Refugee advocates urge the senate to reject the Medevac repeal bill

November 26, 2019. Get-Up support refugee advocates and lawyers urging the Australian senate to reject the Government’s Medevac repeal bill. Kon Karapanagiotidis from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, David Burke from the Human Rights Law Centre, David Manne from Refugee Legal and Shen Narayanasamy from GetUp make their appeal through the media to influence senators to reject the bill. They argue that doctors not politicians should be at the heart of medical care for refugees in off-shore detention. Get-up says they have more than 51,000 people have signed a petition to save Medevac. (AAP Video/Marc Tewksbury)

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