Australians are fed up with Qantas as it takes eye-watering sums of public money while posting huge profits. It controls more than half of the nation’s highly concentrated domestic aviation sector (with help from its subsidiary Jetstar), and has been one of the most complained about companies over the past two years.

This week Labor handed down its much-anticipated aviation white paper, which proposed an ombudsman to oversee airlines and airports. But does the national carrier need a bigger shake-up? Is it time to nationalise Qantas? That’s the question debaters are tossing around in today’s Friday Fight.

Arguing against privatisation we have economist Steven