1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Happy Monday everyone, Welcome to another week of the Daily OS. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: There's kind of two main stories to be looking at 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: this week, the ongoing COVID nineteen drama across multiple states 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: and territories in Australia and the evolving situation on the 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: ground in Afghanistan. To help us understand both of these 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: issues and more, I'm joined by the co founder of 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: the Dally OS, Zara Zara start us off with COVID nineteen. 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 2: New South Wales broke a whole lot of records it 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: didn't want to break over the weekend. We recorded eight 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: hundred and thirty locally acquired cases yesterday and at least 11 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: fifty of those were infectious in the community, but it 12 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: is seeming like that number is becoming more and more 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: insignificant when something like six hundred remain under investigation. Sadly, 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 2: there were also three deaths reported yesterday. Over in Victoria, 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 2: there were sixty five locally acquired cases and fifty five 16 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: of those were linked to a known cluster, but only 17 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: twelve of those were in isolation during their infectious period, 18 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 2: and for Victoria that number is vital. The ACAT recorded 19 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: nineteen likely acquired cases yesterday and seventeen of those were 20 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 2: linked to a known cluster. 21 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: At the same time as there were records in the 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: number of new daily cases, there were also anti lockdown 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: protests in multiple cities across the country over the weekend. 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: There are an estimated four thousand people attending a process 25 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: in Melbourne on Saturday, with two hundred and eighteen people 26 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: arrested and six offices hospitalized at that protest. There were 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: also over a million dollars of fines given out in Sydney. 28 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: Forty seven people were arrested at the protests there and 29 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty one penalty infringement notices were issued 30 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: on a political program. 31 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 2: During an interview yesterday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that 32 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: a further three hundred people have been safely evacuated from 33 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 2: Kabul over the weekend. The group was evacuated on four 34 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 2: separate flights, which means that now more than five hundred 35 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: and fifty people, including Afghan and Australian visa holders, have 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: been evacuated from the country's capital since August eighteenth, when 37 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: this tragedy began to unfold. 38 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 3: Well, it is a very fluid situation. David and the 39 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 3: registrations that we have are often not first hand and 40 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 3: they need to be confirmed. So what we're simply doing 41 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 3: right now is getting as many people out safely with 42 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: the proper chet, with the proper checks being done both 43 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 3: on the airfield itself and as well as back in 44 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 3: Amab in the Emirates, to ensure that we're doing the 45 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: right thing in terms of Australia's national security interests, but 46 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 3: also the right thing by humanitarian interests. 47 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: And today's good news, the Barti party continues. Australian tennis 48 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: star Ashbarti defeated Germany's Angelie Kerbart to secure a spot 49 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: in the Cincinnati Open final. The Cincinnati Open is typically 50 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: held up as the warm up event to the upcoming 51 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: US Open, so it is good science for Ash party. 52 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: She beat Kerber in straight sets in just under seventy 53 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: five minutes. When we talk about the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, 54 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: the discussion quickly turns to Australia's responsibility in terms of 55 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: a refugee intake, whether that refugee intake needs to be increased, 56 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: and how quickly that process should occur. 57 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 2: It's not the first time that our country has been 58 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: having these conversations and it is interesting that this week 59 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 2: marks twenty years since the Tampa Affair, which for all 60 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: intents and purposes, was the turning point for our country's 61 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: border protection policies moving forward. So, Sam, before we go 62 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 2: into the significance, can you run us through what actually 63 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: happened in two thousand and one. 64 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: So, on the twenty fourth of August two thousand and one, 65 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: a small Indonesian fishing boat called the Palapa, overloaded with 66 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty three mainly Hazara asylum seekers from 67 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: Afghanistan became stranded in international waters. The Hazara are a 68 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: minority in Afghanistan, so you've basically got the Sunnis and 69 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: the Sheaites as the two major groups, and the has 70 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: Zara are a smaller third ethnic minority. The boat became 71 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: stranded approximately one hundred and forty kilometers north of Christmas Island. 72 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: When Australian maritime authorities were alerted to the situation, they 73 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: gave directions to a Norwegian container ship and this ship 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: was called the ENV Tampa, and this is why we 75 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: refer to it as the Tampa affair. And this ship 76 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: was sent to rescue the asylum seekers from here. The 77 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: Tampa's captain took the asylum seekers to Christmas Island and 78 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: the ship crossed Australian maritime borders on the twenty ninth 79 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: of August, and that date became a really important milestone 80 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: in terms of when Australia started to have legal responsibilities 81 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: for the asylum seekers in Australia. The media picked up 82 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: on the Tampa crisis as a catalyst to look at 83 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: Australia's border protection and whether people arriving by boat was 84 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: going to become an issue. This was all happening about 85 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: six weeks before the upcoming election, and the government, which 86 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: was led by former Prime Minister John Howard, was really 87 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: keen to show that they were tough on borders and 88 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: could secure Australia's borders from the impending threat of asylum 89 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: seekers coming by boat. This manifested itself in August, so 90 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: that month through an emergency bill called the Border Protection Bill, 91 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: and this bill gave the power to remove any foreign 92 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: ship in Australian territorial waters. It's worth noting that this 93 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: bill was not passed in the Senate, but a watered 94 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: down version, a kind of Border protection Bill light was 95 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: eventually introduced The key reform at the heart of this 96 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: new Border Protection Bill was laws that excluded many of 97 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: Australia's offshore islands, including Christmas Island, from Australia's migration zone. 98 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: This essentially meant that asylum seekers had no automatic right 99 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: to apply for refugee status if they arrived on those islands. 100 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: It also meant, and this is something that we've talked 101 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: about right until this day, that asylum seekers could be 102 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: processed offshore in places like Nairu and Papua New Guineese 103 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: Manas Island. 104 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 2: While this was a singular event in two thousand and one, 105 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 2: like many other events that happened that year, it had 106 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 2: policy implications for many, many years to come, and the 107 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 2: zero tolerance for people seeking asylum who try to enter 108 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 2: Australia by boat has continued to this day. The current 109 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 2: Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, in a past life, served as 110 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 2: our immigration Minister and on his desk sat a little 111 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 2: statue of a boat that said I stopped the boats. 112 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: This has become a bipartisan commitment under Labor. This became 113 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 2: a defining feature of Kevin Rudd's Prime ministership and followed 114 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: Julia Gillard well into her Prime ministership too, So it 115 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 2: is not the Coalition or Labor. Asylum seekers under successive 116 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: Labor and liberal governments have been denied entry to this 117 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 2: country if they travel here by boat, and we can 118 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: trace the origins of this tough border policy to the 119 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 2: Tampa affair. 120 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: Even with so many other dominant news topics, it'd be 121 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: fair to assume that border protection and national security is 122 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: going to be a hot topic going into next year's 123 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 1: federal election. Keen to introduce you to some of the 124 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: key events leading up to Australia's modern policies. Don't forget 125 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: to check us out on Instagram throughout the day. It's 126 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: where over one hundred and ninety nine thousand Australians get 127 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: their news. We'll have all the COVID updates as well 128 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: as the latest from Afghanistan. Have a great start to 129 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: the week.