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David Coleman

Minister for Immigration. 1 claim checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2019. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

David Coleman, Minister for Immigration

“The medevac legislation doesn't require asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru to be sick in order to be transferred to Australia.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Spin

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Coleman's claim is spin. The bill governs the transfer of people from offshore processing countries in order to receive medical or psychiatric "treatment or assessment". Experts told Fact Check that it could be possi…