Grit makes top job at Qantas plane sailing.

Australasian Business Intelligence, October, 2002

Oct 25, 2002 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX)

Australian businesswoman, Margaret Jackson, has a lot of firsts. A 1970s economics graduate, she was the youngest person to chair the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, the first woman appointed to its national council, the first woman on the board of BHP, the first chairwoman of a listed company (Qantas Airways), and the first woman to chair an annual meeting. In 1983, she became the second female board member of Telecom (now Telstra), before gaining directorships with BHP, Pacific Dunlop (now Ansell) and the Australian Wool Corporation, and the chair of Victoria's Transport Accident Commission. She was deeply disturbed by the collapse of Ansett, two days after the Qantas board rejected a...

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