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  2. History of tariffs in Australia - Wikipedia

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    The period leading up to and including the Great Depression was a particularly important period in the history of tariffs in Australia. It established high barriers for imports of manufactures overall. For instance, in 1931/1932, the average duty on all imports was 37% and on dutiable imports only it was 72%.

  3. List of Australian immigration detention facilities - Wikipedia

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    Immigration detention facilities are used to house people in immigration detention, and people detained under the Pacific Solution, and Operation Sovereign Borders. Most facilities were operated by Australasian Correctional Management (a subsidiary of G4S ) under contract from the Department of Immigration until 2003, when ACM exited the market.

  4. Immigration detention in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Fencing surrounding the detention centre on Christmas Island. The Australian government has a policy and practice of detaining in immigration detention facilities non-citizens not holding a valid visa, suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorised arrival, and those subject to deportation and removal in immigration detention until a decision is made by the immigration authorities ...

  5. Australian immigration detention facilities - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Mandatory detention in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Immigration detention in Australia From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.

  7. List of prisons in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Belconnen Remand Centre. A new prison was opened on 11 September 2008 at Hume, called the Alexander Maconochie Centre, named after Alexander Maconochie.The centre is designed as a multi role facility to replace the Belconnen Remand Centre and provide detention facilities so that prisoners who are currently held in New South Wales facilities may be held locally.

  8. Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation - Wikipedia

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    Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) is an Australian immigration detention centre in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows. It was built on part of the Maygar Barracks site. It is operated by Serco under contract to the Australian Border Force .

  9. Mediterranean Shipping Company - Wikipedia

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    Mediterranean Shipping Company was founded in Naples in 1970 as a private company by seafaring captain Gianluigi Aponte when he bought his first ship, Patricia, followed by Rafaela, with which Aponte began a shipping line operating between the Mediterranean and Somalia. The line subsequently expanded through the purchase of second-hand cargo ships.