Australian Immigration Daily News

Yesterday the Hon Peter Dutton MP, Minister for Home Affairs said the following at a Press Conference in Sydney:

"... I am worried by this most recent court decision and I am awaiting advice at the moment in relation to our appeal prospects – either to the full Federal Court or to the High Court – so we'll wait and see what that legal advice has to say.

But it's inconceivable that a sovereign government doesn't have the right to say who is going to come to our country and don't have the right for those people who return back once medical assistance has been provided. Now an important point to make is that people were already coming to Australia for medical assistance where it was required and that's the case today.

We have provided medical support to people either in Nauru or on Manus Island and if people need to come to Australia to be provided with that support, we provide it to them. So the Medivac Bill was only ever about trying to subvert the Government's border protection policies and bringing people to our country and I do fear that this opens the floodgates, which is something the Labor Party promised at the last election that they wouldn't do."

Source: Peter-Dutton-Press-Conference---Sydney-20-June-2019.pdf