Can a new minister clean up the “unsustainable mess” of defence acquisitions? In the story of Hercules, the hero of Greek mythology was made to undertake 12 labours to make up for past crimes. The fifth task was to clean the Augean stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and

Former Qantas colleagues going head to head It may well be argued by those cynical enough to see the irony that the ongoing airline battle for control of Australian skies is not between Virgin and Qantas but between John Borghetti and Alan Joyce. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a

Crisis presents opportunity I get it. Look at it from Qantas’s point of view. On its home turf any 100 per cent foreign owned airline can set up shop in Australia’s domestic market – unlike (with the exception of New Zealand) almost any other advanced economy in the world. And when those foreign backed airlines

Qantas turns up the heat with online petition Overload says: Just so I understand this clearly: Qantas wants to stop its only competitor, and a much smaller one at that, from getting access to the funds they require to compete against their much larger competitor. Big Red says: I don’t recall the last time Qantas