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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has emphatically denied seeking flight upgrades from Qantas. But AFR readers still want it banned.

We all love an upgrade, but MPs need their wings clipped: AFR readers

Readers raised concerns about conflicts of interest, as the scandal engulfing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Qantas perks spread to the Coalition.

  • Hannah Wootton
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Domino’s CEO exits; Coalition attacks Joyce; Trump’s top 5 tech bros

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Opposition transport spokesperson Bridget McKenzie.

No quid pro quo in Dutton’s travel on Rinehart jet: McKenzie

The Coalition frontbencher is likely to update her own public disclosures over flight records within days.

  • Tom McIlroy
The Chanticleer podcast features James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald.

Joe Aston on Qantas | Supermarket profit squeeze | Super sector’s sleeper threat

This week, James and Anthony welcome guest star Joe Aston to talk Qantas and politics, reveal why there’s fresh bad news for supermarkets, and ask what’s bothering our biggest super funds.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former Qantas chief Alan Joyce.

Flight risk: Albanese’s Qantas saga hurts repair job with voters

The prime minister wants to show he is acting on cost of living, but the focus remains firmly on his flight upgrades and the fading prospect of a pre-Christmas rate cut.

  • Andrew Tillett
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October

The Fin - Joe Aston

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

This week on The Fin podcast, Joe Aston on what went wrong for the airline, why it has an oversized influence in Canberra, and the extraordinary perks of a Qantas board seat.

The prime minister seemed to feel the pressures of office this week.

Albanese says he never called Qantas boss for flight upgrades

The leadership of the newly established National Anti-Corruption Commission, including Commissioner Paul Brereton, have been given access to Qantas’ invite-only Chairman’s Lounge.

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  • Tom McIlroy and Ronald Mizen
Author Joe Aston and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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.

  • Ronald Mizen
October 29, 2024

Why Joyce became Albanese’s travel agent

Readers’ letters on Anthony Albanese’s Qantas upgrades, Santos’ climate claims and the Coalition split on nuclear power

Albanese said he had the same relationship with former Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce as he did with the boss of rival airline virgin Australia.

Qantas upgrades leave PM exposed at the worst possible time

Ultimately, it adds up to another lost week for a government already running out of time to sell its message.

  • Phillip Coorey
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not declare flight upgrades gifted to his former wife Carmel Tebbutt by Qantas and Emirates.

Albanese did not declare Qantas flight upgrades given to his ex-wife

The prime minister did not declare upgrades gifted to his former wife on flights they took for personal travel to Europe, Los Angeles and Honolulu.

  • Ronald Mizen
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the Leichhardt Festival on Sunday.

PM in tangle over Qantas lounge plus ones

Both Anthony Albanese’s fiancee and son are members of Qantas’ exclusive Chairman’s Lounge despite the prime minister saying his son was effectively his “plus one”.

  • Michael Read and Jenny Wiggins
Advertising executive and Qantas board member is a regular on ABC’s Gruen Transfer.

Qantas ponders a future without advertising guru Todd Sampson

Thirteen months since customer and shareholder anger was at its peak, one director remains a lightning rod for investor dissatisfaction.

  • Ayesha de Kretser
Transport Workers Union NSW assistant secretary Nick McIntosh and former Qantas employees outside the Federal Court in Sydney.

Qantas faces $100m-plus hit for illegal sackings

The case is shaping up as the biggest industrial relations loss in Australia’s history.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Ayesha de Kretser
Advertising executive and Qantas board director Todd Sampson.

Qantas’ Todd Sampson got a proxy pardon. Others aren’t so lucky

ISS has provided multiple perplexingly inconsistent arguments for how to deal with the Qantas board’s culpability in the recent airline’s morality bypass.

  • Myriam Robin
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Qantas suffered an epic strike against its remuneration last year.

Proxy adviser tells shareholders to rebuke Qantas on exec pay

At least one influential proxy adviser, ISS, is not content with cutting Alan Joyce’s pay by $9 million.

  • Ayesha de Kretser
Virgin Australia chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka and Qatar’s former boss, Akbar Al Baker have played the long game against Qantas and its former CEO Alan Joyce.

Qatar rebalances the scales in a long game of revenge against Qantas

A decade long drama between the Gulf carrier and the national carrier ultimately led to the blockbuster Virgin Australia deal, shaking up the aviation sector.

  • Ayesha de Kretser
Former Qantas chief Alan Joyce has signed some hefty advisers.

Alan Joyce arms himself ahead of Aston launch

After over a year of keeping a distinctly low profile, the former chief has this week signed not one but two hefty PR operatives.

  • Myriam Robin

September

Richard Goyder.

Richard Goyder on his biggest mistake at Qantas

The recently departed Qantas chairman admits he made some mistakes but says people forget how the pandemic changed the game.

  • Patrick Durkin
Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson.

Qantas executive pay falls 40pc, Alan Joyce pockets $3m

The airline has changed the way it pays and claws back bonuses after a stinging rebuke of its remuneration report from shareholders.

  • Ayesha de Kretser

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