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A fight over border protection is heating up, with the Home Affairs Minister claiming boat arrivals are much more likely, following a recent federal court decision on the so-called 'medevac legislation'.

Two doctors can remotely assess asylum seekers offshore for medical evacuation to Australia without seeing them, a court has upheld.

The court said doctors could recommend people be brought to Australia for medical treatment based on solely reading their medical records, rather than having face to face consultations.

Setka has been backed by the Victorian branch of his union who this week called for the national executive to issue a statement of support.

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Albanese last week had Setka suspended from the party and will move for his expulsion when its national executive meets on July 5.

It was late afternoon in a subdivision an hour north of Atlanta when the chop of one helicopter, then another, began startling neighbours out of their weekday routines. A man firing up his patio grill...

Dutton continues to insist the government could be compelled under the medevac legislation to transfer criminals, although the legislation gives the minister power to veto people on security grounds.

Text messages and phone calls began flying. It was Maria Taheb's house. It was something involving her 21-year old son, Hasher, who used to speed through the neighborhood. He was being charged with plotting to blow up the White House. A "martyrdom operation,"…

The Home Affairs Minister says "just over 30" people have been brought to Australia and he does not know whether any of them have been charged with serious offences, four months after the Government warned the bill would bring "a flood" of immediate transfers…

The Home Affairs minister doesn't know whether any of the murderers and rapists he repeatedly warned would come to Australia under refugee medical evacuation laws have in fact come.

Gun violence roundtable talks set before July special session

The Coast Guard has helped take a man from a cruise ship to the mainland for a medical problem.

The Coast Guard has helped take a man from a cruise ship to the mainland for a medical problem. The Coast Guard's Portsmouth, Virginia, command center received a call Friday morning that a passenger on the cruise ship was suffering abdominal pain

HATTERAS, N.C. - The Coast Guard has helped take a man from a cruise ship to the mainland for a medical problem.

HATTERAS, N.C. (AP) — The Coast Guard has helped take a man from a cruise ship to the mainland for a medical problem.

HATTERAS, N.C. (AP) — The Coast Guard has helped take a man from a cruise ship to the mainland for a medical problem. The Coast Guard’s Portsmouth, Virginia, command center received a call Friday morning that a passenger on the cruise ship was suffering abdom…

The mammoth cruise ship is due back at Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne on Saturday morning.

Canadian personnel participating in the UN peacekeeping force in Mali will remain in place until the end of August, a month longer than planned, to ensure a smooth transition, the government said Friday. During the month of August, Canadian forces will only p…

For 48 hours of fierce fighting in a battle to retake Nui Yon Hill in Vietnam, U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Middendorf had his medic’s back.