{"id":194261,"date":"2025-10-06T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194261\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:35:07","slug":"and-the-award-for-australias-worst-company-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194261\/","title":{"rendered":"And the award for Australia&#8217;s worst company goes to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a standout winner for the prize of Australia\u2019s worst company \u2014 a worthy first winner of Crikey\u2019s inaugural Alan Bond Award for Corporate Misconduct, a company that has delivered awfulness across virtually every metric we could devise for assessing a company\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That company is Qantas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a standout winner for the prize of Australia\u2019s worst company \u2014 a worthy first winner of Crikey\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[122573,64,63,99,113,52893,44,3861,64172,115471,52402],"class_list":["post-194261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alan-bond-award-for-corporate-misconduct","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-google","tag-misconduct","tag-news","tag-qantas","tag-santos","tag-seven-west-media","tag-star-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}