This footage was filmed and produced 17 March 2024.

Global ride-hailing service Uber will pay A$272 million ($178) to end a long-running legal battle with Australian taxi and for-hire drivers who lost advantages when the company entered the Australian market.
The class action against Uber was expected to go to trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Monday, but Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, which represents 8,000 for-hire and taxi drivers, said the case would be withdrawn because Uber had accepted the financial settlement.
Maurice Blackburn's lead lawyer, Michael Donelly, said drivers and vehicle owners suffered financial losses due to Uber's aggressive entry into the market in 2012, and that the company had avoided compensating them on an ongoing basis.

"On the doorstep of the court and after years of refusing to do right by those we say were wronged, Uber has caved in and thousands of ordinary Australians came together to challenge a global giant," he said.
An Uber statement described the taxi industry's claims as "old business" and said there were no regulations for its ridesharing model anywhere in the world when the company began operating more than a decade ago.

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