Manus Island

Both the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres were used by the former conservative government under its controversial Pacific Solution, where asylum seekers who arrived by boat were sent to other countries to have their refugee claims processed.

Australia's high court rejects Malaysian asylum-seeker deal 2011

Australia has already begun negotiations with Papua New Guinea to re-open the mothballed Manus Island immigration detention centre, which closed down in 2004.

Australia's high court rejects Malaysian asylum-seeker deal 2011

Mandatory detention in Australia: Immigration detention, Visa (document), Detention (imprisonment), Deportation, Immigration to Australia, Australian immigration detention facilities, Manus Island

OpEdNews - Quicklink: U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants 2009

Would you reintroduce the Pacific solution, where processing is done on Manus Island and Nauru?

Question without notice 2009

Mandatory detention in Australia: Immigration detention, Visa (document), Detention (imprisonment), Deportation, Immigration to Australia, Australian immigration detention facilities, Manus Island

America Is Simply Losing It, Folks 2009

Mandatory detention in Australia: Immigration detention, Visa (document), Detention (imprisonment), Deportation, Immigration to Australia, Australian immigration detention facilities, Manus Island

America Is Simply Losing It, Folks 2009

Or seeking to somehow discharge our humanitarian and legal obligations by processing people in Manus Island or Nauru?

Question without notice 2009

Would you say it is appropriate that we discharge our international and humanitarian and legal obligations in accordance with the refugee convention by processing people on Manus Island and Nauru?

Question without notice 2009

Mandatory detention in Australia: Immigration detention, Visa (document), Detention (imprisonment), Deportation, Immigration to Australia, Australian immigration detention facilities, Manus Island

US Discriminatory Immigration Policy Toward Haitians 2009

This is completely unlike the so-called Pacific Solution where the Howard Government paid Nauru and Papua New Guinea through Manus Island, substantial sums of money to do processing in the Pacific, not transit countries ...

Interview with ABC2 Breakfast 2009