'A huge win for doctors': Turnbull government backs down on gag laws for doctors on Nauru and Manus

By Bianca Hall
Updated October 20 2016 - 9:08pm, first published 2:56pm
Imigration Department secretary Michael Pezzullo signed the amendment to the Border Force Act last month. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Imigration Department secretary Michael Pezzullo signed the amendment to the Border Force Act last month. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Children playing near the Refugee Processing Centre on Nauru. Photo: Amnesty International
Children playing near the Refugee Processing Centre on Nauru. Photo: Amnesty International

The Turnbull government has quietly backed down on unpopular laws that threatened doctors and nurses with prison if they spoke out about abuses in offshore detention centres.

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