
Geoff Dixon
Australian business executive and former managing director of Qantas AirwaysWikipedia
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Oct 5, 2026
Xi Jinping is going after China's tycoons to save the economy
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17:51Jeremy DickerGUEST
Yeah
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17:51Geraldine DoogueHOST
... can I come in there? Because I can remember years ago, Jeremy, Geoff Dixon, who was the legendary head of Qantas, basically saying, "Look, we cannot compete against state-subsidized, uh, airlines.
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18:04Geraldine DoogueHOST
We just can't, unless you want us to." And certainly, no Australian government was offering.
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18:08Geraldine DoogueHOST
I mean, they were just sort of massively bailing them out at one point.
Joe Aston: Inside the Qantas Story, the Dark Side of Power & the Cost of Speaking Out
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10:48Joe AstonGUEST
And so when I left politics forcibly because we lost the election, I got a job at Qantas and I worked in the PR department at Qantas from 2007 to like 2009, 10.
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11:01Joe AstonGUEST
And I was lucky enough to get at my desk right next to Lucinda Holdforth, who was Jeff Dixon's and Margaret Jackson's speechwriter.
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11:11Joe AstonGUEST
And then she became Alan Joyce's and Lee Clifford's speechwriter, the CEO and chairman of Qantas.
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11:17Joe AstonGUEST
And she's a published author and she's been a speechwriter.