Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
Aussies reject residency bid over ill boy


Read this at the barbershop this morning. I hope this gets reversed. The good doctor is providing a desperately critical service to a rural community in need. How can the federal government be so obtuse?
Me too.

I found this funny (especially the bolded part):
But now Australia has rejected Dr. Bernhard Moeller’s application for residency, saying Lukas does not meet the “health requirement” and would pose a burden on taxpayers for his medical care, education and other services.
The case has provoked an outcry in the rural region of southeastern Victoria state, where Moeller is the only internal medicine specialist for a community of 54,000 people.
You would think being the only internal medicine specialist for 54,000 people would outweigh have a mentally handicapped son.

Absolutely Ridiculous.