Bill
Migration Amendment (Restoring Medevac) Bill 2025
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- David Shoebridge
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-02-12
- second reading — 2025-02-12
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-02-12.
The bill would allow certain asylum seekers held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru to be transferred to Australia if two or more doctors say they need medical care.
It would give eligible people, called transitory persons, an offer to come to Australia for treatment, matching the earlier Medevac scheme.
The source notes that when the previous Medevac law operated, 192 people were moved to Australia and got urgent medical treatment.
- The bill would let people assessed by two or more treating doctors be transferred to Australia for medical treatment.
- It would give an offer to come to Australia to transitory persons who meet the bill's requirements.
- The bill would replicate the intent of the 2018 Medevac legislation.
People who sought asylum by sea and are held in Papua New Guinea or Nauru, transitory persons, and their families.
Sources
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