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Speaker 1: Look out, New Zealand. They're coming for our doctors at

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Speaker 1: quarter to six. This is the Australian government. Doctors from

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Speaker 1: the UK, Ireland and New Zealand will be fast tracked

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Speaker 1: to work in Australia and changes designed to address their

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Speaker 1: GP shortage. They are Donna Demaz their Australia correspondent, donnad

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Speaker 1: just leave them alone.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, we don't have enough doctors here. So we

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Speaker 2: have heard now that well the Federal Health Minister Mark

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Speaker 2: Butler and his state counterparts have recommended this proposal. It's

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Speaker 2: effectively going to get rid of a significant amount of

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Speaker 2: red tape. In fact, so the Medical Watchdog looks like

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Speaker 2: it will proceed with this overhaul of the accreditation process

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Speaker 2: for overseas doctors. And yes it does include NZ doctors.

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Speaker 2: And this means that gps who are qualified from New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: Ireland and UK can then get this specialist registration with

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Speaker 2: the Watchdog and they don't need to be assessed by

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Speaker 2: the Royal Australian College of Gps anymore. Well, the College

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Speaker 2: is a little myf to say the least. They're bringing

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Speaker 2: up issues with oh you know what about safety standards.

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Speaker 2: So the Health minister says no safety standards will not

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Speaker 2: be compromised. He says, for too long, highly trained doctors

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Speaker 2: have been caught up in this red tape. So I

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Speaker 2: think it's about three hundred gps from these areas and

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Speaker 2: countries apply each year. But now interestingly they will now

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Speaker 2: no longer have to pay. It's about twelve thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: for this assessment feed that they used to pay for

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Speaker 2: the college. Perhaps that's why the college is unimpressed with.

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Speaker 1: This many Yeah, okay, so this side stepping it, trying

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Speaker 1: to get some of the cut, some of the fat

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Speaker 1: out of it. Hey, what's going on with the spit

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Speaker 1: hoods in Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is described as a way to be tough

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Speaker 2: on crime. It is a controversial device. It's a spithood.

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Speaker 2: It's exactly what it sounds like. It's put over the

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Speaker 2: head of a young people. And in this instance we're

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Speaker 2: talking about the Northern Territory and it's used to restrain

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory children. Now I know that we heard from

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Speaker 2: the police chief that over the last x three months,

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Speaker 2: sixty eight police have been assaulted in the Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: and there've been twenty counts of spitting. It's been described

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Speaker 2: as abhorrent to what's happened to police. So they're saying

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Speaker 2: now that the new government, the Country Liberal Party, is

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Speaker 2: going to reintroduce spithoods on Northern Territory children only when

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Speaker 2: they're being held at watchhouse facilities. But we know that

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Speaker 2: last year the UN Committee against Torture recommended Australia take

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Speaker 2: all necessary measures to end the use of spitthoods. So

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Speaker 2: interesting that it's being reintroduced.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. God, that's a tough one, isn't it, Because if

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Speaker 1: you're the police officer, you don't want to be spat at,

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Speaker 1: do you? And if it's happened twenty times, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for that. Donald de Mayo are Australia correspondent.

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