Daniel McConnell
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3,044 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3d ago
Daniel McConnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I thought it was fascinating, but you obviously had a lot of homework to do because he had a new book out.
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What's your assessment and what can we look forward to in this interview?
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He certainly did.
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And he certainly was, I think, by his own admission in the interview, as people will see and hear, he admits and he accepts that he was a polarizing figure.
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He wasn't Mr. Nice Guy.
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He had to make some very difficult decisions.
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And I think one of the most remarkable aspects of the interview is, you know, you get into him having to kind of make the call of letting up to 5,000 people go in a round of restructuring to right-size the business, to adapt and...
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I suppose the win for him essentially was seeing how the share price rebounded.
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These are really painful episodes for a big company to go through.
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But you get the sense from it, very steely when he needed to be and doesn't mind taking the flack for it either.
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he does give voice to his reason for writing the book at the very start of the interview that you did him like I mean he's essentially I won't say settling scores but he's definitely looking to correct the record as he sees it because of some of that what he would call over the top coverage.
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book I found.
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We know the story of Alan Joyce very well in business journalism, but I mean, for those who may not be familiar, this is not a guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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I mean, as he says himself in the interview, you know, from a very working class background in Tala, you know, an impoverished background as he describes it.
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Makes his journey to the top of Qantas where he, I think his salary topped $9 million a year at one point.
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And I think that was part of the controversy around Alan Joyce was how high his salary went.
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It is a remarkable journey.
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I mean, he really is one of the most consequential Irish aviation leaders, I think, that have ever existed.
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really good read.
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Very good.
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