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The international rideshare giant has agreed to the payout to compensate Australian taxi and hire car drivers, operators and licence holders for losing income and licence values when it moved into the Australian market.
Cabs had lobbied a highly profitable monopoly here, so any competition was a loss from their self assumed god given right to everyone’s wallet.