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Qantas Chief Executive Officer, Alan Joyce, has been grilled at a Senate inquiry in Sydney over the grounding of the entire Qantas fleet last Saturday. And in further bad news for the airline engine trouble has forced a Qantas A380 flight from Singapore to London to land in Dubai. Jessica Sier reports. Design engineers at Holden have voiced concerns for Australian jobs amid rumours that the signature Commodore series will soon be designed overseas. The engineers’ union says job cuts could begin in the next two months, if the company goes ahead with the move. Rebekah Fay reports. A QUT study has found that despite tighter child safety laws, one in four parents is still not restraining children properly in cars. A range of other safety issues have been raised at a national injury prevention conference in Brisbane this week. Jessica Sier reports. Qantas has begun the difficult task of clearing the backlog of passengers after it was ordered by Fair Work Australia to get the planes back in the air. But the saga continues, as the airline scrambles to address the potential damage to its reputation. Amy Partington reports. Qantas planes are back in the skies tonight two days after CEO Alan Joyce grounded the entire fleet. Independent umpire, Fair Work Australia, was forced to step in to clean up the mess, putting a stop to all industrial action and ordering the airline to resume services. Candice Anderson reports. The Qantas dispute has energised Federal Parliament today. Both sides have been trading accusations and insults about what should have been done to resolve the dispute earlier. Amy Partington reports. Thousands of passengers around the world are still stranded while Qantas deals with the backlog created by grounding its planes. Kayla Millhouse reports. The estimated cost to the economy of the Qantas transport chaos is $250-million a day. And one of the industries worst-affected, is tourism. Matt Warren reports. The Queensland Government is gearing up for a cleaner future with the introduction of its Electric Vehicle Policy. It aims to make Queensland “E-V ready” and will put the state ahead of the rest of Australia. Caitlin Ritter reports. Union leaders and Qantas management staff are meeting at Fair Work Australia to try to solve their industrial differences. Qantas engineers have postponed their planned strike action to October the 28th, hoping their sign of good faith will help them reach an agreement. Maddison Nunn reports. |
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