Australian immigration detention facilities comprise a number of different facilities located throughout Australia, including on the Australian territory of Christmas Island. Such facilities also exis
Barriers surrounding the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre in Burlong, Western Australia.
The Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin
Northern IDC, Darwin, 2010
Manus Island regional processing facility (Image by DIAC)
The Australian government detains non-citizens under the control of the Department of Home Affairs, principally through the Australian Border Force. Detention is mandatory: section 189 of the Migratio
Australian immigration detention facilities
…Processing Centre and the Manus Regional Processing Centre. The facilities are currently used to detain people who are under Australia's policy of mandatory immigration detention. Asylum seekers detected in boats in Australian waters have been detained in facilities on the offshore islands of Nauru and Manus Island, previously…
Fencing surrounding the detention centre on Christmas Island
Protesters on the roof of the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney, 2011
Chris Bowen, Minister for Immigration in the Gillard government oversaw a restoration of offshore processing of asylum seekers following the closure of the system by the Rudd government.
Protesters outside ALP caucus meeting in July 2013