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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the carer's strategy. There's a discussion paper

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Speaker 1: put out by the Minister for Social Services, the Honorable

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Speaker 1: Amanda Rishworth, who's a member for Kingston Down in the

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Speaker 1: South of Adelaide, and this is a strategy to better

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Speaker 1: support three million unpaid carers in Australia. Consultation on the

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Speaker 1: paper about the new national carrier strategy opens today. Anna

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Speaker 1: will read a CEO care Is Australia and Abel good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, tell us about what's in the strategy.

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Speaker 2: So the strategy is yet to be developed, but of

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Speaker 2: course what it will do is it will encompass the principle.

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Speaker 2: It'll talk about the current state where it's at for

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Speaker 2: carers right now, and then it will talk about key

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Speaker 2: actions and priorities that need to be taken on care

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Speaker 2: as behalf to make carers life better.

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Speaker 1: So people can have their say on this now. Good

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Speaker 1: people can make a contribution as to what they'd like

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Speaker 1: to see.

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Speaker 2: That's right, they can. So a lot of consultations have

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Speaker 2: already been undertaken around the country, but what's being released

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Speaker 2: today is a discussion paper and we're really seeking the

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Speaker 2: feedback from people who are cares right now. Or people

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Speaker 2: who have been formally cares and there is a website

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Speaker 2: that they can go to to access that discussion paper

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Speaker 2: and provide a submission and the submission's closing time is

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Speaker 2: on the thirteenth of September, so there's about a month

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Speaker 2: to provide feedback.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what would you like to see unit from care

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Speaker 1: as Australia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so we really want to see some action

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Speaker 2: on recognition for cares. And when I'm talking about terresm,

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Speaker 2: I'm really talking about we're not talking about paid support workers.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about family members and friends who provide assistance

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Speaker 2: with the tasks of daily living to those they can

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Speaker 2: care for. And the people they care for might be

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Speaker 2: someone with a disability, or a chronic health, conditional illness,

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Speaker 2: a mental illness, dementia, or somebody who is frail due

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Speaker 2: to age, and so of course you know there are

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Speaker 2: three million, as you mentioned cares around the country and

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Speaker 2: we're really looking for that recognition to acknowledge the work

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Speaker 2: that they do because they're really providing you know, incredible

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Speaker 2: support to the person they care for, but a community

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Speaker 2: service and we want to see cares that are valued

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Speaker 2: and that's in a host of ways it might be

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Speaker 2: about recognition within a health care team or someone like

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Speaker 2: that who really understands that the care has expertise about

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Speaker 2: the person they care for and that their opinion is

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Speaker 2: essential and coordinating care for that person. We'd also like

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Speaker 2: to really see strong services and support for carers and

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Speaker 2: examples of those services that things like respite. Just in

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Speaker 2: Jennifer Cara has to go to hospital themselves for example.

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Speaker 2: You know, accessing emergency respite can be really difficult, and

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Speaker 2: we know there are many instances of carers having to

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Speaker 2: bring the personally careful to hospital really yeah, yeah, so

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Speaker 2: it's just a very challenging situation. We'd love to see

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Speaker 2: investment in better respite for cares.

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Speaker 1: Because that's the thing. And in my notes here I

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Speaker 1: jotted down earlier that family members, particularly as carers, would

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Speaker 1: get no break, would they. It'll be a seven day

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Speaker 1: a week thing for a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we know the average time a

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Speaker 2: person spends caring per week is around thirty six hours,

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Speaker 2: but in parts of Australia, you know, think of someone

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Speaker 2: in a really regional, remote area where there aren't support services,

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Speaker 2: that can be an average of one hundred and five

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Speaker 2: hours a week, so on average it's a job to

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Speaker 2: two and a half full time jobs. So it's a

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Speaker 2: big responsibility. And of course you know I've spoken about

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Speaker 2: emergency respite for when a care is unwell, but you

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Speaker 2: know it's okay for cares to take a break and

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Speaker 2: look after their own health and their own well being.

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Speaker 2: It's really important they do.

