Migration Amendment (Urgent Medical Treatment) Bill 2018

This bill seeks to amend the Migration Act 1958 to require the temporary transfer to Australia of transitory persons on Manus Island or Nauru, and their families, if they are assessed by two or more treating doctors as requiring medical treatment.
It also requires the temporary transfer of all children and their families from offshore detention to Australia for the purpose of medical or psychiatric assessment.
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) calls for end to medical crisis in offshore detention.
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