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Nauru bans 'telemedicine' for medical transfers in threat to new Australian lawsThe government of Nauru has rushed through new laws that prevent residents being granted medical transfers if the referral is based on the recommendation of a doctor who consulted the patient online | michaelkoziol
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Fears new laws in Nauru will undermine Australia's medevac processWithin days of a historic vote making it easier for refugees to get treatment in Australia, the Pacific nation creates a new system for medical transfers.
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Peter Dutton confirms medivac laws do not apply to new arrivals | Sky News AustraliaHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed new laws fast-tracking medical evacuations for asylum seekers will not apply to new arrivals to Manus and Nauru.\n\nThe controversial laws passed the Senate 36 votes to 34 on Wednesday, in a humiliating defeat for the coalition a day after suffering a historic loss in the lower house.\n\nThe laws, which only apply to around 1000 asylum seekers currently on Manus Island and Nauru, give doctors more say in recommending medical transfers to Australia.\n\n\n\n
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The idea that people are dying on Nauru due to lack of treatment is ‘rubbish’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says the idea that people are dying on Nauru due to lack of medical treatment is ‘rubbish’ and is a ‘vicious smear’ against the government. \n\nShe says 'there is no lack’ of medical treatment on Nauru or Manus Island because there are at least 65 health professionals to treat the remaining 427 ‘boat people’. \n\nMs Credlin says setting up a doctors’ panel with the authority to order asylum seekers to Australia for treatment is ‘a massive softening’ of Australia's border protection regime.
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People on Nauru ‘make the most of the legal loophole’ in the medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaUp to 300 asylum seekers on Nauru already have medical recommendations from doctors and are preparing to be transferred to Australia, according to a report from The Australian.\n\nSky News host Paul Murray says the group have the paperwork in place to ‘make the most of the legal loophole’ in the recently-passed medivac bill.\n\nMr Murray claims there would be queues waiting for the two doctors on Skype to provide the recommendations.\n\n\n\n\n
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Government prepares to remove 300 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru in first wave of transfersThe Morrison government is preparing to remove 300 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru in the first wave of medical transfers auspol
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Government prepares to remove 300 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru in first wave of transfersDivisive new law has sparked a political storm over the risk of a resumption in boat arrivals.
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Manus Island and Nauru asylum seekers face fresh security and character assessmentsHundreds of asylum seekers will undergo fresh screening as the Government prepares for an influx of medical transfers, Attorney-General Christian Porter says.
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Convicted criminals could be transferred to Australia under medivac bill: Porter | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Attorney General Christian Porter says the medivac bill that passed parliament this week would allow people convicted of a serious criminal offence to travel to Australia for medical treatment.\n\nThe Medivac bill is designed to give doctors a greater say over whether asylum seekers in offshore detention centres can be flown to Australia for medical treatment, though still allows the Home Affairs minister to reject transfers on security grounds.\n\nNationals leader Michael McCormack was criticised on Thursday for claiming that the Home Affairs Minister would be unable to stop ‘spivs, and rapists and murderers' from being transferred to Australia for medical care.\n\nMr Porter told Sky News that under the amendments Labor put forward, an asylum seeker convicted, but not sentenced yet, of a serious offence can still be transferred to Australia.\n\nHowever, he could not nominate whether any asylum seeker currently housed on Manus Island or Nauru would fit this definition.\n\n\n
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