QANTAS BID ‘RISKY’

ASSISTANT Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos says the Government would open a Pandora’s box if it put public capital into Qantas. Treasurer Joe Hockey this week called for a national debate on whether to loosen the airline’s foreignownership rules, which do not allow foreign investors to hold more than 49 per cent of the airline. Senior Labor MP Anthony Albanese on Friday said the Government should consider taking a small equity position in the airline. subsidies for another decade and recommit $500 million it had planned to cut.