The dread of being deceived over medevac reveals Australia at its most grotesque

So many of us want to refuse urgent medical care for traumatised refugees solely because we think they’re taking us for mugs

Margaret Atwood has once said that men’s greatest fear is being laughed at, while women’s greatest fear is being killed.

Many women are familiar with this saying, but interestingly, most men I asked professed to have never heard it before.

Maybe it’s such an embarrassing truth, that our primal, childlike dread of being mocked can force us to behave in irrational ways.

The latest line the…