If you hadn't used your 'free views', this article has a thorough history of the AN collapse, along with NZ, SQ and Brierley's involvement in AN.
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From the Archives, 2001: The collapse of Ansett Australia
Twenty-years ago, in the dead of night, the axe fell on Ansett Australia. The airline that still carried the name of its pioneering founder, Sir Reginald Ansett, was grounded, with 16,000 Australian jobs lost.