This week’s Qantas Senate Inquiry has set up a fierce debate about the current management of Qantas and its off shore strategies, reports Ben Sandilands.
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Delegitimising unions in the great game of labour v capital
As voters become more estranged from corporations and economic reform, neither labour nor capital is responding effectively to the sentiment.
Stranded by Qantas? Hopefully you were in Europe …
Even before the flying kangaroo got back into the air late on Monday, questions were raised about Qantas’ treatment of its passengers stranded across various parts of the world for two days. Alexander Cornwell examines your rights.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Restoring Qantas to public ownership
Crikey readers have their say.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Albanese benefits from sky high Qantas coverage
Regarding the media’s coverage of Qantas, it all became about who said what to who and when .
Political snippets: Julia Gillard gets ready to jet-about
Julia Gillard will be a jet-about Prime Minister for the next few weeks with a series of international conferences interrupted briefly by a visiting US President Barack Obama.
Post-grounding, now it’s the Qantas-Virgin bidding war
Qantas and its natural enemy, Virgin Australia, are rolling out a massive and costly bidding war to retain or gain the customers that matter, the ones who fly frequently.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The good, the bad and the Qantas
Crikey readers have their say.
Media briefs: Tingle is free … Quantas watch … China’s Fox News …
In today’s Media Briefs: Qantas watch … Tingle free from paywall … Qantas story drowns out in Melbourne Cup in social media discussions and more …
Qantas takes off, into skies dark with uncertainties
It looks like stormy skies ahead for Qantas and its pilots, licensed engineers and ground staff after the first of its grounded jets returned to service yesterday following an emergency ruling by Fair Work Australia, writes Ben Sandilands.
Union stirs up new turbulence for Qantas
With the Qantas lockout of more than 80,000 customers without notice coming to an end this afternoon, the dispute that a 2am Fair Work Australia ruling appeared to solve is already hitting new turbulence.
Memo troops: don’t get shot during a transport strike
Perhaps our news editors should ask if, in the future, our soldiers in Afghanistan could avoid being killed on grand final weekend, the Boxing Day Test, budget night or any transport strike, writes Dr Rodger Shanahan, who was the Chief of Army Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
The remorseless logic and profound disdain of Alan Joyce
Qantas is prepared to threaten the Australian economy and thus has the government over a barrel. But it’s confirming Australians’ growing resentment of corporations.
Media briefs: Bachelard Jakarta bound … Qantas watch … SBS’ $4b shortfall …
In today’s Media Briefs: Bachelard to take on Jakarta … Qantas, err, Quantas … Seven to overhaul Weekend Sunrise … $4m shortfall at SBS, Youtube preps 96 channels and more …
Political snippets: Thank goodness for a sensible arbitration system
Goodness knows what continuing misery Australian air travelers would have gone through were it not for the safety net of having industrial disputes settled by arbitration when all else fails.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: the slow burn of Qantas customers
Yesterday’s decision by Fair Work Australia to terminate the fractious Qantas dispute gives the lie to the continuing criticism from business about the Fair Work Act somehow being pro-union.
Leigh Clifford: the key Qantas man in the cockpit
Leigh Clifford, more than any other person in Australia, changed the culture of the workplace in the mining industry and made Australia one of the most productive mining areas in the world, writes Robert Gottliebsen.
Qantas to resume flights later today
Fair Work Australia has ordered the termination of all industrial action in the Qantas disputes, meaning the airline will be required to resume flights as soon as possible, writes Ben Sandilands.
Joyce’s industrial terrorism a superb opportunity for Gillard and Labor
On the question of how to handle the Qantas disputes there are no easy choices for Labor, but Alan Joyce’s act of industrial terrorism is a superb opportunity for a government under siege, writes Bernard Keane.
Joyce: Qantas passengers now have ‘certainty’
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told Alan Kohler on ABC’s Inside Business that grounding flights would bring ‘certainty’ to customers and that the airline’s business travellers have strongly endorsed its action. A union spokesperson has called this ‘insane’, reports Ben Sandilands.
Alan Joyce stamps foot, shuts down Qantas
In an astonishing dummy spit, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has grounded the Qantas domestic and international fleet until such time as the pilots, licensed engineers and ground handlers withdraw their industrial claims, writes Ben Sandilands.
Qantas AGM turns into a ferocious showdown
With calls to save Qantas from “Asianisation” outside, and at times angry attacks on management defence of its decisions inside, the Qantas AGM turned nasty.
Premiers weigh in on Qantas disputes
The Premiers of NSW and Victoria have written to the Prime Minister urging intervention in the Qantas disputes to save domestic tourism, reports Ben Sandilands.
Essential: meh on the republic, but fired up about Qantas
Voters blame Qantas management for its dispute with unions, today’s Essential Report finds. But support for a republic isn’t going anywhere.
Is Qantas getting a little bit hysterical?
There seems to be an element of hysteria in the Qantas management threats to fire ‘innocent bystanders’ in the industrial disputes between the airline and its pilots, engineers and ground handling staff, writes Ben Sandilands.
