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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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US President not ruling out military intervention in Venezuela | Sky News AustraliaUS President Donald Trump is not ruling out military intervention in Venezuela as the country faces severe shortages of food and medicine. \n\nVenezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro is being urged to stand down as a number of western countries, including Australia, recognise Opposition Leader Juan Guaido as the country’s legitimate President. \n\nCongress insists it will not support any form of intervention. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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PM not ruling out holding Bob Katter deal for ransom over sitting time | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison has not ruled out tearing up a multi-million dollar deal with MP Bob Katter if he turns on the government and supports an extension to sitting time in parliament. \n\nThe Opposition is calling on crossbenchers to back the add-on aimed at cleaving through recommendations from the banking royal commission, threatening to take focus off the security debate surrounding doctor-ordered transfers for refugees detained in offshore processing faciltiies. \n\nMr Katter, who is open to the idea, could jeopardise $234 million of water infrastructure for his Queensland seat of Kennedy.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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NSW Rocky Hill coal mine will not be built after court ruling | Sky News AustraliaThe controversial Rocky Hill coal mine in NSW Hunter Valley region will not be built after a court ruling.\n\nThe NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected an appeal from Gloucester Resources to build the mine, with Professor Will Steffen giving evidence that Australia would not meet the Paris Agreement targets if the mine was approved.\n\nNSW Nationals Senator for Upper Hunter, Michael Johnsen, says the Environmental Defender’s Office, who represented community group Groundswell Gloucester in the case, should be concentrating on environmental malpractice, not ‘simple proposals’.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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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