There’s a standout winner for the prize of Australia’s worst company — a worthy first winner of Crikey’s inaugural Alan Bond Award for Corporate Misconduct, a company that has delivered awfulness across virtually every metric we could devise for assessing a company’s behaviour.
That company is Qantas.
Strength-in-depth is needed to be a truly awful company, and Qantas has delivered that in spades over recent years, with an enviable record of offending in pretty much every way a company can in Australia.