Guest post by Jim McDonald: An open letter to Alan Joyce
Dear Mr Joyce, I have just received your Frequent Flyer message in which you “apologise” and then present the media spin and special pleading you have promulgated during the enterprise bargaining period. The fact is that your desire to break [...]
Joyce makes enemies with long memories
The Gillard Government has been accused of siding with Qantas to the disadvantage of the unions. This has been argued in relation to Government’s support for the termination of industrial action by Fair Work Australia. But there is more than [...]
Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]
Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
The ABC, balance and right wing propaganda
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
The Qantas nosedive – what happened
The media reports aren’t particularly informative, but the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s news release contains a fairly good explanation of why a Qantas Airbus A330 airliner suddenly decided to dive a couple of hundred meters (not thousands of metres as [...]
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