“Labor's proposal is to dismantle offshore detention [and will] essentially give the ability for two doctors — as has been pointed out, doctors including Dr Brown, Bob Brown, and Dr Richard Di Natale — potentially can provide the advice.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Dutton is drawing a long bow. According to the proposals, in order to be able to advise on the transfer of refugees to Australia for medical treatment, a doctor would first need to be registered — neither Mr Brown nor Senator Di Natale are registered medical practitioners. While there is always the potential for the former and current Greens' leaders to re-register as doctors, neither have indicated they would undertake the lengthy process. And though Labor voted in support of the changes ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Peter Dutton (Minister for Home Affairs) made this claim around 7 February 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 11 February 2019, 4 days later. Its rating was “Drawing a long bow”.
Peter Dutton has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.