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

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Speaker 1: the eleventh of May, and it is budget day. My

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Speaker 1: name is Zara Seidler, and helping me make sense of

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Speaker 1: today's news is Sam Koslowski. Making news today other than

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Speaker 1: the budget, Maurice Paine in Afghanistan, the Jack Debellin case,

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Speaker 1: some good news about the Janolan caves, and the.

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Speaker 2: Chat about refugees in Canada. Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Maurice Paine has visited Afghanistan ahead of troops

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Speaker 1: being withdrawn from the country later this year. Payne met

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Speaker 1: with leaders to discuss Australia's support for a stable and

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Speaker 1: secure Afghanistan during the time of change, as well as

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Speaker 1: her hopes for an ongoing peace negotiation with the Taliban

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Speaker 1: and the effects of COVID nineteen. Pain also reportedly spoke

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Speaker 1: with President Ushraf Ghani about the alleged war crimes committed

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Speaker 1: by Australian special troops in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 2: Nral player Jack Debellin has been found not guilty of

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Speaker 2: one charge of sextionly assaulting a nineteen year old woman.

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Speaker 2: The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the

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Speaker 2: remaining four charges against him. De Belen and his friend

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Speaker 2: Callen Sinclair have faced a two and a half week

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Speaker 2: trial after being accused of sexually assaulting a nineteen year

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Speaker 2: old woman. Both pleaded not guilty to five counts each

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Speaker 2: of aggravated sexual assault.

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Speaker 1: A COVID nineteen study has found two in three people

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Speaker 1: who contracted the virus have displayed ongoing health issues. Early

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Speaker 1: results of the COVID recovery study have shown thirty percent

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Speaker 1: of patients were quote A live and disability free, while

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Speaker 1: seventy percent of patients are experiencing ongoing symptoms, including mild

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Speaker 1: shortness of breath and weakness. The study hopes to identify

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Speaker 1: unique symptoms and long term outcomes of COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 2: And your budget day good news. The popular New South

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Speaker 2: Wales tourist attraction, the Jenolan Caves, has been reopened after

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Speaker 2: facing fires, floods, a pandemic and landslides. The access road

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Speaker 2: to the Jenolan Caves precinct was severely damaged after heavy

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Speaker 2: rainfall and landslides in March this year. As of yesterday,

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Speaker 2: a limited capacity of visitors are now able to visit

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Speaker 2: the world famous stalactites and stalagmites of the cave. For

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Speaker 2: today's Deep Dive, we thought we'd have a look at

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Speaker 2: a report written yesterday by The Guardian Australia and they

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Speaker 2: reported that the Morrison government is looking at the Canadian

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Speaker 2: model of community sponsorship of refugees in order to review

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Speaker 2: Australia's current support programs.

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Speaker 1: That was a whole lot of words. Can you take

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Speaker 1: me through what you just said?

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Speaker 2: So Canada has a pretty unique model here it is

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Speaker 2: in ten seconds. Basically, private groups or community organizations can

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Speaker 2: volunteer to cover the financial costs and settlement support for

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Speaker 2: humanitarian entrants who are coming into the country as refugees.

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Speaker 2: It's an immigration program that stands alone in the world

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Speaker 2: as the first of its kind, and a number of

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Speaker 2: countries have followed suit, but Canada definitely have the title

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Speaker 2: of the og. Since they introduced the program in nineteen seventy,

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Speaker 2: they've welcomed more than three hundred thou refugees as part

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Speaker 2: of the community sponsorship plan. It's really interesting the mechanics

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Speaker 2: of how this works. So basically there's two groups that

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Speaker 2: can apply to take in a refugee. One is a

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Speaker 2: sponsorship agreement holder, so that's typically a corporation or a

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Speaker 2: community organization, and the other is called a group of

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Speaker 2: five and that's literally just five or more Canadian citizens

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Speaker 2: or permanent residents. When they agree to sponsor a refugee,

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Speaker 2: they agree to give the refugee emotional and financial support

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Speaker 2: for the full sponsorship period. They also agreed to raise

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Speaker 2: the equivalent of one year of social security so one

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Speaker 2: year of seniling payments essentially, which is held in a

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Speaker 2: trust account and paid to the sponsored refugees to meet

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Speaker 2: their settlement expenses once they reach Canada. If the group

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Speaker 2: or the corporation is short of cash but they still

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Speaker 2: want to be part of the program, they can offset

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Speaker 2: that amount by donating clothes, food, housing, furniture and household goods.

