Monash College to pay compensation to 1000’s of underpaid informal workers
Monash College can pay again 1000’s of informal workers who have been underpaid over nearly a decade after reaching a settlement with the Nationwide Tertiary Training Union.
In return for the union not continuing with proceedings within the federal court docket, the NTEU says Monash can pay compensation to informal educating associates value “eight-figures”.
In a press release, the union stated the college would pay it $450,000 in lieu of any penalties which will have been imposed as a part of court docket proceedings.
NTEU Victorian Secretary Sarah Roberts stated the settlement had come after a long-running marketing campaign.
This victory belongs to each informal tutorial who has felt the devastating penalties of wage theft.
Monash fought us each step of the best way – even making an attempt to retrospectively change its personal enterprise settlement to keep away from their obligations – however justice has prevailed.
The size of this landmark settlement reveals the reality about Australian universities: systemic wage theft underpins their enterprise fashions. This stops now.
Key occasions
What we realized: Friday, 28 November
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Right here’s a take a look at what made headlines:
Have an incredible night.
Jonathan Barrett
El Jannah reportedly bought to US personal fairness agency
El Jannah has reportedly been bought to a US-headquartered personal fairness agency in a deal value about $1bn.
The Australian Monetary Assessment reported immediately that Normal Atlantic received the tightly-contested public sale for the Lebanese charcoal hen chain, beating a number of different main funding corporations together with Goldman Sachs Asset Administration.
A spokesman for Normal Atlantic stated the corporate didn’t have any “extra steerage at this stage”.
El Jannah created a powerful foothold in Sydney’s south-west, earlier than increasing. It now has 50 shops unfold throughout NSW, Victoria and the ACT.
Non-public fairness operators are likely to view quick meals chains favourably as a result of they are often expanded rapidly, and have a tendency to develop even throughout financial downturns.
The proprietor would then sometimes promote the enterprise to a brand new proprietor, or listing it on the inventory trade, to money in on their funding.
The AFR reported thatthe New York-headquartered agency had purchased the enterprise “for a sale worth of virtually $1bn”.
Nationals MP likens Barnaby Joyce’s departure to ‘a Greek tragedy’
The Nationals MP Michael McCormack is on the ABC and has likened Barnaby Joyce’s departure from the celebration and “nearly a Greek tragedy”.
Whereas chatting with Afternoon Briefing, McCormack rapidly put issues into perspective and made it clear what he thinks is the true tragedy:
Effectively, it’s a saga, isn’t it? You point out the phrase tragedy, it’s nearly a Greek tragedy, isn’t it? It simply goes on and on and whereas it goes on and on we’re not speaking about issues that matter to most Australians and that’s the hovering energy costs. That’s the price of residing disaster. That’s the truth that many Australians received’t have the ability to meals on the desk or presents beneath the tree this Christmas. That could be a tragedy. It actually is.
Amanda Meade
Judgment in Lehrmann defamation enchantment to be handed down subsequent week
The judgment in Bruce Lehrmann’s enchantment of his defamation case towards Community Ten and Lisa Wilkinson will probably be handed down on Wednesday 3 December.
Lehrmann is interesting Justice Michael Lee’s April 2024 judgment, which discovered the previous Liberal staffer was not defamed when The Undertaking broadcast an interview with Brittany Higgins in 2021 wherein she alleged she was raped in Parliament Home.
Justice Michael Wigney will ship the judgment on behalf of the complete court docket and can learn a abstract of causes.
Throughout the three-day appeal hearing in August, Lehrmann’s lawyer Zali Burrows apologised to the court docket for her consumer’s failure to nominate an skilled barrister.
Lehrmann’s case is that he was denied procedural equity as a result of Lee’s findings in regards to the alleged rape differed from the one alleged by Ten and Wilkinson. Burrows stated Lehrmann was not given an opportunity to answer that model of the rape.
Ten’s barrister Matt Collins KC informed the court docket Lehrmann’s grounds of enchantment are “misconceived” and “a distraction, in our respectful submission”:
As a result of, on the finish of the day, this was a defamation case, not a rape case.
Base closures are a ‘disaster’ for regional Qantas employees, union says
Qantas says it’s devoted to serving nation Australia regardless of shutting bases and skyrocketing prices, amid fears the aviation trade is in disaster.
