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Speaker 1: on the Front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Monday, July twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: Nursing homes have lost five billion dollars in the past

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Speaker 1: five years, and three quarters of them face sustained losses

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Speaker 1: Immigration Minister Andrew Giles is out and so is Home

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Speaker 1: Affairs Minister Claire O'Neill as Anthony Albanesi tries to regain

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Speaker 1: control of border policy, plus a new Indigenous Affairs minister

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Speaker 1: rises Today Anthony Albanese's big Cabinet reshuffled and what it

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Speaker 1: tells us about the looming election.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Albanesi has put his government on an election footing

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Speaker 2: by removing two underperforming ministers while putting one of his

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Speaker 2: most senior lieutenants into the key Home Affairs ministry.

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Speaker 1: In federal politics, some portfolios are much tougher than others. Immigration,

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Speaker 1: you need nerves of steel and the ability to sail

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Speaker 1: past allegations of heartlessness. You're in charge of the overall

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Speaker 1: migration mix, deportations and offshore detention. What could go wrong?

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Speaker 1: Right Home Affairs you carry the care for border protection,

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Speaker 1: counter terrorism and cybersecurity. When a boat full of Shri

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Speaker 1: Lunkan or Pakistani asylum seekers lands in remote wa you

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Speaker 1: get the call. When Anthony Albernezi came to government in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, he chose two newby ministers. Immigration went

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Speaker 1: to a member of the PM's own left faction, Andrew Giles,

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Speaker 1: a lawyer, and Home Affairs to a member of Labour's

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Speaker 1: right former Victorian local mayor and management consultant Claire O'Neill.

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Speaker 1: They have struggled, not necessarily because of personal failings, but

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Speaker 1: because these are hugely challenging jobs for first time ministers

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Speaker 1: or anyone. Now both their jobs have been handed to

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Speaker 1: one of the most powerful people in government, Tony Burke,

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Speaker 1: from Labour's famously ruthless New South Wales right faction. Burke

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Speaker 1: takes pretty much all their responsibilities except AZIO, the nation's

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Speaker 1: spy agency that's moved out of Home Affairs and to

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General's Department. Greg Brown is the Australian's Canbrook

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Speaker 2: Tony Burke will be the Minister for both Home Affairs

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Speaker 2: and Immigrations, so he's doing two former ministers' jobs in one.

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Speaker 2: He's also looking after multicultural affairs, which I think is

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Speaker 2: critical given he's a Western Sydney MP with a high

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Speaker 2: Muslim population. He's also the Minister for the Art. He's

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Speaker 2: also the Minister for Cybersecurity, which comes under Home Affairs,

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Speaker 2: and he's also the Leader of the House, which is

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Speaker 2: kind of like the government's key strategist. Now. I think

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Speaker 2: a key takeout from this is that this is the

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Speaker 2: appointment that Anthony Albaneze he made two years too late

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Speaker 2: upon coming into government. He should have treated Home Affairs

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Speaker 2: do either. It's always poisoned for an ambitious labor politician

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Speaker 2: to take those portfolios. So he put in Claire O'Neill,

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Speaker 2: someone who here I don't think as a particularly close

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Speaker 2: he put his very good mate Andrew Giles into Immigration

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Speaker 2: because he knew that Jiles, being very loyal to him,

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Speaker 2: wouldn't say no, and wouldn't be angry with him about it.

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Speaker 1: Taking Burke's previous job. Is another winner from the reshuffle

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Speaker 1: the left factions. Murray What. He is the widely respected

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Speaker 1: Minister for Agriculture who's being promoted to Employment and Workplace Relations,

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Speaker 1: a big cabinet job.

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Speaker 2: It's a big promotion for Murray What. He's one of

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Speaker 2: the key figures of the Queensland Left and he's got

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Speaker 2: a lot of union backing, factional backing. But he's also

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Speaker 2: a very good performer. So I think this is alb

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Speaker 2: and easy shoring up some of his internal support by

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Speaker 2: people that are close from the United Workers' Union, a

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Speaker 2: key union, but also rewarding Senator What for his very

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Speaker 2: good performances. Doing so, though, it does risk putting regional

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Speaker 2: Australia offside, and that is really something that Labor traditionally

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Speaker 2: struggles with.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Giles has been dealing with a nightmarish unintended consequence

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Speaker 1: of a labor policy Labour inherited from the Coalition a

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Speaker 1: tough regime of deporting convicted criminals who are non citizens

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Speaker 1: of Australia, But early in its term, Labour decided to

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Speaker 1: introduce a new rule called direction ninety nine, which allowed

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Speaker 1: the tribunal that rules on these cases to consider the

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Speaker 1: length and depth of a criminal's connection to Australia when

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Speaker 1: deciding whether to let them stay. Surprise, surprise, this led

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Speaker 1: in Chine of Borderforce has seen an optic in what

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Speaker 1: the government calls unauthorized maritime arrivals. Both people, more than

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Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty potential irregular immigrants that's another government euphemism,

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Speaker 1: have arrived and all have been either turned back to

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Speaker 1: on Nauru. Last month, twelve people were turned back, thirty

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Speaker 1: seven went to Nauru, five went home from Nauru to

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Speaker 1: a trickle, not the kind of flood the opposition predicted

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Speaker 1: when Labour came to power. Here's O'Neill in April.

