The Guardian gets “disinterested” wrong. The SMH doesn’t pick it up.
Disinterested means “unbiased”.
The word you are probably looking for is “uninterested”.
That doesn’t look right
Qantas will have to pay the tax office $34 million in GST it collected from passengers who booked tickets but then didn’t turn up for their flights.
In a landmark ruling today, the court determined Qantas had still provided a service to those customers and therefore owed the Australian Tax Office (ATO) the outstanding GST.
“Will have to pay”? The Court said:
7. Qantas contended that GST was not payable on the unused fares and that the GST which had been paid on them should be refunded by the Commissioner. …