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Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on Jetstar facing a class action lawsuit · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from news Talk sed B.
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  Speaker 2: Oliver Peterson six pr Perth Live presenters with us Aoli
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  Speaker 2: I reckon.
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  Speaker 3: We watch countless episodes every single day in our household
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  Speaker 3: a Pepper Pig, and now we go to Paddington, So
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  Speaker 3: Paddington's pretty cool to her.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about Pepper Pig which is good is that
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  Speaker 2: it's about a seven minute episode, so you can absolutely
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  Speaker 2: keep track because it's not just rolling from one thing
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  Speaker 2: to the other, like you've got to play each one
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  Speaker 2: after the other, so you know what's going on. And
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  Speaker 2: then also a ollie, you've got the good one where
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  Speaker 2: you can be like one more episode and it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to be half an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I know.
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  Speaker 3: And coming up in your Instagram feeds shortly will be
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  Speaker 3: the Pepper Pig open top bus tour in London and
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  Speaker 3: head I reckon that Iggy might be saying, Mum, I
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  Speaker 3: want to go over there.
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  Speaker 2: Just a thought on Bluey quickly, Okay, seeing as like
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  Speaker 2: this is what we've descended into now, I love it,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes I feel just a little bit sad about
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  Speaker 2: how all how perfect that family is, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: do you not.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like that one hundred percent? But I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: I am like banded. I love teasing the kids. I'm
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  Speaker 3: big into, you know, just taking the mickey out of them.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, that's our parenting segment.
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  Speaker 2: Heather, Oh yeah, I'm I'm like Bandit's wife. I remember
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  Speaker 2: to take everything everywhere, all of the time and look
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  Speaker 2: after the kids. Yeah, and I guess if you're band
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  Speaker 2: it then you forget everything all the time. Hey listen,
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  Speaker 2: So have we got to like, are we serious about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that we've got a recessionary problem here in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Well, de a Lloyde reckons we might. And they've done
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  Speaker 3: a big survey of all the chief financial offices in
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  Speaker 3: Australia and they're predicting over the next tour month s
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  Speaker 3: gear up for these one hundred thousand Australians will become unemployed.
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  Speaker 3: The unemployment rate sits at four point two percent, it's
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  Speaker 3: expected to head towards four point five percent. And we're
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  Speaker 3: also seeing the data edicated in the job ads. At
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  Speaker 3: the moment, a SEKH puts out information every single month
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  Speaker 3: and there are just a lack of jobs which are
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  Speaker 3: being posted on the Seek website where I am on
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  Speaker 3: this side of the country, in Wa of course, the
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  Speaker 3: home of iron or in the engine room of the
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  Speaker 3: running economy. Lots of the big miners are putting staff off,
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  Speaker 3: Lots of the lithium miners are putting staff off. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a bumpy road ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you guys may well do what's going
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  Speaker 2: on with Jetstar. How much trouble are they in?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they could be in a heap of trouble because
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  Speaker 3: they have just blatantly ignored the Australian consumer laws during
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  Speaker 3: the COVID nineteen pandemic and allegedly not refunded or provided
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  Speaker 3: credits to hundreds of thousands of customers who were delayed
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  Speaker 3: by all of those COVID imposed lockdowns. Now they're saying
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  Speaker 3: that anyone who held tickets for flights that were canceled
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  Speaker 3: between the first of January twenty twenty and November one,
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  Speaker 3: twenty two can join a class action which has been
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  Speaker 3: launched by Echo Law. So we are talking here about
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  Speaker 3: tens of thousands of customers, Heather, this could be a
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  Speaker 3: big payday from Jetstar.
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  Speaker 1: Now, of all of.
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  Speaker 2: The things, Ollie that would fall in sales during a
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  Speaker 2: cost of living crisis. It surprised me. It surprises me
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  Speaker 2: that it's chicken sales.
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  Speaker 3: Me too because Ozzie's loved chicken, and when you think
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  Speaker 3: about it, they're probably right. We on average US meat
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  Speaker 3: eaters would consume at least fifty kilograms of chicken a year.
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  Speaker 3: That's a bit of a scary thought when you put
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  Speaker 3: it in that kind of context. But for the first
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  Speaker 3: time KFC have seen sales decline in Australia and the
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  Speaker 3: survey says that lots of Aussies actually think the chicken
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  Speaker 3: is becoming too expensive, so they're going without meat. Because
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  Speaker 3: of course chicken is widely considered in Australia anyway the
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  Speaker 3: cheapest variety of all the meats. So this is a
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  Speaker 3: real cost of living concern and showing that we are
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  Speaker 3: not taking the bites out of our weekly meal consumption
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to chicken. And what are we going
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  Speaker 3: for instead, noodles or something that's a little bit cheaper.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's a really interesting observation.
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  Speaker 2: We're basing this on chicken sales at the supermarket. We're
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  Speaker 2: at one hundred percent. Is the most cost effective meat
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  Speaker 2: or are we basing it on KFC.
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  Speaker 3: KFC because yeah, you go to the supermarket. No, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to get nine bucks for chicken and feed the
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  Speaker 3: whole family.
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  Speaker 2: Sold chicken drumsticks, I mean that's like you get a
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  Speaker 2: thousand of them for nine dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And chicken tenders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff, Ollie, Thank you very much. Oliver Peterson
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