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They are currently used to detain people who are under Australia's policy of mandatory immigration detention. Asylum seekers detected in boats in Australian waters have been detained in facilities on the offshore islands of Nauru and Manus Island, previously under the now defunct Pacific Solution and (since 2013 and as of March 2019) under ...
Asylum seekers protesting against detention at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on 22 April 2011. The entrance of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, taken in April 2003, following closure of the Centre. This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention facilities.
The time asylum seekers spent in Australian detention centres as stated by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection show that in December 2015 people in onshore immigration detention had been there for an average 445 days. The average detention period has increased since May 2014. [51]
By 31 March 2019, there were no people held in the detention centre, which had been closed; [8] however as of March 2020, there were 211 refugees and asylum seekers remaining on the island. [9] As of 13 June 2020, a father and son were the last family left on Nauru; there was one single woman and the remaining people were single men. [10]
The Immigration Detention Centre in 2008. North West Point Immigration Detention Centre, formerly Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre is an Australian immigration detention facility located on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. As at 31 December 2023, no people were detained at the centre. [1]
Australia is the only country in the world with a policy of mandatory detention and offshore processing of asylum seekers who arrive without a valid visa. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Asylum policy is a contentious wedge issue in Australian politics, with the two major political parties in Australia arguing that the issue is a border control problem and one ...
The Manus Regional Processing Centre, officially Manus Island Regional Processing Centre (MIRCP), [1] was one of a number of offshore Australian immigration detention facilities [2] created after the Australian Government instituted its Operation Sovereign Borders policy, aimed at stopping maritime arrivals of asylum seekers to Australia. [3]
Australia operates a number of immigration detention facilities within the country, as well as several offshore processing centres. All Australian immigration detention facilities are managed by the British services company Serco on behalf of the Australian government. Australia currently has three functioning offshore centres, and ten ...