QantasLink has introduced its bases in Canberra, Hobart and Mildura will shut from April 2026, within the wake of Rex falling into voluntary administration and funds airline Bonza collapsing.
The regional arm of Qantas fronted a Senate inquiry to elucidate the choice in a typically heated listening to at Parliament Home on Friday.
Chief govt Rachel Yangoyan stated:
Whereas at occasions we have to make robust selections to make sure the sustainability of our operations, we’re as dedicated as ever to investing in the way forward for regional Australia.
Flight Attendants’ Affiliation of Australia federal secretary Teri O’Toole stated the union helped workers on the three bases safe monetary packages to relocate, commute or go away.
Cash can’t change a guardian at a dinner desk, it can’t change misplaced time with an aged guardian.
This closure strips regional Australia of expert jobs and forces loyal workers to make an inconceivable selection between livelihood and their family members.
We ask the committee to recognise that even with this assist for regional employees, a enterprise effectivity measure usually stays a private disaster.
– AAP
Monash College has simply issued a press release in response to its settlement with the Nationwide Tertiary Training Union:
The college will undertake a proactive remediation program to establish and compensate affected sessional workers who have been required to carry out scheduled scholar session and weren’t already individually paid.
To assist this decision, and to resolve the matter with out the necessity for additional authorized proceedings or any penalty listening to, the College can pay $450,000 to the NTEU.
The events are dedicated to shifting ahead constructively in implementing the agreed commitments.
Monash is dedicated to paying our workers precisely, consistent with our Enterprise Settlement and employment obligations.
Monash College to pay compensation to 1000’s of underpaid informal workers
Monash College can pay again 1000’s of informal workers who have been underpaid over nearly a decade after reaching a settlement with the Nationwide Tertiary Training Union.
In return for the union not continuing with proceedings within the federal court docket, the NTEU says Monash can pay compensation to informal educating associates value “eight-figures”.
In a press release, the union stated the college would pay it $450,000 in lieu of any penalties which will have been imposed as a part of court docket proceedings.
NTEU Victorian Secretary Sarah Roberts stated the settlement had come after a long-running marketing campaign.
This victory belongs to each informal tutorial who has felt the devastating penalties of wage theft.
Monash fought us each step of the best way – even making an attempt to retrospectively change its personal enterprise settlement to keep away from their obligations – however justice has prevailed.
The size of this landmark settlement reveals the reality about Australian universities: systemic wage theft underpins their enterprise fashions. This stops now.
Some extra particulars from the general public place taking pictures in Sydney’s west
NSW police held a press convention a couple of minutes in the past to debate the general public place taking pictures that left one man lifeless.
The sufferer is a person in his 20s, and police at present have two individuals – a person in his late teenagers and one other in his early 20s – in custody. No costs have been laid to this point.
Supt Brendan Gorman stated all three males have been recognized to police, however stated an investigation into the matter had simply begun and there was no additional data. Gorman praised officers who responded to the scene “inside seconds” of the taking pictures:
Anybody with any data or any dashcam footage is inspired to contact NSW police power.
NSW Health warning over excessive dose MDMA tablets and ketamin
NSW Well being has issued a public well being warning after discovering a harmful batch of MDMA tablets with excessive dosages and ketamin.
Authorities are involved the substances are nonetheless in circulation and will probably be out there on the Hypersonic pageant at Sydney showgrounds on Saturday:
The primary warning issues a number of MDMA (ecstasy) tablets and capsules containing the next dose than often circulates in examined neighborhood samples.
Ketamine-like substances, or analogues, have additionally been detected in white powder and crystalline matter. Each substances have been detected by the NSW authorities’s drug checking trial ultimately weekend’s Strawberry Fields occasion in Tocumwal, in Southern NSW.
NSW Well being’s chief dependancy drugs specialist, Dr Hester Wilson, has additionally raised issues in regards to the influence of those medicine given heat temperatures anticipated in Sydney this weekend.
Excessive doses of MDMA could cause extreme agitation, raised physique temperature, seizures or suits, irregular coronary heart rhythm and loss of life.
Scorching environments, reminiscent of at music festivals, enhance the chance of hurt from MDMA. Taking a break from dancing, looking for shade and ingesting water are necessary measures to cut back the chance of overheating.
