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Ministers have named a series of factors, including human rights, carbon emissions, protecting well-paid secure jobs, Qantas buying new planes at a “significant cost”, and protecting the two existing Australian carriers from competition. On the last point, Virgin Australia is a partner of Qatar and would benefit from more flights. Mr King said last Thursday the 2020 invasive strip searches of Australian women at Hamad International Airport was both a “factor” and “context” for the government’s deliberations, seemingly contradicting statements she made to the The Sydney Morning Herald on July 26 that the treatment of the woman was not a...
