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Perth's Optus Stadium has drawn more consumer anger after the outage. Another case of the 'stadium curse'?

Looming over the Swan River in Perth, a shiny sporting structure boldly declares “OPTUS STADIUM Yes”. After the disastrously prolonged communication outage this week, many will have shouted “No”, or other words requiring asterisks in respectable media.

The Conversation

Scott Morrison, man-o’-war

Liberal backbencher and former PM Scott Morrison says he went to Israel because ‘Jewish Australians need to know that their cause is a right one’, and Qantas, Virgin and Crown Resorts paid no corporate tax in 2021-22 but mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP were some of the biggest corporate…

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Murdochs pull out all the stops to kill free speech at News Corp AGM

News Corp’s media outlets constantly lecture public figures about subjecting themselves to questions. Yet it works very hard to discourage questions from shareholders at its own AGM.

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Afternoon Update: Optus outage causes nationwide frustration; ketamine use hits record peak; and global wine production falls

Optus is gradually restoring services after a nationwide outage, but the cause remains unclear

The Guardian - AU

Qantas faces court over misleading ticket sales

Qantas has appeared before the Federal Court over the airline's decision to sell tickets for already cancelled flights.

AAP

That sinking feeling: Antarctic ice melts and a burning world gets soggy feet

The changing climate waits for no man, woman or child — not even Peter Dutton. It’s time the government pulled its finger out, Crikey readers say.

Crikey

US jobs report weaker than expected; UK economy ‘flirting with recession’, economists say –as it happened

US economy adds 150,000 jobs in October and previous months are revised lower, boosting investor expectations that the Fed won’t hike interest rates again

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Woman accused of walking under plane during 'mental health crisis'

She allegedly ran out onto the tarmac at Canberra Airport.

The Canberra Times

Afternoon Update: Qantas execs face investor fury; Blinken flies to Israel amid call to allow aid; Mechelle Turvey named WA Australian of the Year

Chair Richard Goyder and CEO Vanessa Hudson face a grilling from irate Qantas shareholders at a tense annual general meeting

The Guardian - AU

The fury on show at the Qantas AGM couldn't have come at a worse time for the airline

Fielding tough questions from a furious audience is no one’s idea of fun. But as Richard Goyder and Vanessa Hudson – Qantas chairman and chief executive, respectively – dealt with angry question after angry question at the airline’s annual general meeting today, the pair knew their main audience was not…

The Conversation

Qantas chairman heckled by shareholders at AGM as investors reject executive pay plans

Shouts of ‘shame on you’ after shareholder Chris Maxworthy’s microphone cut off

The Guardian - AU

Labor accused of ‘dragging feet’ on reinstating program that monitors airlines for potential price-gouging

Opposition says there’s ‘no excuse’ for further delays on the government reviving the ACCC flight monitoring regime

The Guardian - AU

Besieged Qantas board cops brunt of shareholder anger

Heckling and protest votes greeted the Qantas board at the airline's annual general meeting where shareholders vented their frustration at a series of missteps.

AAP

If the big business lobby wants to gain influence again, it should expel Qantas

The Business Council of Australia should expel Qantas from its ranks. And its incoming chair is the ideal person to do it.

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The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Australians reportedly escape Gaza, Abbott’s ‘climate cult’ rant, minister’s Qantas meetings

The former prime minister has lashed out at ‘implausible’ climate theory, and we reveal talks between Catherine King and ex-airline boss Alan Joyce

The Guardian - AU

Catherine King and former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce met at least twice in recent months

Exclusive: documents show transport minister met former airline chief at Parliament House two months before she ruled against Qatar Airways request

Crikey

Post-Joyce, Qantas’ legal stoush shows nothing new under the Hudson

The new CEO is following in her predecessor’s footsteps: take it to the courts, denigrate your staff and alienate your customers.

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Marcia Langton calls for alcohol ban in NT

Indigenous leader Professor Marcia Langton says ‘alcohol restrictions in place at all times — no exceptions’ are an ‘absolutely necessary public health measure’ in the NT to reduce domestic and sexual violence, and a major multinational port operator in Australia paid not a cent in tax despite raking in $4.5…

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Qantas claims it ‘likely wouldn’t be here’ if it had paid subsidiaries’ staff same as direct employees

Airline tells inquiry into Labor’s industrial relations bill it had to adapt labour practices to compete in ‘highly competitive global market’

AAP

Pilot strike threat at Qantas subsidiary averted

Pilots at a WA-based Qantas subsidiary have suspended plans to strike and agreed to resume negotiations over pay and conditions.

AAP

Higher labour hire pay threatens viability: Qantas, BHP

Unions and major companies are going head to head over proposed labour hire laws, with the latter arguing higher pay rates will threaten business viability.

Crikey

Qantas reveals five amazing facts you didn’t know about your flight!

You think it’s our fault that we sold many thousands of flights we never intended to operate? Actually it’s yours. And our workers’.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Australia toughens stance as Gaza death toll soars; woman found dead at Bendigo home; and Australians eat too much salt

Foreign minister Penny Wong says the world will ‘not accept’ continuing civilian deaths in Gaza

The Guardian - AU

Qantas claims it doesn’t sell tickets to flights but ‘bundle of rights’ in defence against ACCC case

The airline’s defence to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission legal action denies it charged customers a ‘fee for no service’

AAP

Qantas defends allegations of misleading ticket sales

Qantas has rejected allegations by the ACCC it acted improperly by selling tickets for already cancelled flights, saying customers were offered alternatives.

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