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Speaker 1: Before we begin. This episode is full of adult concepts

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Speaker 1: and language from the Australian. Here's what's on the front.

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Speaker 1: I'm Claire Harvey. It's Wednesday, June five. A quarter of

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Speaker 1: disability workers quit in the past year, many to get

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Speaker 1: higher wages in aged care. That's the takeout from a

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Speaker 1: new report which also shows widespread fraud in the NDIS

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Speaker 1: where providers are using funds to obtain drugs. The Federal

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Speaker 1: government's Affordable Housing Agency spent more than twenty four million

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Speaker 1: dollars on consultants and six million on executive salaries last

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Speaker 1: year without building a single dwelling under the government's promise

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Speaker 1: to create forty thousand social and affordable houses. That's an

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Speaker 1: exclusive live on the Australian dot com dot a You

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Speaker 1: right now today, the shocking story of a New Zealand

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Speaker 1: born criminal who's been offending across three decades in Australia

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Speaker 1: and why the federal government has failed to send him

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Speaker 1: back home. In nineteen seventy eight, a four year old

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Speaker 1: boy arrived in Australia to begin a new life with

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Speaker 1: his family. He's Glen Taylor, born in nineteen seventy four

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand. He's left Australia at times over the years,

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Speaker 1: but has been here since two thousand. He's a New

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Speaker 1: Zealand citizen, not an Australian. Here's what the Administrative Appeals

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Speaker 1: Tribunal says about Glen Taylor.

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Speaker 2: The applicant has an extensive criminal history between nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: three and twenty twenty three, who was convicted of over

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Speaker 2: thirty five offenses, including common assault, contravening, apprehended domestic violence, order,

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Speaker 2: drug possession, assault, occasioning actual bodily harm and stalk intimidation offense.

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Speaker 1: He has more than thirty five convictions and has served

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Speaker 1: jail time for offenses including shoplifting, resisting police, carrying implements

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Speaker 1: for breaking into cars, assaulting police, threatening witnesses, and breaching

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Speaker 1: COVID rules. In two thousand and seven, while drunk, he

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Speaker 1: against him, threw a metal ash tray and screamed at her,

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Speaker 1: you are the reason I'm going to jail. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to fucking kill you. I'm going to use your face

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Speaker 1: as a bloody dart board. She barricaded herself and the

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Speaker 1: children inside the bedroom and called police. Taylor bashed a

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Speaker 1: his phone. He terrorized a neighbor, He breached more AVOs.

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Speaker 1: He attacked and threatened police, resisted arrest and damaged property.

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Speaker 1: He used ice and abused alcohol. He sent one hundred

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Speaker 1: messages to a woman who'd taken out an AVO against him,

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Speaker 1: and threatened dire consequences if she didn't withdraw the AVO.

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Speaker 1: In April twenty twenty three, his visa was canceled on

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Speaker 1: character grounds, and Taylor appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

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Speaker 1: He presented evidence he'd completed a remand domestic abuse course.

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Speaker 1: In July twenty twenty three, Taylor was convicted of breaching

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Speaker 1: an apprehended domestic violence order and his visa was again rejected.

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Speaker 1: He went back to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, saying he

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Speaker 1: was sober and sorry for what he'd done. Aat Deputy

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Speaker 1: President Antoinette Yunes, a solicitor and psychologist who was appointed

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Speaker 1: by the Morrison government after serving as an advisor to

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Speaker 1: former Minister Michaulia Cash, heard his case. We've used a

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Speaker 1: voice actor to bring you her words.

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Speaker 2: During the hearing, The applicant accepted the seriousness of his conduct,

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Speaker 2: and although there were occasions where he could not recall

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Speaker 2: the specifics of his conduct, he nevertheless expressed remorse and

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Speaker 2: apologies for his conduct. The Tribunal is satisfied that the

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Speaker 2: applicant's apologies and expressions of remorse are genuine. The applicant

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Speaker 2: contended that his criminal record should be considered in light

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Speaker 1: That brain injury occurred when Taylor was assaulted, resulting in

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Speaker 1: a fractured skull. Miss Yunes accepted that he was a

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Speaker 1: risk to the community, that he had committed family violence offenses,

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Speaker 1: and that he still has two active avios against him,

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Speaker 1: but she accepted that he had strong ties to Australia,

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Speaker 1: including a sister. Although she said Taylor couldn't live with

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Speaker 2: The Tribunal has satisfied that, given the lengthy period the

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Speaker 2: applicant has spent in Australia, and although his ties may

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Speaker 2: not appear to be strong, they are nevertheless ties which

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Speaker 1: The tribunal said it didn't have any evidence of the

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Speaker 1: The Commonwealth fought against Taylor at every turn in the AAT.

