Lisbett's dream of permanent residency derailed by breast cancer diagnosis

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After five years in Australia, Chilean migrant Lisbett Lillo thought she was on the path to permanent residency. But after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis she found out Australia doesn't accept migrants who will incur large medical bills.

A department spokesperson said that any application would fail that test if total medical costs were estimated to exceed $51,000 over that period.

Australian residents with the same diagnosis would be eligible to have those costs covered through Medicare. According to government data from 2021-22, more than half of all surveyed Australian horticultural farms faced difficulty recruiting staff."On balance, she's contributed so much to the community that she should be allowed to stay," Ms Berg said.For Gippsland-based Valerie Shaw, who works in the clinical development of drugs, Lisbett's story has encouraged her to advocate for changes to Australia's system of immigration.

 

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One more off the waiting list

She can have it back home

Why not just report this as the fault of AlboMP and the alp

Australian's immigration rules are inhumane in cases like Lisbett's and do not reflect average Aussie opinion. Time this was calle out for what it is - Blatant Discrimination, noting less.

tell the government you hate Aussies and Australia, and want to turn it into a shite hole and they'll let you stay with a nice house at taxpayers expense, like most illegal immigrants, all the good people like yourself get kicked out and ones who hate us stay

Obviously not a 79 year-old on a family migration visa pack.

She's a human being, working 5 hard yrs to do the right thing (not the easy thing) to get her residency. Now that she's damaged and in need of help, the country turns it back on her. It is absolutely disgraceful that such a government wasting millions can't help another human !

What a sick country we are

Why doesn't use the people's Tax money that they receive to help this poor lady ?

Great having lobbyists like Laurie Berg tell us the Australian taxpayer should foot the $130,000 in future medical bills for this temporary guest worker.

Sue the person that Covid vaccinated you, as they clearly didn't provide all the associated risks of the vax. VaccineSideEffects

if they're helping us can't we help them? 'I think we need to relook at how we treat people who are on visas from non-reciprocal countries. As a nation we need to make sure they have the right to healthcare while they're working with us.'

. Fossil fuels, such as diesel exhaust from tractors, can act as tumor promoters in breast cancer through estrogen receptor alpha. .

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