| Good morning, Rex co-founder Michael Jones and some aviation heavyweights hatched a plan to buy the failed airline last September for $160m, but were “rudely rejected” by the company’s largest shareholder Lim Kim Hai, The Australian can reveal Meanwhile, all the headlines about former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and his shrinking bonus should not hide the fact that the airline’s failings happened on the watch of outgoing chairman Richard Goyder, writes columnist Tansy Harcourt. And would-be cattle baron Sam Mitchell’s key company allegedly traded while insolvent for almost nine years, a liquidators report has warned, with an audit of his company’s accounts revealing missing cars and huge cash transactions leading up to its collapse. | 