{"id":396093,"date":"2019-02-17T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sickness-and-paranoia-the-morrison-governments-refugee-problem\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T11:09:19","slug":"sickness-and-paranoia-the-morrison-governments-refugee-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sickness-and-paranoia-the-morrison-governments-refugee-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Sickness and Paranoia: The Morrison Government\u2019s Refugee Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The passage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Bills_Legislation\/Bills_Search_Results\/Result?bId=r6069\">amendments<\/a> to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) by the Australian House of Representatives and the Senate this week was less a case of celebration than necessitous deliverance.\u00a0 The mental wellbeing of asylum-seekers on Manus Island and Nauru, or lack thereof, has been documented extensively from Australian legal representatives to members of M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<p>The Medevac Bill is scripted in clunky fashion typical of Australian drafting, but it does what other items of legislation have not: privilege, to some extent at least, medical opinion on the desperate situation of those kept in indefinite detention.\u00a0 Australia\u2019s own crude experiment of what might be termed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anthrobiopolitics.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/21\/biopolitics-an-overview\/\">biopolitical<\/a>\u201d control has had predictably disastrous consequences on health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation supplies the lawful basis for refugees and asylum seekers to be transferred to Australia for \u201cmedical or psychiatric assessment or treatment\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cAside from being a circuit breaker to current arrangements,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-how-will-the-medevac-bill-actually-affect-ill-asylum-seekers-111645\">claim<\/a> Nicholas Proctor and Mary Anne Kenny, \u201cthe bill is a new opportunity to establish agreed governance arrangements and a clinical pathway for recognising and responding to medical need without political interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Australian governments have fought any transfer arrangements of refugees and asylum seekers from Canberra\u2019s tropical gulag with rabid ferocity.\u00a0 Be it men, women or children, any show of compassion has been given the cold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/sickness-and-paranoia-the-morrison-governments-refugee-problem\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passage of amendments to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) by the Australian House of Representatives and the Senate this week was less a case of celebration than necessitous deliverance.\u00a0 The mental wellbeing of asylum-seekers on Manus Island and Nauru, or lack thereof, has been documented extensively from Australian legal representatives to members of M\u00e9decins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}