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Govt under fire for neglecting severely ill child refugee

The plight of a three-year old girl who has spent nearly her whole life in an Australian offshore detention centre is galvanising opposition to a system international rights groups call cruel and inhumane. Tharnicaa Murugappan is being treated at a hospital in Perth, but she was only taken there two weeks after contracting a blood infection, which is believed to be linked to untreated pneumonia. Shoaib Hasan reports. #refugees

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