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Kate Miller-Heidke to represent Australia in 64th Eurovision song contest | Sky News AustraliaAustralian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke will be representing the nation in the 64th annual Eurovision song contest.\n\nThe classically trained Miller-Heidke beat nine other acts in the running with her song 'Zero Gravity', highlighting her struggles with post-natal depression after the birth of her son.\n\nThe pop star, known for her hit songs 'The Last Day on Earth' and 'Caught in the Crowd', will be Australia's fifth entry into the competition which will be held in May in Tel Aviv, Israel.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Medical transfers bill will compromise Australia's border: ASIO | Sky News AustraliaASIO has warned up to a thousand asylum seekers could arrive in Australia within weeks if Kerryn Phelps’ medical transfers bill becomes law. \n\nSky News has confirmed that the intelligence agency told the government the bill ‘would undermine regional processing and compromise Australia’s strong border protection regime’. \n\n\n\n\n
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PM to attack Labor’s border policies in Press Club speech | Sky News AustraliaScott Morrison is expected to use a speech at the National Press Club today to attack Labor’s border protection policies. \n\nThe Prime Minister faces losing two key votes in parliament over a Labor backed medivac bill that will allow medical transfers of asylum seekers to Australia. \n\nOpposition Leader Bill Shorten will be briefed on the security implications of the bill as he considers supporting a newly amended version. \n\nLiberal MPs have attacked the bill with the Prime Minister labelling it ‘completely unnecessary’. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n
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Leaked ASIO advice on border bill referred to AFP | Sky News AustraliaA security briefing - reportedly based on ASIO advice - that was leaked to the Home Affairs department, has been referred to the Australian Federal Police. \n\nShadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has condemned the leak stating that the information is 'classified for a reason', with Labor confirming it did not receive the briefing.\n\nHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has called on Bill Shorten to oppose proposed laws which would change how medical transfers for asylum seekers in offshore detention are processed. \n\nThe briefing warns that changes to refugee transfers would compromise border protection.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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International relief supplies likely to be blocked at Venezuela border | Sky News AustraliaFood and medicine en route to Colombia’s border are unlikely to make it past Venezuelan officials and into the mouths of desperate citizens as political leaders trade blows over who should legitimately lead the nation. \n\nThe supplied have been sent from America, one of the many nations including the UK and France who have openly supported Opposition Leader Juan Guaido’s claim to Venezuelan leadership. \n\nIn Caracas, the nation’s capital city, patients are spending days and weeks holed up inside a hospital where nurses have no supplies and no medicine to treat those in need. \n\n\n
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Govt declassifies advice as border security battle heats up | Sky News AustraliaThe government has declassified security advice claiming over one thousand asylum seekers and refugees housed in offshore detention centres will be able to be transferred to Australia if Independent MP Kerryn Phelps' bill is passed through parliament next week.\n\nAccording to the advice from ASIO, the Home Affairs Department will have less power to refuse medical treatment for refugees and asylum seekers, prompting the possibility the boats from Indonesia resuming if the legislation is passed.\n\nDeputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek says the Opposition is willing to compromise on the matter, while still ensuring that sick people are able to receive the medical care they need.\n\n\n
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PM ‘appalled’ at Labor playing politics on border security | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Independent MP Kerryn Phelps' refugee medical evacuation bill is a ‘stupid’ bill, and that he is ‘appalled’ the Labor party is playing politics on border security.\n\nThe proposed bill will allow doctors to ask for refugees and asylum seekers to be brought to Australia for medical assessment, then potential medical treatment.\n\nMr Morrison says that if changes are made to Australia’s border security, offshore processing centres closed by Liberals would have to be reopened, 'as people smugglers are monitoring the government'.\n\n\n
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Coalition playing politics over border security: Labor | Sky News AustraliaLabor frontbencher Andrew Leigh says the government is running a ‘fear campaign’ over border security as parliament resumes this week.\n\nThe lower house is preparing to debate a bill first brought forward by Wentworth MP Kerryn Phelps, which gives doctors greater discretion to transfer sick refugees and asylum seekers to Australia from offshore detention camps.\n\nLabor leader Bill Shorten will receive an ASIO briefing on the legislation, with security agencies allegedly warning that the legislation could result in over one thousand refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from offshore camps.\n\nMr Leigh says Labor is ‘open to a middle way’ that maintains Australia’s border security but allows sick asylum seekers and refugees to secure the medical treatment they need.\n\n\n\n
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