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Speaker 1: We understand that Charles Darwin University has got some work

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Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes preparing for more international students

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Speaker 1: to come back to the Northern Territory and joining us

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Speaker 1: live on the line to tell us more. Charles Darwin

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Speaker 1: University's Global Director Joanne Krystal, Good morning to you, Joanne.

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Speaker 2: Hi Katy. How are you.

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Speaker 1: Really well, Joanne? How many international students do we currently

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Speaker 1: have able to study at the moment in the territory.

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Speaker 2: We currently have a number of students studying with those

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Speaker 2: in the Northern Territory and other students elsewhere in Australia

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Speaker 2: who will be planning to come up and join us

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Speaker 2: in Darwin for our next intake in March. But of

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Speaker 2: course we have many students who are still overseas at

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Speaker 2: the moment. We seem to get back into the anti

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Speaker 2: asting as they can.

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Speaker 1: Has that been difficult for those students that are still

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Speaker 1: overseas waiting to get back to the territory. Have they

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Speaker 1: still been able to study externally or are they having

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Speaker 1: to hold things off at this stage?

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Speaker 2: So a lot of the students can study on line,

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Speaker 2: but it's dependent on their programs. So some of the programs,

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Speaker 2: for example, like nursing require practical placements, so students really

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Speaker 2: have to be here within the Northern Territory to complete

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Speaker 2: a lot of their programs. Although CDU has a fantastic

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Speaker 2: online platform and we've been one of the universities in

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Speaker 2: Australia who's been teaching online for the longest, so the

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Speaker 2: students are having a good experience of studying online, but

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Speaker 2: of course nothing competes with that experience of joining us

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Speaker 2: in person, face to face and studying on campus with

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Speaker 2: us in the NT.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I'm sure that there are several international students

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Speaker 1: that are that are really kind to get back to

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Speaker 1: the territory. Where are things that right now in terms

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Speaker 1: of those students being able to get back for the

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Speaker 1: March in Tech.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, we're working closely with the Northern Territory government.

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Speaker 2: So we have submitted a proposal to the Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: Government requesting permission to have most lights come in within

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Speaker 2: the next couple of months, and we're just working with

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Speaker 2: the government at the moment and waiting on confirmation of

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Speaker 2: that and what would.

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Speaker 1: The process have to be for those flats to come in,

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Speaker 1: Joeanne did I obviously then those students would need to

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Speaker 1: do some time in quarantine.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, we would be similar to the last flight

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Speaker 2: that we had. We would be completely adhering to the

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Speaker 2: requirements and regulations of the Northern Territory Government, the Australian

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Speaker 2: Government and the Northern Territory Chief Health Officer. So the

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Speaker 2: students would be required to complete a COVID nineteen test

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Speaker 2: prior to departing their home country and then of course

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Speaker 2: immediately upon arrival in Darwin Airport, they would be transported

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Speaker 2: to Howard Springs Quarantine facility, complete fourteen days of quarantine

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Speaker 2: and complete negative COVID nineteen tests while they're there.

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Speaker 1: And how many students are you hoping to get big

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Speaker 1: for that matching tech.

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Speaker 2: We're hoping to get as many as we can, Katie.

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Speaker 2: You know, we have some new students and we also

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Speaker 2: have some existing students who have been caught up in

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Speaker 2: the hard border closures that Australia have implemented. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's all the dependent on what approval we get from

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Speaker 2: the government at the moment.

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Speaker 1: But is it sort of you know, one plying loud

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Speaker 1: fifty people or are you talking in the hundreds?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, talking in the hundreds. If we can We're hopeful

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Speaker 2: to get approval for multiple flights. We believe that the

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Speaker 2: first flight we brought in without a success. The students

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Speaker 2: all tested negative to COVID nineteen, they completed their quarantine

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Speaker 2: and they've now they're now back in the NT and

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Speaker 2: happy and healthy and dettoed. So we believe that we

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Speaker 2: can use that model to upscale for the future, and

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Speaker 2: we hope to receive government approval for multiple flights.

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Speaker 1: And Joanne, how does it work in terms of the

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Speaker 1: costs society idea? Is it something that Charles Dallen University

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Speaker 1: has to you know, for the bill for or are

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Speaker 1: students paying for themselves? How does it work.

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Speaker 2: For the future flight? That's still something that's being determined

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Speaker 2: at the moment. We would be looking to implement a

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Speaker 2: similar model to the last one. So that was where

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Speaker 2: are the students paid for their own flights?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And how important is it for charlesdown University at

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Speaker 1: this point in time really to be able to get

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Speaker 2: It's really important for us to be able to get

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Speaker 2: international students back. They're a hugely valuable part of the

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Speaker 2: CDU community here. You know, many of the students have

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Speaker 2: already been studying with us and invested time, and I've

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Speaker 2: been living in the Northern Territory. But it's also I

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Speaker 2: believe important in the Northern Territory community. International students generated

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five million dollars to the Anti

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Speaker 2: economy in twenty nineteen and supported more than six hundred jobs.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's really important to both a CDU community

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Speaker 2: and the larger ANTI community, I believe, Joan.

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Speaker 1: How soon are you expecting to know whether those flats

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Speaker 1: can go ahead and whether you'll be able to get

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Speaker 1: the students here.

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Speaker 2: That's a really good question. We're hoping to get approval

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Speaker 2: as soon as we can, and as I mentioned, working

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Speaker 2: as we can as soon as we can. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: hopefully in the next couple of months we would have

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Speaker 2: our first our next flight to arriving, but all dependent

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Speaker 2: on government.

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Speaker 1: Joanne, there's always some criticism when we talk about bringing

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Speaker 1: international students to the territory or anywhere else in Australia

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Speaker 1: that you know, should they be prioritized ahead of Assie's

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Speaker 1: trying to get home. You know, I suppose, like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's always one of those issues that gets raised. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, what would you say to people listening right

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Speaker 1: now who think that, you know, Ossie should be prioritized first.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think that's completely understandable that Australians should

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Speaker 2: be you know, they should be given priority to return

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Speaker 2: return to the country, completely understandable. For our last flight,

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Speaker 2: we did have initial discussions with the government and had

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Speaker 2: offered to include Australians on the flight, but the Australian

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Speaker 2: government advised that they had their own plan to bring

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Speaker 2: Australians back. And what I would say is that the

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Speaker 2: international students don't impact the caps on international arrivals, so

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Speaker 2: they're not taking a place of any Australian when they're

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Speaker 2: coming into the country.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're both very good points to note, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, plenty of people will be

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Speaker 1: pleased to hear that that it doesn't actually impact those

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Speaker 1: caps in any way. Joanne, please keep in contact with us,

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Speaker 1: let us know you know when you get that approval

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Speaker 1: and if indeed it is able to go ahead. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: We absolutely will thank you so much, have a good day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. That is CDU's global director. There Joanne Crystal,