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Aug 17th, 2019 at 12:35pm
 

Refugee advocates rally to save 'lifesaving' medevac bill from government repeal


SBS News
August 16 2019


Advocates have stepped up efforts to save legislation that gives doctors more say in emergency medical transfers of asylum seekers from Manus Island and Nauru to Australia.

The Morrison government is trying to repeal the "medevac bill" with the process underway in Parliament.


The House of Representatives voted in favour of repealing the medevac bill last month and submissions close on Friday for a Senate inquiry before it hits the upper house later this year.

According to the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC), more than 90 people have been taken from Manus Island and Nauru for "urgent medical treatment" in Australia since the medevac bill was originally passed in February.



"Before the medevac laws, people were forced to go to court to get the care they urgently needed. We were in court at all hours, on weekends and even Christmas Eve to secure medical evacuations," executive director of HRLC Hugh de Kretser said in a statement.

"The medevac laws work by putting doctors, not politicians, at the heart of decisions about people's medical care. These laws must not be repealed."



CEO of the Refugee Council of Australia Paul Power said: "the medevac legislation has helped people with serious medical issues get access to lifesaving treatments in Australia".

"Since the law passed, people with serious heart problems, severe mental health issues, uncontrolled diabetes at risk of going blind, people who were at risk of losing functions of their limbs, to name just some of the conditions, have been given access to treatment," he said.

"The medevac bill has saved lives and must not be repealed."



The medevac bill was passed by Labor and the independents against the Morrison government's wishes.

It allows for extremely sick asylum seekers on Manus Island or Nauru to be transferred to Australia temporarily on the advice of two independent Australian doctors. But Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton maintains the power to deny the application.

Throughout the year, the government has long argued the medevac bill is one step towards a "soft of borders" approach.

Mr Dutton has claimed the law could "open the floodgates" to asylum seekers.

"It sends a bad signal when you have a country like ours being dictated by doctors who can say that people must come here," he said earlier this year.



But so far, the government's fears that the bill could restart the people-smuggling trade appear to not have eventuated.

Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie is likely to hold the pivotal vote when the repeal legislation reaches the Senate and is not revealing how she intends to vote.
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Reply #1 - Aug 17th, 2019 at 7:42pm
 
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Mr Dutton has claimed the law could "open the floodgates" to asylum seekers.


Yes but potato head is a nong who does not even understand when he has been proven wrong.

It takes an unbelievable level of stupid to be making untrue claims which are already proven wrong.
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Reply #2 - Aug 18th, 2019 at 8:14pm
 
Fortunately strong man Dutto is keeping Australia safe from Labor's illegal invaders.

No doubt Jacqui Lambie can be bribed to pass it.
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Reply #3 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:25pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Aug 17th, 2019 at 7:42pm:
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Mr Dutton has claimed the law could "open the floodgates" to asylum seekers.


Yes but potato head is a nong who does not even understand when he has been proven wrong.

It takes an unbelievable level of stupid to be making untrue claims which are already proven wrong.

So why aren't the "floodgates" opened by now?

The real floodgates are all the plane people.
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Reply #4 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:35pm
 
Aggro Bammy is pushing the bulldust about people coming on planes.

Anyone coming on the planes has to get thru the airport security and Labor's country shopping illegal invaders get shoved back on the plane to Indonesia or the Middle East.

Just think how bad things would be by now if Shorty had got in and RESTARTED the BOATS as he promised he would.
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Reply #5 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:37pm
 
with the economy heading towards a recession, this is the most important issue morriscum has?

and you idiots voted for him?
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Reply #6 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:43pm
 
Oh Mr Smith ScoMo is just trying to clean up the mess the Labor imbeciles created.
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Reply #7 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:49pm
 
juliar wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:43pm:
Oh Mr Smith ScoMo is just trying to clean up the mess the Labor imbeciles created.


the changes resulted in not one boat  Grin Grin Grin Grin

I'm sure mutton and scomo must be devastated. I know, maybe they can reopen xmas island ......... again, in preparation for the influx of boats. Grin Grin
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Reply #8 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:53pm
 
Mr Smith is deliriously remembering the heady days when Labor RESTARTED the BOATS and the ILLEGAL INVADERS poured in in the leaky boats.

But now strong man Dutto has torpedoed Labor's leaky boats.
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Reply #9 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:56pm
 
juliar wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:53pm:
Mr Smith is deliriously remembering the heady days when Labor RESTARTED the BOATS and the ILLEGAL INVADERS poured in in the leaky boats.

But now strong man Dutto has torpedoed Labor's leaky boats.


no, i'm remembering the days when morriscum spent in excess of $185 million reopening xmas island ... just to shut it down again a few months later, unused. Who wants an idiot like that running our economy?

ohh ... that's right, you do. Roll Eyes
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Reply #10 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 7:06pm
 
All they did was unlock the existing gates for a big show. The cost was just palaver.
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Reply #11 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 8:08pm
 
juliar wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 7:06pm:
All they did was unlock the existing gates for a big show. The cost was just palaver.



no, the cost was $180M+
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Reply #12 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 8:21pm
 
juliar wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:53pm:
ILLEGAL INVADERS

It is not illegal to seek asylum.
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Reply #13 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 8:27pm
 
Bam wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 8:21pm:
juliar wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:53pm:
ILLEGAL INVADERS

It is not illegal to seek asylum.


It IS illegal to publish fake election material though, which juliar has done on several occasions in the past.

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Reply #14 - Aug 19th, 2019 at 9:23pm
 
Bam wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 8:21pm:
juliar wrote on Aug 19th, 2019 at 6:53pm:
ILLEGAL INVADERS

It is not illegal to seek asylum.

It's  not illegal to bar fakes.

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