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Senate ‘made a mistake’ in passing medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says the senate ‘made a mistake’ in passing the medivac bill, the ‘same mistake’ the house of representatives made on Tuesday.\n\nThe controversial laws which passed the Senate 36 votes to 34 on Wednesday, give doctors more say in recommending medical transfers to Australia and apply to around 1000 asylum seekers currently on Manus Island and Nauru. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has reopened Christmas Island in response to the bill, which fast-tracks medical evacuations for asylum seekers.\n\nMr Murray says that when the Greens are smiling and cheering, ‘we’ve done the wrong thing’ in ‘a matter of right and wrong’.\n\n\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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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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Government legal advice says medivac 'unconstitutional' | Sky News AustraliaAdvice from the from the Solicitor-General on the medivac bill suggests amendments passed by the Senate last year are ‘unconstitutional’. \n\nThe solicitor-general told Attorney-General Christian Porter that Labor's proposed amendments are in breach of Section 53 of the constitution, because they set up a panel of doctors who must be paid.\n\nThe amendments were originally made in the Senate and under the constitution the Senate is not allowed to make bills increasing the spending of public money.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Government suffers historic defeat on medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaThe controversial medivac bill has passed the House, meaning the Morrison Government is the first government to lose a vote on legislation in the House of Representatives since 1929. \n\nSky News host Chris Kenny says the vote is ‘one of the central moments of the election year’ and ‘will be chalked up as an embarrassment for the government because it shows they don’t have control of the Lower House’. \n\nMr Kenny says the vote shows Labor has already worked with the Greens to weaken Australia’s border so ‘imagine what they’ll do if they get into power’. \n\nMedivac laws for refugees on Manus and Nauru will now return to the Senate for a final vote before becoming law. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Government suffers historic defeat on medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaThe controversial medivac bill has passed the House, meaning the Morrison Government is the first government to lose a vote on legislation in the House of Representatives since 1929. \n\nSky News host Chris Kenny says the vote is ‘one of the central moments of the election year’ and ‘will be chalked up as an embarrassment for the government because it shows they don’t have control of the Lower House’. \n\nMr Kenny says the vote shows Labor has already worked with the Greens to weaken Australia’s border so ‘imagine what they’ll do if they get into power’. \n\nMedivac laws for refugees on Manus and Nauru will now return to the Senate for a final vote before becoming law. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Morrison goverment suffers humiliating defeat on medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaThe Morrison government has become the first to lose a substantive vote on a piece of legislation since 1929.\n\nLabor and the crossbench on Tuesday combined push the controversial medivac bill through the House of Representatives after several amendments from the Opposition, which will now go to the Senate for a final vote before becoming law.\n\nIf passed it would give doctors the authority to approve the transfer of a refugee, on Manus and Nauru, to Australia for medical treatment.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison remains defiant, saying he refuses to compromise on border protection.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n
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Morrison government suffers humiliating defeat on medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaThe Morrison government has become the first to lose a vote on a piece of substantive legislation since 1929.\n\nLabor and the crossbench on Tuesday combined to push the controversial medivac bill through the House of Representatives after several amendments from the Opposition, which will now go to the Senate for a final vote before becoming law.\n\nIf passed it would give doctors the authority to approve the transfer of a refugee, on Manus and Nauru, to Australia for medical treatment.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison remains defiant, saying he refuses to compromise on border protection.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n
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