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Call for lifesaving programs shake-up as summer approaches

Call for lifesaving programs shake-up as summer approaches

Update: 2025-11-16
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Australian summer is fast approaching and as more of us spend time in water, new research suggests measures designed to prevent drownings may be part of the problem.

A total of 357 people drowned in Australia in the past financial year, and around a third of them were people born overseas.

A Monash University study has found lifesaving programs are either inaccessible or not inclusive to tourists and migrants.

  • Guests: 

    Masaki Shibata, lecturer and researcher at Monash University 

    Feroz Sattar, co-founder of Swim Brothers  

  • Producer: Jason Whittaker 
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Call for lifesaving programs shake-up as summer approaches

Call for lifesaving programs shake-up as summer approaches

Australian Broadcasting Corporation