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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce gets pie in face

Tess IngramJournalist
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In his near nine-year tenure as chief executive of Qantas, Alan Joyce has had to encounter plenty of difficult situations. But he had never been hit in the face with a pie until Tuesday.

Mr Joyce was only a few minutes into a speech at a sold-out business breakfast in Perth on Tuesday when a man in a suit emerged from the back of the stage wielding a pie, which he rubbed in Mr Joyce's face.

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Tess Ingram was a journalist with WAtoday. Before that, she was a reporter in The Australian Financial Review’s Perth bureau, covering business, economics and politics. Connect with Tess on Twitter.

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