http://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/we-were-there-for-australia-qatar-airways-boss-says-flight-decision-unfair-20230917-p5e5a8.html That Qatar Airlines calls the decision not to grant more access to Australia surprising and unfair is quite ironic. Tell it to the women who were strip searched at Doha airport. Now THAT was surprising and definitely unfair.
Author Archives: Ernest Zanatta
Premium Economy Does Help But Long Haul Flights Still Suck!
I’m mostly over my jet lag now, having hit the pillow in my hotel room in Rome at 4pm last night after a duty bound walk to the Collosseum followed by a late lunch at a cheap and cheerful restaurant just off the Via Cavour. I must say that breaking up the trip with a …
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Lessons In Chemistry: Best Novel I Have Read In A Long Time
You remember the Gideon Society? They are the people who hand out copies of the Gospel in the street and who used to make sure that motel rooms each had a Bible in a drawer. Hunter S Thompson was very grateful to them for those Bibles as when he was sitting in his motel room …
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Collingwood Vs Carlton? The Stuff Of Nightmares
Several years ago, I was in the lift on the way back from lunch at AFL finals time and happened to make some Collingwood jokes. By the time I had reached my desk, my phone was ringing. It was one of the HR Managers. He said: “Ernest, what were you saying in the lift?” I …
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No One Likes Alan: Reflections On Qantas
I did lunch last week at the Great Northern Hotel in North Carlton with a friend who is a very senior barrister. Given that I am about to hop on a plane to Italy in a few days’ time, we talked a fair bit about travel, and particularly about the scandals which are currently plaguing …
Qatar’s Clumsy Attempts At Both Sportswashing and Skywashing
This week has seen a bit of a blow up in the purported controversy about Qatar Airways being denied the opportunity to have more flights to and from Australia. The revelations that Qantas has been treating its customers in what can be charitably described as a kleptomaniacal manner has raised rage at the protection that …
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Insightful Albeit Fictional Monologue About America
youtube.com/watch Just discovered this last night. It’s from a TV drama The Newsroom, and features the way underrated Jeff Daniels. It really hits the nail on the head about America. We Australians need to think about what it might mean about us too.
Don’t you miss the days when graffiti had something to say?
During and since the Covid lockdowns, much of Melbourne has been covered in graffiti. Most of it is indecipherable tags, where the only message is comprehensible to the purported artists and like minded morons of their subculture. [I make no apologies for my views on these vandals.] As a result, given that our Premier is …
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Facebook’s AI is not ready to take over the World – yet
It’s been one week since I made the dubious decision to finally join Facebook – a decision which immediately caused me to have my account ‘temporarily suspended’ presumably by an AI. Despite this suspension, I have been able to log into that account via the mobile phone through which I set up the account. It …
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The Imminent and Indirect Remutualisation of IOOF
After the Banking Royal Commission made its report in the not so distant past, I read several of the books published by finance journalists with morbid curiosity. The way that major banks and leading financial institutions had behaved, particularly to honest business loan holders and to trusting mum & dad investors, showed a degree of …
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Lost For Words! 