Popular Taiwanese restaurants and senior staff members have been fined a total of $4m by the Federal Court for exploiting vulnerable workers in a “calculated scheme to rob employees”. The Fair Work Ombudsman took action against DTF World Square, which employed workers at Din Tai Fang restaurants in Sydney andContinue Reading
Tourists will soon be able to stay on an Australian billionaire’s island on the Great Barrier Reef, starting at $20,000 a night. Pelorus Island is the northernmost island in the Palms Island group and is a 30-minute helicopter journey from Townsville. When Chris Morris bought the island in 2017, heContinue Reading
Bunnings has eliminated a layer of senior manager roles as part of a restructure, as the hardware giant focuses on lowering shelf prices as customers adjust to tougher economic conditions. According to The Australian, the Wesfarmers-owned retailer is also “evolving” its strategy in a bid to improve customer service inContinue Reading
Commonwealth Bank has ordered its 49,000 staff back into the office – demanding they show up at least 50 per cent of their working time. The office mandate came from CBA chief executive Matt Comyn and his executive team in an email delivered to inboxes on Monday. “We have nowContinue Reading
News Life Media will seek to prove Bruce Lehrmann lied to police about why he was at Parliament House on the night he allegedly raped Brittany Higgins, and showed a “consciousness of guilt”. In the defence document filed in the defamation case brought by Mr Lehrmann, who strenuously denies theContinue Reading
Australia’s aviation industry has faced a bumpy recovery from Covid-19 shutdowns, with staff shortages, long queues at airports, higher fares and axed routes creating headlines. And a spate of diversions and delays over the busy holiday period – including the forced landing of a Qantas flight in Azerbaijan just beforeContinue Reading
Trapped between humiliating defeat and devastating escalation, his dictatorial rule looks very shaky. Putin is in the exact place he didn’t want to be. Russia has a violent history of regime change sparked by failed wars. The disastrous Russo-Japanese war of 1905 and World War I contributed to the 1917Continue Reading
Scott Morrison‘s most senior advisers have admitted in a bombshell new book that his ill-fated secret trip to Hawaii was his biggest mistake that destroyed his political fortunes. Veteran political journalist Niki Savva writes in her new book, Bulldozed, that Mr Morrison “effectively destroyed his prime ministership on 15 DecemberContinue Reading