Labor withholds support for repeal of medevac bill

Labor says it is not convinced that the medevac bill should be scrapped or changed as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton reveals just over 30 refugees have come to Australia under the new law.

No asylum seekers have been medevaced to Christmas Island which the government reopened. (AAP) Source: AAP)

Labor is standing by laws it helped pass to make it easier for refugees to get medical treatment in Australia, saying the government hasn't produced any evidence why the laws should be dumped or changed.

And the Home Affairs minister doesn't know whether any of the murderers and rapists he repeatedly warned would come to Australia under the new laws have in fact come.

Peter Dutton says just over 30 asylum seekers have been transported from Manus Island and Nauru to Australia under the arrangements that passed parliament in February against the government's wishes.