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Medical transfer changes would end offshore system: Coleman | Sky News AustraliaImmigration Minister David Coleman says Australia's offshore processing of asylum seekers would fall apart under changes to medical transfers.\n\nLabor, which has supported the changes, has rejected the claim, saying offshore processing is here to stay if it wins the next election.\n\nUnder reforms to medical transfers that have passed the Senate with the backing of the opposition and crossbenchers, two specially-appointed doctors could request medical transfers for offshore asylum seekers to Australia.\n\nA minister would then be required to review their case in 24 hours, and if they reject it, an independent health advice panel would review it.\n\nMr Coleman told Sky News the laws are designed to allow every asylum seeker detained offshore to be sent to Australia.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n
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Medical transfer changes would end offshore system: Coleman | Sky News AustraliaImmigration Minister David Coleman says Australia's offshore processing of asylum seekers would fall apart under changes to medical transfers.\n\nLabor, which has supported the changes, has rejected the claim, saying offshore processing is here to stay if it wins the next election.\n\nUnder reforms to medical transfers that have passed the Senate with the backing of the opposition and crossbenchers, two specially-appointed doctors could request medical transfers for offshore asylum seekers to Australia.\n\nA minister would then be required to review their case in 24 hours, and if they reject it, an independent health advice panel would review it.\n\nMr Coleman told Sky News the laws are designed to allow every asylum seeker detained offshore to be sent to Australia.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n
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Medical transfer bill would end offshore system: Minister ColemanImmigration Minister David Coleman says Australia's offshore processing of asylum seekers would fall apart under changes to medical transfers.
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Medical transfers are the 'backdoor way' for boat people to access Australia | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed the Coalition will vote against an Independent-backed asylum seeker medical evacuation bill, even if it means the government will lose a vote on the floor of parliament.\n\nLabor is supporting the legislation brought forward by Wentworth MP Kerryn Pehelps, which would make transfers for asylum seekers easier by giving the decision-making power to doctors.\n\nCurrently, the Home Affairs department has the final say over whether a refugee or asylum seeker who is housed in an offshore detention centre has the right to be transported to Australia to receive medical treatment.\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.
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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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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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PM's medical transfers panel is a 'dog's breakfast': Michelle Rowland | Sky News AustraliaThe Prime Minister has bowed to demands from the Opposition to appoint an independent review panel to vet asylum seekers transferring to Australia. \n\nShadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has told Sky News ‘this not only looks like a back flip from the government, but a dog’s breakfast’. \n\nScott Morrison last year slammed the bill saying the government already had doctors advising on the transfer of asylum seekers. \n\nMs Rowland says the government backdown ‘comes in the face of what has been seen as a potential humiliating defeat for the government’. \n\n\n\n
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Medivac bill will undermine Australia's sovereignty: Coleman | Sky News AustraliaImmigration Minister David Coleman has slammed the controversial medical evacuations bill. \n\nThe bill, put forward by Independent MP Kerryn Phelps, would allow two doctors to authorise a medical transfer to Australia if they believed asylum seekers could not get adequate treatment in offshore detention. \n\nMr Coleman has told Sky News political editor David Speers the bill would strip the government of its power to decide who comes to Australia ‘and that is not how a sovereign government is run’. \n\nParliament will vote on the bill when it resumes on Tuesday. \n
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Government will still have final say on asylum seekers: Coleman | Sky News AustraliaThe Prime Minister has bowed to demands from the Opposition to appoint an independent review panel to vet asylum seekers transferring to Australia. \n\nThe surrender, first reported by The Australian, comes amid a push from Labor, the Greens and the crossbench to pass a bill which would strip the government of its decision making powers over medical transfers.\n\nImmigration Minister David Coleman has told Sky News the panel will review decisions but the government will still make the final call, saying ‘ultimately it is very important that ministerial decision-making stays in place’. \n\n\n
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