After 30-odd years, we're still number 1
22nd October 2016
By Jo Hartley
On Wednesday, a group of brave and passionate doctors successfully forced the government to backtrack on laws that would have seen them jailed for whistleblowing on the conditions in which their patients were being held.
Called Doctors for Refugees, the group includes many GPs advocates for the health and wellbeing of those held in Australia’s offshore detention centres.
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They fought, and