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Speaker 2: Of course, there are some limitations to the program. The

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Speaker 2: individual has to be referred by the UNHCR as a refugee,

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Speaker 2: and the order in which the refugees arrive is regulated

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Speaker 2: by the Canadian government. Importantly, what they've found in Canada

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Speaker 2: is that the program does a lot more than just

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Speaker 2: speed up refugee intake into a country. It actually increases

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Speaker 2: social cohesion in the country. Members of the broader community

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Speaker 2: can really participate in welcoming the refugee, and that makes

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Speaker 2: a major difference when you think about things like schooling

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Speaker 2: or housing, or even something as simple as joining a

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Speaker 2: community sports team. So how does this all tie into Australia.

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Speaker 2: So the Commonwealth Coordinator General for Migrant Services, Allison Larkins,

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Speaker 2: has conducted a review of Australia's current support arrangements. She's

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Speaker 2: submitted detailed recommendations to Alex Hawk, who's the Minister for

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Speaker 2: Citizenship and Immigration. What the review found was that humanitarian

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Speaker 2: entrants refugees to Australia experienced a greater socioeconomic disadvantage than

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Speaker 2: other migrants, particularly in the labor market. So the translation

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Speaker 2: of that is that they were struggling to find jobs

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Speaker 2: and they were economically disadvantage for longer than other entrants

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Speaker 2: into the country.

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Speaker 1: What are some criticisms that have arisen?

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Speaker 2: So although this was only flagged yesterday, there already has

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Speaker 2: been a sense that such a program could actually take

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Speaker 2: some pressure off the government, which at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day we charge with responsibility for the humanitarian intake

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Speaker 2: that Australia agrees to on an international scale. In some

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Speaker 2: ways the criticism is accurate. This is passing the buck

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Speaker 2: a little bit. But from another perspective. If there are

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Speaker 2: community organizations and groups of Australians looking to take in

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Speaker 2: refugees and financially support their intake themselves, it could be

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Speaker 2: a good way to expand Australia's intake.

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Speaker 1: So I read another criticism that was centered around the

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Speaker 1: longevity of this relationship. What happens beyond the initial engagement

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Speaker 1: between the refugee and the person that they are interacting with.

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Speaker 1: Talk me through that criticism.

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Speaker 2: The Refugee Council of Australia has flags these issues when

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Speaker 2: considering privately sponsored refisfugees. What they're wary of is when

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Speaker 2: relationships between sponsors and refugees are initially supportive and constructive,

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Speaker 2: but then deteriorate over time. This has led in Canada

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Speaker 2: to situations of exploitation and a reported sense from refugees

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Speaker 2: that they feel pressure to repay their sponsors. Despite the criticisms,

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Speaker 2: it's a hugely popular program in Canada. In fact, in

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Speaker 2: the last couple of years, especially during the COVID pandemic

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Speaker 2: and after the war in Syria, the program has had

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Speaker 2: to be capped to allow for the administrative side of

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Speaker 2: the program to keep up with how many Canadians are

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Speaker 2: throwing their hands up to support refugees.

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Speaker 1: Refugee policy has remained a massive point of contention. Do

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Speaker 1: you see the government of the day now actually adopting

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Speaker 1: this or is this mere chatter?

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Speaker 2: I really don't want to be pessimistic on this, and

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Speaker 2: I also don't want to preempt the government's response. We're

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Speaker 2: going to have to wait until they respond to the

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Speaker 2: report to accurately understand how they're feeling about it. But

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Speaker 2: it doesn't seem in line with Australia's approach to refugees

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Speaker 2: over the last two decades to adopt a program like this,

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Speaker 2: In saying that this is not the first time such

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Speaker 2: a program has been recommended, so in some respects, the

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Speaker 2: program and the idea itself is gathering speed and it's

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Speaker 2: definitely something we should be looking out for in the

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Speaker 2: news cycle over the next decade.

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