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Speaker 1: So I'd love to hear from people in that situation

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Speaker 1: today who are caring for a well a loved one,

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Speaker 1: particularly a relative, and just because cares have their own

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Speaker 1: lives and whether it is you know, in study or

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Speaker 1: trying to hold down a job for income in amongst

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Speaker 1: all of that, there's to this's a bit of pressure

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Speaker 1: on so I imagine it's it's very difficult for people to

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Speaker 1: while also caring for someone and trying to find the balance.

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Speaker 1: I imagine ada bel must be extremely difficult.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a real juggle, and so we do a

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Speaker 2: lot of work at Cares Australia about looking at a

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Speaker 2: few things like caring incrusive workplaces and that's around creating

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Speaker 2: workplace flexibility so that careers can take time away when

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Speaker 2: they need to person they're care for, but can still

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Speaker 2: engage in paid employment, and that can be really challenging.

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Speaker 2: We know there are a group of cares where the

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Speaker 2: care and responsibility is so high that they just can't

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Speaker 2: find the time for paid employment or participating in education.

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Speaker 2: And I'd love everyone to maybe think about those younger cares.

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Speaker 2: We often see cares sometimes starting as young as four

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Speaker 2: years of age, and of course they're trying to juggle

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Speaker 2: their education with a caring responsibility, sometimes for a sibling

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Speaker 2: or a parent. So you know, supporting cares in those

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Speaker 2: things and enabling them is so important.

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Speaker 1: Four years is terribly young to be in that situation.

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Speaker 1: What can a four year old do other than you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe take a play, to food to someone or something similar.

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Speaker 2: Well, it can start with those sort of tasks, like

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Speaker 2: every day household tasks. If you can consider parents who

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Speaker 2: perhaps have a child with you quite a severe disability,

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Speaker 2: then they're going to invest a lot of time in

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Speaker 2: medical appointments. And you know, sometimes if somebody needs turning

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Speaker 2: in the bed every hour at night, if you think

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Speaker 2: about the things they need to do as part of caring,

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Speaker 2: and then the everyday tasks of living can can force

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Speaker 2: their wayside. So younger cares can often be involved in

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Speaker 2: everyday task and maybe that's, you know, starting to pack

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Speaker 2: the dishwasher, or maybe it's cooking a meal, or maybe

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Speaker 2: it's understanding a sibling. You know, maybe the sibling has

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Speaker 2: autism and they and they start to understand sensitivities they

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Speaker 2: need to manage for this sibling. So we find younger

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Speaker 2: cares are quite incredible and become extremely helpful and supportive.

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Speaker 2: But of course, you know, it does take time away

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Speaker 2: from them enjoying other things like other young people do,

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Speaker 2: like education and friendships and things like that.

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Speaker 1: For keres who might be thinking, I'd love to do

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Speaker 1: the survey and put in a submission, is there a

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Speaker 1: way they can do this? They might be thinking, I

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Speaker 1: don't have time. Amongst everything else I'm trying to do

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Speaker 1: in my life, I just have no time for this,

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Speaker 1: but it sounds a good idea. Is there a shorter version, Yes,

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Speaker 1: there is.

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Speaker 2: So there are some surveys, quite short, sharp surveys for

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Speaker 2: cares that don't have a lot of time to contribute,

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Speaker 2: or they're very welcome to provide a written submission and

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Speaker 2: it doesn't need to be in a formal format. You

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Speaker 2: know they can just even write some dot points around

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Speaker 2: their thoughts from the National Care Strategy and submit that

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Speaker 2: and if they do have availability in a bit more time.

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Speaker 2: The website also guides cares to face to face consultation

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Speaker 2: so they can participate in roundtables and the website there

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Speaker 2: I can read it out if you like. Yep. So

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Speaker 2: it's at Engage dot DSS, dot gals dot AU forward

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Speaker 2: slash National Dash Care dash Strategy. So that's the website

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Speaker 2: any care can go to and look for opportunities to engage.

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Speaker 1: All right, terrific, Annabelle, appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you my pleasure, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Annabel read CEO kere Is Australia. So the government launching

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Speaker 1: a discussion paper today on the National Care Strategy