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Speaker 3: Operation Sovereign Borders is a sacrisant part of Australian public

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Speaker 3: policy it's something that I spend a lot of time on.

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Speaker 3: It's something that we've devoted additional resources to. I've been

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Speaker 3: a bit disappointed in recent days to see people that

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Speaker 3: I actually respect in the opposition coming out and you know,

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Speaker 3: telling untruths about this and pulling into question aspects of

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Speaker 3: this policy. The Commander offerin sovereign Borders has been really

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Speaker 3: opened that provides an alternative narrative for people snugglers, and

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Speaker 3: I asked them to stop doing it Jesus.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about a few one hundred asylum seekers,

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Speaker 1: not tens of thousands. So why is Clara O'Neil facing

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Speaker 1: the chop.

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Speaker 2: I think she's very much seen as part of the

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Speaker 2: problem with While it may have been delegated to Andrew Giles,

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Speaker 2: the fact is she was the senior minister in those portfolios.

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Speaker 2: She should have been ensuring some of those mistakes weren't made.

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Speaker 2: She should have been asking more questions of her junior

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Speaker 2: minister about Direction ninety nine. Quite frankly, I think that

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Speaker 2: she's got off pretty lightly with public criticism because so

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Speaker 2: much of it was born by Andrew Giles.

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Speaker 1: O'Neil and Giles were jointly assigned to handle another migration headache,

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Speaker 1: a High Court decision to release scores of stateless detainees.

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Speaker 1: The High Court ruled they couldn't be held in custody indefinitely.

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Speaker 1: Some had been convicted of serious crimes. Since they're elief,

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Speaker 1: some have allegedly committed more violent offenses. But Greg, to

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Speaker 1: listen to Anthony Albanezi, you'd think Immigration and Border Protection

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Speaker 1: was not the dumpster fire it seems to be.

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Speaker 2: Then why did you move Andrew Giles from the portfolio?

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Speaker 4: Because there's a reshuffle.

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Speaker 5: What we had to do, what we had to do,

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Speaker 5: what we had to do. What you do when there's

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Speaker 5: a reshuffle is that there is a change that then

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Speaker 5: has a knock on effect.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the PM sounded pretty defensive in his Sunday

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Speaker 1: press conference.

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Speaker 4: We have been the most experienced incoming labor government in history.

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Speaker 4: We are considered, things are orderly, policy processes are right.

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Speaker 2: Well. I think it was a bit of a bizarre explanation.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you, Claire, because you think if you're

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Speaker 2: moving on ministers in high profile portfolios where there are

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Speaker 2: a lot of problems, he's moving them on and then saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: but they didn't do anything wrong. They did a great job,

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Speaker 2: so there's actually no explanation to the electorate as to

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Speaker 2: why it's happening, so it doesn't seem to pass the

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Speaker 2: pub test. Really, I think nearly all of it as hr.

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Speaker 2: I think the retirement of a couple of ministers gave

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Speaker 2: him the opportunity to make a couple of these key changes,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's more about the sales peach than

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Speaker 2: the policy.

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Speaker 1: Both O'Neill and Giles have been reappointed to new jobs.

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Speaker 1: Giles will take on Skills and Training and that portfolio

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Speaker 1: has been dumped from cabinet, so he'll be in the

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Speaker 1: outer ministry ouch. In Clara O'Neil's case, it's Homelessness and Housing.

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Speaker 1: She remains in cabinet, but it's a much less important role.

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Speaker 2: They did need more energy in housing. I think they're

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Speaker 2: facing a lot of pressure from both the Coalition and

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Speaker 2: the Greens on that portfolio, so I think they're hope

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Speaker 2: it will be more within like it does suit her more.

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Speaker 1: She's been a Territory MP and since twenty sixteen a Senator.

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Speaker 1: rampant child sex, offending and substance abuse, left her deeply saddened.

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Speaker 1: Now she's Minister for Indigenous Australians, taking the portfolio from

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Speaker 1: Linda Bernie who's retiring.

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Speaker 2: It's extremely tough after the mishandling of that Voice referendum.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty three referendum defeat Australians voted no to

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Speaker 1: enshrining an Aboriginal and Torres Strait island of Voice in

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Speaker 1: the Constitution left Labor promising to forge a new path

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Speaker 1: ahead towards reconciliation, but it's been light on detail so far.

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Speaker 2: Senator McCarthy I think will be in a very tough

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Speaker 2: things like a legislated voice, which could have been done

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Speaker 2: without a referendum already, things like a Macart commission, making

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Speaker 2: I'm the Prime Minister to do things other than the

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Speaker 2: oversaw an ambitious new architecture for Indigenous Australians, but that

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