00:00In the very early hours of yesterday morning, the conversation started in earnest.
00:05Once that happened, during the course of yesterday, it was made clear that there were five women
00:09who wanted to be able to stay in Australia.
00:12They were moved to a safe location by the Australian Federal Police and last night I
00:18met with them at that location.
00:20I signed off last night for their applications to go onto humanitarian visas.
00:29Once everything had been signed off last night, there were lots of photos, lots of celebrating
00:33and then a spontaneous outbreak of Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi.
00:39These women are great athletes, great people and they're going to feel very much at home
00:43in Australia.
00:44I say to the other members of the team, the same opportunity is there.
00:50Australia has taken the Iranian women's soccer team into our hearts.
00:54These women are tremendously popular in Australia, but we realise they are in a terribly difficult
01:02situation with the decisions that they're making.
01:05But the opportunity will continue to be there for them to talk to Australian officials if
01:10they wish to.
01:11So, it'll be a lot of people that have been taken from Iran to the US and the UK,
01:11So, we'll see a lot of people that have been done in Australia.
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