September 30, 2024 • 6 mins
Qantas engineers across Australia walked off the job for two hours this morning - and they've warned more industrial action will come if their requests aren't heard.
Staff throughout Brisbane, Sydney, and Perth airports have requested a 15 percent payrise with further rises in subsequent years.
Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says these strikes haven't impacted anyone's ability to travel as of yet.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six PR Perth Life presenter Oliver Peterson as with us
this afternoon killed Oliver good a jack Let's pick up
on the situation in the Middle East. And a senator
in Australia has called for his Boller supporters to be
criminally charged.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, he has, and in fact now the Liberal leader
Peter Dutton says that protesters who supported Hezbilla at rallies
over the weekend here in Australia should be facing criminal
charges or deportation. And he's comparing the move to supporting
the likes of Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden. So
he's backing up the comments made by the Shadow Home
(00:34):
Affairs Minister James Patterson, who, as you said, they're indicated
that we should be criminally charging these people who were
protesting on the weekend, a lot of them in Sydney
and Melbourne covering their faces, some of them even holding
the pictures of a Hezbollah leader. So it is something
that Peter Dutton says is we're moving to a very
precarious period now there's outrage in relation to the glorification
(00:57):
of a terrorist leader, which surely must be against the
Ralian law. And if it's not the Parliament should be
recalled to pass the law that prohibits that from happening.
The Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has spoken in the
last half hour or so and she's condemned those displays
for fueling fear and division, but she hasn't gone a
lot further than that at this stage. It only threatens
(01:19):
national security and the Criminal Code it's out specific elements
that must be been in order to charge an individual
with a terrorism offense. So this is a sow point
at the moment between relations between the opposition and the
federal government in Australia.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, I mean it's pretty pretty amazing to look at
a couple of those images from the rallies that we
can because you know, obviously we have seen global protests
regarding the place of Palestinian people over the last twelve months,
but actually seeing his boller flags in Melbourne as well
as you know, signs with Hassan Mazrala's face on them,
(01:55):
and that sort of took things to another level in
the eyes of some.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Absolutely one is you know, imagery that I think you
probably don't think is going to be in our backyard
in Australia. So I think that the you know, the
glorification as they say a terrorist leader is something that
you want to stamp out as quickly as possible in
a wonderful democracy like Australia. So it is certainly dividing
(02:19):
opinion to the moment, wishing to hear the government's response
ultimately here because they are certainly treading a fine line
of trying not to offend anyone.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, well, this is the thing, especially in Australia because
there was a massive Lebanese community, right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's huge, and he's right around Australia. But I think
you know, even in times of crises, you look for leadership,
whether you have to make a difficult decision that is
going to obviously upset some What we have with this
federal government in Australia at the moment is just the
lack of ability to make a qualified decision again over
that fear of upsetting somebody, because they're in such a
precarious position when we headed the polls in the next
(02:53):
few months. They don't know if they're going to get
a second term in office, so they don't really want
to do anything at the moment.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
They don't want to upset anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, Now, thousands of Quantus engineers are on strike.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, it's happened today in Perth and Brisbane and in Sydney.
They went off the job for about two hours this morning.
They're planning, in fact, stoppages right around the country over
the next two weeks. The first was last Thursday, just
forty eight hours before the AFL Grand Final. At this stage,
though the airline sees it has not affected any body's
plans to fly to any capital cities around Australia. We're
(03:25):
talking here about engineers who have down tools. They're looking
for better paying conditions. They're calling for a five percent
pay rise, but a fifteen percent first year payment for
up to three and a half years of wage freezers.
A couple of unions have come together to demand this.
