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| Peter Dutton misses deadline to hand over Manus Paladin document – politics live | Peter Dutton misses deadline to hand over Manus Paladin document – politics live |
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| Andrew Giles: | |
| Justice Murphy, presiding over the case, stated, ‘There is a strongly arguable case that in evacuating the applicant to PIH rather than to a hospital in Australia, the respondents provided inadequate medical care to the applicant. | |
| The evacuation resulted in the applicant being sent to a hospital which, at least arguably, did not have the capacity to properly respond to her medical needs. The case of this little girl demonstrates that decisions about medical care should be taken by medical professionals. The advice of doctors should be listened to and acted upon. The Australian people are good, decent and generous. | |
| They don’t want to see vulnerable, sick people in our care suffering when medical care is available to treat them. They appreciate that these circumstances are distinct from the complex policy debates in this area. | |
| This is why the parliament must not allow the medevac legislation to be repealed. | |
| This is why we are proposing our second reading amendment to the bill, which is before the House. | |
| I move: | |
| That all words after “that” be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: “whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House notes that the: | |
| (1) minister for home affairs has: (a) failed to accurately describe the processes providing for the medical transfer of people from Papua New Guinea and Nauru; and (b) consistently mischaracterised the effects of these processes; | |
| and (2) minister for home affairs and the minister for immigration and citizenship have failed to put forward any amendments which would address any genuine concerns they may have with the operation of the processes.” | |
| Debate was interrupted by the adjournment. But you know where that amendment will go. | |
| Andrew Giles spoke in the House late last night on the medevac repeal bill: | |
| I want to briefly share with the House the human story I think best illustrates what a difference this regime has made and how dangerous it would be to go back. | |
| The story concerns a two-year-old girl known as DIZ18. Her parents fled Iran to Australia, arriving in 2013 without a visa. | |
| They were taken by the Australian government to Nauru and recognised as refugees under the refugee convention in 2014. | |
| DIZ18 was born in Nauru on 5 June 2016. This little girl became ill in June 2018 and her illness rapidly got worse over the next few days. | |
| On 12 June the treating doctors, with the International Health and Medical Services – the medical service contracted to provide healthcare to refugees on Nauru – diagnosed her with severe sepsis. | |
| In short, IHMS recommended that the little girl be urgently medically evacuated, to a tertiary-level hospital, to Australia or a third country. | |
| A senior officer of the Australian Border Force involved in the decision inquired whether it was possible for the applicant to, instead, be evacuated to a hospital in Papua New Guinea or Taiwan. | |
| Each doctor and specialist who recommended her medical evacuation recommended that she be taken to a tertiary hospital in Australia or another first-world country; however, the sick little girl was treated at the hospital in Papua New Guinea. It rapidly became clear that the standard of care required, including MRI brain scans and other scans, were not available at this hospital. | |
| The medevac repeal bill is low-key simmering away in the background. It won’t reach the Senate for a debate until it has been through a committee, which is not due to report back until October – and then the Senate will consider it in November. | |
| Jacqui Lambie is the key vote there. And she is not saying what she plans on doing. | |
| Peter Dutton’s letter to the Senate regarding the Paladin document request pic.twitter.com/cm1p6oCL5D | Peter Dutton’s letter to the Senate regarding the Paladin document request pic.twitter.com/cm1p6oCL5D |
| After the Angus Taylor hour yesterday, nuclear power is once again floating around. | After the Angus Taylor hour yesterday, nuclear power is once again floating around. |
| There is a growing number of Coalition backbenchers pushing for an inquiry into nuclear power, being led by the Queensland contingent. Keith Pitt is a particularly passionate advocate. | There is a growing number of Coalition backbenchers pushing for an inquiry into nuclear power, being led by the Queensland contingent. Keith Pitt is a particularly passionate advocate. |
| Taylor, as part of Labor’s focus on him in question time yesterday, was asked about the policy, as well as where he believed any potential nuclear power sites should go. | Taylor, as part of Labor’s focus on him in question time yesterday, was asked about the policy, as well as where he believed any potential nuclear power sites should go. |
