Speaker 1: Before we begin. This episode is full of adult concepts
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Speaker 1: I'm Claire Harvey. It's Wednesday, June five. A quarter of
Speaker 1: disability workers quit in the past year, many to get
Speaker 1: higher wages in aged care. That's the takeout from a
Speaker 1: new report which also shows widespread fraud in the NDIS
Speaker 1: where providers are using funds to obtain drugs. The Federal
Speaker 1: government's Affordable Housing Agency spent more than twenty four million
Speaker 1: dollars on consultants and six million on executive salaries last
Speaker 1: year without building a single dwelling under the government's promise
Speaker 1: to create forty thousand social and affordable houses. That's an
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Speaker 1: right now today, the shocking story of a New Zealand
Speaker 1: born criminal who's been offending across three decades in Australia
Speaker 1: and why the federal government has failed to send him
Speaker 1: back home. In nineteen seventy eight, a four year old
Speaker 1: boy arrived in Australia to begin a new life with
Speaker 1: his family. He's Glen Taylor, born in nineteen seventy four
Speaker 1: in New Zealand. He's left Australia at times over the years,
Speaker 1: but has been here since two thousand. He's a New
Speaker 1: Zealand citizen, not an Australian. Here's what the Administrative Appeals
Speaker 1: Tribunal says about Glen Taylor.
Speaker 2: The applicant has an extensive criminal history between nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: three and twenty twenty three, who was convicted of over
Speaker 2: thirty five offenses, including common assault, contravening, apprehended domestic violence, order,
Speaker 2: drug possession, assault, occasioning actual bodily harm and stalk intimidation offense.
Speaker 1: He has more than thirty five convictions and has served
Speaker 1: jail time for offenses including shoplifting, resisting police, carrying implements
Speaker 1: for breaking into cars, assaulting police, threatening witnesses, and breaching
Speaker 1: COVID rules. In two thousand and seven, while drunk, he
Speaker 1: entered the house of his partner, who had an AVO
Speaker 1: against him, threw a metal ash tray and screamed at her,
Speaker 1: you are the reason I'm going to jail. I'm going
Speaker 1: to fucking kill you. I'm going to use your face
Speaker 1: as a bloody dart board. She barricaded herself and the
Speaker 1: children inside the bedroom and called police. Taylor bashed a
Speaker 1: man on a train after he refused to hand over
Speaker 1: his phone. He terrorized a neighbor, He breached more AVOs.
Speaker 1: He attacked and threatened police, resisted arrest and damaged property.
Speaker 1: He used ice and abused alcohol. He sent one hundred
Speaker 1: messages to a woman who'd taken out an AVO against him,
Speaker 1: and threatened dire consequences if she didn't withdraw the AVO.
Speaker 1: In April twenty twenty three, his visa was canceled on
Speaker 1: character grounds, and Taylor appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Speaker 1: He presented evidence he'd completed a remand domestic abuse course.
Speaker 1: In July twenty twenty three, Taylor was convicted of breaching
Speaker 1: an apprehended domestic violence order and his visa was again rejected.
Speaker 1: He went back to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, saying he
Speaker 1: was sober and sorry for what he'd done. Aat Deputy
Speaker 1: President Antoinette Yunes, a solicitor and psychologist who was appointed
Speaker 1: by the Morrison government after serving as an advisor to
Speaker 1: former Minister Michaulia Cash, heard his case. We've used a
Speaker 1: voice actor to bring you her words.
Speaker 2: During the hearing, The applicant accepted the seriousness of his conduct,
Speaker 2: and although there were occasions where he could not recall
Speaker 2: the specifics of his conduct, he nevertheless expressed remorse and
Speaker 2: apologies for his conduct. The Tribunal is satisfied that the
Speaker 2: applicant's apologies and expressions of remorse are genuine. The applicant
Speaker 2: contended that his criminal record should be considered in light
Speaker 2: of his traumatic brain injury which occurred in Australia in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: That brain injury occurred when Taylor was assaulted, resulting in
Speaker 1: a fractured skull. Miss Yunes accepted that he was a
Speaker 1: risk to the community, that he had committed family violence offenses,
Speaker 1: and that he still has two active avios against him,
Speaker 1: but she accepted that he had strong ties to Australia,
Speaker 1: including a sister. Although she said Taylor couldn't live with
Speaker 1: her and two adult sons, he believes he has an
Speaker 1: adult daughter, and Miss Yunes accepted that Taylor had nieces
Speaker 1: and nephews in Australia who could benefit from a relationship
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 2: The Tribunal has satisfied that, given the lengthy period the
Speaker 2: applicant has spent in Australia, and although his ties may
Speaker 2: not appear to be strong, they are nevertheless ties which
Speaker 2: need to be considered in the context of a person
Speaker 2: who is vulnerable due to his brain injury and drug
Speaker 2: and alcohol dependence. It is reasonable to suggest that it
Speaker 2: is plausible that his criminal conduct, particularly the family violence,
Speaker 2: adversely impacted on his relationships and the strength of those ties.
Speaker 1: The tribunal said it didn't have any evidence of the
Speaker 1: impact on Taylor's victims of him being allowed to stay.
Speaker 1: The Commonwealth fought against Taylor at every turn in the AAT.
Speaker 1: It argued he was a risk to society, he had
Speaker 1: no enduring ties to family, he was in fact a
Speaker 1: risk to his nieces and nephews because of his history
Speaker 1: of substance abuse and violence, and that the Australian community
Speaker 1: expects criminals like him to be deported. But the tribunal
Speaker 1: said this and this is why Glenn Taylor's case comes
Speaker 1: back to the federal government. It's all about Direction ninety nine,
Speaker 1: a new policy introduced by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, which
Speaker 1: says one of the factors the AAT must consider is
Speaker 1: the length and strength of an offender's ties to Australia.
