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Immigration Minister on the government's plans for migrants
Nine To Noon
English - June 08, 2020 21:08 - 27 minutes - 25 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway joins Kathryn Ryan to talk about what the government plans to do about thousands of temporary visa holders who are locked out of their jobs, schools and lives. People like Carolina Zalazar and her daughter Martina, who joined us on the programme two weeks ago, to explain how their week-long holiday to Bali has ended up being nearly three months. Why are some sectors, like the film industry, being granted exemptions to border closure rules? And while changes were made to the Immigration Act in mid-May to allow a speedy response to the situation of hundreds of thousands of visa holders stuck in country, what - if anything - has changed?