The Latest Breaking News from Alan Joyce

For an airline to lose all credibility and loyalty in a mere 15 years is a national shame, say Crikey readers.

Senator and anti-‘elites’ No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price flew business class 76 times between May last year and June this year at a cost to taxpayers of $76,509.19, and eligible NSW households will get an energy bills rebate of up to $350.

Sixty-three MPs and senators have written a strong letter calling on the US to stop persecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and warning of ‘a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia’ if he is extradited from the UK, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton wants to stop Canberra becoming a ‘boom market’…

‘These workers have been put through hell. Their lives have been dislocated’

Qantas faces a potentially huge compensation payout to sacked workers, in a further knock to the carrier’s already diminished reputation.

As one pilot remarked, ‘Pity Joyce wasn’t here to face the fire that he caused. Hopefully some more heads will roll’.

Decision exposes embattled airline to mammoth compensation bill in major win for the Transport Workers Union

The No camp’s volunteers have been told to use ’emotive language’ to sow feelings of ‘uncertainty, doubt or fear’, and former Morrison government minister Karen Andrews accuses an unnamed colleague of breathing on her neck and making suggestive comments.

Having lost his prized status as doyen of corporate Australia, it’ll be a miracle if the Qantas chairman lasts till Christmas.