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The man who claims he created Qantas’ iconic slogan ‘Spirit of Australia’ has angrily demanded they remove the title, saying it is a ‘tragic inappropriate’ to describe the airline under attack. Phillip Adams, columnist for The Weekend Australian magazine and host of ABC Radio National, said he convinced former chairman Jim Leslie to adopt the tagline in the 1980s and Peter Allen to allow his iconic song I Still Call Australia Home to become Qantas’ national anthem. However, last week the former advertising guru directed an angry message at airline boss Alan Joyce demanding they stop the catchphrase because of an ongoing scandal involving laid-off staff, canceled flights, lost baggage and lengthy delays. ‘Alan Joyce. You are forced to repeat yourself. I am the author of ‘The Australian Spirit’. Then deserved, now tragically inappropriate,” he wrote on Twitter. ‘My slogan is hereby vetoed. Please remove it from all airframes, tickets and advertisements.’ Phillip Adams claims he

A former Qantas baggage handler has exposed the chaos behind the scenes as the airline struggles to save its sinking reputation with travelers experiencing long delays and flight cancellations. The man who chose not to be named claimed that after 1,800 baggage handlers were laid off during the Covid-19 period and work was outsourced to third-party contractors, baggage was left in rooms for weeks and even planes broke down. “Yeah, when the pandemic hit, we got JobKeeper for a while and were given enforced redundancy,” he told Nine’s Today Show. ‘Many men don’t want to go. Many older men with more than 35, 30 years experience, they don’t know how to apply for jobs online. So it affects older people. An unnamed former Qantas baggage handler said the airline had suffered since it fired its experienced ground crew and replaced them with inexperienced contract workers. The former Qantas employee said morale plummeted after experienced baggage handlers were let go and performanc

Doctor’s disgusting experiment proves why you NEVER use a bathroom hand dryer and shake it dry: ‘This is a warning to everyone’ Leading epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding has urged people not to use hand dryers Shared a TikTok video showing the effect of shaking hands compared to a dryer The clip shows that significantly more germs show up in a desiccated petri dish By Bridie Pearson-jones For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:33 PM EDT, July 13, 2022 | Updated: 02:09 EDT, 14 July 2022 A doctor has revealed the disgusting reason why you shouldn’t use a hand dryer and always opt for paper towels or a handshake instead. Epidemiologist Dr Eric Feigl-Ding, who is on the committee of COVID-19 mortality experts for the World Health Organization, shared a TikTok video originally posted by US company Phone Soap showing the effect of drying hands compared to using a hand dryer. In the clip, a man tests various petri dishes to se

The Netherlands will be one of the first countries to make working from home a legal right. The Dutch parliament approved legislation that would allow employees to work from home on Tuesday, and the Senate is now poised to approve the bill. Currently, employers in the Netherlands can refuse a request to work from home without giving a reason – but under the new law, they will be forced to consider the request carefully and say why they refused the request. During the pandemic, the Netherlands enforced work from home guidelines due to the soaring Covid-19 infection. This has sparked a shift in attitudes about working from the office, with many workers wanting to have flexibility in where they work. The Netherlands will be one of the first countries to make working from home a legal right (file image) The law marks an “important step” for workers, Senna Maatoug of the GroenLinks party and one of the bill’s authors, said on Tuesday. He added: ‘Due to the corona period, we have seen