Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Opposition leader Peter Dutton saying Australia shouldn't accept Palestinian refugees

Over in Australia, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has claimed Australia should not accept Palestinian refugees fleeing conflict in Gaza, citing 'security risks'.

Dutton's comments have been rejected by senior Albanese government figures, as officials try to keep Palestinian refugees in the country for longer.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Dutton has been accused of trying to stir up division.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Now, hey, Mars Jeez norms on his own. As far
as I'm concerned, Mate.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Going to have to you, Mate, I don't even think
I could do twenty six hours like I think.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
I think I'll stop it. No, I need eight or
nine or ten a night.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, No, I'm not srye. Sometimes I's terrible doctors that
I need ten hours a night and they are kind
of alarmed. So anyway, you should probably go see somebody
about that, Mauz. Listen, Peter Dutton, is he is he
actually getting traction with the stuff that he's saying about
visa applications from Gaza.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It is definitely playing to the conservative side of politics
over here. As far as he's concerned, garz and refugees
must not be allowed into Australia without things like biometric testing,
face to face interviews, ASO assessments the governments. He listen,
pipe down. All you're doing is trying to stir up
division in the community. Dutton has petered this call for

(00:56):
temporary bannies, calling it on accepting Palestinian refugee. Now the
government has hit back, as I say, it's a deliberate calculation,
according to Anthony ALBERONIZI to divide the Australian community. Here's
the thing. I mean, we know what's happened in Gaza.
It's dreadful. Now the government's granted nearly three thousand visitor
visas to Palestinians who have left Gaza since October seven,

(01:18):
but seven thousand other applicants have been turned down. Now.
On Thursday, Peter Dutton saying this morning Peter Dutton's reaffirmed
his position. He went on Channel nine. He was accused
of being racist and heartless. He said, listen, what we're
trying to do is make Australian safe. But the same
argument wasn't mounted by Labor when the Coalition was in

(01:40):
power and Afghanistan was going straight down the toilet. There
were many, many, hundreds and hundreds of Afghanis who were
allowed into Australia on humanitarian visas, on visitor visas and
so on because it was so damn dangerous for them,
because they might have been a religious minority. Yazidis came
here in their many, many hundreds, so it's a bit

(02:01):
rich I think for Dutton to be saying old in
a block and block them, just to play it with
political base, because these are real people, their children, their mums.
They've got no future in Guarza. It's dreadful and they
want to come to Australia.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Listen, this shepherd crashed the chopper. Sounds like it was
quite out of character for him.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
One hundred percent. This guy apparently was the real deal.
He's a lovely young man, twenty three years old. He
had arrived four months ago with a helicopter license from
New Zealand and he found a job as ground crew
with this helicopter company up in far North Queensland. He
was a model of worker, according to the boss. That's
the quote. He'd just been named employee of the month.
And maybe they're trying to figure out what's happened here,

(02:42):
but twenty three year old Blake Wilson had celebrated that announcement.
He had been the employee of the month. They just
got a promotion. He was going out to one of
the island's Horn Island out on the Great Barrier Reef,
and that was a big deal of Pandy anyway, Sunday
night he was celebrated with and colleagues the fact that
he would been named a special Employee of the month

(03:06):
and had this new job. And he was the only
one left around eight thirty that night, and the following
morning he's apparently gone out to the airport, fired up
the chopper and crashed and died and as you say,
completely out of character. They just don't know what the
hell was going on. And all the bits and pieces
of his craft are you know the relevant bits of

(03:27):
down in Cabra with the Australian air Safety Transport BUREAUM Myles, thanks.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
For running us through it, mate, really appreciate. It's Murray
Old's Australia correspondent here. The first we have services cut
for those of us with disabilities, and now we lose
our very own ministry. How much more we expected to
take the factors disabled people in Australia treated better than
we are. Look, I don't know what the detailers with
the services being cut. That would be the thing that
I'd be most upset about. But is this really that
important to have your own ministry? Because I feel as

(03:53):
if this is my way, this is my comparison to
it is the ministry that would most likely represent me,
I would say, would be the women's ministry. Oh my gosh,
cut it?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Who need?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
What a waste of? What do they even work on?
Is the entire thing just dedicated to the gender pay gap?
Cut it? All those people just working on the gender
pay gap cut it don't need a ministry. So do
you need a ministry or do you just need the
stuff landing on your doorstep that you need. We'll talk
to the advocate when they're with us after five o'clock.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's coming up.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
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