While Tourism Australia was cutting 10% of its workforce due to budget restraints last year, the agency sent the executive whose team was most affected by the redundancies on a trip to the French Riviera at a cost of more than $66,000, Crikey can reveal.
Crikey reported in June that chief marketing officer Susan Coghill and two colleagues tuned in to a Zoom meeting called to discuss the job cuts, using generic backgrounds on the video call, before managing director Phillipa Harrison let slip that “Susan is in Cannes”, to the frustration of team members back home who were about to be laid off.
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