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Uber Eats has overhauled its business model in Australia, requiring riders to hold ABNs and letting them transfer delivery jobs to others in a move that will make it harder for critics to claim its workers are employees rather than independent contractors.
The companyâs new contract with riders, seen by this masthead, marks a sea change for the delivery giant, which is abandoning its claim to merely be a matchmaker between restaurants and riders, akin to a dating service, and instead is directly contracting its riders.
Uber Eats is overhauling its contracts with riders from March.
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Former school principal, 54, has first hearing after 6-year battle against transfer from Israel; lawyer requests special conditions to facilitate her religious observance
Nationals who attend Thursday’s memorial service in Tweed Heads for Doug Anthony, who died last month aged 90, may muse on the contrast between the state of their party when he led it and now.
Anthony took over the then Country party from the legendary John McEwen in 1971; he served as deputy prime minister under John Gorton (briefly), William McMahon, and throughout the Fraser government.
He held the powerful trade portfolio, now out of the Nationals’ hands.
Most importantly, the junior Coalition partner in those days had not just a strong leader effective at juggling his party’s interests with those of the joint team, but an extremely forceful troika – including heavy hitters Ian Sinclair and Peter Nixon – in the upper reaches of government. The party was also united.
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In this February 27, 2018, photo, Malka Leifer, center, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Malka Leifer, an Israeli former principal at a Jewish ultra-Orthodox school in Melbourne, returned to Australia under extradition Wednesday to face dozens of child sexual assault charges, more than 12 years after she fled the country.
Leifer, 54, is accused of 74 counts of sexually assaulting children while working as a religious studies teacher and principal at the Adass Israel School in Melbourne.
After six years of legal wrangling in Israel, including over whether she was feigning mental illness to avoid standing trial, the Australian government confirmed that Leifer arrived in Melbourne on a flight late Wednesday.
Extradited teacher appears in Australia court on sex charges
January 28, 2021 GMT
FILE - This Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. The former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, to face child sex abuse charges.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
FILE - This Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. The former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, to face child sex abuse charges.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)