• Joe Aston on Qantas: ‘This is a story about power in the shadows’

  • Oct 30 2024
  • Length: 29 mins
  • Podcast

Joe Aston on Qantas: ‘This is a story about power in the shadows’

  • Summary

  • This week on The Fin podcast, Joe Aston, former Rear Window editor and author of The Chairmain's Lounge, discusses what went wrong for the Qantas, its oversized influence in Canberra, and the extraordinary perks of a Qantas board seat.

    Editors note: On Thursday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese denied ever contacting Alan Joyce to seek a flight upgrade.

    This podcast is sponsored by UNSW

    Further reading:
    The incredible financial value of a Qantas board seat
    The lavish and fudged flight perks of the airline’s executives are revealed in this extract from Joe Aston’s “The Chairman’s Lounge”.
    The zombie chairman: How Goyder let Joyce trash Qantas’ reputation
    An exclusive extract from Joe Aston’s book The Chairman’s Lounge tells the inside story of how Richard Goyder and his board allowed Alan Joyce to fly Qantas into a reputational disaster.
    Albanese faces calls for probe into flight upgrades
    David Pocock and Peter Dutton have both called for a probe into whether Anthony Albanese breached the ministerial code of conduct while he was transport minister.

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