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- Qantas boss defends $2.47b profit, backs Qatar Airways rejection
- Ukraine says it has pierced Russian line of defence
- This morning’s headlines at a glance
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Qantas boss defends $2.47b profit, backs Qatar Airways rejection
In case readers missed this, Qantas boss Alan Joyce has again defended the government’s choice to reject an application by Qatar Airways for more flights to Australia yesterday.
Joyce received a fierce two-hour grilling from the Senate select committee in Melbourne on the cost of living crisis, just days after the airline group – which controls 60 per cent of the domestic market through carriers Qantas and Jetstar – revealed a record $2.47 billion profit.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce.Credit: Eamon Gallagher
“We think Australia should protect its national interest,” Joyce said.
Joyce appeared at the inquiry with Jetstar boss Stephanie Tully and Qantas’ head of corporate affairs Andrew McGinnes. All three were embroiled in at times hostile exchanges with senators over allegations the airline had made the cost of living crisis worse for its staff and customers.
Continue reading about the hearing here. Virgin Australia chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka will speak about the issue shortly, so stay tuned.
Linda Burney reveals medical diagnosis ahead of Voice launch
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has confronted a whispering campaign about her health by revealing she had a so-called “mini-stroke”, followed by surgery for a hole in her heart.
The medical issues left her with an alteration in her voice, she said, although she was unclear about the medical reason for the vocal change, and misremembered key details of the event, including the date.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
Burney said that otherwise she is “fighting fit”.
“I just feel fantastic now. There are absolutely no issues at all with my health,” she said.
In an exclusive interview requested by her office just days before the formal launch of the Yes campaign, Burney said she had surgery for a hole in her heart in 2020.
Find out more here.
Ukraine says it has pierced Russian line of defence
In the latest from the war in Ukraine, their forces pierced the first line of Russian fortifications in the nation’s southeast and are fighting to widen the breach, the nation’s defence chief said.
Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that Ukrainian soldiers, on foot and mostly at night, had made slow progress in clearing heavily mined areas to create approach corridors for a larger force that has now fought through the first main line of Russian trenches, bunkers and tanks traps.
A Ukrainian soldier watches a Grad multiple launch rocket system firing shells with flyers near Bakhmut, Donetsk region.Credit: AP
“We broke the first line and now we are expanding our foothold,” Reznikov told reporters Monday in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in June has been bogged down by Russian forces dug in along a vast frontline stretching from the Donbas region in Ukraine’s east through the south to the mouth of the Dnipro river. The slow-going has worried Ukraine’s allies, who say a long fight risks giving Russian President Vladimir Putin the upper hand in a war of attrition.
Continue reading this here, by Bloomberg.
This morning’s headlines at a glance
Good morning, and thanks for your company.
It’s Tuesday, August 29. I’m Caroline Schelle, and I’ll be anchoring our live coverage for the first half of the day.
Here’s what you need to know before we get started:
- Farmers and motorists will need to do some heavy lifting on cutting greenhouse emissions for Australia to meet its legally binding climate targets.
- Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has confronted a whispering campaign about her health by revealing she had a so-called “mini-stroke” followed by heart surgery.
- A global expert on disability support systems warns the NDIS is growing at an unsustainable rate and needs to reform or support for the scheme is at risk.
- Qantas boss Alan Joyce has again defended the government’s choice to reject an application by Qatar Airways for more flights to Australia.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
- Australia has knocked back an application to subsidise the diabetes drug Mounjaro, but the manufacturer wants it to be on shelves by the end of the year.
- Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate wants to put Victoria’s $380 million compensation bill for the Commonwealth Games cancellation towards holding the event in his city.
- The Labor-appointed NSW Transport Secretary Josh Murray made personal donations to the woman who would become transport minister, less than a year before she hand-picked him for the role.
- Defence and emergency services will start working to recover the remains of three American marines who died in a plane crash north of Darwin.
- Overseas, Ukrainian forces pierced the first line of Russian fortifications in the nation’s southeast and are fighting to widen the breach.
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