Speaker 1: Here's what Antoinette Yune said in her tribunal decision. The
Speaker 1: Direction indicates that Australia will generally afford a higher level
Speaker 1: of tolerance of criminal or other serious conduct by non
Speaker 1: citizens who have lived in the Australian community for most
Speaker 1: of their life or from a very young age. Direction
Speaker 1: ninety nine introduced the principle that the level of tolerance
Speaker 1: will rise with the length of time a non citizen
Speaker 1: has spent in the Australian community, particularly in their formative years.
Speaker 1: The applicant has been in Australia for most of his life,
Speaker 1: including during his formative years. He's on the Disability Support pension.
Speaker 1: He has a possible diagnosis of schizophrenia. He has depression
Speaker 1: and anxiety.
Speaker 2: Although the Tribunal acts the respondent's contentions that the applicant
Speaker 2: could continue to receive commensurate treatment in New Zealand, which
Speaker 2: has comparable medical services available to that of Australia, the
Speaker 2: Tribunal is of the view that the brain injury presents
Speaker 2: a significant impediment on the applicant's ability to settle in
Speaker 2: New Zealand and navigate a different environment.
Speaker 1: The Tribunal except in New Zealand had extensive health services
Speaker 1: Tailor could access.
Speaker 2: However, that access must be considered in the context of
Speaker 2: his brain injury, which would impact his ability to understand,
Speaker 2: engage and navigate new procedures. It is not far fetched
Speaker 2: to suggest that the brain injury could impact his ability
Speaker 2: to find employment, housing, and a support network.
Speaker 1: Taylor has a father in New Zealand, but he's nearly
Speaker 1: eighty and unlikely to be able to provide much help.
Speaker 2: On the cumulative evidence, the Tribunal has satisfied that if
Speaker 2: removed from Australia, the applicant would experience significant mental, emotional,
Speaker 2: practical and financial hardships which would be difficult to overcome
Speaker 2: given his significant brain injury.
Speaker 1: And so Tribunal Deputy President Antoinette Yunees revoked the cancelation
Speaker 1: of his visa. In other words, Glen Taylor wins. He
Speaker 1: gets to stay. After the break, one of Glen Taylor's
Speaker 1: victims speaks out for the first time the immigration scandaling
Speaker 1: golfing the Federal government could cost Anthony Albanezi his first Minister,
Speaker 1: and subscribers to The Australian have been following this issue
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Speaker 1: a U We'll be back after this break. One of
Speaker 1: Glen Taylor's victims, Jessica Mills, is speaking for the first
Speaker 1: time to The Australian today. She was a neighbor of
Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor.
Speaker 3: What we went through no family should have to go through.
Speaker 3: Glenn should have been deported. Why is he still here?
Speaker 3: Why if they can let him in? And then there's
Speaker 3: criminal charges that have been laid against them time and
Speaker 3: time again. How many times did there have to be
Speaker 3: laid out for them to actually be like, all right,
Speaker 3: this person is not a good person in our country.
Speaker 3: Like you come to God's land, you follow the rules.
Speaker 1: Jessica Mills told her story to our reporters Alexi Demitriati
Speaker 1: and Liam Mendez.
Speaker 4: Came very clear, very quickly, and having that chatted with
Speaker 4: her across two days. She's a really strong, world smart
Speaker 4: and also of course brave woman. Single mum raised her
Speaker 4: five relatively young kids on the Central Coast and she
Speaker 4: is probably the first voice of a victim standing up
Speaker 4: during this crisis, calling for change, saying enough is enough
Speaker 4: or when is enough going to be enough? She is
Speaker 4: one of many victims across multiple convictions and multiple years
Speaker 4: of a New Zealander called Glenn Taylor. Taylor was a
Speaker 4: then neighbor of her and her and her family were harassed.
Speaker 4: Taylor made a threat to Jessica if she didn't drop
Speaker 4: an avo. She took out against him and her property
Speaker 4: was vandalized and damaged by Taylor. He was convicted for
Speaker 4: those crimes in May of last year. She was keen
Speaker 4: to speak out and be a voice, hopefully to enact
Speaker 4: some form of change to address the system issues and
Speaker 4: make a permanent difference.
Speaker 1: Direction ninety nine that's the ministerial policy that has caused
Speaker 1: the Albanese government so much grief. It was issued after
Speaker 1: intense lobbying by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardun, who
Speaker 1: wanted to prevent Kiwis, who had grown up in Australia
Speaker 1: and committed crimes in Australia sent back to New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Minister Andrew Giles has at various times blamed his department
Speaker 1: and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for the mess saying they've
Speaker 1: overemphasized the importance of an offender's ties to Australia. The
Speaker 1: Minister says he never intended this to keep hardcore criminals
Speaker 1: in Australia, and that in fact the direction was supposed
Speaker 1: to make Australian women safer by introducing a new requirement
Speaker 1: for the tribunal to consider whether an offender had committed
Speaker 1: family violence crimes. But the Government has dumped Direction ninety
Speaker 1: nine and now it's struggling to avoid dumping the minister himself.
Speaker 5: Thanks Speaker. A short time ago I spoke with New
Speaker 5: Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters. I spoke to him
Speaker 5: about the changes our government will soon be making to
Speaker 5: strengthen community safety in Australia. I conveyed to him that
Speaker 5: Direction ninety nine has not been working as intended and
Speaker 5: that we will be revoking Ministerial Director nine and issuing
Speaker 5: a new revised direction to make sure that the protection
Speaker 5: of the Australian community out was all other considerable books.
Speaker 3: As the Minister concluded.
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