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Speaker 1: It argued he was a risk to society, he had

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Speaker 1: back to the federal government. It's all about Direction ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: the length and strength of an offender's ties to Australia.

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Speaker 1: Here's what Antoinette Yune said in her tribunal decision. The

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Speaker 1: Direction indicates that Australia will generally afford a higher level

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Speaker 1: of tolerance of criminal or other serious conduct by non

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Speaker 1: citizens who have lived in the Australian community for most

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Speaker 1: ninety nine introduced the principle that the level of tolerance

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Speaker 1: has spent in the Australian community, particularly in their formative years.

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Speaker 1: The applicant has been in Australia for most of his life,

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Speaker 1: He has a possible diagnosis of schizophrenia. He has depression

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Speaker 2: Although the Tribunal acts the respondent's contentions that the applicant

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Speaker 2: Tribunal is of the view that the brain injury presents

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Speaker 1: The Tribunal except in New Zealand had extensive health services

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Speaker 1: Tailor could access.

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Speaker 2: However, that access must be considered in the context of

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Speaker 2: his brain injury, which would impact his ability to understand,

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Speaker 2: engage and navigate new procedures. It is not far fetched

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Speaker 2: to suggest that the brain injury could impact his ability

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Speaker 1: Taylor has a father in New Zealand, but he's nearly

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Speaker 2: On the cumulative evidence, the Tribunal has satisfied that if

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Speaker 2: removed from Australia, the applicant would experience significant mental, emotional,

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Speaker 1: And so Tribunal Deputy President Antoinette Yunees revoked the cancelation

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Speaker 1: of his visa. In other words, Glen Taylor wins. He

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Speaker 1: gets to stay. After the break, one of Glen Taylor's

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Speaker 1: golfing the Federal government could cost Anthony Albanezi his first Minister,

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Speaker 1: Glen Taylor's victims, Jessica Mills, is speaking for the first

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Speaker 1: time to The Australian today. She was a neighbor of

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Speaker 3: What we went through no family should have to go through.

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Speaker 3: Glenn should have been deported. Why is he still here?

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Speaker 3: Why if they can let him in? And then there's

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Speaker 3: criminal charges that have been laid against them time and

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Speaker 3: time again. How many times did there have to be

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Speaker 3: laid out for them to actually be like, all right,

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Speaker 3: this person is not a good person in our country.

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Speaker 3: Like you come to God's land, you follow the rules.

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Speaker 1: Jessica Mills told her story to our reporters Alexi Demitriati

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Speaker 4: Came very clear, very quickly, and having that chatted with

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Speaker 4: her across two days. She's a really strong, world smart

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Speaker 4: and also of course brave woman. Single mum raised her

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Speaker 4: during this crisis, calling for change, saying enough is enough

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Speaker 4: or when is enough going to be enough? She is

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Speaker 4: one of many victims across multiple convictions and multiple years

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Speaker 4: of a New Zealander called Glenn Taylor. Taylor was a

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Speaker 4: then neighbor of her and her and her family were harassed.

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Speaker 4: Taylor made a threat to Jessica if she didn't drop

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Speaker 4: was vandalized and damaged by Taylor. He was convicted for

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Speaker 4: some form of change to address the system issues and

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Speaker 4: make a permanent difference.

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Speaker 1: Direction ninety nine that's the ministerial policy that has caused

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Speaker 1: the Albanese government so much grief. It was issued after

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Speaker 1: intense lobbying by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardun, who

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Speaker 1: wanted to prevent Kiwis, who had grown up in Australia

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Speaker 1: Minister Andrew Giles has at various times blamed his department

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Speaker 1: and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for the mess saying they've

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Speaker 1: overemphasized the importance of an offender's ties to Australia. The

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Speaker 1: Minister says he never intended this to keep hardcore criminals

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Speaker 1: to make Australian women safer by introducing a new requirement

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Speaker 1: for the tribunal to consider whether an offender had committed

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Speaker 1: family violence crimes. But the Government has dumped Direction ninety

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Speaker 5: Thanks Speaker. A short time ago I spoke with New

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Speaker 5: strengthen community safety in Australia. I conveyed to him that

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Speaker 5: Direction ninety nine has not been working as intended and

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Speaker 5: that we will be revoking Ministerial Director nine and issuing

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Speaker 5: a new revised direction to make sure that the protection

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Speaker 3: As the Minister concluded.

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