Qantas had long been planning to outsource its ground workers before the airline moved to combat the COVID-19 fallout, the Transport Workers Union has argued. Some 2500 jobs held by baggage handlers, ramp workers, and cabin cleaners across 10 airports including Sydney and Melbourne have been outsourced to sub-contractors. Qantas’ “extremely severe … cash burn”
A man will spend five months behind bars for reaping more than $320,000 off the labour of illegal migrants paid as little as $14 an hour at a Victorian farm. Sarith Kit was a manager at Vizzarri Farms at Koo Wee Rup, where 89 workers were found during a 2016 raid by police and border
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Counter-terrorism detectives have raided three properties after racist neo-Nazi graffiti was spotted near a playground in Brisbane’s south. It will be alleged a footpath at the Calamvale District Park was spray painted with racist material, while a neo-Nazi banner was hung from a nearby tree in early February. Officers from the Counter-Terrorism Investigation Group seized
John Higgs was an important part of an exceptional plot to import a record amount of ecstasy into Australia, but judges found nothing exceptional about his appeal bid. The 74-year-old is serving an 18-year prison sentence over the 2007 import of 15 million ecstasy pills in tomato tins. The former client of turncoat Lawyer X
A former church leader has appealed his conviction and sentence for raping and indecently assaulting young choir members . Shartiel Nibigira was sentenced to 11 years in jail after being found guilty on 21 charges. The father-of-eight committed the offences at a house during choir practice, or while the girls were transported for practices or
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Police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly held a woman at knifepoint before stabbing her in the hand and dragging her along a road in a horror carjacking in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs last month. The 46-year-old woman was sitting in her parked Mazda CX-9 on Kerrie Road in Glen Waverley about 8.40pm
A Royal Commission into the conduct and suitability of Crown Resorts will get underway in Western Australia today, the second such Royal Commission now taking pace following the launch of a similar inquiry in Victoria last month. As previously reported by Inside Asian Gaming, Western Australia’s Royal Commission will work with a mandate to explore
QUEENSLAND Police are asking for help to find a 10-year-old girl from Logan. The girl was last seen around 2pm on Sunday afternoon at the Southbank Parklands in Brisbane. It’s believed she was in the company of a man who is known to her. ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT The girl is described as Caucasian,
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