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| Subject: Statist idiots: Manus Island Concentration Camp bill $2 billion and counting – $1 million for each detainee Sun Aug 21, 2016 3:31 am | |
| The detention centre on Manus Island has cost Australian taxpayers about $2 billion since it was reopened four years ago – more than $1 million for each of the 2000 people who have been imprisoned there.
As the Turnbull government scrambles to find a place to send the 854 refugees and asylum seekers that remain in the notoriously harsh facility after it was declared illegal by Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court, a new analysis reveals just how much it has cost the federal budget to build and run the centre.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/manus-island-bill-2-billion-and-counting--1-million-for-each-detainee-20160820-gqx8do.html |
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