| The government is not into nuclear power. During the election campaign, Scott Morrison’s comments to a Tasmanian radio station that nuclear power was “not ‘not’ on the agenda, wherever it can come from is fine, but it has to be self-sustaining”, caused a brief kerfuffle that the PMO was very quick to try and extinguish. | The government is not into nuclear power. During the election campaign, Scott Morrison’s comments to a Tasmanian radio station that nuclear power was “not ‘not’ on the agenda, wherever it can come from is fine, but it has to be self-sustaining”, caused a brief kerfuffle that the PMO was very quick to try and extinguish. |
| And yet, here we still are. Taylor hasn’t done the best job of ruling it out, even if, as his colleagues tell me, he has been told to. | And yet, here we still are. Taylor hasn’t done the best job of ruling it out, even if, as his colleagues tell me, he has been told to. |
| So out comes Peter Dutton this morning on Sunrise: | So out comes Peter Dutton this morning on Sunrise: |
| The only thing we have said, let us be clear about it, we want lower electricity prices. We want reliability. We want people to turn lights on and his crazy renewable targets doubling power prices that Labor is proposing ... | The only thing we have said, let us be clear about it, we want lower electricity prices. We want reliability. We want people to turn lights on and his crazy renewable targets doubling power prices that Labor is proposing ... |
| Given that it is three years until the next election, Dutton was interrupted and asked if nuclear was the answer. | Given that it is three years until the next election, Dutton was interrupted and asked if nuclear was the answer. |
| I don’t believe it is and the government has had a moratorium. Bob Hawke was the last letter to advocate, and he did strongly, for nuclear. The government’s position has been made clear, we are not closed to to debates. People can express their views but the government’s perspective is to get prices down and make sure people can turn lights on. | I don’t believe it is and the government has had a moratorium. Bob Hawke was the last letter to advocate, and he did strongly, for nuclear. The government’s position has been made clear, we are not closed to to debates. People can express their views but the government’s perspective is to get prices down and make sure people can turn lights on. |
| (Fun fact: Tveeder, the transcription service, changes nuclear to “new killer”, and I think that’s just beautiful.) | (Fun fact: Tveeder, the transcription service, changes nuclear to “new killer”, and I think that’s just beautiful.) |
| In news that seems to be like all James McGrath’s Milo and milks came at once, Boris Johnson is officially the UK prime minister. | In news that seems to be like all James McGrath’s Milo and milks came at once, Boris Johnson is officially the UK prime minister. |
| Boris! pic.twitter.com/2PqTLp36X4 | Boris! pic.twitter.com/2PqTLp36X4 |
| Good to see a battler finally come out on top (yes, that is sarcasm). | Good to see a battler finally come out on top (yes, that is sarcasm). |
| Former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop welcomed the news, telling Network Seven: | Former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop welcomed the news, telling Network Seven: |
| “Boris Johnson has an unusually close relationship with Australia for a British prime minister,” she said. | “Boris Johnson has an unusually close relationship with Australia for a British prime minister,” she said. |
| “He spent his gap year here, attending Geelong Grammar. He’s visited Australia many times.” | “He spent his gap year here, attending Geelong Grammar. He’s visited Australia many times.” |
| Speaking of that gap year, Johnson mentioned it in a 2015 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, where he told this story about getting lost in Canberra and somehow managing to camp on a roundabout. | Speaking of that gap year, Johnson mentioned it in a 2015 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, where he told this story about getting lost in Canberra and somehow managing to camp on a roundabout. |
