Judge Laing found that penalties must be set at a level which demonstrates that there are serious consequences for non-compliance, to deter others from failing to comply.
Australia has been working with Nepal on climate change, disaster preparedness, good governance, and also looking forward to introducing direct flights between the two nations.
The workers, both international students from Nepal, were underpaid between March and June 2019 after Green Clean misclassified them as independent contractors.
The cleaners were Sri Lankan and Nepalese nationals, aged between 19 and their early 20s at the time. They were in Australia on student visas and post-study work visas.
The crash killed 42-year-old mother Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc Chevalier, who were travelling in a passenger vehicle struck in the collision.
