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Lesley Yeomans: Australian Correspondent on Qantas being fined $90 million for illegally firing workers · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Leslie omen with us from Australia. Good morning, good to
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  Speaker 1: have you on the program. As always, thank you. Quantas
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  Speaker 1: to face a pretty hefty fine. This is for outsourcing
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  Speaker 1: ground staff.
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  Speaker 2: This long running dispute, very long running, yes, massive fine.
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  Speaker 2: Said to be the largest case of illegal sackings in
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  Speaker 2: Australia's history. Just to give you a small background, back
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, during the COVID pandemic, Quantus made the
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  Speaker 2: decision to outsource its ground handling staff, which included baggage
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  Speaker 2: handlers and cleaners and the like. Now then come forward
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  Speaker 2: a little bit and the Transport Workers Union decided that
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  Speaker 2: they would take Quantus to court and sue them for
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  Speaker 2: that illegal sacking. So that's what happened, and earlier this
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  Speaker 2: year Quantus was found guilty of the illegal sacking of
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  Speaker 2: all those workers. Now come to yesterday and the Federal
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  Speaker 2: Court has decided that Quantus will be fined ninety million
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  Speaker 2: dollars for those illegal sackings and fifty million of that
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  Speaker 2: will be going to the Transport Workers' Union for the workers.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's what Justice Michael Lee has suggested happen, and
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  Speaker 2: the other forty million will be to sell what happens
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  Speaker 2: with the other forty million will be decided at a
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  Speaker 2: later date.
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  Speaker 1: This shark Atteck now the beach closed. Another shark aitek
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the second one in the roughly a month. What
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  Speaker 2: happened was yesterday morning early Brad Ross was out serving
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  Speaker 2: at Capareita Beach. It's a beach between Tweedheads and Byron
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  Speaker 2: Bay and northern New South Wales and Brad found that
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  Speaker 2: he had an unwanted visitor and that unwanted visitor was
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  Speaker 2: a large great white shark, probably about four meters and
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  Speaker 2: it decided that it took a liking to his board
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  Speaker 2: and chomped it in half, left a massive bitemark out
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  Speaker 2: of the board which was now in two. And unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't hurt. He was able to get back back
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  Speaker 2: to shore. But his border is a lot, a lot aware.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, Thank goodness, Leslie, thank goodness he is okay.
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  Speaker 1: I did see his borden you run, there's a giant
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  Speaker 1: chunk out of it. I wouldn't be getting back in
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  Speaker 1: the water. Thanks for that update, Lesslie, Omen's Australia correspondent.
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