“Four years since the then prime minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that “any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia”, offshore detention has cost Australian taxpayers almost $5bn and the future of those...
“Asylum seekers on Manus Island have been told they must leave the Australian-funded detention centre so it can be closed. Papua New Guinea immigration officials told the more than 800 men in the detention centre that demolition work would start soon on parts of the...