| I was driving there and I was about 18 and I got totally lost and I dossed down for the night in a roundabout. Well, I woke up and discovered it was a roundabout,” he explains. He pitched his tent on the roundabout in the middle of the night – an experience that went about as well as you’d expect for a young British kid sleeping in the middle of a Canberra street in the 1980s. “It was terrible. I thought it would be OK, then I got woken up by the traffic and then I looked at my hands, my hands had swollen up like blown-up washing-up gloves because I had been so badly bitten.” | I was driving there and I was about 18 and I got totally lost and I dossed down for the night in a roundabout. Well, I woke up and discovered it was a roundabout,” he explains. He pitched his tent on the roundabout in the middle of the night – an experience that went about as well as you’d expect for a young British kid sleeping in the middle of a Canberra street in the 1980s. “It was terrible. I thought it would be OK, then I got woken up by the traffic and then I looked at my hands, my hands had swollen up like blown-up washing-up gloves because I had been so badly bitten.” |
| I call bull shit, but then again, maybe it sounds different in Latin. | I call bull shit, but then again, maybe it sounds different in Latin. |
| It’s day three which means the sitting is one day closer to ending. | It’s day three which means the sitting is one day closer to ending. |
| Silver linings people. | Silver linings people. |
| After the latest national security fight, the government is now gearing up for the latest union fight. Christian Porter and the government are having another go at the ensuring integrity bill. | After the latest national security fight, the government is now gearing up for the latest union fight. Christian Porter and the government are having another go at the ensuring integrity bill. |
| Labor have already said it won’t support this bill. That’s not unexpected – it goes against everything that the Labor party stands for. So it is the crossbench the government needs to convince and so far, Centre Alliance and One Nation are not impressed. | Labor have already said it won’t support this bill. That’s not unexpected – it goes against everything that the Labor party stands for. So it is the crossbench the government needs to convince and so far, Centre Alliance and One Nation are not impressed. |
| That will be debated in the House later today – and Porter has been out and about early to try and garner support. | That will be debated in the House later today – and Porter has been out and about early to try and garner support. |
| Meanwhile, late last night, Peter Dutton rejected a Senate request to hand over documents related to the extension of the Paladin contract. From AAP’s report: | Meanwhile, late last night, Peter Dutton rejected a Senate request to hand over documents related to the extension of the Paladin contract. From AAP’s report: |
| Senators instructed the home affairs minister to hand over information about the contract to ensure taxpayers were getting value for money, given it was awarded to the small company in a closed tender process. | Senators instructed the home affairs minister to hand over information about the contract to ensure taxpayers were getting value for money, given it was awarded to the small company in a closed tender process. |
| In a letter to the Senate president tabled late on Tuesday night, Dutton said tens of thousands of documents were potentially within scope of the order. | In a letter to the Senate president tabled late on Tuesday night, Dutton said tens of thousands of documents were potentially within scope of the order. |
| “Due to the significant volume of documents, I assess compliance with the order would result in an unreasonable diversion of significant resources,” he said. | “Due to the significant volume of documents, I assess compliance with the order would result in an unreasonable diversion of significant resources,” he said. |
| “I will therefore not be tabling any documents on 23 July 2019 as stipulated in the original order.” | “I will therefore not be tabling any documents on 23 July 2019 as stipulated in the original order.” |
| Dutton is now locked in talks with Labor’s home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally to reduce the scope of required documents, pushing the deadline out by another month. | Dutton is now locked in talks with Labor’s home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally to reduce the scope of required documents, pushing the deadline out by another month. |
| “Negotiations regarding the scope of the documents to be provided by this date are ongoing,” he said. | “Negotiations regarding the scope of the documents to be provided by this date are ongoing,” he said. |
| We’ll bring you that, and everything else which happens within these so-called corridors of power (and beyond) as it unfolds, so I do hope you’ll come along with us. Mike Bowers, Katharine Murphy and Paul Karp are all at your service, so while I browbeat one of them into getting me a coffee, we should jump into it. | We’ll bring you that, and everything else which happens within these so-called corridors of power (and beyond) as it unfolds, so I do hope you’ll come along with us. Mike Bowers, Katharine Murphy and Paul Karp are all at your service, so while I browbeat one of them into getting me a coffee, we should jump into it. |
| Ready? | Ready? |
| Let’s go. | Let’s go. |