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Speaker 1: They're old enough to go to Australia and we're going

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Speaker 1: there right now. To Leslie Yeoman's The Australia Correspondent tell

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Speaker 1: us about this new right to disconnect, the new.

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Speaker 2: Law that's been brought in by the Albanesi government. It

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Speaker 2: means that people don't feel like they need to be

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Speaker 2: on call by their employer twenty four to seven now.

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Speaker 2: The new laws came into effect yesterday. They apply to

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Speaker 2: businesses with more than fifteen people and it means that

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Speaker 2: mainly junior employees can refuse to be contacted out of

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Speaker 2: work hours. The Australian Chamber of Commerce in Industry is

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Speaker 2: one of the employer groups that isn't happy with it.

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Speaker 2: They say the new laws aren't necessary. They're sort of

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Speaker 2: trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist. But the Greens,

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Speaker 2: the ACTU and the government, they say these new laws

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Speaker 2: have been a long cut time coming because no work,

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Speaker 2: particularly a junior employee should feel like that they have

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Speaker 2: to be taking phone calls or checking emails once they

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Speaker 2: get home after work.

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Speaker 1: Which I think is fair enough. Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: fifty fears on public transport across Brisbane. There's still people

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Speaker 1: evading them.

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Speaker 2: There are yes. Look these this trial was brought in

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Speaker 2: in just a couple of weeks ago. It was announced

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Speaker 2: earlier in the year. Nothing to do with a state

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Speaker 2: election happening in in Queensland later in the year, of course,

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Speaker 2: that's what the government says. But this new trial was

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Speaker 2: brought in a couple of weeks ago and it ends

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Speaker 2: in February. And what's been happening is everyone no matter

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Speaker 2: where you travel on public transport and how far you travel,

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Speaker 2: your fair will be fifty cents as long as you

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Speaker 2: tap on and tap off. But there have been still

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Speaker 2: hundreds of fines for fair evasion being imposed. Plus there

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Speaker 2: have been more than almost four thousand warnings to adults

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Speaker 2: and minors for not doing the right thing. Now, four

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five fines over two weeks out of

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Speaker 2: the millions of trips being taken. May not sound like

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Speaker 2: a lot, but they're not that much down on what

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Speaker 2: the fair evasion figures were before these new fares, these

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Speaker 2: cheap fares were brought in. So it makes you wonder

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Speaker 2: what is actually going on with people, you know, does

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Speaker 2: the fifty is it not a matter of how much

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Speaker 2: the fare is, But it's just a matter of people

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Speaker 2: trying to sort of play the system.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it. There's a hardcore group of

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Speaker 1: evaders and it doesn't matter what the fear is, you

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Speaker 1: will never make them pay. Eleislie yeomens withous, our Australia correspondent.

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Speaker 1: And I guess the other thing is when you make

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Speaker 1: something so cheap, you know, fifty cents is nothing, you

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Speaker 1: kind of take the value out of it, don't you.

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Speaker 1: So you think, oh, well, who cares, it's only fifty

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Speaker 1: cents that they're missing out on, and before you know it,

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Speaker 1: you're jumping over the turnstiles.

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