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Huge pay rise for Telstra boss despite outage disaster · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady is
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  Speaker 1: getting a seven hundred thousand dollar pay rise despite a
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  Speaker 1: national network outage that left Australians unable to contact emergency services,
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  Speaker 1: make calls or access the internet. Brady, who was on
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  Speaker 1: holidays when the outage happened, gets an eleven percent pay rise,
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  Speaker 1: lifting her package to six point eight million dollars. But
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  Speaker 1: the Telstra board has docked Brady's short term bonus by
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  Speaker 1: more than six hundred thousand dollars and took similar action
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  Speaker 1: against other executives. It's also issued almost a million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in credits to around thirty thousand customers affected by the outage.
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  Speaker 1: Council for former radio host Alan Jones has asked a witness,
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  Speaker 1: the former girlfriend of a man known as complainant Jay,
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  Speaker 1: if she fabricated her evidence in anticipation of financial reward.
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  Speaker 1: The witness rejected the suggestion. She told the court Jay
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  Speaker 1: told her about the alleged abuse more than twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: She was asked about a text Jay sent her in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four that said once this is over, I
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  Speaker 1: promised to look after you. Jones's barrister, Gabrielle Basher sc
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  Speaker 1: asked if this meant Jay would pay her for giving evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The woman rejected this and said the concept of money
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  Speaker 1: never crossed her mind. Jones has pleaded not guilty to
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  Speaker 1: twenty counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching.
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  Speaker 1: Jay was the first complainant to give evidence, and after
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  Speaker 1: his ex girlfriend commenced her evidence, prosecutors sought to amend
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  Speaker 1: the times they alleged some of the offending against Jay
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  Speaker 1: allegedly occurred. Although the judge indicated this could mean the
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  Speaker 1: defense could apply for a stay in proceedings, the Crown
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  Speaker 1: told the judge the changed date range should not influence
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  Speaker 1: cross examination. The first Test cricket match to be held
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  Speaker 1: in Darwin in more than two decades is under way,
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  Speaker 1: with Australia's men's Test team taking on Bangladesh in the
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  Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for oh
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  Speaker 1: look at how the housing markets responded to three months
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  Speaker 1: of high drama since huge federal budget tax changes. It
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  Speaker 1: seems confusing. If prices are falling, why are new loan
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  Speaker 1: applications down? Auction clearance rates are in the toilet, so
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  Speaker 1: why are some experts already predicting a rebound. Our property
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  Speaker 1: writer Mackenzie Scott will be here to make it all
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear. That's right here, Friday morning,