I am a doctor, not a politician; I simply want timely medical care to be given to those in need of it. Today Australia became a little crueller
Along with many other doctors in Australia, I watched today in dismay as the medevac repeal bill was passed in the Senate. Much was made of the secret deal that Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie had been offered, then denied by the LNP.
Whatever the truth is will be hard to discern. The details about what will happen to those people on Nauru and Papua New Guinea who are currently in the medevac system are also unclear at this stage. This is not unexpected; nobody who has had any dealings with this government expected any less than dirty tricks, distractions and outright untruths, which we have listened to for the past few weeks as the rhetoric heated up, selected medical details were leaked to trusted news outlets and ministers trotted out well-rehearsed dog-whistling lines. It’s incredibly disheartening to see senators spouting tired old racist tropes about rapists and murderers.
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