Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has warned Labor would completely annihilate the success of Operation Sovereign Borders if it succeeds in passing medical transfer laws through the parliament.
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Labor-backed Nauru bill ‘recipe to restart the boats’: Dutton | Sky News AustraliaHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says a Labor-backed bill to speed up medical transfers for asylum seekers on offshore detention centres is a ‘recipe to restart the boats’. \n\nASIO has warned the government potentially violent asylum seekers could be cleared for entry into Australia under the policy. \n\nThe Coalition has criticised the bill, saying it will weaken the nation’s border protection. \n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Mr Dutton has slammed the opposition leader stating Bill Shorten doesn’t understand what he is proposing. \n\n\n
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Dutton 'desperately lying' on border protection: Labor | Sky News AustraliaShadow Immigration Minister Shayne Neumann says Peter Dutton is 'desperately lying’ when it comes to Australia’s border protection laws.\n\nThe Home Affairs Minister has criticised a Labor-backed bill to speed up medical transfer from detainees on Manus Island and Nauru.\n\nUnder the Labor-backed legislation, if two or more treating doctors advise a patient should be transferred to Australia, the Immigration Minister must immediately decide whether they should be allowed to travel to the mainland.\n\nMr Dutton told Sky News on Monday the bill could see violent asylum seekers being cleared for entry into Australia.\n\nMr Nuemann has told Sky News that despite Mr Dutton’s ‘nonsense’ claims, under the legislation the minister would retain the discretion to ban a detainee from entering Australia if they pose a risk to the public.\n\n\n
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Labor will 'destroy' offshore processing: Dutton | Sky News AustraliaHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has warned Labor would completely annihilate the success of Operation Sovereign Borders if it succeeds in passing medical transfer laws through the parliament. \n\nBill Shorten’s Labor Party has conditionally supported a bill spearheaded by independent Kerryn Phelps that would see refugees brought to Australia for medical assessment on the advice of doctors. \n\nMr Dutton says ‘the thought that two doctors sitting somewhere in a university could say that someone on Manus or Nauru needs to come to Australia would completely undermine and destroy offshore processing’. \n\n\n\n\n
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Dutton attacks Labor following people smuggler bust | Sky News AustraliaHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has launched an attack on Labor after it was revealed the Australian Federal Police assisted the Royal Malaysia Police, intercepting a people-smuggling operation earlier this year.\n\nA ground of 34 people, including 24 Sri Lankans and 10 Indians, was stopped from departing Malaysia's west coast on January 4 after being promised settlement in New Zealand and Australia.\n\nPeter Dutton says Bill Shorten's border security policies cannot be trusted and will bring more boats to Australian shores, claiming the Coalition's policies have halted people smugglers.\n\nThe most recent government figures show Operation Sovereign Borders has disrupted 80 people-smuggling ventures since its inception in September 2013.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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'Labor will throw everything at unseating' Dutton in Dickson | Sky News AustraliaLabor will be targeting Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson at the next election, says Opposition Finance Spokesman Jim Chalmers, as the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader commence campaigning in the Sunshine State.\n\nMr Chalmers says there are a 'number of Coalition MPs who are vulnerable' in Queensland and Labor will throw everything at unseating the Home Affairs Minister.\n\nThe Australian's Greg Brown told Sky News that Mr Dutton, with a thin margin of less than two per cent, might lose his seat if 'the swing is on'.\n\nMr Brown says Labor is hopeful of picking up seven seats in Queensland, where they currently hold nine of a possible 30.\n\n\n\n\n
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