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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Daily OS. My name

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Speaker 1: is Sam Kozlowski. It's a pleasure to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Today is the twelfth of January. Happy Wednesday, Happy hump

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Speaker 1: day for many of us. It's the first hump day

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Speaker 1: of the working year. Zara. The Novakdrokovic saga continues. Today.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about the Park hotel in Culton.

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Speaker 1: It's been at the center of the Drokovic story, but

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Speaker 1: we're going to explore its role over the last few years. Zara,

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Speaker 1: what's the latest with the Dokovic saga.

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Speaker 2: We're still waiting for Immigration Minister Alex Hawk, who's yet

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Speaker 2: to make a decision on whether or not he will

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Speaker 2: cancel Novak Drokovic's visa. As we mentioned yesterday, it is

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Speaker 2: within the ministerial power of the Immigration Minister to intervene

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Speaker 2: in a case despite the court's ruling, so we're likely

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Speaker 2: to hear about that today or later this week.

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Speaker 1: South Korea have claimed North Korea launched an unidentified projectile

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Speaker 1: into the North's eastern Sea yesterday. It's believed that this

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Speaker 1: is North Korea's second weapons launch this week. It remains

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Speaker 1: unclear whether the weapon was a ballistic missile or how

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Speaker 1: far the weapon flew.

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Speaker 2: Piza's CEO has announced that the company will have a

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Speaker 2: vaccine that targets the Omicron COVID nineteen variant ready by

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Speaker 2: March this year. The CEO also confirmed the booster is

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Speaker 2: likely to target other variants in circulation, not just Omicron.

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Speaker 2: Speaking to CNBC, he said, we're already starting to manufacture

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Speaker 2: some of these quantities at risk.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news. US poet and social activist Maya

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Speaker 1: Angelo is the first black woman in the US to

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Speaker 1: be featured on the twenty five cent quarter coin. Angelo

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Speaker 1: was the first black woman at presidential inauguration to write

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Speaker 1: and perform a poem. The US mint is set to

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Speaker 1: release twenty other coins this year that showcase important women

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Speaker 1: in the nation's history.

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Speaker 2: For the last couple of days, Australians have been focused

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Speaker 2: on Novak Djokit. They've been focused on the cancelation of

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Speaker 2: the tennis players visa that occurred over the weekend and

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Speaker 2: then the court case that followed. While Djokovic for now

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Speaker 2: at least is seemingly cleared and able to remain in

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Speaker 2: Australia and compete in the Australian Open, this whole saga

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Speaker 2: has shone an international spotlight on more than thirty refugees

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Speaker 2: and asylum seekers who remained detained in Melbourne's Park Hotel.

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Speaker 2: That's where Novak Djokovic was held for a couple of days.

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Speaker 2: Some refugees and asylum seekers have been locked up for

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Speaker 2: nine years.

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Speaker 1: Here's a bit of background on the Park Hotel. It's

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Speaker 1: been used to detain refugees since December twenty twenty, but

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Speaker 1: before that it was used as a COVID nineteen quarantine hotel.

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Speaker 1: It was actually the Melbourne Hotel at the center of

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Speaker 1: the statewide lockdown in July twenty twenty, which feels like

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the pandemic. After poor conditions led to

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Speaker 1: quarantine breaches. When the Park Hotel ceased being a quarantine hotel, well,

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Speaker 1: it then became this place where refugees were detained.

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Speaker 2: We've heard some first hand accounts from refugees and asylum

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Speaker 2: seekers who remain in the Park Hotel about what the

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Speaker 2: conditions are like. The detainees have spoken about the fact

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Speaker 2: that windows cannot open, and they've complained of maggots, moldy food,

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Speaker 2: medical neglect and poor hygiene. Last year, in October a

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen outbreak infected around half the detainees, and just

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Speaker 2: last month a fire in the building cut off access

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Speaker 2: to outdoor and exercise space.

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Speaker 1: Here's a clip of Iranian refugee Adnan Chupani talking to

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Speaker 1: the Guardian about what it's like inside the Park Hotel.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, the condition day by day skein was

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Speaker 3: because we've been kept in a lampo and in a

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Speaker 3: deferent attention do We have not access to any fresh

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Speaker 3: air the windoor Etza Locke. We are under guards two

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Speaker 3: twenty seven and we have nine sis to a gym.

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Speaker 3: It's all worse as all.

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Speaker 2: Like I say. To understand why there are so many

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Speaker 2: asylum seekers and refugees in detention in Australia, we have

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Speaker 2: to understand the government's policy, and that is to detain

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Speaker 2: anyone who arrives by boat to seek asylum. There are

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Speaker 2: no limits on how long this detention can last. In

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Speaker 2: an interview last week, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said

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Speaker 2: that Australia has very strong border policies and has done

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Speaker 2: for many years. We know that currently they're an estimated

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Speaker 2: one four hundred and fifty nine people in Australian immigration

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Speaker 1: However, according to human rights organizations, they say that this

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Speaker 1: policy breaches international refugee law, which states that detention should

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Speaker 1: be for the shortest time possible and as a last resort,

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Speaker 1: not as punishment. Refugee advocates also complain that there's no

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Speaker 1: minimum standard for the conditions of detention in Australia, and

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Speaker 1: this standard exists for our prison system. So it's an

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Speaker 1: interesting dispolwer already to highlight there. It's worth mentioning as

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Speaker 1: well that the Australian Border Force say that it gives

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Speaker 1: primary consideration to the safety and security of all individuals

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Speaker 1: in its facilities, and that people in the immigration hotels

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Speaker 1: had access to dedicated indoor and outdoor exercise and activity areas,

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Speaker 1: clean comfortable sleeping quarters and other amenities.

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Speaker 2: There hasn't been any major change to Australia's immigration policy

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Speaker 2: for a number of years. It's remained pretty consistent. It's

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Speaker 2: that if you come by boat, you will not be

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Speaker 2: settled in Australia. Suddenly, Sam, we're seeing a lot of

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Speaker 2: international attention, aren't we.

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Speaker 1: That's right. We are seeing, particularly a report from the

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Speaker 1: BBC do the rounds on social media detailing the experiences

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Speaker 1: of people inside the Park Hotel, of course, because Novak

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Speaker 1: Djokovic was there and there were pretty phenomenal scenes outside

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Speaker 1: the hotel on Monday night when Djokovic was released. It's

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Speaker 1: yet to be seen whether any international attention on the

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Speaker 1: Park Hotel in Melbourne will change the conditions inside the hotel.

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Speaker 1: What we do know for sure or is that at present,

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Speaker 1: the detainees are not going anywhere.

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Speaker 2: We've seen a few quotes and tweets from people who

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Speaker 2: are detained in the Park Hotel who have put out

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Speaker 2: there that they hope that Djokovic will advocate for them

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Speaker 2: now that he is outside and has seen what is

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Speaker 2: going on there. So far, we haven't heard Djokovic speak

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Speaker 2: about the conditions of the Park Hotel or the plight

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Speaker 2: of any of those refugees or asylum seekers, but it

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Speaker 2: is too early to say for sure.

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