Michael Sainsbury

Michael Sainsbury is a former China correspondent who has lived and worked across North, Southeast and South Asia for 11 years. Now based in regional Australia, he has more than 25 years’ experience writing about business, politics and human rights in Australia and the Indo-Pacific. He has worked for News Corp, Fairfax, Nikkei and a range of independent media outlets and has won multiple awards in Australia and Asia for his reporting. He is a fierce believer in the importance of independent media.
Sky Views: taxpayer-funded billionaire bush-bash with the Murdochs and Albo in the paddock

Sky Views: taxpayer-funded billionaire bush-bash with the Murdochs and Albo in the paddock

Billionaire mining scion Gina Rinehart, gas fracker Santos, Australia's number one corporate welfare recipient ...
Professors rebuke uni bosses for profit obsession, foreign students, sagging standards

Professors rebuke uni bosses for profit obsession, foreign students, sagging standards

University professors have railed against the rising corporatisation of Australia's universities. Mass ...
Alan Joyce to depart. Is it time for Qantas to retire Jetstar too?

Alan Joyce to depart. Is it time for Qantas to retire Jetstar too?

Retiring Qantas chief Alan Joyce ran down the airline during his 15 year tenure; his depletion of the fleet and ...
Spirits of Australia soothe pandemic hangover as Alan Joyce hosts hangar party for Qantas’ 100th

Spirits of Australia soothe pandemic hangover as Alan Joyce hosts hangar party for Qantas’ 100th

The spirits of Australia will be flowing liberally tonight when Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce and chair ...
Qantas shareholders re-Joyce, not taxpayers, passengers and staff

Qantas shareholders re-Joyce, not taxpayers, passengers and staff

The ebullience with which Qantas chief Alan Joyce announced the airline’s record half year pre-tax profit of $1.4 ...
Long long covid: Australia’s pandemic performance needs a booster, say experts, as deaths rise

Long long covid: Australia’s pandemic performance needs a booster, say experts, as deaths rise

Australia's performance in fighting Covid has declined as scientists say researchers are set back by inadequate ...
Smoke in cargo hold: Qantas jumbo QF1 to London forced to land in Azerbaijan

Smoke in cargo hold: Qantas jumbo QF1 to London forced to land in Azerbaijan

Qantas’ Sydney to London double decker jumbo QF1 flight has been forced to land in Baku after a fire reached the cockpit
Alan Joyce relents to more than double pay-deal in its fight with Qantas engineers union

Alan Joyce relents to more than double pay-deal in its fight with Qantas engineers union

Union-brawling Qantas chief Alan Joyce has capitulated to pay rises of up to 33% over five years in a deal struck ...
Fares zoom above costs as Qantas cries poor to politicians and staff; cries rich to sharemarket

Fares zoom above costs as Qantas cries poor to politicians and staff; cries rich to sharemarket

Qantas is pulling back capacity to keep airfares high as cagey chief Alan Joyce seats customers and staff in ...
Qantas profits soar, but little room for better pay for staff as shareholders re-Joyce

Qantas profits soar, but little room for better pay for staff as shareholders re-Joyce

Qantas profit estimates just jumped again this week when Alan Joyce threatened to axe regional routes, ramping up ...
Joyce won’t stop jesting, but can Albo and the public avoid being dacksed again?

Joyce won’t stop jesting, but can Albo and the public avoid being dacksed again?

As excuses for poor performance pile up, Qantas is planning to play on our patriotism and better judgment in its ...
Academics strike as wage theft spreads, uni executive salaries soar

Academics strike as wage theft spreads, uni executive salaries soar

Academics at five Queensland universities walked off the job last week and held a rally in Brisbane to protest ...
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