Looks like Alan Joyce is setting this all up for the big one. It will be interesting if the board let him take this airline to the brink.
It's one thing to talk tough during a negotiation, the way he is going about 'negotiating', since the beginning is by using misinformation through the media painting the employee groups as evil people hell bent on destruction.
Most of us were here before you AJ, we'll be here long after as well.
Good luck Alan