Only three weeks ago, Richard Goyder promised humility. Finch didn’t get his chairman’s memo.
. Finch didn’t get his chairman’s memo. Finch’s every interjection oozed contempt for the proceedings. His animosity and semantics prompted inquiry chairwomanEven Goyder and Hudson were respectful of the proceedings, no matter how cringeworthy the senators’ hectoring. Not Finch, oh no. He swaggered in, mistaking himself for, not an undistinguished salaryman.
Even with the cancellation of the expiry date, this is still an attempted systemic heist unless Qantas makes the credits usable; it is merely an open-ended theft, a theft in abeyance – and one on which Qantas continues to earn tidy interest.
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