At music festivals there are skilled onsite medical suppliers and groups of well-trained peer volunteers from packages reminiscent of DanceWize NSW who’re able to assist you at many main festivals. Different occasion workers are additionally educated to assist patrons.
Nick Visser
That’s all from me. Henry Belot will take issues over from right here. Take pleasure in your weekends!
Some extra particulars from the general public place taking pictures in Sydney’s west
NSW police held a press convention a couple of minutes in the past to debate the general public place taking pictures that left one man lifeless.
The sufferer is a person in his 20s, and police at present have two individuals – a person in his late teenagers and one other in his early 20s – in custody. No costs have been laid to this point.
Supt Brendan Gorman stated all three males have been recognized to police, however stated an investigation into the matter had simply begun and there was no additional data. Gorman praised officers who responded to the scene “inside seconds” of the taking pictures.
“Anybody with any data or any dashcam footage is inspired to contact NSW police power,” he added.
Sussan Ley is ‘nonetheless up for the job’ of opposition chief – Australian Politics podcast
Ever since she was elected opposition chief, Sussan Ley has confronted robust criticisms from inside her celebration and throughout the parliament. Some commentators even predicted she’d be out of the job already.
However she has made it to the final sitting week of parliament for the 12 months. On the opposite aspect of the aisle, the Albanese authorities managed to fulfill their very own deadline to legislate adjustments to outdated nature legal guidelines – by selecting a cope with the Greens.
Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to Ley about her disappointment in regards to the lengthy awaited reforms, Barnaby Joyce resigning from the Nationals and why she thinks “it’s by no means been about me”.
Take a pay attention:
Hearth and Rescue NSW responds to one centesimal e-bike battery fireplace this 12 months
Hearth and Rescue NSW says it has responded to 100 lithium-ion battery fires involving e-bikes this 12 months to this point.
Officers stated a fast-moving blaze “tore by means of” a two-storey terrace in Sydney’s Redfern early Friday morning. Firefighters arrived to search out “intense flames erupting from the bottom ground and pushing up over the second-storey balcony”.
The fireplace was introduced beneath management in about half-hour.
Preliminary investigations recommend the fireplace possible originated from an e-bike fitted with a lithium-ion battery.
Hearth and Rescue NSW issued renewed recommendation for security after the blaze, saying customers of such gadgets ought to all the time use the right charger; solely use e-bikes and e-scooters from respected retailers; by no means cost batteries in a single day or whilst you’re asleep; and that the mustn’t modify the batteries or gadgets to extend velocity or vary.
REDFERN | ***VISION ALERT*** one centesimal e-bike battery fireplace sparks terrace blaze. Hearth and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has responded to its one centesimal lithium-ion battery fireplace involving an e-bike this 12 months, after a fast-moving blaze tore by means of a two-storey terra… https://t.co/MCdoxg41T2
— Hearth and Rescue NSW (@FRNSW) November 28, 2025
Adeshola Ore
Apan launch anti-Palestinian racism nationwide register
A Palestinian advocacy group is launching a nationwide register to doc anti-Palestinian racism.
The Australian Palestinian Advocacy Community’s dual-language nationwide web site will go dwell on Sunday. The web site will probably be out there in English and Arabic.
It comes after the Particular Envoy to Fight Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, in September known as an inquiry into anti-Palestinian racism. Malik stated anti-Palestinian racism shouldn’t be “absorbed by Islamophobia” however famous there gave the impression to be a connection between the 2.
Nasser Mashni, president at Apan, stated the register would give individuals a “secure place” to report their expertise and assist push for motion towards racism.
Man dies after taking pictures in public place in Sydney’s west
A person has died after a public place taking pictures in western Sydney.
As we reported earlier within the weblog, New South Wales police have been responding after the taking pictures within the suburb of Blacktown and established a criminal offense scene.
Police now say they arrived and located a person with gunshot wounds to his neck, chest and leg on arrival. The person was handled by paramedics, however died on the scene.
On the similar time, officers tried to cease a automobile within the space that was allegedly making an attempt to go away the scene. The automotive didn’t cease and police started a pursuit, which ended when the automotive crashed a short while later.
Two occupants ran from the scene and have been arrested a short while later. They’ve been taken to Blacktown police station. No particulars about any pending costs have been out there.
