ANALYSIS: Over Joyce: A brief history of one man's fight against everyone
Newspapers, and the media in general, are obsessed with reporting on anything it does. Maybe it's the tyranny of distance, the product of a relatively small population on a big island at the end of the world. Transport is crucial to our survival.
That profile and recognition places the Qantas boss in a unique position, one that has cut him far more slack than if was he running any other company.Melbourne Cup Day 2011 was a day that went down in infamy. Instead of the "race that stops the nation", it was a Dubliner who brought the country to a halt.leaving around 98,000 customers stranded around the world.
It worked, to a degree. Fair Work ordered an end to the dispute, noting the airline's actions to lock out staff "threatens to cause significant damage to tourism and air transport industries", while pointedly adding the union actions were unlikely to damage the two industries.
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