Senate inquisitors would love to have claimed a scalp. And Richard Goyder was who they were gunning for.
The group of senators who lined the ring for a bout with Qantas’ new chief executive, its chairman and its legal counsel must have walked away from the gladiatorial encounter feeling immensely frustrated.Team Qantas stuck to the script at the Senate hearing.Various senators had armed themselves and were happy to hurl incendiary one-liners – particularly at chairman Richard Goyder. He didn’t take the bait and none really landed a serious punch.
A veteran of public company boardrooms, Goyder understands that he is responsible to only one group of masters – those large shareholders that have the ability to vote him out of office.While one senator suggested that Goyder used the board as a human shield, the reality is that this job has been left to major shareholders.or engineers will sway Goyder from doing what he says is his duty to shareholders, which is to oversee continuity of governance.
It is hard to imagine the inquisitors of the legions watching the webcast were ever going to get the answer to the big question that sits behind this inquiry – why Qatar’s application to bring in additional flight to Australia was knocked back. Former Qantas boss Alan Joyce will not front the Senate select committee due to “personal commitments”.This is the document that Qantas guards so closely that it was reluctant to give the inquiry even on a confidential basis, and even after it had been redacted.
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