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Blog: Dear Prime Minister

On July 30 2016 I started writing letters to the Prime Minister of Australia to protest against the imprisonment and torture of the asylum seekers in the offshore detention centres of Manus Island and Nauru. I started with the intention of writing a letter a day for every person in detention until they are all freed. There are more than 1800 asylum seekers in off shore detention. These are those letters and any response from Mr Turnbull.

Refugees denied medical care on Nauru

And so in the end after multiple, multiple occasions with multiple patients where my medical advice was being ignored or overridden by a bureaucrat with no medical training, in the end I’d had enough and thought this is just disgusting.
I felt morally obliged to say something.
— Dr Nick Martin

Dr Nick Martin said Australia had a duty of care for the refugees it detains offshore and was lying when it said their healthcare was the responsibility of Nauru.

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