Support growing for transfer of asylum children
The Australian Medical Association's paediatric representative Dr Paul Bauert Source: AAP
Three coalition backbenchers have turned against their own government's policy to join groups campaigning for asylum seeker children to be released from Nauru for medical treatment. But the M-Ps have stopped short of threatening to cross the floor in support of a new bill to be introduced by cross-benchers. Their move follows almost six-thousand doctors signing an open letter to the Prime Minister demanding the children be treated with compassion.
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