\u201cJust when you begin to hope that the Labor Party was starting to find a backbone on refugees, Bill Shorten has gone to water,\u201d said Australian Greens Leader, Dr Richard Di Natale.
\n\u201cDespite his Deputy saying the Government\u2019s policy to transfer sick patients to Christmas island for treatment was \u2018difficult to understand\u2019 and his Immigration spokesperson saying the reopening the centre was \u2018silly\u2019, Bill Shorten thinks it\u2019s \u2018fine\u2019.
\n\u201cBuying into Scott Morrison\u2019s propaganda that there is any need to reopen Christmas Island, or that it has the required medical facilities, is a failure of leadership.
\n\u201cAll it took was the prospect of an election campaign fought on refugees for Bill Shorten to get spooked and start aligning himself with the Liberal Government on the issue once again.
\n\u201cA government that is determined to shun the will of the parliament and refuse to bring sick people here for treatment, deserves a strong opposition \u2013 not a benign collaborator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cJust when you begin to hope that the Labor Party was starting to find a backbone on refugees, Bill Shorten has gone to water,\u201d said Australian Greens Leader, Dr Richard Di Natale. \u201cDespite his Deputy saying the Government\u2019s policy to transfer sick patients to Christmas island for treatment was \u2018difficult to understand\u2019 and his Immigration … Continue reading “Shorten capitulates on Medevac Bill”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}