Posted on 07/02/2023 12:45:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week.
It pauses over a decade of Australia's processing of asylum seekers on the tiny Pacific nation, with 4,183 people held there since 2012.
Described as a place of "indefinite despair" and "sustained abuse" by visitors from Médecins Sans Frontières and Human Rights Watch, the Nauru centre is a thorn in the side of Australia's human rights record.
Yet offshore processing - which involves detaining people in the Pacific while they await resettlement in a third country - remains one of Australia's most enduring policies.
Seven consecutive prime ministers have argued for its role in protecting the nation's borders and "breaking the business model" of human traffickers.
Despite the facility sitting vacant, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government will spend vast sums of money - including A$486m (£255m; $320m) this year - to keep Nauru open as a deterrent.
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Better question: Why is the BBC reporting on this...?
Maybe they are getting smart and preparing to deal with the mooselimb and chinee invaders. Or maybe I’m going to be realistic and say it’s for the white males.
Funny how that works. Refugees FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES to a First World country. The new country won’t let them in...so they go back home.
Reminds me of the European NGO babe who said something like: “This is the strangest bunch of refugees that I’ve ever seen - the first thing they ask for is where to charge their cell phones, then later they fly back home for the holidays and weddings.”
The thing is, I think this babe was genuinely confused about them.
Nauru has an interesting history. The island was rich in phosphates and Australia nearly mined it clean until Nauru gained independence. Learning nothing of the past the Nauru Government then continued to mine the island and for a while they had the highest per capita income in the world. Today it is a barren island with no natural resources, tourism, or sources of income.
We need that in the USA.
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