Tansy Harcourt

Tansy Harcourt joined the business team in 2022. Tansy was a columnist and writer over a 10-year period at the Australian Financial Review, and has previously worked for Bloomberg and the ABC and worked in strategy at Qantas.

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Vanessa Hudson, chief executive officer of Qantas Airways Ltd., speaks during a news conference in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Qantas Airways said first-half profit declined as airfares fell from their post-Covid spike, and new Chief Executive Officer Hudson increases spending to help restore the airline’s tarnished reputation. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg

Unions lay down the law as Qantas faces more turbulence

Qantas is facing a new stoush with unions after short-haul pilots rejected a hefty 26pc pay rise, adding to the woes faced by the airline’s new chief executive Vanessa Hudson.

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Alan Joyce, chief executive officer of Qantas Airways Ltd., speaks during the AFR Business Summit in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Joyce, who took the helm at the Australian carrier in 2008, is one of the industry's longest-serving chief executive officers. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Alan Joyce gets on front foot ahead of Qantas expose

The ex-airline CEO has stepped out to combat the bad publicity expected ahead of the launch of a tell-all book on Qantas, likely to reveal new information about his controversial reign.

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18/08/2023. Newly appointed chair of Magellan Andrew Formica, photographed at their offices in Sydney. Britta Campion / The Australian

Relief for Magellan with no investor revolt

For the first time in many years Magellan shareholders appear to have found a management team they can back, as the company announces its first short fund and declares the ship to be steady.

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‘Quiet faith’ that makes King a market ruler

From his Bishop father to $50bn fund aspirations, Phil King has become the man many in the stockmarkets want to know more about, and they all want to emulate his financial success.

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Don’t listen to scaremongers, Atlas Carbon tells Aussie farmers

Investing in carbon sequestration projects is an expensive business for farmers and some are being scared off by misinformation, an industry expert says.

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Qantas has confirmed passenger passports were possibly exposed in a cyber breach.

Qantas confirms passenger passports potentially ‘exposed’

‘Rogue’ staff at an Indian ground-handling company may have accessed the passport details of about 1000 Qantas frequent flyer customers caught up in a cyber theft incident.

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Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka has scored what she calls "a career highlight" with the Qatar Airways' deal. Picture: Supplied.

Project Doubles won, Hrdlicka turns focus to tennis

Jayne Hrdlicka remains the Virgin Australia boss but the clock is now ticking on how long she will stay in the role.

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Qantas customers caught up in cyber theft

Nearly 1000 Qantas customers have been caught up in a major cyber theft after an Indian company stole frequent flyer points in a serious breach of the airline company’s IT systems.

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Qantas buckles in for a fresh fight

Qantas has posted record annual profits but now it faces a scrap from its main competitor, Virgin Australia, thanks to the might of Qatar Airways.

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Chocolate’s going to leave a sour taste as cocoa prices soar

Chocolate lovers, your guilty pleasure is going to cost you even more because the world’s biggest cocoa producing region of West Africa is struggling with its harvest.

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