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Alex Mitchell

'Read the room': calls persist for Qantas chair to quit

Chairman Richard Goyder insisted he retained the backing of most of the biggest Qantas shareholders. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Pilots and shareholders are unmoved by the Qantas chairman's performance at a public hearing and are doubling down on calls for him to "read the room" and resign.

The Australian Shareholders Association was not swayed by Richard Goyder's evidence to a Senate committee that he retained the backing of the embattled airline's biggest owners, and insisted it needs new executives.

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