):
the US and Japan were the three countries that Angus
Taylor mentioned and so that's a clear reference to we
would be limiting the number of people coming from the
Middle East and from parts of Africa. Now that's not
gone down well with the Greens. They've called the policy racist.
Tony Burke, who holds a seat in Sydney full of
people who've migrated for the Middle East, also slammed the
(02:30):
policy in saying that Angus Taylor doesn't know what he's doing.
So this is the first real shot I think by
in the lead up to the next election.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So two part question. Part one is so they're all
the right, center right conservatives whatever you want to call them,
on roughly the same page. Does Angus Taylor gain from
the Paul en Hanson crowd? Does he get them back?
Part two? Can the government defend what they're doing? And
when it's Ghazans and stuff say no, we want more
of these sort of people. Are they in trouble with this?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, the government can't defend that And they've in fact
talked already quietly about what they might do with the
wait for this figure, sixty five thousand visa overstayers who
are currently in Australia and have been here for many years.
How do you round those people up and move them
out of the country without someone saying, well, you're just
(03:20):
being like Donald Trump and his ice mob and you're
trying to ruin the good lives of people who are
trying to stay in Australia. So one nation Ken Angus
Taylor pull a vote back there. Potentially the first test
will come with this Pharah by election, which is coming
up in a few weeks. We will see who wins that.
I'm predicting an independent tier will win that seat. So
(03:42):
Pauline has forced these people on the center right of
politics as you put them to go down this track.
We'll see what it does in the polling when that
comes out next.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I also watched yesterday Jacinerellen with is this a crisis
when three of you key ministers quit and you've got
to find three or four new ones?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, they obviously all think that they're going to have
potentially a loss at the next election, or they might
lose their own seat. She's lost four. In fact now
one went last year, and I'm todd there's two more
that will go between now and the election, so that'll
make it six. So Yes, insiders tell me that what
she's doing is rounding up fellow travelers, promoting them into
(04:23):
positions of ministers to try and stop herself being axed
before the election. That's what her great fear is. So
she's promoting people from her own faction, and that's getting
ready for the election. She hopes she'll still be there.
The National Party by the way of pre selecting the
candidate to stand against her, who very nearly won the
(04:43):
same area during a federal election. So I think she's
in trouble with her own seat.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, quantus man, you think about you putting your petrol
in your car, imagine putting in on a plane. I mean, unrelay.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Their estimates on their fuel bill is around three point
three billion dollars for the next twelve month stats up
on the estimate earlier by eight hundred million dollars. So
they are really feeling the effects of the shortage of
ab gas or get fuel. We get most of it,
if not all of it, from international sources. A lot
(05:16):
of it comes out of China and South Korea, so
their fuel bill is going through the roof. And of
course the other problem that they've got and that has
led to higher air fares is that because Emirates, Qatar
all of the Middle Eastern airlines are not able to
give regular and reliable flights through those travel hubs in
(05:36):
the Middle East. People are jumping off and putting themselves
on Quantus flights that fly Melbourne Perth Perth. It's a
London Direct, Earth and Paris Direct and going through the
Middle East. So every seat on every Quantus plane is full,
so you know they're doing well in that regard, but
the fuel situation is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Do you fly Quantus when you go to Europe?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
One hundred percent? I've fly either Condesce or with Emirates,
which is part of the.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
System, part of the same thing. I was watching Harry
and Meghan yesterday and I can't remember the woman I
was watching explain it, and I thought she did it
extremely well. So yes, when you go to a hospital,
of course you're going to have a bunch of kids
lined up going, oh aren't they lovely? But at the
end of the day, he's not sold out, she's not
sold out. And they fall in between stalls, haven't they.
They're not royal, and they're not material enough to have
(06:25):
anyone actually pay any money to go and see them.
They're sort of tragic grifters in the middle, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, the word grifter keeps coming up, Yess the hospital.
As you said that, it's predictable, so I should update
you because I know you'd be on the edge of
your seat about what might happen today. The Duke will
visit the Western Bulldog's AFL team, which is holding some
function for a thing called November. He will then go
to Canberra. He's going to visit the Australian War Memorial
(06:52):
and he will visit with Indigenous veterans, a tender reception
for Invictus Australia and attend the last post ceremony before
coming back to Melbourne. The Duchess well, she was very
busy yesterday baking for a tata. Last time she was
here it was banana bread, so she's turned her attention
to frattata. Now. She was at a homeless women's homeless refuge.
(07:13):
She's having the day off. I want to work too hard.
When you're making tomorrow though, you'll be very interested that
the Duke and Duchess will participate in the Melbourne Scar
tree Walk.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You say, yeah, I say, I know Melbourne quite well.
What exactly is that?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's in Yarra Park. I'm going to go down there
and have a look today before they go there tomorrow.
Apparently it's a red gum tree where there's been bark
peeled off it by Indigenous Australians to make canoes.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay, and you've spent a bit of time in Melbourne,
you weren't aware of that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I never heard of the Scar tree Walk. No, so
that's what they're doing tomorrow. And then, of course the
Duke has his Edge Summit, seventeen thousand dollars a table.
We'll see how many people.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, they've slashed the price on that, so you might
be able to get a cheap the end of it.
I may go, well, we'll see you next week, Steve
Price out of Australia. The other thing I was looking
up the Intercontinental Cujie Beach. They've still got tickets for Megan.
This is for the weekend. It's limited. This is the
depressing thing. It's limited to three hundred, so she can't
even drum up three hundred. I mean, but what most
(08:17):
of it's as far as I can work out, this
one evening where you listen to her drone on the
rest of the time, they ending with a disco. So
you're paying three thousand dollars for a weekend. The Intercontinental
Cujie looks quite good. You go listen to her drone on,
there's meals included in alcohol, and then they end with
a disco. I mean, what, well they have one of
(08:38):
those light up floors.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm interested.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The only thing is that all I need to see
is it was a silent disco and that that just
would have finished it off for me. For more from
the Mi Casking Breakfast, listen live to news talks.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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