Fed: Immigration spent $289m to run offshore detention centres

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2008
Fed: Immigration spent $289m to run offshore detention centres

Taxpayers have forked out almost 300 million dollars .. to keep asylum seekers detained
on remote Pacific islands.

Labor says that's a cost of two thousand 500 thousand dollars a week per person.

The Immigration Department has revealed the figure to a Senate estimates hearing this week.

Immigration official DERMOT …