Mark Mitchell

Pauline has forced these people on the centre-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.

I also watched yesterday Jacinta Allen with, is this a crisis when three of your key ministers quit and you've got to find three or four new ones?

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 told 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 travellers and

promoting them into 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, have pre-selected a candidate to stand against her who very nearly won the same area during a federal election.

So I think she's in trouble with her own seat.

Okay, Qantas.

Man, you think about you putting your petrol in your car.

Imagine putting it in a plane.

I mean, unreal, eh?

Their estimates on their fuel bill is around $3.3 billion for the next 12 months.

That's up on the estimates earlier by $800 million.