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Labor government ministers still in Qantas Chairman’s Lounge

By on November 2, 2011 in Ric's Rant
After revealing Australian Workers Union boss Paul Howes' regular use of the Qantas Chairman's Lounge, a number of union leaders called the airline to complain about not being included on the exclusive list.
Gemma Jones and Simon Benson The Daily Telegraph

THEY have been happy to attack Qantas and label the airline’s actions extreme but they won’t stop enjoying its exclusive Chairman’s Lounge. Federal Labor ministers and union bosses – who yesterday continued their war against Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce – said they would still take advantage of the perks including free drinks, a la [...]

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Time magazine gets timing wrong

By on October 25, 2011 in Ric's Rant, What's Ric Thinking?

Time magazine just can’t keep up and its timing seems outdated in the new fast-paced era of a global community connected so quickly via the internet. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed unless the company gets urgent funding the organisation will collapse. Last week, of course, Time continued its excellent record by valorising the Occupiers.

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Stupid business thinking by Qantas and unions

By on October 11, 2011 in Leadership Excellence, People Performance, Ric's Rant
“If I was a person considering travel over the period up until Christmas, I’d probably be looking at airlines other than Qantas.”
Steve Purvinas, federal secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association

Stupid business thinking by Qantas and the unions involved just gets worse every day. The latest union tactic, which supports the premise that most union bosses have zero understanding of commerce, is to warn passengers away from doing business with their own employer. One that employs thousands of its own members! UNIONS have warned travellers [...]

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Business Twitter Tragics

By on October 6, 2011 in Ric's Rant, What's Ric Thinking?

As Bart Simpson says, “You just can’t make this stuff up!” I have a twitter account that informs followers about my blog posts. That’s it. I don’t tweet about anything else. I don’t ask people to follow me. I’m just not that into it at the moment and, rightly, that probably says more about me [...]

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Final Australian deficit $47.7b in 2010/11

By on September 30, 2011 in Ric's Rant
The federal government said on Friday the final budget outcome for 2010/11 was an underlying deficit of $47.7 billion.
Australian Financial News

The federal government said on Friday the final budget outcome for 2010/11 was an underlying deficit of $47.7 billion. Comment by Ric Willmot: What this means is that every grandparent, parent, man, woman, teenager, toddler and baby in Australia has a debt of $2,099.54 each. Every living, breathing person in Australia has a $2,100 share [...]

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Annoying marketing that’s really nothing at all

By on September 22, 2011 in For the Professions, Ric's Rant

Marketing, especially the marketing of professional service firms has gone mad. When there is so much noise and distraction in the world today from advertising, social media, billboards, etc., why would you want to be just another part of that amorphous mess? Websites, brochures, blogs and alike are full to the brim with …. well [...]

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Australian Labor Party pays Craig Thomson’s legal bills

By on August 17, 2011 in Ric's Rant, What's Ric Thinking?
Fairfax News
It is understood former Labor general secretaries Graham Richardson and John Della Bosca, among others, contacted Labor head office prior to last year's state election and recommended against preselecting Mr Thomson.

NSW Labor paid more than $90,000 of MP Craig Thomson’s legal bills and gave him a loan because he would have brought down the Gillard government if he went bankrupt. A senior Labor source said: “We paid because if he hadn’t he’d be bankrupt (which would render him ineligible to remain in parliament).” The Daily [...]

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Nixon has Accountability Aversion Syndrome

By on July 30, 2011 in Leadership Excellence, People Performance, Ric's Rant

Leigh Sales shows (in the words of Andrew Bolt, “An extremely elegant and effective series of questions …”) [that] she too is in on the grand conspiracy against Christine Nixon ABC1′s 7:30 on Thursday, interviewing Victoria’s former Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon about her claims of a Murdoch conspiracy: SALES: You argue in your book that [...]

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Andrew Bolt writes about Derryn Hinch’s conviction

By on July 22, 2011 in Ric's Rant

Andrew Bolt has written a poignant article on his blog regarding the magistrate’s ruling in the case against Derryn Hinch. Melbourne magistrate Charlie Rozencwaig this morning sentenced Derryn Hinch to home detention and imposed a number of conditions to stop him broadcasting or speaking to the media for the five month period. Anybody concerned about [...]

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Political bias by the taxpayer-funded ABC media

By on July 20, 2011 in Ric's Rant

The bias and political lobbying that has inculcated the media of this nation is glaringly brazen and bordering on corrupt. Australia is a democracy with every citizen having the lawful right to freedom of speech. But is the right to blatant bias and political activism by the media acceptable and palatable? An article published today [...]

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