Summary
From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one of the nation’s favourite brands brought itself to ground.
Before Covid, both Qantas and its CEO Alan Joyce were flying high, the darlings of customers, staff and investors. After Covid hit, only money mattered – in particular, the company’s share price and extraordinary executive bonuses. Illegally redundant workers, unethical flight credits, abysmal custom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761632945 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761632949 |
| Author: | Joe Aston |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Scribner Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 128mm x 198mm |
Joe Aston
Joe Aston is one of Australia’s most influential commentators on business, finance and politics. For 12 years, he struck fear into the hearts of the nation’s political and corporate leaders with his must-read column “Rear Window” in The Australian Financial Review. He interrogated some of the country’s biggest business stories, including Rio Tinto’s Juukan Gorge scandal, CPA Australia and its Naked CEO Alex Malley, and the decline and fall of both Magellan Financial Group and Qantas.
In 2023, Joe and his AFR colleagues won a Walkley Award for their coverage of the PwC tax leaks scandal. AFR editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury says Aston ‘turned a gossip column into a form of journalism like never before seen in Australia, and arguably the world.’
Joe resigned from the AFR in October last year. He lives in Sydney.
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