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Nauru detention centre
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The Nauru detention centre is an asylum seeker detention and processing centre on the tiny island nation of Nauru. It is fully funded by the Australian government, and has housed people detained under the Pacific Solution since the Tampa affair in 2001.
The detention centre on Nauru was based on a Statement of Principles, signed on 10 September 2001 by the President of Nauru, René Harris, and the Minister for Defence of Australia, at the time Peter Reith. The statement opened the way to establish a detention centre for up to 800 people and was accompanied by a pledge of $20 million in development activities. The initial intake was to be people rescued by the MV Tampa, with the understanding that they would leave Nauru by May 2002. Subsequently a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 11 December boosting refugee numbers to 1200 and the promised development activity by an additional $10 million.[1]
Initial plans were for asylum seekers to be housed in modern air-conditioned housing which had been built for the games of the International Weightlifting Federation. This plan was changed after landowners' requests for extra compensation were rejected.[1]
Two camps were then built[2]. The first camp, called "Topside", was at an old sports ground and oval in the Meneng District (). The second camp, called "State House" was on the site of the old Presidential quarters also in the Meneng District ().[1] [3] [4] [5] [6]
As of 18 July 2005, 32 people were detained in asylum seeker detention in Nauru, consisting of 16 Iraqis, 11 Afghans, 2 Iranians, 2 Bangladeshis and 1 Pakistani.[7]:
On 15 March 2007, the Australian Government announced that 83 Sri Lankan people would be transferred from Christmas Island to the Nauru detention centre.[8]
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- Pacific Solution
- Australian immigration detention facilities
- Mandatory detention in Australia
- List of Australian immigration detention facilities
- Department of Foreign Affairs and trade - MOU on Asylum Seekers Signed with Nauru
- Pictures inside the detention centre in the submission by Ms Elaine Smith to the Inquiry into the provisions of the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006
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