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The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru .
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 ...
19 January – The second group of refugees, four in total, to be resettled from the Australian offshore detention centers in Nauru to New Zealand arrive. [1]23 January – The Nauruan government releases a statement claiming to have been unaware of its consul-general in Thailand, Onassis Dame, renting a property involved in criminal activity.
Since the implementation of the Pacific Solution Australia also funded immigration detention centres on: Manus Regional Processing Centre, Papua New Guinea closed in February 2008, re-opened on 22 November 2012 (re-closed on 23 November 2017). [19] Nauru Regional Processing Centre closed in February 2008, re-opened in 2012. [20]
Nauru budget documents show two-thirds of government revenue last year came from fees paid by Australia to host a refugee processing centre, which began to be wound down in July.
The government said this was because other companies declined to bid, and added that Canstruct's experience with managing mining camps made them suitable for managing an immigration detention centre. [5] By April 2021, the Nauru contract had been amended six times, and Canstruct had been paid a total of AUD $1.4 billion over its course ...
A sign at the entrance of the former Baxter Detention Cent, taken in 2006. 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.
Upon Kevin Rudd's 2007 election win, the Pacific Solution was abandoned, with the Nauru processing centre closed down in February 2008, [32] a move welcomed by the UN Refugee Agency. [33] The last detainees left Manus Island in 2004 and Nauru in February 2008. [34] The Republic of Nauru was concerned about losing much-needed aid from Australia ...