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Perth Immigration Detention Centre: Operational: Maximum: Department of Immigration and Border Protection: 1981: 55; [9] Perth Airport, Western Australia Pontville Immigration Detention Centre [3] Closed: Medium: Serco: August 2011: September 2013: 400: Brighton Army Camp, Pontville, Tasmania: Port Augusta Immigration Residential Housing [3 ...
Australian immigration detention facilities comprise a number of different facilities throughout Australia, including the Australian territory of Christmas Island. [1] Such facilities also exist in Papua New Guinea and Nauru , namely the Nauru Regional Processing Centre and the Manus Regional Processing Centre .
Baxter Immigration Detention Facility. Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre or commonly just Baxter Detention Centre, was an Australian immigration detention facility near the town of Port Augusta in South Australia. It was the focus of much of the controversy concerning the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in Australia.
The Department of Home Affairs is a department of the Government of Australia that is charged with responsibilities for national security, protective services, emergency management, border control, immigration, refugees, citizenship, transport security and multicultural affairs. [2]
Australia maintains a list of skilled occupations that are currently acceptable for immigration to Australia. [58] In 2009, following the global financial crisis, the Australian government reduced its immigration target by 14%, and the permanent migration program for skilled migrants was reduced to 115,000 people for that financial year. [59]
Curtin Immigration Detention Centre is an Australian immigration detention facility at the RAAF Curtin in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Curtin was described by former immigration minister Philip Ruddock as the country's "most primitive" processing centre.
The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru.
As a signatory to the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Australia operates a humanitarian intake of migrants of around 13,770 persons per year (by comparison, Australia's Migration Program was 168,600 places in 2009–10). Those who have not gained prior approval to enter Australia for the purpose of seeking asylum ...