PM: medivac costs simple math
PM backs Peter Dutton’s claim transfers from Manus and Nauru would mean fewer spots on hospital waiting lists for Australian patients.
PM backs Peter Dutton’s claim transfers from Manus and Nauru would mean fewer spots on hospital waiting lists for Australian patients.
Doctors warn a new volunteer panel to fast-track refugee transfers to Australia could be unworkable amid concerns over costs.
The final four refugee children have been taken off Nauru and flown to the US.
The last four remaining refugee children on Nauru have left the Pacific island to be resettled in the US, government confirms.
The government plans to overhaul the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to deal with the boom in migration and refugee challenges.
Bill Shorten has backed away from saying it was ‘fine’ to send sick refugees to Christmas Island.
Australian officials are scrambling to identify children fathered with local women by refugees in PNG and Nauru.
After Scott Morrison’s tense exchange with Jacinda Ardern over criminal deportation laws, NZ’s foreign minister goes on the attack.
He came in a boat, with nothing but a dog-eared anatomy textbook and the clothes on his back.
The Coalition has hardened its stance against an offer to resettle 150 refugees a year, saying new medivac laws have sunk the idea.
Labor will make no further changes to border protection other than the medivac law, Anthony Albanese says.
Authorities are preparing to receive up to 1000 asylum-seekers on Christmas Island.
Indonesia’s asylum-seeker community and the fishermen who once ferried them here agree: nothing changes while turnbacks remain.
Senior ministers are worried that a medivac flaw could lead to ASIO resources being diverted to assess asylum seekers quickly.
Refugees could be automatically approved for a medical transfer under a problem with the contentious bill passed this week.
The unprecedented wave of asylum boat arrivals between 2008 and 2013 is still fresh for Christmas Island residents.
Up to 300 refugees have obtained recommendations from treating doctors to enable them to be transferred to Australia.
Labor’s move to oppose legislation expanding the government’s ability to revoke criminals’ visas has been labelled ‘madness’.
The boats are back, at least in spirit, as the Liberal government cashes in on keeping the conversation going on border security.
The PM is wasting no time looking the border protection gift horse in the mouth. He’s in the saddle galloping to the horizon.
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