Australian Medical Association President Dr Michael Gannon Source: AAP
The election campaign turned to the thorny issue of asylum-seekers and back to Medicare, with Labor and the Coalition slugging it out over who has the best policy. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Labor Party has announced that they are going to abolish temporary protection visas. He says this will mean that the 30,000 asylum seekers who came by boat under the Labor Government, who are in Australia now, will get permanent residence. Maheswaran Prabaharan reports in Tamil, feature prepared by Amanda Cavill for SBS News.
The election campaign turned to the thorny issue of asylum-seekers and back to Medicare, with Labor and the Coalition slugging it out over who has the best policy. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Labor Party has announced that they are going to abolish temporary protection visas. He says this will mean that the 30,000 asylum seekers who came by boat under the Labor Government, who are in Australia now, will get permanent residence. Maheswaran Prabaharan reports in Tamil, feature prepared by Amanda Cavill for SBS News.
