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Port Augusta Immigration Residential Housing [3] Closed: Medium: Serco: 2010: 2014: 64: Port Augusta, South Australia Port Hedland Immigration Reception and Processing Centre: Closed: Maximum: Australasian Correctional Management (G4S subsidiary) 1991: April 2003: 600: Port Hedland, Western Australia Scherger Immigration Detention Centre [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 .
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]
The Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC) was an Australian immigration detention facility near the village of Woomera in South Australia. It was opened in November 1999 in response to an increase in unauthorised arrivals , which had exceeded the capacity of other detention facilities.
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.
In March 2020, Home Affairs told the Senate estimates committee that "211 refugees and asylum seekers remained on Nauru, 228 in Papua New Guinea, and about 1,220, including their dependents, were in Australia to receive medical treatment". Transfer and resettlement of approved refugees in the US was proceeding during the COVID-19 pandemic. [9]
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 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.