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Refugee Update: the cost of cruelty
Apr. 20th, 2016 08:50 pmWhat $1500 gets you: a luxury hotel room in Sydney and Melbourne - or a night's detention on Christmas Island (19 April, 2016)
Australian government could save $2.9bn over four years by closing detention centres (GA, 19 March 2016) Part of that would be the roughly half a million bucks saved by limiting detention to thirty days.
Doubts over $400 million centrepiece of Australia's Pacific Solution (18 April 2016). Papua New Guinea was promised help building a new hospital in exchange for the Manus Island detention centre. Now PNG has run out of cash for their half of the cost, and are hinting that Australia should offer more funding. (Australia should shut down the detention centre and use the savings to complete the badly-needed hospital. Problem solved.)
Taxpayers charged $6 million for Immigration Department telemovie (SMH, 25 March 2016). That's chicken feed compared to the $70 million spent over six years on ads to deter refugees.
Australia spent $2m relocating two refugees from Nauru to Cambodia (GA, 10 March 2016)
MYEFO budget update: $1 billion blow out on immigration detention costs (SMH, 15 December 2015)
Australia's offshore detention cost $1.2bn in 2014-15, Senate estimates told (GA, 9 December 2015) You'll remember Abyan, the rape victim seeking an abortion, who was hustled out of Australia and back to Nauru against her wishes. That single flight cost taxpayers $115,821.
Government splashes $20 million on charter flights to Nauru and Manus Island (SMH, 8 December 2015)
I guess they have to cut corners somewhere: Federal government refuses asylum seeker payouts and apologies 24 times (SMH, 18 November 2015): "... since the Coalition government came to power, it has refused all 24 recommendations by the commission to pay compensation of up to $400,000, or in one case apologise to an asylum seeker, for their detention."
Australian immigration detention costs double that of US and Europe – report (GA, 1 October 2015): "... last year that it cost more than A$400,000 to keep a single person in offshore detention for a year, more than 10 times the cost of having someone live in the community... Onshore detention costs A$239,000 each person a year, and community detention about A$100,000 for each asylum seeker."
Australian government could save $2.9bn over four years by closing detention centres (GA, 19 March 2016) Part of that would be the roughly half a million bucks saved by limiting detention to thirty days.
Doubts over $400 million centrepiece of Australia's Pacific Solution (18 April 2016). Papua New Guinea was promised help building a new hospital in exchange for the Manus Island detention centre. Now PNG has run out of cash for their half of the cost, and are hinting that Australia should offer more funding. (Australia should shut down the detention centre and use the savings to complete the badly-needed hospital. Problem solved.)
Taxpayers charged $6 million for Immigration Department telemovie (SMH, 25 March 2016). That's chicken feed compared to the $70 million spent over six years on ads to deter refugees.
Australia spent $2m relocating two refugees from Nauru to Cambodia (GA, 10 March 2016)
MYEFO budget update: $1 billion blow out on immigration detention costs (SMH, 15 December 2015)
Australia's offshore detention cost $1.2bn in 2014-15, Senate estimates told (GA, 9 December 2015) You'll remember Abyan, the rape victim seeking an abortion, who was hustled out of Australia and back to Nauru against her wishes. That single flight cost taxpayers $115,821.
Government splashes $20 million on charter flights to Nauru and Manus Island (SMH, 8 December 2015)
I guess they have to cut corners somewhere: Federal government refuses asylum seeker payouts and apologies 24 times (SMH, 18 November 2015): "... since the Coalition government came to power, it has refused all 24 recommendations by the commission to pay compensation of up to $400,000, or in one case apologise to an asylum seeker, for their detention."
Australian immigration detention costs double that of US and Europe – report (GA, 1 October 2015): "... last year that it cost more than A$400,000 to keep a single person in offshore detention for a year, more than 10 times the cost of having someone live in the community... Onshore detention costs A$239,000 each person a year, and community detention about A$100,000 for each asylum seeker."
