Australia to send refugee medical transfers to remote island

Prime Minister Scott Morrison flew to tiny Christmas Island on an overnight flight to announce his government's strategy aimed at preventing asylum seekers from reaching the Australian mainland. The island is 5,170 kilometres northwest of the Australian capital, Canberra, and is closer to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.

The government began reopening a Christmas Island camp in December after a new law was passed allowing doctors rather than bureaucrats to decide which asylum seekers could come to Australia for hospital treatment. The law passed through the support of political parties outside the government and against the government's wishes.

"My attention here is to ensure that vexatious acts ... by those who would seek to game the system to come to Australia using these loopholes will think twice about it," Morrison told reporters. "It is clear there has been a shift in public attitude in supporting humane solutions for unwell refugees and it is extremely disappointing that instead of looking for genuine solutions Mr. Morrison continues to fear monger and use these individuals as political pawns," Thom said in a statement.

More and more, I am in favour of compassion and empathy over, you know, inhumanity.

Very good idea ... To protect the citizens ..

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