HLSC220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Australian Human Rights Commission, Suicidal Ideation, Policy Debate
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Asylum seekers diagnosed with profound depression and suicidal ideation should be transferred from off-shore detention centers to australian health facilities when deemed medically necessary. The third affirmative speaker made some statements which i"d like to disagree on. It was stated that this whole idea to keep medical treatment offshore is a move to create a barrier between the australian population and the vulnerable refugee and asylum seeker population. If you didn"t realise, we are arguing to break down this barrier and equalize the allocation of quality health care services. We are pointing out that asylum seekers should have access to quality medical services offshore. That way, there"s no need to bring them to. Australia so they can use our services because their services in detention are simply not. It is (cid:374)ot a (cid:373)atter of refusi(cid:374)g or (cid:374)ot (cid:449)a(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g to prote(cid:272)t the vulnerable.
