Natalie McDonald
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647 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Natalie McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The TWU, that one's really hard to say, has already struck deals with companies, including Toll and Linfox, delivering pay rises of 10 to 11% over three years, with extra increases if inflation runs higher than expected.
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The union says it wants similar standards.
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Across the industry, arguing that lower paying operators are undercutting companies that have agreed to the new deals.
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T TW it's really hard.
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The merger between Seven West Media and Southern Cross had diluted the Stokes family stake from forty percent to twenty percent and appeared to loosen its grip really on that media empire.
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I feel like there's a like an Empire Strikes Back kind of reference here, and I can't believe I'm saying that.
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Um, but the family has since increased its holding to twenty-three percent following months of executive departures and tens of millions of dollars in cost cuts.
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Everyone over a certain age, Michael.
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Um, the industry says port, terminal and handling fees combined with biosecurity and plenty of other regulatory requirements are making Australia increasingly uncompetitive.
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The economic contribution from cruising fell just over a billion dollars last year to 7.3 billion.
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And Australia is competing with the rest of the world for just 328 cruise ships.
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So once ships are redeployed elsewhere, the industry warns that they can be very, very difficult to claw back.
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International routes to Sydney, Singapore, Doha, Kuala Lumpur were among those affected, with Qantas cancelling services between Jakarta and both Sydney and Melbourne.
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Indonesian authorities say the volcano remains unpredictable, although the latest eruptions are not currently considered a tsunami threat.
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The volcano did previously collapse in 2018, triggering a tsunami that killed more than 400.
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hundred people.
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It's three seats short of a majority and would need a coalition to form government.
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But mainstream parties refuse to work with it.
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