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Medical transfers for off-shore asylum seekers 'undermining national security'Giving doctors more power to get asylum seekers out of offshore detention flies in the face of national security advice, the federal government warns.
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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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