A German doctor in the town of Horsham is set to be forced to leave Australia as the Government will not grant him a PR visa because his son has Down syndrome. His son was deemed to be a burden on taxpayers so the doctor and his family cannot stay in Australia. You can read the story
here.
With the trouble we have recruiting doctors and health professionals to come and work in Australia I find it absolutely stunning that the government could be so outrageously small minded. I can only hope this story is a
Today Tonight style beat up because if this is true then I am afraid I have just lost what little remaining confidence I had in the Australian Department of Immigration.
Maybe this is one for the
RCSA to weigh into on behalf of all the medical related recruitment companies out there who are struggling to attract health professionals into Australia.