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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.

Dnarever wrote on Aug 17^th, 2019 at 7:42pm:

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

The real floodgates are all the plane people.

with the economy heading towards a recession, this is the most important issue morriscum has?

and you idiots voted for him?

juliar wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 6:43pm:


the changes resulted in not one boat 

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.

juliar wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 6:53pm:


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.

juliar wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 7:06pm:



no, the cost was $180M+

Bam wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 8:21pm:


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

Dumping Medevac will lead to 'unnecessary deaths', Kerryn Phelps warns crossbench


Former MP Kerryn Phelps has urged senators not to put the transfer of sick refugees from Manus Island and Nauru back in the hands of politicians.
August 19 2019
SBS News

Former independent MP Kerryn Phelps has urged the Senate crossbench not to reverse legislation giving doctors more power over the transfer of sick refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.

Since the Medevac laws passed in February, against the government's wishes, 110 refugees and asylum seekers have been transferred to Australia for medical treatment. 



In a submission to a Senate inquiry examining the government's bid to unwind the laws, Dr Phelps points out that about 80 per cent of cases were agreed to by the minister at the first instance and none have been refused on security grounds.

"The process is working as intended - an orderly system providing medical treatment for sick refugees in a timely manner," Dr Phelps said.

Kerryn Phelps
Independent MP Kerryn Phelps was a key architect of the Medevac legislation.
AAP

An independent health panel has overruled the minister eight times, allowing allow transfers to proceed.

The government used its majority in the House of Representatives to pass the repeal legislation but still requires the vote of key crossbench senators.

If the original bill is overturned, Dr Phelps warned critically ill people will again be in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats.

"We will return to the previous situation when court order and legal intervention were required to ensure critically sick people received the medical treatment they needed," she said in the submission released on Monday.

"Doctors will again fear further unnecessary deaths and a return to a slow, unpredictable and dangerous transfer system."

Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie says the situation has become untenable.
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie is awaiting the Senate inquiries findings before making up her mind on the medevac legislation.
SBS News

The fate of the medevac legislation lies with Senator Jacqui Lambie, who is yet to reveal her position.

Dr Phelps has met with the Tasmanian independent since her re-election in May and on Monday requested another meeting with her.

"My key message to her is that the medevac legislation is saving lives," Dr Phelps told SBS News on Monday.

In a separate submission, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre said prior to the Medevac law sick refugees were forced to wait an average of at least two years for medical transfer even after doctors had made the recommendation.

Some waited up to five years.



"The medical transfer system was failing sick people, there were 12 deaths offshore and transfer requests were routinely delayed or ignored," the ASRC submission stated.

"The only way to guarantee an independent, robust and orderly medically led process is to retain the Medevac Law."

"There are still sick refugees in Papua New Guinea and Nauru who require a timely doctor-led process to assess their medical needs and transfer requests."

juliar wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 6:53pm:


Idiots still playing the boat non issue while 60,000 illegals are flying in each year, this takes stupid to a whole new level but at least this government are qualified for stupid.

Bammy is still pumping the myth about Labor's country shopping illegal invader coming by plane. These creeps cannot get past the airport security.

Australia already takes its fair share of GENUINE refugees who are stringently checked out and Labor's country shopping illegal invaders are promptly shoved back on the next plane to Abyssinia or wherever.

Strong man Dutto is keeping Australia safe from Labor's country shopping illegal invaders who just want to come here to go onto WELFARE for EVER.

Imagine the stinking mess there would be by now if Labor had gotten in and RESTARTED the BOATS!!!!!!

Australia is in good safe hands.

Gosh the reclusive and inarticulate union propaganda parrot Blackday furtively peeps out from his haven on the DARK SIDE to mutter a bit.

But as usual he is totally unaware of the real situation where ScoMo has bribed all the key "independents" who will happily pass the lego thru the SENATE.