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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
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| STAFF at Christmas Island's main detention centre have been told to prepare for the arrival of about 70 more boat people in what would be the biggest single influx into Australian territory this year.
It is understood that staff at the $400 million North West Point detention centre have been told that the refugees could arrive within a week. They would bring to about 150 the number of asylum seekers to be transported to the island in the space of a month.
A week ago, 37 people were taken to the remote Indian Ocean island and less than two weeks before that 44 people, believed to be from Afghanistan, were transported there.
The total would be more than the 148 illegal immigrants intercepted at sea in all of last year.
The RAAF has at least three P3 Orion aircraft at Exmouth in Western Australia conducting regular surveillance, and a navy patrol boat has been anchored off Christmas Island.
At present 171 asylum seekers and illegal boat crew are being held on Christmas Island, with 113 of them housed in the North West Point detention centre, which was opened last week.
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