Advice from Australia’s intelligence agencies over the medical transfers bill have been leaked to the media. Guardian Australia's murpharoo: Does the this advice pertain to the original Phelps bill, or the amended bill? It's not clear Speers
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Shorten acting recklessly on boats: Dutton | Sky News AustraliaFULL NEWS CONFERENCE: Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has urged Labor to withdraw its support for independent MP Kerryn Phelps' bill to give doctors more of a say over whether a refugee or an asylum seeker can be medically transferred to Australia.\n\nMr Dutton has accused Labor Leader Bill Shorten of ignoring advice given to him by security agencies about the negative ramifications of the bill.\n\nLabor claims Mr Shorten never received security briefings about the proposed legislation, which is due to be voted on in the House of Representatives next week.\n\nMr Dutton told reporters that Mr Shorten is behaving 'recklessly' when it comes to border security.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Labor to seek ‘claims of unfairness’ on deportation policy, if elected | Sky News AustraliaThe Australian Labor party, if elected, will seek to learn more about ‘claims of unfairness’ on the nation’s deportation policy. \n\nA war of words was exchanged last year after New Zealand’s Justice Minister Andrew Little labelled the policy as ‘nebulous’, prompting Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to say the nation ‘don’t contribute really to the defence efforts’. \n\nDespite Labor supporting the hardline policy, the party says they would be happy to listen to New Zealand’s concerns. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \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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Security concerns over refugee medical transfer bill | Sky News AustraliaAustralia’s intelligence agencies have reportedly warned against draft laws to change how medical transfers are processed for asylum seekers in offshore detention, claiming it could undermine the nation's border security.\n\nA briefing from the Department of Home Affairs says the medical transfer bill will strip the government of its power to conduct proper security threat assessments or stop mainland transfers, The Australian reports. \n\nThe changes, inspired by a push from independent MP Kerryn Phelps, would mean any two doctors could request a medical transfer for those in offshore detention.\n\nASIO has warned up to a 1000 asylum seekers could arrive in Australia within weeks if Kerryn Phelps’ medical transfers bill becomes law. \n\n\n\n
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Labor’s legal advice on medical transfers bill called into question | Sky News AustraliaShadow Finance Minister Jim Chalmers has defended Labor's legal advice on a medical transfer bill, after Australia's security agencies reportedly warned against draft laws to change how transfers are processed.\n\nASIO has warned if the medical transfers bill becomes law, which would allow doctors to request asylum seekers be sent to Australia for medical treatment, up to 1,000 could arrive on national shores.\n\nMr Chalmers has told Sky News that there would be ministerial discretion to refuse people on national security grounds, debunking claims it could jeopardise the third pillar of border security, 'offshore processing'. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n
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We’ll fight refugee medivac bill ‘tooth and nail’: Matt Canavan | Sky News AustraliaResources Minister Matt Canavan has defended the Prime Minister’s aversion to a bill that would allow doctors to ask for refugees to be brought to Australia for medical assessment.\n\nOn Tuesday night, Scott Morrison said if his government loses the vote in parliament, he will ‘ignore’ it because it’s ‘stupid’ legislation. \n\nMr Canavan says the Prime Minister was expressing the Coalition’s ‘strong commitment to protecting our borders’, rather than ignoring the will of parliament, and the Australian people can decide on border security dismantlement in a few months’ time. \n\nHe says the Coalition will implement the laws if parliament does pass the bill.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n
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Scott Morrison to ignore vote on 'stupid' refugee bill | Sky News AustraliaThe Prime Minister says if he loses a border protection vote in parliament he will ‘simply ignore it’ because the bill is ‘stupid legislation’ and ‘written by people who haven’t got the faintest idea’. \n\nLabor is supporting the bill, which would make transfers for asylum seekers easier by giving the decision-making power to doctors. \n\nIf the government loses the vote, which they are expected to, it will be the first time since 1929 that a government has lost a vote on substantive legislation in the House of Representatives. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\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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