Afternoon update: Qantas fined $90m; far-right Israeli MP barred from Australia; and Margaret Pomeranz remembers David Stratton

TWU national secretary, Michael Kaine, said the union had won a ‘David and Goliath’ battle. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Good afternoon. Qantas has been fined a record $90m in the federal court for illegally firing 1,820 baggage handlers and other ground staff during Covid lockdowns in 2020, taking the cost of its controversial outsourcing decision to more than $200m.

Justice Michael Lee handed down his decision on the penalty on Monday, nine months after Qantas and the Transport Workers’ Union agreed the airline would pay $120m in compensation to the sacked workers.