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	Podcast:		Background Briefing - ABC RN
	Episode:		Breaking point: Australia under pressure to evacuate sick children from Nauru (Part 1)
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:37:15
	Publish Date:		2018-10-27 16:05:00
	Description:		Has the federal government been ignoring a mental health crisis among child refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru? Background Briefing has obtained dozens of questionnaires that provide a snapshot of how kids on the island were faring between 2015 and 2017. A prominent psychiatrist says the results would have been given to senior immigration department bureaucrats yet requests for medical evacuations were repeatedly denied. Olivia Rousset investigates.
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