Current Affairs: A young asylum seeker on Nauru heads to Australia for urgent medical care

Australia's Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton

Five terrorists stripped of Australian citizenship Source: AAP

An asylum seeker girl, who's attempted suicide several times, is to be rushed from Nauru to Australia for urgent medical care. It comes after lawyers took court action on her behalf, seeking to force Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's department to arrange her transfer to the mainland for treatment.



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