Kerryn Phelps wins Labor support for refugee transfers but negotiations continue

Talks continue over the balance of power between clinicians and the minister

Labor has agreed to support the independent MP Kerryn Phelps’ bill for emergency medical transfers from offshore detention, but has demanded changes that would keep a ministerial power to refuse transfers.

Phelps has reiterated that “clinicians rather than bureaucrats” should make medical decisions about transfers but said she was open to “ministerial oversight”.

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