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Doctors to decide if asylum seekers are treated in Australia as 'medivac' bill becomes law.

Asylum seekers

Source: SBS

Doctors will now have more power to decide whether asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru should come to Australia for medical treatment after the passage of a medical evacuation bill through the Senate.



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