On September 20, the Courier-Mail reported on its front page that the fire sale of Queensland鈥檚 public assets had 鈥渟hifted into high gear鈥 with the $7 billion float of QR National 鈥 Queensland Rail鈥檚 freight network.
Queensland Rail
On June 22, Queensland unions won a court victory with the ruling that Queensland Rail had broken the law by not consulting workers over privatisation plans.
鈥淨ueensland Rail has been slapped with a $600,000 fine after it failed to consult its workers over plans to privatise part of the company鈥, the June 23 Courier-Mail reported. 鈥淎 Federal Court ruling earlier this month found QR breached 20 of its enterprise bargaining agreements by not consulting workers about the planned sell-off before it was announced.鈥