Chris Pettifer writes: The entire “help” package deal given to Qantas because the pandemic plus the remuneration paid to Joyce is obscene. Coupled with the layoffs and outsourcing of labour, the obscenity is elevated to outrageous, offensive and egregious. A lot for the success of privatisation and “market forces”.
The entire neoliberal con has been on the expense of the common Australian and this disgusting episode highlights the lengths that governments go to to appease the whining non-public sector.
The best quantity repaid to the federal government coffers has come out of the pockets of the long-suffering low-income to no-income Australians, whereas Joyce simply skipped the nation with tens of thousands and thousands after having destroyed the fame and social license of what was as soon as a well-regarded airline.
David Simpsons writes: The company color of Qantas is purple. Accurately. Crimson denotes disgrace and embarrassment.
Qantas ought to be run by its board and staff (even the overpaid ones) for the advantage of its homeowners. Its homeowners (in)successfully dictate the insurance policies and behavior of the corporate through the board. The media had a brief and largely ineffectual try to call and disgrace the board. Now it’s time to do the identical for its homeowners.
Disgrace on every one of many thousands and thousands of you. Complain to your tremendous firm. Rejig your portfolio. Vote at AGMs. Do no matter it takes. However for the sake of a once-respected firm, its clients, and in the long run, your funding, do one thing!
Fiona Cameron writes: Christ on a bicycle!!! I knew it was a giant sum of cash, however that is simply gobsmacking. An absolute shame.
I wouldn’t fly with Qantas in the event that they gave me a ticket… properly top notch to Europe may make me relent, however nothing much less! Thanks for crunching the numbers and publishing them.
Roger Richards: We’re too intently related to and mindlessly help the provider of the weapons which have enabled the brutal subjugation of the Palestinians for a lot of a long time. Throughout which period numerous stone-throwing youngsters have been shot within the again by different youngsters with American-supplied high-powered rifles and whose argument is that they feared for his or her lives. Throughout this time unlawful settlements have expanded dramatically into Palestinian lands.
The atrocities dedicated by some Hamas individuals can’t be condoned. The struggle crimes dedicated in retribution — the genocide, the killing of 32,000+ civilians together with so many ladies and infants plus the maiming of a whole lot of hundreds — is on no account acceptable both. Why did it want the killing of these support staff to get us upset?
Kim Hillier writes: Do the Liberals have any shot of changing into the get together of the employee? They don’t have to. The employees don’t pay shut consideration, they simply observe a well-known sample. The appropriate vote is splintering with selections that embody teals, UAP, Pauline Hanson, KAP and unbiased conservatives in addition to the continued disgrace job known as the Nationals.
COVID, local weather and Sky Information have modified all the pieces. Some centre-right individuals have moved politically to loony land and think about anti-vaxxers like Clive Palmer and Craig Kelly as voices value listening to. They’ve purchased the Sky Information local weather denial line and actually don’t like me speaking about ice core proof of anthropogenic international warming.
For the Liberal Social gathering, the enemy is just not Labor, it’s itself, because it shoots itself within the foot with its appalling frontbench, Mr Potato on the helm, lack of gender fairness, and the stench of the Morrison authorities’s alleged criminality and incompetence nonetheless lingering like a stale fart.
As soon as upon a time, all of the Liberals needed to do was not be Labor. Now, in humanity’s first 24/7 cyber-century, full with mis/dis/malinformation, AI, bots, cyber surveillance and rising authoritarianism, and not using a cleanout of parliamentary and administrative deadwood, and set up of youngish, various and efficient management for its political and administrative groups, the first vote for the Liberals will proceed its downward development with the teals and unbiased centrists selecting up the fallout. As a centre-right liberal employee myself, the earlier the Liberal Social gathering dies the higher.
