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Speaker 1: Good morning, team, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: the eleventh of June. My name is Sam Kazlowski. And

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Zara Sideline

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Speaker 1: making news today. COVID nineteen updates, are you and complaint

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Speaker 1: some good news about a university building and sticking.

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Speaker 2: On the theme of unis a chat about international students.

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Speaker 2: Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: Victoria reported four new locally acquired COVID nineteen cases yesterday,

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Speaker 1: with authorities continuing to investigate the source of the infection.

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Speaker 1: The four cases were from the same household, but despite

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Speaker 1: those cases, lockdown restrictions eased overnight, with one change masks

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Speaker 1: must be worn outdoors in all circumstances. I hope all

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Speaker 1: our Melbourne listeners are listening to this podcast outside. Over

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Speaker 1: in Queensland, there was one new locally acquired case recorded, so.

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Speaker 2: This was arguably the biggest news story of the week.

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Speaker 2: Despite raising the possibility on Tuesday, Home Affairs Minister Karen

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Speaker 2: Andrews yes day all but ruled out resettling the family

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Speaker 2: from Billawella in New Zealand or the US, saying and

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Speaker 2: I quote in relation to resettlement options the arrangements that

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Speaker 2: we have in place with the US and New Zealand

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Speaker 2: are in respect to refugees. This family does not have

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Speaker 2: refugee status. This comes after one of the two children

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Speaker 2: from the family was medivaced to Perth with a suspected

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Speaker 2: blood infection.

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Speaker 1: Arguably Australia's most high profile human rights lawyer, Jeffrey Robertson

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Speaker 1: will lodge a complaint to the United Nations at the

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Speaker 1: UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva. On behalf of the

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Speaker 1: family of Aboriginal man David Dungay, who died in prison

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Speaker 1: custody in twenty fifteen. Robertson is arguing that Australia failed

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Speaker 1: to protect Dungay's right to life and denied his family

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Speaker 1: justice over his death. Dungey's mother, Latona said quote, all

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Speaker 1: I want is justice. I want real justice where the

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Speaker 1: life of an Aboriginal man is worth something bit.

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Speaker 2: Left of center, We've got some architectural good news today.

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Speaker 2: A new campus from the University of Tasmane has a

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Speaker 2: green roof with ten thousand native plants growing and is

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Speaker 2: hoping to become a space for native wildlife. Additionally, the

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Speaker 2: green roof and vertical gardens are expected to provide architectural

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Speaker 2: advantages including cooler interiors, improved stormwater management, noise reduction, esthetic appeal,

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Speaker 2: and biodiversity.

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Speaker 1: I've always been a sucker for improved stormwater management. It's

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Speaker 1: the hallmark of a great university in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: The sad fact is that nobody will know that you're

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Speaker 2: being sarcastic. There a couple of weeks ago we spoke

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Speaker 2: to you about international students, and that's because we were

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Speaker 2: getting lots and lots of messages from international students who

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Speaker 2: were asking us for an update on what was happening.

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Speaker 2: So today, given that there is a pretty substantial update,

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Speaker 2: we thought we would let you know what the status

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Speaker 2: is for international students trying to get back into the country. Yesterday,

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Speaker 2: the New South Wales government announced that they were planning

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Speaker 2: to bring back international students in a pilot program. Before

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Speaker 2: I go any further, let's hear what the New South

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Speaker 2: Wales Treasurer had to say about this yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Today New South Wales goes to the top of the class.

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Speaker 3: This is a great win for the close to one

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand men and women who rely on international students

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Speaker 3: for their job. This is a plan that is safe,

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Speaker 3: secure and importantly has been signed off by New South

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Speaker 3: Wales Health and New South Wales Police. It is nation

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Speaker 3: leading and incredibly important for the New South Wales economy.

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Speaker 2: So for going into the logistics of how this plan

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Speaker 2: will work, the New South Wales government has put this

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Speaker 2: to the federal government to review, so it hasn't been

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Speaker 2: completely approved yet, which is an important note. But the

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Speaker 2: plan is to bring two hundred and fifty students per

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Speaker 2: fortnite from the middle of this year back to New

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Speaker 2: South Wales to study. And the idea is that they

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Speaker 2: will do quarantine in purpose built facilities, so they won't

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Speaker 2: be going into hotel quarantine like all other travelers have to do,

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Speaker 2: but they'll be going straight into a facility that is

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Speaker 2: student accommodation. That means that they fulfill their requirements to

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Speaker 2: do quarantine, but the quarantine will be paid for by

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Speaker 2: the universities.

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Speaker 1: So just to clarify there, they have to fulfill the

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Speaker 1: same two week timeline that normal travelers entering in hotel

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Speaker 1: quarantine would have to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what they have to do. This isn't

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Speaker 2: some backdoor entrance to getting back into the country. They

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Speaker 2: have to fulfill exactly the same requirements, and I think

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Speaker 2: that's probably why it's taken so long to get here,

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Speaker 2: because the government has had to work with the New

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Speaker 2: South Wales Police to make sure that they have the

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Speaker 2: resources and capacity to fully staff this quarantine facility. And

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Speaker 2: I found it really interesting when we uploaded something on

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Speaker 2: this yesterday that there wasn't an overly positive sentiment that

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Speaker 2: came from our comments section, and a lot of the

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Speaker 2: comments were about the fact that other ossies weren't able

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Speaker 2: to get back into the country, but now international students

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Speaker 2: were seemingly getting priority access. And a good point to

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Speaker 2: note here is the fact that international students are not

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Speaker 2: taking the place of returning travelers. The caps that exist

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Speaker 2: for returning travelers isn't going to change, so these two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty international students will be in addition to

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Speaker 2: the existing caps on returning travelers.

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Speaker 1: The plan is for the two hundred and fifty to

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Speaker 1: scale up to five hundred per fortnite by the end

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Speaker 1: of the year. But keep in mind there's about fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand international students waiting to return to New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course everyone's going to have different perspectives on this.

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Speaker 2: I think For those international students who are listeners of

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Speaker 2: The Daily ODS, this is likely to be really welcome

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Speaker 2: news because based on what we have heard directly from

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Speaker 2: those students, it's been an upward battle to try and

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Speaker 2: get back into the country.

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Speaker 1: This plan is now in the hands of the Federal

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Speaker 1: government and will be sure to bring you updates as

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