Australia’s offshore processing policy has made the world less safe, not more

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Desperate and vulnerable people are forced to seek ever more dangerous routes to safety

‘What about my child?’: children born to refugee parents caught up in harsh offshore policy
Budget blowouts: offshore processing costs $1.2bn for fewer than 300 people
Interactive timeline: what happened to every person caught up in Australia’s offshore processing regime

The so-called Pacific solution was never a solution. Offshore processing is no process at all.
Australia’s vaunted – indeed advertised – policy of physically and forcibly preventing asylum seekers from setting foot in Australia to claim asylum has made the world less safe, not more. Continue reading...

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