Senator Simon Birmingham has said facilities on Christmas Island will be sufficient to cope with asylum seekers requiring medical treatment.
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'Completely impractical': Coalition and Labor at loggerheads over suitability of Christmas IslandLabor's Tony Burke says Christmas Island is unlikely to provide necessary medical treatment but minister Simon Birmingham says the government will make sure it does.
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Labor giving ‘mixed signals’ on Christmas Island stance | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says Labor has been giving ‘mixed signals’ on crucial issues facing the country, including its Christmas Island and border protection stance. \n\nMr Kenny says it’s unclear whether or not the party supports the decision to send asylum seekers to Christmas Island for medical treatment under the medivac legislation. \n\nMr Kenny says Labor is ‘every which way but loose’ when it comes to border protection, ‘wanting to run from it’ while the government will be wanting to talk about it. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Refugee medical flights from Christmas Island to the mainland could cost up to $100,000 eachNew figures reveal the potential drain on the public purse if hundreds of asylum seekers with complex health needs are transferred to the remote territory.
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Crossbench concerned sick asylum seekers will be sent to Christmas Island | Sky News AustraliaThere is concern across the crossbench that asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island in need of medical treatment will be transferred to Christmas Island. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison announced the reopening of Christmas Island as a response to the medivac bill passing the Senate last week. \n\nRevelations surfaced today that the US have rejected 265 asylum seekers destined to enter the nation over security reasons following a resettlement deal. \n\nIndependent MP Kerryn Phelps says she is 'concerned' sick asylum seekers will not get the treatment they deserve.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Crossbench concerned sick asylum seekers will be sent to Christmas Island | Sky News AustraliaThere is concern across the crossbench that asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island in need of medical treatment will be transferred to Christmas Island. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison announced the reopening of Christmas Island as a response to the medivac bill passing the Senate last week. \n\nRevelations surfaced today that the US has rejected 265 asylum seekers destined to enter the nation over security concerns following a resettlement deal. \n\nIndependent MP Kerryn Phelps says she is 'concerned' sick asylum seekers will not get the treatment they deserve.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n
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Christmas Island is a 'clever' loophole: Kenny | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says if politicians who supported the medivac bill wanted to haul people to Australia for medical treatment and not Christmas Island, they should’ve ruled it out in the amendments.\n\nMr Kenny explains that while the island is part of Australia, it’s been excised from the nation’s migration area, which means people on its shores can’t appeal for asylum or access the legal system to press their claim.\n\nHis remarks come after independent MP Kerryn Phelps tweeted outrage over the government’s decision to send the sick to Christmas Island, describing it as a 'subversion of our entire model of representative democracy.'\n\nMr Kenny says the government found a clever way to adhere to the law they opposed.\n\n\n
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Lawyers prepare to launch court challenges on refugee medical transfers to Christmas IslandThe Morrison government could face dozens of expensive legal cases as a result of its plans to transfer sick refugees and asylum seekers to Christmas Island instead of the Australian mainland
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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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