Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kerryn Phelps on medical transfer numbers
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Independent MP Kerryn Phelps, who set the ball rolling for the medical transfers legislation, says its passage is “a remarkable exercise in cooperation”.
Phelps says that of the about 1000 people on Manus and Nauru “around 70 people require urgent medical evacuation” and “another couple of hundred will require transfer...
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