There is this morning no sign that anyone flying later today or over this holiday weekend is going to experience anything remotely as serious as the dire predictions that have been made.
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Tips and rumours
Brendan Nelson might be on a listening tour, but he apparently isn’t hearing. His office has apparently directed Coalition members and senators to publicly object to the closure of the CDMA network. Yet privately more than one backbencher, including ones who have done as they were told, confess they have received no complaints. Is Paul […]
Qantas Club musings: Pratt, Rupert and Margaret Jackson
Dick Pratt, the federal election, AGM season, taking on Rupert Murdoch in New York. Talk about bedlam. Sitting here at the Qantas Club in Melbourne Airport, it’s nice to finally draw breath ahead of the News Corp AGM on Friday, writes Stephen Mayne.
Tips and rumours
I laughed out loud at your report about the Courier Mail journos at the Queens Arms Hotel, but hear that the hotel manager was very unprofessional. A number of the journalists in question are hoping to get something about it in paper. Following SP Telemedia’s recent poor result and the sale of its television company, […]
Dick Pratt, Macquarie Bank and Bill Shorten…join the dots
The Sunday program’s Ross Coulthart has been in touch to debunk my story in Monday’s Crikey and stress that the only source of information for his cover-story attack on the Transport Workers Union came from within the union itself – and mostly from serving officials, writes Stephen Mayne.
Did Qantas unleash the dogs of war on union critics?
As Qantas continues to mull over how to deal with five shareholder resolutions put up the Transport Workers Unions, the board would have been delighted by yesterday’s massive attack on the union by Nine’s Sunday program.
