It is one of those populist ironies that Albo’s crony deals with the likes of the gas cartel, which will cost households untold billions, triggers less outward anger than Albo’s much cheaper cronyism with Qantas.
Perhaps the latter is the lightning rod for all of Albo’s failures. Crikey has a good wrap on the advancing story:
When today’s Worm hits your inbox it will have been nearly 24 hours since Qantas announced Alan Joyce would step down as chief executive. It came after days of damaging headlines for the airline: first the airline posted a $2.7 billion annual profit, then Joyce revealed it owed customers millions more in credits than previously believed, and then the consumer watchdog said it was taking court action for the alleged sale of “ghost flight” tickets. The newspapers have had time to digest the news and are moving units today with big blaring headlines: “Joyce hits eject button” (SMH), “Cash landing” (The West Australian), “Australians all let us rejoyce” (The Daily Telegraph). Obviously some media outlets are happy to see Joyce go.
