12 September 2001 Posted on September 11, 2014 by Staff Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, Ansett Australia closes with 10,000 people loosing their jobs. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse." Alexis de Tocqueville — Click here for more from Alexis de Tocqueville Related posts: 12 September 2001 11 September 2001 18 September 2001 27 September 2001 11 September 2001 10 November 2001 15 December 2001 22 December 2001 15 January 2001 18 February 2001