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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 .
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.
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 ...
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is an asylum seeker support organisation in Australia. The ASRC, based in Footscray , a suburb of Melbourne , Victoria , provides aid, justice and empowerment programs to over 1000 asylum seekers living in the community seeking refugee protection.
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]
A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted ...
Australia has released a stateless Rohingya man held in immigration detention for years, the government said on Friday, following a landmark court ruling that paves the way to end the indefinite ...
In June 2013 a surge of asylum-seekers resulted in the detention facilities exceeding their designed capacity. Regular operating capacity is 1094 people, with a 'contingency capacity' of 2724. After the interception of four boats in six days carrying 350, the Immigration Department said there were 2960 "irregular maritime arrivals" being held.