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Health care: universal right or Australian privilege? : Comments

By Zoe Stewart, published 11/5/2016

Since this federal government was elected, we have seen 14 people die from suicide, inappropriate or inadequate medical attention, and injuries sustained in detention.

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Lots of complaints but not much in the way of solutions. During the last labour government we had 50,000 asylum seekers arrive by boat. What's more this was increasing rapidly and if it hadn't been brought to a halt by a tough policy we would have been inundated by hundreds of thousands by now if not millions. If that had happened there would have been such a backlash from the Australian public that we would probably have withdrawn from the refugee convention and cancelled our already generous asylum program. What's more, many more thousands would have died at sea on their way here.
I'm sure conditions are tough in these camps, but they can always choose to return home or to a third country.
I would question the credentials of this author who seems to suggest that HIV is a tropical disease.
As far as homosexual sex is concerned, this remains illegal in many parts of the world. Should we therefore offer asylum to all the worlds homosexuals?
Posted by Rhys Jones, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 6:28:34 PM
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Universal health care is a punishment that Australians suffer.

The author, being a doctor from the AMA Mafia, wants to cast her net wider.

Haven't the pirate Australian government done enough damage already?
You have been cruel to those refugees (or whatever they are) long enough.
Just let them go!

And to be decent, they also deserve financial compensation for their kidnap at sea, incarceration and torture.
It would be at least $10M each, with which they could go anywhere in the world to receive whatever medical treatment THEY want.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 8:24:17 PM
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I agree we should continue to oppose asylum seekers coming to Australia in dodgy boats, as the drownings were awful.

However, those that are already here, and in those camps on Manus Island and Nauru should be swiftly processed and either sent back to their homelands if not genuine refugees, or else sent to the nearest safe refugee camps to go to the back of the queues for resettlement.

They should not be left to rot in those Island jails for years, costing our country millions of dollars to house and feed, and to provide medical care and legal assistance.
The current politicians need to grow some balls and just settle these people somewhere right now.
Posted by Suseonline, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 8:30:30 PM
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Agree with you Susie for once, isn't it great we have essentially none in detention now instead of the last Labor / Green regime's crimes against humanity.
Posted by McCackie, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 4:35:40 PM
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