The Australian government has announced it will spend $160 million overhauling Australia's immigration system, as part of an attempt to stop vulnerable migrants from being exploited.
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00:00 We're investing $160 million to fix two really big problems, two big problems that really
00:07 are the product of Peter Dutton's long stewardship of this role and indeed the home affairs structure
00:13 that he built. What we are doing here is to ensure that refugees get a fair go and quick
00:18 processing of their claims while breaking the business model of those who have been
00:23 exploiting vulnerable migrants at all of our cost through a system that's had delays baked
00:28 into it where it takes two and a half years for a claim for asylum to be processed and
00:33 someone can be in the country for ten years while they go through the appeals process.
00:38 We are knocking that on the head with real time processing and an end to end response
00:42 that will make a huge difference both in the interests of refugees and in cleaning up this
00:47 industrial scale exploitation that's been going on. At the moment the delays are really
00:52 the problem. They're the problem for someone who needs to have their claim for refugee
00:55 protection assessed who's kept waiting for so long but they are the incentive for people
01:00 who are trafficking in vulnerable human beings. That's the product.
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