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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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Coalition and Labor received Huang Xiangmo donations despite warnings | Sky News AustraliaThe Coalition and Labor party continued receiving political donations from Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo despite warnings from ASIO, News Corp senior correspondent Charles Miranda says. \n\nMr Miranda has told Sky News that Mr Huang made 'multiple million dollar donations' even after ASIO had warned former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten that the Chinese property developer was potentially an 'agent of influence' on the Chinese Communist Party payroll. \n\nMr Huang's citizenship application was stopped and his permanent residency cancelled by the Home Affairs office on Wednesday.\n\nThe decision from the department, made while Mr Huang was offshore, leaves him unable to re-enter Australia, where he has lived with his family since 2011. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\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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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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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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Dutton warns Labor of border risks if refugee medical bill is passed | Sky News AustraliaHome 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\nMr Dutton says the proposal will 'dismantle' offshore detention and hand the final say to the two doctors requesting medical transfers.\n\nThe Home Affairs Minister claims Opposition Leader Bill Shorten had been briefed by security agencies on the risk of the proposal.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for Mr Shorten denied the claims, accusing the minister of lying.\n\nAustralia’s intelligence agencies have reportedly warned against the proposed changes, claiming it could undermine the nation's border security.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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PM says he will ignore 'stupid' border protection 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
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