Pilots Lament.... The roots of aviation, its proud history, the striving for perfection daily, the pride in your airline and your flying decisions and your work etos and culture of safety, destroyed with the stroke of a pen and an ideological idiom founded in a psychotic, delusional grandiose and pompous thought from an immigrant to your country, who has no respect for all you have worked so hard to achieve. Makes me sick to the core. I beg you all to stand up for your heritage and your rights as citizens working in a defunct corporate climate that apparently does not respect where you have come from yet more importantly HOW you got there. The Qantas I know as a world leader in aviation is being imploded by an irrational series of decisions that will make your airline as we know it today Extinct. Yours is a country that has a heritage worth fighting for. To paraphrase a fellow countryman of mine.. you CAN knock the bastard off. Good luck all.