Hong Kong, Dec. 13 -- Policy shifts in industrial relations, aviation regulation and Australia's response to climate change are necessary to take aviation forward, Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce said last month.

In the second Shepherd Oration to Australian business leaders, Joyce outlined reforms the airline company believed Australia should adopt to ensure the country made a strong recovery from COVID-19.

Three areas of policy were top of his list, he said: introducing flexibility into "a rigid, overly complex industrial relations system", identifying the right balance between regulation and the free market and not allowing COVID-19 to distract governments from the significant impact of climate change.

Joyce said the airline group's lived...