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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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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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This photo taken on September 4, 2024 shows a Qantas Airways Boeing 737-800 plane coming in to land next to a Qantas Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft preparing to take-off at Sydney International Airport. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Qantas admits it knew about ghost flights

In a statement of facts revealed by the ACCC over the Qantas ghost flight scandal, the airline admits senior executives knew it was selling cancelled flights.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 22, 2024: Generic photos of QANTAS planes at Sydney Airport today Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

Qantas strikes may hit AFL grand final travel plans

Ticket holders trying to make the AFL grand final in Melbourne on Saturday are being warned by unions their flights might be affected by strike action by Qantas engineers.

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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

Qantas strikes start today as CEO works to fix bruised brand

Engineering staff at Qantas will strike on Thursday as Vanessa Hudson juggles repairing the airline’s brand while keeping costs down.

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Virgin on the ball in Qatar, Rex, IPO talks

Would you guess she’s a tennis fanatic? Jayne Hrdlicka’s tennis-themed takeover codenames have been revealed as the talks with Qatar, known as Project Doubles, drag on.

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Orora sells US paper packaging ops for $1.68bn

Brian Lowe is fine-tuning the Orora packaging giant even further with the $1.68bn sale of its US paper and cardboard packaging business as it further focuses on the premium beverage market.

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09/06/2022 : Virgin Australia chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka, talks to ground staff airside at Brisbane Airport, Brisbane. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

The Qatar deal Virgin needs to ramp up against Qantas

Its codename is ‘Project Doubles’ and Virgin Australia executives believe that when approved, a deal to bring Qatar in as a significant shareholder gives it the fire power to fight Qantas.

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For The Weekly Times AgJournal November. Differing opinions on the use of prime agricultural land for the purpose of energy farming. Simon Barton has a property at Badangora near Wellington NSW, which has energy producing wind turbines installed for added income. Merino sheep feed around the wind turbines. Picture by Dean Marzolla

Small farmers take on the ‘carbon cowboys’

Farmers are banding together to try and cash in on government grants for carbon trading and avoid the growing numbers of ‘carbon cowboys’ seeking to rip them off.

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CommentaryAviation

This picture taken on August 28, 2024 shows a Qantas plane taking off from Sydney International airport. Australian airline Qantas reported a slide in net profit as post Covid-19 fares dropped, but said it was working to rebuild its reputation after a string of public scandals. Net profit fell 28 percent to 48 billion USD in the financial year to June 30, the airline said. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

New era as Qantas bows to unions with ‘pragmatic’ deal

Have the actions of former CEO Alan Joyce left his successor Vanessa Hudson in a position where Qantas has never been weaker with unions?

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Bernard Reilly, Chief Executive of Sunsuper. Photo by Sarah Keayes/The Photo Pitch

Perpetual’s new boss and his mountain of ‘serious challenges’

A top fund manager says he ‘wouldn’t want to be doing that job’, as Perpetual’s new CEO Bernard Reilly prepares to take the reins on Monday as the fund giant slides to a loss.

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