AFR's Joe Aston goes BAM!

Your daydreams are coming true: Joe Aston is penning a book about Alan Joyce, coming out in the latter half of this year. The book will focus on the pandemic period and time after that. If Joe Aston keeps his earlier style, it might be quite a read for those interested in how he slices & dices the last few years of QF leadership.

Simon & Schuster publishing director Ben Ball said Aston’s column was essential reading for its ability to break a story, and to write about it evocatively.

“The Chairman’s Lounge will do the same over the long form, telling the bigger story of how one company – and a few key individuals – bought the nation’s loyalty and then cashed in on it.


“Joe’s prose is as rare as his access and insight: razor-sharp, funny and fearless, slicing to expose. Like [American author] Michael Lewis, he has an eye for the telling detail and the mind for the big picture, which he’s finally able to show us.”


[Edit: fixed the name, thanks Kerrodt for pointing it out]
 
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Your daydreams are coming true: Joe Aston is penning a book about Alan Jones, coming out in the latter half of this year. The book will focus on the pandemic period and time after that. If Joe Aston keeps his earlier style, it might be quite a read for those interested in how he slices & dices the last few years of QF leadership.

Simon & Schuster publishing director Ben Ball said Aston’s column was essential reading for its ability to break a story, and to write about it evocatively.

“The Chairman’s Lounge will do the same over the long form, telling the bigger story of how one company – and a few key individuals – bought the nation’s loyalty and then cashed in on it.


“Joe’s prose is as rare as his access and insight: razor-sharp, funny and fearless, slicing to expose. Like [American author] Michael Lewis, he has an eye for the telling detail and the mind for the big picture, which he’s finally able to show us.”


I think you mean Allan Joyce. Although there are probably quite a few salacious and scandalous books that could be written on Allan Jones.
 
Your daydreams are coming true: Joe Aston is penning a book about Alan Jones, coming out in the latter half of this year. The book will focus on the pandemic period and time after that. If Joe Aston keeps his earlier style, it might be quite a read for those interested in how he slices & dices the last few years of QF leadership.
What's the bet that whatever Aston writes, Alan Joyce will have lawyers use the defamation laws to attack the book in any way he can?
Let's hope he mentions the illegal firing of ground crew and pulls no punches there. After all, as I've mentioned earlier, the highest court of the land agreed with the lower courts which found that Qantas fired over a thousand Unionized workers illegally. And for those who bring up defamation laws, a defence to libel is the truth. And this source of truth isn't hearsay or speculation, this is literally the highest court of the land, arguably the ultimate arbiter of the truth in Australia concluding that Qantas illegally fired workers.

The flip side to defamation laws is they can encourage the Streisand effect. Rather than make someone apologize, it actually emboldens them to keep stating it more and louder so everyone knows Qantas broke the law. To the extent that Alan Joyce is remembered positively, it will only happen if he does not pursue anyone over defamation. Certainly, if he were to go after Joe Aston over this book, there will be a press frenzy, and any modicum of good will left for the guy will be gone. Heck, his last 6 months at Qantas has done more to damage his reputation than the many years prior to that combined. He resigned in disgrace. Now some may argue he decided to leave the job early. And maybe that is true. But given the fact pattern presented in the media, it would not be too much of a stretch to say he did resign in disgrace. I mean there was the announcement that the ACCC was going after Qantas over allegedly illegally marketed ghost flights, the alleged collusion between Alan Joyce and the government to prevent HA from expanding their international slots from DOH into Australia, COVID credits fiasco, the list keeps going on and on. Oh and of course the illegal sacking of workers (easy to forget that one).
I think you mean Allan Joyce. Although there are probably quite a few salacious and scandalous books that could be written on Allan Jones.
Technically the former Qantas CEO's name is Alan Joyce. The former radio broadcaster's name is Alan Jones, which to my knowledge has no relation to David Jones.
 
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Has AJ fled Australia forever? Or has his slipped back into Australia quietly?!
 
Has AJ fled Australia forever? Or has his slipped back into Australia quietly?!
Perhaps someone can check the recent F cabin passenger manifests of Emirates, Etihad and Qatar :eek:... or perhaps even SQ? I expect he likes to travel in style and comfort.
 
Perhaps someone can check the recent F cabin passenger manifests of Emirates, Etihad and Qatar :eek:... or perhaps even SQ? I expect he likes to travel in style and comfort.
QR possibly only in very recent times... :)
 

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