Quantas is currently saying they are prepared to wait it
out and they don't think that any customers are going
to be impacted by any of these work stoppages.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
How does that work? How do customers not get impacted
by thousands of engineers going on strike? Does that mean
that no one's like checking the engines to make sure
that all the bolts are there?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, I know it does make you wonder, doesn't it
or perhaps they're just leaving a little bit more time
between flights or when they know that they're look at
the moment, it probably is manageable because they're two hour
stop work meetings, so they're probably you know, changing the
schedule ever so slightly to try and get people away
a bit earlier, a little bit after, to try and
lessen that impact.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
But I agree with you. It makes you think, Hold
on a minute. It is that plane in the sty
No one gave it the once over.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, golp, Yeah, might just be slightly more nervous than
usual boarding a plane that Hey. Police are being banned
from all messaging apps on their work phones.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
This is in New South Wales. Interesting decision being made
by the New South Wales Police Force. The only way
you can communicate with each other on a work issued
phone is through Messenger, which is obviously they've all got iPhones,
so through the Apple Ie message you can't send WhatsApp messages,
you can't now download Telegram And basically they're saying this
is because there was an issue last year where some
(04:50):
police had tried to cover up a particular incident. Allegedly
a drunk cop crashed in a tunnel in Sydney last
year and it was all covered up and has now
been before the corruption and I'm commissioned in New South Wales.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But some scenics are saying, hold on a minute. There
have been some very very damaging leaks, particularly against the
Police Commissioner of New South Wales, that this is perhaps
her way, Karen Webb, of trying to shut that down
so that they can trace every message and every phone
call that's been made from a police office's an issued
phone to the opposition or a journalist or whatever it
might be. Cops are saying simple, they'll just get burner
(05:22):
phones because they'll continue to do what they need to do.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But it's an interesting move and I want for a
lot of other workplaces, even around Australia or New Zealand,
might think of doing something similar.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Just I feel like, if you've got a work phone,
don't do anything on that phone that you wouldn't be
happy with your boss knowing about. I reckon those Those
are words to live by, are they not? Whether you're
a police officer, whether you're a public figure, it doesn't matter.
Just don't search anything, don't text anything, don't photograph anything
you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, exactly exactly, because you try and use that work
email address to maybe get something that you thought if
I have my signature there it might help me out well,
be prepared that it could come back on the backside.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The truth comes out, Oliver, the truth comes out. I
thought it was an impressive looking at email, sidmit, So
thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it
as always, Oliver Peterson. There from six PR Perth Lives
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Listen live to news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
Six PR Perth Life presenter Oliver Peterson as with us
this afternoon killed Oliver good a jack Let's pick up
on the situation in the Middle East. And a senator
in Australia has called for his Boller supporters to be
criminally charged.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, he has, and in fact now the Liberal leader
Peter Dutton says that protesters who supported Hezbilla at rallies
over the weekend here in Australia should be facing criminal
charges or deportation. And he's comparing the move to supporting
the likes of Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden. So
he's backing up the comments made by the Shadow Home
(00:34):
Affairs Minister James Patterson, who, as you said, they're indicated
that we should be criminally charging these people who were
protesting on the weekend, a lot of them in Sydney
and Melbourne covering their faces, some of them even holding
the pictures of a Hezbollah leader. So it is something
that Peter Dutton says is we're moving to a very
precarious period now there's outrage in relation to the glorification
(00:57):
of a terrorist leader, which surely must be against the
Ralian law. And if it's not the Parliament should be
recalled to pass the law that prohibits that from happening.
The Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has spoken in the
last half hour or so and she's condemned those displays
for fueling fear and division, but she hasn't gone a
lot further than that at this stage. It only threatens
(01:19):
national security and the Criminal Code it's out specific elements
that must be been in order to charge an individual
with a terrorism offense. So this is a sow point
at the moment between relations between the opposition and the
federal government in Australia.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, I mean it's pretty pretty amazing to look at
a couple of those images from the rallies that we
can because you know, obviously we have seen global protests
regarding the place of Palestinian people over the last twelve months,
but actually seeing his boller flags in Melbourne as well
as you know, signs with Hassan Mazrala's face on them,
(01:55):
and that sort of took things to another level in
the eyes of some.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Absolutely one is you know, imagery that I think you
probably don't think is going to be in our backyard
in Australia. So I think that the you know, the
glorification as they say a terrorist leader is something that
you want to stamp out as quickly as possible in
a wonderful democracy like Australia. So it is certainly dividing
(02:19):
opinion to the moment, wishing to hear the government's response
ultimately here because they are certainly treading a fine line
of trying not to offend anyone.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, well, this is the thing, especially in Australia because
there was a massive Lebanese community, right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's huge, and he's right around Australia. But I think
you know, even in times of crises, you look for leadership,
whether you have to make a difficult decision that is
going to obviously upset some What we have with this
federal government in Australia at the moment is just the
lack of ability to make a qualified decision again over
that fear of upsetting somebody, because they're in such a
precarious position when we headed the polls in the next
(02:53):
few months. They don't know if they're going to get
a second term in office, so they don't really want
to do anything at the moment.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
They don't want to upset anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, Now, thousands of Quantus engineers are on strike.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, it's happened today in Perth and Brisbane and in Sydney.
They went off the job for about two hours this morning.
They're planning, in fact, stoppages right around the country over
the next two weeks. The first was last Thursday, just
forty eight hours before the AFL Grand Final. At this stage,
though the airline sees it has not affected any body's
plans to fly to any capital cities around Australia. We're
(03:25):
talking here about engineers who have down tools. They're looking
for better paying conditions. They're calling for a five percent
pay rise, but a fifteen percent first year payment for
up to three and a half years of wage freezers.
A couple of unions have come together to demand this.
Quantas is currently saying they are prepared to wait it
out and they don't think that any customers are going
to be impacted by any of these work stoppages.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
How does that work? How do customers not get impacted
by thousands of engineers going on strike? Does that mean
that no one's like checking the engines to make sure
that all the bolts are there?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, I know it does make you wonder, doesn't it
or perhaps they're just leaving a little bit more time
between flights or when they know that they're look at
the moment, it probably is manageable because they're two hour
stop work meetings, so they're probably you know, changing the
schedule ever so slightly to try and get people away
a bit earlier, a little bit after, to try and
lessen that impact.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
But I agree with you. It makes you think, Hold
on a minute. It is that plane in the sty
No one gave it the once over.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, golp, Yeah, might just be slightly more nervous than
usual boarding a plane that Hey. Police are being banned
from all messaging apps on their work phones.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
This is in New South Wales. Interesting decision being made
by the New South Wales Police Force. The only way
you can communicate with each other on a work issued
phone is through Messenger, which is obviously they've all got iPhones,
so through the Apple Ie message you can't send WhatsApp messages,
you can't now download Telegram And basically they're saying this
is because there was an issue last year where some
(04:50):
police had tried to cover up a particular incident. Allegedly
a drunk cop crashed in a tunnel in Sydney last
year and it was all covered up and has now
been before the corruption and I'm commissioned in New South Wales.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But some scenics are saying, hold on a minute. There
have been some very very damaging leaks, particularly against the
Police Commissioner of New South Wales, that this is perhaps
her way, Karen Webb, of trying to shut that down
so that they can trace every message and every phone
call that's been made from a police office's an issued
phone to the opposition or a journalist or whatever it
might be. Cops are saying simple, they'll just get burner
(05:22):
phones because they'll continue to do what they need to do.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But it's an interesting move and I want for a
lot of other workplaces, even around Australia or New Zealand,
might think of doing something similar.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Just I feel like, if you've got a work phone,
don't do anything on that phone that you wouldn't be
happy with your boss knowing about. I reckon those Those
are words to live by, are they not? Whether you're
a police officer, whether you're a public figure, it doesn't matter.
Just don't search anything, don't text anything, don't photograph anything
you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, exactly exactly, because you try and use that work
email address to maybe get something that you thought if
I have my signature there it might help me out well,
be prepared that it could come back on the backside.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The truth comes out, Oliver, the truth comes out. I
thought it was an impressive looking at email, sidmit, So
thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it
as always, Oliver Peterson. There from six PR Perth Lives
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Listen live to news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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