This is what it's like to be a refugee transferred to Australia for medical treatment

More than 1,300 asylum seekers and refugees have been transferred to Australia from PNG and Nauru under existing and new medical transfer processes and the vast majority remain in the country. As Senate debate on the medevac bill is set to begin, two women share their stories.

Peter Dutton has been ramping up the anti-medevac rhetoric. Source: AAP

This week, the Senate is expected to debate the government’s bid to repeal controversial medevac laws passed in February.

Described as “life-saving” by advocates but a threat to Australia’s borders by the government, the new laws give doctors more power to decide who is transferred from offshore detention to Australia for medical treatment. 

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