Australian staff of the social media platform have been caught up in the mass layoffs instigated on Friday by the company’s ‘Complaint Hotline Operator’ Elon Musk. Within a week of taking control of Twitter, Musk is shedding half of Twitter’s employees, starting with those in marketing, government relations and news curation. Over the weekend, some of Twitter’s 40 Oz-based team members talked about receiving a general email flagging changes ahead of being locked out of their work accounts. On Saturday, Musk tweeted “there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.” That’s prompted former boss Jack Dorsey to apologise – he says he tried to grow the company too quickly. “I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation,” he tweeted. Next up: switching on a new revenue model…