Again I have no evidence but I do think it is a factor. A group of 5 women are suing QR/Qatar/QCAA over this and court proceedings are underway. QR says it is not them who did the search, Qatar is using sovereign immunity as a defence etc etc and so the case is being contested.
My sneaking suspicion is the Aus Govt action on more flights is an indirect pressure on the Qataris to settle the case and then everyone can be pals again and all forgiven and QR can operate more flights...
I didn't know about the ongoing court case, so thanks for that.
Far from old news. Nothing satisfactory was done at the time, sanctions should have been implemented immediately.
If we really want to drill this, we would being taking much bigger action e.g. like how we took China to WTO
The Qatari government (who 100% own and operate QR) have shown no genuine remorse and victims have had to seek action via Australian courts because no avenue via courts in Qatar.
It's Qatar. Sorry to say this, but what do you expect? I am as outraged as everyone else, but it's Qatar. I mean do we expect the same human rights standard as we have? It's the honest truth. It's like, if you were a woman and the Taliban detain and whip you for not having a man with you while walking down the street, it's bad, but what else could we expect?
This is why I don't fly these gulf based carriers.
Our government is right to leverage anything we can to get justice for the Aussie victims.
Then make a song and dance about it, take their government to the UN Human Rights Office, drive change. You don't drive change by being hush hush.
If this is the reason, the government could have come out and say 'We don't want them to fly here, until they apologise and pay compensation'. That would be world news and that would drive change.
If the government from both sides of politics dare to offend the Chinese government by telling the whole world not to build 5G, and risk all the $$$, I don't buy the trying to be hush hush trying not to offend the Qataris theory.