I don't disagree with any of your comments, PLovett. But I stand by my comment - whatever his faults, he was able to engender a quite fierce loyalty in many if not most of his staff, (including most of the "old boilers").
He was by no means alone in his resistance to female pilots. I think the 'enlighened ones' on that subject were few and far between among the pilot group right up to - (and for some, quite a while after)- Debbie's arrival. It might not be fashionable today to admit it, but the attitude of the vast majority of pilots and management then was that a woman would go off and have a family after a few years and therefore keep a male out of a job who would stay full time until retirement.
I'd still like to have seen what Bob Ansett might have done with the company. I doubt he'd have asset stripped it quite as ruthlessly as Pytor and the Dirty Digger did.