The only way for Qantas, moving forward is to take thier business elsewhere because, our unions ad IR laws have made running an internationally competitive business here next to impossible, unless of cause you want to continue risking billions for 4% return, remembering, they can earn 6% sitting on thier hands.

The jobs must go off shore, or the workers and unions must accept that thier pay and conditions are now unsustainable.

This won't happen as it would set a precedence that would go thought our home based industries like a cancer.

I am afraid to suggest that it is GAME OVER!

Best book you appointment with centre link.

On another note, how typical of this incompitent government to have sat on the fence until it collapsed then take credit for fixing something they helped to create.

What a joke they are.

Bring on the next election.

Ok, baggage handlers at Qantas are on, get this, $75 to $80 K per year, for what is essentially unskilled work and, THEY ARE NOT HAPPY!

F them, give the jobs to someone who really wants a job.

BTW, if this is the benchmark, what are our police worth?

More proof those striking and thier unions are a joke.

Two million for the asking, and yet you ramble on. I thought the outcome was handled as designed. And so they should take credit for a solution that should have been handled internally, and not globally.

What they (the gov) should have done was to intervene before this situation evolved, but of cause, they had the unions to consider.

What the CEO and board did is the gutsiest move I have seen.

5% sore in the share price says it all.

"The owners have agreed to it, so get over it"
I don't recall the previous owners (the public) getting any say if that company were to be sold off, so I don't see why it is justified now a corrupt CEO is holding a good portion of the nation's air travel hostage solely to blackmail a union into submission over him taking a payrise for cutting corners of a company he didn't even pay for, and running it into the ground.

*Two million for the asking, and yet you ramble on.*

Actually 579, that is not quite correct. Its been pointed out by
those in the know, like James Strong and Geoffrey Thomas.

Joyce actually had a 9% salary decrease and his bonus will only
be paid if he can turn the airline around and the share price
reaches certain share price targets, which is unlikely.

So the two million were not for the asking, but will be paid if
he performs and works a miracle, against all the odds.