Medivac bill: Greens accuse Labor of making situation worse for sick asylum seekers

The Greens won't support Labor's three amendments to a bill to give doctors more say in whether asylum seekers are transferred to Australia for medical treatment

Clinicians would have the final say on medical transfers of asylum seekers under a new bill. (AAP) Source: AAP

Labor's proposed changes to a bill to make it easier to transfer critically-ill asylum seekers to Australia appear doomed after Greens leader Richard Di Natale declared his party would not support them. 

The bill giving doctors more say on asylum seekers getting medical treatment in Australia passed the Senate in December with Labor's support, but under pressure from the government, the party wants to make last-minute changes.

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