What Bob thinks

Leading thinker, Bob Ellis (pictured left) is urging all safety conscious air travellers to fly government owned airlines like Garuda, following an incident where Qantas passengers came close to being injured. Although no-one has ever died as a result of an accident involving Qantas since, or before, it was privatised in 1993, Mr Ellis points out that it might well happen - proving once and for all that capitalism is a failure.

Mr Ellis also rightly points out that an Australian miner died in an accident two and a half years ago at a privately run mine in Tasmania - and this kind of thing would not happen at a government run mine because governments take mine safety seriously. More on what Bob Ellis thinks as it comes to hand.